PALESTINE - BRITISH MANDATEBroadside Proclamation issued by Sir John Chancellor, the British High Commissioner for Palestine, announcing that Courts of trials for 'crimes of various descriptions... perpetrated by both Arabs and Jews' will be prosecuted by British Judges, 2 copies, English and Hebrew issues, each with Royal arms at head, slight old fold marks, a few light spots to that in Hebrew, folio (524 x 420mm.), Jerusalem, Greek Conv. Press for the Government of Palestine, 4 September 1929 (2)Footnotes:Rare proclamations, one printed in Hebrew the other in English, issued by the British Government in Palestine in response to the civil unrest amongst the local populations including attacks on Jews in Jerusalem and Hebron. In addition to confirming that all trials will be led by British Judges, the proclamation reconfirms the aims 'laid down in the Balfour Declaration in 1917 and embodied in the Mandate, of establishing in Palestine a national home for the Jews'.Saleroom notices:This lot is exempt from VATThis 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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WEIRD TALES - ROBERT E. HOWARD/CONANWeird Tales, vol. 20, no.6, and vol. 21, no.1 [containing the Conan stories 'The Phoenix on the Sword', and 'The Scarlet Citadel' by Robert E. Howard], some toning, small loss to lower fore-corner of 4 opening leaves of first, some fraying to opening 2 leaves, and some corners with minor loss to second, publisher's pictorial wrappers with blue printed advertisement on lower cover, first with minor loss to spine ends, upper joint split at lower section, and a few light creases, second with upper cover detached (a few creases, lower edge frayed, a few small abrasions), lower cover with small loss touching one letter, spine faded), 8vo, Indianapolis, Popular Fiction Publishing Company, December 1932-January 1933 (2)Footnotes:THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF CONAN. These issues of Weird Tales feature the first two stories by Robert E. Howard to feature Conan the Cimmerian [Barbarian], in the stories 'The Phoenix on the Sword', and 'The Scarlet Citadel'.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
NELSON (HORATIO) Autograph letter signed ('Horatio Nelson') written with his right hand, to the Navy agents Marsh & Creed ('Gentlemen'), asking them to '...send the enclosed instantly to the Duke of Clarence, I have only to say we must again beat the French fleet they have got reinforcements...', address panel on verso, remains of red wax seal, docketed as received on 20 May 1795, ownership inscription 'R.W. Hinxman', one page, cut away at foot with slight loss to address on verso, light dust-staining, creased, seal tear, note of provenance tipped on, 171 x 204mm., [no place but St. Fiorenzo, Corsica], 16 April 1795 Footnotes: 'SEND THE ENCLOSED INSTANTLY TO THE DUKE OF CLARENCE': NELSON URGENTLY SEEKS REINFORCEMENTS AS THE FRENCH FLEET POSE A THREAT AFTER THE BATTLE OF GENOA. Whilst our covering letter is not published in Nicolas, it may be safely assumed that the letter to which it refers is Nelson's letter to the Duke of Clarence of the same date (Nicolas, Dispatches and Letters, Vol.2, p.30). In it, Nelson reiterates that the French have received reinforcements from Brest and that the outnumbered English fleet have been kept there by 'contrary winds'. He goes on to say that with just three further ships he is confident that: '...we shall prevent this Fleet of the Enemy from doing further service in the Mediterranean, notwithstanding the red-hot shot and combustibles, of which they have had a fair trial, and found them useless...'. Provenance: R. W. Hinxman; presented to the Ware family of Tilford, Surrey in 1847; thence by descent to the present owner, with note of provenance. Saleroom notices: The letter was presented to the Ware family by Rowley Willes Hinxman (1831-1906) who inherited it on the death of his father, the navy agent, entrepreneur and art collector John Hinxman (b.1794) in 1847. Further details available from the department. We are grateful to Richard Hinxman, the Hinxman family historian, for supplying this information. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
FLEMING (IAN)Live and Let Die, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, IN FIRST STATE JACKET, some spotting to opening and final leaves and edges of text block, publisher's black cloth gilt, first state dust-jacket without designer credit (price-clipped, light spotting, horizontal 'V-shaped' tear to lower wrapper without loss [Gilbert A2a (1.1)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, 1954This 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, light spotting (mostly to endpapers and edges of text block), publisher's black cloth stamped in silver-gilt, dust-jacket (frayed at extremities with small loss to head of spine not touching letters, spotting to lower cover) [Gilbert A4a(1.1)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, 1956This 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)From Russia With Love, ownership inscription dated 1957 on front free endpaper, 1957; Dr. No, with silhouette on binding, 1958; Goldfinger, [1959]; For Your Eyes Only, 1960; Thunderball, 1961; On Her Majesty's Secret Service, ownership name on front free endpaper, 1963; You Only Live Twice, 1964; The Man with the Golden Gun, 1965, FIRST EDITIONS, publisher's cloth, dust-jackets (unclipped, light soiling, spine ends slightly frayed, OHMS with tear to upper cover, small losses at corners), 8vo, Jonathan Cape (8)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
