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GRAY (Thomas). Grays Elegy, Illuminated by Owen Jones, published by London: Longman and Co., New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. first edition. 35 chromolithographed pages including title, illuminated in colour and gold, the text of the poem in black gothic script with colour initials surrounded by borders of leaves and vines, all edges gilt, gilt inner dentelles, binders small paper label on lower pastedown, contemporary blind-stamped full-calf over wooden boards imitating carved wood, blind-stamped floral design with cover title to front board, the first secular book to be illuminated in its entirety by the English architect and designer Owen Jones (1809-1874) the first known work to be issued in this special binding by Remnant and Edmonds, and the first recorded book with a joint American and English imprint on the title-page. 8vo. (1) Condition Report: Light rubbing to boards and spine, front board detaching spine ends and corners bumped, tape strengthening to joint of front pastedown and endpaper, joint to title-page cracked, pages 3-4 detaching, internally clean with some light marks margins.

William Morris (1834-1896). A handwritten letter signed by Morris and dated 1870, attached to the inside page of a third edition copy of the book 'The Earthly Paradise'. Published by F.S. Ellis.The letter is 20th May 1870 and reads 'Dear Sir, Thanks for your note, I have marked the place indicated by you for correction. Yours faithfullyWilliam Morris'.Also signed inside by C.J Rea (1894) and J Sutcliff. This letter was written by Morris from his publishers office 33 Kings Street, possibly to Mr Sutcliff, regarding amendments to be made, there were a number of editions and Morris was known to have made changes to these. See the University of Illinois Morris archive where it indicates that changes were requested: https://morrisarchive.lib.uiowa.edu/general-introduction-to-the-earthly-paradise Provenance: Inherited from the vendors parents, previously obtained by them following a house purchase in 1961 in Totnes. This book and letter had formed part of the library of Mr C F Rea, the former Head of King Edward 6th Totnes Grammar School, between 1896 and 1916. Condition Report: Letter is stuck down to the inside first page of the book

EALAND (C.A.). Insect Life, A. & C. Black, 1921. first edition, full-page illustrations, publishers pictorial cloth; WHITE (Gilbert). The Natural History of Selbourne, Edited with an Introduction and Notes by W.S. Scott, The Folio Society, 1962. first edition, drawings by John Piper, map illustrated endpapers, pictorial cloth, within slipcase; together with, CROWQUILL (Alfred, Illustrator). Original Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, a new edition, Trubner & Co., 1889; and three others by Daisy Ashford, including, The Young Visitors, Chatto & Windus, reprint, 1919, Love and Marriage, Where Love Lies Deepest, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1965-1966, both first editions, illustrated by Ralph Steadman, dust-jackets clipped. 8vo, 12mo. (6) Condition Report: EALAND (C.A.). Insect Life - rubbing and some staining to spine, spine ends and corners bumped, toning to edges, and some occasional foxing internally.WHITE (Gilbert). The Natural History of Selbourne - corners of slipcase rubbed, some sunning to spine, internally a bright clean copy.CROWQUILL (Alfred, Illustrator). Original Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen - spine ends and corners bumped, a clean bright copy.ASHFORD (Daisy) The Young Visitors - rubbing to boards, spine ends and corners bumped, occasional foxing; Love and Marriage and Where Love Lies, both overall good condition.

Rackham, Arthur, 'Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods' by Richard Wagner, translated by Margaret Armour, London, William Heinemann, 1911, first trade edition, original pictorial buckram cloth gilt, 4to, bearing inscription by Vita Sackville-West, Christmas 1911.

Potter (Beatrix)The Tale of Tom Kitten.Frederick Warne, 1907, first edition, first, second or third printing (identical according to Linder p. 427), 86 pages, light-brown/green boards (surface abrasions to pages 62/63 with loss, joints splitting, two splash marks to upper board); idem., The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes.Frederick Warne, 1911, first edition, first or second printing (identical according to Linder p. 429), 85 pages, dark green boards (owner’s name to half-title, stain to rear board);With a quantity of others by or about Beatrix Potter. (42 books, qty pamphlets)

