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CATALOGUE TWO HUNDRED AND NINE
Literature - First Editions, Classics, Private Press 1 – 90
Children's and Illustrated Books 91 – 123
Natural History 124 – 151
Maps 152 – 166
Travel and Topography 167 – 190
Art and Architecture 191 – 231
General Subjects - Cricket, History, Theology, Militaria 232 - 264
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LITERATURE FIRST EDITIONS, CLASSICS, PRIVATE PRESS
1. AIKEN, Conrad. The House of Dust. A Symphony. Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1920. First edition, 8vo, 148 pp. Original cloth, sunned with a couple of small patches of wear to the outer edge of the upper cover. £75
2. AUSTEN, Jane. [Novels]. Sense and Sensibility. Emma. Persuasion. Pride and Prejudice. Mansfield Park. Northanger Abbey. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1903. Six works bound in two volumes. Small 8vo. Quarter vellum over blue-grey cloth boards, gilt lettered dark green morocco labels with Art Deco tooling to the vellum, marbled endpapers with old gift inscriptions to the front free endpaper of each volume, top edges gilt. Some fading and wear to the boards, very slight chipping to the upper edges of the spine labels, a decent set overall. Printed on India paper. See inside lower cover. £250
ONE OF 50 COPIES WITH A CUSTOM-MADE COVER 3. AYRTON, Michael. The Maze Maker. New York: Bantam Books, (1969). Paperback edition, small 8vo. (x), 277, (1) pp. Limited edition, no. 30 of 50 copies with a custom made cover, signed and pasted on by Ayrton. Handwritten postcard from Ayrton also loosely inserted. Mild bumping to the top of the upper wrapper, otherwise fine. £550 Disapproving of the original artwork Ayrton made his own. The text to the lower cover reads, in part, “The author of this book, finding the jacket imposed upon it by the publisher of this edition unacceptable in that it represents a Balinese lady reclining on a stuffed moose, has here replaced it with a drawing of his own in which the Maze Maker holds the totem of the publisher symbolically...” - a bantam being strangled at the bottom of the image. Another copy of the book in its original state is included. From the library of George Astley, secretary of the Society of Authors; the postcard also being addressed to him, concerning a future engagement in Ayrton’s typically chatty style. “First with the news, you are indeed! I have a feeling Madame Druon will exercise that recognition of necessity which has for centuries bred discretion in the French and all may be well...” See inside upper cover.
4. BERLIN, Sven. The Dark Monarch. A Portrait from Within. Stevenage: Finishing Publications Ltd., (2009). Second edition. 8vo. (vi), 246, (4) pp. Publisher’s red cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and decorated to the upper board, dust jacket. Illustrations by the author throughout. An excellent copy. £80 A cult novel, being a barely fictionalised description of the petty rivalries and squabbles within the artists’ community in St. Ives. The book provoked much consternation locally and prompted a libel action leading to the book’s early withdrawal from sale. First published in 1962, this is the sole reprint and benefits from the author’s glossary of terms and real names hitherto unpublished. Neither edition is common.
5. BLAKE, William. The Poems of... Edited and arranged with a preface by John Sampson. London: At the Florence Press, Chatto & Windus, 1921. 8vo, xxxviii, 343, (3) pp. Original gilt titled vellum, t.e.g., slightly soiled otherwise a very good copy. £90
6. BROWNING, Robert. The Poetical Works of... London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1899. Two volumes. 8vo. xvi, 748; viii, 786 pp. Contemporary prize bindings from Bromley High School (Girls Day School), full aubergine calf, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and decorated to the others, the college name and crest in gilt to the upper board and their prize label to the front pastedowns, an additional inscription to the same recipient on the succeeding flyleaves, endpapers and all edges marbled. Portrait frontispieces. Just very slight fading to the spines and some minimal rubbing to the extremities, an attractive set. £125
7. BUCHAN, John. Mr. Standfast. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919. First edition, 8vo, 412 pp. Occasional light foxing, contemporary pencilled inscription to front blank. Later green quarter calf, spine faded to brown, red spine label. £95
EXTRA ILLUSTRATED 8. BYRON, Lord. The Poetical Works of... London: John Murray, 1839. Eight volumes. 8vo. Contemporary purple straight grain morocco, spines faded to brown, twin olive gilt lettered spine labels, gilt decoration to the edges of the boards, endpapers and all edges marbled, armorial bookplate of Frederick Wildman Burnett to the front pastedowns. Frontispiece portrait and 8 engraved titles with vignettes plus extra illustrated with 123 views and portraits engraved by Finden. Partial loss of gilt to the spines, neat repair to the foot of the lower joint of volume I, small chip to one of the spine labels of volume IV, else very good. See inside upper cover. £825
9. (CAMBRIDGE). WATSON, George; WILLISON, I.R. & PICKLES, I.D. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1974-77. Five volumes. Large 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, gilt to the spines, dust jackets, prior owner’s neat bookplates to the front pastedowns. Occasional slight wear to the dust jackets, a very good set overall. £75 A monumental work of scholarship listing author’s works, bibliographies, biographies, letters and diaries from 600-1950. Complete with the index volume.
10. CAUSLEY, Charles. Twenty-one Poems. With Illustrations by Robert Tilling. [Shipston- on-Stour]: The Celandine Press, (1986). Limited edition, no. 6 of 25 copies with a full page manuscript poem (“At St. Hilary”) opposite the half title, from a limitation of 75 copies in this binding signed by both Causley and Tilling and from a total edition of 300 copies, large 8vo, (46) pp. 6 coloured plates tipped in, press compliments slip loosely inserted. Original gilt titled black quarter morocco, marbled sides, slipcase with edges slightly sunned otherwise fine. £150
11. CICERO, M. Tullius. Orationes Omnes: Perpetuis Notis Logicis, Arithmeticis, Ethicu, Politicis, Historicis, Antiquitatis, illustratæ per Joann. Thomam Freigium [Johann Thomas Freig]. Francofurti [Frankfurt]: Typis & Impensis Joannis Pressii, 1653. Three volumes, 8vo. Armorial bookplate of James Ibbetson (1717-1781), Archdeacon of St. Albans, in volume III with his inscription to the fly leaf in volume I and his bookplate mostly removed opposite, other 18th and 19th century inscriptions to fly leaves. Contemporary vellum with yapp edges, later manuscript title to spines and an armorial device to upper covers, slightly rubbed, spines browned, some mostly light marking. Overall a well preserved set. £225
12. COLERIDGE, S.T. The Poetical Works of... London: William Pickering, 1836. Third edition, third issue, three volumes, 8vo. Light foxing at the beginning and end of each volume, two pages (pp144-145) in volume III browned. Attractively bound in contemporary full vellum, a.e.g., gilt decoration to covers and spines, brown morocco spine labels with mild rubbing otherwise a lovely set. Wise p.303. Keynes p.60. £175
INSCRIBED 13. D’ARCH SMITH, Timothy. Love in Earnest. Some Notes on the Lives and Writings of English ‘Uranian’ Poets from 1889 to 1930. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1970). First edition, 8vo, (xxiv), 280 pp. Black and white photographic illustrations. Inscribed from the author to the booksellers Ian Hodgkins and Ian Hoy on the fly leaf and also signed to the title page, with associated correspondence loosely inserted. Cloth, d.w., light marking to the lower wrapper, mild rubbing to extremities. £200
14. [DEFOE, Daniel]. The Life, And Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived eight and twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River Oroonoque; having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With an Account how he was at last as strangely deliver’d by Pyrates... [with] The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being the Second and Last Part of his Life, and of the strange surprising Account of his Travels Round three Parts of the Globe. Written by himself. London: Printed for W. Mears and T. Woodward, 1726. Two volumes, seventh and fifth editions respectively, 12mo, (iv), 294, (2 advertisement); 264 pp. 13 plates plus a folding map, originally bound as the frontispiece in volume II but here bound at the end of volume I, a few leaves in volume II cropped close at the top very slightly affecting the page numbers, some damp staining to the inner part of early leaves in volume I. Modern grey quarter morocco, marbled sides. £2,000 First published 1719. See inside lower cover.
15. DEFOE, Daniel. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. With... illustrations by J.D. Watson. London: George Routledge and Sons, [1880s]. 8vo, 566, (10 advertisement) pp. Engraved illustrations, presentation inscription preserved from the previous binding and tipped in at the front dated 1886. Bound in recent (“MXM” to the foot of the spine) scarlet morocco, a.e.g., blind stamped border and rules with gilt decoration, a lovely copy. £60
16. DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. With illustrations by Phiz. London: Chapman and Hall 1839. First edition, 8vo, xvi, 624 pp. Portrait frontispiece (engraved by Finden after Maclise) and 39 plates, old signature to title, plates with marginal foxing. Contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, recent repair to the top of the spine. £150 Smith I 5. Agreeing with most of the textual points listed by Smith and with the frontispiece and first four plates containing imprints.
17. DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. First edition, first issue, bound from the parts with the stabholes visible, 8vo, xvi, 624 pp. Frontispiece, engraved second title and 38 plates, some foxing and marginal browning to the plates. Contemporary black half calf, marbled sides, some rubbing to the boards and the top of the upper joint, otherwise very good. £180 Smith, I 10. All but three of the points listed by Smith present, two noted as “may be” present, the third “in some copies”.
18. DICKENS, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. With Illustrations by Marcus Stone. London: Chapman & Hall, 1865. First edition, bound from the parts, two volumes in one, 8vo, (iii)-xii, 320, (iii)-viii, 310 pp, rebound without the half titles and advertisement leaves. Engraved second title and 40 plates, some light, mostly marginal foxing, to the plates. Contemporary dark green half calf, marbled edges, gilt decorated spine with a maroon label, joints and corners rubbed, recent repairs to the spine ends. £150
19. DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. With... illustrations by S.L. Fildes... London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 190, (2) pp. Portrait frontispiece, engraved title and 12 plates, some light foxing, marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Contemporary half calf, spine sunned with some mild rubbing, a very good copy. Smith 16. £100
20. DICKENS, Charles. Barnaby Rudge. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne, G. Cattermole, Etc. Etc. London: Chapman and Hall, [1870s]. 8vo. x, 613, (1) pp. Contemporary maroon half morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and decorated to others, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, ownership inscription to the front flyleaf dated 1875. Frontispiece, 8 plates and numerous illustrations in the text. Very good. £60
21. DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. London: Chapman & Hall, [c.1880]. Two volumes. 8vo. xiv, 436; viii, 438 pp. Contemporary wine red half morocco over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, twin gilt lettered black labels, gilt decoration to the others, endpapers and all edges marbled. Illustrated throughout. Some mild rubbing, very good. £60
22. ELIOT, T. S. Homage to John Dryden. Three Essays on poetry of the seventeenth century. London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1924. First edition, 8vo, 46 pp. Original wrappers, design by Vanessa Bell to upper wrapper, spine browned, some light soiling, very good. £60 The Hogarth Essays, first series, no. 4. Gallup A7. Woolmer 43.
23. FLEMING, Ian. You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First edition, first impression, first state. 8vo. 256 pp. Publisher’s black cloth, dust jacket, not price clipped. Two minor tears without loss to the spine ends of the jacket, a little light wear at the corners, one or two small spots, slight foxing to the first few leaves, a very good copy. Gilbert, A12a, (1.1). £125
24. FORD, Ford Madox. The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford. The Good Soldier. Selected Memories. Poems. The Fifth Queen. Privy Seal. The Fifth Queen Crowned. Parade’s End: Some Do Not... No More Parades. A Man Could Stand Up. Memories and Impressions. London: The Bodley Head, 1963-71 Five volumes, volumes III-V first editions, others first reprints. 8vo. Cloth, d.w.’s, spines with mild browning, one with a small chip, overall very good. £160
25. FORSTER, E.M. A Room with a View. London: Edward Arnold, 1908. First edition. 8vo. viii, 324, 8 pp. Recent red full morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and dated at the foot, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. A little light spotting at intervals, mostly marginal, an attractive copy. £1,500
26. FORSTER, E.M. Pharos and Pharillon. Richmond: Printed and Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press 1923. First edition. 8vo. (ii), 80, (2) pp. Publisher’s blue cloth backed patterned boards, paper spine label, early ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Some tanning and wear to the covers. Kirkpatrick, A9a. Woolmer, 29. Printed in an edition of 900 copies. £100
INSCRIBED 27. GRANVILLE-BARKER, Harley. Prefaces to Shakespeare. First - Fifth series. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1927-47. Five volumes, all first edition, 8vo. Bookplates of Oliver Brett, Lord Esher, in volumes I- IV and of his wife Antoinette in volume V. Two of the volumes are inscribed from the author; volume II on a slip tipped in - “Not to be read, Oliver... but held... I’ll ‘cynic’ you, I will...” and volume III to the fly leaf “For Oliver, his association copy!...” Finally volume V is inscribed from the author’s wife “For Oliver and Antoinette, This copy of Harley’s last book...” Original gilt titled blue cloth, volumes IV and V a smaller format. A unique set. £275
28. GRIGSON, Geoffrey. Visionary Poems and Passages, or the Poet’s Eye. Chosen by... with original lithographs by John Craxton. London: Frederick Muller, (1944). First edition. 8vo. vi, 122 pp. Publisher’s pictorial cloth, dust jacket replicating the same design. 16 colour plates plus black and white illustrations in the text. Some soiling to the jacket with a little light foxing to the upper panel and slight wear to the spine ends with subtle tissue repair on the verso at the foot, the book in very good condition. £165 131 extracts from Blake to Whitman.
29. GROTIO, Hugone. [GROTIUS, Hugo]. Excerpta Ex Tragoediis et Comoediis Græcis tum quæ Exstant, tum quæ Perierunt: Emendata & Latinis Versibus Reddita ab... Cum Notis & Indice Auctorum ac Rerum. Parisiis [Paris]: Apud Nicolaum Buon, 1626. Small 4to. (xii), 1006, (38) pp. Recent panelled calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label, all edges red, early ownership inscription to title page reads “Bibliothecæ Jodoci à Oudinek”. Very good. £750
30. HARDY, Thomas. Tess of the D’Urbervilles. A Pure Woman. Faithfully Preserved by... London: James R. Osgood, MacIlvane and Co., 1893. 8vo. xii, 520 pp. Publisher’s cream cloth, gilt ruled squares to the spine and upper board with gilt decoration to one panel, black lettering to the spine, small later ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Portrait frontispiece. Slight darkening to the spine, a few minor marks, very good. £75 First published November 1891, the fifth (and first one volume) edition appeared in 1892.
31. HARDY, Thomas. Yuletide in a Younger World. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1927. First American edition, one of 27 copies, 8vo, (6) pp. Printed paper wrappers, an excellent copy. £200 Purdy p.250. Originally published in the Ariel poems series, this edition was published to secure the American copyright, of which only 12 copies were for sale.
32. (HARDY). MURRY, John Middleton. Wrap Me Up in my Aubusson Carpet. New York: Greenberg, 1924. Limited edition, no. 166 of 500 copies, 8vo, 19, (1) pp. Thomas Hardy’s copy, with his library label to the paste down. Original boards, paper label, with skilful repair to the spine ends. £375 A piece originally published in the Adelphi magazine, defending Hardy’s work against George Moore’s attacks in his “Conversations in Ebury Street.” Good friends, Hardy wrote to Murry the same month that the Adelphi piece appeared “Certainly call upon us... when you come this way. As for that ludicrous blackguard G.M. my concern has been for the unfortunate gentlemen his disciples. What a disgrace for them. They must be a timid lot, not to protest, & remind me of performing dogs in a show, obeying their master with fear & trembling lest they shd. get the hot iron behind the scenes.”
