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Click here to subscribeNO RESERVE Sullivan (Arabella) Tales of the Peerage and the Peasantry, 3 vol., edited by Lady Dacre, first edition, contemporary aubergine half morocco over marbled boards, a fine set, 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1835.⁂ Comprises three short novels: Winifred, Countess of Nithsdale; The Hampshire Cottage and Blanche.
Surrey.- Toland (John) The Description of Epsom, first edition, title and last leaf slightly soiled and stained, occasional other foxing and light water-staining, disbound, 8vo, Printed for A. Bladwin, 1711.⁂ Scarce description of the Surrey spa town, located in only 8 copies by ESTC and with seemingly no appearances at auction.
Textiles.- Koch & Te Kock. Fünfzig Jahre [1880-1930], colour plates and illustrations, light spotting to title, original cloth-backed boards tied with gold cord, upper boards covered with woven patterned carpet incorporating logo and dates, Oelsnitz, [1930] § Tiffany Studios. The...Collection of Notable Antique Oriental Rugs, 3 vol., vol.1 & 2 each one of 500 copies, vol.3 one of 1000, printed in green and black, titles with decorative borders (no title in vol.3 but apparently complete), colour frontispieces, plates, browned, vol.1 & 2 original boards, vol.3 original cloth, all t.e.g., others uncut, rubbed, New York, [1906-08] § Daubenton (L.J.M.) Mémoire sur le Premier Drap de Laine superfine du Crû de la France, first edition, 16pp., stitched in old wrappers, title in manuscript on upper wrapper, small stain to foot of spine, Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1784, oblong folio & 8vo (5) ⁂ The first is a trade catalogue to celebrate the jubilee of one of Germany's leading carpet manufacturers; the last concerns the author's experiments on how to improve the quality of French wool.
Prior (Matthew) To a Young Gentleman in Love. A Tale, first edition, 2pp., drop-head title, slightly foxed, later marbled wrappers, [Foxon P1088; ESTC locates 3 copies in UK and 2 in USA], folio, Printed for J. Tonson, 1702.⁂ One of three 'idle tales' written by Prior between 1700 and 1710. This tells of two lovers, Celia and Celadon who speak to each other with hypocritically flowery language, but whose thoughts are elsewhere. Each desires something else more than his or her purported love: Celadon wants a place at court; Celia wants Thyrsis, who is hidden under the bed.
NO RESERVE Evolution.- Darwin (Charles) On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, fifth edition (tenth thousand), half-title, folding lithographed plate, without any advertisements, as frequently issued, endpapers and half-title foxed, occasional spotting elsewhere. contemporary tree calf, gilt, lower cover detached, upper cover detaching,corners worn, rubbed, [Freeman 387], 1869; and 4 others, including a first edition of Darwin's Descent of Man, 1871 in 2 vol. 8vo (5)
NO RESERVE Southey (Robert) The Lay of the Laureate. Carmen Nuptiale, first edition, half-title, Nowell-Smith book labels to pastedown, original boards with paper label to spine, minor chipping to spine, otherwise excellent, 1816; Wat Tyler, ink ownership inscription to head of half-title, later wrappers, 1817 § Southey (Caroline) Solitary Hours, second edition, half-title, 34pp. advertisements, original cloth, spine ends and corners a little bumped, rubbed, 1839 § La Fontaine (Jean de) La Fontaine's Tales: Intimated in English Verse, 2 vol., first complete edition in English, light scattered spotting, ink shelf mark stamp to endpaper, bookplate and book label, contemporary half calf, gilt, spines with with morocco labels, a little rubbed, C.Chapple, 1814. and 2 others, Southey, 8vo (7)
Escapology.- Houdini (Harry) Magical Rope Ties and Escapes, 'British Edition', seven black and white photographic plates, first plate with printed ticket mounted on reverse as called-for 'To my dear friend Harry Kellar Dean of Magicians & Master of Mysteries "Houdini"', one plate reattached and slightly frayed along fore-edge, letterpress illustrations, occasional soiling, publisher's advertisements on pastedowns, original printed boards, rubbed and soiled, with some minor wear to extremities, 8vo, [1921].
