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Lot 130
Pekin to Paris by Barzini (Luigi). An Account of Prince Borghese's Journey across two Continents in a Motor-Car. First English Edition, published by E. Grant Richards, London, 645pp, 1907. A Presentation Copy from the Translator, Miss L. P. de Castelvecchio to the Hon. W. Warren Vernon, with an ink inscription in the top corner of the half-title and with an additional message on the reverse of the translator's business card, tipped in at the same point. A thick octavo volume, the navy blue cloth covers with gilt lettering and a four-colour pictorial panel on the front cover being rubbed and marked, with some wear to the spine and the joint between the photographic frontispiece and title page having been repaired with tape. A little dusty internally and with some page browning and scattered foxing throughout, but generally sound otherwise. Top edge gilt, front edge of the pages uncut, 645 pages, numerous black-and-white photographic illustrations, and a coloured folding map at the rear. Introduction by Prince Borghese. Together with a very good copy of the First German Edition of the book, Peking - Paris im Automobil - Eine Wettfahrt durch Asien and Europa in sechzig Tagen, published in Leipzig in 1908 by F. A. Brockhaus See also lot 315. (2)
Lot 132
The Automobile edited by Paul Hasluck, fourth and final English edition (first being 1902), published by Cassell 1909. Three volumes in red simulated crocodile, gilt-blocked. Volume 1 with a dissected foldout frontispiece, 480pp, Volume 2, 451pp, Volume 3, 412pp, 6 1/4 x 8 3/4-inches. The subtitle, 'A Practical Treatise on the Construction of Modern Motor Cars, Steam, Petrol, Electric and Petrol-Electric' sums up the contents. Profusely illustrated, detailed line drawings a feature, fair condition. The text sequence of the Hasluck series is confusing, with an extended version of the list of 'petrol pleasure cars available in Great Britain' now forming Vol. I, with its own index. The main body of text is now Vols. II and III, with the index for both in Volume III. Pagination runs continuously through volumes II and III with Vol. I independently paginated. (3)
Lot 193
The History of Brooklands Motor Course by William Boddy, 1957 first single volume edition with its DJ and a poor working copy of the same publication without DJ. Also, Brooklands Giants by the same author; Uphill Racers - The History of Speed Hill Climbing by Chris Mason; 432pp, 1990, with a DJ; South Harting Hill Climb by G Orme-Bannister, 263pp, 2006. The Racing Zborowskis by David Wilson, 185pp, 2002; The Great Savannah Races by J. K. Quattlebaum, 132pp, 1983 edition; La Course de C“te de Gaillon 1899-1928, a square-backed soft cover book and other titles covering competition motoring, all in very good order. (a quantity)
Lot 196
Ten Years of Motors & Motor Racing by Charles Jarrott, 297pp, 1906 1st ed, with its original much worn cloth cover. The Motor Marine & Aircraft Red Book 1920, full of specifications for motorcycles, marine engines, scooters, motor-cars, aircraft and the like, much advertising, lists of associations, government departments, line drawings etcetera, circa 800pp. Also, Men Women and 10,000 Kites by Gabriel Voisin, 1963 first English edition, without DJ; The Motor by John Armstrong, 374pp, 1912 with good photographs and line drawings. The Complete Motorist and The Joy of the Road, both by A B Filson Young, 352pp, 1905 edition, with 138 illustrations, some fold-outs; Towards the Sunshine - A guide for South Bound Daimler Cars by Owen John, 1919, and other good and interesting titles. (a quantity)
Lot 202
