Catalogue 42

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1 AICKMANN, Robert. Cold Hand In Mine. London, Gollancz. 1975 [42768 ] First Edition. 8vo. Fine in publisher’s purple cloth in a similarly bright yellow gollancz dustwrapper slightly discoloured to the spine and a little bumped to the extremities, a very good copy. Inscribed by Aickman to the flyleaf: “For my dear Marlies, With Love From, Robert. Robert Aickman. Shakespeare's Birthday 1976.” Inscribed Aickman is somewhat rare, and we are always happy when we find some. £200

2 AMIS, Kingsley [DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan] The Darkwater Hall Mystery. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press. 1978 [42181 ] Limited edition. Number 67 of 165 copies. 8vo. Bound in publisher's original marbled card wraps. Fine with trifling edgewear. Internally clean and bright, a very pretty copy of a scarce piece of Sherlockiana. £275

3 ANON [HARRIS, Mrs. James P.] A Lady's Diary of The Siege of Lucknow. Written for The Perusal of Friends at Home. London: John Murray. 1858. [42760 ] Second, "New" revised edition with additions. 8vo. Publisher's brown embossed cloth, some marking and mottling, light bumping and fraying to spine ends and extremities, minor shelfwear, very good indeed, strong, pretty and robust. Glazed yellow endpapers, with some unattractive glue seepage to the margins of the pastedowns. Edwards and Remnants binders label to rear pastedown. Internally clean, with the occasional spot of thumbing and a couple of occasions of clumsy opening of the page edges. A tidy, strong copy of a contemporary eyewitness account of one of the most compelling actions of the 1857 Sepoy Uprising. £150

[1] 4 ANONYMOUS [Harvard University] The Ceremonies in Honour of the Right Honourable Winston Spencer Churchill. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1943. [42946 ] Presentation Copy. Octavo. Bound in red cloth, with gilt titles and arms of the university to front board. Includes a signed compliment card. Rare in hardback issue. The binding is pristine, with no marks of wear or signs of fading. Internally clean, with slight residual mark where presentation card was held in with paper clip. The card is dedicated to A.H. Smith CBE, presumably Albert Hugh Smith, Quain Professor of English at University College London, and signed by David M. Little, Secretary of the University, Harvard. £750 WOODS D(b)59, COHEN A186.2.

5 ASTOR, William Waldorf. Pharaoh's Daughter and Other Stories. London: Macmillan and Co. 1900 [42069 ] First edition. 8vo. Fine in publisher's blue cloth, lavishly decorated in gilt with sarcophagi and lotus leaves etc. crisp, clean and supernaturally sharp, minor bumping to the spine ends. Top edge gilt. In a fine example (I say example, as if I've seen five and this is the nicest) of the dustwrapper, a dustwrapper from 1900 in near fine to dine condition, spotlessly clean and with some very minor chipping and creasing to the head of the spine. Absolutely glorious, pretty scarce anyway and very rare in this condition with its wrapper. A collection of stories originally published in the Pall Mall Magazine. William Waldorf Astor, being a member of the famed American Astor clan, moved to Britain in 1891 and was unusually made a Peer of The Realm in 1916, becoming Viscount Astor of Hever Castle for his generous contributions to war charities. A splendid copy. £975

6 BALLOU, Adin. [STONE, G.W.] An Exposition of Views Respecting The Principle Facts, Causes and Peculiarities Involved In Spirit Manifestations. London: H. Bailliere. 1852 [42682 ] First edition thus with new edits by Stone and with a new introduction. 8vo. Publisher's blue embossed cloth, titled in gilt to spine. Strong and clean, sunned to spine with gilt somewhat dulled, bumped to spine ends, minor edgewear, very good indeed, a handsome copy. Glazed yellow endpapers, internally clean. Ballou was an early exponent of pacificism as a political and religious movement and amngst other thing was the founder of the Hopedale community in Massachusetts, a kind of supposed spiritual utopia. He was also a correspondent of Tolstoy in his later life. A surprisingly serious and academic study of spiritual manifestation, with some interesting dialogues wrested from the mouths of the departed and a wealth of anecdote. Any contemporary edition of this work is scarce, the first legendarily so. A pretty copy. £275 [2] 7 BATEMAN, Mr. E. Mechanical Brides of The Uncanny. Published by Mr. Bateman, somewhere in the vasty expanses of the New World. 2009. [42799 ] First edition stated. Limited edition (no. 97) Signed by the creator to verso of limitation card. 21 photgraphic carte de visites, limitation card and a further card offering some historical context and further detail of the prodigies depicted within. The whole ensemble housed in an attractive and practical tin container. An attractive and enlightening collection of vsiting cards depticting the habits and companions of the autonomous automaton citizens of the post civil war United States. A group of patriots and partners now sadly mostly forgotten by the cruel mill of history, we are indebeted to Mr. Bateman for his efforts and skill in reminding us of the debt we owe to Feebles the Robot Poodle and Corporal Grunzmuller-357 of the Mechanised Dragoons. Scarce, and charming. £250

8 BATEMAN, Mr. Edward J. Science Rends The Veil. An Index of The Conquest of Science Over The Question of The Existence of Discarnate Spirits and Life Beyond The Grave. Published by Mr. Bateman himself, in the State of Utah. 2014. [42800 ] First edition. 16 photographic cards lettered A to P (a limitation noted on the the signature card that accompanies this set). The predominantly 19th century theory and apparatus depicted with their operators and oft-times inventors in these cards were true pioneers, bent through dint of scientific excellence and visionary thought on the olympian objective of showing us, the ones left behind, a true window onto the mysteries of the afterlife. Mr. Bateman's archival exploits allow us a unique insight into the workings of etheric vapours and the ectoplasmic generators of the necroscopic explorers of years gone by. The collection is housed in a functional yet rather surgical tine case. Scarce, and not without a certain macabre charm. £300

9 BAYLEY, Harold. The Lost Language Of Symbolism. An inquiry into the origin of certain letters, words, names, fairy-tales, folklore, and mythologies. London, Williams & Norgate. 1912. [42862 ] First editions. 2 vols., large 8vo. Publisher's ribbed green cloth titled and decorated in gilt and blind to spine and front boards. Minor rubbing and bumping, some slight dustiness to the cloth and some minor edgewear, very good indeed. Internally clean, ownership to front flyleaf, the books having originally been the property of H.C.D. Chorlton before passing into the hands of W.R.M. Turtle who has taken it upon himself to cross out Chorlton and firmly inform us of his subsequent and therefore far more significant ownership. Turtle appears to have been a doctor who submitted numerous articles to The Lancet, Chorlton; a British artist. Not perhaps vital information regarding the books in question, but it entertained me. There's a spot of pencil annotation here and there, but this is nevertheless a very good, presentable copy of a scarce and fascinating work. Charming. £350 [3] 10 BEARD, Peter. Peter Beard. Art Edition Cologne: Taschen 2006 [42921 ] LIMITED FIRST EDITION, number 2148 of 2500 copies SIGNED by the photographer. Large elephant folio. Illustrated with full-page colour photographs throughout. Text in English, German and French. Handsomely bound in half leather over cloth sides in a protective cloth clamshell box with gilt-stamped elephant motif to upper tray. Together with the companion catalogue raisonné and wooden display stand in the original printed carton (unopened). Contents presumed mint, minor storage wear to outer cardboard. A superb prodution; one of the most lavish books published to date on the work of a single photographer. Peter Hill Beard was born into a very wealthy family; grandfather Pierre Lorillard IV was a tobacco magnate, throroughbred racehorse owner, partner of William Waldorf Astor, and was credited with introducing the tuxedo to America, whilst the other grandfather, J.J.Hill was a 19th century industrial tycoon and founder of the Great Northern Railroad. Hill left as legacy both money and colonialism to his grandson Peter, who, while not rejecting money from this trust, lamented the expansion of Western capitalism into his Africa (choosing to ignore his own privileged existence there as part of this infiltration). Due to this wealth, Beard has lived a jet-setting lifestyle and is famous not only for his photographs of endangered African elephants but also of supermodels and rock stars like Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Iman, Veruschka. Beard's NY milieu consisted of Andy Warhol, and Bianca Jagger, and he was part of the entourage to the infamous Rolling Stones 1972 tour of the Americas. £2375

11 BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. Last Letters of Aubrey Beardsley. With an Introductory Note, by the Rev. John Gray. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1904. [42229 ] First edition. 8vo. Bound in publisher's slate blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt and black to spine and front board. Rubbed to extremities with some darkening to spine, bumping to spine ends. Strong and soild, if a trifle soiled, very good. Top edge gilt. Internally clean, traces of removed label to front pastedown, neat ink ownership to front flyleaf. A rather touching collection of Letters from Beardsley, spanning from May 1895 until the artist's death in March 1898. £50

12 BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. Letters to Smithers. London; Chiswick Press First Editions Club, 1937. [42230 ] 8vo. Publisher's black cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and boards. Sharp and clean, very good indeed. Top edge plain, all others untrimmed. Photographic endpapers. An amusing and enlightening collection of correspondance between Beardsley and Smithers between 1895 until the artist's death in 1898. Pictorial title page is a Beardsley illustration that at the time of publication had never been seen before. A very nicely produced volume. [4] £50 13 [BEARDSLEY, Aubrey] Macfall, Haldane. Aubrey Beardsley, The Man and His Work. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited. 1928 [42231 ] First edition. 4to. Publisher's dark brown buckram spine over brown paper covered boards, some wear to extremities. White paper label, somewhat dulled (but never fear, there is a spare label tipped in at the rear of the book). Internally clean and bright, edges untrimmed. Illustrated throughout with full page plates. A rather touching if occasionally slightly purple rundown of Beardsley's career, but a beautifully produced book. This copy bearing the ex libris stamp of John Bennett Shaw, famous in collecting circles for have the largest and most exhaustive collection of related material in the world. A lovely book. £125

14 BERKELEY, Anthony. Roger Sheringham and the Vane Mystery. London: W. Collins Sons and co., 1927. [42937] First Edition. Octavo. Bound in publisher's blue cloth, with red titles to front board and spine. In pictorial dust wrapper, which depicts in black and blue, a disembodied hand, a fleeing woman, and a question mark, titles to spine, and blurb, advertising matter, and sillhouette biplane to rear cover. The binding is tight, and the text shows minor spotting throughout. The colours of the dust wrapper remain bright, with a number of minor chips to edges of front cover, a missing section to the top corner of the rear cover and a second at the top of spine which removes the "Ro" and "She" of the title. A presentable copy, rare with its dust wrapper. £3750

15 BOWRING, Sir John (1792-1872). The Kingdom and People of Siam. With a Narrative of the Mission to that Country in 1855. London: John W. Parker and Son, 1857. [42887 ] FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes; 8vo.; pp. x, (1), 482, 2; vi, (1), 446, 8. Recently bound in dark green half morocco leather with gilt titles and gilt to spines, green cloth boards, top edges gilt. Complete with a folding map of Siam, and 18 plates of which 8 are lithographs in colour, 7 steel engravings in black and white, 2 are folding facsimile letters of the Kings of Siam, 1 a folding specimen of ancient Siamese inscription. A superb copy of Bowring's description of as well as Cambodia and Laos, and his account of his dealing with King , as a special envoy of 's when , to negociate a treaty of commerce. John Bowring was an English political economist, traveller, miscellaneous writer, polyglot, and the 4th Governor of Hong Kong. In 1854, John Bowring, the Governor of Hong Kong in the name of Queen Victoria, came to Siam to negotiate a treaty. For the first time Siam had to deal seriously with international laws. The result was the , an agreement signed on April 18, 1855 [5] continued... between the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Siam that liberalized foreign trade in Siam. The Treaty was signed by King Mongkut of Siam and Sir John Bowring. The Bowring Treaty is now credited with having led to the economic development of Bangkok, as it created a framework in which multilateral trade could operate freely in Southeast Asia, notably between China, Singapore and Siam. Outside of Thailand, King Mongkut (1804-1868) is best known as the King in the 1951 play and 1956 film The King and I, based on the 1946 film Anna and the King of Siam – in turn based on the 1944 novel about ' years at his court, from 1862 to 1867. During his reign (1851-1868), the pressure of Western expansionism was felt for the first time in Siam. Mongkut embraced Western innovations and initiated the modernization of Siam, both in technology and culture—earning him the nickname "The Father of Science and Technology" in Siam. Mongkut was also known for his appointing his brother, Prince Chutamani, as Second King, crowned in 1851 as King . Mongkut himself assured the country that Pinklao should be respected with equal honor to himself (as King Naresuan had done with his brother Ekathotsarot in 1583.) Mongkut's reign was also the time when the power of the House of Bunnag reached its zenith and became the most powerful noble family of Siam. £1250 Cordier Indosinica 736

16 BRONTE, Charlotte Jane Eyre An Autobiography. London, The Gresham Publishing Co. n.d. [42667 ] Illustrated Edition, 8vo. Publisher’s decorated, royal blue cloth, titles in gilt to front board and spine with pale grey endpapers. Minor edgewear and a little bumping, very good indeed, a clean, sharp copy. Contains 6 detailed illustrations, including frontispiece, all by John H. Bacon. With an obsessive emotional grip and a haunting narrative, Charlotte Bronte’s ‘Jane Eyre’ is a classic tale of romance and one of the most famous and popular British novels of all time. It was also after the publication of Jane Eyre that Charlotte decided to reveal the true identity of ‘Currer Bell’, which put an end to some great public effort to pinpoint the book's author. £175 Listed in The Observer’s All-Time 100 Best Novels [2003], also in BBC’s Big Read (200 Best Novels) [2003]

17 BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett Sonnets From The Portuguese. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker Press no date [circa 1900] [41909 ] Twelvemo. pp175, printed on rectos. Finely bound for Putnam in full brown morocco, gilt, with marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A little wear and handling; near fine. Includes the (British) Nation’s Favourite Love Poem, Sonnet no. 43, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways...” £65 [6] 18 BUCHAN, John. Scholar Gipsies London: John Lane at The Bodley Head. 1896 [42313 ] First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth spined oatmeal cloth boards lavishly decorated in brown and gilt to spine and boards. Top edge stained brown, all other edges untrimmed. Internally clean and bright. Minor bumping and edgewear, a near fine copy of Buchan's second published novel. Illustrated with highly evocative etchings by D.Y. Cameron. £450

19 BURCHETT, Josiah. A Complete History of the most Remarkable Transactions at Sea, From the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Conclusion of the Last War with France. Wherein is given an Account of the most considerable Naval-Expeditions, Sea-Fights, Stratagems, Discoveries, And other Maritime Occurences that have happen’d among all Nations which have flourished at Sea: And in a more particular manner of Great Britain, from the time of the Revolution, in the Year 1688, to the aforesaid Period. Adorn’d with Sea-Charts adapted to the History. With an exact Index of the Names of all the Places where any considerable Battle has been fought, in any Part of the World. In Five Books. London: Printed by W.B. for J. Walthoe, 1720. [42202 ] First Edition. 4to. Contemporary full panelled calf boards, resopined to style with raised bands and red title label. With engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait, and 9 folding maps and charts. Light browning to a few maps and charts, heavy to a couple; internally clean. Bookplate of William Perceval to paste down. A superb copy. 'This volume is particularly important in the literature of naval history, not only as a narrative of naval operations in the Nine Years’ War and the War of the Spanish Succession, but as the first general naval history written in the English language.' DNB £975 Sabin 9205.

20 BURKE, The Right Honourable Edmund. The Works of The Right Hounourable Edmund Burke. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, Pall Mall 1792 [42866 ] 6 volumes; quarto. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Three volumes published in 1792, extended to four volumes in 1802 (that volume being published by Rivington). Volumes five (as 'Miscellaneous') and six (also by Rivington) followed in 1812 and 1813. Two further volumes (not collected here) were published up to 1827. A clean, presentable and, importantly, early uniform set, bound in the same full tan calf with twin labels and extra gilt, presumably around 1802; given its protracted publication, sets are often found in mixed bindings or much later uniform leather. Some marginal worming to volume six, else internally clean. Bindings have been neatly rebacked with original spines laid down (some small chips and rubs in places). Generally a tidy and attractive library set of Burke’s philosophical and political writings. £1750 Todd 79a (1)-(3). [7] 21 BURN, Lieut. Lambton. “Down Ramps!” Saga of The Eighth Armada. London: Carroll and Nicholson. 1947 [42171 ] First edition. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half blue morocco gilt over marbled boards. Black title labels to spine. Clean and sharp, internally clean with original map endpapers retained. An account of the Eighth Armada's actions throughout World War 2 from Tobruk to Kiel. Illustrated with black and white photographs depicting all manner of landing craft related actions and some rather gruelling images of men who have clearly had more than enough. Very good indeed. £75

22 BURTON, Richard F. Etruscan Bologna: A Study. Smith, Elder, & Co., London, 1876, [42305 ] 8vo., 217 x 143mm., pps. (xii) + 275. Illustrated with folding pullout frontispiece, sepia tone lithograph illustration: Synoptical Table of the Paleo- Ethnological Remains of Central Italy’, wood block illustrations throughout text. Bound in Publisher’s blue cloth with decorative friezes in black relief to top and bottom of boards. Gilded motif to upper, gilt titles to spine. Edges and corners lightly rubbed, otherwise a clean and sound copy. Internally clean, two small areas of tape residue to half title. Very good indeed. £395

23 BUTLER, Arthur G. (FROHAWK, F.W.). Foreign Finches in Captivity. Illustrated with Sixty Plates by F.W. Frohawk. Coloured by Hand. London: L. Reeve and Co., 1894-96. [42666 ] First Edition. 4to. The 10 Original Parts bound in one volume late 20th cenntury, in half navy blue morocco with gilt titles and gilt to spine, marbled boards and end papers, top edge gilt. The original parts front wrappers are bound in at the end. Errata slip on p. 44 present. Sharp plates with exquisite colouring. All plates with tissue guard. Very small, inoffensive paper repair to the bottom corner of about 5 leaves and 1 plate. Internally clean. A superb example of this important work on Finches, scarce in First Edition and in this condition. £2750

24 BYRON, Lord. Poems on His Domestic Circumstances. London: R. Edwards. 1818 [42436 ] Stated 18th edition. 8vo. 40pp. Contemporary printer's waste paper wraps, very good indeed, minor scuffing and wear. Internally clean, frontis. portrait. Need ink ownership to title page. Internally clean with wide margins. A later printing of Byron's rather catty "Fare Thee Well" and "A Sketch From Private Life", accompanied by Star of The Legion of Honour and other poems. With a memoir of Byron preceding the body of poems. Clean, sharp and evocative, a lovely survival of a fragile object. £100

[8] 25 BYRON, Robert. The Byzantine Achievement. London: Routledge. 1929 [42691 ] First edition. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Minor bumping to spine ends and perhaps the faintest discolouration to spine, a very good, sharp clean copy indeed. Lacking dustwrapper. A handsome copy of the author's thrid book, a historical analysis of Byzantium and its influence. Illustrated throughout. £300

