CHAVIGNY (JEAN AIME DE)La Première face du Janus françois, contenant sommairement les troubles, guerres civiles & autres choses memorables advenuës en la France & ailleurs dés l'an de salut MDXXXIIII jusques à l'an MDLXXXIX, fin de la maison Valesienne. Extraite et colligée des Centuries et autres commentaires de M. Michel de Nostredame, FIRST EDITION, some dampstaining to first and last few gatherings, occasional browning, repaired tear towards foot of title, date on title-page and colophon erroneously amended in ink to 1624, contemporary brown morocco, covers with single gilt rule border and central gilt device of banded arrows, monogrammed 'MSD' on upper cover, edges worn, spine with a few small wormholes and chipped at foot [Benazra p.130; Chomarat 154], 4to, Lyon, heirs of Pierre Roussin, 1594Footnotes:First edition of the first attempt at a systematic interpretation of the prophecies of Nostradamus, printed with the French text of the Centuries and its Latin translation. Each of Nostradamus' 347 quatrains is accompanied by Chavigny's commentary, also printed in French and Latin, and the introductory matter includes an essay on the life of Nostradamus, which constitutes the first biography of the astrologer. The 'Première Face' is mainly devoted to the events that occurred between 1534 and 1589; a 'Second Face', which never saw the light of day, was to have dealt with future events.Provenance: Denis-Francois Secousse (historian, 1691-1754), armorial bookplate; Daniel Ruzo, bookplate; his sale, Swann, 23 April 2007, lot 72.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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NOSTRADAMUSLes Propheties, 2 parts in 1 vol., edited by Vincent Sève, woodcut portrait of Nostradamus on title, some soiling, duplicate of signature E from part 2 bound into part 1, dampstain to upper section of last 2 gatherings, old ownership stamp ('Proestat Amor Patriae') on title and facing leaf, later green vellum [Benazra p.156; Chomarat 166, variant foliation], [Troyes?], 1605; Les Propheties... dont il y en a trois cents qui n'ont encores iamais estés imprimées; [GRUGET (FRANCOIS)] Recueil des propheties et revelations, together 3 parts in 1 vol., woodcut printer's device on title-pages, light browning and soiling, dampstaining to last part, B2-4 slightly frayed at bottom corner (no loss of text), old limp vellum, soiled, upper joint split [Benazra p.170; Chomarat 176], Troyes, Pierre Chevillot, [1611], 8vo; and 2 others, incomplete copies of the same 2 editions (4)Footnotes:The first Seve edition, possibly printed by Pierre du Ruau, together with Chevillot's edition of a few years later.Provenance: First two volumes, Daniel Ruzo, 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
NOSTRADAMUSLes Propheties.. dont il y en a trois cents qui n'ont encores iamais estés imprimées; GRUGET (FRANÇOIS) Recueil des propheties et revelations, together 3 parts in 1 vol., woodcut printer's device on title-pages, first title with additional woodcut portrait of Nostradamus mounted on verso, some light browning and dampstaining, old ink notes in French on rear free endpaper, contemporary limp vellum, soiled, lower joint split [Benazra p.170; Chomarat 176], 8vo, Troyes, Pierre Chevillot, [1611]Footnotes:Provenance: Daniel Ruzo, bookplate; his sale, Swann, 23 April 2007, lot 37.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
NOSTRADAMUSLes Propheties... Reveuës er corrigées sur la copie imprimee à Lyon par Benoist Rigaud en l'an 1568, some browning and soiling, title laid down, A2 repaired affecting typographic heading, D6-7 side-margins cropped affecting some letters cropped, a few other leaves trimmed affecting headings and signature marks etc., G3-4 in part 2 transposed, later mottled calf, gilt panelled spine with floral motifs [Benazra p.191, 'c.1630'; Chomarat 188, '1628'], 8vo, Troyes, Pierre du Ruau, [c.1628-30]; and another copy, lacking third part; Les Propheties, 2 parts in 1 vol., woodcut devices on titles, some light foxing and staining, a few small wormholes affecting first title and opening leaves (title soiled and laid down, A2 repaired), blank lower margin of last leaf restored, nineteenth century panelled calf gilt, red morocco spine label, spine rubbed and chipped at head [Benazra p.218; Chomarat 200], 12mo, Lyon, Pierre Rigaud, [c.1649-1650] (3)Footnotes:Provenance: First volume, M. de Salvandy, book label and Daniel Ruzo, bookplate. Third volume, Daniel Ruzo, bookplate; his sale, Swann, 23 April 2007, lot 42.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
NOSTRADAMUSLes propheties, 3 parts in 1 vol., woodcut device on title, some light browning, occasional minor dampstains, title with some holes in inner margin, repair in blank outer margin of 2F2, typed description in Spanish tipped to rear free endpaper, eighteenth century mottled calf, gilt panelled spine, rubbed [Benazra p.191, dating it to c.1630; Chomarat 188, dating it to 1628], 8vo, Troyes, Pierre du Ruau, [c.1628-30]Footnotes:Provenance: 'Soyrot', early ownership signature on title; Albrecht von Treskow, bookplate; Daniel Ruzo, bookplate; his sale, Swann, 23 April 2007, lot 39.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
NOSTRADAMUSLes propheties de M. Michel Nostradamus. Medecin du Roy Charles IX. et l'un des plus excellens Astronomes qui furent iamais, 2 parts in 1 vol., woodcut portrait of the author on title, some light soiling and browning, a few headlines shaved, typewritten description in Spanish tipped to rear endpaper, early nineteenth century calf gilt, spine ends chipped, front joint cracked [Benazra p.207-209; Caillet 8070, 'meilleure edition'; Chomarat 105], 8vo, Lyon, [no printer], 1568 [but Troyes, 1649]Footnotes:Counterfeit edition printed in 1649 in order to discredit Cardinal Mazarin, whose enemies introduced two spurious quatrains to Century 7, beginning 'Quand Innocent tiendra le lieu de Pierre, le Nizaram [i.e. Mazarin] Cicilien se verra en grands honneurs mais apres il cherra, dans le bourbier d'une civille guerre'.Provenance: Danile Ruzo, bookplate; his sale, Swann, 23 April 2007, lot 24.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
NOSTRADAMUSLes Vrayes centuries et propheties.. avec la vie de l'autheur, woodcut printer's device on title, occasional light browning and staining, title with 2 cropped early ownership inscriptions and indistinct old library stamps, late eighteenth century calf gilt, spine with morocco lettering piece, upper joint cracked but cords intact [Benazra p.214; Chomarat 211], small 8vo, Leyden, Pieter Leffen, 1650Footnotes:Provenance: '...Heidelberg... 1659', cropped inscription at foot of title; 'Libros Antiguos/ Barcelona', booksellers label on rear paste-down; Daniel Ruzo, bookplate, his sale, Swann, 23 April 2007, lot 44.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
![[JAUBERT (ETIENNE, attributed to)]Eclaircissement des véritables quatrains de Maistre Michel Nostradamus, FIRST EDITION, fu](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/478fc58d-23a3-4aa2-8e29-ac8a00d3fc8c/b3d51327-00c4-4d4f-b414-ac8d00ce92ed/468x382.jpg)
