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John Pinches, The Kings and Queens of England, silver, First Edition, 43 medallions, in folder

Public Image Limited - Recent Vinyl UK Album and 12" Reissues. Includes 12" limited edition remix of Death Disco (2014), 12" of Reggie Song (2012), PIL's Greatest Hits album (2014), Public Image - First Issue (2013 - US pressing on red vinyl). Condition: Mint/Sealed. (4)

Public Image Limited - French And European Album And 12" Single Pressings. Includes: Second Edition (1984 French reissue), First Issue (1979 French), Flowers Of Romance (1981 French), Single (Rise) 12" (1986 French), Home 12" (1986 European),  Warrior 12" Single (1989 European), Album (1986 European), Live In Tokyo (1983 European). Condition: Very Good Plus/Near Mint. (8)

Public Image Limited - Assorted CD Albums. Includes: Plastic Box (2009 Reissue - factory sealed), Paris Au Printemps (1989 Japanese with Obi strip), First Issue (1989 Japanese with Obi strip), Metal Box (1990 - 1st Edition cased in a round tin with Made In England stamped on back of tin), That What Is Not (1992 US edition), This Is PiL (2012 CD/DVD - factory sealed). Overall condition: Very Good Plus - Mint. (6). 

NANSEN, Fridtjof, Farthest North. 2 vols 1898. First Newnes edition. Pictorial cloth. Folding map in vol 1 torn, front free endpapers torn out in vol 1. Pictorial cloth is bright (2)

Sydney. Guide to the Port of Sydney N. S. W. published by The Maritime Services Board of N. S. W. printed by D. H. Paisley, Govt. printer, circa 1925, containing five folding maps including Birds Eye View of the Port of Sydney, Sydney Harbour Trust, 1919, colour lithographic pictorial map, printed on thin paper, old folds, short splits where old folds cross, occasional closed tears, 610 x 750 mm, together with Map of the Wharf Accommodation of the Port of Sydney, circa 1920, colour lithographic pictorial map, printed on thin paper, old folds, short splits where old folds cross, torn with the upper left corner of the map detached which remains bound into the volume, with Sydney Harbour Trust, Birds Eye View Showing new Wharfage Scheme Walsh Bay Sydney, circa 1920, colour lithographic pictorial map, printed on thin paper, old folds, short splits where old folds cross, torn with loss, 525 x 810 mm, plus Sydney Harbour Trust Birds-Eye View Showing New Wharfs & Approaches Jones Bay Pyrmont, circa 1920, colour lithographic pictorial map, printed on thin paper, old folds, trimmed to the image along the left hand margin, 470 x 815 mm, and Sydney Harbour Trust Birds-Eye View of Terminal Grain Elevator and Proposed Cargo Berths Glebe Island Port Jackson N. S. W. circa 1920, colour lithographic pictorial map, printed on thin paper, old folds, trimmed to the image along the left hand margin,590 x 815 mm, the volume also contains numerous uncoloured photographic views of the harbour and docks including two folding plates, publisher's green cloth gilt, spine faded, 8vo, together with Paterson (Daniel). Paterson's Twenty-Four Miles round London, with Reference to Seats of the Nobility and Gentry. London, published Bowles and Carver, 25th July 1791, circular engraved map with bright contemporary hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, reference tables to each of the spandrels, very slight spotting, some wear cracks and small holes where old folds cross, crude tape repairs to verso, overall size 660 x 660 mm, contained in a contemporary card slipcase with publisher's printed label to the upper cover and advertisement to the rear cover, worn and frayed with crude tape repairs to the extremities, with Stanford (Edward). A Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection Shewing the Principal Ocean Steam Routes & Submarine Telegraphs &c. Jany. 1st. 1885, large engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, 660 x 1100 mm, contained in a contemporary cloth slipcase with printed title label to the upper cover, plus Hall (Sidney). A Travelling County Atlas..., 1842, printed title, 26 (only) engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring including one folding (Ireland), contents shaken and loose, contemporary 'envelope style' green morocco gilt covers, heavily worn and frayed, with another 10 British and foreign county and regional folding maps, including examples by or after Hughes, Buxey, Ordnance Survey, Bouchard, Allnutt, Vuillemin, Cassell and Colonel Thuillier, various sizes and conditionQTY: (13)NOTE:The Map of London by Paterson. James Howgego. The Printed Maps of London, no.212a. Howgego lists the first edition as 1797. This appears to be an unrecorded state, published six years prior to the first recorded edition.

Sidonius Appolinaris. Lucubrationes, liberalium literarum studiosis cognoscendae & Iiterum atque iterum repetende, linguam enim, mentem & ingenium locupletabunt, ornabunt, acuent. Item J. Baptistae Pii commentaria…, Basel: Henricus Petrus, 1542, [24], 494, [2] pp., title printed within woodcut border, depicting scenes of David's Life by Holbein, some woodcut initials & printer's device to final blank verso (3Q4), some spotting and soiling, dampstaining to lower outer corners, modern pencil marginalia, contemporary limp vellum, rubbed and soiled, small 4to (197 x 135 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Adams S1080; VD16 S-6321. First edition of this collection of letters, poems and panegyrics edited by Giovanni Battista Pio.

[Chaucer, Geoffrey]. [The Workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed, with dyuers workes whiche were neuer in print before, London: by Nicholas Hill, 1550?], double column, black letter, B1r with woodcut of the Knight before castle, E6v with woodcut of the Squire, woodcut decorative initials, 'The Romau[n]t of the Rose' with separate divisional title within woodcut architectural border, lacking all 8 preliminary leaves before f. 1 (B1), and last 9 leaves, ff. 348-55 plus blank (3P4-3Q6), some mostly marginal browning and old dampstaining and fraying to lower margins throughout, occasional closed marginal tears, first leaf rehinged and paper repairs to lower margins of B1-3, 3F3-4 and 3P1-3, with only small loss to letters of a few words at lower outer corner of final leaf, minor worm trail to blank upper margin of several early leaves, a few old brief, marginal ink inscriptions and pen trials, remains of old front endpaper relaid with 19th-century manuscript brief title giving the date as 1546, modern brown morocco with five raised bands, gilt title and date ‘1546’ at foot, folio (310 x 195 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:STC 5071, 502, 5073 or 5074. This is one of four variants of the updated fourth collected edition, edited by William Thynne which was published simultaneously by four London booksellers (William Bonham, Richard Kele, Thomas Petit, and Robert Toye), each variant bearing a different colophon.

Law. Regis pie memorie Edwardi tertii a quadragesimo ad quinquagesimum, anni omnes a mendis quibus miserrime scatebant repurgati et suo nitori restituti, London: Richardi Tottel, 1565, title within woodcut architectural border slightly frayed to edges and lower outer blank corner torn, black letter text, woodcut initials, some contemporary early marginalia, occasional short marginal tears to few leaves, outer blank corners of few leaves torn with slight loss (not affecting text), toning, light dust-soiling, minor damp staining to last few leaves, modern brown half morocco, folio (27.7 x 18.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:STC 9583. Beale R44.A good copy of the second edition of the year books from the 40th to the 50th, and last year of the reign of Edward III (1367-77). The year books are the first English law reports and are not just one of the foundations of English law but of every legal system in the world which has taken the common law as its model.

Geoffrey of Monmouth (Bishop of St. Asaph). Pontici Virunnii viri doctissimi Britannicae historiae libri sex, magna et fide et diligentia conscripti: ad Britannici codicis fidem correcti, & ab infinitis mendis liberati: quibus praefixus est catalogus Regum Britanniae: per Dauidem Pouelum, S. Theolog. professorem, 3 parts in one, London: Apud Edmundum Bollifantum, impensis Henrici Denhami, & Radulphi Nuberij 1585, printer's woodcut device to titles, decorative initials, upper margin at gutter of first title and several other leaves repaired, occasional light damp staining, all edges gilt, early 20th-century mottled calf by Henry Young & Sons Ltd. of Liverpool, gilt decorated spine with maroon morocco labels, joints worn and split at head, small 8vo (STC 20109. The 2nd part title 'Itinerarium Cambriae: sev Laboriosae Baldvini ... Auctore Sil. Giraldo' and the 3rd part title 'Cambriae Descriptio: Auctore Sil. Giraldo Cambrense'), together with:Calamy (Edmund). The Godly Mans Ark, or City of Refuge in the Day of his Distress. Discovered in divers Sermons: the first of which was Preached at the Funeral of Mistress Elizabeth Moore. The other four were afterwards Preached, and are all of them now made publick..., 17th edition, corrected and amended, London: Thomas Parkhurst and John Hancock, 1693, light dust-soiling mostly to first and last leaves, lacking free endpapers, late 18th-century half calf, light wear to extremities, 12mo (Wing C252), including a defective Book of Common Prayer in Welsh, Llyfr gweddi gyffredin ... Ynghyd a'r Psallwyr neu Psalmau Dafydd, 2 parts in one, London: Edm. Powell, Rob. Whitledge, & C. Browne, 1709, Common Prayer lacking L12 and Psalms incomplete at rear, some early annotations, heavy dust-soiling, text block split in two, contemporary sheep, worn, 8voQTY: (3)