INSCRIBED 33. HUGHES, Ted. Gaudete. London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1977). First edition, 8vo, 200 pp. Inscribed from Hughes on the fly leaf “...To John and Annie, a book they can dislike but from Ted with much love...”, slight offsetting from the inscription to the paste down and upper flap of the wrapper. Cloth, d.w., some light marks and soiling. £200
34. (JOHNSON). BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson. London: J.M. Dent, (1909). Two volumes, 12mo. Marbled endpapers, contemporary inscription to front blanks. Bound by Arthur S. Colley in half vellum, green cloth sides, gilt arms of Queen Elizabeth’s Free Grammar School, Southwark, to upper covers, some minor soiling otherwise very good. £95
35. JONES, David. The Sleeping Lord. (London: Faber and Faber, 1974). Limited edition, one of 150 copies signed by Jones, this copy not numbered, 8vo, 111, (1) pp. Frontispiece. Original buckram, a few spots to the top of the lower cover otherwise a handsome copy. £650
36. KEATS, John. The Poetical Works of... Given from his own editions and other authentic sources and collated with many manuscripts. Edited by H. Buxton Forman. London: Reeves and Turner, 1898. Sixth edition, 8vo, xxxii, 597, (1) pp. Portrait frontispiece and 16 plates, owner’s small ink stamp to the top of the paste down. Original gilt decorated buckram, some light marks and rubbing, very good. £75
37. KIPLING, Rudyard. The Day’s Work. London: Macmillan and Co., 1912. 8vo. (vi), 406 pp. Marbled endpapers and sides, prize label of Arnold House School, Blackpool, to paste down. Contemporary tree calf, gilt spine, borders and arms, some minor rubbing, a handsome copy. £60
38. LARKIN, Philip. High Windows. London: Faber and Faber, 1974. First edition. 8vo. 42 pp. Publisher’s pale grey cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped, early ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. The white panels of the jacket slightly tanned, a very good copy. Bloomfield, A10. £65
39. LEES-MILNE, James. [Diaries]. Ancestral Voices. Prophesying Peace. Caves of Ice. Midway on the Waves. A Mingled Measure. Ancient as the Hills. Through Wood and Dale. Deep Romantic Chasm. Holy Dread. Beneath a Waning Moon. Ceaseless Turmoil. The Milk of Paradise. London: [I-III] Chatto & Windus; [IV] Faber & Faber; [V-XII] John Murray, (1975-2005). Twelve volumes. All first editions, first impressions. Publisher’s cloth, dust jackets. Slight fading to two of the jacket spines, an excellent set. £475
40. LEWIS, Wyndham. The Human Age. Book One - Childermass. Book Two - Monstre Gai. Book Three - Malign Fiesta. Illustrations by Michael Ayrton. London: Methuen & Co., 1956, 55. Two volumes, second and first editions respectively, 8vo. Black and white illustrations. Gilt titled publisher’s cloth, d.w.’s also designed by Ayrton, that to volume I with loss to the spine ends, that to volume II price clipped. “Childermass” originally appeared in 1928. £90
INSCRIBED 41. LINDSAY, Vachel. The Congo, and other poems. With an introduction by Harriet Monroe. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First edition, 8vo, xiv, (ii), 159, (3, 5 advertisement, 1) pp. Inscribed from the author on the fly leaf with a rough drawing of a plant and butterfly, the recipient’s signature alongside and with a long quote from a review neatly written out by them to the paste down, publisher’s presentation blind stamp to title. Original decorative mustard cloth, some mild rubbing. £90
INSCRIBED 42. LINDSAY, Vachel. The Chinese Nightingale, and other poems. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1918. 8vo, x, 127, (2, 5 advertisement) pp. Inscribed from the author on the fly leaf, dated 1919, and with a further inscription underneath from four years later, including a poem that carries onto the verso. Original decorative orange cloth, spine slightly browned. £150
43. MACHIAVELLI, Nicolas. The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence. Written Originally in Italian, and from thence Newly and Faithfully Translated into English. London: John Starkey, Charles Harper, and John Amery, 1680. Second edition thus. Folio. Recent panelled calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered dark red label, all edges marbled, an old ownership inscription (possibly 19th century) to the head of the title page, another later inscription dated 1963 just beneath. A little wear to the lower corners of the preliminary leaves, very good overall. £2,500 Wing, M129. Erratically paginated as issued and complete, a full collation is available on request.
44. MAILER, Norman. [Autograph Letters]. 1970-72. A group of five typed letters signed by Mailer, addressed to the journalist Leticia Kent. Folded and preserved in four of the original typed envelopes, each with Mailer’s address either typed or on a sticker to the top lefthand corner. £300 Kent interviewed Mailer for Vogue in 1971 and several of the letters touch on this, Mailer reassuring Kent that “I thought you did a nice and tasty job and if people bugger it about afterward there’s nothing we can do about it so please don’t feel bad”. Elsewhere Mailer talks about his “moonshot book” (Of a Fire on the Moon) - “...it’s the first thing I’ve done in years where I haven’t felt close to the material...” and Nixon’s re-election, presumably referring to Vice President Spiro Agnew when he says “The only trouble is now we have The Clown. Four more years!” The price includes VAT to EU countries, please contact us if you are outside the EU.
45. MASEFIELD, John. Tribute to Ballet, in poems by... and pictures by Edward Seago. London: Collins, (1938). Limited edition, no. 43 of 100 copies signed by both Masefield and Seago, 4to, 72 pp, 12 coloured plates tipped in with captioned tissues plus 4 drawings and 14 black and white illustrations, small label to foot of paste down, original green quarter morocco, t.e.g., white buckram sides, some slight discolouration to the spine else a fine copy in the original slipcase. £360
46. MAUGHAM, William Somerset. Liza of Lambeth. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. First edition, second impression (with “Second Edition” on the title page), 8vo, (vi), 242, (6 advertisement) pp, new endpapers neatly inserted, original light green cloth, gilt title and decoration to upper cover, some marking, else a well preserved copy. Stott A1a. £170
47. MILTON, John. The Poetical Works of... London: William Pickering, 1839. Three volumes. Small 8vo. Contemporary tan full calf, spines flat with gilt tooling and gilt lettered black shield shaped labels, all edges marbled. Portrait frontispiece in volume I. Some marking and wear to the covers, else a decent set. £65 Keynes p. 79 - “an uncommon and attractive edition” first published in 1826. See inside lower cover.
48. MILTON, [John]. The Paradise Lost of Milton. With Illustrations by John Martin. London: Printed for Henry Washbourne, 1850. Large 8vo, (viii), 373, (3) pp, bound without the half title. 24 fine mezzotint plates with tissue guards, light foxing to the frontispiece and endpapers. Contemporary maroon half morocco, t.e.g., recent subtle repairs to the upper joint. £500 Arguably the finest illustrations ever made for Milton’s poem. First published thus 1827.
LUCIAN FREUD 49. MOORE, Nicholas. The Glass Tower. Drawings by Lucian Freud. (London: Editions Poetry, (1944). First edition, 8vo, 127, (1) pp. 16 illustrations - 4 in colour. Cloth backed boards, d.w. not price clipped, with some mild soiling, spine slightly browned. See also no. 65. £250
INSCRIBED 50. PENROSE, Roland. The Road is Wider Than Long. An Image Diary from the Balkans July-August 1938. (Arts Council of Great Britain, (1980). One of 3,000 copies, 8vo, (56) pp. Black and white photographic illustrations. Colourfully inscribed and decorated by the author to the artists David Thomas and Margaret Traherne on the half title. Original stiff printed wrappers, some very faint rubbing to extremities otherwise an excellent copy. See insert page one. £300 “Series of Surrealist Poetry edited by E.L.T. Mesens, No. 1.” Originally published in 1939.
51. PEPYS, Samuel. The Diary of... A new and complete transcription edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews. London: G. Bell and Sons [or] Bell & Hymen, 1970-86. Eleven volumes. Mixed impressions. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, gilt to the spines and upper boards, top edges green but mostly faded, dust jackets. Frontispieces to all but the final volume, plus 47 plates, 20 maps and an extending panorama. Occasional slight creasing to the lamination of the jackets, a very good set. £150
52. PLATH, Sylvia. Ariel. London: Faber and Faber, (1965). First edition, 8vo, 86 pp. Light marking to the lower margin of the final three leaves. Recent red half calf, marbled sides, an excellent copy. £250
53. PROUST, Marcel. Remembrance of Things Past. Swann’s Way. Within a Budding Grove. The Guermantes Way. Cities of the Plain. The Captive. The Sweet Cheat Gone. Time Regained. Translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff. London: Chatto & Windus, 1972-76. Twelve volumes, 8vo. Cloth, d.w.’s, a couple price clipped, 5 spines slightly sunned otherwise a lovely set. £120
54. RADCLIFFE, Anne. Gaston de Blondeville, or the Court of Henry III. Keeping Festival in Ardenne, A Romance. St. Alban’s Abbey, A Metrical Tale; with Some Poetical Pieces... To Which is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author, with Extracts From Her Journals. London: Henry Colburn, 1826. First edition. Four volumes. 12mo. Bound without the half titles called for in volumes three and four only. Near contemporary brown half calf, marbled boards, black labels, old ownership inscriptions to the free endpapers, further inscriptions to upper edge of title pages to the third and fourth volumes partially shaved. Two of the volumes with old notes to rear endpapers. Light wear to extremities of the bindings, a very good set. £600 First written in 1802, this the first edition was published posthumously, Radcliffe having died in 1823. As well as being hugely influential as a female writer, her work also helped define the genre of the Gothic novel. The work is prefixed with a memoir of the author’s life and appended by the long poetical work St. Alban’s Abbey, the latter two-thirds of volume four comprises her “Miscellaneous Poems”. Wolff, 5680.
INSCRIBED WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER 55. RANSOM, John Crowe. Chills and Fever. Poems by... New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. First edition, 8vo, 95, (1) pp. Inscribed on the fly leaf from the author to his fellow poet David Posner with two lines of verse underneath and Posner’s signature in pencil above. Loosely inserted is a two page autograph letter from Ransom to Julian Symons concerning the latter’s article on Restoration comedy which was to appear in The Kenyon Review (which Ransom edited) in 1945. Cloth backed patterned boards, d.w. with loss to edges. £120
INSCRIBED 56. RANSOM, John Crowe. Two Gentlemen in Bonds. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. First edition, 8vo, (x), 87, (3) pp. Inscribed from the author on the fly leaf to his fellow poet David Posner “In Affection and Esteem...”, dated 1945. Original cloth backed patterned boards, corners bumped, a little loss to the paper spine label. £100
57. ROSSETTI, Christina. The Letters of... Edited by Anthony H. Harrison. 1843-1873. 1874-1881. 1882-1886. 1887-1894. Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, (1997-2004). Four volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces. Cloth, d.w.’s, a fine set. £120
58. SACKVILLE-WEST, V. The Garden. London 1946. Limited edition, no. 415 of 750 copies, signed by the author. 8vo. 135, (1) pp. Publisher’s tan buckram. Slight fading to the upper edges of the boards, an attractive copy. £200
59. [SAINT DOMINIC’S PRESS]. Saint George and the Dragon, and other Stories. (Printed and Published by Douglas Pepler, Hampshire House, Hammersmith, and Ditchling, Sussex, 1916). Large 8vo, 24 pp. 14 woodcuts, one page printed in green. Original printed wrappers, spine torn with a repair to the inside, edges bumped with some minor marks. £150 The cuts include 11 “wood-blocks purchased at a curiosity shop for 2d. each”, plus Gill’s Press device to the lower cover and one by Pepler’s son David (aged 10½). The publisher’s note tipped inside the upper cover features a further woodcut by Ronald Seal (aged 11½). As well as St. George, two stories by Pepler’s sons are featured. Taylor & Sewell A2. No limitation noted, but as only the second book printed by Pepler it must be decidedly scarce.
60. (SAINT DOMINIC’S PRESS). The Way of the Cross. Being devotions on the progress of Our Lord Jesus Christ from the Judgment Hall to Calvary as traditionally venerated by the Catholic Church. Ditchling: Douglas Pepler, 1917. First edition, 8vo, (22) pp. 14 wood engravings illustrating the Stations of the Cross, plus 3 more, all by Eric Gill. Original black wrappers with a further device by Gill to the upper cover, spine recently restored. £350 “Printed from engravings on wood after the designs for The Stations of The Cross now being set up in Westminster Cathedral” (colophon). Taylor & Sewell A23.
61. (SAINT DOMINIC'S PRESS). THOMPSON, Francis. The Mistress of Vision. Together with a Commentary by the Rev. John O’Connor and with a Preface by Father Vincent McNabb. Ditchling: Douglas Pepler, 1918. Limited edition, one of 400 copies, small 4to, (iv), 23, (2, 2 advertisement, 1) pp. Three wood engravings by Eric Gill. Original printed black wrappers, slight wear to spine ends. Taylor & Sewell A29. Evan Gill 366. £100
62. (SAINT DOMINIC’S PRESS). Diary with Dominican Calendar, and XII Wood- Engravings. Ditchling: S. Dominic’s Press, 1928. First edition, 8vo, (vi), 26 pp. Two engravings by David Jones and 13 by Mary Dudley Short. Uncut in recent linen backed boards. Taylor & Sewell A160. £135
63. (SAINT DOMINIC’S PRESS). TAYLOR, Michael & SEWELL, Brocard. Saint Dominic’s Press. A Bibliography, 1916-1937. Compiled by... With a memoir by Susan Falkner, an introduction by Brocard Sewell, a preface by Michael Taylor, and an appendix by Adrian Cunningham. (Lower Marston): The Whittington Press, (1995). Limited edition, no. 60 of 400 copies, 4to, (viii), 180, (2) pp. Illustrations including facsimile pages tipped in and a couple of photographic portraits, single sheet Whittington Press publication announcement loosely inserted. Cloth backed boards, slipcase, fine. £225
64. SALINGER, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. London: Hamish Hamilton (1951). First UK edition, 8vo, 252 pp. Signature to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w. slightly clumsily price clipped, staining from an old repair to a tear to the top corner of the upper wrapper, light wear to spine ends. See inside upper cover. £650
LUCIAN FREUD 65. SANSOM, William. The Equilibriad. With illustrations by Lucian Freud. London: The Hogarth Press, 1948. Limited edition, no. 27 of 750 copies, signed by the author, 8vo, 45, (1) pp. 5 plates. Original buckram backed marbled boards, the faintest of rubbing to extremities, an excellent copy. See also no. 49. £600
SIGNED 66. SETH, Vikram. A Suitable Boy. London: Phoenix House, 1993. First edition. 8vo. (xvi), 1349, (11) pp. Published red cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped, signed by Seth to the title page. An excellent copy. £60
67. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Plays of... Edited by Howard Staunton. The illustrations by John Gilbert. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. London: George Routledge, 1858. Three volumes, large 8vo. Numerous engravings in the text, marbled endpapers and edges, later bookplate to paste downs. Contemporary red half morocco, gilt spines, some very mild rubbing otherwise a handsome set. £300
68. SHAKESPEARE, [William]. Comedies. Tragedies. Histories and Poems. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hampton, Kent & Co. Ltd., [1920s]. India paper edition, hree volumes. Publisher’s quarter vellum, marbled boards, gilt lettering and Art Deco tooling to the spines ornamented with red flower decoration (albeit slightly worn away, especially to the Tragedies), top edges gilt. Frontispieces. Slight darkening and rubbing to the spines, a little wear to the upper joint of volume III, else a decent set. £70
69. SHAKESPEARE, William. Comedies. Histories. Tragedies. Poems. London: The Nonesuch Press 1953. Four volumes, 8vo. Wood engraved title to each play by Reynolds Stone. Original two toned cloth - spines brown, sides marbled, a fine set. £60
70. SPARK, Muriel. Not to Disturb. London: Observer Books, 1971. Limited edition, no. 111 of 500 copies, signed by both author and illustrator, small 4to, 159, (1) pp. Frontispiece by Michael Ayrton. Original buckram backed boards, t.e.g., still with the original tissue wrapper, a fine copy. £90
71. SPENSER, Edmund. The Poetical Works of... Edited with Critical Notes by J. C. Smith and E. de Selincourt with an Introduction by E. de Selincourt and a Glossary. London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1912. 8vo. (ii), lxvii, (iii), 736 pp. Contemporary burgundy full calf for the Times Book Club, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered blue label, the other compartments richly gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, early gift inscription on tipped in headed paper. Frontispiece portrait. Very good. £70 An attractive edition with the individual title pages of the original 16th century editions reproduced throughout and also the headpiece vignettes to each of the months in “The Shepheardes Calendar”.
