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NO RESERVE Russian decorative arts.- Roerich (N.) and Serge Makowski. Talachkino. L'Art Decoratif des Ateliers de la Princesse Tenichef, Edition Sodrougestvo, first edition, plates, some colour, original printed wrappers, chipped at foot, rubbed, small 4to, St. Petersburg, 1906.⁂ Although following the traditions of Russian folk art the workshops at Talachkino were greatly influenced by Art Nouveau and Jugendstil.

Dyeing.- Hellot (Jean), Pieere Joseph Macquer and M. Le Pileur d'Aligny. The Art of Dying Wool, Silk, and Cotton, first edition in English, 6 engraved plates, 2 advertisement ff. at end, some offsetting and spotting, contemporary red morocco, gilt, spine richly so and with olive morocco label, upper joints split, but holding, corners worn, rubbed, 8vo, for R. Baldwin, 1789.

Africa.- Birds.- Jackson (Sir Frederick John) The Birds of Kenya Colony and the Uganda Protectorate, 3 vol., first edition, portrait frontispiece, 24 colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, illustrations, large folding map, original cloth, vol. 3 lightly rubbed, dust-jackets, a little rubbed, slight chipping to corners and extremities, spines lightly browned, 1938 § Cave (Colonel Francis O.) and James D. Macdonald, Birds of the Sudan, first edition, colour frontispiece, plates, captioned tissue-guards, illustrations, 2 maps, 1 folding, original cloth, dustjacket, slight chipping to corners and spine extremities, 1955; 8vo (2)

Architecture.- Fortification.- A treatise containing the elementary part of fortification, regular and irregular. With remarks on the Constructions of the most celebrated Authors, particularly of Marshal de Vauban and Baron Coehorn..., first edition, 34 engraved plates, all but one folding, front free endpaper torn out, occasional creasing to plates, occasional spotting, contemporary calf, gilt, spine in compartments and with red morocco label, corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, printed for J. Nourse, at the Lamb, opposite Katherine-Street, in the Strand, 1746.

NO RESERVE Hunting.- Osbaldeston (George) Squire Osbaldeston: His Autobiography, number 61 of 100 printed on handmade paper with 13 additional illustrations, plates, 15 colour, illustrations, folding map, bookplate, original cloth backed boards, a little rubbed, 4to, March 1926 § Edwards (Lionel) Huntsmen Past and Present, 21 plates, 10 colour, occasional foxing, bookplate, original cloth, gilt titles, lightly rubbed spine, 1929 § Simpson (Charles) Leicestershire and Its Hunts: the Quorn, the Cottesmore, & the Belvoir, first edition, colour frontispiece, plates and illustrations, folding map, foxing, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1926; and 10 others, similar, 4to & 8vo (13)

NO RESERVE Gaelic.- Smith (John) Galic antiquities: Consisting of a history of the druids, particularly of those of caledonia; a dissertation on the authenticity of the poems of Ossian; and a collection of ancient poems, translated from the Galic of Ullin, Ossian, Orran, &c., first edition, title spotted and lightly browned, occasional spotting and light browning elsewhere, engraved armorial bookplate of James, Duke of Monrose, original boards, lacking backstrip, lower cover detached, taking it with it final sig., corners worn, rubbed, Edinburgh, Printed for T. Cadell, London, and C. Elliot, Edinburgh, 1780; and a presentation copy of John Sinclair's Scottish Dialect, 1782, 4to & 8vo (2)

NO RESERVE Arnold (Matthew) Cromwell: A Prize Poem, first edition, original printed wrappers, a little soiling to margins, lacking original stitching, staple holes from crude binding of whole in later paper wrappers, these wrappers bearing Graham Pollard's book label, Oxford, J.Vincent, 1843.⁂ Arnold's scarce first mature work.

NO RESERVE Bindings.- Hunt (Leigh) The Poetical Works, first edition, 1832; Stories in Verse, first collected edition, 1855, uniformly bound in later green morocco, gilt, by Worsfold, original cloth bound in at end, spine of the second a little browned, very slightly rubbed at edges; and 2 others attractively bound, one by Roger de Coverly, 8vo (4)

NO RESERVE Ingram (John H.) Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters and Opinions, 2 vol., first edition, mounted photographic frontispieces, spotting, paper label to front pastedown, original decorative cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1880; and an odd volume of 'The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe', 8vo (3)

Plays.- Fielding (Henry) The Miser. A Comedy. Taken from Plautus and Moliere, first edition, 3pp. advertisements, some spotting or staining, lightly browned, modern half calf, spine gilt, Printed for J. Watts, 1733 § Havard (William) Scanderbeg: a tragedy. As it is acted at the theatre in Goodman's-Fields, occasional spotting, lightly browned, Printed for J. Watts, 1733; and 4 others, 18th century plays, 8vo (6)

Imaginary voyage.- Utopia.- [Holberg (Ludvig, Baron)] A journey to the world under-ground. By Nicholas Klimius. Translated from the original, first edition in English, last few ff. foxed, some spotting elsewhere, lightly browned, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, corners worn, rubbed, [Block, p. 111], large 12mo, Printed for T. Astley, at the Rose in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and B. Collins, Bookseller, in Salisbury, 1742.⁂ Originally published as Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum novam telluris in Copenhagen in 1741.

