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VARIOUS PRESSESHASSALL (W.O.) The Holkham Bible Picture Book, NUMBER 83 OF 100 SIGNED AND SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, plates, untrimmed in original red morocco by W.H. Smith, covers with blind blocked illustrations, gilt lettered spine with raised bands, t.e.g., slipcase, folio, Dropmore Press, 1954--North West Regional Savings Committee. Illuminated address in appreciation of Sir William Cocker as Chairman, 2pp. on card, bound in green morocco gilt folder, watered silk paste-downs, 4to, March 1969--FLINT (WILLIAM RUSSELL) In Pursuit, NUMBER 7 OF 150 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, signed by Francis Russell Flint, illustrations (some colour), original blue leather gilt, slipcase, folio, Medici Society, 1971--HERRICK (ROBERT) One Hundred and Eleven Poems. Selected, Arranged and Illustrated by Sir Wiliam Russell Flint, NUMBER 2 OF 105 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES with a set of 8 additional plates in separate sleeve, signed by the artist on the colophon, original sheepskin gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine darkened, slipcase, small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1955--WHITMAN (WALT) There Was a Child Went Forth. Wood Engravings by Gillian Tyler, number 73 of 100 numbered copies on Nideggen, signed by the artist, original parchment-backed marbled boards, slipcase, large 4to, Northampton, Gehenna Press, 1968--ANACREON. Five Odes... by Thomas Moore.. Etchings by Nicholas Parry, number 8 of 75 copies signed by the artist, original linen-backed boards, square 4to, Market Drayton, Tern Press, 1985; and 6 others (12)Footnotes:Provenance: First two works, Sir William Wiggins Cocker, bookplate (see lot 286 for a note concerning Cocker). Fourth work, Micheline & Mervyn Parkhouse, leather 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

ARMS AND ARMOUR - BACHERAUAn album of photographs of arms and armour, and the lavish interiors of a showroom, relating to the great Parisian dealer Louis Bachereau, including samples of important pieces subsequently sold to Viscount Astor at Hever Castle, 2-page manuscript list of 34 items with prices headed 'Collection Bachereau' tipped-in at end, 88 mostly silver gelatin prints (285 x 385mm., and smaller), sheets working loose, early twentieth century half morocco, rebacked preserving original spine with later gilt morocco lettering label ('Bachereau Collection'), oblong folio (310 x 430mm.), [early twentieth century]Footnotes:A fine album of vintage photographs depicting important pieces of early arms and armour (and some other antiquities) sold by the great Parisian antiquary and dealer Louis Bachereau. These include items sold by him to Lord Astor, whose collection was dispersed by Sotheby's as 'The Hever Castle Collection', London, May 5, 1983. Pieces include the jewelled Nasrid helmet (now held by The Met, New York), and items from the Armoury of the Knights of St. John, Rhodes, many of which were sold by Bachereau to Dr. Bashford Dean at The Met.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

LEAR (EDWARD)Illustrated Excursions in Italy, 2 vol. [First-Second series], FIRST EDITION, half-titles, 2 hand-coloured maps, 55 tinted lithographed plates, and illustrations in the text by Lear, tissue guards, albumen print photograph of Lear's grave loosely inserted, some spotting, early half morocco, gilt lettered on spine, rubbed, joints repaired [Abbey Travel 172], folio (370 x 260mm.), Thomas M'Lean, 1846; with a printed prospectus for Edward Lear's Landscape Illustrations of Poems by Lord Tennyson. Dedicated to Lady Tennyson (1885), and a 2-page printed list of the 200 illustrations to be included in the work loosely inserted (4)Footnotes:Edward Lear lived in Rome from 1837 to 1848, apart from two visits to England during one of which he organised the publishing of Illustrated Excursions, based upon journeys he had made into the area around Rome and Naples. Lear notes in the preface 'I have executed the whole of the Lithographic drawings from my own sketches, and have endeavoured to preserve a close fidelity to the Originals'. 'Queen Victoria, one of the subscribers, was so impressed with the work that she invited Lear to give her a series of twelve drawing lessons' (ODNB). The first series is devoted to the Abruzzi provinces of the Kingdom of Naples, the second to the Papal States. Included with the lot is the rare prospectus for Lear's proposed Landscape Illustrations of Poems by Lord Tennyson and a printed list of the 200 illustrations for inclusion. The work was never published.Provenance: Richard William Church (1815-1890, Dean of St. Paul's), bookplate. Included with the lot is an autograph letter from Lear's biographer Vivian Noakes, mentioning that a member of the Church family was reported to own a manuscript journal of Lear's Greek tour.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

