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Lot 91
dating: 19th Century provenance: The Philippines, Wide, curved, single-edged blade, slightly concave back and hollowed tip, right side richly engraved with brass-inlaid floral motifs, tang with inscription 'LCU BAN T. BABISTA'; brown, horn grip, majestically embossed with floral motifs and with silver mounts, decorated with flower bands. Scabbard composed of two, horn plates, riveted together, the front one richly pierced with floral motifs, the back one engraved with floral and geometrical motifs. Silver mounts with cap, embossed with floral motifs, back part provided with two loops. length 45 cm.
Lot 2004
SCHUCO Elektro Construction Abschleppwagen mit Kran (6070), limitiert auf 1999 Stück, rot lackierte Blechausführung mit seitlichen Aufklebern an Fahrer- und Beifahrertür, lithografiert, Hupe, Handbremse und lenkbare Vorderachse, Ladeflächenaufbau mit Kranzug, "Nummernschilder" N 6070, in Orig.-Box mit Zertifikat und Anleitung, unbespielter Originalzustand, L 26 cm. SCHUCO tow truck "Construction 6070", red lacquered sheet metal design with side stickers on the driver and passenger door, lithographed, horn, handbrake and steerable front axle, loading area structure with crane hoist, "number plates" N 6070, in original box with certificate and instructions, unused original condition, l 26 cm.
Lot 30
WIKING Schräghecklimousine, 1950/52, unverglaster Drahtachser, Karosserie in leuchtorange, Boden offen, Innenprägung "WM Germany", Scheinwerfer, Rücklichter und beide Kennzeichen bemalt, ohne Zughaken, GK 29/5 C, L 5, 5 cm, min. Kratzer, sonst guter Erhalt. WIKING hatchback sedan, 1950/52, unglazed wire axles, body in bright orange, open bottom, embossed "WM Germany" on the inside, headlights, taillights and both license plates painted, without draw hook, yellow cat. 29/5 C, L 5.5 cm, min. scratches, otherwise good condition.
Lot 37
John Constable R.A. (Suffolk 1776-1837 Hampstead)East Bergholt Common oil on paper laid down on canvas 19.8 x 25.2cm (7 13/16 x 9 15/16in).Footnotes:ProvenanceBy descent to the artist's daughter, Isabel Constable (1822-1888) and thence by descent until offeredSale, Christie's, London, 28 May 1891, lot 132 (bt. Colquhoun)The Collection of E. A. Colquhoun, and thence by descent untilSale, Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1983, lot 273With Newhouse Galleries, New YorkWith Salander O'Reilly Gallery, New York, 1988, where purchased by the present ownerLiteratureSecond Series of a Century of British Art, London, Grosvenor Gallery, 1889, probably no. 303R. Hoozee, L'opera completa di Constable, Milan, 1979, p. 99, cat. no. 133, ill.G. Reynolds and C. Rhyne, John Constable, R.A (1776-1837): An Exhibition: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, Mezzotints, New York, 1988, exh. cat., pp. 16-17, ill. front coverG. Reynolds, The Early Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, London, 1996, cat. no. 10.49, ill. Pl. 875Depicting a view close to East Bergholt House, the Constable family home, the present little plein air sketch is dated to circa 1810 by both Charles Rhyne and Graham Reynolds. The work is of particular personal significance to Constable, not only because it was made close to his childhood home, but also because it was painted during his long courtship with Maria Bicknell.The first in the group of Constable's views towards the rectory, as seen from East Bergholt House, is now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, dated 1808 (inv. no. PD 15 – 1968). A later oil sketch, inscribed '30 Sep/ 1810/ E. Bergholt Common', now in the John G. Johnson Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art (inv. 856, fig. 1), also shows a similar view but is taken from an upper window at the Constable family home. Based on these and other similar works which show the rectory in fine detail, Charles Rhyne has established exactly where Constable sat to sketch the present view. Unlike the other images of East Bergholt Common looking towards the rectory, the current sketch was not made from Golding Constable's property but rather from beyond the grounds of the house where the ground slopes down towards the Ryber, a stream that runs through East Bergholt Common. In his entry for the work, Rhyne also cites a sketchbook drawing dated by the artist to 'Augst 2. 1812', formerly in the Collection of Harold Day1, in which the painter looks back towards Golding Constable's house. In this latter drawing it is possible to see precisely the valley from which the present sketch was made.East Bergholt house, the childhood home of John Constable, was built by his father Golding Constable in about 1773 at the centre of East Bergholt village. From the rear of the house, it was possible to see the rectory, home of the Rev. Dr. Durand Rhudde, grandfather of Maria Bicknell who went on to become Constable's wife. The couple first met when Maria was only twelve and Constable in his early twenties, they met once again in 1809 when Maria visited her grandfather at the rectory. However, the Rev. Dr. Rhudde was so opposed to their match that they conducted their courtship in secret and only married seven years later, upon the death of Constable's father who had left the artist well provided for. Painted at some point early on in their long courtship, the present work therefore takes on an added poignancy, given that it looks directly at the fields between Constable's family home and the rectory where many of their meetings took place. In a letter to Maria of June 1812 Constable wrote 'From the window where I am writing, I see all those sweet fields where we have passed so many happy hours together. It is with melancholy pleasure that I revisit those scenes that once saw us so happy – yet it is gratifying to me to think that the scenes of my boyish days should have witnessed by far the most affecting event of my life'. 21810 marks a turning point in Constable's small oil sketches of this type; they become more vigorous in their handling with much bolder brushwork and a markedly stronger palette, all of which combine to lend a greater sense of atmosphere to the landscapes depicted as compared to the more faithful representations of his earlier sketches. Two oil sketches in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, both from the John G. Johnson collection, are some of the first examples of this new departure - the aforementioned sketch, dated 30 September 1810 (inv. no. 856) and a study of a A View on the Stour: sunset (inv. no. 857), which is dated to three days earlier. As Rhyne notes of the present study 'As with others of this astonishingly original group, this sketch would not have been possible previous to Constable's dramatic 1810 innovations'3. Notes 1See G. Reynolds The Early Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, London, 1996, Text vol., p. 172, cat. no. 12.37, Plates vol., pl. 966 2See R. B. Beckett ed., Constable's Correspondence, London, 1964, Vol. II, p. 78 3See G. Reynolds and C. Rhyne, exh. cat. John Constable, R.A (1776-1837): An Exhibition: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, Mezzotints, Salander O'Reilly, New York, 1988, p.17This 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
Lot 10
GILLRAY (JAMES)The Works... from the Original Plates, with the Addition of Many Subjects Not Before Collected, bound in 2 vol. (including the 'Suppressed Plates'), large woodcut vignette on title, engraved frontispiece portrait by Charles James after Gillray, 632 engraved plates (numbered 1-582, bis nos. 100, 207, 379, 379** and 379***, 2 plates numbered 86, without a plate 238 as issued; 45 supplementary plates), up to 4 images per page recto and verso, image 179 shaved touching upper margin, final 15 leaves of first volume with light dampstain in upper margin, front free endpaper loose, light dampstain upper corner of final few leaves of second volume, contemporary red half morocco, first volume worn, dampstain to upper cover, loss to marbling of lower cover, some loss to foot of spine, joints split, second volume rubbed, upper hinge cracked, folio (635 x 480mm.), Henry G. Bohn, [c.1847]Footnotes:Includes the volume of 'suppressed plates', sexually suggestive or scandalously offensive political images which the publisher chose to exclude from the main collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 102
CAMDEN (WILLIAM)Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands of Adjacent, 4 vol., second edition ('enlarged by the latest discoveries by Richard Gough'), engraved portrait, 57 mostly folding engraved maps by John Cary, 105 engraved plates, some light browning and spotting, contemporary maroon half morocco, gilt lettering on spines, some uneven fading to spines [Chubb CCLXXII], folio (432 x 270mm.), J. Nichols and Son, for John Stockdale, 1806Footnotes:Provenance: Robert Goff, 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
Lot 106
MILLAR (GEORGE HENRY)The New and Universal System of Geography: Being a Complete History and Description of the Whole World, 2 vol. bound in 1, engraved frontispiece, 92 engraved plates, 27 engraved maps (many folding, including World hemisphere, British Empire in North America), contemporary calf, worn, spine cracked and text block split, folio, Alex. Hogg, 1782This 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
![KLEINER (SALOMON)Vera et accurata delineatio omnium templorum et coenobiorum [-tam residentia et secessum Caesareorum], parts](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/478fc58d-23a3-4aa2-8e29-ac8a00d3fc8c/ab97debb-e523-49e7-8012-ac8d00ce6cdb/468x382.jpg)
Lot 127
