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C[HURCHE] R[OOKE])An Olde Thrift Newly Revived. Wherein is Declared the Manner of Planting, Preserving, and Husbanding Yong Trees of Divers Kindes for Timber and Fuell. And of Sowing Acornes, Chesnuts, Beech-mas, the Seedes of Elmes, Ashen-keys, &c... And Also the Use of a Small Portable Instrument for Measuring of Board, and the Solid Content and Height of any Tree Standing... Discoursed in Dialogue betweene a Surveyour, Woodward, Gentleman, and a Farmer, FIRST EDITION, black letter, one folding woodcut plate of an instrument, several diagrams in the text, woodcut decorations and initials, without blank A1, shaved touching letters of running headline or side-notes on 18 pages, light soiling to title, twentieth century polished calf gilt, gilt morocco spine labels, g.e., one joint slightly rubbed [ESTC S107648, listing 3 variants, this with wording '.. odious to Farmers' of line 21 on D3r; Henrey 29; not in Goldsmiths or Kress], small 4to (175 x 132mm.), Printed by W.S. for Richard Moore, 1612Footnotes:'... for doe we think that wood alone can beare the brunt to satisfie every mans chimney? assuredly no, except it were more plentifull' (Preface). Written in the form of a dialogue between a surveyor, woodsman, gentleman and farmer, the work debates the problem of the rapid disappearance of England's forests. The author, himself a surveyor, advocated the use of enclosures. The final part is devoted to a measuring instrument, usable by those with 'any understanding in the science of Arithmeticke'.Provenance: Lawes Agricultural Trust, ownership inscription.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CHARLETON (WALTER)Two Discourses. The First, Concerning the Different Wits of Men. The Second... Concerning the Various Sicknesses of Wines, and their Respective Remedies... Some Observations Concerning the Ordering of Wines. By Dr. Merret... The Art and Mystery of Vintners and Wine-Coopers, 4 parts in 1 vol., third edition, part titles, advertisement leaf, edges frayed, browning, occasional staining and some marginal worming, the last 3 leaves torn affecting text without loss, contemporary calf, corners worn, covers bowed, spine chipped at head and foot [ESTC R32586; Gabler G15600; cf. Simon, Bibliotheca Gastronomica 335], 12mo, William Whitwood, 1692--HARTLIB (SAMUEL) His Legacy of Husbandry. Wherein are bequeathed to the Common-wealth of England, not onely Braband, and Flanders, but also many more Outlandish and Domestick Experiments and Secrets (of Gabriel Plats and others) never heretofore divulged in reference to Universal Husbandry, 3 parts in 1 vol., third edition enlarged, title within typographical border, woodcut head and tail-pieces, light browning and soiling throughout, outer margin of title more heavily browned, dampstain to signature M, contemporary sheep, rebacked preserving most of original spine [ESTC R3211; Fussell I, pp.43-44; Goldsmiths 1395], small 4to, J. M. for Richard Wodnothe, 1655 (2)Footnotes:Third and rarest edition of Charleton's work on wits and wine. As a royalist the author was appointed physician to the exiled King Charles II, and continued in his office of after the Restoration. He was one of first elected fellows of the Royal Society in 1663 and influenced Locke greatly. The Art and Mystery of Vintners and Wine-Coopers, published as a separate work ten years earlier, is appended here for the first time.The third edition of Hartlib's influential work was also greatly enlarged: 'The Legacie deals with a large variety of subjects, among which are Saint Foine; Ploughs and Carriages; Digging, Setting and Howing; Smut and Mildew; Orchards; Hemp and Flax; Manuring; Bees; Silke-worms... The reference to the cultivation of lucerne in England is stated by Miss Aslin to be the earliest extant' (Fussell).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

DIGGES (LEONARD)A Booke Named Tectonicon, large woodcut illustration on title, 2 folding tables, woodcut illustrations, diagrams, initials and decorations, washed and pressed, first few leaves slightly frayed, small filled hole in a few leaves (last 2 with a couple of letters affected), fore-corners to approximately 5 leaves neatly repaired, twentieth century red crushed morocco gilt [ESTC S117154], small 4to (203 x 155mm.), Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, 1625Footnotes:Scarce edition of Digges' successful treatise on land surveying, first published in 1556, in which he considered the measurement of land, the calculation of quantities, and the use of various instruments such as the carpenter's rule, the square, and a version of the cross-staff. He was also 'at pains to correct common errors practised by those without an adequate grounding in mathematics; this theme of 'vulgar errors' became standard in many subsequent mathematical texts' (ODNB). Provenance: Sir Roger Twysden (1597-1672), inscription dated 1638 on title. Twysden, educated at St. Paul's School, was an antiquary and politician. In 1629, on inheriting an estate at Roydon Hall in Kent he 'set about improving his property, creating a park... and engaging in extensive planting of trees. He kept a book in which he wrote down detailed advice on prudent estate management, including the keeping of woods which he regarded as especially important' (ODNB). During the Civil War he was imprisoned by the Parliamentarians, and his estate sequestered, 'and large quantities of the timber on his lands, of which he was so proud, were felled' (ODNB); Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp and note of acquisition (1925) on front endaper.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

