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PLINIUS SECUNDUS (GAIUS)The Historie of the World: Commonly Called the Naturall Historie, 2 vol. in one, second edition, without final blank, a few paper flaws with one or two losses to margins, a handful of wormtrails generally confined to very edges (7 leaves neatly repaired) but touching a few letters in gatherings 3D-3F, first and leaf few leaves slightly frayed and repaired but with only a few letters affected, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original spine [ESTC S121936 ], folio (335 x 210mm.), Adam Islip, 1634Footnotes:Provenance: Ambrose Rocke, ownership inscription on title; Reginald Shutte (presumably the Anglican clergyman biographer, 1829-1892), ownership inscription on front free endpaper.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

PLOT (ROBERT)The Natural History of Stafford-Shire, FIRST EDITION, title with engraved vignette, 37 engraved plates (25 double-page), one large folding hand-coloured engraved map (detached and framed), list of subscribers, light arc of dampstaining to several plates and some text towards end, contemporary calf, rebacked [ESTC R21986], folio (355 x 230mm.), Oxford, at the Theatre, 1686 (2)Footnotes:Provenance: Charles Bruce, third Earl of Ailesbury (1682-1747), bookplate on verso of title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PLOT (ROBERT)The Natural History of Oxford-Shire, being an Essay towards the Natural History of England, second edition, folding engraved map, 16 engraved plates, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked preserving original spine, upper joint cracking, folio (315 x 190mm.), Oxford, Charles Brome, 1705Footnotes:Provenance: Algernon Borthwick (1830-1908), owner of the Morning Post, 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

PLUTARCHThe Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, 2 parts in 1 vol., translated by Thomas North, woodcut device on title, woodcut portraits within ornamental borders, without initial blank, 2E6 with marginal paper flaw, worm trail in lower margin of gathering 3Q, modern calf [ESTC S115994], folio (320 x 204mm.), Richard Field, 1612[-1610]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

SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS (CAIUS)The Historie of Twelve Caesars, Emperours of Rome, first edition in English, translated by Philemon Holland, 12 small profile portraits of each Emperor, lacks 3 leaves (pp. 5-8 and 29-30 of final section), title lightly soiled, 2 leaves from Sidney's Arcadia misbound amongst preliminaries, one upper rule cropped, modern calf antique [ESTC S126802], folio (275 x 175mm.), Matthew Lownes, 1606This 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

TACITUS (PUBLIUS CORNELIUS)The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie [-The Ende of Nero and Beginning of Galba... The Life of Agricola], 2 parts in one vol., woodcut initials, engraved diagram, without initial and final blanks, contemporary calf, covers gilt with central lozenge, rebacked preserving sections of original spine [ESTC S117625], folio (280 x 180mm.), [colophon:] A. Hatfield, for J. Norton, 1612Footnotes:Provenance: Thomas Cotton (presumably the 2nd Baronet, 1594-1662, and heir to the Cottonian Library) ownership inscription on first title; John Delafons, ownership inscription on front pastedown dated 1793; Carnsdale Farm, Birkenhead, blindstamps on title and following leaf.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

VERTOT (RÉNÉ AUBERT DE)The History of the Knights of Malta, 2 vol., 5 engraved maps (4 double-page or folding), 70 engraved portraits by J.F. Cars after Delijen (corresponding to index of plates), contemporary calf, worn, spines cracked with body of text split, small folio (343 x 225mm.), G. Strahan and others, 1728For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WESLEY (JOHN) - IRELANDDocument signed ('John Wesley'), a Letter of Attorney with reference to a deed of assignment dated 3 November 1747 with Andrew Conyngham of the city of Dublin, releasing 'a parcell of ground situate on the South side of Dolphins Barn lane in the County of Dublin containing in front of the said Lane Forty three feet and in Depth one hundred and sixty eight feet', appointing James Sayers, shopkeeper 'my true and lawfull attorney', and authorising him to dispose of the premises for 'such sum or sums of money as my said attorney shall think fit', countersigned by John Jones and W. Briggs, with red wax seal and paper duty seals, docketed on reverse, 1 page, stained, torn at folds, holes with some loss to text, backed with paper, folio (410 x 325mm.), Dublin, 10 March 1752Footnotes:'A PARCELL OF GROUND SITUATE ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF DOLPHINS BARN LANE': John Wesley's property transaction concerning a Dublin Meeting House in the early days of Methodism in Ireland. In August 1747, John Wesley arrived in Dublin and preached to large crowds at the Methodists' first premises in Marlborough Street, at a site now occupied by the Abbey Theatre. Within days, a mob attacked and vandalised the buildings and they were forced to find alternative premises (Rev. D. A. Levistone Cooney, The Methodist Chapels in Dublin, Dublin Historical Record, Vol. 57, 2004, pp.152-163). They soon settled on a 'large building in Cork Street where the looms were kept, called 'The Weavers Store'', which could be turned into a meeting room and spacious accommodation (C.H. Crookshank, History of Methodism in Ireland, Vol. I, Belfast, 1885). Charles Wesley refers to it in a letter to Ebenezer Blackwell '...stating that 'we have a very advantageous offer made us of a house and garden', saying that he has written to his brother about the matter and that likewise [Charles] Perronet has written to his friends in an effort to secure the necessary funding. He asks Blackwell for £20 for the same purpose. Blackwell evidently obliged, for in a letter of 2 February 1748 Charles thanks him for 'the bill' which he has just received. It is evident from a reading of the later materials that 'the Barn' became a centre point of activity for the nascent Methodist movement in Dublin...'. On 25 October he opened the 'new house at Dolphin's Barn, by preaching to a great multitude within and without', (Kenneth G. C. Newport, Charles Wesley in Ireland (1747-1748): A Reconstruction from Primary Sources, Bulletin of the Methodist Historical Society of Ireland). Although Charles Wesley notes that the house and garden could accommodate nearly 3,000 people, there was some disagreement amongst scholars about the true size of the premises, a debate which our document can now lay to rest. John Wesley, in his Journal for 14 July 1750, commented on the good behaviour of the multitude at Dolphin's Barn ('...and neither did I observe in the numerous congregation, any that appeared careless or inattentive...').For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

RORKE'S DRIFT - JOHN CHARD'S MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT'Rorke's Drift. 22-23 Jany. 1879', Chard's autograph draft of the account of Rorke's Drift which he wrote and presented to Queen Victoria, WITH EXTENSIVE ANNOTATIONS, ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS, 40 pages, mostly written in brown ink with the corrections and annotations (in the text and margins) in blue and brown ink, one ink sketch of a mountain range (besides a description of a scene viewed through field glasses, '... and could see the enemy moving in the distant hills & apparently in large force - Large numbers of them moving to my left until Lion Hill of Isandlwana...'), and a similar pencil sketch on final page, the sheets (all bifolia) loose in contemporary paper wrappers, titled in red and black ink on upper cover (light soiling, 2 tears in blank area of upper cover), the first 16 pages 8vo, the remainder folio, [c.1879-1880]; together with a manuscript sketch by Chard of Rorke's Drift, on tracing paper, black ink with foliage and trees in green, major sites (numbered 1-15) identified in red ink, with key beneath image, frayed with short tears at edges, 210 x 320mm., [c.1879-1880] (2)Footnotes:'AS DARKNESS CAME ON WE WERE COMPLETELY SURROUNDED...' - JOHN CHARD'S 40-PAGE EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF RORKE'S DRIFT ON 22 JANUARY 1879. An extensively annotated and corrected full draft of the account that Chard presented to Queen Victoria, together with an accompanying sketch of the battlefield. John Chard (1847-1897) was sent to serve in the Anglo-Zulu War with the 5th company, Royal Engineers, arriving at Durban on 4 January 1879. The company moved to Rorke's Drift, a post consisting of a kraal, a commissariat store, and a small hospital building close to a crossing on the Buffalo River. On the afternoon of 22 January, the very day on which Chard was left in charge of the station, whilst his superiors left to hurry forward a company of the 24th regiment, news arrived of the massacre of British troops at Isandlwana the day before. In consultation with Lieutenant G. Bromhead and other officers, Chard 'counselled against retreat in favour of defence... and defensive positions were prepared. The store and hospital buildings were loopholed and barricaded, and connected by walls constructed with mealie bags and a couple of wagons' (ODNB), the garrison consisting of eight officers and 131 non-commissioned officers and men (of whom thirty-five were sick in the hospital). Attacked by a force of some 3000 Zulus, the garrison survived a dramatic night, the unfolding events vividly recounted in Chard's manuscript account. By the time of the enemy retreat, more than 370 Zulus were dead, and the British force had lost fifteen men with twelve wounded. Immediately recognised as an event of enormous personal bravery and political importance for the British Empire's standing (coming so soon after the heavy losses at Isandlwana), the action resulted in the presentation of a record eleven Victoria Cross medals. Chard, forever afterwards known as one of 'The Heroes of Rorke's Drift' (along with Bromhead), was presented with his medal by Sir Garnet Wolseley on 16 July. Immortalised in the film Zulu, starring Stanley Baker as Chard and Michael Caine as Lieutenant Bromhead, Rorke's Drift has remained one of the most famous single battles in the course of British military history.Arriving back in England on 2 October Chard, already the recipient of the Order of the Victoria Cross, was met with a summons to visit the Queen at Balmoral Castle on 13 October. She was enormously impressed with Chard the man (she sent a laurel wreath to his funeral in 1897), and his description of the events in which he played such a crucial role, so much so that she requested that he put down on paper his account of the battle. This Chard did, signing and dating the neatly written-up final version in January 1880. This was presented to her on Chard's behalf by Captain Fleetwood Isham Edwards, the Queen's Groom-in-Waiting, at Windsor Castle on 21 February 1880. In an accompanying note Edwards described the account as 'a simple soldier like account of very gallant deeds, & a thrilling record of a terrible night's work', continuing 'Major Chard much regrets the unavoidable delay which has occurred in its preparation, but, as perhaps your Majesty may remember, he lost most of his notes'.Provenance: John Chard V.C, R.E.; 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

