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Click here to subscribeAmazing Spider-Man 2 DVD Bluray Cover Signed By Signed By Andrew Garfield & Emma StoneThis is something unusual, it is a must for any film fan. It is a first edition Blu-ray DVD cover from myprivate collection for 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2', signed at a 2018 BAFTA charity event in Londonby the films leading stars Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone.
Indiana Jones DVD Cover Signed By Harrison Ford & Karen AllenThis is something unusual and rare, it is a must for any movie fan. It is a first edition Bluray DVDCover of the classic film ‘Indiana Jones & The Kingdon Of The Crystal Skull’. It was signed in 2011 at aBAFTA event in London by the films leading actors Harrison Ford & Karen Allen.
Vin Diesel & Paul Walker Signed The Fast & The Furious DVD CoverThis is something brilliant, it is a must for any film fan. It is a first edition DVD cover from my privatecollection for ‘The Fast & The Furious’, signed at a 2012 20 th Century Fox marketing event in Londonby the films leading stars the late Paul Walker & Vin Diesel
The Addams Family Very Rare First Edition Video Promo Poster Signed By Cast & CrewThis is something special and a must for any film fan. It is a very rare first edition video promoposter (26”x 22”) for the movie ‘The Addams Family. It was signed at a puplicity event hosted byColumbia Home Entertainment in London 2000 by - Raul Julia, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd,MC Hammer (Singer), Marc Shaiman (Composer)Scott Rudin (Producer) and Barry Sonnenfeld (Director)
Tom Cruise & J J Abrams Signed Mission Impossible 3 DVD CoverThis is something fantastic, it is a must for any film or Mission Impossible fan. It is a first edition DVDcover from my private collection for ‘Mission Impossible 3, signed at a 2012 Force For ChangeUNICEF event in London by the films director J J Abrams and major league star Tom Cruise
Monte Carlo Facts and Fallacies by Sir Hiram S Maxim, illustrated by G A Stevens; First Edition, published by Grants Richards, 1904; pictorial cloth boards, 8vo. Sir Hiram Maxim, inventor of (amongst other things) the 'Flying Machine', still in use at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Lancashire, UK
Royal Crown Derby Limited & Numbered Edition Handpainted Paperweights (2). 1. Majestic Cat, an event version of the cat decorated with pale blue and gold swirls, developed by Carmen Roome for RCD Roadshow events in 1997. Available 1997 only. This cat is No. 354 of 3500 produced, with silver stopped. 2. 'Cat' first appeared in 1985. Japan version with blue, red and gold representing the fur. Height 5" - 12.5 cm. Both paperweights in first quality mint condition.
Royal Crown Derby Limited Numbered Edition Hand Painted Paperweight 'Chevroned Butterfly' from the 'Tropical Fish Series' exclusive edition, no.89 of 2,500, gold stopper; an unusual looking oval fish decorated in wonderful colours of pale blue and gold; 5.25 inches (13.25cms), first quality, mint condition
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.
Francis John Angus Skeet, The Life and letters of H.R.H. Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany, 1932, Limited edition on hand made paper of fifty signed and numbered copies of which this is no. 38, together with various other books and novels to include Jerome K Jerome,Three Men In A Boat, first edition1889, Arrowsmith, Bristol,
ACTON (ELIZA)Modern Cookery in all its Branches: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, for the Use of Private Families, FIRST EDITION, half-title, illustrations, 24pp. advertisements at end, light browning and occasional staining, publisher's cloth, rebacked [Bitting p.3; Oxford p.175], Longmans, Brown, 1845--RUNDAL (MARY) The Domestic Cookery Book, or Guide to the Culinary Art... Valuable Receipts for Plain and Ornamental Cookery Upon the Most Economical Plan... Carving, Brewing, Trussing... Making Wines..., engraved frontispiece and 10 plates (slightly frayed at edges), some damp- and other staining, modern calf-backed boards, spine gilt, John Bysh, 8 Cloth Fair, Smithfield, [c.1830]--MOLLARD (JOHN, 'Park Hotel, Norwood') The Art of Cookery Made Easy and Refined, lacking half-title and frontispiece, modern half calf, spine gilt with red morocco label [Bitting, p.328; Oxford, p.131], Whittaker & Co., 1836--KITCHENER (WILLIAM) The Cook's Oracle, Containing Receipts for Plain Cookery, on the Most Economical Plan for Private Families, third edition, occasional soiling, contemporary half roan, joints cracked, tear to spine [Oxford p.145-6; Simon BG 915], Edinburgh, Robert Cadell, 1837--APPERT (NICOLAS) The Art of Preserving All Kinds of Animal and Vegetable Substances, second English edition, half-title and advertisement leaf, lacks plate, nineteenth century half calf, spine gilt, bookplate of Joseph Cook [Bitting p.14], Black, Parry and Kingsbury, 1812--GORDON (A.M.) The New Domestic Cookery; Formed upon Principles of Economy, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations, 2pp. advertisements preceding title, old owner's ink note on verso of title, publisher's cloth, w. Tweedie, 1853--The New London Cookery. Adapted to the Use of Private Families... by S.W., eighth edition, folding wood-engraved frontispiece (repaired) and 5 plates of cuts of meat, some soiling, publisher's cloth, Joseph Smith, 1836, 8vo and 12mo (7)Footnotes:Books on domestic economy including the first edition of Eliza Acton's Modern Cookery and three rare works or editions not traced in any culinary bibliography. Particularly perplexing is Mary Rundal's Domestic Cookery Book, as neither the title nor its author appear to be recorded anywhere. Library Hub does record one copy an edition of Gordon's New Domestic Cookery (Dublin, 1849), and two editions of The New London Cookery (Joseph Smith, 1835 and c.1840). Although these editions give 'A Lady' as the author rather than 'S.W'., the one dated 1835 matches the collation of our work, so we can presume they are one and the same, although earlier editions have also been attributed to Esther Copley.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
CHINESE COOKERYThe Oriental Cook Book. A Guide to Marketing and Cooking in English and Chinese, second edition, text in English and Chinese, contemporary half roan, joints worn, large 8vo, Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, 1898Footnotes:Rare early Chinese cookery book, first published in 1889. The recipes include translations from the New Cook Book of Maria Parloa, the celebrated American chef and culinary pioneer (see lot 3), as well as 'selections from other standard cook books and recipes from friends' (Preface by the anonymous translator).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
