DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE) 'LEWIS CARROLL'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, SECOND (FIRST PUBLISHED) EDITION, half-title, 42 illustrations by John Tenniel, occasional light spotting, soiling to blank fore-margin of p.112, full red crushed morocco gilt by Trevor Lloyd, upper cover with gilt vignette of Alice holding the baby pig, lower cover with gilt vignette of the Cheshire Cat, spine tooled in gilt with Mad Hatter and playing card vignettes, g.e., retaining original blue endpapers (in place, with original 'Burns' binder's label) and publisher's cloth (bound at end), slipcase with gilt decoration as for binding on sides [Williams & Madan-Green 46], 8vo, Macmillan and Co., 1866Footnotes:Provenance: John J.M. ?Clerk, ownership inscription dated 1866 on front free blue 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
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![ARMENIAANANIA SANAHNETSI. Girk vor kotchi zhoghovadsou [Compilation of Stories], text in Armenian, title and text within typ](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/02e0bfb0-e8cb-4739-96ed-afc500e35fb5/463a0a35-4b7e-449f-acea-afc500ecbfaf/468x382.jpg)
ARMENIAANANIA SANAHNETSI. Girk vor kotchi zhoghovadsou [Compilation of Stories], text in Armenian, title and text within typographical border throughout, 8 large woodcut illustrations by Grigor Marzvanetsi after Christoffel van Sichem, decorative ornaments at head of sections and marginal decorations in the style of Armenian manuscript, toning or light browning to a few pages, thin line of worming to inner margin of a few leaves, contemporary blind-stamped morocco over wooden boards, rebacked in calf, red edges [not in BL or Bodleian], 4to (200 x 150mm.), Constantinople/Istanbul, Mahtesi Astouadstour, 13 February 1747Footnotes:A compilation of Biblical stories (Adam and Eve, life of Christ, etc.) and Homilies by Armenian and other Church fathers, including Gregory of Narek, Gregory of Tatew, and others, written by the eleventh century Armenian theologian Anania Sanhnetsi, of the Monasteries at Haghpat and Sanahin. Provenance: 'Library of the Atonian Brotherhood transferred to Constantinople in 1871' [in Armenian], red stamp on title touching woodcut border, with 4-line ink note by Grigor the monk professing his support for the Holy Roman Church.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)Goldfinger, FIRST EDITION, light spotting to edges of text block, publisher's gilt-stamped cloth, dust-jacket (light soiling, spine darkened with spine ends frayed not touching text, folds rubbed with small loss at corners) [Gilbert A7a(1.2)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, [1959]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
![CLEMENS V, POPEConstitutiones [with commentary by Johannes Andreae], 60 leaves (including opening and final blanks), 82 line](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/02e0bfb0-e8cb-4739-96ed-afc500e35fb5/2aa5cecc-8f65-41a9-9c1e-afc500ecaf04/468x382.jpg)
CLEMENS V, POPEConstitutiones [with commentary by Johannes Andreae], 60 leaves (including opening and final blanks), 82 lines of commentary around text, gothic type, rubricated with capital initials, paragraph marks etc. supplied in alternate red and blue ink throughout, opening initial 'I' in gold on a ground of blue heightened, manuscript index in a contemporary hand on the opening blank, small traces of worming in vertical margins not affecting text, light damp-staining and softening to fore-margin of approximately 20 leaves at end, contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, upper and lower sides elaborately stamped with a variety of tools (including roses, gryphon, and vases of flowers) in panels, the upper cover with wording 'Sexti et' in upper margin, central boss and metal corner-pieces to fore-corners, remnants of metal clasps, sprinkled single wormholes, rebacked, worn, upper hinge strengthened with tape [ic00727000; HC 5435*; BMC II 429; Goff C727; GKW 7097], folio (340 x 240mm.), Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 15 March 1486Footnotes:Collection of decretals compiled during the 1305-14 pontificate of Clemens V, the last official papal addition to the Corpus juris canonici.Provenance: 'Ex bibl. II episc. S. Hippolytum', ink inscription and printed shelf mark label in red and black 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
ADDISON (LANCELOT)The Life and Death of Mahumed, the Author of the Turkish Religion. Being an Account of His Tribe, Parents, Birth, Name, Education, Marriages, Filthiness of Life, Alcoran..., FIRST EDITION, light damp-staining and browning (mostly to margins), upper margin shaved touching a few pagination numerals, light ink annotation on title and final leaf, contemporary calf, worn, upper cover near detached [ESTC R33059], 8vo, William Crooke, 1679Footnotes:RARE, no copies traced at auction. The book was re-issued in the same year with a cancel title The First State of Mahumedism; or, An Account of the Author and Doctrines of that Imposture.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
CURTIS (WILLIAM)Flora Londinensis; or, Plates and Descriptions of Such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London, 2 vol. bound in 3, engraved title with large vignette in volume 1 (repeated in volume 2 with volume numeral altered in ink), letterpress title in volume 3, 432 hand-coloured engraved plates by W. Darton, J. Sowerby and others after Sydenham Edwards, Will Kilburn and J. Sowerby, list of subscribers on one leaf, 2 dedication leaves, 2 indexes, occasional light spotting or toning, contemporary calf gilt, neatly rebacked in calf gilt with morocco lettering labels, slightly rubbed with some abrasions [Great Flower Books, p.54; Henrey III, 595; Hunt 650; Nissen BBI 439], folio (478 x 275mm.), Printed for and Sold by the Author, 1777Footnotes:First edition of Curtis's Flora Londinensis, the most comprehensive English flora of the period, the plates of which 'remain the finest illustrations of British plants ever published'(ODNB). This set has the plates arranged alphabetically under the Latin names.Provenance: General Sir Moore Disney (1765/6-1846), 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
PYNE (WILLIAM HENRY)The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore, 3 vol., half-titles, 100 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Wild, Sutherland, Stephanoff, Westall, and others, some light spotting or off-setting, nineteenth century half maroon morocco, worn with some scuff-marks [Abbey Scenery 396; Adams 132; Tooley 389], large 4to (340 x 275mm.), A. Dry, 1819Footnotes:A 'sumptuously illustrated work' (ODNB) by William Henry Pyne, one of the founders of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, providing an important record of the interior decoration and picture hanging arrangements of the major Royal Palaces and Residences in the Regency period.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
MOUNTAINEERINGALMER (CHRISTIAN) A Facsimile of Christian Almer's Führerbuch 1856-1894, Reproduced under the Superintendence of C.D. Cunningham and Capt. W. De W. Abney, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 99 OF 200 COPIES, half-title, heliogravure photographic frontispiece portrait of Almer, 2 illustrations, limitation label printed in red pasted to front free endpaper, light stain at lower margin of the frontispiece, publisher's cloth, gilt morocco spine labels, g.e., rubbed with some abrasions to labels [Neate C157], 8vo, Sampson Low, 1896Footnotes:Christian Almer (1826-1898) was one of the great pioneering Alpine guides from the golden age of mountaineering, making the first ascent of the Eiger, and many other Alpine peaks. Privately printed, the Führerbuch reproduces in facsimile the manuscript recommendations of the climbers he accompanied, together with a lengthy introduction.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
PETRUS LOMBARDUSSententiarum libri IV, woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials throughout, modern quarter vellum gilt, red edges [USTC 403431], 4to, Louvain, Bartholomaeus Gravius, 1546--MACHIAVELLI (NICOLO) Tutte le opere, 5 parts in 1 vol., late Testina edition, vignette woodcut portrait on each title, Discorsi misbound, opening 5 leaves frayed (with loss of a few letters to 3), last three leaves frayed (one repaired with substantial loss to text), damp-staining throughout, limp vellum with manuscript title on spine, spine loosening, soiled, 4to, [Geneva], 1550 [but c.1640]--GOLTZIUS (HUBERT) Vivae omnium fere Imperatorum imagines, 88 (of 133) chiaroscuro medallion woodcut portraits printed in sepia, 13 others with woodcut borders but no image, also lacking title and preliminary leaves up to A1, tears affecting image of 2 plates (LIX, LXV), offsetting, damp-staining mostly to margins, later tree calf, upper cover detached, worn [Adams G838], folio, Antwerp, in officina Aegidii Copenii Diesthemii, 1557--FLORUS (LUCIUS ANNAEUS) Rerum a Romanis gestarum libri IIII, woodcut printer's device on title, near contemporary manuscript inscriptions on first fly-leaf and on title, age-toning, later limp vellum, upper gnawed, worn [USTC 402303], 8vo, Antwerp, Jan Moretus, 1593--PINDAR. Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia, translated by Jean Benoit, woodcut device on title, light age toning, later armorial gilt calf, sides with the arms of Louis XIV on a ground of fleur-de-lys and crowned L pattern, g.e., hinges loose, worn [USTC 6802750; Brunet IV 659], 4to, Saumur, Pierre Pié de Dieu, 1620--CICERO. Opera omnia title printed in red and black, additional engraved frontispiece (dated 1659), some damp-staining, ink stains affecting text on pp.479-482, later armorial calf gilt, the sides with the arms of Louis XIV on a ground of fleur-de-lys pattern on covers, g.e., worn, 4to, Geneva, Samuel Chouet, 1660; and 11 others (17)Footnotes:Provenance: First work, Fort Augustus Benedictine Abbey (Inverness, Scotland), bookplate; Second work, Franz Ferdinand Pontz von Engelshofen (c. 1760s), 'V. Engelshofen 2579' stamp on first title; František Antonín Thun-Hohenstein (1847-1916), bookplate; Third work, De Gabriellij, manuscript inscription on title; Fifth work, 'Bouffay 1703', 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