ROYAL ENGINEERS, CHATHAMJohn Chard's surveying and drawing instrument wooden case, with 6 instruments on purple velveteen-covered tray (others missing), box in mahogany, lid with inset metal panel stamped 'Major Chard V.C. Royal Engineers', brass corner-pieces and decorations, with key (working), 165 x 210 x 60mm.--MANUSCRIPT ADDRESS TO 'MAJOR CHARD R.E. V.C.', from 'The High Constable and Court Leet of the ancient Manor of Chatham', expressing on behalf of the inhabitants of Chatham their 'profound admiration and warmest appreciation of the cool judgment, consumate skill, and heroic valour....' shown by Chard at Rorke's Drift, and noting their pride that Chard 'received part of your military education at the School of Engineering in this neighbourhood...', ink on paper, 2 pages on a bifolium with conjugate blank, signed by G.H. Delabour (High Constable), Edward Winch (Foreman), and George Winch (Steward), folio (375 x 245mm.), 9 November 1879 (2)Footnotes:John Chard passed through the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, before being commissioned lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 15 July 1868, after which he spent two years training at their Chatham headquarters, prior to his first posting to Bermuda in October 1870. In his address of thanks to Chard for heroism at Rorke's Drift the High Constable of Chatham proclaimed 'It is gratifying to us to recollect that you received part of your military education at the School of Engineering in this neighbourhood, and that your training there contributed in some degree to the valuable services you rendered to your Queen and country [at Rorke's Drift]'.Provenance: John Chard V.C., R.E.; by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

VICTORIA, QUEEN OF ENGLANDLeaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO JOHN CHARD, inscribed 'To Major John Chard R.E., V.C. on his return from Zululand from Victoria, Balmoral Oct: 13 1879', 2 engraved plates, original green morocco gilt, g.e., 8vo, Smith, Elder, 1868; together with a manuscript copy of a telegram, on Royal Engineers headed paper, sent by the Director General of the R.E. to the Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General at Portsmouth, announcing that 'Major Chard is expected to arrive at Portsmouth on board Egypt this morning. Direct him to send his address immediately to Colonel Pickard, Balmoral, and inform him the Queen intends to invite him... soon after his arrival', 2 pages, folio, 1 October 1879 (2)Footnotes:QUEEN VICTORIA'S GIFT TO THE HERO OF RORKE'S DRIFT - On his triumphant arrival back from South Africa at Spithead on 2 October 1879, John Chard V.C. was welcomed in person by the Duke of Cambridge with an invitation to an audience with Queen Victoria at Balmoral Castle. Just two weeks later, on 13 October he visited 'to recount the battle to the Queen, who had followed the progress of the Anglo-Zulu War with great interest' (Royal Collection Trust, website). The following year Chard personally presented to the queen, at her request, a written account on the Defence of Rorke's Drift (see lot 61), and her continued interest in him is testified by her sending to his funeral in 1897 a laurel wreath with the inscription 'A mark of admiration and regard for a brave soldier from his sovereign'.Provenance: John Chard V.C., R.E., presentation inscription from Queen Victoria; 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

ALWAR, RAJASTHANAlbum commemorating the wedding of Jai Singh Prabhakar Bahadur, Maharaja of Alwar, December 1919, 45 toned gelatin silver prints (images 270 x 360mm., 11 smaller) by Vernon & Co. of Bombay, mounted on thick card (mostly one per page, a few 2 to 4 images per page, one image a folded panorama on 2 sheets, corner of one image torn away), publisher's cloth, worn, rebacked in morocco gilt, oblong folio (375 x 475mm.), 1919Footnotes:A photographic record of the Maharaja of Alwar's third marriage to H.H. Jadeji Maharani Sahiba in December 1919. Images include wedding groups, the procession and crowds, tiger and lion display, and major buildings including the Old Palace, and late nineteenth-century Sariska Palace.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 SHEPHERDThe Coronation Durbar. Delhi 1903, FIRST EDITION, 133 platinum prints by Bourne & Shepherd, mounted on 101 leaves of thick green paper (recto only, several loose), title and text printed in purple on special paper within a decorative gold printed border, publisher's red morocco gilt, covers with wide decorative border enclosing title 'Coronation Durbar, Delhi, 1903. of His Majesty King Edward VII. Viceroy Baron Curzon of Kedleston, P.C., G.M.S.I, G.M.I.E.' above the Order of the Star of India badge and crown in gilt on upper cover, neatly rebacked to match, folio (450 x 355mm.), Calcutta, Simla, Bombay and London, Printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode, for Bourne & Shepherd, [1903]Footnotes:A magnificent record of the 1903 Delhi Durbar to commemorate the accession of Edward VII, a spectacular event lasting thirteen days 'marked by displays of unexampled magnitude... [eclipsing] the splendours of the vanished Empire of the Moghuls' (introduction), culminating in a procession of the lavish retinues of the Native Chiefs.Bourne & Shepherd were the official photographers to the Durbar, and the album includes numerous portraits of Indian princely rulers (the Nizam of Hyderabad, the Maharajas of Baroda, Mysore and Kashmir, and those of the Shan, and Southern Baluchistan); Lord and Lady Curzon on the State elephant 'Lutchman Pershad'; many views of the State entry into Delhi; panoramas of the Durbar Amphitheatre (which could hold 12,000 spectators), the processions including those of elephants, camels and troops.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

DHARAMPUR, BOMBAY STATE - GUJERAT'Installation of Maharana Shri Vijayadevii Ran, Raja Saheb of Dharampur, 23rd May 1921', 48 large gelatin silver prints (images 255 x 355mm.), mounted one per page (recto only) on thick card, each with printed caption, a few single wormholes to opening 2 images, rust spots on most (some quite heavy), later cloth, preserving original gilt morocco title panel (within elaborately tooled ornamental border, and with Dharampur arms) on upper cover, oblong folio (380 x 500mm.), 1921Footnotes:An album commemorating the accession to the Princely State of Dharampur, Bombay State of H.H. Maharana Vijaydevji II in 1921. Like his father he had studied at Rajkumar College, embracing modernising reforms for his State. Images include portraits of the Maharana, his father and family, visiting dignatories, welcoming arches, processions, and various stages of the ceremony (including unusually a parrot encouraged to ride a car during the garden party), with street views of the town, and major new buildings, including the Jubilee Hall, Mohan, and Narsinha Vilas, Diamond Jubilee Charitable Hospital, new jail, and girl's school.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HENDLEY (THOMAS HOLBEIN)Memorials of the Jeypore Exhibition 1883, vol. 1 (of 4), chromolithographed frontispiece portrait of the Maharajah of Jaipur [Jeypore], decorative title and 39 chromolithographed plates (3 uncoloured, one double-page), additional decorative chromolithographed titles of volumes 2-4, and 2 plates and the text of volume 4 bound in, each page of letterpress within decorative border printed in red, contemporary calf with the original decorative cloth gilt covers mounted on sides, and spine labels, g.e., folio (365 x 270mm.), [W. Griggs, 1883]Footnotes:Held under the patronage of Maharaja Sawai Madho Singh II, the spectacular exhibition of decorative and industrial arts of Rajasthan and its neighbouring states held in Jaipur in 1883 attracted almost quarter of a million visitors, the preface noting that 'Admission was free, because the people were to be taught and pleased'.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

HENDLEY (THOMAS HOLBEIN)Ulwar and its Art Treasures, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE MAHARAJAH BEY SINGH OF ALWAR, additional chromolithographed title, colour portrait of the Maharao Raja of Ulwar (with printed label noting that on 1 January 1889 he was 'granted the hereditary distinction of Maharaja' pasted in margin), 80 plates (numbered 1-79 and 17A, mostly chromolithographed, 2 double-page), illustrations (some colour, others photographic) in the text, all leaves on stubs, original decorative black morocco gilt, each cover with gilt-tooled border enclosing a large central panel of red morocco with elaborate design, gilt dentelles, extremities rubbed, folio (370 x 270mm.), W. Griggs, 1888Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPY FROM MAHARAJAH SIR JAI SINGH OF ALWAR, IN A SPECIAL GILT MOROCCO BINDING. Hendley based his pioneering study of Mughal art treasures on the extensive collection of the Maharaja of Alwar ('at whose whole cost this book is published', the total value of the collection estimated by the author to be about two million pounds sterling), and research he carried out 'in the native capitals of Rajputana'.Provenance: Captain Smith, presentation inscription from Maharaja Sir Jai Singh of Alwar, 'To Captain Smith. In memory of the pleasant time we spent together, and as but a poor return for all the trouble you took with with me especially on 5th September 1902 from yours sincerely Jey Singh, Ulwar'. Jai Singh (1882-1937) succeeded his father in 1892, and ruled Alwar until 1933.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