26 CAULFIELD, James. Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, from the Reign of Edward The Third, to the Revolution. in 3 Volumes [with] Portraits, Memoirs [etc.] from the Revolution in 1688 to the Reign of George II in four volumes. London: R.S. Kirbay and Young and Whitely. 1813, 1819-20 [42820 ] 7 volumes, 8vo. Bound in old half green morocco gilt over marbled boards, spines uniformely sunned, a little shelfwear here and there but overall a strong, tight, handsome set, very good indeed. All edges marbled. Internally clean. Marbled endpapers, ink ownership in the name of T.B. Norcliffe, dated 1881 to front flyleaves. Some corner waterstaining to vol V. A little foxing and toning to some plates (there are over 260 portraits in all, the majority clean and bright, some of the folding plates have a little browning along their hinges. Pretty much the most amazing set ever. Originally a late 18th century work, originally published in parts in 1790 and 1795, this uniform complete collection is the most wondrous collection of weirdos, maniacs, smugglers, pirates, highwaymen, murderers, bawds, cross dressers, conspirators, coiners, hedge witches, prophets and of course booksellers that you could ever wish to own. Merely opening at random introduces the unwary reader to the previously inconceivable existence of such personages as Bick, the mimic trumpeter, who became famous for frequenting taverns and mimicking the sounds of musical intruments with uncanny accuracy, presumably until people gave him money to go away. There are the usual portraits of highwaymen, Dick Turpin amongst them, executioners (apparently a bit like the figure skaters of their day, with people comparing technique, artistic interpretation, costume and approximately how many attempts they needed to complete that complicated manouver), Fawkes; A juggler and slight of hand man, Guido Fawkes; who attempted to introduce a measure of political culpability to Britain and unfortunately failed, Jack Sheppard; without whom no portrait volume was allowed to leave the printer, John Pixley, notorious rum-runner and quite the dandy, and Stephen McDaniel; "one of those detestable vilains that no epithet is vile enough to brand their infamy..." so presumably either a lawyer or a Member of Parliament. Booksellers feature prominently amongst these denizens of society's fringe territories, hand in hand with smugglers and cross dressers; which makes perfect sense to me, having attended the Chelsea Book Fair on numerous occasions. An indispensable set, and quite simply one of the most fascinating collections of oddity ever. Quite splendid. [9] £1800 27 CHAMBERS, Robert W. The Maker of Moons. New York: Putnams. 1896 [42786 ] First US edition. 8vo. Publisher's decorated cloth, titled in gilt to spine and front board with a moon and lily design to front board in cream and silver gilt. Minor scuffing and edgewear, bright, sharp and clean, a very good copy indeed. Internally bright and clean. Frontispiece illustration by Lancelot Speed. A short story collection of some very fine tales published in the wake of Chambers absolutely irreplaceable "The King In Yellow." one of the very weirdest of weird tales and highly influential throughout its history, having its lasting effect on Lovecraft and his cabal and indeed continuing right up to the present day with its sinister thematic intrusion into the recent "True Detective." TV series. The Maker of Moons has a similarly complex structure in which several of the stories, although distinct in theme and characterisation, nevertheless echo backwards and forwards between each other in a strange, rather distracting way. A lovely copy. £120

28 CHANTREAU, Pierre Nicolas. Philosophical, Political, and Literary Travels in Russia During the Years 1788 and 1789. Translated from the French of Chantreau with a map, and other plates. Perth: R. Morison and Son. [Vernor and Hood, London]. 1794 [42177 ] First English edition. 2 volumes. 8vo. One folding map and three finely engraved plates.Bound in contemporary tan tree calf boards with later tan spines, black title labels, embellished with gilt centre tools and ruled compartments. Strong and solid. Internally clean, plain endpapers bearing the book plate of Rosalie and Harold O. Voorhis (Harold Oliver Voorhis was the first Secretary of the ) to the front pastedown. Contemporary ink ownership to upper corner of title page. An attractive, scholarly and informative translation of Chantreau's travels. Very ahndsome indeed. £575

29 CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. Edinburgh: James Nichol. 1860 [42792 ] 3 Volumes, 8vo. Bound by A. Wills of Croydon in contemporary half dark brown rather arts and crafts style morocco gilt over green cloth boards. Edges speckled in harlequin. Bookplate of J. Glenelg Grant of Craigelachie to front pastedowns (author of "The Heart Beneath The Uniform" and a pretty Buchanesque character by all accounts). Very minor edgewear to extremities, a very handsome, clean set indeed. Some slight toning and browning to prelims, most noticeably in volume one where the portrait frontis has offset a little. A lovely set in an attractive binding. £375

[10] 30 CHILDERS, Erskine. The Riddle of the Sands. London, Smith Elders & Co. 1910 [42176 ] Second edition. 8vo. Publisher’s decorated black cloth, titles in white to the spine, unfortunately virtually all of the white lettering has chipped off. Light fraying to head of spine. Decorated boards sharp and clean with a couple of splashmarks. Internally clean.Illustrated with fold out maps and charts. A very good copy of the second edition of a book contentiously described as the first modern espionage novel, vying for the title with Kipling’s Kim, published two years earlier. Originally written after he returned injured from action is South Africa and first published in 1903 the novel of encroaching conflict with Germany was highly influential and is actually credited with the founding of British naval bases at Invergordon and Scapa Flow; newly regarded as strategically important after examination of the scenarios in Childer’s novel. Childers was of course a staunch advocate of Irish Home Rule and was found guilty of possessing a firearm in contravention of the Irish Emergency Powers Resolution and sentenced to death by firing squad in 1922. His characteristically humourous last words to the firing squad were ‘Take a step or two closer lads, it’ll be easier that way.’ Author, soldier and intelligence officer :1 , British Government: nil. £475 Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature [382]. Listed in The Observer’s All-Time 100 Best Novels [2003]

31 CHURCHILL, Winston S[pencer], [Sir] (1874-1965). Step by Step. 1936-1939. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1939. [42039 ] FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED TO JULIET DUFF, three weeks prior to the outbreak of War. Octavo, pp.365; [1], Epilogue; with two maps, one of which is folding. Bound in publisher’s green cloth with gilt titles to spine, blind decoration to covers. Intenally fine, covers show some wear, particularly at joints, spine ends chipped. With presentation note to flyleaf; To / Juliet / from / Winston S. Churchill / [flourish] / August. 13. 1939 / Blenheim . 1704. The recipient was the socialite Lady Juliet Duff, daughter of the 4th Earl of Lonsdale and a long-term friend and correspondent of Churchill. Churchill's foreign affairs articles from 1936 to 1939 are compiled in this important work, which chronicles Britain's loss of air parity, France's decline, and the renascent Germany of Adolf Hitler. The author's manuscript note refers to the anniversary of the Battle of Blenheim, in which Churchill's ancestor the Duke of Marlborough was a victorious allied commander. Blenheim Palace, which began construction in 1705, was intended as a gift to Marlborough for his part in the military triumph from a grateful nation. Blenheim Palace subsequently became the residence of the Duke and his descendants, to the present day Spencer-Churchill family; this magnificent Oxfordshire property is the only non-Royal palace in England, and was the birthplace and home of Sir Winston Churchill. £3750 Woods A45 [11] 32 COLLINS, Wilkie. The Works of Wilkie Collins. Including The Woman in White, The Moonstone, After Dark, The Evil Genius, The Dead Secret, etc. New York: Peter Fenelon Collier, n.d. (circa 1900). [42138 ] Complete in 30 volumes, 8vo. With frontispiece illustrations. Handsomely bound in deep red half calf, gilt titles to spines, red buckram boards, top edges gilt. Internally clean. A most attractive set in an elegant recent leather binding. £3750

[COOK, Captain] HAWKESWORTH, John. An Account of the voyages undertaken by the order of his present majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour...... drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, esq. By John Hawkesworth. In three volumes. Illustrated with cuts, and a great variety of charts and maps relative to countries now first discovered, or hitherto but imperfectly known. Together with: COOK, Captain. A Voyage towards the South Pole, and round the world. Performed in His Majesty’s ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the years 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775. Written by James Cook, commander of the Resolution. In which is included, Captain Furneaux’s narrative of his proceedings in the Adventure during the separation of the ships. In two volumes. Illustrated with maps and charts, and a variety of portraits of persons and views of places, drawn during the voyage by Mr. Hedges, and engraved by the most eminent masters. Together with: COOK, Captain James. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty’s ships the Resolution and Discovery in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. In three volumes: Vols I & II written by Captain James Cook, Vol III by Captain James King. Published by order of the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty. First and Second Voyages W. Strachan and T. Cadell, London; Third Voyage G. Nichol, T. Cadell, London, 1773, 1777, 1784. [42883 ] 9 volumes, 8 quarto (270 x 211 mm) and one folio (550 x 393 mm). Bound by the Chelsea Bindery in full dark brown sprinkled calf (quarto volumes) and dark brown half calf over marbled boards (folio volume), raised bands to spines, red and green morocco labels, decorative tools to compartments, floral rolls to turn-ins in blind, all edges yellow, marbled endpapers, boards of quarto volumes with gilt single frames, gilt decorative cornerpieces, and blind rolls. [12] With 145 engraved plates of which 50 folding, 59 engraved maps and charts of which 39 folding, and 36 tables of which 2 folding. Boards very gently bowed, occasional and minimal scuff marks to leather, light tanning to plates, occasional spotting to margins of text block, a few minor professional repairs to margins of plates. An Account of the Voyages: Short tear to top margin of title page and pp. 577-579 in vol. I; light dampstain along top margin of pp. 481-799 in vol. III. A Voyage towards the South Pole: Ownership inscriptions to front flyleaves, bookplate, blind stamp, and cancellation stamp of Lowell Library to verso of title page. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean: Light blue stains along top and fore edges of frontispieces of volumes I and III, ownership inscriptions to title pages of same volumes, small residue of label to verso of front flyleaf of vol. I. A thorough condition report of what is essentially an excellent set. A complete set of the first editions (with the first voyage being first issue) of the official accounts of James Cook’s (1728-79) three Pacific voyages. The first voyage was planned by the Royal Society with the objective to observe ‘the transit of Venus across the face of the sun, which would enable the distance between the earth and the sun to be calculated. The Royal Society's first choice to lead this expedition was Alexander Dalrymple, but the Admiralty, who were to provide the ship, insisted that it should be commanded by a naval officer, and so Cook was appointed instead’ (ODNB). During this expedition, which lasted between 30 July 1768 and 12 June 1771, Cook carried out running surveys of the New Zealand coast and of the east coast of Australia, the latter resulted in his discovery of Botany Bay which ‘was to have a significant effect on the history of that continent’. The success of this first voyage led to Cook being commissioned in 1772 for a second journey to further explore the vast Southern Ocean. As proposed by Cook, the expedition set out on 13 July 1772 to circumnavigate ‘the globe from west to east in a high southern latitude’ in the hope to locate a southern continent, as theorised by Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier. While no such continent was discovered, Cook was first to cross the Antarctic circle on 17 January 1773. He returned to Plymouth on 29 July 1775. This second voyage brought further promotions to Cook, who was made post-captain, appointed fourth captain of Greenwich Hospital, as well as being elected member of the Royal Society in 1776. That same year, he volunteered to command a third voyage as ‘an attempt should be made to find out a Northern Passage by Sea from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean’ (BL, Egerton MS 2177B), as well as to chart the coastline of the North Pacific. Leaving Plymouth on 12 July 1776, the [13] continued... expedition sighted the western coat of North America on 7 March 1778; ‘for the next six and a half months Cook carried out a running survey of some 4000 miles of its coast from Cape Blanco on the coast of Oregon to Icy Cape on the north coast of Alaska’ (ODNB). However, unable to cross Bering Strait, Cook decided to winter on Hawaii, where he died on 14 February 1779 following a conflict with native Hawaiians. Command of the expedition passed initially to Captain Clarke until he succumbed to tuberculosis in late August 1779, at which point command passed to Captains Gore and King, who returned the ships to England on 4 October 1780. Cook’s voyages contributed greatly to the geographical and ethnographic knowledge of the southern hemisphere: they ‘disproved the existence of a great southern continent, completed the outlines of Australia and New Zealand, charted the Society Islands, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, and the Hawaiian Islands, and depicted accurately for the first time the north-west coast of America, leaving no major discoveries for his successors. In addition the scientific discoveries in the fields of natural history and ethnology were considerable and the drawings made by the artists were of great significance’. They brought great fame to Cook, who was recognised during his lifetime for his contributions to exploration and science. Despite the ongoing conflict between Britain and America during his third voyage, Benjamin Franklin, who was the Colonial representative in at the time, granted Cook’s expedition safe passage from American and French warships and privateers. Franklin, who had previously met Cook in London, issued a general laissez- passer declaring that ‘the increase of geographical knowledge facilitates the communication between distant nations in the exchange of useful products and manufactures and the extension of arts whereby the common enjoyments of human life are multiplied and augmented, and science of other kinds increased to the benefit of mankind in general’ (Lyons, The Society for Useful Knowledge, p. 144). Cook discovered New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, the Isle of Pines, Sandwich Land and rediscovered and charted numerous other lands. He was the first to survey New Zealand where he spent six months. Also a pioneer as regards the health of his men, on his second voyage Cook lost only one man out of 118 in a voyage of more 1000 days; he had conquered scurvy. As a commander, an observer and a practical physician, his merits were equally great. He won the affection of those who served under him by sympathy, kindness and unselfish care of others as noteworthy as his gifts of intellect. £25,000 Printing and the Mind of Man 223. National Maritime Museum Catalogue of the Library, Volume One, 565, 577 and 587. Encyclop’dia Britannica, 11th Edition.

[14] 33 COX, A.B. [pseud., Anthony BERKELEY]. The Professor on Paws. The story of a wonderful experiment. London: W. Collins Sons and Co., 1926. [42938 ] First Edition. Octavo. Bound in publishers blue cloth, with titles in red to front board and spine. Dust wrapper depicts the professor of the title in both his forms with titles on the front cover, with titles to spine, and advertisements to rear cover. Cloth binding is tight, with a small discoloured spot to top of spine. The dust wrapper retains its bright colours, with some wear to front cover, a few chips to top and tail of spine. Text is clean. An enjoyable near-farcical romp by a prominent crime author, in which a professor is revivified in the body of a cat. £1650

34 CROWLEY, Aleister. Tannhauser. A Story of All Time. London:Kegan, Paul, Trench and Trubner. 1902 [42785 ] First edition. One of a run of 500 copies on laid paper [a further 6 copies were printed on vellum]. 4to. Publisher's white linen spine over blue paper covered boards. Slight rubbing to extremities, edge chipping to the white paper title label, some soiling of the white linen, some scuffing to edges and a couple of slight scratches to the front board, not penetrating the paper. A very good copy. Internally clean with light spotting, most noticeable to prelims. Last third or so of pages unopened. A strong handsome copy of a rare piece of Crowley; legend has it that the Major Therion himself wrote this piece of teutonic drama in a single 67 hour frenzy of composition. It seems to have been met with rather grim critical response at the time, although all agreed that it was a nicely produced volume.: “Such magnificence of paper, print, and margin, that we trust we are right in assuming that he is possessed of material wealth even greater than the wealth of languages, which he displays so profusely throughout the volume. With all these attractions, he nevertheless fails to stir at all deeply. — The Pall Mall Gazette, date unknown.” And my personal favourite: “We are not sure that Mr. Aleister Crowley treats life as a sacrament, because we do not understand him. — The Daily Chronicle, date unknown.” Comprehensible or not, Mr. Crowley was nothing if not impossible to ignore. A distinguished copy of a scarce work. £1750

[15] 35 CURLING, Henry [ed.] (Rifleman Benjamin Randell Harris). Recollections of Rifleman Harris, (Old 95th). With Anecdotes of His Officers and His Comrades. London: John and Daniel Darling. 1848 [42661 ] First edition. 8vo. 282pp. Publisher's embossed green cloth titled and decorated in green to spine and front board, very good, somehwat bumped and scuffed, cloth worn to extremtities and with an old repair to the worn rear hinge it is nevertheless strong and tight, albeit giving the impression that it might indeed have been on a campaign or two itself. Glazed yellow endpapers, internally clean. Edges untrimmed. A remarkably handsome copy of a scarce book, considering. A contemporary eyewitness account of the Peninsula War that differs from most other histories in that Harris is a serving lower ranked soldier at the very forefront of the horror and deprivation of the conflict. It relates little in the way of grand victories and sweeping tactical coups, but instead concentrates rather more on the exhaustion, hardship and generally deprived, famished and horribly tenuous lives of the rank and file. The 95th Light Infantry (The Rifle Brigade, Prince Consort's Own) fought at many of the most famous actions including the horrendous siege of Badajoz and has become one of the more widely remembered bodies of fighting men from the Peninsula War, mainly through the popularity of Bernard Cornwell's "Sharpe" series of novels and the subsequent television productions which draw heavily upon Harris's Recollections to dramatically depict the events of the conflict between 1808 and 1814, additionally depicting the actions of the regiment at Waterloo. The regiment became The Rifle Brigade in 1816, was eventually renamed to The Royal Greenjackets and since 2007 has fought as the 4th Battalion of The Rifles. A tough, stubborn copy of a scarce and important little book. £375

36 DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Illustrated by Faith Jaques. London, George Allen & Unwin Limited, 1967. [42262 ] FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo., with numerous illustrations in text. Publisher’s pictorial boards. Very minor edge wear. Some chipping to the laminate at the tail of the spine. Near fine. A very handsome copy of Dahl's disturbing, grotesque, hilarious and endlessly entertaining children's classic, guarenteed to seriously unsettle anyone who has left their childhood behind and to inspire anyone who hasn't. Good adults are in short supply, bad children are mutilated and transformed into better, humbler (or maybe just taller or bluer) creatures. There's not one single character who isn't as mad as a sack of ferrets, the world is regularly turned upside down and Wonka himself is like the illicit product of a three day orgy involving John Waters, Howard Hughes and Beau Brummell in a sweetshop run by voodoo Loa. The book is regularly loved into oblivion, and this is a copy that has evaded all the usual drama. £450 [16] 37 DAHL, Roald. James and The Giant Peach. New York, Knopf. 1961 [42769 ] First edition, first issue. [All points as called for, bound by Wolff not Book Press and with the five line colophon instead of the later four line version]. Publisher’s embossed red cloth very lightly bumped to spine ends a crisp, clean and handsome copy. In a fine dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout in strikingly delicate style by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, originally illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, first published in the USA in 1961 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and then in London in 1967 by Allen and Unwin. Because of the book's slightly anarchic content it has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000 at number fifty six. Anything censored that often and by the type of people who do enjoy a good censor must have something well above the ordinary about it. A very striking first issue copy. £1350 Listed in BBC’s Big Read (200 Best Novels) [2003]

38 DICKENS, Charles. The Adventures of Oliver Twist; Or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. London, Bradbury and Evans. 1846 [42204 ] FIRST EDITION in one volume, also first octavo edition. With twenty four steel engravings by Cruikshank (re-touched for this edition by Findlay). Bound in contemporary half burgundy morocco over marbled boards. Titled and decorated in gilt to spine. Minor edgewear and scuffing, chipping to top edges of boards, some loss of paper to extremtities. Strong, sound and handsome, very good. All edges marbled. Marbled enpapers, with pasted in auction record to front pastedown. One gathering a little proud. Minimal toning and foxing to plates, some darkening to the edges of the plates. All in all a clean, tidy copy. Dickens’ classic second novel, published one year after ‘The Pickwick Papers’, which publicised the various hypocrisies and contemporary social evils, including the workhouse, child labour and the recruitment of children as criminals. Filled to the brim with the archetypal circus of Dickensian excesses; vicious thieves, ladies of negotiable virtue with hearts of gold, plucky urchins, cringeworthy Jewish gentlemen and undoubtedly a jolly fat person somewhere. Beautifully written, and beneath the pantomime, probably not such an inaccurate depiction of social realities in the age of empire. £675 Gimbel Collection [A38], Grolier Club Catalogue [72].

