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www.peterharrington.co.uk 2 Peter Harrington 142 One of the first printed works devoted to finance it. At the end of the schism he resigned his cardinalate and became Bishop of Caesarea in 1447. He retired to a mon- 1 astery where, assisted by Spanish scholars, he translated SEGOVIA, Johannes de. Tractatus super materia the Koran into Spanish and published his refutation of it, contractuum de censibus annis et perpetuis; [together De mittendo gladio spiritus in Saracenos. A considerable book with] Propositiones responsive ad questionem de collector, he left his important collection of manuscripts observancia dominicalium dierum et precipuorum to Salamanca University in 1457. solempnium festorum. [Cologne: J. Koelhoff, c.1472] This is one of the first books from the press of Johann Koel- Folio (283 × 205 mm), 24 leaves. Rebound in early 19th-century hoff the Elder (active c.1471–87, d. 1493), printer and trader brown quarter cloth, marbled paper boards, orange lozenge pa- in Latin and Low German works in Cologne. Jesse D. Mann per label to front board lettered and triple ruled in gilt, relined. argues that Koelhoff ’s involvement as printer “provides With the blank leaf at the front. Printed in gothic type with spac- further evidence of [the Tractatus’s] relative popularity and es for initials. Bookplate of Francesco Orazio Beggi (fl. 1848–80), importance” (p. 74). From approximately 1470, “in several Commissary Director of Police in Modena under the provision- centers of northern Italy experiments were made in stamp- al government in 1848, to front pastedown (his library was sold anonymously by Puttick and Simpson in London in two sales, ing in typeset signatures by hand. They are found not in the 16–18 March 1864 and 10 May 1865), and with two catalogue clip- old positions but irregularly near the fore edge and gen- pings to front pastedown. Contemporary marginal annotations erally near the head. This rather ugly device was of short in ink including several manicules. Extremities a little worn and vogue, for in 1472 Johann Koelhoff of Cologne showed the chipped, contents lightly toned with some dampstain to top and way to all subsequent printers by setting up a last line on fore edges of gathering C, otherwise a very good copy of this rare the pages that needed signing, consisting of the necessary work, ISTC locating just 15 copies worldwide. letter and number and, for the rest, of a row of quads or first edition of one of the earliest printed other spaces that left it blank in printing. The invention works devoted to finance, one of the first to car- spread and in a dozen years was general. The presence or ry printed signatures, and the author’s first printed text. absence of signatures is one of the several aids to ascribing Written during the Council of Basel, this treatise presents dates to undated books of that period” (Esdaile, p. 324). As Segovia’s contribution to the debate surrounding the theo- one of his earlier works this Tractatus is therefore of consid- ry and practice of census in medieval theology and econom- erable typographical significance. It is also interesting to ics. In it he sets forth an extended argument for the moral note that Koelhoff printed several other works on the census neutrality of financial transactions involving lifetime or question, such as Henry of Langenstein’s Tractatus bipartitus perpetual annuities relating to assets (census) as distinct de contractibus emptionis et venditionis (1484). Aside from the from usurious loan transactions (mutuum). introduction of quire signatures, the Koelhoff press’s fame primarily rests on the printing of the Cologne Chronicle John of Segovia was born toward the end of the 14th cen- (1499), overseen by his son and successor, Johann Koelhoff tury and probably died in 1458. A canon at Toledo and the Younger. professor of theology at Salamanca University, he came to prominence at the Council of Basel (1431–49) where he The second work occupies the last five pages and discusses became one of the chief supporters of the revolutionary the observance of Sundays and other Feast Days. party. After the deposition of Eugene IV in 1439 he was Copinger 3369; Goff J434; Oates 517; Sheppard 782; Voulliéme, Der Buch- appointed to the committee responsible for electing the druck Kölns bis zum Ende des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts, 639. Not in the British antipope, Felix V, in November of that year, and in recogni- Library. See Jesse D. Mann, “Juan de Segovia’s Super materia contractuum de tion of this service he was made cardinal. His Historia gen- censibus annuis: Text and Context” (E. J. Brill, 1996); Roy Stokes, Esdaile’s Manual of Bibliography (Scarecrow Press, 2001). eralis concilii Basiliensis Libri XVIII, an extended account of the Council, remains a primary source of our information on £35,000 [121113]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 3 Arabic astrology brought to the West rudian). The work is divided into four books: the first is a defence of astrology and technical concepts, the second 2 deals with the influences on earth (including astrologi- PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius. Quadripartitum, trans cal geography and weather prediction), and the third and lated by Plato Tiburtinus. [with] Centiloquium, fourth discuss the influences on individuals. The present translated by Johannes Hispalensis. Venice: Erhardt copy confirms to the second copy mentioned in BMC, with Ratdolt, 15 January 1484 the impression of two headings from a law book printed in red on the lower half on verso of the last page. Quarto (231 × 161 mm). Dark brown morocco by Brugalla, 1952, tooled in gilt and blind, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges, slipcase. Colla- The Centiloquium, a collection of one hundred aphorisms tion: a–g8 h12 (a1r blank, a1v astrological diagram, a2r text, h12r colo- about astrology and astrological rules, has a commentary phon, h12v blank). 68 leaves. 42 lines, double column. Types: 4:76G; v v by Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Misri (835–912; known in the West 6:56(75)G. Woodcut diagram on a1 and a8 , incipit printed in red, by his Latinized name Hametus, though often confounded woodcut initials, a few partly coloured or outlined in red, chapter headings of leaves a2r–b3r and f6v–end rubricated, the Centiloquium with Haly), and many scholars believe that he was in fact numbered and with occasional annotations. Provenance: several its true author. The Centiloquium contains substantial dif- early marginal manuscript annotations and underlining in the text ferences in focus from the Tetrabiblos: for example, it is very in red ink (from f6v until the end); Johannes Albini, medical student concerned with “Interrogations”, the asking of astrological “Acrocrenopolitani” (scored, faded early manuscript inscription on questions about forthcoming plans and events, which is a1r); Johannes Pesthius (faded manuscript inscription below); the not treated at all in the earlier work. It was translated from Spanish collector Gabriel Molina (bookplate on pastedown); sold, Arabic to Latin by John of Seville. Sotheby’s, 17 November 1988, lot 131, to Quaritch. Occasional light finger soiling, wire on the press bed in f7v affecting a few letters, slip- The elegant layout of this first Latin edition is characteristic of case spine lightly rubbed, but an excellent copy. the work of Erhard Ratdolt (1442–1528), who printed a num- first edition in latin. Ptolemy’s treatise on astrology, ber of important works at Venice based on Arabic materials, the Tetrabiblos, was the most popular astrological work of including the first edition of Euclid’s Elements (1482), where he antiquity and also enjoyed great influence in the Islamic solved the problem of printing geometric diagrams, the Poet- world and the medieval Latin West. The translation was icon astronomicon, also from 1482, Haly Abenragel (1485), and made from Arabic to Latin in 1138 by Plato of Tivoli, the Alchabitius (1503). He was active as a printer in Venice from 12th-century Italian mathematician, astronomer and 1476 to 1486, and afterwards in his native Augsburg. translator who lived in Barcelona from 1116 to 1138. It has H *13543; GW M36411; BMC V 288; BSB-Ink P-862; Klebs 814.1; Polain (B) a commentary by Ali ibn Ridwan ibn Ali ibn Ja’far al-Mis- 3284; Redgrave 40; Essling 313; Sander 5980; Proctor 4394; Goff P-1088. ri (c.988–c.1061; known in the west as Haly, or Haly Aben- £47,500 [119247]

4 Peter Harrington 142 The first English edition of Utopia: “among the tocracy and the new economics of large enclosures and the treasures of our literature” destruction of the old common-field agriculture, just as it pleads for religious tolerance and universal education” 3 (PMM). MORE, Sir Thomas. A fruteful, and pleasaunt This first English translation is not strictly faithful to the worke of the beste state of a publyque weale, and of Latin original, but “it was made for the private use of Rob- the newe yle called Utopia: written in Latine, and inson’s friend George Tadlow, a City haberdasher, who translated into Englyshe by Raphe Robynson citizein could now enjoy More’s jocular identification of Utopia’s and goldsmythe of London, at the procurement, Amaurot with Tudor London, a concept developed at and earnest request of George Tadlowe citezein length by Robinson. Indeed his racy prose (much in the [and] haberdassher of the same citie. London: By [S. style of Richard Howlet or Huloet’s Latin dictionary Abce- Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, 1551 darium, 1552) is so far from More’s original as to constitute a new literary form . . . ‘The work is essentially English, Small octavo (140 × 92 mm). Bound in 1899 by The Club Bindery and . . . among the treasures of our literature’ (Arber, 3) (Leon Maillard, finisher) in tan crushed goatskin with spine and covers with inlaid goatskin borders of red and green outlined in as a sparkling piece of imaginative 16th-century writing” gilt, vellum doublures and free endpapers, gilt edges; in dark blue (ODNB). morocco-backed folding case with minor repair to joints. provenance: Robert Hoe, with his bookplate, sold in part extremely scarce first edition in english of IV of his sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 19 November Thomas More’s Utopia, and the first edition printed in Eng- 1972, lot 2273; David and Lulu Borowitz, their book label, land. More’s celebrated description of an ideal common- purchased at their sale through John F. Fleming, Sotheby’s wealth and “quintessential humanist dialogue” (ODNB) New York, 15 November 1977, lot 175; Abel E. Berland, his was written in Latin and first published in Louvain in 1516 book label, Christie’s New York, 8–9 October 2001, lot 89. for a European audience. Influenced by Plato’s Republic, St STC 18094. Augustine’s De civitate dei, Vespucci’s accounts of the New World, and Erasmus’s Institutio principis christiani, it was “a £150,000 [121261] tract for the times, to rub in the lesson of Erasmus; it in- veighs against the new statemanship of all-powerful au-

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 5 “One of the greatest men of his age: seaman, ness” (Harry Kelsey, Sir John Hawkins: Queen Elizabeth’s Slave navigator, strategist, administrator, businessman, Trader, Yale 2003, p. xiii). Hawkins played a pivotal role in member of parliament, innovator, and patriot” the slave trade, proving “the possibility of extending the long-established English triangular trade via Guinea to 4 Brazil – in which his father had taken a pioneering role HAWKINS, Sir John. Two manuscript estate thirty years earlier – to a new, and readily available com- modity, namely African slaves, and to a new Caribbean indentures relating to Hawkins’s property at destination, where Spanish colonists welcomed slaves as Chatham, established as a Royal Dockyard in 1567. an important constituent element in their internal econ- Signed by Sir John Hawkins and Dame Margaret omy – a valuable, harder-working, and longer-living anti- Hawkins respectively. Chatham, Kent: 1582 & 1599 dote to the chronic wastage of the aboriginal population, 2 sheets vellum, folio (measuring 424 × 569 mm and 335 × 503 mm and furnished more cheaply than their own compatriots respectively). Manuscript in an English secretary hand. Both with managed via Seville” (ODNB). wax seals on vellum tags, that of 1582 bearing Hawkins’s “merchant’s mark” and that of 1599 his arms (sable on a point wavy, The earlier of the two indentures is dated 22 January 1582, a lion passant or, in chief three bezants, crest, a demi Moor in signed “John Hawkyns”, and bears his wax seal. With this his proper colour, bound and captive, with annulets in his arms document William Barnes of Chatham, a “chief master” (cap- and ears). Prickings visible along left margin (made as a guide for tain) in Elizabeth’s navy, conveys to Sir John Hawkins, then ruling the sheets). Creased where folded, only light soiling, seal treasurer of the Navy, a house, storehouse, two yards, an ad- on document of 1599 partially cracked but whole, overall both in- joining garden near Chatham Street, together with a section dentures in excellent condition. of land called “The Quay” and some marshlands both be- A superb example of the signature of one of the great sailors longing to St Bartholomew’s Hospital, altogether procured of Elizabethan England, the first document showing him for £100. The document further mentions a bond in £160 for acquiring land at Chatham, established as a royal dockyard quiet possession of the house by Peter Hills of Rotherhithe, by Elizabeth I in 1567. Sir John Hawkins (1532–1595), mer- yeoman, to William Barnes (30 January 1577), and recites chant, privateer and naval commander, was cousin to Sir the lease made 15 October 1545 for The Quay and marsh by Francis Drake “but arguably knew more about seamanship George Bowne, master of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, to Wal- and did more for his country than Drake. During several ter Hayte of Rochester, tailor, for 99 years, which was by 1582 voyages in the 1560s Hawkins demonstrated to his coun- vested in William Barnes. The witnesses are listed as Walter trymen that good profits could be made trading in the Portryff, Thomas Maynerd, and Miles Toogye. Spanish ports of the West Indies. He also introduced his queen and his fellow merchants to the loathsome business The attached red wax seal bears a fine impression of of slave trading, where even greater profits could be made Hawkins’s “merchant’s mark”, the design appearing to in- by men whose consciences were not of exceeding tender- corporate a hawk’s talon (presumably a play on his name), and a fine example of his signature. In the most famous

6 Peter Harrington 142 portrait of Hawkins, at the National Maritime Museum, and Richard Reynoll, esqs), to Christopher Chapman, mer- Hawkins is pictured holding a seal on a ring but close in- chant, of the messuage, gardens, wharf, storehouse and half spection shows that it is not the same as either of the two an acre of marsh for 21 years from 25 March 1597 at £8 (1 May seals used on these documents. William Barnes would 1597). Dame Margaret now ratifies Christopher Chapman’s have been well known to Hawkins as he was one of two leasehold interest and, as the executrix of Sir John Hawkins, “chief masters” – the other being Thomas Gray – of the assigns to the governors such interest as she may have in the group appointed by Elizabeth to the special investigation quay and marsh under the head-lease of 1545. The witnesses commission that was looking into the state of the navy. are recorded as Anthony Lewes, Richard Holman, and John ODNB records that “Hawkins bought a house in Deptford, Cureton. The seal attached to this second document shows and soon afterwards another in the city, in the parish of St the arms of Sir John Hawkins and a fine example of Margaret Dunstan-in-the-East, which he retained for the remainder Hawkins’s signature. of his life” but would presumably also have had lodgings at Chatham is still home to the Sir John Hawkins Hospital, Chatham while he oversaw the fitting-out of ships. an almshouse for sailors, the brainchild of Hawkins, con- Interestingly, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, alluded to in ceived some time during 1593; “the institution received a both documents, had, following the dissolution of the royal charter in 1594” (Kelsey). It is possible that some of monasteries, been reduced to a “poor show of a decayed the land purchased in the present indenture of 1582 was hospital” (William Lambarde, Perambulation of Kent, 1576). used as the site of the hospital, while the indenture of 1599 But when Chatham became a royal dockyard in 1567 the indicates its expansion. Hawkins was also a co-founder of meagre estates which had formerly only supported a de- the famous Chatham Chest, “a fund for disabled seamen cayed hospital became more valuable. In fact property which was founded in 1590 by Drake, Sir John Hawkins values rose to such an extent that an attempt was made to and Lord Howard of Effingham. Seamen paid 6d. a month seize the land for the Crown. from their pay into the fund; the chest in which the money was kept is now in the National Maritime Museum, Green- Dated 20 May 1599, the second document records Dame wich” (Uden & Cooper, A Dictionary of British Ships and Sea- Margaret Hawkins (d. 1619), leasing The Quay and the men, 1980, p. 83). marsh to the governors of the hospital of Sir John Hawkins in Chatham, with a fine example of her signature at foot. Hawkins’s position in British history has been summed A deed of ratification of leasehold estate and surrender of up succinctly: “This many-talented man was one of the interest in the head-lease, the text recites the lease for 99 greatest of his age: seaman, navigator, strategist, admin- years by George Bowne (which subsequently came to Sir istrator, businessman, Member of Parliament, innovator John Hawkins, who built a dwelling house on part of the and patriot” (ibid.). land) and the grant of a lease by the feoffees of such parts of the premises in which Sir John Hawkins claimed a freehold £10,000 [115601] estate (Henry Palmer, kt, Thomas Hughes, Hugh Vaughan

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 7 “A world of the world’s rarities, are by a world of title pages of vols. II and III; engraved armorial bookplates of Sir Charles Tennant (1823–1906), industrialist, who amassed a eyewitnesse-authors, related to the world” notable library at his estate known as The Glen, in Peeblesshire, 5 Scottish Borders. Bindings professionally refurbished, a few light abrasions and shallow scratches, occasional light brown- PURCHAS, Samuel. Purchas his Pilgrimes. In five ing, a few marginal tears, some light offsetting of engraving bookes . . . [Together with] Purchas his Pilgrimage. onto letterpress, a few natural flaws and rust-holes, and the London: William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, 1625–6 following minor defects: vol. 1: H1 lower fore-corner torn away without loss of text, closed-tear in 2C4, old splash marks on Together 5 volumes (the supplemental Pilgrimage comprising 4Q2 (recto and verso); vol. 2: old repaired tear at inner corner of the fifth volume), folio (330 × 207 mm). Uniformly bound in 4Y just touching edge of map of Barbaria and Egypt, paper flaw mid-18th-century calf, rebacked with the original decorative at upper fore-corner of 6F2, paper flaw at fore-edge of 6H frayed gilt spines laid down, tawny and olive-green morocco twin la- with very minor loss to map of “Terra Sancta” on verso, map of bels, blind roll tool border on sides, marbled edges and end- Germany (6L3 verso) just shaved to neat line along outer edge, papers. Engraved additional title to vol. I (second issue, dated closed-tear in 6Y along lower platemark of map of Europe (but 1625; usually absent), 88 engraved maps (7 double-page or fold- with no loss), small hole in 8P3; vol. 4: repaired closed-tear at ing: the Virginia map in vol. IV in Verner’s state 7, that of China lower margin of 5V6, paper flaw at lower fore-corner of 6C3 and in vol. III loosely inserted and on a slightly smaller sheet; 81 lower edge of 7D6, printing flaw at edge of map of England (8B2 half-page in the text), plus the additional double-hemisphere verso), faint dampstaining and a small stain on double-page map tipped in at p. 65 in vol. 1 (see Sabin, p. 118), numerous il- map of China. A very good set, with the blank leaf R4 in vol. 1 lustrations, mostly woodcut, but some engraved. Late 17th-cen- (frequently wanting). tury ownership inscriptions of “Rob. Williams his booke” on

8 Peter Harrington 142 first edition of Purchas his Pilgrimes, with the engraved America” (James William Kelly in Speake ed., Literature of title-page (often lacking) dated 1625, the map of Virginia Travel and Exploration, p. 985). in vol. IV in the 10th state according to Burden, with the Alden & Landis 625/173; Borba de Moraes II, pp. 692–3; Church 401A; Hill whole engraved area present (often trimmed with loss). 1403; Sabin 66682–6; STC 20509 & 20508.5. With the fourth edition of the Pilgrimage, issued concur- rently as a supplement, in the usual issue with the first £125,000 [120132] quire reset, the title beginning Purchas (the other setting has Purchase), and the added dedication to King Charles. The fourth edition of the Pilgrimage is usually considered the best; first published in 1613, it gives Purchas’s account of the various religions encountered throughout the world. Together, this is the desired state of the complete set of Purchas’s important collection of travel and exploration narratives from ancient times up to and including the recent accounts of Virginia by John Smith. This is a lovely set in 18th-century calf. “Today, Pilgrimes remains an indispensable resource for geographers, anthropologists, and historians alike, pro- viding, among other things, prime sources for the early history of the Jamestown colony, and perhaps the best defence ever composed to justify England’s claims to North

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 9 The Second Folio tailpieces, text printed in two columns within rules. Provenance: Richard Manney (bookplate; his sale, Sotheby’s New York, 11 Oc- 6 tober 1991, lot 279); Richard L. “Rick” Adams, Jr. (book label). SHAKESPEARE, William. Comedies, Histories, and Spine faded, extremities a bit rubbed, a few scuffmarks; the first leaf with Jonson’s “To the Reader” inlaid, title-page lightly soiled Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall and with marginal repair, Aa6 with marginal repair touching 2 Copies. The second Impression. London: Printed by letters and costing a bit of rule, marginal repairs to last several Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, and are to be sold, 1632 leaves, very occasional tiny rustholes or light soiling, a number Median folio (327 × 219 mm). Mid 19th-century red crushed mo- of minor corrections in an early hand. A tall and very fresh copy. rocco, spine divided into six compartments by raised bands, the second folio, that is, the second edition, first issue, gilt-lettered direct in second, dated in third, other compartments of the collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays, set page- with gilt cornerpieces, sides with wide gilt frames enclosing for-page from a corrected copy of the First Folio, 1623, edit- centrepiece, board edges and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, ed by John Heminge (d. 1630) and Henry Condell (d. 1627). edges gilt over earlier red, by Hayday. Red morocco-backed fold- This is the edition of which William Prynne complained ing-case. Engraved portrait of Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout (third state) on the title-page, woodcut initials and head- and that it was printed on best crown paper. It is estimated that the original edition was of 1,000 copies, shared between

10 Peter Harrington 142 the five publishers listed in the colophon, all of whom were The binder James Hayday (1796–1872) ran one of the larger proprietors of rights to one or more of the plays. This copy London firms for nearly 30 years from 1833. His work was is one of those printed for Robert Allot, who took the li- always good quality, even on occasion spectacular. Hayday on’s share. The book is also notable for containing “An Ep- went bankrupt in 1861, unable to compete against cheaper itaph on the admirable Dramaticke Poet, W. Shakespeare” binders, and sold the use of his name to William Mansell of by John Milton, printed on the Effigies leaf, the first of his Oxford, who succeeded to his bookbinding establishment. English-language poems to be printed. Gregg III:1113; Pforzheimer 906; STC 22274a; Todd, “The Issues and As shown by William Todd, only the true first issue was States of the Second Folio and Milton’s Epitaph,” in Studies in Bibliography V (1952–53), pp. 81–108. published in 1632. The imprint of this copy is Todd’s state Ia; the page with Milton’s verse (i.e., the inner forme of the £275,000 [122965] same sheet) is his state Ib, corrected to read “Comicke” “Laugh” and “passions” with ligatured double-s. In 1641 and later, remainder sheets were sold with this sheet (A2.5) in two distinct re-settings.

