Catalogue B177

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Antiquarian & MODERN

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Section One Antiquarian Books 1.

(Acts of Parliament.) Anno Regni Gulielmi et Mariæ, Regis & Reginæ Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ & Hiberniæ, primo. On the Sixteenth Day of December, Anno Dom. 1689. In the First Year of Their Majesties Reign, this Act Passed the Royal Assent. Printed by Charles Bill, and Thomas Newcomb, 1689, FIRST EDITION , with royal arms on title and sectional titles (with variants between them), mainly Black Letter, poorly printed, either over- or under-inked in places, some leaves browned or a bit spotted, extensive pen trials in the fore-margin of one page, various other signs of use, pp. 282, [3, Table], plus terminal blank, folio, contemporary calf, blind ruled borders on the sides with a fleuron at each corner, rubbed and with a few ink or other stains, split at top of upper joint, front inner hinge split but cords holding, front flyleaf almost detached, various contemporary annotations &c. (see below), sound ( ESTC R231999) £7,500 ‘One of the four great historic documents which regulate the relations between the Crown and the people, the others being: the Magna Carta (as confirmed by Edward I, 1297), the Petition of Right (1627) and the Act of Settlement (1700). The 1689 Bill of Rights does not constitute what is generally understood as a modern “bill of rights”, if by that term one means a document which defines and guarantees the basic human rights of individual citizens. Nor is it, on its own, the equivalent of a written constitution, although it can be viewed as a watershed in the development of the British constitution and especially with regard to the role of parliament.

‘The Bill of Rights was an historic statute that emerged from the “Glorious Revolution” of 1688-89, which culminated in the exile of King James II and the accession to the throne of William of Orange and Mary. Its intentions were: to depose James II for misgovernment; to determine the succession to the Throne; to curb future arbitrary behaviour of the monarch; and to guarantee parliament’s powers vis a vis the Crown, thereby establishing a constitutional monarchy’ (House of Commons Library Standard Note).

This copy seems to have belonged to one of the Commissioners responsible for collecting the monies granted to the monarchs by Parliament (as per the first Act in this collection), the flyleaf having a record of sums paid from three districts. The following leaf has a list of the High Constables of Furnice (Furness) and Cartmel in the Lake District, from 1665 continued up to 1705. At the back is a list of monies raised by various Commissioners in the same district, &c.

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(Almanack.) The Christian’s Diary: or, an Almanack for one Day. Particularly designed for the Use of the People of England, for this Present Year ... John Evans, [c.1795], pp. 8, 8vo, unbound, formerly stitched, good ( ESTC T60356, BL only) £250 John Evan’s address is given as 42 Long Lane, where he was from 1792-99.

The predicitions are perennial – ‘Wars and Commotions ... Earthquakes ...

Pestilence and Famine ... the utter Destruction of the Heathens and Turks ... the Poor will be had in equal (or perhaps superior) Estimation with the Rich ...’ &c. &c. The rest of the text is in preparation for the Last Day.

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New discoveries Ampère (André Marie) and Jacques Babinet. Exposé des nouvelles découvertes sur l’electricité et le magnétisme, de MM. Oersted, Arago, Ampère, H. Davy, Biot, Erman, Schweiger, De la Rive, etc. Paris: Méquignon-Marvis, 1822, FIRST EDITION , with numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations in the text, pp. [iv], 91, 8vo, drab wrappers, good (Overmier and Senior p. 127; not in Gartrell or Wheeler Gift) £1,250

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A important, scarce and early publication on electricity and magnetism, a ‘very valuable Treatise’ (Mottelay). An additional interesting aspect of the present paper is a first outline of Ampère’s ideas concerning an electric telegraph (p. 71). The work is in fact an offprint from the Supplement to the French translation of Thomas Thompson’s System of Chemistry : Système de Chimie. Traduit .. par J. Riffault . The supplement is entitled: Supplément .. présentant ce qui a été fait de nouveau dans cette science ... depuis l’époque (1819) où cette traduction a paru , Paris 1822 (see Cole 1283).

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Three rare Petits Aquinas (Saint Thomas) In librum Salomonis q[ui] Ca[n]tica ca[n]tico[rum] inscribit[ur] dilucidissima expositio: q[uam] diligentissime nup[er]rime visa: recognita: erroribusq[ue] purgata: & q[uan]tu anniti ars potuit fideliter impressa ... [colophon:] Paris, Jean Petit, 17 April, 1515, woodcut printer’s device on verso of last leaf, colophon on recto, text of the Vulgate Canticle in slightly larger type, alternating with commentary, side notes, one large and numerous small criblé initials, some damp-staining, mainly in the upper fore- and upper margins, ff. lxvi, [ii], [bound with:] Gregory (Saint, the Great) I[n] septe[m] psalmos pentite[n]tiales: explanatio ad modum vtilis, cu[m] tabula materiarum. [colophon:] Paris: Jean Barbier for Jean Petit, nd., with Petit’s device on the title-page and Barbier’s at the end, ff. lxxii, [vi], [and:] Aureum de peccatis capitalibus eorum speciebus opusculum, in quo simul explicantur mala que ex eis dimanant et remedia quibus repelluntur. [Edited by Constantinus Lepus]. [Paris, Jean Petit, nd,] gathering D misbound before C, last 8 leaves repaired at upper outer corner, with loss of foliation, ff xxiiii, [viii], 16mo in 8s, the three (having been together before – see below) recently rebound, re-using an old piece of vellum over modern boards, contemporary ownership inscription on title (name in Greek, motto in German, partially crossed out) with various annotations to the text in the same hand, a later inscription at foot of title, preserved in a morocco backed chemise and slip-in case, good £1,250 Three small Petits, all rare: the third, in particular, is located only in the BL by COPAC , with only one further copy in the French Union Catalogue. The first work is definitely dated, and the other two are probably the same, give or take a few years, having appeared already in 1511: however these three have always been together, as witness the annotations in the same hand in all three, and the shared dampstaining; the consistent edge-sprinkling also seems to pre-date the current binding.

The first work is supposedly Aquinas’s last composition, not written down by him, but dictated as he lay dying at the Cistercian Abbey of Fossa Nuova. The work did not appear in print until 1505, in Venice, of which this edition seems to be a reprint (or a piracy). ‘On 6 December, 1273, he laid aside his pen and would write no more… in January, 1274…he fell to the ground near Terracina, whence he was conducted to the Castle of Maienza, the home of his niece the Countess Francesca Ceccano. The Cistercian monks of Fossa Nuova pressed him to accept their hospitality ... At the urgent request of the monks he dictated a brief commentary on the Canticle of Canticles’ (Catholic Encyclopedia). However, it has also been suggested that this attribution is mistaken and the commentary is in fact the work of Aquinas’s contemporary Aegidio Colonna.

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Aristotle (pseud.) The Works of Aristotle. In four parts. Containing: I. His Complete Master Piece ... II. His Experienced Midwife ... III. His Book of Problems ... IV. His Last Legacy ... A New Edition. Printed for the Booksellers, 1798, lacking frontispiece, with 4 woodcut illustrations in the text, occasional staining, pp. 407, 12mo, original sheep, a bit rubbed, lower cover nearly detached ( ESTC T152370) £100 Not the rarest of editions, but still only four located in ESTC : BL, Glasgow, Göttingen, NLM .

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Aristotle (pseud.) The Works of ... in Four Parts. Containing, I. His Complete Master-piece ...

II. His Experienced Midwife ... III. His Book of Problems ... IV. His Last Legacy. A New Edition.

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[Mozley, Printer, Gainsborough] for the Booksellers, 1811, with 4 woodcuts in the text, somewhat browned throughout, patchily heavy in places, pp. iv, [5-] 359, 12mo, original sheep, gilt ruled compartments on spine, very slightly worn, good £450 This edition not in COPAC or Worldcat, and though browned, a nice copy. A frontispiece might be expected, but there is no trace of any.

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Aristotle (pseud.) The Works of Aristotle. In four parts. Containing, I. His Complete Masterpiece; displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man. To which is added, The family physician, being approved remedies for the several distempers incident to the the human body.

II. His experienced midwife; absolutely necessary for surgeons, midwives, nurses, and childbearing women. III. His book of problems; containing various questions and answers relative to the state of man’s body. IV. His last legacy; unfolding the secrets of nature respecting the generation of man. An enlarged edition, embellished with several fine engravings. Published for the booksellers, (York : J. Kendrew, printer, Collier-Gate), 1812, with woodcut frontispiece and 10 woodcuts in the text, tear in fore-edge of frontispice, 2 leaves curiously cropped at a slight angle in fore-margin affecting some letters at the line ends, pp. iv, [5-] 360, 12mo, original sheep, good £550 Wellcome only in COPAC : Worldcat adds Harvard and Lib. Co. Philadelphia. Binding in very good state.

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Aristotle (pseud.) The Works ... containing, His Complete Masterpiece ... A new and improved edition with engravings. Printed for Miller, Law, and Carter, and sold by all the Booksellers, 1830, with a woodcut frontispiece and 5 plates, a little waterstaining, pp. [i, half title], viii, [9-]224, [1], 12mo, contemporary sheep, grained so as to resemble canvas, a little rubbed, very good £325 This edition not in COPAC , although there are copies in US libraries. In fact this copy has an old price inside the back cover in ink, $2.50, and the binding seems more New York than London.

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[Armstrong (M.)] The Effusions of a Youthful Mind. Commenced in the twelfth year of his age, and concluded before the writer first went to Eton. Penzance: Printed by T. Vigurs, 1828, FIRST ( ONLY ) EDITION , a few scattered light spots, pp. [ii], 49, 8vo, original boards, paper label on spine, minor wear, flyleaf inscribed ‘To Mary from her friend M. Armstrong’, good £450

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An unrecorded collection, probably printed for private circulation. In spite of what the title-page says, it is evident that at least one of the poems was written while the author was at Eton – unless the ‘Epitaph on an unfortunate boy drowned at Eton, 1826’ is in anticipation. Poems celebrate the Cornish landscape, are addressed to friends and relatives, sometimes humourous, sometimes pious. The verse is fairly accomplished for one so young.

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An unlocated edition – in 1402 Columbus sailed the ocean blue (Astronomy.) First Elements of Astronomy and Natural Philosophy; wherein the Knowledge of those Sciences are rendered more simple, and the Solar System described in a familiar Manner: also the powers of electricity, thunder, lightning, meteors, winds, heat, cold, &c. With suitable Reflections on the Works of Providence. Third edition. For the use Schools and Private Families. Illustrated with a Plate of the Sphere, and Map of the World. Printed for G. Sael, 1797, blindstamp of Leicester City Libraries on several leaves at either end and their ink stamp on verso of title, a bit of water-staining at the beginning, one or two other minor stains, folding map creased, pp. viii, 158, [2, advertisements], 12mo, contemporary coarse linen, slightly worn, good (Not in ESTC ) £800 According to ESTC , at least in part textually the same as Bonnycastle’s Introduction to Astronomy (first printed by Joseph Johnson in 1786). Bonnycastle’s book was a great success, so there may be something piratical about this book, although Sael was a regular publisher of educational books ‘for the use Schools and Private Families’ as per the title and the advertisements here. This edition not in ESTC , which records the second, of 1796 (BL and Houston only), and the fourth, of 1798 (BL only).

The last Lesson in the second part (Geography) is on ‘New Discoveries’, principally in the Pacific Ocean, including New Zealand, New Hebrides, &c., and the work concludes: ‘notwithstanding the amazing discoveries of navigators ... since the first voyage of Columbus, in the year 1402 (sic), there still remain some countries either absolutely unknown, or very superficially surveyed.’

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Bacon (Roger) Christ Mighty in Himself & Members: revealed in some short Expressions by way of Catechisme.

Wherein is demonstrated, that according to the Scripture (sence & phrase) and the experience of them that do beleeve, the saving and joyful knowledge of God & man, (and althings [sic] else that relate to either) is alone in the spirit, by Jesus Christ. To which is added (occasionally) a hint of the nature of the kingdome of God (as it is even now to faith.). Printed by J.M. for G. Calvert, 1646, FIRST EDITION , title within border of typographical ornaments, with an engraved frontispiece, a bit browned or soiled in places, pp. [2, including frontispiece], 240, 12mo, original calf, spine mostly defective due to insect damage, likewise the adjacent part of lower cover, worn, eighteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate inside front cover, sound ( ESTC R29416, BL, OU Regent’s Park, and the Clark) £800 A curious and rare little book. Bacon was a chaplain in the family of William Fiennes, first Viscount Saye and Sele (1582-1662) – Old Subtlety, as he was known – and the book is dedicated to the Viscountess. ESTC states ‘With an engraved title page (A2) and initial blank leaf’, but in fact the first leaf has on the verso ‘The mind of the Frontispiece.’ The work is strongly anti-Catholic, but in-fighting among Protestants is censored too, and its slightly odd phraseology is adumbrated in the long title.

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Baines (Edward) History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster. The Biographical Department by W.R. Whatton. Vol. I [-IV] Fisher, Son, & Co., 1836, FIRST EDITION , with numerous engraved illustrations, maps, genealogies &c., the large map of Manchester with a couple of tears repaired, occasional foxing (mainly of the plates), stout 4to, contemporary maroon half calf, spines blind and gilt tooled, spines faded, contemporary ownership inscription £500 on title-pages of G. Preston, Whalley (Lancs), good A good solid set of this classic, still useful. The map of Manchester is on paper too heavy for insertion, folded, in a volume.

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Barker (Matthew) Flores Intellectuales: or, Select Notions, Sentences and Observations, collected out of several Authors, and made publick, especially for the Use of young Scholars, entring into the Ministry. Printed by J. Atwood for John Dunton, 1691, browned and spotted, some worming to lower corner of about 15 leaves, title-page foxed, some early underlining, pp. [vi], 145, [1], [bound with:] Barker (Matthew) Flores Intellectuales: the Second Part containing Three Centuries More, of select notions, sentences, and observations, collected out of several authors, &c. Printed by Tho. Snowden for John Dunton, 1692, a dampmark and a brief, thin wormtrail to lower corner, some foxing and spotting, pp. [viii], 102, 12mo, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, hinges relined, corners worn, booklabels of John Lawson and the Bristol Education Society, along with armorial bookplate of ‘A. Gifford’, with his ownership inscription (‘AG’, dated 1716), and further £350 inscription of ‘Robt Coleman’ (1693) to front endpapers, sound ( ESTC R13711, R5385) ‘After the revolution of 1688 Barker put his efforts into promoting unity among the nonconformists...

To this end he published a collection entitled Flores intellectuales which gathered together advice to young scholars entering the ministry’ ( ODNB ). Although most of the advice is built on Biblical grounds, there is also frequent reference to the classical world. Both parts are scarce (the second especially so), with ESTC recording only three libraries in the UK holding both parts (BL, Congregational, Dr. William’s), plus Auckland; the first part only is also listed in half a dozen locations (two UK, four USA ) and the second part only in three (all in the USA ).

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Bede (Cuthbert, i.e. Edward Bradley) The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman. With 90 Illustrations by the Author. Nathaniel Cooke, 1853, FIRST EDITION , woodcut illustrations in the text, pp. iv, 118; [bound with:] Bede (Cuthbert) The Further Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green. H. Ingram & Co., 1854, second edition, woodcut illustrations in the text, pp. viii, 108; [and:] Bede (Cuthbert) Mr. Verdant Green, Married and Done For: being the third and concluding part of the adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman. James Blackwood, 1857, FIRST EDITION , woodcut illustrations in the text, pp. iv, 112, 8vo, slightly later half pebbled roan, marbled boards, spine divided by a double gilt fillet, second compartment gilt-lettered direct, original front wrappers to each part (printed in red and black or red and green) bound in but advertisements discarded, a little faded and rubbed, bookplate of John Deakin Heaton, very good (Wolff 755, 760, 767; Sadleir 3432, 3433, 3434) £150 All three parts of the Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, complete with the original front wrappers (now very scarce) bound in. This classic of college literature was based more on the author’s experiences at Durham than any first-hand knowledge of Oxford; the illustrations were often singled out for particular praise.

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Berquin (Arnaud) The Friend of Youth. Translated from the French ... Complete in Two Volumes.

Printed for C. Dilly, J. Stockdale, T. and J. Egerton; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1788, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH , each vol. with an engraved frontispiece, frontispieces offset onto titles, pp. vii, 220; iii, 234, 12mo, contemporary tree calf, flat spines gilt in compartments with 2 separated red lettering pieces, the lower one with the numeral in a green oval only, upper joint of vol. ii repaired, armorial book-plate inside front covers of William Edward Oates, dated 1897, and opposite that of Robert Washington Oates, very good ( ESTC T130422, BL and O only in the UK, 5 in the USA ) £850 An attractive copy of the first separate edition of this work in English. It was included with other works in a 12 volume set in the same year, translated by Mark Anthony Meilan. This is the sequel to The Children’s Friend , and hence Youth are adolescents.

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(Bible. New Testament. English.) WAKEFIELD (Gilbert) A Translation of the New Testament.

Volume I [-III, the last Containing the Dedication, Preface, A List of Subscribers, and the Notes.]

Printed at the Philanthropic Press, and sold by J. Deighton, 1791, pp. [ii], 524; [ii], 372; [iv], xxxii, 232, [2, ads], 8vo, contemorary dark blue morocco, single gilt fillets on sides enclosing an inner frame of a dotted line interspersed with larger dots, spines gilt in compartments and lettered direct, gilt edges, very slight wear, armorial bookplate inside front covers of J.B. Winterbotham, signature clipped from free endpaper in each vol., good (Darlow & Moule 1362; ESTC T94862) £600 An attractive copy of the first edition of Wakefield’s translation. Wakefield had, amidst some controvery, moved from the Warrington Academy to the newly established Hackney one, in 1790, but his appointment there lasted but a year. ‘After resigning from Hackney College, Wakefield could no longer support himself as a private tutor, and began publishing at an astonishing rate. His translation of the New Testament was published in 1792 [sic] and went through several editions, including one in Cambridge, Massachusetts’ ( ODNB ). As evidence of an already ‘astonishing rate’ the advertisements at the end list 17 publications by Wakefield available from Deighton’s, including An Enquiry into the Expediency and Propriety of Public or Social Worship, ‘This day published.’ A pencil note on the recto of the rear free endpaper records a cost, noting ‘all fine paper’, and, perhaps, a note of the cost of binding (these costs in code), the total being £1/5/-.

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(Bible. New Testament. Epistles of John.) S. Johannis Apostoli & Evangelistae Epistolae Catholicae Tres, Arabicae & Aethiopicae. Omnes ad verbum in Latinum versae, cum vocalium figuris exacte appositis... Cura ac industria Johann. Georgii Nisselii & Theodori Petraei. Leiden: Ex officina Johannis & Danielis Elsevier. 1654, first leaf sometime mounted on a stub leaving a stain in gutter, portion of blank margin of one leaf torn away (clear of text), a bit of staining and brittleness in gutters, some minor spotting elsewhere, frequent learned notes in a later hand, pp.

40, 4to, modern marbled boards, sound (Willems 750; Rahir 755; D&M 3564) £450 Nissel and Petreius’s edition of the text of the Epistles of St John in Arabic and Ethiopic, each with translations into Latin. An owner of this copy, a student of Arabic sometime in the mid-nineteenth century (he references Freytag’s Lexicon Arabico-Latinum of 1835 but not Lane’s of 1863-93), has read it closely with his pen handy, and every page features notes on vocabulary and grammar with lemmas transcribed in Arabic and meanings given in Latin or English (and once some Hebrew). On the leaf following the title, which gives a Hebrew proverb, an extensive note discusses its meaning and quotes Luke 6:22 as a contrast.

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(Bible. O.T. Psalms. English.) A New Version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the Tunes used in Churches. By N. Brady, D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary, and N. Tate, Esq; Poet-Laureat to his Majesty.

Edinburgh: Printed by Adrian Watkins his Majesty’s printer, 1757, some light dustsoiling, occasional corners creased, pp. [iv], 232, [12], 8vo, near-contemporary reversed calf, front board with central red morocco label reading ‘T.E. HEADLAM / GATESHEAD 1770’, slightly rubbed, a touch of wear to extremities (particularly endcaps), small splotch to front board, good ( ESTC T181884) £250

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A scarce printing – though one of half a dozen in Edinburgh alone in the same year – of the Psalms.

ESTC records copies only in NLS (3) and Innerpeffray. There was a physician at Newcastle Infirmary named T.E. Headlam, who often took part in charitable organisations and pressed for Parliamentary reform to democratise local government around the turn of the century; it seems likely that it is his ownership label so boldly adorning the front board.

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(Binding.) ACHILLES Tatius. De Clitophontis et Leucippes Amoribus Libri VIII. Varietate Lectionis notisque Cl. Salmasii I. B. Carpzovii T. B. Bergeri ac suis illustrati Beniam. Gottlib Lavr.

Boden. Leipzig: Sumtibus Io. Friderici Iunii. 1776, facing pages of Greek and Latin text, pp. xvi, 731, [13], 8vo, contemporary red morocco, boards bordered with a triple gilt fillet, spine divided by gilt square chain rolls between gilt fillets, second compartment gilt-lettered direct, the rest with central gilt tools, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., small ink spot to lower board, note on endpaper about the binding, near fine £500 The binding is unsigned, but a twentieth-century pencil note on the verso of the front flyleaf attributes it to Derome le jeune; a different pencil has later added ‘prob.’ before ‘relie par Nicolas-Denis Derome le jeune’. The style is relatively plain, but the materials are of the highest quality and a pallet across the foot of the spine (an alternating feather-and-pearl chain joined by six-pointed flowers) is similar – if not identical – to one featured on a signed Derome le jeune binding in the British Library Bookbinding database (shelfmark C42c9). After Derome’s tools were inherited by Bradel, some were closely copied

by Pierre-Joseph Bisiaux (active 1777-1801), so he is another candidate for the binder of this volume (see BL shelfmark c37e41 for his version of the pearl-feather-flower pallet).

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(Binding. Dos-à-dos.) (Bible. N.T. English. Authorized.) The New Testament of our Lord and Saviovr Iesus Christ. Newly translated out of the originall Greeke: and with the former translations diligently compared and reuised, by his Maiesties speciall commandement.

Imprinted by Robert Barker, and by the assignes of John Bill, 1633, title within architectural woodcut border, short tear at lower outer corner of title-page, [264 leaves], 24mo, [bound with, dos-à-dos:] The Whole Booke of Psalmes collected into English meeter by Th. Sternhold, J. Hopkins, W. Whittingham, and others; conferred with the Hebrew, with apt notes to sing them withall ... For the Company of Stationers, 1635, pp. 330, [6], 24mo, contemporary blue velvet, the pile almost entirely worn away, cracks in joints and worn at edges, gilt and gauffered edges, hole towards fore-edge of the NT front board, presumably for a tie of some sort, sound ( ESTC S124408, Darlow & Moule 485; ESTC S1805) £800 Dos-à-dos bindings were popular for pocket-sized devotional texts and are usually in highly decorated morocco, or, at this period, elaborate embroidery. This example seems to have been plain by comparison, though the pile, where it survives, is of a very attractive pale blue. The NT here has 15 verses on A2r: there is another issue of the same year which has 16. One of the two copies of the latter in the Bible House, London, is in an embroidered binding.

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Blakey (Robert) Old Faces in New Masks. W. Kent & co. (late D. Bogue). 1859, FIRST EDITION , with etched frontispiece and additional title-page, and design blocked in gilt on spine, by George Cruikshank, plates a bit foxed, unopened, pp. [viii], 391, 8vo, original claret cloth, large blind blocked decoration on covers, spine gilt, spine faded and worn at head and tail, armorial bookplate inside front cover of Frances Frederick Fox, good (Cohn 75; Westwood and Satchell p. 34) £250 The last and most elusive book of the radical, historian of philosophy, and angling writer, Robert Blakey. Most of the chapters had appeared in periodicals: Fishwives. An autumn day with some of

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the scholastic doctors of the Middle Ages. A few words about eels. Hermit literature. Notes of an antiquarian on the symbolical representation of fish. John Paterson’s mare. The “dances of death.”

Historical sketch of British caricature. A few words on pike. Dr. Paley’s “natural theology”. Oysters.

On the generalities of literature and art. Days on the Tweed sixty years ago, from the note-book of an octogenarian. Lobsters and crabs.

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Boerhaave (Hermann) De usu ratiocinii mechanici in medicina oratio ... Leiden: Johann Verbessel, 1703, FIRST EDITION , woodcut printer’s device on title, one or two spots or stains, pp. [iv], 44, small 4to, disbound, very good (Heirs of Hippocrates 742; Lindeboom 18) £1,200 The rare original printing of Boerhaave’s ‘iatromechanical credo’. ‘Boerhaave restored the declining prestige of the Faculty of Medicine at Leiden, and in 1703 he was offered a professorship at the University of Groningen. He rejected the offer, and the governors of Leiden, anxious to retain him, promised him the first chair to be vacant there [which came in 1709, when this text was re-issued].

At the same time he was authorised to give an academic oration [the present work]’ ( DSB ). OCLC records only two copies in North America, Iowa and McGill, besides two copies in Edinburgh, two in Denmark, and four in the Netherlands.

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Bridges (Robert) [Eight Plays]. J. and E. Bumpus, with George Bell & Son [for the last three.]

[1885-94], FIRST EDITIONS except The Feast of Bacchus, which is the only play not printed in double columns, complete with all wrappers bound in, some offsetting from the (acidic) wrappers, a tiny bit of foxing here and there, 4to, contemporary burgundy morocco by Birdsall, wide gilt borders on sides of sprays of oak with leaves and acorns, spine gilt in compartments with the same motif but a different tool, lettered direct in the second, gilt inner dentelles, fancy gilt paste-downs and flyleaves featuring a repeated pattern of twin owls with a background of oak sprays within quatrefoil frames, interspersed with Maltese crosses, top edges gilt, top outer corners bumped, otherwise fine (McKay 9, 15, 16-18, 23, (13), 26) £350 Bridges’ Eight Plays were not included in the 1912 Oxford Standard Poets edition of his Poetical Works.

The plays are: Nero, parts 1 and 2 (the first and last in the series), Palicio, The Return of Ulysses, The Christian Captives, Achilles in Scyros, The Humours of the Court, and The Feast of Bacchus; the last had been privately printed at the Daniel Press in 1889.

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(Broadside. French Revolutionary Wars.) For the serious consideration of the public. [?York: 1795?], broadside, printed on recto only, folio (315 x 190mm), sometime folded, a little frayed at edges, small area in upper margin repaired, good ( ESTC T223670) £400 This broadside on the international situation and the war with France begins: ‘Alas! what are we fighting for?’ The first paragraphs addresses the question of whether it was correct for Britain and her allies to compel ‘an independent country, in violation of the supreme, indefeasible, and natural right of nations, to adopt such a form of Government as we pleased.’ Plus ça change. It ends with a plea for ‘every Inhabitant of this City to attend the Hall tomorrow, and vote for a speedy termination of this ... war!’ The only copy recorded in ESTC is in the BL, where it was part of a collection, mostly printed in York.

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[Burgmann (Johann Gustav)] An Earnest and Affectionate Address to the Jews. Printed by Order of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, 1774, woodcut ornaments on title, pp.16, small 8vo, disbound, stabbed, very good (Not in ESTC , although there is a copy in the Bodleian) £600 An exhortation to the Jews to end their 1700 year long ‘captivity’ by recognising Jesus as the Messiah, with copious OT and Talmudic allusions and quotations. There were later editions in 1810 and 1818: all are rare. Worldcat locates 2 copies of this one, Jewish Theological Seminary of America and the University of Rostock, both accompanied by a Hebrew translation.

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Johann Gustav Burgann (1744-1795) was a Lutheran pastor, briefly at St. Mary’s in the Savoy in London in 1768. He then returned to Germany and was pastor at Mühlheim. He was much involved in the movement to convert Jews, and for instance translated A Short Account of the Wonderful Conversion to Christianity of Solomon Duitsch, lately a learned rabbi and teacher of several synagogues, 1771, besides publishing various theological works back in Germany.

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Caron (François), and Joost Schooten. A True Description of the Mighty Kingdoms of Japan and Siam. Written Originally in Dutch: And now rendered into English by Capt. Roger Manley. Printed for Robert Boulter, 1671, with a large folding engraved map (tears at either end on one fold, no loss, and and two emanating from the inner margin), a little discolouration around the edges, particularly from the turn ins, and some dust soiling among the preliminaries, pp. [viii], 112 [recte 152], small 8vo, contemporary speckled calf, fleurons in blind at the corners, rebacked, slightly worn at extremities, calf backed folding box, good (Cordier, Japonica, p. 342; ESTC R21766) £8,000 Second edition in English of Benschrijvinghe van het machtigh coninckrijke Japan (first 1636, first English 1663).

A royalist, Manley left England in 1646, and spent the next 14 years mostly in Holland, serving in the army of the states general, and thus learned Dutch. He offers this translation as ‘a spur to the improvement of further discoveries & Traffick by my own Country men.’ A very scarce book: the Macclesfield copy, one of only 2 copies at auction in more than 30 years, sold for £8750 (including premium).

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Carroll (Lewis) Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing. [With:] The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case. [First issue.] Oxford: Emberlin and Son, 1890, FIRST EDITIONS , PRESENTATION COPIES , ‘Wise Words’ inscribed on the first page to Mabel Burton ‘from the Author, July 10, 1890’, the stamp case inscribed inside ‘M.B. from C.L.D. Ap. 4 1890’, pp. 40, [4], 24mo, ‘Wise Words’ stitched as issued, lightly spotted and with slight wear to spine ends, the stamp case lightly foxed and with the outer colour-printed cotton-lined paper sleeve, very good (Williams 60 & 61; Williams, Madan, Green & Crutch 223.0 & 223.1) £3,000 ‘A small but excellent work, full of sound sense and humour... the Wise Words are connected with, and in some sense an advertisement of a Wonderland Stamp Case’ (Williams et al.). The first rule explains the use of stamp-cases, which were Dodgson’s own invention. The case and booklet were intended to be sold together but evidently the case saw an initial separate issue, perhaps as a test – this copy is from that rare first issue which omits the publisher’s imprint. A copy of this first issue survives that was presented to Carroll’s sister in March 1890, while the earliest presentation copy of Wise Words is June 18th of that year, and the earliest presentation of both (with the second issue of the stamp case and now including a pink envelope to hold both) is 31st July.

Dodgson sent inscribed copies of the stamp case to both Burton sisters on the 4th of April, and he followed these with inscribed copies of Wise Words on 10th July, so these sets naturally lack the later envelope and contain the earliest issues of both parts. Mabel’s ‘Wise Words’ and Florence’s stamp case were sold at auction in 2004, with their corresponding partners only appearing on the market seven years later; Mabel’s set, offered here, has now been reunited.

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Carroll (Lewis) Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing. Oxford: Emberlin and Son, 1890, FIRST EDITION , PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the first page to Florence Burton ‘from the Author, July 10, 1890’ pp. 40, [4], 24mo, stitched as issued, a touch spotted, very good £900

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Florence Burton was the sister of Carroll’s young friend Mabel Burton and, although substantially older (by 13 years), she also corresponded with him regularly, acting as a go-between when Carroll upset Mabel or wished to arrange a meeting.

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(Carroll (Lewis).) BURTON (Mabel) My Remembrances of Lewis Carroll, [Dated at end 1929,]

UNPUBLISHED TYPESCRIPT, paper-clip rust-stains to edges, formerly folded in half twice, final leaf

with a tear at one fold and resulting small loss from blank area, a number of small corrections in ink from two different pens, ff. [7], foolscap, with three photographs of Mabel Burton, two cartes de visite by T.C. Turner of Mabel at roughly 8 & 10 years old, the third a cabinet photograph of £1,000 + VAT in EU her as a young woman, good Mabel Burton first met Lewis Carroll on the beachfront at Eastbourne, when he appeared at her side explaining the origin of the flashing light (i.e. the lighthouse) visible in the distance. He recorded in his diary that he Went on the pier in the evening, and made another fortunate acquaintance, as they are going to stay two or three weeks: my new friend is Mabel Amy Burton, of 53 Pentonville Road, Islington. She seems to be about 8, and was with a Mr and a Miss Knight, cousins. Mabel herself is entirely charming, and without an atom of shyness: I never became friends with a child so easily or so quickly’.

Mabel herself recalls in these ‘Remembrances’ that ‘the personality of this gentleman attracted me and I chatted away with him quite freely. I think it must have been the next afternoon that I met my new friend again. He took me on his knee, shewed me some tiny, tiny pairs of scissors that he had in his pocket, “to cut a fairy’s hair with,” and asked my name and address, which, to my cousin’s horror, I promptly gave, and which my friend as promptly wrote down in his notebook’.

Mabel was contacted by Collingwood during the compilation of the ‘Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll’, but she ‘refused, and this is the reason why: I had once had a letter from Lewis Carroll which I showed round at school, but when I told my friend that I done so, he said, ‘Child, my letters to you are for you and no one else;’ and after that nobody outside my family saw the epistles and I felt somehow that it would be wrong to allow any of them to be printed’. This typescript, written in 1929, was likewise kept from public view and was also not included in Cohen’s Lewis Carroll: Interviews and Recollections (1989). It was consulted for the sale of most of the family’s Carroll letters and books in 2004, but was itself held back from that sale.

Mabel recalls sending a photograph of herself to Carroll (and, unusually, receiving one in return), and the shot she sent may have been a copy of one of the cartes de visite included here.

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Catlow (Agnes and Maria E.) Sketching Rambles; or, Nature in the Alps and Appenines. Illustrated with Twenty Views, from Sketches by the Authors. In Two Volumes. Vol. I [-II]. James Hogg and Sons, [1861], FIRST EDITION , with 2 hand-coloured and 18 tinted lithographs, a modicum of foxing at the ends of both vols., pp. xii, [i], 374; viii, [i], 368, 8vo, contemporary tan calf (Eton leaving present), double gilt fillets on sides, spines gilt in compartments, contrasting lettering pieces, marbled edges, covers with some abrasions (but not destruction), good (Pine-Coffin 857(8)) £450 Agnes Catlow illustrated botanical books for children, and hence more attention is paid to that subject than was usual on a Grand Tour.

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Cauchy (Augustin-Louis) Mémoire sur les intégrales définies [and:] Mémoire sur la theorie de la propagation des ondes a la surface d’un fluide pesant. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1827, FIRST EDITIONS , contained in ‘Mémoires présenté par divers Savans a l’Academie Royale des Sciences de l’Institut de France ... Tome premier,’ general title slightly soiled and slightly damp-stained, a few spots here and there and an occasional patch of light browning, pp. [599-]799; 6-312; the

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entire vol. [viii, including half-title and initial blank used as pastedown], 799, 4to, uncut and unopened in the original paper wrappers, slightly worn with spine partly defective at head and tail, good £950 ‘Cauchy’s memoir of 1814 on definite integrals with complex-number limits inaugurated his great career as the independent creator and unequalled developer of the theory of functions of a complex variable ... [this] luxuriantly detailed memoir was published only in 1827. The delay was possibly due to its length ... Cauchy thought nothing of hurling massive works of from 80 to 300 pages at the Academy or the Polytechnique to be printed out of their stinted funds ... As if to show that he was not limited to first-rate work in pure mathematics Cauchy next captured the Grand Prize offered by the Academy in 1816 for a “theory of the propagation of waves on the surface of a heavy fluid of indefinite depth” – ocean waves are close enough to this type for mathematical treatment’ (Ball, Men of Mathematics, pp.

321-22). ‘His results are now classics in hydrodynamics’ ( DSB ). Sandwiched between Cauchy’s papers is Damioseau’s Mémoire sur la théorie de la lune – no squib either at some 200 pages. There is a crater on the moon named after him.

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(Charity. French Revolutionary Wars.) At a Meeting held at Mr. Collings’s Assembly Rooms at West-Malling, in the County of Kent, for the Upper South Division of Aylesford, called Malling Division, on Monday the 11th Day of March, 1793 ... [?Maidstone:] 1793, single sheet broadside, printed on recto only, folio (335 x 220 mm), good £300 A meeting at the London Corresponding Society’s meeting house, the Crown and Anchor in the Strand, had proposed a charity ‘for the relief of the Widows and Children of Seamen and Soldiers who may die or be killed in His Majesty’s Service during the War.’ This broadside records a local effort to put the proposal into effect. Maidstone is conjectured as the place of printing on the strength of a similar broadside printed 5 years later ( ESTC T169057). The present broadside is not found in ESTC or COPAC .

