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Fabric.- Beraud (Jean) Théorie de Fabrique, title, name "Jean Beraud" marked with blue ink, pp.(4)+title+271+(44)+8+(10), text in French manuscript, printed table at p.2, fabric samples, some offset, pages toned, marbled endpapers, original green quarter calf over cloth boards, gilt title "Cours de Théorie" to spine, rubbed at extremities, spine wearing loose, folio, [Lyon], 1870.⁂ Treatise on fabric production and patterns, containing over 200 fabric samples and 300 images and diagrams, as well as an introductory chapter defining numerous technical terms.

Fabric.- Guyer (Hans) Zürcherische Seidenwebschule Zürich. Kurs 1930/31. Bindungslehre und Dekomposition, printed title-page, ff.135 in German manuscript, numerous fabric samples, some spotting, patterned endpapers, contemporary half morocco and cloth folder with hole punch binding, slightly rubbed at extremities, with title gilt to upper cover, edges toned, folio, Zurich, 1930/31.⁂ Displaying over 130 fabric examples, with numerous images and diagrams, this text is a transcript of a course taught at the Zurich Silk-Weaving School, established in 1881. This work contains samples and diagrams of the thread run, called 'patronenpapier', of fabrics including Pongé navy, Honan imprimé, Shantung écru, Marceline, Taffetas, Sicilienne blanc, Bengaline rayé, Mogadors barré, Poult de Soie, Georgette, Moire musique, Crêpe de Chine, Crêpe satin, Ratzimir, Surah, Serge anvers, Pekin moiré, satin Duchesse, gabardine, atlas, plush and gauze, and would have been used to program weaving looms, forming the basis of modern digital programming.

Africa.- Mozambique.- Viegas (Dionizio Manuel, Colonel) Map or diagram shows the complement of military personnel in the fort of São Sebastião on the Island of Mozambique and in the nearby fort of São Lourenço, manuscript map signed by Viegas, part of stub in left margin torn away, central fold, slightly browned, 212 x 180mm., 20th August 1746.

[Willison (John)] A Fair and Impartial Testimony, essayed in name of a number of Minister, Elders and Christian People of the Church of Scotland ..., list of subscribers at end, scattered faint spotting, I4 with tear into text, contemporary calf, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, Glasgow, 1765 § Shaw (Joseph) Parish Law: or, a Guide to Justices of the Peace, Minister, Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor ... and all Others concern'd in Parish Business, worming to title and first few leaves, advertisements at end, previous owner's manuscript notes to front pastedown and final free endpaper verso, contemporary calf, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Savoy, by Henry Lintot, 1750; and 5 pamphlets, similar, 8vo (7)

NO RESERVE 18 century blank paper.- Volume of 109 sheets of thick blank paper, ruled in red in left margins, each sheet 295 x 235mm., 8ff. at beginning in manuscript copies of letters of Lord Torrington, Earl of Bradford bookplate on front pastedown, original patterned calf, rubbed, corners bumped, upper cover detached, spine worn, fleur-de- lys watermarks, folio, 1787.

Freedom of the Press.- Speeches (at length) of the Honourable T. Erskine, & S. Kyd esq (The) ... on the Trial of T. Williams for publishing Paine's Age of Reason ..., second edition, corrected, one or two faint spots, advertisements at end, disbound, [1797] § Erskine (Thomas) The Resolutions of the First Meeting of the Friends to the Liberty of Press ..., disbound, 1793 § Proceedings of the Friends to the Liberty of the Press, 1793 § Proceedings of the Friends to the Liberty of the Press ..., disbound, 1793 § Hobhouse (Benjamin) Three Letters, presentation copy from author with additional manuscript note to A8 verso, one or two spots, disbound, [?1792]; 8vo (4)

NO RESERVE [More (Hannah)] Cœlebs in Search of a Wife. Comprehending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manners, Religion and Morals, two volumes, pages toned and slightly spotted, edges spotted, manuscript annotations in pencil to endpapers, remains of plastic stickers to front and rear pastedown, original mottled calf, with black morocco labels to spines, slightly rubbed, 1808.

Montgomery (James) Greenland, and other poems, half-title, scattered spotting, ex-Book Society with label filled in manuscript to front pastedown, original drab boards, split to upper joint but holding firm, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1819 § Felton (Henry) A Dissertation on Reading the Classics, and forming a Just Style ..., advertisement at end, scattered faint spotting, bookplate, contemporary calf, cracked hinges, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, for Jonah Bowyer, 1715 § Ashton (John) A Righte Merrie Christmasse!!!, frontispiece, ex-library with ink-stamp to title verso, previous owner's notes to final pastedown, bookplate, contemporary half-calf, rebacked and recornered, a little rubbed, [1864] § Elis (Clement) Rest for the Heavy-Laden, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps throughout, small tissue repairs to title and final leaf, modern cloth, by J. Fuller and S. Neale, 1756; and others, v.s. (c.115)

Byroniana.- Bedford (John Harman) Wanderings of Childe Harolde. a romance of real life, 3 vol., first edition, vol. 2 & 3 with half-titles, each with early blank trimmed at head, scattered spotting, ex-Nottingham Public Libraries with blind-stamp to titles, contemporary drab boards, rebacked, blind-stamp to upper covers, titles in manuscript to spine, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and spine extremities, 8vo, 1825.⁂ A biographical novel, based on the career of Byron.

NO RESERVE William Barnes.- [Baxter (Lucy)] "Leader Scott", The Life of William Barnes Poet and Philologist, first edition, two photographic frontispieces, with letters from Barnes' daughters tipped-in, spotted, bookplate, title, first few pages and last few pages spotted, pages toned, original boards, bumped, 1887; and 11 others by or relating to William Barnes, v.s. (12)⁂ "The Life of William Barnes" containing several manuscript letters written by Barnes' daughters, from the library of Anne Powell, many volumes with her notes and insertions.

NO RESERVE First World War.- Sassoon (Siegfried) Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, first edition, some manuscript annotations, light spotting to edges, original blue cloth, dust-jacket, price-clipped, toned and rubbed with tape repairs, 1930 § Owen (Wilfred) Collected Letters, edited by Harold Owen and John Bell, photographic frontispiece and plates, library stamp to title and some pages, original cloth, slightly bumped, dust-jacket, rubbed, 1967; and c.420 others relating to the First World War, v.s. (c.425)⁂ From the library of Anne Powell, many volumes with her notes and insertions, and including a number of volumes relating to the First World War written by Powell.

NO RESERVE Hay (Alfred) On Impulsive Rushes and Inductive Circuits, presentation copy from author with inscription to upper cover, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, original printed paper wrappers, a little rubbed, [1894]; The Charging of a Condenser, presentation copy from author with inscription to first ff., diagrams, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, contemporary paper wrappers, title in manuscript to upper cover, library labels to spine foot, [1895]; and 2 others on geology, 8vo (4)

Medicine.- Piquer (Andrés) Medicina Vetus, et Nova, third edition, some light browning and scattered spotting, Y4 with small contemporary ink marginalia, upper hinge breaking but just holding, Madrid, Joaquín Ibarra, 1758; Archiatri Praxis Medica, vol. 1 only (of 2), first edition, woodcut head- & tail-pieces and initials, front pastedown and endpaper with ink inscriptions and a few abrasion marks, occasional light damp-staining, mostly marginal, some cracking at gutter, hinges weak, upper cover with vertical tear to head, Madrid, Joaquín Ibarra, 1764, titles with woodcut device, contemporary vellum, ink manuscript titles to spines, rubbed and soiled, ties later and 1 lacking; and others, antiquarian, including a 1767 edition of Manilius' Astronomicon, and a defective 1651 Historia Judaica, 8vo & 4to (c.27)⁂ Andrés Piquer (1711-1772) Spanish physician and philosopher who served as doctor to Kings Ferdinand VI and Charles III of Spain. The second mentioned consists of 2 parts in 1 volume; a second volume containing a final part was published in 1766.

Birds.- Gould (John) Humming-Birds. Ten Lithoraphs coloured by hand, "centenary edition", one of only 350 copies, 10 lithographed plates, hand-coloured by D. Peterson, manuscript calligraphic text by A. Hutchison, original green morocco-backed cloth, spine with tiny nick to head, slipcase, folio, [c.1970].

NO RESERVE ***Please note, the description to this lot has changed.***Whaling.- Skin of a whale with manuscript note, caught by Capt. Smith, off Sandy Hook, N.Y., 63 x 23 mm., manuscript note in ink describing the catch, 1842.

