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MATHEMATICSSTIRLING (JAMES) The Differential Method: or, a Treatise Concerning Summation and Interpolation of Infinite Series. Translated into English, with the Author's Approbation, by Francis Holliday, final leaf of advertisements at end, the translator's note 'to the Reader' misbound after preface, ink annotations and corrections by an early reader in the margins and text, library ink stamp on title and approximately 15 further leaves (mostly in blank borders), contemporary calf, rebacked in calf gilt with red morocco spine label, worn at extremities, 4to (230 x 175mm.), E. Cave, 1749Footnotes:Rare first edition in English, only one copy traced at auction on Rare Book Hub, of 'Stirling's principal contribution to mathematics' (ODNB), first published in Latin as Methodus differentialis in 1730. Its introductory section contains Stirling's discussion of what are now called 'Stirling numbers' (important in modern combinatorial theory). The transation was made by Francis Holliday who is described on the title as 'master of the grammar Free-School at Haughton-Park, near Retford, Nottinghamshire'.This copy has annotations by an early, and obviously engaged reader, with many small corrections to the text (inserting missing words, striking through and replacing individual words), amending equations, and adding manuscript additions to the errata page.Provenance: Nottingham Public Library, ink stamps.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CHURCHILL (WINSTON)London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, FIRST EDITION, 8 maps and plans (3 folding), 2pp. advertisements and 32pp. publisher's catalogue at end, one folding map with edges slightly frayed and browned, publisher's pictorial cloth [Cohen A4.1.a; Woods A4], Longmans, Green and Co., 1900; My African Journey, FIRST EDITION, 3 maps and numerous plates (one soiled at edges), light spotting, publisher's pictorial red cloth, spine a little faded and stained, recased [Cohen A27.1; Woods A12], Hodder & Stoughton, 1908; The People's Rights, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE IN WRAPPERS, second state with p.71 corrected, one appendix and index at end, paper toned as usual, publisher's yellow wrappers with portrait on front wrapper (fore-edge chipped not affecting lettering), spine creased with some loss at foot, rear wrapper detached with loss to part of one advertisement [Cohen A31.2.b; Woods A16], Hodder & Stoughton, [1910]--NOBLE (WALTER) With a Bristol Fighter Squadron... with an Introduction by... Winston Churchill, FIRST EDITION, portrait and 2 plates, The John Crerar Library (Chicago) copy with bookplate, ink stamp on verso of plates, and perforated stamp on title, publisher's cloth, spine ends bumped, [Cohen B23.1; Woods B7], Andrew Melrose, 1920, 8vo (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

CHURCHILL (WINSTON)The People's Rights, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE IN WRAPPERS, FIRST STATE, with page 71 misnumbered '1', one appendix and index at end, toned throughout (as usual), small hole in inner margin of first 3 leaves (not affecting text), slight chips to outer corners of first and last leaves, publisher's yellow wrappers with photographic portrait of Churchill on the upper cover, soiled, front wrapper detached and with loss affecting 2 or 3 letters at corners, spine and rear wrapper with some smaller chips [Cohen A31.2.a; Woods A16], 8vo, Hodder & Stoughton, [1910]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CHURCHILL (WINSTON)A Speech by The Prime Minister The Right Honourable Winston Churchill in the House of Commons August 20th, 1940, FIRST EDITION, 16pp., 2 copies, one on unwatermarked paper and in light blueish grey wrappers, the other copy on watermarked paper ('Basingwerk Parchment') and in buff wrappers, publisher's printed wrappers, some foxing [Cohen A131.1.a & variant of A131.1.c/d]; cf. Woods A60(a)], [Baynard Press], 1940; War Speeches 1940-1945, portrait, slightly browned throughout, publisher's printed wrappers, spine chipped with some loss [Cohen A224; Woods A113], Cassell & Co., 1946, 8vo (3)Footnotes:'NEVER IN THE FIELD OF HUMAN CONFLICT...': the Battle of Britain speech, copies of which were printed on different stocks of paper and issued in variant colour wrappers as a result of shortages.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CHURCHILL (WINSTON)The Second World War, 6 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, volume 4 first Australian edition, numerous maps, diagrams, and tables, blue half morocco, gilt panelled spines in 6 compartments with raised bands, 8vo, Cassell & Co., 1948-1953This 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

MATHEMATICSWHITEHEAD (ALFRED NORTH) AND BERTRAND RUSSELL. Principia Mathematica, 3 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, half-titles, pages slightly brittle throughout, volume 1 first leaf of introduction detached with lower right section raggedly torn out (no loss of text), long arc tear in upper margin touching text of final 5 leaves (4 touching text, final leaf a blank with some loss); volume 2 with 12 leaves (pp.xix-p.8) loose, loss to lower fore-corner of pp.240-420, and smaller loss to several others; Volume 3 with short marginal tears to a few leaves, a few single wormholes to opening and final leaves in volumes of volumes 1 and 3, publisher's blue cloth, worn especially at extremities of spines, sprinkled white paint spots on lower cover of volume 1 [Norman 1868], large 8vo (260 x 170mm.), Cambridge, at the University Press, 1910-1912Footnotes:RARE COMPLETE SET OF THE FIRST EDITION OF PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA, which 'formed the greatest single contribution to symbolic logic for the time', in which the authors posited that 'mathematics is a part of logic, so that a separate philosophy of mathematics does not exist, a view contradicting the Kantian doctrine that mathematical proofs depend on a priori forms of intuition' (ODNB). Only 750 copies of the first volume were published, but it is thought volumes 2 and 3 were only printed in runs of 500 copies.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

COMICSWERTHAM (FREDRIC) Seduction of the Innocent, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE WITH THE 2-PAGE 'BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE', 8 leaves of illustrations, publisher's cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket (uncut, priced '$4.00' on inside upper flap), small tears and creases at horizontal margins, with loss of 2 letters ('Th' of 'The author of...') on author strapline to upper cover, 8vo, New York, Rhinehart, [1954]Footnotes:Complete with the rare bibliographical list which was removed from most copies following objections from the publishers listed. 'This is the most shocking book of recent years... you think they [Comics] are mostly about floppy-eared bunnies, attractive little mice and chipmunks? Good take a look' - a warning to parents about the dangerous effects that comic books had on the morality of 1950s American children, and how they 'stimulate unwholesome fantasies' and 'sexually abnormal ideas'. Although Wertham's methods and practices have been largely discredited, his concerns with media saturation of young children's minds are of course very prescient of today's concerns.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

DOYLE (ARTHUR CONAN)A Study in Scarlet, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST IMPRESSION, with the correct spelling of 'younger' in paragraph 2, line 3 of the preface, 6 plates by Charles Doyle, without the advertisements (one of which off-set onto blank verso of final leaf), a few single spots in margins of title, early twentieth century red morocco-backed cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, yellow edges [Green and Gibson A1a], 8vo (180 x 115mm.), Ward, Lock, and Co., 1888Footnotes:THE RARE FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION OF CONAN DOYLE'S FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK: the first separate edition of the story that introduced Sherlock Holmes, the most famous of all literary detectives, to the world.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

FLEMING (IAN)Casino Royale, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, slight browning to text block, publisher's black cloth, heart on upper cover and spine lettering in red, spine ends very slightly bumped, second issue DUST-JACKET with Sunday Times review on upper flap (unclipped, price 10s.6d.), some faint damp spots to front cover and slight creasing at top edges, narrow areas restored at top of spine and jacket, Jonathan Cape, 1953This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MUTEFERRIKA PRESSSUBHI (MEHMED) [In Arabic:] Ta'rih-i Sami ve akir ve Subhi, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, title with ink inscriptions erased and fore-edge strengthened on verso with tape, tears at head of fols. 13 and 209, the first touching text, lacking blank fol. 72, modern blindstamped calf imitating Ottoman wallet-style binding, folio (320 x 205mm.), Istanbul, Vak'anüvis Ahmed Vasıf Efendi and Beylikçi Raşid Efendi, 1198 H [1784]Footnotes:After İbrahim Müteferrika died in 1745, his press fell into disuse, revived once in 1756 by his successors, but immediately abandoned once again until it was bought from his heirs by the present printers, two court secretaries. This work, a chronicle of the early and middle two decades of the century by official court historian Mehmed Subhi (combined with earlier histories by Sami and Şâkir), was the first production from this iteration of the press (see Gruber, The Islamic Manuscript Tradition: Ten Centuries of Book Arts in Indiana University Collections, 2010).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