Notorious adultress.- Campbell (Archibald, 3rd Duke of Argyll) A Pastoral Elegy on the Death of the Lady Hilaretta, first edition, 6pp., slightly foxed and soiled, later dark blue morocco-backed cloth, slightly rubbed, [Foxon C10; ESTC locates copies at Worcester College, Oxford and at Harvard only], folio, Printed for A. More, [1730].⁂ Rare poem on the scandalous life of Lady Abergavenny, nee Katharine Tatton. Her first husband, the 13th Lord Abergavenny died of smallpox some 5 months after their marriage; she subsequently married his cousin and heir to the title but had several love affairs, most scandalous of which was with Richard Lyddel who was tried in 1730 a few months after her death "for carrying on a criminal conversation with the late Lady Abergavenny". This copy was formerly in the Brett-Smith collection.

Weather & Land Management.- Capper (Col. James) Meteorological and Miscellaneous Tracts..., half-title, 5 folding tables, 1 with closed tear, plate, armorial bookplate of Christopher P. Norbury to front pastedown, also a label stating the volume was bought at the sale of the library of Richard & Thomas Knight at Downton Castle on November 22, 1951, contents separating a little, 1 quire loose, Cardiff, by J.D. Bird, c.1810 § Anderson (James) A Practical Treatise on Draining Bogs and Swampy Grounds..., first edition, half-title, 3 engraved plates, 1 folding, illustrations, for G.G. and J.Robinson, 1797 § [Kent (Nathaniel)] Waste Lands Considered..., original paper wrappers, a little creased, spine with short splits at head and foot, c.1776, first and second contemporary paper-backed boards, edges uncut, worn and stained, first with paper spine label, second with a little superficial loss; and another copy of the second in calf, 8vo (4)⁂ The last extracted from the second edition of Kent's Hints to Gentlemen of Landed Property.

Darwin, Charles. The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits, first edition, London: John Murray, 1881, half-calf (worn as found) with marbled boards, ex-library

A large collection of 19th and 20th century books, including Love Among the Ruins, Evelyn Waugh, first edition (but not limited), London: Chapman and Hall, 1953; Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, first English edition, London: John Cassell, 1852; Little Gidding, T. S. Eliot, London: Faber and Faber, 1942, and others, condition varied (as found) in three cartons (3)

Fleming, Ian. You Only Live Twice, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1964, no dust-jacket, front free endpaper clipped; The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1965, no dust-jacket; On Her Majesty's Secret Service, third impression, London: Jonathan Cape, 1963, no dust-jacket. Together with 007 James Bond: A Report, by O. F. Snelling, A Signet Book Published by The New American Library, First Printing, April, 1965, paperback, protective brown paper cover, and The James Bond Girls, by Graham Rye, hardback (5)

Clark Ross, Captain Sir James, RN - a voyage of discovery and research in the Southern and Antarctica regions 1839 - 43 // 1847 first edition volume 1 only of 2 - half leather with marbled binding

Collection of angling books, to include Watkins-Pitchford, Denys. "BB" The Fisherman's Bedside Book, first edition, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1945; Pool & Rapid, by R. L. Haig-Brown, illustrated by C. F. Tunnicliffe, London: Jonathan Cape, re-issued 1936; The Passionate Angler, by Maurice Wiggin, London: Sylvan Press, 1949; Strike! A Handbook of Fishing in South African Coastal Waters, S. Schoeman, Cape Town: 1957, and others, in one carton

Cornwall Claude Berry, first edition 1949, with map and illustrations, European Porcelain, two illustrated volumes of 19th century Old Testament Reference books (1 box)

A small collection of books including Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T. E. Lawrence, second impression, 1935; Romford's Hounds, first edition, 1865; The Second Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling, first edition, 1895; Little Brother, Little Sister, Rackham, and others, in one carton

Motorsport Interest: after Nicholas Watt - The Italian Job (The Maserati 4CLTs heads for victory in the first post war British Grand Prix of 1948 held at Silverstone) a coloured lithograph, limited edition no.148/500 signed in pencil by Alberto Ascuri and Luigi (GiGi) Villoresi

Collection of books, predominantly late-19th and early-20th century, to include The Children, by Edith Wharton, first edition, New York & London: Appleton, 1928; Candleford Green, by Flora Thompson, first edition, London: OUP, 1943 (no d.j.); In a Hollow of the Hills, by Bret Harte, London: Chapman & Hall, 1895; Six to Sixteen, by Juliana Horatia Ewing, new edition in publisher's blue wrappers, London: George Bell, 1885; Uncle Sam's Abscess, or Hell Upon Earth, by W. Jarman, Exeter: 1884; The Minister's Wooing, by H. Beecher Stowe, London: Sampson Low, 1859, and others, in one carton, to include a folded Robert Morden map of Lancaster on laid paper, cased vintage spectacles, and a small box containing a quantity of Edwardian family photographs

