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Eliot (T.S.) The Waste Land, "Second Edition" [but first edition, second impression], one of 1000 copies,  original boards lettered in gilt, fine, dust-jacket, very light creasing to upper edge, otherwise a fine copy, [Gallup A6b.], 8vo, 1922 [but 1923]. *** Although called the 'Second Edition' on the colophon, this is actually a second impression from the same setting of type as the first edition, but with alteration in the colophon as indicated. Yet the reading "mount in" in line 339 on p.41 is unusually correct in this copy to "mountain". - Gallup p.31. 

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Speed (John) The Historie of Great Britaine under the conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans..., third edition, engraved portrait, woodcut illustrations, head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, lacking initial blank, portrait with a few very short tears and laid down with small inscription in purple pencil, title with short tear within text but no loss, the occasional later ink note or annotation, including to title verso, A4-5 margins repaired with some loss to printed side-notes, 4L4 lower corner repaired affecting ruled border, I2-3, 2M3 & 2S3 with small rust-hole affecting couple letters, a few other minor marginal defects or repairs, some spotting and light browning, occasional light damp-staining, light creasing to final few ff., later calf, rebacked preserving original richly gilt backstrip, recornered, new morocco spine label, lightly rubbed, [STC 23049], folio, John Dawson, for George Humble, 1632. *** Provenance: R.F. Huntley Decr. 15. 1847 (ownership inscription to head of title); Edwin Maynard (pencil ownership name to front free endpaper). 

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Wordsworth (William) Poems, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, first state, cut signature of the author to front pastedown, half-titles, erratum leaf at end of vol. 1, with cancels D11 & 12 in vol. 1 and B2 in vol. 2, and with "fnuction" in the last line of F1 in vol. 2, light occasional foxing, later blue morocco, t.e.g., spine slightly sunned, 12mo, Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, 1807. *** Comprising the majority of Wordsworth's poetic writings since the second edition of Lyrical Ballads in 1800. Much of Wordsworth's most memorable verse is first printed here, including 'She was a Phantom of Delight', 'The World is too much with us' and 'I wandered lonely as a Cloud'.Provenance: "Robert Gran..." (trimmed signature, dated 5th June 1807).

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Elizabeth II (Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1926-2022).- Adams (Marcus) Childhood Portrait Photograph Print, signed 'Elizabeth of York', additionally signed 'Marcus Adams' and dated in pencil, both to mount, very light foxing to mount not affecting image, print 288 x 210 mm, frame 550 x 402 mm, framed and glazed, [1935]; together with letter from Royal Archives authenticating the signature (2). *** A rare signed photograph print of Queen Elizabeth II at the age of nine, before the abdication of King Edward VIII in 1936, when her father was still the Duke of York and she was known as Elizabeth of York.In 1926, Marcus Adams (1875-1959) took the first ever official photographs of Princess Elizabeth and her mother the Duchess of York, and would go on to photograph the royal family for the next 30 years. 

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Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) Poems on Various Subjects, first edition, tipped-in A.L.s in which Coleridge enquires after the health of Sir Basil Montagu, half-title, errata and advertisement leaves at end, light spotting to first and last couple of leaves, otherwise a remarkably bright copy, later blue gilt-ruled morocco by Riviere, inner gilt dentelles, spine richly gilt, g.e., 8vo, printed for C.G. and J. Robinson, and J.Cottle, 1796.*** First edition of the poet's first book of poems, which also contains the first published verses of Coleridge's lifelong friend Charles Lamb.In the heartfelt and somewhat urgent letter, addressed to 'my dear Madam', Coleridge enquires anxiously after the health of his friend Sir Basil Montagu, whom he last saw rushing off 'in such a thick fog and chilling damp' that the poet fears he may have 'caught cold'. Wordsworth, who introduced Montagu to Coleridge at Racedown in 1797, describes the former as 'very kind, very humane, very generous, very ready to serve with a thousand other good qualities: but in the practical business of life the arrantest Mar-plan that ever lived' (Letters).

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Dickens (Charles) The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, first edition in book form, early issue, cut signature of the author to front pastedown, half-title, etched frontispiece, additional title and 41 plates by R. Seymour and H.K. Browne ("Phiz"), a few plates expertly laid down with repaired tears, very occasional light spotting mainly to margins of plate leaves, handsomely bound in modern gilt-stamped crimson morocco by Bayntun-Rivière, g.e., modern red cloth slip-case, one corner slightly bumped, 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1837. *** A handsomely bound copy of the first edition in book form of Dickens' first novel.

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Byroniana.- [Agg (John), attributed to] Lord Byron's Farewell to England; with Three other Poems, viz. Ode to St. Helena, To my Daughter, on the morning of her birth, and To the Lily of France, half-title, ex-library with usual small ink-stamps and markings, clipping of contemporary printed verse pasted to verso of final f. (obscuring advertisements), a couple instances of ink annotation in a contemporary hand, foxing near end, later blind-stamped library cloth, [Wise II, p.69], 1816 § Mazeppa Travestied: A Poem, ex-library with small embossed stamp to title and ink reference to foot to verso, some unobtrusive repairs to gutter, light toning, the odd spot or light finger-soiling, modern cloth, rare, 1820, first editions; and others relating to Byron, 8vo (11)  *** The first mentioned a pamphlet of spurious verse. "Byron repudiated them all in a letter to Murray dated July 22, 1816, and declared the pamphlet to be 'about the most impudent imposition that ever issued from Grub Street. I need hardly say that I know nothing of all this trash, nor whence it may spring. As to The Lily of France I should as soon think of celebrating a turnip.'" (Wise). 

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Beardsley (Aubrey).- Malory (Sir Thomas) [Le Morte Darthur] The Birth and Life and Acts of King Arthur, 2 vol., one of 1500 copies, from an edition of 1800, photogravure frontispieces, 18 plates (of which 5 double-page), illustrations and decorations by Aubrey Beardsley, light offsetting, occasional very light marginal spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, rebacked with original backstrips laid down (lightly browned), top edge slightly trimmed removing gilt, some toning and light scattered spotting, a few marks, some wear to extremities and vol. 2 lower cover, new endpapers, 4to, 1893-94.  *** Beardsley's first major commission and an early masterpiece, produced when he was only 20 years old. The young artist met the publisher J.M. Dent who was looking for someone to illustrate an edition of Morte d'Arthur. On seeing Beardsley's trial drawing 'The Achieving of the Sangreal' the publisher was reputedly rendered speechless by its quality. Duly commissioned, Beardsley produced a body of work which took the medievalism of the Pre-Raphaelites and married it to his own bizarre imagination and Japanese-influenced style, making his reputation. They are among the most stunning illustrations he ever produced.