[LA FEUILLE (DANIEL DE)]Essay d'un dictionnaire contenant la connoissance du monde, 2 parts in one vol., engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved portrait of the author, 46 (of 48) engraved plates (2 folding), 2 plates with losses, first few quires loose, light toning and spotting, modern quarter calf, lacking spine, upper cover detached, very worn [Landwehr 436], 4to, Amsterdam, Daniel de la Feuille, 1700--MENESTRIER (FRANCOIS) La Philosophie des images énigmatiques, woodcut printer's device, extensive worming touching text, calf gilt, worn [Brunet III 1629], 8vo, Lyon, Hilaire Baritel, 1694; and 5 other French works (7)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)Casino Royale, FIRST EDITION, third impression, owner's presentation inscription to front free endpaper, both free endpapers with some toning and faint tape adhesion marks, label of Foy's Book Dept. on front paste-down, DUST-JACKET (third state, slight vertical crease to front panel, light foxing to rear panel, reverses of flaps toned, price clipped from front flap but intact at rear), [Gilbert A1a (3)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, 1954Footnotes:FIRST EDITION, THIRD IMPRESSION - IN ITS VERY GOOD ORIGINAL AND UNRESTORED DUST-JACKET. Encouraged by the success of Live and Let Die, Fleming wrote to Cape asking them to print another thousand copies of Casino Royale, resulting in this third impression, the smallest of the three runs and the last to feature the famous red heart jacket before Pat Marriott's playing card design replaced it for all later printings.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
CARTARI (VINCENZO)Imagines deorum qui ab antiquis colebantur, woodcut printer's device, woodcut portrait of the author, 88 woodcut illustrations, spotting, age-toning and damp-staining, upper margin shaved, modern quarter cloth, light wear [USTC 141828; Adams 785], 4to, Lyon, Barthélémy Honorat, 1581--SUCQUET (ANTONIUS) Via vitae aeternae. Iconibus illustrata per Boëtium a Bolswert, 2 vol., engraved titles, 25 (of 32) plates, damp-staining, first free endpaper of vol. 1 loose, early ownership inscriptions on titles, near contemporary blind-stamped calf with gilt depiction of the Crucifixion and Virgin and Child, clasps, worn [USTC 1003822; Landwehr (LC) 762], 8vo, Antwerp, H. Aertssens, 1625--BORNITZ (JACOB) Emblemata ethico politica, 2 parts in 1 vol., engraved title, half-titles, 98 (of 100) engravings, lacking 3 leaves (M4-N2), light toning, upper margin of title shaved, modern quarter vellum, minor wear [Landwehr (German) 141], 4to, Mainz, Bourgeat, 1669; and 2 others (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
PALESTINE - INDEPENDENCE OF ISRAELMo'etzet Ha'Am [National Council], 26pp., text in Hebrew, one photographic illustration inside upper cover, light toning, publisher's stapled white printed wrappers, short marginal tear to upper wrapper, Tel Aviv, Government Printing Office, 1948--[The Israeli Defence Forces. Jurisdiction Constitution], 26, [2]pp., text in Hebrew, paper toned, publisher's blue-grey printed wrappers (a few creases), Tel-Aviv, Official Gazette of the State of Israel, 1948, large 8vo (2)Footnotes:A record of the proceedings of the National Council (Mo'etzet Ha'Am) in preparation for the Declaration of the Independence of the State of Israel on 14 May 1948, together a pamphlet print-off ('no. 20') concerning the I.D.F. on the Constitution.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CAMDEN (WILLIAM)Britannia, Newly Translated into English: With Large Additions and Improvements...by Edmund Gibson, engraved portrait frontispiece, 50 engraved double-page or folding maps, 8 engraved plates of coins, several illustrations in the text, neatly repaired tear to map of Worcestershire, occasional very light spotting, later mottled calf, gilt, rebacked, corners bumped and one repaired [ESTC R12882; Chubb CXIII], folio (395 x 240mm.), A. Swalle, A. & J. Churchill, 1695This 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
VIGERIUS (MARCUS)Decachordum Christianum. Controversia de Excellentia Instrumentorum Dominicae Passionis, title within a four-part woodcut decorative border signed by Urs Graf, 9 larger woodcut illustrations by Hans Schäufelein (all signed but the first) and one other woodcut by a different artist, each illustration surrounded by a woodcut border printed from four blocks by an anonymous artist, early ownership ink inscription on title-page and upper pastedown, upper margin shaved at time affecting the text, some light age-toning and occasional offsetting, contemporary limp vellum, light wear [Muther 912; USTC 675049; VD16 1183], folio (292 x 203 mm.), [Hagenau, Thomas Anshelm and Johann Albrecht for Johann Koberger at Nuremberg, 1517]Footnotes:First edition published outside Italy. The woodcuts by Hans Schäufelein, pupil of Albrecht Dürer, are among his best works. The work is also remarkable for its typography by Thomas Anshelm.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
