Library List No. 8: 27 September 2016

A selection of 19 items

1. ADLEY, Charles Coles. The Story of the Telegraph in . London: E. & F. N. Spon, 1866 Octavo. Original maroon sand-grained cloth, title gilt to spine and to the upper board, triple fillet panel in blind to the boards, brown surface-paper endpapers. Folding map. Spine a little sunned, overall slightly rubbed, ?inscription clipped from the head of the title page, first gathering a little sprung, light toning, occasional foxing, a very good copy. First edition. Uncommon, just four locations on Copac - BL, Oxford, Cambridge, and NLS - OCLC adds MIT only. Adley dedicates the book to Robert Wygram Crawford, chairman of the Commons committee on East India Telegraphic and Postal communications, and also of The East India Railway Company, as another who has “ceaselessly advocated … measures indispensable to remedy the unhappily benighted condition of Telegraphic science and accommodation in India” (Preface). Adley had spent several years in the employ of the EIRC, as an

Peter Harrington, 100 Fulham Road, London, UK SW3 6HS · Tel +44 20 7591 0220 · [email protected] assistant engineer on the Burdwan division in West Bengal, and for a year as resident engineer on the construction of the Raniganj division; he was later appointed Superintendent of the Telegraph Department of the line. In 1858 he had founded the Engineers’ Journal and Railway and Public Works Chronicle of India and the Colonies, published in Calcutta, which he also edited. After a brief retirement in England, he returned to India in 1868 joining the Public Works Department of the Government of India. His first duty was the design of the Small Arms Factory at Dum-Dum, Bengal, for which he was highly commended by the Government. He was subsequently engaged in designing drainage and irrigation systems for the improvement of the famine and fever-stricken districts near the Hooghly. In 1873 he finally retired to England, his health undermined by years working in the marshes of Bengal. He died in 1896, aged 68. £1,250 [99968]

2. BRUCE, Charles Edward. Waziristan, 1936–1937. The Problems of the North-West Frontiers of India and their Solutions. Aldershot: Gale & Polden, Ltd., 1938 Octavo. Original sand textured card wraps, lettered in brown on the front wrap. Map to the text. A little rubbed on the wraps, a scatter of foxing, but overall very good indeed. First published in 1938, this is a pre-publication issue, designated “Private and Confidential” on the title page. The text is heavily annotated throughout on available blank spaces, and on extra leaves paper-clipped, or loosely inserted in place. These notes takes the form of a dialogue, with the comments of Sir John Coleridge, initialled at the end (his opinion was evidently sought by Bruce), and Bruce’s red-inked responses. Between them they constitute a full and highly-informed= private debate between two serving officers with considerable experience of contemporary British frontier policy in the region in question. Bruce was educated at Wellington and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He joined the 20th Lancashire Fusiliers in 1896, transferring to the 24th Baluchistan Regiment in 1897. He saw service in the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900, and in 1901 joined the Indian Political Department, seeing action on the North West Frontier in operations against the Darwesh Khel Wazirs in 1902. He was mentioned in dispatches twice during WWI and awarded the OBE for his war services. He served in in 1919, MiD and awarded the CIE - Companion of the Indian Empire - going on to Waziristan, MID twice, and later awarded CBE and CSI - Commander of the Star of India. He was subsequently Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan through the 1920s, and retired in 1931. He wrote Waziristan 1936–1937 and others on various tribes along the N.W. Frontier of India. Coleridge was a classmate of Bruce’s at Wellington and Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the Indian Staff Corps in 1898, transferring to the 8th in 1900, and accompanied the Younghusband Mission to Tibet in 1903. Coleridge served on the Abor expedition on the north-east frontier of India in 1911-12, MID. He served in , joining the General Staff of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in 1916. He commanded the 189th Brigade from October 1917 and the 188th Brigade from December 1917, and was awarded the DSO and bar, and CMG. Following the War he returned to India as a General Staff Officer, carrying out a review of internal security measures and of the new Indian Defence Force. He served as Assistant Commandant at the Quetta Staff College, 1923–5, Military Secretary Army Headquarters, India, 1926-30, and became commander of the Kohat District in 1930. During the North West Frontier operations of 1930-1 he commanded, as a Major-General, the Peshawar District. He was Military Secretary to the India Office,1933-6, and General Officer Commanding Northern Command, India, 1936-40 for which he was MID twice, retiring shortly afterwards. A remarkable document, offering a unique, detailed and frank critique of British policy on the North West Frontier in the early part of the twentieth century. £1,500 [91487]

