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Ashendene Press Dante Austen, Pride and Prejudice

ANSON, George. A Voyage Round the World. London: printed [AUSTEN, Jane.] Pride and Prejudice. London: for T. Egerton, for the Author; by John and Paul Knapton, 1748 1813 first edition, subscriber’s copy, in the most desirable original first edition, rare in a contemporary binding. 3 vols., 12mo, con- quarto format, in contemporary calf. A wide-margined copy. temporary red half roan gilt. A very attractive copy. $6,250 [124562] $125,000 [130995]

(ASHENDENE PRESS.) DANTE ALIGHIERI. [La Divina [AUSTEN, Jane.] Mansfield Park. London: for T. Egerton, 1814 Commedia.] Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1902–5 first edition. 3 vols., 12mo, contemporary marbled calf expertly first ashendene press edition, exceptionally uncommon com- rebacked to style. A very good set. plete. Inferno one of 135 copies, Purgatorio and Paradiso each one of 150. $20,000 [130061] 3 vols., small 4to, original limp vellum, with the silk ties. $30,000 [130817]

Peter Harrington, 100 Fulham Road, London, SW3 6HS, UK · Tel +44 20 7591 0220 · books@peterharrington.co.uk Brontë

(BORGES, Jorge Luis.) Antologia Poetica Argentina. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, December 1941 Blake first edition, borges’s own copy of this anthology of Argentine poetry, signed by him in the year of publication. 8vo, original wrap- BECKETT, Samuel. En attendant Godot. Paris: Les Éditions de pers; the Guillermo de Torre copy. Minuit, 1952 $6,000 [130206] first edition, one of 35 copies on vélin supérieur. 8vo, original white wrappers, in the original glassine. A fine copy. (BRAZIL.) ERSKINE, Sir James Elphinstone. Personal $97,500 [129700] photograph album recording a trip to the interior of Brazil. An engrossing album of original and unpublished photographs of- (BLAKE, William.) YOUNG, Edward. The Complaint, and fering a diverse and informal view of Brazil at the end of the 19th the Consolation. London: by R. Noble, for R. Edwards, 1797 century. Folio, contemporary dun morocco-grained cloth boards re- backed in calf, with 140 albumen prints mounted on 40 card leaves, a newly rediscovered coloured copy of the first edition most captioned in pencil. Excellent condition. of blake’s designs for young’s night thoughts. Coloured cop- ies are rare; only 25 others are known. Folio, finely bound by San- $16,500 [121054] gorski and Sutcliffe in full blue morocco, 56 separate leaves, uncut, illustrated with 43 pictorial borders designed and engraved by Blake. [BRONTË, Charlotte.] Jane Eyre. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., $195,000 [125451] 1847 first edition, one of 500 copies. 3 vols., 8vo, original purple ver- BLIGH, Lieutenant William. A Narrative of the Mutiny on tical-ribbed cloth; the Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole copy, inscribed by Board His Majesty’s Ship Bounty. London: George Nicol, 1790 him on the occasion of its acquisition, “When at last, after waiting so long, I possessed you as you first appeared to the world I felt as first edition. 4to, contemporary sprinkled calf skilfully rebacked though Rochester had given me a nod of recognition. Hugh Walpole, to style, with the engraved folding plan by Mackenzie and 3 engraved Brackenburn, Nov: 16 1938”. folding charts by J. Walker after W. Harrison. A well-margined copy. $9,750 [121735] $160,000 [130859]

BORGES, Jorge Luis. Inquisiciones. Buenos Aires: Editorial Proa, (BRÜCKE GROUP.) Katalog zur Ausstellung der K. G. Brücke 1925 in Galerie Arnold. Dresden: Künstlergruppe Brücke, 1910 first edition, comprising 20 original woodcuts on wove paper first edition, a uniquely untrimmed, unnumbered, and by Heckel, Kirchner, Pechstein, and Schmidt-Rottluff. 4to, original specially bound presentation copy, inscribed by Borges to ochre wrappers. his fellow Argentine author, and muse, Norah Lange, “a la aureolada Nora, muy cordialmente – Georgie”. 8vo, contemporary tan cloth; $45,000 [126256] one of 505 copies printed. We are unaware of any other copy thus presented. $45,000 [129496] – 2 – Carroll Cranach Press HamletCavafy