[JAUBERT (ETIENNE, attributed to)]Eclaircissement des véritables quatrains de Maistre Michel Nostradamus, FIRST EDITION, full-page engraved portrait of Nostradamus, errata leaf at end, occasional browning, stains to A1-4 and P2v, contemporary calf, gilt panelled spine, corners worn, spine ends chipped and joints cracked, front free endpaper removed [Benazra p.231; Chomarat 225], 12mo, [Amsterdam?], 1656--JANT (JACQUES DE) Explication des prédictions tirées des centuries de Nostradamus, sur la presente guerre de France avec la Hollande, woodcut vignette of Nostradamus on title and of skeleton on p.27, waterstain to first c.20 pages, nineteenth century calf gilt, slightly rubbed [Chomerat 261; not in Benazra], 16mo, 'Sur l'Imprimé a Lyon chez Marcelin Gautherin,' 1672; Prédictions tirées des centuries de Nostradamus. Qui vray semblablement se peuvent appliquer au temps présent, et à la guerre entre la France et l'Angleterre, contre les Provinces Unies, 3 parts in 1 vol., one folding plate (only, of 3), light dampstaining, contemporary limp vellum [Benazra p.248; Chomarat 264], small 8vo, [Rouen], 1673; and another (4)Footnotes:Provenance: First work, Daniel Ruzo, bookplate. Second work, Comte Camille de Grassis and Daniel Ruzo, bookplates; Ruzo's sale, 23 April 2007, lot 86.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
NOSTRADAMUSLes Vrayes centuries et propheties, additional engraved title showing the execution of Charles I and the Fire of London, full-page engraved portrait of Nostradamus, contemporary mottled calf, spine neatly restored [Benazra p.245, no.80; not in Chomarat], Paris, Jean Promé, 1669; Les Vrayes centuries et propheties, additional engraved title showing the execution of Charles I and the Fire of London, full-page engraved portrait of Nostradamus, some light dampstaining, worming in and near gutter (heavier towards end and affecting text in places), contemporary sheep, worn, upper joint split [Benazra p.243; Chomarat 247], Paris, Jean Ribou, 1668; Les Propheties, 2 parts in 1 vol., titles with large woodcut portrait, some repairs to margins of first title (shaving date and border of portrait) and first and last few leaves (3 or 4 with with text just affected), later vellum with title and imprint inink on upper cover [Benazra p. 236; Chomarat 230], Lyon, [Part 2: Jean Balam], 1665; Les Vrayes centuries et propheties, additional engraved title showing the execution of Charles I and the Fire of London (near detached), full-page engraved portrait of Nostradamus, repair to C1 affecting text, old ownership inscription in heavy ink on title, later mottled sheep, spine severely wormed and defective [Benazra p.241; Chomarat 246; Willems 1797, 'jolie édition dont les beaux exemplaires sont rares et fort recherchés'], Amsterdam, Jean Jansson & Weyerstraet, 1668; idem, 2 further copies of the same edition, one lacking the last 15 leaves ('Presages'), the other lacking engraved title and 2 preliminary leaves with portrait, 12mo (6)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
NOSTRADAMUSLes Vrayes centuries et propheties.. avec la vie de l'autheur, light browning, 2 or 3 small burn holes in a2, a few leaves with headline or ornaments shaved, slight worming in gutter margin at beginning and end, later vellum [Benazra p.261; Chomarat 296], small 8vo, Cologne, Jean Volcker, 1689--[MASSARD (JACQUES)] Harmonie de propheties anciennes avec les modernes, sur la duree de l'Antechriste, nineteenth century vellum, morocco spine label, slight adhesion mark form old label, 12mo, Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1687 (2)Footnotes:Provenance: Daniel Ruzo, bookplates. Second work, Ruzo's sale, Swann, 23 April 2007, lot 96.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
NOSTRADAMUSLes Vrayes centuries et propheties, 2 parts in 1 vol., general title with small woodcut device, 2 part titles with large vignette of Nostradamus at work, a little light dampstaining, general title slightly soiled and frayed, tear without loss at foot of ã4, contemporary vellum, soiled [Benazra p.259; Chomarat 293], 12mo, Bordeaux, Pierre Abegou, 1689Footnotes:Provenance: Daniel Ruzo, bookplate; his sale, 23 April 2007, lot 49.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
NOSTRADAMUSLes Vrayes centuries et propheties, woodcut frontispiece showing the execution of Charles I and the Fire of London (missing small piece from blank upper margin), full-page portraits of Nostradamus and Henri IV of France, with blank H8, some worming in blank lower margins, gutter of last page ('Au lecteur') adhered to rear free endpaper slightly affecting text, contemporary calf, gilt panelled spine with ends chipped [Benazra p.262; Chomarat 295], Rouen, Jean-B[aptiste] Besongne, 1689; Les Vrayes centuries et propheties.. avec la vie de l'autheur, some light browning, title with minor stains and old signature written across, contemporary sheep gilt, worn in places, spine ends defective [Benazra p.261; Chomarat 296], Cologne, Jean Volcker, 1689, 8vo (2)Footnotes:Povenance: First volume, Jean-Baptiste Le Boiteulx, bookplate. First and second volumes, Daniel Ruzo, bookplate; his sale, Swann, 23 April 2007, lots 50 and 51.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
NOSTRADAMUSLes Vrayes centuries et propheties, additional woodcut title showing the execution of Charles I and the Fire of London, portraits including Nostradamus, Henry IV and Louis XIV (the first 2 full-page), repair to verso of title with loss of text (and following leaf to a lesser extent), some light soiling and dampstaining, contemporary sheep, gilt panelled spine, remnant of old label ('G') on upper cover [Benazra p.269; Chomarat 302], Rouen, Jean B[aptiste] Besongne, 1691; idem, another edition, illustrations as above but with variant portrait of Louis XIV, fly-leaf with old notes in French and Latin, modern half morocco, spine gilt, with adhesion mark from old label [Benazra p.291; Chomarat 321], Rouen, Jean B[aptiste] Besongne, 1710; idem, another edition, engraved portraits of Nostradamus (remargined), Cesar Nostradamus, Henri II, Henri IV and Louis XIV, plate of execution of Charles I, wanting directions to binder leaf at end, repair to title affecting ornament, slight browning, later catspaw calf, attractive gilt panelled spine, small adhesion mark from old label on covers [Benazra p. 265; Chomarat 303, calling for 2 additional preliminary leaves], Lyon, Antoine Besson, [c.1690], 12mo; and 4 others (7)Footnotes:Provenance: First volume, Abbé Hector Rigaux, curé of Argoeuvres (noted Nostradamus authority and collector), ownership inscription on fly-leaf; H. Forne, Paris, 1860, inscription on title and stamp on fly-leaf and at end. Second volume, Daniel Ruzo, bookplate. Third volume, H. Jarraut 1903, signature on front free endpaper.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
