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Eric Gill (1882-1940) Pair of nudes and hands from Eric Gill 25 Nudes London JM Dent & Sons for Hague and Gill 1938 First Edition Wood Engraving.30cm high 35cm wide. 

COOLEY 1989 12 YEAR OLD 117.1 - THE SCOTCH MALT WHISKY SOCIETY FIRST EDITION DISTILLERY ACTIVE with carton 70cl/ 49.35% (86.6 proof)

GIVE 'N' TELL (GLENLIVET) 1992 25 YEAR OLD - THE SPIRIT STILL FIRST EDITION DISTILLERY ACTIVE first edition, bottle number 222 of 256, with carton 70cl/ 51.4%

CARSEBRIDGE 1964 52 YEAR OLD - THE SPIRIT STILL FIRST EDITION DISTILLERY CLOSED 1983 bottle number 13 of 31, with carton 70cl/ 40.8%

THE MACALLAN THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO BUYING VINTAGE MACALLAN, FIRST EDITION 2002, The Macallan Distillers Ltd

YOICHI 1986 16 YEAR OLD 116.1 - THE SCOTCH MALT WHISKY SOCIETY FIRST EDITION DISTILLERY ACTIVE with carton 70cl/ 56.6% (99 proof)

GLENMORANGIE 1993 13 YEAR OLD 125.1 - THE SCOTCH MALT WHISKY SOCIETY FIRST EDITION DISTILLERY ACTIVE 70cl/ 51.2% (89.6 proof); together with TWO BOTTLES OF GLENMORANGIE 12 YEAR OLD THE LASANTA (Distillery Active), matured in sherry casks, non chill-filtered, 70cl/ 46%; and TWO BOTTLES OF ISLE OF ARRAN 1998 9 YEAR OLD 121.20 - THE SCOTCH MALT WHISKY SOCIETY, (Distillery Active), 70cl/ 56.5% (98.8 proof) (5)

BURNSIDE 18 YEAR OLD (SPOONED BALVENIE) - THE SPIRIT STILL FIRST EDITION DISTILLERY ACTIVE bottle number 20 of 37, single cask Balvenie with a small amount of Glenfiddich added, with carton 70cl/ 58.2%

Collectables Books, 4 Enid Blyton books. 'Five Go Adventuring Again' by Enid Blyton First Edition 1943, 'The Children of Willow Farm' by Enid Blyton 3rd impression reprinted 1948, 'Five Have A Wonderful Time' by Enid Blyton 1952 First Edition, 'Five Go Off To Camp' by Enid Blyton Tenth Impression 1960 all with original dustwrappers presented in protective film (fair/good) (4)

Collectables Books, 7 children's books. 'The Quest for the Perfect Planet' by Captain W E Johns 1961 First Edition, 'Biggles in the Orient' by Captain W E Johns 1944 First Edition, 'Worrals Flies Again' by Captain W E Johns 1949 4th impression, 'Biggles Second Case' 1950 3rd impression, 'Slash G Hombre' by Tom J Hopkins First Edition 1949, 'Moby Dick' by Herman Melville 1958, 'Mystery at Brinsford' by James W Kenyon 1946 First Edition all with original dustwrappers presented in protective film (fair/good) (7).

Collectables Books, a large quantity of vintage children's books to include, 'The Cockyolly Bird' by Mabel Dearmer 1914, 'The House At Pooh Corner', 1928 First Edition, no dust wrapper, pink boards with gilt embossed decoration,' The Reign of King Oberon' edited by Walter Jerrold, illustrations by Charles Robinson, ' The Book of the Flower Fairies' by Cicely M Barker, Blackie, 'King Arthur's Knights' re told by Henry Gilbert illustrated by Walter Crane, TC and EC Jack, 'My Book of Heroes and Heroines' by Clayton Edwards and Arthur L Hayward Cassell and Co (poor to gd) (25+)

Football books, 4 scarce editions, 'The Luton Town Story 1885-1985' by Timothy Collings, first edition, 1985 (no dustjacket), 'Sheffield Wednesday a Complete Record 1867-1987', Breedon issue, 'The Sky Blues, the Story of Coventry City FC' by Derek Henderson, first edition, 1968, 'There was some Football Too... 100 years of Derby County' by Tony Francis, first edition, 1984 (last 3 complete with dustjackets) (gd/vg) (4)

Theology - le Courayer (The Rev. Father Peter Francis), A Defence of the Validity of the Englifh (sic) Ordinations [...], first English edition, Tranflated (sic) [...] by Dan. Williams, Presbyter of the Church of England, W. and J. Innys (sic), J. Osborne, and C. Rivington, London 1725, contemporary Restoration calf, blind tooled, Pictorial bookplate to pastedown: Franciscan Central Library, Canterbury, small 8vo; Anon, [Hornyold (Bishop John Joseph)], The Real Principles of Catholicks (sic): or, A Catechism for the Adult, Explaining the Principal Points of the Doctrine Ceremonies of the Catholick (sic) Church, Thomas Meighan, London 1749, contemporary calf (disbound), small 8vo; Provincial Imprint, Anon, [Orton (Job)], A Summary of Doctrinal and Practical Religion [...], sixth edition, J. Eddowes [...], Shrewsbury 1776, contemporary calf, 18mo; Parsons (Robert), A Christian Directory [...], J. Marmaduke, London 1769, contemporary calf boards, later spine, 8vo; Cruden's Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, fourth edition, J. Buckland [...], London 1785, portrait frontispiece of the author by Thomas Trotter (1750 - 1803) after Thomas Frye (c. 1710 - 1762), contemporary speckled calf binding, gilt lettered red morocco title label, 4to; Local Association, Fleetwood's Life of Jesus Christ, C. Cooke [...], London [n.d., c. 1800], engraved frontispiece, further engraved full-page plates, fold-out plan of Jerusalem, contemporary reverse calf, ink MS ownership inscription: Ashton Jerroms Book, Mickleover, [Derby], Oct 1803, 4to; Barclay (Robert), An Apology for the True Chriftian (sic) Divinity: Being an Explanation and Vindication of the Principles and Doctrines of the People called Quakers, eighth edition, J. Phillips, London 1780, contemporary speckled calf, gilt lettered red morocco title label to spine, 8vo; Harmer (Rev. Thomas), Observations on Various Passages of Scripture [...], fifth edition, five-volume set, With Many Important Additions and Corrections, Lackington and Co., London 1816, contemporary speckled calf, gilt lettered title label to spine within raised bands, 8vo; Jones (The Rev. Jeremiah), A New and Full Method of Settling the Canonical Authority of the New Testament, volumes II & III only, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1798, contemporary polished calf gilt, 8vo; Scottish Imprint, Gerard's Institutes, second edition, Archibald Constable & Co., Edinburgh 1808, contemporary calf, 8vo; Irish Imprint, O'Leary (The Rev. Arthur), Miscellaneous Tracts, second edition, John Chambers, Dublin 1781, contemporary calf, 8vo; bindings; etc

Ross (Captain Sir John, C.B., K.S.A., K.C.S., &c. &c.), Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions During the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, Including the Reports of Commander, Now Captain, James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c., and The Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole, A.W. Webster, first edition, London 1835, pp: [vi], xxxiii, [i], 740, complete with thirty lithographic and chromolithographic plates, maps and charts (Plate 6: Christian's Monument erroneously bound at page 147 not page 155 as called for), early 20th century blue buckram binding, gilt lettered spine, large 4to

Grahame (Kenneth): The Golden Age, first edition, John Lane, The Bodley Head, London 1898, pp: [vi], 196, advert [i], pictorial yellow buckram as issued, small 8vo; Dream Days, first eidtion, John, Lane, The Bodley Head, London 1899, pp: [vi], 275, 15 (John Lane: Catalogue of Publications in Belles Lettres with architectural frontispiece), pictorial yellow buckram as issued, small 8vo, (2); Stevenson (Robert Louis) and Osbourne (Lloyd), The Ebb-Tide: A Trio and Quartette, William Heinemann, London 1894, contemporary pictorial cloth as issued, 12mo, [3]