Blyton (Enid), Five Get Into a Fix, Hodder & Stoughton, 1958, first edition, first printing, dust jacket; idem, Five Have a Wonderful Time, Five Run Away Together (2nd and 7th impressions); Fleming (Ian), Octopussy and The Living Daylights, Cape, 1966, first edition, no dust jacket; Milne (A. A.) When We Were Young, Methuen and Co., 1930; together with a collection of books, including: several volumes of A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells; Arthur Ransome volumes; Ladybird books; a selection of Bartholomew's Half-Inch maps; and others (qty: 5 boxes)

'BB' [Watkins-Pitchford (D.J.)]Brendon Chase, Holis and Carter, 1944, first edition, worn dust jacket;Clarke (Arthur C.), The Sands of Mars, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1951, first edition, price-clipped dust jacket (worn);Gorham (Maurice), Back to the Local, 1949, first edition, dust jacket;Roberts (Denys), The Bones of the Wajingas, Methuen, first edition, dust jacket;with nine others (13)

Sisson (J.L.). The Elements of Anglo-Saxon Grammar: to which are added A Praxis and Vocabulary. Leeds: Printed by Benjamin Dewhirst, 1819, first edition, 84 pages including advert leaf, worn and dust marked, boards not present.

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ANDRE DUBREUIL (Né en 1951)Fauteuil « Spine »Création en 1986L'un des premiers exemplaires vendus circa 1988Fer plat et barre à bétonH: 95,5cm.(37 5/8in.); L: 70,5cm.(27 3/4in.); P: 88cm.(34 5/8in.).One of the first edition of the « Spine » lounge chair by André Dubreuil in iron designed in 1986.Footnotes:Provenance :Galerie Avant-Scène, ParisAcquis auprès de cette dernière par l'actuel propriétaire circa 1988Bibliographie :J-L. Gaillemin, André Dubreuil, Poète du fer, Ed. Norma, reproduit en couverture et pp. 40-43, ref. 8-9 du catalogue.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: WW Lot is located in the Bonhams Warehouse and will only be available for collection from this location.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HERVÉ DI ROSA (Né en 1959)« Sans titre » 1983Édition originale augmentée d'un cahier de huit pages sérigraphiées et réhaussées par des dessins originaux et des estampillages de linogravureEdition numérotée 33/100Texte Jean Seisser, photos Louis Jammes, Éditeur Le Dernier Terrain vague et Galerie Gillespie Laaage-Salomon, Paris, 1983Couverture toilée rouge33cm.x25cm.A vendre sans prix de réserveA first edition enlarged with a booklet of eight screenprinted pages enhanced with original drawings and linocuts, numbered edition 33/100.Footnotes:Provenance :Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris Acquis auprès de celle-ci par l'actuel propriétaireFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Medicine.- Hall (Marshall) Observations on Blood-Letting, first edition, 2 folding tables, ex-library with usual ink-stamps, scattered faint spotting, modern cloth, 1836; Practical Observations and Suggestions in Medicine, publisher's advertisements bound at beginning, ex-library with usual labels and stamps, scattered faint spotting, modern cloth, 1845 § Hall (John Charles) Clinical Remarks on certain Diseases of the Eye ..., first edition, publisher's advertisements bound at beginning, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, scattered faint spotting, modern cloth, 1843; 8vo (3).

NO RESERVE Birds.- Meinertzhagen (Colonel R.) Birds of Arabia, first edition, plates in colour, folding maps in colour within pocket at rear, illustrations throughout, portion of ?dust-jacket laid down to front pastedown, original cloth, manuscript shelf-number in ink to spine, extremities faintly scuffed, 4to, 1954.

Low Countries.- Strada (Famiano) De bello Belgico decas prima [- decas secunda], 2 vol., engraved folding 'Leo Belgicus' map, 2 additional pictorial titles (1 a 'Leo Belgicus' map), and 23 (of 24) portraits, occasional spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary vellum, spines lacking label and darkened, covers lightly soiled, Rome, Hermann Scheus & heirs of Francesco Corbelletti, 1653-1648 § Puteanus (Erycius) Historiæ Belgicæ liber singularis, de obsidione Lovaniensi anni M. DC. XXXV., first edition, title with woodcut printer's device, folding engraved map of Louvain and a plate of projectiles, both trimmed to border and laid down, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, contemporary vellum, Antwerp, J. Cnobbaert, 1636; and 3 others, Low Countries, v.s. (6)

