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Babbage (Charles) Observations on the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli near Naples, with an attempt to explain the causes of the frequent elevation and depression of large portions of the earth's surface in remote periods, and to prove that those causes continue in action at the present time. with a supplement. conjectures on the physical condition of the surface of the moon, first edition, presentation copy with ink inscription "To Professor Sismonden from the Author" to front free endpaper, 2 double-page lithographed plates (1 hand-coloured), illustrations, 4pp. advertisements, original pictorial cloth, gilt, light bumping to spine ends and corners, but a bright and fine example overall, [Origins of Cyberspace 63; Tomash & Williams B48], 8vo, Privately Printed, [By Richard And John Taylor For The Author], 1847.⁂ A presentation copy of Babbage's survey of the ruins near Naples. Angelo Sismonda (1807-1878), an Italian geologist, had supported Babbage in his election as a "socio corrispondente" at the Accademia della Scienze di Torino. . Correspondence between Babbage and Sismonda survives in the Academy's archives and also in the British Library (Add Ms 37191).

Babbage (Charles) The Exposition of 1851; or, Views of the Industry, the Science, and the Government of England, first edition, half-title, ex-library copy with ink stamp to title and book label, original cloth, spine slightly faded and with small nick at head, cloth chemise and slip-case, [Tomash & Williams B24; Van Sinderen 61; Norman 95; Origins of Cyberspace 67], 8vo, John Murray, 1851.⁂ "Babbage had been proposed to head the Industrial Commission for the Great Exhibition of 1851, but was rejected because of his early radicalism and his conflicts with the government over the Difference Engine. Resentful over his treatment, Babbage decided to publish a book on the Exhibition to set before the public the ideas that he otherwise would have presented to the Exhibition's governing committees. Babbage's Difference Engine, although certainly one of the engineering marvels of the nineteenth century, was not included in the Exhibition" (Norman).

Babbage (Charles) Thoughts on the principles of taxation..., second edition, later wrappers, 1851 § A letter to Charles Babbage, Esq. in reply to his "Thoughts on the principles of taxation, with reference to a property tax and its exceptions" by the Liverpool Financial Reform Association, first edition, disbound, Liverpool, [1852], [Tomash & Williams B61, L119]; and 2 others, another copy of the same and a commons report citing Babbage, 8vo & folio (4)

Adding machines.- Gonnella (Tito) Descrizione di due macchine aritmetiche per l'addizione, immaginate e costrutte da tito gonella... Premiato all'esposizione universale di Londra del 1851, first edition, 2 folding lithographed plates (some tearing along folds), spotting, original printed pink wrappers, spotted, splitting to spine ends, minor fraying to fore-edge, [Tomash & Williams G57], large 8vo, Florence, Tipografia Calasanziana, March 1859.⁂ Gonnella presented his calculating machine at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, where it won the highest medal. His researches were funded by Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, to whom he gave one of the three calculating machines constructed in 1857. The first machine described here is a dial adder, similar to Pascal's machine, and the other later machine (devised in 1857) is a keyboard single-digit adder or column adder. Examples of both machines survive today, the first in Bonn, the second in Florence.

Babbage (Charles) Observations addressed... to the president and fellows of the Royal Society, first edition, original printed wrappers, margins creased and darkened, vertical crease, [Tomash & Williams B43], 8vo, 1856.⁂ Rare. Babbage's paper directed to the awards committee of the Royal Society in which he attempts to draw their attention to Per Georg Scheutz's difference engine.

Baeza (Luis) Numerandi Doctrina Præclara Methodo Exposita, In Qua Breviter Continentur, & Exponuntur Aperte Ea, Quae Ex Universa Arithmetica Sunt Ad Usum Potiora, first edition, title with woodcut device, woodcut initials and head-pieces, tables and illustrations, folding table, occasional light marginal staining, later marbled wrappers, joints rubbed, modern printed label to upper cover, preserved in modern drop-back box, [Smith, Rara Arithmetica, p.269; Tomash & Williams B74], 8vo, Paris, Benoît Prévost for Guillaume Cavellat, 1555.⁂ An early work on arithmetic. "It begins by presenting the Hindu-Arabic numerals, addition and multiplication tables, squares, cubes and square roots ... thereafter devoted to topics such as mixed radix arithmetic (addition of days, hours, minutes, etc.), including a table that could be used to convert days to hours, etc." - Tomash & Williams.