Hurlbutt Frank, Old Derby Porcelain, and its artist workmen, 1925 first edition, and Chaffers William Mark, and monograms on European and Oriental pottery and porcelain 1900, 9th edition

Smith, Logan Pearsall. Trivia, Printed from the Papers of Anthony Woodhouse, first edition, limited to 300 copies, London: Chiswick Press, 1902. Presentation copy signed by the author and dedicated to Michael Field (pseudonym of authors Katharine Harris Bradley and her niece Edith Emma Cooper). Publisher's quarter-cloth and blue paper boards with remnants of paper title label to spine. Together with The Wattleford, Unpublished Poems by Michael Field, Collected by Emily C. Fortey, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, ink inscription to verso of half-title, ''Michael Field' was the 'pen-name' of Katherine [sic] Bradley and her niece [sic] Edith Cooper', green cloth with gilt title to spine (2)

Chambers, John - A General History of Malvern, 1817, first edition, half leather binding

Collection of books comprising: Lydis, Mariette (Illus.). The Beggar's Opera, by John Gay, limited edition signed by the artist and numbered 294 of 1500, Paris: Printed for Members of the Limited Editions Club, 1937, complete with 15 lithographic plates, bookplate for Fleta & Norris Wright, publisher's blue buckram with gilt title; More Very Young Songs, by A. A. Milne, first edition, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928, publisher's paper-covered boards; Fourteen Songs, A. A. Milne, twelfth edition, 1928; A Book of Old Ballads, Alice Havers, no date; Nepal, An Illustrated Guide, by Glynn Thomas, artist proof signed by the author with loosely inserted letters from author to publisher; Cries of London, by Octavius Pink; George V and Edward VII, A Royal Souvenir, F. G. H. Salusbury. Condition varied (7)

A quantity of books on social history and general miscellany, some first editions, including 'The Motor Year Book 1950', 'Travel Guide to Kenya and Uganda', Graham Collyer and David Rose 'Images of Guildford', pub. 1929, L.T.C. Rolt 'Isambard Kingdom Brunel', Christopher Hobhouse '1851 and the Crystal Palace', limited edition 'The Building That Would Not Go Away' and Graham Warner 'Spirit of Britain First' and 'The Forgotten Bomber' both signed by the author and his senior engineers. (qty)

E.M. Forster, A Room With a View, pub. Edward Arnold, London (1908), First edition, first impression. Original red vertically-ribbed cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt.

Turner J.M.W., The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum with a new catalogue raisonne, by A.J. Finberg, ltd edition 272 of 650, Lewis Hind, C., Turners Golden Visions, (1910), first edition, T.C.& E.C. Jack, and another book The genius of Turner, (3 in lot)

by James Boswell, reprint first edition in three volumes together with Morley's Life of Gladstone in two volumes, Macmillan 1906 (5)

Thackeray (William Makepeace). The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, 2 volumes, 1st edition in bookform, Bradbury & Evans, 1858-59, 48 steel engraved plates by the author (one detached), including frontispieces and additional title-pages, numerous wood engravings on letterpress, spotting, volume 1 with occasional dampstaining at head, stitching broken in places, volume 2 textblock split at section T, both pastedowns with bookplate of James McBryde, St. Helens, original blue blindstamped cloth, faded spines worn at ends, 8vo, together with The Millennium; or, The New Golden Age, a Lay of Eden Restored, by A Pilgrim from the Holy Land, 1867, some toning to first and last leaves, all edges gilt, contemporary blue half morocco, slightly rubbed at edges, spine lightly faded, small 4to, plus Clarence (A.F. ), The Woman-Hater, or, True and Feigned Love, a Dramatic Tale, [1858], title with contemporary ink inscription, first and last leaves spotted, one leaf with two small losses to fore-margin, contemporary half calf gilt, extremities a little worn, 12mo, and Smith (John), Irish Diamonds, or, a Theory of Irish Wit and Blunders..., 1847, six engraved plates by Phiz, including frontispiece and additional title, occasional spotting, original green cloth gilt, spine faded, large 12mo, with other 19th century literature (some defective) (41)

Camden (William). Britain, or a Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Ilands Adioyning, out of the Depth of Antiquitie: Beautified with Mappes of the Severall Shires of England..., Translated Newly into English by Philemon Holland..., 1st English edition, 1st state, George Bishop & John Norton, 1610, letterpress title, eight engraved plates of coins, 56 engraved maps only (of 57, lacking Ireland), mostly folding or double-page, some with a marginal tear, Surrey with small hole at foot, Cambridgeshire with 5.5cm closed tear, Lincolnshire with long closed tear at gutter (repaired to verso), woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, numerous woodcut illustrations to text, without additional title and dedication leaf, early ink annotations, few repairs mostly to first and last few leaves, head and fore-edge close-trimmed in places (affecting some maps, headlines and annotations), one leaf with 8cm closed tear, one leaf lacking outer tail corner (torn away, slightly affecting text), occasional light dampstains, verso of front free endpaper with early ink ownership names dated 1653, 20th century tree calf, rubbed in places, rear cover with minor insect damage to surface, folio Chubb XIX; Skelton 6. (1)

