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Lot 261

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - JOHN BUCKLAND WRIGHTSWINBURNE (ALGERNON CHARLES) Laus Veneris... Engravings by John Buckland Wright, NUMBER 39 OF 100 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES WITH AN EXTRA ENGRAVING, from an overall edition limited to 750, 12 wood-engraved illustrations (some full-page), original russet morocco, upper cover with gilt figures of woman and kneeling man by JBW on central black morocco panel, spine lettered in gilt on black morocco label, t.e.g., others uncut, a few light spots on covers, tall 8vo, Golden Cockerel Press, 1948This 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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Lot 263

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - MARK SEVERINHomeric Hymn to Aphrodite. A New Translation by F.L.. Lucas... with Ten Engravings by Mark Severin, NUMBER 3 OF 100 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, from an edition limited to 750, title printed in red and black, text in English and greek, wood-engraved frontispiece, title, 10 illustrations and press-device by Mark Severin, Henry Sothern label at on front paste-down and pencil description on rear free endpaper, some light browning of flyleaves, untrimmed in original crushed red morocco gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, sides with gilt designs after Severin, spine lettered in gilt with 2 raised bands and small cockerels, morocco turn-ins gilt, t.e.g., a little dark staining to covers but still fine, folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1948This 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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Lot 266

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - JOHN BUCKLAND WRIGHTHARTNOLL (PHYLLIS) The Grecian Enchanted... With Eight Aquatints by John Buckland-Wright, NUMBER 36 OF 60 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES with a duplicate set of illustrations loose in pocket at rear, from an edition limited to 360 copies signed by the author and artist, title printed in pink and green with vignette and decorative border, 7 collotype plates after aquatints by John Buckland-Wright, 8 additional aquatint plates loose in pocket at end (title and 7 plates, without the unused plate referred to on the colophon), untrimmed in original grey and salmon morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, upper cover with JBW fighting cock design in gilt, spine with 4 raised band, gilt lettering and cockerel motifs, t.e.g., light blue cloth slipcase (worn at corners), small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1952This 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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Lot 279

GREGYNOG PRESSXENOPHON. Cyrupaedia: The Institution and Life of Cyrus... Eight Bookes Treating of Noble Education, Of Princely Exercizes, Military Discipline..., translated... by Philemon Holland, number 99 of 150 copies, title-page and side-notes printed in red and black, floriated wood-engraved initials by Lloyd Haberly, hand-coloured in red and green, some light foxing to last few leaves, untrimmed in original dark green morocco gilt, covers decorated with onlaid centre- and cornerpieces in red and light green morocco, outlined in gilt and blocked with Persian-style design, spine gilt with raised bands, t.e.g., folio, Newtown, Gregynog Press, 1936This 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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Lot 296

WILDE (OSCAR)The Works, 14 vol., ONE OF 80 SETS ON JAPANESE VELLUM, from an overall edition limited to 1,080, publisher's limp vellum, upper covers with gilt design after Charles Ricketts consisting of italic title lettering between two medallions depicting a flying dove, and below a third medallion showing a star rising above the waters, flat spines gilt-lettered in italic, yapp edges, t.e.g., others uncut, a little light soiling, some slight crinkling or bowing as usual, but unusually good, 8vo, Methuen & Co., 1908Footnotes:FINE SET OF THE DELUXE ISSUE OF THE FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF WILDE. 'The text is taken in most instances from the last editions issued under the superintendence of the author. In some cases the volumes contain additional matter which had not previously been reprinted, while some of the volumes contain matter here published for the first time' (Mason).Provenance: John Herbert Bankes, bookplates.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 32

AMERICASEILE (ANNE) Americae nova descriptio, map engraved by Robert Vaughan, with California as an island, decorated with ships and sea creatures, no text on verso, light old folds [Burden 379], 340 x 420mm., [London], 1663This 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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Lot 33

ISLAMThe Rise of Islam and the Caliphate. The Pan-Islamic Movement, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 'Confidential' printed in upper right corner of title and front wrapper, very light old dampstain at top edges, publisher's grey printed wrappers, numeral '1' stamped in top corner of front wrapper above header and 'Confidential', 8vo, Handbooks Prepared Under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office, January 1919Footnotes:RARE. Marked 'Confidential', this handbook was prepared for the use of delegates of the Allied Nations who gathered at the Paris Peace Conference of January 1919. It outlines the historical scope of Islam and the Caliphate, contextualising it with current events, the final chapter entitled 'Pan-Islamism and the Young Turks'. The handbook was reprinted the following year with the wording 'confidential' removed.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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Lot 36

PERSIAN GULF AND ARABIAPersian Gulf, large colour-printed map of 'Persian Gulf and Adjacent Countries... Additions Feby. 1919' loosely inserted as issued in pocket at end, June, 1919; Persia, June 1919; Arabia, large colour-printed 'Sketch Map of the Persian Gulf & Arabia' loosely inserted as issued in pocket at end, April 1919, FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST ISSUES, all with 'Confidential' printed upper right of title and front wrapper, publisher's grey printed wrappers, each with the numeral '1' upper right of front wrapper (in blue ink for Persian volumes, stamped for Arabia), some toning, light old dampstain to spine and lower part of front wrapper of first mentioned, 8vo, Handbooks Prepared Under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office, 1919 (3)Footnotes:RARE. Marked 'confidential', these handbooks were prepared by the British Foreign Office, for the use by the delegates of Allied Nations who gathered at the Paris Peace conference of 1919-1920, which lead to the formation of the League of Nations. They provide details of the 'geography, physical and political' and 'political history' of the regions. Persian Gulf includes 'the Persian Gulf proper together with the Gulf of Oman and the adjacent coastal regions', with a history of these states to 1914.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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Lot 46

