![Exploration and Surveys ([Lot of 2] Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains Vol. 1 & Vol. II),](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/36385/2862480/908-2012510171543_468x382.jpg)
Exploration and Surveys ([Lot of 2] Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains Vol. 1 & Vol. II), Irving, Philadelphia, 1836. 5.5 x 9”. (BW) This is the first edition, first state of this "classic account of the first American attempt at settlement of the Pacific Coast" (Howes). Irving`s history of John Jacob Astor`s attempt to bring American fur trade to the Pacific was based on revised transcripts of the journals of Robert Stuart , Wilson Price Hunt and Ramsay Crooks. Among these were " journals and letters narrating expeditions by sea, and journeys to and fro across the Rocky Mountains by routes before untraveled, together with documents illustrative of savage and colonial life on the borders of the Pacific." Included in the 2nd volume is the map Sketch of the routes of Hunt and Stuart. While there is not much detail, Wheat says, "for what it purports to be it is an excellent map." The title pages have a stamp of the "Philermenian Society" which was a Brown University Literary Society. First edition, with the copyright notice and "Henry W. Rees, Stereotyper" on the verso of the title-page of volume one. Volume 1 contains 285 pp. and volume 2 has 279 pp. Both volumes are bound in their original half leather with marbled paper boards. Gilt title on embossed spine. Ref: Howes I-81; Wheat (TMW) no.419. The map has some light foxing and minor extraneous creasing near the folds, as well as several archivally repaired fold separations and short tears. The text pages are lightly foxed and the covers are somewhat worn, but the books are still quite presentable. (B)
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![History Books ([Lot of 2] Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain Volume I and Vol. II), Humboldt, [1811]. 5.5 x 9”](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/36385/2862480/916-201251017168_468x382.jpg)
History Books ([Lot of 2] Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain Volume I and Vol. II), Humboldt, [1811]. 5.5 x 9”. (BW) Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt is one of the most important figures in the scientific discovery of the Americas. Humboldt traveled through the Spanish possessions in America from 1799-1804 under the patronage of the Spanish Crown and was granted access to the archives of the Spanish-American colonies. During his travels he made numerous scientific observations and accumulated data on the customs, behavior, intellect and social arrangements of the indigenous population as well as investigated geographic, geologic, political, commercial and agricultural aspects of the society. This two volume book, translated from French by John Black, comprises the first scientific description of the American Southwest with a wealth of information on California and Texas. This edition was issued without maps. 8vo., 221+377 pp. Full calf with gilt bands and red Moroccan title label on spine. Toning and foxing throughout the text. Covers and spine and somewhat worn and bumped. (B)
![Reference Books, Incunabula (The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle), Wilson, Amsterdam, [1978]. 10 x 13.8”. (BW) Detail](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/36385/2862480/921-2012510171627_468x382.jpg)
Reference Books, Incunabula (The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle), Wilson, Amsterdam, [1978]. 10 x 13.8”. (BW) Detailed examination of the making of this important early illustrated book taken from surviving page layouts, original contracts for the illustrations, contracts for printing, etc. It includes a history of the printer, Anton Koberger, and a list of known copies of the first Latin and German editions. The text of this study of the Chronicle`s production combines scholarship with wit, providing a fascinating view of the incunabula period. Introduction by Peter Zahn and published by Nico Israel, 253 pp., illustrated, including color plates. First edition, second printing. Hardbound in gray cloth, pictorial dust jacket. (+A)
[Titanic]. Lloyd`s Register of British and Foreign Shipping. United with the Underwriters` Registry for Iron Vessels in 1885, from 1st July 1912, to the 30th June 1913, vol. 1 - Steamers, Sailing Vessels, and Owners, published 1912, half-title and preliminary leaves sl. creased, three parts with supplement to the first part, some printing in red, abbreviations and table of equivalents pasted to front and rear pastedowns, some spotting and occ. soiling and age creasing, lacks conjugate leaf before half-title (blank?), orig. morocco gilt, wear to spine and extremities, joints cracked, thick 4to. This is the only edition of Lloyd`s Register to list RMS Titanic, giving tabular details of number in book, official number, code letters, steamer`s name, material, rig, &c., master (E.J. Smith), number of decks (`5 dks amidships, 7 dks in No. 1 hold, Elec. light Ref. Mchy. 6 dks in other holds, Sub. Sig. Wireless`), registered tonnage, particulars of classification, built date, by whom and where, owners, registered dimensions, deck erections &c., port of registry, flag, and engines. This copy also notes in black print capital letters adjacent to the name Titanic `(Struck iceberg and foundered 4, 12)`. The volume also lists RMS Carpathia with its Captain A.H. Rostron, rescuers of survivors from RMS Titanic. Rare. (1)
