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SUSSEX - LEDGERManuscript accounts ledger of John Pilbeam, bearing ownership inscription and date on first page ('This book beginning September 25 Day 1718 being of my Timber... at Londdon... and to Houme and [what?] it Douth com to and What Mony I Dou Receive and When by me/ John Pilbeam'), entries beginning May 1722, written in ink in several hands, each entry named ('John Elsen His Bill', 'Will Burtle', 'John Harden', 'Edmund Muddell'), early entries concerning crops ('2 gallons of Oates', 2 peckes of wheat'), moving on to other goods such as coal, straw, apples and domestic items, with mentions of taxes ('...for one years Window Tax £01-00-00...', '...taxes to the King...'), services ('...for keeping of 2 horses...', '...paid Charles Ward for to Dayes work a Loadeing of Stone...', '... to Wimen for Dressing & Dinner and Cleaning up the Linnen and trenchers and the pewter and all things...', '...for putting up a servants bed...'), and other items ('...Disbursmentes of being Churchwarden' including '...2 Church lockes...' and '...wine for the communion...'), noting debts paid and owed ('December ye 27 day 1723 then Reckoned with Will Seckelmare and he is in my debt...'), many later entries concerned with carpentry and building materials ('...a side for a cucumber frame...'), particularly for work done at Mitcham, many pages crossed through, last entry inverted, c.170 leaves, dust-staining and marks, small tears, edges frayed, one leaf excised, contemporary calf, marked and worn, edges bumped, spine lacking, front board nearly detached, folio (312 x 200mm.), 1720's to 1760'sFootnotes:There are records for the Pilbeam (or Pilbeame) family in a number of Sussex villages, notably Wadhurst, where they had farming and mercantile interests, and Ardingly. Indeed, several of the names mentioned here – Pilbeam, Muddle, Harden, Tully and Lintott for example can be found in the Ardingly parish records online and a John Pilbeam, possibly an ancestor, is noted as being a churchwarden in the village in the early 1600's. Several mentions of local placenames ('...The a Count of What Malt I have had of Walter Chatfield att Hawardes Heath...') and entries in the book concerning local farming activities ('...for a hoppicker that you have carred away/ for an oaster that you have carred away...') would also confirm the location of the family.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

ARMENIA - MADRAS PRINTINGBAGHRAMIAN (MOUSES) Nor Terak vor kochi Hordorak [New Book of Exhortation], PRINTED IN ARMENIAN TYPE, FIRST EDITION, title within woodcut typographical border with woodcut ornament, several woodcut head- and tail-pieces and large initials, damp-stain to lower corner of opening 12 leaves, blank fore-edge margin of opening 3 leaves with some loss, without lower free endpaper, contemporary calf over boards, bowed and worn with some loss to spine and margins of covers [Nersessian, no.174], small 4to (187 x 135mm.), Madras [Chennai], Yakob Shahamirian, 1722Footnotes:ONE OF THE EARLIEST BOOKS PRINTED IN ARMENIAN IN INDIA. In 1772 Shahamirian established the first Armenian printing press in Madras in the name of his older son Hagop. 'The first publications of Shahamirian press in 1772 were an Aybbenaran and a geography of Armenia, followed by Nor Tetrak vor Kochi Hordorak... an important work that laid the foundations of Armenian political thinking and literature' (Vazken Ghougassian, The printing Enterprise of Armenians in India, 2012).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

ADVEU DE ODET DE BRETAGNEILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT OF HENRY II and DIANE DE POITIERS, on vellum, in French, signed 'Seigneur d'Ingrande', 27 long lines per page written in black ink, in 'letter courante' script for the text, manuscript inscription with date (1556) on first fly-leaf, headings in elaborate display, richly illuminated, silver sometimes tarnished, some show-through of pigments, coat of arms on title-page largely illegible, modern parchment over pasteboards preserving original vellum end-leaves, title in gilt on upper cover, modern velvet chemise, folio (365 x 260mm.), France, 1556Footnotes:AN FINE EXAMPLE OF FRENCH RENAISSANCE ILLUMINATION - FOR HENRY II AND DIANE DE POITIERS.In this document addressed to King Henry II of France, Odet de Bretagne, Count of Vertu, First Baron of Brittany, Lord of Avaugour, Clisson, Ingrande, and Champtocé, makes declaration of the state of his holdings in Ingrande in the duchy of Anjou and Champtocé in the castellany of Angers, both of which he holds in fief from Henry II. There follow meticulous enumerations and descriptions of the properties contained in each of these territories, together with detailed listings of the taxes, rents, duties, and services owed to him in each, after which he reaffirms his allegiance to the king. The text is followed by three notarial attestations, the first dated 25 February 1556.The Duchy of Brittany was joined to France under the king only in 1532. Henry became king in 1547, and it is likely that this document was compiled in consequence of that circumstance. Diane de Poitiers, a well-educated French noblewoman was Henry's mistress from the mid-1530s until his death. She was a notable bibliophile, and the books and manuscripts from her collection are marked with the emblems found in this codex.ILLUMINATION: over 250 illuminated initials on square or rectangular grounds, the smaller ones c.15-20mm. in height, the larger ones c.35-65mm., and one (f. 1r) measuring 88 x 84mm., decorated in French renaissance style, burnished gold initials on coloured grounds, coloured initials on burnished gold or burnished silver grounds. F.1r with full illuminated border: at the top, the royal arms of France in a laurel wreath, supported by two angels; in the margins the emblems of Henry II of France, a crowned H, and that of Diane de Poitiers, a double D and H linked, and three interlaced crescents; an achievement of arms in the lower border.Provenance: King Henry II of France (1519-1559), reigned 1547-1559, and his mistress Diane de Poitiers (1500-1566), as shown by their emblems on f.1r; Charles Serund-Deschamps, 1906, 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

ALBERTI (LEON BATTISTA)Los diez libros de architectura, FIRST SPANISH EDITION, title within architectural woodcut border, woodcut initials, light damp-staining, worming to last few gatherings affecting text, contemporary calf gilt and stamped, some wear to edges, endpapers renewed [Cicognara 377; Palau 5194], 4to (206 x 158mm.), Madrid, Alonso Gómez, 1582Footnotes:Alberti's De re aedificatoria (Florence, 1485) is the most important architectural treatise of the Renaissance. The anonymous translation was edited for publication by Francisco Loranzo.Provenance: The Robin Collection, 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

AQUINAS (THOMAS)Catena aurea super evangelia dominicalia et ferialia [Arranged by Petrus de Vincentia], 341 leaves (of 342, lacking final leaf, but with the 2 blanks), and additional 16 leaves [see footnote], 50 lines, double column, gothic type with Roman capitals, final 2 leaves loose, eighteenth century calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering label, speckled red edges, rubbed, headbands exposed [ISTC it00224000; BMC V 418; Goff T224; HC 1337*], 4to (210 x 145mm.), [Venice, Joannes Rubeus Vercellensis, 29 April 1494]Footnotes:This copy includes two additional quires (AA-BB8) of additional matter 'sometimes found' (BL).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

ATHENAEUS OF NAUCRATISDeipnosophistae, in Greek, FIRST EDITION, edited by Marcus Musurus, Greek italic type, capital spaces with guide-letters, dolphin and anchor device on first and last pages, with blank leaf B10 of preliminaries (often lacking), some mostly light dampstaining, final leaf with device laid down, modern half calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered on spine [Adams A2096; Ahmanson-Murphy, 123; Renouard p.67; Vicaire 50], folio (304 x 108mm.), Venice, Aldus Manutius and Andreas Torresanus, August 1514Footnotes:EDITIO PRINCEPS OF THE EARLIEST SURVIVING COOKERY TEXT: a valuable source of information on intellectual mores of the classical world, 'magnifiquement exécutée' (Vicaire).The Deipnosophistae ('Banquet of the learned') is the only known work by Athenaeus of Naucratis, a Greco-Egyptian writing in the early part of the 3rd century AD. In it a variety of scholars are invited to dine at a banquet held at the house of Larensius, a wealthy book-collector and patron of the arts. They debate at length a wide spectrum of topics, notably food, wine and cookery (the work is an important source of Greek, Persian, Roman and Sicilian recipes, many of which would have been lost), homosexuality (an unusually candid portrait for the time), sexual mores in general, health, music and philology. Aldus had planned a Greek edition of the work soon after establishing his press, but only got as far as printing a one-page proof in his second Greek type, which was not used after 1499.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