BRUNEL, Isambard. The Life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. CHANDLER, Raymond. The Little Sister. Boston: Houghton London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1870 Mifflin Company, 1949 first edition, an interleaved and copiously annotated copy, with first u.s. edition, pre-publication presentation copy, in- two examples of I. K. Brunel’s signature, from the library of William scribed by the author two weeks prior to publication to Harry Ack- Froude, one of the major contributors to the book. 1 vol. bound in 2, erman, an executive at CBS, who worked with Chandler on several 8vo, contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked to style. television projects based on Chandler’s work. 8vo, first issue binding $4,000 [130383] of original orange boards, with the dust jacket. A fine copy. $22,000 [131623] CAMOENS, Luis de. The Luciad. London: Humphrey Moseley 1655 (CHINA.) Second Opium War, “Log of a Cruise in the U.S. first edition in english of Os Lusíadas (1572). Folio, contempo- Sloop of War Cyane. 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854” [continued to rary English mottled calf. A well-margined copy. 1860]. $20,000 [128757] A keenly-observed journal of a decade at sea with the US Navy during the 1850s, recording back-to-back cruises on three sloops-of-war, CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. London: seeing action in three different arenas. Small folio, commercial log- Macmillan and Co., 1866 book, 70 pp. of manuscript entries. first published edition, presentation copy to one of Car- $12,500 [127365] roll’s child-friends, Ella Chlora Williams, whom the author photo- graphed between May and July 1866, together with three letters from CHURCHILL, Winston S. Arms and the Covenant. London: Carroll, dated 1878–9. 8vo, attractively bound in recent red morocco George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1938 by Bayntun-Riviere. first edition, superb presentation copy, inscribed by the au- $97,500 [127698] thor to the author and journalist Shiela Grant Duff in the year of pub- lication. Duff was Churchill’s eyes and ears in Czechoslovakia during CAVAFY, Constantine P. [In Greek:] Poiemata. 1910–1916 the 1930s, supplying valuable information during the years before [1918]. Alexandria: [privately printed by Kasimate and Iona, 1915–18] the Second World War. 8vo, original blue cloth. an exceptional example of one of cavafy’s rare, careful- $8,750 [131350] ly assembled poetry collections, comprising 54 poems, two supplied by the author in autograph, the others privately printed, (CRANACH PRESS.) SHAKESPEARE, William; CRAIG, with manuscript additions and emendations. One of the larger sam- Edward Gordon (illus.) The Tragedie of Hamlet. Weimar: ples of his work to appear on the market. Large 8vo, 62 unbound Harry Kessler at the Cranach Press, 1930 sheets inside printed card wrappers. first edition in english, one of 50 copies printed on handmade $68,000 [127252] paper and bound in full red morocco for distribution in the US. Folio. A beautiful copy of one of the most striking and imaginative works of the 20th century. $32,500 [131061] – 3 – Darwin, corrrespondence with Hildebrand Darwin, FitzRoy’s set

DARWIN, Charles. Original autograph correspondence with DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Friedrich Hildebrand. Down House: 1862–79 Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837 a remarkable sequence of 17 letters from darwin to the first edition in book form, a great rarity in the original german botanist friedrich hildebrand, containing all but publisher’s deluxe binding of purple morocco. Chapman two of the letters ever sent by Darwin to Hildebrand. Archives of and Hall also issued copies in cloth and half-morocco; variant de- significant correspondence between Darwin and a notable scientific luxe publisher’s bindings are known, all far scarcer than cloth-bound colleague very rarely come to market in any state approaching com- copies. 8vo. pleteness. In excellent condition. $6,000 [130554] $165,000 [125461] DICKENS, Charles. Pictures from Italy. London: published for the DARWIN, Charles. On the various contrivances by which author, by Bradbury & Evans, 1846 British and Foreign Orchids are fertilised. London: John Murray, first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author the 1862 day after publication to one of his oldest friends, Thomas Beard. first edition, first issue, of Darwin’s first book after the Origin Small 8vo, original blue fine-diaper cloth, rebacked with original of Species, one of no more than 2,000 copies. 8vo in twelves, original spine laid down; the Suzannet copy. purple fine-diaper cloth, with the folding engraved plate of the Orchis $110,000 [130416] mascula. $6,250 [130964]

