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Amis Apollonius Rhodius

ADDAMS, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull-House. ANTHONY, Susan B. History of Woman Suffrage. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910 Rochester: Susan B. Anthony, 1886 & 1902 First edition, limited issue, one of 210 copies signed by the First editions, presentation copies of vols. III and IV of the author. The first American woman to be awarded the Nobel “bible” of the women’s suffrage campaign, the only two volumes Peace Prize (in 1931), Addams was the founder of the social published by Anthony herself; inscribed in both by the author on work profession in the US and, among her many roles, she the occasion of her 85th birthday to her cousin Joshua. 2 vols., was vice president of the National-American Woman Suffrage original maroon cloth. An excellent set. Association. Original vellum-backed brown boards. An internally $15,500 [132954] crisp, clean copy. $1,600 [137440] APOLLONIUS RHODIUS. Argonautica. Florence: [Laurentius (Francisci) de Alopa, Venetus,] 1496 AMIS, Kingsley. Lucky Jim A Novel. Editio princeps of the most important Greek epic of the 3rd London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1953 century bce, the definitive telling of the story of Jason and First edition, presentation copy inscribed by Amis, “To John, all the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. Late the very best from Kingsley Amis, January 1954”. Only two other 18th-century English green straight-grain morocco gilt, from presentation copies with the inscription dated January 1954 are the library of the English bibliophile and keen student of recorded at auction. Original green boards, with dust jacket. palaeography and early printing George Dunn. $7,500 [138024] $50,000 [136329] Beach

BEACH, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. London: Faber and Faber, 1960 First UK edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author three months after publication, “With many good wishes for Louis Davis and Mark Davis affectionately their friend Sylvia. Bacon Paris. September 1960”; additionally with Beach’s bookplate, annotated by her. Original blue cloth, with the dust jacket. ASCHAM, Roger. The Scholemaster. $8,000 [136528] London: printed by John Daye, 1570 First edition of the most important Tudor work on education. BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, 4to, 18th-century polished calf; the Bradley Martin copy. LL.D. [together with:] The Principal Corrections and $32,500 [114919] Additions. London: by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791 & 1793 AUDUBON, John James. The Raven, plate 101, from First editions, both presentation copies to Andrew Lumisden, The Birds of America. London: R. Havell, 1826–38 a Jacobite friend of Boswell’s who had assisted in preparing the Etching and aquatint copper-plate engraving on Whatman 1834 Life, inscribed in Boswell’s hand in each work. Together 2 works paper by Havell after Audubon, original hand-colouring. From bound in 2 vols., 4to, contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked the New York Society Library (sold, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, 1980). with original spines laid down. Framed and glazed. $240,000 [119415] $15,000 [138401] AUSTEN, Jane. Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. London: Richard Bentley, 1833 First collected edition of Jane Austen’s novels, also the first English editions to be illustrated. Five vols, contemporary green calf, expertly rebacked to style. $16,500 [136404] BACON, Francis. [Novum Organum.] Instauratio Magna. London: J. Billium, 1620 First edition, second state as usual. Folio, in its first binding of limp vellum, spine titled in manuscript. Engraved title page by Simon de Passe. A fine copy, the contents crisp and clean, with generous margins. $85,000 [138351] Boswell