ALBUMS - LITERATURE, ABOLITION, METHODISM & SCIENCETwo nineteenth century albums, the first containing collection of c.70 autograph letters, envelopes and cut signatures, some loose, including: autograph subscription signed ('Faithfully yours/ Charles Dickens') addressed to Mr J Grime 'With Mr Dickens' compliments', dated 'Thirteenth February 1843', autograph note from Walter Scott ('WS') to his friend and editor James Ballantyne ('...the two sheets have got safe here through bad road. I have not got my books quite right yet...'), Methodist theologian and abolitionist Adam Clarke to surgeon James Grime (seven, dated 1819 to 1829) mentioning his plan to inoculate a child ('...can you get me a little varialous matter of a good kind from a healthy subject?...') and his views on slavery ('...It is to the summary scandal of our Nation. Their Liberty is not ours – it belongs to God and themselves...'), botanist Agnes Ibbetson (to Mr Parkes 'Manufacturing Chymist' describing at length her experiments to reduce '...very small quantities of the Liquid of Vegetables into their component parts...' and asking for his help), physician Robert Hooper, Charles Vandeleur Creagh, governor of North Borneo (to W.J. Chadwick asking for a price list for his lantern microscope), photographer Henry E. Roscoe (also to Chadwick accepting the presidency of the Manchester Photographic Society), Charles Kemble, judge Thomas Talfourd, cut signatures of Frances Trollope, W. Harrison Ainsworth, Thomas Raffles, M. J. O'Connell, various bishops, clergy, nobility, politicians etc., c.34 leaves, original calf gilt, worn, boards detached, spine missing, folio (282 x 230mm.); the second an autograph album bearing the ownership inscription of Elizabeth Grime, including three-page exhortation by abolitionist George Thompson, dated 29 July 1834, entitled 'The Black/ at Church/ in America!' ('Lord! Is thy throne acceptable to me? Me of the Ethiopi skin? May I draw near Thy sacred shrine and humbly bow the knee while thy white worshippers are kneeling here. May I approach celestial purity, And not offend the with my sable face?... or must the Ethiope change his skin?... Haste happy day the time I long to see when ev'ry son of Adam shall be FREE!!'), with uplifting quotations and messages from John Lambert (after the Manchester Wesleyan Conference July 1849) and others with links to the Methodist church, cut signature of James Hogg (the 'Ettrick Shepherd'), c.50 leaves, original blind stamped calf, marbelled ends, worn, boards detached, spine missing, 4to (231 x 185mm.), nineteenth century (2)Footnotes:These albums were compiled by members of the Grime family of Salford, including surgeon James Grime (d.1834), and his son John, who died in 1859 after a career as a Liverpool merchant stationed in Valparaiso and Lima. Originally from Bolton, James Grime set up practice in Salford in 1817. Included in the album is an engraved certificate of attendance (January 1809), signed by Dr John Abernethy (founder of the medical school at St Bartholomew's Hospital and creator of the Abernethy biscuit), with an additional note in his hand stating that 'Mr Grime hath also attended... one course of lectures on the Theory & Practice of Surgery, & hath dissected under my Inspection...'. Provenance: Grime family and 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

CAMDEN (WILLIAM)Britannia, Newly Translated into English: With Large Additions and Improvements... by Edmund Gibson, engraved portrait frontispiece, 50 engraved double-page or folding maps, 8 engraved plates of coins, several illustrations in the text, frontispiece cut down and mounted, title laid down with small loss affecting a couple of letters of the imprint, light dampstain in outer margin of first approximately 100 pages (just affecting edges of a few maps), some diagrams coloured in yellow, a few maps hand-coloured in outline, Kent map with some loss to one edge, 2 others shaved at margin, modern calf antique, gilt morocco spine labels, slightly rubbed, a few surface abrasions [ESTC R12882; Chubb CXIII], folio (395 x 240mm.), A. Swalle, A. & J. Churchill, 1695This 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