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 11 « Au nombre des réformateurs principaux qui, après Boisguillebert et Vauban, se sont occupés de l’amélioration des institutions financières de l’ancienne France, il faut placer La Jonchère » 7 LA JONCHÈRE, Étienne Lécuyer de. Systême d’un nouveau gouvernement en France. Tome I [–IV]. Le Prix des quatre Volumes est de cent livres en Argent, & de quatre cent livres en Billets de Banque. Amsterdam: Chez François le Bon, 1720 4 volumes bound in 2, duodecimo (162 × 90 mm). Contemporary French red morocco, boards with decorative roll border and cen- trally stamped coat of arms (see below), spines elaborately decorated and lettered gilt in compartments, gilt edges. From the library of Louis-Antoine de Paraillan de Gondrin, first duke of Antin, with his coat of arms to each board. 4 folding engraved tables. Very discreet repairs to joints and spine ends, title pages to volumes II and IV discarded; tear to the first folding table repaired without loss; printed on mixed paper stock, a few spots and stains, one or two short marginal tears and some leaves browned, generally very good in an excellent contemporary binding. first edition of a very rare work, one of the most original works of political economy of the 18th century. Writ- ing after the death of Louis XIV in 1715, La Jonchère puts forward a detailed and comprehensive plan of financial

12 Peter Harrington 142 reform. Although he “expressly denies having followed al misery of the people. According to Alphonse Callery, Vauban’s Dixme Royale, he starts from the same initial prin- La Jonchère wasted little time criticising earlier authors ciple . . . He advocates one sole tax, to be paid without priv- (though he does indeed criticise the work of Boisguilbert ilege or exemption, by all Frenchmen without distinction, and of Vauban); what he proposes is a complete fiscal sys- to consist of a percentage collected in money or in kind, on tem, and with the precise detail of his plan, it is easy to see the general produce of the ground, mines quarries, etc., that he is no dreamer, but a clear minded thinker, with a by a ‘Compagnie du Commerce’, to be formed for the pur- well established understanding of mathematical concepts. pose. This company was to have the monopoly of foreign An engineer by training, he had travelled extensively both trade, its shares being given as reimbursement of the price in France and abroad, accumulating precious documents of all the offices sold by the king’s predecessors and of the on financial administration. The book was printed be- capital of the rents due to towns or individuals. The corn tween 1718 and 1719 (though dated 1720) and presented to collected by the company was to be sold at a permanently the Regent as a gift. It is suggested that the book’s rarity is fixed price. The company was also to be entrusted with the due to the fact that John Law stole many of the ideas for his recoinage and ‘diminution’ of the metallic currency, which own financial system, and destroyed as many copies of the were to bring it down to what . . . La Jonchère calls its ‘in- book as he could to hide the fact. trinsic value.’” (E. Castelot in Palgrave). INED 2517; not in any of the other standard bibliographies. See Alphonse Unlike Vauban and Boisguilbert, La Jonchère sought not Callery, Les Réformateurs de l’ancienne France. Le Précurseur de Law: La Jonchère, simply to find a fiscal system to meet the enormous debts Fontaineblaeu, 1880, p. 3ff.) left by Louis XIV, but also to find a solution to the gener- £22,500 [116257]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 13 Unrestored in the original trade binding, with the first true first edition (Teerink A), with the frontispiece state portrait, rare thus portrait in the first state, and all the necessary points to distinguish it from the two later printings (Teerink AA and 8 B) also dated 1726. Teerink’s A was published on 28 Octo- [SWIFT, Jonathan.] Travels into Several Remote ber, AA some time in the middle of November, and the B Nations of the World. In four parts. By Lemuel edition in December. The portrait occurs in three states, Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several the first as here with the inscription “Captain Lemuel Gulliver, of Redriff Aetat. suae 58.” on a tablet under the ships. London: Benj[amin] Motte, 1726 oval. Gulliver’s age matches Swift’s age when theTravels 2 volumes, octavo (196 × 121 mm). Original trade binding of un- was first published. The second state has the inscription lettered panelled calf, spines with volume numbers in gilt, gilt placed round the oval, the tablet with a quotation from the edge-roll, edges speckled red. Housed in a brown quarter morocco solander box with chemise by the Chelsea Bindery. Fron- second satire of Persius, protesting the author’s purity of tispiece portrait of Gulliver (first state), 4 maps and 2 plans. Faint heart; the third state is a retouched version of the second. ownership signature (James Crofton) to title pages. Later paper The first five editions of Gulliver’s Travels (three octavo edi- labels removed from second compartments with slight sur- tions in 1726, one octavo and one duodecimo edition in face loss of leather, a little rubbing and scuffing to edges, front hinge of vol. II cracked but holding, very faint dampstain to top 1727) were all published by Benjamin Motte. “The clandes- fore-corners throughout, occasional mark or spot of foxing to tine business of getting into print a pseudonymous and contents, vol. II with shallow chip to bottom of first two blanks. satirically explosive political satire entitled Travels into Sev- An excellent set in an unrestored trade binding, rare thus. eral Remote Nations of the World (known from the start by its

14 Peter Harrington 142 more popular title, Gulliver’s Travels) was managed chiefly by of the book, largely due to Pope’s effort at instilling into his Pope, with the assistance of John Gay and Erasmus Lewis. friend the principles of ‘prudent management’ . . . Gulliver’s For speed, and to counter the risk of piracy, Motte used five Travels is the book by which Swift is chiefly remembered, printing houses (those of Edward Say, Henry Woodfall, and it is the record of his own experience in politics un- James Bettenham, William Pearson, and, for the greatest der Queen Anne as an Irishman in what G. B. Shaw called share, that of Jane Ilive). The first edition appeared on 28 ‘John Bull’s other island’” (ODNB). October 1726 in two octavo volumes at the price of 8s. 6d., provenance: from the library of the Irish judge William but with unauthorized deletions and insertions by Andrew O’Brien (1832–1899), with his bookplate to the front paste- Tooke (the brother of Benjamin Tooke jun.), and sold out down of vol. I, and thence by bequest to the Jesuit Commu- within a week. Gay wrote: ‘From the highest to the lowest nity at Milltown Park, with the Milltown Park library book it is universally read, from the Cabinet-council to the Nurs- label and shelf marks to the front pastedowns, and library ery’ . . . Motte followed up with two more octavo editions stamp to a few leaves. in 1726 and a duodecimo in 1727, and there was a serialized version which began in the Penny Post (25 November 1726). Ashley VI, p. 28; Grolier, English, 42; Rothschild 2104; Teerink 289; Printing and the Mind of Man 185. There were two Dublin editions before the end of 1726, each set up from Motte’s first edition . . . The book sold £150,000 [120147] well in French: the first complete translation appeared at The Hague in January 1727, and an abridged adaptation by the Abbé Desfontaines in Paris in April . . . Swift received from Motte £200 and possibly more from the sales

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 15 binding here.

Complete with the rare third volume the third volume as a discrete work in its own right in so far as he later “cast anew” its contents alone as An Enquiry 9 Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751). As a result of this HUME, David. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being broken-backed publication history, the three volumes of An Attempt to introduce the experimental Method of the Treatise are rarely found together. “The book comes up Reasoning into Moral Subjects. London: John Noon (vol. for sale so seldom that one may doubt whether more than III Thomas Longman), 1739–40 one or two hundred can be extant” (Keynes and Sraffa, in their introduction to Hume’s Abstract). 3 volumes, octavo (195 × 122 mm). Rebound to style in modern speckled calf, red and green morocco labels to spines, red moroc- Chuo 30; Fieser A.1–3; Jessop, p. 13; Printing and the Mind of Man 194; Wil- co roundels on green labels lettered in gilt, compartments ruled liam B. Todd (ed.), Hume and the Enlightenment (1974), pp. 190–1. in gilt, raised bands tooled with rope-twist roll in gilt, boards double-ruled in black, red sprinkled edges. Engraved head- and tail- £125,000 [120809] pieces and initials. Contents to Books I and II additionally bound in to the front of volume 2. Corrections neatly made in pencil to From the library of David Hume contents of volume 1 following errata, 2 faint marginal pencil marks to volume 2. A fine set with very occasional spotting. 10 first edition of Hume’s first great work, rarely found (HUME, David.) DIONYSIUS HALICARNASSENSIS. thus, with two of five leaves which Chuo notes as often Antiquitates Romanae [translated by Lampo Birago]. cancelled in the uncancelled state (A4 and F6 of volume Treviso: Bernardinus Celerius, 24 February 1480 3). Hume composed the first two books before he was 25 Folio. Seventeenth-century vellum, spine lettered by hand. 300 during his three years in France. He returned to London leaves, complete with the first blank. Capital spaces, with guide with the finished manuscript by mid-September 1737, but letters. Leaves numbered in an early hand in roman numerals, re- he did not sign articles of agreement with a publisher, numbered in arabic when rebound in the 17th century correcting John Noon, for another twelve months, and the two vol- misbinding of several gatherings, occasional manuscript mar- umes finally appeared, anonymously, at the end of January ginalia in a number of early and 18th-century hands. Engraved armorial book plate of the philosopher David Hume (state B) to 1739. Already fearing that they would not be well received, front pastedown. Spine soiled, mild stain to first few text leaves; Hume had meanwhile begun a third volume, Of Morals, a very good copy. in part a restatement of the arguments of these first two first edition, one of at least six issues, frequently mixed, books, which was not published until 5 November 1740 by with the colophon printed in capitals, the date correct, and a different publisher, Thomas Longman. Hume treated

16 Peter Harrington 142 the name of the translator given; from the library of the “Of Polygamy and Divorces” in volume II of his Essays moral Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume. Hume and political (1742) and in the essay “Of the Populousness of was an avid reader from an early age and the family home ancient nations”, included in his Political Discourses of 1752. at Ninewells would have contained, according to Mossner In a letter written from Ninewells in February 1752, short- “a fair range of the Latin classics in prose and poetry, a few ly before Political Discourses was published, Hume remarks: of the Greek, a few more of the French, and a miscellane- “I have amus’d myself lately with an Essay or Dissertation ous lot of the English” (The Life of David Hume, p. 30). As a on the Populousness of Antiquity, which led me into many student at Edinburgh, Hume’s education probably includ- Disquisitions concerning both the pubic & domestic Life ed a course on Roman antiquities under Charles Mackie, of the Antients. Having read over almost all the Classics the recently appointed professor of universal history. both Greek and Latin, since I form’d that Plan, I have ex- tracted what serv’d most to my Purpose . . .” (quoted in Dionysius Halicarnassensis, “Greek historian and teacher Mossner, p. 263). of rhetoric, flourished during the reign of Augustus. He went to Rome after the termination of the civil wars, and It is interesting to note that in his citation of Dionysius, spent twenty-two years in studying the Latin language and Hume refers only to “Books” and “Sections”, suggesting literature and preparing materials for his history”(Encyclo- that he was referring to this incunable edition. In citations paedia Britannica). The present work “embraced the histo- of other classical authors he generally provides book and ry of Rome from the mythical period to the beginning of chapter references, suggesting that he was using more re- the first Punic War . . . His chief object was to reconcile cent editions. the Greeks to the rule of Rome, by dilating upon the good Exactly how David Hume acquired this volume is unclear. qualities of their conquerors. According to him, history is It is not mentioned in Norton & Norton’s The David Hume philosophy teaching by examples, and this idea he has car- Library, but, as they note, there are very few details of how ried out from the point of view of the Greek rhetorician. Hume’s library was dispersed and equally little about how But he has carefully consulted the best authorities, and his he obtained his books. work and that of Livy are the only connected and detailed extant accounts of early Roman history” (ibid.). Dionysi- Goff D250; Hain 6239; Pellechet 4300. ISTC locates four copies in Scot- land, three at the National Library of Scotland, and one at the University us’ work was hugely successful; ISTC records 140 surviving of Glasgow, all of them acquired after Hume’s death. copies of this edition. £45,000 [118832] We know from his writings that Hume was familar with the work of Dionysius, citing him in at least two of his essays:

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 17 His first book are integrated by the same principle of self-command, or self-reliance, which manifests itself in economics in laissez 11 faire” (Spiegel). Smith’s famous phrase is first used here SMITH, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. that would be repeated in the later work: that self-seeking London: for A. Millar, and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, in men are often “led by an invisible hand . . . without know- Edinburgh, 1759 ing it, without intending it, to advance the interest of the Octavo (203 × 122 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, skilfully society” (Part IV, Chapter 1). rebacked with original spine compartments laid down, red mo- “The fruit of his Glasgow years . . . The Theory of Moral Sen- rocco label to style, sides with gilt roll border. Complete with timents would be enough to assure the author a respected half-title and errata on last leaf; pp. 317–336 omitted, as issued, place among Scottish moral philosophers, and Smith him- text and register complete. Corners restored, first and last leaves tanned in margins from turn-ins, closed tear repaired to leaf self ranked it above the Wealth of Nations . . . . Its central C7 without loss, scattered light foxing and a couple of margin- idea is the concept, closely related to conscience, of the al chips, occasional pencil side-ruling and marginal markings; a impartial spectator who helps man to distinguish right very good copy. from wrong. For the same purpose, Immanuel Kant in- first edition of the author’s first book, published vented the categorical imperative and Sigmund Freud the in April 1759 with a recorded “print run of 1,000 copies” superego” (Niehans, 62). (Sher, Early Editions of Adam’s Smith’s Books, 13). Smith’s first Goldsmiths’ 9537; Higgs 1890; Kress 5815; Tribe 1; Vanderblue, p. 38. book and his later Wealth of Nations demonstrate “a great £65,000 [120316] unifying principle . . . Smith’s ethics and his economics

18 Peter Harrington 142 Uncut in original boards says range over philosophy, aesthetics and the history of science. Most were probably written before the appearance 12 of the Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759, but were withheld SMITH, Adam. Essays on Philosophical Subjects. To from publication as part of Smith’s “extensive plan”. which is prefixed, an Account of the Life and Writings Einaudi 5326; Goldsmiths’ 16218; Jessop, p. 172; Kress B.3038; Rothschild of the Author; by Dugald Stewart, F.R.S.E. London: for 1902; Tribe 55; Vanderblue, p. 43. T. Cadell Jun., W. Davies, and W. Creech in Edinburgh, 1795 £12,500 [122472] Quarto (298 × 230 mm). Uncut in the original publisher’s boards, preserved in a custom made buckram drop-back box. Spine cracked at foot, inner hinge of front board cracked but cords holding firm, boards very lightly rubbed; two short marginal tears repaired; a very fine copy. first edition, published five years after Smith’s death, edited by Dugald Stewart and including his “Account of the life and writings of Adam Smith”, originally presented to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in two sessions during 1793. The editor states that the essays were intended as parts of “a connected history of the liberal sciences and elegant arts”, but that Smith “long since . . . found it necessary to abandon that plan as far too extensive”. The es-

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 19 Exceptionally rare contemporary manuscript sion of which survives in just three recorded copies (Nihon transcription of the Tableau Economique, the University, Tokyo; Dupont de Nemours collection at the foundation of Physiocratic economics, bound with a Eleutherian Mills Library, Delaware; and the Fondazione Raffaele Mattioli at the University of Milan), bound with first edition of the Philosophie rurale a copy of the first edition of Philosophie rurale. There are ad- 13 ditionally two copies of the 6-page so-called “second” edition of the Tableau, at the Bibliothèque nationale and at the QUESNAY, Francois. Tableau Economique, Par Archives nationales in France. M. Quesnay Premier Medecin consultant du Roi (contemporary manuscript copy). [Bound with] MIRABEAU, Victor Riquetti, Marquis de. Philosophie rurale, ou Économie générale et politique de l’agriculture, Réduite à l’ordre immuable les Loix physiques & morales, qui assurent la prospérité des Empires. Amsterdam: Chez les libraires associés, 1760–3 2 works in one volume, quarto (263 × 199 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, triple gilt-rule border to boards, spine decorated gilt in compartments, red and green morocco lettering pieces, marbled endpapers, edges sprinkled in red. Engraved armorial bookplate (defaced) to front pastedown. From the library of Vincent-Michel Maynon de Farcheville (1716–1805), Intendant of Amiens, general controller of finance and minister of state in 1758, with his gilt device of a sheaf of corn in each spine com- partment. Boards a little stained and scuffed, with a few scratch marks; expert repair to spine ends and corners; a very good copy. an extremely rare contemporary manuscript copy of Quesnay’s Tableau Économique, an almost exact transcription of the 1760 “third” edition, the printed ver-

20 Peter Harrington 142 Originally printed as a pamphlet of 36 pages in 1759 in a considered a first rough presentation of Keynes’s multipli- minute number of copies, Quesnay’s Tableau Économique er and as a sort of general equilibrium system of a Walra- was first revealed to the public in 1760 as the final part sian type . . . For others, the Tableau is an input–output ta- of Mirabeau’s L’Ami des Hommes. In the Philosophie rurale, ble . . . Because of the Tableau, Quesnay has been regarded Quesnay for the first time gives a full explanation of his as an early econometrician. The Tableau has also been in- system. The Tableau Économique is credited as the “first pre- terpreted as the first classical system of price determina- cise formulation” of interdependent systems in economics tion, thus anticipating Marx’s reproduction schemes and and the origin of the theory of the multiplier in econom- Sraffa’s price system” (Giovanni Vaggi in The New Palgrave). ics. An analogous table is used in the theory of money The Tableau is here bound up with a copy of the rare first creation under fractional-reserve banking by relending of edition of Mirabeau’s “magisterial account of the views of deposits, leading to the money multiplier. In a letter to Mi- the physiocratic school” (Higgs), containing for the first rabeau written late in 1758 Quesnay remarks “J’ai taché de time Quesnay’s masterful explanation of his Tableau, “one faire un tableau fondamental de l’ordre économique pour of those works in the history of economics which have of- y représenter les dépenses et les produits sous un aspect ten been regarded as an anticipation of modern theories” facile à saisir et pour juger clairment des arrangemens et (Schumpeter, p. 242). “In 1763 appeared the Philosophie des dérangemens que le gouvernement peut y causer.” rurale . . . which presents perhaps the most complete and “A most remarkable analysis of the economic condition magisterial account of the views of the physiocratic school” of his country” (Palgrave), the Tableau économique “is the (Higgs). “Quesnay collaborated very substantially in pre- most important and famous work of Physiocracy and has paring this last major work, contributing the final chapter often been regarded as a summary of the entire corpus of with further explanations and manipulations of his Tableau Physiocratic economics . . . The Tableau has also been re- Economique analysis” (The New Palgrave). Schumpeter calls garded as the analytical synthesis of the logical structure the work “the first of the four text-books of physiocrat or- of Quesnay’s economics, or at least as its most relevant as- thodoxy” (p. 225). pect . . . The Tableau Économique is one of those works in the Philosophie rurale: Goldsmiths’ 9836; Higgs 2881; INED 3204; Kress 6120. history of economics which have often been regarded as an anticipation of modern theories. The Tableau has been £85,000 [120694]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 21 “The finest edition of Don Quixote that has ever been first printing of the celebrated ibarra edition. printed” (D. B. Updike) Printed for La Real Academia Española (the Spanish Roy- al Academy) by Joaquín Ibarra y Marín, this edition was in- 14 tended to be a supreme example of Spanish craftsmanship CERVANTES, Miguel de. El ingenioso hidalgo Don lavished on the nation’s greatest literary work. This edition Quixote de la Mancha. Nueva edicion corregida por excels in beauty of type, design, paper, illustration and la Real Academia Española. Madrid: Don Joaquin Ibarra, printing, as well as incorporating a carefully edited and corrected text. The illustrations and delightful ornaments were 1780 designed by the best Spanish artists of the day, the paper 4 volumes, quarto (300 × 217 mm). Early 19th-century red was milled expressly for this edition, and the type was spe- straight-grain morocco, spines gilt lettered and ruled (black cially cut. It contains the first map depicting the route taken morocco banding between the five double raised bands), gilt octagonal motif in three compartments, three-line gilt border by Don Quixote and Sancho Panza through Spain. on sides, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins with “five bar-and-rosette” pattern, marbled endpapers. 4 engraved title pages, portrait of Cervantes, and 31 plates after Carnicero, Barranco, Brunette, Del Castillo, Ferro and Gil, engraved by Ballester, Barcelon, Fabre- gat, Gil, Mol, Muntaner, Salvador y Carmona and Selam, folding engraved map, engraved ornamental initials and head- and tailpieces. From the library of William Williams of Tregullow (1791–1870), High Sheriff of Cornwall, with his simple armorial bookplates; elaborate armorial bookplates of Etta Mary Arnold Clark (1861–1952). Just a little wear or rubbing to extremities, spines with single small wormhole at head or foot of joints, a few minor abrasions, touch of foxing or dust-marking in places, otherwise an excellent set.