BIBLE- FRANCIS FRYThe First New Testament Printed in the English Language (1525 or 1526) Translated from the Greek by William Tyndale. Reproduced in Facsimile with an Introduction by Francis Fry F.S.A, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FRY TO 'Mary Hill with F. Fry's kind regards, Cotham, 1 Mo. 24 1863' on the presentation page before the title, additionally inscribed 'Mary A. Curtis from Francis Fry' on front free endpaper, and signed by Fry ('Francis Fry, Cotham, Bristol, 3 Mo. 1862' at the end of the introduction (p.18), collates [2], 28, [8] with illustrations and facsimile leaves (one printed in colours), some interleaved with tissue guards, occasional light spotting, publisher's blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettered 'Introduction to Fry's Tyndale's Testament' on upper cover, dampstaining to upper part of each cover, spine rubbed [cf. Herbert 1936], 8vo (188 x 125mm.), Bristol, Printed for the Editor, 1862Footnotes:Rare presentation copy of the introduction by Francis Fry to his facsimile reprinting of the Tyndale New Testament, with specimen examples of the work including Tyndale's Address to the Reader, and the Epistle of Titus.Provenance: Mary Hill, presentation inscription from Francis Fry, 1863; M.F. Bowser (and also 'M.F. Allen'), Matlock, later inscription inside upper cover.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 48

CAMDEN (WILLIAM)Britannia, Newly Translated into English: With Large Additions and Improvements... by Edmund Gibson, engraved portrait frontispiece, 50 engraved double-page or folding maps, 8 engraved plates of coins, several illustrations in the text, frontispiece cut down and mounted, title laid down with small loss affecting a couple of letters of the imprint, light dampstain in outer margin of first approximately 100 pages (just affecting edges of a few maps), some diagrams coloured in yellow, a few maps hand-coloured in outline, Kent map with some loss to one edge, 2 others shaved at margin, modern calf antique, gilt morocco spine labels, slightly rubbed, a few surface abrasions [ESTC R12882; Chubb CXIII], folio (395 x 240mm.), A. Swalle, A. & J. Churchill, 1695This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 53

DRINKWATER (JOHN)A History of the Late Siege of Gibraltar. With a Description and Account of the Garrison, from the Earliest Periods, second edition, AUTHOR'S PRESESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'From the Author to Admiral Sr. George Cockburn KCB as a mark of his friendship & esteem. August 1st. J. Drinkwater' on the front free endpaper, 10 folding engraved plates and maps, some spotting and light off-setting, early nineteenth century vellum, sides ruled in blue ink, flat spine gilt tooled with red morocco lettering label, marbled edges, soiled, covers slightly bowed, 4to, J. Johnson, 1786Footnotes:A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR TO SIR GEORGE COCKBURN, ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET.Having joined the 72nd regiment or Royal Manchester volunteers at the age of fifteen, Drinkwater was garrisoned in Gibraltar whilst it was besieged by the Franco-Spanish force from June 1779 until February 1783, after which he wrote his History, before returning to Gibraltar with the 2nd battalion of the 1st or Royal regiment. At the time of the inscription Drinkwater held the position of comptroller of army accounts, a role to which he had been appointed in 1811 and held until 1835. In August 1815, the month of the inscription, Cockburn was entrusted with the role of conveying Napoleon I aboard the HMS Northumberland to Saint Helena. Drinkwater's depth of feeling for Cockburn is further shown in the dedicating of the second edition of his A Narrative of the Battle of St. Vincent; With Anecdotes of Nelson (1840) to Cockburn, 'not only as the associate and intimate friend of the gallant Nelson... [but also as a means of] manifesting my sincere and grateful recollection of many acts of friendship and kindness received at your hands'.Provenance: Sir George Cockburn (1772-1853), Admiral of the Fleet, with presentation inscription from the author; John Drinkwater (1882-1937), autograph inscription ('Inscribed by me. J.D. 1937') on bookplate of another earlier John Drinkwater, and with a postcard to Drinkwater from Philip Guedalla giving information on Sir George Cockburn loosely inserted; his daughter Penelope Ann and 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

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Lot 58

MOUNTAINE (WILLIAM)The Seaman's Vade-Mecum, and Defensive War by Sea, 2 engravings of ship's rigging on single folded sheet, 2 folding plans (one with small hole), dampstain in upper margins, contemporary calf gilt [ESTC N21420, 3 copies only], 12mo, W. and J. Mount, 1747--VILVAIN (ROBERT) Enchiridium epigrammatum latino-anglicum. An Epitome of Essais, Englished out of Latin, woodcut arms on a1 verso, half-title, some worming to first 2 gatherings, light soiling and browning, ownership inscriptions of George Hoskins (1659), John Gorr[?], Robert Thompson (1738) and 'H.T.F.' (1914), contemporary calf, rebacked, small 8vo [ESTC R7278], R. Hodgkinson for the author, 1654--MACAULAY (KENNETH) The History of St. Kilda, Containing a Description of this Remarkable Island, half-title, engraved folding map, advertisement leaf, occasional light foxing, contemporary calf gilt, joints split, one repaired [ESTC T90614], 8vo, T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1764--[REFUGE (EUSTACHE DE)] The Art of Complaisance or the Means to Oblige in Conversation, second edition, title softened and torn with slight loss at edges, contemporary sheep, old paper title label on spine [ESTC R35463], 12mo, John Starkey, 1677--ARCHENHOLZ (J.W. VON) A Picture of England: Containing a Description of the Laws, Customs and Manners of England, half-title, light browning, contemporary calf, joints split, slight chips to upper cover and spine [ESTC N20982], 8vo, Dublin, printed by P. Byrne, 1790 (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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Lot 6

