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HOUSMAN (A.E.)A Shropshire Lad, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 500 COPIES, half-title, title printed in red and black, publisher's parchment-backed boards (State 'A' with with the word 'Shropshire' on the paper spine label measuring 33mm. wide), spine label printed in red, soiled, spine rubbed with a few small losses, 8vo, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., 1896Footnotes:'Though not an instant success, the little volume gradually won a large audience through the universality of its dominant themes (nature, love, war, and death) and the directness of its language and rhythms' (ODNB), and has been in print continuously since this first edition. Issued in an overall edition of 500 copies, the present copy is one of 250 in the first state binding.Provenance: W.R. Crow (1878-1951), early ownership inscription; 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

MILNE (A.A.)When We Were Very Young, fourth edition, advertisement to 'Fourteen Songs' loosely inserted, December 1924; Winnie-The-Pooh, 1926; Now We Are Six, 1927; The House at Pooh Corner, 1928, FIRST EDITIONS, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, t.e.g., dust-jackets, 8vo, Methuen (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

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, with the number sequence from 10 to 1 on verso of title-page, publisher's pictorial wrappers (with misspelling 'Philospher' on lower cover), fading to spine, corner tips slightly turned, 2 small adhesion marks on upper cover, 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1997]Footnotes:The first paperback edition of the first Harry Potter title, issued on the same day as the first hardback edition.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, with the number sequence from 10 to 1 on verso of title-page, first section with slight browning and crinkling, faint yellow staining to one leaf (pp.83/84), publisher's pictorial wrappers (with misspelling 'Philospher' on lower cover), some creasing with slight chips and edge wear, 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1997]Footnotes:The first paperback edition of the first Harry Potter title, issued on the same day as the first hardback edition.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'To Jonathan with best wishes J.K. Rowling' on the front free endpaper, number sequence '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' on imprint page, publisher's pictorial boards (slightly worn at extremities of spine and corners), dust-jacket, 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1998Footnotes:Provenance: Inscribed by the author for the vendor when he was a child. He recalls the circumstances:'It is a primary school teacher named Mrs Pope that is to be thanked for it coming into my possession. She had started reading JK Rowling's first book (Philosopher's Stone) to my class just before all the hype started. Before Chamber of Secrets was released JK Rowling held a competition where she had her fans write letters about how much they enjoyed the first book. Her favourite letters would be hand picked and be published in the 'Chamber of Secrets'. Everyone in my class entered the competition (along with thousands of other Children). I didn't win, but a girl in my class named Fiona Chadwick did. You can see her letter reproduced in the back of Chamber. As a result of our classmate winning, my entire class were invited to her book launch at Waterstones in Aberdeen. JK Rowling read us the first 2 chapters of the book. It was magical hearing her give life to her words. I particularly remember her impersonating Dobby. She signed each of my classmates books and left a personal message in the cover of each one. We were all delighted and star struck'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

THOMAS (DYLAN)Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page, faded early ownership inscription (dated 1941) on front free endpaper, publisher's green cloth, silver lettering on spine (slight fading at extremities), dust-jacket (2 tears, some losses to upper cover and extremities of spine including most of the word 'Dylan' at head, spotting to lower cover, lower joint torn and with loss at corners of folds), preserved in modern drop-back box, gilt morocco lettering label on spine, 8vo, Dent, [1940]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WYNDHAM (JOHN)The Midwich Cuckoos, first American edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'To Lawrence Bachmann/the full epic of that charmed village/gratefully from John Wyndham July 1960' on the title-page, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket (unclipped, spine light fading with short tear at foot, upper cover upper margin with 2 short tears, one resulting in small loss to 'M' of author's name), 8vo, New York, Ballantine Books, [1957]; sold with an autograph letter signed by Wyndham ('John Benyon Harris') to Lawrence Bachmann, thanking him for 'a thoroughly enjoyable party', praising the film adaption of the book, and enclosing this copy of the book, one page, headed paper, 16 July 1960 (2)Footnotes:Rare presentation copy, with accompanying letter, inscribed to the American film producer Lawrence Bachmann, who was British head of MGM when the studio made the classic film version, titled Village of the Damned, in 1960. In the letter Wyndham gives his 'thanks for the film itself - as I think I told you, I frankly did not think it could be done', and enclosing a copy of the book 'with some diffidence, feeling that you are probably sick of the sight of it by now...'. A remake, directed by John Carpenter, was released in 1995.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

AESOPFables with His Life: in English, French and Latin... by Francis Barlow, additional engraved title, full-page engraved arms of the Earl of Devonshire, 31 engraved plates by Thomas Dudley after Francis Barlow, one full-page etched illustration of Aesop surrounded by animals and birds ('See here how natures books...'), and 110 half-page engraved illustrations, a few plates slightly browned, some tears mostly in lower or upper margins (text on 4 leaves and 1 engraving affected, but all without loss), CONTEMPORARY BLACK MOROCCO BY BARLOW'S AESOP BINDER, elaborately tooled in gilt, the sides decorated with leafy tendrils and various floral tools, emanating from a small Greek urn, with borders of drawer-handle tools forming connecting geometric pattern, spine in 8 compartments with raised bands and 3 flower tool designs, some small patches worn, spine slightly faded and joints rubbed in places, some paper repairs to marbled endpapers [ESTC R22991], folio (363 x 235mm.), H. Hills Jun., for Francis Barlow, and are to be sold by Chr. Wilkinson [et al], 1687Footnotes:FINELY BOUND BY 'BARLOW'S AESOP BINDER' FOR PRESENTATION: A PREVIOUSLY UNRECORDED LARGE PAPER COPY. 'From this bindery, active in the 1680s and 1690s, come three handsome presentation copies of Barlow's Aesop, two of them now in the British Library... [and] Pepys's copy at Magdalene College' (Howard M. Nixon, English Restoration Bindings, 1972, p.40). This fourth example can be attributed to the shop through comparison with the dedication copy to the Earl of Devonshire at Chatsworth, now in the British Library (Nixon, op. cit. no. 99 and plate 99). The combination of a floral and geometrical pattern is common to both bindings, and many of the same tools are used. The sides feature the same leafy tendrils and smaller ornamental and flower head tools, whilst the spines share two floral compartmental designs along with the superscript letter 's' in 'Barlow's'. The Cracherode copy in the British Library also features some of the same tools.Barlow's edition of Aesop, self-financed and illustrated, was first published in 1666, but most copies were destroyed when his shop, the Golden Eagle, was burned down in the Great Fire that year. The present second edition, considered the culmination of Barlow's work in book illustration, was the first to contain the 31 fine plates illustrating Aesop's life, and the quatrains by Aphra Behn which were engraved in place of Thomas Philpott's captions within the 110 illustrations. The present copy includes the so-called 'indecent' plate 17 which is often missing.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

