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BOOKS, MAPS AND PHOTOGRAPHS Tuesday 25 November 2014 Oxford BOOKS, MAPS AND PHOTOGRAPHS | Oxford | Tuesday 25 November 2014 | Tuesday | Oxford 21832 BOOKS, MAPS AND PHOTOGRAPHS Tuesday 25 November 2014 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 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. Saturday 22 November 09.00 to Please note we only accept SHIPPING AND COLLECTIONS 12.00 telephone bids for lots with a Oxford Monday 24 November 09.00 to low estimate of £500 or Georgina Roberts 16.30 higher. Tuesday 25 November limited +44 (0) 1865 853 647 [email protected] viewing 09.00 to 10.30 EnQUIRIES Oxford BIDS London John Walwyn-Jones +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 Jennifer Ebrey Georgina Roberts +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax +44 (0) 20 7393 3841 Sian Wainwright To bid via the internet please [email protected] +44 (0) 1865 853 646 visit bonhams.com +44 (0) 1865 853 647 Please see back of catalogue +44 (0) 1865 853 648 Please note that bids should be for important notice to +44 (0) 1865 372 722 fax submitted no later than 24 hours bidders prior to the sale. London IllUstratIons Matthew Haley New bidders must also provide Front cover: Lots 311 Luke Batterham proof of identity when submitting Back cover: Lot 130 Simon Roberts bids. Failure to do this may Contents: Lot 35 +44 (0) 20 7393 3828 result in your bid not being +44 (0) 20 7393 3879 (fax) processed. SalE NUmbER [email protected] 21832 CatalogUE £18 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, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Andrew Currie, Peter Rees, Julian Roup, Iain Rushbrook, Matthew Girling Global CEO, David Dallas, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, John Sandon, 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. Paul Maudsley, Gordon McFarlan, SalE A4095 InFormatION Bicester Shipton on Cherwell Shipton Rd Banbury Rd A4095 Woodstock SALEROOM Oxford Rd A4260 Banbury Road Shipton on Cherwell Upper Campsfield Rd Kidlington Oxford and A40 Oxford OX5 1JH A44 Airfield +44 (0) 1865 853 640 +44 (0) 1865 372 722 (fax) Oxford www.bonhams.com/books Kidlington By Rail: Oxford train station Important Notice Condition Collection and Storage For explanation of any asterisked symbols We highly recommend that potential buyers All purchased lots will remain at the Oxford that may appear in catalogues, please see make efforts to inspect the books in Oxford sale room unless arrangements are made the notice entitled ‘VAT’ at the end of the in person, during our public viewing. 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 Georgina Roberts books, unframed maps and bound requests are likely to be dealt with after ([email protected]) in order manuscripts are not liable to VAT on the those with short and specific requests. For to get a quote with Pack and Send. Buyer’s Premium. these sales we will not be able to provide a list of undescribed items (e.g. “and 10 Saleroom Lots are sold with all faults, imperfections others”), but we will be happy to assist with Banbury Road and errors of description, but if on collation requests along the lines of “does this lot Shipton on Cherwell any described printed book in this catalogue contain this title by that author”. Similarly, Kidlington is found to lack text or illustrations, the same clients requesting digital images are asked Oxford OX5 1JH may be returned to Bonhams within 20 days to keep the number to an absolute minimum +44 (0) 1865 853 640 of the sale; the unstated defect to be in order that we can process their requests. +44 (0) 1865 372 722 (fax) detailed in writing. This shall not apply in the www.bonhams.com/books 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 25 November 2014 at 11.00 Lots General Printed Books 1-47 Art and Architecture 48-69 Continental Printed Books 70-88 British Topography 89-100 British Maps and Atlases 101-112 General Maps and Atlases 113-120 Travel 121-146 Natural History, Science and Medicine 