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(Charity School. St. Martin in the Fields.) An Hymn to be sung by the Charity Children of St. Martin in the Fields, at their Parish Church, on Sunday the 20th of October, 1765, After the Evening Lecture to be preached by the Rev. Mr. Harrison. [No printer, 1765], single sheet broadside, folio (290 x 175 mm), slightly soiled and spotted in places, formerly folded, repairs to short slits at folds, clean tear at the foot passing through one letter (repaired), sound £350 The hymn, consisting of four 4-line stanzas and a chorus, begins ‘For all the blessings we enjoy/Let us with thankful hearts’. The second verse begins ‘Tis [God] that gives the Rich their Store/And with that Store, a Mind’. Below the hymn is a brief summary of the charity school’s undertakings. ESTC records 80 similar printings, both London and provincial, almost all of which are known only in single copies. The present one is not recorded, nor indeed is any for St. Martin in the Fields.

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Charleton (Walter) Spiritus Gorgonicus, vi sua saxipara exutus; sive De causis, signis, & sanatione litheaseos, diatribe. Leiden: Elsevir, 1650, FIRST EDITION , woodcut printer’s device on title, a little bit of marginal damp-staining towards the end and occasional light foxing, pp. [xii], 242 plus final blank leaf, 12mo, contemporary vellum, blue sprinkled edges, contemporary signature on title, D’Apply, very good (Willems 674; Wellcome II 329) £600 A most attractive copy of the author’s first book, ‘a Helmontian exercise in the causes and cure of ‘the stone’ [which] drew attention to Charleton as a representative of the new iatrochemistry. This was then much in vogue with more radical thinkers, who saw Galenism in medicine as an ancient authority, which did more to bolster the authority of the church and the crown than to heal the ills of the people’ ( ODNB ). It is no doubt no more than a coincidence, but the Charleton family originally came from Apley in Shropshire.

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Claudianus (Claudius) Opera. [Edited by Thaddaeus Ugoletus.] Parma: Impressa autem per Angelum eius fratrem, 1493, FIRST UGOLETUS EDITION and EDITIO PRINCEPS OF THE ‘CARMINA MINORA’, 36 lines per page, Roman type, woodcut printer’s device on last leaf, a scattering of wormholes towards the gutter of last 30 leaves (a few of them often touching a letter but never with loss of sense), two small marginal wormholes to first few leaves, a few small chips to margins of early leaves, some light foxing and staining, title-page mounted on a stub, early manuscript notes to three leaves towards the end (and the shadow of similar notes, now washed, to a number of leaves at the beginning), ff. [142], 4to (210 x 148mm), recased in early wooden boards backed with sheep, the leather decorated with blind fillets, the remains of a leather and brass clasp to fore-edge of boards, new pastedowns, no free endpapers, a few wormholes in wood, old manuscript title (largely faded) to front board, sound ( ISTC ic00702000; BMC VII 945; Goff C702; GW 7060; Bod-Inc C-353) £5,000 The second printed edition of the works of Claudian, and the first to be edited by Thaddaeus Ugoletus [Taddeo Ugoletti], following the editio princeps of the works (albeit without the ‘carmina minora’) of 1482. (The ‘De raptu proserpine’ had been printed separately starting in 1471.) Moss calls this edition ‘rare, and...more intrinsically valuable than the Ed. Pr.’; it would be reprinted in 1495 and again in 1500. It is recorded (by Dibdin, among others) that Ugoletti meant to expand the text with the works of another Claudian, an early Christian author of epigrams, but was called away from this project by his appointment as Royal Librarian to the Raven King, Matthias Corvinus of Hungary. However, this would appear to be an apocryphal tale: Ugoletti joined Corvinus in 1477, returning to Parma thirteen years later and publishing the first of his important editions (Calpurnius) in 1492 using manuscripts he had acquired for the Raven King’s library. For this edition, Ugoletti did improve on the editio princeps, which had printed the text of a single source, by collating several additional manuscripts including one of notable antiquity which, he reports, was sent to him from Germany.

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Colombine (David Elwin) Marcus Manlius. A Tragedy in Five Acts. [preface dated 1836,] fair copy manuscript, written on rectos only, a little dustsoiling and the occasional touch of foxing, ff.

[87], [3, blanks], folio, marbled paper boards, darkened and worn, some loss from corners and spine, paper loosening on rear board, sound £950 A fair copy manuscript of a play published by Richard Bentley in 1837, a tragedy based on events reported in Livy (book 47): the title character defends the Capitoline Hill during the Gallic seige and becomes a hero to the Roman people, then faces a charge of aspiring to kingly power and is executed by the Senate. The printed edition, dedicated to the Princess Victoria, contains a preface dated January 2nd, 1837; the text of that preface is not included in this manuscript. Included here is an initial ‘advertisement’, dated 1836, which appears in revised form, undated, in the printed edition. The text of the play itself in the manuscript is largely identical to the printed version, but it is clear that there was at least one opportunity for revision between the two: several speeches are extended in the printed version, and there are occasional small corrections or deletions in manuscript here in a less formal hand and different ink, which mostly match the printed version. The preface to the printed edition claims the play was written for the stage, but ‘unavoidable circumstances’ caused the author to place it before the public without achieving that goal. It would thus make sense that this copy was produced the year before publication to circulate the play amongst those who might have contributed to a potential staging.

Contemporary reviews of the play vary, with the Literary Gazette reporting that ‘it gives us pleasure to see another aspirer to dramatic literature step forth... approaching his task with so much modesty... the loves of Octavia and Lucius are beautifully portrayed, and remind us pleasantly of Romeo and

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Juliet...’ The Dublin Review acknowledges the verse to be ‘solid and well-knit together’ but savages Colombine’s prose, while the Monthly Repository defends the play (without calling it any better than decent) against ‘the scurrilous and defamatory personality heaped up, as from the rank and decomposed refuse of a marketable mind, and flung upon the author by a newly “got up” Tory weekly journal, which shall remain – as it ever deserves to be – nameless.’

The author in question is David Elwin Colombine (born 1802), variously described as a solicitor, scrivener, and money-lender, whose primary fame outside the literary world was as the major victim in the notorious railway bubble of the Direct London and Exeter Railway Company. As related in the ‘Railway Portfolio’ of 1846 Colombine was an honest initiator of the plans but was forced out by an unscrupulous committee in order that they might claim the profit from a bubble. This investment in the railway ruined him, and in 1847 he seems to have embarked on his own scheme to avoid the effects of bankruptcy, marrying a woman with whom he had been cohabiting and placing all his property in a trust for her, but before he could escape to France he was caught by a creditor and his property seized.

His new wife claimed ownership of all his assets under the trust, and the case went to Chancery, where the decision went against the Colombines. He seems to have written nothing else literary, before or after his railway troubles.

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(Cookery.) FARLEY (John) The London Art of Cookery, and Housekeeper’s Complete Assistant.

On a new plan. ... To which is added, an Appendix, containing considerations on Culinary poisons ... Embellished with ... thirteen copper-plates. The Third Edition, with the addition of upwards of one hundred and fifty ... Receipts. Printed for J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker, B. Law; and G. and T. Wilkie, 1785, with an engraved portrait frontispiece and 12 engraved plates (Bill of Fare for each month), occasional foxing, pp. [xxxii], 448, 8vo, original (publisher’s) sheep, rebacked, corners worn, good ( ESTC N2649, Canterbury Cathedral only in the UK, 4 in N. America; see Cagle 675-79 for various editions, from the first to the tenth) £650 A rare early edition of this important work by the ‘principal cook at the London Tavern.’ ‘Farley contributed much to the popularity of the London Tavern as an eating house, an inn whose generous helpings attracted customers from far and wide’ (Quayle p. 111). The generosity of the servings, and the appetite of the diners, is fully brought out by the Bills of Fare – two courses with up to ten dishes each.

The first Appendix, on Culinary poisons, begins with a disquisition upon the dangers of copper vessels.

Another Appendix is on food for the sick.

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‘Give us back the eleven days we have been robbed of’ [Costard (George)] A letter to Martin Folkes, Esq; … Concerning the Rise and Progress of Astronomy among the Antients. Printed by Jacob Ilive for T. Osborne and J. Hildyard at York.

1746, FIRST EDITION , a few diagrams and illustrations in the text, and much Greek, Hebrew and Arabic type, a little browned in places, pp. [2], 158, [1, errata], [bound with:] [Costard (George)] A Further Account of the Rise and Progress of Astronomy amongst the Antients, in three letters to Martin Folkes. Oxford: Printed at the Theatre, for Richard Clements, 1748, FIRST EDITION , a few diagrams in the text, pp. 163, [1, bookseller’s catalogue], [and:] Parker (George) Remarks upon the solar and the lunar years, the cycle of 19 years, commonly called the golden number, the epact, and a method of finding the time of Easter, as it is now observed in most parts of Europe. Being part of a letter from the Right Honourable George Earl of Macclesfield to Martin Folkes, Esq; President of the Royal Society, and by him communicated to the same May 10, 1750. Charles Davis, 1750, FIRST EDITION , folding table at end, pp. [2], 19, 8vo, the three bound together in contemporary polished calf, spine gilt in compartments with red lettering-piece, rebacked with original spine laid on, marbled endpapers, edges of the second work stained red, book label of Biblioteca San Isidoro de Urbe on front paste-down with their ink stamp at foot of title and last leaf and manuscript inscription on title, ink stamp of Biblioteca San Vilaseca on title recto, later ownership inscription of Richard Francis Walsh, 1827, on first title, good ( ESTC T38154, T148086, T118141) £950

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Costard (1710-1782) was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he became fellow and tutor.

One of the earliest writers on the history of astronomy, his Letter to Martin Folkes and Further Account treat the Astronomy of the Chaldeans, of the Constellations in the Book of Job, and of the Mythological Astronomy of the Ancients. In his view exact astronomy was a product of Greek genius, beginning with Thales, and owed little either to Egypt or Babylon. His works are still worth consulting for the frequent references to and citations from Hebrew, Arabic, and the less-known Greek authors contained in them.

‘In parliament [George Parker, second earl of] Macclesfield was a principal proponent in 1752 (with Lord Chesterfield) for the adoption of the Gregorian calendar and the change in the new year from 26 March to 1 January. He communicated to the Royal Society on 10 May 1750 a preparatory paper entitled ‘Remarks upon the solar and the lunar years’ and made most of the necessary calculations ...

Macclesfield’s action in the matter was in some quarters unpopular. When his eldest son, Lord Parker, contested Oxfordshire in 1754, one of the cries of the crowd was, “Give us back the eleven days we have been robbed of”’ ( ODNB ).

St. Isidore’s College in Rome was founded in 1625 by the Irish priest Luke Wadding (b. 1588). Its original purpose was the training of missionary friars to keep faith alive at home, but it became a haven for Irish nationalist exiles, and a centre for learning, culture and missionary activity known throughout Europe. According to ESTC the second two works are very rare outside the UK – the Costard is in Göttingen and California (two copies) only, with the Parker in just the Huntington and Kansas.

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Craig (John) De calculo fluentium libri duo. Quibus subjunguntur libri duo de optica analytica.

Pearson, 1718, FIRST EDITION , head-pieces of printer’s ornaments, woodcut tail-pieces, numerous woodcut diagrams in the text; title-page a bit browned, a little browning elsewhere, pp. [viii], 92, 4to, modern half-calf and marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, late eighteenthcentury inscription at head of Dedication ‘Greenock Library [illegible] donation’, good ( ESTC T32114) £1,500 Craig was one of the first in Britain to realise the vast possibilities of the calculus and was the most zealous of all English mathematicians in its use. In books published in 1685 and 1693, he gave the first account for English readers of the Leibnizian calculus, including Leibniz’s notation for differentials and integrals. Although published last, the present work was composed first, and deals mainly with the Newtonian calculus. Apart from its intrinsic importance, this work is particularly interesting because, in its preface, Craig gives an account of the steps that led to his interest in the ‘fluxional calculus’, and of his showing the manuscript to Newton. The second part of this book, on optics, has been largely ignored by historians of science.

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[Culpeper (Nicholas)] PRÉVOST (Jean) Medicaments for the Poor; or, Physick for the Common People. In two books, I. containing excellent remedies for most common diseases, incident to mans body; made of such things as are common to be had in almost every countrey in the world; and are made with little art, and small charge. First written in Latin by that famous and learned doctor, John Prevotius, philosopher and publick Professor of Physick in Padua. Translated into English, with additions. Secondly, Health for the rich and poor, by diet, without physick. By Nich.

Culpeper. Printed by John Streater, for George Sawbridge, 1670, browned around the edges, with some concomitant minor fraying, title-page partly detached at lower extremity of inner margin, rust hole in one leaf affecting a couple of letters, some damp-staining near the front, pp. [viii], 135, [1], 8vo, nineteenth-century half calf, rubbed, cracks in joints, but sound (Wing P3327; ESTC R9212) £2,000 ‘My intent in publishing Books of Physick in English is not to make fools of Physitians; but to help those that are Ingenious, Rational and Industrious, though they have not that knowledge of Tongues that were to be desired’ (Culpeper, To the Reader). Culpeper’s translation of Prevost had first appeared in 1656, reissued in 1662 with his own ‘Diet without Physick’ in 1662. Both of those editions are rare, and this not much less so: ESTC records 4 copies in the UK (neither Oxford nor Cambridge), and 7 copies in the US.

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Sexual Selection in Polish Darwin (Charles Robert) Dobór plciowy. Przetlomaczyl z Angielskiego za uopowaznieniem Autora Ludwik Maslowski. Lwów [Lviv]: Ksiegarna Polska, 1875-76, FIRST EDITION IN POLISH , 2 vols. in 1, illustrations in the text, front free endpaper loose, occasional minor foxing, slightly browned around the edges, pp. 262, [2]; 313, [2], 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, rebacked and recornered in grey cloth matching the original (of which there had been traces), duplicate stamp of the Jagellonium at end, bold signature at foot of first title of Boleslav Rembowski, sound (Mentioned by but not listed in Freeman, in the on-line Freeman however; not in OCLC ; there is a copy in the Natural History Museum, and the Beinecke recently acquired one) £1,600 The first Polish edition of the second and third parts of the Descent of Man, hence the title ‘Sexual Selection’, a translation authorised by Darwin in response to Malowski’s request to make the translation (letter Letter 8910, 14 May 1873). In Letter 10092, 25 July 1875, to John Murray, Malsowski states that he as received a confusing set of engravings, with both missing and superfluous illustrations. A second edition in 1884 included the entire text of Descent of Man. Maslowski (1847-1928) studied medicine and natural sciences in Paris before returning to Poland, where he took part in the January Uprising: he remained active in politics, primarily as a journalist. At first an ardent Darwinian, he later became a fierce opponent.

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[Defoe (Daniel)] Genuine Anecdotes of a Scoundrel; or, Memoirs of Devil Dick: a well-known character. By an Invisible Spy. Birmingham : printed by C. Earl, 1772, engraved frontispiece, slightly browned, title-page slightly soiled, likewise verso of last leaf, monetary calculations in pen and ink on both sides of last leaf, pp. 23, 8vo, modern marbled boards, good ( ESTC T192269) £750 Also issued as part of ‘The Political History of the Devil’, sixth edition, by Daniel Defoe, printed in the same year (but as ‘Anecdotes’ not ‘Genuine Anecdotes’). Of this separate edition ESTC records Bodley and Rosenbach Museum only.

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Delamotte (F.) A Primer of the Art of Illumination for the Use of Beginners; with a rudimentary treatise on the art, practical directions for its exercise, and examples taken from illuminated mss.

Lockwood. 1874, printed in black and red throughout, 20 chromolithographed plates of initial letters, pp. 44 + 20 plates of examples, [1](advert.), [1](blank), small 4to, original bevel-edged maroon cloth, plain backstrip faded, sides with blind stamped double line border and fleur-de-lys corner pieces, upper side elaborately gilt blocked with title and passion flowers, yellow chalked endpapers, g.e., good £150 Vivian Ridler’s copy with his embossed address on the front free endpaper.

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Descartes in the vernacular Descartes (René) Les meditations metaphysiques ... touchant la premiere philosophie, dans lesquelles l’existence de Dieu, & la distinction réelle entre l’ame & le corps de l’homme, sont demonstreés. Traduites du latin de l’auteur par M le D.D.L.N.S. Et les objections faites contre ces Meditations par diuerses personnes tres-doctes, avec les réponses de l’auteur. Traduités par Mr. C.L.R. Paris: La veuve Jean Camusat and Pierre le Petit, 1647, printer’s device on title, woodcut head-and tail-pieces, somewhat, though not uniformly, browned and/or spotted, worming in

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the upper margins repaired, in a few instances touch a letter or two of the headline and in one instance a letter in the text, rust holes in couple of leaves affecting one or two letters, pp. [xvi], 606, [1], 4to, contemporary mottled calf, double gilt fillets on sides, rubbed, worn, rebacked and top corners repaired, sound (Guibert, Meditations 4) £4,000 First edition of the first French translation, by the Duc de Luynes, of Meditationes de prima philosophia (first, Paris, 1641); the Objections are translated by Clerselier. This is not a lovely copy, but it is a scarce book: only two copies have appeared at auction in the last 35 years, and there is no copy listed in COPAC – although we have traced one in Pembroke College, Oxford. Worldcat records a dozen copies in the US, including most, but not all, of the major repositories.

‘Today, the Meditations is by far Descartes’s most popular work – though this would not have been the case in Descartes’s day. This work is important to today’s scholar for many reasons, not the least of which is its including as an attached text written objections from some of the best minds [then] living. Mersenne sent the Meditations to philosophers and theologians for criticism. The list of critics includes: Caterus, Hobbes, Arnauld, Gassendi, and Mersenne himself, with several other unnamed readers who raised their objections through Mersenne. Descartes replied to each critic, and the result was an appended text referred to as “The Objections and Replies”’ (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

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Earle (John Charles) The Master’s Field: A Series of Sonnets. J.W. Kolckmann, 1878, FIRST EDITION , paper slightly toned, pp. viii, 51, [1], 8vo, modern marbled boards, very good (Reilly p. 146) £60 COPAC records just one copy, in the British Library, while Worldcat adds NYPL .

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Writ in America Franck (Richard) A Philosophical Treatise of the Original and Production of Things. Writ in America in a time of solitudes. Printed by John Gain, 1687, stained in places, several creases to title-page and two small holes in the gutter of that leaf, pp. [xxvi], 170, 8vo, contemporary blindruled sprinkled calf, spine with four raised bands, worn around the edges, hinges split but joints strong, rear flyleaf discarded and front flyleaf nearly detached, three early gift inscriptions to front flyleaf (to Jabez Manninge, from Anthony Spelman of Yarmouth, 1694, and John Manninge, from his father, 1704, then on the verso John Manninge again from his father, 1705), sound ( ESTC R20723; Sabin 25467) £2,500 ‘A very scarce and singular work’ (Sabin), but according to ODNB ‘much less noteworthy’ than his Northern Memoirs, written about 1658 but not finally printed until 1694. However the author’s idiosyncracies are on full display here and even ‘Piscatorian Error’ gets a mention. The book is essentially a rambling disquisition upon Genesis I. Besides its more or less conventional (Montanus is invoked several times) Puritan religiosity, Franck is also concerned with scientific (or quasi-scientific) explanations, quoting Van Helmont, Sendivogius, and Basil Valentine. And he has a good turn of phrase: ‘Creation is God’s great library, and the Heavens are, for man, a Divine Manuscript.’

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Gessner (Salomon) The Death of Abel. In five books. Attempted from the German of Mr. Gessner. [Translated by Mary Collyer.] Newport (RhodeIsland), printed by Peter Edes, [1787,] browned, the text on the title-page underlined with pinpricks, early ownership inscription of Sarah J. Easton to title-page, pp. x, 154, 12mo, contemporary sheep, spine ruled in gilt, rubbed, some wear to front joint and tail of spine, sound ( ESTC W19933) £400 A rare American printing of Mary Collyer’s wildly popular translation of Gessner’s ‘Death of Abel’. It was among the first books printed by Peter Edes upon setting up shop in Newport – his first recorded printing there was a newspaper beginning 1st March 1787 and this volume was advertised as appearing on 6th September. Edes was also the first printer to operate in Bangor

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and Augusta, Maine, and was the second member of a revolutionary American printing dynasty; during his apprenticeship to his father Benjamin the Edes family home served as a meeting-point and changing station for the attendees of the Boston Tea Party.

ESTC lists no copies in the UK, and five locations in the USA : American Antiquarian Society, Duke, Huntington, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and Yale.

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(Gibbon.) Manuscript notebook on Greco-Roman history, particularly Gibbon’s Decline and Fall. [c. 1850,] manuscript in ink on paper watermarked 1837-38, the first four-fifths handnumbered, some pages written vertically, pp. 141, [35] plus c.70 blanks, oblong 8vo, original calf-bound notebook labelled ‘Orders to go Out’ in manuscript on lower board and illegibly on the front, backstrip split at front joint and lifting to reveal an old respining underneath, rubbed, a touch of wear to extremities, good £550 A kind of study notebook, compiled by a sedulous reader, albeit of popular sources. The writer has gathered summaries and notes on various works, mostly arranged chronologically, including several pages of a table of Roman emperors with their dates and causes of death. The sections are: I. Memorandum of the substance of the several Books of Aristotle’s Ethics.

II. Condition of Greek Women – Greek Literature.

III. From Thirlwall’s History of Greece. Lardner’s Cyc. Miscellaneous Notes.

IV. Religious Sanctuaries in Greece. In the works of Fra Paolo.

V. History of Rome. L.C.C. VI. Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Several sources apart from Gibbon are immediately identifiable: L.C.C. is Dionysius Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopaedia, of which the two volumes on the history of Rome appeared in 1834. Connop Thirlwall’s history of Greece was published 1835-44. Much of the text is summaries – in fact, summaries of summaries, since Lardner mostly summarises Livy in his own history of Rome, but there are also substantial quotations followed by interpretation and ‘observations’.

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[Goldsmith (Oliver)] Le Ministre de Wakefield, histoire supposée écrite par lui-même. Tome premier [-second.] A Londres, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Pissot [&] Desaint. 1767, FIRST FRENCH EDITION , a little minor spotting, pp. [iv], 258, [4, blanks], [2], 233, [3], 12mo, contemporary French mottled calf, spine with five raised bands, red morocco lettering piece, compartments gilt with central flower tools and corner sprays, marbled endpapers, a.e.r., tiny wormhole at head of front joint, bookplates of Jean Philippe Loiseau and Lt Colonel de la Villeon, very good ( ESTC T98006; Streeter 157) £500 Despite the chance nature of its publication, Goldsmith’s novel was not only immediately popular in the Anglophone world but in Europe as well; this first French translation appeared within a year of the first English edition, with a second edition following shortly afterward. The translators have helpfully added a few footnotes explaining English customs, and it must have been thought to be a good representative text since it became a standard resource for Continental students of the English language.

ESTC notes ‘probably printed in Paris’, despite the imprint, and attributes the translation to either ‘C. G. Beraud de la Haie de Riou [i.e. Charlotte-Jeanne, Marquise de Montesson?] and M. Rose,’ or ‘M. Charlos.’ It lists eleven locations holding copies, only three of them in the UK (BL, Cambridge, Oxford).

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(Greek schoolbook.) Collectanea Graeca Minora, being selections from Greek authors for the use of young students of the Greek language, with notes, critical and explanatory, originally written or compiled, in Latin,

by Professor Dalzel, of the University of Edinburgh. Now translated into English. To which is added, a small lexicon, with English definitions.

Lexington, KY: Printed at the office of the Western Monitor, 1823, foxed and browned, a few leaves with blank margins torn, title-page creased, small dampmark occasionally protruding from the gutter, occasional pencil notes, pp. vii, [i], 144, 104, 80, 8vo, original marbled sheep, spine divided by double gilt fillets, red morocco lettering piece, scratched, a little wear to spine ends and light rubbing at extremities, flyleaves removed, £350 sound The first substantial Greek printing in the American South, appropriately enough produced in the ‘Athens of the West’, Lexington, Kentucky. As early as 1803 a bookseller named Joseph Charless in Lexington was advertising ‘a greater variety of new books (Greek, Latin, English) than at any other store in the western country’, but it seems that Greek printing took longer to arrive. The first American printing in Greek was a few lines in a compilation of 1760, but almost nothing except a New Testament appeared between that and the first American edition of this textbook in Cambridge, MA, 1804. A set of Greek exercises was published in Baltimore, MD, in 1809, but no printing further south or west is recorded in Worldcat until this edition, produced at the office of the local weekly newspaper, the Western Monitor. The editor of that paper from 1818 to 1825 was William Gibbes Hunt, a transplanted Bostonian with a degree from Harvard, whose qualifications and journalistic ambitions made him a significant figure in the intellectual development of the American frontier. He cultivated close ties with Transylvania University, where this volume was undoubtedly used as a textbook.

Worldcat locates 9 copies, 3 of them in Kentucky (the others in NYPL , Duke, Princeton, Ohio State, Brown, and UVA ); COPAC adds no further copies.

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Gua de Malves (Jean Paul de) Usages de l’analyse de Descartes, pour découvrir, sans le secours du calcul differentiel, les propriétés, ou affections principales des lignes géométriques de tous les ordres. Paris: Briasson, 1740, FIRST EDITION , four folding plates, pp. xxvi, 457, [3], 8vo, contemporary French calf, spine gilt with red lettering-piece, marbled endpapers, red edges, spine ends and corners repaired, good £850 De Gua’s first treatise (1740) ‘contributed to the rise of the theory of curves in the eighteenth century and partially inspired the subsequent works of Euler, Cramer, A.P. Dionis du Séjour and M.B. Goudin.

The fame of this work led to de Gua’s election to the Royal Academy of Sciences as adjoint geometer on 18 March 1741, replacing P.C. Le Monnier. The principal aim of this work, inspired by both Descartes’s Géométrie and Newton’s Enumeratio linearum tertii ordinis, was to develop a theory of algebraic plane curves of any degree based essentially on algebra. Nevertheless he drew on infinitesimal methods in order to simplify various calculations and recognized that their use is indispensable, particularly for everything involving the transcendental curves’ (René Taton in DSB ).

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Guisnée (Mr.) Application de l’algèbre à la géométrie, ou méthode de démontrer par l’algèbre les théorèmes de géométrie et d’en résoudre et construire tous les problèmes. L’on y a joint une introduction qui contient les règles du calcul algébrique. Paris: Jean Boudot and Jacue Quillau, 1705, FIRST EDITION , with woodcut head- and tail-pieces, and 6 folding engraved plates, a hint of browning and a few scattered spots, pp. [viii], lxvi, 252, [3], 4to, contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, red lettering piece, slightly worn, cracks at ends of joints, headcap defective, good £950 In spite of the success of this work – a second edition in 1733, a Latin translation – nowhere does Guisnée’s first name seem to be recorded. He is styled ‘Professeur Royal de Mathematique, & ancien Ingenieur ordinaire du Roy’ on the title-page. He studied under Varignon and entered the Académie des Sciences in 1702. Notable among his pupils were de Montmort, Reamur and Maupertuis. His work is a good introduction to the pioneering mathematics of the period.

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Haggard (Sir Henry Rider) The Witch’s Head. In three volumes. Vol. I [-III]. Hurst and Blackett, 1885, FIRST EDITION , somewhat stained and soiled (from handling), pp. [vi], 295, [1]; [vi], 303; [vi], 334, [8, ads], 8vo, original cloth, silver lettering on upper covers and on spine, rebacked, preserving original spines, slightly defective, especially vol. iii, corners worn, ex-library with labels removed from upper cover, revealing the extent to which the cloth has darkened, accession numbers in ink discernable on spines, contemporary ownership inscription of S.H. Cairnie on half titles, blue ink-stamp of the Rosario Book Club on titles, sound (Scott 3; Whatmore F2) £8,000 The scarcest of Rider Haggards novels – in any condition. There have only been 4 copies (1 of them, the Sadleir-Martin copy, appearing thrice) at auction in over 30 years, all of them variously discoloured, rubbed, &c. The Witch’s Head is ‘a hotchpotch of manners, morals, autobiographical ruminations, and excursions into the grotesque. When the hero is forced to escape from Britain, Haggard sends him to Africa, and, immediately, the piece takes on a brilliance not evident elsewhere. Now writing from the heart, Haggard found his true milieu, and readers were enthralled by this new adventure story set in a strange, uncharted, mesmerizing part of the world’ ( ODNB ).

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Hardy (Thomas) The Return of the Native. [Three volumes.] Smith, Elder & Co. 1878, FIRST

EDITION , FIRST ISSUE (without the quotation marks after A Pair of Blue Eyes on the title of vol. i),

with sketch map (drawn by Hardy himself and separately printed by Stanfords) frontispiece in vol. i, complete with half titles, initial blanks and advertisement leaf in vol. ii, a little foxing, mostly to the first and last few leaves and on the edges, pp. [ii, blank], vi, 304; [ii, blank], vi, 297, [2]; [ii, blank], vi, 320, 8vo, original brown diagonal-fine-ribbed cloth, blocked in black on front with panel design, in blind on back with 2-rule border, lettered on spine in gold and blind with bands and ornaments blocked in black and gold (Purdt’s primary binding), hinges just starting, slightly worn at extremities, a spot of damage to vol. iii spine, backstrips very slightly dulled, very good (Purdy pp 24-27; Sadleir 1113; Wolff 2989) £6,500

The first edition consisted of 1,000 copies, most of which went to the circulating libraries: hence, copies in the original cloth which do not bear evidence of that fate, like this one, are very scarce.

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Hardy (Thomas) Jude the Obscure. Osgood, McIlvaine, 1896 [but 1895,] FIRST EDITION , mixed first and second states, frontispiece-etching by H. MacBeth-Raeburn (tissue-guard present) and a full-page map of Hardy’s ‘Wessex’, pp. [x], 516, 8vo, original green cloth with monogram medallion blocked in gilt to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt and dulled with a short split at head, lean to spine and a little wear to joints, a few small marks overall, t.e.g., others roughtrimmed, light dustsoiling to endpapers with a small patch of foxing to rear pastedown, contemporary gift inscription to flyleaf, good (Purdy, pp. 86-7) £250 Signatures A-D do not have numbers on partially blank pages, not so throughout others – Purdy is unable to fix definitively the significance of this detail. The gift inscription on the flyleaf is dated November 1895 – the month in which the book was published, although post-dated to 1896.

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[Haywood (Francis)] An Analysis of Kant’s Critick of Pure Reason by the translator of that work.

[C. Whittingham for] William Pickering, 1844, FIRST EDITION , PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the flyleaf ‘Francis Haywood to his friend the Viscount de Bussy, 1847’, anchor device on title, endleaves foxed, transmitted to terminal leaves of text which are also slightly browned, light stain on 2 facing pages, pp. [i], vi, 215, 8vo, original blue cloth, lacking paper label, spine and edges £400 slightly faded, good Haywood’s ‘main claim to fame is that in 1838 he published the first complete English translation of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. In 1829 he had published an article in the Foreign Review which referred to the need for an English version of Kant’s Critique. The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer wrote to him on the subject but when Haywood suggested that they should collaborate in producing a translation, Schopenhauer took offence. So Haywood proceeded alone, relying considerably on an unpublished partial translation made by Thomas Wirgmann (1777-1840).

Haywood’s edition was praised by Sir William Hamilton, the chief authority on Kant in Britain, and it remained the standard English translation for some time. It was reprinted with improvements in 1848 ... In 1844 Haywood published his Analysis of Kant’s Critique , but this was mainly a compilation of other people’s work’ ( ODNB ). Scarce, not in Keynes or Kelly, or the P&C Pickering catalogue of 1993.

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[Hibbert (George, editor and translator)] Tales of the Cordelier [?by Michele Colombo] Metamorphosed, as narrated in a manuscript from the Borromeo Collection; and in the Cordelier Cheval of M. Piron. With translations. Printed at the Shakespeare Press by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol. 1821, FIRST EDITION , with an etched title vignette and 10 etched illustrations by Robert Cruikshank, these all on India paper and mounted in the text, scattered foxing, pp. [iv], 54, [1], 4to, contemporary polished citron calf, double gilt fillets on sides enclosing a panel of triple gilt fillets with gilt ornaments at the corners, spine gilt, gilt edges and attractive gilt tooling on the (narrow) edges, slightly worn, split at top of lower joint bookseller’s ticket of Robson Kerslake, and inside the front cover the book-plate of Albert M. Cohn, good £650 According to a pencil note on the flyleaf only 62 copies were printed: at any rate the book was made ‘for the amusement of a few friends who are not unwilling to laugh.’ Hibbert ‘was a book-collector of the most liberal and excellent kind. With taste, means, and opportunities, he devoted over thirty years of his life to the formation of a fine library, as will easily appear from the following [8-page] list of his most precious volumes’ (Quaritch, Dictionary of Book-Collectors). Count Borromeo’s collection is, according to Archer Taylor, the ‘foundation of the bibliography of the Italian novellieri’ (Book Catalogues, p. 138). It was Borromeo’s interest in the Italian novellieri which revived the taste for this literary genre amongst his contemporaries and caused many of the novels to be newly printed and imitated. After the death of Borromeo in 1813, Payne and Foss acquired the collection, which was sold at auction in London in 1817.

Appropriately enough, this copy formerly belonged to Albert Cohn, the bibliographer of George Cruikshank.

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58.

The ‘King of the Pirates’ Hills (Henry, printer) Volume containing 27 Poetical Piracies. [most imprints:] Printed and Sold by H. Hills, 170810, 27 titles in 1 vol. (listed below), occasional browning (not severe), a few page numerals (at the top) cropped, each title 16 pp. (unless otherwise stated below), 8vo, contemporary panelled mottled calf with a gilt roll tooled outer border, spine gilt in compartments, joints cracked but cords firm, corners worn, partial loss of gilt to spine and lacking £1,200 lettering piece, good Following the lapsing of the Licensing Act in 1695, ‘pamphlets poured from the Hills press in such wealth of title that the activity of this freebooter is a commonplace in publishing history. Success manifestly depended on huge production, low cost, and a tiny margin of profit. The principal commodity was the octavo tract in one sheet; composition could be squeezed if the item required it or could be spread if space had to be filled.

Paper and printing of minimal grade were used’ (Richmond P. Bond, ‘The Pirate and the Tatler’ in The Library, Fifth series, vol.

XVIII, No. 4, December 1963, p. 264).

Contents (author, short title, date, collation note if any, Foxon number): Denham (Sir John) Coopers-Hill, 1709, D215.

[Swift (Jonathan)] Baucis and Philemon, 1710, S803.

Howard (Sir Robert) The Duel of the Stags, 1709, H336.

[Philips (John)] Cyder, 1709, pp. 48, the last page being advertisements, P240 (but signature A3 under ‘and oft’).

Anon. Milton’s Sublimity Asserted, 1709, pp. xv, [i], 17-30, [2, ads], M267.

[Philips (John)] Bleinheim, 1709, P235.

Addison (Joseph) A Letter from Italy, 1709, A40.

[Freke (John)] The History of Insipids, 1709, F249.

[Shippen (William)] Faction Display’d, 1709, S436.

[Blackmore (Richard)] The Kit-Cats, 1709, B262.

[Browne (Joseph)] St. James’s Park, 1709, B350.86.

[Gay (John)] Wine, 1709, G92.

[Hughes (Jabez)] An Ode on the Incarnation, 1709, pp. 23, [1, ads], H365.

[Bryan (---)] The Temple of Fame, 1709, B552.

[Defoe (Daniel)] An Elegy on the Author of the True-Born-English-Man, (without Hills’ name in the imprint), 1708, pp. 24, D105.

[Browne (Joseph)] The Circus, 1709, B527.9.

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Anon. The Commoner, 1710, C319.

Anon. The Husband, 1710, H413.

Overbury (Sir Thomas) The Wife, 1709, O252.

[Devonshire (William Cavendish, Duke of)] The Charms of Liberty, 1709 (not definitely printed by Hills, but presence here would tend to confirm it), C83.