NOSTRADAMUSLes Vrayes centuries et propheties, a little light foxing, contemporary vellum, slightly soiled, Rouen, Jean B[aptiste]-Besongne, 1710; idem, variant imprint, brown staining to first few leaves, some headlines cropped, nineteenth century sheep-backed boards, spine defective, upper cover near detached, Paris, Barthelemy Gyrin, 1710, the above with identical woodcut illustrations, including additional titles showing the execution of Charles I of England and the Fire of London, and full-page portraits of Nostradamus and Henri IV of France [Benazra p.291 & p.292; Chomarat 321 & 322]; Les Veritables propheties, without initial blank, inscription on half-title dated 1721 and ink markings throughout, some browning and soiling, contemporary sheep, spine defective with remnants of later label [Benazra p.300; Chomarat 332], Turin, Reycends & Guibert, 1720, 12mo (3)Footnotes:Provenance: Daniel Ruzo, bookplates. First and second volumes, Ruzo's sale, Swann, 23 April 2007, lots 56 and 57. Third volume, Carolus Franciscus Viliet, 1721, inscription and Latin 'distichon' in ink disparaging Nostradamus ('Inuidus falsidicus in Nostradamum veridicum. Disticon. Nostradamus cum falsadamus, nam fallere nostrum est; Et cum falsa damus, non nisi nostradamus'); Daniel Ruzo, his sale, 8 November 2008, lot 249.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
![[NOSTRADAMUS][HAITZE (PIERRE-JOSEPH DE)] La Vie de Nostradamus. Par Pierre Joseph, a little light dampstaining and browning,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/478fc58d-23a3-4aa2-8e29-ac8a00d3fc8c/1b8a32cb-45e5-4c26-bbc2-ac8d00ce9cbf/468x382.jpg)
[NOSTRADAMUS][HAITZE (PIERRE-JOSEPH DE)] La Vie de Nostradamus. Par Pierre Joseph, a little light dampstaining and browning, modern calf, red morocco spine labels, slight adhesion mark from old label [Chomarat 327; this edition not in Benazra], Aix, chez la Veuve de Charles David et Joseph David, 1712--[LE ROUX (JEAN)] La Clef de Nostradamus. Isagoge ou introduction au veritable sens des Propheties... par un solitaire, varying degrees of browning, light dampstain to opening leaves, contemporary calf, gilt panelled spine with red morocco label, rubbed, head of spine chipped [Benazra, p.284; Chomarat 323], Paris, Pierre Giffart, 1710--GUYNAUD (BALTHASAR) La Concordance des prophéties de Nostradamus avec l'histoire, depuis Henri II jusqu'à Louis le Grand, la vie et l'apologie de cet auteur, ensemble quelques essais d'explication sur plusieurs de ses autres prédications, engraved portrait, without final blank, later calf, spine gilt, spine ends chipped, joints starting [Benazra p.29a; Chomarat 326], Paris, Jacques Morel, 1712--[CHAVIGNY (JEAN-AIME DE) attributed to] La Vie et le testament de Michel Nostradamus, some browning, nineteenth century morocco-backed boards, spine gilt , Paris, Gattey, 1789, 12mo; and another (5)Footnotes:Provenance: Second work, Antoine Orsetti, old ink signature; Rappaport of Rome, bookseller's ticket. First, second and fourth works, Daniel Ruzo, bookplates; Swann, 8 November 2007, lots 260, 263 and 255.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
LEONARDO DA VINCIA Treatise of Painting... Translated from the Original Italian... to Which is Prefix'd, the Author's Life, engraved portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 35 engraved plates (4 folding, a few light pencil annotations), 12pp. publisher's advertisements at end, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked to match with red morocco spine label, 8vo, J. Senex, and W. Taylor, 1721Footnotes:FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della pittura, compiled from manuscripts written during his lifetime, but first published in Italian in 1651. In these Leonardo outlined his influential theories regarding anatomical drawing, perspective, and other elements of artistic composition. Provenance: J. Hilton, early 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
CABEO (NICCOLO)Philosophia magnetica in qua magnetis natura penitus explicatur, et omnium quae hoc lapide cernuntur causae propriae afferuntur, FIRST EDITION, FIRST (FERRARA) ISSUE, title within wide engraved architectural border, 4 engraved illustrations (one a world map repeated [Shirley, World 328]), numerous woodcut illustrations, ink spot at inner margin of title, light stain on dedicatory leaf, thin worm trail in blank margin of approximately 150pp., small dampstain in lower blank margin from p.277 to end, recased in early vellum, lettered in ink ('Filosofia magnetica', second word worn) on spine, preserved in modern morocco-backed solander case [Ferguson I, p.136; Riccardi I, 205; Wheeler Gift 97], folio (320 x 220mm.), Ferrara, Francesco Succio, 1629Footnotes:An important treatise on magnetism and the loadstone, containing the first printed account of electrical repulsion. Cabeo (1586-1660), professor of Moral Philosophy and Mathematics at Parma, also discusses William Gilbert's De Magnete.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
LEWIN (JOHN WILLIAM)A Natural History of the Lepidopterous Insects of New South Wales. Collected, Engraved, and Faithfully Painted after Nature, second edition, 19 hand-coloured lithographed plates, light spotting, off-setting onto text, original grey boards, publisher's printed label on upper cover ('Price £2: 2s'), rebacked and recornered in red morocco [Nissen ZBI 2487; Ferguson 874], 4to (265 x 203mm.), J.H. Bohte, 1822 [plates watermarked 'J. Waterman, 1825']Footnotes:Provenance: Heinrich Freiherr von Haerdtl, 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
CHURCHILL (WINSTON S.)The Story of the Malakand Field Force. An Episode of Frontier War, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, second state with errata slip, half-title, frontispiece, 6 maps (2 folding), tissue guards, 32-page catalogue at end, some spotting, publisher's green cloth, light soiling [Woods A1(a)], 8vo, Longmans, 1898Footnotes:First edition of the author's first published book.Provenance: ?M.E. Woods, early ownership inscription on the half-title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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
![[FORSTER (E.M.)]STURGIS (HOWARD OVERING) Belchamber, FIRST EDITION, E.M. FORSTER'S COPY, inscribed 'E.M. Forster from me [th](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/478fc58d-23a3-4aa2-8e29-ac8a00d3fc8c/02412466-df4a-4383-b0dd-ac8d00ced95b/468x382.jpg)
[FORSTER (E.M.)]STURGIS (HOWARD OVERING) Belchamber, FIRST EDITION, E.M. FORSTER'S COPY, inscribed 'E.M. Forster from me [the author?], at 107 Eaton Square, June 14 1904', light spotting publisher's cloth, 8vo, Archibald Constable, 1904Footnotes:'Could one claim Belchamber as some kind of cryptic gay novel, in the way that Forster's books, while dealing with matters of heterosexual love and marriage, are quirkily animated and destabilised by his own non-heterosexual viewpoint?' (Alan Hollinghurst, review of Belchamber, London Review of Books, 9 October 2008). In 1935 Forster acknowledged his debt to Sturgis' novel in an essay, later collected in Abinger Harvest, in which he described it as a 'Classic', whilst acknowledging it was 'unlikely ever to be read again'. It has been, NYRB republishing it in 2008 with an introduction by Edmund White.Provenance: E.M. Forster, gifted to his friend Eric Fletcher.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