22 Peter Harrington 142 The edition’s fame among bibliophiles was thoroughly es- most probably English, resembling the more restrained tablished throughout Europe within a very few years. The style of the celebrated Kalthoeber workshop. English bibliomane William Davis wrote in 1821 that “the celebrated Ibarra edition is so well known, that I need only £25,000 [116066] refer to M. Paris’s sale, 1791, where a copy sold for £16, 16 shillings, and Col. Stanley’s, where a copy sold for £17, 6 shillings, 6 pence” (A Journey Round the Library of a Biblioma- niac). Ours is a lovely set in a very elegant period binding,

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 23 Uncut in the original boards 15 exander Hamilton as propaganda in support of the Con- [HAMILTON, Alexander; James Madison; John Jay.] stitution within New York State. The majority were written The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in by Hamilton, later to become Secretary of the Treasury, Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by and James Madison, “the father of the Constitution”, who the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. In Two served as secretary of state under Jefferson and as presi- Volumes. New York: J. and A. McLean, 1788 dent between 1809 and 1817. Published under the pseudo- 2 volumes, duodecimo in sixes (vol. I, 174 × 110 mm; vol. II 188 nym Publius, the first essay in the series appeared on 27 × 113 mm). Uncut in the original paper-backed boards, original October 1787 in the Independent Journal and continued in number stamped to spine of vol. II. Vol. I backstrip replaced to that and three other newspapers until 2 April the following style; vol. II largely unopened. Housed in matching late 20th-cen- year. The first 36 essays were published in book form on tury red straight-grain morocco pull-off cases and red linen che- 22 March 1788, with the second volume appearing on 28 mises. Black morocco book labels of Alfred Nathan. First blank May, so that essays 78–85 were published as a book before and title leaf of vol. I torn across to remove early ownership in- their appearance in the press. The Federalist Papers have pro- scription, loss to title including most of the word “The”; the re- foundly influenced the interpretation of the Constitution, maining inscription reads “John [–] New York April 9th St Dom- inic 1809” and lists the three authors. Some marking and early and have been described by historian Richard B. Morris as inkstains to boards of vol. I, light foxing and toning to same vol., an “incomparable exposition of the Constitution, a classic small inkstain in margin of Q3v not affecting text; vol. II generally in political science unsurpassed in both breadth and depth clean and fresh; a very good set. by the product of any later American writer” (The Forging of first edition of the “most famous and influential Amer- the Union, p. 309). ican political work” (Howes), “one of the new nation’s Only 500 copies were printed. Due to the size difference most important contributions to the theory of govern- between vols. I and II, many sets include a second volume ment” (PMM). The collection of 85 essays that came to that has been trimmed down to match the first. Uncut sets be known as the Federalist Papers originated in the drive to in the original boards are extremely uncommon. ratify the Constitution, which was intended to replace Grolier, American, 19; Grolier, English, 55; Howes H114; Printing and the Mind the Articles of Confederation and create a more powerful of Man 234; Sabin 23979. and stable federal government. Ratification occurred on a state-by-state basis, and the essays were conceived by Al- £195,000 [120317]

24 Peter Harrington 142 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 25 Presentation copies, inscribed in both the Life and first editions, presentation copies, both the Life of the Principal Corrections, to his friend who helped Johnson and Principal Corrections with individual autograph decipher Johnson’s handwriting presentation inscriptions from the author to Andrew Lu- misden (1720–1801), a friend of Boswell’s who had assisted 16 in preparing the Life by deciphering Johnson’s manuscript BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, notebook of his trip to France in October–November 1775. This assistance is acknowledged in print at the footnote LL.D. Comprehending an Account of His Studies and on p. 511, vol. I: “My worthy and ingenious friend, Mr. Numerous Works, in Chronological Order . . . The Andrew Lumisdaine [sic], by his accurate acquaintance Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary with France, enabled me to make out many proper names, Men in Great Britain for Near a Century During which Dr. Johnson had written indistinctly, and some- Which He Flourished. In Two Volumes. [Together times spelt erroneously”. The autograph inscriptions read, with] The Principal Corrections and Additions to on the Life, “To Andrew Lumisden Esq: from his old and the first edition of Mr. Boswell’s Life of Dr. Johnson. much obliged friend The Authour”, and on the Principal London: by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791 & 1793 Corrections, “To Andrew Lumisden Esq: from his obliged Together 2 works bound in 2 volumes, quarto (275 × 217 mm). friend The Authour.” Contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked with original spines laid Andrew Lumisden was a fascinating character. Educated down, red morocco title labels renewed to style, oval red num- like Boswell for a respectable career in the law, Lumisden bering pieces laid down on black morocco labels, richly gilt in threw it all away in 1745 for the Jacobite cause. He served as compartments, sides bordered in gilt with Greek key roll, plain endpapers and edges. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Johnson, the under-secretary and the first clerk of the treasury to the round robin and handwriting plates in vol. II. Second state of vol. Young Pretender throughout the campaign of 1745–6 and I (with “give” spelt correctly on p. 135). Corners worn, some fox- was present at Culloden. Adopting a variety of disguises ing, heaviest near the portrait, generally a very good set. after the battle, he managed to escape to Paris, where he

26 Peter Harrington 142 entered the service of the Old Pretender. He and Boswell William Forbes of Pitsligo, was inscribed only on a note became acquainted in Rome in 1765. tipped in before the title (Sotheby’s, 13 December 2016, lot 45). Prior to that, the only other presentation copy sold at Lumisden was still in Rome on 23 January 1766 to greet auction was that given to John Douglas, Bishop of Carlisle, Charles Edward on his accession, but by now felt only a who appears in a short episode in the work (Sotheby’s NY, thinly veiled contempt for the Young Pretender and was 1998). Pottle notes other presentation copies given to John dismissed from his service on 8 December 1768. From Wilkes, Warren Hastings, Sir William Scott, and James 1769 to 1773 Lumisden resided in Paris, where he gradu- Boswell the younger. ally distanced himself from the Stuart cause. A member of the royal and antiquaries’ societies of Edinburgh, Lumis- Pottle 79; Rothschild 463 & 466; Tinker 338. den corresponded with Boswell, as well as Joseph Banks, £185,000 [119415] Adam Smith, and David Hume. He received a full pardon from the British government in 1778, having done his personal cause some good by buying up a collection of rare books for the Prince of Wales, and in due course returned to Edinburgh. With the bookplates of Sir Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange (1756–1841) and Thomas Lumisden Strange (1808– 1884), respectively nephew and grandnephew of Andrew Lumisden; signed by Thomas Lumisden Strange in each volume and with a note on Boswell’s Life copied by him from Samuel Parr. Presentation copies of the Life are rare in commerce. The last copy at auction, that given to Boswell’s executor Sir

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 27 Every style of Napoleon’s signature “Napoleon”, “Napol” or hurried “Np”. They are attractively presented in a specially-made blue cloth album with blue 17 morocco spine with gold lettering. The first letter, with the NAPOLEON. Series of documents and letters signed. lengthy autograph ending, is in a separate red morocco Various places: 1794–1813 folder, as befits the most important letter in the group. 7 documents, 6 signed by Napoleon using the various signatures Each letter has a translation and description on the facing adopted through the course of his life, the other with an impor- page of the album: tant autograph addition in his own hand. The six documents signed preserved in a blue morocco-backed cloth box, the first i) The first letter in the group, unsigned but with an important letter preserved in an individual custom made red morocco fold- autograph addition in Napoleon’s hand at the end, dates er. In very good condition. from January 1794, soon after the end of the siege of Toulon where the young artillery general first made his mark. Here An excellent collection of seven letters from Napoleon we find Napoleon still an ardent republican and acknowledg- I, giving a sweeping overview of the Emperor’s life from ing his Corsican roots. Glowing reports of his abilities and 1794, soon after the siege of Toulon, where he first came leadership were sent back to Paris by Augustin Robespierre, to prominence, until March 1813, just six months before younger brother of Maximilien Robespierre, head of the the catastrophic battle of Leipzig. The letters give an in- all-powerful Committee of Public Safety. Writing to General teresting insight into the development of his signature, Montfort, Napoleon orders him to go to St. Tropez in order ranging from “Buonaparte”, to “Bonaparte”, and the later to examine the state of the artillery in the town and the sur-

28 Peter Harrington 142 rounding area. In his final instructions, written in his own ticularly his ailing father, and was recalled as a favour. Six hand, Napoleon instructs Montfort to set up a “gril a bou- months later, Napoleon was to defeat the combined forc- lets rouges”, literally a grill for red-hot shots, and to set up an es of three Empires, Russia, Austria and the Holy Roman oven for the same, about which he would write later with an Empire. Before the end of 1806, the Holy Roman Empire explanation of the advantages of such weapons. The “boulets had ceased to exist. The document is dated “le 20 Prairial rouges” were cannonballs which were heated prior to being an 13”, using the Revolutionary calendar. This would have fired, so that they would cause maximum destruction not been one of the last documents dated in this manner, as the only on impact but, depending on where they fell, by setting country reverted to the traditional calendar by the end of fire to the surrounding area. These were primarily used in 1805. The document is countersigned by the great Foreign naval battles in the hopes of not only damaging enemy ships Secretary, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, and by the Secre- but also burning them, and would have proved particularly tary of State, Hughes Maret. useful when defending France’s Mediterranean coast. v) In May 1810, Napoleon, who had married Marie Louise of ii) Four months later, whilst in Nice, Napoleon writes to Citizen Austria the previous month, nevertheless found time to Chautrou with his earliest form of signature, “Buonaparte”. concern himself with the horses, caissons and transport for Writing to Citizen Chautrou, Napoleon enclosed a decree the army, but signed with a hurried “Np” on a letter written [not present] from the “Representative of the People” order- to his Minister for War, Henri Clarke, Duc de Feltre. The ab- ing Chautrou to Nice to work with him, bringing with him all breviated signature “Np” is the one most frequently found necessary material to organize a bureau of “dessins”, literally on letters organizing general matters or sending instruc- “drawings”. This was almost certainly a topographical bu- tions. The longer “Napol” was used for slightly weightier reau, which would, in later years, become an essential part of matters, and “Napoleon” reserved for official letters or the Napoleon’s service when planning his campaigns. The letter most important of orders. has a near-intact red wax seal by the signature. vi) A letter dated November 1811, again to Clarke, ordering iii) This is followed by a letter written in 1799, signed “Bona- troop movements around Calais, Dunkerque and Boulogne parte”. Napoleon had changed the spelling of his surname as well as concerns over the accommodation for the troops well before his marriage to Josephine de Beauharnais in 1796, in Bruxelles, displays the “Napol” signature. As on the pre- adopting the French spelling of Bonaparte. Napoleon arrived vious letter, one can see the ink stains around the signature, in Egypt in June of 1798. He had long had what amounted a frequent occurrence in Napoleon’s correspondence which to an obsession with Egypt and the Middle East, and arrived could be signed in some haste. Although the war in the Pen- there well prepared. He had read and studied enough of the insula continued to see fierce fighting between French and Koran to impress Egyptians with well-selected quotes from British troops and their allies, for Napoleon this was a rela- it, and had a firm grasp of the cultural nuances of the region. tively peaceful period; he spent all but six weeks of the year The Egyptian campaign was ostensibly a stepping stone in France. His only venture outside French borders was to to the French conquest of India, where the British, though visit Antwerp, Holland, and Dusseldorf and Cologne in Oc- powerful, faced fierce opposition from Indian leaders, most tober and early November. The birth of his only legitimate memorably from Tipu Sultan. In fact, Napoleon most likely child, the King of Rome, in March of that year had been the saw it as another step in cementing his reputation, while the cause of much celebration and Napoleon appears to have Directoire in France found it very convenient to have this very much enjoyed spending time with the infant. capable, but slightly over-dominant, young man out of the vii) The final letter in the collection, signed “Np”, takes us to way. Napoleon was not to be kept out of the way for very long. March 1813. Napoleon had returned to Paris three months By October 1799 he was back in Paris; by 9 November, he was earlier, the Grande Armée decimated after the disastrous First Consul. In this letter, Napoleon passes on instructions Russian campaign. Writing to his Finance Minister, Count from General Junot that Commissionaire Rolland[?] should Mollien, Napoleon hastens to correct a misunderstanding remain in Suez, while his deputy, Mullan, be sent to Cosseir which had arisen due to an article in Le Moniteur, the offi- [Kosseir], noting that the posting in Cosseir would never be cial government newspapers which invariably presented a as important as that in Suez. favourable view of matters. In this case, the stock market iv) Napoleon was crowned Emperor on 2 December 1804, and had evidently been disturbed by reports that further troops immediately adopted the signature appropriate for a mon- were to be raised, and Napoleon explains that the numbers arch, “Napoleon”. He established a court which displayed mentioned related to the 1814 conscripts. The denials may the power and wealth of France, more splendid than any- have been a vain attempt to calm the financial world. A few thing seen since Louis XIV. A document sent in June 1805 days later, Marie Louise was declared Regent, as Napoleon to the Archchancellor of the Holy Roman Empire, recalling left to embark on a campaign which would lead to his disas- France’s ambassador, M. Portalis, and replacing him with trous defeat at Leipzig in October. M. Hedouville, is written in a very beautiful hand, with the heading giving due prominence to Napoleon’s titles, Em- A scarce opportunity to acquire examples of all of Napoleon’s peror of the French and King of Italy, with the initial “N” of signatures, together with an example of his own handwriting. Napoleon recalling the initial letters used by monarchs in £21,000 [120647] the past. Portalis, a much-respected figure, had requested to be allowed to return to France to be with his family, par-

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 29 Elizabeth Barrett’s copy of Homer’s Odyssey in Greek, Payne Knight’s edition of the Odyssey of 1820, the markings extensively annotated by her in both English and having been made for that purpose. She counts a total of Greek, with her ownership signatures, given to her 1,929 lines omitted by Payne Knight. by her family friend and benefactor, unrecorded in EBB was a literary prodigy with a particular fondness for commerce for over a century Homer: at six, she began reading novels; at eight she was enraptured by Pope’s translation of Homer; at ten she be- 18 gan to study Greek; at eleven she began writing her own (BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett.) HOMER. Odyssea, Homeric epic The Battle of Marathon, which was privately Graece. Oxford: N. Bliss, 1811 printed in 50 copies as a present from her father on her 14th birthday in 1820. In “Glimpses into my own life and 2 volumes, sextodecimo (113 × 65 mm). Contemporary sprinkled literary character”, written principally when she was 14 calf, neatly rebacked with original spines laid down, smooth spines gilt in compartments, black morocco lettering- and num- (Correspondence, 1.352), she speaks of reading Homer and bering-pieces, sides with dotted-roll border in gilt, brown sprin- Virgil “in the original with delight inexpressible”. Many of kled edges. Housed in a brown morocco pull-off case. Corners the annotations here reveal the depth of her engagement: restored, a few minor marks internally, a very good copy. “Gloves mentioned once in Homer & then apparently only elizabeth barrett browning’s copy, with her used in defence of the hand of the old king Laertes from ownership inscriptions to each title page in lat- thorns & brambles.” in as elizabeth b. barrett, recording the gift of This is a remarkable and richly associative copy. At vari- the books to her by mary trepsack. Both volumes ous times during her lifetime EBB owned a number of edi- are extensively annotated by EBB in both Greek and Eng- tions of Homer, but this was given to her by Mary Trepsack lish. In the first volume the first four blank pages carry her (1769–1857), the daughter of an impoverished Jamaican minute holograph notes, including some interesting criti- planter and a female slave, known to the Moulton-Barrett cal observations; the second volume has similar holograph family as Treppy. Orphaned early in life, Treppy became notes partially to the pastedown and front free endpaper the ward of Samuel Barrett and eventually the constant recto. She has marked many passages in the main body of friend and companion of Elizabeth Moulton, EBB’s pa- the text: on flyleaves at the end of both volumes she has ternal grandmother. In 1826 Treppy used her own private made a summary of the lines and passages omitted in funds to underwrite the publication expenses for EBB’s An

30 Peter Harrington 142 Essay on Mind with Other Poems. From 1830 Treppy lived in tion at Sotheby’s sale of the Browning Collections, May London and was a regular visitor at Wimpole Street. She 1913, lot 754, subsequently offered on Maggs Catalogue appears to have been well aware of the situation between 389 (1920), item 225, and now held at Eton College Library. EBB and Robert Browning. After the marriage and flight to Kelley & Hudson, “Elusive Browningiana”, Browning Institute Studies, vol. Italy in September 1846, EBB sent letters to her sisters in 7 (1979), p. 149. care of Treppy, rather than sending them directly to Wim- pole Street where they might have been intercepted by her £27,500 [121414] father. The annotations in the volume must date sometime between 1820 and 1846, but probably to the earlier period of that span. The volumes also have the later pencilled ownership inscriptions of Mary Hunter (b. 1826) – in a letter of 2 May 1837, EBB mentioned Mary to Mary Russell Mitford as “just ten years old & a great darling of mine.” Mary was the daughter of George Barrett Hunter (1798–1857), an ardent admirer of EBB before her marriage who was, however, himself unfortunately married to a woman with mental health issues. His daughter Mary became a special favour- ite of the Moulton-Barretts, spending a good deal of time with the family in London. On 29 April 1837 EBB composed a charming poem for her, supposedly addressed by one of her doves to Mary’s canary. This is a remarkable rediscovery of an elusive annotated copy from EBB’s library, its whereabouts untraced since 1915. This copy was offered by sale in that year by Maggs, Catalogue 338, item 142. That firm was also the buyer of EBB’s annotated Iliad volumes from the same Oxford edi-

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 31 Byron prepares the Italian translation that would time as he began Don Juan. He planned to translate the whole supply the pattern for his masterpiece, Don Juan work, but ultimately abandoned the daunting project in favour of his own original creative work. 19 In this copy the first canto, the only one that Byron trans- (BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord.) PULCI, Luigi. lated, is marked up by him in pencil and is dated 11 No- Morgante maggiore. Venice: with the types of Pietro vember 1819 at the head of the text. Of the sixteen transla- Bernardi, 1812 tions or marginal glosses made by Byron in the text, seven 4 volumes, sextodecimo (119 81 mm). Contemporary Venetian relate to proper names in the original, settling on the Eng- calf, smooth spines gilt, lacking labels, covers with gilt roll bor- lish form that Byron would use in his translation. So Pul- ders, marbled endpapers (worn, joints cracking in places, front ci’s “Pipino” in stanza 5, line 3, becomes “Pepin” in Byron’s board of vol. I detached). Housed in a dark brown cloth flat-back marginal note and in his published text. Of the seven such box by the Chelsea Bindery. Each volume with the contemporary instances, five of Byron’s anglicized names marked in this engraved book label of Pietro Gamba to the front pastedown, copy are exactly as would be published: “Pepin” (“Pipino” Byron’s ownership inscriptions to titles in ink, erased from the title of vol. II and cut or torn from the other title pages; Byron’s in Pulci), “Bayonne” (“Bajona”), “Ogier” (“Uggieri”), “Ol- autograph pencil annotations at the opening text page of vol. I, iver” (“Ulivieri”), and “Aldabella” (“Alda la bella”). Byron dating his work on the first canto Nov. 11. 1819, and at 16 places enjoyed Pulci’s free use of variant names. In his introduc- throughout the first canto; pencil notes in another, later hand to tion to the poem in The Liberal, he notes that he has “used rear endpapers of other volumes; ink notes relating to Byron’s the liberty of the original with the proper names”. The two ownership in vols. I and II. remaining instances in this category are where Byron has byron’s copy, annotated by him in pencil in prepa- merely underlined the names in the text, postponing the ration for his translation, his ink ownership inscrip- decision for the moment: “Manopello”, which would be- tions in each volume having been cut away from the titles come “Manopell” in the printed text, and “Chariamonte”, (though the distinctive shape of his signature remains); rendered in the published version as “Clermont”. with the contemporary bookplates of Pietro Gamba. Pulci’s Of the other nine glosses, seven represent instances where romantic epic Morgante maggiore (1483) is one of the major Byron is apparently making his first note of any difficul- examples of the Italian tradition of ottava rima serio-comic ties. These are not yet poetic renderings, but mostly pro- narrative medley poetry. What Byron called Pulci’s “half-se- saic word-by-word translations to tease out the meaning rious rhymes” were to be the primary formal influence on of the original, which he later rearranged for the published Byron’s masterpiece Don Juan. Byron translated the first can- version. So, for instance, at stanza 38, line 4, the original is to of the Morgante maggiore (which first appeared inThe Lib- “Non bisognava il medico venisse”, glossed as “Not need- eral, the modest profit going entirely to Hunt) at the same ed that the surgeon came”, which follows the word order

32 Peter Harrington 142 of the Tuscan original, but Byron rephrased it more natu- But it was one small word in the poem that gave Byron rally for publication as “There would have been no need of the most trouble: “sbergo”, at stanza 84, line 5, which he a physician”. Conversely, the last line of the poem, Pulci’s underlined and glossed in this copy as “breastplate” but “Di mal vi guardi il Re de l’atla Gloria” has Byron’s margin- eventually published as “cuirass” (an antique piece of ar- al gloss “May the High King of Glory from evil keep you”, mour consisting of breastplate and backplate fastened to- which he later reordered closer to the original as “From gether). Those choices mired him in months of indecision, evil keep you the high King of Glory!” as he explained to John Murray in the second of two letters on the subject: “It is strange that here nobody understands The remaining two glosses are perhaps the most inter- the real precise meaning of ‘Sbergo’ or ‘Usbergo’ – an old esting. Stanza 64, line 2, “Gli dette in su la testa un gran Tuscan word which I have rendered Cuirass (but am not punzone” is underlined and Byron’s translation “gave him sure it is not Helmet). I have asked at least twenty people a punch on the head!” is noted at the foot of the page, the – learned and ignorant – male and female – including po- exclamation mark suggesting Byron’s surprise and de- ets and officers civil and military. – The Dictionary says light at the expression. In Byron’s published translation, Cuirass – but gives no authority – and a female friend of the line is rendered “He gave him such a punch upon the mine says positively Cuirass – which makes me doubt the head” and Byron adds the footnote: “It is strange that Pul- fact still more than before. Guinguené says ‘bonnet de Fer’ ci should have literally anticipated the technical terms of with the usual superficial decision of a Frenchman – so my old friend and master Jackson, and the art which he that I can’t believe him – and what between The Diction- has carried to its highest pitch. ‘A punch on the head’ or ‘a ary – the Italian woman – and the Frenchman – there is no punch in the head’, ‘un punzone in sulla testa’, is the exact trusting to a word they say – The Context too which should and frequent phrase of our best pugilists, who little dream decide admits of either meaning as you will perceive – Ask that they are talking the purest Tuscan” (The Liberal, IV, p. Rose – Hobhouse – Merivale – and Foscolo – and vote with 216). Byron’s exuberant note in the printed version has its the Majority – is Frere a good Tuscan? if he be bother him embryo in the single exclamation mark in this copy.