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, RHEIMSThe New Testament of Jesus Christ Faithfully Translated into English... Annotations, and Other Helps, for the Better Understanding of the Text... By the English Colledge then Resident in Rhemes, 'fourth edition, enriched with pictures', additional engraved title-page, 7 full-page engraved illustrations (Evangelists, St. Paul, St. John and Pentecost) by Picquet and Michel van Lochom, additional title cut to size and laid down, headlines to approximately 20 pages shaved along with a couple of catchwords, dampstain to 2 leaves, upper cover and spine detached [ESTC S102550; Herbert 479], 1633; The Holy Bible... with Arguments of the Bookes and Chapters,... By the English Colledge of Dovvay, 2 vol., second edition of the Roman Catholic version, each with separate letterpress title, printer's licence leaf at end of second volume, without the additional engraved titles, first volume without final blank, title with repair resulting in some loss to one letter, small repairs to final 4 leaves, extreme corner tip of 4 leaves repaired, second volume title with one corner torn away, and some abrasion resulting in loss of a few words, upper joint of volume one cracked, lower part of spine of volume 2 detached [ESTC S1501; Herbert 499], 1635, woodcut ornaments and decorative initials, red edges, uniform nineteenth century blindstamped calf, worn, 4to, [Rouen], John Cousturier (3)Footnotes:The second edition of the Roman Catholic version of the Old Testament, which had first been published in Douai in 1609, and the fourth edition of the New Testament.Provenance: New Testament, James Atkinson (1759-1839, Surgeon, of York), inscription on aii (Preface to Reader), 'Atkinson' bookplate; Old Testament, 'Will Johnston bought this book 1712', inscription on final leaf of first volume; John Macfarlane, Writer to the Signet, bookplate in both New Testament volumes; James Dix, of Bristol, 'Biblical Collection', bookplate dated 1850 in each volume.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MARCELLINUS (AMMIANUS)The Roman Historie... Translated Newly into English... by Philemon Holland, first edition in English, 2F2-3 probably from another copy, final few leaves ('Acts') shaved at fore-edge, loss to upper fore-corner of final leaf affecting a few letters, title lightly soiled, contemporary calf, rebacked [ESTC S114268], folio (267 x 170mm.), Adam Islip, 1609This 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

MEXIA (PEDRO)The Historie of All the Romane Emperors, Beginning with Caius Julius Caesar, and Successively Ending with Rodulph the Second Now Raigning, first edition in English, title within woodcut architectural border, numerous woodcut illustrations, corner of title repaired with loss to border, lacking first and final blanks, wormtrail in lower gutter of a few gatherings, contemporary calf, upper covers with central gilt motif of rose within branches and surmounted with crown, rebacked [ESTC S114704], folio (285 x 180mm.), Matthew Lownes, 1604Footnotes:Provenance: Armorial gilt stamp on covers, composed of several tools similar to some of those used by Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594-1612). According to Mirjam Foot, 'the fact that there were three different arms blocks and six different corner blocks, all found in various combinations, suggests that the books were farmed out in batches to different binders who were at the same time lent blocks'; Mary Cameron, ownership inscription on title dated 1833.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

MORE (THOMAS)A Frutefull Pleasaunt, & Wittie Worke, of the Beste State of a Publique Weale, and of the Newe Yle, called Utopia... translated into Englishe by Raphe Robynson, second edition in English, undetermined state, black letter, ornamental initials, occasional light soiling and light dampstaining but mostly clean and fresh, lacks the final 5 unnumbered leaves with colophon, contemporary blind-panelled calf, restored with some cracks, wear to lower cover and loss to spine [ESTC S112887 or S103392; Pforzheimer 740], small 8vo (140 x 95mm.), [Richard Tottel for] Abraham Vele, dwellinge in Pauls churchyarde, at the signe of the Lambe, [1556]Footnotes:THE SECOND ENGLISH EDITION OF MORE'S VISIONARY MASTERPIECE, IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Utopia, described in Printing and the Mind of Man as a 'tract for the times', was written in Latin for the benefit of the literati and first published in Louvain in 1516. However, it wasn't until 1551, sixteen years after More's execution, that it was first published in England by Abraham Vele, in a translation by Ralph Robinson. This second edition followed five years later, in the year of Cranmer's execution, and was the one William Morris used for the Kelmscott Press printing. Although the present copy lacks the last five unnumbered leaves (containing dedications and a supplementary verse), it is extremely rare in a contemporary binding, the only other example listed in auction records being a copy bound in vellum which was sold at Bonhams New York on 22 September 2015 ($38,000).The contemporary binder's waste used in this copy provide a tantalising glimpse into the world of the London printing and binding trade. They comprise fragments of an early manuscript on vellum, along with two printed pages (used as front flyleaves and rear pastedown) which appear to be trial or rejected sheets from Girolamo Ruscelli's The Secretes of the Reverende Maister Alexis of Piemount Containyng Excellent Remedies against Divers Diseases, Woundes, and other Accidents (specifically leaves B3 & 4 in the 'First booke of Secretes'), printed 'by John Kingstone for Nicolas Inglande, dwellinge in Poules churchyarde, 1558'. One can only speculate how the sheets may have found their way from one St Paul's printer to the other's shop, or to the binder.Provenance: Private collection, UK.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

[NERI (MARY ANNE)]The Eve of San-Pietro. A Tale, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, without advertisement at end of volume 3, no half-titles, light spotting, blank endpapers loose in volume 1, and one endpaper loose in volume 2, contemporary half calf, red and black morocco gilt spine labels, rubbed, loss to one headband, 8vo, T. Cadell Jun., and W. Davies, 1804Footnotes:First edition of a scarce Gothic novel, the author's 'first production. Unsanctioned in a Name, unsupported by a Dedication, she 'lets it down the Wind, to prey at Fortune'' (Advertisement to the Reader). Provenance: Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne (1751-1818), ownership inscription ('Eliz. Melbourne') on each title-page. Elizabeth was mother of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister on two occasions; Brocket Hall Library bookplate, country seat of the Melbourne family; Lord W. Kerr, bookplate. Kerr inherited Brocket Hall in 1906, selling the estate in 1923; Paul Harris, blindstamp on front free endpapers in each volume, bookplate and inscription on fly-leaf in volume one.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

PLINIUS SECUNDUS (GAIUS)The Historie of the World: Commonly Called the Naturall Historie, 2 vol. in one, second edition, without final blank, a few paper flaws with one or two losses to margins, a handful of wormtrails generally confined to very edges (7 leaves neatly repaired) but touching a few letters in gatherings 3D-3F, first and leaf few leaves slightly frayed and repaired but with only a few letters affected, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original spine [ESTC S121936 ], folio (335 x 210mm.), Adam Islip, 1634Footnotes:Provenance: Ambrose Rocke, ownership inscription on title; Reginald Shutte (presumably the Anglican clergyman biographer, 1829-1892), ownership inscription on front free endpaper.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PLOT (ROBERT)The Natural History of Stafford-Shire, FIRST EDITION, title with engraved vignette, 37 engraved plates (25 double-page), one large folding hand-coloured engraved map (detached and framed), list of subscribers, light arc of dampstaining to several plates and some text towards end, contemporary calf, rebacked [ESTC R21986], folio (355 x 230mm.), Oxford, at the Theatre, 1686 (2)Footnotes:Provenance: Charles Bruce, third Earl of Ailesbury (1682-1747), bookplate 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

