We found 118894 price guide item(s) matching your search

HAYEK (FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON)Hermann Heinrich Gossen: eine Darstellung seines Lebens und seiner Schrift, paper toned, publisher's wrappers, soiled, short tear touching rule border of upper cover, split at extremities of spine, small unidentified Japanese red printed chop in upper left corner of upper cover, 8vo, Berlin, Prager, 1928Footnotes:Rare early pamphlet by Hayek on the Prussian economist Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810–1858), who was the first to postulate the principle of diminishing marginal utility. Issued in the series Bio-bibliographische Beiträge zur Geschichte der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaften, the pamphlet is not recorded by Cody & Ostrem, but appears to be a separately printed edition of Hayek's introduction to Gossen's 1927 work Entwicklung der Gesetze des menschlichen Verkehrs und der daraus fliessenden Regeln für menschliches Handeln (Cody & Ostrem E-1). It appeared a year before Hayek's first book, Geldtheorie und Konjunkturtheorie, first published in English as Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle in 1933.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

MUSICBEETHOVEN (LUDWIG VAN) [Symphonies 1-4 in 3 vol.], FIRST GERMAN EDITIONS, engraved throughout, comprising: Ire. Grande simphonie en ut majeur (C dur)... Oeuvre XXI Partition, title and pp.3-108 (as issued), [Kinsky-Halm 55], plate no. 1953 [1822]; IIme. Grande simphonie en Rè majeur (D dur)... Oeuvre XXXVI Partition, title and pp.1-162 [Kinsky-Halm 91], plate no. 1959 [1822]; Sinfonia eroica composta per festiggare il sovenire di un grand'uomo dedicata a sua Altezza Serenissima il Principe di Lobkowitz... Op. 55. No. III... Partizione, title, dedication and pp.1-231, title with slight adhesion and tear at foot of gutter [Kinsky-Halm 131], Bonna e Colonia presso N. Simrock, plate number 1973 [1822]; 4me. Grande simphonie en si b majeur (B dur) composée et dediée a Monsr. Le Comte d'Oppersdorf... Op. 60. Partition, second issue with '4me.', title and pp. 1-195, [Kinsky-Halm 145], plate no. 2078 [1823], together 4 works in 3 vol., blank leaves following title where called for, occasional cropping of page numbers and one headline, titles soiled, third and fourth with slight adhesion signs, slightly later green half calf, spines worn and repaired with loss of 2 of the 6 red morocco labels, large 8vo, Bonn & Cologne, N. Simrock, [1822-1823]Footnotes:First German and first authorised editions of the full scores of Beethoven's first four symphonies, including the Eroica. The scores had previously only been published in Cianchettini & Sperati's 1809 volume of symphonies by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Although this is very rare in its original form, it became available again in 1975 as a facsimile reprint of the 1809 edition, whilst the Simrock editions remained out of print until much more recently. Although Beethoven had not been involved in the editing, these editions saw the introduction of the metronome markings which he had specified in 1817. They also served as a template for the first Beethoven complete edition, issued by Breitkopf and Hartel in 1862.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HAYEK (FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON)Profits, Interest and Investment: and Other Essays on the Theory on Industrial Fluctuations, FIRST EDITION, half-title, occasional light spotting, some passages underlined in pencil, with notes in the margins of 3 pages in Japanese, publisher's red cloth, dust-jacket (soiled, slightly frayed at spine extremities [Cody & Ostrem B-4], 8vo, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1939Footnotes:Hayek's fourth major book, in the rare dust-jacket.Provenance: Japanese chop signature on title-page. Several passages in the text are underlined, with notes in Japanese, including on p.23 besides a paragraph concerning railroads, shipbuilding and engineering, and another on p.149 making note of James Wilson, first editor of the Economist.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

KEYNES (JOHN MAYNARD)A Tract on Monetary Reform, FIRST EDITION, half-title, a few small spots, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket (ag toning, spine slightly darkened, frayed at upper edges, 4 small stain spots on upper cover), 8vo, Macmillan, 1923This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

LAWRENCE (D.H.)Lady Chatterley's Lover, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 302 OF 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, untrimmed in publisher's boards with Phoenix device on upper cover, paper spine label, upper fore-corners bumped and spine extremities slightly turned but otherwise a fine copy [Roberts A42a], large 8vo, [Florence, Giuseppe Orioli], Privately Printed, 1928This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MILNE (A.A.)Winnie-the-Pooh, NUMBER 241 OF 300 COPIES, SIGNED BY CHRISTOPHER MILNE, original pictorial red morocco gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, g.e., original slipcase, 1976; idem, FIRST EDITION, a few small handling smudges, very small snick to fore-edge of a few pages, early pencil ownership inscription ('Xmas 1926') on front free endpaper, publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt, t.e.g., slightly rubbed, 1926, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, 8vo, Methuen (2)Footnotes:The first edition of Winnie-the-Pooh, together with a copy of the deluxe limited edition, signed by Christopher Milne [Christopher Robin, of course], published to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the book.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

NESBIT (EDITH)Oswald Bastable and Others, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HER HUSBAND, inscribed 'To Hubert Bland in memory of 28 years from his wife E. Nesbit Bland, Nov. 10. 1905', 22 plates (including frontispiece and title, one torn, one with small piece of blank margin cut away), rubbed, Wells, Gardner, 1906; The Wouldbegoods, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'E. Nesbit Bland. Please do not take this book. You can buy one for 4/6. Dymchurch' and, in a different ink 'This was written in the book when I let my house, because tenants used to steal the books!' inside upper cover, 17 plates (of 18), lacks front free endpaper, binding very worn with losses to spine, T. Fisher Unwin, 1901; Nine Unlikely Tales for Children, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'Iris Bland. Her Book. Sep. 2. 1901. E. Nesbit' on the front free endpaper (possibly the dedication copy, ?the printed dedication 'Iridi Meae hoc est cor meum' a play on word of Nesbit's daughter Iris Mary', contents loose and lacking several plates, covers detached, lacks most of spine, worn, T. Fisher Unwin, 1901; Harding's Luck, THE AUTHOR'S COPY INSCRIBED 'E. Nesbit Bland. Dymchurch' on the front free endpaper, 11 plates only (of 16, one leaf loose), one word on p. 199 struck through and replaced in the margin, binding very worn, lower cover detached, New York, Frederick A. Stokes, [1910]; Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism 1883-1908, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCIRBED TO HER DAUGHTER, 'Iris Philips from the author with love 1908' on the front free endpaper, publisher's quarter cloth, The Fabian Society, 1908, all but the last mentioned publisher's cloth, very worn, 8vo; and approximately 75 other volumes from the library of Edith Nesbit and family, including c. 20 with Nesbit's ownership inscription and 12 with her bookplate, a few inscribed to her from other authors (Rose Macaulay, Alfred Sutro, Dorothea Deakin, etc.), others with ownership inscription or bookplate of Hubert Bland, or their children Iris and John; a stack of uncut page proofs of Nesbit's 'The Rainbow and the Rose' (1905), and sets of 'The Neolith', and other odd volumes, sold as association copies (quantity)Footnotes:A collection of books from the library of Edith Nesbit, of which six written and inscribed by her to members of her family, others by other authors with her ownership inscription (signed various as 'E. Nesbit', 'E. Nesbit Bland' or 'E. Bland', etc., some giving her address) or bookplate, and several with the ownership inscription or bookplate of her husband, the Fabian and journalist Hubert Bland. Other include the dedicatee's copy of Bland's Letters to a Daughter with the ownership inscription of Rosamund Bland, a copy of Harrison G. Rhodes' Charles Edward inscribed by Edith to Rosamund (29 January, 1907), an edition of poems by William Blake inscribed by Edith to Hubert (25 April 1883 with a pen, ink and gouache illustration of a skull and ivy), and several sets of The Neolith to which Edith contributed and helped to edit.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 IMPRESSION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the dedication leaf, with number line 10 down to 3, publisher's pictorial boards, dust-jacket, 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1998]Footnotes:A FINE SIGNED COPY OF THE THIRD PRINTING OF THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE, the first to be issued with a dust-jacket.Provenance: Signed for Jenny, the vendor's ten year old daughter, at the Edinburgh Literary Festival in 1999. At the same event Rowling signed two copies of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (see adjacent lots). An image of Jenny holding the book at the Festival is viewable on our 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

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the dedication page, publisher's pictorial boards, dust-jacket, 8vo, Bloomsbury, 2000; together with the 'Golden Ticket' for the event at which the book was signed (2)Footnotes:Provenance: Signed for the vendor's daughter, Jenny, at Waterstones in Newcastle on 10 July 2000. Jenny was the holder of a 'Golden Ticket' (included with the lot), which she had won earlier in the month at a 'Hogwarts Reunion Party' event held at Ottaker's bookshop in Carlisle. The vendor retains the photograph of her having the book signed by Rowling.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

PALMER (SAMUEL) AND OTHERSEtchings for the Art-Union of London by the Etching Club, FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, 29 etched plates (of 30) by Samuel Palmer (2, lacking his 'Skylark'), John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt (2), Richard Redgrave (2), Thomas Creswick (3), and others, all on india-proof paper mounted as issued, plates loose (gutta-percha perished), publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine, g.e., folio (375 x 265mm.), 1857Footnotes:Original etchings include; Samuel Palmer ('The Sleeping Shepherd - Early Morning'; 'The Rising Moon'), J.E. Millais ('The Young Mother'), and William Holman Hunt ('The Abundance of Egypt', 'The Desolation of Egypt').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