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 33 too – I have tried you see to be as accurate as I well could –” (Byron to Murray, 5 March 1820). Byron began both the translation and Don Juan in late 1819 while renting the upper floor of the Palazzo Guiccioli in Ravenna, an extraordinary arrangement that allowed him to conduct a passionate affair with the young and beautiful Countess Teresa Guiccioli in the palazzo below. He and Teresa “were immediately attracted to each other and discussed Dante, Petrarch, and Italian literature with equal enthusiasm. Byron was taken with her lack of ‘bluestock- ing’ seriousness and wrote of his passion for this ‘Romag- nuola Countess from Ravenna – who is nineteen years old & has a Count of fifty . . . What shall I do! I am in love, and tired of promiscuous concubinage’ (Letters and Journals, ed. Marchand, 6.107–8)” (ODNB). As well as the first canto of the Morgante, Byron wrote two cantos of Don Juan, The Proph- ecy of Dante, and began the first of his plays,Marino Faliero, all in the same hectic period. Byron became increasingly friendly with Teresa’s father, Count Ruggiero Gamba, and her brother Pietro. “The Gamba household was relaxed and happy. Their staunch liberal politics and Pietro’s passionate and active involvement in the secret revolutionary society, which had recently spread to the Romagna, the Carbonari,” were intensely appealing to Byron. He began to spend more time at the Gamba house in Ravenna, visited there by Teresa, now separated from her husband. But in July 1821 Pietro Gam- ba was arrested while returning from the theatre, and the Gambas were banished from the Romagna for their revolutionary activities. “In these circumstances Count Guicci- oli moved to recover his wife. Teresa fled to Florence where her father and brother had been given asylum. Byron was active in trying to persuade the government to repeal its order against the Gamba family, but the authorities also wanted to get rid of him and hoped that Byron would follow his friends.” In the end Shelley offered to find every- one accommodation in Pisa and at the end of October By- ron left Ravenna to join the Shelleys and the Gambas in Pisa, where he was to stay until the drowning of Shelley led to the breaking of the “Pisan circle”. One of the most beautiful plate books of St Petersburg provenance: from the collection of Beccles Willson (d. 20 1947), Canadian man of letters, who made his home in the (RUSSIA: ST PETERSBURG.) MORNAY (illus.) south of France and wrote on Byron. It remains unclear A Picture of St. Petersburgh [sic], represented in a when or why Byron’s signatures were clipped from the ti- collection of twenty interesting views of the city, the tles. Perhaps it would have been dangerous for the Gambas sledges, and the people. Taken on the spot at the to keep his books in their possession, or perhaps it was done to supply demand from autograph hunters. twelve different months of the year: and accompanied with an historical and descriptive account. London: See Peter Cochran (ed.), “Luigi Pulci: Morgante Maggiore Canto I, translated by Byron”, Newstead Abbey Byron Society online. Printed for Edward Orme, 1815 Folio (469 × 310 mm). Late 19th-century dark brown moroc- £10,000 [43269] co-grain half skiver professionally refurbished, marbled sides, gilt edges, drab grey endpapers. Additional engraved title page (incorporating a large double-headed Russian eagle), 20 handcoloured

34 Peter Harrington 142 aquatint plates by Clark & Dubourg after Mornay; watermarks: plates J. Whatman 1825, text W. Balston 1813. From the library of noted bibliophiles Maxine and Joel Spitz, with their “Trail Tree” bookplate (Joel Spitz was a member of Chicago’s prestigious Cax- ton Club). Light offsetting from frontispiece to engraved title. An excellent copy, the plates fresh and bright, and with the four leaves of explanation of the plates (in French and English). first edition, “one of the most beautiful plate books of St. Petersburg” (Bobins Collection). Published at 6 guin- eas coloured, this is a superb record of the city of Peter the Great – captured in the wake of the Napoleonic wars – and divided into two sections; the first 12 plates represent the months of the year through characteristic views of the city; the other eight illustrate different modes of transport, various types of sledges and carriages, but include excel-

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 35 lent character studies, showing diverse types of costume Edward Orme – “Publisher to His Majesty and HRH the by class and by season. The 26-page introduction, “The Prince Regent” – was “after Rudolph Ackermann, the most present state of St. Petersburgh,” includes a brief histori- important publisher of illustrated books during the short cal survey and a few statistics, along with descriptions of golden age of the coloured aquatint” (ODNB). He would the main sites and monuments. “Though unsigned, [the have had a prudent eye on the visit of the Allied sovereigns letterpress] was chiefly compiled from Robert Ker Porter’s to London in June 1814, which celebrated the Treaty of Fon- Travelling Sketches [in Russia and Sweden during the years 1805– tainebleau (11 April 1814) and the peace following the de- 1808], as many sections repeat his text verbatim” (Vincent feat and abdication of Napoleon. Amongst them was Tsar Giroud, St Petersburg: A Portrait of a Great City, 2003, p. 72). Alexander I (who stayed with his sister, the Grand Duch- Mornay, the artist responsible for the original sketches ess of Oldenburg, at the Pulteney Hotel on Piccadilly). “In upon which Clark and Dubourg’s aquatints were based, 1809 Edward Orme had begun buying land and property in eludes identification and does not appear in Thieme-Beck- Bayswater, London. He exploited the gravel deposits, built er. Martin Hardie, in characteristically waspish fashion, houses, and in 1818 added a chapel of ease. Orme Square, describes the plates as “lurid in colouring, very much in the developed between 1823 and 1826, was named after him, style of toy theatre scenery” (English Coloured Books, 1906, p. and Moscow Road and St Petersburgh Place nearby may 138). This is entirely unfair. The colouring in the present have commemorated the state visit of Tsar Alexander I in copy is certainly not “lurid”, and any “toy theatre” quali- June 1814. In the following year he published a volume of ty of the views only lends them a most appealing charm. twenty coloured aquatint views of St Petersburg, and the Many of the views are composed in such a way that they reference in his will to jewellery presented to him by the resemble vues d’optiques – symmetrical and theatrical mid- emperor of Russia may be connected with these events” dle-distance perspectives – which combine well with the (ibid.). This is a marvellous survey of one of the world’s small, scaling figures (staffage) adding splashes of bright great cities, captured at the time when it served as the colour, against backgrounds of snowy streets, grey skies, backdrop for Tolstoy’s War and Peace. and yellowish-brown buildings of this “city of stone”, Abbey, Travel, 226; Bobins Collection 203; Tooley 355. forming a satisfyingly picturesque effect. Two of the buildings shown, the Exchange and Kazan Cathedral, had only £25,000 [120459] recently been completed, in 1809 and 1811 respectively.

36 Peter Harrington 142 The most profound exposition of the philosophy of war general enquiry into the interdependence of politics and warfare and the principles governing either or both . . . 21 published by his widow [it] won immediate recognition as CLAUSEWITZ, Carl von. Vom Kriege. Berlin: Ferdinand the most profound exposition of the philosophy of war – Dümmler, 1832–3 a place that has never been disputed” (PMM). Carter and 3 volumes octavo (200 × 119 mm). Contemporary brown skiv- Muir’s estimation in 1967 of the continuing relevance of er-back and tips on streaked paper boards, green morocco labels Clausewitz’s work is confirmed by Daniel Moran in his ar- to spines, edges stained green. Externally somewhat rubbed and ticle on Clausewitz in The Oxford Companion to Military His- a little soiled, some judicious restoration to the spines and cor- tory (2001) where it is described as “the most important ners, tan-burn at the corners of the endpapers, pale toning to the general treatment of its subject yet produced”. text-blocks, but overall very good. This set has the small contemporary ink-stamps, owner- first edition. Clausewitz’s works were published post- ship inscriptions, and press-marks of the Bibliothek der humously, edited by his widow, and these, the first three leichten Infanterie Halb-Brigade to the front endpapers volumes of ten, contain the first appearance of Vom Kriege and to the title pages, together with a slightly later ink- (On War), his dialectical analysis of the function of war in stamp of the Erstes Königlich Sächsisches Jäger-Bataillon. human society. “The book is less a manual of strategy and tactics, although it incorporates the lessons learned from Printing and the Mind of Man 297. the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, than a £10,000 [116861]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 37 “One of the most distinctive and important books in Americana” 22 MCKENNEY, Thomas Loraine, & James Hall. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal 20 parts in 19] have left a bibliographical stew of issues Chiefs. Embellished with One Hundred and Twenty and issue points that are yet to be satisfactorily resolved” Portraits. Philadelphia: Edward C. Biddle (vol. I) and Daniel (ibid.). Although they are recognised as “all but arbitrary”, Rice and James G. Clark, 1836–38–44 the present copy has the following BAL states: title pages 3 volumes, folio (515 × 362 mm). Contemporary green half moroc- for all three volumes in state A; War Dance, state A; Red co professionally refurbished and rebacked with original spines Jacket plate, state C. laid down, spines gilt lettered and panelled (with floriate sprigs A magnificent record of Native American dignitaries, the at the corner of each panel), five double raised bands, marbled sides and endpapers, gilt edges. With 120 hand-coloured litho- work assembles “the most colourful portraits of Indians graph plates (with tissue guards) and uncoloured lithographed ever executed” (Howes). McKenney, who was Superinten- map. A few shallow scratches and light rubbing to sides, almost dent of Indian trade from 1816 to 1822 and headed the US imperceptible old pale dampstaining in gutter of volume I also Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1824 to 1830, collaborated affecting the head of a number of leaves, occasional offsetting with James Hall, the Illinois journalist, lawyer, state treas- from letterpress to plates. A handsome set, the plates clean and urer (and from 1833 Cincinnati banker), to produce this bright. first edition of “the grandest color plate book issued in the United States up to the time of its publication” (Re- ese). “Its long and checkered publication history spanned twelve years and involved multiple lithographers (mainly Peter S. Duval and James T. Bowen) and publishers, but the final product is one of the most distinctive and important books in Americana. Almost all the plates are portraits of individual Native Americans, the majority painted from life by Charles Bird King (who also reworked the less skil- ful portraits of James Otto Lewis). The complicated circumstances of its production [it was originally issued in

38 Peter Harrington 142 famous work. The text, which was written by Hall based hand-coloured octavo edition of another landmark Ameri- on information supplied by McKenney, takes the form of can publication, Audubon’s Birds of America (1839–44). a series of biographies of leading figures amongst the Na- Bennett p. 79; BAL 6934; Bobins Collection 58; Field 992; Howes M-129; tive American nations, followed by a general history. The Reese, Stamped with a National Character: Nineteenth Century American Color lithography and hand-colouring were entrusted to the dis- Plate Books, 24; Sabin 43410a. tinguished lithographer J. T. Bowen, best known for his £100,000 [120314]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 39 40 Peter Harrington 142 Traveller, explorer, linguist, but most of all, writer Company to his renowned excursions in Africa and Arabia, 23 and also includes excellent copies of his attractive Icelandic journal, Ultima Thule (1875) and The City of the Saints (1861), his BURTON, Richard F. A collection of his first editions noted account of a voyage from California to Salt Lake City. in excellent condition. London & Madras: various Many of the titles are in genuinely exceptional condition, publishers, 1851–1911 coming from the travel libraries of Franklin Brooke-Hitch- 30 works in 52 volumes, various formats (octavo unless other- ing and Humphrey Winterton. These include superlative wise stated). Original cloth, boards or wrappers. Plates and maps copies of Sindh (1851), his rare ethnographic study, and Zan- throughout. Generally in excellent condition, several items ex- zibar (1872), which Casada considered his most important ceptional. A full description is available on request. African work. Other rarities demonstrate that Burton was a superb collection of first editions from the cor- far from being a doctrinaire soldier of empire, notably Stone pus of the great scholar-adventurer Richard F. Burton (1821– Talk (1865), his brilliant critique of British imperialism print- 1890), generally in excellent condition throughout, included in a run of 200 copies, of which most were destroyed by ing presentation copies of two his most sought-after titles, Lady Burton for fear of damage to her husband’s reputation; the Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Mecca finally, a copy of the extremely uncommon first edition, first (1855–6), and Unexplored Syria (1872), accompanied by a su- issue of the Kasîdah (Couplets) of Hajî Abdû El-Yezdî (1880) perb association copy of Two Trips to Gorilla Land (1876), and underlines Burton’s accomplishments as a student of Arabic famous rarities such as the Guide Book, A Pictorial Pilgrimage to and other eastern literatures. Mecca and Medina (1865), in the original wrappers, and a set Together this collection underlines the judgement that of Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana (1883) in the original parts, which “although Burton is most often thought of as a traveller, Penzer, as early as 1923, declared “practically unobtainable”. explorer, or linguist, he is probably best understood as a The collection covers the entirety of Burton’s career, from writer” (ODNB). his early years as a soldier in the service of the East India

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 41 i) Goa, and the Blue Mountains; Or, Six Months of Sick Leave. London: Richard Bentley, 1851. First (and only complete) edition of Burton’s first book. Original tan cloth, pale markings and scattered light cockling to sides, remains an excellent, bright copy. Penzer pp. 37–8. ii) Scinde; Or, the Unhappy Valley. London: Richard Bentley, 1851. First edition. 2 vols, original green cloth. Bookplate of Viscount Birkenhead. Covers lightly rubbed, with a few pale marks. An excellent copy. Penzer pp. 39–40. iii) Scinde; Or, the Unhappy Valley. London: Richard Bentley, 1851. Sec- ond edition. 2 vols, original green wave-grain cloth. Pale marking to vol. 1 front board. An excellent, bright copy. Penzer pp. 39–40. iv) Sindh, and the Races that inhabit the Valley of the Indus; with Notices of the Topography and History of the Province. London: W. H. Allen, 1851. First edition, original vertical-ribbed orange-red cloth. “Very rare” (Penzer), a superlative copy from the collection of Franklin Brooke-Hitching. Penzer p. 40. v) Falconry in the Valley of the Indus. London: John Van Voorst, 1852. First edition, 500 copies printed. Large 12mo. Original purple-brown bead-ribbed cloth. Spine sunned, scattered pale mot- tling to covers. An excellent copy. Penzer p. 41. vi) Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855–6. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Burton on the title page of the xiv) Stone Talk. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1865. First edition of second volume. 3 vols, original dark blue cloth. A superb, entirely Burton’s brilliant satire of British imperialism, one of 200 copies unrestored copy. Penzer pp. 49–50. printed, and “very rare. Its scarcity is increased by the fact that vii) Footsteps in East Africa. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Lady Burton bought up and destroyed a large number of the cop- Longmans, 1856. First edition, second issue as usual. Original pink ies, to save her husband from possible trouble” (Penzer). Large wave-grain cloth, an attractive “prize-binding” of the kind noted 12mo, original pebble-grain purple cloth. A very good copy, Pen- by Penzer, more elaborate than the standard brick-red cloth. The zer pp. 77–8 Humphrey Winterton copy. Penzer pp. 60–3. xv) The Highlands of Brazil. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1869. First viii) The Lake Regions of Central Africa. London: Longman, Green, edition, first issue, retaining the gilt vignette of a native soldier Longman, and Roberts, 1860. 2 vols, original red cloth. First edition, to the front boards. 2 vols, original green sand-grained cloth. An second issue as usual, in the red cloth, lightly soiled but remain- excellent copy. Penzer pp. 78–80. ing very bright. A superb copy. The first issue, in purple cloth, xvi) Vikram and the Vampire. Or Tales of Hindu Devilry. London: sold very poorly and few copies survive; Burton’s own copy at Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870 [but 1869]. First edition in book- Kensington Library is a second issue. Penzer p. 65. form, in the “very rare” first-issue binding (Penzer). Original ix) The City of the Saints. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and black cloth over bevelled boards. Penzer pp. 81–2. Roberts, 1861. First edition. Original green cloth. A little rubbed, xvii) Vikram and the Vampire. London: Tylston and Edwards, 1893. occasional spotting, an excellent copy. Penzer pp. 68–9. Memorial edition. Original black cloth. x) Abeokuta and the Cameroons Mountains. An Exploration. xviii) Unexplored Syria. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872. First edition, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1863. First edition, first-issue binding. 2 first issue. Presentation copy, inscribed by Isabel Burton on be- vols, original green cloth. A superb copy. Penzer pp. 70–1. half of the author “To Lady Stisted, with the affectn love of her xi) Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po. brother Richard F Burton, July 1. 1872” on the half-title of each London: Tinsley Brothers, 1863. First edition. 2 vols, original peb- volume. 2 vols, original orange cloth ruled in black, front inner ble-grain purple-brown cloth. Spines very gently rolled, inner hinge of vol. 1 repaired. An excellent copy. Penzer pp. 85–6. hinges partially and superficially cracked, but firm. An excep- xix) Zanzibar; City, Island, and Coast. London: Tinsley Brothers, tional copy. Penzer pp. 71–2. 1872. First edition, first issue, a superlative copy from the cele- xii) A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome. London: Tinsley Brothers, brated collection of Franklin Brooke-Hitching, of what Casada 1864. First edition. 2 vols, original purple cloth, inner hinges of considered the author’s most important African-related work. 2 volume 1 cracked but holding. A very good copy of a book Penzer vols, original brown cloth. Penzer pp. 88–9. found to be “very rare in good condition”. Penzer pp. 72–4. xx) Ultima Thule. London: William P. Nimmo, 1875. First edition, xiii) The Guide-Book. A Pictorial Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medi- variant with plain endpapers. Original blue cloth. An excellent na. London: for the author by William Clowes & Sons, 1865. First edition, copy. Penzer pp. 91–2. “exceedingly rare” according to Penzer, who had only ever seen one copy at auction, and had never noted one in a bookseller’s catalogue. Original green glazed paper wrappers. Penzer p. 76.

42 Peter Harrington 142 xxi) Ultima Thule. London: William P. Nimmo, 1875. First edition, xxvii) The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana. Benares: printed for the Hindoo variant with black endpapers. Original blue cloth, a very good, Kama Shastra Society, 1883. First edition, one of 250 copies, now ex- bright copy. Penzer pp. 91–2. tremely rare, especially in the original parts; early as 1923, Penzer xxii) Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo. noted that “this edition in parts was soon exhausted, and is now London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, And Searle, 1876. First edition. practically unobtainable”. 7 parts. Original varicoloured paper Association copy, with the ownership inscription of Burton’s wrappers printed in black. Penzer p. 163. close family friend Alice “Lallah” Bird. 2 vols, original green xxviii) The Book of the Sword. London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. cloth. A very good, bright copy. Penzer p. 94 First edition. Large octavo. Original grey cloth. Penzer pp. 107–8. xxiii) Sind Revisited. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1877. First xxix) The First Four Chapters of Goa, and the Blue Mountains. Ma- edition, from the collection of British Arabist and colonial agent dras: Higginbotham and Co., 1890. First edition thus, “exceedingly rare” Samuel Barrett Miles (1838–1914). 2 vols, original brown cloth. (Penzer). With an autograph letter to Burton laid in. Original glazed Penzer pp. 94–5. pink paper boards printed in black. Boards slightly soiled and dis- xxiv) “Itineraries of the Second Khedivial Expedition” In: The coloured, nevertheless an exceptional copy. Penzer pp. 38–9. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. Vol. 49. London: John xxx) The Sentiment of the Sword. A Country-House Dialogue. Murray, 1879. First edition, an exceptionally bright copy from the London: Horace Cox, 1911. First edition in book-form, originally se- collection of Franklin Brooke-Hitching. Original blue cloth. rialized in Field magazine the previous year. 12mo, original red xxv) The Land of Midian (Revisited). London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., paper boards. Penzer p. 247. 1879. First edition, scarce variant binding not mentioned in Pen- £150,000 [119388] zer. 2 vols, original red cloth, from the collection of Samuel Bar- rett Miles, who was stationed in Arabia at the time of Burton’s visit. A bright copy. Penzer pp. 96–7. xxvi) The Kasîdah (Couplets) of Hajî Abdû El-Yezdî. A Lay of the Higher Law. London: privately printed [by Bernard Quaritch, 1880]. First edition, first issue. Penzer believed that the entire first edition probably consisted of no more than 200 copies, and that the first issue “was very small indeed”. Most of the edition went unsold and was returned to Burton. 4to, original yellow paper wrappers. Front wrapper separating along the chipped spine, mild soiling, remains a very good copy of a fragile publication. Penzer pp. 97–8.

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 43 Lincoln the “prairie lawyer” deals with the legal “which ruled that he did not need to pay Moffett anything intricacies of the Springfield-built “atmospheric churn” at all. It would have been difficult for Lincoln to find a clear distinction between progressive economic development 24 and its retardation in this case. Nor did the patent laws seem LINCOLN, Abraham. Holograph document signed to do much for the ‘fire of genius’ behind the atmospheric four times by Lincoln: a legal deposition entirely in churn. Willis Johnson did not get anything out of the lawsuit Lincoln’s hand. Springfield, ILL.: 20 February, 1851 (he tried to bring his own case against Lewis, but failed). The churn itself was worthless. During the appeal, the chief Single page, small folio (317 × 200 mm), on pale blue paper (wa- justice of the Illinois Supreme Court marveled at Lewis’s termarked “Moinier’s 1849”). Housed in a custom-made flap-case: black morocco spine, marbled sides; engraved portrait of Lincoln ingenuity in earning so much money from peddling what set into inside front. Double punch hole and slight horizontal was a dismal failure of a machine” (Chapter 4: “The Energy creasing at head, three light lateral creases where folded, remains Man”, p. 89). of tape on verso (at head), very minor toning at foot, a few minor In his deposition Lewis states: “I am one of the patentees of smudges in body of document, very short closed-tear at foot (affecting the second “s” in “Commissioner”). In excellent condition, what is called Johnson & Lewis’ Atmospheric Churn – I, for the wording of the deposition strong, clear, and perfectly legible. myself and partners, did sell and transfer the principal part of our interest under the patent for said churn, in the year A fascinating legal document entirely in Lincoln’s hand 1848 – I sold to . . . ” and then lists 35 individuals to whom and showing him as the hard-working “prairie lawyer” in- transfers were made and names the territories they have volved in the minutiae of the law: signed three times in the rights to: “all England, all Canada, all Oregon, and all the main deposition and again at the foot, “Abraham Lincoln United States excepting twenty counties in Illinois”. Thom- Commissioner”; also signed by Thomas Lewis (one of the as Lewis (b. 1808) was a native of New Jersey. He arrived patentees of the “atmospheric churn”) at lower right, as in Springfield with his family in 1837, shortly after Lincoln witness to his own statement transcribed by Lincoln. The himself had moved there. He was originally a shoemaker document opens: “Deposition of Willis H. Johnson, and but accumulated some money in banking and studied law; Thomas Lewis, witnesses produced, sworn, and examined he was admitted to the bar but his law practice seems to on oath on the 20th day of February, in the year of our Lord have been unsuccessful. Next he tried his hand at the news- one thousand, eight hundred and fifty one, at the Office of paper business and became editor and publisher of the Illi- Abraham Lincoln, in Springfield, in the State of Illinois, by nois Atlas, based in Springfield. Things were improving and me Abraham Lincoln, by virtue of a commission issuing he became a key figure in the foundation of Illinois State out of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the People of the University before joining in partnership with Willis John- State of New York, to me, Abraham Lincoln . . . ”. son and a Lucien Adams to establish a dry goods business. This deposition is linked to a patent case that was He reputedly owned real estate worth $22,000, and, with long-winded and far from straightforward; it is discussed in Lewis and Adams, a foundry and a mill. As a substantial fig- some detail in Brian Dirck’s Lincoln the Lawyer. “In 1849 [Lin- ure in Springfield society, Lewis would certainly have been coln] was hired by John Moffett, part of a three-man part- known to Lincoln. In fact, nearly a decade earlier, in 1842, nership to market and sell an ‘atmospheric churn,’ a device Lincoln had represented Lewis in a foreclosure suit con- that created butter more quickly than conventional churns cerning a general store that Lewis had owned, the inventory by injecting air directly into the cream. Moffett was not the of which had been impounded. At that time Lincoln was in churn’s designer, that honor belonged to his partner Willis partnership with Stephen T. Logan. Lewis asked Lincoln to Johnson, a creative and busy Springfield inventor who also represent him and “Lincoln and Logan had to file an action came up with new ways of processing flax and hemp, pump- against the constable to force him to release [the invento- ing water, and mixing cement. Moffett and a third party, ry]. The jury ruled for Lewis and awarded $1 in damages. Of Thomas Lewis, did the sales work, selling churns in Illinois, course, the damages were unimportant. What Lewis want- Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Lewis racked up over ed, and what Logan and Lincoln got for him, was the right $50,000 worth of sales. St. Louis had been particularly fer- to seize and sell the inventory” (Billings & Williams (eds.), tile ground, where he displayed the churn in front of a sa- Abraham Lincoln, Esq.: The Legal Career of America’s Greatest Presi- loon and on the sidewalk by his hotel. Moffett’s understand- dent, 2010, pp. 113–14). ing was that the partners’ arrangement called for selling the A legal document of real immediacy from the years when machine without him or Lewis earning any commission. He Lincoln was making his reputation as “Honest Abe” in his was therefore dismayed to learn that Lewis paid himself a adopted “home state” of Illinois, where, as a lawyer, “he $4,000 commission from the proceeds of his efforts”. Af- rose to front rank” (Dictionary of American Biography). ter the court decided Lewis should pay Moffett $1,300 Lewis appealed and the case went up to the state supreme court, £20,000 [120381]

