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Lot 94
BAKER, Richard (c.1568-1645). A Chronicle of the Kings of England, London, 1674, folio, engraved title, lacking index leaves at the end, later half morocco. With 5 other works in 6 vols. The lot sold not subject to return. (7)BAKER, Richard (c.1568-1645). A Chronicle of the Kings of England. From the time of the Roman Government, unto the Death of King James ... Whereunto is Added, the Reign of king Charles the First, and The first Thirteen years of his Sacred Majesty, King Charles the Second ... All which Additions are revised in this Sixth Impression, and freed from many Errors and Mistakes of the former Editions. London: "Printed for George Sawbridge ... and Thomas Williams," 1674. Folio (347 x 228mm). Additional elaborate engraved architectural and figural title, initials, text printed in double column (variable browning, spotting and staining, a few darker spots, some wormtracks to index with slight loss, lacking index leaf or leaves after Mmmmm4 at the end). 19th-century half morocco gilt by E. Riley, later endpapers (rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: John Trevenen, 1796 (signature at head of engraved title); Sydney Hastings (armorial bookplate, and signature dated 1866 on front free endpaper). With 5 other works in 6 vols., namely [John Stow & Edmund Howe's The Annales, or a General Chronicle of England] (London, [colophon:] "Printed by A. M. for Richard Meighen," 1632, folio, black letter, text printed in double column, lacks all before dedication including title, several leaves torn with loss at the end, contemporary calf, worn, with an early mention of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE at the foot of p.811/head of p.812 (affected by fraying, illustrated), included in the paragraph opening, "Our moderne, and present excellent Poets which worthily flourish in their owne workes, and all of them in my owne knowledge lived together in the Queene's raigne [i.e. Elizabeth I] ..."), [John Woodall's The Surgeon's Mate or Military and Domestique Surgery] (London, 1639, lacking all before A3 including title and leaves at the end, a few plates, disbound, defective), Venn and his Mermydons: or, the Linen=Draper Capotted: being a Serious and Seasonable Advice to the Citizens of London, Occasioned by the Indirect Practices used in the late Election of Sheriffs. Written by a Citizen of London (London, 1679, 12-page pamphlet, later boards), John Adams' Index Villaris: or, an Exact Register, Alphabetically Digested, of all the Cities, Market-Towns, Parishes, Villages, the Hundred, Lath, Rape, Ward, Wapentake, or Other Division of each County (London, 1690, folio, lacks plate and map, contemporary calf, rubbed) and The Book of Common Prayer (Oxford, "Printed by the University-Printers", 1712, 2 vols., 4to, contemporary calf, "pulpit copy" with numerous vellum page-tabs). The lot sold not subject to return. (7)
Lot 91
ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834, publisher). The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, London, 1812, 2 vols., folio, portrait, plan, 82 hand-coloured aquatint plates, contemporary morocco (rubbed). FIRST EDITION. With another book. (3)ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834, publisher) & William COMBE (1742-1823). The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, its Antiquities and Monuments. London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1812. 2 volumes, folio (345 x 285mm). Half titles, engraved portrait of William Vincent, Dean of Westminster, engraved plan, 82 aquatint plates by J. Bluck, T. Sutherland and others after F. Mackenzie, A. Pugin and others, all hand-coloured except one (portrait spotted and creased, title in vol. one browned, some light spotting, staining and browning to 'Introduction', plate 28 detached, with the margins trimmed, not affecting image, some light manly marginal spotting and staining but plates generally clean, plates offset onto text). Contemporary half brown morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers (extremities heavily rubbed and scuffed, spines faded). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023); Ferdinand M. [?]McVeagh (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Scenery 213, 214; not in Brunet; Hardie English Coloured Books pp.103-4 (calling for 80 aquatint plates only); Lowndes 2880; Tooley 2; Upcott II, 859-68. With a fragment of Rudolph Ackermann's The History of St Paul's School (London, 1816, folio, 2 hand-coloured aquatint plates (only), modern marbled boards). (3)
Lot 190
STANFORD, Edward (1827-1904, publisher) - The Family Atlas ... including the Geological Map of England and Wales, by Sir I. Murchison, London, 1865, folio, 80 hand-coloured engraved maps, half morocco (worn). With a folding map of London (c.1854). (2).STANFORD, Edward (1827-1904, publisher) - The Family Atlas Containing Eighty maps, Constructed by Eminent Geographers, and Engraved on Steel, under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, including the Geological Map of England and Wales, by Sir I. Murchison, F.R.S., the Star Maps by Sir John Lubbock, Bart. and the Plans of London and Paris, with the New Discoveries and Other Improvements to the Latest Date. London: Edward Stanford, 1865. Square folio (454 x 385mm). 80 hand-coloured engraved maps including 6 star charts and plans of London and Paris (one map and one star chart torn without loss, some light spotting and staining). Contemporary black half morocco (worn and stained). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023); J. M Gillespie (old signature on title). With Davies' Map of the British Metropolis with Extension to the Crystal Palace [title from wallet] (London, Edward Stanford, [1854 or later], large hand-coloured engraved map in sections mounted on linen, folding into original cloth wallet). (2)
Lot 28
FORSTER, E. M. (1879-1970). The Celestial Omnibus and other Stories, London, 1911, square 8vo, original decorated cloth and endpapers designed by Roger Fry. With 14 other works in 15 vols. (16)FORSTER, E. M. (1879-1970). The Celestial Omnibus and other Stories. London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., 1911. Square 8vo (184 x 135mm). Half title, printer's woodcut ornament, 3-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end (some faint browning at gutters). Original grey decorated cloth gilt and grey pictorial endpapers designed by Roger Fry (corners lightly rubbed). The book was issued without a dust-jacket. Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of the author's first collection of short stories. Other copies are recorded with 4-pages of advertisements at the front, rather than with 3-pages at the end, as here. Bleiler Supernatural Fiction p.75; Kirkpatrick A5a. With 14 other works in 15 volumes, namely Charles J. Darling's Scintillae Juris ... With Frontispiece and Colophon by Frank Lockwood ... Fourth Edition (Enlarged) (London, 1889, 8vo, original parchment wrappers printed in red and black, NUMBER 72 OF 75 "LARGE PAPER" COPIES), George Meredith's Jump to Glory Jane ... Edited and Arranged by Harry Quilter (London, 1892, 8vo, plates and illustrations by Lawrence Housman, one plate detached, original pictorial paper boards by Housman, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 1,000 COPIES), Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The Poems ... With Illustrations from his own Pictures and Designs. Edited with an Introduction and notes by W. M. Rossetti (London, Ellis & Elvey, 1904, 2 vols., 4to, plates by Rossetti, original parchment-backed buckram boards gilt), Edgar Saltus's Vanity Square. A Story of Fifth Avenue Life (Philadelphia, 1906, 8vo, original yellow pictorial cloth, FIRST EDITION, inscribed, "Anthony from Mummie, Feb. 1923", old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden), Aldous Huxley's The Defeat of Youth & Other Poems (Oxford, Blackwell, 1918, 8vo, original green decorated wrappers, FIRST EDITION of the author's third book), Ronald Firbank's Santal (London, Grant Richards Ltd., 1921, original mauve wrappers with blue crescent, FIRST EDITION), Le Diable Amoureux, Nouvelle Espagnole (Paris, chez Camille Bloch, 1921, 8vo, etched plates by J.-E. Laboureur, original wrappers with printed label on upper wrapper, NUMBER 321 OF 575 COPIES), Francis Bacon's Essayes. Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion & Disswasion (London, 1924, "The Haslewood Books", 8vo, initials and ornaments, original parchment boards, dust-jacket, NUMBER 253 OF 975 COPIES, book label of Clarissa Churchill printed in red, not found anywhere else in this collection [illustrated]), John Clare's Madrigals & Chronicles Being newly found Poems ... Edited with a Preface and Commentary by Edmund Blunden (London, The Beaumont Press, 1924, 8vo, illustrations by Randolphe Schwabe, original buckram-backed decorated paper boards, NUMBER 377 OF 398 COPIES, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden), D. H. Lawrence's Glad Ghosts (London, 1926, 8vo, original wrappers, "second impression"), Dylan Thomas's Twenty-Five Poems (London, 1936, 8vo, original boards, without the jacket, reprint, SIGNED "Clarissa Churchill, 1938"), Guillaume Apollinaire's Choix de Poésies. Introduction by C. M. Bowra (London, Horizon, 1945, 8vo, frontispiece portrait of Apollinaire by Picasso, original cloth), Jacques Prévert's Histoires. 30 Poèmes de Jacques Prévert. 30 Poèmes d' André Verdet. 31 Dessins de Mayo (Paris, 1946, 8vo, illustrations, original pictorial wrappers, ONE OF 450 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed, "pour Clarissa Churchill, Jacques Prévert" with a small drawing of a flower around the 'o' of "Histoire") and Guillaume Apollinaire's Ombre de Mon Amour (Geneva, 1947, 8vo, plates by Juan Gris, original pictorial wrappers, inscribed [to Anthony Eden], "With my love, C[larissa], Paris, May, 1964"). (16)
Lot 10
BYRON, Lord (1788-1824). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, London, 1812, Cantos I-II in one vol., 4to, facsimile letter, FINELY BOUND in contemporary red morocco, FIRST EDITION. With Cantos III & IV (1816-18, 2 vols., FIRST EDITIONS) in wrappers and boards. (3)BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord (1788-1824). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. A Romaunt [and] Poems. London: "Printed for John Murray ... William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin," [March] 1812. Cantos I - II and Poems bound in one volume, 4to (270 x 208mm). 4-lines of errata on verso of "Contents" leaf, engraved facsimile of a Romaic letter at the end ([?]lacks half title and advertisements, first few leaves and a few others very lightly browned, occasional mainly marginal light spotting and staining, a few darker spots, linear stain to L1, more staining to facsimile letter). FINELY BOUND in contemporary red panelled morocco elaborately decorated in gilt and blind, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, some scuffing). Provenance: George Chetwynd (armorial bookplate); "Sotheby's April 22 1837" (old pencil inscription on front free endpaper); Grendon Hall, 1850 (small blindstamp to title). FIRST EDITION, with "vengeance forego" on p.97, line 11. "Murray had printed the usual 500 copies [of the first edition], at the time considered adequate for any book of verse. The edition was sold within three days ... [I]t was the very 'romanticism' of Childe Harold that established Byron and Byronism as a temporarily national and centennially international force in the western mind. What the whole of the nineteenth century admired most was the fascinating blend of aristocratic arrogance and revolutionary enthusiasm, sexual licentiousness and purity of love, glowing passion and deep melancholy, bitter irony and lachrymose sentimentality, exquisite dandyism and high personal courage. All these traits, and many more beside them, the public found in the mixture of realistic confession and stylized saga with which Byron expressed as well as veiled himself in the guise of Childe Harold ... The Byronic combination of oriental enchantment and nature worship, pessimism and pantheism, stamped itself upon European civilization" (PMM). "The Poem enjoyed tremendous success. After the publication of Cantos I and II in March 1812 Byron wrote, 'I woke one morning and found myself famous'" (The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. M. Drabble, 1985). Grolier English 68; PMM 270; Randolph pp.19-20; Wise Byron I, p.50. With the same author's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Third (London, John Murray, 1816, large 8vo, 4-pages of publisher's advertisements dated December 1816 at the end, original or contemporary wrappers, FIRST EDITION, the issue with the exclamation mark at the end of the first line on p.4) and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth (London, John Murray, 1818, large 8vo, contemporary paper boards, spine very defective but retaining part of the lettering-piece, FIRST EDITION, second issue). (3)
Lot 170
PETRUS DE NATALIBUS (1370-1400). Catalogus sanctorum, Venice, 1516, small 4to, woodcut illustrations and initials (staining, spotting and light browning), contemporary panelled calf elaborately decorated in blind.PETRUS DE NATALIBUS (1370-1400). Catalogus sanctoru[m et] gestorum eorum. [Colophon:] Venice: Nicolaus de Franckfordia, 1516. Small 4to (214 x 152mm). Full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion surrounded by 14 smaller narrative scenes, the opposite page with 9 woodcut scenes and woodcut foliate borders to two sides, numerous initials, many historiated, the text printed in double column (lacks all before title and with 2 stubs [?for initial blanks], a few leaves loose, variable staining, spotting and light browning throughout). Contemporary panelled calf elaborately decorated in blind (rebacked preserving old spine, a few other repairs, rubbed). Provenance: Petrus Franciscus Passerini (old label on front pastedown); later library label and later pencil collation on the same pastedown; contemporary annotation mainly to first few leaves and, more extensively, at the end. A history of the lives of the Saints, first published in Vicenza in 1493. Adams N47; cf. Brunet III, 496 (citing the first edition); Essling 1511; Sander 4941.
![MILTON, John (1608-74). Paradise Lost ... The Eighth Edition [Third vol:] Paradise Regained [etc], London, 1775-77, 3 volumes](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/9f62f50f-e3e9-488b-bedd-b02f00c8e0e3/78d90f9d-7101-436e-a4d7-b03000b1b34b/468x382.jpg)
Lot 50
MILTON, John (1608-74). Paradise Lost ... The Eighth Edition [Third vol:] Paradise Regained [etc], London, 1775-77, 3 volumes, 4to, 20 engraved plates, contemporary calf (rebacked). (3)MILTON, John (1608-74). Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books ... The Eighth Edition, With Notes of Various Authors, By Thomas Newton [Third volume:] Paradise Regain'd. A Poem in Four Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes: and Poems upon Several Occasions ... A New Edition, With Notes of Various Authors, By Thomas Newton. London: Printed for J Beecroft, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington (and others), 1775-77. 3 volumes, 4to (291 x 222mm). 3 engraved portraits of the author and 17 engraved plates by G. Vertue, S. F. Ravenet, C. Grignion and J. S. Miller after F. Hayman and I. Richardson (plates offset onto text, occasional light spotting and staining, a few leaves more heavily browned and spotted in vol. III). Contemporary marbled calf (rebacked by A. & M. Winstanley's, Salisbury, in 1968, preserving old lettering-pieces and bookplates, new endpapers). Provenance: William Charles Henry (armorial bookplate). Brunet III, 396. (3)
Lot 35
HOGARTH PRESS - John MAYNARD KEYNES (1883-1946). The End of Laissez-Faire, London, Hogarth Press, 1926, 8vo, original cloth-backed paper boards. FIRST EDITION. With 3 other books from the same press. (4)HOGARTH PRESS - John MAYNARD KEYNES (1883-1946). The End of Laissez-Faire. London: "Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press," 1926. 8vo (185 x 120mm). Half title, woodcut printer's device on title. Original cloth-backed paper boards, printed spine label (boards lightly stained, without the dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION. Woolmer Hogarth Press 97. With 3 other books from the same press, namely E. M. Forster's Pharos and Pharillon (Richmond [London], The Hogarth Press, 1923, 8vo, original blue cloth-backed decorated paper boards, spine label, FIRST EDITION, Woolmer 29), Clive Bell's The Legend of Monte Della Sibilla (Richmond, The Hogarth Press, 1923, 4to, illustrated by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, original pictorial paper boards by Vanessa Bell (without the dust-jacket), FIRST EDITION, Woolmer 27) and [Dorothy Bussy's] Olivia by Olivia (London [Tavistock Square], The Hogarth Press, November 1949, 8vo, original mauve cloth gilt, fifth impression, with a printed dedication "To the Beloved Memory of V. W."). Provenance: Anthony Eden (modern armorial bookplates loosely-inserted in each book). (4)