[17] 39 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Bleak House. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. [42663 ] First Edition, bound from the original parts; octavo, pp. 624. First issue points as called for. Illustrations by H.K. Browne. Elegantly bound in half green calf, gilt spine uniformly sunned, with tan morocco title label, over marbled boards, edges also marbled. Some toning to text block, contents a little thumbed and spotted, plates with some marginal browning. A very good copy in an attractivecontemporary leather binding. Although many of Dickens most famous works are crawling with crime, it is just this title that can be firmly placed in the murder mystery category. ‘Bleak House’ is essentially a classic whodunnit, professionally solved, which became only the second entry (after Poe’s ‘Tales’) in the Haycraft-Queen cornerstone list of crime fiction. Dickens returned to crime fiction for his highly-rated final story, the ‘Mystery of Edwin Drood’ but this was unfinished and the case unsolved.... Within ‘Bleak House’ the author experiments with dual narrators and the story ranges from the dark and filthy Victorian slums to the landed aristocracy; Inspector Bucket is one of the earliest detectives to appear in fiction and was probably based on C.K. Field of the recently formed Scotland Yard. An essential mystery novel. £450 Podeschi; Gimbel Catalogue Grolier Club Exhibition Catalogue (1913). Collins; Dickens and Crime (1962).Queen’s Quorum. Book Collector No.273, p34. Graham Greene & Dorothy Glover; Victorian Detective Fiction (1966).

40 DOSTOIEVSKY, Fedor. Poor Folk. A Novel. Translated from the Russian by Lean Milman. With a Critical Introduction by George Moore. London, Elkin Mathews and John Lane. 1894 [42438 ] First English edition. 8vo. 190pp. + 16pp ads. In publisher’s bright yellow cloth titled in gilt to spine and decorated in black to spine and front and rear boards by Aubrey Beardsley. Some scuffing and soiling, rubbed and a trifle bumped to extremities. Overall a clean, bright, very good copy of one of the highly attractive and collectable Keynotes series. Internally clean and fresh, front inner hing cosmetically starting at head. The first English translation of Poor Folk. Not a common title. £275

[18] 41 DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Sign Of Four. Serial Issue. London: Ward, Lock and Co. [Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott.] 1890 [42218] First Appearance. Volume XLV of Lippincott's Magazine spanning January to June 1890. Publisher's yellow cloth overprinted in black, with a red pebble grain coth spine, titled in gilt and black to spine. The yellow is soiled, but solid and bright, and the cloth spine is bumped and scuffed (with a small repair to the head) but is still tight and sound. Internally clean and fresh. A very good copy. One of the more mental (by which I mean typically, madly Victorian) Sherlock Holmes novels with stolen jewels looted during the Indian Mutiny, betrayal (so much nodding to Wilkie Coins it's a wonder someone's head doesn't fall off), a sinister blowpipe wielding Andaman Islander, Dr. Watson's love interest, a fair amount of cocaine and in fact many of the Sherlockian conventions that we hold so dear appeared first in this novel. The second of four full-length Sherlock Holmes novels, originally appearing in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine (Feb.1890). Doyle was reputedly commissioned to write the story following a dinner with the editor at London’s Langham Hotel. The function was also attended by , who would contribute his only novel ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ to the July 1890 issue. Doyle later discussed this ‘golden evening’ in his autobiography ‘Memories and Adventures’ (1924). £1250

Green & Gibson; A Bibliography of A.Conan Doyle. De Waal; The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson. See also Haining; The Classic Era of Crime Fiction (2002), Cooper & Pike; Detective Fiction (1994), DeWaal; The International Sherlock Holmes (1980), Steinbrunner & Penzler; Ency.of Mystery & De- tection (1976). Eric Quayle; The Collectors Book of Detective Fiction (1972). Howard Haycraft; Murder for Pleasure (1972), Graham Greene & Dorothy Glover; Victorian Detective Fiction (1966), Elley Queen; Queen's Quorum (1951).

42 DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Valley of Fear. A Sherlock Holmes Story. With a frontispiece by Frank Wiles. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1915. [42690 ] FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo; pp.306 plus 6 pages of ads. Publisher’s fresh red cloth, bright gilt titles to spine and upper. Some spotting to prelims. Slight toning to spine and subsequent dulling of the gilt. A very good, tight copy. The fourth and final full-length Sherlock Holmes novels, a retrospective or ‘flashback’ adventure set in Pennsylvania, 1888. ‘The Valley of Fear’ is also notable for the involvement of Holmes arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty. £650 Green and Gibson [A39], Cooper & Pike; Detective Fiction.

[19] 43 DOYLE, Arthur Conan (1859-1930) The Hound of The Baskervilles. Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes Ltd., 1902 [42007 ] Classic mystery. FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo, pp.[viii]; 359; [1] blank; [4], advertisements. Illustrated with sixteen black and white plates by Sydney Paget. Publisher’s pictorial red cloth blocked in black and gilt. A lightly used copy with a nicely rounded spine and clean boards; there is some minor spotting to endleaves and a small, discreet ink ownership to pastedown. A superior copy of this famous detective novel. £3000

44 DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan. The Wanderings of a Spiritualist. London: Hodder and Stoughton. [1922] [42175 ] Second impression, incorrectly designated Second Edition on dustwrapper. Bound in publisher's textured black cloth titled in gilt, spine sunned, bumping to spine ends and light wear to extremtities, a very good copy. In a very good dustwrapper; frayed to head of spine, darkening to spine panel, some light soiling and scuffing, strong, bright and handsome. Internally clean with minor marginal foxing and the occasional intrusion of a spot of marginal pencilling. A little strained around the gutters in a couple of instances, but minor cosmetic problems only. Inscribed by Conan Doyle to the title page in blue ink: “With grateful memories from A Conan Doyle.” A more than respectable copy of one of Doyle's spiritual investigations, inscribed by the man himself. £1250

45 DUMAS, Alexandre (1802-1870). [BOULANGER, VERNIER, BOURDET]. Crimes Celebres (Celebrated Crimes) [Text in French] Include: Les Cenci, La Marquise de Brinvilliers, Karl Ludwig Sand, Marie Stuart, La Marquise de Ganges, Murat, Les Borgia, Urbain Grandier, Vaninka, Massacres du Midi, La Comtesse de Saint-Géran, Jeanne de Naples, Nisida (avec Pier Angelo Fiorentino), Derues (avec Auguste Arnould), Martin Guerre (avec Narcisse Fournier), Ali Pacha (avec Félicien Mallefille), La Constantin (avec Auguste Arnould), L'homme au Masque de Fer. Paris: Administration de Librairie, 1839-1840. [42503 ] FIRST EDITION. Complete in 8 volumes; large 8vo. Illustrated with 33 sharp aquatints from Boulanger, Bourdet, and Vernier, all with tissue guard. Recently bound in a period-style half calf with gilt titles and gilt to spines, marbled boards. Some foxing throughout. A handsome set of this rare 'Edition Originale'. Reprinted several times in edited versions, only this First Edition - and a 2002 Phebus Edition - contain the complete 18 stories unabridged. These volumes tell the story of celebrated criminals or victims from the period of the Renaissance to Dumas's time. £2100 [20] 46 EGERTON, George. Keynotes. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane. 1893 [42437 ] First edition. 8vo. Publisher's pale green cloth title and decorated in black. Titled in gilt to spine. Rubbed and a little scuffed, a very good copy. The first in the highly collectable, extremely pretty and infuriatingly frustrating Beardsley decorated Keynotes series, which included the UK first of Poor Folk, the scarce Prince Zaleski by M.P. Shiel and the gobsmackingly hair tearingly rare Dancing Faun by the truly incredible Florence Farr. This copy is a little rubbed and battered, but is nevertheless a respectable copy of a tricky book. £75

47 ENDICOTT, William. [Lawrence Waters Jenkins ed.] Wrecked Among Cannibals In THe Fijis. A Narrative of Shipwreck and Adventure in The South Seas. Salem: Marine Research Society. 1923 [42535 ] First edition. 8vo. Publisher's blue paper covered boards with black cloth spine titled in gilt. In dustwrapper with very light soiling. Essentially a fine copy. Pages unopened. Internally clean and fresh. A splendid copy. An account of the wrecking of the ship "Glide" out of Salem, on 1829 Endicott was the third mate on board and his account (illuminated by Waters Jenkins, Assisant Director of The Peabody Museum), in addition to providing an insight into the benefits and pitfalls of early 19th century Fijian culture from a Western perspective, also contains a glossary of Fijian words. Intriguing. £120

48 ESDAILE, James. M.D. Mesmerism In India. And its Practical Application in Surgery and Medicine. Chicago: The Psychic Research Company. 1902 [42655 ] 1902 reprint of 1846 first edition (I can't imagine it was reprinted very often). 165pp. + 4pp ads. Publisher's purple cloth, faded to spine, titled in gilt to front board. Minor scuffing and edgewear, very good indeed. Virulent and somewhat disturbing green and gold marbled endpapers, hardley conducive to mental clarity, internally clean and fresh. This edition has a preface by the rather appropriately named Sydney Flower of the Psychic Research Society, who rather defensively capitalises his usage of the word "FACTS" and ends with the phrase "Let us honour the man who blazed the path. We have little to do but cut away the underbrush." Mr. Flower's apparent aspirations towards poetic eulogy aside, the book is a fascinating and earnest account of the various successful uses of mesmerism practised by Dr. Esdaile during his sojourn, practising in 19th century India. A fascinating item. £80

[21] 49 EVANS, Captain Edward R.G.R. South with Scott. With Diagram and Three Maps. London: W. Collins Sons and Co. Ltd., 1921. [42645 ] First Edition. Large 8vo; pp. xiv, 284, (6). Publisher’s blue cloth with titles in red to spine. The book shows very light rubbing, with top edge dusty, others untrimmed. Light bumping to spine ends, very good indeed. Internally bright and clean. A scarce first edition of this title, sound and bright. Admiral Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans of Chelsea, KCB DSO (October 28, 1881 - August 20, 1957), known as "Teddy" Evans, was a British naval officer and Antarctic explorer. He served as second officer of the Morning, the relief vessel of Scott's first Antarctic expedition in 1901- 1904. He also served as second-in-command on Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in 1910-1913, taking over Captain Scott’s position as leader after his death. £975

50 EVANS, William [Wil Ifan O Fon] The Meini Hirion and Sarns of Anglesey. Considered in relation to the early hundred system. Published by the Author at Pen-y-Bont, Red Wharf Bay, Anglesey. 1927 [42169 ] First (and only until very recently when the printers did a reprint) edition. 8vo. 54pp. Publisher's brown cloth titled in black to spine and front board. Minor edgewear, clean and bright, very good indeed. Internally clean, minor toning to prelims and a small thumbmark to the bottom edge of the rear colophon. A fascinating exploration of the standing stones of Anglesey and their possible function as a kind of prehistoric GPS system...apart from tying in to the whole ley-line/long straight track theoretical thornbush this small privately printed volume is primarily an example of strenuous and diligently technical amateur archaeology at its very best. There's a small subscribers list in the rear which probably lists every other member of the 1920's Anglesey Archaeology Club and the whole production is very clearly a labour of love, pride and old fashioned curiosity. Amongst other interesting detail is the rather depressing fact that whilst Mr. Evans lists and surveys over 300 standing stones and prehistoric monuments on Anglesey...if you were to retrace his steps today it is unlikely that you would find a third of that number. A fascinating record of history that is now completely lost. Apparently not met with critical acclaim upon its small run of publication, the book all but disappeared until partially ressurected by the resugence of interest in amateur antiquarianism encouraged by people like Julian Cope. £350

[22] 51 [FELL, Hans B.; ZEPPELIN, Graf von; HILDEBRANDt, Dr.; et al]. Zeppelin fährt um die Welt. Das Gedenkbuch der Woche. Berlin: August Scherl, (1930). [37445 ] Folio size magazine with soft covers printed in colour, text in black and white, glorifying the Zeppelins regular transatlantlic and indeed around the world flights from Germany to America, Brazil and Japan in 1928 and 1929, with 161 illustrations from original photographs and a map. With portraits of Dr. Eckener and von Zeppelin. Slight rubbing. Held in a protective brown cloth and marbled paper wallet. A wonderful surviving testimonial of the wonder of the Zeppelin Airship in its hayday when the airships LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin and LZ 129 Hindenburg operated regular transatlantic flights from Germany to North America and Brazil. The Hindenburg disaster in 1937, along with political and economic issues, hastened the demise of the Zeppelin. A curious fact: The Art Deco spire of the Empire State Building was originally - if impractically - designed to serve as a dirigible terminal for Zeppelins and other airships to dock! £125

52 FERMOR, Patrick Leigh The Violins of Saint-Jacques. A Tale of The Antilles London: John Murray, Derek Vershoyle 1953 [42022 ] FIRST EDITION. Demy octavo, pp.139; [3], blank. Hardback in pictorial wrapper. With illustrations and colour-printed map endpapers. A little spotting, jacket with some chips and tears, price-clipped, cloth sunned beneath any areas of loss; shows well. The author's scarce second book, being his only novel. Fermor is considered one of the greatest 20th century travel writers and, as a man of both action and intellect, was described by the BBC as ‘a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene.’ £175

53 FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald, with an Introduction by J.B. Priestley. Being a compilation of novels and shorter pieces, including: The Great Gatsby, The Last Tycoon, Tender is The Night, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful & The Damned, The Rich Boy, Letters and Short Stories, etc. London: The Bodley Head, 1958-63. [42266 ] FIRST Bodley Head EDITION. Complete in 6 volumes; 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth in bright pale grey dust wrappers printed in black and red. Slight rubing to extremities of DJ’s with a hint of sunning to spines a couple of small closed tears. A tight, near fine set. The only collected works of Fitzgerald ever printed. Scarce. £975

[23] 54 FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). The Great Gatsby. New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925. [42870 ] FIRST EDITION, First Issue. Crown octavo; half-title; title; dedication; 218 pp. Text shows "chatter" on page 60, line 16, "northern" page 119:22, "sick in tired" page 205:9-10, and "Union Street station" page 211:7-8. Original green cloth covers, titled in gilt to spine, without the exceptionally rare jacket. Lightly worn only, with a little toning to the gilt on the spine. A hansdome copy. Ranked #2 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century. £2500 Bruccoli [A11]. Listed in The Observer’s All-Time 100 Best Novels [2003], also Time Magazine’s 100 Best Modern Novels, also Modern Library’s Top 100 Novels [1998].

55 FLEMING, Ian Lancaster (1908-1964) Complete Set of First Editions of ’s James Bond Novels The Works comprise: Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only (short stories containing From A View To A Kill and Quantum of Solace), Thunderball, The Spy Who loved Me, On Her Majesties Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, The Man with the Golden Gun, Octopussy and The Living Daylights. London: Jonathan Cape 1953-1966. [42434 ] 14 volumes; octavo. FIRST IMPRESSIONS, with a leaf SIGNED BY IAN FLEMING included in the first title. Beautifully bound in full deep red oasis morocco with gilt raised bands and gilt titles to spines, '007 device blocked in gilt to upper, gilt edges, black endpapers. Internally clean; binding fine. Housed in a fleece-lined slipcase. An impressive set; ‘The most famous spy in literature’ - Steinbrunner and Penzler. This first edition collection with the author's signature comes with reassuring provenance, having been assembled by Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert. £17,500

56 FORSTER, The Rev. Charles. Mahometanism Unveiled. An Inquiry in Which That Arch Heresy, Its Diffusion and Continuance are Examined on a New Principle Tending to Confirm The Evidences and Aid The Propogation of The Christian Faith. London: J. Duncan. 1829 [42260 ] First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Bound in contemporary full green morocco by Hering with gilt titling to spine and rather lavish gilt decoration to spine and boards. Minor edgewear otherwise sharp, clean and bright. All edges gilt. Internally clean, glazed yellow endpapers, booksellers label to front pastedown. A fine and handsome copy of a rather venomous and self serving examination of the Islamic faith in the role of Christian heresy. It contains arguments comparing the two religions, usually folowed by statements like "The triumph of the Gospels is absolute." and generally casting all sorts of aspersions upon the moral characters of any who might suggest that any contest of "My god is bigger than your god." is likely to be inconclusive at best and more probably downright dangerous. Still, this was 1829, so at least we have the consolation that this sort of thing isn't still happening... £250 [24] 57 FRANCK, Harry A. East of Siam. New York: The Century Co. 1926 [42622 ] First edition. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth decorated and titled in black and cream to spine and front board. Bumped to spine ends, and with slight shelfwear, slightly shaken, but strong; a very good, tidy copy indeed. Internally clean and fresh. A cheery and readable account of the author's travels through what used to be French Indo-China, profusely illustrated with photgraphs. £50

58 GAIL, Otto Willi. Mit Raketenkraft Ins Weltenall. Vom Feuerwagen Zum Raumschiff. Stuttgart: K. Thienemanns Verlag. 1928 [42863 ] First edition. 8vo. 108pp. Publisher's linen spine over paper covered illustrated boards. Illustrated, I might add, with rockets and racing cars! Minor edgewear and rubbing, some soiling of the linen spine, a trifle scuffed, a very good copy. Ink ownership to front pastedown. Internally clean with some very light isolated spotting. Illustrated throughout (with rockets!) and printed in that adorable gothic black letter that makes every single book from that period of German publishing history look as if its sole purpose is to resurrect the dead and use their shambling ravenous corpses for world domination. This one is definitely about rockets though. Gail was a noted author and journalist of the time with an enormous interest in rocketry and space travel, he penned several specualtive novels with stirring titles like "By Rocket to The Moon." and was close friends with Max Valier, the crazy genius German rocketry pioneer who wrote the foreward to this particular work and whose portrait forms its frontispiece. Looking exactly like the kind of chap who might say "I wonder what would happen if I strapped a massive alcohol fuelled rocket to this racing car and went that way really fast?" and even more like the kind of chap who would actually do such a thing. Herr Valier was dead a year after the publication of this book, at the age of 35, having unfortunately asked himself the question "What if I strap this extremely powerful rocket to my workbench and switch it on?" A rare, fascinating and somewhat poignant work considering that all this hope, thought and genius madcappery were to be taken and used to break the world just a short decade later. £150

