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Onwhyn, Thomas Glass of Grog. Read & Co., 1853. 12mo, 10-leaves, concertina-folded between boards, upper board with paper label duplicating first leaf; ilus. by Onwhyn. 'Containing 50 excuses for the GLASS, and only one objection against it.'' A satirical piece of ephemera in support of drinking spirits with a humorous nod to balance in the one objection offered as from a 'distinguished member of the Tem. Soc.' - 'Taking a glass too much'. Onwhyn was well-known illustrator and cartoonist, especially known for his pirated edition of The Pickwick Papers (Dickens referred to 'the singular Vileness of the Illustrations'). He produced a number of cheap satirical pamphlets for less prestigious publishers like Rock Bros and Payne, satirising contemporary mores and cant. For all their disposable nature, they are not without sly political sensibility and a keen eye - like his comparison of poor and rich in Pictures of London. He experimented with comic strips in A Railway Adventure that Mr Larkin Encountered with the Lady of Captn. Coleraine, illustrated comedy books like Mr Perry Winks Submarine Adventures, and satirised the growing commercial control of Harrogate's famous water. Despite his prolific output he was overshadowed by more famous contemporaries and his ephemeral works remain scarce today. Worldcat only lists one copy of this panorama at the V & A.. Staining to upper label matched internally with variable staining to the right hand side of the folds, however a tight, generally clean copy of scarce satire.

Wotton, Sir Henry The State of Christendom or, A most Exact and Curious Discovery of many Secret Passages, and Hidden Mysteries of the Times. Printed for Henry Moseley, and are to sold at his Shop at the Prince's Arms in St Paul's Church-yard, 1657. 4to, full early calf; lacking port. frontis. Scarce first ed. The State of Christendom, published in 1657, is an almost forgotten Elizabethan treatise, and a significant but neglected work of late Elizabethan scholarship and political thought. It is argued that the treatise was authored by members of the circle of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (specifically Sir Henry Wotton) in the mid fifteen-nineties, and that it reflects the political and scholarly concerns of Essex and his followers, especially Anthony Bacon, and their engagement with Catholic politics and polemic. The author displays a scholarly methodology and a particular interest in tyranny and the remedies for restraining tyrants. It sheds a fascinating light on the context that shaped the discussion of political idea in late Elizabethan England - and the way it affected the actions of the Essex circle. Sir Henry Wotton was an Elizabethan diplomat and poet who was part of the Earl of Essex's household up until Essex's aborted rebellion. Unlike his fellow knightly secretaries, Wotton seems not to have been involved with the Earl's mad scheme, but he fled England anyway in the aftermath and was not welcome back whilst Elizabeth lived. He settled at Venice, where he wrote this work, a survey of contemporary politics which left nothing to the imagination. So controversial was the book that it remained unpublished until 18 years after his death. According to the introduction, he considered murdering 'some notable traitor to his prince and country' in order to win back favour and return home but thought better of the plan. He went on to Florence and joined the court of Ferdinand, Duke of Tuscany. It was Ferdinand who sent him to Scotland in 1602, bearing letters which revealed an attempt on the life of James VI of Scotland (later James I of England), and taking 'such Italian antidotes against poison as the Scots till then had been strangers to'. This service to James paid off when James ascended to the throne of England. Wotton was recalled via his brother - Lord Wotton - knighted and offered three ambassadorial posts. Wotton chose Venice as it was the least financially ruinous. This precaution was not entirely successful. Wotton's career from then resembled a rollercoaster - being at one point arrested for debt - but he ended his days as a respected Provost of Eton under Charles I. This copy displays an interesting bibliographic point. The rear endpapers are formed from binder's waste, leftover parts of other books used in the binding process. In this case they are from a printed edition of Gerardus Vossius' letters. The letter in this case being addressed 'Serenissimae et Sapientissimae Christinae'. Vossius was a scholar and theologian who, despite moderate views, still managed to be accused of heresy over his history of the Pelagian controversies.

