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FINE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS Wednesday 24 June 2015 Knightsbridge, London 281 199 114 FINE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS Wednesday 24 June 2015 at 11.00 and 14.00 Knightsbridge, London BONHAMS ENQUIRIES Please see page 2 for bidder Montpelier Street Matthew Haley information including after-sale Knightsbridge Simon Roberts collection and shipment. London SW7 1HH Luke Batterham www.bonhams.com Sarah Lindberg Please see back of catalogue Jennifer Ebrey for important notice to bidders VIEWING +44 (0) 20 7393 3828 Friday 19 June +44 (0) 20 7393 3831 Illustrations 09.00 – 16.30 Front cover: Lot 136 Sunday 21 June Consultant Back cover: Lot 202 11.00 – 15.00 John Collins Contents page: Lot 182 Monday 22 June +44 (0) 20 7393 3841 Divider: Lot 179 09.00 – 16.30 Tuesday 23 June Shipping and Collections 09.00 – 16.30 Leor Cohen +44 (0) 20 7393 3841 BIDS +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 [email protected] +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax To bid via the internet PRESS ENQUIRIES please visit www.bonhams.com [email protected] New bidders must also provide CUSTOMER Services proof of identity when submitting Monday to Friday 08.30 – 18.00 bids. Failure to do this may result +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 in your bids not being processed. SALE NUMBER: Please note that bids should be 22714 submitted no later than 4pm on the day prior to the auction. CataloGUE: £18 Bidding by telephone will only be accepted on a lot with a lower estimate of or in excess of £500. LIVE ONLINE BIDDING IS available FOR THIS SALE Please email [email protected] with “Live bidding” in the subject line up to 48 hours before the auction to register for this service. Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Co-Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Jonathan Baddeley, Andrew McKenzie, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Antony Bennett, Matthew Bradbury, Mike Neill, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Lucinda Bredin, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Peter Rees, Iain Rushbrook, John Sandon, Matthew Girling Global CEO, Andrew Currie, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, Tim Schofield, Veronique Scorer, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Global CEO, Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Grant, James Stratton, Roger Tappin, Ralph Taylor, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Geoffrey Davies, Jonathan Horwich, Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, Asaph Hyman, Shahin Virani, David Williams, James Knight, Caroline Oliphant, Charles Lanning, Sophie Law, Fergus Lyons, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Hugh Watchorn. Gordon McFarlan, SALE Information Important NOTICES For explanation of any asterisked symbols that may appear in catalogues, please see the notice entitled ‘VAT’ at the end of the catalogue. Lots comprising printed books, unframed maps and bound manuscripts are not liable to VAT on the Buyer’s Premium. Lots are sold with all faults, imperfections and errors of description, but if on collation any described printed book in this catalogue is found to lack text or illustrations, the same may be returned to Bonhams within 20 days of the sale; the unstated defect to be detailed in writing. This shall not apply in the case of un-named items, blanks, half-titles or advertisements, nor to damage to bindings, stains, tears or other defects unless these result in loss to text or illustration. Atlases, maps and prints are sold not subject to return, as are periodicals and items sold as collections, association and extra- illustrated copies, or as bindings. EXPORT LICENCES Most manuscripts over fifty years old, and certain other lots, will require export licences in order to leave the UK or Europe. We can apply for these on your behalf. Please contact the department if you would like further guidance. SHIPPING, COLLECTION AND STORAGE Buyers’ accounts are due for settlement at the end of each sale and it is our hope that clients will collect at the same time or certainly within 48 hours of the sale finishing. All sold lots will remain in Bonhams Knightsbridge Book Department for a period of 21 days. Any items not collected by then may be removed to our warehouse at Park Royal where storage charges will apply at the rate of £2 per day per lot, attracting a removal charge estimated at £5 + VAT. Buyers are encouraged to make contact with the Book Department’s Stock Manager, Leor Cohen to discuss any collection, storage or shipping concerns. Leor Cohen Tel: +44 (0)20 7393 3841 [email protected] CONTENTS LOTS First Session, commencing at 11am General Printed Books and Manuscripts 1 – 50 Royalty 51 – 73 Naval and Military 74 – 94 Italy 95 – 115 General Travel, Maps and Atlases 116 – 140 Natural History 141 – 156 Science and Medicine 157 – 176 Second Session, commencing at 2pm Modern Literature and Illustrated 177 – 342 The Remaining Papers of Lytton Strachey 177 – 185 Sold by order of the Strachey Trust The Library of a Deceased Irish Collector 186 – 238 Books and Letters from the Library of Anthony Powell 299 – 342 1 3 4 | BONHAMS FINE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS First Session Wednesday 24 June 2015 at 11.00 Please note that this sale is subject to the Conditions of Sale and other Notices at the beginning and end of this catalogue, and any saleroom notices that may be posted. Your attention is drawn to the notices at the beginning of the catalogue regarding the removal of purchases. 