DECEMBER 2016 Maggs Bros Ltd. Winter Miscellany 2016

Contents:

Children’s Books ...... p.4

Literary Classics & Autograph Letters ...... p.10

- Charles Dickens ...... p.18

Modern Literature ...... p.22

- Poetry ...... p.31

Continental Books & Illuminations ...... p.34

Early British Printing & History ...... p.37

Travel & Voyages ...... p.39

- Polar Exploration ...... p.46

- Travels by Women ...... p.52

Natural History & Science ...... p.56

Games & Sport ...... p.59

Something Unusual ...... p.61

Art & Architecture ...... p.68

Music & Theatre ...... p.70

Gastronomy ...... p.75

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The first edition of Hans Christian Andersen’s 2. BURTON (Tim). The Melancholy fairy tales in English Death of Oyster Boy. 1. ANDERSEN (Hans Christian)., HOWITT 1 of 310 copies signed by the author, this being number 92. (Mary) translator. Wonderful Stories for With coloured and uncoloured illustrations throughout. First Children. English edition. 8vo. Very good in original black cloth, and 4 hand-coloured lithographed plates, First English edition, purple and silver label, with the slip case. London, Faber and small 8vo., original blue cloth blocked in blind and gilt, Faber. 1998. £150 a.e.g., London, Chapman and Hall. 1846. £4,000 Signed by Tim Burton on the title page. (221030) The first issue, with the author’s name misspelt ‘Ander- son’ on the front cover and the title page. Near contem- porary inscription on the verso of the front free endpa- per, rubbed and worn at the spine, otherwise an excellent copy. Andersen’s fairy tales were first published in Denmark in 1837, and were favourably received, although their success was initially limited to Scandinavia. 1846 was the year his writing achieved wider fame: four translations of his tales into English were published, of which this was the first. The impact his writing had on British children’s literature was seismic: where previously tales focussed on moral or instructive lessons, Andersen sparked the realisation that fantasy and imagination, rather than being morally dangerous could be enjoyable and engag- ing. Andersen helped transform the genre of children’s literature, paving the way for inventive writers such as Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. (125969) 4 Contact: [email protected]

3. CADEAUX (LES) DE NOËL suivi de 4. CRUIKSHANK (George). George Moustache ou l’enfant vole, Main ouverte, Cruikshank’s Fairy Library. Hop-O’-My-Thumb. Coeur d’or; Le petit turbulent Par Mme C.G. Jack and the Bean-Stalk. Cinderella. Puss in Nouvelle édition. Boots. 12mo (140 x 80mm.) 142, [2]p., coloured frontispiece, origi- Pictorial title page and 24 etched plates by Cruikshank. nal decorated cloth with central picture on upper cover, edges Reprint. 8vo., original red pictorial cloth gilt, ruled in black. gilt, top edges with bevelled indent for a band, spine skilfully London, Bell and Daldy. [1870]. £350 repaired. Tours: A. Mame et fils, 1866. £85 A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper ‘To Mrs William H. Budgett with the kindest First published in 1852 and a popular title in the ‘Bibli- regards of Mr. and Mrs. George Cruikshank in the hope othèque de jeunesse chrétienne’. There is a copy of the that the “Fairy Tales” will amuse her dear children, May 1852 edition in the Opie collection in the Bodleian. 5th 1873’. Re-backed in new red cloth, the old spine laid down, new There are four charming stories with a strong Chris- endpapers, the old spine with considerable loss at the tian and moral content, but who Madame C. G. was we tail, corners bumped, covers spotted, some small foxing do not know. The firm of Alfred Mame (1811-1893) in to some of the plates. ‘Cinderella’ and ’Puss in Boots’ Tours was well known for the publication of such little lack the list of illustrations leaf. (217399) books which were printed in huge numbers; in 1863 they turned out 6 million books. Mame was also a philanthro- pist organising schools for children and financing for his workers a pension fund.

Provenance: Lucie Helène Andrews, le 18 février 1870. At the end of Moustache (the name of a dog) she has added ‘Finished Translated it’ in pencil. (221051)

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“The best present of all is books” 5. DAHL (Roald). Charlie and the 6. MILNE (A.A.) By Way of Introduc- Chocolate Factory. Illustrated by Faith Jacques. tion. First UK edition. Small 4to., original illustrated boards. First edition. 8vo., original light brown cloth spine, patterned London, George Allen and Unwin. 1967. £500 boards. New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. [1929]. £300

Slightly nicked at head and tail of spine, otherwise a near Inscribed by the author: “For Richard Goolden with fine copy. (222543) the gratitude of A.A. Milne. Christmas 1930”. Goolden played the Mole in Milne’s stage adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows, Toad of Toad Hall, first produced at the Lyric Theatre in December 1929. In the introduction Milne explains this collection of essays thus: “Its title should be the only title for any book of essays - Myself. But since book-sellers demand something more distinctive, I have called it By Way of Introduction; for when I am not introducing myself or than myself, I am but introducing a subject on which there is more to be said than I have said, or doubtless can ever say.” Contents include: ‘Introducing Fairyland’, ‘Introducing Shepard’, ‘Introducing The King’s Breakfast’, ‘First Thoughts on Spiritualism’ and ‘Children’s Books’. In his short essay ”The Art of Giving” Milne wisely (in the view of this cataloguer) writes that “the best present of all is item 6. inscription books.” A sentiment we heartily agree with! A very good copy, cloth a little soiled and some wear to the board edges. (131983) 6 Contact: [email protected]

7. MILNE (A.A.) SHEPARD (Ernest H.) Now We Are Six; Winnie the Pooh; When We Were Very Young; The House at Pooh Corner. Four volumes. Illustrated throughout by Shepard. All first editions. 8vo., respectively in original red, green, blue and orange cloth, all with dust jackets. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1924, 1926, 1927 & 1928. £9,250

A very good set with some very slight wear to the jackets, with two attractive ALS to “Betty”, both with small drawings. One shows him playing golf enthusiastically, if crudely (“about your golf. Try and imagine yourself at your very worst, well, I am worse than that”, next to an image of a golfer mishitting a ball that soars towards a boat in the Bristol Channel). The other shows a Scotsman in a kilt dancing a Highland fling to an audience of three birds. (221507)

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8. PULLMAN (Philip). The Subtle Knife. 9. SEARLE (Ronald). SHY (Timothy). First edition. 8vo., original green cloth, dust jacket. London, The Terror of St Trinians, or Angela’s Prince Scholastic Books. 1997. £450 Charming. Black and white illustrations by Searle. First edition. 8vo., cloth, pictorial dust jacket. London, Max Par- A fine copy in dust jacket, with the tiniest nick on one rish. 1952. £400 upper corner. (116446) Timothy Shy is a pseudonym for D.B. Wyndham Lewis. Inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper ‘Ronald Searle’, above an original pen and ink drawing of the head of a St. Trinians schoolgirl, with hat and unruly hair, looking glumly up at the signature.

Lettering on the spine faded, the dust jacket with a few small tears on the margins top and bottom. (217455)

10. SENDAK (Maurice). Where the Wild Things Are. First U.K. edition. Illustrated in colour throughout. Oblong 4to., original illustrated boards, pictorial dust jacket. London, The Bodley Head. 1967. £600

A fine copy in dust jacket, slightly browning at the edges. (218562) 8 Contact: [email protected]

11. UTTLEY (Allison). The Washerwoman’s Child. A Play on the Life and Stories of Hans Christian Anderson. With Illustrations by Irene Hawkins. First edition. 8vo., original red cloth, dust jacket. London, Faber and Faber. 1946. £150

Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “For Lily, with love, in memory of our happy times together in the gar- den at the ballet, from the author. Aug 12, 1947”. The recipient is Lily Meagher her close lifelong friend, and the dedicatee of High Meadows. A near fine copy in a slightly torn dust jacket. (137804)

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WITH A TANTALIZING INSCRIPTION 12. BUTLER (Samuel). Hudibras. The First Part. Written in the time of the late Wars. Second Authorized Edition. 12mo., [2], 125, [1] pp., woodcut laurel wreath on the title-page. Slight staining around the edges of the title-page and the first few leaves, foxing to the bank endpapers, occasionally a little closely shaved at the head and foot (occasionally just touching a catchword). Con- temporary mottled calf, covers ruled in gilt with a small tool in each corner, smooth spine divided by later gilt rules, later label, mottled edges (upper repaired, lower joint just starting to crack, corners bumped, later label, upper headcap a little ragged). London: by J.G. for Richard Marriot, 1663. £750 Wing B6301.

[Bound with]: Hudibras. The Second Part. By the Author of the First. Second Authorized Edition. 12mo., 125, [3] pp., with both blanks, the imprimatur leaf and title-page woodcut. Foxing to the final couple of leaves. London: by T.R. for John Martyn, and James Allestry, 1664. Wing B6310. to the Duke of Bedford. A leading proponent of moves to exclude the Catholic Duke of York from the succession A handsome copy of Butler’s celebrated - and much he was arrested for his part in the so-called Rye House pirated - poem which attacked the Puritan and Presby- Plot and executed on 21 July 1683. Although it is tempt- terian factions involved in the Civil War. Pepys was less ing to imagine that this may be a presentation copy from than convinced though, and tried “twice or three times Butler to Lady Vaughan but the scholar Peter Beale is [...] to think it witty” but to no avail (Diary, 28th Novem- unconvinced about the handwriting despite the family ber, 1663.) association.

Provenance: 2: “Wm. Tyler’s”, signature at the head of the front 1: Lady Rachael (Wriothesley) Vaughan (1637-1723), styled flyleaf, perhaps William Tyler (d.1801), sculptor, architect Lady Vaughan 1653-69; inscription in a contemporary and one of the founders of the Royal Academy. hand on the recto of the front flyleaf reading “For the right honourable the Lady Vaughan” and “For the Lady 3: Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book Vaughan” in (apparently) another contemporary hand collector, Bliss’ usual ownership mark “P” by the printed within the woodcut laurel wreath on the title. Lady signature “B” with a purchase date of 1855, and purchase Vaughan’s father was Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of note on the front flyleaf “of Lilly 1855”; various sales, Southampton who raised his daughter in an intellectu- Sotheby’s, 1858, lot 669 [catalogue cutting on the front ally stimulated environment at Titchfield, Hampshire. pastedown “presentation copy to the Lady Vaughan”]. In 1653 when she married Francis Vaughan, styled Lord Vaughan, son and heir apparent of Richard, 2nd Earl 4: William Gott (1797-1863), Yorkshire wool merchant, of Carbery. Her marriage meant she spent much of her with purchase note on the rear pastedown “od/x Dr time in the “stimulating cultural and intellectual environ- Bliss’ sale / no 669, 1858”; by descent to his son John ment” of Golden Grove in Wales. Golden Grove was the Gott (1830-1906), Vicar of Leeds and Bishop of Truro, home of the Earl and his third wife Alice Egerton. The engraved armorial bookplate on the front pastedown; the Earl was patron to a number of poets (Butler was, for a Gott books were sold by Sotheran’s in 1907, Bibliothe- short period, steward to the Earl at Ludlow Castle where ca Prestiosa, item 142 (£10/10/-) described as with an Butler perhaps wrote the first part of Hudibras) and the inscription “probably” by the author. Grove was also home to the chaplain Jeremy Taylor. Lord Vaughan (“a conspicuous profligate even in that court” A loosely inserted copy of a letter from a disappointed - Cockayne) died on 7 March 1667 and Lady Vaughan, catalogue enquirer to Quaritch (November, 1982) proves now wealthy, married 2ndly on 20 August 1669 Hon. that the inscription still remained tantalizing (if not prov- William Russell, styled Lord Russell from 1678 and heir en) over a hundred years after the Bliss sale. (62682) 10 Contact: [email protected]

13. FITZGERALD (Edward). [WISE (Thomas 14. HARDY (Thomas). Tess of the J.]. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the As- D’Urbervilles. tronomer-Poet of Persia. Translated into Eng- First colonial edition. 8vo., original blue cloth. Melbourne, lish Verse. Sydney and Adelaide. E. A. Petherick and Co. London, Os- First reprint of the first edition. Square 8vo., three quarter good. 1892. £350 brown morocco, original buff printed wrappers bound in. London: Privately reprinted: January, 1887. £2,500 Prefatory note (“to the fifth edition”) by the author dated July 1892. Neat name, worn at head of spine, spotted The first reprint of the first edition, complete with the throughout, otherwise a very good copy. According to final leaf identifying the reprint. 25 copies (including the binding and the printed endpapers, this is in a series 4 on vellum) were printed for Wise in 1887, according of “Petherick’s Collection of Favourite and Approved to Wise himself in his 1895 catalogue of Ashley Library Authors.” Not found in COPAC, and only the Texas copy publications. reported by OCLC. (24588)

By 1887 the 1859 Rubaiyat was valuable enough for this reprint to have the final leaf removed and be sold as the original. Wise himself warned Richard Curle in the late twenties of a ‘very dangerous forgery of the first Omar circulating in America’, and adds that ’presumably they (i.e his own reprints) come from the usual London for- gery factory’.

With the armorial bookplate of one Thomas James Wise, presumably one of the namesakes which it amused Wise to find. (125680)

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“A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOR EVER” 16. KIPLING (Rudyard). The Story of the 15. KEATS (John). Endymion: A Poetic Ro- Gadsbys, a Tale without a Plot. mance. First edition. 8vo., original pictorial wrappers with a design First Edition. [12], 207, [4, adverts] pp., with the half-title, after the author’s father, John Lockwood Kipling. Fine early single line errata leaf before the text and five line errata red straight grained morocco slipcase by Rivière. Allahabad, slip bound at the end. Uncut throughout, some very light published by Messrs A.H. Wheeler. 1888. £550 browning in places and occasional pencil underlining, slight creasing to the initial errata leaf. Original drab boards, print- Very minor damage to the spine, but an excellent copy of ed paper label to spine (some minor wear to the head and the first issue of the second book in the Indian Railway foot of the spine, a few minor marks to the boards, bookplate Library, in a very handsome early slipcase. neatly removed from the front pastedown). London: printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1818. £9,000 Richards notes that the cover drawing illustrating the lov- ers is of Trix, Kipling’s beautiful and witty younger sister, Hayward 232. An uncut copy in original boards of Keats’ who was at the time in an on-off engagement. (223965) first major long poem, and second volume of poetry. On publication Endymion was savagely received by the critics, and was as Keats himself wrote, more “a feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished”. It is princi- pally remembered for it’s, now famous, opening line: “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”. (220031)

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17. KIPLING (Rudyard). Plain Tales from 18. LANG (Andrew). (1844-1912). Scottish the Hills. Poet and Novelist. Autograph Quotation First edition. 8vo., original pictorial green cloth after John Signed (“A. Lang”) Lockwood Kipling. Calcutta, Thacker, Spink And Co. Lon- 1 page 8vo with integral blank leaf, Alleyne House, St An- don: W. Thacker and Co. 1888. £1,200 drews, Scotland. n.d. £75

With some light wear and soiling to the binding, but The final stanza (or envoy) from Lang’s “Ballade for the joints sound: a very difficult book to find in collector’s Laureate”: condition. Contemporary ownership inscription on front paste-down endpaper. The second issue binding: the first “Prince, Arnold’s jewel-work is bright, issue is effectively a pre-publication state known in nine And Browning, in his iron style, copies, six of which were sent to the author. The adver- Doth gold on his rude anvil smite tisements are no indication of priority, but for the record The master’s yonder in the Isle.” we note 32 pages of catalogue, dated December 1887. Lang was best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. This is Kipling’s first commercially published book of He adapted the refrain from Theodore de Banville’s prose, published in an edition of 1250 copies, when he “Ballade de Victor Hugo” (“Mais le père est là-bas, dans was only 22 years old, a working journalist with good l’île”) into “The Master’s yonder, in the Isle”, as a tribute connections to the soldiery (though Francis Younghus- to the poet laureate, Tennyson. In this, the final stanza, band memorably described him as “bumptious and Lang compares Tennyson to Matthew Arnold and Robert above his station”) and the Civil Service. Its tales present Browning. (222535) “a composite portrait of Anglo-Indian life” (Kingsley Amis), both in Simla, where Kipling enjoyed the gender balance - “seven women per head of male population. Amen” and on the plain where the husbands continued the job of Empire. Richards A10. (223963)

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The Great American Novel 19. MELVILLE (Herman). Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. First American edition. 8vo. Green cloth variant in first state binding with sides stamped in blind with heavy ruled frame and pub- lisher’s circular device at centre, orange-coated endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown. Skilfully recased. [i-xxiv], [1]-[635], 6ads pp. New York, Harper & Brothers 1851. £20,000

The American first edition of 2,915 copies of Moby-Dick was published on 14th November 1851, less than one month after the first English edition of 500 copies in three volume sets, bearing the alternative title The Whale. This slight staggering of publication was in order to take advantage of the better protected English copyright laws. Melville had experienced a lapse in popularity after his early career successes, and due to a sizeable debt owed to his publishing house, paid for the setting of his own proofs. This did however enable him to make further textual edits right up to the wire, giving academ- ics plenty to work with in terms of decrypting the authorial intent and bibliographic primacy between the two first edi- tions. The general consensus is that although the first English contains some later authorial edits and amendments (Mel- ville had an extra six weeks with the English proofs after the American plates had already been set); away from Melville’s obsessively keen eye, the London publishers thoroughly bowdlerised the text to avoid offending the Victorian sensibilities of their readers. Sexual, political and religious references were neutralised or expunged, the grammatical irregularities and nuanced wordplay were smoothed over, and the final epilogue was omitted entirely. This omission was almost cer- tainly an error rather than a deliberate decision, as this closing chapter contains the key to Ishmael’s fate, and without it undermines the whole narrative voice of the English edition, essentially rendering the story from the perspective of a dead man. The American edition did not sell out in Melville’s life time, making it one of his least commercially successful books. It was not until 1930 when it was finally reprinted by Lakeside Press that it began its ascent to the podium of great works of American literature.

