Food & Drink.- Wine.- Album Officiel de la Fête des Vignerons. Vevey 1889, folding colour panorama by S.Krakow after E.Vullemin & P.Valloury, conjoined sheets folding concertina style, some foxing, original pictorial wrappers, ink stamp to upper cover, spine frayed and chipped, upper cover detached, Lausanne & Vevey, 1889 § Tovey (Charles) Wine and Wine Countries: A Record and Manual for Wine Merchants and Wine Consumers, second edition, mounted photographic portrait frontispiece, additional title with pictorial border, lithographed plates & maps, folding facsimile, 8pp. advertisement at end, hinges weak, original decorated cloth, small stain to upper cover, 1877 § Andrieu (P.) Le Vin et les Vins de Fruits, first edition, illustrations, advertisements at end printed on orange paper, original printed wrappers, uncut & partly unopened, a little soiled and frayed at edges, Paris, 1894, 8vo (3)
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Games & Puzzles.- Benham (W.Gurney) Playing Cards: History of the Pack..., first edition, 1931 § Dummett (M.) The Game of Tarot from Ferrara to Salt Lake City, 1980 § "Cavendish". The Laws and Principles of Whist, tenth edition, 1874; The Laws of Piquet, ninth edition, 1901 § B⁂* (Lt.-Col.) The Whist-Player, 1856 § Cadogan (Lady Adelaide) Illustrated Games of Patience, Second Series, 1887, plates and illustrations, some colour, original cloth, the first two with dust-jackets, most a little rubbed; and 12 others on card games, v.s. (18)
Bartsch (Adam, editor) Catalogue Raisonné de toutes les Estampes qui forment l'Oeuvre de Rembrandt et ceux de ses principaux imitateurs, 2 vol. in 1, large paper copy, engraved portrait frontispieces of Rembrandt and Livens, 2 etched plates of nocturnal scene (different states) and 3 folding engraved plates, light foxing to plates, Knowsley Hall copy with bookplate of the Earl of Derby and inscribed "Knowsley" on front free endpaper, contemporary half russia, rubbed, rebacked, 4to, Vienna, A.Blumauer, 1797.⁂ First published by Gersaint and others in 1751 but revised and expanded by Bartsch. Rembrandt's great work Belshazzar's Feast was at one time owned by the Earl of Derby and displayed at his seat Knowsley Hall near Liverpool; it is now in the National Gallery.
Games & Puzzles.- Grimm (Georg) Neuestes Spielbuch..., manuscript notes to rear free endpapers, some light foxing, contemporary boards, Leipzig, 1840 § Academie Universelle des Jeux contenant les Regles de tous les Jeux, 2 vol. in 1, half-title, contemporary calf, spine ends worn, joints split, Paris, Theodore le Gras, 1743 § [Soumille (B.L.)] Le Grand Trictrac..., half-title, woodcuts of backgammon boards, contemporary paste-paper boards, rebacked in calf, Paris, de Hansy, 1790 § Blismon de Douai. Les Mille et Un Amusemens de Société, 4 parts in 1, hand-coloured woodcut of maze as frontispiece, woodcut illustrations, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, lacking label and defective at head, split to upper joint, Paris, [c.1850], rubbed; and 4 others, French, on games and puzzles, 8vo et infra (8)⁂ The first concerns card games.
Games & Puzzles.- Hoffmann (Professor Angelo J. Lewis) Puzzles Old and New, 1893; King Koko, 1904 § Hutchison (G.A., editor) Indoor Games and Recreations, [c.1889] § Gordon (Mrs. Alexander) Double Acrostic Enigmas, Second Series, 1868 § Whitehouse (F.R.B.) Table Games of Georgian and Victorian Days, reprint, Royston, 1971 § Matthews (W.H.) Mazes and Labyrinths, original cloth-backed boards, spotted, 1922, illustrations, all but the last original cloth, the first three pictorial, the fifth with dust-jacket, most rubbed; and c.60 others on games and puzzles including an album of newspaper cuttings of acrostics, v.s. (c.65)
Hydropathy.- Short (Thomas) An Essay towards a Natural, Experimental, and Medicinal History of the Principle Mineral Waters of Cumberland, Northumberland...to which is added, a Short Discourse on Cold and Tepid Bathing, first edition, list of subscribers, errata leaf at end, browned, contemporary calf, rather worn and scuffed, rebacked, 4to, Sheffield, for the Author, by John Garnet, 1740.⁂ A continuation of Short's Mineral Waters of England, the first volume of which was titled The Natural, Experimental, and Medicinal History of the Mineral Waters of Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire... , published in 1734.
![Mathematics.- Kersey (John) The Elements of that Mathematical Art commonly called Algebra, vol.1 only [all published], second](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/285fc665-f533-4226-a8f3-ad430108a064/ee897063-7bce-41cf-848b-ad4400bf0b18/468x382.jpg)
Mathematics.- Kersey (John) The Elements of that Mathematical Art commonly called Algebra, vol.1 only [all published], second edition, a few contemporary ink annotations, title soiled, browned, wormhole to inner margin of first few leaves, contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt, spine ends and corners worn, 1707 § Wingate (Edmund) & James Dodson. A Plain and Familiar Method for attaining the Knowledge and Practice of Common Arithmetic, nineteenth edition, engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, stained, joints split, for C.Hitch & L.Hawes, 1760 § Hutton (Charles, translator) Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, edited by Edward Riddle, illustrations, original cloth, spine faded, 1840 § Barnard (F.P.) The Casting-Counter and the Counting Board: A Chapter in the History of Numismatics and Early Arithmetic, reprint, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, Castle Cary, 1981, all rubbed, some joints split; and c.30 others on mathematics including vol.IV of Philosophical Transactions of 1731 containing papers relating to Newton, v.s. (c.35)⁂ The first item consists of Books I & II only and was first published in 1673, followed by Books III & IV in 1674 but there does not appear to have been a second edition of the latter. ESTC lists printings of 1708 and 1709, with the same pagination, but none of 1707.
Science.- Peregrinus de Maricourt (Petrus) The Epistle of Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt to Sygerus of Foncaucourt, Soldier concerning the Magnet, translated by Silvanus P.Thompson, one of 240 copies, printed in black letter and rubricated throughout, diagrams, old wrappers, uncut, frayed at edges, spine worn, Chiswick Press, 1902 § Chevreul (Michel Eugène) The Laws of Contrast of Colour: and their application to the Arts..., translated by John Spanton, first edition of this translation, colour frontispiece, 3 plates, one with overlay, advertisement leaf at end, light foxing, original pinkish brown cloth with border in blind, spine faded and slightly frayed at head, G.Routledge & Son, 1857 § Halliwell (J.O., editor) Historical Society of Science. A Collection of Letters illustrative of the Progress of Science in England from the reign of Queen Elizabeth to that of Charles the Second, original cloth-backed boards with paper label to upper cover, rubbed and stained, 1841; and another on science, small 4to & 8vo (4)⁂ The first item is the first complete edition in English of Pierre de Maricourt's letter of 1269, the first separate treatise on magnetism and an influence on William Gilbert. The second item is the first book in English on the subject of colour to use colour-printing.
![Science & Medicine.- Casserius (Julius) Tabulae Anatomicae [&] De Formato Foetu Tabulae, 2 vol. in 1, limited edition](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/285fc665-f533-4226-a8f3-ad430108a064/e626de6c-0593-45ed-9fb0-ad4400bf0cad/468x382.jpg)
Science & Medicine.- Casserius (Julius) Tabulae Anatomicae [&] De Formato Foetu Tabulae, 2 vol. in 1, limited edition facsimile reprint, original cloth-backed boards, slip-case (a little soiled), Weiler im Allgäu, for members of Editions Medicina Rara Ltd., [?1971] § Wolf (A.) A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, 1938 Daumas (M.) Scientific Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and their Makers, 1989 § Haining (Peter) The Dream Machines: An Eye-Witness History of Ballooning, 1972, plates and illustrations, all but the first original cloth or boards, the last two with dust-jackets, most a little rubbed; and c.25 others on science, medicine, technology, transport etc., v.s. (c.30)
France.- Boissel (T.C.G.) Voyage Pittoresque, et Navigation exécutée sur une partie du Rhône, réputée non navigable, first edition, half-title, engraved map and 17 folding plates, several etchings, contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, uncut, rubbed, joints split, lacking most of spine, 4to, Paris, Du Pont, An III [1795].
