PSALTER, in Hebrew - Psalterium, Leiden: "Ex officina Plantiniana apud Franciscum Raphelengium," 1595, 16mo, woodcut ornaments, contemporary calf (heavily rubbed, hinges weak).PSALTER, in Hebrew - Psalterium. Leiden: "Ex officina Plantiniana apud Franciscum Raphelengium," 1595. 16mo (107 x 80mm). Title in English and Hebrew with woodcut printer's device, woodcut ornament at head of first text leaf, text in Hebrew throughout (title with piece torn away from edge without loss, headings cropped, one leaf torn without loss, some mainly light browning, staining and spotting). Contemporary calf (heavily rubbed, hinges weak). Provenance: From the Collection of Professor Jonathan Brostoff, D.M., D.Sc., FRCP, FRCPath (1934-2020); "Ex libris Rod: Howard" (old signature on title); "Beneficum daudo accipit qui digno dedit" (old Latin inscription on verso of title); old inscriptions and signatures on endpaper.
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PASTEUR, Louis (1822-95). Etudes sur le Vin, Paris, 1866, large 8vo, 32 lithographed plates printed in colours, original wrappers, slipcase. FIRST EDITION.PASTEUR, Louis (1822-95). Études sur le Vin, Ses Maladies causes qui les Provoquent Procédés Nouveaux pour le Conserver et pour le Vieillir. Paris: "Imprimé par Autorisation de son Exec. le Garde des Sceaux. A L'Imprimerie Impériale," 1866. Large 8vo (240 x 160mm). Half title, 32 lithographed plates printed in colours, illustrations (some light spotting and staining). Original grey printed wrappers with small woodcut armorial device on upper wrapper, uncut (lightly stained, repair with adhesive tape to head of backstrip and corner of lower wrapper), later buckram slipcase. Provenance: From the Collection of Professor Jonathan Brostoff, D.M., D.Sc., FRCP, FRCPath (1934-2020); A. [?]Méyret (old signature on upper wrapper and front free endpaper); "Agriculture 3070" (old [?]library note on title and corresponding label at head of backstrip), modern buckram slipcase. FIRST EDITION of this work in which the author establishes the role of atmospheric oxygen in causing the 'diseases' of wine which, along with various other works (cf. PMM 336), led the author to the discovery of bacteria from which he went on to develop the germ theory of disease. Bulloch p.61; Duveen p.260; Garrison & Martin 2479; Norman 1655; Sparrow Milestones of Science 160.
COWLEY, Abraham (1618-67). The Works, London, 1708-10, 3 vols., 8vo, 33 engraved plates, contemporary calf. Mixed editions. With 14 other works in 32 volumes. (35)COWLEY, Abraham (1618-67). The Works ... Consisting of those Which were formerly Printed; And those which He design'd for the Press; Publish'd out of the Author's Original Copies. With the Cutter of Coleman-Street ... [Vols. I-II] The Eleventh Edition [Vol. III] The Eighth Edition. London: Printed for T. Tonson; and Sold by D. Browne (and others), [Vols. I-II] 1710 [Vol. III] 1708. 3 volumes, 8vo (194 x 120mm). Engraved portrait of the author and 32 plates, including one folding (some light staining and browning, a few darker spots). Contemporary panelled calf (rebacked preserving old lettering pieces). Provenance: The Rt. Hon. Robert d' Arcy, Earl of Holdernesse (armorial bookplate). With 14 other works in 32 volumes, namely Agabito Pei's Vita e Miracoli dei Glorioso S. Antonio da Padoa (Florence, 1633, 8vo, engraved title and portrait, one full-page woodcut, contemporary decorated vellum, spine gilt, stained and worn), Histoire Veritable de la Duchesse de Chatillon (Cologne, chez Pierre Marteau, 1699, 12mo, contemporary red morocco, inscribed "Jack, from Goonie [i.e. Lady Gwendeline Churchill], 31st May 1910 on the occasion of John George's 1st birthday"), John Norris's The Theory and Regulation of Love. A Moral Essay. With Some Motives to the Study and Practice of regular Love, by way of Consideration. To which are added, Letters Philosophical and Moral between the Author and Dr. Henry More ... The Seventh Edition (London, 1723, 8vo, contemporary calf), Henry Fielding's The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews ... The Fifth Edition (London, 1751, 2 vols., 8vo, engraved plates, contemporary calf), John Vanbrugh's Plays ... In Two Volumes (London, 1759, 2 vols., 8vo, contemporary calf, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden), [Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon's] Le Sopha, Conte Moral. Nouvelle Édition ("A Pekin", chez l'Imprimeur de l'Empereur," [?but Paris], 1762, 2 parts in one vol., small 8vo, 19th-century red calf), Henry Fielding's Amelia (London, 1775, 3 vols., 8vo, later calf preserving old spines), Thomas Warton's Poems. A New Edition, with Additions (London, 1777, large 8vo, contemporary calf, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden), [Mercier de Saint-Léger Barthélemy's] Quinque illustrium poetarum ... Lusus in venerem partim ex codicibus manuscriptis nunc primùm editi (Paris, "Prostat ad pistrinum in vico suavi", 1791, contemporary calf), William Shakespeare's The Plays ... Accurately printed from the Text of the corrected Copy left by the late George Steevens (London, 1805, 10 volumes, large 8vo, engraved plates by Henry Fuseli, contemporary calf elaborately decorated in gilt, rebacked, heavily rubbed and scuffed, old armorial bookplates of Anthony Eden), [James Beresford's] The Miseries of Human Life ([London, c.1806, 2 vols., [including, bound in at the end of the second vol., Peregrine Bingham's The Poems of Memory, A Poem, in Two Books (London, 1811)], 2 folding engraved frontispieces, one hand-coloured, contemporary calf, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden, with later pencil inscriptions in an unidentified hand regarding provenance at the beginning of the first vol. ("These 2 vols. shd. not have AE's bookplate in them - they belonged to Harold Baker who left them to me ...."_)), Oliver Goldsmith's The Citizen of the World: or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher Residing in London, to his Friends in the East (London, 1809, 2 vols., 8vo, engraved plates, contemporary calf gilt, neatly rebacked, armorial bookplate of William Fawcett), John Selden's The Table Talk ... A New edition, corrected (Chiswick, 1818, 12mo, engraved frontispiece, contemporary turquoise calf gilt, highlighted in pencil throughout with some sparse annotation by Anthony Eden) and Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha (London, 1818, 4 volumes, large 8vo, engraved plates by Robert Smirke, contemporary calf, upper board of vol. one detached, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden). The lot sold not subject to return. (35)
SCHMIDT, Paul-Otto (1899-1970). Hitler's Interpreter, London, 1951, 8vo, half tone illustrations, original buckram. FIRST ENGLISH ABRIDGED EDITION, A HIGHLY IMPORTANT COPY, ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT.SCHMIDT, Paul-Otto (1899-1970). Hitler's Interpreter ... Edited by R. H. C. Steed. London: William Heinemann, 1951. 8vo (213 x 135mm). Half title, half tone portrait frontispiece of the author, 10 full-page half tone illustrations. Original red buckram, spine lettered and ruled in gilt (gilt faded, corners lightly rubbed, some very light staining, without the dust-jacket). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST ENGLISH AND ABRIDGED EDITION, A HIGHLY IMPORTANT COPY, ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT. For example, the front free endpaper is inscribed by Eden in pencil: "Sent to me by Schmidt. A.E." (although the author has not signed or inscribed the copy); on p.24 (commenting on the printed passage 'At noon [?on March 26, 1935] there were refreshments at the British Embassy at which Hitler made an appearance; this was the first time that he had been seen at a foreign embassy'), Eden writes: "No - two years earlier where he met me"; on p.86 (referring to Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador to Germany from 1937-39): "& yet he was pathetically pro-German"; on p.57 (commenting on the printed passage 'Lloyd George took this opportunity of expressing himself very definitely, if in quite general terms, about the German peace efforts, "which," he said, "have unfortunately been frustrated by the staff talks"'): "he was against them"; on p.88 (the context unclear): "Strange. The [?]Govt. thought they had had a success"; on p.107 (commenting on the printed line 'It was at this moment that the decision in favour of peace was made'): "Hitler had won"; on p.131 (commenting on the printed passage 'Throughout the summer [of 1939] tension in Europe increased daily. Preparations for war were put in hand more or less openly in every country; menaces, warnings, and challenges filled the ether and the columns of the Press'): "Yet [Sir John] Simon persuaded the Cabinet to lay down no [?]destroyers. What did that cost in lives?"; on p.150 (commenting on the printed passage 'In this critical discussion [Sir Nevile Henderson] would have been able to express himself with more clarity and ease in English'): "Foolish"; on p.235 (commenting on the printed line referring to 'the Pact concluded by Soviet Russia with Yugoslavia just before the outbreak of war with that country and Germany'): "It always puzzled me why Stalin did this. I asked him and he replied that they felt sympathy with Yugo & that they knew by then that they would be attacked anyway. The coup d' etat we organised in Belgrade may therefore have helped the German Russian breech"; and on p.237 (commenting on Pearl Harbour and Germany's declaration of war on the United States): "It was a turning point of the war because it made possible a U.S. western strategy." The rear endpapers are filled with Eden's pencil notes referring to various pages in the book, and, occasionally, with his commentary on them [see illustration]; for example: "Page 64. Proof once again of what I told Neville: that Mussolini had already done a deal with Hitler - March 1937 - I put it later. P.211. Date of Hitler's decision to attack Russia ... Page 237. Astonishing that Germans did not know in advance of Pearl Harbour ... Page 265. Morgenthau Plan at Quebec, which I [?]opposed on my arrival before [Cordell] Hull came & to W's [Winston's] exasperation." Schmidt opens his book with the printed sentence: "The first time I interpreted for Hitler was on March 25, 1935, when Sir John Simon and Mr Anthony Eden came to Berlin for talks on the European crisis caused by German re-armament." On pp.18-19, he goes on to give a more detailed printed account of the first meeting of Simon (then British Foreign Minister) and Eden (then Lord Privy Seal) with Hitler in the Reich's Chancellery: "Simon, with his large brown eyes, looked at Hitler with by no means unsympathetic interest as he listened to him. His face naturally expressed a certain paternal benevolence ... On the other hand, I occasionally noticed a rather more sceptical expression flit over the face of Eden, who understood enough German to be able to follow Hitler more or less. Some of Eden's questions and observations showed he had considerable doubts about Hitler and what he was saying. 'There are actually no indications,' he once observed, 'that the Russians have any aggressive plans against Germany.' And in a slightly sarcastic tone he asked: 'On what are your fears actually based?' 'I have rather more experience in these matters than is general in England,' Hitler parried, and added heatedly, throwing out his chin: 'I began my political career just when the Bolshevists were launching their first attack in Germany.' Then he went off again into a monologue on Bolshevists individually and in general which, with translation, lasted until lunch." The editor R. H. C. Steed's printed preface to the book provides an assessment of its author's character and motivations: "... Schmidt saw ... that between hommes de bonne volonté, men of good will, regardless of nationality, even the greatest difficulties could be overcome. Twenty years of unique experience of diplomacy in its most intimate top-level aspect confirmed this opinion, and added to it the conviction that 'the real enemies of mankind are the fanatics, in whatever camp they may be'. Schmidt is at pains to make it clear that he places the Nazis in that category - especially Hitler and Ribbentrop. He is damning and often contemptuous in his judgments of the men for whom he worked so loyally and for so long - and has been criticised on that account. He claims that he was never a Nazi sympathiser, that he merely did his job as a civil servant and expert technician, that he made no secret of his independent outlook and that this was duly noticed against him in his dossier. This account of himself seems to be borne out by the impression he made, among others, on Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador in Berlin until the outbreak of war. He certainly showed considerable courage of a negative kind in that, despite his very special position, he resisted pressure to join the Nazi Party until 1943 ... I think Schmidt might fairly be described as an enlightened, cosmopolitanised German nationalist, and find it a little hard on him that we have to hand him down to posterity as 'Hitler's Interpreter' and not, perhaps more aptly, as 'Stresemann's Interpreter' - a title to which he has at least an equal claim."
