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"High Adventure" by Edmund Hillary, first edition 1955, signed by Edmund Hillary

C.S Lewis 'The Horse and his Boy' published by Bles, first UK edition 1954 in good dust wrapper, not price clipped

Chandler 'The Big Sleep', published by H.Hamilton, first UK edition 1939. Ownership stamp to front free end paper

Arthur Stringer, The Wire Tappers, London 1907. First edition Layards Maundeville, Arnold Lunn's bookplate and ownership inscription, other various books.

A collection of books including Margaret Wood 'The Medieval House' and 'Limitations' by E F Benson, first UK edition 1896

Tolkien 'The Adventures of Tom Bombadil', first UK edition, together with approximately 38 other children's books.

A quantity of detective fiction books, including Delano Ames 'Crime out of Mind' 1956 first edition, approximately twenty books in total

Robert Taylor (Late 20th century school), three unframed polychromatic limited edition prints of WW2 fighter planes, 'knights of the eastern front', 'beach head strike force'. Together with one other. Each signed by artist and associated pilot, together with certificate of authenticity for first two.

Wanda Ga`G, Millions of Cats, Rare First Edition, published in New York by Coward-McCann, Inc, 1928 Starting Bid: €180

Louis Wain : 'Smiles and Dimples', nd. C.1915. Children's book featuring Wain's feline illustrations, together with a copy of 'More About Muffin' ( the Mule ), 1950, signed on fep by author Annette Mills. Together with other children's titles including Enid Blyton, Angela Brazil and an original Macmillan Sixpenny Series paper covered publication of Alice in Wonderland, 1898, with Tenniel illustrations. CONDITION REPORT: Smiles and Dimples in nf condition with Wain illus. Other titles generally vg., 'More about Muffin does not have a dust jacket, 'The School at the Turrets' is undated, please see image of title page etc, 'Fifth Form at St Clares' is dated 1952 and is not a first edition

Louis Wain : 'Smiles and Dimples', nd. C.1915. Children's book featuring Wain's feline illustrations, together with a copy of 'More About Muffin' ( the Mule ), 1950, signed on fep by author Annette Mills. Together with other children's titles including Enid Blyton, Angela Brazil and an original Macmillan Sixpenny Series paper covered publication of Alice in Wonderland, 1898, with Tenniel illustrations. CONDITION REPORT: Smiles and Dimples in nf condition with Wain illus. Other titles generally vg., 'More about Muffin does not have a dust jacket, 'The School at the Turrets' is undated, please see image of title page etc, 'Fifth Form at St Clares' is dated 1952 and is not a first edition

[ASSORTED] Boorman, Derek. At the Going Down of the Sun. British First World War Memorials, second edition, Boorman, York, 1988, softback, illustrations throughout, quarto; Laffin, John. World War I in Postcards, first edition, Sutton, Gloucester, 1988, boards, dustjacket, illustrations throughout, small quarto; Costa, Nic. Automatic Pleasures. The History of the Coin Machine, first edition, Francis, East Dulwich, 1988, boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto (ex library); a further eight volumes; and two magazines, (13).

[ART & OTHER] Strutt, Joseph. A Biographical Dictionary; containing An Historical Account of All the Engravers from the Earliest Period of the Art of Engraving to the Present Time, first edition, two volumes, by Davis, London, 1785-86, full tree calf with gilt dentelle borders, plate illustrations, quarto (upper boards detached; spines worn, with loss; volume two lacking lower board); Winkles, B. French Cathedrals, Tilt, London, 1837, half calf, engraved plate illustrations after R. Garland, quarto (boards detached; lacking spine strip); and eight other works, (11). Note: This lot sold with all faults, not subject to return.

[MUSIC & OTHER] Rust, Brian. British Music Hall on Record, first edition, General Gramophone Publications, Harrow, 1979, boards, dustjacket, octavo; Furneaux, W.S. Butterflies, Moths, Other Insects and Creatures of the Countryside, Westminster Press, London, no date, cloth, dustjacket with pictorial onlay, colour plate illustrations, quarto; a London Electrical Company catalogue, circa 1957, maroon cloth, illustrations throughout, octavo; and other items, including ephemera.

MAP OF PART OF BURMA SHWEBO SHEET 2 FIRST EDITION MARKED RESTRICTED PRINTED JANUARY 1945 WITH SKETCH OF BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI ON THE REVERSE SIGNED R J M DUPONT

A collection of good antique reference books including The Earle Collection of Early Staffordshire Pottery, Major Cyril Earle TD, ltd edition 7/250, A Brown & Sons, (1915); William Billingsley, His Outstanding Achievements as an Artist and Porcelain Maker, W D John, first edition (1968); approximately 40 Christies Fine English Porcelain catalogues mostly from the 1970`s; Catalogue of the Schreiber Collection Vol 1; Two bound volumes of Discovering Antiques magazine covering a variety of interesting and academic subjects etc (QTY)

Limited edition de-luxe editions. Collectors book club school for scandal no.25 of 50. First on the rope no.116 of 750. The Kon-Tiki expedition no.58 of 350 (signed by author).