LESLIE (JOHN)De origine moribus, et rebus gestis Scotorum, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, title with woodcut head-piece and vignette, divisional title with the engraved arms of Mary Queen of Scots on verso, folding engraved map of Scotland, 11 full-page engraved genealogies of the kings of Scotland (incorporating portrait vignettes), woodcut initials and head-pieces, double-ruled borders throughout, light spotting, 2 small worm holes to first few leaves, contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title to spine, light wear [Adams L541; EDIT16 CNCE 33941], 4to (215 x 170mm), Rome, In aedibus populi Romani, 1578Footnotes:First edition of an important history and description of Scotland by the Catholic John Leslie (1527-1596), Bishop of Ross, and adviser of Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots. Although originally composed in Scots during Leslie's imprisonment in 1568-1570, a Scottish version was not published until 1830.Provenance: P. Matthei Paseniy, early ownership ink inscription on 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
ZATTA (ANTONIO) AND GUILLAUME THOMAS FRANCOIS RAYNALStoria dell' America Settentrionale del Signor Abate Raynal, continuata fino al presente, con Carte Geografiche rappresentanti il Teatro della Guerra Civile tra la Gran Bretagna, e le Colonie Unite, Part 1 only (of 2), FIRST EDITION, engraved printer's device on title, 15 double-page hand-coloured engraved maps, engraved head- and tail-pieces, contemporary decorative paper boards with original printed label on spine, light wear [Phillips Atlases 650; Sabin 68109], folio (430 x 310mm.), Venice, Antonio Zatta, 1778Footnotes:FIRST EDITION OF ZATTA'S MAPS OF THE UNITED STATES, including 12 maps based on Mitchell's Map of North America, intended to be joined to form one large wall-map, and 3 further maps comprising Canada, Newfoundland and Cape Breton, and Hudson's Bay. This copy does not include the second volume of text. 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
SINGH (DULEEP)Autograph letter signed ('Duleep Singh') to Frederick Oliver Robinson, Earl de Grey ('My dear De Grey'), asking him to thank Lord Ripon [his father] for his kind invitation to Studley, confirming he will be there in time for dinner on the 16th and asking for a fly to be ready for him at Ripon, advising '...I propose bringing my Valet and a Loader with me and my retriever...', 3 pages on a bifolium, light dust-staining, creased at folds, 8vo (178 x 114mm.), Elveden Hall, Thetford, 3 December 1872Footnotes:THE LAST MAHARAJA OF THE SIKH EMPIRE MAKES ARRANGEMENTS FOR A SHOOTING PARTY AT STUDLEY ROYAL WITH THE GREATEST SHOT OF HIS DAY.The recipient of our letter was Frederick Oliver Robinson (1852-1923), styled Earl de Grey from 1871 when his father George Frederick Samuel Robinson (1827-1909) was created Marquess of Ripon in recognition of his chairmanship of the joint commission for drawing up the Treaty of Washington with the United States. Historians agree that De Grey was arguably the greatest game shot in the world, holding the record for the greatest recorded lifetime bag of birds (a total of 556,000, 241,000 of which were pheasants) as detailed in his meticulously-kept game books. Maharaja Duleep Singh was also one of the best shots in the country and two of his records, one for shooting grouse, still stand today, and his shooting estate at Elveden regularly played host to royalty and nobility. Provenance: The Rev. Frederic Daustini Cremer (1848-1927), who worked for the first Marquess of Ripon and his wife from 1871 to 1873; thence by descent.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
[LYNDWOOD (WILLIAM)]Provinciale seu constitutiones Anglie [edited by J. Badius], 212 leaves, 73 lines and headline, gothic letter, printed in red and black, double-column, manuscript note pasted to upper pastedown, manuscript notations in an early hand on title and occasionally throughout, manuscript notes in a later hand to final blank (laid down), fore-margin of one leaf (Fol. 56) neatly torn away with loss of a few letters and side-notes, opening 7 leaves loose, occasional light mostly marginal damp-stains, small tear to margin of ⟨⁊⟩6 repaired with tape not affecting text, later calf over wooden boards, retaining sixteenth century blind-stamped side panels, worn, rebacked, lacks bosses and clasps [ESTC S103845; Beale T403], folio (360 x 260mm.), [Paris, Andre Brocard, 28 May 1501]Footnotes:The Canon law of the ecclesiastical province of Canterbury, as collected and abridged in 1433 by William Lyndewood (1375-1446), with his explanatory gloss, and here edited by Josse Badius. 'Though no English bookseller is mentioned in the imprint ... [this item is] clearly intended for sale in England' (ESTC).Although the collection was first printed in Oxford, between 1470 and 1480, this is the first complete edition of the work, including text, gloss, and supplement, published in Paris in 1501.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