History - Aikin (Lucy), Memoirs of the Court of King James the First, third edition, two-volume set, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London 1823, engraved frontispieces to each volume, contemporary calf gilt, gilt lettered spines, marbled endpapers, 8vo; The Works of William Robertson [...], With A Sketch of His Life and Writing by R.A. Davenport, eleven-volume set, Printed by C. Whittingham, Chiswick 1824, contemporary speckled calf bindings, covers with gilt double-fillets, gilt tooled and lettered spines, 16mo; Martin (Theodore), The Life of His Royal Highness The Prince Consort, With Portraits and Views, second edition, volumes I, II, III & V only, Smith, Elder, & Co., London 1875 - 1880, contemporary quarter-calf and marbled boards, endpapers en suite, 8vo; Historical Parallels, two-volume set, Charles Knight, London 1831 - 1835, contemporary blue quarter-buckram and marbled boards, 16mo; Lord Macaulay, Walter Savage Landor, bindings, etc

Travel, Africa - Stern (Irma), Congo, signed and numbered limited edition 16/300 by the author, J.L. Van Schaik Ltd., Pretoria 1943, pp: [iv], 50, [ii], the log illustrated throughout with full-page and tipped-in b/w illustrations of the artist's Congolese work, contemporary half-raffia and drab cloth boards as issued, the upper cover titled, signed endpaper, loosely inserted contemporary two-fold four-sided publisher's book release notice, 4to This is one of two illustrated diaries by Irma Stern of her travels in Africa in the 1930s and 1940s. This first and limited edition of Congo not only contains Stern's reflections on the places and people she met on her journey, but it also bound with raffia she brought from the Congo. Despite its apparent modesty it provides a richly, evocative view of an artist's exploration of an exotic locale. Stern writes: "the sound "Congo" makes my blood dance". This diary provides some insight into the inspiration for the flood of creative work Stern produced in this period.

Modern First Editions - Haddon (Mark), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, first edition, Jonathan Cape, London 2003, h/b, d/j, 8vo; another, first children's edition, David Fickling Books, Oxford 2003, h/b, d/j; Ransome (Arthur), Mainly About Fishing, first edition, With Eight Illustrations (Six in Colour), first edition, Adam & Charles Black, London 1959, h/b, d/j, 8vo; Wodehouse (P.G.), Bachelors Anonymous, first edition, Barrie & Jenkins, London 1973, h/b, d/j, small 8vo; Deighton (Len), Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain, With an Introduction by A.J.P. Taylor, first edition, tipped-in signed and dedicated bookplate from the author, Jonathan Cape, London 1977, h/b, d/j, 8vo and Only When I Larf (sic), inscribed from the author, first paperback edition, Sphere Books Limited, London 1968, 12mo; Nicholson (William), The Wind on Fire trilogy: The Wind Singer, first edition, Mammoth, London 2000, h/b, d/j, 8vo; Slaves of Mastery, first edition, Mammoth, London 2001, h/b, d/j, 8vo; Firesong, first edition, Egmont, London 2002, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (3), [9]

Philosophy - Stewart (Dugald), The Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers of Man, first edition, two-volume set, Adam Black, Edinburgh 1828, contemporary diced calf gilt, gilt lettered red morocco title labels, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo; Whatley (Richard), Elements of Rhetoric, Comprising the Substance of the Article in the Encyclopædia Metropolitana [...], W. Baxter for John Murrary, Oxford 1828, publisher's boards, 8vo; Mill (John Stuart), An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy [...], fifth edition, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, London 1878, contemporary half-calf and buckram boards, 8vo, [4]

Botany - Provincial Imprint, Deering (C[harles], M.D.), Catalogus Stirpium, &c., or, A Catalogue of Plants, Naturally growing and commonly cultivated in divers (sic) Parts of England, More efpecially (sic) about Nottingham [...], first and only edition, Nottingham: Printed for the Author, by G. Ayscough, and fold (sic) by C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard (sic), London 1738, pp: [xx], 231, index [x], 6, [3], 24, contemporary speckled calf binding, rebacked spine preserving original panels and tooled title label, 18th century ownership ink stamp to pastedown: Dr. Olderfhaw (sic, Oldershaw) within a rope twist reserve, further pencil ownership inscription and dated 1796 to recto endpaper, small 8vo, Henrey 620

West (Rebecca), A Train of Powder, signed dedication by the author, first edition, Macmillan & Co Ltd, London 1955, pp: vii, 332, h/b, d/j, 8vo

Miscellaneous - Bindings, Thackeray (W.M.), The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century, first collected edition, two-volume set, With Illustrations on Steel and Wood by the Author, Bradbury & Evans, London 1858 - 1859, contemporary quarter-calf and marbled boards, gilt lettered crimson morocco title labels, 8vo; Mignet (F.A.), Histoire de la Révolution Française, Depuis 1789 Jusqu'en 1814, fourteenth edition, two-volume set, Firmin Didot Père et Fils, Paris 1827, contemporary calf gilt, lettered spines, marbled endpapers and edges, Golden Age Armorial bookplates by Charles William Sherborn: Charles, Viscount Halifax [1839 - 1934, of Hickleton Hall, Doncaster, Yorkshire], 8vo; The Lady's Magazine; or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated folely (sic) to their Use and Amusement, Volume IV, G. Robinson, London 1773, full-page engraved frontispiece, fold-out sheet music, calf spine and period publisher's boards, contemporary ink MS ownership inscription: Elizabeth Cheall, 8vo; Annual Register, 1793; Children's Book, The Poetical Epitome [...], London [n.d., c. 1792], stipple engraved vignette to title-page, disbound with one contemporary calf board remaining but loose, oblong 18mo, (faults); Holy Bible, three-volume set, late 19th century, floppy morocco bindings, gilt edges, 16mo; Chaucer's Works, Oxford University Press, 1901, contemporary Art Nouveau vellum binding, large 12mo; Sophoclis Tragœdiae [...], Apud, Black, Young & Young, London 1825, contemporary calf gilt, extensive contemporary ink MS scholar's marginalia and annotations throughout, large 16mo; other books, various leather bindings and sizes; (qty)

Wilde (Oscar), De Profundis, first English edition, Methuen and Co., London 1905, pp: 151, 40 (catalogue of Methuen titles), contemporary blue buckram as issued, gilt lettered upper cover and spine, contemporary loose newspaper clippings viz. the epistle, some annotations in places, 12mo

Huxley (Aldous): The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems, Printed at the Vincent Works for B.H. Blackwell, Oxford 1918, bibliographic information to colophon only, pictorial wrappers as issued, 12mo; Brave New World: A Novel, first American edition, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., New York 1932, h/b, contemporary buckram gilt as issued, small 8vo; The World of Light: A Comedy in Three Acts, first edition, Chatto & Windus, London 1934, h/b, d/j, 12mo; Eyeless in Gaza, first edition, Chatto & Windus, London 1936, h/b, contemporary buckram as issued, 8vo; Time Must Have A Stop, first edition, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York 1944, h/b, d/j, small 8vo; Ape and Essence, first edition, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York 1948, h/b, d/j, small 8vo; Mortal Coils: A Play, From the Short Story The Gioconda Smile, first edition as current title, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York [n.d., 1948], h/b, d/j, 12mo; The Devils of Loudun, first edition, Harper & Brothers, New York 1952, h/b, d/j, 8vo; Savage (D.S.), Mysticism & Aldous Huxley: An Examination of Gerald Heard - Aldous Huxley Theories, first and only edition, Printed by the Lincoln Press for The Alicat Bookshop Press, New York 1947, pamphlet, floppy slim 8vo, [9]

