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1. Achebe (Chinua) Things Fall Apart. Heinemann, 1958, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY FOR FIRST EDITION, a couple of handling marks and a few faint spots occasionally, a couple of passages marked lightly in pencil to the margin, pp. [viii], 185, crown 8vo, original tan wrappers printed to front and backstrip, the front with publication date and price written in blue ink, the stamp of ‘Juta & Co Ltd’ in Cape Town and ‘21 Apr 1958’ (date of sending?) stamped at foot, a few spots to edges, pencilled ownership inscription to half- title (flyleaf not called for), proof dustjacket chipped at head of backstrip panel with spotting to rear panel and rubbing to extremities, Juta & Co stamp at foot of front flap, good $3,900 An important work of post-colonial fiction, set in Nigeria at the end of the nineteenth-century - a scarce proof, the dustjacket of which does not carry the price but otherwise matches the design of the published version. A copy with African provenance, the publisher having offices in Cape Town.

2. (Alembic Press.) RICHARDSON (Maureen) Plant Papers’ Paper Plants. Kennington, Oxford, Alembic Press, 1989, FIRST EDITION, 25/25 COPIES (from an edition of 145 copies) printed on a special making of Japanese handmade Kozo paper, 4 linocuts by John Gibbs printed in brown, 14 tipped-in samples of plant paper (enumerated below) made by Maureen Richardson, this special edition with five additional paper samples (one printed with a John Gibbs linocut), pp. [57], oblong 8vo, original tan wrappers of handmade plant paper (Yucca and Manila), stab-bound with red thread in the Japanese style, printed label to front, enclosed with further samples in a Japanese ‘shiho- chitsu’ clamshell box, fine $520 An exquisite treatise on modern paper-making in a traditional style, showcasing the work of Maureen Richardson at Plant Papers, where various plant-fibres are employed as an alternative to wood-pulp. Present here in sample form are Willow, Flax, Hemp, Bulrush, Giant Hogweed, Thistle, Maize, Rye, Buttercup, Dandelion, Onion, Scarlet Runner Bean, Marigold, and Poppy. [With:] (Alembic Press.) WORDE PAPERS 5: The first papermakers. Oxford, 1991, a small folded sheet of blue paper with a tipped-in sample of ‘wasp-paper’ - i.e., made from wood rasped and masticated via said animal and then built up ‘to make a delicate lightweight paper’. A charming piece of ephemera produced for the March 1991 luncheon of the Wynkyn de Worde Society. [And:] 3 further ephemeral keepsakes relating to the same occasion, by other presses (one the Hayloft Press, the others with ‘fep’ as the only clue)

‘CON MUCHAS NOTACIONES’ 3. (Americana.) VIRGIL Las Georgicas de Virgilio, principe de los poetas Latinos nueuamente traduzidas en nuestra lengua Castellana en verso suelto, iuntamente con la decima Egloga, con muchas notaciones que siruen en lugar de comento por Iuan de Guzman. Salamanca: Iuan Fernandez, 1586, FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION, a couple of small holes in the title-page, and one in the succeeding leaf, repaired with the loss of a few letters, title a little short at fore-edge, contemporary ownership inscription on title, partly corroded, minor damp-staining, ff. [xxiv], 150, 12mo, recased in old vellum, spine consolidated $23,400 The first complete translation of the Georgics into Spanish. This in itself is a milestone, but the present petite volume packs an even bigger punch in the ‘notaciones’, whose importance as Americana it seems has only fairly recently been understood and appreciated. For in the notes, which occupy half the book, Guzman draws upon his (supposed) experiences in the New World. If he did not actually sojourn there, he does introduce ‘Americanismos’, e.g. ‘canoa... el barco de un palo’, which, he tells us, comes from Santo Domingo. He introduces other ‘vocables peregrinos’, such as ‘guayauas’, which taste like quince, and describes how these ‘vocables’ enrich the Spanish language (a language Guzman sees as becoming universal). See Carmela V. Mattza, Las Américas en las Geórgicas de Juan de Guzmán, Calíope, Vol. 20, No. 1 (2015), pp. 29-50; and Margherita Morreale, El nuevo mundo en las "notaciones" de Juan de Guzmán a su versión de las Geórgicas, Bulletin hispanique, 2002 104-2, pp. 577-626, listing all the ‘americanismos’ and topics bearing on the New World. Rarity: USTC records 11 copies, 6 of which are in BNE, and only 3 of which are extra-Iberian: BL, Houghton, Berkeley; WorldCat adds Yale. Not in RBH.

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4. Amis (Kingsley) One Fat Englishman. A Novel. Victor Gollancz, 1963, FIRST EDITION, pp. 192, crown 8vo, original red boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge a trifle dusty, dustjacket, near fine $330 Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: ‘John Baxter, from another fat Englishman, Kingsley Amis’. The recipient, an author and bibliophile, recounts the circumstances of his Amis collection being signed in his entertaining memoir ‘A Pound of Paper’.

5. Anacreon [Greek Title:] TEIOU MELE. Parma: In Aedibus Palatinis [typis Bodonianis] 1791, printed on heavy paper with cross watermark with initials "FP", with engraved portrait of Anacreon on title, and of José Nicolás de Azara (the Dedicatee) on the Dedication, printed in capitals throughout, minor spotting, mainly around the edges, pp. [iv], cvviii, 111, small 8vo in 4s, contemporary red morocco, single gilt fillet on sides, gilt ruled compartments on spine, lettered in gilt direct, inner dentelles gilt with a distinctive small roll tool (alternating squares and lozenges with a blind saltire in the middle, separated by a dot), board edges gilt with a roll tool of small dots, gilt edges, light Prussian blue paste-downs and end-leaves, spine very slightly darkened, armorial bookplate of the Marsh family of Gaynes Park, Essex, very good $1,300 A most elegant edition, uniformly praised by bibliographers: a ‘bijou typographique’ (Renouard); ‘très jolie édition’ (Brunet); of this, and the 1785 4to edition, ‘more elegant and exquisitely finished productions cannot be conceived’ (Dibdin); &c.

6. (Anthology. North-Shields.) A SELECT COLLECTION OF POEMS, from admired Authors, and scarce Miscellanies. With many Pieces never before Published. North-Shields: Printed by W. Kelley, Bookseller; sold by J. Bew, Paternoster Row, London, 1790, FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, pp. vii, 240, 12mo, contemporary calf, spine gilt with a flower in each compartment, red lettering piece, a little abraded, good $650 A pleasant copy of a scarce (not in Johnson) and interesting selection. Some have known authors (Percy, Burns, Mrs. Thrale, Crabbe, &c) but most are anonymous, and some not exactly from ‘Miscellanies’: e.g. Verses left in a Chop House, Verses Copied from the Window of an obscure Lodging-House in London. At the end are a number of poems by J. Bedingfeld, originally of Oxborogh, later of Lincoln’s Inn. Many of the poems are amourous, e.g. A Gentleman to a Surgeon letting his Mistress (i.e. phlebotomising her). ESTC records 3 copies in the UK, 8 in North America.

7. [Aubrey [or Hobry] (Mary)] A French Midwife who murdered her Husband, in Long Acre. Anno 1687-8. Published by J. Cauldfield, Jan. 1, 1798, single sheet engraving, 218 x 185 mm to image edge, legend and to lower edge 24 mm, narrow margins, coloured by a contemporary hand, laid down on card $1,170 The sensationalised central image is of Mary wielding a meat cleaver, her husband already decapitated, his head - dripping blood - held by the hair by the son, the lower part of the right leg beneath the table, blood dripping from the severed limb. Mary is about to make another cut, aiming to sever the upper part of the right leg (by the crotch). She is egged on by a devil and a hag; vignette at the top left of the burning at the stake. This case caused quite a stir at the time, given the feverish politics. ‘That three illustrations of Mary Hobry's crime and punishment are included in a deck of playing cards about the Revolution suggests the significance of the crime as a portent of the social and political disorder which could flourish under a Catholic king’ (ODNB). It also raised the question, in the most dramatic way, of the powerlessness of the wife of an abusive husband. All accounts of the murder suggest that the marriage had been contentious and violent. The couple fought about Denis's extravagance, especially his seizure and waste of what Mary Hobry earned through her “industrious Care” as a midwife, his drunkenness and dissolute life, which Mary claimed had infected her with a sexually transmitted disease, and his insistence that she “submit to a compliance with him in Villanies contrary to Nature” (L'Estrange, quoted in ODNB). Her crime was ‘petty treason and murder.’ Though there were several publications at the time about the case, interest in it seems to have faded, and we find no reference to until the present publication, over a century later. Perhaps it came in response to another febrile political climate, or perhaps in the wake of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. See Frances E. Dolan, Dangerous Familiars, Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550 - 1700, pp. 34-35; and Randall Martin, Women, Murder, and Equity in Early Modern England, p. 68 ff. The Royal Collections Trust catalogue describes this as a copy of an older print.

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8. Azevedo Tojal (Pedro de) Carlos reduzido, Inglaterra illustrada. Poema heroico offerecido a à soberana Magestade delRey N. S. D. Joaõ V... Lisbon: Antonio Pedrozo Galram, 1716, FIRST EDITION, woodcut arms of Portugal on title, first 2 leaves reinforced at inner margin, a little damp-staining in the upper inner corners, and a small patch of worming in the upper margin about half way through, pp. [viii], 408, [8], 4to, contemporary Portuguese speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red lettering piece, recased (cleverly), crack at head of lower joint, slightly rubbed, good, signature A with a MS continuation, à la Bliss, but the name illegible $980 This rare wok is in two parts. The first chronicles events leading up to the nuptials of Charles II and Catherine of Braganza, with ample details of the fleet that carried her to England, and the celebrations there: her time in Great Britain is largely glossed over, and this part ends with her return, widowed, to Portugal. The second part celebrates the Portuguese-led invasion of Spain in 1707. BL only in COPAC. The dowry of Catherine brought significant advantages to Great Britain, not least the acquisition of Bombay.

9. Baldi (Bernardo) Cronica de Matematici overo Epitome dell'Istoria delle Vite Loro. Urbino: Angelo Antonio Monticelli, 1707, FIRST EDITION, with an engraved view of Urbino on the title-page, pp. [xvi, including half- title], 156, 4to, contemporary vellum, black lettering piece on spine, recased (new end papers), headcaps defective, Walter Bowman’s copy with his signature on verso of half-title, good $2,600 First edition of the first history of mathematics written by a European. Probably completed in 1596, the Cronica arranges its brief biographical entries as a genealogical account of the restoration of mathematics from Ancient Greece (beginning with Euphorbus) to contemporary Italy (ending with Guidobaldo del Monte), including an impressive list of Arabic practitioners. It was an attempt to do for mathematics what Vasari had done for art. A polymath of remarkable range who left a large corpus of writings, Baldi (1553- 1617) was a serious mathematician and translator of mathematical works (including Hero of Alexandria); he studied in Urbino with Federico Commandino and Guidobaldo del Monte. The printer's motive for publishing the Cronica in 1707 was to prepare an audience for the more detailed - if less inclusive - two volume Vite [Lives] which never followed. Rediscovered only in 1972, the voluminous Lives has meant that the less detailed Cronica has received little attention. But as the printer Monticelli points out, rather than being merely an abridgment of the larger project, the Cronica, with 366 biographical entries, is over half again as large as the Vite and represents a different but related project for the construction of a history of mathematics. Giovanni Maria Crescimbeni (1663-1728) described the genesis of the Cronica in his biographical notice on Baldi, written about 1704, just before its publication: ‘After finishing the Vite he noted that even before Thales there were mathematicians, whose lives could not be written due to the loss of sources, but whose names survived and were worth recalling. Moreover, he thought that the vastness of the Vite he had written might make reading the work a little unwieldly and cumbersome, and lastly that after Clavius others had lived who were worth mentioning, so after a while he was persuaded to make a succinct chronology of these same Professors, starting with Euphorbus instead of Thales, and ending with Guidobaldo de' Marchesi del Monte…. He certainly intended such a useful and beautiful work for the press, as we see both volumes [of the Vite] along with the Cronica carefully transcribed in his own hand, but, whether distracted by something else, or prevented by death, he left them unprinted.’ Walter Bowman, of Cupar, Fife, had a notable mathematical library. We have seen other books from it, including the first edition of Newton’s Principia.

10. Ballard (J.G.) Empire of the Sun. A Novel. Gollancz, 1984, FIRST EDITION, full-page map, margins browned, pp. [viii], 278, 8vo, original black boards, backstrip gilt lettered, a few tiny spots to top edges, a couple of faint stains to other edges and a sliver of waterstaining to bottom corner of free endpapers, contemporary ownership inscription to flyleaf, first issue dustjacket with only Greene and Carter reviews on rear panel, very good $260 Signed by the author on the title-page.

11. (Baynes.) KRUTCH (Joseph Wood) The Most Wonderful Animals that Never Were. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969, FIRST EDITION, title-page design with further headpiece and full-page illustration to each of the ten chapters, pp. 187, [1], 8vo, original blue cloth, Pauline Baynes decoration stamped in gilt

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12. Baynes (Pauline) [Original drawing:] ‘Unicorn’, for 'The Most Wonderful Animals that Never Were' by Joseph Wood Krutch. circa 1969, black ink with some heightening in white, some pencil marks visible, 16 x 10.5 cm approx (image size, framed size 44 x 34.5 cm) mounted and framed in English oak under museum glass using high-grade acid-free materials, very good condition $2,600 Signed by the artist in pencil and with her note as to the book and section for which it was intended. A striking image, showing the unicorn taking comfort in the company of flower-bearing maidens whilst a hunter with dagger drawn lurks behind a tree. Baynes’s later work demonstrates a growing repertoire of technique; here the mottled effect that softens the borders of the image works in the service of her established ability in composition - a quality reflected in the printed version, but considerably clearer in this original.

BOUND BY JAMES AND STUART BROCKMAN 13. Beerbohm (Max) Zuleika Dobson. Or an Oxford Love Story. William Heinemann, 1911, FIRST EDITION, half-title and title printed in brown, a few spots to prelims some of which tempered with chalk by binder, pp. [viii], 350, [1], crown 8vo, new James and Stuart Brockman binding (with their ticket to box and a signed tipped-in Binder’s Note at rear), full Harmatan ‘Oxford blue’ goatskin with onlays of goatskin and calf in black and yellow, horizontal gilt rules, backstrip lettered in gilt and further decorations in gilt and silver to Sheldonian ‘Emperors’, multi-coloured end-bands incorporating both Oxford and Cambridge blues, top edge gilt, others roughtrimmed, endpapers of Louise Brockman blue and black marbled paper, in custom dropdown box with leather label lettered in gilt $5,200 A unique and very handsome binding, commissioned by Blackwell’s Rare Books, on this classic Oxford novel - superbly conceived and executed by the Brockmans, basing their design on motifs from the story (commissioned by Blackwell’s Rare Books). The oars of Eights Week and the turned heads of the Sheldonian Emperors (including the detail of sweat on their brows) occupy the upper half, with the spire-filled Oxford skyline wrapping around the lower, the gilt rules going over this, suggestive of drowning. The heroine’s final departure for Cambridge is discreetly referred to in the presence of the other blue in the end-bands.

14. Beke (Charles T.) An Enquiry into M. Antoine d'Abbadie's Journey to Kaffa, in the Years 1843 and 1844, to discover the Source of the Nile. James Madden, 1850, FIRST EDITION, folding map, 2 figures in the text, errata slip, presentation inscription on title- page, several marginal markings and annotations, faintly toned at fore-margin through initial gatherings, pp. iv, 56, 8vo, publisher’s printed wrappers, slightly soiled, backstrip with a few short tears with slight loss at head and foot, good $1,560 Inscription on the title-page to the balloonist, founder of the Meteorological Society, and co-founder of the Aeronautical Society: 'James Glaisher Esq/ from the author'. Beke's discoveries in Abyssinia, his mapping of the Nile Valley, and efforts to annotate local languages, were considerable, and resulted in extensive international recognition. He took great exception, to the point of challenging the author's veracity, to the French/Irish explorer, Antoine d'Abbadie's account of his travels in Kaffa. His account, in fact, was not completely erroneous but totally wrong in his contention that the Blue Nile was the main stream - therefore Beke's primary point was correct. The matter was considered by the Geographical Society of Paris, of which body both men were Gold Medallists, without a conclusion being reached. Beke consequently resigned and returned his medal. The detailed annotations, presumably by the recipient, are largely in agreement with the text, though on p.17 a map reference is highlighted (’Is one of these in error?’) and a small directional diagram added to the lower margin, while on p.24, there is an interesting note regarding the nature of oral information transmission.

15. (Bible. Hebrew.) BIBLIA HEBRAICA, eleganti charactere impressa. Editio Nova. Ex accuratissima recensione doctissimi ac celeberrimi Hebræi Menasseh Ben Israel. Amsterdam: Henricus Laurentius, 1635-36,

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4 parts in 1 vol., Hebrew titles within architectural border, text in double cloumns, short tear in Latin title repaired, not affecting text, inscription at head erased, a bit of dark staining towards the end in the upper inner corner, lacking a blank leaf, 4to, contemporary ?Dutch calf over thick wooden boards, blind roll tooled borders on sides, rebacked to style, boards exposed at corners $2,600 ‘The second, and most important edition of the Bible prepared by Menasseh ben Israel’ (Darlow & Moule). Ben Israel, a Portuguese- Jewish rabbi, scholar, diplomat and printer, founded the first Hebrew printing press in Amsterdam in 1626, at age 22. The date on the Latin title-page is 1635; the dates on the three Hebrew title-pages for the parts within have been altered in ink from 1631 to 1636. Verse numbers have been supplied later, probably 20th century.

16. Bilby (Julian W.) Among Unknown Eskimo. An Account of Twelve Years intimate relations with the Primitive Eskimo of Ice-bound Baffin Land, with a Description of their Ways of Living, Hunting, Customs & Beliefs. Seeley Service & Co., 1923, FIRST EDITION, 16 photographic plates (including frontispiece), 10 illustrations, 1 folding map, pp. 280, [8, ads], folding map, 8vo, original black boards with pale blue eskimo conjuror motif on upper board, boards with a couple of faint spots, upper board lower edge a little rubbed, backstrip ends slightly pushed, dustjacket with repeated motif on cover and backstrip, imperceptible repaired tear at top of backstrip, very good $1,170 A detailed description of Baffin Island and the Inuit way of life, with an appendix of eskimo deities, including the vampiric Aipalookvik who ‘Has a large head and face, huuman in appearance but ugly like a cod’s. Is a destroyer by desire and tries to bite and eat the kyakers.’ (p.266). His account is also notable for descriptions of euthanasia: a blind man is willingly led to an ice hole where ‘He went right under, then and there—under the ice—and was immediately drowned and frozen. A handy piece of ice served to seal the death trap, and all was over. Nandla had died on the hunt, and had entered the Eskimo heaven like the other valiant men of his tribe, and taken his place with the doughtiest of them, where there would be joy and plenty for evermore.’ (p. 153). From the library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching with his mark in pencil on flyleaf.

ESSLEMONT DESIGNER BINDING 17. (Binding.) (Fleece Press.) NASH (Paul) Dear Mercia. Paul Nash Letters to Mercia Oakley, 1909-18. Edited by Janet Boulton. Wakefield, Fleece Press, 1991, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 300 COPIES printed in black and cinnamon on Zerkall mouldmade paper, with monochrome reproductions, first published here, of illustrations by Nash used in the letters and even on the envelopes, folding-plate, tipped in photographic reproductions of portraits of Nash and Oakley, colourprinted tipped in frontispiece, pp. 107, imperial 8vo, designer binding by David Esslemont, full goatskin with an overall design hand- painted and incorporating the title-lettering, gilt tooling, leather hinges and paste-paper free endpapers, in fleece-lined cloth drop-back box with printed label, compartment containing folded larger print of frontispiece plate and Esslemont’s original design for this binding, fine $3,250

18. (Blue Print Press.) DYLAN (Bob) Subterranean Homesick Blues. San Giacomo di Veglia, Blue Print Press, 2018, 12/20 COPIES signed by the artist and printed on Hahnemuehle mould-made paper, pp. [9], 4to, original sewn white wrappers with 3 etchings by Sabrina Frison printed in blue, new $390

CAPILARITY 19. Borelli (Giovanni Alfonso) De motionibus naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus. Bologna: Dominici Ferri, 1670, FIRST EDITION, woodcut diagrams and illustrations in the text, sliver missing from top margin of the fourth leaf (no loss of text), a bit of damp-staining at the beginning, pp. [viii], 566, [5], 4to, contemporary or near contemporary vellum over boards, citron lettering piece on spine, sprinkled edges, good $7,150

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One of the most important early treatises on fluid mechanics. Borelli ‘argues against positive levity, discusses the Torricellian experiment, takes up siphons, pumps, and the nature of fluidity, tries to understand the expansion of water while freezing, and deals with fermentation and other chemical processes’ (DSB). ‘This work is important as the first treatise on capillarity, and for containing important investigations on the action of capillary tubes, in which the author, inter alia, formulates the law that the height of the ascent of liquids in capillary tubes is inversely proportional to their diameters. His investigations also led him to the conclusion that the phenomenon of capillarity is independent of the pressure of air’ (Zeitlinger in Sotheran, First supplement, 3060). ‘[De motionibus naturalibus] was well known among Borelli’s contemporaries and is quoted by Varignon in his Projet d’une nouvelle mechanique. It is reviewed in the first volume of Philosophical Transactions Abridged, where it is praised for its thoroughness, for the discussion of Torricelli's experiments and for Borelli’s stand against Descartes on the nature of fluidity’ (Roberts & Trent). Borelli regarded this work, together with his De vi percussionis (1667), as necessary preparation for his masterpiece, De motum animalium (1680-81), on which he had worked since the early 1660s. There were three subsequent editions.

WITH A LETTER FROM A.J. AYER 20. Bradley (Francis Herbert) The Presuppositions of Critical History. Oxford: James Parker, 1874, FIRST EDITION, pp. iv, 66, crown 8vo, original blue wrappers printed in black to front, light overall dustsoiling and a few marks, the backstrip ends chipped (a little more at foot with a very short closed tear creeping round to the back panel), later ownership inscription of John Willes to inside cover, good $2,600 The first book by this major British philosopher, dating from the first years of his fellowship at Merton College, Oxford - a short work, but not so short that it might be considered other than a book (ODNB considers ‘Ethical Studies’ from 1876 his first such), dealing with the problem of evidence in historical research. Laid in at the front of the volume is a letter from February 1962 on New College, Oxford headed paper, from the philosopher A.J. Ayer to ‘Dear John’ (not he of the ownership inscription), which thanks him for the loan of the book - ‘It is strange stuff, even more ‘literary’ than his later work. But, as nearly always, he is troubled by genuine problems’. The ‘literary’ quality of Bradley’s work that Ayer identifies partly explains his appeal to authors such as T.S. Eliot, whose doctoral work was on ‘Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F. H. Bradley’.

21. Bradley (Richard) The Country Housewife and Lady’s Director, in the Management of a House, and the Delights and profits of a Farm. Containing instructions for managing the brew- house, and malt-liquors in the cellar; the making of wines of all forts. Directions for the dairy, in the improvement of butter and cheese upon the worst of soils; the feeding and making of brawn; the ordering of fish, fowl, herbs, roots, and all other useful branches belonging to a country-seat, in the most elegant manner for the table. Practical observation concerning distilling; with the best method of making ketchup, and many other curious and durable sauces. The whole distributed in their proper months, from the beginning to the end of the year. With particular remarks relating to the drying of kilning of Saffron. The third edition. Printed for Woodman and Lyon, 1728, title printed in red and black, with an engraved frontispiece, first 3 leaves after the frontispiece repaired at foot and inner margin, (not affecting text, ?lacking half-title, some damp-staining, pp. xi (but ?lacking half-title, if including the title), 187, 8vo, contemporary, or nearly contemporary half vellum (?Continental), red edges, slight loss to upper edge of lower board, good $1,950 Richard Bradley (1688-1732) was Professor of Botany at Cambridge University, though he had no academic training; neither did he have medical training, though he practised medicine on his travels in Holland. He was ever beset by money problems. This book was intended to be popular, and the style accordingly is engaging. ‘The Malt of this Country [sic, i.e. Dorset] is of a pale Colour; and the best Drink of this County that I have met with to be sold, is at a small House against the Church at Blackwater...’ Maclean notes that no copy of a first edition of the present work has been recorded. Extremely scarce, as are all the early editions. 4 copies in ESTC, 2 in the UK (not in BL), 1 in the US (Virginia).

ARCTIC INSPIRATION FOR FRANKENSTEIN ? 22. Bragg (Benjamin, pseud) A Voyage to the North Pole. Accompanied by his Friend, Captain Slapperwhack; with An Account of the Dangers and Accidents they experienced in the

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Frozen Seas of the Polar Circle. Also, The Manner of their Wintering on the Island of Spitzberg, and Discovery of the Polar Continent. G. Walker, Great Portland-Street, 1817, engraved frontispiece, folding polar map, slightly toned throughout, first chapter lightly spotted, damp stains at upper corners of polar map and faintly through upper gutter margin of final gathering, lower third of first half of first gathering detached with short internal tear to preface leaf, pp. [viii], 211, [i], folding map, 12mo, early 20th-century quarter russet morocco gilt, marbled boards, upper joint beginning to crack, head and foot and upper board edges rubbed, good $1,950 The book was published in May, 1817 (Monthly Publications list, The British Critic, vol 7, Rivington, 1817), just as the writing of Frankenstein was nearing completion, and Peter Fjagesund in ‘The Dream of the North: A Cultural History to 1920’, 2014, suggests an ‘intriguing possibility... that Shelley, while working on her novel, had also had access to a specific work of polar fiction published in 1817, namely by the mysteriously pseudonymous BB. Like Frankenstein, it contains a frame narrative, and it combines elements of the irrational and the fantastic and down-to-earth descriptions of the polar world. The main part of the story describes the protagonist’s intense urge to discover the North Pole. When his parents die and he obtains his legacy, he travels, like Shelley’s Walton, to St. Petersbury, where he organises an expedition... From here, the two protagonists sail through the same arctic waters... And just as Walton welcomes the challenge and the danger of the voyage, preferring “glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path”... Bragg insists that “the more difficulty and danger, the greater was the glory...” This is not to suggest that Frankenstein owes any of its originality to Bragg’s novel, but it is an indication of the degree to which Shelley’s mind and imagination were focused on the North, and of how her work was not just a remarkable and almost freak product of her imagination but a reflection of a genuine interest in and research into the polar regions.’ While Shelley’s knowledge of the book is a somewhat remote possibility, it is certain that this was the first, albeit fictional, account of a British explorer preparing and executing a voyage to the North Pole (Crusades against Frost, Frankenstein, Polar Ice and Climate Change in 1818, S. Carroll, 1013, online). In all likelihood the book was written by its publisher, George Walker, who, in 1813, had published The Travels of Sylvester Tramper, the hero of this work appearing here in the preface as the author’s confidante.

23. (Brewhouse Press.) CAVE (Roderick) and Geoffrey Wakeman. Typographia Naturalis. Wymondham, Brewhouse Press, 1967, 218/333 COPIES, letterpress printed in dark sepia throughout, 5 tipped-in plates, including coloured original nature-printed example by Henry Bradbury and contemporary nature prints by Morris Cox and Rigby Graham, title-page with gilt-blocked leaf device designed by Trevor Hickman, pp. [vii], 36, [iii], small folio, original quarter black morocco by Trevor Hickman, backstrip lettered in gilt, upper board of pale green Tosa Bütten paper incorporating skeleton leaf decorated with gilt blocked dots, rear board of olive-green Ingres paper with printer’s emblem blocked in gold, corners slightly knocked, faint mark at lower edge of upper board, very good $260 A history of nature printing, with prospectus.

VOICE OF GOD ’S COPY 24. Britten (Benjamin) Noye's Fludde. The Chester Miracle Play... Op. 50. Vocal Score by Imogen Holst. Hawkes & Son, 1959, vocal score, with ‘Notes on Production’ 8-page leaflet tipped in, pages with ‘Voice of God’ entries marked with paper clips at upper margin, pp. (vii), 76, 4to, pebble-grained navy cloth, cover with owner’s initials ‘K.N.J.L.’ in gilt at lower corner, backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt edges, signed by the composer on headed note paper attached to pastedown, flyleaf with owner’s signature ‘Kenneth Loveless, FSA, Hoxton, 1959’, very good $1,240 The Rev. Kenneth Loveless MBE (for services to Morris dancing) was Britten’s inspiration for the ‘Voice of God’ and performed the part for the production at All Saints’ Church, East Finchley in April 1959 - a community project which was much closer to Britten’s original intention for the production of the work than the professional premiere the previous year at the Aldeburgh Festival.

