MUTEFERRIKA PRESSİZZÎ (SÜLEYMAN) Ta'rih-i-Izzi, tape repairs to title, lacking fols. 85-86, mark erased from blank area of fols. 1 and 288, light toning, heavier to fols. 59-60, modern blindstamped calf imitating Ottoman wallet-style binding, folio (304 x 195mm.), Istanbul, Vak'anüvis Ahmed Vasıf Efendi and Beylikçi Raşid Efendi, 1199 H [1784/5]Footnotes:Süleyman İzzî succeeded Mehmed Subhi as vakanüvis, or official court historian, and chronicled the years of his tenure, 1744 to 1752. This is the second production of this revival of the Müteferrika press.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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SOAMES (SALLY)'The writer Ruth Rendell at her home in London', gelatin silver print, signed and titled by photographer on verso in pencil and ink, and with photographer's inkstamps, 290 x 400mm., 1993Footnotes:'I went to her house in Regent's Park, & there was the most wonderful light on the staircase, absolutely fantastic.' Illustrated in Writers (André Deutsch, 1995).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
TENNANT (STEPHEN)The Bird's Fancy Dress Ball. Drawings, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, illustrations by Tennant throughout, publisher's wrappers, printed title label on upper cover, [Printed for the Dorian Leigh Galleries by the Pelican Press], [1921]--ISHERWOOD (CHRISTOPHER) The Memorial. Portrait of a Family, FIRST EDITION, publisher's cloth (small ink spot, and light soiling to spine), dust-jacket designed by John Banting, Hogarth Press, 1932--DOSTOEVSKY (F.M.) The Grand Inquisitor... Translated by S.S. Koteliansky. With an Introduction by D.H. Lawrence, NUMBER 2 OF 350 COPIES, printed on Kelmscott hand-made paper, publisher's vellum, upper cover with abstract design of black and blue morocco onlays [Roberts B28], Elkin Matthews & Marrot, 1930--MALLARMÉ (STÉPHANE) Herodias, translated... by Clark Mills, NUMBER 7 OF 80 COPIES bound in cloth, from an overall edition of 200, PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM KURT SELIGMAN to Barbara Reis (July 1940) on the front free endpaper, tipped-in frontispiece by Kurt Seligman, publisher's cloth, Prairie City, Illinois, James A. Decker, [1940], 8vo; and an autobiography by Cyril Beaumont, with two letters signed by Beaumont loosely inserted (5)Footnotes:Includes a copy of the scarce first book by Stephen Tennant, published when he was only fifteen at the time of an exhibition of his eccentric drawings of anthropomorphic animals held at the Dorien Leigh Gallery, South Kensington in 1921.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![[WAUGH (EVELYN)]SUDLEY (ARTHUR, LORD) William or More Loved than Loving... with Illustrations by Christopher Sykes, and a Pre](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/3e13083a-3714-41b9-947a-aced01150e07/7609c0db-f716-4712-8907-aced011c2d4e/468x382.jpg)
[WAUGH (EVELYN)]SUDLEY (ARTHUR, LORD) William or More Loved than Loving... with Illustrations by Christopher Sykes, and a Preface by Evelyn Waugh, INSCRIBED BY EVELYN WAUGH 'For Jack & Frankie with love from Evelyn, April 1956' on the front free endpaper, light spotting to endpapers, publisher's cloth, pictorial yellow dust-jacket, preserved in a purpose-made cloth drop-back box, 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1956Footnotes:Provenance: Jack and Frances Donaldson, presentation inscription from Evelyn Waugh. The Donaldsons moved to a house near Piers Court in 1947, thereafter remaining close friends of Waugh until his death in 1966. The following year Frances published Evelyn Waugh: Portrait of a Country Neighbour (1967).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
WORLD WAR I - MAURITIUSBLACKBURN (CYRIL ANDERSON, Lieutenant in His Majesty's Royal Artillery) Experiences of a Gunner Officer. Being a Tale of the World War, FIRST EDITION, ?THE AUTHOR'S COPY, additional pen and ink sketch of the Basilica at Albert, Somme (bombed with the damaged statue of Mary and Christ) by the author, captioned 'Albert 1916' and signed with initial ('C.A.B.') on the image pasted onto the second front free endpaper, large signature of the author on the first front free endpaper, 4-lines of text excised from foot of pp.393-4 (see footnote), contemporary red limp morocco, gilt lettered on spine, light rubbing, 8vo, Mauritius, The General Printing and Stationary CY. Ld, 1919; sold with an album containing 21 gelatin silver print photographs (?perhaps by Blackburn) mostly of trenches, a few of ruins at Ypres and elsewhere, images 85 x 135mm., mounted one per page recto only, most faced with pasted-in description in pen or pencil, 2 ink diagrams of trenches at Bellewaerde, nr. Ypres, cloth album, oblong 8vo, [c.1915-1919] (2)Footnotes:VERY RARE WORLD WAR I MEMOIR PRINTED IN MAURITIUS, with only the National Library of Australia copy recorded on WorldCat. Born in Beau Bassin, Mauritius (which was one of the Indian Ocean islands to show immediate allegiance to the allies) Blackburn was a student in England at the outbreak of the war, whereupon he joined the Royal Artillery. He served on the Western Front throughout the war, being awarded the Military Cross in 1917, before being invalided home after a battle near Colincamps, Somme when in August 1918 he returned home aboard H.M.S. Aquitania. Evidence suggests this copy, printed on cheap paper in Mauritius but bound in a gilt-lettered morocco binding, is the author's copy, signed by him and with the addition of an ink drawing pasted in as a frontispiece. Also on p. 394 three lines have been intriguingly excised from the text, following a passage reading 'I never quite recovered from the the awful strain while I was on the Front, but several months later...'