Natural History - [Pluche (Abbé Noël-Antoine)], Nature Delineated, Being Philofophical (sic) Converfations (sic): wherein The wonderful Works of Providence [... & ...] The whole being a complete Courfe (sic) of Natural and experimental Philosophy [...], composed four-volume set: volume I, first edition, 1739 & volumes II - IV, second edition, 1740, Printed for, and Sold by James Hodges, at the Looking-Glafs (sic) on London-Bridge, London, engraved frontispieces to each volume, fold-out and full-page anatomical and zoological engraved diagrammatical plates, celestial charts and maps, contemporary speckled calf gilt, various 18th century ink MS ownership inscriptions, 12mo; Bingley (The Rev W.), Animal Biography, or, Popular Zoology; Illustrated by Authentic Accounts [...], sixth edition, volumes I, III & IV only, C. and J. Rivington [...], London 1824, full-page engraved plates by John Shury (act. 1812 - 1844), contemporary quarter-calf gilt and marbled boards, 12mo, [7]

James Bond, 007 - Fleming (Ian), On Her Majesty's Secret Service, first edition, Jonathan Cape, London 1936, pp: 288, h/b, pictorial d/j designed by Richard Chopping, 12mo

Militaria - A List of the Officers of the Army and Royal Marines on Full, Retired, and Half Pay; with An Index, War-Office, [London] 1827, contemporary half-calf and marbled boards, gilt lettered crimson morocco label (refreshed), 8vo; Memoir of Major-General Sir Henry Tombs, V.C., K.C.B., R.A., first & only edition, Printed at The Royal Artillery Institutions, Woolwich 1913, one photogravure frontispiece and five illustrations, full contemporary blue-stained calf gilt prize binding, gilt lettered spine, all edges gilt, 8vo; Mayo (John Horsley), Medals and Decorations of the British Army and Navy, two-volume set, With Numerous Coloured Plates and Illustrations, Archibald Constable and Co, London 1897, full-page coloured plates throughout, contemporary red cloth as issued, 4to; Roberts (Field-Marshal Lord, of Kandahar, V.C., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.), Forty-One Years in India, two-volume set, Richard Bentley and Son, London 1897, contemporary blue buckram as issued, the upper givers gilt with Roberts's coat of arms crested by an earl's coronet, 8vo; Biddulph (Colonel John), The Nineteenth and their Times: Being an Account of the Four Cavalry Regiments in the British Army that Have Borne the Number Nineteen and of the Campaigns in which they Served, London 1899, contemporary buckram, Pictorial bookplate: Pat Murray, shelf number 381, 8vo; Oatts (Lt. Colonel L.B., DSO), Emperor's Chambermaids: The story of the 14th/20th King's Hussars, 1973, h/b, d/j, 4to; Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 1901, Royal Edition, pictorial red cloth as issued, large 8vo; Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed, and Offical Classes, 1916, adverts to prelims, pictorial red cloth as issued, large 12mo; Indian Mutiny, 1898, half-morocco over green cloth; Boer War; Duke of Wellington & Peninsular War interest, [14]

Theology - Baxter (Richard), The Saints Everlafting (sic) Rest, four parts contemporaneously bound as one: first part, lacking title-page; second part, F. Tyton, 1676; third part, W.R., 1677; fourth part, F. Tyton and R. Boutler, 1677, contemporary diced calf, raised bands to spine, traces of ink MS title to spine, 8vo; The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Teftament (sic) and the New, Newly tranflated (sic) out of the Original Tongues, and with the former Tranflations (sic) diligently Compared and Revifed (sic), With Marginal notes, fhewing (sic) Scripture to be the beft (sic) Interpreter of Scripture, [London], engraved architectural title-page dated 1682 with no further printing details, address To the Reader by John Canne, bound with A Small Cambridge Concordance to the Holy Bible [...] To which is Annexed Supplement [...], Printed to be bound up with Bible, Printed by John Hayes, Cambridge 1695, late 18th century black straight-grain morocco gilt (lacking upper cover), lettered spine, marbled endpapers, recto with late 18th/early 19th century ink MS annotations in mainly Greek but some English, ownership inscription: S.P. Hodgkins 1808, 16mo; Spencerus [Spencer] (Gulielmus [William]), Origenes Kata Kelsou, en tomois 8 ; tou autou: Origenis Contra Celsum, Libri Octo, ejusdem Philocalia, Joan. Field, Cantabrigiae [Cambridge] 1658, contemporary panelled calf upper board only (detached), square 8vo; Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, fourth revised and enlarged edition, J.M. for John Williams [...], London 1676, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by Frederick Hendrik Van Hove (1628 - 1698) after Willem Sonmans (fl. 1670 - 1708), contemporary speckled calf with losses and repairs, small folio; [Newman (Samuel)], A Concordance to the Holy Scriptures: With the Various Readings both of Text and Margin, In A more Exact Method than hath hitherto been Extant, third edition, John Hayes, Printer to the Univerfity (sic): For Hannah Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate Hill in London, Cambridge 1682, contemporary speckled calf, gilt tooled spine, blind lettering, 4to [5]

Dickens (Charles): The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club, first edition, with Forty-Three Illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz, Chapman and Hall, London 1837, pp: xiv, [ii], 609, contemporary half-calf and marbled boards and endpapers, 8vo; another edition, 1850, quarter-calf and marbled boards, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, first edition, With Illustrations by Phiz, Chapman and Hall, London 1839, pp: xvi, 624, contemporary green-stained quarter-calf and buckram boards, marbled endpapers, 8vo; Cockton (Henry), The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, The Ventriloquist, first edition, With Sixty Illustrations by Thomas Onwhyn, Willoughby & Co., London [n.d., 1839 - 1840], contemporary quarter-calf and marbled boards (spine detached but present), 8vo; Pictures of the French; Washington Irving; etc, [7]

Africa, Colonial Missionary Interest - Theology, Early African Imprint, Kalati E Ta E Lima Na Miemba, Na Kalati Ya Bebbisedi: Kalati Ya Loba, Bwambu Bo Dualla, Epistles to the Churches, and the Book of Revelation: Scriptures in the Dualla or Cameroons Language, bound with Mienge Ma David, Psalms of David, first edition in Dualla, Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, Cameroons, Western Africa, 1857 & 1859, pp: 193, [iii], [2], 112, contemporary quarter-leather and marbled boards, 8vo

Baskerville Imprint, Sallustius (G[aius] Crispus) and Florus (L[ucius] Annæus, [Histories], first edition, John Baskerville, Birmingham 1773, pp: [ii], 317 (erroneous pagination at 199 - 204 & 226 - 229 but complete), [i], full contemporary mottle calf binding, the relaid contemporary spine with gilt Adamesque urns in foliate compartments, gilt-lettered title red morocco title label, marbled endpapers, Gold Age Armorial bookplate to recto pastedown: W.H. Battie-Wrightson, Cusworth, Yorkshire, 4to

Children's Books - Potter (Beatrix): The Roly-Poly Pudding, third printg of the first edition, Frederick Warne & Co, London and New York 1908 (dated, but probably 1917), endpaper with ink MS dedication inscription dated 1917, tipped-in pictorial buckram binding as issued, small 8vo; another edition, later; The Tale of Peter Rabbit and The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, F. Warne & Co., [London], lacking-title pages, contemporary binding as issued, 18mo, (2); other works, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, various [30]

Ornithology - Morris (Beverley R.), British Game Birds and Wildfowl, Illustrated with Sixty Coloured Plates, first edition, Groombridge and Sons, London 1855, pp: iv, 252, full-page hand-coloured etched and lithographed plates of birds, contemporary purple crushed morocco covers tooled in gilt and blind (disbound, lacking spine), yellow endpapers, all edges gilt, royal quarto

Book: 'Gotha Numaria Sistens Thesauri Friderican, Numismata Antiqua' by Christano Sigisinvndo Liebe, published by R & J Wetstenois & G Smith 1730, first edition

John Saunders. The History of The County of Lincoln, from the earliest period to the present time, first edition, 2 vols, blue cloth, published by John Saunders Jnr, London & Lincoln, 1833-34.