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‘& YE PLANTATIONS ’ 25. (Broadsides. Royal Navy, Land Forces, &c.) COLLECTION OF 6 ENGRAVED LISTS. Printed... for J. Millan, [1740-?42], 6 engraved broadsides, some trimming within platemarks but no loss of text, the last browned in the upper half and a little below, the penultimate only a little so, folio (approx 385 x 300 mm), folded twice to fit a folio volume, disbound, remains of stitching, almost loose, good $3,250 A very rare set of engraved folio Navy and Army Lists, probably a complete series, on the eve of the War of Jenkins’ Ear. They are recorded in ESTC in 1, or 2, or 3 copies: the only location that has all 6 is the Society of the Cincinnati (although ESTC indicates that they have the first only). Together they provide an extraordinarily detailed synopsis of Britain’s military might, and, at least as far a pay goes, the cost of it. The Plantations recorded in 5) below are Anapolis Royal (Nova Scotia) Placentia and Casno (Newfoundland and Nova Scotia respectively), and South Carolina. Comprising, in the order in which they are assembled (with ESTC Nos. and locations):- 1) A List of his Majesties Royal Navy, Shewing when they were Built & Rebuilt, their Several Dimensions and Tonnage, with their highest & lowest Compliment of Men. ye Number, Nature, Length, & Weight of Guns on ye several decks of each rate. T136812 BL (bis) Soc. Cincinnati. 2) The pay of the officers & men in ye Royal Navy, together with the number in each rate, and their daily allowance of provisions. and ye number of ships. T96131 In this edition, the table in the lower right-hand corner headed: 'Number of ships.. Anno 1740' has the total: 260. 2 others in ESTC, 1 with total unspecified, 1 with total 275. Former BL only, latter BL & Huntington. 3) General list of His Majesty's land forces & marines, shewing the number of regiments, and men in each. The number of half-pay officers on ye British establishment, & amount of their pay. The names and rank of the several corps in the Army 1740. T96130 BL, Huntington. A variant, numbered III, BL and NYPL. 4) The pay of the several officers and men, in His Majesty's garrisons in Great Britain. T96128 BL, Huntington. 5) The pay of the garrisons in Ireland Gibraltar Minorca & ye Plantations. The half-pay of the officers of the navy & of the army both on ye British & Irish establishment. Pensions allow'd to the widows of officers of the army and navy. The distribution of prize money. No. V. N490068 NYPL. 6) The pay & subsistence of his Majesty's land forces on the British & Irish establishment. T96129 BL (bis), Huntington, Göttingen.

26. Bryher [i.e., Winifred Ellerman] Film Problems of Soviet Russia. Photographs chosen and titled by Kenneth Macpherson. Territet: POOL, 1929, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and numerous photographic plates largely showing stills from work discussed, a few small ink-spots not affecting legibility, pp. 140, crown 8vo, original red cloth lettered in gilt to upper board and backstrip, the latter very gently faded, a few faint spots to fore-edge, bookseller ticket at foot of rear pastedown with contemporary ownership inscription to flyleaf, very good $260 The POOL group were pioneering in their serious approach to film as an art-form. Bryher’s study introduces an anglophone audience to a cultural phenomenon to which they were denied access - her research is thorough and well-presented, finding room for personal response and anecdote within the information.

27. Buchan (John) Castle Gay. Hodder and Stoughton, 1930, FIRST EDITION, a couple of faint spots to prelims and final leaves, pp. 320, crown 8vo, original green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt with author’s monogram in same to upper board, slight lean to spine, a few faint spots to edges, front endpapers faintly spotted withownership inscription to flyleaf, dustjacket lightly soiled with a few small nicks, light chipping at corners, very good $390

28. Butts (Mary) Traps for Unbelievers. Desmond Harmsworth, 1932, FIRST EDITION, pp. 51, crown 8vo, original speckled blue cloth, backstrip lettered in red, edges roughtrimmed, very faint spotting to endpapers, dustjacket carrying portrait of author by Jean Cocteau, with a few nibbles to extremities, possibly insect and not affecting cloth, good $360 The publisher’s copy, with Harmsworth’s signature on the flyleaf. A study of religion’s decline and its needful substitutes.

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29. Byron (Robert) The Road to Oxiana. Macmillan, 1937, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 15 further photographic plates, 4 full-page maps, very faint foxing to title-page and to one or two of the plates, pp. [ix], 341, [2, ads], crown 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt with very slight lean to spine, a few pinprick foxspots to endpapers, dustjacket with some tiny faint spots at foot of rear panel and one or two further faint marks, a tiny amount of deft restoration at corner-folds, very good $4,550 Scarce in the dustjacket. A ‘sacred text’ to Bruce Chatwin, a view which is echoed by many modern travellers.

30. (Cabbala. Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni.) ARCANGELO DA BORGONUOVO Cabalistarum selectiora obscurioraque dogmata, a Ioanne Pico ex eorum commentationibus pridem excerpta, et ab Archangelo Burgonouensi minoritano, nunc primu ùm luculentissimis interpretationibus illustrata.... Cum amplissimo indice rerum omnium insigniorum. Venice: Francesco de Franceschi, 1569, FIRST EDITION, woodcut printer’s device on title, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, a bit of damp-staining and a few spots, tear at foot of Q7 repaired, entering text but without loss, ff. [xxviii], 219, [1, blank], small 8vo, contemporary limp vellum, traces of ties, another, short, work removed at end, lower cover repaired, early (and untidy) ownership inscription on title, title in ink on upper cover, that on the spine obscured $7,800 First edition of this commentary on the cabbalistic theses of Pico della Mirandola. Arcangelo da Borgonuovo, a Franciscan, died at a ripe old age just before this book was published. He had spent most of his life defending Cabbalist doctrines, and Pico della Mirandola in particular. They shared the same Hebrew teacher in Flavio Mitridate. A very rare book: no copy in the USA in WorldCat.

WORLDLY WISE 31. Callieres (François de) De la Science du Monde, et des connoissances utiles a à la conduite de la vie. Paris: Etienne Ganeau, 1717, FIRST EDITION, a little browned in places, and some spotting, pp. [xx], 311, [5], 12mo, good contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red lettering piece (small fragment missing, with loss of S), very slight wear to extremities, contemporary ownership inscription on title of one Chambaud $2,600 A decidedly pleasant copy of a very rare book: the only copy we have been able to locate is in the BnF. There was a Brussels edition in the same year, not quite so rare. The companion volume to the classic of diplomacy De la manière de négocier avec les souverains, 1716, but far less well-known. Callieres died on 5th March 1717, so this may be posthumous. In two parts, with appended eulogies of poets and ‘sept Dames Illustres Françoises.’ The first part is chiefly concerned with the art of elegant (and useful) conversation. The second part deals with international affairs, and has chapters on the requisite qualities of ministers, and much useful counsel to ministers of state with regard to the staffing of their offices and the conduct of the public business. La manière de négocier was quickly translated into English, and was admired by Jefferson, and Harold Nicolson. The English translation of the present work apparently had to wait until 1770 (conjectured date in ESTC - 3 copies only: but perhaps 1717 was intended). Callieres was, as per the title, ‘Secretaire du Cabinet de Sa Majesté, et l’un de Quarante de l’Académie’. In the latter post, he was successor to Quinault. Among the ‘sept Dames’ are Marguerite de la Sablière, and Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières. (Trivia: it was Marguerite de la Sablière who first thought of putting milk in tea).

32. Calvert (John) Vazeeri Rupi, The Silver Country of the Vazeers, in Kulu. Its Beauties, Antiquities, and Silver Mines, including a Trip over the Lower Himalayah Range and Glaciers. E. & F.N. Spon, 1873, FIRST EDITION, tinted lithographed frontispiece and additional title, 34 further lithographed plates (27 tinted), large folding lithographed map, illustrations, toned frontispiece tissue guard, faint damp stain at upper margin of final 3 plates, pp. xii, [ii, plates], 102, [iv, ads], 8vo, original dark red boards, spine and cover lettered in gilt, cover with ornate black-stamped border

10 52 nd California Book Fair, Stand 815 repeated blind on rear board, bevelled edges, faintly toned, corners knocked, edges slightly rubbed, fore-edge with scattered spots, very good $4,880 A convivial account of the author’s expedition, including crossing the treacherous Hamta Pass ‘I would advise the tourist about to ascend a height not to take spirits, a few coca nibs are the finest things for the breath,’ and the Kansam Pass, where Calvert ‘was snowed up two nights and a day.’ As one might expect from a Fellow of the Geological Society and pre-eminent mining engineer, Calvert’s descriptions are peppered with geological references: conjecture regarding the ‘huge rounded boulders of gneiss’ at the Hamta Pass, which remind the author of the surface of the moon, methods of collecting gold dust from precipes and ravines, sapphires discovered in the gravel snow of a melted glacier. The text originally appeared in the Calcutta weekly journal ‘The Englishman’ and was met with such favourable reviews that it is was issued in book form with plates from photographs by Bourne and Shephard and illustrations taken from the author’s ‘own pencil on the spot’ (Preface). No copies in US institutions according to WorldCat.

33. Camden (William) Remaines concerning Britaine: Their Languages. Names. Surnames. Allusions. Anagrammes. Armories. Monies. Empreses. Apparell. Artillarie. Wise speeches. Proverbs. Poesies. Epitaphes. The fift impression, with many rare antiquities never before imprinted. By the industry and care of Iohn Philipot, Somerset Herald. Printed by Thomas Harper, for John Waterson, 1637, with engraved portrait frontispiece, complete with final blank, a trifle browned in places, worm track in lower inner margins mainly in gatherings D-P, touching a letter here and there, top outer corner of frontispiece torn off (not affecting engraved surface, pp. [viii, including frontispiece), 420, [4, including terminal blank], small 4to, [bound with:] Brerewoode (Edward) Enquiries touching the diversity of Languages, and Religions, through the chiefe parts of the World. Printed by John Norton, for Joyce Norton, and Richard Whitaker, 1635, pp. [xxiv], 203, 17th-century calf, double gilt fillets on sides, small gilt coner pieces, flat spine with compartments divided by quadruple gilt rules, lettered in gilt direct, upper joint repaired (by James Brockman), early inscription on title ‘Bickford, Dunsland’, later book-plate of William Holland Bickford of Cobam and Dunsland in Devon, that of Robert J. Hayhurst opposite, above which traces of an old bookseller’s description $1,630 An agreeable Sammelband in a somewhat superior binding. ‘The year 1605 produced another volume of material gathered from Camden's and Robert Cotton's libraries, the Remaines of a Greater Worke Concerning Britain. Camden did not put his name to it, identifying himself only by the final letter of each name, as M. N., but he dedicated it to Robert Cotton, suggesting his own ambivalence about a book that consisted of (as he wrote in the 'Epistle Dedicatorie') 'the rude rubble and out-cast rubbish … of a greater and more serious worke'. If the Remaines is an ungainly, seemingly shapeless collection, it is also frequently witty and wise, and richly varied. Bringing together Camden's interest in literature and language, and social and cultural history, including both popular and high culture, the Remaines contains a wealth of material. Moreover, as a collection it reflects the unusual moment in the emergence of early modern Britain when the artefacts of the vernacular culture were coming to be valued in new ways. With the first historically organized anthology of medieval poetry, a historical and comparative study of the English language, collections of names and their meanings, of (in the words of one of the chapter headings) 'grave speeches, and wittie apothogemes', and of epitaphs, it can be seen as a popular spin-off from its more expensive and serious historical mother lode, the Britannia. With two additional, enlarged editions in his own lifetime, seven throughout the seventeenth century, and several reprints thereafter, the Remaines remained a popular and useful work’ (ODNB). This edition is dedicated by Philipot to Elector Palatine Karl Ludwig, second son of Frederick V and Elisabeth Stuart (’the Winter Queen’), brother to Prince Rupert. Fourth edition of Brerewood’s learned work. "The author devotes a portion of the work to the first peopling of America, claiming the Tartars as their forefathers. His account of relgion in America is very curious..." (Sabin). Chapter XI (pp. 79-86) is entitled "Of the parts of the world possessed by Mahumetans"

CURIOSA AND CURIOSA AND CURIOSA 34. (Carroll.) DODGSON (Charles L.) Curiosa Mathematica. Part I, A New Theory of Parallels. [Printed by Horace Hart, Oxford, for] Macmillan, 1888, FIRST EDITION, half-title present, integral frontispiece diagram, numerous diagrams on letterpress, end-leaves a little foxed, pp. xxiii, 63, [1, ads], 8vo, original light brown cloth, lettered in black and with a diagram on the upper cover, a little uneven fading, good [together with:] Curiosa Mathematica. Part II, Pillow-

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Problems Thought Out During Sleepless Nights. Second edition. [Printed by Horace Hart, Oxford, for] Macmillan, 1893, pp. [xix], 109, [1, ads], 8vo, original light brown cloth, lettered in black on the upper cover and with a diagram, upper outer corners faded and a little affected by damp. [and:]... A New Theory of Parallels. Fourth edition. [Printed by Horace Hart, Oxford, for] Macmillan, 1895, pp. xxxi, 75, [1, ads], original cream cloth, lettered in black and with a diagram on the upper cover, lettering on spine a trifle rubbed $4,230 Both volumes are scarce but Part II is particularly rare. This is because on publication of the second edition in August 1893 Dodgson asked Macmillan to stop supplying copies of the first edition, to recall those already in the hands of agents, and to replace them with copies of the new edition, as 'the improvements in the 2nd edition are so important, that any purchaser of the book might reasonably consider he had been very hardly dealt with, if, with the new edition on the point of appearing, he was allowed to buy a copy of the inferior edition'. The great majority of the seventy-two problems were mentally worked out by Dodgson in the night, and not committed to paper until morning. He had the ability to visualize clearly complex diagrams and mathematical problems. His method, as he explains in the 'Intoduction', was usually to write down the answer first, then the question and its solution! His purpose for publishing the work was to encourage others to use studied mental occupation as a means of banishing troublesome thoughts. Part I is a scientific attempt to improve Euclid's 12th Axiom. The large collection of mathematical papers left by Dodgson give an indication of the vast amount of time he spent on this project. Amidst the mathematical investigations (p.61) is a piece of verse beginning 'I have wandered' which had not before been printed.

THE TOVE JANSSON ‘A LICE ’ 35. Carroll (Lewis) Alice I Underlandet. I Översättning av Åke Runnquist, med Illustrationer av Tove Jansson. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers, 1966, FIRST JANSSON EDITION, illustrations throughout including 4 full-page and 11 with colour- printing, ownership inscription to half-title, pp. 112, 8vo, original brown cloth with Jansson medallion-design stamped in gilt to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket with Jansson design, a very short closed tear at foot of rear panel, a couple of tiny nicks, very mild toning to backstrip panel and borders, very good $1,240 A delightful edition and a lovely copy - Jansson’s illustrations are distinctive and appropriate.

THE SCARCE DELUXE ISSUE 36. Carroll (Lewis) Alices Äventyr I Sagolandet och Bakom Spegeln. Översätt av Gösta Knutsson [Samtliga teckningar utförda av Robert Högfeldt.] Stockholm: Jan Förlag, 1945, FIRST HÖGFELDT EDITION, frontispiece and 9 further colour-printed plates with line drawings to the text, pp. 219, 8vo, original deluxe binding of half red morocco with marbled boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, some minor rubbing to extremities, dustjacket with some internal tape repair, very good $1,170

DODGSON IN EASTBOURNE 37. Carroll (Lewis) Doublets. A Word-Puzzle. Macmillan, 1879, FIRST EDITION, light browning to title-page and terminal blank, pp. 39, 12mo, original red cloth, blind-stamped border to both boards with lettering in gilt to upper, some light soiling with black ink spot at head of lower board, front hinge a little tender, good $3,580 A presentation copy, inscribed at the head of the title-page: ‘Alice Hull from the author’. Dodgson had met the Hull family during his holidays at Eastbourne, which became a regular destination for him from 1876 onwards - the pater familias was Henry Hull, a London barrister, but Dodgson’s attention was largely absorbed by his four daughters, particularly Agnes Georgina, for whom he developed an infatuation that became disconcerting to its subject. A well-known acrostic was written for the latter, and his interaction with them followed an established pattern: he would draw and photograph them whilst offering in return entertainment of various types, including the output of his playful and inventive mind in the form of letters, riddles, verse, and games - in respect of the latter, the present gift seems an appropriate one. ‘Doublets’ is an enduring invention by the ingenious Dodgson. A notable features of Carroll’s version of the game, as opposed to its popular versions in modern newspapers, is that the progressions are in themselves humorous, APE to MAN, for instance, CAIN to ABEL, HOOK to FISH, &c.

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38. Castillo Solorzano (Alonso de) Los Alivios de Casandra... Barcelona: Iayme Romeu [sold also by Iuan Zapera], 1640, FIRST EDITION, woodcut vignette on title, repeated at the end of the 5th novela in an inferior impression, lacking terminal blank (Palau calls for 2 blanks, but 1 makes bibliographical sense), extensive paper repairs in first 2 and last 2 gatherings, diminishing to mere corner reinforcements soon enough, but with some letters printed or stamped in facsimile in new areas of paper, 2 gatherings pinked (rather than browned), one less than the other, ff. [iii], 191 (R8 blank), small 8vo, resewn and bound in fairly modern Spanish vellum over boards, ink lettering on spine $3,250 A rare book: the second edition, the following year, is as rare. Alonso deCastillo Solorzano (1584?–1647?), Spanish novelist and playwright, is stated to have been baptized at Tordesillas near Valladolid on 1st October 1584. Nothing is known of his youth, and he is next heard of at Madrid in 1619 as a man of literary tastes. While in the service of the marquis de Villar, he issued his first work, Donaires del Parnaso (1624–1625), two volumes of humorous poems; his Tardes entretenidas (1625) and Jornadas alegres (1626) proved that he was a novelist by vocation. Shortly afterwards he joined the household of the marquis de los Vélez, Viceroy of Valencia, and published in quick succession three clever picaresque novels: La Niña de los embustes, Teresa de Manzanares (1634), Las Aventuras del Bachiller Trapaza (1637), and a continuation entitled La Garduña de Sevilla y Anzuelo de las bolsas (1642). To these shrewd cynical stories he owes his reputation. He followed the marquis de los Vélez in his disastrous campaign in Catalonia, and accompanied him to Rome, where the defeated general was sent as ambassador. Castillo Solórzano’s death occurred (probably at Palermo) before 1648, but the exact date is uncertain. His prolonged absence from Madrid prevented him from writing as copiously for the stage as he would otherwise have done; but he was popular as a playwright both at home and abroad. His Marqués del Cigarral and El Mayorazgo figurón are the sources respectively of Scarron’s Don Jophet d'Arménie and L'Héritier ridicule. Among his numerous remaining works may be mentioned Las Harpias en Madrid (1633), Fiestas del Jardín (1634), Los Alivios de Casandra (1640) and the posthumous Quinta de Laurel (1649); the witty observation of these books forms a singular contrast to the prim devotion of his Sagrario de Valencia (1635). His versatility and graceful style deserve the highest praise.

‘L A NOVELA MÁS CÉLEBRE DEL MUNDO ’ (P ALAU ) 39. Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de) El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Brussels: Roger Velpius, 1607, woodcut initials and ornaments, paper-flaw at lower outer corner of L2 (no loss to text), a bit of ink staining on R4r, occasional light browning, a few mild damp-stains in the margins, ?wax stain on front fly-leaf affecting the title-page slightly, pp. [xxiv], 592, [8], 8vo, contemporary calf, double gilt fillets on sides, arms (unidentified: Franco-Belgian?) blocked in gilt to both covers, that on the upper cover with a little loss of gilt, that on the lower good and bright, flat spine with a border of double gilt fillets, headcaps defective, cracking to joints, rear endpapers sometime renewed (not, apparently, very recently) preserved in a morocco backed folding box $117,000 Rare, especially in commerce. A complete copy in a fine contemporary binding of the first Brussels (first extra-Iberian) edition of the novel "which is to Spanish literature what Shakespeare is to English" (Bloom). Ruiz notes that this edition was the most finely printed of the early versions to date. Don Quixote won immediate fame when first printed in 1605 for its "variety, liveliness, and gibes at the famous. "Its subdued pathos and universal humanity have assured it a place as "one of those universal works which are read by all ages at all times" (PMM). It quickly went through numerous editions,and translations. This edition is the seventh overall - all early editions are rare. Velpius’s edition, which introduced the text to Northern Europe, is based on Cuesta’s second of 1605, with many misprints and other textual infelicities corrected, and itself ‘corregido con cuidado’ (Palau). RBH and ABPC record only 3 other copies at auction in the last 30 years. In Maggs’s 1927 catalogue a copy in a Zaehnsdorf binding (with the second part) was priced £52 10s. The second part, which Cervantes wrote in response to spurious sequels, appeared 10 years later.

TRESEXCELLENT 40. Chauliac (Guy de) Prologue, & chapitre singulier de tresexcellent Docteur en Medecine, & Chirurgie maistre Guidon de Cauliac. Le tout nouuellement traduict, & illustré de Commentaires par maistre Iehan Canappe. Lyons: Étienne Dolet, 1542, woodcut printer’s device on title, larger version on the verso of last leaf, 2 woodcut initials, some definite, but faint, damp-staining, minimal worming in the lower margins of the first 4

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‘P RESENTATION COPY ’ 41. (Chekhov.) TCHEKHOFF (Anton) The Kiss, and Other Stories. Translated from the Russian by R.E.C. Long. Duckworth, 1908, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, publisher’s perforated ‘Presentation Copy’ stamp at head of title-page, pp. [viii], 317, crown 8vo, original claret cloth, upper board lettered in black with blind-stamped border design, publisher device in blind to lower board, backstrip lettered in gilt with a touch of rubbing at tips, top edge a trifle dusty and a few tiny spots to edge, very good $260 [With:] (Chekhov.) TCHEKHOFF (Anton) The Black Monk, and Other Stories. Translated from the Russian by R.E.C. Long. Duckworth, 1914, second printing, pp. [viii], 317, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, differing publisher devices in blind to both boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, very good The Irish translator, in his prefatory note to ‘The Kiss’, calls his work ‘an attempt to bridge a gap in international relations’. The two volumes constitute the first translations of Chekhov’s stories into English and so mark an important moment in the transmission of Russian literature. ‘The Black Monk’ was originally published in 1903, i.e., when the author was still alive - that it was reprinted a decade later likely relates to the popularity of the Constance Garnett translations of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Her translations of Chekhov began during the Great War. Though without mark of ownership, these copies originally belonged to Edmund C. Yates - the son of Edmund H. Yates, editor of World magazine and a close friend of Dickens.

KOT AND MURRY TRANSLATE 42. (Chekhov.) TCHEKHOV (Anton) The Bet, and Other Stories. Translated by S. Koteliansky and J.M. Murry. [Modern Russian Library series.] Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1915, FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION, pp. vii, 243, 4 [ads], crown 8vo, original dark blue-green cloth, lettered in gilt and blind to upper board and gilt to backstrip, upper board with border in blind, top edge a trifle dusty, endpapers faintly browned in part, near fine $160 Notable as the first book translated by Koteliansky, whose short note preceding the text concentrates on very native points. Kot would go on to undertake translations, with an emphasis on neglected texts or authors, for (and with) the Woolfs at the Hogarth Press, among others. Though without mark of ownership, this copy originally belonged to Edmund C. Yates - the son of Edmund H. Yates, editor of World magazine and a close friend of Dickens.

MUSIC AND MORALS 43. Chiavelloni (Vincenzo) Discorsi della musica... Dedicati all’Emin. e Reveren. Sig. Card. Iacomo Rospigliosi Nipote della santita di nostro signore PP. Clemente Nono. Rome: Ignatio de Lazeri, 1668, FIRST (only) EDITION, with an engraved frontispiece signed by Carlo Cesio, title-page woodcut vignette, woodcut decorated initials, head and tailpieces, damp-staining in inner margins at beginning, occasional browning, faint spotting throughout, small stains through leaves Pp3 to Qq2 and small internal tear to fore-margin (Yy1), early annotations at upper margin and through first 4 lines of opening of Discorsi I (A1r), repairs to title-page, with the loss of a letter or two of the banner, probably masking the removal of a library stamp, a few leaves at the beginning reinforced at inner margin, pp. [xvi, including frontispiece, the last leaf blank], 556, [2], 4to,

14 52 nd California Book Fair, Stand 815 contemporary gilt-tooled vellum over pasteboards, arabesque roll-tooled border, triple fillet panel surrounded by floral and star tools with outstretched eagle tools at each corner and delicate scrollwork cornerpieces, central coat of arms of Bernardino Cardinal Rocci, spine with lateral double arabesque roll-tooled design, title lettered in ink over the gilt, rear inner hinge repaired, minor soiling/staining, inside front cover ex libris 'Bibliothecae Petri Buoninsegni, Senis 1814' and Landau 16654, $7,150 A significant association copy of this important work on morals and music, dedicated by Vincenzo Chiavelloni, canon of the Cathedral of Rieti and member of the famous Roman Accademia degli Sterili, where these Discorsi were delivered, to Bernardino Rocci (1627- 1680), leader of the aforementioned Academy, who was named bishop on 22 April 1668 (and was later elevated to Cardinal in 1675). ‘[Chiavelloni’s] Discorsi della musica (Rome, 1668)... consist of 24 essays on the relationship of music to moral values and the development of virtue and as an aid to philosophy. The work relies entirely on ancient classical authors and is thus an example of the 17th-century Italian interest in the broad humanistic knowledge found in the works of philosophy, rhetoric and aesthetics of classical Greek and Latin sources. Of particular value to Baroque music aesthetics is the emphasis on music as a vehicle for representing and controlling the emotions of audiences, an aspect of ancient classical philosophy that was the basis for the Baroque theory of the Affects’ (Oxford Music Online). Quoted from his latest catalogue in the Monthly Review, Vol. 16, 1757, a Mr. Baretti describes the point of the Discorsi as ‘not so much the instruction of Italian musicians, as the reformation of their morals; and to say truth… their morals want as much correction as their music, which has, for these fifty years past, much degenerated from its antient solemnity. Chiavelloni, amongst other good things, tells these pretended Virtuosi to abstain from expressing effeminate passions, and singing obscene songs, to which they are in general too much addicted.’

44. (Circle Press.) LESKOSCHEK (Axl) Brazilian Miniatures / Miniaturas Brasileiras. Circle Press, [1974,] 174/200 COPIES (from an edition of 250 copies) signed by the artist, printed on J. Green rag- made paper, 51 woodcuts printed from lineblock reproductions, text in Portuguese and English, pp. 8 + Plates, small 4to, loose as issued in original wrappers, card chemise with ribbon ties, Leskoschek illustration pasted to front, near fine $460 The Austrian artist’s impressions of Brazil from his time there in the 1940s.

45. Clarkson (Thomas) The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament. Printed by R. Taylor and Co., for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808, FIRST EDITION, 2 folding engraved plates, both with short tears where meeting the gutter, advertisement slip tipped onto title pp. [iv], 572; [ii], 592, 8vo, recent calf backed marbled boards $3,250 An unpretensious, solid, clean copy, with an excellent impression of the ‘famous print of the plan and section of a slave-ship.’ The advertising slip announces the author’s Portraiture of Quakerism as just published (i.e. third edition, 1807) 'Thomas Clarkson is his own biographer.', wrote Sir James Stephen and the 'History', did establish Clarkson's reputation as 'the true annihilator of slavery.' (Talfourd). This aroused fierce rivalry between Clarkson's supporters and those of Wilberforce, who found the chart included in the book particularly offensive as it failed to give Wilberforce and the Evangelical movement enough credit for the abolition of the slave trade. Clarkson was certainly not the first to draw attention to the evils of slavery but his persistence and remarkable energy did much to transform popular opinion from regarding the trade as an unsavoury but necesary part of the economic system to perceiving it as a crime against humanity.

46. (Cranbrook Press.) CRANBROOK PAPERS. Detroit, Cranbrook Press, 1901, double columns, numerous hand-coloured initials and highly decorative borders, pp. [8], 108, 4to, original half vellum gilt, brown boards, spine with gilt morocco label, upper board with a few faint marks, slightly faded, rear pastedown with bookseller’s label, very good $1,240 The first book from the Cranbrook Press.

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47. Crowther (Rev. Samuel) Journal of an Expedition up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers. Undertaken by MacGregor Laird, Esq. in Connection with the British Government, in 1854. Church Missionary House, 1855, FIRST EDITION, signed by the author on the title page, folding map, faintly spotted, fore- corner of fly leaf clipped, pp. xxiv, [i, map], 234, 8vo, original decorative blind-stamped blue cloth by Kelly & Sons with their label, spine lettered in gilt, edges dust soiled, joints discretely refurbished, head and foot slightly pushed, both boards with a few faint spots, modern cloth slipcase, good $1,110 From the library of Franklin Brooke Hitching with his pencilled initials on fly leaf. A account of the second Niger Expedition of Samuel Ajayi Crowther (c.1809-81), African missionary, linguist and bishop, captured as a slave when a boy, rescued and freed by the British in Sierra Leone and converted by the Church Missionary Society. He was proficient in many African languages, translating the Bible and Book of Common Prayer into Yoruba, and published primers and grammars in Yoruba, Igbo and Nupe - the vocabularies of several languages are included here in Appendix II. Crowther opened several missions, notably the Niger Mission in 1857, and in 1864 became the first African Anglican bishop, with the title "Bishop of the countries of Western Africa beyond the Queen's dominions." According to WorldCat, there appear to be no copies in US libraries.