SENDAK (MAURICE)An extensive collection, assembled over the past 30 years, of the works of Maurice Sendak, comprising some 340 volumes covering virtually all of Sendak's works in first edition, later editions, and foreign translations, together with several hundred printed ephemera such as proofs, posters, pamphlets, brochures, programmes, cards, leaflets, greetings cards, point of sale displays and exhibitions catalogues, and objects such as Wild Thing dolls, t-shirts, tote bags, badges, etc., a sample of the highlights including:(i)7 books inscribed with original drawings, comprising (all in publisher's bindings):- Where the Wild Things Are, first edition, inscribed on half-title 'For Vera, Indeed – a first! Maurice Sendak May '92' with drawing of the head of Moishe the Wild Thing, first issue dust-jacket, price-clipped, lightly toned, 8mm. tear to front panel, slightly longer tear at foot of spine [Hanrahan A58], oblong 4to, [New York], Harper & Row, 1963; - ibid., later edition, inscribed on half-title 'For Dan for Christmas 1983, from Robert and Frank and Maurice, Dec. 25, '83' with large drawing of Moishe in Christmas hat saying 'Boo!', dust-jacket (price-clipped, tears and repairs), oblong 4to, Bodley Head, 1983; - ibid., 25th anniversary edition, number 150 of 250 copies signed by Sendak on half-title and with drawing of Moishe signed and dated 'Oct. '88' loosely inserted, oblong 4to, [New York], Harper & Row, 1988; - AYME (MARCEL) The Wonderful Farm, early edition, illustrations by Sendak, drawing of a seated pig signed 'Maurice Sendak' on front free endpaper, dust-jacket (price-clipped, spine toned) [Hanrahan A2], 8vo, New York, Harper, 1951; - The Magic Pictures: More about the Wonderful Farm, early edition, drawing of a leaping pig (with 'Oink!') signed 'Maurice Sendak' on front free endpaper, first issue dust-jacket, spine toned, tear at foot of rear panel [Hanrahan A10], 8vo, New York, Harper, 1951;- Higglety Pigglety Pop!, first edition, inscribed on front free endpaper 'Aug. '68 For Bevan, All best wishes! Maurice Sendak' with drawing of the cat-milkman, dust-jacket (price-clipped, spine toned) [Hanrahan A68], square 12mo, [New York], Harper & Row, 1967; - OPIE (IONA AND PETER) I Saw Esau, number 285 of 300 copies signed by Iona Opie and Sendak, with drawing of baby in romper suit dated 'May '92' below, slipcase [Hanrahan A136], 8vo, Walker Books, 1992(ii)Over 90 books signed and frequently inscribed by Sendak, including: - EIDINOFF (M.L.) and H. RUCHLIS. Atomics for the Millions, first edition of the first book illustrated by Sendak, signed on front free endpaper and dated 'Oct. '84', library mark on rear pastedown, endpapers toned, rubbed [Hanrahan A1], 8vo, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1947; - ibid., first UK edition, signed on half-title and inscribed 'For Vera', endpapers spotted, lightly rubbed, shelfmark on spine, 12mo, George G. Harrap, 1950;- Where the Wild Things Are, first edition, inscribed on half-title 'to Mary B. Stancisto, Maurice Sendak, Jan. '71', early issue dust-jacket with Caldecott Medal label and blurb and price $3.95, spine panel very lightly toned, oblong 4to, [New York], Harper & Row, 1963; - ibid., first UK edition, signed on half-title and inscribed 'to Vera', dust-jacket lightly toned, oblong 4to, Bodley Head, 1967(iii)Miscellanea, including: - American Booksellers Association 1991 poster, colour lithograph, number 172 of 275 copies, numbered lower left and signed and dated '91 lower right, 780 x 620mm.; - Pictures by Maurice Sendak, number 471 of 500 copies with signed reproduction of drawing of a Sealyham terrier, portfolio containing 20 prints [Hanrahan A78], the box 650 x 430mm., New York, Harper & Row, 1971; - ibid., UK version, number 4 of 1,000 copies, no signature called for, Bodley Head, 1972; - another copy, number 421; ibid., German version, number 799 of 1,000 copies, no signature called for, Zurich, Diogenes Verlag, 1972; - Fly By Night, galley proofs, stamped 'First Proof 61229 Jun 25 1976', green paper wrappers [cf. Hanrahan A95], 4to, [New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976]; - ibid., proof sheet with 16 illustrations, folded, 640 x 950mm.; - fax sent by Ursula Nordstrom of Harper & Row, to 'Dear Colleague', enclosing statement of Sendak on the censorship of the naked baby of In the Night Kitchen by librarians, 3pp., stapled, 4to, 24 April 1972; - Higglety Pigglety Pop!, proof sheet with 14 full-page illustrations and 8 vignettes, printed on thick paper, numbered '20' in felt-tip and 'light' in pencil', folded [cf. Hanrahan A68], 910 x 600mm., [?New York, Harper & Row, 1967]; - I Saw Esau, complete set of unbound, unfolded colour proofs [cf. Hanrahan A136], 4to, Walker Books, 1992; - several Wild Thing dolls, unopened in original packagingFootnotes:'In a lifetime of making and illustrating books, Maurice Sendak has contributed to American literature an astonishing body of creative work... from the early, brash illustrations for Atomics for the Millions to... the richness of imagery and imagination in picture books such as Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen' (Stephen K. Urice, Sendak at the Rosenbach, 1995). The present collection is surely one of the most extensive and thorough in private hands; a full list is available on request.Provenance: Property from a London private collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

SUN YAT-SENAutograph letter signed ('Yours truly Sun Yat Sen') to Felix Volkhosky, in English, informing his friend that 'The number of 'The Times' in which the question made [sic] in the House of Commons concerning my kidnapping is that of the 16th of February', and announcing his intention to leave for America at the end of the month, whilst hoping to see Volkhosky once more ('If not let me bid fairwell [sic] to you now'), written in brown ink on page 1 of a bifolium, with Victoria Vellum watermark, horizontal crease where originally folded but otherwise fine, 8vo (175 x 113mm.), 8 Gray's Inn Place, 21 June 1897; Kidnapped in London: Being the Story of my Capture By, Detention At, and Release from the Chinese Legation, FIRST EDITION, wood-engraved portrait (detached), publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine and edges of covers stained, 8vo, Bristol, J.W. Arrowsmith, 1897 (2)Footnotes:'KIDNAPPED IN LONDON' - SUN YAT-SEN ON HIS NOTORIOUS ABDUCTION, WITH A RARE COPY OF HIS PUBLISHED ACCOUNT.Rare letter from one of the greatest Chinese leaders, the first president of the Republic of China and a founding father. Sun Yat-sen (12 November 1866–12 March 1925), known as the 'Father of the Nation', holds a unique position in the Chinese-speaking world as the only twentieth century leader who is revered by those in both the People's Republic of China, for his instrumental role in the overthrow of the Qing dynasty in 1911, and in the Republic of China, Taiwan.Felix Volkhovsky (1846-1914) was one of several Russian political exiles that Sun Yat-sen met in London when he arrived in 1896. Volkhovsky was editor of the monthly journal of the Society of Friends of Russian Freedom, Free Russia, having previously spent seven years in solitary confinement in St. Petersburg, and eleven years in exile in Siberia before he eventually managed to escape to Canada under a pseudonym, arriving in London in 1890. Volkhovsky's experience and knowledge were hugely influential and inspiring to Sun, who inscribed a copy of his book Kidnapped in London to him, suggesting in an accompanying letter now in the Hoover Library that the Russian may have helped him with the book, a copy of which is included in the lot. Sun Yat-sen's wry published account of the affair is rare: no copies are listed as having sold in auction records.Accounts of Sun's kidnapping and imprisonment at the hands of the Chinese are well documented, if sometimes contradictory, but the role of Hugh and Mabel Cantlie in freeing him is undisputed. Although the Times held back from printing Cantlie's first report of the incident, the newspaper's journalists were prominent amongst the crowd that surrounded the Chinese legation, and the day after his release he wrote to the paper thanking its readers for their support. This helped his fame to spread worldwide, and greatly improved his fundraising prospects. For further details of the event, see the Sun letters to Cantlie sold in these rooms, 15 September 2021, lots 110-112.Provenance: Letter from the Estate of Robert Batchelder, via University Archives to the current owner. Book with old stamp of Arnhemsch Lees-Museum on title-page, with date stamp (1924) at front; H.E. Romelingh, bookplate with note of purchase below dated 8 May 1978.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)The Hobbit or There and Back Again, FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION, 13 plates and illustrations (4 colour), advertisement leaf, map endpapers by the author printed in red and black, publisher's pictorial light green cloth, upper edge green, age soiling [cf. Hammond A3(a) and p.13], George Allen & Unwin, [1937]Footnotes:The second impression dated 1937, but actually published in January 1938, saw the first appearance of four additional colour illustrations by Tolkien. Some 2300 copies were printed, although 423 unbound copies were destroyed at the binders during the Blitz in 1940.Provenance: G.W. Sutcliffe, pencil ownership inscription, and further pencil inscription from George to Martin, Christmas 1940 on front free endpaper.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WELLS (H.G.)The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents... Cheaper Edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO EDITH NESBIT, inscribed 'To Mrs. Hubert Bland from H.G. Wells' on the half-title, Methuen, 1903; Twelve Stories and a Dream, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY inscribed 'To all the Blands from H.G. Wells (more coming)' on the half-title, New York, Charles Scribner, 1905, BOTH WITH EDITH NESBIT'S BOOKPLATE; In the Days of the Comet, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY with 'Presentation Copy' blind-stamp on title, ownership inscription of Nesbit ('E. Nesbit Bland') on the front free endpaper, Macmillan, 1906; New Worlds for Old, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY with 'Presentation Copy' blind-stamp on title, ownership inscription of Hubert Bland (1908) on the front free endpaper, Archibald Constable, 1908; Marriage, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY with 'Presentation Copy' blind-stamp on title, ownership inscription of Nesbit ('E. Nesbit' in pencil) on the front free endpaper, and with 8 passages marked in the margin with an index of page numerals to these at the end, hinges weakened, Macmillan, 1912, publisher's cloth, worn, 8vo (5)Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPIES FROM H.G. WELLS TO EDITH NESBIT, author of the Railway Children, whom he had met together with her husband Hubert Bland as fellow members of the Fabian Society. Wells wrote that Edith 'was a tall, whimsical, restless, able woman who had been very beautiful and was still very good-looking; and Bland was a thick-set, broad-faced aggressive man, a sort of Tom-cat man. The two of them dramatized life and I had as yet met few people who did that. They loved scenes and 'situations'' (Experiment in Autobiography, 1934). Wells would visit the couple at their 'easy-going hospitable Bohemian household at Well Hall, Eltham' or their house at Dymchurch. The friendship continued, despite in 1906 Bland rallying support to 'defeat Wells's attempt to take over and change the Fabian Society' (ODNB) until 1908, when Wells 'made a bid for Bland's daughter, the plump, attractive Rosamund... [They tried to run away together] but Bland caught up with them at Paddington Station, punched Wells, and took Rosamund home' (ODNB). The two inscribed books were inscribed during the height of the authors' friendship between 1903 and 1905. Edith's copy of Marriage (1912) has several pages marked up, including mentions of prostitution, the Fabian Society, 'Children' and a passage noting that 'The young need particularly to be told truthfully and fully all we know three fundamental things... God... their duty towards their neighbours... and the third Sex'.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