Middle East.- The Kuwaiti, 8 copies (nos. 1122; 1124; 1128; 1130; 1131; 1133; 1136; 1138), Sabri Samaan Shammas (ed.), illustrations and diagrams, some manuscript inscriptions, original pictorial wrappers, very slightly rubbed, Kuwait, Kuwait Oil Company, 1970 § The Kuwaiti Digest, 3 copies (7:4, 8:4, 8:3), colour illustrations, original pictorial wrappers, a few manuscript inscriptions in ink, Kuwait, Kuwait Oil Company, 1970-1980; and 4 other periodicals relating to Kuwait, 4to (15)

World.- Gobat (Rev. Samuel) Journal d'un Séjour en Abyssinie, pendant les Années 1830, 1831 et 1832, half title, with manuscript note in ink "Voyage en Abyssinie S. Gobat" pasted, engraved portrait frontispiece, folding map, stamp on title of the "Sté de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Français S.H 3006", pages toned and slightly spotted in places, marbled endpapers and edges, "HW" sticker to front pastedown, original calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, slightly rubbed, Paris and Geneva, 1834 § W.S. Mayo, Kaloolah, or Journeyings to the Djébel el Kumri. An Autobiography of Jonathan Romer, frontispiece, plates, "[1849]" in pencil to title, some spotting, pages 25-28 torn at upper corner, not affecting text, patterned endpapers, original pictorial cloth, slightly stained and bumped, spine sunned, [1849]; and 9 others relating to travel, v.s. (11)

Military.- Barbuda (Coello de) Empresas militares de Lusitanos, title and small woodcut typographic ornament within woodcut typographic border, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, errata f., without f.102 (as often), supplied in good facsimile and ?18th century manuscript (loosely inserted), title with diagonal 20th century ink inscription and small repaired hole, just touching ornament, occasional mostly marginal worming (some repaired), occasionally affecting the odd letter, 2N3 marginal loss, marginal repairs, some spotting or staining, lightly browned, 20th century panelled vellum, gilt, spine in compartments richly so and with double leather labels, [Borba de Moraes (1983) I, 76; Innocêncio V, 280 & XVI, 9; Maggs Spanish Books 245; Palha 2767; Palau 56169; Welsh 1552], 8vo, Lisbon, Pedro Craesbeeck, 1624. ⁂ Rare work on the military achievements of Portugal, which includes discoveries in America. The author explains in his dedicatory preface to the Archbishop of Braga that despite his love for his native land he wrote the work in Spanish, so that his country's achievements would gain a wider audience.

Mining.- Assaying.- Fagoaga (Francisco de ) Tablas de las cuentas del valor liquido de la plata del diezmo, title within woodcut typographic border, woodcut arms to head of dedication, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, mostly marginal staining / water-staining, some spotting, lightly browned, contemporary manuscript used as rear endpapers, new front endpapers, contemporary limp vellum, [Medina 5582; Palau 86281], 8vo, Mexico City, Joseph Jaúregui, 1773.⁂ Rare in commerce. 'if any one family could lay claim to the leadership of the Mexican silver-mining industry it was the Fagoagas. For three generations...they participated in many of the industry's greatest enterprises' (D.A. Brading, Miners and merchants in Bourbon Mexico, 1763-1810).

VARIOUS BOOKS a box of books & booklets, incl. a manuscript book of recipes, cures for ailments etc. written by Maria Dayzell, 1830, a disbnd. & incomplete but with engrvd. plts. folio Book of Martyrs plus books on local interest, Chartism. etc.

Wilde, Oscar: (1854-1900) writer, an original signed letter, to 'Cook' [believed Edward Tyas Cook (1857-1919), a journalist who worked at the Pall Mall Gazette, and later founder of the Westminster Gazette in 1893], 7 pages, undated and on 'Castle Hotel, Windsor' headed paper, reading 'My Dear Cook, I was very much pleased with the article. it was exceedingly fair and the whole tone of it right. And I must thank you for upholding your services. I think however that the rule about inverted commas is a little strict. For instance: in Roden Noel's book there occurs this amazing sentence. "I know not any artist of note, unless it be Edgar Poe, Bulver[?], Lytton, Disraeli, Mr Alfred Austin whom we may affiliate on Byron"!!! I quote it as follows... 'that Edgar Poe, Disraeli and Mr Alfred Austin are "artists of note whom we may affiliate on Byron". I have removed the inverted commas in my proof - but I think they might have stood. I have done Skipsey and two other posts for you - you will have the M.S. [manuscript] on Monday. I return to town tomorrow morning. Have you any more books for me? I suppose Henry James' last novel is being done? Very sincerely yours, Oscar Wilde.' The letter is likely to date from early 1877 - Wilde had submitted a review of Joseph Skipsey's 'Carols from the Coal Fields' to the Pall Mall Gazette at this time.From the estate of the late Peter Farley, https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/nov/17/peter-farley-obituaryPages loose, Browning and finger marks to edges, especially the first.

A silk embroidered wedding dress, early 19th century, embroidered with foliate designs with a ruched necklineneckline to hem - 126cm, sleeve to sleeve - 124cm Originally conceived in 1825, the present lot was first used by Anna Eliza Davies (circa 1795 - circa 1881) during her wedding ceremony to Thomas Lewis-Lloyd of Nantgwyllt (1799-1870). Retained within the family, the dress was later gifted to Davies’ granddaughter, Louisa Lewis-Lloyd of Nantgwyllt, Radnorshire and Bloomfield, Narberth, Pembrokeshire (1867-1952). In the 1950s, the dress was bequeathed to Lewis-Lloyd’s great neice who later adapted the dress. In a manuscript note, the alterations are described thusly: “I converted the train into an evening dress to wear at the Spanish Embassy in Dublin, while staying with Lady Dunsany, co Meath. I was careful not to cut the train and the velvet band, zips and darts can all be carefully undone and the train replaced. I had to do this as end of war and no coupons for dress [sic].” Selvedge to selvedge of bottom of jacket- 178cmAcross the back of the jacket - 28.5cmSleeve length - 45cmDress straps front to back - 31cmNeckline of dress to hem - 128cmA number of small holes to both jacket and dress, some light staining to the armpit of the jacket and a number of small old repairs. The dress with some fraying to hem, some patch repairs, the velvet trim with loose stitches to the reverse, possibly having an adjusted hemline.Jacket: the length comprising four panels, exterior panels approx 38cm and 37.5cm selvedge to selvedge and the central panels each 50cmDress: comprising four panels measuring 49cm, 50cm x 50cm x 28cm (bisected by zip)

Full title: Imam Muhammad al-Jazuli (c. 1404-1465): Dala'il al-Khayrat, luxurious manuscript in large format in leather folder, 20th C.Description:Dim.: 103 x 77 cm (each double page)Dim.: 77,5 x 54 cm (the closed folder)Copied after the handwriting ofProfessor Al-Hafiz Othman, this luxurious manuscript is executed in elegant black Naskh script.The writing is heightened with fine floral combinations and arrangements as well as gilt divisions.It includes distinctive detailed illustrations of Makkah and Madinah, the books of the names of God Almighty and the names of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).The whole is mounted in a decorated lacquered leather folder.

Full title: Muhyi al-Din al-Lari (d. 1526): Kitab Futuh Al-Haramayn, luxurious manuscript in large format in leather folder, 20th C.Description:Dim.: 106 x 75 cm (each double page)Dim.: 76 x 55,5 cm (the closed folder) A renowned guide to the historic, geographic and religious places in and around Mecca and Medina, this Persian manuscript on paper is written at an unusually large size in black Nasta'liq script, in two columns and polychromy. The manuscript contains many illustrations decorated with gold, ink and watercolour paint. It includes detailed pictures of the Kaaba, indicating the areas designated for worship. The whole is mounted in a decorated lacquered leather folder.

Full title: Two pages from an illuminated manuscript, possibly a Book of Hours, probably Flemish, 16th C.Description:Dim.: 34 x 23 cm (the frame)Dim.: 15,5 x 10,5 cm (each work)

Full title: A Flemish armorial manuscript on parchment and a second one, dated 1587 and bearing a seal, 16th C.Description:Dim.: 58,5 x 30,5 cm (the largest)Dim.: 42 x 30,5 cm (the smallest)Dia.: 5 cm (the seal)

Two folios from a Jain manuscript, India, 19th century, 10 x 6.5 cm and 12 x 6cm; each framed and glazed (2)

A Persian manuscript leaf, late 19th / 20th century, illuminated with a panel of a Prince riding a white horse, in a green landscape, with panels of calligraphy within a yellow lined border, 25.5 x 15cm

Miniatuurschildering op palmblad, zgn. Tala Patra met afbeelding van gebeurtenis uit het leven van een van de tirthankara's, vermoedelijk illustatie uit manuscript, mogelijk India 16e eeuw of later, 20 x 15 cm.