First illustrated edition leather bound volume "Handley Cross" or "Mr Jorrocks's Hunt", published 1845

[Louisiana Books], three titles including: Lemmon, Alfred; John Magill and Jason Wiese, Charting Louisiana, Five Hundred Years of Maps, New Orleans, The Historic New Orleans Collection, 2003, first edition, all edges gilt, silk bookmarks, with slipcase; Brady, Patricia, Louise Hoffman and Lynn Adams, Complementary Visions of Louisiana Art, The Laura Simon Nelson Collection..., New Orleans, The Historical New Orleans Collection, 1996, no. 28 of 60 limited edition, with slipcase; and Lawrence, John and Patricia Brady, Haunter of Ruins, The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin, Little, Brown and Company, 1997, with slipcase.

§ MARCEL BROODTHAERS, BELGIAN (1924-1976). `Tractatus logico-catalogicus` (L`Art ou l`art de vendre/ Art or the Art of Selling). Signed offset print, 1972. Edition 61/100. PROVENANCE: Gifted to Michael Compton by the artist`s widow, Maria, when he was working with her on a proposed catalogue-raisonné of the artist`s work. This involved regular visits to Brussels to do research in the 1980s and 1990s. Broodthaers made `Tractatus Logico-Catalogicus` in 1972 for a solo exhibition of the same name held at the Galerie MTL in Brussels. The work is based on the catalogue of a previous exhibition `L`Exposition à la galerie` held at the same gallery in 1970. At this earlier exhibition Broodthaers displayed files filled with papers relating to his earlier time as a poet including poems and other writings spanning over ten years of artistic output. The catalogue for the exhibition listed each page and arranged them into sections, it also described how the work was to be arranged in the gallery. For the 1972 exhibition Broodthaers focused even more on the role of the exhibition catalogue. He reprinted his 1970 catalogue, changing the cover dates but otherwise leaving as it was. He also produced the editioned print called `Tractatus Logico-Catalogicus - Art or the Art of Selling` which is created from negative images of the pages of this catalogue. Broodthaers used the original printing blocks in sheets ready to be folded and cut into book format, illustrated by the visible vertical bands to the margins bearing measurement markings that would ordinarily be cut off. In Broodthaers`s print the pages are not in order, with those on the upper register upside down. Broodthaers placed the first block in the middle so the central panel shows pages 1 and 2 upside down, and also pages 11 and 12 of the catalogue. The work`s title is influenced by the book `Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus` by German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). In this book Wittgenstein proposed that the world is made up of facts and thoughts expressed through a logical structured language. These concepts appealed to Broodthaers, who developed interest in the relationship between words and images. A print from this edition was sold at Sothebys Paris in May 2007. This lot is part of a single owner collection of 28 lots to include Roy Lichtenstein, Marcel Broodthaers, Terry Frost, Henry Moore, Richard Long, Victor Newsome, Keith Milow, Billy Al Bengston, Ian Stephenson, Sol LeWitt and Joe Tilson. MARCEL BROODTHAERS (1924-1976): A writer, poet, filmmaker, photographer, journalist and artist. As Broodthaers himself said, he would rather have put off the choice of profession until his death. Language, as a symbol that conveys meaning, is a central theme in his texts, objects, installations, films, photographs, slide projections and prints. Broodthaers was born in Brussels in 1924. Aged 16 or 17 he had some contact with the Belgian Surrealists, particularly Magritte, who gave him a 1914 copy of `Mallarmé`s `Un Coup de Dés` where the contradiction between the printed word and their layout were later a crucial influence on him. From 1945 he was associated with the Groupe Surréaliste-revolutionnaire. Also a keen photographer, in 1958 he began to publish articles illustrated with his own photographs. At the end of 1963 he decided to become an artist, symbolically embedding fifty unsold copies of his book of poems `Pense-Bête` in plaster, creating his first art object. A Broodthaers press release from 1964 read as follows: "I, too, wondered whether I could not sell something and succeed in life. For some time I had been no good at anything. I am forty years old... Finally the idea of inventing something insincere finally crossed my mind and I set to work straightaway. At the end of three months I showed what I had produced to Philippe Edouard Toussaint, the owner of the Galerie St Laurent. `But it is art` he said `and I will willingly exhibit all of it.` `Agreed` I replied. If I sell something, he takes 30%. It seems these are the usual conditions, some galleries take 75%. What is it? In fact it is objects." - MARCEL BROODTHAERS, 1964 Broodthaers made use of found objects and collage, incorporating the written language in his art and using whatever was at hand for raw materials, most notably the shells of eggs and mussels. Such as in `Grande casserole de moules`, 1966; and `Coupe avec coquilles d`oeufs`, 1967 (Marcel Broodthaers, Walker Art Center, Rizzoli, P.126/127). From late 1969, Broodthaers lived mainly in Düsseldorf, Berlin, and finally London. He died in Cologne in 1976 on his 52nd birthday. He is buried at Ixelles Cemetery in Brussels under a tombstone of his own design. In 1980 Compton curated the exhibition `Marcel Broodthaers` at Tate Gallery, London, the first retrospective after the artist`s death in 1976. In 1989 Compton curated `Marcel Broodthaers` at the Walker Art Center Minneapolis for which he received a Weisman award (Lot 1 in this Sale). The exhibition travelled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Other important Broodthaers exhibitions include Jeu de Paume, Paris, 1991; and Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, 2000. In England his work was shown at Milton Keynes Gallery, 2008 and Michael Werner London, in 2013. 26.40 x 60in. (67 x 152cm) Various small tears to the border underneath the frame mount. Staining and discolouration to border. No other damage found.§ ARR (Artist Resale Right) is additionally payable on this lot please contact the auctioneer for details.

