Printed Books, Maps and Photographs , Maps and Photographs , Books, Printed Bonhams Banbury Road Shipton on Cherwell Kidlington Oxford OX5 1JH +44 (0) 1865 853 640 +44 (0) 1865 372 722 fax Oxford, Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 March 2014 Printed Books, Maps and Photographs Tuesday 25 March and Wednesday 26 March 2014 Oxford 21737 International Auctioneers and Valuers - bonhams.com Printed Books, Maps and Photographs Tuesday 25 March and Wednesday 26 March at 11am Oxford Bonhams Enquiries Shipping and Collections Banbury Road Shipton on Cherwell Oxford Oxford Kidlington John Walwyn-Jones Georgina Roberts Oxford OX5 1JH Georgina Roberts +44 (0) 1865 853 647 bonhams.com Sian Wainwright +44 (0) 1865 853 646 London Viewing +44 (0) 1865 853 647 Lydia Wilkinson Saturday 22 March 9am to 12pm +44 (0) 1865 853 648 +44 (0) 20 7393 3841 Monday 24 March 9am to 4.30pm Limited viewing on day of sale London Please see back of catalogue Matthew Haley for important notices to bidders Bids Luke Batterham +44(0) 20 7447 7448 Simon Roberts Illustrations +44(0) 20 7447 7401 fax Claire Wilkins Front cover: Lot 766 To bid via the internet Back cover: Lot 475 please visit www.bonhams.com +44 (0) 20 7393 3828 Contents: Lot 440 +44 (0) 20 7393 3879 fax Please note that bids should be [email protected] Sale number: 21737 submitted no later than 24 hours prior to the sale. 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Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Jonathan Baddeley, Andrew McKenzie, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Antony Bennett, Matthew Bradbury, Mike Neill, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Malcolm Barber Group Managing Director, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Andrew Currie, Peter Rees, Julian Roup, Iain Rushbrook, Matthew Girling CEO UK and Europe, David Dallas, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, Veronique Scorer, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Geoffrey Davies, Jonathan Horwich, Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Grant, James Stratton, Roger Tappin, Ralph Taylor +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax James Knight, Patrick Meade, Robin Hereford, Asaph Hyman, Charles Lanning, Shahin Virani, David Williams, Caroline Oliphant, Hugh Watchorn. Sophie Law, Camilla Lombardi, Fergus Lyons, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Paul Maudsley, Gordon McFarlan, Sale Information A4095 Bicester Shipton on Cherwell Shipton Rd Saleroom Banbury Rd A4095 Banbury Road Woodstock Shipton on Cherwell Oxfor A4260 Kidlington d Rd Oxford Upper Campsfield Rd OX5 1JH Oxford and A40 A44 Airfield +44 (0) 1865 853 640 +44 (0) 1865 372 722 (fax) Oxford Kidlington www.bonhams.com/books By Rail: Oxford train station Important Notices Condition Reports 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 in sale room unless arrangements are made for the notice entitled ‘VAT’ at the end of the person, during our public viewing. We expect shipping. catalogue. that there may be a large number of condition enquiries, and the effect will be that clients If you wish to arrange shipping, Please note that lots comprising printed books, submitting long and elaborate requests are please contact Georgina Roberts unframed maps and bound manuscripts are likely to be dealt with after those with short ([email protected]) in order not liable to VAT on the Buyer’s Premium. and specific requests. For these sales we will not to get a quote with Pack and Send. be able to provide a list of undescribed items Lots are sold with all faults, imperfections (e.g. “and 10 others”), but we will be happy to and errors of description, but if on collation assist with requests along the lines of “does this Saleroom any described printed book in this catalogue lot contain this title by that author”. Similarly, is found to lack text or illustrations, the same clients requesting digital images are asked to Banbury Road may be returned to Bonhams within 20 keep the number to an absolute minimum in Shipton on Cherwell days of the sale; the unstated defect to be order that we can process their requests. Kidlington detailed in writing. This shall not apply in the Oxford OX5 1JH case of un-named items, blanks, half-titles or +44 (0) 1865 853 640 advertisements, nor to damage to bindings, +44 (0) 1865 372 722 (fax) stains, tears or other defects unless these result www.bonhams.com/books in loss to text or illustration. Georgina Roberts Atlases, maps, periodicals, printed music and Tel: +44 (0) 1865 853 6487 items sold as collections, association copies, [email protected] extra-illustrated or as bindings, are sold not subject to return. Contents Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 