– 2 – Busch

BUSCH, Wilhelm. Max und Moritz: eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen. Cervantes Munich: Braun und Schneider, [1865] Rare true first edition of the book widely regarded as the CERVANTES, Miguel de. De voornaamste Gevallen prototype of the children’s comic. After Struwwelpeter, Max und van den wonderlyken Don Quichot. The Hague: Pieter de Moritz is the best-known German children’s book. Busch’s style Hondt, 1746 is generally recognized as the precursor of modern comic strips, An extraordinary example of one of the most significant particularly influential on German émigrés to America like illustrated Cervantes editions of the 18th century. A fine, Rudolph Dirks, whose Katzenjammer Kids is a close imitation. large paper copy of the lavish 1746 Hague edition of Don Contemporary sheep-backed boards.. Quixote translated by Jacob Campo Weyerman, each of $60,000 [138250] the 31 copperplates illuminated by a beautiful contemporary hand and heightened with gold, presented in an elaborately CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. worked Dutch binding. Tall folio. Near-contemporary Dutch London: Macmillan and Co., 1866 mottled calf. First published edition. A beautiful copy, entirely unrestored, $85,000 [137295] in bright original pictorial cloth, original pale blue endpapers (earliest state; later copies have dark green). CHAUCER, Geoffrey. [The workes, newlie printed.] $51,500 [136032] London: by Thomas Godfray, 1532 First complete collected edition: the first attempt to collect into a single volume the complete writings of an English author. Folio, contemporary blind-tooled calf carefully restored, much the most complete copy in commerce in the past 45 years. $195,000 [108308] CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley. The Worst Journey in The World. New York: Lincoln MacVeagh, The Dial Press, 1930 First U.S. edition, inscribed by the author to Alice Cairnes, a family friend. Original buff linen, in supplied dust jacket. $11,000 [133368] CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Second World War. London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1948–54 First editions of Churchill’s masterpiece, signed or inscribed contemporaneously in each volume, and exceptionally uncommon thus. 6 volumes, original black cloth, in dust jackets. Chaucer $36,000 [137316]

– 3 – Dickens, Oliver Twist

DICKENS, Charles. Oliver Twist. London: Chapman & Hall, 1841 A superb presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his close friend, the actor and theatre-manager William Charles Macready: “W. C. Macready from his affectionate friend Charles Colnett Dickens Christmas 1841”. Macready was the dedicatee of Nicholas COLNETT, James. A Voyage to the South Atlantic Nickleby (1839) and the godfather of Dickens’s daughter Kate. Third edition, 3 vols., original purple cloth (primary binding). and round Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean. London: printed for the author by W. Bennett, $125,000 [136304] and sold by A. Arrowsmith [& 4 others], 1798 DICKENS, Charles. Pictures from Italy. London: First edition of Colnett’s account of his second Pacific voyage, one published for the author, by Bradbury & Evans, 1846 of the most important to the history of whaling. Contemporary First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author the day polished calf, engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 plates. after publication to one of his oldest friends, Thomas Beard. $16,500 [132480] Small 8vo, original blue fine-diaper cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down; the Suzannet copy. DARWIN, Charles. The Variation of Animals and $110,000 [130416] Plants under Domestication. London: John Murray, 1868 First edition, from the library of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, the celebrated Russian physiologist, famed for his classic work on conditioning, with his library shelfmark stamps to titles and c1 recto. Two volumes, in original green cloth. $14,500 [137811] [DEFOE, Daniel.] An Essay on the South-Sea Trade. London: printed for J. Baker, 1712 First edition of Defoe’s tract on the newly-formed South Sea Company. Early 20th-century brown quarter calf. $14,500 [134890] DESCARTES, René. Discours de la Methode. Leiden: Jan Maire, 1637 First edition of the author’s fundamental work in philosophy and on the method of science. Small 4to, contemporary Dutch vellum over pasteboard. A crisp copy with generous margins.

