Artist: Eadweard Muybridge (English/American, 1830-1904). Title: "Athletes: Fencing [from The Human Figure in Motion: Plate 31]". Medium: Original photomezzotint & letterpress. Date: Composed 1872-1885. Printed 1901. Dimensions: Overall size: 9 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. (241 x 286 mm).Lot Note(s): Stamped with the photographer's name, lower right. Edition unknown. High-grade smooth archival paper. Full margins, as issued. Fine impression with heavy ink application and distinctive letterpress. Very good condition. Comment(s): Eadweard Muybridge, born Edward James Muggeridge, was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and early work in motion-picture projection. He adopted the first name Eadweard as the original Anglo-Saxon form of Edward, and the surname Muybridge believing it to be similarly archaic. [29379-2-225]
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![Artist: Paul Strand (American, 1890 - 1976). Title: "Men of Santa Anna, Michoacan [Mexico]". Medium: Original photogravure. D](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/47625889-d933-4379-98f6-ab50012f23ff/e2371f91-b7fb-476f-8c04-abce0157f802/468x382.jpg)
Artist: Paul Strand (American, 1890 - 1976). Title: "Men of Santa Anna, Michoacan [Mexico]". Medium: Original photogravure. Date: Composed 1933. Printed 1967. Dimensions: Overall size: 15 13/16 x 12 5/16 in. (402 x 313 mm). Image size: 6 5/16 x 4 7/8 in. (160 x 124 mm).Lot Note(s): Stamped with the photographer's name, verso. BFK Rives paper. Full margins. Fine, quality printing. Fine condition. Comment(s): From Strand's "The Mexican Portfolio," second edition (the first was published in 1940). Image copyright © Aperture Foundation Inc., Paul Strand Archive. [29318-3-800]
![Artist: Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987). Title: "Mick Jagger #01 (first edition) [announcement]". Medium: Color offset li](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/47625889-d933-4379-98f6-ab50012f23ff/a10a3706-d720-4138-90b7-abce015806de/468x382.jpg)
Artist: Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987). Title: "Mick Jagger #01 (first edition) [announcement]". Medium: Color offset lithograph. Date: Composed 1975. Dimensions: Overall size: 6 1/8 x 4 in. (156 x 102 mm).Lot Note(s): Signed by Warhol in black marker. Edition limited, quantity unknown, probably very small. Cream smooth wove paper. The full sheet. Strong, bright colors. Very good to fine condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Paul Marechal, “Andy Warhol Ephemera…Catalogue Raisonne, 1950-1987.” Lyon, France: Les amis du Musee de l’Imprimerie, 2018, Section 8c, no.33A(i); cf. Feldman/Schellmann II.138. Comment(s): This from the first edition of the Mick Jagger announcement set, unlike the second not signed in the plate both by Warhol and Jagger nor numbered in the plate. Co-published by Multiples Inc., New York, and Castelli Graphics, New York. Based on the image from Warhol's portfolio of 10 color screenprints of Mick Jagger from 1975. Image copyright © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [29433-1-400]
![Artist: Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987). Title: "Mick Jagger #06 (second edition) [announcement]". Medium: Color offset l](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/47625889-d933-4379-98f6-ab50012f23ff/a7126e95-db95-4ee7-9467-abce01580ace/468x382.jpg)
Artist: Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987). Title: "Mick Jagger #06 (second edition) [announcement]". Medium: Color offset lithograph. Date: Composed 1975. Dimensions: Overall size: 6 1/8 x 4 in. (156 x 102 mm).Lot Note(s): Signed by Warhol in black marker. Edition limited, quantity unknown, probably very small. Cream smooth wove paper. The full sheet. Strong, bright colors. Very good condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Paul Marechal, “Andy Warhol Ephemera…Catalogue Raisonne, 1950-1987.” Lyon, France: Les amis du Musee de l’Imprimerie, 2018, Section 8c, no.33A(d); cf. Feldman/Schellmann II.142. Comment(s): This from the second edition of the Mick Jagger announcement set, unlike the first signed in the plate both by Warhol and Jagger, numbered in the plate 2/250. Co-published by Multiples Inc., New York, and Castelli Graphics, New York. Based on the image from Warhol's portfolio of 10 color screenprints of Mick Jagger from 1975. Image copyright © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [28073-1-400]
![Artist: Paul Strand (American, 1890 - 1976). Title: "Near Saltillo [Mexico]". Medium: Original photogravure. Date: Composed 1](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/47625889-d933-4379-98f6-ab50012f23ff/2667817e-6b47-41a8-aa0d-abce015847f2/468x382.jpg)
Artist: Paul Strand (American, 1890 - 1976). Title: "Near Saltillo [Mexico]". Medium: Original photogravure. Date: Composed 1932. Printed 1967. Dimensions: Overall size: 15 13/16 x 12 5/16 in. (402 x 313 mm). Image size: 4 7/8 x 6 1/4 in. (124 x 159 mm).Lot Note(s): Stamped with the photographer's name, verso. BFK Rives paper. Full margins. Fine, quality printing. Fine condition. Comment(s): From Strand's "The Mexican Portfolio," second edition (the first was published in 1940). Image copyright © Aperture Foundation Inc., Paul Strand Archive. [29319-3-225]