[ESTIENNE (CHARLES)]Maison Rustique, or the Countrey Farme... Translated into English by Richard Surfleet... Now Newly Reviewed, Corrected, and Augmented, with Divers Large Additions... and the Husbandrie of France, Italie, and Spaine, Reconciled and Made to Agree with Ours Here in England. By Gervase Markham, third (first Markham) edition, woodcut device on title, woodcut illustrations in the text (some full-page), without initial and final blanks, very occasional foxing and soiling, first half of volume affected by worm trail which gradually reduces to a single hole, Yy3 with long tear slightly affecting text, this and Yy2 repaired in margin, twentieth century calf antique [ESTC S121357; Bitting p.146-147; Fussell p.13; Goldsmiths' 451; Hunt 202; Kress 353; Simon BG, 610 (note); Westwood & Satchell p.88], small folio, Adam Islip, for John Bill, 1616Footnotes:Markham's comprehensive revision of the text, with sections on bread-making, wine, cider, vegetables, herbs, animal husbandry, fish farming, hunting, falconry etc.Provenance: Hilda Leyel and Lawrence Strangman, bookplates (the former's bookplate hidden below the pasted down endpaper). Lawrence Strangman was recently in the news following the discovery of a rare butterfly found preserved in the pages of a book he donated to Trinity Hall.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

[FITZHERBERT (JOHN)]Surveyinge, black letter, title within woodcut architectural border, lacks colophon (H8), annotation in a contemporary hand in one margin, some dampstaining (mostly marginal, quite heavy to final few leaves), nineteenth century calf gilt, lettered in gilt on upper cover, slightly rubbed [ESTC S122123; Fussell I, p.7-8], 8vo (145 x 98mm.), [Thomas Berthelet], 1539Footnotes:Rare early edition of Fitzherbert's treatise on surveying, first published in 1523, addressed to 'lordes and possessioners of lande' and their overseers with advice on laws relating to country estates.Provenance: Francis Henry Cripps-Day (1864-1945), antiquary and lawyer, with extensive ink notes relating to this and other editions on front endpaper; Lawes Agricultural Trust, acquisition date 1932 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

HUNTAR (WILLIAM)A Treatise, of Weights, Mets and Measures of Scotland, FIRST EDITION, with A1r catchword 'sures', woodcut armorial device on title, woodcut decorations and initials, diagrams in the text, some marginal repairs, trimmed with some loss to ruled border of several pages, running headline on 5 pages, and fore-edge of 3 pages touching one column of figures to tables, small hole to title with loss of numeral '2' of date (with full date '1624' in ink beside), eighteenth century ink annotations on 2 blank pages with several ownership inscriptions in margins, light soiling, modern calf, gilt lettered on spine [ESTC S104307], small 4to (170 x 130mm.), Edinburgh, Printed by John Wreittoun, and are to bee solde at his Buith, et the Nethey-Bowe, 1624Footnotes:Provenance: Alexander and James Blackie, eighteenth century ink inscriptions in on several leaves; Rothamsted Experimental Station, stamp 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

LAMBARDE (WILLIAM)A Perambulation of Kent: Conteining the Description, Hystorie, and Customes of that Shyre, second edition, black letter, title within wide woodcut decorative border, folding woodcut map of the Beacons of Kent, woodcut map of the Heptarchy (shaved close at foot), a few marginal ink notes in an early hand, some minor worming to outer margin occasionally touching side-notes, light spotting, panelled calf gilt for H. Sotheran & Co., upper joint split [ESTC 108239], small 4to (190 x 135mm.), Edmund Bollifant, 1596Footnotes:'The earliest county history, based on wide and critical reading (partly informed by Lambarde's protestant suspicion of monks and their works), it draws also on Domesday Book and on royal charters, and includes in its climatic, economic, social, religious, and historical survey a short investigation of the see of Canterbury' (ODNB). First published in 1576, this second edition was 'increased and altered after the Authors owne last copie'.Provenance: John Denne (1693-1767), Archdeacon of Rochester and antiquarian; Herbert N. Evans, ownership inscriptions; Edward Huth, Wykehurst Park, 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

