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THE LIBRARY of the LATE HUGH SELBOURNE, M.D., PART TWO | Knightsbridge, London | Tuesday 8 March 2016 23199 THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE HUGH SELBOURNE, M.D., PART TWO Tuesday 8 March 2016 Knightsbridge, London THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE HUGH SELBOURNE, M.D., PART TWO HUGH SELBOURNE, M.D., PART OF THE LATE THE LIBRARY | Knightsbridge, London | Tuesday 8 March 2016 8 March | Knightsbridge, London Tuesday 23199 THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE HUGH SELBOURNE, M.D., PART TWO Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 10am 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 Friday 4 March +44 (0) 20 7393 3831 ILLUSTRATIONS 9.00 - 16.30 Front cover: Lot 57 Sunday 6 March Shipping and Collections Back cover: Lot 179 11.00 - 15.00 Leor Cohen Monday 7 March +44 (0) 20 7393 3841 9.00 - 16.30 [email protected] BIDS +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 CUSTOMER SERVICES +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Monday to Friday 08.30 – 18.00 To bid via the internet +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 please visit www.bonhams.com 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 LIVE ONLINE BIDDING IS the day prior to the auction. 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SALE NUMBER: 23199 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, Roger Tappin, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Geoffrey Davies, James Knight, Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Leslie, Ralph Taylor, Shahin Virani, David Williams, Caroline Oliphant. Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, Asaph Hyman, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. David Johnson, Charles Lanning, Central Middlesex SALE Hospital INFORMATION Park Royal Coronation Road W Bonhams, e d s P t Park Royal a e a rn r o A k R v e R e s A4 o 0 a y Park a h l C Royal Western Ave A40 R o 0 Station a 0 d Acton 0 4 Cemetery North A Acton d Station a o R a i r o t c i V IMPORTANT NOTICES sale; un-named items, blanks, SHIPPING, COLLECTION AND Buyers are encouraged to half-titles, or advertisements; STORAGE make contact with the Book West Acton Horn Lane For explanation of any asterisked damage to bindings, stains, tears,Station Department’s Stock Manager, symbols that may appear in foxing or other cosmetic defects, Buyers’ accounts are due for Leor Cohen to discuss any catalogues, please see the notice unless resulting in loss to text or settlement at the end of each collection, storage or shipping entitled ‘VAT’ at the end of the illustration; defects to atlases, sale and it is our hope that clients concerns, or alternative catalogue. Lots comprising printed manuscripts, music, periodicals, will collect at the same time or arrangements. books, unframed maps and bound and items sold as collections, certainly within 48 hours of the manuscripts are not liable to VAT archives, association copies, extra- sale. Leor Cohen on the Hammer Price or Buyer’s illustrated copies, or bindings. Tel: +44 (0)20 7393 3841 Premium. Items indicated in the catalogue as All sold lots will remain at [email protected] “framed” have not been examined Bonhams Knightsbridge until Lots are sold with all faults, out-of-frame, unless specifically 5pm on Monday 14 March. Address: imperfections and errors of stated. Any items not collected by Unit 1, Sovereign Park description, but if on collation any then will be removed to our Coronation Road described printed book in this EXPORT LICENCES warehouse at Park Royal, from Park Royal catalogue is found to lack text where they may be collected London NW10 7QP or illustrations, the same may be Most manuscripts over fifty years beginning at 9.30am on Friday Tel: +44 (0) 8708 113 867 returned to Bonhams within 20 old, and certain other lots, will 18 March, on production Hours of opening 9.30am to days of the sale; the unstated require export licences in order to of the Buyer Collection slip 4.30pm Monday to Friday defect to be detailed in writing. leave the UK or Europe. We can obtained from the cashiers at apply for these on your behalf. Bonhams Knightsbridge or This shall not apply in the case of: Please contact the department if New Bond Street, and a form of defects stated in the catalogue you would like further