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CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). The Second World War. London: Cassell, 1948 [but 1949?]-1954. 6 volumes, 8° (210 x 140mm), maps, some folding. Original black cloth (extremities lightly rubbed, top corner to volume I bumped, and a few other corners lightly bruised). Provenance: VOLUMES II AND VI INSCRIBED BY CHURCHILL -- Mary 'Mollie' Montagu Douglas Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch (1990-1993; pencil ownership inscription to flyleaf of vol. VI) -- Ian Gilmour (ink signatures to front pastedowns in all volumes, with light pencil marginalia throughout and copious pencil notes to rear flyleaves of all vols). Book Society edition of volume I dated October 1948, but with larger type size used for the second edition of November 1949, second edition of vol. IV, the remainder first editions. Woods A123b. (6) View on Christie's.com

KEYNES, John Maynard (1883-1946). Indian Currency and Finance. London: Macmillan and Co., 1913. 8° (217 x 136mm). Folding table, half-title. (Front endpapers and half-title very lightly spotted, very small faint spot to title.) Original brick-red cloth (extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance: PUBLISHER'S PRESENTATION COPY (blindstamp to title) -- E. Allen (ink signature to endpaper dated 1951). FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. 'This is, by common agreement, a work of first-rate quality. Those who were unconvinced by his later writings, all of which were controversial, like to acclaim it as his best book. The second chapter (on the Gold Exchange Standard) is of general interest, quite apart from the rupee problem, and has become a classic. The book well manifests Keynes' characteristic powers and tendencies. It is the work of a theorist, giving practical application to those esoteric monetary principles which Marshall had expounded and Keynes was explaining in the Cambridge classrooms, and at the same time it showed an outstanding gift for penetrating the secrets of how institutions actually work' (Harrod, The Life of John Maynard Keynes, p.163). View on Christie's.com

KEYNES, John Maynard (1883-1946). The Economic Consequences of the Peace. London: Macmillan and Co., 1919. 8° (217 x 138mm). Original blue cloth (extremities very lightly rubbed). Provenance: 'V de T' (pencil presentation inscription dated 1920 to:) -- Hedworth Meux. FIRST EDITION. Keynes was principal representative of the British Treasury at the Peace Conference in 1919, but resigned in protest at the terms imposed on the Central Powers and wrote this prophetic analysis. Admiral of the Fleet The Hon Sir Hedworth Meux GCB KCVO, formerly The Hon Hedworth Lambton (1856-1929), famously led the Naval Brigade to relieve British forces in the Siege of Ladysmith. [With :] -- A Revision of the Treaty being a sequel to the Economic Consequences of the Peace. London: Macmillan and Co., 1922. 8° (217 x 138mm). Original blue cloth (recased, extremities lightly rubbed). And 10 others by or about Keynes, including: Essays in Biography (London, 1933); The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill (London: Hogarth Press, 1925); A Treatise on Money (2 vols, London, 1930); A Tract on Monetary Reform (London, 1923); The Means to Prosperity (London, 1933), and The End of Laissez-Faire (London, 1926). (12) View on Christie's.com

KEYNES, John Maynard (1883-1946). A Treatise on Probability. London: Macmillan and Co., 1921. 8° (216 x 140mm). Half-title, 2pp. advertisements at end. Original brown cloth (extremities faintly rubbed, very small light ink marks to spine). Provenance: Hamilton Kilgour (presentation bookplate to:) -- Royal Society of Edinburgh. FIRST EDITION. 'This was at once a work of great learning and also an exposition of important original ideas. Its bibliography of the literature is one of the most comprehensive that has ever been made ... [Keynes'] ambition was to provide a firm mathematical basis for the probability theory' (DSB). Bertrand Russell wrote: 'The mathematical calculus is astonishingly powerful' (Mathematical Gazette, July 1922). View on Christie's.com

KEYNES, John Maynard (1883-1946). The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. London: Macmillan and Co., 1936. 8° (215 x 136mm). Half-title. (Occasional very light spotting.) Original blue cloth (very faint marking to upper cover), grey blue-printed dust-jacket (price-clipped, extremities lightly rubbed, very short tears at heads of joints, spine and lower cover very lightly faded and marked). Provenance: Ian Gilmour (occasional light pencil annotation in his hand to chapter 6). FIRST EDITION of Keynes's attempt to provide an explanation of the vagaries of the trade-cycle and new methods of controlling them. PMM 423 ('his influence... even on his theoretical opponents, has been such that a highly placed American official recently remarked that "we are all Keynsians today"'). View on Christie's.com

BYRON, George Gordon Noel (1788-1824). The Bride of Abydos. A Turkish Tale. [Bound with:] -- The Giaour, a fragment of a Turkish tale ... seventh edition, with some additions. London: John Murray, 1813. 2 works in one volume, 8° (218 x 132mm). 2 engraved plates by E. Finden, one a view of Harrow after C. Stanfield, the other of Missolonghi after W. Purser. (Occasional light browning.) Slightly later green calf gilt, edges gilt (rubbed, upper joint tender at head). Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR (publisher's clerk's ink inscription to flyleaf of first work 'From the author' to:) -- SAMUEL ROGERS (manscript corrections in his hand, in pencil to p.4, and in ink to p.47 inserting two missing lines) -- W. Hamilton (a.l.s. receipt acknowledging return to Hamilton from the Byron Loan Exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall, dated 30th June 1877) -- bookseller's clipped description pasted to flyleaf -- Michael Foot (a.n.s. loosely inserted presenting 'A Byronic gift for a true Byron lover' to:) -- Ian Gilmour. FIRST EDITION, THE FIRST VARIANT OF THE FIRST ISSUE, without the errata leaf, p.47 with 20 lines; p.60 has the eighth line numbered 720. The errors are corrected in Samuel Roger's hand, and the volume was presumably bound for him (he is the dedicatee of The Giaour) with the insertion of two relevant plates. The later political provenance of Michael Foot and Ian Gilmour is fascinating; Lord Gilmour wrote The Making of the Poets: Byron and Shelley in Their Time (2002) and was chairman of the Byron Society from 2003 until his death in 2007. Randolph, p.29-30 (Abydos), p.28 (Giaour); Wise Byron I, pp.85-87 (Abydos), pp. 83-84 (Giaour). A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. View on Christie's.com

GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Faustus. London: Boosey and Sons, 1821. 4° (215 x 131mm). (Faint dampstaining, more pronounced at end, light soiling.) Contemporary half calf (extremities rubbed). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Although published anonymously, this translation is attributed to Coleridge by Frederick Burwick and James McKusick in the most recent edition (OUP, 2007). An abstract of the first part of Goethe's tragedy, it was issued to accompany the separately-published series of plates by Henry Moses after Moritz Retzsch. View on Christie's.com

GRAY, John (1866-1934). Silverpoints. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893. 12° (211 x 103 mm). Original green cloth, covers with all-over gilt design by Charles Ricketts, uncut (extremities a little worn, ink spots to covers and fore-edge, browning to endpapers). ASSOCIATION COPY, front blank with ownership signature of S. H. Tinklar, the author's sister. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 192 OF 250 COPIES. The imitations of Baudelaire, Verlaine, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud in Gray's slim volume of verse show his familiarity with the Parisian avant-garde. Gray had also met Oscar Wilde in 1889. He copied the older man's dandyish appearance and signed himself 'Dorian' in letters to him. In Richard Ellmann's view, Wilde's naming his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray was a form of courtship. Wilde thought Gray's verse 'a perfect mode of expression', and paid for the publishing of Silverpoints, his first book (Ellmann, pp. 290 and 368). View on Christie's.com

JACOBS, W.W. Many Cargoes. London: Methuen, 1912. 8°, 16 coloured plates by Maurice Greiffenhagen (occasional spotting to text). Original blue cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, partly unopened (extremities lightly rubbed), dust-jacket (severely torn). Provenance: W.W. Jacobs (front blank signed and inscribed '12 but 1912'). ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF JACOBS' FIRST BOOK, AUTHOR'S COPY -- Salthaven. London: Methuen, 1908. 8°, 12 plates by Will Owen (title and a few other leaves browned, one plate slightly torn, upper corners a little torn at end). Original green pictorial cloth (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: W.W. Jacobs (signed and dated '8 Oct 1908' on dedication leaf; bookplate) -- Short Cruises. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1907. 8°, illustrations by Will Owen (spotting to early and end leaves). Original orange pictorial cloth. Provenance: W.W. Jacobs (signed and dated '27 April 1909' on front blank). FIRST EDITIONS, AUTHOR'S COPIES; and 11 other signed works by Jacobs. (14) View on Christie's.com

LE FANU, Sheridan (1814-1873). The Purcell Papers. With a memoir by Alfred Perceval Graves. London: Richard Bentley, 1880. 3 vols., 8° (176 x 115mm). (Some spotting, staining and soiling, corner torn from first leaf of vol. II.) Contemporary black half calf, spines gilt with morocco labels (rubbed). With 2-page autograph letter from the author to Cecil Darley, 8°, in original mourning envelope tipped onto front blank of vol. I. Dated Dublin 13 February, 1873, the letter briefly refers to Darley's election to the Institute of Civil Engineers, and then laments that 'I have just lost my only brother ... I feel very lonely being now the only one remaining ... of the little band amongst whom my early merry days were past and of which my brother was the life and light ... poor fellow he has for many years led an anxious, weary life ....' FIRST EDITION of the Irish novelist's last, posthumously-published book, with a deeply personal letter written in the last year of his life. Sadleir I, 1383; Wolff III, 4022. View on Christie's.com

STOKER, Bram (1847-1912). Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable, 1897. 8° (194 x 125mm). 16-page publisher's advertisements. Original yellow cloth, covers and spine lettered in orange (covers slightly soiled, spine a little darkened and with a few short tears at the ends). Provenance: Bram Stoker (presentation inscription dated December 1897 to:) -- E.H. Bull. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR OF THE MOST FAMOUS AND INFLUENTIAL OF ALL VAMPIRE NOVELS: 'Dracula remains the definitive treatment of the classical vampire, a work of great imagination and conviction' (Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 1546). This copy from the thicker, preferred variant printed on uncoated wove paper, and the second issue with the add for The Shoulder of Shasta. Dalby 10; Wolf 6581. View on Christie's.com

TROLLOPE, Anthony (1815-1882). Barchester Towers. London: Longman, Brown [etc.], 1857. 3 vols., 8° (181 x 109mm). (Some generally light marginal soiling, H4r of vol. II more heavily soiled, some spotting and occasional staining, without half-title to vol. I or publisher's advertisements in vols I and III.) Contemporary blue half calf and marbled boards, brown morocco lettering-pieces, marbled edges (extremities lightly rubbed, one lettering-piece chipped). FIRST EDITION; with the reading 'tattooed' for 'tabooed' on p. 269. 1000 copies printed. Sadleir Trollope 5; Wolff IV, 6766. [With] GREENE, Graham (1904-91). The Heart of the Matter, New York: Viking Press, 1948. 8°, original red cloth, dust-jacket. INSCRIBED AUTHOR'S COPY; one page of a typed script for act two loosely inserted. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 'third printed before publication'; GREENE, G. Brighton Rock. London: Heinemann, 1959. 8°, original cloth, dust-jacket. Later edition; and one other. (6) View on Christie's.com

DISNEY STUDIOS, Walt -- 'Sketch Book' [of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]. London: William Collins, 1938. 4° (292 x 236mm). Coloured frontispiece and 11 coloured plates, all tipped-in on brown cardboard with tissue guards, numerous black and white illustrations. Original beige buckram cloth, pictorial dust-jacket, pictorial endpapers (head of spine of dust-jacket torn away, short clean tear in front wrapper, jacket very lightly soiled). FIRST EDITION, a crisp and clean copy of this book, based on the sketches for the film 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'. View on Christie's.com