GERSHWIN (GEORGE)Autograph musical quotation, signed and inscribed 'With Best wishes/ from your Composer/ George Gershwin', of two bars in E flat Major [the opening of 'Isn't it Wonderful', the chorus concluding the first act of his musical Primrose], on card, very light browning but overall in good and attractive condition, 60 x 92mm., [Winter Garden Theatre, Drury Lane, London, Autumn 1924]; together with a newspaper clipping and two postcards (small collection)Footnotes:'BEST WISHES FROM YOUR COMPOSER' - the young George Gershwin doffs his cap to one of his leading ladies, quoting his song 'Isn't it Wonderful', dating from the same year as Rhapsody in Blue and Lady, Be Good.With this card is a newspaper cutting, datable to 1929, reporting the secret romance and wedding of 'West End leading lady' Margery Hicklin to Leon Heron, artist son of an Australian financier (two of whose postcards are also included). In 1924 Miss Hicklin had starred as Joan in Gershwin's musical Primrose, opening at the Winter Garden Theatre, Drury Lane, on 11 September 1924 and running for 255 performances. Our card must date before the end of the year, prior to Gershwin's return to America for the Broadway premier of Lady, Be Good on 1 December 1924. (Recordings of several numbers sung by Miss Hicklin as Joan are extant.)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
RACKHAM (ARTHUR)BROTHERS GRIMM. Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Stories, 12 tipped-in colour plates, jacket toned with light spotting and short tear to upper cover, Constable, [1917]--MOTTE-FOQUE (FRIEDRICH H.C. DE LA) Undine, 14 tipped-in colour plates, publisher's advertisement loosely inserted, Heineman, 1919--IRVING (WASHINGTON) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, second impression, 8 colour plates, G.C. Harrap, [September 1928]--MILTON (JOHN) Comus, 24 tipped-in colour plates, Heinemann, [1921]--SWIFT (JONATHAN) Gulliver's Travels, 12 colour plates, 8vo, J.M. Dent, 1909--Some British Ballads, 16 tipped-in colour plates, spine of dust-jacket detached with major losses, turn-in of lower cover detached, Constable, [1919], all illustrated by Arthur Rackham, publisher's cloth gilt (some pictorial or decorative), DUST-JACKETS, unless otherwise stated 4to (6)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ROYALTY - EDWARD VIII'S CORONATIONOfficial Souvenir Programme for the Coronation of His Majesty King Edward VIII, DUMMY PROOF COPY, 32 pages, printed with title and final leaf text (relating to King George Jubilee Trust), the remaining pages printed with ornamental borders, caption headings or author names, and identifying sitters for proposed photographs, otherwise blank, light dampstain throughout, publisher's wrappers, the decorative upper cover printed in black, red, blue and gold within a gold border, 4to, [Odhams Press for King George's Jubilee Trust, 1936]Footnotes:RARE DUMMY PROOF COPY OF THE OFFICIAL SOUVENIR PROGRAMME OF EDWARD VIII'S CORONATION, which of course never came to pass due to Edward's abdication. Only one copy on World Cat.Provenance: Cranford Taylor, 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
SHAW (GEORGE BERNARD)Autograph letter signed ('G. Bernard Shaw'), to F.V. Conolly, an English correspondent of the American Press Association, on the reverse of Conolly's typed request for his views on the suitability of black actors to perform serious theatre such as Shakespeare and Shaw rather than just comedy roles ('...How would a negress, for instance, depict 'Eliza Doolittle'...'), Shaw responding 'Negroes act very well, usually with much more delicacy and grace than white actors... The notion that there is anything funny in a man or woman being black is as childish as the notion that there is anything funny in being white... The only difficulty about performances of Shakespear by negroes is that his characters are white Europeans, except for Othello & the Prince of Morocco, neither of whom are negroes. But as English actors have never been prevented from playing Romeo & Juliet by the fact that they are not Italians... so a performance by a black company would be just as enjoyable as a performance by a white one if the acting were equally good...', concluding that '...the chances are that it would be better...', 1 page, foxing and light dust-staining, two filing holes not affecting text, 4to (254 x 203mm.), Parknasilla, Kenmare, Co. Kerry, 18 July 1919Footnotes:'NEGROES ACT VERY WELL, USUALLY WITH MUCH MORE DELICACY AND GRACE THAN WHITE ACTORS': SHAW ON 'COLOUR-BLIND' CASTING IN THE THEATRE. This fine defence of the dignity of black actors appears to have been written in connection with a discussion of 'Coloured Artistes on the Screen' in The Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly, published in 1919 and prompted by the success of the race movie industry and the Chicago-based slapstick 'Ebony Films', to which Shaw's correspondent refers (see Stephen Bourne, Black in the British Frame, 2005, Appendix I, p.223).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SPARE (AUSTIN)A Book of Satyrs, LIMITED TO 300 COPIES, this copy out-of-series, 12 full-page illustrations, and ornaments by Spare, publisher's parchment-backed printed boards, folio (445 x 330mm), Co-Operative Printing Society Limited, 1907; Two original pencil 'automatic drawings' by Spare, one captioned 'Satyros', the other ?'Honosis' with note on verso 'First expurgation - then the pleroma by Mnemic causation', light spotting on the second, each approximately 255 x 190mm., [undated] (3)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 - BAGHDAD AND MESOPOTAMIAArchive relating to the British transport corps ('Remount Depot', and 'Mule Column') centred at Baghdad, comprising Lieutenant Ralph Smith's diary for 1918; his manuscript account fund book for 'No. 3 Mule Column' (1917-1920); his letterbook (Mesopotamia, May 1919-June, 1920), with related telegrams, photographs, and ephemera; small group of official correspondence relating to Gunner Harry Dryburgh of the Remount Depot, Baghdad (mostly relating to travel permissions), c.1918-1919; three programmes for theatrical performances held at the M.T. Depot Theatre (1918-1919), and cinema programme for the Olympia Cinema, 31 May to 4 June 1919, the diary disbound, others original bindings, ephemera loose, the theatrical programmes printed on coloured paper, various sizes, [c.1917-1922]Footnotes:'NEVER SHALL I FORGET THE PAIN & TERROR IN THAT POOR LITTLE THING'S FACE. I had nothing to help it & they were miles from any habitation... without food and medicine' (13 May, near Qara Tappah) - an evocative diary kept by Lieutenant Smith, capturing both the horror and beauty of his daily life. It was written whilst serving he with the No. 3 Mule Column, a section of the Transport Corps stationed in Mesopotamia, to which he was assigned in June 1917. The diary includes mentions of Qara Tappah, Baguba, Abu Jisra, Hillah (March 3, visiting 'the house built by the German excavators who have done so much here...' and the Babylonian remains, which Gertrude Bell had visited in January), Abu Saida (31 March, 'I killed 1000 flies in my tent...'; April 5, 'Changed into my light underwear...'; April 17, '...Saw streams of Kurds & Arabs on the road... on the trek with camels'; April 23, '... held a court martial... of Hazzat Shah... for theft from a mail bag, found him guilty & sentenced him to 30 lashes...'), Table mountain (trip with his orderly, Mohammed Qasim, whose photograph is included), Kifri and environs of Baghdad (29 April, 'Tuz Khurmatli [Khurma] was taken today and nearly the whole of the Turkish force killed or taken prisoners'; 2 May, 'Passed the 2 lots of Turkish prisoners... one prisoner of the first lot died on the way... they are evidently hungry and tired...'). The majority of Smith's letter book correspondence relates to his ordering books on India from Mudie's Select Library, Higginbotham in Madras (from where he purchased his Lett's Diary) and elsewhere, or selling others (12 April 1920, placing an advert in the Baghdad Times, 'For Sale. Palmer's Arabic Grammar...'). Smith's record of the No.3 Mule Column Fund records Receipts ('Sale of a consignment of cigarettes for the column', 'Proceeds of the sale of parts of two Turkish carts...') and Expenditure ('Football, 2 bladders & one tube cement', 'Sweets for the the Peace celebrations'). The entertainment programmes include pantomimes ('Red Riding Hood', 'A Gipsy Romance' by the Advaxeliers at the Baghdad Depot Theatre), and an Olympia Cinema listing printed by the Dangor Press, Baghdad.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
