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Sackville-West, [Vita]. Sissinghurst, first & limited edition, signed by the author and numbered 418/500, London: Printed by hand by Leonard & Virginia Woolf and published at The Hogarth Press, 1931. Small quarto, publisher's mottled paper-covered boards, blue-green endpapers, slight wear to spine but otherwise very well-preserved, clean & bright, a small crease/nick at edge of limitation page and a couple of very faint spots, an excellent copyProvenance: Loosely-inserted slip from Peter Harrington, Chelsea

Literature. A miscellaneous collection of books comprising: Marnie, by Winston Graham, first edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1961, octavo with dust-jacket; De Profundis, by Oscar Wilde, second edition, London: Methuen, 1906, octavo, publisher's gilt blue cloth splitting at spine; The Sphinx, by Oscar Wilde, London: John Lane, 1918, paper-covered boards; Extracts from Adam's Diary, by Mark Twain, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1904, publisher's illustrated cloth; Marmion, A Tale of Flodden Field, by Sir Walter Scott, London: A. W. Bennett, 1866, illustrated with mounted photographic albumen prints, gilt cloth; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. Condition varied, sold as one collection with all faults (6)

Children's & Illustrated. A collection of books comprising: Lucy Dawson's Dog Book, London: Collins, 1939, quarto, worn dust-jacket; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J. K. Rowling, first edition, London: Bloomsbury, 2003, hardback with d.j.; Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by J. K. Rowling, early but not a first, NY: Scholastic, 1998, hardback with d.j.; The Bee-Man of Orn, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, London: Collins, 1967; Higglety Pigglety Pop!, by Maurice Sendak, NY: Harper & Row, 1967. Condition varied, sold as one collection with all faults (5)

Stevie Smith (1902-1971), English poet and novelist. Two original illustrations and a signed copy of Not Waving but Drowning. Friskers, or Gods and Men, ink illustration numbered 1/1, mounted on pink paper, signed on mount, 17.5cm by 11cm, framed & glazed with typed poem verso. The Hat, illustration numbered 1/3, a handwritten stanza on card, 'I love my beautiful hat more than anything / And through my beautiful hat I see a wedding ring / The king will marry me and make me his own before all / And when I am married I shall wear my hat and walk on the palace wall', mounted on pink paper in an acrylic box-frame. Not Waving but Drowning, Poems by Stevie Smith, first edition, signed by the author in blue ink on front free endpaper, gift inscription in the hand of Percy Horton, London: Andre Deutsch, 1957, internally very well-preserved, clean & bright, erratum slip at p.39, publisher's yellow paper-covered boards with bump/split at base of spine but otherwise very good, unclipped dust-jacket (priced 12s 6d) with chipping/creasing at edges (3)Provenance: By descent of Walter J. Strachan (1903-1994), poet, translator and champion of the arts. Strachan taught at Bishop's Stortford College and was the author of numerous works, including A Relationship with Henry Moore 1942-1976 [Elliott Group, 1988]; Towards Sculpture: Drawings and Maquettes from Rodin to Oldenburg [Thames & Hudson, 1976]; Apollinaire to Aragon: Thirty Modern French Poets [Methuen, 1948]. Much of his personal collection went to the Tate, the V&A and the Taylor Institution, as well as forming the basis of The Walter Strachan Collection, University of Manchester Library

[Bartholomaeus Anglicus De proprietatis rerum, London: Thomas Berthelet, 1535], second edition in English, woodcut printer's device at end. Thomas Berthelet was King's Printer and King's Bookbinder for Henry VIII, and this book was printed during the reign of Henry VIII. Recorded as folio but bound in sixes, 26.3cm, title page provided in manuscript [probably during 18th century], bearing armorial bookplate for Richard Barwell of Stansted [an early trader with the East India Company], 'To the Reder' and 'The Tabul' in 9pp., 'The Prologue of the Translator' in 4pp., main text paginated once per leaf from 1-386, lacking p.387, the final leaf [p.388] present but with loss at top edge affecting first two lines of text (but not affecting printer's device verso), pagination erratic in places but textually right and following on with correct signatures at bottom. Contents mostly very good with general age toning, a few pale marks in places, the first couple of leaves of 'Tabul' worn & loose, panelled calf binding heavily worn with boards detached, but an honest example [STC, 2nd ed., 1537]