$195,000 [134577] Descartes

– 4 – Dumas

EUCLID. Elementa Geometriae. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 1482 First edition of the oldest mathematical textbook still in common use. The text is preceded by a dedicatory letter by Faulkner, Light in August Erhard Ratdolt to Giovanni Mocenigo. Chancery folio, 137 unnumbered leaves, without the final blank. Modern vellum. DOYLE, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. London: $195,000 [136914] Ward, Lock & Co., 1888 Rare first edition of the first Sherlock Holmes story; preceded FAULKNER, William. The Marble Faun. only by the story’s appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual 1887. Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1924 Contemporary red pebbled cloth, with 6 plates by Charles Doyle, First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author, the author’s father. “To Dink Cearley from Bill Faulkner”, additionally signed and $97,500 [138371] dated 31 December 1924 on the title page. The author’s first book, of which only 500 of the projected 1,000 copies were DUHAUT-CILLY, Auguste. Voyage autour du monde. printed and some 300 of those were later pulped. Original Saint-Servan: de l’imprimerie de J.-M. Lebien; chez Arthus mottled green boards, with the dust jacket. A fine copy of a Bertrand, Paris, & chez D. Lemarchand, Saint-Servan, 1834–5 famously vulnerable publication. First edition of this rare work, particularly important for its $75,000 [118733] detailed examination of California during the last phase of its Spanish period. Two volumes in one, octavo, in contemporary FAULKNER, William. Light in August. New York: French quarter calf. Each vol contains 4 plates. Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1932 $32,500 [132373] First edition, presentation copy, inscribed to the author’s close childhood friend, “For Myrtle Ramey, Oxford Miss 30 May 1934, DUMAS, Alexandre. Les Trois Mousquetaires. William Faulkner”. Beginning with The Marble Faun in 1924, Ramey was one of a select few to whom Faulkner sent copies of his books. Paris: Baudry, 1844 Inscribed copies of this work are notably uncommon. Original First edition of the author’s best-known work. A very nice copy grey cloth, with the dust jacket and scarce glassine wrapper. of this scarce publication, extremely rare in the original yellow $65,000 [131629] wrappers, with just a little skilful conservation to spines. 8 vols. $162,500 [124078] ELLIS, Sarah Stickney. The Englishwoman’s Family Library. [The Women of England; The Daughters of England; The Wives of England; The Mothers of England.] London: Fisher, Son & Co., [ from 1843] A handsome set of Ellis’s four most important works, housed inside the beautifully preserved publisher’s glass-fronted presentation case. 4 vols., uniformly bound in original red hard- grain cloth; near-fine. $8,500 [133527] Faulkner, Marble Faun

– 5 – Greene Hemingway

FEYNMAN, Richard P. Surely You’re Joking, HAWKING, Stephen. A Brief History of Time. Mr. Feynman! New York & London: W. W. Norton & London: Bantam Press, 1989 Company, 1985 First UK edition, later impression, signed by the author with his First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Feynman to Alice thumb print, next to which his personal assistant has inscribed Zorthian, daughter of Jirayr Zorthian, Feynman’s close friend, “To in blue ink, “Thumb print of, S. W. Hawking, witnessed by, Susan Alice Zorthian for Christmas 1985 Richard P. Feynman”. Feynman Massey.” Original blue cloth, with the dust jacket. inscriptions are notably rare. Original red cloth-backed red $16,500 [134236] boards, with the dust jacket. $32,500 [136532] HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926 GRANT, Anne. Memoirs of an American Lady. First edition, first issue. Original black cloth, in the dust jacket. London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; and A striking copy, scarce in the first issue jacket. Mrs H. Cook, 1808 $85,000 [118495] First edition. The copy of Helen Dunbar of Boath, a close friend and literary correspondent of Grant. The author’s best-known HOMER. [In Greek:] Works. Florence: [printer of work, a memoir incorporating the history of Albany, New York, Vergilius (C 6061)], for Bernardus and Nerius Nerlius and and the nearby Five Nations native settlement. 2 vols., uncut in the original boards, an appealing association copy. Demetrius Damilas, [not before 13 January 1488/89] Editio princeps of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two of the earliest, $2,500 [137443] most important and influential works of European literature. GREENE, Graham. Brighton Rock. London: William This monumental printing is the first large-scale printing in Greek, and also probably the first Greek book printed in Heinemann Ltd, 1938 Florence. 2 vols., folio. A beautiful copy in an English binding, First British edition. Original red cloth, a superior copy in the decorated in the style of Roger Payne, of late 18th-century red exceedingly rare dust jacket. straight-grain morocco. $115,000 [130190] $325,000 [131684] HARRISON, John. The Principles of Mr. Harrison’s Time-Keeper, with plates of the same. [Bound with three related pamphlets.] London: printed by W. Richardson and S. Clarke; and sold by John Nourse, and Mess. Mount and Page, 1767 First edition of the primary account of the invention of the marine chronometer, bound with three related contemporary pamphlets. Together 4 works in 1, quarto, contemporary half calf.