72. STEIN, Gertrude. Three Lives. Stories of the Good Anna, Melanctha and the Gentle Lena. New York: The Grafton Press 1909. First edition, 8vo, 279, (1) pp. Pencil signature of M.D[?]. Stein on fly leaf. Original blue ribbed cloth, light damp-staining on lower portion of upper cover, ends of spine bumped. The author’s first published work. £315
73. (SWIFT). BOYLE, John, Earl of Orrery. Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin; In a Series of Letters from... To his Son, the Honourable Hamilton Boyle. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1752. Second edition, 8vo, (ii), 214, (8 Index) pp. Portrait frontispiece. Contemporary calf, edges rubbed, rebacked in a lighter calf with a red label. £110
74. TANNER, Robin. The More Angels I Shall Paint. A selection from the sketchbooks, writings and commonplace books of... Llandogo: The Old Stile Press, (1991). Limited edition, no. 93 of 275 copies, 8vo, 67, (3) pp. Double page drawing to title and 28 further pages of drawings, wood engraving to the colophon. Original quarter morocco, patterned paper sides, spine slightly sunned, pictorial slipcase, a near fine copy. £150
75. TANNER, Robin. Robin Tanner & The Old Stile Press. Being printed examples of twenty original patterned paper designs, with a personal memoir by Nicolas McDowell. Llandogo: The Old Stile Press, (1994). Limited edition, no. 91 of 195 copies signed by McDowell, tall 4to, (38) leaves. 20 plates tipped in, with a folded single sheet loosely inserted containing four printed pages concerning the papers and their possible commercial availability. Original cloth backed decorative boards, slipcase, a fine copy. £100
76. THOMAS, R.S. Poetry for Supper. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958. First edition, 8vo, 48 pp. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, mild sunning of spine otherwise an excellent copy. £60
77. THOMAS, R.S. Tares. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961. First edition, 8vo, 48 pp. Original boards, d.w., not price clipped, a fine copy. £75
78. THOMAS, R.S. Poet’s Meeting. Stratford-upon-Avon: The Celandine Press (1983). Limited edition, no. 73 of 85 signed copies from a total edition of 125, 8vo, (16) pp. Loosely inserted is a poem (“Sea Christmas”) on a small single sheet, produced as one of a set by the Mandeville Press in 1979, inscribed from the poet “With love to you both, Ronald.” Marbled wrappers, a fine copy. £250
79. TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship of the Ring. The Two Towers. The Return of the King. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1954-55. First edition, second impression, three volumes, 8vo. Folding red and black maps at the end of each volume plus a full page map near the beginning of “The Fellowship of the Ring”, “The Two Towers” with a contemporary bookplate with a manuscript inscription “from The Members of the Westbury Park Social Club”, “The Return of the King” with a neat inscription to the fly leaf dated Christmas 1956. Cloth, d.w.’s, not price clipped and with “second impression” printed either to the top of the upper flap or the spine, spines with some sunning and light wear to the ends, some other small tears and minor loss to extremities but overall a very well preserved set. Hammond pp. 97/8. See inside upper cover. £4,000
80. VERLAINE, Paul. Femmes / Hombres. With... etchings by Michael Ayrton. London: Douglas Cleverdon for the Arcadia Press, (1972). Limited edition, no. 45 of 85 copies signed by Ayrton from a total edition of 100 copies, oblong folio, xii, 69, (3) pp. 15 illustrations. Original gilt titled green quarter morocco, t.e.g., cloth slipcase with some light marks, otherwise fine. £750
81. WELCH, Denton. Brave and Cruel, and other Stories. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1948. First edition. 8vo. 248 pp. Publisher’s red cloth, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket designed by the author, not price clipped. Loss to the head of the jacket spine, a few small old repairs on the verso, a few small spots to the lower panel, else very good. £80
82. WHISTLER, Rex. The New Forget-Me-Not. A Calendar. Decorated by... London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1929. Limited edition, no. 284 of 360 copies, signed by Whistler, 8vo, (xii), 143, (5) pp. Four coloured plates plus black and white illustrations in the text. Original blue half vellum, rather faded, patterned paper sides, very good. £180 With a host of contributors including Max Beerbohm, Clive Bell, Hilaire Belloc, Edmund Blunden, Harold Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West, Siegfried Sassoon and Hugh Walpole. See inside lower cover.
83. WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie. New York: Random House, 1945. First edition. 8vo. xii, 124 pp. Publisher’s red-brown cloth, gilt lettered to the spine with a black label, dust jacket, not price clipped, early ownership inscription of a “John Y Carver, Yale University, August ‘45” to the front free endpaper. 4 black and white photographic plates. Wear with loss to the upper edge of the jacket plus another shallow chip to the fore edge of the upper panel, otherwise very good. £150 The plates feature scenes from the first production of the play at the Playhouse Theatre, New York in March 1945.
84. WOOLF, Virginia. Jacob’s Room. London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press,` 1922. First edition, 8vo, 290, 14 advertisement pp. Marbled endpapers. Recent green full morocco, t.e.g., a lovely copy. Kirkpatrick A6a - 1,200 copies printed. See inside lower cover. £950
85. WOOLF, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1927. First edition. 8vo. 319, (1) pp. Publisher’s blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine. Fading to the spine with some rubbing to the ends and the corners, occasional foxing, otherwise very good. Kirkpatrick, A10a. £675
86. WOOLF, Virginia. Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown. London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1928. Second impression. 8vo. 24 pp. Original paper covers with an illustration by Vanessa Bell. Slight toning to the covers, some foxing at intervals, mostly marginal, otherwise very good. Hogarth Essays series, first published 1924. Cf. Kirkpatrick, A7a; Woolmer, 54. £80
87. WOOLF, Virginia. The Years. London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1937. First edition, 8vo, (iv), 469, (1) pp. Two signatures, one contemporary, to the fly leaf, light marginal browning throughout. Original gilt titled green cloth, some light browning and rubbing. Kirkpatrick A22a. £60
88. WOOLF, Virginia. Granite and Rainbow. Essays by... London: The Hogarth Press, 1958. First edition, 8vo, 239, (1) pp. Mild marginal browning throughout, signature to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w. designed by Vanessa Bell, not price clipped, small tear to the outer corner of the upper wrapper, some minor loss to extremities. Kirkpatrick A34a. £120
89. WORDSWORTH, William. The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind; an Autobiographical Poem. London: Edward Moxon, 1850. First edition, 8vo, 7 advertisement, (1), x, (ii), 374, (1 advertisement, 1) pp. Light foxing at the beginning and end. Original blind stamped brown cloth, neatly rebacked, gilt spine title. £180
90. YEATS, W.B. Poems. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912. Sixth English edition, revised, 8vo, (xvi), 322, (2) pp. Portrait frontispiece, publisher’s slip tipped in to the front endpapers, bookseller’s small label to the top of the paste down. Original gilt decorated cloth, designed by Althea Gyles, slight wear to the spine ends. £60 With a new preface by Yeats added to this edition noting revisions to “The Countess Cathleen”, “The Land of Heart’s Desire” and “The Wanderings of Usheen”. Wade 99.
CHILDREN'S AND ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
91. BARKER, Cicely Mary. Flower Fairies of the Spring. ...of the Summer. ...of the Autumn. A Flower Fairy Alphabet. Fairies of the Trees. Flower Fairies of the Wayside. London & Glasgow: Blackie and Son Limited, [1940s]. Six volumes, small 8vo. Numerous coloured plates in each volume. Original pictorial boards, d.w.’s with some slight loss to spine ends and light marking, overall a very good set. A pleasant collection of some of Barker’s works in unusually good condition. £180
92. CARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking- Glass, and What Alice Found There. With... illustrations by John Tenniel. London: Macmillan and Co., 1889. “People’s edition”, 20th and 13 thousands, 8vo, (xii), 173, (1, xii), 208, (1, 3 advertisement) pp. Black and white illustrations, original green cloth covers bound in at the end, some foxing, marbled endpapers. Attractively bound in slightly later red morocco, t.e.g., covers with a striking abstract pattern of gilt and blind rules, spine darkened with some repair to joints and the foot of the spine. £650
93. (CARROLL, Lewis). The Lewis Carroll Picture Book. A selection from the unpublished writings and drawings of Lewis Carroll, together with reprints from scarce and unacknowledged work. Edited by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. First edition, 8vo, xvi, 375, (1) pp. Portrait frontispiece and 23 illustrations, including 11 further photographic portraits, a few light spots. Original gilt decorated red cloth, t.e.g., mild rubbing to spine ends otherwise a lovely copy. £60 “...an indispensable companion of the Life and Letters.” Williams, Madan & Green 287.
94. (CARROLL). BOWMAN, Isa. The Story of Lewis Carroll. Told for young people by the real Alice in Wonderland... with a diary and numerous facsimile letters written to Miss Isa Bowman and others. Also many sketches and photos by Lewis Carroll and other illustrations. London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1899. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 132 pp. Portrait frontispiece of the author, one further plate plus illustrations in the text and facsimile manuscript, some light foxing, slip concerning the copyright of some of the photographs used loosely inserted. Original gilt titled blue cloth, spine slightly darkened, minor rubbing to extremities, a very good copy. £150 Bowman played Alice in a production in 1888 and became close to Carroll, who dedicated “Sylvie and Bruno” to her. Williams, Madan & Green 503.
95. CRUIKSHANK, George. The Bottle. [with] The Drunkard’s Children. A Sequel to the Bottle. London: David Bogue; New York: Wiley and Putnam & Sydney: J. Sands, [1847], 1848. Two works in one volume. Folio. (8), (8) pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers. 8 plates to each work. Sympathetically rebacked with a close matching paper, a little light edge wear, very good overall. Cohn, 194 & 195. £250
96. DAHL, Roald. Dirty Beasts. London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. First edition, with publisher’s “Proof Copy Only” stamp to the front free endpaper. 4to. (32) pp. Publisher’s glossy brown boards, illustrated to the upper cover. Full page colour illustrations plus black and white illustrations in the text. Very good. £75
97. DAHL, Roald. Matilda. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. London: Jonathan Cape, (1988). First edition, 8vo, 240 pp. Black and white illustrations. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, very light wrinkling to the lamination of the lower wrapper otherwise a fine copy. £225
98. HALE, Kathleen. Orlando the Marmalade Cat Goes to the Moon. London: John Murray, 1968. First edition, large 8vo, 32 pp. Illustrations throughout, half in colour. Original pictorial boards, recently rebacked retaining much of the original backstrip, rubbing to extremities. £150
99. HARRIS, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus and his Legends of the Old Plantation. With illustrations by F. Church and J. Moser. London: David Bogue, 1881. First English edition, 8vo, xviii, 192, 32 advertisement pp. 3 plates plus illustrations in the text, marginal dampstaining to the lower part of each plate, slight loss to the edges of the free endpapers. Original gilt and black decorated cloth, recently recased with repairs to the spine ends, some rubbing. £275
100. JONES, Owen. The Preacher. [London]: Longmans & Co., 1849. First edition. 4to. Publisher’s cloth backed highly ornate heat-stamped wooden boards by Remnant, Edmonds and Remnants, gold cloth covered endpapers, all edges gilt. 18 ff., all but the title page printed on the rectos and versos, with highly accomplished chromolithographs in the style of an illuminated manuscript, every other leaf highlighted in gold. Neatly recased and sensitively repaired to the spine ends, small losses to the wood along the fore edge of both boards though the centre panels themselves are relatively unscathed, damp stain to the extremity of the lower margin, more apparent to the front endpapers and quickly decreasing in severity thereafter. £1,200 A beautifully printed and bound rendering of part of the book of Ecclesiates. Maclean, p. 31, referring to the “heat-stamped” binding - “the only book cover ever known to have been produced by this process”. See also no. 241 and insert page one.
101. KIPLING, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. First edition, 8vo, (vi), 238, (2 advertisement) pp. Some light foxing. Original gilt decorated blue cloth, a.e.g., spine slightly rubbed and dull. Martindell 63. £90
102. LANG, Andrew (Editor). The Green Fairy Book. Illustrations by H.J. Ford. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892. Second edition, 8vo, (xiv), 366, (2) pp. Black and white illustrations, some mild damp staining to the top margin of a few leaves, and to the lower corner of several early leaves, bookseller’s small label to foot of paste down. Original gilt decorated green cloth, slight darkening of spine, a little rubbing to extremities but overall a good sound copy. £225
103. LANG, Andrew (Editor). The Grey Fairy Book. With... illustrations by H.J. Ford. London: Longmans, Green and Co., (1937). 8vo, (xii), 387, (1) pp. Black and white illustrations in the text, contemporary inscription to fly leaf. Original gilt titled grey cloth, blind stamped decoration to upper cover, spine darkened, d.w. soiled with some loss to extremities. £125
104. LANG, Andrew (Editor). The Olive Fairy Book. With... plates and... illustrations by H.J. Ford. London: Longmans, Green and Co., (1939). 8vo, (xvi), 336 pp. 8 coloured plates plus black and white illustrations in the text, contemporary inscription to fly leaf. Original gilt titled green cloth, blind stamped decoration to upper cover, spine and edges sunned, d.w. soiled with some loss to the spine ends. £150
105. LANG, Andrew (Editor). The Pink Fairy Book. With... illustrations by H.J. Ford. London: Longmans, Green and Co., (1936). 8vo, (x), 360 pp. Black and white illustrations in the text, small Foyles label to foot of paste down. Original gilt titled pink cloth, blind stamped decoration to upper cover, spine and edges sunned and slightly soiled, d.w. soiled with some loss. £125
106. MILNE, A.A. The House at Pooh Corner. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co., (1928). First deluxe edition, 8vo, xii, 180 pp. Illustrations throughout and to the endpapers. Original publisher’s limp olive morocco with gilt decoration, a.e.g., spine a little browned with light rubbing to ends otherwise a lovely copy. See inside upper cover. £600
107. MORPURGO, Michael. Twist of Gold. Kingswood: Kaye & Ward, (1983). First edition, 8vo, 226 pp. Signature to paste down. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, spine ends slightly bumped otherwise an excellent copy. £75
108. NICHOLSON, William. An Alphabet. London: William Heinemann, 1898 [but 1897]. First “Popular” edition. 4to. Publisher’s pictorial boards, recently rebacked with a sympathetic light brown paper, new endpapers, advertisement for Nicholson’s “An Almanac of Twelve Sports” tipped in at the title page. Title page plus 26 lithographs after the original woodcuts. Small old tape mark to the foot of the title page at the gutter, some light wear to the edges of the boards, otherwise a very good copy with good dark impressions of the plates. £900 Campbell, 25C. First published in October 1897, though the following year appears on the title page. Campbell notes that this first impression was actually out of print by 1st January, 1898.
109. POTTER, Beatrix. The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1906. First edition, first issue, 16mo. Printed on one side of a single folding sheet, being 28 leaves of text with coloured pictures facing. Some occasional light wear to the top edge without any loss to the pictures, rubbing to the edges of the paper to the inside of the covers. Original cloth with a folding flap, the tab of which is creased and has had some recent restoration, light rubbing to extremities, a little soiled. See insert page one. £300
110. PULLMAN, Philip. Northern Lights. (His Dark Materials). London: Scholastic, 1995. First edition. 8vo. (viii), 398, (2) pp. Publisher’s burgundy cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped (£12.99) and with “Point... 7-9 Pratt Street...” to the rear flap. An excellent copy. See inside upper cover. £525
111. (RACKHAM). AESOP. Aesop’s Fables. A New Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones with an Introduction by G.K. Chesterton and Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, 1919. Fourth impression. 8vo. xxx, 223, (1) pp. Publisher’s dark blue cloth with lighter blue lettering and decoration, illustrated endpapers, early gift inscription. 13 colour plates with captioned tissues and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Light wear to the extremities, else very good. First published thus in 1912. £60
112. (RACKHAM). BARRIE, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens... Drawings by Arthur Rackham. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [c.1910]. 8vo. (xii), 125, (1) pp. Publisher’s green cloth some time rebacked in green morocco, gilt lettered to the spine, gilt vignette to the upper board, gift inscription to the frontispiece tissue dated 1910. Frontispiece and 23 colour plates with captioned tissues. A little light wear to the edges of the boards, else very good. £125
113. (RACKHAM). GRIMM, [Jakob & Wilhelm]. Hansel & Grethel, & other Tales by the Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Constable & Co. (1920). First separate edition, 4to, (xii), 159, (1) pp. 20 coloured plates tipped in plus 28 black and white illustrations in the text, contemporary bookplate to paste down. Original gilt titled blue cloth, gilt to the spine dull otherwise a very good copy. £300 Originally published with Rackam’s illustrations as part of Grimm’s Fairy Tales in 1909.
114. (RACKHAM). HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. A Wonder Book. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1922]. First edition, 4to, viii, 206, (2) pp. 24 illustrations, including 16 tipped in with captioned tissues, later bookplate to fly leaf verso. Original gilt decorated red cloth, spine sunned otherwise an excellent copy. £175
115. (RACKHAM). IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. With Drawings by Arthur Rackham. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1905. First American edition. 4to. xii, 61, (1) pp. Publisher’s gilt lettered and decorated green cloth, top edge gilt. 51 colour plates with captioned tissues. £300 Latimore & Haskell, p. 26. Printed by Ballantyne & Co. in London, evidently using the same sheets as the first British edition published by Heinemann of the same year.
116. (RACKHAM). SHAKESPEARE, William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. By... with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, 1908. First trade edition. Large 8vo. (vi), 134, (2) pp. Publisher’s gilt decorated tan cloth, early gift inscription to the front free endpaper. 40 colour plates tipped in with captioned tissues plus black and white illustrations in the text. Light wear to the extremities, some marking to spine and upper cover, else very good. £300
117. (RACKHAM). SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tempest. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, (1926). Limited edition, no. 289 of 520 copies signed by the illustrator. 4to. x, 185, (1) pp. Recent black quarter morocco over matching cloth sides, gilt lettered to the spine with gilt rules to the sides, top edge gilt. 21 tipped in colour plates. An attractive copy. £1,100 With an additional plate which doesn’t appear in the trade editon.
