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Click here to subscribeComplete Farmer (The): or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry, engraved frontispiece and 27 plates, scattered faint spotting, tiny marginal wormhole (beginning-K1), O1 with marginal loss just touching text, T1 with short marginal tear, 4Q1-2 with loss to top corners affecting text, neatly restored, modern calf, slight bumping to corners, 1766; and another 'Rural Life', folio & large 8vo (2).
Sitte (Willi, illustrator).- Ovidius Naso (Publius) Ars Amatoria, one of 600 copies, signed by the illustrator, 13 whole page colour lithograph illustrations by Willi Sitte, original vellum-backed pictorial paper covered boards, housed loosely in wraparound card portfolio, torn at joints chipped spine foot, folio, Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, [1970].
Cuvier (Georges).- Comte (J. Achille) Regne Animal... Disposé en Tableaux Methodiques, 1 vol., lacking title, 23 engraved plates, double page mounted on tabs, a few with small marginal tears, not affecting figures), some spotting and damp-staining, nineteenth century half calf, worn, [Nissen 938], folio, [J.] Halinbourg Foreign Bookseller, [c.1832]⁂ Plates present are those which, of the 90 in total, were printed in London, the vast majority being produced in Paris; they all bear the imprint of J. Hanilbourg at 32 Southampton Street, Strand. The categories represented are; 1 introduction, 7 mammal, 7 birds, 3 reptile, 5 fish. It is likely that as it was possible to purchase all the plates individually, these were bought in London and later bound together into this collection; under imprint price listed as 'Each plate Separate 2 S[hillings]'.
Golden Cockerel Press.- Flinders (Matthew) Narrative of his Voyage in the Schooner Francis 1798..., number 375 of 750 copies, printed in green and black on pale grey paper, map, wood-engravings by John Buckland Wright, 1946 § Rutter (Owen, editor) First Fleet (The). The Record of the Foundation of Australia..., number 55 of 375 copies, wood-engravings by Peter Barker-Mill, 1937, the second with slight tape-marks to corners of free endpapers, original pictorial cloth, gilt, the second with inset panel, uncut, small folio, Golden Cockerel Press (2)
Caskey (L.D.) & J.D.Beazley. Attic Vase Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 3 vol., vol.1 rebound in modern cloth, vol.2 & 3 original printed wrappers, slightly frayed at edges, London & Boston, 1931-63 § Harrison (J.E.) & D.S.MacColl. Greek Vase Paintings, colour frontispiece, modern cloth preserving original pictorial cloth on upper cover and spine, rubbed, 1894 § Murray (A.S.) & A.H.Smith. White Athenian Vases in the British Museum, photogravure plates, tissue guards, final 2 plates with marginal water-staining, original cloth-backed boards, label to upper cover, stained, 1896 § Watzinger (Carl) Griechische Vasen in Tübingen, original cloth-backed boards, Tübingen, 1924, plates and illustrations, all rubbed; and 4 others on ancient Greek vases including a sadly depleted vol.1 only of Hancarville's Hamilton collection with engraved pictorial dedication and 35 line-engravings of vase outlines only (text water-stained, contemporary tree calf, worn, upper cover detached, 1766), folio (10)
Daly (César) L'Architecture Privée au XIX Siecle sous Napoleon III, 3 vol., additional pictorial titles, 232 lithograph plates, vol. 1 and 2 without list of illustrations, spotting and some light foxing, contemporary morocco backed boards, spines with very faint sunning, edges and corners scuffed, folio, Paris, 1864.
NO RESERVE Palladio (Andrea) The Four Books of Architecture, 4 engraved architectural titles, 11 engraved illustrations/diagrams in text and 191 plates only (of 205, lacking plates XLIII in Book 2, III-XV in Book 3 and XLVIII in Book 4, some obviously torn out leaving stubs), plates XV & XVI in Book 1, III in Books 2 & 3 and XXXIII, XXXIV & XXXV in Book 4 all with child's faded ink drawings and scribbles to verso (all loose), title soiled, a few stains, engraved bookplate of Aytoun of Incdarnie, contemporary calf, very worn, Published by Isaac Ware, [c.1755] § Temple (Sir William) The Works, 2 vol., engraved portrait, browned, modern half calf, spines faded, for T.Woodward [& others], 1750; and 7 others, odd volumes and/or defective copies of Purchas His Pilgrimes, Raleigh's History of the World, Rapin de Thoyras's History of England, Harrison's History of London, folio; sold not subject to return (10)
[Pistrucci (Filippo)] [Iconologia], lacking title and preliminaries, 24 hand-coloured plates, text-block broken at plate 7 and 12, spotting and browning, including to plate margins, contemporary half-calf, lacking spine, covers detached, worn, 8vo, [1824].⁂ A bright copy of Pistrucci's reprint in English of his highly successful and influential 2 vol. folio edition of the Iconolgia, in Italian and French with over 200 etchings with hand-colouring. Pistrucci sought to adapt Cesare Ripa's 16th-century Iconologia for the modern artist, notably incorporating the use of standardized color. His designs are known to have inspired several works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who owned a copy of the work and with whose family Pistrucci was a good friend.
NO RESERVE Sitwell (Maj.-Gen. H.D.W.) The Crown Jewels and other regalia in the Tower of London, one of 99 copies signed by author, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, captioned tissue-guards, original half-morocco, gilt, slipcase, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, folio, 1953.
NO RESERVE Australasia.- Inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia.- A bound volume of Australian and New Zealand newspapers and magazines, many recording the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia and the Royal Visit of the future George V to open the first Parliament, illustrations, numerous advertisements, a few tears, mostly to edges, some repairs, some original wrappers printed on coloured paper, others pictorial, the first with final leaf and lower wrapper defective, upper detached, together in contemporary half roan, rubbed, upper cover detached, spine defective, folio, v.p., 1900-01; sold as a collection of periodicals, not subject to return⁂ Comprising: The Australian Town and Country Journal, Sydney, January 12 1901; The Weekly Press, Christchurch, January 16 1901, Royal Visit Souvenir Number, July 3 1901 & Christmas Number, 1900; The Auckland Weekly News, Auckland, June 28 1901; The Otago Witness, Dunedin July 3 1901; The New Zealand Mall, Wellington, July 4 1901; Souvenir of the Inauguration of the Australian Commonwealth, Sydney, 1901; New Zealand Graphic Xmas Number, Auckland, 1900.
NO RESERVE Bede, the Venerable. Opera, vol.1&2 only in 1 (of 8), general title within ornate metalcut architectural border, numerous woodcut maps, illustrations and diagrams in text, woodcut music, vol.1 cc1 repaired tears at foot, without loss, water-stained, causing some damp-spotting in places, occasional mostly marginal small areas of worming, near contemporary vellum-backed reverse-calf boards, remnants of clasps, worming to boards, rubbed, [VD16 B 1418], folio, Basel, Johann Herwagen, 1563⁂ Includes geography, natural history, music, mathematics and astronomy.