*Documents, Badges and a Silver Trophy Cup relating to Major R.J. Jones, Queen`s Westminster Volunteers, comprising a consecutive run of National Rifle Association Wimbledon Meeting books from 1882-1892 (excluding 1886), inscribed to the recipient, each edition with multiple adverts within, eight `Wace`s Rifle Score Register` booklets, published 1877 and 1882, each inscribed to the recipient and records of rifle practise and competitions, `Target Register with Notes & Tables` booklet, three `The Queen`s Westminster Volunteers L Company Regulation for Class and Company Shooting & Prize Drills` booklets (1883, 1894, 1896), `Annual Report Middlesex Rifle Association` (1899, 1900), `A Guide to the Queen`s Sixty, 8th Edition` booklet published 1883, `The Perfect All Range Rifle Score Register by Walter C. Luff, L.R.B.` booklet, a silver trophy cup engraved `Middlesex Rifle Association 1885 Meetings Held at Park. Prizes Won by Lieut R.T. Jones O.W.R.V.` with several prize inscriptions, by James Dixon & Sons, Sheffield 1884, 20cm high, 8 ounces, with glass dome and ebonised base, various documents relating to National Rifle Association evening luncheons / dinners (1925, 1929, 1932), a Queen`s Westminster Volunteers Officer`s silver, a cyclists` touring club silver membership certificate holder bicycle wheel badge, with original card box and instructions for wearing, and a note booklet inscribed to the recipient and titled `Cycling 1900` includes a descriptive record of all Major Jones`s rides up to December 1903, plus a booklet relating to the recipients son Mr Eric Arthur Jones titled `Parker`s Rifle-Shot`s Register, Shooting Instructions Wind Charts Etc`, inscribed `E.A.O. Jones, O.T.C. Uppingham May 13th 11`, a `Uppingham School, O.T.C, Shooting Fixtures 1911` card, and a silver print photograph of E.A.O. Jones in uniform inscribed and dated `May 1915`, and a hard back book by Major J.Q. Henriques, T.D. titled `The War History of the First Battalion. Queen`s Westminster Rifles, 1914-1918`. Major Robert J. Jones served with the Queen`s Westminster Volunteers throughout the 1880s / 90s, he was also a lifelong member of the National Rifle Association, included in the lot is a list of game which he shot on Lieutenant Colonel Shoolbred`s estate (he was the owner of James Shoolbred & Co Limited, a furniture manufacturer and repository located at Tottenham House, Tottenham Court Road). Jones had five sons who were all killed during the Great War, Second Lieutenant Eric .A.O. Jones fell on the Somme 18.9.1916 he is described by his commanding officer Shoolbred in `The War History of the First Battalion Queen`s Westminster Rifles, 1914-1918` `he was one of those happy natures with an infinite gift of seeing the bright side of everything. Not even dirt and other unpleasantness of the Somme checked his overflowing happiness he leaves the Regiment another example of duty most gallantly carried out` (p123). See lots 885/886. ()
*The Royal Air Force 75th Anniversary edition First Day Covers, in an album containing thirty hand signed F.D.C.s, together with Royal Air Force honours, decorations and medals series, 18 flown covers in an album containing numerous second world war fighter ace and crew signatures, and a signed print of Sir Arthur Harris Bt., G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C., Air Officer Commanding in Chief, Bomber Command 1942-45, limited edition 245/950, signed by the artist Stan Baldock M.B.E., D.F.M., and a larger signed print signed by Sir Arthur Harris (4)
*Wootton (Frank). `First of the Few`, a limited edition print after the original by the artist depicting Spitfire MkI No. K9787, depicting First Flight flown by Jeffrey Quill chief test-pilot, signed by Quill in pencil to margin, signed and numbered 154/850 by the artist and two dignitaries representing Vickers Aviation (1)
Danu, born 1952 Panthere Powder-coated heavy gauge steel Signed and numbered 1 from an edition of 80 108cm.; 42½ins high by 269cm.; 106ins long Danu was born in 1952. He lives and works in Vence, on the French Riviera. He held his first exhibition at the Centre Culturele in Cagnes sur Mer when he was 18 years old and since has exhibed in Cannes, Paris, Deauville, Brusssels, Monaco and Venice. In 1979 Danu was accepted as a member of |Artiste Independent| and |Artustes Francais|. From the outset Danu used several ways to reproduce the form and dimensions of the female body. He worked with stretched wires, later with engraved and painted plexi glass. Now the silhouette is cut in iron plates and the three dimensional effect appears by the carefully placed openings in the plate.
Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012) THE TÁIN COLLECTION Aubusson tapestry; Atelier René Duché (each no. 4 from an edition of 9) signed with initials in the weave on reverse by maître-lissier, René Duché and numbered lower right; with certificate of authenticity sewn on reverse, signed, numbered, titled and dated by le Brocquy and Duché 72.50 by 110in. (184.15 by 279.40cm) Provenance: Agnew`s, London; Where purchased by the current owner Exhibited: `Louis le Brocquy Aubusson Tapestries`, Agnew`s, London, 3-29 May 2001, The Táin Tapestries Louis le Brocquy was living in France with his young family when he received a life-changing invitation, in December 1966. Publisher Liam Miller wanted him to collaborate with Thomas Kinsella on a new translation of Ireland`s oldest saga. Le Brocquy penned an enthusiastic affirmative that Christmas Eve and spent much of the next three years visualising An Táin Bó Cúailgne. In September 1969, Dolmen Press published it as The Táin. The Táin was born of some eighty stories about the Ulaidh, a prehistoric people who lived in the north and north-western regions of what is now called Ireland. Part epic, part soap opera, the tales were vivid, vicious, inconsistent and often rather rude. Oral versions survived for long enough to be collected by scribes, whose fragmentary manuscripts are now in Trinity College and the Royal Irish Academy. Translators and writers such as Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats had retold some of the Cúchulainn tales - and Joyce`s Finnegans Wake drew on its meandering style - but Thomas Kinsella`s Táin was the first widely-accessible version, especially when Oxford University Press` 1970 paperback followed the de luxe and limited editions produced by Dolmen Press. The Táin marked a unique cultural moment, for Ireland and the world. The State had just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising and was driving ahead with Seán Lemass` Second Programme for Economic Expansion. By 1969 when it was published, Northern Ireland was in conflict, and global events such as the Prague Spring, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, as well as wars in Vietnam, Angola and elsewhere, underlined its themes of invasion and carnage. Meanwhile, The Beatles sang "All You Need is Love." Its impact was instant. Although characters like Cúchulainn and Ferdia, Medb and Aillil, were local, the collaborators translated them into a crisply contemporaneous style that resonated through the cultural hierarchy. It engaged lovers of art, language, music and Celtic studies, as well as popular culture. The Táin became an Irish Iliad, with Cúchulainn as a Superhero reincarnating to a new age of rock, cartoons and animation. The images le Brocquy called `shadows thrown by the text` became so iconic that it is almost impossible now to imagine The Táin differently. Yet no one had visualised the full saga previously and no artist from Ireland had engaged so thoroughly with pieces of writing in so collaborative a way. Le Brocquy made hundreds of drawings, many of which appear in the de luxe and limited editions, with a handful printed in the paperback and a precious twenty in these tapestries. Communication was difficult in those pre-digital days because he was in France and Miller was in Dublin, so that many key design decisions relied on sending letters through the post. Le Brocquy`s innovative, daring approach cast the saga as a virtual alphabet composed of spontaneous, inky letters. This shows immediately in Army Massing, where marks cascade in rivulets that resemble both chain mail and hand-writing, and in the H-shaped Cúchulainn confronting Ferdia. Different ages and