ILLUMINATED BOOK OF HOURS, use of RomeManuscript Book of Hours on vellum in Latin, with calendar in French, 168 leaves (plus 2 flyleaves at the front and 1 final flyleaf), gothic textualis in brown ink on 14 lines (justification c.110 x 75mm.), 3 flyleaves with slightly later inscriptions, 13 LARGE ARCH-TOPPED MINIATURES (c.85 x 65mm.), each within full border decoration with leaves, fruit and flowers in colours and liquid gold and with 4-line illuminated inhabited initials below, numerous 2- and 1-line illuminated initials in red, blue, liquid gold and white, line fillers in red and blue, rubrics, occasional light rubbing or staining, EARLY BLIND-TOOLED CALF OVER WOODEN BOARDS BY LOUIS BLOC, covers each with 4 panels each containing eight animals in tendrils (comprising stags, deer, monkeys, hares, boars, dogs) , surrounded by the inscription in Roman capitals: 'Ludovicus Bloc / ob laudem / Christi librum hunc / recte ligavi' (Ludovicus Bloc, has, in praise of Christ, bound this book well), rebacked, but preserving much of original spine, corners worn, joints weak, lacking clasps, g.e., in a red morocco slipcase by Riviere, 180 x 120mm., [Flanders, probably Bruges, mid fifteenth century]Footnotes:AN ATTRACTIVE LOW COUNTRIES ILLLUMINATED BOOK OF HOURS IN AN ELABORATE EARLY BINDING.TEXT: f. 1 blank; ff. 2-7 Calendar; 8-11 Hours of the Cross; 12-15v Hours of the Holy Spirit; 15v-20v Gospel readings; 21 blank; 22-86 Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary (22-42v Matins; 43-54v Lauds; 55-59v Prime; 60-64 Terce; 64v-68v Sext; 69-73 Nones; 73v-81 Vespers; 81v-86 Compline); 86v blank; 87-100 Seven Penitential Psalms; 100v-108 Litany; 109-164v Office of the Dead; 165 Miserere Mei; 166 The Seven Joys of the Virgin; 168 Prayer in a later hand. ILLUMINATIONS: 12 initials (KL) in liquid gold, red and blue colour at the beginning of each month of the calendar; 13 large illuminations, f.8 The Crucifixion; 12 Pentecost; 22 The Annunciation; 43 The Visitation; 55 The Nativity; 60 The Shepherds; 64v The Adoration of the Magi; 69 The Presentation in the Temple; 73v The Massacre of the Innocents; 81v The Flight into Egypt; 87 Christ in Majesty before the Last Judgement, 109 A Funeral; 156 Souls carried to Heaven by Angels.The illuminations are in the characteristic style of Bruges of the mid fifteenth century. Several can be ascribed to a group of artists known as the 'Masters of the Gold Scrolls', as testified by many stylistic elements especially with regards to the backgrounds of the illuminations that are distinctive of this group of artists. For example, the golden scrolls over red backgrounds in the representation of the Nativity (f. 55) and in that of Christ in Majesty (f. 87) are strikingly similar to those found in other Books of Hours ascribed to the Masters of the Golden Scrolls, such as MS Laud Misc. 204 (f. 23v St Barbara) and MS Harley 2982 (f. 59v Christ in Majesty), today at the Bodleian Library and British Library respectively. In the representations of the Pentecost and Annunciation (ff. 12 and 21) we find instead chequered backgrounds of liquid gold and colours that are also typical of Flemish and French illuminations of this period (see for example MS Harley 2897, f. 340v St Anne teaching the Virgin to read, and MS Stowe 21, f. 57 Nativity). The binding is signed by Ludovicus Bloc, a prolific and well known Bruges binder documented in the city between c.1484-1529. There are other surviving manuscripts with very similar bindings, such as Beinecke MS 663 (Book of Hours, use of Tournai), Walters Ms. W.428 (Book of Hours) and Cambridge University Library MS Nn.4.1 (Benedictional of Robert de Clercq). Collation: A7 (of 8, A8 lacking ?cancelled, no loss of text), B8, C6, D-E8, F5 (of 6, F1 cancelled), G8, H4, I-N8, O6, P-R8, S6 (of 8, S4 and S6 cancelled), T-V8, W6 (of 8, W3 and W5 cancelled).Provenance: An early Brugean provenance is denoted by the signed blind-tooled binding by Louis Bloc (d.1519). The Hours belonged to Jehan de Cerf (d.24 September 1554, aged 69), who served as echevin of the Liberty of Bruges. He gifted the manuscript to his eldest daughter Mary (by his first wife Judove van Schoore) on January 11th 1525. Mary then married John Spronehoff and left the book to their son, Philip. The flyleaves contain several notes about the family of De Cerf, which had settled in French Flanders as early as the fourteenth century, and about that of Spronehoff; Hugh Selbourne M.D., his sale, Bonhams, 25 March 2015, lot 23.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
YEATS (W.B.)The Tower, FIRST EDITION, limited to 2000 copies, half-title, advertisement leaf at end, light spotting to edges, uncut in publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt designed by by Thomas Sturge Moore, pictorial dust-jacket (spine soiled with small tear at the head) [Wade 158], 8vo, Macmillan & Co., 1928This 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
CHINAJEFFERSON (LOUISE E.) China. A Friendship Map, pictorial colour printed map, numerous illustrations of famous sites, industries, and views, six portraits (including Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang), light old fold marks (one small hole in sea area at fold) 660 x 810mm., New York, Friendship Press, Inc., 1948Footnotes:SCARCE pictorial map of China, issued the year before the Revolution led by Mao Zedong. Handsomely illustrated with scenes of major cities, regional industries and agricultural products (tea, silk, etc.), typical costumes, modes of transport etc., and also the portraits of Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang, with descriptive comments on the scenes and Chinese history.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
WILDE (OSCAR)The Sphinx, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, printed in green, red and black, 10 large illustrations and other decorations by Charles Ricketts, a few pages with some spotting, publisher's pictorial vellum gilt after a design by Ricketts, light spotting, preserved in morocco-backed solander box, gilt lettered on spine [Mason 361], 4to (220 x 173mm.), Elkin Matthews and John Lane, and Copeland and Day, 1894Footnotes:Provenance: Robert Sebag-Montefiore, 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
NASH (PAUL)Shell-Mex House, FIRST EDITION, 9 photographic illustrations, several plans printed in red and black, publisher's boards, upper cover with colour lithograph after a design by Paul Nash, light soiling and spotting, 8vo, [Printed at the Curwen Press], 1933Footnotes:SCARCE. The lithographed cover of this small-format guide to the newly opened Shell-Mex building, printed by the Curwen Press, is taken from a coloured crayon drawing by Nash, who 'illustrates the dramatic perspective of the building, built on the site of the old Hotel Cecil. His 'flint-clouds' echo many of his 1930s paintings' (Brian Webb and Peyton Skipwith, Paul Nash. John Nash. Design, 2006).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
NEELE (GEORGE AND SAMUEL)General Atlas Consisting of a Complete Set of Maps Compiled from the Best Authorities and Including all the New Discoveries, engraved title, 62 hand-coloured engraved maps (some double-page), light spotting to title, later green half calf, red gilt morocco spine label, hinges starting, folio (360 x 260mm.), by the Engravers, 1814Footnotes:As well as maps of the British Isles (including Ancient Britain) and the United States, the Atlas contains detailed maps of less travelled regions such as West Africa, demonstrating that exploration was expanding beyond coastal trading towns. Provenance: R.H. Johnstone, bookplate with crest and motto of the Clan Johnstone ('Nunquam non paratus').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
ROCHESTER (JOHN WILMOT, Earl of)Poems, (&c.) on Several Occasions: with Valentinian; a Tragedy, title within 2-line border, old ink ownership name struck through on title, occasional light damp stains and browning, late nineteenth century half maroon morocco, rubbed [ESTC R35149], Jacob Tonson, 1696--BURNET (GILBERT) Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Honourable John, Earl of Rochester Who Died the 26th of July, 1680, FIRST EDITION, issue with errata on leaf A8v, engraved frontispiece portrait of Rochester by J. White, title within 2-line border, a few marginal ink or pencil markings in two hands (one early, one later), contemporary calf, worn, small wormhole to spine [ESTC R15099], Richard Chiswell, 1680, 8vo (2)Footnotes:Provenance: First work, J. Cresswell, Bewick-style bookplate. Second work, Thomas Fairfax, early inscription ('E. Libris Tho: Fairfax') on title; Lionell Copley, armorial bookplate inside upper cover; both Robert Gathorne-Hardy (1902-1973, writer and bibliophile), bookplate in first work; Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy (1933-2019, writer), ownership inscription dated 1980 in both works; 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