CHAPBOOKS - Literary Miscellany: containing Humourous Pieces, Poughnill, 1801, small 8vo, original printed wrappers. With 3 other similar chapbooks. RARE. Please see the full description below. (4)CHAPBOOKS - [Upper wrapper:] Literary Miscellany: containing Humourous Pieces; viz. Sermon on the Word Malt, - Paris Jobbing, - &c. &c. [Title page:] Humourous & Satirical. A Sermon on the Word Malt; Parish Jobbing; The Cards Spiritualised; &c. &c. Poughnill, near Ludlow: "Printed and sold by G. Nicholson," 1801. Number 6, small 8vo (153 x 98mm). 24-pages, wood-engraved vignette on title and at the end (some light spotting and staining). Original blue printed wrappers, stitched. Provenance: Wm. Pollock (old signature on upper wrapper). With 3 other chapbooks from the same series, namely Moral Tales. The Grateful Turk; Androcles and the Lion; The Horse; Phillis and Damaris (Poughnill, 1801, no. 14), Robert Dodsley's The Economy of Human Life (Poughnill, 1805, no. 44) and Goethe's The Letters of Werter (Poughnill, 1802, no. 54), all small 8vo, in original printed wrappers. "It is an evident and acknowledged fact, that our most celebrated authors have their excellencies and defects; their admirable and less interesting compositions; and they they wrote, not only on important and permanent subjects, but on such as were temporary, adventitious and local. We, therefore, have engaged in the task of selecting the 'valuable parts' ... Subjects of utility; whatever can amend and humanize the heart, inform the understanding, correct the judgment, and establish first, general, and liberal principles; whatever can awaken attention to obvious and important truths, will be carefully preferred. We shall avoid the adulation of power, the celebration of offensive atchievements[sic], and of savage and unmanly sports; absurd traditions; mythological fictions; unnatural allegories, visions, and fables; and details of mad or violent passions" (from the "Outlines of the Plan" printed on each wrapper). RARE. (4)
![[SIBLY, Ebenezer (1751-1800), Carl LINNAEUS (1707-78)], and others. An Universal System of Natural History, London, [?1794-1](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/9f62f50f-e3e9-488b-bedd-b02f00c8e0e3/70b74a85-9258-44a5-853e-b03000b5820d/468x382.jpg)
[SIBLY, Ebenezer (1751-1800), Carl LINNAEUS (1707-78)], and others. An Universal System of Natural History, London, [?1794-1808], 14 volumes, 8vo, 401 engraved plates only, 112 hand-coloured, 85 folding, half calf gilt. Sold not subject to return. (14)[SIBLY, Ebenezer (1751-1800, editor), Carl LINNAEUS (1707-78)], and others. [Volumes I - VII titled:] An Universal System of Natural History, including the Natural History of Man; The Orang-Outang; and Whole Tribe of Simia; all the known Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, and Amphibious Animals ... Forming a Magnificent View of the Three Kingdoms of Nature Divided into Distinct Parts, the Characters Separately Described, and Systematically Arranged [Volumes VIII - XIV titled:] A Genuine and Universal System of Natural History; Comprising Three Kingdoms of Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, Arranged under their Respective Classes, Orders, Genera, and Species. By the late Sir Charles Linnæus ... Improv'd, Corrected, and Enlarged by J. Frid. Gmelin [etc., etc.]. London: Printed for the Proprietor, and Sold by Champante and Whitrow [with variants to the imprints in other vols.], [?1794-1808]. 14 volumes, 8vo (207 x 130mm). 401 engraved plates only ([?]of 424), of which 112 hand-coloured and 85 folding (vol. one lacking the engraved general title and two "zodiac" plates at the front called for in the list, also lacking the portrait of Linnæus in vol. VII, some variable light spotting, staining and browning, one plate detached, a few plates cropped, a few small holes, one plate torn with loss at corner, a few leaves torn without loss, Qq2 (text leaf) in vol. II with printing flaw). Very attractively bound in later half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt with red morocco lettering pieces stamped "Linnæus [sic] Natural History" (upper hinges of spine of last vol. broken, some ink spotting to a few spines, most pronounced to that of vol. VIII, lightly rubbed). Provenance: From the Collection of Professor Jonathan Brostoff, D.M., D.Sc., FRCP, FRCPath (1934-2020); some pencil annotation to a few leaves. The decision to colour some plates and not others seems to have been made quite arbitrarily throughout the set: for instance, vols. I and II have no coloured plates, whereas all the plates are coloured in vols. VIII and XIV. Most of the folding plates are coloured. In general, the proportion of coloured and folding plates increases in the later volumes. Individual volumes or short runs of the work occasionally appear at auction or in the trade; the full set of 14 volumes - as here - is rare, and, so far as we can see, unheard of with a full complement of plates. Since many of the volumes are lacking their list of plates, and we have been unable to locate a detailed collation for the work, it is, with regret, sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (14)
Code Civil des Français, Paris, 1804, 8vo, contemporary French calf-backed marbled boards. FIRST EDITION of the "Napoleonic Code".Code Civil des Français. Édition Originale et Seule Officielle. Paris: De l' Imprimerie de la Rpublique. An XII, 1804. 8vo (200 x 125mm). Half title, large woodcut allegorical device on the title captioned in a panel beneath "Grand-Juge et Ministre de la Justice", woodcut device of "Le Grand-Juge, Ministre de la Justice, Regnier" on the verso of the final text leaf (some fraying to half title, variable but mainly light spotting, staining and browning). Contemporary French calf-backed marbled boards, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt (boards lightly rubbed). Provenance: From the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune; Mairie de Bourmont, Haute-Marne (old stamp on title); some early pen and pencil annotation to front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION of the "Napoleonic Code" which, under the direction of Napoleon Bonaparte and a special commission led by J. J. Cambaceres, gave post-revolutionary France its first coherent set of laws concerning individual rights, the family, property and the colonies. While all male citizens were granted equal rights, including that of religious dissent, and the secular character of the state was recognised, there was much about the new code that was strikingly illiberal and reactionary: women were deprived of individual rights, as were illegitimate children, and colonial slavery was re-introduced. The statutes were finally approved in March 1804 and published shortly after for the first time in the present volume. Brunet II, 118.
ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834, publisher). The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, London, 1812, 2 vols., folio, portrait, plan, 82 hand-coloured aquatint plates, contemporary morocco (rubbed). FIRST EDITION. With another book. (3)ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834, publisher) & William COMBE (1742-1823). The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, its Antiquities and Monuments. London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1812. 2 volumes, folio (345 x 285mm). Half titles, engraved portrait of William Vincent, Dean of Westminster, engraved plan, 82 aquatint plates by J. Bluck, T. Sutherland and others after F. Mackenzie, A. Pugin and others, all hand-coloured except one (portrait spotted and creased, title in vol. one browned, some light spotting, staining and browning to 'Introduction', plate 28 detached, with the margins trimmed, not affecting image, some light manly marginal spotting and staining but plates generally clean, plates offset onto text). Contemporary half brown morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers (extremities heavily rubbed and scuffed, spines faded). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023); Ferdinand M. [?]McVeagh (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Scenery 213, 214; not in Brunet; Hardie English Coloured Books pp.103-4 (calling for 80 aquatint plates only); Lowndes 2880; Tooley 2; Upcott II, 859-68. With a fragment of Rudolph Ackermann's The History of St Paul's School (London, 1816, folio, 2 hand-coloured aquatint plates (only), modern marbled boards). (3)
SPEED, John (1552-1629). Barkshire Described, London, 1676, hand-coloured engraved map of Berkshire, panoramic view of Windsor Castle at the top, title within baroque figural cartouche, coats-of-arms, compass rose, 382 x 510mm., framed and glazed.SPEED, John (1552-1629). Barkshire Described. [London:] Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, [1676]. Hand-coloured engraved map of Berkshire, title within baroque figural cartouche, panoramic view of Windsor Castle at the top, coats-of-arms, compass rose, English text on verso (some light mainly marginal staining), 382 x 510mm., framed and glazed (upper segment of frame detached).
STANFORD, Edward (1827-1904, publisher) - The Family Atlas ... including the Geological Map of England and Wales, by Sir I. Murchison, London, 1865, folio, 80 hand-coloured engraved maps, half morocco (worn). With a folding map of London (c.1854). (2).STANFORD, Edward (1827-1904, publisher) - The Family Atlas Containing Eighty maps, Constructed by Eminent Geographers, and Engraved on Steel, under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, including the Geological Map of England and Wales, by Sir I. Murchison, F.R.S., the Star Maps by Sir John Lubbock, Bart. and the Plans of London and Paris, with the New Discoveries and Other Improvements to the Latest Date. London: Edward Stanford, 1865. Square folio (454 x 385mm). 80 hand-coloured engraved maps including 6 star charts and plans of London and Paris (one map and one star chart torn without loss, some light spotting and staining). Contemporary black half morocco (worn and stained). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023); J. M Gillespie (old signature on title). With Davies' Map of the British Metropolis with Extension to the Crystal Palace [title from wallet] (London, Edward Stanford, [1854 or later], large hand-coloured engraved map in sections mounted on linen, folding into original cloth wallet). (2)
EMMANUEL-AUGUSTIN-DIEUDONNE-JOSEPH, Comte de (1766-1842). Memorial de Saint Helene, London, 1823-35, 8 parts in 8 vols., 8vo, 20 plates and maps, attractively bound in 19th-century half red morocco gilt by Bumpus. (8)EMMANUEL-AUGUSTIN-DIEUDONNE-JOSEPH, Comte de (1766-1842). Memorial de Saint Helene. Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena. London: Printed for Henry Colburn and Co., 1823-35. 8 parts in 8 volumes, 8vo (216 x 135mm). Folding plan as a frontispiece to the first vol., 19 plates and maps, 3 of which folding (occasional very light spotting, staining and browning). Attractively bound in 19th-century red half morocco by Bumpus, spines gilt with French Imperial eagle and Napoleon's bee motifs stamped in compartments, top edges gilt, others uncut (upper board of vol. VIII a little bowed with split to marbled paper, extremities rubbed). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023); Harold Harmsworth (armorial bookplate). FIRST U.K. EDITION. (8)
FREMONT, J. C. (1813-90). Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California, Washington, 1845, 8vo, 16 plates only, 5 maps including folding map by Fremont and Preuss, cloth. FIRST EDITION.FREMONT, John Charles (1813-90). Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44 ... Printed by Order of the House of Representatives. Washington: Blair and Rives, Printers, 1845. Large 8vo (226 x 140mm). 16 lithographed plates only (?of 22) and 4 maps, of which 2 folding, including the very large folding "Map of an Exploring Expedition to the Rocky mountains in the Year 1842 and to Oregon & North California in the Years 1843-44 by Brevet Capt. J. C. Frémont of the Corps of Topographical Engineers Under the orders of Col. J. J. Abert, Chief of the Topographical Bureau. Lith. by E. Weber & Co. Baltimore Md." by J. C. Frémont with the assistance of Charles Preuss (although Preuss's name does not appear on the map), with rivers hand-coloured in blue, astronomical tables at the end (the large folding map by Frémont and Preuss complete but detached and torn neatly in half along the centrefold without significant loss [although the illustration erroneously gives the impression that the lower corners are lacking], a few tears at other folds without significant loss, occasional spotting and staining to the text and plates, with some darker ink spots). Original brown publisher's cloth decorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt (part of the spine torn away with loss of letters, lower cover detached, rubbed with some light staining, lacking the pocket for the folding map at the end although with its green silk ribbon still intact). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023); "Ministry of Defence Library Services. Withdrawn" (stamp on title with library shelf numbers and library label at the foot of the spine); "Geographical and Statistical Depot. War Department" (blindstamp on title above imprint); "Libreria Estrangera Cientifica y Literaria de Carlos Bailly-Bailliere, Madrid" (label on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION. Howes F370; Graff 1436; Rumsey Map Collection: "The large map of the west is one of the most interesting and beautiful government maps of the 1840s. It filled in many of the gaps in cartographic knowledge of the west. Charles Preuss was the cartographer"; Sabin 25845; Schwartz & Ehrenberg The Mapping of America 275 (folding map); Streeter Sale 3131; Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 1540-1861 497: "[Frémont's work] can only be described as one of the monumental works of [American] Western Exploration and became the vade mecum of Manifest Destiny [i.e. the 19th-century doctrine that the expansion of the United States through the American continents was both justified and inevitable]. Its words, maps, and pictures paved the way for future waves of overlands culminating in the flood tide of the Gold Rush ... The great folding map is an altogether memorable document in the cartographic history of the West."
