Geology.- Smith (William) Stratigraphical System of Organized Fossils, with Reference to the Specimens of the Original Geological Collection in the British Museum, part 1 [all published], first edition, 2 tables with hand-colouring, the first folding and second double-page, title with tiny repaired tear to fore-margin, both tables mounted on stubs, the first with tape reinforcements to folds to verso and light offsetting, D4 lower blank corner repaired, some spotting, lower hinge cracked, 20th century red half calf, rebacked, original backstrip once laid down but now majority lacking, rubbed, extremities worn in places, original printed wrappers bound in (laid down and repaired), t.e.g., others uncut, 4to, for E. Williams, 1817. *** A detailed description of the fossils found in different geological strata in England. To find a copy complete with both Tables is especially rare. Smith, known as the 'Father of English Geology', had sold his own fossil collection to the British Museum a year earlier.
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Forster (E.M.) A Room With a View, first edition, autograph card signed by the author on his King's College Cambridge letterhead notecard and stamped 8 June 1959, loosely inserted, without 8pp. publishers advertisements at end, original burgundy cloth, title gilt, light fading to spine and rubbing to corners, [Kirkpatrick A3], 8vo, 1908. *** This copy is an unusual issue without the advertisements, possibly prepared for the Colonial market.
![South East Asia.- [Collection of 29 vintage photographic prints], mounted on 27 stiff card leaves, 3 tinted, some captioned i](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e2830e18-1c28-4df1-b257-b16a00f522c2/edcffcac-c78a-49a2-95e1-b16a0115ecd4/468x382.jpg)
South East Asia.- [Collection of 29 vintage photographic prints], mounted on 27 stiff card leaves, 3 tinted, some captioned in the negative, all captioned by hand on mounts, faint spotting and light dust soiling to mounts, c.205x275 mm to c.250 x 350 mm., [c.1890]. *** An interesting collection of images depicting a long forgotten, pre-industrial Singapore.
Kipling (Rudyard) The Jungle Book, reprint, signed by the author and dated "Dec. 9. 1910" on title, illustrations by Kipling, W. H. Drake and P. Frenzeny, advertisements at end, light occasional spotting, gutter slightly cracked but firm, original pictorial cloth, gilt, g.e., spine ends and corners lightly bumped, a few small scratches to upper cover, slight shelf-lean, 8vo, 1908.
Binding.- Horatius Flaccus (Quintus) Q. Horatius Flaccus: cum commentariis & enarrationibus commentatoris veteris..., collation: *-**4 A-Z4 a-z4 aa-zz4 aaa-vvv4, woodcut printer's device to title, light uniform browning towards end, seventeenth century calf ornate in gilt, covers and spine with a semis of fleur-de-lys within tooled borders, spine head with leather repair, spine foot slightly chipped, upper joint split at foot and fragile, g.e., ink stain to fore-edge, 4to (binding: 227x166mm.), Leiden, ex officina Plantiniana, with Franciscus Raphelengius, 1597.*** Provenance: A previous French owner’s pencil note suggests that this book once belonged to the Count of Provence, later Louis XVIII (1814-1824, with an interruption upon Napoleon's return during the Hundred Days in 1815), forming part of his library in exile from 1791.
Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., first editions, first impressions, The Return of the King without signature mark '4' and text block straight, folding map at end of each vol., faint toning strips on endpapers, original cloth, spine ends fractionally bumped, otherwise fine, top edge staining still bright to vol.1 & 3, dust-jackets, light toning to spines and panel edges, neat and expert restorations to extremities, still in effect an excellent and bright set, preserved in custom-made morocco-backed slip-case, [Hammond & Anderson A5], 8vo, 1954-55.
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[Wilde (Oscar)] The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3., first edition, one of 800 copies on hand-made paper, slight abrasion to rear endpaper, light browning to endpapers, original linen-backed turmeric cloth, light surface soiling, slight bumping to spine and corner tips, uncut, [Mason 371], 8vo, Leonard Smithers, 1898.
Gardens.- Switzer (Stephen) An Introduction to a General System of Hydrostaticks and Hydraulicks, Philosophical and Practical, 2 vol. bound as 1, first edition, engraved frontispiece, 61 engraved plates, of which 54 folding, engraved initials and headpieces, small hole to frontispiece affecting image, occasional faint water-staining to fore-edges, even browning, occasional light soiling, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, bumping to corners, [Bibliotheca Mechanica pp.309-10], 4to, for T. Astley [& others], 1729. *** Including the origin of springs, steam-engines for raising water, and fountains. Switzer worked on the designs of the gardens at Castle Howard, Blenheim and Kensington Palace.
Wilde (Oscar).- Ross (Robert) re Oscar Wilde deceased, printed bifolium, folds with some splitting and tape repairs, some fraying to extremities, light surface soiling, 1908; and 3 others, including a typed letter signed by Ross to John Lane discussing publication of the 1912 Lane edition of Salomé and a typed indenture with calligraphic heading between Ross and Lane regarding further rights for another edition of Salomé based on Richard Strauss' operatic adaptation, v.s. (4)*** Robert Ross fighting against the black market copies of Wilde's works and securing lucrative deals for the estate with the very publishers who dropped the author at the height of his trial. We can trace no other example of the first item at auction and only institutional copies at the British Library and the Bodleian.Robert Ross was among Wilde's longest-standing and most faithful friends, likely also his lover from as early as 1886 and was present at his death in 1900. Wilde appointed Ross his literary executor, a role he took to with remarkable energy and passion, almost single-handedly rehabilitating Wilde's reputation and preserving his literary legacy. The first item comprises a circular sent by Ross to members of the book trade, providing a list of authentic editions of Wilde's works (this based on the work of Stuart Mason) and threatening with legal action any sellers found to be offering pirated works. In the letter Ross discusses royalties for the forthcoming edition as well as the use and original of the Ricketts-designed circular symbol used on numerous posthumous editions of Wilde's works: "I took the idea from the old eighteenth century editions of Swinburne and Tennyson in regard to the colour and size, and got Ricketts to adapt a little designed of Blake's for the medallion". Provenance: from the estate of the late Max Reinhardt. Proceeds from the sale will benefit MaxLiteracy.org, which inspires creative writing in young people - set up in memory of Max and his authors.
