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Lot 187

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

Lot 189

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

Lot 19

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

Lot 190

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

Lot 194

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

Lot 195

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

Lot 199

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

Lot 2

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

Lot 20

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

Lot 205

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

Lot 22

GELLEROY (WILLIAM)The London Cook, or the Whole Art of Cookery made Easy and Familiar. Containing a great Number of approved and Practical Receipts in every Branch of Cookery. Viz. Chap. I. Of Soups, Broths and Gravy. II. Of Pancakes, Fritters, Possets, Tanseys... XVI. Of Made Wines, FIRST EDITION, folding engraved frontispiece of 'His Majesty's Table' (repaired on verso), with Appendix and publisher's catalogue at end, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked [ESTC T63887; Bitting p.179; Maclean p.56; Oxford p. 92; Simon BG 740], 8vo, S. Crowder & Co., J. Coote & J. Fletcher, 1762Footnotes:'This seems a very good book' (Oxford), complete with the rare frontispiece. The author was cook to The Duchess of Argyll.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

Lot 223

LAWRENCE (T.E.)Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph, PRIVATELY PRINTED EDITION, INSCRIBED BY LAWRENCE 'INCOMPLETE COPY. I.XII.26 T.E.S.' on p.XIX, some initials printed in red, 4 folding maps (including 2 duplicates), 31 plates (including 'Prickly Pear', 'Irish Troops being Bombed in the Judean Hills', and portraits of both Lawrence and Lloyd), illustrations in the text, pictorial endpapers, blue half morocco gilt by Roger Coverley & Sons, spine with gilt decoration and lettering ('The Seven Pillars') in six compartments with raised bands, t.e.g. [O'Brien A040], 4to (255 x 188mm.), [Printed for the author by Manning Pike and H.J. Hodgson, 1926]Footnotes:A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE PRIVATELY PRINTED EDITION OF SEVEN PILLARS, belonging to George Lloyd, who worked alongside Lawrence in Arabia during the time described in Chapters 71 to 73 of the book. Some 170 copies with a full complement of plates were sold to subscribers. In terms of association, these are not as interesting as the 32 or so 'incomplete copies' (lacking some plates, but textually complete) which were given by Lawrence to close friends and colleagues who had served with him during the Arab campaign.Seven Pillars is 'a personal, emotional narrative of the Arab revolt in which Lawrence reveals how by sheer willpower he made history. It was a testimony to his vision and persistence and a fulfillment of his desire to write an epic ... its climax is the Arab liberation of Damascus, a victory which successfully concludes a gruelling campaign and vindicates Lawrence's faith in the Arab' (ODNB). Lloyd first met Lawrence in 1914, whilst working for the Intelligence Department in Cairo, liked him immediately ('a very remarkable fellow'), helped plan the Arab Revolt with him and, in 1917, accompanied him on a mission to destroy the main bridge on the railway line from Mecca, and onwards to El Jaffer. In Seven Pillars Lawrence describes Lloyd, who was riding a horse gifted to him by Emir Feisel, as 'one of the best fellows and least obtrusive travellers alive... [he] was the rare sort... who could eat anything with anybody, anyhow and at any time', and on parting with him at the end of the journey, remarked 'It was a sorry thing to see Lloyd go. He was understanding, helped wisely, and wished our cause well. Also he was the one fully-taught man with us in Arabia, and in these few days together our minds had ranged abroad discussing any book or thing in heaven or earth which crossed our fancy'. A portrait of Lloyd by William Roberts is included in Seven Pillars.In August 1917 Lloyd, writing from Cairo to Sir Reginald Wingate, predicted with great prescience the success of Seven Pillars, stating that Lawrence 'has done wonderful good work and will some day be able to write a unique book. Generally the kind of man capable of these adventures lacks the pen and wit to record them adequately. Luckily Lawrence is specially gifted with both' (quoted in John Charmley, Lord Lloyd and the Decline of the British Empire, 1987). Their friendship endured until Lawrence's death, Lloyd attending his funeral, and naming his country house Clouds Hill in tribute to Lawrence's cottage home.Provenance: George Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Dolobran (1879-1941); 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

Lot 225

LAWRENCE (T.E.)The Diary of T.E. Lawrence. MCMXI, ONE OF 130 COPIES on Parchment substitute paper, from an overall edition of 203 copies, one gold-printed illustration, 13 photographic plates, tissue guards, AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM LORD CARLOW TO RONALD STORRS loosely inserted, original morocco-backed boards, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut [O'Brien A194; Nash and Flavelle 16], 4to (293 x 230mm.), Corvinus Press, June 1937Footnotes:RONALD STORRS' COPY, PRESENTED TO HIM BY THE PUBLISHER, LORD CARLOW - 'Here is the book, or The book, or even THE [underlined three times] book. What a time it has taken to complete!... I herewith feel honoured at fowarding you your copy... How about 'Orientations'; is it out yet?'. On the letter from Carlow (on Corvinus Press headed paper), enclosing the book and enquiring about Storrs' memoir Orientations (which was also published in 1937), Storrs notes that he acknowledged receipt of it on 4 September 1937 '... & read in sun on balcony of 84 & PG: only worth printing as written by T.E.L.'. Storrs was appointed Oriental Secretary to the British Agency in 1909, and in 1917 Political Officer representing the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. He was a great supporter of T.E. Lawrence, who wrote in The Seven Pillars that 'The first of all of us was Ronald Storrs,... the most brilliant Englishman in the Near East, and subtly efficient, despite his diversion of energy in love of music and letters, of sculpture, painting, of whatever was beautiful in the world's fruit... Storrs was always first, and the great man among us'.Lawrence's Syrian diary from 1911 was written during his solitary 'off-season' journey on foot through the north of the country, where he had been employed on an archaeological dig. 'This was the most ambitious and handsome volume published by the Corvinus Press... The text was reprinted in Oriental Assembly' (O'Brien).Provenance: Ronald Storrs (1881-1955), presentation inscription to him from the publisher; George Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Dolobran (1879-1941), who first met Storrs when working in Cairo in 1917, and remained a close friend until his death. Both men attended Lawrence's funeral, Storrs as a pallbearer; 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

Lot 227

CHORNY (SASHA)Dnevnik foksa Mikki [The Diary of Mikki the Fox Terrier], FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 69 OF 200 COPIES, SIGNED AND DATED 'Sasha Chorny, Paris 1927', illustrated by F. Rojankovsky, publisher's printed wrappers, covers creased at corners, spine taped, 4to, Paris, Printed by the Author, 1927Footnotes:Sasha Chorny was one of the most important Russian satirists of the early twentieth century. Although best known for his work during his exile, he made a name for himself in St. Petersburg during the twilight of the Tsars. Chorny emigrated after the Bolshevik Revolution and eventually settled in Paris; Dnevnik foksa Mikki is a fictitious diary of Chorny's own fox terrier.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

