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Africa.- Cameron (Verney Lovett) Across Africa, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, wood-engraved frontispieces and 27 plates, 4 plates of facsimiles (3 folding), folding colour map in pocket at end (slightly browned), numerous wood-engraved illustrations, 4pp. & 8pp. publisher's catalogues at ends, Humphrey Winterton's copy with his book-label, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed, corners bumped, a good copy, 8vo, 1877. ⁂ Fascinating account of a journey across Africa, originally in search of Livingstone but on learning of his death continued as exploration. Cameron describes the manners and customs of the indigenous peoples encountered, and comments on the slave trade and its consequences; he was the first European to cross Equatorial Africa from east to west.

Hopkins (Gerard Manley) Poems, edited by Robert Bridges, first edition, one of 750 copies, inscribed by John Masefield to Laurence Hodson on front free endpaper and with accompanying T.L.s. tipped to front pastedown, half-title, 2 photogravure portraits by Emery Walker, 2 double-page facsimiles, original linen-backed boards, paper spine label, uncut, 8vo, 1918.⁂ An excellent copy of the first published collection of Hopkins's work which posthumously rescued him from obscurity. Only a few of his poems were published in his lifetime and he destroyed much of his work when he entered the Catholic priesthood. Masefield's accompanying letter reads: "...You may like knobbly bones of poetry to scrunch with your mind : I do myself : so here is a knobbly one for you : which I admire very much, for all its' wilfulnesss...".

Sporting.- Berners (Dame Juliana) [The Book of St Albans]: The Book containing the Treatises of Hawking; Hunting; Coat-Armour; Fishing; and Blasing of Arms, facsimile of the Wynkyn de Worde edition of 1496, [one of 150 copies], printed in red and black, woodcut illustrations, some full-page, lightly browned, William Baillie Grohman's copy with his signed ink inscription "...bought this copy at the Gilbey sale 21. June 1915" on front free endpaper, bookplates of Walter Harold Wilkin and James Stevens Cox, worming to hinges, contemporary russia with borders in blind, by C.Hering with his ticket, g.e., a little rubbed and damp-stained, rebacked and recornered in morocco, [W & S p. 28; Schwerdt I p. 63], small folio, 1810.⁂ Facsimile of the first English work to include the earliest printed illustration of a fisherman and passages of veterinary interest, the earliest book printed in English relating to falconry, and the first work in England to use colour printing.William Baillie Grohman (1851-1921), Anglo-Austrian author on hunting and big game hunter. He assembled a large library on hunting and a vast collection of sporting art.

Lee (Harper) To Kill a Mockingbird, first English edition, light spotting to endpapers, modern crushed morocco, gilt, spine gilt in compartments, g.e., 8vo, 1960.

Catullus (Gaius Valerius) Caius Valerius Cattulus in integrum restitutus ex manuscripto nuper Romae reperto, & ex Gallicano, Patavino, Mediolanensi, Romano, Zanoni, Maffei, Scaligeri, Achillis, & Vossii, & aliorum, edited by Joannis Francisci Corradini de Allio, occasional staining or spotting, contemporary limp boards, lightly soiled and stained, Venice, [Agostino Savioli], 1738; and 2 others, including a good copy of the 1815 Pisa edition edited by Tommaso Puccini, folio (3)⁂ Rare first edition edited by Corradino dell'Aglio. 'This is the famous surreptitious edition which was palmed on the world by Corradini de Allio, who pretended he had discovered a very precious Roman MS. by which he was enabled to exhibit a pure and accurate text; 'but the cheat being discovered,' says Harwood, 'the rascal only laughed at it.'' - (Dibdin).

West Indies.- Southey (Capt. Thomas) Chronological History of the West Indies, 3 vol., first edition, ?lacking half-titles, errata leaf at end of vol.2, foxing, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, [Sabin 88568], 8vo, 1827.⁂ The author was the brother of the poet Robert Southey.

Africa.- Burton (Sir Richard Francis) Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po. By a F.R.G.S., 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, folding lithographed map, wood-engraved frontispiece in vol.2, light spotting at beginning and ends, original dark purple cloth, spines with author's name, a little rubbed, very slight damp-mottling, spines faded, [Penzer p.69], 8vo, 1863. ⁂ In 1861 Burton took up the post of British consul on the Spanish island of Fernando Po (Bioko, off Cameroon in West Africa) and this work includes descriptions of the gold-mining prospects in both Sierra Leone and Nigeria. At the time Burton was in dispute with Speke over the source of the Nile and was infuriated by the Royal Geographical Society for choosing Speke to lead a second expedition to establish his claim, causing him to issue this work anonymously, although his name appears on the spines.

Asia.- Stein (Sir Marc Aurel) On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks: Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western China, first edition, half-title, plates, some colour, some folding, folding colour map, advertisement leaf at end, original terracotta cloth, gilt medallion on upper cover, t.e.g., others uncut, a little rubbed and damp-stained, 8vo, 1933.