A musical manuscript presented to his wife 3. [BURGESS, Anthony.] WILSON, John Burgess. Sonatina in G Major. For Anne Field. No place, Christmas, 1952 Folio, pp 6. White wove paper lined in six double staves, with plain front wrapper titled in ink by Burgess. Wire stitched. Housed in a blue cloth ribbon tied chemise by the Chelsea Bindery, with titles to front gilt. Worn at fold with old repair newly conserved. Some signs of damp in a small area slightly affecting three of four notes. Some further edge wear. Holograph music manuscript comprising the complete Sonatina written by Burgess as a Christmas gift to his first wife. Titled and annotated by him and signed at the end with the rare complete form of his signature John Burgess Wilson. Burgess famously wanted more than anything to be considered a composer and the present score comes some 6 years before his first published work of fiction. He wrote two books on music including his “Musical Autobiography”, This Man And Music, in which he boasts of his greatest work the “unplayable” Guitar concerto. Manuscript versions of his compositions are very scarce indeed - only one has appeared at auction in the past 35 years. We cannot imagine a more personally motivated example as this. £2,750 [25605]

4. (.) Collection of material relating to Wingate’s Chindits and their campaigns in Burma. [Various places and dates, 1940s-1980s] Superb collection of material concerning the Chindits, includes Wingate’s Report on the Operations of 77th Brigade; the original MS of the Hedley’s book Jungle Fighter; a number of SEAC Chindit publications; a small trove of pieces from the collection of a serving Chindit officer, including intelligence reports, some excellent press photographs, and a remarkable original “panic flag” - the escape map, neckerchief, signal flag carried by the Chindits; the privately producedChindits Old Comrade’s Association appreciation of Wingate; together with a group of Chindit memoirs. These last are not the best copies in all cases, but most of the major books are there including Fergusson’s The Wild Green Earth signed, Anthony Brett-James’s copy with his pithy notes, and one of Patrick Boyle’s MS note-books used in the composition of Jungle, Jungle Little Chindit. More detailed listing follows below. Overall very good. Named after the temple-guard leogryphs of Burma, the Chindits were a group formed by the enigmatic and charismatic Orde Wingate, one of the greatest early exponents of unconventional warfare. In two campaigns - Operation Longcloth an exploratory expedition into Japanese-held territory by a force of just 3,000 beginning in February 1943, and Operation Thursday of March 1944, which was the second largest airborne operation of the Second World War - this mixed force of British, , Volunteers, Gurkhas and West African troops were instrumental in eroding the Japanese grip on Burma. This collection contains some extremely uncommon contemporary material; personal effects of a serving officer; together with a significant group of the memoirs written by participants: a) WINGATE, O.C., Brigadier. Report on Operations of 77th Indian Infantry Brigade in Burma, February to June 1943. New : Printed by the Manager Government of India Press, 1943. Octavo. Original green cloth backed printed boards. Large folding coloured map in end-pocket, diagrams and tables to the text. Boards slightly browned, else a very good copy. Wingate’s report on Operation “Longcloth”, the founding operation of the “Chindits”. Setting out with three objectives; to cut the railway line between Mandalya and Myitkyina; to harrass the enemy in the Shwebo district; and if possible to cross the Irrawaddy and cut the railway between and Lashio. They were successful in the first objective and Japanese reaction to their presence indicates a degree of success in the second. However, at the railway line two columns were ambushed and incurred heavy casualties, Wingate ordered a general dispersal and retreat back to India. They had spent twelve weeks in the jungle and marched almost a thousand miles, their losses were 833 out of 3,000 men. Wingate saw the operation as a dismal failure, but whilst it lacked material results “Longcloth” recast future strategic thinking. It had been shown that the British could attack in the jungle, an alien environment for them, and take the war to the Japanese. Wingate accompanied Churchill to Quebec in August ‘43 for the “Quadrant” conference with the intention of persuading the Allied chiefs of the soundness of the long range penetration concept. Designated “Secret”, this is copy No. 105 of only 200 copies. An extremely detailed report, written in an unusually colloquial style. There are many passages which are controversially critical of the actions of named Officers or groups, for example at p.31 “the Commander of No.2 Column was Major Emmet, a Rifle Officer, with excellent knowledge of Gurkhali but unfit to command men.”, or again at p.33 “As we reached the Station, Captain Mackenzie was crazy enough to open fire at the telegraph wires with his Tommy Gun as a feu de joie.” These have been red pencilled with the intention that they be excised from later issues. This copy with the ownership inscription of George Nangle, who won the DSO for his conduct at Monte Cassino in command of 1/9 Gurkha Rifles, who took, held, and withdrew from Hangman’s Hill under extraordinarily trying circumstances, the citation referring to his “gallant and skilful leadership.” b) BOYLE, Patrick. Manuscript notebook for Jungle, Jungle, Little Chindit. c.1944. Octavo. Ecru cloth wide-feint notebook, title and author’s signature inked to the upper board. Around 50-pages of manuscript drafts of pieces that went towards the publication of probably the best-known literary production of the Chindit campaign. Very good. Accompanied by a very good copy of the published work in dust jacket. The world-weary, yet facetious humour of the book is summed up by the cartoon on the upper panel of the jacket which pictures two Chindits sitting on their packs in torrential rain, and one says to the other; “When all this is over I suppose some ape will write a book about it and try to make out it was funny.” c) HEDLEY, John, Major. War History [later published as Jungle Fighter.]c.1946. Quarto. Original textured tape-backed light card wraps. 