ARMS AND ARMOUR - RIGGSThree albums of photographs of armour and weapons formerly in the collection of William H. Riggs, 48 large gelatin silver prints (c.400 x 280mm., or smaller), mounted one per page (recto only, 8 with long description in manuscript) on stiff card, [early twentieth century]; together with an album of photographs of armour from the collections at Munich, Nuremburg, Milan, and Florence, 88 gelatin silver prints (some signed in the image by Alinari, most by anonymous photographers), mounted between 1 and 3 per page (recto and verso), a few pencil annotations in the margins, [early twentieth century], modern half morocco, gilt red lettering label ('Riggs Collection') on spines, folio (4)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CHARLES IIWarrant signed ('Charles R' at head), to the Clerk of Our Signet Attending, requiring him to '...prepare a Bill for our Royall Signature so passe Our Great Seale, containing Our Presentation of John Cox Clerk to the Rectory of North Cerney in Our County of Gloucester...'; countersigned by 'L. Jenkins' at foot, docketed 'Presentation of John Cox to the Rectory of North Cerney' and dated '4th Aprill 1684', one page, blank integral leaf with docket, dust staining and browning especially at outer folds and where folded for filing, folio (296 x 190mm.), Whitehall, 3 April 1684Footnotes:The living of North Cerney was a wealthy one and encouraged long incumbencies, there being only five rectors in the 200 years after 1533. John Cox was to remain rector there until 1731. (Victoria County History of Gloucestershire, vol. 7, see britishhistory online). Sir Leoline Jenkins countersigns our document in his capacity as Secretary of State: 'As a secretary of state Jenkins was neither an innovator nor a real policy maker, but his workman-like attitude to his heavy workload as secretary... meant that his industry was well used. North noted him as 'the most faithful drudge of a secretary that ever the Court had' (Lives, 1.301) (Alan Marshall, ODNB).Provenance: Myers & Co., New Bond Street, London, purchased 5 August 1944 by Mr A. Croasdell for £7, 7s (photocopy of original receipt included in the lot).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DRYDEN (JOHN) AND JOHN BLOWAn Ode on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell; Late Servant to His Majesty, and Organist of the Chapel Royal, and of St. Peter's Westminster, FIRST EDITION, title within woodcut black mourning border, type-set music throughout, dampstaining in lower gutter margin just touching text on occasions panelled calf gilt by Riviere, spine gilt in compartments, gilt dentelles, g.e., upper joint professionally repaired, small loss at head of spine [ESTC R227977; Macdonald 32a; RISM B 3302], folio (330 x 195mm.), J. Heptinstall, for Henry Playford, 1696Footnotes:First edition of John Dryden's poem ('Mark how the Lark and Linnet sing...') in praise of Henry Purcell, with the setting to music by John Blow. It was reprinted, without the music, in Purcell's Orpheus Britannicus (1698).Provenance: Thomas Wyatt Bagshawe, bookplate; J.O. Edwards, book label.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

IRELAND - ARMY & MILITIAEstablishment book bearing the calligraphic title-page: 'Establishment of the kingdome of Ireland/ or a List containing all the Payments to be made for Civill & Military Affairs From the 25th day of March 1709 in the 8th Year of our Soveraigne/ Lady Queen Anne's Reign', listing officers and ministers attending the state, courts of the Queen's Bench and Chancery, officers of the customs, payments for regiments broken down into troops and companies, persons in charge of the ordnance for each province, governors of garrisons, pay of named officers in 'Brigadier Wolslys Regiment of Horse', 'Brigadier Echlins Drgoons', 'Earl of Droghedas Regimt of Foot', 'Brigadier Zachary Tiffins Regiment', etc., each section ending with a calligraphic signature page ('Signed/ Anne R'), additional illuminated calligraphic title page in black ink, gilt and red depicting trumpeting angels and lions holding the crown, pages ruled in red, with calligraphic flourishes incorporating foliage, beasts, birds and male and female heads throughout, 43 numbered leaves, one blank, some pages excised from front and back, dust-staining, Dutch gilt patterned endpapers, contemporary panelled calf gilt, g.e., rubbed, folio (385 x 260mm.), 1709; with a printed Dublin City Militia commission warrant, with manuscript insertions, appointing Isaac Wills a 2nd Lieutenant in John Woofington's company commanded by Colonel William Ormsby, signed at foot by Joshua Dawson ('J.Dawson') in his capacity as Secretary to the Lords Justices of Ireland.and at head by 'Narcissus Armarh' as Lord Justice and others, tipped into front of volume, one page printed on a bifolium, two blindstamps, folio (330 x 210mm.), 14 April 1709Footnotes:This attractive volume includes a printed commission appointing one Isaac Wills to the Dublin City Militia, also known as the City Guards. Among the signatories to the document is Narcissus Armagh (aka Narcissus Marsh) who was appointed Primate of Armagh in 1703, and served as one of the Lords Justices, officers who acted as governors in the absence of the Lord Lieutenant (at this time Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton). Another signatory, Joshua Dawson, was a civil servant and politician, famous for using his inside knowledge to buy and develop land in Dublin and for building Dawson Street, considered at the time to be the finest street in the city. He was to become Chief Secretary for Ireland a year after this document was signed. Isaac Wills was a master carpenter and architect who worked in collaboration with surveyors general William Robinson and Thomas Burgh. The buildings include Robinson's Marsh's Library, and St Mary's church; and Burgh's anatomy house and library at Trinity College, St Werburgh's Church, Steevens's Hospital and St. Ann's in Dawson Street.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