Agucchia (Lattanzio) Il computista pagato ... Per trovare in un subito il conto fatto di qualunque sorte di pagamento, che si faccia, cosi à giorni, come à mesi, & anno, first edition, engraved title, woodcut initials, occasional scattered spotting, ink ownership inscription to foot of title, modern calf by Green Dragon Bindery of Shrewsbury, MA, [Tomash & Williams A45], 4to, Rome, Giacomo Mascardi, 1613.⁂ First edition of this early set of interest tables that would prove highly successful with several editions through both the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.While most of the book is taken up with tables, the three-page introduction explains that the book is provided so that those lending may know what rates to charge, and also that those borrowing can check to be sure they aren't paying usurious rates.

Bion (Nicolas) L'Usage de Astrolabes, Tant Universels que Particuliers, first edition, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, 9 engraved folding plates, occasional very light dampstaining, contemporary calf, joints and spine ends repaired, [Tomash & Williams B163], 12mo, Paris, Chez Laurent d'Houry & Jean Boudot, 1702.⁂ "The last book entirely about astrolabes to be published in the French language." - Tomash & Williams.

Bion (Nicolas) Traité de la Construction et des Principaux Usages des Instrumens de Mathematique, first edition, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, 28 engraved plates (one folding), occasional staining or light foxing, bookplate to pastedown, contemporary calf, spine ends and corers strengthened and repaired, [Tomash & Williams B155], 8vo, Paris, widow of Jean Boudot, Jacques Collombat, and Jean Boudot fils, 1709.⁂ Provenance: Pierre-Antoine Convers, of Saint-Jean-de-Losne ("Petri Antonii Convers Laudonensis" bookplate).

Bion (Nicolas) The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments, translated and edited by Edmund Stone, first English edition, title printed in red and black, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, 26 folding engraved plates, a few plates and final few ff. browned, bookplate to title verso, contemporary panelled calf, sympathetically rebacked, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Tomash & Williams B159; Wellcome II p.169], folio, by H.W. for John Senex and William Taylor, 1723.⁂ First edition of this translation by Stone, a self-taught mathematician from Scotland, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1725.Provenance: Charles, Viscount Bruce of Ampthill (1682-1747, bookplate on verso of title).

Blanquart Sept-fontaines (Louis Marie) Les Interets des Comptes Courans Tout Calulés, first edition, half-title, tables, contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, joints starting, Paris, Henri Agasse, 1802 § Le Gendre (François) L'arithmetique en sa perfection, mise en pratique selon l'usage des financiers, banquiers, et marchands, second edition, woodcut diagrams and decorations, contemporary calf, spine gilt, Paris, Autheur & Cardin Besongne, 1663, [Tomash & Williams B177 & L58]; and 2 others, ready reckoners and everyday manuals, 8vo (4)

Borgnis (Giuseppe Antonio) Traité complet de méchanique appliquée aux arts ... Des machines imitatives et des machines théâtrales, first edition, 27 folding plates of automata and other mechanical devices, occasional scattered spotting, contemporary half calf, [Tomash & Williams B209], 4to, Paris, Bachelier, 1820.⁂ Including automata, calculating and measuring machines, telegraph systems, and theatrical machinery.

Borgo (Pietro) Aritmetica mercantile, first edition, 118 leaves, 36-38 lines, gothic type, woodcut initials, printed marginal calculations, occasional foxing and soiling, small wormhole throughout textblock, central fold of each quire reinforced and browned, good margins, modern limp vellum with paper label to spine, slightly bowed, 4to (201 x 152mm.), Venice, Erhard Ratdolt, 1484.⁂ Rare first edition of only the second treatise on commercial arithmetic to be printed in Italy, after Larte dela merchadantia, Treviso, 1478, which was never reprinted. Borgo's work was more detailed and influential and further incunable editions appeared in 1488 and1491 followed by many more in the 16th century. Only 2 copies at auction prior to this one - the Honeyman copy in 1978 (£7,000) and the Shuckburgh copy (lacking 2 leaves) in 1993 (£3,600).Provenance: early unidentified ink inscription to b4 recto. Literature: Tomash & Williams B208; Smith, Rara arithmetica, p.16; ISTC ib 01034000.

Brerewood (Edward) De Ponderibus, et Pretiis Veterum Nummorum, eorumque; cum recentioribus collatione, liber unus, first edition, title within architectural woodcut border, woodcut initials and head-pieces, text within ruled border, occasional light spotting, bookplate and ink names to pastedowns, contemporary limp vellum, preserved in custom drop back box, [Honeyman I, 499 (this copy); Tomash & Williams B246]; 4to, John Bill, 1614.⁂ The Honeyman copy of this work comparing the weights and coinage of the Jews, Greeks, Romans and Byzantines, including chapters on the constitutions of the metals and alloys used among the ancients. The author was the first Gresham professor of astronomy and a distinguished mathematician and antiquary.Provenance: Jean Bouhier (1673-1746), president of the Parliament of Burgundy, inscribed "Bouhier" (listed in his manuscript library catalogue, Bibliotheca Buheriana; BU, Montpellier, Ms H19, fol. 156); Robert B. and Marian S. Honeyman (bookplate).

