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Lot 325
A COLLECTION OF SIX VOLUMES predominantly fishing; "Flying Salmon" by Balfour Kinnear, 2nd edition 1947 "Spinning Salmon" by Balfour Kinnear, first pub. 1938 "Where to Catch Salmon & Trout" by Jim Menzies, first published 1937 "Complete Book of F ly Fishing" by Tom McNally, 2nd edition "Irish Field Sports & Angling Handbook" 1984 and "Nature Book" by Noel Sedgwick 1922 (6)
Lot 421
Apollo 11 Buzz Aldrin First Moonlanding. Signed American first edition of Buzz Aldrins latest book, No Dream Is To High. Unread and opened only for signing. Good Condition. All signed items come with our certificate of authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.95, EU from £4.95, Overseas from £6.95
Lot 420
Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit first edition, 2nd printing (one of 200 copies), February 1902 with colour frontis piece and forty-one line illustrations, 140 x 110mm, rounded spine, original olive green cover, the inside back cover with N.U.W.Ss (National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies) Scottish Women's Hospitals, 1914 book plate, printed by Strangeways, London with handwritten note by Beatrix Potter, on front page reading Whilst strenuously denying that my name is in anyway "distinguished" I believe it is familiar amongst the children of many lands. May I hope that some good American will give a good price for this little book? It is a genuine curiosity, one of 500 privately printed copies of Peter Rabbit; which had failed to find a publisher - The first imprint - I think 250 was printed in Dec 1901, and a further 200 (250?) in Feb 1902. Please buy it somebody, in aid of a noble cause. Beatrix Potter with further handwritten note on inside front cover From Beatrix Potter, Oct 11. 1918, In aid of the Scottish Women's Hospitals Provenance: From family history it is believed that the vendor's great aunt purchased this book to help raise funds for the Scottish Women's Hospitals fund and thence by family descent
![Milne [A.A.] : Now We Are Six, with decorations by Ernest H. Shepherd, published by Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1927, first e](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e4373ac5-ac6d-4d0a-92d7-a89e0095ca32/024fb02f-9bea-4b84-88c5-13e0df4afa32/468x382.jpg)
Lot 920
Milne [A.A.] : Now We Are Six, with decorations by Ernest H. Shepherd, published by Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1927, first edition, red cloth binding; Winnie the Pooh, by the same author, fifth edition, green cloth binding; Littlewood [L & F] : Our Nursery Rhyme Book; Powys [T.F] : Goat Green, Golden Cockerel Press; Blyton [Enid] : They Ran Away Together and Farjeon [Eleanor] : Ariadne and The Bull. (6)
Lot 204
Elvis Presley - a Stars of Stage and Screen album of mint stamps from St. Vincent, First Day Covers from USA, Antigua, and Barbuda, Palau etc 1990's approximately thirty items, two Bradex limited edition commemorative plates entitled "The King" and "Teddy Bear" 20cm diameter, boxed, and six souvenir belt buckles (9)
Lot 69
dating: provenance: Vienna, 'Eigentlich Walgerissene Contrafactur und Formen der Gebiss'; Wien, Nicolaum Pierium, 1591. 407 pages with beautiful illustrations mostly of bits but also some plate with spurs, stirrups and maces. Hardcover in parchment with moth damages. Some page with water stain, the rest of the pages in good conditions. First edition of this rare book was published in 1562. The emperor Massimiliano was so impressed with the author that made him work for his court. In a modern slipcase (to protect the book) with leather back and golden title. height 32 cm.
Lot 70
dating: provenance: Augsburg, 'Warhafftige und Eygentliche Contrafactur und Formen der Zeumung und gebisz... der Pferdt, wie dern arten nach ordnung verzeychnet seind, nutzlich unnd dienstlich, sampt iren zugehörenden Naszbändern, Cauczoni, Stegreyf, Sporn, unnd anderem so zu artlicher Reyterey notwendiger weysz erfordert wirdt.' First edition of this very rare book, Augsburg, 1562. About 400 pages with illustrations, mostly of bits, but also some plate with spurs, stirrups, muzzles and maces.Rigid binding in white leather, decorated with imprints (damages and small parts missing). The pages with water stains, but all in all in good conditions. Big ex libris 'EX ELETTORALI BIBLIOTHECA SERENASSI VTRIVSO BAVARIAE DVCVM' and ex libris 'EX BIBLIOTHECA PHILIPPICA'. In a modern slipcase (to protect the book) with leather back and golden title. height 31 cm.