Mercuriale (Girolamo). Praelectiones Pisanae Hieronymi Mercuralis Foroliviensis medicinam Pisis loco supraordinario vocato profitentis in epidemicas Hippocratis historias, non minus ad theoricam, atque practicam medicinam utiles, quàm ob eruditionem incundae. Nec non tractatus primo, De hominis generatione, secundo, De balneis Pisanis, tertio, De vino & aqua. Cum indice copioso eorum quae in his operibus continentur, 1st edition, Venice: Apud Juntas, 1597, text in double column, woodcut vignette to title, woodcut initials, errata leaf, final leaf unsigned, early ownership inscription 'Octaviani Galleppini?' in brown ink to title, small damp-stain to head of inner margin (affecting text to some leaves), first few gatherings with outer margin frayed with slight loss, contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title to spine, old paper label with shelf number beneath, a few marked, lightly rubbed, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Adams M1333; CNCE 34142.First edition of a collection of lectures given at the University of Pisa by the Italian physician Girolamo Mercuriale (1530-1606), best known for his work on gymnastics, edited by Marco and Orazio Cornacchini. The greater part of the book contains a history of epidemics based on Hippocrates, and remarks on plague. Three shorter lectures deal with conception, the baths and mineral waters of Pisa, and the medicinal qualities of wine and water.

Carrera (Pietro). Il Gioco de Gli Scacchi, Diviso in Otto Libri, 1st edition, Militello: Giovanni de' Rossi, 1617, 556 [i. e., 552], [87] pp., woodcuts of chessboard to title and p. 531 (the latter full-page), full-page woodcut of the Branciforte coat of arms to title verso, 2 further smaller woodcuts, 18th-century armorial bookplate of 'Joannes Joseph S. R. J. Comes de Thun' to front pastedown with corresponding ink inscription to front free endpaper (struck out), 20th-century ownership ink stamp of Dr Rob Blass to front blank, early ink stamp of Tetschner Bibliothek to title, first few preliminary gatherings with faint old damp-stain, kk7 with small loss to lower corner (not affecting text), early 18th-century mottled calf gilt, joints cracked, small shelf label to foot of spine (with remnants of another to fourth spine compartment), some wear, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Brunet I, 1599. A first edition of one of the scarcest early Italian chess manuals. Pietro Carrera was a historian and priest who gained considerable notoriety as a chess player. The treatise is divided into eight books, with subjects including probability and endgames. Carrera also invented a variation of the game on an 8x10 chessboard to which two new pieces were added, the "Champion" (a combination of the moves of the tower and the knight) and "Centaurus" (a combination of the bishop and the knight).The work is also important as it was the first book printed in Militello, at the private press of Prince Francesco Branciforte.

[Chaucer, Geoffrey]. [Amorum Troili et Creseidae libri duo priores Anglico Latini, 1st edition, Oxford, J. Lichfield, 1635], woodcut initials, initial-frames, and headpieces, text with facing pages of Latin (italic) and English (black letter), lacks title-page [A1], signature K (pp. 67-74) duplicated, some browning throughout, mostly affecting preliminary leaves and margins, old dampstaining to lower gutter margins of some leaves, marginal chipping to first three preliminary leaves and **2, *4 torn with loss of blank lower margin and two further tears with blank paper loss to margins of 2A3 and 2K4, contemporary sheep, joints cracked and weak, some wear to spine ends and extremities, small 4to (185 x 135 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:STC 5097 or 5097.3. The first bilingual edition with English in italic and Latin translation by Sir Francis Kinaston. Signatures: A?(-A1,4) chi1[=A4] [dagger]? *? 2*² B-2N?, signature K duplicated.

[Cotton, Charles]. Scarronides: Or, Le Virgile Travesty. A Mock-Poem. Being the first of Virgils Aeneis in English, Burlesque, 1st edition, E. Cotes for Henry Brome, 1664, contemporary ownership inscription of 'Rich Towneley' to title (scored through, with Ex Donis added in a later hand above), further early ownership inscription of 'Tho Roydon' to title, faint light dust-soiling (mostly confined to margins), 19th-century sheep, lightly marked and rubbed, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Richard Towneley (1629-1707), mathematician, natural philosopher and astronomer. Collaborating with Robert Boyle, he helped develop 'Boyle's Law', which Boyle described as 'Mr Towneley's hypothesis'. He was also in frequent correspondence with John Flamsteed, with the two collaborating on a study of the measurement of eclipses on the moons of Jupiter.

Bacon (Francis). Baconiana. Or Certain genuine remains of Sr Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, and Viscount of St. Albans; in arguments civil and moral, natural, medical, theological, and bibliographical; now the first time faithfully published. An account of these remains, and of all his Lordship’s other works, is given by the publisher, in a discourse by way of introduction, 1st edition, London: J. D. for Richard Chilwell, 1679, bound with: A Discourse by the way of Introduction, in which the publisher endeavoureth an account of the philosophy, mechanic inventions, and writings, of Sir Francis Bacon, 1st edition, London: Printed for R. C. at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1679, [2], 104; [8], 270, [2] p., engraved portrait frontispiece by F.H. van. Houe (loose), occasional light toning, lacking front free endpaper, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, red morocco title label lettered in gilt, rubbed, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC R9006; Pforzheimer 25.This copy conforms to the ESTC collation, with an alternative listed in Pforzheimer.

Heylyn (Peter). The Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts, 2 volumes in 1, London: M. Clark, 1681, engraved portrait frontispiece, divisional title to second part, endpapers renewed, ex-library stamp to top edge, modern full calf gilt, 4to, together with:Ames (William). Medulla SS. Theologiae, ex sacris literis, earumque interpretibus, extracta, & methodicè disposita, Amsterdam: Joannem Janssonium, 1627, woodcut vignette title, front free endpaper frayed with loss (with early and modern notations in ink), contemporary full calf, thick raised bands, worn with some loss (lacking headcap), small 8vo, withCave (William). Apostolici: Or, the History of the Lives, Acts, Death and Matyrdoms of those who were contemporary with, or immediately succeeded the apostles. As also the most eminent of the primitive fathers for the first three hundred years. To which is added, a chronology of the three first ages of the church, 2nd edition, London: Printed for J. R. for Richard Chiswel, 1682, half-title, additional engraved title, letterpress title printed in red and black, engraved illustrations, woodcut initials, a few light spots, contemporary calf, emblem with motto 'Munificenti Hulmiana' stamped in gilt to covers, lacking title labels, worn, 4to, withAntiquitates Apostolicae: Or, the History of the Lives, Acts and Martydoms of the Holy Apostles of our Saviour, and the two evangelists, SS. Mark and Luke, 3rd edition, London: R. Norton, for R. Royston, 1677, engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, engraved illustrations in text, contemporary mottled calf, upper joint cracked, some wear, 4toQTY: (4)

Nunez de Cepeda (Francisco). Idea de El Buen Pastor copiada por los SS. Doctores representada en Empresas Sacras, con avisos espirituales, morales, politicos, y economicos para el Govierno de un Principe Ecclesistico, 1st edition, Lyon: Anisson, y Posuel, 1682, half-title, additional engraved title, by Francois Houat after Claudio Coello, based on a design by the author (close-trimmed to fore-margin, just touching engraved area), title printed in red and black, with contemporary ownership inscription towards foot: 'Do uso de Fr. Luis da Cruz... do Convto. de Torres Vas', 42 large engraved emblems (one to head of the dedication, one to head of the address to the reader, and 40 numbered in roman numerals), several signed Matt. Ogier, endpapers renewed, 18th century full calf, rebacked with red morocco gilt spine label, a little rubbed and slight wear to fore-edges, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Fr. Luis da Cruz, Convento de Torres Vedras, near Lisbon, Portugal (contemporary inscription to title).Palau 197165; Praz 437; Landwehr I, 541; Campa, Emblemata Hispanica SQ1.Francisco Núñez de Cepeda (1616-1690), Spanish Jesuit monk and author, whose El Buen Pastor is an emblem book designed for the instruction and guidance of the ideal prelate, conceived as a theological equivalent to Saavedra's emblem book Idea de un Principe Politico-Christiano (first published in Munich in 1640).