Boxhorn (Marcus Zuerius) Monumenta Illustrium Virorum et Elogia, engraved architectural title and 125 full-page illustrations / plates (2 of which on smaller sheets), engraved historiated and decorative initials, lacking explanation f. before index, pp.104-176 printed recto only (lacking pagination and explicatory text verso for the engraving opposite), F1 small section of lower blank corner torn away, G3 water-stain to outer margin, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine in compartments, spine ends and corners restored, rubbed, [Berlin Kat. 3674], small folio, Amsterdam, Joannes Janssonius, 1638. sold not subject to return. ⁂ Handsomely produced compendium of epitaphs of notable individuals, including Virgil, Erasmus, Dante, Petrarch. and Alciati.
Josephus (Flavius).- D'Andilly (Arnauld, translator) Histoire des Juifs, 2 parts in 1, nouvelle edition, engraved additional architectural title (a little browned at margins), engraved vignette illustrations, 2 double page engraved maps (of which 1 folding), engraved double page plate (trimmed at lower edge with slight loss of captions), original calf, rebacked, with portion of original backstrip laid down, corners lightly rubbed, Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1700; and a C17th 8 vol. chronology of French history, folio and 12mo (9)
NO RESERVE Stanley (Thomas) Historische Beschrijving der Grieksche en Oostersche Wijsgeeren, half-title, additional engraved title, 8 engraved plates, full-page illustrations, scattered spotting, lacking final free endpaper, contemporary vellum, rubbed, backstrip splitting at upper joint but holding firm, bumping to corners and extremities, folio, Leyden, Pieter van der Aa, 1702.
Louis XIV (King of France, 1638-1715) Warrant letter signed "Louis" for the Duc de Pomponne to be admitted to the Bastille to question the Abbé de Lacy in prison, D.s. "Louis", manuscript in French, 1p., folds, slightly browned, folio, 7th July 1667.⁂ De Lacy was imprisoned in 1667 as abbot of the Jansenist abbey of Port-Royal in Paris.Simon Arnauld de Pomponne, Marquis of Pomponne (1618-99), French diplomat and minister.
Accounts.- Alexander (Thomas) Journals A.B. & C. - Waste Book A - Ledger B, 3 vol., manuscript account books, c. 180pp., ruled in red, browned, small quantity of printed banking and share brokers documents loosely inserted, original wrappers, soiled and marked, lettered direct on upper covers, folio, 1829.⁂ Includes: "Adventure to Lisbon"; "Adventure to Leghorn"; "Adventure to Hamburgh".
NO RESERVE Wilson (Arthur) The History of Great Britain, being The Life and Reign of King James the First ..., engraved portrait frontispiece, previous owner's ink signature to title, scattered faint spotting, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining original backstrip, a little rubbed, [Wing W2888], folio, for Richard Lownds, 1653.
Guillim (John) A Display of Heraldry...to which is added a Treatise of Honour Military and Civil, 3 parts in 1, general title in red and black, 58 engraved plates only (of 75), many with engravings on both sides, numerous armorial woodcuts to text, bookplate of John Smyth of Heath, occasional light spotting and browning, the odd small marginal tear, a few small holes to text, each affecting a couple of letters, contemporary calf, rebacked with corners repaired, gilt spine in compartments with red morocco label, covers rubbed and worn, [Wing G2222], folio, S. Roycroft for R. Blome, 1679; and c.70 others, bindings and antiquarian, v.s. (c.70)
Robert Mylne's copy.- Whitlocke (Sir Bulstrode) Memorials of the English affairs: or, An historical account of what passed from the beginning of the reign of King Charles the First, to King Charles the Second his happy restauration, first edition, double column, woodcut decorative initials, some staining, spotting and finger-marking, lightly browned, contemporary calf, spine in compartments and with later dark green leather label, upper cover detached, lower cover detaching, spine and corners worn, crackled, [Wing W1986], folio, Printed for Nathaniel Ponder, 1682.⁂ Provenance: 'Ex Libris Roberti Mylne scriba a Geo: Mossman Empt Athena Oxoniensis Vol : 2. Ro. Mylne' (inscription to title). Robert Mylne (1643-1747) Scottish satirical writer and antiquary, best known for his bitter squibs against the whigs. He also devoted much time to copying manuscripts of antiquarian and historical interest. George Crawfurd in the preface to his History of the Shire of Renfrew, acknowledges his indebtedness to the 'vast collections of public records' belonging to Mylne, adding he was known to be 'a person well known to be indefatigable in the study of Scots antiquities.'
Annotated Law.- Coke (Sir Edward) The first part of the institutes of the laws of England, parallel French and English text, folding woodcut plate, final f. blank, contemporary ink marginalia throughout, lacking portrait, A6 of preface provided in facsimile, title torn at upper corner and repaired, with loss of text, plate with central figure marked with a few pen lines and with a tear, without loss, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, modern brown morocco-backed marbled boards [Wing C4928], folio, Printed by William Rawlins, Samuel Roycroft, and H Sawbridge, 1684. sold not subject to return.
NO RESERVE Guillim (John) A Display of Heraldry, title in red and black, 57 engraved plates only (of 67), 7 detached and loosely inserted, remnants of large folding plate loosely inserted, woodcut illustrations, head- and tail-pieces, lacking *c2, B4, ⁴L2 and (f)2 (all blanks), ³H2-3 and ³I2-4 detached and loosely inserted, scattered spotting, occasional marginal soiling, occasional short marginal tears, occasional marginal ink and pencil notes, lacking endpapers, cracked hinges, contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, areas of loss, folio, for R. and J. N Bonwick and R. Wilkin ..., 1724.
