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DICKENS (CHARLES)[Christmas Books] A Christmas Carol, second edition, with red and blue title-page dated 1843, 'Stave One' and corrected text, Smith's second state, plates hand-coloured (2 repaired), made up copy, soiled and stained, publisher's brown cloth, spine repaired, new endpapers, 1843; The Chimes; A Goblin Story, FIRST EDITION, advertisement leaf for the tenth edition of A Christmas Carol, first state of vignette title-page, recased, 1845, Chapman & Hall; The Cricket on the Hearth, fourteenth edition, frontispiece and vignette title loose, soiled, spine repaired, new endpapers, 1846; The Battle of Life, FIRST EDITION, vignette title-page in fourth state without imprint (Todd's E1), recased, 1846; The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, FIRST EDITION, 1848, Bradbury & Evans, together 5 vol., wood-engraved frontispieces, all but the first with additional vignette titles, illustrations, publisher's red (the first brown) cloth with gilt illustration or device on upper cover, gilt-lettered and decorated spines, g.e., spines bumped, a few marks and light stains [Smith II: 4, 5, 6, 8, 9], 8vo (5)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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ASHENDENE PRESSMALORY (THOMAS) The Noble and Joyous Book Entytled Le Morte Darthur, one of 145 copies on paper, from an overall edition of 153, printed in Subiaco type, chapter headings and shoulder notes in red, 4- to 8-line initials designed by Graily Hewitt printed alternately in red and blue, 29 woodcut illustrations (2 full-page) by W.H. Hooper and J.B. Swain after designs by C.M. and Margaret Gere, extremities free endpapers brittle with a few small losses, original dark brown calf by W.H. Smith (signed 'W.H.S.' in blind inside lower cover), rebacked to match preserving original gilt morocco spine labels, a few light abrasions and fading to sides, modern solander box [Hornby 26], folio, Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1913Footnotes:LEONARD BASKIN'S COPY. Writing to St. John Hornby at the Ashendene Press, Sydney Cockerell enthused that 'The Morte d'Arthur is a glorious piece of printing and... it is an achievement of which you and all who follow the developments of fine craftsmanship in England may well be proud... The presswork is miraculous. Black, red and blue are all quite perfect, with never anywhere so much as a hint of a spread'. The text follows the edition of William Caxton.Provenance: Leonard Baskin, pencil inscription inside lower cover.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, UNCORRECTED PROOF, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'To Tommy and Davey (whose mum I know) J.K. Rowling (Fred & George Weasley?)' on the dedication leaf (with printed word 'Dedication' circled and with an arrow pointing towards the inscription below), publisher's blue and white wrappers, some creases and light soiling, 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1998]Footnotes:FINE ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO 'FRED & GEORGE WEASLEY?' OF THE RARE UNCORRECTED PROOF OF THE AUTHOR'S SECOND BOOK. It was whilst writing Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets that Rowling receeved a bursary of £8000 from the Scottish Arts Council, supplementing the small advance she had been given by her publisher at a time when the Harry Potter phenomenon was very much in its infancy. The inscription is written on the otherwise blank dedication leaf.It is thought that approximately 300 copies of this proof edition were printed, Errington noting that 'Bloomsbury is unable to provide accurate figures and has merely suggested between 200 and 300 copies'.Provenance: Inscribed by the author 'to Tommy and Davey.... Fred & George Weasley', the two eldest sons of Jenny Brown who, from 1996 to 2002, was the Literature Director for the Scottish Arts Council. 'Her work for the Council included a programme of financial aid for new writers of children's fiction; the first person to apply was the then unpublished J K Rowling; the Arts Council's initial bursary supported the creation of Harry Potter' (University of St. Andrews, Laureation Address, June 2018, website); sold by the family.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BROCKMAN (JAMES)The Ninety-First Psalm, number 98 of a limited number of copies, wood-engravings by Dorothea Braby, bound in vellum by James Brockman (signed 'James R. Brockman The Eddington Bindery 1974' on rear doublure), upper cover onlaid with figure of man in white goatskin within large gilt swirls in the style of Braby, lower cover with similar design in blind with forms beneath the vellum, brown suede doublures, g.e., together with original cream buckram binding in light brown cloth solander box, spine with vellum label lettered in gilt, small 4to, Golden Cockerel Press, 1944Footnotes:Provenance: Lord Wardington, 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
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - LETTICE SANDFORDThe Song of Songs. The Authorised Version... edited by W.O.E. Oesterley, NUMBER 35 OF 64 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES WITH AN ADDITIONAL SUITE OF 6 PLATES, from an overall edition of 204 copies, printed in red and black, engraved plates by Lettice Sandford, the 12 additional plates all signed in pencil and loose as issued in original yellow envelope (soiled, short tears), original half green morocco with pictorial cloth gilt panels, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., light spotting on sides, slipcase [Chanticleer 110], folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1936Footnotes:This copy includes 12 additional engraved plates, each depicting female nudes and each signed by the artist Lettice Sandford.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
SIBSON (THOMAS)Sketches of Expeditions, from the Pickwick Club, 10 etched plates by Sibson without captions, each with letterpress descriptions extracted from Pickwick, some oxidisation at edges of plates, typed label pasted in on title partially obscuring 2 words, and Collis's noted loosely inserted, publisher's light green pictorial wrappers ('Sibson's Racy Sketches of Expeditions...'), frayed at edges, spine and corners of lower cover defective, preserved in paper wrapper (titled in ink by Collis followed by the word 'untouched'), later red cloth chemise and slipcase with gilt-lettered spine, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1838--The Pic Nic Papers by Various Hands. Edited by Charles Dickens, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, first issue of volumes 1 ('publisher young' on p.3 of Introduction and Cox's imprint on verso of title) and 2, second issue of volume 3 (but with a first issue title-page loosely inserted), etched frontispieces and 11 plates by Cruikshank, H.K. Browne ['Phiz'] and R.J. Hammerton, 8pp. publisher's advertisements dated May 1841 at the end of volume 2 and 4pp. at the end of volume 3, slight oxidisation mainly at edges of plates, untrimmed in publisher's pea-green fine-ribbed cloth tooled in blind with design of acanthus leaves, spines lettered in gilt, pale yellow endpapers, some fading at edges and to spines, corners bumped, front hinge of volume 1 split [Eckel 143ff; Sadleir 703], 8vo, Henry Colburn, 1841 (4)Footnotes:The pictorial title to Sibson's 'Racy Sketches', one of several rare works illustrated by Sibson, depicts Dickens standing on Mr. Pickwick's head, holding above it a large quill pen.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DICKENS (CHARLES)The Battle of Life, FIRST EDITION, wood-engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title (in fourth state) and illustrations by Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield and John Leech, some light finger-soiling, publisher's deep red horizontally-ribbed cloth, covers decorated in blind, upper cover gilt-stamped with two cherubs mounted on wasps above a floral spray, spine with a similar gilt design, g.e., lower cover with some minor stain marks [Smith II:8], 8vo, Bradbury & Evans, 1846Footnotes:First edition of the fourth of the Christmas books, presented to a Liverpudlian woman on Christmas Day 1846, six days after publication.Provenance: 'Marion Stuart Mills from Tho. Mills Liverpool 25 Dec. 1846', inscription on half-title; 'From McGoff 10.4.1928', loosely inserted note from Collis.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
DOVES PRESS BIBLEThe English Bible Containing the Old Testament & The New Translated Out of the Original Tongues by Special Command of His Majesty King James the First, 5 vol. bound in 3, limited to 500 copies, numerous initials printed in red, some light spotting to volumes 2 and 4, crushed dark blue morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, covers with 4-line border, spines in compartments with title, publisher, date and monogram of C.S. Ascherson, g.e. [Herbert 2139], folio, Doves Press, 1903-1905Footnotes:'Regarded as the most beautifully printed Bible of the twentieth century' (Herbert), and described by Colin Franklin as the Press's 'magnum opus' (The Private Presses). The Bible is the only folio printed by Cobden Sanderson and Emery Walker at the Doves Press. Provenance: C.S. Ascherson, gilt monogram on spine; Bonhams, 22 March 2011, lot 102.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DICKENS (CHARLES)Bleak House, FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 19/20 PARTS, additional etched title and 39 plates by H.K. Browne ('Phiz'), advertisements and slips including 'The Village Pastor' in part 15 (missing advertisement leaves in parts 1 and 14 supplied from other copies, see footnote), some parts with contents loose or working loose, most plates with varying degrees of oxidisation, publisher's blue pictorial wrappers after 'Phiz', some edges frayed, several backstrips defective or missing, others with smaller chips, one or two restored, ownership signatures on 3 or 4 front wrappers (including Henry Dwyer, J. Head and J.C. Longstaff), all preserved in Collis's annotated paper wrapper [Eckel pp.79-81; Gimbel A130; Hatton & Cleaver pp.275-304], 8vo, Bradbury & Evans, March 1852-September 1853Footnotes:A SECOND SET OF 'BLEAK HOUSE' IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, complete (thanks to some loose insertions) and largely unsophisticated by Collis's standards, his intentions regarding cleaning and restoring left unfulfilled except for part 17, which was 'made up by Morrell 11/4/34', and a few others with small repairs.Contents:Part 1: has 4pp. version of Waterlow. Part 2: without Household Words slip, but supplied loose with duplicates of the 2 plates. Part 3: version 1 of Crochet Cotton slip. Part 5: dark green Household Words slip bound in and correct light green one loosely inserted. Part 7: additional London Weekly ad leaf supplied loose. Part 14: missing pp.15/16 of Advertiser, and all but one advertisement, but all these supplied loose with an additional front wrapper.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
