We found 86082 price guide item(s) matching your search

PETRARCA (FRANCESO)Librorum...impressorum annotatio, 2 parts in 1 vol. (including 'Bucolicum Carmen'), A1r within a woodcut border, woodcut device at end of part 1, capital spaces blank, old ink numeral in upper corner of each page, and annotations concerning the contents on the opening title-page, later boards covered in a vellum manuscript leaf from a large ?sixteenth century Choral in red and black ink with musical staves and large initial in blue, red and black, 3 bookmarks cut from a similar sheet loosely inserted [Adams P774; cf. ISTC ip00370000], folio (308 x 205mm.), [Venice, Simon Bevilaqua, 15 July 1503]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

BLAKE (WILLIAM)The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, one of 526 copies, [n.d.]; Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion, limited to 558 copies, this one of 26 reserved for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust, [n.d.]; Europe a Prophecy, one of 526 copies, [n.d.]; The Song of Los, one of 458 copies, [n.d.]; The Visions of the Daughters of Albion, one of 446 copies, [n.d.]; The Book of Ahania, one of 808 copies, [n.d.]; All Religions Are One, one of 662 copies, [n.d.]; America, a Prophecy, one of 526 copies, this one of 26 copies reserved for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust, [n.d.]--KEYNES (GEOFFREY) A Study of the Illuminated Books of William Blake, one of 525 copies, signed by the author, 1964; The Complete Portraiture of William & Catherine Blake, one of 562 copies, this one of 26 copies reserved for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust, 1977, colour plates, publisher's morocco-backed marbled boards, slipcases, 4to and small folio, Trianon Press; and 9 others, all by or about Blake published by the Trianon Press (19)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

GREGYNOG PRESSWALTERS (GWYN) Pennant and his Welsh landscapes: Selected readings from A Tour in Wales (1778-1784), NUMBER IV OF XX SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES WITH AN ADDITIONAL SUITE OF PRINTS, from an overall edition of 170 copies, colour woodcut plates by Rigby Graham, some double-page, original dark turquoise goatskin by James Brockman (to a design by Rigby Graham), each cover inlaid with individual design in vellum stained in several colours and edged in gilt, spine titled in gilt, g.e., pictorial endpapers by Graham, the additional suite of woodcuts each numbered and signed in pencil, loose as issued in original cloth portfolio, with double-page prints rolled in tube, together in original goatskin-backed pictorial orange cloth solander box, spine with inlaid red goatskin label titled in gilt, folio, Newton, Gwasg Gregynog, 2006This 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

GREGYNOG PRESSAESOP. The Fables. Translated Out of the Frensshe into Englysshe by William Caxton, number 215 of 250 copies, wood-engraved title and numerous illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker, original natural sheep by the Gregynog Press Bindery, spine slightly darkened, card slipcase, folio, Newtown, Gregynog Press, 1931This 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 PRESSLASCARIS (EVADNE, Pseud.) The Golden Bed of Kydno. Translated from the Modern Greek, one of 200 copies, 12 line-engraved illustrations by Lettice Sandford, 1935--SWIRE (HERBERT) The Voyage of the Challenger, 2 vol., one of 300 copies, slipcase, 1938--LACOMBE (JEAN DE) A Compendium of the East Being an Account of Voyages to the Grand Indies, one of 300 copies, light spotting to endpapers, 1937--PHILBY (H.STJ.B.) A Pilgrim in Arabia, one of 350 copies, original quarter niger, t.e.g., slipcase, 1943--BREBEUF (JEAN DE) The Travels and Sufferings... Among the Hurons of Canada, one of 300 copies, 2 woodcut illustrations by Eric Gill, 1938--QUENNELL (NANCY, editor) A Lovers Progress. Seventeenth Century Lyrics, one of 215 copies, title printed in black and gold, 1938, 4to and small folio, Golden Cockerel Press; and 2 other limited editions by the Golden Cockerel Press (9)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BIBLE, in LatinManuscript on vellum, 308 (of 310) leaves, plus one paper flyleaf, text in 2 columns, each of 60 lines, numerous decorative initials, modern pencil foliation (followed here), early eighteenth-century panelled vellum gilt, title in later manuscript to spine, recent endpapers, folio (301 x 202mm.), [England or Northern France, mid-thirteenth century]Footnotes:An impressive large format thirteenth-century Bible, substantially complete, with an early English provenance (probably London) and extensive medieval annotation. The folio size and the multiple annotations suggests that this was a study bible associated with a religious house rather than a book for personal reading and devotion, while the ownership inscription of Thomas Graunt (d. 1474) may place it successively at St. Paul's (London) and (possibly) Syon Abbey in the fifteenth century.Text: The Old and New Testaments in the Latin Vulgate version, with the Psalms and the Prologues of Saint Jerome. Following the first of these prologues the book of Genesis begins on f. 2v; the Psalms on 231 and the Gospels on 249. It is textually almost complete, except for the loss of two leaves towards the end: one after the current f. 275 with part of John 20 from chapter 17 (immediately after 'noli me tangere') to chapter 21 and most of Acts chapter I; and another after f. 277 with Acts chapter 8. 32 to chapter 12.Decoration: 71 decorative initials of four to six lines, in red, blue and green with additional penwork, often with 'puzzle' ornament, many with extended bar borders; numerous two-line initials with penwork decoration; initials, running title and chapter numbering in red and blue; regular red and blue capitals. The first two leaves of the text bear additional (perhaps slightly later) ascending 'standard' ornaments in brown ink in the lower margins.Glosses and annotation: A few leaves have early glosses in small, neat hand, but these have in some case been cropped with some loss of words and sense. Elsewhere is a range of different Latin annotations in ink and leadpoint in numerous medieval hands, some of which are recognisably English, probably ranging in date from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Some are neat and formal, others hasty and untidy. Some are now faint, especially those in leadpoint, but most are decipherable. There is also a range of textual markers in the form of neumes and extended brackets, some of which may be very early. The final two leaves bear more extensive notes in fourteenth or fifteenth century hands, including a diagrammatic list of contents and other biblical explanations. There are attractive thumbnail drawings of ships to two borders and various other doodles. Overall, the annotations give the impression of a book well-used over a long period of time in specialist theological environments.Condition: The book has been cropped, perhaps more than once, for rebinding. The upper margins have suffered most, with some running headlines cropped or, in some cases lost. The outer and lower margins bearing most of the annotation have survived better, though here again the earlier annotations are partially affected and a few decorative bar borders are truncated at their foot. There are signs of some further annotations to the inner margins, though these are occasionally obscured and perhaps cropped closest to the gutter. There are numerous parchment repairs, usually marginal, probably dating from the modern era or perhaps the time of binding in the early eighteenth century, and only occasionally affect the text itself. In approximately 40 cases there has been significant repair to corners or entire margins by replacing or adding strips of parchment.Provenance: Whether the book's origins were in France or England, it was in England by the fifteenth century. The thirteenth-century colophon includes the text: 'Hec est bibliotheca thome [...]' with a surname scraped away and the name 'Graunt' added in a fifteenth-century hand. This is almost certainly Thomas Graunt (?1425-1474), theologian, fellow of Oriel College, Oxford and later treasurer of St. Paul's, London. It is possible that this bible was therefore among the books he bequeathed to Syon Abbey on his death, though it has remained unrecognised as such. The later paper flyleaf, contemporary with the binding, bears an elaborate inscription recording the later gift of the book by John Grove to the grammar school at Southton (Southampton) in 1708, and the school's engraved bookplate is on the reverse. Grove was a prominent merchant and burgess of the city and was its mayor in 1726. The binding is probably contemporary with Grove's ownership or donation.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

