FINE BOOKS, ATLASES & MANUSCRIPTS Wednesday 16 March 2016 Knightsbridge, London FINE BOOKS, ATLASES & MANUSCRIPTS FINE BOOKS, ATLASES | Knightsbridge, London | Wednesday 16 March 2016 16 March | Knightsbridge, London Wednesday 23459 226 92 37 FINE BOOKS, ATLASES AND MANUSCRIPTS Wednesday 16 March 2016 at 1pm Knightsbridge, London BONHAMS ENQUIRIES Please see page 2 for bidder Montpelier Street Matthew Haley information including after-sale Knightsbridge Simon Roberts collection and shipment. 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SALE NUMBER: 23459 CATALOGUE: £18 Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Co-Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Gordon McFarlan, Andrew McKenzie, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Harvey Cammell Deputy Chairman, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Mike Neill, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Jonathan Baddeley, Antony Bennett, Matthew Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, Peter Rees, Matthew Girling CEO, Bradbury, Lucinda Bredin, Simon Cottle, Iain Rushbrook, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Group Vice Chairman, Andrew Currie, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, Veronique Scorer, James Stratton, Ralph Taylor, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Geoffrey Davies, James Knight, Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Leslie, Shahin Virani, David Williams, Caroline Oliphant. Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, Asaph Hyman, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. David Johnson, Charles Lanning, 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’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 The Collection of the late Denis Collins 1 – 111 General Printed Books and Manuscripts 112 – 187 English Civil War and Royalty: Collection of the late Donald John Morgan 188 – 218 Atlases and Maps 219 – 228 Travel and Topography 229 – 272 Continental Books and Manuscripts 273 – 286 Natural History 287 – 302 DENIS COLLINS (1948-2015) Denis Collins was well-known as a collector of illustrated books, artist’s books and fine bindings. He began with English colour-plate books, Thomas Rowlandson in particular, and then moved onto 20th century illustrators such as Dulac, Rackham, Nielsen, Harry Clarke and Heath Robinson, but reserved his greatest admiration for the French artists who used the pochoir process, and whose books “reached a degree of perfection – above all in the work of George Barbier – which has never been surpassed”. In the 1980s the revival in the fine press movement ignited his interest in this area, and Denis became a long- lasting patron of Susan Allix, who was commissioned to produce over a dozen ‘designer bindings’ for him, whilst also publishing a series of “artist’s books of a brilliance and originality that is entirely their own”. Denis also commissioned bindings from the likes of James Brockman, Mark Cockram, Derek Hood, Sangorski & Sutcliffe, Bayntun Riviere, the Chelsea Bindery and the Cottage Bindery. “As for any deeper wellsprings that may underlie my collecting activities, I would comment only that, for me, owning rare and valuable books just makes life more enjoyable than it would be otherwise. What more need one say?” (quotes taken from Denis Collins’s eponymous article in A Modest Collection. Private Libraries Association 1956-2006, 2007). 1 2 3 4 4 | BONHAMS FINE BOOKS, ATLASES & MANUSCRIPTS Wednesday 16 March 2015 at 1pm The Collection of the late Denis Collins SUSAN ALLIX: ARTIST’S BOOKS 1 • AR ALLIX (SUSAN) A Flora. Words about Flowers from Sixteen Authors, ARTIST’S PROOF COPY, FROM AN EDITION OF 26 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, illustrated throughout with elaborate hand-finished etchings, original watercolours, and hand-made paper, some with flower specimens woven in by Susan Allix, original purple goatskin by Susan Allix, with dark blue, dark violet and light grey goatskin onlays forming a flower shape, cut away at centre to reveal a painting of a poppy, grey veneer effect doublures, housed in felt-lined black cloth folding box, leather title labels on front and spine, folio (330 x 255mm.), Susan Allix, 1992 £800 - 1,200 €1,100 - 1,600 Provenance “For Denis/ Better late than never!/ Warmest regards/ Susan/ 23 January 2003”, inscription on fly-leaf. 2 • AR ALLIX (SUSAN) Blitz. Letters from London. Written by Evelyn Lister to her Sister Mildred, September & October 1940. Printed with aquatints & photographs, NUMBER 3 OF 15 COPIES, illustrated with 5 photographs, 7 aquatints printed in black and brown with hand-coloring (from drawings made at demolition sites and in the underground), 2 linocuts and 4 facsimile extracts of the letters, original black goatskin and textured paper by Susan Allix, upper cover with onlaid paper, goatskin and metallic decoration, painted endpapers, prospectus loosely inserted, housed in grey cloth folding box, 4to (320 x 270mm.), Susan Allix, 2014 £700 - 900 €920 - 1,200 “In the summer of 2013 I was given a small collection of letters. The owner Mildred or ‘Billie’ as she was known, had recently died... they were written to her by her sister Evelyn, a young woman in her twenties working in Central London... [Evelyn] tells of the devastation to the city, the personal fear and the spirit of the people in difficulties around her as she survives in the centre of the nightly raids... As it will never be possible to have this same experience, designing the book seemed sometimes similar to creating an historical novel... Certain pages are smoked and burnt. This was done after the printing and owing to the unpredictable nature of the process each copy is different. The smoke trails were made over a candle and the edge burning done with a Dunhill lighter (brought back into use because it doesn’t over-heat) setting alight a small line at a time then extinguishing the flame” (Prospectus). 3 • AR ALLIX (SUSAN) Colours of Persia. Perceptions Accounts Comments Remarks & Descriptions From the Travel Writings of Arrian. Ibn Battuta. Sir John Chardin. Sir Robert Ker Porter, and others, NUMBER 4 OF 25 COPIES, printed on hand-made paper, illustrated throughout with etched and linocut illustrations, cut-outs, decorative coloured papers etc., original blue and yellow goatskin by Susan Allix, covers with Persian-influenced designs of onlaid yellow and cream paper, housed in felt-lined chemise and blue cloth folding box, 4to (338 x 268mm.), Susan Allix, 2007 £1,000 - 1,500 €1,300 - 2,000 Provenance “For Denis, with warmest regards, Susan/ 24 June 2008”, inscription on front free endpaper. In the words of the author, the work was