44 Peter Harrington 142 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 45 al-Khaymah]”, with original hand-colour; 3) “Plan of Bassadore Roads by H. H. Hewett, Midshipman”; 4) “Trigonometrical Plan of the Harbour of Grane or Koweit”; 5) “Sketch of the Island of Kenn”; 6) “Reduced Copy of the Chart of the Gulf of Persia”. Old ownership ink-stamp to title verso and p. 687. Board-edges lightly bumped and rubbed, short closed tear to top edge of title page repaired verso, title and pp. xxv-xviii reinforced with tissue-paper along fore edge, very mild chipping to fore edge of final few leaves; maps 1), 4) and 6) all lined-backed and stub-mounted, the latter browned and with some light cracking along folds, now stabilised; 2) and 3) expertly remounted on original stubs, the former with short closed tear to stub professionally repaired verso. Remains a very good copy indeed. first edition of this remarkable compilation of reports on the Persian Gulf, submitted to the Government of Bombay between 1818 and 1854. Intended as a reference work for British officers, this book was on publication the most extensive account of the region then available, and remains an indispensable source for the history, peoples and topography of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and, in particular, what are now the United Arab Emirates: “Anyone working on the nineteenth-century history of Eastern Ara- bia and the Gulf comes across frequent references to it . . . It served as a basic source for Lorimer in his Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia. It contains, however, a great deal more information that Lorimer omitted, presumably for reasons of space. [For example,] the history of Abu Dhabi which Lorimer dealt with in just over four pages here receives thirty-four” (Robin Bidwell in his introduction to the 1985 reprint). The papers, 22 in total, were written during a formative period in Gulf history. In the beginning of the 19th century, ships belonging to the Qawasim tribe, the modern rulers of Sharjah, began to disrupt British communications with India. When a British ship was captured in 1818 less 25 than 70 miles from Bombay an expedition was launched, (ARABIAN PENINSULA.) THOMAS, R. Hughes leading to the seizure of Ra’s al-Khaymah and other Qa- (ed.) Historical and other Information connected wasim strongholds. In 1830 the British and the shaykhs with the Province of Oman, Muskat, Bahrein and of the modern-day UAE concluded a “General Treaty of other Places in the Persian Gulf . . . [Series title at Peace”, though the British realised that they would have head: Selections from the Records of the Bombay to maintain a permanent presence in the region, and that Government, No. XXIV – New Series.] Bombay: “to act as policemen both topographical and background knowledge have always been required: the papers printed Printed for the Government at the Bombay Education in [Thomas’s] volume were designed to provide this for the Society’s Press, 1856 men on the spot and for their masters in Bombay” (ibid.). Large octavo in half-sheets (240 × 157 mm). Mid-20th-century tan calf-backed marbled boards to style, raised bands to spine, Many of the reports stem from the first hydrographical sur- gilt fillets either side, black morocco labels, fore and bottom vey of the Persian Gulf, conducted by the Bombay Marine edges sprinkled red. Folding letterpress census table, red flag of between 1819 and 1829. These include the 100-page “Mem- the Friendly Arabs, p. 76, finished in original hand-colour, and 6 oir Descriptive of the Navigation of the Gulf of Persia; with folding lithographic maps, comprising: 1) “Map of Maritime Ara- Brief Notices of the . . . People Inhabiting its Shores and bia with the Opposite Coasts of Africa and Persia reduced from Islands” by Captain George Barnes Brucks, commander of an Original Map by T. Dickinson, Chief Engineer, lithographed the survey, together with several in-depth surveys by oth- in the Chief Engineer’s Office by Huskeljee E, and Kumroondeen E., Bombay 1st March 1856” (very large area map, 580 × 922 mm, er officers including a description of Kuwait Harbour and coastline outlined in blue) 2) “Sketch of Rasool Khymah [Ra’s Failaka Island.

46 Peter Harrington 142 The most prolific contributor is Arnold Burrowes Kemball Containing as it does information of the greatest politi- (1820–1908), an officer in the Bombay Artillery who was cal and strategic importance, this book was intended for appointed assistant political resident in the Persian Gulf highly limited and selective distribution. Robin Bidwell in 1842, and remained in the region until his retirement remarked: “Although the print run is not known, it must in 1878. His reports include “Memoranda on the Resourc- have been very small or much of it must have been lost. In es, Localities, and Relations of the Tribes inhabiting the the seventeen years that I have been responsible for the li- Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf ” (pp. 91–120) and a re- brary of the Middle East Centre at Cambridge, I have never markable 125–page “Chronological Table of Events” (pp. known a copy offered for sale despite an assiduous watch 121–246), which comprises detailed historical timelines, on antiquarian booksellers and their catalogues”. We can from the early 18th century to the author’s own day, for all trace just one complete copy at auction, the Burrell copy; the region’s main powers, namely, the Qawasim; the Bani Copac locates eight copies (Aberdeen, British Library, ‘Utbah (the tribal federation including the modern-day Exeter, King’s College, London Library, LSE, Oxford and ruling families of Kuwait and Bahrain); the Bani Ya’s fed- SOAS); OCLC adds the Danish National Library, George- eration (whose most prominent family, Al Nahyan, are the town, Hamburg, Minnesota, and Princeton. Of all these, modern rulers of Abu Dhabi); the Al Falasi (ancestors of only six definitely identify the presence of the large map. Dubai’s ruling Al Maktoum dynasty); the Sultans of Mus- A full list of contents is available on request. cat; and the Wahhabis. Kemball’s piece is expanded by individual “Historical Sketches” for each of these groups, £87,500 [121104] with additional accounts of the tribes of ‘Ajman and Umm al-Quwain, two smaller emirates of the UAE. Several of these are by Francis Warden, Chief Secretary, Bombay, with continuations by Kemball and other military officers.

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 47 « Un outrage aux bonnes mœurs » censored around six weeks after publication. A suit was issued against Baudelaire and his publisher for an “outrage 26 aux bonnes mœurs”: in addition to the censoring of the BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Les Fleurs du mal. Paris: text, Baudelaire was fined (though this was later reduced). Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857 A French news report on the prosecution is pasted to the Octavo. Original buff wrappers, title to spine and front cover in inside of the front wrapper. Baudelaire and his publisher black, fore edge untrimmed. Housed in a custom black quarter took precautions by hiding some of the stock from the cen- morocco chemise with marbled sides and matching leather entry sors to save it from being impounded. Baudelaire person- slipcase. From the library of Baron Alain de Rothschild (1910– ally retrieved half the 100 copies deposited with the book- 1982), with his bookplate to the inside front cover of the chemise. seller Lanier, leaving “50 pour nourrir le Cerbère Justice”, Occasional spot of light foxing, but otherwise a fresh, crisp copy and writing to Poulet-Malassis in outrage that “Je viens de in superb condition. voir Lanier et Victor, plus coyons que la lune; ils se croient first edition of the author’s greatest and most notori- déshonorés, et on poussé la platitude jusqu’à faire la rem- ous work, with the correct first issue points of “Feurs” in- ise des libraires à M. l’inspecteur général de la presse, pour stead of “Fleurs” in the running title on pp. 31 and 108, p. le séduire!!!” (Baudelaire, Corresp., 11 July 1857). Out of the 45 misnumbered as p. 44, and “captieux” for “capiteux” on small print run of 1,300 copies, at least 200 were seized. p. 201; the wrappers are in the third state (with the price The inculpated poems were not republished until 1866 in of 3 francs on the spine and the five typographical errors Belgium in a volume entitled Les Épaves, and remained ille- corrected). This is the rare first appearance, containing the gal in France until 1949. six pièces condamnées – “Les Bijoux”, “Le Léthé”, “À celle qui Carteret I, p. 118–123; Vicaire, I, p. 341. est trop gaie”, “Femmes damnés (À la pâle clarté)”, “Les- bos”, and “Les Métamorphoses du vampire” – which were £45,000 [120816]

48 Peter Harrington 142 A fine copy of the first published statement of the Octavo, in 2 parts, with separate pagination and register, pp. 63, [1] (zoology); 64 (botany). Entirely unopened in original blue theory of evolution in its original journal appearance printed wrappers. Housed in a black quarter morocco folding 27 case. Spine ends just a little worn, thin vertical crack to upper half of spine, tiny single hole in upper part of extreme outer margin DARWIN, Charles, & Alfred Russel Wallace. On extending from front wrapper throughout the first part (zoology) the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on not affecting text; a superb, unopened copy in the original wrap- the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural pers, notably rare thus. Means of Selection. Communicated by Sir Charles Following his return from his voyage aboard the Beagle, dur- Lyell, F.R.S., F.L.S., and J. D. Hooker, Esq., M.D., ing which he had made the observations and gathered the V.P.R.S., F.L.S., &c. Read July 1st, 1858. In: Journal of specimens that would provide the data for his groundbreak- the Proceedings of the Linnean Society. Vol. III, No. ing conclusions, Charles Darwin spent more than two dec- 9, Sept. 1858. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans ades formulating his theory. He was near completion of his great work On the Origin of Species when he was sent a manu- & Roberts, and Williams and Norgate, 1858 script on species change by the young naturalist Alfred Rus-

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 49 sel Wallace. It read much like an abstract of the book he was A superb image, showing Darwin nearly half length, fac- still compiling. In a compromise that would give both of the ing left, made at the peak of Cameron’s career. This is the scientists a measure of priority, it was agreed that Wallace’s largest of the most famous images of Darwin, significantly paper and some of Darwin’s writings showing his own dis- larger at 12 by 9½ inches than the carte-de-visites and cabi- covery of natural selection would be read at the same Linne- net photographs more often found in commerce. an Society meeting, on 1 July 1858. “Charles Darwin and his family came to Freshwater for The journal combines two contributions by Darwin with a six-week vacation in 1868, traveling by train and ferry one by Wallace. Following the introduction by Charles and renting a cottage from the Camerons . . . Despite the Lyell and Joseph Hooker is “Extract from an unpublished fact that Darwin was unwell and looked haggard, Camer- work on Species by C. Darwin, consisting of a portion of on photographed him, and the family thought the results a Chapter entitled ‘On the Variation of Organic Beings in ‘excellent’ . . . Although the Darwins were at first rath- a state of Nature; on the Natural Means of Selection; on er uncertain of Mrs. Cameron – [Darwin’s wife] Emma the Comparison of Domestic Races and true Species’” (pp. thought her ‘quite queer’ – they were won over before they 46–50). This is followed by “Abstract of a Letter from C. left. ‘We ended in a transport of affection with Mrs Cam- Darwin, Esq., to Prof. Asa Gray, Boston, U.S., dated Down, eron’ [Emma recorded] . . . It was one of the all-too-rare September 5th, 1857” (pp. 50–53). Finally comes Wallace’s occasions when Cameron was paid for her work: ‘Look, contribution, “On the Tendency of Varieties to depart in- Charles, what a lot of money!’ she boasted to her husband. definitely from the Original Type” (pp. 53–62). Perhaps that was why she gave Darwin a photograph of herself, dressed in her usual individual fashion” (Cox & This printing of the Darwin–Wallace paper is one of “five Ford, Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs, 2003). different forms in which the original edition can be found, Of this image Darwin stated: “I like this photograph very but they are all from the same setting of type. Four of these much better than any other which has been taken of me” are the results of the publishing customs of the Linnean (recorded on the back of a copy held at Down House, Dar- Society of London”, in which the Journal was initially issued win’s Kent home). The University of Cambridge Darwin to the Fellows of the Society in different coloured wrap- Correspondence Project notes that Cameron’s portraits pers, depending on whether they subscribed to the zoo- “lend extraordinary depth of tone and detail to Darwin’s logical or botanical parts of the Journal alone, or to both increasingly well-known beard and penetrating gaze” parts together. For those who took the zoology part, it (Darwin’s Photographic Portraits online). was issued in pink wrappers; for the botany part, in green wrappers; and for both parts together, in blue wrappers, as Cox & Ford give a census of 15 copies of this portrait: Hel- in the present copy. The fourth form was its publication in mut Gernsheim; Art Institute of Chicago (2, one printed in the annual volume of the Journal using reserved stock, and reverse); Down House (2); George Eastman House; Harvard the fifth form was the authors’ offprint (Freeman, p. 71). University, Houghton Library (printed in reverse: a carte de Freeman 346; Grolier/Horblit 23a (offprint issue); Printing and the Mind of visite, described on Harvard website as “albumen print”); Man 344a; Norman 591 (offprint issue). MoMA; the Norman Album; private collections (2); Royal Photographic Society (2, one printed in reverse); V&A; Yale £155,000 [122495] University, Beinecke Library. In addition to this we have traced a handful of prints at auction. OCLC cites a further “I like this photograph very much better than any four locations: Wellcome Library, Cornell (carte de visite), other which has been taken of me” Library of Congress, Boston Athanaeum (Darwin facing right). These prints would have had a very low survival rate 28 when hung for display in Victorian homes, particularly when (DARWIN, Charles.) CAMERON, Julia Margaret. exposed to sunlight and other atmospheric conditions such Photographic portrait of Charles Darwin. Freshwater, as damp and the prevalence of soot from fires. Isle of Wight: 1868 “Cameron was concerned to be taken seriously and to earn Original albumen print mounted on brown card with single-line an income from her work. In 1864 she was elected to the gilt border. Inscribed in ink by Cameron (below the image on the Photographic Society of London, and she showed work at mount): “From life Registered Photograph Copyright Julia Mar- its annual exhibitions. In November 1865 she organized her garet Cameron” and “Ch. Darwin”. Framed and glazed, overall size: 580 × 470 mm; window mount: 360 × 290 mm; image: 300 × first solo exhibition, hiring the gallery of the printsellers P. 240 mm. In excellent condition. Colnaghi’s stamp visible at the and D. Colnaghi in London, with whom she also entered foot of the mount, largely cropped but which, when complete, into an arrangement for the printing and sale of her photo- would read “Registered Photograph / Sold by / Messrs. Colnaghi graphs; a similar arrangement was made with the Autotype / 14 Pall Mall East / London”. Company for mass reproduction” (ODNB). The Autotype

50 Peter Harrington 142 Company reproductions appear to be carbon prints, which markably good condition: a fine survival from one of the give a blacker finish: carbon printing was widely employed 19th century’s most celebrated meetings of art and science. for book illustration and commercial editions of prints.Our Cox & Ford 645 (shown in reverse, Darwin facing right). print is a gold-toned albumen print, made by Cameron and sold through her London dealers Colnaghi’s, and is in re- £60,000 [121701]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 51 A superb copy of the “Appleton Alice”, unrestored in pressed 1865 printing of Alice furnished with new tipped- original cloth in title pages also printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford. Dodgson authorized the sale to America on 10 April 1866 29 and was invoiced for the printing of the American title pag- CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. es on 26 May. With Forty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel. New Lewis Carroll at Texas: the Warren Weaver Collection (1985) no. 2; Printing York: D. Appleton, 1866 and the Mind of Man 354 (the first issue); Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 44. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, triple gilt rules to covers, gilt roundels with “Alice” motifs to covers, dark green £37,500 [116108] endpapers, edges gilt. Housed in a custom red cloth flat-backed box. Frontispiece with tissue-guard and 41 illustrations by John Tenniel. Provenance: S. H. Williams of Inner Temple with bookplate to front pastedown of both book and box. A little wear to spine ends and tips, a couple of light marks to cloth, tiny spot The only volume to appear in his lifetime of abrasion to front free endpaper, front hinge split but holding, 30 rear hinge partly split, but text block sound. An excellent copy in bright cloth. MARX, Karl. Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen first edition, second issue: the so-called “Appleton Oekonomie. Erster Band. Buch I: Der Produktions Alice”, which is the first practicably obtainable issue of process des Kapitals. Hamburg: Otto Meissner, 1867 the original sheets, with the Appleton cancel title page for Octavo (215 × 135 mm). Contemporary diced half roan, spine let- publication in New York. The Appleton issue consisted of tered and ruled in gilt, black pebbled cloth boards, brown endpa- 1,000 copies, comprising the original sheets of the sup- pers, marbled edges. Custom yellow and black marbled slipcase.

52 Peter Harrington 142 Ownership inscription to title page. Corners lightly worn and the bourgeoisie will remember my carbuncles all the rest bruised, some splitting to front joint, overall a bright, clean copy. of their lives’” (PMM). rare first edition of the first volume of Das Kapital, the “The history of the twentieth century is Marx’s legacy. Sta- only one to appear in Marx’s lifetime; one of 1,000 cop- lin, Mao, Che, Castro – the icons and monsters of the mod- ies published on 14 September 1867. Two further volumes ern age have all presented themselves as his heirs. Wheth- were published from his manuscripts by Engels, in 1885 er he would recognise them as such is quite another matter and 1894 respectively. . . . Nevertheless, within one hundred years of his death “Marx himself modestly described Das Kapital as a continu- half the world’s population was ruled by governments that ation of his Zur Kritik de politischen Oekonomie, 1859. It was in professed Marxism to be their guiding faith. His ideas fact the summation of his quarter of a century’s economic have transformed the study of economics, history, geogra- studies, mostly in the Reading Room of the British Muse- phy, sociology and literature. Not since Jesus Christ has an um. The Athenaeum reviewer of the first English translation obscure pauper inspired such global devotion – or been so (1887) later wrote: ‘Under the guise of a critical analysis of calamitously misinterpreted” (Francis Wheen, in his intro- capital, Karl Marx’s work is principally a polemic against duction to Karl Marx, 1999). capitalists and the capitalist mode of production, and it is Die Erstdrucke der Werke von Marx und Engels, p. 32; Printing and the Mind of Man this polemical tone which is its chief charm’. The histor- 359; Rubel 633. ical-polemical passages, with their formidable documen- tation from British official sources, have remained mem- £100,000 [120703] orable; and, as Marx (a chronic furunculosis victim) wrote to Engels while the volume was still in the press, ‘I hope

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 53 The occult encyclopaedia of a cabbalistic chemist 31 VENMAN, Hezekiah. Extensive manuscript encyclopaedia of occult philosophy. London: 1870–90 21 volumes, various octavo formats. Stationer’s ledger books mostly cloth-backed, marbled sides, some with personal brown paper “dust jackets” held in place by sealing wax. Occasional holograph illustrations in the text, a number of pasted-in and loosely inserted notes, drawings, photographs (including two of Daniel Dunglas Home); manuscript lists of contents pasted to several covers. Venman’s cabbalistic bookplate and label in two of the volumes. Occasional wear and dampstaining but generally in very good condition. A remarkable and rare manuscript collection – in excess of 150,000 words – of impressive breadth and depth from the Golden Age of British occultism, carefully compiled over several decades by a London-based chemist and druggist, Hezekiah Venman (d. 1899). Venman was an associate of the Society for Psychical Research, a contributor to their journal, and, as the personal exchange of material shows, clearly well-connected to some of the leading figures of the movement: Alfred Russel Wallace, St George Lane Fox- Pitt, Dr Abraham Wallace, Annie Besant, and Lord Adare. These volumes comprise an assemblage of material from many sources – personal experience, unpublished accounts, extracts from other authors, his own translations from French esoteric books and journals, and records of meetings – all planned, as stated in a holograph note, as the basis for “Venman’s Occult Encyclopaedia”. One volume includes an extraordinary section concerning W. B. Yeats’s muse, Maud Gonne (with a small portrait excised from a society magazine) and titled “Phantasms of the Dead – The Egyptian Priestess by H. Venman from a Pri- vate Source”. This concerns Gonne’s disclosure that from infancy she had been haunted by the apparition of an Egyptian priestess. This is most intriguing as at the time of writing (c. 1894) this would have only been known to a very small circle of people, including Yeats. Listed as a bankrupt in the Law Times (9 August 1862), Ven- man’s fortunes clearly improved as his later business address (as Venman and Co.) is given as 20 Pimlico Road and Duckworth, 1905) as selling “well-made crystal balls” from his home was a respectable if unassuming three-storey her home address at Sugden Road, Lavender Hill, London. terrace up a flight of stairs at 138 Dawes Road, Fulham. He Venman published in a small way: a couple of pamphlets, had also been an honorary quartermaster in the 1st Tower Spiritualism from a Neutral Standpoint: A resume of evidence pro Hamlets Artillery Volunteer Corps, resigning his commis- and con (London: J. Burns) was advertised in the spiritualist sion in October 1873, when that unit was disbanded. “In weekly “The Medium and Daybreak” (14 August 1874), the 1897 . . . a Mr Venman advertised that he sold a variety of same year that another booklet was published, Spiritualism: flint-glass crystal balls, ‘the result of 40 years’ experimen- the modern mystery, as a question of the day. His reading was tal research’, for prices varying from 2s 6d to 5s 6d” (Owen extensive and he cites an array of authors, from Eliphas Davies, Witchcraft, Magic and Culture 1736–1951, 1999, p. 251). Levi and the leading French spiritualists to Madame Blav- Apparently this aspect of Venman’s business was carried atsky, and the Polish philosopher Julian Ochorowicz. on by his widow as she is mentioned in Joseph Maxwell’s Metaphysical Phenomena: Methods and Observations (London:

54 Peter Harrington 142 Venman’s ambitions for his project are clearly stated in the in hypnotism and thought transference involving cards and specially printed labels pasted to the endpapers of sever- drawing. Members present at these sessions included such al volumes, listing subjects ranging from “Art-magic and leading lights of the SPR as Frank Podmore, St George Lane Indian Occultism” through spiritualism, mesmerism and Fox-Pitt, and Dr Abraham Wallace. These last two volumes hypnotism, and psychological phenomena to “Quaballhis- offer a fascinating insight into the methods of the SPR: the tic” interpretations. The scale of research here offers us an assistance of “young men” was required and advertised for insight into a scholarly and skeptical, but hopeful, spirit of in the London press. Details of their age, occupation and enquiry and glimpses of an under-recorded social milieu. address are given and, rather amusingly in one case, that a couple of lads from Dalston clearly took an extremely Three slim volumes are not in Venman’s hand: one sceptical view of proceedings and “left immediately”. concerning hauntings in two transcribed letters of 1900 and 1901; and two containing detailed notes of the £15,000 [117728] Hypnotism Committee of the SPR, including experiments

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 55 An exceedingly rare but indispensable historical source gral to the letterpress and 2 in vol. 1 end-pocket, 2 folding maps in end-pockets, “Sketch Map of a Portion of Fars shewing the for the emergence of the Gulf States Course of the principal Rivers and Route from Bushire to Lar, 32 Chiefly taken from an original map Drawn by Hajji Mirza Seyyed Hassan, Chief Physician to Prince Owais Mirza, Governor of Beh- (ARABIAN PENINSULA.) ROSS, Edward Charles, bahan” (vol. 1) and “Sketch Map of Fars, Persia, 1876” (vol. 2), this Samuel Barrett Miles, & others. Report on the last in two parts as issued and together measuring 100 × 135 cm. Administration of the Persian Gulf Political Blind stamp of the library of the Secretary of State for India to Residency and Muscat Political Agency for the the title and p. i of the Report for 1879–80; ink-stamp of Govt. of India Library, Foreign Office to title and pages 1 and 216 of Report Year 1875–76 [–82.] Published by Authority. [Series for 1880–1, title additionally annotated “Rec[eived]d October 21 title at head:] Selections from the Records of the 1880”. Tips bumped, light browning, a small number of nicks or Government of India, Foreign Department. No. closed tears to page-edges, very occasional light finger-soiling CXXVIII[–CXC.] Calcutta: Foreign Department Press / and other marks, folding maps and the 3 genealogical tables reinforced verso with Japanese tissue along folds (repairing some Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1876–82 light chipping in the table “Khalfan bin Mohammed bin Abdul- 7 parts in 2 volumes, octavo in half-sheets (236 × 142 mm). Mid lah el Wakeel Ab Boo Saidi”, the “Sketch Map” with minor perfo- 20th-century tan calf-backed marbled boards to style, raised rations at intersections of folds, Report for 1875–6 pp. i–ii loose at bands to spines, gilt fillets either side, black morocco labels, head and held by bottom cord Report for 1879–80 lightly chipped edges sprinkled red. Numerous tables to the text, 9 folding ge- and sometime reinforced along fore edge, long closed tear to sig. nealogical, meteorological or statistical tables of which 2 inte- P3 of the Report for 1880–1. Very good condition overall.

