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Click here to subscribe'The Illustrated London News', volume XLII, January-June 1863, numerous articles and illustrations including American Civil War, Anti Slavery demonstration at Exeter, Ascot Races, Chicha Guano Islands, Panorama of the City of Mexico etc, lacks coloured plates, many full page and some double page engravings, folio, original pictorial blind stamped cloth gilt (very good condition)
'The Illustrated London News', volume XLIII, July-December 1863, numerous articles and illustrations including American Civil War and American South, Discovery of the source of the Nile, War in Japan, Revolution in Madagascar, Maori Land Wars etc, lacks coloured plates, many full page and some double page engravings, folio, original pictorial blind stamped cloth gilt (very good condition)
Two bound volumes of sheet music circa 1830, Piano Forte and Songs, numerous scores bound together in two volumes, each with separate copper engraved title pages including W. Croker : The Reform Quadrilles containing The Patriot King... Composed and dedicated to the Rt Hon Sir Robt. Harty Bart. MP Lord Mayor of the City of Dunlin. In Commemmoration of his Glorious Triumph over the Enemies of Reform; Dublin, R.Gillespie for the author [nd] circa earlier 19thC, 6pp sheet music; Carl Maria Von Weber: The Celebrated Overture to Alson Hassan, for the piano forte; Dublin. Bunting, Walsh Pigott & Sherwin, circa 1830, 7pp; Mathias Holst; Freyschutz Rondo; London, the author, circa 1825, Illustrated engraved title page depicting marksmen imbibing, etc etc. 50+ works bound in two volumes, folio, uniform contemporary half Mororcco gilt worn, each volume with pencil ownership signature E.C Guiness at front, Piano Forte volume with pencil inscription signature stating "Elveden Hall Copy", probably signatures of Edward Cecil Guiness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (1847-1927) Irish businessman and philanthropist. (2)
'Genius. Zeitschrift Fur Werdende unde alte Kunst', Munich, Leipzig, Kurt Wolff, 1919-1921, three volumes in six original parts (all that was ever published), edited Hans Mardersteig and Carl Georg Heise, illustrated throughout with numerous mounted illustrations but apparently lacking the 16 woodcuts/etching/litho's by Schmidt-Rotluff, Franz Kafka, Maxim Gorky, Alfred Dublin, Herman Hesse and others, each folio, original printed wraps, parts 3 & 4 lacking backstrips, 5 & 6 backstrips with part loss/wear, some loose leaves etc (6)
Grace Coddington, Michael Roberts et al: 'Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue', Paris, Edition 7L, 2002, 1st edition, signed by fashion icon Grace Coddington to title page "Grace Coddington, December 13th 2004", an in depth look at the former model and admired creative director at Vogue Magazine, copiously illustrated throughout, photos by David Bailey, Guy Bourdin, Snowdon, Annie Leibovitz, Peter Lindberg etc, folio, original pictorial cloth, acetate dust wrapper with gilt titling, original slipcase (slightly worn)
A.S.G. Butler: 'The Lutyens Memorial, The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens', London, Country Life, 1950, 1st edition, 3 volumes, numerous monochrome plates and illustrations, many folding, folio, original green cloth gilt, dust wrappers (worn and with some part losses and repairs/restoration), armorial bookplates of William Iveson Croome, large folding facsimile copy of an original Lutyens architectural plan for Castle Drogo, near Drewsteignton, Devon, and 2010 invoice for books loosely inserted, provenance Ian Latter (3)
Joan Nieuhof: 'Het Gezantschap Der Neerlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, Aan Den Grooten Tartarischen Cham, Den Tegenwoordigen Keizer Van China...door de Sineesche Landtschappen, Quantung, Kiangsi, Nanking, Xantung en Peking...', Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1665, 1st edition, 2 parts in 1, added engraved title page (with some professional restoration), engraved portrait plate of author, large folding engraved map of China, 33 (of 35), double page engraved plates and views (lacking only the plate of Paolinxi, according to Tiele not found in most copies, from part 1, and Pagoda of Binnen plate from part 2), 110 half page engravings, 2 engraved coats of arms plates of Spiegel and Witsen, title printed in red and black, foxing mainly to earlier leaves, engraved head-piece and initial, woodcut ornamental head and tail-pieces, [8],208,258,[10]pp, folio, rebound 20th Century vellum, new EP's, top edge gilt, armorial bookplate of Paul Walter Homberger. The plates show views including Batavia, Canton, Macao, Nanjing, Beijing etc, plans, costumes, flora and fauna etc. First edition of this famous description of the first trade mission undertaken by the V.O.C. (Dutch East-Indian Trading Company) to the emperor of China, the first extensively illustrated book describing China.