Lot 229

DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE) 'LEWIS CARROLL'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, FIRST PUBLISHED (SECOND ENGLISH) EDITION, with page 30 correctly numbered and the inverted 'S' in the last line of the Contents page, half-title, 42 illustrations by John Tenniel, very short tear in margin of 4 leaves, a few small smudges, 1866 [1865]; Through the Looking-glass, and What Alice Found There, FIRST EDITION, first issue, with 'wade' on p.21, half-title, 50 illustrations by John Tenniel, 1872, uniform red crushed morocco gilt, by Riviere & Son, sides with 2-line fillet border, spines with gilt-blocked rabbit and playing card motifs in compartments with raised bands, g.e., original cloth covers and spines bound in, slightly rubbed at lower edges, housed in single cloth slipcase [Williams, Madan and Green 46, and 84], 8vo, Macmillan (2)Footnotes:Provenance: First work, 'Mary Freeling, Xmas 1865', ownership inscription on blue endpaper (bound in at end); Second work, 'C.M. Cobb', early ownership inscription at head of title-page. Both with bookplate of Brian Fenwick-Smith.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

Lot 230

DU MAURIER (DAPHNE)Rebecca, FIRST EDITION, light spotting, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket, spine panel toned and with small loss at head and foot, tiny losses at fore-edge of jacket, 8vo, Victor Gollancz, 1938This 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

Lot 231

GREENAWAY (KATE)SPIELMANN (MARION HARRY) and GEORGE S. LAYARD. Kate Greenaway, 'EDITION DE LUXE PRESENTATION COPY', signed by John Greenaway, with an original pencil sketch by Kate Greenaway depicting three skipping girls, colour plates, lightly rubbed, 4to, Adam and Charles Black, 1905--ANDERSEN (HANS CHRISTIAN) Fairy Tales and Legends... Illustrated by Rex Whistler, SIGNED BY WHISTLER on half-title, Cobden-Sanderson, 1935, publishers' white cloth, 4to and 8vo (2)Footnotes:Provenance: First item, inscribed 'To Lady Tate [the wife of Sir William Henry Tate, 2nd Bt.] with the kindest regards of M.H. Spielmann & his wife, Christmastide, 1905' on flyleaf; Second item, Wooley and Wallis, 3 March 1993, lot 170.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

Lot 233

KANDINSKY (WASSILY)Klänge, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 64 OF 300 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, on vergé de Hollande paper watermarked Van Gelder Zonen, 56 woodcuts (12 in colour), light offsetting to text, publisher's burgundy linen-backed red boards with large gilt-stamped design on covers, spine faded, 4to, Munich, R. Piper & Co., [1913]Footnotes:'LA PALETTE DE CÔTÉ ET À SA PLACE LA MACHINE À ÉCRIRE': ONE OF 300 SIGNED COPIES OF KANDINSKY'S MASTERPIECE OF ARTISTIC AND POETICAL EXPRESSIONISM. Klänge ('Sounds' or 'Resonances'), defined by Kandinsky as an 'album musical', comprises thiry-eight prose poems accompanied by fifty-six woodcuts in black and white and colours. It was one of the earliest artist's books to contain non-representational art, and Kandinsky's stated aim was to break down artistic barriers: 'Nous combattions pour la peinture, mais peindre seulement n'est pas suffisant. J'ai eu l'idée d'un livre synthétique qui balayera la moitié des conceptions anciennes, étroites, en brisant les murs qui séparent les arts'.Kandinsky himself saw the work as an important turning point in his artistic journey, the repetitions and alliterations foreshadowing dada and zaoum poetry: 'Dans les bois et dans le reste – les bois et les poèmes – on peut découvrir les traces de mon passage du 'figuratif' à l'abstrait'. He had begun work on the woodcuts in 1907, and later on he would explain that he had been writing the poems for a long time too: 'C'est depuis de longues années que j'écris de temps en temps des 'poèmes en prose' et parfois même des 'vers'. Ce qui est pour moi un 'changement d'instrument' — la palette de côté et à sa place la machine à écrire [...] [Ce livre] est un petit exemple de travail synthétique' (XXe siècle, n° 3, 1938).Kandinsky's genius is probably best summed up by Hans (or Jean) Arp: 'Kandinsky s'est livré dans ces poèmes aux recherches spirituelles les plus rares. De 'l'être à l'étant pur' il a fait surgir à la lumière des beautés que jamais personne n'avait encore contemplées. Les poèmes de Kandinsky révèlent la vacuité des apparences et de la raison'. Arp also remarked that the sonorous quality of the poetry in Klänge was very influential in modern literature and was recited by the Dadaists in the Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich.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

Lot 235

MANSFIELD (KATHERINE)In a German Pension, FIRST EDITION, first impression, 4+32pp. publisher's advertisements at end, 'Presentation Copy' blindstamp on title, publisher's green cloth gilt, extremities lightly bumped [Kirkpatrick A1], 8vo, Stephen Swift & Co., [1911]Footnotes:First edition of Mansfield's first book, published in an edition of only around 500 copies.Provenance: Scofield Thayer (1889-1982), owner-editor of American periodical The Dial, bookplate. Mansfield pushed hard to have her stories published in his pages, but without success. Thayer referred to her as 'England's latest short story prima donna,' in a letter to T.S. Eliot.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

Lot 236

MANSFIELD (KATHERINE)Prelude, FIRST EDITION, partially unopened, publisher's plain dark blue wrappers, yapp edges bumped and slightly chipped at extremities [Kirkpatrick A2, 'c.300 copies printed'], 8vo, Richmond, Hogarth Press, [1918]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

Lot 237

MANSFIELD (KATHERINE)Je ne parle pas français, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES of which fewer were issued, publisher's wrappers, printed label on upper cover, preserved in cloth chemise [Kirkpatrick A3], 4to, Hampstead, Heron Press, 1919Footnotes:This edition contains the unexpurgated text. The version printed in Bliss (1920) and in subsequent editions was bowdlerised by Michael Sadleir, the editor responsible at Constable. John Middleton Murry wrote: Je ne parle pas français 'was printed for private circulation by my brother and myself. It was printed in 1918, though dated 1919. The stitching and binding took us the whole of January. Of the original 100 copies, about 20 were spoiled, and of the 80 perhaps 60 actually issued' (Mantz, The Critical Bibliography, 1931, p.34).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

Lot 238

MANSFIELD (KATHERINE)Bliss and Other Stories, FIRST EDITION, publisher's cloth, DUST-JACKET, jacket with three or four small losses at corners, foot of spine panel, and foot of rear panel, strengthened on verso at folds [Kirkpatrick A4], 8vo, Constable, 1920Footnotes:Mansfield's second collection, following In a German Pension (1911), in extremely rare dust-jacket.Provenance: Brief gift inscription from V.K. (or G.K.?) dated December 1920 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