RADCLYFFE HALL AND WOMEN READERSRADCLYFFE HALL (MARGUERITE) Poems of the Past & Present, ANNOTATED BY POETS ANNA WICKHAM AND ELIOT BLISS, inscribed (possibly in the hand of Anna Wickham) on the front free endpaper 'This book has been annotated and revised after much careful consideration (to which the 3 editors devoted one whole evening) by the following - Miss Eliot Bliss poet & novelist, Mrs Anna Wickham (distinguished poet!), Miss Constance Spencer musician. All [?...] acquainted with the LIFE & LETTERS of Miss Radclyffe Hall, Dec. 1926, London', ink and pencil annotations to index and next to titles of many of the poems in the body text, errata slip, publisher's cloth, rubbed, Chapman and Hall, 1910--SACKVILLE-WEST (VITA) Orchard and Vineyard, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HER MOTHER, inscribed 'To the author of the author, from the author' on the front free endpaper, publisher's cloth-baked marbled boards, printed labels on upper cover and spine, age soiled, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1921; Sissinghurst, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, this copy marked 'out of series' in ink on colophon, publisher's boards, Hogarth Press, 1931, 8vo and small 4to (3)Footnotes:A copy of Radclyffe Hall's Poems read and annotated by the poets Eliot Bliss and Anna Wickham at a soiree in December 1926, two years before the publication of the author's 'lesbian classic' The Well of Loneliness. In 1926 Wickham, infatuated and in love with poet Natalie Barney, left her husband, moving in September of that year to 67 Carlton Hill, St. John's Wood in London (the address written inside the upper cover of our book). It was here presumably that she, Eliot Bliss (a life-long friend, who has also signed by the book above the address), and a female musician read this volume, recording variant titles to many of the poems, hinting perhaps at hidden meanings, or perhaps just high jinx. For example 'Once in a Garden Place' becomes 'Nothing Doing'; 'The Kiss at Dawn' becomes 'Sweet Seventeen Recased'; 'The Birth of a Rainbow' becomes 'Obstetrics'; 'By the Lake' becomes 'The Confidence Trick'; 'To the Beloved Lips' becomes 'Respiration not allowed for', and for the long poem 'Fruit of the Nispero' many stanzas captioned ('Easy Virtue No. 1. Take your choice madam'; 'Easy Virtue No.2. or after breakfast', etc.).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

ROTHBARD (MURRAY N.)The Ethics of Liberty, FIRST EDITION, FROM THE LIBRARY OF G.R. SAMPSON, with his bookplate and ink marginalia, publisher's gilt-stamped blue cloth, Atlantic Highlands, N.J., Humanities Press, 1982--HUME (DAVID) An Abstract of a Treatise on Human Nature 1740... with an Introduction by J.M. Keynes & P. Sraffa, FIRST EDITION, publisher's red cloth, dust-jacket, Cambridge University Press, 1938 (2)Footnotes:Association copy of this important work by Murray Rothbard, the noted economist, political theorist and founder of the libertarian movement; together with Hume's Abstract, rare in a very good dust-jacket.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, with the number sequence from 10 to 1 on verso of title-page, pp.215/6 lower fore-corner lightly creased, publisher's pictorial wrappers (with misspelling 'Philospher' on lower cover), extreme tips of fore-corners very very slightly worn but a FINE COPY, 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1997]Footnotes:EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY OF THE FIRST PAPER BACK EDITION of the first Harry Potter title, issued on the same day as the first hardback edition.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, with the number sequence from 10 to 1 on verso of title-page, light pencil name erased from half-title, publisher's pictorial wrappers (with misspelling 'Philospher' on lower cover), a few light creases, fore-corners covers slightly worn, 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1997Footnotes:The first paperback edition of the first Harry Potter title, issued on the same day as the first hardback edition.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, with the number sequence from 10 to 1 on verso of title-page, light yellow toning (as usual), publisher's pictorial wrappers (with misspelling 'Philospher' on lower cover), a few creases, corners slightly worn with very slight loss, 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1997]Footnotes:The first paperback edition of the first Harry Potter title, issued on the same day as the first hardback edition.Provenance: Balcombe Family, ink inscription at head of half-title; sold by the Balcombe family, who purchased the book at time of publication.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

TENNANT (STEPHEN)The Bird's Fancy Dress Ball. Drawings, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, illustrations by Tennant throughout, publisher's wrappers, printed title label on upper cover, [Printed for the Dorian Leigh Galleries by the Pelican Press], [1921]--ISHERWOOD (CHRISTOPHER) The Memorial. Portrait of a Family, FIRST EDITION, publisher's cloth (small ink spot, and light soiling to spine), dust-jacket designed by John Banting, Hogarth Press, 1932--DOSTOEVSKY (F.M.) The Grand Inquisitor... Translated by S.S. Koteliansky. With an Introduction by D.H. Lawrence, NUMBER 2 OF 350 COPIES, printed on Kelmscott hand-made paper, publisher's vellum, upper cover with abstract design of black and blue morocco onlays [Roberts B28], Elkin Matthews & Marrot, 1930--MALLARMÉ (STÉPHANE) Herodias, translated... by Clark Mills, NUMBER 7 OF 80 COPIES bound in cloth, from an overall edition of 200, PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM KURT SELIGMAN to Barbara Reis (July 1940) on the front free endpaper, tipped-in frontispiece by Kurt Seligman, publisher's cloth, Prairie City, Illinois, James A. Decker, [1940], 8vo; and an autobiography by Cyril Beaumont, with two letters signed by Beaumont loosely inserted (5)Footnotes:Includes a copy of the scarce first book by Stephen Tennant, published when he was only fifteen at the time of an exhibition of his eccentric drawings of anthropomorphic animals held at the Dorien Leigh Gallery, South Kensington in 1921.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

THOMAS (DYLAN)Collected Poems 1934-1952, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'from Dylan to Gilbert [Phelps]/London (the Feathers)/October 1952' on the front free endpaper, frontispiece portrait, publisher's blue cloth (slight fading at lower margin of upper cover and spine ends), dust-jacket, uncut with 'price 12s.6d.' (some age toning, upper cover with small hole in blank area beneath text, small tears upper margin, extremities of spine with small losses), 8vo, J.M. Dent, 1952Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THOMAS FOR GILBERT PHELPS in the year of publication. Phelps (1915-1993) was a distinguished broadcaster at the BBC, including a period from 1950-1953 as the producer of the 'Third Programme'. Thomas's reading of his 'Author's Prologue' (the opening poem of The Collected Works) was aired on the programme on 26 October 1952. He had written to Phelps on 3 October arranging to visit London on the 16th to make the recording in the morning and 'to catch the night train back to Wales', and writing from Laugherne on the 8 October confirmed the arrangement suggesting to Phelps that they have lunch, '... I'll meet you in the Cock, Great Portland Street, at one?. The Cock's to avoid wicked friends in other pubs...'. It seems probable that the book was inscribed at this lunch, and the 'Feathers' of the inscription is either a reference to the 'Cock', or perhaps another pub such as the 'Prince of Wales Feathers' in nearby Warren Street.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