HENDLEY (THOMAS HOLBEIN)Damascening on Steel or Iron, a Practised in India, FIRST EDITION, tinted photographic frontispiece ('Group of Damasceners in Gold'), 31 colour photo-chromo-lithographed plates by W. Griggs from water colour drawings 'by Murli, Nand Lal, Chaju Lal, Ram Gopal, Jiwan, and other Indian artists', calf-backed cloth, original decorative title panel (printed in silver) mounted on upper cover, folio (375 x 270mm.), W. Griggs & Sons, 1892This 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

HENDLEY (THOMAS HOLBEIN)The Rulers of India and the Chiefs of Rajputana, 1550 to 1897, FIRST EDITION, 26 plates (18 colour), publisher's pictorial red morocco gilt, folio (370 x 270mm.), W. Griggs, 1897This 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

JACOB (SAMUEL SWINTON) AND THOMAS HOLBEIN HENDLEYJeypore Enamels, FIRST EDITION, 28 chromolithographed plates, pictorial opening initial (depicting a seated jeweller) printed in red, short tear to blank lower margin of plate 15, publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, g.e., folio (370 x 270mm.), W. Griggs, 1886Footnotes:The authors note that the best enamellers in modern India are the Sikhs, the tradition in Jaipur starting when 'Maharaja Man Singh... brought five Sikh enamel workers from Lahore, and... that the descendants of these men still procure their colours from that town to carry on the trade of their forefathers confirms that tradition', and giving the names of the best current practitioners. One of these, Guma Singh, is depicted with in the opening plate alongside three other named workers. Two plates depict the tools of their profession, and the remainder examples of their work including sword handles, vases, cups and spoons, bracelets and jewels. In the preface S.S. Jacob, Executive Engineer of Jaipur State, praises the quality of these illustrations, produced by 'one of the best Jeypore artists, by name Ram Bux [Baksh], son of Esur..., and the only credit I can claim is in having set him to work and paid him for his trouble'.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

JEHANGIR (SORABJI)Princes and Chiefs of India. A Collection of Biographies and Portraits of the Indian Princes and Chiefs and Brief Historical Surveys of the Territories... Revised and Completed by F.S. Jehangir Taléyarkhan, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, with letterpress titles and descriptive text, 84 woodburytype portraits (of 85, without the Maharaja of Samthar, as issued?), all on original mounts with decorative typographical borders (images approximately 250 x 195mm.), 3 plates loose, one slit in blank margin, a few single wormholes to approximately 5 plates at end of volume 2, publisher's red morocco gilt, g.e., folio (370 x 265mm.), Waterlow & Sons, 1903Footnotes:RARE COMPLETE SET, ILLUSTRATED WITH STRIKING PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS OF THE MAJOR INDIAN PRINCELY RULERS, in the original binding. The author 'visited all parts of India to collect and verify the necessary material, to enlist the co-operation of those concerned, and to arrange for the photographs which add so greatly both to the contemporary and historical value of the undertaking' (Preface). Each portrait, taken by an as yet unidentified photographer, is boldly composed and beautifully lit, with the sitters (full-length, seated or head and shoulders) dressed in their finery. This copy, like the only other full set traced at auction, was issued without the portrait of the Maharaja of Samthar. Provenance: Mysore 'Palace Library', stamp on title of volumes 1 and 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

JOURNAL OF INDIAN ARTKIPLING (JOHN LOCKWOOD, editor) The Journal of Indian Art, vol. 1-3 only (comprising Nos. 1-36, lacking nos. 4 and 9), texts by Kipling, T.H. Hendley, G. Birdwood, and others, approximately 432 chromolithographed, photographic, and photo-lithographed plates (including many by artists from the Mayo School of Art, Lahore after Kipling), without parts wrappers, the title and list of plates in volume 2, W. Griggs, 1886-1890--HENDLEY (THOMAS H.) Indian Jewellery [parts 95-107 of 'The Journal of Indian Art and Industry'], facsimile edition, 167 plates (many colour), original parts wrappers bound in, W. Griggs, and Bernard Quaritch, 1906-1909 [but later], uniformly bound in modern half morocco, gilt lettered 'Indian Art, Vol. 1[-4] on spines, folio (360 x 255mm.); and 3 others, extracted articles from 'The Journal of Indian Art', including T.H. Hendley on Indian museums, and F.H. Andrews on Indian carpets and rugs, plates, early half cloth, gilt lettered on spines, a few tears to spines, sold as periodicals (7)Footnotes:The Journal of Indian Art was founded and edited by John Lockwood Kipling, founding Principal of the Mayo School of Art in Lahore, to forward his ambitions to elevate the status of traditional Indian arts, crafts, architecture and design in Britain. He contributed many of the articles, focusing on Punjabi arts, as well as illustrations (executed by his Indian pupils). Another prolific contributor was Thomas Holbein Hendley, whose Indian Jewellery was a pioneering and influential treatise on the subject.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

KARPUTHALA, PUNJABAlbum of 41 views commemorating the wedding of Maharaja Jagatjit Singh's son, and the completion of the Maharaja's 'New Palace' [known now as 'Jagatjit Palace'], gelatin silver prints (typically 240 x x 285, largest 270 x 360mm., one 215 x 160mm.), mounted one per page (recto only) on thick card, toning to margins of a few images, some spotting to mounts, original black morocco gilt, lettered 'Kapurthala 1911' beneath State coat of arms on upper cover, g.e., scuffed, oblong folio (250 x 430mm.), 1911Footnotes:A fine album commemorating two important events from 1911 in the life of Maharaja Jagatjit Singh (1877-1949), Sikh ruler of the princely state of Karputhala, in the Punjab. The first was the wedding of Jagatjit Singh's eldest son Sri Tikka Raja Sahib Paramjit Singh to Maharani Brinda Devi Sahiba, images showing groups (5, including the Maharaja, his son and bride; 'Wedding Guests'; 'Indian Wedding Guests'; 'The Three Princes and Princess of Karpurthala; H.H. The Maharaja, Princess and State Officials'), 'Durbar, the Sehrabani Ceremony', 'The Sikh Marriage Ceremony', 'The Hindu Marriage Ceremony', the wedding procession (5), State banquet, State ball, the gymkhana, and the Guests' Camp (5 exterior views, one of the 'Drawing Room Tent'). In 1911 the Maharajah's extravagant 'New Palace' [Jagatjit Palace today] was completed. Reflecting the Maharajah's love of France (he made French the official court language of Karputhala), the palace was inspired by the French palaces of Versailles and Fontainebleau. Views show the exterior (3) and opulent interiors (7, including the Durbar Hall, State Drawing Room, State Dining Room, Japanese Room, Library, Billiard Room, and the Maharajah's office). Other images include the old temple and mausoleum (2), the 'Villa Buona Vista' (2), 'Chateau Karpurthala, Mussorie' (2, exterior and Ball Room), the Maharaja on the State elephant, and hunting groups at Akaona (2). The Villa Buona Vista, and chateau at Mussorie were both inspired by Spanish architecture, and were built for the Maharaja's fifth wife, Anita Delgado, a young Spanish dancer whom he had married in 1908. She can be seen in the wedding and hunting groups alongside her husband.Provenance: The Maharaja of Mysore, presentation inscription from the Maharaja Jagatjit Singh, dated 25 December 1911, ten days after the Imperial Durbar at Delhi.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MAWJEE (PURSHOTAM VISHRAM)The Imperial Durbar Album of the Indian Princes, Chiefs and Zamindars, 2 vol., FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, NUMBER 30 OF 300 COPIES, the number '30' stamped in purple ink with a facsimile signature of the author on the colophon leaf in volume 1, half-title in volume 2, 184 photogravure and collotype portrait plates (of 195, lacking 11 in volume 1, one loose), mounted one per page (recto only) on thick paper, most within a printed decorative border, tissue guards (some missing), publisher's blue cloth, gilt-stamped title and Royal coat of arms within wide decorative border on upper cover, blind-stamped decoration on lower cover, neatly rebacked in morocco gilt, folio (380 x 300mm.), Bombay [Mumbai], The Lakshmi Art Printing Works, 1911Footnotes:EXTREMELY RARE WORK PUBLISHED IN BOMBAY TO CELEBRATE THE IMPERIAL DURBAR OF 1911, with no copies recorded as selling at auction on Rare Book Hub or American Book Prices Current, only 2 copies on WorldCat. The colophon states that the work was limited to 300 copies, but it seems possible that the full print run was not issued. The Indian author, Mawjee Purshotam Mawujee, proudly notes in the preface that 'this work has been wholly executed and finished in this country, in the face of several unforeseen difficulties, and that, too, within a limited time'. Published in Bombay, the work was executed in the grand scale expected of such grandiose Durbar 'Princely Portrait' celebratory volumes, the portraits mounted on thick paper, and bound in a gilt-stamped binding, but it is noticeable that the work included, alongside the most major rulers, many minor rulers and regional zamindars not usually represented. The author acknowledges the assistance of 'political officers' who helped source the photographs and historical accounts of these, whilst other images are reproduced from famous photographic studios, including Herzog and Higgins, Bourne and Shepherd, F. Bremner, and Wiele & Klein.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