CRANACH PRESSVERGILIUS MARO (PUBLIUS) Les Eclogues, number 35 of 250 copies on hand-made rag paper watermarked with Maillol nude, from an overall edition of 292 copies, translated by Marc Lafargue, text in Latin and French, woodcut illustrations by Aristide Maillol, title and initials designed and cut by Eric Gill with ornaments of letters designed and cut by Maillol, occasional light spotting, loose as issued in original printed wrappers, original vellum-backed board portfolio with ties (some soiling) [Artist & the Book 172], 4to, Weimar, Cranach Press, 1926This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DICKENS (CHARLES)A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, FIRST EDITION, Smith's's first issue, first state, with title-page dated 1843 printed in red and blue, the text uncorrected, 'Stave I' on p.[1] and yellow endpapers, hand-coloured etched frontispiece and 3 plates after John Leech, 4 wood-engravings by W.J. Linton after Leech, 2pp. advertisements at end, a little light soiling and one or two spots, publisher's cinnamon vertically-ribbed cloth, stamped in blind and gilt (Todd's first impression, second issue, first state, with 12-13mm. between closest points of blind-stamping and gold wreath on upper cover, and the 'D' of 'Dickens' unbroken), g.e., 3 or 4 small ink spots on covers, corners knocked, head of spine chipped [Eckel pp.110-115; Smith II:4; William B. Todd, in The Book Collector, Winter 1961, pp.449-454], 12mo (164 x 100mm.), Chapman & Hall, 1843Footnotes:FIRST EDITION OF DICKENS'S FIRST AND MOST ENDURING CHRISTMAS BOOK, the first issue with 'Stave I' in the first chapter heading, the text uncorrected, the red and blue title-page dated 1843, and yellow endpapers. Dickens had requested the title be printed in red and green with green endpapers to match, but he was disappointed with the appearance of the green printing. The title was subsequently printed in red and blue, the title-page date changed to 1843 (rather than the gift book convention of using the following year's date), and the green endpapers replaced with yellow ones. However, the sheets continued to be issued in various combinations with no clear priority.With Scrooge as is central character, A Christmas Carol was published on 19 December 1843, at 5s. 'Its popularity was extraordinary and by every post he received letters from complete strangers, telling him about their home and hearths, and how this same 'Carol' was read aloud there, and kept on a little shelf by itself' (Kitton, Minor Writings, p.34). It ran through fourteen editions between 1843 and 1860, with the text comparatively unchanged and printed from the same original setting of type.Provenance: 'From McGoff/ 27.3.1929', loosely inserted note in Collis's hand.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
ASHENDENE PRESSFRANCIS OF ASSISI. Un Mazzetto Scelto di Certi Fioretti del Glorioso Poverello di Cristo, one of 150 copies on paper, printed in red and black in double-column, initials in red designed by Graily Hewitt, woodcut illustrations by W.H.Hooper after Charles M. Gere, light foxing on opening few leaves, light dampstain in upper fore-edge throughout, red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a few small scuffs to covers but otherwise clean [Hornby 19], 4to, Ashendene Press, 1904Footnotes:Provenance: Clarence B. Hanson, Jr., 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
ROOSEVELT (THEODORE)Three typed letters signed ('Theodore Roosevelt') to Hon. Powell Clayton, Ambassador of the United States in Mexico, the first urging him not to resign before '...writing me well in advance and letting me have time to communicate with you. The result in Arkansas was to my mind absolutely conclusive... How I wish we could get a Republican Congressman from Arkansas!...'; the second asking him to attend a meeting of the National Committee the following January; the third thanking him for staying in post ('...I appreciate your having foregone your desire to return to private life...'), with autograph amendments and additional note of congratulations, on White House headed notepaper, US Embassy receipt stamp on one page, three pages, two on bifolia, creasing, light dust-staining to rectos where folded, 4to (230 x 184mm.), White House, Washington and Oyster Bay, N.Y., 4 October 1902 to 2 December 1904Footnotes:'IT HAS BEEN A GENUINE PLEASURE TO WORK WITH YOU DURING YOUR TERM OF SERVICE': Letters of appreciation from President Roosevelt to his Mexican Ambassador.Powell Foulk Clayton (1833-1914) served as the ninth governor of Arkansas, as a Republican member of the US Senate for Arkansas and held the post of US Ambassador to Mexico from 1897 to 1905, when he resigned for personal reasons. A veteran of the Civil War, he played a prominent role as a Republican politician in the Reconstruction and enjoyed a controversial yet influential political career. Despite losing his Senate seat, he remained active in the Republican National Committee and helped William McKinley in his successful presidential nomination in 1896. He was rewarded with the Ambassadorship of Mexico in 1897, a post he continued to hold under McKinley's successor Theodore Roosevelt. In 1905 he brought Roosevelt to Arkansas, only the second President to visit the State whilst in office. After his retirement he continued to be a powerful influence in the party and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery (see encyclopediaofarkansas.net). Correspondence from Clayton to Roosevelt from this period is held in the Roosevelt Papers at the Library of Congress. Our letters have been retained in the family until now.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
MEDICI (LORENZO)Poesie volgari nuovamente stampate... ... Col commento del medesimo sopra alcuni de' suoi sonetti, FIRST EDITION, Aldine device on title-page and on final leaf, one woodcut initial, gathering O complete with 8 leaves, 2 thin ink lines on title, occasional light spotting, nineteenth century blue morocco gilt, g.e., covers and spine detached [Adams M1005; Ahmanson-Murphy 473; Gamba 648; Renouard p.162], 8vo, Venice, [in casa de figliuoli di Aldo], 1554Footnotes:RARE COMPLETE COPY OF THE ALDINE MEDICI, WITH THE EIGHT SUPPRESSED LEAVES IN GATHERING O. The majority of copies of this edition have only four leaves in the gathering, following the suppression of five canzoni. The removal of the four leaves was clearly intended to be immediate as the register notes 'tutti sono quaderni, eccetto O che è duerno'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DICKENS (CHARLES)Hard Times. For These Times, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, with all 11 of Smith's flaws in uncorrected state, half-title, occasional minor spotting, publisher's first binding of olive green moiré horizontally-ribbed cloth, covers with outer line and inner ornamental blind-stamped borders, gilt-lettered spine with price 5/- and decoration in blind, light yellow endpapers, slightly shaken, faded and stained, spine ends chipped, tear to lower joint [Eckel, p.131; Gimbel A136; Sadleir 689; Smith I:11], Bradbury & Evans, 1854; The Mystery of Edwin Drood, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, engraved portrait and additional title with vignette, 12 wood-engraved plates, 40pp. of advertisements at end (2pp. of advertisements for the author's other works; 32pp. W.H. Smith & Son catalogue of 'New and Second hand books', dated may 1872; 6pp. of additional advertisements), occasional foxing, publisher's green cloth blocked in blind and gilt (Carter's binding B), light yellow endpapers, worn at edges, 2 ink blots on lower cover [Eckel p.96; Gimbel A155; Smith I:16], Chapman and Hall, 1870, 8vo (2)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 - DAVID JONESThe Book of Jonah Taken from the Authorized Version of King James I, NUMBER 89 OF 175 COPIES, wood-engraved title-vignette and 12 illustrations (4 full-page) by David Jones, publisher's white buckram, dust-jacket (some loss to upper cover including first letter of title, small loss to spine extremities, light spotting) [Chanticleer 40], 4to, Golden Cockerel Press, 1926This 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 PRESSLASCARIS (EVADNE, Pseud.) The Golden Bed of Kydno. Translated from the Modern Greek, one of 200 copies, 12 line-engraved illustrations by Lettice Sandford, 1935--SWIRE (HERBERT) The Voyage of the Challenger, 2 vol., one of 300 copies, slipcase, 1938--LACOMBE (JEAN DE) A Compendium of the East Being an Account of Voyages to the Grand Indies, one of 300 copies, light spotting to endpapers, 1937--PHILBY (H.STJ.B.) A Pilgrim in Arabia, one of 350 copies, original quarter niger, t.e.g., slipcase, 1943--BREBEUF (JEAN DE) The Travels and Sufferings... Among the Hurons of Canada, one of 300 copies, 2 woodcut illustrations by Eric Gill, 1938--QUENNELL (NANCY, editor) A Lovers Progress. Seventeenth Century Lyrics, one of 215 copies, title printed in black and gold, 1938, 4to and small folio, Golden Cockerel Press; and 2 other limited editions by the Golden Cockerel Press (9)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
KEATS (JOHN)Endymion: A Poetic Romance, FIRST EDITION, issue with 'T. Miller, Printer, Noble street, Cheapside' on verso of half-title, with 5 line errata on p.xi, without advertisements, occasional light spotting, crushed brown morocco gilt by Winstanleys (1973) [Hayward 232], 8vo, Taylor and Hessey, 1818Footnotes:'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever;/Its loveliness increases...' - First edition of the second of only three books published during Keats' lifetime.Provenance: George Rust, inscribed 'George Rust Esq. from his sincere friend Whittle, Pemb. Coll. Oxon, July 1 1841' on the front free endpaper; George Bernard Rust, 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
DIXON (GEORGE)A Voyage Round the World; but More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in The King George and Queen Charlotte, FIRST EDITION, half-title, large folding engraved frontispiece chart, 21 engraved charts and plates (some folding, 7 natural history subjects hand-coloured), occasional light off-setting, nineteenth century calf gilt, red morocco spine label, marbled edges, spine worn, abrasions to sides [Forbes 161; Howes D365; Lada-Mocarski 43; Sabin 30264], 4to (295 x 230mm.), George Goulding, 1789Footnotes:First edition of an account of the fur-trading expedition fitted out by the King George's Sound Company, with important results for the exploration and mapping of the American Northwest. The two ships were commanded by Dixon and the American-born Nathaniel Portlock, both veterans of Cook's last voyage. It includes accounts of the Hawaiian islands where they wintered in 1787-1788. The text was edited by Dixon from a series of letters by the Quaker, William Beresford.Provenance: Adam Drummond of Megginch Castle (1821) bookplate; thence by descent.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, publisher's imprint page with the number sequence from 10 to 1, and author cited as 'Joanne Rowling', p.53 with the duplication of '1 wand' on the equipment list, misspelling 'Philospher's' on lower cover, light toning to paper (as usual), publisher's pictorial boards, extremities of spine slightly bumped, fore-corners slightly rubbed (one slightly more so), 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1997Footnotes:A FINE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST HARRY POTTER NOVEL, AND THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, published in an edition of approximately 500 copies.Provenance: Acquired by the owner in the west of England in 1997, and long kept in the attic after a house move. Recently rediscovered, and since then stored in a saucepan for safety.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
