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Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch "Apollo XVII" wristwatch, men, limited edition 508/1972, provenance documents and original box Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch "Apollo XVII" wristwatch, men, limited edition 508/1972, reference 311.30.42.30.03.001, manual winding mechanism, calibre 1861, Navy dial, yellow gold indices, three registers and tachymeter around the bezel. Original stainless steel bracelet and deployant-type closure. Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch "Apollo XVII" model was designed as a limited edition of 1.972 pieces, commemorating the 45th anniversary of the Moon landing, in 1972. "05:34 GMT" is printed in red, marking the hour when Gene Cernan took his first step on the Moon, while the register at the 9 o'clock stands out through a representation of the god Apollo and the Moon, engraved in PVD, in silver-grey colour. Accessories: two additional chain-links; original box and provenance documents: dated guarantee card, pictogram card, certificate of authenticity and instruction manual. d=41 mm

Illustrated. Southby, Logi - The White Dragon. London: The Griffin Press ltd. 1934, first edition. Original cloth in dust wrapper. (1)

Children's and Illustrated. A large selection, includes first editions and reprints; Aiken, Joan - Night Birds on Nantucket (1966); Travers, P. L. - Mary Poppins Opens the Door (US edition, 1943); Uttley, Alison - Little Grey Rabbit's Party (1936); etc. (27)

dating: 1889 provenance: USA, Round, rifled, cal. 41 Colt barrel for 4-1/2', with fore-sight, company's address marking in two lines and third line with patents of 1884 and 1888; caption 'COLT D.A. 41' on the left side. Cleaned core, visible groove. Long fluted, six-shot cylinder and rest dents on the back. Counterclockwise rotation. Frame with rampant horse. In working order both in double and single action. Antique bluing. Hard-rubber, checkered grip scales with inscription 'COLT' in relief and milling. SN '31xxx' under the grip. The first Colt revolver with swingout cylinder design. Produced in 31000 specimen. See 'Flayderman's Guide', 9th Edition, page 110, 5B-190. length 24,5 cm.

A pair of George II mahogany hall chairsCirca 1750, each with a shell back centred by an oval tablet painted with a crest depicting a cockerel, above a scroll carved scallop shell seat, on scroll eared cabriole front legs, with a splayed and shaped rear end support and waved stretchers, each chair approximately: 50cm wide x 57cm deep x 99cm high, (19 1/2in wide x 22in deep x 38 1/2in high) (2)Footnotes:An almost identical pair of hall chairs to the present lot sold Christie's, London, 13th November 2018, The Collector, lot 20. Other closely related examples include; a pair of virtually identical chairs, possibly even from the same set as the above, previously from the collection of the Earls of Guildford; a pair of chairs made for Francis Basset, Esq. (d. 1769) at Tehidy Park, Cornwall (sold Christie's, New York, 18 October 2005, lot 450 and again Christie's, London, 18 June 2008, Simon Sainsbury, 'The Creation of an English Arcadia', lot 75); a set of eight supplied to St Giles's House, Dorset (illustrated in A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, fig. 366); and finally two pairs of chairs from the Rovensky collection sold Sotheby's, New York, 5-6 April 2006, lots 419 and 420.The offered chairs follow a hall chair design, with a similarly naturalistic carved back, originally published by Matthias Darly (d. 1780) between 1750 and 1751. Evidently, due to the popularity of the form, this drawing was later re-published in the 1766 Chair Maker's Guide by 'Robert Mainwaring Cabinet-Maker and Others', see C. Gilbert, The Early Furniture Designs of Matthias Darly, Furniture History, 1975, p. 37 and pl.'s 39 & 69. In 1753 Chippendale, who was at the time in the process of compiling the first edition of The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, (1754), chose Darly, who quipped about himself as being 'Professor of Ornament to the Academy of Great Britain', to engrave ninety-eight of the total one hundred and forty-seven plates to be ultimately included therein. And it seems very likely that Chippendale imitated or rather adapted his own garden seat pattern, plate XXIV in the third edition (1762), directly from Darly's model.Both designs derive from the Italian Renaissance sgabello chair. Although such hall chairs are often associated with painted grotto chairs since they share a related organic design that, as in this instance, incorporates the scallop-shell form which is representative of the goddess Venus's birth, these hall chairs were never intended to be used outdoors. Hall chairs were usually part of a large set of eight or more intended for the entrance hall and with their coats-of-arms or crests (as in this case) they were as much about dynastic display as for practical use. Chippendale's description of such chairs states: 'They may be made either of Mahogany, of any other Wood, and painted, and have commonly wooden Seats. If the Carving of the Chairs in Plate XVIII was thought superfluous, the Outlines may be preserved, and they will look very well... Arms, if required, may be put to those Chairs'.Among the numerous families documented as having a cockerel for their crest or charge appear the following surnames: Sinclair, Crow, Rigg, Williams, Cockridge, King, Cox, Allcock and Ingram. However, unfortunately the only distinguishing feature of the particular depiction of a cockerel on the offered lot is that he is armed and most likely represented in his proper tinctures. Nonetheless it has not proven possible to discover which specific historic family commissioned this pair of hall chairs nor in fact to which family these directly relate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Nicholas Watts "Ferrari - The First Grand Prix Victory" limited edition colour print no. 256/500, signed by artist and Jose Froilan Gonzalez and Gigi Villoresi, published by Automobile Art International (46cm x 75cm)

CAMDEN (WILLIAM)Britain, or a Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adioyning, Out of the Depths of Antiquitie... Translated Newly into English by Philemon Holland, additional engraved pictorial title (cut down and mounted), woodcut ornament and arms on letterpress title, 50 engraved maps (of 57, all but one double-page, 3 shaved just within one vertical margin, 2 repaired at fold with small loss, one with small hole in cartouche, one loose), 5 additional folding engraved maps from Speed's Sudbury and Humble edition supplied in place of missing maps, 10 full-page engraved illustrations (8 of coins), woodcut illustrations in the text, ink annotations in several hands in some margins, small marginal repairs to opening few leaves and final 4 leaves of index, twentieth century half morocco, upper cover detached [Chubb XIX; ESTC S107167; Skelton 6], folio (330 x 215mm.), George Bishop, 1610Footnotes:This copy has Speed's maps of Scotland, Ireland, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Montgomery from the Humble and Sudbury edition inserted in place of the missing Bishop maps. The volume is lacking the Heptarchy and Shropshire maps.Provenance: Charles Brooke Bird (1856-1916, mezzotint engraver and etcher), gift inscription from his father Charles William Bird on the occasion of his twenty-first birthday; by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

LONDONLANGLEY (EDWARD) AND WILLIAM BELCH. Langley & Belch's New Map of London, hand-coloured engraved map, 24 small vignettes of London buildings in upper and lower borders, split at one fold [Howgego 256 (1)], 530 x 780mm., 1 May 1812--Bowles's New Pocket Plan of the Cities of London & Westminster... Comprehending the New Buildings, and Other Alterations to the Year 1783, engraved map, partially hand-coloured in green ink, one small ink smudge [Howgego 168(5)], 465 x 910mm., Carington Bowles, 6 January 1783--Wallis's New and Correct Plan of London and Westminster, Exhibiting All the Newly Erected Public and Private Buildings in St. Marylebone, Sommers Town.... St. George's Fields, &c., engraved map, partially hand-coloured in green and red ink [Howgego 1795], 440 x 870mm., James Wallis, 20 January 1795--Mogg's Twenty Four Miles Round London, engraved hand-coloured map, 1 January 1817--BANKS (J.H.) A Cosmoramic View of London, hand-coloured engraved bird's-eye panorama of London looking from South to North, small hole at one fold, 455 x 1045mm., E. Wallis, and others, 1 June 1843--CARY (JOHN) Cary's New and Accurate Plan of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark and Parts of Adjacent, engraved map, partially hand-coloured in green [cf. Howgego 184, this 1806 edition not recorded], 810 x 1240mm., J. Cary, 1 January 1806--Davies's New Map of the British Metropolis. The Boundaries of the Boroughs, Country Court Districts, Railways and Modern Improvements, hand-coloured engraved map, 980 x 930mm., B.R. Davies, [c.1850], all dissected and mounted on linen, the first 4 mentioned in original slipcases with original printed labels; and another (8)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

SPEED (JOHN)The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine..., Together with a Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World, Viz. Asia, Africa, Europe, America. 5 parts in 1 vol., title printed in red and black, additional engraved pictorial title by R. White, engraved 'Achievement of our Soveraigne King Charles The IId' leaf, 96 double-page engraved double-page maps, all maps fire-damaged at edges with some loss and brittleness, disbound [Chubb XXVII; ESTC R13825; Skelton, County Atlases 92; Phillips 488], folio, Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, 1676, sold not subject to returnFootnotes:'The 1676 edition of John Speed's famous atlas marked the high point of its publishing history' (Burden). In this edition, The Prospect has seven maps which appear for the first time, including three of North America (New England and New York; Virginia and Maryland; Carolina, Burden 456-457). This copy was rescued from a fire in 1969.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