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Woolf (Virginia) Orlando: A Biography, first English edition, light toning to endpapers, foxing to half-title and index pages, spotting to fore-edges sometimes straying onto page margins, original boards, spine very lightly faded, dust-jacket, a few short closed tears expertly reinforced with tape verso, overall near-fine, preserved in custom-made drop-back box, [Kirkpatrick A11b; Woolmer 185], 8vo, Hogarth Press, 1928. *** A remarkable copy with the scarce dust-jacket, exceptionally rare in such pristine condition. The first limited edition was published in New York a few days prior. 

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Cretté (Georges, binder).- Boylesve (René) La Leçon d'Amour dans un Parc, number 16 of 25 special large paper copies with an original drawing and additional states of the plates & vignettes, from an edition limited to 300 (most 8vo), colour plates, black & white illustrations and pictorial initials heightened in gold by René Lelong, with original signed watercolour bound in at beginning, 2 additional states of plates in black and in sanguine and additional state of vignettes in sanguine (all with remarques) bound in at end, some light offsetting, very occasional spotting, superb turquoise morocco mosaic binding, by Georges Cretté, upper cover with title in gilt inside oval panel surrounded by a trellis of inlaid grey morocco covered with roses in deep pink & green morocco with outer gilt fillet and inner row of small gilt dots, lower cover inlaid with all-over similar trellis of roses, spine titled in gilt with compartments of inlaid morocco roses and four raised bands, grey silk brocade doublures and flyleaves, turn-ins with wide gilt fillet and inlaid brown morocco border with three inlaid flowers in cream & green morocco at corners, marbled endpapers, original pictorial wrappers bound in, g.e., signed "G.Cretté succ. de Marius Michel" at foot of front turn-in, calf-lined dark blue half morocco paste-paper chemise with yapp edges, paste-paper slip-case (a little browned), 4to (c.365 x 270mm.), Paris, 1923.

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English ownership.- Plinius Secundus (Gaius), Cornelius Nepos, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus & Julis Obsequens. De viris illustribus liber, qui vulgo Cornelio Nepoti ascribitur, collation: a-f8 g4, title with woodcut printer's device, final f. with colophon recto otherwise blank, inter-leaved after each gathering, occasionally with 17th century ink annotations, occasional spotting or light staining, later English calf, gilt, head of spine chipped, joints splitting but holding firm, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo (153 x 89mm.), Paris, Robert Estienne, 1544 [colophon 1545]. *** Short biographies of illustrious Romans. Provenance: 'J. Oldham Septem. 30 1627', ?John Oldham (1592-1636), early American settler. We know he was in England at the time of the inscription, returning to the colonies in 1629 (ink ownership inscription to title, annotations, including a recipe to front free endpaper); 'E Lib. Guil Hen. Harris A.B. C.C.C.C., donum M[agister] Burrough' (early 18th century Cambridge ink inscription to front free endpaper). Literature: Renouard 62:27; cf. Henry Bond, et al. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, pp. 862-864.

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O'Brien (Flann) The Hard Life, first edition, signed by the author "from the author Brian O'Nolan, 26 January 1962" on front free endpaper, light strip of toning on front free endpaper, fore-edge very lightly spotted, original boards, dust-jacket, spine faded, light creasing and one or two nicks to edges, light surface soiling, slight shelf-lean, 8vo, 1961. *** Known widely under his pen name, Brian O'Nolan's chief literary achievement is considered his first novel At Swim-Two-Birds, a comedy that was published on the eve of the Second World War. This work, his second published novel, is rare signed. 

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Babbage (Charles).- Menabrea (Luigi-Federico) 'Notions sur la machine analytique de M. Charles Babbage' in Bibliotehèque Universelle de Genève, no.41, pp. 352-376, first edition, journal issue, half-title, ink stamps to title, occasional light spotting and damp-staining, nineteenth century calf-backed boards, spine gilt, upper joint split at foot, 8vo, Paris, 1842.*** First edition, journal issue, of the first published account of Babbage's Analytical Engine, and the first computer programs ever published; drawn up from his notes by Luigi Federico Menabrea (later Prime Minister of Italy), who had attended Babbage's lecture in Turin in 1840, which was Babbage's only public presentation concerning the design and operation of the Analytical Engine.  

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Wine.- Australia.- Kelly (Alexander Charles) Wine-growing in Australia, and the teachings of modern writers on vine-culture and wine-making, first edition, a few wood-engraved illustrations within text, mostly of implements, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, new yellow endpapers, modern burgundy buckram, earlier (?original) printed label to upper cover, [Gabler G26120; Ferguson 11063], 8vo, Adelaide, E.S. Wigg, 1867. *** Rare, especially in the Northern Hemisphere. Scotsman Kelly emigrated to Australia in 1840. He planted a vineyard south of Adelaide in 1862 and together with five Adelaide businessmen formed the Tintara Vineyard Company, which was bought by Thomas Hardy & Sons in 1876. Provenance: Cooks Books. T. & M. McKirdy (small label to foot of rear inner cover). 

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Birds.- Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography, or an Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon on vol. 1 front free endpaper "To William Rathbone Esq. from his ever thankful, respectful and most obliged friend the author. - Edinburgh March 27th 1831", half-titles, wood engraved illustrations, prospectus for Birds of America at end of vol. 1, scattered foxing, heavier to preliminary and final ff., 19th century morocco, gilt, original cloth panels laid onto covers, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, light rubbing to extremities, 8vo, Edinburgh, Adam Black, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39].*** A presentation copy of Audubon's text to accompany his Birds of America inscribed to one of his most important British sponsors in the month of publication.The Rathbone family of Greenbank House in Liverpool were among Audubon's earliest and most enthusiastic supporters when the artist arrived in the city on 21st July 1829. The Rathbones were prominent merchant-bankers and founding members of the Liverpool Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Through the family Audubon was introduced to the cream of Liverpool society and quickly proved popular at dinner parties where he regaled guests with tales of the American Frontier. These contacts proved invaluable to Audubon in finding him new subscribers to fund his Birds of America, indeed, Mrs. William Rathbone Sr. would become one of the earliest subscribers and her name appears in the prospectus on p. 13.Audubon would gift numerous works to the Rathbone family and would name one of the birds featured in Birds of America the "Rathbone Warbler" after the family with the following dedication on vol.1 p.333 of the present work (where the ribbon marker in the present copy has remained for a number of years): "Were I at liberty here to express the gratitude which swells my heart, when the remembrance of all the unmerited kindness and unlooked-for friendship which I have received from the Rathbones of Liverpool comes to my mind, I might produce a volume of thanks."