Artist: Man Ray (American, 1890 - 1976). Title: "Barbette, the Transvestite, Dressing". Medium: Original vintage photogravure. Date: Composed 1926. Printed 1934. Dimensions: Image size: 10 5/16 x 7 5/8 in. (262 x 194 mm).Lot Note(s): Stamped with the photographer's name, verso. Edition unknown, presumed small. High-grade archival paper. Printed to the edge of the sheet. Fine, quality printing. Very good to fine condition; affixed to very thin and supple archival acid-free support sheet, not mount/board. Comment(s): A male dancer in drag, adjusting "her" stockings. "A popular vaudeville performer of the 1920s and 1930s took the stage name of Barbette. He first began dressing as a woman when hired to replace a female tightrope walker. Barbette soon devised his own act, walking the high wire and performing trapeze stunts in elegant gowns, then removing his wig at the end of the show to reveal his true gender." (Courtesy: Getty Museum). See: www.manraytrust.com, pg.23. Image copyright © ADAGP/BNF - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. [6625-2-400]
Artist: Gustave Baumann (German/American, 1881 - 1971). Title: "Time Worn Dwellings". Medium: Original color woodcut. Date: Composed 1939. Printed 1939. Dimensions: Overall size: 8 1/2 x 6 3/4 in. (216 x 171 mm).Lot Note(s): Signed with the red seal/signature stamp, lower right. A proof impression aside from the proposed edition of 480 (of which all were printed?). Cream wove handmade paper. Wide margins. Fine, strong impression. Baumann cut and printed the block himself. Although most of his carving was done in basswood, the block for this woodcut was carved from common pine. Fine condition; affixed to very thin and supple archival acid-free support sheet, not mount/board. Provenance: Private collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Comment(s): Baumann created this image for inclusion in his “Frijoles Canyon Pictographs.” A foremost printmaker as well as painter, he was one of the leading figures of the color woodcut revival in America in the first half of the 20th Century. Image copyright © The Estate of Gustave Baumann. [29539-1-400]
![Artist: Paul Strand (American, 1890 - 1976). Title: "Woman, Patzcuaro [Mexico]". Medium: Original photogravure. Date: Compose](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/47625889-d933-4379-98f6-ab50012f23ff/283faf8f-b1fb-43c8-bd7c-abce015a8724/468x382.jpg)
Artist: Paul Strand (American, 1890 - 1976). Title: "Woman, Patzcuaro [Mexico]". Medium: Original photogravure. Date: Composed 1933. Printed 1967. Dimensions: Overall size: 15 13/16 x 12 5/16 in. (402 x 313 mm). Image size: 6 3/8 x 4 15/16 in. (162 x 125 mm).Lot Note(s): Stamped with the photographer's name, verso. BFK Rives paper. Full margins. Fine, quality printing. Fine condition. Comment(s): From Strand's "The Mexican Portfolio," second edition (the first was published in 1940). Image copyright © The Aperture Foundation, Inc., Paul Strand Archive. [6528-3-300]
Artist: Eadweard Muybridge (English/American, 1830-1904). Title: "Woman: Playing at Lawn-Tennis [from The Human Figure in Motion: Plate 78]". Medium: Original photomezzotint & letterpress. Date: Composed 1872-1885. Printed 1901. Dimensions: Overall size: 9 1/2 x 11 3/16 in. (241 x 284 mm).Lot Note(s): Stamped with the photographer's name, lower right. Edition unknown. High-grade smooth archival paper. Full margins, as issued. Fine impression with heavy ink application and distinctive letterpress. Very good condition. Comment(s): Eadweard Muybridge, born Edward James Muggeridge, was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and early work in motion-picture projection. He adopted the first name Eadweard as the original Anglo-Saxon form of Edward, and the surname Muybridge believing it to be similarly archaic. [29371-2-225]
![Artist: Chin-San Long [lang jingshan/lang ching-shan] (Chinese, 1892-1995). Title: "Brouillard du matin". Medium: Original vi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/47625889-d933-4379-98f6-ab50012f23ff/574c465b-6a4f-4084-af70-abce014c9116/468x382.jpg)
Artist: Chin-San Long [lang jingshan/lang ching-shan] (Chinese, 1892-1995). Title: "Brouillard du matin". Medium: Original vintage photogravure. Date: Composed c1936. Printed 1936. Dimensions: Image size: 12 1/8 x 7 5/8 in. (308 x 194 mm).Lot Note(s): Stamped with the photographer's name, verso. Edition unknown, presumed small. High-grade archival paper. Printed to the edge of the sheet. Fine, quality printing. Very good condition; affixed to very thin and supple archival acid-free support sheet, not mount/board. Comment(s): Lang Jingshan, also Romanized as Long Chin-san and Lang Ching-shan, was a pioneering photographer and one of the first Chinese photojournalists. He has been called "indisputably the most prominent figure in the history of Chinese art photography", and the "Father of Asian Photography". He joined the Royal Photographic Society in 1937, gaining his Associateship in 1940 and his Fellowship in 1942. In 1980, the Photographic Society of America named him one of the world's top ten master photographers. He was the first Chinese photographer to take artistic nude shots, and was also known for the unique "composite photography" technique he created. Image copyright © The Estate of Chin-san Long. [25083-2-400]
Ronald Searle - English artist and satirical cartoonist, comics artist and illustrator - a collection of assorted books and memorabilia relating to the artist. The collection includes; a personal Christmas card from Searle - illustrated in the usual fashion, and Searle writing a personal message inside the card, a framed print of the illustration of Sir Malcolm Sargent (46x32cm). Along with books; The Diverting History Of John Gilpin (reprint), Paris! Paris!, Zodiac (1977 First US Edition), The Anger Of Achilles (First Edition), and Russia For Beginners (First Edition). Interesting collection.
