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Hottinger (Johann Heinrich). Promtuarium; sive, Bibliotheca orientalis: exhibens catalogum, sive, centurias aliquot, tam authorum, quam librorum Hebraicorum, Syriacorum, Arabicorum, Aegyptiacorum, Aethiopicorum, etc., Heidelberg: Adrian Wyngaerden, 1658, pp. [8] 332 [i.e. 328] 46, engraved vignette to title-page, Arabic, Hebrew and Syriac types used throughout, ink-stain to title-page, a few faint marginal damp-stains, quires 2I-2P browned, a few other marks, later half vellum, 4to (20.2 x 15.8 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESVD17 12:128994P. First edition of the first printed bibliography of Middle Eastern literature, based mainly on the manuscript collection of Dutch Arabist Jacobus Golius (1596-1667) and today considered 'a huge step forward in the knowledge which European scholars had of texts circulating in the Middle East’ (Vrolijk & van Leeuwen, Arabic Studies in the Netherlands, p. 46).

Johnston. (Alexander Keith). The Physical Atlas of Natural Phenomena, A New and Enlarged Edition, William Blackwood & Sons, 1856, title contents list and preface, crude tape repair to the gutters of the first front blank and title page, 35 (complete) double-page engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, index bound at rear, very slight spotting and dust soiling, contemporary manuscript presentation inscription to front endpaper, bookplate of Lucius Herbert Ingham, hinges strengthened, all edges gilt, contemporary half morocco gilt, some wear to extremities, large folioQty: (1)NOTESThe atlas was first published in 1848 and this slightly later expanded edition has 5 more maps than the first edition. The atlas is arranged under various physical headings. Geology with 11 maps, Hydrology 6 maps, Meteorology 6 maps, Botany 2 maps, Natural History 6 and Ethnology & Statistics 4.

* Jenkinson (Robert Banks, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, 1770-1828). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1812-27. Autograph letter signed in the third person, first Sunday, no date, circa 1790s, 'Lord Liverpool has determined to add a Preface to the new Edition of his Discourse on Neutral Nations, and as he has nearly finished this Preface, he begs Mr Davis will call on him tomorrow morning', one page, 8vo, tipped onto an old mount at upper margin, together with: Fox (Charles James, 1749-1806). British Whig Statesman. Autograph letter signed, 'C J Fox', St. Anne's Hill, Friday, no date, after 1783, to an unidentified recipient, returning an enclosure [not present] and saying that 'The contents are what I expected. If the Papers exist, Gordon is the only man likely to know where they are and to get at them. If he does get them I must then apply to him' apologising for dining out, one page with integral address leaf pasted to old card mount, a little soiling, 4to, plus further autograph letters from British Politicians and gentry including Sir James Reid (1849-1923), Lady Charlotte Lindsay (Lady in Waiting to Queen Caroline), Lord Morley, Sir Matthew White Ridley, Charles Abbott, 1st Lord Colchester, Benjamin Hobhouse, Evelyn Denison, Fox-Maule Ramsey, 11th Earl of Dalhousie, Lord Brougham, etc., many tipped onto individual old album leavesQty: (20)

Mercator (Gerard) - Ptolemaeus (Claudius). Geographiae libri octo Graeco-Latini, Amsterdam: Cornelis Nicolai (i.e. Claesz) & Jodocus Hondius, 1605, engraved title, engraved half-page portrait of Gerard Mercator, 28 engraved maps by Mercator, all but one double-page, illustrations, Great Britain map with lower corner torn away, occasional small pale marginal water stain, 18th century calf, spine with raised bands, morocco label and gilt decoration, upper cover detached, small wormtrack, edges a little rubbed, folio, 41.5 x 28 cmQty: (1)NOTESKoeman II Me 3 (variant c). The first edition of Ptolemy's Geographia with parallel Latin and Greek text. 'The Ptolemy edition of 1605 is the first work printed in Greek in Amsterdam and a typographic masterpiece.' (Koeman). Gerard Mercator had first engraved the maps for the 1578 edition, adding the single-page map of the Nile delta. Following his death his stock of maps was acquired by Jodocus Hondius in 1604 and together with Cornelis Claesz produced this atlas in 1605.

Fry (Maxwell). Fine Building, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1944, some colour diagrams, monochrome plates after photographs, etc., original cloth, very slightly rubbed, together with: Mumford (Lewis). Programme for Survival, 1st edition, 1946 & City Development, 1st edition, 1946, both original cloth in dust wrappers, rubbed and some marks and fraying to dust wrapper of second volume, 8vo, plus: Contact Books. Points of Contact, First Spring of Peace, & Britain between West and East, 3 volumes, circa 1946, first volume with endpapers designed by John Minton, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, all original boards, first volume in dust wrapper, rubbed and frayed, large 4to, and others on British post-war design and architecture, including Ralph Tubbs, The Englishman Builds, Penguin Books, 1945, E.J. Carter and Erno Goldfinger, The County of London Plan, Penguin Books, 1945, Ian Nairn, Outrage, & Counterattack against Subtopia, 2 volumes, Architectural Press, 1955-56, Contact Books International Series, Numbers 4-10, 12 & 13, 1947-48, several in dust wrappers, with designs by Hans Tisdall, John Farleigh, Lynton Lamb, Herbert Spencer, etc., rubbed and some marks, 4to, and others similar, including The Things We See series, Festival of Britain Guides, Shell Nature Studies series, etc., some in original cloth, with dust wrappers, many in original or pictorial wrappers, mostly slim 4to/8voQty: (approximately 120)

Pozzo (Andrea). Rules and Examples of Perspective proper for Painters and Architects, etc. In English and Latin: Containing a most easie and expeditious method to Delineate in Perspective all Designs relating to Architecture, after a new manner ... by that great master thereof, Andrea Pozzo ... Engraven in 105 ample folio plates, and adorn'd with 200 initial letters to the explanatory discourses: printed from copper-plates ... by John Sturt. Done into English from the original printed at Rome 1693 in Lat. and Ital. by Mr. John James of Greenwich, London: Printed for J. Senex and R. Gosling, W. Innys, J. Osborn and T. Longman , circa 1725, engraved frontispiece & engraved general title (both neatly repaired to blank margins, general title with contemporary signature Geo. Pepys to upper blank margin), with additional engraved title 'Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum' present, 102 engraved plates (including two plates numbered 53, A & B, plus a duplicate of plate 100 bound at rear), engraved ornamental initials to leaves of text, short closed tear to lower blank margin of plate 39, lacking final leaf of index at rear, occasional minor damp stains to lower corners, light toning and spotting, modern professional half calf, marbled sides, folio (39.1 x 25 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESHarris 704; Fowler 252 note. The second English Edition of the most important book on perspective of the late baroque period. It is a translation by John James of the 1693 Roman edition, Part I, but without the folding plate of the ceiling of St. Ignatius Church, which first appeared in the 1702 Roman edition of Part I. The descriptive text, printed on both sides of the leaves is in Latin and English, in italic and roman type respectively. The plates are reversed from those of the Italian edition and pl. LIIIA is the "Figura Ultima" and LIIIB is pl. LIII of the 1702 edition. This edition is ornamented with 200 initials engraved by John Sturt.