ALDINE PRESSCICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS) Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M.Brutum, ad Quintu fratrem, colophon dated 1659, Aldine device on title and final leaf, light arc of damp-staining to upper fore-corner of opening 18 leaves, extensive ink annotations to title, opening leaves and final endpapers in nineteenth century hand, some marginal annotations in an earlier hand, later vellum, soiled, upper hinge cracked [Ahmanson-Murphy 572; Renouard 174:9], Venice, [Paulus Manutius], 1558-1559--EURIPIDES. Hecuba, & Iphigenia in Aulide Euripidis tragdiæ, translated into Latin by Erasmus, capital spaces with guide-letters, nineteenth century red morocco, worn [Ahmanson-Murphy 1137; Renouard 309:24], [Lyon, c.1509], 8vo; and another, Aldine (3)Footnotes:The Euripides is a counterfeit Aldine printed in Lyon.Provenance: First, Wm. Dixon, nineteenth century ownership inscription on title; unidentified writer of most of the ink annotations; A.M. Woodward (1883-1973, archaeologist and classical lecturer), pencil inscription dated Nov. 1949; Second, Samuel Butler (1774-1839), Bishop of Lichfield, his sale 'Bibliotheca Butleriana' ('the most extensive series ever submitted to Public Sale, of Books printed by Aldus Pius Manutius', catalogue introduction), Christie's, 1-9 June 1840, lot 746, tipped-in printed catalogue entry on front free endpaper; indecipherable ownership inscription dated 1875; Ernest Swain, 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
VIVIAN (GEORGE)Scenery of Portugal & Spain, pictorial lithographed title, 2 vignettes on list of plates, 32 views on 29 lithographed plates, 2 advertisement leaves, occasional light spotting but generally plates clean, recased in publisher's green quarter morocco, a few small scuff-marks [Abbey Travel 138], folio (555 x 380mm.), P. & D. Colnaghi, 1839This 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
![RUSSELL (JOHN, 6th Duke of Bedford)[FORBES (JAMES)] Salictum Woburnense: or, a Catalogue of Willows Indigenous and Foreign in](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/02e0bfb0-e8cb-4739-96ed-afc500e35fb5/379b8eb7-9fb6-4573-ae83-afc500eca8e4/468x382.jpg)
RUSSELL (JOHN, 6th Duke of Bedford)[FORBES (JAMES)] Salictum Woburnense: or, a Catalogue of Willows Indigenous and Foreign in the Collection of the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 50 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED 'To the Tavistock Library From the Duke of Bedford' on the front free endpaper, folding lithographed frontispiece, 140 hand-coloured engraved plates after R.C. Stratford, remnant of printed limitation slip pasted to the front free endpaper, occasional light spotting and toning, contemporary straight-grained green morocco gilt, g.e., slightly scuffed [Brunet II 1336; Nissen BBI 642], 4to, 1829Footnotes:Provenance: Tavistock Subscription Library, with bookplate, to whom this copy was donated by John Russell in 1829. The library was founded in 1799, and in 1810 Russell had paid a guinea for membership for himself and his wife. Russell's father was Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock, and in 1831 he funded the building of new premises at Court Gate for the library.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
JUSTINIAN IInstitutiones Imperiales, gothic letter, printed in red and black throughout, 2 columns with gloss, woodcut device and woodblock border on title, 2 woodcuts (one double-page, slightly shaved at foot), dark stain to 5 leaves of preliminary matter (including one woodcut), occasional other light soiling or marginal stains, tear touching letters repaired to fol. 124, extensive sixteenth century marginalia in a neat hand throughout, eighteenth century polished calf, g.e., rebacked to match [Adams J618], 4to, Paris, Udalricus Gering & Bertholdus Rembolt, 5 December, 1505--CUJAS (JACQUES) Paratitla in libros IX Codicis Justiniani repetitae praelectionis, early blind- and gilt-stamped calf, fragment of early manuscript used as binder's waste at end, rebacked with some loss to spine, varnished, 8vo, Paris, Sebastian Nivelle, 1579--GRATIANUS. Decretum [-Sextus liber Decretalium], 2 vol., with the gloss of Joannes Andreae, printed in red and black, woodcut device on titles, corner of title repaired to first volume, old repair to margin of 4 leaves (with loss of signature on cc1) in second volume, non-uniform morocco antique, first volume edges speckled in red, small folio, Paris, [Hugo a Porta and Antonio Vincent], 1559--JUSTINIAN I. Volumen complectitur Novellas constitutiones Justiniani principis post repetitam Codicis prælectionem editas, 3 parts in 1 vol., printed in red and black, printer's device on title, occasional mostly marginal light damp-stains, heavier on pp.337-8 of first part, early calf, lacks covers, small folio, Paris, Hugo a Porta, 1557 (5)Footnotes:Provenance: First, Robert Wythe, early ownership inscription on title, seemingly in the same hand as the numerous marginal annotations. A possible candidate is Robert Wythe, of Droitwich, c.1523-86), a lawyer who represented Droitwich from its enfranchisement in 1554 to the end of the 1563 Parliament.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
PELE - FOOTBALLPele. Edson Arantes do Nascimento, NUMBER 32 OF 2,500 COPIES SIGNED BY PELE on the limitation page, photographic illustrations throughout, as issued with a pair of white gloves (each with number 10), publisher's maroon cloth, and pictorial solander box (light wear to corners), g.e., folio (460 x 350mm.), Sao Paulo, Gloria Books, 2006This 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, FIRST EDITION, light spotting and old pencil notes to front free endpaper, publisher's black cloth with gun and rose design in gilt and red on upper cover, slightly rubbed at extremity of spine, dust-jacket (spine slightly darkened, frayed at spine extremities and corners, some spotting/toning to lower cover) [Gilbert A5a(1.1)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, [1957]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
![[LYNDWOOD (WILLIAM)]Provinciale seu Constitutiones Anglie cum summariis [-Constitutiones legitime seu legatine regionis Angli](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/02e0bfb0-e8cb-4739-96ed-afc500e35fb5/cc121c7d-19b2-4eda-bbc5-afc500ecb660/468x382.jpg)
[LYNDWOOD (WILLIAM)]Provinciale seu Constitutiones Anglie cum summariis [-Constitutiones legitime seu legatine regionis Anglicanae], 2 parts in one vol., edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius, gothic letter, printed in red and black, woodcut pictorial titles, full-page woodcut illustration (final leaf of part one), one woodcut illustration in the text, woodcut device of Bretton's coat of arms, large criblé initials and manicules throughout, without final blank leaf (K6) of second part, 6 leaves misbound in part 1, light soiling to opening title, early ink annotations in a few margins, eighteenth century calf, rebacked [ESTC S122285; Adams L2116; Beale, T405], folio (350 x 240mm.), [Paris, Wolfgang Hopyl for William Bretton, 23 March 1505]Footnotes:A pencil note mentions that the early owner Miles Lyghe (or Lye) was at Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1558, becoming Rector of Dartington, Devon in 1570.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 Goblet of Fire, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the dedication leaf, light toning as usual, publisher's pictorial boards, lower spine with slight crease, dust-jacket (spine slightly faded, extremities slightly frayed), 8vo, Bloomsbury, [2000]; sold with a 'Golden Ticket' to a book signing event, 2 original photographs of the event (one of Rowling seated) and the bookshop's A4 poster announcing it (small collection)Footnotes:SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ELEVEN DAYS AFTER PUBLICATION AT A 'GOLDEN TICKET' EVENT. The signing took place at Hammicks Bookshop (now Waterstones), St. Albans between 5pm to 6pm on 19 July 2000. The current owner was working at the shop, and had this copy signed. It is accompanied by a 'golden ticket' (with details of event, and 'Admit One'), an A4 poster advertising the event, and 2 original photographs of the venue, one showing Rowling seated at a desk, the other of staff on the shop floor awaiting her arrival.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