WYNDHAM (JOHN)The Midwich Cuckoos, first American edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'To Lawrence Bachmann/the full epic of that charmed village/gratefully from John Wyndham July 1960' on the title-page, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket (unclipped, spine light fading with short tear at foot, upper cover upper margin with 2 short tears, one resulting in small loss to 'M' of author's name), 8vo, New York, Ballantine Books, [1957]; sold with an autograph letter signed by Wyndham ('John Benyon Harris') to Lawrence Bachmann, thanking him for 'a thoroughly enjoyable party', praising the film adaption of the book, and enclosing this copy of the book, one page, headed paper, 16 July 1960 (2)Footnotes:Rare presentation copy, with accompanying letter, inscribed to the American film producer Lawrence Bachmann, who was British head of MGM when the studio made the classic film version, titled Village of the Damned, in 1960. In the letter Wyndham gives his 'thanks for the film itself - as I think I told you, I frankly did not think it could be done', and enclosing a copy of the book 'with some diffidence, feeling that you are probably sick of the sight of it by now...'. A remake, directed by John Carpenter, was released in 1995.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
COOKERY MANUSCRIPTCulinary recipe book, written in several hands, with over 100 receipts including 'Sauce for wild Ducks', 'For a goos and greats', 'To pickle larg Cookombers like mangoes', 'To pickle littel cuckombours', 'To dress a pig after ye new mode', 'To make a goos-gibblet pye', 'To make a chicken pye sweet', 'To make a very good cake' ('...beat...not too light, for then it may deceive you and make the cake heavy...'), 'Sauce for all sorts of fresh fish', 'Sauce for larks or any other small birds', 'Codling Cream', 'Queen Cakes', 'To Colour a H. head of Brandy', two medicinal receipts inserted at end, ink blots and a few pen trials throughout, 84 pages, browned and stained, edges frayed, contemporary ruled vellum, worn, 4to (184 x 150mm.), mid eighteenth centuryThis 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
WINCHESTER COLLEGE - MANUSCRIPT 'NOTIONS BOOK''Compendium quorundam verborum quae in his et priscis temporibus Collegii Wykhamici commensalibus precipue usitata sint. MDCCCXLIV', MANUSCRIPT, ink on paper, 232 pages (approximately 90 blank), titles, part-titles and caption alphabet letters in red ink, remainder in black ink, approximately 96 small ink illustrations, 2 full-page ink elevations of the school ('Winchester College, from Blackridge'; 'Commoners. Winton'), 2 full-page maps hand-coloured in red, green and blue, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked with red morocco spine label, 8vo, [1844]Footnotes:FINELY ILLUSTRATED NOTIONS BOOK, COMPILED BY A WINCHESTER COLLEGE PUPIL. 'Over the years, particular words and phrases have developed at Winchester. These are known as Notions. Some are very old in origin (from Latin, Middle English or Anglo-Saxon) and some have been absorbed from schoolboy slang' (Winchester College, website). Although some of the vocabulary was shared with other colleges, such as Eton and Charterhouse, the term 'notions' is used only by Wykehamists. Organised alphabetically, each word in the volume is given alongside a short definition, and in approximately 80 cases, a charming ink illustration. Words and images relate to sporting activities (mostly football), teachers and learning ('books up to...', 'Trencher caps'), punishments (such as 'funding... a licking on the back with a ground ash', and 'scrubbing... a corporal punishment of 4 cuts'), fagging ('Bread picker', 'Butter washing', 'Turf keeper', 'Tege... any one to whom kindness has been shown... generally a younger boy, when he first becomes befriended by an older'), local place names, and localised slang ('Jubilee...a period when there is nothing to do', 'Joel. The nickname of the under porter of the college...', 'Cargo... a basket of eatables sent from home', 'Bees-waxers, thick soled half boots worn at football', 'Rabbited, a blow on the back of the head...'). Provenance: George Parker Heathcote (1828-1871), bookplate. Parker attended Winchester College from 1842, later attaining the rank of Captain in the 52nd Light Infantry; Gilbert V. Heathcote, inscribed 'Feb 20 1871. In memoriam G.P.H.[eathcote]' on the front free endpaper, and 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
CHARLES IILetter signed and subscribed ('Bonus frater consanguineus et amicus/ Carolus R'), to his nephew Charles II of Spain, recalling the British ambassador in Madrid, Sir William Godolphin ('...which legateship it has seemed good to us to terminate and recall his person to ourselves...'), and assuring him that he will be replaced with another suitable ambassador straightaway ('...may the said minister fulfil the function of our legate and do with trustworthiness and industry all such things as have been able especially to conduct to the establishing of greater firmness and permanence of the friendship between us...'), 1 page, in Latin, with integral address leaf, remains of paper seal, light dust-staining, some small repaired tears, address leaf trimmed at lower edge, folio (340 x 220mm.), Whitehall, 16 November 1678Footnotes:'THE ESTABLISHING OF GREATER FIRMNESS AND PERMANENCE OF THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN US': CHARLES II RECALLS HIS CONTROVERSIAL AMBASSADOR FROM THE SPANISH COURT.A successful and trusted career diplomat, described by Samuel Pepys as 'a very pretty and able person, a man of very fine parts and of infinite zeal' (Timothy Venning, ODNB), Sir William Godolphin had been appointed ambassador to Spain in 1671 but soon became the subject of suspicion back in England for his alleged Catholic sympathies. Although he officially denied it, he had converted to Catholicism after a serious illness soon after his arrival in Spain and openly employed Catholics in his household. The situation came to a head in September 1678 when Titus Oates accused Godolphin of being a popish agent and Charles II was forced by the Commons to send this order to recall him to face charges. Godolphin, however, sensibly refused to return to England at a time when thirty-five other persons accused by Oates of conspiracy were executed, and remained in Madrid until his death in 1696.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