KLEINER (SALOMON)Vera et accurata delineatio omnium templorum et coenobiorum [-tam residentia et secessum Caesareorum], parts 1-2 (of 4), FIRST EDITION, edited by Johan Andreas Pfeffel, engraved title-pages in Latin and German, engraved dedication leaf in part 1, engraved pictorial frontispieces, 66 engraved plates after Salomon Kleiner (2 folding, one with neat short repair) [Berlin Kat. 2108; Fowler 164], Augsburg, 1724-1725; FISCHER VON ERLACH (JOSEF EMMANUEL) Anfang einiger Vorstellungen der vornehmsten Gebäude so wohl innerhalb der Stadt als in denen Vorstadten von Wien [title repeated in French], FIRST EDITION, engraved title, pictorial frontispiece and 27 plates after Fischer von Erlach by J.A. Delsenbach (numbered 4-10, 10a, 11-29/30), lacking the engraved privilege leaf (as often) [Berlin Kat. 2095], [Vienna, c.1719], 3 vol. bound in one, early twentieth century half morocco gilt, titled on spine, oblong folio (340 x 480mm.)Footnotes:Kleiner's views are considered to be 'the finest representation of views of Vienna of the eighteenth century' (Fowler), the first part devoted to churches and monasteries, the second to palaces, houses and squares. The second work by Fischer Von Erlach includes similar views.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
Lot 133
SWITZERLANDBODMER (KARL) and others. Promenade pittoresque par les lieux les plus intéressants de la Suisse et des pays limitrophes, 50 hand-coloured lithographed views by or after C. Bodmer, S. Corrodi and R. Bodmer, tissue guards, original terracotta boards, rebacked, publisher's wrappers (with title on upper cover) bound in [Longchamp 2361], oblong 12mo, Zurich, F. S. Fussli, 1829--KONIG (FRANZ NIKLAUS) Neue Sammlung von Schweizertrachten [Nouvelle collection de costumes suisses], text in German and French, 46 (of 50) hand-coloured engraved costume plates, contemporary half calf [Colas 1650; Longchamp 1698], 12mo Zurich, Orell, Fussli, 1811--DUBOIS (J.) Souvenirs de la Suisse. Lac de Genève, 16 lithographed plates (14 printed in colours and hand-finished, 3 double-page), publisher's gilt-stamped cloth, oblong 8vo, Geneva, Briquet & fils, [c.1840] (3)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![JAPAN - KIMONO PATTERN AND WOODBLOCK BOOKSUENO SEIKO. Hana no kage [Shadows of Flowers], 30 colour woodblock designs of kimo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/478fc58d-23a3-4aa2-8e29-ac8a00d3fc8c/473b2128-e3dd-4889-b419-ac8d00cdff3c/468x382.jpg)
Lot 14
JAPAN - KIMONO PATTERN AND WOODBLOCK BOOKSUENO SEIKO. Hana no kage [Shadows of Flowers], 30 colour woodblock designs of kimonos, plain wrappers, 255 x 180mm.,Honda Ichijirō, [1899]--Kashi moyō [Designs for Sweets], 30 colour woodblock designs of kimonos, some dampstainting to opening text leaves, patterned wrappers, 270 x 195mm., Fujisawa Bunjirō, 1901--Shiranui monogatari, 7 parts only, each with several woodblock illustrations, including one double-page scene of 2 figures various artists (including Utagawa Kunisada II), patterned wrappers with red title label on upper cover, 176 x 120mm., [c.1850-1885]--KIKUSAKI KENGYO AND OKANGA DOICHI. Kakyoku sara-e kō: Meiji kaisen kokuji kazubiki [Songbook], decorative colour woodcut title, and several colour woodcut plates, 125 x 185mm., Dōmeisha, [1880], all wrappers stitched in the Japanese style; and 3 others, including one storybook, colophon dated 1796, sold not subject to return (13)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
![JAPANBIGOT (GEORGES) Album [Diner Japonais], 2 parts in 1 vol., 43 plates (including 2 pictorial titles), captions in French](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/478fc58d-23a3-4aa2-8e29-ac8a00d3fc8c/c3edd751-76a2-4d65-8eb1-ac8d00ce007d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 15
JAPANBIGOT (GEORGES) Album [Diner Japonais], 2 parts in 1 vol., 43 plates (including 2 pictorial titles), captions in French, thin worm trail in upper margin of some plates (just touching image of 4), contemporary wrappers stitched in the Japanese style, printed pictorial label ('Japan and it's Art') on upper cover, soiled, small folio (305 x 210mm.), [?Tokyo, c.1890]Footnotes:Georges Bigot (1860-1927), a French artist, lived in Yokohama from 1882 to 1899. The plates depict female and male Japanese 'types' and activities of the Meiji period, including musicians, sumo wrestlers, fishermen, young woman washing, archery, firemen, priest, festival day, night watchman, merchants, and others. The second part, Diner Japonais, depicts the misadventures of two westerners on a night out with Geishas.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
Lot 16
JUVENILE GAMESJuvenile Games, for the Four Seasons, woodcut frontispiece, title vignette and 14 illustrations, some partly hand-coloured, blue stain on frontispiece, contemporary half calf [cf. Gumuchian 3470], 12mo, Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, [c.1820]--CRABBE (GEORGE) The Works, 5 vol., contemporary green morocco gilt, t.e.g, John Murray, 1823--LETT (HENRY) Emily, a Moral Tale, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, ownership inscription of Susan Wharton (June 1809), contemporary red half calf, Rivington, 1809--LYON (GEORGE FRANCIS) The Private Journal... during the Recent Voyage of Discovery Under Captain Parry, 7 engraved plates, one folding map, 1824; A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to Reach Repulse Bay... in His Majesty's Ship Griper in the Year MCCCCXXIV, 7 engraved plates, one folding map, 1825, 2 works bound in 1 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, contemporary half calf, Norfolk & Norwich Library subscription label on upper cover and front pastedown, rubbed, John Murray, 8vo; and 17 others (28)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
Lot 17
LEONARDO DA VINCIA Treatise of Painting... Translated from the Original Italian... to Which is Prefix'd, the Author's Life, engraved portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 35 engraved plates (4 folding, a few light pencil annotations), 12pp. publisher's advertisements at end, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked to match with red morocco spine label, 8vo, J. Senex, and W. Taylor, 1721Footnotes:FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della pittura, compiled from manuscripts written during his lifetime, but first published in Italian in 1651. In these Leonardo outlined his influential theories regarding anatomical drawing, perspective, and other elements of artistic composition. Provenance: J. Hilton, early ownership inscription.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 175
BLACKER (WILLIAM)Art of Angling, and Complete System of Fly Making, and Dying of Colours, FRST EDITION, variant second issue, with 48 pages, and an additional 4 pages 'Concise account of the best fly-fishing stations' (printed 'Geo. Nichols, Printer, Earl's Court, Soho') bound at the end, engraved title, 6 engraved plates, 4pp., 32 ACTUAL FLIES (including one Salmon fly), attached with silver blindstamped paper seals, original gilt red morocco wallet binding, lettered in gilt 'Blacker's Art of Fly Making' on upper flap, with ties [Westwood & Satchell p.32], 12mo, the Author, March, 1842Footnotes:FINE EARLY IMPRESSION OF THE FIRST EDITION, with 32 actual flies including one large salmon fly, in an original wallet binding. For a variant issue in the same binding see Bonhams, Angling Library of John Simpson, 15 February 2005, lot 110.Provenance: R.W.H. Clarke, County Carlow Militia, Clonmel Barracks, May 1856, 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
Lot 176
BLACKER (WILLIAM)Art of Flymaking, &c., Comprising Angling & Dyeing of Colours... With Descriptions of Flies for the Season of the Year... Rewritten and Revised by the Author, 'third edition', engraved title, 21 engraved plates (18 hand-coloured), contemporary black morocco gilt, with binder's ticket ('A. Chatelin, 8 Church St., Soho'), rebacked preserving original spine [Westwood & Satchell pp.32-33], 12mo, the Author, 1855--A Concise but Comprehensive Treatise on the Art of Angling, hand-coloured woodcut frontispiece, toning to opening and final leaves, modern half morocco, gilt morocco spine label [Westwood & Satchell p.110], 8vo, Lewes, Sussex Press, by J. Banter, 1809 (2)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
Lot 182
FLYFISHER'S CLASSIC LIBRARYBLACKER (WILLIAM) Art of Flymaking, ONE OF FIFTY SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES WITH AN ACTUAL FLAY SPECIMEN, 1994--NEWLAND (HENRY) The Erne, NUMBER 1 OF 45 COPIES, ACTUAL FLY SPECIMEN OF 'JACK THE GIANT KILLER', 1999, the specimen mounted inside upper cover--DAVIS (EDMUND W.) Salmon-fishing on the Grand Cascapedia, LIMITED TO 950 COPIES, 2001--CHALMERS (PATRICK R.) At the Tail of the Weir, NUMBER 1 OF 150 COPIES, 2003--GOODSPEED (CHARLES ELIOT) Angling in America, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, 1996--MARINARO (VINCENT) A Modern Dry-Fly, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, 1996--KELSON (GEORGE) Tips, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, 2003--SKUES (G.E.M.) Side-Lines, Side-Lights & Reflections, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, 1996--HILLS (JOHN WALLER) A Summer on the Test, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, 1996--SAWYER (FRANK) The Frank Sawyer Omnibus, LIMITED TO 450 COPIES, 1997--PRYCE-TANNATT (T.E.) How to Dress Salmon Flies, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, 1997--HENDERSON (WILLIAM) My Life as an Angler, LIMITED TO 750 COPIES, 2001--FARSON (NEGLEY) Going Fishing, LIMITED TO 600 COPIES, 1993--SWIFT (JEREMY) Arthur Ransome on Fishing, LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, 1994, plates, publisher's mock-morocco gilt, slipcases (first mentioned sprinkled with white paint on top edge), large 8vo, The Flyfisher's Classic Library; and 25 others, Flyfisher's Classic library, including titles by Kelson, Pritt, Scropes, Hills, Plunkett-Greene, Hardy, Barker, O'Gorman, Skues, Mottram, Sheringham, Stewart, and Walbran, in slipcases (40)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
Lot 19
LUTYENS (EDWIN)BUTLER (ARTHUR STANLEY GEORGE) The Lutyens Memorial. The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens, 3 vol., LIMITED TO 1500 COPIES, folio, 1950--HUSSEY (CHRISTOPHER) The Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens, 4to, 1950, FIRST EDITIONS, plates, publisher's cloth, dust-jackets (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