[Buckingham (John Sheffield, Duke of)] An Essay on Poetry, 1709, S389.

Denham (Sir John) Cato Major, 1710, pp. 32, D213.

Beaumont (Sir John) Bosworth-Field, 1710, pp. 39, [1, ads], B129.

Anon. Canary-Birds Naturaliz’d in Utopia, (probably printed by Hills), [1709], pp. 24, C19.

Boileau-Despréaux (Nicolas) The Art of Poetry, 1710, pp. 40, S540.

[Ward (Edward)] The Forgiving Husband, [1709], pp. 12, W71.

(Dryden.) A Poem in Defence of the Church of England, in opposition to the Hind and Panther, 1709, pp. 24, P536.

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Horace. Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera. [2 volumes.] Aeneis tabulis incidit Iohannes Pine. 1733-37,

FIRST IMPRESSION , complete with the folding letterpress ‘List of the Antiques’ in vol. i (missing in

most copies, toned, bound after prelims), each page entirely engraved, occasional minor spotting, a few leaves lightly toned, pp. [xxxii], 176, [2], 177-264, [2]; [xxiv], 48, [2], 49-94, [2], 95-152, [2], 153-172, [2], 173-191, [15], 8vo, modern blue morocco, by Zaehnsdorf for A.C. McClurg & Co. (with the Zaehnsdorf ‘exhibition’ stamp), spines with five raised bands, gilt-lettered direct in second and third compartments (and at foot), turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the tiniest touch of rubbing at joint ends, blue cloth slipcase, very good ( ESTC T46226; Dibdin II 108; Moss II 23-4; Schweiger II 408; Brunet III 320; Ray p. 3; Riedel A162; Mills 506; Neuhaus p. 102) £1,200 A tour-de-force of English engraving by the best engraver of the time, printed entirely without type – except for one leaf listing the illustrations which is missing in most copies (but present here). ‘The text is engraved as well as the numerous and beautiful vignettes which accompany it: of these vignettes, the copies which contain the first impressions are valuable and much sought after’ (Dibdin). The first impression (as in this copy) is distinguished by an error in the headpiece of p. 108 in vol. ii, reading ‘ POST· EST’, later corrected to ‘ POTEST’.

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Horace. [Opera.] Impensis Gul. Pickering. 1820, engraved portrait frontispiece and engraved additional title, some dustsoiling and spotting, corrigenda leaf dampstained, pp. [ii], 185, [5], 48vo, later red straight-grain morocco, smooth backstrip lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed, binding slightly rubbed at extremities, gift inscription (to Henry Spencer from Charles Pond) to initial blank, very good (Keynes p. 73; Moss II 35; Dibdin II 22; Mills 1017) £200 The first ‘Diamond Classics’ edition of Horace, the first book in that series and Pickering’s second book of any kind. The Horace was the only volume in the series to be reprinted, and this first edition is much the scarcer one. This copy has both the corrigenda leaf and the advertisement leaf (which announces the second Diamond Classics, the works of Virgil), both often missing.

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repeated in blind on lower side, yellow chalked endpapers, gift inscription dated ‘Xmas 1858’ to front pastedown, rubbed and bumped at extremities, good (Wolff 3330) £200 Though most famous for ‘Tom Brown’s Schooldays’, Hughes wrote very little fiction – only the two Tom Brown books (themselves ‘lightly fictionalized’ from his and his brother’s experiences), and this.

Ostensibly a novel, it is more truly an account of the local customs of his home county of Berkshire, focusing on the regular games and festivities surrounding the maintenance of the White Horse of Uffington.

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(Humane Society.) FR ANCKLIN (Thomas) A Sermon preached at St. George’s Bloomsbury, on Sunday, March 28, for the benefit of the Humane Society, instituted for the recovery of persons apparently dead by drowning. Printed for the Society, and sold by T. Cadell [and others], 1779, engraving on title showing the obverse and reverse of the Society’s medal, faint staining to the first few leaves, pp. 63 (including half-title), 8vo, disbound, first leaf loose, sound ( ESTC T9290) £600 The occasion of the sermon was the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Society (now the Royal Humane Society). ESTC records two versions: one of 38 pages, and the present, which from p. 37 onwards gives a list of the Directors, the Medical Assistants, and a Brief Account of the Society – being a list of those who had been saved, and by whom – plus, forms for bequests to the Society, &c. Of this ESTC records BL and O only; of the 38 page version BL and National Trust only. ‘As a popular preacher [Francklin’s] services were often in demand; he was appointed king’s chaplain in November 1767 ...

His theatrical endeavours brought him into contract with major figures in literary and artistic circles such as Dr Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds, who used their influence to secure his appointment in 1768 as chaplain to the Royal Academy’ ( ODNB ).

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James VI and I (King of Great Britain) The Workes of ... Published by James, Bishop of Winton & Deane of his Mats Chappel Royall. Printed by Robert Barker & John Bill, 1616, with a magnificent additional engraved title, portrait frontispiece, full-page woodcut coat of arms, engraved portrait of Prince Charles, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, slip-cancels on A6r&v, e3 cancelled as usual (stub visible), final blank discarded, a little worming in the upper margins in the first half, never encroaching further than the top rule of the frame, some damp-staining in this area too, 3 leaves with small repairs (no loss), tiny hole at very top of engraved title, frontispiece slightly browned and spotted and with repair to top margin, last leaf slightly browned and with a couple of small smudges on the verso, pp. [xlii], 569, [1], folio, modern quarter calf and marbled boards in eighteenth-century style, good ( ESTC S122229; Pforzheimer 531) £1,600 First collected edition of James’s works. ‘So was the scholar-king, imposing his intellectual tastes on the English court. Pride of place in recognizing the genius of Ben Jonson goes to Anne of Denmark, who first gave him patronage. But James took over, and developed a relationship with the scholar-poet which underpinned the glories of the Jonsonian masque. In 1616, the year in which James’s collected works were published, Jonson followed suit with his. James’s enthusiasm for Oxford, first displayed in 1604 when he went to the Bodleian Library and declared that if he were not a king, there would be no greater pleasure than in being chained to the library, was now reinforced. When presented with the Workes, Oxford bore them in procession to the Bodleian; Cambridge simply accepted a gift to the library, and did not bother’ ( ODNB ).

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Jordanus de Nemore. Opusculum de ponderosita[te] Nicolai Tartalea[e] studio correctum, nouis’que figuris auctum. Venice: Curzio Troiano, 1565, woodcurt arms on title, woodcut initials and numerous diagrams in the text, main text in Latin; ‘Esperienze fatte da Nicolo Tartalea. 1541.

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a di XIIII. aprile’ (leaves 20-[23]) in Italian, corroded ink blot on title resulting in the loss of three letters, title slightly browned and a little browning here and there, ff. 20, [3, of 4, lacking final blank], 4to, recent limp (old) vellum, good (Adams J326) £1,500 ‘Jordanus has been justly claimed the most important mechanician of the Middle Ages and one of the most significant mathematicians of that period ... The extensive commentary literature of the statical treatises ascribed to Jordanus began in the middle of the thirteenth century and continued into the sixteenth ... Dissemination was facilitated by such works as Peter Apian’s Liber Jordani Nemorarii de ponderibus (1533), Tartaglia’s Questii ed invenzioni (1546) and [the present work], a version of De ratione ponderis published by Curtius Trojanus from a copy owned by Tartaglia, who had died in 1557.

Concepts such as positional gravity, static moment, and the principle of work, or virtual displacement, were now available and actually influenced leading mechanicians, including Galileo’ ( DSB ).

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Josephus. Opera no[n] parva accuratio[n]e & diligentia rece[n]ter i[m][pressa. Paris: impensis Francisci Regnault & Iohannis Petit, 1519, title-page printed in red and black within a woodcut border, variably browned and foxed throughout, a few leaves with old repairs to blank corners (and one in blank area of title-page verso), some corrections and marginal notes in several early hands, early ownership inscription to title-page, ff. [i], viii, [1], ix-cxciiii, cx, [87], folio, eighteenth-century Italian vellum boards, red and green morocco lettering-pieces to spine, these just slightly worn at edges, good (Schreckenberg p. 6) £950 A reprint of the 1513-14 printing (also Regnault & Petit) of this Latin translation of Josephus’s works, using the version by Tyrannius Rufinus as edited by Robert Goullet (1480-1560). Schreckenberg describes it as an incorrect edition, and an early owner seems to have agreed – beneath the final colophon, which concludes ‘non sine multa lucubratione ingentique labore compilavit’ (‘compiled with much study and great toil’), he has added ‘sed non exacta fide et bona distributione’ (‘but without exact faith and good distribution’). A number of pages also include small corrections and sometimes one or two marginal notes, seemingly in several hands, including the alteration of ‘biblia’ to ‘bibliis’ in every headline of one section.

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Josephus. The Works of Josephus, with an Introduction by the Rev. Henry Stebbing, D.D. [Translated by William Whiston. Two volumes.] Virtue & Co. [c. 1855,] bound as two vols., the engraved title-page in vol. i and letter-press in vol. ii, engraved frontispiece in each vol., a total of 45 engraved plates as called for, and 8 additional plates (inserted from another source?) not on the list of plates, further illustrations within the text, pp. xv, [i], 558; [ii], 559-1055, 4to, slightly later aubergine half calf, buckram sides, spines with central gilt stamps, brown morocco lettering pieces in second compartments, spines sunned, a few old scrapes, marbled edges, good £300 An attractively illustrated edition of Whiston’s translation (long the standard), with engraved plates and wood-engravings within the text. The publisher, Virtue & Co., specialised in illustrated works and operated under that name from 1852-1856. Near-identical editions of this work appeared under various Virtue imprints (most often George Virtue) throughout the 1840s.

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(Juvenile.) FILIAL DUTY, Recommended and enforc’d, by a variety of instructive and entertaining stories, of children who have been remarkable for affection to their parents. Also, some striking instances of children who have behaved in an undutiful and unnatural manner to their parents.

The whole founded on historical facts. Printed for E. Newbery, [?1798], engraved frontispiece, frontispiece and title-page a little browned, a few signs of use, pp. vi, 174, 12mo, original green vellum backed boards, paper label on spine, rubbed and worn, horizontal split in spine, contemporary signature of Mary Briscoe on flyleaf, good (Roscoe J134(5); ESTC N6814, recording 5 copies) £1,100 The last edition of a title that appeared under the Newbery imprint five times, from 1770 onwards, only the first of which, 1770, was dated: here the date is supllied by the date on the frontispiece. All editions are rare.

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Kelly (Patrick) A Practical Introduction to Spherics and Nautical Astronomy; being an attempt to simplify those useful sciences. With an Appendix on Time, Time-keepers, Transit Instruments, &c. The Fourth Edition. Printed for J. Johnson & Co., 1813, 20 engraved plates, some folding, diagrams in the text, plates (dated 1796) uniformly slightly browned, one dust-stained in the lower margin, pp. xvi, 231, [1], 8vo, recased in original calf, slightly rubbed, lacking lettering piece, good £500 The standard nineteenth century textbook of spherical trigonometry, first published in 1796. Kelly ‘was for many years master of the Finsbury Square Academy, London ... a finishing school teaching commercial and mathematical subjects, [which] comprised a boarding-house, schools, and an observatory’ ( ODNB ). As a claim to fame (as opposed to undoubted utility), it may be said that Meriwether Lewis took a copy of Kelly’s work with him on the famous Lewis and Clark expedition of 1803-6.

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Kohl (Johann Georg) Kitchi-Gami. Wanderings round Lake Superior. [Translated by Lascelles Wraxall.] Chapman and Hall, 1860, with a few illustrations in the text, a little foxing at either end, pp. xii, 428, 8vo, contemporary citron calf, double gilt fillets on sides, spine gilt in compartments, green lettering piece, marbled edges, spine a trifle faded, very good (Howes K247; Sabin 38215; Graff 2354; Field 842) £600 First edition in English (first published in Bremen the year before). ‘One of the most exhaustive and valuable treatises on Indian life ever written’ (Sabin). Field notes that the book is ‘wholly the result of personal experience, and one which only the most fervent scientific zeal and earnest self-abnegation, as well as a very high order of intelligence could produce. [Kohl] endeavored to penetrate the thick veil of distrust, ignorance and superstition which conceal the mind of the Indian, and learn the innate traverses of thought which give motive to his soul.’ An attractive copy, an Eton leaving present in 1864.

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The stethoscope – ‘ce nouveau moyen d’exploration’ Laennec (René Théophile Hyacinthe) De l’auscultation médiate ou Traité du diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur, fondé principalement sur ce nouveau moyen d’exploration.

Paris: J. -A. Brosson et J. -S. Chaudé, 1819, FIRST EDITION , 2 vols., with 4 folding leaves of engraved plates, each with several figures, slight occasional foxing, last plate a little soiled on verso, pp. xlviii (with half title, but this would be [iii]), 456, [8]; xvi, 472, 8vo, contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, crack at foot of upper joint of vol. i, head of spine slightly worn, good (GarrisonMorton 2673; Heirs of Hippocrates 1364) £2,250

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‘Laennec was undoubtedly the most prominent French internist of his day. His ingenious use of a roll of paper as a first stethoscope opened an entirely new field of physical diagnosis, and by this means he virtually created the physical diagnosis of pulmonary diseases, giving clear, concise definitions of phthisis, pneumothorax, emphysema, etc… his invention of the stethoscope was the most important advance in physical diagnosis between Auenbrugger’s introduction of percussion in 1761 and Roentgen’s discovery of X-rays in 1895. Several folding plates in this landmark volume illustrate the construction of Laennec’s primitive tubular wood stethoscope’ (Heirs of Hippocrates).

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[Lake (Edward)] Officium Eucharisticum. A Preparatory Service to a Devout and Worthy Reception of the Lord’s Supper. The Twenty Sixth edition. To which is added, a Meditation for every Day in the Week. Printed by Geo. James, for Abel Roper, 1721, some light dustsoiling, pp. [viii], 160, 12mo, contemporary calf, boards bordered with a double gilt fillet and gilt cornerpieces, spine with four raised bands, the same corner-piece tools used as central decorations, scratched and worn at extremities (especially fore-edges), head of spine defective, sound (Not in ESTC ) £200 ‘Lake is best known as the author of Officium eucharisticum (1673), a devotional manual which was designed for his royal pupils but which became very popular and went through more than thirty editions. Later versions of the work featured additions that some felt smacked of Catholicism, but these alterations do not appear to have been the work of the author’ ( ODNB ). Small popular works like this one inevitably survive in only a few copies, if at all. ESTC records 22 editions, from the first (1673) to the thirty-first (1770) (missing 9th-11th, 15th, 17th, 19-20th, 22nd, and this one). Of these 22 only two are recorded in more than three copies (the first and 28th, in six locations each). While this edition is unrecorded in ESTC , COPAC and Worldcat locate two copies between them, Yale and the BL.

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Lear (Edward) Journal of a landscape painter in Corsica ... Robert John Bush. 1870, FIRST EDITION , 40 full-page wood engraved plates (including frontispiece), map, numerous wood engraved vignettes on the letterpress, a few minor foxspots, pp.xvi, 272, large 8vo, original sand-grain terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, brown chalked endpapers, just rubbed at extremities, some spotting to boards, front hinge just beginning to crack a little, very good £350 The last in a series of albums that included works on Greece, Calabria, Albania, and the Ionian Islands.

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The ‘gem of arithmetic’ Legendre (Adrien-Marie) Essai sue la Théorie des Nombres. Paris: Duprat. An VI [1798], FIRST EDITION , occasional slight browning or spotting, pp. xxiv, 472, [56, tables], 4to, nineteenthcentury calf backed boards, vellum tips to corners, rebacked preserving original spine, good (En Français dans le texte 20) £2,250 A celebrated work, most famous for its statement of the law of quadratic reciprocity, the ‘gem of arithmetic’. Legendre’s proof was criticised by Gauss, who published his own superior proof in Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801). The work also contains the first statement of the law of distribution of prime numbers.

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Leland (John) The Itinerary of ... In Nine Volumes. The second edition: collated and improved from the original MS. With the addition also of a general index. Oxford: Printed at the Theatre; for James Fletcher, and Joseph Pote, at Eton, 1744-45, engraved vignette on title-page of vol. i, 3 engraved plates, 1 folding, and illustrations in the text, pp. [xiv], xxv, 146, [1]; [iv], xvi, 139, [1]; x, 174; xvi, 172; xxviii, 166; xviii, 146; xxvi, 143; xlviii, 104; 45; xliv, [ii], 134, 83, 8vo, contemporary polished calf, double gilt fillets on sides, spines richly gilt, contrasting lettering pieces, headcaps chipped (vol. i repaired), other minor wear, nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of Desmond Geoghegan in each vol., very good ( ESTC T135478) £850

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An attractive set, good and clean copy. The first edition was printed by Hearne primarily for the use of the scholars of Oxford. He only printed 120 copies and it subsequently became almost impossible to obtain one and then only at considerable expense. Recognising its scarcity, and the demand for it, this second edition was published after Hearne’s death, although the total number was still only 350 – of which, 50 are now in Oxford college libraries. Leland’s ‘undertaking was an extraordinarily ambitious one and marks the beginning of English topographical studies’ ( ODNB ).

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Livingstone (David) Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a Sketch of Sixteen Years’ Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; Thence across the Continent, down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean With Portrait; Maps by Arrowsmith; and Numerous Illustrations. John Murray, 1857, FIRST EDITION , third state (see below), folding wood-engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait of David Livingstone by William Holl after Henry Phillips (with tissue guard), 21 wood-engraved plates, folding printed table with wood-engraved illustration, 2 folding lithographed maps by John Arrowsmith with routes colored by hand in red (one in pocket at rear), and numerous woodengraved illustrations in the text (one full-page), pp. ix, [i], 687, [1], 8 (ads dated November 1, 1857), 8vo, original light brown morocco-grain cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind and spine decoratively stamped in blind and lettered in gilt, original brown coated endpapers, binder’s ticket (‘Bound by Edmonds & Remnants. London’), inner hinges strained, very minor wear to corners, tiny hole near top of lower joint, good (Garrison-Morton 5269; Mendelssohn I, p.908; Norman 1377; PMM 341) £750 A good copy of this extremely important book. ‘The title, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, evokes earlier accounts of southern Africa, notably by Philip and Moffat, but Livingstone’s book stands out from these by reason of its intellectual breadth… from 1851, aware of his growing reputation as an explorer, he kept a journal. Here he recorded a miscellany of ruminations and minute observation which attest to a wide-ranging curiosity about the human race and the natural world, and owe much to his medical training. When he came to write his book, he enriched a stirring narrative, told in conversational style, with insights acquired by informed eyes and ears, as well as with shafts of caustic humour. However, Livingstone aimed to do more than instruct and amuse ... Livingstone conceived [the book] as propaganda for the campaign against the slave trade’ ( ODNB ).

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‘Three states of the first edition have been identified. In the probable first state, the lithographed plates opposite pp. 66 and 225 are tinted brown and pale green respectively; in the second state, the lithograph opposite p. 225 is tinted brown and differs substantially from its counterpart in the first state; and in the third state, both lithographs have been replaced with black and white engravings’ (Norman Library).

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Richard Rawlinson’s copy Lombardo (Giovanni Francesco) Synopsis [in Greek] eorum, quae de balneis, aliisque miraculis Puteolanis scripta sunt. Adjectis balneis Aenariarum, necnon locis obscurioribus non inutilibus scholiis. Opus ab auctore denuo recognitum, & locupletatum. Venice: [Girolamo Scoto] impensis Anelli Sanuiti : venundantur Neapoli apud Antonium Baccolum, 1566, second edition, with Scoto’s device on the title, a number of attractive woodcut initials, title slightly browned and damp-stained and occasional browning or spotting elsewhere, pp. [viii], 128 (i. e. 120), [15], 4to, eighteenth-century mottled calf, single gilt fillet around sides, spine gilt in compartments, red lettering pieces, joints cracked, armorial book-plate inside front cover of Richard Rawlinson, good ( CNCE 30537; Durling 2841; Bruni celli 2667) £900 First published in Naples in 1559, this is a literary handbook to the thermal springs of southern Italy, and evidently useful since it was reprinted in Frankfurt in 1600, and in Leiden in 1723, by Van der Aa. It includes the ‘Balneandorum canones’ of Franciscus Aretinus (i. e. Francesco Accolti), the ‘Aenariarum Balnea’ of Joannes Elysius (i.e. Giovanni Battista Elisio) and, added to this edition, Latin verse renderings by Lombardi of Galen’s ‘Quos, quibus, et quando purgare oporteat’, Hippocrates’ ‘Jusjurandum’ (The Oath), and the ‘Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum.’ There are five indexes, including one of the ailments that can be treated by bathing.

Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), topographer and bishop of the nonjuring Church of England, began in 1720 a tour of the Continent, visiting the Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Sicily, and Malta; he matriculated at Padua University in 1722 and spent many months resident in Rome. He kept a diary of his tour, which survives among his manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (MS Rawlinson D. 1179-87).

‘Rawlinson took as his episcopal motto “I collect and I preserve”, words which accurately reflect his consuming passion, the love of collecting inspired by his conviction that materials must be acquired and preserved for future generations’ ( ODNB ). See also the article on Rawlinson by B.J. Enright in The Book Collector, vol. 39, 1990, pp. 27-54.

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Lommius (Jodocus: Josse van Lom) Medicinalium observationum libri tres. Quibus notæ morborum omnium, et quæ de his possint praesagia, iudiciaque, proponuntur. Antwerp: [Christpher Plantin for] Willem Silvius, 1560, FIRST EDITION , title within woodcut border, interleaved and annotated in the eighteenth century (see below), title trimmed at foot with slight loss to border, side note on f. 90v trimmed, one or two annotations slightly trimmed, worming in the gutter, just affecting text on 2 leaves (the worming only affecting the printed text, not the interleaves), rust hole in f. 42 with the loss of a couple of letters, ff. [viii], 129, [3], 8vo, eighteenth-century unlettered calf, slightly rubbed, some surface abrasion to spine and lower cover, good (Adams L1431; Ruelens & De Backer p. 23) £3,000 The scarce first edition of a book which held sway for two and a half centuries, a copy that was rebound, interleaved and annotated in the mid-eighteenth century, probably in England. ‘Originating as an accessible manual of diagnosis for municipal authorities, it emphasized the observable aspects of illness and downplayed the role of humors and hidden causes. As a result, it both heralded and served the trend to symptom-based nosology. Eventually, as disease concepts shifted from symptoms to organs, Lommius was eclipsed by the next epistemic fashion: positivistic organicism. The multiple editions of this work invite us to reconsider the sustained influence of ancient writers, including Celsus, in medical pedagogy and semeiology, as well as the timing and location of the development of nosological concepts of disease’ (Jacalyn Duffin, Jodocus Lommius’s Little Golden Book in Jnl. of the History of Med. and Allied Sciences, Vol. 61, pp. 249-287, 2006).

The book bears witness to a close study, the entire text studded with asterisks in the margins. There are long notes, in Latin in a neat hand, on 33 pages of the interleaves, a few of them extending over several

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pages. Most of the notes are references to writers subsequent to Lommius, some English, Willis, Floyer and Bayne, the last seemingly David Kinneir, who published A New Essay on the Nerves in 1738 under that pseudonym. Continental writers referred to are Hoffmann and Boerhaave. The annotator seems to have been particularly interested in asthma. Given that the book was so often reprinted, it is interesting that the eighteenth-century owner chose a copy of the first edition for study.

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Lucian of Samosata. Dialogorum selectorum libri duo graecolatini. Ingolstadt: Ex typographeo Adami Sartori, 1605, old stamp to front pastedown, pp. [iii], 410, [3, blank], 8vo, contemporary calf, boards ruled with a double black fillet, floral cornerpieces and central Jesuit devices, spine with four raised bands, central sunburst tool in compartments, old manuscript paper label to top compartment, edges gilt and gauffered, ties removed, slight cracking to front joint, tiny repairs to two corners, very good (VD17 23:629687D) £950 A scarce edition of selected dialogues by Lucian of Samosata, with the poems of Theognis of Megara appended, in an attractive contemporary binding. The stamp on the front pastedown, ‘ES’ within a plain border in purple, is found on some books from the important Donaueschingen Court Library of the Prince of Fürstenberg, parts of which were sold at various auctions in the 1980s and 90s (although another stamp containing the name of the library is usually also found in books from that source).

This is a scarce edition: COPAC lists only a copy in Birmingham, although there is also one in St John’s College, Oxford; VD17 gives just three locations in Germany.

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The Mazarin girls Mancini (Maria) The Apology: or, The Genuine Memoires of Madam Maria Manchini, Constabless of Colonna, eldest sister to the Duchess of Mazarin. Written in Spanish by her own hand, and afterwards made into English by a Person of Quality. Printed for J. Magnes and R. Bentley, 1679, with an engraved portrait frontispiece, a bit browned, and a few stains, clean tear in one leaf, cut a bit close with some headlines shaved, first leaf slightly frayed at fore-edge, pp. [viii, including imprimatur and advertisement leaves], 150, [bound with:] Mazarin (Hortense Mancini, duchesse de) The Memoires of the Dutchess Mazarine. Written in French by her own hand, and done into English by P. Porter Esq; Together with the reasons of her coming into England. Likewise, a letter containing a true character of her person and conversation. The second impression. Printed, and are to be sold by William Cademan, 1676, some browning, pp. [iv], 130 (portrait and errata not called for in this impression), small 8vo, nineteenth-century dark blue hard grained morocco, gilt panelled sides, spine gilt with a fleuron in each compartment, armorial bookplate inside front cover of the engineer Robert Stirling Newall, upper joint neatly repaired, sound ( ESTC R15149 and R19039) £1,850 The memoirs (attributed respectively to Sébastien Brémond and l’Abbé de Saint-Réal) of two of the famously beautiful daughters of Baron Lorenzo Mancini, after whose death in 1650, their mother, Girolama Mazzarini, took them from Rome to Paris in the hope of using the influence of her brother, Cardinal Mazarin, to gain them advantageous marriages. Their subsequent amours are the stuff of legend. Maria was the first romantic love of Louis XIV, while Hortense, after many vicissitudes, became the mistress of Charles II. She, Hortense, however fell from favour with Charles, as she continued with extra adventures, including, possibly, one with Aphra Behn. Curiously enough, in the advertisements included in the first work here, after a full-page one for a vehemently anti-catholic work, are ‘Plays by Madame Behne’, as well as the second work here. The Licence leaf to the first work has a nineteenth-century inscription: ‘very rare – containing many singular anecdotes of the private life of the lady in question.’ For a full account, see The Kings’ Mistresses by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith, recently published.

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(Manuscript Receipt Book.) COR MICK (David) [Culinary, Medical, Household Receipts]. ?County Monaghan: 1830-38, manuscript in ink on paper in two legible sloping hands, one of them occasionally given to flourishes, a few recipes loosely inserted on slips of paper, and a couple of advertisements pasted in (see below), pp. [82, a few leaves excised], plus about 100 blank leaves, and index at end on 30 leaves, small 4to, original sheep-backed marbled boards, £750 marbled edges, rebacked, good An Irish receipt book, apparently – and unusually – the work of a man: David Cormick’s bold signature is inside the front cover, dated 28 January 1830. Inside the front cover is pasted an advertisement on blue paper for a 171-piece Dinner Service from the China Hall in Dublin: a note below it records ‘We got the China December 12th ’37.’ Some sources are given, including a couple of doctors, several from Dr. Ryan, as well as one from Miss Ryan. Ellen Cormick is the source of a sponge cake, with an alternative from Miss Callaghan.

The contents are mainly culinary, with a few household (polish for mahogany) and a few medical.

Cakes and puddings, both savoury and sweet, jams, pickles and jellies predominate. Oysters are pickled, and made into a soup, for which ‘Half a Hundred of large oysters are sufficient.’ A second piece of advertising pasted in is for The Hong Tea Warehouse in Upper Sackville Street, Dublin, just opened.

Listed are 11 each of black and green teas, coffee, and some 28 spices including 7 types of ginger.

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’Twas a famous victory [Marlborough (John Churchill, Duke of)] Carta do Duque de Marlborough General do Exercito de Inglaterra para os Estados gerais das Provincias unidas dandolhe a primeyra noticia da grande Victoria, que o Exercito dos Altos Aliados alcançou contra as Armas do Duque de Baviera, & del-Rey de França mandadas pelo Marischal de Tallard. Lisbon: Miguel Manescal, 12 September, 1704, a bit browned, pp. 7, 4to, nineteenth-century marbled wrappers (acidic), sound £500 Just a month after the Battle of Blenheim, this was early, and welcome, news in Portugal. COPAC records just one copy in the BL, WorldCat adds the Newberry.

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Martino (Pietro di) Nuove istituzioni di aritmetica pratica. Naples: Paolo and Nicola di Simone, 1755, occasional light foxing or spotting, one page with contemporary repair to outer margin,otherwise clean and unpressed, pp. [viii], 237, [1, Tavola Pittagorica], [2, blank], 8vo, contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink; a little soiled and a trifle worn, very good £900 Rare: this edition not in Riccardi. A ‘buon corso di aritmetica elementare’ (Riccardi), current in Italy from the 1740s to the mid-nineteenth century. According to Riccardi the work first appeared in 1739 (the date of the Licence). A geometrical equivalent appeared in 1740, a similarly long-lived textbook.

Martino was one of the the principal proponents of Newtonianism in Italy. He spent some time as professor of astronomy in Bologna before returning to his native Naples in 1735. He died young at the age of 39 in 1748. The earliest edition in ICCU is 1758; Worldcat locates one copy of this edition, in Switzerland.

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[Mesmer (Franz Anton)] Règlemens des Sociétés de l’Harmonie Universelle adoptés par la Société de l’Harmonie de France Dans L’Assemblée générale tenue à Paris, le 12 mai 1785. [bound last with 6 other tracts, see below]. [Paris: 1785], FIRST EDITION , pp. 30 plus terminal blank, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, flat spine gilt in compartments, red lettering piece, narrow strip of lower cover faded by joint and the spine also (though less) faded, a trifle rubbed at extremities, armorial book-pate of the Chateau de Veauce inside front cover, excellent £2,750 A fine Sammelband of tracts on Mesmerism, including the very rare Règlemens des Sociétés de l’Harmonie Universelle, in a handsome binding in excellent condition. The first part of the Règlemens is Lettre de M. Mesmer aux Sociétés de l’Harmonie, at the end of which is the signature of a joining Member, a M Blondel, of the Société de France: the other Société was ‘du Cap’, meaning the French

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colonies in America, whose perpetual Vice-President was the Marquis de Puységur. The only copy in the UK is in the Wellcome; OCLC locates 4 copies in the US: the Bakken, NYPL , Duke, and Wichita.

The other tracts are, in the order in which they are bound: Hervier (Charles) Lettre sur la Découverte du Magnétisme Animal, a M. Court de Gebelin. ‘A Pekin, et se trouve a Paris, chez Couturier’, 1784, pp. viii, 48. (Crabtree 34; BL, Wellcome and Bodley in COPAC ).

Lettre d’un médecin de la Faculté de Paris à M. Court de Jebelin [sic]; en réponse à celle que ce savant a addressée à ses souscripteurs, et dans laquelle il fait un éloge triomphant du magnétisme animal. Bordeaux, Bergeret, 1784, pp. 67, [1, errata], slightly spotted in places. The letter is signed with the initials FDP, possibly standing for Faculté de Paris: it is sometimes attributed to Fougnet.

(Crabtree 60; UL, Wellcome and Cambridge in COPAC ).

Lettre sur la mort de M. Court de Gébelin. Np, nd, pp. 14. Court de Gébelin, who had been a supporter of American independence, fell under the spell of Mesmer and became an ardent propagandist. He died apparently of an electrically induced heart attack in his bath, although here he is said to have died after a three weeks’ vomiting. The post mortem appears at the end. (Crabtree 77; Wellcome and TCD only in COPAC ).

[Fournel (Jean François)] Remonstrances des Malades aux Médecins de la Faculté de Paris.

Amsterdam, 1785, pp, [ii], 103. A sustained and detailed attack on animal magnetism. (Crabtree 141; Wellcome only in COPAC ).

[Fournel (Jean François)] Essai sur les Probabilités du Somnambulisme Magnétique, pour servir à lHistoire de Magnétisme Animale. Amsterdam, 1785, pp. [ii], 70. Author’s name added in manuscript on title. ‘Fournel was the first person to attempt to theorize about the nature of this new phenomenon ...

Fournel makes a strong case for accepting magnetic somnambulism as a genuine phenomenon which deserves further study’ (Crabtree). (Crabtree 136; 4 copies in COPAC , including Cambridge).

[Mesmer (Franz Anton)] Lettre de l’auteur de la découverte du magnétisme animal à l’auteur des Réflexions préliminaires. Pour servir de réponse à un imprimé ayant pour titre: Sommes versées entre les mains de M. Mesmer pour acquérir le droit de publier sa découverte. (Paris): n.p., (1785), pp. 26.

(Crabtree 144; Wellcome only in COPAC ).

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Milton (John) The Poetical Works ... In six volumes. With the principal notes of various commentators. To which are added illustrations, with some account of the life of Milton. By the Rev. Henry John Todd. Printed for J. Johnson, [and 25 other firms, partnerships and individuals]

by Bye and Law 1801, First Todd edition, with a portrait frontispiece in vol. i and one facsimile plate in vol. vi, pp. [xxiv], ccxv, [1], 303, [1]; [iv], 504; [iv], 494; xix, [1], 511, [1]; [iv], 511, [1]; [iv], 458, royal 8vo, contemporary Russia, single gilt fillet border on sides, gilt rules on either side of raised bands on spines, lettered in gilt direct, gilt edges, spines a little dry and slightly worn at head, book-plate of Shute Barrington, Lord Bishop of Durham, very good £600 Todd’s ‘chef d’oeuvre ... In addition to Todd’s own copious annotations and judicious selection from previous commentaries, the work included for the first time extracts from Stillingfleet’s projected edition, together with criticism solicited from the family of Thomas and Joseph Warton… it remained the standard edition for fifty years. The first volume, a thorough biographical study of Milton, revised in 1809 and 1826, was published separately and enjoyed an equal measure of success’ ( ODNB ). Shute Barrington (1734-1826) was perhaps not entirely a lover of Milton: ‘Accused of breaking faith with his forebears [who had been prominent parliamentarians in the civil war], on 30 January 1772 Barrington

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aggravated matters by preaching the Westminster Abbey Lords sermon, commemorating the martyrdom of Charles I, in which he again uncompromisingly repudiated any need for constitutional reform’ ( ODNB ).

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Shakespeare source Montemayor (Jorge de) La Diana neuemente corregida y reuista por Al[f]onso de Ulloa. Parte primera. Han se añadido en esta ultima impression los verdaderos amores de Abencerrage y la hermosa Xarifa. La infelice historia de Piramo y Tisbe ... La Diana ... compuesta por Alonso Perez ... Parte segunda ... Milan: Juan Baptista Bidelo, 1616, 2 parts in one vol., variant woodcut printer’s device on titles, some browning in places, textblock weak at one juncture, pp. [xii, including final blank leaf], 407; 448, 12mo, contemporary vellum over boards, a little soiled and worn, good (Palau 177968; BL only in COPAC ; in the US Huntington, Newberry and UC San Diego only in Worldcat) £1,000 A relatively early edition of this important text: Palau quotes Menéndez Pelayo [in translation]: ‘La Diana has influenced modern literature more than any other pastoral novel, more than the Arcadia of Sannazaro, more than Daphnis and Chloe, and had no rival until Bernard de St. Pierre. This influence did not extend to Italy, where the pastoral dramas of Tasso and Guarini held sway, but it was very great in France and England.’ Indeed, La Diana is a source for Shakespeare, in The Two Gentlemen of Verona . If the Diana did not find such fertile ground in Italy, it is curious that there should have been three sixteenthcentury editions at Venice, and this at Milan in 1616 – all in Spanish, however.

Montemayor, or Montemor as is his Portuguese original patronymic, wrote only seven books of the Diana, but ‘continuations’ as well as parodies and imitations were not long in coming, that of Alonso Perez being one of the first continuations. Cervates judged Montemayor’s verses harshly, but recognized the remarkable merit of his Spanish prose.