Southey, Robert Wat Tyler A Dramatic Poem. In Three Acts. Printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1817. 8vo, full calf; pp. [i-v (seemingly lacking iii-iv)], vi-xi, [1 (blank], [1]-70, [38 (inserted blanks with laid-in extracts from contemporary newspapers on the affair)]; provenance: ''Ex bibliotheca Car. I. Taboris'' (bookplate on upper pastedown of the surgeon SIr Thomas Anwyl-Davies (1891-1971) who was a lecturer in venereal diseases at St. Thomas's). Pirated first ed. Robert Southey was in 1817 a Respectable Man of politics, a Tory and Poet Laureate his voice was the voice of Christian Family Values. It was then something of an embarrassment to him, and to the government of which he was a mouthpiece, when Radical publishers Sherwood, Neely and Jones produced a pirated edition of young firebrand Robert Southey's dramatic poem on Wat Tyler, the very slightly controversial leader of the Peasants' Revolt. Against a backdrop of politically motivated domestic spying, the suspension of Habeas Corpus, pilloried publishers, and penal suppression of Radical ideologies this embarrassment quickly became farce after the Hon. William Smith, Member for Norwich, demanded government action on this seditious literature. With literary war being waged between the Edinburgh Review (Whig) and the Quarterly Review (Tory), and injudicious support offered by fellow Radical apostate Coleridge, Southey sought to head off the entire affair with a swift literary injunction. This seemingly cast-iron control mechanism would only serve to make the entire affair worse. The injunction was an author's only real defence against piracy at the time, owing to the tenuous status of copywrite under the Statute of Anne. By intention, an injunction was only a temporary hold until legal status as ''property'' could be proved. The cost of such proceedings was generally such that defendants simply ceased publication, making the injunction a de facto judgement. However, the law allowed no action in defence of works deemed to be injurious to the State - no one should profit from their crimes, least of all sedition. The delightful irony of the entire legal case was to ensure there was no legal bar whatsoever to Radical publications of the poem (similar situations would ensue from Byron's Cain and Shelley's Queen Mab). The deprivation of literary property rights did not in fact, shockingly enough, prevent people from publishing, much to the court and government's dismay. Not least injurious to the Tory faction was the serious blow to Southey's reputation from a dismissal by his own government, represented by the presiding Lord Chief Justice, Lord Eldon. The case, and the poem, highlighted the difference between Southey the Poet and Southey the Poet Laureate (not missed by Byron in the ''Dedication'' to Don Juan). The Poet Laureate held his authority not from the Muses, nor from the popular acclaim of the crowd, but from the Crown. The position's aspects as poet-for-hire and channel for Royal attitudes were laid bare - here was the Poet Laureate Southey decrying the Poet Southey whose verse had won him the position. Southey effectively wiped himself out, abnegating his own identity to better inhabit his current role. In the end, the quality or significance of the verse itself was unimportant. This pirate edition laid bare hypocrisies at the heart of the Tory party and the governmental system they espoused; it branded Southey for ever a literary turncoat, a traitor to his Muse; it revealed the failure of the mechanisms of literary suppression; and it exposed serious fault lines between the Romantic poets in age and in youth.. Binding worn with cracking joints, upper board loose but still attached, internally some bleed-through from printing but generally clean else.

Dalton, John A New System of Chemical Philosophy. Manchester: Printed by S. Russell for R. Bickerstaff, 1808-10; and George Wilson, 1827. 8vo (3 vols). I Part I in paper-backed marbled boards with paper label, other two in later buckram-backed boards; pp: I Part I: vi, [2 (contents, verso blank)], 220; I Part II: [8], 221-560; II: [2 (half-title, verso blank)], xii, 357, [3 (advertisements)];; I Part I: add. eng. port. laid down on dedication, four plates, I Part II: four plates. First edition. Dalton's major contribution to the study of science was an insistence on the significance of relative atomic weights. Dalton believed that all matter was composed of indestructible and indivisible atoms of various weights, each weight corresponding to one of the chemical elements, and that these atoms remained unchanged during chemical processes. This led to his creation of the first periodic table and created the first scientific theory of the atom, based on experimentation. Dalton's work was not without flaws, in part owing to the quality of this tools, but it shaped scientific thinking and laid the groundwork for Mendelev's table.. Condition variable across the three volumes, with the second and third with frequent mould spotting throughout, still a good set of a hugely important work.

Baron and Feme A Treatise of the Common Law concerning Husbands and Wives. Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling (Assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq., 1719. 8vo, full calf; provenance: M. Verney Fermanagh (armorial bookplate to upper pastedown). Second edition, with large additions. First published in 1700, this was the first work exclusively devoted to family law. According to the author ''I have herein considered Baron and Feme in all the Circumstances of Life, from the Solemnization of Marriage to the Divorce, and have not omitted 'those Collateral By-blows, (the title of Bastardy making a considerable figure in our books;) and the Variety of the Matter made me some Attonement for the Labour''.. Binding worn with loss, loss of top corners of ffep and rfep, generally clean internally.

Finden, William Illustrations to the Life and Works of Lord Byron. John Murray, 1833-4. 8vo (3 vols). Red pebble-grain cloth, boards with blind borders, spines lettered in gilt, a.e.g.; 3 additional eng. titles, 122 plates (lacking Gibraltar in vol I, otherwise as called for). First collected edition with text by W. Brockenden. A blending of literature and travel in a similar vein to Finden's Illustrations of the Bible.. Bindings with some edge wear, some variable foxing and offsetting, mainly to back of plates, but a very good set.