DISNEY, Walt (illustrator). Blanche-Neige et ses amies les bêtes. [Paris]: Hachette, Walt Disney, 1938. Small 4° (228 x 180mm). 3 coloured double-page pop-ups, plain illustrations, some full-page. (Lightly browned throughout). Original pictorial boards, pictorial coloured endpapers (head of spine chipped, small split along front joint, extremities rubbed, fore-edge of front cover with small bump). FIRST FRENCH EDITION OF THIS POP-UP BOOK. DISNEY, W. (illustrator). Mickey présente: l'Arche de Noé. [Paris]: Hachette, Walt Disney, 1934. 4° (228 x 179mm). Coloured frontispiece, numerous illustrations, including 24 full-page illustrations, of which 11 are coloured. (Very light marginal browning). Original pictorial boards, pictorial dust-jacket (extremities of dust-jacket a tiny bit rubbed). FIRST EDITION. With 7 other Disney items, including Hachette Disney books, Les petits lapins et les oeufs de Paques (1935, dust-jacket), Le grand Méchant loup et le petit chaperon rouge (1934, without dust-jacket), Le trois petits cochons (1934, dust-jacket [torn with loss]), Les petits cochons et la machine diabolique (1939, dust-jacket), Elmer le petit éléphant (1937, dust-jacket), a first edition in German of Drei kleine Schweine (Berlin, 1934), and a programme of Walt Disney presents Fantasia (no date). (8) View on Christie's.com

LEWIS, C. S. (1898-1963). The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. A Story for Children. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1950. 8° (196 x 135mm). Coloured frontispiece and illustrations after Pauline Baynes. Original turquoise cloth, dust-jacket (cloth faded and spotted at the edges and spine, dust-jacket chipped at the corners and with short tears and light soiling). Provenance: Lucia Anne Cawthron (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, IN DUST-JACKET, OF THE FIRST TITLE IN THE NARNIA SERIES. View on Christie's.com

TWAIN, Mark (Samuel Langhorne CLEMENS, 1835-1910). Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer. Paris: Bibliothèque nouvelle de la jeunesse, A. Hennuyer, [1884]. 4° (225 x 176mm). Half-title. Title vignette, text illustrations. (Very occasional light spotting.) Original pictorial cream cloth after A. Souze, gilt edges (lightly rubbed, minor repair at head of spine). TWAIN. Les Aventures de Huck Finn. Paris: Bibliothèque nouvelle de la jeuness, A. Hennuyer, [1886]. 4°. Half-title, title vignette, text illustrations. (Occasional light spotting.). Original pictorial beige cloth after A. Souze (darkened, spotted, a lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH OF BOTH WORKS, translated by William-Little Hughes with Twain's authorisation and illustrated by Achille Sirouy. The books enjoyed great success in France and the translation was not supplanted for several decades. Cf. Ronald Jenn, 'From American Frontier to European Borders, Publishing French Translations of Mark Twain's novels Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (1884-1963)', Book History 2006, 235-60. (2) View on Christie's.com

ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. London: Bloomsbury, 1997. 8°. (Margins very lightly browned). Publisher's pictorial stiff wrappers (worn). Provenance: bookplate on inner pastedown. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, INSCRIBED BY J.K. ROWLING ON HALF-TITLE AND WITH A NOTE BY HER ON PAGE 53. The owner of the book asked J.K. Rowling to sign this copy and also questioned her why '1 wand' was mentioned twice in the list of other equipment for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (page 53). J.K. Rowling wrote in the margin: 'this was taken out in the next print of the book (a mistake). Keep this copy, it might be valuable on day! JKR'. View on Christie's.com

ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone. London: Bloomsbury, 1997. 8°. Publisher's pictorial stiff wrappers (very light rubbing at corners and extremities). FIRST EDITION IN PAPERBACK. View on Christie's.com

ROWLING, J.K. A set of the first 6 Harry Potter novels, comprising Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone (London, 2000), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (London, 1998), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (London, 1999), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (London, 2000), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (London, 2003, FIRST EDITION), and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (London, 2005, FIRST EDITION), reprints except the last two which are first editions. 6 volumes, 8°. Half-titles. Original coloured pictorial boards, dust-jackets. Contained in the original publisher's coloured pictorial box (one top corner of box bumped). EACH NOVEL IS SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. The books were donated by J.K. Rowling to be auctioneed at a Charity Auction in aid of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Scotland. View on Christie's.com

DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll'). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan & Co., 1866. 8° (189 x 126mm). Half-title, 42 illustrations from the woodcuts by Dalziel after John Tenniel. (Occasional light marginal soiling). Modern red morocco gilt by Bayntun, white rabbit stamped in gilt on front cover, inner dentelles, gilt edges (spine very lightly sunned), original cloth bound in at end, preserved together with the above in a cloth slipcase. SECOND (FIRST PUBLISHED) EDITION. The first edition of 2,000 was recalled by Dodgson, following the unsatisfactory printing of Tenniel's illustrations, and was never offered for public sale. Without the inverted 'S' in last line of contents. Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 46; Lovett Collection 3. DODGSON, C.L. Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice found there. London: Macmillan & Co., 1872. 8° (179 x 123mm). Half-title, 50 illustrations from the woodcuts by Dalziel after John Tenniel, one-page publisher's advertisement on Q1v. (Occasional light marginal soiling). Bound uniformly with the above in modern red morocco gilt by Bayntun, queen stamped in gilt on front cover (spine very lightly sunned), original cloth bound in at end. FIRST EDITION, with misprint 'wade' on p.21; with the foliation for p.95 and p.98. Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 84. (2) View on Christie's.com

[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll')]. Arithmetic. I. [Oxford: University Press, c.1870]. Bifolium (227 x 144mm); printed on cream paper. (Small stain in top margin.) FIRST EDITION, RARE. ABPC records only one other copy sold at auction, the Hartley--Falletta copy (Christie's 30 November 2005, lot 64). The pamphlet consists of templates for 33 examination problems divided into 5 sections: Integral Numbers, Vulgar Fractions, Decimal Fractions, Concrete Numbers, and Rule of Three. The problems are stated in skeleton form, leaving blanks for the variables, so that new problems can be generated easily. Mathematical Pamphlets 23; not in Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch. View on Christie's.com

CLEOMEDES (1st century or early 2nd century AD). \KKuklikh Qewria Eie Biblia B\k. Nunc primum typis excusa prodit. Paris: Conrad Neobarius [colophon: J. Lodoicus and D. Jacobus], 1539. Small 4° (191 x 143mm). (Some stains to early quires, quire \Ki\k misbound, spotting to final leaves, block split.) 19th-century limp boards, titled in manuscript on spine. Provenance: one early manuscript correction and a few pen marks. FIRST EDITION of Cleomedes's elementary two-part handbook of astronomy ('Circular Theory of the Heavens'). Using Posidonius as it's main authority, it describes the stoic view of the spherical cosmos, permeated by "pneuma" and surrounded by the limitless void ... with the spherical earth stationary at the centre' (DSB III, pp. 318-20). Adams C-2175. View on Christie's.com

