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Click here to subscribeMcEwan (Ian) Atonement, first edition, slight shelf lean, 2001; Solar, slight shelf lean, jacket spine faded, 2010 § Carey (Peter) Illywhacker, 1985 § Clarke (Suzanna) Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, illustrations, 2004, first editions, signed presentation inscriptions from the authors, original boards, dust jackets; and 28 others by the same and similar, 8vo (32)
Militia.- Champneys (T[homas] S[wymmer]) A Letter to the Right Honorable the Earl Poulett...Colonel of the Somerset Militia, first edition, half-title, light soiling, short tear to one margin, preserved in marbled wrappers, Frome, printed by Crockers, 1804 § Money (John) Major-Gen. Money's Letter to the Officers of Volunteer Corps, also, an Address to the Norfolk Farmers...Observations on the Use of Pikemen, Norwich, Stevenson and Matchett, [c.1801], 8vo (2)⁂ Both rare. The first is seemingly unrecorded, not on COPAC or WorldCat, and there are only 2 copies of the second on COPAC (BL and Senate House Libraries, London University).T.S.Champneys was a J.P. and Lt.-Col. of the Selwood Forest Legion, Volunteer Cavalry and Infantry, from a respected West Country family made rich by plantations in the West Indies and slavery. He was later disgraced, having run through the family fortune he appeared in the insolvency court with enormous debts.
NO RESERVE Economics.- Keynes (John Maynard) The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, first edition, ink signatures to front free endpapers, occasional ink marginalia, some spotting, original blue cloth, spine gilt, light fading to foot of spine, first issue dust-jacket (with correct advertisements to rear panel), price-clipped, loss to spine ends, affecting text, splits to upper joint, corners worn, some creasing and rubbing, [PMM 423], 8vo, Macmillan and Co., 1936.⁂ First edition of the one of the most influential economic treatises of the twentieth century, 'the chief of his major theoretical works... a new and radical analysis of economic instability' (ODNB).
[Dallington (Sir Robert)] A Method for Trauell. Shewed by Taking the View of France. As It Stoode in the Yeare of Our Lord 1598, first edition, 2 folding letterpress tables, 1 laid down, 1 table and a few sidenotes a very little trimmed at fore edge, woodcut decorations, some foxing and marginal damp-staining, contents separating a little, 2ff. working loose, lacking endpapers, contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, soiling, ink stain to lower cover, small 4to, by Thomas Creede, ?1605.⁂This copy sold as lot 62 in Christies' sale Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, held 29th November 2006.Contains the text of Dallington's earlier The View of Fraunce, but with additional preliminaries and a new title. Published to establish Dallington's text in the light of a pirated edition of the earlier work.Provenance: From the Library of John Jackson, Academy Place, Warrington, Presented to the Warrington Museum & Library, October 1875 (booklabel)
NO RESERVE [Cooke (Thomas)] Immortality reveal'd. A Poem. In Four Epistles to a Friend, first edition, list of subscribers, title with woodcut ornament, some staining and spotting, modern marbled boards, [Foxon C415], folio, Printed for W. Bowyer, 1745.⁂ A rare poem on theological subjects, ranging from Natural Religion to the Ressurection. ESTC lists only four copies.
Bird (James) Machin; or the Discovery of Madiera. A Poem in Four Cantos, first edition, half-title, 1821 bound with Cosmo, Duke of Tuscany: A Tragedy in Five Acts, first edition, half-title, 1822 together 2 works in 1 vol., occasional light foxing, bookplate of Sir Alfred Sherlock Gooch, attractive contemporary green calf, stamped in gilt and blind, spine gilt with black calf labels, a little rubbed, London [printed in Yarmouth]; Poetical Memoirs. The Exile, A Tale, first edition, presentation inscription "Mr. George Simms with the author's regard" to head of title, half-title, 1 or 2 library blind-stamps, bookplate, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, extremities a little rubbed, London [printed in Yarmouth]; and another, 2 works by the same in 1 vol., 8vo (3)⁂ A collection of scarce works by the Suffolk poet and playwright.