Hume, David An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals. Printed for A. Millar, over-against Catherine Street in the Strand, 1751. First edition. 8vo, leather-backed boards; pp. [6 (title, verso blank, Errata, verso blank, Contents, verso blank)], 253, [1 (advertisements)] (lacking half-title and last leaf of adverts); provenance: James John Hornby (rower and headmaster of Eton, armorial bookplate upper pastedown). First edition, L3r with catchword ''than''. . Binding worn with cracked joints, foxing and similar internally.

Richards, Frank [Hamilton, Charles] Billy Bunter and related books. A selection of various editions of Bunter books, including 16 first editions and Armada and Merlin paperbacks, with Magnet facsimiles, Greyfriar's Holiday Annuals and others featuring Tom Merry and one Bessie Bunter first edition. Along with the Magnet Companion and The World of Frank Richards.

Wilson, Mary Selected Poems. Hutchinson of London, 1970. 8vo, org. green boards in unclipped dj (12s). First edition. At one time Baroness Wilson was amongst the best-selling poets in the country, perhaps (as with many a celebrity) more from name than talent. The poems are mostly typical fare, but amongst the pleasant pastorals there are some which display a political bent (including ones for Aberfan and the Durham Miners' Gala) and amongst the Christian elements a mocking tale of the post-bomb landscape in which Lucifer laughs to see the works of '…Man/Who was made in the image of God!' Whatever the literary merit of her oeuvre, the special interest in this copy is the many signatures of Labour party luminaries and Peers, including Roy Jenkins, Barbara Castle, Dennis Healey, Tony Benn and Alice Bacon, along with those of Harold and Mary.. Slight edge wear to jacket, boards a little bumped, slight foxing to edges and occasionally inside but very good.

Bacon, Sir Francis, Baron Verulam, Viscount St Albans Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning or the Partitions of Sciences IX Bookes. Oxford: by Leon Lichfield, For Rob. Young and Ed. Forrest, 1640. 4to, full calf, sometime reback, boards with central ASD monogram; eng. port. frontis., eng. title, floriated initials, decorative head- and tail-pieces. First English translation of the expanded edition of 1623, colphon dated 1640 (as is common). Signatures agree with STC (2nd ed.), 1167.3 (2E1 mis-signed E, 2F1 mis-signed F, 3Q3 mis-signed 3R3). Francis Bacon is one of the most lauded figures of the glittering firmament that was the English Renaissance. A true polymath, he was a philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He was involved in one of the most important court cases in English legal history, Slade's Case, is revered as the father of the scientific method, and (at least according to Aubrey) died a martyr to experiment trying to invent the freezer. He remains a favourite target for conspiracy theories, not least that he was a Rosicrucian Master; the illegitimate son of Elizabeth; and Shakespeare. The Advancement of Learning was hugely influential in its efforts to systematise and delineate forms of knowledge, inspiring the taxonomy of Diderot's Encyclopedia and pioneering an empirical philosophy. Bacon always sought (as with many of his contemporaries) to find God through studying His works and this work explored Bacon's view of the relation between science and theology. A critical text in the history of science and Western thought, described by Voltaire as ''the scaffold with which the new philosophy was raised.'' Rare with both the portrait and allegorical title-page.. Upper board detached, evidence of water staining from 2P1 to end, slight loss lower corner D2, not affecting text, X4 with line of interference with printing causing slightly break in text block, other variable marking, foxing etc internally. w.a.f.

Milne, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh. Methuen & Co., 'First published in 1926'. 8vo, org. publisher's limp blue leather gilt, a.e.g., map endpapers, blue silk marker (detached but loosely inserted); illus by Shephard. First deluxe edition, produced at the same time as the first edition.. Spine sunned, with slight sunning round edge of spine and top edge of lower board, bar small patch of offsetting from previously inserted leaves to inner margins pp. 30-1 and 80-1, clean internally. An attractive copy of a delightful book.

Potter (Beatrix) Ginger and Pickles, 1909, first edition, original cloth; idem, The Roly Poly Pudding, 1908, first edition, second issue (1908 date on title but not 'All RIghts Reserved'), original cloth (each with lettered wax seal inside); with three others by the author; Jerrold (Walter), The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes, Blackie, n.d., sixteen colour plates, original cloth gilt; Robinson (W. Heath), Bill the Minder, Constable, 1912, sixteen mounted colour plates with captioned tissue guards, original cloth gilt with pictorial onlay

MacKay, Charles Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. Richard Bentley, 1841. 8vo (3 vols). Half leather over marbled boards by Charles Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle; 4 plates (lacking plate of John Law, that of Paracelsus bound in its place suggesting it was lost at point of binding, also lacking half-titles). First edition. Mackay's still popular work on the epidemic nature of crowd psychology. With chapters on tulipomania, the South Sea Bubble, witch-mania and alchemy this engaging and lively account of history's greatest acts of delusion is still depressingly relevant.. Binding scuffed and rubbed, some variable toning, spotting, foxing etc internally but very good bar lacking plate.