NO RESERVE Reeve (Philip) Mortal Engines, first edition, signed by the author on title, 2001; Predator's Gold, first edition, signed by the author on title, 2003; Infernal Devices, first edition, signed by the author on title, 2005; A Darkling Plain, first edition, signed by the author on title, 2006 § Wells (H.G.) The War in the Air, first edition, presentation bookplate on pastedown, half-title browned, third state red binding with pictorial overlay on upper cover, spines bumped, 1908 § Blyton (Enid) Five Go to Demon's Rocks, first edition, lightly spotted, original boards, dust-jacket, creased at edges, rather rubbed, 1961; and c.65 others, modern literature, v.s. (c.70)

Social theory.- Mandeville (Bernard) The Fable of the bees: or, private vices, publick benefits. With an essay on charity and charity-schools, 2 vol., vol.1 sixth edition, vol.2 first edition, some spotting or foxing, occasional staining, lightly browned, 20th century bookplates of Max Lazard, uniformly bound in contemporary calf, gilt spines in compartments and with red and black morocco labels (lacking 1 black), vol.2 lower cover detached, both vol. spine ends and corners worn, upper joint split, but holding, rubbed and marked, [Kress 4024; cf. Kress 2914 (first edition of 1714)], 8vo, Printed for J. Tonson [&] Printed and sold by J. Roberts, 1732-1729.

NO RESERVE Shelley (Percy Bysshe) The Cenci. A Tragedy in five acts, first English edition, gutter broken at Preface, dust-soiling to title, ?original drab wrappers with paper title and price label to upper cover, covers detached, with initial blank, title and dedication leaf attached to upper cover, extremities with a few tiny nicks, C and J Ollier, 1821 § Fielding (Henry) The Works, 12 vol., one of 250 copies, edited by George Saintsbury, half-titles, photogravure frontispiece and plates, original cloth, uncut, 1893 § Tomlinson (H.M.) Waiting for Daylight, first edition, original cloth, spine ends lightly bumped, 1922; and c.50 others literature, in cloth, 8vo (c.55)

NO RESERVE Geology.- Beche (H. T. de la) A Selection of the Geological Memoirs contained in the Annales des Mines, first edition, lacking folding frontispiece as often, 2 folding hand-coloured maps, 8 folding lithographs, 1 folding letterpress table, scattered faint spotting, original free endpapers bound-in, modern cloth, 8vo, 1824.

Lang (Andrew, editor) The Blue Fairy Book, first edition, hinge cracked, light spotting, 1889; The Brown Fairy Book, first edition, 1904; The Green Fairy Book, second edition, 1893; The Orange Fairy Book, new impression, 1914, bookplates, ink ownership inscriptions, original pictorial cloth, some gitl, lightly faded and rubbed; and another edited by Land, 8vo (5)

Aristocracy.- Barlow (Joel) Advice to the privileged orders in the several states of Europe, resulting from the necessity and propriety of a general revolution in the principle of government. Part I., second edition, final advertisement f. for a second part (published 1793), occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary light blue wrappers, torn and creased, Printed for J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church Yard, 1792 § Protestant dissenters.- Petre (Robert Edward, Baron) Letter from the Right Honourable Lord Petre, to the Right Reverend Doctor Horsley, Bishop of St. David's, half-title, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, loosening, contemporary drab wrappers, lightly stained, Dublin, Printed for P. Byrns, and J. Moore, 1790 § Irish public records.- First report to His Majesty's Commissioners on the Public Records of Ireland, list of all public repositories in Ireland, occasional spotting, lightly browned, original printed wrappers, 18th February, 1811; and 11 others, 18th & 19th century English, 8vo (14)

NO RESERVE Bell (Quentin) Virginia Woolf, 2 vol., first edition, third impression, photographic plates, vol. 1 title loose, ink ownership inscription front endpaper, original cloth, vol. 2 spine sunned, dust-jackets, vol. 2 some light toning and small tear upper joint foot, minute running to spine heads, price clipped, 1972 § Lehmann (John, editor) Orpheus, 2 vol., photographic plates, original decorative cloth, dust-jackets, both with small holes or tears to spine, vol.1 light dust soiling, vol. 2 spine toned, extremities a little rubbed with tiny tears, 1948-49 § Greene (Graham) and Hugh Greene, The Spy's Bedside Book, ink ownership inscription to front endpaper, original cloth, spine head sunned, dust-jacket, spine head and fold ends with small tears, extremities rubbed and creased, 1957; and c.65 others, modern literature, 8vo & 4to (c.70)

NO RESERVE Baker (Henry) Le Microscope a la Portee de tout le monde, first French edition, 15 folding engraved plates, occasional foxing, title browned, contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt, spine ends and upper joint worn, upper cover and spine partially blackened, extremities rubbed, 8vo, Paris, Ch. A. Jombert, 1754.