Huxley (Aldous). Brave New World, 1st edition, Chatto & Windus, 1932, original cloth gilt, a little rubbed, some spine lean, together with Compton-Burnett (Ivy), A House and its Dead, 1st edition, Heinemann, 1935, a little spotting, boldly signed by author to title with printed name struck through, original cloth, spine partly faded, a little rubbed, both 8vo, plus Ashford (Daisy), The Young Visiters or, Mr Salteenas Plan, with a Preface by J.M. Barrie, 1st impression, 1919, portrait frontispiece, autograph letter signed from J.M. Barrie loosely inserted, Glan Hafren, near New Town, Montgomeryshire, 17 June 1915, to Miss Brandley, 'In memory of our happy day at the Pool', one page, 8vo, a little browned at head and two rusted pin holes with matching rust marks and pin holes to contents leaf and first leaf of Preface, original cloth-backed marbled boards with printed spine label, slightly rubbed, small 8vo, plus other 20th-century literature, children's books, illustrated, etc., mostly cloth-bound and many in dust jackets From the library of Alan and Joan Tucker. (6 shelves)

Lang (Andrew). The Green Fairy Book, 1st edition, 1892, numerous back & white illustrations to text, some full-page, including frontispiece, publisher's advertisement leaf at rear, lightly spotted throughout, stitching a little strained in places, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated green cloth, extremities a trifle worn, 8vo, together with The Brown Fairy Book, 1st edition, 1904, 8 colour plates, including frontispiece, numerous black & white illustrations to text, light spotting to first and last few leaves, preliminary blank with early ink ownership name dated 1906, stitching a little strained in places, all edges gilt, original gilt-decorated brown cloth, spine ends lightly frayed, 8vo, with 7 other first editions comprising: The Olive, Grey, Orange, Yellow, Crimson and Lilac Fairy Books, and the Red True Story Book, and five other Andrew Lang later editions (14)

Grotius (Hugo). His Three Books treating of the Rights of War & Peace ... translated into English by William Evats, 1st edition, by M[argaret] W[hite] for Thomas Basset and Ralph Smith, 1682, disbound, engraved title lacking, letterpress title page printed in red and black, title page and quires A-c and 4K-L loose, fraying to outer leaves, letterpress title soiled and with contemporary ownership inscription partly excised, occasional damp-staining, a few other marks, folio (32 x 20.5 cm) Wing G2126, Kress 1556; PMM 125 for the first edition. Sold not subject to return. (1)

Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Dolly Dialogues, by Anthony Hope, reprinted from the Westminster Gazette, 1st edition, 1st issue, 1894, Westminster Gazette Library Vol. 1, four black & white plates, some spotting to fore-edge and first and last leaves, inside front wrapper with armorial bookplate of C.F.J. Beausire, and loosely inserted bookplate of Eugene Grosman, original yellow wrappers printed in blue, toned and spotted, rear cover a trifle marked, spine relaid, front joint with short tear at head and small repair at tail, contained in drop-back box, 8vo, together with Cowper (William), The Diverting History of John Gilpin, Illustrated by Chas. E. Brock, 1898, 11 (of 12) etched plates, illustrations to text, light spotting throughout, original blue cloth gilt, spine somewhat darkened, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo, with a copy of The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, illustrated by Robert Anning Bell, 1901, in original grey/green cloth Dolly Dialogues: Rial page 2. The first book wholly illustrated by Arthur Rackham. The first issue with the short running headline "Dolly", instead of "The Dolly Dialogues" used in later issues. (3)

[Holberg, Ludvig]. Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum Novam Telluris Theoriam ac Historiam Quintae Monarchiae adhuc nobis incognitae exhibens e Bibliotheca B. Abelini, editio secunda auctior et emendatior, Copenhagen & Leipzig, Christian Gottlob Mengel, 1745, engraved frontispiece, engraved title, folding map and 4 engraved plates, small wormtrack to fore-margin of first few leaves, and wormtrack to lower inner margin towards rear of volume, not affecting text, bookplate of Scrope Berdmore, S.T.P. Coll. Mert. Custos, 1790 to front pastedown, additionally inscribed to head of front pastedown 'e Museae C: Cracherode May 15 1799 J B', contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine, rubbed and some wear, with upper cover detached, 8vo, together with Familiar Letters from Italy, to a friend in England, by Peter Beckford, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Salisbury, 1805, bookplate of Scrope Berdmore, and Henry C. Compton, Lyndhurst, to front pastedown, contemporary sprinkled full calf, rubbed and a little wear to joints, 8vo, plus Milton (John), Poetical Works, with principal notes of various commentators, to which are added illustrations, with some account of the Life of Milton, by the Rev. Henry John Todd, 6 volumes, 1801, first volume inscribed to front endpaper 'Hen: Bathurst the gift of Apsley 1804', marbled edges, contemporary diced uniform full calf, heavily worn, with most covers detached, large 8vo (binding copy), and other various antiquarian, mostly English literature and history, including two copies of the Book of Common Prayer, 1715, a third Book of Common Prayer dated 1753, with gilt bookplate of Lucrecia Compton dated 1770 to front pastedown, and two heavily-worn English 17th century stumpwork designs depicting the Virgin and child within a corona, mounted to centre of each cover, a part-set of Scott's works, Moral Emblems... from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie, illustrated by John Leighton, 1860, etc The first item is the second enlarged edition of an influential utopian novel set in the earth's interior, by the Norwegian-Danish author Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754). (3 shelves)