ASHENDENE PRESSTHUCYDIDES. The History of the Peloponnesian War, limited to 260 copies, translated by Benjamin Jowett, printed in red and black, original pigskin by W.H. Smith (signed in gilt on lower dentelle), gilt lettered spine, fleece-lined cloth chemise lettered in gilt, morocco-lipped slipcase [Hornby 37], folio, Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1930This 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

RAVILIOUS (ERIC)The Wood Engravings of Eric Ravilious, number 'II/1' of an unspecified edition, Lion and Unicorn Press, 1972--ULLMANN (ANNE, editor) Ravilious at War, limited to 750 copies, 2002; Eric Ravilious: Landscape, Letters, & Design, 2 vol., limited to 650 copies, 2008, Fleece Press--GREENWOOD (JEREMY) Ravilious. Engraving, limited to 800 copies, addenda loosely inserted, The Wood Lea Press, 2008, publisher's cloth, slipcases, folio and large 4to (5)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - JOHN BUCKLAND WRIGHTFLINDERS (MATTHEW) Narrative of his Voyage in the Schooner Francis: 1798..., NUMBER 100 OF 100 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, from an edition overall edition of 750 copies, printed in green and black, wood-engraved illustrations by John Buckland Wright, map, original pictorial green morocco, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., cloth slip-case (a little soiled) [Cockalorum 170], small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1946This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CHURCHILL (WINSTON)Shall We Commit Suicide?, 2 copies, first separate edition, second issue, 12pp., title within double rule border and with small device in centre, stapled as issued in integral wrappers, one copy slightly browned, the other slightly dampstained, [Cohen A74.2; Woods A33], 205 x 90mm., Reprinted from Nash's Pall Mall Magazine of September 24, 1924 [1924]; An Address by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill... December 26th 1941, one of 1,000 copies, original red cloth, paperclip stain to front cover [Cohen A163.7; Woods A84(c)], Stamford CT, Overbrook Press, 1942; A Speech... in the House of Commons August 20th, 1940, 19pp., on unwatermarked paper, publisher's light blue wrappers, spotted [cf. Cohen A131.1; Woods A60(a)], Baynard Press, 1940; The Message of President Roosevelt to Congress... January 6, 1942. The Address of... Churchill to the Joint Session of Congress... December 26, 1941, 2 parts in 1 vol., integral wrappers, browned [Cohen A165/1], 4to, New York, Macmillan, [1942]; Ceremonial to be Observed at the Funeral of the Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill... 30th January 1965, small folio; The Order of Service for the Funeral... at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in the City of London, 8vo, stapled in matching original printed wrappers with wide purple blocked border, HMSO, 1965 (7)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GREGYNOG PRESSJOINVILLE (JOHN) The History of St. Louis... Translated from the French Text... by Joan Evans, number 181 of 200 copies on hand-made paper, initials designed by Alfred Fairbank and printed in red and blue, 17 hand-coloured wood-engraved coats-of-arms by Reynolds Stone, 2 maps, genealogical tables, original brown morocco with arms of St. Louis in gilt on upper cover, by the Gregynog Press Bindery, t.e.g., original cardboard slipcase (flap detached) [Harrop 37], folio, Newtown, Gregynog Press, 1937Footnotes:Provenance: Ivor H. Topham, original Gregynog Press receipt for the book (£6.6.0), dated 2 May 1938 loosely inserted, and ink name on slipcase.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

BOECKLER (GEORG ANDREAS)Theatrum machinarum novum, exhibens aquarias, alatas, iumentarias, manuarias, pedibus ac ponderibus versatiles, plures, et diversas molas... Ex Germania in Latium recens translatum opera R.D. Henrici Schmitz, additional engraved title by Sommer retaining imprint of Paul Fürst of Nuremberg, and 154 plates after Boeckler, lacking printed title, the following 2 leaves slightly creased and frayed, some mostly marginal dampstaining and foxing to text, some plates with marginal foxing, nos. 31 and 32 repaired affecting image, contemporary mottled calf, gilt panelled spine, edges worn, upper joint cracked, folio (330 x 208mm.), [Cologne, Paul Principis, 1662]Footnotes:First Latin edition of this finely illustrated work by the German architect and engineer Boeckler, following the Nuremberg printing of the year before. The plates illustrate the construction of gigantic mill wheels and various sytems of hydraulic machinery to be operated not only by water or wind, but by weights, horse power or human energy. Provenance: De Prony and Mme. de Corancez, ink stamps at foot of additional 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

CRANACH PRESSSHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) The Tragedie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, number 54 of 300 copies on Maillol hand-made paper, from an overall edition limited to 322, type designed by Edward Johnston after the Mainz Psalter of 1457, title cut by Eric Gill, printed in red and black, wood-engraved illustrations by Edward Gordon Craig, 'Notes on The Tragedie of Hamlet...' by J. Dover Wilson in original wrappers in pocket at end, ink ownership inscription (December 1958) on front free endpaper, original vellum-backed boards, lettered in gilt on spine, light spotting on sides, spine light age soiling, preserved in cloth solander box [The Artist and the Book 66], folio, Weimar, Printed by Count Harry Kessler at the Cranach Press, 1930This 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

BUCKLAND WRIGHT (JOHN)[SINCLAIR DE ROCHEMONT (H.A.) 'H. ASDER'] Keuze, ONE OF 10 COPIES ON IMPERIAL JAPANESE PAPER, this copy 'W', from an overall edition of 50, one engraved plate by John Buckland Wright signed in pencil, designer binding (by unidentified maker) of Japanese paper over boards gilt tooled with 'stitching', original paper labels retained loose [Reid A34], small folio, The Hague, Privately printed for the author and L.J.C. Boucher, 1939--BURY (ADRIAN) Syon House, number 29 of 175 copies, 10 copper-page engraved plates by John Buckland Wright, publisher's black niger morocco gilt, t.e.g., slipcase, 4to, Dropmore Press, 1955; and 12 others illustrated by Buckland Wright (14)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

SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESSPLUTARCH. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes, 8 vol., NUMBER 23 OF 100 SPECIAL COPIES PRINTED ON HAND-MADE PAPER, signed by the artist, title-vignettes and head-pieces by Thomas Lowinsky, original half black morocco, by Morley of Oxford, spines titled and ruled in gilt, t.e.g., 8vo, 1928--SHERIDAN (RICHARD BRINSLEY) The School for Scandal, one of 475 copies printed on hand-made paper, illustrations by Thomas Lowinsky, publisher's parchmentbacked boards, gilt lettered on spine, some soiling, folio, 1930, Oxford, Shakespeare Head Press (9)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

