Charles IV (1316-1378). Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia. Bulla aurea, 2nd ed., Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1477, 22 (of 26) leaves including the penultimate and pre-penultimate blank leaves, but lacking ff.11, 18, 20 and the final blank, two hand-col. dec. initials (one finished with gold leaf), text printed in black letter, other captial spaces left blank, 19th c. half calf, spine renewed, slim folio. Bookplate of Gerhard Jensen. The Golden Bull issued by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV in 1356 was very important in German constitutional history. It crystallized the practice of imperial elections, giving the empire a constitution which fixed the number and identity of electors and established majority rule. It also denied the supremacy of the papacy. The Golden Bull also contains provisions regarding the national peace, grants of municipal citizenship to rural residents etc. The first edition of this work was published in Nuremberg in 1474. Hain 4076, BMC II 414, Goff C206. (1)
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Hardy (Thomas). The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid. A Novel, New York, Harper’s Franklin Square Library, Harper & Brothers, June 29, 1883 [drop-title], 28pp., incl. 6pp. pubs. ads. at rear, four full-page b & w illusts., paper stock browned and brittle, with first few leaves chipped at edges, and first leaf detached, prelim. blank facing titled inscribed by the author ‘Uncorrected by the author. Thomas Hardy. May 14:1916’, marbled endpapers, front pastedown with bookplate of Clement K. Shorter, front free endpaper with mounted postcard to Clement Shorter inscribed in the author’s hand ‘With best wishes. T.H.’, t.e.g., early 20th c. turquoise half crushed morocco, rubbed, marbled sides browned and with some marks, slim 4to. A very early edition of this - in Hardy’s own words - “short hastily written novel”. It constituted his first contribution to ‘The Graphic’ in England, appearing as the Summer Number for 1883, as well as simultaneously (in seven instalments) in ‘Harper’s Weekly’ in America. Knowing tha.t the pirate publishers would be quick to copy it, Harpers published this version, constituting the entire piece, as a volume of Harper’s ‘Franklin Square Library’ at the end of June - four days after the Graphic appearance, and when only one of the seven American instalments had come out. It wasn’t published again in the UK until it was included in ‘A Changed Man’ in 1913. This copy belonged to Hardy’s friend, the journalist and literary critic Clement K. Shorter. (1)
Holinshed (Raphael). The First and Second Volumes of Chronicles: comprising 1. The Description and Historie of England, 2. The Description and Historie of Ireland, 3. The Description and Historie of Scotland, first collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others, now newlie augmented and continued (with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie) to the yeare 1586, by John Hooker alias Vowell Gent. and others, 2 vols. (of 3) in one, [1587], main title within woodcut border, sl. chipped and soiled, separate titles with woodcut borders to ‘The Irish Historie’, ‘The Description of Scotland’, and ‘The Historie of Scotland’, England, Ireland and Scotland with separate paginations, black letter double column text with some woodcut initials, lacks ‘The Historie of England’ title, ‘The Second Volume of Chronicles’ title, plus blank leaf at front of vol. 1 and end of vol. 2, in vol. 2 2Q3-4 are cancelled by a leaf paginated 421/424, 2R3-4 are cancelled by a leaf paginated 438/431 and 2S2-5 are cancelled by two leaves 443/444 and 445/450, a little spotting and soiling with light old marginal water staining to first few leaves, later reversed calf, worn and joints cracked, folio (350 x 215mm) STC 13569 (with vol. 3: ‘The Third Volume of Chronicles ...’). This second edition is most famously the one used as a key source for the plays of William Shakespeare. Due to the politically sensitive nature of a number of passages in this present edition Elizabeth I ordered the Archbishop of Canterbury to recall work with cancelled pages to be found in volumes 2 and 3. These cancelled leaves were reprinted three times in the 18th century, long before Wikileaks could get there. (1)