COLLINS (WILKIE)Autograph letter signed ('Wilkie Collins') to Mark Lemon, editor of Punch, marked 'Private', recommending he consider the work of Maurice Drummond, '...who is anxious to try his hand as an occasional contributor... five minutes will tell you, whether he possesses the special capacities required for your work – and two minutes at your desk will tell me whether this answer is yes or no...' 4 pages, some creasing and light dust-staining, 8vo (207 x 132mm.), 90 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, 1 April 1870; with another letter to Sir Henry Thompson, dated 23 March 1880 accepting an invitation (2)Footnotes:'FIVE MINUTES WILL TELL YOU, WHETHER HE POSSESSES THE SPECIAL CAPACITIES REQUIRED FOR YOUR WORK'Maurice Drummond held the post of Receiver of the Police from 1860 to 1883, a part-time position which left him with plenty of leisure time for other pursuits such as journalism. With his wife, the daughter of Lord Ribblesdale, he moved in Hampstead literary circles where, according to Lady St. Helier's memoirs, he was great friends with Frederick Greenwood, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette and the Du Mauriers: 'Their dinners were always small only six to eight people but they lasted well on into the night... Maurice Drummond was a curious, interesting wild looking person, very able and original...' (Memories of Fifty Years, 1909, p.160). Drummond wrote extensively for the Pall Mall Gazette but it is not known if Wilkie Collins' recommendation was taken up by Mark Lemon, who died a few weeks after this letter was written. Both letters come from the collection of George Buckston Browne, assistant to the physician Sir Henry Thompson. A transcript of the first, possibly in the hand of Buckston Browne, is held in the University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library (MS P557:A8). It is numbered [0963] in the Collected Letters, where a footnote adds that Browne was a near neighbour of Wilkie Collins for just over a year before his death and that a letter from Browne to Clyde K. Hyder at Kansas, dated 17 October 1935, states that he borrowed Wilkie Collins's letter to Lemon from an unidentified friend (which could be Sir Henry Thompson) in order to copy it for Hyder (see Baker, W., Gasson, A., Law, G., Lewis, P., The Collected Letters of Wilkie Collins, 2018).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
COOKERYManuscript recipe book of Richard Scarborough, brown ink on paper, 23 pages including recipes for 'Ginger Wine', 'Brandy Toast', and 'Lemon Cheesecakes', some leaves excised, LEATHER BOOK-LABEL OF RAYMOND OLIVER, contemporary vellum, inscribed 'Scarborough's Book' and 'Prescriptions 1783. London. Ricd. Scarborh.' on upper cover, preserved in solander box, 4to (188 x 153mm.), 1783--[GLASSE (HANNAH) The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy... One Hundred and Fifty New and Usefil Receipts, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners worn [Vicaire 414], A. Millar, 1767--FARLEY (JOHN) The London Art of Cookery, ninth edition, engraved frontispiece and 12 plates, some light foxing and dampstaining, manuscript recipe for Quince Brandy on reverse of frontispiece, bookplate of Antoine Tavera, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, corners worn, James Scatcherd etc., 1800, 8vo (3)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DICKENS (CATHERINE)MAYALL (JOHN JABEZ EDWIN) Profile portrait of Catherine Dickens, quarter-plate daguerreotype, hint of pink colouring to face, mounted as oval within gilt mount, photographer's studio credit stamp '224 Regent St/(Argyll Place)/Mayall/&/433 West Strand' in gilt on the reverse of the morocco case, image 93 x 70mm., July 1852-June 1855Footnotes:THE ONLY KNOWN DAGUERREOTYPE OF CATHERINE DICKENS.The portrait can be dated between 1852 and 1855: a patent date 'Reg. July 20 1852' is visible on the catch of the case - the same year that Mayall opened his 224 Regent Street premises. At the latest, the sitting could have taken place in the first half of 1855, as in June of that year Mayall sold his 433 West Strand studio to his assistant Jabez Hughes. Charles Dickens first sat for the photographer in 1852, but seems to have made several subsequent sittings until 1856 (see previous lot). With similar mountings and styles, and with their faces shown in opposing profiles, it is conceivable that this and the previous lot were intended as a pair and that the couple visited Mayall's studio together during this period.Catherine is shown approaching her fortieth year and at a time when her life with Charles Dickens was unravelling. Exhausted by many years of childbearing, by the death of her 8-month-old daughter Dora in 1851, and by marriage to an increasingly restless husband who had begun to look elsewhere for female company, she appears a sadder figure than the images we have of her earlier in life. She nonetheless retains a token of her youth in the ringletted hair just visible beneath her bonnet.When this daguerreotype came to light in 1996, the case held two ivory passes for the 1870 Italian Opera. One was inscribed 'Miss Dickens', suggesting that the daguerreotype might once have belonged to the couple's eldest daughter Mary, known as Mamie.Literature:Axon, C., 'The Daguerreotype of Catherine Dickens', in The Dickensian, Summer 1997, no. 442, vol. 93, part 2, pp.89-93.Slater, M., 'Catherine Dickens in the Early 1850s: A Newly-discovered image', ibid., pp.85-88.Provenance: Possibly owned by Mary 'Mamie' Dickens (1838-1896); Stuart Heggie Vintage Cameras, Canterbury, purchased from a customer in 1996; Colin Axon, purchased from the former; Bonhams, 17 May 2012, lot 1, consigned by the former; UK private collector, purchased at the sale; bequeathed to present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
MORE (THOMAS)A Frutefull Pleasaunt, & Wittie Worke, of the Beste State of a Publique Weale, and of the Newe Yle, called Utopia... translated into Englishe by Raphe Robynson, second edition in English, undetermined state, black letter, ornamental initials, occasional light soiling and light dampstaining but mostly clean and fresh, lacks the final 5 unnumbered leaves with colophon, contemporary blind-panelled calf, restored with some cracks, wear to lower cover and loss to spine [ESTC S112887 or S103392; Pforzheimer 740], small 8vo (140 x 95mm.), [Richard Tottel for] Abraham Vele, dwellinge in Pauls churchyarde, at the signe of the Lambe, [1556]Footnotes:THE SECOND ENGLISH EDITION OF MORE'S VISIONARY MASTERPIECE, IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Utopia, described in Printing and the Mind of Man as a 'tract for the times', was written in Latin for the benefit of the literati and first published in Louvain in 1516. However, it wasn't until 1551, sixteen years after More's execution, that it was first published in England by Abraham Vele, in a translation by Ralph Robinson. This second edition followed five years later, in the year of Cranmer's execution, and was the one William Morris used for the Kelmscott Press printing. Although the present copy lacks the last five unnumbered leaves (containing dedications and a supplementary verse), it is extremely rare in a contemporary binding, the only other example listed in auction records being a copy bound in vellum which was sold at Bonhams New York on 22 September 2015 ($38,000).The contemporary binder's waste used in this copy provide a tantalising glimpse into the world of the London printing and binding trade. They comprise fragments of an early manuscript on vellum, along with two printed pages (used as front flyleaves and rear pastedown) which appear to be trial or rejected sheets from Girolamo Ruscelli's The Secretes of the Reverende Maister Alexis of Piemount Containyng Excellent Remedies against Divers Diseases, Woundes, and other Accidents (specifically leaves B3 & 4 in the 'First booke of Secretes'), printed 'by John Kingstone for Nicolas Inglande, dwellinge in Poules churchyarde, 1558'. One can only speculate how the sheets may have found their way from one St Paul's printer to the other's shop, or to the binder.Provenance: Private collection, UK.