Giunta.- Catullus, Propertius & Tibullus. Catullus. Propertius. Tibullus., edited by Benedictus Ricardinus "Philologus", collation: a4 b-e8 f10 A-I8 aa-dd8 ee4, italic type, initial spaces with guide-letters, a4 and I8 blank, occasional early ink marginalia, water-stained at foot, closely trimmed at head, just touching some headlines, later vellum, lightly soiled, 8vo (147 x 95mm.), [Florence], [Filippo Giunta I], 1503.⁂ The exceedingly rare first Giunta octavo edition, which Brunet calls 'plus rare que celle d'Alde'. This the issue with 'Augustas' in the colophon. It is essentially a copy of the 1502 Aldine edition, which was pirated by Trot in Lyons in the same year. This is the first of Giunta's octavo printings of the classics, which prompted Aldus to fight ferociously for a decade to protect his publications. Eventually, on 28th November, 1513, the newly elected Pope Leo X granted him a privilege, signed by Pietro Bembo, who was at the time papal secretary. John Carter in his Taste and Technique in Book Collecting (1969), who was himself an avid collector of Catullus, noted the volume's rarity. Indeed, he uses this particular volume to define the basis of the concept of 'rarity' in the world of book collecting. Provenance: Heinrich Ludwig Ziegler Stolbergen (ink signatures to endpapers, one dated 1805). Literature: Not in Adams; Renouard, Alde, XXXIV: 4; EDIT 16 CNCE 10357; Petta, The Giunti of Florence, 2013, pp.16-17.

Americas.- South America.- Caldcleugh (Alexander) Travels in South America, during the years 1819-20-21; containing an account of the present state of Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Chile, 2 vol., first edition, half-title in vol.1 only, 9 aquatint plates, one hand-coloured, 2 folding engraved maps hand-coloured in outline, offsetting from plates, occasional marginal soiling or staining, cropped, small tear to X7 of vol.1, modern blue morocco, spines slightly browned, [Abbey, Travel 699; Sabin 9877], 8vo, 1825.⁂ Interesting work on South America including fine views of Rio and descriptions of mines. The plates were engraved by Finden from drawings by William Daniell after sketches by William Waldegrave.

Australasia.- New Zealand.- Marshall (William Barrett) A Personal Narrative of Two Visits to New Zealand, in his Majesty's Ship Alligator, A.D. 1834, first edition, half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece, errata leaf and advertisement leaf at end, light foxing throughout, old sheet of notes concerning the capture of the Guard family loosely inserted, a few pencil annotations, original diced brown cloth, spine titled in gilt, rubbed and lightly stained, spine faded, very short split to head of joint, [Hocken p.59], 12mo, 1836.⁂ Scarce account of two contrasting expeditions to New Zealand by the surgeon on board H.M.S.Alligator, the first to the Bay of Islands and the mission there, the second in order to rescue Mrs. Guard, her two children and some sailors who had been taken captive following their shipwreck at Cape Egmont.

Medicine.- Dentistry.- Fox (Joseph) The Natural History of the Human Teeth..., first edition, presentation copy from the author to ?William Pitt the younger with ink manuscript slip "Mr. Pitt with best respects from the Author" tipped to head of title, 13 engraved plates, a little damp-stained at beginning, light spotting to plates, mostly marginal, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, neatly rebacked preserving old gilt spine, new green roan label, new endpapers, [GM 3679; Norman 825; Wellcome 13357260], 4to, 1803.⁂ Considered to be the first work on orthodontics, by a pupil of John Hunter and the first dental surgeon at Guy's Hospital, from 1799. Guy's was the first hospital to appoint a dental surgeon and the first to include lectures on dentistry, given by Fox and his assistant Astley Cooper. The work is much concerned with dental irregularities and their prevention and correction and was greatly influential.

Australasia.- New Zealand.- Barraud (Charles Decimus) and W.T.L.Travers. New Zealand: Graphic and Descriptive, first edition, additional lithographed decorative title with mounted oval chromolithographed vignette of 'The Remarkables', list of subscribers, map, 24 mounted chromolithographed plates after Barraud, 6 plates of tinted lithographs, wood-engraved illustrations, text with light offsetting from plates, plates clean and bright, slightly trimmed, a couple with minor marginal tears/fraying to outer margin (repaired), with additional colour wood-engraved plate 'The Haunt of the Lyre Bird' after Louis Buvelot bound in at end (lightly spotted, central horizontal crease where previously folded), modern half green morocco, part of original gilt pictorial cloth cover with title loosely inserted (stained), folio, 1877.⁂ Including scenes of Wellington, Auckland, Tarawera Lake, the geothermal terraces of Rotomahana, and Mount Cook.

Americas.- South America.- Bennett (George W.) An Illustrated History of British Guiana, first edition, 41 albumen prints (numbered 1-44) mounted on 35 leaves including several views, all rather faded, mounts lightly spotted and creased, foxing and soiling to text, ink inscription to front free endpaper, original half cloth, gilt, g.e., a little rubbed and stained, large 8vo, Georgetown, Demerara, 1866.

Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, light toning to margins, original pictorial boards, very minor bumping to spine ends and corners, dust-jacket, light rubbing and creasing to head, excellent otherwise, 8vo, 1998.

Africa.- Thomson (Joseph) To the Central African Lakes and Back: The Narrative of the Royal Geographical Society's East Central African Expedition, 1878-80, 2 vol., first edition, half-title in vol.1 only (as called for), mounted photographic portrait frontispieces of Keith Johnston and Thomson, 2 folding colour maps, 32pp. publishers' catalogue at end of vol.2, light foxing to frontispieces and titles, first frontispiece creased at corner, maps each with short tear at inner edge (one repaired), original decorated brown cloth, uncut, a little rubbed and marked, spines slightly darkened, traces of labels removed from upper covers, 8vo, 1881. ⁂ Thomson was a Scottish geologist and explorer who accompanied Alexander Keith Johnston on his expedition to establish a route from Dar es Salaam to Lake Nyasa and Lake Tanganyika. Johnston died during the trip and Thomson took over leadership of the expedition, travelling 3,000 miles in 14 months, collecting specimens and making observations. He became the first European to cross the 250 mile plateau between lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika.

Syston Park copy.- Catullus, Tibullus & Propertius. Opera, [edited by Arthur Annesley], fine engraved additional architectural title, engraved head- and tail-pieces, occasional spotting, lightly browned, 19th century red straight-grain morocco by Storr of Grantham, gilt, spine faded, corners little worn, rubbed at extremities, g.e., 4to, Cambridge, University Press for Jacon Tonson, 1702.⁂ First edition of Catullus printed in England.

Australasia.- Australia.- Hunter (John) An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island with the Discoveries....in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean ..., first edition, stipple-engraved portrait after R.Dighton, engraved vignette title and 15 maps and plates, 2 maps folding, list of subscribers, foxing, particularly to portrait and title, bookplate of Rear-Admiral Richard Worsley, contemporary calf, gilt, rubbed, one or two scratches, corners a little worn, rebacked preserving old spine with red roan label, [Ferguson 152; Wantrup 13], 4to, John Stockdale, 1793.⁂ John Hunter served under Arthur Phillip in the first convict fleet and succeeded him as the second Governor of the colony from 1795 to 1799. His journal contains much information on the early settlements of Australia and includes 'View of the Settlement on Sydney Cove, Port Jackson 20th August , 1788', the earliest published representation of Sydney, after a sketch by Hunter, and a plate of a New South Wales family engraved by William Blake after King.

Tibullus, Catullus & Propertius. Tibullus Catullus & Proptius [sic.] cu[m] comento [sic.], collation: a-c8 d-e6 f-s8 t-x6, 157 ff. (of 158, lacking final blank), 62 lines of commentary surrounding text, initial spaces with guide-letters, early ink marginalia throughout, first f. loose, small worm traces at head of final f., just touching part of the odd letter, some staining and spotting, 18th century limp boards, lightly soiled, folio (299 x 209mm.), [Venice], [Simon Bevilaqua], [26 June, 1493]. ⁂ Fourth edition with the commentary of Antonius Parthenius Lacisius. Literature: BMC V, 517; Goff T-373; HC 4764; Bod-Inc T-213.

Polar.- Arctic.- Franklin (Sir John).- Godfrey (William C.) Godfrey's Narrative of the Last Grinnell Arctic Exploring Expedition, in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853-4-5. With a Biography of Dr. Elisha K.Kane..., first edition, wood-engraved portrait, plates and illustrations, 5pp. advertisements at end, original cloth, slightly cocked and spine a little faded, Philadelphia, J.T.Lloyd & Co., 1857 § Kane (Elisha Kent) Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin..., 2 vol., first English edition, engraved portrait frontispieces, additional vignette titles and plates, 3 maps, 2 folding, illustrations, some foxing, hinges weak, original cloth with "London Trübner & Co." at foot of spines (and titles), Philadelphia & London, 1856, [Sabin 27659 & 36998], 8vo (3)

Africa.- Allen (Capt. William) and T.R.H.Thomson. A Narrative of the Expedition...to the River Niger, in 1841, 2 vol., first edition, engraved portrait and 15 plates, one folding, 2 folding engraved maps, one hand-coloured in outline, hand-coloured cross-section, 3 wood-engraved plates and several illustrations, with loosely-inserted 2pp. manuscript notes in contemporary hand from the journal of one on board (short tear to one edge), some light foxing to plates and at beginning and ends, vol.1 lacking front free endpaper, vol.2 upper hinge broken with first few leaves loose, original blind-stamped cloth, rubbed, spines faded, 8vo, 1848.⁂ The notes relate to time spent at the mouth of the River Nun, near Brass Town, and the possibility of trading for palm oil: "18th Augt. 1841 - Today a son of King William who lives at Brass & a son...King Boy of Brass came on board" to deliver two sheep as a present from King Boy and his brother King William. King Boy's message was that "there is plenty of oil at Brass... he is at present making Juju else he would come himself today but he wishes the ship to wait three days...as he is very desirous to talk to the Captain...". The notes continue that King Boy "would rather sell oil than men" and give details of his canoes, trade, feasts (denying that there are any human sacrifices), his son known as "Jack Fire" and that he has 120 wives and King William only 45. A great deal of the information appears in the published work at pp.170-172 although in print Boy has "one hundred and forty wives".