This copy bears the bookplate of the Newberry Library’s Melville collection, and was withdrawn as a duplicate in 1993. BAL 13664; Grolier American 60 (223454)

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“Long life and Happiness, Dear Friend, Be Thine!” 21. SOUTHEY (Robert) and [COLERIDGE 20. PRINCESS BEATRICE (1857-1944). Fifth (Sara)]. A collection of 12 works by Robert daughter and youngest child of Queen Victo- Southey from the library of Sara Coleridge. ria and Prince Albert, later Princess Henry of Identically bound in late 19th-century red roan-backed mar- Battenberg. bled boards, gilt spines, black morocco labels (a little rubbed Christmas Card Signed on the verso (“Beatrice”) “For dear at the edges but otherwise fine). 1815-1826. £6,500 Louischen” (probably her sister Louise, 1848-1939), 1 page small 8vo, n.p., 1 January 1885. £425 A handsome collection of volumes from the library of the prodigiously talented Sara Coleridge, many of them presented to her by her uncle, Robert Southey. Sara grew “A Pearl of the Mistletoe” Christmas card showing a up living at Greta Hall in the Lake District, with Southey Christmas fairy amongst swathes of mistletoe, with a and his wife, Edith. “The ongoing literary labours of short affectionate note to the verso, “from her loving sis- Wordsworth and Southey thus ensured an almost con- ter”. This card is dated the year Princess Beatrice would stant stream of visitors at Greta Hall, and by the age of marry Prince Henry of Battenberg on 23 July. Slightly twenty Sara had met many of the most famous writers dusty with minor loss of text, but entirely legible. One of of her day. This stimulating environment, the excellent the corners with minor wear. (215388) tutelage of her mother and uncle, her own intellectual prowess, and the impecunious state of the Coleridge family all contributed to Sara’s first literary efforts” (ODNB).

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22. WILDE (Oscar). Poems. “Fourth edition” [i.e. fourth state of the first edition.] 8vo., original parchment, covers and spine decorated with a prunus blossom design. London, David Bogue. 1882. £8,000

Spine rather darkened, and covers a little used. With an attractive presentation inscription on the verso of the half title, facing the title page (and indeed spreading on to it) “A.A. Hayes from his friend Oscar Wilde. June 3rd ‘82. In memory of some pleasant hours. Boston”.

Hayes was a travel writer and journalist, who specialised in accounts of life in the West, particularly Colorado: in 1880 he wrote an essay on Leadville, Colorado, where Wilde later had his most unlikely social triumph, charming silverminers underground. According to Ellmann he lived in some style in New York, and was Wilde’s host on the celebrated evening when Wilde upstaged the New York production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience: “At first Wilde kept to the back of the box, out of sight, but self-effacement was not his way, and eventually he moved forward. When J.H. Ryley came on stage as Bunthorne, the whole audience turned and stared at Wilde. Bunthorne was made up as Whistler in England, as Wilde in America. Wilde now smiled at one of his women companions and commented patronizingly. ‘This is one of the com- pliments that mediocrity pays to those who are not mediocre.’ ” (134503)

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23. WILDE (Oscar). The Happy Prince and other Tales. An unpublished letter by Oscar Wilde - written during Illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood. First edition. the period in Paris, post-conviction, incarceration and 8vo., original limp pictorial boards. London, David Nutt. disgrace, when Wilde was in particularly dire financial straits - thanking Leonard Smithers “for the £2”, de- 1888. £2,000 claring, “it has soothed my nerves, and given me some

peace.” With one stain on the front cover, fore edge corners a lit-

tle rounded, and one with a crease, spine slightly tanned, Having resided previously in the Hotel d’Alsace Wilde and with short tears (c. 8 mm) at the head and foot of had had a change of scenery in the summer of 1899, the spine. Slight foxing to preliminary leaves, contempo- staying in other Parisian hotels including the Hôtel rary ownership inscription of the Arts and Crafts textile Marsollier. He had been forced to flee the Marsollier pioneer Albert Fleming of Neaum Crag, member of the sometime in late July for failure to pay his bill, which Guild of St. George and dedicatee of John Ruskin’s Hor- resulted in his being hounded by the Hotel Marsollier’s tus Inclusus. (134505) owner, compounding Wilde’s particularly dire financial situation in August 1899, the month this letter was 24. WILDE (Oscar). Autograph Letter written. There are many surviving letters from August Signed (“OW”) [Oscar Wilde] to Leonard Smith- showing Wilde petitioning various friends for money in ers, the hopes of satisfying the “tiger from the Hotel Marsol- 1 page 8vo, Hotel d’Alsace, Rue de Beaux-Arts, Paris, Friday, lier”, that “evil proprietor”, whom he owed £6 and who n.d. [11th or 18th August 1899]. was holding Wilde’s clothes ransom until the debt had “Thank you very much for the £2 – it has soothed my nerves, been paid. During this troubled period Wilde moved and given me some peace – will write tomorrow … Please back to the Hotel d’Alsace, Paris, where he had previous- send a copy of play to Charles Sibleigh, Café Procope, Rue ly resided, that would, one year later, be the place of his de l’Ancienne Comedie, Paris.” In another hand “Sent 19th death. Robert Ross, Wilde’s one-time lover wrote of the August 1899 – FSB”, undoubtedly that of Smithers’ faithful Hotel d’Alsace’s proprietor that he “can scarcely speak in secretary Florence Brimmacombe. 1899. £6,750 moderation of the magnanimity, humanity and charity of

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Dupoirier”, for, not only did he cover Wilde’s debt to the other establishment, but he also funded some of Wilde’s excesses until his death. It was in this important last residence last Wilde would utter some of his famous final witticisms (“my wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go”) and it is from here that this letter is written.

This letter, although slight in its content, is rich in its context and sits comfortably in the period of Wilde’s Parisian priva- tion, illuminating and offering new interpretations of other, known letters written around the same time. Although un- dated by Wilde, the hand of “F S B” [Florence Brimmacombe, Smithers’ secretary, who was described by Jack Smithers as “faithful and devoted to the last”] writes that Wilde’s instructions (to send a copy of “play” [undoubtedly An Ideal Husband, which was published that year]) was carried out on 19th August 1899. This gives it a concrete date among a host of known letters whose dates are less certain. It therefore may help unravel some questions about Wilde’s situation in this period. This letter also mentions Charles Sibleigh (sometimes spelt Sibley or Gibleigh in friends’ accounts), a friend of Wilde’s during this period, of whom not much is known. Frank Harris counts him as one of the “poets and literary people” who called to pay their respects post-mortem to Wilde’s body as it lay in state at the Hotel d’Alsace. Sibleigh was also one of the few mourners to attend Wilde’s funeral.

Very little is known of Florence Brimmacombe; the closest anyone has come to discovering a portrait of her is Tony Lu- dovici’s illustration of the dancing Mademoiselle de la Ponghera in Lord Alfred Douglas’s The Duke of Berwick : Ponghera was thought to be a caricature of her. One thing that is known, however, is that Miss Brimmacombe acted as nurse during Smithers’ last illness at a time when even his wife, Alice, had deserted him. Jack Smithers described how “Miss Brim- macombe nursed him night and day, snatching such sleep as she could on a sofa”, faithfully until Smithers’s death, after which she simply “disappeared.” (222622)

Charles Dickens

A perfect gift for anyone deserving of a bolstering word from Dickens: “My confidence in your powers has never been misplaced…” 25. DICKENS (Charles). Autograph Letter Signed (“Charles Dickens”) to J.C. Parkinson [Joseph Charles Parkinson, a contributor to All the Year Round], a most detailed and glowing letter of recom- mendation for Parkinson who hoped to be appointed Commissioner of Inland Revenue. 3 pages 8vo, Gad’s Hill Place, Christmas Day, 1868. £5,750

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The image of Christmas as we know it today, with Westminster, tenement housing, and life in the work- parties, dinners, family and friends gathered round the house. hearth, owes much to Dickens’ Christmas novels. The family celebrations, however, did not prevent Dickens The letter is tipped into a copy of Martin Chuzzlewit, in from dealing with his correspondence with his typical a handsome later light brown morocco binding, with energy. The Letters of Charles Dickens (ed. Graham Storey) gold tooling to the spine and edges. The letter has been lists three letters from Dickens on this date, Christmas published in Storey, The Letters of Charles Dickens, vol. 12. Day, including this one. (214855)

Dickens writes to Parkinson that he “may make … any 26. DICKENS (Charles). The Christmas use you please of this letter … In expressing my con- Books. viction that you deserve the place, and are in every way First ‘cheap’ edition, in four volumes. 8vo. Original light qualified for it.” He goes on to say that his testimony is blue-green printed wrappers. London, Chapman & Hall 1852. founded “upon as accurate a knowledge of your charac- ter and abilities as any one can possibly have acquired, £1,500 adding that “In my editorship – both of Household Words and All the Year Round, you know very well that The first English collected edition of all five of Dickens’ I have invariably offered you those subjects of political Christmas books, which was issued in weekly serial and social interest to write upon, in which integrity, numbers (at three halfpence each), in monthly wrap- exactness, a remarkable power of generalizing evidence, pered parts (at sevenpence each) and also as entire books and balancing facts, and a special clearness in stating the bound in olive green cloth with ornate gilt spine. The case, were indispensable on the part of the writer.” He ‘cheap’ edition came out in four monthly parts, which continues in the most glowing of terms: “My confidence were parts 49-52 of the overall monthly series (and num- in your powers has never been misplaced, and through bers 193-209 of the overall weekly series). Part I (July all our literary intercourse you have never been hasty or 1852) consists of A Christmas Carol and the beginning of wrong. Whatever trust you have undertaken has been so The Chimes, Part II (August 1852) completes The Chimes completely discharged, that it has become my habit to and begins The Cricket on the Hearth, Part III (September read your proofs rather for my own edification, than . . . 1852) completes The Cricket on the Hearth and begins The for the detection of some slip here or there, or the more Battle of Life, Part IV (October 1852) completes The Battle pithy presentation of the subject …” of Life and contains all of The Haunted Man. Very good condition. The first and last part have some chipping Dickens’ earliest recorded letter to Parkinson dates from at the ends of the spine wrapper and the spine of the August 1860, but their acquaintance developed into a second part is somewhat askew, although the wrappers warm friendship, and when Parkinson moved house in remain quite clean and whole. Though copies of The 1867, he asked Dickens for a portrait of him to hang in Christmas Books in original cloth are not uncommon, his new home. Parkinson’s articles in All the Year Round copies still in the monthly wrappered parts are scarce. included subjects close to Dickens’ heart – the slums of See Podeschi D5. In a stout, functional leatherbound case. (130312)

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A perfect gift for any child with a burgeoning interest in early English History. 27. DICKENS (Charles). A Child’s 28. DICKENS (Charles). A Christmas History of England. Carol in Prose. Frontispiece by F.W. Topham. First edition, first issue, in Illustrated with four hand-coloured, lithographed plates by three volumes. 8vo. Original blind-stamped rose-brown cloth, P.S. Duval after John Leech. First American edition. 8vo. with cover vignette in gilt. London, Bradbury & Evans. 1852. Original gilt-stamped cream cloth. Philadelphia, Carey & £2,500 Hart. 1844. £3,500

A near fine set, with the gilt on the cover remaining Title page in red and blue, and with yellow endpapers. bright and un-rubbed. Podeschi A128. In a stout, func- Gilt-stamped pattern repeated in blind on back. Slight tional leather-bound case. (130309) soiling to covers, original pale yellow endpapers spectac- ularly oxidised, extremities skilfully restored, still a near- fine copy of one of the rarest issues of this famous story. With the early bookplate of S. Alofesen (slight offsetting) and the later one of Frank Hogan. Podeschi A80. In a stout, functional leatherbound case. (130314)

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29. DICKENS (Charles). The Cricket on 30. DICKENS (Charles). The Haunted the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. Man and the Ghost’s Bargain. First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in A fancy for Christmas-Time. First edition. 8vo. Original red gilt. London, Bradbury & Evans. 1846. £1,000 cloth pictorially decorated in gilt. London, Bradbury & Evans. 1848. £1,500 This copy has the ad leaf in the second and usual state, with “No. I. of” on a line by itself. A handsome unworn The fifth and final Christmas book. In this copy the first copy, with a few tiny ink stains on the front cover, and page numeral on p.166 is undamaged, which is the only a large and ungainly bookplate, the offence of which is identifiable issue point of this book. Binding slightly doubled by matching glue residue on the lower paste- tilted, but that apart, this is a bright, attractive copy, with down suggesting that it had originally been placed there. a neat gift inscription “from her dear grandfather Christ- Podeschi A92. In a marbled paper and red morocco mas 1848.” Podeschi A119. In a stout, functional leather- folding case. (130321) bound case. (130341)

31. DICKENS (Charles). Christmas Books. Lithographic frontispiece by John Leech. First collected edi- tion. 8vo., original green cloth, gilt, blind-stamped. London, Chapman & Hall. 1852. £100

Covers soiled and spotted, spine browned, head and tail of spine torn and rubbed, extremities bumped, end papers stained (128364)

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32. CAPOTE (Truman). In Cold Blood. Inscribed to Salman Rushdie Third printing. 8vo., original burgundy cloth, dust jacket. 33. CARTER (Angela). Nights at the New York, Random House. 1965. £1,250 Circus. First edition. Large 8vo., original red cloth, dust jacket. Lon- With an indistinct presentation inscription from the don, The Hogarth Press/Chatto & Windus. 1984. £450 author on the half title, possibly to a “Mary Rose C. Campbell”. Hinge cracked at half-title, otherwise an Inscribed by the author to Salman Rushdie and his first excellent copy in a torn and chipped dust jacket, housed wife Clarissa Luard: “for Salman & Clarissa - with lots of in a protective box. (137707) love from Angela”. Angela Carter died of cancer in 1992 and Rushdie commented in an obituary in the New York Times: “in spite of her worldwide reputation, here in Britain she somehow never quite had her due. Of course, many writers knew that she was that rare thing, a real one-off, nothing like her on the planet; and so did many bewitched, inspired readers”. A fine copy in dust jacket, slightly faded on the spine. (137700)

34. CARTER (Angela) Black Venus. First edition. Inscribed copy. Large 8vo., original black cloth, dust jacket. London, Chatto and Windus, Hogarth Press. 1985. £85

Signed by the author on the title page and with an inscription below ‘for Tim - with all best wishes!’ signed ’Angela.’ Fine apart from a small nick in the cloth on the inside of the lower boards, in protective plastic wrapper. (223084)