Voyages.- Cook (Captain James) Troisieme Voyage de Cook, ou Voyage a l'Ocean Pacificque...., translated by Jean Nicholas Demunier, 4 vol., first French edition, half-titles, 88 engraved plates, maps and plates, many folding, some with light offsetting, folding letterpress table, errata f. to vol.1, some light offsetting, occasional scattered light foxing or browning, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked preserving original backstrips, corners strengthened and repaired, [Sabin 16261], 4to, Paris, Hotel de Thou, 1785.
Derby and Nottingham imprints.- Newman (Cardinal John Henry) Lyra Apostolica, first edition, half-title, original cloth, spine faded and lacking label, Derby, Henry Mozley, 1836 § Mundy (Francis Noel Clarke) Needwood Forest, and the Fall of Needwood, with Other Poems, ink ownership inscription, contemporary half calf, Derby, 1830 § Atkin (John) Jonah Tink, a Poem, A.L.s. from the author tipped in at front, original boards, Newark, 1823 § Millhouse (Robert) Vicissitude. A Poem in Four Books, lacking ?front free endpaper, original cloth-backed boards, Nottingham, [1821], 8vo (4)⁂ The first an important early poetry collection to which Newman contributed 109 of the 179 pieces. One of Henry Mozley's sons married Newman's sister in 1836; and this accounts for the Derby imprint.
Bland (Mr.) The Constellation: Poems, on Several Occasions, first edition, 40pp., title with woodcut typographic device, disbound, [Foxon p.66; ESTC locates 4 copies only], 8vo, Printed, and Sold by S.Keimer, 1715.⁂ The printer, Samuel Keimer (1688-c.1738) had a mixed career as a printer. Originally apprenticed to Robert Tookey in Threadneedle Street, he married in 1715, became a Quaker and set up a printing shop in Paternoster Row, where he produced over a dozen pamphlets for Daniel Defoe. His business failed, he was imprisoned for debt, left his wife in 1721 and embarked for Philadelphia where he again set up as a printer with Benjamin Franklin as his factotum. He was bankrupted and in 1729 fled to Barbados where he started the island's first newspaper.
NO RESERVE Bibliography.- Greg (W.W.) & Boswell E. Records of the Court of the Stationers' Company 1576 to 1602..., signed presentation copy from William A. Jackson, for The Bibliographical Society, 1930 § McKerrow (Ronald B.) An Introduction to Bibliography..., second impression, Oxford, 1960 § de Ricci (Seymour) The Book Collector's Guide..., number 8 of 1000 copies from an edition limited to 1100, profusely annotated throughout, clippings and ff. from other works tipped-in, Philadelphia & New York, 1921 § Twyman (Michael) Early Lithographed Books..., Williamsburg & London, 1990 § Williams (Iolo A.) Points in Eighteenth-Century Verse..., one of 500 copies, being volume VII from Sadleir's Bibliographia series Studies in Book History and Book Structure, 1934, last two frontispieces and plates or illustrations, last original paper-backed boards, else original cloth or cloth-acked boards, third and last uncut, each worn or a little rubbed, third joints splitting, last backstrip loose, second with ink staining to boards and fore-edges, second dust-jacket, stained, tears and a little loss; and a quantity of others, related, 4to & 8vo (qty.)⁂ William A. Jackson (1905-1964) Professor of Bibliography at Harvard; first librarian of the Houghton; President of The Bibliographical Society of America.The inscription is complete with poem: "To Les Oliver | With appreciation of his interest | And devotion to the drudgery of | Bibliography and best wishes | Wm. A. Jackson.On the World | The World's a Booke, writ by th'eternall Art, | Of the great Maker, printed in Mans heart; | 'Tis falsely printed, though divinely pend, | And all th'Erratas will appeare at th'end. | -Francis Quarles, Divine Fancies, 1632."
[Evans (Marian)], "George Eliot". The Mill on the Floss, 3 vol., first edition (with advertisement f. in vol.1 and 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end of vol.3), half-titles, subscription library bookplate to front pastedowns, some foxing, original cloth, spine gilt, vol. 1 rebacked, preserving original backstrip, vol.3. very short tear at head, all vol. cornrs little worn and rubbed, Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1860.