Framed Indian manuscript with hand-written text and watercolour vignette portrait of a noble, 9 x 29.5cm

Henri Matisse (nach). Jazz. Mit 20 (15 doppelblattgroße) Farblithographien in Pochoirtechnik sowie lithographische Künstlerhandschrift. Je auf Lana Royal 250 (Doppelblatt). Lose in Originalumschlag, in Original-Leinenmappe, in Original-Leinenschuber. - Sehr gut erhalten, innen sauber. Durchweg prachtvolle Drucke in leuchtender Farbigkeit, zumeist formatfüllend. Duthuit/Garnaud 22. - Eines von 1500 Exemplaren auf Lana Royal als Faksimile-Nachdruck von Mourlot "Apropos ui Jazz de Matisse". - Druck bei Idem-Mourlot unter der Leitung von Claude Draeger und Mario Ferreri. Hrsg, v. Arcueil Cedex, Editions Anthèse, Parias 2004). - Matisses Buch Jazz ist ein ikonisches Werk der Buchkunst, das aus zwanzig Illustrationen sowie Texten von Henri Matisse besteht. Es basiert auf Scherenschnitten und ist eines der wichtigsten Künstlerbücher des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das Buch ist der Höhepunkt für Matisse' Technik der "papiers découpés". - Ohne den Bogen mit dem Beitrag "A propos du Jazz de Matisse" von D. Szymusiak. With 20 (15 double page) coloured lithographs and lithographic artist's manuscript. Each on Lana Royal 250 (dpuble sheet). Loose in orig. wrapper, in orig. cloth folder, in orig. cloth slip-case. - Throughout splendid impressions in bright colours, mostly format-filling. One of 1500 copieson Lana Royal. - Matisse's book Jazz is an iconic work of book art consisting of twenty illustrations and texts by Henri Matisse. It is based on silhouettes and is one of the most important artist's books of the 20th century. The book is the culmination of Matisse's technique of "papiers découpés". - Afterword by D. Szymusiak lacking.

A Large Quantity of Books, including Furness Year Books, Parish Magazines, books relating to Westmoreland, Cumberland, Lancashire etc.; together with one box of ephemera including a manuscript album etc. (seven boxes)

[WHITE, Gilbert] APOCRYPHA [Gilbert Whites copy, SIGNED] - A copy of the Apocrypha, circa 1730, signed and dated October 1758 by [Reverend] Gilbert White [of Selbourne] on top right hand corner of front flyleaf (when the parson-naturalist was thirty-eight years of age) with his marginal notes at the foot of the page in chapter iv, v, further signed and and inscribed on the front flyleaf by members of Gilbert Whites family, the book is undated and lacking the title-page, bound in contemporary pigskin with later spine, 8vo. 13 x 19.5cm. Contained within a modern cloth, clamshell box, and further contained within a patterned cardboard box with a typescript paper label tipped-in to the inside of the top lid, listing the signatures on the flyleaf, titled Note of Inscriptions, 18 September, 1922, comprises: a label on front pastedown written in manuscript which reads 'This book which belonged to Gilbert White of Selbourne was presented to the Gilbert White Fellowship by Gilbert White Bishop of Willochra, S. Aust. July 1922, the Bishop's signature is dated 1893 on the lower right corner of the facing flyleaf. Bishop Gilbert White, born 1859, was the great grand-nephew of Gilbert White the naturalist, he later emigrated to Australia where in 1900 he became Bishop of Carpentaria before, in 1915, he transferred to the new Willochra Diocese, South Australia. Another signature is that of Mary White (nee Yalden) who married Thomas White, one of Gilberts younger brothers, with the date 1794 assigned to her imprint, a further long inscription reads, Formerly belonging to the Rev. Mr. Holt, of Stratham, our Great Grandfather, B.W. see the Couplet answered in his handwriting, Given by Mary White to her Niece Maria White at Maidford [Northants] Nov 16, 1823, with a further inscription that reads F. Gilbert White, Leusden Vicarage, who gave it to his son Gilbert White June 9, 1893.The Reverend Gilbert White (1720-1793) was an English parson-naturalist, ecologist, and ornithologist. He is best-known for his book The Natural History and Antiquities of Selbourne, which was published in 1789, four years before the authors death, by his brother, Benjamin. Gilbert White was born 18 July, 1720, in his grandfather's vicarage at Selbourne, Hampshire. His grandfather, also Gilbert White, was at that time vicar of Selbourne. White's parents were John White (16881758) a trained barrister and Anne Holt (d. 1740). Gilbert was the eldest of eight surviving siblings, Thomas (b. 1724),Benjamin (b. 1725), Rebecca (b. 1726), John (b. 1727), Francis (b. 1728/29), Anne (b. 1731), and Henry (b. 1733). Gilbert's family lived briefly at Compton, Surrey, before moving into 'The Wakes' in 1728, which was to be his home for the rest of his life. In October 1746 he was ordained a deacon and became curate for his Uncle Charles who was vicar in the neighbouring Hampshire village of Farringdon, before his full ordination in 1749. He later became curate of the Selborne parish.White believed in studying living birds and animals in their natural habitat, an unusual approach at that time, as most naturalists preferred to carry out detailed examinations of dead specimens in the comfort of their studies. Gilbert White now has the reputation of being the first ecologist. Provenance: This book was purchased at Christies auction in South Kensington, London, in 1982. The vendor loaned it to the Gilbert White Museum, Selbourne, Hampshire, for exhibition later that year, and the museum returned the book to the vendor in February 1991.Condition Report: rubbing and wear (with some loss) to pigskin binding and later spine, corners scuffed (with some loss) toning and light foxing to front pastedown (with some loss to top and lower parts of the page) signatures and inscriptions a little faded in places otherwise mostly quite strong and easy to read, dust soiling to edges, toning and light marks to internal pages, toning to typescript label dated 1922 tipped-in to inside of the box lid, signs of wear to patterned box corners, the clamshell box is clean and bright.

Müller, Hans. (Hrsg.) Das Internationale Turnier Veldes 1931. Sammlung der 182 Partien des Turniers. Als Manuscript [Typoskript] gedruckt. Wien, Liepolt & Fally, (1932). 8°. 53 unn. Bll., 1 Bl. weiß. Orig. geheftet. (70)* Linde - N. 5444 (Bled). Mit eigenhändiger Widmung des österreichischen Internationalen Meisters Hans Müller (1896 – 1971) auf Titel verso: „Meinem lieben Freund und Schachgenossen K.W.C. van den Heesen in Freundschaft (freibleibend!!) gewidmet. H. Müller“. Sieger wurde Aljechin vor Bogoljubow. Zustand: Name auf Innenumschlag. Innen etwas gebräunt und obere Ecke gestaucht. Umschlag etwas angestaubt und bestoßen. Rücken verblichen, oben und unten mit Defekten.

A sheet of handwritten and illuminated manuscript, Mathnavi Persia 1778/9, 18cm x 9.5cm, and a handwritten page from the Koran, Kashmir 1843, framed (2)