CHURCHILL (WINSTON)Shall We Commit Suicide?, 2 copies, first separate edition, second issue, 12pp., title within double rule border and with small device in centre, stapled as issued in integral wrappers, one copy slightly browned, the other slightly dampstained, [Cohen A74.2; Woods A33], 205 x 90mm., Reprinted from Nash's Pall Mall Magazine of September 24, 1924 [1924]; An Address by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill... December 26th 1941, one of 1,000 copies, original red cloth, paperclip stain to front cover [Cohen A163.7; Woods A84(c)], Stamford CT, Overbrook Press, 1942; A Speech... in the House of Commons August 20th, 1940, 19pp., on unwatermarked paper, publisher's light blue wrappers, spotted [cf. Cohen A131.1; Woods A60(a)], Baynard Press, 1940; The Message of President Roosevelt to Congress... January 6, 1942. The Address of... Churchill to the Joint Session of Congress... December 26, 1941, 2 parts in 1 vol., integral wrappers, browned [Cohen A165/1], 4to, New York, Macmillan, [1942]; Ceremonial to be Observed at the Funeral of the Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill... 30th January 1965, small folio; The Order of Service for the Funeral... at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in the City of London, 8vo, stapled in matching original printed wrappers with wide purple blocked border, HMSO, 1965 (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
NAVALBLANCKLEY (THOMAS RILEY) A Naval Expositor, Shewing and Explaining the Words and Terms of Art Belonging to the Parts, Qualities, and Proportions of Building, Rigging, Furnishing & Fitting a Ship for Sea, engraved title within ornamental border, engraved panel of illustrations in one border of most pages and several in the text, list of subscribers, ink corrections in an early hand to p.142, Printed by E. Owen, and Engraved by Paul Fourdrinier, 1750--CLERK (JOHN) An Essay on Naval Tactics, Systematical and Historical. Part 1 (only), 30 folding engraved plates, some hand-coloured, one with short tear, approximately 10 with single trace of worming or light dampstains, some shaved with platemark at one border, T. Cadell, 1790, nineteenth century half calf over marbled boards, spines worn--Regulations and Instructions Relating to His Majesty's Service at Sea... Second Edition, with Additions, engraved vignette on title, and 9 others, contemporary red morocco gilt, sides elaborately tooled wide border, spine tooled in 7 compartments within raised bands, corners and extremities worn with loss of headbands, London, [no publisher], 1734--A Collection of the Statutes Relating to the Admiralty, Navy, Ships of War and Incidental Matters to the Eigth Year of King George the Third, engraved allegorical vignette before title, Mark Baskett, and Assigns for Robert Baskett, 1768--Regulations and Instructions Relating to His Majesty's Service at Sea, broadside order of the Commissioners for Executing the Office of the Lord High Admiral (3 June 1812) addressed to Captain Campbell of the H.M.S. Leviathan tipped-in, [Printed by W. Winchester], 1808, 4to--LIDDEL (ROBERT, purser in the Royal Navy) The Seaman's New Vade Mecum; Containing a Practical Essay on Naval Book-Keeping the Captain's Books, second edition, 7 hand-coloured engraved tables of signals and flags etc., some letterpress tables, G.G. and J. Robinson, 1794, contemporary calf, gilt spine labels, rubbed--A List of the Flag Officers and Other Commissioned Officers of His Majesty's Fleet; An Alphabetical List of the Post Captains, Commanders, and Lieutenants, of His Majesty's Fleet, 2 works in 1 vol., contemporary half calf, rubbed, Henry Teape, 1823, the last 2 mentioned 8vo; and 8 others (15)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DICKENS (CHARLES)The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, later issue, additional etched title, frontispiece and 41 plates by R. Seymour and H.K. Browne ('Phiz'), foxing and soiling, covers worn with some tears, 1837; The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, bound from the parts, early issue with 'visiter' for 'sister' on p.123, line 17, but 'letter' on p.160, 6 lines up, engraved portrait by Daniel Maclise in second state without publisher's imprint, 39 engraved plates by 'Phiz', plates 1 and 2 present in first state with publisher's imprint, without half-title, some plates oxidised, spine faded, 1839; The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, etched frontispiece, additional title and 38 plates by 'Phiz', occasional spotting, without half-title, 1844, Chapman & Hall; The Personal History of David Copperfield, etched frontispiece, additional title and 38 plates by 'Phiz', some soiling and oxidisation to plates, last leaf repaired in margin, covers and spine detached, Bradbury & Evans, 1850, the above in nineteenth century half calf or roan, gilt panelled spines; The Mystery of Edwin Drood, engraved portrait and additional vignette title, 12 wood-engraved plates by S.L. Fields, 32pp. catalogue dated February 1871, some spotting, publisher's decorative green cloth gilt (Carter's A binding), slightly warped, Chapman & Hall, 1870--[MORFORD (HENRY)] John Jasper's Secret, 21 wood-engraved plates, contemporary half calf, Publishing Offices, No. 342, Strand, 1887, ALL FIRST EDITIONS IN BOOK FORM--Dombey & Son. The Four Portraits of Edith, Florence, Alice, and Little Paul... From Designs by Hablot. K. Browne, comprising 4 etched portraits on 2 folding sheets, some light foxing, loose as issued in smaller printed wrappers, Chapman & Hall, 1848, 8vo (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
CRANACH PRESSSHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) The Tragedie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, number 54 of 300 copies on Maillol hand-made paper, from an overall edition limited to 322, type designed by Edward Johnston after the Mainz Psalter of 1457, title cut by Eric Gill, printed in red and black, wood-engraved illustrations by Edward Gordon Craig, 'Notes on The Tragedie of Hamlet...' by J. Dover Wilson in original wrappers in pocket at end, ink ownership inscription (December 1958) on front free endpaper, original vellum-backed boards, lettered in gilt on spine, light spotting on sides, spine light age soiling, preserved in cloth solander box [The Artist and the Book 66], folio, Weimar, Printed by Count Harry Kessler at the Cranach Press, 1930This 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
![CHURCHILL (WINSTON)[Wartime Speeches], 7 vol., PRESENTATION COPIES, THE FIRST VOLUME INSCRIBED 'To T.E.R. Harris fom Winston](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dfdfad13-355c-412b-b214-ade100e20161/41e0fb94-d622-491d-83f2-ade100e819b8/468x382.jpg)
CHURCHILL (WINSTON)[Wartime Speeches], 7 vol., PRESENTATION COPIES, THE FIRST VOLUME INSCRIBED 'To T.E.R. Harris fom Winston Churchill 1946' on fly-leaf, the remaining six INITIALLED BY CHURCHILL on fly-leaf, comprising: Into Battle, eleventh edition, 1945; The Unrelenting Struggle, third edition, 1943; The End of the Beginning, third edition, 1946; Onwards to Victory, FIRST EDITION, 1944; The Dawn of Liberation, FIRST EDITION, 1945; Victory, FIRST EDITION, 1946; Secret Session Speeches, FIRST EDITION, 1946, half-titles, frontispieces and plates as called for, some light browning and occasional foxing, uniformly bound in full dark blue crushed morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (signed on turn-in), gilt panelled spines with raised bands, g.e., 8vo, Cassell & Company, 1943-1946Footnotes:FINE PRESENTATION SET OF THE COMPLETE SECOND WORLD WAR SPEECHES.Provenance: T.E.R. Harris; and thence by descent to the present owner (see lot 142).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DICKENS (CHARLES)Sketches by 'Boz,' Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People... Illustrations by George Cruikshank, 2 vol., 1836; ...The Second Series. Complete in One Volume, 1837, together 3 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST ISSUES, THOMAS HATTON'S COPIES, with his loosely inserted typed note signed, [first series:] 2 etched frontispieces and 14 plates, publisher's dark green textured cloth with embossed seaweed pattern, spines gilt lettered within ornate shield-shaped design, orange-coated endpapers, corners worn, spines bumped, front inner hinges cracked, [second series:] half-title, etched frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 8 plates, 20pp. publisher's catalogue dated December 1836 at end, publisher's rose sand-grain cloth, spine with gilt lettering and decoration on black background, blue patterned endpapers, spine and edges faded, lower joint cracked, wear to foot of spine, all 3 volumes with occasional light soiling to text and light dampstaining to plates, untrimmed, some staining to covers, preserved in 2 felt-lined red cloth matching slipcases [Eckel pp.11-13; Gimbel A1 & A4; Sadleir 609 & 700; Smith I:1 & 2], 12mo (200 x 125mm.; 197 x 120mm.), John Macrone, 1836-1837Footnotes:THOMAS HATTON'S COPIES OF THE COMPLETE 'SKETCHES BY 'BOZ'', DICKENS'S FIRST BOOK.First series: Hatton writes of the binding that the present copy 'is one of only three ever seen by [the] writer possessing this particular kind of green cloth binding, and the peculiar orange-coloured end-papers. There is however no question of its pureness and genuineness as having been originally bound in this manner, and as such it may be considered a more desirable copy than in its more usually accepted state'. These two volumes have all the flaws called for by Smith except for three in volume 1 (at p.[107], p.174, and plate at p.329). Second series: the Contents leaf loosely inserted is the first state, with no list of illustrations, whilst that bound in is in the second state, with a list of illustrations on verso (omitting 'Mr Minns and His Cousin' at p.263). The 19-page catalogue at the end, dated December 1836, is as described by Smith. The binding by Remnant & Edmunds has the rarer blue and white patterned endpapers as opposed to the usual pale yellow ones.Provenance: Thomas Hatton, loosely inserted typed note, bookplates in first two volumes, William Henry Collis; and thence by descent to the present owners. ______________________LOTS 67-138: THE CHARLES DICKENS COLLECTION OF WILLIAM HENRY COLLIS OF LIVERPOOL (1865-1944)'W.H. Collis (aka Harry), was born in 1865 in Stourbridge, Worcs., the eldest of 8 brothers. His father William Blow Collis was a Mining Engineer and Coal Master (employing 200 men) and his grandfather of the same name, a renowned local solicitor and JP. 