TEXASCORDOVA (JACOB DE) Map of the State of Texas. Compiled from the records of the General Land Office of the State by Robert Creuzbauer, Revised and Corrected by Charles W. Pressler, large hand-coloured lithographed map within decorative outer border, 'engraved by J. M. Atwood', showing counties, cities, towns, roads, rivers and Indian villages, inset map of western United States lower right, original fold lines, one upper corner with neat repaired tear, some light spotting and toning, and one or two old stain marks, but generally clean, pencil annotation in blank area, framed preserving publisher's roan covers into which the map folds [cf. Eberstadt, Texas 162:241; Rumsey no. 3366.001; Taliaferro 295 C], 930 x 865mm., New York, J.H. Colton etc., no. 772 William Street, 1856Footnotes:FINE EXAMPLE OF CORDOVA'S LARGE MAP OF TEXAS, being the first edition revised by Charles Pressler and published by Colton, and the first map to show a railway line in Texas, between Richmond and Houston. We have not traced any examples of this edition in auction records.'The most correct and authentic map of Texas ever compiled' (Sam Houston) and 'possibly the finest of the period' (Eberstadt), Jacob De Cordova's map was first published in 1849. De Cordova was an enthusiastic land promoter during the days of the Republic and early statehood. Following the Mexican war, he sought to profit from the flood of settlers expected to arrive in the newly created state, and he commissioned Robert Creuzbaur, an employee of the Texas General Land Office, to compile this map with a view to fuelling his land speculation.The first detailed map of Texas east of the 102nd meridian, it was republished several times before De Cordova sold the rights to Colton in 1855, and it was issued with Pressler's revisions, including the inset map, the following year. The map includes signatures of four Texas senators and representatives, including Sam Houston, who recommended the map to 'every person who desires correct geographical information of our state. To persons desiring to visit Texas, it will be invaluable.'For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

IRELAND - ECONOMICSSTACPOOLE (GEORGE) Historical Anecdotes with Remarks, Relative to Ireland... Part I (all published), FIRST EDITION, title page with 3-line contemporary ink note beneath the imprint (last two numerals of the date erased, see footnote), contemporary calf, 2-line gilt fillet border on sides, spine with gilt ornament in six compartments with raised bands, worn with some old stains [ESTC T102872], 8vo, Cork, Printed by Eugene Swiney, 17[62]Footnotes:Printed in Cork, this treatise is a strident call for the 'Liberty of Trade' in Ireland, arguing that despite benefitting from 'a soil fertile, and large ports open for traffick, particularly the West India-Trade... Many restrictions in our Trade... have hitherto rendered this proximity of situation of little use...'. Intended to be published in 4 parts, only the first was printed. Beneath the imprint on the title is a manuscript note claiming that 'The author has erased the dates of publication as so long an interval without part the 2d being sent to the press'.Provenance: Patrick Heron of Heron (c.1672-1761), armorial bookplate; unidentified late nineteenth/early twentieth century owner, with a few pencil annotations in margins including 'oh party party! great evil in all times' beside a paragraph in the text stating that Richard, Duke of York 'could have passed many Laws conducing to... the general Benefit of the Kingdom, but he turned all his thoughts on the making of a particular party...'.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

KLEINER (SALOMON)Vera et accurata delineatio omnium templorum et coenobiorum [-tam residentia et secessum Caesareorum], parts 1-2 (of 4), FIRST EDITION, edited by Johan Andreas Pfeffel, engraved title-pages in Latin and German, engraved dedication leaf in part 1, engraved pictorial frontispieces, 66 engraved plates after Salomon Kleiner (2 folding, one with neat short repair) [Berlin Kat. 2108; Fowler 164], Augsburg, 1724-1725; FISCHER VON ERLACH (JOSEF EMMANUEL) Anfang einiger Vorstellungen der vornehmsten Gebäude so wohl innerhalb der Stadt als in denen Vorstadten von Wien [title repeated in French], FIRST EDITION, engraved title, pictorial frontispiece and 27 plates after Fischer von Erlach by J.A. Delsenbach (numbered 4-10, 10a, 11-29/30), lacking the engraved privilege leaf (as often) [Berlin Kat. 2095], [Vienna, c.1719], 3 vol. bound in one, early twentieth century half morocco gilt, titled on spine, oblong folio (340 x 480mm.)Footnotes:Kleiner's views are considered to be 'the finest representation of views of Vienna of the eighteenth century' (Fowler), the first part devoted to churches and monasteries, the second to palaces, houses and squares. The second work by Fischer Von Erlach includes similar views.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

SMITH (ADAM)Investigacion de la naturaleza y causas de la riqueza de las naciones, 4 vol., FIRST SPANISH EDITION, translated by Josef Alonso Ortiz, half-title in volume 1 (all called for), occasional spotting, small light dampstain in upper fore-corner of title and 8 preliminary leaves of volume 1, upper corner of pp.163-4 of volume 2 torn away (but present, ink page number and 2 words added in margin), contemporary vellum, lettered and numbered in ink on spines, some soiling and light spotting [Goldsmiths 15932; Kress B.2832], 4to (203 x 143mm.), Valladolid, Viuda e hijos de Santander, 1794Footnotes:FIRST EDITION IN SPANISH OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS, translated by Josef Alonso Ortiz, who adds an appendix on the Spanish National Bank (established in Madrid in 1783) in volume 2. The French translation of Wealth of Nations had been placed on the Inquisition's Index of Prohibited Books, so when Ortiz presented his Spanish translation to the Inquisition in 1793, he did so with extreme care. Noting that his translation was from the English edition (which was not on the Index), Ortiz further argued that he had purged 'it of various impious proposals... and eliminating entirely an article... in which the author favors tolerance on points of religion, so that it stands cleansed of anything that could lead to error or relaxation in moral and religious matters.' He had to submit the manuscript twice before it was accepted for publication. It remained the only Spanish translation for 150 years. See R.S. Smith, 'The Wealth of Nations in Spain and Hispanic America, 1780-1830', Journal of Political Economy, 65(2), 1957, pp.104-125.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

TOLSTOY (LEO NIKOLAYEVICH)Anna Karenina, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, without final blanks, some foxing and light browning throughout, small damp and other stains, old owner's monogram stamp on titles, contemporary ribbed cloth, restored and rebacked in roan (with ticket of 'Bookbinder M. Artynov, Kiev, 7 Bibikov Boulevard'), rubbed, preserved in single slipcase [Kilgour 1196; Simmons, pp.340, 346-7], 8vo (205 x 135mm.), Moscow, T. Ris, 1878Footnotes:FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF TOLSTOY'S MASTERPIECE.Tolstoy's second great novel, beloved of Dostoevsky ('as art it is perfection') and Thomas Mann ('without equal in European literature'), was serialised over a period of five years in Ruskii Vestnik, beginning in 1873. However, a clash between its editor Mikhail Katkov and Tolstoy prevented publication of the final instalment, so this first edition in book form also marks the first appearance of the complete 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

MIRABILIS LIBER[Mirabilis liber qui prophetias revelationesque... demonstrat], 2 parts in 1 vol., black letter, decorative woodcut initials, first part double column, second part in French, wanting a1, small worm-trail in inner margins of gatherings e-g, some old ink notes on fly-leaf and marginalia on g8-h1, contemporary reversed pigskin, blind rule borders and small centrepiece on sides, chips to spine and one corner of upper cover [ISTC im00615300; Copinger 3573; Moreau III, 1273], Paris, [Jean II du Pré & Ambroise Girault, c.1527]Footnotes:Rare early edition, only one copy listed on ISTC and USTC. The first part includes the prophecies of Ben Echoli, Saint Brigitte of Sweden, Savonarola and others, and was thought to contain references predicting the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany; the second part in French became popular through its perceived allusions to the French revolution.Provenance: Lots 137-170 are the property of Mario Gregorio, a recognised authority on Nostradamus, the author of four books on the subject, and former Archivist of the International Nostradamus Research Group.Mario developed an interest in the prophecies of Nostradamus at an early age, and after arriving from his native Veneto in the 1990s, he began to get heavily involved in collecting, researching and comparing the many variant editions, piracies and spurious works. The result is the website of this self-styled 'crazy collector of old books about renaissance prophecies', an extraordinary resource with thousands of uploaded images not only of the books in his own collection, but also those of many others.Many of the books in the present sale were bought in 2007 at the New York sales of Daniel Ruzo de los Heros (1900-1991), noted Peruvian archaeologist, poet, cryptographer and prophet. Ruzo was perhaps the last of the great Nostradamus collectors, as Mario Gregorio would modestly admit, but Mario now feels the time is right to give younger collectors, researchers and institutions the opportunity to continue his work.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