Charles Rolls of Rolls-Royce by Lawson (Bruce), 1st ed, 2013, hardback with DJ; Clement Bayard, Pionnier Industriel by Hartmann (Gerard), 1st ed, 2013, hardback in DJ (French text), Granville Bradshaw - a flawed genius? By Jones (Barry M.), 2008, paperback, Harker (Ronald W.), The Engines Were Rolls-Royce: An informal history of that famous company, First U.S. Edition, 1979, hardback in slightly worn dust jacket, plus two paperbacks in the Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust Series: Taylor (Douglas R.), Boxkite to Jet - the remarkable career of Frank B. Halford, and Clarke (Tom C.), Royce and the Vibration Damper, presentation copy signed by the author, and one in the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation Series: Harvey-Bailey (Alec), Rolls-Royce: The Sons of Martha. All volumes in good condition. (7)
Lot 228
The First Hundred Road Motors by R. W. Kidner. 58pp, 1950 published by Oakwood Press. A rare 8vo in the marketplace as it appears to have been privately printed. Together with: Horseless Carriage Days by Hiram Maxim (the younger), 175pp, 1937 1st ed, with good images of the early days of American motoring, also a 1962 paperback edition. Petrol Motors and Motor Cars by Hyler White, 197pp, 1909, the most useful element of the book being the folded 'Statistical Data of Petrol Engines 1907'. The Amateur Motorist by Max Pemberton, 319pp plus index and advertisements, together with eight other early titles. All 8vo, in fair condition. (12)
Lot 350
Motoring in England, France and Spain. A good selection of octavo hardback titles, comprising: Motor Days in England by John M. Dillon, First U.S. Edition, 1908; The Road by Hilaire Belloc, special edition by The British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Co. Ltd., 1923; The Motor Routes of England: Southern Section (1909), Western Section (1911), and France Part I -To the Chateaux of Touraine, The Pyrenees and the Rhone Valley (1910), all by Gordon Home and all 1st eds; A Motor Tour Through France and England by Elizabeth Yardley, two copies, First Impressions, U.K. and U.S. Editions; The South-Bound Car by Owen Llewellyn and L. Ravenhill, 1st ed,1907; The Lightning Conductor by C. N. and A. M. Williamson, Fourth Edition, 1904, Motor Roads to London, published by the Mitchell Motor Works & Garage, Third Edition, 1912 (including coloured folding map); and Motoring in the North of England by Charles G. Harper, paperback, circa 1911, with folding maps and numerous period advertisements. Some volumes a little worn, but mostly sound and clean copies. (11)
Lot 351
Motoring in Europe. A good selection of octavo hardback volumes, comprising: Through the Alps to the Apennines by P. G. Konody, 1st ed, 1911(93 illustrations from photographs and pencil sketches by E. A. Rickards and colour frontispiece by Robert Little); Motoring Abroad by Frank Presbrey, First U. S. Edition,1908; Seeing Europe by Automobile by Lee Meriwether, First U. S. Edition, 1911; The Automobilist Abroad by Francis Miltoun, 1st ed, 1907; Abroad in a Runabout by A. J. and F. H. Hand, First U. S. Edition, 1911 (all of the foregoing with pictorial cloth covers); A Motor-Flight Through France by Edith Wharton, First U. S. Edition, 1908; A Motor Car Divorce by Louise Closser Hale, 1st ed, 1906; Three Men in a Motor Car by Winthrop E. Scarritt, First U. S. Edition, 1906 (some wear to base of spine); Europe from a Motor Car by Russell Richardson, First U. S. Edition, 1914; and The Escape from Monotony by L. H. Lovegrove, paperback, Number 154 of a Limited Edition First Reprint of 512 copies. Generally sound and clean copies. (10)
Lot 371