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Blake (William).- Blair (Robert) The Grave, a Poem, engraved portrait of William Blake by Louis Schiavonetti after T.Phillips and engraved additional pictorial title and 11 plates by Schiavonetti after Blake, tissue guards, list of subscribers, contemporary ink inscription "Gilbert Coleridge 1882" to head of title, very light water-stain and damp-crinkling to lower margin of first and last few leaves including portrait, engraved title & final plate, one or two minor marks but generally an excellent clean copy, original blind-stamped black cloth, a little rubbed, repairs to spine and corners, [Bentley 435E], 4to, T.Bensley for R. Ackermann, 1813 [but John Camden Hotten 1870]. *** Third quarto edition, printed from the same plates as the 1813 edition but actually issued by or for John Camden Hotten in 1870.

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Blake (William).- Young (Edward) The Complaint, and the Consolation; or, Night Thoughts, 4 engraved part-titles and 39 illustrations by William Blake after his own designs around letterpress text, with letterpress 'Explanation' leaf tipped into blank leaf following title (usually missing), also with 1874 prospectus for reproduction set of the original watercolours with specimen leaf bound at end, light offsetting from plates as usual, one or two small stains and occasional marginal soiling, stain to foot of p.viii, very slightly trimmed occasionally just shaving plate, small gilt-stamped roan bookplate of Sinclair Hamilton and book-label of William T.Moore Blake collection, later half red morocco, by Rivière, spine gilt in compartments with six raised bands, g.e., a little rubbed, corners slightly worn, [Bentley 515; Ray 3], large 4to (c.415 x 325mm.), R. Noble for R. Edwards, 1797.*** A good copy of this ambitious work, with both the rare explanation leaf and the very rare 1874 prospectus by James Bain soliciting subscriptions for a projected set of reproductions of the original watercolours (never issued). Blake had been commissioned by Edwards to illustrate Young's popular work and produced 537 watercolours. As a trial these first four sections or "Nights" were published with 43 engravings by Blake but it presumably did not sell well and no further engravings were made.Sinclair Hamilton (1884-1978), book-collector and author of Early American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers, 1670-1870, 2 vol., Princeton, 1958-68. He donated his collection to Princeton University Library.

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Blake (William).- Hayley (William) Ballads...founded on Anecdotes relating to Animals, with Prints, designed and engraved by William Blake, first edition, half-title, 5 engraved plates by William Blake (plates 1-3 in second state), [Bentley 465], Chichester, J.Seagrave, for Richard Phillips, 1805 bound with Gessner (Solomon) The Death of Abel, translated by Mary Collyer, 4 engraved plates by H.Richter, 1803, together 2 works in 1 vol., contemporary ink signature of Mary ?Zenor to head of titles, light foxing, contemporary tree calf, gilt, a little rubbed, small bump to fore-edge of upper cover, corners slightly worn, rebacked with gilt-ruled spine and morocco label, 8vo *** Four of Hayley's ballads were issued in parts in 1802 with 3 plates by Blake as part of a projected 15 4to parts to aid Blake's financial state. Due to poor sales no more were issued until this collected edition as an attempt to recover costs.

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Rossetti (Christina) Goblin Market and other Poems, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and additional vignette title after Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, neat ink ownership inscription of S.Augustus Tipple to head of title and a couple of later pencil signatures to endpapers, some very light foxing (mostly to frontispiece and pictorial title), a few creases, light staining to a couple of leaves, John Sparrow's copy with his book-label, original dark blue cloth ruled in gilt with small gilt circles at intersections designed by D.G.Rossetti, a little rubbed, spine ends worn, 8vo, Cambridge & London, 1862.

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Gothic novel.- [Walpole (Horace)] The Castle of Otranto, A Gothic Story, second edition, light marginal to title and final leaf, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked preserving original gilt spine, 8vo, Printed for William Bathoe and Thomas Lownds, 1765.*** A very good copy of the second edition, published in the same year as the first edition, of the first major gothic novel, and one which influenced much of the genre.Provenance: Mary Hamilton (ink inscription on title).

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Jesuits.- Decreta congregationum generalium Societatis Jesu, Antwerp, Jan van Meurs, 1635 bound with Canones congregationum generalium Societatis Jesu, Antwerp, Jan van Meurs, 1635 and Formulæ congregationum in quartâ generali congregatione confectæ et approbatæ in sextâ & septimâ recognitæ et auctæ, Antwerp, Jan van Meurs, 1635, together 3 works in 1 vol., titles with woodcut Jesuit device, woodcut decorative initials, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, contemporary vellum, lacking clasps, soiled and marked, 8vo *** A fascinating insight into the international operations of the Jesuits at an important time in their history. Provenance: ‘Domus probationis Soctis Jesu Trevini’; ‘Societatis Jesu 1647’ (ink inscriptions in two hands to first title). 

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Economics.- Smith (Adam) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 3 vol., fifth edition, quotation from Gibbon and ownership inscriptions in contemporary hands on front free endpapers to vol.1 & 3, small ink ownership names on title heads, one or two very occasional marginal spots otherwise text remarkably clean, contemporary mottled calf, spines cracked but holding firm, light chipping to spine title labels and extremities, still overall a very attractive and clean set, 8vo, for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1789.

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Hayward (Sir John) The First part of the life and raigne of King Henrie the IIII. Extending to the end of the first yeare of his raigne, title with woodcut square of fleurons, woodcut decorative initials, lacking final blank, title with ownership inscription to head and ink number to foot, A2-3 trimmed at head shaving headpiece and a few letters, H3 very small rust-hole within text, one or two annotations in an early hand, passage-marking to Sig. O & P, occasional light damp-staining to head, the odd spot, small marginal stain to final few ff., contemporary polished panelled calf, spine gilt in compartments, black morocco label to uppermost compartment gilt-tooled with heraldic device showing a monkey and coronet, red morocco label to second compartment lettered in gilt, upper joint cracked but holding, marking to lower cover, little rubbed at extremities, [STC 12997], small 4to, Iohn Wolfe [i.e. Bernard Alsop and Thomas Fawcet], 1599 [but ?1629]. *** A counterfeit printing. In this copy, line 22 on A2r has "Teucer" with the first "e" inverted.Provenance: Dukes of Leinster (Carton Library armorial bookplate; heraldic device to binding); University College London Library (small ink-stamp to title verso and foot of final leaf; "UCL Library Duplicate" ink-stamp to front free endpaper).

