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PLATH (SYLVIA)The Bell Jar, ink notes inside lower cover [Tabor A4.a3], Faber, [1966]; idem, first American edition, numerous passages marked in margin, a few underlined, notes on lower endpapers [Tabor A4b], Harper & Row, [1971]; The Colossus, several pages cut out (but present), with corrections to the text, lower cover stained and scuffed, Faber, [1972]; Ariel, first American edition, annotated with numerals on index leaf, dust-jacket very soiled [Tabor A5b], [1966]; Crossing the Water, first American edition, annotated with numerals on index leaf, dust-jacket soiled [Tabor A11b], [1971], New York, Harper & Row--BUNDTZEN (LYNDA K.) Plath's Incarnations. Woman and the Creative Process, several passages marked in pencil or green pen in margins, with a few comments in the margins ('strange affirmation, savage & desperate...'. 'Did she!', 'No', etc.), Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1983, ALL ANNOTATED BY OLWYN HUGHES, unless otherwise mentioned publisher's cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo; and approximately 70 others by, or about or relating to Plath, a few annotations by Olwyn Hughes in three, including the biographies by Anne Stevenson and Linda Wagner-Martin (c.76)Footnotes:A collection of works by, or references about Sylvia Plath, several of which have been annotated by her sister-in-law Olwyn Hughes. The two women only met only six occasions, with the last of these resulting in an argument, for which 'it was in no small measure as self-justification and atonement that she [Olwyn] spent the next 50 years reading Plath, talking about her, loathing the feminists who made a martyr of her, and correcting what she perceived as biographical misreadings of her brother's ill-starred first marriage' (Jonathan Bate, Guardian obituary, 5 January 2016).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

[PLATH (SYLVIA)]A Winter Ship, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 60 COPIES, title within an ornamental border, stitched in original stiff card with marbled wrappers, title printed in black on label pasted on upper cover [Tabor A1], Edinburgh, Tragara Press, 1960; Three Women. A Monologue for Three Voices, second (first published) edition, NUMBER 167 OF 180 COPIES, frontispiece by Stanislaw Gliwa, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt [Tabor A3b.1], 1968; Ariel, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket (very small tear at lower margin of upper cover, but otherwise very good) [Tabor A5a], [1965]; Uncollected Poems, [LIMITED TO 150 COPIES], THIS COPY 'M OF 13 COPIES' SIGNED BY TED HUGHES inside upper cover, a few light spots to covers [Tabor A6, not mentioning this 'lettered' limited variant], Turret Books, 1965 [but 1966]; Wreath for a Bridal, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, this number 13 [Tabor A7], Frensham, Sceptre Press, 1970; Crystal Gazer and Other Poems, NUMBER 105 OF 400 COPIES, publisher's quarter cloth, slipcase [Tabor 9], Rainbow Press, 1971; Fiesta Melons, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, this numbered '8/30', publisher's cloth, dust-jacket [Tabor A10], Exeter, Rougemont Press, 1971; Crossing the Water, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket [Tabor A11], Faber, 1971; Lyonnesse. Poems, ONE OF 90 COPIES BOUND IN FULL CALF, from an overall edition of 300, this copy number 35, publisher's calf gilt, slipcase [Tabor A13], Rainbow Press, 1971; Million Dollar Month, NUMBER 49 OF 150 COPIES, [Tabor A14], Frensham, Sceptre Press, [1971]; Winter Trees, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket [Tabor A15], Faber, 1971; Child, LIMITED TO 325 COPIES, this copy not numbered [Tabor A16], Exeter, Rougemont Press, [1971]; Pursuit, NUMBER 22 OF 100 COPIES, WITH ORIGINAL ETCHING SIGNED BY LEONARD BASKIN, 4 full-page illustrations by Baskin, full morocco by Zaehnsdorf, t.e.g., slipcase [Tabor A17], Rainbow Press, 1973; Two Poems, NUMBER 68 OF 75 'ESPECIAL' COPIES, from an overall edition of 300 [Tabor A22], Knotting, Martin Booth at Sceptre Press, 1980; Two Uncollected Poems, NUMBER 4 OF 450 COPIES, [Tabor A23], Anvil Press, 1980; A Day in June. An Uncollected Short Story, NUMBER 162 OF 160 COPIES, [Tabor A24], Ely, Embers Handpress, 1981; A Dialogue Over a Ouija Board, NUMBER 127 OF 140 COPIES, illustration by Leonard Baskin, publisher's limp vellum, slipcase [Tabor A25], Rainbow Press, 1981; The Green Rock, NUMBER 11 OF 160 COPIES [Tabor A28], Ely, Embers Handpress, 1982; The Magic Mirror, NUMBER 127 OF 226 COPIES, a few light spots, publisher's cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, Rhiwagor, Embers Handpress, 1989, unless otherwise stated publisher's stiff wrappers (with additional dust-jacket where required), FIRST EDITIONS, FINE COPIES, 8vo and 4to; and 3 others relating to Plath (22)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

[PLATH (SYLVIA)]A Winter Ship, FIRST EDITION, 22 COPIES OF THE APPROXIMATELY 60 PRINTED, title within an ornamental border, stitched in original stiff card with marbled wrappers, title printed in black on label pasted on upper cover [Tabor A1], 8vo, Edinburgh, Tragara Press, 1960 (22)Footnotes:A COLLECTION OF TWENTY-TWO COPIES OF THE FIRST EDITION OF SYLVIA PLATH'S FIRST SEPARATELY PRINTED POEM.Alan Anderson, the owner of the Tragara Press, has stated that approximately 60 copies were printed. Plath was extremely pleased with the result, writing to Anderson on 23 July 1960 'The pamphlets are absolutely beautiful. Ted and I are delighted with them, and especially with the handsome way you make up your covered booklets' (The Letters, Vol.II, edited by Steinberg and Kukil, 2018). The poem was printed at the expense of Anderson, with the entire print run sent to Hughes and Plath who, writing to her mother (14 December 1960) mentioned she had been sending Christmas cards 'and in many enclosed my poem about a 'Winter Ship''.The lot consists of approximately one third of all the copies printed, which have been retained by Sylvia Plath's family since publication.Provenance: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes; by descent to Olwyn Hughes; Frieda Hughes.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

PLATH (SYLVIA)Ariel, 20 copies, FIRST EDITIONS, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket designed by Berthold Wolpe, FINE COPIES (2 spines slightly faded and toned, short tear to extremity of 5 spines, short tear to upper cover of 3, but generally all bright) [Tabor A5a], 8vo, Faber and Faber, 1965; and 48 others by Plath, including first editions in good dust-jackets of 'Crossing the Water', 1971 (13 copies, and 3 American firsts, Tabor A11a/b); 'Winter Trees', 1971 (18 copies, and 8 American firsts, light blue smudge on lower covers off-set from upper covers of UK edition, spines slightly frayed to American editions, Tabor A15a/b), a first American edition of 'Ariel', smudge on upper wrapper [Tabor A5b], 1966 (68)Footnotes:A COLLECTION INCLUDING TWENTY COPIES OF THE FIRST EDITION OF ARIEL, all retained since publication by family of Ted Hughes and his sister Olwyn.''Ariel' by Sylvia, is in a class apart. She truly became the most phenomenal genius just before she died. In English there is nothing quite so direct & naked & radiant - yet complicated & mysterious at the same time' (Ted Hughes, letter to János Csokits, 21 April 1967).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

PLATH (SYLVIA)The remaining stock of twelve works by Sylvia Plath previously retained by Ted Hughes, comprising: Three Women, 9 copies, second (first published) edition, LIMITED TO 180 COPIES, these numbered '167' to '175', introduction by Douglas Cleverdon, frontispiece by Stanislawa Gliwy, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, original plastic dust-wrapper [Tabor A3b.1], Turret Books, 1968; Wreath for a Bridal, 7 copies, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, these numbered '14', '21' to '25', and one marked by Ted Hughes '[copy] D of 5 unumbered', all but the last mentioned in plain tissue dust-wrapper [Tabor A7], Frensham, Sceptre Press, [1970]; Fiesta Melons, 14 copies, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, these all numbered as if limited to 30 copies (i.e. 4/30), illustrations by Sylvia Plath, publisher's cloth, dust-jackets (one with short tear to upper cover, light fading to a few) [Tabor A10], Exeter, Rougemont Press, 1971; Million Dollar Month, 8 copies, LIMITED TO 150 NUMBERED COPIES, [Tabor A14], Frensham, Sceptre Press, [1971]; Child, 26 copies, LIMITED TO 325 COPIES, some of these unnumbered, occasional uneven fading to dust-jackets [Tabor A16], Exeter, Rougemont Press, 1971; Two Poems, 48 copies (including 4 'especial' copies), LIMITED TO 300 COPIES, [Tabor A22, mentioning that 'Ted and Olwyn Hughes took numbers 51-60 and 201-250'), Knotting, Sceptre Press, 1980; Two Uncollected Poems, 22 copies, LIMITED TO 450 COPIES, [Tabor A23], Anvil Press Poetry, 1980; A Day in June, 23 copies, LIMITED TO 160 COPIES, [Tabor A24], 1981; The Green Rock, 24 copies, LIMITED TO 160 COPIES, [Tabor A28], 1982; The Magic Mirror, 10 copies, LIMITED TO 226 COPIES, OF WHICH 2 SIGNED BY TED HUGHES (these from the 26 'lettered' copies 'reserved by the Press'), publisher's cloth, dust-jackets (7 with some uneven discolouring or dusting), 1989, Ely [or Rhiwagor], Embers Handpress; To Eva Descending the Stair, 6 copies, SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, colour lithographed illustration by Ralph Steadman, single folded sheet with dust-jacket (missing from 2 copies), Steam Press, [1974], unless otherwise mentioned publisher's stiff wrappers with dust-jackets if where printed, 8vo and 4to; and 14 copies of American Poetry Now... edited by Sylvia Plath, [1961] (c. 211)Footnotes:Provenance: Ted Hughes; Frieda Hughes, Ted's daughter.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