Lot 239

MANSFIELD (KATHERINE)The Garden Party, and Other Stories, FIRST EDITION, first printing, ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 25 COPIES in publisher's trial binding of greenish-blue cloth stamped in navy blue, front paste-down soiled, dust-jacket, slightly chipped at head of spine and corners [Kirkpatrick A5], 8vo, Constable, [1922]Footnotes:Kirkpatrick quotes, 'There were 25 copies so issued, lettered in blue; the greater part was taken by travellers or sent to Australia, as this was merely a binders' trial issue. It was decided that the colour did not show well enough, and the lettering on the later issue of the First Edition was in ochre.' Paul Rassam recalls being told by Michael Sadleir, Mansfield's publisher at Constable, that only eleven or twelve such copies had been supplied by the binders as samples.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

Lot 24

GREY (ELIZABETH, COUNTESS OF KENT)A Choice Manual, or Rare Secrets in Physick and Chirurgery... Whereto are added several experiments of the vertue of Gascons Powder, and Lapis contra Yarvam... The Nineteenth Edition; A True Gentlewomans Delight. Wherein is contain'd all Manner of Cookery: Together with Preserving, Conserving, Drying, and Candying. Very necessary for all Ladies and Gentlewomen, 2 parts in 1 vol., engraved portrait (laid down, fore-margin trimmed), A9 with piece torn from margin (just shaving some letters), dampstain in lower outer corners of volume with some resulting fraying (not affecting text), nineteenth century red morocco, covers with gilt tooled border of acorns and oak leaves, gilt panelled spine with raised bands and floral decoration, g.e. [ESTC R218777; Bitting p.201; cf. Oxford p.22-23], 12mo (108 x 156mm.), H[enry] Mortlock at the Phoenix in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1687Footnotes:A very popular collection of medical and culinary recipes, first published in 1653 and which ran to numerous revised editions. Although the work is usually listed under the Countess of Kent, the dedication is signed 'W.J.', and it was probably compiled by William Jar, a member of the Countess's household. The dedication of A Choice Manual is to 'the virtuous and most noble Lady, Latitia Popham', the wife of a supporter of Oliver Cromwell, and A True Gentlewomans Delight is dedicated to Mistress Anne Pile, a baronet's daughter. 'The first book is purely medical, and recommends the usual filthy remedies, e.g. the dung of a peacock for convulsions and powdered earthworms for jaundice... The second book is the cookery part, and tells how to make a slipcoat Cheese, Angellets, fine Diet-bread, Essings, Ponado, Bonny Clutter, Lady of Arundels Manchet, &c.' (Oxford).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

Lot 240

MANSFIELD (KATHERINE)The Doves' Nest, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 25 COPIES of the first issue, publisher's trial binding of only slightly ribbed blue-grey cloth, dust-jacket, 2 short tears at head, spine lightly toned [Kirkpatrick A6], 8vo, Constable, [1923]Footnotes:Twenty-five copies were sent out as samples for travelling salesmen, with no date on the verso of the title page (Kirkpatrick).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

Lot 243

POTTER (BEATRIX)The Tale of Peter Rabbit, FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING, [ONE OF 200 COPIES], colour frontispiece, 41 line illustrations, browning, publisher's pictorial boards with rounded spine, contents loose, heavily rubbed, linen showing through at spine ends [Quinby 1A; Osborne II.102], 16mo, [Privately Printed], February 1902Footnotes:Following the success of the first print run of 250 copies in December 1901, Potter ordered a further 200 copies of 'Peter Rabbit' to be printed in February 1902.Provenance: Ruth B. Hopwood, juvenile ownership inscription on front free endpaper dated 27 February 1902.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

Lot 244

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'To David & Jenny, J.K. Rowling' on half-title, light toning, publisher's wrappers, worn, complete loss of lamination, covers heavily creased, some losses to printed surface near lower joint, 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1997Footnotes:INSCRIBED FIRST IMPRESSION of the paperback Philosopher's Stone - seemingly rarer than inscribed hardback copies of the first impression.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

Lot 245

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, eighth impression, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'To Gillian (or, as I prefer to think of her, Ginny) with thanks for all her excellent questions! J.K. Rowling', ownership inscription on verso of upper wrapper and traces of adhesion, publisher's wrappers, rubbed, lamination lifting, spine faded, 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1997Footnotes:Ginevra Molly Weasley, or 'Ginny', is the youngest sibling in the Weasley family and eventually becomes Harry Potter's wife. Rowling inscribed this copy of the paperback Philosopher's Stone to a curious fan, Gillian, who attended a book signing at Waterstone's in Glasgow in July 1998.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

Lot 246

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, FIRST EDITION, first impression, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'To Gillian - watch out for Ginny in this book! J.K. Rowling', publisher's boards, lightly bumped at head of spine, dust-jacket, spine panel faded, 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1998Footnotes:In The Chamber of Secrets, Ginny develops a crush on Harry, and is attacking Muggle-born students while being possessed by Tom Riddle's old school diary. Rowling tells a young fan, Gillian, who came to a signing at Waterstone's in Glasgow in July 1998, to watch out for her near-namesake.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

Lot 247

RUSCHA (EDWARD)Twentysix Gasoline Stations, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, NUMBER 169 OF 400 COPIES, photographic illustrations throughout, original wrappers printed in red, glassine dust-jacket (browned at edges, spine ends chipped, small ink inscription 'not mailed'? near upper edge), preserved in card chemise attached to the inside of a felt-lined solander box [Parr & Badger, The Photobook, Vol. II, p.167], small 4to (179 x 142mm.), Alhambra, California, Cunningham Press, 1962 [but 1963]Footnotes:THE FIRST PRINTING OF RUSCHA'S SEMINAL PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST BOOK. 'I realized that for the first time this book had an inexplicable thing I was looking for, and that was a kind of a 'Huh?'' (E. Ruscha, interviewed by Willoughby Sharp, in Avalanche, no. 7, Winter/Spring 1973). The book is dated 1962 on the title-page but Ruscha revised its form some fifty times while it was at the printers, delaying its publication until the following year. The photographs depict petrol stations along Route 66 between Ruscha's house in Los Angeles and his parental home in Oklahoma City. Provenance: Alan Hamp, 1962, pencil ownership inscription on rear of front wrapper.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