INDIAN MUTINY AND WORLD WAR IPapers of Patrick Whelan, senior administrator for the British army in India, including letters by his friend and colleague Major-General William Riddell Birdwood, several written from the Anzac Corps on the Western Front, together with papers acquired by his forebears at the time of the Indian Mutiny in 1857, comprising:i) Eight autograph and typed letters signed ('W.R. Birdwood'), six to Patrick Whelan ('My dear Whelan'), and two to his wife, letters of thanks and congratulations; one on Birdwood's departure for Egypt to command the Anzac troops training there; another from the Front ('...Things are going well but slowly, as is only natural, for the Germans have very strong positions in front of us, and fight stubbornly. I hope though that we have killed a good many of them in the last few days, and we have had quite a successful haul of guns. I have lately taken my troops out of the trenches, and while there I am glad to say they succeeded in bayonetting some three hundred Germans by raiding across no man's land into their trenches at night, and establishing a feeling of holy terror in consequence. Now, however, we are called upon to take a much larger part in the game, when we must I fear naturally expect to have heavy casualties...'; hoping to get him a post with the Mesopotamian commission; his opinion of said commission ('...How they have formed a committee without any knowledge of India seems astounding...'), mentioning preparations for an attack north-east of Pozières in early August 1916 ('...I have had a terrible lot of hard fighting with my Australians here all this last month... they have done excellently, and quite lived up to their old Peninsula reputation...'), 25 pages in all, 8vo and 4to, Kohat, NW Frontier Province, Bombay, 1st Anzac Corps, France, 5 May [19]11 to 25 August 1916ii) Papers relating to military operations during the Indian Mutiny of 1857, comprising a manuscript list titled 'Distribution of European Troops & Sikhs on the banks of the Ganges', Koladque, 26 August 1857; with a manuscript copy (docketed 'Extract copy') of a letter from Colonel Robert Napier, chief engineer and military and adjutant general to Sir James Outram, written in several hands, reporting on the massing of troops and preparations prior to the first relief of Lucknow in September 1857, dated 27 August [1857]iii) Six warrants of authority each signed at head ('William R'), addressed to 'The General or Officer Commanding Our Forces', authorising the bearer to convene or cause to be convened a General Courts Martial should the occasion arise, in Bengal and the East Indies, three engraved with manuscript insertions, three manuscript, four countersigned by Melbourne, two by Russell, 15 pages, paper seals, dust-stained, various marks, tears, small holes, some losses, one extensively damaged, folio, Windsor, 26 March 1834 and 19 April 1837Footnotes:Patrick Whelan was born into a long line of British civil servants and administrators in India and was clearly held in high esteem, as these letters from the then Major-General Birdwood show. After seeing action with Kitchener during the Second Boer War, Birdwood commanded the Anzacs at Gallipoli and on the Western Front, before becoming commander-in-chief of the Fifth Army during the closing stages of the war and returning to India in 1920. These papers have remained in the family until now and are being sold by the granddaughter of Patrick Whelan.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

KASHMIR, LAHORE, DELHI AND AGRAAlbum of 50 views of Kashmir, Delhi and Agra and environs, by William Baker, John E. Saché (12), Bourne, and a fine photographer identified only with his monogram, with 8 original watercolour and ink illustrations of coloured inlaid marble designs from the Taj Mahal, all images mounted, mostly 2 per page (2 one per page, 6 small views on one page, but typically 240 x 285mm., the watercolours on 2 pages), other leaves removed, contemporary calf gilt, worn, folio (550 450mm.), [c.1869-1870]Footnotes:Includes: William Baker - Kashmir (3), Agra and Fatepur Sikri (4), Varanesi (2), and Muttam (1); John Saché - Agra (6), Delhi (2) and Lucknow and Cawnpore (4); Samuel Bourne - Umballa Church, Peshawr; the high Ganges; 'H.S.' or 'S.H.' monogram photographer - Kashmir (20, of which 4 small), Lahore (1).Provenance: Arthur Frederick Pope (1840-1921), gilt lettered initials on cover and ownership inscription ('New University Club, St. James' Place, London') on verso of front free endpaper.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

7 BOOKS PUBLISHED BY FOLIO SOCIETY INCLUDING THE PASTONS, THE GRAND TOUR, SELECTION OF WRITINGS BY WILLIAM COBBETT ALL IN NO SLIP CASES AND ALSO THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL, THE BOOK OF MARGERY KEMP, ANTON CHEKHOV SHORT STORIES AND THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE ALL IN SLIP CASES

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* Wallis (Barnes Neville, 1887-1979). Autograph manuscript lessons in calculus, trigonometry and physics, November 1922 to February 1924, a remarkable series of bespoke lessons devised for Wallis's future wife Molly, written as part of their courtship and sent in chapter form over the course of 16 months, divided into courses on Calculus and Trigonometry, each in 9 chapters, plus 2 stand-alone chapters on 'Note on Potential Charge & Capacity' and 'Electrostatic Induction', written on the rectos (and a few versos) of quarto sheets in Wallis's neat italic hand with occasional diagrams, the Introduction and chapters 1 and 2 of Calculus (7 pages) written out in Molly's hand and taken from letters sent to her by Barnes, but otherwise in Wallis's hand, a total of 248 pages (Calculus 81 pp.; Trigonometry 112 pp.; Physics 35 pp.), plus a further 6 pages (3 leaves) of Molly's answers to the calculus questions set by Barnes appended to the final chapter, with Wallis's red ink corrections and encouraging comments, the Trigonometry course with an additional diagram leaf and 4 chapter cover notes by Wallis, one initialled and two signed 'Barnes', a little scattered marginal creasing and fraying and a little dust-soiling, some horizontal folds throughout, occasional closed tears to folds and the chapter 'Notes on Potential Charge & Capacity' heavily split along lower horizontal folds, 4to/folioQty: (a folder)NOTESProvenance: From the family of Barnes Wallis, by direct descent. In 1922 Barnes Wallis, aged 35, fell in love with his cousin Molly Bloxam. Molly was just 17 and setting off to study science at University College London. Her father decreed that the two could correspond only if Barnes taught Molly mathematics in his letters. When they met, Wallis was out of work, the closing of airship production having made him redundant. He began working for a London External B.Sc. but then suddenly landed a job teaching in a young gentlemen's academy in Chillon, Switzerland, taking on the post and leaving for Chillon in September 1922. This sudden disruption of the burgeoning friendship with Molly was alleviated by their correspondence which had the cautious approval of Mr Bloxham with certain caveats. However, Mr Bloxam became unhappy with Wallis thinking that the letters had strayed emotionally and not kept to a formal nature that he intended. Then mathematics came to Wallis's aid. Molly had to pass her exams and needed help from somewhere so he offered his services. Over the course of the next 15 months he posted these mathematics lessons in separate envelopes to the fortnightly personal letters and all was well. The personal letters between the two (which are not offered here) include mathematical references to the lessons but gradually became more personal, and Wallis proposed marriage on Molly's twentieth birthday. They were married on 23 April 1925, and remained so for 54 years until Wallis's death in 1979. They had four children - Barnes, Mary, Elisabeth and Christopher - and also adopted Molly's sister's children John and Robert McCormick when their parents were killed in an air raid. Their eldest daughter Mary (1927-2019) later married Harry Stopes-Roe, a son of Marie Stopes. These mathematics lessons in their entirety (with minor omissions) were published in Marie Stopes-Roe, Mathematics With Love: The Courtship Correspondence of Barnes Wallis, Inventor of the Bouncing Bomb, (Macmillan, 2005), especially pp. 11-250. The book is interspersed with transcriptions of the personal letters with editorial comment, and takes the story as far as 12 September 1924, Molly's 20th birthday and the day she accepted their engagement.