COLE, William (1635-1716). A Physico-Medical Essay concerning the late Frequency of Apoplexies. Togther with a general method of their prevention and cure. Oxford: printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater, 1689. 8° (178 x 108mm). Engraved vignette of the Sheldonian theatre on title, imprimatur leaf. (Tear on title repaired, causing light waterstain on title, and name on verso to be slightly smudged). 18th-century calf, armorial binding with the arms and legend of Robert Harley on covers, spine gilt in compartments, lettering-piece (extremities and spine a little rubbed). Provenance: ROBERT HARLEY of Bramton Castle, Hereford (1661-1724, politician, binding, armorial bookplate and gilt name-stamp on title verso) -- explanation for repair of title tipped-in at back. HARLEY COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of this work on cerebrovascular disease. It is addressed to Samuel Kimberley. Krivatsy 2569; Wing C5043. View on Christie's.com

FLAMSTEED, John (1646-1719). Atlas Céleste de Flamsteed, publié en 1776 par J. Fortin... Troisième Édition. Paris: Lamarche, 1795. 8° (223 x 144mm). 30 double-page engraved plates. (Occasional very light spotting to plates, heavier spotting to text leaves, gathering B misbound, very small old tape marks to title.) Recent quarter leather over contemporary paper boards. Second edition in French, the third edition after the first in English of 1729. When first published, the atlas represented a new era in celestial cartography, recording the stars Flamsteed observed using equatorial and ecliptic coordinates. For the French edition, Fortin reduced the size of the maps, and the location of the stars were fixed for 1780 instead of 1690, the date at which they had been fixed by Flamsteed. Fortin also added to this edition new discoveries made by Joseph Jerome Le Francais de Lalande. Brunet II: 1280. View on Christie's.com

GEMINUS, Thomas. Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio, in Latin. London: John Herford, October 1545. 2° (380 x 283mm). 44 text leaves (without final blank, as Norman and Cushing). Engraved title and 39 engraved plates by Geminus after Vesalius (of 40, lacking one of the muscular engravings - the twelfth in the series of sixteen). (Title browned, trimmed and mounted, some plates with repaired margins, including the 'Adam and Eve' plate which is trimmed in the right margin with some loss to Eve's hand and arm and with some early pen-and-ink facsimile to her hip and arm, some marginal soiling, some dampstaining, a few small repairs.) 18th-century vellum, titled in gilt on the spine (browned, some light worming on the spine). Provenance: an early reader (inscription and brief cancellation on the dedication leaf commenting on blasphemous text, foliation, and light marginalia). FIRST EDITION of Geminus's abridgement of Vesalius, and the earliest substantial use of engraving in any medical book. It is only the second work printed in England with engraved plates; the first, Thomas Raynalde's 1540 Byrth of mankinde, contained just four small, unsigned engravings. 'The new medium of copperplate engraving used by Geminus allowed a sharpness of line impossible for the wood engravers employed by Vesalius. This is in fact the first medical book illustrated with a suite of full-page engraved plates. The title-page was called by Hind "the first engraving of any artistic importance produced in England". The book provided a summary view of Vesalius's discoveries more complete than the Epitome but without the size and expense of the Fabrica' (Garrison-Morton). Choulant-Frank pp. 192-194; Cushing VI.C.-2; Garrison-Morton 376.1; NLM/Durling 2039; Norman 886; STC 11714; Stillwell Science 645; Wellcome 2731. View on Christie's.com

JURIN, James (1684-1750). An Account of the Success of Inoculating the Small Pox in Great Britain, for the Year 1724. London: for J. Peele, [1725]. 8° (215 x 130mm). Half-title. (Somewhat creased.) Stitched as issued in contemporary marbled paper wrappers (creased), uncut -- An Essay concerning the Nature, Origin, and Progress of the Human Affections, tending to shew that they are not innate but acquired. London: sold by J. Newbery, 1758. 8° (218 x 142mm). Stitched in 20th-century blue paper wrappers, uncut. FIRST EDITION. ESTC N52639 recording two copies -- HENRY, Thomas (1734-1816). An Account of a Method of preserving Water, at Sea, from Putrefaction. Warrington: by W. Eyres for J. Johnson, 1781. 8° (225 x 145mm). Half-title inscribed 'From the author', 3 folding engraved plates, final two advert leaves. Stitched as issued in original marbled paper wrappers, uncut -- BOYLE, James. A Treatise on Syphilis. London: for Callow and Wilson, 1824. 8° (225 x 140mm). Final advert leaf. Original brown paper boads, uncut. Front endpaper inscribed 'To the Honble. Mr. Lumley with Mr. Boyle's compliments'; and 4 other scientific pamphlets, including a manuscript transcription. View on Christie's.com

RIDLEY, Marke (1560-1624). A Short Treatise of Magneticall Bodies and Motions. London: Nicholas Okes, 1613. 4° (180 x 140 mm), engraved title by R. Elstrak, 21 engraved illustrations, one with volvelle. With final blank. (Lacking front blank and a4, title a little frayed and stained, corner torn from X3.) 19th-century black half roan with marbled boards (upper joints repaired, corners bumped). FIRST EDITION, one of two states with the cancel at X3 containing a list of errata. 'Ridley gives directions for carrying out experiments on the loadstone, magnet, and terrella. He includes numerous engravings and descriptions of his improved instruments for determining the declination of the magnetic needle and for making use of the inclinatory needle for finding position at sea' (ODNB). The illustration on O1r shows two maps from the perspective of each pole. STC 21045.5; Sabin 71297. View on Christie's.com

