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Banksy (British 1974-), 'Visit Historic Palestine', 2018, offset lithograph in colours on paper, bearing the 'Walled Off Hotel' blind-stamp and rubber-stamped in pink ink verso; sheet: 70 x 50cm ARR

Martin Whatson (Norwegian 1984-), 'Eternal Reflection (Purple)', 2020, screenprint in colours with gloss varnish on wove paper, numbered from an edition of 100 in pencil, published by Graffiti Prints, bearing the Artist's blind stamp; sheet: 25 x 25cm ARR

Martin Whatson (Norwegian 1984-), 'Son Of Man (Lilac)', 2017, screenprint in colours on wove paper, numbered from an edition of 100 in pencil, bearing Martin Whatson blind stamp; sheet: 30.5 x 30.5cm ARR

Steve Lazarides (British 1969-), 'Anonymous Two', 2020, hand-finished UV Print on MDF, signed and numbered from an edition of 10 in black ink verso, bearing Laz Emporium stamp verso, depicting Banksy on Ladbrook Grove, early 2000's; board: 50 x 70cm ARR

Banksy (British 1974-), 'Soup Can', 2005, screenprint in colours on wove paper, numbered from an edition of 250 in pencil, published by Pictures On Walls, bearing the publishers blind stamp; sheet: 50 x 35cm (Framed) ARR

Richard Hambleton (Canadian 1952-2017), 'Horse & Rider - Red', 2018, giclee print on 308gsm Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper, numbered from an edition of 75 in pencil, bearing the Richard Hambleton Archive stamp verso; sheet: 105 x 72cm

Richard Hambleton (Canadian 1952-2017), 'Stop Sign', 2018, giclee on 308gsm Hahnemuhle paper, numbered from an edition of 75 in pencil, bearing the Richard Hambleton Archive stamp verso; sheet: 76 x 76cm

Andy Warhol (American 1928-1987), 'Studies For A Boy Book (Bodley Gallery Announcement)', c.1959, offset lithograph on paper, bearing 'The Estate Of Andy Warhol' stamp in blue in verso; sheet: 40 x 34.5cm

BANKSY - Dismaland, 2015 Space Girl And BirdHand sprayed stencil graffiti on cardboard Ed. 11/20Reverse in marker: smiley face - Enjoy Your Free Art - Dismaland stamp - Banksy Is Dismal!! 11/2047cm x 30cm / 18.5" x 11.75"The cardboard graffiti work depicting a young child with large diver's helmet and overcoat staring down to a single yellow bird in her hand.  PROVENANCE: From a noted Belgian collector who visited Dismaland in Weston Super Mare, Nr Bristol on five occasions in 2015 and either personally found these pieces, or purchased them directly from others who had found them in his presence. Proof of visitation has been seen, and verified, by us. CONDITION: Due to the nature in which these items were produced, handled and found they will have minor creases, torn edges and some fraying. In all instances this is fairly minimal and usually adds to the character of the pieces. Buyers are politely reminded for the need to satisfy themselves as to individual condition of each lot prior to bidding.IMPORTANT NOTES:According to Pest Control 'Free Art' was not made for trade, therefore Pest Control refuses to authenticate or verify the existence of any 'Free Art' works. As such, this lot is sold STRICTLY 'as is' with no guarantees or warranties implied or otherwise, and are sold as attributions to Banksy's Dismaland only.

BANKSY - Dismaland, 2015Thug For LifeHand sprayed stencil graffiti on cardboard Ed. 81/100Reverse in marker: smiley face - Enjoy Your Free Art - Banksy stamp - Banksy Is Dismal!! 81/10025.5cm x 20.5cm / 10x8"The cardboard graffiti work depicting a British Police Constable holding a spray can, having the words ' Thug For Life ' in red. PROVENANCE: From a noted Belgian collector who visited Dismaland in Weston Super Mare, Nr Bristol on five occasions in 2015 and either personally found these pieces, or purchased them directly from others who had found them in his presence. Proof of visitation has been seen, and verified, by us. CONDITION: Due to the nature in which these items were produced, handled and found they will have minor creases, torn edges and some fraying. In all instances this is fairly minimal and usually adds to the character of the pieces. Buyers are politely reminded for the need to satisfy themselves as to individual condition of each lot prior to bidding.IMPORTANT NOTES:According to Pest Control 'Free Art' was not made for trade, therefore Pest Control refuses to authenticate or verify the existence of any 'Free Art' works. As such, this lot is sold STRICTLY 'as is' with no guarantees or warranties implied or otherwise, and are sold as attributions to Banksy's Dismaland only.

BANKSY - Dismaland, 2015Christ With Shopping BagsHand sprayed stencil graffiti on cardboard Ed. 8/10Reverse in marker: smiley face - Enjoy Your Free Art - Dismaland stamp - Banksy Is Dismal!! 8/1045cm x 30cm / 17.75" x 11.75"The cardboard graffiti work depicting the crucifixion of Christ, with various shopping bags to either hand, some decorated with a red ribbon. PROVENANCE: From a noted Belgian collector who visited Dismaland in Weston Super Mare, Nr Bristol on five occasions in 2015 and either personally found these pieces, or purchased them directly from others who had found them in his presence. Proof of visitation has been seen, and verified, by us. CONDITION: Due to the nature in which these items were produced, handled and found they will have minor creases, torn edges and some fraying. In all instances this is fairly minimal and usually adds to the character of the pieces. Buyers are politely reminded for the need to satisfy themselves as to individual condition of each lot prior to bidding.IMPORTANT NOTES:According to Pest Control 'Free Art' was not made for trade, therefore Pest Control refuses to authenticate or verify the existence of any 'Free Art' works. As such, this lot is sold STRICTLY 'as is' with no guarantees or warranties implied or otherwise, and are sold as attributions to Banksy's Dismaland only.

BANKSY - Dismaland, 2015What?Hand sprayed stencil graffiti on cardboard Ed. 2/6Reverse in marker: smiley face - Enjoy Your Free Art - Banksy Is Dismal!! - Dismaland Stamp - 2/634.5cm x 40.5cm / 13.5" x 16"The cardboard graffiti work depicting a small child with tin of paint, having written 'WHAT?' PROVENANCE: From a noted Belgian collector who visited Dismaland in Weston Super Mare, Nr Bristol on five occasions in 2015 and either personally found these pieces, or purchased them directly from others who had found them in his presence. Proof of visitation has been seen, and verified, by us. CONDITION: Due to the nature in which these items were produced, handled and found they will have minor creases, torn edges and some fraying. In all instances this is fairly minimal and usually adds to the character of the pieces. Buyers are politely reminded for the need to satisfy themselves as to individual condition of each lot prior to bidding.IMPORTANT NOTES:According to Pest Control 'Free Art' was not made for trade, therefore Pest Control refuses to authenticate or verify the existence of any 'Free Art' works. As such, this lot is sold STRICTLY 'as is' with no guarantees or warranties implied or otherwise, and are sold as attributions to Banksy's Dismaland only.