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35. CHATWIN (Bruce). On the Black 36. CHURCHILL (Winston Spenser). Hill. Step by Step. 1936-1939. First edition. 8vo., a fine copy in original grey cloth, spine Folding map at end. First edition. 8vo., original green cloth lettered in gilt, dust jacket. London, Jonathan Cape. 1982. gilt with dust jacket. London, Thornton Butterworth Ltd. £650 1939. £675

Signed by the author on the title page. Chatwin’s third The articles in this book originally appeared in the book following “In Patagonia” and “The Viceroy of Evening Standard and the Daily Telegraph. A near fine Ouidah”. (125659) copy in a price-clipped and faintly rubbed dust jacket. (124933)

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Churchill’s sole attempt at full-length fiction Inscribed by Du Maurier at Christmas, 1951 37. CHURCHILL (W.S.) Savrola. A Tale 38. DU MAURIER (Daphne). My Cousin of the Revolution in Laurania. Rachel. One of 1500 copies of the First English edition. 8vo., a very First edition. 8vo., original red cloth, dust jacket. London, good copy in original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt, trivial Gollancz. 1951. chafing to joints and some slight spotting as usual to early £1,200

pages; housed in a blue cloth slipcase with cloth inner sleeve, Inscribed by the author, “To Dinkie, with best love for the label mistitled “New York, 1900”. Longmans, Green, and Christmas 1951, from Daphne” and signed by her on Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London, New York and Bombay. the title page. It is tempting to think that this inscrip- 1900. £750 tion is to “Binkie”, for it was Binkie Beaumont, king of the West End theatre, who produced Du Maurier’s own 1500 copies were published on February 13th., 1900 stage adaptation of Rebecca, directed by and starring John at six shillings. The American edition, in a printing of Gielgud, and September Tide in 1949, and other books 4,000 copies, was published ten days earlier at a price inscribed to Beaumont have been on the market recent- of $1.25. Churchill records in My Early Life, p. 169: ly. However, the D does appear quite clear. A very good “‘Savrola’ yielded in all over several years about £700 copy in dust jacket, torn at the head and tail of the spine. (notwithstanding the fact that I have consistently urged (132852) my friends to abstain from reading it)”. Woods A3(b). (221785)

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39. ECO (Umberto). The Name of the 40. FRASER (George MacDonald). Flash Rose. Translated from the Italian by William for Freedom. Weaver. Illustrated by Neill Packer. First edition. 8vo., original red cloth, dust jacket. London, First edition thus. Large 8vo., original red cloth, decorated in Barrie and Jenkins. 1971. £275 white and gold. London, The Folio Society. 2001. £150 Signed by the author on the title page. A fine copy in Signed by the author on the title page. A fine copy in a dust jacket, just faintly creased at the head of the spine. black card slipcase. (221787) (221485)

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41. HAGGARD (H.Rider). Allan Quar- termain being an account of his further Adven- 42. HOLLINGHURST (Alan). The Line tures and Discoveries. of Beauty. Illustrations after C.H.M.Kerr, First edition, 8vo., half title, First edition. 8vo., original black cloth, dust jacket. London, original blue-grey bevelled cloth gilt, London, Longmans, Picador. 2004. £100 Green, and Co. 1887. £350 Signed by the author on the title page. Winner of The Covers very lightly spotted, upper cover bumped, ink Booker Prize. A fine copy in dust jacket. (116754) inscription on front pastedown. (126217)

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43. MANTEL (Hilary). Wolf Hall. 44. MAUGHAM (W. Somerset). Uncorrected proof copy. Large 8vo., original pictorial wrap- Christmas Holiday. pers. London, Fourth Estate. 2009. £300 First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth, dust jacket. London, Toronto, William Heinemann. 1939. £1,250 The first issue proof, with a variant cover design, bearing a different layout of the font and the Rose design much This edition published eight months before Double- larger than the published version. The printed legend day Doran’s American one. This copy is inscribed by ‘uncorrected proof not for quotation or sale’ has been Maugham on the front flyleaf, “For Katherine Lowry deliberately erased by felt-tip. A near fine copy. (219109) W. Somerset Maugham.” The volume is in fine, bright condition; the dust jacket is near-fine (the slightest of shelfwear at the extremities, a small dampmark at the bottom of the rear panel). In a stout, functional leather- bound case. (130428)

45. MITCHELL (David). Cloud Atlas. First edition. 8vo., original red cloth, dust jacket. London, Sceptre. 2003. £250

A fine copy in dust jacket. (133909)

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46. MURAKAMI (Haruki). Colorless 47. MURDOCH (Iris). The Sacred and Tsukuru Tazaki. Profane Love Machine. First edition. Large 8vo., original decorated cloth, dust jacket. First edition. 8vo., original green cloth, dust jacket. London, London, Harvill Secker. 2014. £250 Chatto & Windus. 1974. £250

With the author’s signature and stamp on the title page. Inscribed by the author to Canon Collins (of St Pauls) Loosely inserted is a ticket for his event at the Edin- and his wife: “for Diana & John, with love from Iris”. burgh Book Festival that year. A fine copy in dust jacket. Ownership inscription of the Collins’, otherwise a fine (221676) copy in dust jacket. The Collins’ were well known figures in the 1960s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament move- ment. (131375)

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49. TOLKIEN (J.R.R.). The Silmarillion. 48. PLATO. OFFICINA BODONI. Crito, First edition. 8vo., original dark blue cloth, dust jacket. Lon- A Socratic Dialogue. don, George Allen & Unwin. 1977. £50 English translation by Henry Cary. One of 475 numbered copies (this no.396). 8vo., original marbled paper covered A fine copy in dust jacket. (221481) boards, printed paper spine label, uncut, housed in a modern brown cloth slipcase with printed paper spine label. Paris, printed for The Pleiad under the supervision of Frederic Warde at the Officina Bodoni in Montagnola, Switzerland. 1926. £325

Socratic dialogue on the nature of justice, part of Plato’s tetralogy on the trial of Socrates, consisting of Euthyphro, the Apology of Socrates, Crito, and Phaedo.

The first use of Frederic Warde’s Arrighi typeface, the Arrighi-Vicenza italic, printed in Officina Bodoni’s final year in Switzerland before it was moved to Verona. This was the second book involving a collaboration between Warde and Mardersteig, the first being The Calligraphic Models of Ludovico Vicentino. Mardersteig’s admiration for Warde was obvious. He described him as an “out- standing American typographer” and said that “only rarely in later years did I similarly enjoy working with a colleague”. A little rubbed at extremities, otherwise very good. Schmoller, The Officina Bodoni, no. 16 (113466)

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50. TROLLOPE (Anthony). Travelling 51. TROLLOPE (Anthony). The Last Sketches. Chronicle of Barset. First edition, 8vo., cloth blocked in gilt and blind, bevelled Illustrated with wood engravings. First edition, later issue. edges, top edge uncut, London, Chapman and Hall. 1866. 2 volumes. 8vo., original bright blue cloth, elaborately gilt. £350 London, Smith, Elder. 1867. £750

Bound without the publisher’s catalogue, spine a touch A very superior copy: the spines are slightly darkened faded, some foxing, but a very good copy. (126067) and the upper joint of the first volume is strained, but otherwise the bindings are bright and unworn. With the booklabels of John Eckel, the Dickens bibliographer, and the earlier armorial bookplates of William Samuel Mercer. Sadleir rather apologetically describes this state of the text as a “second edition”, conceding that “strictly speaking the lable is not deserved.” (116805)

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Poetry

52. BETJEMAN (John). Church Poems. 54. BOILEAU DESPREAUX (Nicolas). With a preface by the author. Illustrated by Poésies. Paris, imprimerire de Didot l’aîné, John Piper. 2 vols. 12mo. Contemporary red morocco, triple gilt fillet, First edition. 8vo., original quarter green buckram, green silk rosette stamped at each corner, flat spine gilt, inside gilt den- cloth, lettered in gilt, t.e.g. London, John Murray. 1981. telles, g.e. (slight bumping of some corners). 1781. £300 £400 Excellent copy of this finely printed volume. Armorial Number 79 of 100 copies signed by the author and the bookplate of Sophia Penn. (45164) artist. A fine copy in acetate dust jacket. (214209)

53. BETJEMAN (John). Continual Dew. A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse. Illustrations and cover design by Osbert Lancaster, the dust jacket designed by McKnight Kauffer, with further illustrations by de Cronin Hastings and Gabriel Pippet. First edition. Square 8vo., original black cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, with the eight central pages printed on India paper, a.e.g., dust jacket. London, John Murray. 1937. £250

Remarkable - given its age - this is a fine copy in dust jacket. (132590)

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55. HUGHES (Ted). Season Songs. 56. PINTER (Harold). Poems. First edition. 8vo., original green cloth, dust jacket. London, Second edition, special issue. Tall 8vo., original quarter black Faber and Faber. 1976. £375 morocco, red cloth, lettered in gilt. London, The Enitharmon Press. 1971. £300 Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “To Fay, and her family, affectionately, Ted”. The dedicatee is Number 11 of 100 numbered copies, signed by the Fay Godwin (1931-2005), a celebrated British landscape author. Baker and Ross I3b(ii). A fine copy in acetate dust photographer who had collaborated with Hughes on the jacket, slightly torn. (132512) book Remains of Elmet: A Pennine Sequence. She had been married to the publisher Tony Godwin and for many years was Chair of the Ramblers’ Association. A fine copy in dust jacket, slightly bumped at the head of the spine. (124970)

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57. TENNYSON (Alfred) DOVES PRESS. 58. THOMAS (Dylan). Twenty-Five Po- Seven Poems & Two Translations. ems. Limp vellum binding by the Doves Bindery. London, Doves First edition. 8vo., original grey boards, dust jacket. London, Press. 1902. £500 J.M. Dent. 1936. £1,200

The fourth book published by the Doves press, Seven Po- Very good, internally clean with faint spotting to first ems and Two Translations is comprised of two verse trans- and last leaves and a spot of browning in the centre of lations by Tennyson from the Iliad, ‘Achilles over the the last five leaves which extends to the paste down and Trench’ and ‘Hector and the Bridge of War,’ both printed dust jacket, jacket otherwise very good with only slight entirely in red, along with seven poems printed in black. rubbing at edges and small closed tears at head and tail Early proof sheets of the book show only the titles of of spine. (121973) the verses in red and it is clear that Cobden-Sanderson fretted over every minute detail of the printing, and even personally checked each sheet as it came off the press. Although Cobden-Sanderson was ultimately disappoint- ed in the finished volume it remains an elegant edition of Tennyson’s verse, wonderfully free of Victorian kitsch, and shows an important step in the perfection of the ideal book. (221738)

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60. ENGLISH ARTIST An illuminated leaf on vellum from an English Psalter. [South- ern England, first half 15th century] Large 7-line initial ‘D’ in very fine leafy design in blue and pink and orange with white tracery on burnished gold grounds supporting bar borders in gold and colours with clumps and whorls of coloured leaves at intervals and at each corner; 1-line initials in blue or burnished gold, line-fillers in gold and colours. 59. ALCIATUS (Andreas) Emblemata. Size of leaf: 272 x 182mm. 22 lines, written space: 187 x 117mm. Written in dark brown ink in a large compressed Paris, Jean Richer, Woodcut device on title-page and last leaf, portrait on verso gothic liturgical hand. £3,750 of title and 211 woodcut emblems. 12mo (130 x 75mm). Con- A superb leaf from what would have been a luxury temporary vellum. 1584. £3,000 Psalter produced for a wealthy English patron. The large, burnished gold initial and the border with leafy designs First edition thus, a new translation into French by of blue and pink are typical of English manuscript illu- Claude Mignault and a newly cut series of 211 emblems mination of the period. The knotted clusters of rounded in thematic order. leaves with shaded white circles present in the borders “Mignault’s translation, he tells us in his Preface, was are design features that are also found in a manuscript undertaken merely to pass the time while travelling, and made in Oxford in 1429 (now Cambridge, University he endeavours to play down its value, emphasising only Library, MS ff.3.27). The leaf was originally ff. 23 in the his desire to convey to others the pleasure he himself has parent manuscript, opening Psalm 52 (‘Dixit Insipiens’). taken in the emblems. This does not prevent his criti- cising his predecessors, Jean Lefevre (1536) and Aneau Provenance : From a grand Psalter produced in southern (1549). Mignault’s translations are much more varied England, possibly Oxford, in the first half of the 15th than Lefevre or Aneau’s: some are weak, while others century. - The parent manuscript, already lacking several show a certain literary intention. As well as the emblems leaves, was sold at Sotheby’s, 5 December 1989, lot 86 and their brief commentaries in Latin and French, the and again 22 June 1993, lot 88 (this leaf illustrated in the 1584 edition contains an important account of Alciati’s catalogue). - Christie’s, 29 June 1994, lot 37. life, likewise in the two languages.” (Glasgow University Emblem Project, online). Bibliography : K.L. Scott, Dated and Datable English Man- Landwehr, 83. Green, 106-107. (214933) uscript Borders c.1395-1499, 2002, pp.52-53. (221088)

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61. ENGLISH ARTIST Illuminated Arched Miniature on Paper of the Nativity in a Fine Border with Scrolling Folliage. English, Late 19th Century. Large miniature of the Nativity, with the Virgin and St. Joseph in adoration of the holy Child, following the Revelations of St. Bridget of Sweden: ‘...when all was ready she bent her knees and began to pray. While she was thus praying with hands raised the child was suddenly born, surrounded by light so bright that it completely eclipsed Joseph’s feeble candle.’ Thus, the child is depicted lying on a slip of the Virgin’s cloak, in a mandorla of light. The scene is set in an open stable; the animals peer over the fence. A Shepherd in the field, surrounded by his herd, listens to the message of the angels hovering above him in a starlit sky. The charming Nativity scene is framed by a four-sided ornamental border, composed of golden stems and foliage curving against a fine gold-speck- led grey background. From the stems sprout various flowers and the half-length figure of a lady in a wimple. In a wooded frame with a cusped gabled top, decorated with a row of moulded trefoils and flanked by engaged columns with finials. A blind arcade at the bottom of the frame adds to its attractiveness. Fine condition. 190 x 137mm. £4,000

This charming Victorian Gothic revival ensemble is reminiscent of the 15th century Flemish and French illuminations. In 1856 John Ruskin had stimulated the copying of medieval miniatures (from the originals in the British Library) and considered it a fitting pastime for women. Pencil scribbles on the back of cardboard to which the miniature was once past- ed, reveal the order number ‘2191’ and the words ’cathedral’ and ’June’. Apparently, an as yet unidentified workshop was responsible for the ensemble, that seems to have ordered for a chapel in a cathedral. (221180)

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62. ROUEN ARTIST A illuminated leaf on vellum from an illuminated Missal [Rouen, c. 1425- 1450]. Fine 4-line initial in gold and colours with white tracery, three further 2-line initials, gold bar border, fine ivy-leaf border on three sides. Size of leaf: 325 x 225mm. 26 lines, double columns. Foliated in blue and gold ‘l.xix.’ at head and in outer margin in blue within gold rectangle. Pricking visible. £1,200

A splendid leaf from a richly decorated Missal painted by a close associate of the Fastolf Master (fl. c. 1420-60). The earliest work ascribed to the Master of Sir John Fastolf by John Plummer is a Book of Hours from 1424 (Morgan M.27), made in Rouen after his move to this prosperous centre of trade and administration from Paris, where he had collaborat- ed with the Bedford and Boucicaut Masters. The ivy-leaf borders with acanthus sprays, strong palette of blues and reds, of the present leaf reflect the Master’s Parisian inheritance of the early 15th century. Most of the manuscripts that emanated from the Fastolf Master’s Rouen atelier were Hours for Rouen and other Norman uses (see also Paris, Bibl. de l’Arsenal, ms. 560, use of Coutances, where stylistic similarities can be seen): only one other Missal is known from his shop, held at Keble College, Oxford (Ms. 38), and the Schoenberg database records only 15 Rouen Missals of the 15th century to have passed through public auction. The de luxe manuscript from which this leaf came is now lost, but 30 of its leaves were offered at public auction in 1985 (see Provenance), bearing 30 miniatures between them: the parent Missal must have borne an ambitious cycle of illumination, perhaps trumped only by the Book of Hours made for Sir William Porter (Mor- gan M.105) with 75 extant miniatures.