NELSON (HORATIO)Ticket admitting the bearer to Nelson's funeral at St Paul's Cathedral ('Admit the bearer to a seat in the West Gallery Within the Church on the day of Lord Nelson's funeral'), issued to John Pape, and numbered 95, with uncommon red wax seal, printed with manuscript insertions, countersigned with initials ('J.P.'), on card, some dust-staining and other marks, 78 x 116mm., printed by W. Wilton, St. Peter's Hill, Doctors' Commons, [9 January 1806]; with a copy of The Times from Friday 10 January 1806, reporting on the funeral (2)Footnotes:'ADMITTANCE AT THE IRON GATE UNDER THE SOUTH DIAL OF THE CLOCK, WHERE THIS TICKET MUST BE PRODUCED, BUT NOT DELIVERED UP': a scarce named and numbered ticket bearing a red seal. The State Funeral of Lord Nelson, the first commoner to receive such an honour, was the most lavish state occasion of the era and lasted over five days, initiating an outpouring of public grief. A carefully orchestrated ceremony, it was '...a performance influenced by the prevailing theatricality of the day...' (Timothy Jenks, 'Contesting the Hero: The Funeral of Admiral Lord Nelson', Journal of British Studies, Vol.39, No.4, October 2000). The lying-in state in the Painted Hall at Greenwich from 5 to 7 January attracted between 15 and 30 thousand mourners and was followed by a grand river procession up the Thames to Whitehall on 8 January. The following morning hushed crowds watched the funeral procession travel the 2 miles to St Paul's Cathedral. Within the cathedral large stands had been erected for specially invited ticket holders. Named, numbered tickets bearing a red seal, rather than the usual black, and inviting the bearer inside the cathedral rather than to the procession, are uncommon.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[AUSTEN (JANE)] – ADMIRAL SIR FRANCIS WILLIAM AUSTENManuscript biographical memoir of Jane Austen's elder brother, Admiral Sir Francis William Austen, R.N. (1774-1865), giving a laudatory account of his early life and his long naval career until 1863, the last pages written in another hand, beginning 'Captain Francis William Austen the youngest but one of five sons of the Revd George Austen, Rector of Steventon and Dean in the County of Southampton...', continuing with a description of his exemplary education and disposition ('...at home under the immediate superintendence of his Father... an unusual extent of classical learning, and a highly cultivated taste for literature... remarkable suavity of temper and gentleness of manners... a youth of superior abilities [and] prepossessing appearance...'), entering the navy on the Perseverance under Captain Isaac Smith ('...an excellent nautical Astronomer having been two voyages round the World with the celebrated circumnavigator Cook...'), his rise through the ranks on various vessels and captains under the patronage of Admiral Gambier, his aptitude for chart making ('...particularly for that a branch of it which is connected to Hydrography...'), carrying despatches to Lord Nelson at Palermo ('... for three days Captain Austen had the honour of carrying the Flag of Lord Nelson as Rear Admiral of the Red...'), the blockade of Genoa ('...he was assigned the important and arduous task of remaining the most advanced Vessel off the Port, with a view to prevent anything however small going in or out, which service he performed for a considerable time to the satisfaction of the Admiral...'), in Egypt ('...Captn Austen had the honor of being introduced to the Grand Vizier...'), returning to his family in Bath in 1802 ('...to which place his Father had lately removed, being incapacitated from age and increasing infirmities...'), reluctant command of the 'Sea Fencibles' ('...a sort of nondescript half sailor, half soldier, and efficient as neither...'), further travels the West Indies with Nelson's fleet as captain of the Canopus, the death of Nelson ('...a severe blow to England...'), marriage and settling in Southampton ('...making one Family with his Mother and Sisters, a plan equally suited to his love of domestic society...'), a sojourn on St Helena on East India company business ('...they presented him with 2 pairs of handsome candlesticks on an Egyptian pattern...'), on the China station, retirement to Chawton ('...where his mother and sisters were living, and his brother Mr Knight kindly offering him the use of Chawton house he resided there nearly 4 years at 2 different times...'), his grief at the death of his first wife ('...deep agony...') and marriage to Martha Lloyd ('...on the anniversary of his first marriage...'), appointment as Commander in Chief of the West Indies station and his impressions of America ('...The men have some vile habits, especially that of frequent discharges of saliva, and that without having much regard to where they may be... and there was a sort of flippant air amongst the women...'), ending '...he is now senior Admiral of the Red...', c.78 pages, occasional foxing, marbled wrappers, worn, 4to (198 x 160mm.), [c.1863]Footnotes:'MAKING ONE FAMILY WITH HIS MOTHER AND SISTERS, A PLAN EQUALLY SUITED TO HIS LOVE OF DOMESTIC SOCIETY': THE BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF JANE AUSTEN'S SAILOR BROTHER.Admiral Sir Francis William Austen enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the Navy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and his memoir describes in detail the many actions he encountered. After peace with France he served as Commander in Chief of the North America and West Indies Station. His younger brother Charles also distinguished himself in the Service and Jane Austen, positioned in the family between these two brothers, was devoted to them. Away for years at a time, Francis remained close to his family and returned to them on leave; on his marriage he describes '...making one Family with his Mother and Sisters...'. Jane Austen drew on this close relationship for characters and settings in her novels, discussed in detail by Brian Southam in his biography of the two brothers: 'The sailor brothers recognised themselves in the novels, their habits and their sayings, and allowed their sister to use the names of their ships. In this sense Mansfield Park and to a greater degree, Persuasion, can be seen as forming a tribute to them and to their service...' (Brian Southam, Jane Austen and the Navy, 2000, p.4). This is seen in her sympathetic portraits of naval officers such as Captain Wentworth and Captain Benwick in Persuasion, and it is widely accepted that Francis is the model for William in Mansfield Park: 'Concerning sailors she is romantic. Their very faults are lovable in her eyes, and their lives packed with interest...' (J.H. & E.C. Hubback, Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers, 1905). While Francis was serving on HMS Elephant in the Baltic she wrote to him: '...I have something in hand – which I hope on the credit of [P]ride and P[rejudice] will sell well, tho' not so entertaining. And, by the bye, shall you object to my mentioning the Elephant in it, and two or three other of your old Ships? – I have done it, but it shall not stay, to make you angry.- They are only just mentioned...' (letter to Francis, 3-6 July 1813). The Hubbacks also suggest that close brother and sister relationships such as those portrayed by Jane in Persuasion (Frederick Wentworth and Mrs Croft) and in Northanger Abbey (Henry and Eleanor Tilney), were also informed by her own experience.By family repute the memoir was written by Francis himself, although written in the third person. Brian Southam also concurs, describing it as an autobiographical memoir. Whilst the descriptive narrative moves swiftly on, there are moments of deeper reflection and detail, which would also indicate that it was a personal memoir, such as a description of his sojourn at Jaffa where he describes in harrowing detail a massacre by Napoleon's troops. The manuscript as a whole remains unpublished but short extracts have been published in various biographies of the Austens.Provenance: Admiral Sir Francis William Austen (1774-1865); his son Rev. Edward Thomas Austen (1820-1908); thence 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

[KIP (JOHANNES)][Britannia Illustrata, or Views of Several of the Queen's Palaces as also the Principal Seats of the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain], 76 double-page (of 80) engraved plates by Kip after Leonard Knyff, lacks title, all plates mounted on guards, manuscript index of plates, two tissue guards with ink drawings loosely tipped in, light age-toning and minor spotting (generally not affecting images), margins lightly frayed, rebound in seventeenth century vellum gilt, worn with some loss to spine [Lowndes III 1278; RIBA I 386], folio (515 X 330mm.), [David Mortier and others, 1707]Footnotes:Provenance: William Niven F.S.A (1846-1921), bookplate. Niven worked alongside Sir George Gilbert Scott on the restoration of the Chapter House at Westminster Abbey, and published several books on country house architecture.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

BERKSHIRE, BASILDON - MANUSCRIPT ESTATE PLAN 'A Survey of Upper House Farm, Lying in the Parish of Basseldon, in the County of Berkes, the Estate of Willliam Rawstorn Esq.... Surveyed A.D. 1733 by Jos. Collier & Wm. Baker', manuscript on 2 sheets of vellum (joined), black ink with green washes over wooded areas, houses in red, scale panel ('Four poles (or one chain,) to half an inch') in yellow, attractive multi-coloured compass rose, dust-soiling, a few old damp stains and loss (approx. 70 x 70mm.) touching image at right hand side, overall dimensions 132 x 740mm., Jos. Collier & Wm. Baker, 1733 Saleroom notices: Measurement should read: 745 x 1320mm. 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

[GOMBERVILLE (MARIN LE ROY)]La doctrine des moeurs tirée de la philosophie des Stoïques, 2 parts in one vol.,FIRST EDITION,, letterpress title with large engraved vignette, engraved additional titles for both parts, 102 (of 103) large engravings and author portrait, engraved head- and tail-pieces all by Pierre Daret, lacks one leaf (Ss2), contemporary occasional manuscript inscriptions, first engraved title frayed and repaired on lower margin, light damp-staining, lower margins slightly frayed, late seventeenth century calf gilt, repair to bottom half of spine, worn [Brunet II 1656], Paris, Louis Sevestre, 1646--[GOMBERVILLE (MARIN LE ROY)], translated by Thomas Gibbs Moral Virtue Delineated, in One Hundred and Three Short Lectures, 2 parts in one vol., second edition, letterpress title with large engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece, with engraved cancel titles to both parts 'The Doctrine of Morality', engraved portrait of the author, 103 large engraved illustrations all by Pierre Daret, engraved, woodcut initials, text in French and English in parallel columns, some toning and spotting throughout, small occasional marginal tears, modern quarter calf gilt [ESTC T124307], printed for J. Darby and others, 1726, folio; and 2 others (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