1 • ACKERMANN (RUDOLPH) The Microcosm of London, 3 vol., wood-engraved pictorial titles, engraved dedication leaves with vignettes, 104 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Rowlandson and Pugin, offsetting from plates on to text (some heavy), blooming to approximately 10 plates (one heavy), contemporary calf gilt, one cover detached, joints weakened, small loss to one spine [Abbey Scenery 212; Adams 99; Tooley 7], 4to (330 x 280mm.), [1808- 1810] £1,500 - 2,500 €2,100 - 3,500 Provenance Earl of Cromer (1912), bookplate. 2 AMERICAN IMMIGRATION AND REVOLUTION Autograph letter signed by James Aitken, an immigrant from Scotland newly arrived at Wilmington, North Carolina, to his parents in Scotland, describing his life and prospects, and the new country in which he finds himself (“...This Town where I settle is but in its infancy but situate along side of a fine River navigable for small Craft and is expected to be place of considerable trade in a short time, we have no manses or glebes as at home so that it will be very hard for me this year haveing a house to build & furnish a plantation and negroes to buy or hire but I hope in a short time to have sufficient competency for my support...”); he also sends home news of unrest in Boston (“...if these unhappy differences were once settled ‘twixt Britain and the Colonies we’ll live very happily the inhabitants are once a week under arms and have learned the military Exercise equally well with any of his majesty’s at home and several skirmishes has been at Boston all america are ready to appear under arms for the defence of there rights and libertys in opposition to the proceedings of the Parliament of Britain...”); with autograph address panel (“To/ Mr John Aitken of Rashiehill/ Denny/ To the Care of Mr Jas: Adam Baker on Falkirk/ by Glasgow/ Nth Britain”), 3 pages, seal, some dust-staining, especially where folded for filing and exposed, minor wear at folds, passe-partout frame (unexamined out of frame), folio, Wilmington, 5 January 1775 £600 - 800 €830 - 1,100 ‘THE DEFENCE OF THERE RIGHTS AND LIBERTYS IN OPPOSITION TO THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE PARLIAMENT OF BRITAIN’ – a young immigrant writes home at the beginning of the War of Independence. The author of this letter was a Presbyterian minister and school teacher who had settled in North Carolina; the Siege of Boston, to which he refers, having begun on 19 April. A copy of this letter is deposited at the London School of Economics, British Library of Political and Economic Science, Emigrants’ Letters, PA11273 (where the address is incorrectly given as Wilmington, Delaware). Included in the lot is a Disposition and Assignation made by Aitken’s father in favour of his son in 1793 (PA11274). FINE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS | 5 3 • ANDRADE (MANOEL CARLOS DE) Luz da liberal, e Nobre Arte da Cavallaria, 2 parts in 1, FIRST EDITION, engraved vignette on title, engraved portrait of John VI of Portugal, 93 engraved plates (22 folding) by Frois, Martini, M. Alegre, Martini, L. F. Piedra and Silva, after Silva, 2 engraved head-piece vignettes, blank leaf ****2 and errata leaf at end, light spotting to portrait, contemporary calf, spine gilt with morocco lettering label “Arte da Cavallaria”, some scuffmarks and sprinkling of single wormholes at extremities of spine [Brunet I 1264; Huth p.56.], folio (315 x 210mm.), Lisbon, Regia Officina Typographica, 1790 £4,000 - 6,000 €5,600 - 8,300 First edition of a finely illustrated work on horsemanship, the plates depicting all aspects of dressage, from the training of the horse to the equipment. Provenance Francisco de Saldanha da Gama Ferrão de Castello Branco, bookplate; Lady Sylvia Loch, founder of The Classical Riding Club, and author of several works on dressage including Dressage. The Art of Classical Riding, 1990. See illustration on preceding page. 4 • BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, MATTHEW’S VERSION [The Byble, that is to saye, all the holye Scripture], 5 parts in 1, black letter, double column, New Testament and Apocrypha titles within wide historiated borders, lacks 31 leaves (7 preliminary leaves, including title; 6 of 8 leaves at opening of Genesis; 2 parts titles (Ai and V4); blank 2A1; final 15 leaves after 3R7), fol.