Wesley (John) A Sermon on Salvation by Faith, first edition, 24pp., advertisement on verso of last leaf, title and last leaf foxed, slightly browned throughout, new endpapers, modern half calf, [Baker, 8], 12mo, Printed for James Hutton, 1738.⁂ The year of Wesley's conversion.

Americas.- North America.- Bouchette (Joseph) A Topographical Description of the Province of Lower Canada, with Remarks upon Upper Canada, first edition, engraved portrait, 8 maps and plans (4 folding), 7 fine aquatint plates and 2 tables (one folding), list of plates/errata leaf at end, light offsetting from plates but a good copy, modern cloth-backed boards, uncut & unopened, 8vo, for the Author, 1815.

Whitefield (George) A Continuation Of the Reverend Mr. Whitefield's Journal, from His Arrival at London, To His Departure from thence on his Way to Georgia, first edition, title soiled and creased, small tear with loss of corner, some other ff. corners creased, last 3ff. corners slightly torn and stained, last f. soiled, stitched as issued, [Sabin 103538], James Hutton, 1739; and 3 others, Whitefield, 8vo (4).

Heaney (Seamus) Stations, Belfast, 1975; The Makings of Music: Reflections on the Poetry of Wordsworth and Yeats, Liverpool, 1978; Place and Displacement. Recent Poetry of Northern Ireland, Kendal, 1984; From the Republic of Conscience, limited edition, Dublin, 1985; An Upstairs Outlook, Belfast, 1989, first editions, all signed by Heaney, original printed wrappers; and a small quantity of others, pamphlets, books and newspapers by, about or featuring Heaney, v.s. (sm. qty.)

Wesley (John) A Collection of Moral and Sacred Poems from the Most Celebrated English Authors, 3 vol., first edition, Contents, advertisements and errata leaves at end of vol. III, vol. I 2T3 small tear in lower margin not affecting text or catchword, vol. II lacks 2G6 last leaf ?blank (textually complete), vol. III A9 small piece of corner torn away not affecting text, K6 small ink stain, a few other small tears in margins, new endpapers, modern half calf, gilt spines, [Baker 58], 12mo, Bristol, Felix Farley, 1744.

Lipsius (Justus) Variarum Lectionum Libri IIII, collation: A-M8 N4, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut decorative initials, final colophon f., closely trimmed at head, occasional spotting, lightly browned, a few small stains, bound in an early limp vellum ms. f., 8vo (153 x 91mm.), Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1569.⁂ First edition of the author's first book. A collection of remarks on various classical authors, which includes two chapters on Catullus. Literature: Adams L812.

Grahame (Kenneth) The Wind in the Willows, first edition, half-title, frontispiece by Graham Robertson, contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper, occasional spotting or soiling, original pictorial cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, rubbed, corners and joints rather worn, lower joint split, 8vo, 1908.

Botany.- Redouté.- Desfontaines (Rene Louiche) Flora Atlantica, sive Historia Plantarum, quae in Atlante, Agro Tunetano et Algeriensi crescunt, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, on laid paper, half-titles, 263 engraved plates after P.J. and H. J. Redouté and Marechal, some light foxing, lower margin of titles replaced, later red half morocco, spine gilt but faded, [Dunthorne 92; Stafleu TL2 1392; Nissen 475], 4to, Paris, Desgranges...typis C. Panckoucke, 1796-98.⁂ This work describes 300 species of plants collected by Desfontaines during a journey in Algeria and Tunisia between 1783 and 1785. The plates, many after the Redoute brothers, are "representative of the best line engraving" (Dunthorne)

Vossius (Isaac).- Catullus (Gaius Valerius) Catullus et in eum Isaaci Vossii observationes, edited by Isaac Vossius, title in red and black and with woodcut ornament, woodcut decorative initials, errata f. at end, 2V4 is cancelled, some spotting, lightly browned, 20th century calf, upper joint starting, but holding firm, rubbed at extremities, [Wing C1526], Isaac Littlebury, 1684; and the 1691 Utrecht edition edited by Vossius, small 4to (2)⁂ The Leiden printed first edition edited by Issac Vossius, this being the issue intended for sale in London with a new title-page. Scarce in commerce.