Lot 25

HALL (T.)The Queen's Royal Cookery: or, Expert and Ready Way for the Dressing of all Sorts of Flesh, Fowl, Fish: Either Baked, Boiled, Roasted, Stewed, Fryed, Boiled, Hashed, Frigasied, Carbonaded, Forced, Collared, Soused, Dried, &c... With their several Sauces and Sallads... together with several Cosmetick or Beautifying Waters..., second edition, wood-engraved frontispiece (with a portrait of Queen Anne, a kitchen scene, and vignettes of a pastry room and a woman distilling), one full-page wood-engraved illustration (shaved at fore-edge), contemporary sheep, double blind rule borders, score mark to upper cover [ESTC T1202; Bitting, p.210; Maclean p.65; Oxford p.51-2], 12mo, C. Bates, at the Sun and Bible in Gilt-Spur-Street, in Pye-Corner: and A. Bettesworth, at the Red Lion on London-Bridge, 1713Footnotes:An unusually good copy of the second edition of this Royal cook book by T. Hall of London, about whom little is known. The first edition, which is almost unobtainable, had been published 4 years earlier, and many of the recipes were borrowed from Kenelm Digby, despite the author's claims to their originality.Provenance: Ann Wade, 1732 & 1734; J.R. Bilton Garth, Hampsthwaite, 1880, ownership inscriptions on free endpapers.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

Lot 254

WAUGH (EVELYN)Decline and Fall. An Illustrated Novelette, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 'Martin Gaythorne-Brodie' and 'Kevin Saunderson' unchanged on pp.168-9, half-title, frontispiece and 5 plates by Waugh, publisher's cloth, gilt lettered on spine, ownership inscription on front free endpaper, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Waugh (priced '7/6 Net'), spine panel faded and segment of loss to imprint, 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1928This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Lot 255

WAUGH (EVELYN)Vile Bodies, FIRST EDITION, pictorial title, publisher's cloth, first state dust-jacket priced at 7/6 on spine and with list of books on lower panel ending with 'Second Choice', spine panel very slightly faded and with 3 short tears at head, tiny chip to upper fore-corner, 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1930Footnotes:FINE COPY.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

Lot 257

WAUGH (EVELYN)A Handful of Dust, FIRST EDITION, light spotting at ends, publisher's cloth, spine very slightly faded, dust-jacket, spine panel browned, chipped at head and with loss at foot affecting imprint, 2 closed tears to lower edge of rear panel, original publisher's wraparound band, strengthened at folds, 8vo, Chapman and Hall, [1934]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

Lot 258

WAUGH (EVELYN)Scoop: a Novel about Journalists, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title page, mixed issue with raised indistinct 8 in publication date but 'a' to last line of p.88, publisher's cloth, spine very slightly faded, first issue dust jacket with 'Daily Beast' masthead, jacket taped on verso along head and foot, spine panel faded and extremities chipped, 8vo, Chapman and Hall, [1938]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Lot 259

WAUGH (EVELYN)Brideshead Revisited: the Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, FIRST EDITION, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket, spine panel slightly chipped at corners, 1in-square section of lower panel torn and reattached, 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1945This 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

Lot 26

HARRISON (SARAH)The House-Keeper's Pocket-Book, and Compleat Family Cook: Containing above Twelve Hundred Curious and Uncommon Receipts...; Everyone their own Physician, 2 parts in 1 vol., sixth edition (first to contain the second part), woodcut illustrations of table settings, modern calf-backed boards, spine gilt [ESTC T126601; Bitting p.217; Maclean p.66; Oxford pp.63-64], R. Ware 1755--MACIVER (SUSANNA) Cookery, and Pastry, as Taught and Practised by Mrs. Maciver, Teacher of those Arts in Edinburgh, ownership inscriptions of Alison Lawson (Edinburgh, 1794) and Helen Bale, some staining and a little marginal worming towards end, contemporary sheep, joints cracking [ESTC N3517; cf. Bitting, p.299; Oxford p.106], C. Elliot & T. Kay, 1789--MOXON (ELIZABETH) English Housewifery, Exemplified in above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts, 2 parts in 1, eleventh edition (fourth of supplement), 8 woodcut table settings on 5 sheets (2 folding, one of these defective, the other torn without loss), some mainly light foxing and staining, contemporary sheep, spine chipped, upper joint cracked [ESTC T201432; Bitting p.333; Maclean p.104; Oxford p.78], Leeds, Griffith Wright for George Copperthwaite, 1775--HAYWOOD (ELIZA FOWLER) A New Present for a Servant-maid... Rules for her Moral Conduct... the Whole Art of Cookery, lacks frontispiece, stained at beginning and end, repair to leaf of preface affecting text, modern half calf [ESTC T75385; Bitting p.220; Maclean, p.67; Simon BG 828], G. Pearch, 1771, 12mo (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

Lot 264

YEATS (W.B.)Stories of Red Hanrahan, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'Mrs Worthington from her friend the writer, with pleasant memories of the Hudson - W.B. Yeats, May 1905' and with a series of zodiacal symbols, publisher's linen-backed boards, printed title label on upper cover, rubbed, spine detached and lacking label [Wade 59], 8vo, Dundrum, Dun Emer Press, 1904Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPY to Julia H. Worthington (1856-1913), a socialite friend of the collector John Quinn. Yeats stayed at her house on the Hudson during his American tour, and in May 1905, she visited him in London and he took her to see Wilde's Salome: 'I think it pleased her to be so evidently at the heart of some kind of shrine', he wrote back to Quinn (Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats, vol. IV, 1905-1907, ed. Domville, p.104). Stories of Red Hanrahan was published on the 16 May.Yeats was interested in astrology for his whole life, and was involved in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. We have traced no other Yeats inscription with astrological symbols.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

Lot 265

YEATS (W.B.)Mosada, NUMBER 40 OF 50 COPIES, frontispiece facsimile from manuscript, original cream parchment wrappers, unopened, trace of a bookplate removed, original glassine, numbered '40' in ink at one corner [Wade 206], Dublin, Privately Printed... Cuala Press, 1943; The Tower, 2cm section of loss to foot of spine panel [Wade 158], 1928; The Winding Stair, 1933; Plays in Prose and Verse, [Wade 136], 1922; Stories of Red Hanrahan, second edition, dust-jacket clipped [Wade 157], 1927, publisher's cloth, DUST-JACKETS, Macmillan; Wild Swans at Coole, [Wade 118], 1917; Michael Robartes and the Dancer, ink name stamp to title [Wade 127], 1920, publisher's linen-backed boards, lightly faded, Dundrun, Cuala Press; The Countess Kathleen, publisher's parchment-backed boards, toned [Wade 6], T. Fisher Unwin, 1892, FIRST EDITIONS except where stated otherwise, 8vo (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

