PRINTED BOOKS, MAPS AND PHOTOGRAPHS Wednesday 25 June 2014 Oxford PRINTED BOOKS, MAPS AND PHOTOGRAPHS | Oxford | Wednesday 25 June 2014 25 June 2014 | Wednesday | Oxford 21752 PRINTED BOOKS, MAPS AND PHOTOGRAPHS Wednesday 25 June 2014 at 10.30 Oxford BONHAMS ENQUiries SHIPPING AND COLLECTIONS important INFormation Banbury Road Oxford Oxford The United States Shipton on Cherwell John Walwyn-Jones Georgina Roberts Government has banned the Kidlington Georgina Roberts +44 (0) 1865 853 647 import of ivory into the USA. Oxford OX5 1JH Sian Wainwright Lots containing ivory are bonhams.com +44 (0) 1865 853 646 London indicated by the symbol Ф +44 (0) 1865 853 647 Lydia Wilkinson printed beside the lot number VieWing +44 (0) 1865 853 648 +44 (0) 20 7393 3841 in this catalogue. 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Sophie Law, Camilla Lombardi, Fergus Lyons, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Paul Maudsley, Gordon McFarlan, Sale A4095 INFormation Bicester Shipton on Cherwell Shipton Rd Banbury Rd A4095 Woodstock SALEROOM Oxford Rd A4260 Banbury Road Shipton on Cherwell Upper Campsfield Rd Kidlington Oxford and A40 Oxford OX5 1JH A44 Airfield +44 (0) 1865 853 640 +44 (0) 1865 372 722 (fax) Oxford www.bonhams.com/books Kidlington By Rail: Oxford train station Important Notice Condition Collection and Storage For explanation of any asterisked symbols We highly recommend that potential buyers All purchased lots will remain at the Oxford that may appear in catalogues, please see make efforts to inspect the books in Oxford sale room unless arrangements are made the notice entitled ‘VAT’ at the end of the in person, during our public viewing. We for shipping. catalogue. expect that there may be a large number of condition enquiries, and the effect will be If you wish to arrange shipping, Please note that lots comprising printed that clients submitting long and elaborate please contact Georgina Roberts books, unframed maps and bound requests are likely to be dealt with after ([email protected]) in order manuscripts are not liable to VAT on the those with short and specific requests. For to get a quote with Pack and Send. Buyer’s Premium. these sales we will not be able to provide a list of undescribed items (e.g. “and 10 Saleroom Lots are sold with all faults, imperfections others”), but we will be happy to assist with Banbury Road and errors of description, but if on collation requests along the lines of “does this lot Shipton on Cherwell any described printed book in this catalogue contain this title by that author”. Similarly, Kidlington is found to lack text or illustrations, the same clients requesting digital images are asked Oxford OX5 1JH may be returned to Bonhams within 20 days to keep the number to an absolute minimum +44 (0) 1865 853 640 of the sale; the unstated defect to be in order that we can process their requests. +44 (0) 1865 372 722 (fax) detailed in writing. This shall not apply in the www.bonhams.com/books 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, periodicals, printed music and items sold as collections, association copies, extra-illustrated or as bindings, are sold not subject to return. CONTENTS Wednesday 25 June 2014 at 10.30 Lots General Printed Books 1-66 Art and Architecture 67-82 Property of a Lady 83-107 Continental Printed Books 108-149 The remaining Books and Prints from the Library of the late Guy Evans (1932-2004) 150-173 Maps and Atlases 174-196 British Topography 197-210 Travel 211-315 Science and Medicine 316-326 Property of a Collector 327-333 Natural History 334-376 Veterinary Books of an East Anglian Collector 377-404 English Literature 405-437 Modern Literature, Children’s and Illustrated 438-502 1 5 6 7 4 | BONHAMS PRINTED BOOKS, MAPS & PHOTOGRAPHS 4• BIBLIOGRAPHY - ORIGINAL LEAVES WEDNESDAY 25 JUNE 2014 at 10.30AM Original Leaves from Famous European Books; Original Leaves from Famous English Books, each work with one-page letterpress index, and Please note that this sale is subject