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Click here to subscribeEdward H. Sims. Aces Over The Oceans. Great pilots of WW2. a slightly worn paperback first edition book, with a dedication and signature by author. 181 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Francis K. Mason. The Hawker Hurricane. A good Hardback book from WW2. First edition, signed by the author. 255 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Bill Norman. Failed To Return. The Yorkshire memorials to squadrons no. 4 and no. 6. First Edition hardback WW" book. Dedicated to Stephen, signed and dated by the author. 208 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Alfred Price. The Spitfire Story. A WW2 hardback book in fair condition. First edition book. Dedicated to Gordon, signed by the author 256 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
William T. Neill OBE. Just One Of The Pioneers. First edition hardback WW2 book signed by the author with a dedication note. 256 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Squadron Leader Ralph Edwards DSO. In The Thick Of It. Autobiography. First Edition WW2 hardback book. Signed by the author/Bomber Pilot. 190 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
F. F. Rainsford. Memoirs of an Accidental Airman. A WW2 hardback book, showing signs of age. First edition. Signed by the author. 261 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Denis Richards. The Hardest Victory. A First edition WW2 hardback book in. Dedicated. Signed and dated by the author. 393 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Charles Sims. The Royal Air Force. A WW2 hardback book in fair condition. Dedicated. Signed and dated by the author. First edition. 183 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
A Rare Edition of the 'Signal Key for the Radio Signal Service', For Enigma Use, German, 1939,Prüf=Nr. 2137, M.Dv.Nr.114, Signalschlüssel für den Funksignaldienst, Funksignalschlüssel, Ausgabe Oktober 1939, Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine, Berlin 1939.4to, 19pp; comprising 3 pages of introduction and instructions, the inside cover with four stamps, 1 page with distribution plan of signal keys, 15 pages of signal tables numbered 1 to 15, the codes printed in red and black ink, in red cloth covers marked 'secret', 12in x 8 1/2in (30.4cm x 21.5cm) Footnotes:Provenance:German Naval Training Command, Archive Directory stamp (inside front cover).German Fleet Base Command, Department of Service Regulations, Archive Directory stamp (inside front cover).The present Lot is one of the earliest wartime versions (October 1939), produced only one month after the start of the war, for implementation from the 14th January 1940. October 1939 coincided with the first U-Boats heading out into the Atlantic to begin operations.The previous edition was declared expired upon the issuing of this updated version. As it was was produced before 1942, the codes would have been produced exclusively for M3 Enigma encryption machines. Due to the lack of annotated or missing pages, this particular signal book would likely have been used at a land-based submarine command centre, or provided to an operative for use in a specific month. To ensure that the radio signal key was consistent between all bases and ships, modifications to the radio signal key or equipment were expressly forbidden.German Enigma codebooks from World War II are among the rarest printed wartime material. Of these codebooks, those relating the Kriegsmarine are even more scarce, as many of these signal keys were printed on water-soluble paper. Land-based naval headquarters were similarly well-prepared, with all commanders under strict orders to destroy their Enigma machines and any accompanying codebooks in the event of imminent capture. This Signalschlüssel instructions state that the codebook must be 'effectively destroyed by fire' or 'sunk in deep water'.The use of Engima machines and codebooks sought to avoid covert communications from ship to land being intercepted by Allied planes and other watching points. Morse Code was already vulnerable to interception, and the Allies had evolved a High Frequency Direction Finding system (HFDF) which could track the position of a message source. When Enigma machines were adopted by the German military, the use of short length signals minimised the possibility of the source being located by HFDF.Approximately seven hundred U-Boats were sunk at sea over the course of the war, and most of the remaining three hundred were scuttled by the German Navy in 1945. It is therefore exceptionally rare for examples of any type to come to market, with notable codebooks sold at Bonhams, June 2018 ($225,000) and Bonhams, June 2014 ($146,500).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
PLOUGH PRESSThe Wakeman family collection of Plough Press books and pamphlets, comprising the near complete output of the Press (seemingly lacking only one pamphlet, 'Law & Ordure 1969. A Squib'), many illustrated with actual specimens of printing, most with prospectuses and other related ephemera inserted or loose in folders, together with correspondence etc., various bindings and sizes, 1968-2017Footnotes:The Plough Press was founded by Geoffrey Wakeman in 1967, the name deriving from a collection of blocks of ploughs brought back from Trinidad by Roderick Cave, and used in the first book issued by the press. 'Wakeman was a noted professor of printing history, author, and printer, and his work on papermaking, color illustration and printing processes, and binding techniques remains a lasting contribution to the study of print culture... The first book printed by the press was Share of Ploughs (1968), consisting of a series of color prints of plows with accompanying verses about plows and plowing. The first major Plough Press publication was XIX Century Illustration (1970). It describes sixteen printing processes with accompanying contemporary specimens. Such leaf books became a regular feature of Plough Press publications, as Wakeman believed the only way to properly study the history of paper and printing was by examining actual specimens' (University of Delaware website). The collection comprises:PLOUGH PRESS PUBLICATIONS BY GEOFFREY WAKEMAN:XIX Century Illustration. Some Methods Used in English books, NUMBER 1 OF 75 COPIES, with 2 original prospectuses and a bidding slip notice from Sotheby's dated June 1975 informing Geoffrey Wakeman of unsuccessful bids at auction, loose as issued in 15 fascicules preserved in linen-backed chemise and slipcase, folio, Loughborough, 1970 The Production of Nineteenth Century Colour Illustration, NUMBER 1 OF 100 COPIES, original cloth-backed textured boards; another copy, NUMBER 17 OF 100 COPIES, red morocco-backed marbled boards (described in prospectus as 'Alternative binding by Gray's of Cambridge to order', additional £10 as opposed to £5 for the cloth binding), both with original prospectus, folio, Loughborough, 1976Plates To Accompany Victorian Book Illustration, NUMBER 1 OF 23 COPIES, with original prospectus slips, original morocco-backed marbled boards, slipcase, folio, Loughborough, 1974Victorian Colour Printing, NUMBER 1 OF 150 COPIES, with original prospectus, proof illustrations and other samples in pocket at rear, original morocco-backed marbled boards, small folio, Loughborough, 1981Graphic Methods in Book Illustration, NUMBER 1 OF 120 COPIES, printed on Golding Pearl and Albion hand presses, with prospectus, loose as issued in fascicules preserved in solander box, 4to, Loughborough, 1981English Hand Made Papers Suitable for Bookwork, NUMBER 1 OF 75 COPIES, numerous sample papers bound in, with prospectus and some other samples etc. loosely inserted, original red morocco-backed cloth, folio, Loughborough, 1972A Leaf History of British Printing from 1610 to 1774, NUMBER 1 OF 110 COPIES, tipped-in samples in fascicules, loose with original prospectuses in cloth solander box, folio, Kidlington, 1986; together with a second solander box containing archival material for the work, correspondence, invoices, loose sheets, prospectuses etc.English Marbled Papers. A Documentary History, NUMBER 1 OF 112 COPIES, ONE OF 10 with additional samples and bound in full morocco; another copy, NUMBER 110 OF 112 COPIES, morocco-backed cloth, both with prospectuses, 4to, Loughborough, n.d.The Literature of Letterpress Printing 1849-1900, NUMBER 1 OF 120 COPIES, ONE