. The album of photographs of (mostly) trenches, each with a manuscript leaf page of description evidently written by a soldier familiar with the actual trench depicted, could also have belonged to Blackburn.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
SCOTLAND – ROSSLYN CHAPELCollection of drawings, manuscripts and engravings assembled by publisher and antiquarian John Britton (1771-1857), relating to the architecture and restoration of Rosslyn Chapel, Midlothian, held in an album, comprising: i) Three pen and ink architectural drawings drawn, annotated and numbered by artist David Roberts, namely 'Section of the Chancel...', 'Ground Plan of the Chancel...', 'Termination of the ground arch in the South aisle of Roslin Chapel', demonstrating, according to the covering letter '...reasons by which I came to the conclusion that the East Wall was removed at least two feet outwards...', black ink on pale blue laid paper with additions in red ink, all 230 x 180mm., [1846]; twelve drawings by architect Joseph Gandy depicting scaled ground plans, profiles and architectural details for inclusion in Britton's Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain, some annotated in pencil with notes and measurements, pencil and ink, 315 x 245mm. and smaller; one pull-out sectional drawing by Britton's assistant John R. Thompson overlaid with the 'golden ratio' in red ink, signed and dated 'Edinburgh 1840', pen and wash, 360 x 428mm.;ii) Group of some thirteen autograph letters to John Britton; one from Joseph Gandy regarding the shields along the south cornice and enclosing some drawings ('...the whole place is highly picturesque, and had fate made me a painter only you would have seen many fine views of this delightful and interesting dell...'); five from David Roberts, commenting on the restoration and his dispute with William Burn whom he accuses of '...destroying the whole proportions of this exquisite bijou...', discussing the burial vault and asking for information from Britton on '...the Temple of Obsimbal [sic]... I have a great wish to have engraved in my forthcoming work...'; other correspondence from George Meikle Kemp (3 page letter including a measured profile drawing), William Burn ('...the old story of the Belted Knights being interred within armour in a vault beneath the chapel is equally absurd, as there is no vault...'), David Laing, Keeper of the Signet Library and David Irving, Keeper of the Advocates Library, c.30 pages, folio and smaller, [various places], 1806 to 1846; iii) John Britton's lecture notes and research material (including some notes '...Communicated by Walter Scott...'), and miscellaneous prints and engravings including nine leaves from Britton's Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain bound in, c.20 album leaves with material stuck or tipped in, additional leaves bound in, bookplate of the Hon. Sir Hew Dalrymple, fragment of old catalogue description attached to front inside board, calf, worn and rubbed, pages frayed, some dust-staining, binding loose, title in gilt on spine label (detached), folio (387 x 260mm.), 1806 to 1846Footnotes:'THIS EXQUISITE BIJOU': DOCUMENTS RELATING TO ROSSLYN CHAPEL, INCLUDING DRAWINGS AND LETTERS BY JOSEPH GANDY, DAVID ROBERTS AND GEORGE MEIKLE KEMP. Rosslyn Chapel was founded in 1456 by William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness, and is renowned for its Gothic architecture and intricate carvings which have given rise to much speculation and legend to this day; most famously, the presence of a hidden underground crypt discussed in these papers. By the nineteenth century, the chapel had fallen into picturesque disrepair, an inspiration for artists and writers such as Ruskin, Turner, Wordsworth and Walter Scott. After a visit in 1842 from Queen Victoria, who was dismayed at its condition, the chapel was extensively restored at the behest of James Alexander St Clair Erskine, 3rd Earl of Rosslyn.Much of the correspondence in the album concerns the restoration of the exterior by William Burn (1789-1870). Whilst visiting the chapel to make a series of oil sketches, Burn's work so enraged the artist David Roberts that, in a letter of January 1846, he complained to Britton that, whilst '...much to the credit of Lord Roslin, no expense has been spared to preserve this unique relic of a past age...', he deplored the opening up of the Great East windows which, in his opinion, destroyed the '...Rembrandtish effects...' and '...the whole proportions of this exquisite bijou...'