India.- Francklin (William) The History of the reign of Shah-Aulum, the present Emperor of Hindostaun. Containing the transactions of the court of Delhi, first edition, list of subscribers, engraved folding map and 4 portraits, some offsetting, portraits with mostly marginal spotting or foxing, occasional spotting elsewhere, lightly browned, contemporary calf, gilt, sympathetically rebacked in modern richly gilt calf with burgundy leather label, corners restored, covers rubbed and heavily scuffed, but solid, 4to, Printed for the author, by Cooper and Graham; and sold by R. Faulder, Bond Street, 1798.⁂ Provenance: Herbert Barker, Blackrock, 1905, who notes the 'R. Barker' in list of subscribers (ink inscription to front free endpaper, and pencil notes within list of subscribers).

[Jewel (John)] [An Exposition vpon the two Epistles of the Apostle Sainct Paule to the Thessalonians], first edition, mostly in black letter, lacking sig. A (first 4ff.) and final blank, facsimile title-page tipped onto front endpaper, sig. E with worm trace to inner margin just touching text, P1 short tear into text without loss, occasional later pencil marginalia, soiling and staining, light browning, rear free endpaper with later ink inscription to verso, modern calf-backed marbled boards, spine with green morocco label, [STC 14603], 8vo (153 x 93mm.), [R. Newberie, and H. Bynneman], [1583].⁂ Includes Jewel's diatribe against usury.

NO RESERVE Polar.- Dautert (Erich) Big Game in Antarctica, first English edition, photographic plates in black and white, original cloth, spine ends bumped, a little minor soiling, 1937 § Simmonds (P.L.) Sir John Franklin and The Arctic Regions, frontispiece and additional title, original advertisement endpapers, original pictorial boards, spines mostly peeled away, 1855 § Grenfell (Wilfred) Adrift on an Ice-Pan, plain plates, original pictorial cloth, 1910, and 16 others relating to the polar regions, v.s., (19)

Mahon (John) Harry Pollitt. A Biography, first edition, signed by the author's wife Marjorie Pollitt and c.62 others to front pastedown and free endpaper, all seemingly members of the Communist Party, photographic plates, newspaper cutting and 3 photographs loosely inserted, original cloth, spine ends and corners slightly bumped, dust-jacket, price-clipped, spine a little sunned, a few tiny nicks to spine head, lightly rubbed at joints and edges, upper joint with short tear to head, 1976; and a small quantity of ephemera relating to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, including a folding map illustrating "The Effect of One Hydrogen Bomb" dropped on the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, as well as a 15pp. pamphlet entitled "Stop the H-Bomb Race", v.s. (Sm.Qty.)⁂ Harry Pollitt (1890-1960) British politician who twice served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain. The loosely inserted newspaper clipping advertises a lecture given by Pollitt on "Marx and the Working-Class Movement". Of the loosely inserted photographs, one shows a young Pollitt talking with an unknown gentleman, and the others a house where Pollitt lived.

Estienne (Henri) L'introduction au traité de la conformité des merveilles anciennes avec les modernes. Ou, traité preparatif à l'Apologie pour Herodote, first edition, second issue, woodcut printer's device to title (Schreiber 12), woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, final 2 ff. blank, later ink underlining and marginalia, including a few manicules, lacking p4&5, worm trace at head of sigs. m-x, occasionally affecting a letter of headline, lower margins water-stained, late medieval manuscript used as rear endpaper, contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, leather ties, lightly soiled, [Renouard, Estienne, 126:7; Schreiber 161; cf. Adams S1771], 8vo, [Geneva], [Henri Estienne], November, 1566.⁂ Ostensibly written in praise of Herodotus, but in fact a satire of the Roman Catholic Church and contemporary society. Provenance: Elizabeth Armstrong, Estienne scholar, author of Robert Estienne Royal Printer, 1954 (20th century book label to front pastedown).

