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Click here to subscribeRichard F. Burton. Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains, 2 volumes, first edition, photographic portrait frontispiece, 4 lithographed plates, folding map, original cloth, 8vo, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1863.Spotted, shaken with signatures working loose, leaves with fore-edge chipped or worn, cloth stained, soiled and chipped.
The Hobart Town Almanack for the Year 1832, With Embellishments, 2 engraved titles, folding chart, five plates (including one hand-coloured plate of flag signals), few wood engraved vignette illustrations to letterpress, original green cloth, 12mo, Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land: Printed by James Ross, 1831-32.occasional spotting, map stained and torn, some pages loose, spine defective and front board partially detached.
John Williams. A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands, engraved frontispiece, title-page vignette, folding map, five wood-engraved illustrations by G. Baxter, half calf, 8vo, London: J. Snow, 1837.Map with small tear, occasional foxing, boards and extremities somewhat rubbed.
Robert Moffat. Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa, Ninth Thousand, engraved frontispiece, title-page vignette, folding map, further wood-engraved illustrations by G. Baxter, later green morocco, 8vo, London: John Snow, 1842.folding map with section trimmed, occasional foxing particularly to plates.
John Williams. A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands, fourteenth thousand, coloured frontispiece and wood-engravings by George Baxter, folding map, original cloth, 8vo, London: John Snow, 1841; John Campbell. The Martyr of Erromanga, second edition, coloured frontispiece by George Baxter, original cloth, 8vo, London: John Snow, 1842; Robert Lamb. Saints and Savages, plates, original cloth, 8vo, London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1905; William Edgar Geil. Ocean and Isle, plates, original cloth, 8vo, Melbourne: Wm. T. Pater and Co., 1902; and 18 others, missionary travels in the Pacific islands, v.s. (22).Mixed condition.
Karte, Lothringen"Lotharingiae Tabula Generalis". Kupferstichkarte, J.B. Homann, Nürnberg, um 1710, partiell grenz- und flächenkoloriert. Detaillierte Schilderung des Gebiets zwischen Luxemburg und Altkirch sowie S. Dizier und Straßburg. Figürliche Titelkartusche mit Wappen und allegorischen Schilderungen. Im Passepartout. 53 x 62 cm (Bl), 60 x 67 cm (PP). Sehr guter Zustand. Map of Lorraine (France). Copper plate engraving, partially coloured, by JB Homann, Nuremberg, around 1710. North-eastern France around Verdun, Nancy and Biche. Figurative title cartridge with coat of arms and allegorical figures. Mounted in passepartout. Very good condition.
Karte, Schwaben"Circulus Sueviae continens Ducatum Wirtenbergensem". Kupferstichkarte, J.B. Homann, Nürnberg, um 1720, partiell grenz- und flächenkoloriert. Detaillierte Schilderung der gesamten schwäbischen Lande um das Herzogtum Württemberg, zwischen Lothringen und dem Ammersee sowie Nürnberg und Vaduz. Figürliche Titelkartusche mit Flussgottheiten und einer Allegorie auf den Weinbau. Im Passepartout. 52 x 58,5 cm (Bl), 60 x 67 cm (PP). Guter Zustand, dezente Einmalungen in Blei und Rotstift. Map of Swabia. Copper plate engraving, partially coloured, by JB Homann, Nuremberg, around 1720. Large area around the Duchy of Wurttemberg. Figurative title cartouche with rivergods and allegorical figures. Mounted in passepartout. Good condition, decent drawings by pencil and red crayon.
Stechzirkel mit Transversalmaßstab, Deutschland, 19. Jh.Zirkel Messing/ Eisen, punktuell korrodiert, L. 10,6 mm. Transversalmaßstab Messingplatte, graviert, 19 x 5 cm. Original-Etui Holz mit geprägtem Leder(?) bespannt, dtl. Alters-und Gebrauchsspuren am Etui. Dividers and transvers map scale, brass/ iron, 19th ct. In orig. case.
Karte, Lombardei"Milano - Ducatus Mediolani una cum Confinys accurata". Kupferstichkarte, J.B. Homann, Nürnberg, um 1720, partiell grenz- und flächenkoloriert. Detaillierte Schilderung der lombardischen Gebiete zwischen Bellinzona und Genua sowie Biella und Verona. Figürliche Titelkartusche mit Wappen, geflügelten Putti und allegorischen Schilderungen. Im Passepartout. 52,5 x 62,5 cm (Bl), 60 x 67 cm (PP). Sehr guter Zustand. Map of Lombardia (Italy). Copper plate engraving, partially coloured, by JB Homann, Nuremberg, around 1720. Large area around Milano and the lakes. Figurative title cartridge with coat of arms, angels and allegorical figures. Mounted in passepartout. Very good condition.