. John Britton's lecture on Rosslyn given at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London in the same month also fuelled Roberts' disagreement with Burn, with Roberts sending Britton three sketches included here in illustration of his points.The majority of the original drawings included in the album are by the draughtsman and architect Joseph Gandy (1771-1843), assistant to John Soane and dubbed the 'English Piranesi' for his dramatic use of perspective and architectural precision. He was commissioned by Britton in 1806 to supply fourteen plates of Rosslyn Chapel for the third volume of his Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain. Gandy's drawings in our album are seemingly related to those in his Scottish notebook (considered incomplete), now held in the Sir John Soane's Museum. This group of drawings goes 'further towards supplying the missing information [in the notebook] and sheds new light on the other planned images which... were not published by Britton. There is no doubt that twelve of the drawings contained in the album are by Gandy's hand... The Lumière mystérieuse advocated by his patron John Soane was a tangible reality...' (Maggi, A., Rosslyn Chapel, An Icon Through the Ages, 2008, pp.17, 23). Also included in the album is a letter of 1839 from George Meikle Kemp (1794-1844), illustrated with a fine detailed drawing, and written whilst he was working on his great commission, the Scott Monument in Edinburgh. A research paper on the album by Angelo Maggi, 'Documents relating to Roslin Chapel: A recently discovered collection of papers by John Britton' was published in Architectural Heritage, vol. XIII, November 2002, pp.73-98, and includes an extensive list of the contents (the documents bear his pencilled reference numbers). A number of the drawings are also published in his book Rosslyn Chapel, An Icon Through the Ages, 2008, in which he writes 'Britton's meticulous collection of papers in the album of 'Documents' illustrates, in an unusually dramatic manner, not only new and unknown aspects in the evolution of the visual history of the Chapel, but also a remarkable instance of the intriguing process by which many architects of the nineteenth-century added their contribution to the modern understanding of the building' (p.114).Provenance: S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, John Britton's Library sale, 4 May 1857, lot 263; unknown sale or bookseller, no. 854 (according to a label on inside front board); Sir Hew Hamilton-Dalrymple (1814-1887) bookplate; Canon George Heb Taylor, Chaplain at Rosslyn until 1963; 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
GHEYN (JACOB DE)Mainement d'armes d'arquebuses, mousquetz, et picques, engraved decorative title-page and 117 engraved plates, all finely hand-coloured in a modern hand, light dampstain in lower margin of title; small stain and long tear neatly repaired to plate 5 of arquebuss; light dampstain to fore-margin of plates 19-32 (within platemark of nos. 24-25, and 31-32) of pikes, but generally clean with wide margins, early vellum, varnished, old paper label on spine [Lipperheide 2058], folio (360 x 280mm.), Amsterdam, Robert de Baudous... on les vend' aussi a Amsterdam chez Henry Laurens, 1608Footnotes:First edition in French of Jacob de Gheyn's handsome manual showing the drill of matchlock men, musketeers and pikemen, originally commissioned in 1597 by Count Johann II von Nassau-Siegen, nephew of Prince Maurits.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
SARRE (FRIEDRICH) AND FREDRIK ROBERT MARTINDie Ausstellung von Meisterwerken Muhammedanischer Kunst in Muenchen, 1910, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 296 OF 430 COPIES, 257 photographic plates (22 hand-coloured and tipped-in as issued), light cockling and minor dampstaining at fore-edges, modern green crushed morocco gilt, sides with decorative roll tool borders, spines tooled within raised bands, gilt dentelles, g.e., large folio (490 x 382mm.), Munich, F. Bruckmann, 1911-1912Footnotes:FINE COPY. Held in Munich over six months in 1910, 'Masterpieces of Mohammedan Art' was one of 'the most important and by far the most comprehensive exhibitions of Islamic art in Europe... [giving] new impetus to the reception of Islamic art in the West and was therefore a turning point in the so-far 'Orientalist' view of and romantic passion for Muslim art and culture... [the examples illustrated] in the mega three-volume catalogue of this exhibition, are in fact icons of Islamic art' (After One Hundred Years. The 1910 Exhibition 'Meisterwerken Muhammedanischer Kunst' Reconsidered, edited by A. Lerner and A. Shalem, 2010).Volume I is devoted to Islamic manuscripts, book decorations, calligraphic arts and carpets; Volume II to ceramics, metalwork, glass and crystal; Volume III to textiles, arms and armour, woodwork and ivory.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