48. Cunninghame Graham (Gabriela) The Christ of Toro, and Other Stories. Eveleigh Nash, 1908, FIRST EDITION, a little foxing to prelims, pp. xi, 275, crown 8vo, original green cloth, publisher device to lower board and lettering to upper board stamped in dark blue, backstrip lettered in gilt, edges rubbed, a few minor marks to cloth, edges browned, ownership inscription of Anita Bartle to flyleaf dated June 1913 (see below), good $390 Inscribed by the author’s husband, R.B. Cunninghame Graham, by whom this posthumous volume of short fiction was collected - his short Preface precedes the text. The inscription is difficult to make out, but perhaps reads, ‘I am glad you have & love this book, R.B. Cunninghame Graham’ - the recipient was presumably Anita Bartle (married name, Brackenbury), an author and journalist whose ownership inscription is on the flyleaf. During the First World War, Bartle had - on account of her Chilean accent - been forced to confirm her status as a British subject; the basis for her speaking thus presumably rests on her Spanish education - her parents for a time lived in Valencia - though why it should relate so specifically to Chile is a point of obscurity, albeit one that bears an intriguing connection to Gabriela Cunninghame Graham’s own puzzle of heritage. Though the latter purported to be the child of a French nobleman, who had been taken to Chile to live with an aunt and attend convent school following her parents’ death, she was in fact Caroline Horsfall from North Yorkshire. The facts of her origin only became generally known in the 1980s - and the circumstances of the fabrication remain a matter of intrigue and speculation, likewise the degree to which her husband was aware.

49. (Curwen Press.) RUTHERSTON (Albert, Illustrator) [Cover title:] The Four Seasons. [A Calendar & Diary with designs by Albert Rutherston.] Plaistow, Curwen Press, 1922, SOLE EDITION, 4 full-page colour-printed illustrations by Albert Rutherston with small vignette to title-page by the same printed in blue, the text-pages with green line-border, [unpaginated], 12mo, original beige cloth with colour-printed label designed by Rutherston inset to upper board, a hint of faint foxing to endpapers, original Press advertisement laid in (a single sheet with typographic header and footer printed in red), very good $1,040 Inscribed by the artist on the flyleaf: ‘For Michel, affectly Albert, Xmas 1922’ - the recipient is obscure, but Michel Salaman is the outstanding candidate. The quality of the printing met with the artist’s approval, and the production marked the beginning of a golden decade for the Press. A delightful little gift book, of utmost scarcity - with no other copies currently for sale, and no record on COPAC; it functioned as an advertisement (indeed it begins with a statement headed thus) for the Press’s new phase under the guidance of Harold Curwen and Oliver Simon. None of its recipients could fail to be impressed by the work on show - and where in the main the blank format allows the design and printing quality to speak for itself, a small outbreak of self-promotion recurs at the close with a description of the types and decoration held at the Press and a page for telephone numbers headed by the sole printed entry of the Press’s own contact details. The small flyer laid in at the front conveys the news of their occupancy of a room in St. Stephen’s House, Westminster - where Oliver Simon will be found, amongst an ‘ever-changing Exhibition of modern English and Foreign books’.

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W.B. DAWKINS ’ COPY 50. Darwin (Charles Robert) On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. John Murray, 1860, with a folding diagram facing p. 117, occasional minor spotting, one or two pages with minor fraying, or minimal dust stain at fore-edge, pp. ix, [i], 502, 32 (ads dated January 1860), 8vo, original cloth (Freeman’s variant a), minor wear to extremities, but still a good copy, with the ownership inscription of W.B. Dawkins, Weston Zoyland Vicarage (see below), and tipped in between the title-page and the first page of Contents, an ?off-printed extract from John Fiske’s Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, with the drop-head title of ‘Darwinism Analyzed’, this foxed and sometime folded, as if sent in a letter $14,300 Second edition, second issue (’Fifth Thousand’ and 1860 on title-page: a very few copies are known with 1859).‘The most important book of science ever written. Indeed, given its importance to all of humanity and the rest of life, it it the most important book in any category. No work of science has ever been so fully vindicated by subsequent investigation, or has so profoundly altered humanity's view of itself and how the living world works. The theory of natural selection continues to gain relevance to the things that matter most to humanity - from our own origins and behaviour to every detail in the living environment on which our lives depend. Little wonder that the adjective “Darwinian”, sometimes lowercased to “darwinian” as a tribute to its fixity, far outranks “Copernican,” “Newtonian,” and “Mendelian” in frrequency of usage’ (Foreword to the Cambridge Companion to the “Origin of Species”). This is a notable association copy, and the Fiske offprint or leaflet does not seem to be recorded. Both Dawkins and Fiske corresponded with Darwin, and both received presentation copies of the Descent of Man in 1871. William Boyd Dawkins (1837–1929) became professor of geology at Owen’s College, Manchester, in 1874. He had graduated with a first-class degree in natural sciences (1860) from Jesus College Oxford. His father, Richard, had moved to the Vicarage in Westonzoyland in 1853. Dawkins read this copy with close attention, with numerous marginal marks throughout. These marks single out topics of special interest to himself, such as the origin of domesticated animals, and geology: but many other passages are singled out, sometimes, it seems, simply for a particularly felicitous sentence. There are not many words to the annotations, but on p. 304 there are two corrections to the text. On line 15 to ‘eocene’ is added in the margin ‘Mei’. Six lines later the order of reptiles and birds is reversed. The Fiske leaflet gives an extract from his book Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy (1874), though with a curious difference. The text sets out ‘eleven propositions, of which nine are demonstrated, the tenth is a corollary from its nine predecessors, and the eleventh a perfectly legitimate postulate... in reply to the groundless assertion sometimes made, “that Darwinian theory rests upon purely gratuitous assumptions”’. The curious difference is that, in the book version, instead of ‘gratuitous assumptions’ we have ‘thoughtless remarks — sometimes heard from theologians and penny-a-liners.’ It is perhaps an American printing, but no date, place or publisher is given.

51. Darwin (Charles Robert) On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Third edition, with additions and corrections. (Seventh Thousand.) John Murray, 1861, with 1 folding diagram, the diagram frayed and soiled in the fore and lower margins, textblock a little strained between gatherings E & F, E a little proud at the top, pp. xix, 538, [2, ads], 8vo, uncut in the original cloth by Edmonds & Remants, with their ticket, sides blind stamped, spine gilt, front inner hinge a little strained, very good indeed $8,450 An exceptionally nice copy, the binding of unusual freshness, of the third edition (Freeman's variant b no priority) of "the most important biological book ever written" (Freeman), issued in April 1861, one of 2,000 copies printed. The text was extensively altered, and a table is given of differences from the second edition, a feature that occurs in each subsequent Murray edition. The third edition is also notable for the addition of the historical sketch in which Darwin acknowledges his predecessors in the general theory of evolution, which had already appeared in shorter form in the first German edition, as well as in the fourth American printing, both in 1860.

52. (Darwin.) JENYNS (Leonard) Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow. John Van Voorst, 1862, FIRST EDITION, with a mounted photograph portrait frontispiece, a couple of tiny spots on the photo and the backing paper a bit browned, the photo a bit faded, pp. ix, errata slip, 278, double-page table at p.100, 8vo, original dark green fine diaper cloth, edges rough trimmed, near fine $8,780

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A very rare book in commerce. Freeman records two bindings: purple cloth, with inserted advertisements; and blue cloth, the latter probably a remainder binding. The cloth on this copy might at a stretch be called blueish-green, but not blue. ‘Henslow was Professor of Botany at Cambridge when Darwin was at Christ’s and they were personal friends - “the man who walked with Henslow”. Later, he looked after the Beagle material when it reached England, and [Darwin’s] Letters on Geology [Freeman 1] were addressed to him. Henslow himself had been invited to join the Beagle before Darwin was, as had Leonard Jenyns, the writer of this biography. There is only the one edition which must have remained in print for some time because the blue cloth case is much later than the original purple’ (Freeman). The volume includes Darwin's recollections on pp. 51-55; pp. 211-12 recount Henslow’s reaction to On the Origin of Species. The only copies in auction records are one in purple cloth, rebacked, which failed to sell in the Jeremy Norman sale at Sotheby’s in 1992 (the sale as a whole fared poorly: there was gloom in London that day). What is probably the same copy appeared at Sotheby’s earlier this year and fetched ££5,625 (Aggregate price).

53. Dechen (Ernst Heinrich Karl von) Geognostische U Übersichts-Karte von Deutschland, Frankreich, England und den angrenzenden Laendern. Nach den grösseren Arbeiten von L. v. Buch, E. de Beaumont und Dufrenoy, G.B. Greenough, zusammengestellt von H. v. Dechen. Berlin: Simon Schropp et Comp., 1839, folding hand-coloured engraved map, 60 x 88 cm, dissected into 36 sections and mounted on linen (overall dimension 65 x 90 cm), small hole to a blank area of the English Channel, a little wear to some folds, folds into contemporary russet pebble-grained cloth, brass clasp, rebacked $2,540 First published in the year before, and a subsequent edition in 1869. Dechen ‘prepared numerous geological maps, which Humboldt described as models in this field and which for long were standard’ (DSB). This map is one of Dechen’s earliest. It extends from the east coast of Ireand to the Pyrenees, and westwards as far as Vilnius, and the eastern edge of the Carpathians.

FERMAT ’S LAST THEOREM 54. Diophantus of Alexandria Arithmeticorum libri sex, et de numeris multangulis liber unus. Cum commentariis C.G. Bacheti V.C. & observationibus D.P. de Fermat senatoris Tolosani … Accessit doctrinae analyticae inventum novum, collectum [by J. de Billy] ex varijs... Fermat epistolis [ed. Samuel de Fermat]. Toulouse: Bernard Bosc, 1670, FIRST EDITION OF FERMAT’S RECENSION, large engraved vignette on title, several finely engraved headpieces and initials, and a few woodcut diagrams in the text, damp-stain in the inner margin of the first 20 odd leaves, occasional browning and spotting as usual, nothing severe, pp. [xii], 64, 341, 48, folio (350 x 230 mm), contemporary vellum (probably Italian), green morocco label on spine (partly defective), upper corners worn, a little worming to the insides of the boards, $45,500 First edition of Fermat’s annotated edition of Diophantus’ Arithmetica, a large copy, and also the first printing of Fermat’s contributions to the theory of numbers, of which he is the undisputed founder, including his famous statement of ‘Fermat’s last theorem.’ Since most of Fermat’s work in number theory remained unpublished in his lifetime, ‘it was neither understood nor appreciated until Euler revived it and initiated the line of continuous research that culminated in the work of Gauss and Kummer in the early nineteenth century’ (DSB). Fermat showed little interest in publishing his work, which remained confined to his correspondence, personal notes, and to marginal jottings in his copy of the 1621 editio princeps, edited by Claude Bachet, of Diophantus’ Arithmetica. Fermat’s marginalia included not only arguments against some of Bachet’s conclusions, but also new problems inspired by Diophantus. After his death, Fermat’s eldest son Clement-Samuel published his father’s marginalia in this new edition. Most famous of the 48 observations by Fermat included here is the tantalizing note that appears on fol. H3r ‘regarding the impossibility of finding a positive integer n >2 for which the equation x n + y n = z n holds true for the positive integers x, y, and z’ (Norman). Fermat noted that he had discovered a ‘truly marvellous demonstration’ of this proposition, but that the margin was too narrow to transcribe it. This simple statement became known as the single most difficult problem in mathematics, and for over 300 years no mathematician succeeded in either proving or disproving it. In 1995 Andrew Wiles, professor of mathematics at Princeton, who had been obsessed with Fermat’s last theorem since the age of 10, completed a 130-page proof (first presented in 1993, with a flaw that required revision), using the most advanced techniques of modern mathematics. His achievement was described by fellow mathematicians as the mathematical equivalent ‘of splitting the atom or finding the structure of DNA’ (Singh, Fermat’s Enigma (1997), p. 279). Although Fermat’s marginal jottings in Diophantus hold a special place in the history of mathematics, much of what we know of Fermat’s methods of proof is found in his letters to the French Jesuit Jacques de Billy, a pupil of Bachet, printed for the first time in the present work as Doctrinae Analyticae Inventum Novum.

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Some copies have a portrait and errata leaf (not present here), both of which were certainly issued later. The Macclesfield copy (possibly large paper) was 360 mm tall: most copies are in the 330-340 range. See Weil, Number Theory: An Approach Through History from Hammurapi to Legendre, 1984.

55. Donaldson (James) Husbandry Anatomized, or, an enquiry into the present manner of teiling and manuring the ground in Scotland for most part; and several rules and measures laid down for the better improvement thereof, in so much that one third part more increase may be had, and yet more tha a third part of the expence of the present way of labouring thereof saved. [bound with:] Postscript to Husbandry Anatomiz’d or, an addition to the enquiry in to the present manner of ordering, dressing, and manuring the ground in Scotland for most part; whereby it is further explained and applyed, and several good effects that may follow thereupon hinted at. Edinburgh: Printed by John Reid, 1697-98, FIRST EDITIONS, small copies but not cropped apart from a few page numerals in the Postscript, lightly browned, a few leaves slightly darker, pp. [xvi], 136; 48, 12mo in 4s, late 18th- century catspaw calf, gilt rules on spine and red lettering piece, lacking fly-leaf at the front, and 2 at the end (though the staining from the turn-ins belies this), 1 p. manuscript Index at end, followed by 11 pp. notes at end, identified by an inscription (signed A.C.) as the hand of Sir John Sinclair of Longformacus, small circular stamp of the Rothamsted Experimental Station on either side of the first leaf $2,600 On the eve of Darien. Very scarce. ‘In McDonald’s opinion “‘a high estimation has always been placed upon this work” and it is a good statement of the condition and practices of contemporary farming in Scotland... The main novelty is that he is one of the first farming authors to consider the cost of production’ (Fussell p. 84). According to ODNB it ‘was unduly neglected. It contained a programme for improved farming in advance of current thought, his most innovative proposal being for the use of potatoes as a field crop. This pamphlet was dedicated to the earl of Marchmont, then lord chancellor, and in an introduction he supplied what little is known of his family background.’ Later Donaldson ‘was editor of the first newspaper in Scotland to have had any long-term continuity...the Edinburgh Gazette’ (ODNB), in some sort of assoctiation with John Reid, and frequently at loggerheads with the the city council, and other Edinburgh printers. The ascription to Sir John Sinclair places him at Easter Kellie (Pittenweem) from 1764, till his death in 1802 ‘or thereabouts.’ The Index appears to be in an earlier hand. The first 3 pages of Sinclair’s MS concern yields at Kellie, and the rest begin with a positive appraisal of this book, and further notes on farming in Scotland. The text ends with a comma, and a dozen blank leaves follow, so more was intended. The date 1770 appears in the text. ESTC and Aldiss refer to an edition of 1696, recorded in a single copy in the Signet Library: COPAC does not locate it, but refers to ESTC. If this is not in fact a ghost, it will have been dispersed in the sale of the Signet Library: it is not found in the on-line catalogues of NLS or EUL. ESTC has the Rothamsted (i.e. this) copy among its locations for Husbandry, but not for the Postscript

56. Dostoevsky (Fyodor) The Brothers Karamazov. A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue. [Translated] From the Russian by Constance Garnett [The Novels of Dostoevsky, I.] William Heinemann, 1912, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, pp. xii, 838, crown 8vo, original red cloth, blind-stamped roundel design to upper board with publisher device in same to lower, the backstrip with lettering and ornate border design in gilt, top edge a trifle dusty and a hint of a knock to the bottom corner of upper board, tail edges roughtrimmed, very faint browning to free endpapers, near fine $15,600 An important publication: the first English translation of one of the author’s major novels, and the first in a series of translations of his work by Constance Garnett - the beginnning of ‘a literary craze’ (ODNB). An unusually good copy of a scarce book that normally gives signs of having been read. Though without mark of ownership, this copy originally belonged to Edmund C. Yates - the son of Edmund H. Yates, editor of World magazine and a close friend of Dickens; a contemporary review of the book from The Spectator (September 28, 1912) has been preserved by him, though apparently never stored with the book (no offsetting) and still thus.

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57. Dostoevsky (Fyodor) The House of the Dead. A Novel in Two Parts. [Translated] From the Russian by Constance Garnett [The Novels of Dostoevsky, V.] William Heinemann, 1915, FIRST GARNETT EDITION, pp. vi, 284, 15 [publisher’s list], crown 8vo, original red cloth, blind-stamped roundel design to upper board with publisher device in same to lower, tiny white speck to latter, the backstrip with lettering and ornate border design in gilt, top edge a trifle dusty, tail edges roughtrimmed, rear free endpaper very faintly browned, very good $1,300 Though without mark of ownership, and demonstrating very little evidence of having been read, this copy originally belonged to Edmund C. Yates - the son of Edmund H. Yates, editor of World magazine and a close friend of Dickens.

58. Dostoevsky (Fyodor) The Idiot. A Novel in Four Parts. [Translated] From the Russian by Constance Garnett [The Novels of Dostoevsky, II.] William Heinemann, 1913, FIRST GARNETT EDITION, pp. [iv], 620, crown 8vo, original red cloth, blind-stamped roundel design to upper board with publisher device in same to lower, the backstrip with lettering and ornate border design in gilt, top edge a trifle dusty and very minor dink to tail of lower board, tail edges roughtrimmed, incredibly faint spotting to free endpapers, near fine $3,250 Scarce, and an excellent copy. The second of Garnett’s important translations, which brought the work of Dostoevsky to a wider Anglophone audience and instituted a literary craze. Though without mark of ownership, this copy originally belonged to Edmund C. Yates - the son of Edmund H. Yates, editor of World magazine and a close friend of Dickens.

59. Dostoievsky (F[yodor]) Poor Folk. Translated from the Russian... by Lena Milman with an Introduction by George Moore. Elkin Mathews and John Lane: Roberts Brothers, Boston. 1894, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, title printed in red, with a design by Aubrey Beardsley on the title-page, tissue-guarded, pp. xx, 192, xvi [Publisher’s list for March 1894], crown 8vo, original yellow cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, design of a key on the backstrip (repeated to lower board) and lettering and Beardsley design on the front cover all blocked in black, minor spotting to upper board, very light overall soiling, edges untrimmed, gentle foxing at foot of rear endpapers, clipping of review of George Moore book from 1913 (mentioning his opinion of Dostoevsky) laid in at front and faintly offset to endpapers, very good $650

WITH T.E. LAWRENCE ’S INTRODUCTION 60. Doughty (Charles M.) Travels in Arabia Deserta. With a new Preface by the author, Introduction by T.E. Lawrence, [...] and all original Maps, Plans, Cuts [2 Vols.] Philip Lee Warner and Jonathan Cape, 1921, FIRST LAWRENCE EDITION, frontispiece photographic portrait (by Emery Walker) to first volume, 4 plates (3 folding), text illustrations (some full-page), colour lithographed map mounted on linen in pocket to rear pastedown of first volume, the occasional small spot to borders, pp. xxvx, 623, xiv, 690, 8vo, original green cloth with differing illustrations stamped in gilt to upper boards within a blind-stamped single fillet border, backstrips lettered in gilt, these faded with a little wear at ends, similar wear at corners a couple of which are gently knocked, a small amount of wear to edges and a few waterspots with some damp-staining causing discolouration to leading edges, t.e.g., others roughtrimmed, black endpapers with that housing map lifting slightly (though much less than usual) at foot, good $780 One of only 500 copies in a second edition of the text that it is notable in two main respects: the introduction by Lawrence, the first such he had contributed, for a book that he greatly admired; and as the first publication by Jonathan Cape. Doughty's assertion of the superiority of all things English and Christian, and his uncanny knack for saying and doing the wrong thing in Arab society, brought him unimaginable hardships and danger. That he survived his two years in Arabia was nothing short of miraculous.

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61. Dufferin ([Frederick Temple Blackwood], Lord) Letters from High Latitudes. Being some account of the voyage in the schooner yacht “Foam”, 85 O.M. to Iceland, Jan Mayen, & Spitzbergen, in 1856. John Murray, 1857, FIRST EDITION, presentation copy inscribed to Richard M. Milnes (Lord Houghton, recipient of the accompanying ALs) from the publisher on fly leaf, 11 engraved plates (including frontispiece), 13 wood-engraved illustrations, 3 folding maps, partly hand-coloured, folding graph, tipped-in ALs from the author to Lord Houghton, graph with short, neatly repaired, tear, initial pages with very occasional faint spots, title page shaved at lower margin, slight dent to fore-edge of second gathering, pp. [i, plate], xvii, [iii], 424, [iv, plates, ii], 439-453, review, [iv], 8vo, near contemporary binding by Leighton of Brewer St. with stamp, half green morocco with gilt stamp of wheat sheaf (Crewe armorial device), on upper board, spine with gilt lettered label and gilt raised bands, spine slightly faded and lightly rubbed at head and foot, armorial bookplate of Robert Crewe-Milnes (dedicatee’s son), very good $1,110 The ALs from ‘Dufferin’ thanks Lord Houghton for the sheets (presumbly a copy of the 15-page review, bound here at the end of the book), and reminds him that he promised ‘a scrap of hand writing’ to bind with them. The extensive review itself is signed by R. M. Milnes and followed by a neatly tipped-in 3-page article from Notes & Queries (Nov 14th, ‘57), concerning the ‘Roman writers’ view of frozen, northern islands - Thule in particular. Written with considerable verve and wit, Dufferin’s account of his voyage, nobly assisted by his butler, Wilson, was extremely well received. Many editions followed, including an abridged version published under the title ‘A Cruise in Northern Seas’, and it was translated into German, French and Urdu. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, Lord Dufferin was one of the most successful diplomats of his age, serving as Governor General of Canada in 1872 and Viceroy of India in 1874.

SIGNED AT THE PREMIERE 62. Elgar (Edward) The Apostles (Parts I & II). An Oratorio. Novello and Company, 1903, title and final ad page faintly toned, crease and slight soiling at lower fore-edge corner of the initial 6 score leaves, 3 pages annotated with blue pencil, pp. xiii, [3], 214, [2, blank], [10, ads], royal 8vo, original maroon cloth-backed decorated boards, slightly rubbed, front hinge beginning to weaken, upper board with booksellers stamp at lower margin and ownership inscription, inscribed on Note page ‘Edward Elgar: Birmingham Festival Oct: 14th. 1903’, very good $2,600 The idea of a piece of music characterising the 12 apostles had haunted Elgar since childhood, and though he made preliminary sketches in the 1880s, it was not until the Birmingham Festival’s 1903 commission (after ‘Gerontius’) that he embarked on this great work. As often, he left everything to the last minute, only completing the full score on 17th August, leaving the soloists and orchestra (complete with double bassoon, organ, shofar and antique cymbals) only 8 weeks to master the demanding new work. Though its immediate reception was not rapturous, Elgar’s friend, A.J. Jaeger wrote of the music’s ‘message of beauty and peace in these days of unprecedented stress and complexity’; and the choral writing, orchestration and use of leitmotifs have since been highly praised. This copy of Novello’s original octavo edition (the vocal score with piano reduction) was signed and dated by the composer at the first performance of the work which he conducted at the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival of 1903. It clearly began its existence as a working copy, the blue pencil marks highlighting the dynamics, phrasing, and, particularly, timing. A most intriguing annotation appears on the first page of the score ‘no stops gt comp to explain’, a note which bears testament to Elgar’s late revisions, which continued into September. So, presumably, this was the organist’s rehearsal copy which he used in advance of receiving the organ part, but was produced on the morning of the performance itself as a presentable copy for the illustrious composer’s signature.

‘W OMBAT BLOOD DRIPS !’ 63. Ellroy (James) L.A. Confidential. New York: Mysterious Press, 1990, FIRST EDITION, pp. [x], 496, 8vo, original quarter black cloth with black boards, backstrip lettered in silver with very slight lean to spine, top edge a little dust-spotted, Publisher’s advertising card for this book laid in along with clipped newspaper article on Ellroy, dustjacket, very good $330 With an amusingly surreal inscription by the author to the half-title: ‘Wombat Blood Drips! James Ellroy’; its obscurity partially rescued with the knowledge of the recipient being the Australian author and bibliophile John Baxter.

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64. (Eragny Press.) LAFORGUE (Jules) Moralités légendaires. [2 Vols.] Eragny Press, 1897- 1898, ONE OF 220 SETS printed on handmade paper, full-page wood-engraved frontispieces, border to frontispieces and first page of texts and large wood-engraved initials, all designed by Lucien Pissarro and engraved by Esther Pissarro, Errata slip tipped in following epigraph, occasional scattered foxing, pp. 111, [1]; 126, [1], crown 8vo, original quarter pale grey boards with cream sides carrying a sorrell pattern in green, backstrips and upper boards gilt lettered, a little darkened to backstrips and pale areas with some wear to extremities, top edge grey with other edges untrimmed, usual faint free endpaper browning with bookplate to front pastedowns, good $2,600 Inscribed on the flyleaf of both volumes: ‘To Ida Henry, from Lucien Pissarro & Esther Pissarro’ - the recipient was the illegitimate daughter of Dutch Artist Meijer de Haan. A further inscription records the pair as being ‘given to Alice Waley-Cohen’ in 1932 by the Pissarros’ nephew (styling himself ‘Thomas’ and ‘Tommie’ respectively). Lucien’s father, Camille Pissarro. wrote of the book 'Very beautiful, very polished... the typography, etc., has the stamp of a master'.

65. (Eragny Press.) PERRAULT (C[harles]) La belle au bois dormant & Le petit chaperon rouge. Deux contes de ma mere loye. Eragny Press, 1899, ONE OF 224 COPIES printed on Arnold's handmade paper, general title page with circular geese illustration, highly decorative double-page first tale title with green highlights and metallic gold ground, second tale full-page illustration, press device on final limitation page and numerous decorated initials, all designed by Lucien Pissarro and wood-engraved by Lucien and Esther Pissarro, pp. [vi], 39, [i], 8vo, original quarter pale blue boards, with palm-tree patterned paper covers, front cover lettered in gilt, backstrip with two gilt ornaments, endpapers faintly toned as usual, untrimmed, armorial bookplate of Henry John and Minnie Caroline Bell, very good $2,340 An elegant edition - the fifth book from the press.

66. Estienne (Henri) Francofordiense emporium, sive Francofordienses nundinae: qua àm varia mercium genera in hoc emporio prostent, pagina septima indicabit. Geneva: Henri Estienne, 1574, FIRST EDITION, woodcut printer’s device on title, some slight browning first and last few leaves, a little damp-staining, tiny piece missing from top outer corner of first leaf, pp. [viii], 31, 120, small 8vo, modern limp vellum, in a cloth slipcase, BM duplicate with stamps to verso of title-page (showing through), sold in 1818, and to foot of last page, book label of H.P. Kraus $9,750 A famous little book. ‘The work consists of praise of the city [of Frankfurt] and its famous Fair, which offered to the civilized world such precious riches, of which books were only one category - in fact, though the volume is traditionally known as Estienne’s “Frankfurt Book Fair”, the Latin title more properly translates simply as the “Frankfurt Fair.” Estienne enumerates and describes the other kinds of merchandise offered for sale: horses, arms, wines, food, spices, clothing, earthenware, metalware, &c. After a section on books and literature, he ends with general praise of Germany, especially as the nation who gave the world the art of printing... [This is] followed by a considerably longer section consisting of a quite curious collection of Latin poems and translations from the Greek; the majority of these pieces deal with the subject of drunkenness and are all from the pen of Estienne himself, except for ten epigrams from the Greek Anthology, also on drunkenness, translated by Joseph Scaliger’ (Schreiber).

67. Euclid. [Elements. Book 1-6. Latin and Greek] Eukleidou Stoicheio Biblia [13] (first four words in Greek characters). Elementorum Euclidis libri tredecim. Secundum vetera exemplaria restituti. Ex versione Latina Federici Commandini aliquam multis in locis castigata [edited by Henry Briggs]. Excudebat Gulielmus Iones, 1620,

22 52 nd California Book Fair, Stand 815 woodcut ornament on title, woodcut initials and tailpieces, Greek and Latin in parallel columns, 2 sidenotes shaved, a little mild damp-staining at the beginning, a few leaves slightly browned, pp. [iv, inclding initial blank], 254, [2, blank], folio, contemporary calf, blind ruled borders on sides, with a pair of double rules near the spine, hatching in top and bottom compartments, dark blue edges, rather rubbed, corners (especially top front) worn, crack at foot of upper joint and top of lower one, contemporary signature on front fly-leaf of Will. Whitmore, good $2,930 The first edition of Euclid to be printed in England in either Latin or Greek (having first apeared in Billingsley’s translation Elements of Geometrie, 1570, with Dee’s famous Preface). It was edited by Henry Briggs, who in 1619 had been appointed to the professorship of geometry in Oxford, newly established by Henry Savile. ‘Tactfully Briggs began his lecture course where Savile had left off, at the ninth propostion of Euclid’ (DSB). The binding on this copy is quite likely Oxford work, with the hatching at the spine ends, and the double stubs before the fly-leaves.