56 Peter Harrington 142 first editions of these seven consecutive instalments of value and types of goods passing through the region’s the official annual report compiled by the British political main ports, which illustrate the growing importance resident in the Persian Gulf and the political agent at Mus- of the Gulf as a hub of global trade for an astonishing cat, all extremely rare, and together constituting an indis- variety of commodities, from dates and pearls to saltpetre. pensable source for this formative period in the emergence The administrative and trade reports are interspersed of the Gulf states. The first report is for the year 1875–6, with important monographs (by various officers) a short time after the British concluded its final anti-slav- including regional and topical studies, which furnish an ery treaty with the Gulf shaykhs in 1873, also the year in unprecedentedly rich array of information on the physical which the British transferred supervision of the residency and human geography of Arabia, the Gulf, and Persia in at Bushire from the government of Bombay to the govern- this pivotal era. ment of India at Calcutta. During this period (excluding Despite the importance of these investigations, copies of furloughs) the resident and agent were respectively E. C. the Report would likely have been distributed only to officials Ross (1836–1913, in post 1872–91) and S. B. Miles (1838– in the Indian political service; in Ross’s introductions he 1914). Both were former officers in the Indian Army who originally requests “a few”, later ten copies for personal entered the political service and became leading author- reference. Such copies of these early iterations as managed ities on Arabia and Gulf. Their administrative reports to survive repeated use in difficult conditions are confined provide forensic digests of local politics and events in the to a handful of institutions, where they are mainly found Trucial States, Bahrain, the Nejd, Qatar, Oman, the Per- only in fragmentary runs. We trace one set of reports at sian coast, Bassidore (Basaidu), and inland Persia, as well auction, comprising three much later volumes (1902–3– as anti-slavery and policing operations in each area. Ross, 4). Oxford has a run of reports from its first year, 1873/4, Miles, and their fellow officers show themselves to be to 1907/8, but no other library has a copy each of report well-informed observers fully conversant with the names found here: Leiden and the British Library have broken of local tribes and settlements, and the intricacies of tribal runs (respectively 1873/4, 1880/1–87/8, 1889/90, 1897/8, politics. Ross in particular proves an assiduous chronicler and 1874/5, 1876/7, 1879/80, 1886/7, 1918); Utrecht has a of a new era of co-operation between the Gulf shaykh- small set of three consecutive iterations (1876/7–78/9); doms, namely the Qawasim of Sharjah and Ra’s al-Khay- the LSE has a set of three undated issues; Berkeley, the mah, the Al Bu ‘Ali of Umm al-Quwain and ‘Ajman, the Al Bibliothèque nationale de France, Kings College London, Bu Falasah of Dubai, and the Bani Ya’s of Abu Dhabi. The and SOAS each have a copy of a single issue (respectively four tribal groupings are recorded signing an important 1876/7, 1892/3, 1880/1, and 1893/4). agreement of cooperation in 1879, essentially an extradi- tion treaty, the implications of which become clear in the £225,000 [121174] reports for the following years. The authors’ political digests are accompanied by trade reports including exhaustive tables recording tonnage,

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 57 The true first edition of Pinocchio, rare in original cloth Where Bloomsbury, bohemia, and aristocracy met 33 34 COLLODI, Carlo. Le avventure di Pinocchio. Storia (MORRELL, Ottoline.) MACDONALD, George. A di un burattino. Florence: Felice Paggi, 1883 Book of Strife in the form of The Diary of an Old Soul. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in gilt, to front cover in New Edition. London: Longmans, Green & Co., and New gilt and blind on gilt ground. Housed in a custom red morocco York, 1892 folding case. Frontispiece and 61 illustrations by Enrico Mazzan- Duodecimo (167 × 79 mm). Contemporary olive morocco by ti. Contemporary ownership inscription (“Al suo piccolo amico. Hatchards of Piccadilly, spine gilt on compartments with titles Ugo 14 Marzo ‘83 Pagano”) on title-page. Recased, joints repaired, direct and fleuron tools, gilt rolled border to sides, marbled end- endpapers renewed, boards slightly rubbed, some professional papers, top edge gilt. Extremities rubbed, covers tanned, front restoration internally including repairs to marginal tears and in joint just starting at ends, hinges repaired, an attractive copy in text on p. 65 and p. 419, some strengthening at gutter and reinsert- very good condition. Pencil annotations to the text throughout. ed leaves, illustration on p. 101 partially inked in, still an excellent copy. The autograph book of Ottoline Morrell (1873–1938), first edition in book form, exceedingly scarce thus. signed by its author and a huge array of her Bloomsbury, “One of the best known fantasies, and the most popular bohemian, and aristocratic acquaintances. The book children’s book to come out of Italy . . . The story was writ- prints Macdonald’s 366-verse poem on the rectos only, laid ten for a Rome children’s magazine, the Giornale dei bambini, out so as to allow people to sign their names facing their where the first instalment appeared on 7 July 1881. It was birthday verse. The author has signed the dedication in published as a book in 1883 under the title Le Avventure di this copy, his signature dated 1895. Pinocchio: Storia di un burattino (History of a Puppet), and quick- The majority of the signatures attest to Ottoline’s use of it as ly became a best-seller . . . Lorenzini’s publisher is said to an autograph book through the Garsington glory days of the have made a fortune out of it, but Lorenzini himself died late 1910s, 1920s, and into the 1930s. There are a few early sig- too early [in 1890] to witness its international success . . . natures of people who died before the First World War, such Almost nothing else in children’s literature equals Pinocchio as Henrietta S. B. L’Estrange (1816–1904) and Hannah Pears- for wildness of invention” (Humphrey Carpenter and Mari all Smith (née Whitall, 1832–1911), a prominent women’s suf- Prichard, The Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature). The fragist who became the mother-in-law of Bertrand Russell first printing was likely a small one, as it the book ran to through her daughter Alys; the Bloomsbury writer Logan was no less than 12 reprints during the first year of publication. her son. This copy must have been more than a visitor’s book, This is the Manney copy (Sotheby’s NY, 11 Oct 1991). for there is evidence that Ottoline travelled with it: on his 27 January birthday appears the signature of Kaiser Wilhelm II, £45,000 [120798]

58 Peter Harrington 142 whom she met in his post-war exile in Holland while visiting There are also numerous members of Ottoline’s An- her cousin Count Goddard Bentinck in 1932. glo-Dutch family the Bentincks (including Celia Glamis, grandmother of Elizabeth II), as well as a number of Gren- As well as these, the signatures include Herbert Asquith, fells and many other miscellaneous aristocrats. In this Max Beerbohm, Augustine Birrell, Edmund Blunden, rarefied yet crowded atmosphere, we also find Ottoline’s Maurice Bowra, David Cecil, Charlie Chaplin, T. S. Eli- nanny “Powie” and nurse Nina. ot, John Galsworthy, Robert Gathorne-Hardy, Mark Ger- tler, Duncan Grant, Florence Hardy, L. P. Hartley, Aldous This is a unique object: emblematic of inter-war high-soci- Huxley, Augustus John, Goldsworthy Lowes-Dickinson, ety, and thoroughly representative of Ottoline herself, who Desmond MacCarthy, Aristide Maillol, Walter de la Mare, is best remembered for the extraordinary people she knew. Hope Mirrlees, T. F. Powys, Bertrand Russell, Siegfried Sassoon, W. H. Smith, James Stephens, Lytton Strachey, £25,000 [120956] H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats, and many others.

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 59 In the original holland-backed boards 35 (KELMSCOTT PRESS.) CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works, now newly imprinted. Edited by F. S. Ellis. Hammersmith: printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 1896 Folio (425 × 292 mm). Original holland-backed blue paper boards, printed spine label, uncut edges. Custom modern blindstamped calf box. Printed in black and red in Chaucer type, the titles of longer poems printed in Troy type. Double columns. With 87 woodcut illustrations after Sir Edward Burne-Jones, redrawn by Robert Catterson-Smith and cut by W. H. Hooper, woodcut title-page, 14 variously repeated woodcut borders, 18 variously repeated woodcut frames around illustrations, 27 nineteen-line woodcut initial words, numerous three-, six-, and ten-line woodcut initial letters, and woodcut printer’s device, all designed by William Morris, and cut by C. E. Keates, W. H. Hooper, and W. Spielmeyer. Spine label slightly chipped, linen backstrip a little browned, touch of wear to tips, a little fraying to front joint, front hinge tender, front free endpaper lightly creased, occasional faint foxing to fore edge, text unaffected. An excellent, crisp copy of a book more often met with in a later binding. first kelmscott edition, one of 425 copies on paper, out of a total edition of 438 copies. “The Kelmscott Chaucer is not only the most important of the Kelmscott Press’s productions; it is also one of graver, portrait artist, jewellery designer, and book illus- the great books of the world. Its splendour can hardly be trator, arranging a meeting. Gaskin had trained at the matched among the books of the time” (Ray, The Illustrator Birmingham School of Art, and the two “probably met in and the Book in England). October 1891, when Morris gave a talk on the collection of pre-Raphaelite paintings at the Birmingham Museum and Laid in to this copy is an autograph letter signed from Art Gallery ... though possibly they had met even earlier Morris to Arthur Joseph Gaskin (1862–1928), the wood-en- since Gaskin had been a member of the Arts and Crafts

60 Peter Harrington 142 Exhibition Society since 1890” (Letters, III, p. 474). Mor- without demur. He and his wife visited Kelmscott in June ris commissioned him to work on three Kelmscott Press that year, a few weeks after this letter was sent. books, including The Well at World’s End in 1893. However, Peterson A40; Sparling 40; see Franklin, Private Presses, p. 192; Robinson, he was dissatisfied with Gaskin’s drawings, and in early William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and the Kelmscott Chaucer; Kelvin, ed. The 1895 finally informed him that they would not be used, Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume III: 1889–1892. turning instead to Burne-Jones, which Gaskin accepted £60,000 [120853]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 61 36 of each volume, turn-ins and top edge gilt, others untrimmed, green silk endpapers, original cloth bound in at rear of each vol- TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. The Life and Works. ume. With custom green cloth chemises and matching slipcases. London: Macmillan & Co., 1898 Photogravure frontispieces with tissue guards. Title-pages print- 12 volumes, octavo (224 × 149 mm). Finely bound by Birdsall ed in red and black. Spines slightly faded, a little faint foxing to in green full crushed morocco, titles and decoration to spines margins. A superb set. gilt, raised bands, multi-coloured pictorial onlay to front board

62 Peter Harrington 142 edition de luxe, one of 1,050 sets. A handsomely pro- cent set that attests to the enormous popular appeal – bor- duced edition, presented here in an extraordinarily lavish dering on reverence – for the poet laureate who was lion- binding by one of the finest English bookbinders of the ised like no other. period, Birdsall of Northampton. The front cover of each volume carries a scene in coloured morocco onlays, drawn £15,000 [122109] either from scenes associated with the life of the poet or from his works, especially the Idylls of the King. A magnifi-

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 63 Wilde in exile thanks his publisher for Beardsley’s Demy quarto. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt and with double gilt rules at ends, front cover with overall design by Beard- book and orders copies of The Importance of Being sley incorporating title blocked in gilt, publisher’s device blocked Earnest – written near Cannes, where “romance comes in gilt to rear board. Frontispiece and 6 vignettes by Beardsley, in boats: and takes the form of fisher-lads” title printed in red and black. A touch of rubbing to spine ends, minor cockling to rear board, else a fine copy. The letter splitting 37 from the foot of the central fold but very good. (WILDE, Oscar.) JONSON, Ben. Volpone: or The limited edition, one of 1,000 copies on art paper, Foxe. A new edition with a critical essay on the author this copy out of series, unnumbered, and presumably from by Vincent O’Sullivan and a frontispiece five initial the publisher’s own retained stock; there were another 100 letters and a cover design illustrative and decorative copies on Japanese vellum. With an autograph letter signed by Aubrey Beardsley together with an eulogy of the from Oscar Wilde to the publisher, Leonard Smithers, in its original stamped and franked envelope, postmark 13 artist by Robert Ross. London: Leonard Smithers and Co, January 1899, mounted on the front free endpaper. 1898

64 Peter Harrington 142 Wilde’s letter, addressed from the Hôtel des Bains, Na- bare-limbed: they are strangely perfect: I was at Nice lately: poule, on the sea near Cannes, thanks “My dear Smithers” Romance there is a profession plied beneath the moon.” for sending him Volpone – “it is a very fine issue indeed”. He Ellman notes that Beardsley’s death at 25 years of age on 16 thinks Beardsley’s work not quite his best but adds that “had March 1898 was the first of several affecting Wilde which he lived he would no doubt have done wonderful other il- seemed to bring the Nineties to a doomed end. lustrations.” He praises both the introduction and Robbie Ross’s eulogy, concluding teasingly: “The play is, I suppose, Merlin Holland & Rupert Hart-Davies (eds.), The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (2000), p. 1119. by you.” He requests copies of The Importance of Being Earnest, to be published by Smithers the following month: “20 ordi- £35,000 [122833] nary – 5 large paper – and 1 vellum – for me”. But his mind is no longer directed to literary work. “Yes: even at Napoule there is romance: it comes in boats: and takes the form of fisher-lads, who draw great nets, and are

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 65 A fine copy of the signed limited issue of Wilde’s comic play opened to great acclaim on Valentine’s Day 1895 but masterpiece was withdrawn after Wilde’s failed libel suit against Lord Queensbury led to his arrest. The subsequent “utter social 38 destruction of Wilde” (ODNB) meant that the play was not WILDE, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest. A published in book form until February 1899, after Wilde’s Trivial Comedy for Serious People. London: Leonard release from prison. Richard Ellmann comments that Smithers and Co, 1899 Smithers’s handsome editions of Earnest and An Ideal Hus- band “brought Wilde a little money”. The play was issued in Square octavo. Original pale purple cloth, gilt lettered spine, gilt a standard edition of 1,000 copies, this large paper edition floral motifs from designs by Charles Shannon on spine and covers, edges untrimmed, pages uncut. Housed in a custom brown and twelve copies on vellum, most of which the author pre- quarter morocco and cloth solander box and matching chemise. sented to his friends. A fine copy. Mason 382. first edition, signed limited issue, number 40 of £50,000 [115980] 100 large paper copies signed by the author. Wilde’s last

66 Peter Harrington 142 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 67 “Ward no. 6 is Russia” – presentation copy from Chekhov to Gorky in the year of their first meeting 39 CHEKHOV, Anton. Palata No. 6. St Petersburg: A. S. Suvorin, 1899 Octavo (172 × 130 mm). Contemporary dark reddish brown quarter roan, gilt lettered spine (title within two wavy rules), matching linen-cloth corners, marbled sides, plain endpapers, speckled edges. Housed in a custom black quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. Spine rubbed and worn (some gilt lost and lettering dulled), inner joints cracked but firm on cords, signs of handling to half-title, four leaves in first gathering loose, marginal tears at pp. 221 and 223, touch of foxing in places. a major literary association, inscribed from chekhov to maxim gorky on the half-title: “Alex- iu Marsimovichu Peshkvu-Gorkomu v pamiat o nashem vechere v Yalte 19 dekabria 1899” (“to Alexey Maximovich Peshkov-Gorky in memory of our evening in Yalta 19 De- cember 1899”). In March 1897 Chekhov had suffered a major haemorrhage of the lungs. His doctors diagnosed tuberculosis and suggested a change of life. So, in 1898 he moved to the Black Sea resort of Yalta and built a house – the White Dacha. It was here that he wrote Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and perhaps the most famous of his short stories, “Lady with Lap- dog”. In April 1899 “Gorky, dressed in rough peasant garb, style, Chekhov recognized him as a writer of talent and came to Yalta and detained Chekhov. They argued politics recommended him to the directors of MAT [Moscow Art and literature; Anton showed Gorky Kuchuk-Koy [the Tartar Theatre]. Moreover, Chekhov may have been influenced farm that Chekhov bought while work was just beginning by Gorky’s politics. It was on Gorky’s invitation that Chek- on the White Dacha]. That same April, two other writers hov submitted the story ‘In the Ravine,’ about the impact appeared at Yalta, the dandified Ivan Bunin and the jovial of capitalist greed on the peasantry, to the radical journal journalist Aleksandr Kuprin. The next generation of Rus- ‘Life’” (James N. Loehlin, The Cambridge Introduction to Chek- sian prose writers was at Chekhov’s feet. Bunin and Gorky hov, 2010, p. 30). In a letter from Yalta dated 3 September hid the distrust that broke into warfare, once Bunin became 1899 Chekhov replied chattily to Gorky offering sound ad- the doyen of émigré literature, and Gorky the Bolsheviks’ vice on writing, proofing, and publication, and agreeing Minister for Literature . . . These disciples were no jackals to Gorky’s request to dedicate his first novel, Foma Gordeyev but, as Anton saw, three geniuses in the making” (Donald (1899), to him. He also commented, “[you are] by nature Rayfield, Anton Chekhov: A Life, 1997, p. 487). There is a fine a lyricist and your spirit is tuned to melody”. Gorky’s per- visual record of this period, when Chekhov and Gorky were sonal reminiscence of Chekhov was published in England photographed sitting together at a table outside Chekhov’s by the Hogarth Press in 1934. house, Gorky wearing his “rough peasant garb”. This slim volume is of the seventh edition and carries the Gorky (meaning “bitter”, the pen name of Maxim Peshkov) publisher’s note, dated 15 June 1899, on the title verso stat- began a correspondence with Chekhov in 1898 that lasted ing that it has been “passed by the censor”. It gathers to- until the latter’s death in 1904. “Though Chekhov was only gether four stories: “Ward No. 6” (1892), “Peasant Wives” eight years older than Gorky, he made him a sort of pro- (1891), “Terror” (1892), and “Gusev” (1890), first published tégé, advising him on his writing and nurturing his career. as a collection in 1893. “Ward No. 6” is one of Chekhov’s Gorky’s revolutionary politics and social coarseness some- most celebrated stories and was originally intended for times frustrated Chekhov – ‘he bristles like a porcupine’ the Moscow journal The Russian Review. The editors paid a – but he recognised the younger writer as a real talent: 500-rouble advance but disliked the “gloom and radical- ‘There is not a shadow of a doubt that he is made of the ism” of the story (Rayfield p. 270). “The obvious journal dough of which artists are made. He is the real thing’ (Jan- for such a work was the left-wing Russian Thought, but An- uary 24, 1900) . . . For all his concerns about Gorky’s prose ton quarrelled with its editors” (ibid.). However, relations