BOX OF STAMPS IN TWO ALBUMS AND LOOSE, we note a few presentation packs, but the main value is in folio of loose leaves with mint stamps that have adhered to pages inc falkland Islands 1938, 1952 and 1960 sets, 1948 RSW set, FID 1954 set, South georgia 1963 set to £1 Whale, BAT 1963 set to £1 map etc
A 19th century Grand Tour scrap album, enclosing photographic cuttings depicting sculpture, paintings and works of art, compiled during a tour of Italy, Germany and The Netherlands, including the Museo di Napoli, some pages annotated in ink MS, Dresden Gallery, Sienna, Haarlem, et al, half-bound morocco tooled and gilt, gilt edges, folio
One of 150 Artists Proofs Renison (W.) Six Original Dry-Points, folio, L. (C. Welch) 1922, a set of 6 Signed artist Proofs entitled: * Loch Fyne Side . Dunglas Castle on the Clyde * Ploughing / A Canal in France . A Little bit of Suffolk * A West Highland Loch, each signed, housed in brown cloth folder. (1)
With Illustration by Le Brocquy Kinsella (Thomas)trans. The Tain - from the Irish Tain Bo Cuailnge, folio, D. (Dolmen Editions) 1969, Limited Edition, with brush drawing by Louis le Brocquy, black cloth silver decoration, illus. d.j., matching slipcase, (some fading) otherwise good copy. (1)
HANKINSON (REV. FREDERICK), PRISON & PRISONERSCollection of material relating to the Reverend Frederick Hankinson (1875-1960), Unitarian minister, suffragist and prison visitor, comprising:i) Autograph album with ownership inscription 'In happy remembrance of Prison visitations to some suffragette Prisoners who gave this album to me – Frederick Hankinson, 1912', containing signatures from nearly thirty suffragette prisoners held in H.M. Prison Holloway, the entries also detailing the place and length of incarceration, including Edmée Manning, Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, Frederick Pethick Lawrence (Brixton Gaol), Alice J. Stewart Ker ('I was in prison and thou visitedst me'), Mary Hilliard, Nelly Crocker, Alice Davies, Maud Nicholls ('Two months hard labour'), Kathleen Nicholson ('March on, march on!/ Face to the dawn/ The dawn of liberty!'), and others, red calf, worn, 4to (130 x 163mm.), 1908 to 1913; together with a typed carbon copy and Hankinson's autograph list of all suffragette prisoners visited by him between 1907 and 1913 ii) Ten visit request forms addressed to Rev. Hankinson, from the Governor of Holloway Prison, and one from the Governor of Maidstone ('...The above named Suffragist prisoner has expressed a desire to see you in your ministerial capacity...'), 1906-1913; other correspondence from the authorities regarding the release of prisoners including Elsie Howey who was refused visits due to misbehaviour, with article from The Suffragette on the matter, 17 January 1913; carbon copy of a report on prisoner Marie Neill ('...has refused to take her food in the ordinary way... but she takes it from a feeding cup...'), February 1913iii) Autograph letters of thanks from grateful suffragists, including Emmeline and Frederick Pethick Lawrence (two autograph, one typed '...It is simply splendid the way in which the spirit of women is breaking down the coercive policy of the Government...'); Maude Fitzherbert awaiting trial in Edinburgh ('...I will not fear what men can do unto me...'); Edmée Manning ('...your never-to-be-forgotten kindness... I hoped to have the pleasure of introducing you to my fellow criminals who are all very anxious to meet you...'); and Marie Neill ('...Those brutes seemed less brutal or their treatment tormented me less... never mind Mr H is coming today...'); with Hankinson's autograph notes on suffrage, beginning by listing women who were suffragists 'without knowing it' ('Mrs Gaskell/ Florence Nightingale/Harriet Martineau'), with other notes on how he became involved in the movement, 3 pages on lined paper, 4to, [dated in pencil 11/1935], c.30 pages, folio and smaller, 1912-1913iv) Group of papers with regards to accusations of misconduct, alleging Hankinson conducted a conversation with prisoners Violet Bland and Charlotte Marsh in whispers '...so it was impossible to hear whether any information was given to the prisoner or not...', his dismissal and the appointment of Rev. Henry Gow in his place, including official letters from the Prison Commission, Hankinson's notes and draft replies, c.50 pages, folio (326 x 216mm.) and smaller, 1912-1914 v) Printed matter including; handbill Abstract of the Regulations relating to the Treatment and Conduct of Convicted Prisoners; handbill To stop the torture of Forcible Feeding and to Repeal the 'Cat and Mouse Act'; and booklet Roll of Honour/ Suffragette Prisoners 1905-1914, presentation copy inscribed 'To Hankinson from Lady Pethick-Lawrence' in green ink on upper coverFootnotes:'I WAS IN PRISON AND THOU VISITEDST ME': THE PAPERS OF REV. FREDERICK HANKINSON.Reverend Hankinson came from a family dedicated to Unitarianism and belief in the equality of men and women, so was naturally drawn to the suffrage movement. He was a friend of Frederick Pethick Lawrence and his wife and joined the Men's League for Women's Suffrage in 1907, becoming a prison visitor in his capacity as a Unitarian minister in 1908. He visited suffragettes incarcerated in Holloway, Brixton and Aylesbury, reading them letters from home and bringing comfort from the outside world, as our letters of appreciation attest. Amongst those he visited were Edmée Manning, Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, Muriel Matters and Katherine Gatty but, although she requested to see him (at the request of Emmeline Pankhurst), a visit to the first hunger striker Marion Wallace-Dunlop was not to be (see a group of her letters in this collection below). In a letter now held in the Fawcett Library, Dr Alice Ker wrote to her daughter: '...[he] sees Unitarians... Theosophists and all the queer sects. As he is our spiritual advisor, the wardress sits outside the glass door during his visit. He is the brickiest of brick of anybody yet – gives any amount of time and trouble to us...' (Crawford, E., The Women's Suffrage Movement, A Reference Guide 1866-1928, 1999, p.268).A portion of these papers are concerned with his dispute with the Prison Commission, who removed him from his duties after accusations that he had broken prison regulations by whispering to two prisoners, Violet Bland and Charlotte Marsh. He strenuously denied he was passing on political information but, nonetheless, a Mr Gow was appointed in his place, and Hankinson never returned. As a memento of his visits he retained a list of all prisoners visited by him between 1907 and 1913 and the present autograph album. Hankinson joined the United Suffragists in 1914 and during the First World War worked in Hungary for the Society of Friends. In the 1920's he returned to Hungary as a delegate of the American Unitarian Women's League and was an active committee member until his death in 1960.These papers were bequeathed to Reginald Couzens, the grandfather of the present owners whom he had met through the Unitarian church.Provenance: The Rev. Frederick Hankinson (1875-1960); Reginald Andrew Couzens (b.1904); thence by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACT 1882Manuscript petition presented by Harriet and George Grote 'To the Right Honorable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled, The Humble Petition of the undersigned Inhabitants of the Western Postal District of London. Sheweth that the law concerning the property of married women is unjust in principle', signed ('H: Grote' and Geo: Grote') at foot, one page, written in brown ink on vellum, small stain at head, slight dust-staining at edges, tall folio (380 x 202mm.) [c.1860-1870]Footnotes:EARLY PETITION