118. (RACKHAM). STEEL, Flora Annie. English Fairy Tales. Retold by... Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Macmillan & Co., 1918. First edition. 8vo. (x), 341, (3) pp. Publisher’s red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, patterned endpapers with a small old bookseller’s label to the front pastedown. 16 colour plates with captioned tissues plus black and white illustrations in the text. Neatly recased, some fading to the cloth, otherwise very good. £180
119. (RACKHAM). WAGNER, Richard. Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Translated by Margaret Armour. London: William Heinemann, 1911. First trade edition, 4to, viii, 182, (2) pp. 30 coloured plates tipped in with captioned tissues, later bookplate to paste down. Original gilt decorated brown buckram with some marking, spine slightly sunned, some very mild damp staining to the lower edge. £180
120. (RACKHAM). WAGNER, Richard. The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie. [with] Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Translated by Margaret Armour. London: William Heinemann, 1910 and 1911. First editions. Two volumes. 4to. x, 160; viii, 182, (2) pp. Publisher’s brown buckram, gilt lettering and decoration to the spines and upper boards, pictorial endpapers, dust jackets. 34 and 30 tipped in colour plates with captioned tissues respectively. Loss to the head of the spines of both jackets plus a few small neat tissue reinforcements on the versos, some foxing to the first few leaves of “The Rhinegold”, an attractive and well preserved set. £975 Uncommon with dust jackets.
121. (RACKHAM). WALTON, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. Or, the Contemplative Man’s Recreations... Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap, (1931). First edition, 4to, 224 pp. 12 coloured plates with captioned tissues plus black and white illustrations in the text, pictorial endpapers, bookplate designed by Barnett Freedman to fly leaf verso. Original gilt decorated black cloth, d.w. a little soiled with some minor edge wear, spine faded. £150
122. SPENCE, Robert and Philip. Struwwelhitler. A Nazi Story Book by Doktor Schreeklichkeit. London: Haycock Press Ltd., [1941]. 8vo. 24 leaves, 23 featuring colour illustrations. Original colour printed wrappers recently rebacked in red paper to the style of the original spine. Small losses to the corners of the upper cover, else very good. £100 A British Second World War parody of this oft-printed German children’s book. “Presented... to the Daily Sketch War Relief Fund”, the price of 1/6 appears on the upper cover.
123. TILT, Charles (Publisher). My Own Library. CHILD, Isabella. The Little Picture Bible. The Little Picture Testament. MAY, W. The Little Book of British Quadrupeds. The Little Book of British Birds. WILLIAMS, C. The Zoological Gardens, Regent’s Park. The Surrey Zoological Gardens. [with] The Little History of England. Famous Men of Britain. London Sights for Little Folks. Country Walks for Little Folks. The Little Robinson Crusoe. The Little Esop. London: Charles Tilt; [Tilt & Bogue], [c.1840]. Twelve volumes bound in six, 16mo. Each volume with a hand coloured second title plus numerous black and white engravings, bookseller’s small label (”Grant & Griffith, successors to John Harris”) to the paste down in four of the volumes. Original gilt titled publisher’s cloth, rebacked retaining all or most of the original backstrips in all but one case, the final volume containing Robinson Crusoe and Aesop having a plain spine. The set still held in its original morocco covered bookshelf, titled “My Own Library” in gilt above the books, the leather originally maroon but faded to green everywhere except for underneath, gilt decorated maroon label above the books also holding its colour. Some general rubbing and wear to extremities, the top with slight loss to one side and cracked all the way around but still held on soundly. £600 A set of charming miniature children’s books. Originally mostly published individually in the 1830s, these issues containing two works to a volume seem to have been bound up with hand coloured titles once Tilt joined forces with David Bogue in 1840; their joint imprint appearing in the final four works in the present set. Welsh 944, 4890, 4889, 7173, 7172, 4453, 2772, 4699, 2053, 2215 & 62, the first work (“Little Picture Bible”) not noted. Not uncommon individually, sets such as these would have presumably been supplied to order and are very scarce, two others being located in commerce (of seven and twelve volumes respectively), while OCLC notes a set of five works in Toronto Public Library, presumably the five works listed separately in Osborne’s bibliography.
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124. (ALBUM). [Humming Birds and Flowers]. London: Marcus Ward & Co., and Belfast: Royal Ulster Works, c.1875]. 8vo. Publisher’s dark green cloth. A generic blank album enlivened by cut and mounted colour lithographs of 24 humming birds and 30 flowers, mostly captioned. Very good.£300
125. (ALBUM). [Seaweeds]. London: Marcus Ward & Co., and Belfast: Royal Ulster Works, [c. 1875]. 8vo. Publisher’s dark green cloth. A generic blank album enlivened by cut and mounted colour lithographs of 36 seaweed types. Very good. £250
126. BATES, H.W. The Naturalist on the River Amazons. A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel. London: John Murray, 1910. 8vo, x, 394 pp. Black and white illustrations, marbled endpapers and edges, prize inscription to front blank. Bound by Relfe Bros. in contemporary dark green calf, gilt spine and device, spine sunned otherwise very good. See inside lower cover. £95
127. [CHAMBERS, Robert]. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. London: John Churchill, 1853. Tenth edition, but the first with illustrations. 8vo. xii, 325, (1), (ii), lxvii, (i), (30) pp. Publisher’s light brown blindstamped cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, contemporary ownership inscription to title. 107 illustrations in the text. Rebacked preserving most of the original spine which is somewhat darkened, a few marks to the boards, very good in all other regard. £395
128. CONYBEARE, Rev. W.D. & PHILLIPS, William. Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales, with an Introductory Compendium of the General Principles of that Science, and Comparative Views of the Structure of Foreign Countries. Part I [All published]. London: William Phillips, 1822. Sole edition. 8vo. (viii), lxi, (3), 58, (2), 59-470, (2) pp. Recent dark green moiré cloth, gilt lettered red spine label, early ownership inscription of a W. Parry to the head of the title page. Geological frontispiece map of England and Wales plus a long hand coloured plate of strata, another plate of geological apparatus and a table - all folding. Very good. £500 Although the title page states “Part I” no further material was published. Conybeare was “one of the band of pioneers [who] raised the study of rocks and fossils into the science of geology. The chief investigator and describer of the early discoveries of marine fossil reptiles in Britain” (Challinor p. 185).
129. DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: John Murray, 1869. Fifth edition, (tenth thousand). 8vo. (xxiv), 596 pp. Recent dark green full morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels. Folding chart. Light foxing to the half title, very good. £1,450 Freeman, 387. First published 1859, this was the first edition to include Darwin’s borrowing of Herbert Spencer’s phrase “survival of the fittest”, appearing at the head of chapter IV. See inside lower cover.
130. DE LA BECHE, Sir Henry and REEKS, Trenham [also] RUDLER, F.W. Catalogue of Specimens in the Museum of Practical Geology, Illustrative of the Composition and Manufacture of British Pottery and Porcelain, from the Occupation of Britain by the Romans to the Present Time. London: Printed by George R. Eyre and William Spottiswoode... for Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1876. Third edition. 8vo. (iii)-xvi, 336 pp. Contemporary black full morocco, spine with double gilt ruled compartments, gilt lettered direct to one panel, gilt rules to the sides, patterned endpapers, early handwritten book label of a “J. Howitt” to the front pastedown. Frontispiece illustration of a Wedgewood vase plus illustrations in the text throughout, all black and white. £70
131. DIXON, Frederick. The Geology of Sussex; or the Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex... New Edition. Revised and Augmented by T. Rupert Jones. Brighton: William J. Smith, 1878. 4to. xxiv, 469, (1) pp. Contemporary brown buckram, gilt lettered to the spine, occasional marginalia and underlining in pencil with a corresponding pencilled ownership inscription of a Robert Insoll dated 1880, later ink ownership stamp of the geological firm V. C. Illing & Partners 64 lithographic plates - 3 hand coloured and 2 double page, plus one further plate and a geologically coloured folding map along with illustrations in the text. Neatly rebacked preserving the original spine, slight wear to the extremities, generally very good. £475 The best edition of this well-known work (first published 1850), benefiting from the inclusion of plates from Gideon Mantell’s Fossils of the South Downs (1822) which were not included in the previous edition. It remains to this day an invaluable tool for the study of the South Downs. The early ownership inscription is likely to be by Robert Insoll of the Old Orchard, Eastbourne, who was the local agent for the Duke of Devonshire. The Cavendish family owned various lands in and around Eastbourne, Jevington and Pevensey. Vincent Charles Illing studied geology at Cambridge before embarking on a long and distinguished career as an exploratory geologist with a specialism in oil and gas fields, both in academia and later in business. He received numerous awards including the Murchison Medal in 1944 and election to the Royal Society a year later.
132. EINSTEIN, Albert. [Signed Printed Note]. 1954. Printed note - “May I send you my warm thanks for your gracious message of congratulation on the occasion of my birthday. It was most thoughtful of you to remember me”, signed underneath “A. Einstein 54.” Mounted and framed with the original typed envelope showing a Princeton postmark and addressed to the journalist Leticia Kent in New York. £1,500 The price includes VAT to EU countries, please contact us if you are outside the EU.
133. EINSTEIN, Albert. Zur Einheitlichen Feldtheorie. [Offprint from] den Sitzungsberichten der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Phys.-Math Klasse 1929. Berlin: Verlag de Akademie der Wissenschaften,, 1929. First separate edition, 8vo, 8 pp. Original printed orange wrappers, some very mild creasing otherwise an excellent copy. £225
INSCRIBED 134. GEIKIE, Sir Archibald. A Long Life’s Work. An Autobiography. London: Macmillan and Co., 1924. First edition. 8vo. xii, 426, (4) pp. Publisher’s blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, inscribed by the author “To Mrs Behrens with kindest regards from...” on the front free endpaper. 2 photographic portraits of the author. Very good. £100 Geikie’s daughter Jeanne married Harold Behrens in 1916, the recipient presumabl being y a relative.
135. GEIKIE, Sir Archibald. Class-Book of Geology. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1899. 8vo. xx, 404 pp. Contemporary red full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered green label, gilt decoration to the other panels, endpapers and all edges marbled, early ownership inscription to the front flyleaf. Black and white illustrations in the text. Some foxing, a little light rubbing, very good. £75
136. HAWKING, Stephen W. A Brief History of Time. From the Big Bang to Black Holes. London: Bantam Press, 1993. Limited edition, no. 301 of 500 copies. 8vo. x, 198 pp. Publisher’s quarter black morocco over dark blue cloth boards, gilt lettered to the spine and ruled to the sides. Some black and white illustrations and diagrams. A lovely copy. £225 Published to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the first edition. See inside lower cover.
137. HUMPHREYS, H.N. [with] WESTWOOD, J.G. British Butterflies and their Transformations. Arranged and Illustrated in a Series of Plates by... with Characters and Descriptions by... London: William Smith, 1841. First edition. 4to. xii, 138, (2) pp. Contemporary full vellum by Simpson & Renshaw, gilt lettered maroon spine label, gilt ruled latticework to all sides with a fleur-de-lys to the centre of each diamond, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Additional hand coloured title page plus 42 plates. Occasional spotting, mostly to the tissue guards, a beautiful copy. See insert page four. £1,250
138. HUXLEY, Julian. Evolution. The Modern Synthesis. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., (1942). First edition. 8vo. 645, (1) pp. Publisher’s green buckram, gilt lettered to spine, top edge green, inconspicuous old ownership inscription to the front pastedown, dust jacket, not price clipped. Tanning to the jacket spine, a few marks to the upper panel, a very good copy overall. £75
139. LISTER, Arthur. A Monograph of the Mycetozoa. A descriptive catalogue of the species in the herbarium of the British Museum. Second edition, revised by Gulielma Lister. London: Published by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1911. Second edition, 8vo, (viii), 302, (2), 30 advertisement pp. 200 illustrations, two to a plate, with a proportion in colour, contemporary inscription to fly leaf. Original gilt titled cloth, spine slightly sunned and rubbed. £60
140. LOWE, E. J. Beautiful Leaved Plants; Being a descripton of the most beautiful leaved plants in cultivation in this country; To which is added an extended catalogue. Assisted by W. Howard. London: Groombridge and Sons, 1861. First edition, 8vo, (vi), ii, 144 pp. 60 chromolithographed plates, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate. Contemporary full calf, gilt ruled and decorative blind stamped borders, a little marked and scuffed with recent restoration to the top of the spine and the label. £125
141. LYELL, Charles. Principles of Geology: or, the Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants, Considered as Illustrative of Geology. London: John Murray, 1840. Sixth edition. Three volumes. 12mo. Publisher’s beaded purple cloth, original printed paper spine labels, 19th century, contemporary armorial bookplates of a J. Alexander Purson. 5 full page plates, 1 folding plate, 2 single page maps and 4 folding maps, of which one is hand coloured, plus other illustrations set into the text. Neatly recased, fading to the spines, else a very good set. See insert page four. £750 “Lyell probably accomplished more in the advancement of geological knowledge than any other one man” (Mather and Mason p. 263). A landmark work of science first published 1830-33.
142. MAUND, B. The Botanic Garden: Consisting of Highly Finished Representations of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants, cultivated in Great Britain... Vols I-VI. London: Simpkin & Marshall, 1825-36. Six volumes, first editions, square 8vo, with engraved titles, an engraved dedication leaf in volume II, and 144 hand coloured plates (24 per volume), each plate showing 4 plants, some foxing to text leaves only - the plates being clean and crisp, bound in contemporary green half calf, worn, lacking all but 3 of the 12 spine labels and pieces to the foot of 2 spines, upper hinge detached in volume I. £445 In full this publication ran to 13 volumes, until 1851.
143. MORRIS, Rev. F.O. A History of British Butterflies. London: Groombridge and Sons, 1863. Large 8vo, vi, 168, 29, (1) pp. 71 hand coloured plates plus 2 black and white plates of equipment, some occasional light foxing, particularly to the equipment plates, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate. Recent quarter morocco over contemporary marbled boards and leather corners, the latter with light wear otherwise a very good copy. £300
JESUIT EDITION 144. (NEWTON, Isaac). NEWTONO, Isaaco. Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica... Perpetuis Commentariis Illustrata, Communi Studio PP. Thomæ Le Seur & Francisci Jacquier... Glasguæ (Glasgow): Ex Prelo Academico, Typus Andreæ et Joannis M. Duncan... 1822. Four volumes. 8vo. Uncut in later black half sheep over original drab boards, posthumous bookplate of the physicist Edward Neville da Costa Andrade to the front free endpaper of volume I, handwritten notes to the same page indicating the book was purchased from Andrade’s estate by the booksellers Heffers of Cambridge and sold on by them in 1980, early armorial bookplates of a George Prevost to each of the front pastedowns. Diagrams in the text throughout. Some foxing, a very good set overall. £1,500 The third printing of what was termed the “Jesuit Edition” of this landmark work, first published between 1739 and 1742. The first edition thus was a hugely influential reprint of the third edition overall (1726) with additional commentary and notes by the editors and Jean-Louis Calandrini, professor of mathematics and philosophy at the University of Geneva, and treatises on tides by Bernoully, Euler and MacLaurin. The second “Jesuit” edition was published in Geneva in 1760 with some amendments, followed by this third edition with further corrections by the Cambridge mathematician John Wright. Edward Andrade (1887-1971) was one of the pre-eminent physicists of his day. He first studied in Germany before undertaking research on gamma radiation with Ernest Rutherford at Manchester University. After the First World War he became professor of Physics at the Ordnance College at Woolwich. He also held the position of Quain Professor of Physics at University College London for several decades before becoming Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution. See inside lower cover.
145. NIGHTINGALE, Florence. Notes on Nursing: What it is and what it is not. London: Harrison, [1860]. First edition, very early issue. 8vo. 79, (1) pp. Publisher’s black pebbled cloth, rebacked plainly to the style of the original spine, the discreet early bookseller’s label of S. Bailey of Cirencester to the front pastedown. Some wear to the corners, a few minor marks to the covers, else very good. See insert page four. £800 Nightingale’s second published work, an immense success that sold 15,000 copies in a couple of months. “...an incomparable treatise, but... more than that; it is an alphabet of household hygiene... Dealing as it does with the basic principles of nursing it has never dated, and the principles are as valid today as when first formulated.” Bishop & Goldie, pp. 15-18. It is difficult to attribute a precedence of issue due to the complexity of the recent bibliographic study of the work by Skretkowicz. However, this copy is without doubt an earlier issue than most, being without the “Right of Translation” note to the title page and featuring all of the major issue points called for by the earlier bibliographers. The advertisements to the endpapers feature Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage for 1860 on the front pastedown amongst other works and the “Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian” appears as the last item on Harrison’s list to the rear.