Viscount Galway. Sport with Viscount Galway's Hounds 1876-1907, first edition, cloth, published through private subscription, together with invitations, wedding and funeral programmes relating to Viscounts Galway and associated family members.

Fourteen science fiction and fantasy books to include, 'Kandelman's Krim: A Realistic Fantasy', John Lighton Synge, 1957, first edition, 'Deep Space', Eric Frank Russell, 1956, first English edition, 'The Arm of Mrs Egan and Other Stories', William Fryer Harvey, 1951, 'The Deep Range', Arthur C Clarke, 1957, first edition, 'Worlds of Tomorrow', August Derleth (ed), 1954, first English edition (14).

'The Log from the Sea of Cortez', John Steinbeck and E F Ricketts, The Viking Press, 1951, first American edition, 'Child of Light: A Reassessment of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley', Muriel Spark, Haleigh, Essex, 1951, first edition, 'The Screaming Mimi', Fredric Brown, New York, 1949, 'T. H. Huxley's Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Edited from the Unpublished MS', T H Huxley, 1935, 'An Impossible Woman: The Memories of Dottoressa Moor', edited and with an epilogue by Graham Greene, 1975, first edition (5).

Osbourne [Sharon] - Survivor, signed first edition, 2007, hardback with dustwrapper

Barlow [Gary] - My Take, signed first edition, 2006, hardback with dustwrapper

Ball [Alan] - Playing Extra Time, signed first edition, 2004, hardback with dustwrapper, sold with signed Food for Sport Alan Ball Autobiography Sporting Dinner, 28th October 2004, signed by Alan Ball, Tony Cottee, Frank McAvennie and Tommy Docherty

Berry [Jack] - Better Late Than Never, signed first edition, 2009, hardback with dustwrapper

Box of 19 signed first edition TV/Radio personality books, mostly autobiographies, including Michael Crawford

Box of 22 signed first edition TV/Radio personality books, mostly autobiographies, including Trisha

A PRIVATE CONTINENTAL COLLECTION OF VAN CLEEF & ARPELS JEWELLERY FROM 1960-1970A GOLD AND CORAL 'ALHAMBRA' NECKLACE, BY VAN CLEEF & ARPELS, CIRCA 1970Composed of twenty quatrefoil-shaped coral links, within beaded gold frames, connected by a hammered trace-link chain, mounted in 18K gold, signed VCA, numbered G4050 K1, with maker's mark, French assay marks, length 80.5cm** Please note that this lot contains coral and is subject to CITES regulations when exporting outside of the EU. This lot will also be subject to USA Fish and Wildlife regulations if it is to be imported into the USA.In this the 50th anniversary year of the creation of Van Cleef & Arpels’ iconic four-leaf clover sautoir known as “Alhambra”, Adam’s are delighted to present two pieces from the original collection produced in 1968. The symbol of luck, it has become an immediately recognisable signature of the House of Van Cleef & Arpels and is probably the most easily wearable piece of high jewellery in existence. Although the use of flowers and clovers occurred often prior to the creation of the Alhambra, the simple line of the sautoir signalled a defining moment in style history both for Van Cleef & Arpels and for high jewellery in general. Delicate, sophisticated and effortlessly stylish, the subtle yellow gold chain plays host to a series of yellow gold beaded silhouettes, each gently framing a selection of nature’s finest and most precious materials from white and grey mother-of-pearl, to malachite, carnelian, lapis lazuli, and of course ivory and coral, as exemplified here. It is an embodiment of the skilled lapidaries, jewellers, stone-setters and polishers whose craft makes the Alhambra so effortless and fluid. While the Alhambra has had many patrons, none has been more illustrious than the beautiful Princess Grace, or Grace Kelly as she was previously known. Although as a favoured muse of the house, she owned a virtual treasure trove of gems by Van Cleef & Arpels, her everyday jewellery box contained three Alhambra sautoirs. One in malachite, one in tortoiseshell and one in coral, just like the one included in this sale. Interestingly, the malachite edition was limited to only 100 pieces due to the rarity of the material. Each of these is numbered and can still be identified today.Van Cleef & Arpels continue to create and renew the Alhambra as time goes on and in this the collection’s 50th year, a limited edition commemorative collection has been quickly snapped up by devoted followers. However, none are more coveted than the original first collection from 1968.

A GOLD AND IVORY 'ALHAMBRA' NECKLACE, BY VAN CLEEF & ARPELS, CIRCA 1970Composed of twenty quatrefoil-shaped ivory links, within beaded gold frames, connected by a hammered trace-link chain, mounted in 18K gold, signed VCA, numbered B4050 V141, French assay marks, length 80.5cm** Please note that this lot contains ivory and is subject to CITES regulations when exporting outside of the EU. The United States Government has banned the import of ivory into the USA.In this the 50th anniversary year of the creation of Van Cleef & Arpels’ iconic four-leaf clover sautoir known as “Alhambra”, Adam’s are delighted to present two pieces from the original collection produced in 1968. The symbol of luck, it has become an immediately recognisable signature of the House of Van Cleef & Arpels and is probably the most easily wearable piece of high jewellery in existence. Although the use of flowers and clovers occurred often prior to the creation of the Alhambra, the simple line of the sautoir signalled a defining moment in style history both for Van Cleef & Arpels and for high jewellery in general. Delicate, sophisticated and effortlessly stylish, the subtle yellow gold chain plays host to a series of yellow gold beaded silhouettes, each gently framing a selection of nature’s finest and most precious materials from white and grey mother-of-pearl, to malachite, carnelian, lapis lazuli, and of course ivory and coral, as exemplified here. It is an embodiment of the skilled lapidaries, jewellers, stone-setters and polishers whose craft makes the Alhambra so effortless and fluid. While the Alhambra has had many patrons, none has been more illustrious than the beautiful Princess Grace, or Grace Kelly as she was previously known. Although as a favoured muse of the house, she owned a virtual treasure trove of gems by Van Cleef & Arpels, her everyday jewellery box contained three Alhambra sautoirs. One in malachite, one in tortoiseshell and one in coral, just like the one included in this sale. Interestingly, the malachite edition was limited to only 100 pieces due to the rarity of the material. Each of these is numbered and can still be identified today.Van Cleef & Arpels continue to create and renew the Alhambra as time goes on and in this the collection’s 50th year, a limited edition commemorative collection has been quickly snapped up by devoted followers. However, none are more coveted than the original first collection from 1968.

Giornali scientifici/Scientific Journals. Brugnatelli Luigi Valentino. Biblioteca Fisica d'Europa. T. I [-XX ed ultimo della collezione]. Padova, Dalle Stampe del R.I. Monastero di S. Salvatore, 1788-1791. 20 volumi in-8° (mm 210x130). Frontespizio calcografico nei Tomi I-VI, vignetta incisa su rame al frontespizio dal Tomo VII al XII. Testatine silografiche. Complessive cinque tavole calcografiche, di cui una ripiegata. Duplicato dei fascicoli A e B del Tomo XV rilegati per errore nel tomo XVIII tra le pagine 48 e 49. Brossura editoriale omogenea in carta gialla stampata in nero. Diffusi segni di polvere, strappi sui bordi dei piatti e ai dorsi, con mende, gore e abrasioni.Set completo, in brossura editoriale uniforme, di questa pubblicazione periodica curata dal noto farmacista e scienziato Valentino Brugnatelli (1761-1818). La Biblioteca Fisica d'Europa giocò un ruolo di primo piano nella diffusione in Italia delle teorie e delle scoperte scientifiche più innovative. 20 volumes, 8° (210x130 mm). Engraved titles to volumes I-VI, engraved title-vignette to volumes VII-XII, 5 engraved plates (one folding), volume XVIII with the dedicatory letter to the printer G.B. Bodoni facing title and with duplicate first 2 quires of volume XV bound in by mistake. Uncut in original yellow printed wrappers, slightly worn, especially to spine ends, and soiled. First edition. Scarce complete set, in original publisher's wrappers, of the rare Biblioteca Fisica d'Europa, edited by the well-known Italian pharmacist and great science populariser Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli (1761-1818). The journal played an important role in the diffusion in Italy of new scientific theories and discoveries, offering striking evidence of the growing readership in the age of the Enlightenment.