OF 30 in full morocco gilt and with slipcase; another copy, NUMBER 3 OF 120 COPIES, quarter morocco, both with prospectuses, 4to, Kidlington, 1986[with PAUL WAKEMAN] The Plough Press 1967-1981. Fifteen Years Printing in a Loughborough Garage, NUMBER 1 OF 120 COPIES, illustrations and tipped-in samples, with prospectus, quarter Morocco, 8vo, Kidlington, 1982Printing Relief Illustrations. Kirkall to the Line Block, NUMBER 1 OF 100 COPIES, tipped-in samples, cloth, small 4to, Loughborough, 1977 Bradbuy & Evans Colour Printers, NUMBER 1 OF 100 COPIES, ONE OF 25 in quarter morocco, with 'Books Forthcoming' from The Plough Press loosely inserted, 8vo, Kidlington, 1984Twentieth Century English Vat Paper Mills, NUMBER 1 OF 102 COPIES, with prospectus, additional samples in pocket at end, quarter Morocco, small 4to,Loughborough, 1980Nineteenth Century Trade Binding, NUMBER 1 OF 150 COPIES, with samples of binding materials and brass type in a separate folder, but without the decorative tool issued with the first c.45 copies, folder and text in uniform linen within single matching slipcase; another copy, ONE OF 150, unnumbered, with samples as above, both copies with prospectuses, 4to, Kidlington, 1983Loughborough Marble, NUMBER 1 OF 18 COPIES, printed on J. Green & Son's 'Cranmer' paper, comprising 5 samples tipped-in on a single leaf, folding concertina style into cloth folder, 110 x 84mm., [Loughborough], 1971[with GRAHAM POLLARD] Functional Developments in Bookbinding, NUMBER 1 OF 180 COPIES, ONE OF 35 in half morocco over marbled boards, illustrations in pockets at rear, with prospectus; another copy, NUMBER 36 OF 180, bound in linen, 4to, New Castle, Delaware and Kidlington, 1993The Art of Anastatic Printing. Three Mid 19th Century Accounts... introduction by Geoffrey Wakeman, NUMBER 1 OF 150 COPIES, comprising introduction, 3 facsimile pamphlets and one plate, loose with 2 prospectuses in quarter buckram folder, 4to, Kidlington, 1986PLOUGH PRESS - OTHER AUTHORS AND EPHEMERA:FRANCES DOCKER [MRS F.M. WAKEMAN] John Paas & James Cook. Provincial Bookbinding in the Eighteen thirties, NUMBER 1 OF 200 COPIES, ONE OF 25 in quarter morocco, with prospectus; another copy, ONE OF 200 COPIES, unnumbered, cloth, Loughborough, 1979ANNE MORRIS. The Private Press in Leicestershire, 2 copies, NUMBER 8 AND 'PRESENTATION COPY' OF 100 COPIES bound in full cloth, limited to 500 copies overall, one with prospectus, 4to, Loughborough, 1976; together with 2 copies of the trade edition, limited to 500 copies, wrappersBARRY MCKAY. Patterns and Pigments in English Marbled Papers, 2 copies, NUMBERS 1 AND 21 OF 160 COPIES, quarter morocco and cloth respectively, 4to, [Printed at the September Press], 1988Anaglyptography... Reprinted... from the Art Exemplar [1859] by William John Stannard, NUMBER 1 OF 200 COPIES, 2 plates, wrappers, 8vo, Loughborough, 1967The Printer, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, letterpress pamphlet, 8pp., printed wrappers, 4to, Kidlington, 1986The Paper Maker. Reprinted from the Book of Trades, NUMBER 1 OF 60 COPIES, with prospectuses, marbled paper wrappers, 8vo, Loughborough, 1971GAVIN BRIDSON and GEOFFREY WAKEMAN. Printmaking & Picture Printing: A Bibliographical Guide, cloth, dust-jacket, 4to Kidlington, 1984; and 2 other copies, one an unbound proof GAVIN BRIDSON and GEOFFREY WAKEMAN. A Guide to Nineteenth Century Colour Printers, cloth, dust-jacket; another copy, interleaved and annotated by GW, with loosely inserted correspondence and related ephemera, quarter cloth, 8vo, [Loughborough, 1975]C.W. WOOLNOUGH. The Whole Art Of Marbling, facsimile reprint of 1881 edition, with marbled paper samples by Katherine Davis of Payhembury, with her business card inserted (asking if the samples were acceptable) and 2 prospectuses, cloth, 8vo, Kidlington, 1985The Art of Making Paper Taken from The Universal Magazine, facsimile reprint by Skelton's Press, limited to 200 copies, with prospectuses, full buckram, 8vo, Loughborough,... 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DOYLE (ARTHUR CONAN)The Hound of the Baskervilles, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 'you' for 'your' on page 13, line 3, 16 plates by Sidney Paget, very occasional light soiling to text, 3 plates slightly frayed at fore-edge, 2 remounted (one in wrong location), publisher's red pictorial cloth gilt, recased, upper joint and spine ends repaired [De Waal 87], 8vo, George Newnes, 1902Footnotes:Provenance: Margaret E. Miller, ownership inscription on front free endpaper.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
PTOLEMAEUS (CLAUDIUS)Geographicae enarrationis libri octo, woodcut printer's device on title-page, double-column text with woodcut initials, woodcut illustrations (2 full-page, one with image shaved), 50 woodcut maps (49 double-page, mounted on guards), with colophon leaves n4 and [2]h6, text with dampstain in upper margins of first few gatherings and some light browning, occasional light foxing and browning to maps (no. 31 more heavily browned), old inscription and stamp erased from title-page, contemporary wallet-style blindstamped sheep, restored and rebacked preserving original backstrip, metal fasteners with silk ties [cf. Mortimer, Harvard French, 450; Phillips Atlases 366; Sabin 66485], folio (400 x 270mm.), Lyon, Hughes de la Porte [colophons: Vienne, Gaspar Trechsel], 1541Footnotes:The second edition of Ptolemy edited by Servetus, many copies of which are said to have been destroyed on Calvin's orders at the time of the execution of Servetus.The maps are printed from unaltered woodblocks first used in Lorenz Fries's 1522 edition printed by Grüninger (the final map is captioned with this date and Fries's initials), then again in Grüninger's Strasbourg edition of 1525, and in the first Trechsel edition printed at Lyon in 1535. These double-page maps of the ancient and modern comprise: 10 of Europe, 4 of Africa, 12 of Asia, World map, New World, 2 further World maps and 19 others (including Britain and further maps of Africa, Asia and Europe, one with a single-page map on verso). The maps featuring the Americas comprise: Tabula terre nova, number 28, with an account of the voyages and discoveries of Columbus on the verso; Norbegia et Gottia, number 34, showing Greenland as a peninsula of Europe; Tabula nova orbis, number 49, attributed by some to Columbus and known as the 'Admiral's Map', and Tabula totius orbis, number 50, the celebrated new map of the world by Lorenz Fries, the first Ptolomeian map to use the name 'America', on a portion of the South American Continent.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with the number sequence 10 through to 1 on the verso of title, light toning as usual, publisher's pictorial boards (slightly bumped at extremities of spine), pictorial dust-jacket (spine faded, small abrasion to extreme upper right corner of upper cover, lower cover with short horizontal crease visible), 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1998]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
BARRIE (J.M.)The Allahakbarrie Book of Broadway Cricket for 1899, illustrations (mostly full-page), with the pencil signatures of 32 players, literary figures and friends of Barrie on pages 2 and 3, and Barrie's autograph scorecard on page 27, original Japanese vellum wrappers, lettered in gilt on the upper cover (with title and 'Private.'), preserved in fitted half calf solander box with gilt lettered spine [Padwick 1296], square 12mo, [Privately Printed], 1899; The Greenwood Hat. Being a Memoir of James Anon 1885-1887, ONE OF 50 COPIES, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO NICO & MARY LLEWELYN-DAVIES ('Nico and Mary affectionately from JMB 1930'), and then 'Transferred, 1979, by Nico and Mary, with much affection to Andrew Birkin', plates, original olive green morocco lettered in gilt, rebacked preserving original spine, worn, 8vo, Privately Printed, 1930; The Greedy Dwarf: A Moral Tale, by Peter Perkin, 4pp., printed programme for a performance by the Allahakbarrie Cricket Club, 133 Gloucester Road, 7 January 1901, page 1 with a 'Portrait of the Author' (the very young Peter Llewelyn Davies), the cast including Barrie as Cowardly Custard, Gerald du Maurier as Allahakbarrie, and Sylvia du Maurier ('Who has been Brought Back from the year 1892 in a Hansom') as 'The Principled Boy', and featuring Miss Mary Contrairy who 'will spell Allahakbarrie in the last Act', 