La Belle Epoque et Les Pionniers de L'Automobile. A horizontal format (26 x 34cm) volume, the 'Deuxieme Collection' in the 'Encyclopedie Calberson de la Locomotion', with dust jacket over board covers, a Preface in French by Andre de Fouquieres and further text by the Editor, Thibault de Champrosay, 'En Souvenir de nos Premieres Voitures', and holding sixteen delightful coloured lithographic prints by Guy Sabran showing French automobiles (Panhard Levassor, Peugeot, Delahaye, Renault, etcetera) dating between 1878 and 1911 in city, town and country settings. The edge of the outer margin of the last plate is slightly feathered, otherwise the volume is in very good condition, held in a slightly worn, marked and rubbed card slipcase. First Edition, Paris, 1955. (1)
Lot 404
A Record of Grand Prix and Voiturette Racing. Six hardback quarto volumes in this series compiled by Paul Sheldon assisted by Duncan Rabagliati (and others). The volumes here, all uniformy bound in black cloth with silver lettering to the front cover and spines, comprise: Vol. 1 (1900-1925); Vol. 2 (1926-1931); Vol. 4 (1937-1949); Vol. 5 (1950-1953); Vol. 6 (1954-1959); and Vol. 9 (1970-1973). All are in very good condition and First Editions, Volume 9 with a certificate on the front paste-down end-paper, signed by Sheldon and Rabagliati, recording the volume as Number 296 of a limited edition of 500 copies. Content varies between about 300 and 400 pp. (6)
Lot 411
Touring Superleggera: Giant Among Classic Italian Coachbuilders. A very good hardback copy in dust jacket of the First English Edition, 1983, of a superbly produced monograph by Carlo Felice Bianchi Anderloni and Angelo Tito Anselmi. Square quarto format (26.5 x 26.5cm), blue cloth with silver lettering to the spine, 352 pages, very well-illustrated, published by Edizioni di Autocritica. (1)
Lot 412
Mercedes-Benz - Grand Prix Racing 1934-1955. A very good hardback copy in transparent dust jacket and cardboard slipcase of the First White Mouse Edition, 1983, of a superbly produced work by George C. Monkhouse, Edited by Cyril Posthumus and with a Foreword by Dipl. Ing. Rudolf Uhlenhaut. Horizontal format (27 x 33.5cm), silvered covers with black lettering/decoration, very well-illustrated, 208 pages. (1)
Lot 413
The History of English Racing Automobiles Ltd., by Weguelin. A very good hardback copy of the First White Mouse Edition, 1980, of the standard work. Quarter-bound with a yellow cloth spine with black titling and blue cloth covers with the 'ERA' insignia in raised circles on the front cover, the volume coming with a pictorial cloth-backed card slipcase. Horizontal format (27 x 33cm), 288 pages, over 500 illustrations, including some 75 in colour. (1)
Lot 415
Trieste-Opicina - Sessant' anni di epopee, by A. De Rota (Photographer): Two horizontal format (25 x 28cm) hardback volumes in dust jackets, plus a similar format paperback (Rankings 1911-1971 and Entry List 1926-1971), the three held in a sturdy slipcase, of the First Edition, 2003, of a major work celebrating the history of the Trieste-Opicina Motor Car Races and especially the photography of Adriano De Rota. The hardbacks have red cloth covers with white lettering to the spines, map end-papers and a total of 496 pages; the paperback volume has 96 pages. The first volume is numbered 0193 on the title page. Condition is excellent throughout. (1)
Lot 456
Anon.- Richmond; or, Scenes in the Life of a Bow Street Officer, drawn up from his private memoranda 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, occasional light spotting, publisher's boards, [Not in Sadleir or Wolff], 12mo, 1827. The first collection of detective stories in English, ascribed to both Thomas Skinner Surr and Thomas Gaspey.
Lot 474
Cruikshank (George).- Combe (William, after) The Life of Napoleon, A Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos, FIRST EDITION, hand-coloured aquatint pictorial title and 29 plates by George Cruikshank, light uniform browning, mostly to text, some offsetting, contemporary calf, [Abbey, Life 356; Tooley 151], 8vo , 1815.