Sir William Richard Drake: 'Fascicules Mervinensis; Being Notes Historical, Genealogical, and Heraldic of the Family Mervin.', London, 1873, privately printed, mounted frontis + folding pedigrees as called for, folio, three quarter crushed morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, bookplate of William Martin Archdale (1912-2003) to front pastedown
W H Pyne: 'Microcosm: or, A Picturesque Delineation of the Arts, Agriculture, Manufacturer, & c of Great Britain', 1806, a/f sold as a series of plates only, 26 hand coloured aquatint plates only (one of which with closed tear, others VGC), depicting fishermen, blacksmiths, masons, millers, agriculture, sail makers, potters, sawing, wagons, woodmen, shepherds etc, disbound oblong folio, title page loose/creased, several plates looseNB 7 further plates have been added to this lot, bringing total number of plates to 26
William Byrne and Thomas Hearne: 'Antiquities of Great Britain', London, T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1807, volumes I & II, portrait of Hearne + additional engraved title page/frontispiece in volume 1 + 82 engraved plates as called for (including some Castleacre, Leiston, Castle Rising, Caister Castle, Dunwich, Yarmouth), oblong folio, contemporary full calf gilt (worn), armorial bookplates of H W Livett, Letter to Mr Cross as a present from Mr Livett in envelope attached to front pastedown volume I (2)
John Glyde: 'Illustrations of Old Ipswich, 1889, 1st edition, 12 plates as called for, folio, rebound quarter cloth gilt, top edge gilt; G R Clarke: 'The History & Description of the Town and Borough of Ipswich', Ipswich, S Piper, [1830], 1st edition, engraved frontis, engraved title page + 14 full page plates and ills. in text as called for, old paper covered boards, later rebacked, printed paper label to spine (worn); [Richard Gowing]: 'Public Men of Ipswich & East Suffolk', Ipswich, Scopes, 1875, inscribed by the author, 292pp + 20pp adverts at end, original cloth gilt (worn) (3)
Two Victorian 19th Century German hardback books - Palestina 2 Volumes, Georg (German, 1837-1898) and GUTHE, Hermann (German, 1849-1963), Palastina in Bild und Wort. Nebst der Sinaihalbinsel und dem Lande Gosen. [Palestine in Picture and Word. Including the Sinai Peninsula and The Land of Goshen]. Stuttgart and Leipzig: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (Vormals Eduard Hallberger), 1883 (vol. 1) - 1884 (vol. 2). 2 volumes. Folio (385 x 310 mm). Gilded and embossed Morocco binding, moire endpaper. All edges gilded. Published in German. Both volumes are illustrated with 39 full-page lithographs and steel engravings, as well as over 600 woodcut engravings in the text, depicting maps and views of Jerusalem, Damascus, Palmira, Jaffa, the Giza Necropolis and many more. Signs of wear to the spine.
ALLEN (WILLIAM)Picturesque Views on the River Niger, Sketched during Lander's Last Visit in 1832-33, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on title-page ('Presented to Mrs. Edw.d Walpole Brown with best regards from the author/ William Allen'), list of subscribers, lithographed map, folding panorama and 20 views on 8 plates (of 9, lacking no. 5), all on linen guards, map, panorama and 2 plates foxed, text uniformly browned, later half cloth, publisher's printed wrappers bound in (front one chipped) [cf. Abbey Travel 284], oblong folio (270 x 372mm.), John Murray, 1840Footnotes:Presentation copy of this series of views by Commander William Allen, who was invited by the Admiralty to accompany John Lander's expedition up the Niger in order to make a survey of the river.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
SCHMIED (THÉO, AND F.-L.)Sud-Marocain. Grand-Atlas, Anti-Atlas. Trente planches gravées sur bois en colours par Théo Schmied d'après les tableaux de son père F.-L. Schmied, NUMBER 71 OF 120 COPIES, WITH EACH PLATE SIGNED by the artist and engraver, and by Théo on the colophon, from an overall edition of 126 copies, text by General Catroux, 30 colour-printed wood-engraved plates by Théo after F.-L. Schmied, loose as issued in publisher's wrappers, cloth portfolio and chemise, folio (415 x 330mm.), Paris, Théo Schmied, 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
PRISSE D'AVENNES (ACHILLE CONSTANT T. EMILE)Oriental Album. Characters, Costumes, and Modes of Life, in The Valley of the Nile, second edition, woodcut vignette on title, 31 hand-coloured tinted lithographed plates by Lemoine, Lehnert, Mouilleron, Le Roux and others after Prisse d'Avennes, frontispiece loose and frayed at margins, short tear to 2 plates, heavy spotting to 2 plates, a few small marginal tears and chips, opening leaves and one plate misbound, text block loose in modern half morocco re-using original cloth sides, with original spine laid down [cf. Atabey 1001, Blackmer 1357, first edition], folio (445 x 320mm.), James Madden, 1851This 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
