FINE BOOKS, ATLASES, MANUSCRIPTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS Wednesday 14 June 2017 Knightsbridge, London FINE BOOKS, ATLASES, MANUSCRIPTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS FINE BOOKS, ATLASES, | Knightsbridge, London | Wednesday 14 June 2017 | Knightsbridge, London Wednesday 24115 FINE BOOKS, ATLASES, MANUSCRIPTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS Wednesday 14th June 2017 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. 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SALE NUMBER: 24115 CATALOGUE: £18 Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams International Board 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, Antony Bennett, Matthew Bradbury, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, India Phillips, Matthew Girling CEO, Lucinda Bredin, Simon Cottle, Andrew Currie, Peter Rees, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Group Vice Chairman, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, Veronique Scorer, James Stratton, Ralph Taylor, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Jon Baddeley, Rupert Banner, Geoffrey Davies, Charles Graham-Campbell, Matthew Haley, Charlie Thomas, David Williams, Jonathan Fairhurst, Asaph Hyman, James Knight, Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, David Johnson, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Caroline Oliphant, Shahin Virani, Charles Lanning, Miranda Leslie, Edward Wilkinson, Leslie Wright. 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. 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Jennifer Ebrey +44 (0) 20 7393 3810 +44 (0) 207393 3879 Fax [email protected] CONTENTS LOTS General Printed Books 1-57 Angling 58-66 The Property of a Lady Bindings, Illustrated and Miscellaneous Books 67-87 The Property of a Collector Continental Books 88-110 Photographs and Photobooks 111-144 Including Property of a Deceased Estate General Travel 145-162 General Atlases and Maps 163-172 British Maps and Topography 173-186 Original Illustrations 187-196 Modern Books and Manuscripts 197-237 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, ATLASES, MANUSCRIPTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS | 3 2 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, ATLASES, MANUSCRIPTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS Wednesday 14th June 2017 at 1pm 1 • AESOP Fables with His Life: in English, French and Latin, engraved additional pictorial title, full-page engraved armorial coat-of-arms, 30 engraved plates (of 31, without “indecent” plate 17) by Thomas Dudley and Francis Barlow, one full-page engraved illustration (“See here how natures books...”), 110 half-page engraved illustrations, long tear to pp.73/74 repaired with 4 small old paper tabs, short tear to margin of 8 leaves, browning to a few gatherings, occasional spotting, contemporary calf, red gilt morocco spine label, joints refurbished at extremities [ESTC R22991], folio (304 x 184mm.), H. Hills Jun., for Francis Barlow, 1687 £600 - 800 €710 - 950 Handsomely illustrated edition of Aesop’s Fables, with Aphra Behn’s English verses replacing those of Thomas Philipott, which were used in the 1666 edition. Provenance John Strange, ownership signature dated 1854. 2 • ALBIN (ELEAZAR) A Natural History of English Insects. Illustrated with a Hundred Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven from Life: And (for those who desire it) Exactly Coloured by the Author Eleazar Albin, Painter, FIRST EDITION, 100 hand- coloured engraved plates after drawings by the author, each with accompanying text leaf by W. Derham, list of subscribers, plates 51-100 numbered neatly in ink to the upper right corner of the plate, light soiling to a few plates, contemporary calf, rebacked in calf gilt with morocco lettering label [Nissen ZBI 58; Freeman 45; Lisney 119], 4to (288 x 228mm.), for the Author, 1720 £2,000 - 3,000 €2,400 - 3,600 “Each plate is dedicated to a subscriber or well-known personality, undoubtedly those who acted as patrons or took an interest in Albin’s drawings of insects” (Lisney). Albin was keen to stress that his work was accurate in its depictions as he “observed it as a great fault in those who have gone before... that they either did not look often enough at their Pattern, or affected to make the picture outdo Nature” (Preface). 3 • BACON (FRANCIS) The Elements of the Common Lawes of England, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, with initial blank, some light browning, old calf, rebacked and recornered [ESTC S100348; Gibson 193], small 4to, Assignes of J. More, 1630 £500 - 700 €590 - 830 Provenance Purchased from Kelly Law Book Exchange, 24 January 1944, pencil note; institutional bookplate. 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, ATLASES, MANUSCRIPTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS | 5 4 • BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, GENEVA VERSION The Bible, That Is, The Holy Scriptures Conteined in the Old and New Testament, general and New Testament titles within wide border featuring 24 small compartments showing the Apostles and the tents of the twelve tribes, one part title with woodcut ornament, woodcut illustrations and maps [ESTC S101809; Herbert 2175], Christopher Barker, 1599 [but Amsterdam, after 1640]; The CL Psalmes of David in Meeter, According to the Church of Scotland, title within wide woodcut border [ESTC S90834], Edinburgh, James Bryson, 1640, 2 works in 1 vol., good margins throughout, the front and rear endpapers each with large off-centred letterpress signature “A”, a few gatherings sprung, contemporary ?Scottish morocco gilt, g.e., elaborately tooled, the sides with central panel enclosing initials “I.D.H.”, rubbed, without ties, small 4to (220 x 180mm.) £600 - 800 €710 - 950 5 • BINDINGS - RACING CALENDAR Racing Calendar [-Racing to Come], 81 vol., incomplete run, uniform calf, red and black gilt morocco spine labels, 8vo, 1793[-1878] £600 - 800 €710 - 950 6 • BINDINGS CAMPBELL (JOHN) The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, 8 vol., 1845--ABBOT (CHARLES) The Diary and Correspondence of Charles Abbot, Lord Colchester, 3 vol., engraved portrait, 1861--RANKE (LEOPOLD) The Popes of Rome, 2 vol., 1847, John Murray--SCOTT (WALTER) The Waverley Novels, 12 vol., Robert Cadell, 1842-1847, contemporary calf gilt, 8vo; and 5 others (30) £700 - 900 €830 - 1,100 7 • BLACKSTONE (WILLIAM) A Discourse on the Study of the Law; Being an Introductory Lecture, Read in the Public Schools, October XXV, M.DCC.LVIII, FIRST EDITION, without final advertisement leaf, modern half morocco (with Wildy & sons ticket), 4to, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1758 £500 - 800 €590 - 950 First edition of Blackstone’s inaugural lecture as Vinerian professor of the Laws of England in October 1758.