ANONYMOUSThe Point of Honour. A Novel, 2 vol. in 1, FIRST EDITION, THE ONLY KNOWN COPY, half-titles within upper and lower border of typographical ornaments, 8-page publisher's catalogue at end, occasional light soiling and spotting, circulating library-style contemporary half calf, covers rubbed with one small hole in leather on upper cover, and slight loss to paper on lower cover, 12mo (163 x 100mm.), Printed by W. Adlard for Francis & John Noble, 1768Footnotes:'ALL HANDSOME WOMEN ARE WITCHES; AND YOU ARE WONDROUS HANDSOME': A REDISCOVERED NOVEL OF 1768, UNTIL NOW THOUGHT ONLY TO SURVIVE IN ITS LATER FRENCH TRANSLATION.No copies are recorded by ESTC, WorldCat, Library Hub Discover or Rare Books Hub. One of only two twentieth century references to the existence of the original novel we have traced is a 2015 Samuel Gedge catalogue which has stated that since 'The point of honour. A novel. (London, 1768) is not recorded in ESTC it may be that this scarce French translation is all that survives' - which did seem to be the case until now. However, Library Hub Discover lists 4 copies of the 1770 French translation (Le point d'honneur. Nouvelle angloise, 3 vol., Paris, 1770), one of which is held by Leeds University who attribute the translation (we assume) to 'Félix' (Barbier)', and state that 'Martin, Mylne & Frautschi confirm that it is a translation from the English The point of honour; the latter is not recorded in the ESTC' (see Bibliographie du genre romanesque français 1751-1800, by Angus Martin, Vivienne G. Mylne, Richard Frautsch, Mansell, 1977, p.150).Antonia Forster's Index to Book Reviews in England 1749-1774 (Southern Illinois University Press, 1990) records four contemporary references to the original novel, one of which is a short synopsis in The Critical Review, vol. 26, 1768, p.376: 'This novel is of the see-saw kind... A gentleman falls in love with a lady, who is forced to marry another man... yet this gentleman falls in love again.. the former dearee becomes a widow.. [but] falls into consumption and dies, and leaves her fortune to our hero...that happiness is the result, is as sure as that three and two make five'. An internet search brings up only the above mentioned 1768 references and the Gedge catalogue.Provenance: Johann Siegried von Buch, Stolpe an der Oder (Brandenburg), bookplate, and ink stamp on front free endpaper; UK 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
WATERLOO & QUATRE BRASAutograph letter signed ('William Allen') to his family ('Dear Father and Mother, Brothers and Sisters'), writing home with a first-hand account of his involvement in the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo, firstly marching to Fleurus '...we immediately began the attack in a wood; we fought until ½ past nine at night when the French retreated although they ware 8 to one against us... we kept possession of the wood that night. At 4 o'clock the next morning we were reinforced by 20 thousand Cavalry and 4 Brigades of Artillery as soon as we received this relief we marched to a place called Waterloo the same evening...', with an account of the battle ('...the British Army was formed into squares 5 of which prepared to receive the Enemy Cavalry as for our Regiment it covered the Artillery by forming 2 squars in it's rear... we remained about 4 hours... Buonaparte headed his men in 3 different charges on our Regiment but was compelled to retreat... The Duke of Wellington ordered 2 devisions of light Infantry to flank the Enemy lines and immediately a general charge being put into execution the enemy began to retreat with confusion... no tongue can tell the horrible sight which appeared before us when we advanced. Guns, Carriages, Ammunition, Wagons, Men and Horses lying one on another...'), the charge ('...for about 6 English Miles weary and fatigued Bayonet to Bayonet and Sword to Sword...'), and the aftermath ('...We halted that night in an Orchard where I was glad to take a drop of Water from a pit where 5 or 6 dead Men and Horses were lying...'), promising to give a 'more particular account' in his next letter, 3 pages, dust-staining and discolouration, creased at folds with some small holes, edges frayed, 4to (223 x 183mm.), 'British Army Do. Ulysses Camp before Paris', 24 August 1815Footnotes:'I WAS GLAD TO TAKE A DROP OF WATER FROM A PIT WHERE 5 OR 6 DEAD MEN AND HORSES WERE LYING': A first-hand account of the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo written just two months after Wellington's great victory.The author of this letter home is likely to be Private William Allen of the 2nd Battalion 69th (South Lincolnshire) Foot, No. 5 Company, commanded by Captain Matthew Jenmour. The 69th, stationed in Holland before their deployment, was extremely inexperienced with a length of service among the privates of 3 ½ years, less than any other British regiment at Waterloo and with an average age of just 21 years old (Age of Revolution website).Allen's description of the action at Quatre Bras, whilst containing much detail, would seem to be an abridged version for family consumption, glossing over the terrible losses suffered by his regiment. Rather he talks of their success in holding the wood despite being outnumbered and neither does he mention that they suffered the added dishonour of losing their regimental standard to the French, which was later recaptured at Waterloo. As soon as they were relieved at Quatre Bras, Allen describes how the exhausted troops immediately marched to 'a place called Waterloo' for a final stand. Martin Aaron in his article '2nd Battalion 69th (South Lincolnshire) Foot during the Waterloo Campaign' on the napoleon-series.org website notes that William Allen was wounded in the action, a fact also not revealed here to his family.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BRAZILBURMEISTER (HERMANN) Landschaftliche Bilder Brasiliens und Portraits einiger Urvolker, Atlas vol. only, FIRST EDITION, 11 tinted lithographed plates after Burmeister, occasional light spotting, text supplied in facsimile, modern half morocco, oblong folio (300 x 420mm.), [Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1853]--KIDDER (D.P.) AND J.C. FLETCHER. Brazil and the Brazilians, Philadelphia, engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 maps (1 folding, detached), and 18 plates (2 hand-coloured), Childs & Peterson, 1857--AGASSIZ (E. AND LOUIS) Voyage au Bresil, translated by Felix Vogeli, 5 plates and maps (one folding), Paris, L. Hachette, 1869--BIARD (FRANCOIS) Deux annees au Bresil, numerous woodcut illustrations by E. Riou after Biard, Paris, L. Hachette, 1862, contemporary morocco or quarter morocco, g.e., rubbed, 8vo (4)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
ORWELL (GEORGE)Burmese Days, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ('George Orwell') on the reverse of the half-title, title printed in green and black, publisher's orange cloth printed in black, light soiling, spine faded [Fenwick A.2a], 8vo, New York, Harper & Bros., 1934Footnotes:RARE SIGNED COPY OF ORWELL'S SECOND PUBLISHED BOOK, HIS FIRST NOVEL. Having been rejected by Gollancz, Heinemann and Cape, Burmese Days was published on 25 October 1934 by Harper's in New York in an edition of 2,000 copies. 'In his literary notebooks, Orwell described this as 'the true first edition', as opposed to the first British edition [published by Gollancz in June 1935] which he considered 'a garbled version and should NOT be followed'...' (Fenwick, George Orwell. A Bibliography, 1998, p.21).Provenance: Estate of Ian Angus (1926-2022). Angus co-edited, with Sonia Orwell Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters of George Orwell, 1968, and assisted Peter Davison in editing the 20-volume The Complete Works of George Orwell. He was also instrumental in establishing the Orwell Archive at the University of London.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
![[LYNDWOOD (WILLIAM)]Provinciale seu constitutiones Anglie [edited by J. Badius], 212 leaves, 73 lines and headline, gothic l](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/02e0bfb0-e8cb-4739-96ed-afc500e35fb5/93182598-45db-4468-b6d3-afc500ecb59e/468x382.jpg)
[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, 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 blindstamped 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
![FORESTRY[HAMILTON (THOMAS, EARL OF HADDINGTON)] A Treatise on the Manner of Raising Forest Trees &c... to Which are Added](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/02e0bfb0-e8cb-4739-96ed-afc500e35fb5/b1eee910-26af-4bc9-8f31-afc500eca4f2/468x382.jpg)
FORESTRY[HAMILTON (THOMAS, EARL OF HADDINGTON)] A Treatise on the Manner of Raising Forest Trees &c... to Which are Added, Two Memoirs; the One on Preserving and Repairing Forests; The Other on the Culture of Forests... both Translated from the French of M. De Buffon, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece, without final blank, light browning, pencil name and date added to title, contemporary calf, rebacked, Edinburgh, G. Hamilton and J. Balfour, 1761--[HAYES (SAMUEL)] A Practical Treatise on Planting, and Management of Woods and Coppices, FIRST EDITION, engraved pictorial title-page, 4 engraved plates (one folding), engraved illustrations in the text, upper cover detached [Henrey 774], Dublin, William Sleater, 1794--AGRICOLA, Pseud. of JAMES ANDERSON. Miscellaneous Observations on Planting and Training Timber-trees; Particularly Calculated for the Climate of Scotland, half-title [Henrey 409], Edinburgh, Charles Elliot, and Thomas Cadell, 1777--BOUTCHER (WILLIAM, Nurseryman, at Comely-Garden, Edinburgh) A Treatise on Forest-Trees, third edition, one engraved plate [Henrey 479], Dublin, William Wilson, 1784--MANWOOD (JOHN) Manwood's Treatise of the Forest Laws... Fourth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. By William Nelson, rebacked in calf gilt with red morocco spine label, corners worn [Goldsmiths 5346], B. Lintott [and others], 1717, contemporary calf--STEUART (HENRY) The Planter's Guide; or, a Practical Essay on the Best Method of Giving Immediate Effect to Wood, by the Removal of Large Trees and Underwood, second edition 'Greatly improved and enlarged', engraved frontispiece after William Turner, advertisement note before half-title, contemporary boards, back cracked with contents in sections, lacks spine, Edinburgh, John Murray, 1828, 8vo--CORREA DE SERRA (JOSEPH) On a Submarine Forest, on the East Coast of England... From the Philosophical Transactions, SEPARATELY PRINTED EDITION, stitched, without wrappers, [London, 1799], 8vo and small 4to (7)Footnotes:Provenance: Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp on inner covers.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