Ruggles (Thomas). The History of the Poor: their Rights, Duties, and the Laws Respecting them: in a Series of Letters, a new edition corrected, and continued to the present time, 1797, errata leaf present (bound before p.1), occ. minor scattered spotting, library bookplate to upper pastedown, edges untrimmed, hinges cracked, late 19th c. qtr. sheep, library classification number at head & foot of spine, slight wear to spine and extrems., 4to. First published in 1793. ESTC T097448 & Kress B.3496. (1)
Beethoven (Ludwig van). Missa composita, et Serenissimo ac Eminentissimo Domino Domino Rudolpho Joanni Caesareo Principi et Archiduci Austriae ... profundissima cum veneratione dedicata a Ludovico van Beethoven. Opus 123, 1st ed., Mainz, Paris, & Antwerp, Schott, 1827, b&w litho. title, with neat agent’s ink stamp for R. Cocks & Co., Hanover Square at foot, 2 pp. printed subscribers list for Opus 123-125, small engraved leaf entitled Anzeige 299 pp. of engraved music (numbered 2-299, with recto of first leaf blank), plate number 2346 stamped at foot of each page, a.e.g., contemp. half dark green morocco gilt, rubbed and scuffed, with some marks to covers, folio (sheet size 330 x 255mm) Kinsky-Halm 364. The first edition of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis in D major with the coat of arms of Archduke Rudolph of Austria on the title page. Ownership signature of T. W. Erle to front pastedown. (1)
Cotes (Roger). Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Lectures, published with Notes by his successor Robert Smith LL.B., Master of Mechanicks to His Majesty, 1st ed., 1738, five folding engraved plates at rear, 4 pp. pubs. ads. at end, light waterstain to first and last few leaves, contemp. panelled calf, some wear, with joints partly cracked, 8vo. The English Mathematician Roger Cotes (1682-1716) was appointed Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge in 1706 and published the second edition of Principia in 1713. His early death was a great loss to English science, and Newton observed ‘If Mr Cotes had lived, we should have known something’. (1)
Gray (Henry). Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical, 1st ed., 1858, numerous illustrations by H.V. Carter, occasional annotation, lacking advert. leaves at end, first three leaves repaired, a few leaves with illustrations excised, previous owner signatures, hinges cracking, contemporary cloth, a little rubbed and faded, 8vo. Garrison & Morton 418: “Gray’s textbook of anatomy remains today a standard work on the subject in the English-speaking world. The 37th edition in 1989; the first American edition was published at Philadelphia, 1859”. (1)
Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per Insitionem; Theoricam Ordinariam, et Anatomen in Gymnasio Bononiensi Publice Profitentis..., 2 parts in one, 1st ed., 2nd issue, Venice: Gasparem Bindonum, 1597, addn. eng. title, letterpress title printed in red & black with woodcut printer’s device (ink library stamp to fore-edge margin), twenty-two full-page woodcut illusts., woodcut dec. initials, worm trails to leaves 2G4-3A3 (12 leaves inc. 2 illustrated), library ink stamp to margins of leaves 2H6, 3C5 & final leaf of text (c4), contemp. annotation to front free endpaper, contemp. vellum, hole at foot of spine, covers detached and lacks ties, folio. This volume is the first edition, second issue, with the license to print, dated October 9, 1596, printed on the verso of the title, and with the registration date April 29, 1597. The first book concerning the subject of plastic surgery, including illustrations of the instruments and methods used. Mortimer 488 & Garrison-Morton 5734. (1)
![Caesar (Julius). Caii Julii Caesaris opera omnia, [ed. Henry Homer], 2 vols., printed by M. Ritchie & J. Sammells, sold b](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2804525/488-201012413175_468x382.jpg)