8vo, Chiswick Press, 1901; and another by Barrie (4)Footnotes:'ALLAHAKBARRIES WON BY 61' - A HAT-TRICK OF J.M. BARRIE RARITIES.The Allahakbarrie Book of Broadway Cricket for 1899 was privately printed for Barrie on the occasion of the third match at Broadway. Two years earlier Barrie had persuaded Mary de Navarro, the former actress Mary Anderson, to host a cricket match with some of his friends taking part. Anderson's team included some of the American artists who had colonised the Cotswold village, such as Frank Millet, Alfred Parsons and Herman G. Herkomer, whilst Barrie's team was the Allahakbarries (derived from 'Allahakbar', meaning 'Heaven help us'). In 1899 Barrie had fifty copies of this booklet printed for presentation to his friends the night before the match, dedicating it to 'Our dear enemy, Mary de Navarro'. It contains a guide to the village, an account of the team and a forecast of the match, all written in a satirical style.In this copy, the space left blank on page 27 ('so that the fortunate possessor of this work may append the scores actually made') has been filled in by Barrie himself with an inked list of the 11 players, their scores and the result - 'Allahakbarries won by 61', possibly making this the copy that Barrie is said to have lost, or less conceivably, the replacement that the de Navarros sent him in 1922 (see Kevin Telfer, Peter Pan's First XI, 2010, which includes a full account of the match).The 32 signatures, a much higher number than found in other copies traced, comprise those of: Mary Barrie, Sylvia Llewellyn Davies, J.M. Barrie, Bernard Partridge, Hesketh Pritchard, Augustine Birrell, Daisy Partridge, Eleanor Birrell, E.H. Gilmour, J.L. Gilmour, D. Meredith, B. Reed, E.J. Reed, Charles Standring, A.J. de Navarro, Owen Seaman, A.E.W. Mason, Sydney S. Pawling, Henry J. Ford, Charles Turley Smith, Philip Carr, Clayton Johns, F.D. Millett, Lily Millett, Alfred Parsons, Louise M. Dale, Herman G. Herkomer, Mary Anderson Navarro, Blanche Griffin, Harry Plunket Greene, William Meredith and Edgar Speyer.The Greenwood Hat, also privately printed in an edition of 50 copies, is inscribed to the youngest of Barrie's 'Lost Boys', Nicholas Llewellyn-Davies, brother of Sylvia (see above). It includes a chapter on the Allahakbarries and two photographic plates ('Mr Birrel batting - A.E.W. Mason at point - Gilmour coaching' and 'The dear enemy of the Allahakbarries'). It also mentions the booklet, which had 'swollen to thirty [pages], just as Wisden grows and grows. They were privately printed in tiny editions, and are rarities now'.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
HAYEK (F.A.)Individualism and Economic Order, first edition in English, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR beneath the ownership inscription of Antony G.A. Fisher (dated 1949) on the front free endpaper, coffee cup stains on upper cover, some soiling, dust-jacket (spine stained), Routledge, 1949; The Constitution of Liberty, FIRST EDITION, bookplate of Antony Fisher as 'founder of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation', dust-jacket, Chicago, University Press, [1960]--BUTLER (EAMONN) Hayek. His Contribution to the Political and Economic Thought of Our Time, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY HAYEK on the title-page, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY 'To Antony and Dorian [Fisher] - friends and fellow-fighters with kind regards Eamonn 18 Oct. 1983', dust-jacket, Temple Smith, 1983--MISES (LUDWIG VON) The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To Mr. Antony Fisher with kindest regards Ludwig Mises' on front free endpaper, dust-jacket (spine faded), Princeton, NJ, D. Van Nostrand, [1956]--DE SOTO (HERNANDO) El otro sendero. La Revolucion Informal, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed with a 12-line note on about Fisher's visit to the Institutio Libertad Y Democracis in Peru, 'Lima - February 1987. To Antony and Dorian [Fisher]... with friendship & gratitude Hernando' on the half-title, and Fisher's ownership inscription (March 987) on front free endpaper, light dampstain at fore-edge of book block, publisher's wrappers, [?Lima], Editorial El Barranco, [1986]--ENOCH POWELL (J.) Freedom and Reality, FIRST EDITION, ownership inscription of Antony Fisher dated May 1969 on front free endpaper, dust-jacket, Batsford, 1969, 8vo (6)Footnotes:From the library of influential libertarian Antony Fisher (1915-1988), founder of the Atlas Foundation, and his wife Dorian, whom he had met at the Mont Pelerin Society. Includes books signed by F.A. Hayek (2), and his Constitution of Liberty (a major influence on Thatcherism), Ludwig von Mises (founding member of the Mont Pelerin Society), and the Peruvian economist Hernando De Soto, whose neoliberal Institute for Liberty and Democracy was founded with assistance from Fisher.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
AGRICOLA (GIORGIUS)Opera... de l'arte de metalli partita in xii. libri, first Italian edition, translated by Michelangelo Florio, title with woodcut printer's device, numerous woodcut illustrations (some full-page, 2 folding, one of which slightly cropped), colophon leaf and leaf with printer's device at end, mostly light waterstaining and browning, 5 or 6 repairs to margins/blank areas including title and colophon leaf, later vellum, spine with 5 raised bands and titled in manuscript [Hoover 27; cf. Duveen pp.4-5 and Ferguson I, pp.9-11; PMM 79 (first edition)], folio (308 x 208mm.), Basel, Hieronymus Froben et Nicolaus Episcopius, [colophon: 1563]Footnotes:The first edition in Italian of the classic treatise on mining and metallurgy, 'one of the first technological books of modern times' (PMM). The fine woodcuts were the work of Rudolph Manuel Deutsch of Basel, and the volume, dedicated to Elizabeth I, also includes Agricola's De animantibus subterraneis.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)Autograph letter signed ('Charles Dickens') to Peter Bayne Esq. ('Dear Sir'), thanking him for his letter and moving words ('...I am truly sensible of the confidence and regard it expresses towards myself...'), but regretting he can not accept the offer he proposes as he is fully occupied '...with as much work as I can cope with...' for the next twelve months ('...It is a rule of mine to do nothing that I cannot reasonably hope to do at my best... The consciousness of a new responsibility, however slight its demands upon my time, would disturb me, and I must leave the discharge of this office to other hands...'), marked 'Private', 2 pages on a bifolium, dust-staining and marks, outer page discoloured where previously framed, remains of guard, 8vo (180 x 110mm.), Gad's Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, 21 November 1860Footnotes:'FOR THE NEXT TWELVE MONTHS... AS MUCH WORK AS I CAN COPE WITH': DICKENS TAKEN UP WITH THE WRITING OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS. At the time he received this letter Peter Bayne, a Scottish journalist and author, had just been appointed editor of The Dial, a new weekly newspaper planned for London, so it is likely that he had approached Dickens to become a contributor. The venture was not to be a success: 'Bayne not only struggled heroically to save the situation by editorial ability, but lost all his own property in the venture, and burdened himself with debts that crippled him for many years' (ODNB). Dickens could rightly claim pressure of work as an excuse not to take on any more commitments. Since the autumn of 1860 he had been in the throes of writing Great Expectations, the first number appearing in All the Year Round on 1 December 1860. The weekly serial continued until August 1861 and was published in three volumes the following October. Earlier in the month he had undertaken a trip to Devon and Cornwall with Wilkie Collins, the result of which was the jointly-written short story set in Clovelly, A Message from the Sea, for the 1860 Christmas issue. Our letter is not published in the Pilgrim Edition of Charles Dickens' letters, neither is it published amongst the more recent letters online.Provenance: Peter Bayne (1830-1896), and thence by descent.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