68. Euler (Leonhard) Lettres a une Princesse d'Allemagne sur divers sujets de physique & de philosophie. Tome premier [-troisieme] St. Petersburg: l’Imprimerie de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences, 1768-72, FIRST EDITION, 3 vols., woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut diagrams, 12 woodcut plates (11 folding), some leaves in vol. iii lightly browned, small hole in final leaf of volume 3 affecting one letter, a few fore-edges dust-stained or a tiny bit ragged, pp. XII, 314; [XVI, last leaf blank], 340; [XVI, last page being directions to the binder, in French, German, and Russian), 404, 8vo, uncut and unopened later (?pre-Revolutionary) Russian navy buckram, spines lettered in gilt, including initials P.L. (in Cyrillic) at foot, vestiges of the original wrappers at the ends of all vols., a little rubbed, very good, small, red, and rather indeterminate, stamp on the verso of the title-pages with the attributes of Athena $12,350 A very fresh copy of this famous and important, ‘absorbing and popular’ (DSB) work. It would seem to have been rebound as an act of piety, still being unopened. These letters to the Princess of Anhalt-Dessau, to whom Euler had given physics lessons (while he was at the Académie royale de Berlin, but not published until after his return to St Petersburg) were enormously successful and 'profoundly influenced contemporary philosophy' (PMM 196, note). In the course of them, Euler attacks Leibniz’s monadology

‘ON THE SUBJECTS OF PACIFISM AND OF ABNORMALITY IN THE AFFECTIONS ’ 69. Fitzroy (A.T.) Despised & Rejected. C.W. Daniel, [1918,] FIRST EDITION, pp. 350, [2, ads], crown 8vo, original blue cloth, lettered in dark blue to upper board and backstrip with border in same to both, very slight lean to spine and a little rubbing to extremities, a few faint spots to edges and endpapers, tail edge roughtrimmed, very good $2,930 Fitzroy was a pseudonym of Rose Laure Allatini, a romantic novelist who created a stir with this novel concerning a group of wartime COs. The book was prosecuted and banned soon after its publication, following a press campaign against it; the given reason was its pacifist theme, which was in contravention of Regulation 27(c) of the Defence of the Realm Regulations for publishing work ‘likely to prejudice the training, recruitment and discipline of his majesty’s forces’, although the homosexual relationships at its heart no doubt played a large part in creating the ‘rather unwholesome vapours’ that The Guardian identified in its review of June 14th, 1918. The publisher, a committed pacifist who was fined £460 as a result of the court case, professed himself unaware of the latter element although it generally drew the attention of reviewers. A landmark publication and scarce in this condition.

70. [Flatman (Thomas)] Heraclitus Ridens: or, A Discourse between Jest and Earnest, where many a True Word is spoken in opposition to all Libellers against the Government. Numb[er] 1 [-82]. [colophon:] Printed for the Use of the People [latterly, Printed for B.T., or B. Tooke], Tuesday, Feb. 1, 1681 - August 22, 1682, FIRST EDITION, complete set of the 82 2-page issues, a few imprints shaved, intermittent and variable staining or foxing, Number 39 with a tear at the top (or rather a paper flaw) with the loss of a couple of letters on the verso, rear fly-leaf defective, ff. 164, folio, contemporary mottled calf, blind roll tooled border at spine, repeated, doubled, a short way from it, some loss of surface and corners worn, various early ownership inscriptions, doodles, &c., sound $1,950

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A complete run of the first new Tory periodical (weekly) to oppose the flood of Whiggish journalism that had been unleashed by the expiry of the Licensing Act. It is an engaging paper, combining lively dialogue with satirical queries, mock advertisements, and the occasional political ode. The verse has traditionally been associated with Thomas Flatman (John Murdoch in ODNB states categorically that ‘from February 1681 to August 1682 [Flatman] brought out anonymously eighty-two weekly numbers of a pro- government pamphlet, Heraclitus Ridens’), but otherwise the paper’s authorship was a puzzle to contemporaries and remains obscure - ‘Editorship is sometimes attributed to Edward Rawlins (cf. Nelson & Seccombe)’ (ESTC). Scarce: there are only 3 auction records since 1975, the last being the H.P. Kraus copy. In Kraus’s own catalogue he highlights a ‘dig’ at ‘the Countrey of Carolina’ in Number 79.

WITH ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE AUTHOR ’S ARCHIVE , ANNOTATED 71. Florey (Robert) Hollywood d'hier et d'aujourd'hui. Préface de René Clair. Présentation de Maurice Bessy. Paris: Éditions Prisma, 1948, FIRST EDITION, numerous monochrome photographs of stills and production shots, pp. 381, crown 8vo, original plain wraps with dustjacket, closed tear to rear panel with minor rubbing elsewhere, very good $520 [With:] 11 additional photographs from the author’s own archive (the source of many in the book itself), each annotated by Florey on the verso (one typed, the other manuscript), showing - often alongside himself - various luminaries from the period, including Edward G. Robinson, Preston Sturges, Jacques Tourneur, Maurice Chevalier, etc. Florey, born Robert Fuchs in Paris, went to Hollywood in 1921 and remained there until his death - his work as a director (he was also a screenwriter, journalist and actor) more or less constant, with some notable highspots, including with the Marx Brothers (Cocoanuts), Charlie Chaplin (Monsieur Verdoux), and Bela Lugosi (Murders in the Rue Morgue) amongst numerous genre films and work in television. This book is a record of his own career in the movies, but also a history of the medium more generally.

ALICE DRYSDALE VICKERY ’S COPY 72. Forster (Dora) Sex Radicalism, as Seen by an Emancipated Woman of the New Time. Chicago: M. Harman, 1905, FIRST EDITION, a few corrections and amendments to the text (see below), pp. 57, [5, ads], crown 8vo, original brown cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board, very good $1,950 An important feminist association copy of a scarce book - the copy of Alice Drysdale Vickery, with her inscription at the head of the flyleaf. She has additionally added page-numbers to the contents page at the front, as well as making a couple of more pointed additions to the text: identifying the author of ‘The Elements of Social Science’, accorded by Forster the ‘clear-sighted logic’ of John Stuart Mill, Shelley, Edward Carpenter or Bernard Shaw, as her brother-in-law Dr. George Drysdale; and disassociating courage from manliness on p. 57 by deleting it from its neighbouring term. Vickery and her common-law partner (opposed as they were to the institution of marriage), Charles Robert Drysdale, were Malthusians, and some of this book’s themes - free-love, birth control, anti-Puritanism - reflect their own beliefs. Vickery was the first British woman to qualify as a chemist and studied Medicine in London and Paris and was among the first British women to obtain a medical qualification. Whilst practising as a doctor she lectured on Malthusianism, ‘advancing birth control as an essential element for the emancipation of women’, and ‘became involved with the Legitimation League which was set up to protest against the legal penalties borne by the illegitimate’ (ODNB). She was an early advocate for women’s suffrage, joining the ‘National Society for Women's Suffrage, later moving on to the more militant Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), and then the Women's Freedom League’. Dora Forster was born in England before emigrating to Canada with her husband R.B. Kerr in 1893; the couple both wrote for the Libertarian journal ‘Lucifer’ - indeed, the present work is based on Forster’s articles for that controversial magazine, whose editor and publisher, Moses Harman, fulfils the latter role here. Harman was arrested the following year - and though the eventual charges related to his use of obscenity, it was Forster’s book that was the basis of the original warrant.

THE CONVERSION OF THE NEW WORLD 73. (Franciscans. Missions.) [WEERTS (Paul)] Abrege des Fruits acquis par l'Ordre des Fre ères Mineurs es quattres Parties de l'univers Nommement la Conversion du Nouveau Monde. Recueillies par un Pere Cordelier en Bruxelles. Brussels: Francois Vivien, 1652, FIRST EDITION, with engraved title-page and 4 full-page engravings in the text, the engravings trimmed close at the fore-margin, last leaf strengthened and with a small hole and some tears repaired, loss of a few letters, first 4 leaves with repairs to fore-margin, no loss of text, pp. [xvi,

24 52 nd California Book Fair, Stand 815 including title-page], 171 (p. 171 misnumbered 17), [1, Imprimatur], 12mo, contemporary vellum over boards, gilt ruled borders on sides with the the arms of Fredericq de Marselaer (the Dedicatee) at the centre of both covers, slightly soiled, good $6,500 A very rare resumé of Franciscan missionary efforts in all parts of the known world, starting in Europe, going on the the Middle East, then to the East Indies, the Philippines, China and Japan, then, via Africa, to the New World - Mexico, Peru, Brazil, and Chile. WorldCat records only the NYPL copy in the US: not in COPAC. One of the engravings shows Franciscans and cherubim holding aloft two globes one with America shown and the other with Europe and Africa. Attributed to Paul Weerts by the Royal Library of Belgium online catalogue and by Servio Dirks in his Histoire litte éraire et ibliographique des Freres Mineurs de l'observance de St-Francois en Belgique et dans le Pays-Bas, Antwerp, 1885. Most bibliographies give 171 pages, but some call for 5 pages more, blank, however, apparently. There are 2 copies in the Royal Library of Belgium, one of 171 pp., the other of 171, [5].

THREE FULL SKELETONS 74. Franco (Pierre) Traité des Hernies: contenant une ample declaration de toutes leurs especes, & autres excellentes parties de la chirurgie, assavoir de la pierre, des cataractes, des yeux, & autres maladies, desquelles comme la cure est perilleuse, aussi est elle de peu dhommes bien exercée avec leurs causes, signes, accidens, anatomie des parties affectées, & leur entiere guarison … Lyons: Thibauld Payan, 1561, woodcut printer’s device on title, with woodcuts in text showing a variety of surgical instruments for the procedures discussed and a series of three full skeletons at the end, occasional light browning and foxing, worm-track in blank lower corner of last three gatherings not affecting printed area, piece of paper pasted over stamp or inscription on title, last leaf (with errata on recto) laid down on rear free endpaper, small rectangular excision from lower blank margin of leaf filled in, pp. [xxxii], 554, [1], small 8vo, contemporary vellum, overlapping fore-edges, remains of ties, text block almost loose from binding, minor damage with some loss to lower corner of rear cover, spine darkened, old ink lettering obscured, contemporary name on lower fore-edges $32,500 A choice copy of the very rare first edition under this title of Franco’s major work, a very good copy in an untouched contemporary binding and with a fine provenance. Described as the first edition in the Norman catalogue and in many medical bibliographies, this work is in fact a greatly enlarged version of Franco’s Petit traité, contenant une des parties principales de chirurgie, laquelle les chirurgiens hernieres exercent …, published in 1556. But really it is a new work – it is 400 pages longer than the earlier publication, and it has 25 new illustrations including 22 instruments and three full skeletons. ‘Pierre Franco, creator of suprapubic lithotomy cataract operation and surgical repair of hernia with preservation of the testis, is considered to be one of the greatest surgeons of the Renaissance and a forerunner of urology’ (Androutsos, p. 255). ‘Franco was influential in bringing operative surgery back into the realm of regular surgical practice, recapturing it from the ignorant hands of charlatans and itinerant ‘cutters.’ His major interest was in hernia surgery, to which he introduced several important innovations including an operation preserving the testicle (which was usually removed), a less risky incision at the base of the scrotum and methods for the surgical release of strangulated hernia. Franco was also the first surgeon to address himself seriously to the removal of bladder stones; he gave an account of perineal lithotomy and was the earliest to describe and perform the suprapubic incision’ (Norman). ‘Although not an academic, Franco decided to write a surgical text based on his many years of experience, which he modestly called a Petit Traité. His second book, Traité des hernies, was published in 1561 and includes chapters on anatomy, medicine and pharmacology. While in his first book Franco only cites Avicenna, Albucasis and Guy de Chauliac, Traité des hernies contains no less than 356 citations from a wide range of authorities [many Arabic], testifying to the remarkable learning of the supposedly unschooled author’ (Santoni-Rugiu & Sykes, A History of Plastic Surgery, 2007). The Blondelet and Norman copies are the only other copies recorded on ABPC/RBH in the last 80 years (the Norman copy, in a modern binding with upper margin of title and final leaf repaired, made $9200 in 1998). The only other copy we have located in commerce is in Ernst Weil’s catalogue 5 (ca. 1947), no. 93 (‘of great rarity’, £100). OCLC lists copies in US at Chicago, Harvard, Indiana and West Virginia. Provenance: contemporary inscription at foot of title (Urbain ?Hessard), below later ink stamp ‘AMOREUX’; from the library of Jean Blondelet, perhaps the greatest collector of medical books of the twentieth century.

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75. Frank (Anne) Weet Je Nog? Verhalen en sprookjes. Amsterdam: Contact, [1949,] FIRST EDITION, title-page vignette, 4 full-page illustrations and various borer designs by Kees Kelfkens, light foxing, largely restricted to borders, throughout, pp. 64, crown 8vo, original illustrated boards, some trivial wear at extremities, the backstrip gently faded with a few spots to rear, endpapers browned, dustjacket repeating board design, lightly chipped at extremities with rear panel browned, very good $460 A collection of eight stories for children written by the fourteen year old author whilst she was in hiding.

76. Gaddis (William) Carpenter's Gothic. André Deutsch, 1986, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, pp. 262, crown 8vo, original red boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge a trifle dust-spotted, dustjacket, near fine $260 Inscribed by the author on the half-title: ‘for John Baxter, with warm regards, William Gaddis, Canberra, March 1989’ - the recipient an author and bibliophile.

DOLET GALEN 77. Galen Du Mouvement des Muscles, Livres deux... Nouuellement traduict de Latin en Francoys, par monsieur maistre Iehan Canappe. Lyons: Étienne Dolet, 1541, woodcut printer’s device on title, larger version on the verso of last leaf, historiated woodcut initial for the dedication, criblé initial for each book, tiny repair to fore-margin of A5, not affecting text but apparently with the loss of a word of marginal annotation, mild damp-staining, pp. 83, [5], small 8vo, modern decorated paper wrappers [by Sün Evrard], slip-in case, contemporary underlining and marginal notes in a minuscule hand in French on the first 22 pages. $3,900 The first edition of Canappe’s (or Canapé’s) translation, the first of this text in any vernacular. Canappe was one of the first to teach medicine, more specifically surgery, in French, to the barber-surgeons of Lyons, some of whom, never mind having no Latin or Greek, were illiterate. His was the most important contribution to the burgeoning of translations of Classical medical texts in Lyons (Dolet of course another major figure) from the late 1530s till the 1560s. The circle involved in the progressive Lyons of the period includes not only those already named, but Rabelais, Champier, Agrippa, and Gryphius. USTC lists 5 copies in France, plus Yale. Another Lyons edition of the same year ‘pour Antoine Constantin chez Sulpice Sabon’, same collation, USTC 40297: also 5 in France, plus NLM, NYAM, Yale.

THE EARTH ONE GREAT MAGNET 78. Gilbert (William) De magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure; Physiologia nova, plurimis & argumentis, & experimentis demonstrate Peter Short, 1600, woodcut printer’s device (McKerrow 119) on title, large woodcut arms of Gilbert on title verso, one woodcut folding plate, 88 woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text (4 full-page), ornamental woodcut headpieces and initials, some variable foxing and browning throughout, but overall a good copy, pp. [xvi], 240, folio, recased in contemporary ?Italian limp vellum, later manuscript title and date on spine, holes for ties on all 3 sides, contemporary ownership inscription ‘Lucae de Albizi’ (athwart the printer’s device), another inscription (below the device) mostly erased (leaving a tiny hole), contemporary underlinings, and a few corrections to the text (not the errata), preserved in a cloth folding box $45,500 ‘The first major English scientific treatise based on experimental methods of research. Gilbert was chiefly concerned with magnetism; but as a digression he discusses in his second book the attractive effect of amber (electrum), and thus may be regarded as the founder of electrical science. He coined the terms electricity, electric force, and electric attraction. His versorium, a short needle balanced on a sharp point to enable it to move freely, is the first instrument designed for the study of electrical phenomena, serving both as an electroscope and electrometer. He contended that the earth was one great magnet; he distinguished magnetic mass from weight; and he worked on the application of terrestrial magnetism to navigation. Gilbert’s book influenced Kepler, Bacon, Boyle, Newton and, in particular, Galileo, who used his theories [in the Dialogo] to support his own proof of the correctness of the findings of Copernicus in cosmology’ (PMM). ‘Gilbert provided the only fully developed theory … and the first comprehensive discussion of magnetism since the thirteenth century Letter on the Magnet of Peter Peregrinus’ (DSB).

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The Albizzi were one of the oldest families in Florence and led the republican government for two generations. By 1427, they were the most powerful family in the city, and far richer than the Medici.

79. Giordano (Vitale) De componendis gravium momentis dissertatio. Rome: Angelo Bernabo. 1687, FIRST EDITION, woodcut device on title, diagrams in text, small red ink-stamp, a crowned monogram, at foot of title pp. [viii, including initial blank leaf], 14, [2, blank], old shelf-mark on initial blank, contemporary vellum over boards, paste-downs and end-leaves foxed, good $3,900 A rare treatise on the mechanics and theories of gravitation of Galileo and Torricelli, part of the effort of the 'Galileans' centred on Borelli and Torricelli, and patronised by Queen Christina, to keep the spirit of the new science alive in the decades following Galileo’s condemnation and death. De componendis gravium is a reply to the Jesuit Giovanni Francesco Vanni’s Specimen de Momentis gravium (Rome, 1684). Vanni attempted to refute the Galilean-Torricellian proposition that the ratio of the components of the weights of a body on an inclined plane and the perpendicular is the same as that of the vertical height and the length of the inclined plane. Giordani demonstrates the correctness of the Galilean-Torricellian proposition by means of four theorems, in which he assumes the Galilean propositions about bodies falling under gravity. Giordani’s work was itself the subject of criticism from the Jesuits, to which he responded a year later in Fundamentum doctrinae motus gravium (Rome, 1688). In 1680 Giordano published his Euclide restituto which contains an important contribution to non-Euclidean geometry, the work for which he is best known today: he introduced the geometrical figure now known as a ‘Saccheri quadrilateral’, after its use by Girolamo Saccheri in his Euclides ab omni naevo vindicatus (Milan, 1733). Giordano met Leibniz in Rome when Leibniz stayed there during his journey through Italy in the years 1689–90. The two men exchanged letters on the Euclidean definition of a straight line.

80. (Gogmagog Press) COX (Morris) Crash! An Experiment in Blockmaking and Printing. Gogmagog Press, 1963, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 65 COPIES (from an edition of 80 copies) concertina bound, printed in various colours and using a variety of techniques, pp. [26], foolscap 8vo, original buff wrappers, backstrip printed in brown with blue paper headcaps, top edge a little dust-spotted, very good $390

81. (Gogmagog Press.) COX (Morris) Forty-five Untitled Poems. Gogmagog Press, 1969, FIRST EDITION, 25/50 COPIES bound in the Japanese style and signed by the author, fly- title, poem numeration and press-device all printed in blue, 6 beautiful colour double-page embossed reverse/direct offset prints made from leaves, stalks and gesso, and printed on Shoji Japanese handmade paper, the text printed on brown Cha-uke Japanese handmade paper, pp. [62], crown 8vo, original mid brown Sugikawa Japanese paper boards, printed label to backstrip, acetate jacket, fine $490

82. (Gogmagog Press.) COX (Morris) Intimidations of Mortality: Poems on Victorian Themes with Psychological Implications. Gogmagog Press, 1977, 25/90 COPIES printed on Hodgkinson's and Japanese Mingei handmade papers, signed by Morris Cox, 3 double-page illustrations and frontispiece by Cox printed in various colours, title printed in turquoise, pp. [vii], 11, [4], crown 8vo, original pink boards with designs by Morris Cox printed in black, unrelated(?) clipping laid in, acetate jacket, near fine $360

83. (Gogmagog Press.) COX (Morris) Mummers’ Fool. [Poem]. Gogmagog Press, 1965, 8/60 COPIES printed on Barcham Green handmade paper double leaves, signed by the author, frontispiece (handcoloured), each of the 6 double-page openings treated as a separate illustration with borders and illustration often occupying a whole page, title-page printed in black and blue

27 BLACKWELL’S RARE BOOKS and decorated in red and yellow, pp. [22], 8vo, original pale grey cloth-backed boards, backstrip lettered in black with decorations in blue and red, the boards faintly horizontally banded in pale blues and pinks with dried grasses and a cream paper moon disc under a tissue layer, Japanese paper endpapers, untrimmed, Bertram Rota compliments slip laid in (’Winter to follow’), fine $780 The bibliography says of the binding ‘perhaps his masterpiece in this kind’ (page 135).

84. (Gogmagog Press.) COX (Morris) A Web of Nature. A Printbook Illustrating a Principle. Gogmagog Press, 1964, FIRST EDITION, 11/50 COPIES signed by the printer/artist, printed on Japanese Hosho paper with 29 embossed reverse/direct offset prints in various colours (two in blind), some very faint spotting at foot of title-page, pp. x, [2], 26, foolscap 8vo, original quarter vellum with boards printed in yellowish green, backstrip printed in black and red, buff card slipcase with orange ribbon-pull, a black monotype to each side, near fine $590

85. (Golden Cockerel Press.) THE BOOK OF JONAH. Taken from the Authorized Version of King James I., with Engravings on Wood by David Jones. Golden Cockerel Press, 1926, 117/175 copies printed on Batchelor's handmade paper, 13 wood-engravings (4 full-page) by David Jones, a few very faint spots to prelims and colophon, pp. [i], 15, 4to, original cream canvas, backstrip lettered in gilt, lightly soiled overall, edges untrimmed, endpapers lightly spotted with bookplate to front pastedown and a small sticker at head of flyleaf, a couple of relevant clippings laid in, good $1,630

86. (Golden Cockerel Press.) Cynwal (Wiliam) In Defence of Woman, a Welsh Poem. Translated by Gwyn Williams. [1960], 232/400 COPIES printed on mouldmade paper, 10 colour-printed wood-engravings (including a decorated title-border) by John Petts, pp. 28, tall 8vo, original dark blue cloth, lettering on backstrip and Petts design on the front cover blocked in gilt, untrimmed, fine $91

87. (Golden Cockerel Press.) GILL (Eric) Art & Love. Bristol: (Printed at the Golden Cockerel Press for) Douglas Cleverdon, 1927, FIRST EDITION, 177/225 COPIES (of an edition of 260 copies) printed on Batchelor's handmade paper and signed by the author, wood-engraved title design and 6 copperplate- engravings by Gill, pp. [vi], 26, foolscap 8vo, original black buckram, backstrip gilt lettered, top edge a trifle dustsoiled, edges untrimmed, near fine $650

88. (Golden Cockerel Press.) MATHERS (E. Powys) Procreant Hymn. Golden Cockerel Press, 1926, 96/200 COPIES printed on Batchelor handmade paper, 5 copperplate-engravings by Eric Gill, pp. 20, 8vo, original white buckram, backstrip gilt lettered, t.e.g., others untrimmed, dustjacket with small chip to one corner, very good $2,340 Gill’s engravings are exhibitionist in their conjunction of the religious and the erotic - Powys Mathers’ poem essays a similar union, but Gill’s capacity for exploration exceeded the poet’s and four of the illustrations he provided were deemed too obscene, with the publisher’s inserted note (not present here) advising that they could be obtained direct from the artist.

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89. Goncharov (Ivan) Oblomov. Translated from the Russian by C.J. Hogarth. George Allen & Unwin, 1915, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, pp. 317, [5, publisher’s list], crown 8vo, original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board and backstrip, slight lean to spine and top edge a trifle dusty, near fine $200 Scarce. The combined testaments of the translator and Maurice Baring precede the text to classify this as ‘one of the greatest Russian classics’. Though without mark of ownership, this copy originally belonged to Edmund C. Yates - the son of Edmund H. Yates, editor of World magazine and a close friend of Dickens.

90. Grandville [Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, called] Scènes De La Vie Privée Et Publique Des Animaux... Paris: J. Hetzel and Paulin, 1842, FIRST EDITION, 2 vols., with 201 plates (including additional titles), and numerous head & tailpieces, initials, & vignettes by Brévière & others after designs by Grandville, 1 leaf in vol. ii with a ragged tear right across, crudely repaired, another with a hole in the fore-margin, other paper repairs especially at the end of vol. ii, scattered foxing, and a few minor stains, pp. [iv], 386, [4]; [iv], 390, [4], large 8vo, original publisher’s de luxe green hard-grained morocco, blocked in gilt with images from the book, darker green onlaid border on sides, spined pictorially gilt and lettered in gilt direct, gilt edges, spines slightly faded, minor wear $1,560 From Faringdon House, the collection of Lord Berners, though without mark of ownership. The best satire on French manners during the middle of the 19th century. Contributors include Balzac and George Sand.

91. Gunter (Edmund) The Description and Use of the Sector, Crosse-staffe, & Other Instruments. VVith a Canon of Artificiall Sines and Tangents, to a Radius of 10000.0000. parts, and the vse thereof in Astronomie, Navigation, Dialling, and Fortification, &c. The second Edition much augmented Printed by William Iones, for Iames Bowler, 1636, with additional engraved title-page (which extends the title further), engraved frontispiece, diagram on printed title, 2 woodcut plates, and 2 printed slips, 1 folding, bound in, numerous diagrams and illustrations in the text, some full-page, others nearly so, slightly browned, a few patches of minor staining, one leaf with 2 small holes, 1 in the fore-margin, 1 with minor loss to text, [xii], 78, [2], 79-113, 116-163, [1]; 266; 56, 59-64, 67-75, [1]; [114], 4to, contemporary calf, double blind fillets on sides, on the upper cover, at the outer upper corner there is a sequence of numbers from 1 to 10 blocked in blind, descending vertically, the sequence repeated half way through below (an unusual feature), repeated, one line only, on lower cover, rebacked, corners and edges repaired, fly-leaf at the end ruled in columns in red, small blue paper label inside front cover with a name scratched out, much later pencil annotations and workings in pencil in a few places $10,400 A good, large, complete copy of the second and best edition of Gunter's collected writings (called The Works in the third edition of 1653), edited by Samuel Foster, with additions, including a chapter on the mathematics of fortification, not published before. The volume is in four separately numbered parts, comprising the Booke of the Sector, Booke of Crosse-stafte, Use of the Canon and Table, and the Canon Triangulorum, the last with a separate title page. Waters says the Booke of the Sector ‘must rank with Eden's translation of Cortes's Arte de Navegar and Wright's Certaine Errors as one of the three most important English books ever published for the improvement of navigation... [Gunter] opened up... an entirely new field, that of arithmetical navigation’ (Art of Navigation, p. 359). And further, ‘Gunter's exposition of finding a ship's position by calculation since it was eventually published to the world, must be classed as one of the most influential scientific works on navigation.’ ‘Easily the most substantial of Gunter's works was The Description and Use of the Sector, the Crosse-Staffe and other such Instruments (1623) which explained instruments which he had designed. Apart from the two mentioned in the title it also included an astronomical quadrant and a ‘cross-bow’—an alternative to the backstaff used by sailors for solar altitude measurements. Although this instrument did not become popular the others all did, in one form or another. The Gunter sector was a much more complex instrument than Thomas Hood's. It allowed calculations involving square and cubic proportions, and carried various trigonometrical scales. Moreover it had a scale for use with Mercator's new projection of the sphere, making this projection more manageable for

29 BLACKWELL’S RARE BOOKS navigators who were only partially mathematically literate. The sector was sold as a navigational instrument throughout the seventeenth century and survived in cases of drawing instruments for nearly three hundred years. The most striking feature of the cross-staff, distancing it from other forms of this instrument, was the inclusion of logarithmic scales. This was the first version of a logarithmic rule, and it was from Gunter's work that logarithmic slide rules were developed, instruments that remained in use until the late twentieth century’ (ODNB). A scarce book anyway, it is often found incomplete (e.g. the Macclesfield copy). The matter is not helped by the fugitive nature of the inserts (sometimes called plates, but really inserts), and the fact that one of the plates is a volvelle, intended to be cut out. For some reason, the additional engraved title is sometimes missing. Several of the text illustrations extend well beyond the boundary of the text, and are therefore liable to cropping. In this copy only one if these is touched, and that barely.

LORD KENYON ’S COPY , NUMBER I 92. (Gwasg Gregynog.) PARRY (Robert Williams) Cerddi Robert Williams Parry [Poems of...] Detholiad gyda Rhagymadrodd gan Thomas Parry. Newtown, Powys, Gwasg Gregynog, 1980, I/15 COPIES (from an edition of 245 copies), printed in black, brown and green on Wookey Hole handmade paper, 6 wood-engravings by Peter Reddick, pp. 112, imperial 8vo, special binding by Sydney Cockerell to a design by Joan Rix Tebbutt of full green goatskin, flower design stamped in black to upper board with gilt tooling, green leather label lettered in gilt to slightly faded backstrip, in fleece-lined green cloth drop-back box with gilt-lettered leather label, fine $2,340 The copy of Press Chairman Lord Kenyon, with a packing slip addressed to him by Richard Sawyer of Grafton Street.

COPY NUMBER I, LORD KENYON ’S 93. (Gwasg Gregynog.) REES (Ioan Bowen) The Mountains of Wales. An Anthology in Verse & Prose. Newtown, Powys, Gwasg Gregynog, 1987, I/20 COPIES (from an edition of 276 copies) printed on Zerkall mould-made paper, the book designed by John Ryder, title-page printed in black and red, with reproductions of 8 watercolours by Rev. John Parker tipped in to buff paper and captioned on the verso with text by the artist, the illustrations printed by Adrian Lack at the Senecio Press, pp. 189, imperial 8vo, special binding by James Brockman, quarter black goatskin with boards of marbled transparent vellum, blue and black calf onlays, backstrip lettered in gilt, edges gilt on the rough, blue suede doublures, leather hinges, press compliments slip laid in with two versions of the prospectus, in quarter black goatskin and blue buckram drop-back box lined in velvet, leather label, fine $3,250 The copy of the Press’s Chairman, Lord Kenyon, with his bookplate laid in. An impressive binding.