Spain & Gibraltar.- Great Britain's Glory. Or, The Stay-at-Home Fleet: Tune of Packington's Pownd, first edition, 4pp., woodcut vignette of a ship to title, second leaf inlaid into an album leaf, disbound, [Foxon G257; ESTC locates BL and Uni of Cincinnati copies only], folio, Printed for A. Moore, 1729.⁂ A poetic attack on the Walpole administration's foreign policy relating to the war with Spain. An Anglo-Dutch fleet had been assembled off Spithead under Admiral Wager as a response to Spain's attack on Gibraltar, but it remained at anchor while peace negotiations remained ongoing. The poem ridicules the large number of visitors to the static ships.
NO RESERVE Stowe (Harriet Beecher) Uncle Tom's Cabin, first English edition, steel-engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 38 plates, paper guards, occasional spotting, original blue pictorial cloth, gilt, spine ends chipped and repaired, corners worn, rubbed, 8vo, C.H. Clark and Co., 1852.
Watchmaker on globes.- Machado (Cristobal) Recreaciones geographicas, y nuevo compendio de Geographia moderna, first edition, 2 folding engraved plates, with the 2ff. 'Approbacion' removed as often (?always), contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, spine slightly darkened and with small chip at foot, 8vo, Salamanca, Antonio Villargordo, [1762].⁂ Rare work on geography by a well-known watchmaker whose time-pieces were offered to the Spanish aristocracy in the finest shops in Madrid and Salamanca. Although there are references to a 1761 edition, these would appear to be erroneous. Only 3 institutional copies located - 2 in the Biblioteca Nacional de Espana and one at Salamanca University.
World.- Parry (William Edward) Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific [&] A Supplement to the Appendix of Captain Parry's Voyage, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, 6 engraved maps and plans (some folding) and 20 plates, frontispiece and title detached, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, a little rubbed, 1821-24; and another, Stanley in Africa, 4to (2)
The Castrato and the Soprano.- Epistle (An) from S-----o, to A-----a R-----n, first edition, 6pp. (the last blank), disbound, [Foxon E377; ESTC lists 5 copies], Printed for M. Smith, 1724.⁂ Rare bawdy poem in which the Italian castrato Senesino, London's greatest opera star of the day, purportedly apologises to Anastasia Robinson, also a celebrated opera singer, for his sexual limitations.
Agriculture & Land Economy.- Blaikie (Francis) On the Conversion of Arable Land into Pasture..., first edition, Burnham, by J. Dawson, 1817; A Treatise on Mildew..., second edition, 1820; On the Management of Farm-yard Manure..., third edition, folding plate, 1820; A Treatise on Smut in Wheat..., Wells, by H. Neville, 1821, second and third for J. Harding, faint spotting & browning, a very little offsetting, first disbound, others in later plain wrappers, first ownership inscription to title head, in custom-made cloth-backed solander box; and another copy of the first bearing a London imprint, 16mo (5)⁂ Each title rare.
Patmore (Coventry) Odes, first edition, signed presentation inscription from Aubrey de Vere to Edward Dowden to title, lacking first f., some scattered spotting, book label, original printed wrappers, sympathetically rebacked, a little soiled, preserved in custom folding chemise, Privately Printed, 1868; Tamerton Church-Tower and Other Poems, "second" edition, Richard Garnett's copy with his ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, upper joint starting, bookplate of Lewis Kennedy Morse, original ribbed cloth, paper label to spine, spine browned, label a little chipped, spine ends and corners a little bumped, John W. Parker and Son, 1854, 8vo (2)⁂ The first is "the first appearance of some of... Patmore's most important work. Only 250 copies were [privately] printed, of which Patmore, having sent some out privately, destroyed over a hundred of the remainder." - Hayward. The missing leaf normally reads "From the author" on the recto, presumably de Vere thought it prudent to remove this when presenting this copy to Dowden. Aubrey de Vere (1814-1902), Irish poet and critic. Edward Dowden (1843-1913), Irish critic and poet.
Agriculture & Husbandry.- ("A Farmer") An Essay on Divided Commons..., for G.Robinson, 1778 § ("A Country Gentleman") A New System of Agriculture..., most edges uncut, a few repaired, title laid down, [ESTC T140535], Dublin, for George Faulkner & Peter Wilson, 1755 § Dickson (Dr. Adam) A Treatise of Agriculture, 2 engraved folding plates, a very little worming, Edinburgh, for A.Donaldson & J.Reid, 1762 § [Homer (Henry Sacheverell)] An Essay on the Nature and Method of Ascertaining the Specifick Shares of Proprietors upon the Inclosure of Common Fields..., [ESTC T33390], Oxford, for S.Parker, 1766 § Trusler (Dr. John) Practical Husbandry..., second edition, publisher's catalogue, [ESTC T93491], by R.Baldwin, 1785 § Essays on Agriculture..., [ESTC T33498], by J.Plymsell, 1796; all but fourth first edition, browning and soiling, third contemporary ink inscriptions, third contemporary calf, else later cloth, boards, half calf, or wrappers, soiled or a little rubbed, 8vo (6) ⁂ ESTC lists only the Newcastle edition of first.
