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Lot 99
A collection of 20 Royalty related volumes, mainly late 19th/early 20th Century, including 'A Memorial of the Marriage of H.R.H Albert Edward Prince of Wales and H.R.H Alexandra Princess of Denmark', (1863), chromolitho and other plates, a/f, folio, original cloth gilt (very worn), Dixon - 'Royal Windsor', 1879-80, 1st edition, 4 volumes, 'Letters of Queen Victoria;, 2 volumes, 'The Early Years of H.R.H. the Prince Consort', 1867 etc
Lot 84
After Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., ARA, RWSThe Work of Edward Burne-Jones a folio of photogravures on watermarked Van Gelderzonen paper, published by The Berlin Photographic Company, 1900, printed by The Chiswick Presswith title, introduction and list of plates, from a limited edition of 200 copies, signed on the frontispage by Philip Burne-Jones68 x 51cm (26 3/4 x 20 1/16in).Footnotes:A near complete folio containing 84 images from the original 91 photogravures.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: PP This lot is owned by a private individual. The right of return enjoyed by EU customers is not applicable.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![16th century prayer book leaf.- [A booke of Christian prayers...], 1f. only, woodcut borders, stab holes in margins, slightly](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/52cf1319-0f16-4071-b1b9-abc301091a05/49275703-54ec-494e-b11b-abc3011d63c6/468x382.jpg)
Lot 122
Fuller (Thomas) The Historie of the Holy Warre, additional engraved title, folding engraved map, 'declaration of frontispiece' pasted to preliminary blank verso, [Wing F2438], 1647, bound before The Holy State, additional engraved title, illustrations, marginal worming, staining, short marginal tear (T1), small marginal hole (2M4), [Wing F2444], Cambridge, 1648, occasional spotting, near contemporary calf, rebacked, slightly bumping to corners, together 2 vol. bound as 1, folio
Lot 123
NO RESERVE Hobbes (Thomas) Leviathan, or, the Matter, Form,and Power of a Common-wealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil, third edition with upside down triangle of 25 ornaments grouped in 5 rows, engraved additional title (margins repaired), lacking folding table and T1, 3 C2 with small hole to text with loss to a few letters, 3D3 detached, damp-staining to margins, contemporary calf, rebacked, worn, upper cover detached, [H2248; Macdonald & Hargreaves 44; cf. PMM 138; Pforzheimer 492], folio, Andrew Crooke, 1651 [but Amsterdam, 1680].Saleroom notice: This work is lacking the plate.
Lot 138
NO RESERVE Warner (Fernando) An Illustration of the Book of Common-Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England, first edition, engraved frontispiece and 2 plates, occasional faint spotting, contemporary calf, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, folio, 1754.
Lot 164
Canals.- Telford (Thomas) Ship Canal, for the Junction of the English and Bristol Channels, first edition, engraved folding map with proposed route of canal and 2 folding plans, some creasing, contemporary dark green straight-grain morocco, gilt, rubbed, folio, Printed for S. Brooke, 1824. ⁂ An ambitious plan to link the Bristol and English channels thereby dispensing of longer journeys around the coast. A bill was passed allowing the building of what was to be called the 'English and Bristol Channels Ship Canal', which would run from Stolford on the Bristol side to Beer, near Seaton on the other. It was to be 44 miles long with 60 locks and be able to carry ships up to 200 tonnes. Sadly, the company were unable to raise funds for the project.
Lot 175
Bindings.- Froissart (Sir John) Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries, 2 vol., chromolithographed plates, wood-engraved illustrations, occasional spotting or light foxing, contemporary red crushed morocco, gilt, upper covers with knight on horseback centre-pieces within double filet borders with helmet corner-pieces, spine in compartments and with helmet, sword, and chain mail glove motifs, some staining, rubbed at extremities, g.e., bindings 257 x 183mm., George Routledge and Sons, 1868; and another on the Norman Conquest, large 8vo & oblong folio (3)
Lot 179
NO RESERVE Periodical.- The Illustrated London News, vol. CI for July to December, 1892, numerous illustrations, some full or double-page, occasional foxing, original pictorial cloth, gilt, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, worn at extremities, rubbed, 1892; and another, Windsor Castle series, folio (2) sold not subject to return. ⁂ Includes a history of mountaineering, and a section on Tennyson, including a folding plate of his funeral.