BANKINGBAGEHOT (WALTER) Lombard Street. A Description of the Money Market, FIRST EDITION, half-title, without advertisements at end, light pencil markings in the side-margin of approximately 20 pages, library cloth, 8vo, Henry S. King & Co., 1873Footnotes:A first edition of Lombard Street, described by the economist J.M. Keynes as 'an undying Classic', in which Bagehot analysed the actual working of the banking system. On publication it 'had great influence and several of its recommendations ultimately were adopted; it was regarded as authoritative well into the twentieth century, and it made a significant contribution to the theory of central banking' (ODNB). This copy has a few passages marked in pencil, primarily in the chapter devoted to the 'Bank's Reserve', one passage being 'too small a reserve may mean 'ruin''.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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Lot 63

BROWNING (ROBERT)Autograph letter signed ('Robert Browning') to Peter Bayne ('Dear Sir'), expressing grateful thanks for his book on Elizabeth Barrett Browning and correcting a few errors of fact, that there '...was no 'father's parsonage': the father was the proprietor of considerable estates in Jamaica, and of 'Hope End' in Herefordshire – where the childhood in question was passed: he was simply a gentleman of no profession whatever...', that '...'The Sonnets' were only known to exist, and seen for the first time by the person to whom they were addressed, two or three years after the writer's marriage. The reticency came of some misunderstood remark which seemed to doubt the depth and sincerity of such feelings so exhibited in verse...' when '...the next morning the writer said 'Do you know, I once wrote some verses to you?' This was at the Bagni di Lucca, after the birth of her child, a few months before. The poems were only printed at my urgent entreaty...', going on to say '...'Aurora Leigh' was written amid interruptions from her child, at play or at work about the room: at a word from him, the book would be thrust under the chair-cushion. We were on our way to England when a box containing the whole m.s. - of which no duplicate had been made at that time - was lost at Marseilles: and only recovered after a week's search by a relative luckily staying there... all the author's concern during the journey being – to my great indignation – for certain 'embroidered collars' which were lost... without which – it was feared – the boy would cut a sorry figure in London...', ending by referring to Rhyme of the Duchess May and Bertha in the Lane ('...so complete was 'Love's self-abnegation' in the soul of the Lady you have been delighted to honor...') and assuring him of his gratitude, 3 pages on a bifolium, paper with 'Towood's Superfine' watermark, stationery blindstamped with crest, light dust staining on folds otherwise in clean, fresh condition, 8vo (180 x 115mm.), 19 Warwick Crescent, W., 10 March [18]81Footnotes:'AURORA LEIGH WAS WRITTEN AMID INTERRUPTIONS FROM HER CHILD, AT PLAY OR AT WORK ABOUT THE ROOM': Robert Browning on the origin of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnets, the difficulties of combining writing and motherhood and the near-loss of her manuscript.This revealing letter derives from the collection of the Scottish journalist and author Peter Bayne who wrote several volumes of criticism on the great writers of the day. In 1881 he published a work on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Two great Englishwomen: Mrs Browning & Charlotte Bronte, with an essay on poetry, illustrated from Wordsworth, Burns and Byron and, as was his wont, sent a copy to Robert Browning for his response.Browning is clearly delighted with the book but responds to correct some small matters of fact and to offer some personal memories of his late wife. He reveals how she kept the sonnets she had written during their courtship secret from him until 1849, a few months after the birth of their son Pen in March that year and 'two or three years after the writer's marriage'. After some marital disagreement, she revealed them to him the following day in order to clear up some 'misunderstood remark which seemed to doubt the depth and sincerity of such feelings so exhibited in verse'. Overwhelmed by their 'beauty and power', he writes, he was instrumental in bringing them to publication and they were published as Sonnets from the Portuguese in the two-volume Poems of 1850. Later in the letter he paints an evocative picture of family life and shows Elizabeth Barrett Browning attempting to continue her work but willingly putting it away to play with her much-loved child. Whilst he does not mention her by name, he depicts 'the writer', as he calls her, struggling to write her great novel-poem Aurora Leigh, itself partly an examination of the incompatibility of combining an artistic career with motherhood, with the distractions of a small child demanding (and it would seem getting) her attention: 'at a word from him, the book would be thrust under the chair-cushion'. What he also reveals is that the manuscript of Aurora Leigh was almost lost en route to London in July 1855, before it finally came to publication in the following November. To his 'great indignation', he writes fondly, she seemed unconcerned by the loss of the only copy of her manuscript and the furore surrounding its recovery, and was more worried that her beloved son should have the correct embroidered collars which were lost at the same time.This letter is apparently unpublished. A note discovered with the letter written by Bayne's daughter Clotilda, reveals that she sent it to the Times for publication although the date of this, and whether it was indeed published, has not been ascertained.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 67