Fox (Charles James).- Beccaria (Cesare) Dei Delitti e delle Pene, engraved frontispiece, occasional light foxing, contemporary English blue straight-grain morocco, gilt, extremities slightly rubbed, g.e., 8vo, Harlem, 1766.*** Bookplate of Charles James Fox and inscription on front endpaper in Italian relating to its later gifting from Mary, Lady Holland in 1862.
Wodehouse (P.G.) Young Men in Spats, first edition, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, light fading to spine, splash mark to lower cover, sunning to head and foot, dust-jacket priced at 7/6, neat and expert repairs and restoration to head and foot, rubbing to fore-edge, light creasing to head and foot, in effect an excellent example, [McIlvaine A55a], 8vo, 1936.*** Scarce with the first issue dust-jacket in good condition.
![Milne (A.A.) [The Christopher Robin books], 4 vol., comprising When We Were Very Young, second issue with numbered contents p](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e2830e18-1c28-4df1-b257-b16a00f522c2/f54b1494-c284-4f7e-a366-b16a0117ea90/468x382.jpg)
Milne (A.A.) [The Christopher Robin books], 4 vol., comprising When We Were Very Young, second issue with numbered contents page, neat pencil ownership inscription and light browning on front free endpaper, jacket with light toning to spine, the odd closed nick to upper edge and spine tail, light fraying to spine head, 1924; Winnie-The-Pooh, map endpapers, jacket evenly browned, slightly heavier to spine, light creasing to edges, chipping to extremities, torn down lower spine joints and across spine affecting image, short 1cm tear to lower panel lower edge, 1926; Now We Are Six, pictorial endpapers with small ink ownership inscription, light toning to half-title, rear endpapers browned, cloth spine faded, jacket with small portions of loss to edges of lower panel, spine browned, nicks to edges, chipping to corners, neatly broken down lower spine, 1927; The House at Pooh Corner, pictorial endpapers (very light browning), few spots to half-title, cloth very lightly faded, jacket evenly browned with discolouration to lower panel, small portions of loss to upper edge and spine tail, corners chipped, 1928, first editions, illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, original pictorial cloth, gilt, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, t.e.g., dust-jackets, a very good or excellent set, 8vo.*** An attractive set of Milne's classic series.
Huxley (Aldous) Brave New World, one of 324 copies signed by the author, light browning to endpapers, original yellow buckram with blue gilt-lettered morocco label to spine, slight toning to spine, slight bumping to spine tips, some slight surface soiling to covers, but an excellent example overall, t.e.g., others uncut, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Connolly, The Modern Movement 75], 8vo, 1932
Jewish settlement in England.- Menasseh ben Israel. Vindiciae Judaeorum, or a Letter In Answer to certain Questions...touching the reproaches cast on the Nation of the Jewes, first edition, woodcut device on title and woodcut headpiece, some light foxing and soiling, modern mottled calf, gilt, 4to, [Wing M381], Printed by R[oger] D[aniel], 1656.*** Very good copy of this important work which initiated the unofficial English acceptance of Jewish settlement and led to the granting of an official charter of protection to the Jews of England in 1664 and to the formal recognition of Jewish settlement in England. Cromwell, in fact, had already been moved to sympathy with the Jewish cause, arguably for commercial reasons, and despite Prynne’s able but unfair attack on the Jews (in the ‘Short Demurrer’, a mingling of learning and gross stereotypes), the Whitehall Conference declared that ‘there was no law that forbade the Jews return to England’.Menasseh, born in Lisbon about 1604, grew up in Amsterdam. His family suffered under the Inquisition but found asylum there and Menasseh rose to eminence not only as a rabbi and an author, but also a printer. He established the first Hebrew press in Holland and numbered Grotius and Rembrandt amongst his friends (the latter painted his portrait).
Fleming (Ian) Casino Royale, first edition, first impression, original black boards with heart motif in red to upper cover, spine lettered in red, very fractional scuff to spine head, very slight shelf-lean, dust-jacket, spine very lightly faded, light toning and faint pencil marking on lower panel, light fraying and short nicks to extremities, still an excellent and crisp copy, 8vo, 1953.*** A bright and excellent example of the first James Bond novel. Increasingly difficult to find not price clipped and unrestored.
Execution broadside.- arsenic poisoning.- Account of (An) the Trial and Execution of John Smith, who was Executed on the New Drop at Lincoln Castle ... for poisoning Sarah Arrowsmith of Alford, printed broadside, woodcut illustration at head, crude printing with smudges and occasionally obscured letters, creases, light soiling and spotting, laid down on paper, c.370 x 235 mm., Nottingham, printed from the Lincoln copy by Ordoyno, [c.1824]. *** Rare. Seemingly unrecorded. The tale of a man who poisoned flour with arsenic, and gave the flour to his unwitting partner who baked it into cakes. The cakes were shared with her siblings, daughter and neighbours, poisoning them all, though the broadside intimates that only the partner, Sarah Arrowsmith and her unborn child died.
Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, first issue with 'Miss Violent Hunter' in the last sentence on p.317 and without name to street sign on upper cover, upper hinge weak, slight shelf-lean, spine a little rubbed and darkened, spine ends and corners bumped and frayed, extremities rubbed, 1892; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, extremities rubbed, 1894, first editions, illustrations by Sidney Paget, light foxing, original pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt, a bright set overall, g.e., [Green & Gibson A10a & A14], 8vo (2)*** An attractive set of the complete Sherlock Holmes short stories.
Hugo (Victor) Les Miserables, 10 vol., mixed edition, half-titles, some foxing, the occasional light stain, vol. 9 final 2 leaves with marginal tears repaired, slightly later cloth, spines and cover extremities lightly sunned, vol. 2 & 10 with gilt spine lettering corrected in ink manuscript, a few small marks, corners bumped, 8vo, Paris [Brussels], Pagnerre [Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Ce], 1862. *** The first and second volumes published in Paris, the others Brussels. The Brussels is considered the first edition, published by Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Ce. The Paris edition was published by Pagnerre just 3 or 4 days later on 3rd April 1862.