Disegno industriale/Machinery. Leblanc César-Nicolas-Louis. Choix de modèles appliqués à l'enseignement de dessin des machines, avec un Texte descriptif... Nouvelle édition. Paris, Veuve Leblanc e Augustin Mathias, 1838-1839.Set composto di un volume di testo e 60 tavole incise Testo: 22 fascicoli di testo (mm 276x221; [4],176, [2] pagine), conservati sciolti in chemise editoriale originale stampata in nero, e recante l'anno 1839 quale data di stampa (strappetti ai margini e qualche piccola mancanza). Fascicoli in buono stato di conservazione, in barbe. Bruniture marginali, fioriture, qualche piccola macchia. Tavole: 60 tavole incise sciolte (mm 312x450; battuta mm 286x400), disegnate e incise dallo stesso Leblanc, e numerate 1-60; la tavola nr. 60 in coloritura originale. Margini bianchi bruniti e con tracce di polvere. Fioriture, occasionali macchie di inchiostro, piccoli strappi ai margini bianchi, più evidenti alle tavole nr. 58 e 60 ma mai lesivi della superficie grafica; margine interno della tavola nr. 59 rifilato in corrispondenza della linea di battuta, senza alcuna perdita. La seconda edizione di questo celeberrimo manuale per il disegno industriale, opera fondamentale nella storia dell'ingegneria che assicurò fama al suo autore, il disegnatore e incisore César-Nicolas-Louis Leblanc (1787-1835), docente presso il Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers di Parigi. Il set si compone di 60 grandi tavole incise disegnate e incise dallo stesso Leblanc, a cui si accompagna un volume di testo a fascicoli sciolti (Texte descriptif) a descrizione e spiegazione delle tavole. La prima edizione della Choix de modèles appliquès à l'enseignement du dessin des machines apparve nel 1830, riscuotendo un immediato e vasto successo. Numerosi i disegnatori industriali e ingegneri che si formarono presso l'atelier di Leblanc, e tra i suoi allievi spicca il nome di Eugène Armengaud (vedi lotto precedente).Set della Choix de modèles completi - come nel caso del lotto qui presentato - di tutte le sessanta tavole - sono estremamente rari sul mercato. L. André, César Nicolas Leblanc et le dessin des machines, "Les Cahiers d'histoire du CNAM", 1994, pp. 71-92. Set comprising of one volume of text and 60 engraved plates.Text: 22 quires of text (276x221 mm; [4],176, [2] pages), preserved unbound in original publisher's chemise printed in black, and bearing the publication date '1839'. quale data di stampa (minor tears and a few losses to the board edges). Quires in good condition, uncut. Marginal browning and foxing, some small stains.Plates: 60 engraved plates (312x450 mm; platemark 286x400 mm), drawn and engraved by Leblanc, and numbered 1-60; plate no. 60 in its original colouring. Blank margins browned and dusted. Foxing, sporadic ink stains, short tears to the blank margins, more prominent to plates nos. 58 and 60, not affecting the graphic surface. Right side of plate no. 59 cut along the platemark line, without any loss. The second edition of this famous and influential textbook for industrial drawing, a milestone in the history of engineering, published by the renowned engraver and designer César-Nicolas-Louis Leblanc (1787-1835), who lectured at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris. The set includes 60 large plates drawn and engraved by Leblanc himself, supplemented with a volume entitled (Texte descriptif), which describes and explains the illustrative apparatus. The first edition of the Choix de modèles appliquès à l'enseignement du dessin des machines had appeared in 1830, and its success was immediate and wide. In his atelier Leblanc trained numerous engineers, among them the name of Eugène Armengaud stands out (see previous lot).Set of the Choix de modèles complete - as here - with all the plates are exceedingly rare on the market. L. André, "César Nicolas Leblanc et le dessin des machines", Les Cahiers d'histoire du CNAM, 1994, pp. 71-92.

Euclides. Degli Elementi di Euclide. Gli otto libri geometrici ad uso del Collegio Militare di Verona... in questa quarta edizione accresciuti del trattatello sopra le figure isoperimetre del rinomatissimo padre Pietro Cossali... Verona, Eredi Moroni, 1805.In-8° (mm 230x161). VIII (la prima carta bianca, in segnatura, usata come contropiatto), 319, [1] pagine. Vignetta silografica al frontespizio, raffigurante alcuni strumenti geometrici. Numerosi diagrammi incisi su legno nel testo. Testatine e finalini silografici. Esemplare in buono stato di conservazione, a fascicoli chiusi. Leggere bruniture, qualche fallo di carta, il margine bianco di alcune carte con lievi danni e tracce di polvere. Brossura coeva, dorso liscio con titolo in inchiostro su tassello cartaceo. Piatti con tracce di polvere e aloni, labbri lievemente danneggiati. Etichetta cartacea del libraio veronese Francesco Giustini Dal Dosso al recto della carta di guardia posteriore. Nota di possesso tardo ottocentesca 'Vincenzo Stanga' al piatto anteriore.Quarta e aumentata edizione della traduzione italiana degli Elementa di Euclide curata da Antonio Maria Lorgna, Francesco Ventretti, e Giovanni Battista Bertolini, docenti presso il Collegio Militare di Verona, e apparsa originariamente nel 1766. Il volume del 1805 include, quale appendice, una breve memoria del matematico Pietro Cossali (1748-1815) sulle figure isoperimetriche (cc. T7v-V8r). L'esemplare qui offerto presenta inoltre un dettaglio di grande interesse: alla carta di guardia posteriore è applicata l'etichetta del libraio Francesco Giustini Dal Dosso, attivo 'in Verona a S. Tommaso, dove trovasi un discreto assortimento di Libri stampati; vende anche Carta d'ogni sorta, e Libri rigati, all'ingrosso ed al minuto; nonchè Aghi da pomolo d'ogni sorta, all'ingrosso', con la data a stampa '1838', e l'indicazione del prezzo del volume, acquistabile per 2 lire e 75 centesimi.8° (230x161 mm). VIII (the first leaf blank, included in foliation, used as pastedown), 319, [1] pages. Woodcut vignette on the title-page, depicting geometrical instruments. Numerous woodcut diagrams in the text. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces. A good copy, quires unopened. Light browning; a few paper flaws, the blank margins of some leaves slightly frayed and soiled. Contemporary wrappers, smooth spine with inked title on paper label. Covers rather soiled and spotted, board edges slightly frayed. Bookseller paper ticket of the bookseller from Verona Francesco Giustini Dal Dosso on the recto of the rear flyleaf. Late 19th-century ownership inscription 'Vincenzo Stanga' on the upper cover.Fourth and enlarged edition of the Italian version of Euclid's Elementa edited by Antonio Maria Lorgna, Francesco Ventretti, and Giovanni Battista Bertolini, professors at the Military College of Verona, and first appeared in 1766. The 1805 edition also contains, as an appendix, a brief essay by the mathematician Pietro Cossali (1748-1815) on isoperimetric figures (fols. T7v-V8r). As an interesting feature, the present copy bears on the rear flyleaf the paper ticket of the bookseller Francesco Giustini Dal Dosso, active 'in Verona a S. Tommaso', with the printed date '1838' and the manuscript price notice of the volume, 2 lire and 75 centesimi.