FOR GENDER EQUALITY, presented by Harriet and George Grote in support of what would become the Married Women's Property Act of 1882. The first attempt at legislation, the similarly-named 1870 Act, allowed for married women to keep their wages and investments independent of their husbands, inherit small sums, and to hold property. But it was seen by many as a feeble compromise and the Married Women's Property Committee campaigned for further reform, eventually leading to the 1882 Act whereby women were allowed to own, buy and sell property, keep any income from the property or an occupation, and keep any inheritance. At the same time they would be liable for their own debts.Harriet Grote, host to the Philosophical Radicals and writer, was married to the co-signatory, the politician George Grote. Her wide social circle included John Stuart Mill, Helen Taylor, Barbara Bodichon, Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Mendelssohn and Jenny Lind. She was one of the signatories of the 1866 Petition (see previous lot), and spoke at the first public meeting of the Millicent Fawcett's London National Society for Women's Suffrage in 1869.The date of the present petition is unclear. It demands 'that property, personal or otherwise, belonging to the woman at marriage, or which she might subsequently acquire... should be under her control...' and that 'the earnings of a married woman obtained by separate occupation or trade should legally belong to her...', and, as George was to die in June 1871, may predate the 1870 Act. Whilst Harriet remained active until her death in 1878, she did not live to see the reforms fully enacted.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
NEWSPAPERSVotes for Women. Edited by Frederick & Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, 19 loose issues comprising: vol. I, no. 16; vol. II nos. 34, 51, 55, 58, 60, 66, 69; vol. IV nos. 144, 148 (2); vol. V nos. 209, 226; vol. VI nos. 264, 265, 267, 269, 272, 276, foxing and soiling, some frayed or chipped at edges, some tears and other defects, small folio and folio,, [Women's Social & Political Union], 1908-1913; together with incomplete runs of the scarce NUWSS newspapers Women's Franchise (37 odd issues, 1907-1909) and The Common Cause (7 odd issues, 1910-1912); sold as periodicals not subject to return (63)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
THE SUFFRAGETTEThe Suffragette. Edited by Christabel Pankhurst. The Official Organ of the Women's Social and Political Union, 98 issues comprising: nos. 1-95 (vol. 1-3 complete), plus duplicates of nos. 2, 28 and 46, most with large illustration on p.1, some illustrations in the text, foxing and browning, a few issues split at spine, some frayed at edges (3 or 4 with some loss), folio and small folio, 18 October 1912-7 August 1914, sold as a periodical not subject to return (98)Footnotes:Complete run of the first three volumes of Christabel Pankhurst's The Suffragette, covering the period October 1912 to August 1914.The Suffragette came into being in 1912 following the split between the Pethick Lawrences and Christabel Pankhurst, who assumed editorship of the new weekly journal of the WSPU. The following year she fled to France to avoid arrest, and although Annie Kenney filled her shoes in London, the newspaper's circulation of about 17,000 copies at its peak never matched that of its predecessor Votes for Women. This was partly due to the war, but also to governmental suppression of the newspaper and the arrests of some of the publishers and printers.The issue for 2 May 1913 features the single word 'Raided!!' in the otherwise blank cover space. The Police had raided the WSPU headquarters and tried to prevent printing from going ahead. Grace Roe, before escaping to Paris, arranged for this issue to appear the next day. Although there are a number of runs of The Suffragette in libraries and institutions, auction records list only a group of 7 issues sold in these rooms in 2008, and a significant run sold at Sotheby's in 1975.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
TRIAL OF 1909The Trial of the Suffragette Leaders, 48pp., portrait of Emmeline Pankhurst, stapled in publisher's printed wrappers, front cover with photographic illustration depicting 'Inspector Jarvis reading the Warrant', some soiling, chip to edge of lower cover and foot of spine, 8vo, The Woman's Press, [1909]; together with a sheet of draft notes by the magistrate, Curtis Bennett, possibly for the summing up in the trial, with deletions and amendments, 2 pages, on embossed 'Police Court Bow Street' paper, creased, folio (332 x 206mm.), [October 1908]Footnotes:Extremely scarce pamphlet containing a full account of the 1908 trial of Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, and Flora Drummond, which took place on October 14-24. It includes statements from those involved (beginning with a long speech by Christabel Pankhurst), the evidence of the witnesses, Christabel's cross-examination of David Lloyd George, and the final summing up and sentencing by the Magistrate, Curtis Bennett. His notes sold with the lot indicate he was in no doubt that the handbill published by the WSPU had served to incite large crowds 'to assemble in public to commit a 'wrongful and illegal act' by 'rushing' the House of Commons, thus causing breach of the peace.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
VOTES FOR WOMENVotes for Women. Edited by Frederick & Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, vol. IV. October 1910, to September 1911 [nos. 135-186], 5 page index at front, numerous illustrations throughout, slight browning as usual, original purple half sheep, rebacked preserving most of original backstrip, decorative white buckram-covered boards lettered in gilt, upper cover with the WSPU 'angel of freedom' logo designed by Sylvia Pankhurst in purple and green, rather rubbed and soiled, folio, [Printed by St Clements Press, Ltd, for the Women's Social & Political Union], 1910-1911Footnotes:Complete fourth volume of the Pethick Lawrence's official organ of the WSPU, covering the the period October 1910 to September 1911, and including the events of 'Black Friday'. Copies in this original volume form are rare, only a handful, either singly or in runs, appearing in auction records.In October 1910 the suffragists and militant suffragettes appeared to be on the verge of a breakthrough. Parliament was considering the Conciliation Bill, which would have given some privileged women the vote, and there had been a suspension of militant action. But when Asquith called an election in November, the bill was dropped, leading to the events of the notorious 'Black Friday' demonstration in London on 18 November. 300 women marched to the Houses of Parliament to protest, and when a WSPU deputation was sent away by Asquith, events took a violent turn, women being viciously assaulted, sometimes sexually, by the police and hostile male bystanders. The article in Votes for Women on November 25, titled 'The End of the Truce', contains eye-witness accounts from Evelyn Sharp and Sylvia Pankhurst, and also reports that charges against the women 114 women arrested were dropped in an 'electioneering dodge of Mr. Churchill', the Home Secretary.The events of 'Black Friday' influenced suffragettes in different directions in the new year. Some were unwilling to risk being assaulted and used guerilla-style tactics, whilst others were emboldened and became more militant, the WSUP officially adopting window-smashing as a campaign weapon in November that year.Provenance: The Suffragette Club, inscription on front free endpaper. The Club was founded by Edith How Martyn in 1926, and their archives now form now the Suffrage Fellowship Collection held by the Museum of London.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