L. (S.)A Letter from a Gentleman of the Lord Ambassador Howard's Retinue, to his Friend in London: Dated at Fez, Nov. 1. 1669. Wherein he gives a Full Relation of the most Remarkable Passages in their Voyage thither, and of the Present State of the Countries under the Power of Taffaletta, Emperour of Morocco, with a Brief Account of the Merchandizing Commodities of Africa; as also the Manners and Customs of the People there, 36pp., woodcut headpiece and initials, staining to last page, later half calf [ESTC R5130], small 4to, W.G. for Moses Pitt, 1670--MONSON (WILLIAM) A True and Exact Account of the Wars with Spain, in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth... Being the Particulars of What Happened between the English and Spanish Fleets, from the Years 1585 to 1602. Shewing the Expeditions, Attempts, Fights, Designs, Escapes, Successes... Never Printed Before, modern red morocco-backed cloth [ESTC 2957], folio, W. Crooke, 1682 (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

PEPYS (SAMUEL)Document signed ('SPepys'), directing Sir Stephen Fox, paymaster of his Majesty's forces to pay a gratuity to Judith Connely, widow of Captain William Connely '...according to the Quallity her Husband served in at the tyme of his death...', countersigned by Anglesey, George Carteret, Henry Coventry and ; receipt for £123.5s '...granted mee by his Majestie in Consideration of my husbands being slaine at sea... Judith Connley' on verso; docketed 'Mrs Judith Conneley' etc., 2 pages, blank integral leaf with docket, worn and stained, dust staining at outer folds and where folded for filing, folio (292 x 190mm.), Whitehall, 17 December 1673Footnotes:'IN CONSIDERATION OF MY HUSBANDS BEING SLAINE AT SEA': Pepys authorises payment to the widow of a casualty of the Anglo-Dutch wars in his position as Secretary of the newly formed Admiralty commission. The Admiralty was formed by Charles II after the resignation of the duke of York as Lord High Admiral and, in January 1674 moved to Derby House, the Admiralty's first dedicated premises - 'Pepys thereby inaugurated an institution which only the matching dynamism of Mountbatten could terminate' (C.S. Knighton, ODNB). Provenance: Myers & Co., New Bond Street, London, purchased 5 August 1944 by Mr A. Croasdell for £10.10s (original receipt included in the lot).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PERCY (THOMAS)Autograph note signed with initials ('Th.P') on Alnham Castle in Northumberland ('...One of the old castles belonging to the Earls of Northumberland lying at the foot of the mountains was visited by me... I measured it with my cane which might be about 3 feet 6 or 8 inches... I think it is now corruptly called Yeldon...'), pasted down onto the inside front cover of Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, vol. I, published by J. G. Fleischer, 1790, with identifying inscription beneath ('T.P. Bishop of Dromore') in another hand; accompanied by loose notes on 'The Old Ballad of Chevy-chase which is supposed to refer to the Battle of Piperdene', with the title 'Original Notes... by Sir Thomas Percy...' in a later hand, comprising fragments of printed text pasted onto a printed signature of pages 1-16 of the Reliques, with notes and annotations by Percy and others, c.200 x 135mm.; and a bifolium of further notes discussing how the Battle of Otterburn could not have been the inspiration for the ballad of Chevychase as is generally supposed, docketed in a later hand 'Memo on the Ballads copied from an unknown authority by Dr Thomas Percy' with another note in a different hand 'Query was the above written by Mr Murthwayte/ see acct. of the attainder of Tho. 7th Earl', 3 pages, creased at folds, 4to (224 x 185mm.), late eighteenth/nineteenth centuriesFootnotes:THOMAS PERCY ON THE ORGINS OF THE BALLAD OF CHEVY CHASE IN HIS RELIQUESWhilst researching a history of the Dukes of Northumberland in the 1760's, Percy came across a manuscript of ballads (the Percy Folio, British Library Additional MS. 27879), which became his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets, first published in 1765, and generally considered a landmark in European literature. One of the ballads in the Reliques, the ballad of Chevy Chase, was believed to have originated from an older ballad, the Battle of Otterburn. The bifolium of notes accompanying our volume, purportedly written by Percy, reveal that Percy believed that the ballad of Chevy Chase could not possibly relate to the battle of Otterburn as was supposed: '...it can scarce be conceived that the poet could mistake the names of both the Kings, who then reigned in the 2 kingdoms... The Battle of Otterburn was a National Quarrell... & from the whole context of the Ballad it is evident that Chevychase was a private Quarrell between 2 noblemen living on the Borders of the 2 Kingdoms...' he writes. Whilst the hand bears some favourable comparisons to another letter by Percy (sold in these rooms 18 June 2014, lot 153), it is not conclusive, and an annotation beneath also raises some doubts. Other notes give another opinion, that Chevy Chase was 'supposed to be founded on the Battle of Pipperden', a resounding Scottish defeat of the English forces under the Earl of Northumberland. As chaplain and secretary to Lord Northumberland and tutor to his son, Percy had much opportunity to explore this history of the local area, as demonstrated by his note on Alnham Castle, and indeed wrote his own ballad poem on the Duke of Northumberlands' Warkworth Castle in 1771.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[ESTIENNE (CHARLES)]Maison Rustique, or the Countrey Farme... Translated into English by Richard Surfleet... Now Newly Reviewed, Corrected, and Augmented, with Divers Large Additions... and the Husbandrie of France, Italie, and Spaine, Reconciled and Made to Agree with Ours Here in England. By Gervase Markham, third (first Markham) edition, woodcut device on title, woodcut illustrations in the text (some full-page), without initial and final blanks, very occasional foxing and soiling, first half of volume affected by worm trail which gradually reduces to a single hole, Yy3 with long tear slightly affecting text, this and Yy2 repaired in margin, twentieth century calf antique [ESTC S121357; Bitting p.146-147; Fussell p.13; Goldsmiths' 451; Hunt 202; Kress 353; Simon BG, 610 (note); Westwood & Satchell p.88], small folio, Adam Islip, for John Bill, 1616Footnotes:Markham's comprehensive revision of the text, with sections on bread-making, wine, cider, vegetables, herbs, animal husbandry, fish farming, hunting, falconry etc.Provenance: Hilda Leyel and Lawrence Strangman, bookplates (the former's bookplate hidden below the pasted down endpaper). Lawrence Strangman was recently in the news following the discovery of a rare butterfly found preserved in the pages of a book he donated to Trinity Hall.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BOYDELL (JOHN AND JOSIAH)An History of the River Thames, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, later issue (without engraved titles and dedication), 76 hand-coloured aquatint plates within grey wash borders (3 double-page on 2 sheets joined) by J.C. Stadler after J. Farington, 2 folding engraved maps ('The Course of the River Thames, from it's Source... by John Cooke of Hendon'), one engraved plate, some off-setting and occasional spotting, contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt, g.e, rubbed [Abbey Scenery 432; Tooley 102], folio (405 x 300mm.), W. Bulmer & Co., for John and Josiah Boydell, 1794-1796 [but watermarked 1825]Footnotes:Provenance: J. Alfred Wigan (1787-1869), bookplate; A. Culver Evans, ownership inscription on front free endpapers.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