WORLD WAR I - MAURITIUSBLACKBURN (CYRIL ANDERSON, Lieutenant in His Majesty's Royal Artillery) Experiences of a Gunner Officer. Being a Tale of the World War, FIRST EDITION, ?THE AUTHOR'S COPY, additional pen and ink sketch of the Basilica at Albert, Somme (bombed with the damaged statue of Mary and Christ) by the author, captioned 'Albert 1916' and signed with initial ('C.A.B.') on the image pasted onto the second front free endpaper, large signature of the author on the first front free endpaper, 4-lines of text excised from foot of pp.393-4 (see footnote), contemporary red limp morocco, gilt lettered on spine, light rubbing, 8vo, Mauritius, The General Printing and Stationary CY. Ld, 1919; sold with an album containing 21 gelatin silver print photographs (?perhaps by Blackburn) mostly of trenches, a few of ruins at Ypres and elsewhere, images 85 x 135mm., mounted one per page recto only, most faced with pasted-in description in pen or pencil, 2 ink diagrams of trenches at Bellewaerde, nr. Ypres, cloth album, oblong 8vo, [c.1915-1919] (2)Footnotes:VERY RARE WORLD WAR I MEMOIR PRINTED IN MAURITIUS, with only the National Library of Australia copy recorded on WorldCat. Born in Beau Bassin, Mauritius (which was one of the Indian Ocean islands to show immediate allegiance to the allies) Blackburn was a student in England at the outbreak of the war, whereupon he joined the Royal Artillery. He served on the Western Front throughout the war, being awarded the Military Cross in 1917, before being invalided home after a battle near Colincamps, Somme when in August 1918 he returned home aboard H.M.S. Aquitania. Evidence suggests this copy, printed on cheap paper in Mauritius but bound in a gilt-lettered morocco binding, is the author's copy, signed by him and with the addition of an ink drawing pasted in as a frontispiece. Also on p. 394 three lines have been intriguingly excised from the text, following a passage reading 'I never quite recovered from the the awful strain while I was on the Front, but several months later...'. The album of photographs of (mostly) trenches, each with a manuscript leaf page of description evidently written by a soldier familiar with the actual trench depicted, could also have belonged to Blackburn.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

POPE (ARTHUR UPHAM) AND PHYLLIS ACKERMANNA Survey of Persian Art, 6 vol., FIRST EDITION, 1482 plates (195 coloured), mostly photographic, publisher's blue buckram, spines faded, folio, Oxford University Press, 1938-1939This 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

SLAVERY[OPIE (AMELIA) The Black Man's Lament, or How to Make Sugar], FIRST EDITION, 25pp., 18 hand-coloured wood-engraved illustrations, lacks title and wrappers, first page torn in 2 places, one touching image, stitched [Darton G726], 8vo, [Harvey and Darton, 1826]Footnotes:Rare anti-slavery poem addressed to children ('... try to end the griefs you hear'), the opening woodcut depicting a child signing the a petition to end the slave trade. The poem follows the story of an African man's capture by slave traders, his journey to the West Indies on a slave ship, and forced labours on the sugar plantations. Amelia Opie rhymes 'that good Englishmen could know/How negroes suffer for their pleasure!'.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

STEIN (MARC AUREL)WHITFIELD (RODERICK) The Art of Central Asia: The Stein Collection in the British Museum, 3 vol., ONE OF 550 COPIES of the English language edition, numerous colour plates, photographic illustrations and maps in the text, publisher's faux vellum-backed decorative cloth gilt, preserved in original yellow cloth solander boxes with pictorial onlays, folio (365 x 255mm.), Tokyo, Kodansha, 1982-1985Footnotes:Impressively presented catalogue of the remarkable collection brought back by Aurel Stein during his three expeditions to China and Central Asia in 1900-01, 1906-07, and 1913-16. The first two volumes cover the paintings from Dunhuang, the third describes the textiles, sculptures and other artefacts.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

GHEYN (JACOB DE)Mainement d'armes d'arquebuses, mousquetz, et picques, engraved decorative title-page and 117 engraved plates, all finely hand-coloured in a modern hand, light dampstain in lower margin of title; small stain and long tear neatly repaired to plate 5 of arquebuss; light dampstain to fore-margin of plates 19-32 (within platemark of nos. 24-25, and 31-32) of pikes, but generally clean with wide margins, early vellum, varnished, old paper label on spine [Lipperheide 2058], folio (360 x 280mm.), Amsterdam, Robert de Baudous... on les vend' aussi a Amsterdam chez Henry Laurens, 1608Footnotes:First edition in French of Jacob de Gheyn's handsome manual showing the drill of matchlock men, musketeers and pikemen, originally commissioned in 1597 by Count Johann II von Nassau-Siegen, nephew of Prince Maurits.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

LEGATI (LORENZO)Museo Caspiano annesso a quello del famoso Ulisse Aldrovandi e donato alla sua Patria dall'Illustrissimo signor Ferdinando Cospi Patrizio di Bologna e Senatore, FIRST EDITION, half-title, title printed in red and black with large vignette, woodcut portrait of Ferdinand II on the dedication leaf, engraved portrait of Cospi by Adrian Haelvegh after Justus Susterman, folding engraved plate of the museum of curiosities by Mitelli, many woodcut illustrations in the text, approximately 30 leaves toned, occasional spotting, eighteenth century vellum [Cicognara 3403; Nissen ZBI 2421], folio (320 x 215mm.), Bologna, Giacomo Monti, 1677Footnotes:First edition of a full description of the museum of curiosities (or 'Wunderkammer') created by Ferdinando Cospi (1606-1686), which he donated to the Senate of Bologna in 1677. The five sections cover the range of the collection, from peculiar natural history specimens (many originally collected by Ulisse Aldrovandi) to books, antique statuary, military and scientific instruments. The fine panoramic plate depicts the interior of the museum, the walls lined with cabinets filled hundreds of objects, the upper walls covered with military weapons, above which hang large stuffed animals and sea creatures, the dwarf Sebastiano Biavati standing in the foreground.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

MOSER-CHARLOTTENFELS (HENRI)Sammlung Henri Moser-Charlottenfels. Orientalische Waffen und Rüstungen [Oriental Arms and Armour], FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 58 OF 300 COPIES, this one of 125 copies with text in German, chromolithographed decorative frontispiece (reproducing a leaf of manuscript from the Gulistan of Sa'di showing the line 'our aim is to produce a work that outlives us'), 44 photolithographed plates (8 colour, including 3 after watercolours, all captioned in German, English and French), 18pp. text with 2 photographic illustrations (one of Moser in 'Oriental' dress), loose as issued in publisher's green cloth gilt portfolio, gilt-stamped decorative 'Arabic' panel design to upper cover, neatly rebacked in morocco gilt, large folio (520 x 420mm.), Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1912Footnotes:Henri Moser (1844-1923), son of a watchmaker and industrialist, undertook several tours in Central Asia from the 1860s onwards. During one in 1883 he was received by the Emir of Bukhara, the Khan of Khiva and the Shah of Persia, which facilitated the expansion and depth of his large and important collection of Oriental arms and armour. Having exhibited his collection extensively throughout Germany and Switzerland, and catalogued it (with the help of his Persian assistant Mirza Yuhanna Dawud) at his Schloss Charlottenfels home, Moser donated it to the Historical Museum of Bern, Switzerland in 1914.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

RUSSIAN ARMOURY - KREMLINOpis Moskovskoy Oruzheynoy Palatay [Inventory of the Kremlin Armory], 10 vol., FIRST EDITION, upwards of 500 photographic plates by G.V.Trunov, M.M.Panov and others, some illustrations in the text, lacks title to volume 4, uniform blue half morocco, gilt lettered (and numbered 1-X) on spine, a few joints rubbed, original printed wrappers bound in, 4to (335 x 250mm.), Moscow, 1884-1893Footnotes:Attractively bound set, from the library of Stephen V. Grancsay, of the monumental inventory catalogue of the Kremlin Armoury, in which 9726 items are described, illustrated by striking photographic plates. The Kremlin Amory includes not only an extraordinary collection of arms and armour, flags and 'trophies', both Russian and from overseas, but the Tsar's regalia of the 'Crown', carriages, and gifts providing an overview of the the magnificence of the House of Romanov, the political and diplomatic history of Russia.Provenance: Stephen V. Grancsay (1897-1980), Ex Libris bookplate. Grancsay was curator of arms and armour at the Metropolitan Museum from 1929 until his retirement in 1963.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