Goya y Lucientes (Francisco José de, 1746-1828) Que Sacrificio!, plate 14 from: Los Caprichos, Harris's first published edition, one of approximately 300 published, etching and aquatint, with delicate plate tone, on cream laid paper, platemark 200 x 150 mm. (7 7/8 x 5 7/8 in), sheet 315 x 210 mm. (12 1/2 x 8 1/4 in), faint sun-exposure lines visible in margin, minor surface dirt, unframed, [circa 1799].Literature:Harris 49 III.i/III.xii

Australasia.- Australia.- Giles (Ernest) Australia Twice Traversed..., 2 vol., first edition, 6 folding colour maps, 21 plates, with slip printed in red regarding the sale of secondhand copies of the book tipped in before text of vol.1, illustrations, occasional spotting, Ivo C.Hammet's copy with his ink stamp at head of half-titles, other small stamps of Alec P.Matheson, vol.1 hinges weak or repaired, original pictorial cloth, rubbed, spines faded, [Ferguson 9914; Wantrup 202a, "arguably the most handsomely produced of late nineteenth-century Australian books"], 8vo, 1889.⁂ Ivo Hammet (1895-1975), botanist and a pioneer of Australian native plant growing.

Middle East.- Burckhardt (John Lewis) Travels in Arabia..., first edition, half-title, engraved folding map and 4 plans, advertisement leaf at end, light foxing, ink inscription "H.G.Lyons R.E. 1891" on half-title, old roan-backed cloth, rubbed, spine faded, [cf. Blackmer 239, second edition], 4to, 1829. ⁂ Burckhardt travelled to Mecca and Medina in 1814 disguised as an Arab Sheikh and through his extensive knowledge of Arabic and Muslim practices managed to avoid exposure. A second, 8vo, edition appeared in the same year.Henry George Lyons F.R.S. (1864-44), geologist and Director of the Science Museum who introduced working models of machines. As a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers he was posted to Cairo in 1890 and surveyed several ancient Egyptian temples at Buhen.

Voyages.- Cook (Capt. James).- [Marra (John)] Journal of the Resolution's Voyage, in 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775, on Discovery to the Southern Hemisphere...also a Journal of the Adventure's Voyage..., first edition, folding engraved map, 5 engraved plates, a few ink annotations or corrections, map a little creased, plates with light offsetting from text, one or two small stains, contemporary sprinkled calf, red morocco label, a little rubbed and marked, small chip to head of upper joint, [Beddie 1270; Hocken p.14; Sabin 16247], 8vo, for F. Newbery, 1775.⁂ The earliest authentic account of Cook's second voyage, published eighteen months before Cook's official version, and the first published book to give an eye-witness account of the Antarctic regions. The author was an Irish gunner's mate on the Resolution and accompanied Cook on both his first and second voyages.

Asia.- Beccari (Odoardo) Wanderings in the Great Forests of Borneo: Travels and Researches of a Naturalist in Sarawak, first English edition, half-title, frontispiece, illustrations, 3 folding maps, ink signatures on front free endpaper, original pictorial blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, a little rubbed, 8vo, 1904.

Wesley (John) A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, first edition, foxed and browned, bound in contemporary red morocco with gilt Harleyan style diamond lozenge on both cover and decorated borderss, some rubbing, corners bumped, spine extensively rubbed, modern slip-case, g.e., [Baker 30], 12mo, James Hutton, 1741.

Gregory (Isabella Augusta, Lady) The Kiltartan History Book, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to half-title, 3 colour plates by Robert Gregory, advertisements, original printed wrappers, yapp edges, spine a little browned and worn, creasing to extremities, preserved in custom folding chemise, Dublin, 1909; Case for the Return of Sir Hugh Lane's Pictures to Dublin, signed presentation inscription from the author to Charles Edward Lawrence to upper cover, A.L.s. from the author to Lawrence loosely inserted, frontispiece, spotted, original printed wrappers, a little chipped at extremities, Dublin, 1926, 8vo (2)⁂ Charles Edward Lawrence (1870-1940), Lady Gregory's editor at John Murray.

Catullus, Tibullus & Propertius. Tibullus cum commentariis Cyllænii Veronensis. Catullus cum commentariis Parthenii Veronensis & Palladii patavini. Emendationes Catullianæ per Hieronymum Avancium Veronensem & eiusdem in Priapeias castigationes. Propertius cum commentariis Phylippi Beroaldi. Annotationes in Propertium: tum per Domitium Calderinum: tum per Ioannem Cottam Veronensem. Hæc omnia sunt ex exemplaribus emendatis domini Hieronymi Avancii, edited by Hieronymus Avantius, collation: a-c8 d-e6 f-l8 m-n6 o4 p-y8 z & Ɔ6, 181 ff. (of 182, lacking final blank), 61 lines commentary surrounding text and headline, Roman type, woodcut decorative and historiated initials, woodcut printer's device at end, P1-4 initials, initial-strokes, paragraph-marks and underling in red, contemporary ink marginalia, a1 small section of upper corner torn away and some staining, occasional light browning, some light marking or staining, antique style calf, spine faded, folio (304 x 198mm.), [Venice], [Johannes Tacuinus, de Tridino], [19 May, 1500].⁂ Edited by Hieronymus Avantius [Girolamo Avanzi], with his Emendationes Catul-lianae (first published in 1495), and In Priapeias Castigationes. The commentary on Catullus by Avantius, here in its second edition, is revised, and of considerable significance, as is explained by Julia Haig Gaisser in Catalogue Translationum et Commentariorum VII, p. 233: 'The Emendationes were published without a text of Catullus, but the second edition, published in 1500, appeared in a volume that included not only Catullus but also Tibullus and Propertius -- all ostensibly edited by Avantius, although the text of Catullus is virtually identical with that of Parthenius. The volume also contained commentaries on the poets by several scholars, as well as emendations of Lucretius and Statius by Avantius and a letter to Iacobus Cornelius which listed further corrections to the text of Catullus. Avantius used this edition as the basis for his important first Aldine edition of Catullus (1502), and its influence is apparent in his second Aldine (1515), as well as in the edition published by Trincavellius ca. 1535. Avantius thoroughly revised the second edition of the Emendationes, greatly abbreviating both prefatory material and notes and deleting his polemical remarks against Politianus.'. Literature: BMC V, 535; Goff T374; HC *4766; Bod-inc T-214; BSB Ink T-348.