Verve.The French Review of Art, Numbers 5-6, July-October 1939, 7, April-July 1940, and 8, September-November 1940, colour lithographs after Braque, Rouault, Bonnard, Matisse and Klee to first volume, colour lithograph after Bonnard to third volume, numerous tipped-in colour plates and monochrome illustrations to each volume, first volume with colour lithograph cover design by Maillol, chipped with some wear to spine, with a little loss, second volume (Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry) with remains of glassine overwrapper, third volume with colour lithograph design to covers by Matisse (torn and frayed with some loss to spine and rear cover), folio, all contained in publisher's original card slipcase, somewhat soiled and worn, together with: Ribbed Vision, A Poem, Robert Vas Dias, Lithographs Jack Bosson, New York, 1963, three uncoloured lithographs by Jack Bosson, each signed and dated, and numbered 97/150, original boards stitched as issued, large slim folio, limited edition 97/150, signed by both poet and artist, plus: Joanne Harris, Rainy Days and Mondays, Pictured by Graham Ovenden, Ruralist Fine Art & Frogspawn, 2006, colour giclee illustrations throughout, original light blue cloth gilt, folio, limited edition 4/55, signed by author and artist, and other artists' illustrated books, including St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Rome, Giovanni and Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega, 1977, with colour frontispiece by Renato Guttuso, top edge gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, original quarter vellum, folio, with card slipcase, limited edition 30/150, Andreas Felger & Martin Gutl, Du bist Abraham, Prasenz-Verlag/Verlag Styria, 1977, with woodcut illustrations by Andreas Felger, original cloth in dust wrapper and plain card slipcase, oblong 4to, limited edition 37/150, signed by the artist and authorQty: (17)

Beveridge (Sir William, Dr. Julian Huxley and Sir John Boyd Orr, editors). Target For Tomorrow, Numbers 1, 3, 8 & 12 (Industry After the War, Who Is Going to Run It? by Charles Madge, Food and The People by Sir John Boyd Orr, The Future of the Colonies by Dr. Julian Huxley and Phyllis Deane, and Remobilisation for Peace by Sir Ronald Davison), 4 volumes, Pilot Press, 1943-1944, monochrome illustrations after photographs, etc., all original boards, with cover design by Abram Ganes to each, dust wrappers a little rubbed and with some fraying to extremities, small loss to lower edge of upper cover of the first volume, slim 4to, together with: Florence (Lella Secor). Only An Ocean Between (America and Britain series, edited by P. Sargant Florence), 1st edition, George G. Harrap, 1943, colour illustrations, monochrome illustrations after photographs, original blue cloth in dust wrapper, with some light spotting, plus the second and third titles from the same series America and Britain: K.B. Smellie, Our Two Democracies at Work, George G. Harrap, 1944 & Lella Secor Florence, Our Private Lives, George G. Harrap, 1944, colour and monochrome illustrations to each, both original cloth in dust wrappers (the first with dust wrapper designed by Jon Heartfield), slightly frayed to extremities, large 8vo, and other World War Two-related propaganda booklets and publications, including His Majesty's Stationery Office, Bomber Command, The Campaign in Burma, Ark Royal, Frontline 1940-1941, Build The Ships, Land at War, Merchant Men at War, Fleet Air Arm, The Eighth Army, The Mediterranean Fleet, etc., Stephen Taylor, Battle for Health, a primer of social medicine (The New Democracy), 1st edition, Nicholson & Watson, 1944, Michael Young & Theodor Prager, There's Work for All (The New Democracy), 1st edition, Nicholson & Watson, 1945, both in dust wrappers, Maurice Lovell, Landsmen and Seafarers (The Soviets and Ourselves series), George G. Harrap, 1945, Spirit of the Soviet Union, Anti-Nazi Cartoons & Posters, foreword Lord Beaverbrook, 1st edition, Pilot Press, 1942, Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs series, etc., original cloth, including some in dust wrappers, and many bound in original printed wrappers, stapled as issued, mainly 8voQty: (approximately 150)

Wiseman (Richard). Eight Chirurgical Treatises..., 2 volumes, 5th edition, 1719, some spotting, old ink inscription to half title of volume 1 and title of volume 2, small ink library stamps to title versos, blindstamp to title and first text leaf of volume 2 and upper outer corner of title repaired just affecting rule, volume 2 lacks half title, modern half calf, 8vo, together with: Mauriceau (Francis). The Diseases of Women with Child, and in Child-bed..., translated by Hugh Chamberlen, 8th edition, 1752, 6 engraved plates (4 folding), one with long closed tear repair to verso, contemporary name inscription to title, some marginal browning at front and rear from turn-ins, modern half calf over marbled boards, 8vo, and: Musschenbroek (Petrus van). Cours de Physique Experimental et Mathematique, traduit par M. Sigaud de la Fond, volumes 1-2 (of 3), Paris: Briasson, 1769, 42 numbered folding engraved plates (one numbered 11bis), large folding table to volume 2, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines, rubbed, slightly cracked on joints, 4to, plus: Squire (Jane). A Proposal to Determine our Longitude, 2nd edition, printed for the author, 1743, half-title, several small red ink library stamps at front and rear, some browning, contemporary calf, with inset armorial emblem to both covers, calf reback, 8vo, and Whiston (William). The Elements of Euclid; with select theorums out of Archimedes, by the learned Andrew Tacquet, 3rd edition, 1727, portrait frontispiece, engraved portrait frontispiece and 5 folding plates, contemporary ink inscription to title, armorial bookplate, contemporary calf gilt, rubbed, 8vo, plus other mostly antiquarian medical interest, including periodicals, many leather bound, some wear, 8vo and some largerQty: (3 shelves)

Badeslade (Thomas & William Henry Toms). Chorographia Britanniae. Or a set of Maps of all the Counties in England and Wales, London, 1742, engraved title with left-hand margin skilfully extended, dedication, 4 general maps, 5 tables and 42 uncoloured engraved county maps, the contents shows evidence of cleaning and re-guarding, small repaired tear at head of dedication, a few minor spots, later endpapers, recent calf, spine with green morocco gilt label, 8voQty: (1)NOTESChubb CLXX; ESTC T165385.. The title page corresponds with Chubb's first edition, however, there are four known states of this edition. The second issue of this edition replaces the numbers '8' & '9' on the maps of Cambridge and Chesire, which had been omitted from the first state, and the fourth state has the addition of 'Price bound 6s' at the base of the title (the third state has an erroneous 'Price bound 5s'). This appears to be one of only three known copies of the fourth state.