Lot 203
Arctic exploration.- The Sphere: An Illustrated Newspaper for the Home, volume XLI, illustrations, folding plate, torn with some loss, original cloth, worn, lacking spine, folio, 1910.⁂ Including an illustrated supplement on Ernest Shackleton and Robert Scott's first arctic expedition and the departure of the Terra Nova, June 4 1910.
Lot 215
Netherlands.- Grimeston (Ed.) A Generall Historie of the Netherlands, second impression, engraved title, engraved illustrations, lacking initial and final blanks, one leaf lacking corner (4D1) not affecting text, occasional faint marginal staining, bookplate, eighteenth-century calf, rubbed, bumping and chipping to spine extremities, folio, Adam Islip, 1627.
Lot 235
Topsell (Edward) The historie of foure-footed beastes. Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, first edition, issue with woodcut of hyena on title, numerous woodcuts, some full-page, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, with initial and final blanks, lacking A6, title with short tear at head with loss of first letter, short tear at foot with marginal loss, and creased, some tears with loss of text, most noticeably to B2, K1 (mostly side-note), K2 (outer margin cut away with loss of side-notes and part of woodcut verso), O4, Oo3, Pp4, and small areas of lower corners of sig. Xxx, water-stained, some spotting and creasing, contemporary calf, spine in compartments, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Nissen ZBI 4145; STC 24123; Wellcome 6323], folio, Printed by William Jaggard, 1607. sold not subject to return. ⁂ Topsell's translation of Gesner's Historiae animalium, dedicated to Richard Neile, Dean of Westminster, and with charming, indeed some times fantastical illustrations.
Lot 43
NO RESERVE Fine arts.- Lièvre (Édouard) and A. Sauzay. Musée Impérial du Louvre. Collection Sauvageot, plate vol. only, half-title, 120 mounted engraved plates on India paper, tissue guards, contemporary half morocco, gilt, joints splitting, but holding firm, corners worn, rubbed, folio, Paris, Noblet & Baudry, 1863.
Lot 53
Cruikshank (George) Phrenological Illustrations, or an Artist's View of the Craniological System of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim, title with engraved vignette, six etched plates, 1827 bound with Illustrations of Time, etched title and 7 plates, 1827, together 2 works in 1 vol., occasional light foxing, 19th century calf, spine chipped at foot, extremities rubbed, oblong folio.
Lot 55
Cruikshank (George), William Heath and others. Evenings' Amusement; or, Repertorium Comicum, 81 etched plates, creasing and tears to margins, 1 or 2 running into images, a few repaired, surface soiling, original stiff wrappers with label to upper cover, spine perished, contents loose, covers worn, oblong folio, Thomas McLean, [c.1838].⁂ Rare collected edition of some of the most popular comic prints published by McLean in the 1820's and '30's. Includes R. Seymour's "Heaven and Earth"; George Cruikshanks' "Mixing a Recipe for Corns"; Seymour's "The March of Intellect" (7 plates); "The Finishing School; or Quite Accomplished" by "Lady M"; "The Heiress" (6 plates); William Heath's "Omnibus" (8 plates); "A Trip to Margate by Paul Pry" (7 plates); Heath's "Parish Characters" (10 plates), and plates from Heath's "Household Servants" and "Sketches of the Kennel".
![Davenant (William) [Historical Portraiture of Leading Events in the Life of Ali Pacha], 6 hand-coloured aquatint plates only](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/52cf1319-0f16-4071-b1b9-abc301091a05/fb1dcec2-2a76-470b-878d-abc3011c05e4/468x382.jpg)
Lot 58
Davenant (William) [Historical Portraiture of Leading Events in the Life of Ali Pacha], 6 hand-coloured aquatint plates only by G. Hunt after Davenport, lacking title and all text, occasional light marginal soiling, modern morocco-backed boards, lettered on upper cover, [Atabey 325; Abbey, Travel, 206; Blackmer 454], oblong folio, 1823.