ASHENDENE PRESSCERVANTES SAAVEDRA (MIGUEL DE) [Don Quixote] The First [-Second] Part of the History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha Translated Out of the Spanishe by Thomas Shelton, 2 vol., one of 225 copies, double column, printed in red and black, ornate initials and borders designed by Louise Powell and cut on wood by W.M. Quick & Geo. H. Ford, a few light spots to the opening leaves of the second part, publisher's cloth-backed boards, printed spine labels, spine slightly soiled, extremities and corners neatly refurbished, housed in purpose-made morocco-backed solander boxes [Hornby 36], folio, Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1927-1928This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - ROBERT GIBBINGSMILTON (JOHN) Paradise Lost. A Poem... the Text of the First Edition Prepared for Press by J. Isaacs, number 155 of 196 copies on paper, from an overall edition limited to 200, wood-engraved title-page printed in red and black by Robert Gibbings, 30 wood-engraved illustrations by Mary Groom, untrimmed in original black half pigskin by Zaehnsdorf with marbled paper sides by Sydney Cockerell, spine gilt, t.e.g., original boards, slipcase (worn), folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1937This 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

JONES (DAVID)The Chester Play of the Deluge, NUMBER XVI OF 80 COPIES 'on Barcham Green hand-made pape... bound in quarter morocco, with a separate set of the wood-engravings on japon', from an overall edition of 337, 10 wood-engraved illustrations, additional suite of engravings loose as issued in cloth chemise, the text in publisher's morocco-backed marbled boards, together in slipcase, printed label on spine, folio, [Printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press], for Clover Hill, 1977This 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

MUSIC – BEATRICE HARRISONArchive of material relating to cellist Beatrice Harrison, comprising: i) Manuscript notebooks: including her reminiscences of Delius beginning '...Delius is able to express through the medium of his music the sight, the sound and even the very scent of Nature perhaps more exquisitely than any other composer... he said our performance has inspired him to write a Double Concerto which he did!... Delius had a wonderful charm...', 7 pages, 230 x 180mm.; album titled 'Manuscripts', including poems and notes on a visit to Sandringham in September 1918 ('...The queen showed us her boudoir & bedroom. A perfect dream, all is lovely... the spirit of King Edward pervades all. Terrible news from Russia. Played with dear Princess in the sunset... Princess M sang. Curious voice!...'), 74 pages, 163 x 200mm., 1908-1919; 'Cello Notes', written in pencil, describing a busy schedule, with notes on performances, venues and pieces played, including her American tour taking in New York, Boston and the White House ('...White House/March 1st/L'Amor de May-/Serenade Delius/Allemande Senaille'), various dates in the UK ('...Bax came down & I played him his concerto he was delighted... July 23/Promenade/Concerto-Elgar/Conductor Wood...'); c.100 pages, 8vo, 1935-1942; notebook containing handwritten copies of reviews of May Harrison's performances in Spain, 1906; and two othersii) Diaries: unbound diary from 1907 including notes for May 29th '...I am making my debut as a 'cellist at the Queen's Hall under the conductorship of Mr Henry J. Wood. I am playing the Saint Saens Concerto... I do hope it will go well...'; with four memorandum diaries belonging to Beatrice and her sister May Harrison, noting appointments, pupils and hours practised ('...went to my boring lesson with little Renaud... he is too killing & looks like an owl in spectacles! Only did 4 hrs cello...'), including May Harrison's European tour of 1908, 8vo, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1916 and 1962iii) Albums, scrapbooks and ephemera: ten albums containing newspaper cuttings and printed programmes, many annotated, illustrating her career from 1901 to the 1930's, folio (410 x 290mm.) and smaller; with other ephemera including photographs, an autograph letter signed 'Percy Grainger', 13 January 1930, concert poster for the Wigmore Hall, and much elseFootnotes:'I AM MAKING MY DEBUT AS 'CELLIST AT THE QUEEN'S HALL': ARCHIVE OF THE CELLIST FAMED FOR HER DUETS WITH NIGHTINGALES.Beatrice Harrison (1892-1965), '...the leading British cellist of her generation...' (Anne Pimlott Baker, ODNB), is perhaps best known for her hugely-popular performances accompanied by nightingales, first broadcast from her Surrey garden on 19 May 1924, one of the BBC's first live outside broadcast recordings and a tradition she continued for the next twelve years.A musical prodigy, at the age of twelve she won a cello exhibition to the Royal College of Music, making her debut at the Queen's Hall with Henry Wood in 1907, as noted in her diary here, and embarked on a busy solo career undertaking tours of Europe, North America and the UK. She became a good friend of Princess Victoria after playing to Edward VII at a dinner party, and visited the Royal family at Sandringham. Her illustrious career embraced many 'firsts'; she was the first to perform several important works on the cello, in particular those of Frederick Delius, who wrote his double concerto of 1915 for her and her sister, the first to make standard recordings of other pieces such as Elgar's cello concerto in 1920, conducted by the composer, the first woman cellist to play at Carnegie Hall and the first British cellist to enjoy an international reputation. She was much admired by, and friends with, composers such as Delius, Elgar and Arnold Bax, who all wrote for her. This archive was used in compiling her autobiography The Cello and the Nightingales edited by P. Cleveland-Peck, 1985.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CRESSET PRESS - BLAIR HUGHES-STANTONLAWRENCE (D.H.) Birds, Beasts and Flowers, ONE OF 3 COPIES WITH AN EXTRA SUITE OF SIGNED PROOF PLATES FROM THE LIMITATION OF 30 COPIES ON BATCHELOR'S HAND-MADE PAPER, this copy number 'B', wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, extra suite of 12 wood-engraved plates (each signed in pencil by the artist) loose as issued in wallet at end (one edge of sheet curled), original pigskin by Wood, gilt lettered on spine, t.e.g., joints rubbed, modern solander box gilt lettered on spine [Roberts A27d], small folio, Cresset Press, 1930Footnotes:ONE OF ONLY THREE SETS with an additional suite of 12 wood-engraved proof plates signed by the artist, Blair Hughes-Stanton.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

