Sudhir Patwardhan (B.1949)Small Head circa early 2000sacrylic on canvas mounted on board, framed33.5 x 23.5cm (13 3/16 x 9 1/4in).Footnotes:ProvenanceProperty from a private collection, UK.Acquired from Sakshi Gallery in the early 2000s.Note: Sakshi Gallery's label is on the reverse, and includes the artists, name, price, title/year, size and code.Patwardhan is known for his ability to capture the complexities of the human experience through portraiture and urban landscapes and Small Head is a quintessential example of this. At first glance, the work strikes the viewer with its stark yet evocative composition. The canvas is dominated by the head of a man, rendered with an extraordinary degree of detail and realism. Patwardhan's keen observation and technical prowess are evident in the intricate texture of the skin and the subtle interplay of light and shadow. The man's expression has a profound sense of melancholy. His vacant eyes, pursed lips and stressed forehead hint at a deep inner turmoil. The muted palette of earthy tones and subtle variations in shading emphasize the emotional weight of the subject's demeanour, further emphasised by the bright background. The viewer is left with an overwhelming sense of empathy for this individual. Patwardhan's brilliance therefore lays in being able to reflect on the universal experience of sadness and the profound stories hidden behind every individuals countenance. To see a similar work sold at Pundoles, see Summer, 5-8th June 2023, lot 74.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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WOOLF (VIRGINIA)To The Lighthouse, FIRST EDITION, half-title, binder's advertisement slip loosely inserted, light toning and occasional spotting, publisher's blue cloth (head and foot of spine bumped, small bump to right edge of cover), pictorial dust-jacket by Vanessa Bell (toning and small damp-stains mostly to spine, upper edge a little frayed with very minor loss to head of spine, neatly repaired on reverse) [Kirkpatrick A10], 8vo, Hogarth Press, 1927This 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
MESUE DAMASCENUS (JOANNES, 'The Younger')Domini Mesue Vita. Doctorum artis peonie cognomina. Canones universales divi Mesue de consolatione medicinarum, 2 parts in 1 vol., title printed in red and black within decorative woodcut border, woodcut initials, printer's woodcut device at end of Part 1, some mostly light browning and spotting (heavier in a few signatures), old vellum with yapp edges, titled in ink on spine, some soiling and ink spots, wanting ties, tears to paste-downs [Durling 3137; USTC 155945], small 8vo, Lyon, Antoine du Ry for Giacomo & Francesco Giunti, 1531Footnotes:Scarce edition of the collected writings of Mesue, physician in Baghdad and at the court of Harun al Rashid, with commentary and additions by other physicians. The Life of Mesue and Doctorum artis peonie cognomenta are by the famous Lyon physician and heretic Symphorien Champier (1471-1538), to whom Rabelais erected a satirical monument in Gargantua and Pantagruel.Provenance: Alessandro Borsi, bookseller; Antonio Jovii, purchase note on front free endpaper ('Questo libro lo com-pró Antonio Jovii da Alessandro Borsi Libraro 1755') and inscription at foot of title-page.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
WAUGH (EVELYN)Helena. A Novel, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'For F.B. Walker with deep gratitude for all his patient co operation from Evelyn Waugh' on the front free endpaper, printed on hand-made paper, half-title, light spotting on free endpapers, untrimmed in publisher's white buckram, gilt lettering on spine, a few light marks [Davis Checklist A25], large 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1950Footnotes:ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES SPECIALLY BOUND FOR PRESENTATION BY THE AUTHOR. 'The indifferent reception given to what Evelyn believed to be by far his own best book was the greatest disappointment of his whole literary life' (Christopher Sykes, Evelyn Waugh. A Biography, 1975).Provenance: F.B. Walker (1910-1993), presentation inscription from the author. Walker was the Production Manager at Waugh's publisher Chapman and Hall during the war, effectively running the department despite not being on the board. 'It was he who had seen Put out More Flags, Work Suspended, and Brideshead through the press, and he and Waugh has a comfortable professional relationship... and Walker was the only person left at Chapman & Hall for whom he felt the slightest sympathy' (Martin Stannard, Evelyn Waugh: No Abiding City 1939-1966, 1992). In September 1945, when Walker was overlooked for promotion to the Board in favour of John McDougall, Waugh resigned his directorship of the company in disgust. Subsequently he continued sending Walker warmly inscribed copies of his later books; by descent to the vendor.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
![[PLATH (SYLVIA)]The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES, and Frieda Hughes on](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/56a41ec0-56c2-423b-9705-b0ac00cf601f/4f81611c-a744-4de9-b80c-b0ac00d6af36/468x382.jpg)
[PLATH (SYLVIA)]The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES, and Frieda Hughes on the front free endpaper, light spotting to edges of text block, publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered on spine, pictorial dust-jacket (light soiling, slightly creased and frayed at corners and extremities of spine) [Tabor A4a.1], 8vo, Heinemann, [1963]Footnotes:A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES, OF THE FIRST EDITION OF SYLVIA PLATH'S ONLY NOVEL. According to the publishers, only 'a token quantity' of the book were printed (Tabor, Sylvia Plath. An Analytical Bibliography, 1987).Provenance: Ted Hughes, ownership inscription; Frieda Hughes, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath's daughter.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
![SENEX (JOHN)[Untitled Atlas], 34 engraved folding maps (21 on 2 sheets joined), all but Whiston's 'Scheme of the Solar Syste](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/56a41ec0-56c2-423b-9705-b0ac00cf601f/9ef72173-855a-4bce-ad44-b0ac00d6dbf4/468x382.jpg)
SENEX (JOHN)[Untitled Atlas], 34 engraved folding maps (21 on 2 sheets joined), all but Whiston's 'Scheme of the Solar System... Founded on Sr. Isaac Newton's Wonderful Discoveries' with contemporary hand-colouring (2 tears neatly repaired and some off-setting to Africa, one fold of 2 maps strengthened, 4 or 5 with light browning at central fold, a few small marginal creases or small tears, all numbered in ink on verso upper right, a contemporary 'Catalogue of the Maps as they are placed in this book' pasted inside upper cover, and letterpress advertisement for works by Senex (including further index to this volume) 'to be sold by his Widow Mary Senex' tipped-in on a stub, contemporary panelled calf, refurbished and re-backed to match, later red gilt morocco spine label [Shirley BL T.SEN-1f], tall narrow folio (686 x 265mm.), [Mary Senex, c.1748]Footnotes:Published shortly after the death of John Senex in 1740 by his widow Mary, a handsome atlas of his two-sheet maps including World, North and South America, Asia, and Africa.Provenance: Ralph Adderley, of Coton Hall, Staffs.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
PARACELSUSChirugia vulnerum, cum recentium, tum veterum, ocultorum & manifestorum ulcerum, &c., woodcut initials, index leaf at end, some minor soiling and toning, a couple of small wormholes at front and rear in lower corners, first 2 leaves of Preface torn with loss in blank corners, light damp-staining towards the end, contemporary limp vellum, early owner's name in ink on upper cover, titled on spine, stained [Adams P268 (dating the work to 1575); NLM/Durling 3485; Wellcome I, 4766], 8vo, Basel, Peter Perna, [1569]Footnotes:First Latin edition of Paracelsus' work on the 'weapon salve', a way to help painlessly heal wounds and ulcers at a distance, using sympathetic or magnetic powers.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