Italy.- Baretti (Joseph) An Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy, 2 vol., first English edition, 2 plates of engraved music, some light foxing, upper outer corner of I4 in vol.2 torn away with loss of a few letters, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, uncut, spine ends worn, T. Davies, 1768 § Bell (John) Observations on Italy, first edition, 9 engraved plates, light foxing to plates, original boards, uncut, spine worn and defective, Edinburgh & London, 1825 § Guida della Città di Firenze..., engraved plates, original printed boards, joints rubbed, upper split, Florence, A.Campani, 1830, all rubbed, 4to & 8vo (4)
Mediterranean.- Lear (Edward) Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania, first edition, map and 20 tinted lithographed plates, very occasional spotting, bookplate removed from front pastedown, original blind-stamped blue cloth, spine gilt, small stain to lower cover, spine slightly rubbed and faded, a good copy, [Abbey, Travel 45], 1851.
***Please note, the description of this lot has changed.Evelyn (John) Sculptura; or, the History and Art of Chalcography, and Engraving in Copper, second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, plate and folding mezzotint plate by Prince Rupert of the Rhine after Ribera, light offsetting, marginal water-staining to folding plate, bookplate of Henry Yates Thompson with his manuscript note of acquisition "Quaritch Sep 30th 1885" and presentation label from his widow, later diced calf, gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, for J. Payne, 1755.*** Originally published in 1662 this was the first book in English to describe the process of mezzotint engraving and to include a mezzotint print, 'The Executioner' by Prince Rupert of the Rhine after Ribera. Mezzotint was invented by Ludwig von Siegen in the 1640s and the process was developed and brought to England by Prince Rupert, whom Evelyn credited with the invention. This edition includes 'The Little Executioner', a copy of Rupert's version; itself a reduced version of the head in Rupert's masterpiece, the much larger 'Great Executioner' of 1658.
![Russia.- [Masson de Blamont (C.F.P.)] Mémoires Secrets sur la Russie..., 3 vol., half-titles, contemporary ink signature and](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/285fc665-f533-4226-a8f3-ad430108a064/10c6c350-6dec-447c-95fa-ad4400bf06ae/468x382.jpg)
Russia.- [Masson de Blamont (C.F.P.)] Mémoires Secrets sur la Russie..., 3 vol., half-titles, contemporary ink signature and old ink stamp to titles, Paris, 1800-02; Lettres d'un Français a un Allemand servant de réponse a Mr. de Kotzebue, Basel & Koblenz, 1802, together 2 works in 4 vol. in 2, original boards, rubbed a little worn at edges § Smyth (C.Piazzi) Three Cities in Russia, 2 vol., wood-engraved plates, folding colour maps, errata slips, contemporary half morocco, a little rubbed, 1862, 8vo (4)⁂ The second work is a supplement to the first.
Scandinavia.- Norse Literature.- Johnstone (Rev. James, translator) Lodbrokar-Quida; or the Death-Song of Lodbroc, half-title, nineteenth century half green roan, [Copenhagen], for the Author, 1782 § Tegnér (Esaias) Frithiofs Saga, half-title, engraved vignette title, folding sheet of music at end, foxed, bookplate of Thos. M.Middlemore-Whithard, contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving gilt spine, Stockholm, H.A.Nordström, 1828 § Sturlison (Snorri) The Prose of Younger Edda..., translated by G.W.Dasent, contemporary ink signature of Charles Dasent to front free endpaper, modern calf-backed marbled boards, Stockholm, 1842 § Rask (Erasmus) A Grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse Tongue, translated by G.W.Dasent, contemporary ink signature of John B.Dasent to head of title, contemporary half calf, London & Frankfurt, 1843, rubbed; and c.35 others on Norse literature including a run of Saga-Book of the Viking Society, 8vo (c.40)⁂ The first is an 8th century Icelandic saga concerning Regnar, King of the Danes.
Asia.- Veitch (James Herbert) A Traveller's Notes, spotted and soiled, ex-library copy with stamps, for private circulation, 1896 § Ll[oyd] (H.) Hindu Women: with Glimpses into their Life and Zenanas, presentation copy from the author, 1882 § Gascoigne (G.T.) Among Pagodas and Fair Ladies: An Account of a Tour through Burma, 1896 § Bishop (Isabella Bird) Korea and her Neighbors, New York, 1898 § Hedin (Sven) Riddles of the Gobi Desert, 1933, first editions, maps, plates and illustrations, some photogravure, original cloth, rubbed; and c.15 others on Asia, 4to & 8vo (c.20)
China.- Fortune (Robert) Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China, second edition, tinted lithographed frontispiece and 2 plates, wood-engraved additional pictorial title & tail-piece, map, ex-library copy with cancellation stamp to head of title, modern bookplate, modern morocco, 1847 § Gordon-Cumming (C.F.) The Inventor of the Numeral-Type for China by the use of which Illiterate Chinese both Blind and Sighted can very quickly be taught to read and write fluently, first edition, plates, tables, printed slips and 12th Annual Report tipped in, original yellow cloth, 1898 § Proudfoot (W.J.) "Barrow's Travels in China". An Investigation..., light foxing, original cloth, 1861 § [Crowe (Eyre Evans)] A History of China to the Present Time..., first edition, advertisements at end, ink inscription to title, browned, lacking rear free endpaper, original cloth, upper cover stained, 1854, all rubbed; and 4 others on China, 8vo (8)⁂ Library Hub lists only 5 copies of the last.
China.- Tchang (Mathias) Synchronismes Chinois, title foxed, C.R.Boxer's copy with his signature to front free endpaper, contemporary half cloth, Shanghai, 1905 § Needham (Joseph) & others. Heavenly Clockwork: The Great Astronomical Clocks of Medieval China, original cloth, Cambridge, 1960; Clerks and Craftsmen in China and the West, original cloth, dust-jacket, Cambridge, 1970 § Giles (Herbert A.) Chinese Poetry in English Verse, first edition, presentation copy from the author with initialled manuscript note tipped in, contemporary roan, spine worn, London & Shanghai, 1898, some plates or illustrations, the first and last rubbed; and c.40 others on China and Chinese literature, v.s. (c.45)
Eastern Religion & Philosophy.- Batchelor (Rev. John) The Ainu of Japan, first edition, ex-library copy with ink stamp to half-title, hinges weak, shaken, original pictorial cloth, rubbed, spine ends a little worn, 1892 § Coomaraswamy (A.) Buddha and the Gospel of Buddhism, [c.1916] § Munro (N.G.) Ainu Creed and Cult, 1963 § Dumoulin (H.) The Development of Chinese Zen..., New York, 1953 § Casal (U.A.) The Five Sacred Festivals of Ancient Japan, Tokyo, 1967 § Czaja (M.) Gods of Myth and Stone: Phallicism in Japanese Folk Religion, New York & Tokyo, 1974 § Rambach (P.) The Art of Japanese Tantrism, 1979, plates and illustrations, original cloth or boards, all but the first with dust-jackets, most a little rubbed and soiled; and c.20 others on Eastern religions & philosophy, mostly Chinese or Japanese, v.s. (c.25)
NO RESERVE Freeman (M.B.) The Unicorn Tapestries, New York, 1976 § Parry (Linda) William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement: A Design Source Book, 1989 § Heal (Sir Ambrose) The London Furniture Makers...1660-1840, reprint, 1988 § Whistler (Laurence) The Image on the Glass, 1975, illustrations, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first rubbed and slightly frayed at edges; and c.20 others on the arts, 8vo & 4to (c.25)
Japan.- Beaton (Cecil) Japanese, first edition, light spotting to text, original cloth-backed boards, pictorial dust-jacket, a little stained and frayed at edges, 1959 § Changing Japan seen through the Camera; Image du Japon, text in English & French, Tokyo & Osaka, 1933 § Menpes (Mortimer & Dorothy) Japan: A Record in Colour, reprint, A. & C.Black, 1904 §Du Cane (Ella & Florence) The Flowers and Gardens of Japan, A. & C.Black, 1908 § Kincaid (Zoë) Tokyo Vignettes, light foxing, Tokyo & Osaka, 1933, all but the third first editions, plates and illustrations, some colour, all but the first original cloth, the last two pictorial; and c.20 others on Japan, v.s. (c.25)
Japan.- Chamberlain (Basil Hall) Things Japanese, 1890 § Batchelor (Rev. John) Sea-Girt Yezo: Glimpses at Missionary Work in North Japan, 1902 § Arnold (Sir Edwin) Japonica, 1892 § Morse (Edward S.) Japan Day by Day..., 2 vol., Boston & New York, 1917 § Fraser (Mrs. Hugh) A Diplomatist's Wife in Japan, 2 vol., second edition, 1899 § Selenka (E. & L.) Sonnige Welten. Ostasiatische Reise-Skizzen, second edition, Wiesbaden, 1905, all but the last two first editions, plates and illustrations, original pictorial cloth, most gilt, a little rubbed and soiled; and c.25 others on Japan, 8vo & 4to (c.30)
Japan.- Crebillon (Claude Prosper Jolyot de) L'Ecumoire ou Tanzaï, et Néardarné, Histoire Japonoise, 2 vol., half-titles, engraved frontispiece, titles in red & black, bookplate of Lord Northwick, contemporary cats-paw sheep, a little rubbed, upper joints cracked, spine ends of vol.1 chipped, Pekin [Paris], Lou-Chou-Chu-La, 1756 § [Fenouillot de Falbaire (Charles-Georges)] Les Jammabos, ou les Moines Japonois; Tragédie dédiée aux manes de Henri IV, engraved plate after Gravelot, original yellow wrappers, uncut, contemporary ink note to upper cover, soiled, spine defective, "Londres" [?Paris], n.p., [c.1779] § Klaproth (J. von) Mémoire sur l'Introduction et l'Usage des Caractères Chinois au Japon, folding table, original wrappers, uncut, Paris, 1829; and another 1735 edition of the first lacking 2 leaves and an odd vol. of Delaporte's Le Voyageur François of 1767 concerning Japan, 8vo et infra (6)⁂ The first is a scarce satirical and licentious tale first published in 1734, supposedly a translation of a Japanese fairy tale, criticising the Papal Bull Unigenitus which opposed Jansenism.