NO RESERVE Westermarck (Edward) The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, 2 vol., first English edition, author's presentation inscription in Swedish to vol. 1, half-titles, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 8vo, 1906-08.⁂ Provenance: Inscribed to C. G. Estlander.

NO RESERVE Astronomy.- Proctor (Richard) Saturn and its System, first edition, 14 plates, of which one folding, some light off-setting, small ink ownership inscription to front endpaper, bookplate, contemporary tree calf with gilt arms to cover, spine gilt with red morocco label, spine chipped at foot, with small tear also to lower cover, 8vo, 1865.

Johnston (Robert) Historia Rerum Britannicarum, first edition, engraved title vignette, marginal toning, 18th century vellum, modern morocco spine label, discoloured, endpapers renewed, tall 8vo, Amsterdam, for J. Ravesteyn, 1655.

Jansson (Tove) Moominland Midwinter, first edition in English, illustrations, some toning to margins and endpapers, original cloth, spine a touch faded and with light crease to head, spine ends a little bumped, dust-jacket, fading to spine and small portion of upper panel, chipping to spine ends, very short tear into text to head of upper panel, lightly rubbed with a few small nicks to edges, still a very good example overall, 8vo, 1958.

Lake District.- Robinson (Thomas) An Essay towards a Natural History of Westmorland and Cumberland, 2 parts in 1, first edition, errata slip pasted to final leaf, advertisement leaf at end, occasional spotting, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked preserving original spine, gilt, by J.L. for W. Freeman, 1709; and another Britain, 8vo (2)⁂ Part 1 largely covers minerals, rocks, metals and mines.

Bradley (Richard) A Course of Lectures, upon the Materia Medica, Antient and Modern, first edition, ownership inscriptions to front and rear endpapers, paper label tipped onto margin p.12, contemporary calf, rubbed, joints split, 8vo, 1730

Chivalric romance.- The Famous and renovvned historie of Primaleon of Greece, sonne to the great and mighty Prince Palmerin d'Oliua, Emperour of Constantinople, translated by Anthony Munday, 3 parts in 1, first edition in English of the complete work, black letter, titles with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head-pieces and historiated or decorative initials, lacking S8 of book 2 and A1 of book 3, book 3 Q8 torn and repaired with loss of half of text, book 2 S7 and title of book 3 laid down (tantalisingly covering annotations), book 1 H1&3 torn within text, with little loss to H1, book 2 L3 small piece missing from lower margin and a couple of short tears within text, with minor loss, trimmed at head, affecting some headlines, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary blind-ruled calf, rebacked, spine in compartments and with brown leather label, covers rubbed and scuffed, corners worn, [STC 20367], small 4to, Printed by Thomas Snodham, 1619.⁂ Rare at auction, with the last copy we can trace being in 1917 (RBH also records a copy offered by Quaritch in 1934).

NO RESERVE Gibbon (Edward) Miscellaneous Works, 3 vol., first edition, vol.1 with later newspaper clipping on endpapers opposite title, ownership name to title, bookplate to pastedown, contemporary calf, gilt border, scuffed and marked, uniformly rebacked, 4to, 1796.

NO RESERVE Searle (Ronald).- Webb (Kaye), Paris Sketchbook, first edition, ink inscription front endpaper, light foxing peripheral leaves, jacket with a few small tape repairs, some toning, Saturn Press, 1950 § Atkinson (Alex) The Big City, jacket with some minor damp-staining to edges, 1958; Russia for Beginners, ink inscription to front endpaper, 1960; first editions, all illustrated by Ronald Searle, original cloth, dust-jackets, all with a few small chips or tears to extremities, spines toned; and c.50 others illustrated by Ronald Searle, v.s. (c.55)

Engineering.- Fairbairn (William) An Account of the Construction of the Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges, first edition, 20 plates, of which 19 folding, 7 with large tears and expert repairs, one or two short splits to foldlines, illustrations, scattered faint spotting, modern half-calf, 8vo, 1849.