![[PLATH (SYLVIA)]The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas, FIRST EDITION, second impression, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES, and Frieda Hughes on](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/56a41ec0-56c2-423b-9705-b0ac00cf601f/d358b4ee-7721-46cd-96cb-b0ac00d6afc0/468x382.jpg)
[PLATH (SYLVIA)]The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas, FIRST EDITION, second impression, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES, and Frieda Hughes on the front free endpaper, light spotting to edges of text block, publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered on spine, pictorial dust-jacket (light soiling, a few old tea splashes on spine and lower cover) [Tabor A4a.1, 'A second printing...'], 8vo, Heinemann, [1963]Footnotes:ASSOCIATION COPY OF SYLVIA PLATH'S ONLY NOVEL, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES. According to the publishers, only 'a token quantity' of the first edition was printed, and so it was swiftly followed by this second impression. 'A second printing has the words 'Reprinted 1963' on the title verso' (Tabor, Sylvia Plath. An Analytical Bibliography, 1987).Provenance: Ted Hughes, ownership inscription; Frieda Hughes, Ted and Sylvia's daughter.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
BOYLE (ROBERT)The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, touching the Spagyrist's Principles commonly call'd Hypostatical, as they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists, FIRST EDITION, 2 titles printed in red and black (the second additional, bound after D1), R2 a cancel, with the final blank, woodcut ornaments, fore-margins softened with some light damp-stains throughout (with no loss to text, but minor loss of fore-margin at beginning and end, and some old stains touching text to some leaves), contemporary calf, worn and detached from text block [ESTC R37449; Dibner 39; Fulton 33; Norman 299; PMM 141], 8vo (168 x 108mm.), J. Cadwell, for J. Crooke, 1661Footnotes:RARE FIRST EDITION OF A MILESTONE IN THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY, AND BOYLE'S 'MOST FAMOUS BOOK' (ODNB), of which approximately only 35 copies are known.'The importance of Boyle's book must be sought in his combination of chemistry with physics. His corpuscular theory, and Newton's modification of it, gradually led chemists towards an atomic view of matter... His argument was designed to lead chemists away from the pure empiricism of his predecessors and to stress the theoretical, experimental and mechanistic elements of chemical science. The Sceptical Chymist is concerned with the relations between chemical substances rather than transmuting one metal into another or the manufacture of drugs. In this sense the book must be considered one of the most significant milestones on the way to the chemical revolution of Lavoisier in the eighteenth century' (PMM).Provenance: Private UK collection, given to the owner by his grandfather in the 1970s.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
CAVENDISH (WILLIAM, Duke of Newcastle)A General System of Horsemanship in All it's Branches, 2 vol. bound in 1, first edition in English, half-title, additional double-page engraved title in French (imprint Antwerp, Jacques van Meurs, 1658), 42 double-page engraved equestrian plates (plate 31 loose, perhaps inserted, small surface smudge on plate 11), 20 engraved anatomical, equipment and veterinary plates in part 2 (12 printed in bistre, 2 double-page), engraved vignettes and historiated initials, woodcut diagrams in the text, preface leaf (pages 3-4) misbound in vol. 2, some light browning, additional ink numeral on a few plates in second volume, nineteenth century calf, rubbed, some scuffs and ink stains to lower cover [Nissen ZBI 849; Podeschi 49], folio (460 x 280mm.), J. Brindley, 1743Footnotes:First edition in English of the Duke of Newcastle's important treatise on horsemanship. The second volume comprises 'The Perfect Knowledge of Horses', the first appearance in English of Gaspard de Saunier's Parfaite connoissance des chevaux.Provenance: D. Mahon, 1 Jan. 1826, ownership inscription on the half-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
DARWIN (CHARLES)On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, FIRST EDITION, with misprint 'speceies' on p.20, line 11, and with the whale-bear story in full on p.184, folding lithographed diagram by W. West, without half-title and publisher's catalogue at end [Freeman 373; Garrison-Morton 220; Norman 593; PMM 344], John Murray, 1859; Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries visited by H. M. S. Beagle, 2 charts (folding), occasional foxing, some offsetting [Freeman 11], Henry Colburn, 1839; On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects, one folding plate and 33 woodcuts in the text, faint spotting to title [Freeman 800], John Murray, 1862; The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, 2 vol., FIRST ISSUE, 43 illustrations, with errata, light foxing [Freeman 877], John Murray, 1868; The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, 2 vol., wood-engraved illustrations, damp-staining to lower margin of title and first few leaves of volume 1, light foxing [Freeman 938], John Murray, 1871; The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, 7 heliotype plates (3 folding), illustrations in the text, upper margin a little shaved, occasional light spotting [Freeman 1142], John Murray, 1872; The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom, light spotting to title, lacks errata slip [Freeman 1249], John Murray, 1876; The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species, illustrations and tables in the text, light spotting and toning mostly to title [Freeman 1277], John Murray, 1877; The Power of Movement in Plants, illustrations in the text, light toning [Freeman 1325], John Murray, 1880, FIRST EDITIONS, without half-titles and advertisements, uniformly bound in half calf over marbled boards, gilt lettering and tooling within raised bands to spine, 8vo (11)Footnotes:A FINELY BOUND SET OF DARWIN FIRST EDITIONS, INCLUDING THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, 'THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE WORK IN SCIENCE' (Dibner, Heralds of Science).This set of first editions was previously owned by Stephen George Holland, founder of cloth merchants Holland and Sherry and heir to Holland and Sons, the renowned cabinet-makers of Victorian England. Holland not only owned an extensive art collection - including numerous artworks by Turner, Gainsborough, Landseer and Constable – but was also an avid bibliophile and his bookplate is found on many books on the market today including works by Dickens, Shelley and Carroll. Provenance: Stephen George Holland (1817-1908), cloth merchant and art collector, bookplate; Quentin Keynes (1921-2003); acquired from him by the family of the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ACKERMANN (RUDOLPH)The Microcosm of London, 3 vol., wood-engraved pictorial titles, engraved dedication leaves with vignettes, 104 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Rowlandson and Pugin (some watermarked 'J. Whatman 1831'), light off-setting onto text but clean, contemporary half morocco, spines titled in gilt, joints rubbed [Abbey Scenery 212; Tooley 7], 4to (345 x 285mm.), R. Ackermann, [1808-1810]Footnotes:'One of the great colour-plate books... [which] should form the corner stone of any collection of books on this subject' (Tooley), the plates in this copy unusually clean.Provenance: William Orme Foster (1814-1899), Apley Park bookplate. Foster, an iron master and Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire from 1857-1868, purchased the Apley Park estate near Bridgnorth in 1868; by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DICKENS (CHARLES)Bleak House, FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 19/20 PARTS, additional etched title and 39 plates by H.K. Browne ('Phiz'), with 'The Village Pastor' booklet in part 15 and most of advertisements and slips called for by Hatton & Cleaver, plates with some oxidisation, mostly at edges, publisher's blue pictorial wrappers after 'Phiz', slight staining to cover of Part 1, a few edges slightly frayed or creased, tears to joints of first and last parts, preserved in light blue cloth solander box with gilt-lettered spine [Eckel pp.79-81; Gimbel A130; Hatton & Cleaver pp.275-304], 8vo, Bradbury & Evans, March 1852-September 1853Footnotes:VERY GOOD UNRESTORED SET OF 'BLEAK HOUSE' IN THE ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS.In this set the majority of the advertisements are present, with exception of those for W. Mott and Norton's Camomile Pills (Part 1), Waterlow & Sons (Part 2), Partidge & Cozens (Part 15), and Grace Aguilar's Works (Part 16). The missing slips comprise: 'Notice of Removal' (Part 2), 'Crochet Cotton' (Parts 4-8, 10, 14), 'Household Words' (Parts 11, 12, 15, 18), 'Handley Cross' (Part 13), 'Largest Newspaper' (Part 17), 'Alison's History' (Part 18), and 'The Newcomes' (Parts 19/20).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