Japan.- Dickson (Walter) Japan being a sketch of the history, government and officers of the empire, first edition, Edinburgh & London, 1869 § Golownin (Capt.) Memoirs of a Captivity in Japan 1811-1813, 3 vol., facsimile reprint, 1973 § McCullough (W.H. & Helen Craig, translators & editors) A Tale of Flowering Fortunes: Annals of Japanese Aristocratic Life in the Heian Period, 2 vol., Stanford, Ca., 1980 § Sansom (G.) A History of Japan, 3 vol., second or third impressions, 1965-69 § Pollack (David) The Fracture of Meaning: Japan's Synthesis of China from the Eighth through the Eighteenth Centuries, Princeton, NJ., 1986, plates and illustrations, original cloth or boards, the first a little rubbed and soiled, the second with slip-case, the last three with dust-jackets; and c.20 others on Japanese history, 8vo (c.30)
Japan.- Hillier (Jack) The Art of the Japanese Book, 2 vol., 1987; The Harari Collection of Japanese Paintings and Drawings, 3 vol., 1970-73; Catalogue of the Japanese Paintings and Prints in the Collection of Mr & Mrs Richard P.Gale, 2 vol., 1970; The Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration, 1980; The Uninhibited Brush: Japanese Art in the Shijo Style, 1974; Suzuki Harunobu, Philadelphia, 1970, plates and illustrations, many colour and tipped in, original cloth, the first and last two with dust-jackets, some a little soiled, the first three with slip-cases; and 4 others by the same, 4to & 8vo (14)
Japan.- Jahss (M. & B.) Inro and other miniature forms of Japanese Lacquer Art, Rutland, Vt. & Tokyo, 1971 § Hutt (J.) & Hélène Alexander. Ogi: a History of the Japanese Fan, 1992 § Joly (H.L.) & Kumusaku Tomita. Japanese Art & Handicraft, reprint, 1976 § Leach (Bernard) Kenzan and his Tradition, 1966 § Iwamiya (Takeji) Katachi: Japanese Pattern and Design in Wood, Paper, and Clay, Tokyo, 1963, illustrations, some colour, original cloth, all but the last with dust-jackets, some a little soiled, the first with slip-case; and c.30 others on Japanese arts & crafts, v.s. (c.35)
Japan.- Keyes (Roger) The Art of Surimono: Privately published Japanese woodblock prints and books in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, 2 vol., 1985; The Male Journey in Japanese Prints, Berkeley, 1989 § Forrer (M.) Hokusai, New York, 1988 § Schwaab (Dean J.) Osaka Prints, 1989 § Poster (A.G.) & Henry D.Smith II. Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 1986, illustrations, many colour, original cloth, dust-jackets, the first with slip-case; and c.25 others on Japanese prints, v.s. (c.30)
Japan.- Orange (James) A Small Collection of Japanese Lacquer, Yokohama, 1910 § Caiger (G.) Dolls on Display: Japan in Miniature, Nishikicho, [1933] § Otto (A.F.) & T.S.Holbrook. Mythological Japan or the Symbolisms of Mythology in Relation to Japanese Art, Philadelphia, 1902 § Tuer (Andrew W.) The Book of Delightful and Strange Designs...of the Art of the Japanese Stencil-Cutter, limited edition [?one of 100 copies], text in English & French, with original stencil mounted on stub as frontispiece (loose), double-page textile stencil designs, title browned, original cloth-backed boards, paper label on upper cover and spine, Leadenhall Press, [1893] § Teshigahara (Sofu) Coloured Pictures of Representative Flower Arrangements..., revised edition, stitching broken at upper hinge, Tokyo, 1951; Sofu: His Boundless World of Flowers and Form, original cloth, dust-jacket, slip-case and cloth drop-back box, Tokyo, 1966, all but the fourth original cloth or boards, the first two fastened with cord in Japanese style, the second with original box (broken), most a little rubbed; and 2 others on Japanese art & & crafts, 4to & folio (8)
Japan.- Taut (Bruno) Fundamentals of Japanese Architecture, text printed on mulberry paper, original wrappers, glacine wrapper torn and frayed, Tokyo, 1936 § Morse (E.S.) Japanese Homes and their surroundings, hinges weak, original pictorial cloth, spine worn and frayed, 1886 § Harada (Jiro) The Lesson of Japanese Architecture, original cloth, frayed dust-jacket, 1936; The Gardens of Japan, original cloth, 1928 § Du Cane (Ella & Florence) The Flowers and Gardens of Japan, original pictorial cloth, 1908 § Ota (Hirotaro) Japanese Architecture and Gardens, original cloth, dust-jacket, Tokyo, 1966, first or first English editions, plates and illustrations, some colour, most a little rubbed; and 5 others on Japanese architecture and gardens, v.s. (11)
George (M.Dorothy) English Political Caricature: A Study of Opinion and Propaganda, 2 vol., Oxford, 1959 § Denkstein (V.) Hollar Drawings, 1979 § Comment (B.) The Painted Panorama, 1999 § Myers (Harris) William Henry Pyne and his Microcosm, Stroud, 1996 § Wilder (F.L.) English Sporting Prints, 1974, illustrations, some colour, original cloth or boards, all but the first with dust-jackets; and c.15 others on prints including facsimiles of Piranesis' polemical works, Ackermann's Public Schools and Buck's Prospects, v.s. (c.20)
Japan.- Waley (Arthur) The No Plays of Japan, first edition, inscribed by the author to the bookbinder Sybil Pye on front free endpaper, 1921 § Okoshi (Narinori) Miscellaneous Writings, first edition, text in English & Japanese, presentation copy from the author's wife with her photograph loosely inserted, original cloth-backed boards, Tokyo, [1926] § Hancock (H.I.) & Katsukuma Higashi. The Complete Kano Jiu-Jitsu (Jiudo), first edition, New York & London, 1905 § Miyajima (Tsunao) Contribution à l'Étude du Théâtre Japonais de Poupées, third edition, original wrappers, Osaka, 1931 § Akiyama (Aisaburo) Geisha Girl, third edition, Yokohama, 1937 § Fujimoto (T.) The Nightside of Japan, third impression, 1927 § Ayrton (M.C.) Child-Life in Japan, n.d. § Matsuo (Takane) Rice Culture in Japan, Tokyo, 1955, plates and illustrations, most original cloth, some pictorial, the last with dust-jacket, a little rubbed; and c.25 others on Japanese culture, 8vo & 4to (c.30)
Voyages & Travels.- Polo (Marco) The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian..., translated by Col. Henry Yule, 2 vol., second, revised, edition, lithographed portrait and additional pictorial titles, 1875 § Brassey (Mrs.) A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam', second edition, 1879 § Seymour (Capt. W.D.) Journal of a Voyage Round the World, first edition, presentation copy from the author, mounted photographic portrait frontispiece, Cork, 1877 § Hübner (Baron) A Ramble round the World, 1871, translated by Lady Herbert, 2 vol., first English edition, 1874 § [Borlase (W.C.)] Sunways: A Record of Rambles in Many Lands, first edition, presentation copy from the author inscribed at head of title, Plymouth, 1878 § Ford (John D.) An American Cruiser in the East, first edition, bookplate removed, New York, 1898, maps, plates and illustrations, original cloth, the second and last pictorial gilt, a little rubbed, the first with nick to head of spine of vol.1, 8vo (8)
NO RESERVE America.- Hall (Capt. Basil) Travels in North America, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, folding hand-coloured engraved map, folding table, map lightly offset and with tear to inner edge, contemporary half calf, a little worn, joints split, one cover almost detached, Edinburgh, 1829 § Trollope (Frances) Domestic Manners of the Americans, 2 vol., second edition, half-titles, 24 lithographed plates by Ducôte after Hervieu, tissue guards, occasional light foxing, broken and becoming loose, original blue cloth, paper labels, rubbed and marked, cockling to upper covers, 1832, 8vo et infra (5)
NO RESERVE Birmingham.- Bunce (John Thackray) History of Old St. Martin's, Birmingham, first edition, list of subscribers, 9 lithograph plates, wood-engraved illustrations, original cloth, Birmingham, 1875; and 8 others on assaying, mining and metallurgy, all ex-Birmingham Assay Office library with some stamps, v.s. (9)
![[STANDISH (ARTHUR)]The Commons Complaint. Wherein Is Contained Two Speciall Grievances. The First, the Generall Destruction a](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/8e802755-3a67-4200-8b54-ad4a00ae2787/468x382.jpg)