Provenance : - Likely made for an English patron, the Fastolf Master is known to have worked for English patrons, includ- ing Sir William Porter, part of the English administration in Rouen during its occupation. That Saint Romanus, Rouen’s patron saint, is accorded only a memorial in text to be found on another leaf from the parent volume, rather than the full mass for his feast day, suggests an English commission. The part-erasure of a reference to the pope on yet another leaf indicates the Missal remained in England, after the return of its owner, at least until the Reformation. Sotheby’s sale, 26 November 1985, lot 120. Bibliography: J. Plummer & G. Clark, The Last Flowering: French painting in manuscripts, 1420- 1530, 1982, pp. 15-16. C. Hourihane, ed., The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture, vol. II (New York, 2013), p. 503. (221092)

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63. HIGGONS (Bevill). A Short View of the English History: with Reflections, Political, Historical, Civil, Physical, and Moral, on the Reigns of the Kings, their Characters, and Manners, their Succession to the Throne, and all other remarkable Incidents, to the Revolution 1688. Drawn from Authentick Memoirs and Manuscripts. First Edition. Large Paper copy. 8vo. viii, 435, [1 (errata)], 4 (postscript)pp, Contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt on a black-stained background, morocco label (crack down the centre of the spine).London: by Tho. Edlin, 1723. £320

Text-block lightly browned. 64. BIBLE. The Holy Bible Containing the Higgons was a Jacobite exile and conspirator. In the pref- Old and New Testaments. [- The Whole Book of ace he says that he had “let these Papers lie covered with Psalms] 2 vols. 24mo. Engraved title signed “WV” at the Dust these 26 Years, till every Person concern’d in the foot. 18th Century binding, circa 1740 and probably Scottish, Transactions mention’d was remov’d from the Stage”. of black morocco, covers with a gilt border, gilt spines, gilt edg- The postscript, dated 20 April 1722, criticises Claren- es. London: for John Field, Printer to the Parliament, 1653. don’s History of the Rebellion which appeared “long since the Writing of these Memoirs” for its anti-royalism and £950 tells an anecdote against Clarendon. The account of the reign of Charles I, the Civil War and the Commonwealth Wing B2238. Darlow & Moule 636. A so-called “Pocket occupies pp. 300-65, Bible” printed in very tiny type. First leaf of text very slightly shaved at the fore-edge, headlines shaved in Provenance: Earls of Macclesfield, Shirburn Castle, Ox- places throughout. Bound with: The Whole Book of Psalms fordshire, with North Library bookplate and blind stamp (London: by John Field, 1654); Wing B2455. Signature on the title. (66979) on the flyleaves of “George Boulton. July ye 13, 1775”. (221454)

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“THE SUMMIT OF EUROPEAN ENLIGHTENMENT leaf and the 10pp. of advertisements at the end. With a HISTORIGORAPHY” separate title to “Occasional Meditations upon Sundry 65. GIBBON (Edward). The History of the Subjects” (40pp.) and a subtitle to “Pious Reflections Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. First upon several Scriptures” (27pp.). Editions and First States. Six Volumes. Contemporary mottled calf, spines tooled in Lady Mary Boyle (1625-1678), 7th. daughter of the Earl of gilt, red and green morocco labels London: W. Strahan and Cork married in 1641 Charles Rich, 4th. Earl of Warwick. Dedicated jointly to her sister Catherine, Countess of T. Cadell, 1776-1788. £30,000 Ranelagh and her brother the Hon. Robert Boyle, the famous scientist. Walker’s biography is based on the A fantastic copy of the earliest possible state of Gibbon’s Puritan Mary Rich’s manuscript autobiography and monumental work: the fulfilment of years of research diaries from 1666-1677 (British Library, MSS. 27351-58). and a work as renowned for its literary style as much for Extracts from her meditations, edited by Barham, were its impeccable historical rigour. An immediate classic published by the Religious Tract Society in 1847 and her and still a totemic monument to the Enlightenment. autobiography, Some Specialties in the life of M. Warwick, edited by Croker, was published by the Percy Society in 1848. Much of the material was used by Charlotte Fell Smith in her biography Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick, 1901. This volume is particularly important as it contains all of her writings that were published before 1847. Kath- 66. WALKER (Anthony). Eureka, Eureka. The erine Philips wrote an elegy on the death of her only son Virtuous Woman found. Charles, “On the death of my Lord Rich, only Son to the First Edition. 8vo. [14], 213, [11 ]pp. Handsome contemporary Earl of Warick, who dyed of the small Pox, 1664”, a dis- black morocco, covers paneled in gilt, spine gilt, marbled ease which was to kill Philips herself only a month later. endleaves, gilt edges (very slighty rubbed at the edges, spine a little faded). London: for Nathanael Ranew, 1678. £2,500 Provenance: Ink initials “LC” at the head of the title. Various booksellers pencil marks (Quaritch, Ximenes & Wing W301. Sweeney, Ireland and the Printed Word, John Lawson). Dr Tony Sweeney (1931-2012), Irish collec- no. 4510. The title-page is leaf A3. With the first blank tor and bibliographer (no marks of ownership). (218011) 38 Contact: [email protected] Travel & Voyages

With previously unpublished photographs 67. ARAM (Thomas) The History of 68. BOWERMASTER (Jon). Thomas Aram, Commander of the Fancy, in The Adventures and Misadventures of Peter the Rhoan Trade. Exhibiting An account of All his Beard in Africa. Voyages; and ill Usage he suffered from an unfeeling First edition. With 153 black & white and 13 colour photo- Parent; his Distresses, Trials, Misfortunes, and every graphic illustrations. Original fine tan cloth in a very good interesting Event in which he was concerned. dust jacket (small dent to head of spine and price-clipped). First edition. 8vo. Uncut in later half morocco. iv, 67pp pp. [8], 199, [1]blank. Bulfinch Press, New York, 1993. London, For the Author, 1776. £450 £350

A nautical misery memoir: brutal father, countless ship- A profusely illustrated essay on Beard‘s life in, and wrecks, capture, smuggling...etc. etc. (213635) love of, East Africa. Bowermaster covers all aspects of the man (his relationships, activism and art) and deftly threads Beard’s eccentric path into the movement of African history.

Inscribed on the front paste-down endpaper: “2 Don w[ith] inestimable lv [/] Peter Beard nov. 11th, ’94”. The drawn line leading toward the inscription comes from the mouth of a male lion, present in the beautiful reddish-brown photograph illustrating the endpapers. (224342)

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An Egyptian illustrates his pilgrimage 69. BOYD (A[lexander] S[tuart]). A Re- cord of his Travels: A Mecca Pilgrim’s House at Cairo.Drawn by... From a Photograph by Major J[ohn] Fortune Nott. Original gouache en grisaille , c. 14” x 10”, on board. Picture caption tipped to the lower edge. For the Graphic, dated 1 Mar[ch] 1892, verso, but [1902]. £450

“A man who has once made a pilgrimage to Mecca is entitled to wear a green turban for the rest of his days, is given a title descriptive of his holy character, and allowed to paint scenes on the outside of his house which will recall to his mind events that occurred on his journey to the sacred tomb. In Cairo such houses are frequent- ly seen in the narrow streets of the native quarter. The drawings which suggest the rude chalk sketches made by schoolboys on a wall, are nearly always of the same character - strings of camels and donkeys, the train and a steamer or two, together with dancing girls and palm trees painted in with the brightest of bright colours.”

Boyd was born in Glasgow in 1854 and worked as a land- scape and genre painter and also as an illustrator and A lovely copy cartoonist contributing to the Glasgow based Quiz and 70. BREWER (W.) Picturesque Hong- also such publications as Punch, Graphic, Daily Graphic kong. 24 Views of Hongkong, Canton & Macao. &c.. He also illustrated a number of books by his wife First edition. 24 collotype plates with printed captions on Mary Stuart Boyd. Emigrated and died in New Zealand facing tissue guards. A very good copy. Hongkong/Shanghai, in 1930. W. Brewer & Co. n.d. [but ca. 1899]. £550

Nott was born in London, but emigrated to Canada becoming a Major in the Canadian Rifles, he retired in Presentation inscription in German dated ‘Christmas 1891. He published a book of his animal photographs, 1899’. (218211) taken at London Zoo, in 1886, Animals Photographed and Described. (89090) 40 Contact: [email protected]

A tribute to the greatest explorer in history A real beauty 71. [COOK (Capt. James).] SEWARD (Anna). 72. CURTIS (Natalie). The Indians’ Book: An Elegy on Captain Cook. To which is added, an Offering by the American Indians of Indian an Ode to the Sun. Lore, Musical and Narrative, to form a Record Second edition. 4to. Modern quarter morocco, spine gilt. 23, of the Songs and Legends of their Race. [blank]pp. London, J. Dodsley, 1780. £950 3rd printing. With plates (5 coloured) after photographs and from original drawings by Indians, and musical notation. “One of the most influential odes on Captain Cook” 4to. Original cloth with an elaborate design based on a sand (Forbes). The first edition was printed in the same year. painting on both boards and spine. Very good, spine a little cf, Forbes, 25. (210077) darkened. xl,584pp. Harper & Brothers. New York and Lon- don. 1935. £100

Third printing after the first edition of 1907. A hand- some book with particularly fine polychromatic plates. (215940)

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ownership inscription 73.

A rare work on the Middle East with a distinguished provenance 73. FORMBY (Rev. Henry). A Visit to the East; comprising Germany and the Dan- ube, Constantinople, Asia Minor, Egypt, and Idumea. First edition. Frontispiece, 4 plates (one a plan of Petra) & numerous illustrations to text. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, joints cracked but holding nicely. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. [viii], 387, [1]pp. London, James Burns, 1843. £4,000

This very rare work is made more desirable by its prove- nance. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Algernon C. Swinburne from his affect. Mother... April 5th, 1849.” The book was presented to him on his twelfth birthday. Exploration of the Arabian Peninsula

Commencing in north of Germany, Formby sailed down 74. HOGARTH (David George). The the Danube to the Black Sea and then on to Constan- Penetration of Arabia: a Record of the Devel- tinople. From there he made his way to Cairo, Suez, opment of Western Knowledge concerning the Akaba, Petra and Jerusalem. Formby brings all of his Arabian Peninsula. learning and Christian perspective to the narrative, the First edition. Plus numerous plates, largely maps and plans vast majority of which concerns his time in Egypt and (one of the maps extending). The maps are by J. G. Bart- the Middle East. Most of the illustrations in the book are holomew. 8vo. Original pictorial green cloth, gilt. Minor rub- after Formby’s own sketches. bing to extremities, otherwise very good. xv, 359 pp. London:

Lawrence and Bullen, 1904. Formby trained to be a priest. Educated at the Char- £200

terhouse School in London, he completed his MA at Though Hogarth had worked as an archaeologist in Brasenose College, Oxford. He took Anglican orders Egypt and Syria and reportedly helped T. E. Lawrence to immediately after graduation and was appointed vicar of plan the Arab Revolt, he had little personal experience of Ruardean in Gloucestershire. Influenced by the Oxford Arabian exploration. However, his reading on the subject Movement, he joined the Catholic Church in 1846. was both thorough and wide-ranging. As a result, The

Penetration of Arabia displays an impressive interweaving Rare. The only recorded copy on the market is this one, of seminal Western texts on Arabian travel. (217355) sold at Parke-Bernet in 1969. (224337) 42 Contact: [email protected]

A lovely souvenir from The Exhibition Inscribed by the author 75. HOWITT (Samuel) Jamaica at the 76. JACOB (Harold). Perfumes of Araby. Colonial Exhibition... Silhouettes of Al Yemen. First edition. Portrait frontispiece, 3 plates & a folding map. Photogravure frontispiece. First edition. Original pale mus- 8vo. A fine copy in original publisher’s pictorial cloth, elabo- tard cloth. Gilt. Boards slightly stained in places. 263, [1], 16 rately gilt, owner’s name stamped in gilt to upper board, some (advertisements). London, Martin Secker, 1915. £400 minor soiling to lower board, a.e.g., presentation inscription to title page. xii, 100pp. London, 1886. £300 Inscribed by the author. Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Fenton Jacob (1866-1936) This copy belonged to the Rev. Dr Robb, chairman of spent much of his working life in Yemen, where he was the Commission at Jamaica and chairman of the board (among other positions) Political Agent in Dala in the of governors. It bears the presentation inscription from Aden Hinterland (1904-1907) and Chief Political Officer, honorary commissioner, C .Washington Eves: “With Aden Field Force (1914-1917). compliments, C Washington Eves.” He was inspired to write this book by ‘a love of these The 1886 Colonial and India fair was major event in the Tribesmen of Al Yemen’ among whom he ‘worked for life of London that year. It was primarily a showcase for ten years, including a very close sojourn in their midst of the commercial prospects of the colonies, the advance of three years’. Not written as a ’political sketch’, it is more which promoting closer ties through the British Empire. a quasi-literary collection of vivid descriptions of the Jamaica being “the largest and most valuable of the West people he encountered in and around Aden. India Islands belonging to Great Britain” was encour- After hearing of Jacob’s death, His Majesty the King of aged to make the most of the “opportunity of a century” Yemen wrote a letter (dated 13/01/1937) to His Excellency and C. Washington Eve’s informative preface outlines the Resident, Aden, expressing the sorrow of his people: the process through which Jamaica’s presence at the (here in translation) ‘…the death of the lamented Colonel exhibition (“Jamaica Court”) was organised. The first Jacob has caused us great grief and we are sorry for his part of the book is an overview of the Jamaican econo- loss. The said person, over and above the moral qualifica- my - its exports and imports - a list of articles sent from tions he possessed, part of which (was) his knowledge of the island and a list of those collected in England. The the Arabic language, was known for his friendship to the second part is a Handbook compiled for the Governors Arabs and for his affection to us.’ of the Jamaica Institute. This handbook is a neat digest Jacob wrote a second book in his lifetime, Kings of Arabia of Jamaican history, with extra notes on natural history, (1923), which provides a historical sketch of Yemen and government and trade. The Rev. Dr Robb has contributed its rulers from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth an article to it: “Jamaica as a Health Resort and as a Place century. (217299) to settle in...” (215286) 43 Maggs Bros Ltd. Winter Miscellany 2016

An inspiration for Robinson Crusoe 77. KNOX (Robert). An Historical Rela- ities led to 16 of the ship’s crew being taken prisoner.

tion of the Island Ceylon, in the East-Indies: Both Knox and his father caught malaria in the early Together, with an Account of the Detaining days of their detention, of which his father died. How- in Captivity the Author and Divers other Eng- ever, their confinement was open enough to allow Knox lishmen now Living there, and of the Author’s to farm and trade and, eventually, to escape. Howgego I, Miraculous Escape. K32. Wing K742. (205862) First edition. With a later engraved frontispiece portrait of the author inserted, dated 1695; folding map & 15 plates. 4to. A handsome copy Contemporary diced calf, gilt, hinges lightly rubbed, book- 78. MURE (William). Journal of a Tour in plates to front pastedown & front free endpaper, later (19th with remarks on its century) ms. list of plates inserted before frontispiece. [24], Greece and the Ionian Islands: recent history, present state,and classical antiquities of 189, [3]pp. London, printed by Robert Chiswell, 1681. those countries. £2,500 First edition. 2 vols. Frontispiece folding map & 14 plates, many folding some cloth backed. Contemporary calf, gilt. An important book: the first about Ceylon written in xiv, 291; v, [1 errata], [1 list of plates], 327, [1 errata], [1 list of English and an influence on Daniel Defoe’s Robinson plates, dup. copies] pp. London, William Blackwood & Sons, Crusoe. 1842. £1,500 This account details the author’s nineteen-year captivity on the Island of Ceylon after his ship was dis-masted in a The Lighthouse Trust copy. storm and forced to harbour in Kottiar Bay. Mure was a classical scholar and this is an account of a tour he made in 1838. Arriving in Corfu, Mure trav- Ceylon was at that time ruled by the King of Kandy, elled to Ithaca, Acarnania, Delphi, Boetia and Attica. In Rajasinha II, who bore a growing antipathy towards Eu- the aftermath of the Greek War of independence, Mure ropeans. In this atmosphere the failure of Knox’s father, was eager to explore the areas formerly occupied by the who captained the ship, to observe the customary formal- Turks. (206500) 44 Contact: [email protected]