Catullus, Tibullus & Propertius. Catulli, Tibulli, Propertii, et Cornelii Galli Opera, edited by Horatio Tuscanella, 2 parts in 1, collation: a8 A-X8, a-l8, title with woodcut printer's device, large partially hand-coloured woodcut printer's device to final verso, woodcut decorative initials, X7 blank, some early numbering in red ink and underlining in green ink, lacking blank X8, ink stamp to title, occasional spotting or staining, lightly browned, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over boards, upper cover with central portrait of Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (one of the founders of Helmstedt University), and with his arms to lower cover, initials 'I S R' to head of upper cover, joints split, but holding, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, 8vo (156 x 100mm.), Basel, [Ex officina Henricpetrina], [March, 1569].⁂ First edition edited and indexed by Tuscanella, who also provided a concordance. Literature: Adams C1152; VD 16 C-1743.

Australasia.- Papua New Guinea.- Rosenberg (C.B.H. von) Reistochten naar de Geelvinkbaai op Nieuw-Guinea..., first edition, tinted lithographed portrait and 19 plates and maps, some tinted, 5 of birds (4 hand-coloured), folding map in pocket at end, light foxing to plate of cassowary, original limp printed boards, a little foxed and soiled, spine reinforced, upper cover detached, 4to, The Hague, 1875.

Middle East.- Wellsted (Lt. James Raymond) Travels in Arabia, 2 vol., first edition, 5 engraved maps including large folding map of Oman with route supplied in red, 7 lithographed plates, vol.1 with final otherwise blank imprint leaf, plates foxed, those in vol.1 water-stained, contemporary half calf, rubbed, spines a little faded, new red and black morocco labels, 8vo, 1838.⁂ Vol.1 covers Oman, vol.2 Sinai, the survey of the Gulf of Akabah, and the coasts of Arabia and Nubia.

[La Chapelle (Jean de)] The adventures of Catullus, and history of his amours with Lesbia. Intermixt with translations of his choicest poems. By several hands, first edition in English, engraved frontispiece of the lovers in a garden, small worm trace to lower corners, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary panelled calf, sympathetically rebacked, spine faded, Printed for J. Chantry, 1707; and 3 other 18th century editions of the three poets, v.s. (4)

Newton (Sir Isaac).- Philosophical Transactions. Vol.VI. For the Year 1671 [No.69-80], containing: A Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton...containing his New Theory about Light and Colors..., No.80, pp.3075-3087, first edition, February 19 1671-2, bound with No.69-79, 6 folding engraved plates, slight worming and water-staining, mostly marginal but worming affecting first couple of lines (including Newton), contemporary ink signature of Abigail Swayne to front paste-down, contemporary calf, a little worn, spine ends slightly defective, [Babson 165], 4to, for John Martyn, 1671. ⁂ First printing of Newton's first scientific publication, describing his observations of light using prisms, where he shows that white light is composed of rays of different colours, which can be separated with a prism. The paper is the foundation for most of the subsequent work in optics. Newton sent his ideas in a letter dated February 6th to the secretary of the Royal Society, just in time for it to be published in the next issue of Philosophical Transactions, on February 19th, establishing his reputation.

America.- Fremont (John Charles) Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains...1842, and to Oregon and North California...1843-44, first English edition, 4 lithographed plates, large folding lithographed map by Robert Greenhow, light foxing to plates, map with short tears to folds, original blue cloth ruled and stamped in blind, a little rubbed and marked, spine faded, corners bumped, [Sabin 25841], 8vo, 1846.⁂ Influential account of exploration in the west of America, though Utah, Oregon, California, Nevada and Colorado, which encouraged emigration to the west.

Bristol & Glastonbury.- T[homas] (J[ohn]) Different Plans for improving the Harbour of Bristol..., first edition, folding engraved plan with partial hand-colouring (soiled and laid down with very slight loss at fold), Bristol, J.Mills, 1800 § Glastonbury Canal. Prospectus, Particulars and Estimates, first edition, half-title, folding engraved map (offsetting), Wells, printed by B.Backhouse, 1826 § Compleat and Authentick History (A) of the Town and Abbey of Glastonbury...[with] An Accurate Account of the Properties and Uses of the Mineral Waters...By a Physician, second edition, engraved portrait of Henry VIII cut and mounted on verso of title, foxed, [Sherborne] printed for R.Goadby, and sold by W.Owen, at...London, [?1751] § Saunders (Samuel) A Description of the Curiosities of Glastonbury..., foxed, for J.Mathews, 1781, all later full or half calf or morocco, gilt, slightly rubbed, 8vo (4)⁂ All scarce pamphlets.