Irish poet.- Chaloner (John) Rome; a Poem in Two Parts, first edition, half-title, spotting, 1821 bound with The Vale of Chamouni, A Poem by the Author of "Rome", first edition, without half-title, 1822, together 2 works bound in 1 vol., presentation inscriptions from the author to endpapers, contemporary half morocco, spine gilt, rubbed, light wear to extremities, 8vo. ⁂ A pair of rare works, the second with only 3 on COPAC. While both works are printed in London, the Irish location of both inscriptions (Clonmel, where a Captain John Chaloner lived in the first half of the 19th century) and the Irish dedicatee of the second work indicate that the author himself was Irish.
[Goldsmith (Oliver)] An Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe, first edition, title with engraved vignette, with dropped "9" in pagination on p.149, a little dusty, original wrappers, uncut, address in contemporary hand on upper cover, lightly rubbed and soiled, spine defective at foot, 8vo, for R. & J.Dodsley, 1759.⁂ Goldsmith's first original work, preceded only by a translation. Chapter 12 'Of the Stage' includes a poem in the style of Macrobius attacking theatre-managers; by the time of the second edition Goldsmith had become friendly with David Garrick so this was omitted.
NO RESERVE Africa.- Coillard (François) Sur le Haut-Zambèze: Voyages et Travaux de Mission, first edition, ALs tipped-in, portrait frontispiece, plates, faint marginal damp-staining to frontispiece, occasional light browning, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to spine extremities, Paris & Nancy, 1898 § Maxwell (Marius) Stalking Big Game with a Camera in Equatorial Africa, folding frontispiece, plates and illustrations, original cloth, a little rubbed, 1925 § History of the Loyalists: a Tribute to the Tribal Police, African Guards and all Loyalists of the Kikuyu, Embu and Meru tribes who resisted the Mau Mau Revolt, 'Restricted' ink stamp to title and wrappers, original paper wrappers, 1961; 4to & 8vo (3)⁂ The ALs in the first references King Lewanika, the King of Barotseland, and was written by his grandson to John Johnson, the High Commissioner of Kenya.
Mathematics.- Burnside (W.) Theory of Groups of Finite Order, first edition, plates and illustrations, corrections inserted in pencil, tape mark to pp.160-161, cracked hinges, ex-library with usual stamps, original cloth, rubbed, remnants of labels to spine, Cambridge, 1897 § Dickson (Leonard Eugene) Linear Groups with an Exposition of the Galois Field Theory, ink ownership signature of Arthur Berry mathematician to title, ink annotation to Contents and Summary, browned, ink mark to front pastedown, original cloth, rubbed and worn, Leipzig, 1901 § Hall, Jr (Marshall) and James K. Senior, The Groups of Order 2n (n≤6), first edition, signed by authors, diagrams, original limp wrappers, rubbed, slight creasing to corners, New York, 1964 § Gruenberg (K. W.) and J. E. Roseblade, The Collected Works of Philip Hall, signed by Roseblade, portrait frontispiece, plates, occasional notes in the authors hand, original cloth, Oxford, 1988 § Adian (S. I.) The Burnside Problem and Identities in Groups, first edition, presentation inscription from John Lennox, original cloth, Berlin, 1979; and 11 others, mathematics, several signed by the authors, 8vo & oblong folio (16)⁂ Philip Hall was perhaps the most influential algebraist of the mid-twentieth century. Arthur Berry was his research supervisor.
NO RESERVE MacGregor (Elizabeth Ann, editor) & others. Yinka Shonibare MBE, Munich, 2008 § Riley (Bridget) Complete Prints 1962-2010, third edition, 2010 § Bernard (Bruce) & David Dawson. Freud at Work..., 2006 § Feaver (William) Lucian Freud, New York, 2007 § Auping (Michael) & others. Howard Hodgkin Paintings, 1995, each but second first edition, first three signed presentation copies, the first two by the subjects, the third by Dawson, plates and/or illustrations, most colour, second original wrappers, others original cloth or cloth-backed boards, all but first two dust-jacket, third slip-case; and 6 others, 4to or large 8vo (11)⁂David Dawson (born 1960) painter, Freud's assistant and occasional model.