94. (Harsimus Press.) HENRY (Barbara) Walt Whitman's Faces. A Typographic Reading. With an introductory essay by Karen Karbiener. Jersey City, Harsimus Press, 2012, 29/30 COPIES (from an edition of 80 copies) signed by Barbara Henry, these copies with additional two-colour prints of 4 lino-cut Whitman portraits signed by Henry, large frontispiece lino-cut portrait of Whitman by Henry with further small portraits by the same to Contents Page and section-title, each printed in black against a yellow or red ground, printed in various colours and types with two photographic plates of street scenes both contemporary to Whitman and modern, pp. 17, [14, Whitman’s ‘Leaf of Faces’], royal 8vo, original variant quarter red morocco with grey boards, illustration printed in black to each board, backstrip with printed label, edges untrimmed, Prospectus and Press ephemera loosely inserted, new $780 A beautifully conceived and executed piece of Press-work, using Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaf of Faces’ as the focus for an experiment in type - a reading that is drawn along by the sophisticated semantic trick of co-opting typefaces to the human faces of the poem, but has as its basis the more substantial proposition that Whitman’s ‘early training as a compositor was a key influence on his development as a poet’ (Prospectus). In a unique quarter red binding - the rest of the special issue was done in green.

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STUPENDI FENOMENI 95. Hauksbee (Francis) Esperienze Fisico-Meccaniche Sopra Varj Soggeti: contenenti un racconto di diversi i intorno la luce e l'elettricità producibile dallo strofinamento de' corpi con molte altre notabili apparenze non mai prima osservate colla spiegazione di tutte le macchine. Florence: Nella Stamperia Di Sua Altezza Reale. Per Jacopo Guiducci e Santi Franchi, 1716, FIRST ITALIAN EDITION, with 7 folding engraved plates and 1 smaller on different paper (not numbered), numerous bold woodcut decorations, plates a bit browned, pp. [xvi], 162, [2], large 8vo, contemporary green vellum, spine gilt in compartments, russet morocco lettering piece, shelf number to foot of spine, overlapping fore-edges, front joint cracking, good $2,280 The first translation of Hauksbee’s 1709 ‘Physico-Mechanical Experiments’ (which was ‘Sold only at the Author’s House’), and in fact the second edition of the text: Henry Guerlac in DSB points out that this edition was the one chiefly read in France, and the one used by the pioneer electrician C.F. de Cisternay Duffay. A French translation did not appear until 1754. In the main article Guerlac describes Hauksbee’s experiments, and the ’unique collaboration between the venerable dean of English science [i.e. Newton] and the vigorous, gifted experimenter. From Newton, Hauksbee came to understand the theoretical import of some of his discoveries; and for his part the older man relied on Hauksbee’s practiced hands to test some of his conjectures. What particularly interested Newton we learn from the changes he made during this period in new editions of his principal works, the Opticks and the Principia.’ ‘Hauksbee’s important experiments on electroluminescence, static electricity, and capillarity, described in the present wok, mark the beginning of sustained experimentation in the field of electricity’ (Norman 1020). The anonymous Proemio (by the translator) praises Boyle and Newton, and explains that the motive of the translation is the inspiration of further researches. A scarce book, and an attractive copy.

96. Herodotus Hērodotou Logoi ennea hoiper epikalountai Mousai [in Greek]. Basle: Johann Herwagen, [1541], woodcut printer’s device on verso of final leaf (otherwise blank), numerous woodcut initials, text in Greek, section at the lower outer corner of title-page neatly excised and renewed, title slightly soiled, pp. [xx], 310, [2], folio, [bound with:] Thoukydide meta scholio palaio kai panu ophelimo [in Greek]... Accessit praeterea diligentia Ioachimi Camerarij, in castigando tum textu, tum commentarijs una à cum annotationibus eius. Basle: Johann Herwagen, 1540, text in Greek, numerous woodcut initials, title-page with same excision and renewal as Herodotus, lacking the final leaf (as sometimes) blank except for printer’s device, pp. [xxiv], 225, [3], 177 [i.e. 127], folio. 2 vols bound in 1, contemporary elaborately blind-stamped pigskin, original twirled brass clasps, later ink lettering on spine, small ink stamp on verso of first title of the Donaueschingen library, a choice copy $6,500 These two editions, published a year apart, are often found together, probably as intended. The last leaf is sometimes missing from the Thucydides (e.g. 2 of the 3 copies in Adams, the copy in Harvard). That the two title-pages have the same excision and repair (not at all recent) it is probably no coincidence, but the significance is not apparent. These are the first Herwagen editions of these historians, the Herodotus being the second Greek edition, and the Thucydides the third.

97. Herschel (William) Description of a forty-feet reflecting telescope. From The Philosophical Transactions. [London: Royal Society, 1795], FIRST EDITION, THE RARE SEPARATELY-PAGINATED PRE-PUBLICATION OFFPRINT, with 19 folding engraved plates, stab-holes in gutter from its time in wrappers, text uniformly very slightly browned, a little foxing, 4 plates with re-inforcement to paper-flaws, barely affecting the engravings, and a small hole all through them in the wide inner margin, pp. 65, 4to, contemporary ?German half sheep, orange lettering piece, neat repair to head of spine, good $12,740 William Herschel's famous account of his great 40-foot telescope erected at Slough, which was one of the wonders of the world, no larger instrument being constructed for nearly 50 years. The account was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society for 1795, Part 1: author’s received their offprints before the journal was issued. Paid for by the King and commissioned in 1785, it cost at least £4800 and was not completed until 1789, with its inauguration being celebrated by a concert held inside its base, the music perhaps composed by Herschel himself, as he was first, before he became an astronomer, a musician.

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The telescope contained a 48-inch mirror and was nearly five foot in diameter. Almost as soon as it was completed it revealed the sixth satellite of Saturn, although in the long run it was clumsy to use and apt to tarnish. It was, however, an extraordinary achievement and Herschel gives full details in this paper of its make-up and construction. The first of the 19 explanatory plates is an attractive engraved view of the telescope dedicated by Herschel to the King. The offprint is rare, though not as rare as the ESTC entry suggests, where there are no UK locations: there are however 6 in COPAC, but not Oxford, Cambridge or the BL. Herschel had contacts all over Europe, especially in his native Germany, and to judge by the binding this was sent to a colleague there.

WITH AN UNUSED POSTERIOR STILL OF THE SHOWER SCENE 98. (Hitchcock.) ANOBILE (Richard J., Editor) Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. [Film Classics Library.] Picador / Pan in association with Macmillan, 1974, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, illustrated with stills, captioned with dialogue where present, to reconstruct the film in its entirety, pp. 256, 4to, original wrappers, bottom corners a little creased, very good $260 With the tipped-in signatures of Patricia Hitchcock and Janet Leigh facing the title-page, accompanied by a still of them together in a scene from the film. Tipped to the flyleaf is a larger (20.5 x 25.5 cm approx.) still of an unused shot from the shower scene, showing Leigh waist-down from behind; on the facing inside cover is a TLs from Hitchcock authority Philip J. Skerry presenting this to John Baxter, where he explains: ‘The enclosed picture is a blowup from a strip of 35MM work print from Psycho. The film was given to me by Terry Williams, who was George Tomasini’s assistant on the film [...] It’s from the bird’s eye shot that Hitch decided not to use’. Skerry also relates the alarming story of how most of the outtake footage came to be thrown away by Williams’ assistant, and mentions that Gus Van Sant’s decision to restore the overhead shot was probably the best thing about the latter’s remake of the film. The book itself offers a compelling way to enjoy the film separate to the screen, essentially using it as the raw material for a very effective graphic novel.

99. [Holberg (Ludvig, Baron)] Voyage de Nicolas Klimius dans le monde souterrain, contenant une nouvelle téorie de la terre et l'histoire d'une cinquième monarchie inconnue jusqu’à-present. Ouvrage tiré de la Bibliothèque de Mr. B. Abelin; et traduit du Latin par Mr. de Mauvillon. Copenhagen: Jacob Preuss, 1741, title printed in red and black, with an engraved frontispiece, a folding map, and 2 plates, uniformly slightly browned, pp. [vi], 388, 8vo, contemporary Scandinavian calf, spine decorated in blind, tan lettering piece, a little rubbed, headcap defective, contemporary ownership inscription on title, good $3,900 This celebrated satirical imaginary voyage - the first to develop the trope of a hollow Earth - first appeared in Latin in 1741: Dutch, German, French, and Danish translations were published in the same year. The English edition of the following year did not have the engagingly bizarre plates. Two specific (real) countries are satirised, France and Russia, making the present one and the Russian (1762) perhaps the most interesting of the translations.

100. Hueffer (Oliver Madox) Cousins German. Ernest Benn, 1930, FIRST EDITION, a few faint spots to prelims and final leaves, pp. 284, crown 8vo, original black cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, spine a little canted, one corner knocked, crease to top corner of flyleaf, dustjacket lightly dustsoiled overall with a little chipping to extremities, a little bleed from cloth to bottom corner of front panel, front flap with perforated section as issued, very good $650 A novel of the Great War by the younger brother of Ford Madox Ford, the title of which - and the plea for sympathy in the ‘Apologia’ (the need for which, one imagines, was stressed by the publisher) - indicate the author’s German heritage. The front flap of the dustjacket has, an innovation in the experience of this cataloguer, a synopsis which it suggests one detaches and sends to ‘the friend who is continually asking you to recommend a good novel’.

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF RELIGION 101. Hume (David) Four Dissertations. I. The natural history of religion. II. Of the passions. III. Of tragedy. IV. Of the standard of taste. Printed [by William Bowyer] for A. Miller, 1757,

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FIRST EDITION, the inking a little uneven in the early pages, minor browning, thumbing, a few spots, with the half-title and the Dedication, the usual cancels (C12, D1, K5-8 - stubs showing), typographical eror on p. 9, but that on p. 131 corrected, pp. [iv], vii, [3], 240, 12mo, contemporary calf, lacking lettering piece, slightly rubbed and worn, spine a little defective at either end, cracking to lower joint (but sound), contemporary signature of James MacIvor on fly- leaf (a further inscription sliced off the head) and half-title, later pencil marking in the margins $2,860 The publication of this volume is a tangled tale. ‘Hume first suggested the volume to Andrew Millar in 1755, proposing essays on the natural history of religion, the passions, tragedy, and geometry and natural philosophy. The second of these derived from book 2 of the Treatise, and completed its abridgement; the fourth may have been a reworking of book 1, part 2. But it was dropped on the advice of Lord Stanhope, a mathematician; and Hume had proposed to replace it with two essays on suicide and on the immortality of the soul. Though ‘Five dissertations’ were printed in proof, Warburton's interference and Hume's “abundant prudence” led to their withdrawal, and Hume substituted another, on the standard of taste, to make up the final four dissertations. The most substantial of these was the “Natural history of religion”. When it was first drafted is uncertain; it may have been contemporary with the still-unpublished Dialogues. It offered an experimental history of religious belief and practice, with a comparative analysis of the respective characteristics of polytheism and monotheism. Hume found that polytheism had not only preceded monotheism, but was much less dangerous, being less liable to join a philosophical enthusiasm to a religious superstition. This error he attributed specifically to the Stoics; but all theists were implicated. The only remedy, he concluded, was to set one species of superstition against another, “while we ourselves … happily make our escape into the calm, though obscure, regions of philosophy”’ (ODNB). This is not all. ‘After publication Hume withdrew the dedication to John Home... but cancelled the withdrawal four days later: in the interval 800 copies were sold without it’ (Jessop)

102. (Isle Handpress.) ENGLISH (Andy, Illustrator) Feed the Bees. Ely, Isle Handpress, 2018, 13/20 COPIES (from an edition of 120 copies) signed by the artist with his wood-engraved illustrations hand-coloured by him throughout, pp. [6], 8x5 cm, original marbled boards, printed label to front with hand-colouring, secured with ribbon ties, fine $59 A delightful little concertina book showing a selection of plants for each season that will bring bees to one’s garden.

103. James (Montague Rhodes) Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. With Four Illustrations by the Late James McBryde. Edward Arnold, 1904, FIRST EDITION, tissue-guarded frontispiece and 3 further plates, spotting to half-title and one or two faint spots to borders, pp. 270, 16 [List, dated November 1904], 8vo, original beige linen, the rules overall stamped in red with lettering in black to upper board and backstrip, hint of toning to backstrip and leading yapp edges, touch of fraying to cloth at one corner, edges roughtrimmed with a few spots, top edge a little dusty, spots to endpapers, very good $2,600 An excellent copy of this masterful work: ‘There is no question of apprenticeship here’ (ODNB).

104. Jansson (Tove) Bildhuggarens dotter [Sculptor’s daughter]. Helsinki: Almqvist & Wiksell/Gebers, 1968, FIRST EDITION, pp. 147, [1], crown 8vo, original mustard-yellow cloth, backstrip lettered in black, dustjacket illustrated by the author with some minor toning, small crack in lower half of backstrip panel, very good $780 The author’s memoir of her Finnish childhood.

105. Juan y Santacilla (Jorge), and Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre Giral. Observaciones astronomicas, y phisicas hechas de orden de S. Mag. en los reynos del Peru... de las quales se deduce la figura, y magnitud de la tierra, y se aplica a la navegacion Madrid: Juan de Zuñiga, 1748, FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, elaborate allegorical vignette on title incorporating the Spanish royal arms, engraved allegorical frontispiece, 8 folding engraved plates,

33 BLACKWELL’S RARE BOOKS plus an unnumbered engraving of the moon, engraved vignette at head of text picturing the expedition at work, worming mainly in the upper margin up to gathering L, but at its worst B-H entering the text with the loss of a few letters, damp-staining to the upper margins at the beginning and again in the lower outer corner towards the end, pp. [xvi], xxviii, 396, [14], 4to, contemporary calf, spine richly gilt, citron lettering piece, a bit scuffed, still good $1,630 This scarce volume was published in the same year as, although separately from, the four volume narrative account of the expedition entitled Relacion historica del viage a la America Meridional. It deals exclusively with the measurements (and the instruments to obtain them) made to establish the arc of meridian. ‘After Cassini’s measurements... seemed to show that the earth was a spheroid elongated at the poles, in clear opposition to Newton’s theory, the French Academy of Sciences proposed that two series of measurements on one degree of an arc of the meridian should be made, one near the North Pole, the other near the equator. Louis XV designated a Hispano-French for the measurement at the equator, in which, by appointment of Philp V, Juan and Ulloa would particiapte on behalf of Spain’ (DSB). The very accurate results supported Newton’s theory. See Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World. By Larrie D. Ferreiro, 2011. The endpapers are not characteristically Spanish, so the binding may be French.

106. Karlin (Alma M.) The Death-Thorn, and other strange experiences in Peru and Panama. Translated by Bernard Miall. George Allen & Unwin, 1934, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, pp. 346, [6], crown 8vo, original yellow cloth, lettered in yellow to upper board and backstrip within a black panel, knock to top corner of upper board with trivial wear to backstrip ends, lean to spine, a few spots to edges, ownership inscription to flyleaf, dustjacket with striking design, price-clipped, a little toned and chipped with some internal repair at head of backstrip panel, good $190 A fascinating account of the author’s travels into remote regions (what the dustjacket blurb forthrightly puts as ‘an abysmally ignorant world of savages and decivilised half-breeds’) in pursuit of experiences at odds with a childhood that she refers to in her autobiographical summary as ‘severely repressed’. Translated from the third German edition, the author would soon after abandon the language (she was fluent in around ten others) in protest at the rise of Nazism.

ON THE ROAD AND CATCH -22 107. Kerouac (Jack, as 'Jean-Louis') and Joseph Heller (Contributors) New World Writing. Seventh Mentor Selection [Edited by Malcolm Cowley.] New York: New American Libary, 1955, FIRST EDITION, pages browned, one plate showing portrait of Dylan Thomas, a few illustrations to the text, pp. 247, [9], foolscap 8vo, original wrappers, the backstrip gently faded with light reading creases to spine, laminate lifting slightly in a couple of places, edges red, very good $200 An important issue in which we find the first appearances in print of any part of two of the century’s most important American novels: the collection opens with ‘Jazz of the Beat Generation’ by Jean-Louis - ‘from a novel-in-progress, The Beat Generation, [by] a young American writer of French-Canadian heritage’, the pseudonym being simply the birth-name of Jack Kerouac and the novel subsequently published under the title ‘On the Road’; later, on pp. 204-14, we have ‘the first chapter’ of another ‘novel-in-progress’ from the young New York writer Joseph Heller - here called ‘Catch-18’, but later, of course, retitled for publication as ‘Catch-22’.

108. Kristeva (Julia) Colette. Translated by Jane Marie Todd [European Perspectives series.] New York: Columbia University Press, [2004,] FIRST EDITION, pp. [xiv], 521, [3, publisher’s list], 8vo, original purple boards, backstrip lettered in silver, trivial knock to bottom corners, dustjacket, near fine $100 Signed by the author on the title-page, the final volume in her trilogy on ‘Female Genius’.

109. (Kubrick.) OLSON (Daniel, Editor) Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining'. Studies in the Horror Film. Interviews by Justin Bozung, Catriona McAvoy, and Others. Introduction by Lee Unkrich. Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2015, FIRST EDITION, XIV/100 COPIES signed by the contributors, richly illustrated, predominantly in colour, titles and shoulder notes printed in blue, pp. 665, [2], imperial 8vo,

34 52 nd California Book Fair, Stand 815 original black cloth with inset still from the film to upper board, backstrip lettered in yellow, black and yellow cloth slipcase, a few signs of very light handling, near fine $330 Though without mark of ownership, the copy of contributor John Baxter, who provides the lead essay here: ‘Kubrick in Hell’.

110. Lawrence (T.E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a Triumph. Jonathan Cape, 1935, FIRST TRADE EDITION, first impression (with incorrect listing of illustration, pp.304-305), photogravure frontispiece, 53 plates and illustrations, 4 folding maps, pp. 672, stout 4to, original brown buckram with illustration in gilt to upper board, backstrip gilt lettered and a touch faded, a hint of fading to margin of upper board, top edge brown, dustjacket with some light dustsoiling, a few faint spots, and a small amount of chipping, very good $620 With ‘Lawrence of Arabia Memorial’ leaflet (4-pages) loosely inserted.

111. Le Carré (John) The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. Victor Gollancz, 1963, FIRST EDITION, pp. 222, 8vo, original variant binding of brown boards, backstrip lettered in gilt with very slight lean to spine, contemporary ownership inscription to flyleaf, dustjacket with some minor handling, a little rubbing to front flap-fold, short closed tear at foot of upper joint- fold repaired internally, very good $1,300 With a signed note by the author laid in, clipped from a longer piece: ‘With my very best wishes, and please don’t include me among Famous People, who are all either dead or boring: just read me. Best, John Le Carré, 29 Jan 90’

112. Lee (Vernon, i.e. Violet Paget) Renaissance Fancies and Studies. Being a Sequel to Euphorion. Smith, Elder, 1895, FIRST EDITION, a few faint spots to half-title, pp. xi, 260, [2, ads], crown 8vo, original dark green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, some minor rubbing, top edge a little dusty, slight abrasion to front hinge, very good $1,950 A scarce book, inscribed by the author on the half-title: ‘To dear Evelyn, from her affectionate Vernon, Xmas 1899’. The recipient is likely to have been Evelyn Wimbush, Paget’s long-standing friend and travelling companion - the dedicatee of her later ‘Sister Benvenuta and the Christ Child’. Presentation copies of Lee’s work are uncommon.

EDITION NOT IN ESTC 113. (Letter Writer.) THE COMPLETE LETTER-WRITER. Containing Familiar Letters on The most common Occasions in Life. Also A variety of elegant Letters for the Direction and Embellishment of Style, on Buisiness, Duty, Amusement, Love, Courtship, Marriage, Friendship, and other subjects. To which is prefixed A plain and compendious English Grammar. With Directions for writing Letters, and the proper Forms of Address. At the End are given, Forms of Message-Cards, and a copious English Spelling-Dictionary. Edinburgh: Printed in the Year 1776, slight browning, and a few spots or thumb-marks, 2 leaves a little proud, pp. 300, 12mo, original calf, blind ruled borders on sides, good, contemporary signature on title of William Turnbull, modern bookplate of David Stocks (wood-engraving of stocks) $780 A pleasant copy of a very rare printing of this classic Letter-Writer - not in ESTC or Alston, with WorldCat and COPAC locating just 1 copy (NLS). David Paterson printed an edition in Edinburgh in the same year to be ‘sold by the Booksellers’, but this is not it without a name (the pagination differs). The title first appeared in London in 1755, and numerous editions followed, mostly London, but a few provincial (this is the fourth or fifth edinburgh edition, but by no means the last one before 1800: it must have been useful in combatting Scoticisms), and at least 1 American. In the corrected reprint Alston has ruefully noted under the first edition ‘There were numerous works with this title - library catalogues are confusing.’

114. Lewis (C.S.) Studies in Words. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1960, FIRST EDITION, pp. vii, 240, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt partially against a black ground, top edge a trifle dustsoiled, dustjacket with corner clipped at head of front flap (price intact at foot), very good $98

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The copy of Sir Geoffrey Keynes, with his ownership inscription to the flyleaf dated ‘Rome Oct. 1960’ - in pencil to the same, below, he has noted a reference to Harvey on Wit on p. 91.

115. Lope de Vega y Carpio (Félix) Arcadia, Prosas, y Versos. Con na Exposicion delos no[m]bres Historicos, y Poeticos a Don Pedro Tellez Giron... Madrid: [colophon: Pedro de Madrigal], 1603, title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut portrait of Lope on [...]7v, woodcut arms of Tellez Giron on f. 312v, cut a little close with some headlines just touched, water-staining in the first half and more particularly the first quarter (but not a disaster), a few fragments of blank corners torn away, and small hole in the first leaf of the Exposicion touching a couple of letters, ff. [8], 312 (various errors in signatures and pagination), [30], small 8vo, early 19th-century half English calf, rubbed, upper joint and top of spine repaired, early English provenance (see below), inscription of Aurelio M. Espinos (also see below) and his book label on front free endpaper, sound $6,500 Early (third or fourth) edition of Lope de Vega’s extraordinarily successful pastoral novel (partly in verse), first published in 1598 and going through more than 40 editions within a century. All the early editions are rare: WorldCat records only the BL copy of this, though Profeti adds a few more, Arsenal, Wolfenbüttel, Hispanic Society, and Florence: not in the BNSpain. Verso of the title inscribed: ‘John Winstanley liber [...] / ex dono Margaret ?Sotherno / 1641’, John Winstanley’s signature (the ascenders just cropped) on the page opposite. The inscription of A.M. Espinosa is dated 1908, noting it as a gift from T.S. Bell, which means this is Espinosa Senior, father of the noted folklorist Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa.

SIGNED 116. MacNeice (Louis, Translator) The Agamemnon of Aeschylus. Faber and Faber, 1936, FIRST EDITION, pp. 71, 8vo, original purple cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, bookplate of J. Timothy Kenrick to front pastedown, dustjacket a little tatty with some tape repair at head of rear panel, good $780 Signed by MacNeice at the foot of his Preface.

117. Markham (Albert H[astings]) A Polar Reconnaissance. Being The Voyage of the “Isbjörn” in 1879 to Novaya Zemlya in 1879. C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881, FIRST EDITION, 6 plates, 4 illustrations, 2 folding maps at rear, p.81 with short tear at fore- margin, pp. xvi, [ii], 362, 2 folding maps, 8vo, original royal blue decorated boards, spine lettered in gilt, chocolate brown endpapers, corners bumped, spine faded and rubbed at head and foot, boards with slight bubbling, top edge dust-soiled, hinges cracked but holding, good $1,560 A first-hand account of the Isbjörn’s voyage to Novaya Zemlya, a Russian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, in search of the ideal route to the North Pole, which Markham was convinced could be achievable in the summer months, with observations on ice conditions, animals and birds. Admiral Sir Albert Hastings Markham’s illustrious career included helping to suppress the South Sea island slave trade, achieving, by sledge-party, the highest altitude yet attained at the time, in the Arctic, in 1876, and meticulously documenting Pacific gulls - Markham’s Storm Petrel was named in his honour. A copy of this book was included in the onboard collection, the National Antarctic Expedition Library, which Captain Scott took on his Discovery expedition of 1901-04.

‘W ITHIN AN ACE OF DISCOVERING OXYGEN ’ (M ADAN ) 118. Mayow (John) Tractatus quinque medico-physici. Quorum primus agit de sal-nitro, et spiritu nitro-aereo. Secundus de respiratione. Tertius de respiratione foetus in utero, et ovo. Quartus de motu musculari, et spiritibus animalibus. Ultimus de rhachitide. Oxford: e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1674, FIRST EDITION, with a fine engraved portrait frontispiece and 6 folding engraved plates, minor staining of one sort or another here and there, pp. [xl], 335, [1], 152, 8vo, contemporary (?Dutch) vellum over soft boards, lettered in ink on the spine (only 4 of the tracts listed), vellum

36 52 nd California Book Fair, Stand 815 strip catches, one missing, the text block drooping within the binding, end-papers lifted, but still firm, slightly soiled and a couple of patches of wear, good $5,200 ‘This historically important and rare book "is one of the best English medical classics" according to Garrison and Morton and is "one of the world's greatest masterpieces" according to John Ruhräh (Pediatrics of the past. New York, 1925. p. 344). In addition to the two treatises in Tractatus duo, it includes his tracts on respiration in which he accurately describes the role of the intercostal muscles in breathing, a tract on respiration of the fetus in utero, and De motu musculari in which he gives what may be the first description of mitral stenosis. His work shows that he was much in advance of his time and that he was a conscientious researcher who based his results on close attention to detail in the manner of his contemporaries, Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke’ (Heirs of Hippocrates). Mayow ‘must be classed with Hooke and Boyle, possessing the scientific imagination of the one, the tenacity of the other. Mayow was a major figure in the Restoration school of Oxford experimentalists who took Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood as the basis for further experimental investigations. Mayow had the genius to perceive exactly the problems that had to be solved before any great advance in chemistry or physiology could be made; to guess at and partly to discover their solutions; and he showed a critical faculty in theory and experiment that was not to be met with in these two sciences until the time of Lavoisier’ (W.H. Brock in ODNB). The 3rd and 5th tracts had been published in 1668, but are here much revised.

119. [Méré (Antoine Gombaud, Chevalier de )] Maximes, Sentences, et Reflections morales et politiques. Paris: Guillaume Cavelier, 1687, FIRST EDITION, woodcut ornament on title, tear in lower outer corner of M2, pp. [xvi], 248, 12mo, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, minor wear, ownership inscription on title inked over, very good $980 Antoine Gombaud was not in fact a Chevalier, but adopted the title (Méré being where he was educated) for the protagonist in his dialogues who expressed his views. The maximes are worldly wise, for example [in translation]: Love is the weakness of the young, the vice of mature men, and the shame of old men; Woman is often an aid, and often an enemy, and marriage is sometimes a safe haven, sometimes a dreadful shipwreck. Confusingly, the author is sometimes given as Gombaud’s exact contemporary George Brossin, (genuine) Chevalier de Méré (e.g. by Rochebiliere, but ‘perhaps not’ is the opinion of Brunet). There are 2 variants of the title-page: our copy is the variant with Cavelier in the title: the two variants are explained at the end of the Privilege, where Du Castin cedes half of the copyright to Cavelier. Scarce: COPAC records 3 copies, Birmingham, Oxford and Cambridge (all du Castin); WorldCat locates 2 copies in North America, Wisconsin (du Castin) and Newberry (Cavelier).

120. (Messel.) SHAKESPEARE (William) Romeo and Juliet. With designs by Oliver Messel. B.T. Batsford, 1936, FIRST EDITION THUS, frontispiece and 7 further colour-printed plates tipped in to grey card, the adhesive a little dried in places and some plates with light creasing, adhesive show-through to reverse of card, 32 monochrome collotype plates, some printing in blue, pp. 96, 4to, original purple linen with lettering and decorations in blue, that to backstrip a little rubbed, Messel dustjacket design with chipping at ends of browned backstrip panel, internal tape repair to upper joint-fold and some dried adhesive residue to flaps, good $590 Signed by Oliver Messel on the flyleaf, and an excellent association copy within the field of stage-design - with the ownership inscription of Messel’s peer, Richard Berkeley Sutcliffe, at the head of the same. Messel’s designs were produced for the MGM production, starring Norma Shearer and Leslie Howard. The book (’only a small edition’ according to the blurb) reflects the sumptuous nature of its Hollywood counterpart, and is uncommon in the dustjacket. [With, tipped in to flyleaf:] (Messel.) CATALOGUE of an Exhibition of Designs for Costumes and Sets for the Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer Production of “Romeo and Juliet” by Oliver Messel. Ernest Brown & Phillips, The Leicester Galleries, July 1936, some annotation in pencil (including an illustration, probably that of RBS - see above) pp. 8, 12mo, original stapled wrappers, good

121. Miller (Henry) Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch. New York: New Directions, [1957,] FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 6 plates showing photographs as well as reproductions of Bosch paintings, pp. x, [1], 404, crown 8vo, original red cloth, the backstrip lettered in black and

37 BLACKWELL’S RARE BOOKS slightly pushed at ends, very slight lean to spine, top edge grey, Herbert Read’s New Statesman review laid in at rear, dustjacket, the front with Owen Scott montage using Wyn Bullock landscape photograph and Bosch figures, Larry Colwell photographic portrait of Miller to rear panel, small scrape at head of this and a little chipping to extremities, very good $720 Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: ‘For Harry Redl, from his very grateful friend Henry, 5/6/58’. The recipient was an interesting figure: an Austrian who served in the German navy and was captured by American forces; he became a Canadian citizen and developed an interest in photography; he is now remembered primarily as a chronicler of the Beat movement - his subjects included Miller, in his work on ‘The San Francisco Scene’ for the Evergreen Review in 1957.