ANGLINGALDHAM (W.H.) A Quaint Treatise on 'Flees and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making', FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH OF THE AUTHOR SIGNED 'yours faithfully W.H. Aldam' beneath the image pasted to leaf facing list of contents, half-title, 2 chromolithographed plates after James Poole, 25 actual specimens of hooked flies, and samples of fly-tying materials within 22 sunken mounts, samples attached with coloured serrated paper seals, light spotting, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, g.e., neatly rebacked preserving original spine [Westwood & Satchell, p.3], 4to, John B. Day, 1876Footnotes:Provenance: Mary Benwell, presentation inscription from the author ('Mary Benwell with W.H.A's kind regards') in red ink, and further inscription 'Dr. Roberts with Mrs Benwell's kindest regards' in black ink on 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
FLEMING (IAN)Live and Let Die, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, occasional light spotting (heavier to edges of text block), publisher's black cloth gilt, second state dust-jacket with credit to Kenneth Clark (with price 10d 6s on both flaps, age toning, lower corner darker with some small stains, fold corners worn), [Gilbert A2a (1.2), 'first issue, second state'], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, 1954Footnotes:Provenance: M.R.B. Helm, of Plumstead, address stamp inside upper cover beneath name in green ink.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)Thrilling Cities, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, ADVANCE REVIEW COPY, with Jonathan Cape printed slip loosely inserted, publisher's buckram-backed grey boards, a little light toning at ends of buckram, FIRST STATE DUST-JACKET with laminate covering entire width of rear flap, slight foxing to front flap, more prevalent on reverse [Gilbert A16a (1.1), note on p.479], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, 1963Footnotes:A VERY GOOD COPY WITH THE EXCEPTIONALLY RARE CAPE ADVANCE REVIEW SLIP. 'Copies were sent out to the editors of various publications including Books and Bookmen, The Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times, The Sunday Times and The Listener' (Gilbert).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
AMERICA - SLAVERY Plan of the slave ship 'Brooks', large double-page engraving, some light foxing, 300 x 485mm., Philadelphia, J.P. Parke, 1808; together with a hand-coloured version of the plan below a view of Africans being taken away for slavery, from a work in German (2) Footnotes: Larger version of this well-known depiction of the manner in which slaves could be legally packed onto the infamous Liverpool slaver the Brooks, extracted from the 1808 Philadelphia edition of Thomas Clarkson's The History of the Rise, Progress & Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade. Recent reassessments suggest that the plan may have underestimated the horrendous situation: 'An analysis of numerous illustrations of slave vessels created by then-contemporary artists, in conjunction with new data, demonstrates that the 1789 diagram of the British slave ship Brooks—the most iconic of these illustrations—fails to capture the degree to which enslaved people were crowded on the Brooks, as well as on most other British slaving vessels of the eighteenth century.... The most accurate representation of ship-board conditions in the eighteenth-century slave trade is in the paintings of the French slave ship Marie-Séraphique' (Nicholas Radburn, David Eltis, 'Visualizing the Middle Passage: The Brooks and the Reality of Ship Crowding in the Transatlantic Slave Trade', in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 49, issue 4, 2019). This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DREXEL (JEREMIAS)The Considerations of Drexelius upon Eternitie, additional engraved title by William Marshall, 7 engraved plates, contemporary manuscript annotations throughout, margins shaved occasionally just touching text, loss repaired to lower portion of H2 affecting text, light toning and occasional spotting, modern half calf gilt, minor wear [ESTC S784], 12mo, Cambridge, printers to the University, 1636--AYRES (PHILIP) Emblemata Amatoria, 44 engraved emblems, title in red and black, text in French, English, Italian and Latin, lacking first free initial end-paper, one leaf loose, early manuscript inscriptions, some margins shaved, near contemporary calf, loss to spine, corners bumped [ESTC T87789], 8vo, W. Likely, 1714--KING (WILLIAM) An Historical Account of the Heathen Gods and Heroes, illustrated frontispiece, 12 engraved plates, manuscript inscription on upper and lower pastedowns, light toning, calf soiled and worn, upper cover nearly detached [ESTC T134106], 12mo, Henry Lintot, 1736; and 4 others (7)Footnotes:Provenance: First item, William Knight 1641, 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