DARWIN, Charles; Robert FitzRoy; Philip Parker King. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages. London: Henry Colburn, 1839 first edition of Darwin’s first published work, this the personal set of the Beagle’s commander Captain Robert FitzRoy, inscribed on the half-title of volume I, “Robt. FitzRoy”. 4 vols., 8vo, contemporary brown half calf neatly rebacked with original spines laid down. A re- markable association set of one of the most extraordinary voyages of the 19th century. $130,000 [128443]

[DEFOE, Daniel.] Conjugal Lewdness: or, Matrimonial Whoredom. London: printed for T. Warner, 1727 first edition, rare first issue. It was reissued the same year with a cancel title page, more politely titled A Treatise concerning the Use and Abuse of the Marriage Bed. 8vo, 19th-century sprinkled calf to style. $50,000 [124762] Dickens, Pictures from Italy

– 4 – Du Halde Faulkner

DOEFF, Hendrik. Herinneringen aan Japan. Harlem: François FAULKNER, William. Light in August. New York: Harrison Bohn, 1833 Smith & Robert Haas, 1932 first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Hendrik Fagel the younger, who served successively as commis- a close childhood friend, “For Myrtle Ramey, Oxford Miss 30 May sioner, minister, and ambassador to London during the Napoleonic 1934, William Faulkner”. 8vo, original grey cloth, with the dust jacket Wars. 8vo, contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving the majority and glassine wrapper. A fine copy. of the original spine. An attractively provenanced copy of this unusu- $65,000 [131629] al memoir of the sakoku period in Japan. $9,500 [125761] FAULKNER, William. Doctor Martino and Other Stories. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934 (DREADNOUGHT HOAX.) Original studio photograph of first edition, a superb presentation copy, inscribed by the the Dreadnought Hoaxers with an autograph letter signed by author to the literary critic Malcolm Cowley who almost single-hand- the ringleader Horace de Vere Cole. February, 1910 edly re-established Faulkner’s literary reputation. 8vo, original dark An exceptional original mezzotint photograph of the Dreadnought blue cloth, with the dust jacket; the Jonathan Goodwin copy. Hoaxers captioned by Cole with the Abyssinian aliases of each mem- $25,000 [130074] ber of the party, accompanied by an unpublished autograph letter in which he presents a lively account of the hoax. Mounted on thick FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. New York: Charles card, tipped in to the original studio portfolio. Scribner’s Sons, 1934 $23,000 [129793] first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author in typically overblown fashion to his sometime lover, the writer Marga- DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste. A Description of the Empire of ret Harriman, a writer for the New York Times and author of The Vicious China and Chinese-Tartary. London: T. Gardner for Edward Cave, Circle, among other books. 8vo, original green cloth. 1738–41 $42,500 [125792] second and most complete english edition of the first de- finitive European work on the Chinese empire, containing the first appearance of 43 maps by the Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville, including the first separate map of Korea. 2 vols., folio. A wonder- fully preserved, wide-margined copy, untrimmed in half sheep trade binding. $30,000 [130042]

DU PONT, Samuel Francis. Extracts from Private Journal- Letters. Wilmington, DE: Ferris Bros., Printers and Binders, 1885 first and sole edition, one of approximately 50 copies privately printed; this copy with a familial presentation inscription. 8vo, orig- inal brown half morocco, without the errata leaf. One of the most important accounts of the naval war in California. $5,250 [131483]

Fitzgerald

– 5 – Fleming Gutenberg

FLEMING, Ian. Casino Royale. London: Jonathan Cape, 1953 (GALILEO.) SALUSBURY, Thomas (trans.) Mathematical first edition, magnificent association copy, inscribed by Collections and Translations. London: printed by William Fleming to James Gomer Berry, his employer at the Sunday Times, Leybourn, 1661 who gave him the means to write: “To Gomer and Edith, wishing first edition in english of Galileo’s epochal defence of the Co- them both always a nine when it is needed, and in memory of ten pernican view of the solar system. 2 parts in 1 vol. as issued, folio, happy years of playing with and against them across the green baize. 19th-century half calf, brown cloth sides with the gilt supralibros of From Ian”, referencing the winning hand that Bond draws against Le University College London. A well-preserved, crisp copy. Chiffre. 8vo, original black cloth, with the first issue dust jacket. An $65,000 [128763] exceptional copy. $175,000 [130450] (GOLF; JAPAN.) WHITE, Cyril T. H. Commonplace book containing documents relating to cruises on the China FLEMING, Ian. [Corrected typescript:] The Man with the Station and elsewhere. 1890–1906 Golden Gun. June-July 1964 A naval officer’s commonplace book, containing a range of ephem- the original typescript of fleming’s last bond novel, eral material, most notably two printed documents relating to the with his last corrections and those of his posthumous editor, Hakodate Golf Club of 1897, predating the accepted date for the Kingsley Amis. 182 numbered pages, Fleming’s autograph revisions foundation of the “first golf club in Japan” at Kobe in 1901. 4to, late in blue ink to about 80 pages and extensive editorial corrections, 4to, 19th-century commercial ledger book, recently rebound in quarter bound in a custom black morocco folder with black cloth slipcase. sheep, approx. 140 leaves. $230,000 [130451] $13,000 [117485]