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Harbou (Thea von) Metropolis, first English edition, first issue with no mention of this work in list on p.[7], light browning, original cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt, spine and corners a little rubbed and slightly darkened, first issue dust-jacket with no mention of this work in list on lower flap, label removal marks to foot of spine affecting lettering, spine and joints slightly browned, spine ends and corners chipped, a few closed tears to panel edges, 8vo, Reader's Library, 1927.
Tibet.- Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Verses, manuscript in Tibetan, on white paper, over 400 leaves in 32 chapters, text in black ink to recto and verso, mostly in 8 lines, opening leaves with 4, 5, 6 and 7 lines, coloured miniatures to title and final leaf, small chip affecting title, title and final leaf reinforced through several leaves stitched together, some creasing, soiling and light staining, edges chipped and frayed, particularly at beginning and end, leaves loose between 2 wooden covers, upper cover with remains of painted decoration in black, red and green, upper cover with decorative carving to right fore-edge, lower cover plain, rubbed and scuffed, each leaf c.215 x 630mm., covers 230 x 695mm., [Tibet], [c.18th or 19th century]. *** A canonical text that occupies an entire volume of the Tibetan tripitaka, said to be the words of the Buddha as taught to a gathering of 1,250 arhats on the mountain called Vulture's Peak, near Rajagriha in Nothern India. The title is flanked by a pair of miniatures identified by inscriptions below: "homage to the supreme teacher" (i.e. Buddha Sakyamuni, the Buddha of the present) on the left and "homage to the venerable Maitreya" (i.e. the Buddha of the future) on the right. The final leaf bears miniatures of Manjughosa (Manjusri, patron deity of wisdom) on the left and "the great mother" (Prajnaparamita, the perfection of wisdom) on the right. Two groups of devotees honouring an unidentified buddha/bodhisattva figure occupy the lower register in the centre of the page.
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*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** China.- Medicine.- [Illustrated Compilation of Medical Texts], 6 vol., woodblock printed on bamboo paper, 9 columns per page, 20 characters per column, single black fishtail motifs, single-line border, 29 illustrations, some fore-edge folds splitting or with neat repairs, the occasional small portion of loss or insect-damage repaired, a few instances of marginal annotation, some light staining to head, bound and stitched Japanese-style into later brown wrappers, housed in a cloth wrap-around case with clasps, block-printed label to upper cover (little chipped), China, Huide Hall Bookshop, [18th-19th century] *** A Qing-dynasty compilation of 3 important medical texts, rarely seen together: Nanjing, Maijue and Qijing bamai kao. Attributed to the legendary doctor Bian Que (also known as Qinyueren), Nanjing or 'The Classic of Difficult Questions' takes the form of a debate between the doctor and his student over elements of pathology, including acupuncture and Yin and Yang. Maijue or 'The formula of pulse measurement' is attributed to Wang Shuhe, an expert on pulse measurement between 265 and 316 AD, although its simple and unrefined style suggests a later date. Qijing bamai kao, written by Li Shizhen (1518-1593), is a short essay on the circulation of Qi (‘air’ or ‘energy’ inside the body) and the eight major arteries and veins.
St. Helena.- Beatson (Maj.-Gen. Alexander) Tracts Relative to the Island of St. Helena, engraved map and 6 aquatint plates by William Daniell after Samuel Davis, extra-illustrated with 6 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, the odd spot, some light surface soiling, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, 20th century panelled calf, light fading to spine, 4to, 1816.*** A scarce and important early work on St. Helena. This copy with 2 additional plates James Wathern and 4 additional plates by William Innes Pocock, the latter published in his rare Five Views of the Island of St. Helena.
*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** South America.- Bertonio (Ludovico) Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara, first edition, 2 parts in 1, woodcut trigram of the Society of Jesus to title, with divisional blank leaf between parts (Hh8), title-page probably in facsimile, without dedication f. ([par]4), some light soiling and occasional damp-stains, final leaf reinforced at gutter on verso, contemporary calf, expertly rebacked, retaining original back-strip with gilt lettering and ornament, some wear and soiling, r.e., faded, with wrap-around slipcase and housed within black morocco drop-back box by Goy & Vilaine, [Palau 28512; Sabin 5023], Juli [Peru], Compañia de Iesu, Francisco del Canto, 1612.*** Extremely rare. First edition of the first Spanish-Aymara dictionary, intended for missionary use to the Aymara people of the central Andes, it is one of only four surviving works from the small Jesuit press at Juli in south-eastern Peru on the shores of Lake Titicaca between, which operated under the established auspices of Francisco del Canto in Lima. The first comprehensive vocabulary of Aymara, which today is one of only six indigenous native American languages with over a million speakers and is now generally accepted to have been the principal language of the Inca, Bertonio’s work is recognised as foundational for the study of pre-colonial Andean culture and ethnography more generally. We can trace only one other copy at auction in the last 60 years. This copy would appear to lack the dedication leaf ([par]4). Whilst the collation is the same as the copy in the John Carter Brown Library, leaves A1-2 are in a different setting to the JCB copy.
Collins (Wilkie) The Moonstone. A Romance, 3 vol., first edition, with vol. 1 pp.10 & 11 transposed, vol. 2 with "treachesrouly" on p.129 and vol. 3 with broken bracket at foot of title, lacking half-titles and advertisements, very lightly browned, occasional very light spotting or soiling, handsomely bound in burgundy crushed morocco by Bayntun-Rivière, gilt, marbled endpapers, g.e., housed in a cloth slip-case, [Sadleir 598; Wolff 1368], 8vo, Tinsley Brothers, 1868. *** Wilkie Collins' pioneering detective novel, rare to find all 3 volumes in first edition states.
Rackham (Arthur).- Poe (Edgar Allan) Tales of Mystery & Imagination, first Rackham-illustrated edition, number 345 of 460 copies signed by Rackham, 12 mounted colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, illustrations, ink inscription to front free endpaper, 1950 Radio Times article on Poe tipped onto first few leaves, original pictorial vellum, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, light soiling along cover edges, spine lightly sunned, spine head lightly bumped, 4to, 1935.
Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Sign of Four, ink ownership inscription to head of title, browning to endpapers, second edition, original pictorial cloth, light toning to spine, spine ends and corners bumped, 1892; The Valley of Fear, frontispiece by Frank Wells, spotting light browning to endpapers, original cloth, spine faded, light rubbing to extremities, small splash marks to covers, [Green & Gibson A39a], 1915, first editions, very good copies, 8vo (2)***
Wodehouse (P.G.) The Clicking of Cuthbert, first edition, light browning to endpapers, original first issue pictorial cloth, very light toning to spine, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket priced at 3/6, 3mm. short, repairs and restoration to head and foot with extensive and expert retouching to panels and spine, in effect a crisp, attractive example, [McIlvaine A27a], 8vo, 1922.
Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit; or There and Back Again, first American edition, first state with bowing hobbit device on the title page, the list of illustrations erroneously listing Thror's Map first, and Chapter VII mislabeled as "Chapter VI", frontispiece and 3 plates in colour, 9 plain illustrations, all by the author, map endpapers, ex-library ink stamps with "discarded" over-stamp to front pastedown and rear endpaper, circulation card sleeve to rear endpaper, occasional pencil markings, a few closed tears to margins, running into text on pp. 19/20, very occasional light foxing, original cloth, spine browned, spine ends and corners chipped and frayed, some splitting and fraying to lower joint, rubbed, facsimile dust-jacket, [Hammond and Anderson A3b], 8vo, Boston and New York, 1938.
Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Hound of the Baskervilles, first edition, first issue with "you" for "your" on p.13, half-title, 16 plates by Sidney Paget (1 working loose), light toning to endpapers, but a clean copy generally, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slight shelf-lean, spine slightly sunned, spine ends and corners bumped and a little frayed, light rubbing, a very good copy overall, [Green & Gibson A26], 8vo, 1902.*** A crisp copy of the best Sherlock Holmes novel, a Haycraft-Queen cornerstone.
![[Gaskell (Elizabeth C.)] Ruth. A Novel, 3 vol., first edition, advertisement endpapers to front of vol. 1 and 2, light foxing](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e2830e18-1c28-4df1-b257-b16a00f522c2/a8941d99-a4c2-464a-8b55-b16a011400c4/468x382.jpg)
[Gaskell (Elizabeth C.)] Ruth. A Novel, 3 vol., first edition, advertisement endpapers to front of vol. 1 and 2, light foxing, cracking and repair to hinges, original cloth, shelf-lean, toning to spines, spine ends chipped, corners bumped, vol.1 lower joint repaired, rubbed, [Sadleir 933; Wolff 2425], Chapman and Hall, 1853; and a first American edition of The Moorland Cottage, 8vo (4)
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Simonetta (Giovanni) Commentarii rerum gestarum Francisci Sfortiae, first edition, [edited by Franciscus Puteolanus], collation: a-z8 A-E8 F-G6 H-K8 L6 M-N8 O10, 291 leaves (of 292, with blank leaf O9 but lacking final blank O10), 42 lines, Roman type, first leaf with six-line initial in blue on a richly ornamented red ground, numerous six-line Lombard initials, alternately in blue and red, with the inked guide letter still visible in a few cases, two-line initial in blue on O8v, occasional marginal annotation in two (possibly three) early hands (a few times trimmed), first leaf with subtle short repaired tear to lower margin, c8 with short tear to fore-margin repaired, very light foxing at beginning and end, else generally clean, final few leaves with small stab-holes to inner margin repaired, early 20th century black morocco over wooden boards, spine titled in gilt, rubbed, mainly to joints and corners, g.e., folio (314 x 204mm.), Milan, Antonio Zarotto, 23 January [between July 1481 and February 1482]. *** A very good, wide-margined copy of the first edition of this highly detailed account of the accomplishments of condottiero Francesco Sforza (1401-1466), the first duke of Milan from the Sforza dynasty. Simonetta, whose brother Cecco was secretary and advisor to Francesco and his son Galeazzo, was a member of the Sforza inner circle. The publication was troubled following the Simonettas’ fall from grace upon the accession of Francesco's son, Lodovico, to the Dukedom, and in 1480 he had Cecco beheaded on charges of treason. His regard for his father's biographer motivated him to spare Giovanni. Literature: BMC VI 718; GW M42283; Goff S532; Bod-inc S-214; ISTC is00532000.
Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, eleventh printing, signed presentation inscription from the author "To Anna, Best wishes, J. K. Rowling, 17/3/98" to dedication p., very light splash-mark to prelims, small patch of staining to pp.19/20, light corner-creasing, ink name "Anna Heaton 5A" to inside upper cover, original pictorial wrappers, creasing, some rubbing to extremities, 8vo, 1997.*** Provenance: signed for the recipient during a reading by the author at Putney High School.
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Bible, Welsh. [Testament newydd ein arglwydd Jesu Christ], translated by W. Salesbury, R. Davies and T. Huet, printed in black letter with some side-notes in italic roman type, woodcut initials and tailpieces, 2 leaf dedication to Queen Elizabeth I, lacks Sig.* (first 8 leaves consisting of title, almanack and kalendar), also A1, 2F2, 2T1, 3E1&2, and all after 3E4 (i.e. final f. of table with colophon and final blank), Sig.2G lacking but supplied in early photographic facsimile, without Sig.(:') (4 leaf errata and addenda sometimes found at end), Sig.2B misbound before Sig.X, contemporary ink inscriptions in Welsh to c3 & c4v, small worming to fore-margin of first c.20 leaves and to lower margin throughout (generally single wormhole or small trace), very occasionally within text and repaired at points, T3 with horizonal tear repaired, affecting catchword but no loss, latter half with some repairs to gutter foot, occasionally affecting text or causing loss to few letters, light browning, some damp-staining, 20th century red morocco, sympathetic repairs to joints and corners, g.e., [Darlow & Moule 9580; STC 2960], small 4to, [H. Denham, at the costes of H. Toy], [1567]. *** The first edition of the New Testament to be printed in the Welsh language. Only around 50 extant copies have been recorded. Following the petition of the bishops of the Welsh Dioceses in 1562, Queen Elizabeth I granted William Salesbury and his colleagues a seven-year patent for the sole right to print the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer in Welsh. While Salesbury's Welsh Lectionary (1551) had included the Gospels, the present edition is the first to contain entire New Testament in Welsh. A complete Welsh Bible including the Old Testament was not published until 1588, by William Morgan and Christopher Barker. Provenance: Sold Sotheby’s, New York, 5 December 2016, The Bible Collection of Dr. Charles Caldwell Ryrie, lot 135.