BANKSY - Dismaland, 2015Cop CarHand sprayed stencil graffiti on cardboard Ed. 3/3Reverse in marker: smiley face - Enjoy Your Free Art - Dismaland stamp - Banksy Is Dismal!! 3/341cm x 60cm / 16.25" x 23.5"The cardboard graffiti work depicting an American police car raised on blocks, its wheel having been stolen. PROVENANCE: From a noted Belgian collector who visited Dismaland in Weston Super Mare, Nr Bristol on five occasions in 2015 and either personally found these pieces, or purchased them directly from others who had found them in his presence. Proof of visitation has been seen, and verified, by us. CONDITION: Due to the nature in which these items were produced, handled and found they will have minor creases, torn edges and some fraying. In all instances this is fairly minimal and usually adds to the character of the pieces. Buyers are politely reminded for the need to satisfy themselves as to individual condition of each lot prior to bidding.IMPORTANT NOTES:According to Pest Control 'Free Art' was not made for trade, therefore Pest Control refuses to authenticate or verify the existence of any 'Free Art' works. As such, this lot is sold STRICTLY 'as is' with no guarantees or warranties implied or otherwise, and are sold as attributions to Banksy's Dismaland only.

NO RESERVE Mathematics.- The Elements of the Conic Sections with the Sections of the Conoids, second edition, Manhattan College embossed library stamp to title, Cambridge, 1820; A Treatise on the Nature and Properties of Algebraic Equations, Cambridge, 1832; Pearson (Henry) A Syllabus of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, second edition, presentation inscription from the author to endpaper, 1832; A Syllabus of a Course of Lectures upon Trigonometry, 1833; Gold Metal Examination, 1831; Hall (T. G.) A Treatise on plane Trigonometry, 1833, 5 vol. in 1, plates and illustrations, some folding, first vol. loose in binding, contemporary half-morocco, broken, rubbed, 8vo.

Quinziano Stoa (Giovanni Francesco) De syllabarum quantitate epographiae sex, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and historiated initials, final f. with woodcut device verso, ownership stamp to title, occasional spotting and light staining, recased in contemporary limp vellum, spine repaired, lacking ties, little stained, [EDIT 16 CNCE 32342], 8vo, Venice, Girolamo Scoto, 1568.⁂ Scarce edition of this guide to Latin versification by the Italian humanist, who taught Rhetoric and Greek at the University of Pavia.

Church in England.- Pollini (Girolamo) L'Historia Ecclesiastica della Rivoluzion d'Inghilterra, second edition, title with woodcut 'Aldine' device, woodcut decorative initials, errata / colophon f., lacking final blank, small part of stamp to foot of title, staining and spotting, a few small marginal repairs, the odd very small hole within text, lightly browned throughout, 19th century half vellum, spine titled in gilt, a few small pieces from vellum, rubbed, [Adams P1784], 4to, Rome, Guglielmo Facciotti, 1594.⁂ Mainly based on Nicholas Saunders' De origine ac progressu schismatis Anglicani ,1585.Provenance: Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (31 March 1797 - 23 March 1879), English naturalist and geologist (inscription to front pastedown, written after purchase in Rome, 1841).

Duelling & Etiquette.- Possevino (Giovanni Battista) Dialogo dell'honor...nel quale si tratta con bell'ordine, dottamente, a pieno, & con molta chiarezza Del duello Della nobiltà De gradi d'honore, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head-pieces and historiated initials, penultimate f. with colophon recto and large woodcut printer's device verso, final f. blank, smallink ownership stamp to title, V5 and 2L8 lower corner trimmed, affecting printed side-note on first, water-stained, occasional spotting, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, head of spine chipped, upper corners worn, [EDIT 16 CNCE 31095], 8vo, Venice, [Francesco Sansovino], 1568.

Duelling.- Law.- Voet (Paul) De duellis, licitis & illicitis, liber singularis, first edition, title with woodcut ornament and contemporary ink ownership inscription, (cross)4 and final f. blank, some staining to lower margins, occasional spotting, lightly browned, blind-stamp of Bernard Popland, 12mo, contemporary vellum, Utrecht, Gisbert van Zyll, 1646.⁂ Rare first edition of this little treatise on duelling by the Dutch jurist and philopsopher.

NO RESERVE Lotti (Lotto) Rimedi per la Sonn da Liezr alla Banzola. Dialoghi del Dottor Lotto Lotti nel suo Idioma naturale Bolognese, first edition, title with woodcut ornament, charming engraved plate by Giacomo Maria Giovannini of women sitting around a table carrying out various chores by candlelight, woodcut decorative initials and tail-pieces, occasional spotting, lightly browned, 19th century red morocco, by Delaunay of Paris (stamp to front endpaper), spine in compartments, spine neatly repaired, rubbed at extremities, lightly marked, g.e., [Cat. Marz, 544], small 4to, Milan, Carlo Frederico Gagliardi, 1703.⁂ First edition with a good provenance of these six dialogues in a Bolognese dialect, which shed much light on the contemporary theatrical and musical scene, being based on the experiences of the author as a librettist. Provenance: Count Guglielmo Libri-Carrucci della Sommaia (his sale Silvestre & Jannet, Paris, 28th June, 1847); sale by Duquesne of a private library, Ghent, 28th November, 1857; Angelo Mazorati, sold by him Bologna, 1932; Marino Parenti (bookplate); M. & L. Sordelli (bookplate and red ink stamp).

Lamau de la Jaisse (Pierre) Plans des Principales Places de Guerre et Villes Maritimes Frontieres du Royaume de France, 112 engraved circular plans of fortifications, each with a small circular coat-of-arms and mounted within decorative woodcut border, of which 11 crudely hand-coloured, one or two short marginal tears, front free-endpaper trimmed, ink-stamp to approbation at end, contemporary half-calf, gilt, Paris, Didot, Quillau, Nully, 1736 § Imbert (M. J.) Cours Élémrnysitr de Fortification ..., Atlas vol. only, 27 engraved plates, 1 folding, spotting, torn blank, near contemporary calf, gilt, Paris, 1830; and another similar, 8vo & 4to (3)

NO RESERVE Occitan.- Languedocien.- Boissier de Sauvages (Pierre-Augustin de) Dictionnaire Languedocien-François, ou choix des mots Languedociens les plus difficiles à rendre en François, first edition, double column, woodcut head-pieces, ink stamp to title, wormhole turning into a trace to lower margins of last half, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, joints split, but holding firm, spine ends little worn, corners worn, rubbed, 8vo, Nimes, Michel Gaude, 1756.⁂ First edition of this important dictionary of the Languedocien dialect of Occitan by the naturalist and lexicographer Boissier de Sauvages. It was intended to preserve the language from the growing influence of French.

Dering (Heneage, Dean of Ripon and Latin poet, 1665-1750).- Ordination of Heneage Dering as deacon, D.s. "Jo Ebor", printed form with manuscript insertions, large blind stamp seal of the Archbishop of York, folds, slightly browned, 225 x 133mm., 9th February 1700.⁂ John Sharp (1645?-1714), Archbishop of York.