HUGHES (TED)Moortown Elegies, LIMITED TO 175 COPIES, SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE AUTHOR, prospectus loosely inserted, one full-page illustration by Leonard Baskin, original vellum by Zaehnsdorf, gilt-blocked illustration of a bull by Ted Hughes on upper cover, slipcase [Sagar/Tabor 57a], small folio, Printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lion Press, for The Rainbow Press, 1978; and 44 further copies of the same, ALL SIGNED BY HUGHES (45)Footnotes:The remaining stock of Hughes' Moortown Elegies, comprising 45 of the 175 signed copies published by The Rainbow Press, the joint enterprise of Ted and his sister Olwyn. 'Olwyn played the major role in the Rainbow Press publications. She chose the printer and binder for each edition and mostly chose the paper on which it was to be printed... Ted enjoyed being involved in the making of the books and had enormous creative force and energy. He watched over the Press productions and provided much of the material from his own writings' (Ann Skea, Ted Hughes and Small Press Publication, online).Of Moortown Elegies John Carey wrote 'It grips your heart, and your intestines, like a vice from the first page. [Hughes] makes language as physical as a bruise, and these poems beauty and tenderness blend in violence' (review in Sunday Times).Provenance: Ted Hughes and Olwyn Hughes; Frieda Hughes, Ted's daughter.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

BAGNOLD (ENID)The Squire, AUTHOR'S OWN COPY, INSCRIBED 'Men build their own lives: but No girl knows her journey - Enid Bagnold', dust-jacket (soiled with small losses at corners), 1938; Two Plays, AUTHOR'S OWN COPY, INSCRIBED 'My Own Copy E.J., March 21 [19]51, London' on front free endpaper and on upper cover of dust-jacket, [1951]; The Chalk Garden, AUTHOR'S OWN COPY INSCRIBED 'My first copy. Enid Bagnold, Rottingdean. August 22 - 1956' on front free endpaper, and EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED throughout Act I, a note by her recorded that this copy was 'used for the French translation...', dust-jacket, [1956]; Alice and Thomas and Jane, COPY BELONGING TO THE AUTHOR'S FATHER, ONE OF THE DEDICATEES, with ownership inscription 'Colonel A.H. Bagnold, Warren Wood, Shooters Hill, S.E.18' on front free endpaper, pictorial dust-jacket (a few small marginal tears), 1930; The Loved and the Envied, first American edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To Mr & Mrs. Sanderson from the Author Enid Bagnold, Jan. 1951', dust-jacket, New York, Doubleday, 1951; Four Plays, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Dear Billie with deep gratitude & love from Enid (Have a look at 'Call Me Jacky' - I might be badgering you again if you could stand it)', Boston, Little, Brown, [1970]; Letters to Frank Harris, & Other Friends, LIMITED TO 400 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, this copy marked 'Advance copy 6th May 1980 (for the author)' on the colophon, and with an additional inscription on the title-page to Enid from the printers, John and Rose Randle, 5 plates, slipcase, The Whittington press, [1980]; Serena Blandish or the Difficulty of Getting Married. By a Lady of Quality, THE AUTHOR'S OWN COPY, WITH AUTOGRAPH CORRECTIONS in ink and pencil on approximately 10 pages, inscribed 'Corrected Copy for America... Feb. 192[?5], E.J[ones, Bagnold's married name]' on the upper cover, and 'Enid Jones' on front free endpaper, labels on cover age soiled, 1924, unless otherwise stated William Heinemann, 8vo; and 3 others, 2 inscribed by Bagnold, one a paperback edition in French of 'Serena Blandish', limited to 100 copies 'sur Alfa special des Papeteries du Marais', with long inscription to Bagnold ('Lady Jones') from the publisher (11)Footnotes:'NO GIRL KNOWS HER JOURNEY' - The author's copies of some of her own books, all signed, and two of which are annotated in preparation for new editions.Provenance: Purchased by the vendor from the sale of the remaining contents of North End House, Rottingdean... The Property of Lady Jones, C.B.E. (Miss Enid Bagnold), Christie's, 16 October 1980.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BECKETT (SAMUEL)Waiting for Godot. Tragicomedy in 2 Acts, first edition in English, 2 leaves of photographs, publisher's black cloth, lettering in silver and gold italics on spine, scarlet endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket (slightly dulled on spine), 8vo, New York, Grove Press, [1954]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DOYLE (ARTHUR CONAN)The Hound of the Baskervilles. Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 'you' for 'your' on page 13, line 3, 16 plates by Sidney Paget (2 loose), publisher's red pictorial cloth gilt, thin vertical light dampstain on lower cover, light dampstain at foot of spine but generally bright [De Waal 87], 8vo, George Newnes, 1902This 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

GRAVES (ROBERT)Good-bye to All That, second impression without the Sassoon poems on pp.341-2, jacket with some loss to spine and age soiled, Jonathan Cape, [1929]--WELLS (H.G.) The Croquet Player, jacket price-clipped, Chatto & Windus, 1936--ORWELL (GEORGE) The English People, Collins, 1947; England Your England and Other Essays, Secker & Warburg, [1953]--AUDEN (W.H.) and LOUIS MACNEICE. Letters from Iceland, [1937]--LARKIN (PHILIP) The Whitsun Weddings, 1964; High Windows, jacket price-clipped, 1974, Faber--GREENE (GRAHAM) British Dramatists, Collins, 1932, FIRST EDITIONS--BURY (ADRIAN) Shadow of Eros. A Biographical... Study of the Life and Works of Sir Alfred Gilbert, NUMBER 53 OF 53 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, full morocco gilt, jacket soiled with small losses to spine, Dropmore Press, 1952, ALL WITH DUST-JACKETS (occasional toning or slight rubbing at extremities)--HUXLEY (ALDOUS) Brave New World, FIRST EDITION, circular cup stain on upper cover, Chatto & Windus, 1932--GAUTIER (THEOPHILE) Mademoiselle De Maupin, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, engraved plates by John Buckland Wright, original quarter vellum by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 1938--STEWART (CECIL) Topiary, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, illustrations by Peter Barker-Mill, publisher's half buckram over patterned boards, [1954], Golden Cockerel Press--WELLINGTON. A Selection from the Private Correspondence of the First Duke of Wellington, printed in red and black, publisher's cloth, Dropmore Press, for The Roxburghe Club, 1952, unless otherwise mentioned publisher's cloth, 8vo and 4to (13)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

KIPLING (RUDYARD)Thy Servant A Dog, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR below struck-out printed name on the title-page, with note in another hand 'Presented to Clarence Winchester who published this story in Cassell's Magazine' on verso of the half-title, publisher's limp pictorial morocco gilt, g.e., Macmillan, 1930--HUXLEY (ALDOUS) Selected Poems, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title, publisher's parchment-backed decorative boards, spine lettered in gilt, Oxford, Blackwell, 1926--BENSON (A.C.) Rambles and Reflections, with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER tipped-in on half-title along with a picture of Benson, thanking a Miss Christmas for her 'generous letter', 1 page, dated 23 April 1907, bookplate of May Christmas, John Murray, [1926]--MASEFIELD (JOHN) The Collected Poems, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title, publisher's decorative morocco, t.e.g., Heinemann, 1923--FOWLES (JOHN) Mantissa, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page, dust-jacket, Jonathan Cape, 1982--BELL (J.J.) The Whale Hunters and Other Stories, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Clarence Winchester [editor of 'The Argosy'] with regards of J.J. Bell, 1929' on the frontispiece, with 2 autograph letters signed by Bell to Winchester, one of which asks that Winchester accept this book, dated in June and August 1929, ownership label of Winchester inside upper cover, Thomas Nelson, [1929]--GOUDGE (ELIZABETH) The Dean's Watch, INSCRIBED BY THE POET ELIZABETH JENNINGS, 'For Mummy wishing you a very happy Christmas from Elizabeth, Oxford Christmas 1960' on the front free endpaper, dust-jacket (price clipped), Hodder and Stoughton, 1960--FITZGERALD (PENELOPE) The Bookshop, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with date 'August 1995' on the title, with loosely inserted ticket to a Fitzgerald literary event from the same month, publisher's wrappers, Flamingo, [1989], unless otherwise mentioned in publisher's cloth, 8vo; and 3 others, including a copy of George Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah with an autograph letter signed by Shaw's wife ('C.T. Shaw', ie. Charlotte Townsend), on paper headed '10 Adelphi Terrace' and dated 24 June 1921, sending the book to a Mr. Munro; and a programme to 'Poets in Place' signed by Christopher Fry, Robert Gittings, Leslie Norris and Ted Walker (11)Footnotes:Inscribed books by Rudyard Kipling, A.C. Benson, Aldous Huxley, John Fowles, and others.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)Nineteen Eighty-four, FIRST EDITION, half-title, publisher's light green cloth, red lettering on spine (slightly faded), publisher's red dust-jacket designed by Michael Kennard (slightly rubbed or frayed at extremities, spine faded, old tape repair on verso of spine ends and corners, short tear to edge of lower cover) [Fenwick A12a], 8vo, Secker & Warburg, 1949This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[THOMAS (EDWARD)]BIRKET FOSTER (MYLES) In Rustic England... edited by W. Shaw Sparrow, INSCRIBED BY EDWARD THOMAS TO HIS SISTER-IN-LAW, 'Mary & Arthur Valon from Edward Thomas 1906' on the front free endpaper, 25 tipped-in colour plates, light spotting, publisher's cloth, small 4to, Hodder & Stoughton, 1906--THOMAS (EDWARD) Poems, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece portrait photogravure, publisher's grey boards, printed label on spine (abrasions affecting several letters), a few scattered stains on lower cover [Eckert pp.242-244], 8vo, Selwyn & Blount; and a copy of the first edition in dust-jacket of A Witness Tree (1943) by Robert Frost, to whom Poems was dedicated (3)Footnotes:Edward Thomas, in his role at literary critic for The Daily Chronicle, wrote a review of In Rustic England, published on 20 December 1906, inscribing this copy of the book to Mary Valon, sister of his wife Helen, and her husband. In the same year Thomas published his book The Heart of England. Poems, published six months after his death at Arras, was Thomas's first regularly published book of poetry, this being one of 525 copies printed for distribution in England.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