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China.- Medicine.- Wenyin (Sun) Dantai yuan [The red platform and the jade desk], 6 vol., woodblock printed on bamboo paper, 9 columns per page, 20 characters per column, single-line borders, 73 illustrations, some splitting to fore-edge folds, the occasional light stain, otherwise very good, bound and stitched Japanese-style into modern blue wrappers, housed in a silk drop-back box, 8vo, China, Zhejiang, Shunzhi 17, Early Qing Dynasty [1660]. *** With internal medicine, external medicine, gynecology and pediatrics in six chapters. The present example is from the second edition, the first edition published around the 10th year of the Chongzhen period (1637). Another edition was issued (probably illegally) by Cheng Erren of the Shulin Bookshop during the Chongzhen period. According to the preface, the author had the woodblocks re-carved by the Wufenglou Bookshop in 1660, the originals having been destroyed during the Manchurian invasion. Only one copy from the first edition has survived in the National Library of Taiwan; no identical copy of this present book can be found.
O'Brien (Flann) At Swim-Two-Birds, first edition, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original first issue black cloth lettered in gilt, a few light marks, dust-jacket, price-clipped and laid down on stiff black paper, spine browned with loss to lower half, chipping, tears and fraying to extremities, creased, 8vo, 1939.*** The author's first novel, scarce in the first issue black cloth and especially so in the dust-jacket. Much of the issue was destroyed when Longmans' premises were bombed during the blitz and the dust-jacket appears to have been especially fragile. The lower panel of the dust-jacket includes a lengthy review quote from Graham Greene comparing the novel to Ulysses and Tristram Shandy.
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[Wyndham (John)], "John Beynon". The Secret People, first edition, original green cloth lettered in black, a little rubbed, dust-jacket priced at 2/6, light toning to spine, light chipping and a few nicks and closed tears to head and foot with some strengthening and repair to verso, surface soiling to panels, creasing to head, a very good example overall, 8vo, [1935/6].*** Wyndham's second novel and his first attempt at science fiction. There appear to have been three issues of this work in the original cloth with the present green example likely a secondary or library binding. The dust-jacket too may be a second issue (with the first priced at 7/6), but is nevertheless rare with only one other example (also priced at 2/6) appearing at auction.
Chinese language.- Goncalves (Joachim Alphonso) Arte China Constanta de Alphabeto e Grammatica, first edition, text in Portuguese and Chinese, title with partially erased ownership inscription to head, title and following blank f. with some skillful repairs to extremities, very occasional light foxing or soiling, but overall very good, contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt and with black morocco label, sympathetic restoration to spine ends, joints and corners, housed in a morocco-edged cloth slipcase, small 4to, Macao, S. Jose, 1829. *** A Portuguese grammar and textbook of Chinese, with much attention paid to the idiom, diction and syntax of both the spoken and written language. It includes vocabulary, useful phrases and dialogues, extracts from Chinese histories and literature, examples for composing official documents, as well as different calligraphic styles. The appendix is a comparative phonetic study of the pronunciation of Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese.
Dickens (Charles).- Mackenzie (R. Shelton) Life of Charles Dickens, 1 vol. bound in 2, plate with facsimile signature, extra-illustrated with c.310 portraits, plates, clippings, original front wrappers &tc relating to Dickens' life and work, lacks portrait frontispiece (another portrait supplied), lacks all after p.340 (of 484, without 'Uncollected pieces' section) but with 6pp. 'The Dickens Controversy' and one advertisement f. at end, vol. 2 with title in neat manuscript, text of p.161 divided between the vol. (portions trimmed and laid down, vol. 2 with tears affecting some letters), a few wrappers trimmed to size, the odd spot or minor soiling, bound in green half morocco by Stikeman & Co., spines sunned, light rubbing to spines and corners, t.e.g., 8vo, Philadelphia, [1870]. *** Provenance: Mary and Norman Hickman (bookplate).
Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first hardback edition, first printing with "Joanne Rowling" and no space between "Taylor" and "1997" and full 10 to 1 number line on title verso and "wand" listed twice on p. 53, stain to foot of p.199, very light marginal toning, ex-library copy with ink stamp to title verso, front free endpaper with abrasion to head, ink "Withdrawn" stamp, crossed through "25p" price and library barcode to foot, original pictorial boards with misprint "Philospher's" to lower cover, tape repairs across joints and spine, extremities rubbed and worn, laminate peeled, [Errington A1(a)], 8vo, 1997.*** A first edition of this modern children's classic, this one of the roughly 300 copies of the hardback edition destined for libraries.
Green (Henry) Living, first edition, some scattered spotting to prelims, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, light sunning to spine tips, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, spotting, spine ends and corners a little chipped, a few short nicks to head with light creasing, extremities a little rubbed, an excellent example overall, [Connolly, The Modern Movement 59], 8vo, 1929.*** Green's second novel, scarce in the dust-jacket. "It is a work of astonishing maturity and brilliance, showing a complete mastery of unfamiliar speech rhythms and a grasp of working-class character." - Connolly.
Bradbury (Ray) Fahrenheit 451, first edition, illustrations by Joe Mugnaini, light browning to endpapers, original boards, lettered yellow (Currey's D binding), bumping to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, spine rubbed and a little faded, spine ends and corners chipped, chipping to head of upper panel, a few short nicks to head, a very good copy overall, [Currey p.55], 8vo, New York, 1953.
