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Lot 226
A BOX CONTAINING EIGHT PIECES OF MILITARY HEADWEAR, to include three French Adrianne style metal helmets one being a WWI relic, shell only, one later but no inner & one complete with liner etc and chin strap, an Imperial German Army WWI M16 shell in black, small holes in the top, marked inside '1914-1918 found Delville Wood Somme 1998', two British WWII/post WWII era 'Tommy' helmets with liners etc, drab green, a British 70's MKIV/V Turtle helmet, complete with liner chin strap etc, marked Phillips 794 the outside has had some attempt to camouflage, an US Forces Cavalry style Stetson Parade Hat, by John B Stetson Company, blue with stiff rim, attached gold coloured cord and knot, together with a dark blue Cavalry/Hussars Dress Parade Coat/jacket, possibly post WWI, has a partial Crows foot and number stamp to inside of sleeve liner, all complete with six rows of braid and original buttons, also with trim and sleeve decoration
Lot 56
EPHEMERA one Penny Red stamp with an 1878 cancel, a mid-20th century photograph of the Signal-Box at Atherstone , an L.M. & S.R rail ticket between Atherstone and Tamworth, an LMS Service information booklet, a Railway certificate for the Redemption of Land Tax 1846, a New Testament from the North Eastern Railway Hotel York, a L&NWR Pin tin and four Edward Stanford 1 Ordnance Survey Maps, no's. 154,155, 168 and 169
Lot 754
Nymphenburg porcelain part coffee service decorated with landscape and architectural panels within gilt and pale blue borders, comprising coffee pot with cover 10" high, twin-handled tray 13" x 9", two circular baskets 6.75" diameter, 2.25" high, oval basket 7.5" x 6", eight teacups and saucers, large square plate 9" x 9", bowl 5.5" diameter, 3" high and twin-handles cooling vessel with tiered cooling bowl and cover with central handle, 9" high, each bearing the factory stamp with green shield mark to the underside, and most with the decoration place name in script to the underside
Lot 3383A
William Tatton Winter (British, 1855-1928), 'Greenwich' (1914), watercolour, inscribed signature, title and date lower right, framed and glazed, image size 22 x 37cm, with second picture by the same artist, 'Rochester', watercolour, artist's studio stamp lower right, framed and glazed, image size 23 x 33.5cm. (2)
Lot 315
A lot consisting of three brooches a pendant and fob. The brooches start with a large shell cameo on yellow metal, the second a Fleur-de-lis set with turquoise on yellow metal and an early 19th-century small cluster brooch set with seed pearls and garnets. The pendant measures 29.3mm in diameter on yellow metal with a swivel loop and finally a charm fob stone set with turquoise and carved stone stamp on yellow metal, total weight of all items 33 grams
Lot 1300
Collection of Proof and Commemorative Coins, includes Royal Mint 2017 Silver Proof £1 Coin in Original Case with Certificate, Royal Mint 2018 Year of the dog .999 silver 1oz coin, Date stamp 2017 £1 & 2018 £2, Cook Island 2018 Frankenstein’s monster 200th anniversary $5 coin, Article 50 Medallic issue and a 1965 Churchill crown with a gold plated US quarter collection in presentation folder.
Lot 162
Football commentator, Kenneth Wolstenholme signed 1966 World Cup Cover from the Millennium Collection, featuring a official stamp and two postmarks dating 1st June 1999. Limited edition 1218 of 2500. Wolstenholme, DFC and Bar (17 July 1920 - 25 March 2002) was an English football commentator for BBC television in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best remembered for his commentary during the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final; in the closing minutes, Wolstenholme commented on a series of pitch invaders as Geoff Hurst dribbled down the pitch before scoring, saying some people are on the pitch, they think it's all over! The phrase has become deeply embedded in British popular culture. Good condition Est.