FLEMING (IAN)Diamonds Are Forever, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, publisher's black diamond pattern cloth with small silver motif on upper cover, spine lettered in silver, slightly bumped at head of spine, small rust spot at foot of rear endpapers, in a PROOF DUST-JACKET, priced 12s. 6d., faint fox marks and light soiling to lower panel but generally fine [Gilbert A4a 1.1], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, 1956Footnotes:First edition of the book that brought fame to its dust-jacket designer Pat Marriott, in a fine proof jacket, from her estate. The present jacket differs only from the published version described by Gilbert in that the corners have not been clipped.Pat Marriott (Patricia Marriott, 1920-2002) is best known as the designer of the dust-jackets for the first editions of Diamonds Are Forever, Dr No and the 'playing card' edition of Casino Royale (see earlier sales in these rooms). Marriott had previously been known as an illustrator of children's books, and in 1954 married Fleming's literary advisor and a director at Cape, Michael Howard, who drew the author's attention to her work.'Marriott was already well known as a book illustrator, and... she had shown a clear awareness of how the illustration should complement the words... This is true of Diamonds Are Forever, where she draws a woman's partially obscured face, chin down, with a diamond hanging over her cleavage but without showing the cleavage itself, and yet in its simplicity, and remembering this is mid-fifties Britain, absolutely suggestive of what can be found in the pages within. Just look at the curl of hair lying on her shoulder, and the hint of a smile on her lips' (Graham Thomas, 'Pat Marriott - Bond illustrator', on Mid-Century Bond website, 2019).Provenance: Pat Marriott; by descent until purchased by the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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MAGNA CARTA, PRINTED ON VELLUMBy Permission of [...the named...] Trustees of the Cottonian Library. This Plate being a Correct Copy of King John's Great Charter... Engraved Facsimile of the 1215 Magna Carta, ENGRAVED BY JOHN PINE AND PRINTED ON VELLUM, engraved central panel of text surrounded by a series of 25 hand-coloured coats-of-arms of the Barons, hand-coloured representation of the remains of King John's Great Seal, all panels surrounded by hand-coloured oak leaf and acorn borders, age soiling, light damp-stain at lower margin (more visible on blank verso) with several old creases, 2 very small holes (one in border of a heraldic device, one in blank lower margin), platemark 700 x 485mm., overall sheet 770 x 570mm., Sold by J. Pine, engraver against Little Britain in Aldersgate Street, and by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, [1733]Footnotes:PRINTED ON VELLUM, THE FIRST PRINTING OF THE ORIGINAL TEXT OF MAGNA CARTA, King John's Great Charter of 1215, the most celebrated legal document in the English-speaking world.This attractive engraving was taken from one of the two original copies owned by Sir Robert Cotton, now in the British Museum. John Pine (1690-1756) was a publisher, print- and map-seller, as well as Bluemantle Pursuivant at the College of Arms, and Engraver to the King's signet and Stamp Office. It is thought that one of the motivations for publishing this facsimile in the present form was the fire on 23 October 1731 in which one of the two Cottonian originals was damaged.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
EINSTEIN (ALBERT)Relativity. The Special & The General Theory, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, translated by Robert W. Lawson, frontispiece portrait, illustrations in the text, 8pp. of advertisements at end, light pencil markings in the margins, publisher's red cloth, lettered in blind on upper cover, in black on spine (slightly dulled), publisher's orange dust-jacket (later issue, '5/- net' on spine but advertising the 'eighth edition' of 1924 on front flap), 8vo, Methuen, [1920]Footnotes:The first English edition of Einstein's pioneering work expounding his 'theory of relativity'.Provenance: 'E.K.M. Court from ?C.H. 23.8.[19]20', ownership inscription inside upper 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
HUGHES (TED)Howls & Whispers... Etchings by Leonard Baskin, NUMBER 48 OF 110 COPIES, SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR, printed in red and black on hand-made paper, 11 etched plates signed and dated by Baskin, all printed in colours, tissue guards, publisher's cloth-backed patterned boards, red morocco gilt spine label, cased in original solander box (a few light smudges on upper cover), 4to, The Gehenna Press, 1998Footnotes:Howls and Whispers was the last book published in Hughes' life-time, and the final collaboration with Leonard Baskin, his lifelong friend. After the publication and universal success of Birthday Letters Hughes still 'could not let Sylvia go... [Howls and Whispers] would be an opportunity to release, but avoid excessive public examination, some of the most intimate poems that he had stepped back from including in Birthday Letters' (Jonathan Bate, Ted Hughes, 2015, p.509).Provenance: Frieda Hughes, the author's daughter, signed on the title-page.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
ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, Bloomsbury, 1997, reverse of title-page with the number sequence from 10 to 1, the author's name given as 'Joanne Rowling' and no space between 'Taylor' and '1997', p.53 with the duplication of '1 wand' on the equipment list, lower cover with misspelling 'philospher's' and 'Wizardry, and Witchcraft' reversed, with the usual light browning at the page edges, fine in publisher's pictorial boards, spine very slightly faded and bumped at ends [Errington A1(a)], 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1997Footnotes:A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST HARDBACK PRINTING OF THE FIRST HARRY POTTER NOVEL, GIVEN BY CHRISTOPHER LITTLE TO THE AUTHOR WHO HAD HELPED LAUNCH HIS CAREER AS A LITERARY AGENT - A TACIT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF A FRIENDSHIP WHICH ULTIMATELY LED TO LITTLE'S DISCOVERY OF J.K. ROWLING. Provenance: Presented by Christopher Little to the author Philip Nicholson (1940-2005), better known as A.J. Quinnell; sold on behalf of Nicholson's last wife, Elsebeth Egholm Nicholson, Danish journalist and author of crime fiction novels, including the Dicte stories on which the television series was based.After working all over the world for many years, the Yorkshire-born Christopher Little had come to London in 1974. Finding the employment world very challenging, he decided to open his own recruitment agency. According to a newspaper article in 2007, Little's 'switch to the literary world happened by accident in 1979. A schoolfriend and fellow Hong Kong trader, Philip Nicholson, had written a thriller and was seeking representation. Little agreed to take him on and the book, Man on Fire, was published under the pseudonym AJ Quinnell. It went on to sell 7.5 million copies worldwide and become a Hollywood film...' (David Smith, The Guardian, 15 July 2007).The Christopher Little Literary Agency gradually grew alongside the recruitment business, and had some twenty authors on its books in 1992 when the recruitment arm was sold. 'In his only press interview, in 2003, Little recalled: 'The literary agency was really a hobby which started through an accident. I was helping an old friend in his writing career. I had been running as a full-time business for about six years when Harry Potter arrived'' (David Smith, op cit).And so it was that in 1995 Little received in the post three chapters of a manuscript from an unknown author named Joanne Rowling, who had apparently chosen the agency at random because the name sounded like a character in a children's story. And the rest, as we know, is publishing history.Meanwhile Little and Nicholson remained firm friends until the latter's death in 2005, and Little would remain close friends with Elsebeth Egholm until his own death in 2021.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