119 leaves, rectos only, cyclostyled typescript, occasional sketch maps, some tipped in. A little worn, spine splitting and the text-block variably browned, but overall sound. Accompanied by a copy of the book published in 1996. Hedley’s memoirs reveal a wide range of experiences of the war in the Far East: the infantryman’s six-month slog through the 1942 retreat; service in the second Chindit expedition, when the author was wounded and mentioned in despatches as Brigade Intelligence Officer to the formidable team of Joe Lentaigne and John Masters; behind-the- lines covert operations with Force 136 and, last but not least, some months in Siam after the war had ended, which provide a valuable personal view of that nation. At that time Hedley came into close contact with the Japanese Army and his views on the Japanese character make interesting reading. d) FERGUSSON, Bernard. The Wild Green Earth. London: Collins, 1947. Octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to the spine. With tattered dust jacket. A used copy, front hinge cracked but holding, overall very good in remnant of the jacket. Antony Brett-James’s copy, his bookplate to the front pastedown, and ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, where it is also signed by the author. Brett-James’s pencilled, pithy marginal comments and an extensive collection of relevant clippings, obituaries &c. loosely inserted. Brett-James served in Burma with the 5th Indian Division, and wrote extensively - officially and personally - on the campaign. e) The Chindits 1944. Part One. [All published] Reproduced from Newspapers of Reports of the Chindits Operations during March, 1944. Calcutta: Statesman Press, 1944. Quarto. Wire-stitched in the original colour-printed wraps. 24-pages, text illustrations and maps. A little rubbed, else very good. Extremely uncommon, just one copy on COPAC at IWM. f) The Chindits. Calcutta: Published by Frank Owen for the Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia … Printed by … The Statesman Press, n.d. [1945]. Quarto. Wire-stitched in the original colour-printed wraps. 35-pages. 6 plates, double-page map, illustrations to the text. A little rubbed, else very good. Uncommon, copies recorded on COPAC at IWM and SOAS. g) Major General O.C. Wingate DSO. An Appreciation of the planner and leader of the two Chindit Campaigns in 1943 and 1944 behind Japanese lines in Burma during World War II. Wolverhampton: Compiled by members of the Chindits Old Comrades’ Association . For private circulation only, 1982. Quarto. Original spiral-bound card wraps. A little rubbed and browned, but overall very good. Uncommon, just 8 copies on OCLC. Loosely inserted is a one-page letter signed by Brigadier W.P. Scott, president of the association, originally enclosed with this copy, and explaining how the association had refrained from “entering the public lists” on controversies arising out of the official histories and in the national press. But that in 1979, with the full backing of Lord Mountbatten, it was decided to produce the present appreciation; “It gives the views of a cross-section of 76 all ranks who served under General Wingate. It will, hopefully, provide an instrument for future historians to consider and balance against the opinions of writers who did not have the opportunity to know General Wingate so closely.” h) Group of Chindit “Relics” formerly owned by Major J.E.B Rippingale. Probably the key piece is a rather faded silk-square, now a dusty pink colour, and a just little frayed, the purpose of which is explained in Richard Rhodes James’s book Chindit; “Above there came the sound of planes and a Dakota appeared over the jungle followed by several others. These planes had been sent to drop more supplies on the block. Base had no knowledge of the events of the last twenty-four hours, having been out of communication, and could only assume that, though our position was grave, it was not helpless. As a matter of fact when we moved off so hurriedly a message was on its way from the General giving us permission to withdraw. We produced our ‘panic maps’ (silk emergency maps of bright orange colour) and started waving them. The first few lanes did not see us and we watched the parachutes floating into the hands of the Japs. But one sharp-eyed pilot noticed the streaks of orange in the nullah and emptied his load beside us …” Despite having seen an improbable number of silk escape maps, we have never encountered another of these. Rippingale has further added a note “Cloth Map issued to the Chindits - 1944. (Also used, tied round the neck as a sweat-rag.” (p. 146) Also, a folded, worn and slightly stained 1 inch to 4 mile scale map of Upper Chindwin & Myitkyina Districts and Tribal Areas, with a few still legible blue pencilled markings to the map and a route “Dibrugarh - Tinsukia - Ledo - Shaduzup - Warazup” noted on the reverse. Rather heavy-handedly annotated at a later date by Rippingale “Burma. Used in Chindit Campaign, 1944,” but we shall forgive him this. i) Through Japanese Eyes, & Through Japanese Eyes, Volume II. Burma: G.S.1-13-E-1 (a), 1944-5. Classified “Confidential” - “Must not fall into enemy hands.” 2 volumes, foolscap quarto. Wire-stitched in the original colour-printed light card wraps. Cyclostyled typescript. Sketch-maps and illustrations to the text. Text browned, externally a little used, but overall very good. We have been unable to trace another copy of either of these internally-produced reports on the impact of Chindit operations on Japanese forces; “After … battles, you sent back to headquarters masses of captured documents. Possibly there were times when you thought ‘what can these chaps want with all this bumf ? We never seem to hear anything about it afterwards. Not even a word of thanks for our trouble.’ This pamphlet is designed to show you some of the uses to which these scraps of paper have been put. From every document you sent us, much information was obtained. Sometimes it was of strategical significance …sometimes it was of immediate tactical importance … at other times we gained much useful information as to Japanese methods of war … at times the information was economic. Finally we learned about the Japanese individual, his likes and dislikes, and his general reactions to the Army, the emperor, to Burma, and life in general.” Both have Rippingale’s contemporary ownership inscription. j) A group of ephemeral items including typed copies of appreciations of the Chindit’s services from Colonel Charles D. Farr, USAC and Auchinleck; a collection of Japanese occupation currency; an unused Chindit Christmas airgraph; two large wall-maps relating to operations in the Far East, Army Bureau of Current Affairs Map Reviews, Nos. 53 & 56; pictorial propaganda pamphlet in the Far-Eastern Fresco Series, S.E.A.C. Saga; four contemporary press photographs of including a portrait of Wingate, three with typed captions; together with a quantity of newspaper clippings, most later. All of these housed in a simple wallet-file, with Rippingale’s ownership inscription; “Major J.E.B. Rippinglae, T.D. (Ex-‘Chindit’)” and titled by him; “The Campaign in Burma (Gen. Wingate’s ‘Chindits’) 1943-1945.” k) Together with a group of 20, mainly personal, accounts of the Chindit operations, most in jackets, but condition variable; Baggeley - A Chindit Story. Bidwell - The Chindit War. Calvert - Fighting Mad. [Military historian Brian bond’s copy] Calvert - Prisoners of Hope. Carfrae - Chindit Column. Denny - Chindit Indiscretion. Fergusson - Beyond the Chindwin. Ditto - Patrick Boyle’s copy. Halley - With Wingate in Burma. Rhodes James - Chindit. [With extensive personal annotations by one S. Threadgall, evidently an WAFF NCO serving with the Chindits.] Jeffrey -Sunbeams like Swords. Masters - The Road past Mandalay. Mead - Orde Wingate and the Historians. Painter - A signal Honour. Rolo - Wingate’s Raiders. [Wavell’s copy, Wavell contributes a foreword.] Sharpe - To be a Chindit. Shaw - Special Force. Towill - Chindit’s Chronicle. [signed] Tulloch - Wingate in Peace and War. [inscribed by the author.] Wilcox - Chindit Column. £7,500 [65880] The foundations of software engineering 5. DIJKSTRA, Edsger W. A Note of Two Problems in Connection with Graphs. In Numerische Mathematik I. [Together with] Recursive Programming, in Numerische Mathematik 2. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1959 2 volumes, octavo (251 × 161 mm). Contemporary library bindings of black half roan, hand-written paper labels to spines, marbled sides. Library stamps of the Bibliothek Ingenieurschule, Hamburg, and deaccession stamps to title pages, page 1 of each volume, and to page 15 of volume I and 13 of volume II, library bar code ticket to each rear pastedown. Slight toning of the marbled sides. Contents clean and fresh. An excellent set. First editions, first impressions of two of Dijkstra’s most significant papers, both rare in commerce: “A Note of Two Problems in Connection with Graphs”, which introduced the Shortest-Path Algorithim (now known as Dijkstra’s algorithim) as well as the Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithm, and “Recursive Programming”, which introduced the foundational concept of using a “stack” for recursive programming. Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) was a pioneering computer scientist, responsible for many of the algorithms and concepts that form the basis of modern software engineering. He was a founder of the structured programming paradigm, which sought to improve the clarity and efficiency of programming, and also did important early work in distributed computing – the origins of the modern internet. In 2001 he received the Turing Award, often described as the Nobel Prize of computer science, for “fundamental contributions to programming as a high, intellectual challenge; for eloquent insistence and practical demonstration that programs should be composed correctly, not just debugged into correctness; for illuminating perception of problems at the foundations of program design” (Turing Award biography). Not in Origins of Cyberspace. £4,750 [86379] 6. EMBRY, William (ed.) Our Outfit: The Story of the Parachute Riggers of the 82nd Airborne Division. [Fort Bragg?, for the unit, c.1946] Folio (354 × 306 mm). Original light card wraps. Profusely illustrated from photographs. Wraps somewhat browned, spine creased and fraying at head and tail, stain through the first 10 or so leaves towards the lower margin, but overall very good. First and only edition, extremely uncommon with no other copy traced institutionally or in commerce. A rather clumsy and fragile production, but the content is excellent, offering a fine visual record of the unit from formation at Fort Benning through war services in North Africa, the Sicily landings, Salerno, D-Day, and Arnhem to the end of hostilities in Cologne, with brief anecdotal accounts at each stage. “The 82nd Airborne was the first US Airborne Division overseas, the first to see combat, captured the most prisoners, made the most airborne invasions, had the most combat hours, made the first bridgehead in Europe, and liberated the first town in Normandy. It was selected as the selected as the honor-division to police Berlin after V.E.-Day, the received the supreme compliment by being designated as the division to lead the American Ground Forces Parade down 5th Avenue. British General Sir Miles Dempsey said of the 82nd Airborne - ‘the greatest division in the world today”. Accompanied by three Parachute School training certificates of Private Bryce L. McCabe, of Long Beach, CA, qualification as parachutist, and parachute rigger, completion of Parachute Demolition Training course, all 1942, together with a group of 8 original photographs, various small formats, of parachute jumps. £500 [113361]