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More (Sir Thomas, Saint) The Workes, first edition in English of the complete works, largely printed in black letter, title within fine woodcut border incorporating Royal arms at head, woodcut initials, without leaf chi1 often inserted between 2C5 and 2C6, lacking blank leaf [par]10 and final blank, title little browned and soiled with a few wormholes (no loss to text or border), single wormhole within text of first c.18 leaves, 2[par]2 lower corner repaired with loss to letter of catchword, a few ff. with tears neatly repaired (fg5, 2i3, 2k7 & I7 affecting text or with loss to few letters), B4, X8 & 2R3 with tiny [rust-]hole within text, a few small marginal chips, occasional passage-marking and a few annotations in an early hand, some light browning, the occasional stain or light soiling, final few Sig. damp-stained at head, still overall a very good copy, modern antique style calf, spine in compartments, one lettered in gilt, a few minor scuff marks, [STC 18076; Pforzheimer 743], folio (277 x 185mm.), John Cawood, John Waly, and Richarde Tottell, 1557. *** The important first English edition of the complete works of "the man for all seasons", edited by his nephew William Rastell, arranged in chronological order and with marginal notes and a dedication to Queen Mary. It is also a source-book for Shakespeare's Richard III. "Given the conditions that More faced in the Tower of London during his last year it is all the more remarkable that he continued his writings. Towards the end, when paper and pen had been taken from him, he still managed to write letters in charcoal to the family. His Treatise on the Passion and the Latin version, Exposito passionis, give a vivid account of Christ's last hours before his death on the Cross, and his Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation is sometimes regarded as his finest work in English" (Keith Watson, Sir Thomas More). Provenance: Thomas Kery (contemporary ownership inscriptions to title and verso of final f.).

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Wine.- Spain.- Rojas Clemente y Rubio (Simón de) Essai sur les variétés de la vigne qui végètent en Andalousie, translated by the Marquis de Caumels, first edition in French, second issue (with full name of translator and dedication to Duc d'Angoulême to title), half-title, folding engraved plate printed in colours, 6 letterpress tables on 4 folding sheets, spotting and staining, some light browning, contemporary brown morocco-backed green glazed boards, spine richly gilt, boards stained, rubbed, [Oberlé Bachique 127; Oberlé Fastes 958; Simon BG 352; Simon Vinaria p. 263; Pritzel 7739], 8vo, Paris, Poulet, 1814.  *** The Hroar Dege copy of the scarce first French edition of this work on the vine varieties and viticulture of Andalusia, Spain. The author was librarian of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Madrid. He references classical authors, including Crescentius, Cato, Varro and Columella.Provenance: Hroar Dege (1920-2003), Norwegian restauranteur, writer on food and wine and book collector (sold Sotheby’s, 9th June 2005, lot 522). 

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Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, first edition, first issue with 'Miss Violent Hunter' in the last sentence on p.317 and without name to street sign on upper cover, lightly foxed, heavier to first few pages, original pictorial cloth, gilt, g.e., extremities a little bumped and rubbed, light toning to spine with ends creased and a little chipped, but still a very sharp and excellent example overall, [Green & Gibson A10a], 8vo, 1892. *** The first collection of the celebrated Sherlock Holmes stories. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone of Detective Fiction. 

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Beat Generation.- Floating Bear (The), no.1-38, complete set of first editions, some toning, original mimeograph wrappers, top-or side-stapled, light wear, most folded from mailing and with usual postmarks and stamps, occasional chipping and tearing, #27 with one-inch chip from lower corner of front cover, not affecting any text, #29 a little scuffed along fore-edge, #31 toned overall with rear cover detached from bottom staple only, #35, cover torn from the top staple but present and still attached to lower staple, preserved in 2 modern cloth drop-back boxes, 4to, New York and San Francisco, 1961-71.*** A complete run of this seminal publication of the Mimeo Revolution and one of the most influential little magazines of the 1960s. Distributed by mailing list, Floating Bear served as an important venue for the poets of the Beat and New York schools, as well as other experimental and avant garde writers of the decade, icluding Ginsberg, Olson, Burroughs, O'Hara, Dorn, Creeley, Duncan, Wieners, Ashbery, etc. From issue 28 on the issues have pictorial covers by artists such as Ray Johnson, Michael Bowen, Jess, George Hermas, Wallace Berman, and others.A landmark of the mimeo form, as important to the movement as Sander's FU or Berrigan's "C," and a monumental association set: all bar nos 1, 11 and 33 are Tuli Kupferberg's copies, with most issues addressed to him either by hand or with mailing label (and one issue with a brief holograph note to Kupferberg from Di Prima). The late great poet, musician, editor and publisher was Fug bandmate with FU publisher Ed Sanders. In addition, Kupferberg published Di Prima and Jones in his own little magazine of the period, BIRTH. An intimate of the mimeo crowd and the Lower East Side scene from which it grew, this is one of the most desirable sets imaginable.Literature: Clay and Phillips pp. 74-75; Anderson and Kinzie 699-70.

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China.- Chinese Export School (probably late 18th century) An Album of 10 Original Artworks Depicting Scenes of the Domestic Lives of Women, watercolour on silk, some edged with blue, individually tipped onto leaves with watercolour wash, each approx. 295 x 225 mm, one or two very light spots to images, contemporary calf-backed boards, rubbed, small surface tear to upper cover, folio, [late 18th century].*** A collection of remarkably bright and vibrant artworks depicting women engaged in an array of dynamic domestic activities, including children's games, needlework, hobby-horsing and musical performances, all framed within beautiful interior spaces.

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Imaginary voyage to the moon.- Cyrano de Bergerac (Savinien de) Histoire Comique. Contenant les Estats & Empires de la Lune, title with large woodcut floral ornament, woodcut notation in text, head-pieces and decorative initials, foxing, occasional staining, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine in compartments with fleur-de-lis decoration and a light brown leather label, minor worming to spine ends, lower joint starting, but holding firm, rubbed, 12mo, Lyon, Christophle Fourmy, 1662.  *** The Camille Aboussouan copy of a rare edition of this early work of science fiction. The work was inspired by Francis Godwin's The Man in the Moon, 1638 (translated into French in 1648). In Cyrano's lunar world the currency is verse, books are a type of audio book and come in richly decorated boxes, and after death cannibalism is offered as an option along with burial or cremation.Provenance: Camille Aboussouan (1919-2013), French-speaking Lebanese lawyer, diplomat, writer, translator, and bibliophile, sold at his sale Sotheby's, 17th & 18th June, 1993, lot 581 (bookplate). 