122. Miller (Henry) Sexus. [The Rosy Crucifixion, Book One.] Tokyo: Keimeisha, 1954, FIRST JAPANESE EDITION, the text in English, pp. 368; 326, foolscap 8vo, original cream wrappers printed in brown, light reading creases to spines, protective tissue jackets, very good $390 The first volume signed by the author on the flyleaf, dated ‘Big Sur, 9/24/54’. Originally published in Paris by Jack Kahane’s Obelisk Press in 1949, this edition precedes the Olympia Press edition of Kahane’s son Maurice Girodias in 1959 and the controversial work’s eventual US publication in 1965.

RARE HIMALAYAN ACCOUNT 123. Minney (R.J.) Midst Himalayan Mists. Calcutta: Butterworth, 1920, FIRST EDITION, 24 photographic plates (including map frontispiece), title with inscription ‘E.J. Reynolds, 11/11/30’ at upper margin, stamp of A.J. Hunt, 23 Plumstead Road, S.E.18, half- title with red Chinese stamp at upper corner, title with slight spotting, pp. [viii], 80, 8vo, publisher’s ruled cloth, cover lettered in gilt with pasted-on photographic pictorial label, edges rubbed, cover with slight bubbling, letter stamp at lower page edges, upper hinge cracked but holding, good $2,340 Rubeigh James Minney, journalist, critic, editor, author, Labour party candidate and film producer, is perhaps best known for his biography, ‘Carve Her Name with Pride’ (1956) and his play, ‘Clive of India’ (19330), both of which became highly successful films. His early career, however, was more adventurous: following a brief period of study at King’s College, London, he left in 1914 to join the Indian Army, and as special reporter to the Duke of Connaught, travelled extensively through India, journeying to Tibet on horseback (described here) and flying across the continent in a pre-fabricated plane. More of a narrative than a guide, this idiosyncratic account of the author’s journey to the Tibetan passes includes descriptions of vertiginous paths, missing brandy, bazaars, scenes ‘to be remembered. Even the horse paused to gaze upon it’, and ‘mist [which] came down before us and between us... while leeches dripped from trees to seek what nourishment they could from our necks and ears...’ Captions of the photographic plates include ‘The only “pub” in Gantok’ and ‘The Awful Road from Jelep La’. Rare to the market (2 auction records in the last 20 years); chapters originally published in ‘The Englishman’, Calcutta, of which Minney was joint editor.

124. Mitford (Jessica) A Fine Old Conflict. Michael Joseph, 1977, FIRST EDITION, pp. 270, 8vo, original blue boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge a little dust-speckled, a couple of very faint spots to flyleaf, dustjacket, near fine $100 Inscribed by the author on the title-page: ‘To John, from Jessica Mitford’. The recipient was the author and bibliophile John Baxter. A memoir of her time in the American Communist Party.

125. Moore (Marianne) Observations. New York: The Dial Press, 1924, FIRST EDITION, pp. 120, crown 8vo, original half black cloth with black boards, backstrip with printed label (spare label tipped in at rear, a little edge-darkened, partial browning to endpapers, gold printed dustjacket a little darkened overall with some chipping and rubbing, small section at head of rear flap torn off, very good $720 A scarce book, the author’s second collection.

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126. Moore (Olive) The Apple is Bitten Again. (Self Portrait). Wishart & Co, [1934,] FIRST EDITION, frontispiece showing sculpture of author by Sava Botzaris, pp. [viii], 207, crown 8vo, original quarter green cloth with sides of Cockerell marbled paper in shades of green, black and gold, backstrip lettered in a darker green and a little browned, dustjacket repeating frontispiece portrait (in green), the odd nick or short closed tear with two spots of internal tape repair, some light creasing, very good $200 Moore is nothing less than forthright - the rear flap offers the term ‘pungent’. The volume gathers contents of her notebooks, ranging from the aphoristic to essays on ‘Woman as Uncreative Artist’ and ‘Further Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine’ - her meditation on Lawrence (reprinted here because, she asserts in a short Foreword, ‘I am sick and tired of being quoted and plagiarised without acknowledgement’.

127. Morris (Kenneth) The Secret Mountain, and other Tales. With Decorations by K. Romney Towndrow. Faber and Gwyer, 1926, FIRST EDITION, vignette to title-page and 8 colour-printed illustrations, faint spotting to prelims, pp. 199, small 4to, original black cloth with gilt-stamped vignette to upper board, the backstrip lettered in gilt with ‘Faber & Gwyer’ at foot (denoting first issue), bottom corner of upper board with a couple of light bumps, top edge blue, others roughtrimmed, spotting to free endpapers, dustjacket a little nicked and chipped with a small patch of adhesive residue to front, very good $330 As a prose stylist, Morris - who was born and died in Wales, but resident for a period in California - was ranked by Ursula Le Guin alongside Tolkien and Eddison as the high-points of the fantasy genre. Equally striking are Towndrow’s illustrations. Copies of the first edition in dustjacket are uncommon. The author was a prominent theosophist.

128. Nagy ([S.], Illustrator) The World Conference in Caricature. At the World Economic Conference, London, 1933. Described by William Foss and A.B. Austin. Soncino Press, [1933,] FIRST EDITION, line drawing to each recto, pp. xii, 215, 4to, original blue buckram, lettered in gilt to upper board and backstrip, some faint spotting around head, all edges blue with some foxing to these and endpapers, dustjacket a little darkened, dustsoiled and lightly foxed, internal tape repair at foot of backstrip panel, good $420 Inscribed on the title-page by the illustrator, ‘To Mrs Maria Korda, With all my respect. London 21, May, 34. S. Nagy’. The recipient was an actress and the wife of director Alexander Korda - a further inscription on the verso of the same re-presents the book to their son Peter in 1945. A note to the latter inscription, the recipient a journalist, mentions that ‘Every journalist says that I am a first class cartoonist. Every cartoonist swears that I am the best journalist in the world’.

129. (Napier.) ERSKINE (David Stewart, Earl of Buchan), and Walter Minto An Account of the Life, Writings, and Inventions of John Napier, of Merchiston; Illustrated with Copperplates. Perth: Printed by R. Morison, junr. For R. Morison and Son, Booksellers; and sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row, London; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1787, FIRST EDITION (see below), Robinson and Creech issue, stipple engraved portrait frontispiece, and 5 engraved plates, occasional minor browning, frontispiece and final plate a little creased, pp. vii, [8-] 56, 55-134, 3, 4to in 2s, contemporary tree calf, single gilt fillets on sides, spine gilt in compartments, joints repaired with a little loss or blurring to the tooling, and a new label, 2 patches to upper cover re-instated, darkening and craquelure to the edges (consolidated), good $1,630 The first biography of Napier (a protoype of Buchan’s proposed Biographia Scotia). The confusion regarding the two editions of this work, and their collation, has, it seems, now been resolved. In Tomash & Williams it is stated ‘Some catalogs list the first edition as 1778, but this error presumably arose from the simple transposition of the last two digits’. However, as the date on the title-pages are in Roman numerals, this explanation is not sufficient. The truth is deduced in The Life and Works of John Napier, by Brian Rice,

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Enrique González-Velasco, Alexander Corrigan, Springer, 2017, pp. 976-77, following Luther P. Eisenhart’s investigations published in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Vol. 94, No. 3, Jun. 20, 1950, pp. 282-294. If the transposition argument is not convincing, there are other factors. Minto was only appointed professor of mathematics at Edinburgh in 1779: he was not granted his honorary LLD by Aberdeen until 1787 - LLD appears on both title-pages. Therefore we take it to be safe to assume that the John Murray/Creech issue is misdated, that the Robinson/Creech issue is identical but for the imprint, and that the Errata (of extreme rarity) were produced separately, in the United States, some time later. The pagination given in ESTC is incorrect: it is correct as above, and in Tomash & Williams. The ESTC pagination for the ‘1778’ edition is also wrong, omitting the preliminaries. ‘This biography of John Napier describes his major inventions. Napier, who is best known for the invention of logarithms, created other aids to calculation (Napier’s bones, his chessboard abacus, the multiplicationis promptuarium). He also made advances in mathematics,particularly in spherical trigonometry. All of these accomplishments are described in this volume. Erskine wrote the biographical material, and Minto was responsible for the technical portions. This is one of the very few places where a complete description, in English, of the chessboard abacus (also known as local arithmetic) appears’ (Tomash & Williams) Provenance: contemporary bookplate (Dunnichen Library) of George Dempster (signature at head of title), and later bookplates of John Farquhar Fulton (biographer of Boyle and others), Haskell Norman (Janus Foundation), and Erwin Tomash. The original owner of this copy was an interesting person. ‘Dempster is remembered best as an agricultural improver, but he spent half his adult life as a popular, very active, and conscientious independent whig MP, and gained great public renown through his efforts to promote Scottish trade and industry. His attractive and outgoing personality was marked by candour, enthusiasm for the causes he espoused, and a willingness to help others. He placed personal merit above rank and wealth, and commanded much affection, partly from his charming personality and partly from the altruism and integrity he displayed in public life. His reputation survived the use of bribery during elections—which was, however, a normal part of public life in the eighteenth century’ (ODNB). He kept up a regular correspondence with the likes of Adam Fergusson, Edmund Burke, and James Boswell. Like Minto, he unwaveringly supported the American colonists and opposed government attempts to oppress them.

INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST TO JOHN BETJEMAN 130. (Nash.) (Betjeman.) BERTRAM (Anthony, introduction) PAUL NASH. [British Artists of To-Day, Number V.] [Printed at the Curwen Press for] The Fleuron, 1927, FIRST EDITION, 17 monochrome plates reproducing the artist’s work, pp. [5] + plates, 12mo, original Curwen patterned paper boards (though Enid Marx rather than Nash), label to upper board printed in red, slight sunning to backstrip, very good $1,300 An excellent association copy of this early work on Nash, inscribed by the artist to the flyleaf: ‘John Betjeman from Paul Nash [minor deletion] (bought)’ - the inscription apparently recording the nature of the gift. Nash was among those whom Betjeman drew into the group for the celebrated Shell Guides, with Nash contributing that for Dorset in 1935.

131. New (Charles) Life, Wanderings, and Labours in East Africa. With an account of the first successful ascent of the equatorial snow mountain, Kilima Njaro, and remarks upon East African slavery. Hodder and Stoughton, 1873, FIRST EDITION, with advertisement leaf, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 10 tinted lithographed plates and large folding map, with short tear at gutter margin, very faintly toned throughout, pp. xii, [i], 525, [xi, plates], [iii], 8vo, original russet cloth, upper board lettered in gilt with rhinoceros vignette, spine lettered in gilt, upper edge dust soiled, spine, with small stain, faded and frayed at head and foot, a little shaken, half-title with contemporary ownership inscriptions in pencil ‘Oliver Ormerod, 1873 / S. Chester, 1880’, good $1,240 New visited the Wachagga, who lived on the southern foothills of Kilima Njaro in 1871, and, despite a stiff reception from their chief, Manga Rindi, received their permission to explore the mountain. He collected many specimens of indigenous plants on the mountain slopes (recorded here in Appendix I) which he sent to Joseph Dalton Hooker at Kew, and, on his second attempt, attaining a height of 4000 metres, became the first European to reach the snow line: ‘he described the snow as “lying on ledges of rock in masses, like large sleeping sheep.”’ (Mountaineering Literature, Jill Neate, 1998, p.119) On his return home, in 1872, he gave lectures throughout the country denouncing slavery in East Africa, and castigating the geographers, notably, William Desborough Cooley, who had declared that the notion of snow on Kilima Njaro was based on a myth. On his return to the mountain in 1874, he was set upon by the Wachagga, an attack instigated by the Arabic caravan leaders, because of his attempts to ban slavery, and deprived of many of his possessions including his gold chronometer, a gift from the Royal Geographical Society. New died shortly thereafter in 1875.

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A BYZANTINE PRESENTATION COPY 132. Nickerson (Hoffman) The Inquisition. A Political and Military Study of Its Establishment. With a Preface by Hilaire Belloc. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1923, FIRST EDITION, the odd spot to border, pp. xvii, 258, 8vo, original quarter black cloth with grey boards, backstrip with printed label a little toned, a few minor marks to boards, dustjacket chipped (heavily at backstrip panel ends), with a few light marks, good $230 Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: ‘To Robert Byron, from his fellow Byzantinist, Hoffman Nickerson, July 15, 1930’. Nickerson’s book pointedly proceeds to an Epilogue on the current state of Prohibition - ‘a parasitic growth which has fastened itself upon the Constitution’ - whose absurdity in the context of history and theology he revels in demonstrating; a coda which further reinforces the book’s appeal to its bibulous recipient.

133. Nietzsche (Friedrich) Also Sprach Zarathustra. Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen. Leipzig: Insel, 1908, 446/430 COPIES (from an edition of 530 copies), decorations printed in claret red and gold, including an extravagant ornamental double title-page, title-page and section titles, with head and tail-pieces and other typographic flourishes, all by Henry van de Velde, the typeface designed by Georges Lemmen and cut with the assistance of Harry Kessler, occasional faint spots, the red off-setting slightly, pp. [vi], 161, [2], folio, original vellum with overlapping fore-edges, van de Velde design stamped in gilt to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt within decorative border of same, the gilt in all cases showing very gentle rubbing, minor knock at head of backstrip, t.e.g., others untrimmed, endpapers with typographic gold border and some spotting, dropdown box of morocco and cloth, very good $6,500 A sumptuous piece of book design, perhaps the finest in the Art Nouveau style - produced under the direction of Count Kessler, with a new typeface by Georges Lemmen and lavish decorations by Henry van de Velde that operate in a very unified way with the text.

134. Norse (Harold) Beat Hotel. [Foreword by William S. Burroughs.] Sani Diego, CA: Atticus Press, 1983, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, frontispiece photograph of the author and a few further photographs, pp. [xiv], 76, [2], foolscap 8vo, original wrappers, near fine $98 Signed by the author on the half-title. A ‘cut-up’ novella, composed in 1960 whilst resident at the eponymous (although this was only its nickname, being otherwise anonymous) establishment in Paris, this edition (of 2,000 copies) preceded by one in German in 1975.

135. Oe (Kenzaburo) Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids. Translated and Introduced by Paul St Mackintosh and Maki Sugiyama. London and New York: Marion Boyars, 1995, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, pp. 189, crown 8vo, original red boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, newspaper clipping laid in, dustjacket, near fine $130 Signed by the author to the title-page. The first novel (published in his native Japan in 1958) by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994.

136. (Old School Press.) BOULLOSA (Carmen) Alchemy of the Planets. Images by Philip Hughes with Amy Petra Woodward. Poems by Carmen Boullosa. Translation by Psiche Hughes. Cliff Edge, Beer Hill, Seaton, Old School Press, 2018, 14/60 COPIES, introductory booklet signed by the author, artist, translator, studio manager and publisher, 32 Epson 3800 eight-colour prints on Somerset Enhanced Velvet, mounted on Vélin Arches Noir paper, distributed through 12 concertina-folded books, each representing a planet or moon (Venus, Mercury, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Europa, Saturn, Enceladus, Rhea, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto), parallel verse in English and Spanish, pp. 8; 14; 6; 12; 6; 6; 6; 6; 6; 6; 6; 6; 8, 32 x 36.5 cm, booklet title with blue printed device on cover, concertina-folded books with

41 BLACKWELL’S RARE BOOKS translucent paper jackets, all contained in aluminium/polypropylene case with magnetic catch, lid repeating blue screen-printed device, fine $2,470 Inspired by the images from recent space missions, detailed here in the introductory booklet, particularly the close-up views of Pluto, Mars and Saturn, Hughes has created a sequence of striking and widely varied prints from paintings, pastels and digital collages: luminous polychrome-striped planetary rings, granular monochrome and gradient map images, fractured and marbled effects, precisely rendered spheres against black grounds etc. Boullosa’s poetry is a direct response to the images and draws on planetary mythology and worship rituals.

EARLY ARDIZZONE DUSTJACKET 137. O'Leary (Con) This Delicate Creature. Constable, 1928, FIRST EDITION, a couple of faint spots to prelims, pp. viii, 281, [2, ads], crown 8vo, original variant binding of terracotta cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, faint spots to edges, dustjacket (see below) with some light dustsoiling and the odd tiny nick, very good $330 The dustjacket carries a striking period design signed with the initials EJIA - though not characteristic of his main and later style, this must be Ardizzone (i.e., Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone) then making his first steps as an artist. Born in Ireland, this is O’Leary’s best-known work, a science fiction novel in which ‘a woman is given a Drug that induces a range of Identity Transfer experiences, including life as a mouse, and as her own betrayed husband’ (Science Fiction Encyclopedia, online).

138. (Outhwaite.) MELLOR) (Dorothy) Enchanting Isles. Illustrated by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Sydney: Howard, Whyte & Coy, 1934, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 5 further illustrations by Outhwaite (3 of these full-page), pp. 112, crown 8vo, original quarter blue cloth with grey marbled boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, edges spotted, endpaper maps, those at rear faintly browned, single spot to flyleaf, grey dustjacket printed in blue with illustration (by Outhwaite?) to front, faint browning to backstrip panel and borders, very good $330 ‘The thrilling experiences of two young Australians who fly in gliders among the glamorous islands of the Pacific’ (dustjacket blurb).

ANTI -GAMPISM 139. (Paediatrics.) A PHYSICIAN A Child’s First Hour. With Suggestions for some Alteration in the management of Newly-Born Infants. Addressed to Young Mothers. Ackerman & Co., 1851, FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, with an engraved frontispiece heightened in sepia, a few spots on the title-page and the frontispiece a little offset, pp. [i], iv, 71, small 8vo, original navy blue cloth, blocked in blind on the covers, and lettered in gilt on the upper cover, gilt edges, unevenly faded, very good $1,240 A contemporary reviewer found this a useful little book, ‘calculated to banish for ever the mischievous practices of the self-opinionated tribe, of which Mr. Dickens’s Mrs. Gamp is no overdrawn portrait’ (BMJ). Certainly the nurse depicted in the frontispiece is no Mrs. Gamp, but a model of the new kind of nurse wanted by many, including Florence Nightingale. The Dickensian dimension is furthered by the epigraph on the title-page, an extract from Cricket on the Hearth. ‘The Author ‘saw no unoccupied ground for his observations, unless he dated them from a time not much dwelt on by others... the modest period of one hour’ (Preface). 2 copies only in COPAC (Wellcome, and Bristol), no more in WorldCat.

140. Paley (Grace) Two signed typescript poems, manuscript notes. circa 1985- 2000, pp. [1]; [1]; [2]; various sizes and formats, the poem sheets sometime folded, very good condition overall $330 The two poems, each signed by the author in green ink at the foot of the page, are here untitled, but are ‘Alive’ and ‘Right Now’ in her ‘Collected Poems’. The manuscript notes are for a talk given at the Village Voice bookshop in Paris circa 2000 - they refer to her time in Algiers (on one side), and then, on its reverse, a passage regarding Catherine Karolyi, which includes the memorable note ‘I suspect that Genghis Khan still lurks somewhere in the deepest part of her subconscious’.

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141. (Pandora Press.) SCOTT (Thea) and Rigby Graham. Fingal's Cave. Pandora Press, Toni Savage, 1961, ONE OF 150 NUMBERED COPIES, this out of series, 11 illustrations (3 full-page) printed from lino and rubber cuts and lineblocks in various striking colours, occasional very faint spotting, pp. [50], 4to, original navy cloth, spine lettered in gilt, faintly rubbed, very good $330

142. Pankhurst (Sylvia) The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. The Suffragette Struggle for Women’s Citizenship. T. Werner Laurie, 1935, FIRST EDITION, a few faint spots to prelims and opening leaves, largely restriccted to borders, pp. 180, crown 8vo, original green cloth, lettered in blue to upper board and backstrip, publisher device in same to lower board, light foxing to edges, pictorial dustjacket with some faint spots, light dustsoiling and minor rubbing, but in excellent shape, very good $2,150 An account of her life and work by her daughter, a positive account but spiced a little by their latter disagreements. The dustjacket is scarce, as indeed is the book itself.

143. (Parodies.) [HANNAY (James)] The Puppet-Showman’s Album. With Contributions by the most eminent Light and Heavy Writers of the Day. Illustrated by Gavarni. [Printed by Vizetelly Brothers and Co.], Published at the Office, 334 Strand, [1848], FIRST EDITION, with wood-engraved frontispiece and 7 plates, numerous cuts in the text, pp. iv, [5-] 52, 8vo, contemporary half dark green calf, spine gilt and blind tooled in compartments, with a nice gilt roll tool on the flat raised bands, burgundy lettering piece, a little worn, but pleasant enough, ownership inscription on fly-leaf of R. N. Green Armytage $980 Rare. The comic paper Puppet Show, which lasted from 1848 to 1849 was a formidable rival of 'Punch'. It was founded by James Hannay and among the contributors, literary and artistic, are Shirley Brooks, Gavarni, Cham, H.G. Hine and others who afterwards became famous 'Punch' men. Hannay had various influential literary friends, notably Thackeray, parodied here (kindly enough): Thackeray himself no mean parodist. Author unknown to Sadleir, who in fact had no novels by Hannay. Sadleir says the plates in his copy have no relevance to the text, and are Grangerisations. They may bear no relation to the text, but their presence here would indicate that they are part of the volume, and are simply cartoons, additional to the text, as befits the magazine origin. The parodies are amusing: a fore-taste from the ‘fake’ names - Macsqually, Dizzyreally, Snarlyle, Thwackaway, Juggle-us Jerrold, &c.

144. (Peake.) CARROLL (Lewis) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass. With Illustrations by Mervyn Peake [Zephyr Books Vol.67.] Stockholm: Continental Book Company, 1946, FIRST PEAKE EDITION, numerous line-drawings, many of them full-page, by Mervyn Peake, pp. 352, foolscap 8vo, original pale grey wrappers printed in blue and red, further line-drawing by Peake on front cover, dustjacket a little faded to backstrip panel, very good $520 Issued eight years before the English edition of Peake’s illustrations - a very nice copy.

145. Pennant (Thomas) The Literary Life of the late [Author] by Himself... Sold by Benjamin and John White, and Robert Faulder, 1793, FIRST EDITION, with stipple engraved portrait frontispiece (after Gainborough), magnificant engraving of Fountains Abbey, engraved portrait of John Lloyd, and splendid hand coloured folding aquatint, the folding plate remounted on a stub, the portrait frontispiece browned at the top (not affecting engraved surface), minor offsetting, light staining from the turn-ins to the outer leaves, pp. [vi], 144, 4to, contemporary ?Irish speckled calf, spine gilt with an urn and floral motifs in compartments, red lettering piece, and beneath it, on a green label, a gilt starfish, gilt roll tooled decoration board edges, green edges, front joint repaired (according to a pencil note

43 BLACKWELL’S RARE BOOKS at the end, by Bernard Middleton in 2012), minor wear to corners, late 19th-century engraved armorial bookplate of the Earl of Carysfort by Charles William Sherborn, very good $1,040 The print, entitled The Church Militant, is a satire published by Pennant on 1st June 1784 (available separately therefore, and often not found with the book) against Hervey, Bishop of Derry and Earl of Bristol who is depicted as half an Irish Volunteer and half a bishop (Harris 6610). Pennant's authorship is referred to at p. 21 of The Life. His complaint was 'against the unguarded admission of persons of the most discordant professions into the sacred pale, who... do not prove either ornamental or useful in their new character.' The other plates are often missing too.

146. Pepper (J.H.) The True History of the Ghost; and All About Metempsychosis. By Professor Pepper, Author of “Cyclopaedic Science Simplified,” “The Playbook of Metals,” and “Boy’s Playbook of Science,” Etc. Etc. Cassell, 1890, presentation copy signed by the author on title page, ‘Mr Jno Bailey July 25 1893 / With the Author’s kind respects JH Pepper’, with folding frontispiece diagram, 3 illustrations, half title and dedication leaf, pp. [vi, i, plate], 46, [xvi, ads], 8vo, original paper-covered cloth, black upper board with striking skeleton image, faint red stamp over price at upper fore-corner, pale lower board slightly marked, board edges rubbed, good $2,410 The stage illusion known as ‘Pepper’s ghost’ in which a projected ethereal impression of an actor can be created through the use of a ‘blue room’, plate glass and skilful lighting, illustrated here by the frontispiece diagram, though originally invented by Henry Dircks, was refined and commercialised by John Henry Pepper. The phantasmagorical effect, debuted at a Christmas Eve production of Dickens’ play, ‘The Haunted Man’, in 1862, astounded critics and public alike: Michael Faraday, despite attending several performances in his efforts to ‘crack’ the illusion’s technique, eventually admitted defeat and requested an explanation (as reported in ‘The Mercury’, 7 July, 1879). Educated at King’s College School, Pepper became a highly regarded popular science performer, and as ‘Professor Pepper’ demonstrated a wide range of scientific and technological innovations throughout the English-speaking world, notably illuminating St Paul’s for the Prince of Wales’ wedding and transmitting a telegram between the second Duke of Wellington and US President Johnson. No copies in US institutions according to WorldCat.

147. [Perrault] Lavater (Wazja) Le Petit Chaperon Rouge. Paris: Adrien Maeght, 1965, narrative told through vivid diagrammatic illustrations, without text, apart from the key on opening leaves in German, English and French, pp. [40], 6cm x 11.5cm, dark red cloth-covered boards with printed paper label on cover, bound in accordion-style, original perspex slipcase, with slight abrasions, very good $260 A highly original telling of the classic fairy-tale from the Swiss artist and illustrator, in which the major props and characters are represented by symbols - the house, a brown rectangle, the wolf, a black dot, grandmother, a blue dot etc. The wolf’s demise is a particularly spectacular image.

148. Pez (Johann Christoph) Prodromus Optatae Pacis: Sive Psalmi de Dominicis, & Beata Virgine In Officio Vespertino decantari soliti, & secundum Genium ac Stylum modernum conoinne compositi 4 Voc. Concert. & totidem Rip. nec non tribus Instrum. & duplici Basso Generali... Opus Secundum. Basso Continuo pro Organo. Augsburg, Johann Christoph Wagner, 1703, FIRST EDITION, 44 pages of single-stave printed music for figured bass, predominantly bass clef, with occasional tenor and soprano clef pitch indications, with decorated first initial, head- and tail-pieces and printer’s device on final leaf, free endpaper with contemporary inscription, pp. [ii], [48], [ii], small 4to, contemporary marbled wrappers, cover, half detached, with composer and ‘Organo’ inscribed in pencil, rubbed, $1,950 The bass accompaniment for 11 psalms by Johann Christoph Pez, composing, at this point, for the court of Prince Maximilian Emmanual, Elector of Bavaria, having previously served as Kapellmeister to the Archbisop-Elector of Cologne, and having studied in Rome with Corelli. Though his reputation has faded, Pez was well regarded amongst his contemporaries and, in a lyric poem written by Telemann, is mentioned alongside Handel as a great composer of his era. Only one copy listed on WorldCat (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich).

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149. (Plath.) LUCAS (Victoria) The Bell Jar. Heinemann Contemporary Fiction, 1964, FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION, pp. [iv], 258, crown 8vo, original green boards, backstrip lettered in silver, top edge purple with a couple of spots, very minor knock to corners of upper board, dustjacket with backstrip panel faded, a few spots to borders of rear flap, very good $520 The second edition of this important first novel by Sylvia Plath, preserving her anonymity with a stark statement on the dustjacket’s rear panel: ‘we are not in a position to disclose any details of the author’s identity’. The latter would be made plain two years later, with the Faber edition issued under the author’s own name.

THE FLAPPER ALICE 150. (Pogany.) CARROLL (Lewis) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Illustrations by Willy Pogany. New York: E.P. Dutton, [1929,] FIRST EDITION, frontispiece, vignettes to half-title and title-page, and illustrations throughout, all by Willy Pogany, pp. 192, crown 8vo, original purple cloth, illustration to upper board stamped in gilt with lettering to upper board and backstrip in same (the latter slightly dulled), very slight lean to spine, top edge pink, colour-printed illustrated endpapers, first issue dustjacket with very shallow chipping to corners and backstrip panel ends, near fine $650 Pogany updates our heroine to the Jazz Age. An attractive copy of a wonderful edition, identified by John Davis as ‘the first really original interpretation since Tenniel and a milestone in the artistic characterisation of Alice’ (The Illustrators of Alice in Wonderland).

ARCTIC SURVIVOR 151. (Polar.) KANE (Elisha Kent) The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin. A Personal Narrative. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853, FIRST EDITION, 8 tinted lithographed plates, 5 mezzotint plates (including frontispiece), 3 maps and charts (including one folding), one wood-engraved plate and numerous wood- engraved illustrations, tissue guards toned, torn waxed paper insert between gatherings K and L, faint scattered spotting, particularly to plate margins, pp. 552, [xvii, maps, plates], 8, ads, 8vo, original dark brown cloth with gilt voyage motif within stamped lozenge on upper board, spine strengthened, joints and corners refurbished, both joints with slight cracks, good $2,930 A richly illustrated account, the tinted plates in particular suggesting the greenish sheen of Arctic ice, by the senior medical officer of the first Grinnell Arctic Expedition, 1850-51, describing the atmospheric conditions, icebergs, narwhales, bears, birds, meteors, inuit kayaking techniques and the discovery of Franklin’s first winter camp. The true first is something of a rarity, as ever, due to a warehouse fire, in this case, on December 12, 1853, and reported in The New York Times: ‘Among the many new books which were consumed is Dr. Kane's History of his Artic Explorations, a large octavo, profusely illustrated with engravings, which had been ready for some days, but was kept back until supply could be secured.’ The number of surviving copies is cited as 20 according to a letter from the author’s father quoted in a Bonhams catalogue entry from 2013. The book was re-issued the following year, with an 1854 title-page. Only 2 copies listed in WorldCat (Universities of Pennsylvania and Alaska Fairbanks).