NOSTRADAMUSProphetie merveilleuse commençant ceste presente année, & dure iusques en l'an de grand' mortalité, que l'on dira M.d.lxviij. An de bissexte, FIRST EDITION, woodcut title vignette of hands and compass measuring armillary sphere, modern cloth [Benazra p.79; Chomarat 76], small 8vo, Paris, Guillaume de Nyverd, [1566-1567]Footnotes:RARE FIRST EDITION, this being the only copy traced in auction records. One of the apocryphal works by the so-called 'Michel de Nostradamus le Jeune', it bears a facsimile signature at the end of the text, and dates from 1566 or 1567 depending on the accuracy of the reference to 'l'An passe 1565' on p.7. Subsequent editions were published as Prophétie ou révolution merveil­leuse des quatre saisons de l'an.Provenance: Daniel Ruzo, bookplate; his sale, Swann, 23 April 2007, lot 21.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

TRITHEMIUS (JOHANNES)De septem secundeis, id est, intelligentiis, sive spiritibus orbes post Deum moventibus, reconditissimae scientiae & eruditionis libellu[m], woodcut printer's device on title, 7 woodcut illustrations, title soiled and frayed at edges, without final blank, modern pigskin [Caillet 10852], 8vo, Cologne, Johannes Birckmann, 1567Footnotes:Second edition of this rare work on mystical chronology and alchemy, first published in 1545. Trithemius, or Jean Tritheme, was born in Trittenheim in Germany in 1462. A renowned lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer and kabbalist, whose students included Agrippa and Paracelsus, he exerted considerable influence on the development of early modern occultism. The book is adorned with 7 attractive woodcut figures by Hans Sebald Beham, one of the most important 'Little Masters' of sixteenth century German engraving.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

NOSTRADAMUSLes Propheties.. dont il y en a trois cents qui n'ont encores iamais estés imprimées, 2 parts in 1 vol., woodcut vignettes on each title (Benazra's A27 and A24), lacking A2-5 of Preface but with final blanks to each part, dampstained, first gathering softened with loss of text in upper corners (a few other leaves slightly affected), occasional worming, one leaf torn without loss, early annotations on verso of second title-page, contemporary vellum, stained, loss to fore-edge of upper cover and spine [Benazra p.89; Chomarat 99], 16mo, Lyon, Benoist Rigaud, [1591?]Footnotes:The 1568 Rigaud editions of the Propheties were the first to contain all 10 Centuries with all 942 known quatrains, and constitute a bibliographic minefield. The present copy matches Benazra's 18th edition in all but the fact that it does not have a small fleuron at the end of the second part, whilst the Corpus Nostradamus website (http://cura.free.fr/dico2pro/611Crig1.html) lists it as 'Edition Y' (as opposed to 'A', B or 'C'), and suggests a publication date of 1591, citing only one complete copy traced.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

CHAVIGNY (JEAN AIME DE)La Première face du Janus françois, contenant sommairement les troubles, guerres civiles & autres choses memorables advenuës en la France & ailleurs dés l'an de salut MDXXXIIII jusques à l'an MDLXXXIX, fin de la maison Valesienne. Extraite et colligée des Centuries et autres commentaires de M. Michel de Nostredame, FIRST EDITION, some dampstaining to first and last few gatherings, occasional browning, repaired tear towards foot of title, date on title-page and colophon erroneously amended in ink to 1624, contemporary brown morocco, covers with single gilt rule border and central gilt device of banded arrows, monogrammed 'MSD' on upper cover, edges worn, spine with a few small wormholes and chipped at foot [Benazra p.130; Chomarat 154], 4to, Lyon, heirs of Pierre Roussin, 1594Footnotes:First edition of the first attempt at a systematic interpretation of the prophecies of Nostradamus, printed with the French text of the Centuries and its Latin translation. Each of Nostradamus' 347 quatrains is accompanied by Chavigny's commentary, also printed in French and Latin, and the introductory matter includes an essay on the life of Nostradamus, which constitutes the first biography of the astrologer. The 'Première Face' is mainly devoted to the events that occurred between 1534 and 1589; a 'Second Face', which never saw the light of day, was to have dealt with future events.Provenance: Denis-Francois Secousse (historian, 1691-1754), armorial bookplate; Daniel Ruzo, bookplate; his sale, Swann, 23 April 2007, lot 72.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

NOSTRADAMUSLes Propheties, 2 parts in 1 vol., edited by Vincent Sève, woodcut portrait of Nostradamus on title, some soiling, duplicate of signature E from part 2 bound into part 1, dampstain to upper section of last 2 gatherings, old ownership stamp ('Proestat Amor Patriae') on title and facing leaf, later green vellum [Benazra p.156; Chomarat 166, variant foliation], [Troyes?], 1605; Les Propheties... dont il y en a trois cents qui n'ont encores iamais estés imprimées; [GRUGET (FRANCOIS)] Recueil des propheties et revelations, together 3 parts in 1 vol., woodcut printer's device on title-pages, light browning and soiling, dampstaining to last part, B2-4 slightly frayed at bottom corner (no loss of text), old limp vellum, soiled, upper joint split [Benazra p.170; Chomarat 176], Troyes, Pierre Chevillot, [1611], 8vo; and 2 others, incomplete copies of the same 2 editions (4)Footnotes:The first Seve edition, possibly printed by Pierre du Ruau, together with Chevillot's edition of a few years later.Provenance: First two volumes, Daniel Ruzo, bookplates.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

NOSTRADAMUSLes Propheties.. dont il y en a trois cents qui n'ont encores iamais estés imprimées, 2 parts in 1 vol., woodcut devices on titles (first with top corner and letter S torn away), occasional browning and soiling, some headlines cropped, some worming towards end slightly affecting text, later calf, gilt spine with raised bands, slight worming to lower joint; idem, another edition, 2 parts in 1 vol., titles with the same woodcut devices (the first laid down with loss of word 'Les' and part of imprint), interleaved with blanks, trimmed affecting some headlines and occasionally text, contemporary calf, gilt spine, recased, slight worm damage to lower cover, both copies with blank leaf at end of first part but not final blank [Benazra p.148 & p.149; Chomarat 171 & 172], 16mo, Lyon, Pierre Rigaud, [c.1610] (2)Footnotes:A pair of rare Pierre Rigaud editions, based on those of Benoist Rigaud and dated by Benazra to 1610 and by Ruzo to around 1608 and 1611. The two editions are identical apart from the fleurons on the title-pages and the imprint changing from 'Par Pierre Rigaud' to 'Chez Pierre Rigaud'. Ours are the only copies traced in auction records. Provenance: Daniel Ruzo, bookplates; his sale, Swann, 23 April 2007, lot 35, and Swann, 8 November 2007, lot 240.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

NOSTRADAMUSLes Propheties... dont il y en a trois cents qui n'ont encores iamais estés imprimées, 3 parts in 1 vol., woodcut vignette on titles (the first with endpaper adhered at gutter affecting first letters of 4 lines of text), woodcut illustration on verso of second title repeated on last page, old ink correction to E4, occasional soiling and ink blots, without 2 final blanks, old mottled calf, rebacked preserving part of backstrip [Chomarat 186], 16mo, Lyon, Jean Huguetan, 1627Footnotes:Scarce Lyon edition, unrecorded by Benazra and in auction records.Provenance: Abbé Hector Rigaux, curé of Argoeuvres (noted Nostradamus authority and collector), ownership inscription on front free endpaper; Daniel Ruzo.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

NOSTRADAMUSLes Vrayes centuries et propheties.. avec la vie de l'autheur, woodcut printer's device on title, early twentieth century red morocco-backed boards, gilt panelled spine, corners reinforced, spine with slight adhesion mark from old label [Benazra p.205; Chomarat 202], 8vo, Rouen, Jacques Cailloué, Jean Vinet et Jacques Besongne, 1649Footnotes:First Rouen edition.Provenance: Edmond Vallée, ink ownership stamp on fly-leaf; Daniel Ruzo, 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

[JAUBERT (ETIENNE, attributed to)]Eclaircissement des véritables quatrains de Maistre Michel Nostradamus, FIRST EDITION, full-page engraved portrait of Nostradamus, errata leaf at end, occasional browning, stains to A1-4 and P2v, contemporary calf, gilt panelled spine, corners worn, spine ends chipped and joints cracked, front free endpaper removed [Benazra p.231; Chomarat 225], 12mo, [Amsterdam?], 1656--JANT (JACQUES DE) Explication des prédictions tirées des centuries de Nostradamus, sur la presente guerre de France avec la Hollande, woodcut vignette of Nostradamus on title and of skeleton on p.27, waterstain to first c.20 pages, nineteenth century calf gilt, slightly rubbed [Chomerat 261; not in Benazra], 16mo, 'Sur l'Imprimé a Lyon chez Marcelin Gautherin,' 1672; Prédictions tirées des centuries de Nostradamus. Qui vray semblablement se peuvent appliquer au temps présent, et à la guerre entre la France et l'Angleterre, contre les Provinces Unies, 3 parts in 1 vol., one folding plate (only, of 3), light dampstaining, contemporary limp vellum [Benazra p.248; Chomarat 264], small 8vo, [Rouen], 1673; and another (4)Footnotes:Provenance: First work, Daniel Ruzo, bookplate. Second work, Comte Camille de Grassis and Daniel Ruzo, bookplates; Ruzo's sale, 23 April 2007, lot 86.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