7. (FONTEYN, Margot.) CHAPPELL, William. Fonteyn. Impressions of a Ballerina. With 40 studies by Cecil Beaton published for the first time. London: Rockliff, 1951 Octavo. Original purple cloth, front board stamped gilt with a drawing of “dancers in flight”, spine lettered gilt, with the dust jacket, decorative endpapers. With 40 photographic plates by Cecil Beaton, frontispiece and 5 full page illustrations by William Chappell, and small illustrations to each chapter opening. Inscribed in 1976 by Morgot Fonteyn to a Mrs Binde on the half-title. Endpapers a little toned, dust jacket with a few short tears and chips, particularly to the head of the spine, with neat tape repairs to the verso; a very good copy. First public edition of Chappell’s study of Margot Fonteyn, illustrated with some of his own drawings, and with 40 black and white photographic studies of Fonteyn by Cecil Beaton. The first 250 copies of this edition were printed on Fine Antique laid paper, signed by both Miss Fonteyn and the author, and issued as a limited edition. This copy inscribed by Margot Fonteyn, “To Mrs Binde, Margot Fonteyn Arias. Zurich 1976.” £200 [113886] 8. FOTHERGILL, George A. The Prospectus of An Artist’s Thoughts in Verse & Design. Edinburgh: To be published by the Author & printed for him by Neill & Co., Ltd., 1916 Quarto, pp. 18. Original drab brown wrappers, stitched as issue, lettered in black on front cover. Title page printed in blue and black, illustrated throughout and with art nouveau decorations. Scattered light foxing. An excellent copy. First edition, first impression, 750 copies were printed; rare: according to Copac there are no copies located in British and Irish institutional libraries, nor does it appear in OCLC. With a note, possibly in Fothergill’s hand (dated 1916): “The whole of the Manuscripts & Drawings were destroyed by fire which occurred in Messrs Neill & Co’s premises”. An Artist’s Thoughts in Verse & Design was privately published in a deluxe folio edition in 1919. George Algernon Fothergill (1868–1945) was a watercolourist and illustrator best known for his equestrian studies; his Twenty Sporting Designs (Edinburgh 1911), also published by Neill, is in the Paul Mellon Collection (see Podeschi, Books on the Horse and Horsemanship, 308). £175 [106927] 9. (FRENCH NAVAL TACTICS.) Tactique des Torpilleurs d’Escadre. [Paris: État-Major Général [de la Marine Nationale], 1914 Quarto (272 × 203 mm). Contemporary purple skiver-backed marbled boards, marbled endpapers. 11 plates, numerous illustrative diagrams mounted in the text, tables. Chapters tagged with artificial vellum index tags. Spine discoloured and a little chipped, boards slightly rubbed, contents lightly toned but very good. First edition, designated Confidential and subsequently reclassified as Secret in manuscript, no other copy traced. A detailed handbook of French destroyer tactics which had currency throughout the First World War, corrections of January 1917 and March 1922 noted at the “Fiche des Corrections”, and added to the text in red ink. That this was a practical manual rather than a classroom text is indicated by the instructions, not followed in this case, that it should be bound in a double cover of sail cloth with a pocket to each cover to take a lead plate “afin d’assurer la submersion du livre” in the case of shipwreck or “accident.” A remarkable document. £1,750 [71043] 10. HOENICH, P. K. Robot Art. Research No. AR10 of the Faculty of Architecture. Haifa: Technion Research and Development Foundation Ltd., 1962 Quarto. Original blue wrappers with blue cloth spine, title to front cover in black. Housed in a black cloth solander box. Wrappers lightly browned to edges, a little curling to corners. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Paul Konrad Hoenich “To Alto Meyer - with friendship - P. K. Hoenich, Haifa, 31. I. 63.” One of the earliest publications on computer art. Prof. Emeritus Paul Konrad Hoenich (1907– 1997), nicknamed PeKA, was born in Austria-Hungary and died in Haifa. PeKA studied at the Academies of Vienna, Florence and Paris. In 1935 he immigrated to Eretz Yisrael and settled in Haifa, where he established a teaching art studio. PeKA’s works were exhibited throughout Israel and the entire world and, in their unique style, they make reference to the main artistic currents that were active in Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s. In 1950, PeKA joined the Technion as a faculty member and taught courses in two-dimensional design, color theory and experimental art. During the years 1960–1980, he was engaged in the development of design ideas using sunrays. The gallery which is located at the center of the Technion’s Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning in Haifa is named as the P. K. Hoenich Gallery of Experimental Art and Architecture. £2,750 [46774] 11. (JAPANESE TEXTILES.) Usu zumi. Kyoto: Imao Private Library, Drapery, c. 1870 Oblong Folio (310 × 390 mm). Original fawn paper-covered boards, delicately written calligraphy title mounted on front panel, together with a later ownership label in upper corner,bound in accordion-style format. 