(GUTENBERG, Johann.) BIBLE; Latin. Single leaf from the Old Testament, 1 Chronicles 24:4 to 26:19. [Mainz: Printer of the 42-line Bible (Johann Gutenberg) and Johannes Fust, about 1455] single paper leaf from the gutenberg bible, the first com- plete book printed with movable type, accompanied by Newton’s bibliographical essay. Housed in the original portfolio. $98,000 [130791]

HEANEY, Seamus. “Sloe Gin”, manuscript poem. [c.1984] very scarce example of a full autograph manuscript poem, signed by heaney. Single leaf, 15 lines in black ink to recto only. $4,500 [131360]

typescript for The Man with the Golden Gun – 6 – Hugo

HUGO, Victor. Les Misérables. Bruxelles [Brussels]: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Ce, éditeurs, 1862 rare first edition, preceding the Paris edition by four or five days. 10 vols., 8vo. A fine set, uncut in original pale blue-green print- ed wrappers, edges untrimmed. Joyce $60,000 [127594] KIPLING, Rudyard. Just So Stories. London: Macmillan and Co., HUXLEY, Aldous. Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus, Limited, 1913 1932 first uk edition with colour illustrations, signed by the first edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, with the dust jacket. author on the title page. Signed copies of Kipling’s major works $11,500 [130900] are notably scarce. 4to, original blue cloth. $9,750 [130909] (JAPAN.) PEARCE, Walter. Abstract Log of “USS Wyoming” maintained by Ensign Walter Pearce. At sea: 1861–64 KIRCHER, Athanasius. China Monumentis. Amsterdam: Civil War naval log incorporating an important eye-witness account Johann Janssonius à Waesberge & Eliza Weyerstraet, 1667 of the first encounter between American and Japanese naval forces. true first edition of kircher’s highly influential work 4to, commercial ledger book, approx. 160 pp. A few leaves loose, on china, containing the first Sanskrit grammar published in the otherwise in very good condition. West, and the first publication of the Syriac and Chinese text of the $26,000 [129594] famous Nestorian stele. Large folio, contemporary sprinkled calf. A pleasing copy in very good condition. JOYCE, James. Ulysses. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1936 $9,750 [130448] the only known presentation copy of the definitive edition personally inscribed by joyce, to the son of the an- KRUSENSTERN, Adam Johann von. Voyage Round the thropologist Lucien Lévy-Bruhl: “to Henri Lévy-Brühl, James Joyce World. London: Printed by C. Roworth (vol. II, T. Davison); for John Copenhagen—Paris 1936”. One of an unknown number of copies re- Murray, 1813 served for presentation aside from the stated edition of 1,000 copies. first edition in english of the first russian circumnav- Crown 8vo, original green buckram. igation. 2 vols. in one, 4to, contemporary tree calf professionally $97,500 [125582] rebacked to style. A handsome copy, clean and generously margined. $25,000 [124187] KAEMPFER, Engelbert. De Beschryving van Japan. Amsterdam: Jan Roman de Jonge, 1733 LA PÉROUSE, Jean François Galaup de. Voyage autour du Second Dutch edition, following the first of 1729. First published in Monde. Paris: de l’Imprimerie de la République, 1797 London in 1727, it remained the chief source of western knowledge first edition of one of the finest narratives of maritime explora- of Japan for over a century. Folio, contemporary mottled calf. A par- tion ever written, from the library of Joseph Bonaparte, elder brother ticularly attractive copy, clean, well-margined and in an appealing of Napoleon. 4 text vols., 4to, folio atlas, vols. II–IV uniformly bound period binding. in contemporary tree calf; vol. I bound to match at the time but dif- $11,500 [124565] fering slightly (endpapers watermarked 1813); atlas folio rebound to style in half calf over 19th-century marbled paper boards. A very at- tractive set, wide-margined and clean and with fine impressions of the plates and maps. $32,500 [124378]

