Books & Works on Paper
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.
Lot 1 - Bilberg (Johan), Refractio solis inoccidui, in septemtrionalibus oris...
Sold for £756
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Lot 7 - Science fiction: Holberg (Ludvig) Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum…, first edition, 1741
Sold for £378
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Lot 8 - Baskerville Press, The Book of Common Prayer, first edition, 1760
Sold for £227
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![Lot 10 - Anti-Semitism. [Beamish] The Jews’ Who’s Who, 1921](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/221497-1-small.jpg?v=63849982738483)
![Lot 12 - American Constitution: Sylvanus Urban [Edward Cave], The Gentleman’s Magazine, 1787](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/224068-3-small.jpg?v=63849977108497)
Lot 12 - American Constitution: Sylvanus Urban [Edward Cave], The Gentleman’s Magazine, 1787
Sold for £479
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Lot 14 - Booth (Charles) Life and Labour of the People in London, Third Series, 1902
Sold for £1,764
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Lot 28 - Anstey. The Patriot: a Pindaric Address to Lord Buckhorse. 1767
Sold for £277
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![Lot 30 - Belcher. The Art of [c. 1815]Boxing, or Science of Manual Defence](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/225828-0-small.jpg?v=63850170042897)
Lot 30 - Belcher. The Art of [c. 1815]Boxing, or Science of Manual Defence
Sold for £819
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![Lot 31 - Boxing The life and adventures of the renowned Johnny Walker [1857]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/223819-1-small.jpg?v=63849983779120)
Lot 31 - Boxing The life and adventures of the renowned Johnny Walker [1857]
Sold for £3,528
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![Lot 32 - Boxing. Belcher. The Art of Boxing, or Science of Manual Defence…[1820]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/224895-0-small.jpg?v=63849984645533)
Lot 32 - Boxing. Belcher. The Art of Boxing, or Science of Manual Defence…[1820]
Sold for £1,260
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Lot 33 - Boxing. Famous Fights in the Prize Ring, a periodical 1883
Sold for £252
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Lot 35 - Boxing. Humphreys.The Memoirs of John Scoggins, 1827
Sold for £529
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![Lot 36 - Boxing. Jem Ward's Picture of the Great Fight between Tom Sayers and J.C. Heenan. [c.1860]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/225430-0-small.jpg?v=63850233802810)
Lot 36 - Boxing. Jem Ward's Picture of the Great Fight between Tom Sayers and J.C. Heenan. [c.1860]
Estimated at £400 - £600
Lot 37 - Boxing. Life and Battles of Jack Dempsey. New York, 1889
Sold for £353
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Lot 38 - Boxing. Life and Battles of James J. Corbett. The Champion Pugilist of the World. 1892
Sold for £302
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![Lot 39 - Boxing. The Art of Boxing [c.1821-22], and others ., (30)](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/225287-1-small.jpg?v=63850169991330)
Lot 39 - Boxing. The Art of Boxing [c.1821-22], and others ., (30)
Sold for £605
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Lot 41 - Fitzsimmons. His Life and Battles in the Prize Ring…, NY 1897
Sold for £454
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Lot 42 - Godfrey. A Treatise Upon the Useful Science of Defence......, 2nd. Ed 1747
Sold for £4,536
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Lot 45 - Miles. Tom Sayers, sometime champion of England, his life and pugilistic career… 1866
Sold for £1,008
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Lot 46 - Sayers. Memoirs of Tom Sayers, Champion of England, 1858
Sold for £1,386
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Lot 47 - The Complete Art of Boxing according to the Modern Method... 1789
Sold for £1,008
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Lot 48 - The Lives and Battles of Tom Sayers, the Champion of England, and John C. Heenan, NY 1860
Sold for £302
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![Lot 49 - The Shilling Illustrated Boxiana. [1863]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/223822-0-small.jpg?v=63849983742227)
Lot 50 - Vasey. Remarks on the Influence of Pugilism on morals, 1824
Sold for £882
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Lot 53 - Nicholson (William) Boxing, pencil, india ink, watercolour and gouache, 1897
Estimated at £26,000 - £28,000
Lot 56 - Bacon's New Ordnance Survey Atlas of London and Suburbs, c. 1880
Sold for £1,512
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Lot 57 - British Maps: Herman Moll, The North Part of Great Britain called Scotland
Sold for £403
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Lot 59 - De Bruyn (Cornelis) Voyages... par la Moscovie, First French edition
Sold for £1,890
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Lot 60 - Lattré (Jean), Plan Routier De La Ville et Faubourg De Paris 1774
Sold for £126
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Lot 62 - Moscow and neighbouring cities: An Archive of Metro Memorabilia, maps, and travel guides
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 66 - Stow (John) A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster..., 1720
Sold for £1,134
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Lot 69 - Ortelius (Abraham) Indiae Orientalis Insularumque Adiacientium Typus
Sold for £1,008
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Lot 70 - Smith (John Calvin) Map of the United States of America, large wall map, 1846
Estimated at £1,500 - £1,800
Lot 71 - Cartwright (Joseph), View of the Town and Harbour of Vathi in Ithaca, 1821
Estimated at £300 - £400
Lot 75 - Miscellany: Khan (Gazanfar Ali) & Sparroy (Wilfrid) With the Pilgrims to Mecca
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 76 - Turkey: Amedeo Preziosi, Stamboul: Souvenir d'Orient
Sold for £5,040
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Lot 78 - Bengal: Ricketts family, album of 78 watercolours and drawings
Sold for £1,008
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Lot 80 - Colebrooke (Robert Hyde) after, The Lake of Mooty Tallaow, near Seringapatam
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 81 - Daniell (Thomas) R.A., Ramnugur, near Benares, on the River Ganges
Sold for £2,394
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![Lot 84 - Wathen. Journal of a Voyage, to Madras and China 6 original watercolours. [1811-12]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/222520-0-small.jpg?v=63845929436040)
Lot 84 - Wathen. Journal of a Voyage, to Madras and China 6 original watercolours. [1811-12]
Estimated at £2,000 - £3,000
![Lot 86 - [ Pechell (George Mendes)] Chinese Junks moored before Peiho Fort [1858]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/222946-0-small.jpg?v=63849977853320)
Lot 86 - [ Pechell (George Mendes)] Chinese Junks moored before Peiho Fort [1858]
Estimated at £150 - £250
![Lot 92 - Batak Pustaha, Sumatra [with] Parabaik Tattoo Flash Book, Myanmar](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/222937-1-small.jpg?v=63849981909477)
Lot 93 - Korean War: A collection of 28 airborne ‘psywar’ propaganda leaves
Sold for £63
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![Lot 94 - Blondel: Four plates from ‘Fêtes publiques [...] à l'occasion du mariage de Monseigneur le Dauphin'](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/223764-1-small.jpg?v=63849979980897)
![Lot 96 - Hollar. The Prospect of London and Westminster Taken from Lambeth [c.late c.18th]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/223762-0-small.jpg?v=63850054174963)
Lot 96 - Hollar. The Prospect of London and Westminster Taken from Lambeth [c.late c.18th]
Sold for £1,260
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