Mantel, Hilary. Wolf Hall, signed by the author, first edition, 11th impression, hardback with dust-jacket, London: Fourth Estate, 2009. Together with four signed Jilly Cooper first editions (Polo, 1991; Appassionata, 1996; Pandora, 2002; Wicked!, 2006), and a signed first edition of The Fourth Estate by Jeffrey Archer, 1996 (6)

Dulac, Edmund (Illust.). Fairies I Have Met, by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell, scarce first edition, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, [1907]. Octavo, publisher's pictorial cloth, illustrated with eight colour plates including frontispiece as called for, 6pp. publisher's advertisements at rear, good & bright with pale spotting in places, slight wear to cloth at corners/edges. Together with The Tempest, illustrated by Edmund Dulac, first edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1908], quarto, publisher's gilt green cloth, complete with 40 colour plates (including frontispiece) with captioned tissue-guards, good & bright with faint spotting in places, and Peter Pan & Wendy, by J. M. Barrie, illustrated by Gwynedd M. Hudson, Hodder for Boots, [c. 1931], gift inscription 1933, quarto, publisher's discoloured cloth, internally good & bright with toning/spotting to endleaves (3) 

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter Collection. SIGNED. Comprising: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, fourth issue, signed by the author, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, hardback with dust-jacket; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, seventh issue, signed by the author, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, hardback with dust-jacket [these first two novels housed in The Harry Potter Gift Set slipcase]; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, first edition, 20th issue, signed by the author, London: Bloomsbury, 1999, hardback with dust-jacket; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, first edition, signed by the author, London: Bloomsbury, 2000, hardback with dust-jacket, together with first editions of the three remaining novels in the series, unsigned, and a "golden ticket" for the J. K. Rowling signing event at Ottakar's, The Glades Shopping Centre, Bromley, Kent, 18 July [2000]. The books are in fine or near-fine, unread condition, internally very well-preserved, clean & bright, jackets bold & vibrant, possibly a binding flaw causing two short creases to lower spine of Goblet of Fire, some light bumping at edges of spines of Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows (8)

"Snaffles" [Payne, Charles Johnson]. Snaffles: Being a Selection of his Hunting and Racing Prints, limited edition numbered xxx of 750, signed by the publisher, compiled by Mark Flower, text by Donald Crawford, research by Caroline Juler, New Zealand: Millwood Press, 1983. Oblong folio, quarter morocco, housed in solander box. Complete within original card packaging - this was opened for the first time for the purposes of cataloguing (please see images showing box at point of opening), thus in fine condition

A first edition Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

° ° Campbell, Alexander- A Journey From Edinburgh Through Parts of North Britain: Containing Remarks on Scottish Landscape and Observations on Rural Economy, Natural History, Manufactures, Trade, and Commerce, first edition, 2 vols., 44 sepia aquatint plates, near contemporary diced morocco, London, T.N. Longman & O. Rees, 1802,4to. Sold with William Nimmo’s ‘History of Stirlingshire’, 2 vols., 1817 (4).

° ° LONDON: Pennant, Thomas. On London, first edition, 12 engraved plates including 1 folding, engraved title vignette, 8pp. index to rear, early 19th century half calf, London, Robert Faulder, 1790, 4to. Sold with ‘Additions and Corrections to the First Edition of Mr. Pennant’s Account of London’, 1791, and Thomas Pennant’s ‘The Journey From Chester to London’, 1782, and the third edition of ‘Some Account of London’, 1791, and 3 others (7).

° ° IRELAND: Ireland, Samuel- Picturesque Views on the River Thames, from Its Source in Gloucestershire to the Nore; with Observations on the Public Buildings and Other Works of Art in its Vicinity, first edition, 2 vols., 2 additional sepia-tinted aquatint titles, 52 plates, 2 maps, near contemporary brown full calf, gilt ruled, green morocco lettering pieces, London, T. and J. Egerton, 1792, 4to. Sold with William Bernard Cooke’s ‘The Thames; or, Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public Buildings, and Picturesque Scenery, on the Banks of that Noble River’, 2 vols., 1811, and Henry Skrine’s ‘A General Account of all the Rivers of Note in Great Britain’, 1801 (5).