Lot 180
Report upon United States Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian, in Charge of Capt. Geo. M. Wheeler. Washington, [1875-]-89. Volumes I-V only ([?]of 7), 4to, plates and maps, contemporary half morocco (worn). With another. (6)Report upon United States Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian, in Charge of Capt. Geo. M. Wheeler. Washington: Government Printing Office, [1875-]-89. Volumes I - V only ([?]of 7, and not including atlases), 4to (290 x 232mm). Comprising: Vol. I. - Geographical Report (1889, 24 lithographed plates, some tinted, including fine views, together with a number of maps, some folding, errata slip); Vol. II. - Astronomy and Barometric Hypsometry (1877, 22 plates, some folding, tables); Vol. III. - Geology (1875, 13 plates); Vol. IV. - Paleontology (1877, 83 plates); Vol. V. - Zoology (1875, 45 plates including 15 fine coloured plates of birds). (Some mainly marginal staining.) Contemporary half morocco gilt (worn, covers detached from vol. I, some quite severe dampstaining). With a supplementary "Geology" volume. Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023); "Ministry of Defence, Whitehall. Withdrawn" (stamps); "A Contribution from the Engineer Department, U. S. Army" (bookplate in vol. one). Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (6)
![BINDINGS - Robert Smith SURTEES (1805-64). [Selected Works], London, 1888 [or c.1888], 7 volumes, 8vo, 102 hand-coloured vig](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/9f62f50f-e3e9-488b-bedd-b02f00c8e0e3/be1b7bb3-37d0-45df-a542-b03000b6b369/468x382.jpg)
Lot 99
BINDINGS - Robert Smith SURTEES (1805-64). [Selected Works], London, 1888 [or c.1888], 7 volumes, 8vo, 102 hand-coloured vignettes and plates, FINELY BOUND in red half morocco gilt by Mudie. (7)BINDINGS - Robert Smith SURTEES (1805-64). [Selected Works]. London: John C. Nimmo [and others], 1888 [or c.1888]. 7 volumes, 8vo (218 x 140mm). Half titles, 5 hand-coloured vignettes and 97 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates by John Leech, Henry Alken, Hablot K. Browne and others (occasional mainly marginal very light spotting and staining). FINELY BOUND in contemporary red half morocco by Mudie, spines elaborately gilt in compartments, marbled edges and endpapers. "His eight long novels deal mainly with the characteristic aspects of English fox-hunting society, but his vivid caricatures, the absurd scenes he describes, the convincing dialect and often repeated catch-phrases, and perceptive social observation distinguish him from other writers of this genre and won him praise from Thackeray and others; the illustration of his novels by Leech, Alken, and Phiz [i.e. Hablot K. Browne] also contributed to their success" (The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. M. Drabble, 1985). A FINE SET OF SURTEES' "JORROCKS" NOVELS. (7)
Lot 119
EGAN, Pierce (1772-1849). Life in London, London, 1821, large 8vo, 36 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 3 folding leaves of music (some staining and spotting), FINELY BOUND in 20th-century scarlet crushed morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. FIRST EDITION.EGAN, Pierce (1772-1849). Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis. London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1821. Large 8vo (236 x 145mm). Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, wood-engraved vignette on title, and 35 plates by I. R. & G. Cruikshank, 3 folding leaves of music, the first leaf unnumbered, wood-engraved illustrations, 8-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end (some variable spotting, staining and offsetting of plates onto text, the leaves of music more heavily browned and spotted). FINELY BOUND in 20th-century scarlet crushed morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the covers with double gilt fillet borders, spine gilt in 6 compartments, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (some very light fading to edge of upper cover and spine). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023). FIRST EDITION of this "description of the life of the 'man about town' of the day, interesting for the light it throws on the manners of the period and for the many slang phrases it introduces" (The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. M. Drabble, 1985). Abbey Life 281; Brunet II, 169; Cohn 262; Hardie English Coloured Books p.197: "Robert and George Cruikshank won a huge success by their illustrations to Pierce Egan's Life in London ... Containing thirty-six aquatint plates [i.e. including the frontispiece], coloured by hand, as well as numerous wood-engravings by the two brothers, it ... took town and country by storm"; Tooley 196.
Lot 192
STOW, John (1525-1605), SEYMOUR, R. & J. MARCHANT. The History and Survey of ... London and Westminster, London, 1754, 2 vols., 82 engraved plates ([?]only), all FINELY COLOURED BY HAND, modern morocco. With another related but defective work. (3)STOW, John (1525-1605), SEYMOUR, Robert [dates unknown] & J. MARCHANT [dates unknown]. The History and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, Borough of Southwark, and Parts Adjacent ... Being an Improvement of Mr Stow's, and other Historical Writers, and Surveys. To which will be added, A New History of the County of Middlesex. London: "Printed for M. Cooper ... and C. Simpson," 1754. 2 volumes, folio (382 x 240mm). Titles printed in red and black, 82 engraved plates and plans ([?]only), all FINELY COLOURED BY HAND, of which 20 folding, engraved illustrations in the text, text printed in double column, initials (variable spotting, staining and browning). Modern full burgundy morocco, spines gilt. With William Maitland's The History of London (London, 1739, folio, engraved plates [uncoloured], many lacking, modern old-style panelled calf gilt. Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023). The colouring in the first 2-volume work is fine, and appears to be quite early. We have been unable to locate a detailed collation for this apparently uncommon edition (the British Library does not seem to hold a copy), but the title page calls for "... upwards of an hundred Copper-Plates, by the most eminent Masters," so we can assume that some are lacking. The William Maitland History is also incomplete. For this reason, regrettably, this lot is sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (3)
Lot 177
RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939, illustrator) - J. M. BARRIE. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, London, 1906, 4to, 50 mounted coloured plates by Arthur Rackham, original pictorial vellum gilt. FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, ONE OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST.RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939, illustrator) - J. M. BARRIE (1860-1937). Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. 4to (275 x 225mm). Half title, illustration on title, 50 coloured plates by Arthur Rackham mounted on brown paper at the end. Original pictorial vellum gilt, front endpaper with a map of Kensington Gardens, top edges gilt, others uncut (a little bowed, lacks silk ties). FIRST RACKHAM "DE LUXE" EDITION, LIMITED TO APPROXIMATELY 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, this copy unnumbered and with the printed statement of limitation scored through by the artist or publisher. Garland 33; Gettings p.112: "... its publication and quality was a sure sign that Rackham had arrived ..."; Hudson p.61; Latimore & Haskell p.27; Riall p.74.
Lot 191
STANLEY, Henry Morton (1841-1904) - The American Testimonial Banquet to Henry M. Stanley, London, 1890, 6 photographs and the text on blue paper laid down on thick card, original "relievo"-style calf. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. RARE.STANLEY, Henry Morton (1841-1904) - The American Testimonial Banquet to Henry M. Stanley, in Recognition of his Heroic Achievements in the Cause of Humanity, Science & Civilisation and A Greeting to His Chief Officers, Portman Rooms, London, May 30th, 1890. London: [no publisher], 1890. 8vo (248 x 160mm). 6 photographs and the text on blue paper laid down on thick card, mounted on hinges throughout (some spotting and staining). Original "relievo"-style calf with the American eagle surmounting an armorial device on the upper cover, gilt edges (lacks spine, rubbed and scuffed). FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. RARE.