Foote (Shelby). The Civil War, A Narrative, 3 volumes, 2nd printing, Folio Society, 2010, colour map endpapers, some black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets & slipcase, 8vo, together with; Eicher (David J.), The Civil War in Books, An Analytical Bibliography, 1st edition, University of Illinois Press, Chicago, 1997, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, and Lipscombe (Nick), The Peninsular War Atlas, 1st edition, Osprey, 2010, numerous colour maps, publishers original cloth spine to boards in slipcase, oblong 4to, plus MacKinnon (J. P. & S. H. Shadbolt), The South African Campaign of 1879, Greenhill Books, 1995, black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, and other American Civil War, Napoleonic & pre-20th century military & exploration reference, including publications by Yale, Pen & Sword, Sutton, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, VG, 8vo/4toQty: (34)

* Royalty, Politics & the Arts. An autograph album containing letters, inscriptions, signatures and signed photographs of members of the British royal family, politicians, musicians and actors, 19th & early 20th century, including an autograph letter from Prince Albert, Buckingham Palace, 27 April 1858, to Sir Edward Cust in response to a couple of questions having received the third volume of the Annals, regretting that it is not in his power 'to go to Grantham to see or inaugurate the Newton Statue', the second informing Cust that the memoirs of Prince F.J. [Friedrich Josias] of Coburg 'are being collected and written at this moment by [Armied von] Witzleben', 2 pages with blank integral leaf, 8vo; a bold autograph signature of Queen Victoria; a signed cabinet card photograph of King Edward VII, signed 'Albert Edward', Coventry Barracks, Windsor, Jan: 24/81', signed cabinet card of Queen Alexandra, autograph letter signed by King George V as Prince, burnt at edges with some loss not affecting signature; a card signed by Queen Mary when Princess of Wales, crudely taped on to mount; a card signed by Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester; autograph signatures of Winston Churchill ('W.S. Churchill'), a clipped signature tipped on to upper portion of Chartwell letterhead, and other political signatures of David Lord George, Stanley Baldwin, J. Ramsay MacDonald, Austen Chamberlain, Neville Chamberlain, Joseph Chamberlain (ALS), Samuel Hoare, Lord Halifax, John Simon, Viscount Snowden, Anthony Eden, the Aga Khan with subscription on embossed letterhead; signed real photo postcards of Andrew Carnegie and Thomas Lipton, clipped signatures of Baden Powell (dated 4.12.33), Admiral Beatty, W.R. Robertson, Evelyn Wood and Charles Beresford (ALS); clipped signatures of Oliver Lodge, Guglielmo Marconi and Herbert Barker; literary clipped signatures of Hilaire Belloc, E.F. Benson, 'Sapper', Baroness Orczy, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Hugh Walpole, John Buchan, John Oxenham, Hall Caine, P.C. Wren (signed bookplate); musical autographs of Chaliapine (signed programme, 1925), Edward Elgar (postcard with vignette portrait and printed musical quotation from The Apostles, signed beneath in blank area, 'Edward Elgar, Sep:10 1904, to H.M.W.', clipped signatures of Landon Ronald, Oscar Straus and Sergei Rachmaninoff (in western script); clipped signatures of Alan J. Cobham, J.A. Mollison and Charles W.A. Scott, the collection mostly pasted on to rectos of 22 stiff card leaves within categories and many with printed biographical cuttings pasted adjacent, presentation inscription from George Wood to his friend Norman Agran, dated May 1969, to front pastedown, early 20th-century half morocco, heavily rubbed, oblong folio (30 x 42 cm)Qty: (1)

* Wallis (Barnes Neville, 1887-1979). A lengthy Autograph Manuscript in the form of a discontinuous 'letter', 22 October 1949 to 28 October 1972, effectively a journal written in the form of a series of dated fair copy letters from Barnes Wallis to his wife Molly, the first letter signed 'Barnes', but thereafter the letters run on near continuously, giving details of his life away from home and his work, principally about the evolution of Wild Goose, Swallow and subsequent projects, a few diagrams included including 2 on separate sheets, various page numberings including a later series in pencil, 1a-1i, 1-22 and 1-100 (with 2 misnumberings and 2 additional illustrated leaves), a total of 134 pages written neatly to rectos of foolscap folio leaves, principally written horizontally across the page but some leaves written vertically, hole punches to left edge of most leaves, occasionally catching lettering but usually in blank margins, a little minor corner curling and fraying but generally very goodQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: From the family of Barnes Wallis, by direct descent. An extraordinary autograph 'autobiography', covering over 20 years of Wallis's post-war working life away from home and giving much detail about his various projects.

* WWI. An archive relating to Major Charles Hodgkinson Smith (1877-1952), comprising: a typescript history of the family written by the Major entitled 'A "Gunner" Family', ff.30, with genealogy frontispiece, bound in a spring back cloth binder, slim folio, with author's original manuscript and notes loosely inserted; a 3pp. typescript curriculum vitae and letters of recommendation (including a typescript letter signed from General Sir George F. Milne); a printed bifolium certificate completed in manuscript awarding the Order of the British Empire, dated 1919, with circular embossed seal, and signature of George V, folio; a printed paper commission document completed in black ink, appointing Charles Hodgkinson Smith Second Lieutenant in the Land Forces, dated 1900, with most of wax seal lacking, signed by Edward VII 'Edward R&I' to upper margin, vertical folds as issued, toned, 30 x 40 cm (12 x 15.75 ins); a printed paper commission document completed in black ink, appointing the same to rank of Lieutenant in the Land Forces, dated 1914, embossed blue paper seal to left margin, vertical folds as issued, 30.5 x 40.5 cm (12 x 16 ins), and another commission document similar, stamped in red 'Temporary', appointing the same to rank of Captain in the Royal Air Force, dated 1918; a printed copy of Seniority and Distribution Lists of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, No. 548, Woolwich, November 1900, folded into printed blue paper wrappers; and various newspaper cuttings, army papers, personal family correspondence, certificates (including 3 framed certificates pertaining to gallant and distinguished services during WWI), and other ephemera, together with: A cavalry sketching board, London: Houghton-Butcher, 1915, wooden sketching board with compass, integrated clinometer and swivelling leather arm strap with buckle to reverse, original squared paper roll still attached to side rollers bearing a pencilled diagram and annotations, 25 x 18.5 cm (10 x 7.25 ins)Qty: (-)NOTESMajor Charles Hodgkinson Smith was the eldest son of Major General Charles Hodgkinson Smith (1826-1897) and the last of six successive generations of the same family to serve in the Royal Artillery, five of which were documented by him. The Major's military career commenced in 1899 when he joined the yeoman cavalry at the start of the Boer War, receiving a commission in the Royal Artillery the following year and serving until 1904, when he retired in favour of agricultural pursuits. During the Boer War Charles saw action at Sand River, Wittebergen, Slaapkrantz, and Bothaville, and was involved in the operations in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony. In his history of the family he describes his experiences of guerilla warfare during which he endured: "constant flank and rear-guard actions, long hours in the saddle, extremities of heat and cold, often sleeping on sodden ground and sometimes for weeks living on nothing but bully-beef and dry biscuits ... ". At the outbreak of the First World War he rejoined the Royal Artillery (Reserve of Officers), and served in the Second Battle of Ypres as Captain, and subesquently commanded the Brigade Ammunition Column before Armentières, Boise Grenier, and Péronne, south of the Somme. In 1916 he was invalided home, although he was later sent to Egypt with the Royal Flying Corps in 1917, and then to the Balkans where he took part in operations, including the two battles of Doiran. Immediately after the Armistice Charles was appointed Commandant of the Royal Air Force of the Alexandria and Aboukir District in Egypt. He therefore served in three branches of the armed forces - the Cavalry, the Artillery and the Air Force. He was awarded a number of medals, including two South African medals, the Victory Medal and the Croix de Guerre, and was also made a Member of the British Empire. Major Charles appears to have been a sporting all-rounder, excelling in football, tennis, golf, rowing, and billiards, as well as polo, skating, skiing and other winter sports. One of the testimonials, dated 1919, describe him as "an excellent officer ... His personal habits are those of an English country gentleman. He is a good sportsman, of almost gigantic proportions, full of physical fitness, and just the sort of Englishman for a Colonial appointment." Charles married and had one daughter, but no son to carry on the family tradition of serving in the Royal Artillery.