BYRON, Lord (1788-1824). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, London, 1812, Cantos I-II in one vol., 4to, facsimile letter, FINELY BOUND in contemporary red morocco, FIRST EDITION. With Cantos III & IV (1816-18, 2 vols., FIRST EDITIONS) in wrappers and boards. (3)BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord (1788-1824). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. A Romaunt [and] Poems. London: "Printed for John Murray ... William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin," [March] 1812. Cantos I - II and Poems bound in one volume, 4to (270 x 208mm). 4-lines of errata on verso of "Contents" leaf, engraved facsimile of a Romaic letter at the end ([?]lacks half title and advertisements, first few leaves and a few others very lightly browned, occasional mainly marginal light spotting and staining, a few darker spots, linear stain to L1, more staining to facsimile letter). FINELY BOUND in contemporary red panelled morocco elaborately decorated in gilt and blind, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, some scuffing). Provenance: George Chetwynd (armorial bookplate); "Sotheby's April 22 1837" (old pencil inscription on front free endpaper); Grendon Hall, 1850 (small blindstamp to title). FIRST EDITION, with "vengeance forego" on p.97, line 11. "Murray had printed the usual 500 copies [of the first edition], at the time considered adequate for any book of verse. The edition was sold within three days ... [I]t was the very 'romanticism' of Childe Harold that established Byron and Byronism as a temporarily national and centennially international force in the western mind. What the whole of the nineteenth century admired most was the fascinating blend of aristocratic arrogance and revolutionary enthusiasm, sexual licentiousness and purity of love, glowing passion and deep melancholy, bitter irony and lachrymose sentimentality, exquisite dandyism and high personal courage. All these traits, and many more beside them, the public found in the mixture of realistic confession and stylized saga with which Byron expressed as well as veiled himself in the guise of Childe Harold ... The Byronic combination of oriental enchantment and nature worship, pessimism and pantheism, stamped itself upon European civilization" (PMM). "The Poem enjoyed tremendous success. After the publication of Cantos I and II in March 1812 Byron wrote, 'I woke one morning and found myself famous'" (The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. M. Drabble, 1985). Grolier English 68; PMM 270; Randolph pp.19-20; Wise Byron I, p.50. With the same author's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Third (London, John Murray, 1816, large 8vo, 4-pages of publisher's advertisements dated December 1816 at the end, original or contemporary wrappers, FIRST EDITION, the issue with the exclamation mark at the end of the first line on p.4) and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth (London, John Murray, 1818, large 8vo, contemporary paper boards, spine very defective but retaining part of the lettering-piece, FIRST EDITION, second issue). (3)
HOOKER, William Jackson (1785-1865). A Century of Ferns, London, 1854, folio, 100 coloured lithographed plates by Fitch, 19th-century half green morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf. FIRST EDITION.HOOKER, William Jackson (1785-1865). A Century of Ferns; being Figures with Brief Descriptions of One Hundred New, or Rare, or Imperfectly Known Species of Ferns. London: William Pamplin, 1854. Folio (260 x 172mm). Half title, 100 coloured lithographed plates by William Pamplin after Walter Hood Fitch (some very light mainly marginal staining and spotting). 19th-century green half morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, spine with fern motifs stamped in gilt in the compartments, top edges gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: "Given to me by Clarissa [i.e. Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, later Eden] on my birthday the 20th November 1939. She was 19 years old -" (unidentified inscription on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. cf. Nissen BBI 917 (citing also the Second Century of Ferns published in 1861, not included here).
RAMPANT LIONS PRESS - The Song of Solomon, Cambridge, Rampant Lions Press, 1937, 4to, printed in red and black, 6 linocut illustrations by Harry Hicken, 4 of which full-page, original hessian-backed boards. NUMBER 12 OF 125 COPIES.RAMPANT LIONS PRESS - The Song of Solomon According to the Authorised Version. Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, 1937. 4to (330 x 255mm). Printed in red and black, hand-set in Goudy text, 6 linocut illustrations by Harry Hicken, 4 of which full-page, with some details hand-coloured in red and blue, the colophon with printer's device stamped in red (some marginal staining, lightly spotted throughout). Original hessian-backed paper boards, the spine titled in black, uncut (a little bowed, some light staining). NUMBER 12 OF 125 COPIES on "Arches mould-made paper" by Will Carter.
HARVEY, William (1578-1657). Opera omnia, London, 1766, 4to, engraved portrait, plate, contemporary calf gilt (rebacked). "The best collected edition of his works is that published by the College of Physicians, edited by Dr Lawrence, in 1766" (see DNB).HARVEY, William (1578-1657). Opera omnia: a Collegio Medicorum Londinensi edita, edited by Thomas Lawrence and Mark Akenside. [From the colophon:] London: "Excudebat Guilielmus Bowyer," 1766. 4to (285 x 230mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by John Hall after Cornelius Johnson [signed "Jonson" in the engraving], engraved plate, text in Latin throughout, "Emendanda" [i.e. errata] leaf at the end (some mainly light marginal spotting and staining, some heavier staining and spotting to a few leaves, a few signatures starting). Contemporary calf gilt (rebacked with [?]later tan morocco lettering-piece, rubbed and scuffed, corners worn, inner hinges reinforced some time ago). Provenance: From the Collection of Professor Jonathan Brostoff, D.M., D.Sc., FRCP, FRCPath (1934-2020); "Bruce" (old signature at head of title); one-page typed letter to Professor Jonathan Brostoff, relating to the work, dated 18 April 2007, and signed "Geoff Davenport", loosely-inserted (see illustration). The first work in this collection, in which Harvey outlines for the first time the idea of the circulation of blood, is "Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus" which is described by Garrison & Morton as "[t]he most important book in the history of medicine." (See PMM 127.) "The best collected edition of his works is that published by the College of Physicians, edited by Dr Lawrence, in 1766" (see DNB). Heirs of Hippocrates 444; Keynes 47: "Harvey's chief works in Latin have only twice been printed in a collected form, first by van Kerckherm at Leyden in 1737, and secondly by Bowyer for the Royal College of Physicians in 1766. The latter is an imposing volume with a fine engraved portrait"; Waller 4128; Wellcome III, 220.
HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel (1810-79) & John Obadiah WESTWOOD (1805-93). British Butterflies and their Transformations, London, 1841, 4to, additional hand-coloured lithographed title and 42 plates, contemporary black half calf (rubbed). FIRST EDITION.HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel (1810-79) & John Obadiah WESTWOOD (1805-93). British Butterflies and their Transformations. London: William Smith, 1841. 4to (274 x 205mm). Half title, additional hand-coloured lithographed title, 42 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Henry Noel Humphreys (some light spotting and staining). Contemporary black half calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece (heavily rubbed and scuffed, corners worn, front free endpaper brown and spotted). Provenance: Mr Floyer Cornish, June 1st 1847 & Arthur Marshall (old signatures on front free endpaper). William Floyer Cornish (1769-1858) was Rector of Hooke, Dorset, from 1827 until his death. Arthur Marshall was his nephew. FIRST EDITION. Nissen ZBI 2049.
SETON HUTCHISON, Graham (1890-1946). Kitchener, London, 1944, small 4to, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 52 OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed extensively by the author to Anthony Eden. RARE.SETON HUTCHISON, Graham (1890-1946). Kitchener. The Man ... With a foreword by Field-Marshall Lord Birdwood. [London: The Fanfare Press], 1943. Small 4to (205 x 158mm). Half title, half tone plates. Original russet buckram lettered in gilt (spine faded, some very light staining). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 52 OF 100 "SPECIAL BOUND" [sic] COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "To the Rt Hon Anthony Eden, who at the helm of the State Department of Foreign Affairs, weathering all storms, has guided the ship until at last she is within sight of good anchorage, this story of another man who well served his Country is respectfully committed as a slight signal of admiration by the Author, July 1944." RARE.
PATTERSON, John Henry (1867-1947). The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, London, August 1910, large 8vo, original pictorial buckram gilt. Reprint. INSCRIBED in pencil by Anthony Eden, "This book belonged to my younger brother, Nicholas. A."PATTERSON, John Henry (1867-1947). The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures ... with a Foreword by Frederick Courteney Selous. London: Macmillan and Co., August 1910. Large 8vo (217 x 140mm). Half title, half tone frontispiece and illustrations, map, one-page of publisher's advertisements at the end (some very light mainly marginal spotting and staining, marginal tear to one leaf). Original dark blue pictorial buckram gilt (extremities lightly rubbed, without the dust-jacket). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (old armorial bookplate); Nicholas Eden (pencil signature ("William Nicholas Eden") on front free endpaper). Reprint. The work was first published in 1907. Czech pp.213-4. INSCRIBED in pencil by Anthony Eden on the front free endpaper, "This book belonged to my younger brother, Nicholas. A[nthony]." Midshipman Nicholas Eden was killed on board HMS Indefatigable during the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916: he was just 16. Anthony Eden's elder brother, John, had been killed in action at the age of 26 in Belgium on 17 October 1914.