35 hand-painted designs with delicately rendered ink paintings with pale wash colour on unsized paper, backed with old manuscripts, marginal calligraphic annotations on design and style to many images. Externally quite rubbed and scuffed, internally lightly browned and with some marginal finger-soiling, occasional minor worming, but overall very good. Mounted on the front “pastedown” is a Chinese colour print of two women in elaborate gowns playing go, trimmed and framed by an embossed, gilt printed frame which incorporates the Royal Arms, the arms of the City of London and some version of the arms of Bradford, perhaps a textile label as it has been annotated “No. 775, 52 Y[ar]ds”. A stunning design manuscript for early Meiji-era textiles, fan papers and packaging, including stylised landscapes, a composition of silk moths with bobbins and unspooled thread, delicately rendered thistles, a collection of subtly coloured sea shells, cranes emerging from riverside bamboo, and a number of more abstract designs. Delightful collection of designs executed during the early Meiji period as a model-book for kimonos and fans, and still retaining the subdued Japanese sumi aesthetic which gradually would be eroded by Western influences as the century drew to a close. A wide and attractive range of motifs including a number of self-referential images of fan papers, moths and silk threads, bolts and swatches of textiles. A very pleasing collection, viewed from a practical, or purely aesthetic viewpoint. £950 [109982] 12. KANT, Immanuel. Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht. Königsberg: Friedrich Nicolovius, 1798 Octavo (196 × 118 mm). Contemporary drab paper covered boards, printed paper label. Three ownership bookplates to the front pastedown and free endpaper, Aloysius Guiliemus Denner, Dr. Märzroth, and Sigmund Blau, with blind embossed stamp of Dr Barach Marzroth to title. Occasional underlining and marginalia in pencil, and red and blue crayon. Spine ends and corners worn with loss of the paper covering, boards with splashmarks and a little soiled, preliminary leaves miss bound within themselves; with small ink stain to the lower margin, occasional spotting; a very good copy. First edition, first issue. “In the winter semester of 1772-3 Kant first offered a lecture course on anthropology, a course he repeated every winter semester for the next twenty-three years. While Kant was not the first German academic to lecture under this title, he made clear from the first lectures that his course would consider the topic in quite a unique way. Although Kant chose as a last resort the ‘empirical psychology’ section of Baumgarten Metaphysica as his textbook, he consciously broke with it and a tradition of German anthropology stretching back to the sixteenth century, a tradition that tended to conceive of anthropology as a unified science of theology and physiology” (Jacobs and Kain, eds, Essays on Kant’s Anthropology, pp. 2-3). Kant’s Anthropologie is also noted for his classification of mental illnesses and his discussion of the importance of adolescence in mental development, “an observation which would later prove invaluable” (Norman). Warda 195; Norman 1201. £950 [113873] 13. (MESSEL, Oliver.) FRY, Christopher. This Lady’s Not For Burning. Archive of costume designs after Oliver Messel for the original stage production. London: Tennent Productions, 1949 25 sheets cream paper, in the company’s manilla portfolio. Folded and with the occasional tear but in excellent condition. Some 30 images after the original designs by Messel prepared by the production company from sketches by the designer. The costumier’s work faithfully matches the original sketches adding clarity and some greater detail regarding fabrics, accessories and the cut of several garments. An index accompanying the archive lists the costumes needed and the performer for whom the garments were to be made. £3,750 [69013] 14. MOORE, Sir Jonas. A Mathematical Compendium; or, Useful Practices in Arithmetick, Geometry, and Astronomy, Geography and Navigation, Embattelling, and Quartering of Armies, Fortification and Gunnery, Gauging and Dyalling. Explaining the Logarithms, with new Indices; Nepair’s [sic] Rods or Bones; making of Movements, and the Application of Pendulums; with the Projection of the Sphere for an Universal Dyal, &c. The Second Edition, with many large Additions. London: for Robert Hartford, 1681 Duodecimo (127 × 72 mm). Contemporary calf, unlettered, blind rules. 5 engraved tables in text, letterpress tables. Contemporary manuscript notes to front free endpaper and occasionally elsewhere, early ownership inscription of John Harrant on title (another crossed through). Binding worn, spine defective at head and tail, boards held by cords, contents lightly and evenly browned, waterstain to lower outer edge of first few leaves, a few marks elsewhere, still a good copy of a book that has seen practical use. Second edition. Moore had been involved with the management of the Royal Mathematical School at Christ’s Hospital; his notes were edited by his Ordnance second clerk, Nicholas Stephenson, to form this popular pocket- book, first published 1674. Wing 2573. £1,750 [112517] 15. (NAPOLEONIC WARS.) JOMINI, Antoine-Henri, Baron. Atlas Portatif pour l’intelligence des relations des dernières guerres, publiées sans plans; nottament pour la vie de Napoléon. Paris: Anselin, [c. 1827-1840] 2 volumes, quarto: (letterpress) portrait and (maps) landscape (362 × 260, 258 × 343 mm). Contemporary deep purple half roan, purple cloth sides, gilt lettered front covers, red speckled edges. 