* Hitler Youth. A photograph album entitled 'Meine zeit under AHS Dresden' 1940-1942, with a pencilled swastika beneath pencil manuscript title, a Hitler Youth membership card for Sven Ludowig loosely inserted, containing approx. 68 monochrome photographs, mounted (a few with photo corners) to both sides of album leaves, comprising images relating to the Hitler Youth, such as a Landjahr camp, with several photos of individuals and groups of young men in uniform, sometimes marching, doing sports and other activities, shooting practice, ceremonies, officers giving speeches, the final filled page with the manuscript caption 'Die AHS bestanden und zum ein mitglied in der SS' and a photograph of a young man in SS uniform (head and shoulders portrait), occasional discolouration, contemporary cloth with spine tie, a little wear to extremities, small oblong folio, together with: BDM, A photograph album with a pencil manuscript title relating to the BDM in Dresden, containing approx. 38 monochrome photographs, with the pencilled date 1934 to 1st leaf, several images of a young girl on her own or with others, taking part in dancing, exercises, washing, doing gymnastic-style movements, and other activities (some nude), also at ceremonies, some images of the 1936? Olympic Games, a few photographs of a young girl costumed in a long dress with the Olympic Rings visible on the dress and also on her headdress, some discolouration generally, especially to margins, contemporary cloth with spine tie, rear cover with round stain, front cover with applied cloth letters 'E K' and applied cloth Hitler Youth symbol (lightly spotted and dust-soiled), rear cover with plastic ring and elastic closure, fixing to metal hook on front cover (elastic stretched), oblong 8vo, plus a third photograph album, dated ...Dresden 1939, comprising numerous monochrome photographs in and around Dresden and the wider area (including family photos, mountain scenes, city scenes etc), none labelled, the first page with a photograph of German soldiers, contemporary cloth with spine tie, small oblong folio, and several items of ephemera relating to Dresden, comprising: a baptism certificate for Gerry? Zimmermann, son of Maria Zimmermann, 1919 (1914?) in Dresden; a Guidebook for the Green Vault museum, 1930s; several Dresden gas, water and electricity bills, all 1935; a single-page leaflet for a Christmas Party 1918, in the Herzogin Garten, Dresden; a 'Zenfurbuch', or school report book, for Maria Grodn???, for the years 1916-1924; and a front cover (only) of a ReichskarteQty: (13)

* Gibson (Michael L.). Aircraft Accidents 1943-44 Ledger, an important ledger compiled for the period of May 1943-May 1944, probably towards the end of the War, recording crashes throughout the United Kingdom, all handwritten with tabular columns inscribed Date od Accd, Time of Accd, Type. Mark & No of Aircraft, Place of Crash, Parent Unit, Group, Casualties (killed / injured), taxying, Landing (a (heavy landing), b (over shot), c (under shot) etc, Taking Off, Structured Failures, Collision, Low Flying, Force Landing, Other Causes, Day, Night, A.I.B., Cof I or T Off, Remarks, Symbol, File No, the ledger is incredibly detailed and include extensive remarks for example 'Pilot carrying out authorised aerobatics below authorised height struck slope of hill crashed (Llangollen Flintshire, Master III, 28 July 1943), half calf folio with printed label 'On His Majesty's Service', 38 x 25cmQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: The collection of Michael L. Gibson (1931-2020), aviation historian and author of 'Aviation in Northamptonshire An Illustrated History'

* Wallis (Barnes Neville, 1887-1979). An important Autograph Letter Signed, 'B.N. Wallis', White Hill House, Effingham, Surrey, 2 August 1948, to his Executors, giving a detailed account of his family and financial situation amid concerns for the financial welfare of his wife and children in the eventuality of his death, and hoping that they will act in his best interests with all the information he provides, Wallis begins with the death of his brother and sister-in-law, Barbara and Hurley McCormick, in November 1940, and Barnes and Molly's subsequent adoption of their two children John and Robert, 'This comparatively large addition to my dependants, combined with heavy taxation, and the refusal of the Walker family to agree to legal adoption of the children (with consequent tax relief &c), has ever since that time made my income insufficient to meet my expenditure, thus preventing my saving money to provide for the long period of widowhood that in the course of nature my wife will have to face', continuing that he had told these things to Sir Hew Kilner, managing director of the Aviation Section of Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. at Christmas 1944 and then going into details about various potential payments and tax implications, then giving an account of his various appointments and summary of his work and also referring to the 'bouncing bomb' invention, 'My Executors should know that, although urged to do so by my Patent Agents, I have refused to make any application to the Board of Inventions for any Awards that might be reasonably due to me for the inventions by which the Möhne and Eder Dams were destroyed in May 1943, or for the "Tallboy" and "Grand Slam" bomb. All these things were done entirely on my own initiative, in the face of strong opposition from Sir Charles Craven (footnoted as Chairman of Vickers-Armstrongs) though in the end with his help and approval... ', 5 pages with embossed address at head of first page, attaching two schedules, both in the hand of Barnes Wallis, the first a 'List of Appointments and Directors', summarising his career in eight periods from 1913 to the present time, written in tabular form on rectos of 2 leaves, the second schedule, being a 'List of Works' giving a more detailed description of the various projects undertaken during his working career and numbered to refer back to his list of appointments, 8 pages, all written on rectos only of a total of 15 foolscap folio sheets, first page of letter lightly toned, paperclip rust impression to blank upper left corner of first and last page, not affecting any textQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: From the family of Barnes Wallis, by direct descent. A highly important autograph summary of Wallis's working life. In the description of work schedule he gives detailed notes about the various projects and his roles in them, beginning with his involvement with H.B. Pratt on the R9. 'The R9 was stopped by Churchill then First Lord of the Admiralty, in the belief that the war would be over before the ship could be put into service. Pratt and I enlisted in the Artists' Rifles. It was soon realised that the war would be a long one, and Pratt and I, were firstly transferred to the R.N.V.R. to complete R9 as Naval Officers, and then transferred to Vickers, to carry out the programme of Naval Airship Development'. Wallis also refers to the R100 & R101 airships: 'During 1930 R100 flew successfully to Canada and back. The R101 attempting to emulate our performance by flying to India via Ismailia crashed after a few hours flight at Amiens with the loss of 48 lives. During the closing months of my time at Hawarden, when my design work was finished I had become interested in the design of aeroplanes, and saw that, with the great experience of the design of very light structures that I now possessed such improvements in the performance of aeroplanes could be made as would render the sole raison d'etre of airships, mainly their ability to fly great distances non-stop, no longer their sole prerogative. To this end I invented "Geodetic Construction" and the Wellesley monoplane... during this period also, in conjunction with R.K. Pierson I designed the Wellington Bomber which did frontline service throughout the war'. Wallis later refers to Operation Chastise and his experiments with bombs: 'Our experiments showed the impossibility of destroying these [Möhne & Eder Dams] or any other massive dams, even by the use of the largest bomb that I had suggested - ten tons, and in my extremity I invented the (still "top-secret") special weapon by which success was achieved in the historic attack which won for Wing Commander Guy Gibson the VC on the night of May 16-17, 1943. The attack did immense damage in the Eder & Ruhr Valleys. Industry in the Ruhr district was temporarily brought largely to a standstill due to the failure of fouling of the water supplies, and some 3,000 people were killed or drowned in the Ruhr Valley alone. The attack was one of amazing gallantry and skill on the part of Gibson and his Special Squadron (No. 617). The success showed to perfection the virtues of the scientific approach in modern warfare. Owing to the extreme secrecy, and novelty of the weapon and the harmful use that could be made of it against this country, it has not yet received the publicity nor the reward that it deserved, but it tended to establish in the minds of the C. in C's such as Sir Arthur Harris, and the C.E. Sir Wilfrid Freeman an impression of the rightness of the lines on which I had argued when writing my "Note on means of Attacking".' Wallis also gives an account of his involvement with the "Tallboy" and "Grand Slam" bombs and their successful use including the sinking of the "Tirpitz" by 617 Squadron, 'to the great indignation of the Director of Naval Construction and the Admiralty who still seem to think it not quite the thing that a battleship (albeit a German one) should be sunk by a bomb, when the whole efforts of the British Navy had conspicuously failed to do it by other means'. The account continues to his posting as head of a Research and Development department at Vickers-Armstrongs which was formed in 1945. The account ends in mid-sentence but is apparently pretty much complete: 'My knowledge of the German weapon V2 led to an interesting development in work that had long formed the purpose of my thought and aim in aeronautics, that is to say the development of a type of aircraft that could achieve long range, high speed and great load carrying capacity simultaneously. In a note [ends here].'

* Wallis (Barnes Neville, 1887-1979). Biographical notes on his own family in the form of an autograph letter signed, 'Daddy', White Hill House, Effingham, and Scafell Hotel, Rosthwaite, 29 August-29 October 1956, written to his daughter Wiggy [i.e. Mary, 1927-2019], beginning, 'This day 45 years ago, very early in the morning - about 1.30am I believe, my dear mother died, very suddenly, in a few minutes, after three long years of acute asthma. She was only 52 years old. You have asked why she and my father [a doctor] settled in such a poor district of London. There are two quite different answers to that; the first is that when they bought the [medical] practice it was not a poor district, but a fully residential district for well-to-do City men, who could reach London Bridge, Cannon St, and St Paul's Stations in a few minutes direct from the New Cross Stations, of which these were two. Remember that in 1891 or '92, when they went there, there were no electric trams or trains, no motor-cars or motor-busses; - only a few funny old horse-drawn trams plying in the outskirts of London, and horse busses driven by coachmen in shiny water-proof top-hats - the direct successors of the old coach drivers of early Victorian days. All the trains were of course steam-engined, and the District, and Metropolitan railways running E. and West had their termini at New Cross... ', continuing in a detailed fashion to give an account of his grandparents, parents and various siblings, their characteristics, life events and careers, written very neatly on rectos of 24 foolscap folio pages and written ad hoc in various inks over the course of two months but in a consistent hand, light toning to final blank pageQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: From the family of Barnes Wallis, by direct descent. An extraordinarily vivid and naturally written account of Barnes Wallis's parents and relatives. Apparently written at home and the Scafell Hotel in Rosthwaite, Keswick, a favourite holiday retreat of Wallis. The hotel now has a Barnes Wallis Suite.