Lot 86
BOOKS PRESENTED TO ANTHONY EDEN. Please see the full listing below. (c.90)BOOKS PRESENTED TO ANTHONY EDEN (arranged chronologically) - George MEREDITH. Modern Love, London, 1892, reprint, 8vo, dark blue buckram, inscribed, "From Dolly, Xmas 1892," and further inscribed in a different hand, "& handed on to Anthony Eden, Feb. 1923", bookplate [please see the note regarding bookplates at the end of this lot]; Walter PATER. Greek Studies, London, 1904, 8vo, morocco, inscribed, "Robert Anthony Eden, Honoris causa, from E.L.C. [identity unknown for certain, but presumably a school friend - please see lot 26 for some idle speculation], Eton, Xmas, 1912", bookplate; Louis BARTHOU. Mirabeau, Paris, [c.1913], 8vo, buckram, wrappers bound in, inscribed, "A son Excellence M. Anthony Eden ... [followed by a lengthy, partly illegible, inscription in French] ... Louis Barthoud, Genève, 1934", bookplate; The Book of Common Prayer [bound with:] Hymns Ancient and Modern, London, [n.d., 2 works in one vol., "Elon. 48mo. Thin", suede wallet with button-down flap, the upper cover lettered in gilt "R.A.E. [i.e. Anthony Eden] 1915", the front free endpaper inscribed, "Anthony from Mother, Xmas 1915", with inserted photographed portrait of Eden's mother in oval "window" on front pastedown, slip with the words of the National Anthem laid down on rear pastedown; MOLIERE. Théâtre complet illustré, Paris, [n.d.], 7 vols. bound in 2, 8vo, attractively bound in dark blue calf gilt by Bickers & Son, inscribed, "R.A. Eden, from H.M.B. [identity unknown, but presumably a school friend], honoris causa, Eton College, July 1915", bookplate; Laurence HOUSMAN. Angels & Ministers, London, 1921, 8vo, boards, inscribed, "Anthony from Mummie. Jan 1. 1922. 'Most of the stones of the building of the City of God, & the best of these were made by Mothers'", bookplate; Timothy EDEN [i.e. Sir Timothy Calvert Eden, 8th Baronet (1893-1963), and Anthony Eden's older brother]. Five Dogs & Two More, London, 1928, 8vo, cloth, inscribed, "Anthony, from Tim, Auctori Auctor! October 10th, 1928", bookplate; Ragnar ÖSTBERG (Swedish architect). The Stockholm Town Hall, Stockholm, 1929, 4to, wrappers, inscribed, "Anthony Eden, from the Author, Stockholm, 15/10/34"; Timothy EDEN. The Tribulations of a Baronet, London, 1933, large 8vo, hessian-backed boards, inscribed, "Anthony from Tim, 1933", bookplate; Ragnar SVANSTRÖM & Carl Fredrik PALMSTIERNA. A Short History of Sweden, Oxford, 1934, 8vo, cloth, inscribed, "For Mr Anthony Eden, on his journey to Sweden Oct. 1934. [illegible words], [?C.] Palmstierna", bookplate; G. LOWES DICKINSON. A Modern Symposium, London, 1937, 8vo, cloth, reprint, inscribed, "Anthony, from S. B." [possibly Stanley Baldwin], bookplate; Nicolas de BASILY. Russia Under Soviet Rule. Twenty Years of Bolshevik Experiment, London, 1938, 8vo, cloth, inscribed, "To the Right Honble. A. Eden with the kind regards of N. de Basily"; C. TEMPERLEY. The Whispering Gallery of Europe, London, 1938, 8vo, cloth, inscribed, "Anthony Eden, in gratitude & remembrance, from A. C. Temperley, April 1938"; Sonia DE CONTADES. Pénombre, Paris, 1938, small 4to, wrappers, inscribed, "A Anthony Eden, Sonia de Contades"; F. ROSSEL-STALDER. Morale Nouvelle ou Vers la Paix, Monte-Carlo, L'Intercontinentale d'Edition, [n.d. but ?c.1939], 8vo, red morocco, inscribed, "A Monsieur Anthony Eden, Londres [followed by a long unidentified quotation in French] F. Rossel", with, in addition, a printed dedication to Eden; Alan Campbell JOHNSON. Viscount Halifax. A Biography, London, 1941, 8vo, cloth, inscribed, "To Anthony Eden, With the author's compliments and best wishes from Alan Campbell Johnson, October, 1941"; Bomber Command. The Air Ministry Account of Bomber Command's Offensive Against the Axis September, 1939 - July, 1941, London, 1941, 4to, wrappers, detached, inscribed, "To the Right Honourable Anthony Eden ... from the author, [?illegible name but possibly Saunders]; Hugh R. WILSON. Diplomat between Wars, New York, 1941, 8vo, cloth, inscribed, "To Anthony Eden with warm regards, Hugh R. Wilson, New York, 1941"; Emery REVES. A Democratic Manifesto, New York, 1942, 8vo, cloth, inscribed, "To the Rt. Hon. Anthony Eden, in esteemed recollection of our past collaboration, E. Reves, New York, July 14, 1942"; Wanda WASSILEWSKA. Rainbow. A Novel, London, [1943], 8vo, cloth, inscribed "Farewell greetings to Mrs Eden, Agnes Maisky, 13/9 - 43, London" [Agnes Maisky was the wife of The Soviet Union's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Ivan Maisky]; Jacques DEBU-BRIDEL (also using his pseudonym 'Argonne'). Angleterre (D'Alcuin a Huxley), Paris, Aux Éditions de Minuit, 1943, 12mo, wrappers, ONE OF 25 "H.C." COPIES, inscribed by the author to Eden on the half title, the inscription incorporating the printed word 'Angleterre'; Nicolas G. LÉLY. [After the title in Greek:] Victorial Poems, New York, 1943, 8vo, buckram, inscribed, "To the Right Honorable Anthony Eden, A Companion of the Muses and great friend of Greece, with highest regards, Nicholas G. Lély (Nickel!), The Hague, May 10, 1948"; G. Lynn SUMNER. Meet Abraham Lincoln, Chicago, "Privately Printed", 1946, large 8vo, buckram, inscribed, "For the Right Hon. Anthony Eden, with all good wishes and enduring admiration, G. Lynn Sumner, New York, 2/7/46"; Samuel HOARE, Viscount Templewood. Ambassador on Special Mission, London, 1946, 8vo, cloth, inscribed "In memory of your help and patience at the F. O., Templewood"; Herbert AGAR (editor). The Formative Years. A History of the United States during the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison by Henry Adams, Boston, 1947, 8vo, 2 vols., buckram, vol. one inscribed, "For Anthony, with deepest affection from Barbie & Herbert, March 1947"; The Lands of the Bohemian Crown. Their History and Glory. Published by M. Hipmanová, Prague, 1947, 4to, wrappers, inscribed "[indistinctly in Czech], Milka Hipmanová", with note on upper wrapper indicating page numbers with illustrations of Eden; Brian FITZGERALD. Emily, Duchess of Leinster. 1731-1814, London, 1949, 8vo, cloth, inscribed, "Anthony Eden, from Betty & Bobbity [i.e. not the author, but Robert "Bobbity" Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury], Christmas 1949"; Stéphane DE CHALON. Notes sur l' Élégance Masculine, Paris, 1949, 8vo, wrappers, inscribed "A Monsieur Antony [sic] Eden, le plus élégant des ministres anglais, Hommage de l'autre, S. de Chalon"; Alexander PAPAGOS. The Battle of Greece. 1940-1941, Athens, 1949, large 8vo, stiff wrappers, inscribed, "With the compliments of the author, A. Papagos"; Helen D'ABERNON (editor). Stolen Fruit, Welwyn Garden City, 1949, small 4to, leatherette boards, inscribed, "A. E. from H. D'A. June 1950", with Eden's highlights to 2 aphorisms, namely Robespierre's 'Avoid the ancient insanity of Governments - the mania of wishing to govern too much' (p.59) and John Morley's 'In recent years Progress has been technical not mental' (p.62), bookplate; Richard LAW, 1st Baron Coleraine. Return from Utopia, London, 1950, 8vo, cloth, inscribed, "Anthony Eden, from the author, with affection & regard, November 1950", with the author's printed name crossed out on the title and replaced with his signature; Yves DELBARS. Le Vrai Staline, Paris, 1950, 8vo, wrappers, inscribed, "à Monsieur Anthony Eden, qui [illegible words], Yves Delbars, 21/11/50"; A. ROSSI. Les Communistes Français Pendant la Drole de Guerre, Paris, 1951, 4to, wrappers, inscribed, "A M. Anthony Eden, en hommage [illegible words], 1951, A. Rossi"; Moustapha EL-HEFNAOUI. Les Problémes Contemporains Posés par le Canal de Suez, Paris, 1951, wrappers, inscribed, "A l'Honorable M. Anthony Eden, avec l'expression de ma haute consideration, Paris, 2 juillet 1951, Moustapha El-Hefnaoui"; John BIGGS-DAVISON. George Wyndham. A Study in Toryism, London, 1951, 8vo, cloth, inscribed, "To the Right...