Dublin bookseller's refusal of a Knighthood.- [Stevens or Stephens (Rev.)] Chivalry, No Trifle, or, The Knight and his Lady: A Tale, first London edition, 8pp., disbound, [Foxon C154; ESTC locates 5 copies in 4 libraries], folio, Dublin, Printed: London, Reprinted for A. Freeman, 1747.⁂ Poem about the Irish bookseller and printer George Faulkner and his supposed refusal of a knighthood offered to him by Lord Chesterfield during his 8-month tenure as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (August 1745-April 1746)
NO RESERVE [Hughes (Thomas)] The Scouring of the White Horse, first edition, additional vignette titles, illustrations by Richard Doyle, occasional faint spotting, previous owners ink inscription, 16pp. publisher's advertisements at end, original decorative cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Cambridge, 1859 § [Day (Thomas)] The History of Sandford and Merton. Abridged from the original, 6 engraved plates, cracked hinges, small hole to G3 occasionally affecting text, original paper backed boards, rubbed and worn, J. Wallis, [1790]; and 4 others, 8vo & 12mo (6)
NO RESERVE Bibliography.- Sports & Pastimes.- Stott (R. Toole) Circus and Allied Arts..., 4 vol., one of 1150 copies from an edition limited to 1200, vol. IV numbered and signed by author to limitation f., other vol. unnumbered, Derby, 1958-71 § Westwood (T.) & T. Satchell. Bibliotheca Piscatoria..., bookplate of Richard Ellsworth Call to front pastedown, publishers' catalogues and advertisements, contents separating, 1883 § Hall (Trevor H.) Old Conjuring Books..., one of 1000 copies numbered and signed by the author, frontispiece, 1972 § Lake (Fred) & Hal Wright. A Bibliography of Archery, Manchester, 1974 § Hartley (R.A.) History & Bibliography of Boxing Books..., Hampshire, n.d., first, third & last illustrations, original cloth or rexine, each a little rubbed, first, fourth & last dust-jacket, first with nicks and tears, fourth spine faded; and a small quantity of others, sale & booksellers' catalogues, related, 4to & 8vo (sm.qty.)
NO RESERVE Africa.- Andersson (Charles John) The Okavango River, first edition, frontispiece and 15 plates, additional vignette title, half-title, occasional faint spotting, later half morocco, [Hosken p.5], 8vo, 1861.⁂ Andersson trekked through Namaqualand and Damaraland in search of big game.
[Gay (John)] An Epistle to the most learned Doctor W--d----d; from a Prude That was unfortunately Metamorphos'd, first edition, 8pp., later wrappers, modern cloth chemise and dark blue morocco-backed cloth slip-case, [Foxon E416; Ashley IX, p.79], folio, Printed by T.W., 1723.⁂ Probably written by John Gay, but certainly one or more of Pope, Gay and Arbuthnot, who had been ridiculing Woodward since 1713. In this bawdy Scriblerian poem, signed "Prudentia" at the end, a spoof astrological prophecy by John Arbuthnot, in which a general metamorphosis of the sexes was predicted, is satirised. Prudentia describes her sudden acquisition of a penis during an operatic performance by the castrato Senesino, and appeals to Dr. Woodward, a well-known physician and collector of fossils, to assist with the removal of the unwanted new member.
Breval (John Durant) Mac-Dermot: or, the Irish Fortune-Hunter, first edition, 48pp., disbound, [Foxon B425; ESTC locates 11 copies], 8vo, Printed for E. Curll, 1717.⁂ Scarce at auction. "A witty but extremely gross piece..." (DNB). A poem about an Irishman, born into a world of bogs and potatoes, who is picked out by an Anglo-Irish baron during the course of a hunt and introduced into the fashionable world of London; the rest is a kind of Hibernian "Rake's Progress".