LANGLEY (BATTY)A Sure Method of Improving Estates, by Plantation of Oak, Elm, Ash, Beech, and Other Timber-trees, Coppice-woods, &c., FIRST EDITION, issue with pp.vii-xx correctly numbered, woodcut ornaments and end-pieces, contemporary sprinkled calf, head of spine chipped, joints a little rubbed [Fussell I, p.27; Goldsmiths 6587; Henrey 929; Hunt 473], 8vo, Francis Clay, and Daniel Browne, 1728Footnotes:'Our Nation will be entirely exhausted of building timber, before sixty years are ended' - Batty Langley (1696-1751), architect and horticulturalist, puts forwards his plans to halt deforestation, advicing landowners on the planting a variety of trees 'to the great advantage of themselves and their posterity after them'.Provenance: Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp 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

BOYDELL (JOHN AND JOSIAH)An History of the River Thames, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, later issue (without engraved titles and dedication), 76 hand-coloured aquatint plates within grey wash borders (3 double-page on 2 sheets joined) by J.C. Stadler after J. Farington, 2 folding engraved maps ('The Course of the River Thames, from it's Source... by John Cooke of Hendon'), one engraved plate, some off-setting and occasional spotting, contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt, g.e, rubbed [Abbey Scenery 432; Tooley 102], folio (405 x 300mm.), W. Bulmer & Co., for John and Josiah Boydell, 1794-1796 [but watermarked 1825]Footnotes:Provenance: J. Alfred Wigan (1787-1869), bookplate; A. Culver Evans, ownership inscription on front 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

[LANGLEY (BATTY)New Principles of Gardening: Or the Laying Out and Planting [of] Parterres, Groves, Wildernesses, Labyrinths... After a More Grand and Rural Manner... With Experimental Directions for Raising the Several Kinds of Fruit Trees, Forest-trees, Ever-greens and Flowering-shrubs Which Gardens Are Adorn'd], FIRST EDITION, folding engraved frontispiece and 27 folding or double-page engraved plates (frontispiece laid down with some losses to image, several other short repairs), lacks title and pp.85/86 (both supplied in manuscript facsimile), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked retaining original gilt-tooled spine, slightly rubbed [Berlin Kat. 3414; Harris 462; Henrey 927], 4to (250 x 185mm.), [A. Bettesworth and J. Batley, 1728, but 1727]Footnotes:The New Principles is Batty Langley's 'most important contribution on the subject of gardening. It is the culmination of both his work at Twickenham Park for Thomas Vernon and his brief directions for 'arti-natural' design... [and as such] places him among the earliest exponents of the new style of irregular gardening' (Harris).Provenance: F.H. Cripps-Day (1864-1932), ownership inscription; Rothamsted Experimental Station, stamp 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

LEIGH (VALENTINE)The Moste Profitable and Commendable Science, of Surveying of Lands, Tenementes, and Hereditamentes... Newly Imprinted and Corrected, fourth edition, black and roman letter, with blank A1, woodcut device on title, woodcut diagrams and initials, 2 folding tables (each on 2 conjoined sheets, short tears repaired, one resulting in minor loss to one word), stab-holes to inner margin, old ink number 'X num 52' to front free endpaper and 'G G. num: 50' on verso, light water-staining to a few leaves, nineteenth century half calf, rubbed [ESTC S108414; cf. Fussell I, p.7, first edition], small 4to (190 x 135mm.), John Windet, for Robert Dexter, 1592Footnotes:Fourth edition - the first appeared in 1577 - of this practical, popular guide on surveying, praised by John Norden in The Surveiors Dialogue, 1610.Provenance: Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp inside upper cover, purchased 1925 from Bernard Quaritch.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

LEIGH (VALENTINE)The Moste Profitable and Commendable Science, of Surveying of Landes, Tenementes, and Hereditamentes, FIRST EDTION, black letter, with blank A4, woodcut device on title, woodcut diagrams and initials, one folding letterpress table (on 2 sheets joined), lacking the other table (one sheet of which supplied in facsimile), title with light dampstain in upper margin obscuring early ownership inscription, and small paper flaw in lower margin, light spotting and toning, unidentified eighteenth century armorial bookplate inside upper cover, eighteenth cenury quarter sheep with marbled sides, worn, spine ends chipped [ESTC S106757; cf. Fussell I, p.7, variant imprint], small 4to (185 x 123mm.), Andrew Maunsell, 1577Footnotes:Scarce first edition of Valentine Leigh's treatise on the science of surveying, in which he offered both technical information on the science of surveying and measurements, and more general advice to landowners on the worth of their lands, and management of rents and fees.Provenanance: Lawes Agricultural Trust, purchase aquisition note (1928) 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