CHURCHILL (WINSTON S.)The People's Rights, FIRST EDITION, FIRST DAILY NEWS ISSUE, with page 71 misnumbered '1', one appendix and index at end, toned throughout (as usual), upper fore-corner of first and last few leaves turned (some with loss), short marginal tears with some loss to blank lower margin of final leaf, publisher's yellow wrappers with photographic portrait of Churchill on the front, spine worn with some slight losses, lacks rear wrapper, piece of old envelope partially obscuring text on inner front wrapper [Cohen A31.4.a; Woods A16], 8vo, Hodder & Stoughton, London and Manchester, The Daily News, [1910]Footnotes:THE RARE 'DAILY NEWS ISSUE', with the revised Manchester imprint on the front wrapper, one of several published by Hodder and Stoughton in conjunction with regional newspapers. The Daily News was founded in 1846 by Charles Dickens, the newspaper's first editor before he handed the reigns over to John Forster. It was conceived as a radical rival to the right-wing Morning Chronicle, and in 1901, Quaker chocolate manufacturer George Cadbury bought the newspaper in order to campaign for old age pensions and against sweatshop labour. From 1906, it also became prominent in its support for women's suffrage.Provenance: National League of Young Liberals, stamped in ink across front wrapper.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

CHURCHILL (WINSTON)Shall We Commit Suicide?, first separate edition, second issue, 12pp., title within double rule border and with small device in centre, stapled as issued in self-wrappers, with a loosely inserted compliments slip printed on blue paper, FINE COPY [Cohen A74.2; Woods A33], 205 x 90mm., Reprinted from Nash's Pall Mall Magazine of September 24, 1924 [1924]Footnotes:'The following article on what may be expected in the event of a new war comes with authority from an Englishman who for may years has been actively identified with the war machinery of the British Empire' (Introduction). This ominously prophetic article first appeared in Nash's Pall Mall Magazine before being published in the U.S. as this stand-alone pamphlet. In it Churchill envisages a future world at risk from chemical and bacteriological warfare, and warns of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction ('Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings nay, to blast a township at a stroke?').The compliments slip included here is presumably a rare survival. It is signed in print by Raymond B. Fosdick of the Rockefeller Foundation ('Your opinion on this leaflet would be appreciated.... If you would like some extra copies for distribution among your friends, I should be glad to supply them').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

CHURCHILL (WINSTON)Shall We Commit Suicide?, first separate edition, 12pp., unrecorded issue with variant title border and without printer's name on p.12, stapled as issued in self-wrappers, some soiling, corner crease with very small chip to front wrapper, joint split at top [cf. Cohen A74; Woods A33], 207 x 95mm., Reprinted from Nash's Pall Mall Magazine of September 24, 1924 [?New York, Eilert printing Co., 1924]--[GIBB (ALEX DEWER)] With Winston Churchill at the Front, By Captain X [Capt. Alex Dewer Gibb], frontispiece portrait of Churchill, some foxing to first few pages, publisher's pictorial wrappers, soiled, scratch to upper cover, spine chipped at foot (lettering unaffected), small 8vo, London & Glasgow, Gowans & Gray, 1924--KEYNES (JOHN MAYNARD) The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill, FIRST EDITION, publisher's printed wrappers, darkened, spine and one corner reinforced, 2 chips to lower cover, 8vo, Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1925--CHURCHILL (WINSTON) A Speech by The Prime Minister The Right Honourable Winston Churchill in the House of Commons August 20th, 1940, FIRST EDITION, 2 copies, 16pp., one copy in publisher's buff wrappers and on unwatermarked paper, and the other in light bluish grey wrappers on watermarked paper, some foxing, especially to the second [cf. Cohen A131.1; Woods A60(a)], 8vo, [Baynard Press], 1940--The Pilgrims. Speeches at the Dinner to Celebrate the Bi-Centenary of the Birth of George Washington, Tuesday, 12th July, 1932, 19 pages (Churchill's speech occupying 4), original stiff wrappers [Cohen D63], [1932]; together with the table plan for the dinner (16pp., stiff wrappers) and menu (4pp., on card), both printed in blue (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

CHURCHILL (WINSTON)Beating the Invader. A Message from the Prime Minister, 2-page leaflet, 4 copies, all Cohen's first or second issue, creases where formerly folded, one unusually good condition, the others with slight creases, chips or staining at edges [Cohen B76.1-2; Woods A69], [1941]--If the Invader Comes. What To Do - And How to Do It, 2-page leaflet, 8 copies, some browning and fold creases, 2 chipped at edges, one with hole affecting text and tear, [1940], 4to (c.275 x 208mm.), Ministry of Information in Co-operation with the War Office and the Ministry of Home Security--After the Raid, 6-page folding leaflet, 15 x 245mm. when opened, Ministry of Home Security London Region Edition, December 1940 (13)Footnotes:Two hitherto scarce wartime leaflets, issued in 1941 and 1940, the first with a lengthy introduction by Churchill and instructions to the public as to what to do in the event of an invasion. This group of leaflets came to light following a previous consignment earlier this year (see our sale on 31 March 2021, lot 116).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

CHURCHILL (WINSTON) AND FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTAtlantic Charter [August 12th 1941], NUMBER 3 OF 100 COPIES, printed on Simili Japon paper in grey and blue with initial flourish and rubrications, sewn with silk thread in publisher's wrappers [not in Cohen or Woods], 16mo, [Utrecht], The Busy Bee, [1944]Footnotes:A very good copy of this rare and finely printed edition, not seen by Cohen or Woods, and only one copy appearing in auction records (1989).'The Atlantic Charter, a joint declaration of the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, first published August 12th 1941, has been printed in secret in the office of the Busy Bee, somewhere in occupied Holland, this being the third volume of the series Documents Humains. The edition has been limited to 100 copies on Simili Japon paper. 3 [in ink]' (colophon).The Busy Bee, or De Bezige Bij, began life during the Second World War and quickly became a remarkably successful clandestine publishing house, issuing broadsides and helping to raise funds to aid Jewish children to escape from the Nazis. The Atlantic Charter was its first official publication, and despite the circumstances, the printing would have been worthy of any fine private press.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

DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE) 'LEWIS CARROLL'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, SECOND (FIRST PUBLISHED) EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED to 'Margaret Evelyn Hardy - from the Author' in black ink on the half-title, frontispiece and 41 illustrations by John Tenniel, small piece torn away from pp.25/26, short tear in margin of 7 leaves (of which 5 repaired with archival tape), final leaf with ragged tear touching some letters repaired and long crease, approximately 7 leaves with light fold crease in corner, occasional light spotting and handling marks, later red calf gilt, g.e., worn at extremities, small losses at spine ends [Handbook 46], 8vo, Macmillan, 1866 [1865]Footnotes:AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION OF ALICE, inscribed to Margaret Evelyn Hardy, the daughter of Gathorne-Gathorne Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook. Gathorne-Hardy had come into the orbit of Dodgson's Oxford circle in 1865, the year in which Alice was published, when he stood as the Conservative parliamentary candidate in the election for the Oxford University constituency, a seat he won by defeating William Ewart Gladstone. Dodgson records his signing of a voting paper for the election in his diary (10 July 1865) and, prompted by that election, wrote Dynamics of a Parti-cle (1865), a satirical pamphlet masquerading as a mathematical treatise.In 1867, newly promoted to the role of Home-Secretary, Gathorne-Hardy visited Oriel College, Oxford, and Dodgson took the opportunity of inviting him to Christ Church to have his photograph taken. Dodgson noted in his diary on 10 June 1867 '...I succeeded in taking two pictures of him, neither of them, I fear, particularly successful'. However, a friendship was forged. Later that month, Gathorne-Hardy wrote to Dodgson that 'My little girl's names are Margaret Evelyn, and I am sure she would dearly treasure Alice in English and French, but has no right to tax you for both.' A correspondence between the two men ensued, Dodgson later meeting Mrs. Hardy and the family, and evidently [see following 2 lots] continuing to send copies of his books to the young Margaret Evelyn.Provenance: Margaret Evelyn Gathorne-Hardy (1858-1943), presentation inscription from the author.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE) 'Lewis Carroll'Alice's Abenteuer im Wunderland, first edition in German, translated by Antonie Zimmermann, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED to 'Margaret Evelyn Hardy from the Author' in brown ink on the half-title, frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel, light soiling and fingering, small dampstain at margin of of a few leaves, small pencil date '1871' added on title, brown endpapers, publisher's (variant) green pictorial cloth gilt, g.e., Burn & Co. binder's ticket on rear pastedown, some abrasions and bubbling to sides, hinges cracked [Handbook 71], 8vo, Macmillan, 1869Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE IN GERMAN OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND, inscribed to one of Dodgson's young female readers. The German edition was the first foreign language edition of Alice to appear. 'The reproductions of the woodcuts in this German edition are excellent' (Madan and Williams).Provenance: Margaret Evelyn Gathorne-Hardy (1858-1943), presentation inscription from the author. See lot 176 for details of their relationship.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

DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE) 'LEWIS CARROLL'Through the Looking-glass, and What Alice Found There, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED to 'Margaret Evelyn Hardy from the Author. Christmas 1871' in purple ink on the half-title, illustrations by John Tenniel, lacks the final 2 leaves (advertisement and printer's details), tear without loss to pp.29/30, pencil scribble in 2 margin, later red calf gilt, g.e. [Handbook 84], 8vo, Macmillan, 1872 [1871]Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY DODGSON IN PURPLE INK - IN THE MONTH OF PUBLICATION - to one of his young female readers. Although the date on the title-page is 1872 the book was issued in December 1871, Dodgson himself receiving his copy on the 6th of the month. Provenance: Margaret Evelyn Gathorne-Hardy (1858-1943), presentation inscription from the author. See lot 176 for details of their relationship.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