SMYTH, Henry DeWolf (1898-1986). A General Account of the Development of Methods of using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the auspices of the United States Government 1940-1945. Washington: For the War Department, 1945. 4° (264 x 198mm). Lithoprint version, diagrams in text. Original plain wrappers, stapled (very light spotting to covers). Provenance: E.L. Brady (signature on upper cover dated in a different hand October 1945). ADVANCE PRINTING OF THE FIRST DESCRIPTION OF THE TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE NUCLEAR BOMB, published on 12 August 1945, only six days after Hiroshima. Up to this point the research and development had been undertaken in conditions of the utmost secrecy and the report was also prepared in secret. However, the British and American governments decided that the widest dissemination of this 'remarkably full and candid account' (PMM) was in the public interest, and this first edition was distributed to journalists for radio use on 11 August and for press use the next day. This first edition is described as a 'lithoprint' and was printed in the Adjutant General's office in the Pentagon from a typescript (it is a 'true edition', the text retyped from the duplicated drafts which were circulated for corrections and comments). A printed edition of 60,000 copies was quickly prepared and published in mid-September and immediately became a bestseller. Norman 1962; Princeton University Library Chronicle 37, p. 206; PMM 422e. View on Christie's.com

TAGLIACOZZI, Gaspare (1545-1599). Cheirurgia nova...de narium, aurium, labiorumque defectu. Frankfurt: J. Saur for P. Kopff, 1598. 8° (157 x 92mm). Title printed in red and black, printer's woodcut device on title, 22 full-page woodcuts. (Browned throughout with light dampstaining at beginning and to plates at end, some marginalia slightly trimmed.) 18th-century paper covered boards, clasps, red speckled edges, ?later prelims. Provenance: early ink inscription to title 'Christians Buech'. Third edition (and first octavo edition), following the two folio Venice editions, both printed in 1597. RARE. NLM/Durling 4312; Waller 9451; Wellcome 6211. View on Christie's.com

MEERBURGH, Nicolaas (1734-1814). Plantae rariores vivis coloribus depictae. Leiden: Jacob Meerburgh, 1789. 2° (436 x 271mm). 55 hand-coloured etched plates by Meerburgh. (Occasional light spotting and browning.) Mid 20th-century half sheep over contemporary boards (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Arpad Plesch (leather bookplate; his sale Sotheby's 18th November 1975, lot 528, sold to Francis Edwards for 600 hammer). FIRST LATIN EDITION, with 2 additional leaves of text, not present in the preceding Dutch edition. All the plates depict plants with attendant butterfly, and both are indexed. Dunthorne 203; Great Flower Books (1990) p.119; Landwehr 126; Nissen BBI 1333; Stafleu & Cowan 5785. View on Christie's.com

Nederlandsch bloemwerk. Door een Gezelschap geleerden. Amsterdam: J.B. Elwe, 1794. 4° (282 x 212mm). 2-page subscribers list. Engraved title with large hand-colored floral vignette by H.L. Myling after P.T. van Brussel and 53 hand-coloured engraved plates. (Occasional very light browning.) Contemporary half calf, gilt spine with green morocco gilt lettering piece, uncut (extremities lightly rubbed, corners worn, headcap splitting at joints). FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT AND BEAUTIFUL WORK, ILLUSTRATED WITH 'DELIGHTFUL TULIPS, HYACINTHS AND AURICULAS' (Blunt). 'A SYMBOL AND REPRESENTATION OF THE ASCENDANCY OF DUTCH NURSERYMAN... AT THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY' (Hunt). The breeding and distribution of tulips, hyacinths and auriculas was the most lucrative area of horticulture during much of the eighteenth century, and by the closing decades the Dutch were the acknowledged leaders in this field. Arnold Arboretum, pp.512-513; Blunt & Stearn The Art of Botanical Illustration (1994) p.190; Dunthorne 215; Hunt 733; Landwehr 29; Nissen BBI 2219. View on Christie's.com

DELTOR, Fred (pseudonym of Federico Carasso). Jeu de Massacre. Preface by Henri Barbusse. Brussels: Les éditions socialistes, c.1928. Printed leaf of captions and 12 pochoir plates (320 x 245mm), in various colours including silver. (Some plates with a little browning in the margins.) Original pochoir-printed portfolio (some expert restoration, light spotting on the endpapers). FIRST EDITION of this rare set of bold pochoir plates. Anarchist in spirit, and Constructivist in realisation, these represent the enemies of socialism: property, philanthropy, colonialism, patriotism, religion, etc. Not in ABPC. COPAC gives no copies in the UK, and WorldCat locates just 3 copies in the USA: at MoMA, Princeton and Harvard. View on Christie's.com

HIRST, Damien. Damien Hirst. London: Jay Jopling and ICA, 1991. 4° (255 x 210mm). Colour plates throughout, two copy letters from Sophie Calle laid-in as issued. (Some blank margins faintly yellowed.) Original blue artificial leather, lettered in yellow (a corner rubbed, light wear). FIRST EDITION. THE SIGNED DELUXE ISSUE OF HIRST'S FIRST MONOGRAPH, being the catalogue for his first solo museum exhibition. Number 55 of 250 copies signed by Hirst. Uncommon. View on Christie's.com

MONDRIAN, Piet. Neue Gestaltung. Bauhausbücher 5. Munich: Albert Langen [1924]. 4° (230 x 183mm). Original wrappers printed in red and black (light soiling, a few small chips and short tears). FIRST EDITION, in a very good example of the fragile cover designed by Moholy-Nagy. View on Christie's.com

PICASSO, Pablo, DIAGHILEV, Serge, COCTEAU, Jean, BAKST, Leon, and others. Les Ballets russes à Paris, représentations exceptionelles. Paris: Brunoff for Théâtre du Châtelet, 1917. 2° (318 x 245mm). Illustrations throughout, including some photographic and some in colour, of which five by Bakst, three by Picasso, one of these coloured in pochoir, and one after Larionov (text leaves evenly darkened in the margins, light wear). Original illustrated inner wrappers and printed outer wrapper bound with a silk cord (expert repairs to the wrappers, light wear). FIRST EDITION. Rare programme for the 1917 season, which included 'Parade': the legendary Cubist ballet written by Cocteau and Satie, with costumes and design by Picasso. One of the plates illustrating Picasso's costume for the acrobat is hand-coloured in pochoir. Rare: WorldCat locates just 4 copies worldwide, none in the UK. View on Christie's.com

