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BOOKS, MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS Tuesday 24 March 2015 Oxford BOOKS, MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS | Oxford | Tuesday 24 March 2015 24 March | Tuesday | Oxford 22673 BOOKS, MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS Tuesday 24 March 2015 at 11.00 Oxford BONHAMS Live online bidding is customER SErvicES important INFormation Banbury Road available for this sale Monday to Friday 8.30 to 18.00 The United States Shipton on Cherwell Please email bids@bonhams. +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Government has banned the Kidlington com with ‘live bidding’ in the import of ivory into the USA. Oxford OX5 1JH subject line 48 hours before the Please see page 2 for bidder Lots containing ivory are www.bonhams.com auction to register for this information including after-sale indicated by the symbol Ф service collection and shipment printed beside the lot number VIEWinG in this catalogue. 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We for shipping. catalogue. expect that there may be a large number of condition enquiries, and the effect will be If you wish to arrange shipping, Please note that lots comprising printed that clients submitting long and elaborate please contact Sian Wainwright books, unframed maps and bound requests are likely to be dealt with after ([email protected]) manuscripts are not liable to VAT on the those with short and specific requests. For Buyer’s Premium. these sales we will not be able to provide a Saleroom list of undescribed items (e.g. “and 10 Banbury Road Lots are sold with all faults, imperfections others”), but we will be happy to assist with Shipton on Cherwell and errors of description, but if on collation requests along the lines of “does this lot Kidlington any described printed book in this catalogue contain this title by that author”. Similarly, Oxford OX5 1JH is found to lack text or illustrations, the same clients requesting digital images are asked +44 (0) 1865 853 640 may be returned to Bonhams within 20 days to keep the number to an absolute minimum +44 (0) 1865 372 722 (fax) of the sale; the unstated defect to be in order that we can process their requests. www.bonhams.com/books 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, periodicals, printed music and items sold as collections, association copies, extra-illustrated or as bindings, are sold not subject to return. CONTENTS Tuesday 24 March 2015 at 11.00 Lots General Printed Books 1-63 Art and Architecture 64-81 Continental Printed Books 82-103 The property of Jacob Peter Mayer (1903-1979), sold by order of the Executors of the late Mrs. Mayer 104-125 Maps and Atlases 126-143 Curiosity Maps 144-151 Travel 152-311 British Topography 312-327 Natural History 328-357 From the Library of the late Dr. Frances Jarrett, Head of the Fern Section at Kew, 1962-1983 358-360 Science and Medicine 361-370 English Literature 371-416 Modern Literature, Children’s and Illustrated 417-480 2 3 1 9 4 | BONHAMS BOOKS, MAPS & MANUSCRIPTS 4• BARBA (Alvaro ALONSO) TUESDAY 24 MARCH 2015 at 11.00 The Second Book of the Art of Mettals, wherein is Taught the Common Way of Refining Silver by Quicksilver, second edition, engraved plate, Please note that this sale is subject to the Conditions of Sale and modern quarter calf [Wing B682], Samuel Mearne, 1674--SWEERTIUS other Notices at the beginning and end of this catalogue, and any (F.) Epitaphia ioco-seria, Latina, Gallica, Italica, Hispanica, Lusitanica, saleroom notices that may be posted. Your attention is drawn to Belgica, woodcut device in title, modern boards, Koln, B. Gualtherius, the notices at the beginning of the catalogue regarding the removal 1623--GOUFFÉ (JULES) The Royal Cookery Book, half-title, modern of purchases. quarter calf, Sampson, Low, 1869--FRANCATELLI (CHARLES ELMÉ) The Royal Confectioner, fifth edition, publisher’s pictorial cloth gilt, Chapman and Hall, 1887--APPERLEY (CHARLES JAMES, “Nimrod”) GENERAL PRINTED BOOKS Memoirs of The Life of the late John Mytton Esq., second edition, additional engraved title, 18 hand-coloured engraved plates, publisher’s 1• pictorial cloth gilt, g.e., upper cover detached, R. Ackermann, AERONAUTICA 1837--BORMANN (CHARLES) The Shrapnel Shell in England and BRUEL (FRANCOIS-LOUIS) Histoire aéronautique, par les monuments, in Belgium, ink stamps, publisher’s cloth, Brussels, 1859, plates, peints, sculptés, dessinés et gravés, des origines a 1830, NUMBER illustrations, 8vo; and 19 others (25) 71 OF 325 COPIES, half-title, 200 tipped-in plates (many colour), £300 - 500 contemporary red half morocco gilt by Bumpus, t.e.g, folio (352 x 270mm.), André Marty Editeur, Paris, 1909 5• £600 - 800 BIBLIOGRAPHY [BARROIS (J.)] Bibliotheque protypographique, ou Libraries des 2• Fils du Roi Jean, plates, contemporary russia, rather worn, Paris, ANGLING 1830--GOODWIN (G.) A Catalogue of the Harsnett Library at Colchester, KELSON (GEORGE M.) The Salmon Fly: How to Dress It and How to tinted frontispiece, publisher’s cloth, Not published, 1888--SMITH (J.J.) Use It, FIRST EDITION, portrait frontispiece, 8 chromolithographed American historical and literary Curiosities... fifth edition, plates, cloth, plates, illustrations, publisher’s maroon pictorial cloth gilt, later morocco New York, 1852, 4to and folio; and upwards of 25 others, similar (small spine, t.e.g., slightly rubbed, 4to, By the Author, 1895 quantity) £200 - 300 £300 - 400 3 6• ARCHAEOLOGY BIBLIOGRAPHY BROOKE (WILLIAM HENRY) ‘Site of the Barrow where upwards of 100 CAVE (R.) Typographia naturalis, ONE OF 330 COPIES, plates, including roman urns were found - swords/ small Helmet, Bit of Bridle, Horses two original nature printed plates, original quarter leather, bit worn, Bones &c. in a field on the estate of Broome Hall near Eye, Suffolk, slipcase, Brewhouse, Wymondham, 1967--SIMON (A.L.) Bibliotheca seat of Marquia Cornwallis’; ‘Fragments of Roman Urns discovered on gastronomica, proof copy, wrappers, interleaved, 1953--BUCOP The the estate of Marquis Cornwallis near Eye, Suffolk’; ‘Roman Urn about British Union Catalogue of Periodicals, 4 vol., cloth, rubbed, 1955-58 8 inches in diameter discovered with about 100 others in a field near (34) Broom Hall, Suffolk, Marquis Cornwallis/ Mr. Grimes, Gamekeeper’; £300 - 400 untitled image of 2 urns with their dimensions inscribed, 4 drawings in pen, ink and washes, uniformly mounted on paper, images 130 x 7• 190mm., Abbey Farm [Eye Cemetery], 21 October, 1818 (4) BIBLIOGRAPHY £700 - 900 JENKINSON (HILARY) The later Court Hands in England, 2 vol., cloth and half cloth, in original slipcase, worn, Cambridge, 1927--LEROQUAIS Brooke’s drawings of the unearthing of the sixth-century Anglo-Saxon (V.) Supplement aux Livres d’Heures manuscrits, wrappers, worn, (not Roman) cemetery on the estate of Broome Hall near Eye, Suffolk, Macon, 1943--GREENE (BELLE DA COSTA) Exhibition of Illuminated are significant from an archaeological point of view since, before their Manuscripts, boards, New York, PML, 1933, plates, folio; and others, discovery, little was known about the Eye dig itself: they confirm its exact similar (23) location, reveal the placement of mounds or barrows (previously not fully £300 - 400 understood) and indicate the depth of the dig itself.
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    The Declaration of Arbroath, 6 April 1320 National Records of Scotland, SP13/7 Detail of the Declaration of Arbroath showing seals, 6 April 1320 National Records of Scotland, SP13/7 Facsimile engraving of the Declaration by W & D Lizars, engraved around 1815, published in Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland vol 1 (1844), p.474 The Declaration of Arbroath 1320 — English Translation To the most Holy Father and Lord in Christ, the Lord John, by divine providence Supreme Pontiff of the Holy Roman and Universal Church, his humble and devout sons Duncan, Earl of Fife, Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, Lord of Man and of Annandale, Patrick Dunbar, Earl of March, Malise, Earl of Strathearn, Malcolm, Earl of Lennox, William, Earl of Ross, Magnus, Earl of Caithness and Orkney, and William, Earl of Sutherland; Walter, Steward of Scotland, William Soules, Butler of Scotland, James, Lord of Douglas, Roger Mowbray, David, Lord of Brechin, David Graham, Ingram Umfraville, John Menteith, guardian of the earldom of Menteith, Alexander Fraser, Gilbert Hay, Constable of Scotland, Robert Keith, Marischal of Scotland, Henry St Clair, John Graham, David Lindsay, William Oliphant, Patrick Graham, John Fenton, William Abernethy, David Wemyss, William Mushet, Fergus of Ardrossan, Eustace Maxwell, William Ramsay, William Mowat, Alan Murray, Donald Campbell, John Cameron, Reginald Cheyne, Alexander Seton, Andrew Leslie, and Alexander Straiton, and the other barons and freeholders and the whole community of the realm of Scotland send all manner of filial reverence, with devout kisses of his blessed feet. Most Holy Father and Lord, we know and from the chronicles and books of the ancients we find that among other famous nations our own, the Scots, has been graced with widespread renown.