Somerville & Ross Through Connemara in a Governess Cart. W.H. Allen, 1893. 8vo, org. green pictorial cloth; pp. viii, 200, 31 (advertisments), [1 (blank)]; illus by W.W. Russell after sketches by Somerville (all as called for). First edition.. Boards a touch faded, head and foot of spine a touch bumped, a little cocked, later owner's pen inscription to ffep, MSS copy of tribute to Ross from Punch laid down on upper pastedown, but clean internally, a very good copy.

Herriot, James If Only They Could Talk. Michael Joseph, 1970. 8vo, org. cloth in unclipped dj (30s/£1.50). First edition.. Jacket edges creased with a little toning, very slight bumping to head and foot of spine, internally clean.

Lewin (William) The Insects of Great Britain, Systematically Arranged ... Vol. I [all published], Johnson, 1795, first edition, first issue, quarto, forty-six hand coloured plates, half vellum (darkened) with morocco label, later endpapers [Lisney 410]

Leybourn, William Cursus Mathmaticus. Mathematical Sciences in Nine Books. Printed for Thomas Basset, Benjamin Tooke, Thomas Sawbridge, Awnsham, and John Churchill, 1690. Folio, later half-leather over boards; pp. [12 (poss lacking half-title)], 904 [i.e. 1044], [92], signed: [2], A2, B4-2Z4, Æ4, 3A4-3L4, 3M8-3U8, 3X6, 3Y4-3Z4, 4A6-4P6, [Pppp]6, 4Q4-4Y4, 5A4-5Y4, a4-l4, m2; port. frontis., 45 plates, many bound to throw clear and one laid down to text, numerous figures, vignettes &c. to text and letterpress tables. First edition. William Leybourn was a printer and land and quantity surveyor, who worked with Hooke after the Great Fire of London. He wrote several books on mathematical subjects, including the first book in English on astronomy - Urania Practica, with Vincent Wing. This book was aimed at the popular market, rather than at mathematicians. Benjamin Franklin's mentor, James Logan, taught himself mathematics with its help. The desire for a practicality of purpose can be seen in sections devoted to rent and interest calculations, fortifications, and surveying, alongside more scientific applications of mathematics.. Binding worn, damp and mould marking to margins occasionally affecting text, variable foxing, toning etc, w.a.f.

Westwood, Kenneth Thomas Sidney Cooper, C.V.O., R.A. His Life and Work. David Leathers Publishing, 2011. Folio (2 vols). Org. cloth in djs, in slipcase; numerous full colour illus. First edition. Cooper's reputation suffers because of the many copies, fakes and lesser-quality works of his later years. This extensive catalogue and history was produced to aid the collector and academic alike in recognising his genuine output.

CHURCHILL (W.S.) - LONDON TO LADYSMITH VIA PRETORIA, first edition, gilt cloth, signed by the author and dedicated to 'John Mansfield... August 12th 1900', published by Longmans Green and Co., along with a signed letter from Churchill to Mr. Mansfield, and a copy of Churchill's WWII Vol. 1, third edition Note: Mr. Mansfield was the land agent for Earl Grey of Howick Estate, Northumberland, who assisted Churchill preparing and sending various items of correspondence during his stay with Earl Grey. By way of thanks for his service he sent this letter and enclosure of the signed work. Mr. Mansfield was the great grandfather of the vendor, whom this was passed to by descent.

WARHOL, ANDY; 'The Philosophy of Andy Warhol', first edition, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York and London, bearing signature to inside front cover, 22 x 15cm.

Brabham (Jack). When The Flag Drops, signed first edition, with dust wrapper, published by William Kimber, London 1971, together with a book on The Constitutional History of England, signed and bearing library plate for Prince Chula of Siam, Supervisor of The White Mouse Racing Team. (2)

Annette Mills, "Muffin the Mule", 1949 first edition, signed by the author and Muffin, lacking dust jacket

A collection of mostly British history/topographical books early to mid 20th Century including Oxford by Andrew Lang, London: Seeley Service, first edition, no date; various Blackie and Son "Beautiful England" books, The Fishermans Bedside Book, BB, reprinted 1946; Our Village Today, SPB Mais, London; Werner Laurie, 1956; Wild Lone, BB, reprinted 1941; Westminster Pilgrim, Frederick Bridge, Norway and the Fjords, MA Wyllie, Methven, 1907. In one carton

H.G Wells; three first edition cloth bound volumes. 'New Worlds for Old', 'The History of Mr. Polly', and 'The King Who Was a King'.