* Marlborough (John Churchill, 1650-1722, First Duke of). An indenture on vellum, signed by the Duke of Marlborough, 2nd November 1714, indenture in brown ink on vellum, an agreement between John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, George Townesend of Lincolnes Inne, and Edward Bearcroft, Gentleman, St. Andrew Holborn, for the sale of land in south-west london, including parts of Nonsuch Great Park and Little Park [the former site of Henry VIII's Nonsuch Palace, demolished by Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine in 1683-84, after the site had been given to her by Charles II in 1670], signed by the Duke of Marlborough, George Townesend and Edward Bearcroft, witnesses Oximbridge Harwood and Richard Phillips, sealed and delivered in the presence of G. Widmore, A. Isaakson, and Lan. Jones, the document now divided and cut up into 10 portions which have been inlaid to a late 19th century folio album (showing both sides of each portion), with extensive biographical manuscript notes by J. C. Westley, dated 1898, including a transcript of most of the text of the indenture, the original document with some marks and stains, some words faded or not legible (sold with all faults), together with Churchill (Sarah, 1660-1744, Duchess of Marlborough, wife of the first Duke of Marlborough). A manuscript and printed document, signed by the Duchess of Marlborough and others, for the repayment by King George II, of a loan of £5000 from the executors of John, Duke of Marlborough, dated 9th May 1727, printed document on laid paper, addressed at head of the document in ink to 'The most noble Sarah, Dutchess Dowager of Marlborough, the Right Honorable Francis Earl of Godolphin, William Clayton and John Hanbury Esqrs. Executors in trust of the noble John Duke of Marlborough', with similar manuscript insertion to the text, signed by Robert Walpole, William Yonge, and George Dod[d]ington, additionally annotated and signed at foot by Lord William Powlett for the payment in full of the loan and interest (dated 19 and 20 September 1728), and signed in brown ink to verso '25 Sepr. 1728. Recd in full S: Marlborough, Godolphin, J. Hanbury', the document cut into two portions, the lower half laid down on later album leaf, the upper portion inlaid to album leaf to show both sides, with further extensive biographical notes by J. C. Westley, the whole album comprising 44 leaves in total, including an article from Pall Mall Magazine for August 1894, entitled Blenheim and its Memories on 12 leaves, an autograph letter by the 9th Duke of Marlborough, on Trinity College cambridge headed paper, dated March 7th 1893, to a Mr. Gilderd, and a printed article from The Graphic, Saturday November 9, 1895, on the marriage of the Duke of Marlborough to Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt (pasted on 5 leaves), outer paper wrappers with maroon morocco spine, manuscript title to upper cover, some light soiling, folio (34 x 21 cm, 13.2 x 8.25 ins)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Each of the three documents in the album (Duke of Marlborough signed indenture, Duchess of Marlborough signed document, and 9th Duke of Marlborough autograph letter) has a signed declaration of gift pasted into the album, from Henry Thomas Scott, M.D., Oxford, dated 1898 or 1897, to Revd. J. C. Westley, of New Amsterdam, Berbice, British Guiana. The first item being obtained from the collection of Colonel Mollineaux of Warren Lodge, Wokingham, the second from John Waller Esq of Westbourne Grove, and the third from Mr. A. C. Lewis of Craven Park Road, London. The second document provides evidence of the reliance of King George II on the financial assistance of the duke of Marlborough. On the duke's death his property and investments were estimated to be worth about £1,000,000, half of which was invested in short-term loans to the exchequer; this sum remained in a trust managed after his death by trustees, who included the duchess, Marlborough's two former business associates, William Clayton and William Guidot, and his three sons-in-law: the earl of Sunderland, the duke of Bridgewater, and the duke of Montagu.

* Wallis (Barnes Neville, 1887-1979). Autograph notes, 29 April 1968, an incomplete account in blue ballpoint pen, dated and titled 'En route from Scampton to Wisley, after witnessing the Ceremonial Stand-Down of Bomber Command', in full, 'How can one very simple unworthy person express all that this day has signified to the hundreds of people who were present at this historic ceremony - impossible of course to do more than tell the effect on myself - impressionable, emotional, and now alas old. To begin with this is no well-thought-out carefully planned description; it is only a simple record of my thoughts, as they come into my mind. Why was I asked? Why do I seem to receive so much credit (?) honour (?) respect from all whom I meet and know in the RAF. I am, and know I am, and who could know better a very simple, rather slow, and, inside, I think a genuinely humble man, stumbling along as best I can, doing what I know. Norbert Rowe would describe as the Will of the Holy Spirit and what I think Leonard Cheshire would describe in the same way. How can one explain in any other way why or how ideas come into my mind? What makes me so desperately keen to continue their fulfilment? What is the force that drives me on? Sometimes boasting that this or that can be done, when I have no firm idea as to how the desired result can be contrived. As I so often say "if a thing is obvious, and easy, and something that man needs, and would be the better for having then it would have been" ending abruptly, one page, a little creasing, foolscap folio, together with 5 further foolscap folio sheets with autograph fragments by Barnes Wallis, one an opening paragraph for an attempt at an autobiography, beginning 'How I wonder does one write an autobiography?', another a first page draft of a letter to Victor about airships, 'It did not require any mystic prescience for any level-headed and sane person to realise that R101 was doomed from the start. To begin with Richmond was a dope expert whose only experience of airships (as far as I know) was with small non-rigids, and some purely theoretical articles that he had written; and how misleading they can be... ', plus 3 further sheets of unrelated notes, all struck through with pencil, plus a 3-page manuscript inventory of articles taken by Barnes Wallis to Camp in 1951, written on rectos of 3 foolscap folio sheetsQty: (9 leaves)NOTESProvenance: From the family of Barnes Wallis, by direct descent. A small but revealing group of fragmentary notes and thoughts, offering good insights into the character and personality of Barnes Wallis.

* Churchill (Winston Spencer). An assorted collection of mostly printed ephemera, largely relating to Churchill, including approximately 60 photographic and art postcards of Churchill, 4 scrap albums of news cuttings, a World War II photographically-illustrated scrap album compiled by F.H. Trayler of the Rifle Brigade, including snapshots, formal photos, passes, cuttings and his pay book, a small group of colour slides, 2 cardboard cut-outs of Churchill, various commemoratives, magazines, etc., plus 6 large ledgers detailing coal and coke orders (and coach hire) from George Alderson & Son in Westerham for the years 1927-29 & 1941-50, including 17 entries for Mrs Winston Churchill's orders, various bindings, thick folioQty: (2 cartons)

Gibson (Guy, 1918-1944), Bomber pilot. Autograph Signature, ’Guy Gibson’, in blue ink on the front free endpaper of Tadoussac Then and Now by William Hugh Coverdale, Canada, 1942, 8 sepia plates on 4 leaves, signed at front in blue ink by Gibson and 9 others including Lord Louis Mountbatten, Admiral William D, Leahy. E[rnest] J. King, Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson, J.M. Kirkman, Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, and Admiral Sir Charles E[dward] Lambe, original brown cloth, a little rubbed, small folioQty: (1)NOTESFollowing the events of 16-17 May 1943, Operation Chastise, better known as the Dam Busters Raid, Guy Gibson had little leisure but was invited to join the party accompanying the prime minister to the Quadrant Conference in Quebec. They departed from Faslane on the RMS Queen Mary on 4 August. The Quadrant, or Quebec Conference, of 17-24 August was hosted by William Mackenzie King, the Canadian prime minister, the principal participants being Sir Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Gibson was something of an outsider, but appears to have enjoyed the voyage and various activities and excursions available to the whole party.

* Maxwell (Gerald, 1895-1959), Scottish Flying Ace of World War I, credited with 26 victories. Document Signed, ‘G Maxwell, Capt.’, Poelcapelle, France, 20 July 1917, being Maxwell’s typed combat report following an Offensive Patrol whilst with 56 Squadron, the narrative stating, in part, ‘Crossed lines near Ypres at about 14,000 feet and sighted the six SE.5s… Dived upon these and got on to one E.A.’s tail. Fired about 30 rounds Lewis and about 60 Vickers into his tail… shortly afterwards he stalled and side slipped and went down obviously out of control… I saw the E.A. down to about 5,000 feet when I noticed three black and white new type Albatross scouts on the tail of my machine. I managed to get behind one and fired… He did a slow spiral for some way down and then went down out of control… I then noticed a two seater green Albatross… I dived upon him, and when at very close distance from his tail fired my Vickers, but found the Triggar Bar was broken…’ , small file holes and a few very minor splits to left edge, 1 page, folioQty: (1)