RUSSIAN IMPERIAL ARSENAL, TSARKOYE SELOKAEMMERER (GEORGES DE) Arsenal de Tsarskoé-Sélo, ou Collection d'armes de sa Majesté l'Empereur de toutes les Russies [repeated in Russian], FIRST EDITION, text in French and Russian, chromolithographed dedication leaf printed in red and gold, 40 plates (13 chromolithographed, 27 lithographed) after A. Rocksthuhl and Nicolas Bogdanoff, variable toning, and occasional foxing, small repair to blank fore-margin of plate 28, and one text leaf, full red morocco gilt, sides elaborately tooled roll-borders enclosing central arms with crown above seven castles within a cartouche, g.e., folio (520 x 355mm.), St. Petersburg, A.A. Lline, 1869Footnotes:RARE, with no copies listed in auction records as having sold at auction since 1948. The great Russian Imperial collection of Russian, European and Oriental arms and armour was built up by Emperor Nicholas I in the early half of the nineteenth century, and expanded by his son Alexander II. In 1861 came the purchase of Prince Soltykoff's exceptional collection of Oriental arms. The collection was housed at the royal residence in Tsarskoye Selo until its removal to the Hermitage in 1885.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

SARRE (FRIEDRICH) AND FREDRIK ROBERT MARTINDie Ausstellung von Meisterwerken Muhammedanischer Kunst in Muenchen, 1910, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 296 OF 430 COPIES, 257 photographic plates (22 hand-coloured and tipped-in as issued), light cockling and minor dampstaining at fore-edges, modern green crushed morocco gilt, sides with decorative roll tool borders, spines tooled within raised bands, gilt dentelles, g.e., large folio (490 x 382mm.), Munich, F. Bruckmann, 1911-1912Footnotes:FINE COPY. Held in Munich over six months in 1910, 'Masterpieces of Mohammedan Art' was one of 'the most important and by far the most comprehensive exhibitions of Islamic art in Europe... [giving] new impetus to the reception of Islamic art in the West and was therefore a turning point in the so-far 'Orientalist' view of and romantic passion for Muslim art and culture... [the examples illustrated] in the mega three-volume catalogue of this exhibition, are in fact icons of Islamic art' (After One Hundred Years. The 1910 Exhibition 'Meisterwerken Muhammedanischer Kunst' Reconsidered, edited by A. Lerner and A. Shalem, 2010).Volume I is devoted to Islamic manuscripts, book decorations, calligraphic arts and carpets; Volume II to ceramics, metalwork, glass and crystal; Volume III to textiles, arms and armour, woodwork and ivory.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

SUN TZUArt militaire des Chinois, ou recueil d'anciens traités sur la guerre composés... par differents généraux chinois, translated by Jean-Joseph-Marie Amiot, half-title, 33 hand-coloured engraved plates (5 folding, some heightened in gold or silver), the single plates shaved just within platemark (just touching imprint on 3), contemporary calf gilt, sides with 3-line fillet border, the upper cover lettered 'Bibliothèque de Houlbec', neatly rebacked retaining original gilt-tooled spine with gilt morocco lettering label, g.e., corner tips repaired [Cordier Sinica, 1555; Löwendahl 560], 4to (255 x 195mm.), Paris, Didot l'Ainé, 1772Footnotes:An attractive copy of the first European edition of The Art of War by the Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu (544-496 B.C.). Illustrated with plates depicting battle formations, armour and dress, it was translated by Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718–1793), a Jesuit missionary to Beijing.Provenance: J. Manoury, Fils ainé, Caen, near contemporary bookseller's label o front paste-down; Bibliothèque de Houlbec, stamped in gilt on 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

BRAHE (TYCHO)Astronomiae instauratae mechanica, second (first trade) edition, title with large engraved portrait of the author standing beneath an arch containing the arms of the families of Brahe and Bille, 6 large engravings (5 full-page of astronomical instruments, one half-page of the observatory at Hven, Uraniborg), 19 full-page woodcuts (mostly of instruments), and several smaller woodcuts (including a map of the island of Hven), decorative woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, varying degrees of browning and oxidisation throughout, affecting some illustrations, lower outer corners of first sections curled with slight fraying, title with early ownership inscription crossed through and a few scrawled ?numbers at foot, later stiff wrappers with earlier vellum backstrip titled in ink, soiled, a few short tears and chips and chips to wrappers [Houzeau and Lancaster 2703; Norman 320; Sparrow Milestones 29], folio (320 x 201mm)., Nuremberg, Levinus Hulsius, 1602Footnotes:TYCHO BRAHE'S MOST IMPORTANT ASTRONOMICAL WORK, providing an illustrated description of his astronomical instruments and of the observatory on the island of Hven. The first edition had been printed in 1598 on Brahe's own press at Heinrich Rantzov's castle at Wandbeck, near Hamburg, the forty copies of which Brahe distributed privately. The illustrations of this published 1602 edition were printed from the same blocks and plates, which were sold by the author's heirs to Levinus Hulsius, with the addition of the portrait and the engraving of an armillary sphere on C6 verso, replacing a woodcut. The work also contains a short autobiography and a summary of the principal results of Brahe's observations, and an appendix in which the construction of the observatories is shown.In 1576, King Frederick II had heard of Brahe's plans to move to Basel to further his experiments, he offered Tycho permanent the island of Hven in the Danish Sound to use as he saw fit. There Brahe constructed the most advanced astronomical observatory of his time, which he christened Uraniborg (Heavenly castle)., but hen he realized that the Palladian style towers were not adequate because of the instruments' exposure to the elements and the movement of the building, he constructed a second underground observatory at nearby Stjerneborg, whose basement also housed an alchemical laboratory with 16 furnaces for conducting distillations and other chemical experiments. Unusually for the time, he also established a research centre, where almost 100 students and artisans worked from 1576 to 1597. The library housed Brahe's brass-encased globe, now preserved in Copenhagen: 'On this globe, over the years, Tycho marked the exact positions, referred to the year 1600, of the fixed stars that he observed... In the southwest room on the ground floor at Uraniborg... was Tycho's most famous instrument, the mural quadrant, with a radius of about six feet... Inside the quadrant's arc, for ornamental purposes, was painted a life-size portrait of Tycho seated at a table, with arm outstretched as though pointing to a cylinder...' (DSB).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

GESNER (CONRAD)Mithridates. De differentiis linguarum tum veterum tum quae hodie apud diversas nationes in toto orbe terraru[m] in usu sunt, FIRST EDITION, with large folding letterpress table of a section of the Lord's Prayer translated into 22 languages (neatly strengthened with archival tape at one fold, one tear repaired, margin torn away just touching letters on 9 lines of Hebrew section, and 2 letters in Arabic section), light dampstaining to fore-edge of opening leaves, light spotting, calf antique gilt [Adams G550], 8vo, Zurich, Christoph Froschauer, 1555Footnotes:First edition of Conrad Gesner's pioneering study of linguistics, with his observations on about 130 languages. This copy includes the Gesner's scarce letterpress table, Magnifico et nobili viro D. Leonardo Bekk A Bekkenstain..., giving a translation of the opening verses of the Lord's Prayer into 22 languages, including Hebrew, Arabic, Icelandic, Celtic, English, Bohemian, Slavonic and Hungarian.Provenance: 'S.P.B.C.' (arranged around a cross), stamp of an unidentified theological institute on title; private English collector.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

