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Folio Society Bronte the Complete Novels Box Set

Folio Society Complete Plays of William Shakespeare Box Set (Six Volumes plus Shakespeare's Sonnets)

Folio Society J.R.R. Tolkien; Lord of the Rings Box Set, The Hobbit, and The Silmarillion

Folio Society Geoffrey Chaucer Box Set of The Canterbury Tales

Folio Society Complete Novels of Raymond Chandler

Folio Society P.G. Woodhouse Jeeves in Worcester plus Three Other Volumes

Folio Society Complete Works of Anthony Trollope 48 Volumes

Twenty Assorted Folio Society Books; History, Fiction, etc.

Nineteen Assorted Folio Society Books

Twelve Assorted Folio Society Books; War & Peace, etc.

TWO BOXES OF NEEDLEWORK EQUIPMENT, KNITTING PATTERNS, ARTIST'S PAPER, two clip frames, a card mount, plastic artist's folio,, wool, cottons, etc (two boxes and loose)

O'Brian, Patrick - Hornblower Works, 4 vols, publ. The Folio Society, quarto

Mary Stevenson Cassatt (Pennsylvania / France, 1844-1926) Drypoint Etching "Margot Wearing a Bonnet" (No. 1) circa 1902. Breeskin 179 (no. 1). Inscribed verso "Purchased from the Folio Society Collector's Corner London England. December 1963". Sight Size: 8.75 x 6 in. Overall Framed Size: 18.5 x 16 in. Framed behind glass.

Salvador Dali "Our Historical Heritage" Complete set of 11 etchings with stencil hand coloring on Arches paper. With full margins. Each pencil signed and numbered (SA 113/300). From the set of three hundred copies reserved for South America. Including: King Saul; Joseph; The Rock; Adam and Eve; King Solomon; Jeremiah; Elijah; Jonah and the Whale; Moses; King David; and Noah's Ark. Image Size: 22 x 15.75 in. Sheet Size: 26 x 20 in. Folio Case: 26 x 20.5 x 1.5 in.

8 Folio Society books (some still sealed).

A selection of Folio Society books including Impossible Journey's, George Washington etc.,

4 Folio Society books being A History Of British Birds By Thomas Bewick 2 Vol Set, Agatha Christie The Complete Miss Marple Short Stories and Aeschylus The Oresteia

Folio Society. Churchill - The Second World War. 2000. Six volume set. Both slipcases with split to upper left joint. Books in Fine condition. (6)

Folio Society. A selection, all in slipcases. Includes; Roald Dahl; The Arabian Nights - Detmold; P. G. Wodehouse; etc. (14)

'Europe The Quest For Unity', Ranelegh Editions, 1975, limited edition (475), etched frontis signed by Pietro Annigoni, folio, full Morocco gilt, slip case

A 70cl bottle of The Macallan 'Archival Series' Folio 6 whisky, 43% abv, in presentation tin and with hardback book.

ALBUM - SIGNATURESNineteenth century album of over 150 cut signatures, and some autograph letters, from British and European artists, musicians, writers, and politicians, including David Livingstone, Victor Hugo, John Ruskin (autograph letter to S.C.Hall, expressing pleasure that his wife is recovered), W.M. Thackeray, George MacDonald, Charles Lyell (autograph letter requesting that he be sent a map of Belgium, 22 June 1869), Charles Kingsley, S.C. Hall, Matthew Arnold (autograph letter accepting a lunch invitation, 11 March 1871), William Etty, Landseer, John Linnell, James Nasmyth, Joseph Joachim, Arthur Sullivan, Maria Krebs, William Gladstone, John Bright, James Martineau and Lionel de Rothschild, most mounted, a few loose, pages loose in nineteenth century red morocco gilt album, [c.1850-1890]--ILLUMINATED ADDRESS 'To The Rev. Stephen Bridge M.A. on his Relinquishing the Incumbency of St. Matthew's, Denmark Hill, 1868', manuscript on vellum, 11 sheets, 2 ornamental opening pages in coloured and gilt inks, each page within gilt border, decorative red morocco gilt, gilt dentelles, blue watered silk doublures and front free endpapers, g.e., rubbed, folio, 'Designed & Executed by Witherby & Co., London', [1868]; and 8 others, miscellaneous manuscripts (10)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GILLRAY (JAMES)The Works... from the Original Plates, with the Addition of Many Subjects Not Before Collected, bound in 2 vol. (including the 'Suppressed Plates'), large woodcut vignette on title, engraved frontispiece portrait by Charles James after Gillray, 632 engraved plates (numbered 1-582, bis nos. 100, 207, 379, 379** and 379***, 2 plates numbered 86, without a plate 238 as issued; 45 supplementary plates), up to 4 images per page recto and verso, image 179 shaved touching upper margin, final 15 leaves of first volume with light dampstain in upper margin, front free endpaper loose, light dampstain upper corner of final few leaves of second volume, contemporary red half morocco, first volume worn, dampstain to upper cover, loss to marbling of lower cover, some loss to foot of spine, joints split, second volume rubbed, upper hinge cracked, folio (635 x 480mm.), Henry G. Bohn, [c.1847]Footnotes:Includes the volume of 'suppressed plates', sexually suggestive or scandalously offensive political images which the publisher chose to exclude from the main collection.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)Britain, or a Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adioyning, Out of the Depths of Antiquitie... Translated Newly into English by Philemon Holland, additional engraved pictorial title (cut down and mounted), woodcut ornament and arms on letterpress title, 50 engraved maps (of 57, all but one double-page, 3 shaved just within one vertical margin, 2 repaired at fold with small loss, one with small hole in cartouche, one loose), 5 additional folding engraved maps from Speed's Sudbury and Humble edition supplied in place of missing maps, 10 full-page engraved illustrations (8 of coins), woodcut illustrations in the text, ink annotations in several hands in some margins, small marginal repairs to opening few leaves and final 4 leaves of index, twentieth century half morocco, upper cover detached [Chubb XIX; ESTC S107167; Skelton 6], folio (330 x 215mm.), George Bishop, 1610Footnotes:This copy has Speed's maps of Scotland, Ireland, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Montgomery from the Humble and Sudbury edition inserted in place of the missing Bishop maps. The volume is lacking the Heptarchy and Shropshire maps.Provenance: Charles Brooke Bird (1856-1916, mezzotint engraver and etcher), gift inscription from his father Charles William Bird on the occasion of his twenty-first birthday; by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CAMDEN (WILLIAM)Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands of Adjacent, 4 vol., second edition ('enlarged by the latest discoveries by Richard Gough'), engraved portrait, 57 mostly folding engraved maps by John Cary, 105 engraved plates, some light browning and spotting, contemporary maroon half morocco, gilt lettering on spines, some uneven fading to spines [Chubb CCLXXII], folio (432 x 270mm.), J. Nichols and Son, for John Stockdale, 1806Footnotes:Provenance: Robert Goff, 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

