SPRING MISCELLANY Spring Miscellany Henry Sotheran Ltd 2 Sackville Street Piccadilly London W1S 3DP tel: 020 7439 6151 email: [email protected] web: sotherans.co.uk It's spring in Sackville Street, the blossom is on the trees in Green Park, we're back in the shop - the time is right to mark the occasion with our 2021 Spring Miscellany, a compendium of varied and wild delights from every department and for every pocket. Highlights include the glory of John Gould's Toucans, first editions of literary classics, magical children's books, exotic prints and exciting voyages of discovery, interspersed with the erudite and the esoteric. Please take your time to enjoy, and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. 3. ACKERMANN, Rudolph. Magdalen Tower. Original hand-coloured aquatint for Vol I of Ackermann’s History 1. ACKERMANN, Rudolph. Queen’s College Chapel. of the University of Oxford, 1814. 300 x 250 mm. £195 Original hand-coloured aquatint for Vol I of Ackermann’s History of the University of Oxford, 1814. 300 x 250 mm. £135 2. ACKERMANN, Rudolph. Trinity College Chapel. Original hand-coloured aquatint for Vol II of Ackermann’s History of the University of Oxford, 1814. 250 x 4. ACKERMANN, Rudolph. Chapel of All Souls College. 300 mm. £145 Original hand-coloured aquatint for Vol I of Ackermann’s History of the University of Oxford, 1814. 300 x 250 mm. £115 SOTHERAN’S, LONDON 2021 1 7. ACKERMANN, Rudolph. St. Mary’s Church, taken from the top of Radcliffe Library. Original hand-coloured aquatint for Vol II of Ackermann’s History of the University of Oxford, 1814. 250 x 300 mm. £155 5. ACKERMANN, Rudolph. St. Aldgate’s From Carfax. Original hand-coloured aquatint for Vol I of Ackermann’s History of the University of Oxford, 1814. 300 x 250 mm. £125 8. ACKERMANN, Rudolph. University & Queens Colleges, High Street. Original hand-coloured aquatint for Vol I of Ackermann’s History of the University of Oxford, 1814. 250 x 300 mm. £175 6. ACKERMANN, Rudolph. Merton College. Original hand-coloured aquatint for Vol I of Ackermann’s History of the University of Oxford, 1814. 300 x 250 mm. £140 9. ACKERMANN, Rudolph. Quadrangle of St. John’s College. Original hand-coloured aquatint for Vol II of Ackermann’s History of the University of Oxford, 1814. 250 x 300 mm. £145 2 SPRING MISCELLANY 10. ACKERMANN, Rudolph. Chapel of New College. Original hand-coloured aquatint for Vol I of Ackermann’s History of the University of Oxford, 1814. 300 x 250 mm. £125 11. AESCHYLUS. Tragedies Hagae Comitum [Hague], Petrum Gosse, 1745. £498 4to. 2 vols. Tan calf, gilt border to upper and lower covers, detailed gilt designs to spine, red and black spine 12. ALI, Muhammad. Signed Photograph. United Artists. £498 labels, 5 raised bands to spine, green ribbon bookmark, Black and white photograph of Ali, “Muhammad Ali in fore edge gilt; pp. [xxviii], 553 [1], pp. [1], 554-1138; front ‘a.k.a. Cassius Clay”. The promotional photograph shows hinges discreetly cracked on both volumes (but firmly Ali in a pin stripe suite sparring. attached), some bumping and marks to exterior, internally 10 x 8 inches signed “Muhammad Ali 8-13-87” primarily clean and bright throughout with occasional toning, spine a little darkened, a good survival. A.k.a. Cassius Clay is a 1970 boxing documentary film about the former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali. Aeschylus, often described as the “father of tragedy”, plays a pivotal role in our understanding of the genre. Directed by Jimmy Jacobs, the film was made during Ali’s Our understanding of earlier tragic works is predicated in exile from the sport for refusing to be inducted into the a large part on his eight surviving works (out of an US Army on religious grounds. Narrated by Richard estimated eighty or more). This edition of the tragedies Kiley, the film gives an overview of Ali’s career to that is printed in Latin and Greek, as the first translation of point. The film features archival footage of people the plays into English would not occur until 1779. It associated with Ali, such as Angelo Dundee, Malcolm X, features all his works (Persians, Agamemnon, Seven Against and Drew Bundini Brown, and clips of his fights with Thebes) including Prometheus Bound, which some scholars Sonny Liston, Henry Cooper, George Chuvalo and Floyd now maintain to have been authored by his son instead, Patterson. and an entire volume of additional fragments, notes and observations. SOTHERAN’S, LONDON 2021 3 poetry touched on universal themes of love, infatuation, With 8 original erotic drawings by Georges revelry, and the observations of everyday people and life. Villa Georges Villa studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français. He is known for his caricatures and portraits as well as his erotic drawings