Caesar (Julius). Caii Julii Caesaris opera omnia, [ed. Henry Homer], 2 vols., printed by M. Ritchie & J. Sammells, sold by T. Payne, 1790, eng. port. frontis. to first vol., four double-page eng. maps, contemp. eng. bookplate of the Rt. Hon. Wilmot Earl of Lisburne to front pastedown of each vol., and 20th c. woodcut bookplate of Ellic Howe to front endpaper of each vol., a.e.g., contemp. red full morocco gilt, a few marks, and spines somewhat discol., large 8vo. Large paper copy, finely printed using the Typis Jacksonianis of Joseph Jackson. The work was edited by the eminent classical scholar Henry Sacheverall Homer (1719-1791). According to Dibdin ‘This edition which is very beautifully printed, and of which there are some sumptuous copies on large paper, is deserving of a place in the student’s library, from its extreme correctness’. (2)
Tory (Geoffroy). L’Art & science de la vraye proportion des Lettres Attiques, ou Antiques, autrement dictes, Romaines, selon le corps & visaige humain, avec l’instruction & maniere de faire chiffres & lettres pour bagues d’or, pour tapisserie, vitres & painctures ..., Paris, Vivant Gaultherot, 1549, numerous woodcut illusts., and examples of typefaces, some light soiling to title, colophon leaf at end, with damp stain to lower portion, final few leaves with very slight loss to extreme top edge, with minor loss to blank margin only (possibly rodent damage), later bookplate of Richard Shute, with inscription from Mrs. Shute to Professor York Powell dated 1887 to front pastedown, later calf, rubbed and a little wear to extrems., with hand-stitched protective cloth covering, small 8vo. Mortimer 526, Cicognara 362 & Adams T837 for the 1529 first edition. This is the second edition in 8vo of the famous ‘Champfleury’, one of the most important Renaissance treatises on letter forms. (1)
Packer (Charles). Paris Furniture by the Master Ebenistes, 1st ed., Newport, Ceramic Book Company, 1956, b&w plts., t.e.g., orig. cloth, 4to, together with [Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby], A New System of Domestic Cookery; Formed Upon Principles of Economy, and Adapted to the Use of Private Families, new ed., corrected, 1807, nine eng. plts., frontis. provided in facsimile, some staining and dust soiling etc., first & last few leaves slightly frayed to edges, 20th c. marbled boards with printed title label to spine, small 8vo (Cagle 971. this is the 3rd edition of the work), with Perdix Press. The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer in the original text from Caxton’s First Edition, trans. Nevill Coghill, Salisbury, Perdix Press, 1984, t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt in d.j., large 8vo, limited ed. of 210 copies, signed by the publishers (this copy unnumbered), plus Black Library. Liber Necris, The Book of Death in the Old World, pub. Black Library, 2006, colour and b&w illusts., orig. black leather, lettered in red, with relief emblem of a skull to upper cover, 4to, limited ed. of 300 copies, this copy unnumbered, and other miscellaneous books, many in modern cloth bindings (including a few bound in leather), reference works, including John A. Collard, A Maritime History of Rye, 1978, Sue Hopson, Newbury, A Photographic Record 1850-1935, pub. Countryside Books, 1983, etc. (3 cartons)
Dovaston (John F.M.). Poems, Legendary, Incidental, and Humorous, Printed and Republished By and For W. Morris, Shrewsbury, 23rd April, 1825, half-title, vign. title and woodcut vign. on final leaf by T. Bewick, uncut, first few leaves detached, orig. boards, worn on spine and covers detached, some dust soiling, 8vo, together with a large collection of 19th c. poetry and literature, mostly small-format, including Sharpe’s Edition of the British Poets, in orig. boards, Bell’s British Theatre (bindings perished), and many others (4 shelves)
DA VINCI, Leonardo (1452-1519) A Treatise of Painting...translated from the original Italian, first English edition, engraved portrait frontpiece, 35 engraved plates (4 folding), published by J. Senex and W. Taylor, London, 1721, Period paneled brown calf, text block split into two, pages 83-94 detached, bookplate, covers and spine rubbed and worn, 8vo.