A group of signed and first edition books on Politics and Socialism.

Warwick Deeping, signed limited edition, 339/500 Roper's-row and two further first editions and one other.

Peter Cosslett, limited edition print 'The First Snow', No.90/850.

A Royal Crown Derby 1128 pattern coffee can, printed marks to base, first quality; a Royal Crown Derby Green Derby Panel cup and saucer, printed marks, first quality; a Derby Posies loving cup; a Royal Crown Derby Brocade pattern cup and saucer; a limited edition commemorative trinket pot and cover for Queen Elizabeth II 70th birthday commissioned y Govier's of Sidmouth, printed marks, first quality with certificate No. 51/750;etc

A limited edition Royal Crown Derby 'First Christmas Plate', printed marks to base No.379/1500, first quality with certificate; six Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show decorative plates, various dates, with booklets (7)

A limited edition Royal Crown Derby miniature loving cup commissioned by Royal Doulton, printed marks to base, first quality, another; a near pair of limited edition Royal Crown Derby loving cups, commemorating Elizabeth II, with certificates; a limited edition commemorative loving cup for H.R.H Prince Henry of Wales 1984, with certificate; another(all first quality) (6)

A limited edition Royal Crown Derby Govier's China Shop model, gold printed marks to base, first quality; a Royal Crown Derby wavy edge commemorative trinket dish for The Queens Mother's 90th birthday. printed marks to base, first quality; Derby Posies pattern trinket dish; a Paris Royal miniature cup and saucer, etc (5)

A collection of twenty 19th century oval engravings depicting famous boxers of the 18th and early 19th centuries, together with a 1952 first edition of The Bare Knuckle Breed by Louis Golding, signed and inscribed by the author, plus a signed real photograph of 1946 British middleweight champion Vince Hawkins and three other items including Boxing News Annual 1961 & 1963 (25)

Two various 20th century unframed abstract prints by the same hand, the first titled, 'Shangri-La' signed and titled in pencil, artist proof, the other, 'Westerplatte' signed and titled in pencil, limited edition print number 70/75. 60 x 80cm

Robert Tayler: a first limited edition print, signed by Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader and Air Vice-Marshall Johnnie Johnson, in black frame, another Robert Taylor print and two other aviation prints

A quantity of mid to late 20th century children's books mainly by Enid Blyton, to include some first editions, A/F and eight in coloured dust wrappers, together with two Nurse Matilda books, one being a 1967 first edition, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone

The Great Book of Corgi by Marcel Van Cleemput 1956-1983 first edition comes with Routemaster Bus model, complete in presentation card box, with brown outer card box 1519 of 4000 produced

WW1 U.S. 'War Cartoons' by Knott. Hardback book 1st edition 1918. John F. Knott was the cartoonist for the Dallas News, in which this collection of cartoons first appeared.

J Hilliard, 'First wing at dusk', signed, oils, 32 x 48cm approx, under glass. Together with a coloured print after Phillip Rickman, ducks in the snow, a limited edition. 42 x 56cm approx. (2)(B.P. 24% incl. VAT)

BECKETT, Samuel. Watt. Olympia Press 1953, Collection Merlin, no. 808 of 1100 copies of the first edition. Sm qto wrs, bit worn, fragment torn from one corner. F&F 32.

BECKETT, Samuel. Proust. L., Chatto 1931, Dolphin Books. FIRST. Very good clean copy in the rare wrapper (a little chipped and torn). The same, Grove Press, N.Y., n.d. [1957], no. 95 of a specially bound, limited edition of 250 numbered copies signed by Beckett. Grey boards, cloth backed, boards a little soiled. Beckett’s second book. ‘The best introduction to Beckett, though not to Proust’ (Kermode). Federman & Fletcher 7, 7.12. The Grove Press edition is rare. (2)THE SAMUEL BECKETT COLLECTION of Prof. EOIN O’BRIENProf. Eoin O’Brien is one of the most distinguished living Irish medical researchers, author or co-author of some 600 scientific papers focusing mainly on his principal specialism, cardiology and the treatment of hypertension (high blood pressure).He has written extensively on aspects of the history of Irish medicine; and his literary interests have led him to assemble major collections of the works of Samuel Beckett and other Irish writers. He wrote and published a ground-breaking book on The Beckett Country (Black Cat Press 1986, in association with Faber), establishing beyond doubt the Irish background to many of Beckett’s works. In the last decades of Beckett’s life, he became one of his closest Irish friends. For personal reasons, principally a house move, Dr. O’Brien is now scaling down his very large library. It is a privilege for Adam’s to be entrusted with the disposal of these splendid collections, which include signed, inscribed and presentation copies of Beckett’s work, a wide range of first and rare editions, and three boxes of critical and academic works. As well as the outstanding Beckett collection, the library includes fine editions by Joyce, Yeats and many other Irish writers, a range of general works on Dublin, Ireland and the world, and an important collection on medical history and biography, both Irish and European.