146. PHILLIPS, John. Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire; or, a Description of the Strata and Organic Remains... Part I. The Yorkshire Coast. Part II. The Mountain Limestone District. London: John Murray, 1835-36. Two volumes, second and first editions respectively. 4to. xii, 184, (2); xx, 253, (1) pp. Recent green moiré cloth, gilt lettered red spine label. 48 plates, including a hand coloured geological map and 9 sections, of which 7 are hand coloured. Occasional slight foxing, very good. See also no. 160. £600
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147. PONTOPPIDAN, Erich. The Natural History of Norway: Containing, A Particular and Accurate Account of the Temperature of the Air, the Different Soils, Waters, Vegetables, Metals, Minerals, Stones, Beasts, Birds, and Fishes; together with the Dispositions, Customs, and Manner of Living Inhabitants: Interspersed with Physiological Notes from Eminent Writes, and Transactions of Academies. London: A. Linde, 1755. First English edition. Folio. Two parts in one volume. xxiii, (1), 206 pp; vii, (1), 291, (13) pp. Contemporary calf boards, rebacked, early gilt lettered red spine label preserved. Large folding map after Johann Baptist Homann and twenty eight copper engraved plates. Neat old repairs to a closed tear to one plate and the large map, very good overall. £1,850 The author, already a noted writer and antiquarian in the region, was appointed to the position of Bishop of Bergen in 1747, a position he held until 1754 before returning to Copenhagen. The first edition of the first part, in Danish, was published in 1752, the second part a year later. Amongst other works, Pontoppidan subsequently commenced work on Den Danske Atlas, the great atlas and description of the region, completed and published between 1763 and 1781.
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 148. STRAKER, Ernest. Wealden Iron. A Monograph on the Former Ironworks in the Counties of Sussex, Surrey and Kent, Comprising a History of the Industry from the Earliest Times to its Cessation... London: G. Bell and Sons, 1931. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 487, (1) pp. Publisher’s plum buckram, gilt lettered to the spine and with a gilt device to the upper board, early ownership inscription of Evan W.H. Syers to the front pastedown, an autograph letter signed from the author on “Friarsmead” headed paper dated August 1932 to a “Major Syers” loosely inserted. Numerous illustrations, some full page. Spine somewhat faded and with a few minor marks, else very good. £65 A classic work on industrial history. In the letter, Straker accedes to Syer’s request to quote from this work assuming “due acknowledgement”, the latter evidently being in the process of writing his own paper on guns and artillery. He goes on to recommend a work in the Records Office as a further valuable source of information on naval artillery in the early 16th century. Straker’s postscript requests an excerpt of his correspondent’s paper “if & when available”.
149. WALLACE, Alfred Russel. Darwinism, An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection with some of its Applications. London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. Third printing, 8vo, xvi, 494, (2 advertisement) pp. Portrait frontispiece, extending coloured map and 37 text figures, contemporary signature to front blank, frontispiece tissue foxed with offsetting on to the frontispiece and title page. Original gilt titled green cloth, slightly rubbed with a few marks. See insert page four. £120 Wallace’s letter to Darwin from the far east in 1858 led to their collaboration and prompted Darwin to publish “The Origin of Species” a year later. This work updates his theories for a society where evolution “is now universally accepted as the order of nature in the organic world” (Preface).
150. WALLACE, Alfred Russel. The Geographical Distribution of Animals. With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the earth’s surface. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. First edition, two volumes, 8vo, xxi, (iii), 503, (1); viii, (iv), 607, (1) pp. Folding frontispiece map in volume I plus 20 plates and 6 maps, one double page, some mostly light foxing throughout. Original gilt titled cloth, some rubbing to extremities, hinges a little tender but sound, overall a very good set. £1,750
151. [WEBBER, Catherine Mary]. Geology Familiarly Illustrated, by C.W.B. [London: J. B. Goodinge, 1859]. Overall dimensions approximately 13 x 322 cm. Folding handcoloured lithographic illustrated panorama, marbled paper boards sometime neatly rebacked, original printed pictorial title label to the upper cover. Wear along some of the folds with old paper repairs to the verso, otherwise a decent copy. £2,200 A humorous panorama illustrating the comparatively new and topical science of geology, published in the same year as Darwin’s “On the Origin of the Species” and in the midst of the welter of books being published on earth sciences by the likes of Lyell and Murchison. A coloured cross section of geological strata runs along the length of the lower edge of the image throughout captioned “1. Gneiss on Granite”, “2. Cambrian System” and so forth. Above this sits a series of cartoon illustrations featuring witty word play on the captions below. See lower cover.
MAPS
152. (ANGOLA). Benguella Railway. Plan and Profile of Railway from Lobito Bay to Kambove. [N.p.]: [S.n.], (Septr. 1914). Irregularly shaped railway map and therefore difficult to measure but approximately 28.5 (extending to 55) x 417 cm with additional smaller addition flaps to the edges, dissected into 61 sections and mounted on linen, mostly rectangular panels but with smaller triangular panels to accommodate bends in the railway line, manuscript title to one end of the map, green cloth panels to both folded end sections, gilt lettered to one side which features the name of the engineering firms “Sir Douglas Fox & Partners” and “Sir Charles Metcalfe, Bart. Engineers”, folds into matching gilt lettered cloth slipcase. Some wear to the covers, but sound, the map very good. £475 Running from the Angolan coast to the D.R. Congo town of Kambove, where it joined the Rhodesia- Katanga line, this was a Cape gauge railway built from 1899 onwards. Although Angola was a Portuguese colony these British firms were employed to manage its construction, having built numerous lines in Cape Colony and other British dominions. A map that would have had a limited print run, this is presumably one of the engineers’ own copies. Only one other copy traced, in the British Library.
153. BETTS, John. Betts’ New Map of Ireland Accurately Reduced from the Beautiful Six Sheet Map Engraved Under the Superintendence of the Railway Commissioners. The Matter Compiled From The Latest Parliamentary Returns and Other Valuable Documents. London: John Betts. 115 Strand (nearly opposite Exeter Hall), [c. 1860] Map dimensions 75 x 62.5 cm, overall 77.5 x 64 cm. Attractive original colour in block and outline. Dissected into twenty-four sections and mounted on linen, folds between original brown cloth covers, title in gilt to upper cover and blindstamped to both, plain buff coloured paper to folded end section and to inner cover. The covers slightly faded at extremities, a few minor blemishes to the map, otherwise a very good example. £320 The routes of the railways completed, in progress and proposed indicated on the map and variously coloured.
154. BEVAN, G. Phillips. Royal Relief Atlas of All Parts of the World... With Physical, Political, and Statistical Descriptions... London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1885. Third edition. 4to. (iv) pp. Publisher’s maroon half morocco rebacked preserving much of the original spine, gilt to the spine and upper board. 31 colour maps, 26 embossed in relief to illustrate altitudes; the five political maps of Europe, England, Scotland, Ireland and India not embossed. Some light wear to the extremities, else very good. See insert page four. £450
155. BLANCHARD, E.L. (Editor). Tallis’s Topographical Dictionary of England & Wales. London: L. Tallis [1860]. Two volumes, 8vo, (viii), 812; (ii), 813-1582 pp, with an engraved frontispiece and title in volume I, plus 58 coloured double page maps - “Drawn & Engraved by J. Archer”, contemporary half calf, later marbled sides, spines rubbed with slight loss to the black morocco labels. £200
156. CARY, J. London, Westminster and Southwark, Accurately Delineated from the Latest Surveys, to which is Added a Correct List of Upwards of 350 Hackney Coach Fares... London: J. Wallis and J. Cary, Jany, 1st, 1787. Map dimensions 31 x 55 cm, overall 42 x 56 cm. Folding map of London showing the extents from Islington down to Newington Butts and Stepney Green to the eastern extent of Hyde Park, dissected into 16 sections and mounted on linen. Original pale handcolouring to the parks and the river with the outline of the City in red, with underneath the map a 13 column list of cab fares. Original marbled paper slipcase with an oval printed publisher’s label. Slipcase somewhat worn with loss to label, but sound, the map paper evenly toned, very good. Howgego, No. 173, (6). See insert page two. £600
157. CRUCHLEY, G.F. Cruchley’s New Plan of London Improved to 1827 Including East and West India Docks. London: G.F. Cruchley Mapseller, (from Arrowsmiths) No. 38 Ludgate Street, 1827. Map dimensions 46.5 x 94 cm, overall 51 x 97.5 cm. Folding plan of central London from Pentonville down to Walworth and East India Dock across to Hyde Park, original colour in wash and outline, dissected into twenty-seven sections and mounted on linen, green marbled paper to the folded end sections, matching slipcase with Cruchley’s green printed label to one side. The slipcase quite rubbed but sound, the plan with some marking to the left edge more or less confined to the margin, else very good. £800 Cf. Howgego, No. 304 B. (2). Second edition, the map appearing in numerous editions over three different states between 1826 and 1846. See insert page two.
158. KITCHIN, Thomas. Kitchin's Post-Chaise Companion, through England and Wales; Containing All the Ancient and New Additional Roads... London: Printed for and sold by Carington Bowles, [1770]. Small oblong 4to, (viii) pp, followed by a general map and 103 strip maps on 52 leaves. Title and final map browned, minor marginal tear to the top edge of the final leaf. Modern full morocco, a very good copy. £1,800 Originally published in John Ogilby’s Britannia (1675), the maps reduced and reissued by John Senex in 1719. Further issues appeared in 1742 and 1757, and initially with this title in 1767, minor alterations being made as time went on. Chubb CXLII, giving the date as 1770; other sources claiming 1780. Scarce, with OCLC listing only 3 copies - British Library, Dartmouth College and the Dewberry Library.
159. MOGG, E. Map of the Environs of Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, the Potteries & Preston Exhibiting All the Various Railways in their Vicinity... Engraved for Mogg’s Hand Book for Railway Travellers. London: E. Mogg, May 1st, 1839 Overall dimensions 65.5 x 27.5 cm. Folding map with original outline colour, mounted on linen, original boards, printed label to the upper cover, three page table of stations to the inner cover. Covers rebacked, some general age toning and soiling to the paper, a decent example overall of a fragile item. £300 An uncommon separately published edition of a map that also appeared in Mogg’s Handbook, no other copies traced thus.
160. PHILLIPS, John. A Map of the Principal Features of the Geology of Yorkshire. York: Published for the Author, St. Mary’s Lodge, 1853. Map dimensions 57 x 76 cm, overall dimensions 60 x 78.5 cm. Folding map coloured according to the geology of the county, dissected and mounted on linen, early plain green cloth boards with a later label to one side. Slightly tender along some of the folds with some inconspicuous tissue reinforcements, a decent example overall. £450 John Phillips (1800-1874) was the nephew of the esteemed geological mapmaker William Smith. He was Reader of Geology at Oxford in 1856 and a Wollaston Medal winner in 1845. The map was chromolithographically printed by W. Monkhouse of York for Phillips. See also no. 146 and insert page three.
161. [RAVENSTEIN, E.G.]. The Oarsman's and Angler's Map of the River Thames From its Source To London Bridge. London: James Reynolds & Sons, 1884. Overall dimensions 263 x 16 cm. Long folding map of the Thames and its banks with accompanying notes at intervals, some original colour, mounted on linen, folds between publisher’s blindstamped aubergine cloth, gilt lettered to the upper cover, 3 pp. of printed notes to the inner cover. Slight wear to the spine, else very good. £150
162. ROYAL ENGINEERS. Map of the Island of Malta. Prepared in the Royal Engineers Office, Malta. [London] : Geographical Section, General Staff, [1910]. Overall dimensions 71 x 80 cm. Folding map of the island with an inset showing its size and proximity to Gozo and Comino, with red grid lines numbered and lettered to the edges, dissected into 35 sections and mounted on linen, folds between blue cloth backed black boards with black cloth ties. Ink stain to the foot of the map recurring to a lesser extent to the centre where it has been folded, some light wear to the covers, else a decent copy. £200
163. [SPEED, John & KEERE, Pieter van den]. A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World. Viz. Asia, Africa, Europe, America... London: Printed for Roger Rea, 1668. Third edition, oblong 8vo, (ii), 206 pp. 20 full page maps, including a double hemisphere world map and 4 maps of the continents, the map of America supplied from another issue of this title with narrower margins, marginal browning throughout (excepting the map of America), old closed marginal tear to the title page. 19th century maroon half morocco, recently rebacked retaining the original backstrip. £1,500 First published 1646.
164. STANFORD. Stanford's Map of the Battle Fronts of Western Russia. Murmansk to Batum. London: Edward Stanford, [early 1940s]. Map dimensions 110.5 x 84.5 cm, overall 113.5 x 88.5 cm. Large folding colour printed map of the region extending from Finnmark down to the Aegean and Württemberg across to Stalingrad, copiously annotated with red and dark blue pencilled lines in an old hand principally in the Russian theatre but also across eastern Europe, dissected into thirty sections and mounted on linen, brown cloth panels to the folded end sections with a Sifton Praed label to one side. The paper fairly evenly tanned overall, some pinholes to the corners from previous use, a decent example. £200 OCLC lists several issues between 1941 and 1945.
165. WAR OFFICE. Map of Afghanistan Based on Survey of India Maps. [London] : Geographical Section, General Staff, Oct. 1905. Map dimensions c.57.5 x 81 cm (being slightly irregularly shaped), overall 66 x 86 cm. Folding map of the region between Kerki (Turkmenistan) in the north down to Shikarpur (Pakistan) and from Srinagar (India) across to Birjand (Iran), original outline colour marking out boundaries, railways and other principal routes and other important information, dissected into 28 sections and mounted linen. Original purple cloth covers with Stanford’s printed label to the upper board and their advertisements to the inner cover and the folded end section of the map. Covers faded to the spine, surface loss to the advertisements, the map very good. £250
166. WAR OFFICE. Persia & Afghanistan. [London] : Geographical Section, General Staff, April 1908. Map dimensions 51 x 79.5 cm, overall 61 x 87.5 cm. Folding map showing the extents from Khiva down to the northern reaches of the Arabian Sea and Simla across to Baghdad, full printed colour graded according to the altitude with a key to the right margin, dissected into 28 sections and mounted on linen, folds between original purple cloth covers with Stanford’s printed label to the upper board and their advertisements to the inner cover and the folded end section of the map. Very good. See insert page three. £350
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167. BARBER, [Thomas]. Barber’s Picturesque Illustrations of the Isle of Wight, Comprising Views of every object of interest on the Island. Engraved from Original Drawings. Accompanied by Historical and Topographical Descriptions. London: Simpkin & Marshall, [n.d.]. 8vo, (ii), 110 pp. Engraved title, 40 plates and an extending map, some foxing of plates, marbled endpapers. Contemporary full calf, extremities rubbed, covers with gilt ruled borders and delicately tooled corner pieces, gilt spine with a black morocco label, a.e.g. £70
168. BENSON, Margaret and GOURLAY, Janet. The Temple of Mut in Asher: An Account of the Excavation of the Temple and of the Religious Representations and Objects Found Therein, as Illustrating the History of Egypt and the Main Religious Ideas of the Egyptians. London: John Murray, 1899. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 391, (1) pp. Publisher’s blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, black lettering and decoration to the upper board, early ownership inscription to the front pastedown. 28 plates plus a full page and a folding plan. Fading to the spine and rubbing to the extremities, otherwise a decent copy. £120
169. BRUCE, Major the Hon. C.G. Twenty Years in the Himalaya. London: Edward Arnold, 1910. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 335, (1), 8 pp. Publisher’s dark green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and decorated with a vignette of two soldiers to the upper board, bookplate to the front pastedown. Frontispiece and 60 illustrations over 29 plates plus a folding map at the rear. Evidence of some pressure having been applied to the upper board with rippling to the cloth and slight indentation to the contents, otherwise a decent copy. £450 Neete, *122. In all regards a first edition, but with 8 pages of publisher’s advertisements (as opposed to the usual 20) dated 1911.
170. COBBETT, William. Rural Rides, in the Southern, Western and Eastern Counties of England, together with Tours in Scotland and in the Northern and Midland Counties of England, and Letters from Ireland... edited... by G.D.H. and Margaret Cole... vignettes by John Nash, and a map... by A.E. Taylor, London: Peter Davies, 1930. Limited edition, one of 1,000 sets, this set unnumbered, 3 volumes, large 8vo. 33 vignettes plus 3 repeated to the title pages, map endpapers, owner’s blind stamp to front blanks. Original cloth backed marbled boards, corners with light wear, some mild rubbing. £120
171. CONWAY, Sir William Martin. The Alps From End to End. With... Illustrations by A.D. M’Cormack. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., 1895. First edition. 8vo. xii, 403, (1) pp. Publisher’s brown cloth backed green cloth boards, gilt lettered to the spine an upper cover, top edge gilt. 100 plates. Fading to the fore edges of the boards, some rubbing to the extremities, occasional light spotting, a decent copy overall. £60
172. COUFOPOULOS, Demetrius. A Guide to Constantinople. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1902. Third edition. Small 8vo. (viii), 199, (1) pp. Publisher’s blindstamped green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board. 5 plates, folding plan of Pera and Galata at the front of the book, a folding map of the Bosphurus and a larger general plan of the city in a pocket to the rear. Some foxing to the front of the volume, very good overall. £60
173. DOUGHTY, Charles M. Travels in Arabia Deserta. With an Introduction by T.E. Lawrence. New and definitive edition. London: Jonathan Cape, 1943. Second impression thus. Two volumes. Large 8vo. 674; 696 pp. 20th century brown full morocco, gilt lettered to the spines, marbled endpapers, prior owner’s discreet book label to the front pastedowns. Portrait frontispiece, 8 plates and 2 folding maps. An attractive set. £275 “[I] have grown to consider it... a bible of its kind... The book has no date and can never grow old. It is the first and indispensable work upon the Arabs of the desert...” (from Lawrence’s Introduction). “New and definitive edition”, first published in this format in 1936 to match Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom. First published 1888, and with Lawrence’s introduction 1921.