South-East Asia.- Marryat (Frank S.) Borneo and the Indian Archipelago. With Drawings of Costume and Scenery, first edition, cut presentation inscription ?from the author pasted to front pastedown, with another later inscription, half-title, chromolithographed additional title & 13 plates (of 21), woodcut illustrations, marginal damp-staining and soiling, original cloth, worn, boards detached, spine splitting and with loss at ends, [Abbey, Travel 549], 1848 § Roth (H.Ling) Oriental Silverwork..., frontispiece & illustrations, original cloth, a little worn, 1910 § Raffles (Thomas Stamford) The History of Java..., 2 vol., plates (some folding), original cloth, dust-jackets, slip-case, Kuala Lumpur, 1994; and 37 others, one an 1864 Malay grammar in Dutch with 'colonial era' bookplate and numerous ink stamps bearing Chinese characters, 4to et infra (41) Provenance: second: Willoughby Statham Smith (ex libris)
NO RESERVE Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works ... compared with the Former Editions, and many valuable MSS, edited by John Urry, first Urry edition, doubel column, 2 engraved portraits (Urry and Chaucer), engraved title and tale heading vignettes, occasional (mostly light) foxing, marginal browning to preliminaries, light browning elsewhere, contemporary panelled calf, gilt, rebacked, preserving original gilt backstrip in compartments, (some chipping), rubbed and scuffed, folio, Printed for Bernard Lintot, 1721.
NO RESERVE Chapman (Jake and Dinos) Fucking Hell, first edition, signed by the artists to front endpaper with additional kiss and heart motifs, ticket to preview of 'If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be' exhibition loosely inserted, illustrations, most colour, original red pictorial cloth, a little very faint scattered marking, White Cube, large 8vo, 2008.
James (Henry) The Other House, 2 vol., first edition, [one of 600 copies], 32pp. advertisements at end of each vol., hinges tender, original cloth, shelf-lean, spines rubbed and faded, spine ends and corners bumped and a little frayed, library labels to upper covers, 8vo, 1896.⁂ The only Henry James novel to centre around a murder, a scarce work in any condition.
Pratchett (Terry) Pyramids (The Book of Going Forth), 1989; Reaper Man, 1991; Witches Abroad, 1991; Small Gods, 1992; Lords and Ladies, 1992; Men at Arms, 1993; Soul Music, 1994; Interesting Times, 1994, first editions, all but fourth signed by author, original cloth, spine ends a little bumped, dust-jackets, last with very minor creasing; and 41 others, most first editions, most duplicates, 2 signed, 4 signed limited edition, 8vo (49)
NO RESERVE Burke (Thomas) Travel In England..., first edition, author's presentation copy, frontispiece, plates & illustrations, some colour, spotting to peripheral ff. and to extreme fore edges, original boards, a little bumped, dust-jacket with spine faded, abraded, and with loss, 8vo, 1942.⁂ Thomas Burke (1886-1945) author, chronicler in both fiction and non-fiction of London's gay and emigrant subcultures; author of Limehouse Nights; influence on both D.W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin.Inscription: "Brendan Williams | With the regards of | Thomas Burke"
Gambling & Card Games.- [?Hawkins (William)], "Gyles Smith". Serious Reflections on the Dangerous Tendency Of the Common Practice of Card-Playing; Especially of the Game of All-Fours, as it hath been Publickly play'd at Oxford..., staining to last few leaves, disbound, W.Owen, [1755] § Game of Quadrille (The), or Ombre by Four..., third edition, stitched, uncut, title and final leaf a little spotted and soiled, for R.Francklin, 1732, 8vo & 12mo (2)⁂ The first was written as a response to the increasing popularity of card games, brought about by the numerous publications of Edmond Hoyle. Hawkins was a clergyman, poet, dramatist and the Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Of the second item ESTC lists only 3 copies of this edition (BL, Bodleian and University of California, Berkeley).