BINDINGSBUFFON (GEORGES LOUIS MARIE LECLERC, Comte de) Natural History, General and Particular... New Edition... with Some Account of the Life of M. De Buffon by William Wood, engraved frontispiece portrait, numerous engraved plates throughout, occasional single spot, light browning but generally very clean, contemporary mottled calf gilt, flat spines tooled with green and black gilt morocco lettering labels, a few joints neatly refurbished, 8vo, T. Cadell, and W. Davies [and others], 1812Footnotes:AN ATTRACTIVE SET, with a distinguished provenance.Provenance: John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon (1751-1838), circular bookplate and ink name 'Eldon' on front free endpapers of each volume. Eldon served twice as Lord Chancellor, in this role being responsible for refusing the poet Shelley custody of his children. Shelley immortalised his nemesis in his poem 'The Masque of Anarchy', with the lines 'Next came Fraud, and he had on/Like Eldon, an ermined gown'.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
VEGETIUS RENATUS (FLAVIUS)De re militari libri quatuor. Sexti Julii Frontini... De strategematis... Aeliani. De instruendis Aciebus... Modesti. De vocabulis rei militaris, edited by Guillaume Bude, Wechel's woodcut Pegasus device on title and at end, 124 woodcut illustrations (all but 3 full-page), typographic diagrams of troop formations in the Aelianus, woodcut initials, single inkspot on pp.159/60 and p.189/90, inked 'No. 49' in upper blank margin of title, occasional light spotting, bookseller's label of C.E. Bourlot, Turin on front paste-down, later vellum, titled in ink on spine, age soiled [Adams V334], folio (323 x 203mm.), Paris, [Chrétien Wechel for] Charles Perier, 1553Footnotes:The fifth Wechel edition of the Scriptores rei militaris, a compendium of military writings, illustrated with fine woodcut illustrations (copied from those used in Heinrich Steiner's 1529 Augsburg edition) depicting machines of war, many of which are fantastical, including several for use under water.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
GESNER (CONRAD)Mithridates. De differentiis linguarum tum veterum tum quae hodie apud diversas nationes in toto orbe terraru[m] in usu sunt, FIRST EDITION, with large folding letterpress table of a section of the Lord's Prayer translated into 22 languages (neatly strengthened with archival tape at one fold, one tear repaired, margin torn away just touching letters on 9 lines of Hebrew section, and 2 letters in Arabic section), light dampstaining to fore-edge of opening leaves, light spotting, calf antique gilt [Adams G550], 8vo, Zurich, Christoph Froschauer, 1555Footnotes:First edition of Conrad Gesner's pioneering study of linguistics, with his observations on about 130 languages. This copy includes the Gesner's scarce letterpress table, Magnifico et nobili viro D. Leonardo Bekk A Bekkenstain..., giving a translation of the opening verses of the Lord's Prayer into 22 languages, including Hebrew, Arabic, Icelandic, Celtic, English, Bohemian, Slavonic and Hungarian.Provenance: 'S.P.B.C.' (arranged around a cross), stamp of an unidentified theological institute on title; private English collector.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
![STRADANUS (JOHANNES)Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium. Pugnae bestiariorum: & mutuae bestiarum [-Vermis Sericus], 2 part](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/3e13083a-3714-41b9-947a-aced01150e07/4bedb24f-e7ee-4955-937a-aced011a9a7b/468x382.jpg)
STRADANUS (JOHANNES)Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium. Pugnae bestiariorum: & mutuae bestiarum [-Vermis Sericus], 2 parts in 1 vol., first part with engraved pictiorial title (with title repeated in Dutch at foot and 96 engraved plates (of 102, numbered 1-102, without nos. 1, 3, 39, 52, 62 and 89); second part with engraved title and 5 plates (numbered 1-6), all on wove, captioned in Latin text only, all cut to platemark (c.220 x 288mm.) and mounted one per page recto only, some light old white chalk residue, a few with light marginal crease, 5 loose, contemporary gilt-lettered calf spine (worn), lacks covers [cf. Schwerdt II, p.228], oblong folio (265 x 355), [Amsterdam], Uytgegeven door Nicolaes Visscher [but London, c.1820]Footnotes:An English reimpression of two late sixteenth century works by Stradanus (or Jan van der Straet), printed in the nineteenth century from the original plates. These depict hunting scenes (including elephants, monkeys and crocodiles, and diving for coral), fowling and fishing. The second suite of six plates relates to silkworms.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
TURGENEV (IVAN)Autograph letter in Russian signed ('Ivan Turgenev'), to his English translator Sidney Jerrold, replying to his friendly letter and agreeing with his interpretation of language and literature, hoping that the English reciprocate, continuing on a similar theme, hoping that he will do the same for his works, finishing by sending greetings to himself and his father, 2 pages on a bifolium, very light dust-staining at folds otherwise in clean, fresh condition, 8vo (180 x 115mm.), 50 Rue de Douai, Paris, 2 December [18]82Footnotes:TURGENEV SENDS ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATOR OF FIRST LOVE.Turgenev stated that his novella First Love, published in 1870, was the most autobiographical of all his works. He tells of his infatuation with a young neighbour in the country, Princess