Karte, Kleve"Nova et Accurata Ducatus Cliviae et Comitatus Marchiae". Kupferstichkarte, Matthäus Seutter, Augsburg, um 1740, partiell grenz- und flächenkoloriert. Schilderung der niederrheinischen Gebiete des Herzogtums Kleve. Figürliche Titelkartusche mit Allegorien auf den Rhein und die Jagd sowie drei Wappen. Im Passepartout. 53 x 61 cm (Bl), 60 x 67 cm (PP). Guter Zustand. Map of the Duchy of Cleve. Copper plate engraving, partially coloured, by Mattheus Seutter, Augsburg, around 1740. Lower Rhine regions. Figurative title cartouche with coat of arms and allegories. Mounted in passepartout. Good condition.
WORLD WAR II - M.I.9 'AIDS TO ESCAPE'Per Ardua Libertas, FIRST EDITION, titled on upper cover, printed in red, black and blue, numerous photographic illustrations, 3 tipped-in 'letters', 3 tipped-in silk maps, one tipped-in tissue map, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 7 ADDITIONAL MAPS (3 tissue, 4 silk, one marked 'Secret' in red) and original 'Prisoner's Leisure Hours Fund... Post for Prisoners of War Postkarte' (15 August 1941) loosely inserted, lacks opening 2 leaves of text (one marked 'Most Secret', one ?blank), publisher's red morocco gilt with title lettered on upper cover, folio (398 x 303mm.), [1942]Footnotes:'AIDS TO ESCAPE' - RARE EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED RECORD OF SECRET WARTIME GADGETS AND MAPS PRODUCED BY M.I.9 DURING WORLD WAR II, WITH IMPORTANT PROVENANCE. It reproduces details of 'Aids to Escape - Pre-Capture and Post-Capture' issued to personnel of the three services between February 1940 and February 1942. These include maps printed on silk and tissue, luminous buttons, fountain pen compasses and pipes, 'Special R.A.F. Boot' (with hidden knife), chess, and games sets with hidden escape aids, combs and tooth brushes with hidden maps, replica foreign military costumes, etc. This copy belonged to Clayton Hutton, the technical director of M.I.9, who 'after a brief interview... was appointed to help Norman Crockatt set up a new semi-secret service, MI9, whose tasks included training fighting men in how to evade capture or escape if they found themselves in enemy-held territory' (ODNB).This copy includes 7 extra 'escape maps' and an original code message in the form of a prisoner-of-war letter.Provenance: Christopher William Clayton Hutton (1893–1965), bookplate ('Clayton Hutton') on blank page 1. A real-life 'Q', he was responsible for the invention, or inception of most of the gadgets depicted in this work, managing 'to get all this done in the teeth of every sort of shortage of materials, and of much bureaucratic obstruction' (ODNB).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
LONDON - EVELYN, THE GREAT FIRE AND POLLUTIONComposite volume, containing the following plans and works:[KITCHIN (THOMAS)] A New and Correct plan of the Cities of London, Westminster, and Borough of Southwark... to the Present Year 1781..., engraved folding map in 12 sections, extending from Islington to Newington Butts, and from Stepney to Hyde Park, with tables of buildings, parishes and churches in corners, heading slightly cropped, one or two tears at folds [Howgego 163 (4)], 448 x 725mm., R. Sayer & J. Bennett, 1781HOLLAR (WENCESLAS) A True and Exact Prospect of the Famous Citty of London; Another Prospect of the Sayd Citty Taken... After the Sad Calamitie and Destruction by Fire, engraved folding panorama showing London before and after the fire, single tear affecting image but without loss, 230 x 723mm. 1666 [but John Overton, 1669-1707, state iii][EVELYN (JOHN) and CHRISTOPHER WREN] First Plate. Londinum redivivum. Presented by me to His Majesty, a Week after the Conflagration... J.E.; Another Projection; Second Plate. A Plan of London... described by J. Evelyn; A Plan of the City of London, after the great Fire... according to the design and proposal of Sir Christopher Wren, together 2 folding engraved plans on 4 sheets, Society of Antiquaries, 1748FITZ-STEPHEN (WILLIAM) Description of the City of London, newly translated from the Latin [by Samuel Pegge], translator's name and biographical note added in ink on title-page, B. White, 1772E[VELYN] (J[OHN]] Fumifugium: or the Inconvenience of the Aer, and Smoake of London Dissipated, editor's name ('Thomas White Esq. F.R.S.') supplied in ink on title, Re-printed for B. White, 1772together 7 items bound in 1 vol., including (at front) the section on London extracted from Lysons' 'Magna Britannia', occasional light soiling, several library stamps to Lysons extract, on reverse of one of the Evelyn plans and in the upper margin of the 'To the Reader' leaf in the last work, contemporary calf, rebacked, 4to, [eighteenth-century]Footnotes:A curious sammelband of works and plans relating to London, several by John Evelyn including the second edition of his work on pollution in the city and the Overton printing of Hollar's panorama.Provenance: Benjamin White, Lambeth (publisher and brother of Gilbert White), circular book label dated 1777; John White, Selborne, bookplate; George Soaper (of Guildford, who purchased Gilbert White's diaries and papers from the family in 1843), bookplate on fly-leaf; Free Public Library, Southampton, ink stamps.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