cultures whisper through the images - and through these twenty tapestries made during 1998-2000, when le Brocquy collaborated with maître-lissier René Duché, whose firm had recently been awarded the honour Meilleur Ouvrier de France. Cuchulainn`s Warp Spasm, for example, speaks both of calligraphic marks from Sun Tzu`s The Art of War and Yves Klein`s bodily-marked Anthropometries, as well as cave paintings traced by prehistoric peoples. The translation into tapestry, via le Brocquy`s Táin lithographs, crested on the momentum from oral to written traditions, from drama to poetry and from visual culture to music. Duché`s subtly-textured cottons and wools freed le Brocquy`s black-on-white marks into a textured, sensual material that illuminates the sense of a blot or stain without definite edges, which is what he wanted. Here, the statuesque shapes let le Brocquy grow the book`s relatively modest scale into a life-affirming series of interconnected images that speak to each other like letters in a phrase or sentence. They belong together. The tapestries were last seen at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2003, when they were acquired under the Heritage Tax Scheme. It is profoundly moving to see them together in these weeks after the artist`s passing on 25 April 2012. Le Brocquy`s hand reaches out through them. Medb Ruane April 2012 (£202,510-£243,010 approx)
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) and others CUALA PRESS, A BROADSIDE, 1908-1912 hand-coloured letterpress; each an edition of 300 11.50 by 7.75in. (29.21 by 19.69cm) Cuala Press, A Broadside. Churchtown & Dublin, 1908-1912. First years nos. 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9; second year nos. 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9; Third year nos. 3, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12; Forth year nos. 1 to 12. Each an edition 1 of 300, colour illustrated. Thirty-one issues. Also included are 17 illustrated sheets printed for Flying Fame 15 of the 17 include poems by Ralph Hodgson, 1 by Richard Honeywood and Lovat Fraser, plain and coloured (7), 1st and 2nd impressions (some duplication). (42 items). (£2,430-£3,240 approx)
Thomas, Henry Sullivan. The Rod in India. Being Hints how to Obtain Sport with Remarks on the Natural History of Fish, Otters, Etc. And Illustrations of Fish and Tackle. Mangalore, published by C. Stolz. 1873. First edition. 4 lithographic plates and numerous wood cut illustrations in the text. Old ownership inscription on the title page and the visiting card of "Captain R. J. Toke. The Welch Regiment" tipped onto the front free endpaper. Contemporary half red calf binding, rubbed, with some minor dampstaining to the binding and a few leaves at the beginning and end of the book.
AMENDMENT: Please be aware the first book in this lot titled `A REPORT CONTAINING AN ESSAY…` has been withdrawn and the estimate has been revised to £80-120: A REPORT CONTAINING AN ESSAY FOR THE AMENDMENT OF THE SILVER COINS, 8vo, London: 1695; bound with: THE REGULATING SILVER COIN, MADE PRACTICABLE AND EASY, TO THE GOVERNMENT AND SUBJECT, London: 1696; bound with: FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING RAISING THE VALUE OF MONEY, second edition, London: 1695, contemporary calf (worn, lacking front board) (some corner creasing, the last work heavily browned throughout). -- Somner, William. A TREATISE OF THE ROMAN PORTS AND FORTS IN KENT, 8vo, frontispiece portrait, contemporary calf (worn, front board detached), Oxford: 1693 (small section missing from corner of frontispiece, paint spots on first leaf of Somner`s text [i5], owner`s name on title, browning, some soiling). With 2 other works in 3 volumes.