RUSKIN (JOHN)Praeterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life [-Dilecta_ Correspondence, Diary Notes, and Extracts from Books, illustrating Praeterita], 31 original parts in 6 vol., FIRST EDITION, EXTENSIVELY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED FOR CHARLES E. GOODSPEED WITH THE INSERTION OF 25 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED BY RUSKIN, 23 autograph letters and notes by contemporaries (including Turner), numerous sketches, photographs, cut signatures, annotated proof sheets, and upwards of 280 additional engravings and plates (some coloured), the collection comprising: i) Group of 25 autograph letters signed ('J. Ruskin', 'John Ruskin', 'J.R.') to various correspondents, including:'Darling Reille', an unknown child ('...although May is irresistible, And Alice is so bewitching – yet you were my first Love... ps Don't frizz the hair quite so high this time...'); Miss Rudkin, organising a spring dress for Arthur Severn's daughter whom he finds '...already tall enough – to become – a pretty costume, and refresh and refine my savage mind...'; an unknown recipient recalling an encounter with Charles Darwin ('...A couple of years ago, a man, Darwin was walking with me on my garden terrace and stopped to look at a strange form of (I forget what) flower. – 'Now – why is that shaped so' – he said. Why should you want to know? I answered – Oh – he said, laughing – but with the perfectly frank expression of a man partly ashamed of a weakness – 'I always want to know' – 'And I never do.' – ended this 'discussion' in that direction – and we went into lunch...'); Charles Newton on his engagement to Effie Gray ('...I believe indeed that it is every way better for me that I should marry... Miss Gray is a good girl... will be a very noble creature – and far above my deservings...'); another to Newton (speaking of his recent trip to Europe ('...that vast blunder St Peters...'), the effect of political feeling on architecture, hoping to 'get out of Jephson's clutches' soon to show him some architectural drawings completed in Italy); the Revd A. Tighe Gregory (mentioning his nervous condition '...the most trivial matter will sometime sicken and sting me...', his debt to Turner for art and Carlyle for literature and marvelling how they, like him 'should be irreligious' but that he is open to 'all influences'); Lady Naesmyth (sending copies of verses by Rose La Touche, despairing she has gone to Ireland and may not love him when she returns); four to his friend and neighbour at Brantwood, Susan Beever, including a highly personal undated letter regarding '...that wretched child...' [Rose La Touche], complaining of her evangelism and his frustration ('...a husband can always say a little word for himself – whereas a poor, servile – wretch of an old lover... she I verily believe is like to be in mortal illness as not – and vowing I shan't come near her unless I swear first that I don't care to! – and only love God. And of course I can't & won't do anything of the sort – I don't love anything but her in the whole universe – and she leads me the life to Tantalus & Prometheus Vinctus in one...'); another illustrated with a sprig of blossom written three days after her death ('...I've just heard that my poor little Rose is gone when the hawthorn blossoms go... just left the second number of Proserpine to be printed – there are many little things going to be said in it, which nobody but she would have understood... I have been long prepared so you need not be anxious about me...'); and another including a delicate drawing of moss ('...all in stars as close as that – it takes such a dreadful time to paint...'); and Thomas Carlyle discussing the use of colour in Greek sculpture ('...if colour will make Greek endurable – it will make Gothic glorious...'); others include a note to Dante Gabriel Rossetti arranging a meeting, another refusing an invitation to dine at Mr D'Israeli's, to his physician Henry Jephson, to Hale White regarding his paper on Byron and to Henry Jowett regarding the publication of Praeterita, c.52pp in all, 8vo, Denmark Hill, Brantwood, Leamington Spa, Perth etc., c.1841-1889 where dated. ii) Illustrations, including a copy of John Ruskin's self portrait of c.1861, head and shoulders, wearing a black neckerchief, pencil and watercolour, in an unknown hand, image 155 x 125mm.; a sketch map of Oxford depicting the town and colleges, in ink, with monogram ('JR') on reverse of a printed prospectus for Robert Taylor Pritchett's Brush-Notes in Holland, 183 x 240mm.; two fine pen and ink vignettes of hawthorn blossom and moss; and sketch of a dog by John Brown entitled 'orat plorat et adorat', 85 x 65mm.; together with numerous printed plates and engravings including landscapes, architecture and portraits.iii) Some 23 autograph letters by others including J.M.W. Turner (arranging for James Lennox of New York '...to view the work of art at Denmark Hill Slave Ship...'), Ruskin's father John James Ruskin, George Cruikshank, Giulia Grisi (signed musical quotation from Verdi's Il Trovatore), his physician Dr Henry Jephson, John Brown (3), George Allen, Charles Eliot Norton (from whom Goodspeed received Ruskin's autograph), J. A. Froude, Joan Ruskin Severn, Thomas Carlyle, Robert Harry Inglis, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Carlyle (to Robert Browning regarding her uncle's funeral), and Lord Egremont; with others regarding the publication of Praeterita, additional photographs and cut signatures.iv) Printer's proof sheets of Chapter XI Volume 2 with corrections and annotations by Ruskin in black ink., bound at the end of volume 2.Footnotes:AN IMPORTANT EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED SET WITH 25 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS BY RUSKIN, ASSEMBLED BY AND BOUND FOR THE EMINENT RUSKIN COLLECTOR CHARLES E. GOODSPEED OF BOSTON.Praeterita, the story of Ruskin's early life, was published in 28 parts at intervals from July 1885 to July 1889 when ill-health took its toll on the author and the series remained unfinished: '...Praeterita is a delightful work, a rewriting of Ruskin's life that makes it unreliable as a source of biographical fact, yet an accurate portrait of the author's mind...' (Robert Hewison, ODNB). This finely-bound set of Praeteritia is the result of a collaboration in the early years of the twentieth century between Ruskin's friend and literary executor, the American Charles Eliot Norton, who supplied the parts (as evidenced by the ownership inscriptions on the bound-in wrappers), and the eminent Ruskin collector, bibliophile and bookseller Charles E. Goodspeed, who organised the extra material and binding, supplying much of it from his own extensive collection.The extra material Goodspeed carefully chose to include in this edition is not organised in exact chronological order but fitted in where deemed appropriate to fit the text, and includes several important autograph letters by Ruskin amongst the wealth of material. Although some of the letters are marked in pencil presumably for the purposes of publication, most are apparently unpublished, with one particularly revealing letter bearing the pencilled note 'Rosie... perhaps too 'intime' to print?...'. Goodspeed has indeed selected some particularly personal letters for inclusion, several relating to his relationships with young girls, one to Charles Newton for example enthuses about his engagement to Effie Gray ('...far above my deservings...'), and another to his close friend and neighbour at Brantwood, Susan Beever, where, in a highly intimate letter, he complains of '...that wretched child...' (presumably the deeply religious Rose La To... 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

SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS (CAIUS)The Historie of Twelve Caesars, Emperours of Rome, first edition in English, translated by Philemon Holland, 12 small profile portraits of each Emperor, lacks 3 leaves (pp. 5-8 and 29-30 of final section), title lightly soiled, 2 leaves from Sidney's Arcadia misbound amongst preliminaries, one upper rule cropped, modern calf antique [ESTC S126802], folio (275 x 175mm.), Matthew Lownes, 1606This 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