NOSTRADAMUSLes Vrayes centuries et propheties, additional engraved title showing the execution of Charles I and the Fire of London, full-page engraved portrait of Nostradamus, contemporary mottled calf, spine neatly restored [Benazra p.245, no.80; not in Chomarat], Paris, Jean Promé, 1669; Les Vrayes centuries et propheties, additional engraved title showing the execution of Charles I and the Fire of London, full-page engraved portrait of Nostradamus, some light dampstaining, worming in and near gutter (heavier towards end and affecting text in places), contemporary sheep, worn, upper joint split [Benazra p.243; Chomarat 247], Paris, Jean Ribou, 1668; Les Propheties, 2 parts in 1 vol., titles with large woodcut portrait, some repairs to margins of first title (shaving date and border of portrait) and first and last few leaves (3 or 4 with with text just affected), later vellum with title and imprint inink on upper cover [Benazra p. 236; Chomarat 230], Lyon, [Part 2: Jean Balam], 1665; Les Vrayes centuries et propheties, additional engraved title showing the execution of Charles I and the Fire of London (near detached), full-page engraved portrait of Nostradamus, repair to C1 affecting text, old ownership inscription in heavy ink on title, later mottled sheep, spine severely wormed and defective [Benazra p.241; Chomarat 246; Willems 1797, 'jolie édition dont les beaux exemplaires sont rares et fort recherchés'], Amsterdam, Jean Jansson & Weyerstraet, 1668; idem, 2 further copies of the same edition, one lacking the last 15 leaves ('Presages'), the other lacking engraved title and 2 preliminary leaves with portrait, 12mo (6)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

JUVENILE GAMESJuvenile Games, for the Four Seasons, woodcut frontispiece, title vignette and 14 illustrations, some partly hand-coloured, blue stain on frontispiece, contemporary half calf [cf. Gumuchian 3470], 12mo, Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, [c.1820]--CRABBE (GEORGE) The Works, 5 vol., contemporary green morocco gilt, t.e.g, John Murray, 1823--LETT (HENRY) Emily, a Moral Tale, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, ownership inscription of Susan Wharton (June 1809), contemporary red half calf, Rivington, 1809--LYON (GEORGE FRANCIS) The Private Journal... during the Recent Voyage of Discovery Under Captain Parry, 7 engraved plates, one folding map, 1824; A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to Reach Repulse Bay... in His Majesty's Ship Griper in the Year MCCCCXXIV, 7 engraved plates, one folding map, 1825, 2 works bound in 1 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, contemporary half calf, Norfolk & Norwich Library subscription label on upper cover and front pastedown, rubbed, John Murray, 8vo; and 17 others (28)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

NOSTRADAMUSLes Vrayes centuries et propheties, additional woodcut title showing the execution of Charles I and the Fire of London, portraits including Nostradamus, Henry IV and Louis XIV (the first 2 full-page), repair to verso of title with loss of text (and following leaf to a lesser extent), some light soiling and dampstaining, contemporary sheep, gilt panelled spine, remnant of old label ('G') on upper cover [Benazra p.269; Chomarat 302], Rouen, Jean B[aptiste] Besongne, 1691; idem, another edition, illustrations as above but with variant portrait of Louis XIV, fly-leaf with old notes in French and Latin, modern half morocco, spine gilt, with adhesion mark from old label [Benazra p.291; Chomarat 321], Rouen, Jean B[aptiste] Besongne, 1710; idem, another edition, engraved portraits of Nostradamus (remargined), Cesar Nostradamus, Henri II, Henri IV and Louis XIV, plate of execution of Charles I, wanting directions to binder leaf at end, repair to title affecting ornament, slight browning, later catspaw calf, attractive gilt panelled spine, small adhesion mark from old label on covers [Benazra p. 265; Chomarat 303, calling for 2 additional preliminary leaves], Lyon, Antoine Besson, [c.1690], 12mo; and 4 others (7)Footnotes:Provenance: First volume, Abbé Hector Rigaux, curé of Argoeuvres (noted Nostradamus authority and collector), ownership inscription on fly-leaf; H. Forne, Paris, 1860, inscription on title and stamp on fly-leaf and at end. Second volume, Daniel Ruzo, bookplate. Third volume, H. Jarraut 1903, signature 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

[NOSTRADAMUS][HAITZE (PIERRE-JOSEPH DE)] La Vie de Nostradamus. Par Pierre Joseph, a little light dampstaining and browning, modern calf, red morocco spine labels, slight adhesion mark from old label [Chomarat 327; this edition not in Benazra], Aix, chez la Veuve de Charles David et Joseph David, 1712--[LE ROUX (JEAN)] La Clef de Nostradamus. Isagoge ou introduction au veritable sens des Propheties... par un solitaire, varying degrees of browning, light dampstain to opening leaves, contemporary calf, gilt panelled spine with red morocco label, rubbed, head of spine chipped [Benazra, p.284; Chomarat 323], Paris, Pierre Giffart, 1710--GUYNAUD (BALTHASAR) La Concordance des prophéties de Nostradamus avec l'histoire, depuis Henri II jusqu'à Louis le Grand, la vie et l'apologie de cet auteur, ensemble quelques essais d'explication sur plusieurs de ses autres prédications, engraved portrait, without final blank, later calf, spine gilt, spine ends chipped, joints starting [Benazra p.29a; Chomarat 326], Paris, Jacques Morel, 1712--[CHAVIGNY (JEAN-AIME DE) attributed to] La Vie et le testament de Michel Nostradamus, some browning, nineteenth century morocco-backed boards, spine gilt , Paris, Gattey, 1789, 12mo; and another (5)Footnotes:Provenance: Second work, Antoine Orsetti, old ink signature; Rappaport of Rome, bookseller's ticket. First, second and fourth works, Daniel Ruzo, bookplates; Swann, 8 November 2007, lots 260, 263 and 255.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

LEONARDO DA VINCIA Treatise of Painting... Translated from the Original Italian... to Which is Prefix'd, the Author's Life, engraved portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 35 engraved plates (4 folding, a few light pencil annotations), 12pp. publisher's advertisements at end, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked to match with red morocco spine label, 8vo, J. Senex, and W. Taylor, 1721Footnotes:FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della pittura, compiled from manuscripts written during his lifetime, but first published in Italian in 1651. In these Leonardo outlined his influential theories regarding anatomical drawing, perspective, and other elements of artistic composition. Provenance: J. Hilton, early ownership inscription.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BARKER (THOMAS)Barker's Delight. or, the Art of Angling. Wherein are Discovered Many Rare Secrets... second edition, 2 leaves in the first gathering loosely inserted from another copy (one soiled), without the last 2 leaves of Moseley's 20-page catalogue at end, contemporary sheep, worn with some loss exposing top part of upper board, preserved in calf case [ESTC R209132, not calling for advertisements; Westwood & Satchell p.22; Wing B786], small 8vo, Humphrey Moseley, 1659Footnotes:Rare, being a reissue of Barker's The Art of Angling. ESTC does not call for publisher's advertisements at the end, but this copy has 8 leaves of these (a1-8), with 2 added in facsimile (b1-2). The latest title advertised is dated 1657.Provenance: Robert Franklin, early ownership inscription on front free endpaper; 'Tho: Burton ex dono Tho: Franklin 1727', inscription on title; 'Presented by J. Graham Dawson Esq.', purple stamp on front pastedown and free endpaper; John A. McKinley, bookplate; The Angling Library of John McKinley, Bloomsbury, 31 March 2005; Alan J. Jarvis, 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