$130,000 [138402] Feynman

– 6 – James KIpling

HOUSMAN, A. E. A Shropshire Lad. JEFFERSON, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co. Ltd, 1896 Philadelphia: Printed for Mathew Carey, 1794 First edition of the author’s influential poetry collection. Second American edition, in unrestored contemporary Original japon-backed paper boards; the Bradley Martin copy. American sheep in remarkably fine condition, the only full- $11,000 [134741] length book published by Jefferson during his lifetime. This is the first American edition to have the large folding map of HUGO, Victor. Les Misérables. Bruxelles [Brussels]: Virginia by Samuel Lewis. An exceptional copy. A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Ce, éditeurs, 1862 $12,500 [134433] Rare first edition, preceding the Paris edition. 10 vols. A fine set, uncut in original pale blue-green wrappers, edges untrimmed. KIPLING, Rudyard. Just So Stories For Little Children. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902 $60,000 [127594] First edition, third printing (two months after the first), JAMES, Henry. The Madonna of the Future and other inscribed by the author, “Janet Aitken from her obliged and obedient servant the author Jul. 1911”; Kipling has tales. London: Macmillan and Co., 1879 struck through his printed name and signed below. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “Mrs. Janet Gladys Kidd was the daughter of Kipling’s close Lombard, from her old friend, H. James, Paris. Nov. 3d 1879”. friend Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook. Just six other Two vols. in publisher’s dark blue fine-bead-grain cloth. inscribed copies are recorded. Original red pictorial cloth, $16,500 [132087] with 22 full-page illustrations by the author. $9,000 [137861] JAMES, Henry. The Europeans. Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879 First American edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his sister-in-law, “Caroline C. James, from Henry James Jr.” Original light (Kelly) green dotted-line-grain cloth. $8,000 [132090] JAMES, Henry. Notes of a Son & Brother. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914 First English edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “To Constance Fletcher, in faithful remembrance, Henry James, March 1914”. An excellent association: journalist and novelist Julia Constance Fletcher was also the dedicatee of Oscar Wilde’s Newgate poem Ravenna (1878). Original dark blue smooth spine, frontispiece and 5 illustrations. $10,000 [132098] Hugo

– 7 – Lewis, autograph letters

KNIGHT, Frank H. Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. MACKAY, Charles. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1921] Delusions. London: Richard Bentley, 1841 First edition, the author’s retained copy, signed by him and First edition of the author’s early work on the madness of with his autograph corrections, later presented by him to crowds. 3 vols., original brown cloth, recased. A bright copy. fellow economist George Stigler. Original red cloth. A superb $30,000 [128845] association copy of Knight’s first major work. $50,000 [122692] [MALTHUS, Thomas Robert.] An Essay on the Principle of Population. London: printed for J. Johnson, 1798 [LAW, John.] Money and Trade considered. Rare first edition of one of the most influential works of economic Edinburgh: Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, 1705 thought. Contemporary tan diced calf, rebacked. A fine copy. First edition of Law’s major work on the establishment of paper $200,000 [137089] note-issuing national banks. 4to, bound third in a contemporary pamphlet volume of 16 works on commerce and Scottish poor laws, contemporary quarter calf. $58,500 [117696] LEWIS, C. S. The Chronicles of Narnia. London: Geoffrey Bles [and] The Bodley Head, 1950–56 First editions. A complete set of the acclaimed Narnia series. 7 works, original varicoloured cloth, with the dust jackets, notably scarce thus. $26,000 [137779] LEWIS, C. S. Collection of autograph letters signed to the dedicatees of The Magician’s Nephew. 24 January 1954 – 26 March 1963 A remarkable and rich archive of autograph letters from Lewis to the Kilmer children, dedicatees of The Magician’s Nephew, highly desirable as the most extensive collection of letters by Lewis to have come to market in recent years. Together 56 items, comprising 23 autograph letters signed, 6 typed notes signed, and 27 of the original mailing envelopes. $260,000 [134030] Malthus Marx & Ruge (eds.)