Brewster (Sir David) A Treatise on new Philosophical Instruments for various purposes in the Arts and Sciences, with experiments on light and colours, first edition, half-title, 12 engraved folding plates, original boards, paper label to spine, repairs and restorations to spine, [not in Tomash & Williams], 8vo, 1813.⁂ Provenance: G. V. Hart (ink inscription).

Brewster (Sir David) Letters on Natural Magic, Addressed to Sir Walter Scott, first edition, text illustrations, including 2 with movable parts, contemporary brown straight-grain morocco with gilt stamp to upper cover, extremities rubbed, [Origins of Cyberspace 47; Tomash & Williams B248; Toole Stott 136], small 8vo, John Murray, 1832.⁂ Includes mention of Babbage's engine: "Of all the machines which have been constructed in modern times, the calculating machine is doubtless the most extraordinary..."Provenance: Law Society of Upper Canada (gilt stamp to upper cover).

Brown (John) Horologiographia: or, the art of dyalling, being the second book of the use of the trianguler quadrant, first edition, 25 engravings cut out and tipped onto margins of text leaves (originally printed on 41 leaves), lacking frontispiece and some diagrams, blindstamp to head of title and first 2 text ff., bookplate to pastedown, contemporary calf, rebacked, [Tomash & Williams B274; Wing B5042], 8vo, John Danby and others, 1671.⁂ Rare, often found defective.Provenance: The Earls of Macclesfield (bookplate and blindstamps).

Alexander (Andreas) Logometron architecturae militaris Freitagianae, kunstgemass der Freitagschen Bevestigung, first edition, 12 engraved plates, 2 double-page, additional large folding plate loosely inserted, browning to text, contemporary vellum, lacking ties, [Tomash & Williams A58], oblong 8vo, Arnheim, J. F. Haag, 1665.⁂ A rare work on the sector. "After introducing the history of the sector and giving credit to Galileo, he describes the scales and tables on the instrument and the elementary operations it can perform. This is followed by some simple arithmetic problems. He then quickly introduces more complex problems involving military fortification, geometry, and surveying" - Tomash & Williams.Provenance: Bibliothek des K. S. Artilleries-Corps, Saxony (ink stamps to title).

Calandri (Filippo) [Aritmetica], first edition, 104 ff., partly double column, 26 lines, 3- and 4-line initial spaces with printed guides, gothic type, woodcut illustrations, some full-page, several signatures shaved, some marginal repairs to first few leaves, l7-8 repaired, washed, later vellum, yapp edges, 8vo (141 x 95mm.), Florence, Lorenzo Morgiani and Johannes Petri, 1 January, 1491/92.⁂ First edition of the first illustrated Italian book on Mathematics. The work also includes the first appearance in print of long division, and the first use of the word "zero". The woodcuts include superb decorative borders and a portrait of Pythagoras as well as illustrations of problem-solving. The work, one of the earliest illustrated Florentine incunables, was dedicated to Giuliano de' Medici, the son of Lorenzo the Magnificent (who later became Pope Leo X).Provenance: Edouard Rahir (1862-1924, leather book label); Piero Ginori Conti (1865-1939, bookplate).Literature: Tomash & Williams C9; Smith, Rara arithmetica, pp.47-49; ISTC ic00034000.

Calculating machines.- Hartree (Douglas Rayner) Calculating machines. Recent and prospective developments and their impact on mathematical physics, first edition, illustrations, perforated blindstamp to title, later boards, original wrappers bound in, Cambridge, 1947 § Comrie (Leslie John) Calculating machines... Being appendix III to L. R. Connor's Statistics in Theory and Practice, offprint, illustrations, original printed wrappers, 1938 § Hele Shaw (Henry S.) The theory of continuous calculating machines offprint from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Part II, 1885, illustrations, later wrappers, printed label to upper cover, 1886, [Tomash & Williams H31, C139 & H97]; and 8 others, similar, 8vo & 4to (11)