LOMBROSO (CESARE) and GUGLIELMO FERREROLa donna delinquente: la prostituta e la donna normale, FIRST EDITION, 8 plates (several folding), final plate frayed at head and with small losses of blank area at gutter, modern quarter morocco, printed front wrapper laid down and bound in, 8vo, Turin and Rome, L. Roux, 1893Footnotes:First edition of this very influential work on female criminals, considered as the first - and for many years, the only - modern criminology text to exclusively focus on the subject.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

MARX (KARL)Kapitál: kritika politické ekonomie, first edition in Czech, translated by by Theodor Šmeral and Ludvík Tošner, untrimmed in publisher's red-brown printed wrappers, extremities rubbed, spine panel with vertical creases and joints splitting at foot, 8vo, Prague, Ústřední Dělnické Knihkupectví, 1913This 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

[NODIER (CHARLES)]Apothéoses et imprécations [-de Pythagore], 2 parts in 1 vol., NUMBER V OF 17 COPIES PRINTED, this for M. Dornier de Mallpas of Besançon, original bradel binding of burgundy morocco-backed red-brown boards by Jean-Claude Noël of Besançon, double gilt fillet rules at inner edge, gilt spine titled 'Pythag.', blue endpapers, extremities slightly rubbed [Vicaire, Manuel de l'amateur de livres du XIXe siècle, VI, 147], 4to, Crotone [i.e. Besançon, December 1808]Footnotes:'La célébrité de Pythagore, l'intérêt de la matière, l'extrême rareté de l'ouvrage, la magnificence de son exécution, tout concourt à le recommander aux amateurs' (original prospectus for the work).First edition of Nodier's extremely rare collection of classical fragments, only seventeen copies of which were printed at the author's expense in Besançon on 'vélin Canson filigraine', with a binding by Jean-Claude Noël. In 1992 J.-R. Dahan identified eight of these copies, six in French public libraries and one in the library of the château de Montmirey-la-Ville. A ninth was sold as part of the Simonson-Kies collection, Sotheby's Paris, 19 June 2013, lot 222.At the time of writing this work, occult writer and polymath Nodier was librarian at the extraordinary Arsenal in Besançon. He admitted openly to being a freemason, and later to have been a member of a secret order which he described as 'biblical and Pythagorean'. It was also the period when he wrote an anti-Napoleonic satire Le Napoléone, seeking to draw attention to himself and even writing to the Emperor to get himself arrested. He did eventually spend a month in prison, but was freed and continued to be involved in anti-Napoleonic plots. Contents: 6 unnumbered leaves (blank; justification leaf; half-title 'Apothéoses et Imprécations'; title to first part 'Apothéoses de Pythagore/ A Crotone'; 2 leaves of 'Prolégomènes de l'Editeur'), pages I-LXIII (including second title 'Imprécations de Pythagore/ A Crotone' on page [LI]).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BIBLE, GREEK AND LATINNovum Testamentum iam quintum accuratissima cura recognitum a Des. Erasmo Roter, double column text, woodcut printer's device on title and final leaf, historiated woodcut initials, 4-leaf Greek table with architectural column borders, first few leaves frayed, title torn with loss not affecting text, some dampstaining (severely affecting first few leaves, then mostly in margins with some small worm trails), contemporary blind-ruled calf over boards (leather coming loose), gilt red morocco spine label, tears to upper joints and slight loss at foot of spine [Darlow & Moule 4609; Adams B1683, with Old Testament], Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius, 1535--ERASMUS (DESIDERIUS) Opus epistolarum, second (expanded) edition, woodcut device on title and final page, numerous woodcut initials, occasional light dampstaining (mostly in upper margins), title soiled and with hole affecting text on verso, some old underscoring of text, later panelled calf gilt, abrasions to lower cover, gilt worn away from spine [Adams E855], Hieronymus Froben, Johannes Hervagius & Nicolaus Episcopius, 1529, folio, Basle (2)Footnotes:Provenance: First work, John Davison ('riensis') several early ownership inscriptions on title (some in Greek, all crossed through), and on last page of preliminaries, with that of William Davison. Both works, William Wynne, bookplate with motto 'Ne bydd doeth Na Ddarllenno' ('he who does not read will not be wise'), and his signature ('Gul. Wynne') in the first volume. The bookplate is generally attributed to William Wynn (1709-1760), Welsh clergyman, poet and antiquary, some of whose books were sold by his descendants in these rooms on 4 December 2019.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BIBLE and BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, IN WELSHLlyfr Gweddi Gyffredin a Gweinidogaeth y Sacramentau, 1718; Y Bibl cyssegr-lan, 1717; Llyfr y Psalmau, 1717, 4 parts in 1 vol., woodcut device on titles, 2 folding engraved maps (one creased with repairs on verso), contemporary red morocco, sides with inner gilt panel and cornerpieces with initials 'MMA' at centre, spine with gilt ruled compartments, g.e., a few small stains, corners and spine ends worn [ESTC T125812, T126074, T125814], 8vo, London [Psalms: Oxford], John Baskett, 1718-1717-1717; another edition, 4 parts in 1 vol., contemporary panelled calf, worn with slight loss to spine ends and lower cover [ESTC T41121, T124562, T124567], 8vo, Cambridge, John Bentham, 1746--[Bible] Y Bibl Cyssegr-Lan, sef, yr Hen Destament ar Newydd, 2 parts in 1 vol., engraved title to New Testament, lacking printed title-page, Old Testament frontispiece and list of books, browned and stained, first and last leaves repaired and defective, later reversed calf, 5 small brass bosses on each cover, ticket of T. Hughes, Bookseller, Llanrhaiadr, hinges reinforced [ESTC R24201], folio, Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1690--The Book of Common Prayer, Oxford, John Baskett, 1718; The Whole Book of Psalms... by Thomas Sternhold..., Susanna Collins for the Company of Stationers, 1720; Llyfr Gweddi Gyffredin, engraved frontispiece, Edmund Powell, 1710, 3 works in 1 vol., contemporary calf, worn [ESTC T81429, N46200, T140075], folio--[Bible] Y Beibl Cyssegr-lan, facsimile of 1588 Bishop Morgan edition, number 10 of 500 copies, publisher's crushed brown morocco stamped in gilt, mint in slipcase, folio, Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, 1987; idem, another copy, this unnumbered, publisher's variant blind-stamped leather, 1987--[Book of Common Prayer] Llyfr Gweddi Cyffredin 1567, facsimile of John Rylands copy, number 240 of 300 copies, publisher's cloth, folio, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1965 (7)Footnotes:Move to header of first lot:Books from the Library of the late Rev. Euros Wyn Jones of AngleseyThis 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

[DAVIES (JOHN)]Antiquæ linguæ Britannicae, nunc vulgo dictae Cambro-Britannicae, a suis Cymraecae vel Cambricae, ab aliis Wallicæ, second edition, VARIANT WITH THE RARE LEAF OF COMMENDATORY VERSES following 2*4, text in triple columns, woodcut device on title, royal coat of arms on verso, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, light browning and occasional dampstaining, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, two 3-line FRAGMENTS OF A MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT IN LATIN on vellum used as binder's waste at front and rear [cf. ESTC S122150; Rees 1551], folio, R. Young, 1632Footnotes:The second (first folio) edition of Davies' dictionary, with fine Welsh provenance and complete with the rarely found additional leaf headed 'Encomiastica'.Provenance: Edward Parry, Bridge Street, Chester (1798-1854, bookseller publisher and antiquary), ticket on front paste-down; Lewis Gilbertson (1814-1896, cleric, vice-principal of Jesus College, Oxford), signature on front free endpaper; his presentation label to S. Michael and All Angels' Theological College, Aberdare; St. Michael's Clergy School, Aberdare, ink stamp on title and final 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