Dickens (Charles, novelist, 1812-70) Autograph cheque signed "Charles Dickens" paid to "Mr Nash" for the sum of "Eight pounds, Nine shillings, and Tenpence"drawn on Messrs Coutts & Co, receipt stamp of National Provincial Bank, 1 page, printed with manuscript insertions and crossed, folds, 2 very small holes, paper border, 94 x 187mm., London, 8th October 1868.

Food & Drink.- Morewood (Samuel) A Philosophical and Statistical History of the Inventions and Customs ... in the Manufacture and Use of Inebriating Liquors, wood-engraved frontispiece, illustrations, tissue guard to frontispiece foxed, bookseller's stamp to foot of title, a few stains to text, bookplate of Henry Rogers Broughton, bound in old tree calf boards rebacked in calf ruled in gilt with morocco label, staining to upper cover, new endpapers, 8vo, Dublin, 1838.⁂ Greatly expanded from the first edition of 1824 and including sections on opium and other intoxicating drugs around the world.

Food & Drink.- Practical Economy; or, the Application of Modern Discoveries to the Purposes of Domestic Life, second edition, half-title, modern boards, uncut, Henry Colburn & Co., 1822 § Ude (Louis Eustache) The French Cook, fourteenth edition, engraved portrait, 16pp. publishers' catalogue at beginning, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, spine defective, 1841 § Child (Mrs.) The Frugal Housewife, eighteenth edition, wood-engraved frontispiece (slightly defective at lower outer corner), contemporary roan-backed cloth, 1839 § Barnard (Alfred) Orchards and Gardens Ancient and Modern, ink presentation stamp to title, original pictorial cloth, gilt, joints fraying, 1895 § Keesling (B.F., publisher) Keesling's Book of Recipes and Household Hints, advertisements, one with mounted colour paint samples, shaken, original cloth, stained, Logansport, Ind., 1890 § Driver (E.) A Bibliography of Cookery Books Published in Britain 1875-1914, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1989, most rubbed; and c.30 others on food and drink, v.s. (c.35)

Food & Drink.- Wine.- Album Officiel de la Fête des Vignerons. Vevey 1889, folding colour panorama by S.Krakow after E.Vullemin & P.Valloury, conjoined sheets folding concertina style, some foxing, original pictorial wrappers, ink stamp to upper cover, spine frayed and chipped, upper cover detached, Lausanne & Vevey, 1889 § Tovey (Charles) Wine and Wine Countries: A Record and Manual for Wine Merchants and Wine Consumers, second edition, mounted photographic portrait frontispiece, additional title with pictorial border, lithographed plates & maps, folding facsimile, 8pp. advertisement at end, hinges weak, original decorated cloth, small stain to upper cover, 1877 § Andrieu (P.) Le Vin et les Vins de Fruits, first edition, illustrations, advertisements at end printed on orange paper, original printed wrappers, uncut & partly unopened, a little soiled and frayed at edges, Paris, 1894, 8vo (3)

Russia.- [Masson de Blamont (C.F.P.)] Mémoires Secrets sur la Russie..., 3 vol., half-titles, contemporary ink signature and old ink stamp to titles, Paris, 1800-02; Lettres d'un Français a un Allemand servant de réponse a Mr. de Kotzebue, Basel & Koblenz, 1802, together 2 works in 4 vol. in 2, original boards, rubbed a little worn at edges § Smyth (C.Piazzi) Three Cities in Russia, 2 vol., wood-engraved plates, folding colour maps, errata slips, contemporary half morocco, a little rubbed, 1862, 8vo (4)⁂ The second work is a supplement to the first.

China.- Fortune (Robert) Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China, second edition, tinted lithographed frontispiece and 2 plates, wood-engraved additional pictorial title & tail-piece, map, ex-library copy with cancellation stamp to head of title, modern bookplate, modern morocco, 1847 § Gordon-Cumming (C.F.) The Inventor of the Numeral-Type for China by the use of which Illiterate Chinese both Blind and Sighted can very quickly be taught to read and write fluently, first edition, plates, tables, printed slips and 12th Annual Report tipped in, original yellow cloth, 1898 § Proudfoot (W.J.) "Barrow's Travels in China". An Investigation..., light foxing, original cloth, 1861 § [Crowe (Eyre Evans)] A History of China to the Present Time..., first edition, advertisements at end, ink inscription to title, browned, lacking rear free endpaper, original cloth, upper cover stained, 1854, all rubbed; and 4 others on China, 8vo (8)⁂ Library Hub lists only 5 copies of the last.

Eastern Religion & Philosophy.- Batchelor (Rev. John) The Ainu of Japan, first edition, ex-library copy with ink stamp to half-title, hinges weak, shaken, original pictorial cloth, rubbed, spine ends a little worn, 1892 § Coomaraswamy (A.) Buddha and the Gospel of Buddhism, [c.1916] § Munro (N.G.) Ainu Creed and Cult, 1963 § Dumoulin (H.) The Development of Chinese Zen..., New York, 1953 § Casal (U.A.) The Five Sacred Festivals of Ancient Japan, Tokyo, 1967 § Czaja (M.) Gods of Myth and Stone: Phallicism in Japanese Folk Religion, New York & Tokyo, 1974 § Rambach (P.) The Art of Japanese Tantrism, 1979, plates and illustrations, original cloth or boards, all but the first with dust-jackets, most a little rubbed and soiled; and c.20 others on Eastern religions & philosophy, mostly Chinese or Japanese, v.s. (c.25)

[STANDISH (ARTHUR)]The Commons Complaint. Wherein Is Contained Two Speciall Grievances. The First, the Generall Destruction and Waste of Woods in the Kingdome with a Remedy for the Same... The Second Grievance Is, the Extreme Dearth of Victuals, FIRST EDITION, one folding woodcut plate, woodcut royal arms on dedication leaf, initials and ornaments throughout, shaved touching ornament on dedication and 5 running headings (and pagination numeral of pp.15-16), twentieth century polished mottled calf gilt, red morocco spine labels, g.e. [ESTC S117779; Fussell I, p.33; Henrey 352], small 4to (175 x 133mm.), William Stansby, 1611Footnotes:'One of the first treatises to be published in this country entirely devoted to forestry' (Henry). Following a popular revolt in the midlands neighbourhood in which he lived, in 1607 Standish set out to look 'for measures to reduce discontent among the common people,... [by undertaking] a four-year journey through the kingdom in search of answers. The resulting essay, The Commons Complaint, was personally approved by James I' (ODNB). Central to his concerns was the destruction of woods, leading to high fuel and food prices, and he established himself as a pioneering advocate of the replenishment of the forests through increased planting of trees, especially of fruit trees.Provenance: Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp inside 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