A Queen Elizabeth II 90th Birthday 9ct gold commemorative coin cover, a limited edition of 499, with four first-class stamps of the four generations of the Royal Family, with certificate of authenticity, together with three Elizabeth II crowns.

BECKETT, Samuel. Poems In English. Calder 1961, first, cloth in wr., also a second copy, and the New York edition, Grove Press [1963]; Collected Poems in English & French, Grove Press 1977, cloth boards in wr., FIRST US. F&F 40, 40.1. (4)

.. from swerve of shore to bend of bay ..Joyce (James). Finnegan's Wake. Faber 1939, FIRST, trade edn. (simultaneous with the US issue and the limited edition), tall red cloth gilt, a little marked, endpapers foxed. Slocum & Cahoon 47.

***PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT CONTAINS 14 BOXES***OFFERED AS A COLLECTIONProfessor Eoin OBriens important collection of books on medicine, medical history and biography, Irish medical institutions, his clinical specialty of cardiology and hypertension, etc., a lifetimes collection in 14 boxes, including special, limited and signed editions, generally clean, mostly with wrappers where called for: an ideal opportunity for an institution or a collector to acquire a significant medical library in excellent condition. Contents briefly as follows:Box 1. Classics of Medicine Library. Special Editions in full leather.Cushings Life of Osler, 2 vols; Osler, Collected Papers on the Cardiovascular System; Osler, Principles and Practice of Medicine; Harvey, De Motu Cardis; Browne, Religio Medici; Thomas Sydenham, Works; Larrey, Memoirs of Military Surgery; Jenner, Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, all handsome editions in fine condition; a few other items (not leather bound), about 11 in all.Box 2. The Keynes Press Special Editions [B.M.A.]A collection including Lowbury, An Anthology; Mackenzie, Fredk The Noble, slipcase; Marks, A Varied Life; Pickles, Epidiomology; Keynes, Portraiture of William Harvey; Blatt vs. Pickering (2 copies); Trotter, Instincts; Ross, Malaria (slipcase); A Sense of Asher; Greenwood, The Medical Dictator, slipcase; Allbutt, Composition; Moynihan, Truants; Lord Moran, The Anatomy of Courage; Osler, Aequanimitas; Ryle, The Natural History of Disease; others, about 17 in all, handsome editions virtually in mint condition, mostly in cloth with original glassine wrappers.Box 3. High Blood Pressure.A collection including Birkenhager & Reid, A Handbook of Hypertension v. 14, Blood Pressure Measurement (ed. OBrien & OMalley); Naqvi & Blaufox, Blood Pressure Measurement; Postel-Vinay (ed.), A Century of Arterial Hypertension 1896-1996; White, Blood Pressure Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics, 2nd ed.; Oliver, Blood and Blood Pressure; Dally, High Blood Pressure, 3rd; OBrien & OMalley, High Blood Pressure; Mancia, Grassi, Kjeldsen, Manual of Hypertension; Mackenzie, The Study of the Pulse; others including some pamphlets and paperbacks,about 30 in all. A number of these books have contributions by Prof. Eoin OBrien, a distinguished specialist with an international reputation in cardiology research.Box 4. Medical History - General.Including Hamusco, Anatomia, plates, facsimile edition in slipcase, letter; Gribbin, Science: A History; Morton, A Medical Bibliography; Garrison, History of Medicine; Major, Classic Descriptions of Disease; Porter & Wear, Problems in the History of Medicine; Ahrens, The Crisis in Clinical Research; Lock, A Difficult Balance; Anatomical Drawings of Andreas Vesalius; Stevenson, Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine and Physiology; some pamphlets and paperbacks, about 14 items in all.Box 5. Medical History. Portraiture, Photography, Instruments.A collection including Bruno, The Tradition of Science; Royal Coll. of Physicians of London, Portraits; Fannin (Dublin), Surgical Instrument Catalogue 1908; Bennion, Antique Medical Instruments; Bettmann, Pictorial History of Medicine; Emery, Medicine and Art; Burns Archive, Masterpieces of Medical Photography; OBrien, A Portrait of Irish Medicine; others, about 15 in all.Box 6. Medical History. US, Canada, international.A collection including Cheney & Reiner, An American Medical Odyssey; Connor, The Book of Skin; Illustrated Catalogue of the Slide Archive of Historical Medical Photographs at Stony Brook; Mayo Clinic, Dermatology, The First 90 Years; Hellstedt, Gold Medallist, autobiography; Oslers Principles & Practice of Medicine; Heymans Institute of Pharmacology 1890-1990; Medicine in Colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820; Essays in appreciation of Dr. Harold Nathan Segall; Pioneers of Cardiology in Canada; English, Rheumatic Fever in America and Britain; others, including pamphlets and paperbacks, about 20 in all.Box 7. General Cardiology.A collection including Forssmann, Experiments on Myself; White, Heart Disease; East, Story of Heart Disease; Wood, Diseases of the Heart & Circulation; White, Take Heart; Snellen, History of Cardiology; Turner & Durham, Integrated Cardiac Safety; Acierno, History of Cardiology; Bynum, Lawrence, Nutton, Emergence of Modern Cardiology; Willius & Keyes, Classics of Cardiology, 3 v.; others similar, circa 20 items, a cardiologists working library.Box 8. Medical History, United Kingdom and general.A collection including Cule, A Doctor for the People; Hamilton, The Healers [medicine in Scotland]; Sandblom, Creativity and Disease; Durey, Return of the Plague; Karlen, Plagues Progress; Keynes, Gates of Memory; Iserson, Death to Dust; Pelling, Cholera, Fever and English Medicine; Hansell, Westminster Hospital 1716-1966; Youngson, Scientific Revolution in Victorian Medicine; Fitzharris, The Butchering Art; Waddington, The Medical Profession in the Industrial Revolution; Bradford Hill, Principles of Medical Statistics; Clark, Modern Methods in the History of Medicine; others, some paperbacks and pamphlets, about 30 in all.Box 9. Medical History, United Kingdom.A collection including Memoir of Dr. James Hope, by Mrs. Hope; Bartrap, Mirror of Medicine; Power, Short History of St. Bartholomews; An English Physician, Tuberculosis; Rose, Curator of the Dead (Thomas Hodgkin); Porter, Bodies Politic; Trombley, Sir Frederick Treves; Bauder, Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method; Oxford Illus. Companion to Medicine; Dow, Influence of Scottish Medicine; Rivett, Development of the London Hospital System; Reid, Ask Sir James; others, some paperbacks, circa 20 in all.Box 10. Medical History. Irish Biographical and Scientific Books and Pamphlets.A collection including NGI, The Anatomy Lesson. Art and Medicine; Fallon, Sketches of Erinensis; Steen, Infants in Health and Sickness; OBrien, Conscience and Conflict [Sir Dominic Corrigan]; Charles Cameron, Reminiscences, inscribed; Lyons, A Pride of Professors [RCSI 1813-1985, 2 copies, one inscribed]; Solomons, Handbook of Gynaecology; Coakley & ODoherty (ed.) Borderlands (essays in honour of J.B. Lyons), 2 copies; Coakley, Robert Graves; Coakley, Irish Masters of Medicine; others, some paperbacks and pamphlets, about 25 in all.Box 11. Medical History. Irish Biographical & Scientific Books & Pamphlets.A collection including Porter, Treatise on Aneurism; Taylor, Robert Graves; Lyons, Scholar & Sceptic (James Henry MD); Carr (ed.), A Century of Medical Radiation in Ireland; Lyons, An Assembly of Irish Surgeons; Doolin, Wayfarers in Medicine; Taylor, Sir Bertram Windle; Heron, When Trees were Green; Carmichael on Cancer (1809); Rivington, The Medical Profession 1887...