LLWYD (HUMPHREY)Commentarioli Britannicae descriptionis fragmentum, FIRST EDITION, woodcut printer's device on title, small stain in upper margin of first few leaves, without the 2 final blank leaves, black crushed morocco by WH Smith (signed at rear), double gilt fillet borders on sides and in spine panels, raised bands [Adams L1378; Rees 3313], small 8vo, Cologne, J. Birckman, 1572Footnotes:First edition of this history of Britain, which was translated into English as The Breviary of Britayne a year later. The work contains much on the Celtic peoples of Britain during and after the Roman occupation, makes mention of Camelot on f.18v, and ends with a short Welsh vocabulary. Llwyd was a friend of Abraham Ortelius (he had prepared two maps to be included in his atlas), and he prefixes the work with a farewell letter to the cartographer, dated from Denbigh 30 August 1568.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

ANGLINGVENABLES (ROBERT) The Experienc'd Angler: or Angling Improv'd, third edition ('much enlarged'), additional engraved title by Vaughan, engraved illustrations of fish in the text, with opening and final blanks, contemporary blind-ruled sheep, later red gilt morocco spine label, small loss to head of spine [ESTC R32919; Westwood & Satchell, p.214], small 8vo, Richard Mariott, 1668Footnotes:The scarcest of the early editions of Venables' treatise for 'imparting the aptest wayes and choicest experiments for the taking of most sorts of fish in pond or river'. Richard Marriot had been the first printer of Walton's Compleat Angler, and re-used the illustrations from the fifth edition in this edition of The Experienc'd Angler.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

BACON (FRANCIS)The Historie of Life and Death. With Observations Naturall and Experimentall for the Prolonging of Life, first edition in English, imprimatur leaf, additional engraved pictorial title by G. Glover, printed title within typographical border, typographical ornaments, seventeenth century verses (English and Latin prayers) on 2 initial blanks, contemporary calf, covers with gilt- and blind ruled border enclosing a central gilt flower tool, red edges, rebacked preserving most of the original spine, later gilt morocco lettering label [ESTC S100504; Gibson 153], 8vo, I. Okes, for Humphrey Mosley, 1638Footnotes:The first edition in English, an anonymous and unauthorised translation which appeared two months prior to the authorised version of William Rawley. Includes Bacon's advice on 'food and dyet [diet], shewing which is most nourishing'.Provenance: Charles Wharton, ownership inscription dated 1672, above 2 verse prayers, one in English, one in Latin. The first 'Guard after meat/Glory go to thee Lord, who hast/filled our harts with food and gladnesse...'.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

ENGINEERING - THOMAS TELFORDTELFORD (THOMAS) The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer, 2 vol. (including Atlas), FIRST EDITION, edited by John Rickman, text volume with half-title, one engraved plate and vignettes in text, Atlas with engraved portrait and 82 maps and plates (numbered 1-83, 21 folding and/or double-page, no. 28 not called for in list), lower margin of portrait strengthened with archival tape, 3 plates with thin thread of worming, some spotting throughout, modern half morocco, 4to and folio (590 x 430mm.), Payne and Foss, 1838This 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

CAMPANELLA (TOMMASO)A Discourse Touching the Spanish Monarchy. Wherein We Have a Political Glasse Representing Each Particular Country, Province, Kingdome, and Empire of the World, with Wayes of Government by Which They May be Kept in Obedience, first edition of English, a few pencil annotations and underlinings, contemporary blindstamped calf, red morocco gilt lettering label on spine, spine ends and upper joints worn with small loss, remnants of early illuminated manuscript (Latin text) used as binding waste at hinges [ESTC 006144087; Sabin 10198], small 4to (190 x 135mm.), Philemon Stephens, 1654Footnotes:First edition in English of Campanella's De monarchia Hispanica, written between 1600 and 1601 whilst the author was in prison accused of seeking to overthrow Spanish rule, and translated by Edmund Chilemad. Campanella envisages a unified peaceful world governed by a theocratic monarchy, and includes chapters on the British Isles, the Turkish or Moorish countries of North Africa, Persia, and 'two chapters treat of the other hemisphere, and of the New World and navigation... Campanella recommends castles and block-houses to be built at the mouths of all rivers and harbours in the New World 'lest the English should break in, and bring in heresy'' (Sabin)Provenance: Earls of Macclesfield, library blindstamp.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

CONGREVE (WILLIAM)The Way of the World, a Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's Servants, FIRST EDITION, half-title, small repair to lower blank fore-corner of 3 leaves (pp.3-8), early ink (?childish) scribblings and letters on half-title and final advertisement leaf, green morocco gilt by W. Stopes, 1901 (signed in gilt at rear), some scratches and uneven fading [ESTC R8381], small 4to (218 x 165mm.), Jacob Tonson, 1700Footnotes:First edition of 'the last and most brilliant... of Congreve's comedies' (Montague Summers, The Way of the World. Theatrical History, [1921], a copy of which is included with this lot).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

[ERASMUS (DESIDERIUS)Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentencious Sayinges], FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, translated by Nicolas Udall, black letter, lacks title (supplied in facsimile) and final 2 blanks, a few side-notes and headlines shaved, colophon mounted on stub, paper flaw touching one catch-word, modern calf antique [ESTC S105498], 8vo, [Richard Grafton, 1542]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

FRY (FRANCIS)The Bible by Coverdale MDXXXV, PRINTED ON VELLUM, 15 plates, publisher's cloth, faded, 4to, Willis & Sotheran, 1867--[Bible, in Latin] Testameni veteris Biblia sacra... accesserunt libri qui vulgo dicuntur Apocryphi... quibus etiam adjunximus Novi Testamenti libros, 6 parts in 1 vol., second edition of the first complete Latin Bible printed in England, titles with woodcut device, some worming affecting text, last leaf of preface cut down and tipped back in, last few gatherings with lower corners dampstained and softened (final few leaves with loss of text), ownership inscriptions of John Spenser, 1675, and D. Jones, 1805, some early marginalia, contemporary calf, gilt spine worn with loss [ESTC S117042; Darlow & Moule 6166], Henry Middleton for C. B[arker], 1581--[Bible, Geneva version] The Bible translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, 4 parts including Apocrypha and Herrey's 'Two right profitable and fruitfull concordances', Old and New Testament titles within woodcut borders, early inscriptions facing NT title of Hayle family [ESTC S121175; Herbert 234], Deputies of Chrstopher Barker, 1597; The Whole Booke of Psalms... by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins.., woodcut device on title [ESTC S4520], John Windet, for the assignes of Richard Day, 1594; bound with a defective Book of Common Prayer, together in 1 vol., some browning and staining, few leaves frayed at edges, book label of St Augustine's College, Canterbury, contemporary calf, lacking clasps, 4to--CRADOCK (WALTER) Gospel-Holinesse, The Saving Sight of God, [ESTC R23430], M. Simmons for Joseph Blaiklock, 1651; bound with 3 other works by Cradock, the last incomplete, contemporary calf, rebacked, 8vo; 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

GIBBON (EDMUND)The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vol., FIRST EDITION of volumes 1, 4, 5 & 6, 'new edition' of volumes 2 & 3, Preface in volume 1 dated 1 February 1776, 3 engraved maps (2 folding), the 4 first edition volumes with half-titles and errata (those for volumes 4-6 on verso of final leaf of General Index in volume 6), volumes 2 and 3 without half-titles and errata, Dd3 in volume 1 with small stain causing loss of one word on facing page, L1 loose and with corner creased/torn with some loss, volume 4 with title-page torn across (no loss), untrimmed in original blue-grey paper boards, volumes 4-6 with their paper backstrips (not intact, volumes 1-3 lacking backstrips), slight staining and a few tears/cracks, corners knocked, volume 1 with upper cover near detached and some gatherings working loose, preserved in green morocco-backed solander boxes, gilt lettered spines with raised bands [ESTC T78356 (volume 1), N36543 (volumes 2-3), T78365 (volumes 4-6); Grolier English 58; Printing and the Mind of Man 222; Rothschild 942], 4to (300 x 230mm.), W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776-1787-1788Footnotes:VERY RARE SET OF GIBBON'S MASTERPIECE UNTRIMMED IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS. The survival of three of the original backstrips is even more unusual as most such sets have been rebacked at some point in time.As often the case, this set is a mixed edition, although it is very unusual in so far as volume one is a first edition, whereas it is common to find second editions of the first volume in combination with first editions of the others. Volumes 2 and 3 in the present set were reissued without the other volumes in 1787, and have their own separate entry on ESTC. The portrait frontispiece found in many sets is therefore not called for here as it was issued with the first edition of volume two, along with the 12 pages of contents. Provenance: Countess of Hopetoun, late eighteenth century bookplates.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