Lot 28

HAZLEMORE (MAXIMILIAN)Domestic Economy; or, A Complete System of English Housekeeping, sporadic spotting throughout, modern half calf, spine with gilt morocco labels [ESTC T93869; Maclean p.68; Oxford p.122], 8vo, J. Creswick, 1794Footnotes:Sole edition of this scarce work, which 'is either a revised and pseudonymous edition, or, much more likely, a pirated version of a book which was first published six years before', namely Mary Cole's The Lady's Complete Guide (Maclean).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

Lot 29

HENDERSON (WILLIAM AUGUSTUS)The Housekeeper's Instructor; or, Universal Family Cook, fifth edition, engraved frontispiece and 11 plates (2 folding), contemporary calf, spine ends restored [ESTC T63893; Maclean, pp.68-69; Simon BG 832], J. Stratford, [1795?]--[RUNDELL (MARIA ELIZA)] The New Family Receipt-Book, containing Seven Hundred Truly Valuable Receipts in Various Branches of Domestic Economy, light browning and staining, lacks p.65/6 and 79/80, repair to p.161, untrimmed in contemporary red straight-grain morocco gilt, sides with ornate leafy borders enclosing Royal arms, later gilt panelled spine, inner gilt dentelles [Oxford p.137], Squire and Warwick for John Murray, 1810--MURRAY (ALEXANDER) The Domestic Oracle; or, a Complete System of Modern Cookery and Family Economy, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece and 8 plates (foxed), contemporary diced calf, rebacked and recornered [Simon BG 1080], Fisher & Son, [c.1826]--COPLEY (ESTHER) The Housekeeper's Guide, or a Plain & Practical System of Domestic Cookery, wood-engraved frontispiece, title and 4 plates, publisher's cloth, joints torn, Joseph Hayward, 1845--HUISH (ROBERT) The Alphabetical Receipt Book and Domestic Adviser, engraved title and 36 plates only (of 40, some hand-coloured), periodic browning and staining, frontispiece foxed contemporary diced calf, joints cracked, John Williams, 1826--DODS (MARGARET) The Cook and Housewife's Manual, twelfth edition, illustrations, light browning, modern red half morocco, spine gilt, Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd, 1870, 8vo (6)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Lot 3

AMERICAN COOKERYBARNUM (H.L.) Family Receipts, or Practical Guide for the Husbandman and Housewife, FIRST EDITION, wood-engraved frontispiece, dampstaining and foxing, ownership inscription of Samuel Nibbs ('Bought of James Wolley') on front free endpaper, contemporary calf, worn, upper cover detached [Bitting p.28, 'first book treating on cookery printed in the Middle West'], Cincinnati, Lincoln & Co., 1831--[RUNDELL (MARIA ELIZA)] The Experienced American Housekeeper, or Domestic Cookery, 7 engraved plates, some browning and staining, bookplate of Lucy dela Penta, publisher's cloth, rebacked preserving most of original spine, New York, Nafis and Cornish, [c.1830]--[LEE (N.K.M.)] The Cook's Own Book, and Housekeeper's Register... a Complete System of Confectionery, by a Boston Housekeeper, illustrations, bookplate of Joan Dawson, contemporary sheep, rebacked, upper cover detached, Boston, Munroe & Francis, 1842--The Art of Confectionery... Also Different Methods of Making Ice Cream, Sherbets etc., label of Elmira Farmers' Club Library, publisher's decorative cloth gilt [Bitting p.518], Boston, J.E. Tilton and Co., 1866--PARLOA (MARIA) Camp Cookery: How to Live in Camp, label of Waldo Lincoln Collection of American Cookery-Books pasted over advertisement endpapers, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, edges rubbed, Boston, Graves, Locke, [c.1878]--LESLIE (ELIZA) Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book, sixth edition, some foxing and staining at edges, modern boards, Philadelphia, A. Hart, 1851--KELLOGG (ELLA E.) Every-Day Dishes and Every-Day Work, publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, faded and worn at edges, Modern Medicine Publishing Co., 1898, 8vo; and 13 others (20)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

Lot 32

INDIAN COOKERYALLEE (HADJEE) Receipts for Cooking the Most Favourite Dishes, in General Use in India. Also for Preparing Chatney and India Pickle, 24pp., pencil ownership inscription of M.A. Goff(?), unstitched in publisher's stiff terracotta wrappers, 16mo, [Calcutta, c.1840?]Footnotes:EXTREMELY RARE EARLY INDIAN COOKERY BOOK. Receipts for Cooking is said to have been first published in 1836, but the only copy of any early edition we have traced is held by McGill University Library. Dated 1847, it comprises 32 pages whilst the present copy (and the only copy of a 1980s reprint traced, in the British Library) appear complete with 24 pages.Hadjee Allee (or Alee) became a celebrated cook at the Oriental Hotel in London, having arrived from Calcutta in the 1830s. He is mentioned in a story by William Moy Thomas called The Elixir of Life which appeared in Household Words in 1851, and was apparently well-known for dishes such as 'Indian Korma', 'Shame Cawaub', 'India Plow', 'Lobster Currie', 'Indian Maucooty', 'Sultan Mulligatawney' and 'India Kitcheree', all of which are included here.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

Lot 33

JENKS (JAMES)The Complete Cook: Teaching the Art of Cookery in all its Branches; and to Spread a Table, in a Useful, Substantial and Splendid Manner, at all Seasons in the Year... with an Appendix Teaching the Art of Making Wine, Mead, Cyder, Shrub... For the Use of Families, FIRST EDITION, last 2 leaves browned at edges, contemporary sheep, extremities worn, joints cracked, small chip at foot of spine [ESTC T91233; Bitting p.245; Maclean p.75; Oxford pp.97-98], 8vo, E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry, 1768Footnotes:Relatively scarce household manual and receipt book, including 'dishes for Lent and Fast-days', 'Real and Mock Turtle' and sections on distilling, brewing, the management of poultry and bees (title-page). One other edition followed, published in Dublin the following year.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

Lot 34

[KETTILBY (MARY)]A Collection of Above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery; for the Use of All Good Wives, Tender Mothers, and Careful Nurses. By Several Hands, 2 vol. in 1, FIRST EDITION, half-title, some browning throughout, occasional old stains, modern panelled calf, spine gilt with morocco label [ESTC T53670; Maclean p.79; Oxford p.54], 8vo (190 x 120mm.), Richard Wilkin, 1714Footnotes:First edition of this compilation of recipes by Mary Kettilby, featuring the first printed recipe for orange marmalade (a smooth version, ''twill be a lasting wholsome Sweet-meat for any use'), and early versions of plum and suet puddings. Maclean notes that this edition was published in two volumes but has a single title-page and continuous pagination.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