NEW ZEALAND – MAORI LAND TRANSACTION Land transaction signed at foot by fifteen Māori chiefs with their moko, being an agreement between eight named Māori chiefs and George Lyall, Stewart Marjoribanks, George Palmer and Robert Torrens, Trustees of the New Zealand Company, exchanging '...one double barrel gun, eight muskets & one barrel of powder...' for various parcels of land '...denominated the Islands of Pakatu, Taratora, Ponue & Pake situated in the district of Tamaki... bounded the East side by the Eastuary [sic] Named by Captain Cook The Thames & by the Natives Te Cuppa on the West side by the Strait of Pahneniche on the North side by the aforesaid Strait and Eastuary and on the South side by the Sound or Passage called by the Natives Mamidua. Together with all the trees growing on the said four pieces or parcels of Land... belonging together with the Creeks, Bays and Harbours on the said Islands & the sea for 3 Miles distant from their shores...', signed beneath by Thomas Shepherd, Richard Bell, Luther Lechmere, and signed and subscribed at foot by the interpreter Thomas Kendall ('...I hereby certify that I interpreted the above to the chiefs whose Marks are annex'd, and that they fully understand the... meaning of the contents...'); engraved with manuscript insertions, simple line map in ink of Wyheckee on reverse, showing the islands of Pake and Po-nue, with compass rose and scale, one sheet of vellum, recto and verso, dust-staining, water-staining, discolouration, worn and rubbed with some losses, folio (600 x 415mm.), '...on board the Rosanna, at Anchor off the Island of Wyheckee...', 23 September 1826 For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
WORLD WAR II - SECOND ARMYAn Account of the Operations of Second Army in Europe 1944-1945... Compiled by Headquarters Second Army, 3 vol. (including map case), FIRST EDITION, ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 48 COPIES MARKED 'SECRET', this copy number 20, foreword by Lieut.-General Sir Miles C. Dempsey, 18 photographic plates (some folding), numerous colour maps (many folding, including 18 with tabs loose as issued in the separate case), illustrations and diagrams, publisher's red morocco, upper covers titled in gilt with blue and white emblem of the Second Army (slight abrasions to 2 emblems, map box one corner split but firm), folio (332 x 215mm.), Compiled by Headquarters Second Army, [August 1945]; sold with 2 photographs of Major Dempsey, and 2 Panora monocular viewing glasses by Wray of London (7)Footnotes:The Second Army account, one of some only 48 copies printed, and marked 'Secret', is the premier source material for the ground campaign in Europe. The work was compiled by Second Army Headquarters Staff on the instruction of Lieut.-General Sir Miles Dempsey, just after the end of the war whilst memories were fresh ('the staff officers were available, and the orders, instructions and other documents readily accessible', Foreword). It includes details of Belsen Concentration Camp and casualty statistics.Jisc Library Hub lists only the Imperial War Museum copy (no. 37); others are located at the Joint Services Command and Staff College and the Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum, whilst the National Archives and Wellcome Institute have only volumes one and two respectively. 2024 is of course the eightieth anniversary year of the D-Day landings, the liberation of France and the Allies' major land based actions against the Nazis in Holland, Belgium and Germany.Provenance: Major John Whitworth, the ADC to General Dempsey through the campaign; by descent. Accompanying the lot are 2 photographs of Dempsey, including one in which he stands in uniform acting as best man at the wedding of Whitworth. The other (a press photo) shows Dempsey with Churchill, Montgomery and other senior officers.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
TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)[The Lord of the Rings] The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King, together 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSIONS, 'The Return of the King' with signature mark '4' and sagging text on p.49, folding map printed in red and black at end of each volume, publisher's red cloth (worn, 'Fellowship' with upper cover damp-stained, upper joint split; 'The Two Towers' with lower spine frayed; 'Return' with mild damp-stains to spine and lower parts of cover, spine ends frayed), dust-jackets (all with some soiling, spine of 'Fellowship' with loss to lower third and upper section including author's initials, joints splitting; 'Two Towers' with short tear at lower joint, frayed at spine ends and corners; 'Return' with split at lower joint and front flap, rear flap near loose, spine soiled and frayed affecting a few letters), 8vo, George Allen and Unwin, [1954-1955]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
BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, BISHOPS' VERSION[The Holy Byble], black letter, Psalter, Apocrypha and New Testament with separate titles (dated 1585) within wide woodcut decorative borders, one full-page woodcut map, lacks 17 preliminary leaves (of 18, retaining Thomas Cranmer's Prologue), 3 leaves of OT (p.13, 21 and 84) and final 42 leaves of NT (ends on Qvi), one leaf (p.317) loose, some leaves cropped with some partial loss to side-notes or running titles or line border, late eighteenth-/early nineteenth-century calf gilt, stained, spine tooled with gilt morocco lettering label, worn, lower cover detached [STC 2143; Herbert 188], folio (380 x 260mm.), [Christopher Barker, 1585]Footnotes:The only edition after 1572 containing the Psalter of the Bishops' version.Provenance: Harmsworth family, late seventeenth-/early eighteenth-century inscriptions noting births and baptisms on blank verso of the Apocrypha.; J. Bradshaw, pencil inscription on p.536.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