79. OLIVER (James). Wreck of the Glide; With An Account of the Life and Manners at the Fijii Islands. First edition, 8vo., Contemporary brown paper covered boards with a later spine to style, white paper title label, minor edgeware and scuffing, pasteboard showing to lower corners, internally clean, pages lightly and evenly toned. 122pp. Boston, William D. Ticknor & Co., 1846. £500 A Classic of African Exploration 80. STANLEY (Henry M.) In Darkest Bearing the attractive bookplate to the front pastedown of Africa or the Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin the Hasty Pudding Club Library with the ink inscription Governor of Equatoria “Ex Dono Caroli Hale Class of 1850”, and the additional First edition. 2 vols. 3 folding maps & 38 plates, with further inscription to the front free endpaper “H.P.C. - from illustrations in the text. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. Charles Hale. Sep. 20. 1849.” The club was founded A little sporadic light foxing as usual. Slight chafe mark to by members of the Harvard College Class of 1797 to upper edge of front boards. A very good bright copy otherwise. “cherish the feelings of friendship and patriotism”, but xv, 530; xv, 472, [2]ads.pp. London, Sampson Low, Marston, over time took on a more epicurean and theatrical tone. Searle & Rivington, 1890. £350 By Hale’s time, who from the clubs 1849 records it can be ascertained held the positions of Librarian and the Stanley ranks alongside Burton and Livingstone as one enigmatic office of ’ET. KP. KAI ’ESX, the Hasty Pudding of the most important of the nineteenth-century African Club had just started to produce the annual theatrical explorers: he did “more than any other explorer to solve productions for which it became renowned, predomi- the mysteries of African geography, and open up the in- nantly due to their featuring male members in drag. terior of the dark continent to European trade, settlement and administration” (DNB). Post-Harvard Hale went on to become a noted Boston Following the fall of Khartoum, Stanley was entrust- Lawyer, Speaker to the House of Representatives, Secre- ed with leading a rescue mission since the remaining tary of State in the office of Hamilton Fish, and Ameri- Egyptian force under Emin Pasha was thought to be in can Consul General to Egypt. grave danger. He was however saddled with other aims, not least to further British colonial interests in the area The Glide herself sailed from Salem in 1829 primarily on from Lake Victoria to the Indian Ocean, and to explore a whaling run. By the time she reached warmer waters the north-eastern sector of the Congo State. It took the however she had changed her interest to the collection of party five months to reach Wadelai only to find that Emin beche-de-mer, otherwise known as sea cucumbers, which Pasha did not feel the need to be rescued, having made when dried were a popular exotic ingredient for soups. a peace of sorts with the local tribes. To make matters The Glide was caught in a hurricane and driven aground worse, three quarters of Stanley’s rear-guard en route somewhere around the area of Wallis Island or Fiji. had perished due to lack of provisions. Contrary to popular expectations, the native islanders Despite this failure, Stanley managed to fulfil the addi- treated the crew rather well, and they had ample leisure tional aims of the journey. He traced the course of the to pay close attention to the manners and cultures of Semliki River, discovered Ruwenzori, provided ethno- their rescuers. graphic data on the Pygmies and set up the British East African Protectorate. (222661) A scarce book with a pleasing provenance. Hill 1259 (220992) 45 Maggs Bros Ltd. Winter Miscellany 2016

Polar Exploration

An early edition of a popular fictional work on Arc- tic adventure. A gorgeous copy in the original dustjacket 81. BALLANTYNE (Robert Michael). The 82. BYRD (Richard Evelyn). Discovery. World of Ice; or, the Whaling Cruise of “The The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition. First edition. Numerous photographic plates, each with multiple Dolphin”, and the Adventures of her crew in images. Large 8vo. Original cloth, with pictorial dustwrapper. the Polar Regions. xxi, 405pp. New York, 1935. £190 7 engraved plates. 8vo. Original green blind stamped cloth boards with pictorial gilt titles to spine, just slightly rubbed, spotting to front free endpaper, a very good copy. 315pp. Lon- (185254) don, T. Nelson, 1873. £175

Ballantyne spent five years as a young man in the Cana- dian Arctic employed by the Hudson Bay Fur Company, so would have drawn at least partially from personal experience when writing this Boy’s Own style adventure tale of whaling, Esquimaux, Arctic hunting and all things in between. In the wake of the highly publicised Frank- lin Expedition and subsequent search parties, Victorian audiences were hungry for “tales of manly boys in exotic locations [...] which opened to young readers the imperial prospect of a wide world to explore and exploit” ( ODNB ) - Ballantyne’s fiction serves this with a healthy dose of Victorian morality, and a pleasingly detailed insight into Arctic conditions and wildlife. (224471)

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PUBLISHER’S PRESENTATION COPY TO RUD- MOSE-BROWN he had gone to sea as a cadet on the training ship Worces- 83. DOORLY (Capt. Gerald S.) The Voy- ter. The Morning under the command of Capt. Colbeck, carried out the successful Relief Expedition to Scott’s ages of the ‘Morning’. 1902-1904 Discovery Expedition. On their return Evans First edition. Folding map, 16 photographic plates & 4ll. was encouraged by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to publish an music. Small 8vo. Fine original pale blue pictorial cloth gilt, account of the voyage, however having asked Doorly to with blind stamp to upper margin of title: “PRESENTA- join him in this venture other commitments prevented TION COPY”. xx, 224pp. London, Smith, Elder & Co., him from beginning the project, leaving Doorly to pub- 1916. £2,750 lish his own work some ten years later. (201287)

Very attractive copy of this rare book, the binding of 84. KENT (Rockwell). Greenland Journal. which is very often badly faded and rubbed. With the Illustrations by the author. First trade edition. 8vo. Original characteristic ex-libris stamp of the noted polar expert cloth, binding cocked, pictorial dust jacket nicked along edges, R.N. Rudmose-Brown on the front free endpaper, along with that of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. a touch dusty. New York, Ivan Obolensky. 1962. £250 Robert Neal Rudmose-Brown (1879-1957), trained in bi- ology before taking a post as assistant to the Professor of A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the second front Botany at University College, Dundee. In 1902 he sailed free endpaper ‘To our dear friend Morris, Rockwell and as naturalist on board the Scotia, a converted Norwegian Sally at “Asgaard” February 1968’. The inscription was whaler, with the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, started in green ink, which evidently ran out after the which surveyed the unexplored Antarctic seas. first line, and was partly erased, Kent then re-inscribing in blue ink. (216991) Doorly joined the crew of the Morning as third officer following the intervention of Edward Evans with whom

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An underrated explorer in the Heroic Age 85. MAWSON (Sir Douglas). The Home First edition. 2 vols. Three maps (one folding), numerous of the Blizzard. lithograph & woodcut plates, with illustrations in the text. Being the Story of the Australian Antarctic Expedition, 1911- Tall 8vo. Fine contemporary calf, spine richly gilt, a prize 1914. First edition. Numerous folding maps, plates, panora- binding, some damp staining affecting lower edge of vol I, mas etc. Large 8vo. Good original blue cloth, gilt. xxx, 349; front board slightly cocked, but a handsome copy nonetheless. xiii, 338pp. London, 1915. £2,000 xx, 432, xii, 412, 16pp. London, 1884. £2,200

Mawson, a noted Australian geologist, had travelled to The author had “the good fortune to be engaged in the Antarctic with Shackleton’s Nimrod expedition in three of the most memorable expeditions of the present 1907. When Scott later invited him to join his ill-fated century: with Parry, in his attempt to reach the North Terra Nova expedition, Mawson declined, organising his Pole, in the year 1827; with Ross, in his Antarctic voyage own, to the Australasian Antarctic in 1911. This expedi- during the years 1839-43; and having had command of tion was aimed at conducting scientific and geographical a boat expedition in search of Franklin in 1852-53...” The research in King George V Land and Adelie Land, and Ross expedition occupies most of the first volume, with also to chase a chief prize of the Heroic Age: a visit to the only the final 50 or so pages concerned with the Parry South Magnetic Pole. voyage of 1827. Volume two includes material on the 1852 Franklin search expedition where McCormick made This book gives a vivid account of that endeavour, which, a distinguished boat journey (the narrative of this adven- as the sole survivor, only Mawson could give. It is beau- ture was actually published separately at the time). tifully and varyingly illustrated, with images of frostbit- ten faces, animal life and the sombre cross, erected in Rosove mentions that this work was published in an remembrance of Mawson’s lost companions Ninnis and edition of 750 copies, in the autumn of the author’s life; Mertz. (214272) he gives a total of seven variants, the last three of which contain “Memorandums and Opinions of the Press” A wonderful compendium of Polar Exploration (16pp). This copy is the variant “f”. McCormick was eighty-four when he published these memoirs; they are 86. M’CORMICK (Dept. Inspector General handsomely bound volumes and very well illustrated, but R.) Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic five years after publication less than 375 copies had sold. and Antarctic Seas, and round the world: being We know from the variations in the bindings recorded by personal narratives of attempts to reach the North and Rosove, that the binding work was done in batches, and South Poles; and of an open boat-expedition up the Wel- one may reasonably assume that many remaining copies lington Channel in search of Sir John Franklin and Her were never bound. Had there been a “remainder” of majesty‘s Ships “Erebus” and “Terror” in Her Majesty’s perfect copies, one would expect to see a high proportion Boat “Forlorn Hope” under the command of the author. of fine copies, whereas the reverse is true. Rosove, 221.A1 To which are added an Autobiography, Appendix... (201688) 48 Contact: [email protected]

A fine copy of a voyage to the North Pole It soon became evident however that the ice would bring 87. NANSEN (Fridtjof). “ Farthest North” the ship too far south, and so Nansen and Lieut. Jo- Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of hansen set out to ski to the North Pole. Although drifting ice and shortages of food prevented them reaching their the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Month’s destination, they did travel closer to the North Pole than Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with anyone had managed previously. So, having decided to an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram. turn back the two men were forced to travel across the First English edition. 2 vols. Portrait frontispiece, 4 large ice to Franz Joseph Land where they managed to meet coloured folding maps, 16 colour & several other plates, with up with an English expedition led by Frederick George numerous illustrations in the text. 8vo. Fine original green Jackson, who took them back to Norway, to national and pictorial cloth, gilt. xvi, 510; xvi, 672pp. London, 1897. international acclaim as a great Polar explorer. The Fram £450 meantime returned safely to Kristiania (Oslo) in Septem- ber, 1896 with no loss of life. (221372) Nansen’s voyage in the Fram captured the world’s imag- ination and publications of his exploits were exceedingly 88. [NANSEN (Fridjof).], BAIN (J. Arthur). popular. Having traversed Greenland on ski with three Life and Explorations of Fridjof Nansen. Norwegians and two Sami, he came up with a plan to New edition. 14 engraved and photo-lithographed plates, reach the North Pole by allowing a purpose built ship to profusely illustrated in text throughout. 8vo. Original blue drift in the ice from East to West. Launched in 1892, the cloth publisher’s binding with gilt pictorial boards and gilt Fram was built by Norway’s renowned shipbuilder Colin and silver tiles to spine, all edged gilt, prize bookplate to front Archer (his parents were Scots) to withstand the great pastedown, a very good copy. xx, 449, 2ads pp. London, Wal- pressures of the Arctic ice, and designed so that it would be lifted out of the water rather than be crushed by the ter Scott Ltd., n.d. [1897]. £250 expanding ice. Setting out in 1893, Captain Otto Sver- drup of the Fram steered a course for the waters North New edition, revised and considerably enlarged. A hand- of Siberia where, as Nansen had planned, the ship was some and well illustrated biography of the great Norwe- trapped in the ice. gian Arctic and Antarctic explorer. (224472)

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An early print from Scott’s Last Expedition 90. [BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 89. PONTING (Herbert). Grotto in a 1910-13]. Tower Tea Tin. berg, Terra Nova in the distance, Taylor and 1lb rectangular tin of blended Indian and Ceylon tea. 112 x Wright. Jan. 5th 1911. 112 x 111mm. Sealed with original labels, discoloured, oxi- Sepia toned silver gelatin print, 249 x 193mm. Mounted on dised, worn. c. 1910. £550 board, some spotting and silvering especially evident around edges, clearly where it had previously been mounted, chip to A reminder of the innate Britishness of Scott’s Last top left corner. [c.1913]. £550 Expedition. Diet and food were a constant preoccupation of the Antarctic explorers. Having listened to a lecture by An early print of one of Ponting’s iconic photographs Bowers on sledging diets, Scott notes that “feeling went from the Terra Nova expedition, 1911-1913. deepest on the subject of tea versus cocoa; admitting all The Scott Polar Research Institute picture library cata- that can be said concerning stimulation and reaction, I logue contains four Ponting photographs from within am inclined to see much in favour of tea. Why should the Grotto, two of which show T. Griffith Taylor (Senior not one be mildly stimulated during the marching hours Geologist) and Charles Wright (Physicist) framed by the if one can cope with rection by profounder rest during tear-shaped opening. Contemporary prints of this image the hours of inaction?” (Scott’s Last Expedition I, p290). are rare. (194182) SPRI catalogue accession number: P2005/5/127. (222651)

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An incredible story of survival Beautifully Illustrated 91. RINK (Dr. Henry). Tales and Tradi- 92. SHACKLETON (Sir E.). South. The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-17. tions of the Eskimo with a Sketch of their Hab- First edition, first impression. Numerous illustrations and its, Religion, Language and other peculiarities. a folding map (slightly repaired, not affecting content). Tall First English edition. 6 plates (2 folding) with numerous 8vo. A very good copy in original silvered pictorial cloth, an illustrations in the text. 8vo. Original brown cloth, recased, especially clean copy, the paper is as usual a bit browned. xxi, sensitive repairs to spine. Very good. xiii, 472pp. Edinburgh, 376pp. London, William Heinemann, 1919. £3,000 1875. £475 The South Pole having been attained by Amundsen in The chief charm of this books rests in the woodcut 1911, there remained one final Antarctic feat to attempt: plates, all of which were made by native artists and crossing the continent via the Pole, a journey of roughly many specifically by Aron of Kangeq. These illustrations 1800 miles. are after the woodcuts and lithographs from the 1863 publication Kaladlit Okalluktualliait which was printed in The Endurance was beset by pack ice, and drifted for Greenland both in Danish and Kalaallisut language. This around nine months before being crushed on October English edition contains many of the same folk tales and 27, 1915, 200 miles from land. The expedition quickly legends, and ethnographically rich introductory passages changed its goal from that of traversing the continent to concerning language, religion, customs etc. mere survival. The expedition reached Elephant Island With the pencil ownership inscription of Egyptologist by sledge and camped for a short time before realising William Matthew Flinders Petrie. that a rescue party was unlikely to find them there. Sabin 71439. (188294) Shackleton then determined to reach South Georgia and, with five companions, made the 800 mile journey, which included crossing the hitherto unexplored interior of South Georgia, to a Norwegian whaling station. It took three attempts to rescue the remaining party.

A new impression was published only a month after the first and is produced on better quality stock, this, the true first, is almost invariably browned due to the inferior paperstock available under still war rationed Britain. Rosove, 308.A2; Spence, 1017. (186230) 51 Maggs Bros Ltd. Winter Miscellany 2016

Travels by Women

A BEAUTIFUL COPY with the Sicilians of Caltanissetta 93. BRASSEY (Lady). Tahiti. 94. CAICO (Louise). Sicilian Ways and A Series of Photographs taken by Colonel Stuart-Wortley. Days. First edition. 43 plates. 8vo. Original bright blue pictorial First edition. With 128 illustrations after photographs. 8vo. cloth, gilt. xii, 68pp. London, 1882. £950 Original red cloth, spine a little faded. Two items of interest on the free endpaper: a note following the owner’s inscription reading “To Commemorate Peace. After four years War. 1914- A lovely production recording a voyage in 1880. Bras- 1918” and a cutting of a poem titled ‘Peace’, pinned to the sey’s text complements her husband’s photographs. (188296) leaf. 279 pp. London, John Long, 1910. £90

An account of the manners and customs of Sicilians in the province of Caltanissetta; where the author was resident. Caico offers an intimate portrait of a people untouched by modernization and uncovers some of the ancient and mythological sources that inform the local culture. Her focus stretches from christening customs to work in the Sulphur mines.