Lot 90
dating: provenance: Augsburg, 'Ein schönes und nützliches Bissbuch...'; Augsburg, 1584. First edition with abt. 170 plates with illustrations by Alexander Mair. Leather matching binding, with imprints. Cover with damages, the first and the last pages with parts missing and damages, the rest in fairly good conditions. height 41 cm.
Lot 91
dating: provenance: Germany, 'Le Veritable Parfait Mareschal, Qvi Enseigne A Connoistre La Beavté, La Bonté, Et Les Deffavts Des Chevaux … = Der Warhafftig-Vollkommene Stall-Meister, Welcher lehret die Schönheit, Güte und Mängel der Pferd zuerkennen: …', sixth edition in French and first in German. Genf, Widerhold, 1677. 824 plus 40 pages with some imprints. Leather matching binding. height 33.5 cm.
!['The Tale of Peter Rabbit', Beatrix Potter, London: Frederick Warne and Co. [April 1902], first trade edition, fourth impress](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/20a20ad9-add9-4d7e-a4ca-a8a1010e635a/252d8f79-028b-4db0-bd41-d81f534816e9/468x382.jpg)
Lot 817
'The Tale of Peter Rabbit', Beatrix Potter, London: Frederick Warne and Co. [April 1902], first trade edition, fourth impression (the first to contain "shed big tears" on p.51, and the last to feature an illustration of Beatrix Potter as Mrs McGregor holding a rabbit pie on p.14). Owner inscription to half-title dated 1903. Pale grey leaf-pattern endpapers. Colour pastedown illustration to upper board, colour frontispiece, and a further 30 colour illustrations throughout.
Lot 867
'Plans, Elevations, Sections, and other Ornaments of the Mansion-House, Belonging to the Corporation of Doncaster', by James Paine, London: Printed for the Author, 1751. First and only edition, complete with all engraved plates as called for. Very rare and historically significant 18th-century English architectural book. Printed at Paine's own expense, the work records his designs and effectively promotes his architectural practice to prospective clients (this book launched Paine's career). The title page bears an engraved portrait of Paine after Francis Hayman. All plates are present, the double-page plates carrying two numbers each. Folio, untrimmed page edges, quarter green leather with paper covered boards, printed on laid/chain-lined paper, contemporary inscription to upper and lower boards (the title of the work to lower, the original owner to upper), owner inscription repeated to front paste-down endpaper (Richard Beaumont), more recent ownership inscription to one of the blank endleaves, and 'Rd Bt 1752' inscription to title page.
Lot 868
Yeats (William Butler) 'Selected Poems Lyrical and Narrative', London: Macmillan and Co., 1929. Portrait of Yeats by John Singer Sargent to title page. First edition, containing some previously unpublished material, only 1500 copies printed. Octavo blue cloth with elaborate blind embossed design to upper board designed by Charles Ricketts. Top edge gilt. Neat owner inscriptions to front free endpaper, one of which is dated 1930.
![Dulac (Edmund). 'Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book, Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations', [1916], Hodder & Stoughton, first and limited](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/20a20ad9-add9-4d7e-a4ca-a8a1010e635a/bbc83638-69ac-41e8-a9ad-ace9855f2510/468x382.jpg)
Lot 869
Dulac (Edmund). 'Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book, Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations', [1916], Hodder & Stoughton, first and limited edition signed by Dulac and numbered 271 of 350. Complete with all 15 tipped-in colour plates. Quarto, publisher's original vellum cloth with decorative gilt, untrimmed page edges.