MILNE (A.A.)Winnie-The-Pooh, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 21 OF 350 LARGE PAPER COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR, printed on hand-made paper, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, large folding map of 100 Acre Wood, 2-page autograph letter signed and dated (12 December 1952) by Shepard loosely inserted, uncut in publisher's cloth-backed boards, printed label on upper cover, publisher's wrappers, toned, preserved in purpose-made blue morocco solander case, gilt spine in 6 compartments (3 lettered, others with Pooh device), small 4to, Methuen, [1926]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
ORTELIUS (ABRAHAM)Theatre de l'Univers, engraved allegorical title-page, engraved portrait of Ortelius, 119 double-page engraved maps, with 2 additional maps of France (one from the 1579 Ortelius edition, loosely inserted), some browning and soiling, occasional marginal damp-staining, Burgundy map split at central fold and repaired, the text on the reverse of approximately 6 maps cropped, a few corners creased, eighteenth-century marbled boards over original vellum, worn, loss to spine, lower joint split [Koeman III, Ort 32], folio (420 x 270mm.), Antwerp, Christopher Plantin for the author, 1598Footnotes:THE LAST EDITION OF THE 'THEATRUM' TO BE PUBLISHED IN FRENCH. Originally published in 1570 with 53 maps, this French edition was extended to include 119. 'The publication of this atlas [the 1570 first edition] marked an epoch in the history of cartography. It was the first uniformly sized, systematic collection of maps of the countries of the world based only on contemporary knowledge and in that sense may be called the first modern atlas' (Tooley, Maps and Map-Makers, p.30). The Atlas includes Ortelius' famous world map (Typus orbis terrarum), the Americas (Americae sive novi orbis nova descriptio) and maps of Asia, Africa and Europe.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
GRANT FAMILY - MILITARY, BOER WAR, CHURCHILL, BRIGHTON AND WEST INDIESAn archive of diaries, albums of sketches and photographs, correspondence, papers and ephemera relating to Francis W. Seafield Grant (1842-1912), his wife Anne, and their four sons, all of whom served with distinction in the military, including;Album, compiled by Cecil Grant, containing approximately 40 pen and ink caricatures and sketches, signed by Grant and others, subjects including hunting, horses and dogs, cricket and golf, a scene from 'Alice in Wonderland', military, of which one captioned 'Armoured Train 'Wasp' in Action at Night near Devondale, S.A. during the Boer War Operations 1902', original half morocco, soiled, one joint split, oblong 4to, [c.1899-1902]; 'Sketches', including approximately 15 pencil sketches, including maps of the country 'West of Devondale, British Becuana Land' and 'map for repairs on railway line... [Transvaal], Nov. 1901', caricatures and views relating to the Boer War, cloth, oblong 8vo, c.1901Album of private gelatin print photos, belonging to Cecil Grant, including approximately 25 views and military scenes of the Boer War (one captioned 'The Highland Brigade drawn up about to advance on Magersfontein. Photo by me, Major A.S. Grant...'), 40 of home life, including a tennis tournament horse show, and cycling in Brighton, quarter morocco, worn, small oblong 4to, c.1899-1900Album of photographs, compiled by A.S. Grant, including 14 of Barbados (8 large, 6 small) by 'Siza Photos', approximately 40 others, Boer War and South Africa (one captioned 'Boy made to sit on crocodile by force for photo'), family members in uniform, etc., gelatin silver prints, mounted, some captioned, half morocco, worn, c.1900-1905Materials relating to Henry Eugene W. Grant, Colonial Secretary to the Leeward Islands, and other Colonial postings, including printed ephemera (programme for memorial service to Edward VII, Antigua, 20 May 1910; issues of the Leeward Island Gazette, invitations, author's presentation of 'The Story of the Falkland Islands' (1907, by W.L. Allardyce), manuscript and typescript material (5pp. article on 'Sun Printing', Belize, 1906; report received by telegram on the earthquake in Jamaica, 24 January 1907)Album of ephemera, newspaper cuttings, telegrams, etc. relating to various Grant family members, including an ink drawing of a bedroom (163 x 215mm.) captioned 'Winston Churchill was at this school with me. 29 & 30 Brunswick Road, Brighton' by A.S. Grant, and other materials, some loose, various datesA series of 18 pocket diaries for the years 1882, 1885-88, 1890, 1892-1901 and 1903-1905, belonging to Anne Grant (1842-1912), wife of Major F.W.S. Grant, with entries on their appointments (mostly in Brighton and Sussex), special events (Australia v. Sussex cricket match), or occasions in the lives/careers of her sons, etc., various bindings, worn, 8vo, 1882-1905; and several others (quantity)Footnotes:'WINSTON CHURCHILL WAS AT THIS SCHOOL WITH ME'- Miscellaneous manuscript, photographic and printed materials relating to Francis W. Seafield Grant (1842-1912), his wife Annie, their four sons Archie, Duncan, Alan and Cecil, and several other family members, all of whom had distinguished military or administrative careers in India, South Africa and the West Indies.Provenance: F.W.S. Grant (1842-1912) and sons; thence by descent.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