DRINKWATER (JOHN)Remaining books from the library of John Drinkwater, including 105 volumes of his own works, either with his ownership inscription (often dated), or a presentation inscription (to his second wife Daisy - sometimes addressed as 'David' - or daughter Penny), with approximately 60 other copies of his works (about 20 signed by Daisy), and 10 books inscribed to him by other authors (including John Buchan, Arnold Bennett and Galsworthy - see footnote), some with additional notes and annotations, a few with loosely inserted letters and photographs, some with Drinkwater's gilt morocco bookplate, others with 'J.D.' stamp, publisher's bindings, several in dust-jackets, variable rubbing or wear, mostly 8vo, a few 4to, [c.1914-1935] (quantity)Footnotes:UPWARDS OF 100 NOVELS, PLAYS, ESSAYS AND WORKS WRITTEN, EDITED OR WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY JOHN DRINKWATER, ALL EITHER WITH HIS OWNERSHIP INSCRIPTION, or presentation copies to his wife or daughter, several the dedication copies.Includes: Cotswold Characters (1921), WITH 5 PROOF WOODCUTS BY PAUL NASH captioned in pencil, JD noting 'Inserted are proofs of the cuts, inscribed by P.N.'; Abraham Lincoln. A Play (1919), with a tipped-in envelope containing 'LEAVES FROM THE DINNER TABLE OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, at the Great Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia, June 16th 1864' written by 'Ella Virginia J.P. 1872' with note by JD 'These were given to me when I was in the U.S.A.'; The Collected Poems in 2 vol. (1931), inscribed by JD 'a copy of the large paper edition, specially bound by S. & S. Inserted is a copy of the frontispiece, coloured by Albert Rutherston' [also inscribed 'J.D. from A.R.. Dec. 1923']; Preludes 1921-1922 (1922), LIMITED TO 125 COPIES, inscribed 'No. 3, and my own copy... September 1922; Claud Lovat Fraser (1923), LIMITED TO 45O COPIES, signed by Drinkwater and Albert Rutherston; A Book for Bookmen (1926), ONE OF 50 COPIES, WITH AN ALS FROM T.S.WISE (the dedicatee) tipped-in, also another copy with 2 further ALS from Wise ('What a brick you are...'); Charles James Fox (1928), inscribed 'To David, the dearest Lady that I know. This book about Charles, whom must have been a very dear gentleman. With love from her Jonathan, Pepys House, September 1928'; A Man's House (1934), inscribed to his daughter Penny '... this play was produced at Malvern on July 23rd, three days before your fifth birthday...', with jacket and wraparound band; another copy inscribed to his wife 'wishing her luck with our play... Malvern, 23. vii. 34'; Laying the Devil (1933), inscribed 'Daisy darling, thank you for believing in this play, and for helping me by believing in it... Shaftsbury Theatre, 2.VII.33'; Garibaldi (1936), inscribed 'For My David, this first copy of the new play... 6.vi.36'; Robert Burns. A Play (1925), THE DEDICATEE'S COPY, inscribed 'Daisy Drinkwater from her Jonathan, New York, November 24th 1925'; More About Me. Poems for a Child (1929), DEDICATEE'S COPY, inscribed 'My darling little [Penelope Ann, JD's daughter, printed] from her loving father who made the rhyme, Brampton October 28th 1929'.Books inscribed by their author to Drinkwater include: Arnold Bennett, Riceyman Steps, with additional note by Drinkwater 'Given to me by Bennett on the evening that I read 'Robert Burns' to him. J.D.', 1923; John Galsworthy, The Dark Flower, 1913; Charles Morgan. Sparkenbroke, 1936; Ramsay Macdonald, At Home and Abroad, 1936; Amelia Defries. Rebirth, the dedication copy, 1928.; John Buchan, The Manor of Elsfield, 1931.Provenance: John Drinkwater (1882-1937); his daughter Penelope Ann and 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

ELIOT (T.S.)Murder in the Cathedral, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO E. McKNIGHT KAUFFER, inscribed 'for E. McKnight Kauffer by T.S. Eliot 11.vi.[19]35' on the front free endpaper, light spotting to endpapers, publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered on spine, spine faded and rubbed at extremities, 8vo, Faber and Faber, [1935]Footnotes:First edition, inscribed in the month of publication by Eliot to his close friend, the American-born artist Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954). Best known for his posters designed for London Underground, Kauffer supplied the cover artwork to Eliot's Journey of the Magi (1927), Marina (1930) and Triumphal March (1931), and of him Eliot wrote he 'did something for modern art with the public and something for the public with modern art' (British Library website).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

GIELGUD (JOHN)An Actor and His Time, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY GIELGUD, THE DEDICATEE RALPH RICHARDSON, AND OTHER ACTORS, all on the title-page, and inscribed 'Love from Christina [Foyle]' on the dedication leaf, photographic plates, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket, 8vo, Sidgwick & Jackson, [1979]Footnotes:A copy of Gielgud's autobiography signed by Gielgud and fellow theatrical acting greats Ralph Richardson, Flora Robson, Anna Neagle, Elspeth March, Kathleen Nesbitt and Edward Fox, along with composer Vivian Ellis, the publisher Lord Longford, and Christina Foyle,organiser of the legendary 'Foyles Literary Luncheons'.Provenance: Jeanne Heal (1917-2010), actress and author, inscribed 'with Love from Christina [Foyle]', and with accompanying typed letter signed from Christina Foyle inviting her to attend a 'luncheon we are giving to Sir John Gielgud to mark the publication of his book... on Tuesday, 20th November, [1979]'.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

MACNEICE (LOUIS)Blind Fireworks, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, THE DEDICATION COPY, inscribed to 'Giovanna Marie Thérèse Babette Miriam Ezra' below the printed dedication to her, signed by the author at end of the Foreword, first issue binding of cream canvas boards, Victor Gollancz, 1929--THOMAS (DYLAN) New Poems, first printing in book form, publisher's boards, dust-jacket, Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, The Poets of the Year, 1943--LAWRENCE (D.H) Pansies, limited to 500 copies, portrait, original wrappers, Privately Printed, 1929--HERBERT (A.P) Poor Poems and Rotten Rhymes, original printed wrappers, solander box with bookplate of Mary Priscilla Smith, Winchester, P. & G. Wells, Booksellers to Winchester College, 1910, 8vo; and approximately 17 others (quantity)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

LILFORD (THOMAS POWYS, FOURTH BARON)Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands, 7 vol., FIRST EDITION, photogravure portrait, 421 plates after A. Thorburn, G.E. Lodge and J.G. Keulemans, mostly chromolithographed, some hand-finished, all mounted on guards, some scattered spotting and foxing, original half morocco gilt by R.H. Porter, t.e.g., a few light abrasions [Fine Bird Books, p.91; Nissen IVB 563; Zimmer, p.399], large 8vo, R.H. Porter, 1885-1897This 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

PULP FICTION - CRIMEGLINTO (DARCY), Pseud. of HAROLD ERNEST KELLY. Snow Vogue, FIRST EDITION, loss at head of dust-jacket spine affecting the word 'Snow', Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., [1941]; Road Floozie, 1950; '... One More Nice White Body', rodent damage to lower part of spine (similar to dust-jacket), jacket price-clipped, 1952; 'You Took Me... Keep Me', library labels, and perforated stamp on 2 pages, small tears to jacket with label on spine, 1941 [but 1952]; Curtains for Carrie, 1953, publisher's cloth, pictorial dust-jackets, 8vo, all but the first mentioned Robin Hood Press; and 3 others by Darcy Glinto, dust-jacketed hardbacks (8)Footnotes:The rare first edition hardback with dust-jacket of Glinto's classic of drug peddling, glossed as 'Opium! Cocaine!! Dope!!!. Fiendish Drug-Orgies Shock America' on a later paperback edition.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ARMS AND ARMOURMEYRICK (WILLIAM) An Illustrated Catalogue of Weapons and Detached Specimens of Armour, from the Collection of William Meyrick, Esq., FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, 120 ALBUMEN PRINTS (numbered 1-118, with 2 each for nos. 98 and 117, all numbered in ink on mount above image), accompanying printed leaf of text to plates 1-92 (with additions in ink to 9), the remainder with a leaf of descriptive text in manuscript, mounted one per page, cutting from Connoisseur Magazine relating pasted on front endpaper, contemporary red morocco gilt, original gilt lettering label on upper cover, g.e, rebacked preserving original spine (with modern gilt morocco lettering label), rubbed [not in Gernsheim], folio (360 x 265mm.), Joseph Clayton, 1861Footnotes:RARE CATALOGUE OF THE WILLIAM MEYRICK COLLECTION OF WEAPONS AND ARMOUR, ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL ALBUMEN PRINT PHOTOGRAPHS, WITH IMPORTANT PROVENANCE. No copies traced as selling on Rare Book Hub, and only one copy listed on Worldcat. Presumably published in a limited number of copies, the author notes that he is 'indebted to a friend for having most kindly taken these photographs from specimens of weapons... I have obtained in the last fifteen or twenty years. In making this small collection, my object has been to procure such specimens only, as are really of good form, or of good workmanship...' (Introduction).Provenance: Leonard Brassey (1870-1958), 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe, armorial bookplate. Leonard's father Henry Arthur Brassey, M.P. purchased the Meyrick collection en bloc in about 1880, bequeathing it to his son on his death in 1891. Leonard subsequently consigned the collection for auction at Christie's, offered as Meyrick Arms and Armour being the Collection Formed about the Middle of the 19th Century by the late Dr. William Meyrick, February 21, 1922. Many of the items were purchased by Dr. Bashford Dean for the Metropolitan Museum, New York.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