Catherine Shakhovskoy (the Zinaida of the story), an infatuation that lasted until his discovery that Catherine was in fact his father's mistress. It was much praised by Flaubert at the time, and remains one of his best-loved stories. Writing at a time when translated Russian literature was gaining popularity in Europe, this letter to his English translator demonstrates Turgenev's ongoing preoccupation with ensuring that his work is translated in a sympathetic and accurate way, and yet in a way that would accord with his English audience. His belief that the hitherto unprofitable market for foreign literature would only be improved by better quality translations is a recurring theme in his correspondence, particularly to his other English friend and translator William Ralston. Indeed, some translators were notorious for working from a French or German translation rather than the Russian original, which led to the inevitable mistakes, and some even changed the story if they thought it could be improved (including 'an unfortunate misunderstanding' in Claire von Glümer's translation of First Love, where the old countess was changed into a young one by the translator, 'thus turning the whole story upside down' (Olshanskaya, p.159)). According to Natalia Olshanskaya, who has written at length on this subject, it was Turgenev's personal attempts at securing qualified translators for his own works that became a significant factor in changing the accepted standards for the translation of Russian literature as a whole throughout Europe, a contribution she says is 'difficult to overestimate' (Olshanskaya, N., 'Ivan Turgenev's Letters on Translation', Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Philologica 2, 2011, pp.149–164).Sidney Jerrold was the son of William Blanchard Jerrold, journalist and author, and grandson of Douglas Jerrold, close friend of Dickens, playwright and contributor to Punch. He was a barrister, linguist and translator whose publications also include A Handbook of English & Foreign Copyright in Literary & Dramatic Works of 1881. His translation of First Love was published by W.H. Allen in 1884. This letter derives from the Jerrold family papers.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BIBLE, GREEK AND LATINNovum Testamentum iam quintum accuratissima cura recognitum a Des. Erasmo Roter, double column text, woodcut printer's device on title and final leaf, historiated woodcut initials, 4-leaf Greek table with architectural column borders, first few leaves frayed, title torn with loss not affecting text, some dampstaining (severely affecting first few leaves, then mostly in margins with some small worm trails), contemporary blind-ruled calf over boards (leather coming loose), gilt red morocco spine label, tears to upper joints and slight loss at foot of spine [Darlow & Moule 4609; Adams B1683, with Old Testament], Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius, 1535--ERASMUS (DESIDERIUS) Opus epistolarum, second (expanded) edition, woodcut device on title and final page, numerous woodcut initials, occasional light dampstaining (mostly in upper margins), title soiled and with hole affecting text on verso, some old underscoring of text, later panelled calf gilt, abrasions to lower cover, gilt worn away from spine [Adams E855], Hieronymus Froben, Johannes Hervagius & Nicolaus Episcopius, 1529, folio, Basle (2)Footnotes:Provenance: First work, John Davison ('riensis') several early ownership inscriptions on title (some in Greek, all crossed through), and on last page of preliminaries, with that of William Davison. Both works, William Wynne, bookplate with motto 'Ne bydd doeth Na Ddarllenno' ('he who does not read will not be wise'), and his signature ('Gul. Wynne') in the first volume. The bookplate is generally attributed to William Wynn (1709-1760), Welsh clergyman, poet and antiquary, some of whose books were sold by his descendants in these rooms on 4 December 2019.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
![[DAVIES (JOHN)]Antiquæ linguæ Britannicae, nunc vulgo dictae Cambro-Britannicae, a suis Cymraecae vel Cambricae, ab aliis Wal](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/3e13083a-3714-41b9-947a-aced01150e07/e209edfd-901c-4c8c-9642-aced011ab02f/468x382.jpg)
[DAVIES (JOHN)]Antiquæ linguæ Britannicae, nunc vulgo dictae Cambro-Britannicae, a suis Cymraecae vel Cambricae, ab aliis Wallicæ, second edition, VARIANT WITH THE RARE LEAF OF COMMENDATORY VERSES following 2*4, text in triple columns, woodcut device on title, royal coat of arms on verso, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, light browning and occasional dampstaining, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, two 3-line FRAGMENTS OF A MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT IN LATIN on vellum used as binder's waste at front and rear [cf. ESTC S122150; Rees 1551], folio, R. Young, 1632Footnotes:The second (first folio) edition of Davies' dictionary, with fine Welsh provenance and complete with the rarely found additional leaf headed 'Encomiastica'.Provenance: Edward Parry, Bridge Street, Chester (1798-1854, bookseller publisher and antiquary), ticket on front paste-down; Lewis Gilbertson (1814-1896, cleric, vice-principal of Jesus College, Oxford), signature on front free endpaper; his presentation label to S. Michael and All Angels' Theological College, Aberdare; St. Michael's Clergy School, Aberdare, ink stamp on title and final 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