Humanist Treatise.- [Isabella Sforza (Lady, author, natural daughter of Giovanni Sforza, Lord of Pesaro, wife of Cipriano del Nero, Lord of Porcigliano, 1503-61)] [Of the True Tranquillity of the Soul], translated by an unidentified English translator, manuscript in Elizabethan English, 111pp. excluding blanks (prologue 5pp., text 103pp., epilogue 3pp.), in a clear and legible Secretary hand, on paper, in light brown ink, ruled in light red ink, 55ff. water-stained (some slight and some with tide-lines) but all still legible, slightly browned, engraved cutting of the Curriers Livery Company on front free endpaper, original vellum, gilt diamond centre piece and corner pieces with a double line rule border, gilt initials "CL" on lower cover, damp-stained, upper cover with small piece of edge torn away, creased, soiled and splayed, lacks ties, lower cover in better condition but still creased and with a large brown mark, gilt panelled spine, 150 x 110mm., [England], [c. 1580].*** "...behold this booke this booke (I saye) presents unto us, that invaluable pearle of Tranquilitye, which, like the euer florishinge bay tree, can neuer be touched with any thunderbolts of adversitye." - Translator.A hitherto unknown translation of Isabella Sforza's Della vera tranquillita' dell'animo, first published in Venice, in 1544. The humanist treatise includes chapters on the "Dignity of Man"; "the principal passions"; "refraining from anger"; "to tame gluttony and wantonness"; "lay aside pride"; "tranquility" etc. The published work has twelve chapters, but the translator must have been working off an incomplete copy as this manuscript lacks chapter twelve. In his epilogue he writes, "Here, I am inforced to make an abrupt connexion of that wch followeth bicause there wanteth two leaves in the Originall; as though the starrs did envye the good of mankinde". The translator, as yet unidentified, has dedicated the work to his "deare mother" and writes that he "was imboldned to make choyse of this booke, bicause it is a worthy monument, both of a woman and a Ladye; Where by the waye I must needs note their irreligious, and unpardonable error, who being possessed with the spirit of slander, haue presumed to call women… errours of Nature: To these men (if I may lawfully call them men, who haue so disnaturd themselves, as to defame that sexe ?such is the principall cause; that they are men) to these men (I saye) to omitt all others, I will onelye urge the inimitable example of the noble Italian Ladye Isabella, the learned foundres of this neuer inough admired treatise. Shee was a woman; true but yet learned: indeed a wonder... ." The translator mentions few personal details but records twice "that it was gods will, that my lands and possessions should be... taken from me... ."
Mathematics.- Stewart (Matthew) Some general theorems of considerable use in the higher parts of mathematics, first edition, 4 folding engraved plates, large errata slip mounted on verso of preface f., occasional later ink marginalia, margins of title and preface f. with some mostly light browning, some spotting, lightly browned, contemporary calf, gilt spine in compartments with coronets and leather label (chipped with loss of a couple of letters), head of spine and corners worn, joints split, but holding firm, upper cover with some creasing, rubbed and marked, 8vo, Edinburgh, Printed by W. Sands, A. Murray and J. Cochran, 1746. *** 'Among the most beautiful, as well as most general propositions known in the whole compass of geometry. The unity which prevails among them is a proof that a single though extensive view guided Mr. Stewart in the discovery of them all.' (John Playfair). We can trace only two copies at auction since 1978 (the last being the Macclesfield copy in 2005). Stewart (1717-1785), Scottish mathematician, minister of the Church of Scotland, and father to the philosopher Dugald Stewart.
Scotland.- Boece (Hector) Heir beginnis the hystory and croniklis of Scotland, translated from Latin into Scots English by John Bellenden, first edition in Scots, collation: A-F6 A-Z6/4 Aa-Hh4/6 Ii10 Kk-Zz4/6 [pi]6 [pi2]8 complete, mostly black letter and double column, title in red and black with full-page woodcut of royal arms of Scotland, full-page woodcut of the crucifixion on verso of final f., woodcut initials and 2 smaller illustrations to text, title slightly extended at fore-margin, title and A2-3 repaired at centre affecting woodcut and a few words of text, B3 corner restored, gathering y browned and brittle with a few tears into text, with 2 small pieces detached and slight loss to text, final f. verso with margins reinforced, repaired tear to Vv3, occasional damp-staining, occasional marginal marking or staining, a few annotations in a later hand, contemporary ink ownership inscription to title, 19th century olive morocco, gilt, light rubbing to edges, g.e., folio (279 x 190mm.), [Edinburgh], [Thomas Davidson], 1540.*** First edition in Scots of this history of Scotland that did much to shape how the Scottish regarded themselves. Boece's work is also the earliest surviving printed example of Scottish prose and one of the earliest works printed in Scotland, preceded only by a few works printed by Chepman and Millar at the beginning of the century, and by John Scot, only one of whose books survives. Much of Boece's history was distorted to flatter, Macbeth in particular was much maligned in order to please Boece's partron, James IV of Scotland. Provenance: Elisabethe Hide; Richard Hide (18th century inscriptions).