JACKSON (KEITH ALEXANDER)Views in Affghaunistaun... from Sketches Taken During the Campaign of the Army of the Indus, FIRST EDITION, hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece portrait, lithographed pictorial title, dedication and 22 tinted lithographed plates (of 25) by W. L. Walton, T. Allom and others, one map, some spotting, contents loose, publisher's morocco-backed cloth, gilt lettered on upper cover, spine with some loss, worn [Abbey, Travel 506], folio (380 x 280mm.), W.H. Allen, [1841]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
SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGEThe Complete Atlas of Modern, Classical and Celestial Maps, together with Plans of the Principal Cities of the World, 226 hand-coloured engraved maps (numbered 1-218, and bis numbers, including 49 city-plans and 6 star-charts), some double-page with 2 numbers per sheet, title, additional 'Sketch map of Dr. Livingstone's Discoveries' pasted inside upper cover, preliminaries and opening map loose, occasional light spotting (heaviest to plate 1), 2 with short tear to blank margin, contemporary half calf, titled in gilt on upper cover, g.e., worn, upper cover detached, folio (440 x 360mm.), Edward Stanford, 1873Footnotes:Maps include United States (16 sheets), China (2), World (3), and Australia (3), with city plans including New York, Philadelphia, London (double-page), Canton, Moscow and St. Petersburg.Provenance: William Lawson, early ownership inscription on front free endpaper.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ISRAEL, PALESTINE, AND THE BRITISH MANDATEA collection of 16 scarce pamphlets relating to Israel, Palestine and the British Mandate in the 1920s-40s, comprising:Palestine during the War. Being a Record of the Preservation of the Jewish Settlements in Palestine, 47pp., Zionist Organisation, 1921The Establishment in Palestine of the Jewish National Home. Memorandum on the Development of the Jewish National Home, 1924-1925 Submitted to by the Zionist Organisation to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations for the Information of the Permanent Mandates Commission, October 1925, dual text in English and French, a few small losses to margins of wrappers, [Zionist Organisation, 1925]Reports of the Experts Submitted to the Joint Palestine Survey Commission [on Agricultural Colonization; Labor; Public Health], 741pp., one folding map, 3 letterpress tables, photographic illustrations in the text, rebacked, Boston, Mass., Daniels Printing Co., 1 October 1928Palestine. Blue Book 1931, 401pp., rebacked, Jerusalem, Printing and Stationary Office, 1931Palestine. Blue Book 1932, 441pp., rebacked with loss to one corner of upper cover, Jerusalem, Printing and Stationary Office, 1932Palestine. Department of Migration. Annual Report 1934, 42pp., ex-libris of Yitzhak Gruenbaum in Hebrew, Jerusalem, Printing and Stationary Office, 1935Palestine. Department of Migration. Annual Report 1936, 97pp., errata slip, small loss to spine extremities, Jerusalem, Printing and Stationary Office, 1937LOURIE (ARTHUR) Britain and Palestine. An Examination of Present British Policy in the Light of the Mandate for Palestine, 19pp., stapled as issued with integral titled wrappers, in later boards, [New York, The American Zionist Emergency Council], c.1940Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry Regarding the Problems of European Jewry and Palestine, Lausanne 20th April 1946, 80pp., H.M.S.O., 1946[ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMITTEE REPORT] Din-Ve-Heshbon: Shel Va'ad-Ha-Hakirah Ha-Angli-Amerikani bi-devar Beayoteshen shel Yahadat Eropah Ve-Shel Palestinah [Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry Regarding the Problems of European Jewry and Palestine, Lausanne 20th April 1946], text in Hebrew, 67pp., small loss to extremities of spine, Jerusalem, Government Printing House, 1946Historical Memoranda. I. The Number and Density of the Population of Ancient Palestine. II. The Jewish Population in Palestine from the Fall of the Jewish State to the Beginning of Zionist Pioneering. III. The Waves of Jewish Migration into Palestine (640-1882), 104pp., 5 folding lithographed map sheets, rebacked, upper wrapper detached, Jerusalem, [General Council (Vaad Leumi) of the Jewish Community of Palestine], 1947The Political History of Palestine Under British Administration, Jerusalem [Memorandum by His Britannic Majesty's Government Presented in July 1957, to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine], 42pp., publisher's wrappers laid down on card, Jerusalem, 1947The Jewish Plan for Palestine. Memoranda and Statements Presented by The Jewish Agency for Palestine, 559pp., some toning, stamps of the Rotberg High School, spine worn at extremities with paper shelf label, Jerusalem, The Jewish Agency for Palestine, 1947The Jewish Case Before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine as Presented by the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Statements & Memoranda, 686pp., stamps of