Dinamica/Dynamics. Fontana Mariano. Della dinamica libri tre... Parte I [-III]. Pavia, Stamperia del Monastero di S. Salvatore [Baldassarre Comino], 1790-1795.Un'opera in 3 volumi in-8° (mm 197x123). I. [2], VIII (manca una carta, con dedica a stampa a Johann Joseph Maria von Wilczek), 520 pagine. VII tavole calcografiche numerate ripiegate in fine. II. [4], 325, [3] pagine. IX tavole calcografiche numerate ripiegate in fine. III. [4], 278, [2], 8 pagine. IV tavole calcografiche ripiegate in fine, numerate. Le 8 pagine finali qui presenti, non censite nelle copie in Opac SBN, contengono le Note alla seconda e terza parte della dinamica. Legatura omogenea coeva in mezza pelle con punte, carta spruzzata ai piatti, titoli in oro su doppio tassello al dorso, tagli rossi. Qualche alone e piccola macchia ai piatti. Segnatura tardo ottocentesca vergata su etichetta cartacea applicata ai dorsi.Edizione originale di questo importante trattato del matematico lombardo Mariano Fontana. L'esemplare è privo della carta di dedica al feldmaresciallo austriaco Johann Joseph Maria von Wilczek (1738 - 1819), dal 1782 in carica come Ministro plenipotenziario del milanese, posizione mantenuta fino al 1796 quando i francesi occuparono la Lombardia: è molto probabile che, con l'avvento del dominio francese, copie dell'opera ancora giacenti presso l'editore fossero state private della dedica ad un esponente del precedente governo o che anche esemplari già in mano privata subissero la medesima operazione di "aggiornamento", o adattamento alla mutata situazione politica. Riccardi I, p. 478.One work in 3 volumes, 8° (197x123 mm). I. [2], VIII (lacking one leaf containing the printed dedication to Johann Joseph Maria von Wilczek), 520 pages. VII folding copper engraved plates. II. [4], 325, [3] pages. IX folding copper engraved plates. III. [4], 278, [2], 8 pages. IV folding copper engraved plates. This copy presents in the final 8 pages - not included - according to Opac Sbn - in the recorded copies kept by Italian institutional libraries - the Note alla seconda e terza parte della dinamica. Contemporary half-leather, speckled paper to the covers, spine with gilt title on double lettering-piece. Red edges. Covers slightly spotted and stained. Late 19-century shelfmark, inked on paper label to the spines. First edition of this important work by the Lombard mathematician Mariano Fontana. The copy lacks the printed dedication to Austrian field marshal Johann Joseph Maria von Wilczek (1738 - 1819), Minister in Milan from 1782 to 1796, when Lombardy was occupied by French Army. Probably, under the new French domination, the dedication to the Austrian Minister was removed from all the copies still unsold by the printer and also from copies still belonging to private readers.Riccardi I, p. 478.

Strumenti scientifici/Scientific Instruments. Clarke Edward M. Directions for using Philosophical Apparatus in Private Research and Public Exhibitions... London, published by the author, [1840]. In-8° (mm 223x140). vii, [1], 72 pagine. Vignetta al frontespizio e illustrazioni nel testo. Lievemente brunito. Brossura editoriale stampata in nero e illustrata al piatto anteriore. Tracce di sporco e qualche alone, strappi ai bordi dei piatti, rotture e mende al dorso.Edizione originale di questo opuscolo presentato dalla stampa dell'epoca come prima parte di un'opera molto attesa, "much-needed and most valuable contribution to practical science" (si veda la rivista Mechanics Magazine, XXXIII, 1840, p. 478). "Clarke è un abile meccanico di Londra che ha un laboratorio ove si fabbricano strumenti ad uso della fisica e delle altre scienze naturali. Egli è anche dimostratore nella grandiosa collezione di macchine, strumenti ed apparati della Galleria Vittoria a Londra. Talchè ciò che dice l'autore di questo libro ha per fondamento la propria sua sperienza e la pratica che ha acquistato nella fabbricazione e nella manipolazione degli apparati. L'apparato di cui qui fa conoscere in ogni sua parte ed in ogni caso l'uso, è il microscopio a gas " (cit. Annali di fisica, chimica e matematiche col bullettino dell'industria meccanica e chimica, XII, 1843, p. 324). 8° (223x140 mm). vii, [1], 72 pages. Engraved vignette on the title-page, illustrations in the text. Light browning. Pictorial publisher's wrappers. A few soiling and spotting, some tears to the covers, spine worn. First edition of this booklet, described on the contemporary journals as the first part of a "much-needed and most valuable contribution to practical science" (see Mechanics Magazine, XXXIII, 1840, p. 478). It describes some scientific instruments, especially the gas microscope.

Euler Leonhard. Mechanica, sive Motus scientia analytice exposita... Tomus I [-II]. Санкт-Петербург [Sankt-Peterburg], Tipografija Akademija nauk, 1736.Un'opera in 2 volumi in-4° (mm 265x200). I. [16], 480 [i.e. 488, ripetute per errore nella numerazione le pagine 225-232] pagine. XIV tavole calcografiche numerate ripiegate in fine. Testatina calcografica. II. [8], 500 pagine. XVIII tavole calcografiche numerate ripiegate in fine. Poche pagine con lievissime tracce di polvere. Legatura omogenea coeva in pergamena su cartone, titoli in oro al dorso su doppio tassello, tagli rossi. Leggeri aloni ai piatti.Prima edizione - in bell'esemplare in legatura strettamente coeva e uniforme - di questa famosa opera di Euler (1707-1783), in cui lo scienziato introdusse nell'approccio alla fisica meccanica l'applicazione del metodo analitico in sostituzione di quello geometrico di Newton (Roberts and Trent, pp. 103-104). L'opera gli valse l'apprezzamento di molti affermati scienziati del suo tempo come Johann Bernoulli ("it does honor to Euler's genius and acumen") and Lagrange ("the first great work where Analysis has been applied to the science of motion").One work in 2 volumes, 4° (265x200 mm). I. [16], 480 [i.e. 488, wrongly repeated the pagination numbers 225-232] pages. XIV folding copper engraved plates. Copper engraved head-piece. II. [8], 500 pages. XVIII folding copper engraved plates. Few leaves slightly dusted. Contemporary vellum over pasteboards, spine with gilt title on double lettering-piece, red edges. Covers slightly spotted.First edition of 'Euler's famous work in mechanics in which he introduced the use of analytical methods instead of the geometrical methods of Newton and his followers' (Bibliotheca Mechanica). In the introduction he outlines a program of studies covering every branch of science, but it is his focus on the systematic application of analytical methods that sets the book apart by laying down a foundation of analytical mechanics. 'Euler was the first to appreciate the importance of introducing uniform analytic methods into mechanics, thus enabling its problems to be solved in a clear and direct way' (DSB). Mechanica won the praise of many leading scientists of the time: Johann Bernoulli said of the work that "it does honor to Euler's genius and acumen" while Lagrange in his own Mécanique analytique acknowledges Euler's mechanics to be "the first great work where Analysis has been applied to the science of motion". Roberts and Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, pp. 103-104.

