Bonhams: Books and Manuscripts, 29883, London, New Bond Street

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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 04, 2024 - December 04, 2024
Page Size: 119 items in 5 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 BOSWELL (JAMES)

The Life of Samuel Johnson, 5 vol., John Murray, 1831

1831 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 204.80
52 COWPER (WILLIAM,

The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, THE ESTELLE DOHENY COPY, 1791

1791 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 307.20
53 DICKENS (CHARLES)

Autograph note signed, to Ary Scheffer, Paris, April 1856

Paris April 1856 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,024.00
54 DICKENS (CHARLES)

Autograph cheque signed ("Charles Dickens"), London, 6 January 1863

London 6 January 1863 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,408.00
55

Collection of c.20 manuscript deeds and grants, sixteen dating from the fourteenth- to sixteenth-centuries, relating to Silksworth, Durham

c.1313 to 1501 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,584.00
56 FROISSART (JEAN)

[CHRONICLES] [Here Begynneth the Fyrst Volum [the thirde and fourthe boke]], Rycharde Pynson [28 Jan. 1523];[31 Aug. 1525]

1523-1525 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,816.00
57 GERARD (JOHN)

The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes..., 1636

1636 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 307.20
58 GODWIN (WILLIAM)

An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, FIRST EDITION, 1793

1793 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,432.00
59 GORDON (CHARLES GEORGE)

Collection of material relating to General Gordon of Khartoum (1822-1885)

GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 10,240.00
60 HUGHES (ARTHUR)

The remaining archive relating to the Pre-Raphaelite artist, Arthur Hughes (1832-1915), from the collection of Dr Leslie Cowan, including a panel painting, drawings and letters

GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 20,480.00
61 LATHAM (SIMON)

Faulconry, or the Faulcon's Lure and Cure [-Latham's New and Second Book of Faulconry], 1658

1658 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,088.00
62 LEAR (EDWARD)

Nonsense Songs, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, Robert John Bush, 1872

1872 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 537.60
63 MARWOOD (WILLIAM)

Autograph letter signed ("Wm Marwood"), to the Governor of Norwich Castle ("Dear Sir"), Horncastle, Lincolnshire, 13 November 1877

Horncastle, Lincolnshire 13 November 1877 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,088.00
64 MOXON (JOSEPH)

Mechanick Exercises, Joseph Moxon, 1677-1680; Mechanick Dyalling, oseph Moxon, 1668 [i.e. 1678]

1677-1680 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 640.00
65 NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)

'Our Indian Stewardship', The Nineteenth Century. A Monthly Review, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, 1883

1883 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,088.00
66 O. (C.)]

The Conduct and Character of Count Nicholas Serini, Protestant Generalissimo of the Auxiliaries in Hungary... with his Parallels to Scanderg and Tamberlain. Interwoven with the Principal Passages of the Christian and Turks Discipline and Success, Since th

166 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 204.80
67 ROSSETTI (CHRISTINA)

Series of eight autograph letters signed, to Scottish Pre-Raphaelite artist Alice Boyd, 1866-1882; with letter from Alice Boyd and portrait photograph

GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 8,320.00
68 RUSKIN (JOHN)

A bound volume of engraved views after Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, INSCRIBED, [1860s]

1860s GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 960.00
69 RUSKIN (JOHN)

War. A Lecture Delivered at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 100 COPIES PRESENTED, 1866; Samuel Prout, Wise piracy, 1870; and 4 others by Ruskin (6)

1893 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 307.20
70 SPIELMANN (M.H.)

John Ruskin. A Sketch of His Life, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED, Cassell, 1900

1900 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 960.00
71 TYRON (THOMAS)

Pythagoras his Mystick Philosophy reviv'd: or the Mystery of Dreams unfolded, 1691

1691 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,408.00
72 WHISTLER (JAMES ABBOT MCNEILL)

Two autograph letters signed and with his butterfly device, with accompanying postcard, [1889-1891]

1889, 1890, 1891 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,816.00
79

Votes for Women, vol. I. October 1907 to September 1908 [nos. 1-29], The Reformer's Press, 1907-1908

1907-1908 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 704.00
80 HAMILTON (CICELY)

Beware! A Warning to Suffragists, FIRST EDITION, Artists' Suffrage League, c.1910

c.1910 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,096.00
81 BELLOC (HILAIRE)

Group of notebooks, letters and a signed photograph from the collection of Belloc's friend Emma Pescatore (1875-1930)

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 768.00
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