59 GARNIER, Edouard La Porcelaine Tendre de Sevres. Avec une Notice Historique (With an Historical Note) by Edouard Garnier Paris: Maison Quantin [42958 ] FIRST EDITION. Folio, with 49 [of 50] chromolithographic plates by Gillot, illuminated in gilt, depicting 250 water-colour subjects after the originals. With a 31-page historical preface, including a table of makers' marks and monograms. Unbound leaves in original card portfolio with grey buckram spine and corners, three pairs of silk ties, printed label on marbled paper to upper. Minor edgewear, wallet lightly soiled, some text leaves a trifle toned, small snag to half-title neatly repaired. Lacking one plate else a clean, near fine collection. [25] £850 60 GILMAN, Charlotte Perkins. What Diantha Did. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912 [42562 ] First UK Edition. 8vo. Near fine in publisher's maroon cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Light bumping to head of spine. Edges untrimmed. Internally clean and spotless. A splendid copy. Bearing the joint bookplate of Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge to the front pastedown. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was not a lady who took the subjugation of her gender lying down. What Diantha Did, with its determined and driven protagonist starting her own business and actually charging cash money for services that women were "supposed" to provide gratis, (Diantha Bell starts a maid service, a cooked food delivery service, hotel services and effectively renders invisible domestic duties into paying concerns), addresses many of the glaring disparities between western society's expectations of men and women, and the massive gulf in rewards and benefits they could expect. I say "could", but it's not like things have changed that much in over one hundred years, the gender based gulfs regarding employment, equal pay and the basic "expected" requirements demanded culturally are just as glaring, just as dumb and just as relevant as they were in Ms. Gilman's day. A further dimension is added by the fact that this copy bears the joint ownership of Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge, two of early twentieth century England's most visible and influential gay women. They lived together from the early 1920's until Hall's death from cancer in 1943. During that time the two women would have witnessed women progress through (albeit limited) enfranchisement, into realms of employment, creativity and relative autonomy that Charlotte Perkins Gilman would have at least partially approved of as a step forward, and been increasingly responsible for the reconstruction of British society after the depredations and consequences of two world wars. Men, it has to be pointed out, are still having trouble with the meaning of the word "No." Still, baby steps. A lovely copy of a book with a positively wonderful provenance. £600

61 GOSTICK, Jesse. The Employment of The Dead. London: Privately Published. n.d. [1862] [42621 ] First Edition. 8vo. 72pp. Publisher's embossed cloth, titled and decorated in gilt and blind to boards. Rubbed t corners and with some cosmetic cracking along spine edges, chipping to spine ends. Robust and handsome. Glazed yellow endpapers. Internally clean. An utterly bizarre series of anecdotes, essays and dialogues on ghosts, the possible mental processes of the dead and some suspiciously well informed statements about the general setup of the Christian afterlife. In the author's foreword there are "four things that hold them near us", them being "the living dead" naturally...The first is rather encouragingly that they love us, but it all goes downhill by the time the fourth rule is reached: "They wait for us." An interesting little book that manages to be monumentally weird, aggressively self righteous and really, really creepy all at the same time. The section in which the ghost of a baby holds forth on its nocturnal "love errands" is pretty darn special. A strange little object. £95 [26] 62 GREENE, Graham. The Collected Edition of the Works of Graham Greene, comprising; Brighton Rock, It’s A Battlefield, England Made Me, Our Man In Havana, The Power & The Glory, The Heart of The Matter, The Confidential Agent, A Gun for Sale, The Ministry of Fear, The Quiet American, Stamboul Train, The End of The Affair, A Burnt-Out Case, The Man Within, The Third Man & Loser Takes All, The Comedians, Collected Stories, Journey Without Maps, The Lawless Roads, Travels With My Aunt, The Honorary Consul and The Human Factor. London: Heinemann and The Bodley Head, 1970-82. [42124 ] Complete as published in 22 volumes. All volumes are FIRST PRINTINGS of the collected edition and include a new introduction by the author. Crown octavo. Publishers' bright green cloth with titles in gilt to spines, various topstains (some are not tinted); in the original dust-jackets. Trivial wear to jackets, some light rubbing and toning to spines, no ink names, inscriptions, bookplates or other signs of ownership; none are price clipped. A clean, bright, near fine set. £2500 R.A Wobbe: Graham Greene-A Bibliography and Guide to Research [A41a]. Featured in The Times' NovelList 60 Greatest Books Poll [2009].

63 GREENE, Graham (1904-1991). Journey Without Maps London: Heinemann, 1936. [42482 ] Tall 8vo. Publisher’s lemon cloth, decorated and titled in brown to spine, illustrated map endpapers, top edge red.Text block clean, ink ownership (1936) to half-title, minor toning to extremities of binding. A clean, presentable copy of a most uncommon title. FIRST EDITION. Greene’s first travel book. Several critics suggested that the author’s trip to Liberia and the resulting published work mark a change both in his mind and in his fiction. Greene talks of how the journey to Africa is not just back into time or to beginings, but to a place where elemental power exists without modern sophisticated trappings. When Greene compares the African manifestations of that power with his dreams in the short section ‘Mythology’ (p.209), he suggests that evil united with Power is more a qualioty of civilization. A second travel book ‘The Lawless Roads. A Mexican Journey’ was published in 1939, which was followed by the Mexico-based prize-winning novel ‘The Power & the Glory’ in 1940, both of which bear close relation to Journey Without Maps. £1650 Wobbe [A11a]

[27] 64 GRIMM Brothers, [PEAKE Mervyn] Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm Illustrated by Mervyn Peake. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1946 [42644 ] First Peake edition Octavo, pp.303. With double-spread colour illustration as title-page with numerous other blck and white illustrations within the text. Elegantly hand-bound in half yellow oasis morocco leather, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, gilt title labels and trim, over original printed cloth covers. A fine copy of this childrens classic. £195

65 HAGGARD, Rider, [Sir] H[enry] (1856-1925) King Solomon’s Mines. Illustrated by Walter Paget London, Cassell and Company. 1888 [42513 ] Octavo, pp320, plus publishers catalogue. Bound in original pictorial deep red cloth, floral-patterned endpapers. Internally clean but for a some occasional spotting, some expected but light rubbing, backstrip a shade lightened. A very good copy indeed. Haggard’s cornerstone adventure story; an attractive early printing (first was 1885). The first of the famous Allan Quatermain tales; Following a map drawn 300 years ago by a dying man, three adventurers set out in search of the legendary riches of King Solomon's diamond mines. On their journey they have to cross deserts, mountains and inhabitants that kill strangers. Will they make the journey and become the richest men on Earth? £95 Whatmore; H.Rider Haggard- A Bibliography.

66 HAMON, Count Louis. "" True Ghost Stories. London: The London Publishing Company. n.d. [1928] [42676 ] First edition. 8vo. Publisher's decorated paper covered boards, near fine, minor edgewear. In a near fine example of the scarce dustwrapper with only the very slightest marginal wear. A stunning copy of a book usually seen in a state more dead than quick. Internally clean, publisher's anouncement slip tipped in to title page. Inscribed by Cheiro (William John Warner aka Count Louis Hamon, husband of the Countess Hamon who designed the cover of this volume), to the front flyleaf: "To Miss Spiegel, With the author's god wishes, 10th July 1928. 'Cheiro'." with two newspaper clippings also tipped in at the front. A lovely inscribed copy of a work by a man who was in his day one of the more prominent and successful occult figures. From humble beginnings outside Dublin he travelled to India, where he studied under a notable guru, before returning to London, making his name and eventually moving to America. His client list at the height of his fame consisted of celebrities like Mark Twain, , Oscar Wilde, Thomas Edison, Lillie Langtry and the Prince of Wales. According to eyewitness reports, Cheiro predicted his own death to the minute, and upon the occasion of his expiration in 1936 in Hollywood, the clock in his hous struck the hour of one am, three times in a row. We can't be certain of that, but we can be sure that this is a very handome inscribed copy of his book. £150 [28] 67 HANBURY, Daniel. Science Papers, Chiefly Pharmacological and Biological. London: Macmillan and Co. 1876 [42775 ] First edition. Large 8vo. Publisher's russet pebble grain cloth titled in gilt to spine and ruled in black to spine and front boards. Minor bumping and edgewear to spine ends and boards. Publisher's presentation blind stamp to the title page. Very good indeed. A handsome copy of a work from the acknowldged grandfather of pharmacognosy, or the study of the medical applications of plants. £195

68 HANFSTAENGL, Franz (HOLBEIN, RUBENS, REMBRANDT, CARRAVAGGIO, NETSCHER, etc.). [Royal Dresden Gallery] Die Vorzüglichsten Gemälde der Königlichen Galerie in Dresden nach den Originalen auf stein Gezeichnet. Les Principaux Tableaux de la Galerie Royale de Dresde Lithographiés d'aprés les Originaux. Erklärungen in Historischer und Artistischer Hinsicht in Deutscher und Französischer Sprache, herausgegeben von Franz Hanfstaengl. Avec des Explications Historiques et concernant l'Art, en Allemand et en Français, publiés par Franz Hanfstaengl. Dresden, 1842. [42180 ] FIRST EDITION. Text in German and French. 2 volumes (ex 3): vol. I and II. Elephant Folio (71 x 55 cm). Publisher's original full maroon morocco with gilt titles and extra gilt to spines and uppers, lower boards blind tooled. Frontispiece engraved portrait to each volume. With a total of 136 sharp and fine lithographs on india paper from original paintings by Holbein, Rubens, Carravaggio and any others. Spines worn and broken; boards rubbed and scratched; joints cracked but holding. Content clean with a superb impression of the plates. Unusual thus. £4750

69 HARTMANN, Franz. Magic, White and Black. Or; The Science of Finite and Infinite Life. London: George Redway. 1888 [42533 ] First Revised Edition. 8vo. PUblisher's red cloth gilt. Dunned to spine, some minor bumping and soiling, very good. Black endpapers, frontis. diagram with tissue guard. Ink ownership to flyleaf. Internally clean. A handsome copy of a practical guidebook for students of the occult. £250

[29] 70 HASTINGS, Warren. An Archive of Parliamentary Reports Relating to The Trial and Impeachement of Warren Hastings. Presented to The House of Commons, By Mr. Morton, From The United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies. London: Printer unknown, Under the Auspices of The House. March 1786. [41829 ] 38 folio pamphlets, unbound, stab sewn along one edge, intended to be folded longditudinally for ease of reading. Untrimmed with wide margins on paper with no watermarks. A few marginal tears and some creasing of the edges and cover pages on a few pamphlets but in the main the collection is in splendid condition. Pamphlets vary between 2pp and 86pp in length. The archive deals almost exclusively with the impeachment and subsequent trial for corruption and misdemeanour of Warren Hastings, Governor General of Bengal between 1772 and 1785. The trial, which came about as a result of charges laid by none other than Edmund Burke (with the support of Sir Philip Francis, probably not the most impartial supporter since he was still nursing a grudge against Hastings dating from coming off second best in a duel in India several years earlier), levelled at Hastings allegations of corruption and what today would be called croneyism, along with mismanagment of his Governership and a host of other claims. The subsequent affair lasted 148 days spread over 7 years. The cost to Hastings, who footed the bill for his defense personally, was astronomical (he was famous for saying that it would have been far, far cheaper just to plead guilty). Eventually he was found not guilty of all charges and exonerated in April 1795 as a result of a decision made in the House of Lords. Throughout the duration of most of the trial Hastings lived at his personal London residence of Somerset House, probably suggesting to some people that Governer General of Bengal was clearly a rather well paid job, but in 1788 he purchased the pretigious country seat of Daylesford in Gloucestershire, which encompassed the ancestral seat of the Hastings family. He gave himself free rein in his new residence (pretty much what people had been suggesting he did in Bengal) and hired the noted designer Samuel Pepys Cockerell, in partnership with the noted landscape gardener John Davenport to remodel the house, grounds and environs in a defiantly Mughal influenced style. He also renovated the nearby Norman church, leaving instructions that he was to be burined there when he finally died in 1818, having been made a Privy Councillor in 1812. Clearly being impeached on charges of corruption had done little to damage his reputation. The pamphlets contain a wealth of historical and political detail dealing with not only Hastings' governship of Bengal, but the actions of the East India

[30] Company, the political and social manouvering of the British amongst the indigenous leaders, the day to day routines of government officials busily at work in the brightest jewel of Britain's crown and indeed the sheer wealth that was being routinely collected and shuffled around in the course of day to day business in the Sirkar's playground. Mr. Morton's extracted report from papers No. I, Vol II in March 1786 for example, mentions the disbursement of the sum of 1,460,000,000 Rupees (with one rupee being worth 2 shillings and 6 pence or thereabouts at the time, that's effectively hundreds of millions of pounds in modern money). Similarly interesting, although rather more humorous, is an extract of a letter from the Baboo Begum to Mr. Hastings "Shewing the number of Women the Begums of Oude are under the necessity of maintaining." which must have caused a ripple of hilarity in the backbenches. Similarly, a letter from Mr. Hastings to the Nabob Hyder Ally Beg Cawn gives a fascinating insight into the fact that life in Bengal was considerably more tenuous and dangerous than the life of a member of the House back home: "I this instant learn, that Almass Ally Cawn, to whom You had Entrusted the greatest Portion of the Collections, without any Pledge of Security for his Fidelity, has thrown off his Allegiance and quitted the Nabob's Dominions, taking with him an immense treasure, the Fruit of his Embezzlements and Oppressions, and an Army raised for its Protection. this too was long foretold, and ought to have been suspected." "Collections" in this context refers to taxes, levies and tribute due to the Sirkar, or British governing office in India at the time. Clearly last month's employee was next month's owner of a well paid private army. The trial of Warren Hastings was a cause celebre at the time, he was variously seen as a corrupt and greedy exploiter of those lower on the social ladder than he (remember this is the eve of The French Revolution, before the blood, but not before the rhetoric), and by others as a great man being snapped at by jealous jackals who lacked his ability to make fortunes both for himself and his country. The letters of Jane Austen's family, themselves closely acquainted with Hastings, show an avid interest in the proceedings and indeed support of the man himself. In context it might be considered the 18th Century equivalent of Watergate or The Profumo Affair, and this archive of official reports provides a valuable insight into understanding and evaluating the impact upon a Britian on the verge of tremendous greatness. £1250

[31] 71 HEDIN, Sven. Trans-Himalaya. Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet. London: Macmillan, 1910. [42228 ] 3 Volumes. 8vo. Volumes 1 and 2 are second impressions, Volume 3 is a first edition. Bound in publisher's terracotta cloth, uniformly faded to spines of all volumes, some bumping and fraying to spine ends. Lacking dustwrappers. Titled and decorated in gilt to spines and front boards. Solid and strong. A very good set. Internally clean and fresh, copiously illustrated. "Hedin devoted his third journey of 1906-8 to the region lying between Shigatse and Leh and to the north of the Brahmaputra. He produced maps of the area, which had not been previously visited and revealed the existence of a large range of mountains lying parallel to the Himalaya on the Tibetan side. He elucidated many points about the country of the Manasarowar Lakes and filled in a very large blank on the map." [Baker] £275

72 HOMER. [MELMOTH, William Henry ed.] The Works of Homer. The Celebrated Grecian Poet: Including New and Complete Editions of The Iliad and The Odyssey. London: Alexander Hogg. n.d. [circa 1790] [42798 ] Later edition (no date present, although ink ownership to front flyleaf dated 1790 and ink date to title page proclaims 1789. The first edition of this work was 1780). 4to. 659pp +6pp ads, directions to binder and subscriber list. 40 full page copper plate engravings. Bound in full contemporary tree calf gilt with red title label, some superficial cracking to front hinge, cosmetic only, binding appears solid, possibly reinforced, with later marbled endpapers. Light scuffing and edgewear some rubbing at corners and and some skinning of the leather in small patched to the rear panel, nevertheless strong and handsome. Page edges plain, marbled endpapers, internally very clean indeed, completely clear of foxing, toning or spotting either text or plates. Fanatically neat ink annotation in the form of verse numbers added and a correction to the binders instruction leaf. The numbering appears in the same contemporary hand as the ownership to the front flyleaf and the date to the title page, a certain Mr. John Sheldrake. A very clean, pretty copy in a contemporary binding with sharp, crisp plates. £750

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Musical Photo Album [42865] 73 HUME, David. The History of England: from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Accession of Henry VII [vols 1-2]; Under the House of Tudor [vols 3-4]; and The History of Great Britain [vols 5-6]. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1762 (vols. I, II), 1759 (vols. III, & IV); and Edinburgh: Printed by Hamilton, Balfour, and Neill, 1754, (vol. V), and 1757, (vo. VI). 1754-1762. [42734 ] FIRST EDITIONS. Complete in 6 volumes; Quarto. Half-titles present. Internall clean. A superb set elegantly bound in period-style antique calf with two, maroon and black, title labels and gilt decoration to spine, all edges speckled. A complete set of the first editions of Hume’s very important history, which was developed and published over many years: between 1754 and 1757 Hume published the 'modern' portion of his History, which was to become volume V and VI of the History of England, printed on title page as “Vol.I” and “Vol.II”. The remainder stock of the first volume, published in Edinburgh and entitled The History of Great Britain, was taken over in 1756 by the London publisher Millar, who then undertook the printing of the second volume and followed through covering the subsequent instalments. Hume's reverse procedure took him from the accounts of the times of James II back to Julius Caesar's England, and the project was completed in 1762. Lowndes 1139. £4750

74 JAMES, M. R. The Five Jars London: Edward Arnold, 1922. [42860 ] FIRST EDITION. 8vo. pp. 172, with 7 full page illustrations by Gilbert James. Publisher’s orange cloth, with titles printed in black. Internally clean and bright. Sharp and tight, essentially a fine copy with some spotting to the page edges and a trifle of bumping and shelfwear. In a very sharp, clean example of the scarce dustwrapper, one significant corner of loss to the upper right front panel, repaired at some point, otherwise minor wear and chipping to the extremities and some pale pink staining and discolouration to the outer edge of the rear panel. Strong, handsome and very seldom seen. Ostensibly a children's book from this distinguished and highly influential writer of chilling stories of the supernatural, this is the collection of stories that James read aloud in his rooms to some of his charges at Eton, including a young Ian Fleming. £2500 Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature [172]. Oxford Companion to English Literature, page 503-4.