RUSKIN (JOHN)Autograph manuscript leaf from Ruskin's work on Giorgione and Turner, The Two Boyhoods, vol.V, part 9, chapter 9, numbered 'L' and beginning 'the mother for the children – desolate by the breathless first born in the streets of the city...' and ending '...He was nine years old when Napoleon came down on Marengo. Look on the map of...', with many annotations and amendments, written on recto only, docketed on verso in another hand ('Ruskin's Ms'), 1 page, on blue lined paper with Britannia watermark, folded and creased with some dust staining, large 4to (272 x 195mm.), [undated]; with an incomplete autograph letter from Ruskin to Peter Bayne ('Dear Mr Bayne'), responding to an ongoing conversation about freedom and logic ('...Freedom is either of mind or body, that of the mind is infinitely the most precious of the two... You have puzzled yourself – not by looking at the subject from an opposite side – but by not looking at it from the top: – meditate on this...'), 4 pages on a bifolium, creased where folded for posting, slightly stained, remains of guard, 8vo (180 x 115mm.), [no place, no date]; and an autograph letter by Ruskin's father signed ('John James Ruskin') to Peter Bayne ('My dear Sir'), an angry letter complaining of the publication of a letter by his son in '...a penny paper called the Scotsman...', which has caused him great trouble ('...my Nerves got unstrung... they are lacerated by trifles & the incoherent & indecorous letter of my Son has given me a night of suffering & severe Bilious attack... he set up as a Teacher & moralist & the mischief one Letter light, flippant, indiscreet injudicious can do is incalculable...') and asking for the return of a letter published in Witness, 3 pages on a bifolium, with integral address panel, remains of red wax seal, creased where folded, some spotting, marks and dust staining, loss where seal opened not affecting text, remains of guard, 4to (240 x 200mm.), Schaffhausen, 31 July 1859Footnotes:The controversial letters to which John James Ruskin refers would appear to be those mentioned by John Ruskin in a letter to Robert Browning and his wife on 11 December 1859 in which he writes 'I wrote three letters to one of the Edinburgh papers whose editor I knew concerning European—especially English political conduct...Two of them were printed—after much delay. The third was declared by the able editor unprintable—'it would lose him a hundred subscribers next morning.'...The two that were printed bore some bold witness however, and I am glad to be able to refer to them—as fearless words—whether wise or unwise...'. They appeared in The Daily Scotsman on the 20 July under the heading 'Mr Ruskin and the Italian Question' and on 22 July headed 'Mr Ruskin on Foreign Politics' – they were apparently originally sent to The Witness whose editor was one Peter Bayne (see The Brownings' Correspondence, 27, 75-76). On the same day his father wrote to Bayne, Ruskin wrote, also from Schaffhausen, to Charles Eliot Norton on the 'dastardly conduct of England in this Italian War' (Ruskin Letters, p.311).A note included in the lot confirms that a group of forty to fifty letters from the Ruskins to Bayne ('...there was a long continued but often interrupted friendship...') were sold by Bayne's granddaughter Eleanor. This would appear to be the group sold by Christie's on 19 November 1958, lot 162, and now held in the John Rylands Library in Manchester (GB 133 Eng.Ms 1245). The letters from John James date from just before ours (January to March 1859), those from John Ruskin cover a wider period from March 1855 to March 1887. Our letters are apparently unpublished.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 74

ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDONPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the Year MDCCCI [-MDCCCXI], 11 vol. (nos. 91-101), numerous engraved plates (many folding), some plates cropped, contemporary uniform tree calf gilt, spines elaborately tooled with red and black gilt morocco labels, slightly rubbed with a few abrasions (one headband with small chip) but generally bright, 4to, Peter Elmsly [-G. and W. Nicol], Printers to the Royal Society, 1801-1811, sold as a periodical (11)Footnotes:A finely bound run which includes the first appearance of Thomas Young's Bakerian Lecture 'On the Theory of Light and Colours' (volume 92, 1802), 'an epoch-making contribution to the theory of lights in all its phases' (PMM 259). In this Young endorsed Huygen's wave theory of light, displacing Newton's corpuscular theory which had been favoured for most of the eighteenth century. Each volume has approximately six to ten papers, ranging from 'An anatomical description of a male rhinoceros' by H. Leigh Thomas, and 'Account of an Elephant's Tusk, in which the Iron Head of a Spear was Found Embedded', to papers by William Wollaston on the chemical analysis of Calamines, Humphry Davy on the uses of astringent vegetables in tanning, Patrick Russell on poisonous snakes, Thomas Young on the cohesion of fluids, Nevil Maskelyne on the properties of a tangent, and William Herschel on the 'Quantity and velocity of the solar motion'. Provenance: Sir Edward B. Baker, armorial bookplate; Peter Isaacs, 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

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Lot 77

[BONNEFONS (NICOLAS DE)]The French Gardiner: Instructing how to Cultivate all Sorts of Fruit-Trees, and Herbs for the Garden... Transplanted.. by John Evelyn, second edition in English, additional engraved title (neatly remargined) and 4 plates (one folding, tear at fold without loss), without blank A1, light soiling and a few very small rust holes, adhesion at inner edge of A4-5 affecting a few letters, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, corners and lower edges worn [ESTC R12515; Henrey 146; Hunt 312; Keynes, Evelyn 8], 8vo, J.M. for John Crooke, and are to be sold at his shop in Duck-Lane, 1669Footnotes:Includes The English Vineyard Vindicated by Thomas Rose, with separate title-page and pagination, a work published separately three years earlier.Provenance: A. Russell Pollock, Greenhill, book label dated 1857.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 78