Lot 194
WALTON (IZAAK) AND CHARLES COTTONThe Complete Angler, 2 vol., FIRST NICOLAS EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, edited by Sir Harris Nicolas, engraved plates and illustrations on india paper, some spotting and off-setting, contemporary red morocco gilt, sides with 2-line fillet border enclosing elaborate inner border, gilt compartments and title within raised bands on spine, gilt dentelles, blue silk endpapers and doublures, gauffered gilt edges, neatly rebacked preserving original spines, slightly rubbed [Coigney 44], large 8vo, William Pickering, 1836Footnotes:Provenance: J.H. Gossage, purple pencil ownership inscription; Jeffrey Norton, angling 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
Lot 195
WEST (LEONARD)Original artwork by Leonard West for his angling classic The Natural Trout Fly and its Imitation (1912), comprising: final artwork for the plates 1-9, 14, 15 and 16 (as used in the 1912 edition), and plates 1A and 17 (drawn in ink for the 1921 revised edition), and the originals for plates 10 ('Hackle Feathers, Poultry, &c.') and 13 ('Feathers for Flies' Wings') comprising of actual mounted samples, all on thick paper, some with proof annotations and notes, the original ink numerals (from first edition) erased and replaced as they appear in the second edition, the plates with mounted samples accompanied by West's ink identification key, images approximately 300 x 200mm.; an ink preliminary drawing (with overslip noting in pencil 'Diptera. This plate was redrawn, elaborated & coloured') of Plate 1; 2 variant 4-page prospectuses for the first edition of The Natural Trout Fly (one illustrating plate 6, one plate 8), and samples of each printed plate from the first edition of the book; 2 typed letters from P.P. Press Art Printers, dated 24 March and 11 August 1920, relating to printing costs and artwork; 2 original pen and ink drawings by West of pond beetles (both signed with initials 'L.W.', each with accompanying published print) for an unrelated publication, a few items loose otherwise bound together in contemporary green half morocco, gilt lettered 'Drawings. Leonard West' on upper cover, small folio, [c. 1912-1920]--'The St. Helens Fly Fishers Club. Second Annual Dinner and Smoking Concert at the Red Lion Hotel on Thursday Nov. 26th, 1908'; another, for the 'Third Annual Dinner... November 25th, 1909', pen and ink artwork depicting angling (and eating) scene caricatures by West, each on stiff card, 240 x 165mm., and slightly smaller, [1908-1909], with 2 further angling related caricature ink drawings, one a trial menu card; further material including approximately 15 original artworks (of which 4 fine fully-realised watercolours) of aquatic entomological subjects; 2 gelatin silver photographs of dragon flies (seemingly used as guide material for one of the watercolours); 12 pages of typescript notes, with some manuscript corrections, for an article (or ?unrealised book) relating to trout fishing, and other ephemeral materials, loose in 2 contemporary cloth portfolios, one labelled 'Aquatic Plants', one 'Gnats' (collection)Footnotes:LEONARD WEST'S ORIGINAL ARTWORK FOR THE NATURAL TROUT FLY AND ITS IMITATIONS (1912), with materials related to the publishing of the second edition (1921), artwork for St. Helens' Fly-fisher's Club dinners, and watercolours and ink drawings for articles on aquatic entomology. West was a stalwart of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society (and President for 1916) and founding member of the St. Helen's Fly-fisher's Club. In 1912 he published his classic The Natural Trout Fly 'with considerable diffidence... The notes and observations contained in it were made for private use only, but owing to the persuasion of a friend, the Author has decided to give them a wider circulation' (Foreword). His approach to fly-fishing was based on the premise that 'the angler with a knowledge of entomology, possesses a great advantage, and is able readily to select a fly' (Introduction). Provenance: Leonard West, and by family descent to current owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![CHALON (ALFRED EDWARD AND JOHN JAMES)'Sketches by A.E.C. & J.J.C. The Etchings by F[rancis] S[tevens] from Mr. Standerts'](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/478fc58d-23a3-4aa2-8e29-ac8a00d3fc8c/7715815b-4fef-4cb9-a812-ac8d00cef334/468x382.jpg)
Lot 2
CHALON (ALFRED EDWARD AND JOHN JAMES)'Sketches by A.E.C. & J.J.C. The Etchings by F[rancis] S[tevens] from Mr. Standerts' [sic] Poem of the Winter's Night, or the Admiral, the Farmer & the Old Marine. June 1818', manuscript title in ink, 6 original sepia ink and wash illustrations by A.E. and J.J. Chalon, 6 etchings (initialled 'F.S.' and numbered 1-6 in the plate), each mounted one per page (recto only) on original blue-grey paper, loose in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, original red morocco gilt lettering label on upper cover, covers loose, no spine, images approx. 115 x 88mm., [c.1818]Footnotes:Alfred Edward and John James Chalon, both Royal Academicians, were founder members with Francis Stevens of the 'The Society for the Study of Epic and Pastoral Design', later known as the 'Chalon Sketching Club', which first met in Stevens' home on January 6, 1808. 'The member at whose house the meeting was held provided paper stained on drawing frames, pencils and sepia. The subjects selected as a theme, chiefly from the ancient classics, were chosen by the host, who prepared written extracts, on separate slips, for the members, with each artist treating the subject according to his own conception' (Luke A. Dowle, Unveiling the Sketching Society (1799-1851), MPhil(R) thesis, Glasgow, online). The Winter's Night by Hugh Standish (not 'Standert' as given on our title) was a poem for juveniles published, with five plates, in Taunton in 1815.Provenance: Francis Stevens (1781-1823), bookplate (with pencil note 'Lot 37').This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 20
MILLAIS (JOHN)'Woodcuts from Drawings by J.E. Millais', album of 62 woodcut plates by Millais (45 proof plates, others cut to size and mounted), several with captions in pencil, interleaved with blank sheets, a 2-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ('yrs. ever John Millais') to Lady Leslie, complaining of an 'intolerable attack of neuralgia in my right eye which has driven me to bed', and a 4-page letter signed 'L.W.' (identified as the artist Lady Louisa Waterford) addressed to 'Dear Mrs John' [?Millais, i.e. Effie] loosely inserted, contemporary red morocco gilt, t.e.g., 4to, [c.1863]; together with THREE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED BY MILLAIS, one to his friend and fellow artist John Leslie (dated 13 May 1869), the other 2 to Lady Constance Leslie (30 July 1868, with original envelope, and 15 March 1872), together 5 pages, 8vo (collection)Footnotes:'I HAD ENTIRELY FORGOTTEN THAT ALL MY PICTURES WOULD BE HERE FROM THE ROYAL ACADEMY AND I MUST WORK ALL DAY ON THEIR CLEANING...' - letters by Pre-Raphaelite John Millais to this friends John and Constance Leslie, concerning the Academy, an artist's charity ('The Agnews have always obtained very large donations & give liberally - but the Christie & Manson people never give anything...'), and making mention of Effie ('you will be glad to hear my wife is going on most satisfactorily'). Also included is a 4-page autograph letter from Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford, illustrated with a sketch, thanking the recipient ('Dear Mrs. John') 'for letting me see Mr. Millais drawings... they are quite beautiful & I have been looking at them again & again. The Parables are felt to the heart's core, & theres so much beauty in every part...'. The volume of woodcuts includes proof copies of Millais's celebrated 'Sixties' book illustrations. Provenance: Constance Leslie, 16 December 1863, ownership inscription with note 'the etchings were given to me by Mrs. Millais'; Sir John Leslie, Glasglough House, bookplate; Leonie Leslie; Shane Leslie, bookplate, with an anecdotal note concerning Millais and Effie meeting Ruskin who was 'forced into the gutter'.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
Lot 202
FRANKLIN (BENJAMIN)Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in America... To which are added, letters and papers on philosophical subjects. The whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now first collected into one Volume, and illustrated with copper plates, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed in Franklin's hand 'From the Author' on front free endpaper, fourth edition, half-title, advertisement leaf with errata on verso, 6 engraved plates (of 7, 2 folding, lacking no. 3), woodcut illustrations, occasional minor spotting, 2 leaves with tears in margins (not affecting text), k3 with small burn hole affecting word 'it' on verso, slight dampstain to upper portion of 2E-G and 2I, entirely untrimmed in contemporary boards, rebacked preserving portion of original backstrip, some staining, corners worn, cloth slipcase [ESTC T101040; Ford 307; Howes F320; Sabin 25506; Wellcome III:62], 4to (246 x 185mm.), David Henry and sold by Francis Newbury, 1769Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPY 'FROM THE AUTHOR' OF THE FIRST COMPLETE EDITION -'THE MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC BOOK OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA' (PMM).First published in 1751-53, Franklin's ground-breaking work on electricity proved the existence of positive and negative charges as well as the concepts of insulators and conductors. It included his famous Leyden jar, kite and key experiments, and led to the invention of the lightning rod. The present fourth edition was updated by the author to include full notes on all of his experiments, along with correspondence between Peter Collinson, Franklin and other collaborators. Provenance: UK private collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 203