![Dulac (Edmund). 'Sinbad the Sailor', Hodder and Stoughton [1914], first and limited edition signed by Dulac and numbered 62 o](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/20a20ad9-add9-4d7e-a4ca-a8a1010e635a/57ba1ad9-03a6-4e5a-dce6-1044a234d99a/468x382.jpg)
Lot 878
Ravilious (Eric, illus.). 'High Street', written by J. M. Richards, illustrated by Eric Ravilious, first edition, London: Country Life, printed at the Curwen Press, 1938. Complete with the 24 colour lithographic plates, woodcut vignette title page, publisher's pictorial boards. Includes an original bookseller's receipt for Cornish Brothers, New Street, Birmingham.
Lot 882
Lang (Andrew, editor). 'The Green Fairy Book', first edition, London: Longmans, 1892, publisher's gilt decorated green cloth, publisher's advertisement leaf at rear, numerous letterpress illustrations and frontispiece, octavo, all edges gilt. Together with 'The Yellow Fairy Book', first edition, 1894, gilt decorated yellow cloth, advertisement leaf at rear, all edges gilt, and 'The Red Romance Book', first edition, 1905, red cloth & gilt. Also 'Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book', Hodder & Stoughton, publisher's pictorial cloth, 15 tipped-in colour plates. (4)
![[Pseudo-Aristotle], 'Aristotle's Master-piece Compleated, In Two Parts: The First Containing the Secrets of Generation, the S](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/20a20ad9-add9-4d7e-a4ca-a8a1010e635a/e6fd84bd-dc39-4fc7-b7e3-b5e902e2b0e5/468x382.jpg)
Lot 887
[Pseudo-Aristotle], 'Aristotle's Master-piece Compleated, In Two Parts: The First Containing the Secrets of Generation, the Second Part being a private Looking Glass for the Female SEX', London: Printed for D. P., 1720. A sex manual and midwifery book first published in 1684, containing woodcut illustrations in the style of the first edition. The book discusses "monsters", crudely illustrated, which 'are begot by Women's unnatural lying with Beasts'. a/f
Lot 906
'The Enchanted Wood', Enid Blyton, first edition, illustrated by Dorothy M. Wheeler, London: George Newnes, 1939. Complete with colour dustwrapper (a/f), half-title, colour frontispiece, publisher's green cloth octavo binding lettered in black. First book in The Faraway Tree series, scarce first edition.
![Demosthenes. Logoi duo kai exhkonta [graece]; Graecorum oratorum omnium facile principis orationes duas & sexaginta, & in eas](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b6934ccb-7922-4e2b-a95a-a88f00e27afa/2a4e29c1-f68a-4a52-c77a-63e75f556e52/468x382.jpg)
Lot 104
Demosthenes. Logoi duo kai exhkonta [graece]; Graecorum oratorum omnium facile principis orationes duas & sexaginta, & in easdem Vlpiani commentarios...Libanii argumenta, 2 parts in 1, collation: a, b, α-ω, A-T6, Υ8, aa-qq6, rr8, ss-xx6, yy4, woodcut printer's device on title and verso of final leaf, woodcut initials, Greek text, title and final leaf a little soiled, light marginal damp- or water-staining at beginning and end causing slight fraying to first few leaves, some worming, mostly marginal but affecting a few head-lines, generally a good copy with wide margins, 19th century half calf, spine gilt, title lettered in early hand along lower edge, rubbed, boards a little scuffed and with gouge to lower cover, spine broken, upper joint repaired, [Adams D261; STC German, 238], folio (334 x 225mm.), Basle, Johannes Herwagen, 1532.⁂ Following the first Aldine edition of 1504, but also including for the first time the commentaries of Erasmus, Guillaume Budé and others.
Lot 110
Food & drink.- Cornarius (Janus) De conviviorum veterum Græcorum, & hoc tempore Germanorum ritibus, moribus ac sermonibus, collation: a-m8 n4, italic type, woodcut historiated initials, final f. with colophon, otherwise blank, a few very small worm holes / traces to margins of last few ff., occasional spotting or small areas of marginal staining, modern calf, 8vo (155 x 89mm.), Basel, [Joannes Oporinus], [1548].⁂ First edition. On ancient Greek and contemporary German banqueting and dining customs, together with the author's translations of the Symposia of Plato and Xenophon. Literature: Adams C2637; VD 16 C 5132; Bitting pp.99-100; Vicaire 211.