Lot 64DK
Make & Model: Kia Picanto 3 AutoDate of Reg: YG15 UYCColour: Pinkcc: 1248MoT: 04-03-2023Fuel Type: PETROLMileage: 48kTransmission: AUTOSummary: Three registered keepers. One service stampVehicle Check Sheet: https://angliacarauctions.co.uk/umbraco/surface/auction/GetVehicleCheckSheet?id=153970
Lot 68DK
Make & Model: Ford Ecosport TitaniumDate of Reg: FT19 FPDColour: Blackcc: 998MoT: 29-04-2022Fuel Type: PETROLMileage: 22kTransmission: MANUALSummary: One owner from new. One service stampVehicle Check Sheet: https://angliacarauctions.co.uk/umbraco/surface/auction/GetVehicleCheckSheet?id=153969
Lot 87DK
Make & Model: Kia Sorento XT AutoDate of Reg: LC58 PAOColour: Silvercc: 2497MoT: 18-09-2022Fuel Type: DIESELMileage: 68kTransmission: AUTOSummary: Three registered keepers with the last keeper since September 2017. One service stampVehicle Check Sheet: https://angliacarauctions.co.uk/umbraco/surface/auction/GetVehicleCheckSheet?id=154009
![[Bloomsbury Group] In the Manner of Roger Fry (1866-1934) "Lakeside and Mountain View," O.O.C., depicting a bright and vibra](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/fd29d35d-e5df-4c68-bbf7-ae4b0123d464/0c90e193-48e4-488c-a908-ae4e0112172c/468x382.jpg)
Lot 215
[Bloomsbury Group] In the Manner of Roger Fry (1866-1934) "Lakeside and Mountain View," O.O.C., depicting a bright and vibrant image of deep blue lake and colourful mountain scene, approx. 38cms x 45cns (15" x 18"), unsigned, in contemporary painted frame, the stretcher with stamp for British Art Supplies, 95 Jermyn Street, London. (1)
Lot 237
PETITION OF 1866To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament Assembled [drop-head title], 40pp. (last 2 blank), disbound, the last page stamped and addressed to 'The Rt Hon. Earl Cathcart, 91 Victoria St. S.W.', creased where originally folded for posting, 8vo, [1866]Footnotes:THE VERY RARE PRINTING OF THE 1866 PETITION: 'THE MOST IMPORTANT DOCUMENT OF THE WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN' (Elizabeth Crawford).The petition 'to consider the expediency of providing for the representation of all householders, without distinction of sex' represents the first mass women's suffrage petition and was presented by Mill to Parliament on 7 June 1866 ('By far the most important, perhaps the only really important public service I performed'). The argument put forward in the petition and taken up by Mill was that the ownership of property should carry the right to vote for both men and women.The original petition had been drafted by Mill's stepdaughter, Helen Taylor, prompted by an unofficial committee whose members included Barbara Bodichon, Bessie Rayner Parkes, Elizabeth Garrett (later Anderson) and Emily Davies. Some 1,500 signatures were gathered, reportedly all within a fortnight, and the present pamphlet version was then printed and sent out to members of both parliamentary Houses. Only a handful of copies are recorded in institutional collections, including a couple which are bound with other pamphlets, as the present copy once was.Although Mill's attempt to add his suffrage amendment to the Reform Bill a year later was voted down, and it would be more than half a century before women received the parliamentary vote in 1918, the petition was the first important step in establishing women's suffrage as a parliamentary question.Provenance: Earl Cathcart (Alan Frederick Cathcart, 3rd Earl Cathcart, 1828–1905), addressed to him in ink on final page, with stamp affixed for posting.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 270