[Burney (Frances)] Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy: Earnestly Submitted to the Humane Consideration of the Ladies of Great Britain, first edition, original wrappers, uncut, a little soiled and creased at edges, upper cover detached, lower lacking, [Rothschild 549], 8vo, by T.Davison, for Thomas Cadell, 1793 § Chapone (Hester) A Letter to a Newly-married Lady,first edition, half-title, with final blank, E. & C.Dilly...and J.Walter, 1777 bound with [Lovemore (Augustus, pseudonym)] A Letter from a Father to a Son, on his Marriage, first edition, for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1778, together 2 works in 1 vol., disbound, 8vo (2)⁂ An announcement at the end of the first reads: "N.B. A Translation of this Tract is preparing for the press by M. D'Arblay." Fanny Burney had met General Alexandre d'Arblay, former second in command to the Marquis de Lafayette, and himself an emigré, towards the end of 1791. They were married in July 1793.ESTC records 5 UK copies of the second item and 3 in America, and only 2 copies of the third item (BL, and Newberry Library, Chicago).
NO RESERVE Cather (Willa) Shadows on the Rock, New York, 1931; Obscure Destinies, ex libris of The Book Club of Florence, New York, 1932; Sapphira and the Slave Girl, New York, 1940; Lucy Gayheart, ex libris of The Rt. Hon. Malcolm MacDonald, Toronto, 1940; Death Comes for the Archbishop, New York, 1927, first three first editions, fourth first Canadian edition, original cloth with paper labels to spines and upper boards, all rubbed and bumped, sporadic staining and marking, most spines and board margins faded, all slight shelf lean, 8vo (5)
Wells (H.G.) The First Men in the Moon, first English edition, frontispiece and 11 plates, previous owner's ink signature and W.H.Smith blind-stamp to front free endpaper, light spotting to endpapers, second state binding of original blue cloth with black titles, lightly faded spine, slight bumping to spine extremities, 8vo, 1901.
Moore (Nicholas) The Glass Tower, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to front free endpaper, A.L.s. from the author loosely inserted, plates and illustrations by Lucian Freud, light spotting to endpapers, original pictorial boards, dust-jacket, browning, chipping and creasing to head, light marking to upper cover, 8vo, 1944.
Heraldry.- Dubuisson (Pierre-Paul) Armorial des principales maisons et familles du royaume, particulièrement de celles de Paris et de l'Isle de France, 2 vol., first edition, engraved additional pictorial title, full-page illustrations (numbered 12-215 and 2-169, as called for), a few small light stains, contemporary mottled calf, richly gilt spines in compartments and with double red morocco labels, spine ends chipped, corners worn, rubbed, Paris, for the author, by H.F. Guerin [and others], 1757 § Menestrier (Claude-François) La nouvelle methode raisonnee du blason, engraved hand-coloured frontispiece, 31 engraved plates, some water-staining and spotting, contemporary calf, worn, Lyon, Pierre Bruyset Ponthus, 1754; and 6 others, English & French Heraldry, most defective v.s. (9)
Ode to the Legislator Elect of Russia, on his being prevented from entering on his high Office of Civilzation, by a Fit of the Gout, first edition, half-title (lightly soiled and frayed at edges), [Not in British Library], for W.Nicoll, 1766 § [Defoe (Daniel)] The Dyet of Poland, a Satyr, very brwoned, soiled, [Rothschild 738], printed at Dantzick [London], 1705 § Ralph (James) The Muses' Address to the King: an Ode, lacking final advertisement leaf, Dublin, by George Faulkner, and James Hoey, 1729 Vote (A) for Moderate Counsels; as the Readyest Way to Heal Our Breaches, and bring Happiness to the King and People. An Ode, first edition, with final advertisement leaf, a little soiled and stained, [Wing V708, 4 UK copies only], for James Vade, 1681, all disbound; and c.15 others, similar, mostly poetry, v.s. (c.20)⁂ ESTC lists only one UK copy of the first (Bodleian Library).
Steinbeck (John) Of Mice and Men, first edition, first issue first issue with 'pendula' on p.9 and a dot between the numbers on p.88, original cloth, dust-jacket, browning, spine ends and corners chipped, red staining to panels, extremities rubbed and creased, New York, 1937; and 2 others, modern firsts, 8vo (3)
NO RESERVE Photography.- Blahník (Manolo).- Boman (Eric) Blahník by Boman: A Photographic Conversation, first edition, signed presentation inscription by Blahník to front endpaper, 2008 Christmas card from Blahník's London boutique loosely inserted, colour illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, 4to, 2005.