using charcoal and pastel. Many of Villa’s illustrations can be found in limited edition collectors’ books such as these, including 12 erotic lithographs to accompany the poetry of Edmond Haraucourt, and Poemes hysteriques, an eroticised parody of the poems of Victor Hugo. 13. ANACREON. [VILLA, Georges, artist]. Les Odes d’Anacreon, Teien. Traduites de Grec en Francais par Remy Belleau. Ensembles quelques petites Hymnes de 14. ANDERSON, Anne (illustrator). Eugene FIELD, son invention. Paris: La Reconnaissance, 1928. £998 May BYRON, Florence CAMPBELL (words by). H.A.J. 8vo., in contemporary half gilt ruled brown morocco over CAMPBELL (music by). The Sleepy-Song Book. London; marbled paper boards signed Yseux SR of Thierry George G. Harrap & Co Ltd., circa 1930. £98 Simier, original wrappers bound in, spine lettered in gilt 4to. Original blue cloth-backed grey boards, spine with floral pattern blocked in black, marbled endpapers; lettered in black, with large onlaid pictorial plate to upper initials printed in blue, woodcut frontispiece by Pierre cover; pp. [vi], 7-81; with pictorial title-page and Art Gandon; upper edge gilt, else uncut; pp. [xiv], viii, [ii], 171, Nouveau decorations and illustrations throughout, in line, xi; a little sunning to spine and some lower pages slightly alongside 11 fine coloured plates, as issued; a very good nicked, otherwise a fine copy. copy, externally with rubbing and light marking to boards, Limited edition of 305 copies. This copy extra- rubbing to joints and edges with exposure of board at illustrated with 8 original drawings in pencil, pen, ink and forecorners; internally generally clean and crisp with only pastel - 4 full page and 4 vignettes - by Georges Villa. light foxing to first two, and final, leaves; with a neat The sensuous drawings are all signed (and some contemporary gift inscription, dated 1932, to front captioned) in pencil. With a note in Villa’s hand on title pastedown. page and a secondary tipped in. Early edition, first published in 1915. Here the coloured A collection of verses by the great Greek lyric poet, who plates of “Orion” (originally opposite page 51) was lived in the 6th century. Anacreon wrote all of his poetry dropped from the edition by the publisher because it was in the ancient Ionic dialect and, like all early lyric poetry, deemed too scary for children. A beautiful book of it was composed to be sung or recited to the lullabies with accompanying music. accompaniment of music, usually the lyre. Anacreon’s 4 SPRING MISCELLANY 16. ANON. Imperial Airways Ltd, Paris. Original luggage label, c.1925. 90 x 130 mm. Handley Page W.8 Aircraft. Route Le Bourget - Croydon. These labels were intended to show the comfort passangers would enjoy. First service to Paris was in 1924. 15. ANDERSON, Poul. The Snows of Ganymede/ War of This early label in colour is very rare, later labels were the Wing-Men. New York: Ace Books, 1958. £98 monocrome. Small 8vo., original printed card wrappers, two books in There is a pinhole to bottom left corner. £140 one; War of the Wing-Men showing figures on a boat at sea with winged creatures in the air above, The Snows of Ganymede with two figures in space suits; pp. 160 and 96; spine a little creased and rubbed at head and foot; pages toned, as is common for paperbacks of this period; a very bright copy nonetheless. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author to the War of the Wing-men title page. Two Science-Fiction stories by Poul Anderson, an American writer who won seven Hugo awards and three Nebula awards in his lifetime for his fantasy and historical novels. Scarce signed. 17. ANON. Hotel Beaulieu, Chamonix, Mont-Blanc. Original hotel luggage label, printed by R. Couvert France, c.1925. 85 x 130 mm. £250 18. ANON. Atholl Palace Hotel, Pitlochry, Perthshire. Original hotel luggage label, c.1930. 90 x 135 mm. Showing the Duke of Atholl’s army. The Duke commands the only legal private army in Europe, the Atholl Highlanders, which is headquartered at Blair Castle. £120 SOTHERAN’S, LONDON 2021 5 19. ANONYMOUS. Splinters, Historical, Sacred and Profane. Newcastle: J. and R. Akenhead, 1827. £200 12mo, sometime rebound in half black calf, marbled boards; pp. 33, woodcut on title page and 5 others by Bewick; previous owner’s bookplate to front pastedown, very good. First edition. A truly peculiar collection of miscellaneous pieces on 20. ARDIZZONE, Edward (illustrator). G.W. sea-faring, British superiority, world history, homespun STONIER (author). Pictures on the Pavement. London, wisdom and other seemingly unrelated aspects of Michael Joseph. 1955. £78 domestic life. 8vo. Original publisher’s pictorial buff cloth blocked in Hugo 477. red to upper board, lettered in red to spine, pictorial endpapers, in the pictorial dustwrapper; pp.