PULP FICTION - CRIMESTORME (MICHAEL), Pseud. of GEORGE HERBERT DAWSON. Make Mine a Virgin, [1949]; Make Mine Dangerous, [1949]; Make Mine a Corpse, [1950], Make Mine Beautiful, [1949]; Satan Buys a Wreath, [1950], Stoke, Archer; Unlucky Virgin, first American edition, extreme tip of one upper cover corner torn away, Cleveland, Kaywin, [1951]; Hot Dames on Cold Slabs, first American edition, New York, Leisure Library, [1952]; Elvira Digs a Grave, [1952]; Chicago Terror, [1952]; Make Mine a Redhead, [1952], Harborough--ANGEL (ROSS), Pseud. of DONALD CRESSWELL. Dead Easy, [c.1951]; Smile Baby, Smile, [c.1951]; Over My Dead Body, [c.1951]; One-Way Trip, '2/6d.' price tab pasted on upper cover, [c.1953]; Dames Don't Dictate, [c.1952]; So Long, Johnny!, [c.1952], Scion--MARKHAM (STEVE) Alcatraz Breakout, [c.1950]; Dames Can't Wait, [c.1950]; It's Not Easy to Die, [c.1950]; The Hideout, [c.1950]; The Maltese Mob, [c.1950]; Date in Detroit, [c.1950], Art Publicity; Cornered, [c.1951]; New Orleans Wildcat, [c.1951]; I'll Take Blonde!, [c.1951], Gaywood; Dames Spell Trouble, Kaye Publications, [c.1953]--SHANNON (BRAD) The Big Snatch, [c.150]; Fall Guy, [c.1951]; The Lady's for Killing, short tear to upper cover, [c.1950]; Blues for My Baby, [1950]; So Many Dead, [c.1950]; The Countless Steps, [1952]--LUGAR (HANS) You Don't Say, Bolton Book Exchange stamp on upper cover, [1951]; Handle with Care, [1952] Midnight Sister, short tear to upper cover, [1953]--DRAYTON (RICKY) Stick or Bust!, [1953]--HANSEN (FRANK) I'll Get By, [1953]; Lady Be Bad, [1953], Scion publisher's pictorial wrappers by Heade, Ferrari, Gomez, Roger Davis, J. Pollock, and others, occasional light creases or light markings, 8vo; and 62 others by mentioned authors, R.C. Finney, and Christ Wheatley (c.100)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, THIRD PRINTING, with number line 10 down to 3, publisher's pictorial boards, mint in original dust-jacket (this with the slightest of creasing at top of spine, and lower cover with some very slight scratches/scuffs visible only under certain light), 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1998Footnotes:A fine copy of the third printing of The Philosopher's Stone, the first to be issued with a dust-jacket.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with the number sequence 10 through to 1 on the verso of title, publisher's pictorial boards (very slightly bumped at extremities of spine, small indentation near fore-edge of lower cover), pictorial dust-jacket (very light creases at spine ends), 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

THOMAS (DYLAN)Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page, faded early ownership inscription (dated 1941) on front free endpaper, publisher's green cloth, silver lettering on spine (slight fading at extremities), dust-jacket (2 tears, some losses to upper cover and extremities of spine including most of the word 'Dylan' at head, spotting to lower cover, lower joint torn and with loss at corners of folds), preserved in modern drop-back box, gilt morocco lettering label on spine, 8vo, Dent, [1940]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, publisher's lilac cloth gilt designed by Charles Shannon [Mason 381], small 4to, Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899Footnotes:Provenance: Ex-libris depicting two scenes of the figure of death, in one roped to a mountaineer, the other seated with a man beside a table on which stands a microscope, the lower part of the plate worn away.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

ASHENDENE PRESSMORE (THOMAS) A Fruteful and Pleasaunt Worke of the Beste State of a Publique Weale, and of the Newe Yle called Utopia ... translated into Englyshe by Raphe Robynson.. Anno MDLI, ONE OF 20 COPIES ON VELLUM, from an overall edition of 120, printed 'in Subiaco type by St John Hornby, with the help of Meysey Turton and G. Faulkner', the chapter headings and printed marginalia in red, shoulder notes in black, the initial capitals (six-line down to two-line) in red designed by Eric Gill, original brown morocco over wooden boards by W.H. Smith bindery (signed on rear turn-in), spine compartments lettered and dated in gilt, with repeated foliate decoration in blind and gilt extending from bands onto sides, slight waterstain to upper cover, soft brown cloth slipcase, small folio, Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1906Footnotes:LIMITED TO 20 COPIES ON VELLUM: 'This is a splendid Utopia, with red side-notes, initials and chapter titles, a contrast with the Kelmscott version. On a page of this size the Ashendene Subiaco is very readable and so well within the capabilities of the Press as to prepare the way for larger endeavours' (Colin Franklin, Ashendene Press p.237). Sydney Cockerell and Emery Walker received complimentary copies, the first considering it as the best book Hornby had done, whilst Franklin considered the paper copies 'a poor relation, imperfectly inked. It is of course a noble book in either form, on vellum the red especially memorable'.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

OVID - ANTONIO TEMPESTAMetamorphoseon sive tranformationium Ovidianarum libri... Antonio Tempesta inventor, engraved pictorial title, 149 engraved plates (of 150, lacking plate 47), each with title and 4-line verse in French, light dampstain in margin of 16 plates, contemporary calf, worn, upper cover detached, small oblong 4to (170 x 210mm.), Paris, Baltazar Moncornet, [c.1625]Footnotes:A fine series of engravings by the Italian artist Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630) illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses. First published in Amsterdam in 1606 with captions in Latin, this Paris edition has the captions printed in French.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

DOVES PRESSWORDSWORTH (WILLIAM) A Decade of Years. Poems... 1798-1807, one of 200 copies on paper, from an edition limited to 212, printed by T.J. Cobden Sanderson in red and black, with loosely inserted printed bifolium 'Wordsworth's Cosmic Poetry... 28 December 1914', red cloth slipcase, 1911--CARLYLE (THOMAS) Sartor Resartus: The Life & Opinions of Herr Teufelsdroeckh, one of 300 copies on paper, from an edition limited to 315, printed in red and black with initials designed by Edward Johnston in red, slight cockling of endpapers, 1907, both untrimmed in original limp vellum by the Doves Bindery, spines titled in gilt, 4to, Hammersmith, Doves Press (2)Footnotes:Provenance: First work, D.L. James, 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

DOVES PRESSSHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) The Tragedy of Coriolanus, ONE OF 15 COPIES ON VELLUM, from an edition limited to 215, printed in red and black by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, slight rippling to first few leaves, bound in original limp vellum at the Doves Bindery (stamped at rear), gilt lettered spine, covers a little bowed and slight crease to spine, 4to, Hammersmith, Doves Press, 1914This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESSCOPPARD (A.E.) Clorinda Walks in Heaven, NUMBER 19 OF 20 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, from an edition limited to 690, INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper 'For J.R.T. Morris/ With best wishes/ A.E. Coppard', and with a quatrain by Thomas Hardy in Coppard's hand below, untrimmed in original linen-backed boards with paper spine label, some browning to spine ends, 1922; Adam & Eve & Pinch Me, FIRST EDITION, one of 340 copies in orange boards from an edition limited to 550, first gathering slightly loose, stain to upper cover, spine faded, slipcase, 1921, 8vo, Waltham St. Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press (2)Footnotes:The rare first and fourth books produced by the fledgling Golden Cockerel Press, and the first two books of stories published by Coppard.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - DAVID JONESSWIFT (JONATHAN) Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, 2 vol., NUMBER 26 OF 30 COPIES on hand-made paper and SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, from an overall edition of 450, wood-engraved maps, illustrations and initials by David Jones, many hand-coloured, slight browning of endpapers, untrimmed in original cream buckram, gilt lettered spines, cover of volume 2 slightly bubbled near spine, 4to, Waltham St. Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1925Footnotes:The first book to be illustrated by David Jones for the Golden Cockerel Press.Provenance: Geoffrey Ecroyd (1935-1961), 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

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - ROBERT GIBBINGSMILTON (JOHN) Paradise Lost. A Poem... the Text of the First Edition Prepared for Press by J. Isaacs, number 138 of 196 copies on paper, from an overall edition limited to 200, wood-engraved title-page printed in red and black by Robert Gibbings, 30 wood-engraved illustrations by Mary Groom, untrimmed in original black half pigskin by Zaehnsdorf with marbled paper sides by Sydney Cockerell, spine gilt, t.e.g., slight rubbing to sides, buckram slipcase (rubbed and soiled), folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1937This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESSDE CHAIR (SOMERSET) Julius Caesar's Commentaries... Engravings by Clifford Webb, NUMBER 5 OF 70 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, signed by the editor and artist, from an edition limited to 320, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations by Clifford Webb, slight browning at edges of first and last few leaves, original dark red crushed morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt emblem on covers, t.e.g., small folio, 1951; The Golden Carpet, NUMBER 17 OF 30 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, portrait, 1943; The Silver Crescent, NUMBER 12 OF 30 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, plates, original prospectus tipped-in on front map endpaper, 1943, the last 2 from editions limited to 500 copies, signed by the author and bound in original full green and blue (respectively) crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe--LAWRENCE (T.E.) Men in Print, number 307 of 500 copies, leather book label of Austin Smith, original blue morocco-backed cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 1940, 4to, all t.e.g., others uncut, spines very slightly faded, all but the first in slipcases, Golden Cockerel Press (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