– 7 – Leibniz

LEIBNIZ, Gottfried Wilhelm von. Lehr-Sätze über die Monadologie. Frankfurt & Leipzig: Widow of Johann Meyer, 1720 exceedingly scarce first appearance in print of the monadology, one of the most important philosophical texts of the Lovelace 18th century. Bound with two relevant contemporary works. 3 works in 1 vol, 8vo, contemporary full vellum over paste paper boards. A MERCIER, Henry James, & William Gallop. Life in a Man-of- very good, well-preserved copy. War. Philadelphia: Lydia E. Bailey, 1841 $125,000 [127048] first edition, uncommon in the original cloth. Mercier’s account was a key source for Melville’s White Jacket. 8vo, original brown cloth, LENNON, John. In His Own Write. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964 attractive and overall very good. first edition, signed by the author. Lennon’s first book, and the first solo project by a member of the Beatles. 8vo, original $2,500 [121255] boards. Near-fine. ORWELL, George. A Clergyman’s Daughter. London: Victor $9,750 [127019] Gollancz Ltd, 1935 LENNON, John. A Spaniard in the Works. London: Jonathan first edition in a superb example of the very rare dust jacket, this being the most complete and only unrestored example we have han- Cape, 1965 dled. 8vo, original black cloth. A near-fine copy , entirely unrestored. first edition, signed by the author, of Lennon’s second book. 8vo, original boards. A fine copy. $50,000 [130371] $8,500 [127022] ORWELL, George. The Road to Wigan Pier. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1937 (LOVELACE, Ada.) MENABREA, Luigi Federico. Sketch first edition, signed by the author, very scarce thus. 8vo, of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage, Esq. orginal limp orange cloth. London: printed by Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843 $19,500 [130355] first separate edition of the most important early paper in the history of computing, remarkably rare, from the library of Ada Love- ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. London: Secker & lace’s early tutor in mathematics, Dr William King. 8vo, contempo- Warburg, 1949 rary red morocco with “Lovelace” lettered in gilt to the front board, with a page of meticulously compiled notes on Ada’s life in King’s first edition, an intriguing association copy from the li- hand to the flyleaf, and annotated on the title page to identify the brary of Orwell’s close friends Eleanor and Dennis Collings, with anonymous translator of the work as “Lady Lovelace”. their ownership inscription to the front pastedown, “Eleanor & Dennis Collings, Southwold”. Orwell shared a passionate love affair $325,000 [127810] with Eleanor in 1932 and their tryst is often credited as a source of inspiration for certain scenes featuring the character of Julia in this MACKAY, Charles. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular novel. 8vo, original green cloth, with the previously supplied green Delusions. London: Richard Bentley, 1841 dust jacket. first edition of Mackay’s important early work of social psycholo- $12,750 [129484] gy. 3 vols., 8vo, original brown cloth, recased. $30,000 [128845]

– 8 – Owen Plath

OWEN, Robert. A New View of Society. London: printed for POLIDORI, John; Gordon George Noel, Lord Byron; Henry Cadell and Davies, 1813–14 Hart Milman. The Vampyre. London: printed for Sherwood, Neely, first edition, first issue, one of 40 specially bound pres- and Jones, 1819 entation sets, inscribed “from the author” on the first first edition, very scarce second issue, of this seminal vampire blank. 4 parts bound in 1 vol., 8vo, contemporary dark blue straight- novel; bound together contemporaneously with two Byron first edi- grain morocco gilt, watered pink silk doublures and endpapers. A tions, and a second edition of Fazio. 4 works in 1 vol., 8vo, contem- fresh, wide-margined copy. porary half calf. $115,000 [130529] $8,750 [130517]