BIBLE, IN GREEKNovum Iesu Christi D.N. Testamentum, 2 parts in 1 vol., text in Greek, title-pages in Greek and Latin, woodcut printer's device on titles and on verso of final leaf, woodcut initials and head-pieces, woodcut borders for the canons, light spotting to title, light damp-stain to upper blank fore-corner of opening and final few leaves, modern panelled calf antique [Adams B1661; Darlow & Moule 4622; Renouard, Estienne 75: 1; Schreiber 105], folio (330 x 215mm.), Paris, 1550Footnotes:'The third and most important of R. Stephanus' editions, known as the Edition Regia... The most interesting feature of this Testament is the critical apparatus... which gives various readings and additions from MSS. collated by H. Stephanus' (Darlow & Moule). It is also of importance as this New Testament marks the first use of all three founts of Garamond's grecs du roi type in a single book, and the first use of the largest size.Provenance: H. Dawnay, ownership inscription dated 8 May 1766 on title-page; Richard Hole, with note recording that it was given to him by his father George Hole on 30 August 1857.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

BINDING - ARMS OF DE THOUARNOBIUS Commentarii, pii iuxta ac eruditi in omnes Psalmos, per Des[iderium] Erasmum Roterodamum proditi & emendati, light foxing, late sixteenth century red morocco with the arms of Du Thou stamped in gilt on upper cover, and 'ADT' monograms on spine, g.e., rubbed, joints starting, chips to head and foot of spine [Adams A-2000], 8vo (167 x 110mm.), Basel, Froben, 1560Footnotes:A fine armorial binding made for Jacques-August de Thou, with his arms (prior to his marriage) on the cover. De Thou was a prolific and sometimes controversial historian and bibliophile. Provenance: Jacques-August de Thou (1553-1617), binding; Oliver Henry Perkins (1843-1912) and Lucius Kellogg Wilmerding (1880-1949), bookplates.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

CALLIMACHUS[Opera]... Hymni ... cum scholiis nunc primum aeditis. Sententiae..., text printed in Greek, woodcut device on title (repeated on final leaf), large woodcut initials, opening 4 leaves restored with archival tape (title repaired at inner margin with small loss to letters), the title, pp.9-12 cut down (with losses to text) and re-inserted, ink annotations in Greek to some leaves up to p.61, nineteenth century half calf over marbled boards, neatly rebacked in calf gilt [Adams C230], small 4to, Basle, Froben, 1532Footnotes:Provenance: C.R.T. Gardiner, early ink ownership signature in two places on 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

CALLOT (JACQUES)Les Petites misères de la guerre, engraved frontispiece and 6 engraved plates, wide margins, browning and occasional offsetting, nineteenth century crimson straight-grain morocco gilt, some light wear [Lieure 1333-1338; Meaume 557-563], oblong 12mo (129 x 170mm.), Paris, Israel Henriet, 1636This 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

ARMENIAN - BIBLEGospels of Our Lord Jesus Christ, PRINTED IN ARMENIAN TYPE, title within wide woodcut architectural border, text in double column, all within typographical border (many with additional decorative embellishments in the margins), capital bird letters in the text, large wood-engraved illustrations by Grigor Marzvanetisi derived from the design of Christoffel van Sichem, cropped with some loss to marginal decorations and side-notes, pp.121-222 repaired with some loss to text and borders, 6 leaves (pp.49-50, 117-120) with smaller repairs, lower margin of pp.365-368 softened, rust spot on p.138, without lower free endpaper, early twentieth century red velvet over boards, silver gilt crucifixion mounted on upper cover, yellow edges [not in Nersessian], small 4to (190 x 145mm.) , Constantinople, Printing Press of Astuadsastour Karapet, 1729[-1731]Footnotes:An eighteenth century Armenian Gospels, printed in imitation of earlier manuscript versions with floral decorations in the borders and illustrations of the Evangelists at the head of each Gospel. The illustrations were made by Constantinople based Armenian engraver Grigor Marzvanetsi, adapted from those used by Oskan Erevantsi for the first Armenian Bible (Amsterdam, 1666-1668), who himself had used as a proto-type illustrations by the Dutch artist Christoffel van Sichem.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

CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (MIGUEL DE)El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, 4 vol., 2 (of 4) engraved frontispieces, 31 engraved plates by Antonio Carnicero, Joseph Castillo, Bernardo Barranco, Joseph Brunete, engraved folding map, with most of the original tissue-guards, engraved head- and tail-pieces, some light damp-staining and occasional foxing especially at end of volumes 1 and 2, early twentieth century dark green morocco gilt, g.e., housed in matching slipcases, light shelf-wear [Cohen de Ricci 218-219; Palau 52024; PMM 111.], 4to (292 x 217mm.), Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780Footnotes:The best Spanish edition of Cervantes' 'sweeping panorama of Spanish society' (PMM). First published in 1605, Don Quixote gained immediate popularity in Spain for its 'variety, liveliness, and gibes at the famous' (PMM). Cervantes' universal portrayal of the human condition became 'one of those universal works which are read by all ages at all times' (PMM). The Ibarra edition, illustrated by artists from the Academia de San Fernando and overseen by Cervantes scholar Vincente de los Ríos, became the preferred edition in Spain when it appeared in 1780. The edition is also recognized for the specially designed type, a monument to the golden age of Spanish typography.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

CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (MIGUEL DE)Galatee, Roman Pastoral; Imite de Cervantes par M. De Florian, 4 stipple-engraved colour plates by Colibert and Cazenave after Nicolas-André Monsiau, damp-staining to upper corner of plate 4, occasional foxing a few fingermarks and minor stains, untrimmed pages, contemporary marbled stiff wrappers, housed in a modern clamshell box [Cohen-de Ricci 400.], large 4to (350 x 265mm.), Paris, Defer de Maisonneuve, 1793; The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha, 5 vol., NUMBER 9 OF 150 COPIES, title-pages in red and black, numerous black and white plates and illustrations in text by Daniel Vierge, with additional suite of 88 (of 105) loose plates (out of sequence and with titled tissue guards in disarray), 3 volumes with original thin paper dust jackets, additional suite of plates in accompanying half vellum portfolio, minor soiling to covers and slight wear, 4to, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906-1907 (6)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

DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUSIsaios kai Deinarcos. Vitae Isaei & Dinarchi, magnorum Graeciae oratorum [edited by Petrus Victorious], title in Greek & Latin within woodcut architectural border, introduction in Latin, text in Greek type, 2 large decorative initials, woodcut ornaments, large woodcut device on final leaf (above the motto 'Quod tibi fieri non vis, alteri ne feceris' added in a ?seventeenth century hand), modern half calf [Adams D640], small 4to (210 x 140mm.), Paris, Jean de Tournes, 1581Footnotes:Scarce work by Dionysius on the lives of the orators Isaeus and Dinarchus, edited by Petrus Victorius (1499-1584), 'the greatest Greek scholar of Italy' (Whibley, Companion to Greek Studies, 2015). No copies are listed on Rare Book Hub, and WorldCat records only the Bristol University copy.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

DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU (HENRI LOUIS)Élémens de l'architecture navale, ou traité pratique de la construction des vaisseaux, second enlarged edition, engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title and dedication leaf, 24 plates on 23 folding sheets, occasional spotting and toning, contemporary French mottled calf gilt, green morocco spine label, worn with loss of headbands, 4to, Paris, C.A. Jombert, 1758Footnotes:Provenance: J.A. Mavor, R.N., Allen Raymond, H.R. Knickerbocker, and J.W. Mallison, various twentieth century inscriptions on the 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