Indian Independence.- Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand) Songs from Prison, first edition, "Mirabehn"'s copy, signed ownership inscription from Mirabehn with a quote from Ghandi to front endpaper, scattered spotting to initial leaves, original printed wrappers, toned, with a few light stains, some wear to spine, 8vo, 1934. *** Lovely association copy from a close British disciple of Mahatma Gandhi. Mirabehn (1892-1982), born Madeleine Slade, was a British supporter of the Indian Independence Movement; arriving in India in 1925, for the next 34 years she submitted herself to Gandhi's instruction, living a traditional life in ashrams across the country. Arrested often, including a two-year stint from August 1942 along with Gandhi and many Congress leaders for the 'Quit India' movement launch, she spent her time in prison with other female independence activists for example, Kasturba, Gandhi's wife and Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay. She accompanied Gandhi to the Round Table Conference (London, 1931), while in 1934 she returned west to promote Indian Independence, speaking in London, Wales, Lancashire and Newcastle, before continuing to the US where she addressed 22 gatherings, and 5 radio broadcasts over a fortnight. She met with Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. The signed inscription here dates from her UK tour, reading "'Truth is god' M.K. Ghandi. Mira, Stafford, 18.7.34"
Sangorski & Sutcliffe, binders.- Khayyám (Omar) Rubaiyat, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, with an introduction by A.C.Benson, printed on japanese vellum reproduced from an original manuscript written out and illuminated by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, this copy number 2 of 10 specially bound in a jewelled peacock binding with signed limitation by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, illustrations by E. Geddes, some with marginal discolouration (as often), sumptuously bound in straight-grain red morocco elaborately tooled in gilt, inlaid with 102 separate pieces of variously coloured morocco, and enriched with 37 precious stones, upper cover with central oval sunken panel of green morocco featuring a peacock with outspread tail, the body inlaid in blue, white, brown and tan morocco, the outstretched tail plumes elaborately tooled in gilt with inlaid blue hearts and embellished with 31 garnets, both covers with a semé of roses and grasses tooled in gilt within an inner border of latticed panels divided in four by rose bouquet corner-pieces, all surrounded by an inlaid border of gilt foliate blue morocco, two filigree brass clasps each set with 3 garnets, spine with two green morocco labels titled in gilt, four other compartments with alternating rose and vine designs, the vine leaves inlaid in green, the whole tooled in gilt, with five raised bands, blue morocco doublures with gilt fillet and foliate dentelles, blue moiré silk flyleaves, edges gilt and gauffered, signed by Sangorski and Sutcliffe on rear turn-in, some light rubbing to spine ends, joints and corners with upper joint just starting to split at each end, lower cover with two small abrasions to central panel, housed within modern silk-lined drop-back box, folio (319 x 232mm.), Siegle, Hill & Co., [c.1910].*** Provenance: Marchioness of Winchester (1902-1995) [with a typed description by the binders, signed and dated by her in ink '30th September 1965', loosely inserted]
Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first paperback edition with "Joanne Rowling", no space between "Taylor" and "1997" and full 10 to 1 number line on title verso, "wand" listed twice on p.53, usual light toning to text, original pictorial wrappers with misprint "Philospher's" to lower cover, light creasing to spine, small chip to foot of upper joint, light edge creasing with some slight peeling to laminate, still an excellent example overall, [Errington A1(aa)], 8vo, 1997.
Binding.- Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France.- Version du Nouveau Testament selon la Vulgate, woodcut device to title, contemporary red morocco, gilt, with central arms of Maria Josepha of Saxony to covers, small fleur-de-lys corner-pieces and to spine, some very light scuffing and soiling, g.e., 12mo (binding: 140x85mm.), Paris, chez la Veuve Mazieres & J.B. Garnier, 1761.*** Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France (1731-1767). Although she never became Queen herself, due to the death of her husband the Dauphin prior to his father Louis XV's, Maria Josepha was mother to three future Kings, Louis XVI, Louis XVIII and Charles X, as well Madame Élisabeth. A pencil note to the rear endpaper suggests this volume was given to the Count of Artois (later Charles X) by his sister Madame Élisabeth, upon his departure from France after the storming of the Bastille.
Durer (Albrecht).- Roswitha von Gardersheim. Opera Hrosvite illustris virginis et monialis Germane gentes Saxonica orte nuper a Conrado Celte inventa, first edition, collation: a10 b-k8, complete with 8 full-page woodcut illustrations, 2 by Dürer, the others attributed to Wolf Traut and others, woodcut device on final leaf beneath register, faintly ruled in red, last 3ff. with slight marginal worming, some light foxing and soiling, 2ff. from The Saturday Review of 1868 bound in at end, 17th century citron morocco, triple filets on covers, spine with gilt frames and gilt fleurons between raised bands, brown morocco title label, g.e., a few skilful repairs, folio (299 x 204mm.), Nuremberg, Sodalitas Celticae [Frederic Peypus], 1501.*** An excellent copy of this rare work by a woman, Roswitha von Gardersheim (935-973), widely regarded as the first great German writer and the first person since antiquity to compose drama in the Latin West. Included here are her six prose plays ("Comediae"), written in loose imitation of Terence, eight sacred histories in verse, and a panegyric on her patron, Otto I.Provenance: John Bellingham Inglis & Charles Inglis; Charles William Dyson Perrins; Mildred Bliss; Margaret Winkelman (with their respective bookplates); Bernard Quaritch 1981; Librairie Thomas Scheler 2015.Literature: Brunet, III, 356 : "TreÌ€s-rare"; Fairfax Murray, German, 210 ("not reprinted until 1707"); British Museum, STC German, 758; Dyons-Perrins, 634 (this copy).
Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Complete Sherlock Holmes. With a preface by Christopher Morley. Introduction by John Dickson Carr, 2 vol., one of 147 copies with tipped in limitation leaf signed by the author, original roan-backed boards, light sunning to spine, rubbing to spine tips, mylar dust-jackets, slip-case with printed label to cover (some rubbing and minor wear to extremities, some fading), 8vo, New York, 1953.*** A good set of this limited edition, created when a series of sheets signed by Doyle in 1930 were rediscovered years later. Unusual in such good condition.
Dali (Salvador).- Sandoz (Maurice) The Maze, first edition, signed by Dali and dated 1945 on front free endpaper, plates by Dali, original cloth, light toning and fraying to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket designed by Dali, chipped and browned with some loss to head of spine, 8vo, Garden City, NY, 1945.
Dahl (Roald) James and the Giant Peach, first edition, first issue with five-line colophon including "Bound by H. Wolff, New York", illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, original cloth, slight bowing to covers, first issue dust-jacket without ISBN, very light sunning to spine, spine ends and corners chipped, extremities rubbed, a very good example, 4to, New York, [1961].
Emblemata.- Alciati (Andrea) Diverse Imprese...tratte da gli Emblemi dell' Alciato, first edition in Italian, translated by Giovanni Marquale, collation: A-I8 complete, fine woodcut title, illustrations and elaborate borders, faintly ruled in red, some soiling and light water-staining, 19th century brown calf preserving 16th century multicoloured Grolieresque covers, a little rubbed, 8vo (188 x 118mm.), Lyon, Masseo Buonhomo, 1549.*** An attractive copy of the first emblem book with Italian text. Provenance: Allan-Heywood Bright (bookplate, Christie's sale 2014, lot 51).Literature: Landwehr Romanic 46; Green 41; Rawles & Saunders F.028.
