Fine Books, Atlases, Manuscripts & Historical Photographs Historical & Manuscripts Atlases, Fine Books, I Montpelier Street, London I 17 December 2020 I Montpelier Street, 26015 Fine Books, Atlases, Manuscripts & Historical Photographs Montpelier Street, London I 17 December 2020 Fine Books, Atlases, Manuscripts & Historical Photographs Montpelier Street, London | Thursday 17 December 2020, at 12pm BONHAMS ENQUIRIES Please see page 2 for bidder REGISTRATION Montpelier Street Matthew Haley information including after-sale IMPORTANT NOTICE Knightsbridge Simon Roberts collection and shipment. Please note that all customers, London SW7 1HH Luke Batterham irrespective of any previous activity www.bonhams.com Sarah Lindberg Please see back of catalogue with Bonhams, are required to +44 (0) 20 7393 3828 for important notice to bidders complete the Bidder Registration VIEWING +44 (0) 20 7393 3831 Form in advance of the sale. 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Joel Chandler +44 (0)20 7393 3841 [email protected] Contents LOTS General Books and Manuscripts 1 – 30 English Literature and History 31 – 60 John Chard V.C., R.E., “Hero of Rorke’s Drift” 61 – 75 Sold on behalf of his descendants India 76 – 93 Including the Property of a Gentleman Photography 94 – 100 Maps and Atlases 101 – 114 Continental Books and Manuscripts 115 – 136 Nostradamus and Prophecies 137 – 170 The Property of Mario Gregorio Angling 171 – 196 Science and Natural History 197 – 216 Modern Books and Manuscripts 217 – 270 1 2 3 5 4 | BONHAMS Fine Books, Atlases, Manuscripts & Historical Photographs Thursday 17 December 2020, at 12pm 1 3 • ALBUM - SIGNATURES COOKERY MANUSCRIPT Nineteenth century album of over 150 cut signatures, and some Culinary recipe book, written in several hands, with over 100 receipts autograph letters, from British and European artists, musicians, including “Sauce for wild Ducks”, “For a goos and greats”, “To pickle writers, and politicians, including David Livingstone, Victor Hugo, larg Cookombers like mangoes”, “To pickle littel cuckombours”, John Ruskin (autograph letter to S.C.Hall, expressing pleasure “To dress a pig after ye new mode”, “To make a goos-gibblet pye”, that his wife is recovered), W.M. Thackeray, George MacDonald, “To make a chicken pye sweet”, “To make a very good cake” (“... Charles Lyell (autograph letter requesting that he be sent a map beat...not too light, for then it may deceive you and make the cake of Belgium, 22 June 1869), Charles Kingsley, S.C. Hall, Matthew heavy...”), “Sauce for all sorts of fresh fish”, “Sauce for larks or any Arnold (autograph letter accepting a lunch invitation, 11 March other small birds”, “Codling Cream”, “Queen Cakes”, “To Colour a 1871), William Etty, Landseer, John Linnell, James Nasmyth, Joseph H. head of Brandy”, two medicinal receipts inserted at end, ink blots Joachim, Arthur Sullivan, Maria Krebs, William Gladstone, John and a few pen trials throughout, 84 pages, browned and stained, Bright, James Martineau and Lionel de Rothschild, most mounted, a edges frayed, contemporary ruled vellum, worn, 4to (184 x 150mm.), few loose, pages loose in nineteenth century red morocco gilt album, mid eighteenth century [c.1850-1890]--ILLUMINATED ADDRESS “To The Rev. Stephen Bridge M.A. on his Relinquishing the Incumbency of St. Matthew’s, Denmark Hill, 1868”, manuscript on vellum, 11 sheets, 2 ornamental £400 - 600 opening pages in coloured and gilt inks, each page within gilt €450 - 670 border, decorative red morocco gilt, gilt dentelles, blue watered silk US$530 - 790 doublures and front free endpapers, g.e., rubbed, folio, “Designed & Executed by Witherby & Co., London”, [1868]; and 8 others, 4 • miscellaneous manuscripts (10) COOKERY Manuscript recipe book of Richard Scarborough, brown ink on £600 - 800 paper, 23 pages including recipes for ‘Ginger Wine’, ‘Brandy €670 - 890 Toast’, and ‘Lemon Cheesecakes’, some leaves excised, LEATHER US$790 - 1,100 BOOK-LABEL OF RAYMOND OLIVER, contemporary vellum, inscribed ‘Scarborough’s Book’ and ‘Prescriptions 1783. London. 2 • Ricd. Scarborh.’ on upper cover, preserved in solander box, 4to (188 x 153mm.), 1783--[GLASSE (HANNAH) The Art of Cookery, CHALON (ALFRED EDWARD AND JOHN JAMES) Made Plain and Easy... One Hundred and Fifty New and Usefil “Sketches by A.E.C. & J.J.C. The Etchings by F[rancis] S[tevens] Receipts, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners worn [Vicaire 414], from Mr. Standerts’ [sic] Poem of the Winter’s Night, or the Admiral, A. Millar, 1767--FARLEY (JOHN) The London Art of Cookery, ninth the Farmer & the Old Marine. June 1818”, manuscript title in ink, edition, engraved frontispiece and 12 plates, some light foxing and 6 original sepia ink and wash illustrations by A.E. and J.J. Chalon, dampstaining, manuscript recipe for Quince Brandy on reverse of 6 etchings (initialled “F.S.” and numbered 1-6 in the plate), each frontispiece, bookplate of Antoine Tavera, contemporary tree calf, mounted one per page (recto only) on original blue-grey paper, loose rebacked, corners worn, James Scatcherd etc., 1800, 8vo (3) in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, original red morocco gilt lettering label on upper cover, covers loose, no spine, images approx. 115 x 88mm., [c.1818] £300 - 500 €330 - 560 US$390 - 660 £600 - 800 €670 - 890 5 US$790 - 1,100 • CRAWHALL (JOSEPH) Alfred Edward and John James Chalon, both Royal Academicians, Border Notes & Mixty-Maxty, [ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES], were founder members with Francis Stevens of the ‘The Society for AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed “Mrs. Geo. Armstrong the Study of Epic and Pastoral Design’, later known as the ‘Chalon with the author’s kind regards” on the dedication leaf, 5 hand- Sketching Club’, which first met in Stevens’ home on January 6, coloured plates, other full-page plates and illustrations, publisher’s 1808. “The member at whose house the meeting was held provided half morocco over peacock-patterned cloth, g.e. [Westwood & paper stained on drawing frames, pencils and sepia. The subjects Satchell p.70], small 4to, [Newcastle, Imprinted by Andrew Reid, for selected as a theme, chiefly from the ancient classics, were chosen the Author], 1880 by the host, who prepared written extracts, on separate slips, for the members, with each artist treating the subject according to his £600 - 800 own conception” (Luke A. Dowle, Unveiling the Sketching Society €670 - 890 (1799-1851), MPhil(R) thesis, Glasgow, online). The Winter’s Night by US$790 - 1,100 Hugh Standish (not “Standert” as given on our title) was a poem for juveniles published, with five plates, in Taunton in 1815.