LAWRENCE (T.E.) - CLOUDS HILL LIBRARYCELLINI (BENVENUTO) The Life... Translated by John Addington Symonds, 2 vol. bound in 1, decorations by Charles Ricketts, occasional spotting, full purple morocco gilt by C. & C. McLeish (gilt signature inside lower cover), sides with 6-line border with leaf pattern corner-pieces, spine tooled in six compartments within raised bands with a distinctive design of interlocking circles and leaf patterns in corners, t.e.g., others untrimmed, upper joint and spine ends neatly repaired, small folio, Ballantyne Press, sold by Hacon and Ricketts, 1900Footnotes:A BOOK FROM T.E. LAWRENCE'S LIBRARY AT CLOUDS HILL, signed by Lawrence with his initials ('T.E.L.'). A complete listing of the books held in the library on Lawrence's death was made. This list is reprinted in T.E. Lawrence by His Friends (1937), noting set correctly as bound in one volume, initialled by Lawrence, the correct dimensions (11.5 inches) and that the binder was McLeish. Charles McLeish worked for Riviere, then the Doves Bindery before establishing his own business with his son, Charles Jr. in 1909. When Lawrence was deciding on the different binders to use for the first edition of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom it was to McLeish that he sent more copies of the loose sheets than any other single binder. It is perhaps not too far-fetched to think that Lawrence's admiration for the binding on his copy of Cellini's Life influenced this decision.With grateful thanks to Richard Knowles, of Rickaro Books, for his input in cataloguing this item. Richard is in possession of a photograph of the interior of Clouds Hill taken shortly after Lawrence's death, showing our copy of Cellini on the book shelves.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BACON (FRANCIS)Sylva Sylvarum; or, A Naturall Historie, engraved frontispiece portrait, additional engraved allegorical title (dated 1631), with final blank, some light marginal dampstains, several marginal annotations in an early hand in the final section, contemporary calf, rebacked in calf [ESTC S106936; Gibson 174], small folio (275 x 175mm.), John Haviland, for William Lee, 1635Footnotes:Provenance: William Maurice, of Lansil in Lancashire, inscription on title-page noting that it was gifted to him by Jo. Stokton, of Lancashire in 1655, and further ownership inscription on title. Further Seventeenth century Maurice family inscriptions on verso of portrait.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 PRESSMabinogion. A New Translation from the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones, ONE OF 75 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, signed by the translators and artist, from an overall edition limited to 550, title printed in orange and black, wood-engraved frontispiece, pictorial title and full-page maps and illustrations by Dorothea Braby, original decorative tan morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., morocco-lipped cloth slipcase [Cockalorum 176], small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1948This 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

WEISSENBORN (HELLMUTH)Bestiary. A Collection of Animals Cut in Lino During the Summer of 1972, NUMBER 21 OF 30 COPIES, title-page, 30 woodcut prints on various coloured papers, each signed and numbered by the artist in the lower margin, loose as issued in publisher's cloth portfolio, printed label on upper cover, ties, oblong folio (420 x 525mm.), [1972]; Small Beasts. A Collection of Creeping, Crawling, Floating and Flying Creatures..., NUMBER 18 OF 50 COPIES, 26 woodcut prints by Weissenborn, each signed, sheets loose in cloth portfolio, oblong 8vo, [1973], Acorn Press (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

NONESUCH PRESSSHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) The Works... The Text of the First Folio with Quarto variants and a selection of modern readings, 7 vol., limited to 1600 copies, this numbered 1378, publisher's pigskin gilt, t.e.g., original cardboard slipcases, 8vo, Nonesuch Press, 1929-1933This 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 - ERIC GILLCHAUCER (GEOFFREY) The Canterbury Tales, 4 vol., number 377 of 485 copies on paper, wood-engraved decorative borders, illustrations and initials by Eric Gill, initials printed in red, blue and black, original morocco-backed patterned boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., preserved in 2 purpose-made fabric-lined morocco-backed solander boxes [Chanticleer 63], small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1929-1931This 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

CLEMENTS (JEFF)OWEN (WILFRED) Mapping Golgotha, Wilfred Owen: Letters & Poems, Selected, edited, and with an Introduction by Jeremy Hooker, number 92 of 200 copies, wood-engraved and linocut-tinted frontispiece and illustrations by Harry Brockway, chestnut crushed morocco by Jeff Clements, covers with design of intersecting blind-embossed arcs and black and white rules, design echoed in pastedowns, grey Alcantara free endpapers, solander box, small folio, Newtown, Powys, Gwasg Gregynog, 2007This 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 WRIGHTOMAR KHAYYAM. Rubáiyát. translated by Edward Fitzgerald, UNIQUE COPY', WITH A SUITE OF 5 EXTRA ENGRAVED PLATES BY BUCKLAND WRIGHT loose as issued, and 5 ADDITIONAL PROOF ENGRAVED PLATES BY BUCKLAND WRIGHT (of which 4 signed by the artist) bound in, 8 engraved plates, full vellum gilt by Sangorsi & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., housed together with the portfolio of additional plates in a slipcase [cf. Reid A28], small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1938Footnotes:This copy has an additional nine engraved plates, all signed by John Buckland Wright, including the loose suite of plates (with slightly more erotic content than those printed in the book) and 4 proof copies (these not called for in the 'Specials'). The edition of 300 copies of the Golden Cockerel Omar Khayyam included 30 specials signed by the collaborators on the colophon, with the suite of 5 extra plates and a collotype facsimile of Fitzgerald's Monk-Latin Ms., and bound in cream morocco. Our copy does not have the facsimile sheets and is not signed on the colophon, but has an additional 5 plates bound in (4 signed), and a full vellum binding.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

GREGYNOG PRESSXENOPHON. Cyrupædia: The Institution and Life of Cyrus... Eight Bookes Treating of Noble Education, Of Princely Exercizes, Military Discipline... translated... by Philemon Holland, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, this copy number 91, printed in red and black, wood-engraved initials by Lloyd Haberly, hand-coloured in red and green, publisher's dark green morocco gilt, sides with decorative corner-pieces and large centre-piece Persian-style decoration in red and green morocco onlays and gilt tooling, t.e.g., morocco-lipped slipcase, small folio, Newtown, Gregynog Press, 1936This 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

BUCKLAND WRIGHT (JOHN)BUCKLAND WRIGHT (CHRISTOPHER, editor) Surreal Times. The Abstract Engravings and Wartime Letters of John Buckland Wright, ONE OF 44 COPIES signed by Christopher Buckland Wright, with an extra copper engraved print ('Nymphe Surprise No. II') and bound in quarter vellum, from an overall edition of 266 copies, slipcase 2000; Endeavours & Experiments. John Buckland Wright's Essays in Woodcut and Colour Engraving, ONE OF 90 COPIES in quarter vellum with an additional print of 'Cafe Dansant No. 2' loose as issued, from an overall edition of 300 copies, 2004; Sensuous Lines. A Catalogue Raisonne of the Intaglio Prints of John Buckland Wright, ONE OF 4O COPIES (C) bound in quarter vellum, with an additional suite of 4 original engravings, from an overall edition of 400 copies, the plates loose as issued in separate paper folio, prospectus loosely inserted, housed in original solander box, 2014; Baigneuses, one of 240 copies, publisher's quarter vellum, solander box, 1995, Upper Denby, Fleece Press (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

ASHENDENE PRESSSPENSER (EDMUND) The Faerie Queene Disposed into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, limited to 180 copies, Subiaco type, printed in black, red, and blue throughout, light spotting on endpapers, opening and final 2 leaves of text, publisher's calf-backed vellum, joints slightly rubbed [Hornby 32], folio, Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1923This 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

ELIOT (T.S.)Four Quartets; The Waste Land, numbers 243 of 290 and 157 of 300 copies respectively, signed by the author, publisher's vellum-backed marbled boards, t.e.g., others uncut, preserved together in later slipcase [Gallup A43c, A6d], small folio, [Verona, Officina Bodoni for Faber & Faber, 1960-1961] (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WELLS (EDWARD)A New Sett of Maps both of Ancient and Present Geography, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, 39 engraved maps (of 41, lacking 'Modern' World, and Europe), 'Ancient' World map defective, 4 maps with minor loss at old fold, all maps laid down, the title and list of contents laid down on one sheet, modern half morocco [ESTC R12668; cf. Phillips Atlases, 531], folio (415 x 555mm.), Oxford, at the Thetare, 1700Footnotes:AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the contents leaf 'Liber Scholae Southton 1700. Donum Authoris'. Maps include North America, 'English Plantations in America', South America, Great Tartary and China, East Indies, and Turkey in Europe.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