[STANDISH (ARTHUR)]The Commons Complaint. Wherein Is Contained Two Speciall Grievances. The First, the Generall Destruction and Waste of Woods in the Kingdome with a Remedy for the Same... The Second Grievance Is, the Extreme Dearth of Victuals, FIRST EDITION, one folding woodcut plate, woodcut royal arms on dedication leaf, initials and ornaments throughout, shaved touching ornament on dedication and 5 running headings (and pagination numeral of pp.15-16), twentieth century polished mottled calf gilt, red morocco spine labels, g.e. [ESTC S117779; Fussell I, p.33; Henrey 352], small 4to (175 x 133mm.), William Stansby, 1611Footnotes:'One of the first treatises to be published in this country entirely devoted to forestry' (Henry). Following a popular revolt in the midlands neighbourhood in which he lived, in 1607 Standish set out to look 'for measures to reduce discontent among the common people,... [by undertaking] a four-year journey through the kingdom in search of answers. The resulting essay, The Commons Complaint, was personally approved by James I' (ODNB). Central to his concerns was the destruction of woods, leading to high fuel and food prices, and he established himself as a pioneering advocate of the replenishment of the forests through increased planting of trees, especially of fruit trees.Provenance: Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp inside covers.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
![T[AYLOR] (SILVANUS)Common-good: or, the Improvement of Commons, Forrests, and Chases, by Inclosure. Wherein the Advantage of](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/632e2cc2-edd8-4aaa-b0c0-ad4a00ae29df/468x382.jpg)
T[AYLOR] (SILVANUS)Common-good: or, the Improvement of Commons, Forrests, and Chases, by Inclosure. Wherein the Advantage of the Poor, the Common Plenty of All, and the Increase and Preservation of Timber... Are Considered, FIRST EDITION, title within one-line rule border, light dampstain to final 2 leaves, modern half calf over marbled boards, gilt morocco spine label [ESTC R203768; Goldsmiths 1248; Kress 860], small 4to (182 x 134mm.), Francis Tyton, 1652Footnotes:RARE, only this copy traced at auction in the past fifty years. A plea to reduce the impact of rapid deforestation in England, in which Taylor argues for a programme of planting on the 30,000 acres of Dean, Windsor and the New Forests. The author 'acknowledged that as it stood it was actually cheaper to get timber from New England than transport it 10-15 miles in England, but suggested this supply would soon be logged out' (P. Warde, The Invention of Sustainability: Nature and Destiny, c.1500-1900, 2018).Provenance: Donald McDonald, author of Agricultural writers from Sir Walter of Henley to Arthur Young, 1200-1800 (1908), bookplate; Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp on 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
TUSSER (THOMAS)Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, as Well for the Champion or Open Countrie, as Also for the Woodland... Newly Set Forth, black letter, title within wide allegorical woodcut border, large woodcut printer's device on final leaf, without A1 (blank except for signature), 2 small paperflaws to leaf N4 with very small loss of text, early ink finger-pointers in several margins, nineteenth century green morocco gilt, sides with 3-line fillet border, floral cornerpieces and central Huth arms, spine elaborately tooled, g.e. [ESTC S118718; Fussell I, pp.8-9], small 4to (185 x 135mm.), Imprinted at London, by Henrie Denham, 1580Footnotes:Tusser's enormously popular manual in verse on farming and husbandry was first published in 1557, and subsequently expanded and augmented until the author's death in 1580, with this including his final amendments. At its core is a calendar of information and advice about the farming year, with sections on the role of the country wife; it was also 'the biggest-selling book of poetry of the reign of Elizabeth I' (ODNB).Provenance: Henry Huth (bibliophile, 1815-1878), gilt morocco bookplate, and arms on covers; 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
![WINE[J.(S.)] The Vineyard: Being a Treatise Shewing I. The Nature and Method of Planting, Manuring, Cultivating and Dressing](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/91c76fa6-3ce6-426d-b8c7-ad4a00ae3189/468x382.jpg)
WINE[J.(S.)] The Vineyard: Being a Treatise Shewing I. The Nature and Method of Planting, Manuring, Cultivating and Dressing of Vines in Foreign-parts. II Proper Directions for Drawing, Pressing.. and Curing all Defects in the Wine. III. An Easy and Familiar Method of Planting and Raising Vines in England, to the Greatest Perfection... Being Observations Made by a Gentleman in his Travels, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece after R. Cooper, one woodcut illustration in the text, woodcut endpiece on final leaf, dampstain to lower fore-corner of the opening few leaves and upper fore-corner of the last few, small hole to frontispiece, final leaf with a 9 holes touching letters, endpapers loose, early ink annotation ('Marbled leath.r on back cutt edge') on blank recto of frontispiece, contemporary calf-backed boards (with losses to spine and much of the marbled papers on sides) [Henrey 870; Kress 3727; Simon BG 1580; cf. Bitting p.616, second edition, 1732], 8vo, W. Mears, 1727Footnotes:An important treatise on all aspects of viniculture, including the first detailed description in English of wine making in Champagne, and in which the author refutes the long-held notion that 'the raising of vines, to any tolerable perfection in England, was altogether impracticable...[arguing instead] that vine-yards are easily reconcileable to the temper and soil of our climate'.Provenance: Hen[ry] Balguy, early ownership inscription on title, with a correction to the text (relating to a quote from Homer's Odyssey) on p.179. Possibly Henry Balguy (1674-1737), of Derwent Hall in Derbyshire.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
![WINE and CIDER[WARD (EDWARD, 'Ned')] The Delights of the Bottle: or, the Compleat Vintner. With the Humours or Bubble Upstart](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/f02b60dd-0a6a-4445-be64-ad4a00ae343f/468x382.jpg)
WINE and CIDER[WARD (EDWARD, 'Ned')] The Delights of the Bottle: or, the Compleat Vintner. With the Humours or Bubble Upstarts. Stingy Wranglers. Dinner Spungers. Jill Tiplers. Beef Beggars. Cook Teasers... A Merry Poem. To which is added, A South-Sea Song upon the late Bubbles, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece of Bacchus by James Sympson, modern red morocco-backed cloth, spine titled in gilt [ESTC N28611], W. Downing, 1720--PHILIPS (JOHN) Cyder. A Poem, FIRST EDITION, issue with the errata corrected, half-title, engraved frontispiece (shaved at top), woodcut initials and head-pieces, disbound [ESTC T78745; Rothschild 1534], Jacob Tonson, 1708, 8vo (2)Footnotes:First edition of Ward's satirical description of his London tavern and its patrons, along with John Philips's ode aimed at teaching the reader 'not only how to produce superior cider but also how to enjoy this 'homebrew' in an atmosphere of rural conviviality' (Susanne Schmid & Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp, Drink in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, 2014).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
WYLD (SAMUEL)The Practical Surveyor, or, the Art of Land-Measuring, Made Easy, FIRST EDITION, engraved folding frontispiece and 5 plates (one with short tear), some spotting, contemporary calf, rebacked in calf gilt, upper cover near detached, J. Hooke and J. Sisson, 1725; idem, second edition 'Corrected and enlarged by a careful hand', engraved folding frontispiece and 6 plates (2 shaved touching lettering), light dampstaining to frontispiece, contemporary panelled calf, red morocco spine label, joints weakened, H. Lintot, [1730?]; idem, fourth edition, engraved folding frontispiece and 6 plates, contemporary calf, worn, joints weakened, W. Johnston, 1760--DAVIS (WILLIAM) A Treatise on Land Surveying, fifth edition, engraved frontispiece portrait, 9 folding engraved plates, some off-setting and spotting, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, joints weakened, Anne Davis, 1813, 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