Lot 111
Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Familiarium epistolarum libri XVI, edited by L.J Scoppa & F. Robertellus, collation: a8 b-z6 A-Cc6 Dd-Ee8, italic type, title with woodcut of a printer's shop, woodcut decorative initials, first few ff. chipped, wormholes in text, varying in number throughout, lightly browned, occasional staining, new endpapers, 17th century blind-stamped calf, rebacked, corners worn, rubbed, folio (321 x 205mm.), Paris, [Benoît Prévost for] Jean de Roigny, 1549.⁂ Rare edition at auctionProvenance: 'Reverend Thom Mitchell, dona dedit, 1781, Lamington'; 'Samuel Wilden [Wildon], Qui dono ..., 1793' (ink inscriptions to title); 'Stephen Medcalf, Blundell's Bookshop, Lewes 6th March 1973' (ink inscription to new endpapers). Literature: Adams C1951.
Lot 112
Aldine.- Catullus (Gaius Valerius) Catullus. Et in eum Commentarius M. Antonii Mureti, edited and with commentary by Marc Antoine Muret, collation: *4 A-Q8 R10, title with woodcut printer's device, initial spaces with guide-letters, penultimate f. errata with colophon verso, final f. with woodcut printer's device, otherwise blank, early ink inscription at foot of title scored through, some foxing or spotting, later vellum over boards, spine ends chipped, corners worn, rubbed, 8vo (155 x 93mm.), Venice, Paulus Manutius, 1554.⁂ First edition of Muret's commentary. Literature: Adams C1145; Renouard, Alde, 162: 19; EDIT 16 CNCE 10364
Lot 12
Smallpox & Vaccination.- Clinch (William) An Historical Essay on the Rise and Progress of the Small-pox, first edition, title soiled, text foxed, Edward Jenner's copy with note in pencil by James Stevens Cox "From Dr E.Jenner's library, J.S.Cox...1931" on front free endpaper, another older ink inscription "E lib ?G.B.B.", book-label of James Stevens Cox, contemporary panelled calf, gilt, spine gilt, rubbed, corners and head of spine slightly worn, split to upper joint, 8vo, for A.R. and sold by T.Warner, 1724.⁂ Rare.
![Smallpox & Vaccination.- Jenner (Edward).- [Hooper (Robert)] The Surgeon's Vade-mecum; containing the Symptoms, Causes, Diagn](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b6934ccb-7922-4e2b-a95a-a88f00e27afa/414538a9-875f-4968-8034-ca2f79ab4e3f/468x382.jpg)
Lot 13
Smallpox & Vaccination.- Jenner (Edward).- [Hooper (Robert)] The Surgeon's Vade-mecum; containing the Symptoms, Causes, Diagnois, Prognosis, and Treatment of Surgical Dieseases, first edition, half-title, Edward Jenner's copy with his signature at head of title, 8pp. catalogue at end, original boards, uncut, rubbed, tears to spine, 8vo, 1809.
![Music.- Diderot (Denis).- Bemetzrieder (Anton) Leçons de Clavecin et Principes d'Harmonie, [edited by Denis Diderot], first](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b6934ccb-7922-4e2b-a95a-a88f00e27afa/efb07366-2745-4b50-d191-478593dbd486/468x382.jpg)
Lot 130
Music.- Diderot (Denis).- Bemetzrieder (Anton) Leçons de Clavecin et Principes d'Harmonie, [edited by Denis Diderot], first edition, half-title, approbation/privilege leaf at end, musical notation in text, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary mottled sheep, rebacked preserving original spine, corners repaired, covers with a few scratches repaired, a good copy, 4to, Paris, Chez Bluet, 1771.⁂ The work was edited by Diderot, and has a preface by him. Diderot had engaged Bemetzrieder to teach his daughter the harpsichord.