[AMHURST, Nicholas (1697-1742)]. A Collection of Poems on Several Occasions; Publish`d in the Craftsman. By Caleb d` Anvers, of Gray`s Inn, Esq. London: Printed for R. Francklin, 1731. 8vo in 4s (192 x 114mm). Woodcut device on title, headpieces (some very light staining). Modern calf-backed marbled boards. The poems include "To a Lady, who had yellow Hair," "The Inscription, which was lately found on a large marble Pillar amongst the Ruins at Whitehall," "An Epigram on a late Debate in the H- of C- concerning the national Debt," and "Latin Verses inscribed to the Glory of a certain great Man, at the Bottom of an emblematical Devise." Nicholas Amhurst edited "The Craftsman" under the pseudonym Caleb d` Anvers. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION.

The Anchoret. A Moral Tale, in a Series of Letters. London: Printed for Francis Newbery, 1773. 3 volumes, 12mo (166 x 100mm). Half titles (some spotting). Contemporary speckled calf (joints split but cords holding, rubbed). Provenance: Alexander Hamilton (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. The author is unknown, although a disparaging contemporary account in The Monthly Review suggests she was probably female. "But as, doubtless his [ie. the author`s], (or her) `every faculty`, was strained to delight the gentle Readers, who, we suppose to be chiefly females, it is to be hoped they will be candid and favourable to the Author, who seems to be one of their own sex." (3)

ARNOLD, Matthew (1822-88). Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1869. 8vo (207 x 140mm). (Occasional light spotting and staining.) Original russet cloth lettered and ruled in gilt and black (extremities lightly rubbed, spine a little discoloured). Provenance: Vernon J. Watney, [?]Cornbury (stamp on front free endpaper); some later pencil annotation and lining. FIRST EDITION. Loosely-inserted, in addition to a poem by Arnold printed on a small bifolium, is a paper slip, INSCRIBED by the author, "I shall hope to take my chance some afternoon. Believe me, sincerely yours, Matthew Arnold."

ARTEMIDORUS DALDIANUS (2nd Century AD). De somniorum interpretatione, Libri Quinq, a Iano Cornario medico physico Francofordensi, latina lingua conscripti. Basle: [colophon:] per Hieronymu Frovbenium & Noclaum Episcopium, 1544. 8vo (161 x 105mm). Woodcut printer`s device on title and at end (some light spotting and staining). 17th-century diced calf (plainly rebacked, rubbed, new endpapers). Provenance: early annotation to title and at one margin; Anthony Brigham (later signature on title). The second Latin edition. Originally written in the 2nd-century AD under the title "Oneirokritika" and first published in Venice at the Aldine Press in 1518, this is an early work on the interpretation of dreams. Adams A2037; Bibliotheca Osleriana p.177; Durling 322.

BARETTI, Guiseppe Marc Antonio. Tolondron. Speeches to John Bowle about his Edition of Don Quixote; Together with Some Account of Spanish Literature. London: Printed for R. Faulder, 1786. 8vo (216 x 130mm). Half title, dedication "Ad Doctum Milordum" in Latin (some spotting and browning). Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt with black morocco lettering-piece (heavily rubbed, some wear to head of spine). Provenance: Frank Crawford (modern pencil signature to front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION of this rare work which, far from being a considered academic disquisition, as its title might suggest, is a high spirited, and highly personal, 338-page rant directed at Mr Bowle. In Spanish, Tolondron means "confusion in the head arising from a blow."

BENNETT, Agnes Maria (c.1750-1808). The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors. Dublin: Printed by P. Wogan, 1797. 3 volumes, 12mo (172 x 100mm). (Signatures excised from titles without loss of letters, occasional very light spotting, a few stains.) Contemporary calf, spines gilt with red and black morocco lettering-pieces (joints split, rubbed, some more extensive damage to spine of vol. one). FIRST DUBLIN EDITION, published the same year as the first 7-volume London edition. "One mild Spring morning, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and whatever the reader pleases ..." (the opening). (3)

Bibliotheca Parisiana. A Catalogue of a Collection of Books, Formed by a Gentleman in France, No less conspicuous for his Taste in distinguishing, that for his Zeal in acquiring, whatever, of this Kind, was most perfect, curious, or scarce ... They will be Sold by Auction, in London, On Monday the 26th of March, 1791, and the Five Days Following. [London:] "Catalogues to be had of Mr. Edwards," [colophon: "From the Press of J. Cooper,"] [?1791]. 8vo (180 x 114mm). Half title (occasional very light spotting). Contemporary half calf (rather worn with some crude early repairs, but entirely honest). Provenance: almost every lot priced in contemporary manuscript, with buyer`s names in many instances (including "Mr Beckford", "Bodleian Library", "Mr. Johnes"[?sic] (who bought very heavily), "Laurent" and "The King"); old inscription relating to the sale on rear endpaper. FIRST EDITION, first issue, with the date of the sale erroneously set at "26th of March": the sale actually took place on the 28th of March (see the Autumn 1969 issue of "The Book Collector" for a full account of it). The "Parisiana" of the title refers to the owner of the collection, Jean Baptiste Paris de Meyzieu: the first page of the catalogue itself is headed "Catalogue of the Library of Mr. P****." "The collection exhibited in this catalogue is, for its number, by far the richest and most valuable ever offered to the Public" (from J. Edwards` "Preface"). It realised in excess of £5,000.