KELMSCOTT PRESS - BINDINGMORRIS (WILLIAM) The Story of the Glittering Plain or the Land of Living Men, one of 250 copies on paper, printed in Troy type in red and black, 23 wood-engraved illustrations by A. Leverett after Walter Crane, wood-engraved title, borders, half borders, ornaments and initial letters after Morris, ELABORATE INLAID BLUE MOROCCO BINDING by Riviere & Son (signed on front turn-in), probably by De Sauty, sides with elaborate gilt mosaic-style tooling enclosed by very wide borders and circular centrepieces with pomegranate and foliage design composed of maroon, red, tan and green inlays and pointille, spine in 6 compartments, 4 gilt lettered and the others with similar pomegranate and foliage inlaid design, green watered silk endpapers, blue and tan morocco gilt turn-ins with pomegranates at corners and ornate borders. t.e.g., others uncut, preserved in silk and felt-lined black straight-grained morocco fitted case (gilt ruled, rubbed at extremities), 4to (294 x 216mm.), Hammersmith, Kelmscott Press, 1894Footnotes:A MAGNIFICENTLY SUMPTUOUS RIVIERE BINDING, PROBABLY FINISHED BY ALFRED DE SAUTY.The Story of the Glittering Plain, in many ways a precursor to Brave New World and modern-day fantasy literature, was first published by the Press two years earlier, in 1892. Walter Crane had been commissioned to produce the illustrations for that edition, but took so long that Morris became impatient and published it without the intended wood-engravings. Crane did finally complete his illustrations, and Morris published the present edition, which was to be the artist's only work for Kelmscott.Alfred De Sauty (1870-1949) was the subject of an essay by Marianne Tidcombe entitled 'The Mysterious Mr. De Sauty', published in For the Love of the Binding. Studies in Bookbinding History Presented to Mirjam Foot (2000), pp.329-336. She notes that 'the first non-trade bookbinder, T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, emerged in the 1880's... he was followed by hundreds of women, but only two male binders of any significance: Douglas Cockerell and Alfred De Sauty'. Inspired by seeing illustrations of the bindings of Cobden-Sanderson in an issue of The Studio, he soon found work at the Hampstead Bindery and Guild of Women Binders, and may also have trained under P. A. Savoldelli at Riviere. De Sauty was responsible for some of the best designs of the two binderies, and carried out all the stages of the craft himself, from sewing to the designing and exceptionally delicate tooling of the covers. The present example bears similarities to another in the Catalogue of the Broxbourne Library (no.110), and to others where the use of pointille is prominent.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

KELMSCOTT PRESSMORRIS (WILLIAM) and A.J. WYATT, translators. The Tale of Beowulf, one of 300 copies on Perch paper, from an edition limited to 308, printed in red and black with text in Troy type and glossary etc. in Chaucer type, wood-engraved title, facing page with full woodcut border, decorative page borders throughout and large initials, designed by Morris, without Note to Reader slip, untrimmed in original limp vellum with khaki-coloured silk ties, gilt lettered spine, covers slightly soiled and bowed (as usual), 4to, Hammersmith, Kelmscott Press, 1895Footnotes:'The first and the best poem of the English race, [with] no author but the people' (William Morris). The work was one of Morris's favourites and the translation - 'done out of the Old English tongue by William Morris & A.J. Wyatt' - took over two years.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESSYEATS (WILLIAM BUTLER) The Collected Works in Verse and Prose, 8 vol., limited to 250 sets, frontispiece portraits by John S. Sargent, Charles Shannon, A. Mancini, J.B. Yeats, original vellum-backed grey cloth, gilt-lettered spines, t.e.g., others uncut, 8vo, Shakespeare Head Press for Chapman and Hall, 1908Footnotes:Fine set of the first edition of Yeats's collected works, published under the author's supervision, being one of approximately 250 sets bound in quarter vellum with the Chapman & Hall imprint on the spines.Provenance: Nancy Astor, with Cliveden shelf label in each volume.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 HEAD PRESSSHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) The Players' Shakespeare... Newly printed from the First Folio of 1623, 7 vol. (all published), ONE OF 106 SIGNED SETS printed on Batchelor's Kelmscott paper, this being number 11 of 100 copies for sale, from an overall edition limited to 606 copies, each volume signed by the editor Harley Granville-Barker, the art editor Albert Rutherston, and the volume's illustrator (Rutherston, Norman Wilkinson, Charles Ricketts, Thomas Lowinsky, Paul Nash (2) and Ernst Stern), 42 collotype plates and 99 woodcuts in the text, original brown oasis morocco by Riviere (first 3) or Zaehnsdorf (other 4), sides tooled in gilt with a 'Grolieresque-style' border containing dolphins, fleurs-de-lys, scrolls spines with gilt titles and small motifs within raised bands, t.e.g., others uncut, folio, Shakespeare Head Press for Ernest Benn, [1923-1927]Footnotes:A FINE ATTRACTIVE SET, EACH VOLUME SIGNED BY ITS ILLUSTRATOR. The set comprises:i) Cymbeline, illustrations by Albert Rutherston, 1923ii) The Merchant of Venice, illustrations by Thomas Lowinsky, 1923iii) Macbeth, illustrations by Charles Ricketts, 1923iv) Loves Labour's Lost, illustrations by Norman Wilkinson, 1924 v) A Midsommer Nights Dreame, illustrations by Paul Nash, 1924 vi) Julius Caesar, illustrations by Ernst Stern, 1925vii) King Lear, illustrations by Paul Nash, 1927Provenance: John Herbert Bankes, 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

WILDE (OSCAR)The Works, 14 vol., ONE OF 80 SETS ON JAPANESE VELLUM, from an overall edition limited to 1,080, publisher's limp vellum, upper covers with gilt design after Charles Ricketts consisting of italic title lettering between two medallions depicting a flying dove, and below a third medallion showing a star rising above the waters, flat spines gilt-lettered in italic, yapp edges, t.e.g., others uncut, a little light soiling, some slight crinkling or bowing as usual, but unusually good, 8vo, Methuen & Co., 1908Footnotes:FINE SET OF THE DELUXE ISSUE OF THE FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF WILDE. '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).Provenance: John Herbert Bankes, 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

ISLAMThe Rise of Islam and the Caliphate. The Pan-Islamic Movement, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 'Confidential' printed in upper right corner of title and front wrapper, very light old dampstain at top edges, publisher's grey printed wrappers, numeral '1' stamped in top corner of front wrapper above header and 'Confidential', 8vo, Handbooks Prepared Under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office, January 1919Footnotes:RARE. Marked 'Confidential', this handbook was prepared for the use of delegates of the Allied Nations who gathered at the Paris Peace Conference of January 1919. It outlines the historical scope of Islam and the Caliphate, contextualising it with current events, the final chapter entitled 'Pan-Islamism and the Young Turks'. The handbook was reprinted the following year with the wording 'confidential' removed.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

LEAR (EDWARD)Illustrated Excursions in Italy, 2 vol. [First-Second series], FIRST EDITION, half-titles, 2 hand-coloured maps, 55 tinted lithographed plates, and illustrations in the text by Lear, tissue guards, albumen print photograph of Lear's grave loosely inserted, some spotting, early half morocco, gilt lettered on spine, rubbed, joints repaired [Abbey Travel 172], folio (370 x 260mm.), Thomas M'Lean, 1846; with a printed prospectus for Edward Lear's Landscape Illustrations of Poems by Lord Tennyson. Dedicated to Lady Tennyson (1885), and a 2-page printed list of the 200 illustrations to be included in the work loosely inserted (4)Footnotes:Edward Lear lived in Rome from 1837 to 1848, apart from two visits to England during one of which he organised the publishing of Illustrated Excursions, based upon journeys he had made into the area around Rome and Naples. Lear notes in the preface 'I have executed the whole of the Lithographic drawings from my own sketches, and have endeavoured to preserve a close fidelity to the Originals'. 'Queen Victoria, one of the subscribers, was so impressed with the work that she invited Lear to give her a series of twelve drawing lessons' (ODNB). The first series is devoted to the Abruzzi provinces of the Kingdom of Naples, the second to the Papal States. Included with the lot is the rare prospectus for Lear's proposed Landscape Illustrations of Poems by Lord Tennyson and a printed list of the 200 illustrations for inclusion. The work was never published.Provenance: Richard William Church (1815-1890, Dean of St. Paul's), bookplate. Included with the lot is an autograph letter from Lear's biographer Vivian Noakes, mentioning that a member of the Church family was reported to own a manuscript journal of Lear's Greek tour.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

MOUNTAINEERING - EVERESTBRUCE (CHARLES GRANVILLE) The Assault on Mount Everest 1922, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY FROM ARTHUR WAKEFIELD, A MEMBER OF THE EXPEDITION, inscribed to 'Isabel, with very much love & all best wishes from Madge [Wakefield's wife] & Arthur, Xmas 1923' on the front free endpaper, half-title, photogravure frontispiece, 35 photographic illustrations on 34 plates, 2 folding maps, publisher's list of books (including 'The Assault') loosely inserted, publisher's red cloth gilt (some fading to spine, rubbed at extremities), with upper pictorial wrapper (with small losses) of dust-jacket loosely inserted, 4to, Edward Arnold, 1923--EVEREST LECTURE ADVERTISEMENT. Central Hall, Westminster... The First Public Lectures on Climbing Mount Everest 1922 Will Be Given on Behalf of the Mount Everest Committee, on Friday, October 20th [... by Mallory and Finch], one sheet, 3 photographic illustrations (Mount Everest, Climbers of May 21 and 27), central fold, one tear touching letters, 270 x 190mm., [1922]--ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE EXPEDITION, signed 'Arthur W. Wakefield 1922' on final leaf, with presentation inscription 'Isabel, with very much love from Madge & Arthur, Xmas 1924' on opening leaf, 10 mounted gelatin silver prints (c.120 x 160mm.) by John Noel ?and Wakefield, each mounted one per page recto only with ink caption by Wakefield, tied as presented with no binding, oblong 4to, [?1922-24] (3)Footnotes:The first published account about, and an album of photographs relating to, the first expedition undertaken with the sole aim of the ascent of Everest, inscribed by Arthur Wakefield, a key figure in the expedition who reached a height of 23,000ft as a mountaineer, and was an important part of the medical team.Arthur Wakefield (1846-1949) 'was a Westmorland man, who had performed wonderful climbing feats in the Lake District in his younger days, and now held a medical practice in Canada. He was bursting with enthusiasm to join the expedition, and gave up his practice for the purpose' (The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922, p.7). The 'Madge' of the inscription was Arthur's wife Marjorie. For a fuller assessment of the role played by Wakefield during the Expedition see Ronald Bayne, 'Arthur Wakefield on Everest 1922: no 'passenger'', Alpine Journal, 2004.The photographs in the album, all captioned by Wakefield, were probably all taken by the expedition's official photographer John B. Noel, but it is possible that a few are by Wakefield. They include two ('Members of the 1922 Mt. Everest Expedition' [including Wakefield of course], and 'Finch & Bruce descending to the N. Col after their second climb') which are published in the the book. The others are captioned 'The Base Camp (15,500ft)'; 'Mt. Everest from Camp 3 (21,000ft.)'; 'Looking up the N.E. Ridge from the Ra Pee La [Rapiu La]'; 'The N. Col & N. Peak from the E. Rongbuk Glacier near Camp 3'; 'The Camp on the N. Col (23,000ft) & the Peak'; 'View from the N. Col'; 'View W. from the N. Col'; 'Mt. Everest & the N. Peak from the main Rongbuk Glacier'.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