T[AYLOR] (SILVANUS)Common-good: or, the Improvement of Commons, Forrests, and Chases, by Inclosure. Wherein the Advantage of the Poor, the Common Plenty of All, and the Increase and Preservation of Timber... Are Considered, FIRST EDITION, title within one-line rule border, light dampstain to final 2 leaves, modern half calf over marbled boards, gilt morocco spine label [ESTC R203768; Goldsmiths 1248; Kress 860], small 4to (182 x 134mm.), Francis Tyton, 1652Footnotes:RARE, only this copy traced at auction in the past fifty years. A plea to reduce the impact of rapid deforestation in England, in which Taylor argues for a programme of planting on the 30,000 acres of Dean, Windsor and the New Forests. The author 'acknowledged that as it stood it was actually cheaper to get timber from New England than transport it 10-15 miles in England, but suggested this supply would soon be logged out' (P. Warde, The Invention of Sustainability: Nature and Destiny, c.1500-1900, 2018).Provenance: Donald McDonald, author of Agricultural writers from Sir Walter of Henley to Arthur Young, 1200-1800 (1908), bookplate; Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp on endpapers.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

TUSSER (THOMAS)Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, as Well for the Champion or Open Countrie, as Also for the Woodland... Newly Set Forth, black letter, title within wide allegorical woodcut border, large woodcut printer's device on final leaf, without A1 (blank except for signature), 2 small paperflaws to leaf N4 with very small loss of text, early ink finger-pointers in several margins, nineteenth century green morocco gilt, sides with 3-line fillet border, floral cornerpieces and central Huth arms, spine elaborately tooled, g.e. [ESTC S118718; Fussell I, pp.8-9], small 4to (185 x 135mm.), Imprinted at London, by Henrie Denham, 1580Footnotes:Tusser's enormously popular manual in verse on farming and husbandry was first published in 1557, and subsequently expanded and augmented until the author's death in 1580, with this including his final amendments. At its core is a calendar of information and advice about the farming year, with sections on the role of the country wife; it was also 'the biggest-selling book of poetry of the reign of Elizabeth I' (ODNB).Provenance: Henry Huth (bibliophile, 1815-1878), gilt morocco bookplate, and arms on covers; Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp inside 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

ZOPPINO (NICCOLO, publisher)Operetta nova de cose stupende in agricultura vere, 8pp., large woodcut illustration of two men prunning a tree on title-page, fore-edge shaved touching one letter of title and border of vignette, nineteenth century boards, rebacked in morocco, rubbed [EDIT 16; CNCE 66505; not in Adams], 8vo (138 x 95mm.), [Venice, Niccolò Zoppino, c.1520]Footnotes:Very rare handbook on agriculture, with EDIT 16 only recording one copy. Advice is given on a most varied number of topics ranging from keeping roses fresh to fertilising fruit plants with goat's milk, and methods of ripening figs.Provenance: J. Charles Barnel, bookplate; Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp with acquisition date (1921) inside 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

ERASMUS (DESIDERIUS)Moriae encomium nunc postremum ab ipso autore religiose recognitum, una cum aliis aliquot libellis, first three pages within woodcut borders (the first signed 'IF', i.e. Jakob Faber), woodcut initials, large woodcut printer's device on final verso, light dampstaining to lower margin of opening 30 leaves, slightly heavier dampstain to approximately 20 leaves at end, contemporary Flemish panel-stamped calf, the sides each with small panels of animals/birds and frieze of dogs and a porcupine surrounded by legends ('O[mn]ias si perdas/fama[m] savare memento/qua semel/amissa nul]la revisio erit'; 'De profundis/clamavi ad te domine/domine/exaudi vocem meam', rebacked using a seventeenth century manuscript on vellum, old paper spine label, pastedowns made of a fourteenth century manuscript of Comester's 'Historia scholastica', vellum waste visible at hinges, joints slightly weakened [Adams E396; USTC 676454], 8vo, Basle, [Froben], [July], 1522Footnotes:Early edition of Erasmus's Praise of Folly in a contemporary Flemish panel-stamped binding, using binder's waste of a fourteenth century manuscript on vellum pastedowns. This edition includes the commentary attributed to Gerhard Lister, Erasmus's supplementary Epistola apologetica ad Martinum Dorpium, Seneca's satire on the Emperor Claudius, and Synesius of Cyrene's praise of baldness. The binding is illustrated in Janet E. Scinto, 'The Panel Stamp in Early Modern Bindings', Library Quarterly, vol. 85, no. 1, University of Chicago, 2015.Provenance: Franciscan monastic inscription dated 1638 on title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

SMITH (PHILIP)MILTON (JOHN) Complete Poetry & Selected Prose... edited by E.H.Visiak, bound by Philip Smith in turquoise crushed morocco, front cover with a blind-tooled floral pattern emanating from a vase-shaped ivory leather onlay, the rear cover tooled in blind to the same design, gilt dots on covers and on blind-tooled and gilt lettered spine, binder's monogram stamp dated 1952 on rear turn-in, spine slightly darkened, cloth slipcase, Nonesuch Press, 1952--Pair of blank books titled 'Homes' and 'Homo sapiens' on spine, bound in black and brown half morocco respectively, the sides with gilt stars at edges and main panels showing a house in a whirlpool and a silhouette of a male figure seen from behind, morocco turn-ins with dots and stars, decorated endpapers, top and fore-edges with drawings of houses and figures, manuscript binder's notes tipped-in at end of first volume, housed in single box with pull-off lid and leather label stamped '698', small 4to (173 x 139mm.), [n.d.] (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

SMITH (PHILIP)The Order for the Administration of The Lord's Supper or Holy Communion, bound by Philip Smith in cream pigskin, covers with figurative totem pole design incorporating Biblical imagery, stamped in gilt, black and pink with circular purple and black onlays at top, spine lettered in gilt ('Altar Book' interspersed with dots), edges gilt (or purple if spread), orange cloth slipcase, tall 8vo, Oxford University Press, [c.1959]; idem, another copy, bound to the same design but 'Unfinished 1950s. Started R.C.A.' (label on bag), with some of the gilt incomplete, and the circular onlays untrimmed and loose; idem, 3 copies of the smaller 8vo edition, all bound c.1959-1960 in cream pigskin with Biblical motifs, one with all over design of a figurative angel, the other two with purple onlays; The Holy Bible, Newly Translated... by MGR Ronald A. Knox, 5 vol., bound in black morocco-backed patterned cloth, covers with printed titles, spines with red morocco onlaid cross gilt, patterned endpapers, volume 1 with binder's monogram stamp dated 1953 at rear, volumes 2-4 signed and dated, slight soiling, 8vo (10)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

GRIMBLE (AUGUSTUS)Deer-Stalking, LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, 18 plates after the author, errata slip, light spotting to opening and final leaves, modern half calf, 1888; Shooting and Salmon Fishing. Hints and Recollections, 19 plates after the author, 1892; Highland Sport, 10 plates after Archibald Thorburn, one gathering working loose, 1894, Chapman and Hall; The Deer Forests of Scotland, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, 8 photogravure plates after Thorburn, some staining to title, occasional browning, 1896; The Salmon and Sea Trout Rivers of England and Wales, 2 vol., LIMITED TO 350 COPIES, plates, folding map, 1904, contemporary half morocco gilt, t.e.g.; The Salmon Rivers of Scotland, 4 vol., prospectus loosely inserted, 1899-1900; The Salmon Rivers of Ireland, 2 vol., LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, library stamp on titles, verso of frontispiece maps and spines, 1903, photographic plates and illustrations, publisher's parchment-backed boards, paper spine labels printed in red, some rubbing and soiling, all 4to; Leaves from a Game Book, 1898; More Leaves from a Game Book, Printed by R. Clay and Sons for Augustus Grimble, [1917], LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, photographic illustrations, publisher's half vellum, red morocco gilt spine labels (worn with some loss), large 8vo, unless otherwise stated, Kegan Paul (14)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