Lot 465A
James Logan Mack: The Borderline - Solway Firth To The North Sea, first edition 1924, in blue cloth covers, Rintoul and Baxter: A Vertebrate Fauna Of Forth, first edition 1935, in green cloth cover; together with A.H. Evans: A Fauna Of The Tweed Area, Including The Farne Islands, in green cloth covers. (3)
Lot 113
Tidcombe (Marianne). Women Bookbinders 1880-1920, Oak Knoll Press/British Library, 1996, colour and monochrome plates and illustrations, original green cloth-backed patterned boards, with paper label to upper cover, glassine protective wrapper, large 8vo, VG, together with Tomlinson (William, and Masters, Richard), Bookcloth 1823-1980, 1st edition, 1996, numerous cloth samples at rear of volume, some illustrations, original maroon cloth gilt, large 8vo, with slipcase, plus Middleton (Bernard C.), A History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique, 2nd edition, 1978, & A Bookbinder's Miscellany, Oxford, 2015, colour and monochrome illustrations to each, both original cloth gilt, the first title in dust wrapper, 8vo, and others on the history of bookbinding, bookbinding techniques, etc., a large run of modern book auction catalogues, including mainly Dominic Winter & Bonhams, circa 2000-2016, Sotheby's Macclesfield Library, Parts 5, 8 & 9, Maggs Bros. Bookbinding in the British Isles, Catalogue 1212, 2 volumes, 1996, etc. (approx. 100)
Lot 124
Barrow (John). An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa in the Years 1797 and 1798..., 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1801-04, half-title and large folding engraved map frontispiece to first volume, hand-coloured in outline, folding aquatint frontispiece and 8 folding engraved maps and plans to volume 2, some maps with offsetting and/or spotting, titles lightly browned and with contemporary large ownership name of Thomas Kitson to upper margins, contemporary half calf over marbled boards with red morocco spine labels, rubbed, 4to (248 x 210 mm) An important account of the country, together with opinions of the inhabitants. Abbey Travel 320; Mendelssohn I p.140. (2)
Lot 136
Calvert (John). Vazeeri Rupi, the Silver Country of the Vazeers, in Kulu: Its Beauties, Antiquities, and Silver Mines. Including a Trip over the Lower Himalayah Range and Glaciers, 1st edition, 1873, tinted lithographed frontispiece, additional title and 34 lithographed plates, including 25 hand-coloured, a few detached, lacking the folding map, 4 page publisher's list at end (first leaf torn with loss to lower portion), scattered light spotting, original decorative cloth gilt, joints splitting, some wear at spine ends, 8vo Yakushi C20. (1)
![[Chimmo, William]. Euryalus: Tales of the Sea, A Few Leaves from the Diary of a Midshipman, 1st edition, J.D. Potter, 1860,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/368dbb5d-6cf7-48af-9f15-a6a500f8b80f/8badbe4f-154b-41bd-ffba-7f5791cac892/468x382.jpg)
Lot 137
[Chimmo, William]. Euryalus: Tales of the Sea, A Few Leaves from the Diary of a Midshipman, 1st edition, J.D. Potter, 1860, 14 lithographed plates (mostly coloured or tinted), some spotting throughout, browning to first and last few leaves, author's signature to title and signed presentation inscription to front free endpaper, 'To my friend and for a short time mess mate Dr Smith (of Weymouth) in remembrance of our short but pleasant trip to the Suez Canal in May and June 1870, William Chimmo', additionally inscribed beneath, 'Cyril Chimmo Branson from Cousin Mary Chimmo, January 1944' and also to title verso, 'Given to me by Dr Lawrie about the year 1920', title heavily browned with see-through from endpaper inscription offset in white and some ink bleed from inscription to title verso also visible, lacks Introduction (pp. i-iv), disbound without covers, 8vo A rare work, with much material on Alaska, the Northwest and California, as well as Hawaii and China. Covering the expedition in the Herald under Captain Kellet during the years 1845-51, including voyages in search of Sir John Franklin's lost expedition. (1)
![[Chimmo, William]. Midshipman's diary: A few Notes Extracted from the Cockpit Journal of a Man-of-War; and Dedicated to Sir J](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/368dbb5d-6cf7-48af-9f15-a6a500f8b80f/1dea8302-cbd8-406a-a412-73820e677f83/468x382.jpg)
Lot 138