LEYBOURN (WILLIAM)The Compleat Surveyor: Containing the Whole Art of Surveying of Land, by the Plain Table, Theodolite, Circumferentor, and Peractor... With Whatsoever Else is Necessary to the Art of Surveying, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author (aged 27), title printed in red and black within typographic border, diagrams in the text, woodcut ornaments and decorative initials, small circular hole cut from margin of pp.57/58 touching printed rule border, a few small rustholes (touching letters on pp.52/54, and pp. 75/76), ink smudges on p.68, some spotting and a few small ink marks elsewhere, contemporary calf, worn with small losses at corners and foot of spine, upper hinge cracked [ESTC R20856], small folio (280 x 185mm.), R. & W. Leybourn, for E. Brewster, 1653Footnotes:Scarce at auction, the expanded version of William Leybourn's influential treatise on surveying. First published anonymously as a pamphlet titled Planometria, or, The Whole Art of Surveying of Land in 1650, there were four further editions published in the author's lifetime. Leybourn (1626-1716) was subsequently 'appointed one of the six surveyors to measure the damage caused by the Great Fire of London.... [and his] practice as a land surveyor continued and he mapped estates in London and many other English counties' (ODNB).Provenance: Anthony Methwin, several ink inscriptions to endpapers and blank recto of frontispiece, one dated 1669; Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp inside upper cover.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

RATHBORNE (AARON)The Surveyor in Foure Bookes, FIRST EDITION, engraved allegorical title-page, 2 engraved portraits (that of the author cut to size and mounted as frontispiece; the other of Prince Charles, Prince of Wales), woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text, woodcut ornaments and decorative initials, without final 2 blanks, occasional light marginal water-staining, a few spots and marks, later calf, spine gilt in compartments, joints slightly weakened [ESTC S116149; Fussell I, pp.22-23], small folio (270 x 180mm.), W. Stansby for W. Burre, 1616Footnotes:First edition of Rathborne's The Surveyor, an 'influential textbook addressed the practical everyday needs of surveyors more realistically than had been done hitherto' (ODNB), and written in the vernacular. Rathborne placed surveying firmly among the mathematical sciences, drawing on the latest teaching given at Gresham College, notably Henry Brigg's lectures on logarithms.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM: large folio album of original b&w photographs, circa 1930s, depicting celebrities and fashionable figures at leisure, including actors and stars of the era including Douglas Fairbanks, Joyce Carey, Ginette Spanier, Marius Goring, Judith Anderson, Anthony Bushell, Irene Browne, Gertrude Lawrence, Edna Best, Diana Wynyard, etc: square folio, brown cloth binding lettered in gilt to upper board 'Hunthay Holywych', approx 250 photographs with accompanying pencil annotations identifying sitters. (1)