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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[NERI (MARY ANNE)]The Eve of San-Pietro. A Tale, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, without advertisement at end of volume 3, no half-titles, light spotting, blank endpapers loose in volume 1, and one endpaper loose in volume 2, contemporary half calf, red and black morocco gilt spine labels, rubbed, loss to one headband, 8vo, T. Cadell Jun., and W. Davies, 1804Footnotes:First edition of a scarce Gothic novel, the author's 'first production. Unsanctioned in a Name, unsupported by a Dedication, she 'lets it down the Wind, to prey at Fortune'' (Advertisement to the Reader). Provenance: Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne (1751-1818), ownership inscription ('Eliz. Melbourne') on each title-page. Elizabeth was mother of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister on two occasions; Brocket Hall Library bookplate, country seat of the Melbourne family; Lord W. Kerr, bookplate. Kerr inherited Brocket Hall in 1906, selling the estate in 1923; Paul Harris, blindstamp on front free endpapers in each volume, bookplate and inscription on fly-leaf in volume one.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
PLOT (ROBERT)The Natural History of Stafford-Shire, FIRST EDITION, title with engraved vignette, 37 engraved plates (25 double-page), one large folding hand-coloured engraved map (detached and framed), list of subscribers, light arc of dampstaining to several plates and some text towards end, contemporary calf, rebacked [ESTC R21986], folio (355 x 230mm.), Oxford, at the Theatre, 1686 (2)Footnotes:Provenance: Charles Bruce, third Earl of Ailesbury (1682-1747), bookplate on verso of title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
RORKE'S DRIFT - JOHN CHARD'S MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT'Rorke's Drift. 22-23 Jany. 1879', Chard's autograph draft of the account of Rorke's Drift which he wrote and presented to Queen Victoria, WITH EXTENSIVE ANNOTATIONS, ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS, 40 pages, mostly written in brown ink with the corrections and annotations (in the text and margins) in blue and brown ink, one ink sketch of a mountain range (besides a description of a scene viewed through field glasses, '... and could see the enemy moving in the distant hills & apparently in large force - Large numbers of them moving to my left until Lion Hill of Isandlwana...'), and a similar pencil sketch on final page, the sheets (all bifolia) loose in contemporary paper wrappers, titled in red and black ink on upper cover (light soiling, 2 tears in blank area of upper cover), the first 16 pages 8vo, the remainder folio, [c.1879-1880]; together with a manuscript sketch by Chard of Rorke's Drift, on tracing paper, black ink with foliage and trees in green, major sites (numbered 1-15) identified in red ink, with key beneath image, frayed with short tears at edges, 210 x 320mm., [c.1879-1880] (2)Footnotes:'AS DARKNESS CAME ON WE WERE COMPLETELY SURROUNDED...' - JOHN CHARD'S 40-PAGE EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF RORKE'S DRIFT ON 22 JANUARY 1879. An extensively annotated and corrected full draft of the account that Chard presented to Queen Victoria, together with an accompanying sketch of the battlefield. John Chard (1847-1897) was sent to serve in the Anglo-Zulu War with the 5th company, Royal Engineers, arriving at Durban on 4 January 1879. The company moved to Rorke's Drift, a post consisting of a kraal, a commissariat store, and a small hospital building close to a crossing on the Buffalo River. On the afternoon of 22 January, the very day on which Chard was left in charge of the station, whilst his superiors left to hurry forward a company of the 24th regiment, news arrived of the massacre of British troops at Isandlwana the day before. In consultation with Lieutenant G. Bromhead and other officers, Chard 'counselled against retreat in favour of defence... and defensive positions were prepared. The store and hospital buildings were loopholed and barricaded, and connected by walls constructed with mealie bags and a couple of wagons' (ODNB), the garrison consisting of eight officers and 131 non-commissioned officers and men (of whom thirty-five were sick in the hospital). Attacked by a force of some 3000 Zulus, the garrison survived a dramatic night, the unfolding events vividly recounted in Chard's manuscript account. By the time of the enemy retreat, more than 370 Zulus were dead, and the British force had lost fifteen men with twelve wounded. Immediately recognised as an event of enormous personal bravery and political importance for the British Empire's standing (coming so soon after the heavy losses at Isandlwana), the action resulted in the presentation of a record eleven Victoria Cross medals. Chard, forever afterwards known as one of 'The Heroes of Rorke's Drift' (along with Bromhead), was presented with his medal by Sir Garnet Wolseley on 16 July. Immortalised in the film Zulu, starring Stanley Baker as Chard and Michael Caine as Lieutenant Bromhead, Rorke's Drift has remained one of the most famous single battles in the course of British military history.Arriving back in England on 2 October Chard, already the recipient of the Order of the Victoria Cross, was met with a summons to visit the Queen at Balmoral Castle on 13 October. She was enormously impressed with Chard the man (she sent a laurel wreath to his funeral in 1897), and his description of the events in which he played such a crucial role, so much so that she requested that he put down on paper his account of the battle. This Chard did, signing and dating the neatly written-up final version in January 1880. This was presented to her on Chard's behalf by Captain Fleetwood Isham Edwards, the Queen's Groom-in-Waiting, at Windsor Castle on 21 February 1880. In an accompanying note Edwards described the account as 'a simple soldier like account of very gallant deeds, & a thrilling record of a terrible night's work', continuing 'Major Chard much regrets the unavoidable delay which has occurred in its preparation, but, as perhaps your Majesty may remember, he lost most of his notes'.Provenance: John Chard V.C, R.E.; by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SWORD OF HONOUR - JOHN CHARD V.C. R.E.The cased silver-mounted