1946 Tourtel Mary "Rupert and the Wonderful Boots": London Sapson Low Marston &Co Ltd First edition. Extra Large format. 14 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches, coloured pictorial wraps. Cover picture is of Rupert in the Wonderful Boots flying over a field, with horses and ploughboy. Slight creasing to upper corners, else a bright crisp copy. Previous owners name neatly in panel
Edward Fuchs Illustrated Sittengefchichte: Albert Langen, Munchen, 1912. Linen/velvet. Book Condition, First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft purple velvet cloth hardcover, patterned endpapers, gilt tiles to spine and front board. Loose binding. Text is in german. with 367 illustrations and 33 plates (367 illustrationen und 33 beilagen)
Froma Cannonica or the History of Canon Frome and The Hopton Family: Privately printed for Author by Eyre and Spottiswoode 1902 first edition Presentation copy from the author, 8 Pedigrees, some folding and double page, 12 family portraits, many full plate illustrations of Houses, some original photographs. All branches of the family in England covered 186 pages (fading to covers)
Hume, David Über die menschliche Natur aus dem Englishcen nebst kritischen Versuchen zur Beurtheilung dieses Werks von Ludwig Heinrich Jakob.. Erster Band. Ueber den menschlichen Verstand [-Zweiter Band. Ueber die Leidenschaften]. Halle bei Hemmerde und Schwertschke, 1790[-1]. First edition in German, 2 volumes in one, 8vo, contemporary half calf, corners worn, spine labels lettered in gilt, a few cracks Provenance: Note: First edition in German of the first two books, "Of the Understanding" and "Of the Passions", which make up A Treatise of Human Nature. The third book, "Of Morals", appeared in German in 1792. The "Kritische Versuche" produced by the translator, Heinrich Jakob, professor of philosophy at Halle, take up over 300 pages. Jakob was a follower of Kant and argues (1) that scepticism is one of the most important philosophical views, (2) that Hume`s Treatise is the most perfect expression of scepticism, and (3) that Kant`s Critique of Pure Reason has given us the means to disprove Hume and therefore all of scepticism. Adickes 364; Jessop, p.14; Price & Price: Humaniora, p. 98; not in Chuo.
![Scotland - Macpherson, James Fingal, an ancient epic poem. London, 1762. First edition, vignette title, [bound with] Temora..](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10121/2859435/45-2012414145054_468x382.jpg)
Scotland - Macpherson, James Fingal, an ancient epic poem. London, 1762. First edition, vignette title, [bound with] Temora... London, 1763. 4to, vignette title, contemporary calf gilt, rubbed, hinges cracking; Hall, Rev. James Travels in Scotland by an unusual route... London, 1807. 8vo, lacking folding map, engraved plates, original boards, worn, boards loose; Giles, J. Drawings of Aberdeenshire castles. Aberdeen: Spalding Club, 1936. 8vo, frontispiece, original green cloth gilt; Pennant, Thomas Antiquities & scenery of the north of Scotland. London, 1780. 8vo, engraved title & plates, contemporary calf gilt, worn at edges, boards loose; Laing, Henry Descriptive catalogue of impressions from ancient Scottish seals. Edinburgh, 1850. 4to, frontispiece, presentation copy from the author, ink inscription on title, contemporary half calf gilt, rubbed at edges, foxing; and 9 others (15)
Smith, Adam An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. London: A. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1776. First edition, volume 1 only, 4to, contemporary calf, occasional spotting or slight soiling, a few short marginal tears, slight seal wax dribble to 3L1-2, mathematical calculation on p. 55, preliminaries slightly dust-soiled, joints splitting, worn, corners worn, stain to lower cover
Ballantyne, Robert Michael The Coral Island, a tale of the Pacific Ocean. London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1858. First edition, first issue, colour title and frontispiece, 6 colour plates, tipped in envelope addressed by author to his mother, original green cloth gilt, rubbed, patches of wear to edges and corners, inner hinge split, some foxing Provenance: Note: Quayle 12a
Milne, A.A. Winnie the Pooh. 1926. First edition, 8vo, ownership inscription on half-title, original cloth; Idem When we were very young. 1925. 10th edition, ownership inscription on front endpaper, original cloth, spine slightly rubbed; Idem The House at Pooh Corner. 1928. First edition, ownership inscription on half-title, original cloth, spine faded; Taylor, J. & A. Little Ann and other poems. F. Warne & Co., [1883]. 8vo, original half cloth, boards slightly soiled; Dostoyevsky, F. Poor folk, a novel. London, 1894. 8vo, yellow cloth by Aubrey Beardsley, address label to endpaper, slightly soiled; Wodehouse, P.G. Carry on Jeeves. 1925. 8vo, original green cloth, binding slightly marked; Wodehouse, P.G. Piccadilly Jim. London: H. Jenkins, [n.d.]. 12th printing, original green cloth, slightly marked (7)
Service, Robert W. The spell of the Yukon and other verses. New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1907. First American edition, 12mo, presentation inscription "To the brother of A.K. [Archie Kerr Bruce] with every kind of thanks for the charming picture you have given us of our house, R.W. Service, Brittany, April. 10 [?], with 2 small sepia photographs of (?) Peter Ross Bruce and R.W. Service tipped onto front endpaper, soft calf, endpapers loose, binding faded Provenance: In the early 1900s Archie Kerr Bruce was a journalist working in Paris and a friend of Willie Russell Flint, Robert Service and John Marin, the American painter/impressionist. Peter Ross Bruce, Archie`s brother, was a ship designer and worked for Scotts on the Clyde. He was also an artist in his own right and exhibited occasionally at the RSA around about 1910. He is recorded as being one of the Kircudbright artists which include E A Taylor and his wife Jessie M King. The latter appears to have been a sort of Honorary godmother to the father of the vendor. The father of the vendor was at school at Kircubright Academy until his grandfather, who was the Procurator Fiscal, was posted to Perth where he remained until his death in 1941.