The photographs, which, according to the author, “must crave the indulgence of the critical” (due to being ama- teur efforts), actually complement the text wonderfully, as they reflect the robust honesty of the subjects. (212153)

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A pioneering work by “The Lady-Boss” Author’s presentation copy 95. FRENCH-SHELDON (May). Sultan to 96. MOIR (Jane). A Lady’s Letters From Sultan. Adventures among the Masai and other Central Africa, a Journey from Mandala, Shiré Tribes of East Africa. Highlands, to Ujiji, Lake Tanganyika, and back. First edition. Map, portrait frontispiece & 25 plates, with First edition. 4 full page & 4 other maps & illustrations in numerous illustrations in the text. 8vo. Original red cloth, the text. 8vo. Original turquoise cloth, some light soiling and gilt, prize bookplate and pencil marks to front pastedown. A wear to boards, minor rubbing to extremities, overall very good copy with lightly soiled cloth and a little waterstaining good. Some foxing and browning to interior, only the engrav- to spine. [viii], 435pp. London, Saxon & Co, 1892. £200 ing on p.49 considerably so. 91, [4]pp. Glasgow, Maclehose & Sons, 1891. £675 May French-Sheldon was amongst the first group of women to be elected to the Royal Geographical Society, Inscribed by the author. The inscription reads ‘May Ar- and is considered to “be one of the most colourful char- not [,] With very good wishes from J. F. Moir. April 1908’. acters in the history of African exploration” (Robinson). Jane Moir and her husband Frank were greatly inspired During her travels she was given the Swahili moniker by their fellow countryman David Livingstone, and set “Bébé Bwana” which translates as “Lady Boss”, and had up the African Lakes Company in Blantyre (Malawi) in a Paris couturier create her a special outfit in which to order to challenge the slave trade in the region. meet African chieftains and royalty. Resplendent with pearls and in a high-Victorian silhouette, this look was This particular work tells the story of the Moirs’ month completed by an embroidered standard bearing the long expedition to the North-East of Tanganyika, which legend “Noli Me Tangare”. French-Sheldon has been de- progressed well enough until they began their return scribed as “A New Woman of the 1890s” and an “Impe- journey. Having missed the steamer they were forced to rial Feminist”, and thus is an interesting and important take a local dhow which was blown ashore in the territory figure in the development of (potentially problematic) of the Attongwe, who proceeded to attempt to drug the global consciousness in the context of first wave femi- Moirs and then shot at them. This incident was followed nism. by an outbreak of smallpox on board, and yet Mrs. Moir Robinson, Wayward Women, p27 . T.J. Boisseau, “They still referred to the expedition as “the very pleasantest Called Me Bebe Bwana”: A Critical Cultural Study of an journey that two mortals could have”. Robinson, Way- Imperial Feminist. (224269) ward Women, p167. (222574)

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With beautiful chromolithographic plates 97. SMYTHE (Mrs. Sarah Maria). Ten Months in the Fiji Islands. First edition, with 13 tinted and chromolithographic plates, numerous woodcuts and 4 maps by J. Arrowsmith. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt titling to spine, untrimmed; a lovely, A guide for female settlers near fine copy. pp. [2], xviii, [2], 282. Oxford and London, 98. [TRAILL (Catherine).] The Backwoods John Henry and James Parker, 1864. £375 of Canada: Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic William James Smythe (1816-87), a colonel in the Royal

Artillery, was instructed by the British Government to Economy of British America. Later edition. 12mo., original brown cloth, stamped in blind, visit Fiji in 1860 in order to evaluate the offer of sover- gilt spine. Boards lightly worn with neat repair to spine, eignty made by Fiji to England. His wife, Sarah Maria chipped at tailcap, hinges starting, minor foxing. [2], 351pp. Smythe, joined him and provided this account of their journey in twenty ‘letters’; covering their passage via London, W Clowes & Sons, 1836. £250 Australia and New Zealand, and their ten month visit to Fiji, and of the other islands in its archipelago. Mrs. Catherine Traill (née Strickland) was the wife of a lieutenant in the 21st Fusiliers, with whom she emigrat- Her first-hand account begins with some interesting ed to Upper Canada in 1832. This text is in the form of “a observations of the New Zealand Maoris, and continues collection of her lively letters home to her family, detail- with notable accounts of the life and culture of inhab- ing the journey to Canada, the seasons, sights, flora, and itants across Fijian islands, their religious beliefs, diet, fauna of her new country, and the day-to-day activities of social structures, of whaling, trade, the weather, topogra- a newly arrived settler.” (ODNB) It was aimed predomi- phy etc. nantly at the wives and daughters of emigrants, and was the first in a series of guides written by Mrs. Traill. It also Colonel Smythe’s Appendix, occupying pages 189-282, contains a selection of recipes and domestic instructions provides documentation of all the official aspects of in the appendices. A highly popular title first published his tour as a ‘Special Commissioner’ representing the by Charles Knight, this is later edition printed in the British Government. The latter text includes accounts same year, from the “Library of Entertaining Knowledge” of trade, and statistical accounts of the weather. The series. Knight’s name is still retained on the titlepage. final section describes the establishment of missions in Sabin 96441. (224470) Melanesia.

The work is included in Hill’s Pacific Voyages (p.576), where it is praised as an ‘… important account of that archipelago and also of Australia, New Zealand, and Tonga.’ (222576)

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Of great inspiration to the Romantics 99. WOLLSTONECRAFT (Mary). Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. First edition. 8vo. Original blue-grey paper boards, white paper spine, unlettered; boards and spine darkened and discoloured by ingrained dust, some wear to extremities, otherwise very good. Ownership inscription to title-page and a few marginal annotations to text pages. Minor foxing to title-page, A2 and R4, rest of interior fresh. Collation: A2, B-R8, S6. Pages: [4], [1]-262, [2]appendix, [2]notes, [2]list of publications by the author. London, pr. for J. Johnson, 1796. £2,500

The Critical Review, which found little to complement in Wollstonecraft’s earlier writings, praised this, her last published work, but struggled to define the form it took. The reviewer wondered at an ‘artless and apparently unstudied species of composition.’

Letters… was, and continues to be a genre-defying work; an epistolary, autobiographical travelogue that engages an anonymous addressee with topics ranging from the danger of unregulated commerce to the sublimity of Scandinavian landscape. The unusual form and content are perhaps partly explained by the extraordinary pres- sures under which Wollstonecraft wrote the letters, a context that was only fully discovered by the historian Per Nyström in the 1980s.

Though nothing in the book suggests Wollstonecraft was cording her subjective experience of rocks, waterfalls and anything other than a tourist, she was actually undertak- cliffs were of great inspiration to the Romantic poets, ing a business trip on behalf of her then lover, the Amer- many of whom took direct influence from the book. ican ‘commercial adventurer’ (ODNB), Gilbert Imlay. He sent Wollstonecraft, along with the illegitimate child Though Letters… proved popular when first published, he had given her, to gain compensation for a ship of his and fitted the nascent artistic zeitgeist of the period, it which had been stolen by a rogue Norwegian captain. was frowned upon after the publication of her husband It was with this purpose, bolstered by her love for the William Godwin’s Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication charismatic but ultimately untrustworthy Imlay, that she of the Rights of Woman (1798). That book, a biography of left from Hull on June 21, 1795. his late wife, revealed aspects of her private life which stood apart from contemporary societal mores and Once at sea she travelled first to ‘…Gothenburg and then reduced her readership. Thankfully, Letters… was redis- up to Risor in Norway via Tonsberg, Larvik, Helgeroa, covered in the 20th century by scholars who found fertile Portoy, back to Gothenberg, on to Helsignor, Copenha- critical ground in its feminism, radicalism and genre-hy- gen, Korsor and then across the Belt and on to Schle- bridity. swig, Hamburg, Altona and home via Dover by Sep- tember 1795.’ (p. 365. Scobbie, Review in Scandinavian Scarce in original boards. This copy has a faded, indeci- Studies, Vol.49, No. 3, 1977). pherable (to this cataloguer) ownership inscription on the title-page. The owner has also written ‘Mother of Before her departure Wollstonecraft had endured a peri- Mary Shelley who was wife of P.B.S.’ under the author’s od of extreme depression, motivated by Imlay’s shifting name on the title-page (a copy of the book went with and unreliable affections. Her sadness is a near constant Mary and Percy when they eloped to France in 1814) and presence in Letters…, but is occasionally lifted or trans- left a few marginal annotations in the text. formed by the nature she encounters. The passages re- Rothschild 2598. (222430)

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100. BEWICK (Thomas). A Natural Histo- ry of British Quadrapeds, Foreign Quadrapeds, British Birds, Water Birds, Foreign Birds, Fish- es, Reptiles, Serpents, & Insects. First edition thus. Seven pamphlets bound in one. 12mo. 36, [viii], 36, [viii], 36, [vi], 36, [vi], 36, [viii], 36, [viii], 36, [vi] pp. With wood engravings throughout by Bewick. Front free endpaper has been replaced, browned internally. Recently re- paired and rebound in brown calf, nicely done and retaining original gilt spine with black title label. Marbled endpapers and edges. Each pamphlet bound to retain original paper wrappers. Alnwick, W. Davis, 1809. £750

Bewick praised for making wood-engraving popular in the 19th Century; a technique which made illustrating books much cheaper than using, for example, the cop- perplate technique, but was also much more robust than woodcutting.

This lovely little book is a more digestible or ‘chapbook’ version of some of Bewick’s most popularised works, including condensed versions of: A Natural History of Birds ‘land’ and ‘water’ originally printed in two volumes, and A Natural History of Quadrapeds, as well as previous- ly unpublished A Natural History of Reptiles, Serpents, and Insects. With beautiful engravings on every page making up a lovely encyclopaedia of various interesting animals. ODNB (54214)

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Gorgeous book in original condition first few leaves but overall an excellent copy bound in modern 101. MALO (Charles). Histoire des Tu- green quarter calf and marbled boards. Philadelphia, Joseph lipes. Crukshank, 1785. £2,750 First edition. With engraved title vignette and 12 engraved plates (although said to be ‘en couleur’, plates are black and An excellent copy of Marshall’s magnum opus with evi- white). 12mo. Original boards with handsome pink label to dence for its use ‘in the field’. spine. Mild foxing to title-page and endpapers, otherwise very good. [4], 177, [5] pp. Paris, Louis Janet. [1821]. £500 Marshall’s ‘catalogue’ sold only a handful of copies in the first few months after publication, but the work was A charming little book on the history of tulips that subsequently popular in Europe and was translated contains a surprising bounty of information. The reader into French and German. Marshall hoped that his work may move from an account of ‘Tulip Mania’ in the 17th would spur other botanists into eventually compiling century to verse inspired by the flower and then on a complete botanical record of the United States, he again to catalogues of species both past and present. The claimed that such a study “cannot be compiled at once, engravings, made after drawings by P. Bessa, are softly or by one man; but it is the duty of everyone to contrib- beautiful. (176582) ute what he can towards it”.

A remarkable interleaved and annotated copy of an The work tends to concentrate, but not exclusively, on the flora and fauna of the American south. A careful important early American botanical book. annotation on the blank leaf next to Magnolia grandiflora 102. [MARSHALL (Humphry)]. Arbus- records that the “boundary line between N & S Carolina trum Americanum: The American Grove, or, [has] the most northern settlement of M.G”. Another an Alphabetical catalogue of forest trees and hand (in pencil) also appears to have ticked or marked shrubs, natives of the American United States each entry in the catalogue as they have observed it. [...] containing the particular distinguishing characters of each genus, with plain, simple and familiar descriptions Perhaps most surprising though are two specimens of the manner of growth, appearance, &c. of their several which have been carefully pressed between the leaves on species and varieties. Also, some hints of their use in which their corresponding entries appear. (65936) medicine, dyes, and domestic oeconomy. 8vo., 174 [2] pp. Some minor staining to the fore-edge of the

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Wallace set out for the Amazon with Bates in April 1848, parting with his companion some two years later and returning to England in 1852. On the voyage home how- ever his ship was beset by fire and although the ship’s compliment was rescued, Wallace’s collections and notes were destroyed. In later life he claimed however that this event had been of enormous importance as it had stimu- lated him to visit the Malay Archipelago which proved to 103. MILLICAN (Albert). Travels and be a rich field for the young collector. Adventures of an Orchid Hunter. An Account of Canoe and Camp Life in Colombia, while Wallace began his eight year journey in 1854 visiting Collecting orchids in the Northern Andes. each of the islands in the archipelago, some more than once. Perhaps his most important discovery being that First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth gilt, spine slightly the archipelago is zoologically divided into two by the stained and sunned, otherwise very good. xv, 222, 8ads. pp. deep water straight (Wallace’s Line) between Bali and Cassell & Company, London, 1891. £540 Lombok. As his journey progressed so Wallace become a confirmed evolutionist. However it was not until he This is an uncommon title. The author states in the was suffering from a fever in the Moluccas that he came foreword: “It is not a missionary’s report, nor a travel- up with the theory of natural selection as the method ler’s diary, nor a student’s compilation, but a narrative of evolution. Putting his ideas down on paper over the of things seen and experienced by me while travelling following two days after which Wallace sent them off to with natives through the forest, sharing with them the Charles Darwin, the result being their joint paper which hospitality of the wayside hut or the forest shelter and was given to the Linnean Society on 1st July, 1858. camp-fire, as well as the more agreeable life of hotels and towns. The information contained in this volume has Returning to London in 1862, Wallace sold sufficient of been gathered over a period of four years during which I his collections to obtain income of some £300 per year have made five journeys to the orchid districts of South from the capital raised and began work on The Malay America...” (196334) Archipelago which was published in 1869 (DNB).

A vital contribution to the theory of Evolution This copy with the bookplate of “Sir Thomas George 104. WALLACE (Alfred Russel). The Fermor Hesketh, Bart., Rufford Hall”, and the library Malay Archipelago: the Land of the Oran-Utan, ticket with shelf number of Easton Neston: the Hesketh’s and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, ancestral seat and the only private home designed entire- ly by the great architect of the English Baroque, Nicholas with Studies of Man and Nature. Hawksmoor. (204347) Fourth edition. 2 folding maps & 8 plates, with further maps & illustrations in the text. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt. xvi, 653, 2 ads pp. London, MacMillan & Co., [October] 1872. £500 58 Contact: [email protected] Games & Sports

105. DARWIN (Bernard). Playing the Like. First edition. 8vo., original brown cloth, dust jacket. London, A beautiful copy of this classic work Chapman and Hall. 1934. £750 106. MARSHALL (Julian). The Annals of Tennis. Some spotting to the fore-edges, otherwise a near fine First edition. 45 illustrations on 27 leaves. 4to. Original copy in the rare dust jacket, with a small closed tear on green blindstamped cloth, elaborately gilt. London, The Field the rear panel. (214213) Office, 1878. £3,000

A fine copy of the most comprehensive history of tennis, and in particular Real Tennis, produced to that time. Much of the information here was first published as articles in The Field magazine in the two years prior. This copy with the pencil ownership inscription of G.H. Dar- win, son of the naturalist and renowned astronomer and mathematician in his own right. (207117)

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107. SMITH (Albert). The New Game of the Ascent of Mont Blanc. Second edition. Rule book: 4 engraved images (2 inside wrappers, 2 facing these); Game sheet: 54 coloured lithograph vignettes. Small 8vo. Folding linen-backed game sheet (545 by 415mm. approx.) Rule book: original printed wrappers, resewn, sticking tape stain to spine; with 4 game pieces, spinning die & 68 bone counters in 4 colours; all contained within cloth covered box, with red morocco label to the lid bearing the title in gilt. 5-19pp. London, Myers & Co., 1861. £5,500

To the rear wrapper the publisher Joseph Myers & Co. of Leadenhall Street, London, advertises a “List of Drawing-Room Toys” which can be obtained wholesale from their premises, and which are available retail “at all the principal booksellers and toy repositories in the United Kingdom”. At the top of the list is “Mr. Albert Smith’s Ascent of Mont Blanc in Minia- ture”. (188397)