the Bet Shturman Library, spine repaired with old paper shelf label, Jerusalem, The Jewish Agency for Palestine, 1947BEN-GURION (DAVID) The Yishuv and the Zionist Struggle Now [Supplement to the Jewish Agency's Digest of Press and Events, No.166], 23pp., stapled as issued with integral titled wrappers, in later boards, Jerusalem, [Hashiloah Printing Press], April 1947 BEN-GURION (DAVID) A Jewish State Now [Supplement to the Jewish Agency's Digest of Press and Events, No.192-193], 16pp., stapled as issued with integral titled wrappers, in later boards, Jerusalem, [Hashiloah Printing Press], October 1947together 16 works, institutional stamps to some titles, pages and covers, publisher's wrappers, 8vo and small 4to (16)Footnotes:Provenance: Giavat Havivah Libary, stamps on some titles and covers of all but 2 of the titles.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
BIBLE, IN LATINBiblia sacra, engraved pictorial title by Abraham de Bruyn after Crispin van den Broeck, 4pp. dedication to Cardinal Albert of Austria, with the blanks NN8 and K6, 3 double-page engraved maps (including World twin-hemisphere, second issue with the verso blank and the word 'gentes' added below 'IEKTAN' in the bottom left-hand panel; 'Terrae Israel'; Canaan), 2 double-page engraved plates, 4 full-page engraved plates on 2 sheets, illustrations in the text, lacks 2 preliminary leaves (**2 and **6, ?a blank), the title and 2 images (a2, one small hole) scuffed to obscure female genitalia, map of Holy Land lightly stained with small abrasion to surface, some marginal damp stains (mostly light, occasionally touching few lines of text at lower section), eighteenth-century half calf over paste-boards, worn [Adams B1089; Darlow & Moule 6173 (note); Shirley World 125; Voet 690 and p. 367], folio (436 x 280mm.), Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1583Footnotes:'One of the most impressive and beautiful editions of the Plantin press' (Voet). A reprint of the Bible of Louvain (1547) Plantin first issued his edition in 1565, again in 1574, before this edition of 1583, for which 36 illustrations were specially cut to enhance those taken from earlier publications. The twin hemisphere world map was originally issued in the eighth volume of the Polyglot Bible (1572). This copy includes the dedication to Cardinal Albert of Austria, which is sometimes missing because Antwerp was at that time under a Calvinist administration (perhaps explaining the partial erasures to female body parts on the title-page).Provenance: J. De Surhon, early ownership inscription in upper margin of title; Julien Nysssens Hart (1859-1910, Belgian engineer); and 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
Trade cards, selection of 35 scarce type cards from various issuers & series inc. Fry's (Canada) Treasure Island Map (2), Radio Series (3), Goodwin's Extra Rhymes 2nd Series (2), Wireless (2), Universal Pictures Tarzan Animal Series (x3), Boys' Comic Library Characters from Boys Fiction (3) etc (gd) (35)
Postcards, a mainly foreign selection of 21 cards, inc. Gruss Aus style from Apia Samoa p.u, Souvenir de Bussaco (Portugal), Gruss Aus Kandy (Ceylon), Freetown (Sierra Leone), Liberia, Gruss Aus Tanga, hotels at Zermatt, Grand Hotel Cape Town, Hotel Royal Dieppe, Marine Hotel Durban, Nice Le Grand Hotel (Gruss Aus style), Grand Hotel Brunate, Insel Hotel Konstanz, Plinius Grand Como etc. Also map card for Spain/Portugal (mixed condition)
Anson, George, Voyage Autour du Monde, fait dans les années 1740, 41, 42, 43 & 44., 4 Vols., full leather bound with gilt lettering and tooling to spine, decorated with maps and figures in intaglio, Paris: Quillau et Fils, Delormel, Le Loup, 1750 (4) Condition Report: Overall in fair, used condition with clear signs of wear. The boards generally scuffed and scratched, some gilding has faded. The pages generally in good condition, multiple minor folds to corners, a couple of holes and small losses to the edges of pages, minimal foxing and water damage. The spines are worn from use, especially volume one. Maps and diagrams are generally in fair condition with creasing and minor tears from use. Specific condition flaws of maps and diagrams: Volume one: the map of the world has a large tear to the top right edge. The map of Cape Blanc on has a large tear to the top right edge. The map of St. Julien has a large tear to the top left edge. The map of the Cape Vierge Marie has a tear to the left edge. The map of the Detroit de le Marie has a tear down one folded edge. The map of South America is missing. Volume two: the view of Juan Fernandes plateau has a large tear from the right edge across two folds and up one fold. The view of Lion & Lionne Marine is missing. The map of a bay and a harbour of the coast of Chile has a large tear to the right edge. The map of Masa-Fuero has a tear to the left edge. Volume three: the map of the town of Paita has a tear to the right edge. The map of the eastern end of the island of Quibo has a tear to the left edge. The map of the Philippine Islands has a large tear to the left side. The view of the mountain of Petaplan has a small tear to the left edge. The map of the Bay of Petaplan has a small tear to the right edge. Volume four: the view of the island of Tinian has a small tear to the left edge. The view of the battle of the ships 'The Centurion' and 'Our Lady of Cabadonga' has a large tear to the right edge.