Heaney (Seamus) Death of a Naturalist, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Dr Peter Rogers to front free endpaper, light tape marks to front free endpaper, original cloth, dust-jacket, tape marking to flaps, light surface soiling to lower panel, near-fine otherwise, [Brandes & Durkan A2a], 8vo, 1966.⁂ Heaney's first commercially published collection of poetry, winner of the Somerset Maugham prize, scarce signed.Reverend Canon Peter Rogers, a mentor of Heaney's and president of St. Joseph's Training College, Belfast while Heaney was a lecturer there (see also lot 328).

Bunyan (John) Solomon's Temple Spiritualiz'd or Gospel Light Fetcht out of the Temple at Jerusalem, to let us more easily into the Glory of New-Testament-Truths, first edition, E8 tear with small loss, numerous other small tears, title and endpapers with juvenile signatures of Thomas Mundy, browned throughout, contemporary calf, gilt, corners and edges worn, rebacked, gilt, [Wing B5595], George Larkin, 1688; The Barren Fig Tree: or, the Doom and Downfall of the Fruitless Professor, title slightly soiled, browned, ink signature on front pastedown, joints splitting, lacks head of spine, [ESTC lists 3 copies only], Leeds, Printed for J. Binns, 1793, 12mo; and c. 14 others, Bunyan, including a 1768 Pilgrim's Progress, Edinburgh, 1768, v.s., v.d., (c. 16).

Medicine.- Bell (Sir Charles) The Anatomy of the Brain, first edition,12 stipple-engraved plates by T.Medland & others after Bell, all but one printed in colours and finished by hand, contemporary ink signature "Rich. Wallas Darlington" at head of title (shaved) and with his bookplate, some light foxing and offsetting, old marbled boards, rubbed, rebacked and recornered in morocco, spine slightly faded, [Wellcome II, p.315], 4to, 1802.⁂ Important treatise on the brain illustrated with magnificent engravings. Bell studied the brain and the nervous system throughout his life and discovered the two distinct types of nerves, sensory and motor.

Polar.- Arctic.- Barrow (John) A Chronological History of Voyages into the Arctic Regions, first edition, lacking half-title, with large folding engraved map, 3 wood-engraved illustrations at end, some light browning, contemporary half diced russia, rubbed, joints split, 1818 § Payer (Julius) New Lands within the Arctic Circle: Narrative of the Discoveries of the Austrian Ship "Tegetthoff" in the years 1872-1874, 2 vol., first English edition, half-title in vol.2, chromolithographed frontispiece, 2 double-page maps, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, foxing, hinges weak, original pictorial blue cloth, gilt, rubbed, spines faded, 1876, 8vo (3)

Austen (Jane) Novels, 6 vol. in 5, first collected edition, engraved frontispiece to each vol. but lacking half-titles and additional engraved vignette titles, vol.1 with presentation inscription from F.C. Knatchbull to her daughter Louisa dated 1856 (in Louisa's hand) and remaining vol. with ownership signature of Louisa to front free endpaper, contemporary half calf, spines gilt with double morocco labels (3 lacking, a few chipped), rubbed, 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1833.⁂ A lovely association copy, once owned by Jane Austen's favourite niece. Fanny Catherine Knight was Jane Austen's niece, the oldest child of Jane's brother Edward Austen (later Knight). Jane adored her and considered her "almost another Sister". Edward's wife died when Fanny was only 15 so her aunts Jane and Cassandra Austen took on an intimate and motherly role in the lives of Edward's children. In a letter dated 1808 Jane wrote "I am greatly pleased with your account of Fanny; I found her in the summer just what you describe, almost another Sister, & could not have supposed that a niece would ever have been so much to me. She is quite after one's own heart...tell her that I always think of her with pleasure." Fanny was Sir Edward Knatchbull's second wife and their children took the additional Hugessen name. This set of books would appear to have been given by Fanny to her own daughter Louisa around her 21st birthday (she was born in 1834). There are three pencil annotations to the opening "Memoir" of Jane Austen in volume 1, probably in Louisa's hand but two of which are presumably quoting her mother's own thoughts: beneath the text "her carriage and deportment were quiet, but graceful" is written " 'the sort of thing they call graceful I call awkward' Mama"; and in the margin next to the text "If there be an opinion current in the world that a perfectly amiable temper is not reconcilable to a lively imagination, and a keen relish for wit, such an opinion will be rejected for ever by those who had the happiness of knowing the authoress of the following work." is written "'True' Mama". For Jane Austen see also lots 305, 315 and 319

Moravian Church.- Cennick (John, Moravian preacher) A Short Account of the Experience of Mrs. Anne Beaker, of Littleton, (A Village on the Borders of Wiltshire), first edition, title small stains in inner margin, slightly browned, later wrappers, [ESTC lists 1 copy only, located at Yale University], 12mo, Printed for the Author, 1743; and 7 others, Cennick, v.s., v.d. (8).