Casati (Paolo) Fabrica, Et Uso Del Compasso Di Proportione, Dove Insegna À Gli Artefici Il Modo Di Fare In Esso Le Necessarie Divisioni, E Con Vari Problemi Usuali Mostra L'utilità De Questo Stromento, first edition, title with woodcut device, woodcut diagrams, initials, head- and tail-pieces, 4 folding engraved plates, 2ff. errata at end, title with small paper overslip changing "Del Molto" to "Il Molto", small hole at foot through the second half of book, affecting some letters and the foot of two plates, occasional light foxing or minor staining, ink note in a later hand to endpaper, bookseller's printed description to pastedown, contemporary calf, some chipping and wear to extremities, preserved in custom drop-back box,[Riccardi i, 271; Tomash & Williams C32bis], 4to, Bologna, Giovanni Battista Ferroni, 1664.⁂ A consolidation of Galileo's work on the compass "It not only contains good descriptions of usage, complete with many examples, but also discusses the manufacture of the device with two major foldout diagrams that could be used as patterns for the scales. Unlike many such works that state the method of usage but then give very simple problems involving triangles (for example), Casati provides the reader with realistic problems involving regular shapes" - Tomash & Williams.

Cavalieri (Bonaventura) Trigonometria plana, et sphaerica, linearis & logarithmica, first edition, engraved frontispiece with a personification of Trigonometry, woodcut initials and headpieces, engraved plate (tipped to fore-edge of a8), occasional light foxing or soiling, 20th century vellum-backed boards, [Origins of Cyberspace 3; Tomash & Williams C52], 4to, Bologna, heirs of Benacci, 1643.⁂ "This is a treatise on plane and spherical trigonometry with, as was usual for Cavalieri, tables of logarithms. The table combines standard trigonometric values with logarithmic ones in what he terms a Canon Duplex (double table) which was standard for its day" - Tomash & Williams.

America.- Abel (Thomas) Subtensial Plain Trigonometry, Wrought with a Sliding-Rule, with Gunter's Lines: and Also Arithmetically, in a Very Concise Manner. Ant this Method Apply'd to Navigation, first edition, 7 engraved folding plates, spotting and browning, repairs and restorations to plates, bookplate to pastedown, 20th century half calf, [Tomash & Williams A2], 8vo, Philadelphia, Printed and Sold for the Author, by Andrew Steuart, 1761.⁂ Rare, the first American book on trigonometry and the work "which introduced the slide rule in America" (Karpinski, Bibliography of mathematical works printed in America through 1850, p.66). The author, a schoolmaster in Philadelphia, financed this book by soliciting advance subscriptions. In the book's preface, he boasts "I have 830 Books subscribed for"; in a newspaper advertisement (Pennsylvania Gazette, November 19, 1761, p.4), he begs those who had promised to subscribe to keep their promise, for otherwise he and his family would be ruined.Provenance: Yale University Library (bookplate).

Chaulnes (Michel Ferdinand d'Albert d'Ailly, duc de) Neue Art, mathematische und astronomische Instrumente abzutheilen, first German edition, Gothic letter, title with woodcut decoration, woodcut head-piece, 10 edge-mounted folding engraved plates, bookplate to pastedown, later boards, a little browned, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Tomash & Williams C76; VD18 15340570], 4to, Berlin, Joachim Pauli, 1788.⁂ Provenance: "Comes de Solms" (bookplate).

Condillac (Étienne Bonnot de) La langue des calculs, ouvrage posthume et élémentaire, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, half-title, errata, light marginal browning, modern speckled calf, Paris, Charles Houel, An VI de la République [1797/98] § Laromiguière (Pierre) Paradoxes de Condillac ou réflexions sur la langue des calculs, overage posthume de cet auteur, occasional spotting, contemporary wrappers, a little worn, Paris, Guilleminet, 1805, [Tomash & Williams C166 & L34], 8vo (2)

Couffignal (Louis) Thèses présentées a la Faculté des Sciences de Paris... 1re Thèse. - Sur l'analyse mécanique. Application aux machines a calculer et aux calculs de la méchanique céleste. 2e Thèse. - Le Coloriage des Cartes, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Gabriel Bertrand to front free endpaper, Paris, 1938; [Another copy], signed presentation inscription from the author to Émile Borel to front free endpaper, Paris, 1938, illustrations, original printed wrappers, some light browning to covers, preserved together in custom drop-back box, [Origins of Cyberspace 282; Tomash & Williams C186], 8vo (2)⁂ "Couffignal started his career as a teacher of mathematics and mechanics at the Ecole des Élèves Ingenieurs Mecaniciens, which is part of the Ecole Navale de Brest. He became interested in the problem of calculation and wrote a thesis on the subject under the direction of Maurice d'Ocagne (who died very shortly after it was accepted in March 1938). This was the first time that the topic of calculating machines had been accepted for a thesis at the University of Paris." - Tomash & WilliamsGabriel Bertrand (1867-1962, Professor of Biochemistry at the Sorbonne); Émile Borel (1871-1956, mathematician, co-founder in 1928 of the Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris) (presentation inscriptions).