174. FORBES, James D. Travels Through the Alps of Savoy and Other Parts of the Pennine Chain. With Observations on the Phenomena of Glaciers. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1843. First edition. Large 8vo. x, 424, (4) pp. Recent plain cloth, gilt lettered to the spine. 9 lithographic plates, 9 “topographic sketch” maps over another 9 plates plus a full page map to the front of the book and a striking large folding map of the “Mer de Glace of Chamouni” to the rear. Small worm track to the last 6 pages of the preliminaries and the first 18 pages of the main text, small marginal repairs to the large map, otherwise very good. £700 Forbes was John Tyndall’s chief rival concerning the various theories of glaciers and was also the first Briton to climb the Jungfrau. “[Forbes’] books are the first English accounts of systematic Alpine exploration and description of various regions”. Neate, 274.
175. GERNING, Baron J.J. von. A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine, from Mentz to Cologne... [bound with] SAUVAN, M. Picturesque Tour of the Seine, from Paris to the Sea... London: R. Ackermann, 1820, 1821. First editions. Two volumes bound in one. 4to. xvi, 178; viii, 177, (1) pp. Contemporary tan full calf, olive gilt lettered labels expertly renewed, gilt device repeated to the other compartments, gilt and blindstamped borders to the boards, endpapers and all edges marbled. Each work with 24 finely hand coloured plates, first work with a folding map with outline colour, the second with a full page map plus two vignettes with full hand colouring, dated watermarks to the plates and some text leaves preceding the years of publication. A lovely copy of these two fine works. Abbey, Travel, 90 & 217. See upper cover. £6,750
176. GLUBB, Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot. The Story of the Arab Legion. (Tiptree: The Anchor Press, 1980). Limited edition, no. 61 of 100 copies signed by the author, 8vo, 371, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 53 photographic illustrations, map endpapers. Gilt titled calf, a.e.g., spine slightly dull, slipcase, a near fine copy. £100
177. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Green Hills of Africa. Decorations by Edward Shenton. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935. First edition. 8vo. (viii), 294, (2) pp. Publisher’s green cloth, early bookplate to the front pastedown. Black and white illustrations in the text. The spine tanned with some light fading to the boards, else a decent copy. £175 Hemingway’s second published work of non-fiction, a description of a month spent on safari in what is now Tanzania. With the letter “A” on the copyright page.
178. HOGARTH, David G. A Wandering Scholar in the Levant. London: John Murray, 1896. First edition. 8vo. (xii), 206, 4 pp. Publisher’s green ribbed cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board, the latter with simple black decoration, old small paper ticket to the upper board. Frontispiece and 12 photographic plates. A lovely copy in excellent condition. £200
179. KRAPF, Rev. Dr. J. Lewis. Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labours, During an eighteen years’ residence in Eastern Africa. Together with journeys to Jagga, Usambara, Ukambani, Shoa, Abessinia, and Khartum; and a coasting voyage from Mombaz to Cape Delgado. London: Trübner and Co., 1860. First edition, 8vo, li, (iii), 554 pp. Portrait frontispiece, 12 tinted lithographic plates and 2 folding maps, closed tear to the inner margin of the map at the end, front and rear blanks foxed. Recent half calf, marbled sides, a handsome copy. £850
180. NASH, Frederick. Picturesque Views of the City of Paris and its Environs; Consisting of views on the Seine, public buildings, characteristic scenery &c. With appropriate descriptions. The original drawings by... The literary department by John Scott. Translated into French by M.P.B. de la Boissière. London: Printed for Longmans, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. First edition, 4to, (viii, 216) pp. 67 views on 57 engraved plates, some occasional light marginal foxing, slightly later inscription to front blank, recent one to the fly leaf. Modern quarter morocco, marbled sides, light damp stain to the foot of the spine, otherwise a very good copy. £725
ROYAL PRESENTATION COPY 181. PHILBY, H. St. J.B. Sheba’s Daughters. Being a Record of Travel in Southern Arabia. With an Appendix on the Rock Inscriptions by A.F.L. Beeston. London: Methuen & Co., 1939. First edition. Large 8vo. (xx), 485 pp. Publisher’s pale green cloth, gilt lettered and decorated to spine, presentation inscription from Philby on the front free endpaper “Presented to Her Royal Highness Princess Alice of Athlone with the author’s homage and best wishes... May 15th, 1939”. Frontispiece and 61 black and white illustrations, many two to a page, plus a folding map at the end. Some fading to the cloth, subtle repair to the head of the spine, very good. £1,100 The author’s record of his travels in Southern Arabia. Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (1883-1981) was the longest surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria. Originally ennobled Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duchess of Saxony, she became Princess Alexander of Teck on her marriage in 1904. She relinquished the German titles during 1917, her and her husband subsequently taking the title of Athlone. Alice’s husband, Alexander, served in the army during the First World War and was subsequently appointed Governor-General in South Africa and latterly in Canada.
WILFRED THESIGER’S COPY 182. PHILBY, H. St. J.B. The Background of Islam. Alexandria: Whitehead Morris, 1947. Limited edition, no. 82 of 500 copies, signed by the author. 8vo. 152 pp. Publisher’s green cloth backed boards, Wilfred Thesiger’s copy with his distinctive pictorial bookplate to the front pastedown. An attractive copy. £1,350 Thesiger spent five years exploring the Empty Quarter, from 1945-50. He was the third European to undertake a crossing of the desert after Bertram Thomas narrowly pipped Harry St. John Philby in 1930 and he was the first to cross it twice. Thesiger mentions Philby several times in the published account of his travels in the region, “Arabian Sands” (1959), referring to him by his adopted Muslim name “Abdullah Philby” and describing him as “an old friend”. In one notable episode Thesiger recounts his imprisonment in the town of Sulaiyil by the local emir on the orders of King Ibn Saud. Fortunately Philby, being a converted Muslim and a friend of Ibn Saud, was able to intercede on his behalf and secured his release and safe onward passage to Abu Dhabi. Further underlining the mutual esteem with which they held each other, Philby contributed a tribute to his friend on the jacket of “Arabian Sands”, writing of him and his expolits: “The crowning touches have placed on this exploratory activity in Arabia by Wilfred Thesiger who is probably the greatest of all the explorers...”. A lovely association.
183. PHILBY, H. St.J.B. Arabia of the Wahhabis. London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1928. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 422, (2) pp. Publisher’s dark sand cloth, black lettered to the spine, dust jacket, the price neatly blacked out on the front flap, previous owner’s name also blacked out on the front free endpaper and the head of the title page. Frontispiece, 28 plates, a large folding map of Central Arabia and a full page plan of Buraida (Buraydah) plus numerous diagrams in the text. Losses to the head of the jacket spine, less so to the foot and the corners, else very good. £675 Scarce with dust jacket, the book in a variant binding (sometimes green cloth with gilt lettering).
184. POCOCKE, Dr. Richard. A Compendium of the Travels of Dr. Richard Pococke, Lord Bishop of Ossory. [including] (The Travels of) Alex. Drummond, Esq; His Majesty’s Consul at Aleppo. and (A Description of Aleppo, and the Adjacent Country by) Alexander Russell. London: R. Dampier, J. Panton, T. Davison [et al], [1750s]. 12mo. (ii), vi, 289, (1) pp. Recent speckled calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered black label. Very good. £750 A curiously scarce compendium of abridged versions of these three important 18th century accounts of travel in the Levant. Just one copy of this undated London edition shows on OCLC (University of Florida) and another of an identically paginated Dublin edition, dated 1757 (Columbia University). See inside lower cover.
185. SEIDENFADEN, Major Erik. Guide to Bangkok with Notes on Siam. [Bangkok]: The Royal State Railways of Siam, 1928. Second edition. Small 8vo. (v), iii, 324, xxxii pp. Publisher’s gilt lettered and decorated green cloth, pictorial endpapers, contemporary inscription from the “Siamese Consulate General to W.C. Rice” on the half title. Three colour plates a small folding map of the region and an attractive large folding plan of the Bangkok plus numerous illustrations in the text. Spine slightly sunned, else very good. £100
186. THESIGER, Wilfred. Arabian Sands. (London): Longmans, (1959). First edition, 8vo, xvi, 326 pp. Frontispiece and 68 photographic illustrations, 8 maps plus a folding map in a pocket at the end, faint contemporary date stamp to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, some mild rubbing to edges and a little soiling, the red of the title faded to the spine, overall very good. £75 The Author spent 5 years exploring the Empty Quarter, from 1945-50, and was the first to twice cross the desert. “The crowning touches have placed on this exploratory activity in Arabia by Wilfred Thesiger who is probably the greatest of all the explorers...” (St. John Philby).
187. THESIGER, Wilfred. The Marsh Arabs. (London): Longmans, (1964). First edition. 8vo. (xvi), 242 pp. Publisher’s green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped, small early bookseller’s stamp to the foot of the front free endpaper. Frontispiece and 109 photographic illustrations. A little wear to the spine ends and corners of the jacket, else very good. £65 A classic work on the now displaced peoples of the marshes of Iraq, where the Tigris and Euphrates meet.
188. THORBECKE, Ellen. People in China. London, Bombay, Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1935. First edition. 4to. 141, (3) pp. Publisher’s cloth backed pictorial boards, dust jacket, neat presentation inscription to fly leaf. 32 photographic illustrations. Small losses to the spine ends and corners of the jacket plus a large section to the foot of the upper panel, “30” written in ink towards the head of the same, some neat tissue repairs on the verso. £250 Ellen Thorbecke, née Kolban (1902-73), was a German reporter and photographer. Her Dutch husband was made ambassador to China in 1931, a position he held for four years. During their stay Thorbecke produced two books, “Peking Studies” published in Shanghai by Kelly and Walsh in 1934 and, a year later, this book. She published several other works on China in the succeeding decades.
189. WORKMAN, Fanny Bullock & William Hunter. In the Ice World of the Himalaya... Among the Peaks and Passes of Ladakh, Nubra, Suru, and Baltistan. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1900. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 204, (4) pp. Recent green half morocco, top edge gilt. Frontispiece and 66 plates, including two photogravure portraits of the authors, plus 3 folding maps. Very good. Neate, *926. See inside lower cover. £400
190. WRIGHT, Arnold. Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon: Its History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources. Edited by... London, Durban, Columbo, Perth (W.A.), Singapore, Hong Kong: Llloyd’s Greater Britain Publishing Company Ltd., 1907. First edition. 4to. 916 pp. Publisher’s dark brown full morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and decorated to the others, circular gilt vignette to the upper board, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Black and white map to the front of the volume, profusely illustrated with black and white photographs thereafter. Neat repairs to the joints, very good. See insert page one. £1,000
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191. ARRIGHI, TAGLIENTE and PALATINO. Three Classics of Italian Calligraphy. The Unabridged Reissue of the Writing Books of... [N.p.]: Dover Publications, 1953. 8vo. x, (ii), 272 pp. Finely bound in later black full morocco, upper board with an inlaid pigskin panel with an inked calligraphic title and a further inlaid russet morocco label with the authors’ names, twin gilt bosses flanking the labels with another to the spine, which is otherwise plain, discreet inlaid pigskin label to the lower board with the inked initials “HLM”, possibly those of the binder or the original owner, all edges gilt, ribbed purple endpapers, each of the three sections of the book with a matching gilt lettered insert. A delightful and unique copy. See insert page one. £175
192. AVEDON, Richard. An Autobiography. New York: Randon House, Inc. and Eastman Kodak Company, 1993. Second impression. 4to. (432) pp. Publisher’s brown buckram, lettered in red of differing shades to the spine and upper board, the lower board with a mounted photographic self portrait of Avedon, thick glassine wrapper, housed in the original cardboard box with red lettering. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Slight creasing to the edges of the wrapper, fading to the lettering to the spine of the box which features some general age marks, the book in excellent condition. £75
INSCRIBED 193. AYRTON, Michael. Berlioz. A Singular Obsession. A personal portrait of Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) on the centenary of his death. (London): British Broadcasting Corporation, (1969). First edition, large 8vo, 64 pp. Numerous illustrations, a few in colour. Inscribed from Ayrton on the fly leaf, later owner’s ink stamp to the foot of the same page. Cloth, d.w. a little worn to extremities. £75
AYRTON, Michael. See also nos. 3, 40, 70, 80, 223.
SIGNED 194. BAILEY, David. Bailey's Stardust. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2014. First edition. 4to. 272 pp. Publisher’s colour illustrated boards, signed by Bailey to the half title. Photographically illustrated throughout, predominantly in black and white. An excellent copy. £75
SIGNED 195. BALLEN, Roger. Outland. London: Phaidon, 2015. Second edition, “revised and expanded”. 4to. 155, (1) pp. Publisher’s black boards, glossy embossed lettering to the spine and upper cover, dust jacket, signed by Ballen on the title page. Black and white photographs throughout. An excellent copy. £90
196. BATEMAN, R.A. How to Own and Equip a House. A Complete Guide to Ownership and Equipment. London: R.A. Bateman Limited, [c.1925]. Second edition. 8vo. 339, (1), 46 pp. Publisher’s red cloth, black lettered to the spine and upper board, dust jacket illustrated on the upper panel and spine. Black and white illustrations in the text. Losses to the head of the spine and lower edge of the delightful jacket, else very good. £60
197. BAWDEN, Edward. Engravings 1927-1929. With an Introduction by David McKitterick. London: Merivale Editions, 1988. First edition. 8vo. (16) pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations. £75
198. BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. The Uncollected Work of... with an Introduction by C. Lewis Hind. London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, (1925). First edition, 4to, (xxviii) pp, followed by 162 plates. Original decorative cloth, recently recased, d.w. with slight loss to extremities. £225
199. BEATON, Cecil. The Face of the World. An International Scrapbook of People and Places. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1957). First edition. 4to. 240 pp. Publisher’s pale blue cloth, dust jacket with a Beaton design to the upper cover, price clipped. Profusely illustrated with the artist’s photographs and drawings, the opposing text printed on paper stock of various colours. A few small losses to the spine ends of the jacket, very good overall. £95
200. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. Baigneuses. Introduced by Christopher Buckland Wright. Denby Dale: The Fleece Press (1995). Limited edition, no. 6 of 30 specially bound copies signed by Christopher Buckland Wright, from a total edition of 240, folio, 28, (4) pp. 9 illustrations tipped in plus the frontispiece and 24 wood engraved illustrations. Gilt titled full vellum, folding cloth box, a fine copy. £900
SIGNED AND INSCRIBED 201. CAPPELLO, Kenneth. The Kills. Dream & Drive. London: Red Meat Hart, 2012. First edition. Small 4to. (184) pp. Publisher’s green-blue cloth, pink lettered to the spine and upper board, inscribed “with love...” by Cappello to the title page and signed by Jamie Hince to one of the illustrations. Photographic illustrations throughout, mostly in colour. An excellent copy. £150 Hince signed the book on his favourite photograph at the request of the original owner.
SIGNED 202. CARTAGENA, Alejandro. Carpoolers. Mexico City: Alejandro Cartagena, 2014. First edition. 4to. (92) pp., some leaves folding plus other shortened leaves inserted. Publisher’s illustrated thick buff card boards with a cut-out section to the upper cover revealing the colour photograph underneath, signed by Cartagena to the title page. Colour photographic illustrations. An excellent copy. £175
203. DALLAWAY, Rev. James. Anecdotes of the Arts in England, or comparative remarks on Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting, chiefly illustrated by specimens at Oxford. London: Printed for T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1800. First edition, 8vo, xxi, (iii), 526, (1 advertisement, 1) pp. Engraved second title, marginal foxing throughout, early 19th century bookseller’s label, “Smith, Milsom St., Bath,” to foot of paste down. Contemporary red half morocco, gilt spine, marbled boards, spine slightly faded, mild rubbing to extremities. £100
204. DESGODETZ, Antoine. Les Edifices Antiques de Rome. Dessinés et Mesurés tres exactement. Paris: Chez Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1682. First edition, folio, (xiv), 323, (1) pp. Engraved title page and 137 plates, 21 of which are double page, later bookplate. Early 20th century half morocco, marbled sides, recent repair to the foot of the joints. £3,750 A handsome copy of the first accurately measured survey of Rome’s ancient building, correcting many errors made by Palladio and others.