GALLONIO (ANTONIO)Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro Christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, FIRST EDITION, title in red and black, 47 full-page engraved illustrations by Antonio Tempesta after Giovanni Guerra, early ownership inscription on title, occasional spotting, minor soiling and some damp-staining, later velvet with blue and gold printed brocade paper endpapers, minor wear [Brunet II 1468; Graesse III 19], 4to (240 x 170mm.), Rome, Ascanio and Girolamo Donangeli, 1591Footnotes:A graphic work on the Roman torture and execution of Christian martyrs. Bound in velvet with brocade paper endpapers - one of the rarest and most valuable types of decorated paper.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

GESSNER (SALOMON)La Mort d'Abel: poeme en cinq chants, first French edition, frontispiece and 5 plates stipple-engraved in colour by Colibert, Casenave & Clement after Nicolas-André Monsiau, minor spotting and browning, contemporary red morocco gilt, rebacked with original spine laid down, green morocco label, g.e., light wear, housed in modern custom clamshell box [Brunet II 1568; Cohen-de Ricci, 436], large 4to (334 x 250mm.) Paris, Defer de Maisonneuve, 1793-- QUERELLES (CHEVALIER DE) Hero et Leandre, poeme nouveau en trois chants, FIRST EDITION, aquatint frontispiece in black and 8 aquatint prints in colour by Philibert-Louis Debucourt, bookseller's stamp on free front endpaper and half-title, occasional foxing, contemporary quarter morocco over red glazed boards, stamped in silver, g.e., modern folding case, boards warped, corners bumped [Cohen-de Ricci, 833], 4to (300 x 230mm.) Paris, Pierre Didot L'aine, 1801-- FÉNELON (FRANÇOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE) The Adventures of Telemachus, the son of Ulysses, 2 vol. in 1, first English edition, 12 hand-coloured engraved plates after Stothard and Burney, early ownership inscription opposite title, Satinsky collection bookplate, minor spotting and soiling, contemporary straight-grain morocco gilt, g.e., rebacked retaining original spine, hinges starting, corners bumped, worn, modern solander box [Brunet II 1568], 4to (265 x 212 mm.), C. and G. Kearsley, 1795 (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

GHEYN (JACOB DE)Die Drillkunst. Das ist Kriegsübliche Waffenhandlung der Musqueten und Pique[n], text in German and French, engraved pictorial title, 38 engraved plates (each depicting 2 figures, numbered 1-44 and 1-32), one diagram in the text, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, occasional light damp-staining, several leaves strengthened at inner margin, a few pencil annotations, modern half morocco, worn [Lipperheide 2061], small oblong 4to, Nuremburg, Paul Fürst, 1664Footnotes:Provenance: H. Sterzel, bookplate, and ownership stamp on blank verso of title, dedication and final leaf; Henk Visser, 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

GONZALO (ARGOTE DE MOLINA)Nobleza de Andaluzia, FIRST EDITION, woodcut arms on title, numerous woodcuts of coats of arms throughout, early ownership inscription on title, repairs to margins of first leaves, upper and lower corners of A1, and lower corners throughout, some affecting text, last leaf re-margined, scattered browning and spotting, modern calf gilt and blind-stamped [Heredia 3466; Palau I, 16170; Salvà 3540], folio (310 x 215mm.), Seville, Fernando Diaz, 1588Footnotes:Gonzalo Argote de Molina had a colourful career as a military officer, author, and collector of art and antiques during Seville's golden age in the 16th century. He enlisted the services of Juan de Arfe to prepare the woodcuts for this work, probably after seeing de Arfe's illustrations for the Libro de la montería (Book of Hunting), prepared for Alfonso XI of Castile.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

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUMLiber evangeliorum ac epistolarum pro festis solemnibus, text entirely stencilled in imitation of roman type, pp.1-17 with 8 lines of text, each under a line of music consisting of square neumes on four-line red staves, pp.18-122 with 17 long lines, pp.124-126 with 21 long lines, ruled in lead with single bounding lines, running titles and lesser section titles with red roman capitals, major section titles with multi-coloured decorative initials, 4- or 3-line square initial spaces, initials with floral or historiated backgrounds and space reserved for large roman capitals, floral headpieces preceding each feast, some including historiated vignettes, floral or decorative cartouches following the epistle in many sections, incomplete decoration in places, small natural flaw to blank margin of the leaf paginated 53-54, otherwise in clean fresh condition with some very light soiling, re-cased in original binding of red velvet over pasteboards, housed in a morocco case, 333 x 225mm., France, Ambronay, 1740Footnotes:ELEGANTLY AND SKILFULLY DECORATED STENCILLED MANUSCRIPT.Manuscript demonstrating in a remarkable way the techniques by which miniatures were designed and executed as late as the mid-eighteenth century. Stencilled books are a curiosity in the history of book production. They are manuscripts in that they were created by hand, but with the mechanical aid of stencils. They can be recognized by the gaps between parts of letters. Such books were especially popular in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when stencils were often used to produce large-format books of music for communal singing and texts such as the present lectionary intended for public reading. The manuscript was made for the Benedictine Abbey of Ambronay, as stated on the title-page: 'Liber Evangeliorum ac Epistolarum, pro Festis Solemnioribus. Ad usum Ecclesiae et Abbatiae Regiae Beatae Mariae Virgiis de Ambroniaco. Ordinis S. Benedicti e Congraegatione Sancti Mauri. Pars altera.' It combines moveable feasts from the Proper of the Times with a selection of fixed feasts from the Proper of the Saints presented in a single quasi-chronological sequence beginning with the Easter Vigil and ending with All Saints. Several important Benedictine saints or feasts are included: the translation of St. Benedict (from Monte Cassino in Italy to Fleury in France); Saints Placidus and Maurus (the first disciples of St. Benedict, they share a feast day); St. Hugo, Abbot of Cluny (the most important Benedictine monastery in France); and a feast dedicated to the saints of the Benedictine order. A short addendum at the end of the main text provides for commemorations of the dead. The Congregation of St. Maur was formed in France in the early seventeenth century and existed until the French Revolution. It was known for its strict monastic observance, for its emphasis on performance of the choral Office, and for the notable scholarship produced by some of its members.Provenance: Benedictine Abbey of Ambronay (northeast of Lyon), 1740, inscription on title-page; nineteenth century cipher centered on a large letter V, flanked probably by E and B and surmounted by a coronet, gilt-stamped on upper cover, and 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

BINDING - BIBLEDas gantze Neue Testament unsers Herren und Heilands Jesu Christi; Die CL Psalmen Davids, 2 works in 1 vol., additional engraved pictorial titles, letterpress titles with printer's device, ?nineteenth century binding of cast silver gilt over dark velvet, the pierced sides with all over design incorporating a face, winged bird rising from a shield, stylised flowers and scrolling trellis/tendrils, rounded spine to a similar design with ornate hood to spine ends, 2 clasps, g.e., red and gilt decorative paste-downs, 8vo (155 x 80mm.), Zurich, David Gessner [-der Gesnerischen Druckeren], 1709Footnotes:A striking and unusual German (?or Swiss) silver-gilt binding, elaborately tooled and used to house an early eighteenth century New Testament printed in Zurich.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

KIRCHER (ATHANASIUS)Turris Babell, sive archontologia qua primo priscorum post diluvium hominum vita, FIRST EDITION, additional engraved pictorial title, woodcut device on letterpress title, 9 engraved plates (of 12, mostly folding, 3 supplied in facsimile, the 'Tower of Babel' plate defective with lower third supplied in facsimile), 13 engraved illustrations (many full-page), opening few pages softened at blank lower fore-corner with minor loss, light damp stain to upper margin of a few leaves and plates, occasional other small stains, a few early ink annotations including a few words to additional title, contemporary vellum, soiled [Caillet III, 5795], folio (380 x 240mm.), Amsterdam, ex officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana, 1679Footnotes:First edition of Kircher's treatise on the origin of languages, focusing on the biblical story of the Tower of Babel.Provenance: And. Glinde Sielns(?), early ownership inscription on title; Leonhard Raaf, ink signature in margin of p.159 and 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