PAUSANIASDescrittione della Grecia, first edition in Italian, title within woodcut border, waterstaining at end, eighteenth century vellum, 4to, Mantua, F. Osanna, 1594--CASSIUS DIO (LUCIUS) Historiae romanae, 2 vol., half-titles, engraved frontispieces, Hamburg, C. Herold, 1750--HERODOTUS. Historiarum, half-title, additional engraved title, upper joint splitting, Amsterdam, P. Schouten, 1763--FABER (BASILIUS) Thesaurus eruditionis scholasticae, 2 vol., half-titles, Leipzig, T. Fritsch, 1726, folio--CATO et al. Scriptores rei rusticae, 2 vol., engraved frontispiece and 4 folding plates, 4to, Leipzig, C. Fritsch, 1735--GRONOVIUS (JOHANN FRIEDRICH) De sestertiis, eighteenth century red morocco gilt, g.e., 8vo, Amsterdam, L. & D. Elzevir, 1656, contemporary blindstamped vellum unless otherwise mentioned; and another (10)Footnotes:Provenance: First work, Lord Robert Spencer (1747–1831), third son of the third Duke of Marlborough and friend of Charles James Fox, bookplate; thence by descent; Sotheby's, 19 November 1970, 'property of the Trustees of the will of the late E.C.P. Lascelles, Esq., removed from Woolbeding House.' Second work, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 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
SPAIN - POLITICAL SATIRELa Flaca [-La Madeja], 256 issues (complete) bound in 3 vol., mixed edition of the first 100 issues, 3 general pictorial volume titles, each issue usually 4pp., each with a full-page colour-printed lithographed caricature illustration (double-page after the number 100), the decorative pictorial heading to some issues also colour-printed, modern cloth, folio (430 x 300mm.), Barcelona, March 1869 - 3 March 1876, sold as a periodical (3)Footnotes:Scarce complete set of a journal satirising the government, church and other establishment bodies of Spain, commenting on important national and international political issues of the day, press freedom, Colonialism, and the foibles of man. Each issue includes a striking large format colour-printed caricature, many by the magazine's chief illustrator Tomás Padró. Due to press censorship the title of the journal occasionally changed its title (La Carcajada, La Madeja, El Lio), reviving after periods of closure.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)Anna Karenina, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, without the final blank in volume 3, contemporary aubergine quarter calf, gilt lettered spine, spines refurbished, preserved in slipcase [Kilgour 1196; Simmons, pp.340, 346-7], 8vo, Moscow, T. Ris, 1878Footnotes:'AS ART IT IS PERFECTION' - DOSTOEVSKY ON TOLSTOY'S MASTERPIECE.Tolstoy's second great novel, which was also conisdered by Thomas Mann to be '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
CHOMEL (NOEL)Dictionnaire oeconomique: or, the Family Dictionary. Containing... Methods of improving Estates ... The Best and Cheapest Ways of Providing and Improving all Manner of Meats and Drinks; of Preparing Several Sorts of Wines... All Sorts of Rural Sports and Exercises, 2 vol. in 1, first English edition, titles printed in red and black, numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, slight worming in lower margins towards end, contemporary calf, rubbed and stained, spine ends chipped, joints cracked [ESTC T110928; Bitting p.87; Maclean p.27; Oxford p.57], folio, D. Midwinter, 1725Footnotes:Richard Bradley's revised and augmented first English edition of this comprehensive dictionary of food, drink and husbandry, including sections on agriculture, horticulture, hunting, bees, falconry and horses.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
ARISTOTLEPolitiques, or Discourses of Government, first edition in English, without initial and final blanks, first 5 leaves with blank upper fore-corner repaired, D6 ink-stained, panelled calf gilt by James Brockman [ESTC S106844; Pforzheimer 10], folio (285 x 180mm.), Adam Islip, 1598Footnotes:FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF ARISTOTLE'S POLITICS, translated first into French by Loys Le Roy and thence to English by John Dickenson. Dickenson (c. 1570-1635/6) served in several important diplomatic positions in the Low Countries in the early 1600s, and was appointed ordinary clerk to the Privy Council in 1622.Provenance: Jonathan ?Hollend, early ownership inscriptions on title; Earls Cowper, Panshanger 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
[CAMDEN (WILLIAM)]The Historie of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princesse Elizabeth, Late Queene of England, FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait frontispiece of Elizabeth, headlines cropped and a handful of running titles shaved, paper flaw to 2B1 touching side-note, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original spine [ESTC S4171], folio (265 x 170mm.), Benjamin Fisher, 1630Footnotes:WITH THE BOOKPLATE OF SHAKESPEARE'S EDITOR, THOMAS HANMER.Provenance: Charles Crompton, ownership inscription on title; 'Pretium 00-15-00, Anno Domini 1668', inscription on title possibly in his hand; Thomas Hanmer (1677-1746), editor of Shakespeare, large bookplate dated 1707 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
CONFECTIONARY AND ICESJARRIN (G.A.) The Italian Confectioner, or, Complete Economy of Desserts... Respecting Distillation, Decoration, and Modelling, in all their Branches: including Figures, Fruits, Flowers, and Animals, in Gum Paste; and the Art of Moulding, Casting, and Gilding Composition Pastes..., FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait and 2 folding plates, some dampstaining towards end (affecting plates), owner's ink note at foot of title-page, bookplate of Henry Beaufoy, contemporary half calf [Bitting p.244; Oxford p.149], John Harding, 1820--FULLER (WILLIAM) A Manual Containing Numerous Original Recipes for Preparing Ices; with a Description of Fuller's Neapolitan Freezing Machine, for Making Ices in Three Minutes at Less Expense than is Incurred by any Method now in Use, double-page plate (with caption shaved), ink corrections to first page, original watered silk cloth with new endpapers, William Fuller, 1851--MARSHALL (AGNES B.) The Book of Ices. Including Cream and Water Ices, Sorbets, Mousses, Iced Souffles... eighth thousand, 4 chromolithographed plates, illustrations, later blue half morocco preserving publisher's cloth gilt covers, Marshall's School of