Nall (G. Herbert). The Life of the Sea Trout especially in Scottish Waters, 1st edition, Seeley, Service & Co., 1930, monochrome plates after photographs, original green cloth gilt, slightly marked, together with: Coston (H.E. Towner, F.T.K. Pentelow, & R.W. Butcher). River Management, The Making, Care & Development of Salmon & Trout Rivers, Seeley, Service & Co., circa 1935, monochrome illustrations, including many after photographs, original brown cloth gilt in dust wrapper, very slightly frayed, plus: Walton (Izaak). The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man's Recreation, 1653, facsimile edition, A. & C. Black, 1928, publisher's plain full brown sheep (imitating the original first edition), with torn and frayed dust wrapper and card slipcase, small 8vo, and other angling interest, similar, all 20th century publications, including Jock Scott, Fine and Far Off, Salmon Fishing Methods in Practice, Seeley, Service & Co., circa 1930, Eric Taverner, Salmon Fishing (Lonsdale Library, Volume X), Seeley, Service & Co., circa 1930, Hugh Falkus, Sea Trout Fishing, 2nd edition, reprinted, 1978, & Salmon Fishing, A Practical Guide, 1st edition, 1984, etc., all original cloth, many in dust wrappers, some marks and occasional soiling, 8vo (approximately 100 volumes)Qty: (3)

* Killigrew (Sir Thomas, 1618-1682, subject). [Portrait of Sir Thomas Killigrew as a pilgrim], c.1680, mezzotint on laid paper, unsigned, engraved quotation in lower margin 'You see my Face, and if you'd know my Minde/Tis this: I hate my self, and all Mankinde', mounted, framed and glazed (not examined out of frame), visible area 34.5 x 24.5 cmQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Malcolm Rogers CBE FSA (1948-), British art historian and director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1994 to 2015. O'Donoghue, Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits: Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, II p.695 no. 8 (unattributed; a proof, without the distich in the the lower margin). Killigrew was a dramatist, theatre director, page of honour to Charles I, and groom of the bedchamber to Charles II. The catalogue of the Pepys Library in Cambridge, however, identifies the sitter as Abraham Simon (1617-1692), medallist. In the first edition of the Dictionary of National Biography (1892) the portrait is attributed to William Faithorne (vol. 31, p. 144).

Blunt (Wilfrid & William T. Stearn, editors). Captain Cook's Florilegium. A Selection of Engravings from the Drawings of Plants Collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on Captain Cook's First Voyage to the Islands of the Pacific, Lion and Unicorn Press, 1973, 30 engraved plates, text printed in purple, green, blue, red, brown and black, Proof copy, title detached (with clear tape residue to verso and following blank leaf, loose subscriber's list, pencil annotations and scoring-through at front, light offsetting from clear tape marks to frontispiece plate, contents restitched original black morocco-backed silk over boards, joints splitting at head, some wear to silk and edges, folio (602 x 46.5 cm), together with 32 loose plates (including 2 extra?) from the same series, with loose text, subscriber's lists and order form for selected extra plates (available to buy as individual plates in an edition of 30)Qty: (2)NOTESProof copy of previously unpublished plates by the Royal College of Art and printed from the original copper plates, prepared by Joseph Banks on his return to England from Captain Cook's first voyage, the plates published here for the first time for this publication, which took thirteen years to complete. There was an edition of 100 copies for subscribers, with the 30 plates, plus a further edition of 10 which contained 42 plates. Sold as a collection of plates.

Seebohm (Henry). A History of British Birds, with Coloured Illustrations of their Eggs, 4 volumes, London: for the author by R. H. Porter, 1883-5-[96], 68 chromolithographic plates (with imprint of Lemercier, Paris), light spotting to binder's blanks, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, early-20th-century green crushed half morocco gilt by Riviere & Son for Henry Sotheran, spines sunned, large 8vo (25.2 x 15.2 cm)Qty: (4)NOTESFreeman 3343; Mullens & Swann pp. 517-18; Nissen IVB 851; Zimmer p. 568 note. The plates are from the second edition of 1896, published by John C. Nimmo; the text, or at least the title-pages, are from the first edition of 1883-5, with the exception of the appendix at the rear of volume four, 'Classification of Birds', first printed in 1895 as a separate publication, and re-issued with the 1896 edition of A History of British Birds.

* [Chardin, Jean, 1643-1713]. Tauris (i.e. Tabriz, Iran), from Voyages en Perse et autres Indes de l'Orient, 1711, hand-coloured engraved panorama, repairs to verso, old folds, sheet size 31 x 76.5 cm, mounted, together with [Le Brun, Cornelius, 1652-1726]. Alexandria, plate 97 from Voyage au Levant... circa 1714, hand-coloured engraved panorama, light spotting to margins, folds, sheet size 41 x 74 cm, mountedQty: (2)NOTESVoyages au Levant... by Le Brun (Bruyn) was first published in Dutch in 1698, in French in 1700 and English in 1702, with a second French edition of 1714.

Sarzosa (Francisco). In Aequatorem Planetarum libri duo, Paris, Simon de Colines, 18 November 1526, 39 (of 41) folios, lacking folios 25 and 30 (e1 and e6), 14 large astronomical woodcut illustrations, two lacking outer folding extension flap, additional woodcut diagrams to margins, numerous large criblé woodcut initials (most from the Colines set attributed to Geoffroy Tory), letterpress tables, title within figurated criblé border (attributed to Oronce Finé), some minor marks and marginal waterstains, a little spotting, final leaf with errata and colophon torn with loss to lower outer corner (not affecting text), disbound without covers (remains of leather spine still present), folio (295 x 210 mm, 11.6 x 8.25 ins)Qty: (1)NOTESBL/STC French Books, page 395; Houzeau and Lancaster 4782; Mortimer, Harvard French Books, 482; Palau 302699. First edition of this attractive example of French Renaissance book production. The only publication of the Aragonese Francisco Sarzosa, a renowned mathematician and astronomer, whose calculations were used by Tycho Brahe.

Appian of Alexandria. Romanarum historiarum, Basel: Froben, 1554, bound with: Rhenanus (Beatus). Rerum Germanicarum libri tres, ab ipso autore diligenter revisi et emendati, addito memorabilium rerum indice accuratissimo, Basel: Froben, 1551, 2 works in 1 volume, both works printed in roman types, with Froben's woodcut device to the title-page, and woodcut initials throughout, Appian retaining medial blank T8 and final leaf Z4 (blank except for Froben's woodcut device verso), Rhenanus also retaining final leaf r8 (blank except for Froben's device), small worm-track to lower margin of Appian initial quires alpha-e, another worm-track in text commencing in Appian quire Q and continuing throughout Rhenanus but legibility hardly affected, occasional marginal damp-staining, contemporary ownership inscription 'Nicode[mus] ... à Paumbergk' dated 1555 to title-page, frequent inked marginalia in the same hand, front free endpaper excised, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, rebacked in the 19th century, covers possibly refurbished at the same date (remaining heavily rubbed and dust-soiled), metal clasps and catches extant, folioQty: (1)NOTESAdams A1347 & R439; VD16 A 3164 (Appian). Second edition of Rerum Germanicarum, first published in 1531.

Eustathius of Thessalonica. [Title in Greek]. In Homeri Iliadis et Odysseae libros parekbolai, indice adjuncto perutili et copioso, 2 volumes in 3, Basel: Froben, 1559-60, in Greek, volume 1 (Iliad) bound in 2, woodcut headpieces and initials, extra-illustrated with approximately 48 engraved plates from Ogilby's Homer (2 volumes, London, 1660-5), volume 2 (Odyssey) bound without index (signatures 2omega and 3alpha-3kappa) and with light damp-staining and concomitant softening to top margins (slight related loss to head of title-page), occasional marginal annotations in brown ink by an English hand, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, early-18th-century English diced russia, wear to extremities, Iliad volume 1 covers detached, folio in 6s (32.2 x 21.5 cm)Qty: (3)NOTESAdams E1108; VD16 H 4595. Second edition, first published at Rome in 1542-50.