[Penn, William]. Some Fruits of Solitude, in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life, 7th edition, London: Printed and sold by Luke Hinde, [1735?], [16], 158, [6] pp., together with the second part, entitled More Fruits of Solitude: being the second part of reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life, London: Printed and sold by Luke Hinde, [1735?], [6], 111, [3] pp., some light toning, modern uniform dark brown calf, burgundy morocco title label to spine of each, lightly scuffed, 12mo,Howell (James). Epistolae Ho-Elianae. Familiar Letters, Domestick and Foreign. Divided into four books; partly Historical, Political, Philosophical. Upon Emergent Occasions, 8th edition, London, 1713, additional engraved title, toning and spotting, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and corners repaired, upper joint cracked and some wear, 8vo,Quevedo (Francisco de). The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, Knight of the Order of St James. Made English by R.L., 6th edition, corrected, London: H. Herringman, 1678, browning, spotting and dust-soiling, some staining to few margins, 19th-century half calf, joints crudely strengthened with paper, some wear, 8vo,Geddes (Michael). Miscellaneous Tracts, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, corrected with additions, London: J. Churchill, 1714, contemporary blind panelled calf, morocco title labels to spines (some worn), light wear to extremities, 8vo, and two others QTY: (9)NOTE:Penn (William) - ESTC T139394 and T139391. The first volume states seventh edition and includes a collection of aphorisms issued between Penn's stints in Pennsylvania. Maxim 268: "When the poor Indians hear us call any of our Family by the Name of Servants, they cry out, What, call Brethren Servants! We call our Dogs Servants, but never Men."

[Gynaecology]. The Ladies Physical Directory. Or, a Treatise of all the Weaknesses, Indispositions, and Diseases peculiar to the Female Sex, from Eleven Years of Age to Fifty or upwards. By which women and maids of the meanest capacity may perfectly understand the symptoms, nature, and true cause of their own illnesses, and readily know how to manage themselves under all infirmities…, by a Physician, 6th edition, with many material alterations and additions, London: printed and sold by the author's appointment, at the Gentlewoman's at the Two Blue Posts in Haydon-Yard, in the Minories, 1736, [8], 96 pp., second title-page for ‘A Practical Discourse on Barrenness...’ at p. [43], old ink ownership name torn away from lower blank margin of main title, spotting throughout, lacks free endpapers, contemporary sheep, worn, upper joint weak, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC locates only the 2nd, 3rd, 7th and 8th editions of 1716, 1727, 1739 and 1742. First published as A Rational Account of the Natural Weaknesses of Women, all editions are apparently rare, ESTC locating a total of only 9 copies across all 4 editions noted. However, Copac locates two copies of this sixth edition, at Wellcome Library and Royal College of Physicians of London.

Harris (James). Three Treatises. The first concerning Art. The second concerning Music, Painting and Poetry. The third concerning Happiness, 2nd edition, revised and corrected, London: John Nourse and Paul Vaillant, 1765, engraved frontispiece, occasional light toning, armorial bookplate of Colonel Vesey to upper pastedown and 20th-century bookplate of John Francis Neylan to front free endpaper, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine with morocco title label, upper joint cracked, worn at head of spine, 8vo, together with:Warburton (William). A View of Lord Bolingbroke's Philosophy; in four letters to a friend. Letters first and second, London: John and Paul Knapton, MDCCCLIV [i.e. 1754], contemporary calf, morocco title label to spine, 8vo,Montesquieu (Charles de Secondat Baron de). The Spirit of Laws. Translated from the French ... by Thomas Nugent, 2 volumes, 5th edition, carefully revised and improved, London: J. Nourse & P. Vaillant, 1773, crest ink stamp to titles, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, 8vo,Hutcheson (Francis). An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections. With illustrations on the Moral Sense, 3rd edition, with additions, London: A. Ward, J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman, [& others], 1742, 20th-century speckled sheep, red morocco title label, 8vo, plus 9 other 18th & 19th-century antiquarianQTY: (14)

Voltaire. The Man of Forty Crowns. Translated from the French of M. de Voltaire, Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1768, bookplate of John T. Beer to front pastedown, lacking free endpapers and final advertisement leaf, scattered spotting, contemporary sprinkled calf, some wear to joints and spine extremities, 8vo, together with:The Princess of Babylon. Translated from the French of M. de Voltaire, Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1769, lacking front free endpaper, a few small wormholes to lower margin, contemporary calf, upper cover working loose, some wear to joints and extremities, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:ESTC T137634; T155224 (respectively); Kress 6597 (for London edition of first title). Two scarce editions in English, published simultaneously with editions in London and Dublin.

Calcott (Wellins). A Candid Disquisition of the principles and practices of the most ancient and honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons; together with some strictures on the origin, nature, and design of that institution, 1st edition, London: Printed for the Author, by Brother James Dixwell, 1769, cancelled ink stamp to verso of title, list of subscribers present, occasional light spotting, front pastedown with bookplate of The Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of Scotland, contemporary marbled sheep, leather to upper board torn to lower quarter with loss, joints cracked, 8vo,Penington (Isaac). Letters of Isaac Penington, written to his relations and friends, now first published from manuscript copies. To which are added letters of Stephen Crisp, William Penn, R. Barclay, William Caton, Josiah Coale, and others, 1st edition, London: James Phillips, 1796, bookplate and ownership signatures of Nathaniel Morgan to front endpaper, contemporary sheep, 8vo,Gould (Robert Freke). The History of Freemasonry..., 3 volumes, London: Caxton Publishing Company, c.1900, photogravure portrait frontispieces, chromolithograph plates, all edges gilt, publisher's black half morocco, blue cloth sides, gilt-blocked decoration, cloth to upper board of volume 2 lightly mottled, 4to, plus 5 others related, 18th-early 20th-century publicationsQTY: (10)

Johnson (Samuel). The Works..., with an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, 6 vols., new ed., Dublin: Luke White, 1793, engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume, old library ink stamp to verso of frontispiece, also to verso of titles and at foot of final leaf of each volume with some show-through (also to a few other leaves), occasional light marginal worming to few leaves, library bookplate, contemporary marbled calf gilt, worn, 8vo, together with:Johnson (Samuel). The Works of Samuel Johnson, 12 volumes, new edition, H. Baldwin, J. Johnson, G. G. and J. Robinson [& others], 1801, engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume, some damp staining, armorial bookplate of John William Pease to upper pastedowns, contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spines with brown morocco labels, joints cracked, few spines with loss at head and foot, 8vo, Johnson (Samuel), Debates in Parliament, 2 volumes, London: John Stockdale, 1787, old ink stamp to each side of titles and at foot of final leaf, library bookplate and ink stamp to endpapers, contemporary marbled calf, worn, 8vo, plus other Johnson related including Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson... to which are added some poems never before printed. Published from the original MSS. in her possession by Hester Lynch Piozzi, 2 volumes, London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1788, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine to first volume torn with loss, worn, 8vo, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the English Poets, by Samuel Johnson, volumes 1-7 & 9-10 only, 1779-81, contemporary calf, faint library numbers to spines, worn with two boards detached, small 8voQTY: (31)

Stewart (Duncan). A Treatise on Uterine Haemorrhage, 1st edition, London: James Moyes, 1816, half-title, ownership inscription to head of title, ex-library with ink stamps to preliminaries, scattered spotting, untrimmed, original paper-covered boards, spine worn with some loss, 8vo, together with:Capper (James). Meteorological and Miscellaneous Tracts, applicable to navigation, gardening, and farming, with calendars of flora. For Greece, France, England and Sweden, 1st edition, Cardiff: J. D. Bird, [1811], half-title, folding tables, armorial bookplate of Christopher P. Norbury of Worcester to front pastedown, untrimmed, original paper-covered boards, paper title label to spine, lightly marked and rubbed, 8vo, withChastel (Francois). Recueil de Tables Progressives pour les Vibrations du Régulateur, 1817, bound with Arlaud (Francois) Table qui indique les nombres qu'il faut aux roues de rencontre des montres, 2nd edition, Geneva: Luc Sestié, 1805, first work signed by the author to foot of preface, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, book ticket of Léon Leroy to front pastedown, contemporary blue paste-paper boards, paper label to spine, 8vo, contained in blue cloth drop-back box with title in gilt to spine, with 4 others related, including Bransby Cooper's Observations on the Structure and Diseases of the Testis (2nd edition, 1841), John Sparkes' A Manual of Artistic Anatomy (1888), M. Fonzi's Rapport sur les dents artificielles, terro-métalliques (1808) and Manuale medicaminum simplicium et commistorum formulas continens (Bristol, 1816) QTY: (7)

D'Avity (Pierre d'). The Estates, Empires, & Principallities of the World, Represented by ye Description of Countries, Maners of Inhabitants, Riches of Provinces, Forces, Government, Religion; and the Princes that have governed in every Estate. With the Begin[n]ing of all Militarie and Religious Orders. Translated out of French by Edw: Grimstone, Sargeant at Armes, 1st English edition, London: Printed by Adam Islip for Mathewe Lownes and John Bill, 1615, engraved title (with discreetly repaired closed tear, margins frayed), leaves 3L6 and 5H1 torn at head with small area of text loss (pp. 672/673 & 1177/1178, with photocopies of missing text loosely inserted), without blank leaf at front and rear, occasional light damp stains, early manuscript annotation to verso of final leaf, contemporary calf, joints split and board attachment weak (upper board attachment strengthened), worn to spine and extremities, folio (30.5 x 20 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:STC 988.The work was first published in France in 1614.