Lot 14
Smallpox & Vaccination.- Jenner (Rev. George Charles) The Evidence at Large, as Laid Before the Committee of the House of Commons, Respecting Dr Jenner's Discovery of Vaccine Inoculation, first edition, half-title, presentation copy from Edward Jenner inscribed "The Revd. Mr Rowland Hill, with Dr Jenner's best Respects" on half-title (last word slightly cropped), errata leaf at end, with 2 engraved portraits of Edward Jenner bound in, foxed at beginning, modern blue morocco, 8vo, 1805.⁂ Rev. George Charles Jenner was Edward Jenner's nephew.Rev.Rowland Hill (1744-1833), clergyman and evangelical preacher, and an influential advocate of smallpox vaccination who proposed inoculating his congregation. The postal reformer, Rowland Hill, was named after him.
![Smallpox & Vaccination.- Jenner (Rev. G.C.).- [Dossie (Robert)] The Elaboratory laid open, or, the Secrets of Modern Chemistr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b6934ccb-7922-4e2b-a95a-a88f00e27afa/c35fb11b-687d-4e7e-9d4e-5f7cd0994e0c/468x382.jpg)
Lot 16
Smallpox & Vaccination.- Jenner (Rev. G.C.).- [Dossie (Robert)] The Elaboratory laid open, or, the Secrets of Modern Chemistry and Pharmacy, first edition, lightly browned, G.C.Jenner's copy with his signature dated 1790 on front pastedown, contemporary sprinkled calf, rubbed, joints split, corners slightly worn, for J. Nourse, 1758 § L'Amour Glorifié, out Traité de la Vraie Sagess et du Vrai Bonheur..., a little soiled, tear to C2, G.C.Jenner's copy with his inscription "G.C. Jenner, Stone, 1818" on front pastedown, contemporary half calf, rubbed, n.p., 1786, 8vo (2)⁂ Rev. G.C.Jenner (1767-1846), nephew of Edward Jenner.
Lot 17
Smallpox & Vaccination.- Moseley (Benjamin) A Treatise on the Lues Bovilla; or Cow Pox, 1804; another edition, second edition "with considerable additions", presentation copy from the author to Frederick Perkins Esq. inscribed at head of half-title, 1805; Commentaries on the Lues Bovilla; or Cow Pox, ?lacking half-title, 1806 bound with [Birch (John)] Fatal Effects (The) of Cow-pox Protection, with Appendix, 2 parts in 1, ?lacking final blank, 1808, together 4 works in 1 vol., all but the second first editions, some leaves soiled, modern half cloth, rubbed, 8vo⁂ All scarce pamphlets.
Lot 18
Smallpox & Vaccination.- Ring (John) A Treatise on the Cow-Pox; containing the History of Vaccine Inoculation, 2 vol., first edition, presentation copy from the author to Rev. George Charles Jenner inscribed "Revd. Mr. Jenner from the Author" on front free endpaper and with G.C.Jenner's monogram stamp at foot of titles, 2 hand-coloured engraved plates mounted on stubs, also 4pp. leaflet on 'Cow-pock Inoculation' by J.T.A.Reed tipped to stub, some browning to vol.1, some leaves creased soiled at edges, original boards, uncut, vol.1 with paper label, rubbed, vol. with tear to spine and boards stained, 8vo, [1801-03].⁂ Scarce; no auction record since 1972.
Lot 19
Smallpox & Vaccination.- Woodville (William) Reports of a Series of Inoculations for the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-pox..., first edition, James Phillips & Son, 1799; Observations on the Cow-pox, William Phillips, 1800 bound with Pearson (George) An Examination of the Report of the Committee of the House of Commons on the Remuneration for the Vaccine Pock Inoculation..., stipple-engraved frontispiece printed in colours, 1802 and Pruen (Thomas) A Comparative Sketch of the Effects of Variolus and Vaccine Inoculation..., 1807 and Christie (Thomas) An Account of the Ravages committed in Ceylon by Small-pox, previously to the Introduction of Vaccination, presentation copy from the author inscribed on half-title (soiled), Cheltenham, 1811, together 5 works in 1 vol., first editions, with folding leaf 'Human Life' with text in three columns in English, French and German bound in between the third and fourth works, first few leaves browned at margins, final leaf soiled, later tree sheep, gilt, spine gilt, 8vo ⁂ A collection of scarce pamphlets.