Lot 72
Law.- Tiraqueau (André) Commentarii de nobilitate et jure primigeniorum, tertia hac, eademque postrema editione, ab autore ipso diligentissime recogniti, et tertia amplius parte locupletati, title within ornate architectural border with oval portrait of author verso, woodcut initials, title trimmed at fore-edge, just within printed area, some browning, staining and worming to upper margins, modern vellum, [not in Adams], folio, Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé, 1566.⁂ Andre Tiraqueau's legal works are of great importance in the development of the French judicial system. He was an active member of the Cenacle de Fontenay-le-Comte, a salon of fellow lawyers, writers, doctors, philosophers and historians, which included François Rabelais and Guillaume Budé amongst its members. Rabelais' Tiers Livre was greatly influenced by Tiraqueau's De Legibus.
Lot 76
Homer. Homeri quae exstant omnia Ilias, Odyssea, Batrachomyomachia, Hymni, Poëmatia aliquot, cum Latina versione , 2 parts in 1, parallel text in Greek and Latin, first title with large woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, final f. with colophon recto and woodcut printer's device verso, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, new front endpapers, ink inscription of Harold George Snell, 1887 to head of title, large engraved armorial bookplate of Martin Stapylton of Myton to verso of title, contemporary blind-stamped vellum over boards, covers with arabesque centre-pieces, spine in compartments and with red leather label, corners worn, soiled and rubbed, folio, Basel, Sebastian Henricpetri, 1606.
Lot 99
NO RESERVE Elgin (Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl, diplomat and army officer, 1766-1841) Autograph Letter signed to "My Dear Townshend", 4pp., Broomhall, 12th July 1788, "The business is respecting an Hospital at Dunfermline (called St. Leonards) where a few widows are supported", a recent court decision had disclaimed the right of the Marquis of Tweedale to nominate widows. It was the thought the right lay with the Crown and Elgin asks for it to be conferred on him, stressing that there was no pecuniary advantage to himself, folds, browned; and another manuscript, sm. 4to & folio (2).⁂ First mentioned probably John Thomas Townshend (1764-1831), MP.
Lot 798
Utagawa Hiroshige II Japanese, mid 19th Century ''View of Kasumigaseki'' and ''Nihonbashi and Edobashi Bridge'' from the series ''Famous Places in Edo" woodblock prints each 37cm x 25cm and After Kitagawa Utamaro, Woman reading a letter, from the series ''Ten classes of women's physiognomy'' silver gilt woodblock print, contained in illustrated folio, 38cm x 26cm (2)
Lot 361
OWEN BAXTER MORGAN (BRITISH ACTIVE 1905-1932) "Shepherd at Rest with his Sheep", oil on board, signed lower left, J DANCK 20TH CENTURY CONTINENTAL SCHOOL "Canal Scene with Boat in Foreground", oil on canvas, signed lower right, together with 20TH CENTURY ENGLISH SCHOOL "Interior of a Room with Table and Chair", oil on canvas, unframed and unsigned, Unicorn Folio - a Canadian Folio series 3 No. 1 containing various poems to include "Common Places" by Daryl Hine, "The Great Tree" Michael Ondaatje, handwritten in pencil 218/300 and Margaret Attwood "What was in the Garden" with lithograph print, etc and a portfolio containing various needlework and textile panels
Lot 2794
1250-1275 AD. A finely illuminated folio from an early medieval portable bible, hand-written by monks in Paris at the time of the later crusades; executed on both sides with two columns of 43 lines in early Gothic font, with spring plant initials in red and blue and decorative vines and spring work with highlights in red. 1.53 grams, 16.4 x 12.8cm (6 1/2 x 5"). From the property of a London gentleman; formerly in a UK collection, acquired in the 1990s. This leaf comes probably from a Bible of the so-called DU PRAT Atelier (as defined by Branner, Manuscript painting in Paris, 1977"). The text and decoration show that this was one of the numerous Bibles produced in Paris from about 1230 to a newly standardised format, made easy to use by the introduction of chapter numbers and running headings. Fine condition.