NO RESERVE Medicine.- Peirce (Thomas) The Case of Mr. Thomas Pierce, with Regard to his Styptic Medicines, for stopping the most violent Bleedings..., 16pp., first edition, stitched, slightly soiled, first leaf with small tear to upper margin and ink spot to lower, n.p., [?1764]; and vol.1 only of the second edition of Boyle's Medicinal Experiments of 1693, 8vo & 12mo (2)⁂ The first is scarce with only 3 UK copies on ESTC (BL, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, and Wellcome Library), plus one in the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
![NO RESERVE Gardening.- [Bonnefons (Nicolas de)] The French Gardiner: Instructing how to Cultivate all sorts of Fruit-Trees, a](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ee63881f-2d9b-48be-884b-abd001161691/f8d1a0fd-3ce6-4c28-9304-abd00126d991/468x382.jpg)
NO RESERVE Gardening.- [Bonnefons (Nicolas de)] The French Gardiner: Instructing how to Cultivate all sorts of Fruit-Trees, and Herbs for the Garden, translated by John Evelyn, second edition in English, engraved additional pictorial title and 2 plates only (of 4), light browning, tear to E3 with affecting a few letters, with contemporary ink names "William ?Durston 1685" (crossed out) and "Amos ?Doidge" and long note in contemporary hand concerning fruit trees to front free endpaper, contemporary sheep, very worn, spine defective, covers detached, [Henrey 146; Hunt 312; Keynes 8; Wing B3600 & R1936], by J.M. for John Crooke, 1669 § Meager (Leonard) The New Art of Gardening, with the Gardener's Almanack, lacking folding engraved frontispiece, contemporary ink inscription "John Griffiths his Book 1731" to title, browned, contemporary sprinkled calf, rubbed, rebacked with red morocco label, corners repaired, [Henrey 252], 12mo, for R.Ware...sold by T.Norris...S.Bates...A.Bettesworth, [?1720], 8vo & 12mo (2)⁂ Both scarce. The first includes The English Vineyard Vindicated by John Rose at end, with its own title-page and pagination.ESTC lists only 5 UK copies of the first (BL, Cambridge and 3 copies at Oxford), and only 2 copies of the second (BL, and Huntington Library in America).
![Hunting.- [Savile (Albany)] Thirty-Six Hints to Sportsmen, 18pp., first edition, title with ornamental border, stitched in or](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ee63881f-2d9b-48be-884b-abd001161691/51e9cccf-7187-4c71-80c8-abd001260fc3/468x382.jpg)
Hunting.- [Savile (Albany)] Thirty-Six Hints to Sportsmen, 18pp., first edition, title with ornamental border, stitched in original marbled wrappers, very slightly rubbed, [Schwerdt II p.148], 12mo, Okehampton, Simmons, [c.1823, water-marked 1822].⁂ Scarce pamphlet by a famous Master of Foxhounds and MP; Library Hub lists only 2 copies (BL & Oxford), WorldCat adds 3 in America. At the time of the Schwerdt catalogue there was no copy in the British Library.
![Golf.- [McHardy (James)], "Calamo Currente". Half Hours with an Old Golfer, first edition, pictorial half-title, chromolithog](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ee63881f-2d9b-48be-884b-abd001161691/d8ee458f-edbe-4fb9-add0-abd00126eb41/468x382.jpg)
Golf.- [McHardy (James)], "Calamo Currente". Half Hours with an Old Golfer, first edition, pictorial half-title, chromolithographed frontispiece and 3 plates, full-page and smaller illustrations, all by G.A. Laundy, contemporary ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, occasional spotting, endpapers lightly browned, original pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed at extremities, t.e.g., [Donovan & Murdoch 1020], a very good copy, 8vo, George Bell and Sons, 1895.
Elzevier.- Architecture.- Fortification.- Dögen (Mathias) Architectura militaris moderna, 2 parts in 1, first edition, half-title, fine engraved pictorial title and 70 plates, all but one double-page, woodcut decorative initials, occasional water-staining to upper margins, occasional spotting, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, spine in compartments and with black leather label, head of spine little chipped, upper corners worn, rubbed, [Willems 1047; Berlin Kat. 2529 (1648 edition)], folio, Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1647.⁂ A very good copy of what Willems calls a 'Magnifique publication'. Dögen worked for the Admiralty in Amsterdam for a considerable time and later became military architect to Friedrich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg, to whom the work is dedicated. Provenance: Hopetoun (engraved armorial bookplate).