SLAVERYSANCHO (IGNATIUS) Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, hHalf-title, stipple-engraved portrait of Sancho by Francesco Bartolozzi after Thomas Gainsborough, engraved additional title with integral stipple-engraved roundel by Bartolozzi, folding engraved facsimile of a letter from Laurence Sterne to Ignatius, foxing to illustrations and occasionally to text, printed title with repairs on verso causing staining to recto, nineteenth century half calf, spine rubbed, 8vo, Printed for William Sancho, 1803Footnotes:A LANDMARK IN PUBLISHING HISTORY: THE FIRST BOOK TO HAVE BEEN BOTH WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED BY A BLACK PERSON.Ignatius Sancho (c.1729-1780), abolitionist, composer and actor, known at the time as 'the extraordinary Negro', was born on a slave ship in the Atlantic bound for New Granada. At the age of two he was taken to England, and spent eighteen years as a slave in Greenwich before running away to work for the Duchess of Montagu and her family in Blackheath and eventually opening his own grocery shop in Westminster. He soon became prominent in the burgeoning abolitionist movement, and was 'the first known person of African descent to vote in a British general election. As an independent male property owner, with a house and grocery shop on Charles Street, he had the right to cast his vote for the Westminster Members of Parliament in the 1774 and 1780 elections' (British Library website). On his death in 1780, Sancho became the first African to be given an obituary in the British press, and two years later, Frances Crewe, a correspondent of Sancho (as was Laurence Sterne), edited 160 of his letters and published them in a two-volume edition with an anonymous memoir by Joseph Jekyll. The frontispiece comprised a portrait engraved by Bartolozzi after Gainsborough, who had painted Sancho along with the Montagus in 1768. The book was an immediate success, with more than 2000 subscriptions reflecting 'the great range of Sancho's social circle: men and women, aristocrats, servants, artists, businessmen, country squires, and prominent politicians' (ODNB), and subsequent editions followed. The fifth, the first one-volume edition, was published by his son, William Leach Osborne Sancho, who inherited the shop and transformed it into a printing and book-selling business.Provenance: L.A.J. & M. Baker, bookplate. 'Mr L.A.J. Baker, who lived in Blackheath, was a keen antiquarian and a member of several local history societies for many years. He amassed a considerable collection of books, maps, press cuttings as well as his own writings, which all pertained to Lewisham and Greenwich. Many of these were acquired by Lewisham Local Studies and Archives' (National Archives 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

DANTE ALIGHIERI[Divina Commedia], commentary by Christoforo Landino and Alessandro Vellutello, edited by Francesco Sansovino, title with large woodcut portrait of Dante within elaborate framework, text in italic with commentary surround in roman type, 95 woodcut illustrations (one full-page), printer's device at end, modern vellum, title and following 2 leaves on early paper stub, title with short tear resulting in loss of one letter imprint (the second 'e' of 'Venetia'), and with seventeenth century inscriptions, some dampstaining (quite heavy to approximately 40 leaves), old morocco spine label [Adams D103; Mortimer Harvard Italian 148], folio (300 x 210mm.), Venice, Domenico Nicolino, for Giovanni Battista and Melchiore Sessa and brothers, 1564Footnotes:The first Sansovino edition of Dante's 'Divine Comedy', and the first to include the commentaries of Landino and Vellutello together. The portrait of Dante is new to this edition. The woodcuts were cut for Francesco Marcolini's 1544 edition, and were used again by the Sessa brothers for their 1578 and 1596 editions of Dante.Provenance: L. Palladio, ownership inscription dated 1661 on title (recto and verso); his son, Alexandro, ownership inscription dated 1695 on title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

COLLINS (GREENVILLE)Great Britain's Coasting Pilot... Being a New and Exact Survey of the Sea-Coast of England and Scotland, from the River of Thames to the Westward and Northward, engraved additional pictorial title, letterpress title printed in red and black, 49 engraved map charts (4 folding on 2 sheets joined, 41 double-page, one folding, 3 single sheet), one engraved chart in the text, the double-page maps backed with laid paper (?at the time), a few with a couple of small wormholes near centre-fold, all mounted on stubs, panelled calf antique, red gilt morocco spine label [cf. Shirley, British Library M.COLL-1a-1d], folio (520 x 318mm.), Thomas Page, William and Fisher Mount, 1723Footnotes:Greenville Collins' Coasting Pilot was both the first systematic survey of British coastal waters, and the first marine atlas of 'British' waters printed in London from original surveys. The first edition was published in 1693, after which followed a thirty year interval before this 1723 edition published by Mount and Page, who were to print a further 20 editions over the following seventy years. The Scilly Isles chart is the issue with a descriptive letterpress text by Abraham Tovey.Provenance: Wm. Courtenay, May 10th 1750, inscription cut out and pasted inside upper cover; Powderham Castle 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

GREECE - CHIOSARGENTI (PHILIP P.) Istoria tou Chiakou oikou Argenti [The History of the Argenti of Chios], FIRST EDITION, text in Greek, engraved frontispiece, and 12 plates (2 printed in colours, others photogravure), publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered on spine, 4to (290 x 215mm.), Athens, Sakellariou, 1922--[SCHILIZZI FAMILY]. Orologion [Book of Hours], title and text in Greek, printed in red and black throughout, woodcut illustrations, contemporary black cloth, cover edged in gilt metal, with clasp (etched with ownership name 'J.S. Schilizzi'), g.e., 8vo, Venice, 1841 (2)Footnotes:A scarce history of the Argenti families of Chios, together with a nineteenth century Greek Book of Hours bound for John Stephanovic Schilizzi (1840-1908), with his name on the clasp. The Schilizzi family stockbroking business traded in Chios and Constantinople until the 1920s, but after the destruction of Chios established offices abroad including London and Liverpool. John Stephanovic's grandaughter, Helene, was married to Philip Argenti, author of the The History of the Argenti of Chios.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

GREECE - CHIOSARGENTI (PHILIP P.) AND STILPONOS P. KURIAKIDOU. E Chios para tois geografois kai periegetais, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-title in volume one, 78 plates (some colour), early half morocco, gilt lettered on spine, rubbed, one joint tender, spine dried, large 4to (305 x 220mm.), Athens, Estia, 1946Footnotes:An important compendium of of writings on the Greek Island of Chios from the beginning of the eighth century through to the 1880s, providing details of the authors and texts. Extensive extracts from each work are printed in the original language, with a translation into modern Greek.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

GREECE - LANGUAGEAtakta, 5 vol. bound in 7 (as published), FIRST EDITION, text in Greek (excepting final index volume in Greek and French), dampstaining and browning, rodent damage to blank upper fore-corner of one volume (not touching text), a few colour pencil underlinings and corrections (?probably by Philip Argenti), contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards, gilt lettered 'Atakta' on spines, rubbed, 8vo, Paris, K. Everartou. Se trouve chez F. Didot, père et fils F. Didot, 1828-1835Footnotes:'A five-volume collection of material entitled Atakta (1828–35) [which] includes a critical edition of Byzantine vernacular poems and a total of more than 1500 pages containing lists of about 8000 Modern Greek words with comments on their etymology and usage' (Peter Mackridge, Language and National Identity in Greece, 1766-1976, 2009). Koraes (1748-1833), founder of the Library at Chios, was instrumental in the movement towards Greek Independence, whose 'advocacy of a revived classicism laid the intellectual foundations for the Greek struggle for independence. His influence on modern Greek language and culture was enormous' (Britannica).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MALTON (JAMES)A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin, Described in a Series of the Most Interesting Scenes Taken in the Year 1791, FIRST EDITION, engraved title-page, engraved arms of the City of Dublin (dated 1792), engraved dedication (dated 1794), 2 uncoloured aquatint plans, engraved key plate, 25 hand-coloured engraved plates by James Malton, uncoloured aquatint vignette on the recto of descriptive text leaves, occasional spotting to text (heaviest on dedication), original marbled boards, printed title label on upper cover ('Price £10:10:0'), rebacked, slipcase [Abbey 374, coloured copy; Tooley 315], oblong folio (45 x 575mm.), James Malton, after 1799, probably c. 1818 [watermarked text 1802-1811, plates 1809-1817]Footnotes:'A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin... is one of the earliest and best of books with coloured aquatints... Malton as a topographical draughtsman had few equals, and the plates... have a distinction of their own in addition to their value as an architectural record' (Hardie, English Coloured Books).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

POLAR - FRENCH ANTARCTIC EXPLORATIONCHARCOT (JEAN-BAPTISTE) Journal de l'Expédition Antarctique Française: Le 'Français' au Pôle Sud, FIRST EDITION, 29 plates (mostly photographic) and maps, one folding publisher's pictorial wrappers, short tears to extremities of upper hinge, [Conrad, p.134; Taurus 54], 4to, Paris, Flammarion, [1906]Footnotes:'The official narrative of Charcot's first venture into the Antarctic... Charcot originally set out to rescue Otto Nordenskjold, the missing Swedish explorer. Though he failed in the race to Nordenskjold, he managed to create the best charts to date of large portions of the Antarctic Peninsula and Gerlache Strait' (Taurus). Unusually, this copy is in the original wrappers (most are rebound with the wrappers bound in), with its striking Art Nouveau-esque design including penguins and walruses on the ice.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