PANKHURST (EMMELINE)Portrait photograph signed 'E.Pankhurst/ Nov. 1913' in ink on the image, depicting Emmeline Pankhurst half-length in a white dress with black buttons and bow tie, photographer's stamp '©/Matzene/Chicago' on the image, 188 x 116mm., framed 330 x 277mm., November 1913Footnotes:EMMELINE PANKHURST IN AMERICA.In the autumn of 1913 Emmeline Pankhurst was on the run after refusing to return to Holloway in June of that year under the terms of the Cat and Mouse Act. She had spent two months in Paris with Christabel and sailed for New York in October. Her arrival caused considerable problems for the American authorities. Strictly speaking, as a convicted criminal, she should have been banned from the country (President Woodrow Wilson called her 'monstrous') but due to pressure from various women's rights groups, after being detained at Ellis Island she was allowed to continue with her visit provided she refrained from encouraging violence. This detention only afforded her more publicity and on a countrywide tour including Chicago where this photograph was taken, she raised over £4,000 for the WSPU. She was rearrested on her embarkation at Plymouth in December 1913 ('Emmeline Pankhurst Comes to America' blog, US National archives website).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 282
VOTES FOR WOMENVotes for Women. Edited by Frederick & Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, vol. I. October 1907 to September 1908 [nos. 1-29], 4-page index at front, additional illustrated title, illustrations throughout, with the 2 inserted supplementary portraits of Emmeline Pankhurst and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, slightly browned as usual, first 2 leaves brittle with some short tears at edges, library withdrawal stamp on verso of title, modern orange cloth [Printing and the Mind of Man 398], folio , The Reformer's Press, 1907-1908Footnotes:Complete first volume of the 'organ of the 'militants'' (PMM), the official publication of the Women's Social and Political Union, co-edited by Frederick and Emmeline Pethnick Lawrence. Dedicated members of the WSPU, they even turned their home into a hospital for women returning from prison and recovering from hunger strikes, and both went to prison for their involvement, Emmeline on six occasions. One of these led to ideological differences between themselves and the Pankhursts, who subsequently ordered their expulsion from the organisation in 1912.The volume contains announcements for WSPU meetings and suffragist events, as well as planned protests and demonstrations, including the Hyde Park Protest on 21 June 1908 involving 300,000 activists. Also included are articles written by WSPU founder Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters, Christabel and Sylvia.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 178
GREENAWAY (KATE)The Quiver of Love, 8 chromolithographed plates mounted (4 by Greenaway, 4 by Walter Crane), gift inscription, publisher's bevelled blue cloth gilt, FINE COPY [Schuster & Engen 167.1j but with dark blue endpapers], Marcus Ward, 1876; Under the Window, SIGNED BY GREENAWAY on the half-title, ownership stamp of her brother Alfred on front free endpaper, first and last few leaves lightly foxed, publisher's pictorial boards, corners rubbed [cf. 201 but varying from all issues], Routledge, [1878]; The Fairy at the Fountain... From Coloured Designs by Miss Kate Greenaway, 6 chromolithographed plates, publisher's pictorial wrappers, very worn and creased [not in Schuster, cf. 30.1c], Frederick Warne, [1871]; Mother Goose, second issue, light toning, publisher's cloth, spotted, DUST-JACKET, spine panel chipped at head [140.1b], Routledge, [1881]; Language of Flowers, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY inscribed on half-title to 'H.S. Marks Esqr. R.A. from Kate Greenaway 1884', publisher's pictorial boards, contents shaken, rubbed [107.1a], Routledge, [1884]--HARTE (BRET) The Queen of the Pirate Isle, light spotting and offsetting, publisher's cloth, lightly rubbed, LOOSELY INSERTED AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (see footnote) [165.1e], Chatto & Windus, [1886], FIRST EDITIONS, 4to and 8vo; and approximately 44 others, almost all illustrated by Greenaway (quantity)Footnotes:In the letter, dated 2 April 1889, Greenaway writes to booksellers Palmer & Howe of Manchester, apparently enclosing the original drawings for Queen of the Pirate Isle; according to Spielmann and Layard, she sold her Pied Piper and 1893 Almanack illustrations to them (Spielmann, pp.172, 182). 