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Morgan (Joseph, compiler) Phoenix Britannicus: being a Miscellaneous Collection of Scarce and Curious Tracts, Historical, Political, Biographical, Satirical, Critical, Characteristical, &c. Prose and Verse. Only to be found in the Cabinets of the Curious. Interspersed with Choice pieces from Original MSS . Vol. I (all published) ... Collected by J. Morgan. Printed for the Compiler, and T. Edlin and J. Wilford, 1732, 6 parts in 1 vol. (pagination continuous), a few leaves slightly browned, pp. [xii], viii, 96, [ii], 584, 4to, contemporary sprinkled calf, double gilt fillets on sides, spine richly gilt, red lettering piece, headcap partly defective, the Macclesfield copy with bookplate and blindstamp, good ( ESTC T101295) £650 A reissue of the 1731 edition, with a different title-page, dedication, a list of contents to the whole volume, and the sixth part. Morgan ‘was born in the late seventeenth century but little is known about his life. He was the author of numerous books and treatises, the first of which was probably The Phoenix (2 vols., 1707-8) which was revived in 1721 as A Collection of Choice, Scarce and Valuable Tracts. These were the forerunners of his most significant work, the monthly pamphlet, Phoenix Britannicus: a Miscellaneous Collection of Scarce and Curious Tracts. The first number appeared in January 1732 [sic, recte 1731] and ran for six successive months before lack of subscribers led to its discontinuation’ ( ODNB ). The dearth of subscribers is alluded to in a footnote to the Contents, Morgan promising to print their names when he has more of them, adding that ‘to prevent needless Trouble, and Mistakes, it is desired, “That the Persons who have Orders to take in the Books, may also be ordered to pay the Bearer:” Which some Gentlemen have forgot to do.’ In some copies a two-page Postscript to the Preface is found before the second Number.

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Nazari (Giovanni Battista) Della tramutatione metallica sogni tre; nel primo de quali si tratta della falsa tramutatione solfistica ; nel secondo della utile tramutatione detta reale usuale ; nel terzo della divina tramutatione detta reale filosofica ; aggiontovi de nuovo la concordanza de filosofi, e loro prattica; nellaquale, si vede i gradi, e termini de esso diuino magistero, e della verissima compositione della filosofia naturale, con laquale ogni cosa diminuta si riduce al vero

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solificio, e lunificio; con un copioso indice per ciascun sogno de gli auttori, e dell’opere c’hanno sopra di ciò tratto. Brescia: Pietro Maria Marchetti, 1599, woodcut Aldine anchor device on title and at colophon, 16 woodcuts, of which 7 are full-page, and 6 repeats, woodcut initials and headpieces, many leaves thumbed or soiled, pp. [xvi], 231, [1], 4to, contemporary vellum, soiled, spine defective at head and tail, worming in the boards, early alchemical inscription inside front cover, large bookplate of Wigan Free Public Library on flyleaf and their blindstamp on first and last leaves, sound ( CNCE 47082; Adams N102; Duveen 426; Ferguson II, pp. 131-132; Mellon 55; Neville, vol. 2 , pp. 214-16) £4,000 Third edition (first, 1564) of this well-known (especially for its illustrations) work, the second edition to contain the third ‘dream’ and the first to contain the Concordanza de filosofi. The third part contains an alchemical bibliography. This copy bears every mark of having been used in the laboratory.

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Newman (John Henry) Apologia Pro Vita Sua. Being a reply to a Pamphlet entitled “What, then, does Dr. Newman Mean?” Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM , occasional foxing, ads discarded, pp. iv, 430, 127, [1], [bound after:] Kingsley (Charles) What, Then, does Dr. Newman Mean? A Reply to a Pamphlet Lately Published by Dr. Newman. Macmillan, 1864, FIRST EDITION , half-title discarded , pp. [3]-48, a little light foxing, [also bound after:] [Newman (John Henry)] Mr. Kingsley and Dr. Newman: a Correspondence on the question whether Dr. Newman teaches that truth is no virtue? Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864, FIRST EDITION , a little light foxing, pp. 34, 8vo, twentieth-century half dark brown morocco by C. Fox, buckram sides, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g., extremities the merest touch rubbed, very good (Blehl A1b, A55a) £350 First editions of Newman’s ‘Apologia’, bound together with the two pamphlets which led directly to its composition. Newman had been gathering pieces for an autobiographical work beginning in 1862, but progress was slow until Charles Kingsley, in a casual aside in a review of someone else’s book, attributed to Newman the idea that truth was not a virtue required of Catholic clergy. Newman struck back in private correspondence, and then printed their letters in the first of the pamphlets included here. Kingsley defended himself (somewhat ineffectually) in the second pamphlet, and Newman delivered the crushing blow with his ‘Apologia Pro Vita Sua’, initially in eight parts and then gathered as one complete book. It was an immediate bestseller, securing Newman’s finances and his mental health, and firmly establishing him at the forefront of English Catholicism.

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Newton (Sir Isaac) Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Book the First [all published].

Translated into English, and illustrated with a Commentary, by Robert Thorp. The second edition.

Printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1802, 22 folding engraved plates, some dampstaining, mainly marginal throughout, usually pale but a little more pronounced in places, pp. [iv], [xv-] lviii, [ii], 360, the last leaf a cancel, 4to, nineteenth-century half calf and marbled boards, flat spine gilt tooled on either side of the raised bands, skilfully rebacked and recornered, new labels, stamp of Melchet Court, Romsey on flyleaf with initial A circled by a crown in the centre, a few mathematical notes in the margins, good (Wallis 29) £3,000 Thorp’s translation had appeared in 1777, the sheets here reissued with a new title-page and omitting the Dedication and the list of subscribers, hence the erratic pagination of the preliminaries. The cancel leaf at the end alters the name of the printer (A. as opposed to W. Strahan). Though based on Motte’s translation, I.B. Cohen, in his reprint of the Thorp translation (1969) calls it notably improved and amended, and further, ‘for anyone wishing to follow Newton’s reasoning and to comprehend this great treatise on its own terms, there is no better work in English. [Both Thorp editions] are extremely rare.’

Thorp was was educated at Durham School and Peterhouse, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1758 as senior wrangler, MA in 1761, and DD in 1792, and was elected fellow in 1761, and went on to fill various ecclesiastical posts: on the title-page here he is Archdeacon of Northumberland.

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90.

Nicholson (George, printer) The Literary Miscellany: Selections and Extracts, classical and scientific; with Originals, in Prose and Verse. [Education. Miscellanies. Tales]. Ludlow: and Poughnill: Printed and Sold by G. Nicholson, 1800-1805, 11 parts in 3 vols., most with engraved titles and/or 1 or 2 woodcut illustrations, some foxing (especially to the engraved titles) and minor staining, pp. [ii, general title], [ii], 38; [iv], 228: [ii, general title], [ii], 176, [2]; 56; 59, [1]: [ii, general title], 27, [1]; 26 (including engraved title); 36; 24; 28, 12mo, original half calf, rebacked and recornered, sound £950 Nicholson’s Literary Miscellany ran from 1794 to 1808, printed in various places, but always in the same elegant style, and included woodcuts by Thomas Bewick and others: there is no Bewick in this set however. It was deliberately produced in such a manner that readers could select only those pieces they wanted, and the present set is an example of just such a selection. Each volume here has a general title, with the theme announced in a small woodcut plaque: here they are Education, Miscellanies, and Tales, the last all ‘Moral Tales’ except one by Madame de Genlis. The first has contributions by Benjamin Franklin, while the second has the Life of Benjamin Franklin, and Select Pieces by him.

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(Oaths.) THE NATURE AND OBLIGATIONS OF AN OATH . [c. 1790,] broadside, printed on recto only, single sheet, folio (365 x 300mm), a little frayed at edges, 1 small hole affecting 1 letter (no loss of sense), the last line ‘Thou shalt not bear false Witness’ copied below in pencil contemporaneously, good £450 An apparently unrecorded broadside (not in ESTC or COPAC ), possibly related to the tract by the Rev. D.G. published in 1786 ( ESTC T95206) and reprinted in 1809, whose tenor it certainly shares. ‘If you swear falsely --In this World you will be severely punished --- by Imprisonment, Pillory, or Transported ...’

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[Ortega (Fr. José de)] Apostolicos Afanes de la Compania de Jesus, escritos por un padre de las misma sagrada religion de su provincia de Mexico. Barcelona: Pablo Nadal, 1754, FIRST EDITION , woodcut ornaments on title, various smallish woodcut head- and tail-pieces and large tailpiece at end, without errata leaf, some damp-staining, mainly in the inner corners, a few spots and stains, but quite a fresh copy, pp. [xii], 452, [8], 4to, contemporary limp vellum, remains of leather ties, front inner hinge broken, the lower held by one (of two) cords, lacking rear flyleaf, private library stamp on title of E. &. G. Gaughran and book-plate inside front cover, good (Sabin 57680 – and 1768, when it was still unattributed; Howes O127; Wagner, Spanish £6,250 Southwest 128) One of the prime sources on Jesuit activities in the Spanish Southwest, including an account of Father Kino’s work in what is now Arizona and Father Consag’s 1751 journey to California as far as the Colorado River, which he entered, and, incidentally, again proved that California was not an island.

Father Ortega was born in Tlaxcala in 1700 and entered the Jesuit order in 1717. He was sent to the Missions of Nayarit, where he worked for 30 years. Rare in commerce: only 4 copies in ABPC between 1976 and 1988 and only one since – the Nebenzahl copy, which made $9,000 hammer at Christies in 2012. The Streeter copy, sold in 1966, also lacked the errata leaf.

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(Oxford.) THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY AND CITY GUIDE on a new plan: containing a full description of the Colleges, Halls, public buildings, libraries, gardens, walks, pictures and statues, in Oxford; with an account of the dresses, examinations, degrees, distinctive ranks, manners, customs, &c. of the members of the university. To which is added a guide to Blenheim, Nuneham, the newly discovered Roman villa near Northleigh, &c. &c. A new edition with considerable additions.

Oxford: sold by H.Slatter, 1826, additional engraved title, and 8 engraved plates, 2 trimmed within platemark at top (here fore-edge), minor foxing, pp. [i], vi, [7-] 220, 8vo, contemporary half purple roan, a bit rubbed, cracks in joints, with a lengthy inscription on the title-page beginning with the signature of John Edw. Gray, the zoologist, dated from the British Museum

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1827, and tracing its subsequent descent in the family (partly smudged), sound (see Cordeaux and Merry 310) £80 A popular guide, published more or less annually from 1812, though fewer editions after 1839 and the last in about 1860.

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(Oxfordshire.) LONGMATE (L.), engraver. New Map of the City of Oxford [from Anthony á Wood’s ‘The ancient and present state of the City of Oxford.] 1773, engraved map, numbered key with 54 entries to indicate the Colleges, churches and other places of interest, 380 x 450 mm, framed and glazed £500 Shows the city of the period in town-plan style detailing streets and individual buildings.

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A Revolution rarity Pagès de Vixouze (François Xavier) Anti-Revolutionary Thoughts of a Revolutionary Writer: from “The Secret History of the Revolution of France”. Salisbury: printed for (and by) J. Easton, High-Street: and J. Wright, Piccadilly, London, 1800, FIRST ( ONLY ) EDITION , title-page soiled, cropped signature at head of ?G. Dance Octr. 1800 (?the architect), library stamp at end and once in the text, pp. xxiv, 134, 8vo, [bound after:] Burke (Edmund) Two Letters addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France. Printed for F. and C. Rivington, 1796. FIRST ( AUTHORIZED ) EDITION , one of the first five issues, pp. [i, lacking half-title, which distinguishes the issues], 188, 8vo, outer leaves soiled, library stamps, foxed at the beginning, stab holes, nineteenth-century half green calf and marbled boards rebacked in green morocco, spine lettered direct in gilt ‘Burke on Peace’, library label on upper cover, corners worn, sound (1. ESTC T93507, BL, CUL and Queen’s University only. 2. Todd 66b-f) £400 Selections (translated) from Histoire Secrete de la Revolution Françoise by an anonymous editor and annotator, who dedicates the work to William Pitt and signs himself ‘A well wisher of his country.’

Noble-born Pagès de Vixouze was publishing political poetry well before the Revolution. He was a Jacobin, and come the revolution went to Paris and threw himself into it, becoming one of its most enthusiastic chroniclers. It is this fiery eloquence which editor believes damns him in his own words.

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96.

Parrot (Friedrich) Journey to Ararat. With map and woodcuts. Translated by W.D. Cooley.

Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, [1845], with a folding engraved map, and woodcuts in the text, light spotting to title, pp. xii, 375, [1], 8vo, contemporary or slightly later burgundy calf (Eton leaving present), double gilt fillets on sides, spine richly gilt in compartments, green lettering piece, spine faded, and sides unevenly so, good (Atabey 925; Blackmer 1257) £650 First edition in English, and the first volume of an intended series ‘The World Surveyed in the Nineteenth Century’, of which however only one other volume appeared, the one on Siberia adumbrated here. Parrot was the first to ascend Ararat, in 1829-30: ‘The interest attaching to the first ascent of Mount Ararat is acknowledged by all; nor will it be likely to be diminished by the partial fall of that mountain in 1840 (of which we have given an account in the Appendix)’ (Preface). The partial fall was caused by an earthquake.

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[Parsons (H)] The History of the Five Wise Philosophers: or, The wonderful relation of the life of Jehosaphat the Hermit son of Avenerian King of Barma in India. The manner of his conversion to the Christian faith, and the horrid persecutions he suffer’d for the same. With the miracle he wrought: and how, after his turning hermit, he lived in a cell in the desart thirty six years. A treatise both pleasant, profitable and pious. Printed for Eben. Tracy, 1704, browned, especially around the edges, first 3 leaves frayed at edges with slight loss, last leaf with tissue repair to top outer corner, without loss, pp. [x], 128, small 12mo, modern calf, red lettering piece £950 An unrecorded edition, rather fragile. The work was first published in 1672 – 6 copies in ESTC , attributing this edition to Henry Peacham; all the subsequent ones are attributed to H. Parsons. The next edition in ESTC is 1700 (Chicago only in ESTC ), and the next 1711, with other editions recorded up to 1754. The last 2 pages of the preliminaries carry an advertisement for ‘a most Excellent Natural Balsam lately brought from Chili’, better than that from Peru.

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Peyton (V.J.) Les Eléments de la Langue Angloise, développés d’une maniere nouvelle, facile, & très concise. [Or:] The Elements of the English Language, explained in a new, easy, and concise manner. A Londres, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Pissot, 1783, facing pages of English and French in three columns, occasional wear to lower corner (particularly last 30 leaves, never near text), a tiny wormtrail in margin of the final 6 leaves, pp. 435, 12mo, contemporary sheep, backstrip with five raised bands between double gilt fillets, red morocco label in second compartment, expert restoration to tail of spine and one corner, a touch rubbed at extremities and showing a few small £200 marks, good ( ESTC T186226; Alston II 264) A new edition of Peyton’s long-running textbook of English for foreign learners, written in both English and French with a ‘London’ imprint but probably produced in Paris. The earliest edition in ESTC is 1761, and this is the fourth recorded after that. All the editions before the 1790s are scarce, showing at most six holdings in ESTC and more usually two or three. This edition is listed in the British Library, Oxford, and the Bibliothèque Mazarine only.

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Philosophical Transactions (The) of the Royal Society of London, from their commencement, in 1665, to the year 1800; Abridged, with notes and biographic illustrations, by Charles Hutton, George Shaw, Richard Pearson. Printed by and for C. and R. Baldwin, 1809, 18 vols. in 9, with 266 engraved plates, some foxing to plates and sporadically to text, 4to, contemporary half calf, red and black morocco labels, several joints with cracks, but a very good and sound set £4,000 An imposing and handsome set from the Gladstone library at Fasque, with book-lates. Binding two volumes together has resulted in rather stout and heavy tomes, but they are this side of unwieldy. The width allows ‘Philosophical Transactions’ to be spelt out in full on the labels.

‘From 1803 to 1809 Hutton, together with the physician Richard Pearson and the naturalist George Shaw, worked to the preparation of the abridgement of the Philosophical Transactions from 1665 to 1800, in eighteen volumes: from this work he obtained at least £6000’ ( ODNB ). Shaw, like Hutton, was

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an ‘indefatigable worker, and in his Philosophical Transactions Abridged (18 vols., 1809) [he] dealt with all the papers on natural history, nearly 1500 in number, inserting the Linnaean names of the species and adding references to later works’ (ibid.).

100. Pinel (Philippe) Tratado médico-filosófico de la enangenacion del alma, ó manía, escrito en Frences por Felipe Pinel ... traducido al Castellano por el Dr. D. Luis Guarnerio y Allavena.

Madrid: en la Imprenta Real, 1804, 2 engraved plates and a folding table, a little browned or foxed in places, pp. [iv], 416, small 8vo, original tree sheep, flat spine gilt ruled in compartments, red lettering piece, red edges, very minor wear, very good (Garrison-Morton 4933 and En Français dans le texte 203 for the first edition) £1,500 First edition in Spanish of Pinel’s classic work, first published in 1801. Scarce: COPAC records only the Wellcome copy.

101. Pitcairn[e] (Archibald) Elementa medicinae physico-mathematica, libris duobus ... William Innys, 1717, FIRST EDITION , some faint water-staining confined to the lower portion of leaves, pp. [xlii], 285, [19], 8vo, contemporary speckled calf, single gilt fillet around sides, good (Wellcome IV p. 394; ESTC T84387) £850 Several times reprinted and translated, the text is the substance of Pitcairn’s lectures at Leiden, which had a considerable influence both in Britain and on the Continent. Inspired by Harvey and Borelli, Pitcairn was a devoted adherent of the iatromechanical school of medicine. Amongst his pupils were Richard Mead and Herman Boerhaave.

When he died in 1713 Pitcairn left ‘numerous debts, far outnumbering his assets, which amounted to his library. His book collection was well known and it sold in London for £430, destined for the court of Peter the Great in Russia’ ( ODNB ).

102. Pliny the Elder. Historiae Mundi libri triginta septem. Lyons: Ex officina Godefridi et Marcelli Beringorum, 1548, short wormtrack to final fifteen leaves affecting a few characters in the index, a few early ink splashes in the text (no loss of legibility), variably browned and lightly foxed in places, several leaves with small old paper repairs in blank margin, early ownership inscription cancelled from head of title-page, small splashmark to fore-edge, Erasmus’s name censored at head of dedication, pp. [xxxii], cols. 976, pp. [164], folio, eighteenth-century catspaw calf, spine gilt with floral tools and corner sprays, two original patches to leather of rear board, a few tidy recent repairs (including spine ends), some old scrapes to fore-edges, front flyleaf sometime reglued, overall still good (Adams P1571) £950 An attractively-bound copy of a scarce reprint of Gelen’s edition of Pliny’s ‘Natural History’ (here under the title ‘History of the World’), produced at Lyons by the Beringen brothers. It retains the dedication from Erasmus’s 1525 edition and Gelen’s annotations from his, first published by Froben in 1539.

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103. [Polidori (John William)] Vampyren af Lord Byron. Öfversättning. Jemte en Översaättning fran Ryskan. Af C[arl] S[amuel] F[orssan]. Helsingfors [Helsinki]: J. Simelius, 1824, some foxing, pp. [i], 52, [2, blank], small 8vo, stitched, blue £1,500 wrappers, good An exceedingly rare translation of The Vampyre, with only the National Library of Sweden copy recorded by WorldCat. It was known by 1824 that Byron was not the author, but a publisher in a far flung part of Europe was probably not going to be too scrupulous about this. A French translation appeared in 1820, German in 1822, Spanish (Paris published) in 1829, making this one of the earliest translations. The appended translation is an allegory (Lifvets gåta)

by Feodor Glinka. The pagination of our copy accords with that in NL Sweden, although the last 3 leaves comprise gathering No. 4 (which one would expect to be 4 leaves at least). The wrappers could be original, but have a slightly later feel: however, the title-page is slightly offset onto the inside of the front wrapper, suggesting a certain antiquity. Pencil inscription at the head of the title-page: Sourander, 13.11.[19]33.

104. (Poor Relief.) Summary of the County Totals and grand totals of the returns relative to the expence and maintenance of the poor in England and Wales, for the year ending Easter 1803. To which is subjoined, the amount of charitable donations. Luke Hansard, 1803, large single sheet broadside table, approx 490 x 680 mm, minor staining, good £400 Not in COPAC . ‘The resident population in England and Wales, in the year 1801 [was] 8,872,980, so that the number of Parishioners relieved from the Poor rate, appears to be Twelve in a Hundred.’

105. Porney (Lewis, translator) The New Weekly Novelist; or, Entertaining companion. Containing a new and complete collection of interesting romances and novels. A work designed for instruction as well as entertainment, being calculated to convey a general knowledge of the world; and consisting of the most valuable and important, humourous and pleasant, entertaining and instructive romances, novels, fables, allegories, memoirs, adventures, histories, anecdotes, &c. Not to be found in any other work of the kind in English. The whole newly translated from the French, by Lewis Porney, Esq. late teacher of the French language at Richmond, Surry. Embellished with an elegant set of copper-plate prints, designed by the celebrated Mr. Dodd and the ingenious Mr. Dighton; and engraved in a superior style of excellence by those eminent artists, Messrs.

Wells, How, and Mears. Printed for the Proprietors, and Sold

by Alex. Hogg, [c. 1780], FIRST EDITION , illustrated with 10 engraved plates, occasional slight browning and offsetting, pp.

392, [2, Contents], 8vo, bound up from the weekly parts (stab holes in evidence) in contemporary reversed calf, elegant red lettering piece on spine, spine slightly sunned, foot of spine darkened (possibly from the removal of a label), very good ( ESTC T203366) £3,750 A pleasing copy of an exceedingly rare collection, with only the Bodleian copy recorded (and that apparently lacking the last leaf). There was a successful French grammar published under the name Lewis Porney, but there is some doubt as to his actuality, and he was perhaps the invention of the booksellers. Certainly the name is suggestive, and some of the stories, and plates, here are a little risqué. Though translated from the French, not all of the stories are French, e.g. the first story by Athenagoras. Included are the Arthurian ‘History of Claris and Laris,’ and the ‘History of Tristran.’

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ESTC T107271 (Raven 1780:22) is a variant, the title similar, but with differences including the

identification of the translator as ‘Mr. Porney’, and the plates are dated 1780. In our version the frontispiece (which is not numbered) and Plate X (the other plates being numbered in Arabic numerals) are not dated, while the others, curiously, have had their dates erased, after the stock phrase, ‘Published as the Act directs’. T107271 is less rare – BL, Cambridge, Bodley; Ohio, Rice, UCLA , Illinois, Yale.

ESTC also records Hogg’s New novelist’s magazine, consisting of ... . The supplement. Being a new

collection of novels and romances, and containing elegant translations of a variety of French, Spanish, and other foreign romances, ... anecdotes, &c. written by eminent authors, and translated by Lewis Porney, esq. (Porney has gone up in the world), 1794, said to be Nos. 85-94. The last number here is Vol. I, No. 10.

106. Ptolemy. [Almagest] Composition mathématique de Claude Ptolémée: traduite pour la première fois du Grec en Français, sur les manuscrits originaux de la Bibliothèque impériale de Paris, par M. Halma; et suivie des notes de M. Delambre. Tome premier [-seconde]. Paris: J-M Eberhart, chez Henri Grand, 1813-16, FIRST EDITION of this translation, engraved frontispiece in vol. i, engraved vignette on both titles, engraved portrait in vol. ii, an engraving and diagrams, and tables in text in both vols., parallel Greek and French text, some foxing and marginal dampstaining (more pronounced in vol. i) and a little marginal worming at the beginning of vol. i, pp. [iv], lxxv, [1], 476, 48 (Delambre’s notes); [iv], viii, 448, 40 (Delambre’s notes), 4to, recased in contemporary vellum-backed boards, sound £950 Nicholas Halma, 1755-1828, ‘was educated at the College of Plessis, Paris, took Holy orders, and received the title of Abbé. In 1791 he became principal of Sedan College.... He held the chair of mathematics at the Prytanéee of Paris, and then that of geography in the military school at Fontainebleau. As librarian of the Empress Josephine and of the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées, he was charged to instruct the empress in history and geography. Under the Restoration he was appointed curator at the library of Sainte Geneviève and became a canon of Notre Dame ... His most important work was the editing and the translating into Latin and French of Ptolemy’s “Almagest” (Paris, 181316). This work, undertaken at the instance of Lagrange and Delambre, is used to this day, almost exclusively, as a standard in connection with the history of astronomy’ (Catholic Encyclopedia).

107. (Raphael.) PARDO di Figueroa (Benito) An Analysis of the Picture of the Transfiguration of Raffaello Sanzio d’Urbino; ... now translated into English: ... illustrated by Seventeen Heads, traced from the picture, and finished of the same size, by Mons. J. Gaubaud. Printed by Bensley and Son, for Robert Bowyer, 1817, 19 engraved plates, a skilful ink wash copy of one plate (‘The Youngest Sister of the Demonaic’) tipped in, stamp and shelfmark of Gloucestershire County Library on endpaper and title verso, some marginal dust- and finger-soiling to plates, letterpress a little yellowed and stained, pp. [ii], 20, large folio, later half pebbled black cloth, boards covered in brown snake-skin pattern buckram, patch of original front board cloth (gilt-lettered) preserved, paper label top spine, joints and corners rubbed, bookseller’s receipt (James G. Commin, 1923) taped in on front flyleaf, good £850 The plates are traced from the original painting, and finished actual-size, by Gaubaud, who was working for Napoleon while the painting was in French hands; the text is translated from the French edition of 1804, itself translated from the Spanish original of that year. The ‘Transfiguration’ is Raphael’s last painting, left unfinished at his death, and his ‘most beautiful and divine’ work (according to Vasari). ‘This is no ordinary publication, whether we consider the singularly interesting nature of its subject, the exquisite delicacy of the engravings, or the splendour of the Typography...we trust that an extensive sale will remunerate the publisher for the heavy expense which he must have incurred in bringing out this elegant work’ (Literary Panorama, March 1818, p. 917 et seq.).

It appears to now be scarce, with no copy traceable in the British Library’s catalogue ( COPAC gives just Oxford, Aberdeen, Liverpool, V&A, and York Minster). Worldcat adds 11 copies in the USA , one in Germany and on in France, while ABPC lists no complete copy in English auctions since the early 1980s.

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108. (Religious Tracts Society.) [drop title:] The Fair. Printed by A. Applegath for the Religious Tracts Society, [c.1800], pp. 4, 8vo, disbound (stitching present), good £150 An apparently unrecorded (not in ESTC or COPAC ) pamphlet for the Religious Tracts Society. The unidentified author begins: ‘I do not object to fairs for business, but most fairs are now a days such as decent folk cannot go to ...’

109. Rhijne (Willem ten) Meditationes. In magni Hippocratis textum XXIV. De veteri medicina Quibus traduntur brevis [pneumatologia], succincta [phytlogoia], intercalaris [chymologia] &c. Cum additamento & variis hinc inde laciniis de salium &c. figuris. Leiden: Johannes van Schuylenburgh, 1672, FIRST EDITION , with an engraved frontispiece and a folding engraved plate both designed by ten Rhijne, a little damp-staining in the upper margins, pp. [xiv, including the frontispiece], 387, [29, addenda and index], plus 2 blank leaves, 12mo, original vellum over boards, lettered in ink on spine, minor staining, contemporary ownership inscription of a Venetian Jesuit on the flyleaf, very good (Bruni Celli 3599) £2,000 Willem ten Rhijne (1649-1700) is famous as the author of the first work on acupuncture to be published in the West, and he is well-known for his book on the Cape of Good Hope.

He studied in Holland, but travelled to France, where he took his MD at Angers in 1670. Not long after his return to Holland he was appointed physician to the Dutch East India Company, and thereafter spent most of his life in Java, after a period in Japan. Before leaving he published two books: Exrecitatio physiologia in celebrem Hippocratis textum de veteri medicina , 1669, and the present text. This is a learned work, thouroughly at home in ancient and modern medicine.

At Leiden he had been ‘a favorite student of the most famous professor there, François dele Boë Sylvius, who was then developing his theory about acids and alkalies in the cause and treatment of disease. As a student at Leiden, Ten Rhijne became deeply imbued with the values of Hippocratic and chemical medicine, both of which stressed active investigation into the details of nature, and he was also a fine botanist’ (Harold J. Cook. Medical Communication in the First Global Age, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine).

The present work is dedicated to Ten Rhijne’s slightly older contemporaries, Theodore Ketjes and Frederik Ruysch.

All without the help of algebra 110. Rudd (Thomas) Practicall Geometry, in two parts: the first, shewing how to perform the foure species of arithmeticke (viz: addition, substraction [sic], multiplication, and division) together with reduction, and the rule of proportion in figures. The second, containing a hundred geometricall questions, with their solutions & demonstrations, some of them being performed arithmetically, and others geometrically, yet all without the help of algebra. Imprinted ... by J[ohn] G[rismond] for Robert Boydell, 1650, FIRST EDITION , woodcut diagrams in text, cropping affecting some headlines, catchwords, extreme letters in some diagrams, and page numbers, signature of William Jones on title (cropped), blind Macclesfield armorial stamp on first three leaves, pp. [8], 56; [4], 139, small 4to, old calf boards, rebacked, new endleaves, red edges, good £850 ( ESTC R217827) A rare work devoted to techniques of calculation for practical men. Although the algebraic notation, which would be used to solve such problems today, had been introduced by Descartes more than a decade earlier, it was still unfamiliar to the architects, engineers and surveyors to whom the work is addressed.

The methods used involve the manipulation of geometrical shapes such as triangles, rectangles and circles.

Geometrical constructions were used, in effect, as a kind of mechanical calculator, circumventing the need to manipulate numerical quantities directly. Rudd was in the royal service as an engineer for fortifications.

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William Jones (1675-1749), tutor to the Earl of Macclesfield, lived at Shirburn Castle and left his large collection of scientific books and manuscripts to the Macclesfield family (the present work was formerly in a tract volume which included a rare Galieianum and another work: the tract volumes in that library, which were bound in the eighteenth century, were typically cropped). Jones is known as the inventor of the symbol ‘p’ in his Synopsis palmariorum matheseos (1706) and was also the editor and publisher of Newton’s Analysis per quantitatum series (1711).

There was another issue of the book in the same year with a different printer and a minor variation in the title.

111. Ryves (Thomas, Sir) Historia Navalis Antiqua, libris quatuor. Apud Robertum Barker, 1633, one folding plate with five woodcuts (in this copy divided into two and bound at the end), some browning and spotting, small square excised from blank area of title-page and repaired, ownership stamp, pp. [viii], 357, 356-491, [3], 8vo, early nineteenth-century European marbled calf, smooth spine divided by triple gilt fillets between decorative pallets, red morocco letteringand dating-pieces, central gilt tools, boards bordered with a double gilt fillet and a floral roll, a.e.r., a bit rubbed, spine chipped at head, good ( ESTC S116320) £1,250 Sir Thomas Ryves (d. 1652), a civil lawyer and amateur historian and polemicist, published three books on naval history: the first, ‘Historia Navalis, lib. i’ was a short treatise which appeared in 1629, and was incorporated into this larger ‘Historia Navalis Antiqua’ a few years later, covering naval history down to the Roman empire. His third was a further continuation, to 1453, which appeared in 1640.

‘In 1683 Samuel Pepys praised Ryves’s Historia navalis in fulsome terms, “there being not anything I know of extant in history, so much to the honour of our country as this piece of Sir Thomas Reeves, I am sure, nor so edifying to me upon the subject which above all others I am covetous of information in” (Downshire MSS , 1.18)’ ( ODNB ). Lehmann, in a paper presented at Tropis IV (‘Five Centuries before Olympias’), noted that Ryves anticipated the modern consensus on levels of oars – i.e., that no ship had more than three, and larger ships added more oarsmen on each oar.

112. Sallust. Catilinaria et Jugurthina Bella. Editio Stereotypa. Paris: Ex officina Stereotypa P. Didot natu majoris, et F. Didot, 1801, some light spotting, pp. [iv], 150, 16mo, contemporary tree calf, spine flat spine with a red morocco title piece and a green morocco label containing a small gilt flower, the remaining space divided by gilt pearl rolls and infilled with hand-tooled Greek key £65 patterns, boards bowning, rubbed at extremities, good 113. Schwerd (Friedrich Magnus) Die Beugungserscheinungen aus den Fundamentalgesetzen der Undulationstheorie. Analytisch entwickelt und in Bildern dargestellt. Manheim: Schwan and Goetz, 1835, FIRST EDITION , 18 large folding lithographed plates, 2 hand-coloured, pp. XII (Contents bound here out of order before Introduction), 143, [1], [8, Tables], 4to, contemporary half cloth, very good £750 A classic work, and very scarce. ‘Schwerd, though not well known to modern students, has had a great influence on optics through his monumental book on diffraction ... Die Beugungserscheinungen which he wrote in two years’ spare time, is the classic comprehensive treatise on Fraunhofer diffraction ... Fraunhofer gave the laws which follow from his experiments but neither he nor J. F. W. Herschel developed the theory. This was done first by Schwerd and was viewed as a great triumph for wave theory over the emission theory of light. Schwerd made calculations of the amplitudes and intensities of the diffraction produced by various geometric openings with straight sides, also circular openings and combinations of openings. He treated two dissimilar-sized circular openings, a bird’s feather, and, finally, the effect of inhomogeneous (white) light and several sources ...

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of 168 elaborated drawings. Eleven of these illustrations are in full color ... They show the Fraunhofer pattern that would result if the aperture or array were illuminated with sunlight.’ (R. B. Hoover/F. S. Harris, a Tribute to F. M. Schwerd’s Monumental Work on Fraunhofer Diffraction, in Applied Optics, Vol. 8, Issue 11, pp. 2161-64, 1969).

114. (Scriptores Historiae Augustae.) Historiae Augustae Scriptores Sex. Aelius Spartianus, Iulius Capitolinus, Aelius Lampridius, Vulcatius Gallicanus, Trebellius Pollio, & Flavius Vopiscus.

Isaacus Casaubonus ex vett. libris recensuit: idemque librum adiecit emendationum ac notarum.

Paris: Apud Ambrosium & Hieronymum Drouart, 1603, FIRST CASAUBON EDITION , title-page in red and black, a small abrasion to one leaf of the ‘Tabula’ affecting words in three lines, a thin wormtrack to margin of first few leaves (continuing as a pinprick hole through next 15 leaves) which just touches one letter on title-page, some spotting, a little early underlining, errata leaf and conjugate blank bound before last leaf of prelims, pp. [xxiv], 375, [57], 576, [32], 4to, contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, spine later lettered in ink, slightly ruckled and lightly soiled, ties removed, front endpapers replaced with modern paper (with a cutout exposing old bookplate of Richard Prime), very good £750 Casaubon’s important edition of the ‘Scriptores Historiae Augustae’, a collection of biographies of Roman emperors and imperial aspirants from the second and third centuries. It was the first edition to include a commentary, and therefore the first to attempt to come to terms with what exactly the odd collection actually is: Mehl calls it ‘probably the most mysterious work of ancient literature, and in all events the most dubious and least trustworthy piece among ancient works of historiography and biography,’ and sums it up further: ‘the authorship is dubious and quite controversial, as are the date (or dates) of its composition, perhaps also of its revision, furthermore its point of view regarding the late antique battlefield between classical religion and Christianity, and finally the many sources cited in its biographies... Investigation of the HA is further complicated first by the tendency of the work’s seemingly clear and credible testimony to prove deceptive time and time again, and secondly, by the impossibility of ever clarifying any of its parameters individually’ (Roman Historiography, p. 171). Casuabon not only established a text, began questioning the work’s description of itself, and added a commentary half again as long as the original, but also created the name ‘Historia Augusta’ by which it is now known.