POLAR - JAPANESE EXPLORATIONSHIRASE (NOBU) Chisima Tanken-Roku [Records of Chisima], second edition, text in Japanese, 3 full-page, blue-tinted illustrations (one with long tear), 8-page advertisements printed on purple paper, publisher's pictorial wrappers, price label on upper cover, some soiling, short tear to upper cover, spine repaired [Ross 1.1.2], 8vo, Aichi, Kasuagi, 1901Footnotes:The second edition of the first book written by Shirase, being an account of his part in the ill-fated two-year expedition led by Captain Shigetada Gunji in 1893 to the Kuril Islands, an archipelago north of Japan. On landing on the north-eastern-most island of Senshu the crew members established themselves in a cave, resulting in the death of 10 men. Shirase and five others were left to overwinter, but with inadequate nutrition three of the party died from scurvy, before the final survivors were rescued by a ship sent by the governor of Hokkaido. Described by Chet Ross, bibliographer of Shirase's works, as 'very rare'.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

POLAR - JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912[SHIRASE (NOBU)] Nankyoku-ki, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, text in Japanese, 4 coloured plates, numerous full-page photographic illustrations (one double-page), one folding colour-printed map, illustrations in the text, publisher's red-printed colophon mounted on card (as issued), toning/spotting to text, light dampstain in upper blank margin of approximately 30 leaves, a few small paper repairs, publisher's dark blue cloth, blind-stamped pictorial decoration and silver gilt lettering on upper cover, silver gilt lettering on spine (rubbed), one endpaper replaced to match, joints neatly repaired [Rosove 309.A1a ('rare'); Ross 1.5.1 ('rare')], 8vo, Tokyo, Seikô Zasshisha, 15 December 1913Footnotes:RARE first edition, first printing of the 'official account' of the Japanese Antarctic Expedition 1910-1912. Based upon the journals and logs of team leader Nobu Shirase and other exhibition members it also includes information on the scientific findings. It has never been printed in English. All the books relating to the Japanese expedition were largely overlooked by the Western world, Taurus noting that 'Spence seems never to have heard of this important Japanese expedition... the first Japanese scientific voyage to leave Asian waters'.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

POLAR - JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912[SHIRASE (NOBU)] Nankyoku-ki, third expanded Memorial edition, text in Japanese, 6 coloured plates, numerous full-page photographic illustrations (one double-page), one folding colour-printed map, illustrations in the text, tissue guard to title, publisher's red-printed colophon mounted on card (as issued), publisher's dark blue cloth, blind-stamped pictorial decoration and silver gilt lettering on upper cover, plain paper wrappers (some loss), original cardboard slipcase, labels printed in red and black on both covers and spine (split at one edge, rubbed) [Rosove 381.A1; Ross 1.4.1], 8vo, Tokyo, 1984Footnotes:Rare, expanded edition. 'The collation is similar to the first edition, first printing [see previous lot] with two notable exceptions. This special memorial edition contains several black-and-white full-page plates that were not included in earlier editions and images throughout appear to be of slightly higher contrast than in earlier editions' (Chet Ross).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

POLAR - JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912[SHIRASE (NOBU] Nankyoku-Tanken, FIRST EDITION, text in Japanese, 4 leaves of photographic illustrations (recto and verso), numerous photographic illustrations in the text, one folding colour-printed map, some toning and light spotting, map off-set onto facing page, publisher's pictorial boards (illustrating penguins on the ice), joints frayed, soiling [Rosove 381.A1; Ross 1.4.1], 8vo, Tokyo, 21 January 1913Footnotes:VERY RARE. This is the first appearance of Expedition leader Shirase's account, pre-dating the official account which did not appear until later in the same year.Shirase was 'the first non-European team to explore Antarctica, his 'dash patrol' journey past 80 deg south was one of only four groups to have done so at that time. The expedition was carried out on a tiny budget (for such endeavours), none of those involved had any previous polar experience... [but] there were no fatalities' (Cool Antarctica, website). In November 1910 Shirase left Tokyo on the small wooden schooner Kainan Maru with a crew of 26 men and 27 Siberian sled dogs, the beginning of his heroic but ultimately failed expedition to raise the Japanese flag at the Pole. His ship was the smallest to sail to Antarctica at the time, half the size of Amundsen's Fram and a third the size of Scott's Terra Nova. After attempts to reach the Pole over two seasons 'Shirase was treated like a hero on his return to Japan. He was soon forgotten however' (Cool Antarctica).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

POLARMOSS (EDWARD L.) Shore of the Polar Sea. A Narrative of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6, FIRST EDITION, half-title, title printed in red and black, 16 mounted chromolithographed plates, and illustrations in the text 'from drawings made on the spot by the Author', additional lithographed view of a Polar scene, and a paper for the Linnean Society of London written by Moss loosely inserted, spotting throughout (mostly avoiding images), publisher's decorative cloth gilt, rebacked preserving original spine, worn, folio (480 x 335mm.), Marcus Ward, 1878Footnotes:Edward Moss (1843-1880), educated at the Royal College of Science in Dublin, joined the Royal Navy in 1864, taking charge of the Royal Naval Hospital at Esquimalt on Vancouver Island between 1872 and 1874. He was appointed surgeon and artist on HMS Alert for the British Arctic Expedition, 1875-1876, which was sent by the Admiralty to attempt to reach the North Pole by way of Smith Sound and to explore the coasts of Greenland and adjacent lands. 'Although his preface disclaims a narrative intent for the book and places his emphasis on pictorial efforts, the book still provides a substantial and engaging account of the Nares expedition' (Books on Ice, 4.7).Provenance: Teresa Moss, ownership inscription on the half-title. This is presumably the author's mother, Teresa Mary Moss (née Richardson); by family descent to current vendor.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

SCOTLANDHILL (DAVID OCTAVIUS) Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire Drawn from Nature and on Stone, FIRST EDITION, 30 uncoloured lithographed plates printed by C. Hullmandel after Hill, one original pictorial lithographed upper parts wrapper ('No. 2', 'Pr.6/-') pasted inside upper cover, small dampstain in lower margin of 12 plates, slightly larger in lower fore-corner of 2 others, early half morocco, gilt lettered 'Perth. D.O. Hill. 1821' on upper cover, upper cover detached, loss to spine [Abbey Scenery 509], oblong folio (288 x 455mm.), Perth, Thomas Hill, [1821]Footnotes:David Octavius Hill is today most celebrated for his pioneering work in photography alongside Adamson, but he made his name originally as a fine artist, as show these views of Perthshire, executed while he was in his teens. Issued in parts from 1821-23 by David's father, Thomas Hill, Sketches is 'generally recognized as the earliest series of views to have been produced in Scotland by the lithographic process' (Directory of the Lithographic Printers of Scotland 1820-1870, p.98).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

HOOLA VAN NOOTEN (BERTHE)Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisies de l'Ile de Java peints d'après nature, FIRST EDITION, parallel text in French and English, 40 chromolithographed plates, some heightened in gum arabic, some spotting, contemporary full red morocco gilt, by G.J. Lebbing of Amsterdam (with printed ticket inside upper cover), covers blind- and gilt tooled, spine lettered in gilt and tooled in gilt in 5 compartments within raised bands, g.e., neatly rebacked preserving the original spine [Great Flower Books, p.60; Nissen BBI 931; Stafleu & Cowan 3025], folio (582 x 430mm.), Brussels, Émile Tarnier, 1863-64Footnotes:Rare first edition, illustrated with fine plates of a mixture of indigenous, naturalised and introduced plants to Indonesia, chosen principally for their eye-catching beauty. In the preface Berthe Hoola van Nooten (1840-1885) states that she produced this book in order to clear a debt incurred through family misfortune, and 'provide by labour the wants of a numerous family'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[MERIAN (MATTHIAS)][LUDWIG I, PRINCE OF ANHALT-KOTHEN] Der fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft nahmen, vorhaben Gemälde und Wörter, 4 parts in 1, FIRST EDITION, 4 engraved titles, 400 engraved plates by Merian, 2ff. of letterpress, additional 36-pages of manuscript index at end of sections, a few leaves working loose, early vellum, soiled [Nissen BBI 1343; Landwehr (German) 402; Praz, p.142], 4to, Frankfurt, Matthias Merian, 1646Footnotes:'A FINE 17TH CENTURY HERBAL AND... CERTAINLY ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVED BOOKS OF THE 17TH CENTURY' (Praz). The first edition of the only florilegium with plates by Matthias Merian. Each plate depicts a flower, fruit or tree against a different landscape background, mostly views of German towns or gardens.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

MERIAN (MARIA SIBYLLA)Erucarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, engraved allegorical frontispiece by and after Simon Schijnovoet, portrait of Maria Merian engraved by J. Houbraken, engraved armorial headpiece opening dedication, 3 engraved decorative sectional titles, 150 engraved plates, spotting and browning (occasionally quite heavy), early vellum, gilt morocco spine label [Nissen ZBI 1342; Landwehr 135], small 4to (210 x 155mm.), Amsterdam, Johannes Oosterwijk, [c.1718]Footnotes:Maria Sibylla's Merian's important work on European entomology, the plates depicting butterflies and grubs in juxtaposition with flowers and blossoms. This first Latin edition appeared the year after her death in 1717, the publisher Johannes Oosterwijk having purchased the plates from Maria's daughter Dorothea.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