BONHOTE, Elizabeth (1744-1818). The Parental Monitor ... The Second Edition, Corrected. London: Printed for William Lane [Minerva Press], 1790. 2 volumes, 12mo (172 x 105mm). Engraved frontispieces (occasional light spotting and staining). Contemporary sheep (joints split, rubbed, spine to vol. II split). Provenance: Anne Garnham, 1792 (signatures on front free endpapers). The delightful frontispieces are captioned "Merit crowned by Genius, and conducted by Minerva to the Temple of Fame" and "Youth warned by the Parental Monitor resists the persuasions of Folly, and pursues the road to Wisdom." Loosely-inserted is an old typed bookseller`s description stating: "This revised edition of Mrs. Bonhote`s popular children`s book is perhaps of some importance to the history of the Minerva Press for Miss Blakey (who could not locate a copy) notes that it was advertised as `printed on a new letter cast on purpose`." The work was first published in 1788. (2)

BOYD, Hugh (and others). The Indian Observer. By the Late Hugh Boyd, Esq. With the Life of the Author, and Some Miscellaneous Poems, by Lawrence Dundas Campbell. London: "Printed by T. Burton ... for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davis," 1798. 8vo (214 x 135mm). (Occasional spotting and staining.) Contemporary half calf (quite heavily rubbed and stained). Provenance: Bridgnorth Library (old label); later unidentified label; Claire Coates (modern signature on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. As the Preface indicates, these essays, "the temporary effusions of genius, not the laboured productions of diligence and study," were originally published in Madras in 1794 in a periodical called "Hircarrah". Lawrence Dundas Campbell provides the work with a Life of Hugh Boyd and "A Monody on the Death of Hugh Boyd," in addition to a number of seemingly unconnected poems at the end, including "An Elegy on the Right Honourable Edmund Burke" and "Ode on the Performance of Selected Sacred Music for the Benefit of the Male Asylum."

[BREWER, George (b. 1766)]. The Siamese Tales: being a Collection of Stories told to the Son of Mandarin Sam-Sib, for the Purpose of Engaging his Mind in the Love of Truth and Virtue. With an Historical Account of the Kingdom of Siam. To which is added the Principal Maxims of the Talapoins. Translated from the Siamese. London: Printed for Vernor and Hood, 1796. 12mo (171 x 100mm). Half title, engraved frontispiece (occasional light spotting and staining, without the advertisement leaf at the end). Contemporary calf, spine ruled in gilt (joints split, rubbed). Provenance: "W.G.W." (old initials on title). FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of this series of stories intended for children. A number of them were first published in The European Magazine. The claim on the title page that they were "Translated from the Siamese" is entirely erroneous. Block p.216.

BROOKE, Charlotte (c.1740-93, editor). Reliques of Irish Poetry: Consisting of Heroic Poems, Odes, Elegies, and Songs, Translated into English verse: with Notes Explanatory and Historical; and the Originals in the Irish Character. To which is subjoined an Irish Tale. Dublin: George Bonham, 1789. 4to (264 x 212mm). Printed partly in Gaelic script (title lightly stained and spotted, a few leaves, notably to the list of subscribers, with large spots, occasional lighter spotting and staining). 19th-century green half calf, spine gilt with red and black morocco lettering-pieces (extremities quite heavily rubbed). Provenance: Mr John Joseph Lawson (later pencil signature on front pastedown); early manuscript list of names [of uncertain significance] loosely-inserted. FIRST EDITION. In the Preface the editor outlines her intention "... to throw some light on the antiquities of this country, to vindicate, in part, its history, and prove its claim to scientific as well as military fame ... The productions of our Irish Bards exhibit a glow of cultivated genius, - a spirit of elevated heroism, - sentiments of pure honor,- instances of disinterested patriotism, - and manners of a degree of refinement, totally astonishing, at a period when the rest of Europe was nearly sunk in barbarism."

BUTLER, Joseph (1692-1752). The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. To which are added Two brief Dissertations: I. Of Personal Identity. II. Of the Nature of Virtue. London: Printed for James, John and Paul Knapton, 1736. 4to (253 x 195mm). Half title. Contemporary speckled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering-piece (extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION of this defence of revealed religion, chiefly aimed at Thomas Hobbes and other rationalist thinkers. "It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many Persons, that Christianity is not so much as a Subject of Inquiry; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present Age, this were an agreed Point, among all People of Discernment; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal Subject of Mirth and Ridicule, as it were, by Way of Reprisals, for its having so long interrupted the Pleasures of the World" (from the Advertisement). An exceptionally fine copy, particularly fresh and bright internally.