MILLAR (GEORGE HENRY)The New and Universal System of Geography: Being a Complete History and Description of the Whole World, 2 vol. bound in 1, engraved frontispiece, 92 engraved plates, 27 engraved maps (many folding, including World hemisphere, British Empire in North America), contemporary calf, worn, spine cracked and text block split, folio, Alex. Hogg, 1782This 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

MOLL (HERMAN)A Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of England and Wales, letterpress title (with list of contents), 50 folding engraved maps, neatly numbered in ink on blank verso, short split at a few folds, contemporary reverse calf, rubbed [Chubb CLXI], small oblong folio bound as 8vo (225 x 110mm.), H. Moll, Thomas Bowles, and J. Bowles, 1724Footnotes:Bound as a pocket book, the maps each within handsome borders decorated with images of geological, archaeological and antiquarian interest relevant to each county.Provenance: Sir John Tyrell, of Boreham House, 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

PARISTURGOT (MICHEL ETIENNE) AND LOUIS BRETEZ. Plan de Paris commencé l'année 1734, folding double-page index map and very large perspective plan on 20 numbered sheets by Claude Lucas after Louis Bretez, nineteenth century quarter morocco, spine gilt [Cohen-de Ricci 807], folio, Paris, Levé et dessiné par Louis Bretez, gravé par Claude Lucas, 1739Footnotes:STUNNING BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF PARIS, conceived some 44 years before the first manned balloon flight, and thus a remarkable feat of the imagination. The 20 sheets form a single enormous plan (approximately 3200 x 2500mm.), with a decorative border and enough detail to still be of use to researchers into the pre-Haussmann architecture of Paris.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

[SPEED (JOHN)The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine], 4 parts in 1 vol., additional printed titles (dated 1627) in parts 2-4, 66 double-page engraved maps (of 67), lacks map of Ireland, general title, preliminary leaf A2 and final blank H2, approximately 40 maps with some archival tissue repairs (mostly at central fold), 7 with minor or marginal losses, quarter moroccco by Anthony Bish [Chubb XXV; ESTC S95305], folio (425 x 270mm.), [John Dawson, for George Humble, 1627]Footnotes:Provenance: Undecipherable early ownership inscription dated 1 June 1861 on dedication leaf, early ink caricature faces and arms on title of second and third parts; Worth Abbey, bookplate, with a loosely inserted note from the Abbey librarian noting that the atlas came into their possession (possibly as a gift from John Basil Lowder Tolhurst) in 1962, and was sold by the Abbey in 2001.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

IRELAND - 4TH ROYAL IRISH DRAGOON GUARDS'Lieutenant General The Earl of Ross's Report on the First Regiment of Horse Reviewed by Him in Dublin on the 2nd Day of July 1783', 5 sheet report comprising a manuscript summary signed by Ralph Gore, 1st Earl of Ross ('Ross Lieut. General'), and 4 engraved sheets ('General Return...', 'Return of the Arms...', numbered 1-4), with all the details neatly completed in manuscript, stitched, folio (528 x 358mm.), [1783]Footnotes:'This Regiment is composed of a very fine body of men but not so fit for service as the other Regiments of Cavalry that I have received' - a full and detailed review undertaken in Dublin by the Earl Ross, Lieutenant General of the First Regiment of Horse, which in 1788 was renamed the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards. Commanded at the time of the review by George Warde, the review is generally positive with some caveats ('Horses - In pretty good condition.... tolerably well fitted'; 'Arms - clean, but 28 carbines... 11 swords bad, 5 carbines, 4 pair pistols, and 6 swords wanting'). Includes a full record of the nationalities, ages and service history of all ranks of the regiment, a stocktake of horses, clothing, weaponry, and a 'Stock Purse Account'.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

SPEED (JOHN)The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine..., Together with a Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World, Viz. Asia, Africa, Europe, America. 5 parts in 1 vol., title printed in red and black, additional engraved pictorial title by R. White, engraved 'Achievement of our Soveraigne King Charles The IId' leaf, 96 double-page engraved double-page maps, all maps fire-damaged at edges with some loss and brittleness, disbound [Chubb XXVII; ESTC R13825; Skelton, County Atlases 92; Phillips 488], folio, Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, 1676, sold not subject to returnFootnotes:'The 1676 edition of John Speed's famous atlas marked the high point of its publishing history' (Burden). In this edition, The Prospect has seven maps which appear for the first time, including three of North America (New England and New York; Virginia and Maryland; Carolina, Burden 456-457). This copy was rescued from a fire in 1969.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

ANGELUS DE CLAVASIOSumma Angelica de casibus conscientie [with additions of Hieronymus Torniello], 310 numbered leaves, 61 lines plus headline, 2 columns, gothic letter, rubricated throughout, initials supplied in alternating blue and red, incipit with 20-line supplied initial A in blue on red foliate background, without initial and final blanks, ink splash causing hole in lower margin of L1, contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards, original clasps, clasps attachments renewed, rebacked preserving original spine [ISTC ia00722000; BMC II, 434; Goff A-722; HC 5395*; GW 1933], folio (303 x 200mm.), Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 10 February 1492Footnotes:Provenance: Early manuscript note on front free endpaper and ownership inscription inked over; Albert Ehrman (1890-1969), his bookplate and notes 'C.P. A.E.'.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