LAS CASAS (BARTHOLOME DE)Regionum indicarum per hispanos olim devastatarum, engraved title with wide historiated border, 17 large engraved illustrations (depicting acts of violence) by Theodor de Bry, title trimmed at upper margin with small loss of image, 3 single wormholes and with small hole, light dampstain at fore-margin, occasional single brown or damp spots, modern half vellum [John Carter Brown III, p.109; Sabin 11285, calling for additional title and preliminaries not present in this copy], small 4to (185 x 155mm.), Heidelberg, Wilhelm Walter, 1664Footnotes:First Heidelberg and third Latin edition of Las Casas' polemic against the atrocities carried out by the Spanish conquerors in the Americas and West Indies, graphically illustrated with Theodor de Bry's engravings depicting all manner of torture and massacre.Provenance: 'Ex Biblio Barcheous[?]...30', ink inscription on 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

LE CLERC (SÉBASTIEN) and ANDRÉ FÉLIBIENTapisseries du Roy, ou sont representez les quatre elements et les quatre saisons, second edition, 2 engraved section titles bound at front (one laid down), letterpress title with engraved coat-of-arms, extra engraved title-page bound after first section, 32 emblematic half-page engraved illustrations and 8 double-page engraved plates of tapestries by Le Clerc and others after Jacques Bailly and Charles Le Brun, engraved head- and tail-pieces and initials, light marginal soiling, contemporary calf, spine with 6 raised bands and gilt fleur-de-lys decorations, light wear and hinges starting [Brunet I 1443; Landwehr Romantic Emblem Books 286; Praz p.58], folio (425 x 285mm.), Paris, Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1679Footnotes:Intended as a testament to the lavish tapestries commissioned by Louis XIV on the themes of the Four Elements and the Four Seasons. The central panels were designed by the painter Le Brun, with emblematic roundels in the borders at each corner after the miniatures of Jacques Bailly. These roundels are visible on each of the plates but are also enlarged and embellished and printed as half-page illustrations, each with letterpress explanatory text above and below.Provenance: Robin Satinsky, 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

LE CLERC (SÉBASTIEN)Traité de géométrie theorique et pratique, illustrated frontispiece, engraved vignette on title, 48 folding engraved plates, engraved head- and tail-pieces, minor tears, occasional damp-staining, contemporary calf rebacked, housed in morocco solander box, 8vo, Paris, Jombert, 1764; and a collection of items illustrated by Le Clerc all housed in large solander box with title 'Works of Sebastien le Clerc' on the spine, including: Divers costumes Francais de Regne de Louis XIV, 20 engraved plates including engraved title all laid down to larger leaves, some age-toning, modern quarter calf and marbled boards, 12mo (138 x 97mm.; plates 113 x 68mm.), Paris, 1685--Filli di Sciro, 5 (of 7) engraved plates, light soiling, disbound but stitched at top margin, 200 x 135mm., (plate size approximately 80 x 50mm.)[Paris], [1678]--DU FRESNOY (CHARLES) L'art du peinture, engraved vignette on title page, engraved title to second part and 31 engraved plates, old ink erasures over genitalia in illustrations and some pencil marks, some age-toning especially to margins, contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine laid down [Brunet II 865], 8vo (160 x 95mm.), Paris, Nicolas Langois, 1684--Divers desseins de figures dedies a Monsieur Colbert D'Ormoy, engraved title-page and 29 plates, additional engraved plate tipped to free front endpaper, damp-staining to lower margins not affecting images, scattered spotting, contemporary calf, slightly worn, oblong 8vo (165 x 121mm.), Paris, Nicolas Langlois, [no date]--Principes de dessin, 9 disbound engraved plates with captions and depicting facial features (eyes, noses, ears, mouths) printed in red after earlier engravings by Le Clerc, unsigned, damp-staining to 4 plates, chipping to edges, stitched at top margin but otherwise loose, 345 x 255mm., [no place, publisher or date]--FLEURY (CLAUDE) Abrégé de l'histoire sainte, engraved frontispiece, 14 engraved plates with 28 illustrations, foxed, contemporary marbled calf, 12mo (165 x 98mm.), Avignon, Seguin, 1821--Pratique de la Geometrie sur le papier et sur le terrain, 82 engraved plates, lacking engraved frontispiece, scattered spotting and browning, modern calf antique, 8vo (153 x 94mm.), Paris, Pierre Mortier, 1691--Two bound collections of plates, 57 plates in total (religious services and illustrations of Aesop's Fables), lacking title-pages, both 8vo--[CALLOT (JACQUES)] [La petite passion], 12 loose engraved plates, soiling, some staining and chips to corners, trimmed within plate lines, c.134 x 97mm., [Paris, 1624-1625] (11)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

NAPOLEON - CARL VERNETTableaux historiques des campagnes d'Italie, depuis l'an IV jusqu' a la bataille de Marengo, mounted engraved frontispiece and 24 plates after Carl Vernet, one double-page engraved map, 2 engraved vignettes, engraved roundel portraits of Napoleon and Josephine, divisional title to 'Cérémonies du Sacre', spotting, contemporary marbled boards, worn, barcode on upper cover, folio (570 x 400mm.), Paris, Auber, 1806This 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

NUNES DA SYLVA (MANOEL)Arte minima, que com semibreve prolacam trata em tempo breve, second edition, woodcut vignette on title page, one engraved plate, woodcut musical notation and diagrams, title repaired at margins, following 12 leaves (including plate) repaired at lower corner, marginal damp-staining and light soiling, contemporary dark tan calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, minor wear, in a modern buckram chemise and slipcase, small 4to (197 x 143mm.), Lisbon, Miguel Manescal, 1704--MONTEIRO (JOANNES) Portugalliae Reges ad vivum expressi, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked,Lisbon, 1742--SABUGOSA (CONDE DE) O Paço de Cintra, later calf antique, 4to, Lisbon, 1903--DA COSTA (AGOSTINHO REBELLO) Descripçao topografica, e historica ca Cidade do Porto, contemporary red morocco gilt, 4to, Porto, 1789--DE ALMEIDA (NICOLAU TOLENTINO) Obras Completas de Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida, contemporary marbelled calf, 4to, Lisbon, 1861; and 20 other works on Portugal (31)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

BINDING - ENTOMOLOGICAL WATERCOLOURSAlbum of 20 fine watercolour illustrations of butterflies and moths (18), a cricket, and a lizard, some heightened with gum arabic, on laid paper, fine English morocco gilt attributable to Robert Steel, the covers elaborately tooled to a cottage-roof design with a border of 3-line fillet and roll of fleurons enclosing central panel made up of grape clusters, flower sprays, drawer handles, billowing lines, etc. enclosing gilt lettered caption 'Lenton New Year 1763 [but '1703, see footnote], spine tooled in 5 compartments within raised bands, oblong 8vo (105 x 195mm.), [eighteenth century]Footnotes:Attractive watercolours in a fine early eighteenth English century binding attributable to Robert Steel, presumably made for the English composer John Lenton (1657-1719), musician with the Royal household under Charles II, William and Mary, and Queen Anne. An almost identical binding, with some of the same tools and lettering (but dated '1703') is found on a musical manuscript of Lenton's compositions gifted to Queen Anne (see Sotheby's, Collection of Robert S. Pirie, 2 December 2015, lot 914). For another binding attributable to Robert Steel (fl. 1668-1711), with the same border design, see M.M. Foot, The Henry Davis Gift II, no. 148.The date on this binding reads '1763' and has seemingly been altered from '1703', possibly at the time the fine watercolours of moths and butterflies were executed.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