152. [Polidori (John William)] Vampyren af Lord Byron. Öfversättning. Jemte en Översaättning fran Ryskan. Af C[arl] S[amuel] F[orssan]. Helsingfors [Helsinki]: J. Simelius, 1824, some foxing, pp. [i], 52, [2, blank], small 8vo, stitched, blue wrappers, good $1,560 An exceedingly rare translation of The Vampyre, with only the National Library of Sweden copy recorded by WorldCat. It was known by 1824 that Byron was not the author, but a publisher in a far flung part of Europe was probably not going to be too scrupulous about this. A French translation appeared in 1820, German in 1822, Spanish (Paris published) in 1829; making this one of the earliest translations. The appended translation is an allegory (Lifvets gåta) by Feodor Glinka. The pagination of our copy accords with that in NL Sweden, although the last 3 leaves are in fact 3 of gathering No. 4 (which one would expect to be 4 leaves at least). The wrappers could be original, but have a slightly later feel: however, the title-page is slightly offset onto the inside of the front wrapper, suggesting a certain antiquity. Pencil inscription at the head of the title-page: Sourander, 13.11.[19]33.

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153. Porney (Lewis, translator) The New Weekly Novelist; or, Entertaining companion. Containing a new and complete collection of interesting romances and novels. A work designed for instruction as well as entertainment, being calculated to convey a general knowledge of the world; and consisting of the most valuable and important, humourous and pleasant, entertaining and instructive romances, novels, fables, allegories, memoirs, adventures, histories, anecdotes, &c. Not to be found in any other work of the kind in English. The whole newly translated from the French, by Lewis Porney, Esq. late teacher of the French language at Richmond, Surry. Embellished with an elegant set of copper-plate prints, designed by the celebrated Mr. Dodd and the ingenious Mr. Dighton; and engraved in a superior style of excellence by those eminent artists, Messrs. Wells, How, and Mears. Printed for the Proprietors, and Sold by Alex. Hogg, [c. 1780], FIRST EDITION, illustrated with 10 engraved plates, occasional slight browning and offsetting, pp. 392, [2, Contents], 8vo, bound up from the weekly parts (stab holes in evidence) in contemporary reversed calf, elegant red lettering piece on spine, spine slightly sunned, foot of spine darkened (possibly from the removal of a label), very good $3,250 A pleasing copy of an exceedingly rare collection, with only the Bodleian copy recorded (and that apparently lacking the last leaf). There was a successful French grammar published under the name Lewis Porney, but there is some doubt as to his actuality, and he was perhaps the invention of the booksellers. Certainly the name is suggestive, and some of the stories, and plates, here are a little risqué. Though translated from the French, not all of the stories are French, e.g. the first story by Athenagoras. Included are the Arthurian ‘History of Claris and Laris,’ and the ‘History of Tristran.’ ESTC T107271 (Raven 1780:22) is a variant, the title similar, but with differences including the identification of the translator as ‘Mr. Porney’, and the plates are dated 1780. In our version the frontispiece (which is not numbered) and Plate X (the other plates being numbered in Arabic numerals) are not dated, while the others, curiously, have had their dates erased, after the stock phrase, ‘Published as the Act directs’. T107271 is less rare - BL, Cambridge, Bodley; Ohio, Rice, UCLA, Illinois, Yale. ESTC also records Hogg’s New novelist’s magazine, consisting of.... The supplement. Being a new collection of novels and romances, and containing elegant translations of a variety of French, Spanish, and other foreign romances,... anecdotes, &c. written by eminent authors, and translated by Lewis Porney, esq. [Porney has gone up in the world], 1794, said to be Nos. 85-94. The last number here is Vol. I, No. 10.

154. (Printing Types.) BLAKE, GARNETT, & CO. Specimen of Printing Types... Sheffield: Blake, Garnett, & Co., [1830], with printed title-page (or upper wrapper), and 118 leaves printed on rectos only, 3 folding, 1 slightly smaller than the rest, a little soiling here and there but generally clean and bright, one or two ‘cuts’ towards the end just trimmed at fore-edge, many tissues preserved, 8vo, contemporary half black roan, marbled boards (in a style reminiscent of cat’s paw), a little worn to extremities, crack at head and foot of upper joint, incomplete contemporary pencil inscription towards inside of front cover reading ‘To the memory of’ in capitals within rules, this partly overlaid by the red- printed book label of Anthony Frederick Walker, various other pencil inscriptions here and on the title-page erased, apart from the date 1819 at the foot of the title (see below), loosely inserted 2 typed letters to Walker from Stephenson Blake (successors to Blake Garnett & Co.) regarding this volume $7,150 A rare Specimen of Printing Types, the evolution of which is not entirely clear. The firm of Blake, Garnett, & Co., were (as per the title-page) ‘Successors to Mr. W. Caslon, of London, who had issued Specimen of Printing Types in 1795 and 1796 (Pollard 94). Blake, Garnett, & Co. first issued a Specimen in 1819, and according to Pollard issued Supplements in 1826, 1827, 1826 and 1830. Examples of all of these are rare, and given that the number of specimens varies from copy to copy it seems possible that they were not regularly issued, but rather put together as and when. One of the specimens in our copy is a form letter dated 15 March 1830: it was in 1830 that Mr. Garnett retired, upon which the name became Blake & Stephenson. A good summary of the complexities can be found in the Oxford Libraries on-line catalogue SOLO (describing a copy of 121 leaves, on deposit at the Bodleian, property of OUP).

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155. (p's & q's press) TACQ (Christine, artist & printer) A Storm of Stars. [Wantage], p’s & q’s press, 2017, 4/7 COPIES, four collograph prints on Arches paper with chine-collé and watercolour in form of octagonal concertina, letterpress text in smaller octagonal concertina, four extra prints, each signed on reverse by the artist with caveat ‘not neccesarily identical in every way’, pp. [10, prints]; [10, text], [4, loose prints], 34 x 34cm, concertinas housed in star-patterned octagonal card ‘hat box’, extra prints in linen folder, linen slip case, fine $1,560 A celebration of women’s suffrage, through the highly original idea of where each of the four women Tacq has chosen - The Maid (a fictional ‘everywoman’ inspired by a 2012 found newspaper), Vera Brittain, Clare Leighton and Marina Tsvetayeva - might have decided to ‘’hang her hat’. A continuation of Tacq’s earlier Hatbox series - ‘Hats are a metaphor for social change’ (prospectus) - these striking, vivid images complement Tsvetayeva’s verse, ‘I know the truth...’ (1915), quoted here at the end of the text, in a translation by Elaine Feinstein. Tacq’s p’s and q’s press books are held in a number of significant University library collections, including Manchester Metropolitan, Chicago and Los Angeles. With prospectus.

156. Quintilian Institutionum oratoriarum libri XI... Declamationum liber. Omnia multo ò, qua àm antea à castigatius. Lyons: Sebastian Gryphius, 1536, woodcut printer’s device on title and title to second part, woodcut initials, minimal browning at either end, pp. 607, [24, last 3 pages blank], 247, 8vo, contemporary calf, elaborately tooled in blind, upper panel on upper cover lettered ADOLPH / US GLAU / BUR - CGh, traces of gilt in the letters and surrounding fleurons, remains of green silk ties, worn at extremities, headcap defective, late 16th or early 17th century ownership inscription at foot of title of Joannes Rodolphus ab Erlach, with the Latin family motto below, label inside the front cover of Bibliotheque de Spietz $6,500 A splendid copy. The von Erlachs, a prominent family of politicians, administrators and military commanders of Bern in Switzerland, acquired the castle and lands of Spietz in 1516, holding the lands till the French Revolution, and the castle till 1875.

157. Quintilian Oratoriarum institutionum Libri XII. opera ac studio Ioachimi Camerarii, Ioannis Sichardi, aliorumque doctissimorum... Virorum: partim ex meliorum codicum collatione restituti sibi, partim Annotationibus... illustrati. Quibus sparsim adiecimus Guihelmi Philandri Castilionei Castigationes: Praeterea quoque Declamationum Librum postremae huic aeditioni cum scholiis et argumentis addidimus, ut uno libro omnia Fabii opera essent comprehensa. Ad haec Indicem rerum & verborum memorabilium locupletissimum. Basle: [colophon:] Robert Winter, 1543, woodcut printer’s device on verso of last leaf (otherwise blank), minor worming lasting the first half of the volume, touching letters and the loss of a few, damp-staing in the lower margin and lower part of the fore-margin, pp. [xxiv], 714 (i.e. 754, includes a blank leaf between the 2 parts), [4], 4to, contemporary pigskin over wooden boards, panelled in blind, the date 1549 incorporated on the upper cover, 1 of 2 clasps, a bit soiled, the spine darkened, probably having been covered in paper at some time, various pen trials $2,600 A nice Basle 4to.

158. Raudive (Konstantin) Breakthrough. An Amazing Experiment in Electronic Communication with the Dead. Translated by Nadia Fowler. Edited by Joyce Morton. With a Preface by Peter Blander. Colin Smythe, 1971, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 2 plates of photographs, a few technical illustrations of equipment or circuits, squiggle in blue ink to inner margin of title-page, pp. xxxi, 391, 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, a little dust-spotting to top edge, dustjacket price- clipped, very good $390

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[With:] Raudive (Konstantin) [Cover title:] Breakthrough. An Amazing Experiment in Electronic Communication with the Dead. Examples of original voices received during experiments. Produced, edited & introduced by Michael Smythe [Vinyl Recording, 33 1/3 rpm]. Vista, 1971, playing surface in excellent condition, errata slip laid in, 7 inch record, sleeve a little pushed at corners, very good Expanded from the original German edition, the Latvian parapsychologist’s exploration of Electronic Voice Phenomena is an absorbing peculiarity - not least in the form of the accompanying audio recording, which includes the ‘voices’ of Winston Churchill and James Joyce.

159. (Reading Room Press.) ARDIZZONE (Edward) Liquor & Literature. Letters to John Lewis. Quenington, Reading Room Press, 2018, FIRST EDITION, 82/150 COPIES printed on JPP archival dull white inlay paper, title-page printed in red and black, Ardizzone illustrations (for Harveys Wine Lists 1962-63) throughout with a double-spread tipped-in illustration (’Wine-tasters at Restells’) colour-printed by Adrian Lack at the Senecio Press, title-page printed in red and black, pp. [33], 8vo, original quarter red cloth with boards of patterned paper created by Paul Kershaw using an Ardizzone design, backstrip lettered in gilt, fine $78 The text largely consisting of the artist’s correspondence with the Lists’ designer, John Lewis - with a Preface by Alan Powers, and a contemporary article on Ardizzone’s interest in wine with a note about the Bonhams sale of Harveys Wine Museum in 2003 at the rear.

160. Rice (Craig) & Ed McBain. The April Robin Murders. New York: Random House Mystery, 1958, FIRST EDITION, pp. [iv], 217, [1], crown 8vo, original grey boards, publisher device stamped in gilt to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt with a black lattice design, top edge orange, faint partial browning to free endpapers, the flyleaf with a tiny ink-spot, dustjacket with very minor dustsoiling, very good $200 Signed by Ed McBain (Evan Hunter, etc.) on the title-page. Unfinished by Craig Rice (a pseudonym for Georgiana Ann Randolph) at the time of her death, work was completed by Ed McBain - also a pseudonym, this time the recently coined crime fiction guise of Evan Hunter (born Salvatore Albert Lombino).

161. (Riding.) GOTTSCHALK (Laura Riding) The Close Chaplet. New York: Adelphi, [1926,] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, English sheets, pp. 77, foolscap 8vo, original pale blue boards, backstrip and borders faded, printed label to upper board, a few faint spots and some light wear at extremities, good $1,240 Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: ‘Mary, with love, Laura. March, 1927’ - the recipient is obscure, but the form of the inscription betokens a degree of affection.

162. [Robins (Elizabeth)] ANONYMOUS Ancilla's Share. An Indictment of Sex Antagonism. Hutchinson, 1924, FIRST EDITION, pp. 313, 8vo, original green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and a little faded, one corner knocked, mark to lower board, some small spots to edges, endpapers browned with dried adhesive residue to front pastedown and ownership inscription in pencil thereupon, front panel of dustjacket laid in, good $130 An important book and a scarce first edition from the Anglo-American actress and author - published anonymously to withhold the ‘intrusion of personality’ from its thesis, it provides a thoroughgoing treatise on gender imbalance, rich in detail and discourse. Robins was admired by Virginia and Leonard Woolf, and published by them at the Hogarth Press - the present work has been regarded as a model for longer discursive pieces by Woolf, such as ‘A Room of One’s Own’ and ‘Three Guineas’.

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AUTHOR ’S COPY 163. Rogers (Samuel) Italy. A Poem. T. Bensley, Printer, 1829, a few pages crumpled towards the fore-margin, pp. [x, including half-tile], 159, 8vo, uncut and unopened in the original boards, rebacked, preserving an old (browned) printed paper label $650 Rogers’s last and longest work. The first part was published anonymously in 1822; the second, with his name attached, in 1828. It was at first a failure, but Rogers was determined to make it a success. He enlarged and revised the poem, and commissioned illustrations from J.M.W. Turner, Thomas Stothard and Samuel Prout. These were engraved on steel in the sumptuous edition of 1830. The book then proved a great success. The desirability of this book is counterintuitive. It is an unillustrated proof copy of the first illustrated edition: a bibliographical curiosity therefore. It does have the added attraction of deriving from the poet’s own library. A note by Horace Waddington, of Univ. Coll. Oxford, inside the front cover records his having bought it, via Kerslake, at the auction of the poet’s books in October 1856, along with other books. Kerslake’s receipt is tipped in. COPAC has only 1 location corresponding to this: Reading. This was Lot 1683 in the Rogers sale. There are copies galore of Rogers’s books in the sale catalogue, but this unique.

164. Sackville-West (Vita) Collected Poems. Volume One [All Published]. Hogarth Press, 1933, FIRST EDITION, faint spotting to prelims, pp. 325, 8vo, original orange cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, cloth lightly dustsoiled around head, edges foxed, free endpapers faintly spotted, bookplate of Archibald Clark Kerr to front pastedown, dustjacket with light foxing and backstrip panel browned, chipped around head and less so at foot, $200 The bookplate is that of Harold Nicolson’s friend and colleague, diplomat Archibald Clark Kerr (Lord Inverchapel) and his Chilean wife Maria Teresa.

165. ‘Saki’ (H.H. Munro) Reginald. Methuen, 1904, FIRST EDITION, pp. vi, 118, foolscap 8vo, original red cloth, lettered in gilt to upper backstrip and upper board, single fillet gilt border to latter, the backstrip a shade faded with some faint waterstaining along lower joint, edges roughtrimmed and lightly spotted, free endpapers likewise, later ownership inscription to flyleaf, pencil note to recto of rear free endpaper, a little cloth- bleed to margin of rear endpapers, good $360

166. ‘Saki’ (H.H. Munro) Reginald in Russia, and Other Sketches. Methuen, 1910, FIRST EDITION, a few spots, pp. viii, 123, foolscap 8vo, original blue cloth, lettered in gilt to backstrip and upper board, minor rubbing to extremities and bottom corners gently knocked, light edge-spotting, ownership inscription to flyleaf, very good $360

167. (Saki.) MUNRO (H.H.) When William Came. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1914 [but 1913,] FIRST EDITION, very light foxing to first handful of leaves, pp. 322, [6, ads], 24 [Publisher list], crown 8vo, original red cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board and backstrip, the latter with some mottled fading, top edge red, the others roughtrimmed with a few spots, enlarged corner to rear free endpaper turned down (minor production fault), good $10,400 Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: ‘To Lady Rosalind Northcote, With the author’s good wishes, H.H. Munro, Nov. 19th ‘13’ - the date in advance of the stated publication, the recipient a fellow author (of books on Devon and herbs respectively). Saki grew up in Devon, and the friendship encapsulated by this gift may have originated there - given the scarcity of inscriptions by the author, we can infer that it must have been close, although the inference made by Munro’s sister in her biography, that Munro and Northcote were romantically involved, must be wide of the mark. This, the second of the author’s two novels, ‘a portrait of England shamefully giving way to a German invasion’ (ODNB), predicts the conflict in which the author would himself die - compelled to enlist despite his age (with the subtext of the book being an advocacy of compulsory military service). No other inscribed copies are known.

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COLIN DAVIS ’ ANNOTATED COPY 168. Schoenberg (Arnold) Von Heute auf Morgen. Oper in Einem Akt von Max Blonda... Partitur. Berlin-Charlottenburg, Edition Benno Balan, [1930], full score, facsimile of fair copy, partially in Schoenberg's own hand (pages 3-9, 18, 29, 34, 38, 46, 48-49, 57, 66, 72-72, 79, 89, 92, 102-164), partially semi-printed, with ‘Copyright 1930 by Arnold Schönberg, Berlin’ at foot of first facsimile page and ‘beendet 3.VIII. 1929’ at foot of final printed page, tone-row analysis annotation in pink and blue pen, with occasional pencil division marks, pp. 164, large folio, modern black boards by Stoakley, Cambridge with their stamp, original printed cover bound in, slightly dust soiled, with occasional paint spot, good $4,550 An intriguing assocation copy of the rare self-published full score of the first 12-tone opera with which the composer hoped to prove that dodecaphonic music and popular success were not entirely incompatible. The reception to the premiere of this comic marriage eulogy, with libretto by Schoenberg’s second wife, Gertrude (pseud. Max Blonda) at the Frankfurt Opera in February, 1930 was not what he had hoped for, and was followed by a similarly non-plussed reaction to a broadcast of the work later in the year. Though the opera was not performed again in his lifetime, it has been staged more recently, notably at the Leipzig Opera in 2009 and a film version made by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet (Du jour au lendemain) in 1997. The various coloured annotations made by the renowned conductor – circled note figures in pink, tone-row numbers in pink and blue, row divisions in looping pencil lines - would have served both for analytical and interpretation purposes.

169. Schomburgk (Robert H.) Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana. From drawings executed by Mr. Charles Bentley, after sketches taken during the expedition carried on in the years 1835 to 1839, under the direction of the Royal Geographical Society of London, and aided by Her Majesty’s Government. Ackermann and Co., 1841, FIRST EDITION, hand-coloured lithographed additional title, dedication leaf to Duke of Devonshire with arms in gilt, engraved map by John Murray, 2-page subscribers’ list, 12 hand- coloured lithographed plates, plate 3 re-attached, cropped at lower margin with short worm trail at gutter margin, tissue guard of plate 6 with short tear at upper edge, faintly damp spotted throughout, but images, all with their tissue guards, largely clean, pp. [xii, including additional title and map], 38, [xii, plates], folio, contemporary half navy morocco, patterned boards, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, both hinges strengthened, rear board with faint damp stains, edges rubbed, cover corners with minor abrasions, pastedown with bookplate of W.A. Harding, Madingley, good $7,800 The magnificent plates, including the additional title which features the giant Victoria Regia water lily, one of Schomburgk’s discoveries in the region, are from sketches made by the expedition’s draughtsman, James Morrison under Schomburgk’s direction, developed by Charles Bentley in London. Schomburgk’s expedition was a great success: his astronomical observations, together with those of Humboldt, led to the determination of a series of fixed points across the watershed of the significant rivers of equatorial America, and he was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's gold medal in 1840.

170. (Shakespeare Head Press.) (Ballad.) THE NUTBROWN MAID. Oxford: [Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-upon-Avon, for] Basil Blackwell, 1925, 7/55 COPIES printed on Batchelor’s hand-made paper in black and brown, pp. [xvi], 22, small 4to, original special binding of full vellum lettered in gilt to front and backstrip, the original nut- brown silk ties present and in good state, a couple of minor spots to vellum, edges untrimmed, bookplate of Evan Morgan to front pastedown, very good $590 The copy of Welsh poet Evan Morgan, Viscount Tredegar.

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THE FOURTH FOLIO 171. Shakespeare (William) Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio... Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685, magnificent engraved portrait by Martin Droeshout above the verses To the Reader on verso of the first leaf, title with fleur-de-lis device (McKerrow 263), double column text within typographical rules, woodcut initials, frontispiece skilfully repaired at inner margin, a tear (repaired) in the top inner corner just passing through the engraved surface for about 1 cm (hatched area), title-page with tears repaired, 2 small lacunae filled in, some of the repaired tears passing through letters but without loss, paperflaw in *Bbb1 with the loss of 7 letters on the recto and several more on the verso (failure to print), water-staining in the inner margins at the beginning, diminishing until absent in gathering E, intermittant water-staining in the lower margins, last leaf mounted and defective at head and foot without loss of text, minor worming strictly in the fore-margin in the third pagination, a few ink splashes here and there, and the odd small rust hole, tears in lower margin of *Bbb6 with loss to blank margin (not affecting text), another to Kkk4 entering the text but without loss, [xii], 96, 99-160, 163-254, 243 [i.e. 253]-272, [2], 328, 303, [1], folio (362 x 235 mm), modern panelled calf over old boards (by James Brockman), spine richly gilt, contrasting lettering pieces (‘Shakespear’ as per the title-page), black-velvet-lined maroon buckram folding box with a black lettering piece (‘Shakespeare’), good $110,500 In general a good copy of the Fourth Folio, the last of the 17th-century editions of Shakespeare’s works, edited by John Heminge (d. 1630) and Henry Condell (d. 1627), the seven plays added by Philip Chetwin (d. 1680), publisher of the Third Folio: the title variant here (no priority) omits Chetwin’s name. A tall copy at 14½ inches (cf. the 2 Pforzheimer copies: 910 at 14, and 911 at 13¼). Of the seven added plays only Pericles is now seriously considered to have any Shakespearian connection. In spite of the ‘Never before Printed’ of the title-page the seven extra plays were in fact included in the second issue of the third edition (1664). A previous owner has had pasted on to the front pastedown another portrait of Shakespeare, the only other example from the seventeenth-century, taken from a copy of the 1640 Poems. A propos the First Folio the Pforzheimer catalogue emphatically states that ‘it is incomparably the most important work in the English language and will always be valued and revered accordingly’. The meed of veneration due the Fourth Folio, if not so empyrean, is still substantial.

SHAKESPEARE IN HUNGARY 172. Shakespeare (William) Roméo és Jùlia... [translated into Hungarian by Kun Szabó Sándor]. Posonyban [Bratislava]: Talaltatik Veber es Korabinsky, 1786, woodcut emblem on title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, a few pages slightly soiled, pp. 118, 8vo, fairly modern (attractive and apposite) floral boards, very good $7,800 First edition of the first translation of a complete play of Shakespeare’s into Hungarian, of the utmost rarity (it was preceeded by excerpts from Richard III). Only 1 copy is located in WorldCat, at the Fales Library of NYU (calling for 113 pages only). A search of KVK, including the Hungarian and Czech National Libraries, does not throw up any other, though there is in fact a copy each in the National Library, and the Ervin Szabó Library. ‘For about 100 years now Shakespeare has been customarily referred to as “the most popular and most often played Hungarian classic.” There is of course the proverbial Hungarian sense of humor to account for this amusing quip. But at the same time there is the undeniable truth... that in some mysterious way Shakespeare has been assimilated into the stock of Hungarian national cultural heritage. The fact is that ever since 1790, the year when Hamlet was first translated into Hungarian... or, to be more precise, since 1794 when Hamlet was first performed... Shakespeare’s works have never been missing from the repertories of the theatres of [Hungary]’ (Istvan Palffy, Shakespeare in Hungary, Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 29, No. 2, 1978, pp. 292-94). The Hamlet of 1790 is pretty rare too (BL only in WorldCat), and we have seen other references to its being the beginning of Shakespeare in Hungary. It would seem though that we should extend the period of assimilation by at least 4 years.

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173. Sharp (Samuel) A Treatise on the Operations of Surgery, with a Description and Representation of the Instruments used in performing them: to which is prefix’d an Introduction on the Nature and Treatment of Wounds, Abscesses and Ulcers. Printed by J. Watts: and sold by J. Roberts, and J. Brotherton, 1739, FIRST EDITION, with 14 engraved plates, occasional minor soiling or staining (including apparently a mark left by a blood-stained finger, in the chapter on castration), pp. [xvi], liii, 224, 8vo, original calf, double gilt fillets on sides, rebacked (and recased) preserving original spine, one lacuna filled in, new lettering pieces, corners repaired, and the gilt rules on the spine redone, 2 faded inscriptions on title-page, the first owner’s apparently, John Row, engulfed by the slightly later one of Dav. Calderwood, recording his purchase of the book in London in December 1757, price 3/- $7,150 The very rare first edition of Sharp’s important treatise (the present cataloguer was looking for a copy for over 25 years): the second edition of the same year, and later editions, are relatively common. This was ‘the first monograph in English on the subject and achieved eleven editions, and translations into French, Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian... Sharp proved an innovative surgical actitioner and communicator as the many editions of his books in seven European languages indicate. Nineteenth-century surgeons admired his forthrightness and skills. Louis Bégin, a French practitioner, assessed Sharp in 1825 as one of those surgeons whose works show in the highest degree the impress of an observing mind, hostile to all authority and routine. There are few diseases on which he did not put forward new ideas, few operations whose instruments or procedures he did not improve. His writings contain many things in few pages, and we find in them both an originality and an independence of thought which charm the reader and always secure his attention’ (ODNB). Sharp resigned his appointment at Guy's Hospital on 23 September 1757, on the grounds of ill-health: by coincidence perhaps, just weeks before the date of the second inscription.

174. (Sherlockiana.) WATSON (John H., M.D., pseud. for Philip José Farmer) The Adventure of the Peerless Peer. Edited by Philip José Farmer, American Agent for the Estates of Dr. Watson, Lord Greystoke, David Copperfield, Martin Eden, and Don Quixote. Boulder, CO: Aspen Press, 1974, FIRST EDITION, pp. 111, [1], crown 8vo, original red cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, a few tiny spots to top edge, dustjacket, 1981 Guardian interview with the author laid in, near fine $330 Inscribed on the flyleaf: ‘With best Sherlockian wishes from John H. Watson M.D., author, and Philip José Farmer, editor. Set during the Great War, a Holmes meets Tarzan tale. From the collection of author and bibliophile John Baxter.

175. Sherring (Charles A.) Western Tibet and the British Borderland. The sacred country of Hindus and Buddhists with an account of the government, religion and customs of its peoples... With a chapter by T.G. Longstaff... describing an attempt to climb Gurla Mandhata. Edward Arnold, 1906, FIRST EDITION, 2 large coloured folding maps, 2 further monochrome maps and one chart, photogravure frontispiece of Mount Kailash, numerous photographic illustrations, occasional spotting at fore-margin, short tear to first map at gutter margin, frontispiece tissue-guard creased, pp. xv, 376, 8vo, original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front board with pictorial gilt stamp, endpapers toned, backstrip faded, a couple of faint stains on rear board and a few puncture marks on front board, rubbed at board corners and backstrip edges, slightly shaken, good $1,300 ‘...the book is, in its measure, a real literary work, from the simplicity and dignity with which he relates his actual experience... he is a man of wide sympathies and keen interests; conscious of the romance of legends and myths and of the quaint customes “which appeal to the poetry in all men’s veins”’ (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. 39, Issue 2).

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176. Sigal (Clancy) Going Away. A Report, A Memoir. Boston and Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin and The Riverside Press, 1962, FIRST EDITION, pp. [x], 513, 8vo, original orange cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, top edge black, fore-edge roughtrimmed, dustjacket price-clipped with chip at head of upper joint-fold and some minor rubbing, very good $260 With a lengthy inscription by the author to the flyleaf: ‘Dear John - Tom Haydn says this novel “made a man” of him. Do I have to take responsibility for this?’ before speculating that it ‘wd make a great movie - directed by, um, Frankenheimer? w/ a cost of thousands. Be well, Clancy’. The recipient was John Baxter, noted bibliophile and - like Sigal - a cineaste. An autobiographical bildungsroman, describing the author’s road trip from the west to the east coast of a homeland that has begun to alienate.

COPY NUMBER I, SPECIAL BINDING 177. (Solmentes Press.) ESSLEMONT (David) Inside the Book. Newtown, Powys, Solmentes Press, 2002, I/10 COPIES (from an edition of 250 copies) signed by Esslemont, printed on Zerkall mould- made paper, illustrations from pen and ink drawings, woodcuts from the Augsburg Calendar and Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, displayed type, pages from notebooks, colour printing and calligraphy, with additional material tipped-in, including a Thomas Bewick wood engraving, a page showing comparative type widths and samples of an inkjet print and paste paper, and a facsimile of an envelope with ideas for the present work, pp. 134, royal 8vo, special binding of full white alum-tawed calf with an abstract geometric design in colour created with acrylic inks, gilt tooling, leather hinges, speckled endpapers, felt-lined cloth-covered drop-back box, letter from Esslemont to original owner laid in along with original invoice, fine $3,250 The binding design was executed with a toothbrush and a stencil. A rich and creative treatise on modern fine-press book production, by one of the masters of the art.