VOTES FOR WOMENVotes for Women. Edited by Frederick & Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, vol. I. October 1907 to September 1908 [nos. 1-29], 4-page index at front, additional illustrated title, illustrations throughout, with the 2 inserted supplementary portraits of Emmeline Pankhurst and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, slightly browned as usual, first 2 leaves brittle with some short tears at edges, library withdrawal stamp on verso of title, modern orange cloth [Printing and the Mind of Man 398], folio , The Reformer's Press, 1907-1908Footnotes:Complete first volume of the 'organ of the 'militants'' (PMM), the official publication of the Women's Social and Political Union, co-edited by Frederick and Emmeline Pethnick Lawrence. Dedicated members of the WSPU, they even turned their home into a hospital for women returning from prison and recovering from hunger strikes, and both went to prison for their involvement, Emmeline on six occasions. One of these led to ideological differences between themselves and the Pankhursts, who subsequently ordered their expulsion from the organisation in 1912.The volume contains announcements for WSPU meetings and suffragist events, as well as planned protests and demonstrations, including the Hyde Park Protest on 21 June 1908 involving 300,000 activists. Also included are articles written by WSPU founder Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters, Christabel and Sylvia.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
COOK (ELIZA)Autograph poem signed ('Eliza Cook'), titled 'Master Onny/ Affectionally inscribed to my dear nieces, Jenny and Annie', comprising fourteen verses of four lines, beginning 'Few years ago, my darling girls, I touched my simple strings,/ And poured a song to land a pet with feathers, beak and wings...', with deletions and amendments, 2 pages on a bifolium, dust-staining and marks, remains of paper on reverse where removed from album, creased, 4to (258 x 206mm.), [dated 1870]; autograph poem signed 'Eliza Cook' titled 'Times Changes', two verses of twelve lines, beginning 'Time's changes, oh Time's changes...', included in a letter also signed 'Eliza Cook' to Frank ?Cuilpet, noting 'I have just dove-tailed the verses which I think will go best together...', integral address panel, three pages on a bifolium, dust-staining and marks with some losses, remains of seal, 4to (255 x 206mm.), [postmark 1842]; autograph copy of her poem 'Buttercups and Daisies', initialled 'EC', with accompanying copy letter to the Editor of the Literary Gazette ('...I am induced to offer the enclosed specimens of rhyming to you...'), admitting she is '...a young uneducated and inexperienced scribbler...' and hoping he will consider publishing her work, 2 pages, watermark 'Gansell/1831', dust-staining and marks, creased, edges frayed, remains of guards, folio (400 x 205mm. and smaller), [n.p., n.d.]; with four autograph letters signed 'Eliza Cook', to various recipients on literary matters, 11 pages, creased, remains of guards, 4to and 8vo, East Cheap, Kennington, Tunbridge, Wimbledon, April [18]54, August [18]67, December [18]73 and [n.d.] (8)Footnotes:'HERE GOES – AS BYRON SAYS': WRITINGS FROM THE ORIGINATOR OF THE PHRASE 'LEVELLING UP'.The poetical work of Eliza Cook (1812-1889) was strongly influenced by her working class background. Her father was a tinman and brazier and, as one of eleven children, she grew up acutely aware of the marginalisation of the lower classes. She naturally gravitated towards the Chartist movement, of which she was an active sympathiser, and is believed to have coined the phrase 'levelling up' in her weekly miscellany Eliza Cook's Journal: '...The number of self-risen men, sprung up from the ranks, is increasing and must increase... And the mass too is advancing with education and knowledge, and they too must gradually become leveled up' she wrote (quoted in Chakrabarty, D., The Chartist Poetry of Eliza Cook: A Study, 30 March 2015, theconfidentialclerk.com website). She was a prolific contributor to the weeklies and periodicals of the day including the Literary Gazette and her simplicity of form and subject matter was enormously popular with the public both in Britain and America, leading to comparisons to Robert Burns, whom she greatly admired. Her poem The Old Armchair of 1838 made her a household name. As well as encouraging education for all, she was a proponent of political and sexual freedom for women: '...The sentiments expressed in Cook's poetry and prose reflect her efforts to break free from the societal limitations imposed on her class and gender... Cook dressed in unconventionally masculine attire and wore her hair short... She never married, and from 1845 to 1849 she was closely linked with the American actress Charlotte Cushman (1816–1876), to whom she wrote passionate poetic tributes...' (Solveig C. Robinson, ODNB). Our poem 'Master Onny', written for her nieces about the arrival of a cat called Master Johnny, appears to be unpublished. 'Time's Changes', also included here, was widely published in a longer form, in her Journal (16 April 1853, no.207, p.393) and in Poems by Eliza Cook, London, 1861.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
LEIBOVITZ (ANNIE)Annie Leibovitz, 'SUMO' Collector's Edition, LIMITED TO 10,000 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER, out-of-series copy with 'sample not for sale' stamped on title-page, full-page illustrations throughout (8 folding), publisher's cloth (slight leaning), dust-jacket with David Byrne design (some slight creasing in places, one or two slight spots), large folio (690 x 500mm.); together with original tripod stand designed by Marc Newson and supplementary catalogue, New York, Taschen, 2014Footnotes:Monumental volume with 240 portraits spanning the photographer's 40-year career. The edition was offered with 4 alternative dust-jackets featuring Keith Haring, David Byrne (this copy), Patti Smith and Whoopi Goldberg.The supplementary volume contains essays by Leibovitz, Graydon Carter, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Paul Roth, with reduced size images and descriptions of the subjects in English, French and German.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
GREENAWAY - PRINTING BLOCKSA key block and 5 colour blocks for 'Marigold Garden', engraved by Edmund Evans for the illustration of three children on a bridge on p.54, key block with metal type attached, the pink block split down centre and lacking a small blank section of corner, key block 170 x 135mm., the others smaller, contained in large morocco-backed solander box together with mounted copies of title page and p.54, spine soiled, oblong folio, [c.1885]Footnotes:Evans used a woodblock printing technique known as chromoxylography, which was used primarily for inexpensive children's books requiring few colours. However, chromoxylography allowed a variety of hues and tones to be produced by mixing colours and Evans would at times us as many as a dozen blocks for one image. Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton holds a set of blocks for the half-title of Marigold Garden (see Ian Dooley, Costen Library blog post, 'Printing Kate Greenaway', 20 September 2019).Provenance: Sotheby's Chancery Lane, 10 October 1979, lot 709 ('Property of a Gentleman'), sold to Sotheran.