MORITZ (BERNHARD)Bilder aus Palästina, Nord-Arabien und dem Sinai, 106 plates after photographs mounted on 50 card mounts with captions, numbered 1-100 and 16a, 59b, 60a, 72a (2 photos) and 95a, one map (numbered 63a), the images of varying sizes, 16 pages of accompanying text, loose as issued in publisher's cloth-backed decorative portfolio boards, gilt lettered 'Nord-Arabien und Sinai' on upper cover, rubbed, oblong folio (290 x 390mm.), Berlin, Dietrich Riemer, 1916Footnotes:A rare photographic record of the major sites and geographic features in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Palestine. The images - taken for the most part by Moritz but some by Turkish friends in areas where he was prohibited from going - depict pilgrims on the Hajj to Mecca, Bedouins, the building of the Hejaz railway between Damascus and the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, Jiddah, Petra, and Mt. Sinai. Moritz (1859-1939) was an Arabist and archaeologist who from 1896 to 1911 headed the Khedival Library and Archive in Cairo. It was from there that he made numerous research trips to the Sinai and Hejaz, taking the present photographs between 1905 and 1915.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
SHAW (THOMAS)Travels or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant, half-title, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 32 engraved plates, maps and plans on 29 sheets (several folding), engraved vignettes and decorative initials by H. Gravelot after C. Frederick, illustrations in text including full-page sheet of music, contemporary panelled calf, gilt lettering label on spine, slightly rubbed, a few scuffmarks [Blackmer 1553; Röhricht 1352; Weber I, 496], folio (348 x 220mm.), Oxford, at the Theatre, 1738Footnotes:Thomas Shaw acted as the chaplain to the English factory at Algiers from 1720 to 1733, during which time he travelled to Egypt, Palestine, Cyprus, the Holy Land and parts of North Africa including Tunis and Carthage, taking particular interest in the antiquities and natural history of the areas visited.Provenance: James Irvine Esq., of Kingcausie (1717-1794), armorial 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
WEST INDIES AND BRITISH GUIANA - PHOTOGRAPHYNineteenth century album of views in the West Indies, British Guiana (Guyana), and United States, captioned 'Our trip to the West Indies and America... January 2nd [-April 30th] 1884', 68 albumen prints, mostly mounted one per page (several smaller 2 per page), 3 joined forming a panorama, the majority captioned in ink on mount, images typically approximately 155 x 210mm., contemporary calf, defective, oblong folio, [c.1884]Footnotes:A good record of a voyage undertaken on the Royal Mail Steam Packet S.S. Elbe in 1884. Images include Trinidad (15, including 'Orange Grove House' and 'O.G. railway station', 'Country Residence of Mrs Agostini, Port of Spain', 'Colonial Company's Sugar Works', 2 of the 'The Pitch Lake'), Trinidad portrait types ('Coolie Women', 'Coolie Man', 'West Indian Negress'), St. Thomas (2), St. Kitts (3), St. Lucia, Martinique, Antigua, Barbados (2), Demerara and Esquibbo in British Guiana (24, including 11 views of Georgetown, of which 3 forming a panorama of the bay, 'Shipping sugar, Demerara', 'Coolie Barracks', 7 of the Esequibo River, including 'Penal Settlement' and 'Indian Encampment'), and America (12).Provenance: Hardin Burnley Campbell and May Burnley Campbell, named beneath note 'Our trip to the West Indies and America. Started from Southampton, January 2nd 1884. S.S. Elbe Landed at Greenock April 30th. S.S. Anchoria' on opening leaf. The Campbells owned a sugar plantation in Trinidad, and their home at Orange Grove is depicted in the album; by family descent to current owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
MAXIMILIAN ZU WIED-NEUWIED, PRINCEVoyage au Brésil, Atlas only, letterpress leaf of contents, 19 (of 22 engraved plates, 5 hand-coloured), one (of 3) engraved maps, without vignettes, number 6 cut to size, several others trimmed within platemark, occasional spotting, loose in publisher's porfolio boards, blue printed label on upper cover, lacks spine, folio, [Paris, 1821-22], sold not subject to returnThis 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
FRANKLIN EXPEDITIONMAY (WALTER A.) A Series of Fourteen Sketches Made During the Voyage Up Wellington Channel in Search of Sir John Franklin, K.C.H., and the Missing Crews of H.M. Discovery-Ships Erebus and Terror, FIRST EDITION, letterpress title, list of subscribers and 4pp. of text, 14 tinted lithographed views on 12 sheets, plate 14 ('Franklin Relics') with 2 small stains and slight loss to one corner, contents loose in publisher's cloth-backed printed wrappers (soiled, edges frayed, lacks spine) [Abbey Travel 646; Sabin 47083], folio (380 x 285mm.), Day and Son, 1 May 1855Footnotes:William May was a Lieutenant aboard the Assistance, under the command of Edward Belcher, during the expedition to search for John Franklin. The Assistance wintered at Northumberland Sound, and May was one of the party who made several sledge forays in the Spring.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
IACOVLEFF (ALEXANDRE)Dessins et peintures d'Asie. Exécutés au cours de l'Expedition Citroen Centre-Asie. Troisième mission G.-M. Haardt, [LIMITED TO 720 COPIES], 50 chromolithographed plates, lacks text, loose in publisher's printed portfolio boards with title on upper cover, ties, folio (380 x 278mm.), [Paris, Jules Meynel, 1934]Footnotes:During 1931-1932 the Russian artist Alexandre Iacovleff (1887-1938) accompanied the Citroën Trans-Asia expedition (led by Georges Marie Haardt and Louis Audouin-Dubreuil). He recorded the scenes en route and, most notably, a series of portraits of the inhabitants of the countries through which he travelled, including Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Mongolia and China.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