Cookery, [c.1886]; Fancy Ices, wood-engraved illustrations, half-title and title foxed, publisher's blue and silver pictorial cloth, spine and edges soiled, tear to top of front joint, Marshall's School of Cookery & Simpkin, Marshall, [1894]; idem, another edition, publisher's blue cloth gilt, fine in dustwrapper, Marshall's School of Cookery, Robert Hayes, [c.1910]--CAIRD (JOHN) The Complete Confectioner and Family Cook; including all the Late Improvements in Confectionery, Preserving, Pickling, Jellies, Creams, Pastry, Baking... engraved frontispiece and 7 plates of table settings (3 folding), illustrations, tears to p.35, p.369 and one folding plate, untrimmed in contemporary boards, rebacked, upper cover near detached, joints cracked [Bitting p.72; Oxford, p.137, Leith edition of same year], Edinburgh, John Anderson, 1809--COOKE (JOHN CONRADE) Cookery and Confectionary, additional engraved title and 12 plates, some light browning and occasional staining, a few page numbers trimmed, modern half calf [Bitting p.98; Oxford p.154; Simon BG 385], 12mo, Simpkin, Marshall, 1824--HERISSE (EMILE) The Art of Pastry Making... for the Use of Confectioners, Pastrycooks, and Private Families, lacking c.30 pages, publisher's cloth, Ward, Lock, 1893, 8vo (7)Footnotes:A group of books on confectionary and ices, including a copy of William Fuller's scarce manual and recipe book, which was only available at his 60 Jermyn St. premises along with his 'Neopolitan Freezing Machine', an early mechanised ice cream maker which replaced the sorbetiere.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.comPLEASE NOTE: Cooke. Cookery has 14 plates (complete) not 12 as stated in catalogue. Lot includes 8 volumes as listed
CONFECTIONERYBORELLA (Mr.) The Court and Country Confectioner: or, the House-Keeper's Guide... and the art of distilling simple waters, cordials, perfumed oils, and essences. By Mr. Borella, now head confectioner to the Spanish Ambassador, title silked and browned, some worming in upper and lower margins, modern half calf [ESTC T90915; Maclean p.11; Oxford p.102; Simon BG 227], G. Riley, 1772--EALES [(MARY)] The Compleat Confectioner; or, the Art of Candying and Preserving in its Utmost Perfection; A Curious Collection of Receipts, 2 parts in 1 vol., fourth edition, some browning and staining, last leaf repaired just affecting text [this edition not on ESTC or in bibliographies], C. Hitch etc., 1750--GLASSE (HANNAH) The Compleat Confectioner, wanting 16-page ?index at end, modern half calf [ESTC T90908; Maclean p.61-62; Simon BG 775], Dublin, J. Exshaw, 1742 [but 1762]--NUTT (FREDERICK) The Complete Confectioner... also Receipts for Home-Made Wines, Cordials, French and Italian Liqueurs, &c., Eighth edition, corrected and improved by J.J. Machet, half-title, engraved frontispiece and 10 plates (3 folding, one soiled and frayed at outer edge), later calf-backed boards [cf. Oxford p.117], Samuel Leigh, 1819--MASSEY (JOHN & WILLIAM) Massey & Son's Biscuit, Ice and Compote Book; or, the Essence of Modern Confectionery, second edition, wood-engraved portrait, publisher's red blindstamped cloth, Simpkin, Marshall, 1866--READ (GEORGE) The Guide to Trade. The Confectioner, later cloth [Oxford p.172], Charles Knight, 1842, 8vo and 12mo (6)Footnotes:Provenance: First work, 'Mary Liddell. The gift of Mrs Fletcher', old inscription on title-page.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
JAILLOT (ALEXIS HUBERT)Atlas nouveau contenant toutes les parties du monde, ou sont exactement remarqués les empires, monarchies, royaumes, estats, republiques & peuples qui s'y trouvent á present, 2 vol. in one, one hand-coloured engraved title, 2 letterpress titles in red and black, 'Table des cartes' pasted within elaborate engraved border, 125 HAND-COLOURED ENGRAVED MAPS, 19 engraved tables, occasional light browning, a few maps trimmed within platemark touching border, lacking map 76 of Namur called for in 'Tables des cartes', final map of Venice with significant loss, title creased and with offsetting and repairs, 'Tables des cartes' with loss at one corner, modern red half calf, rubbed [cf. Koeman Mor 1, but with vol. 2 title here dated 1700], folio (605 x 480mm.), Paris, Hubert Jaillot, 1696 [but Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1700]Footnotes:A COLOURED COPY of the Sanson/Jaillot/Mortier atlas. At the close of the seventeenth century, Sanson's plates were purchased by the influential cartographer Alexis Hubert Jaillot, who joined Sanson's heirs in the production of this atlas, which first appeared in 1681. Pierre (or Pieter) Mortier was born in Amsterdam, but lived and worked in Paris for various cartographical publishers from 1681 to 1685. On his return to Amsterdam, according to Koeman, 'His knowledge of modern French cartography led him to copying the maps by Sanson, published by Jaillot.'The present copy is near complete, wanting only the map of Namur called for on the list of tables and maps. It was issued without the small plans and views of cities sometimes found in this edition. It includes a World map (Mappe-Monde Geo-Hydrographique) showing California as an island, and parts of New Zealand and Australia. 'The two hemispheres are drawn on an enlarged scale, engraved with distinction, and usually printed on heavy quality paper. The limited decoration enhances the overall effect: at the top cherubs with flowing banners are seated astride dolphins and support the arms of France. At the bottom a bold cartouche is flanked by two twin-tailed mermen' (see Shirley 462 fourth plate, state 3).In addition, there are several maps of America: 'Carte particuliere de l'Amerique septentrionale' (Hudson's Bay), 'Carte nouvelle de l'Amerique angloise', 'Carte particuliere de Virginie, Maryland, Pennsilvanie ...', 'Carte general de la Caroline', 'Carte particuliere de la Caroline', 'Carte particuliere de Isthmus ou Darien qui comprend le Golfe du Panama', and 'Le Golfe de Mexique'.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