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DUVAL (EMILY) & THE WSPUCollection of letters, printed ephemera and drawings relating to the Duval family and their involvement with the WSPU, comprising:i) Typed carbon copy of Mrs Emily Duval's statement following her six-month incarceration in H.M. Prison Winson Green, Birmingham, for taking part in militant action on behalf of the WSPU on 1 March 1912, describing in unsparing detail the harrowing ordeal of three sessions of force-feeding over two days in June ('...I was taken downstairs... into what is called 'The Nursery' which looked to me like a slaughter house... Then they held my head back and forced this Nasal tube, which was most agonising... I did not know how to breathe... What I went through all that night I cannot tell... pains in my head, pains in my ears, and my nose was pouring all night through and I was vomiting all night through... I simply felt mad to think that anybody could be so cruel... 'Now take my advice and take the cup' [the Doctor said] 'I tell you I won't; you shall carry me out a corpse first'... With that the gag was put in my mouth. The same performance gone through... I could see that tears were in the eyes of many of the wardresses...'), 7 leaves, 3 on lined paper, dust-staining, creases and marks, folio (335 x 210mm.), Birmingham, 30 June 1912ii) Correspondence from Emmeline Pethick Lawrence and Lady Constance Lytton to Emily Duval, including: Autograph letter signed ('Emmeline Pethick Lawrence') to Emily Duval ('My dear Mrs Duval'), paying tribute to her work for the cause ('...I see you now clearly in that Hospital Ward at Holloway... all those troubles are forgotten now and we rejoice together at what they won for others... I think of Lady Constance & Emily Davidson... I have been having letters lately from Christabel in Canada. She is very well & happy & so is Mrs Pankhurst. They have four adopted children... I had the great pleasure of being at Mrs Despard's birthday party... The longer I live, the more thankful I am that I was allowed to be one of that great fighting comradeship that changed the status of women...'), 9 pages, creased, some marks, 8vo (180 x 118mm.), Gomshall, Surrey, 15 October 1924; Autograph letter signed 'Constance Lytton' to Mrs Duval ('Dear Mrs Duval') sending a photograph of herself and asking for one in return '...as a remembrance of our time together in Holloway Remand Hospital... I wish people who scoff at our imprisonments could know more of what you have had to suffer in Holloway...', 4 pages, 8vo (178 x 116mm.), Homewood, Knebworth, 2 August [19]09; with an autograph letter signed 'L Garrett Anderson' to Lady Lockyer, introducing Lady Constance Lytton, 3 pages, 8vo (178 x 166mm.), Harley Street, 25 May 1910; and a portrait postcard of Lytton and related newspaper cuttingsiii) Printed ephemera including two membership cards for the WSPU (one with membership pledge detached); membership card for the Young Purple, White & Green Club (for Girls and boys from 8 to 21 years of age); two tickets for meetings at the Queen's Hall, with Mrs Pethick Lawrence and the Pankhursts as speakers; subscription form for Women's Franchise, 1907; Anti-Liberal handbill, Hastings, March 1908; supplement to Votes for Women, 1 October 1909; printed election pamphlets for Victor Duval, 1924 ('All Women Should Vote Duval'), etc.iv) Portrait of one of the Duval sisters, possibly Elsie, half-length, seated, wearing a green dress with pink trim, watercolour on board, unsigned, 247 x 185mm.Footnotes:'THEN THEY HELD MY HEAD BACK AND FORCED THIS NASAL TUBE, WHICH WAS MOST AGONISING': A harrowing first-hand account of the practice of force feeding from a celebrated activist and letters of recognition from the leaders of the WSPU.Emily Duval (1861-1924) joined the WSPU in 1906 but in 1907 left to join the Women's Freedom League and took part in their campaign of protesting in police courts when women were in the dock. She was imprisoned several times, notably in February 1909 when she served six weeks in Holloway. It is there she met Constance Lytton, who makes mention of her in Prison and Prisoners and later, as seen here, wrote to her reminiscing about their time together: '...I wish people who scoff at our imprisonments could know more of what you have had to suffer in Holloway...' she writes. In 1911 Emily rejoined the WSPU, preferring their more militant stance, and threw herself into their campaign of window smashing and was arrested and imprisoned several times. On 26 March 1912 she began a six month's sentence at Winson Green Prison in Birmingham. At the end of four months in prison she joined in the hunger strike and was forcibly fed. Her harrowing account of this ordeal is included here and she received an illuminated scroll in recognition (see lot....). Amongst her papers is a letter dated 1924 from Emmeline Pethick Lawrence who gives news of Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and writes in gratitude '...I think of Lady Constance & Emily Davidson & of you & many others... whose lives have helped to make our present work possible...'.Her husband Ernest and children Victor, Elsie, Norah, Laura, Winifred and Barbara were all involved in the cause, some also going to prison, their names included in the Roll of Honour. Also included in the lot is a photograph of three of the Duval sisters reading a copy of Votes for Women and a newspaper cutting from the Daily Sketch of 1912 reporting on the wedding of Una Dugdale and Victor Duval in which the caption speculates controversially on whether the bride agreed to 'obey' her husband. Tragically, three of the Duval daughters – Winifred, Elsie and Barbara - did not live long enough to see the vote (see Crawford, E., The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928, 1999, for detailed information on the Duval family). Provenance: Sotheby's, 15 December 1987, lot 244 (part).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - J. YUNGE BATEMANOVID. The Metamorphoses... With Drawings by J. Yunge Bateman, NUMBER 65 OF 75 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, with an additional suite of 14 plates (3 not printed in the book), from an overall edition of 200 copies, frontispiece, title vignette and 10 illustrations by Bateman, tan morocco by Mansell, sides with gilt design on red morocco oval onlays, gilt lettering and small cockerel motifs on spine, t.e.g., additional suite of plates in red cloth folder matching the slipcase, folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1958Footnotes:One of the 75 specially bound copies, with the additional suite of plates, including three erotic plates of female subjects not used in the book.Provenance: Thomas Yoseloff (1913-2007), who purchased the Golden Cockerel Press in 1959; by family descent to vendor.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
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESSSWINBURNE (ALGERNON CHARLES) Lucretia Borgia: The Chronicle of Tebaldeo Tebaldei... Engravings by Reynolds Stone, NUMBER 8 OF 30 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, with the additional collotype facsimile leaves of Swinburne manuscript, wood-engraved illustrations, original pigskin by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt design on upper cover, gilt lettered spine, t.e.g., slipcase, folio, 1942; Hymn to Proserpine, number 340 of 350 copies, illustrated by John Buckland-Wright, publisher's cloth, 8vo, 1944--LUCAS (F.L., editor & translator) The Golden Cockerel Greek Anthology, number 34 of 74 copies on handmade paper with 20 illustrations by Lettice Sandford, original half pigskin by Zaehnsdorf, t.e.g., slipcase, folio, 1937, Golden Cockerel Press (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