BOURNE (SAMUEL) AND CHARLES SHEPHERDThe Coronation Durbar. Delhi 1903, FIRST EDITION, 133 platinum prints by Bourne & Shepherd, mounted on 101 leaves of thick green paper (recto only, several loose), title and text printed in purple on special paper within a decorative gold printed border, publisher's red morocco gilt, covers with wide decorative border enclosing title 'Coronation Durbar, Delhi, 1903. of His Majesty King Edward VII. Viceroy Baron Curzon of Kedleston, P.C., G.M.S.I, G.M.I.E.' above the Order of the Star of India badge and crown in gilt on upper cover, neatly rebacked to match, folio (450 x 355mm.), Calcutta, Simla, Bombay and London, Printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode, for Bourne & Shepherd, [1903]Footnotes:A magnificent record of the 1903 Delhi Durbar to commemorate the accession of Edward VII, a spectacular event lasting thirteen days 'marked by displays of unexampled magnitude... [eclipsing] the splendours of the vanished Empire of the Moghuls' (introduction), culminating in a procession of the lavish retinues of the Native Chiefs.Bourne & Shepherd were the official photographers to the Durbar, and the album includes numerous portraits of Indian princely rulers (the Nizam of Hyderabad, the Maharajas of Baroda, Mysore and Kashmir, and those of the Shan, and Southern Baluchistan); Lord and Lady Curzon on the State elephant 'Lutchman Pershad'; many views of the State entry into Delhi; panoramas of the Durbar Amphitheatre (which could hold 12,000 spectators), the processions including those of elephants, camels and troops.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

HENDLEY (THOMAS HOLBEIN)Ulwar and its Art Treasures, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE MAHARAJAH BEY SINGH OF ALWAR, additional chromolithographed title, colour portrait of the Maharao Raja of Ulwar (with printed label noting that on 1 January 1889 he was 'granted the hereditary distinction of Maharaja' pasted in margin), 80 plates (numbered 1-79 and 17A, mostly chromolithographed, 2 double-page), illustrations (some colour, others photographic) in the text, all leaves on stubs, original decorative black morocco gilt, each cover with gilt-tooled border enclosing a large central panel of red morocco with elaborate design, gilt dentelles, extremities rubbed, folio (370 x 270mm.), W. Griggs, 1888Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPY FROM MAHARAJAH SIR JAI SINGH OF ALWAR, IN A SPECIAL GILT MOROCCO BINDING. Hendley based his pioneering study of Mughal art treasures on the extensive collection of the Maharaja of Alwar ('at whose whole cost this book is published', the total value of the collection estimated by the author to be about two million pounds sterling), and research he carried out 'in the native capitals of Rajputana'.Provenance: Captain Smith, presentation inscription from Maharaja Sir Jai Singh of Alwar, 'To Captain Smith. In memory of the pleasant time we spent together, and as but a poor return for all the trouble you took with with me especially on 5th September 1902 from yours sincerely Jey Singh, Ulwar'. Jai Singh (1882-1937) succeeded his father in 1892, and ruled Alwar until 1933.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HENDLEY (THOMAS HOLBEIN)Damascening on Steel or Iron, a Practised in India, FIRST EDITION, tinted photographic frontispiece ('Group of Damasceners in Gold'), 31 colour photo-chromo-lithographed plates by W. Griggs from water colour drawings 'by Murli, Nand Lal, Chaju Lal, Ram Gopal, Jiwan, and other Indian artists', calf-backed cloth, original decorative title panel (printed in silver) mounted on upper cover, folio (375 x 270mm.), W. Griggs & Sons, 1892This 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

HENDLEY (THOMAS HOLBEIN)The Rulers of India and the Chiefs of Rajputana, 1550 to 1897, FIRST EDITION, 26 plates (18 colour), publisher's pictorial red morocco gilt, folio (370 x 270mm.), W. Griggs, 1897This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

JACOB (SAMUEL SWINTON) AND THOMAS HOLBEIN HENDLEYJeypore Enamels, FIRST EDITION, 28 chromolithographed plates, pictorial opening initial (depicting a seated jeweller) printed in red, short tear to blank lower margin of plate 15, publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, g.e., folio (370 x 270mm.), W. Griggs, 1886Footnotes:The authors note that the best enamellers in modern India are the Sikhs, the tradition in Jaipur starting when 'Maharaja Man Singh... brought five Sikh enamel workers from Lahore, and... that the descendants of these men still procure their colours from that town to carry on the trade of their forefathers confirms that tradition', and giving the names of the best current practitioners. One of these, Guma Singh, is depicted with in the opening plate alongside three other named workers. Two plates depict the tools of their profession, and the remainder examples of their work including sword handles, vases, cups and spoons, bracelets and jewels. In the preface S.S. Jacob, Executive Engineer of Jaipur State, praises the quality of these illustrations, produced by 'one of the best Jeypore artists, by name Ram Bux [Baksh], son of Esur..., and the only credit I can claim is in having set him to work and paid him for his trouble'.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

JEHANGIR (SORABJI)Princes and Chiefs of India. A Collection of Biographies and Portraits of the Indian Princes and Chiefs and Brief Historical Surveys of the Territories... Revised and Completed by F.S. Jehangir Taléyarkhan, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, with letterpress titles and descriptive text, 84 woodburytype portraits (of 85, without the Maharaja of Samthar, as issued?), all on original mounts with decorative typographical borders (images approximately 250 x 195mm.), 3 plates loose, one slit in blank margin, a few single wormholes to approximately 5 plates at end of volume 2, publisher's red morocco gilt, g.e., folio (370 x 265mm.), Waterlow & Sons, 1903Footnotes:RARE COMPLETE SET, ILLUSTRATED WITH STRIKING PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS OF THE MAJOR INDIAN PRINCELY RULERS, in the original binding. The author 'visited all parts of India to collect and verify the necessary material, to enlist the co-operation of those concerned, and to arrange for the photographs which add so greatly both to the contemporary and historical value of the undertaking' (Preface). Each portrait, taken by an as yet unidentified photographer, is boldly composed and beautifully lit, with the sitters (full-length, seated or head and shoulders) dressed in their finery. This copy, like the only other full set traced at auction, was issued without the portrait of the Maharaja of Samthar. Provenance: Mysore 'Palace Library', stamp on title of volumes 1 and 3.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MAWJEE (PURSHOTAM VISHRAM)The Imperial Durbar Album of the Indian Princes, Chiefs and Zamindars, 2 vol., FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, NUMBER 30 OF 300 COPIES, the number '30' stamped in purple ink with a facsimile signature of the author on the colophon leaf in volume 1, half-title in volume 2, 184 photogravure and collotype portrait plates (of 195, lacking 11 in volume 1, one loose), mounted one per page (recto only) on thick paper, most within a printed decorative border, tissue guards (some missing), publisher's blue cloth, gilt-stamped title and Royal coat of arms within wide decorative border on upper cover, blind-stamped decoration on lower cover, neatly rebacked in morocco gilt, folio (380 x 300mm.), Bombay [Mumbai], The Lakshmi Art Printing Works, 1911Footnotes:EXTREMELY RARE WORK PUBLISHED IN BOMBAY TO CELEBRATE THE IMPERIAL DURBAR OF 1911, with no copies recorded as selling at auction on Rare Book Hub or American Book Prices Current, only 2 copies on WorldCat. The colophon states that the work was limited to 300 copies, but it seems possible that the full print run was not issued. The Indian author, Mawjee Purshotam Mawujee, proudly notes in the preface that 'this work has been wholly executed and finished in this country, in the face of several unforeseen difficulties, and that, too, within a limited time'. Published in Bombay, the work was executed in the grand scale expected of such grandiose Durbar 'Princely Portrait' celebratory volumes, the portraits mounted on thick paper, and bound in a gilt-stamped binding, but it is noticeable that the work included, alongside the most major rulers, many minor rulers and regional zamindars not usually represented. The author acknowledges the assistance of 'political officers' who helped source the photographs and historical accounts of these, whilst other images are reproduced from famous photographic studios, including Herzog and Higgins, Bourne and Shepherd, F. Bremner, and Wiele & Klein.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