75 JAMES. M.R. Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary. London, Edward Arnold. 1904 [42664 ] FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 270pp. Untrimmed edges. A pretty copy in a very good example of the publisher’s brown buckram yapp edged boards. Titled in black and ruled in red, mostly free from the fraying and bumping that this type of binding is heir to. Internally clean, front inner hinge cracking at head. Some spotting to prelims and page edges. A superb and seminal collection of short supernatural stories, including “The Mezzotint” guaranteed to linger in the mind of anyone who has ever stayed up late cataloguing. £1000 Listed in Jones & Newman; 100 Best Horror Novels. [33] 76 JEFFERIES, Richard [BESANT, Walter]. The Works of Jefferies. With: The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies, by Walter Besant (1888). Complete in first editions, containing: Restless Human Hearts, Wildlife in a Southern Country, Greene Ferne Farm, Hodge and His Masters, World’s End, Story of my Heart, The Toilers of the Field, Life of the Fields, The Open Air, Round About a Great Estate, Bevis, Amateur Poacher, Amaryllis at the Fair, Wood Magic, Field and Hedgerow, Scarlet Shawl, Red Deer, The Dewy Morn, Nature Near London, After London or Wild England, and The Gamekeeper at Home. London, 1875- 1887. [38231 ] FIRST EDITIONS of 22 titles bound in 31 volumes. Attractive contemporary binding by Bradstreet’s of deep red half morocco, marbled boards and end papers, top edges gilt. Bookplate to all volumes. Pages edges slightly age toned. A superb set. The set comprises all the books, fiction and non fiction, published during Jefferies’ lifetime, as well as 2 titles posthumously published, Field and Hedgerow (1889) and The Toilers of the Fields (1892). John) Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) is best known for his prolific and sensitive writing on natural history, rural life and agriculture in late Victorian England. However, a closer examination of his career reveals a many-sided author who was something of an enigma. To some people he is more familiar as the author of the children’s classic Bevis or the strange futuristic fantasy After London (the central theme of which is unstoppable nature reclaiming its birthright after the collapse of civilisation), while he also has some reputation as a mystic worthy of serious study. Since his death his books have enjoyed intermittent spells of popularity, but today he is unknown to the greater part of the reading public. Jefferies, however, has been an inspiration to a number of more prominent writers and W.H. Hudson, Edward Thomas, Henry Williamson and John Fowles are among those who have acknowledged their debt to him. In my view his greatest achievement lies in his expression, aesthetically and spiritually, of the human encounter with the natural world – something that became almost an obsession for him in his last years (Simon Coleman) £2100

77 JOHNSON, Captain Charles. Lives and Exploits of English Highwaymen, Pirates and Robbers. London: Henry Bohn. 1842 [42167 ] First thus. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half blue morocco gilt over blue marbled boards. Gilt titles and decoration to spine. Gilt rule to boards. Minor scuffing and edgewear, very good indeed. Marbled endpapers and the imposing bookplate of Sydney R. SMith to the front pastedown. Internally clean and "embellished with sixteen spirited engravings..." which is the kind of thing you like to hear about a book packed with rogues, highwayemen, cutpurses and pirates...pictures or it didn't happen. A splendid little "edited for the highlights" edition of Captain Johnson's seminal 18th century work on the subject of highway and high seas villainy. £125 [34] 78 (JOHNSON, S.) BOSWELL, J. (INGPEN, R.). The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell. Newly Edited with Notes by Roger Ingpen. London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1907. [42295 ] With 306 illustrations including 6 photogravure plates. 2 volumes; large 8vo. Superb in contemporary binding by Bayntun in half dark brown crushed morocco with gilt titles and gilt to spines, cloth boards, marbled end papers, top edges gilt. A very handsome set. "... The feature of the edition is its splendid wealth of illustrations to which Mr. Ingpen, by a happy thought, has added explanatory notes, which form a new and valuable commentary to the best-loved English classic. The book is beautifully produced, and has only to be seen to be bought." Bookman. £450

79 KAVANAGH, Patrick. The Great Hunger. Dublin: The Cuala Press. 1942 [42217 ] Limited edition. Number 235 of 250 copies. Blue paper covered boards with cream linen spine. Paper title label, glassine wrapper. Some chipping and loss to the glassine and some minor edgewear to the extremtities of the boards, essentially a near fine copy. Blue endpapers, internally clean. An unopened copy. With a laid in ad sheet for O'Connor's “A Picture Book.” A definitive poem of the Irish rural struggle, scarce in glassine. £975

80 KELLER, John. The Game of Draw Poker. New York: White, Stokes and Allen. 1887 [42168 ] Small 8vo. Publisher's paper covered boards with blue linen spine. Slightly scuffed and rounded to corners, some light wear to front panel and some fairly inoffensive soiling, a very good copy of a fragile production. Internally clean save for some soiling to the pastedown and flyleaf. A small treatise on the rules of progressive and draw poker from the first few decades of the draw's adoption into the game. £145

81 KENNEDY, Patrick. Legendary Fictions of The Irish Celts. London: Macmillan and Co. 1866 [42211 ] 8vo. Publisher's fittingly emerald green cloth with gilt titles and decoration (shamrocks no less, we might need to slow down the cliche train about now). Minor rubbing and edgewear, a bit of a bump here and there but strong and handsome, minor toning to the spine and a little bit of inoffensive scuffing, very good indeed. Glazed brown endpapers, internally clean. Engraved frontispiece with tissue guard, depicting a giant club weilding chap (I'm thinking either Mr. Mac Cuil or Mr. Boru given the context) who unfortunately appears to have been drawn with the head of Algernon Swinburne, which takes away from the impact rather. This collection, seperated between pre-christian tales, myths of the "Good People" (bearing in

[35] continued... mind that anyone you had to stress was good back then definitely, absolutely, incontrovertibly wasn't), the Ossianic cycles and the whole slew of "St. Patrick receives the Staff of Jesus", "St. Brigid does something clever with an Oatcake", and "St. Poorly-disguised-and-recently-nicked-pagan-celebrity-figure Behaves Remarkably Like A Christian and Doesn't That Just Go To Show..." stuff is dedicated to none other than James Sheridan Le Fanu, which is always a good sign. I grew up familiar with many of these tales and mythical figures, I knew why you shouldn't go to sleep near standing stones, I knew that there were gates to Annwn and that the Land was old in the kind of way that meant its only remaining amusement was to mess with your head. I don't think people know these things so much any more as anything other than a passing reference in an episode of "Teen Wolf" (which is still better than nothing)...they used to be everywhere. Clearly what we have here is a repository of forgotten knowledge in an attractive green cloth binding. £150

82 KINDERSLEY, Anne. [Various: Girl Guides, Scouting] The Guiding Book. [42803 ] The Guiding Book - Hodder & Stoughton 1929 1st Edition together with a large number of letters from contributors as well as those who declined to contribute Original dedication crossed out by the editor, Anne Kindersley (hereafter known as AK) and dedicated to 'My Liege' her pet name for her girlfriend Lady Helen Whitaker. Also inscribed with a poem, written to Lady Helen. September 1929 given to Imogen 'with my love' and saying it was the copy she had first given Lady Helen Whitaker.

Catalogue of Contributors Etc. Princess Mary Contribution: Message Original of the facsimile message 12 December 1922 Montgomery General Secretary of the Girl Guides for Princess Mary. Letter to AK enclosing Princess Mary’s message and stating ‘You will see that she did not entirely approve of the draft message that was sent to her and has changed it to suit herself.’ (See also Montgomery)

Baden-Powell, Lady 29 May 1922 Letter to AK enclosing letter from ‘Richard Dehan’ the authoress C Graves. The authoress has declined to write anything but O B-P opines ‘Anyhow she writes awful rot as a rule, so that I don’t think it really matters’ (See Dehan, Richard) 16 September 1923 Letter to AK discussing wording regarding use of profits from the book. 27 November 1923 Letter to AK thanking her for her copy of the Guide Book and congratulating her.

[36] Bateman, H, artist Contribution: nil 22 April 1922 Letter to AK saying he is prepared to create something but that constant calls for free work are becoming too much, and that in return he wants her to contribute £5.00 to The Artists Benevolent fund. Presumably AK declined.

Canziani, Estella 1887-1964 Renowned folklorist, artist and writer, particularly in relation to her work in Italy. Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery have a web page on her work as an artist with images of her tempera paintings, and the Folklore Society have recently published a page about her work with the ‘Pearlies’ of London. Contribution: Painting ‘As an army with banners’. Letters to AK 19 January 1923, 8 February 1923, 17 February 1923, Various regarding the painting, and offering to sell reproductions of the paintings, and to give 20% to Guides. 22 March 1923 Letter to AK regarding banner and reproductions. 17 May 1923, 17 June 1923, 18 September Letters to AK asking for proofs. 27 February 1923 Two letters to Lady Helen Whitaker also regarding painting in a Girl Guides banner and offering to sell the painting for £50. 22 March Letter to AK to tell her that the banner had been painted in, and again regarding sales of reproductions. Not dated. Letter to AK thanking her for the GB and the return of her painting, and stating her intention paint out the banner, if the Guides did not want to buy the painting as ‘it really only appeals to guides’.

Champion de Crespigny, Mrs Philip, i.e. Rose Champion de Crespigny, An authoress Contribution: Article, on the development of will 20 January 1922 Letter to AK enclosing article November 1923 Letter to AK thanking her for the GB

Dane, Clemence (aka Winifred Ashton) 1888-1965 novelist & playwright. Contribution: 'And Women' Undated: 2 letters to AK regarding the item

Davies, Walford (music) Spring-Rice Cecil (words) Contribution: Score to Song ‘I vow to thee my country’ Music Walford Davies, Words - Spring-Rice special arrangement for The Guides 31 May 23, Davies to AK - letter stating his intention to create the above & also to set the Noyes poem to music. (This presumably was not done as the poem appears without music.) 22 July 23, Davies to AK saying he is feeling guilty that he has not yet made ‘The Guides’ arrangement. Undated: Davies to AK - letter stating ‘I vow to thee my country is half completed’ 7 August 23 Davies to AK sending arrangement and saying it would be an honour if it were to become the ‘Official Girl Guides Song’ but that he would like the ‘girls’ to decide. 7 August 23 Original score for I vow to thee my country ‘written for the Girl Guides’. de la Mare, Walter Contribution: Nil 30 November 1922. Letter to AK stating he has nothing unpublished to offer, but adding ‘When I have a moment I will look over what unpublished verse I still may have by me’.

[37] continued... de Selincourt, Anne (maiden name Anne Douglas Sedgwick) Contribution: Article ‘Birds’ Undated: apologising for not having written ‘Birds’ yet Undated: asking if it is now too late o send something Undated: letter to AK asking for Proof Undated: Letter to AK, Thank you for receipt of GB

Dehan, Richard (The authoress C Graves) Letter to Lady Baden Powell saying she is too ill to write anything but enclosing £5 for a fund for a Boy Scouts War Memorial in Westminster Abbey. (with B-P letter)

Dulac, Edmund Contribution, previously unpublished Don Quixote illustration. 28 April 1923 Letter to Milne? Content, not able to provide published work because bound by copyright but that the GB might use the above illustration because it had never been published.

Galsworthy, John Contribution: Nil 1 March 1922 Letter to AK refusing to contribute

Harraden, Beatrice 1864-1936 British writer and suffragette Contribution: Nil Undated: 3 x letters to AK saying she will write an article but has not yet had time etc.

Heath Robinson, W Contribution: Drawing ‘The Tragedy of a Misguided Man’ 20 May 1922 Letter to AK saying he hasn’t time to make a special drawing. 6 November 1922 Letter to AK saying he will try and make her a small drawing ‘between now and early spring’ and asking for a reminder No date Signed ‘compliments slip’

Hodder-Williams, Sir Ernest Director of Hodder & Stoughton who published the GB & associated Hodder & Stoughton correspondence 17 October 1923 Letter to AK congratulating her on the GB (Signed) 15 November 1923 Letter to AK included with early GB copies for her (not signed) 15 November 1923 Letter to AK asking if she had any particular organs that she wished review copies to be sent to (not signed) 20 November 1923 Letter to AK agreeing to send copies to all the contributors, to Lady Helen Whitaker & saying the publishers are preparing a specially bound copy for Princess Mary (not signed)

Kipling, Rudyard Contribution: Poem ‘To the True Romance’ reprinted from his book ‘Many Inventions’ 3 December 1923: Letter to AK thanking her for the GB

Kipling, Cassie, wife of Rudyard 27 January 1923, letter from the Grand Pump Room Bath saying Rudyard is too busy to write and asking for certain acknowledgements regarding 'To the True Romance' in particular, that it has been reprinted with permission from ‘Life’s Handicaps’ Curiously the GB states it was reprinted from ‘Many Inventions’ [38] Low, Juliet Founder of American Girl Guides - known as the Girl Scouts - friend of Rudyard Kipling and his wife. Contribution: Nil ( not requested) 1 December 1923 Letter to AK stating she had asked Mrs Kipling to ask Rudyard Kipling to read all of the Guiding Book and that Mrs Kipling had enjoyed it. Also stating that an ‘appreciation’ of the book would be published their January issue of the magazine ‘American Girl’. Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949 Belgian Flemish playwright, poet and essayist who wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911. Contribution : Message - reproduced in facsimile 12 June 1923 Letter to AK from which the message is taken Montgomery, General Secretary of the Girl Guides (See also Princess Mary) 24 November 1924, Letter to AK enclosing a cheque for copies of the GB. Noyes, Alfred English poet Contribution: poem The Mountain Trail 4 October 1922 Letter to AK apologising for being so slow in replying 8 March 1923 Letter to AK including the hand written poem which he adapted to work better with music (in the end published only as a poem) and asking for sight of proof, and saying that he must contact his agent. Rackham, Arthur 2 June 1922 Letter to AK saying his commitments mean he he is unable to draw anything especially for the GB. He does offer the use of any already published drawing, but himself can not think of a particularly suitable one. 2 December 1922 Letter to AK (much shorter) saying he does not have enough time to execute a drawing for the GB Raymond, Ernest. English best selling author of ‘Tell England’ pub. 1922 Contribution: Many Doors 22 May 1922 Letter to AK saying he is please to write something for the GB and asking how many words etc. 20 September 1922, Letter to AK worrying about her proposal to change the words in the ‘Repres.....????’ presumably the short story as referred to above .... and asking for a proof. No date: Letter to AK stating ‘I think you have done this quite excellently’ Presumably this refers to Many Doors, his contribution which most likely he originally entitled ‘Repres ....’. Seton, Ernest Thompson 1860 – 1946 author, wildlife artist & founder of the Woodcraft Indians & founding pioneer of the Boy Scouts of America. His notable books related to Scouting include The Birch Bark Roll and The Boy Scout Handbook. He both appropriated and incorporated American Indian elements into the BSA traditions. Contribution: Nil (rejected, or submitted too late) 26 Feb 1923 Letter to AK saying he was travelling and deep in the desert (California) but that he hopes the enclosed reaches her in time. Original of ‘How to Have Some Fun’ being some ‘physical’ games viz.: Witches Broom Ride & Posing - in which ‘no one need fear for his dignity’. Prefaced by his ‘rules for having fun’ etc. [39] continued... Tagore, Abaminradath (More properly known as Abanindranath Tagore) 1871-1951 Nephew of Rabindranath Tagore. Artist and creator of ‘Indian Society of Oriental Art’ and originator of the Indian style of painting known as the Bengal school of art. Also a writer, particularly known for his children’s books Contribution: Umaa the Mother - a story and a print of his painting Umaa. 1 September 1923 Letter from Calcutta to ‘Dear Madam’ - presumably AK - stating that he charges 250 rupees for paintings similar to those such as Umaa. He declines to write Indian Legends in English, stating it is ‘too difficult’ and suggests she gets ‘one or two such stories from my Uncle, the poet’ (Rabindranath Tagore)

Thorburn, Archibald wildlife artist Contribution: Bird pictures 26 February 1923, Letter to AK saying he will do some drawings 3 March 1923 Letter to AK thanking her Ms Sedgwick's article, which his drawings are to accompany 7 November 1923 Letter to AK thanking her for the proofs 26 November 1923 Letter to AK thanking her for his copy of the GB

Tarrant, Margaret 1888-1959 English illustrator specialising in illustrations of children and religious subjects. Contribution: illustration ‘two of the strange little children had stopped in front of her.’ 13 December 1922 Letter to AK enquiring as to what sort of work AK wanted 27 February 1922 Letter to AK asking for photo of a German street and saying she had been left in the dark for some time as to what was required. 12 March 1923 Letter to AK saying photos have not arrived 20 March 1923 Letter to AK enclosing a drawing 6 September 1923 Letter to AK saying if they wish to purchase the original it will be 2 guineas etc.

Tynan Hinkson, Katherine Irish novelist and poet Contribution: Article - 'Saints and Warriors' Undated: Letter to AK from Cologne offering write article to ‘help’ with the ‘troubles’ in Ireland 10 January 1923 Letter to AK saying she is going to try and get her article in the Dublin Papers 28 January 1923 Letter to AK enclosing article

Webling Peggy, 1871-1949 British playwright, novelist and poet whose 1927 play version of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is notable for naming the creature "Frankenstein" after its creator, and for being the inspiration of the classic 1931 film directed by James Whale. Contribution: Article 'Friendship' 17 February 1923 Letter to AK enclosing article

Wood, Lawson 1878 –1957 was an English painter, illustrator and designer known for humorous depictions of cavemen and dinosaurs, policemen, and animals, especially a chimpanzee called Gran'pop, whose annuals circulated around the world. Contribution: Illustration for story ‘Many Doors’ one in B&W the other a colour painting 19 January 1923 Letter to AK apologising for not yet having sent the illustrations 26 January 1923 Letter to AK enclosing illustrations. £3500 [40] 83 KIPLING, Rudyard. The Vampire and Other Poems. New York: Street and Smith. n.d. [c. 1899] [42665 ] First US edition. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth decorated in and titled in black and gilt with a rather fierce portrait of Kipling, and some bats. I'm not sure how Kipling felt about bats, but I'm pretty sure that this is the only time they appear together on a book cover. Some slight discolouration to the spine, a very good copy indeed, tight, clean and bright. Contains not only The Vampire (complete with pictorial frontispiece) but a fair smattering of Kipling's other more readily accessible poems to boot. A sharp US imprint. £175

84 LARDNER, Reverend Dionysius. A Treatise on Silk Manufacture. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green. 1831 [41245 ] Small 8vo. Apparently part of The Cabinet Cyclopaedia series (conducted by the deliriously wonderfully named Dionysius Lardner "Assisted by Eminent Literary and Scientific Men." Bound in full contemporary diced calf with red title label. Upper joint expertly repaired. Smart, bright and strong with a little bit of scuffing to joints and extremities. All edges marbled. Internally clean, ink ownerships to front flyleaf, profusely illustrated. Pretty much everything you need to get a potted overview of 19th century silk manufacture, which obviously is something no literary or scientific person of eminence should be without. Pretty and interesting. £225

85 LATIMER, Jonathan. The Lady In The Morgue. New York: Doubleday. 1953 [42788 ] Crime Club 25th Anniversary edition. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth titled in white to spine, minor bumping and edgewear, a very good copy, in a pricelipped dustwrapper, sunned to spine and with a bit of scuffing here and there, no chips, tears or loss, strong and clean. Inscribed by Latimer to the flyleaf to none other than legendary book runner Martin Stone; respected by all, envied by many and adored by a fortunate multitude. "Martin Stone, Best Regard to an English Fan! Jonathan Latimer." A nicely inscribed bit of hard boiled shenanigans from one of the much overlooked giants of the genre, plus, Martin Stone, did we mention that he's a legend? He's a legend. £140

[41] 86 LATIMER, Jonathan. Sinners and Shrouds. London: Methuen. 1956 [42787 ] First UK edition. 8vo. 223pp. Publisher's black cloth titled to spine in yellow, essentially near fine with some very minor edgewear and a barely perceptible lean, light spotting to page edges. In a bright, near fine, price clipped dustwrapper, designed by Pat Marriott, with a trifle of wear to the head of the spine and a very small area of discolouration towards the base of the spine panel possible caused by the removal of a label. A very sharp copy, made sharper by the fact that it is inscribed by Latimer on a bookplate to "A friend in Devon..." (Eileen Cond; noted correspondant of the great and the good including of course, Ian Fleming). A later Sam Clay mystery, in which our hero wakes up and encounter that perennial problem of the heavy drinking journalist; a corpse in his bed. £175

87 LAWRENCE, T. E., and WOOLLEY, C. Leonard. [TOD, M.N.]. The Wilderness of Zin. With a Chapter on Greek Inscriptions by M.N.Tod. Introduction by Sir Frederic Kenyon. London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [42563 ] First ‘New Edition’. Large 8vo. Clean and bright in publisher’s vivid red cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board; top edge red. In a very good example of a somewhat fragile dustwrapper, a little dusty; frayed to head of spine which has been strengthend to the reverse with tape, lower top edge has closed tears. Shows extremely well. Internally clean and fresh. Illustrated throughout with a plethora of photographs and in text drawings and diagrams. Increasingly difficult in nice condition. £150

88 LAWRENCE, T.E. Oriental Assembly. Edited by A.W. Lawrence. With Photographs by the Author. [containing a Diary kept during a journey to Northern Syria in the summer of 1911; also the full text of the suppressed Introductory Chapter to ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’; a series of character sketches of the Arabs whose portraits Mr. Eric Kennington drew for ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’; an essay, ‘The Changing East’, which appeared anonimously in ‘The Round Table’; an essay, ‘The Evolution of a Revolt’, which appeared in ‘The Army Quaterly’ and later formed the basis for Chapter 33 of ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’. It also contains over 100 remarkable and mostly unpublished photographs taken by Lawrence during The Revolt in the Desert...’]. London: Williams and Norgate Ltd., 1939. [42620 ] First edition. Large 8vo. Publisher’s brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge tinted blue, in original printed dustwrapper. An exceptionally clean, fine copy. ‘An indispensable supplement to Seven Pillars of Wisdom...’ £250 O’Brien. A Bibliography of T.E.Lawrence. [42] 89 LAWRENCE, T.E. Oriental Assembly. Edited by A.W. Lawrence. With Photographs by the Author. [containing a Diary kept during a journey to Northern Syria in the summer of 1911; also the full text of the suppressed Introductory Chapter to ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’; a series of character sketches of the Arabs whose portraits Mr. Eric Kennington drew for ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’; an essay, ‘The Changing East’, which appeared anonimously in ‘The Round Table’; an essay, ‘The Evolution of a Revolt’, which appeared in ‘The Army Quaterly’ and later formed the basis for Chapter 33 of ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’. It also contains over 100 remarkable and mostly unpublished photographs taken by Lawrence during The Revolt in the Desert...’]. London: Williams and Norgate Ltd., 1939. [42687 ] First edition. Large 8vo. Publisher’s brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge tinted blue, in original printed dustwrapper with some small splashmarks to spine panel. A clean, fine copy. ‘An indispensable supplement to Seven Pillars of Wisdom...’ £250 O’Brien. A Bibliography of T.E.Lawrence.