VICTORIAN SCRAPBOOK: folio album containing numerous prints and engravings, circa 1860s-80s, including full page coloured view of two Royal Navy ships at 'Pulo Penang, or Prince of Wales Island', another showing the Thames at Kew, various pasted in drawings including several portraits by John Shewell Corder, 3 pencil sketches of Scottish views by John Wilson Ewbank, greetings cards and assorted ephemera etc, front cover lacking and partly disbound, folio. (1)

BRITISH COUNTIES: ACTS OF PARLIAMENT: collection of approx 50 Acts of Parliament, English counties inc, Suffolk, Oxon, Derby, Notts, Leicestershire, Huntingdon, Berks and Essex, mainly 18thc, all disbound folio, generally in good condition. (Qty)

ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS: bound volume for January-June 1878, numerous wood engraved illustrations, contemporary black half calf worn and frayed, folio: 'La Argentina...Impresiones de un Artista..': tipped-in colour illustrations by Vaccari, tissue guards, circa 1911, contemporary dark half morocco gilt, oblong folio: together with 17 others, mainly calf bound 19th century publications of various sizes, including atlas volume to Tredgold On The Steam Engine. (1)

FOLIO SOCIETY: DICKENS (Charles): 16 volumes, slipcases, some spotting and wear to spines. (16)

POSTCARD ALBUM: large vintage postcard album, approx 360 postcards corner mounted, majority actresses of period, some novelty and topographical and a few good advertising cards noted, contained in tall folio album of period early c20, the leaves loose and shaken, covers worn. (Album)

ST AUGUSTINE: single volume from a Venice edition, 1731, folio in contemporary blindstamped vellum, worn with front hinge frayed. (1)

JAPANESE ART: SEIROKU (Noma): 'The Arts of Japan, Ancient and Medieval...Vol.1': Kodansha International Ltd, 1982: 8th printing: folio, publishers cloth with slipcase, VG: together with 35 other vols on Japanese art, modern publications, mostly large format. (36)

SPEEDWAY: quantity of UK speedway programmes, largely 1980s period, together with 'Railway Yearbook for 1932' (spine detached: plus programme for launch of Cunard White Star Liner 'Queen Elizabeth Tuesday Sep 27 1938', folio in original printed covers ribbon tied to spine, some light marks but a good example. (Small carton)

SCOTLAND: mixed collection of manuscript and printed ephemera related, largely 19thc, to include a selection of notices issued by the Grampian Club: printed folio notice 'List of Markets in the County of Argyll', old folds: manuscript list 'Contents of the Estate of Silveraigs belonging to James Campbell Esq', string tied to spine, folio, old folds: with a quantity of other letters and documents related. (Small carton)

CONTINENTAL EPHEMERA: a small quantity, to include Italian theatre ticket printed on blue card, 1835: playbill of similar period advertising 'Monsieur de Chalumeau' and 'Il Casino di Campagna', small folio, folded: with misc other continental printed ephemera of similar period and a bundle of printed calling cards. (Small quantity)

LIVIUS (Titus): 'T. Livii Patavini Historiae Romanae Principis Decades Tres Cum Dimidia...': Paris Ex-Officina Michaelis Vascosani, 1552: folio, near contemporary calf, gilt compartments between raised bands, wear and rubbing, contents VG, occasional light spots and marks, early ink ownership to title, bookplate of Sir William Strachan, folio. (1)

ALBUM OF BLANK PAPER, EARLY 19TH CENTURY: elephant folio, approx 52 leaves of light tan blank paper (sheet size approx 43.5 x 60.5cm), contemporary black morocco gilt over marbled boards, scattered foxing, generally in good condition. (Album)

PHOTOGRAPHY: THURSTON THOMPSON (Charles): 'The Art Wealth of England. A series of photographs representing fifty of the most remarkable works of art attributed on loan to the special exhibition at the South Kensington Museum, 1862..' Colnaghi, Scott, & Co, 1862: elephant folio, black half morocco gilt, rubbed: with 50 photographic illustrations, with 2 other unrelated folio size publications, including an illustrated German language publication on the works of Albrecht Durer, Leipzig 1912. (3)

GARDENING: MILLER (Philip): 'The Gardener's and Botanist's Dictionary; containing the best and newest methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, and flower garden, and nursery; of performing the practical parts of agriculture; of managing vineyards...' London, Rivington et al, 1807: 2 vols in 4: large folio, later half calf gilt, library office of Woods stamps to foot of spine and endpapers, lacking frontispiece to volume 1 else a good set. (4)

ACTS OF PARLIAMENT, 18TH CENTURY: a collection of 40+ acts relating to the counties of Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Bucks, mainly 18thc, all disbound, folio. (Qty)

JEKYLL (Gertrude & ELGOOD, George): 'Some English Gardens...' Longmans, Green & Co, 1933: folio, pub. blue cloth gilt, rubbed: together with 4 other titles by Jekyll. (5)