CASTIGLIONE (BALDESSARE)Il libro del cortegiano, second (first 8vo) edition, italic letter, woodcut printer's device on title and verso of final leaf, light old stain to some leaves, early ink marginal note in 2 side-margins, small hole touching woodcut device on title and a couple of letters on leaf Aii, later vellum, retaining original final blank free endpaper with early ownership inscriptions, and binder's waste including 5-lines of an early 15th century illuminated manuscript [Adams C925; Olschki 17581], 8vo, Florence, heirs of Filippo Giunta, October 1528Footnotes:The scarce second edition of Castiglione's celebrated courtly manual. Giunta's octavo edition was printed in the same year as the Aldus folio edition, and is rare at auction. The work was written from the author's personal experience at the court of Urbino, and his description of the ideal courtier helped it become one of the most influential literary works of the High Renaissance.Provenance: Andrea Balestra, ink ownership inscription on binder's waste at front; Several verses, including 'O sfortunata Ricolina/non saro mai piu contenta', in an early Italian hand on final blank.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
[MOLL (HERMAN)Atlas Minor], 62 engraved maps (of 65,mostly double-page including twin-hemisphere world), all with contemporary hand-colour in outline, ink numerals, lacking title-page, map of England laid down with loss of cartouche, light toning, later marbled boards with morocco spine, rebacked [Phillips 585], 4to, [John and Carington Bowles, 1763 or later]Footnotes:The Bowles' post 1763 Treaty of Paris edition of Moll's Atlas Minor.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
OXFORDRUNDT (CARL) A Walk Round Oxford, lithographed pictorial title, 2 leaves of introductory text (in English and German), 16 tinted lithographed plates, heavy foxing to title, occasional light spotting to plates (mostly marginal), publisher's cloth-backed boards stamped 'Oxford' on the upper cover, soiled, light stains to upper cover [Abbey Scenery 284], oblong folio (285 x 425mm.), [Berlin, printed by Edward Haenel, 1851]Footnotes:Scarce suite of tinted lithographed views of Oxford, dedicated to Prince Frederick William of Prussia, originally printed in four parts but issued here with a pictorial title and titled boards.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
MOORE (THOMAS)The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland... edited by John Lindley... Nature-printed by Henry Bradbury, half-title, 51 nature-printed plates, all printed in colours by Bradbury & Evans, tissue guards, illustrations in the text, occasional light spotting, contemporary green half morocco, g.e. [Nissen BBI 1400; Pritzel 6405; Stafleu & Cowan 6275], folio (550 x 360mm.), Bradbury and Evans, 1855[-1856]Footnotes:The 'first English attempt at applying Nature-Printing to Botanical sciences' (Preface), the author explaining that previously, in order to convey 'the necessary accuracy, the art of a Talbot or a Daguerre was insufficient, nor could they be represented pictorially until Nature-Printing was brought to its present state of perfection'. The plates were executed by Henry Bradbury (1831-1860), who had learned the process whilst studying under Alois Auer at the Imperial Printing Office in Vienna.Provenance: Leonard Daneham Cunliffe, former deputy governor of the Bank of England, and owner of Trelissick House, Cornwall, 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)Vorzeichnungen, 50 engraved illustrations of human faces and forms on 25 leaves, modern purple calf with diagonal pattern decorations in blind, with modern folding case, oblong 8vo (200 x 275mm.), Augsburg, Academischen Kunsthandlung, n.d.; Figures de la Passion de Notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ, engraved title page and 34 (of 35) engraved plates by Jean Pacot, lacking plate 3 with a blank bound in its place, minor toning, contemporary gilt-ruled calf, rebacked [Cohen-de Ricci 396; Sander 688], oblong 8vo (205 x 141mm.), Paris, G Audran, [c.1720]; Quelqu[es] [f]igures[,] chevaux[,] paysages presen[tés] A Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne par [...] le Clerc, 35 engraved plates (of 60), including engraved title page, damp-staining to upper margins of several plates, a few stubs of removed plates visible in gutters, light soiling to title, modern gilt, solander box [Cohen-de Ricci 612], oblong 12mo (135 x 200mm.), Paris, G. Audran, [c.1700]; Vita et miracula sanctissimi patris Benedicti, FIRST EDITION, engraved title and 32 plates by Bernardino Passeri after Le Clerc, no letterpress text, large repaired tear through most of plate 10, marginal tear with old repair to plate 20, chips and tears to corners of plates 13, 28 and 32, contemporary calf, rebacked, worn, with old repairs, hinges cracked, numerous ink inscriptions on endpapers [Brunet IV 418; Cicognara 2138; Mortimer 362], 4to (340 x 245mm.), [c.1700]; Metamorphoses d'Ovide en rondeaux, additional engraved title, engraved royal arms on title-page, numerous engraved illustrations in text, early ownership inscription on lower margin of engraved title, browning, occasional spotting and minor soiling, modern calf gilt, in marbled paper slipcase [Goldsmith 237], 4to (287 x 210mm.), Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1676; and 11 others by Le Clerc, Du Fresnoy, Fleury and Callot (16)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