SELLA (VITTORIO) AND WILLIAM F. DONKIN - MOUNTAINEERINGAlbum of nineteenth century photographs of mountaineering and the Alps, comprising 139 images, many by Vittorio Sella and W.F. Donkin, mostly albumen prints, mounted on 50 card sheets (usually recto only, but using 3 versos), 22 large format by Sella (285 x 385mm., or similar) one per page, approximately 100 (typically 130 x 180mm.) mounted 4 per page, remainder varying sizes 2 per page, varying tones and fading, many subjects or photographers identified in later pencil in margins, contemporary half morocco, g.e., worn at edges, one joint split, oblong folio (365 x 465mm.), [mostly 1880s]Footnotes:RARE NINETEENTH CENTURY ALBUM OF VIEWS IN THE ALPS BY THE GREAT PIONEERS OF MOUNTAINEERING PHOTOGRAPHY. 'It is to W.F. Donkin that we owe the beginning of first-rate alpine landscape [photography]... He brought technical skill to his work as well as a wonderful eye for country... Among his contemporaries, and a friendly rival, was the greatest of all photographers of the next generation Vittorio Sella' (C. Douglas Milner, A Century of Mountain Photography, Alpine Journal, 1957).William Frederick Donkin died, aged 43, during a climbing expedition to the Caucasus in 1888. Fêted at the time of his premature death, with a retrospective exhibition of his work held at the instigation of the Alpine Club (of which he was honorary secretary from 1885-1888) and Photographic Society in 1889, Donkin has subsequently been overshadowed by the longer lived Sella. This is undoubtedly due to the lack of details known about his life (no entry on ODNB) and scarcity of his works. The current album includes many views attributed to him.Vittorio Sella's 22 large format photographs of the Alps, from his expeditions from 1882 to 1888, include: Monte Rosa and lower peak of the Rimpfischhorn (with photographer's credit stamp lower right); Aletsch Glacier and Lake Marjelen; Summit of the Matterhorn, from the Tyndall Peak; Italian Ridge of the Matterhorn; Tete Du Lion, and Dent D'Herens, from above the Col du Lion; Swiss Summit of Matterhorn, with figure (from a cracked negative); Wellenkuppe and Gabelhorn, from the Moraine of the Gabelhorn Glacier; Matterhorn from Col des Grandes Murailles; Aiguille de la Za, from its base; Highest summit of Piz Roseg; Piz Bernina; Monte della Disgrazia from the summit of Piz Roseg; Lyskamm, with three climbers on the ice; Dent d'Herens, from Tiefenmattenfoch, with three climbers on the ice; Matterhorn, from the Zmutt ravine; Matterhorn, ?from the d'Herens summit; Dent Blanche, from the arete of Dent d'Herens above Tiefenmatten Glacier; Aletsch Glacier and Eggishorn, seen from Concordia lodge; Matterhorn from Col d'Herens; Aletschhorn, from the summit of Grunhornli. Two others unidentified.Towards the end of the album are a series of nine photographs of alpine mountaineering watercolours by 'H.G.W., 1888', and several images of climbing and skating groups, and views at Davos (2 with photo credit of photo studios from Davos).Provenance: The Rucksack Club, from where purchased by the vendor.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
MORVI STATE, GUJARAT - PHOTOGRAPHY'Morvi State Album', 70 silver gelatin prints (190 x 240mm.) mounted one per page, all captioned in blue pencil in lower margin, original decorative maroon morocco gilt, titled on upper cover with State Arms, g.e., oblong folio (280 x 385mm.), [c.1900]Footnotes:A fine album of 70 large views of the State capital of Morvi [or Morbi], in Gujarat showcasing the extensive modernisations undertaken by Maharaja Thakur Sahib of Morvi Sir Waghji II Rawaji (1858-1922), who ruled for fifty years. Images include groups centred on the Maharaja (5, with state officials, 'private group' with his two sons and railway officials); State carriages (5, 2 seating the Maharaja, one his son and heir Lakhiriji, one captioned 'State carriage and the Golden harness. Whole turn out got out from England'); State Police on parade (5, mostly mounted on horse or camels); the majority depicting modern building and infrastructure projects, some populated in the fore-ground, including the State weaving and spinning cotton mill, hospital 'for uncurable diseases', 15-arch stone bridge across the Machchhu River (4), the Railway station and offices (3, including horse drawn train), post office, 'gas work for lighting town', customs house, 'dispensary for town people', vegetable market, public park, the Green Chowk clock tower with tram line, the palace (6 exterior views, 4 interiors), the remarkable 'Private suspension bridge for the private use of the palace', general workshops, State stables, stud and coach house (5), Nazzar Bagh summer palace and grounds (4), bird's-eye views of the town (2, one with bridge in background, one showing the length of main thoroughfare, the whole length of which fronted in a classical facade).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
BOURNE (SAMUEL) AND CHARLES SHEPHERDBourne & Shepherd's Royal Photographic Album of Scenes and Personages: Connected with the Progress of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, through Bengal, the North-West Provinces, the Punjab and Nepal. With Some Descriptive Letterpress, albumen print frontispiece portrait, 140 albumen prints by Bourne and Shepherd, mounted between one and 4 per page (recto only, captions printed in red), occasional spotting, frontispiece loose, 2 plates re-inserted, modern red half morocco gilt, the publisher's gilt lettering panel preserved on upper cover, folio (370 x 270mm.), Calcutta, Bombay and Simla, Bourne and Shepherd, 1876Footnotes:VERY RARE, only one copy traced on Rare Book Hub. Published by Bourne and Shepherd, the leading nineteenth century leading photographic agency in India, the album was issued to celebrate the eight month tour of the Indian subcontinent undertaken by the Prince of Wales in 1875. The album includes photographs of significant Indian locations (including Amritsar, Lahore, Agra and Fatehpur Sikri, Delhi, Gwalior, and Benares), portraits of local princes, groups of types (including Beluchi chiefs, Dancing Gadis, Yarkandis with hunting hawks, women of Kashmire, Tibetan mendicants, and Men of Bikaner), shikar, hunting and elephants, mostly mounted.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
