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Fine Books, Manuscripts, Atlases & Historical Photographs Montpelier Street, London I 4 December 2019 Fine Books, Manuscripts, Atlases & Historical Photographs Montpelier Street, London | Wednesday 4 December 2019, at 11am 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 1 December [email protected] form can be found at the back of 11am to 3pm Front cover: Lot 145 every catalogue and on our Monday 2 December Shipping and Collections Back cover: Lot 347 website at www.bonhams.com 9am to 4.30pm Joel Chandler and should be returned by email or Tuesday 3 December +44 (0)20 7393 3841 post to the specialist department 9am to 4.30pm [email protected] or to the bids department at Wednesday 4 December [email protected] 9am to 11am PRESS ENQUIRIES To bid live online and / or [email protected] leave internet bids please go to BIDS www.bonhams.com/auctions/25356 +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 CUSTOMER SERVICES and click on the Register to bid link +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Monday to Friday at the top left of the page. [email protected] 8.30am to 6pm To bid via the internet +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 please visit www.bonhams.com LIVE ONLINE BIDDING IS New bidders must also provide AVAILABLE FOR THIS SALE proof of identity when submitting bids. Failure to do this may result Please email [email protected] in your bids not being processed. with “Live bidding” in the subject line up to 48 hours before the Please note that bids should be auction to register for this service. submitted no later than 4pm on the day prior to the auction. Please note that Bonhams will be closed from 5.30pm Bidding by telephone will only be Tuesday 24 December 2019 accepted on a lot with a lower until 9am Thursday 2 January estimate of or in excess of £500. 2020. SALE NUMBER: 25356 CATALOGUE: £18 Bonhams 1793 Limited Registered No. 4326560 Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax 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 – 42 Including Florence Nightingale (lots 29-35) Science, Medicine and Natural History 43 – 69 Travel 70 – 94 Atlases and Maps 95 – 111 Tunbridge Wells and Kent 112 – 120 Including the Collection of the Late John Symons Continental Books and Manuscripts 121 – 154 Including Greek Printing, the Property of a European Collector Gastronomy and Food 155 – 170 Including the Property of a Catalan Collector and Former Chef The Property of the Late Kenneth John Hewett 171 – 230 English Literature and History 231 – 279 Modern Art 280 – 309 Private Press 310 – 338 The Collection of the Late P.J.R. Catterall Bookbindings by Philip Smith 339 – 345 Modern Literature, Illustration and Children’s Books 346 – 393 4 2 3 4 | BONHAMS Fine Books, Manuscripts, Atlases & Historical Photographs Wednesday 4 December 2019, at 11am 1 • ALBUM – NELSON, NIGHTINGALE AND OWEN’S ORANGUTAN ‘ONE WHO LAID DOWN HIS LIFE IN THE DEFENSE OF THE Album containing a series of clipped signatures of RN captains, CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF HIS COUNTRY’ – Robert E. Lee including Horatio Nelson (with right hand), T.M. Hardy (with the makes a charitable contribution in aid of a confederate casualty. Master and crew members of the Victory, 1804), Collingwood, St The Little Gleaner was a 32-page periodical published by a Miss L. Vincent, Gambier and others; and letters etc. by Florence Nightingale Fauntleroy (a member of the distinguished Virginia family): ‘It was (autograph letter in pencil, to Major-General Frederic Brine: “I a monthly publication, devoted to general subjects, and intended shall prove my gratitude for your most kind promise – more than especially to interest and instruct the young folks. After two years’ kind – of ‘true agency’ -- -- by availing myself of it”, 6 November labor, toil and sacrifice, not meeting with the success she had hoped 1876), General Sir Ralph Abercromby (fine letter signed by, writing for, the proprietress discontinued its publication’ (Silvanus Jackson from Marmorice Bay while preparing for his successful attack on Quinn, The History of the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1908, p.151). Aboukir Bay, during which he was to be killed the following month, to Major Holloway RE, commanding the British Mission to the Grand 4 • Vizier, urging a Turkish advance into Egypt and complaining of the AMERICAN WAR OF 1812 – CHESAPEAKE AND SHANNON shambolic state of their army, 9 February 1801), Felicia Hemans (a Journal with a companion volume of watercolour illustrations, kept half page from the autograph manuscript of her play The Vespers of by Edward Pritchard, recording his service on board the Shannon Palermo, II 3, presented by her brother Sir Henry Browne), William in the Arctic and during the War of 1812, including her duel with the Thomson (Lord Kelvin), A.H. Layard, J.D. Hooker, Richard Owen Chesapeake in Boston Bay, comprising: (British Museum, 11 October 1863: “The absence of the nail on the thumb of the foot, though common, is not constant, in the female (i) “Memorandum kept by Edward Pritchard on Board HMS Orang-utan...”), George Everest, Thomas Woolner, and others, black Shannon”, with his ownership inscription “Edward Pritchard 1813”, morocco, stamped ‘Autographs’, worn, 4to the entries recording his service on the Shannon between 1805 and 1815, with a few earlier entries made while serving on other ships, £1,000 - 1,500 including the Ranger of Liverpool and the frigate Amelia (the volume €1,200 - 1,700 opening: “I Edward Pritchard Left Wrexham March the 18th 1804 and arrived in Liverpool the 22 of March and on the 28 of March I 2 shiped on board the Ranger ship for the coast of Africa at 5£ per AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - ULYSSES S. GRANT Month signed articles the 6th of April and on the 22 of April my wife Official portrait, signed below the image (“U.S. Grant”), steel- Left me”); his service on the Shannon beginning on 16 August 1806 engraved by the US Bureau of Engraving & Printing, showing him (“Drafted on board HMS Shannon then at the Nore”) and ending with as President in civilian clothes, head-and-shoulders within an two entries for 15 and 18 November 1813 (“Discharged from the oval, turned to his right, the Bureau’s imprint below, some paper Shannon and Went on Board the gladiator the same day/ Exicuted tears within the plate and an old ink-stain in the margin, some light at Spithead a man on [sic] the Name Warburton [Joseph Warton, spotting, traces of mounting verso, but nevertheless still an attractive deserter] taking on Board the Shannon from the Chesepeake”; image, 200 x 130mm., [c.1870] recording, inter alia, events depicted in watercolour in the companion volume (see below); the journal culminating with an account of the taking of the US Frigate Chesapeake by the Shannon on 1 June £1,000 - 1,500 1813 (“...June 1st Bay of Boston/ Wind west at Daylight... At 1 €1,200 - 1,700 tacked in for Boston the Chesapeake had made signal for sea tacked and stood out under easy sail – At 12 Discovered the Enemy under The Bureau of Printing and Engraving had been set up in 1861 to sail – hove to And Waited for her/ filled when the Enemy Approached enable the Union to raise money through the issue of banknotes – At 5-30 the Action commenced with a Dreadfull fire of round and during the Civil War, although it was not officially recognised under Grape on both sides for eight Minutes when our Brave Captain Brook that title until 1874; taking over the production of postage stamps followed by his officers & men Borded Mr Wats First Lieutenant fell in 1894.