[PLATH, Sylvia; as] LUCAS, Victoria. Uncorrected proof PUSHKIN, Aleksandr. Eugene Onéguine. London: Macmillan copy of The Bell Jar, with authorial revisions. London: William and Co., 1881 Heinemann, 1962 first edition in english of Pushkin’s final work. It was first pub- the author’s own proof copy of her first and only pub- lished in book form in 1833. 8vo, original green cloth. A very nice lished novel, with her final corrections to the text before pub- copy in bright cloth. lication, and ownership inscription on the first page. The proof is $9,750 [129124] closely revised, with Plath correcting spelling, grammar, and punc- tuation, inserting words, altering the font style, and in six instances, ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. alterations to words. 8vo, original wrappers. In excellent condition. [Edinburgh:] in association with The Scottish Braille Press, 1998 $195,000 [125788] first braille edition, signed by the author on the front cov- er of each volume, with the authentication hologram to inside front cover of each. This is believed to be the sole signed set of any Braille edition. 5 vols., folio, original purple wrappers. A fine set. $8,750 [130465]

ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. London: Bloomsbury, 2000 first edition, one of two dedication copies, inscribed by the author on the dedication page beneath the printed dedication to Su- san Sladden: “and, though we didn’t want it in print, helped me out of my cupboard. With unending gratitude and equal love Jo a.k.a. (again) JK Rowling x”. Sladden was a close friend of Rowling’s in Ed- inburgh who enabled her to finish the Philosopher’s Stone by babysit- Rowling, dedication copy ting her daughter. 8vo, original boards, with the dust jacket. A fine copy. $97,500 [128864]

– 9 – Shakespeare Shelley, Frankenstein in boards

ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. London: SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Queen Mab. London: by P. B. Shelley Bloomsbury, 2000 [actually by an unknown printer for Thomas Hookham], 1813 first edition, signed by the author, with the Golden Ticket first edition, an “unmutilated” copy, with title page and final leaf from the signing session loosely inserted. 8vo, original boards, with intact, and including the poetic dedication to Harriet. 8vo, bound by the dust jacket. A fine copy. Zaehnsdorf in 1895 in an exhibition Grolieresque binding of brown $3,000 [131184] crushed morocco. A fine copy. $32,500 [130374] ROWLING, J. K. The Tales of Beedle the Bard. London: The Children’s High Level Group, 2008 [SHELLEY, Mary.] Frankenstein. London: for Lackington, first edition, limited issue, signed by the author with the Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818 authentication hologram. Uncommon signed: there was only one first edition, one of only a handful of boards copies surviving in signing event for this book, at the National Library of Scotland. 8vo, private hands. With apposite provenance, from a Stoke Newington original brown imitation morocco, ornately embellished with silver circulating library (at neighbouring Newington Green, Wollstone- metal cornerpieces and centrepiece with blue faux gemstones. A fine craft and her sisters opened their school for girls). 3 vols., 12mo. A copy of this elaborate and fantastical limited edition. remarkable survival untrimmed in original boards. $11,500 [131372] $360,000 [130172]

(RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR.) LYNCH, George & Frederick SHELLEY, Mary. Frankenstein. London: Henry Colburn and Palmer. In Many Wars. [Tokyo:] Tokyo Printing Company, [1904] Richard Bentley, 1831 first edition of this remarkable collection of 49 war correspond- first illustrated edition, the third overall, and the first sub- ent’s tales, with the signature of 39 of the correspondents beneath stantially revised by Mary Shelley alone as sole author. It was the first their submission. 8vo, original silk-covered card wrappers, white silk truly popular edition and the first to contain an illustration depicting cord ties. An exceptionally bright copy of this fragile production. Frankenstein and the Creature. 8vo, late 19th-century red half mo- $2,000 [129228] rocco, original brown cloth spine bound in. $11,000 [130901] SHAKESPEARE, William. Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. London: printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, and are SHELLEY, Mary. Six autograph letters. Florence, Sorrento, & to be sold, 1632 Putney: [1843 & 1845] the second folio, the earliest practically obtainable edition of the Six autograph letters signed to the Tuscan nobleman Bartolomeo greatest single volume in English literature. Median folio, contem- Cini, between 2 pp. and 4 pp. All creased from folding as usual, else porary blind-panelled calf, neatly rebacked with original spine label very good. Mary Shelley’s autograph letters rarely appear on the mar- laid down. A very good, tall, well-margined copy, not trimmed since ket, and those in Italian are particularly unusual. Moreover, intact its original binding. collections of letters to the same recipient are of particular interest. $450,000 [128970] $32,500 [130001]