[ROUPELL (ARABELLA E.)]Specimens of the Flora of South Africa by a Lady, FIRST EDITION, list of subscribers (103 names subscribing for 111 copies), dedication leaf to Nathaniel Wallich, hand-coloured lithographed pictorial title, 8 hand-coloured lithographed plates, large hand-coloured tailpiece vignette by P. Gauci after Roupell, a letter from the Regensburg Botanical Society loosely inserted [see footnote], occasional spotting (heavier to plate 6), original full purple morocco gilt, covers with elaborate borders tooled in blind and gilt, enclosing a gilt title ('Cape Flowers by a Lady') within a floral wreath on the upper cover, lettered in gilt on spine, g.e., rubbed [Great Flower Books 134; Mendelssohn II:254; Nissen BBI 1687; Stafleu-Cowan 9684], folio (774 x 452mm.), [Printed by W. Nichol, Shakespeare Press, 1849]Footnotes:Arabella Roupell was resident in South Africa between 1843 and 1845, where she was encouraged in her botanical paintings by Nathaniel Wallich (1785–1854), superintendent of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, who happened to be on leave at the Cape at the time. He also 'assisted in the collection and identification of the various species which she painted... [and persuaded her] to allow him to take some [of her studies] to England, with a view to their being published. In England he showed them to the director of Kew Gardens, Sir William Hooker, who was struck by their beauty and accuracy' (ODNB). When published Roupell's fine plates were accompanied by descriptions written by William Harvey, curator of the herbarium at Trinity College, Dublin.Loosely inserted is a letter addressed to Roupell ('Madame!'), sent on behalf of the Bavarian Society for Botany at Ratisbon [Regensburg Botanical Society], praising 'The publication, with which you have enriched also my own library, has won the admiration of botanist, who saw it, by the truth and the elegance of your splendid pensil [sic]...', and announcing that the Society 'feels particular satisfaction in bearing testimony of your scientific art by a Diploma...', dated Munich, 3 September 1851, and signed 'Dr. Martius'. This Martius is presumably Theodore (1796-1863), son of Ernest Martius (died 1849), the co-founder of the Society. ODNB records this event noting that Roupell's 'skill as a botanical artist was recognized in Germany by her election as a member of the Regensburg Society of Arts. In 1857 the Swiss botanist, Meissner, named a species of Protea, roupelliae, after her.'Provenance: Gifted by Elizabeth Chute Roupell, the artist Arabella's daughter-in-law, to Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans (Welsh-born South African botanist, 1979-1968) on 28 September 1935, inscription pasted on front free endpaper. Beneath this inscription is another, 'The authoress of this work was Mrs. T.B. Roupell, wife of a Madras civilian. This book belonged as Major-General Francis Archibald Reid C.N. of the Madras army who was much interested in botany. Catherine Anne Reid', and then signed by Pole Evans too. Arabella's husband Thomas was an official with the East India Company, posted in Madras both prior and after their several sojourns in South Africa.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

VALLET (PIERRE)Le jardin du roy tres chrestien Loys XIII, etched architectural title, portrait of Vallet, 93 etched plates (numbered 1-30, 32-57, 58-89, 91-95 and 99), all hand-coloured in a good later hand, without the portrait of Robin, light dampstain in the fore-margin of text leaves with some light pencil annotations in the margins, small light stain just touching image of plate 39, modern vellum [Nissen BBI 2039, calling for only 90 plates; cf. Hunt 187; Pritzel 9672], folio (343 x 216mm.), Paris, Pierre Vallet, 1623Footnotes:'THE FIRST IMPORTANT FLORILEGIUM... A WORK OF GREAT BEAUTY' (Blunt). First published in 1608, this second edition was expanded with a further 20 plates and re-dedicated to King Louis XIII. The flowering plants that Vallet depicts were collected and cultivated by Jean Robin, director of the royal gardens at the Louvre Palace. Robin had introduced a number of exotic flowers from Spain and the archipelagos off the coast of Guinea, and a brief synopsis of these is given in the text.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HARRIS (JOHN)Lexicon Technicum: or, an Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining Not Only the Terms of Art but the Arts Themselves, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece portrait, title printed in red and black, 7 engraved plates (2 folding, one with old tear), numerous woodcut illustrations, list of subscribers (including Isaac Newton), upper fore-corner of title torn away with some loss to rule border, light dampstaining in lower fore-corner of approximately 20 leaves at end, modern quarter morocco [PMM 171a], small folio (320 x 202mm), Dan. Brown, Tim Goodwin, [and others], 1704Footnotes:The first edition of the 'first technical dictionary in any language. The most famous of his contributors was Isaac Newton' (PMM). A second volume was published in 1710.Provenance: Thomas Snyddon, 12 October 1788, ownership inscription on the front free endpaper.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

LEIBNIZ (GOTTFRIED WILHELM)Autograph letter signed ('Leibniz') to Thomas Burnett ('Monsieur'), in French, pleased and surprised to hear that he is in a place of safety, presuming that his failure to thank the Electress and the Queen of Prussia for their help in obtaining his release from the Bastille must mean '...that you are unaware of your own history...' and explaining in detail how his freedom came about through various envoys and royal connections ('...I wrote about the matter too to the Bishop of Salisbury, who answered that he would try and persuade the Queen [Anne] to exchange you for someone... several attempts having completely failed... I asked M. d'Alefeld, the Danish Minister in Berlin to write about it to M. de Meiercron, Minister of his master the King at the Court of France to get him to talk to the Marquis de Torcy and the Queen also spoke to M. d'Alefeld in my presence... that envoy committed himself with zeal... the Electress wrote to the Queen [of France] on your behalf...'), giving reasons for his imprisonment ('...you were known to have evil designs, and were mixed up in suspicious activities, having come to France also without a passport... I said that one part of the report was slanderous and it looked as if the rest might well be too... your character was too well known in our courts for there to be any possible suggestions that you had malicious designs against the Government and the State...'), concluding by saying that his name was now clear ('...certain spies who haunted Paris taverns had thought they were doing themselves a good turn by denouncing you...'), going on to thank Burnett for information on scholars in Geneva and discussing various books such as John Ray's Wisdom of God and Cosmologia sacra by Nehemiah Grew ('...These are good books as they go into detail about nature and don't at all content themselves with generalities...'), noting he has reread Locke's book translated into French as he only had an old English edition ('...I see numerous things with which I totally disagree... I am pro innate ideas and anti tabula rasa...'), commenting on Locke's views of substance ('...he speaks cavalierly...'), liberty ('...good things... but does not explain it enough...'), identity and self consciousness ('...not at all correct...'), ending '...Finally there are endless things I would like to explain to myself quite differently from Mr. Lock. I often find his reflections a little too superficial and his philosophy a little too accommodated to the taste of some people...', admitting that there are many fine reflections in Locke's work and that the Essay is '...one of the finest philosophical books of our time...', with mentions of Rowland Guinn, troop movements and other matters, with many amendments and deletions, 4 pages on a bifolium, pencilled date at head [1704], dust-staining and other marks, creases, small tears and holes at folds, 4to (200 x 155mm.), [Hanover, 3 December 1703]Footnotes:'UN DES PLUS BEAUX LIVRES PHILOSOPHIQUES DE CE TEMPS': LEIBNIZ ON LOCKE, & HIS FRIEND'S RELEASE FROM THE BASTILLE.In the latter part of this letter to his friend Thomas Burnett, Leibniz notes he is re-reading Locke in a new French translation and whilst he sometimes finds him 'too superficial', he concludes here that it is '...one of the finest philosophical books of our time...'. Much has been written on the relationship between Leibniz and Locke. For years, Burnett had acted as an intermediary between the two and has been described as having a significant influence on the way that the men viewed each other. Despite Leibniz's stellar reputation in European intellectual circles, Locke refused to reply directly to Leibniz's responses to his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1689, and indeed professed to be rather intellectually disappointed in Leibniz. It has been argued that some of Leibniz's papers written between 1695 and 1700 in response to Locke were in fact a response to Burnett's interpretation of Locke, and even that Burnett mistakenly ascribed works to Locke that were by others (Stewart Duncan, Toland and Locke in the Leibniz-Burnett Correspondence, September 2017, online). According to Nicholas Jolley, Burnett '...clearly had a stake in playing up his contacts with Locke, and in emphasizing Locke's good will, for he wished to come across to Leibniz as a valuable correspondent with access to inside sources of information. But even if we allow for an element of ingratiation on Burnett's part, it still seems to be the case that Locke's personal attitude towards Leibniz was not as distant or as aloof as... might suggest...' citing Locke's interest in Leibniz's metaphysical theories, his wish to know his opinion on his controversial exchange with Stillingfleet and even his offer to obtain for him an ecclesiastical benefice in England as examples (Nicholas Jolley, Leibniz and Locke, 1984, p.38-41). Leibniz in turn was clearly interested in Locke's views on a wide range of topics including money, education and politics and not just religion. In response to our letter, Burnett wrote back to Leibniz encouraging him to compose a full-scale commentary of the Essay (Jolley, p.44).At the time of writing, Thomas Burnett had been recently released from a fourteen-month imprisonment in the Bastille, and much of the letter is taken up with informing him of the circumstances of his release and describing how Leibniz had employed his considerable influence and web of connections to that end. Burnett had been passing through Paris in uncertain times. The succession crisis in England prompted by the death of Queen Anne's only surviving child in 1700 meant that the next protestant in line to the English throne was Leibniz's patron, the Electress Sophia and, with the French favouring Anne's half-brother James as heir, Anne was to declare war on France in May 1702, just six weeks after Burnett was arrested. Anyone with a close connection to the Hanoverian court was therefore under suspicion and prey to 'certain spies who haunted Paris taverns', and the only crime Burnett was guilty of was perhaps not having a passport. On his release, he wrote to Leibniz from Geneva on 5 November 1703 describing the circumstances of his arrest and his ordeal: '...they accused me of nothing despite the fact they interrogated me about everything... To tell you I suffered in this prison would be a long story... I noted myself that they insisted on these two points in particular... my relationship with the Bishop of Salisbury and the honour of being given such a good reputation at the Courts of Hanover and Berlin...' (Susan Burnett, p.13-14). This account prompted our reply from Leibniz which bears the pencilled date of 1704. Gerhardt, however, places it as having been written from Hanover on 3 December 1703.Our letter is published in Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Allemeiner politischer und historischer Briefwechsel, Akademie Verlag, 1998 (no.412, p.705-710), in Gerhardt, C. J., Die philosophischen Schriften von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1887, vol. 3, no. XXVI, p. 289, and partly quoted from in Susan Burnett, Without Fanfare: The Story of my Family, 1994, p.16-18 and elsewhere. It has been held in the archive at Kemnay House, Aberdeenshire, until now. Provenance: Thomas Burnett, 2nd of Kemnay (1656-1729); and thence by descent.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BERKELEY (GEORGE)Autograph letter signed ('G:Cloyne'), as Bishop of Cloyne, to his friend Isaac Gervais, Dean of Tuam, at Lismore ('Good Mr Dean'), '...I am heartily sensible of your loss which yet admits of alleviation, not only from the common motives which have been repeated every day for upward of five thousand years, but also from your own peculiar knowledge of the world... I may add too from the peculiar times in which we live which seem to threaten still more wretched and unhappy times to come...', going on to reassure him that his cheerful nature will help him through hard times ('...Such is the hypochondriac melancholy complexion of us islanders, that we seem made of butter... but those elastic spirits which are your birthright cause the stoaks of fortune to rebound without leaving a trace...'), encouraging him to attend '...court and metropolis amidst a variety of faces and amusements...' and regretting he can not join him ('...The disorder I had this winter and my long retreat have disabled me for the road...'), two pages on a bifolium, integral free front address panel signed 'G:Coyne', docketed with date, dust-staining, creased at folds, some small holes, small old repair where damaged by seal not affecting text, 4to (300 x 85mm.), Cloyne, 24 February 1745/6Footnotes:'SUCH IS THE HYPOCHONDRIAC MELANCHOLY COMPLEXION OF US ISLANDERS, THAT WE SEEM MADE OF BUTTER': A rediscovered letter from George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne consoling his good friend Isaac Gervais on the death of his niece.Letters by this major philosopher are uncommon and rarely appear at auction. According to the great authority on Berkeley, Arthur Aston Luce, some sixteen letters (including this one) have survived from Berkeley's correspondence to Isaac Gervais, Dean of Tuam, which dates from 1738-1752, and were lent by The Rev. Henry Gervais, Archdeacon of Cashel to the editor of the 1784 edition of Joseph Stock's Memoirs who published only an extract from the text. Since then the letter, and the letter in the following lot, apparently disappeared from view and editors of subsequent collections have therefore had to rely on Stock's shortened version rather than the full text, which can now be read for the first time. The letter is also included in Alexander Campbell Fraser's Works of 1871, A.A. Luce and T.E. Jessop Works (1956, Vol.VIII, no.231), and most recently Marc A. Hight's Correspondence (2013, no.337).Isaac Gervais (1680-1756) fled to Ireland from France on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, became Choral of Lismore in 1708, was later Prebendary there and became Dean of Tuam in 1743: '...a vivacious and every way pleasant clerical neighbour... who often visited Berkeley, and with whom he had much friendly correspondence in the remaining years of his life...' and someone who '...often enlivened the 'manse-house' at Cloyne by his wit and intercourse with the great world' (Campbell Fraser, The Works of George Berkeley, 1871, Vol.I, p.58, Vol.IV, p.260). A letter dated 6 February (Hight, no.331) indicates that Gervais' loss referred to here is the death of his niece. Berkeley writes again some two weeks later to reassure him that his naturally cheerful disposition and 'elastic spirits' will help him recover.Provenance: Private Collection, USA.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