Wells, H.G. The time machine. An Invention. London: Heinemann, 1895. First edition, 8vo, half-title with advertisements on verso, 16-page publisher`s catalogue at end, original oatmeal cloth, lettering and sphinx device in purple, later slipcase, light foxing to endpapers, some fading to backstrip, inner hinges cracking Provenance: Note: [Wells 4]
Wells. H.G. A collection of 20 volumes by H.G. Wells, to include The first men in the moon. London, 1901. First edition, 8vo, half-title, 12 plates, original blue cloth gilt, some slight fading to backstrip; [Idem] The wheels of chance. London, 1896. First edition, 8vo, half-title, original red cloth gilt, fading to backstrip, browning to endpapers; [Idem] Tales of space and time. London, 1900. First edition, 8vo, half-title, original cloth gilt, backstrip browned, foxing to endpapers; and 17 others (20)
Burns, Robert Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect. Kilmarnock: John Wilson, 1786. First edition, 8vo, 204 x 117mm., late nineteenth century green morocco gilt by F. Bedford, spine gilt, gilt edges Provenance: Note: The single most famous volume in Scotland`s impressive literary heritage is without question the first edition of Robert Burns`s Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect. It almost never saw the light of day. Burns`s farming activities at Mossgiel farm were not profitable and although he wished to marry Jean Armour, who was pregnant by him, the marriage was opposed by her father, so Burns made plans to emigrate. It was only the suggestion by a local lawyer, Gavin Hamilton, that he could finance his voyage to Jamaica by publishing some of his poems, that led to him approaching a nearby printer, John Wilson, in Kilmarnock. On 31 July 1786 John Wilson, published the volume of poetry by Burns under the unassuming title Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish dialect. It sold for three shillings and the entire print-run of 612 copies sold out within a month, justifying Burns`s belief in his abilities and in the merit of his poems. The volume contained much of his best writing, including The Twa Dogs; Address to the Deil; Halloween; The Cotter`s Saturday Night; To a Mouse; Epitaph for James Smith and To a Mountain Daisy, many of which had been written at Mossgiel farm. The success of the work was immediate. Hugely rare, this slim volume has now become a high spot in the world of books, listed in the The Grolier Club`s "One hundred books famous in English literature". An informal census by Allan Young of Florida lists 74 copies surviving copies of which 42 are in universities, 22 in libraries, 8 in museums and a mere12 in private hands. Egerer 1 Provenance: Roderick Terry, noted American bibliophile, armorial bookplate.
Burns, Robert Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect. Edinburgh: printed for the author, and sold by W. Creech, 1787. Second edition, "The Edinburgh edition", 8vo, pp. xlviii, [9]-368, half-title, engraved frontispiece portrait, with misprints "Boxburgh" (for "Roxburgh") and "Stinking" (for "Skinking"), list of subscribers, nineteenth century red morocco gilt by Riviere, t.e.g., others uncut, a little very light foxing, a very tall copy in fine state Provenance: Note: Egerer 2. "That the "Skinking" edition was the first printed has been deduced from the fact that it shows closer agreement with [Egerer] 1 (1786, Kilmarnock edition)". When John Wilson of Kilmarnock refused to print a second edition unless he received payment of £27, Burns decided to visit Edinburgh and find a printer/publisher himself. Probably through Sir John Whitefoord of Blairquhan Burns was introduced to the publisher William Creech and the publication of the Edinburgh edition was announced in an advertisement that appeared in the Edinburgh Advertiser on 17 April 1787. The work was priced at five shillings. 3000 copies were printed of which nearly 2,900 were subscribed for by 1,300 subscribers.