90 LAWRENCE, T.E. Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. ( A Triumph). London, Jonathan Cape. 1935. [41905 ] LIMITED ISSUE of the FIRST EDITION, published for general circulation (originally published privately in 1926). No.486 of 750 copies. Illustrated with three manuscript facsimiles and forty-seven plates including four in colour. Four folding maps. One-quarter pigskin over brown buckram with crossed swords in gilt to front panel, titled in gilt to backstrip, patterned endpapers, top edge gilt. Some minor wear/scuffing to spine ends else a near fine copy, with the accompanying plain paper wrapper (worn). ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph’ is the autobiographical account of the experiences of T. E. Lawrence (‘Lawrence of Arabia’) while serving as a liaison officer with rebel forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks of 1916 to 1918. This monumental work had been privately printed in 1922, and a 1926 self-financed subscriber’s edition had left Lawrence facing bankruptcy, so author vowed “No further issue of the Seven Pillars will be made in my lifetime”. This first trade issue therefore followed in 1935, within weeks of the motorcyle accident that so tragically and prematurely claimed the life of one of the greatest visionary heroes of modern times. £1800 O’Brien A40

[43] 91 LE CARRÉ, John. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. London, Victor Gollancz, 1963. [42794 ] FIRST EDITION. 8vo., pp. 222. Publisher’s blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, original dust-jacket. Trivial handling, some dustiness to rear, edges slightly toned as usual. Remains a crisp, near fine copy of the author’s third novel, featuring George Smiley, double-agent Mundt, and burnt-out protagonist Alec Leamas. A monumental novel, The Spy Who Came In From is a revolutionary Cold War -era espionage classic, the first to win both the Crime Writer’s Association Gold Dagger and the Mystery Writers of America award, and also listed in the top 200 literary works since 1950. The author’s breakthough, which firmly established an alternative form to the James Bond cult and a new type of hero. Graham Greene considered it the best spy story he ever read and J.B. Priestley wrote that the book was 'superbly constructed with an atmosphere of chilly hell.' The novel won Le Carré the Somerset Maugham Award. He later won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, one of the oldest and most prestigious book awards in Britain. £1250

Callil & Toibin; Modern Library. (200 Best Novels in English since 1950) Cooper & Pike; Detective Fiction [p.324]. Listed in Time Magazine; 100 Best Modern Novels.

92 LE GALLIENNE, Richard. with LEATHER, Robinson K. The Student and the Body-Snatcher. and Other Trifles. London: Elkin Mathews. 1890 [42560 ] First edition. 8vo. 76pp. Publisher's dark brown buckram, scuffed and rubbed to extremities, titled in gilt to spine. Edges untrimmed. Internally clean. An elegant little book of macabre oddities. £75

93 LE QUEUX, William. The Stretton Street Affair. London, Cassell and Co., 1924. [41038 ] First Edition. 8vo. This copy INSCRIBED by Le Queux to his niece Enid Gaby. Fine in publisher’s burgundy cloth titled and decorated in black to spine and front board. Internally clean, very light foxing to page edges. Inscribed Le Queux is difficult to happen upon, and in a copy of this quality it is very scarce. ‘The man who really deserves credit for helping develop the spy novel is William Le Queux’ (Peter Haining). William Le Queux, seems to have done everything (or at least said he did); journalist, diplomat, explorer, early pilot, radio enthusiast and the author of a staggering 197 books. There is even the suggestion that Duckworth Drew, one of Le Queux’s espionage heroes, was a direct inspiration for James Bond. £575 HUBIN; Crime Fiction IV, p920.

[44] 94 LEWIS, George Cornewall. On Local Disturbances in Ireland. And on the Irish Church Question. London: B. Fellowes. 1836 [42306 ] First edition. 8vo. 458pp. Bound in half green morocco gilt over marbled boards by Banford. Sunned to spine. Twin red title labels, bright and sharp. Top edge gilt. A strong and handsome binding. Marbled endpapers. Internally clean and fresh. An interesting and informed near contemporary view of the agrarian uprisings in Ireland and their various antagonists including the Whiteboys and The Levellers, The Rockites, The Peep O' Day Boys and others, most of which were not in fact gangs but the genesis of a functional trade union movement. Lewis also gives his opinion on the role of the respective churches in these uprisings. A fascinating piece of historical analysis. Very good indeed. £300

95 [LONDON] (THORNBURY, Walter and WALFORD, Edward). Old and New London. A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. [Together with:] Greater London. A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings from the most Authentic Sources. London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1897-8. [42396 ] 8 volumes (6 for the Popular Edition of Old and New London, 2 for Greater London) bound in 4 in contemporary half black morocco with gilt titles and gilt lines to spines, black cloth boards, speckled edges. Profusely illustrated with woodcuts. End papers foxed; age toning to page edges. Binding a little rubbed. A sound, attractive and complete set of this popular series. £550

96 McCULLERS, Carson. The Ballad of The Sad Cafe; The Novels and Stories of Carson McCullers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1951 [42790 ] First collected edition. large 8vo. 791pp. Publisher's orange cloth, titled and decorated in red to spine and front board. Bumped to spine ends otherwise clean, bright and fresh, very good indeed. In a slightly scuffed and creased dustwrapper, worn to extremities, loss to head of spine, unclipped. Internally clean and bright. Inscribed by Carson McCullers to the front flyleaf: "For Monique and Valentin, from your devoted Carson." We love Carson McCullers. I realise that at this point I'm supposed to add something about how scarce inscribed material is, or a piece about her influence on 20th century literature in order to finish this description off, but really...if Carson McCullers had inscribed something to me with the word "devoted" in it I would simply implode. This book is cool, has all the best stories in it and it's inscribed by one of the most luminous women to walk the damn planet. *drops mic, leaves stage declaiming "In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together..." £1750 [45] 97 McCULLERS, Carson. Clock Without Hands. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1961 [42624 ] First edition. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth titled and decorated in gilt and black to the spine and front board. A bold piece of dustwrapper design has resulted in an acetate covered window in the front panel, displaying the titles stamped on the front board. A little edgewear, a trifle of bumping and a little fraying to the extremities of the priceclipped dustwrapper (and a little chipping around the window), essentially a very good, attractive copy. Inscribed somewhat shakily by the luminous Ms. McCullers to the front fly leaf "For Monique and Valentin, Love Carson." accompanied by a small ink drawing of a heart with an arrow through it. Also present is a Houghton Miffling "With The Compliments of The Author" slip with the date of publication stamped on it. Internally clean. I wish it was inscribed to me. £400

98 MACGREGOR, George. The History of Burke and Hare, and of the Ressurectionist Times. Glasgow: Thomas D. Morison. 1884 [42203 ] First edition. 8vo. Finely bound in recent half dark brown calf over marbled boards. Red and black title labels. A distinguished, handsome binding. Plain endpapers, internally clean, a lovely copy. Conataining seven illustrations and a wealth of gory detail. Burke and Hare, a couple of enterprising Irishmen, murdered their way through Edinburgh in 1828 and were thought to have murdered around 16 victims and sold their smothered corpses to Dr. Robert Knox for the purpose of anatomical dissection. As one does. Scotland at that time had an apparent surfeit of student surgeons eager to get to grips with the inside of a corpse and an unfortunate dearth of cadavers...to the point where dissection became part of the punitive judicial process and you could look forward to being strung up, and then cut up. Messrs. Burke and Hare decided to cut out the middle man (fate in this case) and jump straight to the strangling, smothering and selling. Naturally, or perhaps unnaturally, it didn't go well and the enterprising gentlemen were nabbed...Burke in a fine display of poetic justice, was publicly dissected. Walter Scott, perhaps in illustration of the fact that everyone has an opinion but only some of them persist in sharing, said:

"Our Irish importation have made a great discovery of Oeconomicks, namely, that a wretch who is not worth a farthing while alive, becomes a valuable article when knockd on the head & carried to an anatomist; and acting on this principle, have cleard the streets of some of those miserable offcasts of society, whom nobody missd because nobody wishd to see them again."

A fascinating and detailed account of a rather unpleasant episode in medical, social and indeed, judicial history. £195 [46] 99 MACGREGOR MATHERS, S. L. The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra- Melin the Mage, as Delivered by Abraham the Jew unto his Son Lamech, A.D. 1458. Translated from the Original Hebrew into the French, and now Rendered from the Latter Language into English. From a Unique and Valuable MS. in the Bibliotheque de L'Arsenal at Paris. By S. L. Mac Gregor-Mathers, Author of The Kabbalah Unveiled, The Key of Solomon, The Tarot, etc. in Three Books, with a Special and Copious Introduction and Explanatory Notes by the Translator, and Numerous Magical Squares of Letters. London: John M. Watkins, 1898. [42653 ] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Large 8vo. 268pp. Publisher’s black cloth, titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board with SATOR magic squarer. Top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. Plain endpapers, foxed, otherwise internally clean and fresh. Some very light bumping, scuffing and edgewear, a very good copy. Strong and handsome. Illustrated title page by Moina Mathers (absent from most copies) printed in brown. "A classic text of ceremonial magic, translated by a founding member of the Golden Dawn. It was highly inspirational to the young Aleister Crowley, who purchased his famous house Boleskine in Scotland, specifically to concentrate on the extended rituals which take at least six months of preparation. An excellent copy, retaining the illustrated title page, which has been removed from many first edtion copies." Blair Cowl. £1400

100 MALCOLM, Major General Sir John. The Life of Robert, Lord Clive. London: John Murray, 1836. [42183 ] First edition. 3 vols. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards. Later brown title labels, gilt somewhat dulled, uniform discolouration to spines. All edges speckled red. Internally clean, plain endpapers, bookplate of William Courtenay Morland to front pastedowns. Slight dpotting to frontis. Small tape repair to folding map vol I. A clean, handsome set. £475

101 MARVELL, Andrew. The Works of Andrew Marvell Esq. Poetical, Controversial and Political. London: Henry Baldwin. 1776 [42818 ] First edition. 4to. Three columes. Contemporary calf boards, respined some time ago to style. Minor edgewear and scuffing, some grazing of the calf here and there, occasional scratching and discolouration. A strong, handsome set. Internally clean and fresh. Some spotting and the occasional offsetting to the prelims from the glue used in the pastedowns. Portrait frontispiece to volume I. A couple of inner gutters cosmetically cracked but strong. Subscribers list present, containing such worthies as Gilbert White and David Garrick, not to mention Edmund Burke, presumably when he still had time to read inbetween penning pamphlets. Essentially an attractive, clean set of Marvell's Works. £850 [47] 102 MOLNAR, Ferenc. [Trans. Sidney Howard] Olympia. New York: Brentano's. 1928 [42766 ] First us edition. 8vo. Near fine in publisher's white paper spine titled in brown over marbled paper covered boards, very minor shelfwear, sharp and bright. In a very good dustwrapper with some light marginal chipping and some browning to spine, some loss to head of spine and bottom of rear panel; strong and handsome. A nice copy of a work by an American-Hungarian author that was filmed twice, most notably with Sophia Loren and Angela Lansbury. Scarce. £180

103 [MONTY PYTHON] CHAPMAN, Graham, CLEESE, John, GILLIAM, Terry, IDLE, Eric, JONES, Terry, PALIN, Michael The Brand New Monty Python Bok (sic). [London: Eyre Methuen] circa 1970s [42751 ] FIRST EDITION (although published without a title-page!). This copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ALL PYTHONS to the popular British wit Frank Muir. Eric Idle adds a typical note of sarcasm for the seasoned entertainer "Good luck in showbusiness". The book has also been signed by Muir's long-serving writing partner Denis Norden. Quasrto, publisher's risque photographic covers with plain titled jacket (with dirt and grubiness as part of the design!). Some dampmarking to lower margin, a little soiling to jacket, one or two nicks and tears. £1500

104 MORLEY, Henry [1822-1894] The Life of Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Doctor and Knight, commonly known as a Magician. London: Chapman and Hall, 1856. [42717 ] 8vo, 2 vols bound as one. Bound in 3/4 calf with marbled paper, edges stained red. Raised bands to spine, with blind tooling and red label. Boards slightly scuffed, with some wear to hinges and some damage to leather. Some light spotting to endpapers, otherwise clean. Includes bookplate, "Mr James Clifford". £210

105 OCAMPO, Victoria. [Lawrence, T.E.] 338171 T.E. Lawrence of Arabia. Translated by David Garnett. London: Gollancz. 1963 [42689 ] First edition. 8vo. Publisher's russet cloth titled in gilt to spine, fine, in a fine example of the fugitive yellow and maroon dustwrapper, very slightly toned to spine. Internally clean and fresh, with note laid in to Ruari Mclean (noted typographer, and wartime intelligence officer, scouting beaches under cover of darkness, for which he was awarded the DSC and the Croix De Guerre), recommending the book and hoping that it brings him some enjoyment. The note, which is appropriately enough, beautifully written (you wouldn't want

[48] to send anything scribbled to a typographer) is signed John, with no surname. Victoria Ocampo was of course the madly talented founder of the ridiculously influential "Sur" magazine and the woman described by Borges as "The quintessential Argentine woman" A pretty copy of a less well known adddition to the Lawrence library. £55

106 OMAN, Carola [Nelson. Cosway Binding] Nelson. 1947 [42910 ] Octavo (235 × 148 mm). Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere for Asprey's of London in near-contemporary dark blue crushed morocco, raised bands to spine, titles to spine gilt, ship devices and abstract wave frame to compartments, boards, and turn-ins, all gilt, with inset hand-painted miniature portrait of Nelson to front board, gilt edges, and pale cream watered silk liners. Housed in a light blue cloth slipcase.

First edition of Carola Oman’s (1897–1978) key work. Her prize-winning biography of Nelson ‘still stands as the benchmark against which modern biographies of Nelson may be judged’ (ODNB), and she had access to previously unpublished primary sources, including the collection of Lady Nelson's papers assembled by Lady Llangattock, founder of the Nelson Museum in Monmouth. ‘Although Oman was criticized for being insufficiently selective in her choice of material, and for her reluctance to make judgements, she was also widely praised for discarding prevalent myths, and for presenting Nelson in the round, through a stylish, accessible narrative.’ £3000

107 ORWELL, George (Eric Arthur Blair, 1903-1950). Nineteen Eighty-Four. London: Secker and Warburg, 1949. [42435 ] FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s light green cloth with titles in red to spine, tinted top edge. In original green dustjacket. A crisp, clean copy, with some light wear and tear to jacket but remaining exceptionally bright and clean. A superior copy of a book that is easily worn, this one possessing the extremely scarce Evening Standard wrap-around band, there is a repair to one fold of the band from where it was stored inside the book. Not only a lovely copy, but accompanied by its rare advertising band. Housed in an elegant quarter leather clamshell box. Orwell’s classic novel of a totalitarian future society is among the most famous and most cited works of dystopian fiction in literature, whose text and terminology has left a profound impression upon the English language. Basis for the Bafta-nominated movie starring John Hurt and Richard Burton. £4950 Connolly 100 listed. Fenwick, G: George Orwell. A Bibliography [A.12a], (1998). Listed in Time Magazine's 100 Best Modern Novels, also The Times: NovelList Top 60 Poll [2013].