Marshall. Epigrammatum, engraved title, contemporary calf, gilt spine, upper cover with coat of arms incorporating ?3 scallops, front paste-down with attractive trade label of Green of Bristol, 1701 § Horace. Poemata, title with early inscription of Richard Lucins and his motto "Mea Portio Christus", a rather messy copy in contemporary calf, worn, covers stamped with device of a hand holding a 3 flowered lily, Hanover, 1610 § Juvenal and Persius Satyrae, bound with an edition of Horace, both works imperfect, Maurice Johnson`s copy with his name in red ink on the first title, and probably bound for him in calf, now worn, Paris, 1549 § Buchanan (G.) and others. Respublica, contemporary red morocco, gilt, with crescent in corners of covers and on spine, gilt edge, rather badly worn, Leiden, Elzevier, 1627; and 3 others, similar, sold not subject to return (7)
Kirkton (James) The Secret and True History of the Church of Scotland, etched frontispiece, binder`s cloth, Edinburgh, 1817 § Murray (John) A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Germany, second edition, folding map, original cloth, faded, 1840 § Craig (J.D.) Real Pictures of Clerical Life in Ireland, original cloth, worn, 1875 § Maugham (W. Somerset) On a Chinese Screen, first edition, original cloth, gilt, 1922; and others, miscellaneous, v.s. (c.60)
Thackeray (W. M.) A History of Pendennis, 2 vol., first edition, illustrations, contemporary half calf, edges rubbed, 1850 § Dickens (Charles) The Chimes, original cloth, 1845; The Battle of Life, original cloth, a bit worn, 1846 § Sprot (George) The Gowrie Conspiracy, limited to 60 copies, this apparently a proof with blank leaves of art paper instead of plates, old cloth, scuffed, Roxburghe Club, presented by Andrew Lang, 1902 § Lang (Andrew) Robert F. Murray, inscribed to Margaret Murray from her father, cloth scuffed, 1894; and others, similar, sold not subject to return, v.s. (c.80)
Estienne (Robert) Dictionarium proprioru nominum virorum, mulierum, populoru, idolorum…, first edition, title with woodcut printer`s device and ink names, short tear to a7, mostly marginal, but affecting a few letters of text recto and verso, some spotting, a few light stains, later reversed calf, worn, but holding firm, [Renouard, Estienne, 51; Schreiber 65], 4to, Paris, Robert Estienne, 1541. *** The first edition of Robert Estienne`s dictionary of proper names, which he had omitted from his Latin thesaurus. It is noteable for its geographical information of the contemporary world, with which Estienne had been brought in touch during the course of his business affairs.
Estienne (Charles) Praedium Rusticum, first edition, title with woodcut printer`s device, occasional early ink marginalia, occasional water-staining to lower margins, 18th century mottled calf, spine in compartments and richly gilt, slightly rubbed, [Adams S1740; Renouard, Estienne, 106:5; Schreiber 134; Bitting p.146; Simon, BB, 223; Vicaire 344], 8vo, Paris, Charles Estienne, 1554. *** "The most complete account of gardening and agriculture in the sixteenth century. There is a long section on vineyards and different species of vines, reprinted from the 1537 edition of Charles Estienne`s Vinetum" (Simon). This "collected" edition also includes much from Estienne`s De nutrimentis, 1550. Provenance: St. Benedict`s Abbey, Fort Augustus (bookplate to front papstedown).
Slavery.- Popma (Titus) De Operis Servorum Liber, first edition, title with woodcut printer`s device, 18th century ink ownership inscription `Joseph von Hassberg` to front fre endpaper, tear to upper title, causing loss of 1 letter to author`s name, water-stained, later marbled wrappers, spine ends worn, 8vo, [Antwerp], ex officina Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1608. *** Rare.
Bartholinus (Thomas) De Unicornu observationes nova , edited by Olaus Worm, first edition, engraved printer`s device on title, engraved illustrations, small paper flaw to margin of L7, modern brown buckram, [Wellcome II. p107], 8vo, Padua, Typis Cribellianis, 1645. *** This work reflects the author`s interest in the medicinal value of animal teeth.