KIRCHER (ATHANASIUS)Polygraphia nova et universalis ex combinatoria arte detecta, woodcut on title-page, 3 folding tables (one engraved, 2 letterpress), spotting and some paper toning, old ownership inscriptions erased in ink (oxidised resulting in minor losses to blank lower margin), early limp vellum, light soiling [Sommervogel IV, 1059], folio (330 x 232mm.), Rome, Varese, 1663Footnotes:First edition of Kircher's treatise on cryptography and the creation of a universally understood language. The appendix is devoted to a discussion of Johannes Trithemius' Polygraphia (1518) which had inspired Kircher's interest in the subject.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

BROWNING (ROBERT)Paracelsus, bookplate of William Tooke, some spotting, contemporary half calf, rubbed, Effingham Wilson, 1835; Strafford, blue crushed half morocco by Tout, gilt panelled spine, joints rubbed, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1837; Sordello, ownership signature of Blanche Blackmore, Edward Moxon, 1840; Poems, 2 vol., new edition, contemporary calf, gilt panelled spines, Chapman & Hall, 1849; Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, front hinge splitting, Chapman & Hall, 1850; Men and Women, 2 vol., bookplates of Edith Kermit Roosevelt (second wife of President Theodore Roosevelt and the first lady from 1901 to 1909), full calf by Emily Tuckerman (signed on turn-ins), blind-tooled lyre devices on upper covers, rebacked preserving original spines, front free endpaper loose, edges rubbed, Chapman & Hall, 1855; Dramatis Personae, bookplates of Edward Rawlings and Willard Brown Thorp, spine faded, Chapman & Hall, 1864; The Ring and the Book. 4 vol., ownership inscriptions of Charles P. Chretien (theologist), Smith, Elder & Co., 1868–1869; Balaustion's Adventure, 1871; Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society, 1871; Fifine at the Fair, unopened, 1872; Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, bookplate of H.E. Cunliffe, 1873; Aristophanes' Apology, 1875; The Inn Album, bookplate of William Henry Mason, 1875; Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper: with Other Poems, 1876; The Agamemnon of Æschylus, ownership signature of Thomas MacClelland 1878, 1877; La Saisiaz: The Two Poets of Croisic, unopened, 1878; Dramatic Idyls, bookplate of Henry Francis Redhead Yorke, 1879; Dramatic Idyls. Second Series, 1880; Jocoseria, bookplate of Robert Ellis Cunliffe, spine faded 1883; Ferishtah's Fancies, 1884; Pauline; A Fragment of a Confession... Edited by Thomas J. Wise, facsimile of 1833 edition, one of 400 copies, publisher's boards, Richard Clay & Sons, 1886; Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day, ownership signature of John Richardson, 1887; Asolando: Fancies and Facts, 1890, all Smith Elder & Co. unless otherwise stated, 8vo, FIRST EDITIONS in publisher's cloth unless otherwise stated (24)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

HALL (JOSEPH)The Works, title within wide woodcut architectural border, lacks portrait and blank 3H5, endpapers creased, contemporary calf, sides with single gilt rule border enclosing central gilt and blind-stamped arabesque, old manuscript vellum used as binder's waste, worn, losses to spine, Melton Literary Institution label on upper cover [ESTC S92832], folio, Nath. Butter, 1635; Episcopacie by Divine Right Asserted, with opening blank, contemporary calf, red edges to text block, 2 old worm trails to spine [ESTC S103631], small 4to, R.B. for Nathanael Butter, 1640--CHARLES I. Eikon Basilike [in Greek] The Works, second edition, additional engraved title incorporating a portrait, and Royal arms, lacking the 2 plates and lower free endpaper, contemporary calf, worn, joints cracked [ESTC R6734], folio, Richard Chiswell, 1687--LAUD (WILLIAM) The History of the Troubles and Tryal of the Most Reverend Father in God, and Blessed Martyr, William Laud, title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece portrait on verso of half-title (slightly shorter, repaired in blank horizontal margins) [ESTC R354], R. Chiswell, 1695; Second Volume of the Remains, [ESTC R200966], Sam. Keble, 1700, 2 works bound in 1 vol., later polished calf, gilt spine with morocco label, joints weakened, folio; and another, by Joseph Hall (5)Footnotes:Provenance: First, Revd. William Woodcote, bequeathed to his cousin Cheevor Woodcote and friend William Latham, by whom given to the 'Melton Institutional Library... he died in the West Indies Oct. 8th 1857', manuscript note inside the upper cover; Third, Frederick Adolphus Philbrick, bookplate; Third, Nicolas Docton, ownership inscription dated 1708 on second volume of Laud; J. Brown Craven, Bibliotheca Lavdiana, 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

LUNARDI (VINCENZO)An Account of the First Aerial Voyage in England, in a Series of Letters to his Guardian, Chevalier Gherardo Compagni, Written under the Impressions of the Various Events that Affected the Undertaking, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR for authentication on the half-title, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by Bartolozzi after R. Cosway, 2 folding engraved plates, advertisement on final leaf, some spotting and off-setting, later polished calf gilt, g.e., joints rubbed, 8vo, for the Author, 1784Footnotes:Lunardi (1759-1806), an Italian diplomat, made the first British ascent in a hydrogen balloon on 15 September 1784, the success of which made him the most 'prominent figure in the early annals of aerostation in England, while his exploits undoubtedly encouraged the vogue of ballooning in those early days' (Hodgson, The History of Aeronautics in Great Britain, 1924).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