MAILLOL (ARISTIDE)VERGILIUS MARO (PUBLIUS) Les Géorgiques, 2 vol., number 198 of 750 copies, printed on hand-made paper with Maillol watermark, woodcut illustrations by Maillol, green and tan morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt block illustration after Maillol on each cover, together in morocco lipped slipcase, Paris, Philippe Gonin, 1937-43 [but 1950]; The Georgics of Virgil. Translated into English Verse by John Dryden, number 154 of 1200 copies, full red morocco gilt by Severac (gilt signature on dentelle inside upper cover), covers with borders of gilt-rule and inlaid green morocco, spine in 7 compartments with black morocco inlay decorations, t.e.g., New York, Cheshire House, 1931, folio (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

BIBLIOGRAPHY - PRIVATE PRESSESMARDERSTEIG (GIOVANNI) The Officina Bodoni. An Account of the Work of a Hand Press 1923-1977, 2 vol., NUMBER 37 OF 115 COPIES, edited and translated by Hans Schmoller, publisher's quarter morocco, together in a slipcase, Verona, Officina Bodoni, 1980--BUTCHER (DAVID, compiler) The Whittington Press. A Bibliography 1971-1981, number 8 of 90 copies bound in quarter vellum, from an overall edition of 320 copies, 1982; The Whittington Press. A Bibliography 1982-93, number 67 of 80 copies bound in quarter vellum, from an overall edition of 380 copies, 1996--TAYLOR (MICHAEL) AND BROCARD SEWELL, compilers. Saint Dominic's Press. A Bibliography, 3 vol. (including facsimile of 'Daisy and Marguerite' and portfolio), NUMBER 2 OF 6 OUT OF SERIES COPIES signed by the compilers, bound in quarter oasis, from an overall edition of 400 copies, housed together in original slipcase, Risbury, Whittington Press--MAGEE (DOROTHY AND DAVID) Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press 1940-1956, limited to 225 copies, printed in red and black, publisher's quarter morocco, San Francisco, Grabhorn, 1957--FRANKLIN (COLIN) The Ashendene Press, one of 750 copies, this copy additional inscribed by the author, publisher's quarter cloth, Dallas, Bridwell Library, 1986--TUCKER (PETER) Haslewood Books. The Books of Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, limited to 170 copies, this copy 'XXXVIII/LXXXV. Intermediate copy' with some of the plates in colour pochoir, publisher's cloth, Church Hanborough, Hanborough Parrot, 1990--BRINKS (JOHN DIETER, editor) The Book as a Work of Art. The Cranach Press of Count Harry Kessler, second edition, limited to 400 copies, publisher's cloth, Laubach and Berlin, Triton, 2005--The Stanbrook Abbey Press... Written and Illustrated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook, 2 vol., NUMBER 40 OF 50 COPIES SPECIALLY BOUND BY GEORGE PERCIVAL, from an overall edition of 450 copies, full morocco gilt, g.e., Worcester, Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1970--SANDFORD (CHRISTOPHER) and others. Chanticleer [-Pertelote; Cockalorum; Cock-a-Hoop]: A Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press 1921-1936 [-1961], together 4 vol., each limited to 200, 250 or 300 copies signed by Christopher Sandford and/or contributors, the first three with original prospectus loosely inserted, all with bookplate of D.G. Bridon, original green, red, brown or blue morocco-backed patterned cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., Golden Cockerel Press, 1936-1943-[1949-1976], the first to fourth, and seventh to ninth mentioned in slipcases, 8vo, 4to and folio; and 8 others, Private Press bibliographies (25)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 - J. YUNGE BATEMANOVID. The Metamorphoses... With Drawings by J. Yunge Bateman, NUMBER 5 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, 1958This 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

CAPON (LESTER)SPENCER (EDMUND) The Shepheards Calendar Conteyning Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes, one of 350 copies on handmade paper, with coloured stencil illustrations by John Nash, FULL GREEN MOROCCO DESIGNER BINDING BY LESTER CAPON, the sides in deep ridged wavy bands with decorations (landscape, sky, 'weather') in coloured morocco onlays and gilt tooling, spine gilt lettered on 24 small circular coloured morocco onlays, blind-tooled brown morocco pastedowns, folio, Cresset Press, 1930Footnotes:Lester Capon started bookbinding in 1975, was elected Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in 1986, and was their President from 2003-2005 and from 2009-2011.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

ASHENDENE PRESSBOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI) Il Libro....Il Decameron...., ONE OF 105 COPIES on Batchelor paper, printed in red and black in double column, with initials in blue designed by Graily Hewitt, full crushed morocco gilt, sides with roll-tool and single-rule borders enclosing large central oval of flowers, spine decorated and with title lettering in 7 compartments with raised bands, vellum paste-downs with gilt borders and decorations, gilt gauffered edges, preserved in modern cloth chemise and slipcase [Hornby 29], folio, Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1920This 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

ORTELIUS (ABRAHAM)Théâtre de l'univers, contenant les cartes de tout le monde. Avec une briève déclaration d'icelles, text in French, engraved allegorical title, engraved portrait of Ortelius, and 93 double-page engraved maps, ALL COLOURED IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND, some oxidisation, small hole with minor loss to image 5 maps (Culiacanae, France, Picardy, Austria, India Orientalis, mostly to sea area), Europe and America with minor surface abrasion/loss at central fold, America with 2 or 3 further surface abrasions and cut close at lower margin, title and several maps strengthened with old paper on verso, modern green morocco [Koeman Ort. 17; Shirley, World 122], folio (424 x 294mm.), [Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, for the Author], 1581Footnotes:THIRD FRENCH EDITION OF ORTELIUS'S LANDMARK ATLAS, COLOURED IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND, complete with allegorical title, portrait of the mapmaker and 93 maps.Provenance: 'Donum Jacobi Crosse i Coll Nov: Oxon, in usum scholae Southton. 1693' at foot of title-page.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESSCHAUCER (GEOFFREY) The Works, 8 vol., number 137 of 375 copies on handmade paper, printed in red, blue and black, illustrations (many hand-coloured) by Hugh Chesterman, 4-page specimen leaf, and errata slip loosely inserted, small damp spot on one spine, 1928-1929--OVID. Hys Booke of Methamorphose Books X-XV. Translated by William Caxton, number 30 of 275 copies, printed in red and black, 1924--TATIUS (ACHILLES) The Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe... Translated... by William Burton, number 164 of 394 copies, printed in red and black, soiled with some loss to spine label, 1923--PINDAR. Odes of Victory... a Translation into English Verse by C.J. Billson, 2 vol., number 45 of 250 copies, woodcut illustrations by John Farleigh, prospectus loosely inserted, 1928--SHERIDAN (RICHARD BRINSLEY) The School for Scandal, limited to 475 copies, illustrations by Thomas Lowinsky, publisher's half parchment over patterned boards, 1930, all but the last publisher's cloth-backed boards, small folio (13)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