GRINDLAY (ROBERT MELVILLE)Scenery, Costumes and Architecture, Chiefly on the Western Side of India, parts 1-2 & 4-6 only (of 6) bound in 1 vol., hand-coloured engraved general title, and 29 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Grindlay, Westall, Stanfield, Daniel and others (without 'Temple of Dwarka' in part 6), all on thick paper, tissue guards, small engraved print pasted onto verso of one plate in part 1, some text leaves watermarked 'J. Whatman 1827', nineteenth century red half morocco gilt, gilt lettered on upper cover, g.e., rubbed at extremities [Abbey Travel 442; Colas 1333; cf. Tooley 239], folio (402 x 300mm.), R. Ackermann, 1826[-1830]Footnotes:'Next to Daniell the most attractive colour plate book on India. One of the few books in which the name of the colourist is mentioned. viz. J.B. Hogarth' (Tooley). The work was originally issued in six parts comprising 6 plates each, taken from a collection of sketches and drawings made by Grindlay while he was in the service of the East India Company.Provenance: Colonel Christopher Palmer Rigby (1820–1885), armorial bookplate and ink note ('A souvenir of my old friend, and companion during many years service in Indian and Arabia, Colonel C.B. Morton. Presented to me by Morton Bell Esquire, June 1875. C.P. Rigby') on front free endpaper. 'Rigby began his military career in 1836, as an ensign in the 5th regiment of native infantry stationed in Poona. He remained in India, except for a posting in Aden from 1840 to 1843, until 1850' (ODNB).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SPEKE (JOHN HANNING)Correspondence and papers retained by Christopher Palmer Rigby, British Consul on Zanzibar relating to the Speke/Burton feud, comprising: i) Group of five autograph letters and a note signed ('J.H. Speke') to Christopher Palmer Rigby, the first announcing that he has '...in conjunction with Mr Petherick undertaken to go to Nyanza again and to connect it with the Nile - I going up the west side of the Lake from Unyamyembe whilst he goes down southwards from Gondokoro... This would be a glorious tour!...' and praising Rigby for his success in quashing the Burghash rebellion ('...you are the father of Zanzibar and the Sultan your eldest son...'), the rest taken up with his feud with fellow-explorer Richard Burton, writing gleefully that '...Burton has got the dumps and is cutting himself at every turn...', speaking of his reluctance to accompany Burton ('...I had seen enough of his blackguardism at that time to for ever despise him...'), calling him a 'cunning ingrate, and double blackguard' and complaining of his conduct ('...I gave him [Burton] every collection, observations and my original diary... and printed my diaries to swell his own book with, and this too without ever asking my consent... It is true Burton touched up some of my diaries on return from the Nyanza as they stood in the original... but by practice in writing I improved my style...'), his resentment at Burton receiving a Gold Medal ('...I alone had brought back all the geographical results of that expedition, and Burton had not shown himself capable of doing anything but making ethnological remarks...'), explaining in detail the confusion with regards to the payment of the porters, returning specimens and '...the last of the tots... send them off as contented as their discontented dispositions will permit...', announcing the publication of his account of the first two expeditions in one volume ('...The Hindu map published by Wilford has turned out a forgery, so in the Second Edition it will be left out...'), asking Rigby to speak with the Sultan about 'the unjustifiable interference of the Arabs' in the African interior ('...only perpetrated as a pretext to loot...'), including a list of specimens returned ('...Gun case of Bird & Snake skins... female head of Eland... skins of head are separate from the skulls...'), and much else; with two envelopes, one bearing the remark that the porters have run away, 24 pages, creased with spotting and some small tears along folds, 8vo and 4to, Illminster, Kinanga Ranga, Kazeh, Grand Hotel, Paris, 19 January 1860 to 20 April [postmarked 1864]ii) Autograph letter signed ('M. Grant') to Rigby's widow ('My dear Mrs Rigby'), asking if she has copies of Rigby's letters 'reporting the conduct of the late Sir Richard Burton' so that she can 'contradict what Lady Burton has written about Speke in the Daily Graphic... her husband could not have told her that he had attempted the life of Captn Speke by asking one of their followers to put poison into his medicine. This is well too well-known to the family of Captn Speke...', 6 pages, on mourning paper, 8vo (177 x 114mm.), Househill, Nairn, 15 January 1891iii) Draft document signed ('C.P. Rigby') to 'H. L. Anderson Esquire/ Chief Secretary to Government/ Bombay', 'Reporting the libels and calumnies