Lot 207
Cotton (John) A Briefe Exposition with Practicall Observations upon the Whole Book of Ecclesiastes, first edition, advertisements at end of last f. present, title torn and repaired in margins and laid down, lacks final leaf T4 with vertical half-title on recto, some ff. misbound, browned throughout, later endpapers, modern half calf, gilt spine, [Sabin 17049; Wing C-6413], 8vo, by T[homas] C[hilde] for Ralph Smith, 1654.
Lot 208
Book of Common Prayer in Latin.- Liturgia, seu liber precum communium..., translated by John Earle and Jean Durel, 50 engraved plates, 1 plate part of outer margin torn away, A1 blank, ruled in red throughout, slightly browned, ink inscription of William Hamilton 1734 and remains of bookplate on verso of title, remains of engraved bookplate on verso of last f., contemporary black morocco Sombre binding with blind-stamped inlaid panels with centre ornament surrounded by a straight line hatched panel on both covers, gilt two line borders, corners very slightly bumped, gilt panelled spine, g.e., [Wing B3637A], London, Roger Norton for Samuel Mearne, 1670.⁂ First edition of the Latin translation of the Book of Common Prayer called for by the Act of Uniformity and made under the direction of the Convocation.
Lot 209
Flatman (Thomas) Poems and Songs, first edition, 2nd f. blank, except for sig. A recto, A3 cancelled, sig. (a) bound after sig. ⁂, second f. with repair to lower margin, trimmed at head, affecting some headlines, some soiling and spotting, modern half morocco, spine gilt, [Wing F1151], printed by S. and B. G[riffin]. for Benjamin Took at the Ship in St. Pauls Church-yard, and Jonathan Edwin at the three Roses in Ludgate Street, 1674.
Lot 211
Maimbourg (Louis) The History of the League, translated by John Dryden, first edition in English, engraved frontispiece, slightly browned, new endpapers, modern half morocco, gilt spine, edges uncut, [Wing M292; Pforzheimer 132], M. Flesher for Jacob Tonson, 1684 § Gurney (Joseph) The Trial of John Motherhill, for Committing a Rape on the Body of Miss Catharine Wade, The Second Edition, small tear in title, slightly browned, disbound, G. Kearsley and M. Gurney, 1786; and 4 others, v.s., v.d. (6).
Lot 214
Defoe (Daniel) The consolidator: or, memoirs of sundry transactions from the world in the moon. Translated from the lunar language, by the author of The true-born English man, first edition, half-title, some mostly light browning, occasional spotting, contemporary speckled calf, richly gilt spine in compartments, spine neatly repaired, [Rothschild 737], 8vo, Printed: and are to be sold by Benj. Bragg, at the Blue-Ball in Ave-Mary-Lane, 1705.⁂ 'Though 'this prose satire contains the first hints of many of the ideas which Swift afterwards embodied in Gulliver' (Lowndes. art. Defoe) there is no positive evidence that Swift ever read or possessed a copy of The Consolidator. Provenance: Rolle (engraved armorial bookplate).
Lot 216
Newton (Sir Isaac) The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, first edition, engraved head-piece and initial, 3 folding engraved plates, some light marginal water-staining, some spotting and soiling, bookplate of Airedale College Library, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners worn, 4to, for J. Tonson and J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1728.
Lot 22
Freind (John) Chymical Lectures: in which almost all the Operations of Chymistry are reduced to their True Principles, and the Laws of Nature, first edition, light water-staining to title and front free endpapers, Macclesfield library copy with blind-stamp at head of title and bookplates, contemporary panelled sheep, spine gilt, rubbed, joints split, small wormed patches to lower cover, [Ferguson I, 291], 8vo, by Philip Gwillim, for Jonah Bowyer, 1712.