NO RESERVE Lithography.- Senefelder (Alois) A Complete Course of Lithography: Containing Clear and Explicit Instructions in All the Different Branches and Manners of that Art, first edition in English, lithographed frontispiece printed in colours (misbound after 2M2), 12 lithographed plates, lacking portrait, title and list of materials f., all supplied in facsimile, water-stained at head, some spotting and light browning, modern half calf, for R. Ackermann, 1819; and another, Nonesuch Press, 4to & small 4to (2) sold not subject to return.
Aldine.- Catherine of Siena (Saint) Epistole devotissime, Roman type, woodcut decorative and historiated initials, final f. colophon recto otherwise blank, 16th and 17th century ink inscriptions at head of title, lacking *10 with portrait of Catherine verso, title foxed and with outer margin repaired, upper corners of *2&3 repaired, u1&2 and I1-3 upper corners cut away, wormholes, mostly marginal or minor initially and then increasing at end, some foxing and staining, antique style morocco-backed wooden boards, spine title in gilt and with small paper label at head, [Ahmanson-Murphy 36; Renouard, Alde, 23:2; BMC V, 562; Goff C-281; HC 4688; Sander 1821; not in Adams], with good margins, folio (315 x 210mm.),Venice, Aldus Manutius, 15-[not after 19] September, 1500. sold not subject to return. ⁂ First Aldine and complete edition. 'L'édition en belles lettres rondes de la plus grande beauté' (Renouard).
Secchi (Nicolò) L'interesse comedia del signor Nicolò Secchi. Nuovamente posta in luce, first edition, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, water-stained at foot, occasional spotting, lightly browned, later vellum, soiled, [Adams S835; EDIT 16 CNCE 40410], Venice, Francesco Ziletti, 1581 § Leonico Tomeo (Nicolò) Li tre libri di Nicolo Leonico de varie historie, nuovamente tradotti in buona lingua volgare, title with woodcut printer's device, repeated on recto of otherwise blank final f., initial spaces with guide-letters, T7 blank, title detached, tavola f. 2*8 section torn away at foot with loss of text, water-stained, some spotting, lightly browned, later vellum, gilt spine in compartments, [EDIT 16 CNCE 35124], Venice, Michele I Tramezzino, 1544; and 3 others, 17th & 18th century in Italian, at least 1 defective, v.s. (5) sold not subject to return (5)
Elzevier.- Leiden.- Meursius (Joannes) Athenae Batavae. Sive de urbe Leidensi, & Academi, virisque claris: qui utramque ingenio suo, atque scriptis, illustrarunt: Libri duo, first edition, engraved pictorial title, folding plan and 2 bird's eye views of Leiden, 6 double-page plates, 53 full-page portraits of the founders, governors & professors of Leiden University, and illustrations, folding plan with repaired tear, without loss, 1 folding view split at fold with very small hole affecting the odd letter, occasional spotting and light browning, new endpapers, later vellum, yapp edges, [Willems 237], small 4to, Leiden, Andreas Clocquius & Elzevier, 1625.⁂ A handsomely produced history of the city of Leiden and its University.
Marriage.- Chaussé (Jacques) Traité de l'excellence du mariage, de sa nécessité et des moyens de vivre heureux, où l'on fait l'apologie des femmes contre les calomnies des hommes, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, bifolium E6/7 loose, occasional spotting or finger-marking, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine in compartments, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1685 § [Boschet (Antoine)] Reflexions sur les Jugements des Sçavans envoyées a l'Auteur par un Académicien, first edition, title with woodcut printer's device, water-stained at head, occasional spotting, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine in compartments and with leather label (chipped), foot of spine chipped, rubbed, The Hague, Arnout Leers, 1691; and 9 others, 17th century French, v.s. (11)
![Novel.- Moorish Spain.- [Baudot de Jully (Nicolas)] Relation historique et galante de l'invasion de l'Espagne par les Maures,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ee63881f-2d9b-48be-884b-abd001161691/0b880e66-ed4a-4627-9c6a-abd00126794f/468x382.jpg)
Novel.- Moorish Spain.- [Baudot de Jully (Nicolas)] Relation historique et galante de l'invasion de l'Espagne par les Maures, 4 vol. in 1, first edition, 2 titles in red and black, some spotting and light staining, endpapers foxed, front endpaper loose, contemporary calf, rebacked in modern calf in compartments, gilt, corners worn, [Gay III, 994 (erroneously dating it 1799)], large 12mo, The Hague, Adrian Moetjens, 1699.⁂ The author covers love affairs between the indigenous population and the invaders.