'Collis Street' is to be found near the centre of Stourbridge, and more recently 'The Collis Play Area' designated to their memory.WHC studied electrical sciences at Kings College in London, a subject at that time at the very frontiers of science and technology, and went on to work for the fledgling electricity company supplying electricity to Liverpool where he was also a lecturer at the university.As a life-long bachelor, he devoted himself to his role as the senior member of the family, but his two loves were his interest in his family genealogy, and his amazing interest in the life and works of Charles Dickens, on which he spent so much of his time.He amassed a large collection, and had wide correspondence with fellow Dickens aficionados for over 30 years of his life, becoming a recognised authority on the subject. Much of his correspondence has been kept. He was a meticulous adherer and recorder of detail as is evident in his notes relating to the books. Even with all his correspondence, he nearly always noted down on the letter the date of receipt of the letter as well as of his always prompt reply! In many cases he kept his edited drafts of these replies.' (Information provided by the family).The collection, sold on behalf of the descendants of Collis, provides a fascinating insight into the circle of 1930s Dickens collectors, dealers and bibliographers who, following in the footsteps of John F. Dexter, shared knowledge and collations, often buying and selling parts and spares to make up sets. WHC's most frequent correspondent was Thomas Hatton, who acknowledged Collis first and foremost in the bibliography he compiled with Arthur Cleaver ('The authors are indebted to many collectors and friends for information and assistance; particularly Mr. W.H. Collis, of Liverpool, and Dr. Hablot Browne, of Hoylake'). Many of the lots contain related letters from Hatton, some the draft replies, and the vast majority include WHC's detailed collation and provenance notes. They also reference the extraordinary amount of work done by the binder Morrell in repairing, cleaning and making up parts. Most of the books are still preserved in their 1930s brown paper parcels tied with string, and many of the individual parts and books are in a paper wrapper supplied by Collis with his edition notes.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DICKENS (CHARLES)The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, FIRST EDITION, IN THE 20 ORIGINAL PARTS IN 19, half-title, additional etched title and 42 plates by R. Seymour, R.W. Buss and Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz'), a few plates with a little light foxing, publisher's pictorial blue wrappers, one or two parts soiled, many spines expertly restored (along with some covers, predominantly of the earlier parts, mostly at edges), each part preserved in Collis's annotated paper wrapper, preserved in maroon cloth solander box with gilt lettered spine, worn at joints [Eckel, Prime Pickwicks in Parts; Hatton & Cleaver pp.3-88; Miller & Strange, A Centenary Bibliography of the Pickwick Papers], 8vo, Chapman & Hall, April 1836-November 1837Footnotes:A NEAR-PRIME SET OF 'PICKWICK' IN ORIGINAL PARTS, CAREFULLY ASSEMBLED IN THE 1930S BY THE LIVERPOOL COLLECTOR W.H. COLLIS. The set is probably as complete as any that has appeared at auction, and surpassed only by the likes of the Dexter copy in the British Library, with nearly all text and plates in first issue or state, all but one of the advertisements called for by Hatton & Cleaver, and with one rare variant advertisement not recorded elsewhere.The letterpress is virtually perfect with all points listed in Hatton & Cleaver except part 8, p.233, line 8, where there are no quad marks in 'I ever'. The addresses are as called for in parts 2, 3, 10, 15, 17, 18, 19/20.The plates are all without captions (parts 1-11 have only page numbers), and all in the first state recorded by Hatton & Cleaver. The two plates by Buss are present in part 3; and the two plates in part 6 are in the FIRST STATE, with page numbers interchanged ('THE RAREST ITEMS IN THE WHOLE REALM OF 'PICKWICK''--Hatton & Cleaver). All the advertisements, 'Pickwick Advertisers', slips and addresses listed by Hatton & Cleaver are present, with the exception of the 'Phrenology Made Easy' slip in part 7, and the very rare 'George Mann' leaflet which Hatton & Cleaver say 'cannot be accepted as a definite unit in the construction of Part 9', having been found pasted into the Dexter copy. The wrappers are all dated 1836 and first issues except for part 2 (see below). The inner wrappers on parts 1 and 3 are blank, and the front wrappers of parts 1-3 have a bracket following the part number, reading respectively: 'With four illustrations/ by Seymour', 'With illustrations/ by Seymour' and 'With illustrations by R.W. Buss'. Parts 16 to 19/20 have the imprint of 'Bradbury and Evans, Printers, Whitefriars' added at foot.In terms of completeness, issue and rarity, W.H. Collis's 'best set' would certainly have found a place in Eckel's 1936 Prime Pickwick in Parts, surpassing for example the McCutcheon-Suzannet copy in all those aspects, and meeting and in one case exceeding all the following criteria demanded by his contemporary bibliographers and collectors: (i) For Eckel it was essential that 'the three insets essential to the perfect 'Pickwick' were present, namely the Chapman and Hall catalogues in parts 1 and 3 and especially the four-page 'Pigot's Views in the Isle of Wight' in part 13 ('almost an unknown quantity'). Hatton & Cleaver list the five copies known at the time, of which 'the fifth [our copy] is owned by a Liverpool collector'.(ii) Dexter viewed the two mis-paginated plates in part 6 as 'the greatest rarity known to me', a sentiment echoed by Hatton & Cleaver who called them 'the rarest items in the whole realm of 'Pickwick''. (iii) Hatton & Cleaver refer to a very rare textual issue point in part 9, where p.261 is signed N2 instead of X2: 'This 'point' is an extremely rare one and has not been previously recorded. Only twice has it come under writer's [sic] notice'.(iv) Amongst the advertisements of Collis's set appears something of perhaps even greater rarity, deemed by him to be 'the only known copy'. Titled 'Adventures of an Oil Bottle', it appears in part 6, being one of four variants listed by Hatton & Cleaver. Narrative adverts on four pages for either Rowland's 'Kalydor' or 'Genuine Macassar Oil', they represent the first paid advertisements to appear in Pickwick. Hatton & Cleaver state that they are indicative of the earliest issue of Pickwick, ours being listed as 'No. 1c', an entry presumably based on Collis's set. Collis's copy of a note from Thomas Hatton written in June 1933 is included: 'I quite agree that 'Adventures of an Oil Bottle' is earlier than 'Autobiography' [the version found in Dexter's and other copies]... it was the earliest printed and soon superseded by 'Autobiography', with slight textual differences'. For good measure a copy of one of the other variants ('The Toilet', H & C's no. 1) is supplied loose along with a spare of the rear wrapper.Notes on individual parts:Part 1: the 4 plates all H & C's 'first state of first Seymour plate'; with 8pp. Chapman & Hall catalogue.Part 2: 'The Dying Clown' in Miller & Strange's second state, after the signature, 'Mr Pickwick in Chase of His Hat' in [?]second state, 'The Refractory Steed' in first state; early issue wrappers, front wrapper reading 'With Illustrations/ By Seymour' (according to Collis 'even more elusive' than the variant with the word 'Four', a loose copy of which is also supplied), inner and both rear wrappers as H & C's part 4 wrappers.Part 3: with the 2 Buss plates in Miller & Strange's first state; Chapman and Hall 4pp. slip at front, and rare variant 4pp. 'Adventures of an Oil Bottle' at rear ('The Toilet' variant supplied loose).Part 4: both plates H & C's 'first state of original plate' (Collis states 'hitherto unrecorded').Part 5: plates in Miller & Strange's first state.Part 6: plates in the rare mis-paginated state.Part 7: plates in first state.Part 8: p.233, line 8 without quad marks after 'I'; wrappers with original setting as per H & C, 'cleaned by Morrell April 1933. Wrapper IV altered to VIII March 1937... by Morrell'.Part 9: p.261 mis-signed N2 instead of X2.Part 10: H & C's 'first plate'; Advertiser with second state of p.10 (with 'The Poetic Wreath'); Address in second setting (with dash).Part 11: H & C's 'first plate'.Part 12: H & C's 'first plate, first state'; 'as received by WHC was untouched. Cleaned etc all through by Morell Aug 1935.. but nothing added or exchanged... Ex Hatton'.Part 13: H & C's 'first plate'; with the rare Pigot advertisement at front.Part 14: H & C's 'first plate'.Part 15: H & C's 'first plate'; Address bound before plates and with variant headed '186 Stran D,June 30, 1837' supplied loose; the Royal Beulah Spa advert on green paper; 'Remade up Nov:1932 by Riviere'.Part 16: H & C's 'first plate'.Part 17: H & C's 'first plate'; last leaf of Walter Scott advert slightly cut down.Part 18: H & C's 'first plate'; Tea advert the issue with prices in small type (last line shaved, a copy of the other issue supplied loose); wrappers dated 1837.Part 19/20: H & C's 'first plate'; earlier printing of Advertiser with '1388' for '1838' on p.7.Provenance: Part 1, 'FSR Villiers 1836' and part 5, 'With the publisher's compts', inscriptions on front wrappers; part 12, Thomas Hatton; remainder mostly noted by Collis as being from 'lot 84' or 'Coumin'.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
![ASHENDENE PRESSCERVANTES SAAVEDRA (MIGUEL DE) [Don Quixote] The First [-Second] Part of the History of the Valorous and Witti](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dfdfad13-355c-412b-b214-ade100e20161/3700885c-5a33-4a6d-9dfa-ade100e917db/468x382.jpg)
ASHENDENE PRESSCERVANTES SAAVEDRA (MIGUEL DE) [Don Quixote] The First [-Second] Part of the History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha Translated Out of the Spanishe by Thomas Shelton, 2 vol., one of 225 copies, double column, printed in red and black, ornate initials and borders designed by Louise Powell and cut on wood by W.M. Quick & Geo. H. Ford, a few light spots to the opening leaves of the second part, publisher's cloth-backed boards, printed spine labels, spine slightly soiled, extremities and corners neatly refurbished, housed in purpose-made morocco-backed solander boxes [Hornby 36], folio, Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1927-1928This 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
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESSKEATS (JOHN) Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of Saint Agnes & Other Poems, one of 500 copies, edited by H. Buxton Forman, original quarter sharkskin by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, slipcase, 1928--Samson and Delilah from the Book of Judges, one of 325 copies, publisher's buckram, 1925--CHASE (OWEN) Narratives of the Wreck of the Whale-Ship Essex of Nantucket Which Was Destroyed by a Whale in the Pacific Ocean in the Year 1819, one of 275 copies, bookplate of Christian Heuer, original decorative cloth, light soiling, 1935--SWIFT (JONATHAN) Miscellaneous Poems, one of 375 copies, publisher's parchment-backed boards, 1928--COPPARD (A.E.) The Hundreth Story, one of 1000 copies, 1931, wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Gibbings,--DAVIES (RHYS) Daisy Matthews and Three Other Tales, one of 325 copies, this copy signed on the contents leaf, bookplate of Edward and Ruby Thalman, 1932--BATES (H.M.) The House with the Apricot and Other Tales, one of 300 copies, signed by the author, 1932, wood-engraved illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker--CALDER-MARSHALL (ARTHUR) A Crime Against Cania, one of 250 copies, signed by the author, wood-engraved illustrations by Blair Hughes-Stanton, 1934--MOTTRAM (R.H.) Strawberrry Time and the Banquet, one of 250 copies, signed by the author, wood-engraved illustrations by Gerturde Hermes, 1934, the last 5 mentioned original morocco-backed patterned cloth, 8vo and 4to, Golden Cockerel Press; and 19 others by the Golden Cockerel Press (28)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