ASHENDENE PRESSSPENSER (EDMUND) Minor Poems, one of 200 copies on paper, printed in Subiaco type in red, blue and black, double column, initials designed by Graily Hewitt, a few spots mostly to extreme fore-edge, original calf-backed vellum, spine in compartments within seven raised bands [Hornby 35], folio, Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1925Footnotes:Companion volume to the Faerie Queene. 'There is a larger use of blue than in any of the other books ... For this reason, and because of the varying length of the lines of the different poems included in the volume, it presented a more than usually difficult and interesting typographical problem' (Hornby).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

NAVAL – LOG BOOKSi) Two Naval Log Books from the General Elliott, the first titled 'Captain Drummond's Journal in a Voyage to Bombay & China commencing 20th December 1788 & ending 19th June 1790', commencing with a five-page manuscript list of officers and men, a daily precis of the weather encountered on voyage, followed by some 90 pages of printed forms with manuscript insertions detailing the course, wind direction, observations and other notes of the voyage from England to Bombay and return via St Helena, also including list of ships belonging to the English East India Company in 1789, list of cargo on return journey ('...170 half chests China ware... 55 chests Peko... 70 Bales Raw Silk...'), eight pages of pen and ink profile drawings of islands such as Madeira, Trinidad, Comero, Socatra, Pulo Timoan, some leaves excised, bookplate of Robert Drummond Esq, Megginch Castle, c.60 leaves, dust-staining and other marks, some water damage, reverse calf with blind-stamped decoration, folio (367 x 232mm.), 20 December 1788 to 19 June 1790; the second concerning the voyage of the General Elliott from Blackwall Dock to Bengal and back via St Helena, commencing with a daily precis of the weather and some 140 pages of printed forms with manuscript insertions on the weather etc., some leaves excised, c.130 leaves, dust-staining and other marks, rough canvas cover sewn over calf boards, stained, binding loose and partly detached, folio (380 x 240mm.), 14 November 1793 to 22 July 1794ii) Manuscript order book for HMS Dryad under Captain Adam Drummond, comprising some 80 separate orders including 39 numbered general orders covering duties, procedures and discipline ('...No Women to be permitted on board... The men to be accountable for the cleanliness of their wives...'), additional specific orders for The Master ('...he will never suffer any liquor to be drawn off but upon deck...'), The Surgeon ('...for stoves for the use of the sick, application must be made to the quarter-deck...'), The Purser ('...Provisions from the steward Room to be issued out between 7 and 8 in the morning...'), Marines, The Boatswain ('...The Forecastle being immediately under his command, he is expected to keep it very clean, the ropes neatly coiled...'), The Carpenter ('...the earliest discovery of any leaks...'), and The Gunner ('...He is to examine the magazine frequently and cause the Powder to be turned every six weeks...'), each entry signed by 'Adam Drummond, Captain' and the relevant parties, c.52 pages, dust-staining and marks, original vellum boards with title inscribed on upper cover in ink, binding worn, spine detached, 4to (234 x 190mm.), [1805-1807] (3)Footnotes:'170 CHESTS CHINA WARE... 55 CHESTS PEKO'. The British East Indiaman General Elliott (so named to honour General Elliott's defence of Gibraltar) undertook six voyages between 1783 and 1795, captained by Robert Drummond (1759-1815), 6th Laird of Megginch. The first copper-bottomed ship in the East India fleet to make the voyage to Bombay, she was then sold into the West Indies trade and was eventually broken up in 1802 after coming to grief in 1798. On coming into his family estate, Megginch Castle in Perthshire, Drummond commissioned a hexagonal dovecote topped by a weathervane in the shape of the General Elliott to commemorate the vessel in which he had made a record-breaking voyage to Bombay in 1783. Robert Drummond's brother Admiral Sir Adam Drummond (1770-1849) succeeded him as 7th Laird in 1815 after a long career in the Navy and had also served under him as a teenager on the General Elliott. The Dryad was his second command as captain, a post he held from 1805 to 1807. In November 1805 aboard the Dryad he harried four French ships fleeing from Trafalgar into the path of a British squadron resulting in their capture at the Battle of Cape Ortegal.Provenance: Robert Drummond (1759-1815), and his brother Admiral Sir Adam Drummond of Megginch (1770-1849); thence by descent.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 7 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, 1960This 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

NONESUCH PRESSThe Holy Bible, 5 vol. (including Apocrypha), one of 1250 copies, engraved titles and vignettes by Stephen Gooden, black morocco by Best & Co. (signed in gilt), sides and spine with blind-stamped design of lines and dots, gilt lettered on spines g.e., joints slightly rubbed, preserved in 2 cloth-lined solander boxes, with gilt morocco lettering label and lettering 'FM.'s Copy', small folio, Nonesuch Press, 1924-1927Footnotes:Provenance: ?possibly Francis Meynell, founder of the Nonesuch Press, and typographer. The cloth boxes are lettered on spine 'F.M.'s copy'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR BALLADSA collection of 103 American Civil War broadside ballads, on paper, each within a decorative or pictorial border (28 hand-coloured), mounted one per page (recto only), sheets 255 x 170mm., bound in cloth, lettered 'American Broadside Ballads of the Civil War 1862-65' in gilt on the upper cover, small folio, New York, one 'For Sale at the Anglo-African Office, 48 Beekman St.', [c.1863]; others H. De Marsan, 54 [or 38, 38 & 60, 60] Chatham Street, [printed c.1860-1865]Footnotes:A rare large collection of American Civil War broadside ballads, all in support of the Union cause ('War in New York. The Bigots are Rising!', 'The Yankee Boy', 'The Union Must and Shall be Preserved', 'The Union Volunteer', 'The Union Root Hog or Die', 'Traitor's March to the White-House!'), praising the 69th New York Infantry Regiment ('Welcome our Gallant 69th', 'War Song of the New York 69th Regiment'), celebrating specific historical events of the war ('Warren's Address... Before the Battle of Bunker-Hill', 'The Drummer of Antietam', 'The Battle of Pea-Ridge. By 36th Regiment Illinois Volunteers', 'Battle of Williamsburgh'), and welcoming emancipation ('Where Liberty Dwells, There is My Country', 'The Union Marseillaise', 'Emancipation Hymn for Jan. 1, 1863. Altered to Suit the Occasion by R.H.'). All but one of the ballads were published by H. De Marsan of Chatham Street, N.Y., the exception being 'Emancipation Songs' printed 'For Sale at the Anglo-African Office, 48 Beekman St., NY'. This broadside includes four songs, two of which are by Robert Hamilton, the co-founder with this brother Thomas of the Anglo-African magazine, one of the first illustrated African-American publications.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

JONES (DAVID)The Engravings of David Jones. A Survey by Douglas Cleverdon, ONE OF 105 COPIES on J. Barcham Green hand-made paper, 'containing a set of the engravings on japon, nine copper-engravings and one dry-point printed from the original copper-plates', from an overall edition of 446, tipped-in frontispiece portrait, plates, the additional suites of plates loose as issued in cloth portfolio box case, publisher's half morocco gilt, together in original slipcase, folio, Clover Hill, 1981This 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