![C[alvi] (F[rancois)] D[e]) Histoire Générale des Larons, 3 parts in 1, first collected edition, some light browning and water](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1574/2803994/62-20101122125010_468x382.jpg)
C[alvi] (F[rancois)] D[e]) Histoire Générale des Larons, 3 parts in 1, first collected edition, some light browning and water-staining, contemporary calf, spine gilt, joints and extremities worn, upper cover a little stained, 8vo, Lyon, 1664. *** Scarce work on French robbers, thieves, fraudsters and low-lives. Each part originally appeared separately. Provenance: Eric Dingwall with his characteristic pencil signature on front endpaper (sale Bloomsbury Book Auctions 12 March 1987, lot 366).
![[Taisnier (Jean)] La Science Curieuse, ou Traité de la Chyromance, first edition, 89 (of 90) engraved plates, water-stained,](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1574/2803994/63-20101122125013_468x382.jpg)
Leti (Gregorio) Le Nepotisme de Rome, 2 parts in 1, woodcut printer`s device to title, attractive dark blue crushed morocco by Hardy-Mesnil, spine in compartments and richly gilt, covers with triple gilt filet borders, upper joint starting, but holding firm, g.e., [Willems 1823], [Leiden], [Hackius], 1669 § Sallustius Crispus (Gaius) C.Sallustius Crispus Cum Veterum Historicum Fragmentis, first Elzevier edition (with Medusa tail-piece at p.216 and `Index rerum memorabilium`), fine engraved pictorial title, woodcut portrait of the author, some light browning and soiling, contemporary red morocco, gilt, some water-staining, lower corner of upper cover a little worn, rubbed, g.e., [Willems 412], Leiden, ex officina Elzeviriana, 1634; and a Pliny (Willems 506), 12mo (3)
Canals.- De Froideur (Louis) Lettre a Monsieur Barrillon Damoncourt… contenant la Relation & la Description des Travaux qui se sont en Languedoc, pour la Communication des Deux Mers, first edition, 11 folding engraved plates, lightly water-stained throughout, ?lacking final blank, old armorial bookplate, old ink inscriptions to title and front endpaper, contemporary limp vellum, soiled, 8vo, Toulouse, chez I. Dominique Camusat, 1671. *** Interesting work on the construction of the Canal du Midi (or Canal Royal as it was then known) linking the Mediterranean with the Atlantic.
Mosheim (Joh. Laurent) De Rebus Christianorum, first edition, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original spine, slight browning throughout, worn and rubbed, Helmsted, Christanum Fridericum Weygand, 1753 § Seran de la Tour. Histoire d`Epaminondas, folding map, contemporary calf, gilt, joints cracking, chipped at head and tail of spine, Paris, Didot, 1739 § Virgil. Opera, folding map, contemporary calf, worn and rubbed with loss to head and tail of spine, M.Brown, etc. 1798; and 4 others, similar, v.s. (9) (9)
[Cangiamilla (Francesco E.)] Abregé` de L`Embryologie Sacrée, second edition, illustrations, 2 folding, one with crease split slightly, contemporary mottled calf, joints cracked, Paris, Nyon, 1776 § Advocat (Abbé) Dictionnaire Historique Portatif, 2 vol, contemporary signature to front free endpapers, bookplates removed from front pastedowns, contemporary calf, gilt, joints cracking, wear to head and tail of spines, Didot, Paris, 1752 § Mesnard (Jaques) Le Guide des Accoucheurs, 14 of 15 engraved plates, lacking plate 4, contemporary calf, gilt, joints rubbed and slightly cracked, bookplate, Paris, De Bure, etc., 1743 § Easton (James) Human Longevity, first edition, contemporary half, rubbed and worn, joints cracked and broken, upper board loose, James Easton, 1799; and 5 others, medical, v.s. (10) (10)
Güssmann (Francisco) Lithophylacium Mitisianum…et Observationibus Perpetuis Physico Mineralogicis, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, half-title, engraved vignette to title, lacking ?blank f. between contents and part 1, some water-staining, contemporary calf, gilt, joints splitting, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo, Vienna, Joseph Nobilis de Kurzbeck, 1785. *** Rare. This important geological work was one of the first to seriously consider the question of meteorites. In his section on Ferrum Natiuum he describes the mass seen by Pallas in Siberia.
Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von) Werke, 13 vol., first Cotta edition, leaf of musical notation and folding engraved genealogical plate at end of vol.12, foxed, vol.1-12 in contemporary marbled boards, rubbed, a couple of spine labels worn, one slightly wormed, vol.13 in later marbled boards, name on bookplate erased (Bibliothek Henirich ?Stiebel, Frankfurt am Main), 8vo, Tübingen, Cotta, 1806-10.
Estienne (Henri) World of Wonders: or, an Introduction to a Treatise Touching the Conformitie of Ancient and Moderne Wonders, 2 parts in 1, first edition in English, lacks initial blank, P3&4 margins strengthened, Bb2-Cc2 holes with some loss, Bb4 large tear partially repaired and with some loss, Dd2-Dd4 repaired in margin, slightly browned throughout, the Macclesfield copy with bookplate on front pastedown, eighteenth century russia, gilt, upper joint splitting at tail, [STC 10554], folio, Edinburgh, Andrew Hart and Richard Lawson, 1608.
Tacitus (Publius Cornelius) The Annales, fourth edition, woodcut initials, lacking first and last blanks, title frayed and with 2 holes, not affecting text, corners of final text f. frayed, water-stained, modern panelled calf, gilt, [STC 23646], small folio, [Arnold Hatfield for John Norton], 1614.
Limborch (Philip a) The History of the Inquisition, translated by Samuel Chandler, 2 vol., first English edition, half-titles, titles in red and black, 9 engraved plates, some folding, list of subscribers, 2 pp. advertisements, vol.2 F2 small section missing from head with loss of 2 words (the inquisition), contemporary engraved bookplates, contemporary speckled calf, gilt, joints starting, rubbed and scuffed, 4to, J. Gray, 1731. ***Provenance: Ink signatures to both vol. "John Poley Esq. de Boxted Suff." (2)
Johnson (Samuel) A Dictionary of the English Language, vol. 2 only (of 2), first edition, title printed in red and black, 19th century ink ownership insciption to title, water-stained, causing a large area of fraying and holing to 30P2, 31B1&2 and 31C1&2, with loss of text, 30Q and R2 small hole within text, loss of a few letters, a few others ff. frayed or with short tears, contemporary calf, lower cover detached, worn, folio, W. Strahan for J, and P. Knapton, 1755, sold not subject to return.
Dickens (Charles) A Christmas Carol, first edition, first issue, half-title printed in blue, title printed in red and blue, "Stave I" chapter heading, hand-coloured etched frontispiece and 2 plates only of 3, lacks "Scrooge`s third visitor", 4 textual woodcuts by W.J. Linton, final advertisements leaf, contents shaken, title-page with some slight finger soiling, browned throughout, ink inscription on half-title dated 1843, ink signature of M. Wilkins and ink stamp of Hutton on front pastedown, green endpapers (partially discoloured), original pink/brown cloth, gilt, slightly dulled, upper cover with slight cockling, 1 corner worn, g.e., [Smith II 4], 8vo, 1843.
Hamilton (Sir William) Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform, second edition, presentation copy from the author, half-title, advertisements to pastedowns, original cloth, spine gilt, slightly rubbed, 1853 § Mill (John Stuart) Considerations on Representative Government, first edition, original cloth, rebacked preserving original spine, new endpapers, slightly rubbed, 1861; System of Logic, 2 vol., eighth edition, contemporary polished calf, gilt, college stamp to covers, upper joints cracked, rubbed, bookplate to verso of front endpaper, 1872, 8vo (4) (4)
Dickens (Charles) Little Dorrit, first edition in book form, additional engraved title and 39 plates by Hablot K.Browne, some spotting to plates and text leaves, bookplate and ownership inscription to front pastedown, original olive-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, hinges weak, spine and edges faded, spine ends and corners worn and frayed, soiled, 8vo, [1857].