– 10 – Spinoza Stoker

SIRÉN, Osvald. The Walls and Gates of Peking. New York: SPINOZA, Baruch. Tractatus theologico-politicus. Hamburg: Orientalia, 1924 Henricus Künraht, 1670 first and limited u.s. edition, one of 800 copies, comprising first edition of Spinoza’s great treatise on political theology and the UK sheets with cancel title page. 4to, original quarter natural the only work published in his lifetime. 4to, modern boards covered buckram, with the scarce dust jacket. with a medieval manuscript antiphonal on vellum. $16,500 [131343] $48,000 [130116]

SOLINUS, Caius Julius. Polyhistor [with:] MARLIANI, STOKER, Bram. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Bartolomeo. Urbis Romae topographia. Basel & Rome: Michael Company, 1897 Isingrin & Valerio and Luigi Dorico, 1543 first edition, first issue, presentation copy, inscribed by first illustrated edition, second issue of one of the most cele- the author two months after publication, “Henry Williams from his brated early guides to Rome, with the important folding map, which old friend Bram Stoker July 1897”. 8vo, original yellow cloth. An ex- appears here for the first time; bound with the second edition of So- cellent copy. linus’s Polyhistor, including the folding map of “Asia Maior”, with an $175,500 [130449] early depiction of China and South East Asia. 2 works in 1 vol., small folio, contemporary vellum. A superior copy. TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Hobbit. London: George Allen & Unwin $19,500 [130002] Ltd, 1937 first colour-illustrated edition, preceded only by the first SOLOMON, Simeon. Photographs, after Ten Drawings, of printing, which was uncoloured. 8vo, original green cloth, with the Jewish Ceremonials. London: Cundall, Downes and Co. for the dust jacket. Photographic Institution, 1862 $16,500 [127317] first and only edition, extremely uncommon, with just one oth- er set traced institutionally. A wonderful survival encapsulating the TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings. London: George Allen early mastery and clear promise of this ultimately tragic and sadly and Unwin, 1954-5 under-regarded figure. Folio, original terracotta paper-covered port- first editions, first impressions. 3 vols., 8vo, original red folio containing 10 original sepia-toned albumen prints. cloth, with the dust jackets. A fine set, the jackets remarkably bright. $19,500 [126955] $45,000 [130528]

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TWAIN, Mark. The Prince and the Pauper. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882 first u.s. edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the most influential non-family member in his life, Mary Mason Fairbanks, an editor and correspondent for the Cleveland Herald. 4to, original dark green cloth, neatly rebacked retaining the original spine. $16,500 [130674] Wollstonecraft

[VIANA, Francisco Javier de.] Diario del viage explorador WILDE, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest. London: de las corbetas españolas “Descubierta” y “Atrevida”. Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899 [Montevideo:] Ejercito, 1849 first edition, signed limited issue, one of 100 large paper cop- first and only edition of the first published account of Spain’s ies signed by the author. Square 8vo, bound for Hatchards (Piccadil- greatest scientific voyage of exploration to the South Seas in the 18th ly) in near-contemporary green crushed half morocco. century. Rare: 20 copies in libraries worldwide but just a handful of copies traced at auction. 8vo, contemporary marbled boards, re- $38,500 [125779] backed in brown morocco. A very good copy of a fragile publication. (WINE.) The Vineyard. London: for W. Mears, 1727 $16,500 [111448] first edition of this viticultural treatise, most famous for its in- WAUGH, Evelyn. Decline and Fall. London: Chapman & Hall clusion of the first detailed description in English of wine-making in Champagne, based on first-hand observation. 8vo, contemporary Ltd, 1928 panelled calf. With the bookplate of William Gilstrap, son of wine first edition, first impression, presentation copy of merchant Joseph Gilstrap. waugh’s first novel, inscribed “with love to Maurice & Jane Mar- ston, from Evelyn Waugh”. The recipients were Maurice Marston, $9,750 [129080] the first secretary of the National Book Council, and his wife Jane, WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of whom Waugh mentions twice in his diaries. 8vo, original red and black cloth, with the dust jacket. Woman. London: printed for J. Johnson, 1792 first edition of the first great feminist treatise. 8vo, un- $32,500 [130423] cut in original drab paper-backed blue boards, rebacked, preserving the original unlettered spine. A very good, tall copy. $32,500 [130319]

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