Printed Books, Maps & Documents The Len Newton Cactus Library 29 JULY 2020 PRINTED BOOKS, MAPS & DOCUMENTS THE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II 9 SEPTEMBER 2020 William Daniell & Richard Ayton. A Voyage Round Great Britain, London, 1814-25. First edition, deluxe issue, with the 308 hand-coloured aquatints printed on card. Estimate £5,000-£8,000 For further information please contact Dominic Somerville-Brown [email protected] PRINTED BOOKS, MAPS & DOCUMENTS WORKS FROM THE LEN NEWTON CACTUS LIBRARY 29 July 2020 COMMENCING 10am VIEWING BY APPOINTMENT Wednesday 22-Tuesday 28 July AUCTIONEERS Nathan Winter Chris Albury John Trevers William Roman-Hilditch Mallard House, Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 5UQ T: +44 (0) 1285 860006 E: [email protected] www.dominicwinter.co.uk IMPORTANT SALE INFORMATION: COVID-19 Please note that in accordance with current UK Government instructions regarding Covid-19, we are pleased to offer restricted public viewing of this sale by appointment only. Viewings are available on weekdays from Wednesday 22 July to Tuesday 28 July. To request an appointment, please email [email protected] or call us on 01285 860006. At the time of writing, we do not expect to make public attendance available on either of the two sale days. 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For further details see Information for Buyers at rear of catalogue. Catalogue Produced by Photography by Jamm Design – 020 7424 7830 Marc Tielemans – 07710 974000 | [email protected] [email protected] Darren Ball – 07593 024858 | [email protected] CONTENTS Travel & Exploration, Military & Naval History 1-75 Natural History 76-92 Works from the Library of Professor Leonard E. Newton 93-117 Maps 118-198 Topographical & Decorative Prints 199-237 Autographs & Ephemera 238-262 Antiquarian 263-314 General Literature 315-338 Modern Literature & Private Press 339-377 General Stock 378-430 SPECIALIST STAFF Nathan Winter Chris Albury Colin Meays Libraries, Continental Books, Manuscripts, Early Printed Books & Music Documents & Books & Bibles Photographs Bookbinding Nathan Winter Chris Albury Colin Meays John Trevers Paul Rasti Henry Meadows Maps, Atlases, Travel & Exploration, Fossils & Minerals, Decorative Prints Modern Literature, Military History & Caricatures Sports John Trevers Paul Rasti Henry Meadows Dominic Susanna Winters Helen Pedder Somerville-Brown Children’s Literature, General Cataloguer Travel & Exploration, Fine Bindings, Antiquarian Literature Textiles & Cookery Dominic Susanna Winters Helen Pedder Somerville-Brown Cover illustrations: Front cover: lot 114 Back cover: lot 198 Matthias Buchinger (1674-1740). A book-form wooden and ivory box with micrography, 1720/21, overall size 73 x 60 x 19mm ‘Dublin febr. the 8 d 1720/21. This is Written by Mathew Buchinger born Without Hands or feet in Germany June the 3 d 1674’ 30 July: £700-1000 FORTHCOMING SALES Thursday 30 July Antiques, Textiles, Medals & Weaponry, including the Jack Webb Collection Friday 31 July British & European Paintings and Watercolours Old Master & Modern Prints and Drawings Wednesday-Thursday Printed Books, Maps & Documents 9-10 September The David Wilson Library of Natural History (Part II) The Albizu Collection of Spanish Law Books & Manuscripts Regimental Histories & Military Books from the Collection of Lt Col R J Wyatt MBE TD Wednesday 7 October Printed Books, Maps & Documents Travel & Exploration, Science & Medicine Thursday 8 October Antiques & Textiles A Private Collection of Vintage Automobilia & Motoring History Friday 9 October British & European Paintings & Watercolours Old Master & Modern Prints & Drawings Wednesday 11 November Printed Books, Maps & Documents Scottish Topography from the David Wilson Library Thursday 12 November Military, Naval & Aviation History, Medals & Militaria Barnes Wallis Autographs, Artefacts & Ephemera The Winston Churchill Library of Major Alan Taylor-Smith (1928-2019) Military Books & Ephemera from the Collection of Lt Col R J Wyatt MBE TD Wednesday 18 November Classic & Contemporary Photography & Cameras The Jack Webb Collection of Military Cased Images & Photographs