PLATH (SYLVIA)The Colossus. Poems, FIRST EDITION, light spotting, ink correction to one word in the poem 'Sculptor', publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered on spine, dust-jacket (light spotting, mostly to spine and lower cover, slightly frayed at head of spine) [Tabor A2a], 8vo, William Heinemann, 1960Footnotes:Rare first edition of Plath's first major work.Provenance: Frieda Hughes, Sylvia's daughter, ownership inscription. Frieda was born in April, some seven months prior to the publication of Colossus.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
LATROBE (CHRISTIAN IGNATIUS)Journal of a Visit to South Africa, in 1815, and 1816. With some account of the missionary settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope, FIRST EDITION, 12 hand-coloured aquatint plates after sketches by the author himself and John Melville, Government Surveyor of the Cape, 4 lithographed plates, folding engraved map (hand-coloured in outline), advertisement at end, light spotting to text and off-setting onto title, contemporary calf gilt, neatly rebacked to match with red and brown gilt morocco spine labels [Abbey Travel 325; Mendelssohn I, p.866; Prideaux, p.240; Tooley 292], 4to, L.B. Seeley, 1818Footnotes:Latrobe was secretary to the Moravian Brethren's Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel to the Heathen from 1787 until 1834, during which time he undertook a successful expedition in 1815–16 to the mission at the Cape of Good Hope, during which he travelled extensively throughout the country.Provenance: William Orme Foster (1814-1899), Apley Park bookplate. Foster, an iron master and Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire from 1857-1868, purchased the Apley Park estate near Bridgnorth in 1868; by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ARISTOTLE'S MASTER-PIECEAristoteles Master-piece, or, The Secrets of Generation displayed in all the parts thereof., Containing, 1. The Signes of Barrenness. 2. The Way of Getting a Boy or Girl. 3. Of the Likeness of Children to Parents....7. The Prejudice of unequal Matches. 8. The Discovery of Insufficiency... 11. How a Midwife ought to be Qualified... 14. The Fabrick of the Womb. 15. The Use and Action of the Genitals. 16. Signs of Conception, and whether of a Male or Female. 17... 18. Instructions for Women with Child... to which is added a Word of Advice to both Sexes in the Act of Copulation: and the Pictures of several Monsterous Births drawn to the Life, FIRST EDITION, woodcut frontispiece of 'a Maid all Hairy, and an Infant that was black by the Imagination of their Parents', with blank H12, 6 woodcuts of monstrous births (including repeat of frontispiece) at end, blank free endpapers, final gathering frayed with short tears at fore-edge with minor losses just touching image and 1 letter of I6, and catch-word of I4, contemporary sheep, rubbed with small loss at upper margin of lower cover [ESTC R504793; Wing A3697fA], 12mo, J. How, and are to be sold next door to the Anchor Tavern in Sweethings-rents in Cornhil, 1684Footnotes:SCARCE COMPLETE COPY OF 'THE DIRTY BOOK OF THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD'.'Aristotle's Masterpiece was the most popular book about women's bodies, sex, pregnancy, and childbirth in Britain and America from its first appearance in 1684 up to at least the 1870s. More than 250 editions are known, but all are very rare... It was sold furtively by country peddlers and in general stores and taverns; regular booksellers seldom advertised it, though they usually had it under the counter' (The Library Company of Philadelphia, 'Treasures', online catalogue). The work 'was still on sale, contents largely unaltered, in Soho sex shops in the 1930s' (Books and Babies, Cambridge Library, 2011) and James Joyce's protagonist Leopold Bloom peruses an edition of the book in Ulysses. The work was in fact assembled from Levinus Lemnius's The Secret Miracles of Nature (1564) and Jakob Rüff's midwifery manual De conceptu et generatione hominis (1554), and the attribution to Aristotle is of course totally spurious and probably a vain attempt to give the work some measure of respectability.This is the earliest publication date for the Master-piece, ESTC listing three variant settings of 1684, all printed by J. How, with no priority having been established. ESTC records only the incomplete British Library copy (which lacks final gathering I1-6) of our setting, which has line 11 of title ending 'both', line 18 of title ends 'Ge-', and the first line of the imprint ending 'sold', the first line of imprint ends 'sold', signature B5 is under the 'nt Bl' of 'effluent Blood' and on p.190 the fifth line from bottom begins with a capital 'Q'.Provenance: '?J. Riam... [scuffed] his book 1740 February the 21', light ink ownership inscription on the verso of the title-page.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
ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, UNCORRECTED PROOF OF THE FIRST EDITION, a few light spots to half-title, title and edges of book block, publisher's blue and white wrappers, a few very small spots but generally bright [Errington AA2(a)], 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1998]Footnotes:UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY OF THE SECOND HARRY POTTER NOVEL. Errington notes that 'an unconfirmed print-run of 300 copies is generally accepted... Bloomsbury is unable to provide accurate figures and has merely suggested between 200 and 300 copies'.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
TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)The Hobbit or There and Back Again, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, frontispiece and 9 plates or illustrations (all but one full-page), map endpapers (printed in red and black) by the author, a few corners turned, paper shelf mark and a few remants of label inside upper cover, ink numeral ('221') on front free endpaper, publisher's green cloth, lettered and decorated in dark blue, top edge light green, worn at extremities of spine and corners, light spotting, upper hinge starting [Hammond A3(a)], 8vo, George Allen & Unwin, [1937]Footnotes:ONE OF ONLY 1500 COPIES OF THE VERY FIRST EDITION OF THE HOBBIT, published on the 21 September 1937. A second issue appeared in December (see following lot).Provenance: Casterton School, Kirby, stamp on half-title, bookplate 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
ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, UNCORRECTED PROOF OF THE FIRST EDITION, with 'J.A. Rowling' on the title-page and number sequence 10 to 1 on verso, foxing to half-title, occasional single spots elsewhere, publisher's plain white and yellow wrappers, some scattered light spotting [Errington AA1(a)], 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1997]Footnotes:HARRY POTTER'S VERY FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT. Of this proof 'an unconfirmed print-run of 200 copies is generally accepted' which 'is also the figure noted by Bloomsbury' (Errington). The author's name is misprinted 'J.A. Rowling' on the title-page.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