'I think the getting up of the book very nice,' she writes, 'but of course the drawings would look far better and cleaner if they were surrounded by raised mounts'.Henry Stacy Marks, to whom she inscribes this copy of Language of Flowers, was 'her kind mentor and chief adviser' (Spielmann, p.104).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
![GREENAWAY (KATE)Almanack for 1883-[1895], 1897, 1924-1929, a complete set, together 20 vol., first editions, colour illustra](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/53592cc0-e59f-46df-bcaf-ae5500afca79/9f05275d-3fc4-41c8-ae15-ae5500b05f84/468x382.jpg)
Lot 181
GREENAWAY (KATE)Almanack for 1883-[1895], 1897, 1924-1929, a complete set, together 20 vol., first editions, colour illustrations by Kate Greenaway, some spotting and browning, occasional finger soiling, 1884 with embossed stamp to endpaper, 1891 with slight loss to front free endpaper, bookplates in 1889 and 1894, various publisher's bindings, 2 t.e.g., others with coloured edges, some bindings soiled and chipped, glassine chipped and torn, preserved together in 2 uniform purpose-made morocco-backed boxes [Schuster & Engen 3-22], 12mo & oblong 12mo, Routledge, Dent or Warne, [1882-1894], [1896] and [1923-1928]Footnotes:Comprising: 1883 [Schuster & Engen 3.1a], 1884 [4.2a], 1885 [5.3a], 1886 [6.4a], 1887 [7.5a], 1888 [8.6a], 1889 [9.7a], 1890 [10.8a], 1891 [11.9a], 1892 [12.10a], 1893 [13.11b, WITH ORIGINAL PINK PAPER MAILING WRAPPER, upper flap pasted down], 1894 [14, unlisted variant with pink cloth spine], 1895 [15.13a], 1897 [16.14a, WITH GLASSINE DUST-JACKET], 1924 [17.15a, glassine wrapper], 1925 [18.16a, glassine wrapper], 1926 [19.17a], 1927 [20.18a, glassine wrapper], 1928 [21.19a, glassine wrapper], 1929 [22.20a].Provenance: Captain Kenneth John Douglas-Morris (1919-1993), invoice for both groups from Sangorski & Sutcliffe loosely inserted, dated 17 January 1980; Sotheby's, 16 December 2004, lot 316.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
COBBE (FRANCES POWER)Why Women Desire the Franchise, FIRST EDITION, 12pp., modern calf-backed boards, Published by the London National Society for Women's Suffrage, Spottiswoode & Co., 1869; together with a carte-de-visite size portrait by Philip Crellin, albumen print, signed by Frances Cobbe below the image--Opinions of Women on Women's Suffrage [contributers include Florence Nightingale, Millicent Fawcett, Frances Cobbe and Baraba Bodichon], disbound, National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1879, the last 2 with library stamps of the University of Bristol at foot of title-pages and at end--MILL (JOHN STUART) Speech of the Late John Stuart Mill at the Great Meeting in Favour of Women's Suffrage, held in the Music Hall, Edinburgh, January 12, 1871, 8pp., library blind-stamp on title, slight creasing and fraying at edges, modern boards, Edinburgh, John Lindsay, for the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1873; The Subjection of Women, second edition, half-title with library stamp of St. Joseph's, Bishop's Stortford, ownership signatures of Frank Randall (one dated 1885), publisher's bind-stamped cloth, edges rubbed, Longmans, Green, 1869--DILKE (Mrs. ASHTON) Women's Suffrage, stereotyped edition, stamp of the Women's Institute on title-page, later cloth, publisher's wrappers (slightly chipped) and adverts bound in, Swan