America.- Bowditch (Nathaniel) The New American Practical Navigator, first edition, tables and diagrams, engraved folding "Chart of the Atlantic Ocean" and 7 plates (one partially hand-coloured), folding chart and one plate repaired, offsetting and browning, contemporary sheep, sympathetically rebacked, light wear to extremities, [Tomash & Williams B216], 8vo, Newburyport, Mass., Edmund M. Blunt for Thomas & Andrews, 1802.⁂ First edition of this important American contribution to navigation, such is the import of this work that every U.S. Naval vessel is still required to carry a copy (with modern revisions). Variant issue, with the imprint "Newburyport (Mass), Edmund M. Blunt for Brown & Stansbury" and differing advertisements at end. No priority among the seven known variants of this first edition has been established.

De Morgan (Augustus) An Essay on Probabilities, and on their Application to Life Contingencies and Insurance Offices, first edition, engraved additional title, contemporary red half morocco, gilt, light rubbing to extremities, 1838 § Brown (Richard) A history of accounting and accountants, number 57 of 250 deluxe copies signed by the author, portrait frontispiece, plate, original morocco-backed cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, light rubbing to extremities, Edinburgh, 1905, [Tomash & Williams D34 & B276]; and 3 others, similar, 8vo & 4to (5)

Dircks (Henry) The life, times and scientific labours of the second Marquis of Worcester, first edition, plates (1 folding), illustrations, handsome red half morocco, gilt, spine gilt, g.e., [Tomash & Williams S163], 8vo, Bernard Quaritch, 1865.

Ferguson (James) Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and optics. With the use of globes, the art of dialing, and the calculation of the mean times of new and full moons and eclipses, [&] A supplement to Mr. Ferguson's book of lectures, 2 parts in 1 vol., first quarto edition, 36 engraved folding plates, some offsetting, occasional light foxing or browning, bookplate removed from pastedown, contemporary calf, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, retaining original backstrip, [Tomash & Williams F40 & F41], 4to, for A. Millar, 1764-67

Ferguson (James) Tables and Tracts, Relative to Several Arts and Sciences, first edition, 3 engraved folding plates (2 drawn by Ferguson after Benjamin Franklin), tables, errata, 20th century half calf, [Tomash & Williams F42], 8vo, A. Millar and T. Cadell, 1767; [Another edition], second edition, 3 engraved folding plates, tables, 1p. advertisements, contemporary calf, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Tomash & Williams F43], W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Johnston, T. Longman, and T. Cadell, 1771, 8vo (2)

Books - Ransome Arthur - 'Peter Duck' signed First Edition 1932, signed with small thumb nail ink sketch of a boat, together with 24th impression 'We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea', with dust cover Condition: Peter Duck - no dust cover present, signs of foxing/small staining to edges of pages, general condition consistent with age, We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea - tears, rips and some staining to dust jacket, having some small denting to the bottom edges of some pages, general condition consistent with age

Two early 1960's period Canadian Inuit limited edition stone-cut prints, Cape Dorset, North West Territories, comprising Kiakshuk, 'Spirits (Tornaqs) Devouring Foxes', 46/50, signed and dated 1961 beneath, 30.5cm x 41cm, and Eegyvudluk, 'Fisherman and Wife', 20/50, signed and dated 1961 beneath, 30.5cm x 41cm, both unframed, (2) Condition: The first has pale brown water staining to upper edge and both top corners. Minor imperfections in paper, light creasing, rough cut edges. The second has visible imperfections in paper particularly above wife's head and centre right margin, a few minor blemishes otherwise sound, rough edges. **General condition consistent with age

Please note gold and major Items of jewellery can only be viewed by appointment and on production of photographic IDA Royal Mint The Sovereign 2015 presentation set of gold coins, comprising The Sovereign five gold coin set fifth portrait first edition and The Sovereign five coin set, both sets in presentation boxes and outer case

D H Lawrence, The White Peacock, First Edition, published by Heinemann 1911, with original bindingsCondition Report: very good condition

D H Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, First Edition, published by Duckworth 1913, with original bindingsCondition Report: good condition

J K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, in original shrink-wrap, First Edition, published by Bloomsbury 1999

J K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, wrapped, First Edition, published by Bloomsbury 1999

Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of the Hills, First Edition, published by Faber 1982

Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day, First Edition, published by Faber 1989

Mary French-Sheldon, Sultan to Sultan, First Edition, published by Saxon 1892

Samuel Beckett, a collection of three first edition plays published by Faber, All That Fall, 1957, From an Abandoned Work, 1958, and Play, published Faber 1964

The Second Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling, first edition, published by Macmillan & Co, 1895, in blue gold embossed boards

First Edition Proof set of the Medallic History of Britain in gold plated sterling silver, in fitted wooden chest.