[SHORT (THOMAS)]A General Chronological History of the Air, Weather, Seasons, Meteors, 2 vol., occasional spotting and light toning, contemporary calf gilt, upper cover volume one detached, light wear to covers and spine, corners bumped, 8vo, T. Longman and A. Millar, 1749 (2)Footnotes:Provenance: E.L. Hawke, ink inscription on front free endpapers.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)The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, 43 illustrations, with errata, advertisement leaves (dated 'April 1867' in volume 1, 'February 1868' in volume 2), light toning and foxing (mostly to front free endpapers), publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, spine gilt, hinges starting, extremities and corners bumped [Freeman 877], 8vo, John Murray, 1868Footnotes:Provenance: Robert Stirling Newall (1812-1889), Scottish engineer, astronomer, and manufacturer of wire ropes, bookplate. Darwin by his own account 'made an enormous saving of labour by using for the last half year Newall's patent wire rope' when raising water from his well ('The subject of deep wells', Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no.30, 25 July 1857, p.518); John Eriksson, bookplate; private Swedish collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
[ROUX (JOSEPH) Recueil des principaux plans des ports et rades de la Mer Méditerranée], 124 engraved maps of ports and harbours (including Corfu, Malta, Cyprus, Naples, Venice and Tunis), one additional watercolour of a harbour, lacking title and table of contents, light toning, late eighteenth century red morocco gilt, g.e., spine detached and loss to head of spine, lacking clasp, rubbed, oblong 4to (160 x 230mm.), [Genoa, Yves Gravier, 1779] Footnotes: Provenance: Captain William Richardson R. N., gilt lettering 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
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINTHERRICK (ROBERT) One Hundred and Eleven Poems... Selected, Arranged & Illustrated by Sir William Russell Flint, NUMBER 103 OF 105 'SPECIAL' COPIES, with additional suite of 8 plates loose in separate sleeve, and signed on colophon by the artist, from an overall edition of 550 copies, numerous sepia collotypes after William Russell Flint, including 13 SIGNED BY THE ARTIST in blue ink beneath the image, original white sheepskin gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g. [Cock-A-Hoop 199], Golden Cockerel Press, 1955; together with 50 PROOF ILLLUSTRATIONS, including 8 SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, 2 copies of the prospectus, and a manuscript note of presentation from the artist, housed together in a purpose-made fabric-lined morocco-backed book box, gilt lettered with title, author, artist and 'Artist's Proofs' on spine (light mark on spine, small scuff on upper cover), folioFootnotes:ONE OF THE SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, with an additional 50 proof plates including some signed.Provenance: 'Here are some Herrick proofs with my compliments. These collotypes vary tremendously in quality. I have omitted quite a lot as I had no good, or passable proofs at all. I am sorry the set is incomplete... W. Russell Flint', ink note 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
DAVID (JOANNES)Veridicus Christianus, second edition, engraved title, 100 engraved plates by Philips Galler (with captions in Dutch, French and Latin), woodcut initials, printer's device at end, 2 other full-page illustrations (one with volvelle lacking moveable circle), occasional marginal manuscript annotations, repair to lower margin and inner gutter of title, light toning and occasional spotting, contemporary calf, gilt, wear to spine and covers, crack at foot of spine [USTC 1009739; Landwehr 183], 4to, Antwerp, ex officina Plantiniana, 1606Footnotes:Provenance: Count Johann Bernhard II von Herberstein (1630-1685), starosta of Glogow, Poland, ink inscription on lower margin of dedication 'Ex libris Illustrissimi Domini Joannis Bernardi Comitis ab Herberstein Capitanei Regii Glogloviensis'; Genevieve Ludlow Griscom, 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
MAXWELL (JAMES CLERK)Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, 20 lithographed plates, without the errata leaf in volume one and 8-leaf publisher's advertisements sometimes bound at the end of volume 2, contemporary red red prize calf gilt, worn, upper cover of volume 1 detached [Grolier/Horblit 72; Wheeler Gift Cat. 1872; Norman 1466], 8vo, Oxford, Clarendon Press Series, 1873Footnotes:Maxwell's most important work, in which he advanced the theory that light and electricity are the same 'in their ultimate nature' [Grolier/Horblit], a hypothesis that laid the groundwork for Einstein's theory of relativity.Provenance: J.S. Stollard, Wakefield, ownership inscription on titles.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
ORDONEZ DE CEVALLOS (PEDRO)Viage del Mundo, FIRST EDITION, woodcut coat-of-arms on title, full-page woodcut portrait of the author, final leaf supplied in manuscript facsimile, soiling to title, occasional light damp-stains (mostly marginal to table at end), later half calf over marbled boards, gilt morocco spine label [Palau 03651; Sabin 57524, 'Rare'; Streit I:345], small 4to, Madrid, Luis Sanchez, 1614Footnotes:Scare first edition of this account by Ordonez de Cevallos' (c.1557-1635) of his circumnavigation of the world from 1589 to 1593, the first to commence from the Americas, when he travelled throughout the Spanish colonies there. He devotes two chapters to one of the earliest accounts of Bermuda before it was settled by the Somers Islands Company in 1612. Provenance: ?Eighteenth century ownership inscription to verso of the front free endpaper; Antonio Canovas del Castillo (1828–1897), Spanish historian, statesman, and prime minister, bookplate; his sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 20 November 1975, lot 277.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