FERRI (ALFONSO)De ligni sancti multiplici medicina et vini exhibitione, FIRST EDITION, title with large woodcut arms of Pope Paul III, lower margins trimmed occasionally shaving catchwords (M3v-M4v with catchword cropped), light damp-stain to A2, nineteenth[?] century limp boards [USTC 829334], 4to, Rome, Antonio Blado, 1537Footnotes:VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF FERRI'S TREATISE ON THE TEATMENT OF SYPHILIS USING GUAIACUM WOOD, AND THE HEALING PROPERTIES OF WINE. Only copies of the second or later editions have been traced in post-War auction records.The Neapolitan doctor-surgeon Alfonso Ferri was called to Rome in 1535 to take care of Pope Paul III, the dedicatee of this work, and to teach at the university. In this popular treatise Ferri refers to the discovery of America as insulis aetate nostra repertis and discusses the exportation from Jamaica and Haiti of Guaiacum, the 'holy' wood which was imported from America during the early sixteenth-century and whose resin was supposedly a cure for venereal disease. The author also adds a fourth chapter on the healing properties of wine and its use together with the wood.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
HAMILTON (SIR WILLIAM)Three autograph letters signed ('Wm. Hamilton') to Perkin Magra, HM Consul General at Tunis; the first long detailed letter drawing his attention to the Venetian news which '...Lord Nelson is so good as to forward to you...', speaking at length on the 'Barbary Cruizers' and repeating General Acton's response to his own letter regarding the '...misery of His Sicilian Majesty's subjects in captivity at Tunis...' and attempts to prevent sailors abandoning their vessels at the '...suspicion of a Turk...', referring to Lord Nelson ('...who continues to live with us...') and his letter to him, feeling the Sicilian Royal Family is no longer in immediate danger and may soon return to Naples ('...Ld Nelson will have such a Maritime force as will be able to distress the new Neapolitan Republic greatly...'), expressing a wish to return to England ('...as my health suffers and I am at my time of life driven from a comfortable house...'), speaking of his 'great misfortune' ('...eight cases of the best of my vases cast away in the Colossus and I fear lost irrecoverably – they contained the cream of my collection & you know how extraordinary & complete that collection was. I have here on board a Transport my best pictures & some other cases of vases but the French have got the furniture of my houses...'), integral address panel, remains of red wax seal; another expressing his wish to leave for home but for the fact that '...Lord Nelson on whom the whole safety of their Sicilian Majesties and these Kingdoms depend... is ignorant both of the French & Italian languages & of the customs of these countries...', giving news of military activities, hoping Magra can recover a vessel taken by the Tunisians, sending Lady Hamilton's assurance of the safety of his family left in Sicily; the next asking him to show Nelson's letter personally to the Bey, giving further news of the fleet ('...it is a very critical moment to us in the Mediterranean...'), celebrations for the King's birthday ('...we have a table of 100 covers...'), on putting duty over 'private affairs', reassuring him his daughters and friends are well; an undated letter ('Thursday 2 o'clock') to an unknown recipient (possibly Magra) enclosing a despatch from Lord Keith; note in third person introducing Professor Aldini from Bologna (whose work on 'galvanism' influenced Mary Shelley when writing Frankenstein) to Dr Letsom, 16 pages, light dust-staining and creases, filing holes, seal tear to first letter, three folio (320 x 200mm.), the rest smaller, Palermo, 17 March to 4 June 1799, Piccadilly, 2 December 1802 (5)Footnotes:'ON WHOM THE WHOLE SAFETY OF THEIR SICILIAN MAJESTIES AND THESE KINGDOMS DEPEND': SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON ON NELSON AND THE WRECK OF THE COLOSSUS.These letters were written from Hamilton's exile in Sicily during a particularly stressful period when Nelson was attempting to bring the Barbary corsairs into the anti-French coalition. Using Magra the British consul at Tunis, Nelson hoped to establish good diplomatic relations with the Bey of Tunis. In a letter of 17 March, which Hamilton alludes to in our letter to Magra of the same date, he called the French 'the enemies of God and His Holy Prophet...' (John Sugden, Nelson: The Sword of Albion, 2012, pp.204-207). In our letter of 14 April 1799, Hamilton urges Magra to do all he can to '...recover the vessel with corn for Malta that was taken by the Tunisians...', referring to Nelson's request to Magra of the same date (this letter sold in these rooms, 18 June 2014, lot 147). '...These diplomatic successes, almost unknown to Nelson biographers, made a significant difference to Malta and Italy... Relations between Britain and Tunis remained unsteady... Magra felt so unsafe that he dissuaded his family from coming out to join him in Tunis' (Sugden, pp.207-208). Amongst the diplomatic news and negotiations, a more personal side of Hamilton is revealed in these letters. He expresses his great sorrow at the loss of his collection of antiquities ('the cream of my collection'), lost when HMS Colossus was wrecked off the Scilly Isles in December 1798. It was, in fact, his second collection of vases, the first having been sold to the British Museum. Fortunately Tischbein had recorded the collection for posterity and two thirds of the collection were salvaged from the wreck. Not only that, on his return to England, Hamilton discovered that many of the cases that contained his best pieces had been left off the Colossus by mistake and he was able to sell the remainder of his vast collection to Thomas Hope for £4,000 in 1801. He also reports here that, whilst his best vases were lost on the wreck, the rest were with paintings on a British transport in the harbour at Palermo. The paintings reached England safely and were sold by Christie's in March and April 1801.Having endured that disappointment, and after some 35 years as British Ambassador to the court of the King of Naples and Sicily, Hamilton admits to feeling weary and wishes to return to England. He demonstrates some sympathy with Magra, also on foreign soil, who has left his family in Sicily for safety. Duty, however, takes precedent over his 'private affairs' and he feels bound to remain in Sicily for the time being where Nelson, he says, needs his support, not least to navigate the language and customs of the country. Provenance: Lady Maria Theresa Lewis (née Villiers) (1803-1865); her son Sir Thomas Villiers Lister (1832-1902); thence by descent.Lady Lewis' collection was initially formed through the amalgamation of two significant collections of letters: royal and political correspondence from that of her mother the Hon. Theresa Villiers (1775-1856), and that of her close friend, the writer Mary Berry (1763–1852). Mary Berry's bequest included correspondence from Horace Walpole, most notably his correspondence with Thomas Chatterton and David Hume, hitherto thought lost, and three poems dedicated to her. To this inheritance Lady Lewis subsequently added her own correspondence and collection of autographs gathered through her wide circle of social, political and literary connections entertained at her home, Kent House, St James's. Not seen outside the family until now, the collection is a remarkable survival and tells the story of a family at the heart of English society. An intricate web of connections and alliances is revealed, bringing together the worlds of royalty and politics, the arts and literature. It is also a story of influential women both as collectors and as correspondents: Theresa Villiers as keeper of royal secrets, Mary Berry and her circle of intellectuals, and, importantly, Lady Lewis as collector and salonnière bringing them all together in one extraordinary collection.