PLOT (ROBERT)The Natural History of Oxford-Shire, being an Essay towards the Natural History of England, second edition, folding engraved map, 16 engraved plates, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked, Oxford, Charles Brome, 1705--SKELTON (JOSEPH) Engraved Illustrations of the Principal Antiquities of Oxfordshire, large paper copy, engraved frontispiece (with 'Subscription copy' printed at head), engraved title, county map and 49 plates, all on india paper, engraved illustrations to text, many plates foxed, nineteenth century half morocco, rubbed, 1823; Pietas oxoniensis, or Records of Oxford Founders, engraved frontispiece and 25 plates, all on india paper, light waterstain at head reaching text and images, occasional light foxing, later buckram, 1828, Oxford, J. Skelton, folio (3)Footnotes:Provenance: First work, John Frederick Head, bookplates; Second work, Henry Drummond of Albury Park, bookplate; Third work, Charles Buckeridge, ownership inscription on title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHUBB (RALPH)Manhood, a Poem... Designed and Engraved by the Author, second edition (of approximately 25 copies, the first edition of approximately 200 copies appearing in the previous month), woodcut frontispiece, and illustrations (including vignette on title), type set by Ethel Chubb, publisher's pictorial wrappers, edges frayed with a few small losses, Curridge, Printed by L.J. Chubb 'with the hand-press made by him', March 1924; A Fable of Love & War. A Romantic Poem, NUMBER 186 OF 200 COPIES, signed with initials on the colophon, the first issue with an additional illustration on the upper cover, woodcut illustrations by the author [Reid 3], publisher's grey wrappers printed in green, edges a little creased, Curridge, Printed by E.R. Chubb for R.N. Chubb, 1925; A Book of God's Madness, NUMBER 82 OF 95 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the colophon, woodcut vignette on the title, 2 full-page woodcut plates by the author, publisher's red wrappers, printed title label on upper cover, edges frayed with a few small losses, Written A.D. 1923 and Only Now for the First Time Privately Printed A.D. 1928, 8vo(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
FLEMING (IAN)On Her Majesty's Secret Service, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 62 OF 250 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, colour frontispiece portrait of Fleming, small finger smudge at fore-edge of title, publisher's quarter vellum gilt, t.e.g., very slight toning to spine, acetate wrapper (with some loss at top edge of lower wrapper, and short split at flap fold) [Gilbert A11], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, 1963Footnotes:This signed limited edition was published simultaneously with the regular first edition on 1 April 1963.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
ZOLA (EMILE)Rennée. Piece en cinq actes, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'á mon confrère Green, son bien cordial Emile Zola' on the half-title, spotting, contemporary red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, 8vo, Paris, G. Charpentier, 1887This 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 and author given as 'Joanne Rowling', p.53 with the duplication of '1 wand' on the equipment list, misspelling of 'philospher's' on lower cover, front free endpaper with unobtrusive trace of removed library label, half-title and title with faint stain marks, publisher's pictorial boards, laminate peeled away, edges of boards and corners worn, spine with ends slightly bumped and small chip at foot under piece of remaining laminate (the word 'Bloomsbury' unaffected), housed in red felt-lined quarter morocco solander box with gilt lettered spine, 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1997This 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
TWEEDIE (WILLIAM)The Arabian Horse. His Country and People with Portraits of Typical or Famous Arabians, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 26 OF 100 LARGE PAPER COPIES printed on hand-made paper, half-title, 7 chromolithographed plates of horses, 30 other plates and illustrations (mostly on India proof paper), large folding colour-printed map ('country of the Arabian Horse') loose as issued in pocket at end, occasional light spotting, publisher's green half morocco gilt, upper cover gilt-stamped with a picture of an Arab horse, spine with pictorial design of a palm oasis, g.e., some mildew to side-panels, a few scuffmarks [Podeschi 258], folio (345 x 260mm.), Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1894Footnotes:LARGE PAPER EDITION LIMITED TO 100 COPIES of a classic work devoted to the Arabian horse. Major Tweedie was for many years Consul-General at Baghdad, and Political Resident for the Government of India in Turkish Arabia, but had begun his study of Arab horses whilst serving with the British army in India, where Arab horses were highly prized as gifts amongst the native and colonial rulers.Provenance: C.J. Anstruther, 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
SCHEDEL (HARTMANN)Liber chronicarum, FIRST EDITION, 325 leaves (of 326, without final blank), 65 lines plus headline, gothic letter, woodcut title, approximately 1809 woodcut illustrations printed from 645 blocks by Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and their workshop, including Albrecht Dürer, comprising 29 double-page town views, 8 full-page woodcuts and double-page maps of the World [Shirley 19] and of Europe by Hieronymus Münzer after Nicolas Khrypffs, washed, title laid down, a handful of stains, a very few leaves shaved touching headline, occasional repaired tears at edges, reaching into text on 6 leaves, fol. 101 repaired at head of gutter with loss to a couple of words and border of illustration, fol. 129-130 mounted on guard, fol. 291 and 296 repaired at blank lower fore-corners, Europe map shaved at fore-edges and with cleanly-repaired tear lower left, sixteenth century blindstamped vellum, rubbed, one corner repaired, new endpapers [ISTC is00307000], folio (410 x 285mm.), Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 12 July 1493Footnotes:The Nuremberg Chronicle, a pictorial history of the world, is the most lavishly illustrated book of the incunable era. The twenty-nine large double-page city views, many illustrated for the first time, are accurate in depicting particular distinguished features of each city. In addition it includes many details of fifteenth-century daily life: carpenters with their tools, astronomers and their instruments, archers, bridges, derricks, dishes, furniture, windmills, ships, beds, houses, fortifications, weapons, tents, wharves, ferries, books, drawing materials, dogs, horses, and other animals, as well as costumes. Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle epitomizes 'the commercial sophistication, economic power and technical virtuosity that brought the art of print to this extraordinary climax' (Pettegree, The Book in the Renaissance, New Haven, 2011 p.42).Provenance: 'Joannis Baptista Gadii militis', ownership inscription on title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
PEEL (CHARLES VICTOR ALEXANDER)Somaliland Being an Account of Two Expeditions into the Far Interior, one corner bumped [Czech p.127], Robinson, 1900--WOLVERTON (LORD) Five Months' Sport in Somali Land, 1894--NEUMANN (ARTHUR H.) Elephant-Hunting in East Equatorial Africa, one colour plate, large folding map in pocket at end, binding stained, 1898--BALDWIN (WILLIAM CHARLES) African Hunting and Adventure from Natal to the Zambezi, third edition, light stains to lower cover, Richard Bentley, 1894--FOA (EDOUARD) After Big Game in Central Africa, first edition in English, light dampstain to half-title, A. & C. Black, 1899--JOHNSTON (HARRY) The Uganda Protectorate, 2 vol., second edition, light stains on one spine, Hutchinson, 1902--CHAPMAN (ABEL) Savage Sudan. Its Wild Tribes, Big-game and Bird-life, light stains to margins of upper cover, Gurney & Jackson, 1921--BRYDEN (H.A.) Kloof and Karroo: Sport, Legend, and Natural History in Cape Colony, binding rubbed, with small loss to blank piece of spine, Longmans, 1889; Gun and Camera in Southern Africa, light bubbling to covers, Edward Stanford, 1893--SWAYNE (H.G.C.) Seventeen Trips Through Somaliland. A Record of Exploration & Big Game Shooting, 1885 to 1893, spine soiled, rubbed, Rowland Ward, 1895--HARRIS (WILLIAM CORNWALLIS) The Wild Sports of Southern Africa, fourth edition, 26 hand-coloured lithographed plates, one folding map, joints split with minor loss, Pelham Richardson, 1844, FIRST EDITIONS unless otherwise stated, publisher's cloth, all but the third and tenth mentioned pictorial gilt, some rubbing, 8vo; and 7 others, big game hunting and exploration in Africa (19)Footnotes:Provenance: C.J. Anstruther, 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