[Chimmo, William]. Midshipman's diary: A few Notes Extracted from the Cockpit Journal of a Man-of-War; and Dedicated to Sir James Matheson, Bart, MP, by the Author, published J.D. Potter, 1862, 14 lithographed plates (mostly coloured or tinted), some heavy spotting, occasional light browning and dust-soiling throughout, final leaf split at upper margin, all edges gilt, contemporary morocco gilt, rubbed and some wear, covers (and final leaf) detached, loss at head and foot of spine, 8vo This is a second, and scarce, edition of the above-named work with a new title-page and additional errata listed to those in the first edition. (1)
Lot 141
Colden (Cadwallader). The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada, which are the Barrier between the English and French in that part of the World. With Particular Accounts of their Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws and Government; their Several Battles and Treaties with the European Nations; their Wars with other Indians; and a True Account of the Present State of our Trade with them... 2nd edition, 1750, folding engraved map (with small crossed-through annotation at top margin), advertisement leaf at front, a little minor spotting, armorial bookplate of James Dickson of Ednam, shelf label, contemporary calf, Society of Writers to the Signet oval gilt stamps to covers, upper cover detached, a little rubbed, 8vo Howes C560; Sabin 14274. Second English edition of 'the first history of the Iroquois Confederation' (Howes), first published in New York in 1727, with considerable additions. (1)
Lot 154
Hedin (Sven). Trans-Himalaya, Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet, 3 volumes, mixed editions, 1910-13, numerous colour and black and white plates, four large folding maps (three with handling tears, two of which slightly encroach into printed area), light spotting throughout especially to maps, margins, and endpapers, top edge gilt, original red cloth gilt, a few light marks and extremities slightly rubbed, fading to spines and two adjacent joint areas, but overall good copies, 8vo See Neate H68. First two volumes are reprints of the 1909 1st edition, volume three is the 1913 1st edition. (3)
Lot 207
Williams (Captain John). An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Bengal Native Infantry, from its First Formation in 1757, to 1796, when the Present Regulations took place. Together with a detail of the services on which the Several Battalions have been employed during that period, 1st edition, 1817, four hand-coloured aquatint plates, some offsetting and scattered spotting, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, 8vo (1)
Lot 213
Brownell (Henry ). North and South America Illustrated, from its First Discovery to the Present Administration, 2 volumes, Hartford, 1862, numerous steel engraved plates, including many views, portraits, etc., tissue-guard to each, all edges gilt, original gilt-decorated cloth, a little rubbed and spines lightly faded, 8vo, together with Herndon (William Lewis & Gibbon, Lardner), Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, made under direction of the Navy Department, 3 volumes, including Atlas of Maps (Part I only), Washington, 1853, tinted lithographed plates, one or two maps with some fraying to folds, original blindstamped plum cloth gilt, rubbed and some wear to extremities, 8vo, plus Victor (Mrs Frances Fuller), The River of the West. Life and Adventure in the Rocky Mountains and Oregon..., Hartford, R.W. Bliss, 1870, engraved portrait frontispiece, wood engraved illustrations, occasional spotting, original cloth gilt, rubbed and spine faded, minor fraying to extremities, 8vo, and other similar 19th century American travel and history, including Elbert H. Smith, Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak; or, Black Hawk and Scenes in the West, New York, published by the author, 1849, John W. De Forest, History of the Indians of Connecticut from the Earliest Known Period to 1850, Hartford, 1851, T.W.M. Marshall, Christian Missions, Their Agents, and Their Results, 2 volumes, 4th edition, New York, circa 1890, Charles Brownell, The Indian Races of North and South America, New York, 1858, etc., all bound in original cloth, mostly gilt decorated or lettered, generally rubbed and with some wear, mostly 8vo (50)
Lot 237
Schoolcraft (Henry R.). Notes on the Iroquois; or Contributions to American History, Antquities, and General Ethnology, Albany, 1847, two colour lithographed plates, illustrations in text, publisher's list at end, scattered spotting, endpapers toned, original blindstamped cloth gilt, head of spine chipped, small splits to upper joint, 8vo Sabin 77865. Expanded edition, first published in New York in 1846. (1)
