MASTERPIECE 2019 Peter Harrington london 1 Peter Harrington london items displayed at stand d4 preview day Wednesday 26 June 2019 11:00−21:00 public fair days 27 June 11:00−21:00 28–30 June 11:00–19:00 1–3 July 11:00–21:00 masterpiece 2019 | london South Grounds, The Royal Hospital Chelsea, London SW3 4LW mayfair chelsea Peter Harrington Peter Harrington 43 dover street 100 FulHam road london w1s 4FF london sw3 6Hs uk 020 3763 3220 uk 020 7591 0220 eu 00 44 20 3763 3220 eu 00 44 20 7591 0220 usa 011 44 20 3763 3220 usa 011 44 20 7591 0220 www.peterharrington.co.uk BACON, Francis. After Triptych, 1986– DARWIN, Charles. The Different GALILEI, Galileo. Mathematical 1987. Barcelona, 1987. Three etchings Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Collections and Translations, transl. and aquatints in colours, one of 15 Species. London, 1877. First edition, Thomas Salusbury. London, 1661. First artist proofs aside from the edition of presentation copy inscribed in edition in English of Galileo’s Dialogo, 99 signed by the artist. Item 55 Darwin’s own hand, original green with other works. Item 4 cloth. Item 24 BACON, Francis. Three Studies of the Male GREENE, Graham. Brighton Rock. Back. Paris, 1987. Three lithographs, The Declaration of Independence. London, 1938. First London edition, edition of 99 signed by the artist. Washington, DC, 1848. Second original cloth with dust jacket, notably Item 54 impression of the Peter Force facsimile, rare thus. Item 41 made from Stone’s copper plate BECKETT, Samuel. En attendant Godot. GUTENBERG, Johann: Bible; Latin. created by direct transmission from the Paris, 1952. First edition of Waiting for Mainz, 1455. A single leaf from the first original. Item 17 Godot in the original French language, complete book printed with movable one of 35 copies only on superior paper, DICKENS, Charles. Pictures from type. Item 1 original printed wrappers. Item 44 Italy. London, 1846. First edition, HAMMETT, Dashiell. The Dain Curse. presentation copy, inscribed by BORGES, Jorge Luis. Inquisiciones. New York, 1929. First edition of a Dickens to his old friend Thomas Buenos Aires, 1925. First edition of his classic of hardboiled detective fiction, Beard. Item 16 first prose work, presentation copy original cloth with dust jacket. Item 39 inscribed to his fellow author and muse FAULKNER, William. Light in HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Sun Also Norah Lange. Item 37 August. New York, 1932. First edition, Rises. New York, 1926. First edition, presentation copy to a close childhood BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel original cloth with first issue dust friend, original cloth with dust jacket Johnson. London, 1791. First edition jacket. Item 38 and glassine wrapper. Item 40 of the most famous biography in any HOMER. Works, in Greek. Florence, language, uncut in original boards. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Great 1488. First edition in the original Greek Item 11 Gatsby. New York, 1925. First edition, of the foundational work of literature of presentation copy to “the original CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures the western world. Item 2 Gatsby”, Harold Goldman, a fellow in Wonderland. London, 1866. First Hollywood screenwriter. Item 36 HORSBURGH, James. The India published edition, presentation copy Directory. London, 1841–3. Fifth edition to one of the author’s child-friends, FLEMING, Ian. Collection of his of the standard manual for the eastern together with three autograph letters. works, including all the James Bond navigation, a superb copy in an Item 21 books, his non-fiction and children’s American naval officer’s wooden book book, books from his library, and COOK, James. Complete set of the box, with original manuscript coastal related material. 1918–65. Together 81 three voyages. London, 1773–85. First– profiles inserted. Item 13 books and manuscripts. Item 48 second–second editions. Item 9 HUGO, Victor. Les Misérables. Brussels, FREUD, Sigmund. Die Traumdeutung DARWIN, Charles. “On the 1862. True first edition, 10 volumes in (The Interpretation of Dreams). Leipzig movements and habits of climbing original printed wrappers. Item 19 & Vienna, 1900. First edition, one of plants”. London, 1865. First edition, 600 copies, original printed wrappers. JOYCE, James. Chamber Music. London, presentation copy inscribed in Item 31 1907. First edition, inscribed by the Darwin’s own hand, Linnean Society author to a young Jewish lady, probably offprint, bound with 4 other offprints. one of his pupils, in Trieste, original Item 20 cloth. Item 32 JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Paris: MAO (Tse-Tung or Zedung.) Selected SCHIELE, Egon. Portrait of Arthur Shakespeare and Company, 1922. First Works. May 1944. First edition of the Roessler. Vienna, 1914. Drypoint etching, edition, one of 100 copies on Dutch first collection of Mao’s writings, 5 signed and dated by the artist. Item 50 paper signed by the author, original volumes, original wrappers, printed SHAKESPEARE, William. Comedies, wrappers. Item 35 behind Japanese lines. Item 42 Histories and Tragedies. London, 1685. KANT, Immanuel. Critik der reinen MARX, Karl. Unpublished autograph Fourth folio edition of Shakespeare’s Vernunft. Riga, 1781. First edition. letter signed to Lucien-Léopold plays, a superb copy. Item 5 Item 10 Jottrand. Brussels: 2 October 1847. STOKER, Bram. Dracula. Westminster, Item 18 KELMSCOTT PRESS. The History of 1897. First edition, presentation copy, Reynard the Foxe, transl. William Caxton. MILNE, A. A; SHEPARD, E. H. original cloth. Item 28 Hammersmith, 1892. First Kelmscott “Tiggers don’t like honey.” 