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Farriery & household.- Montague (Peregrine) The Family Pocket-book: or, Fountain of true and useful knowledge. Containing the Farrier's Guide; or, the horse dissected..., first edition, a few woodcut illustrations, including ‘A Summer-House in the Chinese Taste’, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, final f. blank, without frontispiece (see note), D2 narrow piece from lower margin, affecting catchword, spotted / foxed and stained, browned (as often, but still a solid copy), 20th century blind-stamped calf, spine in compartments and with ?earlier double light brown leather labels, corners little worn, rubbed, [Maclean p.102 (erroneously dating it to c.1768); British Bee Books 105], 8vo, Printed by Henry Coote, and sold by George Paul, Bookseller near Gray’s-Inn-gate, Holborn, [c.1760].  *** Rare at auction (we can trace only two copies since 2005, one with a frontispiece and one without). With much on the horse, and including the breeding of game-cocks, the kitchen garden, cooking, pickling, preserving, bees, growing a tea tree, and printing on silk. Opinion seems to differ as to whether a frontispiece is called for in this first edition. Provenance: Cooks Books, T & M. McKirdy (small book label to foot of rear inner cover and their catalogue entry for a copy of the work loosely inserted (without a frontispiece)).  

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Ariosto (Lodovico) Roland Furieux, first edition in French, collation: *6 a-z6 A-R6 S4, lacking blank leaf *6, title (?supplied) within elaborate woodcut border, woodcut historiated initials, crushed brown morocco by Chambolle-Duru with Baron Seillier's arms ("Bibliotheque de Mello") on covers, light rubbing to extremities, g.e., a very good, clean copy, folio (295 x 187mm.), Lyon, Sulpice Sabon, for Jehan Thell, 1544.*** The first French translation of Orlando Furioso, likely the work of at least three translators: Jean des Gouttes, Charles Fontaine and Denis Sauvage. Scarce in commerce. 

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Byron.- Flyer for Harrow Public Speeches, folds, portion of light toning to head, some spotting and light soiling, framed and glazed, c.252 x 203mm., frame 280 x 230mm., July 5, 1804; and an engraved portrait of Byron tipped-in to card window mount, 4to & large 8vo (2) *** Featuring a teenage Lord Byron in the part of King Latinus from Virgil's Aeneid, accompanied by future Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel as Turnus, and Leeke, an unknown contemporary, as Drances. Also participating in the Speeches is future politician Sir Thomas Acland as "The Boil'd Pig". Byron entered Harrow at the age of thirteen in 1801, remaining there until July 1805. He participated in three Speech Day declamations, this being a record of his first, the others on the 6th June & 4th July 1805. A rare survival, we can trace no copies at auction. 

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Dickens (Charles) Sketches by "Boz": Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. The Second Series. Complete in One Volume, first edition, first issue without list of illustrations on p.viii, half-title, etched frontispiece, additional vignette title and 8 plates by Cruikshank, 20pp. publisher's advertisements at end, yellow-coated endpapers, some light offsetting, original blind-stamped rose pink speckled cloth, spine decorated in blind and lettered in gilt, covers slightly rubbed and soiled, spine sunned and ends bumped, upper joint slightly cracked but holding firm, leaves uncut, preserved in modern custom chemise and crimson morocco-backed slip-case, 8vo, John Macrone, 1837. *** This, Charles Dickens' first published book, proved popular with four issues of the First Series being swiftly printed; however, the publisher's profits were ten times greater than those of Dickens. Therefore, with the publication of the Pickwick Papers proving a great success and Oliver Twist starting to appear in Bentley's Miscellany, Dickens realised he could do better with an alternative publisher. Backed by Chapman & Hall, he negotiated outright purchase of the copyright of Sketches by "Boz" leading to the publication in 1837 of this Second Series.Provenance: bookplate of George Barr McCutcheon; American Art Association, "First Editions of the Renowned Collection of George Barr McCutcheon Sale", 21st April 1925, lot 28.

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Chandler (Raymond) Farewell, My Lovely, first edition, light spotting to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, split running down lower joint from head with closed tear across spine, 4½ in. tear along lower flap joint continuing slightly into panel, few nicks to edges and spine tail, 8vo, [Bruccoli A2], New York, 1940.

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Lamb (Patrick) Royal Cookery: or, The Compleat Court-Cook. Containing the Choicest Receipts in all the several Branches of Cookery, second edition, 40 engraved bills of fare, most folding, plate at p.16 trimmed just within image, plate at p.30 trimmed just touching a few letters, plate at p.74 short split at fold without loss, plate at p.230 repaired at inner margin, browning to text and plates, to varying degrees but generally light, occasional spotting, contemporary calf, red morocco spine label, spine ends repaired, little rubbed, joints cracked but holding, [Bitting p.271 (note) ; Cagle 810; Maclean p.88; Oxford pp.52-53 (note) ; Vicaire 490], 8vo, for J. Nutt, and A. Roper, 1716.***  Lamb was the most celebrated of the court-cooks of the seventeenth century and served five monarchs from Charles II to Queen Anne.Provenance: Rear Admiral Thomas Western of Tattingston Place (engraved armorial bookplate). 

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Chatterton (Thomas).- [Croft (Sir Herbert)] Love and Madness. A Story too True. In a Series of Letters, first edition, errata to verso of title, ink ownership inscription to head of title, very occasional light spotting, some leaves slightly trimmed, slightly rubbed, G. Kearsly, 1780 § Chatterton (Thomas) Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century, fifth edition, edited by Lancelot Sharpe, additional engraved vignette title, engraved facsimile plate to face p.197, B. Flower, 1794, later half calf, 8vo (2) *** The scarce first edition of Croft's novel based on the murder of Martha Reay, an opera singer and mistress of Lord Sandwich, who was shot by a jealous lover James Hackman at Covent Garden in 1779. Much of the work concerns literary forgeries particularly those of Thomas Chatterton in his adoption of the Thomas Rowley persona. Croft had fraudulently obtained letters relating to Chatterton from the poet's sister and was subsequently exposed by Robert Southey.Complimented by a contemporary edition of Chatterton's Rowley Poems, containing the first printing of Coleridge's Monody on the Death of Chatterton, only the poet's second appearance in print.