STRABOStrabonis rerum geographicarum libri XVII, FIRST EDITION, edited by Isaac Casaubon, title within woodcut historiated border, Latin and Greek text in double column, double-page engraved World map by Rumbold Mercator [Shirley 157], light dampstain in upper margin (touching text on some leaves) throughout, seventeenth century calf, covers with gilt filet border, decorative corner-pieces and central floral wreath, rebacked in calf, retaining old red morocco gilt spine label [Adams S1908], folio (362 x 218mm.), Geneva, Eustathius Vignon, 1587Footnotes:First edition of Isaac Casaubon's celebrated edition of Strabo, containing Gerard Mercator's only obtainable world map, condensed from his 1569 map into double-hemisphere form by his son Rumold. 'This engraving is a model of clarity and neatness, with typical cursive flourishes to the lettering of the sea names' (Shirley). The 1587 map appears in various issues: with Latin or English text in the bottom margin, and with or without text on verso. This copy, like others in Strabo that have appeared at auction, is a variant of the issues described by Koeman: with no text on verso nor in the bottom margin.Provenance: Carberry Tower, Library label with shelfmark. Carberry Tower was in the possession of the Elphinstone family.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BERNAL DIAZ DEL CASTILLOHistoria verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva-España, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, the letterpress title within border of typographical ornaments, double column text, woodcut initials and tail-pieces, some staining and old ink scribbles and spills, a few leaves repaired (occasionally affecting text), modern mottled sheep, sides with gilt floral borders and central armorial device (lettered 'Ave Maria'), gilt spine with green morocco label, g.e., preserved in leather-backed solander box [Alden/Landis 632/27; Palau 73254; Sabin 19978, 'of much rarity'], folio, Madrid, en la Imprenta del Reyno, 1632Footnotes:First edition of the most important eye witness account of the expeditions of Hernán Cortés and the conquest of Mexico. 'Obra clásica por excelencia y una de las mejores sobre la conquista de Méjico' (Palau).Diaz served with Cortés throughout the campaign in Mexico and Central America, participating in some 120 battles before the defeat of the Aztecs in 1521. The Historia verdadero de la conquista de la la Nueva España provides a first hand account of the entire period from the beginning of conquest until 1538. Written between 1552 and 1568, when Diaz was in Guatemala, it was partly intended to address inaccuracies in the only other previously published account of the conquest by Lopez de Gomara, Chaplain of the Cortés expedition. Diaz had settled in Guatemala in 1541 and remained there until the end of his life in 1584; in 1551 he was made governor of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala, present-day Antigua Guatemala.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
CHINADAPPER (OLFERT) Gedenkwaerdig bedryf der Nederlandsche Oost-indische maetschappye, op de kuste en in het keizerrijk van Taising of Sina, 3 parts in one vol., FIRST EDITION, first impression of the second part (issued without the 4 plates issued in the second), title printed in red and black, additional engraved pictorial title (dated 1671), 34 engraved plates and maps (most double-page or folding), numerous engraved illustrations in the text, without folding map, light dampstains (mostly marginal), contemporary calf gilt, stamped in gilt with royal arms beneath 'Military Depot' on upper cover, spine tooled with red morocco gilt lettering label, neatly rebacked preserving original spine [Cordier BS 2348; Lowendahl 145; Lust 507], folio (310 x 200mm.), Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1670Footnotes:First edition of Dapper's important work on China, drawing on documents and information from the embassies and trade missions sent by the Dutch East India Company to China from 1662 to 1668.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
COOKERY REFORMEDThe Good Housewife; or, Cookery Reformed: containing a Select Number of the Best Receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Preserving, Dandying, Pickling, &c: together with a Distinct Account of the Nature of Aliments... Published at the request of a physician of great experience, who, for the benefit of the purchaser, has... shewn why several things heretofore used in cookery, and inserted in other books, have been prejudicial to mankind, second edition, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, some browning at edges of first and last few leaves, occasional soiling and staining, contemporary sheep, worn at edges, spine chipped at head and foot, upper cover near detached [ESTC N473881; cf. Maclean p.35; Oxford p.86-87, first edition], 8vo, P. Davey and B. Law, 1756Footnotes:EXTREMELY RARE second edition of the previous year's Cookery Reformed; or, The Lady's Assistant. It has not been traced in bibliographies or auction records, and just one copy is listed on ESTC (New York Public Library), along with five copies of the first edition (none of which are in the UK).Provenance: 'Mr Thos. Filips'; 'Elizabeth Taylor her Book Given by Mrs Mosher at the Glaziers Arms Water Lane Black Fryers' [and in another hand:] 'about 1798. Died when she was about 10 or 12 years old her mother died some years before, and her father boarded with Mrs Mosher after her death who lived near his factory', inscriptions on final blank leaf.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
CORYATE (THOMAS)Coryats Crudities: hastily gobled up in five moneths travells... newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the county of Somerset, and now dispersed to the nourishment of the travelling members of this kingdome, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved allegorical title-page by William Hole, letterpress title ('Three Crude Veines...'), 4 engraved plates (2 folding), full-page woodcut of the Prince of Wales's crest, full-page engraved portrait on p.496, 4 leaves of preliminaries (gathering 'b') misbound, additional title trimmed just touching image at upper margin and re-margined, printed title cut down and mounted, 27 leaves (including the 'Posthuma' section at end) remargined, woodcut arms repaired at margin with some loss to outer line border, the plate of the Strasbourg clock cropped at lower margin, blue crushed morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, covers with 3-line fillet border, spine tooled in 6 compartments with raised bands, gilt dentelles, g.e. [ESTC S108716; Keynes, Donne 70; Pforzheimer 218], 4to (212 x 155mm.), [William Stansby, for the Author], 1611Footnotes:'There has probably never been another such combination of learning and buffoonery as is here set forth' (Pforzheimer). In 1608 Coryate travelled, often alone on foot, through France and Italy to Venice, from where he returned via Switzerland and Germany, a journey which he drew upon for his Crudities, 'which was intended to encourage courtiers and gallants to enrich their minds by continental travel'. Prior to publication Coryate sought testimonials from fellow writers, and these mostly mock-heroic elegies were printed in the book. Contributors included Ben Jonson, Donne, Harington, Drayton and other members of the 'Mermaid Tavern' set.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