RACKHAM (ARTHUR)WALTON (IZAAK AND CHARLES COTTON) The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, NUMBER 88 OF 750 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, 12 colour plates, illustrations, and pictorial endpapers by Rackham, partly uncut, occasional very light spotting, publisher's white vellum gilt, t.e.g., one small spot on lower cover, publisher's slipcase with paper label on spine (soiled but solid), 4to, G. Harrap, [1931]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
[ZIEGLER (JACOB)][Quae intus continentur. Syria... Palestina... Arabia... Aegyptus... Schondia... Holmiae... Regionum superiorum, singulae tabulae geographicae], 7 (of 8) double-page woodcut maps, each with separate title, lacks text, light spotting, right margins slightly shaved, modern limp vellum [Sabin 106330], 4to (270 x 200mm.), [Strasbourg, Peter Schoeffer, 1532]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
CORONELLI (VINCENZO MARIA)Morea, Negroponte, & Adiacenze, engraved title, half-title, 70 engraved leaves comprising portraits, royal arms, views and maps (some folding), 2 leaves of text in Italian, later vellum gilt, light wear, oblong 4to (200 x 250mm.), [Venice, c.1708]Footnotes:The section dedicated to the regions of Greece and Lepanto from Coronelli's Teatro della Guerra, devoted to countries involved in the War of Spanish Succession between 1701 and 1713. In the end, the publication did not come to fruition, however, some parts were published, such as the present copy.Saleroom notices:Sold as a collection of plates, contains 72 plates of approximately 140.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
CROMWELL (OLIVER) - GLOUCESTERSHIREExemplification under the Great Seal of the Lord Protector referring to the letters patent granted by Henry III to the Abbot and monks of the Abbey of Flaxley, in English and Latin, docketed 'An Exemplification at the Request/ of William Boeve[y] Esq from Oliver Cromwell/ Abbotts Woods...'; decorated initial letter 'O', surrounded by elaborate strapwork and foliate design with capital letters on the upper line; signed at foot as examined by William Glascock and Thomas Bulstrode as Masters of Chancery in Ordinary; with the Great Seal of the Protectorate in brown wax, held by red and white silk and string ties, obverse depicting the coat of arms flanked by the lion and unicorn, reverse depicting Oliver Cromwell on horseback, seal complete, images worn, on one skin of vellum, initial and first line slightly rubbed, light dust-staining particularly at folds, pin holes to vertical edges, 432 x 740mm., seal 145mm. diameter, Westminster, 22 June 1657Footnotes:Flaxley Abbey in the Forest of Dean is a former Cistercian monastery, founded in 1151 by Roger Fitzmiles, 2nd Earl of Hereford, allegedly on the spot where his father was killed in a hunting accident. Henry II and Henry III used the abbey as a hunting lodge and, as this document shows, Henry III gave a grant to Flaxley Abbey of Abbot's Woods in 1227. After the Dissolution, the Abbey and lands were granted to Sir William Kingston, Constable of the Tower of London, who oversaw the execution of Anne Boleyn. James Boevey (1622-1696), a London merchant, lawyer and philosopher, purchased the Abbey in 1648 with his half-brother William, the 'William Boeve' mentioned in our document.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
MOUNTAINEERINGLORRIA (AUGUST) AND E.A. MARTEL. Les Grandes Alpes. Le Massif de la Bernina, FIRST EDITION, half-title, 50 heliogravure plates reproducing photographs by Vittorio Sella and others, printed tissue guards, photographic illustrations in the text, light damp-stains to opening and final few plates, some spotting and foxing throughout (mostly marginal but touching some plates), final 7 leaves partly adhered together upper right, final 3 leaves detached, publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover, g.e. [Perret 2689 ('un magnifique album de photographies')], oblong 4to (312 x 420mm.), Zurich, Orell Füssli, 1894Footnotes:Provenance: F.C. Bainbridge-Bell, member of the Alpine Club, gift inscription to a Mr. ?Leake, 5 March 1924 on 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
DU MAURIER (DAPHNE)Rebecca, FIRST EDITION, light toning, publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt, light damp stains to sides, Book Society bookplate inside upper cover, yellow dust-jacket (priced '8/6 net', some soiling and spotting, restored at fold corners and spine ends with ink facsimile to two letters of the publisher's name), 8vo, Victor Gollancz, 1938This 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