Jones (George). The Battle of Waterloo, also of Ligny, and Quartre-Bras, described by the series of accounts published by authority, with circumstantial details..., 2 volumes in one, 10th edition, enlarged and corrected, London: John Booth and T. Egerton, 1817, engraved frontispiece portrait of Wellington and Blucher on India paper to first volume, 7 folding engraved maps and plans with contemporary hand-colouring, folding hand-coloured etched panorama of the Battle of Waterloo printed on two sheets (numbered plate 1 & plate 2), 34 engraved plates on India paper, occasional spotting, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, later 19th-century vellum, gilt decorated spine with red morocco title label, small circular paper label at foot of spine, slight adhesive tape residue at foot of spine and boards, 4to QTY: (1)

Arnott (Archibald). An Account of the Last Illness, decease, and Post Mortem Appearances of Napoleon Bonaparte ... to which is added a letter from Dr. Arnott to Lieutenant-General Sir Hudson Lowe, K.C.B. &c. giving a succinct statement of Napoleon Bonaparte's disease and demise, London: John Murray, 1822, [4], 39, [9] pp., includes 8 pp. publisher's adverts at rear, top edge gilt, modern red half calf, gilt decorated spine, joints lightly rubbed, slim 8vo,Delbare (Francois-Thomas). Relation fide?le et de?taille?e de la dernie?re campagne de Buonaparte, termine?e par la Bataille de Mont-Saint-Jean, dite de Waterloo ou de la Belle-Alliance, 3rd edition, Paris: J. G. Dentu, 1815, upper margin of half-title with early ownership inscription 'Richard Sainthill N70 Borough London', 2 folding engraved maps, bound with Warden (William). Letters written on board His Majesty's ship the Northumberland, and Saint Helena; in which the conduct and conversations of Napoleon Buonaparte, and his suite, during the voyage, and the first month of his residence in that island, are faithfully described and related, 3rd edition, London: Published for the author, by R. Ackermann, 1816, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, folding facsimile manuscript plate, title and initial leaves loosening, armorial bookplate of Sainthill of Sainthill, Devon to upper pastedown, contemporary half calf, upper joint cracked, 8vo,Santini (Noel). De Sainte-He?le?ne aux Invalides, ou, Napole?on Ier prisonnier de Sainte-He?le?ne..., Paris: chez lez Principaux Libraires, [1856], lithograph portrait frontispiece, 10 wood engraved plates, ink stamp to title, some scattered spotting, 20th-century black morocco-backed cloth, 8vo, plus a hand-coloured aquatint portrait plate of Napoleon (probably after Denzil Ibbetson?), image 21 x 15.5 cm, mounted, ebonised frame, glazed (frame dimensions 40.5 x 33.5 cm), plus one other related framed and glazed etched plate depicting half-length portraits (after Ibbetson) of Napoleon and offices Gourgaud, Bertrand, Las Casas and Montholon, published London: J. Hassell, May 1, 1817, plate mark 16 x 34.5 cm, gilt frame, glazed (frame dimensions 34.5 x 51 cm)QTY: (5)

Abell (Lucia Elizabeth). Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon, during the first three years of his captivity on the island of St. Helena, including the time of his residence at her father's house, "The Briars" by Mrs. Abell (late Miss Elizabeth Balcombe), 2nd edition, London: J. Murray, 1845, some toning, front free endpaper inscribed by the author and dated Nov. 9th 1866, near contemporary green cloth, frayed at head and foot of spine, joints cracked at head and foot, 8vo, together with:Napoleon I. Pensée d'un patriote sur Napoléon Bonaparte; suivie d'un mot sur le cancer héréditaire. Par un étudiant en médecine, Paris: chez les marchands de nouveautés, 1821, 7,[1]pp., edges untrimmed, loosely contained in original printed wrappers, slim 8vo,Ibid., Observations on Lord Bathurst's speech in the House of Peers, on March 18, 1817. Sent sealed to Sir Hudson Lowe to the address of Lord Liverpool, on the 7th day of October, 1817, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818, browning to first and last leaves, modern brown half morocco, slim 8vo,[Lullin de Cha?teauvieux, Fre?de?ric]. Manuscrit venu de Sainte-He?le?ne, d'une manie?re inconnue, London: John Murray; Brussels: P. J. De Mat, 20 April 1817, half-title, some browning and light spotting, contemporary marbled sheep, gilt decorated spine with maroon morocco title label, light wear to extremities, 12mo, plus 4 others related including Recueil de Pieces Officielles et de documens authentiques concernant le Prisonnier de Sainte-He?le?ne, deuxième recueil, Brussels: J. Maubach, 1819; Me?morial de Sir Hudson Lowe, relatif a? la captivite? de Napole?on a? Sainte-He?le?ne. Avec le portrait de l'auteur et une vue de Long-wood, Paris: Leon Dureuil, 1850; Manuscrit venu de St. He?le?ne, d'une Manière Inconnue, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, 1817; La Bibliothe?que de Napole?on aa Sainte He?le?ne by Victor Advielle, Paris: Lechevalier, 1894 QTY: (8)

Drake (Francis). Eboracum: or the History and Antiquities of the City of York ..., London: Printed by William Bower for the author, 1736, 60 engraved plates, plans and maps (few folding, one folding map and 2 folding plates trimmed and lined to verso), engraved illustrations to letterpress, without portrait frontispiece (not called for in plate list), some repaired closed tears and marginal tears to few leaves text and plates, all edges gilt, contemporary diced calf, rebacked, board corners worn and showing, folio, together with:Langdale (Thomas). A Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire..., 2nd edition, Northallerton: J. Langdale, 1822, hand-coloured folding engraved map frontispiece, 2 folding tables, contemporary calf, morocco title label, light wear to to extremities, 4to,Bawdwen (William). Dom Boc. A translation of the Record called Domesday, so far as relates to the County of York..., with an introduction, glossary, & indexes, Doncaster: Printed by W. Sheardown, 1809, upper margin of title with signature John Lee, some browning mostly to first and last leaves, endpapers renewed with armorial bookplates of Heytesbury House and Chapman-Purchas to upper pastedown retained, near-contemporary straight-grain light brown morocco, gilt decorated spine and roll decoration to boards, 4to, plus other 19th and early 20th-century Yorkshire topography related, including guides, tours etc.QTY: (16)

Bible [English]. The Bible that is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Old and New Testament. translated according to the Hewbrew and Greek, and conferrred with the best translations in divers languages..., Amsterdam: Printed by Thomas Stafford, 1640, According to the Copy printed at Edinburgh by Andro Hart, in the yeare 1610, woodcut to general and New Testament titles (general title torn and repaired to edges and New Testament title and following leaf cropped to blank margins), 2 full-page engravings (both torn to edges and repaired), all before G6 detached, first leaf of Genesis with lower half torn away and lacking, numerous repairs mostly to leaves at front of volume and some leaves lined with archival tissue, bound with at rear Book of Psalms, The Whole Booke of Psalmes. Collected into English Meeter by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and others..., London: Printed by R. Badger for the Company of Stationers, 1632, printer's woodcut device to title, last few leaves detached and final leaf cropped to margins, text-block mostly resewn, some light dust-soiling, occasional damp stains and few marks, contemporary calf, boards detached and lacking spine, folio (33.6 x 22 cm), (Herbert 545; Darlow & Moule 424; STC 2344), together with:Wood (John). An Essay towards a Description of Bath, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, corrected and enlarged, London: Printed by James Bettenham, [1749], 20 engraved plates and plans only (of 22, includes 12 folding), bookplate of John Hill to upper pastedowns, contemporary calf, volume 2 rebacked and volume 1 partly restored (with reback leather pared ready to apply), board edges worn, 8vo, Shackleton (Ernest H.). The Heart of the Antarctic..., 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Heinemann, 1909, monochrome plates and illustrations, folding plans and panoramas in rear pockets, original cloth, volume 1 rebacked in blue morocco with raised bands, volume 2 partly restored with raised bands (without reback leather), covers marked and some wear, large 8vo, plus other miscellaneous books including antiquarianQTY: (a carton)NOTE:Sold with all faults, not subject to return.