PHILIP III OF SPAIN - CARTA EXECUTORIAIlluminated manuscript on vellum, 34 long lines, in brown ink between 35 horizontal and 2 pairs of vertical bounding lines ruled in blue ink, 37 large ornamental initials in liquid gold on coloured grounds modelled in white, numerous sections of the text introduced by several lines of ornamental display script, lesser divisions distinguished by large cadel initials, calligraphic flourishes on upper and lower margins, presumably lacking the illuminated frontispiece with the arms of the recipient, damp-staining to edges at times touching the text, several initials with smudging or offsetting of pigment, natural flaws in the vellum in the blank margins of three leaves, contemporary gold- and blind-tooled brown leather, the red silk guard for the frontispiece retained, four pairs of red and blue silk ties, braided silk cord visible in quire vi and at tail of volume (lacking seal), in a morocco and cloth case, 295 x 210 mm., Granada, 1592Footnotes:A patent of nobility granted to Pedro de Angulo, with several notarial attestations at the end.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

PINDARΟλυμπια. Πυθια. Νεμεα. Ισθμια [Olympia. Pythia. Nemea. Isthmia], with the 2 blank leaves called for, Greek type, 2 woodcut devices on first leaf (that of Kallierges repeated on final leaf), several lines and letters printed in red on 2 leaves (Olympia and Pythia), some early ink marginalia, pagination numeral added in upper fore-corner of opening 104 leaves, spotting and soiling to title and final leaf, modern quarter calf, spine lettered in gilt [cf.Adams O1219-O1221], 4to (215 x 150mm.), Rome, Zacharias Kallierges for Cornelio Benigno, [1515]Footnotes:THE FIRST GREEK BOOK PRINTED AT ROME, and the first edition of this work with the 'Scholia'. Adams describes three variants; the present copy has the reading 'της' ending the penultimate line of B4r, A1-2 are unsigned, and A3 has red printing.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

SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS (GAIUS)Opera [with the commentaries of Laurentius Valla and Joannes Chrysostomus Soldus, edited by Pomponius Laetus and Johannes Britannicus], 119 leaves (of 166, comprising leaf e8, f-t8, v6, without al before e7, and final 8 leaves), 55 lines commentary enclosing text, and headline, decorative initials, EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED THROUGHOUT IN SEVERAL NEAR-CONTEMPORARY HANDS, IN ENGLISH AND LATIN, some manicules, nineteenth century half calf over boards, covers detached, lacks spine [ISTC is00083000; BMC VIII 155; GW M39559; Goff S83], 4to (230 x 165mm.), [Paris, Andre Bocard, 13 January?, 1497]Footnotes:An incomplete Incunable but extensively annotated throughout in English and Latin, in several near contemporary hands. This edition of Sallustius includes the commentaries of Joannes Chrysostomus Soldus, first published in an edition printed at Rome in 1490.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

SCHELLHAMMER (MARIE SOPHIE)Das Brandenburgische Koch-Buch...Der wohl-unterwiesenen Köchinn zufälliger Confect-Tisch, 2 vol. in 1, title-pages in red and black, 2 engraved frontispieces and 18 plates (4 folding), some age-toning and occasional offsetting, nineteenth century half vellum, worn [Bitting, 420; Weiss 3378/3379], small 4to (207 x 107mm.), Berlin and Potsdam, Johann Andreas Rüdigen, 1732Footnotes:Sixth edition of this influential cookbook, with eight illustrations of formal place settings in the first volume. The second volume, first published in 1699, focuses mainly on confectionary and desserts, with illustrations of decorating utensils and designs.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

[SCRIPTORES REI MILITARIS]VEGETIUS RENATUS (FLAVIUS) De re militari; FRONTINUS (SEXTUS JULIUS) De re militari; AELIANUS. De instruendis aciebus; MODESTUS LIBELLUS. De vocabulis rei militaris, 3 parts in 1 vol., title printed in red and black with large printer's device, dampstained throughout, large hole (with loss of approximately 15 words) to final leaf, approximately 10 leaves shaved with some loss to headline, near contemporary pen trials and Latin words on title-page and verso of final leaf, late seventeenth/early eighteenth century 5-line ink note in Latin concerning military matters on blank at end, early eighteenth century calf, rebacked, upper cover nearly detached [Adams R329], small 4to, Paris, Jean Petit, 8 June 1515Footnotes:Provenance: Sir John Drummond, note on front free endpaper ('This book was bought to Sir John Drummond of ?Marhane at ane [sic] auction in ?Elbe 1699. Rebound at Perth'), with later ink price ('R.S. 1.10.00') on 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

SERGENT-MARCEAU (ANTOINE FRANCOIS)Portraits des grandes hommes, femmes illustres, et sujets mémorables de France. Gravés et imprimés en couleurs, FIRST EDITION, engraved title and dedication, 192 portraits and engravings printed in colour, most after Sergent-Marceau and engraved by him, Moret, Roger, Ride, et al (one plate bound out of order), extra-illustrated with approximately 35 additional prints, many with manuscript captions, occasional spotting, olive-green morocco gilt by Riviere for Bumpus, g.e., sunned spine, in a custom slipcase, 4to (326 x 250mm.), Paris, Blin, [1786-1792]Footnotes:A REMARKABLE WORK OF COLOUR PRINTING, comprising 96 oval portraits of important French personages each with a corresponding scene illustrating the subject's life. Interestingly, the scene attached to Louis XVI commemorates the independence of the United States, depicting a Native American flanked by portraits of the Franklin, Washington and the French king. With quasi-royal French provenance, Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, being the grandson of Louis Philippe I and the Orléanist claimant to the throne following the 1848 revolution.Provenance: Philippe d'Orléans (1838-1894), Comte de Paris, ink stamp on title; Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, Bart. (1851-1925), 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

SPERONI DEGLI ALVAROTTI (SPERONE)Dialoghi, woodcut printer's device on title page and verso of last leaf, light foxing, nineteenth century vellum, spine with four raised bands, morocco label, some soiling to covers, title label chipped [Adams S-1569; Ahmanson-Murphy 399; EDIT 16 CNCE 26984; Renouard 149:13], 8vo (158 x 101mm.), Venice, sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1550Footnotes:Influential Renaissance humanist Speroni was forced to edit his dialogues, first published in 1542, under pressure from the Inquisition. The result was this edition, which the title page tells us was 'revisited and corrected with great diligence'.Provenance: Leonardo Vitetti (Italian diplomat, 1895-1973), 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

TORRE FARFAN (FERNANDO)Fiestas de la S. Iglesia Metropolitans, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, additional engraved title, engraved portraits of Ferdinand III and Charles II, and 9 engraved plates, with portfolio atlas of 9 folio plates in various sizes, worming to first and last few leaves, some damp-staining, browning, margins slightly trimmed [Hofer 86; Palau 335597; Praz, p 94; Vinet 815], contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, some shelf-wear and abrasions to covers, 4to (300 x 209mm.), plates in modern quarter morocco solander box, Seville, Nicolas Rodriguez, 1671-1672 (2)Footnotes:ONE OF THE FINEST SPANISH FESTIVAL BOOKS OF ITS CENTURY.Spanish festival book produced for the canonization of King Ferdinand III by Pope Clement III, documenting the festivities held in the Cathedral of Seville in 1671. See E. Garvey 'Francisco Herrera the younger: A drawing for a Spanish festival book' in Harvard Library Bulletin, 1978, p.28 (copy loosely inserted).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

VAN DER VENNE (ADRIAEN)Zeeusche Nachtegael ende des selfs dryderley gesang, FIRST EDITION, 4 parts in 1 vol., engraved vignette on first and fourth titles, 16 engraved illustrations in text, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, title re-margined, nineteenth century brown armorial morocco gilt, g.e., 4to (232 X 175mm.), Middelburgh, Ian Petersz van der Venne, 1623Footnotes:Anthology of works by poets of the Western Dutch province of Zeeland. Adriaen van de Venne was a painter, poet, and illustrator who also ran the family printing business with his brother, Ian Petersz van der Venne (Landwehr, Low Countries 588).Provenance: Victor Massena (1836-1910), 3rd Duke of Rivoli, 5th Prince d'Essling, binding.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