contained in a Book entitled 'The Lake Regions of Central Africa' recently published by Brevet Captain Burton... & his treatment of his followers during the late Expedition in Central Africa', with various additions and amendments, 25 pages, docketed 'no. 73 of 1860', joined at head by green silk thread, folio (335 x 210mm.), British Consulate, Zanzibar, 16 November 1860; with two duplicate letters from H.L. Anderson confirming that it will be forwarded to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India, assuring him that '...you have fully vindicated yourself... your reputation has... been in no degree affected by Captain Burton's untrustworthy statements...', one with the subscription 'Transmitted to Colonel Rigby/ Lewis Pelly/ Zanzibar/ 30th October 1861', 4 pages, folio (225 x 210mm.), Bombay Castle, 18 March 1861; and another uncompleted draft letter from Rigby regarding the perceived damage to the reputation of Mr Apothecary Frost, the Medical Officer, through claims made by Burton in his book.Footnotes:'I HAD SEEN ENOUGH OF HIS BLACKGUARDISM AT THAT TIME TO FOR EVER DESPISE HIM'The unresolved feud between explorers Speke and Burton is well documented. After their expedition to the lake regions of Central Africa, Burton published their joint achievements as his own and was awarded a Gold Medal from the Royal Geographical Society which Speke felt should belong to him. Speke also accused Burton of refusing to pay the porters and reneging on promises to reward other members of the expedition ('...now I have repaid him for that as well as all of the half expenses of the Expedition; and had the Govt. not paid the men at Zanzibar, I should have paid my share to them likewise... you know only too well how things have been done...').These letters not only illustrate the bitterness of the feud but also reveal the considerable extent to which Rigby was involved in fanning the flames of the acrimony between the two explorers. Rigby had known Burton in India and his friendship with Speke was strengthened by their mutual dislike. Rigby's journal, included in this sale (see Lot 82), mentions long, almost daily walks with Speke and he helped him with supplies and the organisation of the expedition. In return, Speke talks with admiration of Rigby and his work ('...you are the father of Zanzibar and the Sultan your eldest son...'), giving him permission to publish a letter which, he writes, 'may have the effect for reforming Burton: at any rate it will check his scribbling mania, and save his soul the burthen of many lies'. Rigby's influence in encouraging the feud is clear and it has been said that it was his report to the Secretary of State for India, a copy of which is included here, that 'made the breach between the two explorers... unbridgeable' (Tim Jeal, Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph & Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure, 2011). What is also revealing that, thirty years after Speke's death, the feud was still not laid to rest, with the widows of the protagonists continuing to air their accusations in public and with the wife of James Grant here accusing Burton of contriving to poison Speke whilst on their expedition. Speke's letters are published, in part, in a memoir written by Rigby's daughter (Mrs Charles E.B. Russell, General Rigby, Zanzibar and the Slave Trade, 1935). However, whether to spare the sensibilities of her readers or of Speke's family, she omits the stronger accusations revealed here.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
INDIA - MAHARAJA JAM VIBHAJI OF NAWANAGARPortrait of Maharaja Jam Vibhaji of Nawanagar (now Jamnagar, reigned 1852-95), from the region of Kathiawar in Gujarat, standing with a cane against an architectural and garden background, watercolour and gouache, heightened in gold within orange border, 265 x 215mm., [c.1865-1870]; together with 3 letters relating to Jamnagar, one a 3-page letter signed by the Maharaja of Nawanagar, to C.P. Rigby, written in English, with original address envelopes, folio, 'Nowanuggur [Nawanagar] Palace, 20th February 1874' (4)Footnotes:In January 1864 Rigby was appointed commissioner for the settlement of boundary disputes between the states of Baroda and Jamnagar, and it seems likely it was during this time he was gifted the portrait of Maharaja Jam Vibhaji, with whom he dined on the eve of his departure from the region in March. 'In this amiable and enlightened Prince he made a real friend. Through all the years till death severed them, Rigby and Jam, thought they never met again, continued to correspond' (Russell, General Rigby, Zanzibar and the Slave Trade, 1935, pp.392-3).In the lengthy letter, dated 1874, Jam Bibhaji thanks Rigby for his continued interest in Nawanagar, mentions his son Prince Kaloohbha is resident in Cawnpore, refers to Colonel Anderson ('... quite welcome in Kattyaar...'), 'arrangements for the Sultan of Zanzibar when he comes to England', the election of Sir Seymour Fitzgerald as a Member of Parliament, and the education of Rigby's son. The letter is transcribed by Russell, see above.Provenance: Christopher Palmer Rigby (1820-1885).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