YOUNG (ARTHUR)A Six Weeks Tour, through the Southern Counties of England and Wales, second edition, folding engraved frontispiece [ESTC T139688], W. Strahan, W. Nicoll, 1769; The Farmer's Guide in Hiring and Stocking Farms, 2 vol., 10 engraved plates (some folding), last few leaves in volume 1 misbound, bookplate of Wauchope of Edmonstone [ESTC T56260], W. Strahan, W. Nicoll, 1770; Rural Oeconomy: or, Essays on the Practical Parts of Husbandry, half-title [ESTC T131650], T. Becket, 1770; The Farmer's Letters to the People of England, contemporary half calf, spine worn, joints weak [ESTC T55591 (mentioning 'plates' presumably in error); Kress 6511; Goldsmiths' 10293], W. Nicoll, 1767; The Farmer's Kalendar, some browning of margins, joints split, spine worn [ESTC T121921], Robinson & Roberts, 1771--[DICKSON (ADAM)] A Treatise of Agriculture, 2 folding engraved plates, occasional foxing and marginal browning, upper cover near detached, bookplate of Charles Pierrepont [ESTC T72210], Edinburgh, A. Donaldson & J. Reid, for the author, 1762--CURTIS (WILLIAM) Practical Observations on the British Grasses, sixth edition, hand-coloured engraved folding frontispiece and 7 plates, contemporary cloth-backed boards, upper joint cracked, Sherwood, Jones, 1824--SLADE (HARRY POOL) A Short Practical Treatise on Dew Ponds, folding lithographed frontispiece and 2 folding diagrams, E. & F.N. Spon, 1877; DENTON (J. BAILEY) The Storage of Water, E. & F.N. Spon, 1874, 2 works in 1 vol., modern cloth-backed boards--HUTTON (T.) Farmer's Companion and Complete Ready Reckoner, lacking front fly-leaf with adverts, original sheep wallet-style binding, small 8vo, Hamilton, Adams, 1888, FIRST EDITIONS, unless otherwise stated 8vo (10)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
YOUNG (Miss S.A.)Studies of Trees, With and Without Foliage, FIRST EDITION, drop-head title above list of subscribers, 12 lithographed plates of trees printed by Hullmandel after S.A. Young, 11 of which proofs on India Paper, plate 12 hand-coloured not on India, publisher's printed wrappers with title and publisher's details on upper cover, some soiling, neatly re-backed with new spine to match, preserved in purpose-made morocco-backed solander box by J. & S. Brockman, folio (555 x 400mm.), Edinburgh, Abraham Thomson, [and others], 1834Footnotes:Rare series of views of magnificent trees. 'The Sketches contained in this Work were drawn from Nature during a short residence near Clifton, chiefly to beguile the tediousness of a lingering indisposition'. Most of the trees were in the park of Kings Weston, a John Vanburgh designed house near Bristol, with others at nearby Shirehampton. Little is known of the artist, but the list of subscribers (and lead publisher) suggest she was probably from Scotland, but with connections to the Channel Islands, with many members of the de Saumerez, Dobree and other Guernsey families listed. Other subscribers are local to Bristol, but also included is Darwin Galton, the brother of Francis Galton, and grandson of Erasmus Darwin.Copies with proofs on India paper cost £2.2s, while 'common' copies were priced at £1.6s.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)Moriae encomium nunc postremum ab ipso autore religiose recognitum, una cum aliis aliquot libellis, first three pages within woodcut borders (the first signed 'IF', i.e. Jakob Faber), woodcut initials, large woodcut printer's device on final verso, light dampstaining to lower margin of opening 30 leaves, slightly heavier dampstain to approximately 20 leaves at end, contemporary Flemish panel-stamped calf, the sides each with small panels of animals/birds and frieze of dogs and a porcupine surrounded by legends ('O[mn]ias si perdas/fama[m] savare memento/qua semel/amissa nul]la revisio erit'; 'De profundis/clamavi ad te domine/domine/exaudi vocem meam', rebacked using a seventeenth century manuscript on vellum, old paper spine label, pastedowns made of a fourteenth century manuscript of Comester's 'Historia scholastica', vellum waste visible at hinges, joints slightly weakened [Adams E396; USTC 676454], 8vo, Basle, [Froben], [July], 1522Footnotes:Early edition of Erasmus's Praise of Folly in a contemporary Flemish panel-stamped binding, using binder's waste of a fourteenth century manuscript on vellum pastedowns. This edition includes the commentary attributed to Gerhard Lister, Erasmus's supplementary Epistola apologetica ad Martinum Dorpium, Seneca's satire on the Emperor Claudius, and Synesius of Cyrene's praise of baldness. The binding is illustrated in Janet E. Scinto, 'The Panel Stamp in Early Modern Bindings', Library Quarterly, vol. 85, no. 1, University of Chicago, 2015.Provenance: Franciscan monastic inscription dated 1638 on title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SMITH (PHILIP)MILTON (JOHN) Complete Poetry & Selected Prose... edited by E.H.Visiak, bound by Philip Smith in turquoise crushed morocco, front cover with a blind-tooled floral pattern emanating from a vase-shaped ivory leather onlay, the rear cover tooled in blind to the same design, gilt dots on covers and on blind-tooled and gilt lettered spine, binder's monogram stamp dated 1952 on rear turn-in, spine slightly darkened, cloth slipcase, Nonesuch Press, 1952--Pair of blank books titled 'Homes' and 'Homo sapiens' on spine, bound in black and brown half morocco respectively, the sides with gilt stars at edges and main panels showing a house in a whirlpool and a silhouette of a male figure seen from behind, morocco turn-ins with dots and stars, decorated endpapers, top and fore-edges with drawings of houses and figures, manuscript binder's notes tipped-in at end of first volume, housed in single box with pull-off lid and leather label stamped '698', small 4to (173 x 139mm.), [n.d.] (3)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SMITH (PHILIP)MEYERSON (SIMON) Fungus and Curmudgeonly, the first play of a quartet... designed, illustrated and produced by Natalia d'Arbeloff, NUMBER 2 OF 10 COPIES FOR DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS, from an overall edition of 50 copies signed by the author and illustrator, etched illustrations (some double-page), calligraphic text by Sally Johnson printed in red and black, typed 'Artist's Notes' signed by Philip Smith tipped-in at rear, blindstamped black buckram, patterned endpapers, housed in a specially designed sculpted black morocco box created in 1983-1984 by Philip Smith, with brown and grey onlays and maril, removeable side and top panel which detaches to reveal felt-lined slots for the cassette, Sony cassette recorder and printed instruction booklet, the top with leather-covered head and shoulder sculpted figures representing an audience, the front with circular cut out of a waste pipe leaking sewage and showing the cassette speaker behind, the rear with typewriter ribbon case whose cap pulls off to reveal a landscape in maril, binder's blindstamp on ribbon cap and detachable flap, book 313 x 135mm., overall structure 380 x 160mm., Natalia d'Arbeloff Press, 1980This 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
SMITH (PHILIP)PHILLIPS (TOM, translator and illustrator) The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. Inferno. A Verse Translation by Tom Phillips with Images & Commentary, bound in 3 vol., NUMBER 3 OF THE 'SPECIAL COPIES FOR FINE BINDING HC 1-17', SIGNED BY THE ARTIST ON THE COLOPHON, from an overall edition of 185 copies, 140 plates comprising etchings, lithographs, screenprints and mixed media, each initialled by the artist, binder's notes tipped-in at rear of each volume, bound by Philip Smith in full black, black and red, and 2 shades of red goatskin respectively, the covers and spines with overall designs of impasto modelling in various colours using emulsified maril layers and leather onlays with the application of acrylic paint, coloured rough-trimmed edges and press stud leather clasps to match the binding, the three volumes joining to make a large book wall when mounted vertically, the front covers forming an image of a tall grotesque male figure with inset figures and scenes, the rear covers forming a last judgement vertical tryptich, housed in a three-part UV perspex case, folio (each volume 425 x 325mm., overall dimensions when assembled in perspex case 1345 x 380mm.), Talfourd Press, 1983; together with a large wooden cabinet base, with compartments for storing the volumes and/or the packaging (the back of the