PICASSO, Pablo. Le désir attrapé par la queue. Paris: by the author, 1941. 2° (315 x 238mm). Illustrated throughout. (Dampstain in the bottom margin affecting a few words in the bottom line of some leaves.) Original wrappers (staples detached, faint dampstain), early, possibly original glassine (worn and stained). Picasso's signature in pencil on the front blank. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY PICASSO. Published by the artist in small number of copies for friends and associates, and reproducing Picasso's manuscript and drawings for his first play, written during the first winter of the German occupation of Paris. Brassaï remarked that here Picasso 'gave free rein to dreams, obsessions, unavowed desires, comical connections between ideas and words, everyday banalities, the absurd. In it, Picasso's humor and inexhaustible spirit are displayed in their pure state.' (in Conversations with Picasso, Chicago, 1999, p. 200). The Germans authorities had forbidden Picasso to perform it, and it was at some risk that friends organized private performances in the apartment of Michel Leiris on 19 March 1944. Zanie de Campan took the leading female role, and other parts were read by Sartre, de Beauvoir, Raymond Queneau, and others, with Albert Camus directing. Gallimard published a trade edition in 1945. With: a program, with long introduction by Roland Penrose, for the October 1950 production at London's Watergate Theatre. View on Christie's.com

CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri. The Decisive Moment. [Images à la sauvette.] New York and Paris: Simon and Schuster, and Verve, 1952. 4° (360 x 270 mm). Complete with the leaflet of captions. 126 black and white photographs. Original pictorial boards with a design after Matisse (lightly yellowed as often), original illustrated dust-jacket after Matisse (expertly lined and closing a few short tears and small chips). Provenance: Henri Cartier-Bresson (inscription to:) -- André Faure. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY CARTIER-BRESSON: 'à Monsieur André Faure avec mon très cordial souvenir, Henri Cartier-Bresson. Flandre Juin 57'. In a much brighter than usual example of the easily stained dust-jacket. 'ONE OF THE GREATEST OF ALL PHOTOBOOKS' (The Photobook). It was an immediate success, and inspired countless artists and photographers. 101 Books, pp.134-35; The Open Book, pp.154-55; The Photobook, vol. I, p.208. View on Christie's.com

CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri. Les Européens. [The Europeans.] Paris: Verve, 1955. 4° (360 x 270mm). 114 black and white photographs. Original boards illustrated after a design by Miró (light rubbing at the extremities and lower joint). Provenance: Henri Cartier-Bresson (presentation inscription to:) -- Albert Plécy. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CARTIER-BRESSON TO ALBERT PLECY, noted publisher and author: 'à Albert Plécy avec mon très cordial souvenir. Henri Cartier-Bresson.' In 1955, when Cartier-Bresson published and presented this book to him, Plécy founded the Prix Nadar, which each year rewards the outstanding photobook published in France. Cartier-Bresson won the prize in 1971 with Vive La France. 'The Decisive Moment is one of the greatest of all photobooks, and Cartier-Bresson repeated its artistic success three years later with The Europeans' (The Photobook). AN EXCELLENT ASSOCIATION COPY IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. Auer & Auer 356; The Photobook, vol. I, p.209; Regards à travers le livre 107. View on Christie's.com

DRTIKOL, Frantisek. Zena ve Svetle. [Woman in Light.] Prague: E. Beaufort, 1930. Octavo (240 x 170 mm). 46 black and white photographs. Original orange cloth, original photo-illustrated dust jacket (very small chips at corners and light wear on the front fold). FIRST EDITION, IN AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF THE RARE DUST-JACKET. A remarkable survival in this condition, wholly unrestored and among the best yet offered at auction. With this book Drtikol moved 'into his own modernist style of photography that prefigured and influenced the emerging Bauhaus aesthetic' (101 Books). 101 Books, pp.64-65; Books of Nudes, pp.80-1; The Open Book, pp. 94-95; The Photobook, p.79 ('a handsome and well-designed book'). View on Christie's.com

EGGLESTON, William. William Eggleston's Guide. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1976. 4° (230 x 225mm). 48 colour photographs. Original black textured leatherette, colour print mounted on the front cover. Eggleston's signature in black marker on the title-page. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY EGGLESTON. A fine copy of 'one of the seminal photobooks... the Guide heralded the birth of colour photography, or more accurately, it marked the moment when it was perceived as artistically respectable;' it 'has irrevocably changed the way in which we look at the world in photographs (The Photobook). 101 Books, pp.234-35 ('A MILESTONE'); Auer & Auer 598; The Open Book, pp.308-9; The Photobook, vol. I, p.265. View on Christie's.com

EL LISSITZKY and Il'ia ERENBURG. Moi Parizh. [My Paris.] Moscow: IZOGIZ, 1933. Oblong 8° (163 x 185 mm). 121 black and white photographs and 2 black and white photomontages. Original blue paper-covered boards (some wear at the extremities, small area of fading). Provenance: V. Sidamonidze (d. 1937; notable Georgian collector; two neat stamps). FIRST EDITION. 'A significant addition to the photographic bibliography of this most photographed of cities... Ehrenburg contributes a frank, unsparing view of the Parisian proletariat, of which the socialist dissident Atget himself would surely have approved' (The Photobook). Auer, p.197; The Open Book, pp.112-3; The Photobook, vol. I, pp.132-3; Regards à travers le livre 58; The Russian Avant-Garde Book, pp.218-19. View on Christie's.com

HOPPÉ, Emile Otto. Deutsche Arbeit. [German Industry.] Berlin: Ullstein, 1930. 4° (277 x 220mm). 97 black and white photographs. Original grey cloth-backed black boards, front board lettered in red, spine lettered in white, original dust-jacket, photo-illustrated on one side, and printed in colours on the reverse (dust-jacket lightly faded and with light spotting, a few short tears one of which with a small early repair). FIRST EDITION, IN AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF THE RARE DUST-JACKET. When found the fragile, un-laminated jacket is usually worn and chipped; it is an uncommon survival in this condition. Deutsche Arbeit is one of few books with a reversible dust-jacket, with a splendid modernist design on each side. The Photobook, vol. I, p.125. View on Christie's.com