JEHAN BEGAM, H.H. THE NAWAB SULTAN, RULER OF BHOPALThe Story of a Pilgrimage to Hijaz, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 'Sultan Jahan, 81-12-13' on title-page, 28 photographic plates, publisher's blue cloth gilt, spine faded, upper hinge weakened, 8vo, Calcutta, Thacker, Spink & Co., 1909Footnotes:Rare detailed narrative of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina undertaken by Sultan Jahan, Begum of Bhopal in 1903. The first part of the Sultan's narrative 'contains a brief geographical description of Arabia, to which is added a detailed account of the foundation of the holy Kaaba as well [as] the Prophet's mosque. The second book deals with events and incidents relating to my pilgrimage to Hijaz' (pp.11-12). On her return to Bhopal sacred relics were enshrined in the Asafi Masjid mosque, and a public holiday proclaimed on which all the mosques in the city were illuminated.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

Judy Dench Red Joan Quad Poster Cast & Director SignedThis is something special, it is a must for any movie fan. It is a first edition cinema quad poster for the acclaimed film ‘Red Joan’. Signed at the films London premiere and BAFTA press junkets byDame Judy Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes, George Fenton (Composer) and Trevor Nunn (Director)

Richard Attenborough Rare Signed Quad Miracle On 34th Street Plus Director & Composer. This item is a very rare & special item, and a must for any movie fan. It is a first edition cinema quad poster for ‘Miracle on 34th Street’. It was signed at a private event in Ghent 2003 by Santa Claus himself Lord Richard Attenborough. It was later signed in LA by producer John Hughes and composer Bruce Broughton.

Harry Potter Fantastic Beasts Crimes Of Grindelwald Quad Fully Signed Inc J K RowlingThis item is a very rare & special item, and a must for any Harry Potter fan. It is a first edition cinema quad poster for ‘Fantastic Beasts Crimes Of Grindelwald’’. It was signed at the films UK Premiere and a number of marketing events by Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Eddie Redmayne, James Newton Howard (Composer), David Yates (Director) and creator/writer J K Rowling.

Les Miserables Quad Signed By Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway & Rare Composer. This item is a very rare & special item, and a must for any movie or music fan. It is a first edition cinema quad poster for ‘Les Miserable’. It was signed at the films UK Premiere and an international BAFTA event by Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway and director Tom Hooper. At a private event the same year thecomposer Claude Michel Schonberg added his signature making this quite sought after.

J M Barrie 'Peter Pan & Wendy' Book, re-told for Little People, with approval by author. Illustrations by Mabel Lucie Attwell, published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., London. This edition first published 1931, hardcover, in good condition for age, just the front picture loose. Pencil name 'D Ratcliffe' inside front cover.

Royal Doulton Superb Quality Handpainted Fine Bone China Limited & Numbered Edition 'Celebration of Faith' Display Plates - Four in Total. Comprising: 1. 'Celebration of Faith' Yom Kippur Plate. Embellished in 22ct Gold, this plate is No. 3104 of 7,500 issued. Original artwork by James B Wood, with original display boxes, and certificates of authenticity. First quality and mint condition, never out of boxes. Measures 10.25'' - 25.75 cm diameter. 2. 'Celebration of Faith' Rosh Hashanan Plate. Embellished in 22ct Gold. This plate is No. 5916 of 7,500 issued, and comes with original display box and certificate of authenticity. First quality - mint condition. Never out of box. 10.25'' - 25.75 cm diameter. 3. 'Celebration of Faith' Passover Plate, embellished in 22ct gold. This plate is No. 3139 of 5000 issued. Original artwork by James B Woods with original display box and certificate of authenticity. First quality, and mint condition. Never out of box. 10.25'' - 25.75 cm diameter. 4. 'Celebration of Faith' Chanukah Plate. Embellished in 22ct gold. This plate is No. 2928. Original artwork by James B Wood. With original display box and certificate of authenticity. First quality - mint condition. Never out of box. Measures 10.25'' - 25.75 cm diameter. Please see images.

Blue Jasper Wedgwood Early Edition Christmas Plates Six in total. Christmas 1970 Trafalgar Square, 1971 Piccadilly Circus , 1972 Saint Paul's Cathedral, 1973 The Tower of London, 1974 Houses of Parliament, and 1976 Hampton Court. The first plate was 1969. All with original boxes.

SET OF 5 SILVER 1OZ MEDALS COMMEMORATING THE FIRST LANDING ON THE MOON, NUMBERED 599 FROM A LIMITED EDITION OF 1000, HOUSED IN ORIGINAL BOX WITH CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY ACCOMPANIES

Hardback Book - London Interiors with Their Costumes and Ceremonies - First Edition 1841

A collection of model vehicles to include five Corgi Trackside, The Bygone days of road transport suitable for 00 scale layouts, A Corgi Premium Edition Scammell Highwayman Flatbed trailer & cradled Load 1:50 scale, A Corgi Kings of the Road Scammell Highwayman Tanker British Oxygen Company 1:50 scale. Five Exclusive First Editions Commercial trucks 1:76 scale, a Corgi Scammell Limited Edition Highwayman Dept. of the Environment 1:50 scale. A Bachmann branch line China clay wagon 1:76 scale, a Dapol Model Railways Lowell Baldwin 9 Plank 1:76 scale, an Oxford Commercials British Railways van 1:43 scale & a Black Cab 1:76 scale. Plus three unbranded models.