Commedia dell'arte in France.- Gherardi (Evaristo) Le Theatre Italien de Gherardi, ou le recueil general de toutes les Comedies & Scenes, 6vol., first collected edition, half-titles, 6 engraved volume titles, 55 engraved pictorial titles to plays, 114 engraved pages of music, vol.1 lacking printed title (seemingly pasted to pictorial title), occasional spotting, contemporary speckled calf, richly gilt spines in compartments and with double morocco labels, rubbed at extremities, Paris, Jean-Baptiste Cusson and Pierre Witte, 1700; and a 6 vol. set of Brumoy's Theatre des Grecs, 8vo (12)⁂ An important work for the influence of the Commedia dell'arte on French theatre in the 17th century.
Perizonius (Jacob) Aegyptiarum originum et temporum antiquissimorum investigatio, first edition, title in red and black and with large woodcut ornament, trimmed at head and foot, affecting headlines and the odd catchword, contemporary speckled calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, rubbed at extremities, Leiden, Johann van der Linden, 1711 § Danzig imprint.- [Aleman (Mateo)] Vitæ Humanæ Proscenium: in quo sub persona Gusmani Alfaracii, 3 parts in 1 vol., 3 engraved pictorial titles, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, some spotting or light foxing, lightly browned, contemporary vellum, Danzig, for George Forster, 1652; and 23 others, Continental, v.s (25)
Paris.- Bouillart (Jacques) Histoire de l'abbaye royale de Saint Germain des Prez, first edition, half-title with directions to binder verso, 24 engraved plans and plates, of which 3 double-page, lightly browned, occasional spotting, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, preserving majority of original richly gilt backstrip in compartments with red morocco label, a solid copy, folio, Paris, Gregoire Dupuis, 1724.⁂ Provenance: 'Dawson Turner, bought at Paris, 1819'. Turner (1775-1858), English banker, antiquary, botanist and father-in-law to botanist William Jackson Hooker; 'Coll. parf, R.C.B., 8 Dec, 1871' (ink inscriptions to front endpapers)
NO RESERVE Canon Law.- Anfossi (Filippo) La Restituzione de' Beni Ecclesiastici necessaria alla saluta di quelli che he han fatto acquisto senza il consenso e l'autorita delle S. sede Apostolica, first edition, errata at end, b2 small section of lower corner cut away, not affecting text, spotted, contemporary decorative wrappers, splits to spine, but holding firm, some fading and chipping, rubbed, [Einaudi 122; not in Goldsmiths' or Kress], 8vo, Rome, Francesco Bourlié, 1824.⁂ Rare, with Library Hub only recording 2 copies. Anfossi, who was Vicar-General of the Dominicans and Master of the Sacred Apostolic Palace (essentially the Pope's theologian) argues that the goods and properties of the church should not be sold off without papal authority, and furthermore those already sold should be returned.
![NO RESERVE Wine.- [Arnoux (Charles Albert d')], "Bertall". La Vigne. Voyage autour des Vins de France, first edition, half-ti](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ee63881f-2d9b-48be-884b-abd001161691/01fa38c4-1b7f-4b38-855c-abd001265a3e/468x382.jpg)
NO RESERVE Wine.- [Arnoux (Charles Albert d')], "Bertall". La Vigne. Voyage autour des Vins de France, first edition, half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece, vignette title, plates and illustrations, occasional spotting, contemporary red morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt, a few small stains, [Vicaire 87], a very good copy, 4to, Paris, E. Plon, 1878.
Binding.- Anglo-Saxon.- Verstegan (Richard) A restitution of decayed intelligence: in antiquities. Concerning the most noble and renovvmed English nation, first edition, title in red and black and with engraved vignette, engraved plate of arms and illustrations in text, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, plate of arms trimmed to border, laid down and positioned as frontispiece, title trimmed and laid down, [dagger]2 repaired at outer margin, final f. trimmed and laid down, trimmed at head, affecting head-lines, some staining, inner gilt dentelles, attractive early 18th century black or dark blue morocco, richly gilt, covers with wide two-part floral and foliage borders within an outer border of twin filets, spine in six compartments, 4 of which decorated with a saltire pattern incorporating acorn and seed-head tools, the remaining compartments with red morocco labels, 1 lower corner worn, rubbed, g.e., [STC 21361], small 4to (binding 175 x 133mm.), Antwerp, Robert Bruney, 1605. sold as a binding and not subject to return. ⁂ 'A seminal work of Anglo-Saxon scholarship' (ODNB), which contains the earliest printing in English (pp.85-87) of the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
First press at Eton.- Greek printing.- Gregory (Saint, of Nazianzus) Sancti gregorii nazianzeni In julianum invectivae duae. Cum Scholis Graecis nunc primum editis, edited by Richard Montagu, title with woodcut head-piece and ornament, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, browned, water-stained at head at end, 19th century blind-stamped calf, spine in compartments, lacking label, short split at head of spine corners worn, rubbed, [STC 12346], small 4to, Eton, [M. Bradwood for] John Norton, 1610.⁂ One of the earliest works to be printed at Eton. Montagu's Greek edition of Gregory of Nazianzus' two discourses against Julian, dedicated to Archbishop Bancroft, was produced on the press of Sir Henry Saville (1549-1622), biblical translator (involved in the production of the Authorized Version) and then Provost of the College.
