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Bonhams Banbury Road Shipton on Cherwell Kidlington Oxford OX5 1JH +44 (0) 1865 853 640 20706 +44 (0) 1865 372 722 fax Printed Books, Maps & Photographs, Books, Printed 10 September 2013, Oxford 10 September 2013, Printed, Books, Maps & Photographs Tuesday 10 September 2013 at 10.30am Oxford Printed Books, Maps & Photographs Tuesday 10 September 2013 at 10.30am Oxford Bonhams Enquiries Shipping and Collections Banbury Road Shipton on Cherwell Oxford Oxford Kidlington John Walwyn-Jones Lydia Wilkinson Oxford OX5 1JH Lydia Wilkinson +44 (0) 1865 853 647 bonhams.com Sian Wainwright +44 (0) 1865 853 646 London Viewing +44 (0) 1865 853 647 Leor Cohen Saturday 7 September 9am to 12pm +44 (0) 1865 853 648 +44 (0) 20 7393 3841 Monday 9 September 9am to 4.30pm Limited viewing on day of sale London Please see back of catalogue Matthew Haley for important notices to bidders Bids Luke Batterham +44(0) 20 7447 7448 Simon Roberts Illustrations +44(0) 20 7447 7401 fax Claire Wilkins Front cover: Lot 6 To bid via the internet Back cover: Lot 371 please visit www.bonhams.com +44 (0) 20 7393 3828 Contents page: Lot 58 +44 (0) 20 7393 3879 fax Please note that bids should be [email protected] Sale number: 20706 submitted no later than 24 hours prior to the sale. Carole Park Catalogue: £18 +44 (0) 20 7393 3810 New bidders must also provide proof of identity when submitting Customer Services bids. Failure to do this may result in Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6pm your bids not being processed. +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Live online bidding is available for this sale Please email [email protected] with “Live bidding” in the subject line up to 48 hours before the auction to register for this service. Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Chairman, Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Jonathan Baddeley, Antony Bennett, Iain Rushbrook, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Group Managing Director, Matthew Bradbury, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Veronique Scorer, James Stratton, Roger Tappin, Matthew Girling CEO UK and Europe, Andrew Currie, David Dallas, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, Shahin Virani, David Williams, Michael Wynell-Mayow. Montpelier Street, Geoffrey Davies, Jonathan Horwich, James Knight, Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Grant, Robin Hereford, London SW7 1HH Patrick Meade, Caroline Oliphant, Hugh Watchorn. Asaph Hyman, Charles Lanning, Camilla Lombardi, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Fergus Lyons, Paul Maudsley, Gordon McFarlan, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Andrew McKenzie, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Mike Neill, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, Peter Rees, Julian Roup, Sale Information A4095 Bicester Shipton on Cherwell Shipton Rd Saleroom Banbury Rd A4095 Banbury Road Woodstock Shipton on Cherwell Oxfor A4260 Kidlington d Rd Oxford Upper Campsfield Rd OX5 1JH Oxford and A40 A44 Airfield +44 (0) 1865 853 640 +44 (0) 1865 372 722 (fax) Oxford Kidlington www.bonhams.com/books By Rail: Oxford train station Important Notices Condition Reports 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 in sale room unless arrangements are made for the notice entitled ‘VAT’ at the end of the person, during our public viewing. We expect shipping. catalogue. that there may be a large number of condition enquiries, and the effect will be that clients If you wish to arrange shipping, Please note that lots comprising printed books, submitting long and elaborate requests are please contact Lydia Wilkinson unframed maps and bound manuscripts are likely to be dealt with after those with short ([email protected]) in order not liable to VAT on the Buyer’s Premium. and specific requests. For these sales we will not to get a quote with Pack and Send. be able to provide a list of undescribed items Lots are sold with all faults, imperfections (e.g. “and 10 others”), but we will be happy to Saleroom and errors of description, but if on collation assist with requests along the lines of “does this any described printed book in this catalogue lot contain this title by that author”. Similarly, Banbury Road is found to lack text or illustrations, the same clients requesting digital images are asked to Shipton on Cherwell may be returned to Bonhams within 20 keep the number to an absolute minimum in Kidlington days of the sale; the unstated defect to be order that we can process their requests. Oxford detailed in writing. This shall not apply in the OX5 1JH +44 (0) 1865 853 640 case of un-named items, blanks, half-titles or +44 (0) 1865 372 722 (fax) advertisements, nor to damage to bindings, www.bonhams.com/books stains, tears or other defects unless these result in loss to text or illustration. Leor Cohen Tel: +44 (0) 20 7393 3841 Atlases, maps, periodicals, printed music and [email