ENGINEERING - BRITANNIA AND CONWAY BRIDGESCLARK (EDWIN) The Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges, with General Inquiries on Beams and on the Properties of Materials used in Construction... Published with the Sanction and Under the Supervision of Robert Stephenson, 3 vol. (including Atlas), 18 lithographed plates in the text volume, errata slip in volume 1, 46 plates (including 6 tinted lithographed views after George Hawkins) in the atlas (this with contents loose, gutta percha perished), opening few plates with short tear at fore-edge but overall good and free of spotting, publisher's quarter morocco gilt, atlas with pictorial gilt decoration on upper cover and slight loss at extremities of spine, slight rubbing [Ottley 2699], large 8vo and folio (610 x 445mm.), Published for the Author, 1850--FAIRBAIRN (WILLIAM) An Account of the Construction of the Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges, with a Complete History of their Progress, 20 engraved folding plates, light spotting, short tears or fraying to fore-margins, publisher's morocco-backed cloth, slightly rubbed, large 8vo, John Weale, 1849, FIRST EDITIONS (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BURNS (ROBERT)Autograph manuscript of his song 'The Banks of the Cree', comprising sixteen lines in four stanzas of four lines each, beginning: 'Here is the glen & here the bower,/ All underneath the birchen shade,/ The village bell has told the hour,/ O, what can stay my lovely maid...', and ending '...And art thou come, & art thou true!/ O, welcome dear to love & me!/ And let us all our vows renew,/ Along the flowery banks of Cree.', with annotations in another hand 'by Burns' after the title and 'Written in Burns' own hand' at foot, one page, light dust-staining, page slightly trimmed at head, affixed to an album leaf surrounded by contemporary newspaper cuttings, one slightly overlapping the edge of the page, 4to (230 x 175mm.), album leaf 460 x 290mm., [1794]Footnotes:'AND LET US ALL OUR VOWS RENEW, ALONG THE FLOWERY BANKS OF CREE'.Also known as 'Here is the Glen', these romantic verses were written by Burns to a tune composed by Lady Elizabeth Heron (1745-1811), daughter of the 8th Earl of Dundonald and married to Patrick Heron of Heron (1736-1803) through whose estate, Kerroughtree near Galloway, ran the River Cree. Heron was an MP for Kircudbright in the decade before his death and Robert Burns, ever interested in local politics, wrote several satirical ballads to aid his election campaign in 1795, including Inscription for an Altar of Independence at Kerroughtree, the seat of Mr Heron. Burns visited Kerroughtree often, and family legend has it that he would often sit at the foot of the main stairs and recite his poetry. Here he has immortalised his friend Lady Elizabeth as the enchanting Maria. The verses were originally sent by Burns in a letter to his publisher, George Thomson on 7 May 1794, now in the Morgan Library (Dalhousie Manuscripts, MA.50.1), in which Burns noted, '...Now, and for six or seven months, I shall be quite in song, as you shall see by-and-by... I got an air, pretty enough, composed by Lady Elizabeth Heron, of Heron, which she calls 'The Banks of Cree.' - Cree is a beautiful romantic stream, and, as her ladyship is a particular friend of mine, I have written the following song to it:— Banks of Cree/ Here is the glen, and here the bower...' ending with the note '...The air I fear is not worth your while, else I would send it you...', which seems to infer that he was not overly impressed with Lady Elizabeth's composition. However, the literature surrounding these verses agrees that it was Thomson himself and not Burns who disapproved of Elizabeth Heron's setting and was allegedly 'always wanting to set Burns's words to tunes other than those they were written for...' and that Burns insisted they be 'printed to the air for which they were written, or else leave them out' (Burns Chronicle and Club Directory, second series, volume IV, 1929). They were printed in the second volume of Thomson's Original Scottish Airs in 1798 and have been included in many collections of Burns' works. As with so many original Burns manuscripts, as opposed to those produced by the likes of 'Antique' Smith, our fair copy of the verses is unsigned but is finished by a characteristic calligraphic flourish. It has one or two small differences in wording compared with the version in his original letter to Thomson, for example the title 'The Banks of the Cree' used here rather than 'Banks of Cree' and the use of 'thro' the grove' in our copy rather than 'in the grove' in Burns' letter. Provenance: These verses were rediscovered in an album originating from Denston Hall in Suffolk, the seat of Sir John Robinson (c.1757-1819), who married Rebecca Clive, daughter