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Wednesday 1 March 2017 1 March Wednesday Knightsbridge, London FINE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS FINE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS | Knightsbridge, London | Wednesday 1 March 2017 24114 FINE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS Wednesday 1 March 2017 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. London SW7 1HH Luke Batterham www.bonhams.com Sarah Lindberg Please see back of catalogue Jennifer Ebrey for important notice to bidders VIEWING +44 (0) 20 7393 3828 Sunday 26 February +44 (0) 20 7393 3831 ILLUSTRATIONS 11am – 3pm Front cover: Lot 56 Monday 27 February Shipping and Collections Back cover: Lot 200 9am – 4.30pm Jennifer Ebrey Tuesday 28 February +44 (0) 20 7393 3810 9am – 4.30pm +44 (0) 207393 3879 Fax Wednesday 1 March [email protected] 9am – 11am PRESS ENQUIRIES BIDS [email protected] +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax CUSTOMER SERVICES To bid via the internet Monday to Friday please visit www.bonhams.com 8.30am – 6pm +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 New bidders must also provide proof of identity when submitting bids. Failure to do this may result in your bids not being processed. Please note that bids should be submitted no later than 4pm on the day prior to the auction. LIVE ONLINE BIDDING IS Bidding by telephone will only AVAILABLE FOR THIS SALE be accepted on a lot with a Please email [email protected] lower estimate of or in excess with “Live bidding” in the subject of £500. line up to 48 hours before the auction to register for this service. SALE NUMBER: 24114 CATALOGUE: £18 Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams International Board 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, Antony Bennett, Matthew Bradbury, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, India Phillips, Matthew Girling CEO, Lucinda Bredin, Simon Cottle, Andrew Currie, Peter Rees, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Group Vice Chairman, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, Veronique Scorer, James Stratton, Ralph Taylor, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Jon Baddeley, Rupert Banner, Geoffrey Davies, Charles Graham-Campbell, Matthew Haley, Charlie Thomas, David Williams, Jonathan Fairhurst, Asaph Hyman, James Knight, Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, David Johnson, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Caroline Oliphant, Shahin Virani, Charles Lanning, Miranda Leslie, Edward Wilkinson, Leslie Wright. 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, Jennifer Ebrey to discuss any collection, storage or shipping concerns. Jennifer Ebrey +44 (0) 20 7393 3810 +44 (0) 207393 3879 Fax [email protected] Lot 92 Lot 92 CONTENTS LOTS General Printed Books and Manuscripts 1-47 Atlases and Maps 48-58 Continental Books and Manuscripts 59-85 Science and Natural History 86-99 Modern Literature & Illustrated Books 100-139 The Plurality of Worlds, Imaginary Voyages and Flight The Collection of a Deceased French Bibliophile 140-208 FINE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS | 3 1 2 4 | BONHAMS FINE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS Wednesday 1 March 2017 at 1pm 1 ADAMS (JOHN) Letters Patent signed as President (“John Adams”) and issued under the Great Seal of the United States of America, counter-signed by Secretary of State Timothy Pickering, appointing Thomas Bulkely [or Bulkeley] of Lisbon the United States Consul for the port of Lisbon in the Kingdom of Portugal (“...He demanding and receiving no fees or perquisites of Office whatever which shall not be expressly established by some law of the said United States: And I do hereby enjoin all Captains, Masters and Commanders of Ships and other vessels, armed or unarmed, sailing under the flag of the said States as well as all other of their Citizens, to acknowledge and consider him the said Thomas Bulkely accordingly...”); papered Great Seal, on one skin of vellum, in fine fresh condition, 330 x 375mm., Philadelphia, 10 July 1797 £2,000 - 3,000 €2,300 - 3,500 This most attractive document is sold with a probate copy, on vellum, of Bulkeley’s will of 1818, and a retained copy of a letter written on his behalf to Viscount Bulkeley in 1804, claiming kinship while informing him that “Mr Bulkeleys Motive for this enquiry does not arise from any interested motive as he possesses a very large independent fortune”. 2 ALEXANDER VI BORGIA AND TOLEDO Spanish Renaissance transcript of the Papal Bull by Pope Alexander VI of 1 October 1496 confirming the privileges of the Hospital of the Holy Cross; with large illuminated initial letter ʻA’ with elaborate penwork tracery in blue, red and purple, the first line of text written in decorative capitals in brown and yellow, with a floral border in the upper margin incorporating sprays of roses; subscribed with their autograph notarial certificates and devices by the Apostolic Notaries Cristofo Navarro, joint holder of the benefice (portionarius) of Toledo Cathedral and by Ferdinand de Lunar, Secretary to the Chapter of the Cathedral, vellum, the text in an attractive semi-gothic hand, small tape-repair in right-hand margin, 678 x 876mm., Toledo, 25 November 1530 £2,000 - 3,000 €2,300 - 3,500 AN UNUSUALLY DECORATIVE DOCUMENT, FUSING GOTHIC AND RENAISSANCE IDIOMS, in a manner parallel to the Plateresque (silversmith-like) architecture to be found in Spain and her American colonies from the late fifteen to the mid sixteenth century. The hospital of the Holy Cross at Toledo was founded under the will of the Archbishop of Toledo, Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza (1428-1495), and authorised by the Papal Bull of the Borgia Pope, Alexander VI, on 1 October 1496 (Alexander being of course of Spanish extraction himself and born in Valencia). Designed by the architect-sculptors Enrique Egas and Alonso de Covarrubias, it is itself an outstanding example of Plateresque architecture and was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1902. It is now a museum and houses, among much else, an important collection of paintings by El Greco. 3 • [APPERLEY (CHARLES J.)] The Life of a Sportsman. By Nimrod, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, 36 hand-coloured engraved plates by Henry Alken (including frontispiece and additional decorative title, 4 mounted as issued), advertisements at end, red crushed morocco gilt by Hatchards, t.e.g., publisher’s blue cloth wrappers and spine bound in [Tooley 65], 8vo, Rudolph Ackermann, 1842 £700 - 900 €810 - 1,000 First edition, first issue, of what is “considered by many to be the premier coloured plate sporting book in the 19th century” (Tooley). FINE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS | 5 4 6 | BONHAMS 4 ARCHAEOLOGY, PSEUDO-ARCHAEOLOGY, MESOPOTAMIA, AND BRITISH-ISRAELISM Archive of Lt.-Col. W.B. Lane, relating to his studies in Mesopotamia, archaeology of the region, the Bible and “Ur” texts, comparative religions, Anglo-Saxon “Lost Tribe” theories, Pyramidology, and “Manna from Heaven”, including manuscript notes, correspondence, printed pamphlets (upwards of 120), ephemera (printed and manuscript), glass lecture slides, actual mineral and flower samples, ancient and replica artifacts used for lectures, and other materials, loose or housed in a variety of small boxes, tins and envelopes (quantity) £2,000 - 4,000 €2,300 - 4,600 An archive of material relating to Mesopotamia, belonging to Lt.-Colonel W.B. Lane (1874-1946), an employee of the Indian Medical Service, governor of the Civic Jail at Baghdad, traveller to Nimrud (1917/18), member of the archaeological excavation carried out at Kish, near Baghdad over four years from 1923 onwards, author of “Babylonian Problems” (J. 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