Churchill (Winston Spencer, 1874-1965). Works, 47 volumes, 1898-1961, comprising: The Story of the Malakand Field Force, 1st Colonial edition, 1898, author's presentation copy to Regimental Sergeant-Major W. Brown, 4th Hussars (with original covers and spine bound-in at rear); The River War. An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1899; Savrola. A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania, 1st edition, 1900; London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, 1st edition, 1900; Ian Hamilton's March, 1st edition, 1900 (bound without half title); Lord Randolph Churchill, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1906; My African Journey, 1908; Liberalism and the Social Problem, 1st edition, 1909; The People's Rights, 1st paperback edition, 2nd state (with pagination corrected and Appendix II in place of the index) [1910], with close-trimmed upper wrapper only bound-in; The World Crisis, 5 volumes bound in 6, 1st edition, 1923-31, My Early Life. A Roving Commission, 1st edition, 1930; India. Speeches and an Introduction by the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill, 1st paperback edition, 1931 (with original orange wrappers bound-in); Thoughts and Adventures, 1st edition, 1932; Marlborough. His Life and Times, 4 volumes, 1933-38, limited edition 87/155, signed by Winston Churchill; Great Contemporaries, 1st edition, 1937; Arms and the Covenant; 1st edition, 1938; Step by Step, 1936-1939, 1st edition, 1939; Into Battle, 1st edition, 1941; The End of the Begining, 1st edition, 1943; The Dawn of Liberation, 1st edition, 1945; The Second World War, 6 volumes, 1st editions except volume I a Book Society edition, 1948-54, The Sinews of Peace, 1st edition, 1948; Europe Unite. Speeches 1947 and 1948, 1st edition, 1950, In the Balance, 1st edition, 1951; Stemming the Tide, 1st edition, 1953; A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, 4 volumes, 1st edition, 1956-58; The Second World War and an Epilogue on the Years 1945 to 1957, 1st edition, 1959; The American Civil War, 1st edition, 1961; The Unwritten Alliance, 1st edition, 1961, maps and illustrations, occasional light spotting to a few volumes, top edge gilt, uniformly bound by Henry Sotheran in red morocco, upper covers with the gilt arms of the Duke of Marlborough, the four volume limited edition Marlborough. His Life and Times bound in similar original red morocco with the gilt arms to upper covers (spines a little faded and rubbed at ends)Qty: (47)NOTESProvenance: From the Winston Churchill Collection of Major Alan Taylor-Smith (1928-2019). A fine set of the major works of Winston Churchill, including The Story of the Malakand Field Force inscribed by Churchill 'To Regimental Sergeant-Major W. Brown. 4th (Q.O.) Hussars, with the author's compliments', (The 4th Hussars were Churchill's first regiment, which he joined as Lieutenant in 1895), and the 4-volume limited signed edition of Marlborough. His Life and Times.

* Woodville (Richard Caton, 1856-1927). Attack on the Laager of Wagons, 1893, watercolour and gouache on card, signed lower right, damage and loss to the corners, and some scratches, 30.5 x 44cm, unframed, together with a colour print showing the revised version which appeared in the Illustrated London News, 31.5 x 45.5cm, framed and glazed plus a page removed from the Illustrated London News featuring this printQty: (3)NOTESThe Matabili War in South Africa: Attack on the Laager of Wagons was painted by Richard Caton Woodville and published in the 9 December 1893 edition of The Illustrated London News. The First Matabele War was fought in 1893-94 between the British South Africa Company and the Ndebele (Matabele) people. The Battle of Shangani was fought near the Shangani River on 25 October 1893 in what is now Zimbabwe. A large force of Matabele warriors attacked a column of the British South Africa Compay but were repulsed with heavy loss of life to the Matabele force. A laager comes from the obsolete Afrikaans word lager, which comes from the German word Lager (camp or lair) referring to the ancient defensive formation used by travellers throughout the world in dangerous situations in which they would draw wagons into a circle and place cattle and horses on the inside to protect them.

Churchill (Clementine, 1885-1977). Photograph signed, 'Clementine S. Churchill', 1945, vintage gelatin silver print by Dorothy Wilding with label and photographer's facsimile signature to mount verso, image 20.5 x 15.5 cm, signed and dated by the sitter on the lower mount, together with a copy of a first edition of her book My Visit to Russia, Hutchinson & Co., [1945], portrait frontispiece, original printed wrappers, a little soiled, small 8vo, plus a Lovell tablecloth embroidered in coloured silks by Mrs F.A. Allen and her two daughers of Nottingham, c. 1941-42, the white cloth embroidered with several hundred autographs including Clementine Churchill, the Duke and Duchess of Portland, the Marquess and Marchioness of Titchfield, the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Nottingham, the members of parliament for Nottingham, Lord Chatfield and many other public men and private citizens, 125 x 130 cm, plus 2 Typed Letters Signed by Mrs Churchill's private secretary B.M. Crawden, on 10 Downing Street letterhead, 27 November & 11 December 1941, in relation to the tablecloth, the first agreeing to add her signature but regretting that the Prime Minister cannot do the same owing to 'the ever increasing number of similar requests he receives', the second returning the tablecloth which she has now signed, both with some slight soiling and creasing, one page, 4to, plus a similar letter on behalf of the Duke and Duchess of Portland and a related news cutting about the tablecloth from 5 February 1942Qty: (5)NOTESThe embroidered tablecloth was produced for Mrs Churchill's Aid to Russia Fund and according to the news cuttings raised £61. It notes that the tablecloth was to be presented to the Lord Mayor of Nottingham who was to then auction it, the proceeds going to the same cause.

Churchill (Winston Spencer). India: Speeches and an Introduction, 1st edition, Thornton Butterworth, 1931, original orange cloth with 'INDIA - CHURCHILL' blocked vertically down the spine, dust-soiled and spine slightly faded, 8voQty: (1)NOTESWoods A38. The rare hardbound copies of the first edition appear in two variants with the black lettering on the spines blocked horizontally or, as here, vertically. The very rare dust jacket (not present here) is identical for both these variants.

* Perring (Bill, 20th century). Flying Fortress, 1993, oil on canvas, showing a Flying Fortress flying over Pin Mill, River Orwell, Suffolk, signed and dated lower left, 51 x 91cm, framed, inscribed verso 'This is the first version of "Flying Fortress!" which was completed in 1993. A second version in which the aircraft was enlarged was painted in 1994 and subsequently published as a limited edition print.'Qty: (1)

Churchill (Winston Spencer). London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, new impression (i.e. 2nd impression), London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1900, 3 folding maps (frontispiece map a little frayed with short tear to outer margin), 5 other maps and plans, 32 pp. publisher's advertisements at end, a little light spotting, front endpapers renewed, original pictorial cloth, 8vo, together with another copy of the same workQty: (2)NOTESProvenance: From the Winston Churchill Collection of Major Alan Taylor-Smith (1928-2019). Woods A4a (for the first edition). According to Richard M. Langworth's A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, Woods states that the new or second impression of 500 copies was produced a few days after the first printing but the publisher's catalogue of July 1900 identifies the second impression as being produced some nine months later, and more likely in a run of 5,000 copies.