NO RESERVE India.- Murray (John) A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma and Ceylon, plates, maps, many folding, large folding map in pocket at end, water-staining to last few leaves, advertisement endpapers, original cloth, faded spine, small loss to spine extremities, 1909 § India, Burma and Ceylon, folding maps, bookplate, Thomas Cook ink stamp to front free endpaper, original cloth, handwritten spine title, a little rubbed, Thos. Cook & Son., [1909]; 8vo, and a 1949 edition of the first (3)
Commerce & Shipping.- [Vaughan (William)] A Collection of Tracts on Wet Docks for the Port of London..., author's presentation copy to R.L. Edgeworth, 4 engraved folding plates, 3 with hand-colouring, 2 with docket title to reverse, letterpress tables, a few ff. unopened, a little soiling, most marginal, original boards, rebacked, a little worn and damp-stained, [Goldsmiths' 10792], 8vo, 1793-9.⁂Title of first without hyphen in "wet docks". Index with ink manuscript title of an additional eighth title bound-in: viz. a second edition of A Comparative Statement of the Advantages and Disadvantages of the Docks in Wapping and the Docks in the Isle of Dogs.... William Vaughan (1752-1850) merchant and author; advocated for many years for the construction of docks in the Port of London.Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817) politician, engineer, and inventor.
NO RESERVE Tipping (H.Avray) Grinling Gibbons and the woodwork of his age (1648-1720), first edition, numerous illustrations, modern dark blue half morocco, gilt spine in compartments, Country Life, 1914 § Turner (Lawrence) Decorative Plasterwork in Great Britain, first edition, numerous illustrations, modern red half morocco, gilt spine in compartments, Country Life, 1927; and 3 others, including a copy of second mentioned in original cloth, folio (5)
[Garrick (David)] The Farmer's Return from London. An Interlude, first Dublin edition, half-title, etched frontispiece by Hogarth, stitched, rather soiled, Dublin, for William Smith, 1762 § Plotwell (Joan, pseudonym) The Ragged Uproar: or, the Oxford Roratory: a New Dramatic Satire, [ESTC 6 UK copies only], for G.Pote, [1754] § Fielding (Henry) The Wedding-Day. A Comedy, with Epilogue leaf at end, title with contemporary ink inscriptions and soiled with tear, for A.Millar, 1743 § [Gay (John)] Three Hours after Marriage. A Comedy, half-title, advertisement leaf at end, for Bernard Lintot, 1717, first editions, some spotting and soiling, all but the first disbound; and 16 others, 18th century plays, most disbound, v.s. (20)
Wheatley (Dennis) The Black Baroness, first edition, 12pp. advertisements and 40pp. publisher's catalogue, map endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine slightly darkened, spine ends and corners a little chipped, lower panel a little chipped at head, short tears and creasing to foot, 8vo, [1940]; Codeword - Golden Fleece, jacket spine ends and corners a little chipped, light rubbing to extremities, [1945]; The Second Seal, map endpapers, jacket spine faded, spine ends and corners a little chipped, extremities rubbed, 1950, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets; and 4 others in the Duke de Richleau series, 8vo (7)⁂ The fifth book in the Gregory Sallust series.
Cookery.- Soyer (Alexis) Soyer's Culinary Campaign, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, wood-engraved additional pictorial title (misbound), 7 plates, and illustrations, advertisement f. at end, portrait spotted and offsetting onto to title, additional title little spotted, small repair to lower blank corner of advrtisment f., contemporary half morocco, spine gilt (with a number 7 at head of spine),[Bitting p.444; Cagle 1008], G. Routledge & Co.,1857; and a sixth edition of the Gastronomic Regenerator, 1849, 12mo & 8vo (2)⁂ 'Soyer's account of conditions in the Crimea is second to none. Finding the soldiery too under-nourished to withstand disease, let alone battle, he set out to transform army supply, diet, cookery, kitchen equipment and hospital supplies with verve and genius, effecting what was to be a revolution in institutional catering. Florence Nightingale, never given to praise, wrote that without him her work would have been in vain.' (John LyleG. Routledge & Co., 1857.