TIPPING (H Avray): 'English Gardens', London, County Life, 1925: folio, pub. green cloth gilt, rubbed: together with 9 other vols, large format works on garden ornament and design of same period. (10)

SCRAP ALBUM: neatly arranged Victorian scrap album, numerous diecut and other chromo scraps pasted onto album leaves, some watercolours and greetings cards, approx 70pp, green half morocco gilt, aeg, folio. (1)

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM: ITALY: 19thc album of Venice and Ricordo della Certosa di Pavia, approx 20+ albumen print photographs mainly large format architectural views, contained in worn folio album of period, boards detached and edges frayed. (An album) Please note: this is one album only. 

GOLF: 'Golf Waltzes...Far and Sure by J. Dalziel..' Edinburgh, Dunn & Davidson, n.d (circa 1880): 8pp, folio music score with pictorial colour lithographed wrappers depicting Musselburgh Links, vignettes of golfers: stitched to spine, some edge nicks and creases, generally in good condition. (1)

THE THRILLER LIBRARY: 'The Thriller...the paper with a thousand thrills': collection of 19 various issues, 1929-36, contributors including Edgar Wallace, Leslie Charteris and W E Johns, some browning and rust to staples, a few spines frayed, age toning and spotting, generally in good condition, small folio. (19)

HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI: two typescripts, 'HMS Tyne's Commission', Pacific Fleet, 1944-46: large folding map of Yokohama Port marked 'Confidential', 14pp & memorandum, 21st March 1946. Guides to Japan, with map, 25 pages: an interesting account of the final stages of the war against Japan... 'the greater part of the Philippines was still in Japanese hands'. The first typescript describes 'the beginning of the Japanese collapse'. The Americans attack Okinawa and sink the Japanese battleship Yamato, fleet attacked by kamikaze planes. 'On the 6th August news was received that the world's first atomic bomb had been dropped at Hiroshima and that the second atomic bomb had been dropped at Nagasaki', later visiting Nagasaki after the bomb; 'the spectacle of several square miles of buildings completely razed to the ground was awe inspiring...' , continuing onto Hiroshima where 'the extent of the desolation was greater than at Nagasaki'. On leaving Japan the Tyne visits Hong Kong and then Korea, before returning home at the end of their commission. Both folio, one stapled to spine and the other string tied, light toning and marks, else good. (2)

COUNTRY HOUSE ALBUM: large late Victorian album of approx 180 photographs, largely albumen prints of various sizes, a few cyanotypes and other processes, depicting country house life around Joyce Grove, Nettlebed, Oxfordshire, 1890-1900, domestic and university life, a few sporting and hunting photos, many annotated with sitters and locations identified, images mounted to thick card leaves in elephant folio album of period, dark half morocco gilt, rubbed, contents generally sound.  In 1903 Robert Fleming, Scottish banker and grandfather of Bond author Ian Fleming, bought Joyce Grove, demolishing the original house shown in these images, commissioning architect C E Mallows in 1908 to build the house which still stands on the site today. (1)

SCRAP ALBUM: BRIGHT FAMILY: 19th century scrap album, front flyleaf inscribed 'The Sketchbook of my Grandmother E A Bright', numerous watercolours and sketches of various sizes, many topographical but also including figural and flower paintings, Neapolitan school watercolour 'Eruzione del 1826', and some topographical engravings, some items loosely inserted, contained in quarter calf album of period, rubbed, folio. (1)

ILLUMINATED ADDRESS: late Victorian illuminated address to Dr D R Paterson, comprising 4 thick card leaves, each window mounted, title with fine illuminated border dated August 3rd 1897 and border inset with flowers, photographs and four miniature watercolours, last 2 leaves with numerous signatures of dedicatees, contemporary red morocco gilt, upper lettered 'From the Cardiff Medical Society', aeg, folio, rubbed. (1)

MILITARY: 'The War Dragon...the Regimental Gazette of the Buffs (East Kent Regiment)': December 1916 issue, sm. folio, printed paper wrappers, staples rusted: together with 17 issues of The Camp Magazine...First Royal Naval Brigade Groningen, Holland, various issues 1915-17: plus 2 other items, including a folder of wartime Nazi collector's cards. (Small quantity)

FOLIO SOCIETY: Sherlock Homes Complete Stories, 9 vols in 2 slipcases, latter rubbed, else VG. (9)

FOLIO SOCIETY: collection of 31 vols, Folio Society publications in slipcase, generally in very good condition, to include Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, etc. (31)

CRANE (Walter, Illustrator): 'Wonder Book for Girls & Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne...' London, Osgood, 1892: 4to, publisher's decorative cloth, a bit skewed and rubbed: LEWIN (F G): 'Rhymes of Ye Olde Signboards...' Bristol & London, n.d. (circa 1900): narrow folio, original pictorial cloth backed boards, smudged: with 6 other vols, children's/illustrated, to include No.1 & No.3 of 'Images de Paris', both VG in original boards. (8)