JOHNSON (SAMUEL)A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, titles printed in red and black, light paper toning, modern calf, gilt-lettered spines [Courtney & Smith, p.54; Chapman & Hazen, p.137; Rothschild 1237; PMM 201], folio (420 x 250mm.), J. and P. Knapton, 1755Footnotes:THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST STANDARD ENGLISH DICTIONARY. 'I have... attempted a dictionary of the English language, which, while it was employed in the cultivation of every species of literature, has itself been hitherto neglected, suffered to spread, under the direction of chance, into wild exuberance, resigned to the tyranny of time and fashion, and exposed to the ignorance, and caprices of innovations' (Preface).Provenance: Property of an Australian estate.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

FROHAWK (FREDERICK WILLIAM)Natural History of British Butterflies, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, 65 plates (60 coloured), publisher's blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket (a few short marginal tears), folio (375 x 240mm.), Hutchinson, [1914]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

LAWSON (WILLIAM)A New Orchard and Garden: or The Best Way for Planting, Grafting, and to Make any Ground Good, for a Rich Orchard: Particularly in the North, 4 parts in one vol., second edition, woodcut illustrations and garden plans, the woodcut on title rubricated, light soiling, trimmed with loss of imprint, some signatures and a few side-notes, blank final page of first part laid down, modern half calf [ESTC S108372], 4to, [I.H. for Roger Jackson, 1623]Footnotes:First published in 1618. The other parts are The Country Housewife's Garden, A Most profitable new Treatise... of propagating Plants by Simon Harward, and The Husband-man's Fruitfull Orchard.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

LOGGAN (DAVID)Oxonia illustrata, sive omnium celeberrimæ istius universitatis collegiorum, aularum, bibliothecæ Bodleianæ, scholarum publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani; nec non urbis totius scenographia, FIRST EDITION, engraved throughout comprising title, privilege, dedication to Charles II, prefatory and index leaves, 40 double-page engraved plates by Loggan including general views of the city, map, and views of the colleges (that of Christ Church double-page and folding), all mounted on guards, some light browning in upper margins, some plates with short slits at foot of fold or guard (a few repaired on verso), in a fine contemporary English binding of black goatskin, tooled with an elaborate all-over design in gilt, sides with outer roll tool borders enclosing double central panel, outer panel with 4 large semi-circles composed of flower, acorn and small semi-circle tools, all panels filled with curling leafy tendrils and numerous different small and large flower tools (including distinctive tulip design in centre), gilt spine with raised bands and 6 of the 8 compartments each containing a floral tool with pointillé and 4 black dots at corners, leather title label, g.e., marbled endpapers, some wear to upper joint and to spine ends and bands, corners slightly bumped [ESTC R5725; Madan 3035], folio (428 x 295mm.), Oxford, E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1675Footnotes:LOGGAN'S 'GREAT WORK' IN A SUMPTUOUS RESTORATION BINDING. The workshop which produced this distinctive binding has not been identified, although some of the tools are redolent of those used by other well-know binders of the period.'David Loggan's great work, including forty large, accurate, and interesting illustrations of Oxford, intended partly as a companion volume to Anthony Wood's Historia et Antiquitates' (Madan). Loggan's largest work, it was produced at Oxford where he held the position of engraver to the university, but despite the Sheldonian imprint, it is thought to have been printed in Loggan's own house in Holywell.Provenance: Charles Finch, 4th Earl of Winchilsea, 4th Viscount Maidstone, 2nd Baron FitzHerbert of Eastwell (1672–1712), bookplate dated 1704 (the year he was appointed Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Kent), and family armorial device mounted on fly-leaf; private UK collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

NEWTON (ISAAC)Manuscript notebook of John Wickins (d.1719), friend, collaborator and amanuensis of Isaac Newton, bearing ownership inscription on front endpaper, 'J. Wickins Trin: Coll Cant', containing transcripts of two commonplace lectures or sermons noted, in another hand, as given by Newton at Trinity College Chapel ('This on Rom.14.23 was composed by Sir Isaac Newton and used as a Common Place in Trin: Coll Chapel'), on the subject 'Whatsoever is not of Faith is Sin', and a further essay in Latin on morality, the volume ending with 'Coppies of Some Letters from my Chamberfellow Mr Isaac Newton when I was at Monmouth', comprising transcripts of three letters sent to Wickins by '...your very loving chamber-fellow/ Is. Newton...' from Cambridge, the first undated referring to Newton's dispute with the Jesuits at Liège ('...I unhappily burnt my papers about it... I sent 'em an Answer to the substance of their letters & laid upon their Shuffling Tricks - & so I think I have made an End of the Business...'), going on '...A Glasse-grinder in London had this Spring undertaken to make a two-foot telescope after my way but meeting with Mr Hook & some other of that sort of Virtuosi they dissuaded him from attempting it. So Cooper & I are going to work. Mr Cooper hath a tool made...', and asking him to send him '...two or 3 pounds of Iron Stone...'; the second letter dated 19 July 1677 discussing the historians of the early church and their writings ('...For the Times of the first 300 years Eusebius is the only Historian... If you would have all ecclesiastical history collected into one volume consult the Historia Magdeburgensis... I think not of the telescope...'), ending by confirming he has interceded with the Bishop of Salisbury on his behalf; the third dated 19 August 1682, explaining the difficulty of recommending books to him ('...for what pleases me may not after Perusal please you & then they will be but lumber to you...'), going on to discuss the best editions to be had ('...I will commend Erasmus's Paraphrase on the New Testament, & next the Criticks, not Pools Synopsis but the former Edition, which were it not for the Price I would commend to you in the first place... Feuardontius Edition (though he be a very hot Papist) is best and easiest to be had... Jerome is worth having for his learning though not for his religion...'); margins ruled in ink, notes on provenance in two other hands on recto and verso of first leaf ('...the handwriting is the handwriting of Mr John Wickins...'), 103 leaves, three-page provenance note on blue paper attached to first page, contemporary black morocco gilt, double-ruled gilt panels, cornerpieces with design of flowers, leaves and dots, spine gilt with decorated raised bands, flower and foliate decoration in compartments, g.e., marbled endpapers, later morocco-backed pull-off case, gilt panelled spine, red morocco spine label with lettering in gilt, 8vo (148 x 95mm.), late seventeenth centuryFootnotes:See www.bonhams.com/26772/73 for footnote.