ISHERWOOD (CHRISTOPHER)Sally Bowles, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page (crossing through his name), publisher's light blue cloth, a light soiling and rubbing at edges but generally good, 8vo, Hogarth Press, 1937Footnotes:Signed copy of the book which was inspired by Isherwood's experiences in the Weimar Republic and his intimate friendship with the nineteen-year-old cabaret singer Jean Ross. In 1939 Isherwood incorporated the novella into the longer novel Goodbye to Berlin, the inspiration for the film Cabaret with Liza Minnelli memorably playing the role of Sally Bowles.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
MALTON (THOMAS)A Picturesque Tour through the Cities of London and Westminster, Illustrated with the Most Interesting Views, Accurately Delineated and Executed in Aquatint, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved title-pages, engraved dedication to the Prince of Wales, letterpress list of subscribers, 100 aquatint plates, spotting and some foxing (quite extensive in volume 1, light dampstain in corner of some plates, including nos. 88-100 in volume 2, a few shaved with loss to imprint), finely bound in contemporary red morocco gilt, sides elaborately tooled with roll-tool outer border, inner panels and decorative corner pieces, spine in 7 compartments within raised bands, joints and spine ends rubbed, g.e. [Abbey Scenery 204], folio (420 x 300mm.), Thomas Malton, 1792[-1801]Footnotes:Finely bound copy of Malton's rare series of London views, with the plates uncoloured.Provenance: Nigel Ronald, 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
![RUSSELL (JOHN, 6th Duke of Bedford)[SINCLAIR (GEORGE)] Hortus Ericaeus Woburnensis: or, a Catalogue of Heaths, in the Collec](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/02e0bfb0-e8cb-4739-96ed-afc500e35fb5/810a74c7-a420-4c18-b60b-afc500e8a775/468x382.jpg)
RUSSELL (JOHN, 6th Duke of Bedford)[SINCLAIR (GEORGE)] Hortus Ericaeus Woburnensis: or, a Catalogue of Heaths, in the Collection of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 50 COPIES], engraved title with vignette, 2 mounted lithographed views of the Heath-house, 2 double-page aquatint plans of the House, 4 hand-coloured window mounted botanical plates, 2 hand-coloured charts with gradations of colour by George Hayter, engraved tail-piece, very light spotting and occasional soiling, mostly to the text, contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt, worn, g.e. [Brunet II 1336, Nissen BBI 1849], 4to, 1825Footnotes:The first and most elusive of the Woburn catalogues, one of probably fewer than 50 copies printed, all for private distribution.Provenance: Tavistock Subscription Library, to whom this copy was donated by John Russell in 1825, with bookplate. The library was founded in 1799, and in 1810 Russell paid a guinea for membership for himself and his wife. Russell's father was Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock, and in 1831 he funded the building of new premises at Court Gate for the library.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
SINCLAIR (GEORGE)Satan's Invisible World Discovered: A Choice Collection of Modern Relations, Proving Evidently, Against the Atheists of This Present Age, That There Are Devils, Spirits Witches, and Apparitions, from Authentic Records, and Attestations of Undoubted Veracity, second edition, p.204 misnumbered 294 as usual, contents leaves misbound at end, loss to lower outer corner of opening 50 leaves (affecting letters on dedication and on pp.4-28), lower margin cropped with loss of a few letters to p.171 and minor loss to one leaf of the contents, light damp-stains, short tear to last leaf, corners rounded, modern quarter morocco, rubbed [ESTC T47082], 12mo, Edinburgh, Alex McCaslan, 1769Footnotes:In this work, first published in 1685, George Sinclair, a Scottish Presbyterian professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, aimed to refute atheism and to prove the existence of Satan, witchcraft, and ghostly apparitions, by reporting a collection of supposedly true stories, including that of the Devil of Glenluce.Provenance: Veronica Murphy, 2 April 1958, inscription on first flyleaf.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)Dr. No, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, light spotting and old pencil note to endpapers, bookseller's label on front paste-down, publisher's cloth with 'silhouette' design (second state), dust-jacket (frayed at extremities, abrasions and slight loss to fold of lower flap, toned) [Gilbert A6a(1.3)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, [1958]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
DAHL (ROALD)The BFG... Pictures by Quentin Blake, first American edition, NUMBER 162 OF 300 COPIES signed by the author and illustrator, publisher's red cloth, gilt design on upper cover, gilt blocked and lettered spine, fine in light blue cloth slipcase, 8vo, New York, Farrer, Strauss, Giroux, 1982This 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
HOBBES (THOMAS)Elementa philosophica de cive, engraved pictorial title, thin trace of worming to opening half, mostly lower margin but touching letters on some pages, later vellum, upper hinge split [Willem 1048, 3 variants, our copy pp. [48], 403, issued without portrait], 12mo, Amsterdam, Elzevir, 1647--HEYLYN (PETER) A Help to English History, Containing a Succession of All the Kings of England, some early ink annotations, light damp-stain at inner margin to a few pages, contemporary calf, worn, upper cover near detached [ESTC R18864], 8vo, T. Basset and C. Wilkinson, 1680--CUMBERLAND (RICHARD) De legibus naturae disquisitio philosophica, blank piece of lower margin torn away from 3 leaves, light browning throughout, several ink and numerous pencil annotations throughout, contemporary calf, worn, upper cover detached [ESTC T101673], 8vo, Dublin, J. Carson, 1720--[CHARLES II] Eikōn basilikē deutera. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majesty King Charles II. With his Reasons for Turning Roman Catholick... Found in a Strong Box, engraved frontispiece, later calf, worn, upper cover detached [ESTC R14898], 8vo, [London, no publisher], 1694--CALVIN (JOHN) The Institution of Christian Religion... Translated into English, title within decorative woodcut border (laid down with some small losses at lower section), arc of damp-staining to lower section of approximately 200 opening leaves, later calf, worn, joints weakened [ESTC S107162], small folio, John Norton, 1611--BURTON (JOHN) Monasticon Eboracense: and the Ecclesiastical History of Yorkshire, 3 folding maps and plates, fore-edges softened to opening leaves, contemporary calf, worn [ESTC T153577], folio, for the Author, by N. Nickson, 1758; and 8 others (14)Footnotes:Provenance: Third title, Robert Conway, inscription dated 1769 on dedication leaf; Fourth, 'Found amongst the ruins after the destruction of the House of Commons by Fire in 1833', ink note 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
AUSTEN (JANE)Pride and Prejudice, second 'Peacock edition', illustrations by Hugh Thomson, gutter margin of pp.470-471 strengthened with archival tape and light spotting, publisher's dark blue pictorial cloth gilt, g.e., light mark on upper cover, extremities of spine slightly worn but generally fresh, 8vo, George Allen, [March 1895]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, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with the number sequence 10 to 1 on the reverse of the title-page, light spotting to page edges, publisher's pictorial boards (corners and spine ends bumped), pictorial dust-jacket (top and bottom edges frayed, corners of upper cover chipped with some losses) [Errington A2(a)], 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1998]Footnotes:Provenance: Given to the present owner by his mother, inscribed 'To Christian lots of love Mum x. Aug. '98' 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
ALBIN (ELEAZAR)A Natural History of English Insects. Illustrated with a Hundred Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven from Life: And (for those who desire it) Exactly Coloured by the Author, FIRST EDITION, 100 hand-coloured engraved plates after drawings by the author, each with accompanying text leaf by W. Derham, list of subscribers, plates 3 and 4 trimmed just touching text and laid down, toning and light spotting throughout, some offsetting, occasional pencil annotations, some pages creased, near contemporary quarter calf with marbled boards, upper cover near detached, worn [ESTC T85973; Nissen ZBI 58; Freeman 45; Lisney 119], 4to, for the Author, 1720Footnotes:'Each plate is dedicated to a subscriber or well-known personality, undoubtedly those who acted as patrons or took an interest in Albin's drawings of insects' (Lisney).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BOOK OF HOURS, USE OF PARISCes presentes heures a lusaige de Paris, text in French and Latin, gothic type, printed in red and black, printer's device on title and on verso of final leaf, 55 large woodcuts including Anatomical Man and calendar illustrations, numerous woodcut historiated initials throughout, tips of upper fore-corners to opening few leaves neatly repaired, light soiling to title and final leaf, modern red morocco [not in Bohatta], 8vo (170 x 110mm.), [Paris], Thielman Kerver, 1549Footnotes:Provenance: Albert Ehrman (Broxbourne Library), bookplate, and blue stamp ('AE'), and pencil inscription ('Horae on paper are uncommon. A.E'). Ehrman (1890-1969) was a diamond merchant who dated the start of his incunabula collection to 'shortly after the end of the First World War, when we were living[...] at Broxbourne in Hertfordshire' following the acquisition of a Venetian incunable from 1492 in its original binding. In 1978, part of the collection was presented to the to the Bodleian Library, through the Friends of the National Libraries, by John Ehrman, and is now known as the 'Broxbourne Collection' (see Albert Ehrman, 'Contemporary Collectors II: The Broxbourne Library', The Book Collector, 3, 1954).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 CARRÉ (JOHN)The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, FIRST EDITION, publisher's light blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, spine ends slightly rubbed, dust-jacket (price-clipped, a few light spots on lower cover), 8vo, Victor Gollancz, 1963This 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