VERGILIUS MARO (PUBLIUS)Opera Virgiliana, cum decem commentis, 2 parts in 1 vol., general title printed in red and black within wide decorative woodcut border, fleur-de-lys device on second part title, numerous large woodcut illustrations, full red morocco gilt by R. Petit (stamped inside upper cover), g.e. [Mortimer, Harvard French 538], folio (322 x 215mm.), [Lyon, J. Crespin], 1529Footnotes:A handsome copy of the reprint of the 1517 Saçon edition, lavishly illustrated with woodcuts that first appeared in the Grüninger Strassburg edition of 1502.Provenance: '... Haingadensis: emp. in Spainzhard 1602', inscription in upper margin of title, with later inscription 'Ex Libris Ludwig Feder...' crossed through in lower margin; Helen and Michael Oppenheimer, 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

BOOK TRADE & BANKINGWarrant signed by George II ('George R'), granting permission to John Baskett ('Our Printer') and Robert Gosling ('...of our City of London, Bookseller...') to search the records and make transcriptions from the archives of the Tower of London, the Houses of Parliament, the libraries of St James's and Westminster and the Paper Office and Parliamentary archives for their '...compleat Collection of all the Acts of Parliament from Magna Charta to this present time, together with the preambles to all the Statutes... six large Volumes in Folio...', two pages on a bifolium, papered seal, dust-staining and small tears, folio (304 x 190mm.), 'Our Court at Kensington', 4 November 1726; with an album of printed and manuscript ephemera relating to the Gosling family including tradesmen's receipts ('Jno. Hinckes Tinn Man At ye Lamp & Crown in Fleet Street', 'William Nelson oylman', 'Samuel Price Shoe Maker', 'James Ward Cheesemonger'), tax and rent receipts, annuity certificates and other receipts pertaining to Sir Francis Gosling, 1760's, insurance certificate for John Pyle from the Sun Fire-Office, his will, printed cheques from Mssrs Goslings & Sharpe, 1760's, etc., c.53 leaves, several leaves excised, dust-staining and marks, original calf, worn, remains of old labels, upper and lower boards detached, lacking spine, folio (266 x 220mm.), eighteenth-century; with indenture appointing Sir Francis Gosling and John Pyle executors of the will of John Walsh of the parish of St Mary le Strand, one sheet of vellum, papered seal and duty stamps, folio (370 x 435mm.), London, 10 March 1766Footnotes:The recipient of the Royal warrant, John Baskett (1664/5-1742) was the King's Printer and became infamous as the publisher of the 'Vinegar Bible'. The present warrant relates to his printing of 'The Statutes at Large, from Magna Charta to the seventh year of King George the Second inclusive', printed in conjunction with stationer and bookseller Robert Gosling (1684-1741), of Middle Temple Gate. Gosling's son Francis, later Sir Francis Gosling (1719-1768), was apprenticed to his father and worked for him until around 1757. In 1742 he became a partner in a bank founded by Henry Pinckney which became known as Goslings Bank, trading at the sign of the Three Squirrels. In the second half of the eighteenth century the bank became Goslings and Sharpe and was one of the banks merged into Barclays Bank in 1896.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

HERBARIUM - INCUNABULAHerbarius latinus (with German synonyms), 172 leaves (of 174, without final 2 leaves), 31-33 lines, gothic type, 3-line initial spaces with printed guide letters, 150 woodcut botanical illustrations WITH CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLOURING and plant names given in Latin and German, missing leaves loosely supplied in facsimile, title soiled, damp-staining throughout, a few single worm holes to first and final few leaves, small piece of blank lower margin to fol.77 torn away, first and final leaf with old paper strengthening at inner margin, small loss to fore-corner of final leaf, fol.81-88 misbound before fol.65, small early ink drawings of faces on fol.7 & 9, modern morocco-backed cloth [ISTC ih00064000; BMC II 616; Goff H64; GW 12270; HC(Add) 8445*; Nissen 2300], small 4to (210 x 150mm.), Passau, [Johann Petri, 14]85Footnotes:INCUNABLE HERBAL WITH CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLOURING. The first dated edition from the press of Johann Petri, and the first of three Petri editions of his influential Herbarius, illustrated with reverse copies of the woodcuts of Schoeffer's first edition.Provenance: '... habuit f Adamus Tobim(?) dono gratuito... de vergeon sacrista... Ambroniaii 1618'; 'Voyez Brunet la lettre H page 159 du supplement 1848', ink inscriptions on title-page; faint institutional stamp erased from title and blank area of second 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

BRUNEL – THAMES TUNNELManuscript guidebook to Marc Isambard Brunel's Thames Tunnel, entitled 'Sketches and Memoranda/ of the/ Works/ for the/ Tunnel under the Thames/ from/ Rotherhithe to Wapping/ Published and sold at the Tunnel Works Rotherhithe and by/ Messrs Harvey and Darton, 55, Gracechurch St:/ Printed by the Philanthropic Society St.G's F:/ 1828', entitled 'Sketches and Memoranda/ of the/ Works/ for the/ Tunnel under the Thames/ from/ Rotherhithe to Wapping/ Published and sold at the Tunnel Works Rotherhithe and by/ Messrs Harvey and Darton, 55, Gracechurch St:/ Printed by the Philanthropic Society St.G's F:/ 1828', written in a neat attractive hand and illustrated with thirteen finely-drawn vignettes and plans in pen, ink and wash, comprising nine one-page illustrations (including '...View of Wapping... and a transverse section of the Tunnel...', The Shaft, 'Dimensions of the Brickwork', Workmen in the Shield [with cut-out overlay showing the entrance to the Tunnel]), three double-page plans ('A Transverse Section of the Thames', 'Plan of the Premises at Rotherhithe and Wapping', and a cross-section showing the strata of the river) and one pull-down map ('Plan of the Roads and main Objects on the Eastern Part of London... projected by M.I. Brunel... 1827'), text comprising an Introduction, dated January 1828 ('...The present undertaking was projected by M.I. Brunel Esq: F.R.S. whose works for Government have been equally creditable to his scientific abilities and to his personal character...'), and detailed commentary accompanying the illustrations on versos, 30 leaves, 'F & Z' watermark, some light dust-staining and small tears, original half calf with marbled boards, label with manuscript title 'SKETCHES relating to the TUNNEL.' on upper cover, oblong 8vo (102 x 175mm.), 1828Footnotes:MANUSCRIPT GUIDEBOOK FOR BRUNEL'S PIONEERING THAMES TUNNEL, 'THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD', SEEMINGLY DERIVING FROM HIS WORKSHOP. A handsome manuscript version of Marc Brunel's popular publication.Despite the proliferation of printed editions of Brunel's guide to the Thames Tunnel project, we have hitherto traced no other manuscript version of the guidebook. Printed guidebooks were produced from early 1827, in order to keep the project in the public eye over the long construction period and also to raise money from visitors to the works, and ran to some seventeen editions over the next thirty-five years, the last appearing in 1863 (for a detailed bibliography see Chrimes, Elton, May & Millet, The Triumphant Bore: A Celebration of Marc Brunel's Thames Tunnel, James Howden, [n.d.]). Marc Brunel himself was responsible for the composing the text, and the engraved plates were taken from drawings supplied by his workshop. Julia Elton in her essay 'The Tunnel in Print' notes that the first edition of March 1827 consisted of plates only, the text and introduction appearing the following August with the title as per our manuscript, Sketches and Memoranda of the works for the tunnel under the Thames. Regular updated editions followed, including translations in the major European languages, with the text constantly rewritten and updated. A month after our version, in February 1828, the printed book had a new title Sketches of the Works for the Tunnel under the Thames which it retained until 1830. Our fine manuscript version would seem to sit between the printed editions of December 1827 (cat. no. 58) and that of January 1828 (cat. no. 59), incorporating several amendments to the text made after 1827 - for example the reference to 'Mr Brunel' in the 1827 Introduction becomes the more formal 'M.I. Brunel Esq. F.R.S.' in both our version and the printed 1828 edition, as well as incorporating extra descriptive text, which might at first suggest that ours is a copy of the later edition. However, the possibility that ours came after the 1828 edition is ruled out by comparison of the meticulously executed illustrations. On comparison, it is noticeable that our drawings are largely unpopulated apart from the figures of workers in the shield. A recognisable top-hatted figure appears in two of the engravings but not in our drawings, that of the brick shaft and again in the longitudinal section of the tunnel, where the same figure observes the work from a niche in the tunnel wall. Similarly, the figure with the pickaxe is absent from our drawing of the shield, as are the figures and carriages from the plan showing the long transverse section of the tunnel. Our exquisite drawings would seem to bear more relation to the originals produced in the workshop (sold in these rooms, 15 November 2017, lot 78) where there is also favourable comparison of the handwriting here to that on a plan ascribed to Brunel's chief engineer, Joseph Pinchbeck. The paper bears the watermark 'F & Z', which is also seen on German paper of the same period.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