115. Shakespeare (William) Macbeth: a Tragedy. To which are added all the Original Songs. Printed for H. Woodfall, J. Rivington, J. Hinton, C. Bathurst, L. Davis [and 20 others in London], 1768, with an engraved frontispiece, pp. 68 (including frontispiece), [4], 8vo, bound with 5 other plays, see below), contemporary calf backed boards, a bit rubbed and worn, but solid, good (Jaggard p. 382; ESTC T170625) £600 A rare edition of Macbeth, ESTC recording just Birmingham, NLW, Folger and Illinois. The other plays in the volume are: Edward Young’s The Revenge, 1769 (N13264, not in the BL: 2 copies in the Bodleian and 7 elsewhere); Rowe’s Tamerlane (T49862); Banks’s Earl of Essex, 1767 (N894), this has a List of Plays Acted at Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden Theatres – 3 pp. double column – and a further 3 pp. of new books; Cibber’s adaptation of Richard III (N33774, Bodley only in the UK and 5 elsewhere); Lillo’s London Merchant (T126797). All the plays have an engraved frontispiece. An agreeable and interesting Sammelband.

116. Shelley (Percy Bysshe) Queen Mab. Printed for the Joint Stock Book Company and Published by Richard Carlile. 1826, dedication ‘To Harriet *****’ follows text, a little foxing, pp. 133, [2], 16mo, original boards, spine slightly defective, good (Buxton Forman, A Shelley Library, no. 28) £250 An early edition, in boards. ‘Queen Mab’ was pirated early and often by publishers of radical material and the dedication, which Shelley regretted, had been removed from many copies and thus not included in many of the piracies; this pocket (easily-concealable) edition, one of four Carlile produced in the 1820s, does print it after the text. ‘Carlile was freed in November 1825, and returned to London

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in January 1826; he secured a new shop at 62 Fleet Street in May and set about founding a joint stock book company with the aim of promulgating radical texts at affordable prices, a financial folly which lasted only two years’ ( ODNB ). ‘In 1826 came out what the Americans call a vest-pocket edition, a minute volume bearing Carlile’s imprint once more. This, being sold at the price of half-a-crown, was regarded at the time as an edition for “the mechanic and labourer”; and I should think, from the general air of copies I have seen, that the radical mechanic gave it large and eager patronage’ (Buxton Forman, Vicissitudes, p. 20).

117. Sheridan (Thomas) A Plan of Education for the young Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain.

Most humbly offered to the father of his People. For E. and C. Dilly. 1769, FIRST EDITION , pp. xxx, [2], 148, [2], (including 2 blanks as required), 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, backstrip ruled in gilt, sides with double gilt fillet borders, neat repairs to upper joint, head and corners, a little stained, bookplate of John Hooper, good ( ESTC T42422) £800 Thomas Sheridan (1719-1788), father of Richard Brinsley, was an Irish stage actor, educator, and a major proponent of the elocution movement. Strongly critical of the current system of education with its exclusive classical bias, Sheridan’s suggestions seem remarkably modern: that English should be the primary language, and that in the ‘upper school’ the boys should be divided into classes according to the ‘several spheres, professions, or employments for which they are destined.’

118. [Smollett (Tobias)] The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker. In Three Volumes. Volume I [-III]. Printed for W. Johnston, and B. Collins, in Salisbury, MDCLXXI [sic], 1771, FIRST EDITION , with half-titles, tear in title to vol. iii repaired and the leaf laid down, pp. xv, 250; [iv], 249; [iv], 275; 12mo, contemporary speckled tan calf, red lettering pieces on spines, numbered in gilt direct, later armorial bookplate inside front cover of Irving of Bonshaw, a few minor abrasions, very good ( ESTC Grolier (English) 56; Rothschild 1925) £750 This copy is a mixture of Rothschild A1 and A2, having MDCLXXI on the title-page of vol. i, p. vi in vol. i so numbered, the others as per A2. In this copy at the end of vol. i we have ‘End of the firt [sic] volume.’ This copy is not quite in, but approaches, Colquhoun of Luss condition. The Irving provenance does suggest a Scottish binding.

119. Stanley (Henry Morton) In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria ... [Two volumes.] Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890, FIRST EDITION , portrait frontispieces, 36 full-page illustrations, over 100 illustrations in text, 2 large colour folding maps at front (both with tears where attaching, no loss), 1 folding map in text, 1 diagram, occasional very slight foxing, pp. xv, 529; xv, 472, [2, advertisements], 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, hinges a little strained, minor wear, lower edges bumped, good £600 A bright copy of one of the classics of African exploration. ‘In addition to the ‘relief’ of the unwilling Pasha, Stanley had a number of other objectives, including the enhancement of the authority of both Leopold’s Congo state in the west and Mackinnon’s newly formed Imperial British East Africa Company in the east. More immediately, he had hoped to obtain Emin’s valuable cache of ivory. His imperious manner alienated even the most loyal of his men, and several of the surviving members of the expedition and their relatives publicly contested Stanley’s account of their ordeal… Leading figures in the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and Aborigines Protection Society charged him with using slaves as porters, and complained that the expedition had in fact opened up new routes for slave traders. These various challenges to Stanley’s version of events were gleefully reported in the press, and resulted in numerous attacks, both sober and satirical ... While Stanley had many influential supporters, the multiplication of different accounts of the expedition undermined his reputation just at the moment he had hoped it would finally be secured’ ( ODNB ).

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120. Stanley (Sir Henry Morton) Through the Dark Continent or The Sources of the Nile, Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa, and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. With ten maps and one hundred and fifty woodcuts. In two volumes. Vol. I [-II]. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION , 2 vols., with illustration and maps as per title-page, 2 of the maps being large and folded and inserted in pockets at the end of either vol., the large maps with some tears and discolouration, 1 leaf and a plate attached to it loose, a few leaves with short marginal tears, pp. xiv, 522; ix, 566, [2, ads], 8vo, original dark green pictorial cloth, inner hinges strained, minor wear to extremities, good £450 Stanley’s Trans-African expedition, 1874-1877, one of the most celebrated of all African expeditions of the nineteenth century, but also one of the most controversial, said by some to amount to exploration by warfare. A writer in the Pall Mall Gazette said: ‘Exploration under these conditions is, in fact, exploration plus buccaneering, and though the map may be improved and enlarged by the process, the cause of civilisation is not a gainer thereby, but a loser.’ The advertisements at the end include a notice of this book, and the various formats in which it could be had: cloth (the cheapest), sheep; or in half morocco or half calf by subscription.

121. Stanley (Sir Henry Morton) My Dark Companions and their strange stories. With numerous illustrations. Sampson Low, Marston & Company Limited, 1893, FIRST EDITION , illustrations in the text, tissue guard of frontispiece foxed, advertisements at end slightly foxed, text block split at mid-point, pp. viii, 335, [1], [32, ads], 8vo, original pictorial cloth, all edges gilt, spine slightly crinkled, good £140 122. Stanley (Sir Henry Morton) My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia. With two maps and two photogravure portraits. Volume I [-II]. Sampson Low, Marston & Company Limited, 1895, FIRST EDITION , illustrations as per title-page, terminal leaves browned (from acidic endleaves), pp. xxi, 301, [1]; ix, 424, 8vo, original maroon cloth, spine of vol. ii slightly faded, corners bumped, WH Smith subscription library labels inside front covers, good £200 ‘Stanley’s career as a journalist took a decisive turn in 1867. On his return to America he was taken on as a special correspondent by the Missouri Democrat, covering General Hancock’s military expedition against the Cheyenne and the Sioux peoples in Kansas and Nebraska, and the subsequent peace conferences between General Sherman and the Plains Indians. His dispatches during this period were reprinted in his Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia , published in 1895’ ( ODNB ).

123. Synesius of Cyrene. [Opera.] De regno ad Arcadium imperatorem. Dion, sive de suae vitae ratione. Calvitii laudatio. De providentia seu aegyptius. Concio quaedam panegyrica. De insomniis, cum Nicephori Gregorae explicatione. Eiusdem Synesii epistolae. Paris: Ex officina Andriani Turnebe, 1553, EDITIO PRINCEPS , small rusthole to one leaf affecting one or two characters on each side, some faint dampmarking in places, title-page dusty and just slightly frayed at corner, chapters neatly numbered in an early hand, pp. [iv], 134, [2], 100, [4], folio, early eighteenth-century sprinkled calf, boards bordered with a triple gilt fillet, small floral gilt cornerpieces inside, expertly rebacked preserving original spine compartments with central gilt floral tools, new red morocco lettering piece, hinges neatly relined, ownership inscription of Phelipps to front endpaper, good (Adams S2206) £2,000 The first printing of the works of the late antique Christian writer Synesius of Cyrene (although his letters alone had been printed earlier by Aldus Manutius). The text is edited and printed by Adrian Turnèbe, who had been appointed King’s Printer of Greek in 1552, and produced a number of editiones principes in the 1550s using this new access to the royal library. Joseph Scaliger, one of his pupils, recognised the importance of this edition, writing to one of his agents that a copy ‘must be got for me, cost what it will’.

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and continued to write philosophy, rhetoric, and hymns of a distinctly pagan bent. He maintained a lifelong correspondence with Hypatia, sending most of his work to her for her approval, although he also corresponded with Theophilus. He therefore represents an important and often overlooked part of late antique relations between Christianity and paganism: ‘It was his very devotion to the classical spirit that led him, in spite of intellectual and personal difficulties, to grasp at the Christian Church as the only possible supporter of civilization, classical or otherwise, in the time in which he lived’ (Coster, ‘Christianity and the Invasions’, Classical Journal, v. 55 p. 308).

124. Tacitus. The Works of Tacitus. With political discourses upon that author. By Thomas Gordon, Esq; the fifth edition corrected. [Five volumes.] Dublin: Printed for J. Williams, T. Walker, C. Jenkin, L. Flin, and W. Halhead, 1777- 1778, pp. xvi, 317, [1]; [ii], 288; xxiii, [i], 359, [1]; [ii], 356; [ii], 384, 12mo, contemporary sprinkled calf, spines with raised bands between double gilt fillets, red morocco lettering pieces, slightly rubbed, some small surface damage and marking in places, a few corners just slightly worn but still a pleasant set, large prize label to front pastedown of vol. i, good ( ESTC T181137) £500 An early prize given by the Belfast (now Royal) Academy, founded in 1785. The plain (but elegant) typeset prize label fills the front pastedown in vol. i and records the presentation of the set to one James Ferguson after the exams of July 1793, for notable progress in the ‘Libris’ (added by hand in superscript) ‘humanioribus’. The label is signed by the headmaster, William Bruce (1757-1841), an important figure in Belfast politics and culture of the time.

Gordon’s Tacitus (with strongly Whiggish political essays) had first been published fifty years earlier, but it was an important text and not unpopular – this ‘fifth’ edition follows a London fourth but also earlier Dublin and Glasgow editions. It is among the scarcest of the printings, with ESTC locating 7 copies, three in the UK (BL, Bod, National Trust), one in Ireland (National Library) and three in the USA (Columbia, Smith, Library Company of Philadelphia).

John Logie Baird and the birth of television 125. (Television.) A Collection of early Books on Television, beginning with Dinsdale, Television, 1926, 16 books, with illustrations and diagrams as called for, 8vo and 4to, original bindings, in good condition £4,750 A good representative collection of pioneering works on television, comprising: Dinsdale (Alfred) Television. Seeing by Wire or Wireless, Isaac Pitman, 1926, original printed boards. Text block broken between first and second gatherings, but stitching holding. The fundamental text, and very scarce.

Dinsdale (Alfred) Television. With a Foreword by Dr. J.A. Fleming. Television Press, 1928, original cloth, spine faded.

Television. The World’s First Television Journal. The Official Organ of the Television Society. Edited by Alfred Dinsdale. The Television Press, March 1928-February 1930. Vols. 1 and 2, with Indexes, the first with its wrapper, slightly browned in places, original publisher’s cloth case binding, lettered in gilt on the upper cover.

Sheldon (H. Horton) and Edgar Norman Grisewood. Television. Present Methods of Picture Transmission. Second printing, The Library Press Limited, 1930, original cloth.

Moseley (Sydney A.) and H.J. Barton Chapple. Television Today and Tomorrow. With a Foreword

by J. Logie Baird. Second edition, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1931, original cloth, inscribed ‘To a bull!

Yours, Moseley’, and also signed by Baird.

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Chapple (H.J. Barton) Television for the Amateur Constructor. With a Foreword by Mr. J.L. Baird. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1933, original cloth, spine slightly faded.

Camm (F.J.) Newnes Television and Short-wave Handbook. George Newnes, Limited, 1934, original cloth, large stain on upper cover. Includes a Dictionary of Television Terms.

Robinson (Ernest H.) Televiewing. With a Foreword by Gerald Cock. Selwyn & Blount Ltd., [1935] , title browned, original cloth, strikingly lettered on upper cover and spine, spine slightly rubbed.

Dowding (G.V., editor). Book of Practical Television. The Amalgamated Press Limited, 1935, original cloth.

Myers (L.M.) Television Optics. An Introduction. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1936, original cloth.

Ardenne (Manfred von) Television Reception. Construction and Operation of a Cathode Ray Tube Receiver for the Reception of Ultra-short Wave Television Broadcasting. Translated by O.S. Puckle.

Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1936, first couple of pages slightly foxed, original ‘Flexiback Binding’ of cloth, dust jacket, jacket slightly soiled.

Moseley (Sydney A.) and Herbert McKay. Television. A Guide for the Amateur. Oxford University Press, 1936, original pictorial cloth. Book-plate and ownership inscription of F.O. Moseley.

World Radio and Television Annual, The. Jubilee Issue. Edited by Gale Pedrick. Sampson Low, Marston & Company, [1946] , original cloth, snag in spine.

Television Annual for 1952, The. Edited by Kenneth Baily. Odhams Press Ltd., [1952] , original cloth and dust jacket.

Moseley (Sydney). John Baird. The Romance and Tragedy of the Pioneer of Television. Odhams Press Limited, [1952].

Persecuted Huguenots 126. Toussain (Daniel) The Exercise of the Faithfull Soule: that is to say, prayers and meditations for one to comfort himselfe in all manner of afflictions, and specially to strengthen himselfe in faith…Englished out of French, almost word for word, by Ferdenando Filding. Imprinted ... By Henrie Middleton for Henrie Denham, 1583, FIRST EDITION of this translation, some staining, mainly marginal (inner and outer), pp. [lxvi], 338, [2, blank], 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt medallion at centre of each cover, worn, rebacked (a little crudely), sound ( ESTC S95555; STC (2nd ed.), 24144.5) £3,000 Issue with the first quire reset and ‘manner’ corrected in the sixth line of the title. The main text is, as it were, the confession of faith of this important Huguenot. The Preface chronicles, at first hand, the persecutions and travails of the Huguenots, including accounts of the St. Bartholomew Day’s massacre (of recent memory). Little seems to be known about the translator, Ferdenando Filding, who dedicates the translation to ‘To the right worshipfull and his especiall good master Walter Raleigh esquier’, right at the time when he (Ralegh) was ‘at the heart of the Court’ ( ODNB ).

The book is scarce. The present issue is recorded in ESTC at BL and Bodley only, while the other issue is given in BL, Cambridge, Oxford, and Peterborough Cathedral in the UK, plus three more in the USA , and of the 1609 edition just two copies are listed. Signature ‘Newton’ on verso of terminal blank, possibly acquired by that owner in 1793, since the number of the years passed since publication is calculated inside the front cover.

Aberdonian algebra 127. [Trail (William)] Elements of Algebra. For the use of students in universities. Third edition.

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text, somewhat untidy mathematical calculations and scribblings in pencil on paste-downs and flyleaves, Russian bookseller’s stamp inside rear cover and a few marks in biro, pp. [viii], 261, [3, blank], 50 plus blank, 8vo, contemporary sheep, compartments gilt ruled on spine, red letteringpiece, worn and scuffed but basically sound ( ESTC T108050) £650 In 1766 ‘Trail was one of six candidates whose competence in the various branches of mathematics was assessed from 13 until 28 August by a group of examiners that included Thomas Reid, who was a graduate of Marischal and an accomplished mathematician… on 28 August he was judged to be the best qualified for the vacant chair of mathematics at Marischal College, Aberdeen’ ( ODNB ). This Syllabus, as the author styles it in the Advertisment, was prepared for the course he taught there.

The Appendix (6 parts) is new in this edition. There were four editions: the first, Aberdeen, 1776, is recorded in ESTC in 4 UK copies only; the second, Edinburgh 1779, in 3 UK and 3 US copies; the present edition in 6 UK locations and 2 in the US. The work is anonymous, but the author’s name is here on the original spine label.

128. Trollope (Anthony) The Prime Minister. Chapman and Hall, 1876, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM , a few gatherings slightly proud, minimal tendency to browning around the edges, pp. [vi, recte iv], 337; iv, 342; [vi, recte iv], 346; [vi, recte iv], 347, 8vo, original red-brown silkgrained cloth, blocked on front and back with frame and conventional design, bands of black and gold at ends of spine, gilt lettered, design in black at the centre, slightly skewed, spines slightly darkened, ends of spines a little worn, split at head of lower joint on vol. ii, armorial bookplate of John George Mortlock in each vol., good (Sadleir 45) £1,100 ‘The fifth of Trollope’s six Palliser Novels. This is the tale describing ‘the triumph, the troubles, and the failure of my Prime Minister’ [Trollope’s Autobiography]. Its major theme is ‘a study of two divergent temperaments: the Duchess striving to make her husband the greatest figure of his time, and he conscious only of his duties and responsibilities’ (Gerould). John George Mortlock (1835-1917) had a large estate at Meldreth, Cambs.

Including an answer to the debt problem 129. Turner (Richard) The Young Geometrician’s Companion; being a new and comprehensive course of practical geometry; Containing, I. An easy Introduction to Decimal Arithmetic, with the Extractions of the Square, Cube, Biquadrate, and other Roots. II. Such Definitions, Axioms, Problems, Theorems, and Characters, as necessarily lead to the Knowledge of this Science. III. Planometry, or the Mensuration of Superficies; as Squares, Parallelograms, Triangles, Circles, Segments, &c. IV. Stereometry, or the Mensuration of Solids; as Cubes, Parallelopipedons, Prisms, Cones, Pyramids, Cylinders, Spheres, Frustums, &c. V. The Sections of a Cone; as Ellipses, Parabolas, Hyperbolas, Spheroids, Conoids, Spindles, &c. VI. The Platonic Bodies; as Tetraedrons, Hexaëdrons, Octaëdrons, Dodecaëdrons, and Icosaëdrons. To Which is Added A Collection of curious and interesting Problems, shewing that Lines and Angles, (and consequently the least Particle of Matter) may be divided in infinitum; that Superficies and Solids may be so cut as to appear considerably augmented; and, that the famous Problem of Archimedes, of moving the Earth, is capable of an easy and accurate Demonstration. ... Printed for S. Crowder, 1787, FIRST EDITION , title printed in red and black (‘Companion’ printed in red and gone over in black ink, numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, a bit of damp-staining in the lower inner margins, ink splodge on one page, pp. [xii], 240, 12mo, modern drab boards, spine lettered vertically in black, original blue sprinkled edges, good £750 ( ESTC T112951)

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A long title, but one worth reading through. ESTC records just six copies, 3 on either side of the Atlantic: of those in the UK, 2 are in Scotland, one at Glasgow Univeristy, which granted Turner an honorary LLD in 1785. ‘Problem 24. To find the Side of a Cubic Block of Gold, which being coined into Guineas, would pay off the National Debt’ (the answer is 16 feet).

130. (United States of America. Civil War.) Muster Roll of the Fourth Regiment, Conn. Volunteers. Hartford: Colhoun Printing Company, [1861], single sheet broadside, printed on recto only in 4 colums, large woodcut of the American eagle below the title bearing in its beak a scroll with the words ‘The Union Now and Forever’, folio (approx. 490 x 405 mm), browned, and a few stains, formerly folded several times with some weaknesses at the folds, sound £750 A rare survival. At the outbreak of the Civil War Connecticut immediately raised 3 regiments of volunteers; by the end of the war 30 had been raised, as well as artillery regiments. The 4th Connecticut saw action at the Battle of Hoke’s Run, July 2, 1861.

131. (United States of America. Civil War.) WREN (George W.) The Chant of the Veterans, A true record of the gallantry of Billy Barlow, Dedicated to the remnant of the 61st N.Y. Vols. [?New York: 1864?], single sheet broadside printed in 2 colums, folio (305 x 200 mm), browned in places, sometime folded several times with short tears at 2 of the folds, abrasion to printed surface with the loss of a few letters (sense recoverable), sound £500 The record of the 61st New York Volunteers ‘is a long and glorious one and it bravely earned its right to rank among the most gallant organizations of the Union army’ (article on the regiment on the New York State Military Museum, on-line). There was a colonel in the regiment by the name of Barlow, but his first name was Francis. The song consists of 22 four-line stanzas with a two-line refrain. In the second half mention is made of various other regiments, including the Irish Brigade – ‘For fighting and drinking are their greatest joys’, and one stanza is written in a, one supposes drunken, Irish accent.

132. (United States of America. Massachusetts. Taxation.) COMMONWEALTH of Massachusetts. The Honorable Henry Gardner, Esq; Treasurer and Receiver General of the said Commonwealth to [name added in manuscript] Timothy Hartshorn Constable or Collector of [town added in manuscript] Reading, Greeting &c. [?Boston:] 1780, single sheet broadside, printed on recto only and completed in manuscript, folio, approx. 415 x 340 mm, formerly folded several times, repairs to folds with minimal loss to text, slightly and unevenly browned, sound £1,200 The birth of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and how it was paid for. Timothy Hartshorn (17371801) was a third generation New Englander. By the authority of this document he is required to collect taxes to the amount of £8,511/3/11. How to deal with defaulters is set out in considerable detail. The new Commonwealth required £5,601,026/13/6 in total. Timothy Hartshorn House, built in 1787, is now a ‘historic house’ at 379 Haverhill Street in Reading, Massachusetts.

133. Vallée (Louis Léger) Traité de la Géométrie Descriptive. [with:] Planches Gravées par Ambroise Tardieu. [Two volumes in one.] Paris: the widow Courcier, 1819, FIRST EDITION , lithographed portrait frontispiece of Monge, engraved title-page to the atlas, this comprising 60 engraved plates, 3 double-page, minor damp-stain in upper outer corner towards end, a little offsetting of the plates, pp. xx, 355, 4to, contemporary half calf, corners worn, good £750 Vallée (1784-1864) was a pupil of Monge, and supplied in this and other works what Monge had not, application of Géométrie Descriptive for artists, sculptors and architects. He himself became a distiguished engineer.

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A new instrument 134. Volta (Alessandro) Of the method of rendering very sensible the weakest natural or artificial electricity. Read at the Royal Society, March 14, 1782. [English translation by Tiberius Cavallo].

Printed by J. Nichols, 1782, FIRST EDITION in English, offprint issue, the English text following the Italian, outer pages dust soiled, cut down somewhat (220 x 175 mm) but not encroaching on the text at all, pp. [i], 71, 4to, green cloth, c. 1900, University of Glasgow Chemistry Department bookplate inside front cover, stamped ‘Withdrawn,’ good ( ESTC T133079, Huntington and Yale only in the US) £950 ‘Volta embodied the quantities capacity and tension, and the implicit relation that he had established between them (Q=CT), in a new instrument, a condensator for rendering sensible atmospheric electricity otherwise too weak for detection. This famous device is nothing but an electrophore with a poor conductor like polished marble of oiled wood as its cake ... Others soon incorporated this insight into ingenious multipliers of weak charges, such as the well-known “doubler” invented by William Nicholson’ ( DSB ).

135. Von Neumann (John) and Oskar Morgenstern. Theory of Games and Economic Behavior.

Princeton: University Press, 1944, FIRST EDITION , first printing, pp. xviii, 625, with errata leaf tipped onto front free endpaper, 8vo, original publisher’s cloth, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, a little rubbed, spine faded, top corner of front board bumped, former owner’s bookplate on front £1,200 paste-down, sound ( OOC 953) ‘Quantitative mathematical models for games such as poker or bridge at one time appeared impossible, since games like these involve free choices by the players at each move, and each move reacts to the moves of other players. However, in the 1920s John von Neumann single-handedly invented game theory, introducing the general mathematical concept of “strategy” in a paper on games of chance (Mathematische Annalen 100 [1928]: 295-300). This contained the proof of his “minimax” theorem that says “a strategy exists that guarantees, for each player, a maximum payoff assuming that the adversary acts so as to minimize that payoff.” The “minimax” principle, a key component of the game-playing computer programs developed in the 1950s and 1960s by Samuel, Newell, Simon, and others... was more fully articulated and explored in “The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior”, co-authored by von Neumann and the Austrian economist Oskar Morgenstern... Von Neumann revolutionized mathematical economics. Had he not suffered an early death from cancer in 1957, he most probably would have received the first Nobel Prize in economics’ (Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyberspace, p. 73).

136. Walker (J. and C.) [and James Alexander Knipe] A Geological Map Of England, Wales, And Part of Scotland, Showing Also The Inland Navigation By Means Of Rivers And Canals, With Their Elevation In Feet Above The Sea, Together With The Rail Roads & Principal Roads.

[Published according to Act of Parliament by J. & C. Walker, Decr 18th 1835, but, rather, 1836], large handcoloured map, 100cm. x 144cm, dissected and laid-down on linen, folding down to 250 x 160mm., patterned green cloth backing the sections exposed when folded, imprint at foot cropped as usual, a little spotting here and there, the linen more pronouncedly so, twin pair of pin holes at the top for suspension, a short length of Victorian string remaining in one of them, preserved in its original cloth slip-in case, red lettering piece on one cover, some repairs to case £1,250 Fourth or later state of this impressive geological and transport map. The map has cross sections and notes referring to mineral deposits which were vital for the industries and wealth of the country. In this state the map extends as far as Forfar: in the second edition of 1839 parts of Ireland and France were included. Some 50 editions or versions appeared over a 40 year period.

‘This series of maps illustrates the rapid evolution of separately-published geological maps during the 1830s and how that evolution was driven by competing publishers exploiting a new and large market for geological maps. It also highlights the role played by publishers in popularising geology and geological maps ... With the exception of the Geological Survey, Knipe was perhaps the most

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prolific geological map publisher of mid-19th century Britain. Although he lacked money, social status and influence, he was an active practitioner of geology who undertook consulting projects for clients such as Liverpool Corporation and the Duke of Rutland. Although he made no major scientific breakthroughs, Knipe played a key role as a populariser of geology. His life and works remain largely undocumented [and the exclusion of his name from this state is unaccounted for]’ (The eye of a collector: how map collecting illuminates history, Christopher Toland at HOGG Conference on Geological Collectors and Collecting 4-5 April 2011, Flett Theatre, Natural History Museum, London).

137. [Walker (Obadiah)] Of Education. Especially of Young Gentlemen.

In two parts. The Sixth Edition, Enlarged. Printed by H. Gellibrand, for Richard Wellington, 1699, occasional minor spotting, with preliminary advertisment leaf and final gathering also (bar the first recto) comprising adverts, pp. [xii], 299 (recte 301), [11], 12mo, original sprinkled sheep, boards and spine ruled in blind, a little bit rubbed, short splits to joints at head, front pastedown and rear flyleaf neatly excised, very good ( ESTC R25723; Wing W404) £250 A well-preserved and unsophisticated copy of the sixth and final edition of Obadiah Walker’s Of Education, ‘a distillation of his teaching experience’ in Oxford before and after, and as a private tutor in Rome during, the Interregnum.

138. Waring (Edward) Meditationes Algebraicae … Editio Tertia. Cambridge: J. Archdeacon, 1782, second edition (see below), uncut, a little dusty in places and some light foxing, pp. [i], xliv, 389, [2, Corrigenda], [12, Addenda], [8], [4, Addenda et Corrigenda], with additional folded leaves inserted at pp. 31, 119, 123 & 213, 4to, late nineteenth-century vellum, yapp edges, spine lettered in ink, slightly warped, bookplate of Thomas Edward Dicey and later notes as to provenance (see below), good ( ESTC T113616) £650 Waring’s first mathematical work, Miscellanea Analytica, was made available as a single chapter in 1759 in support of his application for the Lucasian chair. The complete work appeared in 1762 and covered the theory of equations and algebraic curves. In 1770 an expanded version of the algebraic part alone appeared as Meditationes Algebraicae, hence the present work being styled the ‘third edition’; the geometric part appeared separately two years later as Proprietates Algebraicarum Curvarum. ‘The importance of Waring’s formulas and conjectures, beyond the mathematician’s view, is that there are applications in computer algorithms involving parallel processing that help speed up the performance of calculations. This naturally translates into efficient use of resources to solve problems that affect our daily lives’ (lucasian.org).

Provenance: bookplate of Thomas Edward Dicey (1789-1858) on front paste-down. Dicey matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1808, and was Senior Wrangler in 1811. He was an important railway entrepreneur, acting as Chairman of Midland Counties Railway (later the Midland Railway) from 1837.

An inscription at the foot of the title page states “This was received by the late Thomas Edward Dicey on getting the Smith’s Prize at Cambridge in 1811”, and that the book was given to Dicey’s son Henry John Stephen in December 1878. Later bookplate and withdrawal stamp of Glasgow University Library on front paste-down with their ink stamp on title verso and lower blank margin of final leaf.

139. Wilkinson (Sarah Scudgell) William and Emily, or, the Cruel Deception. A domestic Tale.

Founded on Facts. Printed and Sold by Dean and Munday, [c.1820,] FIRST ( ONLY ) EDITION , a few tears and a little damage from the stitching, pp. 38, 8vo, stitched, sound £400 William, the heir to Lord Linton, and Emily, a farmer’s daughter, shared, in succession, the same wetnurse. The two grew up together, and eventually fell in love. William was about to embark on a Grand Tour, and wanted to marry Emily secretly, for which purpose Emily reluctantly agreed to be packed off to London, there to be joined by William in a few days. She was deceived...

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Sarah Wilkinson ‘was the author of at least seventy separate publications, over fifty of which were chapbook romances ... Her work tends to emphasize the plight of women victimized for sexual failings’ ( ODNB ). ‘Founded on fact’ appears in a number of her titles. COPAC and WorldCat record BL only.

140. Worcester (Noah) [Holograph sermon on Hab. III, 17, 18.] [Brighton, MA: c. 1813], manuscript in ink on paper, pp. [32], 8vo, stitched, good £1,500 Noah Worcester (1758-1837) was a Unitarian clergyman, founder of the pacifism movement in America. He published A Solemn Review of the Custom of War in 1814 and founded the Massachusetts Peace Society in 1815. A prefatory note states: ‘This sermon was written to deliver at Brattle Street in the time of war, but it has not been delivered’, evidently the Anglo-American War of 1812 to 1815. The sermon is forcefully anti-war: ‘Even the desolating judgment of war may be overruled for the benefit of the afflicted nations and of other nations who are the spectators of the horrid scene.

War is indeed one of the most tremendous evils with which a righteous God afflicts a guilty people’ (pp. 10-11). Later Worcester specifically addresses the subject of war ‘with the Government of Great Britain’, asking ‘whether we had just cause to commence it, and whether there now exists sufficient cause for its continuance’ (pp. 30-31). Provenance: stated to be from the collection of notable early American autograph collector William Buell Sprague (1795-1876), with a descriptive sheet apparently in Sprague’s hand.

141. (Yorkshire Association.) Omnium gatherum, or, the Political Hodge-Podge. The the Tune of ‘Mrs. Arne, Mrs. Arne/It gives me concern’ [?York: c. 1780], broadside, verses in 2 columns, printed on recto only, single sheet, 4to £500 An attack on Christopher Wyvill, and others including Charles Stanhope, and Earl Effing (i.e. Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham). ESTC (3 copies, 2 in the BL, 1 in Oxford) posits York as the place of printing, but given that the attack is on reformers in general (and among them opponents of the American war), albeit beginning with Wyvill, there is no prima facie argument for supposing it to be printed there.

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Section Two Modern First Editions 142. Amis (Martin) The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America. Cape. 1986, FIRST EDITION , pp. £70 xii, 212, crown 8vo, original black boards, backstrip gilt lettered, dustjacket, near fine Signed by Martin Amis on the title-page.

143. Amis (Martin) Other People: a Mystery Story. Cape. 1981, FIRST EDITION , pp. 224, foolscap 8vo, original black boards, backstrip gilt lettered, ownership inscription ‘Jonathan Price, Oxford’ on front free endpaper, dustjacket, near fine £70 144. Amis (Martin) Success. Cape. 1978, FIRST EDITION , pp. 224, crown 8vo, original black boards, £225 backstrip gilt lettered, price-clipped dustjacket, fine Signed by Martin Amis on the title-page, and Juliet Palmer and the Oxford poet Elizabeth Jennings on the front free endpaper.

145. (Artists’ Choice Editions.) CARROLL (Lewis) Alice’s Adventures under Ground. With Carroll’s original manuscript typeset and his drawings hand-coloured by Ian Beck, a Foreword by Selwyn Goodacre and an Afterword by Ian Beck. 2013, 61/220 COPIES (of an edition of 242 copies), printed on Stow Book Ivory Vol. 13, numerous illustrations in colour (a number full-page), pp. [84], large 8vo, original blue clothbacked boards, backstrip gilt lettered, the front board illustrated overall in colour, the rear board with a black and white design, colourprinted endpapers, fine £72 Of the numerous reproductions to date of Carroll’s first written version of the Alice tale (which he much expanded for publication as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ), this is the first to present Carroll’s own original illustrations in colour, here supplied by Ian Beck.

146. (Artists’ Choice Editions.) (Carroll.) Illustrating Alice. An international selection of illustrated editions of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

Artist’s Choice Editions, 2013, FIRST EDITION, 202/500 COPIES , headings, titles, and some text printed in blue, green, red, or yellow, colour illustrations on nearly every page, pp. 201, [7], folio, original red cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket, new £86 147. (Artists’ Choice Editions.) CARROLL (Lewis) Hunting of the Snark. An Agony in Eight Fits.

Illustrated by John Vernon Lord with a Foreword & Afterword by the Artist. 2006, 221/220 COPIES signed by the illustrator, printed on Zerkall paper, illustrated frontispiece and illustrations throughout, pp. 69, folio, original blue illustrated boards, backstrip lettered in black, illustrated £68 endpapers, fine Numbered thus, the publisher presumably printed a few extra copies!

148. (Artists’ Choice Editions.) (Carroll.) GOODACRE (Selwyn) The Illustrated Editions of The Hunting of the Snark. An Illustrated Exploration and Check List. 2006, ONE OF 220 COPIES (this unnumbered) signed by the author, printed on Mohawk Tomahawk paper, text printed in black 52

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and red, colour and monochrome illustrations throughout, pp. 48, folio, original green cloth, illustrated dustjacket, fine £56 Illustrations from throughout the publishing history of Carroll’s delightful nonsense poem.

149. Beckett (Samuel) Malone Dies. A novel translated from the French by the author. John Calder, 1958, FIRST UK EDITION , pp. [vi], 120, 8vo, original black boards lightly soiled overall, backstrip lettered in gilt, top corners bumped, top edge dustsoiled and endpapers very lightly foxed, dustjacket frayed along edges with a few creases and short closed tears, light soiling to rear panel, glassine jacket, good (Federman and Fletcher 375.1) £45 150. Beckett (Samuel) Molloy. Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1951, FIRST EDITION, 236/500 COPIES printed on Alfa Navarre paper, pp. 273, crown 8vo, original cream wrappers printed in black with just a touch of very faint soiling to rear panel, backstrip printed in black and very slightly toned, untrimmed and unopened, very good (Federman & Fletcher 257) £400 One of 500 copies from the first edition for ‘Les Amis des Éditions de Minuit’.

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151. Beckett (Samuel) Oh Les Beaux Jours. Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1963, FIRST FRENCH EDITION, 108/412 COPIES printed on Velin Marqués paper, pp. 89, 12mo, original white wrappers printed in black, adhesive beginning to show through backstrip, untrimmed and unopened, tissue jacket, near fine (Federman & Fletcher 149) £100 Beckett’s own translation into French of his 1961 play Happy Days.

152. Bell (Clive) The Legend of Monte della Sibilla, or Le Paradis de la Reine Sibille. Hogarth Press, 1923, FIRST EDITION , fontispiece and head- and tail-piece illustrations by Duncan Grant, pp. 25, royal 8vo, original white boards with Vanessa Bell illustration to front, very light soiling overall but remains bright, backstrip lightly toned, untrimmed and non-text leaves uncut, very good £300 (Woolmer 27) One of 400 copies handprinted by the Woolfs.