STANISLAW I: (1677-1766) Stanislaw I Leszczynski. King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania 1704-09, 1733-36. L.S., Stanislas Rey, as King, one page, folio, Luneville, 25th May 1740, to the 'Venerables chers et amies' at the Abbaye de Rangevel, in French. Stanislaw I writes following the death of Antoine Rollin, an oblate at the abbey, and notifies his correspondents that it is his intention to send Claude Vayeux (?) to replace him as an oblate, and to whom the abbey will provide sustenance for his life time. With integral address leaf bearing a blind embossed seal. A few neat, small slits and some light overall age wear, about VG   

AUGUSTUS III: (1696-1763), King of Poland 1733-63, and Elector of Saxony from 1733, he married Maria Josepha of Austria, daughter of Joseph I Holy Roman Emperor. D.S., 'Augustus Rex', two pages folio, 16th January 1743, untranslated. The handwritten document signed is apparently a reciprocating New Year Greeting. Countersigned by Count Heinrich von Bruhl. Bearing to the verso of the half blank integral leaf a large paper seal affixed. Few tears to folds and edges, not affecting the signature. F  Count Heinrich von Bruhl (1700-1763) During most of the thirty years of the ineffective reign of August III, Von Bruhl was the major confidant of the King and the de-facto head of the Saxon court. Count von Bruhl had a library of 62,000 volumes, now part of the Royal Library at Dresden, and owned one of the largest collections of watches and kabbala books in Europe and the largest of Meissen porcelain in the world.

ANNA OF RUSSIA: (1693-1740) Anna Ivanovna, Empress of Russia 1730-40. D.S., `Anna´, one page, folio, 25th April 1732, in Cyrillic. The handwritten document is a decree to the Military Collegium referring to the Polish borders, the situation of them and its improvement in order to prevent people escaping, and states in part `A line and an abatis had been built along the Polish border in order to prevent peasants from escaping. Regiments outposts have been established in appropriate locations, but we do not know in what condition the line and the abatis are. Therefore, for its full examination, send officers from the Military Collegium, who are to be instructed to inspect the whole boundary line and abatis, make a thorough plan of the actual description of the situation and measures… That is to say, in which conditions and under whose custody the line and the abatis are, so that, according to that thorough plan, it can be possible to do an exhaustive evaluation to renew the line and the abatis to prevent runaways from escaping. Bring that plan and description immediately to my cabinet…´ The document has been professionally restored to the left edge. Extremely small hole and very small crease to the upper left corner, not affecting the signature, otherwise G   The abatis were the ramparts of felled trees bound together and placed with their branches outwards which were used on the boundaries.

CATHERINE II THE GREAT: (1762-1796) Empress of Russia 1762-96, Catherine the Great. An excellent and very attractive D.S., `Ekaterina´, in Cyrillic, a bold and good signature example, one large page, oblong 15 x 21 folio, Saint Petersburg, 8th August 1769, in Cyrillic. The document bears to the front a splendid and very large paper seal with coat of Imperial arms and is signed by the `Empress and Sovereign of All Russias..´, being a title given, appointing a representative to the Pope Clemens XIV, who will carry out his duties from the Russian consulate established in the port city of Ancona on the Adriatic Sea. Countersigned at the base by Prince Alexander Golitsyn. It is likely that this appointment was postponed or canceled, the name of the diplomat having never been completed. It was probably part of a political strategy of Catherine II who, after the occupation of Poland, had waited only a spark to launch a war of expansion against Turkey, under the false pretext of providing help to Christians against the unbelievers. It will be done in September 1768, and the port of Ancona, natural gate to Turkey, will serve as a base for the Russian fleet already installed in the Mediterranean Sea. In 1771, Russia will seize Crimea and the Turks will finally sign peace in 1774. Accompanied by an official contemporary translation into Latin, attached to main document signed by Catherine II. Very small overall minor age wear. VG   Prince Alexander Golitsyn (1718-1783) Russian Marshal and Diplomat. Governor of Saint Petersburg. One of the main Russian military leaders involved in the war against Turks.

NICHOLAS I OF RUSSIA: (1796-1855) Emperor of Russia 1825-55. L.S., Nicholas, in Cyrillic, one page, folio, Saint Petersburg, 7th May 1832, to Baron Pahlen, in Cyrillic. The document being a decree to the Chapter of Russian Imperial Royal Orders, with the attestation of the Archpriest of Riga´s St. Peter and St. Paul Church, Ioann Diakonov, by the honour bestowed by the Most Holy Synod, and by which Baron Pahlen is awarded with the St. Anne Order of second degree. A bold signature example by the Emperor, with flourish. With a small tear and creasing to the upper edge, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise VG     Fyodor Petrovich Pahlen (1780-1863) Russian Diplomat. Russian Ambassador to the United States 1811-15. General-Governor of Novorossiya.

ALEXANDER II OF RUSSIA: (1818-1881) Emperor of Russia 1855-81. Assassinated. An excellent L.S., Alexander, a good and bold signature example, two pages, folio, Saint Petersburg, 30th April 1855, "On the first year of our reign", to King Ferdinand II, in Cyrillic. Alexander II as Emperor and Autocrat of all Russias congratulates his correspondent stating `We have received a letter from Your Majesty addressed to the Emperor Nicholas Pavlovich of blessed memory, our dear father, in which You inform that Your spouse gave birth to a Princess…´ Countersigned to the bottom of the second page, beneath the Tsar´s signature, by State Chancellor Nesselrode. With blank integral leaf. Accompanied by the original envelope, addressed to King Ferdinand II, with an extensive presentation in Cyrillic, and bearing a large paper seal affixed in very fine condition. EX     Alexander II responds to a King Ferdinand II letter received, a letter which was sent to Emperor Nicholas I after the Italian Princess birth on 21st January, but in the meantime, in February 1855, Nicholas I passed away and Alexander II responds as heir and new Emperor of Russia, although his coronation would only take place few months later. Ferdinand II (1810-1859) King of the Two Sicilies 1830-59. He succeeded his father Francis I at the early age of twenty. Princess Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1855-1874) Youngest daughter of King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies and Maria Theresa of Austria. Princess Maria Luisa was known for her charity to the poor. The Princess died at the very early age of 19 shortly after her return from Egypt suffering high fever. Karl Nesselrode (1780-1862) Russian Count and Diplomat.