– 8 – [MARKHAM, Gervase.] The Young Sportman’s [sic] MARX, Karl, & Friedrich Engels. Die heilige Familie. Instructor. [London:] Sold [by George Conyers] at the Gold Frankfurt: Literarische Anstalt (J. Rütten), 1845 Ring in Little Britain, [1705?] Rare first edition of Marx’s first published book, and the first First edition thus. Miniature, pp. [iv], 140. Probably late 18th- that he wrote in collaboration with Engels. Uncut in original century red straight-grain morocco. Rare, with no copy in the printed wrappers, rebacked. British Library. $55,000 [129813] $25,000 [131890] MELVILLE, Herman. Moby-Dick. MARX, Karl. Zur Kritik der politischen New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851 Oekonomie. Erstes Heft [all published]. First U.S. Edition, first issue binding, the first edition to Berlin: Franz Duncker, 1859 appear under the familiar title, set from Melville’s original Rare first edition, one of 1,000 copies, of the “germ” of Das Kapital. manuscript, containing some 35 passages and the epilogue Contemporary green half cloth, marbled paper boards. omitted from the English edition. A fine copy, sound and unrestored, in original cloth. $75,000 [129811] $85,000 [137462] MARX, Karl. Das Kapital. Hamburg: Otto Meissner, 1867 MILNE, A. A. Now We Are Six. First edition of the first volume ofDas Kapital, the only one London: Methuen & Co., Ltd, 1927) to appear in Marx’s lifetime. Contemporary black quarter cloth, First edition, Shepard’s own copy of the signed extra-limited an excellent unrestored copy. issue, one of 20 large paper copies printed on Japanese vellum $130,000 [138113] and signed by both the author and the illustrator, the most exclusive format in which Milne’s Pooh books were issued, this MARX, Karl, & Arnold Ruge (editors & copy marked out of series for presentation to Shepard. Original contributors). Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher. full vellum with yapp edges; a superb copy. Paris: Bureau der Jahrbücher, 1844 $42,500 [138153] Very rare first and only issue, of enormous consequence, MILNE, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner. London: a double number which contains the first appearance of both Marx’s first major work, Zur Kritik de Hegel’schen Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1929 Rechtsphilosophie (containing his famous remark that With an original pen and ink drawing on the title page by religion is “das Opium des Volks”), and Engels’s first work Shepard of Winnie-the-Pooh in full traditional Russian on economics, Umrisse zu einer Kritik der Nationalökonomie. costume, signed beneath the image. Third edition. Original pink Contemporary brown cloth. cloth, with the dust jacket. $80,000 [129812] $22,500 [90169]

Marx & Ruge (eds.) Milne, House at Pooh Corner

– 9 – Nightingale, signed cabinet photograph

Newton

[NEWTON, Isaac.] Opticks. London: Printed for Sam Napoleon I Smith, and Benj. Walford, Printers to the Royal Society, 1704 MONTAIGNE, Michel de. The Essayes Or Morall, First edition, without Newton’s name on the title. Quarto, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, complete with 19 Politike and Millitarie Discourses. London: Printed folding plates. by Val[entine] Sims for Edward Blount, 1603 $65,000 [131023] First edition in English, one of the great books of the Elizabethan era and the crowning achievement of its translator John Florio. The work was a source of inspiration for Ben Jonson, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Webster, and Shakespeare. Folio. Contemporary blind-panelled calf. $32,500 [135666] MUN, Thomas. England’s Treasure by Forraign Trade. London: printed by J[ohn]. G[rismond]. for Thomas Clark, 1664 First edition of the bible of mercantilism, held in very high regard by Adam Smith. Contemporary unlettered sheep, rebacked. A very good copy. $123,500 [134494] NAPOLEON I. Autograph manuscript notes on Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. Valence: July 1791 The young Napoleon responds to the foundational work of political economy. He has captioned the manuscript in the margin: “Notes diverses. Richesse des nations – Smith traduit par Roucher. Tome 1er. Valence juillet 1791”. Folio, manuscript in French written in ink, margin traced in red crayon. Approximately 1,500 words in the autograph of Napoleon.