NO RESERVE Trollope (Anthony) Phineas Finn, the Irish Member, 2 vol., first edition in book form, 20 wood-engraved plates after John Everett Millais, some spotting or foxing (mostly light), vol.1 paper adhesion to plate opposite p.120, causing loss of text, contemporary half calf, gilt spines in compartments, vol.1 joints starting, both vol. rubbed, [Sadleir 30], Virtue & Co., 1869; and 2 others, 19th century illustrated, v.s. (3)
Prison Reform.- Fraser (Peter) Iniquity Display'd: Or, The Happy Deliverance. A Poem, first edition, 8pp., disbound, [Foxon F231], folio, Printed for the Author, 1729.⁂ Written from a debtor's prison, nothing is really know of Peter Fraser, but his poem was inspired by one of the first attempts in England at prison reform, led by the MP William Oglethorpe, whose close friend Robert Castell had contracted smallpox and died in the notoriously squalid Fleet prison in 1728. Oglethorpe was also later instrumental in the founding of the colony of Georgia.
Southey (Robert) The Poems, 2 vol., vol.1 third edition, vol.2 first edition, the odd spot, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, Bristol, 1799; Wat Tyler, new edition, half-title, occasional light foxing, book label of Anne and F.G. Renier, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, 1817; The Remains of Henry Kirke White, 2 vol. in 1, engraved frontispieces and pictorial title, ink ownership stamp to endpapers, contemporary straight-grain brown morocco, sympathetically rebacked preserving original backstrip, rubbed, 1807; and 4 others, Southey, 8vo (8)
Blackfriars Bridge.- Scheme (A) for Speedily Raising a Sum of Money Sufficient to defray the Expence of Building a Stone Bridge at Black-Fryars...by A Liveryman, first edition, 28pp., disbound, [ESTC locates BL and Bodleian copies only; not in Higgs or Goldsmiths'], 4to, Printed for J. Pottinger, 1759.⁂ Detailed and costed proposal which begins "It is now universally allowed, that a third or middle bridge will be of infinite use, convenience and pleasure to this great, rich, trading and populous city."
NO RESERVE Bibliography.- Americana.- Cowan (Robert Ernest & Robert Graniss), A Bibliography of the History of California 1510-1930, 3 vol. (with index), San Francisco, John Henry Nash, 1933 § Walter (Frank K.) & Virginia Doneghy, Jesuit Relations and Other Americana in the Library of James F. Bell, frontispiece, illustrations, Minneapolis, 1950 § Crandall (Marjorie Lyall) Confederate Imprints..., 2 vol., Maine, 1955 § Blew (John) The Lives and Work of Wright and Zoe Howes and the Story of U.S.iana, one of 125 copies, frontispiece, illustrations, Chicago, 2014 § Ives (Sidney, editor) The Parkman Dexter Howe Library, limited edition, 10 vol., vol.I frontispiece, each illustrations, Florida, 1983-94 § Farquhar (Francis P.) Yosemite, The Big Trees, and the High Sierra, illustrations, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1948, first cloth-backed boards, fifth original wrappers, else original cloth, first fore-edges uncut, each a little marked and rubbed, last dust-jacket, a few closed tears, a little loss at spine foot; and a quantity of others, related, v.s. (qty.)
Swiftiana.- History of Martin (The). Giving an Account of his Departure from Jack..., first edition, second issue, disbound, [Teerink 784], 8vo, Printed for J. Tempe, 1744.⁂ This second issue comprises the sheets of the 1742 printing with a new title-page and the original half-title omitted. This tract first appeared in a collected edition of Swift's works published by T. Johnson at the Hague in 1720, but it has generally been regarded as spurious and Teerink suggests it may have been added by Swift to his "Battle of the Books". It includes for the first time a dialogue (pp.12-24) between Alexander Pope and the Irish dramatist and poet Charles Coffey.