Chimica/Chemistry. Thénard Louis Jacques. Traité de chimie élémentaire, théorique et pratique... Seconde édition, revue et corrigée. Tome premier [-quatrieme]. Paris, Crochard, Hugues Marie Feugueray, 1817-1818. Un'opera in 4 volumi in-8° (mm 210x135). I. xvj, 648 pagine. II. xvj, 712 pagine. III. xvj, 715, [1] pagine. IV. x, 392, [2] pagine. 34 tavole calcografiche, di cui una ripiegata (numero VII), in fine, numerate in cifre romane da I a XXXII (presenti nella serie i numeri VII e VII bis) e l'ultima numerata in cifre arabe (33). Tabelle nel testo. In barbe. Fioriture, qualche pagina con piccole macchie o bruniture, qualche traccia di polvere. Brossura editoriale in carta spruzzata in blu, titoli a stampa su etichetta cartacea ai dorsi. Qualche abrasione e strappo ai bordi dei piatti, dorsi con mende e minime rotture lungo le cerniere. Nota manoscritta, probabilmente una indicazione di prezzo, al contropiatto posteriore del Tomo quarto.Seconda edizione di questo fondamentale manuale di chimica di Louis Jacques Thénard (1777-1857), noto per aver scoperto l'acqua ossigenata. L'opera è dedicata all'amico Gay-Lussac, ed ebbe - dopo la prima in quattro volumi pubblicata nel 1813-1816 - sei successive edizioni in lingua originale francese (continuamente aggiornate) e traduzioni in tedesco, italiano e spagnolo. I primi due volumi riguardano la chimica inorganica, il terzo la chimica organica, il quarto la chimica analitica, con una sezione dedicata alla descrizione della strumentazione. In questa seconda edizione è aggiunta, nel primo tomo, una breve trattazione della Teoria di Dalton. Importanti sono i dettagliati indici inclusi in ogni tomo, che rendono l'opera di Thénard una opera di efficace consultazione. Cole 1263; Partington, IV, 90-97; DSB, XIII, 313.One work in 4 volumes, 8° (210x135 mm). I. xvj, 648 pages. II. xvj, 712 pages. III. xvj, 715, [1] pages. IV. x, 392, [2] pages. 34 copper engraved plates, one folded (no. VII), numbered I-VII, VIIbis, VIII-XXXII, the last plate numbered 33. Tables in the text. Uncut. Foxing, a few leaves spotted and browned, traces of dust. Publisher' s wrappers speckled blue, printed title on paper label to the spines. Covers rubbed, board edges frayed, joints somewhat cracked. Some losses to the spines. Manuscript note - in all likelihood a price notice - on the rear pastedown of vol. 4. Second edition of this important chemistry textbook by Louis Jacques Thénard (1777-1857), known for his discovery of hydrogen peroxide. The book, dedicated to his friend Gay-Lussac, went through six French editions and was translated in German, Italian, and Spanish. The first edition of the Traité was published in four volumes in 1813-1816 and later editions were constantly updated. The first two volumes deal with inorganic chemistry, the third with organic chemistry (vegetable and animal), the fourth with analytical chemistry. In this second edition a brief treatment of Dalton's theory has been added to Tome premier. The detailed index included in each volume makes Thenard's book a particularly useful reference work for the chemistry of its period. The final pages in Tome quatrième describe chemical apparatus. See Cole 1263; Partington, IV, 90-97; DSB, XIII, 313.

Volta Alessandro. Collezione dell'opere... Tomo I. Parte I [- Tomo III]. Firenze, Guglielmo Piatti, 1816. Tre tomi in cinque parti, qui legati in 5 volumi in-8° (mm 210x142). Tomo I. Due parti: I. [10], XII, 277, [3] pagine (Variante B descritta in Opac SBN con Indice della materie a c. 18/4r). Ritratto calcografico dell'Autore in antiporta inciso da R. Morghen su disegno di Sabatelli ed Ermini. II tavole calcografiche numerate ripiegate in fine. II. 485, [3] pagine (Variante B descritta in Opac SBN e comprendente 485 pagine numerate). [1] tavola calcografica ripiegata in fine numerata in cifre romane III. Tomo II. Due parti: I. [2], XXVI, 268, [4] pagine. II. 302, [4] pagine (Variante B descritta in Opac SBN con errata a c. χ1r). II tavole calcografiche numerate ripiegate in fine. Tomo III. X, [2], 387, [3] (di 5, manca c. 25/4 contenente l'errata) pagine. II tavole calcografiche numerate ripiegate in fine. In barbe, intonso. Qualche fioritura e traccia di polvere. Brossura editoriale omogenea, con titoli a stampa su etichetta cartacea ai dorsi. Piccoli strappi ai bordi dei piatti, qualche alone e segno di sporco. Ai dorsi segnatura tardo ottocentesca vergata su tassello cartaceo. Prima edizione collettiva delle opere del comasco Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), curata - mentre lo scienziato era ancora in vita - dal collega fiorentino Vincenzo Antinori (1792-1865). Gamba, 2689. 5 parts divided into 3 Tomes, bound here in 5 volumes, 8° (210x142 mm). Tome I. Two parts: I. [10], XII, 277, [3] pages (Issue B, as described in Opac SBN, containing the Indice della materie on fol. 18/4r). Frontespiece with copper engraved portrait of the Author, by R. Morghen after Sabatelli and Ermini. II folding copper engraved plates. II. 485, [3] pages (Issue B, as described in Opac SBN,, including 485 numbered pages). [1] folding copper engraved plate, numbered III. Tome II. Two parts: I. [2], XXVI, 268, [4] pages. II. 302, [4] pages (Issue B,as described in Opac SBN, containing the errata on fol. χ1r). II folding copper engraved plates. Tome III. X, [2], 387, [3] (of 5, lacking fol. 25/4 with errata) pages. II folding copper engraved plates. Uncut. Foxing, a bit dusted. Publisher's wrappers, spines with printed title on paper labels. Small tears to the covers, a few spotting and soiling. Late 19th-century shelfmark inked on paper label to the spines.First collected edition of the works by Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), edited - while the scientist from Como was still alive - by his Florentine colleague Vincenzo Antinori (1792-1865). Gamba, 2689.

Fisica/Physics. Biot Jean Baptiste. Traité de physique expérimentale et mathématique.. Tome premier [-quatrième]. Paris, Deterville; imprimerie de Crapelet, 1816. Un'opera in 4 volumi in-8° (mm 215x135). I. [4], lxvj, 538, [2] pagine. 5 tavole calcografiche ripiegate in fine numerate I-IV (nella numerazione è inclusa la tavola II bis). 1 tabella ripiegata. II. [4], 551, [1] pagine. 2 tabelle ripiegate inserite tra le pagine 262-263. 4 tavole calcografiche ripiegate in fine, numerate I-IV. III. [4], 516 pagine. 6 tavole calcografiche ripiegate in fine numerate I-VI. IV. [4], 780, [2] pagine. 7 tavole calcografiche ripiegate in fine, numerate I-VII. 2 tabelle ripiegate. In barbe, fioriture, alcune carte brunite. Legatura omogenea coeva in mezza pelle, carta marmorizzata ai piatti, titoli e numero di volume in oro su doppio tassello al dorso. Qualche abrasione, segni d'usura lungo le cerniere con minime rotture al Tomo I. Ai contropiatti anteriori etichetta cartacea 'Si vende a Milano presso P.lo Ant.o Tosi e Comp.'; segnatura a stampa su etichetta cartacea ai dorsi. Edizione originale, non comune, di quest'opera del matematico e fisico Jean Baptiste Biot (1774-1862), con tavole incise da Adam su disegni di Boudrot. "In vol. one of this extensive survey of mathematics and experimental physics, Biot treats the theory of elasticity, adopting the Newtonian hypothesis of molecular construction In the second he considers sound The third concerns magnetism and optics, continuing the discussion of optics in the fourth vol. together with a presentation of heat theory which includes an essay on steam engines" (Roberts - Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, p. 39). One work in 4 volumes, 8° (215x135 mm). I. [4], lxvj, 538, [2] pages. 5 folding engraved plates, numbered I-IV (including plate no. II bis). 1 folding table. II. [4], 551, [1] pages. 2 folding tables between pages 262-263. 4 folding engraved plates numbered I-IV. III. [4], 516 pages. 6 folding engraved plates numbered I-VI. IV. [4], 780, [2] pages. 7 folding engraved plates numbered I-VII. 2 folding tables. Uncut, foxing, a few leaves browned. Contemporary half-leather, marbled covers, gilt titles and volume numbering on double lettering-piece at the spine. Joints slightly damaged, minor cracks to vol. 1. Bookseller paper ticket 'Si vende a Milano presso P.lo Ant.o Tosi e Comp.' on the front pastedown; printed shelfmark on paper label on the spines.The scarce first edition of this work by the mathematician and physic Jean Baptiste Biot (1774-1862), illustrated with the plates engraved by Adam after Boudrot. "In vol. one of this extensive survey of mathematics and experimental physics, Biot treats the theory of elasticity, adopting the Newtonian hypothesis of molecular construction In the second he considers sound The third concerns magnetism and optics, continuing the discussion of optics in the fourth vol. together with a presentation of heat theory which includes an essay on steam engines " (Roberts - Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, p. 39).