MAPS, J Basire, An Exact Draught of the Bay and Harbour of Vigo. c 1747. 380mm x 480mm. Hand coloured;Robert Morden, Shropshire, 1695. 355mm x 415mm. Hand coloured;John Speed, Shropshire, Bassett & Chiswell [1676]. 380mm x 510 mm. Hand coloured, browned;John Speed, Herefordshire, Sudbury & Humbell, 1610. 385 x 515mm;John Ogilvy, Road map from Buckingham to Bridgnorth [1675], 345mm x 443mm. Hand coloured;Saxton and Hole, Caernarvon, c.1607. 255mm x 310mm. Hand coloured , browned;Thomas Taylor, Map of Stafforshire, 180mm x 253mm.All framed and glazed (7)
MURCHISON, Sir Roderick Impey, Siluria, The Oldest Known Rocks. 1st edition 1854. Folding hand-coloured frontis map (4" tear), another map and thirty seven plates. Original cloth, spine in poor condition. With KENDALL, Percy Fry, and WROOT, Herbert E, Geology of Yorkshire. Privately printed 1924. With other geological books (box)
HOLY BIBLE, 4to, Thomas and John Buck, Cambridge 1630. Black Letter printed in two columns. King James version. Bound with the Book of Common Prayer and the Apocrypha, with the Metrical Psalms by T&J Buck, 1630 at the end. Rebound in full calf with the original brass corners, centre bosses and clasps reattached. Early inscription at the end of the Apocrypha 'Wm Townsend son of Wm Townsend Baptized at Kippax December 14 1692'. Book of Common Prayer lacking leaves at the beginning; 3" tear to general title at top; Psalms defective at end. Some fingering, soiling and staining. Herbert 433.Following the engraved title page is A Description of Canaan, four pages, including a double page map of Canaan. This is not noted by Herbert.
Großes TablettMexiko, 20. Jh., Silber 925, ca. 1.640 g, von rechteckiger Form mit abgerundeten Ecken, schlichter Spiegel, Fahne mit umgehendem Perlbandabschluss, seitliche Handhaben in konformem Dekor, punziert: Feingehaltsstempel und Hertsellermarke "MAP" u. a. , LxB: ca. 55/36 cm. Leichte Alters- und Kratzspuren.
Golf, general interest – a quantity of paper and card bound books including Greenwood (George W), Golf Really Explained! London. W Foulsham n. d. 88pp, foxed (two copies); Verdon (A.) & Wilson (E. W. J.) Golfing Hints, Westbury, 1912, 36pp, 42 illus (facsimile reprint, 8 copies); Neil (Mark), The Awful Golfer’s Book, London, Wolfe, 459pp (2 copies 1968 & 1974); Scott (Tom), 50 Miles of Golf Round London London, Herbert Jenkins, 1952, 184pp folding map (2 copies); Browning (Robert H. K.), Golf with Seven Clubs, London, Foyle 1950, 93pp; Lindley (Percy), Summer Holidays, London n. d. (1906), 93pp, chromolithographic plates and car cover, list of golf clubs at back; Nicklaus (Jack), The Best Way to Better Golf, Vols. 1 (2 copies 1969 & 1978), 2 (1977) & 3 (1977), London, Coronet; Armour (Tommy), How to Play your Best Golf all the Time, London, Coronet, 1980; Green (Michael), The Art of Coarse Golf, London, Arrow, 1971, 96pp; Anon, Golf, Madrid, Real Federaçon Espanola de Golf, n .d. (1991), 210pp; Reid (Ian) & Player (Gary), Gary Player’s Golf Class, London, Sunday Express, 1967, 84pp; Reid (Ian) & Player (Gary), The Second Book of Golf & Golf Class, London, Sunday Express, 1969, 83pp (Qty)
Thomas Kitchin (1719 - 1784), a two-page engraved and coloured map, A New and Improved Map of Hartfordshire, From the Best Surveys & Intelligence, Divided into Hundreds....., 54cm x 66cm; Richard Blome (1635 - 1705), a two-page engraved and coloured map, A Mapp of Worchestershire [Worcestershire], 28.5cm x 34cm (2)
RAILWAY INTEREST: A collection of local interest railway timetables and signal box log books, mid to late 20th century, with further regulations and manuals, two railway caps, and a colour lithographic map of the British Isles, titled 'ADMINISTRATIVE MAP OF THE BRITISH RAILWAYS', 1:1,200,000 scale, published by John Bartholomew & Sons Ltd, framed and glazed, 99cm x 83.5cm overall (Qty)
Box of books regarding military campaigns in Africa from the collection of Professor Wilks to include: Brackenbury; 'The Ashanti War', Volume I & II, 1774 and 'Narrative of the Ashanti War', Volume I & II, 1774 by the same author, Major Ricketts; 'Narrative of the Ashantee War' 1831, Reade, Wynward; 'The Story of the Ashantee Campaign' 1874, Butler, Major W.F; 'Akim-Foo the History of a Failure' 1875, Atteridge, Hilliard; 'Wars of the Nineties' 1899, LHodgson, Lady; 'Siege of Kumassi' 1901, Ritchie, Moore; 'Unfinished War' 1940, Armitage, Capt C.H & Montanaro, Lt-Coln A.F; 'Ashanti Campaign of 1900', 1901, 'African Pilot Part 1 1939', Clarke, Peter.B; 'West Africans at War', 'Dilemmas of the Desert War', 'The French Riveira Campaign of August 1944', 'The Conquest of the Western Sudan', 'British Military and Naval Forces in West African History', Dnoeu, Francois; 'Military French', O'Neill; 'War in African and the Far East', 'Empire at War Volume IV Africa', Gorges; 'The Great War in West Africa', 'Ashanti War 1900' advance copy by Herbert Camplow etc. (B.P. 21% + VAT)Ricketts 'Ashantee War' appears to be the original 1831 edition but may have been rebound. No evidence of missing pages and all plates and map are present. It is not library stamped.Both copies of Brackenbury's 'Ashanti War' appear complete with no evidence of missing pages and all maps/frontispiece letter present. The half leather bound editions may have been rebound. They are not library stamped.