[49] 108 PALMER, E.H. Oriental Mysticism. A Treatise on the Sufiistic and Unitarian Theosophy of The Persians. Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co. 1867 [42654 ] First edition. 8vo. 84pp + 16pp ads. Publisher's embossed green cloth titled and decorated in gilt to front board. Sharp, clean and bright, very good indeed. Brown endpapers. Front inner hinge cracked. Ex Libris Mansfield College Library and Dr. John Massie to front pastedown. Ink library marking to half title. Ink ownership to front flyleaf. Internally clean and fresh. An enthusiastic and detailed analysis (albeit brief) of the idiosyncracies of Sufi theosophy. The forward to the 1888 reprint of this work read: "Edward Henry Palmer, born at Cambridge in 1840, and murdered by Bedouins in the Egyptian desert in 1882, is one of the most romantic figures in the history of Oriental Studies." They don't make academics like that anymore. A fascinating, scarce little work. £75

109 PALMER, John Williamson. [ed.] Folk Songs. New York: Charles Scribner. 1867 [42623 ] A new edition, revised and enlarged. Large 8vo. Contemporary full brown morocco over heavy bevelled boards, titled in gilt to spine, decorated and ruled in blind to spine and boards. 596pp. Very good indeed. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Charles Welch to flyleaf. Internally clean. Profusely illustrated, and packed to the eaves with a variety of poems, songs and bits of doggerel by a bewildering selection of composers. Poe, Byron, Shakespeare, Whittier, Hogg and a raft of lesser known worthies. An invaluable source of inspiration for those of us wishing to memorise "Woodman, Spare that Tree!" or Captain Dowling's "The Song of The Dying." for the office party. £85

110 PERRIN, John. The Elements of Conversation. In Italian, French, English and German, With New, Familiar and Easy Dialogues, Designed Particularly for the Use of Schools. Leghorn: [Livorno] Gamba Bookseller. 1837 [42764 ] First edition thus (with the Italian and German additions and the dialogues). Oblong 8vo. 336 pp. Publisher's original blue paper wraps titled and decorated to spine and both front and rear panel, neat ink inscription to bottom of front panel. Fine in original paper wraps. Internally clean, the page edges are untrimmed. Quite simply a beautiful survival of pre Victorian travel phrase book. The paper is soft and heavy, the wrappers sharp and clean and bright, and in modern context the dialogues highly amusing; "Our master will soon come!", "In this case, let us chatter together." Every now and then some charming piece of ephemera floats up on the shoreline of where we work and is perfect, this is one of those occasions. £125

[50] 111 RAND, Ayn The Fountainhead. Indianapolis, New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company. 1943. [42832 ] FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Octavo, pp.754. Beautifully bound in full bright red morocco, gilt titles and decoration to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, original (earliest) red cloth bound in at rear. Internally fine with two preliminary leaves neatly guarded at joint. A fine copy of this classic American novel, which portrays Rand’s passionate defence of individualism, ambition, pig-headedness and possessing a robotic inability to empathise with anyone or anything. "When I look at the ocean, I feel the greatness of man, I think of man's magnificent capacity that created this ship to conquer all that senseless space. When I look at mountain peaks, I think of tunnels and dynamite. When I look at the planets, I think of airplanes." A milestone novel from the woman who unconsciously created the eighties. £1500

112 REAGE, Paulinem [pseud.] The Story of O. A Novel translated from the French, with an Essay by Jean Paulhan Paris, Olympia Press. 1954. [42762 ] The scarce true first edition printed in English, with final leaf stating ‘This first edition of The Story of O. was printed by Imprimerie Richard, Paris, in June, 1954’. 187pp. In it's original purple wraps, slightly faded to the spine and with some light chipping to head of the spine. Very good indeed, bright, sharp and clean. ‘The Story of O’ is an erotic masterpiece, originally written as a series of love letters from Dominique Aury (itself considered to be a pseudonym of Anne Desclos) to her lover Jean Paulhan who wrote the foreword to this edition. A Sadeian fantasy of sexual domination, secret societies, unbridled lust and constrictive ritual and the joys and tribulations of submission. Immensely complicated and accessible on a number of levels besides the obvious, a book that causes controversy and devotion in equal measure. Paulhan writes the preface to this edition, adding a further layer of mystery and titillation in his apparent efforts to conceal all knowledge of the fact that the work was written exclusively for him, or maybe concealing that is just his method of regaining control over a woman who has created (because of, and almost in spite of, him) what has come to be seen as an erotic and cerebral masterpiece: "But from the beginning to end, the story of O is managed rather like some brilliant feat. It reminds you more of a speech than of a mere effusion; of a letter rather than a secret diary. But to whom is the letter addressed? Whom is the speech trying to convince? Whom can we ask? I don't even know who you are. That you are a woman I have little doubt." £950

[51] 113 REES, L.E. A Personal Narrative of The Siege of Lucknow. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts. 1858. [42685] First edition. 8vo. 380pp. Publisher's orange embossed cloth titled in gilt to spine. Bright and sharp, slight bumping to spine ends and corners, minor edgewear, very good indeed, a very pretty copy. Internally clean, brown, glazed endpapers with ads to pastedowns, Edwards and Remnants bindery label to rear pastedown, evidence of the removal of a similar label to the front pastedown. Portrait frontispiece of Sir Henry Lawrence looking somewhat grim, perhaps unsurprisingly. Minor offsetting to title page. With folding map of the Residency and surrounding city. An eyewitness account by a civilian present in the Residency for the duration of the siege, or sieges if you wish to be more picky, and its subsequent liberation. Often viewed as a measurement of British fighting resolve during the enormous blow that was what is referred to as the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 (also referred to as the First Indian War of Independence); the city was held, taken, lost and retaken at a cost of 2500 men, the final day's fighting of the lifting of the siege created no less than 24 Victoria Cross recipients, more than any other action in British military history. A handsome copy of a book more usually seen looking rather more mutinous. £450

114 ROBERTSON, R. Reports on Visits to American Automobile Body Plants during the Period of 16th April - 17th May 1946. [Issued by the Press Steel Co., Ltd., Engineering Dept.], June 1946. [40722] Folio. This report is a British post war working draft, possibly for eventual printing, concentrating on all technical aspects of the car designs and construction in the USA with a view to develop and modernise the British car industry worldwide. It counts 128 pages of typed pages, printed on recto only, several of them with photos and xeroxes of cars, car parts, technical drawings, and cross sections tipped in; pencil notes and numbering throughout. The whole held in a brown faux-leather period folder the boards screwed to the spine; paper title label to upper. Folder rubbed to extremities, label chipped; end papers dusty. Content clean. ‘The visits reported herein were made with the object of studying the latest trends in American Automobile Body Design, with special reference to future trends in Styling, Construction Methods and Engineering Procedure.... The report is based mainly on information gathered during discussions with Engineers, Technical Executives and Supervisors, technical data in printed and photographic form collected from various sources, and the writer’s observations in the plants visited....’ (Introduction). £350

[52] 115 RUDING, Walt. An Evil Motherhood. An Impressionist Novel. London: Elkin Mathews. 1896 [42678 ] First edition, Second Issue (as usual, the first issue consists of six copies distributed with the Beardsley "Black Coffee" frontispiece as against the supposed portrait of the author...who was long asumed to have been a nom de plume; Mark Samuels Lasner, who let's face it is probably right, also maintains that there is another issue floating around out in the ether with both frontispiece designs, which is just scary). 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth titled in bronze gilt to spine and front board and decorated in light blue with an elaborate spider's web design. Dulled to spine, a trifle bumped to extremities and with some inoffensive shelfwear, a very good, strong copy. Internally clean, partially uncut, slightly ragged fore-edge. Bearing the bookplate of Martin Birnbaum, noted Wildean and New York art aficianado who wrote "Wilde: Fragments and Memories" in 1914. The frontispiece is by the inimitable Aubrey Beardsley and is the perfect depiction of the louche, jaded and hopelessly limp fin de siecle protagonist lounging in his fancy, beribboned slippers in a library full of smothering rugs, slumped under the gaze of an extremely stern looking lady. It turns out the Walt (or Walter) Ruding did exist, but in fact died at the age of 25, mere months after the publication of this work which was not terribly well received. The frntipiece portrait is therefore in all likelihood, an actual portrait, which suggest that next to Beardsley himself, Ruding may very well have have been the perfect product of his age. An interesting curiosity. £180

116 RUTTER, Owen. The Pagans of North Borneo. London: Hutchinson. 1929 [42165 ] First edition. 8vo. 288pp. Bound in recent half tan calf over marbled boards with green and red title labels. Bright, clean and very handsome. Internaly clean, some minor spotting to page edges and a few trifling signs of wear. A striking copy with 75 plates, a plethora of diagrams and a colour folding map to the rear. Rutter spent five years in Borneo on government service and was a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. A fascinating and deeply researched eye witness anthropological study. £295

[53] 117 SALE, Lady Florentia. Lady Sale's Journal. A Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan 1841-2. London: John Murray. 1843 [42686 ] First edition. 8vo. 451pp + 12pp Murray ads + 12pp W.H. Allen and Co. ads. Publisher's salmon coloured embossed cloth, titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board (with a rather impressive image of Lady Sale on an elephant, an experience from which it is unlikely the elephant recovered). Slight fading to the spine, gilt still bright, a little minor edgewear and bumping, gilt a trifle rubbed, essentially a very good copy indeed of a book which is very scarce in cloth, and even scarcer in strong, bright, clean cloth. Edges untrimmed. Internally bright and clean, glazed yellow endpapers bearing the armorial bookplate and ink ownership of Baron Clonbrock to front pastedown. Lady Florentia Sale, wife of Sir Robert Henry Sale, she who was otherwise known as 'The Grenadier in Petticoats', and was an all-round, copper bottomed, cast-iron, weapons grade member of the British aristocracy, with every attendant eccentricity, peculiarity and idiosyncracy, plus a few extras apparently. Part of the disastrous and ill-fated retreat from Kabul during the First Afghan War of 1841-2, Lady Sale was not only one of the few survivors of the hellish, frozen procession through the Khurd Kabul Pass towards Jallalabad, but she was also one of the few to emerge with any credit. The British military progression through the region being one catastrophe of arrogance and tunnel vision after another, it was inevitable that the Afghan tribes would kick back, and they did. The retreat from Kabul cost something like 16500 lives, mostly camp followers and civilians, with 4500 military personnel dying in the passes. The 44th Regiment of Foot, bringing up the rearguard, made a last stand outside the village of Gandamak on the 13th of January 1842. Reduced to 40 men, very little ammunition and a handful of working muskets they were surrounded and offered terms of surrender...the response to this was a sergeant bellowing "Not bloody likely!" There were only two survivors of the action, one being the officer commanding, Captain Souter, who wrapped the colours around his waist to protect them from being taken and was thus mistaken for someone important and taken prisoner, the other survivor being the famous Dr. Brydon, who turned up wounded and exhausted on the back of a mule at the gates of Jallalabad, the only member of the entire column to make it through the passes. You should probably ascribe the refusal of the 44th to surrender to British military heroism, but I also like to think that for at least some of them, the

[54] idea of going down fighting was preferable to being re-united with Lady Sale. By all accounts she was aggressive, haughty and constantly haranguing everyone within a forty foot radius about how they weren't doing their jobs properly (it appears in hindsight, she was dead right), until according to legend it was considered preferable to be sniped at by ghazis from the rocks rather than be in her sights. She seems to have been afraid of...well, nothing at all, and to have possessed the grit, determination and ability to motivate that was actually required of the male leadership at the time. She can probably be credited with the survival of what few there were amongst the women and children of the retreat; negotiating with their captors when they were finally taken, nursing her son in law Lieutenant John Sturt through his final hours whilst he died of three stab wounds to the stomach and ensuring that he received a Christian burial when he finally died, which considering the context is something of an achievement. She seems to have endangered herself almost constantly both before and after being taken captive and was unfailingly generous in her praise for the bravery and resourcefulness of the other women, and indeed even the Afghan tribesmen they were being harried by. "We commenced our march at mid-day, the 5th N.I. in front. The troops were in the greatest state of disorganization; the baggage was mixed in with the advanced guard; and the camp followers all pushed ahead in their precipitate flight towards Hindostan . . . The pony Mrs. Sturt rode was wounded in the ear and neck. I had fortunately, only one ball in my arm; three others passed through my poshteen near the shoulder without doing me any injury. The party that fired on us were not above fifty yards from us, and we owed our escape to urging our horses on as fast as they could go over a road where, at any other time, we should have walked our horses very slowly." So, only actually shot once then...right. Then there's this: "I often hear the Afghans designated as cowards, and I can only suppose it arises from the British idea among civilised people that assassination is a cowardly act. The Afghans never hesistate to use their long knives for that purpose, ergo they are cowards; but they show no cowardice in standing as they do against guns without using any themselves, and in escalading and taking forts which we cannot retake." I can't help thinking there's some lesson regarding learning from history buried in here somewhere. A handsome and attractive copy of a truly fascinating and scarce account. £850

[55] 118 SHIEL, M.P. Prince Zaleski. Boston: Roberts Brothers. 1895 [42558 ] First US edition. Small 8vo. Publisher's brick red cloth, titled and decorated in black and gilt to spine and front boardm MInor rubbing and edgewear, a very good copy indeed. Bright and sharp. Internally clean with ownership of Charles Brightman to front flyleaf. One of the more prominent inclusions into John Lane's highly colectable and attractive Keynotes series. £395

119 SISMONDI, J.C.L. Simonde de. Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe. London: Henry G. Bohn. 1846 [42250 ] Second edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Bound in light brown half calf over marbled boards, titled in gilt to spines. Minor edgewear, slight scuffing and rubbing to extremities, a little bumped here and there but solid, strong and durable. Edges speckled red, top edges dusty. Internally clean, green endpapers, minor spotting throughout. Ink ownership to front flyleaf. Actually a fascinating and informative survey of various milestones in European literary history, however the chief interest in thses books lies in the fact that they are both from the library of Ernest Shackleton and bear his signature to the front pastedown of each volume. The signature in volume I is dated 1921, the start year of the Shackleton-Rowlett expedition to the Antarctic upon which he died. An interesting survival. £600

120 SMITH, Adam. An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: A. Strahan, T. Cadell Jr., and W. Davies, 1799. [42612 ] The Ninth Edition. 3 volumes; 8vo. Contemporary full brown calf respined to style with two, burgundy and black, title labels and extra gilt tooling to spines, gilt rule to boards, marbled end papers, all edges tinted green. Browning to first and last blanks with 19th century ownership in ink to verso of flyleaves. Internally clean and sound. A superb set. £1350

121 SMITH, James Edward. Introduction to Physiological and Systematical Botany. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. 1819 [42253 ] Fourth edition. 8vo. 407pp + 1pp ads. Bound in contemporary English straight grain morocco in a fairly mundane brown, titled and decorated in gilt to spine and boards. A little scuffed and rubbed, some light discolouration of the leather here and there, an attractive contemporary binding, strong and handsome, very good indeed. Plain endpapers, ink ownership to front flyleaf. Internally clean with the single unfortunate and irritating caveat that there is some small, localised but industrious worming to the inner corner of the lower margin. It never touches the text, but one single, tiny tunnel extends halfway through the volume. Aside from this exhibition of invertebrate gluttony the book is quite lovely, and has the rather more charming addition of some rose petals laid in here and there by some budding botanist or other. Bookworm: 1 Bookseller: 0... but charming and interesting nonetheless. £75 [56] 122 STERNE, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. To which is added "The Sentimental Journey." with Illustrations by George Cruikshank. London: James Cochrane and Co. 1832 [42178 ] First Cruikshank Edition (Novelist's Library edition). 2 vols. Small 8vo. Bound in original publisher's embossed cloth, very good indeed, titled and numbered in gilt to faintly faded spines. Sharp, clean and handsome, thoroughly lovely little books. All edges marbled. Internally clean and bright. Front inner hinge cosmetically cracked to volume I. Illustrated throughout by Cruikshank, a very pretty set. £375

123 STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Body Snatcher. London: Pall Mall Magazine. 1884 [42861 ] Pall Mall Magazine Christmas "Extra" edition for 1884. 4to. 96pp. Bound in contemporary quarter tan straight grain morocco over purple paper covered boards. Rubbed and scuffed to extremities, a practical binding, used but strong, very good. The entire magazine issue including wraps is bound into the this rather unprepossessing casing. Neat ink ownership to front flyleaf. The illustated wraps have been backed with matching ochre coloured paper to combat any further wear, there is some minor edge chipping and some light soiling, they have however survived in good style. Internally clean and fresh, copiously illustrated, with The Body Snatcher taking up the 12 pages or so, accompanied in this issue by a quantity of Kate Greenaway, an article on after dinner conjuring, a selection of improving books for boys and girls and an article on where to go for Christmas books which mentions both Mr. Hatchard and Mr. Sotheran (who are still going strong) and mentions that Kensington is sadly destitute in the area of booksellers. Mr. Sotheran, it goes on to add, is chiefly interested in handsomely bound standard works and doesn't go in much for Christmas or children. This is the first published appearance of The Body Snatcher, written around the time of the Burke and Hare controversy, and is exceptionally scarce in this ephemeral and fragile form. £3500

124 STEVENSON, Robert Louis, [PEAKE Mervyn] Treasure Island. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1949 [42068 ] First edition, first issue binding. 8vo. Near fine publisher’s blue cloth with silver gilt lettering to spine and original pricelipped dust jacket with traces of wear to extremities, a small closed tear and a small chip of loss at the base of the spine. Internally clean, gift inscription to front flyleaf, With 41 superb full page illustrations in Peake's distinctive style (complete with his son standing in as the model for Jim Hawkins). £120

[57] 125 STOKER, Bram. The Lair of the White Worm. William Rider and Son Ltd., London, 1911. [42807 ] FIRST EDITION.8vo., pps. 324 + 4 of adverts + 16-page publisher’s catalogue. Illustrated with 6 coloured plates by Pamela "Pixie" Colman Smith, Golden Dawn adherent and the illustrator if what is usually called The Rider-Waite Tarot, but should more accurately be called the Waite-Smith in all probability. A very good copy in original publisher’s cloth with gilt decorated titles to spine and front board. Some slight fading on the spine, head and tail bumping, some fraying at spine head. A very good copy with some cosmetic wear. Front inner hinge starting. The book is otherwise a clean, bright and robust example of one of the redoubtable Mr. Stoker’s ‘other’ works. This particular copy is a publisher’s presentation copy with the presentation stamp to the title page. A rare object. £375 Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature [324].

126 STRANGE, Lady. A Flower Alphabet. The Alphabet of Wild Flowers Addressed to her Young Daughter By Mrs Thomas of Eyhorne House. Illustrated by Lady Strange. 1856 [42806 ] A superb, manuscript wild flower alphabet. The text is by Louise Thomas, of Eyhorne House. Hollingbourne, Kent. The illumination, calligraphy and watercolours are by Lady Strange. An album consisting of a title page illuminated in gold, with indents. 14 leaves of manuscript, illuminated with fine watercolours and very fine calligraphy and gold leaf decoration. The final leaf has ‘Lady Strange fecit 1868’. Bound in dark green velvet with red watered silk endpapers. The front board has ornamental, intricate gold brocade decoration. Housed in a green watered silk folder and dark green silk slip case. The whole production is of superior quality and is the finest example we have seen for sale in 40 years. It would appear that Louise Thomas commissioned Lady Strange to execute the work for at least 2 of her daughters, this copy coinciding with the coming of age of her daughter Mary. One is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (see note below) it is unknown whether or not all the children received such a gift. The date on the V & A example would coincide with her daughter, Louise Charlotte, coming of age. Louise Thomas was born in Dorking in 1810 and married Richard Thomas around 1840. They had five daughters and a son and kept a house which included a footman, a gardener and five servants. Louise lived to the ripe old age of 101. Their children were Ella (1840), Louisa (1844), Bertha (1845) Mary (1847) Richard (1849) and Louise Charlotte 1850). £8750

[58] 127 THOMPSON, W. S. BUNNET, H. and others. A Musical Box Photograph Album. n.d. [42865 ] Late 19th or early 20th century Olympia photgraphic album with music box. Publisher's quarto embossed brown cushioned leather boards clasped with a brass clasp at fore-edge, the opening of which is intended to trigger the music box, later respine, minor edgewear and a little scuffing here and there, essentially very good indeed, strong and bright. Gilt and green patterned endpapers. Internally clean and bright. With ten heavy card die cut chromolithographed album pages accepting between 1 and 4 photographs (no photos are present), each page is heavily decorated with a full colour depiction of a different sporting endeavour or other. Cricket, archery, baseball, curling, lacrosse and lawn tennis are all present, with the occasional foray into fox hunting and snowshoe racing. Bright and colourful, with some interesting insights into accepted uniforms for turn of the century sporting events. The music box is fully operational and charmingly melodic with the minor details that a single link in the gear release linkage has been replaced by a small piece of wire and that the linking trigger bar is no longer attached to the clasp which means you have to give it a slight tug to play the jaunty tune...which will be instantly recogniseable to anyone who didn't grow up on Joy Division and The Sisters of Mercy but is a bit of a mystery to me. The mechanism is protected by a hinged glass door and the winding key is present and secured to the side of the movement (which I think is a clockwork 1 tune 55 note model). The keyhole is in the centre of the rear board. That rather jumbled foray into mechanical engineering was intended to suggest that everything is present and correct and the music box component plays very nicely. Altogether a charming object, Olympia apparently produced several variations on this album, with and without the music box from the 1890's onwards...they were produced in Germany, a detail that has been carefully scratched out on the title page presumably from someone who had some reason to be resentful towards Germany in the early to mid 20th century, which admittedly doesn't narrow it down at all. A fascinating item, and the kind of thing we don't normally trip over. £600