Guillim (John). A Display of Heraldry... 6th edition, 1724, title printed in red and black, 64 engraved portraits and coats-of-arms (complete), woodcut armorials in text, some coloured, a few laid down, one or two small repairs, occasional light soiling and toning, front endpaper detached, contemporary calf, joints splitting, rubbed, folio, together with Fleming (Philippe). Oostende, Vermaerde gheweldighe lanckduyrighe ende bloedighe belegeringhe bestorminghe ende stoute aenvallen, The Hague: A. Meuris, 1621, engraved vignette to title, black letter text, engraved portrait and three folding engraved plates only, small worm track to lower margin of first few leaves, occasional minor mark, contemporary vellum, dust soiled, manuscript title in ink to spine, 4to, plus [Gillies, Robert Pearse]. Tales of a Voyager to the Arctic Ocean, 3 volumes, 1st edition, Henry Colburn, 1826, a little dust-soiling and occasional minor mark, contemporary calf, gilt arms of Signet Library to upper and lower boards, joints cracked, a little rubbed at extremities with slight loss to head and foot of spine, spine labels lacking, 8vo, and other miscellaneous antiquarian interest (14)

Fuller (Thomas). The Historie of the Holy Warre, 2nd edition, Cambridge: by R. Daniel for Thomas Buck, 1640, additional engraved title page, 'A declaration of the Frontispiece' leaf (contemporary annotations recto), lacking folding map, front free endpaper loose, first few quires starting, damp-staining towards rear, contemporary calf, marked and worn, folio, together with: Perkins (William), [Workes], Cambridge: John Legate, 1608, volume 1 only (of 3), folding typographical table (repaired and damp-stained), one similar table tipped in between pp. 74-5, lacking first quire (including general title page), first section title trimmed and mounted on an imprimatur leaf from a copy of William Cave's Apostolici (1677), 18th-century half sheep, rubbed, folio, Clarke (Samuel), [The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History, 3rd edition, for William Birch, 1675], 2 volumes in 1, numerous engraved portraits in the text, lacking several to front including frontispiece and title page, first present leaf (c4) substantially torn away, crude marginal repairs towards rear, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, folio STC11465 (Fuller) and 19649 (Perkins); Wing C4545 (Clarke). Sold not subject to return. (3)

Abbey (J.R.). Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 from the Library of J.R. Abbey, a bibliographical catalogue, 2 volumes, privately printed at the Curwen Press, 1956-57, colour frontispiece to first volume, numerous monochrome plates, most with tissue-guards, top edge gilt, original grey cloth with gilt red morocco spine label to each volume, 4to, limited edition 394/400, together with Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, from the Library of J.R. Abbey, a bibliographical catalogue, privately printed at the Curwen Press, 1952, colour frontispiece, numerous monochrome plates, top edge gilt, original brown-grey cloth with gilt red morocco label to spine, rubbed and some minor marks, 4to, plus Loutherbourg (P.J. de), The Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales 1805, facsimile edition, Scholar Press for the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, 1979, colour plates, all edges gilt, original publisher's green half mock morocco gilt in drop-over bookbox, large folio, limited edition 25/1000, and four others (Upcott, A Bibliographical Account of the Principal Works relating to English Topography, 3 volumes, reprinted, Burt Franklin, 1968, & John Ford, Ackermann 1783-1983, The Business of Art, 1983) (8)

[Defoe, Daniel]. The Political History of the Devil, 6th edition, for W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Nicoll, and S. Bladon, 1770, front free endpaper partially loose, small mark to title page, tide-mark to upper outer corners of quires A-E (including title), contemporary sheep, red morocco spine label, rubbed and worn, front joint cracked, front board bowed, 12mo (17 x 10 cm) Moore 480 for the first edition (1726). (1)

Kafka (Franz). The Great Wall of China and Other Pieces, 1st English edition, Martin Secker, 1933, original cloth in dust jacket, some spotting and dust-soiling, spine browned, chipped at head and foot of spine (with fading of cloth beneath), tear with blank loss to inner upper flap, together with a revised and reset edition of the same work, 1946, some browning to first and last leaves, original cloth in dust jacket, slight spotting, spine browned and a little chipped at head and foot, both 8vo (2)

Wiltshire. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, the First 150 Years, edited by James H. Thomas with editorial assistance from Lorna Haycock, 1st edition, Devizes: WANHS, 2003, numerous black & white illustrations, original boards in dust jacket, 4to, together with other Wiltshire topography and related books, all 20th century publications, including several West Wiltshire Directories 1930s-1960s (a carton)

Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Felix). Symphonie No. 3, Componirt und Ihrer Majestat der Konigin Victoria von England zugeeignet... Partitur Op. 56., 1st edition, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel, [1843], engraved music, title with small ink stamp 'B&H' to lower corner, 20th century green quarter calf, spine a little rubbed, 8vo The first edition of Mendelssohn's 'Scottish' Symphony.The first performance took place in Leipzig on 3 March 1842. (1)

Gerard (John). [The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson, citizen and apothecarie of London, London: Printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton, and Richard Whitakers, 1636], without title, first and last blank leaves also lacking, numerous botanical woodcut illustrations throughout, dedication leaf lined to verso, final leaf of table creased and with repairs to fore-edge, occasional spotting and few marks (slight ink stain to final leaves of tables), dust-soiling mostly to first & last few leaves, 19th century blind panelled calf, joints partly split, extremities worn, folio Henrey 156; STC 11752. The third edition, in which D1r last line begins "of"; 7B5v has editor's "An Aduertisement to the Readers". (1)

Bible (New Testament; Syriac). [Novum Testamentum Syriace denuo recognitum atque ad fidem codicum manuscriptorum emendatum], 1st edition, London: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1816, Syriac types, half-title, title page, 552 pp. with text in double column, errata leaf, bound without the Latin title and printed slip as often (see note), light spotting and browning, contemporary panelled calf in an 18th-century style, light wear, 4to (24.2 x 18 cm), and 2 others, Syriac interest Darlow & Moule 8979. First edition prepared by English orientalist Samuel Lee (1783-1852). Darlow & Moule note a copy with a Latin title page and printed slip and three further copies without either. Our copy contains a Syriac half-title not noted by Darlow & Moule, therefore replacing the Latin title and suggesting the possibility of two separate issues. (3)

Burke (Edmund, subject). The Confederacy of Kings against the Freedom of the World; being Free Thoughts upon the Present State of French Politics ... in Three Letters addressed to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, 1st edition, for Deighton, and Johnson, 1792, errata leaf, marginal damp-staining to first 2 quires including title page, bound with: [Price, Joseph], A Third Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, on the Subject of the Evidence contained in the Reports of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, 1st edition, for the author, 1782, title page soiled and laid down, repaired closed tear, lacking final leaf (pp. 69/70); Burke (Edmund), Two Letters addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France, [2nd edition or later], F. and C. Rivington, 1796, lacking half-title (which contains the edition statement); Dundas (Henry, 1st Viscount Melville, subject, An Exposure of the Persecution of Lord Melville in a Letter to an Intimate Acquaintance, 1st edition, for J. Hatchard, 1805; Le Mesurier (Havilland), Two Letters on the Commissariat; written to the Commissioners of Military Inquiry, 1st edition, for John Stockdale, 1806, title page slightly soiled and with a short closed tear; generally light spotting and browning throughout the volume, stab-holes visible in gutter, contemporary half calf, front board detached, 8vo (21 x 13 cm). Together with approximately 10 others, including Hinds (Samuel), A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of Norwich, 1st edition, B. Fellowes, 1852, contemporary half calf by Bedford, 8vo, Sade (Jacques de), The Life of Petrarch, collected from Memoires pour la vie de Petrarch by Mrs Dobson, 2 volumes, 5th edition, 8 engraved plates, offset, contemporary half calf, 8vo, and similar ESTC N26822 (Confederacy of Kings), T2818 (Price). Pamphlet volume including scarce pieces relating to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France and the Warren Hastings trial. ESTC traces eight copies only for the first item (Confederacy of Kings); Copac locates seven copies of the Dundas, and one copy of the Le Mesurier. (15)

Dobrizhoffer (Martin). Geschichte der Abiponer, einer Berittenen und Kriegerischen Nation in Paraguay..., 3 volumes, 1st edition, Vienna: Joseph Edlen von Kurzbek, 1783-1784, frontispiece, four engraved plates, one engraved map, and one table (some folding), map with short handling tear, some spotting to plates (lightly to map), each front free endpaper with early ink shelfmark to verso, each front pastedown with shelfmark label, contemporary sprinkled half calf gilt, covers gilt-stamped with arms of The Society of Writers to the Signet, contrasting spine labels; somewhat rubbed, extremities worn, volume 1 joints split, volume 2 rear joint slightly split, 8vo Borba de Moraes I, 228: Sabin 20413. Borba de Moraes notes the existence of this German edition dated 1783-4 (therefore predating the Latin edition of 1784) but does not appear to have seen a copy. One other copy of this rare first edition in the original German traced at auction. One copy only listed on Copac. (3)