BLACKER (WILLIAM)Art of Angling, and Complete System of Fly Making, and Dying of Colours, FRST EDITION, variant second issue, with 48 pages, and an additional 4 pages 'Concise account of the best fly-fishing stations' (printed 'Geo. Nichols, Printer, Earl's Court, Soho') bound at the end, engraved title, 6 engraved plates, 4pp., 32 ACTUAL FLIES (including one Salmon fly), attached with silver blindstamped paper seals, original gilt red morocco wallet binding, lettered in gilt 'Blacker's Art of Fly Making' on upper flap, with ties [Westwood & Satchell p.32], 12mo, the Author, March, 1842Footnotes:FINE EARLY IMPRESSION OF THE FIRST EDITION, with 32 actual flies including one large salmon fly, in an original wallet binding. For a variant issue in the same binding see Bonhams, Angling Library of John Simpson, 15 February 2005, lot 110.Provenance: R.W.H. Clarke, County Carlow Militia, Clonmel Barracks, May 1856, inscription on front free endpaper.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[CHETHAM (JAMES)]The Angler's Vade Mecum: or, a Compendious, Yet Full, Discourse of Angling... By a Lover of Angling, FIRST EDITION, title within 2-line rule border, a few neat ink corrections or annotations in the margins, toning, crushed morocco by William Brown of Edinburgh, gilt dentelles, g.e. [ESTC R23536; Westwood & Satchell p.59], Thomas Bassett, 1681--VENABLES (ROBERT) The Experienc'd Angler: or, Angling Improv'd... Fifth Edition Much Englarged, additional engraved title by F.H. van Hove, engraved illustrations in the text, skilful repairs to very small areas of the blank lower margins of first three signatures, a few side-notes shaved, nineteenth century calf gilt, covers with 3-line fillet border enclosing fish device, flat spine in 6 compartments with angling tackle device in 4-5, joints neatly repaired [ESTC R33734; Westwood & Satchell p.214], B.W. for B. Tooke, 1683--FRANCK (RICHARD) Northern Memoirs, Calculated for the Meridian of Scotland, FIRST EDITION, title within rule border, nineteenth century calf, g.e., rebacked, preserved in chemise and morocco-backed slipcase [ESTC R20592; Westwood & Satchell p.100], for the Author, 1694, 8vo (3)Footnotes:Three classic seventeenth century English angling treatises. This copy of Chetham's Angler's Vade Mecum includes a 4-leaf Appendix (O1-4) added 'since this book was almost finished at the press' and not called for on ESTC.Provenance: First work, Thomas Hardwick Jnr., ownership inscription dated 1687/8 on front free endpaper; Francis Alexander, bookplate; Second work, Thomas Hay[...], ownership inscription dated 12 November 1734; Third work, Edwin F. Snow; Henry L. McVickar, bookplates. All three with bookplate of Alan J. Jarvis.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

WALTON (IZAAK) AND CHARLES COTTONThe Complete Angler, 2 vol., FIRST NICOLAS EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, edited by Sir Harris Nicolas, engraved plates and illustrations on india paper, some spotting and off-setting, contemporary red morocco gilt, sides with 2-line fillet border enclosing elaborate inner border, gilt compartments and title within raised bands on spine, gilt dentelles, blue silk endpapers and doublures, gauffered gilt edges, neatly rebacked preserving original spines, slightly rubbed [Coigney 44], large 8vo, William Pickering, 1836Footnotes:Provenance: J.H. Gossage, purple pencil ownership inscription; Jeffrey Norton, angling 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

WEST (LEONARD)Original artwork by Leonard West for his angling classic The Natural Trout Fly and its Imitation (1912), comprising: final artwork for the plates 1-9, 14, 15 and 16 (as used in the 1912 edition), and plates 1A and 17 (drawn in ink for the 1921 revised edition), and the originals for plates 10 ('Hackle Feathers, Poultry, &c.') and 13 ('Feathers for Flies' Wings') comprising of actual mounted samples, all on thick paper, some with proof annotations and notes, the original ink numerals (from first edition) erased and replaced as they appear in the second edition, the plates with mounted samples accompanied by West's ink identification key, images approximately 300 x 200mm.; an ink preliminary drawing (with overslip noting in pencil 'Diptera. This plate was redrawn, elaborated & coloured') of Plate 1; 2 variant 4-page prospectuses for the first edition of The Natural Trout Fly (one illustrating plate 6, one plate 8), and samples of each printed plate from the first edition of the book; 2 typed letters from P.P. Press Art Printers, dated 24 March and 11 August 1920, relating to printing costs and artwork; 2 original pen and ink drawings by West of pond beetles (both signed with initials 'L.W.', each with accompanying published print) for an unrelated publication, a few items loose otherwise bound together in contemporary green half morocco, gilt lettered 'Drawings. Leonard West' on upper cover, small folio, [c. 1912-1920]--'The St. Helens Fly Fishers Club. Second Annual Dinner and Smoking Concert at the Red Lion Hotel on Thursday Nov. 26th, 1908'; another, for the 'Third Annual Dinner... November 25th, 1909', pen and ink artwork depicting angling (and eating) scene caricatures by West, each on stiff card, 240 x 165mm., and slightly smaller, [1908-1909], with 2 further angling related caricature ink drawings, one a trial menu card; further material including approximately 15 original artworks (of which 4 fine fully-realised watercolours) of aquatic entomological subjects; 2 gelatin silver photographs of dragon flies (seemingly used as guide material for one of the watercolours); 12 pages of typescript notes, with some manuscript corrections, for an article (or ?unrealised book) relating to trout fishing, and other ephemeral materials, loose in 2 contemporary cloth portfolios, one labelled 'Aquatic Plants', one 'Gnats' (collection)Footnotes:LEONARD WEST'S ORIGINAL ARTWORK FOR THE NATURAL TROUT FLY AND ITS IMITATIONS (1912), with materials related to the publishing of the second edition (1921), artwork for St. Helens' Fly-fisher's Club dinners, and watercolours and ink drawings for articles on aquatic entomology. West was a stalwart of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society (and President for 1916) and founding member of the St. Helen's Fly-fisher's Club. In 1912 he published his classic The Natural Trout Fly 'with considerable diffidence... The notes and observations contained in it were made for private use only, but owing to the persuasion of a friend, the Author has decided to give them a wider circulation' (Foreword). His approach to fly-fishing was based on the premise that 'the angler with a knowledge of entomology, possesses a great advantage, and is able readily to select a fly' (Introduction). Provenance: Leonard West, and by family descent to current owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ARISTOTLE'S MASTERPIECEAristotle's Compleat Master Piece. In Three Parts: Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man... To Which is Added, a Treasure of Health; Or, the Family Physician... The Fifteenth Edition, frontispiece with full-page woodcut illustration recto and verso, folding woodcut plate ('The form of a child in the womb, disrob'd of its tunicles'), 7 woodcut illustrations in the text, loss to a few letters at lower margin of pp.59/60 and pp.125/126 (small burnhole), extremes of corners turned, contemporary sheep, worn at edges [ESTC N493145, Wellcome copy only], 8vo, Printed, and Sold by the Booksellers, 1723Footnotes:RARE EDITION, only the Welcome copy cited on ESTC, and this with a variant collation. In the Wellcome copy the second section ('Family Physician') has 10 unnumbered pages, whilst our copy has 14 numbered pages. First published in 1684 all early editions are very scarce, presumably due to the book's risque subject matter of women's bodies, sex, and pregnancy, which led it to be sold by 'country peddlers and in general stores and taverns; regular booksellers seldom advertised it, though they usually had it under the counter' (The Library Company of Philadelphia, 'Treasures', online catalogue). The attribution to Aristotle is totally spurious and was probably a vain attempt to give the work some measure of respectability; but although it was effectively banned until the mid-twentieth century, the prohibition didn't keep it from circulating. Such enduring popularity was partly due to the practical advice on pregnancy and the care of infants, and partly to its rather sensationalised descriptions of the sexual act and forms of 'monstrosity', the subjects depicted in the woodcut illustrations.Provenance: 'Elisabeth Scott her book 1743', ownership inscription on verso of 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

CABEO (NICCOLO)Philosophia magnetica in qua magnetis natura penitus explicatur, et omnium quae hoc lapide cernuntur causae propriae afferuntur, FIRST EDITION, FIRST (FERRARA) ISSUE, title within wide engraved architectural border, 4 engraved illustrations (one a world map repeated [Shirley, World 328]), numerous woodcut illustrations, ink spot at inner margin of title, light stain on dedicatory leaf, thin worm trail in blank margin of approximately 150pp., small dampstain in lower blank margin from p.277 to end, recased in early vellum, lettered in ink ('Filosofia magnetica', second word worn) on spine, preserved in modern morocco-backed solander case [Ferguson I, p.136; Riccardi I, 205; Wheeler Gift 97], folio (320 x 220mm.), Ferrara, Francesco Succio, 1629Footnotes:An important treatise on magnetism and the loadstone, containing the first printed account of electrical repulsion. Cabeo (1586-1660), professor of Moral Philosophy and Mathematics at Parma, also discusses William Gilbert's De Magnete.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

FRANKLIN (BENJAMIN)Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in America... To which are added, letters and papers on philosophical subjects. The whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now first collected into one Volume, and illustrated with copper plates, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed in Franklin's hand 'From the Author' on front free endpaper, fourth edition, half-title, advertisement leaf with errata on verso, 6 engraved plates (of 7, 2 folding, lacking no. 3), woodcut illustrations, occasional minor spotting, 2 leaves with tears in margins (not affecting text), k3 with small burn hole affecting word 'it' on verso, slight dampstain to upper portion of 2E-G and 2I, entirely untrimmed in contemporary boards, rebacked preserving portion of original backstrip, some staining, corners worn, cloth slipcase [ESTC T101040; Ford 307; Howes F320; Sabin 25506; Wellcome III:62], 4to (246 x 185mm.), David Henry and sold by Francis Newbury, 1769Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPY 'FROM THE AUTHOR' OF THE FIRST COMPLETE EDITION -'THE MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC BOOK OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA' (PMM).First published in 1751-53, Franklin's ground-breaking work on electricity proved the existence of positive and negative charges as well as the concepts of insulators and conductors. It included his famous Leyden jar, kite and key experiments, and led to the invention of the lightning rod. The present fourth edition was updated by the author to include full notes on all of his experiments, along with correspondence between Peter Collinson, Franklin and other collaborators. Provenance: UK 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