‘Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February ..’STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, with illustrations on wood by George Cruikshank. L. 1852, first U.K. edition, a few months after the US first edition. Full calf gilt, morocco label, spine faded. The writer Constantine Fitzgibbon’s copy, with an inscription from his uncle Norman Douglas (novelist) on f.f.e.p. dated 1936. Bookplate of Herbert S. Leon. Front section including f.f.e.p. loose, possibly lacks tissue guard, t.p. a bit dusty, a good copy onlyCertainly one of the most influential American novels of the century, though perhaps not one of the best. Norman Douglas is best known for his novel The South Wind; Constantine Fitzgibbon for his When the Kissing Had to Stop.Provenance: The Collection of Hugh and Anne Iremonger

BECKETT, Samuel. How It Is. Translated from the French by Beckett. Calder 1964, one of 100 copies on handmade paper, series B, morocco bound in slipcase, spine sl. faded, ‘printed (hors commerce) in advance of the first edition’. F&F 384.101. Rare.

KAFKAThe Metamorphosis... Translated by A.L. Lloyd, first English edition, Partin Press, London, 1937, fine in publisher's blue cloth-backed grey boards, blue title label on upper coverProvenance: The Collection of Hugh and Anne Iremonger

DOLMEN/CLIFFORD, SIGERSON.Travelling Tinkers, title page design by Liam Miller, FIRST LIMITED SIGNED EDITION, 69/100 (400 copies unsigned), in cloth, August 13th 1951, signed.