GIDE (ANDRÉ)Autograph manuscript, section of a draft article on the difficulties of Belgian refugees at the Foyer Franco-Belge in obtaining suitable clothing, arguing forcefully that 'la philanthropie n'a souvent qu'un lointain rapport avec la véritable charité', complaining that whilst some refugees are still waiting for clothing other skilful beggars are adding to the fortune of second hand clothes dealers, and generally railing against the practice of 'unclothing Peter to clothe Paul' whilst the right hand takes what is given with the left, titled at head in blue crayon 'projet d'article', with crossings-out and additions, including several sentences in the margin of the first page, 2 pages, in brown ink on one bifolium of laid paper watermarked Polleri, short tears and fraying at top edge, folio (330 x 220mm.), [Paris?, 1914-1916]; together with a small collection of autograph letters from French and Belgian authors, including Alfred Tarde (writing with his co-author Henri Massis to Alfred Vallette, proposing timescales for their L'Esprit de la nouvelle Sorbonne, November 1910), Georges Rodenbach (of Bruges-la-Morte fame, 5 letters, and 19 by his wife Anna), Francis Jammes, Maurice Maeterlinck, Robert de Montesquiou (gushing thanks for compliments on his verses from one 'avec votre spirituelle verve et votre brilliante veine'), and others, mostly 8vo, 1890s to 1930s (collection)Footnotes:During the First World War, medically exempt from military service, Gide instead became vice-chairman of the Foyer Franco-Belge which worked to find employment, food and housing for the Franco-Belgian refugees who had arrived in Paris following the German invasion of Belgium. Here he drafts an article expressing frustration at their suffering.Provenance: Charles Stuart Barr, author of André Gide: Critic of His Contemporaries (1963); by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

KLEINER (SALOMON)Vera et accurata delineatio omnium templorum et coenobiorum [-tam residentia et secessum Caesareorum], parts 1-2 (of 4), FIRST EDITION, edited by Johan Andreas Pfeffel, engraved title-pages in Latin and German, engraved dedication leaf in part 1, engraved pictorial frontispieces, 66 engraved plates after Salomon Kleiner (2 folding, one with neat short repair) [Berlin Kat. 2108; Fowler 164], Augsburg, 1724-1725; FISCHER VON ERLACH (JOSEF EMMANUEL) Anfang einiger Vorstellungen der vornehmsten Gebäude so wohl innerhalb der Stadt als in denen Vorstadten von Wien [title repeated in French], FIRST EDITION, engraved title, pictorial frontispiece and 27 plates after Fischer von Erlach by J.A. Delsenbach (numbered 4-10, 10a, 11-29/30), lacking the engraved privilege leaf (as often) [Berlin Kat. 2095], [Vienna, c.1719], 3 vol. bound in one, early twentieth century half morocco gilt, titled on spine, oblong folio (340 x 480mm.)Footnotes:Kleiner's views are considered to be 'the finest representation of views of Vienna of the eighteenth century' (Fowler), the first part devoted to churches and monasteries, the second to palaces, houses and squares. The second work by Fischer Von Erlach includes similar views.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

LAW - MANUSCRIPT DICTIONARYSeventeenth century manuscript dictionary of legal and theological terms, in Latin, black in on paper, approximately 700 pages (some blank), early vellum wallet-style binding, with leather ties, folio (280 x 220mm.), [?Paris, 1622]--[POUILLY (LEVESQUE DE)] Vie de Michel de L'Hôpital, chancellier de France, engraved frontispiece, David Wilson, 1764--[LA MONNOYE (BERNARD DE) Noei Borguignon de Gui Barozai, fourth edition, Abran Lyon de Modene, 1720--[DU CUMMON (JEAN PIERRE NICHOLAS)] Les yeux, ouvrage curieux et galant, title printed in red and black, Amsterdam, Jean Paul, 1760--HARDOUIN DE PEREFIXE. Histoire du Roy Henry le Grand, Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1662--LOUVET (PIERRE) Histoire de Villefranche, capitale de Beaviolois, engraved frontispiece, Lyon, Daniel Gayet, 1671, contemporary calf, some rubbing, 8vo; and 11 others (17)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

JAPANBIGOT (GEORGES) Album [Diner Japonais], 2 parts in 1 vol., 43 plates (including 2 pictorial titles), captions in French, thin worm trail in upper margin of some plates (just touching image of 4), contemporary wrappers stitched in the Japanese style, printed pictorial label ('Japan and it's Art') on upper cover, soiled, small folio (305 x 210mm.), [?Tokyo, c.1890]Footnotes:Georges Bigot (1860-1927), a French artist, lived in Yokohama from 1882 to 1899. The plates depict female and male Japanese 'types' and activities of the Meiji period, including musicians, sumo wrestlers, fishermen, young woman washing, archery, firemen, priest, festival day, night watchman, merchants, and others. The second part, Diner Japonais, depicts the misadventures of two westerners on a night out with Geishas.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

NOSTRADAMUSThe True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, Physician to Henry II. Francis II. and Charles IX. Kings of France, and one of the Best Astronomers that ever were. A Work full of Curiosity and Learning, Translated and Commented by Theophilus de Garencieres, text of prophecies in French and English, engraved portrait (laid down, edges slightly chipped), some dampstaining, browning and rust marks, lacking leaves 3M2-3 (supplied in facsimile), Ss2 with part of headline torn from top margin, occasional ink annotations, early twentieth century half buckram [ESTC R230636], folio, John Salusbury, 1685This 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

LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND THE ARTSCollection, contained in three albums and loose, comprising a large quantity of autograph letters, cut signatures etc., the majority to physicians Sir George Buckston Browne and Sir Henry Thompson by, amongst others, Robert Louis Stephenson (postcard, signed, asking him to come earlier '...I have no bad symptoms...'), Robert Browning ('...I shall be delighted to form a 'minor seventh', not venturing to hope for the position of 'sensible note', - in your 'Octave' on the 7th of May...', mentioning a picture submitted to an exhibition, presumably by his son, and thanking him for his support, 11 April 1878), Wilkie Collins (accepting an invitation), Egyptologist Amelia B. Edwards ('...the medicine you prescribed for me was sent to the wrong room...'), Marie Louise Ramé ('Ouida'), Leslie Stephen, poet Edwin Arnold, artists John Brett, Val Princep, John Tenniel, George du Maurier, Philip Calderon, Carlo Pellegrini ('Ape'), Alma Tadema ('...Please allow this draughtsman to work from the Tarquinius...'), Marcus Stone, William Powell Frith, musicians Arthur Sullivan ('...I have had no violent pain again – but always feel uncomfortable...') and George Grove, scientists William Jenner ('...Has this gentleman any stone in his bladder?...'), James Paget, Joseph Lister (regarding an consultation), Thomas Henry Huxley (his daughter has diptheria but is recovering), Irish physicist John Tyndall, US surgeon and pharmacologist Henry J. Bigelow, explorer George Nares (sending some Arctic crockery used aboard the Alert in 1884 '...One of our sledge parties, under Markham and Parr journied [sic] North to within 400 miles of the Pole. It is now reported that Lockwood and Brainard of the U. States Expd under Greeley succeeded in getting 3 ½ miles farther North – but no ship has beaten the 'Alert'...'), Admiral Robert Patton, Charles Spurgeon, William Gull (signed autograph envelope fragment); the second album containing mainly theatre and music hall stars (Dan Leno, Charles Reade, Nellie Melba, Ellen Terry, signed photographs of Percy Grainger and Gertie Millar amongst others), also Henry Morton Stanley (autograph letter accepting an invitation), George Meredith, many cut signatures including the Grossmiths, Charles Parry, Clara Schumann, Robert Peel, George III, Earl Nelson, actors, nobility, politicians etc.; third album containing c.280 signed free fronts from politicians and the nobility, mostly 1820's and 30's; with a folder of c.20 loose autograph letters including Henry Irving (letter of thanks in the hand of his secretary Bram Stoker), Arthur Sullivan, Charles Spurgeon (6), the Princess Royal, Jan Smuts (letter of thanks, 1942), two from General Wavell, one from Pacific Command, Java, 1942 ('...I have a difficult job here and some dangerous and anxious times ahead, but we shall eventually check and then drive back the Japs...'), c.150 leaves in all, half roan, folio and oblong folio, the second with visiting card of Miss Buckston Browne affixed to inside front board, predominantly nineteenth century (4)Footnotes:This collection comes from the descendants of the daughter of Sir George Buckston Browne (1850-1945). Coming from a long line of medical men, Buckston Browne enjoyed much success in his early career and in 1874 became private assistant to Sir Henry Thompson, the leading urologist of his day, specialising in prostate problems and bladder stones. Both men were held in high esteem by their patients and colleagues (Browne is the dedicatee of George Meredith's Lord Ormont and his Aminta), and moved in the highest social circles, treating many illustrious names as demonstrated by the letters in this collection. Buckston Browne was with Thompson for fourteen years before starting his own consultancy, becoming a much respected, and wealthy, connoisseur and benefactor of the arts. In 1927 he purchased Charles Darwin's Down House, thus preserving it for posterity (see livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk website). Sir Henry Thompson (1820-1904), his mentor, was the 'archetypal Victorian polymath', and several of our letters refer to his celebrated 'Octaves', dinners comprising eight dishes, beginning at eight o'clock, for eight guests (see Robert Browning's letter above): 'Renowned for their cuisine and conversation, they were attended by royalty, colleagues, famous men (no women) from the arts, literature, the professions and politics, and foreign visitors' (Alex Paton, 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

LUTYENS (EDWIN)BUTLER (ARTHUR STANLEY GEORGE) The Lutyens Memorial. The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens, 3 vol., LIMITED TO 1500 COPIES, folio, 1950--HUSSEY (CHRISTOPHER) The Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens, 4to, 1950, FIRST EDITIONS, plates, publisher's cloth, dust-jackets (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

WEST (LEONARD)Original artwork by Leonard West for his angling classic The Natural Trout Fly and its Imitation (1912), comprising: final artwork for the plates 1-9, 14, 15 and 16 (as used in the 1912 edition), and plates 1A and 17 (drawn in ink for the 1921 revised edition), and the originals for plates 10 ('Hackle Feathers, Poultry, &c.') and 13 ('Feathers for Flies' Wings') comprising of actual mounted samples, all on thick paper, some with proof annotations and notes, the original ink numerals (from first edition) erased and replaced as they appear in the second edition, the plates with mounted samples accompanied by West's ink identification key, images approximately 300 x 200mm.; an ink preliminary drawing (with overslip noting in pencil 'Diptera. This plate was redrawn, elaborated & coloured') of Plate 1; 2 variant 4-page prospectuses for the first edition of The Natural Trout Fly (one illustrating plate 6, one plate 8), and samples of each printed plate from the first edition of the book; 2 typed letters from P.P. Press Art Printers, dated 24 March and 11 August 1920, relating to printing costs and artwork; 2 original pen and ink drawings by West of pond beetles (both signed with initials 'L.W.', each with accompanying published print) for an unrelated publication, a few items loose otherwise bound together in contemporary green half morocco, gilt lettered 'Drawings. Leonard West' on upper cover, small folio, [c. 1912-1920]--'The St. Helens Fly Fishers Club. Second Annual Dinner and Smoking Concert at the Red Lion Hotel on Thursday Nov. 26th, 1908'; another, for the 'Third Annual Dinner... November 25th, 1909', pen and ink artwork depicting angling (and eating) scene caricatures by West, each on stiff card, 240 x 165mm., and slightly smaller, [1908-1909], with 2 further angling related caricature ink drawings, one a trial menu card; further material including approximately 15 original artworks (of which 4 fine fully-realised watercolours) of aquatic entomological subjects; 2 gelatin silver photographs of dragon flies (seemingly used as guide material for one of the watercolours); 12 pages of typescript notes, with some manuscript corrections, for an article (or ?unrealised book) relating to trout fishing, and other ephemeral materials, loose in 2 contemporary cloth portfolios, one labelled 'Aquatic Plants', one 'Gnats' (collection)Footnotes:LEONARD WEST'S ORIGINAL ARTWORK FOR THE NATURAL TROUT FLY AND ITS IMITATIONS (1912), with materials related to the publishing of the second edition (1921), artwork for St. Helens' Fly-fisher's Club dinners, and watercolours and ink drawings for articles on aquatic entomology. West was a stalwart of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society (and President for 1916) and founding member of the St. Helen's Fly-fisher's Club. In 1912 he published his classic The Natural Trout Fly 'with considerable diffidence... The notes and observations contained in it were made for private use only, but owing to the persuasion of a friend, the Author has decided to give them a wider circulation' (Foreword). His approach to fly-fishing was based on the premise that 'the angler with a knowledge of entomology, possesses a great advantage, and is able readily to select a fly' (Introduction). Provenance: Leonard West, and by family descent to current owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CABEO (NICCOLO)Philosophia magnetica in qua magnetis natura penitus explicatur, et omnium quae hoc lapide cernuntur causae propriae afferuntur, FIRST EDITION, FIRST (FERRARA) ISSUE, title within wide engraved architectural border, 4 engraved illustrations (one a world map repeated [Shirley, World 328]), numerous woodcut illustrations, ink spot at inner margin of title, light stain on dedicatory leaf, thin worm trail in blank margin of approximately 150pp., small dampstain in lower blank margin from p.277 to end, recased in early vellum, lettered in ink ('Filosofia magnetica', second word worn) on spine, preserved in modern morocco-backed solander case [Ferguson I, p.136; Riccardi I, 205; Wheeler Gift 97], folio (320 x 220mm.), Ferrara, Francesco Succio, 1629Footnotes:An important treatise on magnetism and the loadstone, containing the first printed account of electrical repulsion. Cabeo (1586-1660), professor of Moral Philosophy and Mathematics at Parma, also discusses William Gilbert's De Magnete.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