Pratchett, Terry-  Wyrd Sisters, London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1988, First Edition and Witches Abroad, London, Victor Gollancz, 1991, First Edition both with original dust jackets.

Richard Hough. Book Of The Racing Campbells, first edition, hardback, published by Stanley Paul & Company Ltd, 1960., and Arthur Owen The Racing Coopers, first edition, hardback, published by Cassell & Company Ltd, London 1959. (2)

Macdermot E T. History of The Great Western Railway, hardback, first revised edition 1964, published by Ian Allen Ltd, Hampton Court, 2 vols., Gourvisc. T. R. British Railways 1948-1973 A Business History, published by Cambridge University Press 1986. (3)

Four Hermann Mohair Teddy Bears, comprising Queen Mary II, with model of The Queen Mary II, limited edition No 25/750., Christopher Columbus, limited edition No 551/750., Concorde Memorial Bear, with a wood model of Concorde, limited edition No 33/250., and Penydarran World First Steam Locomotive 1804-2004 Bear, limited edition No 7/200, all with certificates and tags.

DARWIN (CHARLES)The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, FIRST EDITION, half-title, one folding lithographed diagram, without advertisements, calf gilt by The Yorkshire Post Bookbinding Works, Leeds (with ticket inside upper cover), upper cover detached [Freeman 373; Garrison-Morton 220; Norman 593; PMM 344], 8vo (186 x 118mm.), John Murray, 1859Footnotes:FIRST EDITION OF 'CERTAINLY THE MOST IMPORTANT BIOLOGICAL BOOK EVERY WRITTEN' (Freeman), and one of the most influential works of the nineteenth century. 'Darwin not only drew an entirely new picture of the workings of organic nature; he revolutionized our methods of thinking and our outlook on the natural order of things. The recognition that constant change is the order of the universe had been finally established and a vast step forward in the uniformity of nature had been taken' (PMM).Provenance: Formerly at Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire, the Darwin family home; by descent to a member of the Darwin family.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DARWIN (CHARLES)The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, illustrations in the text, without the publisher's catalogue in volume 1, contemporary half calf, black and red gilt morocco spine labels, rubbed [Freeman 877; Garrison-Morton 224.1; Norman 597], 8vo, John Murray, 1868Footnotes:With this work Darwin 'intended to provide overwhelming evidence for the ubiquity of variation' and refuted the idea 'that variations had not occurred purely by chance but were providentially directed' (ODNB). It also included the first usage of the phrase 'Survival of the Fittest' by Darwin.Provenance: W.J. Dear, pencil ownership inscription on front free endpaper of volume 1, and title of volume 2.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DARWIN (CHARLES)The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, 'tenth thousand', 7 photographic plates, without advertisements [Freeman 1144], 1873; Insectivorous Plants, 'second thousand', without half-title and errata slip [Freeman 1218], 1875; The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, 'second edition, revised' [Freeman 836], 1875; Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Beagle', second edition, 5 folding plates (one hand-coloured), 2 folding maps [Freeman 276], Smith, Elder, 1876; The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom, without half-title [Freeman 1249], 1876; The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects, 'second edition, revised', without half-title [Freeman 801], 1877; The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species, FIRST EDITION, [Freeman 1277], 1877; The Power of Movement in Plants... Assisted by Francis Darwin, 'second thousand', without advertisements [Freeman 1326], 1880; The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, 'second edition (fourteenth thousand), revised and augmented', without half-title [Freeman 953], 1881; The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms, 'sixth thousand (corrected)' [Freeman 1362], 1882; A Naturalist's Voyage. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Beagle' Round the World, 'fifteenth thousand' [Freeman 38], 1882; The Variation and Plants Under Domestication, 2 vol., 'second edition, revised, fifth thousand' [Freeman 883], 1882--KRAUSE (ERNST) Erasmus Darwin... with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by the publishers 'From C. Darwin' on the front free endpaper, and in another hand 'Francis Darwin from Charles Darwin 1879' on the front paste-down, frontispiece portrait, 1879, uniform calf by The Yorkshire Post Bookbinding Works, Leeds (with green binder's ticket inside upper cover of each volume), spines gilt with red morocco title label, the Krause a slightly lighter calf, rubbed, 8vo, all but the fourth mentioned John Murray (14)Footnotes:Provenance: Formerly at Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire, the Darwin family home from 1680 until just after the Second World War. The Francis Darwin to whom the copy of Krause's Erasmus Darwin was presented by Charles Darwin, was most presumably Francis Rhodes Darwin (1825-1920), who inherited Elston Hall in 1850. The house, where Erasmus was born, is illustrated in Krause's biography; by descent to a member of the Darwin family.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