AMERICAN REVOLUTION[KORN (CHRISTOPH HEINRICH)] Geschichte der Kriege in und ausser Europa vom Anfange des Ausstandes der brittischen Kolonien in Nordamerika an, Parts 1-12 (of 30) bound in 3 vol., 11 engraved maps and plans in total (6 folding, 4 hand-coloured), 8 engraved portraits of important figures in the Revolution, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, light foxing, contemporary blue boards, manuscript title to spines, light wear [Sabin 27213], 4to, Nuremberg, Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe, 1776-1777Footnotes:A contemporary European account of the American War of Independence. The work is attributed to Christoph Heinrich Korn (1726-1783), a German army officer. Originally issued in 30 parts, the first 12 parts present here deal specifically with the recent warfare in America. Images include a plan of Boston, view of Quebec, and maps of New England, New York and Pennsylvania.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 ATLAS[Unrecorded German Atlas of the World], 42 engraved maps (one double-page twin-hemisphere World), all but the World with integral key, manuscript annotations to a few maps, each mounted in linen, with manuscript caption tag, housed in original marbled chemise and marbled paper slipcase, maps 190 x 135mm. (World 190 x 270mm.), [Germany, c.1783-1789]Footnotes:UNRECORDED GERMAN WORLD ATLAS, comprising 42 maps: world map, Americas (3), Asia (6), Europe (31), and Africa. Each bears a key below the map with a numerical list of the countries and regions shown on the map.The atlas is not dated and bears no imprint, but the approximate date range can be ascertained from the political information provided on the maps, notably that of the Thirteen States of the United States ('Die XIII vereingte Staaten von Nord America') which were first recognised as such at the Treaty of Paris in 1783. A fourteenth State (Vermont) was accepted into the Union in 1789. Poland is depicted as it existed between 1772 and 1793. No institutional copies of this work have been traced.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ROWLING (J.K.)Correspondence from J.K. Rowling to the parents of her ex-boyfriend, and a presentation copy to him, comprising: i) Autograph letter signed ('Jo') to Brenda and Ken ('Dear Brenda & Ken'),writing shortly after the publication of book four, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ('...madness...'), and now bracing herself '...for the announcement of the boy who is playing Harry in the film...', expecting the Daily Mail to turn up at her door '...to find out whether I hate him or not...' but says she is delighted with him, 2 pages, creased at folds, 297 x 210mm., Edinburgh, [no date but 2000]; ii) Autograph letter signed ('Jo') to Brenda ('Dear Brenda'), a fond letter thanking her for her kind words about the books and hoping that Mike (her ex-boyfriend and Brenda's son) will read his copy of the first one ('...I'm thinking of pretending there's a character based on him in the next one, just to fool him into ploughing through it...'), ending with news of her daughter Jessica and recommending Harry Potter et l'Ecole des Sorciers to her family in France, 2 pages, creased at folds, 297 x 210mm., Edinburgh, 14 December 1998; iii) Pictorial greetings card depicting a row of owls, signed ('Jo') to Brenda ('Dear Brenda'), on her return from a US tour and telling her she is about to move house ('...Daily Mail journalists keep turning up at this one and I'd like a bit more privacy!...'), delighted that Mike has finally read the books ('...He seems to think he deserves a dedication for this – or possibly some sort of medal...'), 2 pages, 178 x 210mm. closed, Edinburgh, 11 September [19]99;iv) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first paperback edition, first printing, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the dedication page 'To Micky, who learned to read late in life and should be encouraged. Love Jo', with the number sequence 10 to 1 on the reverse of title page, slight toning to margins, publisher's pictorial wrappers, spine and adjacent strip of front cover slightly faded, corner tips knocked, 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1998] (4)Footnotes:'THE BOY WHO IS PLAYING HARRY IN THE FILM... I'M DELIGHTED WITH HIM': J.K. ROWLING WRITES TO THE PARENTS OF HER EX-BOYFRIEND, WHO WITNESSED THE GENESIS OF HARRY POTTER, and jokingly inscribes a copy of the Chamber of Secrets for him.Jo Rowling met Michael, the son of the recipients of our letters, whilst they were students at Exeter University in the mid-1980's. After university he travelled the world on a gap year and returned to study in Manchester, where the couple resumed their relationship. Rowling was at the time living in London, working for Amnesty International, and regularly took the long train journey from London to Manchester to visit him whilst they were looking for a flat together. It was on one of these delayed journeys that, famously, the inspiration for Harry Potter came to her: '...It was after a weekend's flat-hunting, when I was travelling back to London on my own on a crowded train, that the idea for Harry Potter simply fell into my head. I began to write 'Philosopher's Stone' that very evening... I moved up to Manchester, taking the swelling manuscript with me...' (J.K. Rowling, biography, online). Indeed, Brenda recalls how Rowling was constantly scribbling down ideas for the books and leaving pieces of paper everywhere when she went to stay. However, at the end of December 1990 Rowling's mother died and she describes the following year as one 'of misery'.By November 1991 she and Mike had split up and she had moved to Portugal. As our letters attest, she kept in touch with Mike and his parents throughout her troubled first marriage and the birth of her daughter Jessica up until her second marriage in 2001. Throughout the letters, the last written during the frenzy that accompanied the making of the first film, there is a glimpse of her new life as a celebrity author, with mention of trips to Cannes, book tours and frustrations with the press, particularly the Daily Mail (notably newspaper of choice for the odious Dursley family). She writes with evident fondness to Brenda and Ken, who witnessed the genesis of the Harry Potter books, and gently teases Mike for finally getting round to reading them ('...He seems to think he deserves a dedication for this – or possibly some sort of medal...'). It was after a row with Mike that Rowling invented the sport of Quidditch whilst staying in a Manchester hotel: '...It [sport] infuriates men... which is quite satisfying given my state of mind when I invented it...' she later wrote.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