HOOLA VAN NOOTEN (BERTHE)Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisies de l'Ile de Java peints d'après nature, third edition, half-title, 40 chromolithographed plates, some hand-finished with gum arabic, each with corresponding leaf of text (in English and French), loss to blank lower fore-corner of opening leaves and 9 plates, dates inked in on title-page, publisher's half morocco over printed boards, soiled, some loss to lower fore-corner of upper cover, hinges cracked [Nissen BBI 931; Sitwell and Blunt p.103], folio (550 x 445mm.), Brussels, C. Muquart, [1885]Footnotes:Fine chromolithographed plates after Van Nooten's drawings of a mixture of indigenous, naturalised and introduced plants, chosen principally for their eye-catching beauty, executed by her in the 1860s.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

LANA TERZI (FRANCESCO)Magisterium naturae, et artis... in quo occultoiora naturalis philosophiae principia manifestantus, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, 57 engraved plates (each folding, mounted on a stub), 4-page dedication to Sfondrati loosely inserted in volume 3, early tree calf, small gilt stamp [see provenance] on upper covers, neatly rebacked preserving original spines, gilt-tooled with red and black morocco lettering labels, some rubbing [Riccardi I 13.3, 'Raro di trovare tutti e tre i volumi uniti... importantissima opera'; Wheeler Gift 197], folio (370 x 235mm.), Brescia, Giovanni Maria Ricciardi [-Parma, Hyppolite Rosati], 1684-1692Footnotes:First edition of Lana Terzi's magnum opus, a polymathic collection of Jesuit science in the style of his mentor Athanasius Kircher.Provenance: Royal Society of Edinburgh, small gilt stamp at centre of upper covers.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PARKINSON (JOHN)Theatrum botanicum: the Theater of Plants. Or, an Herball of a Large Extent, FIRST EDITION, additional engraved allegorical title by Marshall incorporating portrait of the author, approximately 2600 woodcut illustrations, errata leaf, without initial blank, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked [ESTC S121875; Henrey 286; Hunt 235; Nissen BBI 1490; Pritzel 7749], folio (350 x 220mm.), Thomas Cotes, 1640Footnotes:A large, clean and crisp copy of Parkinson's Theatrum Botanicum, with some 2700 woodcut illustrations describing over 3,800 plants.Provenance: Richard Isted (1605-1654) of Framfield and Lewes, contemporary purchase inscription on title and a handful of marginalia; Magnus Byne, also of Sussex, contemporary inscription 'ex dono consanguinei et amici mei'; Ambrose Isted (1717-1781) of Ecton Hall, Northamptonshire, bookplate on verso of title; by descent to Major-General Fredrick Edward Sotheby; his Ecton Hall Library sale, Sotheby's, 21 November 1955, lot 357, sold to Hammond for £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

VIGO (GIOVANNI DA)The Most Excelent Worckes of Chirurgery... Traunslated into Englishe. Whereunto is added an Exposition of Straunge Termes and Unknowen Symples, belongyng unto the Arte, second English edition, black letter, text in double columns, title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut decorative initials throughout, without final blank 3A4, a little marginal staining and soiling, a very few insignificant wormholes at beginning and end, tiny holes and tear in ff. 4 and 5, paper flaws with corner loss to 2A4 and 2G4, contemporary English blindstamped calf, covers panelled in blind with roll-tool borders, very skilfully rebacked preserving original spine, later clasps [Durling 4616; ESTC S117847; Wellcome I 6621 (Ff. 19-240 only); cf. Garrison-Morton 5559.1], folio (285 x 190mm.), Edwarde Whytchurch, 1550Footnotes:A crisp, attractive copy in contemporary English binding.Provenance: Peter ?Oviat, ownership inscription on A1; Sotheby's, 2 April 1985, lot 515 ('a very good, unpressed copy'), sold for £1,600 to Fletcher.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

WIRSUNG (CHRISTOPHER)Praxis medicinae universalis; or A Generall Practice of Physicke Compiled and Written by the Most Famous and Learned Doctour Christopher Wirtzung, in the German Tongue, and Now Translated into English by Jacob Mosan, woodcut device on title and numerous woodcut initials in text, title mounted on stub, a few gatherings affected by wormhole or trail in upper margin (touching text on a handful of leaves), very occasional waterstains in fore-margin, first and last few leaves creased at fore-edge, short tear in blank margin of H8, contemporary calf, covers with central blindstamped arabesque, rebacked [ESTC S111714; Wellcome I, 6758], folio (285 x 185mm.), George Bishop, 1598Footnotes:ESTC traces only seven copies of this Bishop issue, the Edmund Bollifant-imprint issue of the same year being somewhat more common. This copy belonged to two related Suffolk women.Provenance: Mary Cornwallis, ownership inscription on title ('hir book'), part of the Cornwallis family of Cretingham, Suffolk; Frances Edgar of the same family (born 1659, married a John Cornwallis), ownership inscription on title; John Woodroffe, bookplate by Skinner of Bath dated 1747.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

MUTEFERRIKA PRESSSUBHI (MEHMED) [In Arabic:] Ta'rih-i Sami ve akir ve Subhi, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, title with ink inscriptions erased and fore-edge strengthened on verso with tape, tears at head of fols. 13 and 209, the first touching text, lacking blank fol. 72, modern blindstamped calf imitating Ottoman wallet-style binding, folio (320 x 205mm.), Istanbul, Vak'anüvis Ahmed Vasıf Efendi and Beylikçi Raşid Efendi, 1198 H [1784]Footnotes:After İbrahim Müteferrika died in 1745, his press fell into disuse, revived once in 1756 by his successors, but immediately abandoned once again until it was bought from his heirs by the present printers, two court secretaries. This work, a chronicle of the early and middle two decades of the century by official court historian Mehmed Subhi (combined with earlier histories by Sami and Şâkir), was the first production from this iteration of the press (see Gruber, The Islamic Manuscript Tradition: Ten Centuries of Book Arts in Indiana University Collections, 2010).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