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Lot 58
[PATMORE, Coventry (1823-96)]. The Unknown Eros and Other Odes, London, 1877, 8vo, original buckram (faded), with a one-page autograph letter from the author tipped-in at the front, old bookplate of Anthony Eden. With 5 other books by Patmore. (6)[PATMORE, Coventry (1823-96)]. The Unknown Eros and Other Odes. Odes I. - XXXI. London: George Bell and Sons, 1877. 8vo (190 x 145mm). Half title (single spot to half title and title, not affecting letters, some very light marginal spotting and staining). Original tan buckram, the covers ruled in blind, spine label (wide strip faded at the head of the upper cover, some other fading, some minor erosion to the head and foot of spine, label lightly rubbed). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (old armorial bookplate); Richard Garnett (old signature on title). FIRST EDITION of this collection of odes which includes, arguably, the author's most famous poem "The Toys" (Ode XI). Tipped-in at the front is a one-page autograph letter from the author, headed "Hastings Sept. 19, 1877," stating, "Sir, In reply to your request I beg to say that you are at liberty to print the three odes you mention in your proposed selection, and to affix my name to them, I am, Sir, Yours faithfully, C. Patmore." The letter's recipient ("Mr D. Adams"), whose identity we have been unable to establish, is added at the foot of the letter. The signature on the title page is almost certainly that of Richard Garnett (1805-1906), biographer and poet, who edited Coventry Patmore's Florilegium Amantis in 1879. "The Unknown Eros (1877) was received with much less enthusiasm than his earlier work. It contains odes marked by an erotic mysticism, but also some more autobiographical pieces (now the most anthologised), including 'The Azalea', 'Departure', 'A Farewell', directly inspired by Emily's [his first wife's] illness and death, and 'The Toys', inspired by a moment of anger and grief aroused by one of his sons" (The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. M. Drabble, 1985). With 5 other books by the same author, namely The Angel in the House. The Betrothal and [The Espousals] (London, 1854-56, Books I - II bound in 2 vols.), Faithful for Ever (London, 1860), The Victories of Love (London, 1863, the bookplate [accidentally] pasted in upside down at the end) and The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (London, 1895), all FIRST EDITIONS attractively bound in uniform full red morocco gilt by Roger de Coverly & Sons, each with Anthony Eden's old armorial bookplate. (6)
Lot 100
BOCK, Carl (1849-1932). The Head-Hunters of Borneo, London, 1881, large 8vo, folding map, 30 lithographed plates, of which 28 coloured, illustrations (some staining), original coloured pictorial cloth gilt (partly disbound). FIRST EDITION.BOCK, Carl Alfred (1849-1932). The Head-Hunters of Borneo: A Narrative of Travel up the Mahakkam and Down the Barito; Also, Journeying in Sumatra. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1881. Large 8vo (262 x 180mm). Half title, folding engraved map of South East Borneo printed in colours, 30 lithographed plates by C. F. Kell after the author, of which 28 coloured, illustrations, tables (map and many plates and text leaves detached or loose, some mainly marginal spotting, staining and browning). Original pictorial cloth gilt, uncut, brown endpapers (rubbed, upper joints split at head, scuffed and stained, partly disbound). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023); "War Office Library"; "Quarter M[aster] G[eneral]'s Dept. Intelligence Branch" (2 stamps on title, with "Ministry of Defence. Withdrawn from Stock" stamp over the former). FIRST EDITION. Bobins The Exotic and the Beautiful 282.
Lot 150
MISCELLANY - Jean FERNEL (1497-1558). Consiliorum medicinalium liber, Frankfurt, 1585, 8vo, calf. With 12 other books and framed items. Please see the more detailed listing below. The lot sold not subject to return. (13)MISCELLANY - Jean François FERNEL (1497-1558). Consiliorum medicinalium liber. Exeius adversariis quadringentarum consultationum selectus. Nunc denuo fidelus & accuratius quam antea editus, & a quam plurimis mendis, quibus antea scatebat, repurgatus. Cum indice accurato. Frankfurt: "Apud Joannem Wechelum," 1585. 8vo (155 x 92mm). (Lightly browned and spotted.) [?]Contemporary calf, covers ruled in blind, spine with 5 raised bands and morocco lettering-piece, later endpapers. Adams F-250; Durling 1475. With 9 other books including Oswald Gabelkouer's [The Boock of Physicke] (Dordecht, 1599, folio, with title and several other leaves supplied in crude modern facsimile, later reverse calf), Hieronymous Fabricus's De integumentis animalium libellus (Königsberg, 1642, 8vo, browned and stained, modern limp vellum) and Nicholas Culpeper's Pharmacopoeia Londinensis; or, the London Dispensatory (London, 1679, 8vo, contemporary calf) and Peter M. Roget's A Case of Recovery from the Effects of Arsenic ... Read May 7, 1811 ([?]London, [n.d.], 8vo, offprint, modern wrappers); together with 3 framed items of early 19th-century theatrical ephemera, one with a contemporary autograph inscription on the verso. Provenance: From the Collection of Professor Jonathan Brostoff, D.M., D.Sc., FRCP, FRCPath (1934-2020). The lot sold not subject to return. (13)
Lot 118a
DUNNE, John William (1866-1949). An Experiment with Time, London, 1927, 8vo, original blue buckram, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. RARE, particularly in the dust-jacket.DUNNE, John William (1866-1949). An Experiment with Time. London: A. & C. Black, 1927. 8vo (218 x 140mm). Half title, woodcut printer's device on title, diagrams. Original dark blue buckram, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, tan dust-jacket lettered and ruled in black with printer's device stamped on lower wrapper (small piece torn away from foot of backstrip of jacket without loss of letters, some chipping to head of backstrip and corners, price-clipped). Provenance: some pencil annotation to front free endpaper ("Robert, have you ever encountered this before?"). FIRST EDITION. A note from the publisher, printed in cursive script on the upper wrapper of the dust-jacket, states, "The author's challenge to our present day conceptions of the universe is altogether too weighty to be ignored. It is a very serious and disturbing contribution." J. W. Dunne was "... a pioneer aircraft designer and author of the widely-read An Experiment with Time (1927) and The Serial Universe (1934), in which he outlined a theory of time to account for such phenomena as precognition, previsional dreaming, etc. He quotes in support Wells' The Time Machine, but Wells was to reply that Dunne had taken his concept of 'duration as a dimension of space' too seriously. Dunne's concept proved a useful dramatic device to J. B. Priestley in his 'Time' plays, and is mentioned with interest by G[raham] Greene (who asks if it is possible for novelists to draw their symbols from the future as well as from the past: see Ways of Escape, ch. 3)" (The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. M. Drabble, 1985). RARE, particularly in the scarce dust-jacket.