Wallis (Barnes Neville, 1887-1979). The Dam Busters by Paul Brickhill, with a Foreword by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Tedder, 1st edition, Evans Brothers Limited, 1951, black and white plates from photographs, neat pencil notes by Barnes Wallis’s wife Molly to margins of pp. 32, 35, 37, 68, 104, 167 and 199, author’s signed presentation inscription to front free endpaper, ‘For Barnes Wallis - Without whom there would have been no squadron [617 Squadron] and no book. With warmest regards, Paul Brickhill, London, Oct. 1951’, small news cutting to front pastedown with a picture showing the breach in the Moehne dam from a photograph taken by a German soldier the morning after the raid, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, spine faded at tips, dust jacket rubbed and a little soiled, frayed at head and foot of spine with slight loss at head, lower portion of spine detached and later held with tape repairs to verso at head and foot, 8voQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: From the family of Barnes Wallis, by direct descent. Barnes Wallis’s personal copy of the book that, with the follow-up film in 1955, helped cement Wallis’s place in the history books of World War II. Molly’s notes are personal notes relating to the account in the book. In the first she says how the children helped him with his early experiments with a water tub in the garden and that they ‘never divulged a word to anyone’ (p. 32). Molly tells how she witnessed the first actual dam blowing experiment on Rhayader Lake and that ‘it was most exciting’ (p. 35). The third pencil note describes how she was stopped from getting near to an aeroplane taking off with Wallis in it at Weymouth, when off to do the first experimental bomb test-drop off Chesil Beach (p. 37). On page 68 Molly concurs that Wallis was getting very little sleep and then, further down, disagrees with Brickhill describing Wallis taking his hat off: ‘Rubbish, he never wears a hat’. The most poignant, and final, comment from Molly relating to Operation Chastise is written in the margins adjacent to the printed account of Wallis’s distress concerning the terrible news of the raid’s own casualties: ‘Yes, I was very frightened, one moment he was talking to me and the next he had flopped asleep. I sat up hugging my knees until the birds started, wondering if he was all right and thinking how he felt, poor darling’ (p. 104). The final two brief marginal pencil notes relate to the Tallboy and earthquake bombs.

Churchill (Winston Spencer). The People's Rights, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1910], half title,152 pp., some toning to textblock (as usual), manuscript shelf numbers to title verso and at end, bookplate, bound without the wrappers in contemporary morocco-backed boards, spine and edges a little rubbed, 8voQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: From the Winston Churchill Collection of Major Alan Taylor-Smith (1928-2019). Woods A16; Cohen A31. 2a. Second state copy of the wrapper-bound edition, with page number 71 corrected (not page 1 as in the first issue) and with the index replaced with Appendix II, 'Labour Exchanges and Unemployment Insurance'. The wrapper-bound edition was published simultaneously with the hardback edition in 1910, and according to Cohen "All issues of The People's Rights are extremely scarce", despite some 40,000 copies printed, due to it being produced on cheap and fragile paper.

Churchill (Winston Spencer). The Story of the Malakand Field Force. An Episode of Frontier War, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1898, 1st issue without the errata slip tipped-in, portrait frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 4 plans, 32 pp. publisher's catalogue at end (dated 12/97), list of illustrations leaf detached, some light spotting and stains, endpaper versos toned, W.H. Smith & Sons library label to front pastedown, original green cloth gilt, spine a little toned and rubbed at ends, a few small marks, 8voQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: From the Winston Churchill Collection of Major Alan Taylor-Smith (1928-2019). Woods A1a. Winston Churchill's first book.

Churchill (Winston Spencer). The Dream, introduction by Richard M. Langworth, Publication Whole Number 2, The International Churchill Societies, 2nd edition, 1994, double-page colour illustration by Sal Asaro, all edges gilt, original green calf gilt, spine ends a little rubbed, 8vo, commemorative limited edition 74/75, together with another copy of the same work, with original glassine wrapper (small tears), limited edition 38/75Qty: (2)NOTESProvenance: From the Winston Churchill Collection of Major Alan Taylor-Smith (1928-2019). Langworth pp. 358-59. The first copy signed by 14 members of the Churchill family, including Mary Soames, Peregrine Churchill, Minnie S. Churchill, Nicholas Soames, Catherine Churchill, Charlotte Peel, Jeremy Soames, Julian Sandys, Edwina Sandys, Celia Sandys, Rupert Soames and Emma Soames. The Dream was written by Winston Churchill just after the Second World War, where he imagines the return of his father Randolph and recounts events to him that have happened since his death in 1895. The first bookform edition was published in a limited issue of 500 in 1987, the second edition of 1994 printed in a run of 1,000, but the present Commemorative Edition copies of 75 were specially printed for members of the Churchill family in celebration of the 120th anniversary of the birth of Sir Winston.

Churchill (Winston Spencer). The Story of the Malakand Field Force. An Episode of Frontier War, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898, half-title, halftone portrait frontispiece, 6 maps of which 2 folding, 32 pp. publisher's advertisements to rear, black endpapers, front inner hinge tender, half-title browned, text-block toned and spotted, damp-stain to head of non-folding maps, occasional corrections to spellings of non-English names in purple pencil, further manuscript corrections in standard pencil to pp. 30, 119, 225, 239, original green cloth, rubbed and slightly marked, spine rolled, 8voQty: (1 volume with folder)NOTESProvenance: From the Winston Churchill Collection of Major Alan Taylor-Smith (1928-2019). Langworth pp. 12-14; Woods A1a. First edition, home issue, first state (without the errata slip), one of 2,000 copies. With manuscript corrections attributed to Churchill by the Churchill Archives Centre in an accompanying typed note signed by Katharine Thomson, archivist, Churchil Archives Centre, 8 June 2004, reading: 'I have checked this copy of Winston Churchill's "The Story of the Malakand Field Force", and I think the annotations in ordinary lead (particularly on page 119) are probably in Churchill's own hand'. The book is also accompanied by a typed affidavit signed by one James Hugh Munro of Rondebosch, South Africa, dated 26 May 2004, reading: 'This book was given to me in the late 1950's by Mrs Gericke, the elderly widow of Dr O M Gericke. She told me that the corrections had been made personally by Churchill when [s]he and her husband were passengers together ona boat between India an England shortly after the publication of the book'. Other correspondence sold with this copy indicates that it was acquired by Alan Taylor-Smith from one Kate Philipson of Rondenbosch (of the neighbouring address to Munro's) in June 2005.

Corbett (Julian S.). Naval Operations [History of The Great War], 5 volumes, reprint editions, The Battery Press, Nashville, 1997, uniform publishers original blue cloth, 8vo, includes Volume 1 (Maps), Longmans & Co., circa 1937, 18 monochrome maps, publishers original blue cloth book box, boards & spine lightly marked & faded, 8vo, together with; Pope (Stephen), The First Tank Crews..., 1st edition, Helion & Company, Solihull, 2016, colour & black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, and Girardet (Jean-Marie et al), Somewhere on the Western Front, Arras 1914-1918, new edition, Éditions Degeorge, Arras, 2007, numerous colour & black & white illustrations, publishers original boards, large 8vo, plus other modern Great War/World War I reference, including publications by Pen & Sword, Spellmount, Grub Street, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, VG, 8voQty: (56)

Churchill (Winston Spencer, 1874-1965). Into Battle. Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill, C.H., N.P., Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill, 10th edition, Cassell & Co., 1943, signed presentation inscription from the author to recto of first blank leaf, 'To Monsieur V.V. Tillea with best wishes from Winston S. Churchill, 1946', top edge gilt, original pebble-grained blue morocco, gilt-titled spine, a little rubbed, 8voQty: (1)NOTESPresentation Issue and the first printing of this title to be issued in the format. Tillea had been the Roumanian Government-in-Exile's representative in London during the war and this would have been an appropriate volume to have been presented him, since a number of the speeches herein are concerned with the conquest of Roumania. A rare presentation binding and a nice association copy.