AMERICA - TREATY OF WASHINGTON 1871Group of material pertaining to the Treaty of Washington, 1871, collected by Frederic Daustini Cremer, accompanying the British delegation under the chairmanship of Earl de Grey, comprising some fourteen letters, signatures and other items:i) Signatures of the British and American signatories of the Treaty of Washington, including the British High Commissioners (George Robinson, the Earl de Grey and Ripon (chairman), Stafford Northcote, Edward Thornton, John Macdonald and Montague Bernard) and the American delegation (U.S. Secretary of State Hamilton Fish (chairman), Robert Schenck, Samuel Nelson, Ebenezer Hoar and George Williams), with seven other protagonists, 2 pages, written on recto only on lined paper, watermark 'Department of State/ US', creased, page one affixed to an album leaf, page two loose, folio (345 x 210mm.), dated at head 'May 8 1871/ 11am'; with portrait photograph of President Ulysses S. Grant seated in an armchair, signed in ink on lower margin ('U.S. Grant') affixed to the reverse of an album leaf, page one of the above list of signatures on verso, folded and creased across centre of image, 151 x 103mm. ii) Autograph note in the third person from General W. T. Sherman to Earl de Grey, accepting an invitation to dine, on US Army Headquarters notepaper, one page on a bifolium, lined paper, affixed to an album leaf, some browning, 8vo (200 x 125mm.), Washington, 28 February [18]71 iii) Two autograph letters signed ('U.S. Grant'), the first to Hamilton Fish, making arrangements to meet the Italian Minister, on Executive Mansion notepaper, one page on a bifolium, creased, 8vo, Washington DC, 13 May [18]70; the second to an unknown recipient, arranging to meet at Harrisburg, 3 pages on a bifolium, lined paper, torn along fold, creased, 8vo, Long Branch, N.J., 6 August 1870, both affixed to an album leaf; with an accompanying letter to Frederic Daustini Cremer on Executive Mansion notepaper sending him '...an autograph letter of Gen Grant's as a memento... it is one selected for the reason that it is entirely unofficial...', 3 pages on a bifolium, creased, 8vo, Washington, 5 May [18]71iv) Autograph letter signed ('Hamilton Fish') to Hon Ogden Hoffman of San Francisco ('My dear Judge'), a letter of introduction for '...Lord Goderich and his friend Mr Cremer. The former is the son of the Earl de Grey & the latter is his Lordships Secretary...', 2pp. on a bifolium, 8vo, Washington, 6 May 1871; with accompanying autograph envelope; and two autograph letters from Charles Sumner, one to Mrs Fish regarding a book of Froissart illustrations and another in the third person to Earl de Grey accepting an invitation, 4 pages, 8vo, 7 May [18]66 and 13 March [no date]; with autograph letter signed ('Schulyer Colfax') to Hamilton Fish, reporting he has not yet received his copies of the Lincoln Memorial, on Vice President's Chamber notepaper, one page on a bifolium, 8vo, Washington, 9 July [18]70; with signature of J. G. Blaine, Speaker, dated 19 April 1871, one page, oblong 8vo, three items affixed to an album leaf, the others loosev) Autograph letter signed ('de Grey') to Cremer written on the voyage back to England after the signing of the Treaty, sorry to leave Washington and regretting that the Senate would not ratify the Treaty before he left, talking of the Free Trade movement in the US and asking him to report back on the reaction to the treaty in Canada, 8pp., creased, remains of guard, 8vo, 31 May 1871; with a manuscript fragment outlining two points of the treaty with regards to inshore fisheries, one page torn from a larger sheet, oblong 8vo, [1871]Footnotes:A LANDMARK TREATY FORGING PERMANENT FRIENDLY RELATIONS BETWEEN BRITAIN, THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA, PAVING THE WAY FOR THE 'GREAT RAPPOCHEMENT' AND THE FORMATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS.The present collection includes the signatures of all the key figures involved in the signing of the Treaty of Washington, including U.S. President, and hero of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant, his Secretary of State Hamilton Fish and the British delegation led by George Robinson, Earl de Grey and Ripon. It was assembled by Frederic Daustini Cremer who acted as secretary to de Grey and travelled with him and his son Viscount Goderich to Washington for the proceedings, where he also obtained letters by William Sherman amongst others for his collection. The treaty augmented permanent peaceful relations between the United States and Canada, and the United States and Britain by settling various disputes lingering from the civil war, navigation and fishing rights, and defining the rules for neutral governments during times of war, thereby establishing a precedent for future international arbitration. Provenance: The Rev. Frederic Daustini Cremer (1848-1927); thence by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ERNST CHAIN'S NOBEL PRIZE FOR PENICILLINThe 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded to Sir Ernst Chain for his work on the discovery of penicillin:Nobel Prize medal struck in 23 carat gold, approximately 200g., 67mm in diameter, design by Erik Lindberg and manufactured by the Swedish Royal Mint (Kungliga Mynt och Justeringsverkey);the obverse with bust of Alfred Nobel facing left, 'ALFR. / NOBEL' to left of bust, 'NAT. / MDCCC / XXXIII / OB. / MDCCC / XCVI' to right of bust, signed 'E. LINDBERG 1902' to the lower left edge;the reverse featuring an allegorical vignette of the Genius of Medicine with an open book on her lap, collecting the water pouring from a rock to aid a sick girl beside her, the legend above reading 'INVENTAS VITAM IUVAT EX COLUISSE PER ARTES', the plaque below the vignette reading 'E.B. CHAIN / MCMXLV', the motto to either side of the plaque reading 'REG. UNIVERSITAS' 'MED. CHIR. CAROL.', signed 'E. LINDBERG' to the lower right of the vignette,housed in the original diced maroon morocco case with gilt decoration, lined in velvet and satin,TOGETHER WITH:(i) Nobel Prize Diploma presented to Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain, and Sir Howard Walter Florey, issued jointly 'for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases', the first leaf featuring a unique artwork by the Swedish artist Jerk Werkmäster (1896-1978), depicting two figures in front of a tree with a central cartouche bearing the initials 'EBC'; one figure wears a suit of armour and carries a flag emblazoned with three crowns, the national emblem of Sweden; the second figure wears a lab coat and carries a flag emblazoned with the bowl of Hygeia, the rod of Asclepius, and a rooster (sacred bird to Asclepius); the second leaf with calligraphic inscription in Swedish in blue, black and red, signed beneath by 28 members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, 2 leaves, on vellum, each 341 x 242mm., mounted in a blue leather gilt-ruled portfolio, upper cover with gilt-stamped central wreath encircling the monogram 'EBC' [Ernst Boris Chain], lower cover with gilt-stamped staff of Asclepius, Stockholm, 25th October 1945.(ii) Typescript of Ernst Chain's Nobel Prize acceptance speech ( '...As a member of one of the most cruelly persecuted races in the world I am profoundly grateful to Providence that it has fallen to me, together with my friend Sir Howard Florey, to originate this work on penicillin which has helped to alleviate the suffering of the wounded soldiers of Britain, the country that has adopted me...') 3 pages, rectos only, (225 x 360mm.), with carbon copy, and a later printed copy of the speech.Footnotes:'THE HIGHEST DISTINCTION A SCIENTIST MAY HOPE TO ACHIEVE': THE NOBEL MEDAL AWARDED TO SIR ERNST CHAIN FOR HIS WORK ON THE DISCOVERY OF PENICILLIN.In the Nobel presentation speech by Professor G. Liljestrand, he celebrates the work of Ernst Chain, Howard Florey, and Alexander Fleming:'in a time when annihilation and destruction through the inventions of man have been greater than ever before in history, the introduction of penicillin is a brilliant demonstration that human genius is just as well able to save life and combat disease.'The discovery of penicillin, and its curative effect in infectious diseases, is arguably the most profoundly important discovery in the field of medical science in the 20th century. More than 200 million lives are estimated to have been directly saved by the use of penicillin as an anti-bacterial treatment. Previously fatal ailments were easily treatable as a result of this research. The Nobel Prize is recognised internationally as the highest possible accolade in the field of Physiology or Medicine, and the present lot is the prize awarded to Doctor Ernst Chain for his central role in this world-changing discovery.The Prelude To Chain's Nobel Prize-winning Contribution To PenicillinThe quest to counteract infectious diseases made significant progress as early as the 19th century, with the valuable research work by Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch. With the nature of such diseases identified and linked to the invasion of bacteria, attempts at developing vaccinations and treatments accelerated. For antibiotics, one of the earliest forays was the experiments of Lord Lister in 1871, which – though inconclusive – explored the possibility of the growth of a fungus creating a less favourable environment for bacteria. A year later, William Roberts of the Manchester Victoria hospital noted antagonism between fungi and bacteria. In 1876, separate research by John Tyndall also noted the combative effect of Penicillium glaucum on bacterial micro-organisms. New methods of application were also discovered and developed around this time, as shown by the awarding of the first ever Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1901 to Emil von Behring for his work on serum therapy.It is against this backdrop of intense medical development that Alexander Fleming observed the effectiveness of a rarer, contaminated mould he described as Penicillium notatum prevented the growth of bacteria from the staphylococcus group. The substance itself he named penicillin, which prevented the formation of new bacterial cell walls, resulting in the slowing of reproduction, and eventual death of, the targeted bacteria. After Fleming published his observations in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology (No. 10, 1929), and with early attempts to purify the mould by Clutterbuck, Lovell and Raistrick ending in limited success, research into penicillin appears to have paused indefinitely. It was not until 1939 and the work of the William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University – headed by Sir Howard Florey and with the defining contributions of Ernst Chain – that the extent of its curative effects could be realized:'The introduction of penicillin into clinical medicine... [was] of a magnitude such as no-one could possibly foresee... even in the loftiest flights of fantasy'Ernst Chain ('25 Years Of Penicillin', draft manuscript)Ernst Chain's Early Life And CareerBorn in Berlin in 1906, Ernst Boris Chain was from a diverse continental background; his mother (Margaret Eisner) was German, his father (Michael Chain) Russian, both of Jewish origin. Chain developed an interest in chemistry from a young age, inspired by his father's occupation as a trained chemist. He obtained his degree from the Friedrich-Wilhelm University in Berlin in 1930. His other great passion was music, and as a skilled pianist and music critic in the 1920s his future may have been in the arts rather than science (Chain continued to perform recitals throughout his academic career).Despite Chain's talents and ambitions, he was forced to leave Germany in 1933. The appointment of Hitler as German Chancellor was swiftly followed by restrictive measures limiting the rights of Jewish citizens including access to universities. Amidst increasing anti-Semitism in his home country, and threatened with the loss of rights and research opportunities, Chain made the difficult decision to emigrate to the United Kingdom, receiving his first doctorate in absentia; his mother and sister stayed in Germany, and died during the Holocaust.     For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS)De natura deorum, De divinatione, De legibus, Academica, De finibus bonorum et malorum, De fato, Timaeus, Somnium Scipionis, Quintus Tullius Cicero: Commentariolum petitionis..., 140 leaves, 45 lines, roman letter, manuscript annotations on title and on margins, marginal damp-staining, right margin shaved, modern calf [ISTC ic00572000; GW 6905], folio (305 x 210mm.), Venice, Simon Bevilaqua [and Petrus de Quarengiis, Bergomensis], 18 September 1496Footnotes:Provenance: Bradford Free Library, stamp on 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

PTOLEMAEUS (CLAUDIUS)Geographicae enarrationis libri octo [edited by Michael Villanovanus Servetus], text with 4 large woodcut diagrams and 2 full-page woodcuts of a diagram and armillary sphere showing the projection of the winds by Albrecht Dürer (l4 verso), 49 double-page maps and one single-page map, woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut historiated initials, decorative page headings, borders, and tail-pieces, divisional title to index, title-page with neat repair to upper right corner, early ownership inscriptions to title (one legible, others obliterated), occasional manuscript notations throughout, binder's waste used as pastedowns and endpapers, damp staining mostly to upper margin, last 3 leaves with lower corners torn, near contemporary limp vellum, one tie lacking, worn [Phillips 364; Sabin 66483], folio (405 x 290mm.), Lyon, Melchior and Gasper Trechsel, 1535Footnotes:The first printing of the edition edited by Michael Villanovanus, known as Servetus (1511-1553), with the Latin translation by the German humanist Willibald Pirckheimer (1470-1530). The maps (27 of the ancient world; 22 of the modern world) are printed from woodblocks first used in Lorenz Fries's 1522 edition printed by Grüninger (the final map is captioned with this date with Fries's initials), then again in Grüninger's Strasbourg edition of 1525. The double-page maps of the ancient and modern world comprise: 10 of Europe, 4 of Africa, 12 of Asia, World map, New World, 2 further World maps and 19 others (including Britain and further maps of Africa, Asia and Europe, one with a single-page map of Lotharingia on verso). The maps featuring the Americas are number 28 ('Tabula terre nova') with an account of the voyages and discoveries of Columbus on the verso, number 34 ('Norbegia et Gottia') showing Greenland as a peninsula of Europe, number 49 ('Tabula nova orbis'), and number 50 ('Tabula totius orbis'), the celebrated map of the world by Lorenz Fries, the first Ptolomeian map to use the name 'America', on a portion of the South American Continent.Provenance: Joy de Droyont(?), ink inscription on 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

ANANIA (GIOVANNI LORENZO D')La universal fabrica del mondo, 4 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, woodcut title, 4 folding engraved maps (neatly laid down), a2 restored, tear to B3 of first part and to A4 of fourth part, early ownership inscription on title inked over, spotting and age-toning, early limp vellum, manuscript title on spine, worn, hinges starting [EDIT16 CNCE 15952; USTC 825399; Burden 43; not in Adams, BL or Sabin], 4to, Naples, Giuseppe Cacchi dell'Aquila, 1573Footnotes:RARE FIRST EDITION OF A TREATISE ON COSMOGRAPHY WITH FOLDING MAPS OF EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA AND AMERICA.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