BECKETT (SAMUEL)FREUND (GISÈLE) Samuel Beckett seated, smoking, gelatin silver print, signed by the photographer beneath image, photographer's stamp on verso, image 308 x 200mm., sheet 410 x 305mm., 1964 [printed in 1970s]For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CHURCHILL (WINSTON)Liberal Party Publications. Pamphlets and Leaflets for 1903 [-1904, -1907, -1908, -1910, -1912, -1914, 2 copies], 7 bound volumes containing numerous pamphlets, articles and speeches, original roan-backed green cloth, spines gilt (3 worn or chipped), 8vo, Liberal Publication Department, 1904-1915--Conference of Prime Ministers and Representatives of the United Kingdom, the Dominions, and India, Held in June, July, and August, 1921. Summary of Proceedings and Document, 69-page Parliamentary Paper, including 'Statement by Mr. Churchill on the Colonies, etc.', British Library of Political Science withdrawn stamp, unbound and stitched as issued [not in Cohen or Woods], folio, HMSO, 1921 (8)Footnotes:Unusually good set of bound Liberal Party pamphlets (wanting the volume for 1915-1918), containing contributions from Churchill, Asquith, Lloyd George, Campbell-Bannerman and others. The Churchill contributions are titled or relate to: Brodrick's Army Scheme (1903); The Aliens Bill; The Issues at Stake (1904), National Demonstration in Favour of Land & Housing Reform (1907); Liberalism and Socialism (1908); Churchill on the Peers (1910); Irish Home Rule; The Liberal Government and Naval Policy (1912); The Tories and the Army (1914).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

DRINKWATER (JOHN)Remaining books from the library of John Drinkwater, including 105 volumes of his own works, either with his ownership inscription (often dated), or a presentation inscription (to his second wife Daisy - sometimes addressed as 'David' - or daughter Penny), with approximately 60 other copies of his works (about 20 signed by Daisy), and 10 books inscribed to him by other authors (including John Buchan, Arnold Bennett and Galsworthy - see footnote), some with additional notes and annotations, a few with loosely inserted letters and photographs, some with Drinkwater's gilt morocco bookplate, others with 'J.D.' stamp, publisher's bindings, several in dust-jackets, variable rubbing or wear, mostly 8vo, a few 4to, [c.1914-1935] (quantity)Footnotes:UPWARDS OF 100 NOVELS, PLAYS, ESSAYS AND WORKS WRITTEN, EDITED OR WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY JOHN DRINKWATER, ALL EITHER WITH HIS OWNERSHIP INSCRIPTION, or presentation copies to his wife or daughter, several the dedication copies.Includes: Cotswold Characters (1921), WITH 5 PROOF WOODCUTS BY PAUL NASH captioned in pencil, JD noting 'Inserted are proofs of the cuts, inscribed by P.N.'; Abraham Lincoln. A Play (1919), with a tipped-in envelope containing 'LEAVES FROM THE DINNER TABLE OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, at the Great Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia, June 16th 1864' written by 'Ella Virginia J.P. 1872' with note by JD 'These were given to me when I was in the U.S.A.'; The Collected Poems in 2 vol. (1931), inscribed by JD 'a copy of the large paper edition, specially bound by S. & S. Inserted is a copy of the frontispiece, coloured by Albert Rutherston' [also inscribed 'J.D. from A.R.. Dec. 1923']; Preludes 1921-1922 (1922), LIMITED TO 125 COPIES, inscribed 'No. 3, and my own copy... September 1922; Claud Lovat Fraser (1923), LIMITED TO 45O COPIES, signed by Drinkwater and Albert Rutherston; A Book for Bookmen (1926), ONE OF 50 COPIES, WITH AN ALS FROM T.S.WISE (the dedicatee) tipped-in, also another copy with 2 further ALS from Wise ('What a brick you are...'); Charles James Fox (1928), inscribed 'To David, the dearest Lady that I know. This book about Charles, whom must have been a very dear gentleman. With love from her Jonathan, Pepys House, September 1928'; A Man's House (1934), inscribed to his daughter Penny '... this play was produced at Malvern on July 23rd, three days before your fifth birthday...', with jacket and wraparound band; another copy inscribed to his wife 'wishing her luck with our play... Malvern, 23. vii. 34'; Laying the Devil (1933), inscribed 'Daisy darling, thank you for believing in this play, and for helping me by believing in it... Shaftsbury Theatre, 2.VII.33'; Garibaldi (1936), inscribed 'For My David, this first copy of the new play... 6.vi.36'; Robert Burns. A Play (1925), THE DEDICATEE'S COPY, inscribed 'Daisy Drinkwater from her Jonathan, New York, November 24th 1925'; More About Me. Poems for a Child (1929), DEDICATEE'S COPY, inscribed 'My darling little [Penelope Ann, JD's daughter, printed] from her loving father who made the rhyme, Brampton October 28th 1929'.Books inscribed by their author to Drinkwater include: Arnold Bennett, Riceyman Steps, with additional note by Drinkwater 'Given to me by Bennett on the evening that I read 'Robert Burns' to him. J.D.', 1923; John Galsworthy, The Dark Flower, 1913; Charles Morgan. Sparkenbroke, 1936; Ramsay Macdonald, At Home and Abroad, 1936; Amelia Defries. Rebirth, the dedication copy, 1928.; John Buchan, The Manor of Elsfield, 1931.Provenance: John Drinkwater (1882-1937); his daughter Penelope Ann and thence by descent.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

KAR (IDA)Noel Coward, light crease upper left, 303 x 390mm., [1957]; Raymond Chandler, 388 x 278mm., [early 1950s]; Julian and Aldous Huxley, 194 x 245mm., [1959], gelatin silver prints, SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER in white pen (lower right), with photographer's name and address stamp, and sitters identified in pen on verso (3)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PULP FICTION - 'WHITE SLAVERY', SCIENCE FICTION, ETCDUPRES (H.) White Slaves of Two Cities, Federation Press, [1924]--WILLIS (W.N.) The White Slaves of London, Stanley Paul, [1912]; White Slave Market, some loss to blank area of half-title, [c.1949]; White Slaves in a Piccadilly Flat, [c.1949]; Western Men With Eastern Morals, [c.1950], Camden Publishing--LACROIX (RAMON) White Slave Traffic, [c.1952]; GRIFF. The City of Lost Women, [c.1954]--SARTO (BEN) Pinday and the 'White Slaver', [c.1952]--MAYFAIR (MARINA) White Cargo, [c/1952], Modern Fiction Ltd.--GREY (ELEANOR) Sold!, [c.1950]--BATES (H.L.) The Auction of Souls, [c.1954], Phoenix Press--LESTRANGE (PAUL) Blonde Slaves, one gathering loose, Clifford Lewis, [c.1946]--KING (JOHN) Shuna and the Lost Tribe, [1951]; Shuna. White Queen of the Jungle, cover designs by Reginald Heade, Harborough--FEARN (JOHN RUSSELL) Goddess of Mars, Hamilton, [1950]--GRIDBAN (VOLSTED) The Genial Dinosaur, [1954]--STATTEN (VARGO) The Eclipse Express, bookseller's stamp on p.5, small loss to spine [1952], Scion, all publisher's pictorial wrappers, some small creases, etc., 8vo; and 35 others, miscellaneous Pulps, including 16 'White Slave' related (c.52)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