C[HURCHE] R[OOKE])An Olde Thrift Newly Revived. Wherein is Declared the Manner of Planting, Preserving, and Husbanding Yong Trees of Divers Kindes for Timber and Fuell. And of Sowing Acornes, Chesnuts, Beech-mas, the Seedes of Elmes, Ashen-keys, &c... And Also the Use of a Small Portable Instrument for Measuring of Board, and the Solid Content and Height of any Tree Standing... Discoursed in Dialogue betweene a Surveyour, Woodward, Gentleman, and a Farmer, FIRST EDITION, black letter, one folding woodcut plate of an instrument, several diagrams in the text, woodcut decorations and initials, without blank A1, shaved touching letters of running headline or side-notes on 18 pages, light soiling to title, twentieth century polished calf gilt, gilt morocco spine labels, g.e., one joint slightly rubbed [ESTC S107648, listing 3 variants, this with wording '.. odious to Farmers' of line 21 on D3r; Henrey 29; not in Goldsmiths or Kress], small 4to (175 x 132mm.), Printed by W.S. for Richard Moore, 1612Footnotes:'... for doe we think that wood alone can beare the brunt to satisfie every mans chimney? assuredly no, except it were more plentifull' (Preface). Written in the form of a dialogue between a surveyor, woodsman, gentleman and farmer, the work debates the problem of the rapid disappearance of England's forests. The author, himself a surveyor, advocated the use of enclosures. The final part is devoted to a measuring instrument, usable by those with 'any understanding in the science of Arithmeticke'.Provenance: Lawes Agricultural Trust, ownership inscription.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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Lot 79

CHARLETON (WALTER)Two Discourses. The First, Concerning the Different Wits of Men. The Second... Concerning the Various Sicknesses of Wines, and their Respective Remedies... Some Observations Concerning the Ordering of Wines. By Dr. Merret... The Art and Mystery of Vintners and Wine-Coopers, 4 parts in 1 vol., third edition, part titles, advertisement leaf, edges frayed, browning, occasional staining and some marginal worming, the last 3 leaves torn affecting text without loss, contemporary calf, corners worn, covers bowed, spine chipped at head and foot [ESTC R32586; Gabler G15600; cf. Simon, Bibliotheca Gastronomica 335], 12mo, William Whitwood, 1692--HARTLIB (SAMUEL) His Legacy of Husbandry. Wherein are bequeathed to the Common-wealth of England, not onely Braband, and Flanders, but also many more Outlandish and Domestick Experiments and Secrets (of Gabriel Plats and others) never heretofore divulged in reference to Universal Husbandry, 3 parts in 1 vol., third edition enlarged, title within typographical border, woodcut head and tail-pieces, light browning and soiling throughout, outer margin of title more heavily browned, dampstain to signature M, contemporary sheep, rebacked preserving most of original spine [ESTC R3211; Fussell I, pp.43-44; Goldsmiths 1395], small 4to, J. M. for Richard Wodnothe, 1655 (2)Footnotes:Third and rarest edition of Charleton's work on wits and wine. As a royalist the author was appointed physician to the exiled King Charles II, and continued in his office of after the Restoration. He was one of first elected fellows of the Royal Society in 1663 and influenced Locke greatly. The Art and Mystery of Vintners and Wine-Coopers, published as a separate work ten years earlier, is appended here for the first time.The third edition of Hartlib's influential work was also greatly enlarged: 'The Legacie deals with a large variety of subjects, among which are Saint Foine; Ploughs and Carriages; Digging, Setting and Howing; Smut and Mildew; Orchards; Hemp and Flax; Manuring; Bees; Silke-worms... The reference to the cultivation of lucerne in England is stated by Miss Aslin to be the earliest extant' (Fussell).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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Lot 81

COUNTRY-MAN'S RECREATIONSThe Country-mans Recreation, or the Art of Planting, Graffing, and Gardening, in three Bookes, 3 parts in 1, woodcut illustrations including knots and mazes, one leaf (E1) with tear repaired, some light dampstains and browning, later quarter with gilt morocco spine label, neatly rebacked [ESTC S108874; Fussell 1, pp.37-38; Henrey 47; Hunt 233], small 4to (175 x 130mm.), Printed by B. Allsop and T. Fawcett for Michael Young, 1640Footnotes:The three books include a reprint of Leonard Mascall's A Booke of the Art and Maner, Howe to Plante and Graffe all Sortes of Trees, a reprint of Reginald Scot's A Perfite Platforme of a Hoppe-Garden, and a reissue of The Expert Gardener which includes advice on grafting, the layout of plots (with illustrations of maze and knot gardens), and 'remedies to destroy snails, canker-wormes, moths, garden-fleas... and other Vermine'.Provenance: Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp inside upper cover.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 87

HUNTAR (WILLIAM)A Treatise, of Weights, Mets and Measures of Scotland, FIRST EDITION, with A1r catchword 'sures', woodcut armorial device on title, woodcut decorations and initials, diagrams in the text, some marginal repairs, trimmed with some loss to ruled border of several pages, running headline on 5 pages, and fore-edge of 3 pages touching one column of figures to tables, small hole to title with loss of numeral '2' of date (with full date '1624' in ink beside), eighteenth century ink annotations on 2 blank pages with several ownership inscriptions in margins, light soiling, modern calf, gilt lettered on spine [ESTC S104307], small 4to (170 x 130mm.), Edinburgh, Printed by John Wreittoun, and are to bee solde at his Buith, et the Nethey-Bowe, 1624Footnotes:Provenance: Alexander and James Blackie, eighteenth century ink inscriptions in on several leaves; Rothamsted Experimental Station, stamp inside upper cover.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 88