COWARD (Noel): 'Tonight at 8.30...Plays by Noel Coward', New York, Doubleday, 1936: 8vo, publisher's red cloth gilt, spine a little dull, contained in modern clamshell box, autographed by Noel Coward to front free endpaper: together with music score by Coward 'Bittersweet', full red morocco gilt presentation binding, upper board with central panel lettered 'J W from N C', neatly recased preserving backstrip, small folio. (2)

MODERN ART: NASH (Paul): 'Paintings, Drawings & Illustrations...edited by Margaret Eates...' London, Lund Humphries, 1948: 4to, publishers green cloth with dustjacket, minor wear else VG: HITCHCOCK (Henry-Russell): 'In the Nature of Materials, 1887-1941..the Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright..' New York, 1942: square 4to, publishers red cloth with dustjacket, some chips and wear but a good copy: GRASS (Gunter): 'Fundsachen fur Nichtleser...' Steidl, 1947: folio, VG in dustjacket: with extensive pencil inscription to Grass to title page, dated Gottingen 5th Feb 1999: together with a large carton of other modern art reference, some signed, generally in very good condition. (A box)

MISCELLANEOUS EPHEMERA: a large carton to include postcards, correspondence, Victorian scrap album, small folio of engravings, ration books and other miscellaneous printed ephemera. (A box)

PARLIAMENTARY ACTS: a quantity in one carton, largely early 19thc, disbound folio, generally in good condition. (Box)

FOLIO SOCIETY: collection of 45 vols, Folio Society publications, majority in slipcase, some with wear but generally in good condition. (2 boxes)

INSURANCE/FIREMARKS: BULAU (Alwin): 'Footprints of Assurance...', New York, Macmillan, 1953: folio, publishers blue cloth, slightly rubbed: FOTHERGILL (George): 'British Fire-Marks from 1680...': William Green & Sons, 1911: 4to, publishers cloth backed boards: together with a large carton related, to include a quantity of vintage firemarks, mostly backed on wooden plaques, scrapbook of cuttings relating to The Caledonian Insurance Company and various other reference works and ephemera. (Large box)

CHELMSFORD CHRONICLE: bound volume of issues from Jan 7th-Dec 30th 1870, large folio, contemporary diced calf, binding worn, scuffed and bowed, some edge chips and creases but contents generally sound. (1)

HURLBUTT (Frank): 'Bow Porcelain...', London, G Bell, 1926: folio, publishers red cloth, lightly sunned and rubbed else VG: together with a quantity of other books in 2 cartons, to include misc. art reference, Folio Society, small folder of engravings from Don Quixote by Westall, some historical and biographical reference, etc, generally in good condition. (2 boxes)

AZORES, MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT C.1690: single folio sheet with manuscript to both sides, verso with bearings, vessel anchoring in 'Ye Island of St Michell': to recto details of the towns, anchorage, the fost and guns 'half dismounted'. Corn is the chief export, the fruit includes...'lemons, oranges, sweet & sour...': also an abundance of fish...'crawfish the best I ever saw...': some fraying to edges, general toning and creases. (1)

INDIAN PUNCH & JUDY: DORASAWMY (A C): 'Punch & Judy, Merry-Go-Round and Marionettes...': Madras printed, 1904: folio, 4pp advertisement with wood engraved illustrations and borders: some fraying and small repair at centre fold, old creasing and toning, else in good condition. (1)

NEWSPAPER: MANCHESTER GUARDIAN: bound volume of issues from Monday April 2-Saturday June 30th 1906, elephant folio, contemporary buckram backed boards, contents browned and some edges brittle, waterstain round upper edges. (1)

BATTLE OF BRITAIN WEEK: 'Come and See the Royal Airforce at Home...Saturday 19th September 1953..': original col. litho poster by Ronn Langstaff pub. HMSO, approx 75 x 50cm, light toning and pinholes to corners else VG: together with a smaller format version printed on card, string hanger to top margin, plus 5 pencil draft drawings for posters advertising the same event, contained in old grey cloth folio of period, the artist's ink stamp inside front board. (7)

BOOKPLATES: collection of approx 300 bookplates, 18th-20th century, majority mounted onto individual leaves of paper or card and some loose: together with early 20thc folio album containing 22 tipped-in bookplates, majority varying designs for William Stirling Maxwell of various sizes including large format and printed in differing colours. (Qty)

YORKSHIRE: 'An Act to Repair the Road leading from Tadcaster Bridge within the County of the City of York..', London, 1745: folio, disbound: together with a quantity of other mainly 18th century acts relating to the North and West Riding of Yorkshire, approx 30+ items.