A Christmas gift from Quentin Bell 153. Bell (Quentin) An Introductory History of England in the 18th Century. For Use in Secondary & Approved Schools, Institutions for Remedial Teaching, Prisons, Insane Asylums etc. A Facsimile, with an Introduction by Julian Bell. Charlbury, Senecio Press, 2013, FIRST EDITION, 28/500 COPIES , illustrations throughout (many in colour and full-page), all text reproduced in facsimile, pp. 86, imperial 4to, original quarter brown leather with green patterned boards in a facsimile of the original binding, Introduction by Julian Bell laid in at front on folded sheet with limitation number, slipcase with printed label to front, fine £195 Originally produced by Bell as a Christmas present to his nieces Henrietta and Amaryllis Garnett in 1957, this playful account

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of the eighteenth century is beautifully illustrated and has never before been published – unlike his equivalent gift of the previous year, published in 1957 by Faber and Faber as ‘The True Story of Cinderella’. For this edition, Senecio Press have reproduced every detail of Bell’s text – from the binding to the vivid illustrations, including all of the marks and stains from the lovingly hand-produced original.

Quentin Bell (1910-1996) was born into the Bloomsbury Group, the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell (née Stephen). His biography of his aunt, Virginia Woolf, was widely lauded, but he was also an artist – specialising in ceramics – and a Professor of Art History. Bell’s original letter presenting the gift is reproduced in facsimile preceding the text, whilst his son Julian provides an additional introduction to what is an impressive and curious family document, richly deserving of a wider audience.

154. Betjeman (John) Antiquarian Prejudice. Hogarth Press, 1939, FIRST EDITION , pp. 30, 12mo, original orange sewn wrappers printed in black, a touch of fading around spine, very good (Peterson A7)

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A lecture on architecture, printed in an edition of 3,000 copies.

155. Betjeman (John) Summoned by Bells. John Murray, 1960, FIRST EDITION , title decoration and a small design at the head of each verse chapter by Michael Tree, pp. [viii], 111, 8vo, original green blind-stamped cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and a trifle rubbed at tips, edges toned, patterned endpapers, dustjacket with a few small nicks and light creases around head, a few tiny foxspots to £50 front panel, very good (Peterson A29a) 156. Briggs (Raymond) Ug. Boy Genius of the Stone Age and his Search for Soft Trousers. Jonathan Cape, 2001, FIRST EDITION , colour illustrations by the author throughout, pp. [32], folio, original illustrated boards, backstrip lettered in black, very thin 2-inch strip removed from front pastedown where concealing flap has adhered, dustjacket, near fine £40 Signed by Raymond Briggs on the half-title, ‘For Lesley, With Best Wishes, Raymond Briggs, 29 September 2001’.

With the Text Substantially Revised 157. Carr (J.L.) A Month in the Country. Introduced by Ronald Blythe. Cornucopia Press. 1990, ONE OF 300 NUMBERED COPIES signed by the author and Ronald Blythe, title-page printed in black and red, pp.xv,106,[1], royal 8vo, original mid green cloth, printed backstrip and front cover labels, t.e.g., glassine-jacket, new £140 The text for this edition was completely revised by J.L. Carr who was always anxious to see a fine edition published of this, his most famous work. The reworking resulted in a revised text substantially at variance from that of the first edition.

158. Chesterton (G.K.) Magic. A Fantastic Comedy. Martin Secker, [1913], 21/150 COPIES signed by the author, printed on Japon paper, half title and final page of text browned, pp. [viii], 72, 8vo, original blue boards with a small amount of soiling and light fading, backstrip with printed label sunned, top edge trimmed, endpapers with a few light foxspots, good £250 159. Christie (Agatha) Appointment with Death. Collins. 1938, FIRST EDITION , pp. 252, [4] (adverts.), crown 8vo, original orange cloth a trifle soiled, faded backstrip lettered in black, light endpaper browning, good £350

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160. Christie (Agatha) The Big Four. Collins. 1927, FIRST EDITION , foxed throughout, pp. [vi], 282, crown 8vo, original mid blue cloth, backstrip and front cover lettering and borders all blocked in orange, two owner’s names on front free endpaper, one of which is partly erased, good £300 161. Christie (Agatha) The Mystery of the Blue Train. Collins. [1928], FIRST EDITION , pp. viii, 296, crown 8vo, original mid blue cloth, lettering to backstrip and front cover and the rule borders all blocked in orange, neatly repaired one-inch tear to head of backstrip, faint free endpaper browning, good £450 162. (Clark.) A Garland of Poems for Leonard Clark on his 75th Birthday, as a tribute to his achievements as a poet and in the cause of poetry. Enitharmon Press, 1980, ONE OF 400 COPIES , pp.

35, 8vo, original blue card stapled wrappers printed in black, slight fading to spine, very good (Halliwell 82) £30 Previously unpublished work by a number of poets, including Kathleen Raine, David Gascoyne, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, and R.S. Thomas. Published in conjunction with The Lomond Press, Kinnesswood.

163. Conrad (Joseph) Lord Jim. A Tale. Pocket edition. William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1929, pp. [vi], 426, 8vo, original publisher’s calf, decoated in gilt and blind and with onlays, top edges gilt, original glassine dustwrapper and in the original publisher’s card box with £100 printed paper label, minimal wear to box, fine A remarkable survival, in near perfect condition, a binding intended for the gift market: but Christmas 1929 was perhaps not the best time.

An inscribed first edition and a signed copy of the uncorrected proof 164. Cope (Wendy) Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis. Faber and Faber, 1986, FIRST EDITION , pp. 69, crown 8vo, original terracotta boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket a little faded around backstrip, otherwise fine Inscribed on the title-page: ‘Ken, All good wishes, Wendy Cope’.

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[with:] Cope (Wendy) Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis. Faber and Faber, 1986, UNCORRECTED PROOF, pp. 69, crown 8vo, original green wrappers printed in black, near fine £175 Signed by the author to the title-page

‘Is it true my daughter knows a Negro?’

165. Cunard (Nancy) Black Man and White Ladyship. An Anniversary. Privately Printed, 1931, second printing, erratum slip printed in red tipped-in to p. 7, pp. 11, 8vo, original stapled pink wrappers lettered in black, a little fading around spine and creasing to corners, gift incription in pencil inside front cover, good £400 Cunard’s impassioned and thoughtful dissection of the attitudes, actions, and words of her mother (and by extension the social group to which she belongs) grew directly from incidents around her own relationship with the jazz musician Henry Crowder, but goes beyond the merely personal to examine ‘the colour question’ as part of a much larger picture of Anglo-American society.

Inscribed by the author to his wife 166. de la Mare (Walter) Crossings. A Fairy Play. With Music by C. Armstrong Gibbs. Illustrations

by Dorothy P. Lathrop. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION , colour frontispiece with tissue guard, further full-page illustrations as well as head and tail-pieces throughout text and pages of musical notation, pp. 170, 4to, original blue cloth stamped in gilt to front, backstrip lettered in gilt and a little darkened, t.e.g., fore-edge browned, good £80 Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf, to his wife: ‘F from J, with my love’. De la Mare was know to his friends and family as Jack.

Inscribed to his wife, ‘With the Epitaphographer’s love’ 167. de la Mare (Walter) Ding Dong Bell. Selwyn & Blount, 1924, FIRST EDITION , a few faint foxspots to prelims, pp. xii, 76, 8vo, original red cloth, backstrip with paper label printed in red, top edge trimmed, edges toned, panels of browning to free endpapers, in custom contemporary paperbacked red cloth dustjacket with light soiling overall, backstrip panel faded and lettered in gilt, £85 good Inscribed by de la Mare to his wife Elfrieda: ‘Fridy, with the Epitaphographer’s love, May 1924’.

Inscribed by the author to his wife, ‘With love from Mr Stuff’ 168. de la Mare (Walter) Stuff and Nonsense, and So On. With Woodcuts

by Bold. Constable, 1927, FIRST EDITION , numerous woodcut tailpieces and vignettes, a few light foxspots to prelims and ultimate pages, blank preceding half-title a little browned, pp. xii, 110, 8vo original green cloth a little dustsoiled and faded, backstrip lettered in gilt and faded, t.e.g., other edges toned, good £80 Inscribed by de la Mare to his wife, Elfrieda: ‘Fridy, with love from Mr Stuff, June 1927’.

169. Deighton (Len) Spy Story. Jonathan Cape, 1974, FIRST EDITION , pp. 224, 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, very slight lean to spine, top edge red, dustjacket with light fading to backstrip panel and a few short closed tears, light rubbing to edges and corners and a little creasing at head of flaps, two internal burn-spots not visible externally, very good £160 Inscribed by the author on the title-page, dated 18th June 1974.

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170. Dexter (Colin) The Jewel That Was Ours. Macmillan, 1991, FIRST EDITION , full-page map, pp. [xii], 275, 8vo, original blue boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, faint and very small white patch at foot of lower board, dustjacket, near fine £50 Signed by the author to the title-page.

171. Dexter (Colin) Morse’s Greatest Mystery. Macmillan, 1993, FIRST EDITION , pp, [x], 240, 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, sky blue endpapers and page-marker, dustjacket, fine £65 Signed by the author to the title page.

172. Dexter (Colin) The Remorseful Day. Macmillan, 1999, FIRST EDITION , pp. [x], 374, 8vo, original £60 black boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, black page-marker, dustjacket, near fine Signed by the author to the title-page.

173. Dexter (Colin) The Way Through The Woods. With an appreciation by Jonathan Gash. Bristol: Scorpion Press, 1992, 31/150 COPIES signed by the author, pp. [18], 296, 8vo, original quarter red leatherette with marbled boards, a tiny bit of rubbing at tips of joints, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge red, foxspots to top and fore-edge, glassine jacket, near fine £85 174. Dexter (Colin) The Wench is Dead. Macmillan, 1989, FIRST EDITION , full-page map, pp. [viii], 200, 8vo, original brown boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket, fine £70 Signed by the author to the title-page.

Inscribed ‘A René et à Georgette Magritte’ 175. Dumont (Fernand) La Région du Coeur. Mons: Groupe Surréaliste en Hainaut 1939, FIRST EDITION , 140/200 COPIES (of an edition of 213 copies), pp. [viii], 72, 24mo, original white wrappers with image to front and lettered in black, lightly soiled overall with rubbing along edges and particularly to joints, backstrip lettered in black with a little chipping at tips and a small section starting to detach at foot, split to £1,200 lower quarter of front joint, good A presentation copy inscribed by the author to fellow Belgian surrealist René Magritte and his wife Georgette, ‘De tout coeur, le 3 décembre 1939’.

Dumont, a pseudonym of Fernand Demoustier adopted in honour of his home town of Mons, died in the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in 1945.

176. Dunsany (Lord [i.e. E. J. M. D. Plunkett]) The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders. Jarrold, 1950, FIRST EDITION , pp. 208, crown 8vo, original black cloth with vertical rule in blind to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, edges toned, panels of browning to free endpapers, dustjacket tatty overall with portion of loss at foot of backstrip panel, good £50 Inscribed by the author: ‘To Walter de la Mare from Dunsany. For your verse, my prose. Behold/ My best lead in change for gold. Nov:15.1950’.

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177. Eliot (T.S.) The Cocktail Party. A Comedy. Faber and Faber, 1950, FIRST EDITION , second issue with ‘here’ corrected to ‘her’ on first line of p. 29, a small amount of pencil underlining towards end of text, pp. 168, [3], 8vo, original green cloth with a small bubble at the head of upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, free endpapers lightly foxed, dustjacket with backstrip panel a trifle faded and a few small nicks, very good (Gallup A55a) £40 178. Eliot (T.S.) The Confidential Clerk. A Play. Faber and Faber, 1954, FIRST EDITION , pp. 135, 8vo, original blue cloth a little rubbed to extremities, backstrip lettered in gilt, slight lean to spine, some browning to endpapers, dustjacket price-clipped with chipping at corners and around tips £20 of backstrip, good (Gallup A64a) With a playbill from its first London run in 1953 at the Lyric Theatre laid-in at the front.

179. Eliot (T.S.) The Dry Salvages. Faber. 1941, FIRST EDITION , pp. 16, 8vo, original printed pale bluegrey stapled wrappers, spine faded, untrimmed, good (Gallup A39) £2,500 Anne Ridler’s copy, gifted to her by Eliot and inscribed by him on the half-title at the time of publication, ‘to Anne Ridler from T.S. Eliot Sep. 1941’. Anne Ridler has pencilled through ‘hermit’ (hermit crab) and placed in the margin ‘horse-shoe/’.

180. Eliot (T.S.) The Elder Statesman. A Play. Faber and Faber, 1959, FIRST EDITION , pp. 108, [1], 8vo, original red cloth with nick to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, a little light foxing to top edge, panels of faint browning to free endpapers, dustjacket with backstrip panel a little faded, very good (Gallup A70a) £35 181. Eliot (T.S.) The Family Reunion. A Play. Faber and Faber, 1939, FIRST EDITION , pp. 136, 8vo, original grey cloth, backstrip lettered in red, slight lean to spine and toning to borders, top edge lightly dustsoiled with tail and fore-edge roughtrimmed, first issue dustjacket with backstrip panel a little darkened, very good (Gallup A33a) £80 182. Eliot (T.S.) Four Quartets [East Coker; Burnt Norton; The Dry Salvages (2 copies); Little Gidding.] Faber and Faber, 1940- 1942, FIRST SEPARATE FABER EDITIONS , some foxing to ‘East Coker’ and ‘Burnt Norton’ with a small amount of pen underlining to the former, pp. 15; 15; 15 (2 copies); 16, 8vo, original card wrappers lettered in black to front, some toning, light creasing and a few small marks, each protected within folded grey card and slipcase, good (Gallup A36c; A37; A39; A42) £400 ‘East Coker’ first appeared, in two editions, as a supplement to the New English Weekly in Easter of 1940; ‘Burnt Norton’ had been included in Eliot’s Collected Poems from 1936; the latter two poems from the sequence are here in their first edition, with ‘Little Gidding’ in the earlier sewn binding.

Inscribed by the author for his French publisher 183. Eliot (T.S.) Meurtre dans la Cathédrale. Traduit de l’anglais et présenté par Henri Fluchère. Paris: Éditions de Seuil, 1946, ADVANCE REVIEW COPY, pages lightly toned, pp. 140, [1], original white wrappers printed in grey and black, backstrip lettered in black and white against a lightly faded grey ground, a couple of light marks to rear and very short split at foot of upper joint, very good (Gallup D85) £450 The first work of Eliot’s to be published in book-form in French, Fluchère’s translation was published by Neuchâtel in 1943 before being taken on by

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Éditions de Seuil in their ‘Pierres Vives’ series. This advance review copy [a perforated ‘S.P.’ (Service de Presse) stamp to rear cover and last few leaves identifying it as such] is inscribed by the translator on the half-title, dated 15.6.46, and by the author on the title-page for the founder of Éditions de Seuil: ‘Inscribed for Henri Sjöberg by T.S. Eliot (en souvenir de Stockholm 1942).’ Eliot had been in Stockholm in 1942 on behalf of the British Council, to which visit his inscription presumably relates.

184. Eliot (T.S.) Murder in the Cathedral. Faber and Faber, 1935, FIRST COMPLETE EDITION , pp. 87, 8vo, original purple cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, very slight lean to spine, small patch of foxing to pastedowns and one or two spots to free endpapers, dustjacket a little rubbed and creased, very good (Gallup A29b) £150 185. Eliot (T.S.) The Rock. A Pageant Play written for performance at Sadler’s Wells Theatre 28 May – 9 June 1934 on behalf of the Forty-Five Churches Fund of the Diocese of London. Faber and Faber, 1934, FIRST EDITION , pp. 86, crown 8vo, original grey wrappers printed in black with borders toned, backstrip lettered in black and toned, edges toned, ownership inscription to flyleaf, very good (Gallup A26a) £120 One of 2,000 copies in this binding from the first edition.

186. (Eliot.) Order of Service in memory of THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT (born 26th September 1888, died 4th January 1965). Thursday, 4th February 1965, 12 noon. Westminster Abbey, 1965, SOLE EDITION , toning to some pages, pp. 8, 8vo, original self wrappers printed in black, staples starting to rust a little, some creasing and very light soiling overall, good [with:] A Service at The Unveiling and Dedication of a Memorial to Thomas Stearns Eliot O.M. 4 January 1967 at 12 noon. Westminster Abbey, 1967, SOLE EDITION , pp. 10, 8vo, original stapled self wrappers printed in black, toning to borders of front panel and light creasing overall, good £100 187. (Eliot.) KIPLING (Rudyard) A Choice of Kipling’s Verse, made by T.S. Eliot with an essay on Rudyard Kipling. Faber and Faber, 1941, FIRST EDITION , pp. 306, 8vo, original blue cloth with a few faint stains and dustsoiling to top edge, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge brown, tail edge roughtrimmed, price-clipped dustjacket a little faded and creased, good (Gallup B39) £20 188. Farjeon (Eleanor & Herbert) The Two Bouquets. A Victorian comedy with music. Victor Gollancz, 1936, FIRST EDITION , pp. 88, 12mo, original black cloth, backstrip with red paper label lettered in black, bump to top corner of upper board and at head of backstrip, some light soiling overall with waterstain to top edge and grey patches on tail edge, dustjacket toned and a little creased around head with light soiling overall and chipping at head of backstrip, good £150 Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: ‘For my dear Jess, with love from Aunty Nellie (Eleanor Farjeon), Christmas 1936’.

189. Farnes (Kenneth) Tours and Tests. With a Foreword by Sir Pelham Warner. Lutterworth, 1940, FIRST EDITION , photographic frontispiece and 14 further plates, light foxing to borders throughout, pp. 203, 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in orange, edges toned, faint foxing to endpapers, ownership inscription to flyleaf, dustwrapper with edges a little rubbed, some light creasing and short closed tears with light chipping at corners, good £50 With the personal recollection of the previous owner, who had known and admired Farnes as a youth, on two small typed sheets loosely inserted. Two cigarette cards of Farnes pasted to protective cover on rear flap. Farnes, Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1939, died in the year following publication of this autobiography, in a flying accident during RAF training.

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190. (Fleming.) FAULKS (Sebastian) Devil May Care. Penguin, 2008, FIRST EDITION , pp. [viii], 295, [15], 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in silver, top edge toned, dustjacket, near fine £35 Signed by the author to the title-page, believed to be one of 1,500 copies thus.

191. Forsyth (Frederick) The Dogs of War. Hutchinson, 1974, FIRST EDITION , pp. [viii], 384, 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in gold with grenade stamped in silver, slight lean to spine, edges browned, endpapers browned unevenly, dustjacket with very minor rubbing along edges, both flaps creased and browned, good £90 Signed by the author to the title page.

192. Francis (Dick) Bonecrack. Michael Joseph, 1971, FIRST EDITION , pp.

215, 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket, fine £60 Signed by the author to the title-page.

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193. Francis (Dick) The Danger. Michael Joseph, 1983, FIRST EDITION , pp. 272, 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, very slight lean to spine, dustjacket with a few very light pressure marks and some furrowing in the laminate around joint at foot of front panel, near £40 fine Signed by the author to the title-page.

194. Francis (Dick) Rat Race. Michael Joseph, 1970, FIRST EDITION , pp. 206, 8vo, original blue-green boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket with a little light creasing around tips of backstrip and some light pencil marking at centre of the same, near fine £50 Signed by the author to the title-page.

195. Francis (Dick) Reflex. Michael Joseph, 1980, FIRST EDITION , pp. 247, 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, very slight lean to spine, top edge with hint of very faint foxing, dustjacket, near fine £40 Signed by the author to the title-page.

196. Francis (Dick) Second Wind. With an appreciation by Simon Brett. Blakeney: Scorpion Press, 1999, 93/110 COPIES signed by the author pp. [vi], 281, 8vo, original quarter green leatherette with marbled boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge green, glassine jacket, fine £70 197. Francis (Dick) Smokescreen. Michael Joseph, 1972, FIRST EDITION , pp. 220, 8vo, original fuchsia boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, a small amount of faint browning from underlying adhesive at head of endpapers, dustjacket, fine £50 Signed by the author to the title-page.

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Inscribed to the translator of the epigraph 198. Francis (Dick) To the Hilt. Michael Joseph, 1996, FIRST EDITION , pp. [vi], 282, 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, slight lean to spine, dustjacket a little rubbed, small nick at head of rear panel and a few very faint marks, very good £125 Inscribed by the author to the half-title: ‘To Michael Alexander, Very many thanks for your translation of Bede’s Death Song. I think it adds to the story, and hope you think so too. Dick Francis’. The translation referred to is used as the epigraph to the book.

199. Frimston (J. David) and David Smith. Beekeeping and the Law: Swarms and Neighbours. A Case-book. Burrowbridge: Bee Books 1993, FIRST EDITION , illustrated with woodcuts by Miriam MacGregor, pp. 66, 8vo, original quarter black cloth with marbled boards and printed label to front, fine £20

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Signed by David Gascoyne and Kathleen Raine 200. Gascoyne (David) Selected Prose 1934-1996. Edited by Roger Scott with an Introduction by Kathleen Raine. Entiharmon, 1998 FIRST EDITION, 5/50 COPIES signed on the flyleaf by Gascoyne, Scott, and Raine, pp. 462, 8vo, original blue boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket priceclipped, near fine £80 201. Gibson (Wilfrid Wilson) Fires. Elkin Matthews, 1915, FIRST SINGLE VOLUME EDITION , occasional faint foxing, pp. 144, 8vo, original beige cloth lettered in gilt to front and backstrip, edges toned with some faint spotting, tail and fore-edge roughtrimmed, light spotting to endpapers, £60 good Inscribed by Wilfrid Gibson to Elfrieda, wife of Walter de la Mare, from the poet and his wife Geraldine: ‘To Elfie from Gerald and Wilfrid. Christmas, 1918’.

Inscribed to Walter de la Mare 202. Gibson (Wilfrid Wilson) I Heard a Sailor. Macmillan, 1925, FIRST EDITION , pp. x, 133, [4], 8vo, original brown boards, bumped to corners with indentation to tail edge of upper board, backstrip with printed paper label lettered in black, top edge a little dustsoiled, others untrimmed, foxing to front endpapers, dustjacket a little frayed with darkened backstrip panel £60 and a few spots, good Inscribed by the author to Walter de la Mare: ‘Jack from Wilfrid, 1925’. An interesting Georgian asociation copy.

203. (Graham.) STR AMM (August) Twenty Two Poems. Translated by Patrick Bridgwater. Drawings

by Rigby Graham. Wymondham: Brewhouse Press, 1969, 61/200 COPIES , colour frontispiece with slight offsetting to title-page, a single faint foxspot at head of half-title and verso, pp. [21], 8vo, original brown cloth stamped in gilt to front, backstrip lettered in gilt, small indentation to tail edge of upper board, blocks of light toning to free endpapers, single faint foxspot at head of flyleaf £100 and verso with the same at outer margin of rear pastedown, glassine jacket, very good 204. Graves (Robert) The Common Asphodel. Collected Essays on Poetry, 1922-1949. Hamish Hamilton, 1949, FIRST EDITION , frontispiece drawing, pp. xii, 335, 8vo, original red cloth with a few small spots, backstrip lettered in gilt with a touch of fading at tips, slight lean to spine, top

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edge dustsoiled with other edges toned, bookplate to flyleaf, dustjacket with a few tape repairs along head and foot, a little toned and rubbed overall, a small portion of loss at foot of rear panel, pen mark to front flap, good (Higginson & Williams A63) £20 205. Graves (Robert) Goliath and David. Privately Printed [at the Chiswick Press,] [1916,] FIRST EDITION , some staining to page-edges from covers and some light foxing to margins throughout, pp. 17, foolscap 8vo, loose in original red wrappers with stitching no longer present, soiled and rubbed overall with some water-staining to top corner of front panel, creasing to edges and chipping at backstrip £1,000 ends, sound (Higginson & Williams A2) Signed by Graves on the title-page. One of only 200 copies printed, this collection of 10 poems is among the scarcest of all the poet’s work.

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Inscribed to Compton Mackenzie 206. Greene (Graham) The Revenge. An Autobiographical Fragment. Privately Printed [at the Stellar Press, for Bodley Head], 1963, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 300 COPIES , pp. 11, 12mo, original green card sewn wrappers, printed in black, untrimmed, very faint offsetting of ink to edge of flyleaf, near fine (Wobbe A46) £350 Distributed as a Christmas gift from the publisher and author. This copy is inscribed by Max Reinhardt of The Bodley Head (to which Greene had recently moved) to the author Compton Mackenzie on the front flyleaf: ‘To Monty From Max. With love, Christmas 1963’.

An outstanding translator association copy, ‘With highest regard and much gratitude’ 207. (Heaney.) BEOWULF. Translated by Seamus Heaney. Faber and Faber, 1999 [but published 2000], FIRST EDITION , pp. xxx,106, 8vo, original dark blue boards, backstrip lettered in gilt with slight softening to tips, dustjacket a trifle rubbed at top corners with very light creasing at tips of backstrip, backstrip panel a little faded, ALS from Heaney taped to rear free endpaper, very good (Brandes & Durkan A72a) £850 Inscribed to Michael Alexander, whose verse translation of ‘Beowulf’ for Penguin Classics was first published in 1973 and has never gone out of print.

Heaney pays tribute, quoting from his own translation: ‘to Michael Alexander, who has “made the timbered harp/ tremble with sweetness, related true/ and tragic happenings” (p. 67). With highest regard and much gratitude, Seamus, 25.ix.99’. The accompanying letter, dated 24 September 1999, expands on the poet’s debt to his predecessor, explaining that this is one of two copies that the publisher has sent him; Heaney speaks in glowing terms of Alexander’s translation and expresses his initial trepidation ‘that there is small need for another’. The popular success of Heaney’s translation no doubt confirmed for him the value of the enterprise, but this association copy provides a revealing insight into his process and his need to acknowledge (outside of the book’s own Acknowledgements page) the earlier work that contributed to his own.

[with:] (Heaney.) BEOWULF. Translated by Seamus Heaney. Faber and Faber, 1999, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, pencil markings to Introduction, pp. xxx, 104, 8vo, original blue paper wrappers printed in black with a few small stains and some light creasing around backstrip, good Sent as a Review Copy to Michael Alexander, with his pencil markings in the Introduction.

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208. Heaney (Seamus) Human Chain. Faber and Faber, 2010, 167/300 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (of an edition of 325 copies), pp. [x], 88, 8vo, original brown cloth-backed cream boards, printed label, matching boards and cloth slipcase, in the original unopened brown paper wrapping with publisher’s numbered sticker, fine £400 209. Helprin (Mark) A Kingdom Far and Clear. The Complete Swan Lake Trilogy. New York: Calla Editions, 2010, ONE OF 300 NUMBERED COPIES signed by both author and illustrator, 42 colour plates by Chris Van Allsburg, pp. 304, 4to, original boards with image to upper panel and leatherette covering elsewhere, backstrip lettered in gilt, blind-stamped slipcase, fine £200 This volume collects Helprin’s novellas ‘Swan Lake’, ‘The Veil of Snows’, and ‘A City in Winter’ and is as new in its shrinkwrap.

Inscribed by the author 210. Hill (Geoffrey) Tenebrae. Andre Deutsch, 1978, FIRST EDITION , pp. 48, 8vo, original green boards, backstrip lettered in gilt with a little softening at head, dustjacket with a little rubbing to corners and tips of backstrip, light creasing along head of rear panel and an indentation towards base of rear joint, very good £50 Inscribed on the flyleaf: ‘Michael, All good wishes, Geoffrey. Cambridge, 29/i/83’. The author has also signed, with the same date, beneath his name on the title-page.

Signed by the Artist and Editor 211. Hockney (David) Hockney’s Alphabet: Drawings by David Hockney. Written Contributions Edited (and with a Preface) by Stephen Spender. Faber for the Aids Crisis Trust. 1991, FIRST EDITION , Intermediate Issue, signed by both David Hockney and Stephen Spender and printed on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper, 27 full-page colourprinted illustrations, the letters of the alphabet (and an ampersand(!)) by David Hockney, the contribution relating to each letter on its opposing page, pp. [117], lge.4to., original bright yellow cloth, backstrip gilt lettered on a dark blue ground, cloth slipcase (slightly bubbled on one side), near fine £300 A marvellous collection of contributors, including Theroux, Ian McEwan, Heaney, Martin Amis, Golding, Julian Barnes, William Boyd, Burgess, Iris Murdoch and Ishiguro.

212. Hollinghurst (Alan) The Line of Beauty. Picador, 2004, FIRST EDITION , pp. [x], 501, 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in silver, dustjacket, fine £60 Signed by the author on the title-page.

213. James (P.D.) The Black Tower. Faber and Faber, 1975, FIRST EDITION , pp. 271, 8vo, original grey boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket rubbed at folds and corners with a light crease to centre of rear panel, very good £70 214. James (P.D.) Death Comes to Pemberley. Faber, 2011, FIRST EDITION , pp. x, 310, 8vo, original black boards, backstrip gilt lettered, dustjacket, fine £60 Signed and dated by the author on the title-page.

215. Joyce (James) Epiphanies. Introduction and Notes by O.A. Silverman. Buffalo: Lockwood Memorial Library, University of Buffalo, 1956, FIRST EDITION, 36/500 COPIES (of an edition of 550 copies), Brancusi portrait of Joyce as frontispiece, pp. xvi, [2], 32, 12mo, original quarter tan 63

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cloth with a few spots, patterned boards, backstrip lettered in gilt with small stain at head, lean to spine and hint of separation in binding following Introduction, corners rubbed, top edge trimmed, good £40 Notebook writings thought to be from 1904-6, providing ‘early statements of many of Joyce’s important themes’ and published here for the first time.

216. Joyce (James) Stephen Hero. Part of the first draft of ‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’. Edited with an Introduction by Theodore Spencer. Jonathan Cape, 1944, FIRST EDITION , faint waterstaining to bottom corner of textblock pp.210, crown 8vo, original black cloth a little rubbed with a few marks and a slight bump to bottom corner of upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, tail edges roughtrimmed, spine cocked, dustjacket lightly soiled in places with a few nicks and creasing around head, short closed tear at foot of rear panel, darkened backstrip panel, good (Slocum & Cahoon 51) £200 One of 2,000 copies in the first edition, produced to the wartime ‘economy standard’.

217. Kerr (Philip) The Pale Criminal. Viking, 1990, FIRST EDITION , pp. [viii], 273, [1], 8vo, original blue boards, backstrip lettered in silver, dustjacket, fine £50 The second in Kerr’s Berlin Noir trilogy.

218. Lawrence (T.E.) Boats for the RAF 1929-1935. Fordingbridge: Castle Hill Press 2012, 131/150 COPIES (of an edition of 227 copies), tipped in frontispiece photograph of Lawrence, pp. xxii, 410, royal 8vo, original quarter beige linen cloth and grey boards, backstrip with grey morocco label lettered in gilt, blue endpapers reprint a boat design, matching cloth slipcase, new £400 219. Lawrence (T.E.) Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw. Edited by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson. 4 Vols [1922-1926; 1927; 1928; 1929-1935]. Castle Hill Press, 2000-2009, 321/475 COPIES , frontispiece portrait of Lawrence by Augustus John in first volume and tipped-in photographic frontispiece to others, 1 fold-out plate in vol. iii and 2 in vol. iv, pp. xx, 227; xvii, 238; xii, 250; xxii, 282, royal 8vo, original quarter beige linen cloth with green boards, backstrip with green morocco label lettered in gilt, top edge green, new £500 220. Lawrence (T.E.) Correspondence with E.M. Forster and F.L. Lucas. T.E. Lawrence Letters, Volume V. Fordingbridge: Castle Hill Press 2010, FIRST EDITION, 234/225 COPIES (of an edition of 377 copies), tipped-in colourprinted frontispiece portrait of Forster by Dora Carrington, pp. xvi, 312, royal 8vo, original quarter beige linen cloth and purple boards, backstrip with black morocco label lettered in gilt, new £140 221. Lawrence (T.E.) ‘The Mint’ and Later Writings about Service Life. Fordingbridge: Castle Hill Press 2009, 174/200 COPIES (of an edition of 277 copies), tipped-in sepia frontispiece portrait

by Augustus John, first section of text printed on grey paper, pp. xiv, 340, royal 8vo, original quarter beige linen cloth and grey boards, backstrip with grey morocco label lettered in gilt, grey endpapers reproducing a seaplane design, grey page-marker, matching cloth slipcase, new £325 Lawrence’s ‘The Mint’ was initially published in 1928 in order to secure copyright in America. This edition has been transcribed and checked from that 1928 manuscript (constituting here pp. 5-174) and

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is accompanied by a selection from Lawrence’s later writings about service life printed on pp. 175-340.

Bound and in a format to complement the press’s 1997 edition of ‘The Seven Pillars of Wisdom’.

222. Le Carré (John) A Perfect Spy. London Limited Editions, 1986, FIRST EDITION, 29/250 COPIES signed by the author, pp. [vi], 463, 8vo, original quarter grey cloth with vertical gilt rule, marbled boards a little rubbed along edges, backstrip lettered in gilt, corners a little bumped, protective tissue £120 wrapper, near fine Signed, and with the menu for a Celebration Dinner to mark the book’s publication 223. Le Carré (John) A Perfect Spy. Hodder & Stoughton, 1986, FIRST EDITION , pp. 463, 8vo, original quarter blue cloth with blue boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket with a small strip of toning at very head of each flap, near fine £175 Signed by the author to the title-page, with the menu for a Celebration Dinner for the book – held on 17th January, 1986 – loosely inserted. The menu is folded stiff white card printed in red, blue and gilt to the front (and solely in blue on the inside), with a couple of small drops of what looks like coffee on the inside cover. An unusual and appropriate addition to what is an already highly collectible title.

Peter Levi’s copy, formerly belonging to eminent Oxford surgeon Horatio Percy Symonds 224. Lear (Edward) and Lady Strachey (Editor). Letters of Edward Lear, Author of ‘The Book of Nonsense’, to Chichester Fortescue (Lord Carlingford) and Frances Countess Waldegrave. [With:] Later Letters of Edward Lear, Author of ‘The Book of Nonsense’, to Chichester Fortescue (Lord Carlingford), Frances Countess Waldegrave and others. T. Fisher Unwin, 1907 & 1911, FIRST EDITIONS , first volume with daguerreotype frontispiece (tissue-guard present) and 20 further plates, second volume with colour frontispiece (tissue-guard present) and 30 further plates, several further reproductions of sketches within text, occasional foxing, some of Peter Levi’s pencil notes in margins, pp. xl, 328; 392, 8vo, original quarter green or grey cloth, backstrips lettered in gilt, a small amount of rippling in the cloth with rubbing to corners and along joints, small coffee splash to lower board of second volume, top edges gilt, other edges toned, light browning to endpapers, good £200 On the flyleaf of the first volume, above the pencil ownership inscription of Peter Levi, there is a gift inscription dated November 26th, 1907: ‘Horatio P. Symonds. With mother [Anne Dewar]’s love.’ The recipient’s bookplate is on the front pastedown. Horatio Percy Symonds (1850-1923) was an eminent surgeon from a long line of medical men: his father Frederick Symonds, his grandfather John Symonds, and his uncle John Addington Symonds all built distinguished careers. The latter relation gains further significance for two reasons: he was the father of the writer John Addington Symonds (Horatio’s cousin, therefore); another of his children, his daughter Mary, married Sir Edward Strachey, 3rd Baronet – brother of Sir Richard Strachey, Lady Strachey’s husband and father to Lytton et al.

On a card tipped in to the front pastedown of the second volume, Lady Strachey makes reference to this connection: ‘With love to the representative of the Symonds side of the family – Love, [printed] Lady Strachey, Sutton Court. [printed] 27 Cadogan Gardens’. Beneath this, the subsequent owner of this set – poet and academic Peter Levi, who wrote a biography of Lear – has made genealogical notes that make further connections, both with Lear’s correspondents in these volumes and with the philosopher Thomas Hill Green (who had married another of the elder John Addington Symonds’ daughters, Charlotte). A loosely inserted postcard has further notes by Levi, including a quotation from George Eliot’s poetry and further genealogical tracing.

