What: Fine Books, Manuscripts, Atlases & Historical PhotographsWhere: Bonhams, Montpelier St, Knightsbridge, London SW7 1HH, UKWhen: 20 June, 01.00 pm BSTAuction Viewing: June 17, 11.00 am – 03.00 pm; June 18, 09.00 am – 04.30 pm; June 19, 09.00 am – 04.30 pm; June 20, 09.00 am – 11.00 amTop lots of the sale:- Kasimir Severinovich Malevich: Collection relating to the life and work of the Russian avant-garde Suprematist artist and art theorist, Kazimir Malevich. Comprising correspondence with fellow artists and writers, theoretical writings and other papers, in Russian, some 340 typed and handwritten pages in ink and pencil, folio and smaller, Nemchinovka, Leningrad, Moscow, Berlin, Vitebsk and elsewhere, c.1913-1935. Estimate: £ 150,000 - 250,000 ($199,196 – 331,994)- Edward Thomas: Autograph compositional drafts of his poems 'The Mountain Chapel', 'The Birds' Nests', and 'House and Man' (all untitled here), [Steep, Gloucestershire], 17 and 18 December 1914: 'When Gods Were Young/ This Wind Was Old'– A Newly Discovered Poetry Notebook Of Edward Thomas. Estimate: £ 30,000 - 40,000 ($39,839 – 53,119)- Henry Popple: A Map of the British Empire in America, with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent Thereto, 1733 [but c.1735]. Estimate: £ 30,000 - 50,000 ($39,839 – 66,399)- J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone, First Edition, First Impression, publisher's imprint page with the number sequence from 10 to 1, and author cited as 'Joanne Rowling', p.53 with the duplication of "1 wand" on the equipment list, mispelling "philospher's" on lower cover, publisher's pictorial boards, 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1997. Estimate: £ 25,000 - 35,000 ($33,199 – 46,479)- Robert Frost: Autograph manuscript signed ("R.F.") of his poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", contained in an autograph letter signed ("Robert Frost"), to Jack Haines ("Dear Jack"), [South Shaftesbury, Vermont], "Off for Ann Arbor Michigan USA", 28 January 1923. Estimate: £ 20,000 - 30,000 ($26,559 – 39,839)- John Speed: The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine: Presenting of the Kingdomes of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Iles Adioyning [-A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World], 2 works in 1 vol., John Dawson, for George Humble, 1631. Estimate: £ 20,000 - 30,000 ($26,559 – 39,839)- Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, First Edition, John Murray, 1859. Estimate: £ 20,000 - 30,000 ($26,559 – 39,839)- Charles Darwin: Autograph letter signed ("C.D."), to his son George ("My dear G."), commenting on an essay by their kinsman Clarke Hawkshaw on "The Persistence of forms of life in the Depths of the Sea" and the "bearing of those researches on the origin of species", [Down], 30 January [1871]; with Hawkshaw's autograph draft of his essay. Estimate: £ 20,000 - 30,000 ($26,559 – 39,839)For details, visit: https://www.bonhams.com/Click on the slideshow for the highlights of the sale.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/Founder: Louise Blouin
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