Wednesday 16 December Printed Books, Maps & Documents Thursday 17 December Modern Literature, Children’s & Illustrated Books Entries are invited for the above sales: please contact one of our specialist staff for further advice TRAVEL & EXPLORATION, MILITARY & NAVAL HISTORY To commence at 10am 1 [Algeria]. Photograph album, c.1880-90, 25 albumen print photographs and one gelatin silver print photograph (various dimensions, approx. ranges 11 x 9cm to 20 x 26cm) mounted rectos and versos to linen-hinged stiff card leaves, including views, genre scenes (caravans, encampments and trades), ethnographic ‘types’, and a 3-part panorama of the Roman ruins at Timgad (counted as one photograph), a few captioned in the negative (‘Femmes Kabyles puisant l’eau de l’Oued Sahel. Beni Mançour’; ‘Intérieur de maison Kabyle’; ‘Métier à tisser Kabyle’; ‘Mosquée du Barbier ... Kairouan’; ‘Famille mendiante Kabyle’), studio signatures in the negatives including ‘P. Famin et Cie’, ‘Leroux et Cie’ and ‘Albert’, variable fading, a few with loss or creasing to corners, in a contemporary half skiver album with 38 other albumen print photographs of Roman views, antiquities and statuary, binding mottled and worn, oblong folio (31 x 40cm) (1) £200 - £300 2 America. Thirty British Acts of Parliament relating to Growth of Coffee in His Majesty’s Plantations in America..., 1766, America, mainly 18th century, including: 8. An Act to amend ... An Act for repealing certain Duties in the 1. An Act for the Relief of Merchants Importing Prize Goods from British Colonies and Plantations ... upon certain East India Goods America, 1712, exported from Great Britain ... and securing, several Branches of 2. An Act for Continuing ... An Act for Encouraging the Importation Trade of this Kingdom, and the British Dominions in America, as of Naval Stores from Her Majesties Plantations in America; and for relates to the Exportation in America, as relates to the Exportation Encouraging the Importation of Naval Stores from that part of of non-enumerated Goods from the British Colonies in America, Great Britain called Scotland, to that part of Great Britain called 1766, England, [1713], 9. An Act to continue Laws ... between the Subjects of His Majesty’s 3. An Act for granting ... sums of money out of the Sinking Fund ... Dominions and the Inhabitants of the Territories belonging to the and for Relief of Claud Johnson, with respect to a Bond entered United States of America..., 1788, into by him, for securing the Duties on Tobacco imported by 10. An Act for regulating the Trade between the Subjects of His George Buchanan and William Hamilton, 1757, Majesty’s Colonies and Plantations in North America, and in the 4. An Act for making perpetual an Act for the better Regulation West India Islands, and the Countries belonging to the United and Government of Seamen in the Merchants Service; and for States of America; and between His Majesty’s said subjects and extending the Provisions thereof to His Majesty’s Colonies in the Foreign Islands in the West Indies, 1788, America, 1762, 11. An Act to continue several Laws, relating to the landing Rum or 5. An Act for continuing certain Laws therein mentioned relating Spirits of the British Sugar Plantations..., giving further to British Sail Cloth ... and to the Allowance upon the Exportation Encouragement to the Importation of Naval Stores from the British of British made Gunpowder, and for giving further Encouragement Colonies in America, 1793, for the Importation of Naval Stores from the British Colonies in 12. An Act to allow the Importation of Rum and other Spirits, from America, 1764, the Island of Bermuda into the Province of Lower Canada without 6. An Act to extend an Act ... An Act for the further preventing Payment of Duty, on the same Terms and Conditions as such Robbery, Burglary, and other Felonies, and for the more effectual Importation may be made directly from His Majesty’s Sugar Transportation of Fellons and unlawful Exporters of Wool, and for Colonies in the West Indies, 1809 declaring the Law upon some Points relative to Pirates..., 1766, and others similar, occasional spotting, some side stitched as 7.