[LEYBOURN (WILLIAM)]Planometria: or the Whole Art of Surveying of Land: Shewing the Composition, and Use of All the Most Necessary Instruments thereunto Belonging... by Oliver Wallinby, FIRST EDITION, first leaf bears signature mark 'A' within ornamental border on recto and illustration on verso, woodcut illustrations and diagrams (with large diagram cut to size and laid down on C1 as instructed), mathematical calculations in an early hand to front free endpaper, contemporary sheep, rubbed, small loss to head of spine [ESTC R42121], 8vo, Printed for Nathanael Brooks, 1650Footnotes:Rare first edition of Leybourn's influential treatise on surveying, published under the pseudonym Oliver Wallinby (an anagram of his name), which was enlarged and printed as The Compleat Surveyor three years later.Provenance: Ch. Hevingham, ?eighteenth century inscription on title-page; Rothamsted Experimental Station, stamp 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

N[ORDEN] (J[OHN)]The Surveyors Dialogue... Very Profitable for All Men to Peruse, that Have to Do with Revenues of Land, or the Manurance, Use, or Occupation Thereof, Both Lords and Tenants, FIRST EDITION, initial blank with signature-mark 'A' (with several early ink scribblings, laid down), woodcut ornament on title, several diagrams in the text, without final 2 blanks, good margins, a few small neat marginal repairs, modern red morocco, early vellum covers and spine bound in at end [ESTC S113314; Kress 279], small 4to (190 x 138mm.), Printed [by Simon Stafford] for Hugh Astley, 1607Footnotes:First edition of the first English surveying publication of the seventeenth century, 'important because of Norden's clear account of the operation of the court of survey and because of his efforts to reconcile the differences between surveyor and tenant' (A.W. Richeson, English Land Measuring to 1800, 1966).Provenance: Lawes Agricultural Library, stamp 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

PLAT (HUGH)The Garden of Eden: or, An accurate Description of all Flowers and Fruits now Growing in England... as well in Seeds and Herbs, as the Secret Ordering of Trees and Plants, 2 parts in 1 vol., sixth edition, woodcut initials, some light soiling and edge staining to first few leaves, contemporary speckled sheep, upper joint with split at top and small adjacent hole [ESTC R31801; Fussell pp.15-16; Henrey 299; Hunt 340], 8vo, William and John Leake, 1675Footnotes:First complete edition. Originally published in 1608 as Floraes Paradise beautified and adorned with sundry sortes of delicate Fruits and Flowers, it was first issued as The Garden of Eden in 1653, with some omissions and rearrangements, by Charles Bellingham. Further editions followed, along with a second part in 1660, but the present 'sixth edition', the last, was the first to combine the two parts.The work includes advice on the growing of trees, flowers and fruit, and wine making using what would now be termed biodynamic principles ('Gather your grapes at the full of the moon'). Plat's many experiments were conducted at his rented houses in Bethnal Green (Bishop's Hall and Kirby's Castle), although he was also known to have undertaken research at estates such as Sir Thomas Heneage's at Copped Hall, Epping.Provenance: Earls of Macclesfield, South Library bookplate and small blindstamp 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

RATHBORNE (AARON)The Surveyor in Foure Bookes, FIRST EDITION, engraved allegorical title-page, 2 engraved portraits (that of the author cut to size and mounted as frontispiece; the other of Prince Charles, Prince of Wales), woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text, woodcut ornaments and decorative initials, without final 2 blanks, occasional light marginal water-staining, a few spots and marks, later calf, spine gilt in compartments, joints slightly weakened [ESTC S116149; Fussell I, pp.22-23], small folio (270 x 180mm.), W. Stansby for W. Burre, 1616Footnotes:First edition of Rathborne's The Surveyor, an 'influential textbook addressed the practical everyday needs of surveyors more realistically than had been done hitherto' (ODNB), and written in the vernacular. Rathborne placed surveying firmly among the mathematical sciences, drawing on the latest teaching given at Gresham College, notably Henry Brigg's lectures on logarithms.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

ROYAL AIRFORCE: pilot's notes for Wellington III, X, XI, XII, XIII & XIV (1944), Pilot's Notes General (1943 2nd Edition), Instructor's Handbook of Advances Flying Training (May 1943), a book of poetry by John Wright 'Airman Singing' (First Edition, 1944), and one other. (4)

HIGHSMITH (Patricia): 'A Game for the Living..', London, Heinemann, 1959: First Edition: 8vo, publishers brown cloth with dustjacket, spotted with light wear and a few chips else good: together with 27 other novels by same, the majority first editions all in dustjacket. (28)

MCCALL SMITH (Alexander): 'Teatime for the Traditionally Built...': London, Little, Brown, 2009: First Edition: 8vo, dustjacket, fine: with 18 others by same author, all but one hardback editions, VG in dustjacket: together with 17 titles by Elmore Leonard. (36)

