Fine Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Historical Photographs Montpelier Street, London | 19 August 2020 Bonhams 1793 Limited Registered No. 4326560 Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Fine Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Historical Photographs Montpelier Street, London | Wednesday 19 August 2020, at 1pm 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 The Cookery Book Collection of Ruth Watson 1-80 General and Continental Books, Manuscripts and Photographs 81-107 Spectacles and Association Items 108-112 English Literature and History 113-127 Atlases and Maps 128-146 Travel 147-174 Natural History 175-189 Science 190-207 Ballet and Opera 208-219 T.E. Lawrence And The Corvinus Press 220-225 Modern Books, Manuscripts and Original Illustrations 226-265 Ruth Watson The Cookery Book Collection of Ruth Watson In 1985 I opened the Closet of antiquarian cookery books, courtesy of Sir Kenelm Digby. I vividly remember my husband’s response when I told him the cost. Many early English expletives were involved. We had recently bought Hintlesham Hall and were busily adding guest bedrooms. I already owned several hundred modern cookery books but I think it was the time I was spending in antique shops, buying paintings and furniture, that was the catalyst to collecting antiquarian volumes. I grew to love the feel of a worn calf- bound volume with its tobacco-dry pages and happily wondered about the authors of the myriad inscriptions and amendments. Over two decades booksellers such as the late Mike McKirdy, Tom Jackson and Simon Gough all fed my acquisitive desire. But now, nearly 40 years on, and having satiated my appetite, I feel it’s time to let other enthusiasts share the joy of collecting these culinary treasures. Ruth Watson, July 2020 6 | BONHAMS Fine Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Historical Photographs Wednesday 19 August 2020 at 1pm 1 • ACTON (ELIZA) Modern Cookery in all its Branches: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, for the Use of Private Families, FIRST EDITION, half- title, illustrations, 24pp. advertisements at end, light browning and occasional staining, publisher’s cloth, rebacked [Bitting p.3; Oxford p.175], Longmans, Brown, 1845--RUNDAL (MARY) The Domestic Cookery Book, or Guide to the Culinary Art... Valuable Receipts for Plain and Ornamental Cookery Upon the Most Economical Plan... Carving, Brewing, Trussing... Making Wines..., engraved frontispiece and 10 plates (slightly frayed at edges), some damp- and other staining, modern calf-backed boards, spine gilt, John Bysh, 8 Cloth Fair, Smithfield, [c.1830]--MOLLARD (JOHN, ‘Park Hotel, Norwood’) The Art of Cookery Made Easy and Refined, lacking half-title and frontispiece, modern half calf, spine gilt with red morocco label [Bitting, p.328; Oxford, p.131], Whittaker & Co., 1836--KITCHENER (WILLIAM) The Cook’s Oracle, Containing Receipts for Plain Cookery, on the Most Economical Plan for Private Families, third edition, occasional soiling, contemporary half roan, joints cracked, tear to spine [Oxford p.145-6; Simon BG 915], Edinburgh, Robert Cadell, 1837--APPERT (NICOLAS) The Art of Preserving All Kinds of Animal and Vegetable Substances, second English edition, half-title and advertisement leaf, lacks plate, nineteenth century half calf, spine gilt, bookplate of Joseph Cook [Bitting p.14], Black, Parry and Kingsbury, 1812--GORDON (A.M.) The New Domestic Cookery; Formed upon Principles of Economy, wood- engraved frontispiece and illustrations, 2pp. advertisements preceding title, old owner’s ink note on verso of title, publisher’s cloth, w. Tweedie, 1853--The New London Cookery. Adapted to the Use of Private Families... by S.W., eighth edition, folding wood-engraved frontispiece (repaired) and 5 plates of cuts of meat, some soiling, publisher’s cloth, Joseph Smith, 1836, 8vo and 12mo (7) 1 £400 - 600 €440 - 660 US$500 - 750 Books on domestic economy including the first edition of Eliza Acton’s Modern Cookery and three rare works or editions not traced in any culinary bibliography. Particularly perplexing is Mary Rundal’s Domestic Cookery Book, as neither the title nor its author appear to be recorded anywhere. Library Hub does record one copy an edition of Gordon’s New Domestic Cookery (Dublin, 1849), and two editions of The New London Cookery (Joseph Smith, 1835 and c.1840). Although these editions give “A Lady” as the author rather than “S.W”., the one dated 1835 matches the collation of our work, so we can presume they are one and the same, although earlier editions have also been attributed to Esther Copley. 2 • ACTON (ELIZA) The English Bread-Book for Domestic Use, FIRST EDITION, additional wood-engraved title, 24pp. publisher’s catalogue, publisher’s cloth with gilt device on upper cover (faded), slight tear to top of front joint, inner hinge splitting [Bitting p.3; Simon BG 25], 1857; Modern Cookery for Private Families, Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts... Newly Revised and much Enlarged edition, 8 engraved plates, illustrations, bookplate of Alan Davidson, publisher’s blind-stamped cloth, elaborate gilt spine with culinary motifs [cf. Bitting p.3], 1855, 8vo, Longmans, Brown (2) £300 - 500 €330 - 550 US$380 - 630 First edition of Acton’s influential work on bread-making, along with a fine copy of her incredibly successful Modern Cookery, which was much admired by Elizabeth David. 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.