[WILKINS (JOHN)]Mathematicall Magick. Or the Wonders That May be Performed by Mechanicall Geometry... Concerning Mechanicall Povvers. Motions... by I.W.M.A., 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved and woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text, with the opening blank, very thin trace of worming to approx. 40 touching letters to text or side-note on several in lower fore-edge, contemporary speckled sheep, spine tooled in gilt, worn with some loss to spine, joints a little weakened, preserved in purpose-made solander box lettered in gilt on upper cover [ESTC R6164; Wing W2198], 8vo, M.F. for Sa. Gellibrand, 1648Footnotes:First edition of a work, in which Wilkins (1614-1672) demonstrated how simple machines like the lever, pulley, and screw could be used to bring about remarkable effects, and, in the second part, discusses among other things flying machines, the submarine, automata, and perpetual motion. 'Offered as a practical manual rather than as a work of theoretical exposition, it can nevertheless be seen as a foreshadowing of the mechanical philosophy and of the increasing importance of the geometrical approach to an understanding of nature' (ODNB).Provenance: John Reade, ?eighteenth century signature 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

ARIOSTO (LODOVICO)Orlando Furioso, 4 vol., in Italian, engraved portrait frontispiece, 46 engraved illustrations by Bartolozzi and others, after Cipriani, Cochin, Eisen, Monnet, Jean-Michel Moreau le jeune, and others, some foxing heavy in places, contemporary straight-grain morocco gilt, gilt dentelles, g.e., spines slightly sunned, light wear [Brunet I 438; Cohen-de Ricci 95; Gaskell 48; Ray French 64; Sander 44], 8vo (232 x 145 mm), Birmingham, John Baskerville for Pietro and Giovan Claudio Molini, 1773--JONES (INIGO) Designs of Inigo Jones consisting of Plans and Elevations for Public and Private Buildings, FIRST EDITION, 2 vol. in 1, engraved portrait on first title, vignettes on titles, 97 plates, numbered 1-73 and 1-63 (24 double-page and 5 folding) by Hulsbergh, Fourdrinier, Herisset and Cole, engraved folding perspective view of Whitehall Palace from the 1770 edition inserted as frontispiece, engraved head- and tail-pieces after William Kent, subscribers' list, lacking allegorical frontispiece and vol. 1 half-title, plate folds split and reinforced with tape, 3 plates detached at folds, small tears at margins [Fowler 162; Harris 385; Millard, British 34], period-style speckled half calf and marbled boards, age-toning, occasional light damp-staining and foxing, housed in cloth box, folio (452 x 280mm.), William Kent, 1727--WOOD (JOHN) Choir Gaure, Vulgarly Called Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain, Described, Restored, and Explained, engraved frontispiece portrait, 5 engraved plans (4 folding), worming to frontispiece and first and last few leaves, age-toning and some soiling, later sheep, red morocco spine label, covers scuffed, 8vo (203 x 135mm.),Oxford, Printed at the Theatre, 1747--STURT (JOHN) The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, FIRST EDITION, engraved throughout including portraits of George I and of the Prince and Princess of Wales, illustrations, list of subscribers, and text, ornamental borders, vignettes and ornate initials, minor age-toning and spotting, volvelle on p.v lacking pointer (as usual), contemporary tooled polished black calf, spine gilt in 6 compartments, gilt dentelles, g.e., shelf-wear, slight chipping to lower spine end [ESTC T141241; Griffiths 1717/1, variant 1], 8vo (194 x 122mm.), John Baskett, 1717--WOOD ([ELLEN] MRS. HENRY) East Lynne, 3 vol., second edition, some age-toning and foxing, small ink stain to title of vol. 2, contemporary half blue calf and marbled boards, morocco spine labels, extremities rubbed, especially spine [Sadleir 3333a], 8vo (192 x 126 mm.), Richard Bentley, 1861-62--LE SAGE (ALAIN-RENÉ) The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, 4 vol., 24 engraved plates after Robert Smirke, title page of volume I loose, some foxing and offsetting, contemporary vellum with marbled paper onlays on cover, red and green morocco labels to spine, wear and some soiling to covers, large 4to (272 x 218 mm.), Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1809 (14)Footnotes:A group of books including the illustrated Italian-language edition of Ariosto (printed by Baskerville in collaboration with the Molini brothers, publishers in Paris, and numerous skilled artists and engravers from Paris and London), Inigo Jones's Designs... for Buildings, John Wood's 1747 work on Stonehenge, an ornate version of the Book of Common Prayer from the same publisher who produced the 'Vinegar Bible' of 1709, and the second edition of Ellen Wood's East Lynne, the best-selling novel of the nineteenth century.Provenance: First work, Stourhead Heirlooms Library (eagle head armorial symbol in gilt on spine); Mary S. Collins, bookplate. Second work, Avery Library (perforated stamps, blind-stamps to plates throughout, ink stamps on dedication leaf); purchased from Argosy, New York. Third work, purchased from Maggs Bros, pencil note. Fourth work, George Lake Russell (1802-1878), ownership inscription on first flyleaf ('George Lake Russell. This book was given to him by W. Cade at Riverhead, Jan. 30th 1813'). Fifth work, Mrs. Goldie, contemporary signature on title page. Sixth work, Claude Meeker [Ohio investment broker and diplomat, 1861-1929], bookplates; all with the bookplate of Robin Satinsky.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

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, GENEVA VERSION[The Bible], woodcut vignette on New Testament title-page, woodcut maps and illustration in the text, lacks general title, 2 preliminary leaves and first leaf of Genesis (fol.1), 5 leaves repaired with some loss of text, approximately 15 leaves strengthened at fore-margin, a few headlines shaved, damp-stain to opening 25 leaves, incomplete Psalms bound at end, nineteenth century calf gilt, spine tooled in gilt with red morocco lettering labels, worn, joints slightly weakened [ESTC S107006; Herbert 144], small folio (263 x 180mm.), [Christopher Barker, 1576]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

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, GENEVA VERSION[The Bible], black letter, calendar printed in red and black, NT title within wide decorative woodcut border, lacks 5 preliminary leaves (title and following 3, and D8 leaf of Psalms) and, final leaf of Apocrypha laid down (with no loss of text) [ESTC S4509; Herbert 174], [Christopher Barker, 1582]; Two Right Profitable and Fruitfull Concordances, large woodcut device on title and final leaf, ink pen trials on title (recto and verso) [ESTC S5228], Christopher Barker, [between 1583 and 1584?], with incomplete 'Booke of Psalms' (1581), 3 works bound in 1 vol., seventeenth century inscriptions inside both covers, other family inscriptions on several leaves, one blank leaf loose, seventeenth century blind-panelled morocco, rubbed, 4to (215 x 160mm.)Footnotes:Provenance: Best family inscriptions (one dated 1648, one 1720) in various places. Includes inside upper cover a 3-verse 'Hymn to ye Blesse Trinity' with signature of William Best, and further name 'B. Burton'.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