NO RESERVE Garden Suburbs.- Parker (Barry) and Raymond Unwin. The Art of Building a Home, second edition, presentation copy warmly inscribed on front free endpaper from Raymond Unwin to H.A. Welch, title with decorative initial, plates at end, original cloth, a little soiled and spine faded, 1901 § Sault (Joseph W.) Garden Citizens of To-day and To-morrow, first edition, presentation copy signed by the author on front pastedown, plates, original pictorial boards, foxed, St. Albans, [1937], 8vo (2)⁂ The first is inscribed: "To H.A. Welch from R. Unwin. In acknowledgment of valuable service during the commencement of the Hampstead Garden Suburb & with best wishes for a successful career."

Egypt.- Peet (T. Eric), C. Leonard Woolley and others. The City of Akhenaten, 3 parts in 4 vol., first edition, plates, maps and plans, some folding, a few in colour, ex-library with usual stamps and markings (including large red ink mark to front free endpapers), 'cancelled' stamps to front pastedowns and endpapers, vol. 1 with circular ink-stamps to recto and verso of each plate, vol. 2 to versos only, occasional very light soiling, some toning to margins and endpapers, original cloth-backed printed boards, library reference to foot of spines, vol. 1 & 2 with library blind stamp to lower covers, vol. 3 & 4 with gilt library stamp to upper covers, rubbed and soiled, vol. 1 spine ends and some corners worn, Egypt Exploration Society, 1923-51; and 3 others Egypt related, ex-library copies, including Frankfort's The Mural Painting of El-'Amarneh, 4to & folio (7)

NO RESERVE Medicine.- Kirkland (Thomas) Observations upon Mr. Pott's General Remarks on Fractures...., lacking half-title, 1770; An Appendix to the Observations..., half-title, engraved plate of hip joint, advertisement leaf at end, 1771, together 2 works in 1 vol., first editions, stab-holes, foxing and some soiling, first work with small ink stain to final leaf, modern calf-backed marbled boards, red morocco label, T.Becket & P.A. de Hondt § Wathen (Jonathan) The Conductor and Containing Splints; or, a Description of Two Instruments, for the Safer Conveyance and More Perfect Cure of Fractured Legs, third edition, lacking half-title, with 5 engraved plates, 2 folding, some foxing, light offsetting to plates, later marbled wrappers, a little rubbed, T.Cadell, 1781, 8vo (2)

Macdonald (George) The Princess and Curdie, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author on half-title, frontispiece and 8 plates only (of 10) by James Allen, 32pp. of publisher's advertisements to rear dated 'October 1882', endpapers browned, cracking to gutter in a few places, original pictorial cloth, recased, toning, particularly spine, ends bumped, otherwise rubbed, 8vo, Chatto & Windus, 1883.⁂ Signed presentation inscription reads "For Mabel, from George Macdonald in humble acknowledgement of an unpardonable injury". We can trace no other signed copies.

Wallpaper.- Ackerman (Phyllis) Wallpaper: It's History, Design, and Use, first edition, original cloth with wallpaper piece design onlaid to upper cover, spine ends frayed, New York, 1923 § Entwisle (E.A.) A Literary History of Wallpaper, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, 1960; The Book of Wallpaper, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1954; and 7 others on wallpaper, v.s. (10)

Chesterfield (Philip Dormer, Earl of) Letters Written...to His Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq, 2 vol., first edition, second issue with "qui auroit" in line 16 p.55 vol. 1, half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece (off-setting), p.343 vol. 2 creased, the odd scattered spot or stain, contemporary calf, rebacked, preserving original spine with green and red morocco labels, small repairs to corners, some scuffs to covers, 4to, J. Dodsley, 1774.

Philosophical Letters between the late Learned Mr. Ray and several of his ingenious Correspondents, Natives and Foreigners, first edition, engraved illustration, diagrams, occasional ink underlining and neat marginal notes, scattered spotting, lacking final advertisement as often, previous owner's ink signature to early blank, ex-Nottingham libraries with usual labels and ink-stamps, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, rubbed, published by W. Derham ... printed by William and John Innys, 1718 § Locke (John) An Essay concerning Human Understanding, 2 vol., previous owner's ink signature to front pastedown, contemporary calf, a little rubbed, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1786 § Hervey (James) Meditations and Contemplations, 2 vol., engraved frontispieces, full-page illustration, scattered spotting, contemporary calf, a little rubbed, 1764; and another, 8vo & 12mo (6).