Christian Hueber & David A Sulzberger: Bentley Continental Sports Saloon; a limited 'Owners' Edition' and accompanying Bentley Register, published by Palawan Press, 2003,limited 'Owners' Edition' of 208 copies published, in buckram wrap-around covers with pop-stud and gilt tooling, large 4to, numbered to title page with chassis number 'BC75C', 400 numbered pages, well illustrated reference title relating to the R-Type Continental, and with accompanying Bentley Register for the Continental Sports Saloon, black card covers, 231 numbered pages, with build and ownership details of the cars, together with folio of reproduced drawings and profiles of coachwork styles by various coachbuilders including H J Mulliner and Pinin Farina, originally issued with presentation library box (not included with the Lot). (3)Footnotes:Of the 358 copies of this book published, 150 were produced as Standard Editions, with the remaining 208 published as Owners' Editions which were issued as part of a presentation boxed set, for owners of the R-Type Continental, with 'owners' manual' style covers and each numbered with the corresponding chassis number.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

TRINITAS HARDBACK FOLIO, comprising four large coins, along with a gold plated one shilling coin

GENTLEMAN'S BREMONT CODEBREAKER CHRONOGRAPH LIMITED EDITION STAINLESS STEEL AUTOMATIC WRIST WATCH, the round black dial with Arabic hour markers, outer seconds and twenty four hour scale in white, two subsidiary dials with '101010' pattern, date aperture at 6, 43mm case, numbered 147, created using original clippings from punch cards used at Bletchley Park, with pine inlaid crown from the original floorboards of Hut 6, the skeleton caseback showing the winding rotor with coded message 'BTRUERMIONNGT', the rotor itself contains materials from the wheel of an original Enigma machine, on a black crocodile strap, in box, with leather folio containing an additional strap, lighter, luggage tag, pencils, with papers stating date of purchase as 19th May 2015

Aldous Huxley & Anaïs Nin.- Miller (Henry, writer and artist, 1891-1980) Autograph Letter signed to Stefan Schimanski, editor of Leaves in the storm. A book of diaries, 2pp., folio, letterpress portrait of Miller smoking a cigarette, Big Sur, California, 3rd May 1945, telling him that he will "write a letter, since I have kept no Diary", telling him of his piece "Of Art and the Future", giving him Aldous Huxley's address, suggesting he contact Anaïs Nin for a contribution to the Diary, and commenting on the approaching end of the War, folds.

Popeiana.- Bramston (James) The man of taste. Occasion'd by an epistle of Mr. Pope's on that subject. By the author of the Art of politicks, half-title with engraved illustration verso, advertisement to final verso, final f. upper margin trimmed away, affecting page number, occasional spotting, disbound, Printed by J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver at Homer's Head against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1733 § [Whitehead (Paul)] The State Dunces. Inscribed to Mr. Pope, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head-piece, occasional spotting, lightly browned, disbound, Printed for W. Dickenson in Witch-Street, 1733; and 14 others, Pope and related, all disbound, folio (16)

Defoe (Daniel) The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, 2 vol., engraved frontispieces and illustrations by George Cruikshank, endpapers browned, contemporary half red morocco, spines gilt in compartments, t.e.g., covers little scuffed, spine ends rubbed, Shakespeare Press, John Nicol, 1831 § Lodge (Edmund) Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, 4 vol., first edition, engraved plates, bookplates to pastedown and endpapers, occasional light spotting, contemporary panelled calf, blind-stamped and gilt, a little rubbed, rebacked and re-cornered; and another, folio & 8vo (6)

Pollard (A. F.) Henry VIII, limited edition, colour frontispiece, plates and illustrations, captioned tissue-guards, abrasion mark where bookplate removed, occasional spotting, contemporary calf by Bumpus, rebacked with original spine laid down, gilt coat of arms to upper cover, folio, Paris, Goupil & Co., 1902.

Music.- Williamson (Malcolm) and Ursula Vaughan Williams. Ode to Music, one of only 5 specially printed and bound copies for presentation, signed by the composer, librettist and Sir Robert and Lady Dorothy Mayer (the dedicatees), facsimile of Williamson's score, this copy presented to Sir Edward Heath, original cloth, folio, Josef Weinberger Ltd., 1973.⁂ Williamson was commissioned to write Ode to Music to celebrate 50 years of the Robert Mayer Concerts for Children. The Mayers started their concerts for children in 1923 having been inspired by those organised by Walter Damrosch in America. This copy was presented to Sir Edward Heath by Dr. Peter Bander with a presentation card loosely inserted. Heath had conducted the last concert in the 1973 Golden Jubilee celebration year.

NO RESERVE Doré (Gustave).- Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) La Chanson du vieux marin, half-title, title in red and black and with large circular wood-engraved vignette, wood-engraved frontispiece and 38 plates by Gustave Doré, little water-staining in some upper margins, original red pictorial cloth, gilt, sympathetically rebacked, corners worn, rubbed, Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie., 1877 § Prévost (J.-J.) L'Irlande au dix-neuvième siècle, half-title, engraved additional vignette title, map and 62 plates by W.H. Bartlett, foxing, contemporary half morocco, gilt, rubbed, Paris, Curmer, 1845; and 9 miscellaneous French, most illustrated, including an album containing a few Félicien Rops plates, folio & 4to (11)

NO RESERVE Leconte (Émile) Mélanges d'Ornemens Divers, engraved frontispiece and 72 plates, some in colour, occasional faint spotting, contemporary half-cloth, printed paper label to upper cover, defective spine covering, rubbed and worn, folio, Paris, 1838.

NO RESERVE Richardson (S.T.) The World's First Railway Jubilee, 21 humorous plates, light spotting and soiling, original cloth-backed pictorial wrappers, rubbed and stained, spine worn, Darlington & London, 1876 § [Hone (William)] The Political House that Jack Built, thirtieth edition, wood-engraved illustrations by George Cruikshank, light offsetting, modern cloth-backed marbled wrappers, 1819, oblong folio & 8vo (2)⁂ The first celebrates the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton & Darlington railway, the first public railway using steam locomotives in the world.

Architecture.- Pozzo (Andrea) Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum; Rules and Examples of Perspective Proper for Painters and Architects, first English edition, engraved architectural frontispiece, vignette titles in Latin and English, 101 plates, partly engraved dedication, list of subscribers and full-page illustration of drawing materials to verso of approbation leaf, numerous engraved pictorial initials, text in Latin and English, occasional tears and marginal loss, most neatly restored, occasional marginal damp-staining, spotting and browning, bookplate of William George Bligh, later half calf, rubbed and worn, covers detached, loss to spine extremities, folio, Benj. Motte for John Sturt, 1707.

NO RESERVE Trade Catalogues.- Spencer Corsets Ltd., Banbury. Spencer Individually Designed Corsets, twenty-first edition, with 2 moveable manikins, one large and folding loose in transparent pocket, illustrations, some colour, with fitter's signed diploma loose in another pocket, original cloth with illustration mounted on upper cover, rubbed, upper joint split and spine worn, Banbury, 1939; and a W.I. work on lingerie and a 1932/33 calendar with loosely-inserted clothing catalogue from J.D.Williams & Co. Ltd. of Manchester, tall narrow folio & 8vo (3)

Russia.- Harding (Edward) Costume of the Russian Empire, hand-coloured additional engraved title and 72 hand-coloured engraved plates, letterpress titles and text in English and French, some offsetting from text to plates, contemporary diced russia, stamped in gilt and blind, rebacked preserving original spine, rubbed, [Abbey, Travel 244], folio, John Stockdale, 1810.

Medicine.- Charleton (Walter) Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana; or, A Frabrick of Science Natural, upon the Hypothesis of Atoms, The First Part [all published], first edition, woodcut initials and headlpieces, engraved illustrations, lacking 2I4 and 2S3&4, title linen-backed, a little stained and browned, ink stamps to title and to a few other ff., bookplate of Fox Pointe Collection, 20th century calf, [Krivatsy 2394; Wellcome II, p.329; Wing C3691], folio, Newcomb for T. Heath, 1654.⁂ "The Physiologia became a book of minor reputation but was read by such important natural philosophers as Boyle and Newton. It was an important part of Gassendi's program to purify and render acceptable to Christians the atomoic philosophy." - DSB. Scarce and often incomplete.

NO RESERVE Missale Romanum, musical notation, Venice, Giunta, 1616 bound with Missa sacratissimi rosarii beatissimae virginis Maria..., Venice, Ciera, 1614 and Missae sancti Gregorii . . . pro vivis, et defunctis, Venice, Giunta, 1614 and Missa de sancto Angelo custode, Venice, Ciera, 1612 and Missae propriae festorum ordinis fratrum minorum, Venice, Ciera, 1616 and Missae propriae sanctorum pro S. Perusina Ecclesia, engraved plate, [Perugia, Vincenzo Santucci, 1838], together 6 works in 1 vol., double column, all but the last printed in red and black, woodcut illustrations, 3 full-page, occasional light soiling or staining to margins, contemporary blind-stamped calf, some wear to extremities, folio.

A folio of engravings including HB sketches, Tim Bulmer A/P signed and a collection of steel engravings of Italy circa 1840

A comprehensive folio of approximately one hundred large cat limited edition prints by wildlife artist Joan Beuche, circa 1990, signed and numbered, including tiger, lion, leopard and cheetah

A folio of pictures by J Smeaton Chase and Gregory Chase