cabinet door with printed instructions for storage and assembly), and a stained oak trellised tower made by Adrian Jones to Philip Smith's design for an alternative method of displayFootnotes:'A RARE SYNTHESIS OF TWO WORKING, LIVING GENIUSES': PHILIP SMITH'S SPECTACULAR TRIPTYCH DESIGN ON ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ARTIST'S BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Philip Smith first developed the concept of the 'book wall' in the late 1960s, with images on each volume flowing on to the covers of the adjacent books, but at the same time forming integral individual images. His versions of Lord of the Rings are the best known examples: in 1973, he and Tolkien were invited at the Craftsman's Art Exhibition to present a set to the Duke of Edinburgh, and in 2003 a monumental wall of 21 volumes was sold at auction for £130,000. The design for the Dante tower structure was drawn up in 1984, but work on the first volume was only begun properly in 1991. Three years later it was completed and exhibited at the British Library. The remaining two volumes were designed in 1999 and completed a year later. The work can be displayed in three separate volumes, or erected vertically to form a contiguous tower using an elaborate three-part perspex case (all parts and instructions supplied).'It is to my mind a rare synthesis of two working, living geniuses giving visual form to a remarkable poem... This extraordinary work is unique in vision and skill... I believe their like will never be equalled' (Timothy C. Ely, in 'Designer Bookbinders newsletter', no. 185, Spring 2019). For his illustration and for providing a new translation of the Inferno, Phillips received the Frances Williams Memorial Prize in 1983, the LA Times writing 'there is no doubt that Tom Phillips has captured Dante for our time'. Exhibited: British Library 1994; Designer Bookbinding 2000-2001.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
![FABRI (ALESSANDRO)Diversarum nationum ornatus [-Diversarum nationum habitus], vol. 1 and 2 (of 3) bound in 1 vol., engraved](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/a995bba8-f393-4ccc-b29f-ad4a00ac92af/468x382.jpg)
FABRI (ALESSANDRO)Diversarum nationum ornatus [-Diversarum nationum habitus], vol. 1 and 2 (of 3) bound in 1 vol., engraved decorative title-page to each volume, 8pp. letterpress dedication to Battista Dotto (cropped touching first line of text on each page), 193 engraved plates only, including 189 of costumes (misbound, some unnumbered or numbered erratically), without the engraved dedication to Dotto or any overlays, most with additional ink numeral either in blank border or over original printed numeral, one with crude pencil drawing of a man in the margin, one with small ink annotation, approximately 14 with some light dampstains or toning, one cropped at outer margin not touching image, occasional spot or mark, full page of eighteenth century ink notes written in Spanish on the blank verso of first title and 2 non-costume plates, nineteenth century calf, gilt morocco spine labels, lacks upper cover, lower cover near detached with tape repairs [USTC 828580; Brunet II, 1151; Cicognara 1643, 'rara e copiosa collezione'; Colas I, 1021; Lipperheide Aa39; Vinet 2094, 'recueil fort intéressant, mais très difficile à trouver'], 8vo, [Padua, 1593], sold not subject to returnFootnotes:RARE AND CHARMING SIXTEENTH CENTURY COSTUME BOOK PRESENTED BY EDWARD BURNE-JONES, with only one other copy traced on Rare Book Hub. The majority of the plates depict single figures in costumes from Europe (Moscow, England, Finland, Greece, etc), Turkey, Arabia and the Americas (4, including inhabitants of Virginia), with a series of Venetian carnival costumes, a series of officials of the Holy Roman Empire, a few portraits of Paduans, and 4 views (bull fight, gondola, bird shoot on a lake, and the procession of the Doge). The engravings are based on those in Pietro Bertelli's more common Diversarum nationum habitus (Padua, 1589-96). The plate count called for these parts is variable in the standard bibliographies.Provenance: Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), presented by him to Sir Edward Aurelian Ridsdale (1864-1923), with inscription 'Ridsdale, Rottingdean 1896. From Sir E. Burne-Jones - my friend and neighbour'. Ridsdale, from 1906-1910 Liberal Member of Parliament for Brighton, lived at Rottingdean, Sussex where from 1880 until his death Burne-Jones also lived for part of the year. In 1893 he painted a portrait of Ridsdale; by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![Smith (Philip)[Lap-back binding], first finished prototype, blank paper leaves with 6 pages of binder's typed notes tipped-i](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/37692b0c-819b-4003-af60-ad4a00addf82/468x382.jpg)
Smith (Philip)[Lap-back binding], first finished prototype, blank paper leaves with 6 pages of binder's typed notes tipped-in at beginning, inscribed at rear 'This first model made in Nov-Dec 1992, Philip Smith', bound in morocco with multi-coloured design including maril and painted onlays and above a textured triangular panel with an embossed female figure, open lap-back spine painted red, 177 x 145mm., 1992; together with an unfinished Lap-back model (covers unadorned), a 1979 prototype for a small single-hinge perspex binding ('See-Hear' design with eye and ear illustration on front), a box of finishing tools, a small tin containing 'Handle tools cut by Philip Smith' and a brass embossing plate (quantity)Footnotes:Philip Smith's first completed model using his patented Lap-Back binding style. 'The idea was that the boards could be used to protect the spine rather than have a spine lining or covering as in the conventional historic precedents'.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
FIRST BOER WAR 1880-1881Group of five autograph letters from Lieutenant Colonel Hardin Burnley-Campbell (1843-1920), signed ('Hardin Burnley') to his father ('My dear Father'), the first written when embarking for South Africa ('...looking forward to some fun & another medal at the Cape... Our fear is that the Boers will cave in when they see Roberts Cabul-Kandahar Heelanders coming on top of them... I will do anything to get to the front & see some sport...'); on arrival expressing expectations he will be with the mounted infantry, reporting the huge losses at Laings Nek two days before ('...200 killed & 7 officers & wounded many besides – the 5th got it severely... the Boers evidently are grand shots & I am told pick off the officers...'), admitting '...the risks are many – The Boers tho' small in numbers... are trained horsemen & shots & know every inch of the Transvaal...'; in a letter dated 28 February, describing his appointment by '...poor Sir George Colley who was so kind to me...' as commander of the mounted squadron, mentioning again the disastrous battle of Laings Nek and passing on news of Colley's death at the battle of Majuba Hill the day before ('...the awful disaster of yesterday... our men fought grandly but 500 against 6000 would not do. We have fought 3 times now and all are defeats there is no denying it this the last; the worst of all – the Boers are the finest shots imaginable & can take advantage of cover... and always pick off officers – having picked marksmen for this special duty... Colley has been rash & has exposed his men, but as of old our men against heavy odds, have fought & died like heroes...'); informing him that Colonel Buller has given him permission to return to England '...after a not uneventful 3 ½ years absence... This peace is disgraceful & we are all furious about it & would gladly stay on 2 years more...'; the last from Cape Town ('...a curious town... all nationalities are represented here & the London Ansom Cab plies the streets which is a novel sight to me...'), and looking forward to '...a change from the heat & dust & racket of soldiering & campaigning...'; three with envelopes, 24 pages, 8vo (200 x 130mm.) and smaller, Off Vingola, India, Durban, Newcastle, Cape Town, 15 January 1881 to 26 April [18]81; with a letter to Burnley from H.G. MacGregor confirming his command of the mounted Squadron, 2 pages, 8vo, Fort Auriel, 17 February [1881]Footnotes:'AS OF OLD OUR MEN AGAINST HEAVY ODDS, HAVE