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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[PLATH (SYLVIA)]The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, publisher's light grey wrappers, lettered '(Not for Sale) Uncorrected Proof Copy' and 'Publication Date: 14th January, 1963. Price: 18s.Od.' on the upper cover, foxing (heavier on spine), short tears to head and foot of upper joint, 8vo, Heinemann, 1962Footnotes:'AND HOW ARE YOU FEELING THIS MORNING, MISS LUCAS?' Uncorrected proof of Sylvia Plath's only novel, issued under the pseudonym of Victoria Lucas.There are upwards of seventy textual variations between this uncorrected proof (1962), and the final published first edition released by Heinemann in 1963. 'These textual differences are the result of edits made either by Plath herself when she reviewed the proof or by the editors as they prepared the final typesetting. This shows that Plath read her proofs of The Bell Jar very carefully and extends our understanding of her involvement in the creative process beyond the composition of the work itself' (Peter K. Steinberg, Textual Variations in The Bell Jar Publications, online resource University of Indiana). For instance in this proof copy on two pages (pp.187/188) the name of the novel's heroine Esther Greenwood remains as 'Miss Lucas', the pseudonym under which Plath published the novel, and on p.53 'Plato' was altered to 'Socrates'. This copy has the eventual date of publication stamped on upper 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
POWNALL (THOMAS)A Topographical Description of Such Parts of North America as are Contained in the (Annexed) Map of the Middle British Colonies in North America, FIRST EDITION, large folding hand-coloured engraved map of the 'Middle British Colonies in North America. First Published by Mr. Lewis Evans, and since corrected and improved, as also extended, with the addition of New England, and bordering parts of Canada; from actual surveys ... by T. Pownall... March 25th 1776' on 2 sheets joined (510 x 845mm.), a few tears at blank gutter margin, light stain in lower margin of title-page, edges untrimmed with some corners rolled, contemporary blue wrappers, lacks spine, upper cover creased at edges with later paper label [ESTC T97733; Howes P543; Sabin 64835], folio (440 x 275mm.), J. Almon, 1776Footnotes:FIRST EDITION OF POWNALL'S IMPORTANT MAP OF AMERICA, complete with the original descriptive text. The map makes revisions to Lewis Evans's map and analysis of 1755, providing new details including New England and bordering parts of Canada, and the addition of the route of Christopher Gist's 1750-1751 trek through Kentucky, West Virginia, and Ohio. As well as Gist's journey, those of explorations by Captain Harry Gordon (1766), Captain Anthony Von Schaik (1756), Captain Humphrey Hobbs (1756), and Lewis Evans (1743) are described in the text.Provenance: Sold on behalf of a descendant of Thomas Pownall.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 9ct gold curblink bracelet, containing a good selection of principally 9ct gold charms to include traffic light, crooked house, unicorn, sporting gun, corner house, church, Victorian full sovereign dated 1892 etc, with heart shaped padlock clasp and safety chain, gross weight 92.2gBracelet length 18.5cm.Links are solid and sound.
A vintage lady's Rolex Precision 9ct gold cased bracelet watch, having a signed silvered dial with baton markers, manual wind movement, case dia.15mm, on integral meshlink bracelet with Rolex hinged deployment clasp, 21.2g, with Rolex fitted green leather box and outer card boxWatch winds, runs and ticks.Bracelet and clasp good.Light age wear, otherwise no apparent faults.
ALBINUS, B.S. Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani. Leyden, J. & H. Verbeek, 1747/1753. 2 vols. (48) lvs., engr. title-vign., 3 engr. text-lvs. (title-p., dedication and introduction) and 117 plates by J. Wandelaar (incl. 46 key leaves). Lge-fol. 19th c. h. mor. binds. (Binds. rather worn, calf of spines partly gone, joints partly split, hinges strengthened, corners bumped/worn, w. stamps to ti-pp., annotations to 13 key leaves and to some of the plates of the Musculorum section, lower blank margin vol. 1 severely stained/in places moulded (but not affecting plates), some other smaller stains in places, some minor foxing in places, but a complete set). NOTE: Three plates with skeletons (each w. accomp. key leaf); 25 plates to the Musculorum section (9 plates w. accomp. key leaf); 34 plates to the Ossium humanorum section (each w. accomp. key leaf); 7 plates to Uteri mulieris gravidae; 1 plate "Tabula vasis chyliferi (...)" (w. the accomp. textleaf). - "Albinus's Tabulae selecti et musculorum, based on his concept of the "ideal man" (homo perfectus), is among the most artistically perfect of anatomical atlases. Albinus and his artist Jan Wandelaar used some ingenious methods to prepare the illustrations (...) with the aid of compass and ruler. In addition Wandelaar placed his skeletons and musclemen against lush ornamental backgrounds to give them the illusion of vitality, using contrasts of light and mass to produce a three-dimensional effect. The most famous plate in the atlas depicts a skeletal figure standing in front of an enormous grazing rhinoceros, sketched by Wandelaar from the first living specimen in Europe, which had arrived at the Amsterdam zoo in 1741." (Norman Library 29). - Wellcome II, p. 26; G-M 399 (first ed.); Choulant-Frank p. 276-283.
ASTRONOMY -- FERGUSON, J. Astronomy, explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles. 3rd ed. Lond., A. Millar, 1764. (3), 354, (5) pp. W. 18 engr. plates. Sm-4°. Later full cf., spine w. raised bands & red label, uncut. (Some yellowing, light waterstaining at the upper margins, some discrete repairs to the prints, former dealer's ticket on paste-down). NOTE: "Although containing no theoretical novelty, the manner and method of its expositions were entirely original. Astronomical phenomena were for the first time described in familiar language. The book formed Herschel's introduction to celestial science." (DNB VI, 1207ff.).
GUTHRIE, G.J. On gun-shot wounds of the extremities, requiring different operations of amputation, with their after treatment. London, Longman, 1815. xxxii, 384 pp. W. 4 engr. plates. Cont. vellum w. dec. gilt back & red mor. letterpiece. (Old owner's entry on ti., some light foxing, else a very fine copy). NOTE: G-M 2161: "Guthrie was the leading British military surgeon during the first half of the 19th century. He served in the Napoleonic Wars. His book is one of the most important on the subject." - Norman 957.
GYNAECOLOGY & OBSTETRICS -- SOEMMERRING, S.Th. Icones embryonum humanorum. Frankf., Varrentrapp & Wenner, 1799. (12) pp. (incl. ti.). W. ti.-vign., 2 full-p. engr. & small vignette at end. Lge-fol. Cont. hcl. w. marbled boards. (Library bookplates on paste-down, small neat stamps, light foxing). NOTE: Drawings by Christian Köck, whom Soemmerring trained specially for his anatomical work. G-M 473: "This book is one of the best illustrated of Soemmerring's works." - Heirs of Hippocrates 1132; Hirsch V, 329-30.
(WOLFF, C., comp.). Gynaeciorum, hoc est, de mulierum tum aliis, tum gravidarum, parientium & puerperarum affectibus & morbis. Basel, Th. Guarin, 1566. (20) lvs., 868 cols., (22) lvs. W. sev. woodcut illustr. in the text, printer's mark on title-p. & last p. Sm-4°. Mod. blind tooled cf. w. gilt dec. spine w. raised bands & red label. (Sides stained, name entry & stamp on title-p., one sentence in column 18 scratched out by an old hand, stamp on last p., some yellowing, light waterstaining at the back of the textblock, however a very good copy). NOTE: This copy is not bound with the simultaneously issued Greek text Moschionis Peri gynaikeion pathon, (…). - Heirs of Hippocrates 364, Waller 3897, Durling 2252; G-M 6011: "The first encyclopedia of gynaecology and obstetrics, originally conceived by Conrad Gesner, who collected material for the purpose."