DANIELL (SAMUEL AND WILLIAM)Sketches representing the Native Tribes, Animals, and Scenery of Southern Africa, FIRST EDITION, 48 soft-ground etched plates by William Daniel after Samuel Daniel, scattered light spotting, later half morocco, lightly rubbed, spine faded [Abbey Travel 326; Gay 3136; Mendelssohn I, p.412], 4to, W. Daniell and W. Wood, 1820Footnotes:A 'MOST BEAUTIFUL AND SENSITIVE WORK' (Abbey), approximately half of the plates depicting animals, the others tribesmen and women.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
GRINDLAY (ROBERT MELVILLE)Scenery, Costumes and Architecture, Chiefly on the Western Side of India, FIRST EDITION, third issue, hand-coloured engraved vignette on title, 36 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Grindlay, Westall, Stanfield, Roberts, Daniel and others, all on thick paper, half morocco by J. Wright, spine elaborately gilt, extremities lightly rubbed, g.e. [Abbey Travel 442; Colas 1333; cf. Tooley 239], folio (405 x 300mm.), Smith, Elder, 1830Footnotes:A FINE COPY. 'Next to Daniell the most attractive colour plate book on India. One of the few books in which the name of the colourist is mentioned. viz. J.B. Hogarth' (Tooley). The work was originally issued in six parts comprising six plates each, taken from a collection of sketches and drawings made by Grindlay while he was in the service of the East India Company. There are three issues: the first bound from parts, the second in two volumes without part-titles, and the present third issue bound in one volume with one title giving the name of publishers Smith, Elder.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
INDIA - DELHI DURBAR 1903BOURNE (SAMUEL) and CHARLES SHEPHERD. The Coronation Durbar. Delhi 1903, FIRST EDITION, 133 platinum prints by Bourne & Shepherd, mounted on 101 leaves of thick green paper, recto only, with 2 loosely inserted small gelatin silver print panoramas of the same event, disbound, folio (445 x 340mm.), Calcutta, Simla, Bombay and London, Printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode, for Bourne & Shepherd, [1903]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
ITALY - ANTIQUITIESBARTOLI (PIETRO SANTI) Le antiche lucerne sepolcrali figurate. Raccolte dalle cave sotteranee, e grotte di Roma... con l'osservationi di Gio. Pietro Bellori, 3 engraved parts titles, 116 engraved plates (plates 33-46 of part 2 bound at the end of part 1), caption in ink in margin of each plate, light spotting, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, rubbed [Berlin Cat. 889; Cicognara 3609], folio (322 x 205mm.), Rome, Gio. Francesco Buagni, 1691--VENUTI (RIDOLFO) Antiqua numismata maximi moduli aurea, argentea, aerea ex Museo Alexandri S.R.E. Card. Albani in Vaticanam Bibliothecam, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved vignette on titles, engraved plates, numerous large engraved vignette views, contemporary calf gilt, large gilt arms on sides, spine worn [Cicognara 3043], folio (404 x 263mm.), Rome, Calcographei Cameralis, 1739-1744--LA CHAUSSE (MICHEL ANGE) Le grand cabinet romain our recueil d'antiquitez romaines... que l'on trouvé à Rome, engraved allegorical frontispiece, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 43 engraved plates (most with 4 images), small dampstain just touching frontispiece image, modern calf-backed marbled boards, folio (355 x 240mm.), Amsterdam, Francois l'Honoré, & Zacharie Chastelain le fils, 1706 (4)Footnotes:Provenance: First and second works, L.F. Salzmann, bookplate (1899).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
LE BRUYN (CORNELIUS)Travels into Muscovy, Persia, and Part of the East-Indies, 2 vol., engraved frontispiece, portrait of the author, 3 double-page engraved maps, 108 (of 114) engraved plates (many double-page, several panoramas), engraved illustrations in the text, contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt tooled in 7 compartments within raised bands, joints neatly repaired, folio (345 x 222mm.), A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, 1737Footnotes:The first English edition of an account of an important expedition through Russia, Persia, and India, including large panoramas of Moscow, Isfahan, and Persopolis.Provenance: Edward Lord Suffield, bookplate; 'JMR', twentieth century 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
MAYERNE TURQUET (LOUIS)The Generall Historie of Spaine, first edition in English, title within woodcut architectural border, long cleanly repaired tear in 5H1, contemporary speckled calf, foot of spine skillfully restored [ESTC S114485], folio (315 x 205mm.), A. Islip and G. Eld, 1612Footnotes:A very crisp copy.Provenance: Henry Smith, ownership inscription on front free endpaper dated 1660; Adrian Bullock, Sheringham, bookplate dated 1989; Bloomsbury Auctions, 21 March 2013, lot 163.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
DOMESTIC ECONOMYThe Magazine of Domestic Economy, First Series, 7 vol., contemporary half calf, spines gilt, volume 7 not uniform colour and label rubbed [Oxford p.169], Orr & Smith, 1836-1842--KITCHINER (WILLIAM) The Housekeeper's Oracle; or, Art of Domestic Management: Containing a Complete System of Carving... the Art of Managing Servants; and the Economist and Epicure's Calendar, FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait, illustrations, 12pp. catalogue preceding title, occasional soiling, owner's name in ink on title, repair in lower margin of F4, untrimmed in publisher's boards, some small worm holes to spine, upper joint cracking [Oxford p.162-3; Simon BG 920], Whittaker, Treacher, 1829--ADAMS (SAMUEL and SARAH) The Complete Servant... From the Housekeeper to... the Foot-boy, some dampstaining towards end, untrimmed in publisher's printed boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled [Bitting p.3; Oxford p.156], Knight & Lacey, 1825--COBBETT (ANNE) The English Housekeeper: or, Manual of Domestic Management, FIRST EDITION, wood-engraved frontispiece, old library label on front paste-down, contemporary cloth, A. Cobbett, [c.1835]--FRANCATELLI (CHALRES. E.) The Cook's Guide, and Housekeeper's & Butler's Assistant, engraved portrait, illustrations, publisher's decorative cloth, Richard Bentley, 1888, 8vo et infra; and 6 others (17)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
POLARSHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY) The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, 2 vol. only (of 3, without 'The Antarctic Book Winter Quarters 1907-09'), FIRST EDITION, WITH SIGNATURES OF ALL THE SHORE PARTY MEMBERS on two tipped-in leaves (taken from the missing 'Winter Quarters' volume), half-titles, photogravure frontispiece portraits, numerous plates (including 16 tipped-in colour after George Marston, others mostly photographic), lacking one plate and the folding panorama and 3 maps usually in pocket, illustrations and diagrams in the text, spotting, several plates and text leaves frayed or with edge tears, modern calf preserving original vellum from covers and spines, t.e.g. [Conrad p.148; Renard 1446; Rosove 305.A2; Spence 1096; Taurus 57], 4to, William Heinemann, 1909Footnotes:Provenance: William C. Roberts, cook on the Nimrod expedition; 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
PURCHAS (SAMUEL)Purchas his Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all ages, FIRST EDITION, lacks ¶2-3 (Epistle Dedicatorie) and final blank, title repaired at fore-edge with some of rules supplied in manuscript, fore-edge trimmed close just glancing some side-notes and trimming index, small paper flaw to F2 with loss to side notes, modern calf gilt [ESTC S121937; Sabin 6667], folio (265 x 170mm.), William Stansby, 1613Footnotes:Provenance: Sir William Pole of Shute, 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
RUSSIALEPEKHIN (IVAN IVANOVICH) Dnevnyia zapiski puteshestviia po raznym provintsiam Rossiiskogo gosudarstva [Diaries of a Journey Through Various Provinces of the Russian State in 1768 and 1769[-1772], 4 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles in volumes 2 and 3, 52 engraved plates on 45 sheets (most folding), 3 folding engraved maps, some plates shaved within but not touching image, volumes 1-3 contemporary calf, gilt red and green morocco lettering labels, old paper shelf numeral in upper compartment, red edges, volume 4 non-uniform early half calf, gilt red morocco lettering label, some rubbing [Nissen ZBI 2450; Svodnyi katalog 31612, citing 12 preliminary pages in volume 3, our set with 6, seemingly complete], 4to (volume 4 taller), St. Petersburg, 1771-1772-1780-1805Footnotes:RARE first edition of an account of important expeditions led by Lepekhin, at the direction of the St. Petersburg Academy, to study the natural resources and economic state of Russia. 'The Diaries are a rich collection of natural science and ethnographic information relating to the Volga area, the Urals and adjacent northwestern Kazakhstan and western Siberia, and northern European Russia' (Dictionary of Scientific Biography). Lepekhin gave special attention to the description of upwards of 300 species of animals, 100 birds, and insects, cultivation of plants and forestry, and geology, in which he 'closely approached an understanding of the possibility of change caused by external conditions' (D.S.B.). No copies traced on Rare Book Hub.Provenance: A.I. Ward, bookplate, all volumes. Volumes 1 and 2 with small red stamp on verso of title, and (also volume 3) ink numeral in gutter margin of title. Volume 4 with small circular stamp of Lenin Library on p.41.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
CURTIS (JOHN)British Entomology; being illustrations and descriptions of genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland, 8 vol., FIRST EDITION, list of subscribers, 770 hand-coloured engraved plates, additional ink numeral on each plate, contemporary green half morocco gilt by J.B. Hawes of Cambridge, t.e.g., rubbed [Nissen ZBI 1000], 8vo, for the Author, 1823-1840Footnotes:'Cuvier pronounced British Entomology to be 'the paragon of perfection'' (ODNB).Provenance: East Sussex Library, bookplate (stamped 'discarded').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
GOULD (JOHN)The Birds of Great Britain, vol. 1 (of 5), FIRST EDITION, 37 hand-coloured lithographed plates after Gould, Joseph Wolf, and H.C. Richter, mostly by Richter and Hart, most heightened with gum-arabic, contemporary green half morocco, spine gilt in compartments with raised bands (some light rubbing, hinges slightly cracked) [Fine Bird Books, p.78; Nissen IVB 372; Sauer 23; Wood, p.365; Zimmer, p.261], folio (550 x 367mm.), by the Author, 1873Footnotes:Volume one includes the birds of prey, including owls.Provenance: Edward Francis Searle (1863), bookplate; The Arcadian Library, Christie's, 14 November 2007, lot 225.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
HUMPHREYS (HENRY NOEL) AND JOHN OBADIAH WESTWOODBritish Butterflies and their Transformations, 43 hand-coloured lithographed plates (including additional pictorial title), 1841; British Moths and their Transformations, 2 vol., 124 hand-coloured lithographed plates, one loose, 1843, FIRST EDITIONS, half-titles, uniform red half morocco gilt, t.e.g., William Smith--WOOD (WILLIAM) Index Entomologicus,or a Complete Illustrated Catalogue of the Figures ...of the Lepidopterous Insects of Great Britain... New and Revised Edition, 59 hand-coloured engraved plates, additional manuscript index and 2 amateur watercolour sketches of butterflies tipped-in, contemporary green half morocco, G. Willis, 1854--HULME (F. EDWARD) Butterflies and Moths of the Country Side, FIRST EDITION, 35 colour plates, red half morocco gilt, for Hatchards, t.e.g., Hutchinson, 1903, 8vo and 4to; and 3 others (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
LILFORD (THOMAS L. POWYS, FOURTH BARON)Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands, 7 vol., FIRST EDITION, list of subscribers, photogravure portrait, 421 plates after A. Thorburn, G.E. Lodge and J.G. Keulemans, mostly chromolithographed, some hand-finished, all mounted on guards, some spotting, neat pencil numeral in corner of each plate, contemporary dark green half morocco gilt by R.H. Porter, t.e.g. [Fine Bird Books, p.91; Nissen IVB 563; Zimmer, p.399], 8vo, R.H. Porter, 1885-1897Footnotes:Provenance: West Dean, 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
LILFORD (THOMAS L. POWYS, FOURTH BARON)Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands, 7 vol., FIRST EDITION, list of subscribers, photogravure portrait, 421 plates after A. Thorburn, G.E. Lodge and J.G. Keulemans, mostly chromolithographed, some hand-finished, all mounted on guards, occasional light spotting, neat pencil numeral in corner of each plate, contemporary green half morocco gilt by R.H. Porter, t.e.g., spines faded [Fine Bird Books, p.91; Nissen IVB 563; Zimmer, p.399], 8vo, R.H. Porter, 1885-1897This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