HOOKER (WILLIAM JACKSON)British Jungermanniae: Being a History and Description, with Colored Figures, of Each Species of the Genus, and Microscopical Analyses of the Parts, FIRST EDITION, FROM THE LIBRARY OF JOHN RUSKIN, with an inscription in his hand [see footnote], half-title, 88 hand-coloured engraved plates by W.H.C. Edwards after Hooker, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed with some some abrasions [Dearden, Ruskin Library 1734; Nissen, BBI 916], 4to, Longman, 1816Footnotes:John Ruskin's copy, which he presented to the Hawkshead Institute, situated less than four miles from his home at Brantwood. Hooker's 'most beautiful work' (DSB), this study of cryptogamic plants was the result of ten years preparation.Provenance: Robert Kaye Greville (1794-1866, cryptogamic botanist), bookplate; John Ruskin, with his note of purchase from Quaritch (£5/10/-) and gift inscription to the Hawkshead Institute ('John Ruskin, Brantwood, Candlemas 1883') on the half-title. In 1873 the book was located on Shelf 4, South Study Bookcase, Brantwood.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
Lot 204
HOOLA VAN NOOTEN (BERTHE)Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisies de l'Ile de Java peints d'après nature, third edition, half-title, 40 chromolithographed plates, some hand-finished with gum arabic, each with corresponding leaf of text (in English and French), loss to blank lower fore-corner of opening leaves and 9 plates, dates inked in on title-page, publisher's half morocco over printed boards, soiled, some loss to lower fore-corner of upper cover, hinges cracked [Nissen BBI 931; Sitwell and Blunt p.103], folio (550 x 445mm.), Brussels, C. Muquart, [1885]Footnotes:Fine chromolithographed plates after Van Nooten's drawings of a mixture of indigenous, naturalised and introduced plants, chosen principally for their eye-catching beauty, executed by her in the 1860s.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
Lot 205
HOUBA (JULIEN)Les chênes de l'Amérique septentrionale en Belgique, FIRST EDITION, half-title, 57 lithographed plates (including 38 nature-printed chromolithographs of leaves), contemporary half calf, original printed upper wrapper bound in [Nissen BBI 937], large 8vo, Hasselt, Ceysens, 1887--[ALPINE FLORA] A collection of approximately 100 actual mounted samples of Alpine flora, mounted on loose sheets, most with printed identification label, held in modern cloth box, gilt morocco lettering label on spine, [late nineteenth century]--Album of 'Wild Flowers', compiled by Marmaduke Burton Dawnay, approximately 100 actual samples of pressed flowers mounted on 34 sheets (recto only), all captioned, with Dawnay's ownership stamp, nineteenth century half morocco, 4to, initialed 'M.D., September 1899'--French album of pressed flowers, compiled by Emilie Vail, upwards of 50 actual samples mounted with paper tabs on 31 sheets (recto only), captioned in ink with place and date collected ('Jardin de Pope, Londres 1835', 'Tombeau de Napoleon', 'Chateau de Blois, 1843', etc.), contemporary quarter morocco, oblong 8vo, [1840s]; and 6 other Herbariums with mounted flowers, including 4 with samples mostly collected in Surrey in the 1870s (10)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 207
LANA TERZI (FRANCESCO)Magisterium naturae, et artis... in quo occultoiora naturalis philosophiae principia manifestantus, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, 57 engraved plates (each folding, mounted on a stub), 4-page dedication to Sfondrati loosely inserted in volume 3, early tree calf, small gilt stamp [see provenance] on upper covers, neatly rebacked preserving original spines, gilt-tooled with red and black morocco lettering labels, some rubbing [Riccardi I 13.3, 'Raro di trovare tutti e tre i volumi uniti... importantissima opera'; Wheeler Gift 197], folio (370 x 235mm.), Brescia, Giovanni Maria Ricciardi [-Parma, Hyppolite Rosati], 1684-1692Footnotes:First edition of Lana Terzi's magnum opus, a polymathic collection of Jesuit science in the style of his mentor Athanasius Kircher.Provenance: Royal Society of Edinburgh, small gilt stamp at centre of upper covers.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
Lot 208
LEWIN (JOHN WILLIAM)A Natural History of the Lepidopterous Insects of New South Wales. Collected, Engraved, and Faithfully Painted after Nature, second edition, 19 hand-coloured lithographed plates, light spotting, off-setting onto text, original grey boards, publisher's printed label on upper cover ('Price £2: 2s'), rebacked and recornered in red morocco [Nissen ZBI 2487; Ferguson 874], 4to (265 x 203mm.), J.H. Bohte, 1822 [plates watermarked 'J. Waterman, 1825']Footnotes:Provenance: Heinrich Freiherr von Haerdtl, bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 209
MAXWELL (JAMES CLERK)A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 2 vol., second edition, DIRK TER HAAR'S COPY, WITH EXTENSIVE ANNOTATIONS THROUGHOUT, written in Dutch, in pencil, including some diagrams and illustrations, mostly in margins, 20 plates, 32-page publisher's catalogue (dated October 1884) at end of volume 2, spine ends repaired [cf. PMM 355; Norman 1466, first edition of 1873], Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1881--WATSON (H.W.) AND S.H. BURBURY. The Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, bookplate and stamps of Haberdashers' Aske's Hampstead School Science Library, 1885, publisher's green cloth gilt, rubbed, Oxford, Clarendon Press--VOLTA (ALESSANDRO) Collezione dell'opere, 3 vol. in 5, 7 folding engraved plates, lacks portrait frontispiece, contemporary grey boards, printed spine labels (later blue ink note one label and spine), rubbed, Florence, 1816, 8vo (9)Footnotes:An extensively annotated copy of 'Maxwell's major work, which demonstrated the importance of electricity to physics as a whole' (Norman), from the library of the Dutch physicist Dirk ter Haar (1919-2002).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
Lot 211
NATURALIST'S POCKET MAGAZINEThe Naturalist's Pocket Magazine; or, Compleat Cabinet of the Curiosities and Beauties of Nature, vol. 1-6 (of 8), 352 hand-coloured engraved plates, several loose, some shaved, contemporary half calf, red and black morocco gilt spine labels, worn, some loss to 2 spines, one cover detached, 12mo, Harrison, Cluse, 1798-1800, sold not subject to returnThis 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
Lot 212
NEWTON (ISAAC)Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica... editio ultima, first part only (of 2, without the 'Analysis...' at end), title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 3 folding engraved plates, numerous diagrams in the text, nineteenth century calf, red and brown gilt lettering labels and gilt decoration in six panels within raised bands on spine, C.A.L. gilt stamp on upper cover [Grey 12; Wallis 12], 4to (238 x 185mm.), Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1723Footnotes:Provenance: Walter Bowman (probably the Scottish antiquary, 1699-1782, elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1745), neat early ownership inscription on verso of title-page; Cruising Association Library, bookplate (with disposal stamp), stamped in gilt on upper cover.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 219
BINDING - OMAR KHAYYÁMKHAYYÁM (OMAR) The Rubáiyát, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, 12 hand-coloured plates after Gilbert James, full maroon morocco gilt by Bayntun of Bath, the upper cover with a central panel depicting a scene from the Rubáiyát (young woman smelling a flower in a vase), in red, green, olive and pink morocco inlays with gilt tooling, vertical side borders of a vine and foliage design in purple, green and brown inlays on gilt ground, gilt lettered title and author's name in upper and lower borders, spine with vine and foliage design in 6 panels within raised bands, g.e., purple watered-silk endpapers, slight rubbing on joints, 8vo, George Routledge,and New York, E.P. Dutton, [c.1904]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
![BUCKLAND WRIGHT (JOHN)[SANDFORD (CHRISTOPHER)] Heart's Desire. Inscribed by Me: Chrysilla von Dansdorf, LIMITED TO 70 COPIES](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/478fc58d-23a3-4aa2-8e29-ac8a00d3fc8c/af3bb8e6-513e-444b-aa27-ac8d00cecb61/468x382.jpg)
Lot 220
BUCKLAND WRIGHT (JOHN)[SANDFORD (CHRISTOPHER)] Heart's Desire. Inscribed by Me: Chrysilla von Dansdorf, LIMITED TO 70 COPIES ONLY, this copy unnumbered, title printed in purple, engraved vignette and 7 engraved plates by and after John Buckland Wright, one word pencil amendment to final leaf of text, contemporary quarter maroon calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered title on spine, t.e.g., spine rubbed and faded, small stain on upper cover [Reid A30], small 4to, Paris, for Private Circulation Only [London, printed by the Tintern Press, and A. Alexander & Sons, 1939]Footnotes:THE ONLY EDITION, LIMITED TO 70 COPIES. An erotic tale of lesbian love purporting to have been translated from a Greek manuscript, but actually written by Christopher Sandford of the Golden Cockerel Press.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 221
BURNE-JONES (EDWARD)The Flower Book. Reproductions of Thirty Eight Watercolour Designs, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 213 OF 300 COPIES, 38 coloured plates by Burne-Jones, text printed in red and green, 4-page facsimile of his list of flower names at end, contemporary dark green morocco gilt by the W.H. Smith bindery (i.e. Douglas Cockerell with 'W.H.S.' stamp inside upper cover), t.e.g., small repair touching one word of lettering on spine, a few small abrasions, 4to (320 x 280mm.), Henry Piazza et Cie., for the Fine Art Society, 1905Footnotes:Burne-Jones began his series of 'Flower Book' designs in 1882, working upon them until his death in 1898. 'The pictures in this book are not of flowers themselves, but of subjects suggested by their names... All the pictures take the same form, a circle about six inches in diameter—a kind of magic mirror in which the vision appears—and he wished them not to be separated, because, wide as is their scope, one spirit, that of pure fantasy, unites them... In some of the pictures details remain unfinished; but both colour and design are always perfectly clear, and are so intimately characteristic of the painter that I have sometimes thought this book contains a fuller expression of himself than exists elsewhere in his work' (Georgiana Burne-Jones, from the preface).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