SAMPSON (WILLIAM)Vow Breaker. Or The Faire Maide of Clifton. In Notinghamshire as it hath beene diuers times acted by severall companies with great applause, FIRST EDITION, woodcut printer's device on title, full-page woodcut on leaf A2, typographical ornaments, cropped with loss of upper rule border of woodcut, most of running title on 5 pages and touching running title on several other leaves, small hole in C4 touching a couple of letters, modern quarter calf, red morocco gilt lettering label on upper cover [ESTC S116468; Greg, II, 510], small 4to (178 x 125mm.), Printed by John Norton, and are to be sold by Roger Ball, 1636Footnotes:Rare, only one copy at auction recorded on Rare Book Hub since 1965. Written partly in blank verse and partly in prose, Sampson claimed that Vow Breaker was 'a true story, and its two plots are based on stories then current in Nottinghamshire... The Nottinghamshire orientation of the play, along with the vague title-page statement that it had been 'divers times Acted by severall Companies', suggests that it had only been acted provincially in Nottinghamshire' (ODNB). The main plot, based on a popular ballad, tells the story of Ann Boote, the fair maid of the title, who is haunted to her death by her spurned lover after he had committed suicide. In the final scene Queen Elizabeth visits Nottingham, conversing with the Mayor, and granting the town privileges. It has been noted that Sampson was influenced by his reading of Shakespeare, in particular Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.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

SHIPMAN (THOMAS)Carolina: Or, Loyal Poems, FIRST EDITION, title within 2-line fillet border with woodcut ornament, without advertisements (as in ESTC), small loss to blank fore-corners of title and opening couple of leaves, library stamp on title, smaller stamp on approximately 30 pages (usually in blank upper right area but occasional touching numeral or text), modern calf-backed marbled boards [ESTC S3440], 8vo, Samuel Heyrick, and William Crook, 1683Footnotes:First and only edition of a collection of some 200 poems which Nottingham born poet Thomas Shipman (1632-1680) was compiling at the time of his death, and which was seen through the press by the poet Thomas Flatman. Provenance: Nottingham Public Library, stamp on title and some leaves.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

BOSWELL (JAMES)An Account of Corsica. The Journal of a Tour to that Island; And Memoirs of Pascal Paoli, FIRST EDITION, half-title, engraved vignette on title, folding engraved map of Corsica (spotting and off-setting), contemporary tree calf, red morocco gilt spine label, slightly rubbed [Gaskell 473; Rothschild 442], 8vo, Glasgow, Edward and Charles Dilly, 1768Footnotes:Provenance: Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton (1739-1819), bookplate. 'In March 1781 Boswell set off for London to appear as counsel for Hugh Montgomerie...' (ODNB) in a matter relating to Montgomerie's contested election as Member of Parliament for Ayrshire. It had been Hugh's uncle Alexander, the 10th Earl, who when Boswell was a young man had diverted his 'thoughts from Catholicism and the priesthood by introducing him into the circles of his high-born and rakish friends, including the young duke of York' (ODNB).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

JESUIT MISSIONSLettres édifiantes et curieuses écrites des missions étrangères, par quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus, 34 vol. bound in 32, engraved title vignettes, 36 mostly folding engraved plates and maps (of 38, without portrait of Antoine Verjus, and map of Paraguay, 2 hand-coloured, a few old repairs at folds, some loss to map of 'Nouvelles Phillipies' in volume 6, and plate of Chinese inscriptions in volume 10), occasional light foxing or browning, volume 1 with title shaved at lower margin touching imprint, and final leaf repaired with some loss of text, volume 5 with small loss to blank corners on 2 leaves, volume 15 title with small hole touching imprint, volumes 1-28 uniform contemporary calf, spines gilt in compartments with two lettering-pieces, red edges, volumes 29-34 (slightly taller) in similar mottled calf, some rubbing and abrasions, minor worm trails to a few sides and joints, a few spine ends chipped, but generally attractive [Sabin 40697, 'a set comprising the first edition of each volume is of uncommon rarity'; Sommervogel III, 1514, IV, 34-35, V, 536, VI, 353-354; cf. Hill 1024, second edition only], 8vo, Paris, Jean Cusson [and others], 1702-1776Footnotes:RARE COMPLETE SET OF 'THE MOST VALUABLE 18TH-CENTURY SOURCE ON JESUIT ACTIVITIES IN FRONTIER REGIONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD' (Hill, Collection of Pacific Voyages).This monumental series, began under the editorship of Charles le Gobien, was intended to provide a history of Jesuit missions and news from China. Subsequently accounts of many Company of Jesuits missionary missives from all the regions of their activities were added, with information on science, medicine, natural history, technology and geography as well as theological matters. Following le Gobain the editorship passed to Jean-Baptiste du Halde, a great proponent of Jesuit science as a means to winning imperial favour in China, and thereafter under several other editors until the final volume was published in 1776.Provenance: 'Domus probationis Parisiensis Societatis Jesu ad usum novit', contemporary inscription on the title of volume 1, and and similar inscriptions to titles of volumes 2-28, placing these volumes formerly in the library of the Parisian Jesuit novitiate.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

OTTOMAN EMPIRE - SIEGE OF CANDIAA Relation of the Siege of Candia from the First Expedition of the French Forces Under the Command M. de la Fueillade, Duke of Roannez, to its Surrender, the 27th. of September, 1669... Written in French by a Gentleman Who Was a Voluntier in the Service, first edition in English, without final blank, contemporary sheep, spine refurbished at extremities, modern red morocco gilt spine label [ESTC R21251; Atabey 1028; cf. Blackmer 859, French edition], 8vo, T. Williams and W. Starkey, 1670Footnotes:SCARCE first English edition of an account of an expedition undertaken by François d'Aubusson, duc de la Feuillade to assist the Venetian rulers of Candia (Heraklion, Crete) against the siege undertaken by Ottomans in the final year of the Cretan Wars (1645-1669). The English edition contains material which is not found in the original French edition, published the previous 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

CRICKETBENTLEY (HENRY) A Correct Account of All the Cricket Matches Which Have Been Played by the Mary-le-bone Club, and All the Other Principal Matches, from the Year 1786 to 1822 inclusive, FIRST EDITION, early cloth, gilt lettered on spine, some fading, extremities of spine rubbed [Padwick 1221], 8vo, T. Traveller, 1823This 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

CRICKETCHAMBERLAYNE (EDWARD) Angliae notitia: or, the Present State of England: With Divers Remarks Upon the Ancient State Thereof, engraved frontispiece, contemporary panelled calf, very worn [ESTC R14918], 8vo, T. Hodgkin, for R. Scot [and others], 1694Footnotes:'The natives will endure long and hard Labour, insomuch that after 12 Hours hard Work, they will go in the Evening to Foot-ball, Stool-ball, Cricket, Prison-base, Wrestling, Cudgel-playing, or some such like vehement Exercise for their Recreation' (p.52). This passage referring to cricket as a national recreation first appears in this eighteenth edition of Chamberlayne's popular seventeenth-century handbook on the social and political conditions of England, reflecting 'a relaxation of attitudes towards sports at the Restoration, [when] cricket emerged from its position of relative obscurity, and the printed word began to define it... as an element of national culture' (Alan Bateman, Cricket, Literature and Culture, 2009).Provenance: Thomas Harvey, inscription dated 1741 inside upper cover, and signature on title-page; William Johnston, nineteenth century ownership label.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

CRICKETCricket. Shaw and Shrewsbury's Team in Australia 1884-5, FIRST EDITION, mounted woodburytype portrait of S & W's 'Anglo-Australian Team', tipped-in advertisement notice on pink paper of 'Shaw and Shrewsbury's specialities in cricket, lawn tennis and football goods', modern quarter morocco, publisher's decorative stiff wrappers bound in, slipcase [Padwick 4409], 8vo, Alfred Shaw and Arthur Shrewsbury,Footnotes:Shrewsbury's team played an astonishing total of 35 matches on that tour, winning 16, drawing 15 and losing 2. The Test series was decided by the final match: Shrewsbury made 105 not out and England won by an innings, taking the series 3-2.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

CRICKETDENISON (WILLIAM) Cricket. Sketches of the Players, FIRST EDITION, 8pp. of advertisements at end, modern cloth, with the original printed drab wrappers bound in [Padwick 876 & 7201], 12mo, Simpkin, Marshall, 1846Footnotes:FIRST EDITION, retaining the exceptionally rare original wrappers, of a work containing thirty-seven biographies by the first acknowledged cricket reporter. Denison writes at length about Alfred Mynn and William Lillywhite.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

A quantity of late 20th century and later Snoopy soft toys to include three battery operated Snoopy toys manufactured by Peanuts Worldwide together with other soft toys and Snoopy products, Peanuts and Snoopy books to include a 2009 First Edition Celebrating Peanuts: 60 Years produced by Lionheart Books Ltd, and a McDonald's cardboard Snoopy model of a dog house containing 30 McDonald plastic models of Snoopy in various costumes, circa 1990'sLocation: RAM