Barrett (C. R. B.). The 7th (Queen's Own) Hussars, 2 volumes, London: Spottiswoode & Co., 1914, colour frontispieces plus monochrome illustrations & maps, some minor marginal toning plus spotting to the text-block, original uniform gilt decorated black half morocco, 4to, together with:Lawrence (T. E.), Severn Pillars of Wisdom, 1st trade edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1935, original cloth in dust jacket, covers light marked with a crease to the spine, 4toRevolt in the Desert, 1st edition, 1927, folding map to the rear, original cloth in dust jacket, covers very lightly marked, 8voThe Mint,...,1st edition, 1955, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly marked, small tear to the head of the front cover, 4to, and 3 volumes of related T. E. Lawrence reference, plusH.M.S.O., publisher, Collected Reports on British High Speed Aircraft for the 1927 Schneider Trophy Contest [Aeronautical Research Committee reports and memoranda No. 1300], London: January 1931, monochrome illustrations, some light toning, original cloth slightly, rubbed & marked, 8vo, andReide (Thomas Dickson), A View of the Diseases of the Army in Great Britain, America, The West Indies, and on Board of King's Ships and Transports…, 1st edition, London: J. Johnson, 1793, erratum leaf at rear, first and last leaves dampstained, uncut, author’s presentation inscription to ‘Lieut. Col. Mercer, Royal Regt of Engineers’ to front flyleaf, original boards, soiled and worn, 8vo, plus other early to mid 20th century military reference & related, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some slim political pamphlets, 8vo/4to QTY: (3 shelves )

Russell (Judith, editor). The Wood-Engravings of Gertrude Hermes, 1st edition, Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1993, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers very lightly marked, folio, together with:Sidey (Tessa), The Prints of Michael Rothenstein, 1st edition, Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1993, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plusWolff (Paul), My First Ten Years with the Leica, 1st edition, New York: B. Westermann Co., 1930, numerous monochrome illustrations, some light marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, covers toned & worn some some small tears & loss to head & foot, large 4to, andKhan-Magomedov (Selim Omarovich), Alexandr Vesnin and Russian Constructivism, 1st edition, London: Lund Humphries, 1986, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plus other art, crafts, print, & photography reference, including some exhibition catalogues, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves & a carton)

Morant (Philip). The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex..., 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: T. Osborne, J. Whiston, S. Baker, L. Davies, C. Reymers and B. White, 1768, folding engraved map frontispiece to first volume, 23 engraved plates (including 6 folding, of which 2 linen backed), 11 folding maps and plans (one map linen backed), plus 5 additional plates (each trimmed and mounted), dedication leaf to second volume lined to verso, occasional light toning and spotting, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, modern brown half calf, spines slightly faded, folio, together with:Wright (Thomas). The History and Topography of the County of Essex, 2 volumes, London: George Virtue, 1836, additional engraved titles on India paper, engraved map, and 99 plates, some browning, damp staining and spotting mostly to text leaves, top edge gilt, contemporary green half morocco gilt decorated spines, large 4to, plus Barrett (Charles Raymond Booth). Essex: Highways, Byways and Waterways, 2nd series, London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1893, engraved frontispiece, plates and illustrations, original cloth, toned, joints and head and foot of spine frayed and worn, 4to (limited edition 65/125 on fine paper)QTY: (5)

Johnson (Samuel). A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the words are deduced from their originals,..., 2 volumes, 6th edition, London: printed for J. F and C. Rivington, et al, 1785, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, bookplates to the front pastedowns, some light toning, contemporary uniform gilt decorated full calf, boards & spines slightly rubbed, hinges cracked, large 4to, together with:Boswell (James), The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D., London: printed by Henry Baldwin, 1785, some light spotting & minor toning, front & rear gutters cracked, contemporary full calf, boards & spine slightly rubbed with some minor loss to head & foot, hinges cracked, 8vo, plusYoung (Edward), The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: printed for R. Dodsley, 1743, bound with, Night the Second. on Time, Death, Friendship, 1742, Night the Third Narcissa, 4th edition, 1743, Night the Fourth. The Christian Triumph..., period inscription to the first title page, period mathematical-workings-out to the top of pp.12 & 13 of the 1st volume, ink marks to the front & rear endpapers, gutters cracked, some light spotting & toning, contemporary quarter calf to marbled boards, boards & spine rubbed with some loss, 4to, andQuarles (Francis), Emblems, Divine and Moral; together with Hieroglyphicks of the Life of Man, London: printed for A. Bettesworth, et al, 1723, etched frontispiece & illustrations, minor wear to the middle of the title page to remove a previous owner inscription, later endpapers, some marginal toning throughout, modern full calf, 8vo, plus other 18th century literature, all leather bindings, overall condition is generally good, 8vo/4toQTY: (3 shelves)

Columella (Lucius Junius Moderatus). Of Husbandry in Twelve Books: And his Book Concerning Trees, Translated into English, with several Illustrations from Pliny, Cato, Varro, Palladius, and other antient and modern Authors, 1st English edition, London: A. Millar, 1745, armorial bookplate of Rt. Hon. Alexander Lord Bamff to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine with morocco title label, 4to, together with:Marshall (William). The Rural Economy of Glocestershire; including its Dairy: together with the Dairy Management of North Wiltshire; and the Management of Orchards and Fruit Liquor, in Herefordshire, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Glocester: Printed by R. Raikes, for G. Nicol, Pall Mall, London, 1789, folding engraved map, two publisher's advert leaves at rear of first volume, some damp staining to both volumes, contemporary marbled boards with vellum corners, modern calf rebacks retaining contrasting morocco labels, 8voQTY: (3)NOTE:1. British Bee Books 98. Columella ‘gave very detailed and well-conceived advice on many aspects of apiary management, including requeening, uniting, and migratory beekeeping’.2. ESTC T94236; Goldsmith's 13809.

Darwin (Charles). The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms with Observations of their Habits, 13th thousand, London: John Murray, 1897, illustrations, a little minor spotting, hinges a little tender, original cloth gilt, spine slightly darkened, 8vo, together with The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, revised, 8th impression, London: John Murray, 1899, illustrations, some light spotting, additional photographic portrait of Charles Darwin pasted to front pastedown of volume I (with marginal water stain), original cloth gilt, spines slightly darkened, 8vo, plus A Naturalist's Voyage. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H. M. S. 'Beagle' Round the World. Under the Command of Capt. Fitzroy, London: John Murray, 1889, portrait frontispiece, illustrations, 4 pp. advertisements at end, occasional light spotting, endpapers a little toned, rear hinge breaking, original cloth gilt, spine ends rubbed, light edge wear, 8vo, with The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, 2 volumes, 2ndd edition, 3rd impression, 1898, The Descent of Man, 1906, and the Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, volumes I & III only (of 3), 3rd edition, 1887QTY: (9)NOTE:Freeman 1381; 898 & 49 respectively for the first three titles.

Darwin (Charles). The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th edition, with additions and corrections to 1872 (thirty-seventh thousand), London: John Murray, 1883, folding diagrammatic plate, publisher's 32 pp. catalogue at end dated September 1888, pp. 425-428 with small neat repairs to top blank margins, slight marginal toning to textblock, previous owner signature erased from head of title, ownership signature at head of half-title (short closed tear), ownership inscriptions to front blank, original green cloth gilt, spine ends a little rubbed, a couple of small stains to covers, edges lightly rubbed, 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:Freeman 410. The sixth edition, first published in 1872 was the last to be revised by the author during his lifetime.

A collection of Modern Moorcroft pottery to include year plates and colour trial pieces comprising Centennial plate 1897-1997, limited edition year plate for 1998, Summers End 495/750, limited edition year plate for 2000, 'A Birth of Light' 223/2000, a Lamia pattern plate, silver line, a Flame of the the Forest small plate, silver line, another floral plate together with a colour trial vase, two plates and two small dishes, (11)first diameter 22cm., Condition: Good condition. Free from chips or damage

Commemorative Jamaica 1979 $25 silver proof coin and two 1977 silver medalsfirst Prince of Wales 10th Anniversary of the Investiture, in capsule and cased with certificate, together with two limited edition Silver Jubilee medals issued by Spink, numbered 2861 and 4452, cased and with certificates, (3)first diameter 63mm., total weight approx.9.25oztCondition: Fine

Mark Twain - A collection of late 19th / early 20th century books by Mark Twain. To include Tom Sawyer, Detective, 1898, alongside first edition copies of volume one and two of Mark Twain's Auto-Biography, published 1924. 

First in line is Swarovski's crystal Lovlot named Justin, a charming member of the Birds on Broadway collection. This playful avian dazzles in Light Sapphire Moonlight crystal, boasting a Purple Velvet crystal tail and a Jonquil Aurore Boreale crystal beak. Next is Ziggy the woodpecker, a 2010 Limited Edition masterpiece. Ziggy showcases a Jet Metallic Blue crystal beak, an Indicolite crystal head, and a body adorned in a striking blend of Light Azure and Aurora Borealis crystal. Complementing his exquisite design, Ziggy's tail and eyes are crafted from Jet Metallic Blue and Jet crystals, respectively. Swarovski etched backstamp. This item has its original box for Ziggy which measures 2.5"H x 3.25"dia. Largest piece measures 1"L x 1"W x 1.25"H. Issued: c. 2010Manufacturer: SwarovskiCountry of Origin: AustriaCondition: Age related wear.