Sansovino (Francesco). Historia di casa Orsina [-De gli huomini illustri della casa Orsina], 2 parts in 1 volume, Venice: Bernardino & Filippo Stagnini, 1565, signatures *4 A10 [superscript 2]A-B4 C6 D-Z4 2A-2L4, A-O4 P6 Q-X4 Y6, part 1 retaining blank A10, engraved Orsini arms to each title-page, family trees in text of part 1 quires C-D, part 2 with 11 full-page engraved portraits within ornamental borders, 6 other pages with ornamental borders but with portraits replaced by printed text (as issued; not 7 as in Mortimer), sporadic light spotting, a few text-leaves browned, leaves C3 and D1 closely trimmed with family trees shaved, portraits offset, light damp-staining to lower outer corners of part 2 signatures S-T and X, a few other marks, bookplate ('Marquis of Stafford'), gilt edges, 19th-century Italian vellum gilt, arms of the Duke of Sutherland gilt to front board, folio (29 x 20 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: 1) From the library of the Dukes of Sutherland, with bookplate (containing style 'Marquis of Stafford') and armorial binding. George Granville Leveson-Gower (1756-1833) was created first Duke of Sutherland in 1833, shortly before his death; he had previously been known as the Marquess of Stafford, the designation subsequently used as a courtesy title by the Duke's heir apparent. 2) Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Adams S355 & S347; Mortimer Italian 460. Second edition, greatly expanded from the first of the previous year.

Bible [English]. The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages. With most profitable Annotations upon all the hard places ... Whereunto is added the Psalter of the common translation agreeing with the booke of Common Prayer, Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker, [1578], initial leaf 'of the incomparable treasure' not present (tipped-in replacement leaf provided from a later Bible, cut down and torn & frayed to margins), general title within decorative woodcut border (with overlaid imprint slip, date in manuscript & paper slip overlaying manuscript note to lower blank margin), New Testament title within decorative woodcut border and with dated imprint, double-column black letter text, few woodcut decorative initials and illustrations, printer's woodcut device at end of Old Testament Prophets & 2T6 after final leaf of New Testament, Apocrypha present, Old Testament leaves C5 & D5 with small rust hole affecting single letter of text, lower inner blank margins of 3F3 & 3F4 torn away (not affecting text), 3P2 torn to lower outer corner with slight text loss and repaired, some light damp staining (mostly at head), few discreet repairs mostly to lower blank margins, occasional marks including few old small ink marks and marginalia, final leaf of tables at rear of volume repaired to lower outer blank corner, occasional light dust-soiling and few marks mostly to first & last few leaves, minor marginal damp stains mostly to initial leaves, front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773–1843, 6th son of George III), cloth hinges to endpapers, 18th century blind panelled calf, old reback, joints slightly cracked, board edges worn and showing, folio (370 x 240mm)Qty: (1)NOTESHerbert 154; Darlow & Moule 115; STC 2123. Geneva version. The first large folio edition. In this edition the Geneva and the Prayer Book versions of the Psalter appear side by side, the former in roman type and the latter in black-letter. This is the earliest Bible which contains the introductory verses, afterwards occurring so often: Here is the spring where waters flowe, to quenche our heate of sinne: Here is the tree where trueth doth grow, to leade our lives therein: etc, and the accompanying prayer. The Prayer Book included in the preliminary matter exhibits many peculiarities; the word Minister is substituted throughout for Priest, and some of the Offices are omitted. The title-border contains: above - the royal arms supported by two female figures, one carrying a sword and scales, the other a book and a sprig of heartsease; and below - a lion and a dragon on either side of a tablet containing the words Imprinted ... Maiestatis (these words are on a slip pasted over the original imprint, which omits the words Printer to the Queenes Maiestie and Regiae Maiestatis); the initials C B appear in the lower corners of the central space, and also at the base of the cut. The same border is used for the NT title; but the tablet in this case contains Prov. xxx. 5, 6. Fry states in a MS. note that the Prayer Book is generally missing from copies of this edition, as collectors of editions of the Book of the Book of Common Prayer are eager to acquire this peculiar variety, and often cut the leaves out of the Bible. (Herbert/ Darlow & Moule). Augustus Frederick (1773-1843) was the 9th child (& 6th son) of King George III and Queen Charlotte. He was tutored at home and then, in 1786, sent to the University of Göttingen in Germany. In 1793, while travelling in Italy, he met and married Lady Augusta Murray, daughter of the Earl of Dunmore. On their return to England, they again married in secret, without the consent of the King. Since this was illegal under the Royal Marriages Act of 1772, the marriage was annulled by the Prerogative Court in 1794, though Augustus Frederick continued to live with Lady Augusta until 1801 and they had two children. In November 1801, he was created Duke of Sussex. In 1831, he married a second time, again without the consent of the King. This marriage was to Lady Cecilia Buggin, daughter of the Earl of Arran. Augustus Frederick suffered from asthma, and therefore did not follow his brothers in pursuing a military or naval career but showed enthusiasm for learning and the arts, with a particular interest in biblical studies and Hebrew. He was elected president of the Society of Arts in 1816 and held this position till his death in 1843. Between 1830 and 1838, he was also president of the Royal Society. He assembled an outstanding library at Kensington Palace, containing around 50,000 books and manuscripts. All were individually selected to reflect the Prince’s interests, with over a quarter related to theology. After his death, the library was sold at auction by Messrs. Evans in 1844.

Bible [English]. [The Bible: that is, the Holy Scriptures, contained in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages. With most profitable annotations upon all the hard places, and other things of great importance, Imprinted at London by the deputies of Christopher Barker, 1595], without general title and two other leaves lacking, New Testament title within decorative woodcut border present (upper blank margin with ownership signature of Henry Christopher Barker 1846, manuscript to verso, small repair to fore-margin), Apocrypha present, double column black letter text, full-page woodcut illustration of Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden (cropped at head, repaired to fore-margin and lower margin), few woodcut initials and illustrations, first leaf of Genesis torn & frayed at fore-edge (repaired to fore-margin and lower margin), early manuscript to final leaf of Prophets, single worm hole to lower blank margins, bound with at front The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments: and other Rites and ceremonies of the Church of England, with the Psalter or Psalmes of David, [Cambridge]: Printed by Thomas and John Buck, Printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1629, woodcut device to title and ownership signature of H. C. Barker, double-column roman text with few woodcut decorative initials, few ink stains to upper & fore-edge margins, bound with at rear The Whole Booke of Psalmes. Collected into English meter by Thomas Sternh. John Hopkins and others: conferred with the Hebrue, with apt Notes to sing them with all, London: Printed by John Windet, for the Assignes of Richard Day, 1592, title within decorative border, occasional light marginal damp stains, last two leaves strengthened to gutter margins and final leaf repaired to lower outer blank corner, some dust-soiling and occasional toning throughout, front free endpaper with ownership inscriptions including Austin Maud his book 1788, & Austin Maud, Gainsbrough, Lincolnshire, March 13th 1790 and ink name stamp 'I. Wainwright' (leaf creased), upper pastedown with similar ownership and 20th century label of library of M.S. Carothers, without rear free endpaper, lower pastedown with similar manuscript ownership (red sealing wax to outer edges of upper & lower pastedowns), late 18th century half reversed calf, rubbed and worn, later morocco title label to spine, small folio in 6s (28 x 18.5 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESHerbert 225; Darlow & Moule 173; ESTC S675; STC 2165. Geneva version with Tomson's New Testament. A close reprint of the 1591 edition (STC 2157).