Reproductions of forty-eight paintings and drawings prepared as illustrations for Tolkien's works. First American Edition. Accompanied by extant pre-studies, black-and-white versions, and notes on preparation and publication. Hardcover; 104 pages; includes slipcase. Major wear to slipcase; minor age related wear to book. #tolkien #book #art #lordoftherings #fantasy Artist: Christopher TolkienIssued: 1979Dimensions: 12"W x 12.5"HManufacturer: Houghton Mifflin CompanyCountry of Origin: Great BritainCondition: Major wear to slipcase; minor age related wear to book.

Designed in a limited edition, this fine bone china figure modeled as the villain from Disney's first princess movie, wearing her iconic purple dress, black robe, and yellow crown. Handwritten "Original" and dated. "This item is the property of Royal Doulton and title to the property remains with the company at all times backstamp". Artist: P. ParsonsIssued: 1998Dimensions: 5"L x 3.75"W x 9"HManufacturer: Royal DoultonCountry of Origin: EnglandCondition: Age related wear.

1997 Mazda MX-5 Harvard Special Edition- 3948 miles Registration Number: P244 YWXDate of First Registration: 14/6/1997VIN Number: JMZNA18P200314602Engine Number: BP264877MOT Expires: 01/07/2012V5C Present Listing 0 Former KeepersCurrent Mileage Shown: 3,948 miles1840ccSilverWith original MOT test certificates dated: 09/06/2000, 11/06/2001,11/06/2002, 04/06/2003, 30/06/2004, 21/06/2005, 14/06/2007, 02/07/2008, 01/07/2009, 21/06/2010 and 23/06/2011An excellent one owner car which has been dry stored since new. With hard and soft covers and red leather interior.MOT History: 2006 at 3,317 miles, 2007 at 3,577 miles, 2008 at 3,660 miles, 2009 at 3,926 miles, 2010 at 3,930 miles and 2011 at 3,944 miles.

Registration: P907KWC VIN: W0L000085V9003363 Milage Showing: 136,000 Transmission: Manual MOT: 11/08/2023Special editionHuge history fileLeather interior First registered January 1997 making it one of the last Calibras produced. Vauxhall produced 9 different special edition models SE1 to SE9 all with different one off colours and features. The SE7 featured two-coat pearlescent paint, cream leather interior, heated front seats, air con, five-spoke alloy wheels and low-profile tyres. Just 33 were built of which only 16 show as remaining on UK roads.This example shows 4 former keepers, 136,000 miles and is sold with 3 sets of keys as well as a huge history file including original book pack including service book containing 12 stamps as well as large amount of receipts for additional servicing and maintenance. Please see our walk around video for more information and engine start upGUIDE PRICE £2,500 - £3,500

'Horse Under Water' by Len Deighton. First edition 1963, Pub. Jonathan Cape. DW unclipped and VG+. Slight few knocks. Red boards, black end papers, no loose crossword.

Boxed Royal Crown Derby paperweight in the form of an Ashbourne Hedgehog, limited edition of 500, first quality with gold stopper and certificate. In good condition with no obvious damage or restoration.

Royal Crown Derby paperweight in the form of a Garden Snail, limited edition, first quality with gold stopper. In good condition with no obvious damage or restoration.

AN ELIZABETH II SILVER GOBLET, 'THE HERTFORD ELIZABETHAN CHALICE', A REPRODUCTION by Garrard & Co Ltd, London 1972, limited edition no. 393/1300, the slightly tapering bowl engraved with a crest, girdle band and presentation inscription dated 1647, raised on a knopped stem issuing from a circular spreading foot, further engraved to underside of foot. 15.7cm high, 6.2 troy ouncesThe cup, a true reproduction of the original Hertford Elizabethan Chalice, was commissioned to commemorate the 1300th anniversary of the first ever national Church assembly held in England - the Synod of Hertford 673.Marks clear and well struck; numbered 393 also stamped 'GARRARD & CO LTD / CROWN JEWELLERS / 112. REGENT STREET / LONDON. W1' to underside. Presentation engraving to front reads: 'Ye Gift of ye Earl of Salisbury Chief Steward / 1647' and 'Isaac Puller Mayor'. Further engraving to base reads 'Reproduction of the Hertford Elizabethan Chalice made by Garrard'. Stands upright, no rocking to base. Surface marks/tarnish and light scratches commensurate with age and use.