BACON (FRANCIS)Sylva Sylvarum; or, A Naturall Historie, engraved frontispiece portrait, additional engraved allegorical title (dated 1631), with final blank, some light marginal dampstains, several marginal annotations in an early hand in the final section, contemporary calf, rebacked in calf [ESTC S106936; Gibson 174], small folio (275 x 175mm.), John Haviland, for William Lee, 1635Footnotes:Provenance: William Maurice, of Lansil in Lancashire, inscription on title-page noting that it was gifted to him by Jo. Stokton, of Lancashire in 1655, and further ownership inscription on title. Further Seventeenth century Maurice family inscriptions on verso of portrait.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED 'to Davey and Tommy - great to meet you at last! J.K. Rowling' on the dedication leaf, with the number sequence from 10 to 1, light dampstain in lower margin of opening and final few leaves, usual paper toning, publisher's pictorial wrappers (with misspelling 'Philospher' on lower wrapper), some creases and abrasions, laminate lifting in places with a few losses, 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1997Footnotes:INSCRIBED ASSOCIATION COPY of the first paperback edition of the first Harry Potter title, issued on the same day as the first hardback edition.Provenance: Inscribed by the author 'to Davey and Tommy', the two eldest sons of Jenny Brown who, from 1996 to 2002, was the Literature Director for the Scottish Arts Council. 'Her work for the Council included a programme of financial aid for new writers of children's fiction; the first person to apply was the then unpublished J K Rowling; the Arts Council's initial bursary supported the creation of Harry Potter' (University of St. Andrews, Laureation Address, June 2018, website). The bursary was actually given to Rowling whilst she was in the midst of writing The Chamber of Secrets; sold by the family.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DICKENS (CHARLES)Sketches by 'Boz'. Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People... New Edition, IN THE ORIGINAL 20 MONTHLY PARTS, additional etched title and 39 plates by Cruikshank, with publisher's imprint from part 7 onwards, p.18 with '8' set lower, p.50 with '0' set higher, 'p.83' level and clear, 'p.515' correct, p.526 with 'reeledbefore', advertisement leaves as called for by Hatton & Cleaver comprising those in part 1 (8pp.), part 2 (8pp. including Address), part 3 (4pp., 8pp., 18-page Mechi Catalogue with wrappers), part 5 (4pp. 'Proclamation'), part 9 (4pp.), publisher's pink pictorial wrappers, some soiling, 8 of the parts noted by Collis as 'untouched' (3 with backstrips chipped), others restored by Riviere or Morrell (3 wrappers substituted, see condition report for further details), each part preserved in Collis's annotated paper wrapper, together with loosely inserted letterpress from part 2, a single uncut sheet with the 2 plates from part 3, and letters from Thomas Hatton and Thomas Thorp, housed in brown and green half morocco top-opening slipcase, with gilt panelled spine and laid on manuscript title label [Eckel p.15; Gimbel A6; Hatton & Cleaver p.89-128], 8vo, Chapman & Hall, November 1837-June 1839Footnotes:W.H. COLLIS'S 'BEST SET' OF 'SKETCHES BY BOZ' IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS. One of the rarest of Dickens's works to appear in parts, the present set is complete with all the advertisements called for by Hatton & Cleaver, and the usual thirteen additional plates supplied to supplement the twenty-seven etchings which appeared in the earlier book form issue.The Sketches had first been published in different periodicals and newspapers, and some were then gathered into book form in two series published 1836 and 1837 (see preceding lots). The copyright was purchased outright by Chapman and Hall who issued the work in monthly parts to meet the form's growing popularity, and to coincide with appearance of the final part of Pickwick Papers. The change from Pickwick's standard green wrappers to light pink was not popular at the time, resulting in fewer advertisements being supplied.In the letter from Thomas Thorp, dated 10 December 1931, the bookseller is amongst other things offering Collis an incomplete set of 'Boz' ('I can let you have Sketches by Boz, as catalogued, for £165, or will give you a good price for the two missing parts'); the offer was evidently not taken up since Collis's notes show that most of the parts were bought on two separate occasions in 1934, and one in 1928, the earliest date we have found recording a purchase by Collis.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DICKENS (CHARLES)Hard Times. For These Times, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, half-title, publisher's first binding of olive green moiré horizontally-ribbed cloth, covers with outer line and inner ornamental blind-stamped borders, gilt-lettered spine with price 5/- and decoration in blind, light yellow endpapers, covers spotted, spine bumped and with wear affecting part of title lettering [Eckel, p.131; Gimbel A136; Sadleir 689; Smith I:11], 8vo, Bradbury & Evans, 1854Footnotes:Along with Great Expectations, this was the only first edition of a Dickens novel to be issued without illustrations. This internally clean copy has nine of Smith's eleven flaws in uncorrected state, and only those on pp.122 and 231 in corrected state.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
ASHENDENE PRESSSPENSER (EDMUND) The Faerie Queene Disposed into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, limited to 180 copies, Subiaco type, printed in black, red, and blue throughout, light spotting on endpapers, opening and final 2 leaves of text, publisher's calf-backed vellum, joints slightly rubbed [Hornby 32], folio, Chelsea, Ashendene 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
DICKENS (CHARLES)A Tale of Two Cities, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST ISSUE, bound from the original parts with p.213 in part 7/8 mispaginated '113', and signature 'b' present on 'List of Plates' at end, etched frontispiece, additional vignette title and 14 plates by 'Phiz' (Hablot K. Browne) with tissue guards, occasional light foxing and soiling mostly at edges of plates, without advertisements but one original front wrapper bound in at end, contemporary dark purple half calf, gilt panelled spine, extremities rubbed and one joint slightly cracking (hinges reinforced internally), short tear to head of of spine [Eckel, pp.86-90; cf. Gimbel A142/3; Smith I.13], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1859This 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
BINDINGSEVELYN (JOHN) Memoirs, 5 vol., edited by William Bray, Henry Colburn, 1827--COCKBURN (HENRY) Memorial of His Time, 3 vol., Edinburgh, A. & C. Black, 1827--PEPYS (SAMUEL) Everybody's Pepys... illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, G. Bell, 1927--CHESTERTON (G.K.) The Father Brown Stories, Cassell, [1955]--WAUGH (EVELYN) Officers and Gentlemen, 1955; Men at Arms, 1952; Unconditional Surrender, 1961, Chapman and Hall, red half morocco gilt--CORYAT (THOMAS) Coryat's Crudities, 2 vol., later full red calf, Glasgow, Maclehose, 1905--HEBER (REGINALD) Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India, 3 vol., second edition, wood-engraved plates, contemporary calf, John Murray, 1828--DRUMMOND (WILLIAM) The Oedipus Judaicus, [LIMITED TO 50 COPIES], 16 lithographed plates, light spotting, bookplate of Laurence Currie, early mottled calf gilt, A.J. Valpy, 1811--GREEN (J.R.) A Short History of English People, 4 vol., contemporary half calf gilt, Macmillan, 1898, 8vo; and a large quantity of others, including approximately 90 bound in half morocco, calf, etc. (quantity)Footnotes:Provenance: The Library of the late A.J. Karter.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
FREUD (SIGMUND)Autograph draft letter signed ('Freud') seemingly to J.L. Garvin, editor-in-chief of the Encyclopaedia Britannica ('Dear Sir'), agreeing that the Encyclopaedia of 1911 '...contained no mention of ΨA...' but uncertain if an article regarding '...the development, contents and achievements of ΨA from the very beginning...' is quite what he requires, apologising for the length of the article that is, even so, '...extremely condensed, I found it impossible to give an intelligent account of the intricate subject in a more shortened frame...', suggesting he apply to Dr Ernest Jones ('...the foremost among English analysts...') or to James Strachey ('...brother to the famous historian... one of my English translators...') to help with the special terms ('...It would be a pity if the E. Br. Did not use the same technical denominations...'), 2 pages, light dust-staining at edges, slightly creased at fold, 4to (287 x 225mm.), Vienna, [n.d. but c.1925-6]Footnotes:'THE DEVELOPMENT, CONTENTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF ΨA FROM THE VERY BEGINNING': Sigmund Freud's contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.The first stand-alone entry on the subject of psychoanalysis appeared in the thirteenth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, published in three volumes (nos. 29, 30 and 31) in 1926 and written, as seen here, by Freud himself: 'He described the subject as he understood it at that time but also as he wished it to be understood later. 'The future will probably attribute far greater importance to psychoanalysis as the science of the unconscious... than as a therapeutic procedure.' Freud also chafed at what he seemed to think was the two-small space allotted to his article... a remarkably clear expression of psychoanalytic theory interlaced with Freud's reflections upon his own scientific legacy' (Britannica.com). In our letter he refers the recipient, most probably the newly appointed editor-in-chief (and long-standing editor of The Observer) J. L. Garvin (1868-1947), to his friend, colleague and biographer Ernest Jones and his English translator James Strachey, brother of Lytton, for assistance in making his article more comprehensible. The lack of date and several amendments and deletions would perhaps indicate that this is a draft of a letter which appears to be unpublished. Freud's use of the Greek letter Ψ (psi) to abbreviate the word 'psychoanalysis' and the abbreviation of Encyclopaedia Britannica to 'E. Br' or 'E. B.' would also bear this out. Freud spoke highly of Garvin in a letter to Franklin Hooper, the American editor of the Encyclopaedia in September 1924 following the publication of Hooper's These Eventful Years, writing in a similar vein to our letter: 'My complete admiration goes to the introductory essay by Garvin... I am very proud that you have granted psychoanalysis a chapter to itself. I hope that the future will justify your assessment. If my essay has turned out longer than you wished it to be, my excuse is that a shorter description of the difficult topic would have offered nothing comprehensible to the reader' (ed. Freud, Ernst, Letters of Sigmund Freud 1873-1939, 1961).Garvin was keen to maintain the encyclopaedia's closely-held reputation for scholarship and saw the publication as an opportunity to restore international unity through intellectual cooperation, whilst in turn making it more cosmopolitan and accessible. With that in mind he commissioned the best possible authority on each subject, as shown here. Other illustrious contributors to the edition included Marie Curie writing on Radium, Albert Einstein on Space-Time, Henry Ford on Mass Production, Suzanne Lenglen on Lawn Tennis, Andrew Mellon on Finance, Marconi on Wireless, Nansen on Polar Exploration and Leon Trotsky on Lenin.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