[59] 128 TREVES, Sir Frederick. The Elephant Man And Other Reminiscences. London, Cassell & Co. Ltd. 1923. [42659 ] FIRST EDITION. 8vo., pp. 222. Publisher’s cloth, burgundy spine and brown boards. Lightly rubbed to extremities. Occasional light foxing. Slight bumping and edgewear, a very good copy indeed. Nevertheless overcoming all its problems, much like Mr. Merrick. Internally clean, some browning to prelims, front inner hinge cracked, strong and handsome. This copy bears the bookplate of Philip Gosse, English naturalist (and inventor of the seawater aquarium!). It also contains, tipped in at the front and back a letter dated Feb. 1923 from Treves to Edmund Gosse (Philip's poetically minded son), in "My dear Gosse, Please accept this book with the assurance that it is really the very last..." Dr. Treves goes on to apologise for the book being "gloomy." Also present is a letter from Edmund Gosse to his father, recommending the book "Treves' book is really very good, the "Elephant Man" quite thrilling..." and which presumably accompanied this copy into Gosse senior's library. Two further letters from Treves are tipped in to the book one offering his congratulations on some success of Gosse's (on Hotel Imperial notepaper from Menton, near Nice), and a further letter giving an account of his relocation to the shores of Lake Leman, describing the enjoyable process of settling in and the pleasures of having his old things around him as he enters "the Last Lap of a rather varied life." It is a warm and rather touching letter, and a moving conclusion to the clearly friendly an affectionate correspondence between the two eminent Victorians, the poet and the surgeon, as the letter is dated November 18th 1923, and Treves died in Lausanne less than a month later. Both a nice copy of a fascinating book, and an compelling association. A collection of short stories, mostly anecdotal medical shockers in a Gothic vein, including the famous, remarkable story of Joseph Merrick (whom Treves refers to as "John"), known as ‘The Elephant Man’, told by the Royal surgeon Treves, who cared for him. £750

129 VARIOUS A Collection of Victorian Valentine's Day Cards. [42864 ] A collection of over 50 gorgeous and ornate mid to late 19th century Valentine's cards. All in very good or better condition, some a simple decorated postcard format, others consisting of several folding panels adorned with lace, hearts, filigree'd paper, artifical flowers and delicate silver gilt and gold highlights. Many consist of a verse or vignette picture surrounded by a bewildering variety of decoartive frou-frous and folderols. Some are complete with their equally elaborate envelopes, some have the look of a home embellished exploit but most have a polished, composed and professional look about them which points to an established and flourishing market in fancy love stationery (there's a phrase I've never written before) long before it was fashionable for us to wander about [60] muttering about rampant commercialism. My attitude towards rampant commercialism, and indeed Valentine's Day (so many bad memories, so, so many) would be considerably more benevolent if things of this level of beauty, sincerity and skilled execution were available today. Housed in three cloth bound clamshell cases each card is housed in a plastic sleeve mounted on a piece of card. £675

130 VERNE, JULES. Around The World In Eighty Days. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company. 1874 [42263 ] Second illustrated US edition after the stultifyingly scarce withdrawn 1873 issue with all the flakey spine problems. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth gilt, lavishly embossed and aggressively bevelled, every Verne first bar one or two seemingly having been designed to serve back up use as either a bludgeoning weapon or some sort of makeshift armour. Scuffed to extremtities, cloth worn to corners and with some fraying and softening to spine ends. Solid, strong and bright, lacking all the normal wobbling and splaying that occurs in books where the boards are made of wrought iron and the weight of gilt alone would sink your average submarine. Internally clean and fresh, with some staining to the prelims, including a pale splodge to the upper edge of the title page. Brown endpapers, some small chipping to the edge of the flyleaf. A thoroughly respectable copy, perhaps a touch threadbare in places but entirely capable of a few more balloon trips. Illustrated throughout as if French engravers had just been decided extra needy and been made the recipients of some sort of enormous government subsidy, page after page of illustration. There's no adventure that doesn't have its feet somewhere in Verne, and this one is probably second only to 20,000 Leagues for sheer staying power and continuous appeal. A very good copy. £675

131 VERNE, Jules. The Master of the World. A Tale of Mystery and Marvel. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co 1914 [42107 ] FIRST UK EDITION. Classic adventure novel. Octavo, pp.317; [1], blank; [1], imprint; [1], blank. Complete, with 30 illustrations after Georges Roux (Taves and Michaluk erroneously call for 36). Original pictorial green cloth covers depicting 'The Terror' in flight. Internally very clean, covers somewhat aged with some rubbing and marking, plain rear cover soiled, gilt lettering to spine all but tarnished and gone (traces remain, proving gilt not colour blocking). Nonetheless, a serviceable copy of a rare and late Verne first, predating the Lippincott edition which used these UK sheets. £750 Taves and Michaluk V054

[61] 132 VERNE, Jules. The Steam House. Comprised of “The Demon of Cawnpore.” and “Tigers and Traitors.” New York, Scribner’s & Sons. 1881 [42777 ] First US editions. 2 vols. 8vo. Beautiful in publisher’s lavishly gilded olive green cloth. Both volumes are very good indeed, showing some signs of wear, most notably to the spine of The Demon of Cawnpore where there is some rubbing of the gilt decoration. Some light rubbing to the creases of the folding map in the rear of Tigers and Traitors, nevertheless both volumes show extremely well. There are the slightest signs of wear to the extremities of both volumes and perhaps a touch of age darkening to the page edges, but they are of a uniform crispness and solidity. Both volumes are illustrated throughout with a multitude of atmospheric (or demented, depending on your persepctive) engravings depicting the adventures of our somewhat bloodthirsty heroes as they criss-cross post-mutiny India, for the most part travelling inside a giant steam car pulled by a locomotive cast into the shape of a massive elephant...because that's a thing. From any other author this would sound strange, but coming from the man who regularly fires his protagonists into space or sinks them beneath the waves it’s clearly all in a day’s work. £1250

133 VERNE, Jules [Gabriel], (1828-1905). The Will of an Eccentric. London, Sampson, Low and Co. 1900 [42791 ] First English deluxe edition. Profusely illustrated, and with one fold out chart/gameboard for tracking one's progress across the United States. Publisher’s green cloth boards decorated and titled in gilt, black, orange and white with a suitably Verneian (a word that in this context means "Utterly Bizarre") scene of three men on a tandem (tridem?) cycling energetically across a desolate mountainous landscape whilst discharging revolvers at a pursuing pack of wolves. As you do. Minor scuffing and edgewear otherwise exceptionally clean and sharp. This de luxe edition was publshed similtaneously with floral endpapers and all edges gilt. Internally clean and bright, ink ownership to front flyleaf, the plate facing page 152 has at some stage come loose and develop a crease along the top edge prior to being reattached. A nice example of a madcap bit of scarce late Verne involving a lunatic race across America for enough cash to build your own nuclear submarine and fly it to the moon. Wacky Races goes steampunk, endearingly frenetic and madder than an eel flavoured hat. £1450 BBA sale 634 [Literature].

[62] 134 VIDOCQ, Eugene Francois. Memoirs of Vidocq, Principal Agent of the French Police, until 1827. And now Proprietor of the Paper Manufactory of St. Mande. Written by himself. Translated from the French. London: Printed for Hunt and Clarke (vosl.I and II); Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot (vols.III and IV), 1828-1829. [42082 ] First English Edition. Complete in 4 volumes, bound in 2 volumes, 16mo. Contemporary half calf with gilt titles to spines, marbled boards, grey end papers. Engraved portrait frontispiece to vol.I. Some rubbing to leather and paper sides, small contemporary name in ink to flyleaf; very good. A most presentable set of the memoirs of an adventurous and colourful character. Vidocq was a French criminal and criminalist whose life story inspired several writers, including Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac. A former crook who subsequently became the founder and first director of the crime- detection Sûreté Nationale as well as the head of the first known private detective agency, Vidocq is considered to be the father of modern criminology and of the French police department. He is also regarded as the first private detective (Wikipedia). £495

135 WALPOLE, Hugh. All Soul's Night. A Book of Stories. London: Macmillan. 1933 [42174 ] First edition. 8vo. 369pp. Bound in publisher's bottle green blindstamped cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board, a fine copy with very light edgewear and bumping, in a near fine example of the scarce unclipped dustwrapper...which would be absolutely fine were it not for a shadow of toning to the spine panel and a rather annoying washed out ink stain to the lower section of the rear panel. Internally clean and fresh. Contains many truly wonderful weird tales, including "Tarnhelm" which is probably the saddest werewolf story ever and "The Silver Mask." which always puts me in mind of Robert Chambers in slow motion and contains only the most elusive scent of the supernatural. A lovely copy. £150

136 WALTON, Sir Izaak. The Complete Angler. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1891 [42182 ] 2 vols. 8vo. Bound in half brown morocco over marbled boards. Light scuffing and edgewear, some areas of sunning and uniform toning to spines. Titled in gilt to spines. Gilt rule to boards. Strong, handsome and sharp. Very good indeed. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers, internally clean. Illustrated throughout. A pretty little set. £210

[63] 137 WARBURTON, Eliot. The Crescent and The Cross. Or: Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel London: Henry Colburn. 1845 [42216 ] First Colburn edition. Two volumes. 8vo. Attractively bound in half tan calf over marbled boards. Red title labels, gilt centre tools to spine compartments. Both volumes with uniform light scuffing, slight edgewear here and there, scuffing to headbands. Very good indeed. All edges marbled, slightly dusty top edges. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas Baring (son of the founder of Barings Bank) to front pastedowns. Frontispiece plates to both volumes, no tissue guards, light spotting. A phenomenally successful journey originally made in 1843 and serialised in the Dublin University Magazine. Maybe 20 editions had been published before the end of the century. Illustrated with tantalising in text engravings and making repeated references to Lady Hester Stanhope and similar romantic figures that had captured the hungry imaginations of the Victorians (Byron will be in here somewhere), the journey progresses in stages from Southampton to Constantinople by way of chapters with headings like "The Pyramids, Exploration by Night." "Robber Arabs!" and "Woman; Her Gay Imprisonment." which is stuffed to the minarets with references to Byron's Haidee and references to the mysteries of the harem and the heavy smell of incense and carefree singing that can be heard issuing over the walls of these no doubt joyous establishments... joyous if you happen to be an "epicurean" as our author describes himself. He then sits down and has a pleasant conversation with a man who threw his young wife down a well because he thought she'd been unfaithful, as you do. There's also some rather wonderful descritpions of the corpses of oxen floating down the Nile maned by crews of vultures, who took to it "as if they'd been raised at Cowes." A fascinating and rather telling travelogue calculated to appeal to the enormous Victorian market for exotic Eastern mystery. £275

138 WHEATLEY, Dennis. To The Devil a Daughter. London, Hutchinson. 1953 [42559 ] First Edition. 8vo. Publisher’s black cloth titled in gilt to spine, a trifle rubbed to extremities and just a little bit dusty. In a very good example of the frothing insane dustwrapper with slight edgewear, some chipping to head of spine sunning to spine and minor soiling of the rear panel. Internally clean, a very good copy. £60

139 WHIFFEN, Thomas. The North West Amazons. Notes of some months spent amongst cannibal tribes. London: Constable and Company. 1915 [42801 ] First edition. 8vo. Bound in recent half blue calf titled in gilt to spine, over blue cloth boards. Internally clean. A fascinating account of time spent amongst ancient and unknown tribes of the upper reaches of the Amazon. Illustrated throughout with full page photographic plates. A handsome and fascinating volume. £245 [64] 140 WILDE, Oscar. The Canterville Ghost. An amusing chronicle of the tribulations of the Ghost of Canterville Chase when his ancestral halls become the home of the American Minister to the Court of St. James. Boston, John W. Luce and Co. 1906. [41943 ] Small 8vo. First US Edition. Publisher’s dark green cloth, titles in green to spine and front board with pale green image of the ghost to front board, top edge gilt. Contains 6 plates, including frontispiece, plus 8 line drawings. Some minor rubbing to spine tips, minor toning within; near fine. £250

141 WILDE, Oscar. De Profundis. London: Methuen and Co., 1905. [42556 ] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with catalogue dated February 1905. Publisher’s blue cloth, gilt titles, top edge gilt. Foxing to prelims. Lightly rubbed to extremities, backstrip a touch dulled, a trifle bowed otherwise a very good copy. ‘De Profundis’ is Oscar Wilde’s long letter, effectively apologising for his life, written to former lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, while he served his sentence as prisoner C.3.3., in Reading Gaol. He was not allowed to send the document while still an inmate, but could take it with him upon release, which he did, and gave to Robert Ross, who may or may not have carried out Wilde’s instructions to send a copy to Douglas who, in turn, denied having received it. Ross, as executor, published the expurgated version of the letter (this book) after Wilde’s death. £125 Mason [388].

142 WILDE, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Ward Lock and co., 1890. [42784 ] First apperance in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine for July 1890, custom-bound shortly thereafter in full limp calf with blind rules and corner devices, "Dorian Gray" stamped in gilt on front, all edges stained red. Conforms to U.K. Ward Lock edition, although lacking general title page, advertising matter and so on. Additionally, pasted on the front free endpaper there is a cutting from The Standard, dated August 23, 1913, in which Wilde's bibliographer Stuart Mason discusses the early publications of the novel. Covers faded and rubbed at the edges. Near very good. Internally near fine, with gutter crack to p.95 and some pencil annotation. £1450

[65] 143 [WILDE, Oscar] DOUGLAS, Lord Alfred. Oscar Wilde and Myself. With photogravure portrait of the Author and thirteen other portraits and illustrations, also facsimile letters. London: John Long, Limited, 1914. [42964 ] First Edition. 8vo.; pp. 320. In a handsome recent binding of dark green half morocco with gilt titles to spine, matching cloth boards, top edge gilt. Small stain to last 2 leaves of Index with a tiny hole, negligeable loss - one letter of text. A fine copy. £150

144 WILKINS, W. J. Hindu Mythology, Vedic and Puranic. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co. Government Palace. 1882 [42212 ] First edition. 8vo. 411pp. + 32pp ads. Bound in publisher's lavishly decorated green cloth covered bevelled boards, lightly bumped and rubbed to extremities, a little scuffed here and there, nevertheless strong and bright and very attractive. Very good. Also it's not every day one finds a book with a large gilt decoration to the front board depicting a legion of monkeys building a causeway to a temple whilst an extremely large rodent in a gold collar looks on. Such delights are seldom seen and not to be sniffed at. Titled and decorated in gilt to the spine and embellished with decorative borders in black. Glazed blue endpapers, internally clean, lavishly illustrated in the way that only a book on Hindu mythology can be. Generally, books on the respective mythologies and belief systems of other cultures written by fresh faced Victorian chaps working for the London Missionary Society can be a bit...smug is possibly the mildest word I can think of...Mr. Wilkins has certainly made an effort to be fairly open minded (despite a few veiled reference in the introduction to things he couldn't possibly share with his readers because they were just not right "I must confess there was much met with that could not be reproduced.") and non-judgemental, at least as far as a white, Christian, man wielding the pointy end of a couple of centuries of Imperial privilege can be. He begins by stating "On my arrival in India, one of my first inquiries was for some full and trustworthy account of the mythology of the Hindus..." by full and trustworthy it transpires he means "written by a white man in a suit wearing a ridiculous cork hat."...having been disappointed in this quest he resolves to be that man himself, and succeeds in being entertaining, informative and earnest in his ambition to "give a fair and impartial account of these deities...such an account as I should expect an honest minded Hindu to give of God and His works from a careful study of the bible." £180

[66] 145 WILLIAMS, S. Wells. The Middle Kingdom. A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts and History of The Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants. New York: Scribners. 1883 [42819 ] First edition. 2 volumes. 8vo. Bound in recent half brown morocco over brown cloth boards, titled and decorated in gilt to spines of both volumes. Smart, clean and sharp. Internally clean, with pictorial title page and folding chromolithographic image of the Imperial Worship of Shang-Ti on The Altar of Heaven in Peking. Profusely illustrated with numerous high quality engraving, maps and in text vignettes depicting contemporary Chinese life. A fascinating and detailed account from a noted American 19th Sinologist who accompanied the Perry Expedition to China and became secretary to the US Legation in Peking. A handsome set. £475

146 WOODHEAD, H.G.W. A Visit to Manchukuo. Shanghai: Mercury Press. 1932. [42773 ] First edition. 8vo. 112pp. PUblisher's paper covered cloth binding titled in black to front board. Some slight edgewear and some cracking of the paper "skin" over the spine area. Very good indeed. Internally clean and fresh, with a large folding map of the Machurian Railway System bound in at the rear. A collection of articles submitted to the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria and including interviews with notable Chinese dignitaries of the time. Fascinating and scarce. £95

147 WOODWARD, Rev. Thomas. Demoniacal Possession; Its Nature and Cessation. An Essay. London: Joseph Masters. 1849 [42172 ] First edition. 8vo. 60pp. Bound in typically severe blue cloth with a black title label to spine. Titled in gilt. Strong and clean, very good indeed. Internally clean with a trifle of toning here and there. Clearly extracted from a sammelband and bound separately as some helpful individual has numbered the pages in pencil. Samuel A Weiser bookseller's sticker to front pastedown, some signs of label abrasion to flyleaf. A painfully sincere and serious examination of the concept of demoniacal possession having effectively ended with the Ascension. In my capacity as a doomed heathen I am unable to comment (in fact probably just being a bookseller precludes any possibility of entering paradise, unless they are having a 60% off sale), but suffice it to say that if the young Reverend Woodward's thesis should prove to be compelling then a whole chunk of Hollywood revenue just completely disappeared and several legal cases might have to be revisited. Fascinating, if scripturally complex. £150

[67] 148 WORDSWORTH, William. Poems. In Two Volumes. London: Longman, Hurst, Ress and Orme. 1807 [42173 ] First edition. Two volumes. 12mo. Bound in beautiful full tree calf recently professionally respined by Trevor Lloyd Bindery, with green and red title labels and gilt lyre decorations to spine compartments. A strong and attractive binding. Internally clean and bright. With half titles and with the errata leaf bound in at the end of Volume I (rather than immediately after the contents pages). Whilst not his grandest or most ambitious publication, the majority of Wordsworth's most popular and memorable verses are in this collection, including the inescapable "I wandered, lonely as a cloud..." A beautiful copy of one of the cornerstones of British Romanticism. £3000

149 [WYETH, N.C.] VERNE, Jules The Mysterious Island. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948. [42698 ] WYETH ILLUSTRATED EDITION. 4to. With 14 full page illustrations in colour. Publisher's decorated black cloth titled in gilt to spine with pictorial paper only illustration to front board, minor scuffing and edgewear, near fine. In a near fine example of the dustwrapper with a single closed tear to the upper edge of the rear panel. Clean and sharp. Pictorial endpapers, internally clean. A lovely copy. £125

150 YOUNG, The Rev.G. Cook’s Voyages. The Life and Voyages of Captain James Cook. Paris, Baudry, European Library. 1836. [42166 ] 8vo. Paris Baudry Edition with much previously unpublished material., First Thus. Bound in half contemporary black calf, extra gilt to spine, replacement title label in red, light brown endpapers. Some wear, mainly scuffing, small crack to upper front spine, some spotting to text. Very good. £495

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