LAMBARDE (WILLIAM)A Perambulation of Kent: Conteining the Description, Hystorie, and Customes of that Shyre, second edition, black letter, title within wide woodcut decorative border, folding woodcut map of the Beacons of Kent, woodcut map of the Heptarchy (shaved close at foot), a few marginal ink notes in an early hand, some minor worming to outer margin occasionally touching side-notes, light spotting, panelled calf gilt for H. Sotheran & Co., upper joint split [ESTC 108239], small 4to (190 x 135mm.), Edmund Bollifant, 1596Footnotes:'The earliest county history, based on wide and critical reading (partly informed by Lambarde's protestant suspicion of monks and their works), it draws also on Domesday Book and on royal charters, and includes in its climatic, economic, social, religious, and historical survey a short investigation of the see of Canterbury' (ODNB). First published in 1576, this second edition was 'increased and altered after the Authors owne last copie'.Provenance: John Denne (1693-1767), Archdeacon of Rochester and antiquarian; Herbert N. Evans, ownership inscriptions; Edward Huth, Wykehurst Park, 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

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Lot 92

LEIGH (VALENTINE)The Moste Profitable and Commendable Science, of Surveying of Lands, Tenementes, and Hereditamentes... Newly Imprinted and Corrected, fourth edition, black and roman letter, with blank A1, woodcut device on title, woodcut diagrams and initials, 2 folding tables (each on 2 conjoined sheets, short tears repaired, one resulting in minor loss to one word), stab-holes to inner margin, old ink number 'X num 52' to front free endpaper and 'G G. num: 50' on verso, light water-staining to a few leaves, nineteenth century half calf, rubbed [ESTC S108414; cf. Fussell I, p.7, first edition], small 4to (190 x 135mm.), John Windet, for Robert Dexter, 1592Footnotes:Fourth edition - the first appeared in 1577 - of this practical, popular guide on surveying, praised by John Norden in The Surveiors Dialogue, 1610.Provenance: Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp inside upper cover, purchased 1925 from Bernard Quaritch.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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Lot 93

LEIGH (VALENTINE)The Moste Profitable and Commendable Science, of Surveying of Landes, Tenementes, and Hereditamentes, FIRST EDTION, black letter, with blank A4, woodcut device on title, woodcut diagrams and initials, one folding letterpress table (on 2 sheets joined), lacking the other table (one sheet of which supplied in facsimile), title with light dampstain in upper margin obscuring early ownership inscription, and small paper flaw in lower margin, light spotting and toning, unidentified eighteenth century armorial bookplate inside upper cover, eighteenth cenury quarter sheep with marbled sides, worn, spine ends chipped [ESTC S106757; cf. Fussell I, p.7, variant imprint], small 4to (185 x 123mm.), Andrew Maunsell, 1577Footnotes:Scarce first edition of Valentine Leigh's treatise on the science of surveying, in which he offered both technical information on the science of surveying and measurements, and more general advice to landowners on the worth of their lands, and management of rents and fees.Provenanance: Lawes Agricultural Trust, purchase aquisition note (1928) inside upper cover.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 97

PLAT (HUGH)The Garden of Eden: or, An accurate Description of all Flowers and Fruits now Growing in England... as well in Seeds and Herbs, as the Secret Ordering of Trees and Plants, 2 parts in 1 vol., sixth edition, woodcut initials, some light soiling and edge staining to first few leaves, contemporary speckled sheep, upper joint with split at top and small adjacent hole [ESTC R31801; Fussell pp.15-16; Henrey 299; Hunt 340], 8vo, William and John Leake, 1675Footnotes:First complete edition. Originally published in 1608 as Floraes Paradise beautified and adorned with sundry sortes of delicate Fruits and Flowers, it was first issued as The Garden of Eden in 1653, with some omissions and rearrangements, by Charles Bellingham. Further editions followed, along with a second part in 1660, but the present 'sixth edition', the last, was the first to combine the two parts.The work includes advice on the growing of trees, flowers and fruit, and wine making using what would now be termed biodynamic principles ('Gather your grapes at the full of the moon'). Plat's many experiments were conducted at his rented houses in Bethnal Green (Bishop's Hall and Kirby's Castle), although he was also known to have undertaken research at estates such as Sir Thomas Heneage's at Copped Hall, Epping.Provenance: Earls of Macclesfield, South Library bookplate and small blindstamp on title-page.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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Lot 98

RATHBORNE (AARON)The Surveyor in Foure Bookes, FIRST EDITION, engraved allegorical title-page, 2 engraved portraits (that of the author cut to size and mounted as frontispiece; the other of Prince Charles, Prince of Wales), woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text, woodcut ornaments and decorative initials, without final 2 blanks, occasional light marginal water-staining, a few spots and marks, later calf, spine gilt in compartments, joints slightly weakened [ESTC S116149; Fussell I, pp.22-23], small folio (270 x 180mm.), W. Stansby for W. Burre, 1616Footnotes:First edition of Rathborne's The Surveyor, an 'influential textbook addressed the practical everyday needs of surveyors more realistically than had been done hitherto' (ODNB), and written in the vernacular. Rathborne placed surveying firmly among the mathematical sciences, drawing on the latest teaching given at Gresham College, notably Henry Brigg's lectures on logarithms.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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Lot 99