PORTER (DAVID)A Voyage In The South Seas, In The Years 1812, 1813 and 1814. With Particular Details Of The Gallipagos and Washington Islands, 3 engraved plates and folding map, one plate repaired in margin, untrimmed in modern boards [Hill 1374], Richard Phillips & Co., 1823--[MORLEY (S.)] Memoirs of a Serjeant of the 5th Regt. of Foot... in Hanover, South America, and the Peninsula, publisher's cloth, rebacked preserving part of original backstrip, Ashford, J. Elliott, [1842]--POPHAM (HOME) Minutes of a Court Martial... for the Trial of Captain Sir Home Popham, engraved portrait, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked [cf. Sabin, 64132, 'relates to the Rio de la Plata'], Portsmouth, Mottley, by Longman, Hurst, 1807--KEITH (GEORGE MOUAT) A Voyage to South America, and the Cape of Good Hope; in His Majesty's Gun Brig The Protector, browned, modern buckram [Sabin 37230], Richard Phillips, 1810--[FERNYHOUGH (THOMAS)] Military Memoirs of Four Brothers... in the New World and Africa [including Buenos Aires and Cape Town], 8 lithographed plates, foxing and occasional staining, 4 leaves misbound, modern red half morocco, gilt panelled spine with military motifs, William Sams, 1829--[THOMSON (WILLIAM)] Memoirs of the Life and Gallant Exploits of the Old Highlander, Serjeant Donald Macleod, Who, Having Returned, Wounded, with the Corpse of General Wolfe, From Quebec, was Admitted an Out-Pensioner of Chelsea Hospital, in 1759, second edition, half-title, modern half calf, spine gilt with long morocco label, Peterborough House Press, by D. & D. Stuart, 1791--KINCAID (J.) Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, half-title, contemporary half calf, rebacked, T & W. Boone, 1830--GLEIG (GEORGE R.) The Subaltern, FIRST EDITION, contemporary calf, rebacked, Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1825, 8vo (8)Footnotes:A group of travel, naval and military memoirs, including a provincially printed narrative and David Porter's early account of the Galapagos and Marquesas Islands (the first London edition with the anti-British passages omitted).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 AFRICALE VAILLANT (FRANCOIS) New Travels into the Interior Parts of Africa, by the Way of The Cape of Good Hope, in the Years 1783, 84, and 85, 3 vol., first English edition, half-titles, folding engraved map with routes in outline colour, 22 engraved plates (6 folding), occasional foxing, and soiling, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt, repairs to top of one spine and joints of volume 3, upper cover of volume 1 near detached [ESTC 87469; Mendelssohn I pp.890-92.], G.G. and J. Robinson, 1796--THOMPSON (GEORGE) Travels and Adventures in Southern Africa, 2 vol. second edition, 20 aquatint plates including folding panorama, 2 wood-engraved plates, 3 folding lithographed maps and plans (2 with short tears), occasional foxing and marginal staining to some plates, later half calf, spine gilt, corners worn [Abbey Travel 330; Mendelssohn II pp.493-4], Henry Colburn, 1827--BACKHOUSE (JAMES) A Narrative of a Visit to The Mauritius and South Africa, FIRST EDITION, 2 folding engraved maps (large one repaired at fold) and 15 plates, some foxing, modern half calf gilt, Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1844, 8vo (6)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

[BARLOW (WILLIAM)]The Navigator's Supply. Conteining many things of Principall Importance Belonging to Navigation, with the Description and Use of Diverse Instruments Framed Chiefly for that Purpose; but Serving also for Sundry other of Cosmography in Generall: the Particular Instruments are Specified on the next Page, FIRST EDITION, early issue with a blank space left for the vignette below title and without the 7 plates, woodcut initials and ornaments, page numbers added in an early ink hand, some dampstaining mainly to the first few leaves, a few others soiled, first line of title supplied in old printed facsimile, several scattered leaves with single or small wormholes towards foot of page, clean tear to H2 without loss, late eighteenth century russia, gilt rule and blind-roll border on sides, spine gilt with raised bands, small paper label at foot of spine with Scott reference number '47', extremities slightly rubbed, upper joint a little weak [ESTC S100864], 4to (190 x 123mm.), G. Bishop, R. Newbery, and R. Barker, 1597Footnotes:RARE FIRST EDITION OF BARLOW'S IMPORTANT WORK ON NAVIGATION. According to the 1974 Scott Library catalogue (see below), the present copy is an early issue before the addition of the title vignette and the folding plates. It is the only such copy we have traced in auction records, although ESTC and other some institutional listings make no mention of the plates.To William Barlow (died 1625, correspondent of William Gilbert) is owed the discovery of the difference between iron and steel for magnetic purposes, improvements in the hanging of compasses at sea, and finding the proper way of touching magnetic needles. His first book, The Navigator's Supply gives descriptions of several new navigational instruments and compasses. 'William Barlow uses the 'nonnius' devised by Pedro Nunez more than fifty years previously and gives a graphical method for drawing a Mercator network... He describes a number of new navigating and surveying instruments and summarizes his own contribution to the study of magnetism' (Taylor, Mathematical Practitioners, pp.334-5).Provenance: John Scott (Scottish engineer and shipbuilder, 1830-1903); Scott Library Collection, presented by his son to the Institution of Naval Architects in 1930, printed donation label; 'A Selection from the Scott Library', Christies, 4 December 1974, lot 36.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

BRINSLEY (JOHN)Ludus Literarius: or, The Grammar Schoole; Shewing how to Proceede from the First Entrance into Learning, to the Highest Perfection Required in the Grammar Schooles, with Ease, Certainty and Delight both to Masters and Schollars, FIRST EDITION, woodcut decorations, some dampstaining, first few leaves repaired in inner lower corner, hole in o4 with loss of a few letters, chip at foot of Bb4 just affecting catchword, last 3 or 4 gatherings with small worm trail occasionally affecting text, last 2 leaves with some old ink scribbles and smudges, modern brown polished morocco, gilt lettered spine with raised bands [ESTC S106596], small 4to (175 x 127mm.), [Humphrey Lownes] for Thomas Man, 1612Footnotes:FIRST EDITION OF THIS FAMOUS MANUAL FOR COUNTRY SCHOOLMASTERS, complete copies of which have become scarce. It includes a detailed account of the curriculum of a school such as Shakespeare would have attended, with sections on orthography, grammar, prose and verse composition, and the translation of Latin, Greek and Hebrew. John Brinsley, Curate at Kegworth, Leicestershire, in 1591, and at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, was in 1600 appointed master of Ashby School with the help of his benefactor the third Earl of Huntingdon. Two years earlier he had married Barbara Hall, sister of his pupil Dr. Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwich, who contributed the commendatory preface. His other pupils included the astrologer William Lilly, who later wrote that 'In the 18th year of my age [1619 or 1620] my master Brinsley was enforced from keeping school, being persecuted by the bishop's officers...'Provenance: Austin Smith, gilt leather book label; Mary Priscilla Smith, book label.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

COMENIUS (JOHANNES AMOS)Orbis sensualium pictus... Visible World: Or, a Nomenclature, and Pictures of all the Chief Things that are in the World, and of Men's Employments, Therein... Translated into English by Charles Hoole... for the Use of Young Latin Scholars, twelfth edition 'corrected and enlarged', text in English & Latin, numerous woodcut illustrations, untrimmed in original grey boards, rubbed, preserved in purpose-made morocco solander box, 8vo, S. Leacroft, 1777; and another (2)Footnotes:Charmingly illustrated book of instruction for children, first published in Latin in 1657, the first of its type, but here translated into English for the use of 'Young Latin Scholars'.Provenance: 'H.W.', and 'Mary Wigley', early ink inscriptions on title and front free endpaper; Mary Priscilla Smith, 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

DRYDEN (JOHN) AND JOHN BLOWAn Ode on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell; Late Servant to His Majesty, and Organist of the Chapel Royal, and of St. Peter's Westminster, FIRST EDITION, title within woodcut black mourning border, type-set music throughout, dampstaining in lower gutter margin just touching text on occasions panelled calf gilt by Riviere, spine gilt in compartments, gilt dentelles, g.e., upper joint professionally repaired, small loss at head of spine [ESTC R227977; Macdonald 32a; RISM B 3302], folio (330 x 195mm.), J. Heptinstall, for Henry Playford, 1696Footnotes:First edition of John Dryden's poem ('Mark how the Lark and Linnet sing...') in praise of Henry Purcell, with the setting to music by John Blow. It was reprinted, without the music, in Purcell's Orpheus Britannicus (1698).Provenance: Thomas Wyatt Bagshawe, bookplate; J.O. Edwards, book label.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

