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Fine Books & Manuscripts New York | December 11, 2020 Fine Books and Manuscripts New York | Friday December 11, 2020, at 10am Session I: Fine Books and Manuscripts at 10am Session II: The Martin Nason Collection of Dickensiana at 2pm BONHAMS INQUIRIES BIDS COVID-19 SAFETY STANDARDS 580 Madison Avenue New York Register to bid online by visiting Bonhams’ galleries are currently New York, New York 10022 Ian Ehling www.bonhams.com/26079 subject to government restrictions bonhams.com Director and arrangements may be subject +1 (212) 644 9094 Alternatively, contact our Client to change. SALE NUMBER [email protected] Services department at: [email protected] Preview: Lots will be made 26079 Tom Lamb Lots 1 - 298 +1 (212) 644 9001 available for in-person viewing by Director Business Development appointment only. Please contact +1 (917) 921 7342 IMPORTANT NOTICES the specialist department on AUCTION INFORMATION [email protected] [email protected] Please note that all customers, Ian Ehling - 2068610-DCA to arrange an appointment before Darren Sutherland irrespective of any previous activity visiting our galleries. In Bonhams & Butterfields Senior Specialist with Bonhams, are required to have accordance with Covid-19 Auctioneers Corp. +1 (212) 461 6531 proof of identity when submitting guidelines, it is mandatory that 2077070-DCA [email protected] bids. Failure to do this may result in you wear a face mask and observe your bid not being processed. social distancing at all times. CATALOG: $45 Tim Tezer Additional lot information and For absentee and telephone bids Junior Specialist photographs are available from we require a completed Bidder ILLUSTRATIONS +1 (917) 206 1647 the specialist department upon [email protected] Registration Form in advance of request. Front Cover: lot 7 the sale. The form can be found at Inside Front Cover: lot 124 (detail) Leslie To the back of every catalogue and on Inside Rear Cover: lot 162 Bidding: We are unable to offer Administrator our website at www.bonhams.com in-person bidding for this auction. Rear Cover: lot 268 +1 (917) 206-1661 and should be returned by email to [email protected] the specialist department or to the Payment, Collections & Shipping: PREVIEW Client Services department at bids. We strongly encourage Previews by appointment: Los Angeles [email protected]. Please note we contactless payment of invoices Monday, December 7, Dr. Catherine Williamson cannot guarantee bids within 24 prior to collection via wire transfer 10am - 5pm Vice President, Director hours of the sale. or credit card through your Tuesday, December 8, +1 (323) 436 5442 MyBonhams account. In-person or [email protected] 10am - 5pm Lots marked “W” are oversized third-party collections from our Wednesday, December 9, and therefore your purchases may galleries are scheduled in advance San Francisco 10am - 5pm be subject to alternative shipping with our Client Services team. Adam Stackhouse Thursday, December 10, and storage methods. For further Senior Specialist 10am - 5pm information, please refer to the +1 (415) 503 3266 Oversized Lots page. [email protected] Bonhams © 2020 Bonhams & Butterfields Auctioneers Corp. All rights reserved. Director’s Foreword We are finally closing out the longest and strangest year ever. Our Literature to 1900 section opens with four Mark Twain items, Goodbye, 2020, don’t ever show your face around here again. The including a signed and annotated book on aphorisms and an strange upside of a global pandemic, however, is the comfort our annotated copy of Mary Baker Eddy’s Church Manual which Clemens love of books provides us. Whether we are reading or collecting, borrowed and marked up while writing his scathing book on the the beauty and durability of the printed word has been a constant in controversial religious leader. We have fine examples of Shakespeare uncertain times. first quartos of Julius Caesar and Titus Andronicus and a handsome signed photograph and a fine content letter of Walt Whitman. It is appropriate, then, to start our sale with early printed books and illuminated manuscripts, including seven wonderful examples from Following our literature section is a section of property from the estate the estate of Richard I. Johnson. We sold a great deal of Johnson’s of American philanthropist Clara Barton, which you can read more conchology library in October in our Americana, Natural History and about on p 62. It feels on brand to include this property in a 2020 Travel sale, but saved these pieces for December where they kick sale, as Barton knew her way around a global pandemic. You will be off a strong section of manuscripts and incunables. The star lot is inspired (and maybe intimidated) by the incredible things she was able the colored copy of Schedel’s Nuremberg Chronicle in the original to accomplish in her life as a teacher, bureaucrat, suffragist, and the binding, but Johnson’s illuminated manuscripts are impressive as founder and first president of the American