Sword of Honour, presented to John Chard V.C., R.E., by the inhabitants of the Town of Plymouth, retailed by Messrs. Hunt and Roskell, Jewellers and Goldsmiths to the Queen, 156 New Bond St., London, No.96533, London, with their silver hallmarks, with slightly curved fullered blade (old light rust patination) with point of flattened diamond section, one side etched with the presentation inscription ('...in recognition of his gallant defence of Rorke's Drift on January 22nd 1879. November 879') between the crest and motto of the recipient and that of the Town of Plymouth, the latter below Union foliage framed by strapwork, and the other side with a representation of a lion (representing Empire) emerging from foliage, with the inscription 'Strong to Defend the Right - Swift to Avenge the Wrong' in gothic script against a ground of stars, and towards the tip with strapwork framing the badge, crest and motto of the Royal Engineers, the ricasso etched with retailer's details in full on one side, and with a proof stamp centred on an etched star on the other, silver gilt hilt comprising guard pierced and engraved with Union foliage and retaining the original bullion sword-knot, back-piece cast with laurel pommel with a border of beadwork, scrolled quillion, and fluted, wire-bound fishskin-covered grip, and retaining much of original gilding, housed in original wood-lined silver scabbard, ornamented with panels in repoussé representing the mission-house at Rorke's Drift; shields bearing the arms of Plymouth and England; 'Vulcan forging the armour of Achilles' (referring to the generally defensive character of the operations of the Royal Engineers); a trophy of broken Zulu weapons; allegory of a lion and elephant ('symbolising the triumph of British arms in Africa' as noted by the I.L.N. see below), and on the other side panels representing the order of the Victoria Cross; shield with arms of Major Chard and the Royal Engineers; Britannia; trophy of Engineer's tools crowned with laurel by fame; St. George vanquishing the dragon, the shaped shoe hallmarked and stamped 'Hunt & Roskell 7835' one one side, the lower suspension mount inscribed 'Ulundi', and with the two suspension rings, held in original two-tiered oak case lined in burgundy silk and velvet, the upper tier for the sword and presentation scabbard, the lower tier for the brass-mounted brown leather belt and suspension straps and brass service scabbard, the former with gilt thread borders and gilt buckles applied with silver cast and pierced regimental badge, the interior of the lid in padded cream silk with crowned gilt retailer's details, the exterior with brass plaque engraved 'J.R.M. Chard V.C. R.E.' on the lid, presented 18 November, 1879Footnotes:PRESENTATION SWORD OF HONOUR GIFTED BY THE PEOPLE OF PLYMOUTH TO JOHN CHARD V.C., THE HERO OF RORKE'S DRIFT, inscribed 'by the Inhabitants of the Town of Plymouth & Its Vicinity in Recognition of His Gallant Defence of Rorke's Drift on January 22nd 1879. November 1879'. A sum of £300 was raised by public subscription for the sword (retailed by Hunt & Roskell, the Queen's goldsmiths), and it was elaborately tooled with decorations relating to Chard's exploits at Rorke's Drift and his connections with the Royal Engineers and the city of Plymouth. Chard was born in 1847 at Boxhill, near Plymouth. His early education took place at Plymouth New Grammar School (a fellow student recalling Chard, in Life, 11 October 1879, as 'a quiet boy, not much-over given to games, and with the peculiarity of wearing the largest hat in the school'). On his arrival in the city on 18 November 1879, just over a month after his return from the Anglo-Zulu conflict, Chard was greeted at the Guildhall by the largest gathering in the city 'since the Prince of Wales opened the municipal buildings... thousands of persons of all grades... a more striking scene would be hard to produce in Plymouth' (The Western Morning News, 18 November). In his dedicatory address, the Mayor told Chard that his actions at Rorke's Drift had instilled in the 'men of Devonshire... something of the old pride which filled the hearts of their forefathers in the days of Drake and Raleigh'. In his acceptance speech Chard thanked the crowd for their welcome back to his birthplace 'to which I am attached by the associations of my whole life' before speaking of his role at Rorke's Drift, with particular emphasis on the Zulus, 'an enemy that it was some credit to us to defeat; they shewed courage that could not be excelled by anybody, and their military organisation and their discipline might have given a lesson to more civilized nations'. The sword was described and illustrated in The Illustrated London News, 22 November 1879.Provenance: John Chard V.C., R.E.; by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
AN OMEGA GENEVE DYNAMIQUE GENTLEMAN'S STAINLESS STEEL AUTOMATIC WRISTWATCH with blue dial, silver illuminous baton numerals, date aperture and light blue second hand, on a blue leather strap, with original Omega watch box and outer box and Omega International Guarantee booklet, circa 1970's, no. 28709291, case diameter 35mm
A Superb Quality 18ct White Gold - Attractive Opal and Diamond Set Dress Ring. Marked 18ct Gold. The Central Oval Shaped Opal ( Lightening Ridge Australia ) of Excellent Multi Colours - Please See Photo. Cal - Opal Weight 3.79 cts. Marked to Interior of Shank, Surrounded by 2.00 cts of Top Graded Round Brilliant Cut Diamonds. Cal Weight 2.00 cts. Marked to Interior of Shank. Ring Size N. Shank Hallmarked for London 2007. All Aspects of Condition As New - Includes Shank / Setting. Footnote - The Opal Has Bursts of Fiery Orange Colour, To Underbelly Which Shows up When Caught By the Light.
Two Boxes of Porcelain, Pottery & Collectibles comprising a Portmerion Kellogs Lidded Sugar Bowl, with two Kellogs mugs and a Kellogs Frosties storage tin; a pottery hen and cock; sugar and tea canisters in white decorated with hens; a brass candlestick; a bag of Christmas ceramic figures; a 'Home Sweet Home' light up mirror plaque; various plates; two champagne flutes; clock; two ceramic hens; ceramic pigs; novelty tea pot, sugar and milk jug; Tetley novelty tea canister; and many other items.
Sleeping Beauty Turquoise and White Zircon Ring, an oval cut cabochon of over 2cts of the bright, matrix free, turquoise from the Sleeping Beauty mine in Arizona which closed for the mining of this much admired stone earlier this century; to either side of the turquoise are three rows of three round cut natural white zircons, totalling 0.5ct, adding elegance and light in support of the main stone; size S
Robert Roskell and John Mortimer Hunt - Prestigious and Important Pair of Large and Impressive Sterling Silver 5 Light Candelabra,. Hallmark for London 1877, Partly Lobed Circular Bases, Octagonal Stems with Gadrooned Shoulders and Knops, The Detachable Tops with Central Light and Four Faceted Scroll Branches, Banded Campana Form Sconces. Bases Engraved with Crest Under a Coronet and Military Inscriptions, Makers Mark for Roskell and Hunt - Footnote ( Late Storr and Mortimer ) Silver Weight 214 ozs. Heights 23.5 Inches - 51 cms. Wonderful Condition and Quality - Please Confirm with Photo.
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