Group of two books signed by Jawaharlal Nehru from the collection of Frederick and Catherine Asher. Including:Jawaharlal Nehru. "The Discovery of India." London: Meridian Books Limited, 1960. Signed by the author. New impression 1960 (5th edition).Jawaharlal Nehru. "India Today and Tomorrow." New Delhi: New Age Printing Press, 1960. Signed by the author. Third impression.Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian anti-colonialist activist who would become the first Prime Minister of India. His daughter, Indira Ghandi, would later become India's first female Prime Minister.Provenance: From the collection of Frederick and Catherine Asher, Minneapolis, Minnesota.Frederick M. Asher and Catherine E. Asher were prominent scholars in the field of Art History. Both dedicated their lives to the education of students, teaching for many years as professors at the University of Minnesota. They both had a passion for South Asian art, traveling extensively throughout India, Asia, and the Middle East. />Condition: Please contact us for a detailed condition report. Please note that the lack of a condition statement does not imply perfect condition. Email condition@revereauctions.com with any condition questions.

First edition Harry Potter volumes , postage cat C- NO RESERVE

WOOLF (VIRGINIA)To The Lighthouse, FIRST EDITION, half-title, binder's advertisement slip loosely inserted, light toning and occasional spotting, publisher's blue cloth (head and foot of spine bumped, small bump to right edge of cover), pictorial dust-jacket by Vanessa Bell (toning and small damp-stains mostly to spine, upper edge a little frayed with very minor loss to head of spine, neatly repaired on reverse) [Kirkpatrick A10], 8vo, Hogarth Press, 1927This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WAUGH (EVELYN)Helena. A Novel, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'For F.B. Walker with deep gratitude for all his patient co operation from Evelyn Waugh' on the front free endpaper, printed on hand-made paper, half-title, light spotting on free endpapers, untrimmed in publisher's white buckram, gilt lettering on spine, a few light marks [Davis Checklist A25], large 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1950Footnotes:ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES SPECIALLY BOUND FOR PRESENTATION BY THE AUTHOR. 'The indifferent reception given to what Evelyn believed to be by far his own best book was the greatest disappointment of his whole literary life' (Christopher Sykes, Evelyn Waugh. A Biography, 1975).Provenance: F.B. Walker (1910-1993), presentation inscription from the author. Walker was the Production Manager at Waugh's publisher Chapman and Hall during the war, effectively running the department despite not being on the board. 'It was he who had seen Put out More Flags, Work Suspended, and Brideshead through the press, and he and Waugh has a comfortable professional relationship... and Walker was the only person left at Chapman & Hall for whom he felt the slightest sympathy' (Martin Stannard, Evelyn Waugh: No Abiding City 1939-1966, 1992). In September 1945, when Walker was overlooked for promotion to the Board in favour of John McDougall, Waugh resigned his directorship of the company in disgust. Subsequently he continued sending Walker warmly inscribed copies of his later books; by descent to the vendor.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[PLATH (SYLVIA)]The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES, and Frieda Hughes on the front free endpaper, light spotting to edges of text block, publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered on spine, pictorial dust-jacket (light soiling, slightly creased and frayed at corners and extremities of spine) [Tabor A4a.1], 8vo, Heinemann, [1963]Footnotes:A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES, OF THE FIRST EDITION OF SYLVIA PLATH'S ONLY NOVEL. According to the publishers, only 'a token quantity' of the book were printed (Tabor, Sylvia Plath. An Analytical Bibliography, 1987).Provenance: Ted Hughes, ownership inscription; Frieda Hughes, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath's daughter.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PARACELSUSChirugia vulnerum, cum recentium, tum veterum, ocultorum & manifestorum ulcerum, &c., woodcut initials, index leaf at end, some minor soiling and toning, a couple of small wormholes at front and rear in lower corners, first 2 leaves of Preface torn with loss in blank corners, light damp-staining towards the end, contemporary limp vellum, early owner's name in ink on upper cover, titled on spine, stained [Adams P268 (dating the work to 1575); NLM/Durling 3485; Wellcome I, 4766], 8vo, Basel, Peter Perna, [1569]Footnotes:First Latin edition of Paracelsus' work on the 'weapon salve', a way to help painlessly heal wounds and ulcers at a distance, using sympathetic or magnetic powers.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WATHEN (JAMES)Journal of a Voyage in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China; Returning by the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena; in the H.C.S. The Hope, Capt. James Pendergrass, FIRST EDITION, 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 4pp. of advertisements ('Oriental Works Lately Imported by Black, Parry & Co. Booksellers to the Honourable East India Company', 1 July 1814) at end, 3 small spots on title but generally very clean, half red morocco gilt by Roger de Coverley [Abbey Travel 517; Lust 386], 4to, J. Nichols, 1814Footnotes:The views include India, Malaysia, Macao, Canton and St Helena.Provenance: William Orme Foster (1814-1899), bookplate of Apley Park bookplate. Foster, an iron master and Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire from 1857-1868, purchased the Apley Park estate near Bridgnorth in 1868; by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[PLATH (SYLVIA)]The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas, FIRST EDITION, second impression, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES, and Frieda Hughes on the front free endpaper, light spotting to edges of text block, publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered on spine, pictorial dust-jacket (light soiling, a few old tea splashes on spine and lower cover) [Tabor A4a.1, 'A second printing...'], 8vo, Heinemann, [1963]Footnotes:ASSOCIATION COPY OF SYLVIA PLATH'S ONLY NOVEL, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES. According to the publishers, only 'a token quantity' of the first edition was printed, and so it was swiftly followed by this second impression. 'A second printing has the words 'Reprinted 1963' on the title verso' (Tabor, Sylvia Plath. An Analytical Bibliography, 1987).Provenance: Ted Hughes, ownership inscription; Frieda Hughes, Ted and Sylvia's daughter.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HUGHES (TED)The Iron Giant, first U.S. edition, AUTHORS' PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO FRIEDA HUGHES, ONE OF THE DEDICATEES, 'For Frieda love from Dad' on the front-free endpaper, illustrations by Robert Nadler, New York, Harper & Row, [1968]; The Iron Woman, FIRST EDITION, AUTHORS' PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO FRIEDA HUGHES, ONE OF THE DEDICATEES, 'For Frieda, with much love Daddy, August 1993' on the front free endpaper, illustrations by Andrew Davidson, Faber, 1993; How the Whale Became, first U.S. edition, AUTHORS' PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO FRIEDA HUGHES, ONE OF THE DEDICATEES, 'For Frieda love from Dad' on the front-free endpaper, illustrations by Rick Schreiter, New York, Atheneum, 1964; Earth-moon. Illustrated by the Author, NUMBER 185 OF 226 COPIES, publisher's boards with cork inlay on upper cover cover, slipcase, 12mo, Rainbow Press, 1976; Animal Poems, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, this copy not numbered but signed 'Ted Hughes Sept 25 1971' on front free endpaper, loose in wrappers as issued, 4to, Crediton, Devon, Richard Gilbertson, [1971]; Under the North Star... Drawings by Leonard Baskin, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED 'For Frieda and Des [Dawe, Frieda's first husband] with love Dad, 1st May 1981', New York, Viking, 1981; What is the Truth? A Farmyard Fable for the Young, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED 'To Frieda with love Daddy, 4th May 1984', Faber, 1984; The Cat and the Cuckoo... With Paintings by R.J. Lloyd, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED 'For Frieda, some more nursery rhymes from Daddy with much love, 23rd August 1987', Bideford, Sunstone Press, 1987; Tales of the Early World, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'For Frieda to read to Clive [Anderson, Frieda's second husband] with love from Daddy, August 1988', Faber, 1988; The Mermaid's Purse. Watercolours by R.J. Lloyd, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 10 OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST, INSCRIBED 'For Frieda love from Daddy, August 1993', colour plates, slipcase, Bideford, Sunstone Press, 1993; The Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'For Frieda, some more bedtime stories with love from Daddy, 21st May 1995', Faber, 1995, unless otherwise stated publisher's cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo; and 13 other books for children, of which 9 by Hughes with ownership inscription by Frieda (and 2 inscribed to her by her father), 2 inscribed to her by Leonard Baskin, and 2 inscribed to her by Ralph Steadman (24)Footnotes:'FOR FRIEDA SOME MORE NURSERY RHYMES FROM DADDY WITH MUCH LOVE' - A collection of Ted Hughes's books for children, most inscribed to his own daughter, Frieda, to whom several of the books were dedicated.Provenance: Frieda Hughes, most with gift inscriptions to her by Ted.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