Randolph (Bernard) The Present State of the Morea, called Anciently Peloponnesus, ?first edition, lacking engraved map, stained, title detached, [Blackmer 1384; Wing R236], Oxford, 1686 § Bernhard (C., Prince-Bishop of Munster) A Letter sent by His Highness...to the Lords the States General of the United Netherlands, [Wing G163], Oxford, by William Hall...Thomas Bowman, 1665 § Erskine (John) A Letter from the Earl of Mar to the King, before His Majesty's Arrival in England. With some Remarks on my Lord's subsequent Conduct by Sir Richard Steele, half-title, for Jacob Tonson, 1715 § [Oldmixon (J.)] The Dutch Barrier Our's: or the Interest of England and Holland Inseparable, slightly cropped, [Kress 2785], 1712 § [Defoe (Daniel)] The Evident Approach of a War...and Description of the Bay and City of Gibraltar, first edition, lacking engraved map, preserved in wrappers, by J.Roberts...and A.Dodd, 1727 § [Vernon (Admiral Edward) & others.] Original Letters to an Honest Sailor, [Sabin 57614], for R.Thomas, [1746] § [Mathews (Admiral Thomas)] The Answer and Defence of Admiral Mathews...to the Charge exhibited against him, original wrappers, 1746, some light soiling or staining, most disbound, 4to & 8vo (7)⁂ The first is one of two issues published in 1686. Blackmer proposes that the Oxford edition takes precedence as the London issue includes a description of Cerigo; both are scarce.
Nottingham poet.- Millhouse (Robert) Sherwood Forest and Other Poems, first edition, without half-title, Nottingham, 1827 bound after The Destinies of Man, first edition, half-title, Nottingham, 1832, together 2 works in 1 vol., occasional foxing, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, extremities rubbed, 8vo.⁂ Two rare works by the Nottingham poet, contemporaneously compared to John Clare and Richard Bloomfield. COPAC locates only the Oxford copy of the first, which includes a 6-line verso on Robin Hood.
Fermor (Patrick Leigh) A Time of Gifts, first edition, occasional pencil annotations, dust-jacket lightly spotted, 1977; Between the Woods and the Water, one or two pencil annotations, 1986; Mani, first edition, price-clipped dust-jacket, 1958; Three Letters from the Andes, first edition, 1991; Words of Mercury, first edition, 2001; all but Mani inscribed by author to front pastedown, Mani with later inscription dated 2004 to title, bookplates, original cloth, a little rubbed, dust-jackets, a little rubbed, slight chipping to extremities, 8vo, (5)⁂ All with the bookplate of Sir John Johnson, British High Commissioner in Kenya, who later became the chairman of the Countryside Commission.
NO RESERVE Verne (Jules) A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, new edition, engraved frontispiece and plates after Riou, publisher's catalogue at end, ownership inscription to front free endpaper, very faint even browning, a very little scattered spotting, contents just beginning to separate, original cloth, stamped in black and gilt, rubbed along joints and at spine ends, bumped, 8vo, 1874.⁂This the third impression of the first English edition. Rare.
NO RESERVE Paine (Thomas) Dissertation on First-Principles of Government, first edition, second issue, 40pp., Paris, printed at the English Press, Third Year of the French Republic [1795]; Letters to the Citizens of the United States of America..., 1817, both a little foxed and browned, disbound, the first uncut, 8vo (2)
Gold and diamond mining.- Penning (William Henry H.) Gold and Diamonds, first edition, plates and illustrations, spotting and foxing, contemporary ink ownership inscription to endpaper, original cloth, spine ends and corners a little bumped, covers a little rubbed and marked, 8vo, 1901.⁂ A rare work on by an important British geologist surveying the gold and diamond fields of South Africa, COPAC lists 5 copies only.