Sonnenschein, [1885]--BALFOUR (ARTHUR JAMES) Speech in the House of Commons on Women's Suffrage [1892], 7pp., stapled as issued, Central Society for Women's Suffrage, [c.1903], 8vo (7)Footnotes:A group of pamphlets and books on suffrage, including the elusive first edition of Why Women Desire the Franchise by the Victorian writer, feminist and social reformer Frances Cobbe. Born in Ireland, she was involved with the Married Women's Property Committee and the formulation of the 1866 petition, and was a founding member of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage in 1867. Included in the lot is a signed carte-de-visite portrait of Cobbe.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
DESPARD (CHARLOTTE)Woman in the New Era... with an Appreciation by Christopher St. John, publisher's printed wrappers, front wrapper with stain and chip at corner, The Suffrage Shop, 1910--SNOWDEN (ETHEL) The Feminist Movement, second edition, advertisement leaf, half-title and portrait, publisher's blind-blocked cloth, spine gilt (slightly faded), Collins' Clear-Type Press (The Nation's Library), [1913]--[SMEDLEY (CONSTANCE)] Woman: A Few Shrieks! by X. With an Appendix by Mrs. Philip Snowden, half-title, bookplate of Manuel Maximo Terrero, library cloth with stamps (half-title, last page and covers) and label of Working Men's College, [Letchworth, Garden City Press Limited, 1907]--PHILLIPS (MARY) The Militant Suffrage Campaign in Perspective, stapled in original printed wrappers, [Printed for the author by Latimer Trend & Co., Plymouth, 1957]--[HOUSMAN (LAURENCE)] The 'Physical Force' Fallacy, 8pp., signature of Elsie Louise Friedeberg, 1910, publisher's illustrated wrappers (detached from text), The Woman's Press, [1913]; [Printed poem] Woman's Cause, single folded sheet, full-page illustration on p.1, followed by 2pp. 'Prologue. Written for the Scala Theatre Matinee, November 12th, 1909', Women Writer's Suffrage League, [1912]--SHAW (GEORGE BERNARD) Press Cuttings: a Topical Sketch Compiled from the...Columns of the Daily Papers... as Performed.. at the Royal Court Theatre, bookseller's stamp at foot of title, publisher's wrappers, soiled, spine chipped, Constable, 1909--MASEFIELD (JOHN) My Faith in Woman Suffrage, publisher's printed wrappers, The Woman's Press, [1910], 8vo (8)Footnotes:A group of scarce pamphlets and books by suffragettes and their male supporters, including works by Charlotte Despard, Ethel Snowden (including the feminist polemic Woman: A few Shrieks!), Mary Philips, George Bernard Shaw and Laurence Housman.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 5
DANIEL ZULOAGA BONETA (Madrid, 1852 - Segovia, 1921).Town. Regionalist Series.Dish in red clay with painted enamels.Signed in the inferior zone.Stamp "Daniel Zuloaga" printed on the back.Measurements: 30 cm. diameter.An outstanding ceramist and painter trained at the Sèvres ceramics school, where he was a disciple of Salvetat and Regnault, Daniel Zuloaga was the uncle of the famous painter Ignacio Zuloaga. He was the founder, together with his brothers, of the Royal Factory of La Moncloa. Later he also had workshops in Vallehermoso, Segovia and Pasajes de San Juan. He painted numerous ceramic murals, such as those on the façade of the Palacio de Velázquez and the cooker in the Palacio de Cristal del Retiro, and exhibited individually in various places in Spain, with a particularly important exhibition in 1916 in the Sala Parés in Barcelona, where he was a great success in terms of sales and public. He also taught at the School of Arts and Crafts in Madrid from 1889 onwards. He was a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Saragossa, and the year after his death a posthumous exhibition was devoted to him at the Museum of Modern Art in Madrid. He is currently represented in the museum that bears his name in Segovia.
