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Wednesday 11 November 2015 Wednesday Knightsbridge, London FINE BOOKS, MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS FINE BOOKS, MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS | Knightsbridge, London | Wednesday 11 November 2015 22715 FINE BOOKS, MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS Wednesday 11 November 2015 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 8 November +44 (0) 20 7393 3831 ILLUSTRATIONS 11am – 3pm +44 (0) 20 7393 3879 (fax) Front cover: See lot 67 Monday 9 November Back cover: Lot 264 9am – 4.30pm Shipping and Collections Inside front cover: Lots 130 & 113 Tuesday 10 November Leor Cohen Inside back cover: Lots 31, 150, 9am – 4.30pm +44 (0) 20 7393 3841 156 & 183 Wednesday 11 November Contents page: Lot 91 9am – 11am [email protected] BIDS CUSTOMER SERVICES +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Monday to Friday 08.30 – 18.00 +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 To bid via the internet please visit www.bonhams.com SALE NUMBER: 22715 New bidders must also provide proof of identity when submitting CATALOGUE: bids. Failure to do this may result £18 in your bids not being processed. Please note that bids should be submitted no later than 4pm on the day prior to the auction. Bidding by telephone will only be accepted on a lot with a lower estimate of or in excess of £500. 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 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, Lucinda Bredin, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Peter Rees, Iain Rushbrook, John Sandon, Matthew Girling CEO, Andrew Currie, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, Tim Schofield, Veronique Scorer, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Group Vice Chairman, Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Leslie, 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, Gordon McFarlan, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Hugh Watchorn. 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 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 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 and prints are sold not subject to return, as are periodicals and items sold as collections, association and extra- illustrated copies, or as bindings. 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 for a period of 21 days. Any items not collected by then may be removed to our warehouse at Park Royal where storage charges will apply at the rate of £2 per day per lot, attracting a removal charge estimated at £5 + VAT. 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 General Printed Books and Manuscripts 1 – 64 Liverpool, Maritime History and the Slave Trade: The Collection of the late Patrick King 65 – 72 Original Illustrations 73 – 78 Modern Literature, Art and Illustrated 79 – 128 Spanish and Latin-American Literature 129 – 133 Atlases and Maps 134 – 148 Continental Books and Manuscripts 149 – 163 Natural History 164 – 193 Science and Medicine 194 – 257 Books from the Library of the late Walter Pagel 194 – 244 Alexis de Tocqueville: The Library of the late J.P. Mayer 258 – 284 1 2 4 | BONHAMS FINE BOOKS, MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS Wednesday 11 November 2015 at 1pm 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. Your attention is drawn to the notices at the beginning of the catalogue regarding the removal of purchases. 1 * ALBUM - RUSSIA AND NATURAL HISTORY An late eighteenth century album, including a series of good botanical watercolours (20), a fine watercolour view of Moscow, 40 hand-coloured costume plates from Description de toutes les nations de l’empire de Russie by Johann Gottlieb Georgi, and some later material including 2 watercolours of the destruction of the Houses of Parliament, miscellaneous lithographs and engravings, the watercolours mostly captioned, and some dated between 1792 and 1798 (mostly approximately 340 x 235mm.; the Moscow watercolour 223 x 355mm.), mostly tipped-in at corners, contemporary red half morocco gilt, folio (362 x 265mm.), [c.1790- 1800, and later] £1,000 - 1,500 €1,400 - 2,000 Includes a fine pen, ink and watercolour view of Red Square, Moscow seen from a roof top viewpoint. Several of the botanical watercolours (subjects including Peonies, Veronica, Cherry Blossom, Iris, Erica, “A native of N. America”, American cowslip, Parrot and Macaw tulips), were executed at Stamford Hill, North London, dated between 1792 and 1798, the Oleandaer signed “R. Cowie delt”. 2 • ARABIA - ANTIQUITIES MUNCHERJEE (KAIKY, Collector) “A Marvellous Collection of Rare, Authentic, Genuine, Ancient, Humarites & Sabeans Antiques of Ancient Southern Arabia... 2400 Years Old. In the Possession of Kaiky Muncherjee, Steamer Point, Aden. Open to Wholesale Sale” [printed title label on upper cover], 33 gelatin silver prints (most approximately c.210 x 160mm.), most corner-mounted with typed caption label beneath, one in 3 sheets mounted, an 8-page printed introduction to the collection pasted-in (illustrated with 6 photographic illustrations; another copy loosely inserted), contents working loose, contemporary maroon cloth, spine repaired, 4to (272 x 250mm.), [Bombay, 1925] £2,000 - 3,000 €2,700 - 4,100 A “trade catalogue” of the vast collection of southern Arabian antiquities compiled by the Kaiky Muncherjee, a Parsi Indian trader resident in Aden in the early twentieth century. The catalogue was seemingly issued to entice a sale en bloc (“wholesale sale, communication solicited”) to an American institution, Muncherjee stating that “the major portion of my collection awaits reciphering [sic] and when so treated, will, of course, fathom the heart of the past which is of the greatest importance”. As such, whilst listing at length both Arab and foreign scholars who vouch for the authenticity of the collection, the key selling point is a series of photographs showing the collection, tightly packed, on wooden shelves, always with labels emphasising “2400 years old”. The collection - held in Aden (the brochure printed for Muncherjee in Bombay) - was not sold at this time. The British archaeologist Sir Lawrence Kirwan examined the collection in 1939, before it was eventually purchased by the government of Aden shortly after Muncherjee’s death in 1955. 3 ARABIC Manuscript document, reporting on the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed V’s fatwa against the Allies, and call to arms of Muslims to resist the English and French, on paper, in black and red ink, 29 lines within 2-line rule border, light toning, folio (260 x 233mm.), [?Sudan, 1914/15], with a typescript synopsis in English; and a large bifolium Ottoman news sheet mostly relating to events in Egypt, 445 x 290mm., [early twentieth century] (2) £600 - 800 €810 - 1,100 FINE BOOKS, MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS | 5 5 6 | BONHAMS 5 (detail) 4 • ARABIC Manuscript prayers about/for the Prophet, in Persian, 110 leaves, black and red ink on paper, decorative heading to title, text in one column (112 x 56mm.) within wide border, trace of rodent damage in blank border of 5 leaves, contemporary blindstamped sheep, slightly worn, 8vo (165 x 105mm.), [Subcontinent, late eighteenth/early nineteenth century]; and 2 other early nineteenth century manuscripts in Arabic, one of Persian verse, the other a compendium of medical texts, both probably copied in the Subcontinent (3) £600 - 800 €810 - 1,100 5 • BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORIZED VERSION [The Holy Bible: Containing the Old Testament and the New], THE ‘WICKED BIBLE’, 2 parts in 1 vol., ruled in red throughout, New Testament title within elaborate woodcut border, lacking general title (A1), woodcut headpieces and ornamental initials, occasional damp and other stains, a number of leaves trimmed or frayed mainly affecting side-notes only, nineteenth century brown morocco, sides with gilt double gilt rule borders and corner tools, gilt panelled flat spine, rubbed, joints cracking [Herbert 444; STC 2296], Robert Barker..