CHUDLEIGH, Mary, Lady (1656-1710). Poems on Several Occasions. Together with the Song of the Three Children Paraphras`d. London: Printed by W. B. for Bernard Lintott, 1703. 8vo (194 x 120mm). (Some mainly marginal staining.) Contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece (head of upper joints splitting, extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Foxon p.121. Contains the rousingly feminist poem "To the Ladies", for which the poet is perhaps best remembered: "Wife and Servant are the same,/But only differ in the name:/For when that fatal Knot is ty`d,/Which nothing, nothing can divide:/When the word obey has said/And Man by Law supreme has made,/Then all that`s kind is laid aside,/And nothing left but State and Pride ... Then shun, oh! shun that wretched State,/And all the fawning Flatt`rers hate:/Value your selves, and Men despise,/You must be proud, if you`ll be wise."

[?COLLET, John]. Chit-Chat: or, Natural Characters; And the Manners of Real Life, Represented in a Series of interesting Adventures. London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1755. 2 volumes, 12mo (164 x 102mm). Half titles (some spotting and staining throughout). Contemporary calf gilt (upper cover of vol. I detached, vol. II rebacked preserving old morocco lettering-piece, rubbed). Provenance: old ink initials at foot of titles affecting letters. FIRST EDITION. Each volume consists of two parts, although the pagination is continuous. The first volume ends with the words "End of the Second Book" (erroneously amended to "First" in old manuscript) and the second volume with the words "The End of the Fourth and Last Book." The author`s uncertain attribution comes from the copy in The British Library. (2)

[?COLLINS, Charles]. Death on the Pale Horse, As represented by Mr. West, A Poem. [No place: no publisher, n.d. but c. 1820] [Bound with ?the same author`s:] Juvenile Blossoms. Cambridge: Printed by James Hodson, 1822. 2 works bound in one volume, 8vo (152 x 95mm). Contemporary mottled calf gilt (joints split, rubbed, some wear to spine). The title of the first work is indistinctly inscribed, "[?]Love from her [?]Brother the author." "Death on the Pale Horse" is a painting executed in 1817 by the Anglo-American painter Benjamin West (1738-1820) which currently hangs in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The Advertisement of the second work, which is presumably by the same author, is signed "C. C. St. John`s Coll. Cambridge, Dec. 26, 1821." It includes a poem entitled "Reflection Addressed to my Sister on her Completing her One-and-Twentieth Year", perhaps an allusion to the same sibling bond apparent in the author`s inscription in the first work. The advertisement of a later edition of the same work bears the name Charles Collins.

CORRY, John. The Mysterious Gentleman Farmer; or, The Disguises of Love: A Novel. London: printed for B. Crosby & Co.,1808. 3 volumes bound in one, 8vo (188 x 115mm). Half titles to vols. II and III, publisher`s advertisements at the end of each volume (lacks all before first title, title followed by B1, browned, spotting and staining throughout, occasionally more severe, a few leaves torn without loss, one repaired,). Modern calf-backed marbled boards. Provenance: a few old minor textual amendments. FIRST EDITION. RARE. No copy in the British Library.

COSTELLO, Louisa Stuart (1799-1870). Redwald; A Tale of Mona: and Other Poems. Brentford: Printed by and for P. Norbury, 1819. 8vo in 4s (152 x 90mm). Half title (occasional spotting). Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with green morocco lettering-piece (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: W. Gay (old signature on half title); "Bd. by Fosbrooke" (old inscription on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. With Jane Elizabeth Roscoe`s Poems, By One of the Authors of "Poems for Youth, By a Family Circle" (London, 1820, contemporary diced calf). (2)

COTTLE, Amos Simon (1766-1800). Icelandic Poetry, or The Edda of Saemund. Translated into English Verse. Bristol: Printed by N. Biggs, 1797. 8vo (222 x 135mm). (Some mainly marginal staining throughout.) Modern half calf. FIRST EDITION. The work bears a dedicatory poem by Robert Southey, which includes a lament on the death of Mary Wollstonecraft, who died on September 10 1797: "Who among women left no equal mind/When from this world she pass`d; and I could weep,/To think She is to the grave gone down!" Cottle`s preface to the work is dated November 1.

CRAMOND, Hercules. Outlines of Human Life Sketched by Hercules Cramond, M.D. In the Thirtieth Year of his Age - and Exemplified by Some genuine and well-attested Memoirs of The Author and his Family. [London:] "Printed for the Author, By J. Barker," 1785. 8vo (181 x 110mm).(Without the half title, some mainly marginal browning to title and first and last few leaves, a few spots.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, rubbed, inner hinges reinforced). Provenance: H. Fellner (pencil signature on the front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. The work, which rather self-pityingly documents the many vicissitudes of the author`s life, bears an exhortatory dedication "To the Youth of Great Britain and Ireland" and concludes with the words: "The succeeding scenes I am reserved for time will unfold - yet I fondly hope the serene sun of prosperity will shine upon my later hours, and render them the fine evening of a cloudy day."