68 Peter Harrington 142 with his own recent experience: a disreputable Russian hospital, a man whose education had been aborted, an official laid off for bad reasons after twenty years of service. But Chekhov had made of the story, one of his mas- were repaired and the story appeared in issue 11 of Russian terpieces, a fable of the whole situation of the frustrated Thought in November 1892. The composition of “Ward No. intellectuals of the Russia of the eighties and nineties . . . 6” “depleted Anton’s creative resources. Set in the psychi- When Vladimir finished reading this story, he was seized atric ward of a remote hospital, the story is a bleak allego- with such horror that he could not bear to stay in his room. ry of the human condition. There is no love interest. The He went out to find someone to talk to; but it was too late: plot is a Greek tragedy in its violent reversal of human for- they had all gone to bed. ‘I absolutely had the feeling,’ tunes . . . [and] confronts activist with quietist. Now the he told his sister next day, ‘that I was shut up in Ward 6 activist is not a scientist, but a madman, Gromov, who has myself!’” (To the Finland Station, pp. 369–71). It has been been incarcerated for proclaiming that truth and justice claimed, with good reason, that it was Chekhov’s story must triumph one day. The quietist, Dr Ragin, is drawn that made Lenin a revolutionary. into dialogue and borrows every excuse devised by Mar- cus Aurelius or Schopenhauer for condoning evil. By con- provenance: through the family line of Major General Ra- sorting with a madman, Ragin alarms his superiors: he is fail Pavlovich Khmelnitsky (1898–1964), commander of the trapped into his own ward, where, after a beating from the Soviet 34th Rifle Corps, part of the 19th Army, and adjutant charge nurse, he dies of a stroke. Gromov has to go on liv- to Marshal Voroshilov. Apparently, it was while serving with ing. Chekhov set his story among nettles and grey fences. Voroshilov that Khmelnitsky met Gorky, and was given the Suvorin [Chekhov’s publisher] disliked it, but the elderly book as a gift. Gorky was photographed with Voroshilov novelist [Nikolai] Leskov recognised its genius, exclaim- and Stalin when they visited the writer in 1931; Gorky and ing ‘Ward No. 6 is Russia’” (ibid.). Voroshilov also appear together in a painting: “Kliment Vo- roshilov and Maksim Gorky at the Shooting Gallery of the It was this view of the story – as a metaphor for Tsarist Central House of the Red Army” by Vasily Svarog (1935). Russia – that also seized the young Vladimir Ulyanov, later known as Lenin, upon his own reading of it. As Edmund Books inscribed by Chekhov are certainly scarce – books Wilson writes: “One night during the last winter [Lenin] with a major literary association particularly so – and this spent in Samara, [he] read a story of Chekhov’s which had constitutes a superb association, throwing light on the close just appeared in a magazine, a story called ‘Ward No. 6’ personal relationship of two great Russian writers who . . . There were in the story, of course, certain features that straddle the boundary between the 19th and 20th centuries. were calculated to affect Vladimir Ulyanov in connection £56,500 [121864]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 69 Presentation copy to his close friend, the model for the Since 1975 three copies have appeared at auction with early hero of his greatest novel presentations to John Galsworthy, Cora Crane, and Robert McClure, and another to Hugh Walpole, inscribed in 1922. 40 Cagle A5a(1); Connolly 100; Keating 25; Smith 5; Wise 7. CONRAD, Joseph. Lord Jim. London & Edinburgh: £37,500 [115743] William Blackwood and Sons, 1900 Octavo. Original green decorated cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Minor rubbing to extremities, spine discoloured with gilt dulled; front hinge starting but sound, Eugene Plunkett bookplate and his notation of this book’s number in his library above, and un- The masterpiece of the Doves Press obtrusive Henry Sotheran & Co. Bookseller label on front pastedown offset to facing flyleaf, ownership inscription above book- 41 plate dated 1901, few pencilled notes at rear. (DOVES PRESS.) Bible: English. The English Bible first edition, first issue, presentation copy, in- containing the Old Testament & the New. Translated scribed in black ink on the front free endpaper: “To R. B. out of the original tongues by special command of His Cunninghame Graham affectionately from the Author.” “A Majesty King James the First and now reprinted with particularly sustaining friendship [of Conrad’s] was with R. B. Cunninghame Graham, the aristocratic socialist and the text revised by a collation of its early and other adventurer . . . His appearance and South American trav- principal editions and edited by the late Rev. F. H. els made him the model for Charles Gould in Nostromo, the Scrivener M.A. LL.D. for the Syndics of the University greatest novel by his friend Joseph Conrad. (He had been Press Cambridge. Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1903–5 prompt to hail the Polish-born novelist, and their friend- 5 volumes, large quarto. Original limp vellum by the Doves Bind- ship extended from 1897 until Conrad’s death in 1924. The ery, spines lettered and numbered in gilt, bindery stamp at foot of essay ‘Inveni portum’ is a moving obituary.) He contrib- rear pastedowns. Doves type printed in black with red initial letters uted elements to Etchingham Granger, the central char- by Edward Johnston, on handmade paper. Faint pencilled owner- acter in The Inheritors (1901), by Conrad and F. M. Hueffer” ship signature to front cover of vol. IV. Small mark to front cover (ODNB).

70 Peter Harrington 142 of vol. I, spotting to the first gathering of vol. I as always, though er over the rights to the Doves type, and bringing the era of markedly less heavy than usual, occasional faint marginal foxing the Doves Press to a close. to other vols. An excellent, fresh copy in unusually nice condition. Tomkinson 6. first edition thus, one of 500 sets. Famous for its aus- terely dramatic incipit with Johnston’s single elongated in- £17,500 [122976] itial “I”, the work epitomises the understated elegance and restrained style of the Doves Press. The Press was established in 1900 by T. J. Cobden-Sander- son, who had abandoned his career as a barrister to open the Doves Bindery in 1884. He became interested in all as- pects of book design, writing in 1892 that “I must, before I die, create the type for today of ‘The Book Beautiful’, and actualize it – paper, ink, writing, printing, ornament and binding. I will learn to write, to print and to decorate”. Though an admirer of William Morris, he felt that the Gothic Kelmscott designs, with thickly foliated borders, ornamental bindings, and woodcut illustrations, were ex- cessive. Instead, he worked with the printer Emery Walker to develop a refined type based on those of 15th-century Italian masters Nicholas Jenson and Jacobus Rubeus. Their partnership was dissolved in 1908, and in 1916 Cob- den-Sanderson threw the Doves typeface into the Thames, thus concluding the bitter dispute between him and Walk-

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 71 A beautiful copy in the original Omega Workshop Gardens’ the more beauty shines out of it; and the fitter wrappers to it seems this cover that is like no other cover, and carries associations; and the more one likes Mrs. Bell’s ‘Kew 42 Gardens’ woodcuts” (Woolmer, p. xxiv). It was the first of WOOLF, Virginia. Kew Gardens. Richmond: Hogarth the Press’s publications to feature the covers so admired by Press, 1919 the reviewer, using brilliantly patterned or marbled heavy paper, all individually and carefully sourced by the Woolfs. Octavo. Original Omega Workshop paper wrappers hand-coloured in blue, dark red, and green, paper label to front cover. Housed Woolf wrote excitedly of the effects of the review in A Writer’s in a custom quarter orange morocco and cloth slipcase and Diary: “we came back from Asheham [June 3] to find the hall matching chemise. Woodcut frontispiece (second state, printed table stacked, littered with orders for Kew Gardens”. Prior on a separate piece of paper and pasted onto the page, no priori- to the review, they had sold only 49 copies, and, unable to ty) and tailpiece by Vanessa Bell. A beautiful copy, with just a little rubbing to spine. fulfil the rush of orders on their own, the Woolfs turned to a commercial printer for the first time, Richard Madley, to first edition, one of around 150 copies, of this key ti- print a second edition of 500 copies. tle in the Hogarth Press history. The Press was founded by the Woolfs in their drawing room in 1917 at Hogarth This was Virginia Woolf ’s third publication, and the first House with a small hand press, which could set only two book that her sister Vanessa illustrated. Leonard later not- pages at a time, and was capable of printing only 150 cop- ed that her success with Kew Gardens was “‘the first of many ies. However, this tiny hand-printed edition of Kew Gardens unforeseen happenings which led us, unintentionally and was suddenly and unexpectedly successful, bolstered by a and often reluctantly, to turn the Hogarth Press into a com- glowing review in the Times Literary Supplement on 29 May mercial publishing house’ as well as a turning-point in her 1919: “Here is ‘Kew Gardens’ – a work of art, made, ‘cre- own development as a writer: ‘Kew Gardens’ was ‘a micro- ated’ as we say, finished, four-square; a thing of original cosm of all her then unwritten novels’” (Caws & Luckhurst, and therefore strange beauty, with its own ‘atmosphere’, p. 329). its own vital force. Quotation cannot present its beauty, or Kirkpatrick A3a; Woolmer 7. Caws & Luckhurst, The Reception of Virginia as we should like to say, its being . . . Perhaps the begin- Woolf in Europe, 2002. ning might be suppler; but the more one gloats over ‘Kew £30,000 [117093]

72 Peter Harrington 142 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 73 Housman as Latin professor to his Greek counterpart undergraduate days until his death, and his wife. Robert- son was particularly respected for his work on Apuleius, 43 and was regius professor of Greek at the University of HOUSMAN, A. E. Autograph letters to Professor Cambridge from 1928 until 1950. Housman, as Kennedy Donald Robertson. Cambridge: 1920–36 Professor of Latin (the most senior Latin chair at Cam- 11 autograph letters, all signed, most one page but some two or bridge) from 1911 until his death, was Robertson’s coun- three in length. Excellent condition. terpart. Enlivened by many flashes of sardonic humour, An exceptional collection of autograph letters signed the correspondence closes poignantly with a letter writ- from poet and classicist A. E. Housman (1859–1936) to ten in shaky pencil from the Cambridge nursing home in Donald Struan Robertson (1885–1961), a stellar Greek the month of Housman’s death. scholar attached to Trinity College, Cambridge, from his

74 Peter Harrington 142 iii) Trinity College, Cambridge. 5 June 1926. 1p. A letter of thanks followed by a few jokes in Greek. iv) Trinity College, Cambridge. 8 February 1931. 1p. Thanks Robertson “for another pound of the priceless (in every sense) sugar. Sir Robert Walpole said that women who will not take money will take diamonds; so I am saving up.” v) Trinity College, Cambridge. 13 March 1931. 1p. Correcting Robertson on a subtlety of Latin. Also noting enigmati- cally, “I hear from Hackforth that I have been causing you some trouble and perhaps polluting your mind.” Reginald Hackforth was a classical scholar who specialised in Plato, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge 1939–52. vi) Trinity College, Cambridge. 9 October 1931. 3pp. Lengthy and sardonic letter about the trouble of preparing lectures for students who “will require so much preliminary matter, not only about rival theories of Ueberlieferungsgeschichte [the history of tradition] but about prosody and Iamben- kurzung [iambic abbreviation] and hiatus, without which there can be no critical study, and which they cannot learn from Lindsay without at the same time being bamboozled”. He then complains that he is forced to stay in College during the summer “and so to brim with bitterness one of the few and evil years remaining to me on this side of the seventh circle of the inferno, which apparently is where scholars go, and where Musetus will find great fault with my Latin style.” vii) Evelyn Nursing Home, Cambridge. 5 June 1933. 1p. Letter in ill health, thanking Robertson for flowers, “Though I have not had them put in my bed-room, the matron has joyfully carried them off for hers.” viii) Trinity College, Cambridge. 26 July 1933. 1p. Accepting a so- licited invitation for lunch: “Many thanks for the kindness with which you respond to my shameful attempt to cadge a luncheon”. ix) Trinity College, Cambridge. 22 February 1935. 1p. Accept- ing invitation to dinner, “and will dress properly”. x) Trinity College, Cambridge. 7 August 1935. 1p. Refusing lunch invitation because “next week my brother will be stay- ing with me and we shall be motoring about the country.” xi) Evelyn Nursing Home, Cambridge. 8 April 1936. 1p. Letter in a weak pencil hand from Evelyn Nursing Home only three weeks before his death. A poignant letter of apology having missed seeing Robertson. i) Trinity College, Cambridge. 8 December 1920. 2pp. Enclos- ing three essays (not present here) “for the Members’ Prize. £10,000 [119798] I have marked such misprints and false accents as I have no- ticed, and have also marked or indicated a good many other mistakes.” Then remarking, with evident disappointment, that, having checked the regulations, the bad handwriting does not constitute grounds for disqualification. ii) Trinity College, Cambridge. 22 May 1924. 3pp. Thanks Rob- ertson for sending “your papers on the MSS of Apuleius” and praising the work, before going on to give some very detailed textual criticism.

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 75 A bright, fresh copy, unopened and unread signed by Joyce; 150 large paper copies were printed on heavier vergé d’Arches, and the remaining 750 copies formed 44 this slightly smaller-format trade issue. JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, The recipient of this copy is not recorded in Sylvia Beach’s 1922 notebook, but laid in is a typed note signed from literary Small quarto. Original blue wrappers, titles to cover in white. editor Burton Rascoe, on New York Herald Tribune headed Housed in a turquoise quarter morocco solander box by the paper, dated 10 October 1922, to Russell Loines, the Amer- Chelsea Bindery. An unusually bright and fresh copy, with slight ican literary patron: “Lewis Galantière, in Paris, has sent marks to spine panel and rear wrapper, tiny closed tear to wrappers at foot of spine but entirely sound, a little rubbing to tips of to me a copy of ‘Ulysses’ to be forwarded to you. There is wrappers and spine, light crease to front wrapper and first few danger in sending it through the mails . . . Please direct pages. A beautiful, unopened copy of this famously vulnerable me”. This copy may not have reached Loines in time; he production, unusually bright and fresh. died in the year of its publication, which perhaps helps ex- first edition, first printing, one of 750 copies, plain its unread condition. number 724 from a total edition of 1,000 copies. Ulysses Slocum & Cahoon A17; Taylor, Sherwood Anderson Remembered, p. 81. was published in imitation of the traditional three-tiered £57,500 [119592] French format aimed at both connoisseurs and readers: 100 copies were printed on Dutch handmade paper and

76 Peter Harrington 142 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 77 Cherry-Garrard’s preferred “polar” binding – inscribed, ish Library copy only); and the “very rare” (Rosove) 1951 and with two rare offprints Postscript to The Worst Journey in the World, which was written for the one-volume edition of the same year and evidently 45 distributed closely among associates of the author. Rosove CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley. The Worst Journey in notes only a bound presentation copy to George Seaver at The World: Antarctic 1910–1913. London: Constable and the Scott Polar Research Institute; we can trace no other Company Limited, 1922 copy institutionally or at auction. 2 volumes, octavo. Original natural linen-backed pale blue boards, printed paper labels to spines, blue endpapers, additional title labels at the front free endpapers, that in volume I now loose, that in volume II still tipped in, slightly chipped second spare label loosely inserted in volume II. Colour frontispieces with tissue-guards, 4 other coloured plates in all, 53 black and white plates, including 10 folding panoramic views, 5 maps, 3 of them folding. Cloth typically darkened and the boards mottled, text-block lightly browned, some foxing at the fore-edge, year hinge of volume II starting, overall very good. first edition, inscribed by the author on the half-title of volume I, “Inscribed to the family of Ingall by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, December 1938”, and with “Ingall” pencilled ownership inscriptions on the front free endpapers. This copy is accompanied by the “rare” (Rosove) 1923 offprint of chapter 7 printed in “very small numbers” (Tau- rus) to secure American copyright (Copac locates the Brit-

78 Peter Harrington 142 “Cherry-Garrard seems an unlikely hero of Antarctic exploration, but he has achieved that status largely through this book . . . a young but wealthy patrician, near-sighted and frail, he paid his way onto the crew as an assistant zoologist, but performed splendidly in many harrowing situations” (Books on Ice). The “worst journey” referred to in the title is not “Scott’s ill-fated rendezvous with death,” but the earlier Ross Island Winter Journey, from Cape Evans to the pen- guin colony at Cape Crozier, with Edward Wilson and Henry “Birdie” Bowers. Both of his companions on this trip were to die on the Southern Journey with Scott, Cherry-Garrard being with the last group sent back before the final assault on the South Pole, he was also sent to rendezvous with the returning party of Scott and his four companions, and was the discoverer of the tent and their frozen bodies. The book is “widely regarded as the masterpiece of polar exploration” and is very rarely found inscribed, Cherry-Garrard was deeply affected by his failure to save the Scott party, living a “long life of melancholy regret” (Books on Ice) and while not reclusive he socialized little. Books on Ice 61.12; Howgego, IV, S14; Renard, 305; Rosove 71.A2; Spence 277: US copyright edition, Renard 306; Rosove, 71.B1; Spence 280; Taurus 85: Postscript, Rosove 71.H1. £15,000 [122706]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 79 A remarkable copy containing the most complete crowley’s own copy of the unrevised proofs for key known, entirely in Crowley’s own hand, to the moonchild, inscribed by him across the front free endpa- characters and events of his notorious roman à clef, per verso and half-title: “Aleister Crowley. Unique copy of unrevised proofs. This contains the actual names, printed, accompanied by a holograph unpublished poem of several of the principal protagonists of the story: also 46 some few passages excised or altered in the published version. A.C. | This book – original title, the net – was CROWLEY, Aleister. Moon-Child [unrevised proof, written in New Orleans in November 1917 e.v. [era vulgaris, with Crowley’s annotations]. London: The Mandrake i.e. common era] except for the last few chapters – the war Press, [1929] episodes. ‘A prologue’: the original plan was a novel of the Octavo (210 × 131 mm). Specially bound, most likely for the au- life of a ‘medium’ of genuine powers; so I had to make her thor, by J. Burn & Co. Ltd in a striking binding of contemporary birth remarkable, and the tale ran on to this length. A.C.” blue crushed morocco, titles to spine and front cover in gilt, on- Together with an unpublished autograph poem by the au- laid crescent of red morocco, blind rules and gilt stars blocked thor laid in to the rear. to front cover, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Binder’s ticket to rear pastedown. Spine slightly faded, hinges starting but text Crowley has marked up the text in pencil and ink, probably block and joints sound, minor loss to corner of p. 291, not affect- in two campaigns of annotation. Of most interest, his ink ing text.

80 Peter Harrington 142 eyes, has confessed all to the specialist, and begged him to break her of the whisky habit, the while she absorbed a pint or so of the said whisky under cover of the said pocket handkerchief ”, Crowley adds the marginal note: “My first wife, with Dr Murray Leslie, 89 Cadogan Gardens”. Elsewhere, Crowley notes that Cecil Grey, described in the book as “diabolically clerical in [his] formality”, was inspired by “a man named Barrington in the F.O. whom I knew in my early diplomatic days” (p. 21). On p. 301, where the character Simon suggests that “it would have been better and cheaper to buy Bulgaria”, Crowley writes: “I suggested this to Sir James Morrison in ‘14 £10,000,000 would have done it. He said it was too much money!!!!!!!!” His pencil marks note the many misprints in the proof text. Many of his corrections appear in the final version, published 25 September 1929, though some do not. Crow- ley adds a doleful note on p. 275, next to a misprinted Greek curse: “Corrected in the published book. Oh printer, printer!” The autograph poem (“Wild wheels the Universe of flam- ing form...”) is a sonnet written in blue ink on both sides of a single folded sheet on blue Grosvenor Hotel headed pa- annotations identify the originals of principal characters per. This is the compositional and presumably only draft, and allude to the real-life events behind incidents in the with crossings out and corrections. Framed in grandiose book. Crowley annotated at least one other copy of Moon- terms, the closing couplet addresses a specific person: “My child in a similar fashion: his own copy of the first edition woman, bear down bravely; this shall be / The gauge of our (original cloth sans jacket), which sold at auction at Swann strong immovability.” It is not inconceivable that Crowley Galleries in 2008 for $15,600. The present copy, bearing composed the sonnet in his hotel room in the presence of Crowley’s holograph corrections to the prepublication the woman to whom it is addressed. The Grosvenor Hotel proof and in a specially-commissioned symbolic binding, is the substantial railway hotel next to Victoria station. The must surely be regarded as superior to that. use of the “director” exchange telephone format in the let- The annotations made by Crowley in his copy of the first terhead dates the letter no earlier than the late 1920s and it edition have not been made public, but a partial list of appears more or less contemporary with the book. the originals of his characters was typed up by Crowley’s There is little doubt that Crowley commissioned the bind- American acolyte, Grady McMurtry, evidently relying in ing himself. He would have come into contact with the part on information obtained directly from Crowley. The long-established bookbinding firm of James Burn & Co. notes in the present copy include characters not on Mc- Ltd through their deluxe leather work for the Aquila Press, Murtry’s list, although in some instances they confirm which in 1929 Crowley attempted to buy with £500 of Cora his information. For example, McMurtry notes that Roger Germer’s money. But the question of whom he presented Blunt was “(Roy something — I suspect he was a manag- this copy to cannot now be resolved. Perhaps it was Cora er of E.F.’s)”. Here Crowley records that “this was a youth Germer herself, or perhaps it was his latest Scarlet Wom- ‘Roy’ a toy of Everard Feilding”. In others, Crowley gives an, the rich Nicaraguan Maria Teresa Sanchez, whom he entirely new information. He reveals that he created the had married in August 1929 – that might explain the point- name Wake Morningside, modelled on the psychical ined reference to his first wife’s alcoholism. Another candi- vestigator Hereward Carrington, by taking “Wake” from date, though less likely, would be Hanni Larissa Jaeger, the the title of Charles Kingsley’s 1866 novel Hereward the Wake 19-year-old model he met in Berlin in April 1930, whom he and “Morningside” from Carrington’s Manhattan tele- nicknamed The Monster. But there were others. Even with phone exchange (p. 75). this uncertainty, this remains a remarkable copy, offering Perhaps the most interesting of Crowley’s notes on the re- a unique insight into the compositional process behind al-life events behind incidents in the book appears on p. 255. Crowley’s most significant novel. Against the line “Many’s the woman who, with her pocket £35,000 [119520] handkerchief to her face, and the tears pouring from her

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 81 French colonial West Africa in the 1930s as captured ful with location identified in English; for the most part excellent through the lens of an American entrepreneur’s wife prints in very good condition. A unique and vivid archive of extraordinary breadth, com- 47 prising nearly 1,200 images that provide a striking pano- (AFRICA: IVORY COAST.) Photographic archive of rama of colonial life in the Ivory Coast during the 1930s, American life and mercantile enterprise in French as seen through the eyes of Brents Rowlett Gruber, wife of West Africa during the 1930s. Ivory Coast: 1932–6 Lewis H. Gruber, an American entrepreneur from Louis- ville, Kentucky, who was involved in the logging industry 11 volumes, landscape quarto (first volume 280 × 250 mm; others 200 × 245 mm), the first 80 pages, others either 36 or 38 pages, un- and ran a Chevrolet dealership in Abidjan and Grand Bas- paginated. Contemporary commercial photograph albums: larg- sam, trading under the name L. H. Gruber & Cie. er album, dark brown cloth post-binder (nickel-plated posts) by A particular focus here is the two trade fairs of 1934 and Gilbert (stamped “Made in England”), gilt lettered on front cover; 1935, the Foire-Exposition d’Abidjan, which have been de- others uniform in brown cloth textured to resemble lizard-skin, scribed as playing a “particularly effective visual means gilt lettered front covers. 1,195 original photographs tipped-in on drab khaki heavy stock paper (photographs measuring approx. 55 for coercive displays of tradition and modernization” in × 90 mm up to 120 × 180 mm, several panoramic views 100 × 290 French West Africa (Cory Gundlach, La Foire-Exposition mm up to 100 × 905 mm, some carrying wet stamps of L. Meteyer d’Abidjan: Imagining Africa Through Colonial Spectacle, Univer- on verso). A few clippings from an American magazine pasted into the larger volume; binding of this volume a little worn, other volumes with some scuffs and rubbing to extremities, chips to extremities of spines, one volume with half of spine missing (but sound), another shaken, but overall in good condition; of the photographs a few are folded and repaired, some corner-mounted, a few with ink annotations at lower edge (in French), a hand-