NO RESERVE Chess.- An Easy Introduction to the Game of Chess..., new edition, publisher's catalogues at front and back, lacking plate, a few ff. pencil annotations, doodles to pastedowns, staining, spotting and offsetting throughout, contents separating, Philadelphia, 1817 § Tylor (Louis) Chess: A Christmas Masque, first edition, title in red and black, 1888 § Bachmann (Ludwig) Pillsbury und Charousek..., plates, illustrations, Ansbach, 1914 § Bibliotheca van der Linde - Niemeijeriana, A Catalogue of the Chess Collection in the Royal Library, The Hague, The Hague, 1955 § Betts (Douglas A.) Chess: An Annotated Bibliography of Works Published in the English Language 1850-1968, Boston, 1974, first original paper-backed boards, second and last original cloth, third original gilt vellum, yapp edges, fourth original wrappers, first and third edges uncut, first spine broken and boards loose, each stained and/or marked, first and third rubbed; and a small quantity of others, 8vo & 4to (sm.qty.)⁂ The first contains Benjamin Franklin's entertaining essay 'The Morals of Chess'.Reuben Fine wrote of the tragic Charousek : "Playing over his early games is like reading Keats's poetry: you cannot help feeling a grievous, oppressive sense of loss, of promise unfulfilled."Literature: Fine (Reuben) The World's Greatest Chess Games, New York, 1976, p103.
Australia.- Parker (B. & N.) The History of the Hoppers, 12 colour plated, numerous sepia illustrations, original pictorial boards, rebacked in modern buckram, chipped at extremities, [c.1912] § Weatherly (F.E.) The Old Woman who lived in a shoe, chromolithographed illustrations by Edith Berkeley, the book shaped like a shoe, stitched, as issued, a few ff. working loose, Hildesheimer & Faulkner, c.1890; and 2 others, Children's, including a signed first edition of Awdry's The Three Railway Englines and a first edition of Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox, v.s. (4)
Weather & Land Management.- Capper (Col. James) Meteorological and Miscellaneous Tracts..., half-title, 5 folding tables, 1 with closed tear, plate, armorial bookplate of Christopher P. Norbury to front pastedown, also a label stating the volume was bought at the sale of the library of Richard & Thomas Knight at Downton Castle on November 22, 1951, contents separating a little, 1 quire loose, Cardiff, by J.D. Bird, c.1810 § Anderson (James) A Practical Treatise on Draining Bogs and Swampy Grounds..., first edition, half-title, 3 engraved plates, 1 folding, illustrations, [ESTC T127837], for G.G. and J.Robinson, 1797 § [Kent (Nathaniel)] Waste Lands Considered..., original paper wrappers, a little creased, spine with short splits at head and foot , c.1776, first and second contemporary paper-backed boards, edges uncut, worn and stained, first with paper spine label, second with a little superficial loss; and another copy of the second in calf, 8vo (4)⁂ The last extracted from the second edition of Kent's Hints to Gentlemen of Landed Property.
Mathematics.- Barrow (Isaac) Euclidis Data succincte demonstrata, first edition, woodcut diagrams, errata leaf at end, trimmed close at head affecting first word of title and several headlines, title a little soiled, disbound, [Wing E3390], 8vo, Cambridge, ex. Officina Joann. Field; impensis Guglielmi Nealand, 1657.⁂ Barrow's second publication and the second of his two epitomes of Euclid, each designed as an undergraduate text. He later became master of Trinity College, Cambridge and as a mathematician was regarded by his contemporaries as second only to Isaac Newton.
Swiftiana.- Delany (Patrick) The Pheasant and the Lark. A Fable, first edition, 8pp., perforated library stamp to final leaf (affecting text), disbound, [Foxon D203; Teerinck 695; Rothschild 788], 8vo, Dublin, 1730.⁂ Scarce verse satire on Lord Carteret and Jonathan Swift, to which Swift published a reply, An Answer to Dr. D----y's Fable (Foxon S796).
NO RESERVE Fabrice (Friedrich Ernst von) The Genuine Letters of Baron Fabricius ... to Charles XII. of Sweden, first English edition, pp.xxv-xxviii misbound, occasional faint spotting, bookplate, front free endpaper becoming loose, contemporary calf, a little rubbed, small loss to spine head, 8vo, 1761.
NO RESERVE Voltaire & The French Enlightenment.- Besterman (Theodore) Voltaire, first American edition, illustrations, bookseller's label to front pastedown, New York, 1969 § Shackleton (Robert) Montesquieu: A Critical Biography, frontispiece and plates, Oxford, 1970 § Gunny (Ahmad) Voltaire and English Literature..., Oxford, 1979 § Ayer (A.J.) Voltaire, first American edition, New York, 1986 § Pomeau (René) D'Arouet à Voltaire, second edition, Oxford, 1988, third and last by The Voltaire Foundation, original cloth, cloth-backed boards, or wrappers, each but last dust-jacket, first and second tears or loss, first price-clipped; and a small quantity of others, related, including the other vol. in Pomeau's series, 8vo & 4to (sm.qty.)