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225. Lewis (Wyndham) Blasting and Bombardiering. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1937, FIRST EDITION , second issue, frontispiece self-portrait and 19 further plates, pp. [viii], 312, 8vo, original orange cloth over limp boards, backstrip lettered in black, a little soiled, bookplates to front endpapers, good (Morrow & Lafourcade A26[2]) £40 226. McEwan (Ian) Saturday. Jonathan Cape, 2005, FIRST EDITION , pp. [viii], 279, [1], 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in gilt and slightly bumped at foot, dustjacket, near fine £40 Signed by the author to the title-page.

227. Mackenzie (Compton) Extraordinary Women. Theme and Variations. Secker, 1928, FIRST EDITION, 70/100 COPIES signed by the author (of an edition of 2,000 copies), one or two faint foxspots to prelims occasionally recurring on inner margin of text, pp. 392, 8vo, original quarter black cloth with grape-patterned boards, backstrip lettered in gilt with decorations in gilt and red, slight lean to spine, top edge brown, others roughtrimmed and a little toned, dustjacket toned and faintly foxed overall, a little frayed around head with some creasing and short closed tears, good (Thomas & Thomas A25a) £100 Inscribed by the author 228. Mackenzie (Compton) Vestal Fire. Cassell, 1927, FIRST EDITION , one or two foxspots to prelims with very occasional further instances to borders of text, pp. [x], 421, crown 8vo, original black cloth with blind border to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, spine a little rolled, top edge dustsoiled, front pastedown with small patch of light foxing and bookplate of Timothy d’Arch Smith, library stamp of Dominican Fathers Edinburgh to flyleaf, good (Thomas & Thomas A22) £40 Inscribed by the author on May 11th 1928, although the name of the recipient is hard to make out.

229. Mantel (Hilary) Wolf Hall. 4th Estate, 2009, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 1,000 COPIES signed by the author, 8vo, original quarter black cloth with red cloth sides stamped in gilt to front, backstrip lettered in gilt, publisher’s shrinkwrap, fine £150 230. Maret (Russell) ÆTHELWOLD ETC . Twenty Six Letters Inspired by Other Letters and Non-Letters and Little Bits of Poetry. Rendered with Accompanying Notes by Russell Maret. New York: Editions Schlechter, 2013, ONE OF 750 COPIES , photographed by 42-Line to exactly reproduce the original, which was printed on Hahnemuhlë Biblio paper from 165 plates using 105 different colours; the texts set using Johann Titling, Cancellaresca Milanese II, Gill Flare Greek, Leitura Primeira, Utopia Sans and Texture Inglese, and printed in black with the sub-titles in red, pp. [120], folio, original card wrappers, backstrip lettered in gilt, fine £70 A facsimile, produced to the highest standards, of Maret’s 2009 work, originally published in an edition of 55 copies and long since sold out. It is at heart an alphabet book, each letter imaginatively printed to produce an amazing array of designs of exquisite quality. This facsimile also reproduces the diary of ink colours that had accompanied only the special copies of the original.

231. Milne (A.A.) Toad of Toad Hall. A Play from Kenneth Grahame’s Book ‘The Wind in the Willows’. Methuen, 1929, FIRST EDITION , occasional light foxspots to borders, pp. xv, 167, 8, crown 8vo, original blue cloth with toad stamped in gilt at centre of upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt and a trifle rubbed at tips, t.e.g., others with some foxing, free endpapers with strip

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of browning, dustjacket lightly soiled overall with a couple of small nicks and a little creasing to head, a few small internal tape repairs, good £200 Inscribed to David and Judy Gascoyne 232. Mitchell (Adrian) The Apeman Cometh. Jonathan Cape, 1975, FIRST EDITION , pp. 94, 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, top and fore-edge a little toned, dustjacket with a thin strip of toning to laminate on flaps, a little creasing at head of backstrip panel and light rubbing to a couple of corners, very good £35 Inscribed to David and Judy Gascoyne, with their bookplate on the front pastedown: ‘With love, admiration... peace...’ The inscription features Mitchell’s signature drawing of an elephant above his name, beneath which he has written his address.

233. Mortimer (John) Summer’s Lease. London Limited Editions, 1988, FIRST EDITION, 61/150 COPIES signed by the author, light toning to pages throughout, pp. [iv], 288, 8vo, original quarter green cloth with vertical gilt rule and marbled boards, backstrip lettered in gilt and faded to blue, top edge toned, tissue jacket, very good £50 234. Motion (Andrew) Independence. Edinburgh: Salamander Press, 1981, FIRST EDITION , pp. 29, 8vo, original tan wrappers printed in black and £30 red, fine Inscribed on the half-title, ‘With best wishes, Andrew Motion’. Published simultaneously in hardback and paperback, this being one of 1200 copies of the latter type.

235. Newby (P.H.) Something to Answer For. Faber and Faber, 1968, FIRST EDITION , pp. 288, crown 8vo, original orange cloth, backstrip lettered in dark blue, dustjacket with the lamination wrapped around to the rear panel as usual, fine £400

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‘Cut from lino of the Officers Mess Bar counter’ 236. Omar Khayyám Rubáiyát. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Ainslie Beckett. Cairo, 1944, 3/25 COPIES , 7 tipped-in colour plates with holograph captions and signed by Ainslie Beckett, each page of text within red frame and green patterned border to outer margin, pp. [57], 4to, original brown cloth quarter-covered with brown paper, printed paper label to upper board, some fading and light spotting to cloth, light foxing to top edge, gift inscription tipped-in to flyleaf, later brown paper jacket with cellophane-backed panel to show label, very good £500 The artist has added notes about this book’s intriguing production history on two cards tipped-in to prelims, as well as a gift inscription (dated 15 August 1991) in the same format on flyleaf: ‘To May (who was also on active service in the Middle East), With Love from Ann + Ainslie’. The cards explain that the book was produced ‘by a group of members of the Directorate of Army Printing & Stationery Services of the S.A. Forces in the Middle East’, an organisation normally tasked with more official and less attractive publications than this. The extent of their resourcefulness in achieving the effects shown are expanded upon in a further note, which explains: ‘The linocuts of the illustrations and decorations were cut from the lino of the Officers Mess Bar counter – with a gouge made from the stays of an old umbrella obtained from a nearby convent’. An unlikely production, whose fine preservation in the hands of one of its primary contributors makes for a fascinating and highly idiosyncratic example of this perennial favourite.

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237. Orioli (Giuseppe) Moving Along. Just a Diary. Chatto & Windus, 1934, FIRST EDITION , tipped-in illustration to title-page and 25 further plates, pp. x, 266, 8vo, original green cloth lightly soiled overall and a little rubbed along edges and joints, backstrip lettered in white and a trifle faded, map folded over rear pastedown, good £30 238. (Piper.) ELBORN (Geoffrey, Editor) To John Piper on his Eightieth Birthday. Stourton Press, 1983, 142/900 COPIES , numerous monochrome illustrations, pp. 91, 8vo, original quarter brown morocco a little rubbed to edges with vertical gilt rule, grey boards with an overall design by Piper printed in brown, backstrip lettered in gilt, very good £70 239. Pound (Ezra) ABC of Reading. Routledge, 1934, FIRST EDITION , faint foxspot at head of a few pages, pp. xii, 197, crown 8vo, original red cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, light dustsoiling to top edge, a hint of foxing to edges and endpapers, dustjacket lightly soiled overall with slight £200 chipping to corners and backstrip panel, good (Gallup A35) 240. Pound (Ezra) Canzoni. Elkin Matthews, 1911, FIRST EDITION , title-page printed in red and black, a small amount of foxing to half-title and occasional light handling marks, pp. viii, 52, [4], crown 8vo, original grey cloth stamped in gilt to front, backstrip lettered in gilt, a touch of wear at foot of upper joint, edges darkened and a few small stains, light handling marks to endpapers with some foxing to flyleaf, good (Gallup A7a) £200 Gallup records that 1000 sets of sheets were printed, with around half of these issued as part of ‘Canzoni & Ripostes’ in 1913, making the present volume one of around 500 copies in this edition.

241. Pound (Ezra) Cathay. Translations by Ezra Pound for the most part from the Chinese of Rihaku, from the notes of the late Ernest Fenellosa, and the decipherings of the Professors Mori and Ariga. Elkin Matthews, 1915, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 1000 COPIES , a few faint foxspots to latter pages and two instances of pencil-marking in margins, pp. 32, crown 8vo, original brown wrappers printed in black with original Blackwell’s Bookseller sticker to rear panel, a couple of light creases at head of rear panel, darkened backstrip with some light creasing and a little nick at foot, £700 untrimmed, edges and endpapers with a few faint foxspots, very good (Gallup A9) This copy has the ownership inscription of ‘Lorimer, Basrah 1916’ – this likely being that of either David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer, the British diplomat and linguist who was stationed in Basrah at this time, or his wife Emily Overend Lorimer who was then editor of the Basrah Times. Both were notable translators: Emily collaborated with her husband ‘in his work on Persian dialects and the languages of the north-west frontier of India’ ( ODNB ), and produced numerous translations of German works – including Hitler’s Mein Kampf, of which she provided a perspicacious early critique.

242. Pound (Ezra) Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti. With Translations of Them and an Introduction. Stephen Swift, 1912, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION , pp. vii, 135, 32 [adverts], crown 8vo, original grey cloth stamped in gilt to front with a small nick to top edge, backstrip lettered in gilt and slightly sunned, untrimmed with a single small foxspot to fore-edge, top corners very slightly turned-in, protective glassine jacket, very good (Gallup B4b) £500 Pound records, in the bibliography he provided to Eliot’s Ezra Pound His Metric and Poetry, that the bulk of this edition had been destroyed by fire – explaining its scarcity.

243. Pound (Ezra) Thrones. 96-109 de los cantares. Faber and Faber, 1960, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION , title page printed in black and red, pp. [iv], 126, 8vo, original red cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge slightly dustsoiled, panels of light browning to free endpapers, dustjacket with a short

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closed tear at head of rear panel, small waterstain towards foot of backstrip panel and a short split at foot of upper joint-fold, very good (Gallup A77c) £35 244. Pym (Barbara) No Fond Return of Love. Jonathan Cape, 1961, FIRST EDITION , pp. 254, 8vo, original blue boards, backstrip lettered in cream and slightly bumped at foot, top edge red, flyleaves browned from flaps, dustjacket with light soiling to cream sections and a small amount of rubbing around edges, very good £380 245. Quennell (Peter) Inscription on a Fountain-Head. Drawings by Albert Rutherston. Faber and Faber, 1929, FIRST EDITION, 72/300 COPIES signed by the author, printed on handmade paper, line drawing to half-title and coloured drawing preceding text, pp. [10], 8vo, original green boards lettered in gilt to front, top edge a little dustsoiled, other edges untrimmed, rubbing to corners and cracking to spine with a small amount of loss at foot, good £25 Number 24 in the Ariel Poems series.

246. (Rackham.) Some British Ballads. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, [1920,] first American edition, 16 tipped-in colour plates, title-vignette and text illustrations by Arthur Rackham, pp. 8, [2], 170, 4to, original blue cloth, boards and backstrip blocked in gilt, decorated endpapers, the backstrip gilding somewhat dulled, slight rubbing to extremities, very good £100 247. Roth (Philip) Portnoy’s Complaint. New York: Random House, 1969, 507/600 COPIES signed by the author, pp. [vi], 274, 8vo, original cream linen cloth with author’s signature stamped in gilt to front, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge red, others untrimmed, dustjacket with merest hint of fading to backstrip, slipcase, fine £580 248. Roy (Arundhati) The God of Small Things. Flamingo, 1997, FIRST UK EDITION , pp. [xii], 340, 8vo, original mauve boards, backstrip lettered in silver, dustjacket with creasing to corners of front flap, nearfine £95 Signed by the author on the title-page.

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249. Sassoon (Siegfried) Collected Poems. Faber and Faber, 1947, FIRST EDITION , pp. xvi, 269, 8vo, original green buckram, backstrip lettered in gilt, a little light spotting at head of front endpapers, dustjacket with darkened backstrip panel, a small amount of wear to ends of backstrip panel, very good (Keynes A52a) £35 250. Sassoon (Siegfried) Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. Faber & Gwyer, 1928, FIRST EDITION , a strip of browning to initial and ultimate blank with a few faint foxspots to the former, pp. 395, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge trimmed with saffron colouring faded, others untrimmed, a little foxing to edges and free endpapers, dustjacket with a touch of light £650 creasing and a few faint foxspots at head of front panel, very good (Keynes A30a) This copy has the ‘A’ on the initial blank, but Keynes states that the ‘typographical irregularities have no significance whatever’; he also does not credit the variable states of the tail and fore-edges as having any ‘priority of issue’ (this copy would seem to be his Class IIb). Sassoon’s name does not appear as the author of this book in what is a very bright and well-preserved copy.

251. Sassoon (Siegfried) Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. By the Author of Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. Faber & Faber, 1930, FIRST EDITION , a few pages with a small black dot [from printing?] to fore-edge, pp. 334, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and very slightly faded, slight lean to spine, top edge pink and a little faded, fore-edge roughtrimmed, light browning to free endpapers, dustjacket with lightly faded backstrip panel, very good (Keynes A33a) £250 252. Sassoon (Siegfried) The Old Century and Seven More Years. Faber and Faber, 1938, FIRST EDITION , title-page with wood-engraved vignette by Gwen Ravarat, pages lightly toned, creasing to top corner of a couple of leaves, pp. 293, 8vo, original mottled olive-green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt against a green oval ground, top edge green and a little dulled, other edges toned with tail edge roughtrimmed, light spotting to endpapers, dustjacket a little browned to borders and backstrip panel, a few chips and light creasing around head with a spot of internal tape repair at head of backstrip, good (Keynes A42a) £70 253. Sassoon (Siegfried) Sherston’s Progress. Faber and Faber, 1936, FIRST EDITION , pp. 280, 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, light rubbing and fading to edges, small penmark to upper board, foot of backstrip with small waterstain, top edge brown, front pastedown with a few small and faint spots, nick to front hinge, dustjacket with fading to backstrip panel and edges, chipping at head of backstrip panel with a small spot of internal tape repair, good (Keynes A40a) £70 Inscribed to A.E. by Charlotte F. Shaw 254. Shaw (George Bernard) The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism. Constable, 1928, FIRST EDITION , minor creasing at top corner of three leaves, pp. xxxvi, 495, 8vo, original olive green cloth with bump to top edge and light rubbing at corners, Celtic design in green and gilt to front and backstrip, backstrip lettered in gilt, t.e.g., good (Laurence A187a) £425 A pre-publication copy inscribed by Charlotte F. Shaw to the poet A.E., dated May 1928, with a personal note to the same on Shaw’s headed paper loosely inserted: ‘I don’t know if they will send a Review Copy, or not. But anyway, this is for you if you will accept it. Are you back yet? And how are you? C.F.S’.

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The author’s first published work 255. Smith (Stevie) Novel on Yellow Paper, or Work it out for Yourself. Jonathan Cape, 1936, FIRST EDITION , a few foxspots at head of fly-title with very occasional lone instances on a handful of pages further on, pp. 252, [10], 8vo, original yellow cloth stamped in black to upper board, backstrip lettered in black, endpapers lightly toned with a little spotting, ownership inscription to flyleaf with newspaper photographs of author tipped-in to the same, dustjacket lightly soiled and rubbed at edges, front flap with price corrected in pencil with two textual notes in pen to rear flap, good (Barbera, McBrien & Bajan AIIa) £250 256. Spark (Muriel) The Fanfarlo and Other Verse. Aldington: The Hand and Flower Press, 1952, FIRST EDITION , FIRST ISSUE , pp. 35, foolscap 8vo, original stitched grey wrappers printed in red to £40 front and inside covers, fine Spark’s first volume of poetry is her second book, preceded only by a biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

257. (Tambimuttu.) Hymenaia: A Posie of Verse. Collected from Far & Wide. To the honour of John Conran Irwin, Asst. Keeper of the Indian Section, Victoria and Albert Museum, and Helen Hermione Scott, one of the members of the House of Poetry London. With an Appendix.

Privately Printed [by the Eversholt Printing Works for Tambimuttu,] 1947, FIRST EDITION , pp. [15], 12mo, original white stapled wrappers printed in black, a little rusting to the staples and some £180 signs of handling overall, very good Scarce, including contributions by Kathleen Raine, Gavin Ewart, and Tambimuttu. A note on the colophon page explains, ‘this pamphlet was handset by Eversholt Printing Works on the 19th of February, 1947, and printed by hand the next day at a time when all printers had ceased to work owing to electricity cuts. The original MSS were lost in a taxi on the 17th of February. To meet the emergency, all poets were assembled at the ‘Hog in the Pound’ on the 18th, when the whole pamphlet was re-written, for publication on the 21st of February, 1947. The cost of printing was met by private subscription of the authors.’

258. Thomas (Edward) Words into Wood. Eighteen Poems, Eighteen Wood-Engravings. St Lawrence: Edward Thomas Fellowship, 2010, 36/50 COPIES (of an edition of 250 copies), title-page printed in black and copper, pp. [xiv], [39], crown 4to, original quarter brown leather with green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, tail edge roughtrimmed, matching slipcase, new £135 Printed by the Evergreen Press in Gloucestershire. The artists featured are Simon Brett, Robin Guthrie, Linda Holmes, Cordelia Jones, Paul L. Kershaw, Sarah Van Niekirk, Howard Phipps, Sue Scullard, Yvonne Skargon, Ian Stephens, and Geri Waddington.

259. Thomas (R.S.) The Sky-Rhyming Child/Das Himmelreimende Kind. [German translation by Kevin Perryman.] Fuchstal: Babel, 2013, 27/60 COPIES with print of a drawing (16/30) by Vroni Schwegler laid-in at front, signed by the composer of the music on the accompanying CD Wilfried Hiller, harpist Helen Leitner and the translator Kevin Perryman, pp. 75, crown 4to, original white card wrappers printed in red and black, backstrip lettered in black, audio CD behind rear flap, fine £135 The special edition of 60 copies includes a print of one of two drawings (30 of each are available) by Vroni Schwegler, which correspond to the hibernal theme of the verse selection. This bilingual volume, published to mark the centenary of the poet’s birth, collects 30 poems from 18 different collections, as well as two poems not previously collected and one that has never been published before. The poems all cover aspects of Christmas, Advent or winter. The accompanying CD, enclosed beneath the rear flap, features readings of the poems in German and English – two of them by the poet himself – interspersed with harp music specially composed for this project by Wilfred Hiller (as well as a piece

by Benjamin Britten) and played by Helen Leitner.

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260. Tóibín (Colm) The Master. Picador, 2004, FIRST EDITION , pp. [vi], 359, [1], 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket, fine £40 Signed by the author to the title-page.

261. Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Children of Húrin. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. Illustrated by Alan Lee. HarperCollins, 2007, FIRST EDITION , 8 colour plates, head- and tail-piece drawings to each chapter, folded map printed in black and red opposite rear free endpaper, pp. 313, 8vo, original blue boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket, fine £70 Signed by the illustrator, Alan Lee, on the title-page.

262. Valéry (Paul) Agathe. [2 vols]. Paris: [Privately printed by Agathe Rouart Valéry], 1956, XIX/25 COPIES (of an edition of 200 copies) on Vergé Montval Blanc paper, charcoal drawing frontispiece to first volume, facsimile pages in second volume printed in purple and tipped-in to recto of each leaf, pp. [22]; [14], 4to original cream boards enclosing 2 volumes, both in cream card wrappers lightly toned and printed in black to front, untrimmed, second volume unbound, backstrip of outer casing lettered in black and toned, slipcase, very good £350 A previously unpublished poem, written by Valéry in 1898, present in two states – the printed work, and a facsimile of the manuscript.

263. Valéry (Paul) La Jeune Parque. Eaux-fortes originales de Liliane Marco. Aix-en-Provence: Edisud, 1981, 9/9 COPIES (of an edition of 110 copies) signed by the artist, printed on Vélin d’Arches paper, 7 plates of colour etchings each signed by artist, acetate guards, pp. 39, 4to, original patterned boards with unbound text-block and folder of etchings [unpaginated], untrimmed, slipcase, fine £350 The Preface to this edition is provided by Judith Robinson-Valéry, who had the combined distinction of being a notable scholar of Valéry’s work and his daughter-in-law.

264. Valéry (Paul) Le Cimetière Marin. Paris: Ronald Davis, 1926, 14/85 COPIES (of an edition of 95 copies) signed by the author, printed on Vélin d’Arches paper, etching by author to title page and 5 further within text, tissue guards, small waterstain to half-title, pp. [17], 4to, original card wrappers with Valéry etching to front, toning to borders and a few very light marks with short tear at head of upper joint, front hinge split, good £700 An edition published in memory of the author’s friend Frank P. Flausch.

265. Valéry (Paul) Quelques Notes. Paris: [n. pr.], 1928, FIRST EDITION , ONE OF 100 COPIES non mis dans le commerce, pp. 8, 4to, original self wrappers, printed in black to front, very lightly soiled and toned overall with some creasing to head, good £50 266. Valéry (Paul) Sémiramis. Mélodrame en trois actes et deux interludes. Paris: Gallimard, 1934, FIRST EDITION, 2037/30 HORS COMMERCE COPIES on Alfa Navarre paper (of an edition of 2270 copies), small waterstain to edge of p. 39 and a little light creasing to corner of the same, pp. 54, royal 4to, original paper wrappers lettered in red and black to front, a little light soiling and a short tear at base of rear joint, uncut, very good £275

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267. Vonnegut (Kurt) Palm Sunday. An Autobiographical Collage. New York: Delacorte Press, 1981, FIRST EDITION , pp. xviii, 330, 8vo, original brown cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, edges toned with a few light marks, dustjacket a little nicked at top of backstrip and dulled along head, good £95 Signed by the author to the flyleaf, and dated ‘Tokyo May 18 1984’.

268. White (Joyce) Honey in the Kitchen. Revised by Valerie Rogers. Charlestown: Bee Books, 2000, illustrations throughout, pp. iv, 60, 8vo, original quarter green cloth with marbled boards, green cloth label to front lettered in gilt, fine £15 269. Williams (Tennessee) A Streetcar Named Desire. New York: New Directions, 1947, FIRST EDITION , title page printed in black and pink, occasional light pencil check marks in margins, pp. [viii], 171, 8vo, original illustrated boards with just a touch of rubbing to extremities, a little bump to top corner of upper board and a small nick to tail edge of the same, dustjacket with slight fading to backstrip and across head of rear panel, small split to fold of front flap, very good

£1,200 A nice, bright copy of this modern classic.

270. Williamson (Henry) The Chronicles of Ancient Sunlight. The Dark Lantern. Donkey Boy. Young Phillip Maddison. How Dear is Life. A Fox Under My Cloak. The Golden Virgin. Love and the Loveless: A Soldier’s Tale. A Test to Destruction. The Innocent Moon. It Was the Nightingale. The Power of The Dead. The Phoenix Generation. A Solitary War. Lucifer Before Sunrise. The Gale of the World. [15 vols.]

Macdonald, 1951- 1969, FIRST EDITIONS , pp. 432; 400; 416; 335; 415; 448; 384; 461 [3]; 415; 357 [3]; 365 [3]; 384 [4]; 374 [4]; 515 [4]; 364 [4], 8vo, original cloth or boards lightly rubbed in places, foxing and toning to edges on some volumes, dustjackets with occasional light soiling, rubbing, and a few small nicks, backstrip sunned on A Test to £900 Destruction, very good overall ‘Europe must become one nation, or go down under the East...’

271. Williamson (Henry) TLS to Mrs Butterfield [13th January 1969], typed with signature and handwritten note at bottom in ink, single Post 4to-sized sheet, folded three times, original blue envelope with typed address, fine £75 Williamson thanks the addressee for ‘the diary and other relicts of Major Radcliffe, killed on the Somme’, tangentially to which he reflects on the state of Europe – bemoaning ‘insular prejudices against the Germans’ and explaining his vision of the current state of affairs in terms of the pattern by which civilisations rise and fall. The themes and outlook covered briefly in this letter reflect those handled more expansively in his Chronicles of Ancient Sunlight series. A handwritten note recommending a book follows his signature.

Offered with an autograph postcard to the same recipient dated 22nd January 1969, encouraging Mrs Butterfield to write her autobiography and offering his own (and Arnold Bennett’s) advice. He ends by recommending his own Lucifer Before Sunrise and suggesting that she come and visit him in Devon.

With the Williamson owl stamp.

272. (Winchester College Printing Society.) Cathedrals. A Contribution by Poets to the Celebration of the Nine Hundredth Anniversary of Winchester Cathedral. Winchester, 1979, FIRST EDITION, 492/900 COPIES printed on green Basingwerk parchment, signed by the Dean of Winchester following his Foreword, two wood engravings by Richard Atkinson-Willes and tailpieces by 73

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Richard Southgate, pp. [56], 4to, original beige cloth with brown leather label lettered in gilt inset to front, backstrip with brown leather label lettered in gilt, fine £30 Poets contributing, around the theme of cathedrals, include Anne Ridler, Elizabeth Jennings, Kathleen Raine, Peter Levi, and Norman Nicholson.

273. Woolf (Virginia) To the Lighthouse. Hogarth Press, 1927, FIRST EDITION , preliminaries just a little foxed, pp. 320, crown 8vo, original light blue cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, light partial browning to the free endpapers; with expert cleaning and restoration of the dustjacket, mainly to the backstrip panel, where tears have been repaired in the folds and to its head and tail, very £5,000 good Signed from Beyond the Grave?

274. Yeats (W.B.) Poems. 2 Vols. Macmillan. 1949, 333/350 SETS (of a total of 375 sets) signed by the author and printed on Glastonbury Ivory Toned Antique Laid paper, portrait frontispieces, pp. x, 276; xii, 308, 8vo, original olive-green bevel-edged buckram, backstrips gilt lettered, the front covers gilt blocked with the author’s initials inside a gilt circle, t.e.g, backstrips ever so slightly sunned with two fleck-marks at foot of vol. ii, board slipcase somewhat scuffed, near fine (Wade & Alspach 209 & 210) £2,500 The sheets for this edition were signed by Yeats in 1938, but the intervention of World War Two delayed their publication by over a decade. Yeats himself had died on January 28th, 1939.

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Section Three Private Presses 275. (Aardvark Press.) FENECH (Victor), Alan Tucker & Oliver Starknaked. THE COLLECTED MDINA POEMS . Edited by P. Q. b’Erdbarth with Woodcuts by Rigby Graham San Gwann & Leicester, 2004, ONE OF 60 COPIES , woodcut vignette to half-title, 3 full page and 4 headpiece woodcuts

by Rigby Graham, pp. [18], imperial 8vo, original wrappers printed in orange and green, £50 untrimmed, fine The unlikely moniker of Oliver Starknaked is apparently an alias of Alan Tucker.

276. (Ashendene Press.) LONGUS . Les Amours Pastorale de Daphnis et Chloe. Traduction de Messire J. Amyot, Editee et Corrigee par Paul-Louis Courier. 1933, ONE OF 290 COPIES (of an edition of 310 copies) printed in black and red on Batchelor handmade paper, 4 full-page and 24 smaller woodengravings by Gwendolen Raverat, the large initial letters and paragraph marks hand-drawn in blue by Graily Hewitt and his assistants, pp. [iv] (blanks), [iv], 163, [5] (blanks), imperial 8vo, original qtr. white vellum, lettering within panels on the backstrip and the front cover device all gilt blocked, lime-green boards, vellum-tipped corners, bookplate, untrimmed, board slipcase, near fine (Hornby XXXIX ) £1,400 277. (Beeches Press.) CORYATE’S VENICE . Thomas Coryate’s description of the city taken from Coryate’s Crudities. With five illustrations by Gwyn Roberts. 1989, 34/55 COPIES , tissue guards, pp. [xxvi], 76, [4], 8vo, original quarter blue cloth with marbled boards, backstrip a little faded with paper £50 label lettered in black, tissue jacket, very good With a print of one of Gwyn Roberts’ illustrations laid in to front.

278. (Bird and Bull Press.) THREE LIONS AND THE CROSS OF LORRAINE : Bartholomaeus Anglicus, John of Trevisa, John Tate, Wynkyn de Worde, and De Proprietatibus Rerum. A Leaf Book with Essays

by Howell Heaney, Dr. Lotte Hellinga, Dr. Richard Hills (and a Foreword by Henry Morris).

Newtown, PA, 1992, 46/138 COPIES printed in black and red on Frankfurt mouldmade paper, with 19 facsimiles of woodcuts from ‘De Proprietatibus Rerum’, pp. 42, 4to, original quarter red crushed morocco with grey boards, woodcut blocked in red to upper board, backstrip with black £950 leather label lettered in silver, untrimmed, fine An actual leaf from the book is loosely inserted in a plastic sheet folder at the end of the book; it was taken from a defective copy of ‘De Proprietatibus Rerum’ [c.1495], printed by Wynken de Worde – the first book printed in England using English paper. Regarded by Henry Morris as probably the most important book on the history of papermaking he was ever likely to produce, the small number of leaves that were still in usable condition governed the short print-run of the book.

279. (Cambridge Christmas Book.) A DISTRACTION OF WITS nurtured in Elizabethan Cambridge.

An Anthology selected and introduced by George Rylands. With drawings by Michael Ayrton.

Cambridge, printed by the University printer for friends in printing & publishing. 1958, ONE OF 500 COPIES , first two leaves printed in black and pink, 11 full-page illustrations printed in black and grey, pp. [60], 8vo, original beige boards ‘comb’ patterned in black, backstrip lettered in gilt on a red ground, fine (Crutchley p.29) £30 280. (Cambridge Christmas Book 1967.) SPARROW (John, Compiler.) Line upon Line: an Epigraphical Anthology. [Preface by Brooke Crutchley]. Printed by the University Printer for his Friends at Christmas, Cambridge. 1967, ONE OF 500 COPIES , title within a ruled border, 75

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46 inscriptions reproduced typographically, each within an ornamental rule border, each inscription faced by a short note on its location and history, the 12-page India paper crib of translations of the Latin, Italian and French inscriptions in the pocket of the rear pastedown, pp.

24, ff. [48], demy 8vo, original pale grey boards flat-backed with dark blue buckram, backstrip lettered in gilt, sides lettered in white, the cover designed by Reynolds Stone, matching slipcase, £40 fine (Crutchley pp.33/34) 281. (Cambridge Christmas Book.) DREYFUS (John) Italic Quartet. A Record of the Collaboration between Harry Kessler, Edward Johnston, Emery Walker and Edward Prince in making the Cranach Press Italic. [Preface by Brooke Crutchley]. (Printed at the University Printing House, Cambridge. 1966), ONE OF 500 COPIES printed on Saunders’ handmade paper, 10 illustrations and facsimiles, including 9 collotypes, pp. viii, 52, 8vo, original beige cloth, lightly rubbed backstrip gilt lettered on brown ground, overall art-nouveau design of rose buds in light and dark brown with intertwining dark brown links, matching slipcase, near fine (Crutchley p.33) £100 282. (Cambridge Christmas Book ) EDEN (Peter) Waterways of the Fens.

An Essay on the Commercial Archaeology of the Cambridge Region [Preface by Brooke Crutchley]. Printed at the University Printing House, Cambridge for presentation to friends at Christmas, 1972, ONE OF 500 COPIES printed on Abbey Mills Greenfield paper, 14 line illustrations (10 full-page, 3 double-page) by Warwick Hutton, 2 full-page maps by R.W Jones and a double-page facsimile plan, pp.69, 8vo, original flat-backed quarter pale grey canvas, backstrip lettered in dark brown, mid brown boards, a wherry blocked in gilt on the front cover, ripple-patterned brown and white endpapers, fine £50 283. (Cambridge Christmas Book.) LISTER (Raymond) Hammer and Hand. An Essay on the Ironwork of Cambridge. [Preface by Brooke Crutchley]. Cambridge, Printed for his Friends by the University Printer. 1969, ONE OF 500 COPIES printed on fawn paper, frontispiece and 20 other linedrawings, including 14 full-page, by Richard Bawden, pp. [vi], 42, oblong 8vo, original quarter russet-red crushed morocco, backstrip gilt lettered, pale grey boards with an overall dark green railing design also by Bawden, small brown age-spot to corner of rear board, near fine £40 284. (Cambridge Christmas Book.) WHATMAN (Susanna) Her Housekeeping Book. [Edited and] Introduced by Thomas Balston. [Foreword by Brooke Crutchley]. (Printed for Presentation. . .

Cambridge. 1952, ONE OF 250 COPIES printed on Whatman handmade paper, collotype frontispiece portrait, 14 etched illustrations, the title-page engraved by H.K. Wolfenden, tipped in tissueguards, pp.vii, 40, 8vo, original pale flecked dark grey cloth, faded backstrip with gilt blocked monogram, large gilt lettered pink cloth label on the front cover, good (Crutchley p.25) £100 ‘His [James Whatman] second wife’s household notes add nothing to our knowledge of the man or his business, but they tell us a good deal about a well-ordered English eighteenth-century home...’

(Foreword)

285. (Cambridge Christmas Books.) CRUTCHLEY (Brooke) A Printer’s Christmas Books 1930-58.

Cambridge, Privately Printed. 1959, title-page device designed by Reynolds Stone, pp.16, 8vo, original marbled red and cream sewn Cockerell wrappers, gilt lettered printed label on front cover, fine £30 286. (Cambridge Christmas Books.) CRUTCHLEY (Brooke) Two Men: Walter Lewis and Stanley Morison at Cambridge. (Printer’s Preface by Brooke Crutchley). Cambridge, Printed for his

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Friends by the University Printer. 1968, [ONE OF 500 COPIES ?], 2 full-page 3-colour line-drawings

by Denis Tegetmeier of Lewis and Morison, 2 pages of facsimiles and 4 portraits (3 from photographs), the title-page and an example of a press-device printed in red, 7 specimen leaves of books produced by Lewis and Morison, each tipped to a blue backing paper with printed caption opposite, pp. [vi], 48+(Specimens), 8vo, original quarter scarlet buckram, backstrip gilt lettered, Reynolds Stone designed dark blue boards with overall design of the main subjects’ initials surrounded by floral border in white, board slipcase, fine £60 287. (Cambridge Christmas Books.) (CRUTCHLEY (Brooke)) The University Printing Houses at Cambridge from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century. Cambridge. 1962, ONE OF 500 COPIES , printed in double-column, University Press device on the title-page, framed border to the Introduction and the first text letter all printed in terracota, 8 illustrations, including 3 colourprinted plates, pp. 16, oblong 8vo, original terracota cloth, lettering on backstrip and design on front cover gilt blocked, marbled board slipcase (cracked along one edge) with brown £40 leather label, near fine 288. (Cambridge Christmas Books.) MORISON (Stanley) A Tally of Types Cut for Machine Composition and Introduced at the University Press, Cambridge 1922-1932. (Preface and Postscript by Brooke Crutchley). Cambridge, Privately Printed (by the University Printer). 1953, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 450 COPIES printed in black with 6 wood-engraved panels by Reynolds Stone, each printed in orange, a separate example of an engraving used by the press heads several of the chapters, each of the chapters being printed in a different typeface – seventeen in all, pp. vii, 102, 8vo, original orange linen, backstrip lettered and decorated in gilt, fine (Appleton, The Writings of Stanley Morison 190) £75 289. (Cambridge Christmas Books.) WALKER (Alice) Aristology, or the Art of Dining. [Preface by Brooke Crutchley]. Cambridge. 1964, ONE OF 500 COPIES , title-vignette and 10 other full-page illustrations by Lynton Lamb, pp. viii, 64, small 4to, original brown cloth-backed olive boards with black pattern between vertical orange stripes, backstrip gilt lettered, slight discolouration to tail of backstrip, near fine £40 290. (Cambridge Christmas Books.) WARDE (Beatrice) Words in their Hands. A Series of Photographs

by Walter Nurnberg with a Commentary by Beatrice Warde [Preface by the Printer]. Cambridge, Privately Printed. 1964, ONE OF 500 COPIES printed on art paper, 15 reproductions of photographs

by Nurnberg, occasional faint foxing, pp. 22, (15 leaves of Illustrations), [4], small 4to, original dark grey horizontally-ribbed cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, front cover stamped in blind, patterned endpapers designed by Clarke Hutton, plain black paper wrapper, near fine (Crutchley p.31) £40 291. (Crutchley.) Tributes to Brooke Crutchley on his Retirement as University Printer. Cambridge University Press, 1975, ONE OF 650 COPIES printed on Green’s handmade paper, typographic border to title-page and headings, pp.viii, 30, [ii], small folio, original quarter black cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, patterned yellow and red boards adapted from a design by Reynolds Stone, untrimmed, fine £50 Contributions by Lord Zuckerman, John Dreyfus, Fred Simmons, Colin Eccleshare, Graham Storey and Vivian Ridler and with a preface by Euan Phillips.