PEARY (Robert): 'The North Pole...': London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1910: large 8vo, publishers pale green cloth gilt lettered and blocked in white, spine a little sunned, some dustsoiling and marks else a good copy: together with John Hunt's 'The Ascent of Everest', First Edition 1953, VG in dustjacket. (2)

SIR ROBERT PEEL'S COPY: GALT (John): 'Sir Andrew Wylie, of that Ilk...': Edinburgh, printed for William Blackwood, 1822: First Edition: 3 vols, later half calf with marbled sides, 8vo: with bookplate of The Rt Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Whitehall Gardens to each volume. (3)

CROMPTON (Richmal): 'William and the Brains Trust...', London, George Newnes, 1945: first cheap edition, 8vo, pub. red cloth, dustjacket, frayed and rubbed: with 15 other William titles in similar condition, some in worn dustjackets. (16)

SCOTT (Sir Walter): 'The Lady of the Lake; a Poem..' Edinburgh, 1810: First Edition: 4to, contemporary diced calf gilt, light wear, scattered foxing else VG: together with 'Wallace; or, the Fight of Falkirk; a metrical romance...', London 1809, uniformly bound: and another early 19thc 4to of Scottish interest. (3)

BATTLE OF WATERLOO: THOMSON (John): 'Report of Observations made in the British Military Hospitals in Belgium after the Battle of Waterloo; with some remarks upon amputation..' Edinburgh, printed for William Blackwood, 1816: First Edition: period drab boards later rebacked, front board detached and upper endpapers deficient, various old institutional stamps, some spotting and dustmarking, uncut edges, 8vo. (1)

BEATSON (Alexander): 'A View of the Origin and Conduct of the War with Tippoo Sultaun...and of the siege of Seringapatam', London, printed by W Bulmer, 1800. First Edition. Recent quarter calf, new endpapers, title and frontis laid down repairing closed tear in each, waterstain round lower edges: aquatint frontispiece portrait and one folding plate, three folding battle plans, one hand-coloured folding map and two folding letterpress charts. (1)

JOHNSTON (Harry, Sir): 'The Uganda Protectorate..', London, Hutchinson, 1902: First Edition: numerous folding maps, black and white photographic illustrations from photographs, 2 vols, publisher's blue cloth gilt, teg, some related colonial Uganda ephemera loosely inserted: together with an 1888 edition of Sir Samuel Baker's 'Albert N'yanza' in good full red calf gilt prize binding, 8vo. (3)

WATKINS-PITCHFORD (D J, illustrator): 'Tide's Ending by BB': London, Hollis & Carter, 1950: First Edition: 4to, publisher's grey cloth gilt with dustjacket, some loss to edges else G/VG. (1)

FRANCIS (Dick): 'The Sport of Queens', London, Michael Joseph, 1957: First Edition of author's first book: 8vo, publisher's blue cloth, dustjacket, chips and tears to edges: together with 'Odds Against', 1965: 'Blood Sport', 1967: 'Forfeit', 1968: 'Rat Race', 1970, and 2 others by Francis, all first editions, VG in dustjackets. (7)

DURRELL (Lawrence): 'Acte..', London, Faber, 1965: First Edition: 8vo, dustjacket a little rubbed to edges, signed by author to half title dated 1974: O'NEILL (Eugene): 'Dynamo', New York, 1929: No.84/750 copies, signed by author: 4to, original vellum covers, marked, spine re-coloured, slipcase: with 5 others, drama, mostly signed. (7)

CRIME: QUEEN (Ellery): 'The Murderer is a Fox...' London, Gollancz, 1945: First Edition, 8vo, printed yellow dustjacket, sunned and marked: with 16 others by same, mixed editions, all but one in dustjacket, generally in good condition: plus 9 others, dustjacket crime of same period. (26)

OPPENHEIM (E Phillips): 'Sir Adam Disappeared', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1939: First Edition: 8vo, publisher's red cloth with dustjacket, nicks and bumps to edges else VG. (1)

UPDIKE (John): 'The Witches of Eastwick..' Franklin Library, 1984: signed by author, for First Edition Society: publishers green faux leather, gilt, VG: with 3 others by Updike, all signed, plus signed first editions of titles by William Boyd (3): Ian McEwan (2): Julian Barnes (3), Ruth Rendell (2): Ian Rankin (1) and Philip Roth (1), all VG in dustjacket. (16)