![[Johnson (Richard)], "Master Tommy Littleton, Secretary to the Court". Juvenile Trials for Robbing Orchards, telling Fibs, an](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b6934ccb-7922-4e2b-a95a-a88f00e27afa/a5d32f18-8957-4bbc-c3bd-76067e7401b3/468x382.jpg)
Lot 225
[Johnson (Richard)], "Master Tommy Littleton, Secretary to the Court". Juvenile Trials for Robbing Orchards, telling Fibs, and other high Misdemeanours, first edition, woodcut frontispiece, woodcuts within text, some inner gutters strengthened with tape, causing browning, "Dutch" floral boards, rebacked in cloth, tape marks, corners worn, rubbed, [cf. Osborne p.270], 12mo, Printed for T. Carnan, At Number 65, St. Paul's Church-yard, 1772.⁂ Rare. This first edition not listed in ESTC. Carnan entered the work at Stationer's Hall on 18th December, 1771. Provenance: 'John Anthony Whitaker, March 1, 1773' (ink inscriptions to front free endpapers).
Lot 227
American War of Independence.- Adams (Samuel) An Oration Delivered at the State-House, in Philadelphia... 1776... Member of the General Congress of... America, 46pp., half-title, [Howes A72; Sabin 344; ESTC lists 3 copies of this edition only; not in BL or the National Library of Ireland], Philadelphia Printed and Dublin Re-Printed by J. Exshaw, 1776 bound with Price (John) Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, the Principles of Government, and the Justice and Policy of the War with America, folding table, [Howes P-586], Dublin, J. Exshaw and others, 1776 bound with [Colonial Taxation].- [Ferguson (Adam)] Remarks on a Pamphlet Lately Published by Dr. Price..., 72pp., Dublin, Messrs. Whitestone and others, 1776, together 5 pamphlets in 1 vol., bound in differing order, slightly browned, contemporary tree calf, gilt, gilt spine, split but holding, 12mo.⁂ First mentioned a spurious work, Adams did not make this speech and it was not delivered to the Congress.
Lot 230
Smith (Adam) An Inquiry in the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, vol. 2 only (of 2), second edition, half-title, first 100pp. with worming to foot, not affecting text, closed tear to 2A2, very occasional scattered spotting, but overall a clean, wide-margined copy, occasional pencil notes to margins, contemporary ink ownership inscription, contemporary tree calf, gilt, splitting to upper joint but holding firm rubbed, [Goldsmiths' 11663; Kress B.154; cf.PMM 221, first edition], 4to, W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1778.⁂ The second edition is the rarest of the early editions of Wealth of Nations, of which only 500 copies were printed. A number of these sheets for this edition may well have been used from the first edition of 1776.
Lot 235
Blake (William).- Catullus (Gaius Valerius) The Poems of Caius Valerius Catullus, In English Verse, [translated and edited by Dr. John Nott], 2 vol., half-titles, engraved frontispieces by William Blake, 2 errata ff., light offsetting on titles, some spotting, front free endpaper becoming loose (vol. 1), 19th Century manuscript notes loosely inserted, occasional marginal pencil markings, contemporary calf, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Bentley 441], 8vo, Printed for J. Johnson, 1795.⁂ First edition of the first attempt to publish a complete English translation of Catullus, with plates by William Blake.
Lot 24
Newton (Sir Isaac) The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, vol.2 only (of 2), first edition in English, lacking engraved frontispiece, with 22 folding engraved plates, 2 folding letterpress tables, 2 engraved head-pieces by A.Motte, with the 13pp. Index and 8pp. Appendix but without the 71pp. 'The laws of the moon's motion according to gravity' by John Machin usually bound at end, cropped shaving first engraved head-piece, very light damp-staining to title, last couple of leaves and 4 folding plates at end, small yellow stain to first leaf, contemporary ink manuscript notes to front free endpaper, engraved armorial bookplate (with name scored out), contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, lacking labels, rubbed, boards a little scuffed, spine ends worn, headband detached, split to upper joint, [PMM 161], 8vo, for Benjamin Motte, at the Middle-Temple-Gate, 1729.⁂ First English edition of vol.2 of Newton's Principia, the most important work in the history of science, and including Newton's System of the World as Book 3. Machin's work is usually bound at the end of this volume but is occasionally found at the end of vol.1.