MEGANDER (KASPAR)In epistolam Pauli ad ephesios commentarius: unà cum Joannis rhellicani epistola monitoria. Nunc recens in lucem aeditus, some light soiling and damp-staining (towards end), contemporary limp vellum, spine with title in ink and sewn with leather cords (one defective on inside), a section cut from a medieval manuscript leaf in Latin bound in as rear free endpaper, crinkled and soiled [USTC 658735], Basel, Heinrich Petri, [1534]--CLAUDIANUS (CLAUDIUS) Quotquot nostra hac tempestate extant opuscula, ad seriem subsequentem, a little worming at foot of first few gatherings (affecting some letters/words), later tree calf, rebacked [Adams C2079; USTC 181267], Paris, Simon de Colines, [colophon: May] 1530, 8vo (2)Footnotes:Provenance: Second work, Alexander Robert Loftus Tottenham (1873-1946, civil servant and administrator, Diwan of Pudukkottai state 1934-1944); Richard and Magdalen Goffin, bookplates.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHESSSALVIO (ALESSANDRO) Il Puttino, altramente detto il cavaliero errante, FIRST EDITION, second impression; Trattato dell' Inventione et Arte Liberale del Gioco di Scacchi, second edition, 2 works in 1 vol., woodcut device on titles, historiated initials, some foxing and light toning, contemporary limp vellum, title inked on spine, some soiling, 4to, Naples, Giovanni Domenico Montanaro, 1634Footnotes:Alessandro Salvio (1575-1640) was an Italian lawyer and acclaimed chess-player. He started a chess academy in his native Naples and was one of the most successful players of his time, excelling also in blindfold chess.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
WILDE (OSCAR)The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3., FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 800 COPIES ON HAND-MADE PAPER, half-title, untrimmed in publisher's cream and mustard cloth, gilt title on spine, light age soiling, preserved in morocco-backed solander box, gilt lettered on spine [Mason 371], 8vo, Leonard Smithers, 1898Footnotes:Provenance: Robert Sebag-Montefiore.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
CODY (WILLIAM FREDERICK 'BUFFALO BILL')Group pertaining to the theft and recovery of jewels belonging to William Cody at Dudley, West Midlands, comprising: autograph letter signed ('Your friend/ W.F. Cody') to Walter Noel Greenwell ('My dear Noel'), confirming he has the jewels and the thief ('...the Detectives used your photograph to identify him. Although Mr Decker my secretary caught him. I think you are going to be a great artist...'), and remembering him to his mother, one page on a bifolium, gilt embossed headed paper depicting a buffalo, creased, light dust-staining, 8vo (182 x 114mm.), T.E. Ranch, Olympia, London, W., 22 June [19]03; with autograph letter signed by Cody's mistress ('Besse Isbell/ Buffalo Bill's Wild West') to Greenwell, regarding the '...picture of Col. Cody, the tent boy and myself...', hoping he has not destroyed the plate and emphatically saying '...We need a picture of that tent boy very very much – and as soon as possible...', four pages on a bifolium, gilt embossed headed paper depicting a buffalo creased, light dust-staining, 8vo (182 x 114mm.), Dudley, 17 June [1903]; a bromide photograph depicting Colonel Cody in stage costume, seated next to Besse Isbell and William Puzey standing outside a tent, 95 x 70mm., mounted on card 165 x 120mm., some surface abrasions, mount torn and scuffed, [Parade Ground, Dudley, 17 June 1903]; with two press cuttings roughly torn from the Dudley Herald describing the theft and Puzey's trial (5)Footnotes:'WE NEED A PICTURE OF THAT TENT BOY VERY VERY MUCH': A YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER HELPS APPREHEND BUFFALO BILL'S JEWEL THIEF.Buffalo Bill's spectacular Wild West Show toured extensively throughout Great Britain from December 1902 to October 1903. In June 1903 the show stopped at the Parade Ground in Dudley where he was visited in camp by a young Walter Noel Greenwell. Colonel Cody agreed that Greenwell could take his photograph, and posed alongside his assistant (and mistress) Besse Isbell and his valet William Puzey, aged 21. The following week, on 17 June 1903, it was discovered that a large quantity of Cody's jewellery had been stolen during a performance. The valet, who had also disappeared, was the obvious prime suspect: '...valued at between £500 and £600... A valet, who had access to the box in which the valuables were kept, is suspected... The articles stolen include a diamond studded pin, given to Colonel Cody by the King when he visited the Wild West Show at Olympia; a double gold rope chain, a diamond horseshoe pendant with seven stones... buffalo-head cufflinks, given by the Grand Duke of Alexis of Russia [for whom he had guided a buffalo and hunting party] and about £4 in gold...' (Dudley Herald). A report of the trial from the same newspaper describes the jewels in more detail and notes that Cody entrusted them to Puzey to put in his trunk whilst he went into the ring. On discovering the theft, Besse Isbell immediately wrote to Greenwell asking if he still had the plate negative and according to an annotation on one of the press cuttings 'Noel took photo to Colonel Cody June 18th/03'. As a result the police were able identify Puzey and he was apprehended by Louis Edward Decker, Cody's manager and brother-in-law at an address in Radcliffe Gardens, South Kensington at 10.30am on 20 June. All the jewels were recovered and after admitting the theft ('...The stuff was no good to me, and I was going to send the lot back to the colonel...'), Puzey was tried at a court in Dudley and sentenced to six months imprisonment.Besse or Bessie Isbell (b.1872) of Washington DC began to travel with Buffalo Bill's Wild West in 1900, initially to help publicise Helen Cody Westmore's book Last of the Great Scouts and then as a press agent for the show. The Billboard described her as '...a cattle queen at home, [who] owns the next ranch to Buffalo Bill, at Cody, Wyoming...' (11 May 1901). She was one of several women cited in Cody's divorce proceedings in 1905. The letters and photograph have been in the Greenwell family until recently.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
GLAREAN (HEINRICH)Dodekachordon, FIRST EDITION, illustrated throughout with type-set music, woodcut thematical diagrams and tables, a full-page woodcut of a 24-string zither, historiated and decorative initials, 5-page errata at end with printer's device on verso of final leaf, first and final sections with some light browning and damp-staining and occasional stains (D6-7 with small hole causing loss of 2-3 letters), a1-2 with faint remains of old ownership inscription, these and last 3 leaves remounted at gutter, small hole in V2 with loss of one letter and note, X4 and Y6 cropped with loss of signature mark and catchword, occasional early annotations in black ink (and a couple of amendments, crossings through and some smudges), early calf, sides with gilt rule borders, repaired and rebacked preserving much of original spine [Adams G765; Hirsch, i 226; RISM, Ecrits p.366; USTC 659884], folio (302 x 203mm.), Basle, H. Petri, 1547Footnotes:ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL TEXT BOOKS OF THE MUSICAL RENAISSANCE, with over 120 compositions by Josquin des Pres, Obrecht, Ockeghem, Mouton and many others. The Dodekachordon is the work of Heinrich Glarean (1488–1563), the poet and musical theorist described by his friend Erasmus as 'the champion of Swiss humanism'. In it, the author set out his revolutionary system of twelve modes, four of which were newly identified, including the major (Ionian) and minor (Aeolian) modes. These he incorporated into the traditional scheme, and he trumpeted his innovation by listing them on the title-page. The book is divided into three parts, beginning with a study of Boethius, going on to trace the use of the musical modes in plainsong and monophony, and concluding with an extended study of polyphony. It was instrumental in spreading the concept of the emotional appeal of composers such as Josquin, and influenced theorists from Merulo to Morley and Zacconi. Glarean's explanation of the musical modes is still largely accepted today.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BINDING - FRENCHL'Office de la Semaine Sainte, half-title, light toning, contemporary French red morocco gilt, 'Dubuisson plaque' design centred on a large vase of flowers on covers, spine elaborately tooled in six compartments within raised bands, g.e., 8vo, Paris, G. Desprez, 1758Footnotes:Provenance: Pirot Demolins, ownership inscription on half-title; Lord and Lady Iliffe of Basildon Park; Christie's South Kensington, 2 June 2008, lot 49.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