PULP FICTION - CRIMEPERRELLI (NICK, pseud. of George Herbert Dawson) Terror in Tokyo, [1950]; The Body Ran Home, very short tear lower margin of upper cover, [1951], each with 'Printed in England' stamp on title, and '35c.' stamp on upper cover; Virgins Die Lonely, [1950]; Virgin's Vendetta, [1950], Bolton, Tempest; She Sure Slipped, [1952]; A Dame Doles Death, [1953]--BARONI (NICK), Pseud. of FREDERICK TOM FODEN [and others]. Red Doll, [c.1951]; Shapely Lady, [c.1951]; Pay Off, [c.1951]; Don't Mind Stella, [c.1951]; High Heels and Scanties, [c.1951]; Easy Curves, [c.1951], Curtis Warren Ltd--CELLO (JOHNNY) A Guy Gets His, [1951]; Lights Out, [1952], Scion--COSTELLO (PETE) Bowery Blonde, [c.1951]; Call Girl, [c.1951]; Redheads Spell Danger, [c.1952]; Dames Die Hard, [c.1952]; Murder in Mink, [c.1953]--BARNATO (BART) Broadway Siren, [c.1951]; Dames Play Dumb, [c.1951]; Bigtime Payoff, [c.1953], Edwin Self--ANGELO (TONY), Pseud. of THOMAS WEBB. Sinner's Shroud, [1950] MORELLI (SPIKE), Pseud. of WILLIAM NEWTON. You'll Never Get Me, [1950]; Coffin for Cutie, [1950], stamped 'Printed In England' on title and £35c.' on upper cover, Stoke, Archer; This Way for Hell, [1952]; Death for a Doll, [1952], New York, Leisure Library--BORELLI (CASS) I will Kill, Scion, [1953]--ROSA (VICKI) Palm Beach Playgirl, Bush, 1948, mostly first editions, publisher's pictorial wrappers (some by designed Heade, and Ferrari), a few with light creases, 8vo; and 44 others by 'Italian American' authors, including Perrelli, Cello, Costello, Baroni, etc. (c.74)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

PULP FICTION - CRIMEGLINTO (DARCY), Pseud. of HAROLD ERNEST KELLY. Snow Vogue, FIRST EDITION, loss at head of dust-jacket spine affecting the word 'Snow', Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., [1941]; Road Floozie, 1950; '... One More Nice White Body', rodent damage to lower part of spine (similar to dust-jacket), jacket price-clipped, 1952; 'You Took Me... Keep Me', library labels, and perforated stamp on 2 pages, small tears to jacket with label on spine, 1941 [but 1952]; Curtains for Carrie, 1953, publisher's cloth, pictorial dust-jackets, 8vo, all but the first mentioned Robin Hood Press; and 3 others by Darcy Glinto, dust-jacketed hardbacks (8)Footnotes:The rare first edition hardback with dust-jacket of Glinto's classic of drug peddling, glossed as 'Opium! Cocaine!! Dope!!!. Fiendish Drug-Orgies Shock America' on a later paperback edition.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

PULP FICTION - CRIMEGLINTO (DARCY), Pseud. of HAROLD ERNEST KELLY. Lady - Don't Turn Over, [November 1940]; No Mortgage on a Coffin, [January 1941]; Snow Vogue, [1941]; Road Floozie, date stamp '24 Nov. 1941' on first leaf, [1941], Wells, Gardner, Darton, & Co.; Curtains for Carrie, 1947; Mannequin Moll, 1948; No Come-back for Connie, [1948]; Straight-Up Girl, slight rusting to staples, [1949]; '... One More Nice White Body', small loss at blank extremities of spine, 1950, Robin Hood Press, FIRST EDITIONS, the first three mentioned publisher's stiff wrappers with pictorial dust-jackets, the others publisher's wrappers, 8vo; and 24 others by Darcy Glinto, including the early Robin Hood Press issues of the Wells, Gardner titles (c.31)Footnotes:A fine run of Darcy Glinto works, including the first editions of his first four books, including Lady - Don't Turn Over and Snow Vogue for which he and the publishers was prosecuted for obscenity at the Old Bailey in 1942, resulting in a fine of £200.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

PULP FICTION - CRIMESTORME (MICHAEL), Pseud. of GEORGE HERBERT DAWSON. Make Mine a Virgin, [1949]; Make Mine Dangerous, [1949]; Make Mine a Corpse, [1950], Make Mine Beautiful, [1949]; Satan Buys a Wreath, [1950], Stoke, Archer; Unlucky Virgin, first American edition, extreme tip of one upper cover corner torn away, Cleveland, Kaywin, [1951]; Hot Dames on Cold Slabs, first American edition, New York, Leisure Library, [1952]; Elvira Digs a Grave, [1952]; Chicago Terror, [1952]; Make Mine a Redhead, [1952], Harborough--ANGEL (ROSS), Pseud. of DONALD CRESSWELL. Dead Easy, [c.1951]; Smile Baby, Smile, [c.1951]; Over My Dead Body, [c.1951]; One-Way Trip, '2/6d.' price tab pasted on upper cover, [c.1953]; Dames Don't Dictate, [c.1952]; So Long, Johnny!, [c.1952], Scion--MARKHAM (STEVE) Alcatraz Breakout, [c.1950]; Dames Can't Wait, [c.1950]; It's Not Easy to Die, [c.1950]; The Hideout, [c.1950]; The Maltese Mob, [c.1950]; Date in Detroit, [c.1950], Art Publicity; Cornered, [c.1951]; New Orleans Wildcat, [c.1951]; I'll Take Blonde!, [c.1951], Gaywood; Dames Spell Trouble, Kaye Publications, [c.1953]--SHANNON (BRAD) The Big Snatch, [c.150]; Fall Guy, [c.1951]; The Lady's for Killing, short tear to upper cover, [c.1950]; Blues for My Baby, [1950]; So Many Dead, [c.1950]; The Countless Steps, [1952]--LUGAR (HANS) You Don't Say, Bolton Book Exchange stamp on upper cover, [1951]; Handle with Care, [1952] Midnight Sister, short tear to upper cover, [1953]--DRAYTON (RICKY) Stick or Bust!, [1953]--HANSEN (FRANK) I'll Get By, [1953]; Lady Be Bad, [1953], Scion publisher's pictorial wrappers by Heade, Ferrari, Gomez, Roger Davis, J. Pollock, and others, occasional light creases or light markings, 8vo; and 62 others by mentioned authors, R.C. Finney, and Christ Wheatley (c.100)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