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A rare example of eighteenth-century ‘object A fine copy narrative’ satire. 108. [AMERICAN CIVIL WAR] Opium 109. [ANONYMOUS]. The Adventures of Eating. An autobiographical sketch. By an habituate. a cork-screw; in which under the pleasing method of First edition. 8vo. A very good copy in original green cloth, a romance, the vices, follies and manners of the present gilt, contemporary advertisement laid down to front free age are exhibited and satirically delineated. Interspersed endpaper. xii, 13-150pp. Philadelphia, Claxton, Remsen & with striking anecdotes, characters and actions of per- Haffelfinger, 1876. £750 sons in real life. First Dublin edition. Small spot to lower margin of A2 (not A fascinating prisoner of war account in the Confederate touching text) and with some very light foxing in places, but States and possibly the first full length memoir of an otherwise a good, clean, crisp copy in contemporary calf (re- American opium addict. Although the author entered backed with a new spine, calf rubbed, joints split and corners the Union army as a drummer, he was required to fight bumped). 12mo., [4],xii,iv,171,[1] pp. in every battle his regiment engaged in. He was captured Dublin: printed for W. Whitestone [...], 1776. £750 on the first day of the battle of Chickamauga in Sep-

tember 1863 and was initially held at Richmond. Later ESTC records British Library and National Library of transferred to Danville, he was then interred at Ander- Ireland only in the U.K., and Huntington, McMaster sonville (“grim Leviathan of Death!”), the most notorious University, Newberry and University of Minnesota only prisoner of war camp in the American civil war. The nar- in North America. rative is unstinting in its description of the cruel treat- The first London edition of this work was published in ment administered, the effects of starvation, scurvy and 1775; ESTC records nine copies of the London edition smallpox, and some unexpected kindness. In 1865, he making this Dublin printing, from the following year, the was exchanged as a prisoner and allowed to return home. scarcer of the two. The treatment he received for a stomach complaint led The eighteenth-century saw a large number of so called to an addiction to opium and this account includes a full ‘object narratives’ beginning with Charles Gildon’s The description of the physical and mental states relating to golden spy (1709) and continuing with the adventures of his addiction. The work also includes a discussion of De pins, watches, Guineas, carriages and beds. Swift’s A tale Quincey and Coleridge’s experiences. (206020) 61 Maggs Bros Ltd. Winter Miscellany 2016

of a tub (1704) has been seen as an important precursor London in the dark and influence on this style of narrative. 110. ARCHER (Joshua). New Plan of Lon- don 1837. Published for the Proprietors of the In his essay on the object narrative, Christopher Flint de- Guide to Knowledge. scribes The adventures of a cork-screw as a ‘particularly Wood engraving, printing white on a black background, 335 x detailed example’ of the genre (Christopher Flint, ‘Speak- 510 mm, dissected and mounted on linen, with brown paper ing Objects: The Circulation of Stories in Eighteenth-Century end-papers, the linen backing stained on verso. London, Wil- Prose Fiction’, 1998). In typical fashion the cork-screw, liam Edwards, 1837. £350 through numerous complicated interactions, is passed

from owner to owner allowing the object to witness the Very unusual map of London, engraved in such a way various ‘vices, follies and manners of the present age’. that the features of the map appear as white lines and The cork-screw mixes with clergymen, fallen women and letters on a black background, characteristic of the series politicians as well as describing a rigged election, life in of maps in William Pinnock’s Guide to Knowledge, for prison, and numerous other episodes. which it was prepared, but quite unlike pretty much any

other series of maps. Provenance: R. Lionel Foster, 19th-century bookplate

(and inked shelf marks) to front pastedown and signa- The map covers central London from London Zoo and ture on fly leaf. Foster was a prominent collector of an- the Regents Canal to Vauxhall Bridge, and from Hyde tique silver and, presumably, books. In 2008 Christie’s Park to the Mile End Road. Published early in the railway sold his copy of A Picturesque Tour Through Ireland (1824) era, the map marks only the Birmingham Railway into which suggest - alongside this volume - that he may have Euston Station, and the Greenwich Railway into London had some connection to Ireland. (61699) Bridge Station, while large parts of Chelsea, Victoria and south-eastern London are still fields.

Among the new developments shown are the Brunel’s Thames Tunnel, from Rotherhithe to Wapping, a re- markable feature of engineering, and the proposed Hun- gerford Foot Bridge across the Thames to Charing Cross. Howgego, Printed Maps of London, 346 (2). (223156)

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112. BRAUTIGAN (Richard). Please Plant This Book. First edition. Cream card folder printed in sepia ink contain- ing eight coloured seed packets, complete with original seeds. Slight scuff to lower right corner of recto side, glue fixing internal flaps of folder dried, slight offsetting and staining to some packets from seeds, as usual. Santa Barbara, Graham Mackintosh, 1968. £1,250

Originally issued in an edition of 6000 to be handed out for free at the First Day of Spring Festival in Gold- en Gate Park, this book saw Brautigan during his most Digger-aligned period, and exercises in form some of the key concepts of the just-passed Summer of Love. It also shows a further evolution of the “cybernetic ecology” 111. BIBLE. N.T. DUTCH CREOLE Die first referenced in his 1967 poem “All Watched Over By nywe Testamant von ons Heer Jesus Christus Machines of Loving Grace”, eerily foreshadowing the Bay ka set over in die Creols tael en ka give na die Area tech boom and the birth of Silicone Valley. ligt tot dienst van die deen Mission in America. Die tweede edition. The construction and collation history of this book are unsurprisingly vague, given the context of the period, 8vo (192 x 110mm.) contemporary calf by Burn of Hatton and various funders have been posited by Brautigan’s Garden, London, worn (rebacked 2016). [2], 1166pp., Copen- contemporaries. They include The Unicorn Bookshop of hagen: Schultz, 1818. £2,750 Isla Vista, an anonymous member of The Diggers, and most compellingly and oft cited, the band Mad River. Dutch Creol or Negerhollands was a language spoken A full list of sources can be found at John F. Barber’s in the Danish colonies of the West Indies (now the U.S. comprehensive brautigan.net, but essentially it seems Virgin Islands) in the eighteenth century, which in the likely that Mad River contributed money from the Capi- nineteenth century was squeezed out by English. It is tol Records advance for their third album, and helped fill unusual in having a number of texts composed in it the seed packets in a reciprocal gesture for Brautigan’s (a number in manuscript), or rather in Hoch Creol (as assistance assembling their first record. opposed to the every day language), by the Moravian missionaries working there, including a catechism and This free economy is very in keeping with the Digger a primer. The earliest printed work dates from 1761. aesthetic, and is echoed by the sentiment on the colo- This translation of the NT, the work of Jochum Melchi- phon: “THIS BOOK IS FREE / Permission is granted to or Magens, which has very strong Dutch elements, reprint this book by anyone as long as it is not sold.” was first published in Copenhagen in 1781. ‘From the correspondence kept in the State Archive in Copenha- Despite the relatively large number of copies printed, gen this [1818] edition appears to comprise 1200 copies the book is reasonably scarce on the market. This may (RA, Koloniernes Centralbestyrelse, Kolonialkontoret, well be because recipients followed the instructions and Gruppesager II-922, Salmebogssagen) ’ ( Die Creol taal planted it. Well held in American institutions, but World- (1996) by Cefas van Rossem & Hein van der Voort 250 cat finds only two copies in Europe - at the National Art years of Negerhollands texts found on http://www.dbnl. Library and the University of Oxford. No copy in the BL. org/tekst/ross026creo01_01. Darlow & Moule Provenance: Professor Peter Skrine, We are ashamed to say that this copy is not free. (221511) professor of German, Bristol, 1989-2003. (223389) 63 Maggs Bros Ltd. Winter Miscellany 2016

113. BRODIE-INNES (J.W.) (Master of The Rolls 114. HOUDINI (Harry). The Unmasking to The Sette of Odd Volumes). Scottish With- of Robert-Houdin. craft Trials. Read Before The Sette at a Meeting First edition. Illustrations. 8vo., original brown pictorial held at Limmer’s Hotel, on Friday 7th Novem- cloth Lettering on the spine very slightly scuffed, otherwise an ber, 1890. excellent copy. New York, The Publishers Printing Co. 1908. First limited edition. Small 8vo., [9pp.], pp-10-66, in the orig- £2,800 inal ‘parchment’ wrappers, printed glacine dustjacket, one of 245 signed, numbered presentation copies, Quaritch cata- Inscribed on the front free endpaper, ‘To my dear Friend logue note tipped onto back jacket turn in. London, Privately Alfred Vaughan with compliments of the author and Printed Opuscula issued to the Members of the Sette of Odd collector Harry Houdini. New York April 22 - 1908’. (131249) Volumes, No. XXV, The Chiswick Press, 1890. £100

115. [ISHIOKA (Eiko)]. COPPOLA (Francis An internally very bright and clean book in a browned Ford). Coppola and Eiko on Bram Stoker’s and spotted jacket. (129540) Dracula. Profusely illustrated. Folio, original black rexine, gilt, dust jacket. San Francisco, Collins. 1992. £150

Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Eiko Ishioka to the film producer David Puttnam, ‘To David Puttnam with best regards Eiko Ishioka TOKYO 1992’. Ishioka won an Oscar for her work on this film, and was active in advertising, fashion, cinema, theatre, and the circus, even designing an album cover for Miles Davis. (132830)

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116. IVES (Frederick Eugene). The Brigand. 117. LES PRESSES DE LA NUIT. Seven Three dimensional photographic image, a “Parallax Ste- erotic pulp novels published by “Les Presses de reogram”. Image c. 20 x 15 cm, in original oak frame with la Nuit”. printed label. Crack at lower right. 1903. £2,500 8vo., original lurid illustrated wrappers. Uncut. No Place (presumably Paris), Editions les 4 Vents de l’Amour. Les Ives’ process produced the first 3 dimensional photo- Presses de la Nuit. 1957 & 1958. £220 graphs to be viewable without special glasses, and when illuminated from behind create a remarkably convincing and vivid image. The current image, titled The Brigand Minor wear to wrappers, some clumsy early pricing on in their catalogue, was one of seven (including a portrait endpapers, but very good copies of these luridly attractive of Mark Twain) marketed by The Scientific Shop in Chi- paperbacks. (221052) cago at five dollars each.

The pose of the unidentified sitter may be a reference to the most reproduced still from the pioneer Western THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY filmed in this year, though it doesn’t appear to be the same actor. The physical simi- larity between the sitter and the younger Pat Garrett may have been deliberate, but Garrett himself was a fairly old man by the date of this sitting. (132287)

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Paolozzi appropriation of a cult classic 118. [PAOLOZZI (E[duardo]) (Sir)]. [Reefer Madness]. Rectangular bronze relief, (16 x 23.5cm). signed ’E Paolozzi, inscribed ‘A/C’ and dated 1996. £4,000

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) was a founding father of British Pop Art, who looked to the tabloid and popular culture of inter-war America for inspiration and imagery.

This bronze relief depicts an armed police raid on a drug den; an image adapted from a scene in Louis Gasnier’s 1936 propaganda film, Reefer Madness. The film showed a group of all-American teenagers smoke marijuana and subsequently descend into depravity. Enjoyed for its hammy acting and unbearably melodramatic plot, it became a cult classic.

Paolozzi’s work is arguably an appropriation of an appropriation. The film was originally funded by a church group who envisioned it as a morality tale titled Tell Your Children. However, Dwain Esper, who purchased the film after shooting had finished, recut the footage for distribution on the exploitation circuit.

Provenance: An Artist’s Copy, a gift from Paolozzi to his secretary Sabina Grinling and thence to Sothebys, Maggs then the LSD Library of Julio Mario Santo Domingo Jr. (134793)

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The birth of virtual reality 120. VITARAMA CORPORATION. Op- eration and Maintenance Manual for Machine Gun Trainer Mark 2. Duplicated text, illustrated with 31 photographs of the appa- ratus and photographic reproductions of drawings of parts of it, countless blue prints of schematics and circuit diagrams, some folding. 159 leaves including illustrations, rectos only. In original binder with manuscript label on spine, manuscript title direct on upper cover “INSTRUCTOR’S MANUAL. SET”. With two further duplicated documents of 5 and 8 sheets “Student Booklet” and “Basic Principles” also bound in. All three documents signed by Fred Waller, the inventor, and by an illegible Naval Controller of Ordnance. Long Island City, New York, The Vitarama Corporation. Undated, c. 1941. £1,500 119. [VICTORIA] Queen Victoria’s Cor-

onation. Admission ticket to St Margaret’s The remarkable machine described here, usually known Vestry Gallery, 28 June 1838. £595 as the Waller Gunnery Trainer, was the invention of Fred Waller, and sprang from his pre-war attempts to create a A rare admission ticket to St Margaret’s Vestry Gallery. three-dimensional cinema, using a spherical screen and Features an attractive design of the royal insignia on the multiple projectors. On the outbreak of war, the tech- front with written instructions in an elegant scrolled type nology was rapidly adapted to build the present simula- on the back, signed by the church wardens, (“Jacob Cole” tor, which places the training machine gunner behind and “Cha. Rogers”). Also signed (“H. F. Cooper”). Al- a “synthetic” gun taking fire at targets on the screen, though not part of the Abbey building itself, the church allowing for deflection, fore-shortening and the like. of St Margaret is situated in the grounds of Westminster After the war this sword was recast as a ploughshare as Abbey on Parliament Square. It is the Anglican parish the technology was transferred to the Cinerama projec- church of the House of Commons. H.F. Cooper was tion system, which still has something of a cult follow- probably Henry Frederick Cooper (1772-1843), one of the ing: its flaws (notably the fact that there is a very small Elder Burgesses of the Court of Westminster, and a Di- sweet spot from which to watch the screen) were actually rector of the Westminster Fire Office. He was very active strengths in its wartime use. The machine kept score of in charities belonging to the parish in which he lived; the gunner’s success in real time, and despite its Heath being a governor of St. Margaret’s Hospital and the Grey Robinson appearance, was a great success, and some 85 Coat School among others (The Gentleman’s Magazine, of them were apparently built. Extraordinary claims were and Historical Chronicle, for the Year, 1843, vol. 174, p.101). made at the time, for instance that 1,000,000 men were (214541) trained on them and that operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, there was not one breakdown. (130798)

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Inscribed by the artist 121. [BOURGEOIS (Louise)]. WEIERMAIR after the designs of Alfonso Parigi, are the only surviving (Peter) editor. Louise Bourgeois. record of the remarkable staging of this production, per- Illustrations. First edition. Small 4to., cloth, dust jacket. formed in the courtyard of the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. Frankfurt, Edition Stemmle. 1989. £150 At the end of the Argomento addressed to the readers we read: ‘Thus I thought to satisfy the wishes of the most A presentation copy, inscribed in ink by the artist on Serene Grand Duke, who in seven days saw the comedy the front free endpaper ‘To Matthew, Amicalement. finished, heard it read by me, and shewed himself more Louise. may day 1990’. Top corner of the text block than a little pleased. I hope that the shortness of the time damp-stained, dust jacket with some nicks to the edges. allowed for its composition will excuse any imperfec- (216838) tions, whatever they may be, and that my having obeyed the orders of his most Serene Highness, and perhaps THE WEDDING OF VULCAN AND VENUS having entertained his taste, will earn it some praise. I 122. COPPOLA (Giovanni Carlo). Le will not omit saying that to avoid any longueurs caused by the music and machines, and because of the extreme- Nozze degli Dei: favola... rappresentata in mu- ly hot weather, not really suitable for spectacles, and sica in Firenze nelle reali nozze de Serenissimi because of the shortness of the nights, what was repre- Gran Duchi di Toschana Ferdinando II e Vitto- sented was in large part shortened and changed from the ria Principessa d’Urbino. text which is here printed’. Della Bella’s title-page offers 4to (240 x 175mm.). 104pp., etched title-page and seven a perspective of the curtained stage, while the seven double-page etched plates by Stefano della Bella after Alfonso plates depict stage settings as varied and extravagant as Parigi, recently rebound in vellum over paper boards, Flor- the woods of Diana, the gardens of Venus, the cave of Vulcan, the sea (where a ballet choreographed by Agniolo ence: A Massi & L. Landi 1637. £8,500 Ricci took place), and conclude with two plates shewing

hell (scena quinta, a remarable plate) and heaven (scena A large and handsome copy of the first edition of the sesta). libretto for this fantastical, allegorical masque of the

wedding of Vulcan and Venus, written by Coppola, the Provenance: Bookplate of Professor John Ramsay Bishop of Muro, to commemorate the marriage on 8 July Allardyce Nicoll (1894-1976), theatre historian and 1637 of Grand Duke Ferdinando II de Medici to Vittoria founding director of the Shakespeare Institute at Bir- della Rovere, princess of Urbino. This book represents mingham. Berlin Katalog 4116. Clubb 311. Cicognara 1445. one of the first major undertakings by Stefano della Bella Nagler Theater Festivals of the Medici (1964), pp. 162-74. for the Medici court, where he had succeeded Jaques Watanabe 1285. (47022) Callot as artist and printmaker. His vibrant etchings 68 Contact: [email protected]