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - JOHN BUCKLAND WRIGHTHARTNOLL (PHYLLIS) The Grecian Enchanted... With Eight Aquatints by John Buckland-Wright, NUMBER 4 OF 60 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, with a duplicate set of the plates, from an overall edition limited to 360 copies, signed by the author and artist, title printed in pink and green with vignette and decorative border, 7 collotype plates after aquatints by John Buckland-Wright, 9 additional aquatint plates loose in pocket at end (title and 8 plates, including the extra unused plate referred to on the colophon), original grey and salmon morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, upper cover with fighting cock design by Buckland-Wright blocked in gilt, spine gilt lettered and with cockerel motifs, t.e.g., slight abrasions to 2 raised bans, blue cloth slipcase (slightly rubbed) [Reid A65], small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1952Footnotes:Provenance: Thomas Yoseloff (1913-2007), who purchased the Golden Cockerel Press in 1959; by family descent to vendor.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
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - JOHN BUCKLAND WRIGHTSHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) The Poems & Sonnets... Edited by Gwyn Jones, NUMBER 26 OF 100 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, from an edition limited to 470, title in maroon and black with wood-engraved vignette of cockerel by John Buckland Wright in yellow, initials by Eric Gill in maroon, decorations by Buckland Wright, original brown crushed morocco by Hiscox (gilt stamped on front turn-in), gilt cockerel device on front cover and at foot of gilt-lettered spine, with 3 raised bands, t.e.g., slipcase, folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1960Footnotes:Provenance: Thomas Yoseloff (1913-2007), who purchased the Golden Cockerel Press in 1959; by family descent to vendor.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
ISRAEL - PALESTINEA collection of seventeen scarce pamphlets, comprising:Dated 25th February 1926. Palestine. The Crown Agents for the Colonies and Euripides Mavrommatis. Agreement as to Electricity Concession at Jerusalem, 22pp., Burchells, 5 The Sanctuary, Westminster, [1926]Proceedings of the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society. Being an Abridgement of the Hebrew Qovetz Ha-Chevrah Ha-Ivrith L'Chaquirath Eretz Yisrael wa'Attiqotheha (Jerusalem 1925. Vol. 1, 2-4), illustrations in the text, one folding table, Jerusalem, Jewish Palestine Exploration Society, [1926]SIDEBOTHAM (HERBERT) British Policy and the Palestine Mandate: Our Proud Privilege, Ernest Benn, [c.1929]SAMUEL (HORACE B.) Beneath the Whitewash [A Critical Analysis of the Report of the Commission on the Palestine Disturbances of August, 1929], small loss to lower cover touching imprint details, Hogarth Press, 1930[WAILING WALL] Report of the Commission Appointed by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom..., with the Approval of the League of Nations, to Determine the Rights and Claims of Moslems and Jews in Connection with the Western or Wailing Wall at Jerusalem. December 1930, 3 plates (one folding with tear, repaired), H.M.S.O., 1931[PALESTINE AND TRANS-JORDAN] Report by His Majesty's Government... Palestine and Trans-Jordan for the Year 1936, one folding table, H.M.S.O., 1937Palestine 1937. British Public Opinion [titled on upper cover]... Leading Articles from the British Press... Reprinted for the Information and Guidance of Delegates Attending the Zionist Congress, Zurich, 1937], 16pp., [Printed by St. Clements Press Ltd., 1937]BEN-GURION (DAVID) The Peel Report and the Jewish State [Palestine Labour Studies (P.L.S.) No. 10, rebacked with cloth spine, P.L.S.G., 1938BEN-GURION (DAVID) Jewish Immigration into Palestine (Mr. Ormsby-Gore's Despatch of the 10th March, 1938), Jewish Agency for Palestine, March 1938BEN-GURION (DAVID) Mr. Ormsby-Gore's Dispatch Analysed. Palestine Labour Studies (P.L.S.) No. 8, stapled, clear tape repair to title, P.L.S.G., 1938MIDDLETON (J.S., introduction) British Labour Policy on Palestine. A Collection of Documents, Speeches and Articles 1917-1938, Jewish Socialist Labour Party, 1938Jewish Jerusalem Past and Present. Two Memoranda, Jerusalem, Head Offices of the Jewish National Fund and the Palestine Foundation Fund, 1939BEN-GURION (DAVID) La signification politique de la declaration Bevin, Jerusalem, Rubin Mass, 1946The Jewish Agency Before the United Nations, May 1947. Statements by Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, Moshe Shertok, David Ben-Gurion, later stiff card wrappers, [New York, American Zionist Emergency Council, 1947]BEN-GURION (DAVID) Report on the Special Palestine Session of the United Nations, later stiff card wrappers, Jerusalem, [no publisher], May 1947BEN-GURION (DAVID) A Jewish State Now... Supplement to the Jewish Agency's Digest of Press and Events, No. 192-193, later stiff card wrappers, Jerusalem, [no publisher], October 1947Memorandum Submitted to the Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry [General Federation of Jewish Labour in Eretz Israel (Palestine)], typescript, one folding table (short tears with loss of a few letters), later stiff card wrappers preserving original wrappers (frayed with part loss of a few words), Tel-Aviv, 1946together 17 works, some spotting, most with old library withdrawal stamps on upper cover, titles and blank margin of final leaf, many with paper library pocket slip inside upper cover, unless otherwise stated publisher's wrappers, some fraying and toning, first and last mentioned small folio, others 8vo (17)Footnotes:Provenance: Givat Haviva Library, all with withdrawal 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
MELLY (GEORGE), JAZZ AND EROTIC DRAWINGSTypescripts for the running order of two episodes of radio programmes 'Jazz Club... Late Jazz.. Introduced by George Melly', EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED AND DECORATED WITH EROTIC DRAWINGS, together 15 leaves, printed recto and verso, extensive notes added by Melly, in blue or black biro, with the text of his contributions to the programme, amendments to running order, etc., and 18 LARGE CARICATURE DRAWINGS, all but 2 of pseudo-Surrealist erotic (or 'dirty') subject matter, one a portrait of Tommy Whittle and his saxophone, stapled at upper left corner, a few leaves loose, a few small marginal tears, folio (320 x 200mm.), Feb-May 1963 (2)Footnotes:'Jazz Club' radio scripts enlivened with erotically charged sketches by George Melly (1926-2007), a stalwart of the British jazz scene from the 1950s onwards, but equally a champion of Surrealism, bi-sexuality, libertarianism, and 'good times'. Melly introduced the pioneering late night live jazz programme on the BBC, with these two scripts introducing Bob Wallis and his Storyville Jazzmen, and The Tommy Whittle Quartet. Presumably inspired by his interest in Surrealist spontaneity Melly's rapid sketches - taking in a cast of sailors, prisoners, royalty, etc. - are prompted by the titles of the jazz tunes in the programme; 'Everybody Loves Saturday Night' (group sex), 'Duke's in Bed' (involving a figure in a crown), 'We'll be together again' (under the table activity during a prison visit), 'Combined Effort' (group sex), 'So Do It' (a sailor and an eager man), 'Someday Somehow' (a nude Vanessa Redgrave and excitable Bernard Levin), etc.Provenance: George Melly; family descent.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEDocument signed ('Bonaparte'), being an order authorizing the payment of 240 francs to be sent by courier; engraved Republique Française heading and text, with manuscript insertions, one page, dust-staining and spotting, edges frayed, folio (320 x 205mm.), Camp d'acre, 'le 16 floreál an 7' [5 May 1799]Footnotes:An order signed towards the end of Napoleon's unsuccessful siege of the Ottoman city of Acre (March to May 1799). The siege was viewed as the turning point of French fortunes in Egypt and Syria and was the third tactical defeat of his career. After a final abortive assault on the city on 10 May, he withdrew to Egypt eleven days later. The hill on which Napoleon set his camp, south-east of the city walls, is still known as Napoleon's Hill.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