WAUGH (Evelyn): 'Unconditional Surrender', London, Chapman & Hall, 1961: First Edition: 8vo, publishers blue cloth, dustjacket, spine sunned with minor edge wear, else VG: ACTON (Harold): 'Memoirs of an Aesthete..', 1948: First Edition: 8vo, publishers blue cloth, a little rubbed: together with 28 others on one shelf, 20th century literature, many first editions, generally in good condition. (30)

WILLIAMS (Tennessee): 'Memoirs', New York, Doubleday, 1975: First Edition: inscribed by author to front flyleaf: publishers cloth, dustjacket, spine sunned and a few edge tears else VG, 8vo. (1)

LUTHER (Martin): 'Der Ander Teil Der Bucher D.Mart.Luther. Darin Alle Streitschrifften/Sampt Etlichen Sendbrieven an Fursten und Stedte etc...': Wittenberg, Simon Gronenberg, 1588: folio, contemporary blind tooled vellum with metallic closures, title page printed in red and black, half-page woodcut world map at p459, general browning and dustsoiling, scattered wormholes: together with another foilo work vellum bound.  First item: second volume only of the Wittenberg collected edition of Luther's works, containing his pamphlets and sermons relating to Islam and resistance to the Ottoman Empire. (2)

WORDSWORTH (William): 'The White Doe of Rylstone; or the fate of the Nortons. A Poem..' London, Longman Hurst et al, 1815: First Edition, 8vo, 19thc half calf, worn and scuffed, rebacked. (1)

TOLKIEN (J R R): 'The Two Towers': London, George Allen & Unwin, 1954: First Edition, publishers red cloth without dustjacket, lean toward front board and spine sunned, 8vo: together with an eighth impression of 'The Fellowship of the Ring', 1960, also without jacket. (2)

GILL (Eric, illustrator): 'The New Testament, edited with an introduction by M R James...' London, J M Dent & Sons, 1934-36: First Edition thus: 4 vols, small 8vo, published red cloth: 'In a Strange Land...essays by Eric Gill', London, Cape, 1944: First Edition: publishers blue cloth without dustjacket, small 8vo: together with 35 other volumes, 20th century literature and poetry. (40, one shelf)

LAWRENCE (T E): 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom...', London, Jonathan Cape, 1935: First Trade Edition: 4vo, publishers brown cloth gilt, light wear and sunning: ARKWRIGHT (William): 'Knowledge and Life...': London, Bodley Head, 1930: large 8vo, full red crushed morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, teg, light wear else VG: together with 15 other unrelated books, including a Victorian edition of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, Winston Churchill's Second World War (6 vols), and others. (17)

A boxed Kids at Heart The Lonely Doll Collection Commemorative Limited Edition child doll, celebrating the first publication of The Lonely Doll in 1957 by Dare Wright together with a contemporary Madame Alexandra Fairy Doll, boxed, Red Riding Hood by Seymour Mann, boxed, and others

Art Ephemera: comprising two first edition French copies of Dali Le Divine Comedy catalogue, first edition 1946 DAL illustrated The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini and 1960 Exhib. catalogue The Tate Gallery PICASSO

Wortley, Mary Stuart (Countess of Lovelace, )Zelinda And The Monster or Beauty And The Beast. Dent & Co 1895 (1st edition), cloth and card bound. 25.5 cm x 19.5 cm.Together with other children's first editionsQty: 6

Fitzpatrick, Sir Percy.Jock of the Bushveld, first edition London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907, colour frontispiece, original green cloth with gilt tooling 22 cm x 16.5 cm. Together with the twelfth edition of the same title. (2 Volumes)Footnote: Frontis tissue torn. Some slight foxing corners bumped