$325,000 [136833] Mun

– 10 – Nightingale, signed cabinet photograph Orwell, Clergyman’s Daughter

NIGHTINGALE, Florence. Signed cabinet ORWELL, George. Archive of correspondence from photograph. London: London Stereoscopic Company, [c.1900] the files of Victor Gollancz, regarding the publication A superb large format signed photograph, one (and perhaps of his second novel, Keep the Aspidistra Flying. the largest) of only very few examples of a signed photographic 16 January 1936 – 23 June 1944 portrait of Nightingale to have appeared on the market, signed Including two typed letters, two autograph notes, and for Charles Elmer Rice on 15 May 1903, just before her 84th one autograph letter, all signed by Orwell, illustrating birthday. Original albumen print (image size: 147 × 101 mm). the author’s intense unhappiness about changes made to appease libel concerns. See also the previous item: all such $45,000 [125693] material is rare in the market. $65,000 [131753] (NIGHTINGALE, Florence.) The New Testament; [together with:] The Book of Common Prayer. Oxford: printed at the University Press for Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1854–55 Two pocket devotionals inscribed by Florence Nightingale while in the Crimea to Sergeant Edward Humphreys, dated May 1856. 2 works, miniature 48mo, publisher’s black calf. $16,500 [136142]

ORWELL, George. Archive of retained correspondence from the files of his first publisher, Victor Gollancz, regarding the publication of Orwell’s first novel, A Clergyman’s Daughter. 8 November 1934 – 22 July 1983 Including the original contract for the novel, dated 5 February 1935, initialled by Orwell on each of the first four pages and signed by him on the last page; with six letters and postcards signed by Orwell, illustrating the extensive changes he made to appease the publisher’s libel concerns. All such material is necessarily rare in the market.

$97,500 [131751] Nightingale, inscribed devotionals

– 11 – Rackham

POE, Edgar Allan. Tales.

Rowling, Goblet of Fire New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845 First edition, with the New York imprint, one of 1,500 copies ORWELL, George. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story. issued; half-title present. Among the most important and influential early books of detective fiction. Early 20th-century London: Secker & Warburg, 1945 blue morocco. First edition, presentation copy from the author, inscribed: $36,000 [136458] “Malcolm Muggeridge from Geo. Orwell”. Inscribed presentation copies of Animal Farm are decidedly scarce. Original (RACKHAM, Arthur.) IBSEN, Henrik. Peer Gynt. green cloth, with the dust jacket. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1936 $155,000 [138372] Deluxe edition, one of ten special copies reserved by the publisher, in a deluxe binding, and with a full-page original OWEN, Robert. A New View of Society. L: 1813–14 watercolour signed by Rackham. A fine copy. First edition of the four Essays, one of 40 specially bound $32,500 [135675] presentation sets printed on thick paper, parts III & IV “Not published”, inscribed “From the Author” on the first blank. REGNAULT, Jules. Calcul des chances et Four parts bound in one volume in contemporary dark blue philosophie de la Bourse. Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, straight-grain morocco. Castel [Impr. Pilloy], 1863 $115,000 [130529] Extremely rare first edition of a pioneering work of econometric analysis which anticipated Louis Bachelier and Emile Cheysson, PANKHURST, E. Sylvia. Germinal. [Vol. 1, and laid the basis of modern models of price behaviour. Nos. 1 & 2.] London: Sylvia Pankhurst, and printed Contemporary red morocco-backed red cloth, rebacked. by Agenda Press Ltd., 1923 $18,000 [135967] Complete run of Sylvia Pankhurst’s strikingly illustrated revolutionary socialist journal, of which just two issues were ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s printed. Each issue is introduced by Pankhurst and features, Stone. London: Bloomsbury, 1997 among others, fiction by Maxim Gorky and Ernst Toller, and First edition, paperback issue, inscribed by the author poetry by Anna Akhmatova, Alexander Blok, and Pankhurst “To Paul, Best Wishes, J K Rowling” and dated “18/3/98”. herself. 2 issues, 4to, original pictorial colour wrappers Rowling signed this copy during a school visit in Wales. illustrated by Ludovic Rodo. Original pictorial wrappers. $6,000 [137508] $40,000 [135240]