NO RESERVE English Civil War.- Hyde (Edward) A Collection of Several Tracts of the Right Honorable Edward, Early of Clarendon, first edition, ownership inscription in pencil to title, some worming to margins, some scattered spotting, some damp-staining to lower edges, hinges reinforced, reversed calf, re-backed, retaining original spine, corners bumped, some staining to covers, T. Woodward, folio, 1727.

Grant (Ulysses S.) Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, etched portrait frontispieces, plates, map illustrations, vol. 2 with folding map at end, ink ownership inscriptions to pastedowns and front free endpaper, frontispieces lightly offset and with ink-stamp to verso, vol. 1 frontispiece lacking tissue-guard, vol. 1 first few ff. loose or working loose, a few other ff. beginning to work loose, 2 plates with short tears without loss, margins lightly toned, vol. 1 upper hinge broken, original pictorial cloth, gilt, lightly rubbed, heavier to spine ends and corners, 8vo, New York, 1885-86.⁂ The cloth depicting the congressional medal awarded to Grant in 1863.

NO RESERVE Carte (Thomas) An History of the Life of James Duke of Ormonde, 2 vol., first edition, scattered faint spotting, bookplate, contemporary calf, neatly strengthened at joints, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, folio, by J. Bettenham, for J.J. and P. Knapton, 1736.⁂ A third volume of letters was published in 1735, but is lacking here, as is usual. Bookplate of Francis Thomas de Gray Cowper (1834-1905).

NO RESERVE Botany.- Graefer (Charles) A Descriptive Catalogue of Herbaceous and Perennial Climbing Plants, first edition, small loss to title fore-edge, ex-Nottingham Public Libraries with ink-stamp to title, scattered spotting, modern half-calf, Nottingham, 1816 § Ordoyno (Thomas) Flora Nottinghamiensis, or a Systematic Arrangement of the Plants growing naturally in the county of Nottingham, list of subscribers, ex-Nottingham Public Libraries with usual labels and ink-stamps including printed paper label to B1, one or two tears with neat old tape repairs, corrections inserted by hand, scattered faint spotting, later crushed morocco-backed cloth, library blind-stamp to upper cover, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, Newark, 1807; (2).⁂ The first mentioned is scarce, with only 7 copies on WorldCat, of which only 3 are in the UK.

Law.- Stephen (Henry John) A Treatise on the Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions; comprising a Summary of the whole Proceedings in a Suit of Law, first American edition, inscriptions to endpapers in pencil and ink, contemporary ink ownership inscription to title, title strengthened at inner margin, a few instances of contemporary ink correction or marginalia, foxed, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked and recornered, original spine laid down and with new morocco label, old covers rubbed, Philadelphia, 1824 § De Lolme (Jean Louis) The Constitution of England, or an Account of the English Government, new edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, very lightly offset, O3 with tear touching text but without loss, faint spotting to peripheral ff., front free endpapers with small worm trace to foot, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt and with black morocco label, rubbed at spine ends and corners, upper joint starting at head, for G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1788; and others, most law related, v.s. (10)

[Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft)] Monsieur Nongtongpaw, illustrations by R. Cruikshank, ownership names to endpapers and title, light spotting, original wrappers, spine defective, rather creased and rubbed, 8vo, 1830 § Gorey (Edward) The Gorey Alphabet, first English edition, original boards, faded, spine rubbed, 1961 § Greenaway (Kate) Alphabet, spotted, original wrappers, spine reinforced with tape, creased and discoloured, [c.1885]; and c.100 others, mostly children's literature, also with a Thornton edition set of Novels of the Bronte Sisters, edited by Temple Scott, v.s. (c.110)⁂ The first is Monsieur Nongtongpaw is an 1808 poem thought to have been written by Shelley as an 11 year old. The poem is an expansion of Charles Dibdin's song of the same name and was published as part of William Godwin's Juvenile Library. Rare in original wrappers.

Harbou (Thea von) Metropolis. Roman Prelozila Marie Dolejsi, first Czech edition, black and white photographic illustrations, lightly browned throughout, original pictorial cloth, gilt lettering to spine a touch faded, light sunning to spine and extremities, spine ends and corners very lightly rubbed, slight shelf-lean, still an excellent copy, 8vo, Prague, 1927.⁂ This is the only edition which is illustrated with 66 still frames from the 1927 film directed by Harbou's husband, Fritz Lamb.

