Books & Works on Paper

Books & Works on Paper

Date: 14th May, 2024 12:00
Location: 6 Roslin Square
Lots: 209

Chiswick Auctions’ Books sale, on May the 14th, is wide-ranging and features a number of highlights.

The food and drink section includes The English Vineyard Vindicated, with a probable manuscript correction by author John Evelyn, who wrote under the instruction of John Rose, the King’s Gardener. The rarity of this first edition of 1666, printed ‘at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-Yard’, is often attributed to the Great Fire of London. Also included is a pioneering work on ethical vegetarianism published in 1683, namely Thomas Tryon’s The Way to Health, Long Life and Happiness. For Tryon, who had visited Barbados and been horrified by slavery, vegetarianism formed part of a broader reaction against humanity’s evils.

Under English Literature, we have a first edition of John Keats’s Lamia, containing ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, ‘Ode to Psyche’, and ‘Ode to Melancholy’. His last and most important book, it was published in July 1820, less than a year before his tragic death from tuberculosis in Rome.

The sale also features an original design by artist William Nicholson, depicting a boxing match. The famous image illustrated the month of November in An Almanac of Twelve Sports (1898), with verse provided by Rudyard Kipling.

In the Travel section, highlights include six watercolours by James Wathen from his Voyage, in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China, which a contemporary reviewer argued “will be followed by the reader and the gazer with much gratification”. This section also includes a first French edition of Cornelis De Bruyn’s account of his circuitous voyage to Persia, with numerous striking illustrations and panoramas of Moscow and Isfahan.

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Lot 3 - Literature: Gustave Flaubert and others

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Lot 4 - Miscellany: Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

Sold for £176

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Lot 5 - Miscellany: Johann Ernst Schubert

Sold for £38

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Lot 9 - Theosophy: Visitor’s book

Sold for £1,512

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Lot 11 - Alexandra Palace

Estimated at £100 - £150

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Lot 13 - Astor. Hunting Diary, Mss. 1900-01

Sold for £454

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Lot 16 - Genealogy and heraldry

Sold for £454

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Lot 17 - Heraldry

Sold for £353

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Lot 18 - Heraldry: James Yorke & Matthew Carter

Sold for £1,008

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Lot 19 - Nichols (Francis), The Irish Compendium

Sold for £151

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Lot 20 - Peninsular War

Sold for £189

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Lot 21 - Photography. Cooper. Men of Mark 7 vol. 1876-83

Sold for £227

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Lot 22 - Royal Navy, 1804

Estimated at £200 - £300

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Lot 23 - Richards. Her Majesty's Army

Sold for £189

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Lot 24 - War in South Africa. Manuscript Diary Col B. Duff

Sold for £454

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Lot 27 - Callot, Twelve plates from Les Gueux

Sold for £63

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Lot 43 - James (E.) Manual Sporting Rules

Sold for £277

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Lot 44 - Jefferies. Famous Fights at the Stadium, 1914

Sold for £277

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Lot 49 - The Shilling Illustrated Boxiana. [1863]

Sold for £454

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Lot 51 - Whitehead. Satires. 1760

Sold for £189

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Lot 52 - Whitehead. The Gymnasiad, 1744

Sold for £580

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Lot 54 - Wallis’s Complete Voyage Round the World, 1796

Sold for £1,008

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Lot 55 - Atlases: Coutans (Guillaume)

Sold for £554

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Lot 61 - London: maps

Sold for £277

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Lot 67 - Uk maps: Speed (John)

Sold for £378

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Lot 76 - Turkey: Amedeo Preziosi, Stamboul: Souvenir d'Orient

Sold for £5,040

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Lot 77 - Anglo Indians

Sold for £756

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Lot 82 - Indian views

Sold for £277

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Lot 83 - Indian views

Sold for £1,890

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Lot 89 - Posters: Chinese Cultural Revolution

Sold for £189

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Lot 95 - Boydell. History of the Thames. 1794-6

Sold for £1,890

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