205. DUFOUR, Dianne, WITKOVSKY, Matthew S. with FORBES, Duncan and MOSER, Walter. Provoke: Between Protest and Performance. Photography in Japan 1960/1975. Edited by... Göttingen: Steidl, 2016. First edition. Large 8vo. 679, (1) pp. Illustrated card covers. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout. An excellent copy. £125 In spite of only three issues appearing Provoke was a hugely influential protest magazine in Japan in the late 1960s and early 1970s, bringing together the work of photographers, artists and poets at a time of great political upheaval. This edition was published to coincide with an exhibition setting the magazine in the wider context of protest photography in the country at that time.
206. (EMPEL, Ruud van). SCHOOR, Frank van de and BEDAUX, Jan Baptist. Moon Venus World. Ruud van Empel. Text by... Amsterdam: Ruud van Empel; Nijmegen: Museum het Valkhof, 2006. First edition. 4to. 151, (1) pp. Publisher’s dark gold boards, embossed lettering to the spine and upper cover with a small colour illustration also to the latter. Photographic illustrations throughout, predominantly in colour. An excellent copy. £85
SIGNED 207. ERWITT, Elliott. Unseen. Kempen: TeNeues, 2007. First edition. 4to. 159, (1) pp. Publisher’s illustrated boards, dust jacket replicating the same design, signed by Erwitt to the title page. Black and white photographs throughout. An excellent copy. £125 An excellent collection of this Magnum photographer’s previously unpublished images.
208. GILL, Eric. Art and Manufacture. Handworkers’ Pamphlets No. 4. London: New Handworkers’ Gallery, [1929]. 8vo, (iv), 43-56, (2) pp, including wrappers. Title device plus 2 wood engravings by Beedham after designs by Gill. Sewn as issued, a few minor marks otherwise a fine copy. £90 Originally delivered as a lecture entitled “Art in Relation to Life”, and distinct from a 1934 lecture called “Art and Manufacture” which was published in the collection “Work and Leisure” in 1935. The fourth and final publication in the series; the other three (”The Idea Behind Craftsmanship” by Phillippe Mairet, “Instead of a Catalogue” by Romney A. Green and “A Potter’s Outlook” by Bernard Leach) were printed at the Saint Dominic’s Press, this was printed at the Fanfare Press. Evan Gill 19.
INSCRIBED 209. GRIFFIN, Brian. Work. London: Black Pudding Publishing, 1988. First edition. Square 4to. 89, (7) pp. Publisher’s black cloth, white lettered to the spine, gold ring to the upper board, dust jacket, inscribed by Griffin on recto of the first leaf “To Alison best wishes...”, complete with vinyl record in original sleeve and inner sleeve on the same design. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout. A light light edge wear to the jacket, very good overall. £180 A fascinating photo-essay on the world of business, primarily focused on the boom years of late 1980s London. Many of the photos feature the Broadgate development by Liverpool Street which was being built at this time along with many businessmen of the day.
210. HONEY, W.B. Glass. A Handbook for the Study of Glass Vessels of All Periods and Countries & a Guide to the (Victoria and Albert) Museum Collection. London: Published under the direction of the Ministry of Education, 1946. First edition. 8vo. xii, 169, (1) pp. Maroon full morocco with striated embossed black lines, upper board with an inlaid vellum panel incorporating a hand drawn illustration of a tall fluted glass with a further inlaid panel of blue morocco, with a gilt lettered vellum panel adjacent on the upper cover and another vellum panel to the lower cover illustrating a short necked round bottle, gilt lettered to the spine. 72 plates, many featuring multiple illustrations. A unique and very attractively bound volume. See insert page one. £225
211. HUNT, Holman. Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. London: Macmillan and Co., 1905. First edition, two volumes, 8vo. 40 photogravure plates with tissues plus numerous illustrations in the text, a few plates with mostly marginal foxing, tissues browned. Original gilt titled cloth, t.e.g., some minor rubbing, very good. £90
212. IMAGE. Image: A Quarterly of the Visual Arts. London: Art and Technics Ltd., Summer, 1949 to Summer, 1952. Eight issues bound in two volumes. Large 8vo. Attractively bound in later half morocco over pale blue cloth with the fore edges of both sets of boards trimmed in leather, volume I in blue-green (albeit faded on the spine) and II in tan, gilt rules extending across the spine and board edges, gilt lettered and numbered to both spines, that of volume I also with a eye motif in gilt outline, original card covers for each part bound in, three of the original dust jackets loosely inserted along with a prospectus for the magazine (published March 1949) describing its demerger from the periodical “Alphabet and Image”, three “Postscripts” to the magazine (either 4 or 8 pp) and Arts and Technics prospectuses for both Autumn 1949 and 1950 (each 8 pp. with colour printed card covers). Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. A few marks to the boards of volume I, a unique set attractively bound thus. See insert page one. £300 Edited by Robert Harling, “Image” was a periodical devoted to the art of illustration. It includes numerous articles on artists and illustrators of the day including John Minton, John Piper, John Buckland Wright and Edward Ardizzone. Issue V comprises Thomas Balston’s “English Wood-Engraving 1900-1950”, an excellent retrospective on the subject which Art and Technics also published individually as book.
213. JUDE, Ron. Lick Creek Line. With an Essay by Nicholas Muellner. [London]: Mack, 2012. First edition. 4to. (112) pp. Publisher’s plain card covers with integral wrappers with flaps, photographically illustrated to front and rear, loosely inserted is an 8 pp. colour illustrated booklet. Colour photographic illustrations throughout. Small tear to the foot of the upper cover, else very good. £75 A photo-essay featuring snapshots of life in this remote region of Idaho.
214. LEITER, Saul. Early Color. (Göttingen): Steidl, (2006). First edition, square 8vo, (160) pp. 78 coloured photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. £150
215. LEITER, Saul. Early Black and White. I. Intérieurs. II. Extérieurs. Edited by Max Kozloff. Augmenté d’un Esssai de Jane Livingston. Göttingen: Steidl; New York: Howard Greenberg Library, 2014. First edition. Two volumes. (204); (184) pp. Publisher’s grey cloth, black lettered to the spines, dust jackets illustrated to the upper panels, glossy card sleeve replicating both upper covers to the upper panel. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Very light wear to the sleeve, a lovely set. French text. £90
SIGNED 216. MCCULLIN, Don. Don McCullin in Africa. London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. First edition. 4to. 174, (2) pp. Publisher’s boards photographically illustrated, dust jacket, inscribed by McCullin to the title page. Black and white photographic illustrations. An excellent copy. £75
217. (PAINE). Tom Paine in Lewes. (Lewes: Paddock Printmakers, 2009). Limited edition, no. 113 of 130 copies, folio, (32) pp. 32 illustrations. Original cloth, faint mark to the lower cover otherwise fine. £85 A series of woodcuts, linocuts and collographs by various artists of the places and buildings that shaped Thomas Paine’s time in the town.
SIGNED 218. PARR, Martin. Life's a Beach. Paris: Editions Xavier Barral, 2012. Limited edition, no. 915 of 1,000 copies signed by Parr. Oblong 4to. String bound yellow silk covered boards in the style of a photo album, 32 leaves mostly with one or more tab mounted colour photographs, tissue guards, 4 pages of text printed on pink paper tipped in at the front along with another small leaf bearing Parr’s signature, matching pink title label to the upper board, the “album” held in buff card slipcase with a matching title label, all held within the original double foldover cardboard box with printed text to the upper panels. An excellent copy. £250
SIGNED 219. (PARR). WILLIAMS, Val. Martin Parr. London: Phaidon Press, 2014. Second edition. Oblong 4to. 472, (2) pp. Publisher’s two-tone yellow and pink padded board with blue and white lettering, signed by Parr to the title page. Numerous illustrations in both colour and black and white. Very good. £60 First published in 2002, this edition was significantly expanded to include his more recent work.
220. POWER, Mark. Die Mauer ist Weg! Brighton: Globtik Books, 2014. Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies. Folio. (96) pp. Publisher’s buff thick card covers printed in black and red in the style of a newspaper with similar print to the inner covers, the contents smaller than the boards by design and with a corrugated surround featuring the publisher’s imprint, signed by Power on the first page. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout. An excellent copy. £100 Published 25 years after the event, the artist’s photographic documenting of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The work includes Power’s images of the moments the wall came down and quieter asides as he explored both sides of the old city boundary.
221. RAY-JONES, Tony. A Day Off. London: Thames and Hudson, 1974. First edition. Small square 4to. 16, (130) pp. Publisher’s photographically illustrated card covers. 120 black and white photographic illustrations. Slight tanning to the covers, a tiny amount of creasing to the edges, very good. £110
222. (RAY-JONES). ROBERTS, Russell. Tony Ray-Jones. London: Chris Boot Ltd., 2004. First edition. Oblong 4to. 151, (1) pp. Publisher’s purple boards, dust jacket. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout. An excellent copy. £95
223. (SAVILE CLUB). The Savile Club. 1868-1968. [n.p.], 1968. Small 4to, 31, (1) pp. Signed and inscribed by 22 of the members for George Astley, secretary of the Society of Authors, including Ralph Richardson, Michael Ayrton, Stephen Potter, John Pudney, Winston Graham and Maurice Druon; the last four above their contributions to this volume. Loosely inserted is a 4 pp. menu for the club’s centenary dinner as well as two original photographs, one showing Ayrton playing croquet with Humphrey Hare and Herbert Agar, and the other a group shot of the Ayrtons and Agars with Hare and Druon. Printed wrappers, edges a little browned. £150
224. SERLIO, Sebastiano. Architettura di... In sei libri divisa, Ne’ quali vengono dottamente, & con ogni chiarezza spiegate tutte le oscurita, & secreti dell’Arte. Nuovamente Impressi in beneficio universale in Lingua Latina, & Volgare, con alcune aggiunte... Venetia [Venice]: Jacobum de Angelis, 1663. Folio, (iv), 433, (1) pp. Engraved title and numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations in the text, 13 full page etchings at the end of the volume, with a leaf bound in at page 332 containing two half page woodcuts intended for binding in by pp. 332 and 245. A small patch of damp staining almost throughout to the top of the inner margin, with mostly minor loss to a number of leaves, affecting the text in one case (N2) and slightly affecting images in a few more, three related engravings tipped in to the front endpapers. Contemporary quarter vellum, a little worn and marked, lacking the spine label, blue paper boards with some marks and loss, recent repair to the foot of the spine. £3,000 First published at intervals from 1537 onwards and an important work in both the development and spread of Italian Renaissance architecture, being the first to emphasise practical rather than theoretical aspects of building.
225. SHERMAN, Cindy. Untitled Film Stills. With an essay by Arthur C. Danto. London: Jonathan Cape, (1990). First edition, folio, 16 pp, followed by 40 black and white photographic plates, 28 of which are double page. Cloth, d.w. with a few minor marks, an excellent copy. £75
226. SIRYU, Inoue and ICHIRO, Kojima. Kagasaki. [and] Tsugaru. Tokyo: Rat Hole, 2007. First edition. Small 4to. (24); (24) pp. Publisher’s spiral bound black card covers. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout. A few trivial marks to the upper cover, very good. £75
INSCRIBED 227. SMITH, Paul. You Can Find Inspiration in Everything. (and If You Can’t, Look Again). London: Violette Editions, 2001. First edition. 4to. (296) pp. Publisher’s black cloth backed illustrated boards, inscribed by Paul Smith on the front free endpaper “They say... I am a brand! Yuk!” in red ink, continued “Best wishes “Brand Smith” - Paul Smith” in blue, held in the original polystyrene book-style covers with a paper spine label and lettered in blind to both sides, with a magnifying glass inside the rear cover. Numerous illustrations, complete with the three inserts - “The Bunny” and two folded posters (”My Personal Possessions” and “Coat-of Arms”). Creasing to the spine label of the polystyrene covers with a few indentations to the polystyrene, the book in excellent condition. £95
SIGNED 228. STODDART, Tom. iWitness. London: Trolley, 2004. First edition. Small 4to. (13), 14-346, (347-356) pp. Publisher’s grey cloth backed grey boards, signed by Stoddart on the front free endpaper. Black and white photographs throughout. Very slight fading to the edges of the board. £75
229. WEBER, Donald. Interrogations. Text by Larry Frolick. Amsterdam: Schilt Publishing, 2011. First edition. 8vo. 160 pp. Publisher’s string bound pink coarse paper covers, printed to the upper panel, with original buff card slipcase printed on the sides. Colour photographic illustrations throughout. An excellent copy. £60
230. WHISTLER, J. McNeill. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies. As pleasingly exemplified in many instances, wherein the serious ones of this earth, carefully exasperated, have been prettily spurred on to unseemliness and indiscretion, while overcome by an undue sense of right. London: William Heinemann, 1890. First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 292 pp. Endpapers foxed and slightly soiled, two cuttings tipped in by the half title. Original cloth backed gilt titled boards, spine darkened, some marks and rubbing. £250 An account of Whistler’s libel suit against John Ruskin, the critic having savagely reviewed the painting “Nocturne” - “I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face.” The trial damaged both men, although Whistler won he was awarded only a farthing and the costs bankrupted him, while Ruskin’s authority as the leading critic of his time was fatally wounded.
SIGNED 231. YAMAUCHI, Michio. Hong Kong 1995-1997. [Tokyo]: Shahasha Co., 2015. Limited edition, one 700 copies. 4to. (198) pp. Publisher’s wine red cloth, gilt to the spine and boards, the upper cover also featuring two large black Japanese characters, signed by the photographer in gold ink on the black front free endpaper, original plain buff lidded cardboard box. Black and white photographs throughout. An excellent copy. £90
GENERAL SUBJECTS HISTORY, MILITARIA, THEOLOGY
232. BAXTER, Richard. The Saints Everlasting Rest: or, a Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in their enjoyment of God in Glory. Wherein is shewed its Excellency and Certainty; the Misery of those that lose it; the way to Attain it... London: Printed for Thomas Underhill, and Francis Tyton 1651. Second edition, 8vo, (xl), 184, (40), 185-304, 196, (56), 197-312, 312 pp. Some occasional, and mostly marginal, browning, marbled endpapers. Period style 19th century black morocco, covers with blind stamped rules and gilt tooled flower cornerpieces, recently rebacked retaining the original backstrip, a.e.g. £320 Reprinted twelve times before the century was up and a classic of English theology - “...a masterpiece of style” (Encyc. Brit.). A non-conformist, Baxter suffered for his beliefs after the Restoration but continued to produce a stream of pamphlets and books. Wing B1384.
233. (BIBLE). The Comprehensive Bible; Containing the Old and the New Testaments... London: Printed for Samuel Bagster, [c.1827]. 4to, (viii), 1352, xviii, xiii, (i) pp. Slightly later inscriptions to front blank. Contemporary blind stamped maroon morocco, a.e.g., a little rubbing to extremities otherwise a very good copy. OCLC lists several late 1820s issues of this Bible. £150
234. (BIBLE). PHILLIPS, J.B. The New Testament in Modern English. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1964. 8vo. xviii, 558 pp. Contemporary red full morocco, gilt lettering to the spine and upper board, the latter also featuring an illustration of a flower inlaid with black morocco and embellished in gilt. Very good. Printed on India paper. £65
235. CH'U TA-KAO. Tao Tê Ching. A New Translation by... London: The Buddhist Society, 1945. Fourth printing thus. Small 8vo. 94, (2) pp. Publisher’s black cloth, gilt lettered in English script to the spine and in English and Chinese to the upper board, dust jacket. Slight edge wear to the jacket, otherwise very good. £65 A translation first published in 1937, this issue was “photographed” from the second edition of 1939.
236. CHURCHILL, Winston S. The World Crisis. 1911-1914. 1915. 1916-1918 Parts I and II. The Aftermath. London: Thornton Butterworth, (1923-29). Four volumes in five, mixed printings including a second impression of volume II. 8vo. Publisher’s dark blue cloth, gilt lettered to spines, old library bookplate to the rear pastedown of volume III, part I with no other library markings but for the remnants of green label to the upper board. Numerous maps, charts and illustrations. Some light wear to the extremities, occasional foxing, else a decent set. £150 Not including the scarce final volume, “The Eastern Front”.
237. CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Second World War. The Gathering Storm. Their Finest Hour. The Grand Alliance. The Fringe of Fate. Closing the Ring. Triumph and Tragedy. London: Cassell & Co., 1948-54. First editions. Six volumes. 8vo. Publisher’s black cloth, gilt lettered to spines, top edges red though all but one mostly faded, dust jackets, not priced clipped. Numerous maps, some folding. The jacket spines dulled with the red lettering largely faded, a little light edge wear plus a fairly inconspicuous scratch to the jacket spine of volume VI, a decent set overall. Woods, A123(b). £90
238. CHURCHILL, Winston. The Collected Works of... My Early Life. My African Journey. The Story of the Malakand Field Force. The River War. The Boer War. Savrola. Lord Randolph Churchill. Mr. Broderick’s Army and other early speeches. The World Crisis. Thoughts and Adventures. Marlborough. Great Contemporaries. Arms and the Covenant. Step by Step. War Speeches. The Second World War. Post-War Speeches. A History of the English Speaking Peoples. The Library of Imperial History 1973, 76. “Centenary Limited Edition”, 34 volumes, no. 363 of around 1,750 sets, 8vo. Marbled endpapers, limitation bookplates in the first 7 volumes. Original gilt titled vellum, a.e.g, gilt arms to upper covers, some occasional light tanning of the vellum as is common otherwise an excellent set, presented here without their slipcases. £2,400 Containing five million words over 19,000 pages, eleven publishers were required to release their copyright on the understanding that no other collection would be published until 2015. The publishers went bankrupt before the project was completed meaning that less than the projected 3,000 sets actually appeared. See inside lower cover.
239. (COMET). The Comet: Or, Letters to Bon-Accordians. No. I - To Mr. Thomas Wyness. No. II - To the Rev. A.M. Bannatyne. No. III - “Creation v. Evolution,” &c., to the Rev. James Stark. No. IV - Reformatories and Industrial Schools, to Baillie James Paterson, and his Co-Directors. No. V - On Freemasonry, to Dr. Robert Beveridge. No. VI - Co- Operationists v. Traders, to Alexander Walker. No. 7, to Mr. Thomas Wyness. No. VIII, to Alex. Cook. Aberdeen: George Middleton, 1884-85. Eight issues in one volume, 8vo, 11, (1), 12, 12, 11, (1), 12, 11, (1), 13, (1), 10 pp. Bookplate of Edinburgh Public Libraries to paste down, marked “withdrawn”, plus small ink stamps to the first and last pages. Contemporary half cloth, marbled sides, neatly rebacked. £300 An extremely scarce run of these radical Aberdeen pamphlets, published anonymously under a variety of pseudonyms - Bearing-Rein, Chronos, A Ratepayer, Brother Jack, Recluse and Notarius. A Jubilee issue also appeared in 1887. OCLC lists a handful of single issues, plus a complete set at Aberdeen University.
240. (COMMON PRAYER). [Greek Text - Book of Common Prayer. The Psalms of David]. Biblos tēs dēmosias euchēs... Psaltērion toy Dabid... Kantabrigia [Cambridge]: Iōannou Phieldou [John Field], 1665, 1664. Two works in one volume, 12mo, xxxvi, 126, (2, ii), 115, (3), 117-171, (1) pp. Marginal loss to O6 in the second work without loss of text, contemporary signature to the title page of the first work. Contemporary calf, a little worn, recent restoration to the spine ends and joints with a new fly leaf inserted. £450 Griffiths 45-3. Wing B3632 & B2720A. The first work has the phrase "kai tōn allōn" set in both upper- and lowercase type.
OWEN JONES ILLUSTRATIONS IN A RELIEVO BINDING 241. (COMMON PRAYER). The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church... with Notes and Illustrations. London: John Murray, 1850. 8vo. xl, 484 pp. Contemporary, probably publisher’s, dark red full morocco “relievo” binding by Remnant, Edmonds & Remnants, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to one panel, covers with ornate decoration in relief, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, two small early inscriptions to the verso of the front free endpaper. Finely printed in colour throughout, the text with decorative borders and ornate initials plus an illustrated title page, 7 chromolithographic plates by Owen Jones and another three tinted lithographs. The front hinge a little worn though it remains sound, one leaf slightly proud but still firmly attached, some foxing to the front of the book and lightly at intervals thereafter, an attractive copy. See also no. 100 and insert page four. £500
242. (COMMON PRAYER). The Book of Common Prayer. With the additions and deviations proposed in 1928. Oxford: At the University Press, (c.1946). 8vo, viii, 778, (2) pp. Marbled endpapers, presentation bookplate addressed to P.W. Wheeldon, of “8 Corps District [Plön, Schleswig-Holstein]”, dated 1946, with a small later booklabel below. Bound by Mowbray in contemporary black morocco, a.e.g., a couple of minor marks otherwise fine. £75
243. (COMMON PRAYER). (The Prayer Book of Edward VII) The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments... Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David... New York: M. Walter Dunne, (1904). 4to, (xiv), 386, (2) pp. Printed in red and black throughout, illustrations to the preliminaries and with decorative initial letters. Bound in at the front is a hand painted japon leaf reading “In witness that this copy of the Westminster Edition of The Prayer Book of King Edward VII has been specially bound for...”, with the space for the name left blank. Original gilt decorated morocco, a.e.g., the pink and blue painted detail to the crests rather rubbed, extremities with light wear, recently rebacked in black morocco. £400 A beautifully printed work originally published in a limited edition of 400 copies by the Essex House Press the year before. This authorised American reprint is normally found in cloth, this copy being a more expensively bound version.
244. (CROQUET). JAQUES, John. Croquêt: The Laws and Regulations of the Game, thoroughly revised, with a Description of the Implements... London: Jaques and Son, 1864. Twelfth thousand, 8vo, 31, (1), 8 advertisement pp. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Original gilt titled purple limp cloth, spine and edges somewhat faded. £240 Drazin A12b.
245. DAVID, Elizabeth. A Book of Mediterranean Food. Decorated by John Minton. London: John Lehmann, (1950). First edition, 8vo, 191, (1) pp. Black and white illustrations, old signature to fly leaf, pieces of the dust wrapper tipped onto the endpapers with one piece also loosely inserted. Original cloth, very good. David’s first book. £125
246. DILLMAN, Christian Freidrich August. Lexicon Linguae Aethiopicae. Cum Indice Latino. Adiectum est Vocabularium Tigre Dialecti Septentrionalis compilatum a Werner Munzinger. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: T.O. Weigei, 1865. First edition, 4to, (xviii, 762, 36) pp. Signature of the linguist G.W.B. Huntingford to fly leaf, light marginal browning throughout. Recently rebound in red half calf over contemporary marbled boards, a very good copy. £450
247. DIROM, Major [Alexander]. A Narrative of the Campaign in India, which Terminated the War with Tippoo Sultan, in 1792. London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. and Sold G. Nicol... and J. Sewell, 1794. Second edition. 4to. xvi, 300 pp. Later green moiré cloth, gilt lettered tan cloth spine label. Frontispiece view of Seringapatam plus 4 maps (3 folding), 2 plates, 2 diagrams (1 folding) and a folding appendix featuring the East India Company accounts for the year 1793. Occasional foxing, else very good. £475
HAND COLOURED ARMORIAL BEARINGS 248. GUILLIM, John. A Display of Heraldrie: Manifesting A more easie accesse to the knowledge thereof than hath beene hitherto published by any, through the benefit of Method; Whereinto it is now reduced by the study and industry of... later Pursuivant at Armes... Corrected and much enlarged by the Author himselfe in his life time: Together with his owne Addition of explaining the Termes of Hawking and Hunting, for the use and delight of Gentlemen. London: Printed by Richard Badger for Ralph Mab, 1632. Second edition, folio, (xiv), 167, 170-384, 383-421, 420-422, 425-428, (3, 1 blank) pp. Lacking one leaf (3H1), which showed the arms of Charles I, but with both versions of 3C3 - usually present solely as a cancel. 780 armorial illustrations, of which 762 are neatly hand coloured. Occasional minor worming to the inner edge of some gatherings, contemporary name twice to title page and crossed through, later armorial bookplate. Contemporary blind stamped calf, neatly rebacked, some mild wear and staining. £450 “...remain[ed] the standard textbook on English heraldry until the second half of the eighteenth century, and it is still regularly used by working heralds in the twenty-first...” (ODNB). STC 12502. See inside lower cover.
249. HEATH, Ambrose. Good Drinks. London: Faber & Faber, 1947. Second impression. 8vo. 239, (1) pp. Publisher’s yellow cloth, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket designed by Edward Bawden, not price clipped. Jacket spine tanned and with slight loss to the head, a little light edge wear, an attractive copy overall. £85 Heath writes in the foreword: “This collection of divers drinks is offered for all those occasions when drinking is desirable... to the advancement of the brewer and the wine merchant, and the confusion of all dull dogs.”
250. HENSHALL, Samuel. The Saxon and English Languages Reciprocally Illustrative of Each Other; The Impracticability of Acquiring an Accurate Knowledge of Saxon Literature, Through the Medium of Latin Phraseology, Exemplified in the Errors of Hickes, Wilkins, Gibson, and Other Scholars, and a New Mode Suggested of Radically Studying the Saxon and English Languages... London: Printed for the Author... 1798. Sole edition. 4to. iv, 60 pp. Original drab wrappers, the early ownership inscription of what looks to be “W. Menzies” to the title page with his initials plus the author and short title to the upper cover, bound in at front is a 2pp. prospectus for the “first number” of the author’s edition of the Domesday Book. Some wear to the edges, the wrappers with some general patina, else very good. £195
251. HOYLE, Edmond. A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist. Containing the Laws of the Game: and also Some Rules, whereby a Beginner may, with due Attention to them, attain to the Playing it well.... also, a Dictionary for Whist... London: Printed for T. Osborne, 1748. Eighth edition, 12mo, (iv), 84, (3), 100-224, (12 contents, 3 advertisement, 1) pp. Brief contemporary inscriptions to title recto and verso. 20th century marbled boards, maroon spine label. £275 Including Quadrille, Piquet, Chess and Backgammon as well; the sections on Quadrille, Piquet and Backgammon have separate title pages stating second, third and third editions respectively.
252. (JANE'S) PARKES, Oscar and MCMURTRIE, Francis E. Jane's Fighting Ships 1925. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., 1925. Oblong 4to. (51), 434, 52-58 pp. including advertisements to pastedowns. Publisher’s dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine and blind to the boards. Profusely illustrated. A few trivial marks to the covers, very good. £120
253. JOHNSON, Captain Charles. A General History of the Pirates. Edited, with a Preface, by Philip Gosse. Adorn’d with Cuts by Alexina Ogilvie. Kensington: Printed & sold by Philip Sainsbury at The Cayme Press, 1925-27. Limited edition, one of 500 copies. Two volumes. 4to. Publisher’s dark blue buckram, gilt lettered to the spines and with gilt devices to the boards, top edges yellow, dust jacket to volume I, the front and rear panels of volume II present but lacking the spine and flaps so loosely tucked in, the armorial bookplate of Frederick John Hancock Lloyd to the front pastedowns. Black and white illustrations, maps, initials and tailpieces throughout, with a printed slip loosely inserted in volume I advising of the presence of a supplement comprising three copies of plates from the first edition of the work loosely inserted in volume II. The jacket of volume I slightly worn at the edges and with a little soiling, some light foxing to the front and rear of each volume, otherwise in very good condition. £325
254. KEYNES, John Maynard.. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. London: Macmillan and Co., 1936. Second impression. 8vo. (ii), xii, 403, (1) pp. Publisher’s blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine. A trivial spots to the upper board, an excellent copy. £200 First published one month before.
255. KNOLLES, Richard. The Generall Historie of the Turkes, from The first beginning of that Nation to the rising of the Othoman Familie with all the notable expeditions of the Christian Princes against them. Together with the Lives and Conquests of the Othoman Kings and Emperours... With a new continuation from ye yeare of our Lord 1629... (by Thomas Nabbes). [London]: Printed by Adam Islip, 1638. Fifth edition, folio, (x), 1500, (20), 31, (33) pp, bound without the inital blank (A1). Engraved title page with old repairs obscuring the outer edge and a part of the inner, 17 engraved portraits in the text, minor closed tears to two leaves (Ss2 and 6V4), loss to the top corner without loss of text to a further two (3I1 and 5E6), some occasional and mostly light creasing and marginal browning. 20th century gilt titled half morocco, overall a well preserved copy. £1,800 “Compiled from a range of Byzantine and western histories, travellers' reports and letters, together with material from Leunclavius's recent Latin translation of a late fifteenth-century Ottoman chronicle, [it] was the first major work on the subject to appear in English, and was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of narrative synthesis... distinguished by an elegant and compelling style and by Knolles's underlying presentation of Ottoman success as being in large part 'the just and secret judgement of the Almightie' in the face of 'the small care the Christian princes … have had of the common state of the Christian commonweale'...” (ODNB). Originally published in 1603. STC 15055.
256. LAWRENCE, T.E. Revolt in the Desert. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. First trade edition. 8vo. (ii), 446 pp. Publisher’s light brown buckram, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped, contemporary ownership inscription, original press cuttings to the front pastedown and opposing endpaper being a review of the book dated March 1927 and another article reporting of it going out of print dated September of the same year. 16 plates and a folding map. The jacket spine tanned with fading to the red lettering, some light edge wear with a small closed tear to the foot of the lower panel, else very good. O’Brien A102. £135
257. MACPHERSON, R.B. Under the Red Crescent: or Ambulance Adventures in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78. London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1885. First edition. 8vo. 213, (3) pp. Publisher’s green cloth, gilt to the spine almost entirely faded, the gilt lettering and the red crescent moon device to the upper board extant, endpapers skilfully replaced with an appropriate old paper. Folding map and 12 plates. Some light wear to the extremities, else very good. £250
258. MOMMSEN, Professor [Theodor]. The History of the Roman Republic. Abridged from the History by... by C. Bryans... and F.J.R. Hendy... London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1888. 8vo. xxx, 542, (2) pp. Contemporary full tree calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered tan label, gilt decoration to the other panels, endpapers and all edges marbled, school prize inscription to the verso of the front free endpaper. £60
259. PENN, William. The Peoples Ancient and Just Liberties Asssrted [sic], in the Tryal of William Penn, and William Mead, At the Sessions held at the Old-Baily in London... against the most Arbitrary procedure of that Court. [London], Printed in the year 1670. Small 4to, 62 pp. Disbound, first and last pages with some marks and browning, some old paper partially obscuring the imprint and the line above, general browning throughout. £600 Charged with “addressing a tumultuous assembly” under new laws banning non-Anglican worship, Penn and Mead were acquitted, the jury being subsequently imprisoned for their efforts by the judge, who was also Lord Mayor of London. “The order was overturned by the chief justice, thereby establishing the future autonomy of juries. [The trial] brought Penn widespread respect for his able championing of dissent. From this point Penn was taken seriously by the crown as well as parliament as somebody who could influence the dissenting element in society.” (ODNB). Wing P1335. One of a number of editions published in this year.
260. SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell Jun, and W. Davies (successor to Mr Cadell), 1796. Eighth edition. Three volumes. 8vo. Recent full speckled calf, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered red and black labels. A very good set. £1,500 First published in 1776 and generally considered to be the founding work of modern economics; it immediately influenced the ruling classes with its skilful exposition of the case for free trade. “...the first and greatest classic of modern economic literature” (Printing and the Mind of Man). See inside lower cover.
261. STANYAN, Temple. The Grecian History. From the Original [sic] of Greece, to the Death of Philip of Macedon. Dublin: Printed for A. Leathley and J. Exshaw, 1759. Two volumes bound in one, 8vo, (xviii), 319, (23), (xvi), 245, (13) pp. Folding map, sparsely hand coloured in outline, some mostly marginal browning and soiling, handsome prize label from Trinity College, Dublin, to paste down, dated 1770 and made out to the legal writer Isaac Espinasse, with Espinasse’s signature to the title page of volume II and brief note to a front blank. Contemporary sheep with the college arms in blind, rebacked in morocco. See inside lower cover. £180
262. STEINGASS, F. A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary. Including the Arabic words and phrases to be met with in Persian literature. Being Johnson and Richardson’s Persian, Arabic, and English dictionary, revised, enlarged, and entirely reconstructed. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., (1930). Second impression, large 8vo, viii, 1539, (1) pp. Original gilt titled red buckram, some light sunning and marking, very good. Originally published in 1892. £75
263. SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, Caius. Caji Suetonii Tranquilli Opera, et In illa Commentarius Samuelis Pitisci [Samuel Pitiscus], Quo Antiquitates Romane... Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht]: Francisci Halmæ [Francis Halma], 1690. Two volumes, 8vo. Engraved portrait in volume I and 39 plates, two of which are folding, ends of hinges slightly cracked but sound. Contemporary vellum, a little soiled and darkened, manuscript spine titles. £150
264. WILKIE, Major A.H. Official War History of the Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment 1914-1919. Auckland: Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, 1924. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 259, (1) pp. Publisher’s brown cloth, dark brown lettering to the spine and upper board, contemporary ownership inscription, “Maurice S. Chambers / Havelock N[orth]” to the front pastedown. 36 plates printed recto and verso, some two or more to a page, plus 22 maps, many folding, including a large map of Palestine to the rear. Some light rubbing, very good. £150