Lot 277
Senex (John). The Roads through England delineated or Ogilby's Survey, revised, improved and reduced to a size portable for the pocket..., published John Bowles and Son, 1762, calligraphic title, eight pages of index, text and tables, engraved map of England & Wales and 101 (complete) uncoloured engraved strip road maps printed back to back, slight offsetting, endpapers toned, front endpaper with closed marginal tears, early 20th century ink ownership stamp to verso of upper cover, contemporary limp sheep, frayed at extremities, oblong 8vo First published in 1719 this appears to be the same as the 1757 edition - Chubb CXL - but is not recorded as a separate edition in Chubb. (1)
Lot 305
Orme (Edward, publisher). Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, from Drawings by Messrs. Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch, 1st edition, 1814, 97 hand-coloured aquatint plates only (of 110, lacking Bird Catching from Above, Laplanders Hunting, Russians Fishing in the Winter, plus the whole Supplement of New South Wales), first plate detached and a little frayed, some light spotting and soiling, contemporary calf, rebacked, upper joint splitting, edges rubbed, 4to Abbey Travel 2; Ferguson 577. Sold with all faults not subject to return. (1)
Lot 306
Peel (C.V.A.). Wild Sport in the Outer Hebrides, 1901, 35 black and white illustrations including frontispiece with tissue guards, bookplate to front pastedown, some minor toning, original gilt-decorated red cloth, spine slightly faded and rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, together with Chapman (Abel), First Lessons in the Art of Wildfowling, 1896, 40 black and white illustrations including folding frontispiece, bookplate to front pastedowns, some minor spotting, contemporary brown half morocco, spine lightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, plus Millais (John Guille), Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches..., 2nd edition, 1894, numerous black and white illustrations including detached portrait frontispiece, internal front hinges cracked, original decorated brown cloth, boards slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus 12 related titles including Fur Feather and Fin Series, 9 volumes, 1893-1905, all original cloth, 8vo (15)
![[Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation., 3rd edition, 1661], engraved illustrations in th](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/368dbb5d-6cf7-48af-9f15-a6a500f8b80f/a101fe43-4555-4f53-e7e4-03fd9ce3315f/468x382.jpg)
Lot 316
[Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation., 3rd edition, 1661], engraved illustrations in the text, lacks title and leaf O2, bound with [Cotton, Charles], The Compleat Angler... Part II, 1st edition, [1676], licence leaf, lacks C4-5, bound with, [Venables, Robert], The Experienc'd Angler: or Angling Improv'd, 1st edition, 1662, letterpress title within typographical border (bound at front of volume, fore-margin cropped), engraved illustrations in the text, lacks additional engraved title and 3 leaves at end (final leaf H5), bound with [Nobbes, Robert], The Compleat Troller, or, the Art of Trolling, 1st edition, 1682, 2 woodcut illustrations, 2 corners torn away, four works bound in one, some side- and headlines shaved, some marks to text, 'Isaac Walton, Cotton and Nobbs Angling. First edition' printed card exhibition label, with circular manuscript number "A913" pasted inside upper cover beside a manuscript note and cutting, 19th-century half calf, rubbed, small 8vo (138 x 83mm) Sold not subject to return. Wing W663, C6381, V183, N1193. (1)
Lot 405