147-179 English Literature 180-242 The Property of a Gentleman 243-260 Modern Literature, Children’s and Illustrated 261-325 1 2 4 | BONHAMS BOOKS, MAPS & PHOTOGRAPHS 3• BEES TUESDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2014 AT 11.00 WILDMAN (THOMAS) A Treatise on the Management of Bees...The Natural History of Wasps and Hornets, and the Means of Destroying Please note that this sale is subject to the Conditions of Sale and them, FIRST EDITION, 3 folding engraved plates, (tear to margin of other Notices at the beginning and end of this catalogue, and any plate one, long tear to plate 2), modern paper covered boards, 4to, saleroom notices that may be posted. Your attention is drawn to For the Author, 1768--HUBER (FRANCIS) New Observations on the the notices at the beginning of the catalogue regarding the removal Natural History of Bees, one folding engraved plate, later half calf, 12mo, of purchases. Edinburgh, John Anderson, 1806, bookplates of Arthur B. Duncan (2) £300 - 400 GENERAL PRINTED BOOKS 4• BINDINGS - AMERICA 1• [ENGEL (SAMUEL)] Essai sur cette question: Quand et comment ALBUM - SOUTH SEA BUBBLE, MILITARY AND CONTINENTAL l’Amérique a-t-elle été peuplée d’hommes et d’animaux?, 5 vol. in An album comprising approximately 90 seventeenth and eighteenth 4, titles printed in red and black, half-titles in volumes 1, 4 and 5, century mostly French or Dutch engraved prints (including 4 of South contemporary full red morocco gilt, sides with ornate borders repeated Sea Bubble interest; 18 military plans; satirical, and others), and ornament and flower motifs, flat spines with similar design, g.e. [Howes 4 original pen, ink and wash drawings of battle plans, tipped-in or E147; Sabin 22568], 8vo, Amsterdam, Marc Michel Rey, 1767 mounted between one and 3 per page (some folding, a few loose), £400 - 600 eighteenth century calf, very worn and scuffed, folio (510 x 390mm.), [seventeenth/eighteenth century], sold as a collection not subject to FINELY BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY RED MOROCCO GILT. “The return author declares the theories of Grotius, De Laet, Hornius and other £800 - 1,000 writers on the origin of the Americans untenable--that America was peopled (before the Deluge) by a race superior to the present--that the The original pen and ink seventeenth centuiry military plans comprise; Deluge did not extend to America, and that the principal theories of the “Attaque et combat du Pont de Cé” (388 x 565mm.); Combat de Deluge are erroneous, particularly that of Whiston. He gives his own Carignan (155 x 225mm.); unidentified battle showing an armed theories on all these points, as well as upon many others of equally high horseman overseeing a panoramic view of the battle plain edged by interest, not excluding the origin of negro” (Sabin). a river and distant town, ?in style reminiscent of Matthaeus Merian (265 x 440mm.); another similar (285 x 290mm.); “Ordonnance de See illustration overleaf. marche vers la (?)basse” (360 x 445mm.). The large prints relating to the Mississippi, or South Sea Bubble schemes include; “De “Monument 5• consacré a la posterité en memorie de la folie incroyable de la XX année BINDINGS du XVIII siecle”, [1720]; “De Verslagen Actionist in de stoel met rinkels, SCOTT (WALTER) The Poetical Works, 8 vol., contemporary calf overreeden geweest van’t gelauwerd paard van Troje”, [1720]; De malle gilt, 12mo, Edinburgh, A. Constable, 1822--BYRON (GEORGE Actionisten naar Vianen of ‘t Peperland, [1720]; “De Kornet van vuil GORDON, LORD) The Works, 7 vols. (of 8, lacking vol. 1), John gewin of Wortel en Besse Postiljon”, [1720]. Murray, 1815-1823; English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers, without half-title and advertisements, James Cawthorn, 1811, uniformly bound 2 in contemporary calf gilt, boards with blind-tooled borders, intricate ALBUMS gilt spines, tear at foot of spine of vol. two--BORROW (GEORGE) Album of good views in Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and England, 41 oils Wild Wales; The