FOUGHT & DIED LIKE HEROES': a first-hand account of the Battle of Majuba Hill, the final and decisive battle of the First Boer War, a humiliating defeat for British troops and a resounding victory for the Boers.Major Burnley-Campbell volunteered for service in the Boer campaign after an illustrious career in Afghanistan, during which he accompanied Major Roberts as ADC to General Gough on the famous march from Kabul to Kandahar (see lot 28). Burnley's initial fear, expressed in these letters, that the Boers would 'cave in' to the British before he himself could have some 'sport', was to be short-lived. Taking over command of the mounted squadron from Major Brownlow, he was with Sir George Pomeroy Colley at Mount Prospect Camp on the night he ordered the disastrous ascent of Majuba Hill, a decision which led to hundreds of British casualties. Colley himself was 'picked off' by one of the much-feared Boer snipers described in Burnley's letters. This defeat of professional soldiers by young Boer farmboys and a few old soldiers proved a major humiliation and led to the signing of the peace treaty ending the First Boer War. Long term it proved the success of the 'fire and movement' tactics which were to be employed by the Boers in the Second Boer War, and 'Remember Majuba' became a rallying cry for British soldiers in the Transvaal for years to come. These letters were retained by the family until now.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
HUGHES (TED)The Hawk in the Rain, first American edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS PARENTS, inscribed 'To Mom & Dad/Number one on a long shelf.' on the title-page, half-title, contents working loose, some spotting and foxing, publisher's cloth, dampstains on sides, yellow dust-jacket (price-clipped, upper cover and spine soiled with small losses at corners) [Sagar/Tabor A1b], 8vo, New York, Harper & Brothers, [1957]Footnotes:THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF TED HUGHES' FIRST BOOK, INSCRIBED TO HIS PARENTS. The American edition was published in a print run of 750 copies, five days after the English edition had appeared. The Hawk in the Rain had won the First Publication Award in a competition conducted by the Poetry Centre of the Young Men's and Young Women's Association of New York, and judged by the poets Stephen Spender, W.H. Auden, and Marianne Moore. The book was very well received, with W.S. Merwin writing in the New York Times (6 October) that its publication allowed him to 'acclaim an exciting new writer'.Provenance: Gifted by Ted Hughes to his parents; by descent to Olwyn Hughes, Ted's sister; Frieda Hughes, Ted's daughter.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
![[PLATH (SYLVIA)]A Winter Ship, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 60 COPIES, title within an ornamental border, stitched in](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/9951e4f4-f594-4776-8e6b-ad3b00d326a0/468x382.jpg)
[PLATH (SYLVIA)]A Winter Ship, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 60 COPIES, title within an ornamental border, stitched in original stiff card with marbled wrappers, title printed in black on label pasted on upper cover [Tabor A1], 8vo, Edinburgh, Tragara Press, 1960Footnotes:THE FIRST EDITION OF SYLVIA PLATH'S FIRST SEPARATELY PRINTED POEM. Alan Anderson, the owner of the Tragara Press, has stated that approximately 60 copies were printed. Plath was extremely pleased with the result, writing to Anderson on 23 July 1960 'The pamphlets are absolutely beautiful. Ted and I are delighted with them, and especially with the handsome way you make up your covered booklets' (The Letters, Vol.II, edited by Steinberg and Kukil, 2018).Provenance: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes; by descent to Olwyn Hughes; Frieda Hughes.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
![[PLATH (SYLVIA)]The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES on the front free endpaper, some light s](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5329f428-b57e-403c-aeba-ad3b00cf838d/1801adc5-b2e0-4ced-ad02-ad3b00d32c85/468x382.jpg)
[PLATH (SYLVIA)]The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES on the front free endpaper, some light spotting, mostly to fore-edge, publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered on spine, pictorial dust-jacket (light soiling, slightly worn at extremities) [Tabor A4a.1], 8vo, Heinemann, [1963]Footnotes:A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES, OF THE FIRST EDITION OF SYLVIA PLATH'S ONLY NOVEL. According to the publishers, only 'a token quantity' of the book was printed (Tabor, Sylvia Plath. An Analytical Bibliography, 1987).Provenance: Ted Hughes, ownership inscription; by descent to Olwyn Hughes, Ted's sister; Frieda Hughes, Ted's daughter.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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[PLATH (SYLVIA)]The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES on the front free endpaper, some light spotting, mostly to fore-edge, publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered on spine, pictorial dust-jacket (light soiling, slightly creased and frayed at corners and extremities of spine) [Tabor A4a.1], 8vo, Heinemann, [1963]Footnotes:A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES, OF THE FIRST EDITION OF SYLVIA PLATH'S ONLY NOVEL. According to the publishers, only 'a token quantity' of the book was printed (Tabor, Sylvia Plath. An Analytical Bibliography, 1987).Provenance: Ted Hughes, ownership inscription; by descent to Olwyn Hughes, Ted's sister; Frieda Hughes, Ted's daughter.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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[PLATH (SYLVIA)]The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED WITH A POEM BY FRIEDA HUGHES relating to this copy of the book on front free endpaper, small piece neatly cut away from upper margin of front free endpaper with ink note by Frieda on the half-title [see footnote], pencil annotation ('Mrs. Prouthy') by Ted Hughes in the upper margin of p.5, publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered on spine, pictorial dust-jacket (upper fore-corner of upper cover and half of inner flap with blurb torn away, the inside cover illustrated by Frieda) [Tabor A4a.1], 8vo, Heinemann, [1963]Footnotes:THE FIRST EDITION OF THE ONLY NOVEL BY SYLVIA PLATH, WITH AN EVOCATIVE POETIC INSCRIPTION BY HER DAUGHTER FRIEDA.It is annotated with a note and poem by the author's daughter Frieda Hughes, which suggests that this copy at one time had the autograph ownership inscription of Sylvia. On the half-title she has written 'Somewhere there is a square of paper with my mother's signature on it that fits exactly here. FH.', and on the front free endpaper she has written out a copy of her poem 'The Signature'. It begins 'One for you, one for me/The books are being/Divided between us...', with the second stanza reading 'Each book is opened, and there/She has written her name. A mother/For you, a mother for me/And suddenly, a small square/Cut from the page corner where/Her ink had dried'. The poem was published in Hughes' The Stonepicker (Bloodaxe, 2001). Ted Hughes has written 'Mrs Prouthy' at the head of one page, presumably a reference to Olive Prouty, the woman who sponsored Plath at Smith College, and is thought to have been the person on whom the character of Philomena Guinea is based in The Bell Jar.Provenance: ?Sylvia Plath, and Ted Hughes, one pencil note in his hand; Frieda Hughes, their daughter.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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PLATH (SYLVIA)Ariel, FIRST EDITION, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket designed by Berthold Wolpe, VERY FINE COPY [Tabor A5a], Faber and Faber, 1965; idem, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, introduction by Robert Lowell, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket (light toning to spine, very small snick to fore-edge of upper cover) [Tabor A5b], New York, Harper & Row, [1966]; and 3 others, including fine copies of the first editions of Winter Trees and Crossing the Water (5)Footnotes:'In these poems, written in the last months of her life and often rushed out at a rate of two or three a day, Sylvia Plath becomes herself, becomes something imaginary, newly, wildly and subtly created...' (Robert Lowell, introduction to the American 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