protected] items sold as collections, association copies, extra-illustrated or as bindings, are sold not subject to return. Contents Tuesday 10 September 2013 at 10:30am Lots General Printed Books 1-65 Continental Printed Books 66-83 Topography, Maps and Atlases of the British Isles 84-137 General Maps and Atlases 138-149 General Travel 150-182 Photography 183-220 Natural History 221-249 Science and Medicine 250-268 English Literature 269-336 Modern Literature, Children’s and Illustrated 337-440 9 2 6 4 | Bonhams GENERAL PRINTED BOOKS 6 BIBLIOPOLA - NICHOLSON (JOHN) Tuesday 10 September 2013 at 10.30am John Nicholson. Mappesiani bibliopolii Cant. custos, engraved by James Caldwall, after the painting by Philip Reinagle, platemark size 565 x 405mm., Cambridge, John Nicholson, 1790 Please note that this sale is subject to the Conditions of Sale and other £400 - 600 Notices at the beginning and end of this catalogue, and any saleroom notices that may be posted. Your attention is drawn to the notices at the A classic image of the Cambridge bookseller, John Nicholson, invariably beginning of the catalogue regarding the removal of purchases. known as “Maps”. The original oil painting hangs in Cambridge University Library. 1• AGRICULTURE 7• CLARKE (GEORGE) A Treatise of Wool, and the Manufacture of it, BINDINGS cropped at upper margin touching page numbers, slightly soiled, AUGUSTINE, Saint. The Confessions of S. Augustine, NUMBER 1 OF 30 ink blot to title, disbound [Wing C4445], 8vo, William Crooke, COPIES, printed on Japanese vellum handmade paper, wood-engraved 1685--[MARKHAM (GERVASE)] Cheape and Good Husbandry for the decorated letters and title after Paul Woodroffe and Lawrence Housman, Well-Ordering of all Beasts, and Fowles, and for the Generall Cure of elaborate morocco gilt by Bickers and Son, splitting at upper hinge, 4to, their Diseases, fifth edition, woodcut illustration (fish pond), occasional Kegan Paul, 1900 stains, loss of 7 lines of table leaf, small tears to one margin, several £100 - 200 contemporary ink annotations, disbound, [STC (2nd ed.) 17399] small 4to, Nicholas Okes for John Harison, 1631; and another (3) 8• £200 - 400 BINDINGS DICKENS (CHARLES) The Works, 22 titles bound in 6 vol., plates (some 2• hand-coloured), Chapman and Hall, [c.1900]--AINSWORTH (WILLIAM ALBUM - PORTRAIT ENGRAVINGS HARRISON) Ainsworth’s Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, vol. 1-8, An album of predominantly seventeenth and eighteenth century engraved plates by George Cruikshank, Hablot K. Browne and others, portrait engravings of both British and continental subjects, upwards Hugh Cunningham, 1842-1845--SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) The Works, 3 of 60 engravings (several in mezzotint), mounted or loosely inserted, vol., Dent, 1911--GIBBON (EDWARD) The Decline and Fall of the Roman nineteenth century half roan, lettered “Portraits” on upper cover, worn, Empire, 4 vol. bound in 2, Warne, [c.1900], contemporary half calf, spine defective, folio (524 x 430mm.) spines gilt, 8vo; and 3 others, full calf (22) £500 - 800 £300 - 400 3• 9• ARCHITECTURE BINDINGS HALFPENNY (WILLIAM) New Designs for Chinese Temples, Triumphal FIELDING (HENRY) The History of Tom Jones, 4 vol., engraved Arches, Garden Seats..., parts 1-3 (of 4) in one vol., engraved title to part frontispieces, W. Strahan, 1773; Amelia, 3 vol., W. Strahan, one, 43 engraved plates (numbered 2-44, several folding), library stamp 1775--[RICHARDSON (SAMUEL)] Clarissa. or, the History of a Young on first title and blank verso of most plates, contemporary vellum-backed Lady, 8 vol., engraved frontispieces, J. & F. Rivington, 1774; Pamela, marbled boards, rubbed, 8vo, Robert Sayer, 1750-1751, sold not subject 4 vol., W. Strahan, 1771--[BURNEY (FRANCES)] Cecilia, or Memories to return of an Heiress, 5 vol., T. Payne, 1783--OTWAY (THOMAS) The Works, £200 - 400 3 vol., engraved portrait, C. Bathurst, 1768--[BROOKE (HENRY)] The Fool of Quality; or the History of Henry Earl of Moreland, 4 vol., 4• engraved frontispieces, Edward Johnston, 1776--STERNE (LAURENCE) ARCHITECTURE The Works, 7 vol., for the Proprietors, 1783; Letters, 3 vol., engraved JONES (INIGO) The Designs of Inigo Jones, Consisting of Plans and frontispiece, 1776, T. Becket, 1776--YOUNG (EDWARD) Night Thoughts Elevations for Publick and Private Buildings, 2 vol. in one, FIRST EDITION, on Life, Death and Immortality, J. & F. Rivington, 1777--MOLIERE titles with engraved portrait vignettes, 135 engraved plates (of 136) on (JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN DE) The Works, 6 vol., Berwick, R. Taylor, 96 leaves (of 97), including 24 double-page and 5 folding, by Hulsbergh, 1771--[SMOLLETT (TOBIAS)] The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, 4 vol., Fourdrinier and Cole, engraved head- and tail- pieces after William Kent, engraved frontispieces, early ink annotations in French in of volume one, subscribers’ list, lacking frontispiece, occasional tears and tape repairs, W.