![[Clemens (Samuel Langhorne)] "Mark Twain". The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calveras County. first English edition, s](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1574/2803994/129-20101122124537_468x382.jpg)
Keynes (John Maynard) Indian Currency and Finance, first edition, ownership inscription of D. T. Jack to endpaper, folding table, light marginal browning, occasional light spotting, original cloth, gilt, fore-edge lightly spotted, 8vo, 1913. *** The author`s first book, written after a trip to India, in 1912, at the behest of Francis Birrell, a Cambridge acquaintance and associate of the Bloomsbury set. D. T. Jack was an economist who published economic works from the 1920s through 1950s, including The Economics of the Gold Standard (1925), The Restoration of European Currency (1927), The Crisis of 1931 (1931), Currency and Banking (1932), and Studies in Economic Warfare (1940).
Hughes (Ted) The Hawk in the Rain, first edition, signed by the author on title, original cloth, dust-jacket a little rubbed and soiled, spine faded, chipped at corners and spine ends, 1957; and a proof copy of the same (text browned, spine slightly frayed), 8vo (2) *** The poet`s first book. (2)
Hughes (Ted) Lupercal, first edition, 1960; Wodwo, first edition, 1967; Selected Poems 1957-1981, 1982; Difficulties of a Bridegroom, 1995; Poetry in the Making, 1967; The Best Worker in Europe, number 64 of 156 copies signed by the author and artist, illustrations in green by Charles Jardine, original wrappers, uncut, Rampant Lions Press for The Atlantic Salmon Trust, 1985, the first four all signed by the author, the fifth inscribed, all but the last original cloth or boards, the first four with dust-jackets, the first browned and lacking small portion at rear upper edge; and 3 others by the same, 8vo & 4to (9) (9)
Hughes (Ted) The Earth-Owl and other moon-people, first edition, illustrations by R.A.Brandt, 1963; Nessie the Mannerless Monster, first edition, colour illustrations by Gerald Rose,1964; Collected Animal Poems, 4 vol., vol.1 signed by the author on half-title, illustrations by Chris Riddell, 1995; another copy, one of 292 uncorrected proof copies, original wrappers, 1995; The Iron Woman, uncorrected proof copy, signed by the author on half-title, illustrations by Andrew Davidson, original wrappers, 1993, all but the last two original cloth or boards, the second pictorial, all with dust-jackets, the third with slip-case, most with slight rubbing or soiling, the first with faded spine; and 5 others by the same, children`s, some signed, 8vo & 4to (13) (13)
![Hughes (Ted) Seneca`s Oedipus, [2 copies], first paperback editions (issued simultaneously with hardback edition), both with](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1574/2803994/147-20101122124550_468x382.jpg)
Hughes (Ted) Seneca`s Oedipus, [2 copies], first paperback editions (issued simultaneously with hardback edition), both with long inscription from the author on half-titles (the second slightly smudged and blotted on facing flap, original wrappers, both slightly rubbed, 1969; another copy, working rehearsal typescript, presentation copy from the author to his sister Olwyn but with inscription obscured by address label pasted over it, with one or two manuscript corrections (possibly in Hughes` hand), stapled in wrappers, soiled, 1967-68; and an uncorrected proof copy of the first, 8vo & 4to (4) *** The inscription to the first copy reads, "To Michael - Xmas 69 Greetings from Ted. Those who marry their mothers/ Are not as lucky as others./ Those who murder their father/ Disappear into self deception, self-justification & general blather. / Those who search for a wife in some other land/ Find their mother incognito, I understand./ Those who bump off the strangest stranger they ever meet/ Stretch their own father dead at their feet./ Best to be born without cock or hands, this story says - / Then you`ll go to heaven with eyes wide open one of these days." And in the second copy, "July 23rd To Mike Book II - same as Book I, to be read in immediate succession, top speed, without pause, one hundred yard dash, without breath taken, combusting bones, gall, kidneys arriving weightless & white-hot. from Ted". (4)