DESIGNER BINDING - ELIZABETH FRINKElizabeth Frink's Etchings Illustrating Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' [translated and with an introduction by Nevill Coghill], NUMBER C268 OF 300 COPIES SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE ARTIST at the end, this being one of 175 'Boxed Unbound' copies, 19 etched plates by Elizabeth Frink, SPECIALLY BOUND BY SALLY LOU-SMITH, black morocco over polished oak boards, with geometrical pattern cut out to reveal the boards below, and russet and terracotta morocco onlays in vertical bands, gilt lettered spine with similar onlays, brown calf doublures with the design of the covers repeated in gilt outline, signed 'SLS' at rear, preserved in felt-lined oak box (707 x 520 x 115mm.), black morocco label titled in gilt and signed 'SLS', folio (672 x 490mm.), Waddington, 1972Footnotes:ELIZABETH FRINK'S CHAUCER, IN A FINE DESIGNER BINDING BY SALLY LOU SMITH.Sally Lou Smith (1925-2007) was born in New York and came to London in 1958. She studied bookbinding at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, and set up her own bindery in 1963. Two years later she joined the Guild of Contemporary Bookbinders, now Designer Bookbinders, subsequently becoming Fellow and then President from 1979 to 1981. She was a highly regarded teacher, and a comprehensive survey of her work appeared in The New Bookbinder 21 (2001).This extremely heavy binding, suggestive of tree bark, was commissioned for Frink's Chaucer on the book's publication in 1972. We have traced one other copy of the unbound sets in a similar binding (Sothebys, 7 November 2002, lot 294, copy numbered C266), but presumably the size and weight would have made it unlikely that more than a very small number were completed.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

MUTEFERRIKA PRESSİZZÎ (SÜLEYMAN) Ta'rih-i-Izzi, tape repairs to title, lacking fols. 85-86, mark erased from blank area of fols. 1 and 288, light toning, heavier to fols. 59-60, modern blindstamped calf imitating Ottoman wallet-style binding, folio (304 x 195mm.), Istanbul, Vak'anüvis Ahmed Vasıf Efendi and Beylikçi Raşid Efendi, 1199 H [1784/5]Footnotes:Süleyman İzzî succeeded Mehmed Subhi as vakanüvis, or official court historian, and chronicled the years of his tenure, 1744 to 1752. This is the second production of this revival of the Müteferrika press.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

DRINKWATER - COLLECTIONAlbum containing autograph letters, signed menus, photographs and other ephemera, assembled for Penelope Ann Drinkwater, daughter of poet and dramatist John Drinkwater, from her birth in 1929 to her fifth birthday, comprising: notes written by the Prince of Wales (future Edward VIII) for his speech at the Stage Golfing Society Dinner, Savoy Hotel, 2 November 1930 ('Handicapp/ B-DARWIN/ Filthy golfer/ Filthy speaker/ Keep pun clean') accompanied by an explanatory letter from Drinkwater ('...I was the guest of Sir Gerald du Maurier who sat between me and the Prince of Wales... The response was made by the Prince, and he put his notes on two sheets of paper. These were pocketed by Sir Gerald, and he gave me one of these for you... another scrap of history in a tiny way for you when you are growd up...'); some fifty autograph and typed letters by Edward Elgar (thanking him for the 'exquisite Penelope's Trees – a beautifully inspired poem'), Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy (including a poem in her honour), Hugh Walpole, Joan Sutherland, Sybil Thorndike, Harold Nicholson, William Rothenstein, Herbert Hoover (two on White House headed paper), E.G. Robinson, Ramsay Macdonald, and others; a menu from the Savoy Hotel, 24 June 1930, signed by Drinkwater, J.B. Priestley, H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, Edgar Wallace, Desmond Macarthy and others, with another from a dinner on 19 September 1930 inscribed by Max Beerbohm ('...to dear little Penelope Anne. I know she is little because she is so young. And I know she is a dear because I know her parents...'); ephemera including a programme for Drinkwater's play A Man's House signed by the cast (with Errol Flynn as 'First Soldier'), telegrams of congratulations (including James Joyce and John Galsworthy), a printed copy of Drinkwater's 1930 poem Penelope's Trees, inscribed 'This copy is darling Penelope's own/ John Drinkwater', numerous photographs and press cuttings of the family, etc., 31 leaves, brown calf gilt stamped 'Penelope Ann Drinkwater/ July 26 1929' on upper cover, binding scuffed and stained, burn marks to spine, oblong folio (265 x 365mm.), 1929 to 1934; with a folder of c.100 loose autograph and typed letters by H.G. Wells (postcard, '...warmest thanks for the poem. It's a nice habit this poetry...' and autograph letter to Miss Jeffreys sending love to Penny, '...I think she is a dear...'), a pencil drawing annotated 'sketch by T.H. [Thomas Hardy] of a hay-knife', Edmund Blunden ('...I would like you to leave me out of your anthology...'), Vita Sackville West ('...She seems to be a fruitful source of inspiration to you...'), Eddie Marsh, Shane Leslie, Stefan Zweig, and others; printed Churchill address from 25 April 1925 with covering letter, typed transcripts of letters by Rupert Brooke and others in folder annotated 'sold to America', c.160 pages, 8vo and 4to; original cartoon by David Low signed ('Low'), titled 'Situation Vacant', depicting Drinkwater, Masefield, Kipling, Edith Sitwell and other possible candidates for the post of Poet Laureate lining up to see the Prime Minister ('W.B. Yeats and W.H. Davies arriving by the next bus'), labelled 'The Property of Penelope Ann Drinkwater' on reverse, pen, ink and coloured pencil, image 295 x 450mm., (457 x 610mm. with frame), published in the Evening Standard, 28 April 1930 and in The Best of Low, 1930 (3)Footnotes:'ANOTHER SCRAP OF HISTORY IN A TINY WAY FOR YOU WHEN YOU ARE GROWD UP': An album assembled by the poet and dramatist John Drinkwater for his daughter, celebrating the first years of her life with a collection of letters and ephemera from literary and political figures of the day, and including an encounter with royalty. Despite being in the running for Poet Laureate, as the Low cartoon included here suggests, the position was taken by John Masefield after the death of Robert Bridges in April 1930. The collection comes from the family of Penelope Drinkwater.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