292. (Enitharmon Press.) CLARK (Leonard) The Way It Was. 1980, FIRST EDITION , pp. 77, 8vo, original speckled blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket a little sunned to backstrip panel, very £10 good

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293. (Enitharmon Press.) MANNING (Hugo) Modigliani. 1976, 44/45 COPIES signed by the author (of an edition of 550 copies), printed on Glastonbury Laid paper, Modigliani self-portrait as frontispiece, pp. 34, 8vo, original quarter leather with vertical gilt rule and a little faded at head, backstrip lettered in gilt, very good £30 294. (Eragny Press.) WHITE (Diana) The Descent of Ishtar. 1903, ONE OF 226 COPIES (of an edition of 236 copies) printed on handmade paper, letterpress printed in black and red, wood-engraved frontispiece designed by the author with floral border designed by Lucien Pissarro and printed in green, decorations throughout in green, 5 large wood-engraved initial letters printed in red with the engraving throughout executed by Esther Pissarro, tissue guard over limitation page, pp.30, 16mo, original quarter grey-green boards with floral design in green, label to front printed in red, edges untrimmed, endpapers browned, near fine £625 The author was a friend of Esther Pissarro’s at the Crystal Palace School of Art and later a friend and close confidant of Lucien, to whom he often turned for advice in matters of his art.

295. (Five Seasons Press.) Learning by Heart. An Anthology Edited by Satish Kumar with Drawings by Truda Lane. Bideford: The Small School, 1986, FIRST EDITION, 28/175 COPIES printed on mouldmade paper, full-page drawing accompanying each poem as well as smaller one to fly-title of each, pp. [76], oblong royal 8vo, original brown Indian silk, backstrip lettered in brown, t.e.g., others untrimmed, cloth slipcase, fine £30 Poems, the majority previously unpublished, around the theme of education or schooling from Kathleen Raine, R.S. Thomas, George Mackay Brown, David Gascoyne, Elizabeth Jennings, Gavin Ewart, Gary Snyder, Peter Levi, et al.

Inscribed to Walter de la Mare 296. (Golden Cockerel Press.) BINYON (Laurence) Brief Candles. With Six Engravings by Helen Binyon. 1938, FIRST EDITION , 6 wood engravings by author’s daughter, pp. 50, 12mo, original purple cloth stamped in gilt to front, some very faint foxing to endpapers, dustjacket with darkened backstrip and light soiling, a small tear to top corner of front panel, good (Pertelote 139) £120 Inscribed by the author: ‘To Walter de la Mare, With affectionate regard, Laurence Binyon. 1938’.

297. (Golden Cockerel Press.) THE FIRST CRUSADE . The Deeds of the Franks and other Jerusalemites. Translated into English for the First Time by Somerset de Chair. 1945, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 368/400 COPIES (of an edition of 500 copies) printed on handmade paper, 5 full-page wood-engravings and the title-page vignette

by Clifford Webb, pp.92, small folio, original half vellum with terracotta buckram stamped in gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed, near fine (Cockalorum 168) £195

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298. (Golden Cockerel Press.) GRIMM (Jacob and Wilhelm) Grimm’s Other Tales. A New Selection

by Wilhelm Hansen: Translated & Edited by Ruth Michaelis-Jena and Arthur Ratcliffe: Illustrated with Ten Wood-Engravings by Gwenda Morgan. 1956, 231/425 COPIES , printed on

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Arnold’s mouldmade paper, 9 full-page wood-engravings, a head-piece and title-page pressdevice by Gwenda Morgan, pp.160, 8vo, original purple cloth with Morgan designs blocked in gilt to both panels, backstrip lettered in gilt and faded, t.e.g., fore-edge toned and with a liquid stain, a small amount of light foxing to endpapers, good (Cock-a-Hoop 205) £50 299. (Golden Cockerel Press.) HERRICK (Robert) One Hundred and Eleven Poems. Selected, Arranged and Illustrated by Sir William Russell Flint. 1955, 542/445 COPIES (of an edition of 550 copies), printed on Millbourn handmade paper with the title to each poem in blue, green or red, collotype reproductions of Flint watercolours as frontispiece and on title-page with 40 crayon drawings

by Flint printed in sanguine throughout, pp. [viii],127, imperial 8vo, original quarter parchment with fading to boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, emblem blocked in gilt to front cover, corners a little rubbed, top edge trimmed with light foxing, good (Cock-A-Hoop 199) £100 300. (Golden Cockerel Press.) LAWRENCE (T.E.) Shaw-Ede: T.E. Lawrence’s Letters to H.S. Ede 19271935. Foreword and Running Commentary by H.S. Ede. 1942, 458/470 COPIES , printed on mouldmade paper, light rippling and occasional spotting at foot of pages throughout, pp. [iv], 62, crown 4to, original quarter navy morocco with light rubbing to upper joint, cream art-canvas boards a little soiled, backstrip lettered in gilt with five raised bands, bottom corners bumped, t.e.g., others untrimmed and browned, endpapers with patches of browning, good (Pertelote 151) £280 301. (Golden Cockerel Press.) OVID The Amores of Publius Ovidius Naso. Newly translated by E. Powys Matthews. With five engravings on copper by J.E. Labourer. 1932, 343/350 COPIES , pp. [v], 82, royal 8vo, original quarter brown morocco, green cloth sides with a number of light scratches and a couple of small dampstains, backstrip printed in gilt with five raised bands and a little rubbed, small wormhole at foot of rear joint, t.e.g, others untrimmed, sound (Chanticleer 80) £40 With the bookplate of M. Bernard Thorold on the flyleaf. The majority of the run was half bound.

302. (Golden Cockerel Press.) QUENNELL (Peter) Masques & Poems. 1922, 125/375 COPIES (of an edition of 550 copies) on handmade paper, 5 illustrations by the author, a few patches of light foxing to prelims and text, pp. 53, 4to, original quarter grey linen with pale blue boards a little soiled along head, backstrip with printed label lettered in black, untrimmed, endpapers browned and foxed, dustwrapper bright but soiled overall with chips, creases and a few closed tears, good (Chanticleer 9) £60 The first illustrated book to be issued by the press, which also instituted their practice of numbering each copy within a limitation.

303. (Golden Cockerel Press.) (Shelley.) SHELLEY AT OXFORD. The Early Correspondence of P.B. Shelley With His Friend T.J. Hogg Together With the Letters of Mary Shelley and T.L. Peacock and a Hitherto Unpublished Prose Fragment by Shelley. Edited by Walter Sidney Scott. 1944, 253/450 COPIES , 4 collotype reproductions of portraits including frontispiece, pp. [vi], 79, crown 4to, original quarter red morocco, blue buckram boards with very light rubbing, backstrip lettered in gilt with four raised bands, t.e.g., others untrimmed and lightly toned, turn-ins offset, good £100 304. (Golden Cockerel Press.) WHITFIELD (Christopher) Together and Alone. Two Short Novels. 1945, FIRST EDITION, 126/400 COPIES (of an edition of 500 copies), printed on Arnold mouldmade paper, 10 wood-engravings by John O’Connor, slight rippling at foot of pages throughout, pp. [iv],109, 8vo, original quarter cream cloth with marbled cloth sides, soiled and rubbed, backstrip lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed, sound (Cockalorum 165) £50

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305. (Gregynog Press.) Greetings and Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year, From Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, Gregynog, 1938-1939. Newtown, 1938, ONE OF 260 COPIES , printed in blue and black on one side of a single sheet of handmade paper , oblong 4to, original grey wrappers printed in black, some very light spotting to borders, very good (Harrop E215) £30 306. (Gruffyground Press.) A GRUFFYMAUFRY. Sidcot, 2002, ONE OF 25 COPIES signed by Anthony Baker and Sebastian Carter, 8 loose pieces of ephemera printed in various colours and on various papers, 8vo, grey card folder printed in black, fine (Askam A29) £35 A selection of pieces printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press for Anthony Baker of the Gruffyground Press.

307. (Hammer.) HAMMER (Victor) Memory and her Nine Daughters. A Pretext for Printing Cast into the Mould of a Dialogue in Four Chapters. George Wittenborn, New York. (...printed at the hand press

by Carolyn R. Hammer. Victor Hammer has set the pages). 1957, 83/250 COPIES printed in Uncial types on handmade paper, printed in black save for the sub-title which is printed in red, one fullpage diagram, pp. [vi](blanks), [ii], iv, 108, [4]blanks), 8vo, original cream boards printed in black overall, the backstrip printed in red ‘hammer: 4 dialogues’, untrimmed, dustjacket, fine £350 Vivian Ridler’s copy, with his book ticket. Inscribed in pencil on the front flyleaf ‘in appreciation – C[arolyn]. Hammer’.

308. (Incline Press.) MONRO (Harold) Milk for the Cat. Oldham, 2003, 59/180 COPIES on Velin Arches paper, with a signed Bert Eastman four-colour linocut tipped in opposite colophon page, pp. [5], imperial 8vo, original quarter blue cloth with patterned boards, bevelled edges, small paper label to front, fine £45 309. (Jones.) THE CHESTER PLAY OF THE DELUGE . With Ten WoodEngravings by David Jones. Clover Hill Editions, 1977, 58/250 COPIES on Barcham Green mouldmade paper, pp. [x], 30, [iv], folio, original quarter cloth with marbled boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, lightest of bumps to top corners, top edge trimmed with a small amount of foxing to inside, dustjacket, £450 near fine Printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge in the Golden Cockerel type designed by Eric Gill.

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310. (Kelmscott Press.) The Tale of Beowulf (done out of the Old English Tongue by William Morris & A.J. Wyatt). 1895, [ ONE OF 300 COPIES ] (of an edition of 308 copies) printed in black and red on handmade paper in the Troy typeface with shoulder notes, ‘Glossary’ etc. printed in the Chaucer typeface, full-page wood-engraved title-page, wood-engraved border to both the title-page and first page of text, half and three-quarter wood-engraved borders, pp. vi, 119, small folio, original limp cream vellum, backstrip gilt lettered, blue silk-ties lost from front and part present at rear, untrimmed, vellum somewhat rumpled and with some natural discolouration, endpapers spotted, good (Peterson A32; Sparling 32) £2,000 311. (Kelmscott Press.) Wood engraving on vellum of one illustration for Love is Enough. 1897, woodcut by Edward Burne-Jones within a border designed by William Morris, vellum a little browned at edges, initialed in pencil on the verso, along with a short ink note by Sydney

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Cockerell, single vellum leaf, printed on recto only, housed in a large red morocco gilt folder (rebacked and somewhat scraped), near fine £1,500 Probably a retree rather than a proof, possibly disqualified by two rows of three ink dots (from the press?) which appear along the left edge. The woodcut is the second illustration from Love is Enough, an image with two unusual features: the border, designed by Morris, is the only one of the borders from The Story of the Glittering Plain to ever be reused, with this being its only other appearance; the image itself is the only one in Love is Enough not originally produced for the Kelmscott edition, being an adaptation of an otherwise-abandoned illustration Burne-Jones had made for Morris’s planned 1871 edition (which never appeared).

The verso of the sheet is initialled ‘WH’ in pencil, which must be William Henry Hooper, the engraver of the block itself, who initialled most proofs in pencil (including one in the Morgan Library). It has a further ink annotation below the initials, reading ‘Love is Enough / 2nd Illustr.’; this is in the hand of Sydney Cockerell, who formed several collections of Kelmscott ephemera, often adding a note to cancelled leaves to indicate their source.

312. (Nonesuch Press.) DICKENS (Charles) [The Nonesuch Dickens.] The Complete Works and Letters, together with the ‘Prospectus’ Volume. Edited by Arthur Waugh, Hugh Walpole, Walter Dexter and Thomass Hatton. 24 Vols. 1937/38, 138/877 SETS , the illustrations printed from the original steel plates or woodblocks (with the exception of a few woodblocks which had split, those being reproduced from electrotyped facsimiles or photographic reproductions), roy.8vo, original vari-coloured buckrams, uniform black leather labels, fading or darkening to a few backstrips as usual; the ‘Prospectus’ in blue linen, gilt lettered (as issued), t.e.g. on the rough, others untrimmed, near fine (Dreyfus 108) £8,000 Chapman and Hall possessed 877 plates, all of which were acquired by the Nonesuch Press. One plate was issued with each set, thus governing the number of sets which could be issued. The plate for this set is a steel plate entitled ‘The Wooden Midshipman on the look out’ by Phiz (H.K. Browne) is enclosed in its matching purple book-form buckram case and is complete with its pull and letter of guarantee of authenticity.

313. (Nonesuch Press.) SHAKESPEARE (William) Works. The Text of the First Folio with Quarto Variants and a Selection of Modern Readings. Edited by Herbert Farjeon. 7 Vols. 1929-33, 579/1,600 SETS printed on Pannekoek mouldmade paper using the Fournier type with recut capitals, 8vo, original tan niger morocco, gilt lettered backstrips a trifle faded, raised bands ruled in blind, double gilt rule borders to sides and a single gilt rule to inner borders, a few faint scratches to rear cover of one volume, bookplates, t.e.g. on the rough, others untrimmed, very good (Dreyfus 58) £1,800 The text of the first folio of 1623 is used (‘Pericles’ and the ‘Poems’ excepted) and the margins of the texts contain collations of all the significant quarto variants prior to 1623.

One of the most satisfying of the press’s publications and among the finest of editions of Shakespeare, both editorially and typographically.

314. (Old School Press.) SUTCLIFFE (John) The Colours of Rome. An examination of the use of colour on the façades of today’s Rome, with historical and other notes, and a selection of colours copied

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on site. Bath, 2013, 23/99 COPIES (of an edition of 124 copies) signed by the author, printed on Cartiera Magnani handmade paper, printed in yellow and black with colour samples applied by hand to pp. 24-5, pp.

31, 4to, original brown cloth, tail edge untrimmed, enclosed in robust brown cloth wrapper with photograph of wall section to the inside and an integral brown-card folder housing a swatch card with tipped-in colour samples and 20 hand-applied colour patches with descriptions, backstrip £185 with yellow paper label printed in brown, fine A fascinating study by an expert in the field, produced with care and creativity at the Old School Press.

315. (Old Stile Press.) CR ABBE (George) Peter Grimes From the Borough. 1985, 29/220 COPIES signed by the illustrator, printed on all-rag mouldmade paper 20 linocuts in green and brown by J. Martin Pitts (including frontispiece and colophon page, many full-page), pp. 35, imperial 8vo, original beige canvas with design in green by J. Martin Pitts, backstrip lettered in green, cloth and patterned paper slipcase, fine £60 316. (Opal Press.) SITWELL (Pauline) Green Song, Poems and Wood Engravings. 1979, 5/10 COPIES (of an edition of 150 copies) signed by the author, printed on Vélin Arches paper, 10 wood engravings by the author (including frontispiece and colophon page), pp. [viii], 23, imperial 8vo original quarter vellum with Japanese paper covered boards, backstrip with printed label, top edge trimmed, slipcase, near fine £75 A not-too-distant relative of more famous literary bearers of this name, the author must knowingly have chosen a title that echoes an earlier collection by Edith Sitwell for this very finely produced book.

317. (Pear Tree Press.) MILTON (John) On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity. Bognor Regis, 1930, 48/100 COPIES , printed in black and gold with frontispiece and further decorations by S.M. Thompson, patches of colour bleeding from gold ink throughout as well as a couple of other small stains, pp.

[21], 12mo, original silver boards decorated in black with paper label printed in gold and black to front, backstrip lettered in gold and slightly rubbed, decorated endpapers, pastedowns a little foxed along head, original tissue wrapper, good £200 318. (Rampant Lions Press.) THE AGAMEMNON OF AESCHYLUS . Text edited by Raymond Postgate, with an introduction, a commentary, and a translation into modern English prose. Cambridge, 1969, ONE OF 250 COPIES signed by the editor (from an edition of 500 copies), pp. 141, 8vo, original brickred cloth, backstrip with black label lettered in gilt, glassine jacket, small bump to upper corners, very good £50 319. (Rampant Lions Press.) IN FAIR VERONA . English Travellers in Italy and their Accounts of the City from the Middle Ages to Modern Times. Cambridge: [Privately printed at the] Rampant Lions Press 1972, ONE OF 100 COPIES printed on handmade paper, armorial-device on title-page designed

by Reynolds Stone and printed in brown as with press-device below colophon, previous owner’s pencil correction to margin of one page, pp.50, small folio, original paper covered wrappers with brown and cream vertical stripes, backstrip with brown paper label lettered in gilt, top edge trimmed with tiny amount of very light foxing, near fine £250 Printed by friends of Giovanni Mardersteig of the Officina Bodoni, in celebration of his eightieth birthday, the book was conceived by Hans Schmoller with passages selected by Nicolas Barker (who also wrote the linking text).

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320. (Rampant Lions Press.) CRUTCHLEY (Brooke) The Cambridge Christmas Books. Brighton, 1976, 18/200 COPIES , signed by the author, pp. [16], small 8vo, original marbled wrappers, paper label printed in black and green to front, fine £25 The text of a talk given at the St Bride Printing Library, at the opening of an exhibition of the Cambridge Christmas Books.

321. (Rampant Lions Press.) PIPER (David) Shades. An Essay on English Portrait Silhouettes. New York: Chilmark Press, 1970, 230/500 COPIES on rag paper, pp. 63, 4to, original quarter cloth with patterned boards in pink, black and white, merest hint of fading at head of upper board, £45 backstrip lettered in gilt, acetate wrapper, near fine The fourth of Chilmark’s Clover Hill Editions, this was designed by Sebastian Carter and printed at The Rampant Lions Press.

322. Rogers (Bruce) Report on the Typography of the Cambridge University Press. Prepared in 1917 at the request of the Syndics by Bruce Rogers. Wynken de Worde Society, 1968, 340/350 COPIES , set in Centaur type, pp.vii, 19, tall 8vo, original stab-sewn buff wrappers, front printed in red with Bruce Rogers’ device, fine £15 The second printing of this report, originally done as the 1950 Cambridge Christmas Book.

323. (Shakespeare Head Press.) CHAUCER (Geoffrey) Works.

(Edited by A.W. Pollard, the ‘Romaunt of the Rose’ Edited

by Mark Liddell.) 8 Vols. Oxford. 1928/29, 316/375 SETS (of an edition of 386 sets) printed on Kelmscott handmade paper, the titles printed in red and the sub-titles and large initial letters printed in blue and red, the wood-engraved head-pieces

by Lynton Lamb, the paragraph-marks drawn in by hand by Joscelyn Gaskin in blue or red and the charming handcoloured figures of the Canterbury Pilgrims engraved from drawings by Hugh Chesterman after those in the Ellesmere Manuscript, the leaf acknowledging Chesterman’s work with the Chaucerian figures loosely inserted, sm.folio, original quarter undyed linen, printed labels (with spares loosely inserted), pale blue boards, untrimmed, a little minor spotting, very good £1,200 324. (Stanbrook Abbey Press.) SASSOON (Siegfried) Awaitment. Worcester. 1960, [ONE OF 124 COPIES (of an edition of 624 copies)], single leaf printed in black on one side and tipped to inside rear wrapper, poem printed in black using Cancelleresca Bastarda typeface on handmade paper, hand-drawn manuscript initial ‘E’ in red, pp.[2], crown 8vo, original Curzon blue wrappers, printed in black, fine (Butcher C8b) £40 The poem was written after the printing of Sassoon’s ‘The Path to Peace’ and 500 were first published as a loose insert in that volume. The Press diary records that 624 such copies were printed, the remaining 124 copies issued in this form.

325. (Stanbrook Abbey Press.) SASSOON (Siegfried) The Path to Peace. Selected Poems. Worcester, 1960, FIRST EDITION, 171/480 COPIES (of an edition of 500 copies) printed on handmade paper in black and blue, title-page vignette blocked in gilt, first initial letter in gilt and red thereafter, pp. [x], 31, 4to, original quarter vellum, blue and gold marbled boards with a touch of colour loss at corners, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge trimmed, near fine (Butcher A5b) £380

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With: The poem ‘Awaitment’, one of 624 copies, tipped in to folded blue card lettered in black and laid in to front. This poem was written after the book had been printed and so supplied in this way.

326. (Tragara Press.) BENSON (Robert Hugh) and Frederick William Rolfe. Saint Thomas. Edited with an Introduction by Donald Weeks. Edinburgh, 1979, ONE OF 25 COPIES for the use of the editor, pp. 41, 8vo, original maroon wrappers lettered in black to front, a small amount of waterstaining around joint on rear panel, near fine (Halliwell 61b) £45 327. (Tragara Press.) HALLIWELL (Stephen) Fifty Years of Hand-Printing. A Bibliography of the Tragara Press. High Wycombe: Rivendale Press, 2005, 48/50 COPIES (of an edition of 400 copies) in slipcase, with a leaflet poem [‘The Buried Life’ by Matthew Arnold] in a paper folder backed with cloth tape, printed at the Tragara Press and signed by Alan Anderson, pp. [xviii], 174, 8vo, original green cloth stamped in gilt to front, backstrip lettered in gilt, matching slipcase with paper label printed in black, fine [with:] Anderson (Alan) The Tragara Press, 1954-1979: A Bibliography. Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1979.

51/135 COPIES , pp. 21, 8vo, original quarter black cloth with publisher’s device to front board, backstrip lettered in gilt, a little fading at head, very good [and:] Anderson (Alan) The Tragara Press, 1979-1991: A Bibliography. Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1991, second impression, ONE OF 50 COPIES , pp. 21, 8vo, original red card wrappers with publisher’s device to front, a little fading at head, very good £65 A letter from Alan Anderson to the previous owner is loosely inserted at front.

For Kathleen Raine, to David Gascoyne, from Jeremy Reed 328. (Tragara Press.) REED (Jeremy) The Secret Ones. Edinburgh: [privately printed for the author and the Enitharmon Press by the] Tragara Press, 1983, 35/75 COPIES signed by the author, pp. [6], 8vo, original stitched green card wrappers with printed label to front, a few white specks at foot of front panel, some creasing at head of rear, and some dampstaining around spine, with the bookplate of David and Judy Gascoyne, good £40 With a gift inscription from Reed to David Gascoyne on the title-page: ‘Dear David, With my fondest love and admiration, Jeremy. June, 1983’.

329. (Tragara Press.) WEEKS (Donald) Frederick William Rolfe and Artists’ Models. Edinburgh, 1981, ONE OF 25 COPIES for the use of the author, printed on Abbey Mills paper, pp. 22, 8vo, origingreen card wrappers with printed paper label to front, a thin line of fading around head, near fine (Halliwell 80) £45 330. (Tragara Press.) WEEKS (Donald) Frederick William Rolfe and Editors. Edinburgh, 1984, UNIQUE COPY, printed on cream Strathmore paper, pp. 22, 8vo, original marbled wrappers over stiff card with printed paper label to front, a trifle rubbed to fore-edge and along joints, near fine (Halliwell 107) £100 Alan Anderson of the Tragara Press has noted ‘One copy on Strathmore paper’ on the colophon page.

331. (Tragara Press.) WEEKS (Donald) Frederick William Rolfe, Christchurch, and the Artist.

Edinburgh, 1980, 118/120 COPIES printed on Abbey Mills paper, pp. 27, 8vo, original claret wrappers with printed paper label to front, near fine (Halliwell 72) £40

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332. (Tragara Press.) WEEKS (Donald) Frederick William Rolfe, the 1903 Conclave & Hartwell de la Garde Grissell. Edinburgh, 1982, 51/110 COPIES , pp. 19, 8vo, original blue wrappers lettered in black, a touch of fading to borders, near fine (Halliwell 91) £30 333. (Tragara Press.) WEEKS (Donald) Rolfe without Frederick. Edinburgh, 1983, 13/110 COPIES , pp. 19, 8vo, original mustard wrappers with printed paper label to front, fine (Halliwell 101) £30 334. (Tragara Press.) WEEKS (Donald) Two Friends. Frederick Rolfe and Henry Harland. Edinburgh, 1978, 95/125 COPIES printed on Conqueror laid paper, pp. 17, 8vo, original brown wrappers lettered in black to front, fine (Halliwell 58) £35 335. (Van Patten.) WITHER (George) Wither His Christmas Carol. Privately Printed [at Stanford University Press,] 1930, pp. 9, 12mo, original sewn pink wrappers printed in black, a small amount of creasing to edges, near fine

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Printed for distribution as a Christmas gift by Mr and Mrs Nathan Van Patten in 1930.

336. (Verona Press.) JOHNSTON (Frederick) Terracina Cloud [Poems]. Verona. 1936, FIRST EDITION , pp. [xii], 90, crown 8vo, original lime-green linen, backstrip and front cover gilt lettered and decorated, roughtrimmed, fine £40 Vivian Ridler’s copy, with his embossed address-stamp in the front free endpaper.

337. (Whittington Press.) MATRIX 1. Andoversford, 1981, 85/320 COPIES (of an edition of 350 copies) printed on heritage Laid Paper, tipped-in plates (mainly illustrating wood-engravings) and illustrations in the text, title printed in purple, pp.70, imperial 8vo, original printed purple wrappers over matching card, tipped-on wood-engraving to front cover, backstrip lettered in black, light fading to backstrip and adjacent area on rear cover, corners a trifle bumped with a little rubbing along edges, untrimmed, very good (Butcher 60) £750 338. (Whittington Press.) MATRIX 2. Andoversford, 1982, 117/410 COPIES (of an edition of 450 copies), printed in black and cinnamon on Sommerville Laid and Zerkall mouldmade papers, woodengravings in the text, several plates of photographs, some coloured, folding examples of original printing tipped in, pp. vi, 112, [1], imperial 8vo, original stiff orange wrappers over matching card, printed in cinnamon and black, wood-engraving reproduced on front cover, minor creasing to covers, untrimmed, near fine £625 339. (Whittington Press.) MATRIX 2 Reprint. Andoversford, 1993, ONE OF 435 COPIES (of an edition of 475 copies), printed in black and cinnamon on Sommerville Laid and Zerkall mouldmade papers, wood-engravings in the text, several plates of photographs, some coloured, folding examples of original printing tipped in, pp. [iv], 122, [1], imperial 8vo, original stiff orange wrappers over matching card, printed in cinnamon and black, wood-engraving reproduced on front cover, untrimmed, fine £115 340. (Whittington Press.) MATRIX 7. Andoversford, 1987, ONE OF 850 COPIES (of an edition of 960 copies) printed in black on Sommerville and Zerkall mouldmade papers, numerous inserts, including reproductions of photographs, examples of printing and illustrations, including folding

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plates, (some colourprinted) pp. [viii], 166, imperial 8vo, original stiff yellow wrappers over orange patterned white card, untrimmed, fine £115 341. (Whittington Press.) BUTCHER (David) The Whittington Press, a Bibliography 1971-1981. With an Introduction and Notes by John Randle. Andoversford, 1982, 168/200 COPIES (of an edition of 320 copies) on Zerkall mouldmade paper, photographic frontispiece tipped in, reproductions of a number of illustrations used by the press including a number printed from the original wood or perspex blocks, folding plate of type specimens, pp.[ix], 83, [i], folio, original quarter brick-red buckram with vertical gilt rule and marbled boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge brown, others untrimmed, bump to lower corners, near fine £160 342. (Whittington Press.) CAVE (Roderick) Chinese Ceremonial Papers. An Illustrated Bibliography.

Andoversford, 2002, 62/150 COPIES (of an edition of 200 copies) on tan Bugra Bütten mouldmade paper, with 39 examples of Chinese religious papers tipped-in, a further example, folded, is loosely inserted in a pocket on the inside rear cover, the title is printed in pink on a pale pink circular ground, a further large example inserted in a black card folder, pp. [viii], 6, 68, folio, original quarter grey cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, pink boards, a Chinese paper example inlaid to the front cover, grey cloth fore-edges, untrimmed, fine £225 One of only 50 copies signed by the author 343. (Whittington Press.) CLARK (Leonard) An Intimate Landscape.

Andoversford: [printed at the Whittington Press for] Nottingham Court Press, 1981, 119/400 COPIES (of an edition of 500 copies) on mould-made paper, 7 wood engravings by Miriam Macgregor, pp. 35, imperial 8vo, original quarter brown buckram with vertical gilt rule and marbled boards, t.e.g., others untrimmed, slipcase, fine (Butcher 56) £250 This is one of only 50 copies from the entire run of 500 that were signed by Clark before his death in 1981.

344. (Whittington Press.) FODEN (Peter) Fell Imperial Quarto Book of Common Prayer. An Account of Its Production. Andoversford, 1998, 87/125 COPIES (of an edition of 175 copies) printed on cream Zerkall mouldmade paper, with 8 pages from the original Prayer Book of 1913 bound in, facsimile leaf of the title-page and ‘Calendar’, large initials printed in red (including the large Fell type initials present on the original sheets), title-page printed in black and red, a little creasing to top corner of final few leaves, pp.[v], 44, folio, original quarter pink cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, orange boards with design printed in red, pink cloth fore-edges, untrimmed, cloth and board slipcase with a touch of rubbing to corners, near fine £185 345. (Whittington Press.) Kempson (E.G.H.) and G.W. Murray (Editors) Marlborough, Town & Countryside. An anthology from 1436 to the present day. With an introduction by Lord Brooke of Cumnor, C.H. and with illustrations by Richard Kennedy. Andoversford, 1978, 204/410 COPIES (of an edition of 420 copies) signed by Kempson and Kennedy, tipped-in frontispiece, title-page printed in black and green, pp. [xvi], 84, imperial 8vo, original terracotta buckram stamped in gilt to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge amber, others untrimmed, illustrated endpapers, dustjacket, fine (Butcher 35) £90 346. (Whittington Press.) O’CONNOR (John) Knipton: A Leicestershire Village. Andoversford, 1996, 86/155 COPIES (of an edition of 200 copies) printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper and signed by the author, 35 wood-engravings by O’Connor, printed in black or brown and yellow, pp.[32], large 4to, original quarter brown cloth and terracotta boards, each board stamped with 2 engravings

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347. (Whittington Press.) REEVES (James) Arcadian Ballads. With illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Andoversford. 1977, 51/200 COPIES (of an edition of 250 copies) printed on Arches paper and signed by author and artist, several reproductions of pen-and-ink drawings by Edward Ardizzone printed in purple, a number full- or double-page, pp. xi, 48, [2], small 4to, original patterned cloth boards, printed paper label to front, board slipcase slightly faded, near £100 fine (Butcher 27) 348. (William Paul Wreden.) Four Christmas Cards. San Francisco: Privately Printed, [1950- 1960?,] printed in red and black, 3 with illustration to front, four folded single sheets, 4to, a small amount of creasing to outer edge of two cards, very good £15 A selection of Christmas cards sent by the Californian bookseller William P. Wreden and his wife, two of which are dated [1954 & 1960].

Each features a suitably festive and amusing textselection: an editorial from the Daily Evening Bulletin, December 24, 1855; a description of the Dog Express postal service accompanying a 19th century image of the same; a Beecham’s Christmas advert from the Illustrated London News, December 24, 1892; and an excerpt from Miscellaneous Writings in Verse and Prose by Edward Ward, London, 1712.

Section Four Bibliographers’ Collections We are pleased to offer two collections of notable 20th-century British writers, each formed as part of the creation of the standard bibliography of that writer. Although (inevitably) not entirely complete, each collection is as close as is achievable, and they are especially remarkable for the breadth of secondary material, as described below. A full list of the items in either collection or any other details are available on request.

349. The Eads Collection of H.E. Bates.

Herbert Ernest Bates’s first novel, The Two Sisters, was published when he was 21, having been accepted by Jonathan Cape (after 9 other rejections) in part because the reader assumed that ‘H.E. Bates’ was a woman. He published almost continuously from that point forward, including during an unprecedented appointment as a morale-boosting story writer for the Royal Air Force.

After an argument with Cape over the windfall of royalties that followed the success of Bates’s stories about air force pilots, Bates moved to Michael Joseph and continued his prolific output, beginning with Fair Stood the Wind for France in 1945. His popularity continued to grow and reached its peak with 1958’s The Darling Buds of May (adapted for television in 1991), which was critically slighted – especially in comparison to his short stories – but cemented his place in popular culture.

Peter Eads published H.E. Bates, a Bibliographical Study in 1990. It has been called ‘meticulously prepared’ and ‘invaluable’, and was reprinted in 2007 by Oak Knoll Press. Eads enlivens his bibliography with citations from contemporary reviews and Bates’s autobiography, and used some of the same material to prepare a biography of Bates published in 1995. The foundation

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of his bibliographical study was his own collection, including a nearly complete run of A items – both English and American editions, plus paperbacks – and a wide selection of B and C items, anthologies and periodicals with contributions from Bates. A more recent online effort (Paul Machlis’s ‘H.E. Bates Companion’) has been able to add to the record only 8 fiction stories not traced by Eads (as well as a larger quantity of non-fiction and book reviews). Around 300 items £14,000 including periodicals, 19 linear feet.

350. The Ritchie Collection of Harold Acton.

Sir Harold Acton’s DNB entry begins ‘aesthete and author’, which he certainly was – and in that order. While studying at Christ Church, Oxford, in the 1920s he carefully cultivated a midnineteenth-century look, regarding the fin de siècle as a dead end to be looked past; his battle cry was ‘back to mahogany’. Outwardly outrageous – the basis, at least in part, for Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited , and the one who actually read ‘The Waste Land’ at passing undergraduates through a megaphone – he considered himself at this age to be primarily a poet.

His second book of poetry was published by Duckworth in 1925, but his third was stymied by the publisher going out of business. His novels also suffered from bad luck in their timing (as perhaps befitted a man whose dress was 70 years out of date), with his second appearing at the same time as, and suffering in comparison to, Waugh’s Decline and Fall. Non-fiction followed, the historical study The Last Medici being now perhaps his best-appreciated book. After that more history, but also several further novels and multiple volumes of autobiography. He was still publishing into the 1980s, and was honoured with a Festschrift on his 80th birthday in 1984, after which he largely gave his time over to hosting guests at his villa.

One of the editors of that Festschrift was Neil Ritchie, who retired from the Foreign Service to the Chianti hills, where he cultivated his garden and his library, and joined Acton’s social circle.

While collecting essays and contributions for Oxford, China and Italy: Writings in Honour of Sir Harold Acton, Ritchie was simultaneously compiling Harold Acton: A Bibliography. His bibliographical interests were closely linked to his bibliophilic instincts: as the dustjacket for the Acton bibliography notes he was ‘basing himself on his own considerable collection’. Acton was not his only interest – the Ritchie collection of Sitwelliana led to a bibliography of Sacheverell, and is now in Merton College – but for his work on Acton he was uniquely close to the source.

As a result the collection is not only comprehensive but shows Acton’s hand as much as Ritchie’s: often there are two or more copies of a given book, one acquired by Ritchie (frequently with interesting provenance) and another inscribed to him in the early 1980s by Acton. There are also proof copies, reprints, and Italian editions, as well as books with Acton contributions which are now more significant for other reasons, such as Nancy Cunard’s Negro anthology. The collection is further enhanced by Ritchie’s working material for the bibliography and Festschrift – with copies of his letters, and original responses from contributors such as John Betjeman, Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, and others – plus an annotated and specially bound copy of the bibliography (in addition, of course, to a copy inscribed by Acton), making this a substantial and important archive. Around 90 volumes plus periodicals, folders of correspondence, proofs, and offprints, 7 linear feet. £18,000

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