Du Maurier (Daphne) Rebecca, first edition, signed by the author on leaf tipped-in at front, modern black crushed morocco, gilt, spine gilt in compartments, scratch mark to lower cover, t.e.g., 8vo, 1938.

Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, first impression, frontispiece, one plate, 8 illustrations including full-page, occasional marking, map endpapers printed in red & black, all by the author, lacking rear endpaper, front free endpaper browned and with small ink inscription, 2pp. advertisements, original green pictorial cloth, shelf lean, spine worn with significant loss, corners bumped, marking and soiling, rubbed, 8vo, 1937.

Africa.- Burckhardt (John Lewis) Travels in Nubia, first edition, engraved portrait and 3 engraved maps, 2 folding, advertisement leaf at end, light offsetting to title, maps foxed, slight worming to outer margins towards end, contemporary calf, gilt, rather worn, [cf.Blackmer 238, second edition], 4to, 1819.⁂ Burckhardt travelled from Aleppo to Cairo and then made two journeys, one along the Upper Nile, the other through the Nubian desert.

Catullus, Tibullus & Propertius. Catulli, Tibulli, et Propertii, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut decorative initials, a few tears, without loss, stained, a couple of private ink ownership stamps, contemporary calf, gilt spine in compartments, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, Bergerac, Gilbert Vernot, 1611 § Traduction en prose de Catulle, Tibulle, et Gallus, 2 vol., first edition of this translation, half-titles, engraved additional pictorial titles by De Longueil after Eisen, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, contemporary mottled calf, richly gilt spines in compartments and with double red morocco labels, corners worn, rubbed, g.e., [Cohen-de Ricci 207], Amsterdam & Paris, 1771; and 6 others, 18th and 19th century French editions of the poets, v.s. (9) ⁂ The first mentioned is a rare provincially-printed edition.

Australasia.- Australia.- Tench (Capt. Watkin) A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay; with an account of New South Wales...A List of the Civil and Military Establishments at Port Jackson, second edition, half-title, with the advertisement leaf at end (often missing), contemporary ink signature "P.W.Baker 1798" at head of title and another on half-title, engraved bookplate of Sir Edward B.Baker, Bart., lightly water-stained to lower outer corners, mostly to endpapers and first & last few leaves but causing slight wrinkling to text, contemporary half calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, a little rubbed, [Ferguson 49; cf. Wantrup 2, first edition], 8vo in 4s, for J.Debrettt, 1789.⁂ Second edition of the earliest eye-witness account of the First Fleet voyage to Australia and the colony established there. The first edition was published only a couple of weeks after the fleet had returned to England and the second edition was issued very shortly afterwards.

Australasia.- Australia.- Jackson (Andrew) Robert O'Hara Burke and the Australian Exploring Expedition of 1860, first edition, half-title, wood-engraved vignette portrait on title, folding map, 16pp. publishers' catalogue at end, very occasional light spotting, original blind-stamped green cloth, very slightly rubbed, corners bumped but a good copy, [Ferguson 10857; Wantrup 173], 8vo, 1862.** Account of the incompetent Burke and Wills expedition to cross Australia from Melbourne in the south to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north, on which seven men died including the two leaders. "The single most outstanding disaster in the history of Australian exploration" Wantrup

Blake (William).- Catullus (Gaius Valerius) The Poems of Caius Valerius Catullus, In English Verse, [translated and edited by Dr. John Nott], 2 vol. in 1, half-titles, engraved frontispieces by William Blake, 2 errata ff., light offsetting on titles, some spotting and light browning, contemporary half calf, sympathetically rebacked, preserving original red morocco label, corners repaired, [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.

Australasia.- New Zealand.- Shortland (Edward) The Southern Districts of New Zealand; a Journal, with passing notices of the Customs of the Aborigines, first edition, half-title, 7 maps (2 folding), wood-engraved plate of 2 portraits, 4 folding genealogical tables, 32pp. publishers' catalogue at end, occasional spotting, bookplate of George Whitefield Armitage, original green cloth ruled in blind, a little rubbed, spine slightly faded, [Hocken p.163], 8vo, 1851.⁂ Account of a journey, mostly on foot, along the east coast of the South Island in 1843-44 by Shortland in his role as Protector of Aborigines. The most significant general work on the region before the settlement of Otago, with a great deal of information on the Ngaitahu Maori tribe and their customs, also languages and the whaling stations.

Dickens (Charles) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, first edition in book-form, engraved frontispiece and 39 plates by "Phiz" [H.K. Browne], slightly foxed and browned throughout, bound in later polished calf, gilt, 2 morocco labels on spine, t.e.g., others uncut, by Tout, 1839; and 4 others, Dickens, 8vo (5).