Wednesday 21 March 2018 21 March Wednesday FINE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS FINE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS | Knightsbridge, London | Wednesday 21 March 2018 24633 FINE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS Wednesday 21 March 2018 at 10am Knightsbridge, London BONHAMS ENQUIRIES Please see page 2 for bidder Montpelier Street Matthew Haley information including after-sale Knightsbridge Simon Roberts collection and shipment. London SW7 1HH Luke Batterham www.bonhams.com Sarah Lindberg Please see back of catalogue +44 (0) 20 7393 3828 for important notice to bidders VIEWING +44 (0) 20 7393 3831 Sunday 18 March ILLUSTRATIONS 11am - 3pm Shipping and Collections Front cover: Lot 83 Monday 19 March Leor Cohen Back cover: Lot 245 9am - 4.30pm +44 (0) 20 7393 3841 Tuesday 20 March +44 (0) 20 7393 3879 Fax 9am - 4.30pm [email protected] Please note that Bonhams will be closed Friday 30 March BIDS PRESS ENQUIRIES 2018 – Monday 2 April 2018 +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 [email protected] for the Easter Holiday. +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax [email protected] CUSTOMER SERVICES To bid via the internet Monday to Friday please visit www.bonhams.com 8.30am – 6pm +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 New bidders must also provide proof of identity when submitting LIVE ONLINE BIDDING IS bids. Failure to do this may result AVAILABLE FOR THIS SALE in your bids not being processed. 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SALE NUMBER: 24633 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, Jean Ghika, Charles Graham-Campbell, Veronique Scorer, Robert Smith, James Stratton, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Jon Baddeley, Rupert Banner, Geoffrey Davies, Matthew Haley, Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, Ralph Taylor, Charlie Thomas, David Williams, Jonathan Fairhurst, Asaph Hyman, James Knight, David Johnson, Charles Lanning, Grant Macdougall Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Caroline Oliphant, Shahin Virani, 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. SHIPPING, COLLECTION AND STORAGE Buyers’ accounts are due for settlement at the end of each sale and it is our hope that clients will collect at the same time or certainly within 48 hours of the sale finishing. All sold lots will remain in Bonhams Knightsbridge Book Department without charge for a period of 21 days Any items not collected by then may incur storage charges. Buyers are encouraged to make contact with Leor Cohen to discuss any collection, storage or shipping concerns. Leor Cohen +44 (0) 20 7393 3841 +44 (0) 20 7393 3879 Fax [email protected] 2 | BONHAMS CONTENTS Lots General Printed Books, Manuscripts and Photographs 1 – 44 The Property of the late Charles Benson Esq. 45 – 65 Manuscripts and Journals Travel 66 – 78 Atlases and Maps 79 – 95 Continental Books 96 – 109 The Property of the late Capt. J.D.G. Fortescue Continental Books 110 – 119 Travel 120 – 130 English Literature and History 131 – 149 Natural History 150 – 154 The Property of the late Kenneth John Hewett 155 – 202 Science and Natural History 203 – 217 Exsiccata: Ferns, Seaweed, Mosses and Other Specimens 218 – 249 A Private Collection Modern Books and Manuscripts 250 – 297 Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes: The Property of Frieda Hughes 301 – 408 See separate catalogue FINE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS | 3 2 4 | BONHAMS FINE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS Wednesday 21 March 2018 at 10am See separate catalogue for Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes: The Property of Frieda Hughes 1 • 2 ANGLING BACON (FRANCIS, SIR) [SALTER (ROBERT)] The Modern Angler, Being a Treatise on the Art Letter signed and subscribed (“assured/ fr. verulam Canc[ellarius]”), of Fishing, &c. in a Series of Letters to a Friend, FIRST EDITION, as Lord Chancellor, to Lord Zouch, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, engraved frontispiece of fish hooks (light off-setting onto title), notifying him of a forthcoming legal case affecting his prerogative: without errata slip, modern half calf [Westwood & Satchell, p.186], “There are protest gone out at Mr Attorney Generalls prayer against 12mo, Oswestry, Printed for the Author by J. Salter, [c.1790]-- Hugh Hugginson and Josias Ente concerning the busines against [HOWLETT (ROBERT)] The Anglers Sure Guide: or, Angling Improved, the Dutchmen in Starchamber. Out of a desire to extened the ancient And Methodically Digested, FIRST EDITION, 2 engraved plates, priviledges and customes due to your place not to serve such protest light browning, trimmed just touching headline of a few pages, within your jurisdiction without your leave and contente, I have thought undecipherable early ownership inscription on title, ownership stamp it good hereby to desire your Lordship for his Majesties service, that “I. Fothergill” on verso of plates [Westwood & Satchell, p.110], G. you would cause them forthwith to be sent papers to answer Mr Conyers, 1706--The Gentleman Angler: Containing Short, Plain and Attorneys Bill and abide such further proceedings as their case shall Easy Instructions, Whereby the Most Ignorant Beginner May, in a require”, written in a secretary hand, with the place, date and closing in Little Time, become a Perfect Artist in Angling for Salmon, Salmon- an italic hand, as is Bacon’s signature and subscription; contemporary peal, Trout, FIRST EDITION, half-title, ownership inscription of Richard endorsement, 1 page, integral address leaf, traces of seal (the 1st leaf Stoben (1729/30) on half-title [Westwood & Satchell, p.104], A. numbered in a different hand in the upper margin), seal tear, repaired, Bettesworth, 1726; idem, third edition “with additions”, advertisement remains of guard on left edge, folio, Gorhambury, 3 August 1619 leaf before title, Rolle bookplate [Westwood & Satchell, p.104], C. Hitch, [1743?]--BROOKES (RICHARD) The Art of Angling, fifth £5,000 - 7,000 edition, engraved frontispiece, nineteenth century gift inscription to €5,700 - 8,000 “Williamson Junr. by his mother at Westhorpe, Marlow, Bucks” on title [Westwood & Satchell, p.42], T. Lowndes, 1781--TAYLOR (SAMUEL) BACON PRESIDES OVER A CASE IN THE STAR CHAMBER. The Angling in All Its Branches, FIRST EDITION, half-title, T. Longman, ‘busines against the Dutchmen’ referred to here was a celebrated 1800, contemporary calf, the first 2 mentioned rebacked to match, lawsuit at the time whereby more than forty defendants, both London covers detached on last mentioned--WOOLLEY (ROGER) Modern merchants and foreigners, had been charged with subversion of Trout Fly Dressing, FIRST EDITION, folding plate, publisher’s cloth, the realm by exporting gold and silver coin, bullion, plate and other Fishing Gazette, 1932--MACKINTOSH (ALEXANDER) The Driffield treasure in violation of ancient statues and James I’s proclamation Angler, FIRST EDITION, half-title, engraved frontispiece, spotting, of 23 November 1611. In the event twenty alien merchants, though contemporary boards, paper spine label, worn with some loss to no Englishmen, were fined sums from £1,500 to £20,000, making a spine [Westwood & Satchell, p.137], Gainsborough, for the Author, total of £151,000; this being the largest amount fined in a single case [1806]--[CHATTO (WILLIAM ANDREW)] “P. FISHER”. The Angler’s (Thomas G. Barnes, ‘Mr Hudson’s Star Chamber’, Tudor Rule and Souvenir, FIRST EDITION, engraved additional title, frontispiece and 31 Revolution: Essays for G.R. Elton from his American Friends, 1982, engraved plates by Beckwith and Topham, text within pictorial borders pp.302-3).