1961. THATCHER, Margaret. The prime edition, one of ten copies on vellum, in Original drawing of an illustration from minister’s own copy of the official a striking James Brockman binding for The House at Pooh Corner. Item 51 photograph of her first cabinet, May John Paul Getty. Item 27 MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de 1979, signed by her and all the cabinet KENNEDY, John F. Inaugural Address. Secondat, Baron de. De l’Esprit des loix. members; from her personal estate. Washington, DC, 1961. First edition, Geneva, 1748. Item 8 Item 53 presentation copy to a member of the NEWTON, Isaac. Opticks. London, THOMSON, John. Illustrations of China White House staff, original cloth. “Ask 1704. First edition of Newton’s major and its People. London, 1873–4. First not what your country can do for you— work on his theories of light and edition, deluxe issue, containing the ask what you can do for your country”. colour. Item 6 most outstanding photographic images Item 46 of China in the 19th century. Item 22 NIGHTINGALE, Florence. Signed KEROUAC, Jack. On the Road. New cabinet photograph. London, [c.1900]. TOLSTOY, Leo. Anna Karenina. Moscow, York, 1957. First edition, presentation Item 30 1878. First edition, 3 volumes in copy inscribed by Kerouac with a full- original cloth. Item 25 page note in red crayon and pencil. ORWELL, George. Archive of Item 45 correspondence relating to Animal Farm, TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry 19 March 1944–15 February 1950. One Finn. New York, 1885. First American LEIBNIZ, Gottfried Wilhelm von. of the great publishing mistakes of edition, presentation copy to his Lehr-Sätze über die Monadologie. Frankfurt the century, from the files of his first lecture-tour manager, one of 500 copies & Leipzig, 1720. First printing of the publisher, Victor Gollancz. Item 43 in half morocco for presentation. Monadology, in a contemporary Item 26 volume with two related works. Item 7 PAVLOV, Pyotr Petrovich. Album of the municipal buildings of Moscow. VERNAY, Arthur Stannard. Collection LOVELACE, Ada, transl. Luigi Federico Moscow, 1912–13. Scarce photographic of 16 photographic albums, with Menabrea. Sketch of the Analytical Engine record of pre-revolutionary Moscow, his typescript diary, 1920s–30s. A invented by Charles Babbage. London, 240 photogravures, original leather remarkable assemblage of over 3,000 1843. First separate edition of the most binding. Item 33 photographs of Africa, the Middle East, important early paper in the history India, and East Asia. Item 34 of computing, from the library of Ada PLATH, Sylvia. Uncorrected proof copy Lovelace’s mathematics tutor. Item 15 of The Bell Jar, with authorial revisions. VESALIUS, Andreas. De humani corporis London, 1962. Original wrappers. fabrica. Basel, 1543. First edition of the MALTHUS, Thomas Robert. An Essay Item 47 founding text of modern anatomy. on the Principle of Population. London, Item 3 1798. First edition. Item 12 ROBERTS, David. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia. London, WARHOL, Andy. Marilyn Monroe. New MANET, Edouard, illus. Edgar Allan 1842–9. First edition, 6 volumes bound York, 1967. Screenprint, one of 250 Poe. Le Corbeau (The Raven), transl. in 4, original half morocco. Item 14 signed by the artist. Item 52 Stéphane Mallarmé. Paris, 1875. Signed limited edition, the first ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the WILDE, Oscar. The Importance of Being modern French livre d’artiste, original Goblet of Fire. London, 2000. First Earnest. London, 1899. First edition, wrappers. Item 23 edition, dedication copy, inscribed in one of 100 large paper copies signed by gratitude to her friendly neighbour Wilde, in original cloth. Item 29 Susan Sladden, original cloth with dust jacket. Item 49 2 Peter Harrington london On the Stands 3 A leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, the product of one of the most revolutionary technological changes in human history 1 (GUTENBERG, Johann.) BIBLE; Latin. Single leaf from the New Testament, Acts 21:40 to 23:24. [Mainz: Printer of the 42-line Bible (Johann Gutenberg) and Johannes Fust, about 1455] a single paper leaf from the gutenberg bible, the first complete contents and binding book printed with movable type. This leaf contains one of the most sig- Single leaf (361 × 252 mm), housed in a nificant passages of the New Testament, the end of Chapter 21 through double-glass frame. Together with original portfolio, royal folio (408 × 285 mm), to the middle of Chapter 23 of Acts of the Apostles, including the whole of early 20th-century dark blue morocco by Chapter 22, which details Paul’s own account of his conversion on the road Stikeman and Co, spine and front cover to Damascus, a crucial moment in Christianity.