COSTUME PLATES -- GREEVEN, H. & V. de VILLENEUVE. Collection des Costumes (…)/Verzameling der Kleederdragten in de Noordelijke Provincien van het Koningryk der Nederlanden. Amst., F. Buffa & Zoonen, 1828. (24) lvs. W. plain lithogr. ti.-p., plain lithogr. index leaf and 20 very fine lithogr. costume plates by Greeven & Villeneuve, all delicately cold. by hand. Fol. Fine 19th c. blind tooled cf. w. marbled paper sides, spine raised in compartments. (Bind. a bit chafed in places, some very light age-toning to plates, but an excellent copy). NOTE: Explanatory texts in French and English. The colouring is of exceptional fine quality, probably done in Buffa's workshop. All plates are signed by the artist, the lithographer and the printer, and have the Amsterdam publisher's address. - Landwehr, Col. Pl., 289; Atlas van Stolk 5901; Lipperheide 960; Colas 1311.
EMBLEM BOOKS -- LUYKEN, J. & C. Spiegel van het menselyk bedryf, vertoonende honderd verscheiden ambachten, konstig afgebeeld, en met godlyke spreuken en stichtelyke verzen verrykt. Amst., J. Roman, 1749. (8), 208, (3) pp. W. engr. front. & 100 half-p. emblematical engrs. Later hcf. (Light staining & foxing). NOTE: The very fine engravings show one hundred arts and crafts, as performed at the end of the seventeenth century. - Van Eeghen/v.d. Kellen 244; Klaversma/Hannema 1019; Landwehr, Emblem Bks., 538.
ROBIDÉ v.d. AA, C.P.E. Oud-Nederland, in de, uit vroegere dagen, overgeblevene burgen en kasteelen geschetst en afgebeeld. 1846. 2 vols. W. 72 lithogr. plates after J.F. Christ. Lge-8°. Fine cont. h. black mor. w. dec. gilt spines. (Partly a bit foxed/browned as usual, some light staining in places). -- H.M. WERNER. Geldersche kasteelen beschreven en afgebeeld. Historie - oudheidkunde - genealogie. (1906). 2 vols. W. num. plates. 4°. Or. dec. cl. -- Added: J.L. v. DALEN. De Groote Kerk (Onze Lieve Vrouwenkerk) te Dordrecht. 1927. W. 78 illustr., portr. of the author and 1 fold. plan. Fol. Or. vellum bind., spine and front side lettered in gilt and w. cold. coat of arms of the city, uncut. One of 150 numb. de luxe copies on thick wove paper, signed by the author. -- (5).
(WAGENAAR, J.). Vaderlandsche historie, vervattende de geschiedenissen der nu Ver. Nederlanden, inzonderheid die van Holland. 2e dr. Amst., I. Tirion, 1770. 21 vols., incl. index. W. engr. front., 6 fold. maps, 49 fold. engr. (=8 extra), 160 engr. portr. (= 66 extra). Cont. hcf. w. gilt dec. spines raised in compartments w. red & green labels. (Some (mostly) light dam. to spine-ends, some boards rubbed, some vols. w. light waterstaining & a few stains, page-edges yellowed as usual, otherwise quite clean & tight). NOTE: A very good set w. many extra portraits & plates. Haitsma Mulier/v.d. Lem, 507f.
SPAIN -- RYDER, A. Alfonso the Magnanimous, King of Aragon, Naples, and Sicily 1396-1458. 1990. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- Id. The kingdom of Naples under Alfonso the Magnanimous. The making of a modern state. 1976. Ocl. (A few light marg. pencil stripes). -- J. ISRAEL. The Dutch Republic and the Hispanic World, 1606-1661. 1982. Ocl. (A few marg. pencil annot./underl. at the beginning). -- L. HANKE. History of Latin American civilization. (1969). 2 vols. Ocl. -- And 6 o. (11).
SOUTH AMERICA -- BRAZIL -- "IM PORTO DOS MIRANHAS, AMRIO JAPURÁ" - "ALDEA DER COROADOS" - "AUSGRABUNG UND ZUBEREITUNG der Schildkröteneier, am Amazonenstrome" - "VÖGEL-TEICH am Rio de S. Francisco" - (N.pl., n.pr., n.d. (1830's?). 4 captioned plain lithogr. views, 3 after D. v. Martius. c. 330 x 440 mm (image size). (Some light foxing along borders, but images clean). NOTE: In very good condition, margins ample. Rare plates from 'Atlas zur Reise in Brasilien' by J.B. v. Spix and K.F.Ph. v. Martius. - Borba de Moraes 830.
SOUTH AMERICA -- BRAZIL -- "RIO DE IANEIRO" - "VILLA DE CAXOEIRA" - "MANDIOCCA" - "VÖGEL-TEICH am Rio de S. Francisco" - (N.pl., n.pr., n.d. (1830's?). 4 captioned plain lithogr. views, of which 3 by F.W. v. Couven and 1 by C. Heinzmann, 2 after Th. Ender and 1 after D. v. Martius. 366 x 486 mm (image size). (Some very light foxing along borders). NOTE: In very good condition, margins ample. Rare plates from 'Atlas zur Reise in Brasilien' by J.B. v. Spix and K.F.Ph. v. Martius. - Borba de Moraes 830.
ZILVERDISTEL -- LEOPOLD, J.H. Cheops. (The Hague), 1916. 12, (2) pp., blank. 4°. Or. limp vellum w. gilt thistle on front side and gilt lettering on spine. (First free endpaper w. a few faint brown humidity stains, some very light foxing (as usual) in places, but a very good copy in a clean binding). (Vereeniging der Vijftig, 1). NOTE: Printed by J.F. van Royen in the type designed specially for the first Dutch private press De Zilverdistel by S.H. de Roos, the Zilvertype. Printed in a limited edition of 70 copies of which 50 were for sale; this is number 15/50. Zilverdistel 13.
BATIK BINDING -- EEDEN, F. v. De kleine Johannes. 6e dr. 's-Grav., 1900. In anonymous binding, of which the back cover and the spine and part of the front cover are made of vellum, decorated w. light brown ornamentation executed in typical art nouveau batik technique. The larger part of the front side is made of cloth and seems to have been decorated w. another technique. Some gilt dots and lines are added in places. On the back cover a probable date can be discovered '02' (1902), as well as 'Ex libris HM' (?).