*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** Binding.- Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchesse de Berry.- Combe (William) The Dance of Life, first edition, engraved frontispiece and additional vignette title and 24 plates after Thomas Rowlandson, all hand-coloured aquatints, advertisement leaf at end, some light finger soiling, contemporary olive straight-grain morocco, gilt and stamped in blind, with central arms of the Duchesse de Berry to covers within ornate borders, fleur-de-lys to spine, edges and dentelles likewise gilt, some light toning and small stains to lower cover, joints just starting but holding firm, g.e., 8vo (binding: 244x158mm.), R. Ackermann, 1817.*** Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1798-1870), married to Charles Ferdinand, Duc de Berry, Louis XIII's nephew. Widowed in 1820 after her husband's assassination, she is perhaps best known for her failed intrigues to install her young son Henri, Comte de Chambord on the French throne as the final remaining direct Bourbon descendent of Louis XIV. Alexandre Dumas wrote two stories about her.
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Japan.- Kyoto.- Akisato (Rito) Miyako Meisho Zue [Collection of Pictures of Famous Places of the Capital], 6 vol., [1786]; Shûi-Miyako Meisho Zue [Supplement to the Collection of Pictures of Famous Places of the Capital], 5 vol., [1787], first editions, woodcut illustrations by Takehara Shunchôsai, xylographically printed, a few skillful repairs along folds, very occasional worming, a few times within text or image, the occasional faint stain or light soiling, still overall very good, original blue paper wrappers stitched with silk-thread, block-printed labels to upper wrappers (some loss and restoration), a few vol. with stitching working loose at foot, rubbed, housed in a modern mustard silk wrap-around case with clasps, Osaka, Kawachiya Tasuke, large 8vo (11) *** An exceptional illustrated guidebook to Kyoto's architecture, festivals and landscape gardens. A rare record of the Imperial Capital before the devastating fire of 1788, in which most of the city perished.
Lloyd (Trevor, binder).- Chambers (Sir William) A Treatise on Civil Architecture, first edition, list of subscribers (bound after preface), 50 engraved plates, very light soiling to title, some light foxing and browning, occasional faint damp-staining to lower margin (including to title), exquisitely bound in full red goatskin, by Trevor Lloyd, covers with central lozenge and corner-pieces of inlaid white paper, elaborately tooled in gilt and edged in black goatskin strapwork, the background lavishly tooled in gilt all over with a variety of tools all specially made by Stewart Field and incorporating four large circles of detailed featherwork, spine tooled in gilt in compartments with seven raised bands, second compartment with black goatskin label lettered in gilt, spine with "Bound by Trevor Lloyd MBE for David Nathan Maister" lettered in gilt to foot, turn-ins with gilt floral tools, comb-marbled endpapers, g.e., housed in a goatskin-backed drop-back box, [Fowler p.70; Harris 122; Millard, British 13], folio (535 x 375mm.), Printed for the Author, by J. Haberkorn, 1759. *** Bound in the style of one of the legendary Irish Parliamentary bindings tragically destroyed in the explosion at the Dublin Public Record Office in 1922. Described by the late G.D. Hobson as "probably the most majestic series of bound volumes in the world", the 149 large folio volumes containing the manuscript Journals of the Irish Lords and Commons had been stored, unnoticed, in the Dublin Public Records Office since the Acts of Union in 1800.The magnificent collection, nominally the work of the King's Stationers in Ireland, was shown to book collector and amateur binder Sir Edward Sullivan in the last decade of the 19th century. Sullivan made rubbings of all 149 unique volumes (now in the National Library of Ireland) and photographed 20, publishing his findings in Country Life magazine in September 1908 and Decorative Book-Binding in Ireland in 1914. The Dublin Public Record Office, with nearly all its contents including the bindings, perished during the siege of the Four Courts just a few years later.In 1990, Philip Maddock, a Boston-based book collector, started to build up a visual database of Irish hand tools with a view to making a digital reproduction of one of the lost volumes, inspired by images displayed in Maurice Craig’s Irish Book Bindings 1600-1800. This digital reproduction of Commons Journal 1757 was finally produced in 2006. Edward Bayntun-Coward, who carried out a review of this digital reproduction, introduced Maddock to Trevor Lloyd, the renowned bookbinder and restorer. The team of Maddock, Lloyd and toolmaker Stewart Field then collaborated over the next decade to make exact facsimile reproductions of 14 of the original (and now lost) bindings, a project that culminated in the exhibition 'Burning Books' at Dublin Castle in April 2017.
Economics.- Hayek (Friedrich August) Prices and Production, first edition, 14pp. advertisements, some scattered foxing, browning and ink ownership inscription to endpapers, original cloth, light toning to spine, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, light rubbing to extremities, 8vo, 1931.*** An early work by Hayek, famously attacked by Keynes who stated "It is an extraordinary example of how, starting with a mistake, a remorseless logician can end in Bedlam". Rare in first edition.
Wodehouse (P.G.) Right Ho, Jeeves, first edition, 8pp. advertisements, neat ink ownership inscription from the year of publication to front pastedown, original cloth, some very light edge-spotting, very slight toning to spine, small patches of fading, dust-jacket, Colonial Library issue with relevant sticker to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, some splitting to joint ends, some creasing to spine ends, a very good example overall, [McIlvaine A52a], 8vo, 1934.
Stevenson (Robert Louis) Treasure Island, first edition, first issue, half-title, map frontispiece, 4pp. advertisements at end dated "783", light very occasional foxing, hinges cracked but firm, original green cloth, slight shelf-lean, spine darkened, neat repair to spine ends, corners a little bumped, slightly rubbed, [Prideaux 11], 8vo, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1883. *** First issue with the following points: advertisements dated July 1883; "dead Man's Chest" not capitalized on pp.2 & 7; "rain" for "vain" on last line of p.40; "a" missing on p.63, line 6; full-stop dropped from p.178, line 20 ; "worse" for "worst" on p.197, line 3.
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