NO RESERVE Nottinghamshire poets.- Millhouse (Robert) The Destinies of Man, first edition, ex-library with occasional ink-stencilled numbers and shelf-mark to title verso, original wrappers laid down and strengthened at edges and bound-in, modern cloth-backed boards, 1832; Blossoms ..., ex-Nottingham Public Libraries with usual labels and ink-stamps, abrasion mark to front free endpaper where label removed, modern morocco-backed cloth, library blind-stamp to upper cover, a little rubbed, 1823 § Miller (Thomas) Summer Morning, half-title, engraved title vignette, occasional fain marginal staining, ex-Nottingham Mechanics' Institute with usual labels and ink-stamps, original upper cover bound-in, later half-morocco, a little rubbed, 1841; and 2 others similar, 8vo (5)

NO RESERVE Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) The Second World War, 6 vol., "Chartwell edition", colour frontispieces and plain plates, spotting to title v.1, original red cloth with leather inlay to upper covers depicting Churchill in profile, contrasting labels to spine, a few light scuffs or minor stains, [1954]; A History of the English Speaking Peoples, 4 vol., first edition, vol. 1-2 with facsimile inscription in imitation of author's hand to slip, stamped or printed in blue, laid down to front endpaper, contemporary red half morocco, vol. 1-3 neatly rebacked, preserving original spine, corners a little scuffed, 1956-58; and c.40 others either by the same, or relating to WWII, 8vo (c.50)

NO RESERVE Mahan (Capt. A. T.) Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, frontispieces, plates and maps, 'Easton Neston' house labels to front pastedowns, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 8vo, Boston, 1905.

NO RESERVE Woman novelist.- [West (Jane)] The Infidel Father, 3 vol., first edition, 2, 3, and 2pp. advertisements respectively at end of each vol., lacking half-title in vol.2 (the only called for), some spotting / mostly light foxing and staining, lightly browned, ink inscription 'Mary Franks, 1805' to front free endpaper of each vol., contemporary tree calf, spines gilt and with black leather vol. number labels, lacking title labels, vol.1 upper cover detached, vol.2 lower cover detaching, corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Not in Sadleir; Wolff 7111; ], 12mo, A. Strahan for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1802.

NO RESERVE Ireland.- Hall (Mr. & Mrs. S. C.) Ireland: its Scenery, Character, &c., 3 vol., first edition, 49 engraved plates, 18 engraved maps, illustrations, some full-page, scattered spotting and off-setting, contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, 4to, 1841-43.

Pomet (Pierre) A Compleat History of Druggs...divided into three classes, Vegetable, Animal, and Mineral; with their Use in Physic, Chemistry, Pharmacy..., 2 vol. in 1, first edition in English, list of subscribers, 86 engraved plates, lacking pp.251-4, title and final f. hinged in, margins with minor paper repairs, occasional light even browning, some plates trimmed, modern panelled calf, [Nissen BBI 3219; Hunt 428; Wellcome IV.411; Not in Sabin], 4to, for R. Bonwicke, William Freeman, Timothy Goodwin [& others], 1712.⁂ The most complete materia medica of its time, by the chief druggist to Louis XIV, listing vegetables, animals and minerals with their pharmaceutical benefits. The work includes a catalogue of seeds brought back from America, and descriptions and plates of sugar-refining, indigo & tobacco preparation, bee-keeping, silk-manufacture, and whaling.

von Mises (Ludwig) The Theory of Money and Credit, first edition in English, half-title faintly spotted, original cloth, lightly marked, 8vo, 1934.

Desgodets (Antoine) Les Loix des Batimens, suivant la Coutume de Paris, first edition, some light browning, a couple of marginal defects to preliminaries, contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt, a little rubbed, Paris, 1748; and 3 others including 2 defective 16th century Italian works, v.s. (4)

NO RESERVE Cats (Jacob) Alle de Wercken, Zoo Oude als Nieuwe, engraved frontispiece and title vignettes, occasionally trimmed, occasional light staining spots, contemporary vellum, upper corner ripped away, lacking silk ties, lightly marked, large 4to, Amsterdam, by I. I Schipper, 1665 § Hooft (P.C.) Neederlandsche Histoorien..., first edition, 2 parts in 1, additional engraved title, margins neatly repaired, light water staining, contemporary vellum, marked and rubbed, tall 8vo, 1642. sold not subject to return.