Lot 16
A 19th century English gilt engraved brass miniature carriage timepiece with subsidiary seconds, 'The Ram'James McCabe, Royal Exchange, London No. 1737Surmounted by a crisply cast and finished fern frond handle above a glazed escapement observation window enclosed by floral engraving on the stepped top, with four gadrooned finials on reeded Doric columns, the front and sides glazed and engraved, the back door plain and with sprung catch, supported on robust block feet. The silvered 1.75 inch Roman dial with elaborate floral fruit basket engraving to the centre and a subsidiary Arabic seconds dial, with foliate scroll half hours and blued steel moon hands, set in a floral gilt mask with engraved long-horned ram within foliate scrolls. The single chain fusee movement with maintaining power and jewelled underslung English lever escapement and monometallic balance wheel, the backplate engraved Jas McCabe No 1737 Royal Exchange London, with high count pinons and wheels of five crossings throughout the train. Ticking with winding key. 13cms (5ins) highFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 27
A rate late 19th century French nickel silver 'Angelus' carriage clockDesigned by Lucien Falize. The movement numbered 7901Surmounted by a handle of entwined dragons, over twelve titled circular panels cast into the sides, each representing a month of the year with an associated activity (sowing, harvesting, threshing etc); the rear set with a scene of the Admonition and the inscription 'Vigilate quia netcitis diem neque horam' Watch thee, for you know not the day nor the hour and a solid door with strapwork hinges and sliding bolt, the octagonal dial with gothic Roman numerals and fancy pierced hands with mythical beasts to the centre, over a scene of the Annunciation and the inscription 'Angelus Domini numtiavit Maria', The Angel of the Lord Announced to Mary, the underside cast in the same style with strapwork and hexagonal panel, signed AXF and depose. The rectangular carriage clock movement with folding integral handle tandem winding both trains, with lever platform escapement striking and repeating on a gong. 18cms (7ins) high. Footnotes:The plates are engraved AB and punch numbered 5036COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:A. Kenneth Snowman, The Master Jewellers, London, 1990, pp.61-72Lucien Falize, 'L'Orfevreue et la Bijouterie au Champs de Mars', Gazette des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1878Katherine Purcell, 'Catering for Every Taste', Apollo, February 1991Joseph Fanelli and Charles Terwilliger, A Century of Fine Carriage Clocks, Clock Trade Enterprises, 1987, pp.90-91Lucien Falize (1839-1897) and his father Alexis (1811-1898) were renowned designers and manufacturers of the finest decorative and enamelled jewellery. Alexis established the firm in 1832 and retired in 1876, whereupon his son took over and expanded the business. Lucien was particularly influenced by the enamel art of Japan and the revival of interest in Gothic and Renaissance art so popular in the last quarter of the 19th century.This particular model of clock - given the name Angelus - was first exhibited in ivory with gold and silver mounts at the 1878 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. The 'AXF' lozenge mark stamped on the underside of this lot was not used by Falize after he took Bapst, former French crown jeweller, as a partner in 1880, giving a timeline of possible production of this piece of 1878-1880. Related examples of this model were sold in these rooms 17th June 2003, lot 92; 15th December 2015, lot 120; Sotheby's Paris, 28 March 2007, lot 155; Christie's London, 6 December 2006, lot 16 and Sotheby's London, 24 February, 2004, lot 3. Another example is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Accession Number: M.2001.137.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 74
A good second quarter of the 18th century walnut table clockof small size.William Webster, LondonSurmounted by an unusual knopped brass handle on an inverted caddy framed by a deeply moulded cornice over glazed arched side windows to a moulded base and block feet. The 4.75 inch arched brass dial signed Willm Webster London in the strike/silent subsidiary with tulip shaped pointer over the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with floating lozenge half hour markers, the matted centre with chamfered date and mock pendulum apertures under elaborately pierced blued steel hands. The twin gut fusee movement with five knopped and ringed pillars and knife-edge verge escapement, sounding the hours on a bell and repeating the quarters on six bells and hammers, the backplate intricately engraved with floral strapwork, a winged figure sprouting from the central flower and a bird in each corner. Ticking and striking with a door key. 35cms (13.5ins) highFootnotes:Provenance: The collection of Charles Smith, Topsham.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 14
A 19th century English gilt engraved brass miniature carriage timepiece, 'The Peacock'James McCabe, Royal Exchange London No. 1733Surmounted by a crisply cast and finished facetted handle with intricate fern frond uprights over a shaped stepped top engraved with peacock tail eyes, boxed by gadrooned finials above the reeded columns, supporting the peacock tail eye engraved sides and plain door with sprung catch, on tapering block feet.The 1.75 inch silvered Roman dial with elaborate floral engraving all over, subsidiary Arabic seconds dial and blued steel moon hands, set in a gilt mask with peacock tail eye engraving, and a full peacock with tail outstretched to the bottom centre.The single chain fusee movement with maintaining power and jewelled underslung English lever platform escapement with monometallic balance, high count pinions and wheels of five crossings throughout the train, the backplate engraved Jas McCabe No 1733 Royal Exchange London . Ticking with a winding key. 13cms (5ins) highFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 53
A fine and very rare large late 19th century patinated and bronzed alloy conical pendulum clockThe figure stamped A. Carrier. The patinated figure of a woman sporting a diadem in crimped and waved hair tied high in a stylised top knot, her classically inspired dress bunched above the waist and cast with flowing creases and a gilt-heightened fringe; with her left arm raised she gazes towards the pendulum rod as it continuously rotates, a sheaf of leaves in her lowered right hand; she stands - without shoes - on a shaped base festooned in heavy laurel and berry swags, further mounted on an ebonised wooden stand with bowed sides and elaborately moulded base. The 5.5 inch black dial with gilt Roman numerals with each minute marked by a single line and with subsidiary dial for running seconds (hand missing) at XII, with gilt Breguet style moon hands. The spring driven movement wound through the dial, with vertical pinion above XII to drive a continuously rotating open arrow hand in which sits the tip of the pendulum rod, the spherical two-part bob applied with five-pointed stars (29 of the original 30 still in position), with a simple hook at the top to locate into the silk suspension to allow for free rotation. Striking the hours on a bell. The figure 1.48m (4ft 10.5ins) high; the pedestal 91cms (3ft) high. Total height 2.39m (7ft 10ins) high. (Farcot)Footnotes:The top of the backplate is punch numbered 125, 450, with an oval stamp between reading B. R & Cie B T S. G. D. G. Paris. The bottom of the backplate is stamped YMT in a circle.An identical model, but with enamel dial featured in The Joseph M. Meraux Collection of Rare and Unusual Clocks, Sotheby's New York, June 28th 1993, lot 499, sold for $23,000. Another similar model by Farcot on a marble plinth also featured in the same sale, lot 494 sold for $134,500.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP For auctions held in Scotland: Lots will be moved to an offsite storage location (Constantine, Constantine House, North Caldeen Road, Coatbridge ML5 4EF, Scotland, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please refer to the catalogue for further information.For all other auctions: Lots will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 135
A good and rare late 18th century mahogany drop dial timepieceMatthew and Thomas Dutton, LondonThe 13.5 inch signed Roman and Arabic dial with minute track and original heart shaped hands framed by a cast concave brass bezel within a convex moulded surround over shaped side pieces to the drop trunk terminating in a moulded chisel foot with locking door (key present). The substantial single gut (now wire) fusee movement with large plates united by four tapering pillars, the anchor escapement with heavy steel-rod pendulum on a T-bar suspension 66.5cms (26ins) high. Footnotes:A similar wall clock by Thomas Mudge and William Dutton is illustrated in Birch Thomas Mudge and William Dutton, a perfect partnership 2019, page 44.William Dutton was apprenticed to George Graham in 1738, suggesting 1724 as a likely birth year. His father is listed as Matthew Dutton, a gentleman from Marton, Buckinghamshire. William gained his freedom in 1746, possibly marrying Ann Millward a year later, though this is not confirmed. Around 1760, a William Dutton is recorded living in Bolt Court, which was quite near to Fleet Street. Another former Graham apprentice, Thomas Mudge, was living very close to William Dutton. The two eventually entered into partnership, though exactly when is unsure. It seems that for most of their partnership, Mudge was solely responsible for paying the Land Tax, meaning Dutton's name doesn't appear in the Tax books until the 1770's. The earliest proposed date for the start of the partnership is 1750/51, with most sources agreeing that the two were certainly in partnership by 1765, operating out of 151 Fleet Street. Around the time that the partnership was forming, William and Ann had two children; Matthew, likely born around 1757, and Thomas, likely born around 1762, who would both become horologists. The couple would have at least four other children; Sarah, Hephzibah, Nancy, and Dorothea. In April 1771, Matthew Dutton was apprenticed to Thomas Mudge. However, this same year Mudge departed London for Plymouth, to concentrate on his chronometer construction. It appears that Matthew's apprenticeship was turned over to his father at this point, and he gained his freedom in 1779. His younger sibling, Thomas, was apprenticed to their father in 1776, and gained his freedom in 1791. William Dutton managed the business for Mudge and is recorded as being the rate holder for 151 Fleet Street, beginning in 1772. By 1774, Dutton had moved the premises to 148 Fleet Street, though the shop continued to be called Mudge & Dutton. Around this same time, Mudge began submitting chronometer's to the Board of Longitude, and Matthew Dutton appears to have acted as a go between. He would deliver the chronometer to be tested to the Observatory, taking it apart to demonstrate Mudge's modifications, monitor it when it was on test, and then communicate to Mudge any questions or rulings from the Board. Interestingly, Mudge Jr. noted that