LATHAM (JOHN)A General History of British Birds, 11 vol. (including index), FIRST EDITION, author's note to subscribers tipped-in before title of volumes 1, 2 and 4, 193 hand-coloured engraved plates, some spotting and offsetting, untrimmed in contemporary boards, rebacked [Nissen, ZBI 532; Fine Bird Books, p.87; Zimmer, pp.376-77], 4to (285 x 215mm.), Winchester, Jacob and Johnson for the Author, 1821-1828Footnotes:First edition of this considerably expanded edition of Latham's General Synopsis of Birds, including the information from the two supplements, and information discovered since the original publication. Latham 'described several hundred birds for the first time and named nearly two hundred new forms. Most of these came from Australia from where many animals were brought to England after the country had been settled in 1788' (Anker).Provenance: K.I. Benyon, bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

EMERSON (PETER HENRY) AND T.F. GOODALLLife and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads... With General and Descriptive Text, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, half-title, title printed in red and black, 34 PLATINUM PHOTOGRAPHS (of 40), each mounted on card as issued, and with facing printed title leaf, half-title soiled and loose, small dampstain in upper lefthand corner of the mount of plates 26-39 and lower fore-corner of mount of 36 to 39, light stain (120mm.) in margin of plate 35, light spotting to some mounts (with a few single spots to approximately 7), disbound [Parr and Badger I 70, 'The photographs are magnificent'], oblong folio (290 x 410mm.), Sampson, Low, [1886]Footnotes:THE FIRST AND RAREST OF EMERSON'S PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOKS, described on publication by Amateur Photographer as 'an epoch-making book combining 'perfection of photography... perfection of reproductive processes, and... perfection of artistic feeling'. The platinum prints in Life and Landscape achieved a subtle and beautiful tone, but they were labour-intensive and costly, and in his subsequent works Emerson used the photo-mechanical processes of photogravure and half-tone printing. Emerson was the first English photographer to work out a theory of naturalistic photography, his attitude and philosophy having 'a profound effect on the growth of good photography - he was a mainstream man when his colleagues were stagnating in backwaters' (Bill Jay, Album, 1970).Provenance: Hugh Hamshaw-Thomas (1885-1962, paleobotanist, and curator of the Botany School Museum, Cambridge), gifted by a friend whilst at Downing College, Cambridge; by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PARKINSON (JOHN)Paradisi in sole, paradisus terrestris. A Garden of all Sorts of Pleasant Flowers, FIRST EDITION, allegorical woodcut title by A. Switzer, woodcut portrait of Parkinson, full-page woodcut of a garden design, 109 full-page woodcut illustrations depicting some 780 varieties of plants, 2 smaller woodcut illustrations, title shaved at margins with small tear repaired, arc of staining at fore-edge of approximately 20 leaves, one preliminary leaf and index leaves at end strengthened with old paper at margins (some loss of text final 4, especially last touching imprint, 2 loose), corner torn away from 2 text leaves (touching letters on pp.455/6), nineteenth century half calf, crudely rebacked [ESTC S115360; Henrey 282; Hunt 215; Nissen BBI 1489], folio (310 x 193mm.), [H. Lownes and R. Young], 1629Footnotes:First edition of 'the earliest important treatise on horticulture published in England' (Henrey).Provenance: Catherine and Stephen Rogers, of Gnosall, Staffordshire, several ownership inscriptions (dated 1810), including verso of title, dedication leaf, and border of portrait.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

FLEMING (IAN)The Man with the Golden Gun, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, FIRST STATE, publisher's dark grey/brown cloth, variant with the gun blocked in gold on the upper cover and the spine lettered in silver, dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping (priced 18s net on front flap), slight fraying at spine ends and at corners [Gilbert A13 (1.1)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, 1965Footnotes:THE FIRST AND RAREST STATE OF THE BINDING, WITH THE GUN BLOCKED IN GILT ON THE FRONT COVER AND THE SPINE LETTERED IN SILVER. Gilbert records that 940 copies were issued in the 'golden gun' binding, many of which were shipped in advance to Commonwealth countries in order to meet the publication day. It soon became apparent that the cost of blocking all these copies was prohibitive, and the remainder of the print run was issued in the plain black cloth. The present copy is one of those which 'very occasionally' (Gilbert) had the spine lettered in silver - we have not traced any other copies with this variant in auction records.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