STANDISH (ARTHUR)New Directions of Experience to the Commons Complaint... for the Planting of Timber and Fire-wood, title within double-rule border, woodcut royal arms on dedication, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, some light spotting, stitched in original paper wrappers (light creases, small loss to one corner of upper cover), preserved in cloth solander box [ESTC S95384; Fussell 1, p.33; Henrey 356; Kress 325], small 4to (180 x 148mm.), [N. Okes], 1613Footnotes:'One of the first treatises to be published in this country entirely devoted to forestry' (Henry), in which the author's main concerns were 'the destruction of woods, leading to high fuel and food prices... His remedies for fuel shortages were the planting of more trees, and, to increase food supplies, the planting of fruit trees, the destruction of vermin, the breeding of wildfowl and poultry, and the reduction of dovecotes, since pigeons consumed much grain' (ODNB). In conclusion Standish expresses his hope 'that if seacoles shall decay, good take-heed come not to late'.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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Lot 323

BRITISH FASCIST PARTY: 'Union.. incorporating Action': newspaper of the British Fascist Party, collection of 93 issues from No.79 (27th Aug 1949) - No.172 (23rd June 1951), including one special issue for October 4th 1949, folded, light toning and spots else generally VG. (93)

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Lot 324

EAST LONDON BLACKSHIRT: collection of 18 issues from November 1954 to No.1 1957, including the 'Special Stepney Victory Supplement' for July 1957, folded with light toning, else VG. (18)

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Lot 325

BRITISH FASCIST PARTY: EAST ANGLIAN PRESS AGAINST COMMUNISM: collection of 9 issues from No.1 Oct 1954 - No.9 Winter 1957 plus Watford Election supplement for May 1957, folded with light toning else VG. (10)

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Lot 326

PROVINCIAL ATTACK: No.1, 2 & 3 of this organ of the British Fascist Party, Oct 1948-Jan 1949, each folded with light toning else VG. (3)

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Lot 327

ATTACK: 'Official Organ of the Surrey Area Organisation of the Union Movement': 2 issues, No.1 Vol.1 December 1964 & Vol. 1 No.3, Feb 1965: typewritten foolscap format, stapled, light toning and spotting. (2)

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Lot 328

NORTHERN BLACKSHIRT: single issue No.258, February 1939, folded, light toning/foxing else VG. (1)

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Lot 329

BRITISH FASCIST PARTY: 'Action: the paper for a new Britain': collection of approx 138 issues from July 1 1966-December 15 1972, light toning and foxing else VG. (Approx 138)

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Lot 330

COMBAT: 'Official Organ of the British National Party': collection of 23 issues from No.12 May 1961 - No.35 Sep 1965, light toning and spotting else VG. (23)

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Lot 331

THE NATIONAL EUROPEAN: collection of 21 issues from July 1964 - May 1966, original printed paper wrappers stapled to spines, light wear else VG, 4to. (21)

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Lot 333

SUFFRAGETTE POSTCARDS: SPURGIN (Fred): 4 suffragette postcards by Fred Spurgin, published by the Art and Humour Publishing Co, light marks else VG. (4)

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Lot 334

EAST LONDON ACTION: issue 1 & 2, 1964: light fold and toning, else VG. (2)

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Lot 338

MOSLEY (Oswald): British Union Movement: Union Movement Annual Conference programmes for October 1955 (2 copies) and 1954, some light wear and marks else generally in good condition. (3)

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Lot 339

BRITISH FASCISTS: 'Havoc': issue No.2, 4th November 1950: 12pp typewritten newsletter, stapled to spine, rusted with light toning and folds. (1)

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Lot 340

OSWALD MOSLEY: British Fascist Movement: 'The Flash': No.1, 1964: 12pp typescript newsletter, light toning and marks. (1)

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Lot 342

THE BLACKSHIRT: a collection of 10 issues of this early British fascist periodical, a broken run from No.1 Feb 1933 to No.34 Dec 1933, folded, light toning and foxing else VG. (10)

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Lot 344

BRITISH FASCIST PARTY: North Kensington Leader: 4 issues comprising No.1 for Oct 1958 and No's.6,7 & 9 for 1959: folded, light toning and spotting, else VG. (4)

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Lot 349

BRITISH UNION MOVEMENT: Uniomove: issues 1-5, Jan-June 1956, typewritten newsletter of British Union Movement, mostly between 2-4pp each, light toning and marks else VG. (5)

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Lot 352

BRITISH FASCIST PARTY: 'Monthly Attack Thro' Youth...the organ of union youth': issues 1-7, September 1949-March 1950, plus No.12 for August of same year, single sheet typewritten newsletter, old folds, light toning and spotting else good. (8)

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Lot 374

FOUNTAIN PENS: POSTER: 'The New Golden Platingnum...Unrivalled in its Field...': mid-20thc advertising poster printed in colours, approx 72 x 50.5cm, old folds and light creasing, closed tear at lower edge else good condition. (1)

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Lot 376

TOYS & GAMES: 'The Heros of the Reformation..': Victorian puzzle blocks in original wooden box with sliding lid, title in German, English and French, all 6 printed key sheets present, 34 (of 35) puzzle cubes, general light wear else good condition: together with a tray of misc. other 19th century games including building blocks, wooden jigsaw (incomplete), counters, etc. (Qty in tray)

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Lot 382

HIGHSMITH (Patricia): 'A Game for the Living..', London, Heinemann, 1959: First Edition: 8vo, publishers brown cloth with dustjacket, spotted with light wear and a few chips else good: together with 27 other novels by same, the majority first editions all in dustjacket. (28)