82 Peter Harrington 142 sity of Iowa, 2016). These fairs were a week-long event of indigenous peoples, an ethnic mix that comprises some that “would include a competition among decorated cars, 60 separate groups; perhaps most notably the Lobi peo- a city-wide procession of flowered floats, water festivals, ple, instantly recognizable as they wear various forms of musical performances by the 5th battalion of Senegalese lip plug (intended to ward off evil spirits). Not all images tiralleurs, and ‘tam-tams’ by seven African peoples from were captured at the Expositions, many were taken “in the the recently re-organized colony” (ibid.). All of these as- field”, including those of the Lobi people. There are trips pects are captured in these albums. to various locations “up country”, including Bouake, a little over 200 miles north of Abidjan, which was the second The larger album opens with some excellent views of co- largest city in the Ivory Coast, established originally as a lonial residences and commercial buildings in Abidjan French Military post in 1899. The unseen backdrop here, (including the Gruber Chevrolet dealership), as well as however, was the increased use of forced labour in large street scenes and photographs of the docks decked out for scale logging operations following the enormous rise in La Foire-Exposition d’Abidjan, including a few group por- demand for wood in the post-war rebuilding of France. traits – of who we take to be the Grubers - with some indi- There are numerous images of mahogany trees being viduals being hoisted ashore via something akin to a ship’s logged, trimmed down, marked for shipment – a num- clamshell bucket. These are followed by many shots of the ber of photos show timber stamped “FDV” (Foreign and Exposition: including the Mossi emperor Naba Kom II and Domestic Veneers: the company of which Gruber was a “rois” from Bondouku, Korhogo and Agboville; the gov- director) – and stored on rafts in holding ponds off shore ernment pavilion; and indigenous peoples: festive dances waiting to be loaded onto steamships. by Senufo women – wearing skirts and elaborate head- dresses made of cowries, fibre, and feathers - that marked Big game hunting also features prominently. Another cou- their eligibility to marry and the Senufo men’s participa- ple pictured in a number of photographs (and identified tion in the initiation ceremonies of the male secret society by a magazine clipping) are Mr. and Mrs. E. Kenneth Hoyt, known as the Poro. There are images of the Baule danc- who are pictured with the spoils of their big game hunters from Dimbokro and Ebrie dancers from the lagoons ing. The Hoyt dynasty owned tanneries and timber assets around Abidjan and Grand Bassam. There are stilt-walkers that became part of United States Leather Company and and men balancing children on one hand. E. Kenneth retired from the family business in Argentina to pursue his passion for big game hunting. There is a se- The remaining albums are an informal assemblage that quence of scenes of the Hoyts setting off on a safari with a form a striking visual record of life in French colonial Afri- small convoy of vehicles presumably supplied by Gruber; ca during the 1930s, exhibiting commercial and industrial including a particularly good shot of Mrs. Gruber photo- interests (automobile sales and mahogany logging), big graphing the Hoyts posing next to the lead vehicle. Lion, game hunting, and ethnographical photographs, of which leopard, gazelle, and elephant are all pictured as trophies there are several hundred, testament to the rich diversity

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 83 along with the Grubers displaying proudly tusks and ant- pictured here, was company secretary of West African Log- lers of varying sizes. ging (d. 1944, aged 55). Lewis H. Gruber was vice-president of the West African A remarkable archive of genuine immediacy that sum- Logging Co., director of Foreign and Domestic Veneers mons up the spirit of colonial life in the 1930s, the era of Inc. – both chartered in Louisville, Kentucky – and holder Waugh’s Black Mischief (1932) and Hemingway’s Green Hills of of the General Motors agency in the French Ivory Coast. Africa (1935), witnessed from an unusual perspective: that He had previously worked in Africa for the Mengel Compa- of an American woman from the South eager to capture ny, handling wood products. In 1941 the Grubers returned the richness of her African experiences. home to Louisville after 21 years’ residence in Africa and See: Cory Gundlach, La Foire-Exposition d’Abidjan: Imagining Africa Through built a house modelled on their Abidjan ranch-style house Colonial Spectacle, Univ. of Iowa (2016); Hans-Jurgen Lusebrink, “Histor- at Prospect, just north of Louisville. Apparently it was their ical Culture in (Post-) Colonial Context”, Identities: Time, Difference, and intention to return to Africa after the war. It was Gruber’s Boundaries, Universitat Bielefeld, pp. 210–15; Courtney P. Conroy, France as a Negative Influence on the Côte d’Ivoire: The Consequences of Foreign Interference wife, Brents Rowlett Gruber, who was the enthusiastic (2010), pp. 1–15. photographer. She was killed in a car accident in Louisville in April 1945. Another relative, John L. Gruber, perhaps £15,000 [119443]

84 Peter Harrington 142 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 85 “Outside of Bobby, President Kennedy had one really campaigns, two runs for the Senate, and a bid for the vice close friend and that was Dave Powers” presidency. 48 David Francis Powers (1912–1998) grew up in Charlestown, Mass., the son of Irish immigrants. He served in every one (KENNEDY, John F.) The David Powers collection of of Kennedy’s political campaigns from 1946 to 1960 as one John F. Kennedy’s speeches and manuscripts. c.1945–63 of his most important political operatives. In the White Together 73 items, autograph and manuscript material. House, as Special Assistant, his duties included preparing briefings and ushering distinguished guests into the The David Powers collection of John F. Kennedy’s speeches Oval office. He was Kennedy’s most intimate friend, advi- and manuscripts spans the statesman’s political career up sor, and personal “fixer”. Kenneth O’Donnell, top aide to to the Presidency, from his first primary race in the 11th both JFK and Lyndon Johnson, once remarked “Outside of District in 1946 to the eve of nomination as President in Bobby, President Kennedy had one really close friend and the summer of 1960, encompassing three Congressional

86 Peter Harrington 142 that was Dave Powers.” Following the assassination (dur- – Seven similar typed manuscripts for JFK’s political speech- ing which he was riding in the following car), Powers re- es in the late 1940s that Powers believed to be the only cop- mained in the White House until January 1965 when he re- ies extant. signed to assume the post of curator for the planned John The material in this collection does not, perforce, include F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, a position anything of significance dating after Kennedy’s inaugu- he maintained until 1994. ration. Prior to the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Most of the material in this collection – including reading presidential papers and effects were understood to be the copies and manuscript drafts – has never been published. private property of the president. The Presidential Librar- Together with related notes and other mementoes kept ies Act of 1955 encouraged future presidents to donate by Powers, these speeches are among the largest cache of their historical materials to the government. This was original JFK documents remaining in private hands. made mandatory by the Presidential Records Act of 1978, which established that records that document the consti- Highlights include: tutional, statutory, and ceremonial duties of the President – Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy President of the United States are the property of the United States Government, but of America (Washington DC, January 20, 1961), printed pam- Kennedy had already acted in the spirit of the 1955 Act by phlet, inscribed by JFK to David Powers: “For Dave from choosing a plot of land in Boston to house the John F. Ken- John Kennedy Christmas, 1961”; nedy Presidential Library and Museum. Powers honoured – “Address of the Honorable John F. Kennedy before the that commitment by keeping back for his own collection Mass. Federation of Labor, Boston, August 4, 1949”, man- only material dating prior to the presidency. uscript with holograph corrections personally typed by JFK; The collection was purchased in the 1990s from David – “The Challenge Abroad”, a large-type reading copy with Powers by the rare book dealer Maury A. Bromsen (1919– extensive deletions in both ink and pencil including emen- 2005). Bromsen sold the archive to a private collector in dations in JFK’s hand, one of his foreign policy speeches around 2003. (“there is a real possibility in Formosa that the tail in this case will wag the dog – that, in the event of Chiang’s attack A full description of the contents of the archive is available on our website upon the mainland and a Communist retaliation upon For- or on request. mosa, we will be dragged into a war – possibly an atomic £375,000 [120955] war, probably a world war . . . ”); – “Africa – The Coming Challenge”, a large-type reading copy delivered at Wesleyan University with corrections and emendations in JFK’s hand, a speech delivered in 1959 anticipating his formation of the Peace Corps;

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 87 88 Peter Harrington 142 Helping the French understand Bright Young Things of that period & would I know be delighted to help you”. The recommendation was not a success. Mitford wrote to 49 Waugh on 23 January 1947: “your translator came to see WAUGH, Evelyn. Autograph letter signed and me. When I couldn’t cope with shymaking he lost interest. portrait, to his French translator, Jean Dauven. Piers I took a great dislike to him (not only wounded pride).” Court, Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire: Christmas Day 1946 The next part of the letter (written longitudinally on the Four sides of Piers Court headed notepaper (single foolscap sheet inner fold of the bifolium) gives a brief life of the author: folded, approx. 900 words in total), signed “Evelyn Waugh”. “Born in London 1903 second son of late Arthur Waugh a lit- Housed in a custom morocco-backed folding case and chemise. erary critic of some prominence in his time. My brother Alec Creased where folded once for posting, excellent condition. is also a writer”; on his education, “read Modern History A lengthy and at times hilarious letter to Waugh’s French (without glory) at Oxford. I think studied painting (without translator, concerning the translation of Vile Bodies and con- glory) and cabinet making (without glory).” Of his career as taining a potted autobiography of his life to date as well a writer he comments: “In 1927 I published a life of Dante as an inscribed colour-printed portrait after Henry Lamb. Gabriel Rossetti and in 1928 my first novel ‘Decline and Fall’ Waugh is replying to a letter of Dauven’s of the week before. which was a success. Since then I have had no struggles for With the impending publication in French of Brideshead recognition & have always been unduly praised by critics . . . Revisited in 1947 (“Wherever I look I see Retour à Brideshead, My best novel was called ‘A Handful of Dust’.” they must have printed a huge edition” – letter from Nancy He then describes how “in 1930 I was received into the Mitford, 1947), Les Editions de la Table Ronde, the Paris- Catholic Church by Fr Martin d’Arcy” and how he spent ian publishing house founded by Roland Laudenbach and “the first fifteen years of adult life without fixed abode – named by Jean Cocteau three years earlier, offered to publish travelling all over the place – tropical Africa, South Amer- a translation of Waugh’s second novel, Vile Bodies (1930). Jean ica, Arctic etc.” Dauven was to translate under his pseudonym Louis Chan- temèle, under which he also he translated novels and stories Regarding family life he gives details of his wife Laura Her- by Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Peter Cheyney. He bert, noting that her father was “well known in his time”, later published under his own name a monograph on Jean that he and Laura now live in “a pretty old manor house in Cocteau (1956) as well as a book about hypnosis (1958). the depths of the country”, and that they have five children. The first part of Waugh’s letter deals with the difficulties of Waugh describes his time in the Royal Marines, noting transposing jokes from the original into French, explain- that his war was “varied, enjoyable but without distinc- ing that “chubb fuddler was chosen as a comic trade. Any tion”, how he was taken on by General Laycock but “When French equivalent would serve. He is, in fact, the man who he went to Italy he left me behind so I did a parachute makes it his life’s work to intoxicate fish so that, when it is course and joined my old friend Randolph Churchill (Win- necessary to drain the fish pond, they can be moved with- stons’s son) in Jugo-Slavia and finished the war among Ti- out injury . . .”; that “Decorations” on an invitation card to’s beastly partisans.” indicates that a member of the Royal Family is expected Waugh ends with his most recent novel. “While recover- to be present at the party (“would ‘personages royales’ ing from a leg broken in parachuting (in England, no glo- be correct?”); that “Blast was an avant garde publication ry) I wrote a novel ‘Brideshead Revisited’ which is shortly of the time . . . edited by Wyndham Lewis, probably for- appearing in translation in Paris (Edition Lafonte). This gotten by all but a dozen Englishmen”; that kedgeree, of- books is more serious than its predecessors, has annoyed fered to but not eaten by Adam and Nina at Doubting Hall, most of the English critics and delighted illiterate Ameri- is “an excellent luncheon or breakfast consisting of rice, cas in a disconcerting way. But I like it.” eggs & salmon or haddock”, and explaining a reference to He mentions that he has “no recent photograph”, so Kipling’s poem “Gunga Din”, as well as recommending encloses “a reproduction of a portrait of me made in the Lecky’s Eighteenth Century for its “an excellent survey of the year I wrote ‘Vile Bodies’ . . . but they must make plain I am Wesleyan movement.” now 17 years older, fatter & uglier.” The portrait, inscribed Waugh hopes that the translation “will breathe new life “Now aged 43 and much altered for the worse. E.W.” is into a text which has become somewhat dated in the origi- included here. nal”, but he “cannot help thinking in a book so localized & slangy there must have been other unfamiliar expressions.” £18,750 [122624] Waugh welcomes further enquires but suggests that it might be easier to call on “Mrs Rodd [Nancy Mitford] now in Paris at 20 Rue Bonaparte who was very much a girl

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 89 Inscribed for Waugh’s “honoured friend” Graham farce, but only for a few pages. The rest very dull. Well, the Greene war was like that” (27 February 1952, Letters, 1980, p. 370). Greene and Waugh, who were contemporaries at Oxford, 50 exchanged inscribed copies of their books throughout WAUGH, Evelyn. Men at Arms. A novel. London: their lives and regularly reviewed each other’s writing. De- Chapman & Hall, 1952 spite Waugh’s apparent poor opinion of the book, it won the 1952 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, top edge blue. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the bright jacket, spine £25,000 [115984] just a little toned, some minor loss to spine ends, a little rubbing to edges of spine panel, tips nicked. first edition, first impression, presentation copy to graham greene, inscribed on the front free endpaper, “Graham, a bad book for a good friend, from Evelyn. Sept 2nd 1952”. Laid in is an autograph note from Waugh to Greene, discussing Greene’s finances: “If you want a lump sum. Borrow it from bank or publishers (free of tax) offering in return the yearly allowance from your US publishers.” With Greene’s bookplate to the front pastedown. Waugh’s description of this as “a bad book” follows a letter he sent to Greene earlier the same year, shortly after finishing the draft: “I finished that book I was writing. Not good. Of course all writers write some bad books but it seems a pity at this particular time. It has some excellent

90 Peter Harrington 142 The only opportunity to buy an original holographic Perry, the book They Do It With Mirrors, an alternative ending manuscript by Agatha Christie for A Pale Horse, for short stories, radio plays, jottings of autobiography, and many other ideas. There are also notes for 51 novels to be written and published as Mary Westmacott. An CHRISTIE, Agatha. Manuscript notebook, relating entry on one pastedown notes three projects “on hand”: “A. to the composition of her novel A Murder is Announced A Murder has been arranged (T & T?) [i.e. Tommy and Tup- and her play Spider’s Web, and many others. Baghdad pence ] B. They do it with Mirrors (witchcraft one) Miss M? C. The House in Baghdad.” This is the notebook of a writer and elsewhere, 1948–51 at the height of her powers of invention. Quarto notebook (227 × 176 mm) by Century. Original purple quarter cloth, purple moiré cloth sides, blue sprinkled edges. Of the 74 notebooks by Agatha Christie still extant, this is Housed in a custom blue morocco-backed folding case by S. Con- not only the richest in content, but also the only one out- way of Halifax. 175 pages of holograph notes by Christie in blue side the author’s estate (which is under the ownership of and black ink and pencil. Excellent condition. Agatha Christie Limited and not for sale) and therefore still A fascinating notebook containing Christie’s extensive in commerce. The notebook was donated by Agatha Chris- notes, principally for the composition of her Miss Marple tie to raise money for the Friends of the National Libraries, novel A Murder is Announced (1950), here under its working sold by auction at Sotheby’s London, 15 June 1960, lot 103, title “A Murder Has Been Arranged” and noted as begun at £240 to the American collector Milton R. Slater. A copy of Baghdad, and the play Spider’s Web (1954), which was writ- the Sotheby’s catalogue is included with the notebook. ten at the request of Margaret Lockwood. But there is much Curran, Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks, Harper Collins 2016. else besides. The notebook contains notes for the play Miss £45,000 [118901]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 91 Hemingway’s near-fatal air crashes, from the pilot’s ink, dated between 2 February and 12 June 1954. 1 typed letter: single sheet on Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, headed archive note paper, dated 1955. 2 Hallmark Christmas cards: both single 52 sheets folded twice, the second inscribed by Hemingway and his fourth wife Mary. 3 envelopes: hand or type written Airmail enve- HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Miscellaneous materials lopes addressed to the Marshes at both their Nairobi, Kenya and relating to Hemingway’s East African air safaris, Kericho, Kenya Colony homes. Marsh’s unpublished manuscript from the collection of his pilot, Captain Roy Marsh; account of the crashes: 33 pp., handwritten on faintly lined cream [together with] The Old Man and the Sea. New York: notepaper in a “paperblanks saddleworn leather” notebook with magnetized fold-over fore-edge cover, signed and dated “Roy Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953 Marsh 18th. Oct. 2005”. Includes coloured map of routes taken Together 13 items, all signed or inscribed by Hemingway to Marsh and a photocopy of a newspaper clipping picturing Hemingway unless otherwise stated. The Old Man and the Sea: octavo. Original and Marsh, taped-in on p. 30 verso. 1 blue folder containing tran- pale blue cloth, spine lettered in silver. With the dust jacket. 4 scriptions of Marsh’s “Pilot’s Account of the Hemingway Crash- autograph letters: between 1 and 2 sheets, written in blue or black es” and the letters, with assorted other memorabilia.

92 Peter Harrington 142 a remarkable archive of material, including a pres- and another concussion, this one serious enough to cause entation copy of The Old Man and the Sea inscribed by the leaking of cerebral fluid. Eventually they arrived in Enteb- author, from the collection of Captain Roy Marsh, Hem- be – only to find reporters covering the story of the writer’s ingway’s pilot on the two near-fatal aeroplane crashes demise. Hemingway briefed the reporters and spent the in East Africa in early 1954. Roy Marsh (1924–2014) later next few weeks recuperating and reading his erroneous served as chief pilot with Air Mahe in the Seychelles and obituaries. Marsh recounts these events in detail in his then as a private pilot for the Pahlavi royal family of Iran, manuscript account, entitled “The Pilot’s Account of the who purchased D’Arros Island in the Amirantes Group of Hemingway Crashes”. the Coralline Seychelles in 1975. The Old Man and the Sea is the third printing with the title “In order to view his beloved East Africa from another page dated 1953, the Scribner Press imprint on the copy- perspective, Hemingway hired a pilot named Roy Marsh right page and Scribner’s “A” absent (as called for by Gris- to take him and Mary up in a Cessna 180 for a series of som). Hemingway’s inscription on the verso of the front flights over such marvelous spots as the Ngorongoro Cra- free endpaper reads: “For Roy Marsh, with all good wish- ter, the Mountains of the Moon in Ruanda-Urundi and es from his friend Ernest Hemingway, [illegible: possibly the Murchison Falls in Uganda [all pictured on Marsh’s “Laitokitok” (present day Oloitokitok), the Kenyan town map], where the Nile descends in various levels, rather known to Hemingway, or “hailobilok”, Hindi for “Hel- than abruptly plunging down like Niagara. As Marsh cir- lo guy” – Hemingway refers to Laitokitok and its “Hindu cled over the Falls for the third time, he saw a flight of store”] 7/12/53 (1620)”. Marsh’s book label appears on the ibis in front of the plane and dove sharply under them. front pastedown. The plane’s propeller and tail assembly struck a telegraph Grissom A.24.1.a note p. 28. wire suspended above the gorge and Marsh was forced to crash-land in heavy bush. Mary suffered two broken ribs £25,000 [118634] and Hemingway another shoulder sprain, but Marsh was unhurt” (Kenneth S. Lynn, Hemingway, 1987, p. 571). Hem- ingway recounts the incident in “The Christmas Gift”, published in By-Line: Ernest Hemingway, Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades (1967). On the following day, while attempting to reach medical care in Entebbe, the Hemingways boarded a second plane that exploded at take-off, with Hemingway suffering burns

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 93 Presentation copy, with Kerouac’s drawing of the hanna. The Ghost was a shrivelled little old man with a Ghost of the Susquehanna paper satchel who claimed he was headed for ‘Canady.’ He walked very fast, commanding me to follow, and said 53 there was a bridge up ahead we could cross . . . as far as KEROUAC, Jack. On the Road. New York: Viking Press, I could see he was just a semi-respectable walking hobo 1957 of some kind who had covered the entire Eastern Wilder- ness on foot . . . We were bums together. We walked seven Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and front cover in white, top edge red. With the dust jacket. Housed in a custom miles along the mournful Susquehanna. It is a terrifying blue morocco-backed black cloth folding-case. Minor wear at ex- river. It has bushy cliffs on both sides that lean like hairy tremities; an excellent copy in the jacket with slight creasing to ghosts over the unknown waters. Inky night covers all . . . extremities and small chip to head of rear panel. I thought all the wilderness of America was in the West till first edition, first printing; a highly important the Ghost of the Susquehanna showed me different . . . ” presentation copy, inscribed by the author to John While the Ghost undoubtedly has its origins in a hobo Ker- Montgomery with a drawing by Kerouac of the Ghost of ouac encountered in western Pennsylvania, the vision is also the Susquehanna, relating to both On the Road and The inspired by a recurring nightmare, which Kerouac related to Dharma Bums. Montgomery was a Berkeley librarian who, Allen Ginsburg and others in the late 1940s. He dreamed re- according to Gerald Nocosial, “fascinated Jack with his peatedly of being pursued by a “Hooded Wayfarer without a scholarly non sequiturs.” In October 1955, the poet Gary Name.” Kerouac came to believe that the hooded figure was Snyder and Montgomery fitted Kerouac up with hiking merely his own self wearing a shroud. The first draft of On gear and the three of them hiked up the 12,000-ft ridge of the Road to contain a scene approximating his dreams of the Matterhorn Mountain in Yosemite. This episode was to shrouded stranger was produced in 1951. be transformed by Kerouac into a key event in The Dharma Bums. In the novel, Montgomery is depicted as Henry Mor- provenance: John McVey Montgomery (1919–1992); sold ley and Snyder, Japhy Ryder. Kerouac described the three by him c.1988 via a Californian book dealer to Ken Lopez men’s expedition as “all completely serious, all completely and Tom Congalton; subsequently in the noted Kerouac hallucinated, all completely happy”. collection of Airick Kredell (1950–2004); sold in 2004 by Skyline Books to a private collector in London. Kerouac’s evocative drawing depicts the Ghost of the Charters A2a. Susquehanna, described in chapter 14 of part one of On the Road. “It was the night of the Ghost of the Susque- £75,000 [118885]

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