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Waugh (Evelyn) Brideshead Revisited, first edition, signed by the author on title, original boards, spine gilt, very minor fading and rubbing to spine tips, two very small nicks to lower edge of upper cover, otherwise fine, dust-jacket, spine browned, horizontal tear across spine head and slightly down lower joint, not affecting title, tape marks on upper head joints, rubbing along joints, chips to extremities with thin strips of fading, upper edge nicked with some light fraying, housed in custom-made morocco-backed drop-back box, 8vo, 1945. *** A true rarity - a signed first trade edition of Waugh's most enduring novel. In 1944, six months before the official publication, Waugh issued a pre-publication edition of the novel in a run of 50 copies. These were printed and specially-bound specifically to distribute amongst friends for Christmas - and to solicit any revisions. Several changes were made as a result of his friends' comments, including suggested alterations by Fr. Martin D’Arcy, Cyril Connolly, and Nancy Mitford. A letter from Graham Greene – Waugh’s friend and recipient of one of the 50 copies – had indicated that Waugh may have only inscribed 19 of the 50 copies (Jeffrey Young Collection, Sotheby's London, 14 December 1992, lot 182). It is because of the specially issued limited edition that so few copies of the first trade edition exist which are signed.  

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Austen (Jane) [The Novels], 5 vol. in 4, 'Standard Novels' series, comprising: Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey [&] Persuasion; Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice, first Bentley editions, engraved frontispieces and vignette titles, lacking half-titles, a little foxing as usual with light offsetting, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spines gilt with red morocco labels (one lacking), rubbed, [Gilson D1, D3, D4, D5], 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1833.

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Bible, English. The Text of the New Testament, third Fulke edition, title within fine woodcut architectural border, lacking initial blank, title with light stain/abrasion mark to verso (?where bookplate removed), E1 small paper-flaw affecting a few words, for John Bill, 1617 bound with Fulke (William) A Defense of the Sincere and True Translation of the Holy Scriptures into the English Tongue, [by Eliot's Court Press] for John Bill, 1617, together 2 works in 1 vol., woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, light mostly marginal browning, some foxing, damp-staining, mainly to second work and increasing in severity towards end, later blind-tooled calf, rebacked, some staining to spine, rubbed and worn in places, [Herbert 360; STC 2918 & 11431], folio.  *** Third edition of Fulke's New Testament, including his Defense, which was "indirectly responsible for the marked influence which Rheims exerted on the Bible of 1611" (Herbert). This the variant with imprint for John Bill rather than Thomas Adams (Herbert 359). 

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Lamb (Charles [and Mary]) Tales From Shakespear Designed for the Use of Young Persons, 2 vol., first edition, first issue with printer's imprint to the foot of vol. 1 p. 236, and the address "Hanway Street" in vol. 2 advertisements, engraved frontispieces and 18 plates after William Mulready, 3pp. advertisements at end of vol. 2, light occasional spotting, some light browning, contemporary half calf, double morocco spine labels, rubbed, joints worn, preserved in modern custom chemises and modern half calf drop-back box, 12mo, Thomas Hodgkins, at The Juvenile Library, 1807. *** The rare first issue of what was the first attempt to make Shakespeare accessible to a young audience, commissioned by William Godwin's children's publishing house. Mary Lamb (1764-1847), whose name was omitted from the earliest editions, contributed the majority of the stories, while Charles worked on the six tragedies. The plates were designed by William Mulready, and are often said to have been engraved by William Blake. Provenance: "Charlotte Allen" (ink signatures to titles, dated 1809).

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Bond (Michael) A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, first printing, illustrations by Peggy Fortnum, endpapers lightly browned, original cloth, very small patch of fading to spine ends where jacket is chipped, otherwise fine cloth, dust-jacket, light strips of fading across extremities, 2" portion of loss to lower panel affecting text, few nicks, chips, and tears along edges and joints, light marking to lower panel, 8vo, 1958. *** The first of Michael Bond's Paddington books in which he created his much beloved marmalade-adoring eponymous bear. Increasingly rare in the jacket, particularly not price-clipped.

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Chaucer (Geoffrey) [The workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed, with dyvers workes whiche were never in print before], [edited by William Thynne], double column, black letter, B1r with woodcut of the Knight before castle, E6v with woodcut of the Squire, woodcut decorative initials, 'The Romau[n]t of the Rose' with separate divisional title within woodcut architectural border, lacking all 8 preliminary leaves before f.1 (B1) and final blank, title and 8 preliminary leaves supplied from the 1561 John Stowe edition (lacking A1 divisional title to 'The Caunterburie Tales'), title trimmed and laid down with tiny loss, some chips and repairs to prelims with text loss, trimmed at head, shaving headlines to prelims, just touching a few other headlines but no loss, Sig. B-U and final 3ff. very small worming within text (generally one or two holes), B1 upper corner trimmed affecting pagination, F3 with 2 small burn-holes affecting few letters, S5 paper-flaw/tear repaired with very small loss, a few other short tears or marginal defects but no text loss, final 5ff. (3Q1-5) probably supplied from another copy (light damp-stain to foot from Sig. 3L onwards stopping abruptly at 3Q1), guarded and with fore-edge trimmed, 3Q2 causing loss to some words, very occasional underlining and a few instances of early marginalia, browned at points, some foxing, the odd light stain, still a good copy generally, 18th century dark blue morocco, richly gilt, spine faded, rubbed and scuffed, g.e., [STC 5073; Pforzheimer 174], folio (292 x 190mm.), by [Nicholas Hill for] Rycharde Kele, [?1550]. *** One of four variants of the undated fourth collected edition, which was published simultaneously by four London booksellers (William Bonham. Richard Kele. Thomas Petit and Robert Toye), with each variant bearing a different colophon. It is the last edition of Thynne's highly regarded version of The Workes. Thynne held a number of offices at the Court of Henry VIII, including chief clerk of the kitchen, who was in charge of all royal banquets. The preliminary leaves are supplied from second issue of the 1561 John Stowe edition, without illustrations. Provenance: Wm. Herbert (ownership name to front free endpaper; engraved armorial bookplate); James McBryde of St. Helens (bookplate).