![GELLIUS (AULUS)Noctium atticarum libri vindeuigniti [edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius], title printed in red and black wit](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/02e0bfb0-e8cb-4739-96ed-afc500e35fb5/2aa7500b-b7b9-487a-9128-afc500e8cbc0/468x382.jpg)
GELLIUS (AULUS)Noctium atticarum libri vindeuigniti [edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius], title printed in red and black within woodcut border and with large device, with final blank, Paris, Jodocus Badius Ascensius, March 1530-- MOSELLANUS (PETRUS) Annotationes.... in... Noctes atticas, title within woodcut border and with large device, [Paris, Jodocus Badius Ascensius, November 1528], 2 works bound in 1 vol., some damp-stains (light to title, mostly to fore-margins, some softening and a few small paper repairs towards end of second mentioned work), early seventeenth century French morocco gilt, covers with repeated fleur-de-lys ornaments and in the centre the arms of the College de Grassin [Olivier 1973], neatly rebacked preserving spine tooled in compartments with fleur-de-lys ornaments, corners refurbished, new endpapers, folio (330 x 210mm.)Footnotes:Provenance: Jo. ?Paruth 1790, ownership inscription in upper margin of first title; Bousson, chanoine de Poligny, bookplate; Sotheby's, 5 February 1979, lot 95.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
HARTLEY (L.P.)Night Fears and other Stories, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, half-title, minor foxing throughout, light off-setting of jacket flaps onto front free endpapers, untrimmed in publisher's green buckram gilt (light edgewear), pictorial dust-jacket priced 7/6 (spine soiled with some loss to head and foot), 8vo, G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1924]Footnotes:FORREST REID'S COPY OF HARTLEY'S FIRST BOOK, consisting of ghost and other short stories, some of which had appeared in the undergraduate magazine Oxford Outlook, of which Hartley had been the editor.Provenance: Forrest Reid (1875-1944, Irish novelist), signed 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
LE CARRÉ (JOHN)Call for the Dead, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, SIGNED on the title-page, half-title, light toning and spotting, publisher's red cloth (spine ends slightly rubbed), dust-jacket (price clipped, spine lightly soiled with expert restoration at ends including neat ink facsimile replacement to word 'Gollancz' and emblem at foot, a few other neat repairs at folds and horizontal margins of upper cover), 8vo, Victor Gollancz, 1961Footnotes:SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST PUBLISHED WORK, marking the first appearance of George Smiley.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
SCHEDEL (HARTMANN)Liber Chronicarum, 364 leaves (of 366, wanting 2 blanks), 51 lines and headline, double column, gothic letter, woodcut title, woodcut tile before index, c. 1800 woodcut illustrations including a large map of Northern Europe (often missing: folded, shaved at upper margin, a few neat fold repairs on verso), 2- to 8-line initials, a few ink marginalia and underlinings and early ink ownership annotations on title, tiny single wormhole to approximately 25 opening leaves, short neat tear repaired to lower margin of 9 leaves (touching letters on 4), folio 7 with margins shortened, occasional toning and light damp-stain in lower margin of a few leaves but generally good, nineteenth century marbled boards, rubbed [ISTC is00308000; USTC 748764; BMC II 370; Goff S308; GW M40786], folio (279 x 198mm.), Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger, 1 February 1497Footnotes:THE 1497 EDITION OF THE NURMEBERG CHRONICLE, COMPLETE WITH THE FOLDING MAP. This edition, which appeared three years after the publication of the monumental Augsburg original, is in a smaller format, but is considerably rarer and is characterised by the greater number of illustrations, albeit smaller in size. This is the first Latin edition printed by Schönsperger, and includes fine impressions of the illustrations based on Wohlgemuth and Pleydenwurff's originals.Provenance: Georgius Jobst, Canonical lawyer of Passau and Regensburg ('Georgius Jobst utriusque Juris Doctor Canonicus Passaviensis et Ratisbonensis possessor est huius libri [...] 1602'), early ink inscription on title page; two other ink inscriptions in an early hand on title, first flyleaf and last flyleaf; small ink stamp 'Verkaufte Doublette' on title; Bonhams, 12 November 2013, lot 254.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
DOYLE (ARTHUR CONAN)The Hound of the Baskervilles, FIRST EDITION, half-title, frontispiece and 14 plates (of 15) after Sidney Paget, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, slightly rubbed at extremities of spine and corners but generally bright [Green and Gibson A26a], 8vo, George Newnes, 1902Footnotes:Provenance: Hildur Marie Schill, of West Hartford, CT, light pencil ownership inscription on the front free endpaper.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
HAUCHINUS (JOANNES) AND MATTHIAS HOVIUSPastorale, ad usum romanum accomodatum, engraved vignette on title, one full-page engraved illustration, early blind-stamped vellum, upper cover stamped in gilt 'Aelsmaria. Anno 1616', soiled, Antwerp, ex officina Plantiniana, 1607-[CHASTEIGNER DE LA ROCHEPOSAY (HENRI-LOUIS)] Nomenclator sanctae romanae ecclesiae cardinalium qui ab anno Christi Millesimo quippiam commentati sunt, later limp vellum, Toulouse, apud Domicum de la Case, 1614--Processionale ritibus Romanae ecclesiae accomodatum, woodcut ornament on title, 7 pages of manuscript music bound at end, with index added on lower free endpaper, contemporary calf gilt, red edges, Antwerp, ex Architypographia Plantiniana, 1774--Pontificale Romanum Clementis VIII, title with engraved vignette, woodcut printer's device on final leaf, title with signature excised from 2 places filled, nineteenth century green morocco gilt, rebacked preserving original spine, Antwerp, ex officina Plantiniana, 1627--Pontificale romanum summorum pontificum... a Benedicto XIV. Pont Max., parts 3 and 4 only bound in 1, engraved vignette on titles, engraved illustrations in the text, red morocco gilt, g.e., Rome, Vincent Guerrin, 1818, folio--Missale romanum, woodcut vignette on title, 10 full-page woodcut illustration, light soiling, remnants of tabs at some fore-margins, early calf, IHS with Crucifix within heart shaped tooled in gilt on covers, rebacked to match, worn, 8vo, Paris, apud Societatem Typographicam Librorum Officii Ecclesiastici, 1603, all but the second mentioned printed in red and black, some spotting or light soiling; and 23 others, mostly theology of sixteenth and seventeenth century (29)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 - IRGUN AND LEHI PARAMILITARY BROADSIDESA collection of 15 scarce broadsides, posters and leaflets issued by the Irgun and Lehi paramilitary groups active during the British Mandate and World War II, comprising:[Irgun] 'Notice' informing the British of Irgun's intention to fight 'the oppressors of our Homeland and the destroyers of our hope...', broadside, in English, Irgun device at head, a few abrasions and light soiling, 225 x 155mm., [late 1944][Irgun] 'Azhara! Dirua B-alkam! Warning! The Government of oppression should without any delay evacuate children, women... from all its offices...', broadside, in Hebrew, Arabic, and English, a few small stains, 280 x 145mm., [1947][Irgun] HaKetz Lehishtolelut HaPor'im [The End of the Frenzied Rioters], urging the mainstream Zionist group Haganah that they would provoke a civil war if they kept persecuting the Irgun, broadside with Irgun device in upper margin, in Hebrew, 355 x 255mm., [1948][Irgun] HaYahapokh Kushi Ivuro [Can a coloured person change his skin?], urging people to leave the left-wing Mapai organization to join Irgun, broadside with Irgun device in upper margin, in Hebrew, 250 x 173mm., [c.1948] [Irgun] 'To the British Soldier in Palestine!', demanding they question the justice of the British Mandate and their role 'in oppressing Jews in their homeland', broadside with Irgun device in upper margin, in English, 310 x 220mm., [1940s][Irgun] El HaAm VeEl HaNoar! [To the Nation and to the Youth!], stating the organisation's determination to fight for the liberation of the Jewish homeland from the British, who are accused of provoking conflict between the various Jewish militant groups, poster with Irgun device in upper margin, in Hebrew, 500 x 355mm., [1947][Irgun] Hoda'ah [Notice], warning the British that they plan to attack British Headquarters in the Northern part of the country, in retaliation for the as revenge for the 'Hamburg disgrace' in which the SS Exodus, a ship of Holocaust survivors bound for Mandatory Palestine was intercepted by the Royal Navy and escorted back to British-occupied Hamburg, broadside, with Irgun device in upper margin, in Hebrew, 355 x 255mm., [1947][Irgun] El HaYishuv [To the Jewish Settlements], declaring that Irgun will continue fighting until Jewish immigration is allowed, and the