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DICKENS (CHARLES)[Christmas Books] A Christmas Carol, fourteenth edition, 4 hand-coloured plates and wood-engraved illustrations after John Leech, advertisement leaf at end, Bradbury & Evans, 1860; The Chimes: A Goblin Story, engraved frontispiece and additional title (first state) after Maclise, wood-engraved illustrations by Doyle, Leech and Stanfield, advertisement for tenth edition of A Christmas Carol at beginning, some light soiling to upper cover, Chapman & Hall, 1845 [1844]; The Cricket on the Hearth, wood-engraved frontispiece, additional title and illustrations by Leech, Doyle, Stanfield, Maclise and Landseer, second state of Oliver Twist advertisement at end, Bradbury & Evans, 1846 [1845]; The Battle of Life, wood-engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title (in fourth state) and illustrations by Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield and John Leech, thin ink splash to upper cover, Bradbury & Evans, 1846; The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain, advertisement leaf at the beginning, wood-engraved frontispiece, additional vignette title and illustrations by Leech, Stanfield, Tenniel and Stone, Bradbury and Evans, 1848, all but the first FIRST EDITIONS, publisher's deep red ribbed cloth decorated in blind, upper covers pictorially gilt, spines and upper covers lettered in gilt, g.e. [Smith II:5, 6, 8, 9], 8vo (5)Footnotes:A FINE SET OF THE CHRISTMAS BOOKS, comprising a Bradbury & Evans fourteenth edition of A Christmas Carol, and first editions of the other four.Provenance: Each with Collis's purchase note, respectively: 'Weatherhead 11/12/34'; 'Spencer 21.6.1927'; 'From Elly 24/11/30'; last two 'From Exors of W.J. Harris 16.1.1930' (the first pencilled on Collis's wrapper, the other four with loosely inserted note).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
MARKHAM (FRANCIS)The Booke of Honour. Or, Five Decads of Epistles of Honour, FIRST EDITION, FRANCIS WILLUGHBY'S COPY, woodcut initials and ornaments, light arc of dampstaining in lower margin (touching letters) of some leaves, from Epistle 6 onwards several passages noted with an ink mark in the borders, in 2 places with a word ('Ptolemis', p.99; 'except Northumberland', p146) in an early hand, contemporary limp vellum gilt, sides with 2 gilt borders, 4 corner-piece ornaments and a larger central ornament, some soiling, one corner slightly nibbled [ESTC S114266], 4to (280 x 180mm.), Augustine Matthewes, and John Norton, 1625Footnotes:Francis Willughby's copy of The Booke of Honour by Francis Markham (1565–1627), who as a writer 'was a greater stylist, though much less prolific, than his more celebrated sibling, Gervase Markham' (ODNB).Provenance: Francis Willughby, inscribed 'F. Willughby' with pressmark 'E:1:5' on the title-page, and 'Fra Willughby Sola fides nessificat' on opening blank; 'Christies No. 561, 17/6/25', pencil 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
CHURCHILL (WINSTON)Painting as a Pastime, first separate edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, 'Inscribed for T.E.R. Harris by Winston S. Churchill. 1948' on front free endpaper, and with typed compliments slip loosely inserted ('With Mr. Churchill's compliments', on 28 Hyde Park Gate notepaper, dated 30 November 1948), frontispiece and colour plates, some light foxing, publisher's gilt lettered cloth, dust-jacket (frayed at edges), 8vo, Odhams, 1948Footnotes:Provenance: T.E.R. Harris; and thence by descent to the present owner (see lot 142).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
STANISLAW I: (1677-1766) Stanislaw I Leszczynski. King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania 1704-09, 1733-36. L.S., Stanislas Rey, as King, one page, folio, Luneville, 25th May 1740, to the 'Venerables chers et amies' at the Abbaye de Rangevel, in French. Stanislaw I writes following the death of Antoine Rollin, an oblate at the abbey, and notifies his correspondents that it is his intention to send Claude Vayeux (?) to replace him as an oblate, and to whom the abbey will provide sustenance for his life time. With integral address leaf bearing a blind embossed seal. A few neat, small slits and some light overall age wear, about VG
PONIATOWSKI STANISLAW: (1754-1833) Polish nobleman, politician and diplomat, a member of the wealthy Poniatowski family, cousin of Prinz Jozef Poniatowski (1763-1813, Polish General who became a Marshal of the French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars) and a nephew of Stanislaw II Augustus (1732-1798, King of Poland 1764-95). Stanislaw Poniatowski served as Grand Treasurer of Lithuania 1784-91, making him a key figure in Poland during the Age of Enlightenment. A.L., unsigned, three pages, 4to, Rome, 11th October 1774, to Revd. Barker. Poniatowski states that he had much pleasure in receiving his correspondent's letter from Florence, and also wishes to have good news from Paris or England, continuing to write of his own recent activities, in part, 'I have so much to write to you about that I do not know where to begin with, this is really the first moment of real sociable pleasure I felt since your departure……The next day after your departure I went to Tivoli, and never was more sorry not to have you with me; really the country out does all description, it is not a large spott (sic) but finer than any we ever saw for natural buty (sic)……the country about Albano is as you know one great rising thrown up by volcanos, there are in it two lakes which seem plainly to have formerly been craters; notwithstanding there is nothing here so striking as a Tivoly, yet the extent and the variety of views which there are follows the hills make it much more fit for a person who intends to spend some time out of Rome: besides that the people seem to be more honest at Albano than at Tivoli……There is a curiosity at Tivoly which one might thinck (sic) of so late date, some thousand years counted but for little, and at so different a kind, that natural history being but the least interesting part of it, it is but with some difficulty it might be classed under that head. I wish I may give you a clear idea of it, it is a wheele (sic) which clearly has formerly existed in the rock of which all the country is formed of. If you thrust the wheel here by ill drawn [at this point in the letter Poniatowski has added an ink sketch of a wheel with four spokes visible] as far as goes the whole lined part into very loose weed which hardens in time and rotts (sic) away the wood of the wheel you will have the best idea of the wholes (sic) left in the rock for there still exist the wholes (sic) which the spokes formerly occupied…..this mould of the wheel would not be as curious a thing, did not the elevation of the rock, a corse (sic) quite different which the waters have taken now make it so…..I wish you had staied (sic) to see it with your own eyes, the whole of this expedition would surely have given you vast satisfaction. I received a letter from Father in which……he repeats with much earnestness his wish to see me back next spring into Polland (sic), I am the less disposed for this that I do not see a sufficient reason for it…..never show my letters because thoug (sic) English I have the impudanse (sic) of sending them without reading them over'. In a postscript Poniatowski provides an intriguing anecdote regarding a murder, in part, 'St. Germain getting into his carriage in the night hits a man with his foot, it was one of the coachmen of the English who in a dispute had been assassinated and was dying, the other coachmen remained upon their seats…..nobody ever thought about giving assistance, because there is a law that the man found with the murdered is strait (sic) set into prison….the story is so inhumain (sic) that it becomes hardly credible'. With integral address leaf addressed to Barker in Bakewell, Derbyshire and bearing a good red wax seal with an imprint of the bust of a man in profile. Some age wear, light staining and a few minor holes, only very slightly affecting a few words of text, G
PONIATOWSKI STANISLAW: (1754-1833) Polish nobleman, politician and diplomat, a member of the wealthy Poniatowski family, cousin of Prinz Jozef Poniatowski (1763-1813, Polish General who became a Marshal of the French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars) and a nephew of Stanislaw II Augustus (1732-1798, King of Poland 1764-95). Stanislaw Poniatowski served as Grand Treasurer of Lithuania 1784-91, making him a key figure in Poland during the Age of Enlightenment. A.L.S., S Poniatowski, four pages, 8vo, Warsaw, 17th March 1788, to Mr. Barker. Poniatowski states that he is glad to know that his correspondent is happy in his 'private family circumstances' and continues 'You have another kind of satisfaction I suppose, it is to see your country raising in all kind of science and industry. The discoveryes (sic) of Mr. Hershill (i.e. Herschel) are so interesting that all nations will know them and pay the tribute of admiration to their author. They seem to have opened a new field of experiments for perfectioning, of reflecting glasses, and telescopes constructed upon that system; the application of salts…..merged with mettals (sic) in the fusion is a restitution of experiments began by Newton, which the present age will perhaps carry farther with a better success'. Poniatowski further comments 'The attention of a great part of England is now turned I suppose towards the trial of Mr. Hastings, who is attacked and defended with equal eloquence. Mr. Burk (i.e. Burke) seems to have aquaired (sic) in this cause a greater reputation still, than he had before', and also sends news of Poland where affairs 'remain in their positive state'. A letter of good content relating to events of the time. Some light age wear, otherwise VG William Herschel (1738-1822) German-born British astronomer who had constructed his first large telescope in 1774 and discovered the planet Uranus in March 1781. Warren Hastings (1732-1818) British colonial administrator who, with Robert Clive, is credited with laying the foundation of the British Empire in India. The impeachment of Hastings, accused of misconduct during his time in India, was attempted between 1787 and 1795 in the Parliament of Great Britain. Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish statesman, orator, political theorist, and philosopher. The impeachment prosecution of Hastings was led by Burke and when the charges of Hastings' indictment were read the twenty counts took Burke two full days to read.