[SCUPOLI (LORENZO)]The Spiritual Conflict, second edition, half-title, printed title in red and black, engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait of the author, engraved illustrations throughout, lower margin shaved occasionally touching text, light age-toning, rebacked, some wear, 8vo, Paris, 1652--GOODWYN (THOMAS) Moses and Aaron: Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, title-page repaired, early manuscript annotations, margins shaved occasionally touching text, some toning [ETSC R1855], Andrew Crook, 1671; Romanæ historiæ anthologia recognita et aucta, manuscript annotations, tear with loss of text to D7, light age-toning [ESTC R85], R. Chiswel and J. Wright, 1680; ROUS (FRANCIS) Archæologiæ Atticæ libri septem, light toning, Oxford, Richard Davis, 1675, 3 works bound in 1 vol., modern half calf, shelfwear, corners bumped, 4to, and 3 others (5)Footnotes:Provenance: Second item, Thomas Connolly, bookplate; Rev. Frank Parker MA, bequeathed to the Bishopric of Cornwall, 1883, 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
SAUDI ARABIA - HIJAZ, MECCA AND MEDINAHicaz Rehberi [Light of Islam]. Haccin, Faydalari, Yollari..., text in Turkish, illustrations in the text, 2 large folding map plans (the Kabba and place of worship of the Hajj and Umrah; A-Masjid an-Nabawi), and one folding letterpress table loose in pocket inside lower cover, publisher's wrappers, small 8vo, Istanbul, Ismail Akgun Matbaasi, [1952]Footnotes:Rare Turkish-language guide to the Hajj and the Hejaz region, including folding maps of Mecca and Medina, issued for pilgrims, with instructions on suggested route, expenses, etc.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 British 1796 style Light Cavalry sabre with an altered blade, the blade 81cm in length; and a 1796 style Infantry Officers sword, blade inscribed 'For my Country and King', blade 78cm in length (2)At present, there is no condition report prepared for this lot, this in no way indicates a good condition, please contact the saleroom for a full condition report
Four: Squadron Sergeant Major Instructor in Fencing E. Mushett, 13th Hussars, later Lieutenant, Royal West Surrey Regiment 1914-15 Star (9566 Sq. S. Mjr. I.F. E. Mushett. 13-Hrs.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. E. Mushett.); India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Waziristan 1919-21, Waziristan 1921-24, second clasp loose on riband, as issued (Lieut. E. Mushett. The Queen’s RF.) mounted court-style for display, light contact marks, generally very fine, rank on Star scarce (4) £200-£240 --- Ernest Mushett attested for the 13th Hussars and served with them as a Squadron Sergeant Major Instructor in Fencing during the Great War on the Western Front from 15 December 1914. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment on 30 January 1918, and saw further service with them post-War in Waziristan.
Pair: Private William Hayward, 13th Light Dragoons Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Albuhera, Vittoria (W. Hayward, 13th Light Dragns.); Waterloo 1815 (William Hayward, 13th Reg. Light Dragoons.) fitted with contemporary replacement silver straight bar suspension engraved in script on one side ‘Willm. Haywood 13 LD’, light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise good very fine £3,000-£4,000 --- ‘Haywood’ on Dwelly’s Waterloo roll.
Pair: Gunner E. Wright, Royal Field Artillery, who was taken Prisoner of War at Colenso on 15 December 1899 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (16176 Gnr: E. Wright. 14th. Bty: R.F.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (16176 Gnr: E. Wright. R.F.A.) light contact marks, very fine (2) £240-£280 --- E. Wright was captured and taken Prisoner of War at Colenso on 15 December 1899, later being released.
Six: Chief Engine Room Artificer First Class J. Collins, Royal Navy Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Natal (168187 E:R:A: J. Collins. H.M.S. Terrible); China 1900, no clasp (J. Collins. E.R.A. 2Cl., H.M.S. Terrible); 1914-15 Star (168187. J. Collins. C.E.R.A., R.N.); British War Medal 1914-20 (168187 J. Collins. C.E.R.A.1. R.N.); Victory Medal 1914-19, naming erased; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (168187 James Collins. E.R.A. 1Cl. H.M.S. Assistance.) mounted court-style for display purposes; together with the recipient’s Aluminium identity disc, light contact marks, generally very fine (6) £500-£700 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2001. James Collins was born in Portsmouth on 1 April 1871 and joined the Royal Navy as an Acting Engine Room Artificer Fourth Class on 16 June 1892. Confirmed in that rate on 19 September 1893, he was promoted Engine Room Artificer Third Class on 16 June 1895, and served in H.M.S. Terrible from 24 March 1898, being promoted Engine Room Artificer Second Class on 16 June 1899. He served in Terrible during both the Boer War and the Boxer Rebellion, and was promoted Engine Room Artificer First Class on 14 June 1904. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 8 June 1907, and having been advanced Chief Engine Room Artificer First Class on 26 October 1913 saw further service during the Great War, predominately in H.M.S. Assistance. He was invalided out of the service on 20 November 1919. Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extracts.

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