TURING (ALAN)JAHNKE (EUGENE) AND FRITZ EMDE. Funktionentafeln Mit Formeln Und Kurven, ALAN TURING'S COPY, SIGNED 'A.M. Turing' on front free endpaper, and with a short pencil note ('Π = 4π.7 in cms') in his hand on p.152, second revised edition, illustrations and diagrams in the text, publisher's cloth, lacks spine, some soiling (cup stain on upper cover), 8vo, Leipzig and Berlin, B.G. Teubner, 1933Footnotes:Turing's copy of Tables of Functions, published in 1933 whilst he was an undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge. This edition included a chapter on 'The Riemann Zeta-Function', about which Turing 'developed a life-long fascination. Though his research in this area was not a major thrust of his career, he did make a number of pioneering contributions. Most have now been superseded by later work, but one technique that he introduced is still a standard tool in the computational analysis of the zeta and related functions. It is known as Turing's method, and keeps his name alive in those areas' (D.A. Hejhal and A.M. Odlyzko. 'Alan Turing and the Riemann Zeta Function', 2011). On his return from Princeton to Cambridge in 1938 Turing had 'unusually for a mathematician... joined in Wittgenstein's classes, [and] unusually again he engineered a cogwheel machine to calculate the Riemann Zeta-function' (ODNB). A short bibliography of 'Useful books for the computer' is included at the end of Tables of Functions, and as Donald Bayley's note [see below] confirms, the book accompanied Turing to Hanslope Park where, during the war years, he worked with Bayley on the 'Delilah' project (see lot 45).Provenance: Alan Turing (1912-1954); Donald Bayley (1921-2020), manuscript note in his hand loosely inserted, 'This belonged to the famous AM Turing of Enigma fame. I saw it with his books when I first met him in Hanslope [Park] in 1944. I was much taken with the diagrams of complex functions - which I hadn't seen before. After his death Robin Gandy said I was to have any keepsake I wished (I'm not sure whether this was a bequest in AMT's will - Gandy was executor). Anyway, I asked for this. It should be kept for posterity D.B.... In this broken spine condition he had used it a lot'. Bayley was an electronic engineer who collaborated with Alan Turing on Delilah a functioning portable speech-encryption system, during the Second World War; thence by descent to the present owner.Saleroom notices:Title pages and text are in both English and German.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WAUGH (EVELYN)Unconditional Surrender, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'For Bruce [Walker] with long gratitude from Evelyn' on the front free endpaper, half-title, publisher's blue cloth, dust-jacket, 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1961Footnotes:AN IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WAUGH TO HIS WARTIME PRODUCTION MANAGER AT CHAPMAN & HALL. Of the twelve copies of his own works that Waugh presented to F.B. Walker this is the only one in which he uses both the recipient's and his own first names ('Bruce' and 'Evelyn'), a note of informality and elegiac recognition of their work together during the war, and the approaching end of their long association. Christopher Sykes wrote that 'In the perfection of its construction Unconditional Surrender, and perhaps the whole trilogy, is not surpassed by any other book he wrote' and 'With the completion of the trilogy Evelyn's career as a serious writer of fiction drew to an end' (Christopher Sykes, Evelyn Waugh. A Biography, 1975).Provenance: F.B. Walker (1910-1993), presentation inscription from the author. Walker was the Production Manager at Waugh's publisher Chapman and Hall during the war, effectively running the department despite not being on the board. 'It was he who had seen Put out More Flags, Work Suspended, and Brideshead through the press, and he and Waugh had a comfortable professional relationship...Walker was the only person left at Chapman & Hall for whom he felt the slightest sympathy' (Martin Stannard, Evelyn Waugh: No Abiding City 1939-1966, 1992). In September 1945, when Walker was overlooked for promotion to the Board in favour of John McDougall, Waugh resigned his directorship of the company in disgust. Subsequently he continued sending Walker warmly inscribed copies of his later books; by descent to the vendor.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MALTACHRISTOPHORO D'AVALOS (FELICE ANTONIO DE) Discorso sopra la riunione definitiva di Malta alla Gran Brettagna, FIRST EDITION, full red straight-grained morocco gilt, sides elaborately tooled in gilt and blind, g.e., extremities of spine rubbed but generally very bright, 8vo, Printed by Cox & Baylis, 1814Footnotes:'Maltesi!... Malta è riunita alla Gran Brettagna'. Finely bound copy of a rare treatise, with no copies traced as selling at auction, celebrating British sovereignty over Malta, as confirmed at the Treaty of Paris in May 1814. It is probable that this specially bound copy belonged to Henry Goulburn (1784-1856), who at the time of the Treaty, held the position of under-secretary for War and Colonies.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)[The Lord of the Rings] The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King, together 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSIONS, 'The Return of the King' with signature mark '4' and sagging text on p.49, and 'Men' (no gap) on p.281, folding map printed in red and black at rear of each volume, full crimson morocco gilt by the Chelsea Bindery, sides with single gilt rule border, the upper covers with gilt tooled design reflecting the original jacket design, spines gilt with raised bands and small motif in one compartment, morocco turn-ins, g.e., housed in single morocco-edged slipcase, 8vo, George Allen and Unwin, [1954-1955]Footnotes:A FINELY BOUND SET OF FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST IMPRESSIONS.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HUGHES (TED)Wodwo, FIRST EDITION AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED 'To Walter [Hughes] & Alice with love from Ted, May 67', publisher's cloth, dust-jacket (spine toned, coffee cup stain on upper cover) [Sagar/Tabor A12], 8vo, Faber and Faber, 1967Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPY OF TED HUGHES'S THIRD VOLUME OF POEMS, inscribed to his paternal uncle Walter, and his wife Alice.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HUGHES (TED)Birthday Letters, COPY NUMBER 1 OF 10 COPIES 'RESERVED FOR THE AUTHOR' OF THE SPECIAL EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ONE OF THE DEDICATEES on the colophon, from an overall edition of 310 copies, publisher's cloth-backed boards, yellow endpapers, 8vo, Faber and Faber, 1998; and a first edition signed by Ted Hughes (2)Footnotes:Copy Number One of Hughes' Birthday Letters, signed by both himself and his daughter Frieda, to whom (together with his and Sylvia Plath's son Nicholas) the book was dedicated. Written over a period of twenty-five years, all the poems in the book concern Hughes' relationship with Sylvia Plath. Hughes died nine months after the publication so when it was awarded the Whitbread Prize that year it was Frieda who collected the award on his behalf, reading out 'a letter to a friend in which Hughes had explained, 'I had always just thought them unpublishably raw and unguarded, simply too vulnerable. But then I just could not endure being blocked any longer...'' (British Library, website).Provenance: Ted Hughes, ownership inscription; Frieda Hughes, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath's daughter.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WALPOLE (HORACE)Autograph draft letter unsigned, to John Stuart, third Earl of Bute ('My Lord'), beginning '...Having heard that his Majesty was curious about his pictures...', in which he asks Bute to present the King with some catalogues of the Royal collections on his behalf which '...May contribute to his Majesty's information or amusement...', and in typically depreciating tones, offering his services ('...The mere love of the arts and the joy of seeing on the throne a Prince of Taste, are my only inducements for offering my slender services... I know myself too well to think I can ever be of any use by as a virtuoso and antiquarian...'), with several amendments and additions, one page on a bifolium, dust-staining, creased at folds, 4to (230 x 185mm.), [n.p.], 19 December 1760; with autograph letter signed ('Bute') to Horace Walpole ('Sir'), '...I have presented the book sent me to his Majesty, and mentioned the very polite and respectful manner you expressed yourself in with regard to him... His Majesty's great fondness for the arts will I hope soon have a striking effect in this country...', assuring him that '...quick parts and superior talents...' such as his will '...become useful in any occupation they are applied to...', 2 pages on a bifolium, dust-staining and marks, creased at folds, 4to (235 x 184mm.), [n.p.], 17 December 1760; with a note in the third person presenting his compliments and thanking him for his '...very agreeable present... a thing much wanted, and that has never yet been executed... such a general work would be not only very agreeable, but instructive...', one page on a bifolium, dust-staining, creased at folds, 4to (238 x 188mm.), [n.p.], 'Saturday' [13 February 1762] (3)Footnotes:'THE JOY OF SEEING ON THE THRONE A PRINCE OF TASTE': WALPOLE WELCOMES THE NEW MONARCH AS A PATRON OF THE ARTS.During the reign of George II, John Stuart, third Earl of Bute (1744-1814) held the position of tutor and principal advisor to the Prince of Wales and became, in the words of the future King George III 'his dearest friend' (Karl Schweizer, ODNB). On the accession of George III on 25 October 1760, Bute was sworn into the Privy Council and was subsequently instrumental in