* Ariosto (Ludovico). A collection of 44 copper engraved illustrations from Sir John Harington's translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, second edition [imprinted at London by Richard Field, for John Norton and Simon Waterson, 1607], 44 copper engraved plates only (from the total of 46) by Thomas Cockson, each with printed text to verso, washed, some variation in strength of printing, margins close-trimmed, loose (unbound), small folio, sheet size 213 x 157 mm (8.8 x 6.25 ins)Qty: (44)NOTESSTC 747. The illustrations for Harington’s Orlando Furioso by Thomas Cockson (first published in 1591) are derived from those engraved by Girolamo Porro (1520-1604) in the 1584 Venice edition by Franceschi. Porro himself largely worked from woodcuts published in the earlier Valgrisi edition of 1566.

Rader (Matthäus). Ad M. Valerii Martialis Epigrammaton libros omnes, plenis commentariis, novo studio confectis, explicatos, emendatos, illustratos ... curae secundae, Ingolstadt: Adam Sartorius, 1611, signatures A-R6 S4 T-Z6 a-z6 Aa-Zz6 aa-vv6 xx8, [30] 1077 [=987] 31 pp., title-page in red and black with large woodcut vignette, Martial's text in italic types, Rader's paratext in roman, folding woodcut plate, woodcut initials and tailpieces, type-ornament head- and tailpieces, title-page slightly soiled, marginal hole to final leaf, otherwise in very good condition, later 17th-century mottled calf, gilt spine, red morocco label possibly later, rubbed overall, joints cracked at ends (but firm), corners showing through, folio (33.2 x 20.7 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Anthony Grey, 11th Earl of Kent (1645-1702), with his bookplate (dated 1702) to front pastedown. 2) Thomas Philip de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey (1781-1859), with his Wrest Park bookplate. 3) Malcolm Rogers CBE FSA (1948-), British art historian and director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1994 to 2015. VD17 23:297813U. Second edition of Rader's influential commentary on Martial, first published in 1602.

Kilian (Ludwig & Wolfgang). Contrafehe der Herzn Fugger und Frawen Fuggerin wöllche in disem geschlect geporen worder oder zue demselben sich ehelich verpflichtet haben, Augsburg: Sara Mang, 1620 [verso of title dated 1619], [1] 1-127 [3] [1] leaves, including engraved title-page, large engraved arms of the house of Fugger, and an engraved portrait to recto of each leaf apart from the last (containing letterpress register only), lacking 8 leaves (3, 31, 32, 39, 44, 97, 102, 118) but extra-illustrated with 4 contemporary engraved portraits from other works (one bound in place of leaf 3, the other three each trimmed, mounted on separate sheet and bound at rear), toning, variable damp-staining to leaves 12-20, marginal spotting and other marks, leaves 35, 37-8 and 119 shorter in fore margins (possibly from a smaller copy), leaf 68 more strongly damp-stained, leaf 69 with extensive closed tear into image, leaf 108 trimmed and mounted on stub (with loss of headline and foliation of text verso), a few portraits with contemporary manuscript captions in brown ink added, bound with: Kilian (Lucas). Contrafäct dern aus Röm. Kaij. Maij. Caroli. V. allergnedigster Verordnung deß Heij. Reichß Statt Augspurg, von Anno 1548, bißhero fürgesezten Herren Pflegeren, [Augsburg: no printer], 1624, [3] 14 leaves, signatures A-H2 [I1], engraved title to A1 recto, 14 engraved portraits, extra-illustrated with engraved folding plate showing the arms of Augsburg noblemen (signed Joann Georg Manasser ... 1632), leaves 10-14 toned and spotted, 2 works in 1 volume, manuscript indices to front free endpaper and rear pastedown, contemporary reversed calf gilt, worming to spine, wear to foot of spine and to lower fore corners of boards, a few marks, folio (28.9 x 18.6 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Jean-Pierre-Marie du Ruolz (c.1670-1725; armorial binding). 2) Hans Fürstenberg (1890-1982), Franco-German banker and collector (bookplate). 3) Sotheby's, Printed Books and Maps, 17 February and 3-4 March 1993 (purchased by Whitby). 4) Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Kress S480 (first work only); VD17 12:648635H & 23:690281V. First edition in German of the first work, and the third overall, greatly expanded and containing over 100 fine portraits of male and female members of the great Fugger banking family. The first iteration is considered to be a suite of 68 engravings by Dominicus Custos which appeared in 1593, and which appears to be rare and may not have been published in book form. Lucas and Wolfgang Kilian, Custos's sons-in-law, re-engraved and supplemented the original plates and issued them first in 1618 with Latin text and the title Fuggerorum et Fuggerarum quae in familia natae quaeve in familiam transierunt (see Lipperheide, 1965, Da8), then with German text as here.

Eadmer of Canterbury. Historiae novorum sive sui saeculi libri VI ... in lucem ex Bibliotheca Cottoniana emissit Joannes Seldenus et notas porro adjecit et Spicilegium, London: typis et impensis Gulielmi Stanesbeii, ex officinis Richardi Meighen et Thomae Dew, 1623, title-page in red and black, woodcut headpieces, initials and other illustrations, occasional Anglo-Saxon, Hebrew and Arabic types, lacking initial and final blanks (+1 and 2F2), light browning, occasional light spotting, annotations in ink and pencil to title-page and margins, front free endpaper detached, edges dyed red, contemporary tan calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, gilt arms of Jean-Pierre de Montchal to sides, rubbed and scuffed overall, wear to extremities, folio (33.1 x 21.4 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Jean-Pierre de Montchal, seigneur de la Grange (d. 1653; armorial binding; see Chairman, French Book-Plates, 2020, p. 50). 2) John Sherren Brewer (1810-1879), clergyman and scholar (ownership inscription 'John Brewer, Q. Coll. Oxford' to front pastedown). 3) Augustus Jessop (1823-1914), clergyman and scholar (ownership inscription 'A. Jessop D.D.' to title-page). 4) N. H. MacMichael, keeper of the muniments at Westminster Abbey (ownership inscription 'N. H. MacMichael, 25th January 1978, 2B, Little Cloister, Westminster Abbey' to front free endpaper). 5) Malcolm Rogers CBE FSA (1948-), British art historian and director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1994 to 2015 (acquired from Unsworths Booksellers). ESTC S121437; STC 7438. First edition. There was a variant with the names of Richard Meighen and Thomas Dew omitted from the title-page.