36 maps (complete). Contemporary ownership inscription (across title pages) of William Fothergill Robinson. Joints partially split but sound, a few marks and stains to covers, scattered foxing and dust marking but an attractive set. First edition, uncommon: Copac locates just two copies in British and Irish institutional libraries (BL, Oxford), OCLC adds around two dozen copies worldwide but not all with the accompanying volume of letterpress descriptions as here. The majority of maps are attractive battle plans with handcoloured troops dispositions (some with overlays to show final stages of battles) and include all of Napoleon’s key engagements from Lonato and Castiglione to Waterloo; there are also five larger folding maps of the theatres of operations (southern Germany/northern Italy, northern Germany, Prussia and Russia, Spain and Portugal, France). According to a note from the Bibliothèque nationale de France (loosely inserted, in reply to a previous owner’s query) these maps were designed to accompany Jomini’s Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon (Paris: Anselin, 1827); although they would appear to have been published as late as 1840. Sandler 1870, these volumes accompanying Jomini’s Life of Napoleon. £1,500 [107453] 16. PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE, Duncombe, Admiral. Ships of the British Navy. Portsmouth: 1838-47 Quarto (253 × 183 mm). Dark blue straight-grain morocco, titled “Navy List” in gilt to spine, gilt panels to the boards, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Printed tables completed in manuscript. Slightly rubbed at the extremities, a little shaken, but overall very good. Scrupulously maintained record of the ships of the during the 1840s, begun in 1838 and updated four times over the following nine years. The tables record the dimensions, tonnage, draught, crew, armament and designer of over 750 vessels grouped by class. This useful compilation was assembled by Admiral Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie, the second son of the Earl of Radnor, who had embarked as a volunteer in 1795 at the age of fifteen. He saw service on the Aimable during the Trafalgar Campaign; with Whitelocke and Popham’s ill-fated expedition to Buenos Aires on the Medusa; and later off the coast of Spain during the Peninsular War. He hoisted his flag inHMS Victory as port admiral at Portsmouth in 1837, a position that he held until 1842. He died in 1850. A unique digest of information from the last years of the sailing navy, compiled by the port admiral of Portsmouth on board Nelson’s Victory. £4,750 [67897] 17. SHEPARD, E. H. Correspondence to Pauline Baynes. Woodmancote, Lodsworth, West Sussex, 1956-69 41 autograph letters signed, 2 autograph postcards signed, and a small quantity of related items including a photograph of Shepard, a photocopy of a letter from Shepard to Baynes, and newspaper cuttings of obituaries. A substantial archive of correspondence from Shepard (signing himself “Kip”) to his fellow children’s books illustrator, Pauline Baynes (1922–2008), best known for her work on C. S. Lewis’s Narnia books, as well as her map of Tolkien’s Middle Earth and others of his works. Shepard and Baynes met after the war, when Shepard encouraged the younger artist and took her to London to show her portfolio to his editor at the Illustrated London News. As the correspondence shows, they remained friends, exchanging letters for the rest of Shepard’s life. The earliest dated letter is 29 March 1956; the last 28 November 1969. Shepard on illustrating: “I have had a nice offer from G. Bell (publishers of Pepys etc.) which is giving me some concern. It is to illustrate a book of old French fairy stories by Lancelyn Green… though I doubt for any profit… . I do hope your drawings are going better than mine - I think a thing looks right when I knock off in the evening & then, next morning, it looks horrible and I want to begin all over again”. An allusion to Christopher Robin: “… I am trying to work out for Punch, for Badgers are partial to bulbs and Brock the badger is a leading character. They are quite enthusiastic about it at Punch and now the difficult part will be to keep the story going along, with new adventures. A boy an everyday boy not like C. Robin, goes ahead with Brock. The trouble is I have to make sure of being 4 weeks in hand.” The Wind in the Willows: “I am getting much enjoyment from making the coloured drawings for ‘Wind in the Willows’. Did I tell you they are going to do a larger 21/s- Edition in the autumn… . It is rather a nuisance for Scribners have sent back my design for the colour jacket for ‘Wind in the Willows’ as it is quite the wrong size - It was their fault as they gave me the size of the book & never said that the thing was to be a panel with their own type of lettering above. However I hope I may do a better one, now that I know I have till mid September. Yesterday afternoon Norah and I went out to look for a nice Willow tree, not too easy to find round here and we went Miles, then at Selham, which is only two miles away on the way home I found one by the Rother, quite a nice one, not pollarded, but good enough”. His autobiography: “I have now started on the drawings for my book and find that easier than the writing. It is rather startling to find what a lot I can remember, I suppose that, by drawing everything as I did, events & people & places got fixed at the back of my mind… . I have written to John Betjeman to ask him to review it when the time comes” and the launch, “The Army and Navy Stores are really putting their backs into publicity & being most helpful including a window display of ‘Wind in Willows’ drawings borrowed from Methuens”. Reminiscences about his childhood home in Kent Terrace, London: “The outside is exactly as it was even down to the lamp post in front… we tried to get inside but it was empty & locked up… it was Crown property & we should get permission… this was not good enough, so, remembering what I used to do when I was 7, I led them round to the mews at the back where