Wales. Speed (John), The Countie of Radnor described and the Shyre townes sittuatione, published Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, [1676], uncoloured engraved map, inset town plan of Radnor, large strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, marginal closed repaired tears, 385 x 515 mm, English text on verso, together with Breknoke both Shyre and Towne described, published John Sudbury & George Humble, circa 1627, uncoloured engraved map, inset town plan of Brecknock, some marginal staining, 385 x 515 mm, English text on verso, with Cardigan Shyre described with the due forme of the Shiretown as it was first surveyed, published Henry Overton, circa 1710, hand coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Cardigan, large strapwork cartouche, torn with slight loss, some marginal repairs, earlier water staining has caused the watercolour to run, 385 x 510 mm, no text on verso, plus Caernarvon both Shyre and Shire-towne with the ancient Citie Bangor described, 1st edition, published John Sudbury and George Humble, circa 1611, hand coloured engraved map, inset town plans of Caernarvon and Bangor, heavily creased, central fold frayed with loss, strengthened on verso, torn with loss to two corners, replaced in facsimile, crudely repaired on verso, 385 x 510 mm, English text on verso, together with Cardigan Shyre described with the due forme of the Shiretown as it was surveyed, published Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, circa 1676, engraved map with early outline colouring, inset town plan of Cardigan, old folds, slight overall toning, some worming affecting image, 385 x 505 mm, no text on verso (5)
Lot 484
Ampere (Andre-Marie). Theorie des phenomenes electro-dynamiques, uniquement deduite de l'experience, 1st separate edition, Paris, November 1826, second or corrected state, with pages 85-92 correctly paginated and no date on folio 12/1r, errata leaf and two folding engraved plates at rear, some spotting throughout, light old dampstain to lower outer corner, ink library stamp to title, following text leaf, errata leaf and Plate 1, armorial bookplate of Alexander Henry Davis to front pastedown, contemporary tree sheep with gilt-decorated spine and red title label, heavily rubbed and some edge wear, joints slightly split at foot, 4to (260 x 216mm) 'Having established a noumenal foundation for electrodynamic phenomena, Ampere's next steps were to discover the relationships between the phenomena and to devise a theory from which these relationships could be mathematically deduced. This double task was undertaken in the years 1821-1825, and his success was reported in his greatest work... In this work, the Principia of electrodynamics, Ampere first described the laws of action of electric currents..' (DSB). Ampere presented the work to the Academic des Sciences in 1823, and it was printed, under the title "Memoire sur la theorie mathematique des phenomenes Electro-dynamiques", on pp. 177-387 of Vol. VI of the Memoires de l'Academie des Sciences. 'As Vol. VI was the volume for 1823 this date appears on the first page of each signature as an identifying mark for the printer; the whole volume, however, was not published until late in 1827... In the meantime the author's separate was prepared; the last twelve pages were reset and extended to eighteen; the work was repaginated and re-signed; and the '1823' was removed from lower margins (except on sig. 21 where it remained on all copies and on sig. 12 where, together with the original periodical pagination, it remained in a few copies, but was corrected during printing). The separate was issued in November 1826; thus although printed second it was published first' (Honeyman catalogue 1:85). Grolier/Horblit 3a; Norman 50. (1)
Lot 485
Aristotle. Politicorum, sive de optimo statu reipub. libri octo, ex castigationibus Petri Victorii emendatiores facti, Frankfurt: Andreas Vechel, 1577, printer's woodcut device to title, Greek text, various later inscriptions to title, recto and verso, some underscoring and detailed marginalia in Greek and Latin (shaved at foremargins), largely confined to first 3 signatures of text, old dampstain to title and a2, old ink inscriptions and doodlings to final leaf (errata/blank) with lower outer corner torn away not affecting printed text, bound with a Latin edition of the same work Aristotelis de Reip. bene administrandae ratione, libri octo...., translated Denys Lambin, Paris: Jean Bienne, 1567, printer's woodcut device to title with hand colouring, old ink inscriptions and deletions to title, numerous ink marginalia and underscorings in Latin in a later hand throughout signatures A-Q, marginalia shaved at foremargins, a little scattered spotting or dust-soiling, later panelled calf with neat modern morocco gilt reback with title label, slight wear to edges and corners, 4to Adams A1912 & A1918. (1)
Lot 486
