Montpelier Street, London I 31 March 2021 London I 31 March Montpelier Street, Fine Books and Manuscripts Fine Books Fine Books and Manuscripts I Montpelier Street, London I 31 March 2021 26772 Fine Books and Manuscripts Montpelier Street, London | Wednesday 31 March at 1pm BONHAMS ENQUIRIES BIDS Please see back of catalogue Montpelier Street Matthew Haley - Bid online/APP for important notice to bidders Knightsbridge Simon Roberts Register to bid online by visiting London SW7 1HH Luke Batterham www.bonhams.com/26772 To submit a claim for refund of bonhams.com Sarah Lindberg VAT, HMRC require lots to be +44 (0) 20 7393 3828 Bid through the exported from the UK within strict +44 (0) 20 7393 3831 deadlines. 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Buyers are encouraged to make contact with the Book Department to discuss any collection, storage or shipping concerns. Joel Chandler +44 (0)20 7393 3841 [email protected] Contents LOTS General Books and Manuscripts 1 – 23 Arms and Armour 24 – 32 Property of an English Collector Continental Books and Manuscripts 33 – 45 Welsh Literature, History And Provenance 46 – 53 Books from the Library of the late Rev. Euros Wyn Jones of Anglesey English Literature and History 54 – 77 General Travel 78 – 91 Cricket 92 – 104 Modern Books, Manuscripts and Photographs 105 – 150 1 2 4 | BONHAMS 3 GENERAL BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS 1 ALBUM - NINETEENTH CENTURY Plans comprise: ‘Battersea Power Station Boiler House Internal Large nineteenth century album, including original watercolours, Column Details Drawing’, 1930; ‘L.P.C. Ltd.... Superstructure Boiler oil sketches, pencil drawings, and lithographed prints of costume House’, 1931; ‘...Facades of Gatehouse’ (showing decorative groups, views (Switzerland, Italy, Britain, etc.), and genre scenes, and elevational treatments, including doorway lettered ‘L.P.C.’), 1931; others, mostly mounted on verso only on approximately 90 leaves, Blueprint of Crane wheel, made by Clyde Crane & Engineering Co. contemporary gilt- and blindstamped red morocco, g.e., some Ltd, stamped ‘Office Copy. London Power Co. Received in D.O. 8 abrasions, upper hinge cracked, folio (365 x 245mm.), [c.1820-1840] Jul. 1931’; ‘...Boiler House Internal Column Details Drawing’, 1931; ‘... Workshop & Stores Drawing’, 1931; ‘Sheet N07 Turbine House Stairs showing decorative art deco detailing’, 1934; ‘Ferranti Ltd... £600 - 800 Detail of Tank for... 3 Phase Transformer... [1939], stamped ‘Office €690 - 920 Copy. 9 Feb 1942’, and 2 similar Ferranti Ltd detailed plans for the $840 - 1,100 tank cover; ‘Auto Klean ‘Strainers’ Drawing for Battersea Power Station’, 1954. A fine early nineteenth century album, the original larger watercolours including five animal scenes signed “B. Fenning” (hare coursing; dappled race horse; grouse shooting with dogs; wolfhound; grouse); 3 • two costume groups (boy and blindman begging; 2 girls with hurdy BINDINGS gurdy) signed D. “Lynch, 1829”; four of European female traditional BUFFON (GEORGES LOUIS MARIE LECLERC, Comte de) Natural costumes; three of means of transport (open carriage with 9 fancifully History, General and Particular... New Edition... with Some Account dressed female passengers; bullock drawn working carts), and of the Life of M. De Buffon by William Wood, engraved frontispiece four natural history scenes; four oil views (120 x 170mm.) of rural portrait, numerous engraved plates throughout, occasional single landscapes, probably European. The pencil sketches include a fine view spot, light browning but generally very clean, contemporary mottled of Menai Bridge, three female portraits (one dated 1840), and others. calf gilt, flat spines tooled with green and black gilt morocco lettering labels, a few joints neatly refurbished, 8vo, T. Cadell, and W. Davies 2 [and others], 1812 BATTERSEA POWER STATION A collection of ten plans for design details of Battersea Power £600 - 800 Station, including facade doorways, brickwork, the boiler house, €690 - 920 workshop and cranes, all but one printed on thin linen, the 1954 plan $840 - 1,100 on paper (with short tear), all rolled, a few with ink office stamp and numerals added in ink, various sizes (largest c.800mm x 1630mm, AN ATTRACTIVE SET, with a distinguished provenance. smallest c.620 x 780mm.), [1930-1939, and one 1954] Provenance £1,000 - 1,500 John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon (1751-1838), circular bookplate and ink €1,100 - 1,700 name “Eldon” on front free endpapers of each volume. Eldon served $1,400 - 2,100 twice as Lord Chancellor, in this role being responsible for refusing the poet Shelley custody of his children. Shelley immortalised his nemesis in his poem “The Masque of Anarchy”, with the lines “Next A collection of technical plans for the construction of Giles Gilbert came Fraud, and he had on/Like Eldon, an ermined gown”. Scott’s iconic “industrial brick cathedral”, Battersea Power Station, erected for the London Power Company. The majority of the plans are from the first phase of building in the early 1930s. Only finalised in 1955 the station was closed in 1983, since when it has remained one of the defining landmark buildings of the London skyline. Currently it is being lavishly redeveloped. For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. FINE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS | 5 4 • BINDINGS LAMB (CHARLES) The Life and Works, 12 vol., ‘Edmonton Edition’, edited by Alfred Ainger, with introduction and notes, NUMBER 90 250 COPIES, printed on hand-made paper, 36 plates, contemporary aqua-green morocco gilt, sides with 5-line gilt fillet border, floral spray cornerpieces with small red morocco onlays, enclosing central armorial emblem, spines titled with ornaments in 6 compartments 4 and raised bands, gilt dentelles, t.e.g., spines with light uniform fading, 8vo, [Boston, Merrymount Press for] Pafraet’s Book Co., Troy, NY, [c.1910] £600 - 800 €690 - 920 $840 - 1,100 5 • ENGINEERING - BRITANNIA AND CONWAY BRIDGES CLARK (EDWIN) The Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges, with General Inquiries on Beams and on the Properties of Materials used in Construction..