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly translated out of the originall Tongues, and with ye former translations diligently compared and revised, by his Majesties speciall command. Appointed to be read in Churches, Cambridge: printed by Tho. Buck, and Roger Daniel. Printers to the University, 1638, engraved general title and five other preliminary leaves (without blanks? repaired closed tear to fore-margin of title and following leaf), letterpress New Testament title with imprint dated 1638, Apocrypha present, double-column roman text with few decoratives initials, Old Testament leaf 2Q5 repaired to blank fore-margin and short tear to 3V6 (not affecting text), New Testament leaf E1 with lower outer blank corner torn away, bound with The Whole Book of Psalmes, Collected into English metre, by Th. Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, conferred with the Hebrew, with apt notes to sing them withall..., Cambridge: printed by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, printers to the Universitie, 1638, ornamental border and woodcut device to title, red ruled borders to all titles and text throughout volume, front blank flyleaf inscribed 'Judith Twisleton Book Octor. 30th 1762', later green marbled endpapers, contemporary black morocco, elaborate gilt decorated spine, gilt panelled and richly decorated boards (possibly by Samuel Mearne or Le Gason?), without ties, few scuff marks to binding and slight wear to extremities, folio (417 x 280mm)Qty: (1)NOTESHerbert 520; Darlow & Moule 403; STC 2331. 'The authentique corrected Cambridge Bible, revised Mandato Regio, by the learned Doctor Ward, Doctor Goad of Hadley, Mr. Boyse, Mr. Mead, &c., and printed by the elaborate industry of Thomas Buck Esquire and Mr. Roger Daniel in folio in 1638.' (William Kilburne's tract Dangerous Errors in Several late printed Bibles ..., 1659, reprinted in the Introduction to Loftie's A Century of Bibles, 1872, p.35.) In this edition, thus favourably noticed by Kilburne, the work of correction begun in the folio Cambridge Bible of 1629 was carried further. The revisers took special pains to render uniform the use of italics; and they also introduced a certain number of new readings: e.g. Matt. xii. 23, Is not this the sonne of David? (for Is this ...), and 1 John v. 12 ... hath not the Sonne of God (of God added). Here first occurs the famous reading in Acts vi. 3, ... whom ye may appoint (for ... whom we ... ). This alteration has often been ascribed to the Puritans, and was reputed to have cost Cromwell a bribe of £1000; yet here it is found as early as 1638, in a Bible prepared under the royal sanction. This remained the standard text until the publication of Dr. Paris' Cambridge edition of 1762. (Herbert/ Darlow & Moule)

[English Civil War & Protectorate]. Group of pamphlets, 1642-60, comprising: 1. The Humble Petition of Both Houses of Parliament: presented to His Majesty on the 24th of November. With His Majesty's Gracious Answer thereunto. Also, a Proclamation for the better Government of His Majesty's Army, Oxford [i.e. London]: Leonard Lichfield, 1642, 8 pp., type-ornaments, 2 woodcut factotums, later wrappers, 4to (18.2 x 13 cm), 2. The Speech of the Right Honourable the Lord Fiennes, Commissioner of the Great Seal; made before His Highness and Both houses of Parliament, on Wednesday the 20th of January, 1657. Being the first day of their Sitting, 1st edition, London: Henry Hills and John Field, 1657, [2] 26 pp., edges untrimmed, modern boards, 4to (19 x 14.5 cm), 3. A Faithful Remembrance and Advice to the General Council of Officers of the Armies of England, Scotland and Ireland, from Divers in Cornwal and Devon, in Behalf of themselves and sundry hundreds, cordial friends to the blessed Cause of Rightehousness which God hath stated and pleaded with a stretched out Arm, in these (and in the fight of all the) Nations, 1st edition, London: L. Chapman, 1659, [2] 5 [1] pp., paper flaw affecting one letter in title, disbound, 4to (17.5 x 13.7 cm), 4. A Letter of General George Monck's, Dated at Leicester 23 Jan. and directed unto Mr. Rolle to be communicated unto the rest of the Gentry of Devon, London: John Redmayn, 1660, 7 [1] pp., small marginal hole in title, disbound, spine strengthened with clear tape, 4to (19.5 x 14.8 cm), 5. A Letter to General Monck, in Answer to His of the 23th of January, directed to Mr. Rolle, to be communicated to the Gentlemen of the County of Devon. By one of the Excluded Members of Parliament, 1st edition, London: for R. Lowndes, 1659 [i.e. 1660], 8 pp., pp. 5/6 upper fore corner torn away and reattached with clear tape, disbound, 4to (18.1 x 13.8 cm)Qty: (5)NOTESESTC R3653 ('Counterfeit London reprint'), ESTC R202081, R207766 (seven UK copies), R208113, R202935; Wing E1571, F881, F282, A861, M2809.

A collection of Harry Potter bound volumes to include a first edition (later printings) 'Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone', first edition Bloomsbury third printing hardback, first edition Bloomsbury paperback, first edition Ted Smart, together with 'The Chamber of Secrets', 'The Order of the Phoenix', 'The Goblet of Fire', 'The Prisoner of Azkaban' and 'The Half Blood Prince', with signature possibly of J K Rowling (8)

Alfred Lord Tennyson: Guinevere, and other poems, illustrated by Florence Harrison, gilt tooled cloth, first edition, published by Blackie and Son Limited, London 1912.

Hardback first edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Excellent condition with original dust jacket in perfect condition.

WELSH ARTIST BOOKS to include seven by Kyffin Williams, titles include The Light and The Dark, Portraits, The Land and The Sea Third Impression, A Wider Sky (2), Second and Fifth Impressions, Boyo and Ballads First Edition and Across the Straits First Edition, none signed

A Bound Volume "Hark to Hounds", by F A Stewart, First Edition Published by Collins 1937 with Dust Cover Although This Somewhat Distressed

A Collection of Vintage and Modern Published Books to Include The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Heidi Grows Up, 1982 First Edition of White Mischief by James Fox, The Best of Biggles, 1953 The Reprint Society Publishing of The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monserrat, 1973 Edition of Captain Hornblower by CS Forester, Death Comes to Pemberley, Love Letter of Great Men and The Great Gatsby

Steiff Panda, Bamboo, 26 cm, limited edition 371/1500 pieces. P&P Group 1 (£14+VAT for the first lot and £1+VAT for subsequent lots) Condition Report: Excellent condition with tags, certificate etc, boxed.

A group of collectables. Three Britain's first decimal coin sets, Corgi Classics Bedford coach limited edition (boxed), Corgi 1952 Jaguar (boxed), Poole dish examples etc

Production Martinelli, mod. Bat, designed by Gae Aulenti, table lamp, first edition. Structure in chromed metal and lacquered white, diffuser in white Perspex. Mark the base. H 90 cm, diam max 55.Segni of Use

A silver limited edition Man's First Moon Landing commemorative medal 624/2500, Birmingham 1969, 71 gms, case, certificate.

After E.D.Walker, signed first edition print HMS Britannia entering Maryport Harbour, limited edition No. 115 of 500, mounted framed and glazed, 43 cm x 62 cm

Fleming, Ian, 'The Man with the Golden Gun', London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1965, first impression first edition

Fleming, Ian, 'For Your Eyes Only', London: Jonathan Cape, 1960, first edition first impression

Fleming, Ian, 'Dr No', London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1958 first edition second impression

Fleming, Ian, 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service', London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1963 First Edition second impression

Fleming, Ian, 'The Man with the Golden Gun', New York: The New American Library of World Literature, 1965 first edition first impression

'Famous Composers and Their Works', vols I & II, edited by John Knowles Paine, Theodore Thomas and Karl Klauser, published by J.B Millet, Boston 1891; together with Mauclair, Camille, 'The Great French Painters', London: Duckworth & Co. 1903; Laver, James, 'French Painting & The Nineteenth Century, London: B.T Batsford Ltd, 1937 first edition

John William Godward, RBA (British, 1861-1922)After the serenade oil on panel41 x 12.5cm (16 1/8 x 4 15/16in).Footnotes:LiteratureVern Swanson, JW Godward: The Eclipse of Classicism, revised edition, Woodbridge, 2018, p. 24, illustrated p. 256.The present lot has recently been identified by Dr Vern Swanson as a very early Godward, painted in 1886, the very first year that the artist took up Neo-classicism. Swanson notes that Godward's few pictures of that year- see also Flower Girl, illustrated in Swanson, p. 24- pull together elements from such masters as Alma-Tadema, Albert Moore and Edward John Poynter. These early works, Swanson notes, were 'the launching pad for his career'.11Vern Swanson, JW Godward: The Eclipse of Classicism, revised edition, Woodbridge, 2018, p. 24.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