EROTICASIEBEN (GOTTFRIED), pseudonym of ARCHIBALD SMITH. Balkangreuel, NUMBER 119 OF 550 COPIES, introductory text by Archibald Smith, 12 collotype plates, with printed tissue guards, title scuffed with part loss of one letter and short marginal tears, disbound, folio (355 x 280mm.), Vienna, Privatdruck der Gesellschaft österreichischer Bibliophilen [i. e. C.W. Stern], 1909Footnotes:Privately printed suite of plates by Austrian artist Gottfried Sieben (1856-1918), all depicting savage cruelties inflicted on women during the Balkan wars.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

NAPOLEON BONAPARTESpecial Licence signed ('Np'), allowing an unnamed ship to make one voyage from Caen to England, for the payment of 40 Napoleons, under the surety of Ruinart, Père et fils, Rheims, with a cargo of premier crus champagne, silk, books, porcelain, 'library papers' and furniture from the Empire, to be traded for fish oil, leather, saffron from the Indies and other goods, valid for six months, name of ship, tonnage and captain's name not completed, countersigned by four officials, 1 page, printed document with manuscript insertions, blindstamp imperial seal, indented at left margin, creased and stained, old paper repairs to reverse, remains of backing where removed from an album, double folio, Dresden, 14 May 1813For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

NAVAL LOG - H.M.S. KENT and NELSON'A Journal of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Ship Kent Commencing the 1st May 1800 and Ending the 7th October 1803, Kept by John Jordan Arrow, Mid.n; under the command of W. Hope Esq. to the 18th June 1801, then Mr. Mansell Esq. to the 7th Sept. 1801, then Edw. O'Bryan Esq. to the 4th May 1803, & Jno. Stuart Esq. to the date hereof, J.J. A.', approximately 500 pages, brown ink on paper, ruled in pencil, 10 FULL-PAGE PEN AND WATERCOLOUR PLANS including soundings of Valletta (Malta), Quarantine Harbour (Malta), Bay of Marsa, and Sirocco (Malta), St. Pauls (Malta), Bay of Mamorice [Marmoris, Turkey], Harbour of Messina (Sicily), Haragatch Bay and part of Marmorice Bay (Turkey), Keith's Reef and Shoal... with the Esquerques (Tunis), Aboukir Bay (Coast of Egypt, including small vignette views of Rosseta, the Tower of Rosa, and the Castle of Aboukir), and Oristana Bay (Sardinia), of which 4 double-page, nineteenth century half calf, gilt lettered 'The Log of a Midshipman in Olden Times' on spine, upper joint split, folio (315 x 190mm.), [1800-1803]Footnotes:'JOIN'D LORD NELSON IN THE VICTORY' - a naval logbook rich in detail kept by a midshipman during a three year period of the Napoleonic Wars, including campaigns alongside Nelson at the blockade of Toulon, the Battles of Alexandria and Aboukir in Egypt, and service in the Mediterranean with a near five month stay in Malta.H.M.S. Kent was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 January 1798 at Blackwall Yard. This log commences on 1 May 1800 whilst the ship was stationed at Sheerness in Kent. In 1801, under the command of Admiral Lord Keith, she carried Sir Ralph Abercromby and his headquarters for the invasion of Egypt, a campaign which forced the surrender of the French occupying force. The log records landing the British army near Aboukir on 8 March 1801, hostile engagements with the Castle of Aboukir, and the Battle of Alexandria (21 March, 'At daylight saw the smoke from the masthead, supposed to be the the armies in action') where Abercromby died in action (news heard onboard on 31 March). From 19 March to 22 September 1802 the ship was moored at Valletta Harbour, Malta, a period which occupies 39 pages (in addition to the 4 pen and watercolour plans of Maltese harbours), supplying, as throughout the log, very extensive information on daily duties aboard ship, noting special events (celebration of the Queen's birthdays), punishments (lashings, mostly for fighting or desertion), comings and goings of other ships, victualling, etc. At 9.50 on 10 August 1803 H.M.S. Kent 'join'd Lord Nelson in the Victory in Comp. with H.M. Ships Donegal, Superb, Renown & Phoebe', to take part in the blockade of Toulon. The following 48 pages all record events 'In the company of the Ships Victory (Vice Admr. Lord Nelson)...', followed by a list of other ships. In addition to the usual updates on weather and wind conditions, ship repairs, rigging and other onboard activities, there is much information on the interaction of the different ships: 15 August, 'Discharged Mr. Chas. Royer Mids. into the Victory..., air'd bedding... exercised great guns & small arms. Pass'd by the Westd. a strange jettee'; 18 August, 'Admrl. Campbell (Blue) saluted Lord Nelson wth 15 guns which was returned wth. 13 from the Victory...'.John Jordan Arrow entered the Navy on 1 April 1800 as a First Class Volunteer, boarding H.M.S. Kent a month later. He was promoted to Midshipman in 1801. In later years he was made a Commander, prior to retiring on half-pay in 1814. He died in 1853.Provenance: John Gretton, Stapleford, 1st Baron Gretton (1867-1947), 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

OMAR KHAYYAMRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám... with Illustrations by Willy Pogany, NUMBER 648 OF 750 COPIES, 12 tipped-in colour plates, additional engraved frontispiece signed by the artist, contemporary morocco gilt, t.e.g., spine slightly rubbed, small folio, George G. Harrap, 1930; Rubaiyat... Reproduced from a Manuscript Written and Illuminated by F. Sangorski & G. Sutcliffe, NUMBER 441 OF 550 COPIES, signed by the artists on the colophon, colour illustrations and decorations, publisher's pictorial vellum gilt, t.e.g., folio, Siegle, Hill & Co., [1911] (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

SPARE (AUSTIN)A Book of Satyrs, LIMITED TO 300 COPIES, this copy out-of-series, 12 full-page illustrations, and ornaments by Spare, publisher's parchment-backed printed boards, folio (445 x 330mm), Co-Operative Printing Society Limited, 1907; Two original pencil 'automatic drawings' by Spare, one captioned 'Satyros', the other ?'Honosis' with note on verso 'First expurgation - then the pleroma by Mnemic causation', light spotting on the second, each approximately 255 x 190mm., [undated] (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