LYDEKKER (RICHARD)Wild Oxen, Sheep and Goats of All Lands Living and Extinct, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 237 OF 500 COPIES, signed by the publisher, 28 hand-coloured lithographed plates by J. Smit and J. Wolf, 61 photographic illustrations in the text, erratum slip, occasional light spotting but contents generally clean, publisher's green cloth gilt, mildewed [Nissen ZBI 2614; Wood, p.444], 4to, Rowland Ward, 1898Footnotes:Provenance: C.J. Anstruther, 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
HOLINSHED (RAPHAEL)1577. The Firste [-Laste] Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Irelande, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, volume 1 lacking errata leaf r1, volume 2 with title, inserted leaf foliated 1593, map of Edinburgh, and final 4 leaves supplied in facsimile, side-notes and a few catchwords trimmed, nineteenth century diced calf, rebacked, rubbed [ESTC S121346; Pforzheimer 494], folio (275 x 185mm.), Imprinted [by Henry Bynneman] for John Harrison, [1577]Footnotes:Provenance: William, Thomas and Walter Hawes, early ownership inscriptions near end of volume 2; Silvanus Chirm, Kentish Town, stamped ownership mark on flyleaves dated 1785; George Wilbraham (1779-1852), bookplates. Silvanus Chirm was a bookseller who 'made an attempt to replace 'the deceitful Practice of stabbed Bindings' with books sewn on bands' (N. Pickwoad, 'Bookbinding in the eighteenth century,' Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume 5. 1695–1830, p.287).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
CORNWALLMARTYN (JOHN) A New and Accurate Map of the County of Cornwall, from an actual Survey, FIRST EDITION, very large engraved folding map in 24 sections dissected and mounted on linen, hand-coloured in outline, with pictorial title and dedication cartouche surmounted by Royal arms, inset map of the Isles of Scilly, numerous arms of Cornish families, galleons and historiated compass rose, slightly browned, most central sections and part sections separated but present, some creases and slight chips at section edges, a few small white spots [Rodger 56], overall 1480 x 1860mm., Roberts Sayer, 1748Footnotes:The rare first edition of Thomas Martyn's large scale (one inch to a mile) map of Cornwall, which was normally issued in 9 larger sheets. A financially ambitious undertaking, Martyn's surveying project was underwritten with subscriptions, partly payable in advance and partly on completion. Some 164 subscribers also paid extra to have their coat-of-arms engraved in the border and their county seats named on the map.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
AUDUBON (JOHN JAMES) AND JOHN BACHMANThe Quadrupeds of North America, 3 vol., FIRST OCTAVO EDITION, half-title in volume 1 and 3, 155 hand-coloured lithographed plates by J.T. Bowen from drawings on stone by W. E. Hitchcock and R. Trembley, after J.J. and J.W. Audubon, some light spotting and foxing to opening leaves of the first volume, contemporary blindstamped morocco, gilt lettered on spines, g.e., rubbed [Nissen ZBI 163; Sabin 2638; Wood, p.208], large 8vo (255 x 175mm.), New York, V.G. Audubon, 1849-1854Footnotes:FIRST OCTAVO EDITION OF AUDUBON'S QUADRUPEDS, describing mammals of the of the United States (including Texas, California and Oregon), parts of Mexico, and the Arctic regions.This octavo edition, issued following the success of a similar edition of The Birds of America (see previous lot), includes all of the original 150 plates, with 5 additional plates, reduced in scale by means of the camera lucida. It was prepared for the press and published by Audubon's sons, John W. and Victor, shortly after their father's death in January 1851.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
ANGLINGRONALDS (ALFRED) The Fly-fisher's Entomology... Sixth Edition, 20 hand-coloured engraved plates, ownership inscription on half-title, Longman, 1862--WEST (LEONARD) The Natural Trout Fly and its Imitation, 18 colour plates, dust-jacket, Liverpool, William Potter, 1921--HALFORD (FREDERIC M.) Dry-fly Fishing in Theory and Practice, 25 plates, 1889; Floating Flies and How to Dress Them, second edition, 10 hand-coloured plates, 1886--HALE (CAPTAIN) How to Tie Salmon Flies, errata slip, 1892, Sampson Low--GRIMBLE (AUGUSTUS) The Salmon Rivers of Scotland, third edition, Kegan Paul, 1913--DEWAR (GEORGE A.B.) The Book of the Dry Fly, 6 plates, Lawrence and Bullen, 1897, some staining to covers (heaviest on first and fourth mentioned), 8vo; and 14 others, angling (21)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
SOUTH SEA BUBBLEHet Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der Actie, Bubbel en Windnegotie, FIRST EDITION, title page in red and black (in second state), 76 engraved plates (most folding), printed on various paper stocks, comprising Muller nos. 1-45 (one of the 4 parts of Muller 26 missing and replaced with a non-listed alternative), 47-70, 72-73, plus Muller supplementary numbers 2-4 and 7, with additional state of Muller 65, 8-page manuscript satirical poem in Dutch on rear fly-leaves, text lightly browned, a handful of small wormholes or trails at extremities just touching one letter of one plate, contemporary half vellum, rubbed, inner hinges cracked [Goldsmiths 5879; Kress 3211], folio (385 x 245mm.), [Netherlands], 1720Footnotes:First edition of The Great Mirror of Folly. 'Of the volume's significance in economic literature there can be no doubt.... In neither [England nor France] did there appear such a stout and extravagant piece as this Dutch volume. Constituted of folio size, its bulk is made up largely of satirical plates.... No two specimens, even of approximately the same actual issue date, are exactly the same' (Cole, The Great Mirror of Folly... an Economic-Bibliographical Study, 1949). Prints include portrait of John and Mrs Law, broadsides featuring images and poems, 'Missisippi of 't wydbefaamde Goudland' ('Mississippi, or the world-famous Goldland'), a fanciful map of Louisiana, and 3 sheets of playing cards.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
ROOSEVELT (THEODORE)Hunting Trips of a Ranchman. Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains, covers stained (heavier on lower cover), Kegan Paul, 1886; Ranch Life and the Hunting-trail... Illustrated by Frederic Remington, stain to upper cover, 4toT. Fisher Unwin, [c.1888], first English editions--ENGLEHEART (GARDNER N.) Journal of the Progress of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales through British North America, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed 'Forwarded to Colonel Rollo, Military Secretary Canada, by order of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales 26th May 1861' on the half-title, 8 tinted lithographed plates (one double-page), 2 maps (one folding), wood-engraved illustrations in the text, spotting, a few gatherings working loose, light staining to covers, Privately Printed, [1860]--LEFFINGWELL (WILLIAM BRUCE, editor) Shooting on Upland, Marsh, and Stream.... Written by Prominent Sportsmen, Descriptive of Hunting the Upland Birds of America, first English edition, Sampson, Low, 1890--SELOUS (FREDERICK COURTNEY) Sport and Travel East and West, Longmans, 1900--PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY (CLIVE) The Trottings of a Tenderfoot: A Visit to the Colombian Fiords, and Spitzbergen, light staining to covers, lower hinge cracked, 1884; A Sportsman's Eden, 1888, Richard Bentley, FIRST EDITIONS--BUXTON (EDWARD NORTH) Short Stalks: Or Hunting Camps North, South, East and West, 2 vol. [first and second series], second edition of first volume, first edition of second volume, folding map in pocket inside upper cover of second volume, spines soiled, Edward Stanford, 1893-1898, publisher's cloth, most pictorial gilt, rubbing and soiling--MAYER (ALFRED M., editor) Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters, 2 vol., title vignettes printed on india-proof paper, publisher's cloth-backed boards, worn, short tears to one spine, t.e.g., Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1884, unless otherwise mentioned 8vo; and 3 others, relating to the Americas (14)Footnotes:Provenance: C.J. Anstruther, 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