NO RESERVE Elzevier.- Roman military.- Salmasius (Claudius) De re militari Romanorum, first edition, title with woodcut printer's device, a few diagrams within text, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, some spotting, joints cracked, but holding, recased using original contemporary vellum, lightly soiled, [Willems 808], small 4to, Leiden, Jean Elzevier, 1657.⁂ First edition of this work on the Roman army, written at the request of of the Prince of Orange.
Kennett (Basil) Romæ antiquæ notitia: or, The antiquities of Rome, 11 engraved plates, some folding, final f. with errata / advertisements, lacking advertisement f. b8, occasional staining, lightly browned, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, upper joint starting at head, lower cover scuffed, rubbed, [Wing K299], printed for Timothy Child, 1699 § Language.- Altieri (Ferdinando) A new grammar, Italian-English, and English-Italian: which contains a true and easy method for acquiring these two languages, first edition in English, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head-pieces, contemporary speckled calf, gilt, spine in compartments and with new red leather label, rubbed, [Alston II, 605], William Innys, 1728; and 7 others, 18th century English, 8vo (9)
Reformation.- Burnet (Gilbert) The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, 3 vol., including Supplement, fourth edition of parts 1 and 2 and first edition of the supplement, half-titles to first two vol., titles in red and black, 2 engraved additional pictorial titles, 21 engraved portraits, some spotting and light browning, mostly in vol.3, contemporary panelled calf, richly gilt spines in compartments and with red morocco labels, little chipping to spine ends, joints splitting, but holding firm, corners worn, rubbed, folio, printed for J. Walthoe and B. Tooke; J. Nicholson; D. Midwinter and B. Cowse, 1715.
Ireland.- The Free-Holder's Address to the Free-Citizens of Dublin, first edition, title with woodcut floral ornament, minor marginal repairs, lightly browned throughout, modern calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, Dublin, James Esdall, 1749 § A Counter-Appeal to the People of Ireland, first edition, woodcut device to title, with final blank, a few marginal repairs, lightly browned throughout, modern calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, Dublin, no printer, 1749, 8vo (2)⁂ Two scarce works, the first relating to Charles Lucas.
NO RESERVE Montesquieu.- Cattaneo (Giovani, Count) The source, the strength, and the true spirit of laws. In three parts. In which the errors of M. de Montesquieu, and some other eminent writers, are occasionally considered. To which are added, Essays on the natural origin of political governments, first edition in English, small repair to lower margin of H2, occasional spotting, little lightly browned, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, lower joint split, but holding firm, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, 8vo, Printed for Lockyer Davis, 1753.⁂ Provenance: Sir James Stonhouse (1716-1795), English physician and Church of England clergyman, whose numerous religious tracts found popularity under the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge imprint (ink inscription to front free endpaper 'James Stonhouse. M.D. of Northampton 1753').
NO RESERVE Kimber (Isaac) Edmund Gibson and others. The life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Common-Wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, advertisement f., ink name to head and verso of title, 19th century half calf, rubbed, for J. Brotherton, 1794; and 21 others, mostly antiquarian, 8vo (22)
Naval.- White (Thomas Evanson, translator) History of the Rise and Progress of the Naval Power of England, interspersed with various notices relating to the French Marine, half-title, tables, 20pp. advertisements at end, some marking in pencil, occasional spotting, lightly browned, original boards, rebacked in cloth, spine faded and with split at joints, rather worn, but holding firm, J.S. Barr, 1802 § Liardet (Capt. Francis) Professional Recollections of Points of Seamanship, Discipline, &c., first edition, single f. 'By permission' and advertisement f. at end, original cloth, gilt, spine faded, rubbed, Portsea, William Woodward, 1849; and 13 others, mostly Naval, v.s. (15)
NO RESERVE Fleming (Ian) Goldfinger, first edition, neat ink inscription to endpaper dated May 1959, original blind-stamped and gilt pictorial boards, minor bumping to spine ends and corners, else fine, dust-jacket, light browning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped and creased, light rubbing to extremities, but an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1959.
NO RESERVE Education.- Blagdon Controversy.- More (Hannah).- The Something Wrong Developed; or, Free Remarks on Mrs. H.More's Conventicles, &c. seasonably addressed to the Blagdon Controvertists..., 20pp., first edition, stitched, a little soiled, final leaf stained and with small tear to text but no loss, 8vo, Bristol, Harris and Bryan, 1801.⁂ In 1795 Hannah More had established a Sunday school in Blagdon, one of several she founded in the poverty-stricken villages of the Mendip hills in Somerset in an attempt to keep the young from crime. The curate of the parish, Thomas Bere, was opposed to the school on the grounds that it was Evangelical and it was forced to close. The affair expanded into a national debate on how the labouring classes should be educated and by whom.Library Hub lists one copy only (BL); WorldCat records that and another at the University of California, Los Angeles.