Hughes (Ted) The Martyrdom of Bishop Farrar, first edition, first issue, one of 100 copies (unnumbered and unsigned), original riveted pictorial marbled wrappers. [1970]; another copy, second "corrected" issue, number 41 of 100 copies signed and dated by the author on title, limitation slip pasted below colophon, original stapled pictorial buff wrappers, [1970], both with frontispiece, Crediton, Richard Gilbertson with proof page of illustration taken from Foxe`s Book of Martyrs for the cover and frontispiece, inscribed by Hughes "One of four proof copies…", folded and A.L.s. from the printer dated 12.iii.91, 2pp., concerning the woodblock, and the influence of Wilfred Owen on Hughes, "…he told me that when his tutor ?annotated his early poems…`He would write Owen, Owen, Owen in the margins`…", v.s. (4) *** The first issue was withdrawn due to the transposition of two lines and the poet`s dislike of the wrappers; most copies were unnumbered and unsigned. The second issue is scarcer than the first. (4)
Hughes (Ted) Crow, from the Life and Songs of the Crow, second edition, number 388 of 400 copies signed by the author and artist, plates by Leonard Baskin, original buckram-backed cloth, uncut, board slip-case (very slightly rubbed), 4to, 1973. *** Contains some poems not in the first edition.
Hughes (Ted) Gaudete, first edition, inscribed by the author to the poet Al Alavarez "For Al & Anne, friendship is long/ life short/ folly interrupts/ love Ted" on front free endpaper, 1977; Season Songs, first American edition, inscribed by the author and artist "To Charles, on his revisiting his homeland - a book about it, from Ted May 1976 & from Leonard who limned it" on front free endpaper, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, New York, 1975; Selected Poems, 1957-1967, New York, 1972; The Interrogator: A Titled Vulturess, one of 250 copies, folded sheet with tipped-in facsimile, unbound, Ilkley, 1975, all with illustrations by Leonard Baskin, the first three original cloth or cloth-backed boards, dust-jackets, very slightly rubbed; and prospectus and a photocopy of corrcted proof for Howls & Whispers published in 1998, v.s. (6) (6)
Hughes (Ted) Moortown, first edition, signed by the author on title, errata slip loosely inserted, lightly browned as usual, 1979; another copy, first American edition, signed and inscribed "For Fred of Dick Legg End with best wishes from Min`s Son-in-Law Ted Hughes" on half-title, New York, 1979, illustrations by Leonard Baskin, original cloth or cloth-backed boards, dust-jackets, spines slightly faded, the second a little rubbed, 8vo (2) (2)
Hughes (Ted) Remains of Elmet: A Pennine Sequence, first edition, inscribed by the author and artist to Leonard Clark on title, photographic illustrations by Fay Godwin, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket slightly marked, 4to, 1979. *** Leonard Clark (1905-81), poet, editor and critic, who reviewed Hughes` first two collections of poetry and became a friend. Hughes` inscription reads, "For Leonard all the best from Ted. Towers fall and dunghills rise./ The skylines still embrace the skies. June 1979".
Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Hound of the Baskervilles, first separate edition, with A.L.s. from the author in envelope loosely inserted, discussing a visit to Galashiels and the American publishers Griffiths, 16 plates by Sidney Paget, some springing to gatherings, pencil inscription & blind-stamp on front endpapers, original cloth decorated in gilt & black, rubbed and frayed at spine and corners, some running of colour visible on endpapers, [Green & Gibson A26a], 8vo, 1902.
Doyle Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Return of Sherlock Holmes, first edition, plates by Charles Raymond Macauley, front endpapers split with ink name, original cloth, rubbed, spine slightly dulled, [Green & Gibson A29c; De Waal 626], 8vo, New York, 1905. *** Preceding the English edition by a month.
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