123. GILBERT AND GEORGE. The Com- 124. WHISTLER (James MacNeil). The plete Pictures 1971-1985. Gentle Art of Making Enemies. Illustrations. First edition. 4to., original pictorial stiff wrap- First English edition. Illustrations in the text. 8vo., original pers. London, Hayward Gallery, 1986. £200 tan cloth spine over light brown paper boards, the spine lettered in black, gilt monogram, the upper cover lettered in Inscribed, the names in different inks, on the front free gilt with the gilt butterfly motif, uncut. London, William endpaper ‘Gilbert and George Hayward Gallery 1987’. Heinemann, 1890. £2,500 Top cover creased on one corner, spine creased. (217003) A remarkable presentation copy, from one great painter to another, inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper ‘To Albert Moore - from his friend and admirer’ signed with a variation of Whistler’s famous butterfly mon- ogram. Albert Moore managed the impressive feat of maintaining a long friendship with Whistler, begun when Moore was 23 and Whistler 30. Moore is said to have encouraged Whistler’s interest in Japanese art, possibly during their long conversations when going for night-long rowing trips on the Thames, or over frequent dinners. Spine scuffed over the lettering, just bumped at the head and tail, the covers lightly scratched and spotted, lower edges shelf worn, some foxing to the edges and endpa- pers. (216997)

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125. [THE BEATLES]. SCHELER (Max) & KIRCHHERR (Astrid). Liverpool Days. Profusely illustrated largely with b&w photos as plates in sequences and in the text, some with blue tints in photomontage. First limited, ‘deluxe’ edition. Large 4to., [3pp.], pp-4-122, afterword by Mike Byrne, decorative endpapers, integral bookplate, in the orig- inal grey cloth, with an onlaid original b&w portrait of Lennon on the upper board, blue cloth covered slipcase with gilt titles, two altered photographic illustrations in white and black respectively. One of 2500 copies signed by the two principal authors. Guilford & Hamburg, Genesis Publications Ltd. in association with K&K, 1994. £175

Near fine. Scarce. The story and photographs from Kirchherr and Scheler’s trip to London to shoot the Fab Four on the set of ‘Hard Day’s Night’. (133344)

126. EDWARD VII (1841-1910). King of Great Britain and Ireland. Letter Signed (“Arthur Ed- ward P”) to A[lexander] C[ampbell] Mackenzie, requesting his services for the Royal College of Mu- sic’s Annual Examination for 1887. 2 pages 4to, Royal College of Music, Kensington Gore, 20 December 1886. £295

“As the end of the fourth year of the Royal College of Music is approaching when several of the Scholarships expire, as President of the Council I . . . hope that you may be able to render the College the aid of your valuable services, in connec- tion with the Annual Examination for 1887. . .”

The Prince of Wales had been instrumental in the establishment of the Royal College of Music in 1882. The composer and conductor Alexander Campbell Mackenzie was also a distinguished teacher and in 1887 he was appointed principal of the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College’s main competitor.

Old tape repair to the central horizontal fold has been removed under our direction. (7576)

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great pleasure in signing myself Your sincerely J.Forbes 127. [GIELGUD (John)]. CHEKHOV (Anton). Robertson. Aug. 1906’, ‘Yours sincerely Herbert Beer- The Cherry Orchard. bohm Tree’, others include Julia Neilson, Marie Tempest, English version by Sir John Gielgud. First edition thus. 8vo., and Irene Vanburgh. (218216) original pictorial boards. London, Heinemann. 1963. £100 129. [IRVING (Henry)]. WILLS (W.G.). Faust, in Five Acts. adapted and arranged for Signed by Gielgud on the front free endpaper ‘John Henry Irving from the first part of Goethe’s Gielgud Wotton 1981’, with his bookplate to the front tragedy. pastedown. Spine slightly faded and boards a little soiled First edition. 8vo., original burgundy moiré cloth, gilt., a.e.g. and marked. (131275) (London), Lyceum Theatre. 1886. £350

128. [IRVING (Henry)]. [TERRY (Ellen)]. LAW- Inscribed on the third front free endpaper by Irving, RENCE (Boyle). Celebrities of the Stage. ‘Mrs Campbell Clarke from Henry Irving, with every Illustrations. First edition. Folio. Bevelled cloth gilt. London, sweet kind remembrance. Oct 1889’. Sir Campbell George Newnes. (1899/1900). £500 Clarke, knighted 1897, worked as a sub-librarian for the British Museum for eighteen years before he became a A great many of the full page coloured plates are in- special correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, during his scribed or signed by the subjects, including ‘Charles time there he adapted several plays for the stage. He and J. Davies with every kind wish from his friend, Henry his wife Annie were keen theatre goers, and correspond- Irving, 1900’, ‘In remembrance (with best wishes and ed with Irving. An excellent copy with a rubbed and regards) of Ellen Terry, 1900’, ‘Dear Mr. Davies. I have faded spine. (131235)

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130. LEONCAVALLO (Ruggiero). (1858-1919). 131. MENUHIN (Yehudi). Unfinished Italian Composer. best known for Pagliacci. Journey. Autograph Musical Quotation Signed and dated Illustrations. First edition. 8vo., cloth, dust jacket. London, (“R. Leoncavallo London 14 Sept. 1911”), the Macdonald and Jane’s, 1977. £250 opening two bars of his most famous aria “Ridi A presentation copy inscribed by the author to Margot Pagliacci”. Fonteyn on the title page: ‘To dear Margot, in return for 1 page oblong 8vo, neatly window mounted under a repro- your absolutely sweet book, and in gratitude for being duction photograph of Leoncavallo, glazed and in a narrow my faery princess in Swan Lake, admiringly Yehudi black and gilt frame, measuring in all c. 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 ins. 1977’. Menuhin’s printed compliments slip tipped in. An £895 excellent copy. (214131)

Pagliacci, the tragic story of a jealous husband in a commedia del’arte troupe, had its premiere in Milan in 1892 and was an instant success. It had its first perfor- mance in London shortly afterwards with Nellie Melba as Nedda. An attractive quotation. (10380)

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132. MILLER (Arthur). Death of a Salesman. Certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem. Book club edition. 8vo., original orange cloth, dust jacket. New York, Viking Press, 1949. £2,500

Signed by the author and the cast of a later production, including the signatures of Arthur Kennedy and Mildred Dun- nock, who played Biff and Linda in the play’s first performance. An excellent copy in dust jacket, slightly nicked at the extremities. (132332)

133. [POWELL (Michael)]. [PRESSBURGER (Emeric)]. GIBBON (Monk). The Red Shoes Ballet. A Critical Study. Illustrations. First edition. 4to., original cream cloth. Saturn Press, London. 1948. £1,500

Inscribed on the half title page by Powell and Pressburger, ‘February 26 1949. To Kai Berg Madsen - it’s a matter of life and death! Michael Powell’; ‘***** to Kai Berg Madsen from Emeric Pressburger’. The recipient was an actor/writer. An excellent copy with a few marks to the cover. (131588)

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134. [PRESLEY (Elvis)], ALLEN (Lew), MCCA- RTNEY (Mike) (Foreword & Editor). Elvis 137. SMYTH (Dame Ethel). Impressions & The Birth of Rock. The Photographs of Lew that Remained. Allen. 2 volumes. Illustrations. Third edition. 8vo., cloth. London, Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. First limited edi- Longmans. 1920. £100 tion. Folio, [5pp.], p-6-154, [2pp.], in the original blue suede covered boards, titles block in silver, all edges silver, quality A presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper control slip loosely inserted, with 3 signed photos by Allen in ‘Nona with much love for her birthday. Christmas Eve a printed envelope, in a black paper covered box with cloth 1943 from Ethel’. Smyth with remarkable determination covered lid, titles in blue and white, b&w portrait, in a black became a composer at a time when women composers cloth string bag with titles in blue, one of 350 ‘deluxe’ suede- were rare, and was very successful, becoming a Dame bound copies signed by Allen and McCartney from a total in 1922. Sadly in her later years she lost her hearing. run of 1750 copies. Guildford, Genesis Publications, 2006. She was heavily involved in the Suffrage movement, £600 and her emotional life was directed at members of her own sex. At age 71 she fell in love with Virginia Woolf, As new. (133382) who described the experience as ‘like being caught by a large crab’. Small chip to spine of volume one, covers of Signed By Andy Warhol volume two spotted. (218110) 135. [THE ROLLING STONES] Love You Live 138. STRAVINSKY (Igor). CRAFT (Robert). Original US pressing, double LP, gatefold, with the original Memories and Conversations. inner sleeves. Vinyl near-mint, sleeve very good, extremities Illustrations. First edition. 8vo., cloth, dust jacket. London, slightly rubbed and minor ringwear. Front cover signed by Faber and Faber. 1960. £650 Andy Warhol. Rolling Stones Records: COC 2-9001 1977. £250 Ownership inscription in pencil on the front free endpa- per of Agnes de Mille, inscribed underneath ‘To Agnes The third offical live album released by the band, the - that is from me who admires you so much I. Stravin- recordings of which are taken tours in the United States sky’, further inscribed at the foot of the page ‘to Agnes de and Europe between 1975-77, with some post-production Mille from an admirer of many years Robert Craft’. Dust overdubbing. jacket worn, torn at the head of the spine with some loss Front cover signed by Andy Warhol, who designed the extending to the front cover. (218188) album artwork. (224536)

136. SHAFFER (Peter). Royal Hunt of the Sun; programme. 8vo., original wrappers. London, The National Theatre. 1974. £100

Loosely inserted is the cast list, inscribed by the author: “For William Bradford, with best wishes from Peter Shaf- fer”. A very good copy. (132174)

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139. ACCUM (Fredrick). A Treatise on the 140. [ARDIZZONE (Edward)]. GORHAM Art of Making Wine from Native Fruits; exhibit- (Maurice). The Local. ing the chemical principles upon which the art of wine Fifteen full-colour lithographs by Ardizzone. First edition. making depends; the fruits best adapted for home made Large 8vo., original illustrated boards. London, Cassell. 1939. wines and the method of preparing them. Hand-coloured engraved vignette of a wine press on title £650 page. First edition. Pp. 92, plus 24 pages of articles and correspondence about and by Frederick Accum concerning his Beautifully illustrated by one of Britain’s best loved work on the adulteration of food and culinary poisons. Sm. artists, The Local takes us on a tour of pubs in pre-WWII 8vo., contemporary mottled paper covered boards, original London with Edward Ardizzone and Maurice Gorham as printed paper spine label, slight fading at extremities, spine our guides. with some wear and small piece of later marbled paper stuck down, still a rather handsome copy. London, Longman, A very good copy, slightly chipped on the lower spine and slightly marked, but a superior example. (220191) Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. 1820. £875

Carl Friedrich Accum was born in Bückeburg, a small 141. BAREHAM (Lindsay) & HOPKINSON German town some 20 miles south-west of Hanover. (Simon). Roast Chicken and Other Stories. He came to Britain aged 24 where he became an apoth- Illustrations by Flo Bayley. First edition. Pp. x, 230. 4to., ecary. While working he continued to study chemistry original bright blue cloth, unclipped dust jacket (very slight and anatomy publishing his Treatise on Adulterations of creases to top edge), very good. London, Ebury Press. 1994. Food and Culinary Poisons published in 1820. It caused £100 uproar at the time and woke up a complacent public. The final result of this work was the Adulteration Act of Extremely scarce in first edition. The book was a slow 1860. This work on wine reflects Accums own interests burner, after 11 years it was only selling slowly and had both in the wine and the chemical process involved in not even earned back its advance when in 2005 it was its creation and gives wonderful recipes for a number of judged by a poll of food writers and cooks to be “The different wines. Inoffensive ownership stamps at end, on most useful cookery book of all time”, and it became front pastedown and on verso of title. something of a publishing sensation. (117366) Simon BG 16; Gabler p.4 (119341)

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“A GOOD SCOTS HAGGIES” 142. MACIVER (Susanna). Cookery and Pastry. As taught and practised by Mrs Maciver, Teach- er of those Arts in Edinburgh. Third Edition. 12mo (170 x 100m). xii, 238pp. Edinburgh: printed for the Author; and sold by her, at her house..., 1782. £950

A good copy of an important Scottish recipe book - including the first printed instructions for the prepara- tion of haggis - with additional manuscript recipes by a Scottish cook. A large collection of over 300 recipes for soups, fish, pasties, pies and pickles by the cookery writer and teacher, Susanna Maciver, who, as is clear from the imprint, ran a cookery school from her home in Edinburgh. Maciver notes in her advertisement to the reader that she began her cookery school “for instructing young Ladies in this necessary branch of female educa- tion”, she goes on to state that “many of her scholars, and others, having repeatedly solicited her to make her receipts public” leading her to prepare this work. The book is particularly famous for providing the first printed recipe for the preparation of haggis (p.63), but also in- cludes recipes for rice custards, marrow pudding, apple pie, trifle, calf’s foot pie, short-bread and even “Indian pickle”. The endpapers of this copy are crammed with numerous early manuscript recipes including one for 143. [REYNIERE (Grimod de la)]. Alma- “British Champagne” another for a “sore or inflamed nach Des Gourmands, servant de guide dans leg”, “ginger beer” and “British wine”. les moyens de faire excellente chere. Second year, second revised edition (the first edition of this second year appeared in 1804). Frontispiece “Les audiences d’un gourmand”. Pp. {ii}, 318. 12mo., contemporary calf, speckled edges, rebacked with original spine label laid down, speckled edges frontispiece very fresh and very good internally. Paris, Maradin. An. XIII or 1805. £250

The second in a series of eight volumes published anony- mously by a noted Paris gourmet, Grimod de la Reynière between 1803 and 1812. Each volume had a different frontispiece designed by the author and a wealth of in- formation about food, including recipes, treatises, ideas and theories about food &c. The almanac was extremely popular and often ran into second and third editions.

Vicaire 425; Bitting p.202; Simon BG 797. (all this second edition). Cagle 225, Pennell p.131. (118443)

144. SHAIDA (Margaret) The Legendary Cuisine of Persia. Colour photography by Stuart Randall, line drawings by Melanie Kaveh. First edition. Pp. xiv, 325. 4to., original red laminated boards, headcaps and corners bumped, top board curling very slightly, unclipped dust jacket with sticky label where price is and very mild creasing. Henley on Thames, Lieuse Publications. 1992. £100

A delicious book and extremely scarce first edition. Glen- fiddich Award Winner 1992. (117299) 76 Contact: [email protected]

The first work to describe all the new beverages of the seventeenth century 145. [SPON (Jacob)]. DUFOUR (Philippe Sylvestre). Traitez Nouveaux & Curieux du Café, du Thé et du Chocolate. Ouvrage également necessaire aux medecins, & à tous ceux qui aiment leur santé. Frontispiece of a grand Eastern gentleman, a Chinaman and a Mayan/Aztec drinking coffee, tea and chocolate respectively, 3 plates and ornamental headpiece and initial at the head of each of the three chapters. First edition. 12mo., contemporary calf expertly repaired at head and foot of spine, spine elaborately gilt in panels with raised bands, edges sprinkled in red, lacking free endpapers, worm hole on upper board, ink blot to very edge of first few leaves. Lyon, Chez Jean Girin & B. Riviere, 1685. £1,500

The first work in any language to describe all the new beverages of the seventeenth century. It has been mooted, notably by Bitting and Vicaire, that Dufour was in fact a noted Lyonnais doctor called Jacob Spon who wrote an important account of his travels with George Wheler in the Levant, Voyage D’Italie, De Dalmatie, De Grece, et Du Levant, 1675-1676, published in 1679. Spon was particularly important for his description of antiquities and the archaeology of Greece. He died in the year the present book was published. A remarkably handsome copy once belonging to Joseph Vehling with his bookla- bel on the front pastedown, his shelf label on the lower one and his stamp on the first blank. There is also an ownership inscription of U. Bouchet on the first blank with a note “no. 120 de l’inventaire”. Maggs 645, item 190; Vicaire 293; Bitting p.134; Cagle 169; Navari: The Blackmer Collection, p.334-5. (118011)

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