of Clive of India in 1782. Whether this version was written out for Elizabeth Heron herself is not known, neither is it clear how it came into the possession of John Robinson, but it was evidently added to the album only a few years after publication. Surrounding it, and on the reverse of the leaf, are a selection of newspaper cuttings which can give an approximate terminus ante quem for when our piece was pasted into the album - for example, the verses 'The Flight of King Joe' published in the Morning Post on 2 September 1808, and an account of the poisoning by champignons of a Mitcham woman, Mary Attwood, and her children reported in the Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle the following month. A skit on Bonaparte, and handwritten anti-French sentiments on the reverse all date it firmly to the first years of the nineteenth century.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
JOHNSON (SAMUEL)A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, titles printed in red and black, light paper toning, modern calf, gilt-lettered spines [Courtney & Smith, p.54; Chapman & Hazen, p.137; Rothschild 1237; PMM 201], folio (420 x 250mm.), J. and P. Knapton, 1755Footnotes:THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST STANDARD ENGLISH DICTIONARY. 'I have... attempted a dictionary of the English language, which, while it was employed in the cultivation of every species of literature, has itself been hitherto neglected, suffered to spread, under the direction of chance, into wild exuberance, resigned to the tyranny of time and fashion, and exposed to the ignorance, and caprices of innovations' (Preface).Provenance: Property of an Australian estate.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
LAWSON (WILLIAM)A New Orchard and Garden: or The Best Way for Planting, Grafting, and to Make any Ground Good, for a Rich Orchard: Particularly in the North, 4 parts in one vol., second edition, woodcut illustrations and garden plans, the woodcut on title rubricated, light soiling, trimmed with loss of imprint, some signatures and a few side-notes, blank final page of first part laid down, modern half calf [ESTC S108372], 4to, [I.H. for Roger Jackson, 1623]Footnotes:First published in 1618. The other parts are The Country Housewife's Garden, A Most profitable new Treatise... of propagating Plants by Simon Harward, and The Husband-man's Fruitfull Orchard.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
LOGGAN (DAVID)Oxonia illustrata, sive omnium celeberrimæ istius universitatis collegiorum, aularum, bibliothecæ Bodleianæ, scholarum publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani; nec non urbis totius scenographia, FIRST EDITION, engraved throughout comprising title, privilege, dedication to Charles II, prefatory and index leaves, 40 double-page engraved plates by Loggan including general views of the city, map, and views of the colleges (that of Christ Church double-page and folding), all mounted on guards, some light browning in upper margins, some plates with short slits at foot of fold or guard (a few repaired on verso), in a fine contemporary English binding of black goatskin, tooled with an elaborate all-over design in gilt, sides with outer roll tool borders enclosing double central panel, outer panel with 4 large semi-circles composed of flower, acorn and small semi-circle tools, all panels filled with curling leafy tendrils and numerous different small and large flower tools (including distinctive tulip design in centre), gilt spine with raised bands and 6 of the 8 compartments each containing a floral tool with pointillé and 4 black dots at corners, leather title label, g.e., marbled endpapers, some wear to upper joint and to spine ends and bands, corners slightly bumped [ESTC R5725; Madan 3035], folio (428 x 295mm.), Oxford, E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1675Footnotes:LOGGAN'S 'GREAT WORK' IN A SUMPTUOUS RESTORATION BINDING. The workshop which produced this distinctive binding has not been identified, although some of the tools are redolent of those used by other well-know binders of the period.'David Loggan's great work, including forty large, accurate, and interesting illustrations of Oxford, intended partly as a companion volume to Anthony Wood's Historia et Antiquitates' (Madan). Loggan's largest work, it was produced at Oxford where he held the position of engraver to the university, but despite the Sheldonian imprint, it is thought to have been printed in Loggan's own house in Holywell.Provenance: Charles Finch, 4th Earl of Winchilsea, 4th Viscount Maidstone, 2nd Baron FitzHerbert of Eastwell (1672–1712), bookplate dated 1704 (the year he was appointed Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Kent), and family armorial device mounted on fly-leaf; private UK collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