Lot 6
DANIEL ZULOAGA BONETA (Madrid, 1852 - Segovia, 1921).Town. Regionalist Series.Dish in red clay with painted enamels.Signed in the inferior zone.Stamp "Daniel Zuloaga" printed on the back.Measurements: 30 cm. diameter.An outstanding ceramist and painter trained at the Sèvres ceramics school, where he was a disciple of Salvetat and Regnault, Daniel Zuloaga was the uncle of the famous painter Ignacio Zuloaga. He was the founder, together with his brothers, of the Royal Factory of La Moncloa. Later he also had workshops in Vallehermoso, Segovia and Pasajes de San Juan. He painted numerous ceramic murals, such as those on the façade of the Palacio de Velázquez and the cooker in the Palacio de Cristal del Retiro, and exhibited individually in various places in Spain. His 1916 exhibition at the Sala Parés in Barcelona, where he was a great success in terms of sales and public, was particularly important. He also taught at the Madrid School of Arts and Crafts from 1889 onwards. He was a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Saragossa, and the year after his death a posthumous exhibition was devoted to him at the Museum of Modern Art in Madrid. He is currently represented in the museum that bears his name in Segovia.
Lot 134
SUN YAT-SENAutograph letter signed ('Yours truly Sun Yat Sen') to Felix Volkhosky, in English, informing his friend that 'The number of 'The Times' in which the question made [sic] in the House of Commons concerning my kidnapping is that of the 16th of February', and announcing his intention to leave for America at the end of the month, whilst hoping to see Volkhosky once more ('If not let me bid fairwell [sic] to you now'), written in brown ink on page 1 of a bifolium, with Victoria Vellum watermark, horizontal crease where originally folded but otherwise fine, 8vo (175 x 113mm.), 8 Gray's Inn Place, 21 June 1897; Kidnapped in London: Being the Story of my Capture By, Detention At, and Release from the Chinese Legation, FIRST EDITION, wood-engraved portrait (detached), publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine and edges of covers stained, 8vo, Bristol, J.W. Arrowsmith, 1897 (2)Footnotes:'KIDNAPPED IN LONDON' - SUN YAT-SEN ON HIS NOTORIOUS ABDUCTION, WITH A RARE COPY OF HIS PUBLISHED ACCOUNT.Rare letter from one of the greatest Chinese leaders, the first president of the Republic of China and a founding father. Sun Yat-sen (12 November 1866–12 March 1925), known as the 'Father of the Nation', holds a unique position in the Chinese-speaking world as the only twentieth century leader who is revered by those in both the People's Republic of China, for his instrumental role in the overthrow of the Qing dynasty in 1911, and in the Republic of China, Taiwan.Felix Volkhovsky (1846-1914) was one of several Russian political exiles that Sun Yat-sen met in London when he arrived in 1896. Volkhovsky was editor of the monthly journal of the Society of Friends of Russian Freedom, Free Russia, having previously spent seven years in solitary confinement in St. Petersburg, and eleven years in exile in Siberia before he eventually managed to escape to Canada under a pseudonym, arriving in London in 1890. Volkhovsky's experience and knowledge were hugely influential and inspiring to Sun, who inscribed a copy of his book Kidnapped in London to him, suggesting in an accompanying letter now in the Hoover Library that the Russian may have helped him with the book, a copy of which is included in the lot. Sun Yat-sen's wry published account of the affair is rare: no copies are listed as having sold in auction records.Accounts of Sun's kidnapping and imprisonment at the hands of the Chinese are well documented, if sometimes contradictory, but the role of Hugh and Mabel Cantlie in freeing him is undisputed. Although the Times held back from printing Cantlie's first report of the incident, the newspaper's journalists were prominent amongst the crowd that surrounded the Chinese legation, and the day after his release he wrote to the paper thanking its readers for their support. This helped his fame to spread worldwide, and greatly improved his fundraising prospects. For further details of the event, see the Sun letters to Cantlie sold in these rooms, 15 September 2021, lots 110-112.Provenance: Letter from the Estate of Robert Batchelder, via University Archives to the current owner. Book with old stamp of Arnhemsch Lees-Museum on title-page, with date stamp (1924) at front; H.E. Romelingh, bookplate with note of purchase below dated 8 May 1978.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 138