Anatomy.- Quain (Jones) The Muscles of the Human Body; in a Series of Plates, first edition, lithographed frontispiece and 50 plates, occasional spotting and marginal water-staining, becoming disbound, additional engraved anatomy plate loosely inserted, original cloth, upper cover and half-title detached, lacking spine covering, rubbed and worn, 1836 § Spratt (G.) Obstetric Tables: comprising Graphic Illustrations ... exhibiting on Dissected Plates Many Important Subjects in Midwifery, first American edition, lithographed frontispiece and 20 plates, some hand-coloured, 14 with moveable parts, subscribers list, contemporary ink signature to title, spotting and browning, occasional blind-stamp of previous owner, contemporary calf, boards detached, rubbed and worn, Philadelphia, [1850]; and 3 others, including a defective copy of the second, v.s. (5)
Heneage (John Jesse) Tales of the Dead; and Other Poems, contemporary calf, gilt, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, corners repaired, 1830 § [Garroway (Ellen)], "The Author of no other Publication !!!". Rhymes Without Reason, with Reasons for Rhyming: to which are added Two Prose Essays, list of subscribers, title a little chipped at margins, modern boards, 1823 § Buchannan (John) Albert; a Poem in Two Cantos. Hilda: And Other Poems, second edition, 20th century half morocco, gilt, gilt arms of J. H. Harrowing, J. P. C. C. of Low Stakesby, Whitby to upper cover, spine gilt, 1831 § [Montgomery (Robert)] The Age Revealed: A Satire: in Two Parts, second edition, contemporary half calf, rubbed, 1828; and 6 others, 19th century poetry, 8vo & 4to (10)⁂ All scarce with only a handful of copies each on COPAC. The first includes a group of gothic poems.
Eliot (T.S.) The Confidential Clerk, first edition, first issue, p.7 reading 'Ihad to send him to the City this morning', ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, light foxing to peripheral ff., original cloth, a little bumped and worn, dust-jacket with creases and closed tears, variously faded or darkened, loss at spine ends, 1954; The Cultivation of Christmas Trees, first American edition, decorations by Arno, original pictorial boards, worn, loss at spine head, 1956 § Grigson (Geoffrey) Painted Caves, first edition, illustrations, loosely inserted A.L.s from Grigson and T.L.s. from ?Thomas Ragg to Faber and Faber typographer Seán Jennet, both regarding proposed changes in format for The Mint, the literary journal published under Grigson's editorship, original cloth, dust-jacket, price-clipped, spine darkened, 1957; and 4 others, Literature, 8vo (7)
Africa.- Thesiger (Wilfred) Visions of a Nomad, first edition, signed by author, invitation to book launch pasted to front pastedown, ALs by author and order of service for Thesiger's memorial loosely inserted, plates and illustrations, 1987; The Life of My Choice, first edition, ALs by author pasted to front pastedown, plates, 1987; Desert Marsh and Mountain: The World of a Nomad, first edition, inscription to front free endpaper, ticket for Thesiger's memorial loosely inserted, plates and illustrations, 1979; all signed by author to title, bookplates, original cloth, dust-jackets; and 4 others by the same, all signed, including later editions of Arabian Sands and The Marsh Arabs, 4to 7 8vo (7)⁂ All with the bookplate of Sir John Johnson, British High Commissioner in Kenya, who later became the chairman of the Countryside Commission.