the garden door was not locked. Then we got in through the back door… the place has been empty for over 10 years… some of the floors have even fallen in but we got up to the top and I fear that I got a lump in my throat - so many things still there - banisters, doors etc even the little niche behind the front door…” On Baynes’s work: “… you showed me some rough sketches for your Arabian Nights and among them, was one of the nativity. I fell in love with it and asked if I might be allowed to buy it…” An amusing account of a visit by two of Pauline Baynes’s aunts: “I have tried to point out to them the inadequacy of your accommodation & the difficulty of supplying meals. I have not the least doubt that you will be expected to provide transport for this invasion. Besides numerous suitcases they have two enormous trunks, so nothing short of a bus would suffice. The two women bicker about the house all day, so it is difficult to see how you will be able to work.” Provenance: from the collection of Pat McInally. £12,000 [69776] 18. [TYNEMOUTH, John.] Nova legenda Anglie. London: Wynkyn de Worde, 27 February 1516 Folio (276 × 194 mm), ff. [6], 334, [2] (the last blank). Early 19th-century russia, rebacked with original spine laid down, with crest and arms of Sir Richard Colt Hoare (1758–1838). Full-page woodcut of Saints in Glory on A1r, repeated on verso and on recto of penultimate leaf; full-page woodcut royal arms on A6v; printer’s device on verso of penultimate leaf. Printed in black letter. Lower corners worn, occasional soiling, scattered marginal stains, small marginal repairs without text loss on A1, X5, h4, and n5, upper margin of A2 restored with top line of text partly supplied in manuscript, blank outer margin of n5 and 2c1-2d5 restored with few letters in manuscript on 2d5, small hole in t1 repaired with few letters in manuscript, leaves 283–293 supplied from a shorter copy. Signature of the antiquary Sir Roger Twysden (1597–1672) dated 1631 on recto of first leaf, notes in his hand on blank leaves bound in front; bookplates of John Arthur Brooke and Viscount Mersey; signature of G. Boyle dated 1978. First edition of an alphabetically arranged version of the Sanctilogium, a compilation of English saints’ lives by the chronicler John Tynemouth (as distinct from the geometer John of Tynemouth). The chronicler also wrote the Historia aurea, compiled c.1350, a world history extending from the creation to 1347. The Sanctilogium contains 156 lives of British saints. The work was misattributed by Leland, Bale, and their followers to the theologian and historian John Capgrave (1393–1464), prior of Bishop’s Lynn, a mistake repeated in this volume with a manuscript note at the head of the full-page woodcut and the insertion of 11 leaves at the front with a biography of Capgrave, some of the notes in Twysden’s hand. STC 4601. £18,750 [113452] 19. VAN NICE, Robert L. Saint Sophia in Istanbul. An Architectural Survey. Washington, DC: The Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, & Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1965 & 1986 Atlas folio (908 × 595 mm) Original blue-green portfolio, gilt lettering on spine, and front board. Colour view of Saint Sophia and 46 loose plates of architectural renderings, offset and collotype; the two sewn as issued 8-page introductory texts with contents lists laid-in. First edition, complete in both instalments - published over twenty years apart - and uncommon thus. This apparently number 96 of 750 copies. “So seldom in the history of architecture has there appeared, seemingly without precedent, a monument of such remarkable scale and structural form as Justinian’s Great Church of Saint Sophia that the origin of its conception and the means by which it was constructed within the limitations of experience and materials of its period pose problems of consuming interest” (Foreword). Nearly a half century in the completion, the project was initiated in 1936 by William Emerson, at the time Dean of the School of Architecture at MIT, who had travelled to Istanbul in order to see “the exquisite mosaics that were then being recovered from beneath Fossati’s plaster by Thomas Whittemore, founder of the Byzantine Institute”. He realised that the previous years’ secularisation of the mosque as the State Museum of the Turkish Republic “created a long-awaited opportunity to advance our knowledge of this monument unique in the history of architectural development”. The project began with “the limited aim of setting down details of a single one of Saint Sophia’s four buttresses, the scope of the survey, as it became increasingly clear that by inspection and measurement alone unsuspected amounts of invaluable and hitherto unknown internal evidence could be assembled, was progressively expanded until finally it encompassed the entire main structure as well as later accretions on its periphery. In sum, the study provides a framework and indispensable point of departure for examining any of the numerous architectural, structural, or historical questions connected with more than fourteen hundred years of the building’s continuous use”. This copy from the library of William L. MacDonald, (1921–2010), noted architectural historian, author of Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture, The Architecture of the Roman Empire, and The Pantheon: Design, Meaning, and Progeny, who participated in the excavation of the mosaics at Haghia Sophia in the early 1950s when studying for his MA at Harvard, his ownership inscription to front pastedown of the portfolio, and to the front panel of the wraps of “Installment [sic.] I”. Superb, sought-after, and with a splendid provenance. £3,250 [104062]

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