PALMER (SAMUEL) AND OTHERSEtchings for the Art-Union of London by the Etching Club, FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, 29 etched plates (of 30) by Samuel Palmer (2, lacking his 'Skylark'), John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt (2), Richard Redgrave (2), Thomas Creswick (3), and others, all on india-proof paper mounted as issued, plates loose (gutta-percha perished), publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine, g.e., folio (375 x 265mm.), 1857Footnotes:Original etchings include; Samuel Palmer ('The Sleeping Shepherd - Early Morning'; 'The Rising Moon'), J.E. Millais ('The Young Mother'), and William Holman Hunt ('The Abundance of Egypt', 'The Desolation of Egypt').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 II - OPERATION NEPTUNE - D-DAY LANDINGSTop Secret... Operation Neptune - Force 'S' Orders, 9 parts (of 11), each part numbered 'Copy 397', 8 maps (5 folding), one large folding map ('Area Sword. Showing Area Juno') printed on greased paper, diagrams and illustrations in the text, MANUSCRIPT AMENDMENTS THROUGHOUT in blue ink, each section in parts wrappers (printed on upper cover) with split pins fasteners, together as issued in cloth-backed portfolio, original printed 'Top Secret' printed label on upper cover (short tear to blank area), printed 'Certificate of Insertion of Amendments' (with manuscript entry dated 5 June 1944 signed by a sub-lieutenant of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve), ties (one shortened), small folio (345 x 215mm.), 21 May 1944Footnotes:'TOP SECRET' - D-DAY LANDING OPERATION NEPTUNE FORCE 'S' ORDERS ISSUED ON 21 MAY, WITH MANUSCRIPT AMENDMENTS ADDED ON 5 JUNE 1944, THE DAY BEFORE THE NORMANDY LANDINGS.Sections comprise: 'State of Contents. Distribution List', 'Minesweeping and Danlaying' [sic], 'The Passage', 'The Assault', 'Orders for Close Support', 'Conduct of Ships and Craft After the Assault', 'The Build-Up', 'Swept Channels and Routing', 'National Data'. This set does not include the sections on 'Loading and Assembly' and 'Bombardment Orders'.Provenance: Lt. Ian Nagle Douglas Cox, DSC, RN. (1915-1990). At the time of the D-Day Landings Cox was Commanding Officer of the HMS Middleton. The destroyer was nominated for service in Force S of Eastern Task Force. On the night of June 5-6, 1944, HMS Middleton escorted the convoys across the English Channel to Sword Beach and participated, on D-Day, in support of the landing troops. The position of landing for HMS Middleton is identified on one of the maps in the 'Passage' section. Following the Normandy landings, it patrolled in the Bay of Seine in search of possible German submarines and speed boats; by family descent to current vendor.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
DANTE ALIGHIERI[Divina Commedia], commentary by Christoforo Landino and Alessandro Vellutello, edited by Francesco Sansovino, title with large woodcut portrait of Dante within elaborate framework, text in italic with commentary surround in roman type, 95 woodcut illustrations (one full-page), printer's device at end, modern vellum, title and following 2 leaves on early paper stub, title with short tear resulting in loss of one letter imprint (the second 'e' of 'Venetia'), and with seventeenth century inscriptions, some dampstaining (quite heavy to approximately 40 leaves), old morocco spine label [Adams D103; Mortimer Harvard Italian 148], folio (300 x 210mm.), Venice, Domenico Nicolino, for Giovanni Battista and Melchiore Sessa and brothers, 1564Footnotes:The first Sansovino edition of Dante's 'Divine Comedy', and the first to include the commentaries of Landino and Vellutello together. The portrait of Dante is new to this edition. The woodcuts were cut for Francesco Marcolini's 1544 edition, and were used again by the Sessa brothers for their 1578 and 1596 editions of Dante.Provenance: L. Palladio, ownership inscription dated 1661 on title (recto and verso); his son, Alexandro, ownership inscription dated 1695 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
BRADFORD (WILLIAM)Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain [-Sketches of Military Costume in Portugal and Spain], 2 parts in 1 vol., 54 hand-coloured aquatint plates of views and costumes, lacking the engraved plate of Monument at Corunna, some off-setting (mostly from plate to text) and spotting (heaviest on title), later half morocco, g.e., rubbed [Abbey Travel 135; Tooley 109], folio (370 x 260mm.), Printed for John Booth, by Howlett and Brimmer [plates watermarked 1824]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
COLLINS (GREENVILLE)[Cartes et plans de côtes d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse et d'Irlande, copiées sur celles du Pilote côtier de la Grande-Bretagn de Greenville-Collins], letterpress title with list of contents, 19 engraved charts (of which 18 double-page), contemporary French red morocco gilt, sides decorated with roll-tooled floral borders and drawer-handle tools, the arms of Neuville in the centre, spine tooled in 8 compartments within raised bands, g.e., folio (479 x 362mm.), Paris, N. Bellin, 1757Footnotes:BOUND IN A FINE FRENCH ROCOCO BINDING, WITH A DISTINGUISHED PROVENANCE. This French edition of Collins' highly regarded coastal charts was published by the hydrographer to the French king, Jacques Nicolas Bellin, presumably with the intention of assisting with France's planned invasion of Great Britain during the Seven Years War.Provenance: Neuville family, of Normandy, with arms on the sides. Possibly those of Philippe de Neuville (d.1781), Minster of the Marine, or Jean Nicolas Buache de Neuville (1741-1825), who in 1782 replaced d'Anville as Premier Géographe du Roi, and then in 1794 was appointed by Napoleon as Chef du Dépôt de la Marine; Anatole Delorme, inscription; Pierre Berès, book label 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
COLLINS (GREENVILLE)Great Britain's Coasting Pilot... Being a New and Exact Survey of the Sea-Coast of England and Scotland, from the River of Thames to the Westward and Northward, engraved additional pictorial title, letterpress title printed in red and black, 49 engraved map charts (4 folding on 2 sheets joined, 41 double-page, one folding, 3 single sheet), one engraved chart in the text, the double-page maps backed with laid paper (?at the time), a few with a couple of small wormholes near centre-fold, all mounted on stubs, panelled calf antique, red gilt morocco spine label [cf. Shirley, British Library M.COLL-1a-1d], folio (520 x 318mm.), Thomas Page, William and Fisher Mount, 1723Footnotes:Greenville Collins' Coasting Pilot was both the first systematic survey of British coastal waters, and the first marine atlas of 'British' waters printed in London from original surveys. The first edition was published in 1693, after which followed a thirty year interval before this 1723 edition published by Mount and Page, who were to print a further 20 editions over the following seventy years. The Scilly Isles chart is the issue with a descriptive letterpress text by Abraham Tovey.Provenance: Wm. Courtenay, May 10th 1750, inscription cut out and pasted inside upper cover; Powderham Castle bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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