NEWTON (ISAAC)Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. The Third Edition, Corrected, JOHN DAVIES' COPY, ANNOTATED AND WITH ADDITIONAL MANUSCRIPT MEMOIR BOUND IN, 12 folding engraved plates (one slightly shaved touching neatline, 2 with minor archival repair to fore-edge), 13 full-page manuscript notes before title, approximately 20 side-notes or minor annotations, modern blindstamped calf antique, red gilt morocco spine label [Babson 135], 8vo, William and John Innys, 1721Footnotes:The enlarged third, and last lifetime, edition of Newton's Opticks, which 'did for light what his Principia had done for gravitation, namely, placed it on a scientific basis' (Babson, quoting Prof. E.W. Brown of Yale University), inscribed, annotated, and with inserted manuscript material by John Davies (1679-1732). Educated at the Charterhouse School, and then Queens' College, Cambridge, for which he was made President in 1717, and vice-chancellor in 1726. It seems probable that Davies would have crossed paths with Newton, as 'the world of scientific learning... did not forget that a man of superlative quality lived and worked in Cambridge' (ODNB) as his reputation grew.Davies was a close friend of the classical scholar Richard Bentley, and an editor of the works of Cicero, Caesar, Lactantius, Minucius Felix, and Maximus of Tyre. He has signed and dated this volume ('I. Davies / 1725') in a practised print hand, and mingled that hand with a fine neat italic elsewhere (for comparison, see British Library MS Stowe 750, fol. 252), in particular for the biographical material. His annotations in Opticks show a close reading of the text, referencing in his side-notes to works by John Locke (Concerning Human Understanding), George Cheyne (An Essay on Health, 1724), John Ray, and the Dutch mathematician Willem Jacob 's Gravesande. Beneath his signature, Davies writes a preliminary comment concerning Newton's notes on colours, sunlight and refractions (citing his chapter on 'Homogeneal light', pp.106-108). Evidence of Davies' reading beyond the text is indicated with long quotation from Swift's Proposal for Correcting the English Tongue (1712), and a couplet from Roscommon's translation of Horace ('Such secrets are not easily found out; But, once discovered, leaves no room for doubt'), and, more obviously related to Newton, on the rear pastedown a two-line 'Epitaph' on Newton copied from a periodical of 1731, and two printed memorial clippings.Of particular interest is Davies's twelve-page manuscript memoir of Newton bound in at the front. This is based very closely on two printed sources, Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle's Éloge de Newton (in its English translation of 1728), and the biographical preface to Henry Pemberton's View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy (1728). But Davies revises, corrects, rearranges, and selects from the former, eliminating almost everything regarding the Principia, and adds additional information (e.g., the dates of Newton's Cambridge degrees, the name of Newton's mother – not 'Anne' Ayscough but 'Hannah'). Davies also includes a reference, seemingly absent from both Fontenelle and Pemberton's accounts, to the fact that 'Sr. Isaac in one of his private letters, was of Opinion that the Frame of Nature may be nothing but various Contexture of aetherial Spirits or Vapours condens'd as it were by precipitation...'. This famous speculation is actually not found in a 'private letter', but in Newton's Hypothesis Explaining the Properties of Light discoursed of in my several Papers, as sent to Royal Society, in January 1675/6, and first printed by the Society in December 1675, an indication that Davies was engaging with Newton's writings beyond the more commonly available sources.For a recently-discovered manuscript of another Cambridge man close to Newton, see the notebook of his amanuensis John Wickins sold in these rooms on 31 March 2021.Provenance: John Davies (1679-1732), ownership inscription (dated 1725), notes and annotations; Robert Aytoun, ownership inscription (dated 1820) at inner margin of title-page.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BARBIER (GEORGE)GAUTIER (THEOPHILE) Le roman de la momie, bound in 2 vol., ONE OF 3 COPIES BOUND WITH ORIGINAL ARTWORK BY BARBIER, printed 'sur vieux Japon' and an additional double suite of plates (printed Chine and on Japon), from an overall edition of 1091 copies, 13 ORIGINAL COLOURED INK AND WATERCOLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS BY BARBIER, 36 colour illustrations and 2 additional suite of plates (one printed in full colours; one in outline), BOUND BY GEORGE CRETTE (gilt stamped name inside upper cover of text volume), the text in full blue crushed levant, sides with large lotus flowers in gilt and multicoloured morocco inlays, spine lettered in gilt with similar lotus flowers at head and foot, plate volume blue half crushed levant over gilt speckled blue boards, text volume with half morocco gilt chemise to match look of the plate volume, minor abrasions to spine of plate volume and chemise, housed in matching morocco-lipped slipcases (a few abrasions), 4to (244 X 190mm.), Paris, A. & G Mornay, 1929 (2)Footnotes:COPY NUMBER ONE, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH GEORGE BARBIER'S ORIGINAL ARTWORK FOR 13 OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS, AND SPECIALLY BOUND BY GEORGE CRETTÉ. Théophile Gauthier's 'Orientalist' novel, first published in 1857, is centred on the discovery, in the Valley of Kings, of the mummy of a female pharaoh by an Egyptologist and an aristocrat. This copy is one of three, each of which includes a third of the Barbier's fine original watercolour designs for use in the book. This volume are includes the design for the pictorial upper cover, several large illustrations, and three smaller vignettes. The binding is specially designed by Cretté (1893-1969), 'one of the Ecole Estienne's most brilliant pupils.. [who] after graduating joined Marius-Michel's studio, eventually taking over a month before the master's death in 1925' (Duncan and de Bartha, Art Nouveau and Art Deco Bookbinding. The French Masterpieces 1880-1940, 1989).Provenance: Francis Kettaneh, 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

MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE)Livre des essais... Divise en deux parties. Derniere edition augmentee de deux tables, 2 parts in 1 vol., woodcut ornament on both titles, without final blank, first title laid down with old ink ownership name partially erased from lower margin, printing faint on pp.277 and 280 (one word strengthened in ink), and short tear to p.441 of part I, some spotting and soiling (heaviest towards end of second part), old paper repair to lower fore-corner of final 3 leaves with loss of 2 letters of the catchword on final recto, later vellum ink lettered 'Montaigne' on the spine [Adams M-1621], soiled, 8vo, Lyon, Gabriel La Grange, 1593Footnotes:RARE FIFTH EDITION OF MONTAIGNE'S ESSAYS, the first published after the author's death in 1592, and the first to include an extensive index. Sold on behalf of Oxfam.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

BUCKLAND WRIGHT (JOHN)KEATS (JOHN) The Collected Sonnets, ONE OF 35 COPIES ON IMPERIAL JAPANESE PAPER WITH 2 EXTRA SETS OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS IN FINAL STATE, signed by the artist on the colophon, from an overall edition of 376, this copy No. XXV, 11 wood-engraved plates, small 4to, 1930; Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne... Introductory Note by J.E. Otten, ONE OF 30 COPIES ON CHARLES I HAND-MADE PAPER WITH 2 ADDITIONAL PROOF PLATES SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, this copy No. XXVI, from an overall edition of 325, 8vo, 1931, original black niger by Louis Malcorps, gilt-blocked illustration after Buckland Wright on upper covers, t.e.g., joints neatly restored, preserved in fabric-lined chemise and slipcase [Reid A1 and A6], Maastricht, The Halycon Press (2)Footnotes:Provenance: First work, James Fuller Spoerri, booklabel; both from the library of the late A.J. Karter.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)India. Speeches and an Introduction, first paperback edition in book form (published simultaneously with the cloth edition), publisher's orange wrappers, spine faded [Woods A38], Thornton Butterworth, 1931--NOBLE (WALTER) With a Bristol Fighter Squadron... with an Introduction by... Winston Churchill, FIRST EDITION, 5 plates, publisher's blue cloth, slightly rubbed [Woods B7], Andrew Melrose, 1920, 8vo (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DOVES PRESSThe English Bible, Containing the Old Testament & the New Translated Out of the Original Tongues by Special Command of His Majesty King James the First, 5 vol., ONE OF 500 COPIES ON PAPER, printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker with initials by Edward Johnston printed in red, some spotting (mostly to volumes 1 and 2, approximately 25 in volume 1, and 15 in volume 2 quite heavy), untrimmed in original limp vellum by the Doves Bindery (stamped on dentelles), gilt lettered spines, some slight soiling and discolouration as usual (volume 4 a little darker), folio (335 x 230mm.), Hammersmith, Doves Press, 1903-1905; sold with 2 original Doves Press receipts for volumes 1, and 4 and 5 of the 'Bible', printed in red and black with buyer ('Mr. J. Guttridge'), price of volumes ('£3.3.0' each), and date of receipt ('17 June 1903' and '10 October 1905') filled in inkFootnotes:Fine association copy, belonging to one of the Doves Press compositors who worked on the Bible. The English Bible was the only folio printed by Cobden Sanderson and Emery Walker at the Doves Press, taking a little over two years to complete, in an edition of approximately 500 copies. Described by Colin Franklin as the Press's 'magnum opus' (The Private Presses), it was printed using the font designed by Walker, the matrices, punches and type of which were later infamously thrown into the Thames from Hammersmith Bridge by Cobden-Sanderson, following the bitter dispute between the two printers. Provenance: J. Guttridge, his 2 original Doves Press receipts for the Bible included in the lot. Guttridge was one of two additional compositors taken on by the Press in 1902 to work specifically on the Bible under the guidance of John Henry Mason, the chief compositor. Prior to starting on the Bible Guttridge and three new pressmen were 'as an introduction to work at the Press... first employed on the [Doves] Tennyson' (Tidcombe, Doves Press, 2002. Guttridge is mentioned on the colophon as one of the compositors; by family descent to present vendor.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