AUDUBON (JOHN JAMES)The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories, 7 vol., fourth octavo edition, 500 hand-coloured lithographed plates, tissue guards (a few missing), some spotting throughout (mostly to text), light dampstain in lower fore-corner of a few opening leaves to volumes 2, 3 and 7, pp.71/72 text leaf in volume 1 with blank upper corner torn away, original blind-stamped brown morocco, lettered 'Bird of America' on upper cover, lettered in gilt on spines, g.e., some rubbing and abrasions, the spine of volume 6 heavily stained, large 8vo (268 x 170mm.), New York, V.G. Audubon, 1860Footnotes:The relatively rare fourth octavo edition differs from the first octavo edition of 1840-1844: 'The plain backgrounds of the original 8vo are replaced by tinted ones; those which were tinted are altered in tone or some minor detail. Many of the elaborate scenic backgrounds of the original folio, which were modified or eliminated in the first 8vo, have been replaced and in some cases the size of the figures has been altered in consequence' (Ayer/Zimmer). The text was reset from the first octavo edition, reduced down to five volumes with the intention of accompanying the 1860 large folio edition being prepared by Julius Bien.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
ELIOT (T.S.)Murder in the Cathedral, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'To Miss Everal Knight from T.S. Eliot, June 15-22, 1935' on the front free endpaper, 2 sheets uncut at one margin, annotations in margin of 3 pages ('cut first time at Canterbury', and 'cut both times'), and the opening chorus to Part II ('Does the bird sing the South?...') added in manuscript on the blank verso of Parts title and verso of final leaf of text, publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered on spine, dust-jacket (spine uniformly toned, upper cover with short tear at top edge and v-shaped tear at foot), 8vo, Faber & Faber, [1935]Footnotes:Presentation copy of the first edition of Murder in the Cathedral inscribed by Eliot to a member of the Chorus for the first production of the play, performed at Canterbury Cathedral from 15-22 June, 1935. The production used a combination of professional actors for the major roles and local talent for the supporting. Marked in this copy are three passages omitted from this opening performance and/or that of the first London production at the Mercury Theatre to where it transferred in 1935. Also transcribed in full is the opening chorus ('Does the bird sing the South!...') omitted from this first edition of the text.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ROBINSON (JOHN CHARLES)The Dead Sailor and Other Stories, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'with the author's kind regards' on the half-title, the name of the original recipient erased and replaced in biro with 'Reg. R.S. ?Hustace', publisher's blue-green cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine, light ink stain on upper cover, 8vo, Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co., 1889Footnotes:Inscribed copy of a rare volume of ghost stories by Sir John Charles Robinson (1824-1913), great art collector, scholar and museum curator, whose notable achievements included the purchase in 1860 of Piero Della Francesca's 'Baptism' (now in the National Gallery) and writing of the first catalogue of the Michelangelo and Raphael drawings held at Oxford. This is his only work of fiction, originally 'invented and told offhand for the amusement of the writer's children and friends... [so] this publication will, at all events, recall to many friends pleasant memories of former days' (Preface). Another inscribed copy is held by the Royal Collection Trust.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
MARINONI (GIOVANNI GIACOMO)De astronomica specula domestica et organico apparatu astronomico libri duo, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece by J.J. Sedelmayr after A.D. Bertoli, title printed in red and black with a vignette map of Vienna engraved by J.C. Winkler, 43 engraved folding plates, engraved illustrations (7 full-page), one engraved initial by Winkler, woodcut initials and head-pieces, with final errata and instructions to the binder in Latin and German leaf, some mold stains in blank upper margins, with the first few leaves restored, modern calf preserving some sections of original backstrip, red edges [Kenney, Catalogue of the Rare Astronomical Books in the San Diego State University Library, 115; Poggendorff II, 53; Riccardi II, 119, 'Bellissima ediz.'], Folio (346 x 245mm.), Vienna, Leopoldus Joannes Kaliwoda, 1745Footnotes:First edition of 'one of the most exquisitely illustrated astronomical works ever printed' (Kenney), describing and illustrating the astronomical instruments in the private Viennese observatory of G.J. Marinoni, mathematician and astronomer to the Imperial Court of Austria and geodetic surveyor. The observatory was one of the most beautiful and best equipped in Europe, and the instruments illustrated here include quadrants, telescopes, micrometers, an improved Graham pendulum, and a camera obscura.This copy is complete with the errata/instructions to the binder leaf at the end (Riccardi mistakenly calls for 2 leaves rather than pages, leading to some copies being described as lacking the second errata 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
ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the dedication page, publisher's pictorial boards, pictorial dust-jacket, 8vo, Bloomsbury, 2000; together with 3 photographs of J.K. Rowling at the book signing eventFootnotes:J.K. Rowling signed this copy at Ottaker's bookshop in The Glades Shopping Centre, Bromley on 18 July 2000, ten days after the book's official launch at King's Cross Station. The book is sold with the press release relating to the signing event issued by The Glades, and three photographs of Rowling at the event. This copy was signed for the manager of The Glades.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
PLUTARCHVitae... novissime post Jodocum Badius Ascensium longe diligentissime responsae... cum figuris, title printed in red and black with large device, 78 woodcut illustrations, extensive early ink annotations throughout (marginal notes, underling and paragraph marks, pointing hands, full-page index of names on blank verso final leaf of printed text), without final blank, title strengthened with old paper at upper margin, worming in upper gutter margin of approximately 30 leaves, a small single worm hole touching a few letters (mostly side-notes) of fol. 26-41 and fol.354-360, fol.348 to end with some dampstains and 2 leaves heavily browned, final leaf (fol. 360) repaired with old paper at fore-margin resulting in small loss of side-notes, publisher's device at end, later stiff boards, rebacked in vellum, soiled, folio (310 x 215mm.), [Venice, Melchiorre Sessa & Pietro dei Ravani, 26 November 1516]Footnotes:The most illustrated early Italian edition of Plutarch's 'Lives'. The woodcuts depict episodes from Greek and Roman history, and mythological scenes, and appear for the first time in this edition.Provenance: 'Canoniens Laurentius Troja[-], 1819', inscription on title, with earlier inscription obscured in upper margin.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