BEAUMARCHAIS, Pierre-Augustin Caron de (1732-99). La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro, Paris, 1785, large 8vo, 5 engraved plates, 19th-century red half morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION, later issue with illustrations.BEAUMARCHAIS, Pierre-Augustin Caron de (1732-99). La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro, Comédie en Cinq Actes, en Prose. Paris: Chez Ruault, 1785. Large 8vo (258 x 165mm). Half title with list of 12 booksellers and "Avis de l' Editeur" regarding a pirated Amsterdam edition on the verso, engraved frontispiece and 4 plates by Claude Nicolas Malapeau after Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint-Quentin (frontispiece spotted and stained, other plates spotted mainly at margins, some light spotting to text mainly at margins, without the errata leaf). 19th-century French red half morocco gilt by Charles-François Capé [binder's stamp on front free endpaper], spine elaborately decorated in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (extremities quite heavily rubbed, boards scuffed, inner hinges weak). Provenance: DUFF COOPER (armorial bookplate); "Ex P. G. Libros. Skinos" (modern label); [?]Augustine [?]Brohay (old signature on front free endpaper); Maud Russell (later signature beneath, probably that of the British socialite, collector of French art and diarist); pencil note on front free endpaper stating "with aut. letter inserted", although, sadly, this is no longer present. FIRST EDITION, the later issue with illustrations, by a renowned French polymath who was, by turns (according to a certain on-line encyclopaedia), "a watchmaker, inventor, playwright, musician, diplomat, spy, publisher, horticulturist, arms dealer, satirist, financier and revolutionary (both French and American)." But Beaumarchais is perhaps best remembered today as the author of "The Marriage of Figaro", the comic play on which Mozart's operatic masterpiece was based. Cohen - de Ricci 125; PMM 230: "Public interest was whetted by [the play's] satirical references to the aristocracy, and it was this that first won its fame. Although greeted with enthusiasm by French society, it in fact contributed largely to its destruction. It is, however, the music of Mozart which has immortalised it as the perfect type of comedy. To Beaumarchais, a controversial figure, whose other principal achievement was his edition of the complete works of Voltaire, its transformation would probably be surprising, but no one can doubt its immortality"; Tchemerzine II, pp.14-15: "The first edition was published without illustrations. Very soon after 5 illustrations were added by Saint-Quentin."
PETRUS DE NATALIBUS (1370-1400). Catalogus sanctorum, Venice, 1516, small 4to, woodcut illustrations and initials (staining, spotting and light browning), contemporary panelled calf elaborately decorated in blind.PETRUS DE NATALIBUS (1370-1400). Catalogus sanctoru[m et] gestorum eorum. [Colophon:] Venice: Nicolaus de Franckfordia, 1516. Small 4to (214 x 152mm). Full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion surrounded by 14 smaller narrative scenes, the opposite page with 9 woodcut scenes and woodcut foliate borders to two sides, numerous initials, many historiated, the text printed in double column (lacks all before title and with 2 stubs [?for initial blanks], a few leaves loose, variable staining, spotting and light browning throughout). Contemporary panelled calf elaborately decorated in blind (rebacked preserving old spine, a few other repairs, rubbed). Provenance: Petrus Franciscus Passerini (old label on front pastedown); later library label and later pencil collation on the same pastedown; contemporary annotation mainly to first few leaves and, more extensively, at the end. A history of the lives of the Saints, first published in Vicenza in 1493. Adams N47; cf. Brunet III, 496 (citing the first edition); Essling 1511; Sander 4941.
LARKIN, Philip (1922-85). The North Ship, London, 1945, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION of the author's first book. Bloomfield A1a: "... it is not likely that the edition exceeded 500 copies."LARKIN, Philip (1922-85). The North Ship. London: The Fortune Press, 1945, 8vo (188 x 130mm). Half title (some light spotting, more pronounced to the last few leaves). Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, uncut, red dust-jacket lettered in black, price label of 10/6 laid down on front turn-in (head of cloth spine a little bumped, small piece torn away from head of backstrip of jacket without loss of letters, corners chipped, backstrip a little faded, turn-ins clipped without loss of letters). Provenance: William Van O'Connor, California (label on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION of the author's first book, with a significant provenance. William Van O'Connor (1915-66) attended Syracuse and Columbia Universities. He had a wide-ranging academic career, teaching English literature at the Universities of Minnesota (1946-62) and California (1962-66), and including time at the University of Hull (1964-65) where he would have met Larkin who was chief librarian at the Brynmor Jones library in the same university. "Larkin's reputation as a poet did not, in fact, begin with The North Ship, which on its first appearance was hardly noticed. It was with the publication of The Less Deceived, late in 1955 when he was thirty-three, that he began to be recognised. By the time he died thirty years later, he had become one of the best-known poets in the English-speaking world, and one of the best loved" (from Anthony Thwaite's introduction to the Collected Poems (1988)). Bloomfield A1a: "... it is not likely that the edition exceeded 500 copies."
BROWN, Thomas (dates unknown). A Letter in Reply to the Report of the Surgeons of the Vaccine Institutions, Edinburgh,1809, 8vo, contemporary or original grey paper-backed wrappers. FIRST EDITION of this anti-vaccination tract. RARE.BROWN, Thomas (dates unknown). A Letter in Reply to the Report of the Surgeons of the Vaccine Institution, Edinburgh; With an Appendix, Containing a Variety of Interesting Letters on the Subject of Vaccination, and Including a Correspondence with Dr Duncan, Dr Lee, and Mr Bryce: from which also the Public will be able to Appretiate[sic] the Authority of the Surgeons of the Vaccine Institution, and to Form a Correct Opinion of the Whole Subject. Edinburgh: "Printed by George Ramsay and Co for John Ballantyne and Company, Edinburgh; and John Murray, and S. Highley, London," 1809. 2 parts in one volume, 8vo (225 x 145mm). Half title (some light browning, staining and spotting, a few darker spots). Contemporary or original grey paper-backed blue wrappers, uncut (backstrip largely lacking, some staining). Provenance: From the Collection of Professor Jonathan Brostoff, D.M., D.Sc., FRCP, FRCPath (1934-2020); the author's name written faintly in blue pencil on the upper wrapper; some pencil highlighting to the text. FIRST EDITION of this vituperative, not to say topical, anti-vaccination tract which includes, in the Appendix, a printed exchange of letters between the author and his disputants (Andrew Duncan, John Lee and James Bryce). One of the author's printed letters, dated in the text "Musselburgh, 14th July, 1809", ends, in typically combative style, "... I shall now conclude, by wishing your efforts may tend to place vaccination on a basis that is consistent with the comfort of the public; I must beg leave, however, frankly and sincerely to state, that I have now no doubt of the leading facts and opinions I have published, and I distinctly assert, that vaccination will be found, from daily experience, to be only a temporary expedient; that the practice will be allowed to sink silently into oblivion, from the aversion that such numerous and respectable bodies and individuals must labour under in contradicting themselves; and also out of respect to Dr Jenner, who, whatever shall be the result, is certainly entitled to public gratitude for his exertions. I am, dear Sir, yours, respectfully, Thos. Brown." Of the author, little is known except that information provided of him beneath his name on the title page: "Surgeon, Musselburgh." RARE.
BYRON, Lord (1788-1824). The Poetical Works ... A New Edition, London, 1855-56, 6 volumes, large 8vo, attractively bound in full contemporary calf gilt. (6)BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord (1788-1824). The Poetical Works ... A New Edition. London: John Murray, 1855-56. 6 volumes, large 8vo (211 x 140mm). Half titles, engraved portrait frontispiece of Lord Byron in vol. one (occasional light spotting and staining). Attractively bound in full contemporary calf gilt, the spines elaborately decorated in gilt with red and green morocco lettering-pieces, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (lightly rubbed, some scuffing to covers). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (old armorial bookplate). (6)
EVELYN, John (1620-1706). Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest Trees, London, 1670, folio, engraved illustrations including one full-page, modern half calf. Second edition.EVELYN, John (1620-1706). Sylva, Or A Discourse of Frest Trees, and the Proagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions ... To which is annexed Pomona; or, An Appendix concerning Fruit-Trees in relation to Cider ... Also Kalendarium Hortense; Or, the Gard'ners Almanac; Directing what he is to do Monthly throughout the Year ... All which several Treatises are in this Second Edition much Inlarged and Improved. London: Printed for Jo. Martyn, and Ja. Allestry, 1670 [Kalendarium Hortense dated 1669]. Folio (301 x 185mm). Woodcut coat-of-arms on title, head-pieces and initials, engraved illustrations including one full-page, errata leaf at end (some mainly light browning, spotting and staining). Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, new endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: D'Arcy Power (old stamp at head of first title). The first edition was printed in 1664. "... Evelyn's most celebrated horticultural work ... The Sylva was written as a protest against the destruction of trees in England which was being carried on by the glass factories and iron furnaces; it succeeded in inducing land-owners to start in on a much needed reforestation program that had a lasting effect on the British economy ... [I]n [Evelyn's] horticultural works we find the public servant and country gentleman combined, in essence the best product of the English way of life" (Hunt). cf. Brunet II, 233; Freeman 1152; Henrey 133; cf. Hunt 296 (citing the first edition of 1664); Keynes 41; cf. Maggs Medicine, Alchemy, Astrology & Natural Sciences. Catalogue 520 486; Wing E3517.
SLAVERY - James RAMSAY (1733-89). An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies, London, 1784, 8vo, errata and advertisement leaf, unbound but spine solid and text-block holding. FIRST EDITION.SLAVERY - James RAMSAY (1733-89). An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies. London: "Printed and Sold by James Phillips, George-Yard, Lombard-Street," 1784. 8vo (206 x 125mm). Errata leaf and one-page of publisher's advertisements for books "Published by the same Author, and sold for the Benefit of the Maritime School" at the end (without a half title, ink-spotting to pp.116 and 117, occasional very light mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few darker spots). Unbound but spine solid and the text-block holding with no loose leaves. The spine appears to have been made up from part of an old form, headed "Number as a Transport", with a column of numbers (*82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89 and 90), possibly representing years (i.e. 1782, 1783, etc.) beneath. Provenance: "Board of Trade Library" (old stamp on title); some passages marked with pencil crosses in the margins. FIRST EDITION of this work whose "publication was the most important event in the early history of the anti-slavery movement" (DNB). "The abolitionist movement had already made a small beginning, and, on the advice of neighbours, Ramsay revised and published in 1784 'An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies', which he had been working at for several years. In this work he discussed the position of master and slave in ancient and modern times, argued that society and the owners themselves would benefit by free labour and that under existing conditions the slave could not be benefited morally or intellectually, and finally, meeting the various objections that had been made on the ground of the inferiority of the negro, concluded with suggestions which practically meant the abolition of slavery. The publication of this essay was the most important event in the early history of the anti-slavery movement. It at once drew a number of angry replies and personal attacks upon the author; and during that year and the next the brunt of the controversy was borne by Ramsay almost unaided ...." (DNB). Goldsmiths' 12770; Kress B772; Sabin 67716.