Henri Matisse (1869-1954)Nu assis à la chemise de tulle (Duthuit 465) Lithograph, 1925, on chine laid paper, signed and inscribed 'essai' in pencil, a rare proof aside from the edition of 50 (Duthuit records only one trial proof of this subject), the full sheet with deckle edges at top and below, in good condition, framedImage 368 x 270mm. (14 1/2 x 10 5/8in.); Sheet 561 x 376mm. (21 3/4 x 14 3/4in.)Footnotes:Without voluptuous pleasure, nothing existsHenri MatisseNowadays we associate Matisse with vibrancy and sensuality. No other works exemplifies these qualities better than his 'Odalisques' from the 1920s. Matisse fled Paris after the First World War and move to sunny Nice where he started depicting exotic-looking women in opulently decorated, interior settings. He met a young ballerina and musician called Henriette Darricarère who was to become her favourite model from 1920 to 1927 and the sitter for his famous Odalisque paintings for this decade. It is said that Matisse ''liked her natural dignity, the graceful way her head sat on her neck and, above all, the fact that her body caught the light like a sculpture''. In this beautiful lithograph, Henriette is elegantly sitting on a Persian carpet with her naked, curved silhouette resting against a striped wall. The erotic charge of this nude and portrait transcends pure lust, depicting a passion that is not just between two people but between Matisse and the very act of painting and drawing. Matisse keeps the same texture, lavish detail and patterned decorations in these lithographs of Odalisques than in his paintings of the same subject. Click for an instant shipping quoteThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (1886-1990)Die Träumenden Knaben (The Dreaming Youths) (Wingler & Welz 22-29) The volume comprising ten lithographs (eight in colours), 1908, on wove paper, signed, dated 1967 and dedicated to Greta in pencil on the front free endpaper, numbered 183 in ink on the justification label, from the second edition of 275 copies, published in 1917 by Kurt Wolff, Leipzig, Germany, the full sheets, with pale time staining, the colours fresh and vibrant, in good overall condition, bound (as issued), with title page, text in German, within the original hessian-covered boards with lithograph in black on the front cover and black slipcaseSheets 240 x 290mm. (9 1/2 x 11 3/8in.); Volume 243 x 298mm. (9 1/2 x 11 3/4in.)Footnotes:ProvenanceGifted by the artist to Margaret Fisher.Thence by descent to the current owner.Kokoschka was a major exponent of the Expressionist movement in Austria and was one of the great colourists of the twentieth century. Die Träumenden Knaben was his first graphic work and marks an important moment early in his career, not just as a landmark illustrated artist's book, but also representing a period of transition between the traditional Viennese ornamental style and the more emotionally charged and unconventional Expressionist style, employing intense colours and distorted figures. The work combines several of the artists' influences; medieval art where several scenes are shown within one image, folk art with its bold, flat colours, Japanese art in the use of black outlines and the intricate highly decorative imagery of Secessionist Art. The work was commissioned by Fritz Wärndorfer, the Director of the Wiener Werkstätte design cooperative, for the Kunstschau arts and handicrafts exhibition in Vienna 1908, organized by Kokoschka's friend and mentor Gustav Klimt, to whom the work is dedicated. The commission had been intended as a children's fairy-tale. However, inspired by his unrequited love for Lilith, a fellow student, Kokoschka took the liberty of producing rather more adult content to accompany his poem about a young boy's dream, in which youths travel through various exotic landscapes. The poem and images reference the awakening of adolescent sexuality which was regarded as inappropriate and very few of the 500 copies were sold. In 1917 the Wiener Werkstätte publisher, Kurt Wolff, recognizing the importance of the work in the context of the Expressionist movement and seeing that Kokoschka's reputation was in the ascendant, bought the remaining 275 copies of the book and re-issued it as a bound volume.The words and images express powerful personal emotions and Kokoschka later referred to the book as 'my first love letter'. This passion for his subject, together with his dramatic use of colour and composition, mean that this is considered to be one of the most important and beautiful artist's books of the twentieth century.This copy has a handwritten dedication to Margaret Fisher (known as Greta), who worked for her aunt, Lea Bondi-Jaray, one of the foremost dealers in Expressionist Art, first at the Galerie Würthle in pre-war Vienna and later in London, having fled the Nazi occupation in 1939.Click for an instant shipping quoteThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Sir George James Frampton (British, 1860-1928): A patinated bronze figure of 'Peter Pan'the figure originally conceived 1911, this reduction edition dated 1913the young boy playfully blowing his pipe, the base signed with GF monogram and dated 1913 to one side, the top edge with inscribed monogram PP, raised on a stepped rectangular green veined marble plinth, the figure 48cm high, 59cm high overall including plinth baseFootnotes:ProvenanceProperty of a private UK family collection since the late 1940's.A leading sculptor of his day, Frampton was a central figure of the New School of sculpture but is perhaps today most famous for his depiction of Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie's 'boy that never grew up' and fantastical storybook hero of Edwardian children's literature. Derived from the life size plaster of Peter Pan exhibited by Frampton at The Royal Academy in May 1911, it was then cast in bronze and erected on behalf of the 'anonymous donor' J. M. Barrie in Kensington Gardens in May of the following year. The statue was placed at Barrie's request on the spot in Kensington Gardens where the little boy appears nightly in his first book 'Little White Bird' dating from 1901. The figure of Peter was supposedly modelled on a family friend of Barrie's, Michael Llewellyn-Davies who was one of the five brothers who inspired the original stories. Barrie is known to have sent Frampton photographs of Michael dressed as Peter Pan from which to work but it is now thought more likely that Frampton actually modelled his Peter on another boy, possibly James W. Shaw or William A. Harwood.The statue was first seen publicly to great acclaim on the 1st May 1912 with no advance publicity after Barrie placed an advert in The Times stating:'There is a surprise in store for the children who go to Kensington Gardens to feed the ducks in the Serpentine this morning. Down by the little bay on the south-western side of the tail of the Serpentine they will find a May-day gift by Mr J.M. Barrie, a figure of Peter Pan blowing his pipe on the stump of a tree, with fairies and mice and squirrels all around. It is the work of Sir George Frampton, and the bronze figure of the boy who would never grow up is delightfully conceived'The statue depicts Peter standing in exactly the same pose as Frampton's original figure first shown in 1911 but with the addition of fairies, rabbits, mice and squirrels to the more elaborate naturalistic base. Much admired, it quickly become a favourite landmark for many adults and children, and is often considered to be one of the most popular public statues in London. Other life-size versions of the statue were later erected in Sefton Park, Liverpool, Canada, Brussels, Australia and New Jersey. It was the obvious widespread popular appeal of the statue that subsequently led Frampton to produce limited edition reductions of the main figure of Peter and the present lot is an early example of one these reductions produced between 1913 and 1925.SFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare Prattware 'Sailor' Toby Jug, circa 1795-1800Seated on a high-backed chair above a sea chest, an anchor between his feet, holding a foaming jug in his left hand painted with a brown rose sprigs, a tall glass of beer in his right hand, wearing a brown hat, brown and ochre sponged jacket edged in yellow, white waistcoat and striped trousers, the base picked out in green, inscribed 'Lord, hou' [sic] in brown script underneath the base, 29cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceJames and Timmey Challenger Collection, ChicagoVic Schuler, Collecting British Toby Jugs (Third Edition, 1999), p.42 recorded two 'Rodney Sailor' jugs inscribed 'Lord Hou' on the base, both Prattware. One is in the Nottingham Castle Museum and the other was sold by Christie's on 22 October 1979, lot 41. The present lot represents a third example. Schuler notes on p.34 that one 'Admiral Lord Howe' jug is also known with the same inscription on the base. These titles were probably added to existing moulds following news of Howe's success during the French Revolutionary Wars. Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe commanded the Channel Fleet and was victorious at the Glorious First of June in 1794. He was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in March 1796 and died in 1799.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Antiquarian Books - Travel and Exploration - Egypt, Lane (Edward William), An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians [...], first edition thus, two-volume set, London: Charles Knight and Co., 1836-1837, b/w plates and in-text illustrations, some music, contemporary cloth, 8vo, 19th century church and seminary stamps, 8vo, (2); Prescott (William H.), History of the Conquest of Mexico, three-volume set, second edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1844, titles printed in red and black, portrait frontispieces, maps and plates, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (3); The Continental Tourist; Belgium & Nassau, London: Parry & Co., [n.d., c. 1845], illustrated with 32 steel engravings and a fold-out map, contemporary green cloth (chipped spine), 8vo, (1); Wood (Charles W.), In the Valley of the Rhone, London: 1899, green cloth gilt, 8vo, (1), [7]