PULP FICTION - DRUGSCRAIG (JONATHAN) 'Junkie!'. The Life and Loves of a Drug Addict, New York, Falcon, [1952]--KELLAN (JIM) Honey, Drop That Weed, bookseller's stamp on title, Gannet Press, [c.1953]--DAVID (KIRK) Now We Are Free, Curtis Warren, [c.1951]--HULBURD (DAVID) H Is for Heroin, New York, Popular Library, [1954]--DEMEXICO (N.R.) Marijuana Girl, [Canada, c.1960]--ROBERTS (LUKE) Reefer Club, New York, Universal, 1953--IRISH (WILLIAM) Marihuana, New York, Dell, [c.1951]--QUANDT (ALBERT L.) Dream Club, second printing, New York, Original Novels Inc. [1952], publisher's pictorial wrappers, a few small creases, 8vo; and 4 others, drugs (12)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

BLAGRAVE (JOHN)Baculum Familliare, Catholicon sive Generale. A Booke of the Making and Use of a Staffe, Newly Invented by the Author, Called the Familiar Staffe, FIRST EDITION, black letter, woodcut illustrations on title and several text leaves, woodcut initials and decorations, with final blank (K4), title soiled with small hole (filled touching 3 letters, and one corner repaired), a few short marginal repairs, one ornament shaved, modern cloth [ESTC S102659], small 4to (184 x 140mm.), Printed by Heugh Jackson, 1590Footnotes:First edition of a work by the practical mathematician John Blagrave (c.1561-1611), who practised as a land surveyor and designed and made scientific instruments, including an astrolabe, described in his The Mathematical Jewel (1585). Between 1589 and 1596 he enjoyed the patronage of Sir Francis Knolles, the dedicatee of Baculum familliare which describes a 'familiare staffe', an early example of an elaborate universal instrument, which the author claimed 'readily performeth all the severall uses of the Crosse Staff, the Quadrate, the Circle, the Quadrante, the Gunners Quadrante, [and] the Trigon', for use in surveying, ordnance and military practices.Provenance: Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp inside 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

COPLAND (WILLIAM, PUBLISHER)Here begynneth the Boke of the Arte or Crafte of Graffynge and Plantyng of Trees, 16pp., black letter, large woodcut vignette of two woodsmen hewing trees on the title, some soiling and marginal restorations throughout, early ink annotations (mostly marginal, 5 lines underlined), twentieth century morocco, gilt lettered on spine [ESTC 91551, citing this copy only], small 4to (190 x 140mm.), Imprinted at London in Lothbery over against S. Margarets church by me Wyllyam Copland, [?1565]Footnotes:VERY RARE, ESTC citing only this copy, not listed on Worldcat, and no other copies traced as appearing at auction. The treatise is devoted to the production and preservation of trees, and in particular the art of grafting. At the end are two short chapters concerning the four seasons and four elements, and 'the fourme and measure to mete land by'. It was published by William Copland, who because of 'his connection with Robert Copland, and Robert's with Caxton's heir, Wynkyn de Worde... represents the fourth in a direct line of succession from England's first printer' (ODNB).Provenance: Annotations in an early hand, including a note 'To trye the quince' beside a passage 'To have fruite without cores'; Rothamsted Experimental Station, stamp inside upper cover, with note of acquistion (1936). Purchased for £52.10.0 from Maggs Bros, their catalogue description pasted onto the front free paper, noting 'This little piece is of excessive rarity. One copy is recorded in Pollard's 'Hand-lists of English Printers' [1913] as in a Private Library, and there is a reference in a note in [Thomas] Dibdin's 'Typographical Antiquities'...'.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

COUNTRY-MAN'S RECREATIONSThe Country-mans Recreation, or the Art of Planting, Graffing, and Gardening, in three Bookes, 3 parts in 1, woodcut illustrations including knots and mazes, one leaf (E1) with tear repaired, some light dampstains and browning, later quarter with gilt morocco spine label, neatly rebacked [ESTC S108874; Fussell 1, pp.37-38; Henrey 47; Hunt 233], small 4to (175 x 130mm.), Printed by B. Allsop and T. Fawcett for Michael Young, 1640Footnotes:The three books include a reprint of Leonard Mascall's A Booke of the Art and Maner, Howe to Plante and Graffe all Sortes of Trees, a reprint of Reginald Scot's A Perfite Platforme of a Hoppe-Garden, and a reissue of The Expert Gardener which includes advice on grafting, the layout of plots (with illustrations of maze and knot gardens), and 'remedies to destroy snails, canker-wormes, moths, garden-fleas... and other Vermine'.Provenance: Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp inside 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

DIGGES (LEONARD)A Booke Named Tectonicon, large woodcut illustration on title, 2 folding tables, woodcut illustrations, diagrams, initials and decorations, washed and pressed, first few leaves slightly frayed, small filled hole in a few leaves (last 2 with a couple of letters affected), fore-corners to approximately 5 leaves neatly repaired, twentieth century red crushed morocco gilt [ESTC S117154], small 4to (203 x 155mm.), Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, 1625Footnotes:Scarce edition of Digges' successful treatise on land surveying, first published in 1556, in which he considered the measurement of land, the calculation of quantities, and the use of various instruments such as the carpenter's rule, the square, and a version of the cross-staff. He was also 'at pains to correct common errors practised by those without an adequate grounding in mathematics; this theme of 'vulgar errors' became standard in many subsequent mathematical texts' (ODNB). Provenance: Sir Roger Twysden (1597-1672), inscription dated 1638 on title. Twysden, educated at St. Paul's School, was an antiquary and politician. In 1629, on inheriting an estate at Roydon Hall in Kent he 'set about improving his property, creating a park... and engaging in extensive planting of trees. He kept a book in which he wrote down detailed advice on prudent estate management, including the keeping of woods which he regarded as especially important' (ODNB). During the Civil War he was imprisoned by the Parliamentarians, and his estate sequestered, 'and large quantities of the timber on his lands, of which he was so proud, were felled' (ODNB); Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp and note of acquisition (1925) on front endaper.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

HUNTAR (WILLIAM)A Treatise, of Weights, Mets and Measures of Scotland, FIRST EDITION, with A1r catchword 'sures', woodcut armorial device on title, woodcut decorations and initials, diagrams in the text, some marginal repairs, trimmed with some loss to ruled border of several pages, running headline on 5 pages, and fore-edge of 3 pages touching one column of figures to tables, small hole to title with loss of numeral '2' of date (with full date '1624' in ink beside), eighteenth century ink annotations on 2 blank pages with several ownership inscriptions in margins, light soiling, modern calf, gilt lettered on spine [ESTC S104307], small 4to (170 x 130mm.), Edinburgh, Printed by John Wreittoun, and are to bee solde at his Buith, et the Nethey-Bowe, 1624Footnotes:Provenance: Alexander and James Blackie, eighteenth century ink inscriptions in on several leaves; Rothamsted Experimental Station, stamp inside 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