Lot 224
CHURCHILL (WINSTON S.)Savrola. A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania, first English edition, advertisement leaf at end [Woods A3(b)], Longmans, 1900; London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria, 4 maps (3 folding), 32pp. advertisements at end [Woods A4], Longmans, 1900; Ian Hamilton's March, frontispiece, one folding map, 32pp. advertisements at end [Wood A5], Longmans, 1900; Lord Randolph Churchill, 2 vol., first English edition, frontispieces [Woods A8(a)], Macmillan, 1906; My African Journey, frontispiece and plates, 16pp. advertisements at end [Woods A12], Hodder & Stoughton, 1908; Liberalism and the Social Problem, [Woods A15], Hodder & Stoughton, 1909; The World Crisis, 5 vol. in 6, folding maps, errata slip tipped-in in volume 1, bookplate of John Batten Pooll in volume 1 [Woods A31(a)], Thornton Butterworth, [1923-1931]; My Early Life. A Roving Commission, frontispiece and plates [WoodsA37(a)], Thornon Butterworth, [1930]; Thoughts and Adventures, first English edition, frontispiece [Woods A30(a)], Thornton Butterworth, [1932], FIRST EDITIONS unless otherwise stated, some spotting, publisher's cloth, the second and fifth mentioned pictorial, some rubbing or fading, 8vo; and 27 others by Churchill (42)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 227
COHEN (LEONARD)Let Us Compare Mythologies... Drawings by Freda Guttman, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, 5 plates by Guttman, publisher's black cloth, silver gilt lettering on spine, pink pictorial dust-jacket (uneven fading, spine split at joints with one horizontal tear), 8vo, Printed in Montreal, and Published for the McGill Poetry Series by Contact Press, Toronto, 1956Footnotes:FIRST EDITION OF LEONARD COHEN'S FIRST BOOK OF POETRY, IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET. Approximately 400 copies were printed, under the editorship of Louis Dudek of McGill University, with the purpose 'to present to the university community and the public the work of young writers at McGill of out standing ability'.Provenance: Neville Linton, McGill Union, ownership inscription dated May 1956 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
Lot 229
DESIGNER BINDING - ELIZABETH FRINKElizabeth Frink's Etchings Illustrating Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' [translated and with an introduction by Nevill Coghill], NUMBER C268 OF 300 COPIES SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE ARTIST at the end, this being one of 175 'Boxed Unbound' copies, 19 etched plates by Elizabeth Frink, SPECIALLY BOUND BY SALLY LOU-SMITH, black morocco over polished oak boards, with geometrical pattern cut out to reveal the boards below, and russet and terracotta morocco onlays in vertical bands, gilt lettered spine with similar onlays, brown calf doublures with the design of the covers repeated in gilt outline, signed 'SLS' at rear, preserved in felt-lined oak box (707 x 520 x 115mm.), black morocco label titled in gilt and signed 'SLS', folio (672 x 490mm.), Waddington, 1972Footnotes:ELIZABETH FRINK'S CHAUCER, IN A FINE DESIGNER BINDING BY SALLY LOU SMITH.Sally Lou Smith (1925-2007) was born in New York and came to London in 1958. She studied bookbinding at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, and set up her own bindery in 1963. Two years later she joined the Guild of Contemporary Bookbinders, now Designer Bookbinders, subsequently becoming Fellow and then President from 1979 to 1981. She was a highly regarded teacher, and a comprehensive survey of her work appeared in The New Bookbinder 21 (2001).This extremely heavy binding, suggestive of tree bark, was commissioned for Frink's Chaucer on the book's publication in 1972. We have traced one other copy of the unbound sets in a similar binding (Sothebys, 7 November 2002, lot 294, copy numbered C266), but presumably the size and weight would have made it unlikely that more than a very small number were completed.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
Lot 234
EROTICASIEBEN (GOTTFRIED), pseudonym of ARCHIBALD SMITH. Balkangreuel, NUMBER 119 OF 550 COPIES, introductory text by Archibald Smith, 12 collotype plates, with printed tissue guards, title scuffed with part loss of one letter and short marginal tears, disbound, folio (355 x 280mm.), Vienna, Privatdruck der Gesellschaft österreichischer Bibliophilen [i. e. C.W. Stern], 1909Footnotes:Privately printed suite of plates by Austrian artist Gottfried Sieben (1856-1918), all depicting savage cruelties inflicted on women during the Balkan wars.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![[FORSTER (E.M.)]GASKELL (ELIZABETH) Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, E.M. FORSTER'S COPY, 18](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/478fc58d-23a3-4aa2-8e29-ac8a00d3fc8c/524032c8-3f98-4558-99c0-ac8e00c68d7b/468x382.jpg)
Lot 237
[FORSTER (E.M.)]GASKELL (ELIZABETH) Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, E.M. FORSTER'S COPY, 18 wood-engraved plates by George Du Maurier, publisher's maroon cloth gilt, rubbed (with small loss at extremities of spine) [Sadleir 936; Wolff 2428, 'a really superb novel, the author's best'], 8vo, Smith, Elder, 1866Footnotes:Forster's copy of Wives and Daughters, a book he considered Mrs. Gaskell's masterpiece. The literary critic James McConkey recalls a meeting they had in which 'For the greater part... we talked about novels we both liked and novels he thought I would like, such as Mrs Gaskell's Wives and Daughters' ('Two Anonymous Writers. E.M. Forster and Anton Chekov', in Das and Beer, 1979).Provenance: E.M. Forster, inscribed 'E.M. Forster, King's College, Cambridge' on front free endpaper of volume 1, and book label 'This book belongs to E.M. Forster' in both volumes; given to his friend Eric Fletcher.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 241
FORSTER (E.M.)MARSHALL (JOHN) and others. The Bagh Caves in the Gwalior State, India Society, 1927--ANAND (MULK RAJ) Kama Kala, Geneva, 1958]--RANDHAWA (M.S.) Kangra Valley Painting, dust-jacket, Bombay, [1954]--DEY (MUKUL) Birbhum Terracottas, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO FORSTER, dust-jacket, New Delhi, [1959]--Lionel Wendt's Ceylon, anonymously inscribed to Forster on 20 May 1951, photographic plates, dust-jacket (clipped), [1950]--NATWAR-SINGH (K., editor) E.M. Forster: A Tribute. With Selections from His Writing on India, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO FORSTER 'To E.M.F. with love from Natwas, New York, Dec. 1963 for 1st Jan. 1964', dust-jacket, New York, 1964--ZIMMER (HEINRICH) The Art of Indian Asia, 2 vol., dust-jackets (with piece cut away from spines), slipcase, New York, 1955, excepting the fifth mentioned all with the library label of E.M. Forster, the second and both volumes of the final mentioned title with additional ownership inscription 'E.M. Forster, Kings College Cambridge', 8vo and 4to; and 3 others relating to India, 2 with Forster's bookplate, the other inscribed to him by Calcutta Group artist Nirode Mazumdar, most with additional inscription by Forster noting 'For Eric Fletcher' (11)Footnotes:Provenance: E.M. Forster, gifted to his friend Eric Fletcher.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 243
FORSTER (E.M.)Two autograph letters signed ('Morgan') to Rupert Barkeley Smith, the first recommending he visit the valleys of the Lot and the Dordogne, thanking him for having him to stay and asking if Mr Hall still sells apples ('...I should love some russets, even more than Cox's...'), the second thanking him for the apples ('...The packing of the apples is both masterly and masterful...') and talking of France ('...Not far off is Souillac with some wonderful Romanesque sculpture including a dancing Isaiah. I wish he had given lessons to other prophets...'), 4 pages, some foxing and rust stains where previously clipped together, small hole to one page not affecting text, 8vo (180 x 115mm.), King's College, Cambridge, 19 November and 30 November 1953; Where Angels Fear to Tread, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'R.B.S. from E.M.F./ 4/10/05' on the half-title, with a pencil note 'There is a beautiful sentence on page 161 which makes me love you' in another hand on the title, William Blackwood, 1905; The Hill of Devi, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'This last Indian snippet: with affectionate remembrances to Honor and yourself from Morgan, October 1953' on the front free endpaper, photographic plates, Edward Arnold, 1953; Howards End, FIRST EDITION, ownership inscription (Nov. 1910) on front free endpaper, Edward Arnold, 1910; Collected Short Stories, bookplate of R. Barkeley Smith, Sidgwick and Jackson, [1947], publisher's cloth, rubbed, some fading, 8vo (6)Footnotes:'THE LAST INDIAN SNIPPET WITH AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCES' - Correspondence and books inscribed to Rupert Barkeley Smith (1883-1970).E.M. Forster met Barkeley Smith, an Oxford undergraduate destined for the Indian Civil Service, whilst on an Aegean cruise at Easter 1903. Despite widely different approaches to life, they initially enjoyed a close relationship, Forster visiting Smith in Oxford and taking walking trips together, with Forster hoping for something more; in his journal for 22 December 1907 he writes '...I wish he cared for fooling... It is impossible to proceed further...' (Ed. P. Gardner, Journals & Diaries of E.M. Forster, 2011, vol. 1). By the time Smith returned on leave from India in 1912, however, Forster gives the impression that their friendship had cooled, writing in his journal '...He was trying, & no doubt tired. But he keeps the curious belief that we are in sympathy...' (10 May 1912).Despite this, whilst Assistant Magistrate in Allahabad, it was Smith who facilitated Forster's trip to India in 1913 organising accommodation, servants and hospitality and, on one memorable occasion, inviting him to an annual bathing fair. On the way they visited the Buddhist sites of Buddh Gaya and caves in the Barabar Hills, later to be used as the model for the Marabar Caves in A Passage to India. Smith's attitudes, however, did not leave Forster with a favourable impression of the British in India, something which would colour his characterisations in the novel and leaving him feeling rather depressed: '...Four years in India had left their mark on Smith. He was curt and insolent in Court, wouldn't speak a word to Forster's friend Ahmed Mirza when he came to lunch, and seemed, like his 'civilian' companions, to dislike every class of Indian except the peasant...' (P.N. Furbank, E M Forster: A Life, 1978, vol.1, p.249). When the book came out in 1924, Smith took offence at the portrayal not only as a slur on the Indian Civil Service as a whole, but as a personal affront since, he believed, the Turtons' house in the novel bore too close a resemblance to his own bungalow in Agra: '...different readers took every possible different view as to the fairness of his treatment of Indian problems. Some Tory-minded readers were incensed at the book... Rupert Smith wrote him a violent letter, more or less breaking off their friendship...' (Furbank, vol. 2, p.125). By the 1950's, RBS and Forster were reconciled sufficiently for Forster to send him the fondly inscribed copy of his Indian memoirs, The Hill of Devi, but the relationship never properly recovered, Forster admitting in 1963, '...I want to spend myself in writing to people who are on the margin of my heart. Letter to RBS has gone...' (Journal, 15 August 1963).These letters are not listed in Mary Lago's Calendar of the Letters of E.M. Forster, neither are they published in the Selected Letters. They have been retained by Rupert Barkeley Smith's descendants until now.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 246
HARDY (THOMAS)Jude the Obscure, FIRST EDITION, first state, half-title, etched frontispiece by by H. Macbeth-Raeburn, map of Wessex, small loss at headband, Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., [1896]; idem, another edition, identical to first edition except for substitution of 'Harpers' for 'Osgood...' at foot of spine, Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1896 [but Harper, 1897?]; idem, first American edition, plates by Hatherall, Harper & Brothers, 1896 [1895], publisher's green cloth gilt [Purdy, pp.86-91]; A Defence of Jude the Obscure... In Three Letters to Sir Edmund Gosse, C.B., NUMBER 28 OF 30 COPIES SIGNED BY T.J. WISE, publisher's wrappers [Purdy, p.26], Edinburgh, for Private Circulation Only by the Dunedin Press, 1928, 8vo (4)Footnotes:First and early variant editions of Jude the Obscure, together with T.J. Wise's very rare limited edition pamphlet publishing Hardy's letters concerning the book.Provenance: First three, Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr., bookplate; Fourth, Carroll Atwood Wilson, bookplate; Sotheby's, 7 November 2001, The Library of Frederick B. Adams, Jr. Part II: Thomas Hardy, lots 483 and 485.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
Lot 255
OMAR KHAYYAMRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám... with Illustrations by Willy Pogany, NUMBER 648 OF 750 COPIES, 12 tipped-in colour plates, additional engraved frontispiece signed by the artist, contemporary morocco gilt, t.e.g., spine slightly rubbed, small folio, George G. Harrap, 1930; Rubaiyat... Reproduced from a Manuscript Written and Illuminated by F. Sangorski & G. Sutcliffe, NUMBER 441 OF 550 COPIES, signed by the artists on the colophon, colour illustrations and decorations, publisher's pictorial vellum gilt, t.e.g., folio, Siegle, Hill & Co., [1911] (2)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
Lot 258
RACKHAM (ARTHUR)BROTHERS GRIMM. Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Stories, 12 tipped-in colour plates, jacket toned with light spotting and short tear to upper cover, Constable, [1917]--MOTTE-FOQUE (FRIEDRICH H.C. DE LA) Undine, 14 tipped-in colour plates, publisher's advertisement loosely inserted, Heineman, 1919--IRVING (WASHINGTON) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, second impression, 8 colour plates, G.C. Harrap, [September 1928]--MILTON (JOHN) Comus, 24 tipped-in colour plates, Heinemann, [1921]--SWIFT (JONATHAN) Gulliver's Travels, 12 colour plates, 8vo, J.M. Dent, 1909--Some British Ballads, 16 tipped-in colour plates, spine of dust-jacket detached with major losses, turn-in of lower cover detached, Constable, [1919], all illustrated by Arthur Rackham, publisher's cloth gilt (some pictorial or decorative), DUST-JACKETS, unless otherwise stated 4to (6)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 29
WHITTOCK (NATHANIEL)The Art of Drawing and Colouring from Nature, Flowers, Fruit and Shells... Also, the New Method of Oriental Tinting, 24 lithographed plates, each in 2 states (hand-coloured and uncoloured), title cut to size and laid down, contents leaf and one text leaf with short repairs, some spotting, modern half calf, Isaac Taylor, 1829--BURNET (JOHN) A Practical Treatise on Painting. In Three Parts, 25 engraved plates (8 hand-coloured), contemporary green half morocco, J. Carpenter, 1828--PARSEY (ARTHUR) Perspective Rectified; or, the Principles and Application Demonstrated, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS SON, inscribed 'Master Willm. Parsey, the gift of his father 1840', 16 engraved plates, publisher's cloth, printed label on upper cover, Longman, 1836, 4to--TINGRY (PIERRE FRANCOIS) The Painter and Varnisher's Guide... Corrected and Improved, by a Practical Chemist, second edition, 2 engraved plates (one folding), folding letterpress table, occasional spotting and browning, untrimmed in original grey boards, printed label on spine, rubbed upper cover detached, 8vo, Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1816; and another (5)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
Lot 31
AESOPFables with His Life: in English, French and Latin... by Francis Barlow, additional engraved title, full-page engraved arms of the Earl of Devonshire, 31 engraved plates by Thomas Dudley after Francis Barlow, one full-page etched illustration of Aesop surrounded by animals and birds ('See here how natures books...'), and 110 half-page engraved illustrations, a few plates slightly browned, some tears mostly in lower or upper margins (text on 4 leaves and 1 engraving affected, but all without loss), CONTEMPORARY BLACK MOROCCO BY BARLOW'S AESOP BINDER, elaborately tooled in gilt, the sides decorated with leafy tendrils and various floral tools, emanating from a small Greek urn, with borders of drawer-handle tools forming connecting geometric pattern, spine in 8 compartments with raised bands and 3 flower tool designs, some small patches worn, spine slightly faded and joints rubbed in places, some paper repairs to marbled endpapers [ESTC R22991], folio (363 x 235mm.), H. Hills Jun., for Francis Barlow, and are to be sold by Chr. Wilkinson [et al], 1687Footnotes:FINELY BOUND BY 'BARLOW'S AESOP BINDER' FOR PRESENTATION: A PREVIOUSLY UNRECORDED LARGE PAPER COPY. 'From this bindery, active in the 1680s and 1690s, come three handsome presentation copies of Barlow's Aesop, two of them now in the British Library... [and] Pepys's copy at Magdalene College' (Howard M. Nixon, English Restoration Bindings, 1972, p.40). This fourth example can be attributed to the shop through comparison with the dedication copy to the Earl of Devonshire at Chatsworth, now in the British Library (Nixon, op. cit. no. 99 and plate 99). The combination of a floral and geometrical pattern is common to both bindings, and many of the same tools are used. The sides feature the same leafy tendrils and smaller ornamental and flower head tools, whilst the spines share two floral compartmental designs along with the superscript letter 's' in 'Barlow's'. The Cracherode copy in the British Library also features some of the same tools.Barlow's edition of Aesop, self-financed and illustrated, was first published in 1666, but most copies were destroyed when his shop, the Golden Eagle, was burned down in the Great Fire that year. The present second edition, considered the culmination of Barlow's work in book illustration, was the first to contain the 31 fine plates illustrating Aesop's life, and the quatrains by Aphra Behn which were engraved in place of Thomas Philpott's captions within the 110 illustrations. The present copy includes the so-called 'indecent' plate 17 which is often missing.Provenance: UK private collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 4
COOKERYManuscript recipe book of Richard Scarborough, brown ink on paper, 23 pages including recipes for 'Ginger Wine', 'Brandy Toast', and 'Lemon Cheesecakes', some leaves excised, LEATHER BOOK-LABEL OF RAYMOND OLIVER, contemporary vellum, inscribed 'Scarborough's Book' and 'Prescriptions 1783. London. Ricd. Scarborh.' on upper cover, preserved in solander box, 4to (188 x 153mm.), 1783--[GLASSE (HANNAH) The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy... One Hundred and Fifty New and Usefil Receipts, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners worn [Vicaire 414], A. Millar, 1767--FARLEY (JOHN) The London Art of Cookery, ninth edition, engraved frontispiece and 12 plates, some light foxing and dampstaining, manuscript recipe for Quince Brandy on reverse of frontispiece, bookplate of Antoine Tavera, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, corners worn, James Scatcherd etc., 1800, 8vo (3)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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Lot 5