WILKINS (JOHN)The First Book. The Discovery of a New World. or, a Discourse Tending to Prove, That tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World in the Moone. With a Discourse Concerning the Possibility of a Passage Thither. The Third Impression. Corrected and Enlarged, 2 parts in one vol., additional engraved pictorial title by W. Marshall (laid down), title to second book, several woodcut diagrams in the text, manuscript annotations throughout, errata to first book (R2) bound in after A2, C1 and C2 of first book misbound, lacks blank a1 to second part, marginal damp-staining throughout, later calf gilt [ESTC S119973], 8vo (175 x 120mm.), John Norton, for John Maynard, 1640Footnotes:Provenance: S. Walker, manuscript inscription to title.Saleroom notices:Damp-stains affect text to approximately 50 opening pagesThis 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

LESLIE (JOHN)De origine moribus, et rebus gestis Scotorum, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, title with woodcut head-piece and vignette, divisional title with the engraved arms of Mary Queen of Scots on verso, folding engraved map of Scotland, 11 full-page engraved genealogies of the kings of Scotland (incorporating portrait vignettes), woodcut initials and head-pieces, double-ruled borders throughout, light spotting, 2 small worm holes to first few leaves, contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title to spine, light wear [Adams L541; EDIT16 CNCE 33941], 4to (215 x 170mm), Rome, In aedibus populi Romani, 1578Footnotes:First edition of an important history and description of Scotland by the Catholic John Leslie (1527-1596), Bishop of Ross, and adviser of Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots. Although originally composed in Scots during Leslie's imprisonment in 1568-1570, a Scottish version was not published until 1830.Provenance: P. Matthei Paseniy, early ownership ink inscription on title-page.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

LAWRENCE (T.E.)A North African jambiya given to Isaac 'Ike' Webb by T.E. Lawrence, curved blade double-edged over half its length to the point, waisted wooden hilt, old splits, with brass mounts chased with foliate scrollware, in its wood-lined brass scabbard decorated en suite, and with two suspension rings, 230mm. blade, 405mm. long, late 19th centuryFootnotes:THE DAGGER PRESENTED BY T.E. LAWRENCE TO IKE WEBB AND MENTIONED BY WEBB IN HIS WILL. This is one of the very few daggers purportedly belonging to Lawrence that has a traceable provenance back to him. Isaac 'Ike' Webb was the chief mechanic and works manager of the Brough Motorcycle Works in Nottingham with whom Lawrence had a longstanding friendship. Indeed, the manuscript of Seven Pillars was lent to Webb by Lawrence and it was stored, for safekeeping, in the Brough Motorcycle Works safe. Webb mentions Lawrence's dagger in his 1966 will (a photocopy of which is included in the lot), where he bequeaths 'the three large photographs of self, Geo. Brough and Lawrence, and also the knife presented to me by Lawrence' to his son Cyril. The dagger was then sold by Webb's family at auction in Nottingham on 22 June 1995.Provenance: Presented by T.E. Lawrence to Isaac 'Ike' Webb; bequeathed by Webb to his son Cyril; sold by Cyril Webb's family at auction in Nottingham, 22 June 1995 where acquired by bookseller Richard Watkins of Stoke sub Hamdon, Somerset; Sotheby's London, 17 December 1996, lot 293, where acquired by the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CARTARI (VINCENZO)Le imagini de i dei de gli antichi, nelle quali si contengono gl'idoli, i riti, le cerimonie, & altre cose appartenenti alla religione de gli antichi, title with printer's device, 87 engraved plates by Bolognino Altieri, repair to title, toning, small wormholes occasionally affecting text, near contemporary vellum, minor wear, upper joint cracked, faint manuscript notations to upper cover, loss at foot of spine [EDIT16 CNCE9763], 4to, Venice, Marc'Antonio Zaltieri, 1592This 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

MOUNTAINEERINGALMER (CHRISTIAN) A Facsimile of Christian Almer's Führerbuch 1856-1894, Reproduced under the Superintendence of C.D. Cunningham and Capt. W. De W. Abney, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 200 COPIES], this copy without the limitation notice, half-title, heliogravure photographic frontispiece portrait of Almer, 2 illustrations, publisher's green cloth, gilt morocco spine labels (some abrasions), g.e. [Neate C157], 8vo, Sampson Low, 1896Footnotes:Christian Almer (1826-1898) was one of the great pioneering Alpine guides from the golden age of mountaineering, making the first ascent of the Eiger, and many other Alpine peaks. Privately printed, the Führerbuch reproduces in facsimile the manuscript recommendations of the climbers he accompanied, together with a lengthy introduction. On publication the book caused great controversy amongst Alpine circles, the reviewer in the Alpine Journal (Vol. 18, 1897) stating that 'in our opinion 'Fuhrerbuch' ought not to be published, and we trust that this volume may remain an unique specimen in its class'. According to Neate of the 200 copies 'only 68 copies were published after which the plates were destroyed'.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

CORONELLI (VINCENZO MARIA)[Isole Britanniche: Inghilterra, Scozia, Irlanda], 3 parts in 1 vol., engraved title, 3 half-titles, 85 engraved leaves comprising portraits, including Queen Anne and William III (shaved with loss to external margin), royal arms, maps of the British Isles, and city views (some folding), 3 leaves of text (one to each section: England, Scotland and Ireland), some leaves slightly frayed at edges, later vellum, manuscript title on spine, rubbed, oblong 4to (200 x 260mm.), [Venice, c.1706]Footnotes:Coronelli's Isole Britanniche, including maps, plans, bird's eye views and elevations, made up a part of his Teatro della Guerra (1706-7), representing countries involved in the War of Spanish Succession between 1701 and 1713. In the end, the publication did not come to fruition, however, some parts were published, such as the present copy.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

MANUSCRIPT ATLASManuscript atlas, by Elizabeth and Isabella Tudor, 20 pen, ink and watercolour maps (4 double-page, including 2 World) on thick paper, several signed by either Elizabeth or Isabella, a few dated, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, rubbed, small loss to lower spine, 4to, [1826-1827]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