JIRU, Vaclav. Praha a Prazane. [Prague and its People.] Prague: Teps, 1960. 4° (270 x 250mm). Illustrated throughout in gravure. Original white cloth, upper cover blocked in black and gold, original plastic dust-jacket, original linen box lined with red and yellow cloth and a red leather gilt blazon on the upper side. FIRST EDITION, A FINE COPY IN THE ORIGINAL BOX, perhaps a deluxe issue, of this lavishly produced and elegantly designed edition. A more modest, and more common edition was published in 1962. View on Christie's.com

KELLNER, Robert and Karl LUKES. Nasi v Pousti. [Our Lads In the Desert.] Prague: Nase Vojsko, 1946. 4° (260 x 205mm). 100 black and white photographs, illustrations. Original card wrappers, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (short tears and light wear at the extremities). FIRST EDITION. A very good copy. WorldCat locates just four copies: National Library of the Czech Republic, British Library, New York Public Library, and University of Indiana at Bloomington. View on Christie's.com

KLEIN, William. Rome. Paris: by Sapho for Editions du Seuil, 1959. 4° (275 x 215mm). c.165 black and white photographs; text printed in red and black. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (minor soiling on the cloth). Provenance: William Klein (presentation inscription, in dark-blue fountain pen, to:) -- Georges Sion (author). FIRST EDITION. A RARE CONTEMPORARY PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY KLEIN: in French, 'To Georges Sion. A Rome just as dramatic, perhaps, as New York -- but less desperate -- the proof: she has lasted! William Klein'. An excellent copy in a fine dust-jacket. Early Klein presentation inscriptions are distinctly uncommon. Georges Sion, the great traveller, author and critic, and member of the Goncourt and Académie Royale, wrote a number of travel books, often in collaboration with photographers. Federico Fellini remarked of Rome: 'This is the best Rome there is, and Klein is the best photographer there is. He knows Rome like a book and this is it'. 101 Books, p.143; Auer & Auer 388; The Open Book, pp.178-79. View on Christie's.com

MOHOLY-NAGY, Lázló. Malerei Photografie Film. Bauhausbücher 8. Munich: Albert Langen, 1925. 4° (230 x 180 mm). Approximately 100 black and white photographs. Original photo-illustrated wrappers (lower panel split at the spine and with loss at the lower edge touching the imprint). FIRST EDITION OF MOHOLY-NAGY'S HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL NEW VISION MANIFESTO. It is Moholy-Nagy's 'first attempt to lay out his entire theory and program for photography, and ultimately, for the transformation of human vision' (101 Books). 101 Books, pp.44-5 ('still infectious'); The Photobook, vol. I, pp.92-3 ('immediately successful and highly influential'). Cf. Fotografia Pública, pp.177-8 ('his importance as an educator was decisive'); The Open Book, pp.60-1; Regards à travers le livre 18 ('very important'). View on Christie's.com

MORIYAMA, Daido. Shashin yo sayonara. [Bye Bye Photography.] Tokyo: Shashin Hyoron-sha, 1972. Tall 8° (230 x 185mm). 137 double-page photographs. (Light spotting in some text leaves not affecting the images.) Original printed wrappers, original dust-jacket (light wear and light soiling, light spotting). Provenance: Daido Moriyama (presentation inscription to:) -- Koji Taki. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY MORIYAMA TO PROVOKE CO-FOUNDER KOJI TAKI: A RARE AND IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY. Moriyama remarked: 'when I was involved with Provoke, I used the copy machine a lot and experimented a lot. I used the images the way they came out of the machine. I did a lot of that stuff at Taki's place' (quoted in Kaneko & Vartanian). Bye Bye Photography is 'one of the most extreme photobooks ever published', and 'a brilliant barrage of stream of consciousness imagery' -- Moriyama's 'willingness to be led to the edge of photography's coherence is the photographic equivalent of Surrealist automatic writing by a camera that almost has a mind of its own' (The Photobook). A very good copy of a book often found in poor condition, and rarely with an early inscription. 101 Books, pp.218-20; Auer & Auer 543; Kaneko & Vartanian, Japanese Photobooks, p.29; The Open Book, pp.290-91; The Photobook, vol. I, pp.298-99. View on Christie's.com

SHÜTZ, O. Je Opet Jasno... [It is again clear...] Smiricei: by the author, 1946. 4° (305 x 215mm). 17 black and white photographs on 15 leaves. Original white wrappers printed in blue (light soiling). FIRST EDITION. A powerful memorial to the village of Lidice, outside Prague, completely annihilated at the command of Himmler in reprisal for the murder of Reinhard Heydrich. Schütz's strikingly modern photographs are accompanied by his own text. WorldCat locates only one copy outside of the Czech Republic: at Utah State University. View on Christie's.com

SUDEK, Josef. Ceskoslovensko. Praha. Prague: Melantrich, 1929. 7 vols, 4° (310 x 215mm). 120 black and white photographs. Original portfolios, upper sides printed in orange and blue (a few short tears at some folds, part 3 with a long tear along the spine), each part in original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (light wear, occasional light spotting, a few old repairs on the verso). FIRST EDITION. THE VERY RARE ISSUE IN PARTS, EACH WITH ITS OWN DUST-JACKET. A remarkable survival of this early Sudek publication; the jackets are in excellent condition given the very thin, un-laminated paper on which they are printed. ABPC records no copy in parts at auction in over 35 years. (7) View on Christie's.com

TOMATSU, Shomei. 11:02 Nagasaki. Tokyo: Shashindojinsha, 1966. 4° (220 x 190 mm). 119 black and white photographs. Original photo-illustrated boards (light browning on spine), original plastic dust-jacket (slightly short and shrunk as always, a few tears), original printed cardboard slipcase (minor browning and light wear). FIRST EDITION, IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET, and complete with the publisher's prospectus laid-in. An excellent copy of one of 'the most significant memorials to the defining event in twentieth-century Japanese history', which illustrates 'a clear progression towards truly world class Japanese photographic expression' (The Photobook). The Open Book, pp.226-27; The Photobook, vol. I, pp.274-77. View on Christie's.com

VOSOLSOBE, Josef. Terezinska Mucirna v Obrazech. [The Terezin Torture Centre in Pictures.] Prague: Worker's Publishing House, 1945. 8° (215 x 145mm). 27 black and white photographs. (Light soiling, light wear.) Original printed portfolio (tears at folds, some creasing and rubbing near the extremities). FIRST EDITION. Terezin, where many Czech Jews died in the Holocaust, had been misrepresented to a deputation from the Red Cross as an ideal Jewish settlement; a film was also made here for propaganda purposes. WorldCat gives no locations for this work outside of the Czech Republic. View on Christie's.com