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSION[The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testment, and the New], KING JAMES' GREAT 'SHE' BIBLE, black letter, double column, New Testament title (dated 1611) within wide woodcut pictorial borders, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, calendar and almanack printed in red and black, bound with 'The Genealogies', lacks general title, 9 preliminary leaves (of 17, of which 4 with some loss of text) and 34 leaves of the NT (B3-4 in Matthew, K6 in John, and final 31 leaves at end after T5), some headlines cropped, thin thread of worming to a some leaves touching letters, corner of one leaf torn away touching a few letters, several early ink marginal notes or pointing hands, 'Jesus' added in later hand above 'Judas' error at Matthew 26:36, early calf, spine tooled in gilt with morocco lettering label (worn, upper cover detached) [ESTC S124527]; Herbert 319], folio (385 x 255mm.), [Christopher Barker, 1613]-1611Footnotes:THE 'GREAT SHE BIBLE', SECOND FOLIO EDITON OF THE KING JAMES AUTHORISED VERSION, with the reading 'She went into the citie' in Ruth 3:15, and the remarkable error in Matthew 26:36 where 'Judas' appears for 'Jesus'. Herbert notes that 'From about the middle of the seventeenth century until the appearance of the Revised Bible of 1881-5, the King James' version reigned without rival'.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

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORIZED VERSIONThe Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New, FOURTH FOLIO EDITION, double column, black letter, general title within elaborate woodcut border, calendar printed in red and black, with Speed's Genealogies (without the engraved map), lacks NT title (4D1) and 13 leaves at end (after 5B5 Rev, with 10 of these replaced with leaves from another Black Letter folio edition, 3 of these defective, 2 loose, others frayed), title and opening few leaves with a few small wormholes and frayed at lower fore-edge (just touching image of title border, a few early ink children's sketches in lower border of title), part of margin torn away from leaf 5H1 with loss of side-note, tear to leaf 5Z5, approximately 30 leaves with small stain in lower margin but otherwise generally clean with good margins, contemporary reverse calf, very worn, upper cover near detached, some loss to spine [ESTC S102049; Herbert 487], folio (414 x 265mm.), Robert Barker and by the Assignes of John Bill, 1634Footnotes:Provenance: Ann Bateman, eighteenth/early nineteenth century child's ownership inscription and alphabet trials on front paste-down, and 5 drawings of faces with note 'Ann pict[...]' in lower margin of title-page; East Hordon Parish, remnants of morocco lettering label on lower cover.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSIONThe Holy Bible, general and NT title-pages within woodcut typographical borders, ruled in red throughout, without blank leaf before title (as in Herbert), final leaf laid down, modern morocco [ESTC S122140; Herbert 513], Cambridge, Printed by Thomas Buck, and Roger Daniel, printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1637; The Holy Bible, black letter, general title within wide historiated woodcut border, bound with Speed's Genealogies, OT lacks 5 leaves (2H2-6, provided from an another edition), NT lacks all before Matthew XIII.3 and 3 other leaves (provided from another edition), some leaves shaved touching side-notes, early twentieth century morocco, rubbed, joints cracked [ESTC S102055; Herbert 397], Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1625, small 4to--Hē Kainē Diathēkē. Novum Testamentum. Juxta examplar Millianum, text in Greek, foxing and small red ink splash on half-title, neat ink annotations in Greek to margins of pp.85-95 in an early hand, modern blue half morocco [ESTC T94898; Darlow & Moule 4755], 4to (280 x 225mm.), Oxford, John Baskerville, 1763 (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

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSIONThe Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New, additional engraved pictorial title-page (dated 1678), woodcut royal arms on letterpress title [ESTC R37318; Herbert 798], John Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, [1685]; The Book of Common Prayer, [ESTC R176234], John Bill, Thomas Newcomb, & Henry Hills, 1682; The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into English Metre royal coat of arms on title-page [ESTC R170622], printed for the Company of Stationers, 1682, 3 works bound in 1 vol., contemporary black morocco gilt, covers with 2-line rule border enclosing panel with ornate floral motifs (tulips, acorns, etc.) and corner pieces, initials 'D.H.E' in centre, gilt dentelles, g.e., worn with a few scuff marks, short tear to head of spine and small loss at foot, 4to (205 x 109mm.)Footnotes:Provenance: 'George Deane, the gift of his mother', ownership ink inscription on upper margin of title-page, with manuscript notes, in several hands, concerning the genealogy of the Deane family from 1737 to the 1890s on the front free endpapers; Rev. Henry Deane, 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

BINDINGSSWIFT (JONATHAN) The Works, 19 vol., LIMITED TO 750 SETS, titles printed in red and black, contemporary half morocco gilt for Sotheran, t.e.g., 8vo, Bickers & Son, 1883Footnotes:Provenance: John Herbert Bankes; Helen and Michael Oppenheimer, bookplates.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

□A MISCELLANEOUS GROUP OF SOUTH-EAST ASIAN OBJECTS, MOSTLY 12TH-16TH CENTURIES, comprising two Thai bronze limepots, a bronze figure of a horse, a bronze consort from a yab-yum group, a head from a hammer mace, an iron finial, three iron figurines, a small figural relief plaque, a terracotta figure of a deer and a bronze oil lamp, 21.5cm long and smaller, (12) Provenance: Collection of a deceased diplomat, thence by descent.

A boxed Mamod Model Power Hammer together with a vintage Mamod stationary engine (unboxed).

A brass skeleton clock, late 19th/20th century, of scroll pattern, the well-shaped plates formed of stylised foliate motifs, supporting the shaped and pierced silvered 10.75in Roman dial with foliate hands, the single train chain fusee movement with anchor escapement, the passing strike with axe-head hammer, lacking stand and dome, 60cm high.

Dumoulin Lambinon Belgian 24 bore side by side pin-fire hammer action shotgun with fine scrolling engraving to the lock, stylised ornate hammers, underside, mounts, rotary underlever, butt plate and top strap, underside signed 'J Everard Graveur A Liege', sling mounts, cushion cheek piece, double trigger and 25.5 inch Damascus barrels, overall length 103cm. 

Bayard of Belgium Demi-block 32 bore side by side hammer action shotgun with engraved dogs and scrolling engraving to the locks, hammers, trigger guard and underside, chequered semi-pistol grip and forend, vacant cartouche to the underside of the stock, double trigger and 27.5 inch barrels, overall length 110cm, length of pull 35cm, serial number 98756. 

Rossi Italian double barrelled over and under percussion hammer action gun with engraved locks, hammers, butt plate, trigger guard and top plate, chequered grip, sling suspension mounts, brass tipped wooden ram-rod and 36 inch smooth bored Damascus barrels, overall length 132cm. 

John Wiggan 10 bore side by side percussion hammer action muzzle loading shotgun with named and engraved locks, engraved hammers, top plate, trigger guard and mounts, chequered grip and forend, brass tipped wooden ram-rod and 32 inch Damascus barrels engraved 'John Wiggan Maker to The Royal Family and The King of Egypt', overall length 122cm, serial number 2811. 

S M Patrick 11 bore side by side percussion hammer action muzzle loading shotgun with named and engraved locks, engraved hammers, trigger guard, top plate and underside, chequered grip and forend, vacant shield shaped cartouche to the underside of the stock, brass tipped wooden ram rod and 28.5 inch Damascus barrels engraved 'S M Patrick No.1 Bar Street Scarborough', overall length 116cm.  

John Manton & Son bore side by side percussion hammer action muzzle loading shotgun with engraved locks featuring bird scenes and named 'Jno Manton & Son Patent', engraved hammers, trigger guard, top plate and underside, chequered grip and forend, wrist cartouche and 27.5 inch barrels engraved 'John Manton & Son Dover Street London', overall length 111cm.  

Mills 12 bore percussion hammer action muzzle loading sporting gun with engraved lock, hammer, trigger guard and top plate, chequered grip, vacant cartouche to the wrist, metal tipped wooden ram-rod and 30.5 inch part-octagonal smooth bored barrel, overall length 119cm.