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Golden Cockerel Press.- Keats (John) Endymion, number 22 of 100 specially-bound copies signed by the artist, from an edition limited to 500, 58 wood-engraved illustrations by John Buckland Wright, some full-page, repaired tear to p.9 affecting illustration, some occasional light foxing, original pictorial vellum by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, green cloth slip-case, [Cockalorum 175], small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1947. *** "In his 58 illustrations Buckland Wright is both as classical and as romantic as the poet could have desired. His vision, it seems to me, approaches that of Keats as closely as is possible for any artist working in our generation". (Christopher Sandford, Cockalorum).

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Marine life.- Rumpf (Georg Eberhard) Thesaurus imaginum piscium testaceorum, engraved portrait of the author and elaborate additional title, title in red and black with engraved vignette, 3 engraved head-pieces and one tail-piece, 60 engraved plates, some very small scattered ink stains to portrait, mostly marginal, additional title with very short closed tear to lower margin, plate 60 with small stain just within platemark, some light browning, plates with occasional light marginal spotting or minor soiling, but overall good, some foxing to text, modern calf-backed boards, spine label little chipped, extremities lightly rubbed, [Nissen ZBI 3520], folio, Leiden, Peter van der Aa, 1711. *** A first edition in Latin of Rumpf's landmark work on marine life in the Moluccan Archipelago of Indonesia, first published in Dutch in 1705. The plates include shells, sea urchins, crabs and lobsters etc.

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Heliodorus (Emesenus, Bishop of Tricca) Historiae Aethiopicæ libri decem, nunquam antea in lucem editi, collation: a-z A-G4 H6, title in Greek and Latin, dedication in Latin, text in Greek, title and verso of otherwise blank final f. with woodcut printer's device, woodcut historiated initials, neat 18th century ink bibliographical notes to front free endpaper, water-stained, occasional spotting, lightly browned, later vellum, little ink staining to upper cover, small 4to (190 x 149mm.), Basel, Johannes Herwagen, 1534.  *** Editio princeps of the earliest Greek romance. The Aethiopica was first brought to light during the Renaissance in a manuscript from the library of Matthias Corvinus, which was found at the sack of Buda in 1526. The French dramatist Racine listed it amongst his favourite books, and when his copy was taken away from him at the Jansenist retreat of Port-Royal he was rumoured to have said that he did not care as he had already memorised it.Literature: Adams H174; VD 16 H 1673.

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America.- Josselyn (John) New Englands Rarities Discovered: in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country, second edition, initial and final blank leaves present, folding woodcut plate and woodcut illustrations, small repair to title without loss of text, occasional light browning, modern blind-stamped calf, [Wing J1094; Sabin 36674 for first edition, this edition not cited], 8vo, Printed for C. Widdowes, 1675.*** An excellent copy of a rare work which first appeared in 1672. This second 'Addition' as it is called on the title-page, is only located by USTC at Yale's Beinecke Library and the John Carter Brown Library and seemingly has no auction appearance for over 100 years.Josselyn's work is "the earliest work on the natural history and Indian remedies of New England" (Vail), much of it forming a description of herbal remedies among the Indians. The work also includes a brief chronological history of New England from Columbus's arrival in America, the founding of colonies in Virginia (1606), Massachusets (1628), Connecticut (1636), New-Haven (1638, also the year of a "terrible Earth quake throughout the Country") and such events as "The whole Bible Printed in the Indian Language finished" (1664). Additionally, the 'Description of an Indian Squa' with an accompanying poem, praising black beauty above white, occurs on pp. 99-102.

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Byroniana.- Lake (J.W.) A Poetical Tribute to the Memory of Lord Byron, first edition, ex-library with small embossed stamp to half-title and ink reference to foot of title verso, scattered spotting, disbound and loose, Paris, Amyot, 1824 § [Phillips (Willard) and Norton (Andrews)] A Review of the Character and Writings of Lord Byron, first edition in book form, half-title, portrait frontispiece (lightly offset), advertisement f. at end, gutter cracked at points, some light toning and spotting at beginning and end, original drab boards, remains of paper spine label, wear to corners and spine, spine with central vertical split, old glue repair to upper joint, lower joint split but cover holding, [Wise II, p.92], 1826; and others relating to Byron, including printed broadside poem "A Tribute to the Memory of Lord Byron" dedicated to W.F. Webb of Newstead Abbey, 8vo (10) *** The second mentioned first published in the North American Review of October 1825 (v.21, pp. 300-359). 

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Falkner (J. Meade) Moonfleet, first edition, presentation copy, inscribed "Thos. Hardy from the Author 1898" on title, 2pp. advertisements and 32pp. publisher's catalogue dated November 1898 at rear, pencil markings to pp. 1, 114 and 119, bookseller's label of Mawson, Swan and Morgan of Newcastle to front pastedown, the odd spot, light browning to endpapers, occasional slight cracking to gutter, original cloth, very slight fading to spine, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, light rubbing, [Wolff 2120], 8vo, Edward Arnold, 1898.*** A superb association copy of this classic adventure novel, Hardy was a good friend and correspondent of Falkner and the two Dorset authors read and admired each other's works. Other works by Falkner are known to have been in Hardy's library at Max Gate. The inscription here is likely in the hand of the author's sister who was known to have inscribed works on her brother's behalf. Though the markings are difficult to determine as being in Hardy's hand, the passages highlighted on pp.114 and 119 are reminiscent of Hardy's own descriptive writing style. 

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Darwin (Charles) On the Origin of Species, sixth edition (eleventh thousand), half-title, folding diagram plate, a few instances of minor spotting, upper hinge starting, original green cloth, spine gilt, spine toned and ends bumped, otherwise light scuffing, [Freeman 391], 8vo, John Murray, 1872.

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16th century English dialogue.- [Shepherd (Luke), ?pseudonym]. The Enterlude of John Bon & Mast Person; a dialogue on the festival of Corpus Christi and on transubstantiation in verse, edited by William Henry Black, proof copy with extensive autograph corrections by the editor, some mostly light staining, lightly browned, unbound, 8vo, Printed for the Percy Society, 1852.  *** The original edition of this risqué little dialogue attacking the Feast of Corpus Christi and transubstantiation was printed by John Day & William Seres in 1547 or 1548. It is exceedingly rare, with only two copies recorded by ESTC (BL & Newberry). The editor Black (1808-1872), was an antiquarian, manuscript cataloguer (including a catalogue of Elias Ashmole's manuscripts), assistant keeper at the Public Record Office, and Seventh-Day Baptist preacher.   