WORLD WAR II - BATTLE OF BRITAIN[PIERCE (MICHAEL), JOHN GOLLEY and others] ...So Few. A Folio Dedicated to All Who Fought and Won the Battle of Britain, 1990; ... So Many. A Folio Dedicated to All Who Served With RAF Bomber Command 1939-45, 1995, EACH NUMBER 96 OF 401 COPIES, signed by the artist and creative team on the colophons, each volume with 25 silhouette portraits of Battle of Britain pilots and crewman, all signed by the subject and artist, numerous illustrations and facsimile letters and documents throughout, prospectuses loosely inserted as issued in pocket inside upper covers, silk bookmark, original dark blue goatskin lettered in gilt by Hartnolls of Bodmin, 'So Few' with RAF embroidered Wings inset in upper cover, 'So Many' with bronze relief of a pilot by James Butler (RA) inset in upper cover, publisher's original blue solander boxes (and packaging), folio, for the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, 1990-1995 (2)Footnotes:Provenance: John Golley, Hurricane pilot during World War II, and one of the 'creative team' behind the publications. The lot includes a small folio of material relating to the advertising and reception of the works; by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

AESOPFables with His Life: in English, French and Latin... by Francis Barlow, additional engraved title, full-page engraved arms of the Earl of Devonshire, 31 engraved plates by Thomas Dudley after Francis Barlow, one full-page etched illustration of Aesop surrounded by animals and birds ('See here how natures books...'), and 110 half-page engraved illustrations, a few plates slightly browned, some tears mostly in lower or upper margins (text on 4 leaves and 1 engraving affected, but all without loss), CONTEMPORARY BLACK MOROCCO BY BARLOW'S AESOP BINDER, elaborately tooled in gilt, the sides decorated with leafy tendrils and various floral tools, emanating from a small Greek urn, with borders of drawer-handle tools forming connecting geometric pattern, spine in 8 compartments with raised bands and 3 flower tool designs, some small patches worn, spine slightly faded and joints rubbed in places, some paper repairs to marbled endpapers [ESTC R22991], folio (363 x 235mm.), H. Hills Jun., for Francis Barlow, and are to be sold by Chr. Wilkinson [et al], 1687Footnotes:FINELY BOUND BY 'BARLOW'S AESOP BINDER' FOR PRESENTATION: A PREVIOUSLY UNRECORDED LARGE PAPER COPY. 'From this bindery, active in the 1680s and 1690s, come three handsome presentation copies of Barlow's Aesop, two of them now in the British Library... [and] Pepys's copy at Magdalene College' (Howard M. Nixon, English Restoration Bindings, 1972, p.40). This fourth example can be attributed to the shop through comparison with the dedication copy to the Earl of Devonshire at Chatsworth, now in the British Library (Nixon, op. cit. no. 99 and plate 99). The combination of a floral and geometrical pattern is common to both bindings, and many of the same tools are used. The sides feature the same leafy tendrils and smaller ornamental and flower head tools, whilst the spines share two floral compartmental designs along with the superscript letter 's' in 'Barlow's'. The Cracherode copy in the British Library also features some of the same tools.Barlow's edition of Aesop, self-financed and illustrated, was first published in 1666, but most copies were destroyed when his shop, the Golden Eagle, was burned down in the Great Fire that year. The present second edition, considered the culmination of Barlow's work in book illustration, was the first to contain the 31 fine plates illustrating Aesop's life, and the quatrains by Aphra Behn which were engraved in place of Thomas Philpott's captions within the 110 illustrations. The present copy includes the so-called 'indecent' plate 17 which is often missing.Provenance: UK private collection.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

CHARLES IILetter signed and subscribed ('Bonus frater consanguineus et amicus/ Carolus R'), to his nephew Charles II of Spain, recalling the British ambassador in Madrid, Sir William Godolphin ('...which legateship it has seemed good to us to terminate and recall his person to ourselves...'), and assuring him that he will be replaced with another suitable ambassador straightaway ('...may the said minister fulfil the function of our legate and do with trustworthiness and industry all such things as have been able especially to conduct to the establishing of greater firmness and permanence of the friendship between us...'), 1 page, in Latin, with integral address leaf, remains of paper seal, light dust-staining, some small repaired tears, address leaf trimmed at lower edge, folio (340 x 220mm.), Whitehall, 16 November 1678Footnotes:'THE ESTABLISHING OF GREATER FIRMNESS AND PERMANENCE OF THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN US': CHARLES II RECALLS HIS CONTROVERSIAL AMBASSADOR FROM THE SPANISH COURT.A successful and trusted career diplomat, described by Samuel Pepys as 'a very pretty and able person, a man of very fine parts and of infinite zeal' (Timothy Venning, ODNB), Sir William Godolphin had been appointed ambassador to Spain in 1671 but soon became the subject of suspicion back in England for his alleged Catholic sympathies. Although he officially denied it, he had converted to Catholicism after a serious illness soon after his arrival in Spain and openly employed Catholics in his household. The situation came to a head in September 1678 when Titus Oates accused Godolphin of being a popish agent and Charles II was forced by the Commons to send this order to recall him to face charges. Godolphin, however, sensibly refused to return to England at a time when thirty-five other persons accused by Oates of conspiracy were executed, and remained in Madrid until his death in 1696.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MARCELLINUS (AMMIANUS)The Roman Historie... Translated Newly into English... by Philemon Holland, first edition in English, 2F2-3 probably from another copy, final few leaves ('Acts') shaved at fore-edge, loss to upper fore-corner of final leaf affecting a few letters, title lightly soiled, contemporary calf, rebacked [ESTC S114268], folio (267 x 170mm.), Adam Islip, 1609This 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

MEXIA (PEDRO)The Historie of All the Romane Emperors, Beginning with Caius Julius Caesar, and Successively Ending with Rodulph the Second Now Raigning, first edition in English, title within woodcut architectural border, numerous woodcut illustrations, corner of title repaired with loss to border, lacking first and final blanks, wormtrail in lower gutter of a few gatherings, contemporary calf, upper covers with central gilt motif of rose within branches and surmounted with crown, rebacked [ESTC S114704], folio (285 x 180mm.), Matthew Lownes, 1604Footnotes:Provenance: Armorial gilt stamp on covers, composed of several tools similar to some of those used by Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594-1612). According to Mirjam Foot, 'the fact that there were three different arms blocks and six different corner blocks, all found in various combinations, suggests that the books were farmed out in batches to different binders who were at the same time lent blocks'; Mary Cameron, ownership inscription on title dated 1833.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