CUMMINS, Edward (b. 1792 or 1793). The Miscellaneous Poetic Works of E. Cummins, (Better Known by the Name of) The Young Hibernian. Dublin: Printed for the Author, 1808. 8vo (162 x 102mm). Engraved frontispiece captioned "Trafalgar", engraved portraits of Nelson, William Pitt, Charles James Fox and The Duke of Leinster (occasional light spotting). Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt (rather worn and dust-soiled, with loss to head and foot of spine, joints split). Provenance: Jane Edwards, February 27th 1809 (signature on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION of this rather shoddily printed work opens with a "Dialogue Between Critic, Author, and Book." The poet`s printed dedication to the Duke of Bedford draws apologetic attention to his "youth and inexperience" and is signed off "Edward Cummins, Aged 14."

CUNNINGHAM, John (1729-73). Poems, Chiefly Pastoral. London: Printed for the Author, 1766. 8vo (208 x 126mm). Engraved frontispiece (occasional very light spotting). Contemporary polished speckled calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece (joints splitting, extremities lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION, second issue: the first issue was printed in Newcastle. The collection is dedicated to David Garrick.

[DE QUINCY, Thomas (1785-1859)]. Klosterheim: or, The Masque. By the English Opium-Eater. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & London: T. Cadell, 1832. 8vo (176 x 107mm). Half title, with second variant "half title" following title, 2-pages of publisher`s advertisements at the end (some very light spotting). 19th-century half morocco, uncut (rather crudely repaired, rubbed). Provenance: slip inscribed "J. Mitford, 1836" with illegible inscription; pencil inscription relating to ownership on the front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION of the author`s only novel, a Gothic romance set in a Swabian village during the Thirty Years` War. Block p.58; Wolff 1785.

[D`ISRAELI, Isaac (1766-1848)]. Vaurien: Or, Sketches of the Times: Exhibiting Views of the Philosophies, Religions, Politics, Literature, and Manners of the Age. London: Printed for T. Cadell (and others), 1797. 2 volumes, 12mo (171 x 105mm). (Without half titles, some staining to titles, occasional lighter spotting and staining.) Early 19th-century dark blue half calf, spines gilt (lightly rubbed). Provenance: James Tomkinson (armorial bookplate); old bookseller`s labels of J. Seacome, Chester. FIRST EDITION of this scarce anti-Jacobin novel. The characters include thinly-veiled portraits of radicals William Godwin, Thomas Holcroft and John Thelwall. "... his observations on the wild notions of modern philosophers not only appear to us, for the most part, extremely just, but are given with pointed neatness and effect. The stoical, metaphysical, and incoherent jargon, contained in a late publication on Political Justice [presumably Godwin`s "Enquiry Concerning Political Justice" (1793)], is exposed with humour and reprobated with just severity" (The Critical Review). (2)

DODD, William (1729-77). Thoughts in Prison: In Five Parts. Viz. The Imprisonment. The Retrospect. Publick Punishent. The Trial. Futurity ... To which are Added, His Last Prayer, Written in the Night before his Death: and Other Miscellaneous Pieces. London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1777. 8vo (205 x 130mm). One-page of publisher`s advertisements at the end (section excised from head of title without loss of letters, some spotting, browning and staining). Contemporary half calf (rebacked). Provenance: G. Anderson, Brixton, London (Old signature on rear pastedown and to one leaf). FIRST EDITION. "The following Work, as the dates of the respective Parts evince, was begun by its unhappy Author in his apartments at Newgate, on the evening of the day subsequent to his Trial and Conviction at Justice-hall: and was finished, amidst various necessary interruptions, in little more than the space of two months" (from the "Advertisement"). With James Montgomery`s Prison Amusements, and Other Trifles: Principally written during Nine Months of Confinement in the Castle of York. By Paul Positive (London, 1797, original paper-backed boards). (2)

[?]DUBOIS, Henry Leopold. The History of a French Dagger; An Anecdote of the Revolution. Translated from the French. London: Printed for the Author, 1828. 2 volumes, 12mo (195 x 115mm). (Occasional light spotting and staining.) Contemporary or [?]original paper-backed blue boards (spine of vol. I split from top to bottom, rubbed with slight loss). Provenance: The Arthur H. Clark Company, Cleveland, Ohio (very small bookseller`s label in corner of front pastedowns). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, although "British Fiction 1800-29 Database" states "No French original discovered" so the author`s claims that this is a translation may be spurious; indeed, there is a suspicion that the author`s name is a pseudonym and the writer is actually English. The author/translator is described as being "Late Surgeon of Cavalry in the Imperial Army." "The book struck me as depicting, in lively colours, such barbarous transactions as were unfortunately too common during the days of terror in Paris; and I found it interesting, from the continual hope the mind entertains of the final triumph of innocence and virtue" (from the Dedication). (2)

EDGEWORTH, Richard Lovell (1744-1817) & Maria EDGEWORTH (1768-1849). Essay on Irish Bulls. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1802. 8vo (176 x 117mm). Engraved illustration of a bull at the head of the first text leaf and of a bull being grabbed by the horns by a Herculean figure at the end (G3 repaired without loss, a few leaves with marginal wormtracks towards the end, some spotting and staining). Contemporary tree calf, rebacked some time ago (rubbed). FIRST EDITION of this spirited defence of the Irish against English stereotyping. Sadleir 788.