LANGLEY (BATTY)A Sure Method of Improving Estates, by Plantation of Oak, Elm, Ash, Beech, and Other Timber-trees, Coppice-woods, &c., FIRST EDITION, issue with pp.vii-xx correctly numbered, woodcut ornaments and end-pieces, contemporary sprinkled calf, head of spine chipped, joints a little rubbed [Fussell I, p.27; Goldsmiths 6587; Henrey 929; Hunt 473], 8vo, Francis Clay, and Daniel Browne, 1728Footnotes:'Our Nation will be entirely exhausted of building timber, before sixty years are ended' - Batty Langley (1696-1751), architect and horticulturalist, puts forwards his plans to halt deforestation, advicing landowners on the planting a variety of trees 'to the great advantage of themselves and their posterity after them'.Provenance: Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp inside 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

[LANGLEY (BATTY)New Principles of Gardening: Or the Laying Out and Planting [of] Parterres, Groves, Wildernesses, Labyrinths... After a More Grand and Rural Manner... With Experimental Directions for Raising the Several Kinds of Fruit Trees, Forest-trees, Ever-greens and Flowering-shrubs Which Gardens Are Adorn'd], FIRST EDITION, folding engraved frontispiece and 27 folding or double-page engraved plates (frontispiece laid down with some losses to image, several other short repairs), lacks title and pp.85/86 (both supplied in manuscript facsimile), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked retaining original gilt-tooled spine, slightly rubbed [Berlin Kat. 3414; Harris 462; Henrey 927], 4to (250 x 185mm.), [A. Bettesworth and J. Batley, 1728, but 1727]Footnotes:The New Principles is Batty Langley's 'most important contribution on the subject of gardening. It is the culmination of both his work at Twickenham Park for Thomas Vernon and his brief directions for 'arti-natural' design... [and as such] places him among the earliest exponents of the new style of irregular gardening' (Harris).Provenance: F.H. Cripps-Day (1864-1932), ownership inscription; Rothamsted Experimental Station, stamp inside 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

LANGLEY (BATTY)The Landed Gentleman's Useful Companion: or, a Sure and Easy Method of Improving Estates, folding engraved plate, some dampstaining throughout, final leaf of text loose, pencil annotations in the margins, contemporary calf, sides with 2-line gilt rule border, rubbed, piece torn away exposing board to one corner of lower side [Kress 4563], 8vo, James Hodges, 1741Footnotes:Provenance: John Haden, early ownership inscription ('Ino. Haden') on title and front free endpaper, this above price '4/-'; Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp inside 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

LEIGH (VALENTINE)The Moste Profitable and Commendable Science, of Surveying of Lands, Tenementes, and Hereditamentes... Newly Imprinted and Corrected, fourth edition, black and roman letter, with blank A1, woodcut device on title, woodcut diagrams and initials, 2 folding tables (each on 2 conjoined sheets, short tears repaired, one resulting in minor loss to one word), stab-holes to inner margin, old ink number 'X num 52' to front free endpaper and 'G G. num: 50' on verso, light water-staining to a few leaves, nineteenth century half calf, rubbed [ESTC S108414; cf. Fussell I, p.7, first edition], small 4to (190 x 135mm.), John Windet, for Robert Dexter, 1592Footnotes:Fourth edition - the first appeared in 1577 - of this practical, popular guide on surveying, praised by John Norden in The Surveiors Dialogue, 1610.Provenance: Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp inside upper cover, purchased 1925 from Bernard Quaritch.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

[LEYBOURN (WILLIAM)]Planometria: or the Whole Art of Surveying of Land: Shewing the Composition, and Use of All the Most Necessary Instruments thereunto Belonging... by Oliver Wallinby, FIRST EDITION, first leaf bears signature mark 'A' within ornamental border on recto and illustration on verso, woodcut illustrations and diagrams (with large diagram cut to size and laid down on C1 as instructed), mathematical calculations in an early hand to front free endpaper, contemporary sheep, rubbed, small loss to head of spine [ESTC R42121], 8vo, Printed for Nathanael Brooks, 1650Footnotes:Rare first edition of Leybourn's influential treatise on surveying, published under the pseudonym Oliver Wallinby (an anagram of his name), which was enlarged and printed as The Compleat Surveyor three years later.Provenance: Ch. Hevingham, ?eighteenth century inscription on title-page; Rothamsted Experimental Station, stamp inside 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

LEYBOURN (WILLIAM)The Compleat Surveyor: Containing the Whole Art of Surveying of Land, by the Plain Table, Theodolite, Circumferentor, and Peractor... With Whatsoever Else is Necessary to the Art of Surveying, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author (aged 27), title printed in red and black within typographic border, diagrams in the text, woodcut ornaments and decorative initials, small circular hole cut from margin of pp.57/58 touching printed rule border, a few small rustholes (touching letters on pp.52/54, and pp. 75/76), ink smudges on p.68, some spotting and a few small ink marks elsewhere, contemporary calf, worn with small losses at corners and foot of spine, upper hinge cracked [ESTC R20856], small folio (280 x 185mm.), R. & W. Leybourn, for E. Brewster, 1653Footnotes:Scarce at auction, the expanded version of William Leybourn's influential treatise on surveying. First published anonymously as a pamphlet titled Planometria, or, The Whole Art of Surveying of Land in 1650, there were four further editions published in the author's lifetime. Leybourn (1626-1716) was subsequently 'appointed one of the six surveyors to measure the damage caused by the Great Fire of London.... [and his] practice as a land surveyor continued and he mapped estates in London and many other English counties' (ODNB).Provenance: Anthony Methwin, several ink inscriptions to endpapers and blank recto of frontispiece, one dated 1669; Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp inside 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

N[ORDEN] (J[OHN)]The Surveyors Dialogue... Very Profitable for All Men to Peruse, that Have to Do with Revenues of Land, or the Manurance, Use, or Occupation Thereof, Both Lords and Tenants, FIRST EDITION, initial blank with signature-mark 'A' (with several early ink scribblings, laid down), woodcut ornament on title, several diagrams in the text, without final 2 blanks, good margins, a few small neat marginal repairs, modern red morocco, early vellum covers and spine bound in at end [ESTC S113314; Kress 279], small 4to (190 x 138mm.), Printed [by Simon Stafford] for Hugh Astley, 1607Footnotes:First edition of the first English surveying publication of the seventeenth century, 'important because of Norden's clear account of the operation of the court of survey and because of his efforts to reconcile the differences between surveyor and tenant' (A.W. Richeson, English Land Measuring to 1800, 1966).Provenance: Lawes Agricultural Library, stamp inside 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

ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS: large portfolio of original architectural drawings by H P Cooper, c.1930s, some with hand stamp of The School of Architecture at London Polytechnic: designs include several for a Lake District house, a private chapel, a renaissance porch and loggia , various Italianate designs and several of South African interest, various sizes, some creasing and edge damage but generally in good condition. (Qty)