Ayrer (Jakob). Historischer Brocessus iuris, in welchem sich Lucifer uber Jesum... , Frankfurt, 1600, title printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device, old ink notes and inscriptions to pastedowns and title, some soiling and browning throughout, occasional light damp staining and a little worm-tracing to index leaves and register at rear, lacks final blank, contemporary blind-stamped vellum, some soiling and wear with loss to corners and at foot of spine, folio The second edition of this work first published in 1597. Not in Adams or BM. (1)
Lot 487
[Barrough (Philip). The Method of Phisick: containing the Causes, Signes, and Cures of Inward Diseases in Mans Body from the Head to the Foote. Whereunto is added, the forme and rule of making remedies and medicines, which our physitions commonly use at this day, with the proportion, quantitie, and names of each medicine, third edition corrected and augmented, with two other bookes newly added by the author, Richard Field, 1596], lacking first three leaves (title-page and dedicatory epistle), supplied in facsimile from the 1st edition, Table present at rear (final leaf soiled), some mis-numbering of leaves, browned, first few leaves slightly worn at edges, some minor worming to gutter towards rear of volume, A6 and A7 with adhesive tape repair at gutter, S7 with closed tear in top margin (affecting first six lines of text), Cc7 with lower edge torn away (with some loss to final three lines of text), modern amateur cloth binding, 8vo STC 1510. Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (1)
Lot 491
Bernoulli (Johann). Opera omnia, 4 volumes, Lausanne & Geneva: Marci-Michaelis Bousquet, 1742, half-title to volume 1, first title in red and black, engraved portraits of Bernoulli and Frederick III of Prussia to volume 1, 91 numbered folding engraved plates, amateur marginal paper repairs to titles of volumes 2 and 3 and foremargins of leaf *1 (volume 1), A2 (volume 2), A3 (volume 4), a very few letters affected, foremargin to A3 trimmed away and Aa misgathered in volume 3, a few scattered old ink marginalia in Latin, lacks half-titles or initial blanks to volumes 2-4, library stamps to titles (rectos and versos), to final leaf and top edge of each volume, some old spotting and occasional light browning, dampstaining to upper margins of volume 3 throughout, contemporary calf, gilt-decorated spines, joints weak and upper covers to volumes 1 & 3 near detached, small tears to head and foot of spines with small loss at head of volumes 2 and 3, 4to (245 x 195mm) First collected edition of the works of one of the important founders of calculus. Honeyman 293; Norman 217. (4)
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Lot 495
Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, conteining the Olde Testament and the Newe: of that translation authorised to be read in churches, Imprinted at London: by Christopher Barker, 1584], lacking all titles, printed in double column black letter text (61 lines to full column), Apocrypha present (lacking title), woodcut of royal arms at end of Job, lacking prelims. & incomplete at rear, lacking all after first leaf of I John, some close-trimming, numerous leaves mostly at rear of volume torn with loss and many with crude repairs, soiling & dampstaining thoughout, contemporary calf with brass corner pieces and bosses (three corner pieces lacking), old reback with 'The Bishop's Bible, 1568' in gilt to spine, lacking clasps, worn, folio, (Herbert 185, Bishops' version), together with Certaine Sermons or Homilies Appoynted to be read in Churches. In the time of the late Queene Elizabeth..., London: John Norton, for Joyce Norton, and Richard Whitaker, 1635, title within decorative woodcut device (slight cropped at fore-edge), black letter text, colophon dated 1633, occasional spotting, 18th century panelled calf, joints split and some wear, folio, plus an incomplete 1615 folio edition of Common Prayer, lacking title and few other leaves (also without Psalms), 20th century quarter calf, small folio Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (3)
Lot 499
Blackstone (William). Commentaries on the Laws of England, 4 volumes, mixed editions (volume 1 2nd edition, volume 2 3rd edition, volumes 3 & 4 1st editions), Oxford, 1766-69, engraved Table of Consanguinity and Table of Dissents, occasional light spotting and offsetting, armorial bookplates of Lord Grey de Wilton to front pastedowns, recent antique-style half calf with red morocco gilt spine labels and raised bands, 4to A handsome set. PMM 212 (first edition); Rothschild 407. (4)
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