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Brewing.- [Child (Samuel)], “A Gentleman, lately retired from the Brewing Business”. Every man his own brewer; or, a compendium of the English brewery, first edition, half-title, 2 advertisement ff. at end, A6 cancelled, B11 cancel with drop-head title 'The Philosophy of brewing; or, a compendium of the English brewery', obliterated ink ownership inscription to head of A3 (some ink offsetting on to verso of title), occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, front endpapers water-stained, contemporary sheep, gilt, spine in compartments and with red morocco label, spine ends chipped, joints splitting, but holding firm, corners worn, some staining, rubbed, [Cagle 599 (uncancelled state of ff. A6 & B11) & 600 (cancelled state); Maclean p.26], a good copy, large 12mo, Printed for the Author: and sold by J. Almon, opposite Burlington House, in Piccadilly; and Mess. Robinson and Roberts, in Pater-noster Row, 1768.  *** Rare at auction. 

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Fleming (Ian) The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, abrasion marks from removal of stamps to endpapers, half-title and several other pp., remains of label to head of title, light abrasion to fore-edge, light foxing to half-title and rear endpapers, first state boards with golden gun on upper cover, spine ends and corners rubbed and a little bumped, chip to foot of lower joint, dust-jacket, minor chipping to spine ends and corners, light rubbing to head and foot, vertical crease to upper panel, still an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1965. *** The very scarce issue with the gold gun on upper cover, considered by Jonathan Cape inadequate and subsequently reissued in plain boards.

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Hoe copy.- Iconography.- Giarda (Cristoforo) Bibliothecæ Alexandrinæ icones symbolicæ … elogiis illustratæ, engraved architectural title with Saints Peter and Alexander by Cesare Bassano, 16 engraved plates of female figures, title and preliminaries stained, occasional spotting or light soiling, marbled endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, red crushed morocco, gilt, by R. Petit (signed at foot of inner front cover), rebacked, preserving original richly gilt backstrip in compartments, a few small light ink stains to covers, rubbed, [Landwehr Romanic 320; Praz p.349], 4to, [Milan], Giovanni Battista Bidelli, 1628.  *** The Robert Hoe-John Barrymore copy of this collection of 16 figures representing the arts & sciences, after paintings in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina; the library of the Collegio San Alessandro in Milan. Provenance: Robert Hoe (blue morocco book label); The Lamberts (bookplate), gifted by them to John Barrymore (bookplate). 

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Carter (Charles) The Complete Practical Cook, first edition, title in red and black, 60 engraved plates, a few folding, slight worming to front endpapers and margin of folding frontispiece, occasional soiling and light water-staining, contemporary panelled calf, extremities worn, some surface abrasion to lower cover, [Bitting p.77; Maclean p.23; Oxford pp.61-62], 4to, Printed for W. Meadows, C. Rivington and R. Hett, 1730.*** "This is a large quarto with fine engravings of the courses at table" (Oxford).

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Lake District.- Fielding (Theodore Henry) & J. Walton. A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes, first edition, half-title, aquatint title-vignette and 48 plates, all hand-coloured, some tissue-guards loose, occasional light foxing and spotting slightly affecting the edges of one or two plates, contemporary red half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, a few surface tears to marbled boards, slightly rubbed, R. Ackermann, 1821 § Garnet (J., publisher) Views of the English Lakes, engraved title and 30 plates, some very light water-staining to upper edge, modern half calf, gilt, morocco spine label, Windermere [c.1860s], 4to and oblong 8vo (2) ***  To summarize Ackermann's introduction, this work unites the "most striking features of the various kinds of scenery of the lakes, executed by able artists in a style worthy of the subject" with "a description of all that is interesting and remarkable in the nature and appearance of the country... combining a judicious selection from the labours of former writers... with much new and original information." 

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Greene (Graham) The Power and the Glory, first edition, usual light browning to half-title, light marginal toning, small bookseller's sticker on pastedown corner, original cloth, second impression jacket with "Second large printing" to front flap, light creasing and fraying to spine ends and extremities, spine a little toned, very faint surface soiling to lower panel, but an excellent example overall, [Wobbe A16a], 8vo, 1940.*** Hailed by John Updike as "Graham Greene's masterpiece", the work was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the hundred best English-language novels since 1923.  Many of the copies were seemingly lost in the bombing of Heinemann's publishing house during the war. 

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Woolf (Virginia) Orlando: A Biography, first edition, one of 861 copies, this one of 800 signed by the author, plates, original cloth, gilt, one or two light marks, otherwise a fine copy, [Kirkpatrick A11a], 8vo, New York, Crosby Gaige, 1928.

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Cicero against agrarian reform.- Loredano (Bernardino) In M. Tullii Ciceronis orationes de lege agraria contra P. Servilium Rullum tribunum pl. commentarius, first edition, collation: A-Z4 AA-OO4 PP2, title with woodcut printer's device, initial spaces with guide-letters, 3pp. errata at end, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, later endpapers, contemporary limp vellum, spine in compartments, lacking ties, a few small stains, small 4to (203 x 145mm.), Venice, Paulus Manutius, June, 1558.  *** Rare copy at auction of this commentary on Cicero’s orations against land reform in favour of the poor, spoken against the tribune of the plebs P. Servilius Rullus. Cicero equated the agrarian movement to robbery, and believed that it had disrupted the 'concordia' of the Roman republic, and given rise to factions. Provenance: Baron Landau (engraved bookplate to front pastedown). Literature: Ahmanson-Murphy 535; Renouard 174:8; EDIT 16 CNCE 28035. 

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17th century Science.- [Science including material on Cartesian physics], manuscript in Latin, 389pp. & 5pp. of index, on paper, 8 pen and ink illustrations in the text, slightly browned, lower free endpaper working loose, original vellum, extensively creased and soiled, 197 x 140mm., [c. 1650].  *** Includes much material on the new Cartesian physics, including Cartesian vortices, alchemy, the physics of Torricelli, meteors, light and colour, vacuums etc.

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Salinger (J.D.) The Catcher in the Rye, first edition, ownership name and light foxing marks to endpapers, original cloth, spine gilt, lightly dulled, extremities lightly bumped, first printing dust-jacket with correct positioning of 'R' on front flap and photographer credited on lower panel, some creases, a few nicks and chips to edges, small patches of staining to lower edge, spine faded, flap margins tender after expert lifting, lower flap with portion of loss to upper corner, still overall a bright example, 8vo, Boston, 1951. *** An excellent copy of Salinger's seminal novel, rare in an unrestored jacket. 

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