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Burns, Robert Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect. Edinburgh: printed for the author, 1787. Second [first Edinburgh] edition, 8vo, lacking half title, frontispiece portrait, subscriber`s list, first issue with "skinking" on p. 263 and "Boxburgh" for "Roxburgh" in list of subscribers, contemporary tree calf, red label, rubbed at edge, foxing, dustmarking, extensive repairs throughout including lower half of pp.249 (extensive text loss), pp.314-318 closed tear repair (no text loss), outer edge and upper inner corner of title (no text loss)
Lawrence, T.E. Autograph letter signed ("T.E. Shaw") to Mr. Bain, dated 21 May 1929, addressed RAF Cattewater, Plymouth, 4to, 1 page, asking for a selection of "Phoenix Library books of Chatto & Windus" and other books ("...I also want a first English edition (if it can be found easily) of War Birds , published about 1927 by Hamilton. It was by Liut. Grider, but appeared anonymously ... I want it for the illustrations` sake..."), small fold-tear with tape repair
Cobbett, William The woodlands, or a treatise... London: W. Cobbett, 1825. First edition, 8vo, 4pp. advertisements at end, illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, some light spotting, head of spine worn; Tull, Jethro The horse-hoeing husbandry, edited by William Cobbett. London: W. Cobbett, 1829. 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, slightly spotted, small nick to head of spine (2)
Darwin, Charles The descent of man. London: J. Murray, 1871. First edition, 2nd issue without errata on verso of volume 2 or Postscript leaf, 2 volumes, 8vo, 16pp.advertisements at end of both volumes, original cloth, some spotting, rubbed, one hinge broken; Idem The origin of species. London: J. Murray, 1878. Sixth edition, (twentieth thousand), original cloth, hinges weak, front endpaper and half-title loose, worn, a few small inkstains to cover (3)
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall A bibliographical antiquarian and picturesque tour in the Northern counties of England... London, 1838. 8vo, 2 volumes, plates, modern half morocco gilt. t.e.g, interior clean; [Idem] A metrical history of England.... London, 1813. First edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, half titles, original boards with paper labels, interiors clean, backstrips rubbed and cracking; Jamieson, R. Popular ballads and songs. Edinburgh, 1806. 8vo, 2 volumes, original boards, rebacked, later endpapers, some light spotting (6)
Johnston, Sir Harry George Grenfell and the Congo. London: Hutchison & Co., 1908. First edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, portrait frontispiece to each volume, original brown cloth gilt, lacking dustwrappers, some rubbing to lower boards, interiors clean, bookplates; Hawker, George The life of George Grenfell. London, 1909. Second edition, 8vo, original cloth gilt, foxing; Smith, Rev. Edwin The Ila-speaking of Northern Rhodesia. London: Macmillan and Co., 1920. First edition, 8vo, frontispieces, folding map, original green cloth gilt; Hobley, C.W. Ethnology of A-Kamba and other East African tribes. Cambridge, 1910. 8vo, original red cloth gilt, rubbed, library stamp to title, later endpapers; Kumm,. H.K. Khont-hon-nofer. London, 1910. 8vo, colour frontispiece, plates, original cloth gilt, rubbed; Froude, J.A. Two lectures on South Africa. London, 1880. 8vo, original cloth gilt, uncut, bookplate; and 10 others on Africa (18) Provenance: Provenance: Society Writers to His Majesty`s Signet, bookplates in first two volumes.
Robertson, William The history of America. London: printed for W. Strahan, 1777. First edition, 4to, 2 volumes, folding plate, lacking maps, modern half calf gilt, backstrips stained; Yule, Capt. Henry A narrative of the mission... to the court of Ava in 1855. London, 1858. 4to, 3 maps, 27 plates, lacking large folding map in pocket, modern half red morocco gilt, later endpapers (2)
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