Three boxes of book from the collection of Professor Wilks regarding the Gold Coast of Africa; Burton, R.F; 'To the Gold Coast for Gold' Volume I & II 1883, Nathan, Major Sir Matthew; 'Historical Chart of the Gold Coast and Ashanti', 'Wars of the Gold Coast Colony' 1920, Volume I, two copies of 'Ashanti and the Gold Coast' by Sir John Dalrymple-Hay 1874, various Gold Coast Civil Service lists, 'Gold Coast colony Takoradi Harbour', Northcote, Lt-Coln H.B; 'Report on the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast', 1899, various books by Cardinall; 'The Natives of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast', 'Bibliography of the Gold Coast', Reindorf; 'History of the Gold Coast and Asante', 'To the Gold Coast for Gold', Ellis, A.B; 'The Tschi speaking peoples of the Gold Coast of West Africa', Meredith, Henry; 'The Gold Coast of Africa' and 'Account of the Gold Coast' 1812, Wright, Martin; 'Gold Coast Legislative Council' and others, Macdonland; 'Gold Coast Past and Present' 1898, various Gold Coast Handbooks, Princess Marie Louise; 'Letters from the Gold Coast', Bowler, Louis; 'Gold Coast Palaver', 'Letters on the political condition of the Gold Coast', Kemp, Rev Dennis; 'Nine years at the Gold Coast' 1898, 'Four Years in Ashantee' 1875, Cruikshank, Brodie; 'The Gold Coast of Africa' Volume I & II 1853, Lady Clifford 'Our Days on the Gold Coast' 1919, 'History of the Akan Peoples of the Gold Coast', 'The History of the Gold Coast, Modern part of an universal history from the earliest account of time', Volume XVII, 1760 printed for S. Richardson, 'Forester Officers handbook of the Gold Coast, Ashanti and the Northern Territories', 'Gold Coast Native Institutions' etc. (B.P. 21% + VAT)Ricketts 'Ashantee War' appears to be the original 1831 edition but may have been rebound. No evidence of missing pages and all plates and map are present. It is not library stamped.Both copies of Brackenbury's 'Ashanti War' appear complete with no evidence of missing pages and all maps/frontispiece letter present. The half leather bound editions may have been rebound. They are not library stamped.
Three 18th Century antiquarian hardback books on Africa from the collection of Professor Wilks; Braithwaite, Captain John; 'History of the Revolutions in the Empire of Morocco upon the death of the late Emperor Muley Ishmael' 1729, Bosman, William; 'A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea', 1705 and Isert, Paul Erdman ;'Voyages en Guinee' 1793. (3) (B.P. 21% + VAT)Bosman - One pull out map and seven plates are present but no frontispiece.Braithwaite - does contain folding map of the Kingdom of FezIsert - No frontispiece or folding map
A collection of eight needlework samplers, 19th century, variously worked with verses, animals, houses and foliage; another a map of England and Wales, all framed and glazedthe map sampler 54 x 45cmUnexamined out of the frames, but no visible sign of glue through the glass. Please see additional image.
A Russian silver mounted desk blotter. Vasily Naumov (probably), Moscow, 1908-1926. The leather mounted blotter applied to the front cover with a silver plaque designed with a winged angel seated on a foliate scroll frame, the frame enclosing an engraved map of Eastern Siberia and Northeast China with the engraved names in Cyrillic of various cities, towns, settlements and rivers including: Vladivostok, Port Arthur (Lüshunkou), the Amur River, Khabarovsk, Blagoveshchensk, Harbin, Wunu'er and Fulya -Erdi, 84 standard, 28 x 38cm
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