COLLECTION OF FIRST DAY COIN COVERS, including the Flying Scotsman Signed Silver Coin Cover, limited edition of 950 and the History of WWII, contained across six folders

NO RESERVE Rosicrucianism .- Péladan (Joséphin), "Sar Mérodack J. Péladan". Comment on devient fée erotique, first edition, signed presentation copy from the author, initial justification f., half-title, 2 identical heliogravure portrait frontispieces, pictorial title, advertisement ff. at end, lightly browned throughout, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, spine faded, [Caillet, 8429; Dorbon, 3572], Paris, Chamuel, 1893 § Gautier (Théophile) Voyage en Russie, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, advertisements at end of vol.2, foxing, original yellow printed wrappers, spine ends little chipped, rubbed, Paris, Charpentier, 1866; and a small quantity of others, 19th century French Literature & History, the majority a set of Walter Scott in French, v.s. (Sm.Qty.)

NO RESERVE Poetry & Theatre.- Kahn (Gustave) Odes de la Raison, signed presentation copy from the author to Lugné-Poë, half-title, plate, original brown printed wrappers, Paris, Éditions de "La Raison", [1902] § Jarry (Alfred).- Vollard (Ambroise) Politique Coloniale du Père Ubu, first edition, signed presentation copy from the author, half-title, title with illustration by Georges Roualt, front endpaper with browning, original pictorial wrappers, lightly browned, Éditions Georges Crès & Co., 1919; and a small quantity of others, 20th century French Poetry and a few Theatre, some inscribed by authors, v.s. (Sm.Qty.)

NO RESERVE Surrealism.- Tanquay (Yves, illustrator).- Péret (Benjamin), "Satyremont". Les Rouilles encagées, first edition, folding half-title 'Les couilles enragées', without title, 7 erotic plates by Yves Tanquay printed in green, original printed wrappers, short splits to join ends, foot of spine repaired, 8vo, Paris, Eric Losfeld, [1954].⁂ Rare. The first sheets were seized by the police due it's lewd content.

NO RESERVE Wright (Richard) Fishbelly, translated by Hélène Bokanowski, first edition in French, signed presentation copy from the author and translator to Pierre de Benouville, half-title, portrait of the author by Monique Métrot, lightly browned, original printed wrappers, a few small light stains, lightly creased at extremities, 8vo, Paris, Julliard, 1960.⁂ First French edition of The Long Dream, translated by Wright's old friend.

NO RESERVE Beckett (Samuel) Comédie et actes divers, first edition, number 50 of 80 copies on Pur Fil Lafuma, original printed wrappers bound in, later red morocco, gilt, rubbed, a very good copy, Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1966; and Fin de Partie, 1957, in original wrappers, 8vo (2)

Scott (Sir Walter, poet and novelist, 1771-1832) Autograph Letter third person to Mr Smirke, 1p., 8vo, Abbotsford, Sunday evening, n.d. [c. 1814], sending a small volume of rare tracts for reprinting, and the first to be copied is Jonathan Swift's "the present Miserable state of Ireland", browned, folds.⁂ In 1814 Scott published his nineteen volume edition of Swift's works, with "Notes and a Life of the Author", and this letter evidently relates to the preparation of this work.

Dell (William) The Tryal of Spirits both in Teachers and Hearers, third edition, a little foxed, cropped shaving a few side-notes, modern calf, spine faded, [Wing D934], 8vo, by T.Sowle, [1699].⁂ Dell (c.1607-69) was a clergyman and Parliamentarian who served as a chaplain in Cromwell's New Model Army, and Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, from 1649-60. He was a controversial character who suggested Parliament should keep out of religious affairs, stood up for the poor, and attacked academic education while at Cambridge. A supporter of Quakers and other non-conformists, he befriended John Bunyan and invited him to preach at his parish church of Yelden in Bedfordshire. This work was first published in 1653 and became very popular in America where it was reissued several times, including a Philadelphia printing of 1760 by Benjamin Franklin and David Hall for the Quaker Meeting.All editions are scarce in commerce; ESTC lists 7 UK copies, not including Edinburgh or Oxford.

Pope (Alexander) The Works, first edition, first issue of the quarto edition, half-titles, folding portrait frontispiece of Pope, titles in red and black, vol.2 initial directions to binder f., charming engraved head- and tail-pieces by S. Gribelin in vol. 1, and P. Fourdrinier after W. Kent in vol. 2, and historiated initials, some spotting, lightly browned, contemporary calf, gilt, sympathetically rebacked, preserving original red morocco labels, corners worn, covers rubbed and scuffed, [Griffith 79 & 372; Rothschild 1584 & 1626 (note)], 4to, W. Bowyer for Bernard Lintot [and] J. Wright for Lawton Gilliver, 1717-1735.⁂ The first issue of the quarto edition, without Tonson's name in the imprint.

Castiglione (Baldassare) Il Cortegiano, or The Courtier, edited by A.P.Castiglione, issue with 'To the Reader' at end of dedication and 5pp. list of subscribers, engraved portrait by Vertue after Raphael, parallel English and Italian text, with small red ink stamp to head of title, slight worming to outer margin towards end (mostly single wormhole), contemporary panelled calf, morocco label, rubbed, corners and spine ends a little worn, joints split, 4to, by W.Bowyer, for the editor, 1727.⁂ Third English edition of Castiglione's seminal work on behaviour in its various forms, regarded by Italians of the period as "the golden book". The first English edition was Hoby's translation of 1561 followed by Samber's of 1724.

NO RESERVE India.- Code des Loix des Gentoux, ou Reglemens des Brames, first French edition, 8 engraved plates, half title, occasional light marginal dampstaining, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, later endpapers, 4to, Paris, L'Imprimerie de Stoupe, 1778.⁂ The first attempt to present Hingu law in a Western form.

Smith (Adam) The Theory of moral sentiments, or, An essay towards an analysis of the principles by which men naturally judge concerning the conduct and character, first of their neighbours, and afterwards of themselves. To which is added, a dissertation on the origin of languages, fourth edition, advertisement f. at end, occasional spotting, contemporary tree calf, spine gilt and with red morocco label, upper cover detached, spine ends chipped, corners worn, rubbed, [Alston, III, 825], 8vo, Printed for W. Strahan, J. & F. Rivington, W. Johnston, T. Longman; and T. Cadell in the Strand; and W. Creech at Edinburgh, 1774.⁂ A rare edition in commerce of Smith's first book. It laid the foundations for The Wealth of Nations and proposed the theory repeated in the later work 'that self-seeking men are often 'led by an invisible hand. without knowing it, without intending it, to advance the interest of the society'.