Bill Randle. Blue Skies and Dark Nights. WW2 first edition hardback book in good condition. Signed by the author. Dedicated. Inc newspaper clipping. 352 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99

Max Arthur. Men Of The Red Beret. A WW2 First Edition hardback book. Dedicated. Signed by the author. Number 200 of 5000 printed. 430 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99

Raymond and Langdon. Slip-Stream. An RAF Anthology. A WW2 hardback book first edition, showing signs of age. Signed by pilot David Langdon. 260 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99

The Earl Haig. My Fathers Son. A WW2 hardback first edition book in good condition. Signed by Haig. 194 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99

Group captain Richard 'Dickie' Haine OBE DFC. From Fury to Phantom. A WW2 hardback book in good condition. First edition, signed by the author. 234 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99

James A. Goodson. The Last of The Knights. A WW2 hardback book in good condition. Dedicated. First edition. Signed by the author. 192 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99

James A. Goodson. The Last of The Knights. A WW2 hardback book in good condition. Dedicated. First edition. Signed by the author. 192 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99

C. F. Andrews. Vickers Aircraft since 1908. a WW2 hardback first edition book. Showing signs of age. Dedicated. Signed and dated by author. 566 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99

Gordon Riley and Graham Trant. Spitfire Survivors Round The World. First Edition WW2 hardback book in good condition. Signed by both authors. 216 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99

Michael Shaw. Twice Vertical. A ww2 hardback book in good condition. Signed by the author. First Edition. 256 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99

Alvin M. Joseph, JR. The American Heritage History Of Flight. A WW2 hardback book, showing signs of age. First Edition. Signed. 416 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99

Robert J. Goebel. Mustang Ace. A WW2 hardback book in fair condition, First Edition. Dedicated. Signed and dated by the author, 228 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99