FORESTER (C.S.)The African Queen, first American edition, slight loss to upper cover of jacket, Boston, Little, Brown, 1935; The Happy Return, 1937; Flying Colours, SIGNED ('C.S. Forester') on title, [1938]; The Commodore, 1945; Lord Hornblower, 1946; Mr. Midshipman's Hornblower, 1950; Lieutenant Hornblower, bookplate of Eric Forbes-Boyd, 1952; Hornblower and the Atropos, remnants of old bookplate inside upper cover, 1953; Hornblower in the West Indies, 1958; Hornblower and the Hotspur, 1962; Hornblower and the Crisis, price-clipped, 1967; The Earthly Paradise, 1940; The Captain from Connecticut, 1941; The Ship, 1943; The Sky and the Forest, 1948; Randall and the River of Time, 1951; The Nightmare, 1954; The Good Shepherd, ownership inscription, jacket price-clipped, 1955, FIRST EDITIONS, all publisher's cloth in dust-jackets (but second and third in facsimile jackets), some wear at extremities of spines, 8vo; and 7 others by Forester, all in dust-jackets (25)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GARCIA LORCA (FEDERICO)Impresiones y Paisajes, FIRST EDITION, half-title, untrimmed and unopened in publisher's wrappers, the upper cover illustrated with a design by Ismael [Gonzàlez de la Serna] printed in green, foot of spine slightly chipped, 8vo, Granada, P.V. Traveset, [1918]Footnotes:A FINE UNOPENED COPY OF LORCA'S RARE FIRST BOOK, SOLD ON BEHALF OF A DESCENDANT OF THE POET.Impresiones y paisajes is a collection of lyrical prose pieces published in April 1918 at the expense of Lorca's father. They were written by the 20-year old aspiring writer during a series of four trips he made through Castile, Léon and Galicia in 1916 and 1917, accompanied by some fellow students and a professor from the university, Martín Domínguez Berrueta, who encouraged him to publish his account. 1917 proved to be a turning point in Lorca's life: he met Antonio Machado in Baeza, and on his return to Granada (despite dedicating the book to his former music teacher and befriending the composer Manuel de Falla), he abandoned his music studies and turned his hand to writing poetry.The first edition is extremely scarce. According to Carlos Morla Linch (in En España con Federico García Lorca, 1957), so few copies were sold that the disillusioned writer gathered together all those he could lay his hands on and set them on fire. Only three copies appear in auction records (all sold in the last few years, two of them in these rooms), and we have traced just five copies in institutions (two in the USA, two in Madrid and a presentation copy in Granada).A publisher's advertisement at the end of the book announces as 'en prensa' a work entitled Elogios y canciones, but this, and the other works listed as being in preparation, never saw the light of day.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GREEN (HENRY)Back, jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, 1946; Concluding, jacket by Mona Moore, 1948; Nothing, 1950; Doting, 1952, last 2 jackets by Lynton Lamb, FIRST EDITIONS; Party Going, second edition, jacket by John Banting, 1947; Living, second edition, 1948; Loving, third impression, jacket by John Piper, 1948, publisher's cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo, Hogarth Press (7)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

JAQUES (FAITH) - ROALD DAHL'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', the original artwork for the covers of the first paperback edition, watercolour and gouache on watercolour board, separate overlay with black ink detail (the 'black plate'), each with proofing details in margins, signed by the illustrator with address details on verso, 385 x 465mm., [c.1973]Footnotes:The original cover artwork for the first Puffin paperback edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1973), depicting Willy Wonka, Charlie and the other Golden Ticket-winners gathered around the Everlasting Gobstopper Machine. Jaques was the original illustrator of the first UK edition of the book in 1967, and produced this new cover design for the paperback.Provenance: Faith Jaques (1923-1997); by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

JAQUES (FAITH) - ROALD DAHL'Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator', original artwork mock-up design for the covers, pen, watercolour and gouache, on stiff paper, annotated and signed ('Elevator should be about 1/2' higher. F.J.') by Jaques on verso, 250 x 353mm., [c.1972-73]; together with an original illustration of the Oompa Loompas, pen and ink with white, pencil note ('Dahl and Pigmies of Africa') on verso by Jaques, 82 x 190mm. (2)Footnotes:A full colour mock-up for the covers of the first UK edition of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Also included is an illustration of Oompa Loompas, redrawn by Jaques for the 1973 edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.Provenance: Faith Jaques (1923-1997); by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com