WELLS (H.G.)The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents... Cheaper Edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO EDITH NESBIT, inscribed 'To Mrs. Hubert Bland from H.G. Wells' on the half-title, Methuen, 1903; Twelve Stories and a Dream, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY inscribed 'To all the Blands from H.G. Wells (more coming)' on the half-title, New York, Charles Scribner, 1905, BOTH WITH EDITH NESBIT'S BOOKPLATE; In the Days of the Comet, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY with 'Presentation Copy' blind-stamp on title, ownership inscription of Nesbit ('E. Nesbit Bland') on the front free endpaper, Macmillan, 1906; New Worlds for Old, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY with 'Presentation Copy' blind-stamp on title, ownership inscription of Hubert Bland (1908) on the front free endpaper, Archibald Constable, 1908; Marriage, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY with 'Presentation Copy' blind-stamp on title, ownership inscription of Nesbit ('E. Nesbit' in pencil) on the front free endpaper, and with 8 passages marked in the margin with an index of page numerals to these at the end, hinges weakened, Macmillan, 1912, publisher's cloth, worn, 8vo (5)Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPIES FROM H.G. WELLS TO EDITH NESBIT, author of the Railway Children, whom he had met together with her husband Hubert Bland as fellow members of the Fabian Society. Wells wrote that Edith 'was a tall, whimsical, restless, able woman who had been very beautiful and was still very good-looking; and Bland was a thick-set, broad-faced aggressive man, a sort of Tom-cat man. The two of them dramatized life and I had as yet met few people who did that. They loved scenes and 'situations'' (Experiment in Autobiography, 1934). Wells would visit the couple at their 'easy-going hospitable Bohemian household at Well Hall, Eltham' or their house at Dymchurch. The friendship continued, despite in 1906 Bland rallying support to 'defeat Wells's attempt to take over and change the Fabian Society' (ODNB) until 1908, when Wells 'made a bid for Bland's daughter, the plump, attractive Rosamund... [They tried to run away together] but Bland caught up with them at Paddington Station, punched Wells, and took Rosamund home' (ODNB). The two inscribed books were inscribed during the height of the authors' friendship between 1903 and 1905. Edith's copy of Marriage (1912) has several pages marked up, including mentions of prostitution, the Fabian Society, 'Children' and a passage noting that 'The young need particularly to be told truthfully and fully all we know three fundamental things... God... their duty towards their neighbours... and the third Sex'.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 42
POLARHAYES (J. GORDON) The Conquest of the South Pole. Antarctic Exploration 1906-1931, photographic plates, maps, spotting (quite heavy to title), dust-jacket (worn at extremities), Thornton Butterworth, [1932]--BALCH (EDWIN SWIFT) Antarctica, one folding map, 8-page addenda with folding map, 'Reprinted from the Journal of the Franklin Institute, February 1904') loosely inserted in pocket at end, publisher's cloth, Philadelphia, Allen, Lane & Scott, 1902--HOBBS (WILLIAM HERBERT) The Discoveries of Antarctica within the American Sector, as Revealed by Maps and Documents, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor with warm regards of WH. Hobbs' on upper wrapper, 32 plates, ink numerals beneath imprint on title-page, early cloth (worn), publisher's wrappers bound in, Philadelphia, The American Philadelphia Society, 1939--BAGSHAWE (THOMAS WYATT) Two Men in the Antarctic. An Expedition to Graham Land 1920-1922, 33 plates, 2 panoramas, spine worn, Cambridge, C.U.P., 1939--BAYLIS (E.P.) AND J.S. CUMPSTON. Handbook and Index... to Accompany a Map of Antarctica, SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS (21.2.1940) inside upper cover, one map of Graham Land, ownership stamp and inscription of R.N. Rudmose-Brown on upper cover, publisher's printed boards, rebacked with tape, Canberra, L.F. Johnston, n.d., FIRST EDITIONS, publisher's cloth unless otherwise stated, 8vo and 4to; and another, volume 28 of The Scottish Geographical Magazine (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
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