RIGBY (CHRISTOPHER PALMER)Manuscript autobiographical journal covering his family history, career in Persia, Zanzibar and India, travels in Europe, and other important family events, INCLUDING A LETTER TO HIM FROM THE SULTAN OF ZANZIBAR, and additional materials relating to Rigby's relations with the explorer Richard Burton, in ink, approximately 400 pages (360 by Rigby, 40 by his son Gerard Christopher), the letter from Majid bin Said of Zanzibar ('written to me by the Sultan Sayid... in his own hand writing, during the rebellion of the tribes', in colloquial Arabic, in highly cursive hand, dated Ramadan 1277/ A.D. 1860-61), a 4-page letter written to Rigby announcing the discovery at the Royal Asiatic Society archives in Bombay of Richard Burton's field and sketch books (dated 6 February 1865), a duplicate of the document signed by H.C.L. Anderson, Chief Secretary of the Bombay Government, authorising Rigby to instigate his plans to suppress the slave trade (10 November 1860), several newspaper cuttings, and two obituaries pasted or tipped-in, front free endpaper loose, contemporary red morocco gilt, g.e., rubbed with a few scuffmarks, small folio; and a small bundle of other materials relating to Christopher Palmer Rigby, and his family (small quantity)Footnotes:'WE RECEIVED NEWS THAT A POWERFUL FLEET WAS BEING EQUIPPED BY SAYID THOWENEE OF SULTAN OF MUSCAT FOR THE INVASION OF ZANZIBAR': vividly written autograph memoir of Christopher Palmer Rigby, produced for the benefit of his children. Born in Hampshire in 1820, Rigby's early years were ones of Dickensian misery, consisting of neglect at home ('I never remember during my whole childhood the slightest caress or affection from her [his mother]... I always dreaded his [father's] return knowing the beating in store for me...'), then from the age of eight three years without a holiday at a school in Yorkshire reminiscent of Dotheboys Hall in Nicholas Nickleby ('each morning the Master went round the boys' bed rooms with a birch rod and severely flogged any of the little boys who had wetted their beds...'). In 1834, aged fourteen, he joined the Military College, and in 1836 he was posted to India, attached to the 5th Regiment Native Infantry at Poona, beginning an extraordinary career in Colonial service. Due to his language skills (he was fluent in Arabic, Persian, Hindustani, Mahratta, Canarese and Guzeratti) he rose quickly, becoming by the 1850s Superintendent of the Revenue Survey in Deccan, then in 1857 Superintendent of Police with the Field Expeditionary Force which captured Bushire [Bushehr, modern-day Iran], which 'I certainly never expected to leave alive'. Forming a police force from local Persians he instigated a ban on alcohol, and freed all slaves. He also undertook to prevent the local Jewish and Armenian women from being abused in the street, by procuring 'the disguise of a Persian lady - high yellow boots, loose trousers, and Yashmuk covering the body - I mixed with a party of Armenian ladies, and followed by two of my police in disguise with a rope and cat'o'nine tails, strolled through the main street. Any Persian using insulting language found himself suddenly seized from behind, tied up the nearest door post, & punished with 2 dozen lashes...'. The core of the narrative relates to his posting, from July 1858 to September 1861, as H.M. Consul to Zanzibar and Muscat, during which time he received the explorers Richard Burton, John Speke and John Grant; he also tried, found guilty and hung the murderers of Dr. Roscher, and suppressed an insurrection undertaken by the Sultan of Zanzibar's brothers, Barghash and Thuwaini, who 'had collected an armed force of fanatical Arabs from Oman and the Persian Gulf' (Royal Geographical Society, obituary of Rigby, June 1885). This force was intercepted at sea and as Rigby succinctly noted 'invited under threat of force to return to Muscat'. Rigby's successful attempts to convince the Sultan to help end the slave trade, not just amongst Arabic traders, but also 'British subjects residing in the Zanzibar dominions... in the habit of buying and selling Africans as slaves', are obviously one of the author's proudest achievements: '...The sight of one of the wealthiest and most influential Hindoo merchants being marched through the town in irons for refusing to emancipate his slaves caused very great excitement... these methods soon began to produce effect...'. Prior to his retirement, Rigby spent three years from 1864 back in India undertaking negotiations of various boundary disputes between neighbouring princely rulers, whilst continuing his fight against slavery, this time at Kutch and Kattiawar. At the end of the album Rigby's son Gerard has pasted in obituaries of his father, and transcribed 'notes and copies of letters from my father's papers referring to the case of Sir R. Burton', this relating to the statements contained in Burton's The Lake Regions of Central Africa in which he maliciously accused Rigby of carelessness in his duties as Consul. Writing in 1923, the centenary of Burton's birth, Gerard is scathing of his 'Celebrity', elaborates on his serious defects of character' and sets the record straight 'for the information of my father's descendants'. Other materials in the lot include: four diary journals written during Rigby's extensive travels through Europe (Hungary, Poland, Russia, as well as more traditional 'Grand Tour' destinations) during his furlough period from service in Persia and Africa; his daily diary for 1883, mentioning regular visits to the Geographical Society, Anti-slavery Society, the Rio Tinto Company, Royal Academy Exhibition ('very poor'), auctions at Bonhams and Phillips, etc.; a group of letters to Rigby, including from his father (7, c.1853-1855), General Outram relating to Persia (1857), Henry Rawlinson on Geographical Society matters (1872); and miscellaneous items relating to family history.Provenance: Christopher Palmer Rigby (1820-1885).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