NO RESERVE Economics.- [Arbuthnot (John)] Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures..., first edition, title in red and black, 18 engraved plates at end, one folding, woodcut initials and ornaments, without errata slip pasted to foot of p.317 called for by ESTC, contemporary ink signature "Ben. Barrington" on title, browned, occasional soiling, contemporary calf, morocco label, a little worn, joints split, [Goldsmiths' 6495], 4to, for J.Tonson, 1727.
Africa.- Speke (John Hanning) Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 lithographed maps (1 printed in red and blue and one folding and in pocket at end), further engraved portrait, 24 wood-engraved plates, wood-engraved illustrations, 34pp. publishers' catalogue at end, a few short splits at folds to folding map, repaired verso, some spotting, recased in original pictorial cloth, gilt, corners little worn, rubbed, [Czech p.151], 8vo, Edinburgh and London, 1865.⁂ 'One of the cornerstone books of African exploration' (Czech).
[Cooke (Thomas)] The Battle of the Poets. An Heroick Poem, first edition, some light scattered spotting and browning, disbound, folio, J.Roberts, 1725.⁂ First edition of Cooke's most famous work, rare, ESTC lists on 2 copies in the UK (both BL) and 6 in the US. Cooke's poem continued the British Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns which Swift had taken up in The Battle of the Books. Unlike in Swift's poem however Cooke had Pope and other Tory writers defeated by their modern counterparts. Cooke would later go on to criticise Pope's translation of the Iliad, these two attacks ultimately led to Pope including Cooke as one of the dunces in his Dunciad.
NO RESERVE Australia.- Praed (Winthrop Mackworth) Australasia. A Poem, first edition, some light scattered spotting, old wrappers, stitched, some light chipping and creasing to extremities, [Ferguson 922], 8vo, [Cambridge, 1823].⁂ A rare work that won the Chancellor's Medal for 1823, in doing so beating a poem on the same subject by a native Australian.
Rakes of London.- Glanvill (Abraham) The Rake Reform'd: A Poem, first edition, 32pp., half-title, disbound, [Foxon G171], 8vo, 1718.⁂ The first half of the poem describes a life of debauchery in the city - the poet wakes with a hangover, which he assuages with further drinking bouts, a visit to Bradbury's (a gambling den), a visit to the theatre etc. He eventually sees the error of his ways and retires to an idyllic life in the country.
Childrens illustrated, various including: LANG (A) The Princess Nobody, [1884] first edition, illustrated by Richard Doyle; CHISHOLM, (Louey) The Enchanted Land, 1906 first edition, illustrated by Katharine Cameron; ANDERSEN (Hans Christian) Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales illustrated by Cecile Walton, 1911; CARROLL (L) Alice in Wonderland, illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell c.1918; etc
GRAHAME (Kenneth) The Wind in the Willows, second edition 1908, 8vo, frontispiece by Graham Robertson, original cloth; MILNE (A A) Winnie The Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, Now We Are Six, all first editions, 1926-28, 8vo, The House at Pooh Corner with some pen marks to front board; When We Were Very Young, 3rd edition; WILDE (O) De Profundis, 1st trade edition 1905, 8vo, cloth, tears along spine to rear joint, 40pp. adverts at rear (6)
Illustrated. GIBBINGS (Robert) The Wood Engravings, first edition Dent 1959; REYNOLDS (Frank) Mr Pickwick, Hodder & Stoughton [no date], 4to, tipped in colour plates, signed limited edition (this copy unnumbered), vellum (lacks tie); BELL (Major J) Compendious View of universal History and Literature. 4th edition, 1833, folio, worn binding; few others including local history with plates
MILNE, (A A) Winnie The Pooh. A Complete Collection of Stories and Poems. Harrods 1994, 4to, special limited edition, no. 244/250 copies, morocco gilt; When We Were Very Young, 1924, 2nd Edition, dust jacket; POTTER, (Beatrix) The Tale of Little Pig Robinson. 1930, first edition; together with 9 other Beatrix Potter tales, 4 of which are first editions (12)