CRAWHALL (JOSEPH)Border Notes & Mixty-Maxty, [ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES], AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Mrs. Geo. Armstrong with the author's kind regards' on the dedication leaf, 5 hand-coloured plates, other full-page plates and illustrations, publisher's half morocco over peacock-patterned cloth, g.e. [Westwood & Satchell p.70], small 4to, [Newcastle, Imprinted by Andrew Reid, for the Author], 1880Footnotes:FINE PRESENTATION COPY OF A SCARCE TITLE. Border Notes 'is an 'ollpodrida' of angling verse and miscellaneous drollery, illustrated with masterly pen and ink sketches... coloured plates, head-and-tail pieces etc. Of Mr. Crawhall it may be said that he has created crown-jewels for the angling-libraries of the future. There can be no doubt that his books will give rise to eager competition in the auction-rooms of half a century hence' (Westwood & Satchell). Some of the illustrations were contributed by Joseph Crawhall Junior, the first time his work appeared in print, and the printer, Andrew Reid, stated that he destroyed the blocks after the printing.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
Lot 51
PLOT (ROBERT)The Natural History of Stafford-Shire, FIRST EDITION, title with engraved vignette, 37 engraved plates (25 double-page), one large folding hand-coloured engraved map (detached and framed), list of subscribers, light arc of dampstaining to several plates and some text towards end, contemporary calf, rebacked [ESTC R21986], folio (355 x 230mm.), Oxford, at the Theatre, 1686 (2)Footnotes:Provenance: Charles Bruce, third Earl of Ailesbury (1682-1747), bookplate on verso of title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 52
PLOT (ROBERT)The Natural History of Oxford-Shire, being an Essay towards the Natural History of England, second edition, folding engraved map, 16 engraved plates, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked preserving original spine, upper joint cracking, folio (315 x 190mm.), Oxford, Charles Brome, 1705Footnotes:Provenance: Algernon Borthwick (1830-1908), owner of the Morning Post, 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
Lot 55
RUSKIN (JOHN)Praeterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life [-Dilecta_ Correspondence, Diary Notes, and Extracts from Books, illustrating Praeterita], 31 original parts in 6 vol., FIRST EDITION, EXTENSIVELY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED FOR CHARLES E. GOODSPEED WITH THE INSERTION OF 25 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED BY RUSKIN, 23 autograph letters and notes by contemporaries (including Turner), numerous sketches, photographs, cut signatures, annotated proof sheets, and upwards of 280 additional engravings and plates (some coloured), the collection comprising: i) Group of 25 autograph letters signed ('J. Ruskin', 'John Ruskin', 'J.R.') to various correspondents, including:'Darling Reille', an unknown child ('...although May is irresistible, And Alice is so bewitching – yet you were my first Love... ps Don't frizz the hair quite so high this time...'); Miss Rudkin, organising a spring dress for Arthur Severn's daughter whom he finds '...already tall enough – to become – a pretty costume, and refresh and refine my savage mind...'; an unknown recipient recalling an encounter with Charles Darwin ('...A couple of years ago, a man, Darwin was walking with me on my garden terrace and stopped to look at a strange form of (I forget what) flower. – 'Now – why is that shaped so' – he said. Why should you want to know? I answered – Oh – he said, laughing – but with the perfectly frank expression of a man partly ashamed of a weakness – 'I always want to know' – 'And I never do.' – ended this 'discussion' in that direction – and we went into lunch...'); Charles Newton on his engagement to Effie Gray ('...I believe indeed that it is every way better for me that I should marry... Miss Gray is a good girl... will be a very noble creature – and far above my deservings...'); another to Newton (speaking of his recent trip to Europe ('...that vast blunder St Peters...'), the effect of political feeling on architecture, hoping to 'get out of Jephson's clutches' soon to show him some architectural drawings completed in Italy); the Revd A. Tighe Gregory (mentioning his nervous condition '...the most trivial matter will sometime sicken and sting me...', his debt to Turner for art and Carlyle for literature and marvelling how they, like him 'should be irreligious' but that he is open to 'all influences'); Lady Naesmyth (sending copies of verses by Rose La Touche, despairing she has gone to Ireland and may not love him when she returns); four to his friend and neighbour at Brantwood, Susan Beever, including a highly personal undated letter regarding '...that wretched child...' [Rose La Touche], complaining of her evangelism and his frustration ('...a husband can always say a little word for himself – whereas a poor, servile – wretch of an old lover... she I verily believe is like to be in mortal illness as not – and vowing I shan't come near her unless I swear first that I don't care to! – and only love God. And of course I can't & won't do anything of the sort – I don't love anything but her in the whole universe – and she leads me the life to Tantalus & Prometheus Vinctus in one...'); another illustrated with a sprig of blossom written three days after her death ('...I've just heard that my poor little Rose is gone when the hawthorn blossoms go... just left the second number of Proserpine to be printed – there are many little things going to be said in it, which nobody but she would have understood... I have been long prepared so you need not be anxious about me...'); and another including a delicate drawing of moss ('...all in stars as close as that – it takes such a dreadful time to paint...'); and Thomas Carlyle discussing the use of colour in Greek sculpture ('...if colour will make Greek endurable – it will make Gothic glorious...'); others include a note to Dante Gabriel Rossetti arranging a meeting, another refusing an invitation to dine at Mr D'Israeli's, to his physician Henry Jephson, to Hale White regarding his paper on Byron and to Henry Jowett regarding the publication of Praeterita, c.52pp in all, 8vo, Denmark Hill, Brantwood, Leamington Spa, Perth etc., c.1841-1889 where dated. ii) Illustrations, including a copy of John Ruskin's self portrait of c.1861, head and shoulders, wearing a black neckerchief, pencil and watercolour, in an unknown hand, image 155 x 125mm.; a sketch map of Oxford depicting the town and colleges, in ink, with monogram ('JR') on reverse of a printed prospectus for Robert Taylor Pritchett's Brush-Notes in Holland, 183 x 240mm.; two fine pen and ink vignettes of hawthorn blossom and moss; and sketch of a dog by John Brown entitled 'orat plorat et adorat', 85 x 65mm.; together with numerous printed plates and engravings including landscapes, architecture and portraits.iii) Some 23 autograph letters by others including J.M.W. Turner (arranging for James Lennox of New York '...to view the work of art at Denmark Hill Slave Ship...'), Ruskin's father John James Ruskin, George Cruikshank, Giulia Grisi (signed musical quotation from Verdi's Il Trovatore), his physician Dr Henry Jephson, John Brown (3), George Allen, Charles Eliot Norton (from whom Goodspeed received Ruskin's autograph), J. A. Froude, Joan Ruskin Severn, Thomas Carlyle, Robert Harry Inglis, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Carlyle (to Robert Browning regarding her uncle's funeral), and Lord Egremont; with others regarding the publication of Praeterita, additional photographs and cut signatures.iv) Printer's proof sheets of Chapter XI Volume 2 with corrections and annotations by Ruskin in black ink., bound at the end of volume 2.Footnotes:AN IMPORTANT EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED SET WITH 25 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS BY RUSKIN, ASSEMBLED BY AND BOUND FOR THE EMINENT RUSKIN COLLECTOR CHARLES E. GOODSPEED OF BOSTON.Praeterita, the story of Ruskin's early life, was published in 28 parts at intervals from July 1885 to July 1889 when ill-health took its toll on the author and the series remained unfinished: '...Praeterita is a delightful work, a rewriting of Ruskin's life that makes it unreliable as a source of biographical fact, yet an accurate portrait of the author's mind...' (Robert Hewison, ODNB). This finely-bound set of Praeteritia is the result of a collaboration in the early years of the twentieth century between Ruskin's friend and literary executor, the American Charles Eliot Norton, who supplied the parts (as evidenced by the ownership inscriptions on the bound-in wrappers), and the eminent Ruskin collector, bibliophile and bookseller Charles E. Goodspeed, who organised the extra material and binding, supplying much of it from his own extensive collection.The extra material Goodspeed carefully chose to include in this edition is not organised in exact chronological order but fitted in where deemed appropriate to fit the text, and includes several important autograph letters by Ruskin amongst the wealth of material. Although some of the letters are marked in pencil presumably for the purposes of publication, most are apparently unpublished, with one particularly revealing letter bearing the pencilled note 'Rosie... perhaps too 'intime' to print?...'. Goodspeed has indeed selected some particularly personal letters for inclusion, several relating to his relationships with young girls, one to Charles Newton for example enthuses about his engagement to Effie Gray ('...far above my deservings...'), and another to his close friend and neighbour at Brantwood, Susan Beever, where, in a highly intimate letter, he complains of '...that wretched child...' (presumably the deeply religious Rose La To... 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