NO RESERVE Etiquette.- Etiquette for Gentlemen: with Hints on the Art of Conversation, first edition, half-title, wood-engraved title-vignette, original embossed limp purple cloth, gilt, g.e., a little faded (mostly spine), 16mo, Charles Tilt, 1838.⁂ The first of several editions but seemingly scarce; Library Hub and WorldCat list only 2 copies (BL and Oxford).
NO RESERVE Stevenson (R.L.) Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, second edition, frontispiece, ink inscription to front free endpaper, original pictorial green cloth, gilt, a good copy, 1879 § Kipling (Rudyard) Plain Tales From the Hills, first edition, first issue with p.192 number misplaced and 24pp. advertisements dated December 1887 (foxing to final leaf), front free endpaper with ownership inscriptions and rear with corner torn away, original pictorial olive cloth, rubbed and damp-stained, Calcutta, 1888 § Horatius Flaccus (Quintus) [Opera], engraved portrait and additional title, original maroon cloth, uncut, William Pickering, 1824 § [Paterson (Samuel)] Joineriana: or the Book of Scraps, 2 vol., later half morocco, t.e.g., others uncut, a little scuffed, for Joseph Johnson, 1772 § Thornbury (Walter) The Life of J.M.W.Turner, chromolithographed plates, 32pp. catalogue at end, some foxing, original pictorial cloth, gilt, 1877, slightly rubbed; and 13 others, literature and history, 8vo et infra (18)
Daniel Press.- Dixon (Richard Watson) Odes and Eclogues, 1884; Lyrical Poems, 1887; The Story of Eudocia & her Brothers, 1888, together 3 vol. in 1, one of 100, 105 & 50 copies respectively, very occasional spotting, bookplate of J.A.Fuller Maitland, contemporary citron morocco, gilt, by Stoakley late Hawes, t.e.g., others uncut, a little browned at edges, spine a little rubbed, splits to upper joint, Oxford, Henry Daniel § Bridges (Robert) Three Friends: Memoirs of Digby Mackworth Dolben, Richard Watson Dixon, Henry Bradley, first edition, original boards, uncut & unopened, dust-jacket lightly soiled, 1932 § Dolben (Digby Mackworth) The Poems, edited with a Memoir by Robert Bridges, first edition, with 4 typed sheets of variant readings and errata by Bridges loosely inserted, original cloth-backed boards, uncut & unopened, dust-jacket, spine browned and frayed at ends, 1911 § Blunden (Edmund) Pastorals: A Book of Verses, first edition, original brown wrappers printed in blue and black uncut, 1916, 4to & 8vo (4)⁂ Richard Watson Dixon taught Gerard Manley Hopkins at Highgate School. Robert Bridges became a lifelong friend of Hopkins at Oxford and was responsible for his posthumous literary reputation; he also introduced him to his young cousin, Digby Mackworth Dolben, with whom Hopkins became infatuated. Dolben drowned at the age of 19 shortly before he was due to go up to Oxford.
Hanley (James) The German Prisoner, with an Introduction by Richard Aldington, first edition, one of 500 copies signed by the author, signed by the author again with long quotation from the work on front free endpaper, frontispiece by William Roberts, original crimson buckram, t.e.g., others uncut, fading to upper edges, 8vo, privately printed, 1930.⁂ The terrible story of two soldiers and their sadistic treatment of a young German prisoner in a shell-hole of No Man's Land during the First World War. "There is a peculiar power about Rottenness, in that it feeds on itself, borrows from itself, and its tendency is always downward. That very action had seized the polluted imagination of the Irishman. He was helpless. Rottenness called to him - called to him from the pesty frame of Elston. After the action they both laughed again, but this time louder. 'Hell!' exclaimed O'Garra.(Page 30) James Hanley London 1930".
NO RESERVE Bibliography.- Mortlock (D.P.) The Holkham Library: A History and Description, for members of the Roxburghe Club, 2006 § History of Bookbinding 525-1950 A.D.: An Exhibition..., Baltimore, 1957 § Nixon (Howard M.) Five Centuries of English Bookbinding, reprint, 1979 § Fulton (John F.) A Bibliography of the Honourable Robert Boyle, second edition, Oxford, 1961 § Harris (F.) & Michael Hunter. John Evelyn and his Milieu, 2003 § Garrett (A.) A History of Wood Engraving, 1978 § Keynes (G.) The Library of Edward Gibbon: A Catalogue, second edition, 1980, illustrations, original cloth or boards, some a little affected by damp, all but the first two and the last with dust-jackets; and a small quantity of others, bibliography, some catalogues, v.s. (c.60)
NO RESERVE Conjuring.- Sachs (Edwin) Sleight of Hand: a Practical Manual of Legerdemain..., second, enlarged, edition, occasional foxing, 1885 § [Lewis (Angelo J.)], "Professor Louis Hoffmann". More Magic, first edition, 1890; Conjurer Dick, n.d.; Puzzles Old and New, n.d.; Latest Magic, first edition, New York, 1918 § Clarke (Sidney W.) & Adolphe Blind. The Bibliography of Conjuring, original cloth-backed boards, 1920 § Winder (Roland) Check List of the Older Books on Conjuring in the Library..., limited edition (number not specified but "strictly limited"), presentation copy from the author to James Stevens Cox with accompanying T.L.s. offering to buy any conjuring books missing from his collection, tipped-in frontispiece and portrait, original cloth, Leeds, 1967, illustrations, all but the sixth original cloth, most pictorial, most rather damp-stained; and 2 others, Hoffmann, 8vo & 4to (9)
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[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll". The Nursery "Alice"..., second edition [first published edition], with "Price four shillings" at foot of title, colour frontispiece and illustrations after Tenniel, 3pp. advertisements at end, light offsetting to title, some marginal soiling or staining, original cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards by E.Gertrude Thomson, a little worn, [Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 216], Macmillan and Co., 1890; The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case, pictorial card folder containing 12 slots for stamps in pictorial slip-case, with 38pp. booklet 'Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing' (lacking final leaf), together in printed envelope, a little creased at edges, Oxford, Emberlin and Son, 1890 [?but later], 4to & 12mo (3)⁂ 10,000 copies of the first were printed by Edmund Evans in 1889 but Dodgson thought the illustrations "far too bright and gaudy" and he rejected the print run. It was then reprinted on white rather than toned paper and Alice's profile removed from the illustration of her with the Cheshire cat on p.34.