[GARTH (Samuel)] The Dispensary, a Poem. 3rd edition 1699, 8vo, frontispiece, early ink name addditions, foxed and toned, panel calf; another copy, 7th edition 1714, 12mo; another copy, calf; 10th edition 1751, 12mo, calf; [COTTON, Nathaniel]. Various Pieces in Verse and Prose, 2 vols., 1791, 8vo, calf, cracked joints; ibid. Visions in Verse, for the Entertainment and Instruction of Younger Minds. First edition 1751, 8vo, disbound; another copy, 2nd edition, disbound; another copy, 3rd edition 1752, 12mo, contemporary red morocco gilt; two others, 7th edition 1767, and 1808; BILLINGE (Rev. C) Poems on Christian Charity. Wolverhampton 1784, 8vo, modern binding; The Vision a Poem on the Restoration of His Majesty's Health. Birmingham [no date], small 4to, 18pp., disbound
AINSWORTH (W Harrison) Jack Sheppard. First edition, London: Bentley 1839, large 12mo, in 3 vols., illustrations as called for by George Cruikshank, half title to vol. III only, publisher's cloth, one inner hinge split; SURTEES (R S) Handley Cross, or the Spa Hunt. first edition, 1843, 3 vols. 8vo, original cloth backed boards with paper labels; READE (Charles) Hard Cash, in 3 vols., first edition, 1863, 8vo, publisher's cloth (chipped spines), text with slight marginal toning (9)
BYROM (John) Miscellaneous Poems, by ----, inventor of the Universal English Short-hand. First edition, 2 vols., Manchester: J. Harrop 1773, 8vo, contemporary calf; An Antidote aganist Melancholy. Being a Collection of fourscore merry Songs. London: for D. Browne 1749, 8vo, calf; GREEN (Matthew) The Spleen an Epistle. First edition, London: A. Dodd 1737, 8vo, ex. libris Graham Pollard, later morocco by Maltby, Oxford; another copy, 2nd edition 1754, modern cloth; another edition 1796, 12mo; ARMSTRONG (John) The Art of Preserving Health. 2nd edition 1745, 8vo, mottled calf gilt; PENROSE (Rev. T) Poems, first edition, London 1781, small 8vo, calf; POTTER (T.; surgeon) The Moralist, or Portraits of the Human Mind, in 2 vols., 1785, covers worn in places
DICKENS (Charles) A Tale of Two Cities. London 1859, 8vo, first edition in book form and first issue with p.213 misnumbered 113, and misprint "affetcionately" on p.134, line 12, with frontispiece, engraved title and 14 plates, very slight toning or foxing to title and plates, contemporary half morocco this copy apparently without signature "b" on the list of plates
DICKENS (Charles) Our Mutual Friend, first edition, London 1865, 8vo, 2 vols. in one, illustrated by Marcus Stone, engraved title and plates, contents generally good, contemporary half calf; Martin Chuzzlewit, first edition, 1844, 8vo, with first issue vignette title page with '100£'to sign post, the plates with typical marginal toning, similar binding (2)
DICKENS (Charles). Nicholas Nickleby, London 1839, 8vo, frontispiece and plates with typical marginal darkening or staining, lacks upper board; Household Words, vols. II, IV, V, IX, XI, XIX, 1851-59, 8vo, half calf; All the Year Round, vols. IX, X, 1863-64, 8vo; The Letters of ----, 3 vols., 2nd edition 1880-82, original cloth, spines slightly faded; FORSTER (J) Life of ---, 1893, publisher's cloth; STONE (H) The Uncollected Writings, 2 vols., first English edition 1969, dust jackets; STONEHOUSE (J H) Green Leaves. Piccadilly Fountain Press 1931, edition of 535 copies; FIELDING (K J) The Speeches, Oxford 1960; few others
Dreams and ghosts, 8vo and smaller. OLLIER (C) Fallacy of Ghosts Dreams and Omens. 1848; COLQUHOUN (J C) Seven Lectures on Somnambulism, 1845; BLAIR (Mrs) Dreams and Dreaming, no date, c.1840; The Young Men and Maids Delight or a Universal Dream Book. no date (18th century), 32pp. pamphlet; [GRAY (Robert)] The Theory of Dreams, 2 vols., 1808, 12mo, first edition, uncut, boards; BAKER (Rachel) Remarkable Sermons of --, 1815, uncut, boards; 3 others (10)
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