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MILTON, John (1608-74). Paradise Lost ... The Eighth Edition [Third vol:] Paradise Regained [etc], London, 1775-77, 3 volumes, 4to, 20 engraved plates, contemporary calf (rebacked). (3)MILTON, John (1608-74). Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books ... The Eighth Edition, With Notes of Various Authors, By Thomas Newton [Third volume:] Paradise Regain'd. A Poem in Four Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes: and Poems upon Several Occasions ... A New Edition, With Notes of Various Authors, By Thomas Newton. London: Printed for J Beecroft, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington (and others), 1775-77. 3 volumes, 4to (291 x 222mm). 3 engraved portraits of the author and 17 engraved plates by G. Vertue, S. F. Ravenet, C. Grignion and J. S. Miller after F. Hayman and I. Richardson (plates offset onto text, occasional light spotting and staining, a few leaves more heavily browned and spotted in vol. III). Contemporary marbled calf (rebacked by A. & M. Winstanley's, Salisbury, in 1968, preserving old lettering-pieces and bookplates, new endpapers). Provenance: William Charles Henry (armorial bookplate). Brunet III, 396. (3)
MORGAGNI, Giovanni Battista (1682-1771). Adversaria anatomica omnia, Venice, 1762, 6 parts in one volume, folio, 11 engraved plates, later half calf.MORGAGNI, Giovanni Battista (1682-1771). Adversaria anatomica omnia. Archetypis æris tabulis cominianis ab auctore ipso communicatis, & universali accuratissimo indice ornata. Opus nunc vere absolutum, quibus universa humani corporis anatome, & subinde etiam quæ ab hac pendent, res medica, & chirurgica admodum illustrantur. Venice: Ex Typographia Remondiniana, 1762. 6 parts in one volume, folio (395 x 245mm). Half title, title printed in red and black with woodcut vignette, 11 engraved anatomical plates, one of which folding, vignettes, ornaments and initials, text printed in double column (occasional light spotting and staining to the text but the plates generally very clean and crisp). Later half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt with tan morocco lettering-piece, uncut. Provenance: From the Collection of Professor Jonathan Brostoff, D.M., D.Sc., FRCP, FRCPath (1934-2020); "Prof G. J. Cameron with the sender's regards, [illegible signature]" (modern inscription in red ink to half title). The work, whose parts were first published between 1706 and 1719, comprises, in its first part, "... a series of researches on fine anatomy conducted according to the tradition established by Malpighi. Morgagni's book actually records a whole succession of discoveries regrading minute organic mechanisms, including the glands of the trachea, of the male urethra, and of the female genitals. These represent new contributions to the mechanical interpretation of the structure of the organism, as do the descriptions in the five subsequent Adversaria" (DSB). Blake p.312; cf. Brunet III, 460; Osler 1182; Waller 6669.
EVELYN, John (1620-1706). Silva, London, 1776, 4to, 40 plates (lacks portrait), calf (rebacked). EDITOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by A. Hunter to his son. With another edition in 2 vols. (3)EVELYN, John (1620-1706) & Alexander HUNTER (1729-1809, editor). Silva: Or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in his Majesty's Dominions ... Together with An Historical Account of the Sacredness and Use of Standing Groves ... With Notes by A. Hunter. York: Printed by A. Ward for J. Dodsley (and others), 1776. 4to (297 x 235mm). 40 engraved plates, including one folding, folding letterpress table at the end (lacking portrait, some light browning and offsetting of plates onto text, occasional light spotting and staining, final leaf of index torn without loss). Contemporary calf (rebacked, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: some early informed ink annotation to folding letterpress table. EDITOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "To Master George Hunter from his affectionate Father, A: Hunter." cf. Brunet II, 233; Henrey 137; Keynes 98; Nissen BBI 615. With another edition of the same work in 2 vols. (1812), with portrait and plates, bound in contemporary diced calf. (3)
ELLIS, Henry (1788-1855). Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China, London, 1817, 4to, 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 2 engraved maps only (lacks folding map), calf (worn). FIRST EDITION. With another related book (incomplete). (2)ELLIS, Henry (1788-1855). Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China; Comprising a Correct Narrative of the Public Transactions of the Embassy. Of the Voyage to and from China, and of the Journey from the Mouth of the Pei-Ho to the Return to Canton. Interspersed with Observations upon the Face of the Country, the Polity, Moral Character, and Manners of the Chinese Nation. London: Printed by John Murray, 1817. 4to (264 x 210mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of Lord Amherst, 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates by J. Clark after Charles Abbot, 2 engraved maps only (of 3, lacking the large folding map), errata leaf at the end (frontispiece spotted, the maps browned and spotted, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining but the aquatint plates generally very clean). 19th-century calf gilt decorated in blind (worn, covers detached along with the frontispiece, title and errata leaf). FIRST EDITION. In the "Directions for Placing the Drawings" the entry for the folding map, lacking from this copy, has been deleted with a series of small printed typographical ornaments [illustrated], as if amended by the printer. This map is often lacking: was it, perhaps, removed from later printings? and, if so, why? Abbey Travel 536; Cordier Sinica III, 2393; not in Hardie; Hill I, 94; Prideaux pp.250-1; Tooley 208. With Edward Daniel Clarke's Travels to Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa ... Part the Second. Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land. Section the Second [only] (London, 1814, 4to, engraved plates and maps, some folding, contemporary calf with [volume] "3" stamped in gilt on the spine, worn, upper cover detached). The lot sold not subject to return. (2)
HALL, Marshall (1790-1857). On The Diseases and Derangements of the Nervous System, London, 1841, 8vo, 8 engraved plates, later half calf gilt. FIRST EDITION.HALL, Marshall (1790-1857). On The Diseases and Derangements of the Nervous System, in their Primary Forms and in their Modifications by Age, Sex, Constitution, Hereditary Predispositions, Excesses, General Disorder, and Organic Disease. London: H. Baillière, 1841. 8vo (224x 138mm). 16-pages of publisher's advertisements dated October 1841 at the front, half title, 8 engraved plates bound at the end (some spotting and light browning to plates, some very light mainly marginal spotting and staining to text). Later half calf and marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt (spine faded, lightly rubbed). Provenance: From the Collection of Professor Jonathan Brostoff, D.M., D.Sc., FRCP, FRCPath (1934-2020) (small signature on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. Heirs of Hippocrates 1466; not in Garrison & Morton; Hirsch III, pp. 27-29; Waller 3984.
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CRESSWELL, Thomas (1712-88). A Narrative of the Affair, London, [1747] [Bound with:] Miss Scrope's Answer, London, 1749, SIGNED and numbered by the author at the end. 2 works bound in one vol., 8vo, contemporary boards (later spine). FIRST EDITIONS.CRESSWELL, Thomas Estcourt (1712-88). A Narrative of the Affair between Mr. Cresswell, and Miss Sc--e, Addressed to G----v----e Sc------e, Esq. By which may be discover'd the Falsities, Misrepresentations, &c., in a Letter in the General Evening-Post, October 31; signed Lancelot Lee. London: "Printed for Charles Green ... And Sold at the Pamphlet Shops," [n.d. but preface dated 1747]. 78-pages (some old stitching holes at gutter, not affecting text). [Bound with:] Miss Scrope's Answer to Mr. Cresswell's Narrative. London: Printed for R. Baldwin, 1749 [but dated 1748 at the end]. 232-pages, the final page SIGNED and numbered "Eliz: Scrope, No. 466". 2 works bound in one volume, 8vo (196 x 125mm). (Some mostly light browning, a few darker spots including to the head of the first title, a few leaves creased.) Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards (later spine lettered in gilt, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (old armorial bookplate). Both works FIRST EDITIONS.
Miroir des Vertus et des Arts. Spiegel der Deugden en Konsten, Haarlem, 1706, small 4to, hand-coloured allegorical title and 66 FINE HAND-COLOURED EMBLEMATIC ILLUSTRATIONS, contemporary vellum. RARE.Miroir des Vertus et des Arts. Spiegel der Deugden en Konsten. Met Prenten en haar Uytlegging. In Frans en Duyts Digt. Haarlem: "Ambrosius Shevenenhuysen, Konst-verkoper in Zijl-straat," 1706. Small 4to (178 x 142mm). Additional hand-coloured engraved allegorical title, printed title with hand-coloured ornament, 66 FINE HAND-COLOURED EMBLEMATIC ILLUSTRATIONS, text in quatrains above each illustration in Dutch and below in French, unpaginated (light stain to the page with the tenth illustration, occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary vellum, spine with black morocco lettering-piece gilt (bowed, patch of wear and circular stain to upper cover, with some other lighter staining). Provenance: William Cowburn (armorial bookplate); H. Drury, Harrow, 1818 (very small inscription at head of front free endpaper, with faint pencil signature). The copy in the British Library, also printed in Haarlem, is speculatively dated "[1685?]" and records only an engraved title page with no mention of illustrations. No other copies are recorded pre-dating 1706. The author of the verses is unknown. RARE. Not in Brunet or Lewine.
SPEARS, E. L. (1886-1974). Prelude to Victory, London, 1940, 8vo, plates and maps, original buckram. FIRST EDITION, second impression. ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT.SPEARS, Edward Louis, 1st Baronet (1886-1974). Prelude to Victory ... With an Introduction by The Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill. London: Jonathan Cape, January 1940. Large 8vo (222 x 146mm). Half title, half tone portrait frontispiece of the author, 30 half tone plates, 5 folding maps, other maps in the text. Original mauve buckram, spine lettered in gilt, uncut (spine a little faded, light stain to upper cover and spine, some very light scratching to lower cover, without a dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION, second impression, of this account of the last two years of the First World War. ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT, often in scathing terms of the British wartime leadership in general and of General Hubert Gough in particular. For example, on p.40 (commenting on the printed passage 'Another point in General Nivelle's favour was that Mr Lloyd George liked the shape of his head. He was a great believer in his own powers as a phrenologist'), Eden writes: "He liked Nivelle's but not Neville's 'pin-head'"; on p.73 (commenting on the printed passage 'The personnel of the G.Q.C. changed more often than ours, for their large body of staff officers enabled them to enforce a rule that brooked no exception, whereby each staff officer before being promoted to a higher grade must serve six months with the fighting troops'): "A very good rule. We should have had it"; on p.604 (commenting on the passage 'General Gough ... allowed himself to stake far too heavily upon what the tanks might accomplish'): "Gough was always doing this. His men had to pay"; on p.605: "Haig was always backing Gough - that was why 1917 was such a mess ..."; on p.610 (commenting on the passage 'The 4th Division lost over 3000 officers and men'): "Yet Gough was not sacked!"; and on the same page: "It was not the fault of the tanks but of Cavalry Generals, who, like Spears, had never spent 24 hours in a trench." Woods A Bibliography of the Works of Winston Churchill B33.