the 'Green' and 'Blue' chronometers were delivered to 'Mr. Dutton' in 1790 and had since remained with the Duttons. When, and under what circumstances, the chronometers left 148 Fleet Street, remains unknown.William Dutton died in 1794, having left all the tools, engines, and utensils of his trade to Matthew and Thomas. He also left the shop and, presumably upstairs, apartment to Matthew, and the adjoining apartment to Thomas. Thomas Mudge also features heavily in William's will, being left one-third of all William's estate, land, and tenants in Bedford, the other two-thirds to be shared by Matthew and Thomas. The three horologists were also appointed his executors, as well as the appraisers of all the stock in his shop, with the option of appointing additional appraisers, should they see the need. Money was also left to the other four children, as well as a small annual pension to be paid to Elizabeth Dutton, and her daughter Caroline. It seems quite likely that Elizabeth and Caroline Dutton where the wife and daughter, respectively, of Benjamin Dutton, William's nephew and a horologist. He was apprenticed to John Holmes in 1755, though it is unclear when he gained his freedom. Interestingly, it has been suggested that John Holmes was one of the first manufacturers to supply 'Mudge & Dutton' with movements, before Holmes moved out of the area around 1760. Benjamin died in 1786, leaving everything to his wife Elizabeth.William Dutton also left some money to Thomas Mudge and John Priest, another of Graham's former apprentices, to thank them both for their firm friendship throughout the years. It appears that William's wife, Ann, died in 1787, the same year that the majority of William's will was written. It was updated in 1792, to include leaving some money to his daughter in law Katherine, who appears to have been Matthew's partner (possibly Catharine Dunant), and his future grandchildren. As there was some confusion regarding the validity of this amendment, Thomas Mudge and James Bullock, a Holborn clockmaker and long-time friend, both appeared in person to swear to the amendment's validity. Matthew and Thomas entered into partnership together, operating out of the 148 Fleet Street premises. Oddly, the 1794 entry lists 'M. & J. Dutton, watchmakers' working out of this address. It is possible this was a misprint for 'T'. Matthew and Katherine would have at least four children; Louisa, Catherine, Matthew, and Jane. Of these, only one would go on to be a horologist; Matthew, who was apprenticed to his father in 1799.In 1802, two years after Matthew (Sr.) had been made Master of the Clockmaker's Company, the partnership between Matthew and Thomas was mutually dissolved, with notice given that Matthew Dutton would be continuing the 148 Fleet Street business alone. It is not known what happened to Thomas; he isn't listed as a horologist in any trade directory for London, Plymouth, or Buckinghamshire after the dissolution. It has been suggested that he married Sarah Kingdom in 1794, and that one of their children, Thomas (Jr.), became a Captain with the Royal Navy and eventually emigrated to Tasmania. However, this has not been independently confirmed, and still doesn't clarify what Thomas (Sr.) was doing after 1802..For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 28
A good mid-late 19th century French brass table regulator with perpetual calendar and moonphasePhilibert Bally, Paris, and Japy Frères No. 1855The concave cornice over two glazed sides and glazed doors, raised on a moulded brass base. The Roman dial with Breguet style hands and recessed centre with visible jewelled Brocot escapement, signed Pert Bally Paris, the lower dial displaying phases of the moon, month, day, leap year indication and date, personifications of Spring and Autumn painted in delicate colours to either side, all dials sunk into the florally engraved brass mask. The twin spring barrel movement with visible jewelled Brocot escapement, and outside countwheel striking on a bell, the backplate stamped 1855 above the stamps for Philibert Bally and Japy Frères. Striking the half and full hours with a winding key and three bar gridiron pendulum. 42cms (16.5ins) highFootnotes:Antoine-Philibert Bally is first recorded in 1844 at the National Exposition in Paris. It is not known where he served his apprenticeship. In August 1847, he took out a patent for a new method of cutting anchor escapements. He is noted as working out of number 25 Notre Dame de Nazareth at this point. He exhibited at the National Expositions in 1849 and 1851; he also took out another patent in the latter year for his 'étouffoir économique', roughly translated as an 'affordable damper/extinguisher'. In the patent, he is recorded as still working out of number 25 and described simply as a Parisienne horologist. Less then a year later, Bally had taken out another patent, for a mechanical perpetual calendar. He had apparently moved to number 26 and was described as a clock and watch maker. Interestingly, he took the patent out together with Dumouchel, who was described as a Parisienne horologist working out of number 4 Rue de Bretagne. Based on the descriptions, it is possible that Dumouchel had the basic idea for the calendar, and Bally was able to supply the practical knowledge which turned the theory into reality, though this remains speculative. This partnership, if that is what it was, does not appear to have produced more patents; in 1853 Bally took out a patent on his own for a repeating alarm clock, presumably including the new mechanism in his exhibit at the National Exposition of that year. The alarm clock would sound the hour at the appointed time, and then repeat the hour every five minutes until turned off. He is again described as a Parisienne horologist, working out of 25 Notre Dame de Nazareth. This patent seems to have attracted notice; over forty years later, Bally would be grouped together with the likes of Brocot and regarded as an original and inventive horologist. Bally exhibited at the 1855 National Exposition, and his next patent was taken out in 1857, for an eccentric remontoir; unfortunately, the details of this remontoir are not known. His address was listed as 46 Rue de Bondy; it seems likely he moved at some point between 1855-1856. Bally next exhibited at the 1861 exposition, possibly winning bronze, though this is not confirmed. He was still working at 46 Rue de Bondy in 1864, when he patented a new method for turning tallow into stearic acid. Stearic acid has been used as a foodstuff, but also in candle and soap making, the latter most endeavour possibly being how he came upon the method as a working horologist. In this same year, he was advertising the shop as Maison Philibert Bally and boasting a wide range of bronze statues and clock cases, all types of pendulum clocks, candelabras, wood sculptures and a number of different horological curiosities. In April of 1864, he exhibited his stock to the public over two days, before auctioning off a significant amount of it between 25-29 April. The auction appears to have been significant as catalogues were even printed; Catalogue des modèles et surmoulés en bronze de la Maison Philibert Bally, fabricant de bronzes d'art et d'horlogerie. It is unclear if the auction was to divest excess stock or indicated financial need on Bally's part.In 1865, it appears that Bally took out another patent, for a device to improve the precision of bottle making. Unfortunately, no address is listed in the patent application, the application itself being taken out by Vinck, in 33 Boulevard St.-Martin. In 1867, a patent was taken out for an 'Advanced pendulum balance', with Vinck again listed as the representative. This same year, Bally exhibited at the National Exposition, possibly with the pendulum balance. The following year, Bally patented a new type of grande sonnerie movement and his address was listed as 14 Rue d'Aboukir. It appears that this was Bally's new shop, though exactly when he moved in is unclear.In 1872, he took out a patent, again with Vinck's representation, for a new type of candle-lit night clock. This patent was apparently quite a success; Bally was mentioned in an 1875 horology book as one of the preeminent makers of such clocks, the author dismissively noting that Bally 'even made pretensions toward regulating them'. In 1877, a novel bed was patented by a Bally, working out of 83 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. It cannot be confirmed if this was Philibert, if so, it would suggest another change of address. If this was Philibert, it would be the last patent he took out, as he seems to have died sometime around 1877. One of his patents, the improved bottle making device, came up for renewal in 1879. The renewal was filed by his wife, who was noted as 'the widow Bally'. As there are no other patents filed under Bally's name after this point, or any advertisements placed in trade journals after 1876, it seems likely that he died around this time.The Revue Chronométrique would later remember Bally, around the turn of the century, as a skilled horological innovator, writing several paragraphs about his repeating alarm patent. Regulators appear to have been a preference for Bally; an ebony regulator by him was sold in a house sale in 1892. In the catalogue, the regulator is described simply as being from 'chez Bally'.Firmin-Didot, A. (1857-1880) Annuaire-almanach du commerce, de l'industrie, de la magistrature et de l'administration. Paris: Firmin-Didot frères.(1864) Catalogue des modèles et surmoulés en bronze de la Maison Philibert Bally, fabricant de bronzes d'art et d'horlogerie. Paris: Renou et Maulde.Requier, C. (1898) 'Les Réveils a Répétition', Revue chronométrique: journal des horlogers, scientifique et pratique, No. 496, pg. 11.Anquetin, M. (1875) L'horlogerie : des montres en général, de ceux qui les font, de ceux qui les vendent, de ceux qui les réparent et de ceux qui les portent. Paris: Modeste Anquetin, pg.129. Ministère du Commerce (1851-1880) Catalogue des brevets d'invention. Paris: J. Tremblay.(1864) Le Constitutionnel: Journal politique, littéraire, universel, 19 April, pg. 2. Mannheim, C. (1892) Catalogue des objets d'art et d'ameublement, faïences italiennes et autres, porcelaines de Saxe, de Sèvres, de Chantilly, de Chine et du Japon. Paris: E. Ménard et Cie.La Nature (1905) 'Calendrier Perpétuel Automatique', Revue chronométrique: journal des horlogers, scientifique et pratique, No. 581, pg. 220.National Center for Biotechnology Information (2023) PubChem Compound Summary for CID 5281, Stearic Acid. Available at: https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Stearic-Acid.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 207
Ashendene Press.- Malory (Thomas).- 27 wood-engravings for 'The Noble and Joyous Book Entytled Le Morte d'Arthur', from an edition printed aside from the published edition, half-page illustrations by W.H. Hooper and J.B. Swain after Charles M. Gere and Margaret Gere, wood-engravings on Japan, each sheet approx. 140 x 200 mm (5 1/2 x 7 3/4 in), all with good margins, hinged into green paper mounts, presented in modern cloth drop-back case, gilt title to upper cover, oblong 4to, 1913.