KOESTLER (ARTHUR)Von weissen Nächten und roten Tagen: 12 Reportagen aus den Sowjet-Peripherien, FIRST EDITION, 9 plates (2 folding), publisher's wrappers lettered in green and red, dust-jacket, yapp edges slightly bumped, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo, Kharkiv, Ukraine, Staatsverlag d. nat. Minderheiten der USSR, 1934Footnotes:First and only edition of Koestler's first published book 'From White Nights and Red Days'. Koestler was embedded as a journalist in the 1931 Zeppelin Arctic expedition. He then travelled around Russia and what was then Soviet Central Asia. Von weissen Nächten und roten Tagen was intended for global publication by the Comintern, and several of the illustrations (after photographs) are propagandist in nature: 'Collective farmers go to their field work in an organized manner', shortly before the Soviet famine of 1932-3. Koesler would recall, however, that 'in spite of my numerous contracts... only one edition of Red Days did, in fact, appear. This was the Kharkov edition in German, intended for the German-speaking national minorities in the Ukraine. It is a thin, paperbound volume, so thoroughly expurgated that less than half of the original manuscript was allowed to stand' (his autobiography The Invisible Writing, 1954, pp.149, 153).Rare: WorldCat appears to locate only four copies (Edinburgh, BL, Frankfurt and Leipzig).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

CRICKETWISDEN (JOHN) Cricketers' Almanack for 1879. A Record of the Full Scores and Bowling Summaries of the Principal Matches Played in 1878, FIRST EDITION, publisher's printed yellow wrappers, slight loss to spine, 8vo, John Wisden & Co., [1879]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

CRICKETWISDEN (JOHN) Cricketers' Almanack for 1880. A Record of the Full Scores and Bowling Summaries of the Principal Matches Played in 1879, FIRST EDITION, publisher's buff wrappers, some fraying to spine (with small ink date added), 8vo, John Wisden & Co., [1880]Footnotes:Provenance: A.C. Simpson, 11 Brooklyn Street, early pencil inscription at head of first page of advertisements.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

CRICKETWISDEN (JOHN) Cricketers' Almanack for 1883. A Record of the Full Scores and Bowling Summaries of the Principal Matches Played in 1882, FIRST EDITION, publisher's brick wrappers, light soiling, spine frayed with small losses, 8vo, John Wisden & Co., [1883]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

ACHEBE (CHINUA)Things Fall Apart, FIRST EDITION, publisher's red cloth (spine slightly faded, slight shelf lean), pictorial dust-jacket designed by C.W. Bacon, uncut with price '15s. Net', Heinemann, 1958; Anthills of the Savannah, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, 'For Gilbert [Phelps] who started me off with thanks, Chinua, March 4, [19]89' on the title-page, publisher's wrappers (age toned, small loss to upper cover just touching 'T' of first word of title, small loss to spine ends and a few other small nicks, lower cover browned with a few abrasions to blank areas, thread of loss along lower fold), Heinemann, [1988], 8vo (2)Footnotes:First edition of the Nigerian author's first novel, together with another of his books inscribed to Gilbert Phelps 'who started me off'.Provenance: Gilbert Phelps (1925-1993). Phelps, a published novelist and broadcaster, was head of the Staff Training Department at the BBC in London, when Achebe, working for the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation arrived in 1957. He told Phelps 'that he too wanted to be a novelist and produced an immense manuscript in a suitcase. Gilbert read it and told him he had not one novel, but six. Achebe duly carved shorter novels from it, the first being Things Fall Apart. The rest of his great trilogy followed - all from the material in the suitcase' (Obituary, Independent, 30 June 1993).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ASHENDENE PRESSCERVANTES SAAVEDRA (MIGUEL DE) The First [-Second] Part of the History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha. Translated out of Spanish by Thomas Shelton, 2 vol., LIMITED TO 225 COPIES on handmade Batchelor paper, from an overall edition of 245, printed in red and black, decorative initials and borders designed by Louise Powell and cut on wood by W.M. Quick & Geo. H. Ford, original pigskin, gilt lettered in compartments on spine [Hornby 36], folio (430 x 305mm.), Shelley House, Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1927-1928Footnotes:The first Ashendene to be printed in Hornby's new Ptolemy type which was adapted from the type used for an edition of Ptolemaeus's Geographia printed at Ulm in 1482.Provenance: Property of an Australian estate.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