Lot 35

KIDDER (EDWARD)E. Kidder's Receipts of Pastry and Cookery, for the Use of his Scholars. Who teaches at his school in Queen Street near St. Thomas Apostles. On Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays, in the Afternoon... Ladies may be Taught at their Own Houses, second issue with Queen Street on title-page, leaf K2 and additional plate, engraved throughout on rectos only, comprising portrait, title, 40 leaves of recipes, 'Order for Bills of Fair' and index leaves, and 8 plates (3 folding, one with short tears and slightly frayed at outer edge), a few leaves shaved at foot (last 2 recipe leaves with partial loss of last line of text), 5 leaves with manuscript recipes in different early hands on blank verso, faint trace of old library stamp on title, D1 and one blank verso, ink reference number at foot of first leaf of text, modern blindstamped calf [ESTC T92424; Bitting p.124 (calling for an advertisement leaf, not present here or in other copies traced); Maclean p.82-84; Oxford p.71; Quayle p.89-94], 8vo, [London, c.1720-1725]Footnotes:'KIDDER'S HANDSOME BOOK WAS A REMARKABLE PRODUCTION' (Maclean), apparently produced for students of the earliest known cooking school in England, run by Kidder in various London locations during the 1720s-30s. The work provides 'a valuable record of 170 standard English dishes of the day, accompanied by attractive designs for pie shapes and decorations. The first recipe for puff pastry (identical to the standard commercial product of today) to appear in print is Kidder's' (ODNB). In Old Cook Books: An Illustrated History Eric Quayle devotes several pages to Kidder and his work.Our copy, enriched with some manuscript recipes, is the issue with 2 additional leaves (one of recipes and the plate of 'Lamb Pastey' and 'Wild Boar Pye'). ESTC describes it as 'a reissue of the 1740 edition', but this is almost certanly erroneous since Kidder died in 1739 and a copy sold at auction in 2016 bore an ownership inscription dated 1733/34. Maclean ventures a publication date of around 1725, Bitting slightly earlier.Provenance: Mary Edwards, early ownership signature ('her book') on verso of portrait; Fraser-Hickson Institute, Montreal, faint stamps and inked name on edges (their online sale, 2016).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

Lot 36

[KING (WILLIAM)]The Art of Cookery, in Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. With some Letters to Dr. Lister, and Others: Occasion'd Principally by the Title of a Book Publish'd by the Doctor, being the Works of Apicius Coelius, Concerning the Soups and Sauces of the Antients, FIRST EDITION, half-title, some light browning, upper corners of last 4 leaves with some worming repaired, bookplates of Thomas Lister (descendant of the the author) and Blanche Anding, contemporary calf, skilfully rebacked [Bitting p.260; Maclean p.84; Oxford p.51; Simon BG 908], Bernard Lintott, [1708]--LAMB (PATRICK) Royal Cookery; or, the Complete Court-Cook, FIRST EDITION, half-title, 33 folding engraved bills of fare (of 35), the title-page and 2 missing plates supplied in good facsimile, 4pp. advertisements at end, occasional minor soiling, one plate torn without loss, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked preserving most of backstrip [Bitting p.271; Maclean p.88; Oxford p.52] , Abel Roper, and sold by John Morphew, 1710, 8vo (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Lot 37

KNIGHT (THOMAS ANDREW)A Treatise on the Culture of the Apple & Pear, and on the Manufacture of Cider & Perry, FIRST EDITION, errata leaf at end, uncut in publisher's boards, rebacked [ESTC T92620], Ludlow, H. Procter, 1797--PHILLIPS (HENRY) Pomarium Britannicum: an Historical and Botanical Account of Fruits known in Great Britain, second edition, 3 hand-coloured plates, untrimmed in contemporary boards, rebacked, large 8vo, T. and J. Allman, 1821--BADHAM (CHARLES DAVID) A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England, second edition, 12 hand-coloured lithographed plates, old Sherborne Library bookplate, contemporary half morocco, spine gilt, rubbed, Lovell, Reeve, 1863--BARRON (A.F.) British Apples; Descriptive Catalogue of Apples Exhibited at the National Apple Congress..., 2 parts in 1 vol., 5 plates, contemporary red half calf, Macmillan, 1884--SMITH (JOHN) A Treatise on the Growth of Cucumbers and Melons, fourth edition, folding plate, some spotting, publisher's blind-stamped cloth, Ipswich, J.M. Burton, 1839--CREWS (A.W.) The Potato and its Cultivation, publisher's cloth with paper title label, Horace Cox, 1880--PAYEN (ANSELME) and M. CHEVALIER. Traité de la pomme de terre; sa culture, ses divers emplois dans les préparations alimentaires, les arts économiques, la fabrication du sirop, de l'eau de vie, de la potasse, contemporary half calf, spine worn, Paris, Thomine, 1826, 8vo (7)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

Lot 4

AMERICAN COOKERYThe Cook Not Mad, or Rational Cookery; Being a Collection of Original and Selected Receipts, Embracing not only the Art of Curing Various Kinds of Meats and Vegetables for Future Use, but of Cooking, in its General Acceptation, to the Taste, Habits, and Degrees of Luxury, Prevalent with the American Publick, in Town and Country... together with Sundry Miscellaneous Kinds of Information, of Importance to Housekeepers in General, FIRST EDITION, copyright notice and errata leaf pasted to verso of title as often, slightly browned throughout, occasional light staining, portion torn from lower quarter of p.41/2, publisher's linen-backed printed blue-grey paper covered wooden boards, upper cover very faded and with 3 holes showing wooden boards beneath, lower cover with figure more visible, joints cracked, preserved in later calf-backed solander box, spine gilt, 12mo (137 x 69mm.), Watertown, Knowlton & Rice, 1830Footnotes:FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL BINDING OF THIS NOTED EARLY AMERICAN COOKBOOK, no copies of which have appeared at auction since 1977. The anonymous author advocates the use of American ingredients such as cranberries, corn, turkeys, and watermelon, promising not to introduce 'English, French and Italian methods of rendering things indigestible... These evils are attempted to be avoided. Good republican dishes and garnishing, proper to fill an every day bill of fare, from the condition of the poorest to the richest individual, have been principally aimed at'.Provenance: Lucia A. Field, ownership signature on front paste-down, and John Field, faint pencil inscription.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Lot 5

BEETON (ISABELLA)The Book of Household Management... also Sanitary, Medical, & Legal Memoranda; with a History of the Origin, Properties, and Uses of all Things Connected with Home Life and Comfort, FIRST EDITION, colour lithographed frontispiece, additional pictorial title (with '18 Bouverie St' address) and 12 colour plates, numerous wood-engravings, some foxing and soiling, frontispiece stained at gutter and near detached, plate at p.113 with tear and slight chip at edge, x2 cut along outer edge with loss of text, some worming in upper margin of last few leaves, modern half calf gilt, spine gilt with raised bands and red morocco label [Bitting p.32; Simon BG 186], small thick 8vo, S.O. Beeton, 248 Strand, W.C., 1861This 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