CZARTORYSKI ADAM JERZY: (1770-1861) Polish Nobleman, Statesman, Diplomat & Author who served as Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire 1804-06 and later became the first President of the Polish National Government 1830-31. A.L.S., with his initial C, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d., to le Comte de la Roche Pouchain, in French. Czartoryski declares that his wife is not there with him and that he has just returned from the countryside and opened the Count's letter, which has alarmed him a lot. Czartoryski further states that he will do his best to come and see Marie and in the meantime advises that Cecile is prepared to take care of her. With integral address leaf (small area of one corner neatly excised) and with the remnants of a seal. Some very light, minor age wear, VG
KELLY NANCY: (1921-1995) American actress, an Academy Award nominee. A scarce vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of Kelly seated in a three-quarter length pose in costume as Christine Penmark from the American psychological thriller film The Bad Seed (1956). Signed in bold blue fountain pen ink to a clear area of the image. It was for her performance in this film that Kelly received a Best Actress Oscar nomination. Some very light, extremely minor creasing to the borders and corners, VG
BEATON DAVID: (c.1494-1546) Scottish Cardinal who served as Archbishop of St. Andrews 1539-46. Beaton was the last Scottish Cardinal prior to the Reformation. An extremely rare L.S., d[avid] Card[ina]lis S[anc]ti Andree, one page, folio, Paris, 17th July 1542, to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, in Latin. Beaton writes to Farnese in relation to Alfonso Salmeron and Paschase Broet, the Apostolic nuncios to Ireland and the disturbances they have witnessed there, commenting that there is 'still so much cruelty from the English and the barbarian people themselves, and fierceness, from whom I have saved [them] and they have escaped unscathed. [It is] astounding all that I have been able to see' and adding that he will continue to write with reports to Farnese. With integral address leaf. Some very light, minor water staining to the right edge, only very slightly affecting a few words of text, which remain perfectly legible. About VG €3000 - 4000 Alessandro Farnese (1520-1589) Italian Cardinal and Diplomat. Grandson of Pope Paul III and appointed as his principal secretary in 1538, managing most of the papal business until 1549. Alfonso Salmeron (1515-1585) Spanish Biblical Scholar, a Catholic Priest, and one of the first Jesuits. Paschase Broet (1500?-1562) French Catholic Priest, one of the first Jesuits. In late 1538 King Henry VIII of England was excommunicated by Pope Paul III and the constitutional position of the lordship of Ireland remained uncertain. In the autumn of 1541 Pope Paul III sent Salmeron and Broet as Apostolic nuncios to Ireland. Before leaving they met with Cardinal Beaton at Lyon who discouraged them from going to Ireland with stories of the dire state of the Church there. After leaving France they reached Edinburgh on 3rd December 1541. Although warmly received by King James V, he, and everyone else they met agreed with Beaton and also discouraged them from going to Ireland. Nevertheless, Salmeron and Broet made the short crossing on 23rd February 1542. The title of King of Ireland had been re-created in 1542 by King Henry VIII and the English began establishing control over the island. The situation in Ireland proved to be worse than previously thought and Broet wrote 'in a short while we found matters just as we had been told, if not worse'. Bishops who remained faithful were turned out of their dioceses and went on the run. Monasteries and friaries were all in ruins. Pope Paul III's original instructions had stated that if their lives were in danger then they were return and therefore in the summer of 1542 they travelled back to Scotland where the people there were surprised to see them return alive.
LESLIE WALTER: (1607-1667) Scottish Field Marshal and diplomat, a Count of the Holy Roman Empire who served as Imperial Ambassador to Naples, Rome in 1645 and to Constantinople in 1665-66. A curious L.S., W Leslie, five pages, folio, n.p., 31st December 1644, (‘ultimo dell’Anno nuovo 1644’), to His Excellency. The first three and a half pages of the letter are written in code, comprising sixty-five lines of numerals, closely written and without obvious breaks, immediately continuing with Italian text, in which Leslie reports of the enemy having taken possession of the town of Pegau, thereby extending the area of occupied territory to the borders of Bohemia, also making reference to Raimondi Montecuccoli, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, who is travelling to seek the assistance of the Elector, and further writing of the esteem in which his correspondent is held (‘There is no Prince in the whole of Germany who shows so much affection towards Your Excellency’) and that there is no one in the Court who do not wish to see him return to the command of the army, including those who previously spoke badly of him, and also seeking license to travel to Spain. It is possible that the second half of Leslie’s letter is a transcript of the first half, although this would seem illogical, and therefore a more probable explanation of the code is that it contained content of a more sensitive nature than Leslie was prepared to write conventionally. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, and a couple of small tears to the edges, VG Raimondi Montecuccoli (1609-1680) Italian-born soldier who served the Habsburg Monarchy. He was also a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and Duke of Melfi, in the Kingdom of Naples.
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[GUNPOWDER PLOT]: HOWARD THOMAS: (1561-1626) 1st Earl of Suffolk. English Admiral who commanded the Golden Lion in the attack on the Spanish Armada in 1588. Howard later served as Lord Chamberlain of the Household (c.1603-14) and as Lord High Treasurer 1614-18. In 1605 Howard was privy to communications relating to the Gunpowder Plot and examined the cellar in the House of Lords where he discovered the brushwood concealing the gunpowder and the plot subsequently collapsed. Howard was commissioned to investigate and try the plotters. A good D.S., T Suffolke, one page, slim folio, n.p., 25th August 1613. The manuscript document is a warrant for payment and states, in part, 'Henry Marten doctor of the Civil laws the king's advocate and Levynus Munck Clerk of his majesty's signet employed commissioners into the Palatinate for the settling of the Princess Elizabeth her jointure, humbly demand allowance for their charges of transportation to and fro according to the Privy Seal of his majesty dated the eighth April 1613 the sum of £150 14s 0d. They further demand allowance for their entertainment of diet at four marks by the day, beginning from the first of March last past, and ending the twentieth of August inclusive, according to the said Privy Seal £922 13s 4d', the warrant totalling £1073 7s 4d. Signed by both Marten and Munck at the foot, acknowledging receipt of £400 0s 0d, and signed by Suffolk beneath and further countersigned by Julius Caesar (1558-1636) English lawyer, judge and politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer 1606-14. With blank integral leaf. Some light age wear and minor staining at the folds, about VG Sir Henry Marten (1562-1641) English judge and politician who served as Judge of the High Court of Admiralty 1617-41. Marten was made King's advocate on 3rd March 1609 and in March 1613 was sent abroad in connection with the marriage settlement of the Lady Elizabeth. Levinus Munck (c.1568-1623) English politician, Member of Parliament for Great Bedwyn in 1601. Munck served as Chief Secretary to Sir Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, from 1602-12. In 1613 he was sent on diplomatic business to the Low Countries and afterwards accompanied the Princess Elizabeth to Heidelberg following her marriage to the Elector Palatine. By this time he held the appointment of Clerk to the Signet and was also receiving interest on money loaned to the Crown. Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662) Electress consort of the Palatinate 1613-23 and Queen consort of Bohemia 1619-20, known as the 'Winter Queen'. Eldest daughter of King James VI and I of Scotland, England and Ireland and his wife, Anne of Denmark. A significant intention of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was to assassinate Elizabeth's father and the Protestant aristocracy, kidnap the nine-year-old Elizabeth from Coombe Abbey, and place her on the throne of England - and presumably the thrones of Ireland and Scotland - as a Catholic monarch.
CAREY ROBERT: (c.1560-1639) 1st Earl of Monmouth. English nobleman and courtier, a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth I who served as a volunteer against the Spanish Armada and as Warden of the Middle March 1596-98. Lower portion of a D.S., Ro: Cary, one page, oblong 8vo, n.p., n.d. (c.1620). The manuscript document is a fragment of a warrant for payment and states '…..4 labourers were employed the space of 4 days wherefore he prayeth to have allowance for his and their pains and charges in the service aforesaid to be rated by the honourable Sir Robert Cary knight chamberlain of the prince his highness and paid by the right worshipful Adam Newton esquire his highness's receiver general'. Some light age wear and minor staining, otherwise VG Sir Adam Newton (d.1630) Scottish scholar, royal tutor and secretary to Henry, Prince of Wales. After the death of the Prince, in 1612 Newton became receiver-general, or treasurer, in the household of Prince Charles, later King Charles I.