RIGBY (CHRISTOPHER PALMER)Album containing manuscript copy documents relating to appointments, promotions, correspondence with other officials, approximately 23 documents on different stock papers, [c.1843-1861]; 8-page letterpress reports relating to the capture of Bushire [Bushehr] by the British Expeditionary Force, [1856]; Broadside of the 'Monthly Meteorological Table for the Station of Zanzibar', 1850; long 3-column newspaper cutting ('Trade of Zanzibar') by Rigby, 1860; two letters in Arabic (one dated 26 June 1861, mentioning the port of Bombay, 310 x 178mm.; one, gold-sprinkled, from unnamed person to unnamed addressee, announcing that he had arrived at the port of Surat [Gujerat] and four days later, the wife of Mir 'Ali Akbar Khan daughter of Nawwab Qamar al-Dawlah had died, also thanking the recipient for sending the second volume of the Rawdat al-Safa, 400 x 195mm., [?mid-nineteenth century], most pasted into album, a few loose, nineteenth century half vellum over marbled boards, folio, [c.1843-1861]; together with 2 carte-de-visite portrait photographs, one depicting Rigby in ceremonial dress with sword, the other of two English children in 'Arabic' dress (3)Footnotes:Album containing Rigby's retained manuscript copies of important official correspondence relating to his career, from passing Arabic language exams for the Bombay Colonial Office (1843), thanks from the Magistrate and Collector of Khandehar for his report on the Akranee Purzunnah region of India (1849), appointment as Bazaar Master to the British Expeditionary Force to engage 'in the Persian Gulf' (1856), an account of the campaign at Bushehr (1857), recommendations from H.L. Anderson, Secretary to Government at Bombay (1858), and acknowledging receipt of Rigby's account of 'the rebellion of [sultan] Syed Burghash' (1859), and from Brigadier Coghlan, of the Muscat Zanzibar Commission thanking Rigby for helping with his visit to Zanzibar (1860).Provenance: Christopher Palmer Rigby (1820-1885).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
FIVE SHELVES OF BOOKS, TO INCLUDE HANSARD PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES, EARLY 19TH-EARLY 20TH C, 35 VOLS, LATER CLOTH AND OTHER SETS AND RUNS INCLUDING HYETT & BAZELEY BIBLIOGRAPHER'S MANUAL OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 4 VOLS, AUBREY HISTORY OF SURREY, 5 VOLS, SHAKESPEARE SURVEY, 26 VOLS, FACSIMILE EDITION OF THE FIRST FOLIO (ET AL), HISTORY OF FASHION AND TEXTILES AND GENERAL SHELF STOCK, EX PUBLIC LIBRARY
J S VIRTUE & CO, PUBLISHER - THE ART GALLERY ILLUSTRATED BY ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY STEEL ENGRAVINGS, ON LIMP CARD, FOLIO, VOL I [ONLY], HALF CALF, WORN [C1860], JAMES WARD USHER - AN ART COLLECTOR'S TREASURES, RECENT MAROON CLOTH, 1916 AND MUIRHEAD BONE - THE WESTERN FRONT, DRAWINGS BY MUIRHEAD BONE, 1917 (3) Contents clean and tight, two older bindings faded and/or stained/worn
EDWARDIAN MAHOGANY FOLIO CABINET, BY MORISON & CO. EDINBURGH EARLY 20TH CENTURY the moulded cornice above a crossbanded and quarter veneered door opening to an arrangement of shallow compartments, above further open shelves and vertical compartments, on a moulded base with bun feet, the back stamped 'MORISON & CO.' and A4954(64cm wide, 158cm high, 39cm deep)
A collection of vintage and antique books relating to art and artists. Comprising: Ruskin's Modern Painters vol. 1, 3, 4 & 5, The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton by Mrs. Russell Barrington, Francisco Goya; Paintings, Drawings & Prints from The Folio Society 1971 and Renoir; Paintings, Drawings, Lithographs and e
LONDON & NORTH WESTERN AND GREAT WESTERN JOINT RAILWAYS: 'Diagrams of private sidings: Birkenhead, Wrexham and Minera , and Vale of Towy lines...': Euston, January 1917: oblong folio, morocco backed boards with spine deficient, approx 36 full page track plans, several folding: with another folded railway map, 'LM & SR England & Wales Estate Districts'. (2)
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM: HISTORICAL PAGEANT: late Victorian album of approx 60 photographs depicting historical pageant scenes at an unidentified location (Yorkshire?), images of various sizes, majority mounted to card leaves of period, half morocco album, oblong folio, spine frayed but contents generally sound. (1)
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM: NORTH AFRICA: large 19thc album containing approx 55 albumen print photographs, North African views inc. town and port of Oran: Tlemcen, various views: Biskra and others, mounted singly or in multiples to thick card leaves, period cloth album, oblong folio, toning and foxing. (Album)
KAPOIAN-KOUYMJIAN (Angele & Dickran): 'The Splendor of Egypt...a commentary on Napoleon Bonaparte's Expedition (1798-1801) and the Description de L'Egypte', New York, Caravan Books, 1975: No.474/1000 copies numbered: large folio, publishers quarter leather with slipcase, light wear to extrems. (1)
SUSSEX TOPOGRAPHY: SITWELL (Osbert): 'Brighton', London, Faber, 1938: 3rd edition: 8vo, dustjacket a little chipped to edges else VG: with approx 50 other vols, Sussex topography, generally in very good condition, plus '250 Years of Map Making in the County of Sussex 1575-1825', introduction by R A Skelton, large folio. (Quantity)
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