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Lot 384

HAKLUYT (Richard): 'The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation...with an introduction by John Masefield': London, Dent, 1927: 10 vols, 8vo, publishers green cloth, light wear else a good set. (10)

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Lot 425

EARLY MOTORING: 'The Auto Motor and Horseless Vehicle Journal...a Record and Review of Applied Automatic Locomotion': Vol.1 No.2 (Nov 17th 1896) - Vol.2 (Sep 1898): 2 vols, 4to, publishers mustard cloth lettered in black, light wear and dust soiling else VG: with 2 other vols, including a large early 20thc scrapbook of cuttings relating to motor cars, mainly technical specifications, some marginal notes in a period hand. (4)

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Lot 446

TITANIC, SOUVENIR NAPKIN: 'Souvenir in Affectionate Remembrance of the Captain, Mates, Crew & Passengers. Who lost their lives by the foundering of the world's largest liner SS Titanic..', London, printed by S Burgess, circa 1912: printed in black onto thin paper with floral surround, approx 36.5cm square, some light toning and spotting with a few edge chips, else good condition. (1)

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Lot 464

SPEEDWAY: quantity of UK speedway programmes, largely 1980s period, together with 'Railway Yearbook for 1932' (spine detached: plus programme for launch of Cunard White Star Liner 'Queen Elizabeth Tuesday Sep 27 1938', folio in original printed covers ribbon tied to spine, some light marks but a good example. (Small carton)

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Lot 53

LIVIUS (Titus): 'T. Livii Patavini Historiae Romanae Principis Decades Tres Cum Dimidia...': Paris Ex-Officina Michaelis Vascosani, 1552: folio, near contemporary calf, gilt compartments between raised bands, wear and rubbing, contents VG, occasional light spots and marks, early ink ownership to title, bookplate of Sir William Strachan, folio. (1)

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Lot 56

SCOTT (Sir Walter): 'The Lady of the Lake; a Poem..' Edinburgh, 1810: First Edition: 4to, contemporary diced calf gilt, light wear, scattered foxing else VG: together with 'Wallace; or, the Fight of Falkirk; a metrical romance...', London 1809, uniformly bound: and another early 19thc 4to of Scottish interest. (3)

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Lot 66

ALBUM OF BLANK PAPER, EARLY 19TH CENTURY: elephant folio, approx 52 leaves of light tan blank paper (sheet size approx 43.5 x 60.5cm), contemporary black morocco gilt over marbled boards, scattered foxing, generally in good condition. (Album)

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Lot 89

HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI: two typescripts, 'HMS Tyne's Commission', Pacific Fleet, 1944-46: large folding map of Yokohama Port marked 'Confidential', 14pp & memorandum, 21st March 1946. Guides to Japan, with map, 25 pages: an interesting account of the final stages of the war against Japan... 'the greater part of the Philippines was still in Japanese hands'. The first typescript describes 'the beginning of the Japanese collapse'. The Americans attack Okinawa and sink the Japanese battleship Yamato, fleet attacked by kamikaze planes. 'On the 6th August news was received that the world's first atomic bomb had been dropped at Hiroshima and that the second atomic bomb had been dropped at Nagasaki', later visiting Nagasaki after the bomb; 'the spectacle of several square miles of buildings completely razed to the ground was awe inspiring...' , continuing onto Hiroshima where 'the extent of the desolation was greater than at Nagasaki'. On leaving Japan the Tyne visits Hong Kong and then Korea, before returning home at the end of their commission. Both folio, one stapled to spine and the other string tied, light toning and marks, else good. (2)

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Lot 92

CHINA INLAND MISSION: three ALS from Miss Fanny Lloyd, Chang King, West China, 1898: total of 13 pages, to her nephew Henry Barne, discussing 'the disturbed state of the country', mentioning 'a riot at Sha. Si, a large city on the Yangtze'. She believes that the problem is that 'the Chinese are so like children, copying one another'. The authorities can do little to quell the many uprisings and fear that 'if the leaders are beheaded it will only incense all the more...' Miss Lloyd is a committed Christian and criticises her fellow workers 'who do not know anything about the local customs and often cannot understand the dialect', going on to discuss teaching at the mission school... 'considering that the Chinese are so unaccustomed to discipline they take it all very well', but she is preoccupied by the opium problem as it is smoked everywhere, particularly 'in private houses': light toning and folds, with accompanying envelope. (3)

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Lot 93

SPANISH MANUSCRIPT: 'Ano Christiano en Decimas...': neatly executed manuscript on Spanish Days of the Saints, penned by one Francisco Saez, 1820: approx 320pp, contemporary Spanish calf gilt with green edges, 12mo, some worming to head of spine and general light wear, else generally very good. (1)

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Lot 102

MANUSCRIPT: NOTES ON NAVIGATION AND PILOTAGE: late 19th-early 20thc manuscript, approx 120pp neatly filled in blue and red ink, numerous diagrams and charts (some in coloured pencil), contained in square 8vo ruled commonplace book of period, original red morocco gilt label to upper board so titled, later labels to spine, light external wear else generally in very good condition. (1)

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Lot 174

SILHOUETTES: ROUPELL FAMILY: three large silhouettes depicting members of the Roupell family of Chartham Park, Sussex, circa 1830s, each approx 37 x 50cm, light spotting and marks, else VG. (3)

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