COLQUHOUN (ITHELL)Archive of 'magical writings', manuscripts, typescripts, original illustrations and printed material, comprising: i) Manuscript and typescript essays and lecture notes, including typed essays on Qabalah with manuscript amendments ('The Crown and the Kingdom' in four parts '...The ten circles, centres or concentrations of force are the Sephioth or Divine Emanation...'), Druidry and Gnosticism, 'Fire and the Pyramid of Flame' ('...the progeny of Electricity... the essence of our divine ancestors, the celestial hierarchies...'), typescript of her one-act play 'The Pilgrimage', essay on Aleister Crowley ('Heaven & Earth: The Dying Kick of the Dying-God'), on ritual ('Ceremony Connected with the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram... The altar is arranged as for the Neophyte Grade of the G.D... Rose and Dagger in E., Incense, lamp and Fire-Wand in S., Cup in W.... if the pentacle is not ready, a gold coin may be substituted...'), on interior stars ('De Astris Interioribus'), a long descriptive essay on 'The Isiac Tablet of Bembo', also 'The Taro as Colour', 'Zodiacal Rulership of the Taro Court Cards' and descriptions of 17 of the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot ('The Fool', 'The High Priestess', 'The Hanged Man', etc.), and much else; illustrated with some 23 original diagrams in biro, some coloured in gouache, including 'The Cube' (5), the Tree of Life (10), 'Tatwass Through the Day' (collection of loose coloured-paper shapes), 'Taro Trumps in the Cube of Space' (4), c.244 pages, typed or written in blue or black biro on lined paper, many annotations and amendments, illustrations and diagrams in biro and gouache, mostly 4to, [undated]; ii) File of incoming correspondence, some published as appendices (Dorothy Empson, Maxwell Armfield (3), Robert Temple (3), Colin Murray of the Golden Section Order), typed article by Mrs Armer on 'Worship of the Old Deity', printed matter concerning Colquhoun's Masonic affiliations, and 4 pages of unpublished notes and diagrams, 80 pages, various sizes, etc. [1970's]; iii) Colquhoun's research material pertaining to W.B. Yeats, Maude Gonne and Ireland, including notes taken at the Yeats International Summer School at Sligo, her 'Irish' address book (including those of Jack Yeats and Mrs W.B. Yeats), various photographs, maps, guidebooks, timetables etc., c.47 pages of notes, c.1966-1968; with first edition copies of Ithell Colquhoun's Sword of Wisdom: MacGregor Mathers and the Golden Dawn, London and New York, 1975, one inscribed by the author to Kitty (2), The Crying of the Wind, Ireland, 1955, and The Living Stones, Cornwall, 1957, [second half twentieth century] (collection)Footnotes:'THE OPENING OF THE SEALS IS FOLLOWED BY THE SOUNDING OF SEVEN TRUMPETS & THE POURING OF SEVEN VIALS': MAGICAL WRITINGS AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE IMPORTANT BRITISH SURREALIST PAINTER, OCCULTIST & AUTHOR.Until recently the surrealist works of Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988) have been somewhat overshadowed by better-known contemporaries such as Leonora Carrington and Eileen Agar, but interest in her art and writing is now firmly in the ascendant. Indeed, the scholar Amy Hale has noted that Colquhoun '...is becoming recognized as one of the most interesting and prolific esoteric thinkers and artists of the twentieth century...' (Amy Hale, 'The Magical Life of Ithell Colquhoun' in Nevill Drury, Pathways in Modern Western Magic, 2012) and argues that through Colquhoun's work '...we can see an interplay of themes and movements which characterizes the trajectory of certain British subcultures ranging from Surrealism to the Earth Mysteries movement and also gives us a rare insight into the thoughts and processes of a working magician...'.The magical material in this archive, save for four pages of notes and diagrams, was gathered together and published as The Magical Writings of Ithell Colquhoun in 2007 by Steve Nichols, a copy of which is included in the lot. It serves as a complement to Colquhoun's 1974 work, Sword of Wisdom: MacGregor Mathers and the Golden Dawn, her only published book on magical theory. The four essays entitled 'The Crown and the Kingdom' were also published by Steve Nichols as a separate volume in 2006. Much of it was delivered as lectures, notably to Countess Tamara Bourkhoun's Golden Dawn-inspired Order of the Pyramid and Sphinx in the 1960's, of which she was a prominent member, or articles in such publications as Prediction. She was an initiate of several different orders representing Hermetic and Pagan traditions including the OrdoTempli Orientis, the Masonic Order, the Fellowship of Isis and the French Gnostic Church. Colquhoun discovered surrealism through the work of Dali and Magritte whilst studying at the Slade under Henry Tonks, and joined the English Surrealist Group in 1939, exhibiting with Roland Penrose at the Mayor Gallery the same year. Her involvement with the British Surrealist movement, however, was to be brief as she was soon expelled from the group for refusing to abandon the occult research which had become central to her work. She was interested in the occult from an early age, particularly the principles of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, introduced through her cousin Edward Garstin, and she infused her art with elements of occult colour theory and sacred geometry, both of which she returned to in her later writings as evidenced here (see Amy Hale, The Magic Surrealism of Ithell Colquhoun, Art UK online, June 2020).The present collection represents many of her wide-ranging interests, drawing together her magical and artistic careers. In her short article of 1977, 'The Taro as Colour', a modern typed copy of which is included in the archive, she talks of her magical theory of colour and the surrealistic painting technique of automatism: '...It renders the essence of each card by the non-figurative means of pure colour, applied automatically in the manner of the psychomorphological movement in surrealism...' she explains. Also evident is her admiration for Celtic lore (one letter is from a Deaconess of the Ancient Celtic Church) and in particular W.B. Yeats, a Golden Dawn Adept who also used automatism in his work ('...Through his hermetic studies under MacGregor Mathews, Yeats was deeply embued with Qabalistic thought...'). Ithell's influential article about Aleister Crowley which appeared originally in the London Broadsheet, no.4, April 1955, is also present, typed and amended by the author: '...Ithells' attitude to Aleister Crowley was ambivalent. He chased her around a house once, but she managed to escape his advances...' (Nichols, p.3). Amongst the wealth of material here is a detailed description of a ritual, 'The Outline of Preliminary Ceremony Connected with the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram', running to some five handwritten pages with red and black inks used to clarify which are spoken words and which are actions. As might be expected, there are also several striking illustrations, including a series of colourful painted diagrams depicting various configurations of The Cube. Provenance: Steve Nichols, editor of The Magical Writings of Ithell Colquhoun, 2007.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[LYNDWOOD (WILLIAM)]Provinciale seu constitutiones Anglie [edited by J. Badius], 212 leaves, 73 lines and headline, gothic letter, printed in red and black, double-column, manuscript note pasted to upper pastedown, manuscript notations in an early hand on title and occasionally throughout, manuscript notes in a later hand to final blank (laid down), fore-margin of one leaf (Fol. 56) neatly torn away with loss of a few letters and side-notes, opening 7 leaves loose, occasional light mostly marginal damp-stains, small tear to margin of ⟨⁊⟩6 repaired with tape not affecting text, later calf over wooden boards, retaining sixteenth century blind-stamped side panels, worn, rebacked, lacks bosses and clasps [ESTC S103845; Beale T403], folio (360 x 260mm.), [Paris, Andre Brocard, 28 May 1501]Footnotes:The Canon law of the ecclesiastical province of Canterbury, as collected and abridged in 1433 by William Lyndewood (1375-1446), with his explanatory gloss, and here edited by Josse Badius. 'Though no English bookseller is mentioned in the imprint ... [this item is] clearly intended for sale in England' (ESTC).Although the collection was first printed in Oxford, between 1470 and 1480, this is the first complete edition of the work, including text, gloss, and supplement, published in Paris in 1501.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

SAINT-NON (JEAN CLAUDE RICHARD DE)Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile, FIRST EDITION, 5 vol., with SIGNED CONTRACT FOR PUBLICATION, half-titles, vignette title engravings, complete with all the 305 full page engraved plates by Claude-Augustin Duflos, Le Roy, Prévost, Saint-Non and others after Fragonard, Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houel, Hubert Robert and Saint-Non, engraved head- and tail-pieces, uncut, contemporary manuscript corrections to two text leaves, corner stained to approximately 20 leaves in volume 2, occasional age-toning and/or spotting, contemporary half morocco, gilt spine, with custom made modern slipcases, shelfwear to covers, tear at head of spine of volumes 2 and 3, lower joint cracked volume 4 part 2 [Blackmer 1473; Brunet V 55-56; Cohen-de Ricci 928-930; Millard French 148; Ray French 34], folio (516 x 340mm.), Paris, 1781-1786; together with MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT SIGNED ('Laborde,' 'L'abbé d' Saint-Non,' and 'La Bretesche'), being the original contract for publication between Laborde and Saint-Non, tipped in to volume 1, 8 pp., stitched, Paris, August 5, 1777, with an added codicil dated 31 March 31 1778, signed below by Laborde, Saint-Non and La Bretesche, docketed on verso 'Convention entre L'abbé de Saint Non et B'in de la Borde en Rich'd de la Bretesche pour la publication Voyage Pittoresque a Naples et en Sicile', (330 x 215mm.) (6)Footnotes:A FINE LARGE, COMPLETE AND UNCUT COPY OF SAINT-NON'S CLASSIC WORK, WITH THE ORIGINAL SIGNED CONTRACT FOR ITS PUBLICATION. One of the most celebrated illustrated books of the eighteenth century, Saint-Non's Voyage Pittoresque was published between 1781-1785, with the Livraisons containing the plates beginning as early as 1778. This fine copy, including the rarely found 'phallus' plate in volume 2, is accompanied by the original contract between Saint-Non and his brother [Louis Richard de] La Bretesche, and Jean-Benjamin Laborde, the publisher who originally conceived of the project. In the contract, dated 5 August 1777, Saint-Non and his brother agree to invest 30,000 livres against the 30,000 livres already spent by Laborde. But in the codicil added the following year, Laborde admits he has only spent 10,000 livres and the terms are amended accordingly. The production, even under the amended terms, would ruin the wealthy Saint-Non. A fascinating look at the origins of 'one of the monuments of 18th-century book production' (Blackmer 1473).Provenance: Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, London, 1988; Robin Satinsky, 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

DREXEL (JEREMIAS)The Considerations of Drexelius upon Eternitie, additional engraved title by William Marshall, 7 engraved plates, contemporary manuscript annotations throughout, margins shaved occasionally just touching text, loss repaired to lower portion of H2 affecting text, light toning and occasional spotting, modern half calf gilt, minor wear [ESTC S784], 12mo, Cambridge, printers to the University, 1636--AYRES (PHILIP) Emblemata Amatoria, 44 engraved emblems, title in red and black, text in French, English, Italian and Latin, lacking first free initial end-paper, one leaf loose, early manuscript inscriptions, some margins shaved, near contemporary calf, loss to spine, corners bumped [ESTC T87789], 8vo, W. Likely, 1714--KING (WILLIAM) An Historical Account of the Heathen Gods and Heroes, illustrated frontispiece, 12 engraved plates, manuscript inscription on upper and lower pastedowns, light toning, calf soiled and worn, upper cover nearly detached [ESTC T134106], 12mo, Henry Lintot, 1736; and 4 others (7)Footnotes:Provenance: First item, William Knight 1641, ink inscription on 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

CASTIGLIONE (BALDESSARE)Il libro del cortegiano, second (first 8vo) edition, italic letter, woodcut printer's device on title and verso of final leaf, light old stain to some leaves, early ink marginal note in 2 side-margins, small hole touching woodcut device on title and a couple of letters on leaf Aii, later vellum, retaining original final blank free endpaper with early ownership inscriptions, and binder's waste including 5-lines of an early 15th century illuminated manuscript [Adams C925; Olschki 17581], 8vo, Florence, heirs of Filippo Giunta, October 1528Footnotes:The scarce second edition of Castiglione's celebrated courtly manual. Giunta's octavo edition was printed in the same year as the Aldus folio edition, and is rare at auction. The work was written from the author's personal experience at the court of Urbino, and his description of the ideal courtier helped it become one of the most influential literary works of the High Renaissance.Provenance: Andrea Balestra, ink ownership inscription on binder's waste at front; Several verses, including 'O sfortunata Ricolina/non saro mai piu contenta', in an early Italian hand on final blank.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