NO RESERVE Gaskin (Georgie) Little Girls and Little Boys, colour illustrated alphabet of girls' and boys' names, printed on rectos only, light spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, damp-stained, lacking ties, 1898 § B[elloc] (H[ilaire]) More Beasts (for Worse Children), first edition, upper hinge split, original cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, [c.1897] § Sowerby (J.G.) & H.H.Emmerson. Afternoon Tea: Rhymes for Children, colour illustrations, half-title browned, original cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, [1890] § Mother Hubbard's Alphabet. The History of Mother Hubbard and her Dog, hand-coloured wood-engravings, printed on rectos only, contemporary ink inscription at beginning, some stains, original printed yellow wrappers, soiled, T.H.Munday, [c.1850] § Warwick House Toy Books. Favourite Animals and their Uses, 6 large chromolithographed plates, original decorative wrappers, [c.1870] § Bohny (N.) The New Picture Book..., fifth edition, hand-coloured lithographed plates in strip format, stained, several leaves torn and repaired, contemporary half calf, Edinburgh, 1869, rubbed or worn; and 6 others, children's, v.s. (12)
Greenaway (Kate).- Harte (Bret) The Queen of the Pirate Isle, first edition, illustrations by Kate Greenaway, original pictorial beige linen, blue endpapers, g.e., a little soiled, slight stain to upper cover, [Schuster 165 (1e)], Chatto and Windus, [1886] § Greenaway (Kate) Book of Games, shaken, original pictorial green cloth, yellow endpapers, rear cover stained, George Routledge & Sons, n.d.; Marigold Garden, original cloth-backed pictorial glazed boards, Frederick Warne & Co., n.d.; Malbuch für das kleine Volk, second edition, wood-engraved illustrations after Greenaway neatly coloured by hand, some heightened with gold, original pictorial terracotta boards, joints and spine worn, Munich, n.d., the first three with illustrations by Greenaway printed in colours by Edmund Evans, all rubbed; and 12 others, Greenaway, including almanacs for 1884 & 1890 and 4 calendars for 1884, v.s. (16)
NO RESERVE Wells (H.G.) Floor Games, first edition, photographic plates, illustrations in blue by J.R.Sinclair, original cloth with illustration mounted on upper cover (slightly damaged), 1911 § Murray (H.J.R.) A History of Board Games other than Chess, Oxford, 1952 § Bell (R.C.) Board and Table Games from many Civilizations, 1960, the last two with illustrations, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, a little rubbed, 8vo (3)⁂ The first is a delightful work on the imaginative nursery games played by the author and his two sons. The elder, George Philip "Gip", became a noted zoologist and comparative physiologist, co-authoring The Science of Life of 1929-30 with his father and Julian Huxley.
NO RESERVE Bewick (John).- Emblems of Mortality; representing...Death seizing all Ranks and Degrees of People, first Bewick edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and 51 illustrations by John Bewick after Holbein, stain to last few leaves, contemporary sheep, worn, joints split, 12mo, T.Hodgson, 1789.
South West England.- Noble (W.B.) A Guide to the Watering Places on the Coast...including Teignmouth, Dawlish, and Torquay, Part I only (of 4), 4 hand-coloured aquatint plates by D.Havell after Noble, one folding, some light soiling, broken and loose, Teignmouth, E.Croydon, 1817 § Rowe (George) Views of Torquay, 9 lithographed plates on india paper and mounted, mounts stained or browned, stitched in original printed wrappers, a little soiled and stained, Exeter and Torquay, n.d. § Taylor (John) A Book about Bristol..., first edition, plates of mounted actual photographs, 6pp. advertisements at end, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, some edges repaired, London & Bristol, 1872; and 10 others on the West Country including the Devon & Dorset volume of The Beauties of England & Wales, oblong 4to & 8vo (13)
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