HOOKER (WILLIAM JACKSON)British Jungermanniae: Being a History and Description, with Colored Figures, of Each Species of the Genus, and Microscopical Analyses of the Parts, FIRST EDITION, FROM THE LIBRARY OF JOHN RUSKIN, with an inscription in his hand [see footnote], half-title, 88 hand-coloured engraved plates by W.H.C. Edwards after Hooker, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed with some some abrasions [Dearden, Ruskin Library 1734; Nissen, BBI 916], 4to, Longman, 1816Footnotes:John Ruskin's copy, which he presented to the Hawkshead Institute, situated less than four miles from his home at Brantwood. Hooker's 'most beautiful work' (DSB), this study of cryptogamic plants was the result of ten years preparation.Provenance: Robert Kaye Greville (1794-1866, cryptogamic botanist), bookplate; John Ruskin, with his note of purchase from Quaritch (£5/10/-) and gift inscription to the Hawkshead Institute ('John Ruskin, Brantwood, Candlemas 1883') on the half-title. In 1873 the book was located on Shelf 4, South Study Bookcase, Brantwood.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

HOUBA (JULIEN)Les chênes de l'Amérique septentrionale en Belgique, FIRST EDITION, half-title, 57 lithographed plates (including 38 nature-printed chromolithographs of leaves), contemporary half calf, original printed upper wrapper bound in [Nissen BBI 937], large 8vo, Hasselt, Ceysens, 1887--[ALPINE FLORA] A collection of approximately 100 actual mounted samples of Alpine flora, mounted on loose sheets, most with printed identification label, held in modern cloth box, gilt morocco lettering label on spine, [late nineteenth century]--Album of 'Wild Flowers', compiled by Marmaduke Burton Dawnay, approximately 100 actual samples of pressed flowers mounted on 34 sheets (recto only), all captioned, with Dawnay's ownership stamp, nineteenth century half morocco, 4to, initialed 'M.D., September 1899'--French album of pressed flowers, compiled by Emilie Vail, upwards of 50 actual samples mounted with paper tabs on 31 sheets (recto only), captioned in ink with place and date collected ('Jardin de Pope, Londres 1835', 'Tombeau de Napoleon', 'Chateau de Blois, 1843', etc.), contemporary quarter morocco, oblong 8vo, [1840s]; and 6 other Herbariums with mounted flowers, including 4 with samples mostly collected in Surrey in the 1870s (10)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

LANA TERZI (FRANCESCO)Magisterium naturae, et artis... in quo occultoiora naturalis philosophiae principia manifestantus, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, 57 engraved plates (each folding, mounted on a stub), 4-page dedication to Sfondrati loosely inserted in volume 3, early tree calf, small gilt stamp [see provenance] on upper covers, neatly rebacked preserving original spines, gilt-tooled with red and black morocco lettering labels, some rubbing [Riccardi I 13.3, 'Raro di trovare tutti e tre i volumi uniti... importantissima opera'; Wheeler Gift 197], folio (370 x 235mm.), Brescia, Giovanni Maria Ricciardi [-Parma, Hyppolite Rosati], 1684-1692Footnotes:First edition of Lana Terzi's magnum opus, a polymathic collection of Jesuit science in the style of his mentor Athanasius Kircher.Provenance: Royal Society of Edinburgh, small gilt stamp at centre of upper covers.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

MAXWELL (JAMES CLERK)A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 2 vol., second edition, DIRK TER HAAR'S COPY, WITH EXTENSIVE ANNOTATIONS THROUGHOUT, written in Dutch, in pencil, including some diagrams and illustrations, mostly in margins, 20 plates, 32-page publisher's catalogue (dated October 1884) at end of volume 2, spine ends repaired [cf. PMM 355; Norman 1466, first edition of 1873], Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1881--WATSON (H.W.) AND S.H. BURBURY. The Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, bookplate and stamps of Haberdashers' Aske's Hampstead School Science Library, 1885, publisher's green cloth gilt, rubbed, Oxford, Clarendon Press--VOLTA (ALESSANDRO) Collezione dell'opere, 3 vol. in 5, 7 folding engraved plates, lacks portrait frontispiece, contemporary grey boards, printed spine labels (later blue ink note one label and spine), rubbed, Florence, 1816, 8vo (9)Footnotes:An extensively annotated copy of 'Maxwell's major work, which demonstrated the importance of electricity to physics as a whole' (Norman), from the library of the Dutch physicist Dirk ter Haar (1919-2002).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

PARKINSON (JOHN)Theatrum botanicum: the Theater of Plants. Or, an Herball of a Large Extent, FIRST EDITION, additional engraved allegorical title by Marshall incorporating portrait of the author, approximately 2600 woodcut illustrations, errata leaf, without initial blank, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked [ESTC S121875; Henrey 286; Hunt 235; Nissen BBI 1490; Pritzel 7749], folio (350 x 220mm.), Thomas Cotes, 1640Footnotes:A large, clean and crisp copy of Parkinson's Theatrum Botanicum, with some 2700 woodcut illustrations describing over 3,800 plants.Provenance: Richard Isted (1605-1654) of Framfield and Lewes, contemporary purchase inscription on title and a handful of marginalia; Magnus Byne, also of Sussex, contemporary inscription 'ex dono consanguinei et amici mei'; Ambrose Isted (1717-1781) of Ecton Hall, Northamptonshire, bookplate on verso of title; by descent to Major-General Fredrick Edward Sotheby; his Ecton Hall Library sale, Sotheby's, 21 November 1955, lot 357, sold to Hammond for £19.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

TURNER (MATTHEW)An Account of the Extraordinary Medicinal Fluid, called Æther, woodcut ornament depicting Britannia on title, title soiled with tear touching one letter of imprint, disbound [ESTC T135342, citing 4 copies only; Norman 2116; Wellcome 14628162], 8vo, [Liverpool], John Sadler, 1761Footnotes:A RARE PAMPHLET ON THE PROPERTIES AND HISTORY OF ETHER. Born in Liverpool, where this work was published, Turner was a chemist and surgeon who 'manufactured and dispensed sulfuric ether as a remedy for headache, vertigo, epilepsy, gout and rheumatism, palsy and digestive disorders; for most of these ailments, ether was to be taken orally, but for some, such as headache, Turner also recommended that it be 'snuff[ed] ... up the Nostrils.' With this recommendation of the inhalation of ether for killing pain, Turner has a place in the pre-history of anesthesia' (Norman).There are two variant issues of the second edition: this copy (and the Norman copy) belong to what is believed to be the earlier issue, without the place of publication on the title but with the Britannia ornament. There is also an undated issue with a London imprint giving the name of J. Wilkie as the printer, while the first edition seems to be a 2-page broadside published in 1760.Provenance: John Grant Booksellers of Edinburgh; purchased in the 1950s by the vendor's father, Dr. Wheeler, a consultant anaesthetist.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

MUTEFERRIKA PRESSSUBHI (MEHMED) [In Arabic:] Ta'rih-i Sami ve akir ve Subhi, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, title with ink inscriptions erased and fore-edge strengthened on verso with tape, tears at head of fols. 13 and 209, the first touching text, lacking blank fol. 72, modern blindstamped calf imitating Ottoman wallet-style binding, folio (320 x 205mm.), Istanbul, Vak'anüvis Ahmed Vasıf Efendi and Beylikçi Raşid Efendi, 1198 H [1784]Footnotes:After İbrahim Müteferrika died in 1745, his press fell into disuse, revived once in 1756 by his successors, but immediately abandoned once again until it was bought from his heirs by the present printers, two court secretaries. This work, a chronicle of the early and middle two decades of the century by official court historian Mehmed Subhi (combined with earlier histories by Sami and Şâkir), was the first production from this iteration of the press (see Gruber, The Islamic Manuscript Tradition: Ten Centuries of Book Arts in Indiana University Collections, 2010).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