BENOIS, Alexandre (1870-1960) and CHUKOVSKII, Kornei (editors). Elka. [The New Year Tree.] St. Petersburg: Parus [1918]. Small 2° (285 x 218mm). Illustrated throughout, sometimes in colour, one mounted plate after Repin. Original illustrated boards after Lebedev, printed endpapers (light wear at the spine including chipped headcap, corners lightly rubbed, light soiling). Provenance: Russian bookseller (small stamp). FIRST EDITION. AN EXCELLENT COPY and rare in this condition. This fine publication with contributions from Maxim Gor'kii, Mstislav Dobuzhinskii, Sasha Chernii, Iurii Annenkov, Il'ia Repin, Vladimir Lebedev and others, was originally intended for publication in Spring 1917 with the title The Rainbow, but was delayed until January 1918 when it was issued with a more appropriate title. It is sometimes described as the first Soviet children's book; but because it was largely prepared before History intervened, it is perhaps better thought of as the last pre-revolutionary children's book. Rats Collection 62 & pl.133. View on Christie's.com

BENOIS, Alexandre (1870-1960). Azbuka v kartinakh. [Alphabet in Pictures.] St. Petersburg: Commission for the Preparation of State Papers, 1924. 4° (321 x 255mm). Chromolithographed throughout. (Occasional minor spotting.) Original cloth-backed colour-printed boards (a trace of minor rubbing at the corners, light browning on the endpapers); purple cloth clamshell case. Provenance: Martin Kaiser (small signature on the front endpaper). FIRST EDITION. AN EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS BENOIS MASTERPIECE and rare in this condition: 'it is hardly possible to find a copy of this book in good state. The book has always been in high demand among bibliophiles. Its circulation was extremely limited' (Vengerov). Rats Collection 10; Sokrovishcha imperatorskikh knizhnykh sobranii v biblioteke Ermitazha 16; Vengerov Staraia Russkaia Kniga 66 View on Christie's.com

CHEKHONIN, Sergei (1878-1936; illustrator) and POLONSKAIA, Elizaveta (author; 1890-1969). Gosti. [The Guests.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Kniga, 1924. Small 2° (290 x 220mm). Illustrated thoughout. Original illustrated wrappers (tears at spine ends, one staple detached but holding, light wear). FIRST EDITION. Rare: apparently not in WorldCat. From 1918 Chekhonin headed the State Porcelain factory, where he was among the first to introduce avant-garde designs to Russian ceramics. Rats Collection 103. View on Christie's.com

CHERKESOV, Iurii (1900-1943). Prazdnik Igrushek. [The Toys' Holiday.] St. Petersburg: Akvilon, 1922. Oblong 2° (250 x 330mm). Colour printed title page, and 7 full-page colour illustrations. Original colour lithographed wrappers (front joint expertly repaired and a few small repairs). FIRST EDITION. One of 2000 copies only: a small edition for the Russian market. WorldCat locates only one copy in the USA, at the New York Public Library. Not in the British Library. Rats Collection 80 & pl. 145. View on Christie's.com

CHERKESOV, Iurii Iur'evich (1900-1943; illustrator) and BORISOV, Leonid (author). Glupaia Plita. [The Foolish Cooker.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Raduga, 1925. Small 2° (275 x 216mm). Illustrated in colour throughout. (Light soiling.) Original illustrated wrappers (light soiling and light spotting, short tear at spine ends with small early repairs). FIRST EDITION. Rare: apparently not in WorldCat. View on Christie's.com

DOBUZHINSKII, Mstislav Valerianovich (1875-1957). Veselaia Azbuka. [The Joly Alphabet.] St. Petersburg: Brokgauz-Efron, 1925. Small 2° (274 x 200mm). Colour lithographed throughout. Original colour lithographed wrappers, small printed slip mounted on the lower cover. FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY OF THIS DOBUZHINSKII MASTERPIECE, and a remarkable survival in this condition. Rare: ABPC records only one copy at auction in over 35 years (lot 197, Swann, 7 November 1991). WorldCat lists copies in the USA only at Princeton and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and none in the UK. Rats Collection 112. See front cover illustration. View on Christie's.com

DOBUZHINSKII, Mstislav Valerianovich (1875-1957; illustrator) and REMIZOV, Aleksei. Morshchinka. St. Petersburg: Shipovnik, 1907. Oblong 8° (125 x 160mm). 5 colour lithographed plates. Original illustrated card covers, sides printed in red and green (light wear). FIRST EDITION OF THE VERY RARE FIRST BOOK DESIGNED AND ILLUSTRATED BY DOBUZHINSKII. WorldCat locates only two copies: one in Denmark and the other at New York's Morgan Library. ABPC records no copy selling at auction in over 35 years. Rats collection 17 & pl. 123. View on Christie's.com

DOBUZHINSKII, Mstislav Valerianovich (1875-1957; illustrator) and CHUKOVSKII, Kornei (1882-1969). Barmalei. Moscow and St. Petersburg: Raduga, 1925. Small 2° (280 x 220mm). Colour illustrations throughout (light soiling). Original illustrated wrappers (short tear at spine foot, light soiling). FIRST EDITION. An excellent copy of this great pairing of artist and author. Rare: not in WorlCat, which locates only copies of the second edition at Amherst and at the British Library; ABPC records no copy selling at auction in over 35 years. View on Christie's.com

DOBUZHINSKII, Mstislav Valerianovich (1875-1957; illustrator) and OLESHA, Iurii Karlovich (1899-1960). Tri Tolstiaka. [Three Fat Men.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Zemlia i Fabrika, 1928. 8° (212 x 149mm). 25 colour-printed vignettes mounted in the text. Original cloth-backed illustrated boards, spine lettered in gilt (light soiling, light wear). FIRST EDITION. A very good copy of one of the author's best-loved works. WorldCat locates only one copy in the USA, in the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton; no copy in the UK. Rats Collection 236 & pl. 11. View on Christie's.com