Lot 262
M & N HANHART AFTER 'PHIZ' (Hablot Knight Browne), 'Hunting Bits', twelve chromolithographs, c.1860 published Chapman & Hall, London, 'A Run with the Stag-Hounds', twelve chromolithographs, 1863 published Messrs Fores, London & similar, 'How Pippins Enjoyed a Day with the Foxhounds', twelve chromolithographs 1863, all bound in oblong folio half leather green cloth bindings, Hablot K Browne ('Phiz'), 'Racing and Chasing, The Road the River and the Hunt' circa 1860 published Ward, Lock & Tyler, Lo ndon, illustrated in fifty graphotype engravings (collated) bound in, oblong quarto and Richard Myddelton, 'Old Hunting Rhymes and Verses from Here and There' illustrated by twenty colourtypes by Carl Hentschel Ltd, London, circa 1910, pub. A Webster & Co, London with armorial bookplate for Richard Myddelton of Chirk Castle with inscriptions and contemporary advertisements, oblong quarto (3)
Lot 6290
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte, KB (1758-1805). Norfolk born British naval commander and national hero, famous for his naval victories against the French during the Napoleonic wars, victor at the Battle of Trafalgar, where he was mortally wounded aboard his flagship Victory. A signed memorandum/letter to Ross Donnelly, Captain of the Narcissus, from "Victory off Toulon", dated 14th September 1803 and signed "Nelson & Bronte". The letter is in the hand of, and additionally signed by Alexander John Scott (1768-1840), Nelson's faithful official secretary who was with him as he died onboard HMS Victory."Having received Information that the French intend sending Troops to the Island of Minorca / Menorca. You are hereby required and directed to proceed immediately with His Majesty's Ship Narcissus under your Command off Port Mahon, and endeavour to obtain information thereof, previous to your communicating with the Town, and if You find it perfectly safe, You are to send a boat on shore to His Majesty's Consul there, in order to obtain every Intelligence with respect to the French intentions of sending troops to the Island of Minorca, and also with the disposition of the Spaniards towards us. And return immediately after and join me on my Rendezvous off this place with the Information that you may Obtain.Given onboard the Victory off Toulon 14th September 1803Nelson & Bronte"1½ pages, single folio leaf (32.5 x 20.5cm), some light browning and dust soiling, slightly worn at central horizontal fold (not affecting text), laid chain-lined paper bearing manufacturers watermark "S. Timbrell 1803". Provenance: purchased from Maggs Bros circa 1970's and then by descent. Letter housed in original Maggs Bros printed autograph sleeve and with original clipped printed catalogue entry loosely inserted, this stating at foot "Not in Nicholas, and presumably unpublished"Britain's greatest naval commander and Norfolk hero, Nelson was born at Burnham Thorpe, learning to sail in the web of waterways around Burnham Overy Staithe. He was a student at the Paston School, now Paston College, and what is now the Norwich School in Cathedral Close. He sailed into, and out of, Great Yarmouth many times, and it was here that Nelson declared "I am myself a Norfolk man and glory in being so"
Lot 166
1- Tolman, Mary and Norman: Karhu@77: A Personal Tribute. 2004, 1st. edn. dw. folio, VG; 2- Michener J A: Japanese prints from the early masters to the modern. Rutland, Tuttle, 1959, dw. & original shipping box & receipt ($125), VG; 3- Ishida, M: Japanese Buddhist prints. Tokyo, 1964, 1st. dw & slipcase, folio, VG; 4- Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints. 1990, dw. Folio, Fine; 5- Tolman, M & N: Collecting Japanese prints then & now. Rutland, Tuttle, 1994, 1st. edn. dw, VG; Plus 6 others. (11)
Lot 167
HIROSHIGE: 1- The colour prints. Cassell, 1925, 1st. edn.; 2- 100 Famous views of EDO. NY, 2001, 5th. print, dw. Folio, Fine; 3- The James A Michener collection, 2 vols. with slipcase. Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1991, Fine; 4- Paysages célèbres des soixante provinces du Japon. Paris, 1998, dw, folio, Fine; 5- Ukiyoe. Volume 17, Hiraki Collection. Bird and Flower and Landscape. Mainichi Newspapers, Japan, 1971, dw. folio, VG; Plus 5 others. (10)
Lot 171
HOKUSAI: 1- Hiller, J: The art of Hokusai in Book Illustration . Sotheby, 1980, 1st. dw. Fine; 2- Morse, P: One Hundred Poets. Cassell, 1989, 1st. dw. Oblong folio; 3- Forrer, M: Hokusai: Prints and Drawings . Prestel, 1991, 1st. dw. 4to. VG; 4- Forrer, M: Hokusai, A Guide to the Serial Graphics. Philadelphia, Heron Press, 1974, Limited edition No. 145 of 350 copies. pictorial paper covers; Plus 10 others. (14)
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