GIBBON (EDMUND)The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vol., IN ORIGINAL BOARDS, FIRST EDITION of volumes 1, 4, 5 & 6, early ('new') edition of volumes 2 & 3 (dated 1787), volume 1 second printing (or Norton's second state), with Preface dated 1 February 1776 and errata corrected, 3 engraved maps (2 folding), the 4 first edition volumes with half-titles and errata (errata for volumes 4-6 on verso of final leaf of General Index in volume 6), volumes 2 and 3 without half-titles and errata (not called for?), Dd3 in volume 1 with small stain causing loss of one word on facing page, and signature Ll defective (Ll1 loose and with blank corner creased/torn, lacking Ll2-3, L4 loose), volume 4 with title-page torn across (no loss), untrimmed and unpressed in original blue-grey paper boards, volumes 4-6 only with their original paper backstrips (these chipped, slight staining and a few tears/cracks, corners knocked, volume 1 with upper cover near detached and some gatherings working loose), preserved in green morocco-backed solander boxes, gilt lettered spines with raised bands [ESTC T78356 (volume 1), N36543 (volumes 2-3), T78365 (volumes 4-6); Grolier English 58; Printing and the Mind of Man 222; Rothschild 942], 4to (300 x 230mm.), W. Strahan and T. Cadell,, 1776-1787-1788Footnotes:GIBBON'S MASTERPIECE OF ENGLISH LETERATURE - EXTREMELY RARE SET, UNTRIMMED, UNPRESSED AND UNREPAIRED IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS. The vast majority of copies were rebound in leather, either soon after or more commonly in the nineteenth century, so to find such a set, with full margins and free of any sophistication, is almost without precedent - the survival of three of the fragile paper backstrips is particularly remarkable. The only two entries for sets in original boards listed on ABPC since 1995 are in fact for the same rebacked set, with volume 1 variously described as second state (Christies, 2001, sold for $65,000) and first state (Sotheby's, 2004, £40,000).The printing history of Decline and Fall led to various combinations of editions and printings being assembled as sets. 500 copies of volume one were initially printed, and a further 500 were ordered before the day of publication, 17 February 1776. The two printings were issued simultaneously and sold out in two weeks. The present set is very unusual in so far as volume one is a first edition, whereas it is much more common, for obvious reasons, to find second editions of the first volume in combination with first editions of the others. Volumes 2 and 3 in the present set were reissued without the other volumes in 1787, and have their own separate entry on ESTC. The portrait frontispiece found in many sets is therefore not called for here as it was issued with the first edition of volume two, along with the 12 pages of contents.Provenance: Countess of Hopetoun (Elizabeth Hope-Johnstone, née Carnegie), late eighteenth century bookplates; 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
PEASE (ALFRED E.)Travel & Sport in Africa, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, numerous coloured and photogravure plates, photographic illustrations in text, 4 folding maps, publisher's buckram-backed cloth, t.e.g., some fading and light mildew to sides, small ink mark on one spine [Czech, p.126], large 4to (320 x 255mm.), Arthur L. Humphreys, 1902Footnotes:Lavishly presented record with numerous photographic illustrations describing Alfred Pease's extensive big game hunting trips through Africa, to Somaliland, the Sahara, Abyssinia, Algeria and elsewhere in the 1890s. Pease was later entertained by the future American President Theodore Roosevelt in Africa, taking him on his first lion hunt.Provenance: C.J. Anstruther, 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
TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSIONS, with 'sagging text' on p.49 of 'The Return', each with a folding map printed in red and black, publisher's red cloth, dust-jackets (unclipped, light age soiling to spines, slight wear at spine extremities and corners of folds), 8vo, George Allen and Unwin, 1954-1955This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING, reverse of title-page with the number sequence 10 down to 2, light yellow toning as often, publisher's pictorial boards, bookseller's printed discount price label pasted on upper cover, otherwise a FINE COPY, 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1997Footnotes:Rare second printing of the first hardback edition, following the first issue of only approximately 500 copies.Provenance: 'Books Books Books. Publisher's Price £10.00. Here £3.50', discount sticker on upper cover. Purchased by the current owner at the time of publication, but not read as they already had a copy of the paperback.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
MATTIOLI (PIETRO ANDREA)De i discorsi di... nelli sei libri de Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo, della materia medicinale, 2 vol., third Italian edition, title with woodcut printer's device, full-page woodcut portrait of Mattioli within an elaborate border on k8v, over 900 large woodcuts of plants, herbs, animals, fish and insects, many by Giorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck, varying degrees of browning and staining, especially to volume 1, occasional small ink/oxidisation spots throughout, volume 1 with some repairs to worming (affecting text and illustration in one section), title and 2 other leaves repaired (former with some letters supplied in manuscript), volume 2 with final a1 and a6 repaired in margins, early vellum, some stains, spine ends and edges restored [Nissen BBI 1304; Pritzel 5988; Wellcome I, 4137], folio (350 x 240mm.), Venice, Bartolomeo de gli Alberti, 1604Footnotes:The scarce and well regarded third Italian language edition of the 'great Mattioli', with the full series of magnificent large woodcuts. Mattioli (1500-1577) was a Sienese physician and distinguished phytologist, and, ostensibly translating Dioscorides, filled in the gaps, adding a vast commentary along with hundreds of new medicinal plants. The botanical cuts first appeared in the 1562 Herbar (in Czech), and the 1563 New Kreuterbuch printed in Prague, but this edition includes the equally fine cuts from the 1565 edition of the enlarged work which include zoological subjects. Included at the end is the 12-page Del modo di distillare le acque da tutte le piante et come vi si possino conservare i loro veri odori & sapori.Provenance: 'Ex libris Fisici [-Physici] Palearii', ownership inscriptions on title-page and front free nedpaper of volume 2.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
WALL STREET[GREENE (ASA)] The Perils of Pearl Street, including a Taste of the Dangers of Wall Street. By a late Merchant, FIRST EDITION, first and last few leaves lightly spotted, endpapers foxed, publisher's cloth, rebacked preserving original spine [Sabin 28584], 8vo, New York, Betts & Anstice, 1834Footnotes:Early Wall Street novella in which an innocent upstate New York carpenter's son, Billy Hazard, is ruined by a failed short-selling trade: 'It is one of the most ingenious arts of modern speculation, that a man may sell what he has not, and grow rich upon the proceeds' (p.224).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)Theatrum orbis terrarum, 2 parts in 1 vol. (including Synonymia), fourth Latin edition, engraved architectural title and 70 double-page engraved maps, COLOURED IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND, light toning, occasional small patches of browning at foot, a few maps with repairs to foot of centrefold on recto, occasional small repairs at guards on versos, seventeenth century blindstamped vellum, worn, later endpapers, clasps broken, later paper labels on spine [Koeman Ort. 12], folio (420 x 280mm.), Antwerp, A. C. van Diest, 1574Footnotes:A VERY GOOD COLOURED COPY OF ORTELIUS'S LANDMARK ATLAS. First issued in 1570 with 53 maps, some forty further editions were produced in various languages until the final edition in 1612, which had no less than 150 maps.Provenance: Johann Peter Späth (1642/45–1701), inscription at foot of dedication leaf recording his gift to the Carmelite Monastery of Frankfurt; further inscription of the Monastery on title. Also known as Moses Germanus, Späth was an Austrian theologian who explored Lutheranism and was entered into the Carmelite order in Frankfurt—where he donated this volume—before eventually converting to Judaism.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
DREW (FREDERIC)The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories. A Geographical Account, frontispiece, 4 mounted woodburytype plates of group types, 7 folding colour-printed maps (one in pocket at end as issued), publisher's cloth, soiled, hinges cracked, Edward Stanford, 1875--[ADAIR (FREDERICK E.S.)] Sport in Ladakh. Five Letters from 'The Field', 5 photographic plates, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, 4to, Horace Cox, 1895--WARD (A.E.) The Sportsman's Guide to Kashmir & Ladak, &c., second and revised edition, 3 folding maps, publisher's limp cloth gilt, soiled, Calcutta, Calcutta Central Press, 1883--BRINKCMAN (ARTHUR) The Rifle in Cashmere: A Narrative of Shooting Expeditions in Ladak, Cashmere, Punjaub, etc., 2 tinted lithographed plates, without tissue guards, later half morocco, rubbed, Smith, Elder, 1862--LISCOMB (HERSCHAU) Astor (Kashmir Territory.). A Journal of Sport and Travel, large folding photozincographed map 'of the District of Astor Kashmir 1888' in pocket at end (early ink annotations including addition of five place names, tear at one fold), later half calf, sides stained, Mussorie, [Privately printed] at the Mafasilite Printing Works, [1888], all but the fourth mentioned FIRST EDITIONS, all but the second mentioned 8vo (5)Footnotes:All relating to Kashmir and Ladakh, including a rare work on hunting in the Astor Territory of Kashmir privately printed at Mussorie, and for which we can find no other copies previously offered at auction.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