BURNE-JONES (EDWARD)The Flower Book. Reproductions of Thirty Eight Watercolour Designs, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 213 OF 300 COPIES, 38 coloured plates by Burne-Jones, text printed in red and green, 4-page facsimile of his list of flower names at end, contemporary dark green morocco gilt by the W.H. Smith bindery (i.e. Douglas Cockerell with 'W.H.S.' stamp inside upper cover), t.e.g., small repair touching one word of lettering on spine, a few small abrasions, 4to (320 x 280mm.), Henry Piazza et Cie., for the Fine Art Society, 1905Footnotes:Burne-Jones began his series of 'Flower Book' designs in 1882, working upon them until his death in 1898. 'The pictures in this book are not of flowers themselves, but of subjects suggested by their names... All the pictures take the same form, a circle about six inches in diameter—a kind of magic mirror in which the vision appears—and he wished them not to be separated, because, wide as is their scope, one spirit, that of pure fantasy, unites them... In some of the pictures details remain unfinished; but both colour and design are always perfectly clear, and are so intimately characteristic of the painter that I have sometimes thought this book contains a fuller expression of himself than exists elsewhere in his work' (Georgiana Burne-Jones, from the preface).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CHURCHILL (WINSTON S.)The Story of the Malakand Field Force. An Episode of Frontier War, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, second state with errata slip, half-title, frontispiece, 6 maps (2 folding), tissue guards, 32-page catalogue at end, some spotting, publisher's green cloth, light soiling [Woods A1(a)], 8vo, Longmans, 1898Footnotes:First edition of the author's first published book.Provenance: ?M.E. Woods, early ownership inscription on the half-title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CHURCHILL (WINSTON S.)The River War. An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, half-titles, 7 photogravure portraits (including frontispieces), 24 maps (20 folding), illustrations in the text, spotting, publisher's dark blue pictorial cloth gilt [Woods A2(a)], 8vo, Longmans, 1899Footnotes:First edition of Churchill's second published book, published in an edition of 2000 copies.Provenance: Louis Kelly, Liverpool, early ownership inscription on half-titles; C.H. Brackenbury, purchase receipt from Bernard Quaritch, 12 May 1970 loosely inserted; by family descent to present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CHURCHILL (WINSTON S.)Savrola. A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania, first English edition, advertisement leaf at end [Woods A3(b)], Longmans, 1900; London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria, 4 maps (3 folding), 32pp. advertisements at end [Woods A4], Longmans, 1900; Ian Hamilton's March, frontispiece, one folding map, 32pp. advertisements at end [Wood A5], Longmans, 1900; Lord Randolph Churchill, 2 vol., first English edition, frontispieces [Woods A8(a)], Macmillan, 1906; My African Journey, frontispiece and plates, 16pp. advertisements at end [Woods A12], Hodder & Stoughton, 1908; Liberalism and the Social Problem, [Woods A15], Hodder & Stoughton, 1909; The World Crisis, 5 vol. in 6, folding maps, errata slip tipped-in in volume 1, bookplate of John Batten Pooll in volume 1 [Woods A31(a)], Thornton Butterworth, [1923-1931]; My Early Life. A Roving Commission, frontispiece and plates [WoodsA37(a)], Thornon Butterworth, [1930]; Thoughts and Adventures, first English edition, frontispiece [Woods A30(a)], Thornton Butterworth, [1932], FIRST EDITIONS unless otherwise stated, some spotting, publisher's cloth, the second and fifth mentioned pictorial, some rubbing or fading, 8vo; and 27 others by Churchill (42)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CHURCHILL (WINSTON. S)Arms and the Covenant. Speeches... Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND DATED BY CHURCHILL 'Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill, June 1938' with Randolph Churchill's signature beneath on front free endpaper, frontispiece portrait, publisher's blue cloth, dust-jacket (clipped and worn with some losses) [Woods A44(a)], 8vo, George S. Harrap, [1938]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

COHEN (LEONARD)Let Us Compare Mythologies... Drawings by Freda Guttman, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, 5 plates by Guttman, publisher's black cloth, silver gilt lettering on spine, pink pictorial dust-jacket (uneven fading, spine split at joints with one horizontal tear), 8vo, Printed in Montreal, and Published for the McGill Poetry Series by Contact Press, Toronto, 1956Footnotes:FIRST EDITION OF LEONARD COHEN'S FIRST BOOK OF POETRY, IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET. Approximately 400 copies were printed, under the editorship of Louis Dudek of McGill University, with the purpose 'to present to the university community and the public the work of young writers at McGill of out standing ability'.Provenance: Neville Linton, McGill Union, ownership inscription dated May 1956 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

CUNARD (NANCY, EDITOR)Negro Anthology... 1931-1933, FIRST EDITION, numerous photographic illustrations throughout, lacks the map, short marginal tear to 4 or 5 leaves, publisher's brown cloth lettered in red on upper cover, and with map of 'The Black Belt of America' on lower cover, 4to, Nancy Cunard at Wishart & Co., 1934Footnotes:'It was necessary to make this book - and I think in this manner, an Anthology of some 150 voices of both races - for recording of the struggles and achievements, the persecutions and the revolts against them, of the Negro people' (Foreword). The contributors include Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Samuel Beckett, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Theodore Dreiser, Henry Crowder, and Countee Cullen. It is thought that 1000 copies were printed, but it is always stated that many of these were destroyed in a warehouse during the Blitz.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE) 'Lewis Carroll'A Charade, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'Hilda Margaret Johnson from the Author. A memento of Dec. 19 1889', cyclostyled pamphlet, 4pp. (one blank), 2 illustrations in the text, loose as issued [Madan and Green 100, 'A singular and rare piece'], 8vo, [Privately printed], 1878; Christmas Greeting. [From a Fairy to a Child], first separate printing, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'Hilda Margaret Johnson, from Lewis Carroll. A memento of Xmas, 1889', one sheet [Madan and Green 162], 16mo, [Macmillan, 1884]--An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves 'Alice.', PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'Hilda Margaret Johnson, from Lewis Carroll. Eastertide, 1890', 3pp. [Madan and Green 90.7], 16mo., [?1885]; 'Imagination', AUTOGRAPH MIRROR-WRITING RIDDLE, 7 lines, comprising title and 3-line question and answer, written in mirror-writing, inscribed on reverse 'Hilda Margaret Johnson with the affectionate regards of Lewis Carroll, Ap. 16. 1890', in original miniature envelope addressed by Dodgson to 'Miss H.M. Johnson', 53 x 53mm., [16 April 1890], all inscribed in purple ink (4)Footnotes:'WHAT! DON'T YOU KNOW YOUR ALPHABET? - AN AUTOGRAPH RIDDLE IN MIRROR-WRITING, inscribed in purple ink by Dodgson, along with a group of ephemeral works, to a seventeen-year old schoolchild involved in a performance of Alice in Wonderland. The riddle, reading 'Imagination. Q. But what does 'followed by a bird' mean? A. What! Don't you know your Alphabet?', can be read when held up to a mirror, and is held in a miniature envelope. Charmingly illustrated Dodgson's Charade is described by Madan and Green as 'a singular and rare piece'.Hilda Margaret Johnson helped in a theatrical production of 'Alice in Wonderland' put on at the Edgbaston High School for Girls (Birmingham) on 19 December 1889, at which Dodgson was present. He noted in his diary for that day, 'I rashly offered to tell 'Bruno's Picnic' afterwards to the little children, thinking I should have an audience of 40 or 50, mostly children, instead of which I had to tell it from the stage to an audience of about 280, mostly older girls and grown-up people!... The evening began with some of 'Julius Caesar' in German. This and 'Alice' were really capitally acted, the White Queen being quite the best I have seen... I was introduced to Alice and a few more, and was quite sorry to hear afterwards that the other performers wanted to shake hands' .Provenance: Hilda Margaret Johnson (1873-1959), each item inscribed by Dodgson, retained in an old envelope addressed to Mrs Hilda M. Rendall (Hilda's married name), with a note in her hand 'Lewis Carroll sent me these in remembrance of E.H.S.S. Xmas performance of Alice in Wonderland. I was a producer'; by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ELIOT (T.S.)The Waste-Land, [in] The Criterion. A Quarterly Review, vol. 1, no. 1, pp.50-64, FIRST EDITION, untrimmed and partially unopened in publisher's printed wrappers, dampstaining to edges of upper cover, spine and lower cover, yapp edges with some chips and tears [Gallup C135], 8vo, Richard Cobden Sanderson, October 1922Footnotes:The first appearance of The Waste Land, in the first issue of The Criterion, the literary periodical founded and edited by Eliot. This preceded the poem's New York publication in The Dial, and its separate issue.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

[FORSTER (E.M.)]GASKELL (ELIZABETH) Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, E.M. FORSTER'S COPY, 18 wood-engraved plates by George Du Maurier, publisher's maroon cloth gilt, rubbed (with small loss at extremities of spine) [Sadleir 936; Wolff 2428, 'a really superb novel, the author's best'], 8vo, Smith, Elder, 1866Footnotes:Forster's copy of Wives and Daughters, a book he considered Mrs. Gaskell's masterpiece. The literary critic James McConkey recalls a meeting they had in which 'For the greater part... we talked about novels we both liked and novels he thought I would like, such as Mrs Gaskell's Wives and Daughters' ('Two Anonymous Writers. E.M. Forster and Anton Chekov', in Das and Beer, 1979).Provenance: E.M. Forster, inscribed 'E.M. Forster, King's College, Cambridge' on front free endpaper of volume 1, and book label 'This book belongs to E.M. Forster' in both volumes; given to his friend Eric Fletcher.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