Lot 230
Middle East.- Fraser (James Baillie) Travels in Koordistan, Mesopotamia, &c., 2 vol., first edition, engraved frontispieces, previous owner's presentation inscription to vol. 1, bookplate, faint spotting to bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked, slight bumping to corners, 8vo, 1840.⁂ Provenance: Bookplate of R. M. Burrell.
Lot 24
Manuscript Facsimile.- Psalterium Glosatum Salterio Anglo-Catalán, one of 987 copies, facsimile of Lat. 8846 in Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, original gilt-stamped calf, spine in compartments and with red morocco labels, spine very slightly sunned with some scattered marking to labels, lightly rubbed at extremities, housed in original gilt-stamped red morocco slip-case, rubbed, portion of slight sunning to head, without accompanying commentary vol., folio, Barcelona, M. Moleiro, 2004.
Lot 25
Manuscript Facsimile.- Tacuinum Sanitatis, one of 987 copies, facsimile of Ms. Lat. 9333 in Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, original blind-stamped calf with clasps, housed in original silk-lined burgundy morocco drop-back box, box a little rubbed and with spine very slightly sunned, without accompanying commentary vol., folio, Barcelona, M. Moleiro, 2007.⁂ A profusely illustrated medieval treatise on the topics of health and well-being.
Lot 26
Manuscript Facsimile.- Great Hours of Anne of Brittany, one of 987 copies, facsimile of Lat. 9474 in Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, original navy pebble-grained morocco with decorative clasps, one clasp slightly tarnished, housed in original decorative black morocco drop-back box, lightly rubbed with a few small marks, without accompanying commentary vol., folio, Lugo, M. Moleiro, 2008.
Lot 27
Manuscript Facsimile.- Hours of Henry VIII, one of 987 copies, facsimile of MS H.8. in Morgan Library & Museum in New York, original red velvet with clasps, very lightly rubbed with subtle abrasion mark to upper cover, housed in original gilt-tooled burgundy morocco drop-back box, one or two faint scratches, without accompanying commentary vol., 4to, Lugo, M. Moleiro, 2015.
Lot 7
de Siqueira (Bento) Sermam, que pregou o Padre Mestre Bento de Siqueira da Comphanhia de Iesu no autor da Fé ..., Lisbon, 1642 § das Chagas (Antonio) Â Ranha nossa Senohora, offerece este Sermão ..., Lisbon, 1654 § Viegas (Nuno) Sermam que o M. Frey Nuno Viefas ..., Lisbon, 1661 § de Almeird (Christovam) Sermam do acto da fee que se Celebrou no Terreiro do Paço desta Cidade de Lisboa ..., Lisbon, 1664 § Leitão (Alvaro) Sermão do acta da fe de Lisboa, dedicado a Seremosso,a Senhora Catharina Augustissima Raynha da Graõ Bretanha, bookplate, Lisbon, 1666; occasional faint marginal water-staining, all but last 2 disbound, last 2 in later paper wrappers, 4to (5)
Lot 10
Presentation copy to William of Orange.- Piélat (Barthélemy) Le secretaire inconnu. Contenant des Lettres sur diverses sortes de matières, signed presentation copy from the author, with a 4pp. autograph presentation inscription to front endpapers and title, title with library ink stamp and manuscript numbers and with small section cut away from upper corner, affecting small part of inscription verso, ink stamp within text (still perfectly legible) of E3, I5, N7, and R9, Lyon, Adam Demen, 1672 bound with Piélat (Barthélemy) Cinquante exemples méthodiques pour disposer à discourir facilement des choses naturelles, politiques, & morales, Lyon, Adam Demen, 1672, together 2 works in 1 vol., title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned (last couple of ff. a little heavier), contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine in compartments, spine worn, but binding holding firm, corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, 12mo⁂ Provenance: Extensive ink presentation inscription from the author to William, Prince of Orange, later King William III of England, and William II of Scotland; 'Dartmouth' (contemporary ink inscription to upper margin of a2); 'M: Musgrave' (contemporary ink inscription to rear pastedown).
Lot 118
Kuznetsov (Anatoly) Babi Yar, first English uncensored edition, translated by David Floyd, signed presentation inscription from the author "To Mr M. G. Millard - with very best wishes for the invaluable help he has given me. A Anatoli. 14/xii 1970 London" to half-title, a few spots to endpapers, original boards, some light fading and slight bowing to covers, dust-jacket, very light fading to spine, slight rubbing to spine tips and corners, very short nick to foot of upper panel, an excellent example, 8vo, 1970.⁂ An inscribed copy of the soviet writer Kuznetsov's most acclaimed work in its complete, unredacted form. We can trace no other signed examples. Kuznetsov grew up Kiev district of Kurenivka in modern-day Ukraine near the large Babi Yar ravine which would become infamous as the site of a number of massacres carried out by the Nazi regime. Ultimately between 100,000 and 150,000 people were murdered at the ravine and buried there in mass graves. Kuznetsov's novel was born out of the notes he began taking while a child growing up in the area and hearing rumours of the killings. The novel was first published in Yunost magazine in 1966 and then in shortened form in 1967. It was not until Kuznetsov's defection to the UK in 1968 that he could publish he preferred, unredacted, edition in book form complete with passages that were highly-critical of the Soviet regime.
Lot 36
M. Gianni (Italian 1873-1956) Continental street scenes with figures Both signed, watercolours (2).39.5 x 18cm (framed 61 x 36.5cm) and 41.5 x 18.5cm (framed 62.5 x 38.5cm)Qty: 2The paintings are both in very good, original condition with no obvious faults to report. The paintings are both framed and glazed. The frames have some minor scuffs and knocks commensurate with age.
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