178. Southern (Terry) Flash and Filigree. Andre Deutsch, 1958, FIRST EDITION, pp. 204, crown 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, faint partial browning to endpapers, very light spotting to top edge, dustjacket by Stephen Russ with some very faint spots to pale areas and the backstrip panel very gently sunned, very good $120 The author’s first book, with the UK edition preceding its US counterpart.

179. Southwell (William) A Plan of a New Invented Patent-Piano-Forte. With Additional Keys &c. A New Royal Patent on additional Keys & Manufactur’d by Longman & Broderip No. 26, Cheapside & No. 13 Hay Market: London. 1794, engraved advertisement, half-sheet, fleur-de-lys watermark, slightly fraying top edge backed with conservation tape, also present at lower left corner behind small tear beside clipped right margin, three faint vertical fold marks, mounted, very good $1,950 An advertisement for the new pianofortes of Longman and Broderip, incorporating the inventions of William Southwell. Southwell moved from Dublin to London in 1794 and immediately submitted a patent application for two significant pianoforte innovations: a new wire-operated damper system and an extended range of over half an octave. James Longman and Francis Broderip were so impressed by the enhanced instrument which Southwell had brought over from Ireland, that, under exclusive contract, they offered to sell the improved instruments under their company name. The copper plate of Southwell’s original patent was altered for the subsequent advertisement, Longman & Broderip replacing the inventor’s name, and the lion and crown of England replacing the Irish harp in the triangular fretwork behind the instrument’s wrestplank. Longman and Broderip were declared bankrupt in 1795, but Broadwood (without permission or fee) immediately employed Southwell’s system for extending the keyboard’s range and, a decade later, his form of damper, creating, in effect, the earliest form of the piano that we know today. (Michael Cole, The Pianoforte in the Classical Era, 1998, pp. 104–5)

180. Steer (G.L.) Caesar in Abyssinia. Hodder and Stoughton, 1936, FIRST EDITION, 4 maps including a folding one at rear, occasional light foxing, pp. 411, 8vo, original black cloth, backstrip lettered in red, some light rubbing, edge-spotting, Australian

53 BLACKWELL’S RARE BOOKS bookseller stamp to flyleaf, dustjacket by Bip Pares price-clipped and faintly spotted, short closed tear at head of front panel, a few tiny nicks at head of backstrip panel, very good $310 An account of the region contemporary with that of Evelyn Waugh - who conjured the memorable description of Steer as a ‘very gay South African dwarf’. Their allegiances and outlooks were at odds, and whilst both used their experiences as the basis for important books, as Nicholas Rankin notes, ‘Waugh's novel Scoop saw the conflict as a comedy; Steer's Caesar in Abyssinia as a tragedy’ (p. 10).

181. [Studholme (John)] An Essay on Human Nature. Carlisle: Printed by J. Harrison, for the Author, 1777, FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, 4 lines supplied in MS at end of the Explanation (see below), some mild damp-stainin in the upper 1/3 of the volume, pp. xii, [13-] 184, 12mo, contemporary ?sheep, spine gilt, a little rubbed, slightly warped, good, inscription in Greek at the head of the title of a Reid, inscription on fly-leaf of Deborah Reid of Green Hill $2,600 A Lockean treatise: there are few references to other authors, but one, to Locke, adjudges him ‘one of the greatest Men’. The attribution of authorship in ESTC is derived from an inscription in a copy belonging to Arnold Muirhead, into whose collection this volume would have dovetailed neatly. The attribution is here in MS on the title-page, in a particularly neat hand ‘By John Studholme, Thorsby’. ESTC has Thursby, which is the usual spelling of the village 6 miles south of Carlisle. There are also a couple of corrections to the text, again very neat, suggesting authorial participation. The continuation of the text in MS on p. v is identical to that in the copy digitized in ECCO, which strongly suggests that in fact all copies were in the gift of the author (though why then his name not printed on the title-page remains obscure). There are 5 books printed by Harrison recorded in ESTC between 1776 and 1780, 2 Bibles, a BCP, a short-lived Carlisle magazine, and the present work. 7 copies are recorded in ESTC (BL, C, NLS O, Private Collection: Rutgers, Yale), with WorldCat adding the Newberry, and COPAC Manchester. ?Sheep. We query sheep, because although it has the grain of sheep, it is an unusually tough variety of the skin, perhaps some the product of some particularly hardy Cumberland breed: at any rate, a local artefact.

182. (Summers.) TAILLEPIED (Noel) A Treatise of Ghosts. Being the Psichologie, or Treatise upon Apparitions and Spirits, of Disembodied Souls, Phantom Figures, Strange Prodigies, and of other Miracles and Marvels, which often presage the Death of some Great Person, or signify some swift Change in Public Affairs / Written in French by the learned Father Noel Taillepied, of the Order of Capuchins, and now first translated into English, with an Introduction and Commentary by Montague Summers. The Fortune Press, [1933,] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, title-page printed in red and black, pp. xiii, 263, crown 8vo, original black buckram, backstrip lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed and a little browned, faint spot to flyleaf, bright yellow dustjacket with a little toning, heavier at backstrip panel, a few spots of internal tape repair, very good $230 A sixteenth-century treatise on the supernatural, given its first English translation by Summers - like the author, a Catholic priest, with the theological basis of these events given a thorough exposition. The black buckram binding is described by d’Arch Smith as being primary, preceding - as often with Caton’s publications - a host of variants.

AUTHOR ’S COPY 183. Taylor (Alfred Swaine) On Poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine. Third Edition. [Spottiswoode & Co. for] J. & A. Churchill, 1875, with over 100 illustrations in the text, a little scattered foxing, pp. xx (including initial blank), 834, 8vo, contemporary half calf, spine richly tooled in gilt and blind, burgundy lettering piece, marbled edges $1,560 The author’s copy of what was for long the standard text, first published in 1848. The recto of the initial blank has the record of the book’s printing, and throughout, though not very plentifully, annotations and corrections; also, loosely inserted, scarps of paper with MS notes, and newspaper clippings, regarding later instances (more or less up to the author’s death in 1880). Signed by Taylor at the head of the title. A excerpted review of the American edition (same year) is loosely inserted, where the author’s assertion that this edition is to be regarded as a new work is endorsed.

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Taylor ‘gave Charles Dickens a tour of his laboratory, and Wilkie Collins owned copies of his books. His work was known to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and he inspired the creation of fictional forensic detective Dr Thorndyke. For Dorothy L. Sayers, Taylor’s books were the back doors to death. From crime scene to laboratory to courtroom and sometimes to the gallows this is the world of Professor Alfred Swaine Taylor and his fatal evidence’ (blurb to’ Fatal Evidence: Professor Alfred Swaine Taylor & the Dawn of Forensic Science’, 2017). The volume is fairly stout, and the compartments on the spine are large. The lettering piece (’Poison / 1875’) seems portentous.

184. (Tern Press.) JEFFERIES (Richard) Thoughts on the Migration of Birds. Illustrated by Nicholas Parry. Market Drayton: Tern Press, 1999, 45/95 COPIES signed by the printers Nicholas and Mary Parry, printed on Arches paper, frontispiece and 16 further lithographs by Parry printed in various colours, pp. [36], folio, original quarter yellow cloth with maroon paste-paper sides, printed label to upper board and backstrip, fine $200

185. Thomas (Dylan) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. J.M. Dent, 1940, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, ownership inscription of B.J. Morse to half-title, one leaf with crease to top corner, pp. 254, crown 8vo, original plae blue wrappers printed in black to front and backstrip, the latter browned with a little lean to spine, faint sprinkling of spots to covers and the odd nick, ownership stamp to front corresponding to that on half-title, a few small spots to edges, good $1,300 Proof copies of Thomas’s major works are uncommon. This is the copy of the Welsh poet, translator and critic Benjamin Joseph Morse - Morse translated Thomas’s work into German, and provided an obituary of the author for the University of Wales’ ‘Broadsheet’.

186. Tobin (Catherine) Shadows of the East. Or Slight Sketches of Scenery, Persons, and Customs, from Observations during a Tour in 1853 and 1854, in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, and Greece. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855, FIRST EDITION, 3 double-page maps partly hand-coloured in outline, 17 tinted lithographed plates, half-title and errata leaves, occasional spotting, pp. [i, map], xiv, [ii], 256, [iv], x, [i], 4to, original crimson cloth gilt by Edward and Remnants with their ticket, upper board with radiant Islamic star-and-moon motif framed by foliage tendril quarters, lower board repeating pattern blind, gilt edges, highly decorative gilt endpapers, spine slightly faded, head and foot strengthened and a little rubbed, board edges and raised areas of lower board faintly toned, very good $1,950 A vivid first-hand account, written from notes recorded during the journey, by Lady Catherine Tobin of Oriel House, County Cork. The tour includes a visit to Malta, where her party ate ices, frozen by snow brought from Mount Etna, a voyage down the Nile, a camel ride through the crocus and anemone strewn Gaza wilderness, and an encounter with the Necropolis at Thebes: ‘The heat and stench were so exceedingly overpowering that they could not take more than a momentary glance at the mummies- whole and mutilated - which surrounded them, above, below - on all sides.’ Plates include atmospheric depictions of the Dead Sea, the Convent at Mount Sinai and a dancing Chawazee. Quite an uncommon book - 7 copies in WorldCat, with COPAC listing 4 more.

THE TOVE JANSSON HOBBIT 187. Tolkien (J.R.R.) Bilbo. En Hobbits Äventyr [The Hobbit.] I Översättning av Britt G. Hallqvist och med Illustrationer av Tove Jansson. Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren, 1962, FIRST JANSSON EDITION, 10 full-page drawings with numerous smaller drawings throughout text, pp. 308, 8vo, original quarter green cloth with colour-printed Jansson illustration to upper board, a touch of fading almost exclusively to lower board and none

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TOLKIEN GETS THE HOMPE 188. Tolkien (J.R.R.) Hompen eller, En resa Dit och Tillbaksigen [The Hobbit.] [Översatt av Tore Zetterholm.] Kooperativa Förbundets, 1947, FIRST SWEDISH EDITION, illustrations by Torbjörn Zetterholm, pp. 269, crown 8vo, original quarter red cloth with illustration by Charles Sjöblom to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, some light rubbing and a little wear at corners, endpaper maps by Charles Sjöblom, good $780 Per the bibliography, this would appear to be the first translation of this work into any language - and indeed, the first translation of any of the author’s work. In a letter from 1956, the author dismissed it as having ‘taken unwarranted liberties with the text and other details, without consultation or approval’ - reserving particular disgruntlement for the failure to use the word ‘Hobbit’ (’I will not have any more Hompen (in which I was not consulted), nor any Hobbel or what not’).

INSCRIBED TO A LEONARD COHEN CONNECTION 189. Trocchi (Alexander) Cain's Book. John Calder, 1963, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, a few printing smudges to the title-page, pp. 252, crown 8vo, original red boards, backstrip lettered in silver, crease to knocked top corner of upper board, dustjacket a little nicked and chipped and darkened slightly in a couple of places, very good $3,250 With a lengthy inscription by the author to the flyleaf: ‘For Nancy Bacal – Can I ask you to be careful not to treat this book as “literature”? Whatever else it is, it’s not that. Of course, there is a good deal of “fiction” in it, but… For example, my publisher’s first question when he had read it: “It’s great! But are you working on another novel now?” It was as though he hadn’t read it at all. Alex. London, March 1963’. The recipient was a Canadian who had come to London to study classical theatre at RADA, where she became involved in various counter-cultural activities - including founding the Black Power movement in London alongside her then partner Michael de Freitas (Michael X/Michael Abdul Malik). She had been introduced to Trocchi by Leonard Cohen - a mutual friend that she had known since childhood, and whose song ‘Seems So Long Ago, Nancy’ was written for her; at the time of her introduction to Trocchi she was working as an interviewer for CBC (in which capacity she also interviewed the first incarnation of Pink Floyd, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones) and making a film about drug use. ‘Cain’s Book’ was first published in New York in 1960, and received positive notices but no widespread attention; upon its UK publication, however, it caused a scandal and was prosecuted for obscenity having been seized in Sheffield as a threat to the morals of the young. Trocchi, well-versed in Situationist practice having been integrally involved with the nascent movement whilst in Paris, saw the furore as an opportunity to promote the book and at the Edinburgh Festival 1964 staged a public burning (with added explosives) that was part protest against and part endorsement of the judgement of the book as incendiary material. Cohen’s role in the story goes beyond the merely incidental: between the US and the UK publications of the work, Trocchi had been charged with the capital offence of supplying drugs to a minor in New York - it was Cohen who assisted him in crossing into Canada, from where he made his way back to London, receiving for his trouble an inadvertent overdose from his charge’s largesse.

INSCRIBED TO ‘M R LSD’ 190. Trocchi (Alexander) Young Adam. Heinemann, 1961, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, pp. 162, crown 8vo, original maroon boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, mild traces of damp to boards, very minor knock to bottom corner of upper board, tiny waterstain to leading edge of rear free endpaper, dustjacket a little frayed with some light soiling to rear panel, good $3,250 Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: ‘For Desmond O’Brien - a small & overdue token of my esteem - Alex. London, 1.1.65! (Tempus fuxit [sic])’. An excellent presentation copy, inscribed to a man Trocchi called a ‘fellow traveller’: O’Brien was an Old

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Etonian and Lloyd’s underwriter who had founded the World Psychedelic Centre with Michael Hollingshead in the year of this inscription - his reputation as a psychedelic impresario already conferring upon him the title of ‘Mr LSD’ (enshrined by a sensationalist exposé in ‘London Life’ magazine).

191. Vaughan (Henry) Silex scintillans: or, Sacred Poems and Priuate Eiaculations. printed by T.W. [i.e. Thomas Walkley] for H. Blunden, 1650, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the engraved title but wanting A1 (the Latin verse explanation), title a little soiled, bound in a little squint and trimmed within plate mark at fore- edge and lower margin, head of A4 torn away and repaired, with loss of drop-head title on recto and 4 lines on verso, sidenote on B3 cropped as nearly always, fore-edge of last leaf reinforced, pp. 110 (though wanting pp. 3 and 4), without the final blank, small 8vo, contemporary sheep, rebacked, corners and fore-edges slightly worn, the Gathorne Hardy/Col. C.H. Wilkinson/Juel- Jensen/Robert Ball copy $23,400 A celebrated rarity. ‘Vaughan’s finest poetry was published in this rare volume. Its sales, however, were not large and unsold copies were re-issued with a second part in 1655’ (Hayward). The 1655 edition is no commoner than this. ‘Silex scintillans is indeed as great a sequence of religious lyrics as we have... His finest lyrics challenge the best in their age; his achievements in rhythm have no peer until Hopkins; and if others had a better understanding of political process, none of his contemporaries understood better than he the relatedness of all living things and their relationship to what we call the inanimate world’ (ODNB). Vaughan, ‘Silurist’, was bilingual, and according to DWB ‘there are traces of Welsh influence in his poetry.’ Since 1975 only 2 copies have appeared at auction: the Houghton-Garden-Pirie copy (lately at Sotheby’s New York sold for $100,000), and the Bradley Martin copy. The present copy has been at auction too, longer ago. It was bought by Col. Wilkinson at the Gathorne-Hardy sale in 1959; Gathorne-Hardy’s ownership inscription inside front cover in pencil dated 1953. A pencil note by Juel-Jensen on the fly-leaf tells the story, and quotes L.W. Hanson’s obituary notice of him in The Book Collector - ‘one of the last books he bought was one which he had always most prized - Silex Scintillans.’ At Col. Wilkinson’s sale in 1960 it was bought by Blackwell’s for Bent Juel-Jensen (his purchase note with costs in code inside the back cover); his neat little book-label inside the front cover; below that, that of Robert Ball.

RUSSIAN SPACE - NIKOLAEV ’S COPY 192. (Vostok 3 & Soyuz 9) Nikolaev (Andrian) [in Russian] We Shall Meet in Orbit. Moscow, 1966, photographic portrait frontispiece, several photographic illustrations, first three chapters with numerous pencil annotations, pp. 228, 8vo, pale green boards, cover lettered in silver, with ascending red star motif, spine lettered in silver and red, dustjacket, clipped, worn at folds, frayed at edges, with short tears at upper edge of front and back covers, very good $1,560 The author’s own copy, with his lengthy annotations and text corrections in pencil in the margins of 21 pages of the first three chapters. [With]: [in Russian] Cosmos: Road Without End. Moscow, 1974, photographic portrait frontispiece, numerous photographic plates, pp. 266, (vi), 8vo, dark blue boards, cover lettered in silver with ascending rocket motif, spangled star endpapers, very good Both books are signed by Nikolaev on the title-pages [in Russian] ‘With Best Wishes, 15.9.97’ and include an autograph signed note by the author, briefly reporting the book’s contents, mounted on the final endpaper of each volume. The first book describes the training, flight and aftermath of the Vostok 3 mission of 1962, in which Nikolaev circled the earth 64 times in 96 hours and appeared on the first television broadcast from space. Besides the traditional images of free fall training and portraits in various types of space suit, Nikolaev is also pictured on a pedalo and with his wife, Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, on their wedding day. The second was written after the 1970 Soyuz 9 mission in which, though he was suffering from a pike bite from a fishing expedition two days before lift-off, Nikolaev set a new endurance record, 18 days in space. Known by Gargarin as ‘the most unflappable man in a crisis I know’ and by Titov as ‘a man of iron endurance and courageous determination’, Nikolaev was inundated with Soviet honours and had a conspicuous lunar crater named after him.

193. Waugh (Alec) [Complete typescript draft:] Married to a Spy. 1973- 1976, full ‘main draft’ of novel on a variety of papers with sheets inserted and sometimes pasted, heavy drafting throughout with corrections and cuts (including a change to the protagonist’s surname),

57 BLACKWELL’S RARE BOOKS in envelope with holograph note by Waugh to front presenting the novel in this form and describing its composition, this repeated by cover sheet, approx. 40 sheets in separate envelope (with holograph note by Waugh) of passages cut from the novel, these with corrections in pencil by Virginia Sorensen (Waugh’s wife) and in ink by the author, approx. 470ff., 4to, stored in attractive limp green morocco folder (slightly faded on one face), with elaborate design in gilt and detail in various colours, good condition $2,600 A unique copy showing the author’s fiftieth book (the rear flap of the published version announces), and his final novel, in the process of late composition, presented by him to Michael Layton (2nd Baron Layton) and his wife Dorothy - evidently a Tangier connection, where Waugh spent much of his latter life and where this novel is set. It depicts a British Intelligence Officer sent to observe the activities of Basque nationalists there, preparing an attack on Spain. The assistance of the author’s wife, American novelist Virginia Sorensen, is noted by him - their age difference was approximately that of the couple at the centre of this thriller, and their respective nationalities were the same. [With:] A near fine copy of the first edition, inscribed to the same recipients: ‘For Michael and Dottie [Layton], With much affection and in the hope that they won’t feel a fast bargain was pulled on them way back in Old Tangier, Alec Waugh, Oct. 6. 1976’.

194. Webster (John) A Monumental Columne, Erected to the liuing Memory of the euer- glorious Henry, late Prince of Wales. Printed by N. O[kes] for William Welby, 1613, FIRST EDITION, woodcut ornaments on title, woodcut headpieces, 3 pages (of 5) printed entirely in black, lacking the final 2 leaves (printed entirely in black, without text), last leaf with a hole with the loss of 3 letters from the motto at the end of the text on the recto, slight loss to lower fore-corner of this leaf and extreme corresponding corner of preceeding leaf (no loss of text), A4 (the first black leaf) very slightly defective at top outer corner, title slightly browned, pp. [22, of 24], 4to, late 19th-century green crushed morocco by Matthews, quadruple gilt fillets on sides with corner ornaments, spine lettered longitudinally in gilt, gilt edges, extra blank leaves bound in at beginning and end, the last at the front inscribed ‘Richard Grant White Esq. with the best wishes of R.H. Stoddard’, good $19,500 There was widespread grief, both at home and abroad, at the sudden death of the promising Henry, Prince of Wales, on 6th November 1612, at the age of only 16. It evoked a number of elegies. Webster’s Monumental Columne is not perhaps his masterpiece, though he interrupted the composition of that (that is, The Duchess of Malfi) to write it, and there are echoes of the elegy in the play. Indeed, David Gunby has said (Introduction to the poem in his edition of Webster's works) that the elegy provides ‘a vision of human existence which in certain respects comes remarkably close to providing a gloss on crucial aspects of The Duchess of Malfi.’ ‘Webster probably began work on his second tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, soon after the completion of The White Devil, but in November 1612 set the new play aside to compose A Monumental Columne, commemorating the death... of Henry, prince of Wales. Webster's elegy, published with those of Heywood and Cyril Tourneur, was entered in the Stationers' register on Christmas day 1612, and in it the poet excuses his “worthlesse lines” on the grounds that “I hasted, till I had this tribute paid / Unto his grave” (lines 310–11). Haste may also explain Webster's extensive reuse of material in his half-finished tragedy, but parallels - as between the experiences of Bosola and Webster's account, in the elegy of: Sorrow that long had liv'd in banishment, Tug'd at the oare in Gallies (lines 162–3) - suggest that A Monumental Columne embodies views important to Webster and given utterance also in The Duchess of Malfi. Webster evidently felt deeply the death of a prince of whom much was hoped’ (ODNB). It is more correct to say (pace ODNB) that the poem was also re-issued as part Three Elegies on the most lamented Death of Prince Henrie, the first written by Cyril Tourneur. The second Iohn Webster. The third Tho: Heywood, 1613. Neither printing is at all common: both are recorded by ESTC at the BL and York Minster only in the UK; the Three at Folger, Harvard and Huntington (bis) in the US (STC adding Eton in the UK), and our Monumental Columne at Folger (lacking last 2 leaves), Harvard, NYPL, Illinois and Texas. COPAC adds the V&A for the Momunmental Columne, and shows that the York copy also lacks the last 2 leaves. Provenance: the presentation by one American critic, Richard Henry Stoddard, to another, Richard Grant White (the latter also a leading Shakespearean), gives this copy an appealing aura.

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195. Weldon (John) Divine Harmony. Six Select Anthems for a Voice a lone With a Thorow Bass for the Organ, Harpsichord or Arch-Lute Compos’d on several Occasions by Mr. Jn. Weldon Organist of this Majestys Chappell Royal and there Performd by the late Famous Mr. Richard Elford, Very proper not only in private Devotion, but also for Choirs, where they may be Sung either by a Treble or Tenor. J. Walsh and J. Hare, [1716], engraved frontispiece, title and dedication, music score with 2,3 and 4 staves per system, frontispiece neatly restored with tape at gutter margin, title and dedication with a few small stains and marginal wormhole, occasional small tears at lower margin, fore-margin slightly soiled throughout, annotations to all six anthems in at least two near contemporary hands, pp. [vi], 29, folio, modern quarter calf with marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, new endpapers, good $980 Following an education at Eton, where he was a chorister and a period of musical tutelage under Henry Purcell, by 1694, John Weldon was the organist of New College, Oxford, composing music for theatrical masques performed in the city, in addition to his college duties. He succeeded John Blow as Chapel Royal organist and in 1715 was appointed to the role of second composer, under William Croft. While it is highly likely that the six anthems of Divine Harmony, Weldon’s only sacred music published during his lifetime, were performed by the ‘late Famous Richard Elford’ at some point, at least four of them had originally been written to be performed at New College by John Bowyer. The edition itself is unusual, since the printing of anthems (as opposed to sacred songs, which set non-biblical texts) was rare during this period, and it wasn’t until around the mid 1720s that larger scale anthems were printed in score. The publication’s popularity (it was reprinted the following year and in 1731) may have been partly due to the manifold claims of the title page - for ‘voice alone’, though each anthem features chorus sections, for ‘organ, harpsichord or arch-lute, though the accompanying instrument is nearly always specified as ‘organ’, suitable for ‘private devotion, but also for choirs’ - thus maximizing sales through performance possibility suggestions. The annotations include accidentals, written-out figured bass and ornamentation.

196. 'Whipplesnaith' [vere, Noel Howard Symington] The Night Climbers of Cambridge. Chatto and Windus, 1937, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece photograph and numerous other photographic plates showing climbers in action, pp. vii, 183, 8vo, original black cloth, backstrip lettered in blue with the lettering a little rubbed, a touch of fraying at head of lower joint with a few spots to edges and endpapers, gutter of front endpapers with some rust offset from staples of previously laid-in item, good $260 Scarce in the first edition. A classic in the small genre of urban climbing books, recounting the exploits of an outlaw band of students indulging in this traditional Cambridge sport. Stylishly written, and with sufficient detail to serve as a practical guide for others (indeed it was quickly reprinted in order to address an omission regarding how to escape from the Marks and Spencer building), the photographs offer a striking visual accompaniment.

197. Winter (Ella) And Not to Yield. An Autobiography. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, [1963,] FIRST EDITION, photographic plates, pp. xii, 308, 8vo, original mid blue cloth, backstrip lettered in green and silver, minor knocking to corners, dustjacket lightly dustsoiled overall, very good $130 Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: ‘For Dr Gordon Stewart Prince: Well, anyway ------With hope & trust, Ella Winter, Oct 31st 1966’. The recipient was a London psychiatrist. An interesting holograph note from Winter, presumably to the same, is laid in: ‘Of course I’d like to give it to you because I like you, but chiefly (from a professional point of view) I thought it might save some time - I have such a long full life to get through! (Children are simpler - no past - well not so much.) They cut 1000 pages of this for length’. Dustjacket blurb: ‘The candid and entertaining story of an emancipated woman and a rebellious spirit who has participated in many of the most venturesome movements of her time’.

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‘T HESE VOICES ARE BEGINNING ONLY NOW TO EMERGE ’ 198. (Woolf.) LLEWELYN DAVIES (Margaret) Life As We Have Known It. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1931, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 9 further monochrome plates from photographs, pp. xxxix, 141, crown 8vo, original yellow cloth, backstrip gently faded and lettered in black, small section darkened at foot of upper board corresponding to dustjacket loss, a few spots to edges, partial browning to endpapers, dustjacket lightly dustsoiled and chipped with a few short closed tears, very good $390 One of 1,500 copies. Woolf’s Introductory Letter is a revised version of her ‘Memories of a Women’s Working Guild’, printed in the Yale Review, September 1930 - whilst the original version has been collected multiple times, the present revision appears to be uncollected. ‘When you asked me to write a preface to a book which you had collected of papers by working women I replied that I would be drowned rather than write a preface to any book whatsoever’...

199. Wyrley (William) The True Vse of Armorie, Shewed by Historie, and plainly proued by example: the necessitie therof also discouered: with the maner of differings in ancient time, the lawfulnes of honorable funerals and moniments: with other matters of Antiquitie, incident to the aduauncin of Banners, Ensignes, and marks of noblenesse and cheualrie. Imprinted at London by I. Iackson, for Gabriell Cawood, 1592, FIRST EDITION, title within border of printers ornaments, 1 large woodcut initial, 15 woodcut coats of arms within text, all but 1 of them with old hand-colouring, without the initial leaf (blank except for signature mark), first 5 leaves a trifle short at top, some headlines trimmed, small burn hole in L4 touching a couple of letters on the verso, a bit of soiling and some damp- stains, verso of last leaf dust soiled, pp. [ii], 159, small 4to, 18th-century mottled calf, gilt roll tooled border on sides, spine gilt in compartments, twin lettering pieces, rebacked preserving spine, inner hinges strengthened with cloth, corners worn, some contemporary annotations, mostly just repeating in the marginwords in the text, verso of last leaf with an early (if not contemporary) proverb in Italian, and the signature of Peter Wentworth, paper lozenge with ‘The Bassett Armes / 1594’ printed in red $4,550 Rare. ‘In 1592 Wyrley published The True Use of Armorie. Sir William Dugdale, who reprinted the main text in his The Antient Usage in Bearing of … Arms in 1682, quoted William Burton as saying that his friend Erdeswick had told him that he himself was the real author of the book, “though he gave leave to Mr Wyrley (who had been bred up under him) to publish it in his own name”. Anthony Wood, however, considered the claim one more sign that Erdeswick's mind was unbalanced. Wyrley's research had its special dangers, especially in view of his connection with Erdeswick, a known recusant. In 1592 the Warwickshire recusancy commissioners reported that ‘one Woorley, sometime servant to one Sampson Erswicke … was suspected to be a lewd and a seditious papist’, resorting often ‘as a wandering man, under the colour of tricking out of arms in churches’ to the houses of ‘gentlemen known to be ill-affected in religion’ in Warwickshire and neighbouring counties. He was also suspected of secretly carrying letters between papists ’ (ODNB). The text is followed by 2 poems, The Glorious Life and Honorable Death of Sir Iohn Chandos, and The Honorable Life and Languishing Death of Sir Iohn de Gralhy Capitall de Buz. These occupy pp. 29 to the end, by far the bulk of the book. They are in the style of the Mirour for Magistrates.

200. Zweig (Stefan) Marie Antoinette. The Portrait of an Average Woman. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul. New York: Garden City Publishing, [1933,] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, frontispiece and 8 further portrait plates, pp. xv, 476, royal 8vo, original blue cloth, lettering and decorations blind-stamped to upper board, backstrip with lettering and decorations in silver, top edge blue, dustjacket in 4 pieces and laid in, good $720 Signed by the author in his characteristic purple ink on the half-title.

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