Moore (John Hamilton). The Practical Navigator, and Seaman's New Daily Assistant; being a complete system of practical navigation..., the whole exemplified in a journal kept from London to Madeira, and back again to England..., the whole constructed upon a new and methodical plan, 3rd edition, 1776, folding map and folding plan, numerous diagrams and text, worm track in upper outer blank corner of first and last leaves not affecting text, contemporary ownership signature of Humphry Senhouse, dated 1782, to front pastedown, contemporary calf, rubbed, a little worming at head and foot of lower joints, 8vo This was Moore's principal work and encyclopaedic in its scope. First published in 1772, followed by a Dublin edition of 1774, and this third edition in 1776. All early editions are rare. (1)

Palazzi (Giovanni). Aquila Romana overo Monarchia Occidentale da Carlo Magno d'Occidente Imperador Primo sino alla Coronatione del Glorioso Leopoldo Primo ..., 1st edition, Venice: Giovanni Pare, 1679, 48 full-page copper engravings in letterpress (some with show-through), without frontispiece, title printed in red & black, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, first few leaves with minor worming at foot of gutter, front hinge cracked after endpapers, contemporary vellum, soiled with some wormholes, spine with some losses, lacking ties, folio (1)

Priestley (Joseph). An Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life..., to which are added, Remarks on a Code of Education, proposed by Dr. Brown, in a late treatise, intitled, Thoughts on Civil Liberty, 1st edition, London: C. Henderson, T. Becket, De Hondt, J. Johnson & Davenport, 1765, engraved chart at rear, engraved bookplate of Quenn's College, Cambridge to upper pastedown with withdrawn ink stamp below, 19th century half calf, joints slightly cracked and spine chipped at head & foot, board corners worn and showing, 8vo, together with Godwin (William), The Enquirer. Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays, 1st edition, 1797, half-title present, errata leaf at rear, light spotting mostly to first & last few leaves, bookplate of George Head Head, of Rickerby, contemporary marbled calf, upper board detached and rear board near detached, spine lacking title label, some wear, 8vo First title - Crook H387. The first edition of Priestley's work making recommendations that the school curriculum centre more upon civil history and policy, including the theory of laws, government and commerce, rather than the more traditional classes, including a suggested schedule of lectures. The second text offers a critique of Dr Brown's suggestion on a proposed code of education. The work concludes with a description of the chart of biography, divided into categories of historians, critics, divines etc. (2)

Pallucci (Natalis Giuseppe). Nouvelle Remarques sur la Lithotomie, Suivies de Plusieurs Observations sur la Separation du penis, et sur l'Amputation des Mammelles..., 1st ed., Guillaume Cavalier, Paris, 1750, five folding plates, repaired tear to title, a2, also to lower margin of A7 & final leaf, worm trail to plates (one repaired to verso), ink stamp to final leaf, some spotting and toning, contemporary half straight grain sheep with vellum tipped corners, gilt decorated spine with black morocco title label, rubbed and slight wear, 12mo, together with Michaelis (Christian Friedrich), Pestalozzi's Elementarunterricht: umfassend dargestellt, und erl„utert..., Leipzig, 1804, ink stamps to title and page edges, contemporary paste boards, ink stamp to upper board, worn, 8vo, with Gianelli (Pietro), Dizionario della Musica sacra e profana, 7 volumes in two, 2nd edition, Venice, 1820, ink stamp to first title, scattered spotting, contemporary quarter sheep, gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, spines torn and worn, 8vo, plus other 18th & 19th century continental works, plus a 19th century volume of Hogarth's works The volume by Pallucci is the first edition of the treatise on lithotomy, followed by an essay on the surgical treatment of severed penises, and on the amputation of breasts. Pallucci (1719-1797) studied medicine in Paris, and later practised surgery in Florence and Vienna. He introduced new surgical techniques and devised several new instruments, which are depicted in the plates. Blake p.337. (11)

[Keir, William]. A Summons of Wakening; or, The Evil Tendency and Danger of Speculative Philosophy, Exemplified in Mr. Leslie's inquiry into the Nature of Heat, and Mr. Malthus's Essay on Population..., 1st edition, Hawick: Robert Armstrong, 1807, manuscript annotation to title (some spotting and toning), two folding engraved plates with some light offsetting to text, edges untrimmed, modern cloth-backed marbled boards, 8vo (Goldsmiths' 19549; Kress B.5204), together with [Barclay, James], [A] Treatise on Education: or, an easy method of acquiring Language, and introducing children to the knowledge of History, Geography, Mythology, Antiquities, &c. With reflections on Taste, Poetry, Natural History, &c. the manner of forming the Temper, and teaching youth such Moral Precepts as are necessary in the conduct of life, 1st edition, Edinburgh: James Cochran & Co., 1743, first leaf laid down to pastedown and with area of surface wear, first letter of title rubbed away and some soiling, initial leaves loose, light dust-soiling, contemporary calf, lacking title label, joints cracked and slight wear, 12mo, with Malthus (Thomas), An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a view of its past and present effects on human happiness..., 3 volumes, 5th edition with important additions, John Murray, 1817, scattered spotting, armorial bookplate of George Hoper to front pastedown, article cuttings pasted to rear endpapers of volumes 2 & 3, contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spines with morocco title labels, 8vo (Goldsmiths' 21761; Kress B6974), plus other 19th century publications relating to education and population, including An Essay on the Principle of Population..., 2 volumes, 1st US edition, from the 3rd London edition, George Town: J. Milligan, 1809 (18)