to the Conditions of Sale and 12 printed leaves from 12 volumes, window-mounted, in publisher’s other Notices at the beginning and end of this catalogue, and any pupose-made cloth box, gilt lettering label on spine, folio, Folio Society, saleroom notices that may be posted. Your attention is drawn to [n.d.] (2) the notices at the beginning of the catalogue regarding the removal £400 - 600 of purchases. Leaves from 24 celebrated printed books, representative of the best of English and European printing fom the fifteenth to the early twentieth GENERAL PRINTED BOOKS centuries. Includes: two Incunable leaves (St. Augustine’s De Civitate Dei, 1470; ‘Nuremberg Chronicle’, 1493); Aldine’s Dante, 1502; 1• Pynson’s Froissart, 1523; The Second Folio Shakespeare, 1632; The AMATEUR PRINTING Baskerville ‘Virgil’, 1757; The King James Bible, 1611, Kelmscott Press, MACINTYRE (A.C.) Robert Leprevick, The First Stirling Printer, ONE OF The Well at the World’s End, 1896. 30 COPIES printed for private circulation, letterpress title and limitation statement, 12 further leaves, each with mounted text from “The 5• Stirling Observer” framed by hand-painted illuminated borders, several BIBLIOGRAPHY heightened with gilt, occasional faint stains, contemporary half morocco, DIBDIN (THOMAS FROGNALL) Bibliomania; Or Book-Madness; lettered in gilt on spine, rubbed at extremities, t.e.g., 4to, [c.1881] A Bibliographical Romance, 6 parts plus Supplement, engraved £300 - 400 frontispiece, 2 engraved plates [Lowndes II, p.639], Henry G. Bohn, 1842; A Bibliographical Decameron; Or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse 2• upon Illuminated Manuscripts, and Subjects Connected with Early BALLOONING Engraving, Typography and Bibliography, 3 vol., half-titles [Lowndes II, Ascension of Miss Stocks, & Mrs. Grahm, in a Grand Magnificent p.640], for the author, 1817, uniformly bound in full red morocco gilt by Balloon from White Conduit House Tea Garden, Pentoville, this Day. Riviere, t.e.g., slight dampstain to each volume at bottom edge, large Likewise a New Song on the Balloon, broadside on tinted paper, text in 8vo (4) two columns, 260 x 190mm., [?London], [1824] £300 - 400 £300 - 500 6• “Miss Stocks, the Aeronant [sic], who accompanied the late unfortunate BINDINGS Mr. Harris in his Ascent from the Eagle Tavern, City Road on the 25th CAPMARTIN DE CHAUPY (BERTRAND) Découverte de la maison de of May, 1824, will make her Fifth Ascent from the Gardens ... she will campagne d’Horace, 3 vol., with large engraved folding map, lacking be accompanied in the voyage by Mrs. Graham ... in her Fifth Ascent engraved frontispiece, contemporary olive calf, covers with gilt-stamped ... Mrs. Graham took the whole management of such a stupendous armorial crest of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, spines with richly gilt machine entirely herself, being the only English Female that has ever compartments, two spine labels lacking, two torn, worn at extremities, made the attempt ...” Mrs. Graham was a professional balloonist who Rome, J. Ughetti, 1767--WEST (GILBERT) Observations on the History survived numerous accidents to die in her bed aged 76. and Evidences of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, contemporary red morocco with gilt vignette tooled with birds and crowns, and gilt-tooled 3• border featuring insect and snail devices, rebacked retaining original gilt BALLOONING backstrip, R. Dodsley, 1747--GAMBARINI (C.) A Description of the Earl Two announcements of balloon ascents by Mr. Green from Cremorne of Pembroke’s Pictures, occasional spotting, contemporary inscription Gardens, Chelsea, wood-engraved illustrated broadsides, approximately on endpaper, contemporary elaborately gilt-tooled red morocco, slight 250 x 110mm. (2) abrasions on lower board, upper board detached, Westminster, A. £200 - 300 Campbell, 1731, 8vo; and upwards of 25 others, including Princess Sophia Augustus’ copy of “Vermehrtes Lüneburgisches Kirchen- “Admission One Shilling ..