administration of settled lands is transferred to the Jewish population, broadside flyer, with Irgun device in upper margin, in Hebrew, 220 x 140mm., [1944][Irgun] Az-hara, warning that the organisation has planted landmines beneath railways lines to prevent their use by the British military, broadside flyer, with Irgun device in upper margin, in Hebrew, 210 x 185mm., [1947][Irgun] Cherut [Irgun newspaper], the headline article titled 'Dov Gruner Ma'ashim' ['Dov Gruner Accuses'], reprinting Irgun member Gruner's defiant letter against British rule written after the death sentence he received for his participation in the attack of an army depot near Netanya, bifolium broadside printed on recto only, in Hebrew, remnants of old mount on verso, small piece torn away with loss of a few words of text, 340 x 495mm., [1947] [Irgun] Mul Mezimat HaOyev [Against the Enemy's Conspiracy], accusing the British of betraying the Jews, and calling upon the Jews to take up active resistance against the oppressors, broadside, with Irgun device in upper margin, 330 x 245mm., [1947][Irgun] El Kol Ivri BeMoledet [To Every Jew in the Homeland], calling on Jews to to act as informers to the British, whom they claim betrayed the Jewish population, broadside, with Irgun device in upper margin, in Hebrew, 315 x 113mm., [c.1947][Irgun] Yeda HaAm [For the Public's Knowledge], attacking the Haganah group (from whom Irgun had split), and accusing it of spreading false propaganda about Irgun, broadside, with Irgun device in upper margin, in Hebrew, 315 x 235mm., [1948][Stern Gang] HaMa'as [A Fighter's Newspaper for the Lehi/Stern group], attacking President Truman's failure to fully support a Jewish state, and the impotency of the mainstream Zionist leadership under Ben-Gurion, broadside, in Hebrew, small loss to one corner just touching a few letters, 350 x 255mm., [1948][Stern Gang] Lochamei Cheirut Yisrael [Lechi'i], Az-hara, informing the British the organisation will target Government offices, and giving advance warning to the public, broadside, in Hebrew, 250 x 180mm., [1948] HeChazi [Newspaper for the Israel Freedom Fighters], 9th issue, first and final leaf only, in Hebrew, 320 x 210mm., [1944]together 16 items, single sheets loose, some light toning or light marks, c.1944-1948 (16)Footnotes:A group of scarce broadsides issued by two major Jewish paramilitary groups, Irgun and Lehi/Stern Gang, calling on the Jewish population to oppose the British Mandate, support Jewish immigration into the region, and threaten violence against the British occupiers.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
PHOTOGRAPHY - GEORGE DAVISONA group of 5 vintage photogravures, including views of Harlech, Essex ('The Onion Field' and 'The Saltings'), and France, 4 SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER ('G. Davison') lower right beneath image, photogravures, all printed on Japanese paper, Harlech Castle print toned and light spotting, French view light overall spotting, early window-mounts, images typically approx. 180 x 240mm., French scene 120 x 95mm., trees 120 x 265mm., [c.1900-1920]; together with a first edition of 'The Book of Harlech' by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1920 (6)Footnotes:Group of vintage photogravure prints by George Davison (1855-1930), including views in Essex, Harlech and the surrounding Welsh area.Davison was an early champion of naturalism and pictorial photography, as exemplified by 'An Old Farmstead (1888), taken with a pinhole camera to produce a 'soft focus', [which] had won a prize at the PSGB exhibition of 1890. Retitled The Onion Field, it became his most famous photograph, and was fairly typical of his impressionist style' (ODNB). Davison was a founding member of the Linked Ring, his work published by Alfred Stieglitz in Camera Works, and having made a fortune through his early involvement with George Eastman and Kodak, was able to establish 'an extraordinary centre for the arts' (ODNB) at his home, Wern Fawr, near Harlech in Wales.Davison images comprise: 'The Onion Field', 'The Saltings', 'Harlech Castle', Trees in a landscape, and 'Fountain, Market Place, Aix-Les-Bains'.Included with the lot is a copy of fellow pioneering photographer and close-friend Alvin Langdon Coburn's Book of Harlech (1920), which includes a view of Davison's home at Wern Fawr.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ORWELL (GEORGE)Nineteen Eighty-four, FIRST EDITION, half-title, publisher's light green cloth, red lettering on spine (some fading), publisher's red dust-jacket designed by Michael Kennard (fading, small loss at ends of spine just touching letter 'G' at foot, a few small marginal tears) [Fenwick A12a], 8vo, Secker & Warburg, 1949This 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 Lord of the Rings:] The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King, 3 vol., FIRST ED](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/02e0bfb0-e8cb-4739-96ed-afc500e35fb5/c1af172b-7742-4d82-9435-afc500e8600c/468x382.jpg)
TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)[The Lord of the Rings:] The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSIONS, The Return of the King with signature mark '4' and sagging text on p.49, and 'Men' (no gap) on p.281, folding maps tipped-in at end of each volume, some browning of endpapers and slight foxing to fore-edges, publisher's red cloth with spines lettered in gilt, a little light staining, DUST-JACKETS, all priced 21s net, The Return of the King second state with reviews on rear flap, spines browned, creased and slightly chipped at top (not affecting lettering,[Hammond A5a-i-iii], 8vo, George Allen & Unwin, [1954-1955]Footnotes:Provenance: Richard and Magdalen Goffin.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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CHURCHILL (WINSTON)Autograph letter signed ('Winston S. Churchill'), addressed to His Majesty [George V], written in the third person ('Mr Secretary Churchill'), recommending William Henry Pickering, Inspector of Mines, and George Handle Silkstone for the Edward medal, first class, and that the second class medal be awarded to Isaac Hodges, Albert Moore, James Hosey and A. Jones for acts of 'distinguished bravery', initialled by the King ('Appd/ G.R.I.'), Home Office receiving date stamp, one page, on mourning paper, light dust-staining, one small tear right hand edge, filing hole, 4to (240 x 190mm.), Whitehall, 13 July 1910Footnotes:WINSTON CHURCHILL & THE NEW KING, GEORGE V, HONOUR BRAVE YORKSHIRE MINERS.The Edward medal was a civilian decoration instituted by Royal Warrant on 13 July 1918 to recognise acts of bravery undertaken by miners and quarrymen in endangering their lives to rescue their fellow workers, and divided into silver (first class) and bronze (second class) grades. Six men died when a newly dug shaft collapsed at Water Haigh Colliery on 7 May 1910, with accounts of the accident sharing the local papers with the news of the death of Edward VII the previous day. It took over a week for the bodies to be dug out of the rubble and, at the inquest, the coroner reported that he would relate the particular bravery of the rescuers to Winston Churchill, the Home Secretary, so that their actions in harsh and dangerous conditions could be properly recognised.The recipient of the first class medal, William Henry Pickering (c.1859-1912), His Majesty's Chief Inspector of Mines for the Yorkshire and North Midlands Division, was killed two years later in the Cadeby Main Colliery disaster of 9 July 1912 whilst searching for survivors of an explosion. His obituary describes him as 'one of the leading authorities on coal mining in the whole world... he was awarded the Edward Medal of the First Class for his bravery in connection with an accident at the Water Haigh Mine, Oulton, near Leeds. Five men were killed, but one, Patrick McCarthy was pinned by the legs and lingered in agony for several hours. Mr Pickering was one of six men who were decorated for endeavouring to save McCarthy. The water rose until it had reached the man's shoulders, and he became delirious, but Mr Pickering stayed by him at the risk of his own life. Two doctors and a priest were taken down to McCarthy, whose terrible suffering came to an end just as they reached him... One of the painful features of his [Pickering's] untimely end is the circumstance that he would, in the ordinary course, have been lunching with the King and Queen at Hickleton Hall at the time he was lying amid the ruins...' (Mexborough & Swinton Times, 20 July 1912).The other recipients, George Handle Silkstone (enginewright), Isaac Hodges (agent), Albert Moore (miner), James Hosey (sinking contractor) and Alfred Jones (sinker) had accompanied Pickering to the bottom of the pit. George Silkstone received an additional bar to this medal for his part in another rescue at Water Haigh in February 1911. Beset by accidents and delays, the first coal to be cut from the Silkstone seam at Water Haigh reached the surface on 20 April 1911. The colliery was closed by the National Coal Board in 1970.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BAKST - BALLETLEVINSON (ANDRÉ) Bakst. The Story of the Artist's Life, NUMBER 119 OF 315 COPIES, 68 plates (52 colour, tipped-in) after designs by Bakst, printed tissue guards (a few creased), occasional light spotting, publisher's vellum, soiled, folio (370 x 275mm.), Bayard Press, 1923This 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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