MOUNTAINE (WILLIAM)The Seaman's Vade-Mecum, and Defensive War by Sea, 2 engravings of ship's rigging on single folded sheet, 2 folding plans (one with small hole), dampstain in upper margins, contemporary calf gilt [ESTC N21420, 3 copies only], 12mo, W. and J. Mount, 1747--VILVAIN (ROBERT) Enchiridium epigrammatum latino-anglicum. An Epitome of Essais, Englished out of Latin, woodcut arms on a1 verso, half-title, some worming to first 2 gatherings, light soiling and browning, ownership inscriptions of George Hoskins (1659), John Gorr[?], Robert Thompson (1738) and 'H.T.F.' (1914), contemporary calf, rebacked, small 8vo [ESTC R7278], R. Hodgkinson for the author, 1654--MACAULAY (KENNETH) The History of St. Kilda, Containing a Description of this Remarkable Island, half-title, engraved folding map, advertisement leaf, occasional light foxing, contemporary calf gilt, joints split, one repaired [ESTC T90614], 8vo, T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1764--[REFUGE (EUSTACHE DE)] The Art of Complaisance or the Means to Oblige in Conversation, second edition, title softened and torn with slight loss at edges, contemporary sheep, old paper title label on spine [ESTC R35463], 12mo, John Starkey, 1677--ARCHENHOLZ (J.W. VON) A Picture of England: Containing a Description of the Laws, Customs and Manners of England, half-title, light browning, contemporary calf, joints split, slight chips to upper cover and spine [ESTC N20982], 8vo, Dublin, printed by P. Byrne, 1790 (5)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

BANKINGBAGEHOT (WALTER) Lombard Street. A Description of the Money Market, FIRST EDITION, half-title, without advertisements at end, light pencil markings in the side-margin of approximately 20 pages, library cloth, 8vo, Henry S. King & Co., 1873Footnotes:A first edition of Lombard Street, described by the economist J.M. Keynes as 'an undying Classic', in which Bagehot analysed the actual working of the banking system. On publication it 'had great influence and several of its recommendations ultimately were adopted; it was regarded as authoritative well into the twentieth century, and it made a significant contribution to the theory of central banking' (ODNB). This copy has a few passages marked in pencil, primarily in the chapter devoted to the 'Bank's Reserve', one passage being 'too small a reserve may mean 'ruin''.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

CARLYLE (THOMAS)Three autograph letters signed ('T. Carlyle') to an unnamed recipient [Peter Bayne], the first thanking him for the book, assuring him '...there is nothing in your opinions or in your conduct which can be matter of offence to me...' and commenting '...The longer I live, the more I value pious silence, and that proof of truth which comes from acting it, instead of speaking it, or arguing about it...', regretting '...in my present state of hurry... it will not be well feasible to make your acquaintance...'; the second pronouncing on the value of silence ('...it often seems to me as if the very fountain of our woes lay even there, in this universal wagging of the tongue and pen which has fallen on the British People, and in a degree on all Peoples... nature silently rebukes and inexorably punishes them all; but in the fatal list there is none worth naming beside 'incontinence of tongue'...'); and the last confirming he has received his book of essays and letter ('...If I ever again achieve the least leisure for pleasant reading... I will probably examine your... volume...') and wishing him much success, 9 pages, on two bifolium and a single leaf, dust staining and a few small tears, one old small loss where removed from album, remains of guard on two, 8vo (180 x 110mm.), Chelsea, 23 June 1855, 28 July 1855 and 15 April 1859Footnotes:'I SINCERELY WISH YOU WELL, AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR GOODWILL TOWARD ME': CARLYLE'S 'DEXTROUS POLITENESS' TO A SCOTTISH CRITIC.Despite being critical of Thomas Carlyle's religious views in his preface to the first edition of his The Christian Life, Social and Individual, published in 1855, Peter Bayne, then editor of Witness, sent him a copy of the book for his perusal. Whilst Carlyle's response is polite and indeed lengthy, he immediately sent the book and Bayne's note to Jean Aitken for her amusement, with a covering note depicting a non-too-flattering portrait of Bayne and exhorting her to burn his letter after reading: '...Bayne has sent me his Book, with the enclosed Note; to both of which I make you very welcome... I send you the Letter too, in the chance you may get some kind of entertainment out of the affair. Bayne I guess to be some young Edinburgh Preacher (or the like), with great heart, and probably as yet little stuff on board: I do not dislike him, only judge he may have a good deal of wind just now upon his stomach;—and that if he had written nothing, it would have been still wiser for him. Silence about all this; and burn his Letter, poor fellow. I answered in a kind manner; but evaded (with dextrous politeness) to make an acquaintance just now!— Burn the Letter' (25 June 1855). By the time the second edition was published in 1859, Bayne had added a new preface, listing Carlyle's perceived shortcomings but also recognising the importance of Carlyle's contributions to Christian teaching. Again, despite another polite reply to Bayne, Carlyle has no intention of reading the book as promised in our letter and promptly sends it the same day to Charlotte Williams Wynn, enclosing the note '...there has an eloquent volume come to me this day, by a certain peter bayne: which i judge will suit you much better than me...' (see Duke University Press Carlyle Letters online). By 1861, according to Ruskin's biographer Timothy Hilton, Bayne had become rather 'tiresome' and published a 'foolish pamphlet' entitled Terrorism for Christ's Sake in which he had tried to adjudicate between Carlyle and methodist preacher Charles Spurgeon. Since then Carlyle did his best to avoid him in public: '...in 1861 Carlyle had fled from a dinner with John James Ruskin when his critic suddenly arrived at the house...' (Hilton, T., John Ruskin, 2002, p.330). Our letters are not published in the 2002 edition of The Collected Letters of Thomas & Jane Welsh Carlyle.Provenance: Peter Bayne (1830-1896), and thence by descent.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

LOBACHEVSKY (NICKOLAI IVANOVICH)Ponizhenie stepeni v dvuchlenom uravnenii kogda pokasatel bes edinitsy delitisia na 8, in Ucheniyia Zapiski, izdavaemyia Imperatorskim Kazanskim Universitetom, FIRST EDITION, printed on laid paper, partially uncut in publisher's blue printed wrappers, one blank corner of lower cover torn away, spine worn with some losses, preserved in purpose-made solander box [Engel 5; Kagan 5], 8vo, Kazan, University Printer, 1834Footnotes:Very rare first edition of the first appearance of an important paper on a method of approximating the roots of algebraic equations by the Russian mathematician Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1792-1856), published in the first issue of the periodical of 'Scientific Memoirs' founded by him. His work on the Non-Euclidean geometry and mathematics 'for the most part paralleled that of other European mathematicians. It is, for example, worth noting that in his algebra Lobachevsky suggested a method for separating roots of equation by their repeated squaring, a method coincident with that suggested by Dandelin in 1826 and by Gräffe in 1837' (DSB). Lobachevsky also wrote the preface to this first issue of the periodical, outlining his aims and purpose for publishing it.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

LOMONOSOV (MIKHAIL VASILIEVICH)[Opera academica], a sammelband of 9 works, comprising: Panegyricus Elisabetae Augustae Russiarum Imperatrici, title cut to size and mounted on binder's blank, lacks portrait, [St. Petersburg, c.1751]; Oratio de utilitate chemiae in publico conventu, first Latin edition translated from the Russian by Gregorio Kositzki, St. Petersburg, Typis Academiae Scientiarum, [1752]; Oratio de meteoris vi electrica ortis, FIRST EDITION, 3 folding engraved plates, lacks 6 leaves (pp.47-58) and p.59 pasted to blank obscuring text, [St. Petersburg, 1753]; Panégirique de Pierre Le Grand prononcé dans la Séance publique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences, le 25 Avril 1755, first edition in French, St. Petersburg, [1755]; Oratio de origine lucis sistens novam theoriam colorum, in conventu Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae, first edition in Latin, translated by Gregorio Kositzki [OCLC 64032077, with 40pp., a variant calls for 59pp.], St. Petersburg, [1756]; Oratio de generatione metallorum a terrae motu, habita in solemni conventu quo Academia Scientiarum Imperialis, FIRST EDITION, St. Petersburg, [1757]; Meditationes de via navis in mari certius determinanda praelectae in publico conventu Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae Die VIII. Mai, A.C. 1759, collates [2], 1-54, [57]-63, [1], without leaf G4 (?blank), 3 folding engraved plates (shaved close, ith loss of a numeral on one plate), [St. Petersburg, 1759]; Meditationes de solido et fluido solemnisbus sacris Augustissimi nominis serenissimae potentissimae magnae dominae ... Imperatricis Elisabetae Petri Magnai Filiae Autocratoris omnium Rossarium... Die VI. Sept. MDCCLX, FIRST EDITION, one folding engraved plate, St. Petersburg, [1760]; Erscheinung der Venus vor der Sonne beobachtet bey der Kayserlichen Academie der Wissenschaften in St. Petersburg den 26. May 1761, first edition in German, one folding engraved plate, [St. Petersburg, 1761], contemporary tree calf, red gilt morocco lettering spine label ('Lomonosow/Opera/Academica'), spine worn and dried with loss of gilt, small loss to headband, 4toFootnotes:SAMMELBAND OF NINE WORKS, ALL RARE, BY MIKHAIL LOMONSOV (1711-1765), 'the first great Russian scientist... [who] united in himself knowledge not only of every basic area of the science of his time but history, languages, poetry, literary prose, and art... Pushkin called him Russia's first university' (DSB). The works gathered in this volume appear to have been curated to reflect his range of interests, with treatises on chemistry, metallurgy, electricity, optics and astronomy, as well as panegyrics on Peter the Great, and Elizabeth, Empress of Russia, who had encouraged Lomonosov to establish Moscow University. OCLC records another copy of this sammelband volume held at Cornell University, lettered 'Opera academica' on the spine, and with the note 'one of twelve copies prepared for the author'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com