LEONARDUS DE UTINO (c. 1400-1470). Sermones quadragesimales de legibus dicti. Vicenza, Stephan Koblinger, 24 November 1479. 404 lvs. (of which 16 in manuscript). Printed in 2 columns, 52 lines. Initials in red. Nicely rubricated in red. Fol. (290 x 200 mm). Old (contemporary?) monastic, austere calf binding over wooden brds. w. raised bands, brass protective strip on both hinges, 4 wooden bosses on both sides, both clasps present but loosely inserted. (16 lvs. replaced in manuscript, in very neat and old (monk's?) hand (12 of them rubricated in red and decorated with blue and red initials), 1st leaf pasted in (inner margin a bit dam.), some tiny marg. holes in last 2 lvs., some light marg. staining in a few places, else a clean copy). NOTE: Collation: a-s10 t8 v-y10 1-2(8) 3-19(10) (a1r blank, a1v table, a2r text, 19/10r dedicatory epistle from Matthaeus Pigafetta to Nicolaus Rubeus, colophon, 19/10v blank). The second of four books printed at Vicenza by the prototypographer of Vienna. This edition of the Udine Dominican Leonardo's popular sermons is a page-for-page reprint of the first edition, printed in 1473 at Venice by Franciscus Renner and Nicolaus de Frankfordia. Koblinger probably trained in Renner's office, since the material and texts of all three of Koblinger's signed Vicenza editions show connections with Renner, including the unusual method of signing using the alphabet (a-y) followed by arabic numerals. - Goff L-148; GW 17926. - From the library of the Minor Friars in Limburg (Maastricht), in old ms. on first leaf and on ti-p. Bookplate of Vloemans (1925) on paste down.
A LARGE CHINESE RED-GROUND EMBROIDERED SILK 'DRAGON' PANEL QING DYNASTYWorked in couched gold threads with three ferocious five-clawed dragons coiled around flaming pearls amidst colourful clouds and flames emerging from a border of turbulent waves, the panel is set on a light orange silk backing, 180cm x 270cm. 清 紅地趕珠龍紋繡品
Paire d'importants et grands candélabres de style Louis XVI d'époque Napoléon III en bronze ciselé et doré à dix lumières, milieu XIXe siècleA pair of monumental Napoleon III ormolu ten-light candelabra in the Louis XVI style, mid-19th centuryEach depicting draped dancing muses holding aloft the foliate and flowering branches terminating in rose and lily-shaped nozzles and drip-pans, on reeded columnar bases hung with berried swags, above beaded and foliate moulding, on a square plinth with canted angles, 45cm diam., 135cm high, (17 1/2in diam., 53in high)Footnotes:Provenance: Private Italian collectionThe model of these candelabra is based on two plaster casts by Etienne Maurice Falconet (1716-1791), known from a drawing by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin executed in the margin of a booklet of the Salon of 1761. Similarly, the draped nymphs or muses can be as well associated to a model by Louis Simon Boizot (1743-1809) who was director of sculpture at Sèvres in 1774 (E. Bourgeois and G. Lechevallier-Chevignard, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, Recueil des modèles de la Manufacture de Sèvres au XVIIIe Siècle, Vol.I, p.23, no.311), see F.J.B. Watson, Wallace Collection Catalogues, Furniture, London, 1956, p.89, F136-7.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: WW Lot is located in the Bonhams Warehouse and will only be available for collection from this location.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Paire d'appliques d'époque Louis XV en bronze ciselé et doré à trois bras de lumière, milieu du XVIIIe siècleA pair of Louis XV ormolu three-light wall-lights, mid-18th centuryEach with foliate and pierced rocaille backplate terminating in acorn and oak foliate spray, issuing the scrolling acanthus branches terminating in conforming drip-pans and foliate nozzles, 38cm wide, 58cm high (14 1/2in wide, 22 1/2in high) Footnotes:Provenance:The Rosa Alba Collection.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Commode d'époque Louis XV en marqueterie de bois de violette, palissandre, bois satiné, bois teinté vert, ornementation de bronze ciselé et doré, milieu du XVIIIe siècleA Louis XV ormolu-mounted kingwood, rosewood, bois satiné, green-stained wood and marquetry bombé commode, mid-18th centuryThe shaped moulded white-veined light brown marble top above two drawers inlaid sans traverse with extensive floral and foliate sprays, the lower drawer centred with a large floral basket above the rocaille pierced apron mount, with conforming handles and pierced angle chutes, the sides with a large ribbon-tied rose bouquet within a shaped cartouche and trellis pattern corners, on cabriole legs terminating by upswept foliate sabots, apparently unstamped, with trade label inscribed 'G.Röbbig No.A9 Munchen', 129cm wide x 62cm deep x 88.5cm high, (50 1/2in wide x 24in deep x 34 1/2in high)Footnotes:Provenance : With Röbbig, Munich;The Rosa Alba CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: WW Lot is located in the Bonhams Warehouse and will only be available for collection from this location.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Suite de six fauteuils à la reine d'époque Louis XV de Nogaret à Lyon, en noyer sculpté, milieu du XVIIIe siècleA suite of six Louis XV carved walnut fauteuils à la reine by Nogaret à Lyon, mid-18th centuryEach with shaped and moulded rectangular back, the toprail carved with a floral spray, outscrolling armrests and seat-rail carved conformingly with floral motifs and C-scrolls, resting on cabriole legs headed by further floral spray, covered in light blue silk damask, the back seat rails stamped 'NOGARET A LYON', with small oval label numbered and inscribed 'ROBBIG', each seat rail numbered in black ink 1 to 6, some restorations to legs, 72cm wide x 70cm deep x 97cm high, (28in wide x 27 1/2in deep x 38in high)Footnotes:Provenance: Most probably sold Drouot, Paris, 4 December 1986;With Röbbig, Munich;The Rosa Alba CollectionLiterature:P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1989, p.607, illustrated. Nogaret à Lyon, maître menuisier in 1745 in Lyon.Although born in Paris, Pierre Nogaret served his apprenticeship and his whole career as a menuisier in Lyon, and is well known for the sinuous form and distinctive floral clusters of the carved frames of his seat furniture. Nogaret regularly stamped his furniture on the reverse of the back. Examples of Nogaret's work can be found in the Musée Historique and Musée des Arts décoratifs of Lyon, as well as in the Musée Jacquemart André, Paris.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: WW Lot is located in the Bonhams Warehouse and will only be available for collection from this location.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Paire d'appliques d'époque Louis XV en bronze ciselé et doré à deux lumières, milieu du XVIIIe siècleA pair of Louis XV ormolu two-light wall-lights, mid-18th centuryEach with foliate scrolling backplate issuing the scrolling acanthus branches terminating in conforming drip-pans and foliate spirally turned fluted nozzles, 34cm wide 53cm high, (13in wide20 1/2in high)Footnotes:Provenance : The Rosa Alba CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Armoire italienne laquée crème à décor bleu clair, fin XVIIIe-début XIXe siècle, probablement LigurieA north Italian cream-painted and blue decorated wardrobe, late 18th-early 19th century, probably LiguriaOverall decorated with delicate light-blue floral sprays and rosettes, the shaped moulded cornice above two panelled doors enclosing an interior lined in blue silk, the sides with two panels decorated conformingly, on shaped bracket feet, damages to the back right foot, 157cm wide x 62cm deep x 205cm high, (61 1/2in wide x 24in deep x 80 1/2in high)Footnotes:Provenance:Private Piedmontese collectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: WW Lot is located in the Bonhams Warehouse and will only be available for collection from this location.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHARLES DARWIN - On The Origin of Species, 4th Edition (Eighth Thousand), green cloth, some damage but complete Back cover is in similar condition to front ie complete with no major marks but corners bumped. Generally internally quite clean with light tone noted except for final leaf / end paper which is foxed on the upper 50%. See extra images
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