March 2014 at 11am Lots Day 1 – Tuesday 25 March at 11am Natural History 1-37 The Ornithological Library of Lois and Tom Nightingale 38-129 The Library of Professor William Stearn (1911-2001) 130-218 General Travel 219-270 Topography of the British Isles 271-313 British Maps and Atlases 314-336 General Maps and Atlases 337-351 Science and Medicine 352-386 Day 2 – Wednesday 26 March at 11am General Printed Books 387-498 English Literature 499-562 Books from the Aldine Collection of the late Sir Robert Horton 563-605 Continental Printed Books 606-629 Art and Architecture 630-655 Gill, Pepler and Ditchling 656-668 The Property of a Lady Modern Literature, Children’s and Illustrated 669-787 5 10 15 4 | Bonhams PRINTED BOOKS, MAPS AND PHOTOGRAPHS Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 March 2014 at 11am 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. NATURAL HISTORY 1• ANGLING PRITT (THOMAS EVAN) North-Country Flies, second edition, half-title, 12 lithographed plates (11 hand-coloured), tissue guards, FINE COPY, Sampson Low, 1886--EDMONDS (HARFIELD H.) and NORMAN E. LEE. Brook and River Trouting. A Manual for Modern North Country Methods, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece, plates (10 coloured of flies), Bradford, by the Authors, [1916]--WEST (LEONARD) The Natural Trout Fly and its Imitation, plates, covers slightly dampstained, Liverpool, William Potter, 1921--[BOOSEY (THOMAS)] Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings by an Old Angler and Bibliopolist. To Which is Added a Catalogue of Books on Angling, 2 parts in 1, lithographed frontispiece, illustrations, rubbed with minor loss to paper spine label, William Pickering, 1835, publisher’s cloth, 8vo and small 4to (4) £150 - 250 2• [BANCROFT (EDWARD)] 7 An Essay on the Natural History of Guiana, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece of double-headed snake, scattered spotting, ownership • inscription on title, contemporary calf, rebacked, surfaces rubbed [Sabin 6 3106], 8vo, T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1769--SHAW (GEORGE) BURBIDGE (F. W.) General Zoology or Systematic Natural History, vol. 1, 2 and 3, part 1 in Cool Orchids, frontispiece and 4 hand-coloured plates, publisher’s 5 vol., hand-coloured engraved vignettes on titles, numerous hand- cloth, scuffed, 1874--HARTING (J.E.) Rambles in search of Shells, 10 coloured engraved plates, lacking title in vol. 5, front endpapers loose, hand-coloured plates, publisher’s cloth, Van Voorst, 1875--[ASHTON ownership inscriptions on titles, contemporary calf, hinges cracking, G. (THOMAS)] Visits to the Museum of the Manchester Natural History Kearsley, 1800-[1802], sold as a collection of plates; and 2 others (8) Society, third edition, worn, lacking back wrapper, Manchester, 1863, £300 - 500 8vo; and upwards of 20 others (small quantity) £100 - 200 • 3 • BAUER (FERDINAND) 7 The Australian Flower Paintings of Ferdinand Bauer. [Text by] William CANDOLLE (A.P. DE) T. Stearn. Introduction by Wilfrid Blunt, LIMITED TO 515 COPIES, 25 Notice historique sur la vie et les travaux de M. Desfontaines, offprint, mounted colour plates, publisher’s morocco-backed marbled boards, drophead title, half cloth, [Geneva, 1834]--DESMARES (A.G.), Extraits held in a similar half morocco chemise, with silk ties, elephant folio, de deux memoires... sur l’organisation de deux animaux marins, Basilisk Press, 1976 engraved plate, sewed, somewhat worn, Paris, 1815--Fauna of Trinidad, £200 - 400 B.W.I., duplicated, some wear [not on Copac or World Cat.], Trinidad, 1941--LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON, List of Members, 1860-1896 and 4 1908-1934, bound in 5 vol., with a number of manuscript alterations BENINGFIELD (GORDON) and additions but with the society’s release stamp, cloth, 1860-1934, Little Owl, ORIGINAL PEN, INK AND WATERCOLOUR, on paper, 8vo, 4to and folio; and upwards of 30 others (small quantity) mounted, framed and glazed, original Moorland Gallery label (“Little £100 - 200 Owl...”) on verso, image to view 310 x 250mm. • £300 - 400 8 CURTIS (WILLIAM) 5• The Botanical Magazine; Or, Flower-Garden Displayed, vol. 31-32 BUFFON (GEORGE LOUIS MARIE LECLERC, Comte de) in 1, 91 engraved hand-coloured plates (4 folding, 1 uncoloured), Natural History, General and Particular... Second Edition... by William contemporary speckled calf [Nissen BBI 2350], 8vo, Sherwood, Neely and Smellie, 9 vol., engraved portrait, 2 folding maps and 305 plates (some Jones, 1810, sold as a periodical folding), occasional light browning and offsetting, contemporary tree £300 - 400 calf, gilt panelled spines with red and green morocco labels, spine ends • worn, 8vo, W.