Lot 53

MASSIALOT (FRANÇOIS)The Court and Country Cook: Giving New and Plain Directions How to Order all Manner of Entertainments, And the Best Sort of the Most Exquisite a-la-mode Ragoo's. Together with New Instructions for Confectioners... A Work more Especially Necessary for Stewards, Clerks of the Kitchen, Confectioners, Butlers, and other Officers, and also of Great Use in Private Families. Faithfully translated out of French into English by J.K., 3 parts in 1 vol., first English edition, 9 engraved plates and 2 illustrations of table settings, advertisement leaf at end, some browning, soiling and occasional dampstaining, plate at end chipped with slight loss, contemporary mottled calf, joints and corners restored [ESTC T120659; Bitting p.538; Maclean, p.97; Oxford, p.47], 8vo, Printed by W. Onley, for A. and J. Churchill and M. Gillyflower, 1702Footnotes:Sole edition of this book, translated from Massialot's Le cuisinier roial et bourgeois (1691) and Nouvelle instruction pour les confitures, les liqueurs et les fruits (1692). An important innovation was Massialot's use of the alphabetisation of recipes, which anticipated the culinary dictionary. The work also saw the first appearance of meringues under their familiar name, and of 'Crème brûlée' - finished off using a 'red-hot fire shovel' - a dish which remarkably then vanished from French cookbooks until the 1980s.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

Lot 54

[MENON]The Art of Modern Cookery Displayed. Consisting of the Most Approved Methods of Cookery, Pastry, and Confectionary of the Present Time. Translated from Les Soupers de la Cour, ou, la Cuisine reformée... to Which Are Added, Explanatory Notes and References, Together with the Produce of the London Markets, 2 vol. bound in 1, first English edition, with final blank, contemporary calf gilt, extremities worn, joints cracked [ESTC N14583; Maclean p.99], 8vo, for the translator. Sold by R. Davis, 1767Footnotes:An unusually clean copy of the first edition in English, translated by Bernard Clermont, whose identity was revealed on publication of the third edition in 1769. In his preface he says he consulted three English tradesmen ('one for fish, one for poultries... and one for the productions of gardening') on the produce found in London Markets ('London has the advantage of Paris, in the articles of veal and lamb... Thames salmon in August'), paying particular attention to confectionery, ices and sorbets 'as knowing it to be very much wanted amongst English servants'. The work goes on to deal with dinning at its most lavish, from dinner parties for 20 to 30 people to grand banquets, with sometimes up to 100 different dishes being served.Provenance: James M. Phillips and Orme Ashton, ownership signatures on front paste-down.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

Lot 55

MIDDLETON (JOHN)Five Hundred New Receipts in Cookery, Confectionary, Pastry, Preserving, Conserving, Pickling and the Several Branches of these Arts Necessary to be Known by All Good Housewives ... Revised and Recommended by Mr. Henry Howard, FIRST EDITION, title with woodcut printer's rose device, occasional light soiling, slight stain on reverse of title, twentieth century vellum, gilt lettered spine, inner gilt dentelles, g.e. [Bitting p.324; Maclean p.101; Oxford p.64], 8vo, Thomas Astley, 1734Footnotes:Collection of recipes from the repertoire of John Middleton, chef to the Duke of Bolton, for meat, game, fish, fowl, confectionary, pastries, preserving and pickling. 'This title-page, in which the emblem of the printer figures so largely, is the favourite of the present compiler among all those of the eighteenth century' (Oxford).Provenance: Howard C. Levis, 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

Lot 57

MUFFETT (THOMAS)Healths Improvement: or, Rules Comprizing and Discovering the Nature, Method, and Manner of Preparing all Sorts of Food used in this Nation... Corrected an enlarged by Christopher Bennet, FIRST EDITION, with the initial imprimatur leaf, woodcut ornaments, occasional small old stains, tear to gutter margin of Q2-3, contemporary sheep, spine tears at head and foot with slight loss, binding working loose [ESTC R202888; Oxford p.27-28], 4to (181 x 140mm.), T. Newcomb for S. Thomson, 1655Footnotes:FIRST EDITION of this posthumously issued treatise on the food and diet of the English in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It was written by the entomologist Thomas Muffett (or Moffet, 1553-1604), whose stepdaughter Patience is said by some to have inspired the nursery rhyme 'Little Miss Muffett'. The work includes the important observation, made for the first time, that eating liver is beneficial to certain eye diseases. It also contains the first list of British wildfowl, and recognition of their migratory habits.Provenance: John Borthwick of Crookstown Esquire, late eighteenth century ownership inscription on front free endpaper; some earlier annotations on blank preliminary/imprimatur leaves ('Dinner - Fried Chickens', '1. Boiled lamb 2. hard fish 3. Pancake?', 'Roast Fowl Trouts Beans').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

Lot 59

PECKHAM (ANN, OF LEEDS)The Complete English Cook; or, Prudent Housewife. Being an Entire New Collection of the Most General, yet Least Expensive Receipts in Every Branch of Cookery and Good Housewifery, FIRST EDITION, 34 diagrams of table settings within ornamental woodcut borders, some spotting and occasional staining, first and last few leaves a little browned at edges, piece torn from blank corner of first leaf of Preface, modern panelled calf by Period Binders, Bath, spine in compartments with raised bands, morocco label and blind-tooling [ESTC T92199; Maclean p.112; Oxford p.95-96], 12mo, Leeds, Printed by Griffith Wright, and sold by the author and J. Ogle, 1767Footnotes:Scarce first edition of this Leeds cookery book by Ann Peckham, 'well known to have been for Forty years past one of the most noted Cooks in the County of York' (title-page). The work, which borrowed its title from Catharine Brooks' work from a few years earlier, was aimed principally at 'young beginners', and five further editions were to follow, all published in Leeds.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