MORICE WILLIAM: (1602-1676) English politician and theologian who served as Secretary of State for the Northern Department and as a Lord of the Treasury 1660-68. A.L.S., Will[iam] Morice, one page, small 4to, n.p., 8th February 1670 [1671], to Elizabeth Martyn ('My dear Sister'). Morice states that he has received her letter containing expressions of kindness and 'your acknowledgements and acceptance of my desires to serve you', continuing to explain 'I have a great affection and readiness to your service in any thing within my power, and should longer have accommodated you with this sum, but that my own occasions are pressing to require it, I having paid a great deal of money of late, and must make payment of more suddenly; and I do seriously tell you as a real truth that I shall be enforced to borrow a great sum upon use for some time'. With integral address leaf in Morice's hand ('For my deare and honoured sister Mrs Elizabeth Martyn at Heavitree') and bearing the remnants of a red wax seal. Some light age wear and minor staining and with a small hole just affecting the last line of text, otherwise VG
DIGBY GEORGE: (1612-1677) 2nd Earl of Bristol. English politician who served as Secretary of State 1643-45. Bristol supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War but his ambition and instability of character caused serious problems to himself and the two kings he served. D.S., Bristol, one page, small 4to, n.p., 22nd February 1670 [1671]. The manuscript document, entirely in the Earl's hand, is a receipt issued to Thomas Duppa for 'the Summe of two hundred pounds upon account of the arrears of renths Due to mee from ye Diocesse of Salisbury, for wch. I promise to furnish unto him the formal discharges requisite in Lieu of this present note under my hand'. Some light age wear and minor creasing to the edges, otherwise VG
ELIZABETHAN PRIVY COUNCIL: A good L.S. by three members of Queen Elizabeth I's Privy Council comprising William Cecil (1520-1598) 1st Baron Burghley, English Statesman, Secretary of State 1550-53, 1558-72, Lord High Treasurer 1572-98, Charles Howard (1536-1624) 1st Earl of Nottingham, English Statesman and Lord High Admiral, commander of the English forces during the battles against the Spanish Armada, and Henry Carey (1526-1596) 1st Baron Hunsdon, English Nobleman and Courtier, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth I and the patron of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, William Shakespeare's playing company, one page, 4to, Greenwich, 24th April 1592, to [Robert Price], executor of [Joan] Lady Mordaunt. The Privy Councillors write following the death and burial of Lady Mordaunt 'whose funerals being to be solemnized agreeable to her condition and degree as a baroness, you nevertheless as we are given to understand would otherwise order the same in an obscure and private manner, not fitting to a personage of her degree, being a baroness, and besides having left sufficiently to perform the same in good sort; wherefore inasmuch as it hath pleased her majesty to authorise us by her commission under the great seal to exercise the place and authority of Earl Marshall, we do therefore will and require you to order her funerals agreeable to her degree and calling, by the advice and direction of Mr Garter the Principal King at Arms, to whom by his office it appertaineth, or otherwise to make your appearance before us to show sufficient cause of your refusal; and we do not a little marvel that of your self you would undertake to appoint eschutcheons of arms or other like things of armory to be made (as we understand you have done) without the allowance of the said Mr Garter to whom the same belongeth'. Subscribed at the foot 'Order was taken at Greenwich the court being there on the Monday 15th of May by these lords that Robert Pryce then present should pay and satisfy Mr Garter for the same funeral and adjudged to be punished for his proceedings therein and contempt but pardoned of prisonment….'. Some light overall damp staining, only very slightly affecting the text (which remains completely legible) and with a few darker stains and small tears (strengthened to the verso) to the edges, G The office of Earl Marshal was in commission between the death of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, on 18th November 1590 and the appointment of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in 1597.The office of Garter King of Arms was held by Sir William Dethick between 21st April 1586 and 10th December 1606, although he had surrendered and been deprived of his patent in 1603. Joan Mordaunt, Lady Mordaunt, was the daughter of Sir Richard Fermor of Easton Neston in Northamptonshire. She died in 1592 as widow of Sir Thomas Kempe (d.1591), having formerly been the wife of John Mordaunt (1508-1571), second Baron Mordaunt, and before of Robert Wilford (d.1545). Her will of 6th October 1591 (a copy of which is included in the lot), expressing a wish only that she be 'decently' buried, was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury by her son-in-law Robert ap Rees on 5th April 1592. The strict line taken by the Privy Councillors with her executor may have been the result of the family's overt Catholicism, or of the argumentative, dishonest and generally outrageous character of William Dethick, Garter King of Arms.
CHARLES II: (1630-1685) King of England, Scotland (1649-51) and Ireland 1660-85. A fine L.S., Charles R, with holograph subscription, one page, 4to, Paris, 31st October 1652, to Baron de Serteville, in French. The King expresses gratitude to his correspondent for their goodwill and the favourable reception of his ships and men of war at the ports of Normandy near Cherbourg, where de Serteville has all power and authority. The King further explains that the bearer of the letter, Chevalier Brun, his representative with 'my dear Brother the very Christian King' will testify 'to you more particularly to which I beg you to add faith in everything he tells you'. With integral address leaf (small area neatly excised from the base and two light stains caused by the original seal). VG
CHARLES II: (1630-1685) King of England, Scotland (1649-51) and Ireland 1660-85. An unusual D.S., Carolus R, at the foot, as King, in exile, one page, oblong folio, Brussels, 4th July 1657, in Latin. The manuscript document, to which the King has added one word in his own hand, is addressed to 'The most serene, powerful, elevated, and illustrious, emperors, kings, princes, marquises, counts, orders, barons, dynasties and all their inheritances….from military camps, divisions, provinces, walled cities, rivers' ships, ports, roads and bridges' administrators and all the relative….' and regards Lord Jacob, Count of Castlehaven (whose name, Jacobus, King Charles inserts in his own hand), requiring that he and his servants, horses and weapons are able to move safely and freely on their journey, and concluding 'And above all these friends, the benevolence, the favour, and protection of the duties surround them and turn out; and according to their facts for this, it will be very pleasant for us, when the opportunity will come, to return the same grace to them'. Countersigned at the foot by Sir Edward Nicholas (1593-1669) English politician who served as Secretary of State to both King Charles I and King Charles II. With blind embossed paper seal affixed. With blank integral leaf. Some light staining and age wear and with a few small holes and areas of paper loss at some folds, none of which affect the King's signature. About VG James Tuchet (c.1617-1684) 3rd Earl of Castlehaven. Irish soldier who played a prominent role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
ANNE: (1665-1714) Queen of England, Scotland & Ireland 1702-07 and Queen of the Kingdom of Great Britain 1707-14. D.S., Anne R, as Queen, at the head, one page (vellum), oblong folio, given at the Court at St. James's, 1708 (the day and month not stated). The manuscript document is a military commission appointing Simon Parry to be a Captain of a Company in the Regiment of Portuguese Foot, led by Lieutenant Colonel Constantine de Magny, and 'to take the said Company into your care and charge and duly to exercise as well the officers and soldiers thereof in arms and to use your best endeavours to keep them in good order and discipline'. Countersigned at the foot by Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland (1675-1722) English statesman who served as Secretary of State for the Southern Department 1706-10 and later as First Lord of the Treasury 1718-21. With remnants of the blind embossed paper seal. Some light staining and age wear and small areas of paper loss to the lower edge, G Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, was one of the five Whigs, collectively called the Junto, who dominated the government from 1708-10. However, the Earl had many enemies and was disliked by Queen Anne who dismissed him in June 1710.
GEORGE II: (1683-1760) King of Great Britain and Ireland 1727-60. Manuscript D.S., George R, as King, at the head, two pages, large folio, n.p. (London), n.d. (c.1747-48), headed Abstract of the Charge of the Guards &c and detailing the accounts (listed both daily and annually) for the staff officers, Horse and Grenadier Guards, Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, Dragoon Guards, Foot Guards, Regiment of Invalids etc., totalling £838,582.18.2 per annum. Countersigned at the foot of each page by three Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, two of whom also served as British Prime Ministers, Henry Pelham (1694-1754) British Prime Minister 1743-54, Henry Bilson-Legge (1708-1764) Chancellor of the Exchequer 1754-55, 1756-57 & 1757-61 and George Grenville (1712-1770) British Prime Minister 1763-65. Some light, minor age wear and staining to the edges and a few small tears, otherwise about VG
GEORGE III: (1738-1820) King of the United Kingdom 1760-1820. L.S., George R, with holograph subscription ('Sir My Brother, Your Good Brother'), one page, 4to, St. James's, 31st August 1764, to [Ferdinand I] the King of the Two Sicilies. The King announces 'Sir James Gray Baronet, who has resided for some years at Your Court, as My Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, having requested that he may remain in England for the Reestablishment of his Health, and to settle his affairs, I have thought proper to recall him' and continues 'I am myself so well satisfied with the zeal and fidelity, with which My said Minister has executed my Orders, in establishing that perfect Union, which subsists between Us, and which I hope will always continue, that I doubt not but you will also have found his conduct agreeable to You, and so well deserving of your Approbation, that You will permit Him to take his Leave'. With integral address leaf bearing two red wax seals and with the small original pink ribbons affixed. One very light, small circular stain (caused by the wax seal) only slightly affects a few letters of the signature and subscription, otherwise VG Ferdinand I (1751-1825) King of the Two Sicilies 1816-25, previously King Ferdinand IV of Naples from 1759 and King Ferdinand III of Sicily 1759-1816. Sir James Gray (c.1708-1773) 2nd Baronet. British Diplomat and Antiquary. British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples 1753-63. Despite the content of the present letter, Gray went on to hold another diplomatic post, as British Ambassador to Spain from 1766-70.
EDWARD VIII: (1894-1972) King of the United Kingdom January - December 1936. Later Duke of Windsor. A signed printed 8vo menu for a Regimental Banquet held in honour of the 107th Infantry, United States Army, by the Queen's Westminster & Civil Service Rifles at the Hotel Cecil, London, 4th June 1926. Signed by Edward ('Edward P') as Prince of Wales in pencil to a clear area at the head of the cover. Some light age wear and staining at the base of the menu, not affecting the signature. FR
EDWARD VIII: (1894-1972) King of the United Kingdom January - December 1936. Later Duke of Windsor. A printed 8vo official programme of the visit of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales to the Borough of Lancaster, 28th June 1927, signed ('Edward P') by the Prince in fountain pen ink with his name alone to the front cover. Bound in the original brown paper wrappers. Some light age wear and minor staining and creasing, G
EDWARD & WALLIS: EDWARD, DUKE OF WINDSOR (1894-1972) King of the United Kingdom January - December 1936 & WALLIS, DUCHESS OF WINDSOR (1895-1986) Wife of Edward, Duke of Windsor. A good vintage signed and inscribed 9 x 12 photograph by both the Duke and Duchess of Windsor individually, the image depicting the couple seated together in three quarter length poses, the Duke wearing a uniform and the Duchess in a black evening dress and jewels. Photograph by Dorothy Wilding and bearing her pencil signature to the lower mount. Signed ('Edward, Duke of Windsor') by the Duke and signed ('Wallis Windsor') by the Duchess, both in black fountain pen inks to the lower mount and further inscribed and dated by the Duchess to the image, 'To Maurice Chevalier, Paris 1946'. A fine association. Some light overall age wear and a few minor stains to the mount. About VG Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972) French Actor, Singer & Entertainer, Academy Award winner.
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