Lot 59
VERTOT (RÉNÉ AUBERT DE)The History of the Knights of Malta, 2 vol., 5 engraved maps (4 double-page or folding), 70 engraved portraits by J.F. Cars after Delijen (corresponding to index of plates), contemporary calf, worn, spines cracked with body of text split, small folio (343 x 225mm.), G. Strahan and others, 1728For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 72
VICTORIA, QUEEN OF ENGLANDLeaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO JOHN CHARD, inscribed 'To Major John Chard R.E., V.C. on his return from Zululand from Victoria, Balmoral Oct: 13 1879', 2 engraved plates, original green morocco gilt, g.e., 8vo, Smith, Elder, 1868; together with a manuscript copy of a telegram, on Royal Engineers headed paper, sent by the Director General of the R.E. to the Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General at Portsmouth, announcing that 'Major Chard is expected to arrive at Portsmouth on board Egypt this morning. Direct him to send his address immediately to Colonel Pickard, Balmoral, and inform him the Queen intends to invite him... soon after his arrival', 2 pages, folio, 1 October 1879 (2)Footnotes:QUEEN VICTORIA'S GIFT TO THE HERO OF RORKE'S DRIFT - On his triumphant arrival back from South Africa at Spithead on 2 October 1879, John Chard V.C. was welcomed in person by the Duke of Cambridge with an invitation to an audience with Queen Victoria at Balmoral Castle. Just two weeks later, on 13 October he visited 'to recount the battle to the Queen, who had followed the progress of the Anglo-Zulu War with great interest' (Royal Collection Trust, website). The following year Chard personally presented to the queen, at her request, a written account on the Defence of Rorke's Drift (see lot 61), and her continued interest in him is testified by her sending to his funeral in 1897 a laurel wreath with the inscription 'A mark of admiration and regard for a brave soldier from his sovereign'.Provenance: John Chard V.C., R.E., presentation inscription from Queen Victoria; 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
Lot 81
HENDLEY (THOMAS HOLBEIN)Memorials of the Jeypore Exhibition 1883, vol. 1 (of 4), chromolithographed frontispiece portrait of the Maharajah of Jaipur [Jeypore], decorative title and 39 chromolithographed plates (3 uncoloured, one double-page), additional decorative chromolithographed titles of volumes 2-4, and 2 plates and the text of volume 4 bound in, each page of letterpress within decorative border printed in red, contemporary calf with the original decorative cloth gilt covers mounted on sides, and spine labels, g.e., folio (365 x 270mm.), [W. Griggs, 1883]Footnotes:Held under the patronage of Maharaja Sawai Madho Singh II, the spectacular exhibition of decorative and industrial arts of Rajasthan and its neighbouring states held in Jaipur in 1883 attracted almost quarter of a million visitors, the preface noting that 'Admission was free, because the people were to be taught and pleased'.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
Lot 82
HENDLEY (THOMAS HOLBEIN)Ulwar and its Art Treasures, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE MAHARAJAH BEY SINGH OF ALWAR, additional chromolithographed title, colour portrait of the Maharao Raja of Ulwar (with printed label noting that on 1 January 1889 he was 'granted the hereditary distinction of Maharaja' pasted in margin), 80 plates (numbered 1-79 and 17A, mostly chromolithographed, 2 double-page), illustrations (some colour, others photographic) in the text, all leaves on stubs, original decorative black morocco gilt, each cover with gilt-tooled border enclosing a large central panel of red morocco with elaborate design, gilt dentelles, extremities rubbed, folio (370 x 270mm.), W. Griggs, 1888Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPY FROM MAHARAJAH SIR JAI SINGH OF ALWAR, IN A SPECIAL GILT MOROCCO BINDING. Hendley based his pioneering study of Mughal art treasures on the extensive collection of the Maharaja of Alwar ('at whose whole cost this book is published', the total value of the collection estimated by the author to be about two million pounds sterling), and research he carried out 'in the native capitals of Rajputana'.Provenance: Captain Smith, presentation inscription from Maharaja Sir Jai Singh of Alwar, 'To Captain Smith. In memory of the pleasant time we spent together, and as but a poor return for all the trouble you took with with me especially on 5th September 1902 from yours sincerely Jey Singh, Ulwar'. Jai Singh (1882-1937) succeeded his father in 1892, and ruled Alwar until 1933.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
Lot 83
HENDLEY (THOMAS HOLBEIN)Damascening on Steel or Iron, a Practised in India, FIRST EDITION, tinted photographic frontispiece ('Group of Damasceners in Gold'), 31 colour photo-chromo-lithographed plates by W. Griggs from water colour drawings 'by Murli, Nand Lal, Chaju Lal, Ram Gopal, Jiwan, and other Indian artists', calf-backed cloth, original decorative title panel (printed in silver) mounted on upper cover, folio (375 x 270mm.), W. Griggs & Sons, 1892This 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
Lot 84
HENDLEY (THOMAS HOLBEIN)The Rulers of India and the Chiefs of Rajputana, 1550 to 1897, FIRST EDITION, 26 plates (18 colour), publisher's pictorial red morocco gilt, folio (370 x 270mm.), W. Griggs, 1897This 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
Lot 85
JACOB (SAMUEL SWINTON) AND THOMAS HOLBEIN HENDLEYJeypore Enamels, FIRST EDITION, 28 chromolithographed plates, pictorial opening initial (depicting a seated jeweller) printed in red, short tear to blank lower margin of plate 15, publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, g.e., folio (370 x 270mm.), W. Griggs, 1886Footnotes:The authors note that the best enamellers in modern India are the Sikhs, the tradition in Jaipur starting when 'Maharaja Man Singh... brought five Sikh enamel workers from Lahore, and... that the descendants of these men still procure their colours from that town to carry on the trade of their forefathers confirms that tradition', and giving the names of the best current practitioners. One of these, Guma Singh, is depicted with in the opening plate alongside three other named workers. Two plates depict the tools of their profession, and the remainder examples of their work including sword handles, vases, cups and spoons, bracelets and jewels. In the preface S.S. Jacob, Executive Engineer of Jaipur State, praises the quality of these illustrations, produced by 'one of the best Jeypore artists, by name Ram Bux [Baksh], son of Esur..., and the only credit I can claim is in having set him to work and paid him for his trouble'.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
Lot 86
JEHANGIR (SORABJI)Princes and Chiefs of India. A Collection of Biographies and Portraits of the Indian Princes and Chiefs and Brief Historical Surveys of the Territories... Revised and Completed by F.S. Jehangir Taléyarkhan, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, with letterpress titles and descriptive text, 84 woodburytype portraits (of 85, without the Maharaja of Samthar, as issued?), all on original mounts with decorative typographical borders (images approximately 250 x 195mm.), 3 plates loose, one slit in blank margin, a few single wormholes to approximately 5 plates at end of volume 2, publisher's red morocco gilt, g.e., folio (370 x 265mm.), Waterlow & Sons, 1903Footnotes:RARE COMPLETE SET, ILLUSTRATED WITH STRIKING PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS OF THE MAJOR INDIAN PRINCELY RULERS, in the original binding. The author 'visited all parts of India to collect and verify the necessary material, to enlist the co-operation of those concerned, and to arrange for the photographs which add so greatly both to the contemporary and historical value of the undertaking' (Preface). Each portrait, taken by an as yet unidentified photographer, is boldly composed and beautifully lit, with the sitters (full-length, seated or head and shoulders) dressed in their finery. This copy, like the only other full set traced at auction, was issued without the portrait of the Maharaja of Samthar. Provenance: Mysore 'Palace Library', stamp on title of volumes 1 and 3.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 87
JOURNAL OF INDIAN ARTKIPLING (JOHN LOCKWOOD, editor) The Journal of Indian Art, vol. 1-3 only (comprising Nos. 1-36, lacking nos. 4 and 9), texts by Kipling, T.H. Hendley, G. Birdwood, and others, approximately 432 chromolithographed, photographic, and photo-lithographed plates (including many by artists from the Mayo School of Art, Lahore after Kipling), without parts wrappers, the title and list of plates in volume 2, W. Griggs, 1886-1890--HENDLEY (THOMAS H.) Indian Jewellery [parts 95-107 of 'The Journal of Indian Art and Industry'], facsimile edition, 167 plates (many colour), original parts wrappers bound in, W. Griggs, and Bernard Quaritch, 1906-1909 [but later], uniformly bound in modern half morocco, gilt lettered 'Indian Art, Vol. 1[-4] on spines, folio (360 x 255mm.); and 3 others, extracted articles from 'The Journal of Indian Art', including T.H. Hendley on Indian museums, and F.H. Andrews on Indian carpets and rugs, plates, early half cloth, gilt lettered on spines, a few tears to spines, sold as periodicals (7)Footnotes:The Journal of Indian Art was founded and edited by John Lockwood Kipling, founding Principal of the Mayo School of Art in Lahore, to forward his ambitions to elevate the status of traditional Indian arts, crafts, architecture and design in Britain. He contributed many of the articles, focusing on Punjabi arts, as well as illustrations (executed by his Indian pupils). Another prolific contributor was Thomas Holbein Hendley, whose Indian Jewellery was a pioneering and influential treatise on the subject.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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