LOUDON (JANE)The Ladies' Flower-Garden, third edition, 42 hand-coloured lithographed plates, modern cloth, James Nelson, 1860; British Wild Flowers, 59 hand-coloured lithographed plates (of 60), early half morocco, lacks spine, worn, William Smith, 1846--[DUPPA (RICHARD)] The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, 239 engraved plates (of 240), all but 3 hand-coloured, some offsetting and light spotting, quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt morocco spine labels [Nissen BBI 566], Longman, Hurst, 1816--[HEY (REBECCA)] The Moral of Flowers, 23 hand-coloured lithographed plates, contemporary green morocco gilt, rebacked preserving original spine, g.e., Longman, Rees, 1836--WHITE (GILBERT) The Natural History of Selbourne, 2 vol., new edition, 4 engraved plates, contemporary green calf gilt, C. and J. Rivington, 1825--MILLER (JOHN) An Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus, 2 vol., engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved titles, 190 hand-coloured engraved plates, contemporary green morocco, rebacked to match, g.e. [Henrey 1155], for the Author, 1779-1789, 8vo; and 5 others, including 2 odd volumes by Cavanilles (15)Footnotes:Provenance: First work, J. Love, early ownership inscription on title; Gloria Rollinson, 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
MAUND (BENJAMIN)The Botanic Garden: Consisting of Highly Finished Representations of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants, Cultivated in Great Britain; With their Classification History, Culture, and Other Interesting Information, 13 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved additional title in each volume, engraved dedication to Queen Victoria in volume 3, 312 hand-coloured engraved plates (each depicting 4 flowers, tissue guards), spotting to engraved titles, contemporary uniform green morocco gilt, sides with 2-line fillet border, roll-tool floral inner border, with central gilt-blocked flower bouquet, spine tooled in 6 compartments within raised bands, g.e. [Nissen BBI 2222], THE PLESCH COPY, small 4to (220 x 180mm.), Simpkin and Marshall [and others], 1825-[1850]Footnotes:Provenance: Arpad Plesch, bookplate in volume 1; Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 18 November 1975, Lot 515.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
SHAW (GEORGE) AND JOHN FREDERICK MILLERCimelia Physica. Figures of Rare and Curious Quadrupeds, Birds, &c. Together with Several of the Most Elegant Plants, FIRST EDITION, second edition, 60 hand-coloured engraved plates (including frontispiece) by and after Miller, light offsetting (mostly plate to facing text), modern red morocco, sides with gilt roll-tool floral border, gilt lettered spine [Fine Bird Books p.94; Nissen IVB 638; Stafleu and Cowan 6033; Wood p. 465; Zimmer p.585], folio (532 x 354mm.), T. Bensley, for Benjamin and John White, and John Sewell, 1796Footnotes:The fine plates, including 41 ornithological subjects, are 'coloured from the subjects themselves' by John Frederick Miller. He was in the employ of Sir Joseph Banks, and had access to the vast collection of zoological specimens which he accumulated. This copy is without the plate list and Linnaean table found in the very scarce first edition, and on occasion bound in the second 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
VALLET (PIERRE)Le jardin du tres Chrestien Henry IV, Roy de France et de Navarre, FIRST EDITION, etched architectural title-page (including portraits of Carolus Clusius and Matthias de L'Obel), 4 leaves of letterpress , etched portraits of Vallet and Jean Robin, 73 etched and engraved plates (unnumbered) after and by Vallet, English plant name neatly added within platemark to 6 plates (a further 10 in pencil), title just trimmed within fore-edge platemark not touching image, a few light spots but generally clean, strong impressions, modern morocco, covers with blind 3-line fillet border, gilt morocco spine label [Blunt, p.99; Cleveland Collections 154; Dunthorne 253; Hunt 187; Nissen BBI 2039; Pritzel 9671], folio (348 x 215mm.), [Paris], 1608Footnotes:FIRST EDITITION OF 'THE FIRST IMPORTANT FLORILEGIUM... A WORK OF GREAT BEAUTY' (Blunt). Dedicated to Marie de Medici, consort of Henry IV, who 'set the fashion, soon followed by the ladies of the court, for embroidery with floral designs' (ibid.), Vallet's work was at least partially intended to serve as a pattern-book for this purpose, but the plates were however executed with great botanical accuracy. The plants which Vallet depicted were cultivated by Jean Robin, director of the royal gardens at the Louvre Palace, and include several exotic flowers he introduced from Spain and the islands of the coast of Guinea.Provenance: 'From the Roden Library, bought at Hodgkins in the 19 sixties', pencil note inside upper cover.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
FARLEY (JOHN)The London Art of Cookery, and Housekeeper's Complete Assistant, eighth edition, engraved frontispiece, and 12 plates of bills of fare (light dampstain to outer corners), last few leaves softened at edges, modern calf-backed boards, gilt panelled spine [ESTC T121903; Bitting p.152; Oxford p.114; Maclean p.50], 8vo, J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker, 1796--BRIGGS (RICHARD) The English Art of Cookery, According to the Present Practice, first Dublin edition, 24 full-page bills of fare (first 2 partially supplied in manuscript facsimile), occasional soiling, contemporary calf, spine and corners neatly restored [ESTC N9203; Maclean p.15], 12mo, Dublin, P. Byrne, 1791--SIMPSON (JOHN) A Complete System of Cookery... Bills of Fare for Every Day of the Year.. Being One Years' Work at the Late Most Noble The Marquis of Buckingham, third edition, title-page laid down and restored, last leaf repaired, contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked [Bitting p.436; Oxford p.134], 8vo, W. Stewart, [1813]--MACDONALD (DUNCAN) The New London Family Cook; or Town and Country Housekeeper's Guide... List of the Most Respectable Manufacturers and Dealers in the Various Articles, second edition, advertisement leaf at end, engraved portrait and 10 plates, occasional foxing, last few leaves wormed in margins, contemporary mottled calf gilt, rebacked [Bitting p.297], 8vo, James Cundee, 1808 (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