NO RESERVE Rushdie (Salman) Shalimar the Clown, signed by the author, 2005 § Hill (Reginald) There Are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union..., 1987; Who Guards a Prince, 1982 § Wingfield (R.D.) A Killing Frost, slip of card signed by the author loosely inserted, 2008 § Crais (Robert) Hostage, number 105 of 110 copies signed by the author, Gloucestershire, 2001, each but last first edition, last original rexine-backed boards, others original cloth, a little bumped, each but last dust-jacket, first two price-clipped; and c.130 others, similar, some first editions, some proof copies, some signed, 8vo & 4to (c.135)
Elzevier.- Tasso (Torquato) Aminta, favola boscareccia, first Elzevier edition, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, some spotting, lightly browned, 20th century red calf, gilt spine in compartments, spine slightly faded, [Willems 795, 'Cette édition, fort bien imprimée, est rare'], Leiden, Jean Elzevier, 1656; and 3 vol. of Petrarch, 1821-1822 in contemporary half dark green straight-grain morocco, 12mo & 4to (4)
NO RESERVE Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge, "Lewis Carroll") The Hunting of the Snark, first edition, 9 illustrations by Henry Holiday, occasional faint spotting, sums to final free endpaper, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, 1876 § Dahl (Roald) Someone Like You, first edition, original cloth, slight bumping to extremities, dust-jacket, price-clipped, slight chipping to corners and extremities, New York, 1954 § Fleming (Ian) From Russia, With Love, first edition, original cloth, slight bumping to extremities, 1957 § Doyle (A. Conan) The Last Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, souvenir edition, frontispiece, illustrations, occasional spotting, original decorative cloth, a little rubbed, 1902; and 6 others, similar, 8vo (10)
NO RESERVE Bristol.- Quakers.- Young (S[arah]) Some Particulars, relating to the Life and Death, of Rebecca Scudamore..., first edition, with extensive contemporary ink annotations, title soiled, original wrappers, rubbed, upper lacking, Bristol, S.Bonner, 1790; and a sermon preached before the Bishop of Bristol at his Primary Visitation to Bristol, 8vo & 4to (2)⁂ ESTC cites 7 UK copies.
Colines.- Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Oratoriarum institutionum lib. XII, first and only Colines edition, [Adams Q62; Renouard, Colines, p.345; Schreiber 182 'elegantly printed'], Paris, Simon de Colines, 1541 bound with Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Declamationes diligenter recognitæ, [Adams Q46; Renouard, Colines, p.361], Paris, Simon de Colines, February, 1542, together 2 works in 1 vol., titles with large woodcut printer's device, woodcut criblé initials, a little marginal water-staining, occasional spotting, lightly browned, engraved armorial bookplate of Jacob Clements, 19th century panelled calf, gilt, joints split, corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, small 4to
Sitwell (Edith) Troy Park, first edition, A.C.s. from the author loosely inserted, jacket spine browned, spine ends and corners chipped, 1925; The Song of the Cold, first America edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to endpaper, jacket spine ends and corners a little chipped, New York, 1948; Green Song and Other Poems, first American edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to endpaper, frontispiece, jacket spine ends and corners a little chipped, New York, 1946, original cloth, dust-jackets; and 4 others by the same, 2 signed, 8vo (7)
Searle (Ronald) and Geoffrey Williams. How to be Topp, first edition, signed presentation inscription from Searle with pen and ink drawing of a child in bed spinning a top on her nose to half-title, illustrations, original boards, dust-jacket, spine ends and corners chipped with loss to foot of spine, creasing to head and foot, 8vo, 1954.
JOHN HOYLAND R.A. (1934 - 2011): A framed and glazed personalised signed print entitled, "Twin Peaks". Signed in pencil to bottom right directly on the print, and attribution to bottom left, 'For John', being John Keatley, who was one of the original investors in a printing project of invited artists to contribute a work for a limited print edition. This print by John Hoyland was one of the very first ever printed, hence there being no print run number or artist proof mentioned. The investors each received a print, all of which were signed by the artist. This one was specifically signed 'For John' as well as the signature unusually on the print itself. The print was subsequently given to the current owner as a gift from John Keatley himself about 20 years ago. Approx. 57 cms x 56 cms (ss). Est. £1000 - £1500.
COALPORT; three limited edition bird studies comprising 'Blue Tit', 'Song Thrush' and 'Pied Wagtail', each numbered 153, 699 and 318/750 respectively, height of tallest 21.5cm (first two af) (3).Additional InformationThe Song Thrush example with one broken branch and the Blue Tit has a small chip to the end of the lower log.
EGAN (Constance) Epaminondas and the puppy. WM. Collins Sons and Co. Ltd. 1959.First edition of classis childrens story featuring illustrations by A.E. Kennedy. Along with a Crime Club printing of Agatha Christie's novel, 'The Hollow'. Specially published for The Crime Club by Collins, London 1946.
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