Lot 60

[PEGGE (SAMUEL)]The Forme of Cury, a Roll of Ancient English Cookery, compiled, about A. D. 1390, by the Master-Cooks of King Richard II, Presented afterwards to Queen Elizabeth, by Edward Lord Stafford, and now in the Possession of Gustavus Brander, FIRST EDITION, first issue with unaltered title-page and dedication signed 'The Editor', engraved portrait by J. Basire after A. Devis, facsimile plate, some light browning, first few leaves with dampstain to inner margin, without final advertisement leaf, contemporary tree calf, g.e., rebacked preserving earlier red morocco spine label [ESTC T91238; Bitting, p.361; Maclean p.112; Oxford, p.108; Simon BG 1143], 8vo, 1780Footnotes:THE IRISH ANTIQUARY LADY MOIRA'S COPY OF THE FORME OF CURY, a collection of medieval English recipes by 'the chief Master Cooks of King Richard II', here first published by the Lincolnshire antiquary Samuel Pegge. Originally found on a fourteenth century scroll now in the John Ryland Library, the recipes feature the first known mention of ingredients such as olive oil, gourds, mace and cloves, and early pasta dishes.Provenance: Elizabeth Rawdon [née Hastings], Baroness Hastings and Countess of Moira in Ireland (1731–1808), ownership signatures on title and page ix ('E. Moira Hastings' and 'Moira' respectively). After early involvement with John Wesley, with whom she fell out, Lady Moira became a well-known Dublin literary patron and antiquarian. In the 1780s she befriended the young Maria Edgeworth, who used her as a model for characters in three of her novels, and after 1792 she became a keen defendant of Mary Wollstonecraft in the face of attacks from some members of the Irish clergy. As an antiquarian Lady Moira was instrumental in encouraging her husband to become one of the founder members of the Royal Irish Academy, and in 1783 she became the first woman to have an article published in Archaeologia when it printed her findings concerning the discovery of a 'bog body' on the Rawdon estate, the first properly documented report on the discovery of a human skeleton.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

Lot 61

PENNELL (ELIZABETH ROBINS)My Cookery Books, FIRST EDITION, number 75 of 330 copies, designed by Bruce Rogers, 28 mounted facsimile plates, publisher's cloth-backed marbled boards, spine label slightly creased and nicked, 4to, Boston & New York, 1903—OXFORD (A.W.) Notes from a Collector's Catalogue. With a Bibliography of English Cookery Books, untrimmed in publisher's buckram-backed boards, Bumpus, 1909—BLENCOWE (ANN) The Receipt Book of Mrs. Ann Blencowe. A.D. 1694, number 382 off 650 copies, publisher's boards, dust-jacket (soiled and spine slightly chipped), The Adelphi, 1925—SIMMONS (AMELIA) American Cookery... A Facsimile of the First Edition, 1796. With an Essay by Mary Tolford Wilson, limited to 800 copies, publisher's patterned boards, glassine wrapper (split at spine), slipcase, New York, 1958—AUSTIN (THOMAS) Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books Harleian Ms. 279... & 4016..., bookplate of Anne Phillips Young and old blindstamps of Christ's College Cambridge, later calf-backed cloth, Trubner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, 1888—[WAINWRIGHT (ELIZABETH)] The Receipt Book of a Lady of the Reign of Queen Anne, limited to 250 copies, publisher's green vellum, slight splash marks to upper cover, Medstead, Hampshire, Azania Press, 1931--CARROLL (LEWIS) Feeding the Mind, publisher's limp roan gilt, spine chipped, Chatto & Windus, 1907, all but the first 8vo (7)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

Lot 62

PLAT (HUGH)The Jewel House of Art and Nature: Containing Divers Rare and Profitable Inventions, together with Sundry New Experiments in the Art of Husbandry. With Divers Chymcal Conclusions Concerning the Art of Distillation, and the Rare Practices and Uses Thereof... Whereunto is Added, a Rare and Excellent Discourse of Minerals, Stones, Gums and Rosins, title within border of typographical ornaments, woodcut illustrations in the text (including 'The true portrait of an Ear of Summer Barley, as it Grew at Bishop's Hall in Middlesex, Anno Dom. 1594'), some dampstaining to upper edges of first few leaves, endpapers browned, contemporary blind-ruled calf, rebacked [ESTC R10675; cf. Bitting p.373, Goldsmiths 1294 & Kress 889, all Bernard Alsop imprint], small 4to (188 x 140mm.), Printed by Elizabeth Alsop, and are to be sold at her House in Grubstreet, near the Upper Pump, 1653Footnotes:The 'most significant book' (ODNB) by Sir Hugh Plat (1552-1608), the eccentric husbandman and inventor. Plat lived at Bishop's Hall, Bethnal Green, and conducted numerous horticultural, agricultural and mechanical experiments ranging from the practical to the fantastic. The 103 experiments described include recipes for preserving food, herbs, fruit, flowers, meat and water, and for a tooth-cleaner. Other parts deal with soils, manures, distillations, moulding and casting metals, and diverse topics such as the brewing of beer without hops, fishing, how to cheat at cards and how to steal a beehive. The work was first published in 1594, and the present edition was revised and expanded by Arnold de Boate in 1653; there are two issues, this bearing the imprint of Elizabeth Alsop as opposed to that of her husband, Bernard Alsop, who may have died that year.Provenance: Henry Seymour, 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

Lot 66

PRICE (ELIZABETH)The New, Universal, and Complete Confectioner; being the Whole Art of Confectionary Made Perfectly Plain and Easy. Containing a Full Account of all the Various Methods of Preserving and Candying, both Dry and Liquid..., the whole Revised, Corrected, and Improved..., engraved frontispiece of a lady giving a book to her cook, dampstain in inner margin of frontispiece and title, another stain affecting last 2 leaves, modern calf antique, gilt spine with red morocco label [ESTC T181810; Maclean p.118; cf. Bitting p.382 and Oxford p.110], 8vo, A. Hogg, at the King's arms, No. 16 Paternoster Row, [1785?]Footnotes:The second scarce work by Elizabeth Price, complete with the frontispiece. The date of the first edition is uncertain (Maclean erroneously dates it to around 1760, but the publisher Hogg was only active from 1770). A second edition was printed by S. Couchman for Hogg in about 1780, also with 94 pages, and this was followed by the present expanded edition of 172 pages, printed in about 1785. Of the five copies of any edition listed in auction records, only two were complete with the frontispiece.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

Lot 67

RABISHA (WILLIAM)[The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected, Taught, and Fully Manifested, Methodically, Artificially, and According to the Best Tradition of the English, French, Italian, Dutch, &c.], 3 parts in 1 vol., second edition, lacks title-page, dedication and 5 other leaves (B1-2, D7, G5 & T8), headlines cropped throughout, first 5 and last leaves softened and chipped at fore-edge with loss, a few other leaves torn without loss of text, contemporary sheep, worn, covers roughly sewn with later thread (lower cover near detached), spine chipped [ESTC R218376; Bitting pp.386-7; cf. Oxford p.30-31; Simon BG 1248], small 8vo, E. Calvert, 1673, sold not subject to returnFootnotes:Incomplete and fragile copy of the second edition of Rabisha's scarce cookery book. The Cornish author, who claimed to have worked for many noble families, divides the book into three sections: the first is on pickles, fish, meats and fruit, the second is entitled 'Rare recipes in Cookery', and the third part deals with preserving, conserving and candying.Provenance: 'Deffyd(?) Thomas of Swansea in the County of Glamorgan Gentleman', inscription on final page; some other eighteenth-century inscriptions of Welsh owners on blank verso of b4.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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