BOYLE (ROBERT)The Origine of Formes and Qualities, (According to the Corpuscular Philosophy), Illustrated by Considerations and Experiments, FIRST EDITION, title within one-line rule border, with 2-leaf 'advertisements' bound before p.270, light dampstaining to opening leaves and towards end, contemporary calf, gilt red morocco spine label, upper hinge neatly repaired [ESTC R18303; Fulton 77; Madan III, 2739], 8vo, Oxford, H. Hall, for R. Davis, 1666Footnotes:In Origine 'Boyle paved the way for the Newtonian concept of light... [this] new concept thus set forth by Boyle was widely quoted at the time, especially by Locke, Newton, and other physicists of the period' (Fulton).Provenance: Early pressmark ('E7/XA') on title-page.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
EUCLIDEuclide... solo introduttore delle scientie mathemice, translated by Niccolo Tartaglia, woodcut printer's device on title-page and verso of final leaf, numerous diagrams in the text, thin trace of worming (filled) touching letters on 9 leaves, light dampstaining towards end, translator's name neatly underlined in red ink on title, modern vellum, solander box [Adams E993; Censimento 16], small 4to (193 x 138mm.), Venice, Curzio Troiano, 1565 [1566]Footnotes:Niccolo Tartaglia's translation, the first translation of Euclid into a vernacular, was first published in Rome in 1543. This later edition additionally contains the first appearance of Tartaglia's translation of Opusculum de levi & ponderoso.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
EUCLIDEuclid's Elements of Geometry... Likewise Euclid's Data, engraved portrait of Euclid, light browning, table supplied in facsimile, title and R1-2 with repaired tears, contemporary calf, rebacked [ESTC R25387], folio (295 x 180mm.), R. & W. Leybourn, for G. Sawbridge, 1661Footnotes:FIRST ENGLISH EDITION TO CONTAIN EUCLID'S DATA and the third complete English 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
KERSEY (JOHN)The Elements of that Mathematical Art commonly called Algebra, books 1-2 only (of 4) in one vol., FIRST EDITION, lacking engraved portrait frontispiece, title printed in red & black, contemporary calf, rubbed [ESTC R35421], folio, W. Godbid for T. Passinger, 1673--SANDERSON (ROBERT) Logicae artis compendium. Editio nona, a few wormholes, final leaf frayed at edges, contemporary calf, chipped at head of spine [ESTC R183226], 8vo, Oxford, L. Lichfield, 1680--EUCLID. Elementorum libri xv [-Posteriores libri ix], 2 vol., title of first volume with 2 inkstamps and slightly frayed at fore-edge touching typographic border, modern vellum, thick 8vo, Rome, A. Zannetti, 1603--KEILL (JOHN) Introductio ad veram physicam, third edition, contemporary calf, rebacked, 8vo, Oxford, at the Sheldonian Theatre, 1715--CLARKE (SAMUEL) Collection of Papers which passed between the late Learned Mr Leibnitz and Dr Clarke, modern half morocco, 8vo, J. Knapton, 1717--LIVIUS (TITUS) The Roman History, engraved frontispiece, 2 maps of Rome, light waterstain throughout, frontispiece and title repaired at lower fore-corner, contemporary calf, rebacked [ESTC R25048], folio, A. Churchill, 1686---DUBREUIL (JEAN) The Practice of Pespective, fourth edition, title in red and black, engraved illustrations throughout, modern half calf, 4to, J. Bowles, 1765; and 7 others (15)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
ACTON (ELIZA)The English Bread-Book for Domestic Use, FIRST EDITION, additional wood-engraved title, 24pp. publisher's catalogue, publisher's cloth with gilt device on upper cover (faded), slight tear to top of front joint, inner hinge splitting [Bitting p.3; Simon BG 25], 1857; Modern Cookery for Private Families, Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts... Newly Revised and much Enlarged edition, 8 engraved plates, illustrations, bookplate of Alan Davidson, publisher's blind-stamped cloth, elaborate gilt spine with culinary motifs [cf. Bitting p.3], 1855, 8vo, Longmans, Brown (2)Footnotes:First edition of Acton's influential work on bread-making, along with a fine copy of her incredibly successful Modern Cookery, which was much admired by Elizabeth David.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
FRENCH AND EUROPEAN COOKERY[MENON] The French Family Cook: Being a Complete System of French Cookery. Adapted to the Tables not only of the Opulent, but of Persons of Moderate Fortune and Condition... Translated from the French, first English edition, advertisement leaf at end, repairs to first 3 leaves, some worming to lower margins towards end (affecting a few words), modern calf-backed boards [ESTC T91239; Bitting, p.554; Maclean, p.101; Oxford, p.121; Simon BG 7141793], J. Bell, 1793--ROBERTS (I.) The Young Cook's Guide... A New Treatise on French and English Cookery.... Preserving Fruit... Rudiments of Ices...., ownership inscription of Mary Ann Lawson, 1836, publisher's cloth, rebacked preserving original spine [Bitting p.400], Laking, 1836--SOYER (ALEXIS) The Modern Housewife or Menagere, Comprising Nearly One Thousand Receipts for the Economic and Judicious Preparation of Every Meal of the Day, second English edition, engraved portrait, wood-engraved dedication, advertisements for Soyer's Sauces at end, publisher's cloth, gilt-stamped spine, Simpkin, Marshall, 1849--UDE (LOUIS EUSTACHE) The French Cook, ninth edition, lithographed portrait and 8 engraved plates of bills of fare (one torn without loss), ownership signature of Lydia Addenbrooke on title, contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving most of original spine [Bitting p.471], W.H. Ainsworth, 1827--[KOCHHEIM (AMALIA VON)] A Handbook of Foreign Cookery; Principally French, German and Danish, publisher's cloth, spine worn, John Murray, 1845, 8vo; and 5 others, mostly French cookery (10)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
NEWTON (ISAAC)The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, 3 folding engraved plates, ownership inscription of A. Ekins on title [Babson 214; Wallis 309], J. Tonson, 1728--[PEMBERTON (HENRY) A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy, subscribers list, 11 engraved plates only (of 12, one in facsimile) [Wallis 123; Babson 98], S. Palmer, 1728, FIRST EDITIONS, contemporary calf, rebacked, 4to--MACLAURIN (COLIN) An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries, second edition, half-title, 6 folding engraved plates, bookplate of Lady Frances Bentinck, contemporary calf [Babson 86], 8vo, A. Millar, 1750--GRAVESANDE (G.J.) Philosophiae Newtonianae institutiones, in usus academicos, 17 folding engraved plates, contemporary boards, rubbed, joints cracked [Wallis 81.4], 12mo, Vienna, J.T. Trattner, 1760; and another (5)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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