EDUCATION - Elizabeth HAMILTON ([?]1756-1816). Letters on Education [Vol. II:] Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education. Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell, 1801-02. 2 volumes, 8vo (188 x 115mm). One-page of publisher`s advertisements at the end of vol. II (occasional mainly light spotting and staining, without half titles). Contemporary half calf (quite heavily rubbed). Provenance: Philip Saltmarshe (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION, with variant title retained in the first volume. With 2 other works of related interest in 3 volumes, namely George Chapman`s A Treatise on Education. In Two Parts. With the Author`s Method of Instruction While he taught the School of Dumfries (London, 1790, 4th ed., modern calf-backed boards) and William Barrow`s An Essay on Education; in which are Particularly Considered the Merits and the Defects of the Discipline and Instruction in the Academies ... The Second Edition, corrected and enlarged (London, 1804, 2 vols., vol. II lacks all before title, modern half calf). The lot sold not subject to return. (5)

EGAN, Pierce (1772-1849). Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bog Logic, The Oxonian, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis. London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1821. Large 8vo (238 x 150mm). Half title, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, title vignette, 3 folding leaves of music, and 35 hand-coloured aquatint plates after I. R. & G. Cruikshank, illustrations, 4-pages of publisher`s advertisements at the end (some spotting and staining, mainly to text, the music leaves lightly browned). 19th-century calf gilt by J. Larkins, spine gilt in compartments with dark brown morocco lettering-pieces, top edges gilt, others uncut (rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Robinson, Backwell House (modern label). FIRST EDITION, first issue. Abbey Life 281; Cohn 262; Hardie p. 197-8; Tooley 196. With Real Life in London; or, the Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and his Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, through the Metropolis ... by an Amateur (London, 1821-22, hand-coloured aquatint plates, attractively bound in 19th-century half calf gilt). (3)

Essai Contre l`Abus du Pouvoir des Souverains, et Juste Idee du Gouvernement d` un Bon Prince. Suivi du Tocsin Contre le Despotisme du Souverain. Par M**, Avocat. "A Londres" [but Berlin and Leipzig: Voss and the Widow Merkus], 1776. [Bound with:] Lettres Politiques sur l` Etat Actuel de la France. Ecrites de la Hollande par M... a M... a Versailles a l` Occasion du Requisitoire de Mr. Seguier Avocat du Roi demandant la Suppression de Deux Brochures repandues depuis peu dans Paris. The Hague: [no publisher], 1775. 2 works bound in one volume, 8vo (197 x 122mm). (Without the half title to the first work, some light browning and staining.) Contemporary calf, spine gilt (quite heavily rubbed, joints split). FIRST EDITION. The author is unknown.

EZEKIEL. [Title in Greek, followed by:] Exekielis Tragici Judaicarum Historiarum Poetae, Eductio seu liberaratio Hebraeorum, Tragoedia sacra, Exodo respondens. Ex lib. IX. Eusebij Pamphl. de Praeparat. Euang. selecta, & plerisque in locis castigata. Paris: "E Typographia Steph. Preuosteau, invia aurigarum iuxta trium Crescentium," 1590. 2 parts in one volume, 8vo in 4s (170 x 110mm). Woodcut printer`s devices on the titles, printed in Greek and Latin, Aii of part 2 lacking but supplied in an elegant later manuscript. Contemporary panelled vellum (lightly stained). Provenance: early manuscript on front vellum endpapers; Nicholson, 1853 (signature); "A. C." (old initials); 18th-century bibliographical annotation on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION. Sold not subject to return.

FITZJOHN, Matilda. Joan!!! London: Printed for Hookham and Carpenter, 1796. 4 volumes, 12mo (176 x 105mm). Errata leaf for all 4 vols. at the front of vol. one (vol. III lacks all before title, occasional light spotting and staining, a few darker stains, including 2 to the title of vol. III, E6 and E7 detached in vol. III, a few others starting). Contemporary calf backed marbled boards (joints splitting, worn, later black morocco lettering-pieces, vol. IV with later front endpapers). Provenance: later pencil annotation at the end of each vol.; early pen trials on rear pastedowns of vols. II and III. FIRST EDITION. RARE. "The mystical meaning of the triple mark of interjection, annexed to the name in the title of this novel, we cannot decypher" (The Monthly Review). The author`s name is possibly a pseudonym.

FLORIAN, Jean Pierre Claris de (1755-94). Gonzalva of Cordova, or, Grenada Reconquered. Now First Translated from the French. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1793. 3 volumes, 12mo (172 x 105mm). Half titles (corner of final leaf of vol. III torn away, not affecting letters). Very attractively bound in contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with green morocco lettering-pieces (extremities very lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. The work was first published in Paris in 1791. (3)

FOX, Charles ([?]1740-1809). A Series of Poems, Containing the Plaints, Consolations, and Delights of Achmed Ardebeili, A Persian Exile. With Notes Historical and Explanatory. Bristol: Printed by Bulgin and Roser, 1797. 8vo (210 x 135mm). Title in English and Arabic, errata leaf, culs-de-lampe (occasional light spotting, a few leaves browned, pp. 233-240 misnumbered [as usual]). 19th-century red half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, uncut (rubbed, inner hinges reinforced). Provenance: "William Johnson, Presented by a Friend, 16th April, 1849, [illegible word or place name]" (inscription on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. The list of subscribers includes Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

GERRARD, John. Poems. London: Printed for the Author, 1769. 4to (268 x 213mm). (Title page possibly laid down onto the following leaf, occasional light spotting and staining, a few darker stains.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, some ink staining). Provenance: extensive French annotation dated 1803 to front blank leaf. The title page describes the author as "Curate of Withycombe in the Moor, Devon." The poems include "The Address to the Sun," "Petherton-Bridge, an Elegy," "An Epistle from an Unfortunate Gentleman to a Young Lady" and "An Epistle to Mr Cookesley, Surgeon, &c at Ashburton." FIRST EDITION of the author`s only known work. Sold not subject to return.

