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Fine Books, Manuscripts, Atlases & Historical Photographs Fine Books, Manuscripts, Atlases & Historical Photographs Historical & Atlases Manuscripts, Fine Books, I Montpelier Street, London I 26 June 2019 I Montpelier Street, 25355 Fine Books, Manuscripts, Atlases & Historical Photographs Montpelier Street, London I 26 June 2019 Fine Books, Manuscripts, Atlases & Historical Photographs Montpelier Street, London | Wednesday 26 June 2019, at 1pm BONHAMS ENQUIRIES Please see page 2 for bidder REGISTRATION Montpelier Street Matthew Haley information including after-sale IMPORTANT NOTICE Knightsbridge Simon Roberts collection and shipment. Please note that all customers, London SW7 1HH Luke Batterham irrespective of any previous activity www.bonhams.com Sarah Lindberg Please see back of catalogue with Bonhams, are required to +44 (0) 20 7393 3828 for important notice to bidders complete the Bidder Registration VIEWING +44 (0) 20 7393 3831 Form in advance of the sale. The ILLUSTRATIONS Sunday 23 June form can be found at the back of 11am to 3pm Shipping and Collections Front cover: 179 every catalogue and on our Monday 24 June Joel Chandler Back cover: 4 website at www.bonhams.com 9am to 4.30pm +44 (0)20 7393 3841 Contents page: 124 and should be returned by email or Tuesday 25 June [email protected] post to the specialist department 9am to 4.30pm or to the bids department at Wednesday 26 June PRESS ENQUIRIES [email protected] 9am to 11am [email protected] To bid live online and / or leave internet bids please go to BIDS CUSTOMER SERVICES www.bonhams.com/auctions/25355 +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Monday to Friday and click on the Register to bid link +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax 8.30am to 6pm at the top left of the page. [email protected] +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 To bid via the internet please visit www.bonhams.com LIVE ONLINE BIDDING IS AVAILABLE FOR THIS SALE New bidders must also provide Please email [email protected] proof of identity when submitting with “Live bidding” in the subject bids. Failure to do this may result line up to 48 hours before the in your bids not being processed. auction to register for this service. Please note that bids should be submitted no later than 4pm on the day prior to the auction. Bidding by telephone will only be accepted on a lot with a lower estimate of or in excess of £500. SALE NUMBER: 25355 CATALOGUE: £18 Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams International Board Registered No. 4326560 Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Matthew Girling CEO, Asaph Hyman, Caroline Oliphant, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Edward Wilkinson, Geoffrey Davies, James Knight, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Jon Baddeley, Jonathan Fairhurst, Leslie Wright, Rupert Banner, Simon Cottle. 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 Hammer Price or 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: defects stated in the catalogue or announced at the time of sale; un-named items, blanks, half-titles, or advertisements; damage to bindings, stains, tears, foxing or other cosmetic defects, unless resulting in loss to text or illustration; defects to atlases, manuscripts, music, periodicals, and items sold as collections, archives, association copies, extra-illustrated copies, or bindings. Items indicated in the catalogue as “framed” have not been examined out-of-frame, unless specifically stated. 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 without charge for a period of 21 days. Any items not collected by then may incur storage charges. Buyers are encouraged to make contact with the Book Department to discuss any collection, storage or shipping concerns. Joel Chandler +44 (0)20 7393 3841 [email protected] Contents LOTS General Printed Books and Manuscripts 1 – 29 Atlases and Maps 30 – 52 Travel 53 – 96 Natural History 97 – 105 Hebraica 106 – 115 Continental Books 116 – 131 Charles Cotton and his Library 132 – 138 The Property of Dr Paul Hartle English Literature and History 139 – 175 Art and Literature 176 – 195 The Property of a Lady Modern Literature, History and Illustrated Books 196 – 257 Including the Papers of Field Marshall William Riddell Birdwood, and John Lennon manuscripts from the Collection of Tom Maschler 3 1 2 For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 4 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. FINE BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, ATLASES & HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS Wednesday 26 June 2019, at 1pm 1 • 4 • ARCHIMEDES BANKING AND GOVERNMENT – EDWARD BACKWELL Opera. Apollonii Pergaei conicorum libri IIII. Theodosii Sphaerica: Banking ledger kept in person by Edward Backwell, containing well methodo novo illustrata... per Is. Barrow, 29 folding engraved over six hundred original acquittances for payments received, over diagrams, without blanks, or the leaf with glossary of mathematical forty of which are signed by him (“per me Edward Backwell”), kept in symbols before A3, plates lightly browned, one taped at fold, another one volume and two loose gatherings, the principal volume inscribed with small loss owing to paper flaw, contemporary calf, skilfully on the upper cover in a contemporary hand “Acquittance Booke rebacked preserving original spine [ESTC R6704; Babson 249], 4to, from the xviiith of August 1660. to xxvth of December following W. Godbid for R. Scott, 1675 [paraph]/ From xxvi December 1660 to the xxiiith of February next In the [?] Paper [i.e. unbound] bookes” [contractions expanded]; £1,000 - 1,500 the two unbound gatherings both inscribed in contemporary €1,100 - 1,700 hands respectively on the upper wrapper “Arrears./ Acquittances determining the 23th of February 1660” and “Kings Accompt/ Acquittances determining the 23th of February 1660”, c.100 pages, Includes Barrow’s Lectiones opticae, which were revised and some usual dust-staining and other signs of use, some later leaves corrected by Newton; “these lectures, in Latin, form [Barrow’s] most roughly torn out and two now loose, original white ruled vellum, important book, in which some of his remarkable optical discoveries narrow folio (c.480 x 180mm.), Excise Office, London, 18 August are published for the first time and which undoubtedly influenced 1660 to 16 March 1661 (for a full description, see Appendix below) Newton” (Babson). Provenance £100,000 - 150,000 I. Lecourt, ownership inscription on title. €110,000 - 170,000 2 ʻ4800 PAYABLE TO MEE PER ORDER OF THE COMMONS HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT’ – THE NEWLY-DISCOVERED LEDGER OF A BANK AUCTIONEERING ESTABLISHED OVER THREE DECADES BEFORE THE BANK OF DIGHTON (ROBERT) ‘The Specious Orator’ [James Christie], 25 ENGLAND, WHICH ACTED AS PAYMASTER TO BOTH THE EXCISE March 1794; ‘A View Near Hyde Park Corner’ [Edmund Tattersall], AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, kept in person by Edward Backwell February 1802, etchings, R. Dighton--PUGIN (AUGUSTUS) after who is widely regarded as the founder of the modern banking system. THOMAS ROWLANDSON. ‘Christie’s Auction Room’, aquatint, The historian of banking, R.D. Richards, describes his business as R. Ackermann, 1 February 1808--BOILLY (LOUIS LEOPOLD) ‘Les ‘undoubtedly both the central or reserve bank and the clearing house Antiquaires’, lithograph, tipped to mount, inscribed on mount from of the post-Restoration period. It was the indispensable precursor of David MacWilliams and John Hall to the “Directors and Superb the Bank of England, a precursor which was of paramount importance Staff of Christie’s South Kensington - a token to celebrate your 4th in this outstanding era of English economic expansion’ (The Early season”, [Paris], Delpech, [1823], all hand-coloured--MCARDELL History of Banking in England, vol.30, 1929, 2012 reprint, p.30). It is (JAMES) David Garrick as the Auctioneer ‘Peter Puff’, mezzotint, R. not for nothing that Thomas Speed, listed in these accounts as Sayer, 1769, various sizes; and 4 others including 2 by Arthur Henry Backwell’s “Cashier Generall”, went on to become Chief Cashier at the Knighton-Hammond, framed (9) Bank of England and the first man authorised to issue what are now known as bank notes. Furthermore, our ledger was kept under £500 - 700 Backwell’s direct personal supervision, having been signed by him in €570 - 800 many places (“Per me Edward Backwell”), and bearing annotations by him as to what entry should go where (see below). AUCTIONEERING PRINTS: the Collection of the late W.F. “Bill” Brooks (1924-2010). An RAF pilot who served in the Second World Nine of Backwell’s customer ledgers were known hitherto, all later than War, Bill Brooks began his auction career at Druce in 1947. He went ours and kept in a scribal hand throughout. They were recently on to work in these rooms, served as managing director of what inscribed on the UNESCO ‘Memory of the World’ Register, as one of became Debenham Coe, and in 1975 founded Christie’s South twenty manuscripts or archives selected for the second year of the Kensington, which he ran for around a decade.
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