CLARENDON (EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF)The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in 1641, 3 vol., mixed edition, half-titles, engraved frontispiece portraits, engraved vignettes and decorations, some dampstaining to opening leaves (resulting in small losses to upper gutter border of half-title and title of volume 1, and repair with small loss to frontispiece of volume 1, contemporary uniform red morocco gilt, sides with elaborate panel design of various roll-tool borders enclosing central ownership name 'W. Culliford, Encombe, 1710', ornamental corner-pieces, spines tooled in 8 compartments within raised bands, t.e.g., worn, some scuffmarks to sides (obscuring some letters of text on 2 panels, one with small area gouged out), losses to extremities of spines, folio (445 x 280m.), Oxford, at the Theatre, 1707[-1703-1704]; together with a manuscript indenture, with seal, signed and dated 10 December 1669 by Robert Culliford of Encombe, relating to dealings with Sir William Constantine of Morl, John Tregonwell of Anderson, and Thomas Baynard of Cliffe (4)Footnotes:QUEEN ANNE BINDINGS MADE FOR A DISTINGUISHED DORSET FAMILY, CELEBRATING THEIR LINKS TO CLARENDON AND THE ROYAL CAUSE. Provenance: William Culliford (c.1640-1723), gilt lettered 'W. Culliford 1710' on sides, with large contemporary letterpress label inside each volume, 'Part I. [-II-III]. All the parts of the Earl of Clarendon's History, bequeath'd by my will to my son John Culliford and his Heirs Male for ever, are to remain in this House of Encombe, in perpetual Memorial of the Unhappy Rebellion begun in 1641, and the sad and miserable effects is produced in this Kingdom.... Dated the 20th of September 1710. Will. Culliford'. Loosely inserted is a 2-page letter written, circa 1760, by another William Culliford to an unidentified recipient relating to these books and several paintings, contesting a claim that the recipient had either been gifted them by Culliford's father, or purchased them at auction. He demands 'that you will send me the Historys by the next... stage, and if you insist upon being paid for them... you shall be paid whatever a Bookseller in Southampton shall value them at...'.Culliford 'was the younger son of Robert Culliford (1617–1698), of a Dorset gentry family, and his wife, Elizabeth Lawrence. His father, a somewhat tepid royalist in the civil war, was a cousin of Lord Chancellor Clarendon, though whether this was the cause of William's first appointment, as an excise surveyor in 1666, is not known. His promotion to a more responsible post as register of seizures in the customs took place after Clarendon's fall...' (ODNB). Amongst other notable positions Culliford represented the seat of Corfe Castle, Dorset in Parliament between 1690 and 1699. The books did remain at Encombe, as shortly after William's death the estate was sold to the Pitt family.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Victory Industries VIP Raceways Set R1 Slot Car Set, 8 curved tracks, 4 straight track units, 1 humped track unit, power connector, 2 bridge members, 4 bridge approach supports, 2 52” crash barriers, 2 scale model racing cars, af, chassis only, original box is in very good original condition, with manual.(untested) plus Scalextric Set 70 Porsche & BRM F1 racing cars, realistic sounds, contents good, box lid poor, A211 boxed First Aid Hut, A202 Racing Pit, 2 x boxed A265 Hand Throttles, 11th edition catalogue, plus some other items (A.Lot)
NASA interest: A rare signed copy of the 'The Astronauts by Don Myrus' The Mercury Seven hard back signed by all seven of 'The Mercury Seven'1961, first edition, each astronaut has signed in pen adjacent to their photograph at the reverse of the book in the final Chapter 'The Astronauts'Condition: The signatures good and clear The binding is worn and distressed the covers are in fair condition, pages in good condition.The book was given to the vendor by his uncle Thomas Chambers, who worked as an engineer for NASA from the late 1950s. Chambers had a long and involved career at NASA working first on Project Mercury, then Gemini and Apollo. Close involvement with the Astronauts in the early days resulted in him obtaining the autographs.
The Royal Mint limited edition 2012 The Britannia 25th Anniversary Silver Portrait Collection First Strike nine coin .958 silver proof setin capsules together with two Datestamp 1 oz .999 silver Britannias, 1/1/2013 and 1/1/2014, both slabbed, limited edition HRH Prince George of Cambridge 2013 silver commemorative, no. 1487/2500, two cased George VI 1951 silver Festival of Britain crowns, limited edition 2015 The New Portrait Specimen Set, slabbed, all in fitted presentation cases with certificates, (qty) weight approx. 9.11 ozt.Condition: Fine
Mosquito Attack Operation Jericho Amiens Prison Raid Presentation Edition Print Three Crew Signatures .This is a personal presentation edition of the print owned by Flight Lieutenant Maxwell Nicholas Sparks AFC, Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air, who as a New Zealand Mosquito pilot flew as number 3 in the first wave of the daring low level Amiens Prison Raid in 1944 The print depicts Sparks Mosquito just after Bombs gone and clearing the Prison roof. This example is signed by three men who flew on the raid. F/L M.N. Sparks A.F.C., (Pilot.) F/L Cecil S. Elliott (Navigator), Wing Commander B.E. "Dick" Hogan (Pilot) and the artist. Unframed Size overall 28 x 19 inches . . . .See Medal Group of F/Lt Sparks for full biographical details
Mosquito Attack Operation Jericho Amiens Prison Raid Presentation Edition Print. .This is a personal presentation edition of the print owned by Flight Lieutenant Maxwell Nicholas Sparks AFC, Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air, who as a New Zealand Mosquito pilot flew as number 3 in the first wave of the daring low level Amiens Prison Raid in 1944 The print depicts Sparks Mosquito just after Bombs gone and clearing the Prison roof. This example is signed by F/L M.N. Sparks A.F.C. Unframed Size overall 28 x 19 inches . . . .See Medal Group of F/Lt Sparks for full biographical details
Similar Mosquito Attack Operation Jericho Amiens Prison Raid Presentation Edition Print. .This is a personal presentation edition of the print owned by Flight Lieutenant Maxwell Nicholas Sparks AFC, Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air, who as a New Zealand Mosquito pilot flew as number 3 in the first wave of the daring low level Amiens Prison Raid in 1944 The print depicts Sparks Mosquito just after Bombs gone and clearing the Prison roof. This example is signed by F/L M.N. Sparks A.F.C. Unframed Size overall 28 x 19 inches . . . .See Medal Group of F/Lt Sparks for full biographical details
Similar Mosquito Attack Operation Jericho Amiens Prison Raid Presentation Edition Print. .This is a personal presentation edition of the print owned by Flight Lieutenant Maxwell Nicholas Sparks AFC, Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air, who as a New Zealand Mosquito pilot flew as number 3 in the first wave of the daring low level Amiens Prison Raid in 1944 The print depicts Sparks Mosquito just after Bombs gone and clearing the Prison roof. This example is signed by F/L M.N. Sparks A.F.C. Unframed Size overall 28 x 19 inches . . . .See Medal Group of F/Lt Sparks for full biographical details
Various football autobiographies, Robson (Bryan), Robbo My Autobiography, hardback with dust wrapper, signed, various others similar, Sir Bobby Charlton, first edition hardback, Moynihan (John), Kevin Keegan Black and White, with signature, Reluctant Messiah and Woolnough (Brian), Never Afraid to Miss Malcolm Donald, other Keegan, many signed, etc., (a quantity).
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