AUDEN (WYSTAN HUGH)Autograph manuscript of his poem 'The Wanderer', headed with the Roman numeral 'I', comprising 29 lines in three stanzas of thirteen, seven and nine lines respectively, beginning 'Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle:/ Upon what man it fall/ In Spring, day-wishing flowers appearing...', and ending '...Lucky with day approaching, with leaning dawn.', one page, on feint-lined paper, creased at folds, dust-staining, slightly browned at edges with light damp stain on left side not affecting text, verso foxed, folio (330 x 205mm.), [1930]Footnotes:'DOOM IS DARK & DEEPER THAN ANY SEA-DINGLE': AUDEN'S HOMAGE TO ANGLO-SAXON POETRYAuden's untitled poem of 1930 was written whilst working as a schoolmaster at the Larchfield Academy in Helensburgh, Scotland. At the time he was revisiting the early English texts he had encountered at Oxford and was writing a now-lost play called The Fronny. Indeed, the compelling first line of the poem derives from a thirteenth-century prose piece called Sawles Warde - 'all the redes and the runes of God, and his dooms that dern be, and deeper than any sea-dingle'. Conor Leahey in his comprehensive discussion of Auden's debt to Middle English literature ('Middle English In Early Auden', The Review of English Studies, volume 70, issue 295, June 2019, pp.527–549), calls the poem 'one of his most mysterious and compelling early lyrics, originally referred to simply as 'Chorus from a Play'... It is this choric element, as well as the unpredictable rhythm of the poem's versification, that allows Auden to resolve these mixed affiliations into a voice that is uniquely his own... not an arcane miscellany of allusions, but an evocative and disarming lyric achievement... The poem has become emblematic of Auden's early manner, but in many ways it is an unlikely classic', using as it does Old English tropes such as the alliterative line, kenning ('houses for fishes' for example) and the tradition of riddles. The poem shares its title with an old English lament in the Exeter Book of c.970 where, as in Auden's poem, the wanderer wakes to a sight of 'bird-flocks nameless to him'. Auden also makes reference to his own early work, the poem's closing line, for instance, 'Lucky with day approaching, with leaning dawn' is adapted from the line 'Dawn leans across the sea' from a poem of 1927.Auden freely admitted his debt to the past, remarking in 1962 that 'I was spellbound. This poetry, I knew, was going to be my dish... Anglo-Saxon and Middle English poetry have been one of my strongest, most lasting influences', and he was not alone. Academics have identified a widespread phenomenon amongst early twentieth-century writers who looked to Old English as a compositional resource, citing C.S. Lewis, Tolkien and Ezra Pound, who translated The Seafarer from the Exeter Book in 1911, with its influence being felt as recently as 1999 with Seamus Heaney's widely-acclaimed translation of Beowulf. The poem was included in his influential collection Poems published by Faber under the auspices of T.S. Eliot, and was numbered 'II' in the 1933 second edition. Another manuscript of 'The Wanderer' is held in the Auden Papers in the New York Public Library (Berg Collection mss Auden). The present piece derives from a UK private collection.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MATHEMATICSSTIRLING (JAMES) The Differential Method: or, a Treatise Concerning Summation and Interpolation of Infinite Series. Translated into English, with the Author's Approbation, by Francis Holliday, final leaf of advertisements at end, the translator's note 'to the Reader' misbound after preface, ink annotations and corrections by an early reader in the margins and text, library ink stamp on title and approximately 15 further leaves (mostly in blank borders), contemporary calf, rebacked in calf gilt with red morocco spine label, worn at extremities, 4to (230 x 175mm.), E. Cave, 1749Footnotes:Rare first edition in English, only one copy traced at auction on Rare Book Hub, of 'Stirling's principal contribution to mathematics' (ODNB), first published in Latin as Methodus differentialis in 1730. Its introductory section contains Stirling's discussion of what are now called 'Stirling numbers' (important in modern combinatorial theory). The transation was made by Francis Holliday who is described on the title as 'master of the grammar Free-School at Haughton-Park, near Retford, Nottinghamshire'.This copy has annotations by an early, and obviously engaged reader, with many small corrections to the text (inserting missing words, striking through and replacing individual words), amending equations, and adding manuscript additions to the errata page.Provenance: Nottingham Public Library, ink stamps.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CHURCHILL (WINSTON)London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, FIRST EDITION, 8 maps and plans (3 folding), 2pp. advertisements and 32pp. publisher's catalogue at end, one folding map with edges slightly frayed and browned, publisher's pictorial cloth [Cohen A4.1.a; Woods A4], Longmans, Green and Co., 1900; My African Journey, FIRST EDITION, 3 maps and numerous plates (one soiled at edges), light spotting, publisher's pictorial red cloth, spine a little faded and stained, recased [Cohen A27.1; Woods A12], Hodder & Stoughton, 1908; The People's Rights, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE IN WRAPPERS, second state with p.71 corrected, one appendix and index at end, paper toned as usual, publisher's yellow wrappers with portrait on front wrapper (fore-edge chipped not affecting lettering), spine creased with some loss at foot, rear wrapper detached with loss to part of one advertisement [Cohen A31.2.b; Woods A16], Hodder & Stoughton, [1910]--NOBLE (WALTER) With a Bristol Fighter Squadron... with an Introduction by... Winston Churchill, FIRST EDITION, portrait and 2 plates, The John Crerar Library (Chicago) copy with bookplate, ink stamp on verso of plates, and perforated stamp on title, publisher's cloth, spine ends bumped, [Cohen B23.1; Woods B7], Andrew Melrose, 1920, 8vo (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CHURCHILL (WINSTON)The People's Rights, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE IN WRAPPERS, FIRST STATE, with page 71 misnumbered '1', one appendix and index at end, toned throughout (as usual), small hole in inner margin of first 3 leaves (not affecting text), slight chips to outer corners of first and last leaves, publisher's yellow wrappers with photographic portrait of Churchill on the upper cover, soiled, front wrapper detached and with loss affecting 2 or 3 letters at corners, spine and rear wrapper with some smaller chips [Cohen A31.2.a; Woods A16], 8vo, Hodder & Stoughton, [1910]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)A Speech by The Prime Minister The Right Honourable Winston Churchill in the House of Commons August 20th, 1940, FIRST EDITION, 16pp., 2 copies, one on unwatermarked paper and in light blueish grey wrappers, the other copy on watermarked paper ('Basingwerk Parchment') and in buff wrappers, publisher's printed wrappers, some foxing [Cohen A131.1.a & variant of A131.1.c/d]; cf. Woods A60(a)], [Baynard Press], 1940; War Speeches 1940-1945, portrait, slightly browned throughout, publisher's printed wrappers, spine chipped with some loss [Cohen A224; Woods A113], Cassell & Co., 1946, 8vo (3)Footnotes:'NEVER IN THE FIELD OF HUMAN CONFLICT...': the Battle of Britain speech, copies of which were printed on different stocks of paper and issued in variant colour wrappers as a result of shortages.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)The Second World War, 6 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, volume 4 first Australian edition, numerous maps, diagrams, and tables, blue half morocco, gilt panelled spines in 6 compartments with raised bands, 8vo, Cassell & Co., 1948-1953This 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

MATHEMATICSWHITEHEAD (ALFRED NORTH) AND BERTRAND RUSSELL. Principia Mathematica, 3 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, half-titles, pages slightly brittle throughout, volume 1 first leaf of introduction detached with lower right section raggedly torn out (no loss of text), long arc tear in upper margin touching text of final 5 leaves (4 touching text, final leaf a blank with some loss); volume 2 with 12 leaves (pp.xix-p.8) loose, loss to lower fore-corner of pp.240-420, and smaller loss to several others; Volume 3 with short marginal tears to a few leaves, a few single wormholes to opening and final leaves in volumes of volumes 1 and 3, publisher's blue cloth, worn especially at extremities of spines, sprinkled white paint spots on lower cover of volume 1 [Norman 1868], large 8vo (260 x 170mm.), Cambridge, at the University Press, 1910-1912Footnotes:RARE COMPLETE SET OF THE FIRST EDITION OF PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA, which 'formed the greatest single contribution to symbolic logic for the time', in which the authors posited that 'mathematics is a part of logic, so that a separate philosophy of mathematics does not exist, a view contradicting the Kantian doctrine that mathematical proofs depend on a priori forms of intuition' (ODNB). Only 750 copies of the first volume were published, but it is thought volumes 2 and 3 were only printed in runs of 500 copies.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

COMICSWERTHAM (FREDRIC) Seduction of the Innocent, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE WITH THE 2-PAGE 'BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE', 8 leaves of illustrations, publisher's cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket (uncut, priced '$4.00' on inside upper flap), small tears and creases at horizontal margins, with loss of 2 letters ('Th' of 'The author of...') on author strapline to upper cover, 8vo, New York, Rhinehart, [1954]Footnotes:Complete with the rare bibliographical list which was removed from most copies following objections from the publishers listed. 'This is the most shocking book of recent years... you think they [Comics] are mostly about floppy-eared bunnies, attractive little mice and chipmunks? Good take a look' - a warning to parents about the dangerous effects that comic books had on the morality of 1950s American children, and how they 'stimulate unwholesome fantasies' and 'sexually abnormal ideas'. Although Wertham's methods and practices have been largely discredited, his concerns with media saturation of young children's minds are of course very prescient of today's concerns.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DOYLE (ARTHUR CONAN)A Study in Scarlet, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST IMPRESSION, with the correct spelling of 'younger' in paragraph 2, line 3 of the preface, 6 plates by Charles Doyle, without the advertisements (one of which off-set onto blank verso of final leaf), a few single spots in margins of title, early twentieth century red morocco-backed cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, yellow edges [Green and Gibson A1a], 8vo (180 x 115mm.), Ward, Lock, and Co., 1888Footnotes:THE RARE FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION OF CONAN DOYLE'S FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK: the first separate edition of the story that introduced Sherlock Holmes, the most famous of all literary detectives, to the world.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