[FORSTER (E.M.)]STURGIS (HOWARD OVERING) Belchamber, FIRST EDITION, E.M. FORSTER'S COPY, inscribed 'E.M. Forster from me [the author?], at 107 Eaton Square, June 14 1904', light spotting publisher's cloth, 8vo, Archibald Constable, 1904Footnotes:'Could one claim Belchamber as some kind of cryptic gay novel, in the way that Forster's books, while dealing with matters of heterosexual love and marriage, are quirkily animated and destabilised by his own non-heterosexual viewpoint?' (Alan Hollinghurst, review of Belchamber, London Review of Books, 9 October 2008). In 1935 Forster acknowledged his debt to Sturgis' novel in an essay, later collected in Abinger Harvest, in which he described it as a 'Classic', whilst acknowledging it was 'unlikely ever to be read again'. It has been, NYRB republishing it in 2008 with an introduction by Edmund White.Provenance: E.M. Forster, gifted to his friend Eric Fletcher.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

[FORSTER (E.M.)]GOLDING (WILLIAM) Lord the Flies... Introduction by E.M. Forster, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO E.M. FORSTER, inscribed 'For E.M. Forster from William Golding in Gratitude and Pride' in pencil on opening leaf, publisher's cloth, pictorial dust-jacket (spine dulled with small losses at extremities), 8vo, New York, Coward-McCann, 1962Footnotes:E.M. FORSTER'S COPY OF LORD OF THE FLIES, A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED 'IN GRATITUDE AND PRIDE' BY WILLIAM GOLDING. Forster, an early supporter of the book when first published in 1954, provided a lengthy introduction for this edition, stating 'It is a pleasure and an honour to write an introduction to this remarkable book... Lord of the Flies is a very serious book which has to be introduced seriously... It is written with taste and liveliness, the talk is natural, the descriptions of scenery enchanting. It is certainly not a comforting book. But it may help a few grownups to be less complacent and more compassionate....'. The introduction led to a warm correspondence between the two authors, several meetings, and a continued friendship.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

FORSTER (E.M.)The Hill of Devi being Letters from Dewas State Senior, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'Eric with Morgan's Love. Oct. 1953', Edward Arnold, 1953; Collected Short Stories, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'Eric Fletcher from Morgan Forster, Jul. 1948. K.C.C.', Sidgwick & Jackson, [1947]; The Development of English Prose Between 1918 and 1939, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'Eric Fletcher from E.M. Forster, Feb. 25 1948. K.C.C.', publisher's wrappers, Glasgow, Jackson, 1945--TRILLING (LIONEL) E.M. Forster. A Study, INSCRIBED BY FORSTER 'Eric with Morgan's love July 1950', Hogarth, [1944]--ZARNECKI (GEORGE) Later English Romanesque Sculpture 1140-1210, INSCRIBED BY FORSTER 'Eric with Morgan's love, Callow Farm, August 1953', dust-jacket, Tiranti, 1953--MEE (ARTHUR) Yorkshire. West Riding, INSCRIBED BY FORSTER 'With love from Morgan Forster and with memories of his happy visit April 1951', an engraving depicting Loch Ard inscribed 'George and Grace Fletcher with Morgan's love for Christmas 1954 and New York 1955' loosely inserted, dust-jacket, Hodder & Stoughton, 1960, 8vo; and an 8 volume set of George Crabbe's Poetical Works (1834), inscribed by Forster ('E.M. Forster, from West Hackhurst') in volume one, with a note in his hand ('I wish Eric Fletcher to have this large edition of Crabbe after my death, E.M. Forster Aug. 28 [?1969]') loosely inserted; and 3 others (17)Footnotes:Provenance: E.M. Forster, inscribed to his friend Eric Fletcher.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

FORSTER (E.M.)Two autograph letters signed ('Morgan') to Rupert Barkeley Smith, the first recommending he visit the valleys of the Lot and the Dordogne, thanking him for having him to stay and asking if Mr Hall still sells apples ('...I should love some russets, even more than Cox's...'), the second thanking him for the apples ('...The packing of the apples is both masterly and masterful...') and talking of France ('...Not far off is Souillac with some wonderful Romanesque sculpture including a dancing Isaiah. I wish he had given lessons to other prophets...'), 4 pages, some foxing and rust stains where previously clipped together, small hole to one page not affecting text, 8vo (180 x 115mm.), King's College, Cambridge, 19 November and 30 November 1953; Where Angels Fear to Tread, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'R.B.S. from E.M.F./ 4/10/05' on the half-title, with a pencil note 'There is a beautiful sentence on page 161 which makes me love you' in another hand on the title, William Blackwood, 1905; The Hill of Devi, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'This last Indian snippet: with affectionate remembrances to Honor and yourself from Morgan, October 1953' on the front free endpaper, photographic plates, Edward Arnold, 1953; Howards End, FIRST EDITION, ownership inscription (Nov. 1910) on front free endpaper, Edward Arnold, 1910; Collected Short Stories, bookplate of R. Barkeley Smith, Sidgwick and Jackson, [1947], publisher's cloth, rubbed, some fading, 8vo (6)Footnotes:'THE LAST INDIAN SNIPPET WITH AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCES' - Correspondence and books inscribed to Rupert Barkeley Smith (1883-1970).E.M. Forster met Barkeley Smith, an Oxford undergraduate destined for the Indian Civil Service, whilst on an Aegean cruise at Easter 1903. Despite widely different approaches to life, they initially enjoyed a close relationship, Forster visiting Smith in Oxford and taking walking trips together, with Forster hoping for something more; in his journal for 22 December 1907 he writes '...I wish he cared for fooling... It is impossible to proceed further...' (Ed. P. Gardner, Journals & Diaries of E.M. Forster, 2011, vol. 1). By the time Smith returned on leave from India in 1912, however, Forster gives the impression that their friendship had cooled, writing in his journal '...He was trying, & no doubt tired. But he keeps the curious belief that we are in sympathy...' (10 May 1912).Despite this, whilst Assistant Magistrate in Allahabad, it was Smith who facilitated Forster's trip to India in 1913 organising accommodation, servants and hospitality and, on one memorable occasion, inviting him to an annual bathing fair. On the way they visited the Buddhist sites of Buddh Gaya and caves in the Barabar Hills, later to be used as the model for the Marabar Caves in A Passage to India. Smith's attitudes, however, did not leave Forster with a favourable impression of the British in India, something which would colour his characterisations in the novel and leaving him feeling rather depressed: '...Four years in India had left their mark on Smith. He was curt and insolent in Court, wouldn't speak a word to Forster's friend Ahmed Mirza when he came to lunch, and seemed, like his 'civilian' companions, to dislike every class of Indian except the peasant...' (P.N. Furbank, E M Forster: A Life, 1978, vol.1, p.249). When the book came out in 1924, Smith took offence at the portrayal not only as a slur on the Indian Civil Service as a whole, but as a personal affront since, he believed, the Turtons' house in the novel bore too close a resemblance to his own bungalow in Agra: '...different readers took every possible different view as to the fairness of his treatment of Indian problems. Some Tory-minded readers were incensed at the book... Rupert Smith wrote him a violent letter, more or less breaking off their friendship...' (Furbank, vol. 2, p.125). By the 1950's, RBS and Forster were reconciled sufficiently for Forster to send him the fondly inscribed copy of his Indian memoirs, The Hill of Devi, but the relationship never properly recovered, Forster admitting in 1963, '...I want to spend myself in writing to people who are on the margin of my heart. Letter to RBS has gone...' (Journal, 15 August 1963).These letters are not listed in Mary Lago's Calendar of the Letters of E.M. Forster, neither are they published in the Selected Letters. They have been retained by Rupert Barkeley Smith's descendants until now.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GREENE (GRAHAM)Travels With My Aunt, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'with thanks for everything from Graham Greene' on the title, publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, pictorial dust-jacket, 8vo, The Bodley Head, [1969]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

HARDY (THOMAS)Jude the Obscure, FIRST EDITION, first state, half-title, etched frontispiece by by H. Macbeth-Raeburn, map of Wessex, small loss at headband, Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., [1896]; idem, another edition, identical to first edition except for substitution of 'Harpers' for 'Osgood...' at foot of spine, Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1896 [but Harper, 1897?]; idem, first American edition, plates by Hatherall, Harper & Brothers, 1896 [1895], publisher's green cloth gilt [Purdy, pp.86-91]; A Defence of Jude the Obscure... In Three Letters to Sir Edmund Gosse, C.B., NUMBER 28 OF 30 COPIES SIGNED BY T.J. WISE, publisher's wrappers [Purdy, p.26], Edinburgh, for Private Circulation Only by the Dunedin Press, 1928, 8vo (4)Footnotes:First and early variant editions of Jude the Obscure, together with T.J. Wise's very rare limited edition pamphlet publishing Hardy's letters concerning the book.Provenance: First three, Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr., bookplate; Fourth, Carroll Atwood Wilson, bookplate; Sotheby's, 7 November 2001, The Library of Frederick B. Adams, Jr. Part II: Thomas Hardy, lots 483 and 485.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