![[Coleridge (Sara)] Phantasmion, first edition, half-title, 16pp. William Pickering publisher's catalogue at beginning, wormin](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b6934ccb-7922-4e2b-a95a-a88f00e27afa/cdd8a179-d883-407b-ad2c-098dfc284836/468x382.jpg)
Lot 240
[Coleridge (Sara)] Phantasmion, first edition, half-title, 16pp. William Pickering publisher's catalogue at beginning, worming in margins of publisher's catalogue, ink signature of Pearson on title, original green cloth, slightly discoloured, corners bumped, spine browned, printed paper label on spine torn with small loss, edges uncut, 8vo, William Pickering, 1837.⁂ Scarce. A fairy tale, mingled with verse, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge's daughter.
Lot 242
Slavery.- Brown (William Wells) Three Years in Europe, or, Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met, first edition, lacking portrait frontispiece, half-title, patch of browning to rear pastedown, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine a little browned, spine ends and corners a little bumped, a little rubbed, g.e., an excellent copy, 8vo, 1852. ⁂ Scarce. William Wells Brown (1814-84) was a prominent Africa-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist and historian. He was born into slavery in Kentucky but escaped the North in 1834. He journeyed to London in 1849 and remained there until 1854, also travelling throughout Europe during this period. Three Years in Europe provides his account of this period including his confrontation with American slaveholders in the grounds of Crystal Palace. A year after the publication of Three Years in Europe, Brown made history by becoming the first African-American to publish a novel, Clotel (1853).
Lot 250
Farrell (J.G.) A Man From Elsewhere, first and only edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "but the strawberries were ok! Love Jim, July 1968" to front free endpaper, original boards, dust-jacket, minor rubbing and creasing to head and foot, but a near-fine example otherwise, 8vo, New Authors Limited, 1963.⁂ J.G. Farrell's rare first book especially so inscribed. Farrell came to dislike his first book and it was never reprinted, we can trace no other signed copy at auction. The recipient was Sandy Ellis, Farrell's girlfriend from 1966-68. The strawberries remark refers to an unsuccessful pâté Ellis had prepared for a recent meal the two had had together.
Lot 252
Farrell (J.G.) The Lung, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "For Sandy with love from James Farrell, Jan 23rd 1966" to front free endpaper, original boards, dust-jacket, minor chipping and creasing to spine ends and corners, light surface soiling to rear panel, excellent otherwise, 8vo, 1965.⁂ Farrell's scarce second work, we can trace no other signed copy at auction.
Lot 254
Goudge (Elizabeth) The Little White Horse, first edition, illustrations by C. Walter Hodges, map endpapers, front free endpaper clipped, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, spine faded, dust-jacket, spine browned, spine ends and corners chipped, creasing to head and foot, rubbing and surface soiling, 1946 § Dahl (Roald) The BFG, light toning to text margins, small ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original boards, dust-jackets, minor chipping and creasing to head and foot, 1982 § Hill (Susan) The Woman in Black, illustrations by John Lawrence, front free endpaper clipped, original boards, dust-jacket, minor chipping to spine ends and corners, 1983, first editions; and 3 others, Dahl, 8vo (6)
Lot 255
Graves (Robert) Good-Bye to All That, first edition, first issue, frontispiece, plates, original cloth, spine darkened, spine ends and corners a little bumped, dust-jacket, spine browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, a few minor sympathetic repairs and restorations at extremities, still in effect an excellent example, 8vo, 1929.⁂ The first issue, with the reference to Spiritualism on p.290 and the unauthorised transcription of a poem from Sassoon to Graves on pp.341-3, subsequently removed at Sassoon's request and reintroduced in the second edition.
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Heaney (Seamus) Death of a Naturalist, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Norman Todhunter "to set the darkness echoing" to title, original cloth, minor rubbing to tips of spines and corners, dust-jacket, spine faded, spine ends and corners a little chipped, still an excellent example overall, [Brandes & Durkan A2a], 8vo, 1966.
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