EGYPT - BRITISH SPECIAL INVESTIGATION BRANCH AND STUDENT INSURRECTION, 1945-1946An archive of 'Top Secret' materials relating to Egyptian actions against British rule in 1945-6, compiled by Capt./Major L.B. Mountford, S.I.B., C.M. Police, including: 'Assault by Egyptian Mob on C.M.P. Outpost in Ramleh Square, Alexandria, on 4th March, 1945' [...'culminating in the death of two British Miliary Policemen...'], 'Confidential' investigation report carried out by Mountford, upwards of 100 typescript pages, 60 gelatin silver print photographs, including the 'mob' attacking, the aftermath showing the damage to C.M.P. building, forensic images of the deceased soldiers, the bullets, a suspect, etc., a sheet of fingerprints of the victims, hole punched, some pages loose, in original cloth-backed boards, O.H.M.S. label on upper cover, folio, [4-12 March, 1946]'Death of Sayid Abbas Sayid Ritha, an Iraqi of Karbala, from a Revolver Shot Wound Inflicted by 2326931 Sign... of No. 3 Coy., 4 G.H.Q., Signals, Paiforce', 'Confidential' investigation report carried out by Mountford, approximately 70 typescript pages (some signed ink), one photograph of the bullet used in the shooting, annotated in ink, hole punched, in original stiff wrappers, printed 'On His Majesty's Service' label with report subject on upper cover, folio, Baghdad, 1 December 1945'Secret Reports', folder of 'Top Secret' reports, mostly drawn up by Mountford, including: 'Unlawful possession of W.D. firearms. Arrest of four natives', 'Bomb outrages by Egyptian Civilians', '... Hand-made bomb in Sharia Dar El Shifa', 'Arrest of five natives for conspiracy and receiving three Mills Grenades from a B.O.R.', 'Discipline - Officers' [relating to obtaining of a ring from a Greek spinster 'under the promise of marriage... now believed to be false...' by a British officer] , arrest of Salem Abdel Aziz Weheba, a member of the Misr El Fatat (Young Egypt) Society, upwards of 100 typescript pages, some pencil notes and transcriptions of evidence from the Arabic, several photographs of a member of the Young Egypt Society (and S.I.B. informer, noted 'Frequents native brothels in Berka'), loose in contemporary cloth-backed portfolio, inked 'Political Dept., C.C.P.' on upper cover, folio, [1946] Folder of printed ephemera, including hotel and travel receipts (Alexandria, Tripoli, Cairo etc), and 6 pages of 'fairly confidential' typescript instructions relating to drills and allowed usage of words for corresponding with wives of soldiers, hole punched, in original stiff portfolio wrappers, folio, [1946]Miscellany including: 2 letters written by Mountford, from Cairo in July 1946, to his wife ('... Apart from the local bomb outrages things are quiet enough... I have decided I do not like this country, its people or its climate...'); three original caricatures, 2 seemingly portraits of Mountford; six photographs of deceased persons, one captioned in pencil on the verso '28 Aug. 45... soldier murdered by rifle fire by his friend, after an argument. Syrian type, from Transjordan'; metal cigarette case, with 'Oriental' view engraved on upper cover, engraved 'Capt. L.B. Mountford, Baghdad 1945' inside lid, items loose, various sizes, [1945-1946] (collection)Footnotes:'BOMB OUTRAGES BY EGYPTIAN CIVILIANS... UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF W.D. FIREARMS... ARREST OF FIVE NATIVES FOR CONSPIRACY...' - A remarkable archive of top secret case studies kept by a high ranking member of the Special Investigation Branch during the student riots against British occupation in Egypt in the 1940s. Includes reports into the deaths of British military personnel, riots on 4 March 1946 (supported with a series of photographs showing the movements of the 'mob' attacking a police station), the murder on a train of an Iraqi student by a drunken British soldier, illegal sale of weapons, double-crossing Egyptian civilian police officers, visits to brothels, and an understanding of the wider political picture. Mountford, the S.I.B. who wrote up most of the cases, wrote his wife (12 July 1946) that 'I think that the whole shoot of international politicians are actuated by something more than mere patriotic fervour. Big business has got it's finger in the pie again'.Mountford was the source of many of the dramatic true cases written up by Norman Phillips in Guns, Drugs and Deserters. The Special Investigation Branch in the Middle East, Werner Laurie, 1954, a dust-jacketed first edition of which is included in the lot. Mountford is named often in the text.Provenance: Leonard B. Mountford, Special Investigation Branch ('S.I.B.'), Cairo District. In these papers he is referred to either as Major in his role as Assistant Provost Marshal, or Captain in the Military Police. The letters written home to his wife are sent to addresses in Catford, or Bromley, South London, and it is known that on his return to England Mountford joined the Flying Squad.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Omega - a gentleman's Speedmaster Professional "Eyes on the Stars" Snoopy Award Limited Edition Wristwatch 30mm black dial with centre seconds hand and three subsidiary dials with Snoopy Award on the hour sub-dial, outer black tachymeter bezel, stainless steel 42mm case showing the Snoopy Award on the back and the Limited Edition number 0617/5441, original Omega Professional bracelet with deployment clasp and extra links in box.Complete with box, outer card box, booklets and warranty and pictogram cards, Reference Number 35785100, Watch No. 77118412, dated 22/03/06. Display card reading"In Appreciation For dedication, professionalism and outstanding contributions in support of the First United States Manned Lunar Landing Project Apollo The NASA astronaut team recognizes the achievements of Omega Watch Company Switzerland".Watch is running at present time although no guarantee is given.

Kingdom of Tonga, Coronation 4th July 1967 First Palladium Coinage in History, three coin mint set, limited edition of 1500, one Hau, half Hau and quater Hau, within fitted caseCondition report: Hau weighs approx 64.5ghalf Hau weighs approx 32.2gquater Hau weighs approx 16.2g

Gilbow exclusive first edition diecast buses, including Maidstone And District Harrington Grenadier, a Maidstone And District plaque stone pointer Dennis Dart, Maidstone And District Alexander Y Type, etc. (5)

London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic mascot Wenlock and Manderville soft toys, part of the numbered limited edition first run. (10)

Books - Pullman (Philip): His Dark Materials, three-volume set, comprising: Northern Lights, first edition, eleventh impression, 1995; The Subtle Knife, first edition, ninth impression, 1997; The Amber Spyglass, first edition, fifth impression, 2000, all Scholastic Press, pictorial dustjackets illustrated by David Scutt, cloth bindings, 8vo, (3); Lawrence (John, illustrator), Lyra's Oxford, first edition, 2003, red cloth, 8vo, (1), [4]

Cartography - Nottinghamshire - Ordnance Survey - a map of Mansfield Town Centre, supplied by Edward Stanford, Longacre, London, Cartographer to the King, sheet XXIII, published 1912, paper laid on cloth; others, Shirebrook Planning for Railway, first edition, 1875; Annesley Woodhouse; Mansfield/Woodhouse/Sutton/Skegby; Pleaseley, 1875; etc (27)

Books - Heraldry - Gayre (Robert, of Gayre and Nigg), Heraldic Cadency: The Development of Differencing of Coats of Arms for Kinsmen and Other Purposes, first edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1961, pictorial dustjacket over grey cloth, 8vo, (1); Harvey Johnston (G.), The Heraldry of the Campbells [...], Inveraray: Beinn Bhuidhe Holdings Limited, 1977, original tow-tone cloth, 8vo, (1); further Scottish interest; Huxford (J.F.), Honour and Arms: The Story of Some Augmentations of Honour, Buckland Publications, 1984, d/j over cloth, 4to, (1); Endeam Ivall (D.), Cornish Heraldry and Symbolism, one of 1000 copies, pictorial dustjacket over green cloth, 4to, (1); Heim (Bruno B.), Armorial, first edition, Van Duren, 1981, d/j, h/b, 8vo, (1); further ecclesiastical heraldry; Robinson (John Martin) & Woodcock (Thomas), Heraldry in National Trust Houses, signed and dedicated by one of the authors (JMR), National Trust, 2000, h/b, d/j, 4to, (1); European Armorial, 1971; Royal Arms; Sir Anthony Wagner, various; exhibition catalogues; etc., mostly h/b, various sizes, (approx. 40); The College of Arms, two b/w photograph portraits of the College, at the House of Lords for the State Opening of Parliament, 1965, presentation inscriptions, 20cm x 24cm, (2), [qty]

Books - Medals & Militaria Reference - Signed Copies, Williamson (Howard), The Collector and Researcher's Guide to the Great War, signed and dedicated by the author, copy no. 940, two-volume set, first and only edition, Privately Published, London: Printed by Chameleon Press Ltd, 2003, illustrated, pictorial boards, 4to, (2); Cox (Reginald H.W.), Military Badges of the British Empire, 1914-1918, first edition, London: 1982, h/b, d/j, 4to, (1); Spink's British Battles & Medals, 1988, h/b, d/j, 4to, (1); etc., [6]

Books - Numismatics - North (J.J.), English Hammered Coinage, c. 600-1662, two-volume set, London: Spink & Son, 1980 & 1975, illustrated, brown cloth, 4to, (2); Ireland - [Snelling (Thomas)], A Supplement To Mr Simon's Essay on Irish Coins, first edition, [?Dublin: 1810], 8pp, illustrated with one full-page engraving, stitched sheets, 4to, (1); Mossop (H.R.), The Lincoln Mint, c. 890-1279, Newcastle upon Tyne: Corbitt & Hunter Limited, 1970, illustrated, blue cloth, 4to, (1); Fearon's Catalogue of British Commemorative Medals, (1); CBG of Paris catalogues, including jetons, (3); ancient Greek and Roman coinage; etc., [14]

Antiquarian Books - Miscellaneous - Civil Engineering, Clark (Edwin), The Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges [...], two volumes (lacking plate folio), first edition, London: Published for the Author, by Day and Son [...], 1850, original cloth (volume I split at recto gutter), neat ex-lib, 8vo, (2); Leighton (Clare), [...] Wood-Engraving and Woodcuts, London: The Studio, 1932, tipped-in plates and 38 mixed media plates, original cloth over pictorial boars, 4to, (1); Gay's Fables, Illustrated, [London: Tonson & Watts, 1738], lacking title-page, engraved plates, contemporary calf over marbled boards, ex-lib markings to endpapers, 4to, (1); The Illustrated Carpenter Builder, volume V, 1879, disbound, 4to, (1); Yeatman (Pym, editor), Records of the Borough of Chesterfield, Chesterfield: Wilfred Edmunds, 1884, disbound quarter-calf, 8vo, (1); a quantity of 18th century law reports and precedents, contemporary calf bindings (faults), 8vo; etc., [4 boxes, mixed sizes]

Books - Poetry - Ross (Alan), verse and prose works: The Forties: A Period Place, first edition, London: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson Limited, 1950, pictorial dustjacket designed by Philip Gough (b. 1908), grey cloth, 4to, (1); Something of the Sea, first edition, London: Verschoyle, 1954, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); To Whom It May Concern, first edition, London: 1958, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Tropical Ice, one of 600 copies, first edition, London: 1972, pictorial wrappers, 4to, (1); South to Sardinia, first edition, 1960, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Blindfold Games, first edition, 1986, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); others, various, mostly hardback, [24]

Antiquarian and Later Books - Miscellaneous - Galsworthy (John), The White Monkey, first edition, London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1924, 8vo, (1); Stephen Potter first editions, (2); Delafield (E.M.), Straw Without Bricks: I Visit Soviet Russia, first edition, London: Macmill and and Co., Limited, 1937, d/j, h/b, 8vo, (1); Stevenson (Robert Louis), two copies, Prayers [...], first editions, second and ninth impressions, London: Chatto & Windus, 1905 & 1918, original papered boards, 8vo, (2); further fiction and non-fiction, first editions, etc., [1 box]

Books - Poetry - 20th Century - Allison (Drummond) & Benson (Stephen, editor), The Collected Poems, one of 300 copies, Privately Printed, 1994, pictorial dustjacket over red cloth, 8vo, (1); White (Thomas), Sky Saga: A Story of Empire Airmen, first edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., [n.d., 1945], d/j over cloth, 8vo, (1); Pudney (John), For Johnny: Poems of World War Two, revised edition, London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1976, original wrappers, 8vo, (1); further Pudney anthologies; similar World War Two and later RAF anthologies, various; Douglas (Keith), Collected Poems, first edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1966, d/j over green cloth, 8vo, (1); John Betjeman, various; Philip Larkin; Auden; Kingsley Amis; Lawrence Durrell; Brooke; British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000: A History and Bibliography of 'Little Magazines', 2006, pictorial h/b, 8vo, (1); etc., Clive James first editions, various; [approx. 70]