NICHOLAS II OF RUSSIA: (1868-1918) Emperor of Russia 1894-1917. Assassinated. A good D.S., `Nikolai´, in Cyrillic, two pages, folio, Tsarskoye Selo, 13th February 1913, to the President of the Republic of Peru, in Cyrillic. On a letter bearing the printed heading ''By the Grace of God, We Nicholas the Second, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias'', the Tsar congratulates his correspondent for his Presidency election, stating `We have received the letter in which you inform Us that you have been elected President of the Republic of Peru, and express your commitment to the maintenance of friendly relationships with Our Empire. We are pleased to express Our willingness to contribute to everything that can strengthen the affection between our subjects and the Republic of Peru. We pray to the Almighty He may keep You Mister President and the Republic of Peru, in His Holy protection´ At the base, copy to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, also countersigned by Lazonow. With blank integral leaf. Small overall minor age wear with two binder holes to the left border, only one very slightly affecting the flourish of the signature, otherwise about VG    

MARIA ANNA OF AUSTRIA: (1683-1754) Queen consort of Portugal 1708-50 as spouse of King John V of Portugal, and Regent of Portugal 1742-50. A very good L.S., `Rainha´, one page, oblong folio, Lisbon, 3rd February 1736, to Cardinal Lanfridini, in Portuguese. The Queen of Portugal thanks her correspondent for his letter and for the blessing and wishes on the occasion of Christmas. With address leaf bearing a large and attractive royal paper seal. Very small overall minor age wear, otherwise G to VG    

JOHN VI OF PORTUGAL: (1767-1826) King of Portugal and Brazil 1816-25. Nicknamed "The Clement". After the Brazilian independence John VI became Emperor of Brazil for life. His death may have been caused by poisoning. A good L.S., `O Principe´, with large and artistic letters, and paraph, two pages, folio, Rio de Janeiro, 5th October 1810, to King Ferdinand I King of the Two Sicilies, in Potuguese. John VI, in his capacity as Regent, respond to the letter received from his correspondent King Ferdinand I announcing the birth of his son the heir and future King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, and sends him and to the new born Prince his best wishes. Countersigned `Conde  de Linhares´ by Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho. With blank address leaf, bearing a large paper seal affixed. Folded, with area of paper loss to the blank leaf. G    Ferdinand IV (1751-1825) King of Naples 1759-1806 & 1815-16. King of the Two Sicilies (as Ferdinand I) 1816-25. Ferdinand II (1810-1859) King of the Two Sicilies 1830-59. He succeeded his father Francis I at the early age of twenty.     Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho (1755-1812) 1st Count of Linhares, Minister of war and Foreign Affairs in the government in exile. 

LUIS I of PORTUGAL: (1838-1889) King of Portugal 1861-89. Known as The Popular. D.S., `El R. Luis´, one page, folio, Palacio da Ajuda, Lisbon, 5th January 1878, to Cardinal Bilio, in Portuguese. The King thanks his correspondent for his Christmas greeting letter and forwards his best wishes stating in part `I received with great pleasure the letter in which Your Eminence wishes me well on the occasion of the festivity of the Holy Nativity, and very sensible to this proof of interest in my person´ With address leaf, bearing a paper seal affixed, addressed to Illustrissimo e reverendisso em Christo Padre Cardeal Bilio..´ Small minor creasing to the upper edge. VG    Luigi Maria Bilio (1826-1884) Italian Cardinal.

PEDRO II OF BRAZIL: (1825-1891) Emperor of Brazil 1831-89. Also known as ''the Magnanimous'', second and last ruler of the Empire of Brazil. A very good L.S., `Imperador´, a large and bold good example signature, one page, folio, Rio de Janeiro, 17th December 1847, to Cardinal Bofondi, in Portuguese. Pedro II, in his capacity as Constitutional Emperor and Perpetual Defender of Brazil, thanks his correspondent for his letter dated 11th June, announcing his appointment as Cardinal and for the present received. With address leaf bearing a Royal paper seal affixed. Small creasing, mostly to the upper edge, not affecting the signature. G to VG   

TERESA CRISTINA EMPRESS: (1822-1889) Brazilian Empress 1843-89, consort of Emperor Pedro II. Also known as "The Mother of the Brazilians".Teresa Cristina was greatly loved by her subjects, and has been widely admired for her behaviour and sponsorship of Brazilian culture. A good L.S., `Imperatriz´, one page, folio, Palace of Rio de Janeiro, 11th May 1859, to Cardinal Piccolomini, in Portuguese. The Empress refers to his correspondent´s greetings on the occasion of the former new year, and sends to him her best wishes and warm regards. The letter bears to the verso a Royal paper seal affixed in very fine condition. Very small creasing to borders, otherwise VG

ISABEL OF BRAZIL: (1846-1921) Princess Imperial of Brazil, heir to the throne of the Empire as the eldest daughter of Pedro II of Brazil and Regent on three different occasions. Known as Dona Isabel, also nicknamed "The Redemptress", she signed during her last regency the Lei Aurea or Golden Law emancipating the slaves in Brazil. Isabel spent the last 30 years of her life in exile in France. A very fine and cleanly written L.S., `Isabel Princeza Imperial Regente´, a very attractive and large signature, one page, folio, At the Palace of Rio de Janeiro, 30th May 1888, to Cardinal Luciano Bonaparte, in Portuguese. In her capacity as Princess Imperial and presumptive heir and Regent on behalf of His Majesty D. Pedro II, sends her best wishes to her correspondent and acknowledges receipt of his letter on the occasion of last Christmas. She deeply thanks his correspondent´s for his blessing and for the prosperity of the Empire. Paper with a Cowan & Sons Ivory watermark. Accompanied by the original envelope, bearing a black wax seal to the verso. VG 

BEATON DAVID: (c.1494-1546) Scottish Cardinal who served as Archbishop of St. Andrews 1539-46. Beaton was the last Scottish Cardinal prior to the Reformation. An extremely rare L.S., d[avid] Card[ina]lis S[anc]ti Andree, one page, folio, Paris, 17th July 1542, to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, in Latin. Beaton writes to Farnese in relation to Alfonso Salmeron and Paschase Broet, the Apostolic nuncios to Ireland and the disturbances they have witnessed there, commenting that there is 'still so much cruelty from the English and the barbarian people themselves, and fierceness, from whom I have saved [them] and they have escaped unscathed. [It is] astounding all that I have been able to see' and adding that he will continue to write with reports to Farnese. With integral address leaf. Some very light, minor water staining to the right edge, only very slightly affecting a few words of text, which remain perfectly legible. About VG   €3000 - 4000 Alessandro Farnese (1520-1589) Italian Cardinal and Diplomat. Grandson of Pope Paul III and appointed as his principal secretary in 1538, managing most of the papal business until 1549. Alfonso Salmeron (1515-1585) Spanish Biblical Scholar, a Catholic Priest, and one of the first Jesuits. Paschase Broet (1500?-1562) French Catholic Priest, one of the first Jesuits. In late 1538 King Henry VIII of England was excommunicated by Pope Paul III and the constitutional position of the lordship of Ireland remained uncertain.  In the autumn of 1541 Pope Paul III sent Salmeron and Broet as Apostolic nuncios to Ireland. Before leaving they met with Cardinal Beaton at Lyon who discouraged them from going to Ireland with stories of the dire state of the Church there. After leaving France they reached Edinburgh on 3rd December 1541. Although warmly received by King James V, he, and everyone else they met agreed with Beaton and also discouraged them from going to Ireland. Nevertheless, Salmeron and Broet made the short crossing on 23rd February 1542. The title of King of Ireland had been re-created in 1542 by King Henry VIII and the English began establishing control over the island. The situation in Ireland proved to be worse than previously thought and Broet wrote 'in a short while we found matters just as we had been told, if not worse'. Bishops who remained faithful were turned out of their dioceses and went on the run. Monasteries and friaries were all in ruins. Pope Paul III's original instructions had stated that if their lives were in danger then they were return and therefore in the summer of 1542 they travelled back to Scotland where the people there were surprised to see them return alive.