Matematica/Mathematics. Belidor Bernard Forest de. Nouveau cours de mathématique, à l'usage de l'Artillerie et du Génie, où l'on applique les parties les plus utiles de cette science à la théorie & à la pratique de différens sujets qui peuvent avoir rapport à la guerre... Nouvelle édition, corrigée et considérablement augmentée. Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1757.In-4° (mm 253x193). xxxii, 656, manca c.[chi greco]1 contenente l'approvazione della censura e il Privilege du Roi. 34 tavole calcografiche ripiegate numerate in fine. Testatina incisa su rame, testatine e finalini silografici. Qualche fioritura e traccia di polvere. Legatura francese coeva in vitello agli acidi, titoli e fregi in oro al dorso a 5 nervi, contropiatti e sguardie in carta decorata, tagli marmorizzati. Abrasioni ai bordi dei piatti e agli angoli, cerniere usurate con qualche minima menda. Seconda edizione, rivista e arricchita, di questo testo pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1725, composto ad uso dei cadetti di artiglieria della Scuola di La Fère dove l'autore - l'ingegnere militare francese Bernard Forest de Belidor (1697-1761) - era professore di matematica.4° (253x193 mm). xxxii, 656, wanting fol.[chi]1 including the approval of the censure and the Privilege du Roi. 43 folding numbered engraved plates. Copper engraved head-piece, woodcut head and tail-pieces. Light foxing and dust traces. Contemporary French mottled calf, gilt titles and decorations on the spine with 5 raised-bands, decorated pastedowns and flyleaves, marbled edges. Covers and corners rubbed, joints damaged with a few losses.Second and significantly enlarged edition of this textbook for artillery cadets and engineers, first published in 1725. This Cours was the first important work written by the noted French military engineer Bernard Forest de Belidor (1697-1761), professor of mathematics at the Artillery School at La Fère.

Chimica/Chemistry. Barreswil Charles-Louis - Sobrero Ascanio. Appendice à tous les traités d'analyse chimique. Recueil des observations publiées depuis dix ans sur l'analyse qualitative et quantitative... Paris, Fortin, Masson, 1843.In-8° (mm 225x135). [2], VI, 547, [1] pagine. [1] tavola calcografica ripiegata in fine siglata 'E. Wormser'. Tracce di polvere su qualche carta, lievi fioriture, fascicoli allentati. Brossura editoriale stampata in nero. Piatti con tracce di polvere e strappi lungo i bordi, dorso con rotture e mende.Edizione originale di questa interessante raccolta di Osservazioni ad opera di due scienziati Charles-Louis Barreswil (1817-1870) e Ascanio Sobrero (1812-1888), entrambi legati - nel loro percorso di formazione - all'autorevole figura scientifica del chimico francese Théophile-Jules Pelouze (1807 - 1867).8° (225x135 mm). [2], VI, 547, [1] pages. [1] folding copper engraved plate, signed 'E. Wormser'. A few leaves lightly dusted and foxed, quires slightly loose. Publisher's wrappers printed in black. Tears and traces of dust to the covers, spine worn. First edition of this interesting collection of experiments by the scientists Charles-Louis Barreswil (1817-1870) and Ascanio Sobrero (1812-1888): both were disciples of the eminent French chemist Théophile-Jules Pelouze (1807-1867).

Meccanica/Mechanics. Bonicelli Vincenzo. Principj di meccanica. Bergamo, Sonzogni, 1831.In-8° (mm 220x135). [4], 340 pagine. III tavole calcografiche ripiegate fuori testo in fine. Carta di Errata applicata al piatto posteriore. In barbe. Brossura editoriale in cartoncino azzurro stampato in nero ai piatti e al dorso. Edizione originale di questo trattato di meccanica dell'abate e scienziato Vincenzo Bonicelli (1795-1855), docente di matematica e fisica presso il Seminario di Bergamo e autore di vari testi di astronomia. 8° (220x135 mm). [4], 340 pages. III folded copper engraved plates. The leaf containing the Errata is pasted into the lower cover. Uncut. Blue publisher's wrappers printed in black. First edition of this essay on mechanics by Vincenzo Bonicelli (1795-1855), professor of Mathematics and Physics at the Bergamo Seminary. He was author of many works on astronomy.

Meccanica/Mechanics. Gabba Alberto. Meccanica elementare. Lezioni... Brescia, Tipografia Valotti, 1831. In-8° (mm 211x141). XV, [1], 376 pagine. Esemplare a fascicoli chiusi, mancante delle 5 tavole piegate che corredano l'edizione. Leggere fioriture marginali, i margini bianchi di alcune carte bruniti. Brossura editoriale originale stampata in nero, piccoli aloni e tracce di polvere. Manca la copertina posteriore, danni al dorso e ai labbri. Prima edizione del manuale di meccanica redatto da Alberto Gabba (1794-1868), tra il 1824 e il 1841 docente di matematica presso il Regio Liceo di Brescia, e comprendente ampie nozioni di meccanica celeste. Trasferitosi a Milano, nel 1843 ottenne la cattedra di Matematica pura presso l'Università di Pavia.8° (211x141 mm). XV, [1], 376 pages. Lacking the 5 folding engraved plates, otherwise copy in good condition, quires unopened. Very light foxing in places, the blank margins of a few leaves frayed. Publisher's wrappers printed in black, spotted and dusted. Lower cover wanting, spine damaged. Board edges rather frayed.First edition of the handbook on mechanics published by Alberto Gabba (1794-1868), including a large section on celestian mechanics. Gabba lectured mathematics in Brescia between 1824 and 1841, and from 1843 held the chair for Pure Mathematics at the University of Pavia.

Fisica/Physics. Boutigny Pierre Hippolyte. Nouvelle branche de physique, ou études sur les corps à l'ètat sphèroidal... Deuxième édition entièrement refondue... prècèdèe de deux rapports à l'Institut, l'un par MM. Arago, Pelouze... l'autre par MM. Dumas... Paris, L. Mathias, 1847. In-8° (mm 225x140). XXI, [3], 223, [1] pagine. In barbe. Qualche fioritura, un alone alle prime carte. Brossura editoriale in carta gialla stampata in nero ai piatti e al dorso. Qualche strappo e menda ai bordi dei piatti, rotture al dorso con mancanze e allentamento dei fascicoli. Seconda edizione, arricchita e aumentata, del saggio dello scienziato e farmacista Pierre Hippolyte Boutigny (1798-1884), il cui nome è legato allo studio del fenomeno della calefazione, per cui, se sopra una lastra metallica fortemente riscaldata si fanno cadere alcune gocce di acqua, esse assumono una stato sferoidale, scorrendo sulla lastra senza entrare in ebollizione ed evaporando assai lentamente.8° (225x140 mm). XXI, [3], 223, [1] pages. Uncut. Some foxing, a few spotting to the first leaves. Yellow publisher's wrappers printed in black. Some tears and few losses to the covers, spine cracked and worn, quires slightly loose. Second enlarged edition of this work by the French Pharmacist Pierre Hippolyte Boutigny (1798-1884), known for his studies on calefaction, by which term he designated the singular phenomenon presented by water, when drops of it are thrown upon a very hot metallic surface.