Association of the Red well, including the Dutch Book of Hours, use of Geert Grote among Cross. others. The Johnson lots are followed by another 30 or so items from various owners, including the Bergendahl copy of a 12th-century Our Twentieth Century section offers selections from modern and manuscript of Augustine’s Confessiones. All-in-all a strong section of contemporary artists like Peter Beard, William Copley, Joan Mitchell early material. and Andy Warhol; and modern literature from Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and John Steinbeck. We’re especially We follow early printing with Natural History, Travel and Medicine lots proud of the Malcolm X manuscripts present here, including his (ones that arrived too late for October) and Illustration, Architecture “Letter from Mecca” during his transformative 1964 trip to Saudi and Fine Printing. High points of this section include the De Bry Nova Arabia describing his new clarity on the problems of race in America, Alphati Effictio…., an important Renaissance alphabet book, two rare as well as a rare signed copy of South Africa’s 1955 “Freedom Derrydale Press imprints, and Stephen Gooden’s illustrated edition of Charter.” Aesop on vellum, plus examples from Dard Hunter, Kay Nielson and Piranesi. The sale closes with a wonderful collection of Dickensiana from collector Martin Nason (read more about him and his collection on p 90). Dickens was someone who knew grief and despair but never lost sight of hope. He seems like the right subject to close out 2020. God bless us, every one! Catherine Williamson, Ph.D. Director, Fine Books & Manuscripts Order of sale Session I Lots 1 - 34 Early Printed Books and Illuminated Manuscripts Lots 35 - 44 Natural History, Travel and Medicine Lots 45 - 86 Illustration, Architecture and Fine Press Books Lots 87 - 117 Literature and History to 1900 Lots 118 - 138 The Estate of Clara Barton Lots 139 - 177 The Twentieth Century Session II Lots 200 - 298 The Martin Nason Collection of Dickensiana Session I: Fine Books and Manuscripts Lots 1-177 3 1 4 | BONHAMS EARLY PRINTED BOOKS AND ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS: PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF RICHARD I. JOHNSON 1 BOOK OF HOURS IN DUTCH, USE OF GEERT GROTE. Manuscript on vellum, illuminated by the Workshop of the Masters of ff. 128r-147v: Hours of the Cross, with prayer to Christ (ff. 128r-129v), Zweder van Culemborg Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1430 Matins (ff. 130r-132v), Prime (ff. 133r-134r), Terce (ff. 135r-136v), Sext 135 x 102 mm. iii (paper) + 180 vellum + iii (paper) leaves. Collation (ff. 137r-139r), None, begins incompletely (ff. 140r-143v, lacks a leaf not determined because of tight binding. Modern foliation in pencil in before f. 140), Vespers (ff. 144r-144v), Compline (ff. 146r-147v). lower right corner of every tenth leaf. 16 long lines, written in brown ff. 149r-180v: Miscellaneous prayers. ink in gothic textura script between two verticals and seventeen horizontal lines ruled in red; written space 80 x 55 mm. One-line initials Illumination: in gold flourished alternately in red and violet; two-line initials in gold Annunciation (f. 13r), Nativity (f. 26v), Visitation (f. 38r), Nativity (f. on red and blue grounds with infilling of white tracery accompanied 42v), Annunciation to the Shepherds (f. 46v), Flight into Egypt (f. 54r), by bar borders in gold, red, and blue in left margins; 29 six- to nine- Presentation in the Temple (f. 62r); St. George (f. 68r), St. Lawrence (f. line historiated initials in red or blue on burnished gold grounds 73v), St. Mary Magdalene (f. 83r), St. Katherine (f. 85r), St. John the accompanied by full bar borders in gold, red, and blue; all bar borders Evangelist (f. 88r), St. Barbara (f. 92v); Christ Holding the Orb (f. 97r), accompanied by marginal sprays of small trefoil leaves in gold. Many St. Peter (f. 98r), St. Apollonia (f. 111r), Unidentified male saint (f. 113v), leaves darkened apparently from handling and use, some historiated Unidentified male saint (f. 116r), Unidentified male saint (f. 118v), St. initials slightly abraded, lacking an undetermined number of leaves. Agnes (f. 121r), St. Margaret (f. 124v); Agony in the Garden (f. 128r), 19th century stained vellum gilt. Mocking of Christ (f. 130r), Christ before Pilate (f. 133r), Imposing the Provenance: S. L. Broadbent, signature on flyleaf, initials on f. 1r. Crown of Thorns (f 135r), Preparing the cross (f. 137r), Lamentation (f. 144r), Pentecost (f. 146r); Content: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar for Utrecht, including in red, Pancratius (May 12), The Netherlands were the one area of Europe where the Book Servatius (May 13), Boniface (June 4), Odulf of Utrecht (June 11), of Hours, a late medieval best seller, was routinely coped in the Lebuin (June 24), Martin (July 4), Lambert of Maastricht (September vernacular language, in this case in the Dutch translation made by 17), Willibrord of Utrecht (November 7).