GODWIN, William (1756-1836). Mandeville. A Tale of the Seventeenth Century in England. Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. and Longman [etc], 1817. 3 volumes bound in one, 12mo (177 x 102mm). (Some spotting and light browning.) Early 19th-century half calf by Sotheran, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece (rubbed). Provenance: later pencil inscription on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION. Summers p.398. "I have never published any thing with the slightest purpose to take advantage of the caprice of the day, to approach the public on its weak side, or to pamper its frailties. What I have produced, was written merely in obedience to that spirit, unshackled and independent, whatever were its other qualities, that commanded me to take up my pen" (from the Preface).

[GOMBAUD, Antoine, Chevalier de Mere (1607-84)]. Maximes, Sentences, et Reflexions Morales et Politiques. Paris: Au Palais, chez Guillaume Cavelier, 1687. 8vo in 4s (158 x 90mm). Woodcut device on title, headpieces and initials (marginal tear to M2, occasional light spotting and staining). Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt (quite heavily rubbed with some damage to spine). Provenance: old signature or inscription on title scored through. FIRST EDITION. The author, a liberal political theorist, albeit one with a distrust of democracy, was also an amateur mathematician and is now chiefly remembered for his association with Pascal and Fermat, and for his contributions to probability theory. His reflexions, however, often expressed with devastating clarity, touch on a broad range of issues. "151. L`amour est la foible des jeunes gens, le vice des hommes plus avancez en age, & la honte des vieillards."

GRAY, Thomas (1716-71). Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1765. Folio (372 x 265mm). Half title, engraved frontispiece, illustration on title, 5 engraved plates, 12 engraved illustrations (light dappled browning throughout, occasional spotting). Contemporary speckled calf (rebacked, rubbed). Provenance: John Senhouse (modern label and pencil signature). The first edition was published in 1753. A pencil note at the front of this copy suggests, perhaps somewhat ambitiously, that this is a "Large Paper Copy." With a bound collection of etchings by S. F. Avery. (2)

GROSLEY, Pierre-Jean (1718-85). A Tour to London; or, New Observations on England and its Inhabitants ... Translated from the French by Thomas Nugent. London: printed for Lockyer Davis, 1772. 2 volumes, 8vo (208 x 130mm). (Some staining, a few short tears without loss.) Contemporary calf, spines with raised bands and red morocco lettering-pieces (rubbed, spines a little darkened, later endpapers). Provenance: Rev. Mr Spencer (label, and an early signature). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. The contents list of the first volume attests to the work`s variety: it includes chapters on Combats, The Poor, Wines, Their Antipathy to the French, Commerce and Merchants, The English Melancholy, its Causes, Effects, and Remedies, National Pride, how far Melancholy may be productive of it, Suicide, Madmen and Lunatics, Freethinkers [etc.,etc.].The work is additionally remarkable for containing the first recorded account of a sandwich. "A minister of state passed four and twenty hours at a public gaming-table, so absorpt in play, that, during the whole time, he had no subsistence but a bit of beef, between two slices of toasted bread, which he ate without ever quitting the game. This new dish grew highly in vogue, during my residence in London: it was called by the name of the minister, who invented it" (vol. one, p.149). (2)

HAMILTON, Elizabeth ([?]1756-1816). Hints Addressed to the Patrons and Directors of Schools; Principally intended to shew, that the Benefits Derived from the New Modes of Teaching May be Increased by a Partial Adoption of the Plan of Pestalozzi. To which are Subjoined Examples of Questions Calculated to Excite, and Exercise the Infant Mind. London: Printed for Longman (and others), 1815. 8vo (176 x 102mm). (Some spotting and staining, mainly to title and first few leaves.) Modern calf-backed marbled boards. With 2 others of related interest, namely Abstract of the Plan of the Saint George Hanover Square Day Schools of Instruction and Industry ... for the Reception of Poor Children Residing within the Parish, whose parents or friends have it not in their power to send them to any other school (London, 1807, wrappers) and Mary Martha Sherwood`s The Governess; or, the Little Female Academy ... Second Edition (Wellington, Salop, 1820, engraved frontispiece, modern calf-backed boards). (3)

[HANWAY, Jonas (1712-86)]. Thoughts on the Use and Advantages of Music, and Other Amusements Most in esteem in the polite world. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1765. 8vo (201-125mm). Engraved frontispiece (some spotting and light browning, a few small holes occasionally touching letters, many blank leaves interleaved after p.58). Modern calf-backed marbled boards, new endpapers. FIRST EDITION. With Charles Burney`s An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster-Abbey, and the Pantheon ... In Commemoration of Handel (London, 1785, 8 plates, contemporary half calf, FIRST EDITION). (2)