MARC BOLAN WARLOCK OF LOVE SIGNED. A first edition copy of Marc Bolan's The Warlock of Love inscribed to first page in blue ink 'To Sue Berry deep love Marc Bolan' in the hand of Marc Bolan. Including original dust cover, with some small tears as per pictures. Authenticated by Roger Epperson prior to entry to this sale.

STEVE HACKETT KIM POOR ARTWORK. A mounted, framed signed and numbered limited edition artwork print of a work by Kim Poor. A sticker to the verso reads 'Presented on behalf of Steve Hackett by Charisma Records to mark the release of VOYAGE OF THE ACOLYTE, Steve Hackett's first solo album. The painting is one of a Limited Edition from artwork especially commissioned from Kim Poore for the album sleeve, London, October, 1975'. Frame to measure 34 x 31". Numbered 20 / 500.

U2 - 4 PLAY (4 x 7" PACK - CBS RECORDS). Exclusive to Ireland is this super limited edition 4 x 7" pack of U2's first 4 singles (CBS 7951/8306/8687/9065). All records and sleeves are in Ex+ condition with few markings; there is occasionally a little 'residue' that occurs with the PVC sleeve. The original card slip is in Ex+ condition. The outer PVC wallet is in Ex+ condition showing little wear.

INDIE ROCK - 2000s/2010s LPs. Brilliant collection of 23 x LPs with some signed! Artists/titles include Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank (black vinyl), Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues (ltd edition 2014 pressing Lpseeds 13), The Horrors - Lumionous (ltd edition signed copy), Father John Misty - Pure Comedy (ltd edition pink translucent yellow splatter edition, blue cover, Vinyl Me, Please exclusive pressing number 470 and Fear Fun, Pearl Jam - 10 (2009 RE), The Strypes - Little Victories (signed), Mercury Rev - Strange Attractor, Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts Of The Great Highway (2018), Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways, Gomez - Bring It On, John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure (ltd orange/lavender), Kings Of Leon - Mechanical Bull, First Aid Kit - Stay Gold, Beck - Guereo, DMA's - For Now (ltd edition 2018 LP, signed!), Mercury Rev - The Light In You, Chook Race - Around The House and Minor Victories. Condition is almost entirely Ex+ or 'as new'.

NEW ORDER SIGNED BOOK. A copy of Kevin Cummins' 'New Order (Rizzoli, later edition) signed to first page in various inks by Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Morris and Kevin Cummins. Book is in Fine condition with light wear to cover and pen to verso.

The Complete Motorist by A. B. Filson Young - first edition 1904 and other motoring books and pamplets

Books: Thomas Ingoldsby - The Ingoldsby Legends 1870, first edition, engravings by Leech, Cruickshank, Tenniel, decorative gilt tooled binding, together with Victor Hugo - Les Travailleurs de la Mer, 1866, French first edition, two volumes, Richard Parkinson - Tour of America, 1805, one of two volumes, together with sundry other antiquarian books

Books: Plato's Symposium or Supper - newly translated by Francis Birrell & Shane Leslie, Fortune Press, limited edition 112 / 175, signed by Leslie, calf binding, together with William Morris - The Sundering Flood, 1898, first edition, Sir Henry Morton Stanley - How I Found Livingstone, new and cheaper edition, published 1890 and others

Books: Rupert Brooke - 1914 and other poems, published Sidgwick & Jackson W.C. 1915, tenth impression, together with Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot, published 1956, third impression, with dust jacket, Lewis Carroll - Alice Through The Looking Glass 1872, first edition, A. A. Milne - Christopher Robin Birthday Book, 1930, first edition and various children's books including early edition Beatrix Potter, Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince, published Harcourt, Brace & World and others

Books: C. Notto - Papier Schmetterlinge aus Japan, published Leipzig, 1888, first edition, ex-libris, for Montague Fordham - first director of the Birmingham Guild of Handicrafts, pictorial end boards, folio CONDITION REPORT Card boards with a little general deterioration and wear, minor staining and discolouration, cloth spine partially detached. Some foxing to contents, contents and plates all present

Books: Hardiman's Galway 1820 with maps and plates, Kipling's The Second Jungle Book first edition and A. A. Milne 'The House at Pooh Corner' and other vintage books CONDITION REPORT Hardiman's Galway- modern re-binding. General time staining to contents, contents and maps present. 1651 map of Galway (should be opposite p30) has been reattached at end of volume, this map has several sellotape repairs

Books: J. M. Barrie The House at Pooh Corner - first edition 1928, Winnie the Pooh - fifth edition 1927 and Now We Are Six - fourth edition 1928 - all published by Methuen, plus J. M. Barrie Peter Pan & Wendy Retold by May Byron, publisher University of London Press (4)