guidance. photographic ID. or announced at the time of Please note: most books bear a small (13mm. diameter) circular “Selbourne Library” stamp at the foot of the title verso and at one other leaf, in a blank area unless otherwise stated. CONTENTS LOTS General Printed Books and Manuscripts 1 – 55 Bibliography 56 – 65 English Literature, History and Philosophy 66 – 146 Nineteenth Century Literature, Chapbooks and Juvenalia 147 – 181 Charles Dickens 182 – 197 Modern Literature, Private Press and Illustrated Books 198 – 241 British Topography 242 – 254 General Travel 255 – 316 Continental Printed Books 317 – 348 Natural History 349 – 363 Medicine 364 – 427 Science and the Royal Society 428 – 474 HUGH SELBOURNE (1906-1973) “I set out from the start to broaden my outlook and to learn as much as I could about the beautiful world we live in, and the way in which people have expressed themselves, not only scientifically, but spiritually, through literature and the fine arts.” This second and final part of the Library of the late Hugh Selbourne, M.D., demonstrates the unusual depth and range of his interests. That he was able, as his son David has noted, “to amass a personal library of such quality and range – buying the first books in it while still a student and continuing to build it for more than forty years – makes his collection a singular testimony to his overcoming of early hardship as an immigrant to Britain and to his erudition.” A glance through the highlights of Part One, sold on 25 March 2015, gives a sense of the collector’s passions. An exceptional copy of Robert Boyle’s 1661 Sceptical Chymist was the top lot, but was just one of some sixty other works by Boyle in the Library. Books by other Royal Society members also did well, notably Hooke’s Micrographia and Newton’s Opticks. The present sale includes many more works by Boyle (lots 432-440), Hooke (448, 449), and Newton (455-462). The connected themes of new thought and intellectual and religious nonconformity could be seen from Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature and William Morris on socialist ideals to Tyson’s Orang-Outang and Darwin’s Origin of Species. These themes are expanded and further explored in Part Two, where Quaker pamphlets (124, 125), works on Mormonism (295, 303) and Martin Luther (337) juxtapose with Darwin’s Beagle reports (349), Descartes (375), Hutton’s Theory of the Earth (451), Playfair’s Illustrations of the same (463), and White’s prequel to the theory of evolution (471). However, the collection is not limited to medicine and science, nor to philosophy and theology. Amongst the literary highlights in Part One were the first editions of Shakespeare’s Two Noble Kinsmen, 1634, and Brome’s Antipodes: a Comedie, 1640. In this catalogue, we similarly find Chamberlain’s Swaggering Damsell (76) and Rawlins’ Rebellion (131), Restoration drama (83, 123), and various works by Milton (115-120). Moving into the nineteenth century, amongst some fifteen lots of Charles Dickens (182-197) are the original minutes of the Pickwick Club of London, 1837-1843 – inspired by the fictional counterpart, and purchased by Selbourne for £1 in the 1940s or 50s. The author must have held a particular attraction for Selbourne, who had grown up in the East End of London, the son of a tailor and seamstress. In later life as a doctor he recorded in his diaries the eccentricities of patients who “could have stepped from the pages of Dickens” themselves (David Selbourne, introduction to A Doctor’s Life, Jonathan Cape, 1989, and Faber and Faber, 2009). The selection of Kelmscott Press books in Part One is fleshed out here with further productions of the Kelmscott Press and those of numerous other fine printers (200-230, passim), while travel, topography, and of course bibliography round off the fruits of what Hugh Selbourne called “this harmless and instructive hobby” that “wonderfully enriched” his life. THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE HUGH SELBOURNE, M.D., PART TWO | 3 8 7 9 4 | BONHAMS THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE HUGH SELBOURNE, M.D., PART TWO Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 10am Please note that this sale is subject to the Conditions of Sale and other Notices at the beginning and end of this catalogue, and any saleroom notices that may be posted.
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