NEWTON (ISAAC)ALGAROTTI (FRANCESCO) Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy Explain'd for the Use of the Ladies. In Six Dialogues on Light and Colours, 2 vol., translated by Elizabeth Carter, volume 1 with 2 title-pages (one with Cave and other publishers' names, the second with Cave only, mistitled as 'Vol. II'), woodcut ornament on title of volume 2, without publisher's advertisement, contemporary calf gilt, later red gilt morocco lettering label, rubbed, loss to one headband [Babson 147; Wallis 196.5 or 6], 8vo, E. Cave [and others], 1739Footnotes:A summary of Newton's ideas 'for the use of the ladies'. It was translated by the poet Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806), who was championed by Samuel Johnson and the publisher Edward Cave. He had printed her work in the Gentleman's Magazine, and issued a volume of her poetry in 1738.Provenance: '2 vol. Price 0: 05: 06', purchase price in ?eighteenth century hand on front free endpaper of volume 1; 'Denton Manor', note in pencil on same leaf, probably relating to Denton Manor in Lincolnshire, the library of which was sold at auction by Escritt & Barrell, Grantham, 1938.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
CHINAD'ANVILLE (JEAN-BAPTISTE BOURGUIGNON) Mémoire... sur les cartes geographiques, insérées dans l'ouvrage compose par le P. DuHalde sur la Chine, woodcut ornament on title [Cordier, Sinica 187; Lust 154; Lowendahl 585], 'A Pe-Kin, et se trouvé a Paris', for the Author, 1776; Considérations générales, sur l'étude et les connaissances que demande la composition des ouvrages de géographie, woodcut ornament on title, E3 possibly a cancellans, Paris, Lambert, 1777, 2 works bound in 1 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, light spotting, contemporary polished calf gilt, marbled edges, pink silk marker, slightly rubbed and scuffed, 8voFootnotes:First editions of two works by the great French cartographer d'Anville, who was engaged by the Jesuits to produce three maps based on the findings of the Jesuit missionaries to China, for inclusion in Pierre Du Halde's Description géographique... de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise (1735). These were subsequently revised for the Nouvel atlas de la Chine (1737). In the Mémoire he provided a comprehensive explanation for his methodology in preparing the map, the sources he had chosen to draw from and an overview of earlier expeditions undertaken to China and Tibet.Provenance: Bernard Hanotiau, etched 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
JESUIT MISSIONSLettres édifiantes et curieuses écrites des missions étrangères, par quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus, 34 vol. bound in 32, engraved title vignettes, 36 mostly folding engraved plates and maps (of 38, without portrait of Antoine Verjus, and map of Paraguay, 2 hand-coloured, a few old repairs at folds, some loss to map of 'Nouvelles Phillipies' in volume 6, and plate of Chinese inscriptions in volume 10), occasional light foxing or browning, volume 1 with title shaved at lower margin touching imprint, and final leaf repaired with some loss of text, volume 5 with small loss to blank corners on 2 leaves, volume 15 title with small hole touching imprint, volumes 1-28 uniform contemporary calf, spines gilt in compartments with two lettering-pieces, red edges, volumes 29-34 (slightly taller) in similar mottled calf, some rubbing and abrasions, minor worm trails to a few sides and joints, a few spine ends chipped, but generally attractive [Sabin 40697, 'a set comprising the first edition of each volume is of uncommon rarity'; Sommervogel III, 1514, IV, 34-35, V, 536, VI, 353-354; cf. Hill 1024, second edition only], 8vo, Paris, Jean Cusson [and others], 1702-1776Footnotes:RARE COMPLETE SET OF 'THE MOST VALUABLE 18TH-CENTURY SOURCE ON JESUIT ACTIVITIES IN FRONTIER REGIONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD' (Hill, Collection of Pacific Voyages).This monumental series, began under the editorship of Charles le Gobien, was intended to provide a history of Jesuit missions and news from China. Subsequently accounts of many Company of Jesuits missionary missives from all the regions of their activities were added, with information on science, medicine, natural history, technology and geography as well as theological matters. Following le Gobain the editorship passed to Jean-Baptiste du Halde, a great proponent of Jesuit science as a means to winning imperial favour in China, and thereafter under several other editors until the final volume was published in 1776.Provenance: 'Domus probationis Parisiensis Societatis Jesu ad usum novit', contemporary inscription on the title of volume 1, and and similar inscriptions to titles of volumes 2-28, placing these volumes formerly in the library of the Parisian Jesuit novitiate.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
VENICEAA (PIETER VAN DER) Celeberrima urbs Venetiae, engraved panoramic bird's-eye-view on 2 sheets (joined), of Venice and its surrounding islands, architectural title cartouche in lower left incorporating the lion of St. Mark's, and a female personification of the city holding a cornucopia, compass rose and ships in the sea area, light creases visible from old fold, small losses at one vertical crease touching a couple of buildings, 410 x 1022mm., Leiden, [c.1729]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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