– 12 – Shakespeare, Third Folio Sendak

ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s SHAKESPEARE, William. Comedies, Histories, Stone. London: Bloomsbury, 1997 and Tragedies. London: printed for P.C. 1664 ( first-issue First edition, paperback issue. One of 5,150 copies in wrappers, title: Philip Chetwinde, 1663) with all the requisite points of the first printing. The Third Folio, generally regarded as the rarest of the 17th- century folio editions of Shakespeare’s plays. A substantial $10,000 [136139] number of copies were destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666. Median folio, early 19th-century blind-tooled russia, ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. sympathetically rebacked. A fine, fresh copy. London: Bloomsbury, 2000 $650,000 [108578] First edition, one of two dedication copies, inscribed by the author on the dedication page beneath the printed dedication to SHAKESPEARE, William. Julius Caesar. London: by Susan Sladden, “and, though we didn’t want it in print, helped H[enry]. H[ills]. Jun for Hen. Heringman and R. Bentley, and me out of my cupboard. With unending gratitude and equal love sold by Joseph Knight and Francis Saunders, 1684 Jo a.k.a. (again) JK Rowling x”. Sladden was a friend of Rowling’s First quarto and first separate edition, the text being taken in Edinburgh who helped her to finish the Philosopher’s Stone by unaltered from the 1623 First Folio. This is the true first of six babysitting her daughter. Original boards, with the dust jacket. quartos of Julius Caesar separately printed in the late 17th century. $97,500 [128864] 4to, 18th-century marbled wrappers. A well margined copy. $50,000 [134628] SEABORN, Capt. Adam (pseud.) Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery. New York: printed by J. Seymour, 1820 Rare first edition of the book rightly considered the first science fiction novel written by an American. Notably rare: WorldCat records only five locations – three in the US, the British Library, and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. No copy is listed in auction records. Duodecimo. Uncut in original drab boards. $32,500 [135742]

SENDAK, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. New York: Harper & Row, 1963 First edition, inscribed by the author: “For Janet Anderson Maurice Sendak 4/15/82”. With a book signing ticket signed by Anderson. Anderson was a book designer at the University of Virginia Press. Oblong 4to, original cloth-backed pictorial paper boards, with the dust jacket. A near-fine copy. $23,000 [133220] Seaborn

– 13 – Adam Smith

SMITH, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Tagliacozzi London: for A. Millar, and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, in Edinburgh, 1759 STEINBECK, John. Tortilla Flat. First edition, of 1,000 copies. It contains the first use of the New York: Covici-Friede, 1935 author’s famous phrase regarding the “invisible hand” guiding First edition, cloth issue, inscribed by the author: “For Bob economic development. Twentieth-century panelled calf. Bailey John Steinbeck”. A bright, clean copy with the dust jacket, $82,500 [136185] price-clipped. $26,000 [136583] SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. [SWIFT, Jonathan.] Travels into Several Remote London: Strahan & Cadell, 1776 Nations of the World. London: Benj[amin] Motte, 1726 First edition of the author’s groundbreaking work of True first edition, Teerink’s A edition, with the first state economic thought. Two volumes; contemporary sprinkled frontispiece. 2 vols. An excellent copy, rarely found in such good calf. A handsome copy. condition, in a contemporary binding of panelled calf. $255,000 [137289] $162,500 [130055] (SOUTH SEA BUBBLE.) HUTCHESON, Archibald. TAGLIACOZZI, Gaspare. De Curtorum Chirurgia per Contemporary pamphlet volume. London: 1717–33 insitionem. Venice: Gaspare Bindoni the Younger, 1597 An exceptional collection of South Sea material, comprising True first edition of the first book devoted to plastic surgery, 20 works on the Company bound in the immediate decades with 22 full-page woodcuts. Folio, later quarter parchment, a following the burst of the bubble. The majority, 14 titles, are by very good copy with good margins. Archibald Hutcheson, the great Cassandra of the project. Twenty $33,000 [135968] works in 1 volume, folio; contemporary sprinkled calf. $58,500 [134766] TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. The Charge of the Light Brigade. [London:] 1855 SPINOZA, Baruch. Tractatus theologico-politicus. First separate edition, extremely scarce in this format, one of Hamburg: Henricus Künraht, 1670 1,000 copies published for distribution to the troops in the First edition of Spinoza’s great treatise on political theology. Crimea. rovenance: Major Adolphus William Desart Burton, who 4to, modern boards covered with a medieval manuscript rode in the charge of the Heavy Brigade. Bifolium, tipped-in to a antiphonal on vellum. larger sheet. $50,000 [130116] $55,000 [111544]