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NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910). Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not, London, [1860], 8vo, table, original dark grey pebbled cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. RARE.NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910). Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not. London: Harrison, [1860]. 8vo (218 x 140mm). Table (some very light spotting and staining, a few darker spots). Original dark grey pebbled cloth lettered in gilt with borders blocked in blind, advertisements printed on yellow paper on front and rear pastedowns and endpapers, the first advertisement dated 1860 (inconspicuous splitting at joints). Provenance: From the Collection of Professor Jonathan Brostoff, D.M., D.Sc., FRCP, FRCPath (1934-2020); "Belper" (old signature on front free endpaper [i.e. advertisement]). "Belper" is possibly Edward Strutt (1801-80), known from 1856 as Baron Belper, who, from 1830-48, was liberal MP for Derby, near where Florence spent part of her childhood at their family home Lea Hurst. Belper served as a minister at the time of the Crimean War and was known to have mixed socially with Florence Nightingale and her family. FIRST EDITION of "one of the seminal books of the modern world" (Lilly), FIRST ISSUE, without "[The right of translation is reserved.]" at the foot of the title. Bishop & Goldie 4(i); Garrison & Morton 1612: "After receiving training in Germany and France, Florence Nightingale had some nursing experience in England. The Crimean war gave her an opportunity to demonstrate the value of trained nurses. Within a few months of her arrival at Scutari, the mortality rate among soldiers there fell from 42% to 2%. Florence Nightingale lived to become the greatest figure in the history of nursing"; Grolier Medicine 71; Heirs of Hippocrates 1884; Lilly p.215; Norman 1600; Osler 7737; Waller 6872. RARE.
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The Pelman System of Mind and Memory Training. London, [1914]. Numbers 1 - 12 bound in one volume, tall 8vo, contemporary red morocco by Zaehnsdorf, with presentation stamp to L. G. Chiozza Money on the upper cover.The Pelman System of Mind and Memory Training. London: The Pelman School of the Mind, [1914]. Numbers 1 - 12 bound in one volume, tall 8vo (203 x 100mm). Folding "examination sheet" at the end of each number [uncompleted in all cases] (some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Attractively bound in contemporary red crushed morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, with the binder's slip inserted at the front in addition to the binder's name stamped in gilt on the lower front dentelle [as usual], the covers with triple gilt ruled borders, the spine gilt with 5 raised bands, top edges gilt, others uncut (extremities rubbed), original printed grey wrappers bound in with each number. Provenance: "Presented by 'The Daily News' to L. G. Chiozza Money Esq., M.P." (presentation inscription stamped in gilt on the upper cover). Sir Leo George Chiozza Money (1870-1944) was an Italian-born British "New Liberal" economist and presumably - along with Prime Minister Asquith, Robert Baden-Powell, Rider Haggard and Jerome K. Jerome - a follower of the system of 'brain training', taught mainly through correspondence, known as 'Pelmanism'. Money was Lloyd George's Permanent Private Secretary and a Government Minister during the First World War. He was knighted in 1915, despite the fact that his life was dogged by repeated accusations of "indecency".
SLAVERY - William WILBERFORCE (1759-1833). A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade; Addressed to the Freeholders of Yorkshire, London, 1807, 8vo, contemporary half calf (very worn, covers detached). FIRST EDITION. PMM 232(b); Sabin 103953.SLAVERY - William WILBERFORCE (1759-1833). A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade; Addressed to the Freeholders of Yorkshire. London: "Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand; And, J. Hatchard, Piccadilly," 1807. 8vo (211 x 133mm). (Without the half title, small stain to upper margin of title and the first few leaves not affecting letters, small hole in one contents leaf not affecting letters, tear to Y4 with neatly stitched repair touching one letter, closed tear without loss to upper margin of final text leaf, 3 puncture holes at gutter, some very light mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few darker spots, for instance, to the margin of the verso of E3 and recto of E4, without the publisher's advertisements at the end.) Contemporary half calf and marbled boards (very worn, both boards detached, heavily rubbed with erosion to spine and corners). Provenance: "Willm. Henry Ho ... [word cropped after "o"], Feb. 1809" (signature at head of title); some illegible old pencil annotation to front pastedown. FIRST EDITION of this fundamental abolitionist work which is notable both for its appeal to reason and to the emotions, and for encouraging, as in the following printed passage, a direct empathy for the enslaved: "Conceive, if you can, the agony with which, as he [the newly enslaved man] is hurried away by his unfeeling captors, he looks back upon his native village which contains his wife and children who are left behind; or, supposing them to have been carried off also, with which he sees their sufferings, and looks forward to the dreadful future; while his own anguish is augmented by witnessing theirs. Accompany him through his long and painful march to the coast; behold him, when the powers of nature are almost exhausted by fatigue and affliction, urged forward like a brute by the lash, or, with still more bitterness of suffering, seeing the fainting powers of his wretched wife or daughter roused into fresh exertions by the same savage discipline. Behold him next brought on shipboard and delivered over to men, whose colour, appearance, language, are all strange to him, while every object around must excite terror ..." (from pp.341-342). "One most obvious characteristic of Wilberforce was the singular personal attractiveness of which his biographers confessed their inability to give any adequate description. His transparent kindliness and simplicity made him lovable even to his antagonists. He escaped contamination at the cost of standing aside from the world of corruption and devoting himself to purely philanthropical measures. Though profoundly convinced of the corruption of human nature in general, he loved almost every particular human being ..." (DNB, edited). PMM 232(b): "... [F]inally on 25 March 1807 the royal assent was given to a bill abolishing the trade in slaves. This, signalized by Wilberforce's Letter, was the first major victory for the [abolitionist] movement"; Sabin 103953.
VOLTAIRE (1694-1778). Memoires, "Londres", 1784, 8vo, FINELY BOUND in contemporary blue calf elaborately decorated in gilt and blind, the covers with central crowned initial "P" stamped in gilt. With another work by the same author in 2 vols. (3)VOLTAIRE [i.e. François-Marie AROUET (1694-1778)]. Memoires ... Écrits par lui-même. "Londres: chez Robinson," 1784. 8vo (185 x 112mm). Wood-engraved ornament on title (some light mainly marginal staining, a few darker spots). FINELY BOUND in contemporary blue calf elaborately decorated in gilt and blind, the covers with central crowned initial "P" stamped in gilt, the spine with "H" in the top compartment and "W" at the foot, with shelf number, marbled endpapers (extremities rubbed, one corner bumped). Provenance: pencil corrections [?by Enthony Eden] to printed dates on p.204. With the same author's La Pucelle d' Orléans, Poëme en Vingt-Un Chants ... Ornée de Figures Gravées par Ponce et sous sa Direction (Paris, "An VII" [i.e. 1799], 2 vols., large 8vo, engraved plates, [?]original publisher's pink paper boards, spine labels (rubbed), with old woodcut lottery stamps ("Se vend Chez Marrot Receveur de la Loterie-Nationale, à Rochefort") within garlands. (3)
MALLET, Alain Manesson (1630-1706). La Geometrie Pratique, Paris, 1702, 4 volumes, large 8vo, 2 engraved portraits and 493 engraved plates, contemporary calf (rubbed). Provenance: George Kenyon (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. (4)MALLET, Alain Manesson (1630-1706). La Geometrie Pratique, Divisée en Quatre Livres. Paris: "Chez Anisson, Directeur de l' Imprimerie Royale," 1702. 4 volumes, large 8vo (223 x 142mm). Half titles, 2 engraved portraits, 493 engraved plates, tables, headpieces and ornaments (stain to a few plates in vol. II, some other light staining and spotting). Contemporary calf (rubbed and scuffed, joints splitting). Provenance: George Kenyon (armorial bookplate, and old signature ("G. Kenyon, Peel Library") on the front free endpaper of vol. IV). FIRST EDITION. Not in Brunet; Cohen-de Ricci 673; Lewine Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books p.334 (calling, erroneously, for a total of 500 plates): "The work is interesting on account of the 335 views of Paris monuments (long since disappeared), and of historical castles chiefly in the surroundings of Paris, such as Versailles, Saint-Cloud, Fontainebleu, Chantilly, etc." It also includes, at the end of vol. IV, views of Richmond, Greenwich, Windsor and Lambeth Palace. (4)
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BINDINGS - Robert Smith SURTEES (1805-64). [Selected Works], London, 1888 [or c.1888], 7 volumes, 8vo, 102 hand-coloured vignettes and plates, FINELY BOUND in red half morocco gilt by Mudie. (7)BINDINGS - Robert Smith SURTEES (1805-64). [Selected Works]. London: John C. Nimmo [and others], 1888 [or c.1888]. 7 volumes, 8vo (218 x 140mm). Half titles, 5 hand-coloured vignettes and 97 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates by John Leech, Henry Alken, Hablot K. Browne and others (occasional mainly marginal very light spotting and staining). FINELY BOUND in contemporary red half morocco by Mudie, spines elaborately gilt in compartments, marbled edges and endpapers. "His eight long novels deal mainly with the characteristic aspects of English fox-hunting society, but his vivid caricatures, the absurd scenes he describes, the convincing dialect and often repeated catch-phrases, and perceptive social observation distinguish him from other writers of this genre and won him praise from Thackeray and others; the illustration of his novels by Leech, Alken, and Phiz [i.e. Hablot K. Browne] also contributed to their success" (The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. M. Drabble, 1985). A FINE SET OF SURTEES' "JORROCKS" NOVELS. (7)
TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de (1656-1708), and others. The Compleat Herbal ... With large Additions from Ray, Gerarde, Parkinson, and others, London, 1719, vol. one only (of 2), 4to, engraved plates, contemporary calf. Sold not subject to return.TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de (1656-1708), and others. The Compleat Herbal: or, the Botanical Institutions of Mr. Tournefort, Chief Botanist To the late French King. Carefully translated from the Original Latin. With large Additions from Ray, Gerarde, Parkinson, and others. London: Printed for R. Bonwicke, Tim Goodwin, John Walthoe (and others), 1719. Volume One only (of 2), 4to (218 x 165mm). Title within double rule border, 133 engraved plates, text printed in double column (one plate detached, some light browning, spotting and staining, a few darker spots, head of one text leaf cropped with loss of letters). Contemporary panelled calf gilt, spine with 5 raised bands, title in old ink on spine (joints split or rubbed, corners bumped and worn). The first volume of this work was issued in parts between 1716 and 1719. The title page of the second volume was dated 1730. Of the two copies in the British library, the first consists of the first volume only; the second has both volumes, although the title page of the second is supplied in facsimile. The work is very rarely found complete. Henrey 1432. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.
MITFORD, John (1782-1831). The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in The Navy, London, 1819, 8vo, 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Charles Williams (some spotting, staining and browning), contemporary diced calf gilt (rubbed). FIRST EDITION.MITFORD, John (1782-1831). The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in The Navy. A Poem in Four Cantos. With Notes. London: Published by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones (and others), 1819. 8vo (240 x 145mm). 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Charles Williams (variable mainly light spotting, staining and browning, plates lightly offset onto text). Contemporary diced calf gilt, marbled endpapers (rubbed and bumped, joints splitting or weak with signs of minor old repairs, ink spot on upper cover). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023); H. W. Ryland (small stamp on front free endpaper); Maggs catalogue description from 1950 tipped-in onto front free endpaper pricing the book at £9 9s). FIRST EDITION. "In 1818 the Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy, by Alfred Burton, published by W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, has sixteen plates by Rowlandson. This was followed in 1819 by an open imitation by J. Mitford bearing the same title, and illustrated with twenty plates. Mitford, at one time an officer in the navy, was a constant inmate of the Fleet [Prison], and wrote his Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the gravel pits at Bayswater, where he lay in hiding, receiving from his publisher a shilling daily in return for his copy, wherewith to purchase gin and cheese. He was the editor of Scourge, which helped to make Cruikshank famous, and after a very chequered career died in St. Giles's Workhouse" (Hardie). Abbey Life 340; Hardie English Coloured Books p.173; Prideaux p.303-304; Tooley 331.