Fitzgerald (Edward). The Variorum and Definitive Edition of the Poetical and Prose Writings of Edward Fitzgerald...., 7 volumes, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1902, volume 1 with tiny wormholes at gutter (one affecting first part of textblock), each volume with pictorial bookplate of William and Amy Ewers, top edges gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, original grey cloth, lightly soiled in places, each spine with gilt-lettered label (rubbed and chipped), somewhat marked spines slightly rubbed at ends, large 8vo, (limited edition, 61/100 sets on hand-made paper, of 375 total copies, signed by the publisher), together with Heron-Allen (Edward), Edward Fitzgerald's Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam..., Bernard Quaritch, 1899, monochrome frontispiece, decorations by Ella Hallward, scattered light spotting, mainly to first and last few leaves, free endpapers toned, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original green cloth gilt, spine very lightly faded, rear cover faintly marked, 8vo, plus 29 others related (including some duplicates), including: The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam of Nishapur, Translated... by Eben Francis Thompson, Privately Printed, 1906; Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam..., Translation by Eben Francis Thompson, Privately Printed, 1907 (37)

Burney (Charles). A General History of Music, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period, 4 volumes, mixed editions, for the author, 1782-9, 12 plates (including frontispiece to each volume by Bartolozzi after Cipriani), many folding, engraved music score counted in the pagination, errata leaves to rear of volumes 1, 2 and 4, contemporary calf, worn, spines defective, contents shaken, several gatherings loose, 4to Second edition of volume one, first editions of the remaining volumes. The list of plates to the rear of volume one does not call for a portrait, though one is mentioned by ESTC. Sold not subject to return. (4)

Collectors' Books, 13 collectors books & booklets inc. British Biscuit Tins 1868-1939 by M J Franklin, complete with original slip cover (First edition 1979), Decorative Printed Tins by D Griffith, 1979, Standard Catalogue of World Paper Money by A Pick, (2nd edition), Fantasy Postcards by William Ouellette 1976, British Pewter by R F Michaelis 1969 (ex Library edition), Guide to First Edition Prices 2006/2007 by R B Russell, Miller's Collectables Handbook 2012/13 etc (mostly gd/vg)

Motor Sport, books, Motorsport Research Group, two-volume box set 'Time and Two Seats, 5 Decades of Long Distance Racing' by J L Wimpffen, 1999, hardcovers, first edition, in cloth covered slipcase, one of the most comprehensive motor racing histories produced for Championship Sports car racing in Europe and the USA since 1953, packed with statistics, course maps, photos, chassis numbers etc (vg)

MURDOCH, IRIS 'THE TIME OF THE ANGELS', Chatto and Windus London 1966, first edition, with dust jacket and clear cover and 'A Fairly honorable defeat', Chatto and Windus publishers 1970, first edition, original dust jacket and clear cover. Together with 'The Philosopher's pupil', Chatto and Windus, The Hogarth press 1983, first edition with original dust jacket and clear cover, 'The Good Apprentice' Chatto and Windus, The Hogarth press first edition 1985 with original dust jacket and clear cover, 'The Book and the Brotherhood', Chatto and Windus 1987 with dust jacket and clear cover, 'The Sacred and Profane Love Machine', Chatto and Windus London 1974, original dust jacket and clear cover, 'A Word child', Chatto and Windus 1975 with original dust jacket and clear sleeve, 'The Unicorn', Chatto and Windus 1963, original dust jacket and clear sleeve, 'Henry and Cato', Chatto and Windus 1976, original dust jacket and clear sleeve, 'The Sea, The Sea' Chatto and Windus 1978 first edition, a Booker prize winner, in original dust jacket and clear sleeve, 'Nuns and Soldiers', Chatto and Windus 1980, original dust jacket and clear sleeve, 'The Nice and the Good', Chatto and Windus 1968, original dust jacket and clear sleeve, 'An Accidental Man', Chatto and Windus 1971 in original dust jacket and clear sleeve, 'The Black Prince', Chatto and Windus 1973, original dust jacket and clear sleeve, 'Bruno's Dream', Chatto and Windus 1969, original dust jacket and clear sleeve and 'An Unofficial Rose', Chatto and Windus 1962 in original dust jacket and clear sleeve. 16 volumes by the same author (Iris Murdoch) together with Powell, Anthony 'The Kindley Ones' published by Little, Brown & Company 1962, original dust jacket and clear sleeve and Carter, John 'Books and book collectors', published by Rupert Hart-Davis 1956 first edition with original dust jacket and clear sleeve. Provenance from the Estate of a book collector, formerly a book specialist with Sothebys. (18)(B.P. 24% incl. VAT)

A.A. MILNE, "Now We Are Six", 1927, first edition in original pictorial cloth

DICKENS (Charles) A Tale of Two Cities, first edition, printed and pictorial titles, 15 engraved plates, old half morocco with marbled boards, gilt panelled spines and marbled end papers, Chapman & Hall, 1860