– 14 – Twain, Tom Sawyer

TOLSTOY, Leo. War and Peace. London: Vizetelly & Co., 1886 First English edition, scarce in commerce. Complete sets with each volume in first edition are rare. 3 vols., original moderate yellow-green cloth. Vesalius $32,500 [137493] TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. TWAIN, Mark. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885 Calaveras County. New York: C. H. Webb, 1867 First U.S. edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to First edition, first issue. Small 8vo, original green cloth over Major J. B. Pond, and further inscribed by Pond (“This is the first bevelled boards. A lovely, fresh copy. copy that the author ever set his eyes on”). Pond was manager of the lecture tour during which Twain gave his first readings from $40,000 [136264] Huckleberry Finn. Publisher’s half morocco (the scarcest of the three original bindings), rebacked with original spine laid down. TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1876 $195,000 [131671] First American edition, the superior cloth issue with gilt edges. VESALIUS, Andreas. De humani corporis fabrica libri A very good to near-fine copy. septem. Basel: Johannes Oporinus, June 1543 $58,500 [137725] First edition of the founding text of modern anatomy, which revolutionized the science and teaching of medicine and practice of surgery. Folio, early 19th-century sprinkled half sheep. $325,000 [126301] [VOLTAIRE.] Candide. [Geneva: Gabriel Cramer,] 1759 First edition, one of only a dozen or so recorded copies of the true first edition of this celebrated philosophical conte. Duodecimo, pp. 299. Contemporary French mottled calf. $50,000 [135295] WAUGH, Evelyn. Helena. London: Chapman & Hall, 1950 First edition, large paper issue, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his close friend and biographer Christopher Sykes. One of about 50 copies specially bound and printed on handmade paper, near-fine in original white cloth.

Voltaire $8,000 [136698]

– 15 – Hunger strike medal

Wilde, Importance of Being Earnest

(WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE.) Hunger strike medal awarded to Elsie Wolff van Sandau by the WSPU. London: Toye, March 1912 Medal complete with the original presentation box, both inscribed to Sandau. Elsie presents an elusive figure: though Yeats clearly active in the suffrage movement and accounted for in the National Archive’s index of arrested suffragettes, the details of WILDE, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest. her life remain obscured (perhaps deliberately so) and in records London: Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899 her identity is sometimes conflated with that of one Mathilde First edition, number 46 of 100 large paper copies signed by the Wolff van Sandau. Very scarce on the market. author. Original pale purple cloth. A near-fine copy. $36,000 [134407] $65,000 [132907] YEATS, W. B. The Countess Kathleen And Various (WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE.) A.J.R. (ed.) Legends and Lyrics. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892 The Suffrage Annual and Women’s Who’s Who. First edition, number one of 30 copies printed on japon, London: Stanley Paul & Co., [1913] specially bound in full vellum and signed by the publisher First and only edition of this important source of information T. Fisher Unwin, this his retained copy. Yeats’s second collection on the pre-War UK suffrage movement. Original purple cloth; and the first to include “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”, perhaps his suffrage historian Rosamund Billington’s copy. most famous poem. $2,500 [132443] $11,000 [133548]

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