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FINE BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS and ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS Wednesday 15 June 2016 at 2Pm Knightsbridge, London FINE BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS Wednesday 15 June 2016 Knightsbridge, London FINE BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS & ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS FINE BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS & ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS | Knightsbridge, London | Wednesday 15 June 2016 | Knightsbridge, London Wednesday 23576 FINE BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS Wednesday 15 June 2016 at 2pm 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 12 June +44 (0) 20 7393 3831 ILLUSTRATIONS 11am – 3pm Front cover: Lot 112 Monday 13 June Shipping and Collections Back cover: Lot 68 9am – 4.30pm Leor Cohen Inside front cover: Lots 140 Tuesday 14 June +44 (0) 20 7393 3841 Inside back cover: Lot 89 & 16 9am – 4.30pm [email protected] Wednesday 15 June 9am – 12pm PRESS ENQUIRIES [email protected] BIDS +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 CUSTOMER SERVICES +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Monday to Friday To bid via the internet 8.30am – 6pm please visit www.bonhams.com +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: 23576 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 Atlases and Maps 1-17 General Travel 18-40 Natural History and Angling 41-61 General Books, Manuscripts and Photographs 62-129 Original Illustrations 130-148 Modern Books and Manuscripts 149-206 including the Property of a Descendant of Peggy Belsher, and Papers and Books of Anthony Powell 1 2 4 | BONHAMS FINE BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS Wednesday 15 June 2015 at 2pm ATLASES AND MAPS 1 • BLAEU (WILLEM AND JOHANNES) [Theatrum orbis terrarum], Part 4 [England and Wales], German text, engraved allegorical title-page with title-panel left blank, 58 engraved maps (all but one double-page), 3 half-page engraved illustrations, all on later stubs, light arc of dampstaining to upper margin of some text leaves and lower blank margin of map of Channel Islands, contemporary blindstamped vellum, folio (510 x 330mm.), Amsterdam, Johannes Blaeu, 1646 £4,000 - 6,000 €5,100 - 7,600 2 • BOWEN (EMANUEL) AND THOMAS KITCHEN The Large English Atlas: Or, A New Set of Maps of All the Counties in England and Wales, Drawn from the Several Surveys which have been hitherto Published; Le grand atlas anglois: ou, nouveau recueil des cartes de toutes les provinces d’Angleterre et de la principauté de Galles, French and English title-pages in red and black, 47 engraved double-page maps hand-coloured in outline, with cartouches, vignettes, inset plans, arms, etc., all mounted on guards, short tear in margin of map of Dorsetshire, Kent with very short nick at foot of central fold, creasing to title-pages, modern half calf with gilt title label [cf. Chubb CXCVII, 1763 edition], folio (569 x 400mm.), Robert Sayer, [1767?] £3,000 - 5,000 €3,800 - 6,300 A good clean copy of ‘by far the most important eighteenth-century English atlas to be published before the appearance of John Cary’s new English atlas in 1787’ (Hodson). The highly-detailed and large scale folio maps, engraved by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchen at the instigation of John Hinton, were first collected together and issued by John Tinney, Thomas Bowles and Robert Sayer in 1760. The present copy is a relatively scarce edition with an additional title-page in French. The maps bear the imprints of John Bowles, Carington Bowles and Sayer (some having a gap where Tinney’s name has been removed), with the map of Berkshire dated 1756. This ‘splendid collection of maps’ (Chubb) includes inset views or plans of major cities, including prospects of Ely, York, Leeds, Cardiff and Chichester. 3 • CHESHIRE SAXTON (CHRISTOPHER) Cestriae comitatus (romanis legionibus et colonys olim insignis) vera et absoluta effigies, double-page hand-coloured map engraved by Franciscus Scatterus, decorated with large ornamental cartouche, coat-of-arms, ships, sea monsters and compass with dividers, cut to size with slight loss of border, and laid down, 387 x 502mm., 1577 [but 1579, or later] £1,000 - 1,500 €1,300 - 1,900 The first printed map of Cheshire. See illustration overleaf. FINE BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS | 5 3 4 5 5 4 • COLTON (GEORGE WOOLWORTH) Colton’s General Atlas... Accompanied by Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical and Historical by Richard Fisher, engraved allegorical frontispiece by F.A. Chapman, 96 engraved maps and town plans (all but 5 hand-coloured, 6 double-page), occasional light toning, publisher’s decorative morocco, blocked in blind and gilt, g.e., extremities lightly rubbed but generally a good, bright copy, large 4to (447 x 374mm.), New York, J.H. Colton and Co., 1859 £2,000 - 2,500 €2,500 - 3,200 An attractive copy, in the publisher’s decorative binding, of Colton’s atlas, in which approximately half of the maps are devoted to the United States with state maps and city plans. Provenance Thomas Greer, nineteenth century bookplate. 5 • CORNWALL AND GREAT BRITAIN WAGHENAER (LUCAS JANSZ) Zee caerte van Engelants Eijndt, alsoe hem tselfde Landt verthoont beginnede van Sorlinges tot Pleijmondt, double-page engraved map extending from Scilly to Plymouth, decorative cartouches, coat of arms, compass rose, ships and sea-monsters, farms and livestock on land, Latin text to verso [cf. Palmer 1; Quixley 2], 330mm x 520mm, [Leiden, 1586]--JODE (GERARD DE) Angliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae nova descriptio, double-page engraved map, Latin text on verso [Shirley, Early Printed Maps Of The British Isles, 173], 352 x 495mm., [Antwerp, c.1593] (2) £1,000 - 1,500 €1,300 - 1,900 6 | BONHAMS 6 6 • D’APRÈS DE MANNEVILLETTE (JEAN BAPTISTE N.D.) Le Neptune oriental, engraved allegorical title by J.B. Tilliard after Francois Boucher, large engraved vignette on dedication leaf, 47 engraved sea and coastal charts (of 63, 15 double-page), dampstains to most maps at lower section, contemporary calf, gilt blocked “Marine. Service des Vaisseaux du Roy No. XXIX” with arms on upper cover, worn and scuffed with some loss to extremities of spine [cf. NMM 203; cf. Phillips 3165], folio (558 x 410mm.), Paris, Demonville, and Brest, chez Malassis, 1775 £2,000 - 4,000 €2,500 - 5,100 The second expanded edition of Le Neptune Oriental by D’Après de Mannevillette, “distinguished navigator and one of the first hydrographers of France” (NMM).
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