PLATH (SYLVIA)Uncollected Poems, 9 copies, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, THESE COPIES SPECIALLY INSCRIBED AND LETTERED BY TED HUGHES ('Ted Hughes, Feb. 1966. D [or other letter] of 13 copies) inside upper cover, facsimile of the manuscript of 'Half-Moon' (i.e. 'Thalidomide') printed on pink paper, publisher's stiff wrappers, dust-jacket printed with a drawing of 'Wuthering Heights' by Plath on the upper cover, a couple with a few light spots [cf. Tabor A6], 8vo, Turret Books, 1965 [but 1966]--HUGHES (TED) Animal Poems, 4 copies, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, 2 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 'Ted Hughes, 25th Sept. 1971' on the front free endpaper, ink smudge on one page of one of the signed copies, contents loose in original printed salmon-pink textured wrappers [Sagar/Tabor A13], small 4to, [Crediton, Richard Gilbertson, 1967]; and a copy of Plath's The Magic Mirror, Embers Handpress, 1989, THIS COPY SIGNED BY TED HUGHES (14)Footnotes:Nine copies from thirteen special 'lettered' copies (from 'D' to ''L') signed by Ted Hughes of Plath's Uncollected Poem. There is no mention of these copies in Stephen Tabor's Plath bibliography. According to the blurb these twelve poems in the collection 'represent an intermediate stage in Sylvia Plath's development as a poet... [a] connecting link between the poems to be found in the The Colossus... and those in her posthumous volume, Ariel'. Hughes's Animal Poems were published in a an edition of 100 copies, but the Sagar/Tabor bibliography suggests that some of the proposed edition were never printed.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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PLATH (SYLVIA)The Bell Jar, ink notes inside lower cover [Tabor A4.a3], Faber, [1966]; idem, first American edition, numerous passages marked in margin, a few underlined, notes on lower endpapers [Tabor A4b], Harper & Row, [1971]; The Colossus, several pages cut out (but present), with corrections to the text, lower cover stained and scuffed, Faber, [1972]; Ariel, first American edition, annotated with numerals on index leaf, dust-jacket very soiled [Tabor A5b], [1966]; Crossing the Water, first American edition, annotated with numerals on index leaf, dust-jacket soiled [Tabor A11b], [1971], New York, Harper & Row--BUNDTZEN (LYNDA K.) Plath's Incarnations. Woman and the Creative Process, several passages marked in pencil or green pen in margins, with a few comments in the margins ('strange affirmation, savage & desperate...'. 'Did she!', 'No', etc.), Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1983, ALL ANNOTATED BY OLWYN HUGHES, unless otherwise mentioned publisher's cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo; and approximately 70 others by, or about or relating to Plath, a few annotations by Olwyn Hughes in three, including the biographies by Anne Stevenson and Linda Wagner-Martin (c.76)Footnotes:A collection of works by, or references about Sylvia Plath, several of which have been annotated by her sister-in-law Olwyn Hughes. The two women only met only six occasions, with the last of these resulting in an argument, for which 'it was in no small measure as self-justification and atonement that she [Olwyn] spent the next 50 years reading Plath, talking about her, loathing the feminists who made a martyr of her, and correcting what she perceived as biographical misreadings of her brother's ill-starred first marriage' (Jonathan Bate, Guardian obituary, 5 January 2016).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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[PLATH (SYLVIA)]A Winter Ship, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 60 COPIES, title within an ornamental border, stitched in original stiff card with marbled wrappers, title printed in black on label pasted on upper cover [Tabor A1], Edinburgh, Tragara Press, 1960; Three Women. A Monologue for Three Voices, second (first published) edition, NUMBER 167 OF 180 COPIES, frontispiece by Stanislaw Gliwa, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt [Tabor A3b.1], 1968; Ariel, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket (very small tear at lower margin of upper cover, but otherwise very good) [Tabor A5a], [1965]; Uncollected Poems, [LIMITED TO 150 COPIES], THIS COPY 'M OF 13 COPIES' SIGNED BY TED HUGHES inside upper cover, a few light spots to covers [Tabor A6, not mentioning this 'lettered' limited variant], Turret Books, 1965 [but 1966]; Wreath for a Bridal, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, this number 13 [Tabor A7], Frensham, Sceptre Press, 1970; Crystal Gazer and Other Poems, NUMBER 105 OF 400 COPIES, publisher's quarter cloth, slipcase [Tabor 9], Rainbow Press, 1971; Fiesta Melons, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, this numbered '8/30', publisher's cloth, dust-jacket [Tabor A10], Exeter, Rougemont Press, 1971; Crossing the Water, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket [Tabor A11], Faber, 1971; Lyonnesse. Poems, ONE OF 90 COPIES BOUND IN FULL CALF, from an overall edition of 300, this copy number 35, publisher's calf gilt, slipcase [Tabor A13], Rainbow Press, 1971; Million Dollar Month, NUMBER 49 OF 150 COPIES, [Tabor A14], Frensham, Sceptre Press, [1971]; Winter Trees, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket [Tabor A15], Faber, 1971; Child, LIMITED TO 325 COPIES, this copy not numbered [Tabor A16], Exeter, Rougemont Press, [1971]; Pursuit, NUMBER 22 OF 100 COPIES, WITH ORIGINAL ETCHING SIGNED BY LEONARD BASKIN, 4 full-page illustrations by Baskin, full morocco by Zaehnsdorf, t.e.g., slipcase [Tabor A17], Rainbow Press, 1973; Two Poems, NUMBER 68 OF 75 'ESPECIAL' COPIES, from an overall edition of 300 [Tabor A22], Knotting, Martin Booth at Sceptre Press, 1980; Two Uncollected Poems, NUMBER 4 OF 450 COPIES, [Tabor A23], Anvil Press, 1980; A Day in June. An Uncollected Short Story, NUMBER 162 OF 160 COPIES, [Tabor A24], Ely, Embers Handpress, 1981; A Dialogue Over a Ouija Board, NUMBER 127 OF 140 COPIES, illustration by Leonard Baskin, publisher's limp vellum, slipcase [Tabor A25], Rainbow Press, 1981; The Green Rock, NUMBER 11 OF 160 COPIES [Tabor A28], Ely, Embers Handpress, 1982; The Magic Mirror, NUMBER 127 OF 226 COPIES, a few light spots, publisher's cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, Rhiwagor, Embers Handpress, 1989, unless otherwise stated publisher's stiff wrappers (with additional dust-jacket where required), FIRST EDITIONS, FINE COPIES, 8vo and 4to; and 3 others relating to Plath (22)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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[PLATH (SYLVIA)]A Winter Ship, FIRST EDITION, 22 COPIES OF THE APPROXIMATELY 60 PRINTED, title within an ornamental border, stitched in original stiff card with marbled wrappers, title printed in black on label pasted on upper cover [Tabor A1], 8vo, Edinburgh, Tragara Press, 1960 (22)Footnotes:A COLLECTION OF TWENTY-TWO COPIES OF THE FIRST EDITION OF SYLVIA PLATH'S FIRST SEPARATELY PRINTED POEM.Alan Anderson, the owner of the Tragara Press, has stated that approximately 60 copies were printed. Plath was extremely pleased with the result, writing to Anderson on 23 July 1960 'The pamphlets are absolutely beautiful. Ted and I are delighted with them, and especially with the handsome way you make up your covered booklets' (The Letters, Vol.II, edited by Steinberg and Kukil, 2018). The poem was printed at the expense of Anderson, with the entire print run sent to Hughes and Plath who, writing to her mother (14 December 1960) mentioned she had been sending Christmas cards 'and in many enclosed my poem about a 'Winter Ship''.The lot consists of approximately one third of all the copies printed, which have been retained by Sylvia Plath's family since publication.Provenance: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes; by descent to Olwyn Hughes; Frieda Hughes.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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