LINDLEY, John (1799-1865) & William HUTTON (1797-1860). The Fossil Flora of Great Britain, London, 1831-37, 3 volumes, 8vo, 231 lithographed plates, contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION. (3)LINDLEY, John (1799-1865) & William HUTTON (1797-1860). The Fossil Flora of Great Britain; or, Figures and Descriptions of the Vegetable Remains Found in a Fossil State in this Country. London: James Ridgway, 1831-37. 3 volumes, 8vo (215 x 135mm). 231 lithographed plates including plate '19 bis.' bound after, rather than before, plate 20 in vol. one, one double-page, a few folding, illustrations (plate 52 in vol. one detached and spotted, plate 105 in vol. II detached, some tissue guards lacking, occasional light spotting and staining). Contemporary dark green calf, spines gilt (neatly rebacked, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Sir Lowthian Bell (armorial bookplate); "For retention. BM copy imperfect" (pencil note on title). FIRST EDITION. The only copy in the British Library is incomplete with its first volume lacking a text leaf and its third volume a plate. (3)
EGAN, Pierce (1772-1849). Life in London, London, 1821, large 8vo, 36 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 3 folding leaves of music (some staining and spotting), FINELY BOUND in 20th-century scarlet crushed morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. FIRST EDITION.EGAN, Pierce (1772-1849). Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis. London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1821. Large 8vo (236 x 145mm). Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, wood-engraved vignette on title, and 35 plates by I. R. & G. Cruikshank, 3 folding leaves of music, the first leaf unnumbered, wood-engraved illustrations, 8-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end (some variable spotting, staining and offsetting of plates onto text, the leaves of music more heavily browned and spotted). FINELY BOUND in 20th-century scarlet crushed morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the covers with double gilt fillet borders, spine gilt in 6 compartments, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (some very light fading to edge of upper cover and spine). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023). FIRST EDITION of this "description of the life of the 'man about town' of the day, interesting for the light it throws on the manners of the period and for the many slang phrases it introduces" (The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. M. Drabble, 1985). Abbey Life 281; Brunet II, 169; Cohn 262; Hardie English Coloured Books p.197: "Robert and George Cruikshank won a huge success by their illustrations to Pierce Egan's Life in London ... Containing thirty-six aquatint plates [i.e. including the frontispiece], coloured by hand, as well as numerous wood-engravings by the two brothers, it ... took town and country by storm"; Tooley 196.
MACDONALD, Isabel (dates unknown). The Fairy Tradition in the Highlands and Some Psychological Problems, Keighley, 1938, 8vo, original wrappers. FIRST EDITION, inscribed on the upper wrapper by the author. RARE.MACDONALD, Isabel (dates unknown). The Fairy Tradition in the Highlands and Some Psychological Problems. Keighley: The Rydal Press, 1938 [from the imprint on the verso of title]. 8vo (182 x 125mm). Half title. Original wrappers lettered in black within a green woodcut typographical border (wrappers detached, but text block holding, some light staining, creased at one corner). FIRST EDITION, the upper wrapper inscribed, "With the author's compliments." A printed note at the foot of the title states: "The profits arising on[sic] the sale of this book will be added to a Fund to form an endowment for sending out cheques to sick and aged nurses at Christmas time for comfort and cheer. Copies are available from the Offices of the Royal British Nurses' Association ..." The author, as the title page makes clear, was herself a nurse. RARE.
KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Just So Stories, London, 1902, 4to, 22 plates by the author, original red pictorial cloth. FIRST EDITION. With 6 other books by the same author, all FIRST EDITIONS. (7)KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Just So Stories. For Little Children. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902. 4to (230 x 180mm). Half title, initials, 22 plates by the author including one map printed in red and black, illustrations, initials, (pink stain to p.92 not affecting text, some very light mainly marginal staining, a few leaves creased at corners). Original red pictorial cloth (corners lightly rubbed, a little faded, without the exceptionally scarce dust-jacket). Provenance: Claud Alexander, Jan. 1903 (signature on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION of the only book illustrated by the author. Three of the stories had previously appeared in serial form in the American Ladies Home Journal from April to June 1900 (see Muir). Grolier 57; Livingston 267; Muir English Children's Books pp.159-160; Osborne Collection pp.362-363; Richards A181; Stewart 260. With 6 other books by the same author, namely Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses (London, 1892, 8vo, original buckram, with an old lot sticker pasted onto the upper cover), Captains Courageous (London, 1897, 8vo, illustrations by I. W. Taber, fine original blue pictorial cloth gilt), The Five Nations (London, 1903, 8vo, original red buckram), Sea and Sussex (London, 1926, 4to, coloured plates by Donald Maxwell, original blue cloth, dust-jacket, jacket torn with slight loss), Songs of the Sea (London, 1927, 4to, coloured plates by Donald Maxwell, original blue cloth, dust-jacket, jacket torn with very slight loss) and Thy Servant a Dog Told by Boots (London, 1930, small 4to, illustrations by George Loraine Stampa, original red pictorial cloth, dust-jacket, jacket torn with slight loss), all FIRST EDITIONS. (7)
JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-84). The Works, London, 1825, 11 volumes, 8vo, engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. one, attractively bound in contemporary half burgundy calf gilt. (11)JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-84). The Works ... In Nine Volumes. Oxford: William Pickering and Talboys and Wheeler, 1825. 11 volumes, 8vo (212 x 135mm). Half titles, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author in vol. one (portrait stained, occasional light spotting and staining). Attractively bound in contemporary half burgundy calf gilt (extremities rubbed, some scuffing to spines). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (old armorial bookplate in first vol.); William Charles Henry (armorial bookplates in the remaining vols.). Volumes X and XI, which are supplementary, contain Parliamentary Debates. (11)
IRELAND, Samuel (1744-1800). Picturesque Views on the Upper, or Warwickshire, Avon, London, 1795, 4to, 33 plates, attractively bound in contemporary calf, with a presentation note to The Earl of Avon [i.e. Anthony Eden] loosely-inserted. FIRST EDITION.IRELAND, Samuel (1744-1800). Picturesque Views on the Upper, or Warwickshire, Avon, from its Source at Naseby to its Junction with the Severn at Tewkesbury: with Observations on the Public Buildings, and Other Works of Art in its Vicinity. London: R. Faulder and T. Egerton, 1795. 4to (233 x 162mm). Tinted allegorical aquatint frontispiece incorporating a reclining figure of Shakespeare playing a lyre, map showing the course of the Avon [not called for in the list], 31 tinted aquatint and etched plates by Samuel Ireland, illustrations (some very light spotting and staining). FINELY BOUND in contemporary diced calf elaborately decorated in gilt and blind, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, some fading to spine and upper section of front cover, inner hinges a little weak). Provenance: "Presented to The Right Honourable The Earl of Avon, K.G., P.C., M.C. [i.e. Anthony Eden] by the Architect on the occasion of the opening of the Royal Spa Centre in the Borough of Royal Leamington Spa on the 15th of June 1972" (autograph note loosely-inserted, but once attached with adhesive tape). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Scenery 427; Brunet II, 688; Prideaux p.271; not in Hardie or Tooley.
WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE, Richard, Baron (1869-1923). The Sport of our Ancestors, London, 1921, 4to, 20 plates by G. D. Armour, boards. NO. 4 OF 150 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by the author to Anthony Eden.WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE, Richard Greville Verney, Baron (1869-1923, editor). The Sport of our Ancestors bring a Collection of Prose and Verse setting forth the Sport of Fox-Hunting as they Knew It. London: Constable and Co. Ltd., 1921. 4to (287 x 230mm). Half title, title printed in red and black, 20 mounted plates by George Denholm Armour, a few coloured. Original holland-backed paper boards, spine with green roan lettering-piece gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (upper section of upper cover faded, some light staining, lettering-piece rubbed). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 4 OF 150 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "To Anthony Eden with very best wishes from Willoughby de Broke, November 1923." Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting: An Annotated Bibliography p.388.
BELL, Charles (1774-1842). An Exposition of the Natural System of the Nerves of the Human Body, London, 1824-27, 2 works including an "Appendix" bound in one, 3 folding plates [see note below], later half calf. FIRST EDITION. Sold not subject to return.BELL, Charles (1774-1842). An Exposition of the Natural System of the Nerves of the Human Body. With a Republication of the Papers Delivered to the Royal Society, on the Subject of the Nerves. London: Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode, 1824-27. 2 works including an "Appendix" bound in one, 8vo (216 x 133mm). Half title, errata slip, with the recommended correction on page 44 made in the text, 3 folding engraved plates in total [see note], wood-engraved illustrations (plates spotted and browned, plate II torn and repaired on verso with adhesive tape, occasional light spotting and staining, a few darker spots). Later half calf preserving old marbled boards (boards rubbed). Provenance: From the Collection of Professor Jonathan Brostoff, D.M., D.Sc., FRCP, FRCPath (1934-2020); old pencil annotation to front pastedown (erroneously stating "Complete with the 3 folding copperplates") and front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION. A confusing copy. There are two folding plates at the end of the first work, "Plate II, Plan of the Nerves of Respiration" and "Plate III" [i.e. no plate I]. At the end of the "Appendix", dated 1827 and titled "Appendix to the Papers on the Nerves, Republished from the Royal Society's Transactions, by Charles Bell; containing Consultations and Cases illustrative of the Facts Announced in Those Parts", which is separately paginated and signed, there is a folding plate headed "Phil. Trans. MDCCCXXII. Plate XXXI. p.3[?]72". The first work usually has 3 folding plates; it appears, in this copy, that the first of these is lacking. cf. Garrison & Morton 1255. Sold not subject to return.
The Jubilee, and Civic Debates on the Jubilee Dinner, Travestis ... Second Edition, London, 1809, 8vo, hand-coloured frontispiece by Cruikshank, old wrappers, stitched. VERY RARE, with no copy in the British Library or on-line.The Jubilee, and Civic Debates on the Jubilee Dinner, Travestis. Dedicated to all Lovers of the True Sublime ... Second Edition. London: "Printed for T. Tegg, 111, Cheapside, By J. D. Dewick, 46, Barbican," 1809. 8vo (175 x 110mm). Half title, hand-coloured wood-engraved frontispiece by Cruikshank [?possibly extracted from another work] (some fraying without loss to half title, some very light mainly marginal browning and staining, many leaves creased at corners). Old wrappers with title in manuscript on front and back, stitched (creased and tatty). Provenance: small printed unidentified coat-of-arms pasted onto upper wrapper; "Catalogue page 88" (old inscription, whose meaning is unclear, on upper wrapper). The author is unknown. VERY RARE, with no copy of this or any other edition in the British Library or on COPAC, and no records online.
WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). Essays, Criticisms and Reviews, London, "Privately Printed," 1901, 4to, original blue printed paper boards (covers detached, rather worn). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 221 OF 300 COPIES. RARE. With 4 other books of related interest. (5)WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). Essays, Criticisms and Reviews ... Now First Collected. London: "Privately Printed" [for Wright and Jones], 1901. 4to (260 x 200mm). Half title, small woodcut ornaments (variable mainly light spotting and staining throughout). Original blue printed paper boards, the upper cover with a decorative foliate border (covers detached, pieces torn away from corners, some fraying and staining). FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 221 OF 300 COPIES. RARE. Mason 589. With 4 books of related interest, namely the same author's The Portrait of Mr W. H. (Portland, Maine, 1901, 12mo, original wrappers printed in red and black, slipcase (slipcase defective), ONE OF 425 COPIES ON "JAPANESE VELLUM"), the same author's Salome. A Tragedy in One Act (London, 1907, 4to, plates by Aubrey Beardsley printed on "Japanese vellum", decorations, fine original green decorated cloth gilt, the first edition to contain all of Beardsley's illustrations, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden), Aubrey Beardsley's Under The Hill and Other Essays in Prose and Verse (London, 1904, 4to, plates by Aubrey Beardsley, fine original blue decorated cloth gilt, FIRST EDITION) and the same author's The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser ... A Romantic Novel (London, "For Private Circulation", 1907, 4to, original vellum-backed paper boards, printed label on upper cover, FIRST EDITION THUS, ONE OF 250 COPIES ON "HAND-MADE PAPER" [this copy unnumbered]). (5)
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[CELLARIUS, Andreas (1596-1665)]. Coeli stellati Christiani hæmisphærum posterius, Amsterdam: "G. Valk et P. Schenk," [1708], fine hand-coloured engraved hemispherical star chart, 440 x 520mm., unframed.[CELLARIUS, Andreas (1596-1665)]. Coeli stellati Christiani hæmisphærum posterius. Amsterdam: "G. Valk et P. Schenk," [1708]. Fine hand-coloured engraved hemispherical star chart, with 2 smaller hemispherical charts in the lower corners, many putti and an allegorical figure of an astronomer in the margins, blank on verso (light stain to right edge), 440 x 520mm., unframed. An earlier version of this impressive star chart was included in Cellarius's Harmonica macrocosmica - one of the greatest celestial atlases ever published - which was first printed in 1660, and re-issued in 1661. This version, identical to it apart from the addition of Valk and Schenk's names in the imprint, was included in Jansson's Atlas Maior of 1708. Kanas Star Maps p.194.
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[CELLARIUS, Andreas (1596-1665)]. Planisphærium Braheum sive structura mundi totius, ex hypothesi Tychonis Brahei in plano delineata, Amsterdam: "Gerardum Valk et Petrum Schenk", [1708], fine hand-coloured engraved hemispherical star chart, 420 x 515mm.[CELLARIUS, Andreas (1596-1665)]. Planisphærium Braheum sive structura mundi totius, ex hypothesi Tychonis Brahei in plano delineata. Amsterdam: "Gerardum Valk et Petrum Schenk", [1708]. Fine hand-coloured engraved hemispherical star chart, figure of Tycho Brahe in lower right corner with his observatory in the background, many putti and allegorical figures in the margins, blank on verso (some light mainly marginal spotting and staining), 420 x 515mm., unframed. Please see the footnote to the previous lot. Kanas Star Maps pp.191-94; Stott Celestial Charts pp.58-59.
BINDING - Jane AUSTEN (1775-1817). Pride & Prejudice, London, 1894, 8vo, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, original highly elaborate pictorial cloth gilt with a peacock's tail design in gilt (lower cover dampstained). FIRST "PEACOCK" EDITION.BINDING - Jane AUSTEN (1775-1817). Pride and Prejudice ... With a Preface by George Saintsbury. London: George Allen, 1894. 8vo (181 x 125mm). Half title, publisher's ornament on verso of half title, wood-engraved frontispiece by Hugh Thomson, peacock motif on title, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, initials (some spotting and staining to first few leaves including title and tissue guard, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few darker spots). Original highly elaborate pictorial cloth gilt after a design by Hugh Thomson, the upper cover with a peacock's tail design in gilt and with peacock feather design in gilt to spine, gilt edges, black endpapers (some relatively inconspicuous dampstaining to the upper cover, lower cover heavily dampstained and with white marking). Provenance: "Sold by Charles Thurnam & Sons, Carlisle" (small bookseller's label on corner of front pastedown). FIRST "PEACOCK" EDITION, and the first edition of Jane Austen's perennial novel to be fully illustrated. Gilson E78; Spielmann Hugh Thomson 12.
MANTEL, Hilary (1952-2022). Wolf Hall, London, 2009, 8vo, original buckram, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. With the same author's Bring up the Bodies (London, 2012, 2 copies) and The Mirror and the Light (London, 2020). FIRST EDITIONS OF THE TRILOGY. (4)MANTEL, Hilary (1952-2022). Wolf Hall. London: Fourth Estate, 2009. 8vo (234 x 150mm). Half title. Original black buckram, the spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket with the price of £18.99 unclipped, with Waterstone's sticker ("Save £4") on upper wrapper. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of this work which, among many other accolades and awards, won the Booker Prize in 2009. With the same author's Bring up the Bodies (2 copies, both London, 2012, original black buckram lettered in gilt, dust-jackets, one copy a later issue with "Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012" in white letters on the upper wrapper) and The Mirror & the Light (London, 2020, original sky blue cloth boards lettered in gilt, dust-jacket). HILARY MANTEL'S CELEBRATED HISTORICAL TRILOGY (with 2 copies of the second title), ALL FIRST EDITIONS. (4)
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[PATMORE, Coventry (1823-96)]. The Unknown Eros and Other Odes, London, 1877, 8vo, original buckram (faded), with a one-page autograph letter from the author tipped-in at the front, old bookplate of Anthony Eden. With 5 other books by Patmore. (6)[PATMORE, Coventry (1823-96)]. The Unknown Eros and Other Odes. Odes I. - XXXI. London: George Bell and Sons, 1877. 8vo (190 x 145mm). Half title (single spot to half title and title, not affecting letters, some very light marginal spotting and staining). Original tan buckram, the covers ruled in blind, spine label (wide strip faded at the head of the upper cover, some other fading, some minor erosion to the head and foot of spine, label lightly rubbed). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (old armorial bookplate); Richard Garnett (old signature on title). FIRST EDITION of this collection of odes which includes, arguably, the author's most famous poem "The Toys" (Ode XI). Tipped-in at the front is a one-page autograph letter from the author, headed "Hastings Sept. 19, 1877," stating, "Sir, In reply to your request I beg to say that you are at liberty to print the three odes you mention in your proposed selection, and to affix my name to them, I am, Sir, Yours faithfully, C. Patmore." The letter's recipient ("Mr D. Adams"), whose identity we have been unable to establish, is added at the foot of the letter. The signature on the title page is almost certainly that of Richard Garnett (1805-1906), biographer and poet, who edited Coventry Patmore's Florilegium Amantis in 1879. "The Unknown Eros (1877) was received with much less enthusiasm than his earlier work. It contains odes marked by an erotic mysticism, but also some more autobiographical pieces (now the most anthologised), including 'The Azalea', 'Departure', 'A Farewell', directly inspired by Emily's [his first wife's] illness and death, and 'The Toys', inspired by a moment of anger and grief aroused by one of his sons" (The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. M. Drabble, 1985). With 5 other books by the same author, namely The Angel in the House. The Betrothal and [The Espousals] (London, 1854-56, Books I - II bound in 2 vols.), Faithful for Ever (London, 1860), The Victories of Love (London, 1863, the bookplate [accidentally] pasted in upside down at the end) and The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (London, 1895), all FIRST EDITIONS attractively bound in uniform full red morocco gilt by Roger de Coverly & Sons, each with Anthony Eden's old armorial bookplate. (6)
NELSON, Horatio (1758-1805) - The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, London, 1814, 2 vols., 8vo, contemporary half morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION. With 5 other works of related interest in 12 vols. (14)NELSON, Horatio, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758-1805) - The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton; with a Supplement of Interesting Letters, by Distinguished Characters. London: For Thomas Lovewell & Co., 1814. 2 volumes, 8vo (207 x 130mm). Half titles (occasional light spotting). Contemporary dark blue half morocco and marbled boards, spines lettered and decorated in gilt (boards and extremities of spines rubbed). FIRST EDITION. With another copy, the two volumes bound in one, in original or contemporary cloth, and with old signature of "[?]August. [?]B. Hamilton" on the titles [see illustrations] (head of title of first vol. torn away with loss of one word), and with an unusual bookplate with "Nelson" printed beneath an engraved profile portrait; together with Nicholas Harris Nicolas's The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson (London, 1845, 7 vols., 8vo, engraved portrait, original cloth, some modern repairs), The Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents formed by Alfred Morrison (Second Series, 1882-1893) ([London], "Printed for Private Circulation", 1893-94, 2 vols., 4to, original hessian-backed paper boards), The Barker Collection. Manuscripts of and relating to Admiral Lord Nelson briefly noted by Sir John Knox Laughton, Knight, with Three Facsimiles ([London], 1913, 4to, 3 folding plates, original tan-morocco green cloth boards) and Warren R. Dawson's The Nelson Collection at Lloyd's (London, 1932, 4to, original armorial cloth, remnants of dust-jacket). (14)
MOUNTBATTEN, Louis (1900-79). Report to the Combined Chiefs of Staff by the Supreme Allied Commander South-East Asia 1943-1945, London, 1951, 4to, buckram, wrappers bound in. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Mountbatten to Eden.MOUNTBATTEN, Louis, 1st Earl of Burma (1900-79). Report to the Combined Chiefs of Staff by the Supreme Allied Commander South-East Asia 1943-1945. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1951. 4to (274 x 215mm). Full-page maps, many printed in colours, charts. Contemporary cream buckram [?for Anthony Eden], spine with tan morocco lettering-piece gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (some light staining and ink-spotting), original coloured printed wrappers bound in. Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST EDITION, A HIGHLY IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, the verso of the upper wrapper, facing the title page, poignantly inscribed, "To Anthony, in memory of his very gallant son, from Dickie." 'Dickie' was Louis Mountbatten's nickname among his family and closest friends. Anthony Eden's son referred to in the inscription, his oldest, was Simon Gascoigne Eden (1924-45) who served as a navigator with the 62nd Squadron of the Royal Air Force in Burma in June 1945 where he went missing in action. He was declared dead on June 23 of the same year.
WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-66). Scoop, London, 1939, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket (torn at corners with some loss). FIRST EDITION, in the dust-jacket without the 'Daily Beast' masthead.WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-66). Scoop. A Novel about Journalists. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1938. 8vo (186 x 125mm). Half title, one-page publisher's advertisement at the end. Original red and black patterned cloth, dust-jacket with price of 7s.6d. unclipped (the jacket torn at corners with loss, a few other tears without loss, edges rubbed and creased, lower turn in adhering to cloth at edge, some light staining). FIRST EDITION, with the raised '8' in the publication date on the verso of the title and 'as' in the last line of p.88, and in the dust-jacket without the 'Daily Beast' masthead. According to some sources, Lord Beaverbrook insisted on the removal of the masthead in early printings of the jacket since its gothic-style font was similar to that of 'The Daily Express', a newspaper which was clearly a target of Waugh's satire. Another version - less intriguing, but perhaps more plausible - was that the masthead was removed simply because it detracted from the prominence of the book's title on the wrapper. See Hartley Moorhouse's article 'Bibliographical Confusion Surrounding the First U.K. Edition of Scoop' in Evelyn Waugh Studies (Vol. 52, no. 3, Winter 2021) for a detailed, but not altogether conclusive, discussion of 'states' and 'issue points' relating to the book and its jacket.
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