choosing Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz as a suitable royal bride. He served as Prime Minster from 1762 to 1763 and, at this time, was thus a person of influence whom Walpole was eager to cultivate; the 'very agreeable present' referred to here no doubt being an advance copy of Anecdotes of Painting which was published two days after our letter on 15 February 1762. He had high hopes for the promotion of the arts under the new monarch; with the accession of the new King, Walpole wrote in his introduction to Anecdotes, 'The Throne itself is now the altar of the graces; and whoever sacrifices to them becomingly, it sure that his offerings will be smiled upon by a prince, who is at once the example and patron of accomplishments' (Works, iii, 8).According to Bute, this was a timely presentation. George III, who had acceded to the throne just two months before Walpole's letter, had recently given orders to the Duke of Devonshire to 'make out exact lists of all the pictures in the royal palaces'. The catalogues in question were those of the pictures of Charles I compiled by Abraham Van der Doort (1757), and that of the pictures of James II and the late Queen Caroline and the Palace of Kensington compiled by W. Chiffinch (1758). Bound with them was A Catalogue of the Curious Collection of Pictures of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham of 1758, all three including introductions by Horace Walpole. The volume, finely bound with the royal monogram and with the bookplate of George III is held in the British Museum, (Yale online, footnote 1, p.189). All three letters are published in the Yale online edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence (pp.189 & 210), but the whereabouts of the originals, until now, has remained unknown. They were first printed in The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford, 1798, Vol.2, pp.376-378, edited by Mary Berry, the text taken from the originals in her possession, although, according to the editor of the Correspondence, Walpole's draft letter was printed from a photostat of the original in the possession of Lord Bute at Mount Stuart. The letters bear the consecutive numbers in ink, 5, 6 and 7 and pencilled page references to the Works, where they are included in the chapter 'Letters to and from Ministers'. They formed part of the Walpole correspondence retained by Mary Berry and bequeathed to Lady Lewis in 1852.Provenance: Horace Walpole (1717-1797); Mary Berry (1763-1852); Lady Maria Theresa Lewis (née Villiers) (1803-1865); her son Sir Thomas Villiers Lister (1832-1902); thence by descent.Lady Lewis' collection was initially formed through the amalgamation of two significant collections of letters: royal and political correspondence from that of her mother the Hon Theresa Villiers (1775-1856), and that of her close friend, the writer Mary Berry (1763–1852). Mary Berry's bequest included correspondence from Horace Walpole, most notably his correspondence with Thomas Chatterton and David Hume, hitherto thought lost, and three poems dedicated to her. To this inheritance Lady Lewis subsequently added her own correspondence and collection of autographs gathered through her wide circle of social, political and literary connections entertained at her home, Kent House, St James's. Not seen outside the family until now, the collection is a remarkable survival and tells the story of a family at the heart of English society. An intricate web of connections and alliances is revealed, bringing together the worlds of royalty and politics, the arts and literature. It is also a story of influential women both as collectors and as correspondents: Theresa Villiers as keeper of royal secrets, Mary Berry and her circle of intellectuals, and, importantly, Lady Lewis as collector and salonnière bringing them all together in one extraordinary collection.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PLATH (SYLVIA)Three Women. A Monologue for Three Voices, 2 copies, second (first published) edition, Limited to 180 copies, frontispiece by Stanislaw Gliwa, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt [Tabor A3b.1], Turret Books, 1968; Ariel, 2 copies, first U.S. edition [Tabor A5b], Harper & Row, [1966]; Uncollected Poems, 2 copies, [LIMITED TO 150 COPIES], THESE COPIES 'A' and 'C OF 13 COPIES' SIGNED BY TED HUGHES inside upper cover [Tabor A6, not mentioning this 'lettered' limited variant], Turret Books, 1965 [but 1966]; Wreath for a Bridal, 2 copies, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, these copies 'A' and 'C' of 5 unnumbered copies, publisher's wrappers [Tabor A7], Frensham, Farnham Press, 1970; Fiesta Melons, 3 copies, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, early numbers but not signed by TH [Tabor A10], Exeter, Rougemont Press, 1971; Crossing the Water, 2 copies, first U.S. edition [Tabor A11b], Harper & Row, 1971; Lyonnesse. Poems, 3 copies, limited to 300 copies, publisher's cloth, slipcase [Tabor A13], Rainbow Press, 1971; Million Dollar Month, 2 copies, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, publisher's wrappers [Tabor A14], Frensham, Sceptre Press, [1971]; Winter Trees, 2 copies, FIRST EDITION, [Tabor A15], Faber, 1971; idem, 2 copies, first U.S. edition [Tabor A15b], Harper & Row, 1972; Child, NUMBER 1 OF 325 COPIES, [Tabor A16], Exeter, The Rougemont Press, 1971; Two Poems, 5 copies, LIMITED TO 300 COPIES, 2 copies 'Especials' limited to 75 copies in variant wrappers [Tabor A22], Knotting, Martin Booth at Sceptre Press, 1980; Two Uncollected Poems, 2 copies, numbers 1 and 2 of 450 copies, publisher's wrappers [Tabor A23], Anvil Press, 1980; A Dialogue Over a Ouija Board, NUMBER 3 OF 140 COPIES, illustration by Leonard Baskin, publisher's limp vellum, slipcase [Tabor A25], Rainbow Press, 1981; A Day in June. An Uncollected Short Story, 3 copies, LIMITED TO 160 COPIES, publisher's wrappers, one in original envelope [Tabor A24], Ely, Embers Handpress, 1981, The Green Rock, 4 copies, LIMITED TO 160 COPIES publisher's wrappers, one in a slipcase [Tabor A28], Ely, Embers Handpress, 1982; The Magic Mirror, 3 copies, LIMITED TO 226 COPIES, these lettered copies 'A', B' and 'N' 'reserved for the Press', one signed by Ted Hughes, one in special morocco-backed boards with slipcase, other in different coloured wrappers, Rhiwagor, Embers Handpress, 1989, all signed (or with loose inserted slip) by Frieda Hughes, unless otherwise mentioned publisher's cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo and 4to; and approximately 45 others by or about Plath, including 2 signed by Ralph Steadman, Out of Ash published in Tel-Aviv in 1965, 2 biographies of Plath with a few annotations by Olwyn Hughes, and a collection of approximately 79 American first day covers for Plath stamp (quantity)Footnotes:Provenance: Frieda Hughes, Sylvia and Ted Hughes's daughter. The books signed by her, or with her signature loosely inserted.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HUGHES (TED)Birthday Letters, COPY NUMBER 2 OF 10 COPIES 'RESERVED FOR THE AUTHOR' OF THE SPECIAL EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ONE OF THE DEDICATEES on the colophon, from an overall edition of 310 copies, publisher's cloth-backed boards, yellow endpapers, 8vo, Faber and Faber, 1998; and a first edition signed by Ted Hughes (2)Footnotes:Copy Number 2 of Hughes' Birthday Letters, signed by both himself and his daughter Frieda, to whom (together with his and Sylvia Plath's son Nicholas) the book was dedicated. Written over a period of twenty-five years, all the poems in the book concern Hughes' relationship with Sylvia Plath. Hughes died nine months after the publication so when it was awarded the Whitbread Prize that year it was Frieda who collected the award on his behalf, reading out 'a letter to a friend in which Hughes had explained, 'I had always just thought them unpublishably raw and unguarded, simply too vulnerable. But then I just could not endure being blocked any longer...'' (British Library, website).Provenance: Ted Hughes, ownership inscription; Frieda Hughes, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath's daughter.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BOYLE (ROBERT)The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, touching the Spagyrist's Principles commonly call'd Hypostatical, as they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists, FIRST EDITION, 2 titles printed in red and black (the second additional, bound after D1), R2 a cancel, with the final blank, woodcut ornaments, fore-margins softened with some light damp-stains throughout (with no loss to text, but minor loss of fore-margin at beginning and end, and some old stains touching text to some leaves), contemporary calf, worn and detached from text block [ESTC R37449; Dibner 39; Fulton 33; Norman 299; PMM 141], 8vo (168 x 108mm.), J. Cadwell, for J. Crooke, 1661Footnotes:RARE FIRST EDITION OF A MILESTONE IN THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY, AND BOYLE'S 'MOST FAMOUS BOOK' (ODNB), of which approximately only 35 copies are known.'The importance of Boyle's book must be sought in his combination of chemistry with physics. His corpuscular theory, and Newton's modification of it, gradually led chemists towards an atomic view of matter... His argument was designed to lead chemists away from the pure empiricism of his predecessors and to stress the theoretical, experimental and mechanistic elements of chemical science. The Sceptical Chymist is concerned with the relations between chemical substances rather than transmuting one metal into another or the manufacture of drugs. In this sense the book must be considered one of the most significant milestones on the way to the chemical revolution of Lavoisier in the eighteenth century' (PMM).Provenance: Private UK collection, given to the owner by his grandfather in the 1970s.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com