DAME LAURA KNIGHT DBE, RA, RWS (1877-1970) FOR FOLEY, A COFFEE SERVICE comprising coffee pot, cream jug, sugar bowl, five cups and six saucers, no. V622, some marked first edition, black printed marks. (14) Coffee pot 14cm highHairline crack to the coffee pot, and the tip of the spout has been re-stuck. The remaining pieces in good condition without chips, cracks or restoration.

Shakespeare; 'Traduit de l'Anglois', dédié au Roi, translated by Pierre Le Tourneur, 12 vols (some missing), 3 (1778), 4,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,15,16 (1782), rebound leather, first edition of Le Tourneur's translation which was instrumental in securing Shakespeare's popularity in France (12)

Railwayana; Butterworth (Edwin); 'Views on the Manchester & Leeds Railway, Drawn from Nature, and on Stone, by A.F. Tait, with a descriptive history by Edwin Butterworth', pub for A.F. Tait, by Bradshaw and Blacklock, 1845, first edition folio, lithograph title and with 19 lithograph plates as called for, plates and text loose but appears complete, foxing and some water staining.

One volume; Everest 1933, by Hugh Ruttledge, first edition, Hodder and Stoughton

Breitling: A Special Limited Edition 60th Year Anniversary Stainless Steel Automatic Calendar Chronograph Wristwatch, signed Breitling, 1940-2000, model: Chronomat Mosquito, ref: A13352, limited edition number 30 of 60 pieces made, circa 2000, lever movement, blue dial with baton markers and depicting the 'Mosquito' aircraft, three silvered dials for seconds, 30-minute and 12-hour registers, date aperture, outer tachymeter scale, screw down crown, buttons in the band to operate chronograph, rotating bezel, screw back signed and numbered 415478, Breitling stainless steel bracelet with deployant clasp, with Breitling boxes, International warranty booklet, chronometer paperwork, limited edition booklet and a model of the 'Mosquito' aircraft40mm wideIn association with Breitling and the Goldsmiths Group, a special limited edition of 60 watches was produced in 2000 to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the first operational Sortie of the de Havilland Mosquito aircraft. The Mosquito became known as one of the most successful aircrafts of WW2.Case and bracelet with surface scratches, case sides with minor dents in parts, bracelet is slightly dirty in parts, glass is clean, dial is clean, crown is screwing on correctly on the threaded tube, chronograph is working, date is changing correctly, movement in going order. Bracelet length including watch case is 21cm long approximately.

A 1981 Dubai Grand Prix Ball programme signed by attending drivers, with race programme, menu, and related ephemera,comprising a Souvenir Brochure for the Grand Prix event held at the Hyatt Regency circuit on Friday 4th December 1981, and with accompanying Grand Prix Ball Menu, held the previous evening at the Crystal Ballroom, signed to front cover by attending drivers: Carroll Shelby, Tony Brooks, Innes Ireland, Stirling Moss, Phil Hill, Jody Sheckter, Bette Hill, Sir Jack Brabham, Richard Attwood, Roy Salvadori, Patrick Tambay, Bruno Giacomelli, and Apollo 7 astronaut Walt Cunningham; together with a World Champion' Dinner menu signed to inside cover by Emerson Fittipaldi; a VIP Gold Grandstand pass, an associated press pack, four period editions of Gulf News with articles pertaining to the event, and a signed edition of biography 'James Hunt - Against All Odds', signed by the driver to first page, with dust-jacket. (Qty)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

LYELL, Charles (1797-1875). Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man with Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation, London, 1863, 8vo, 2 plates, illustrations, later half calf gilt. FIRST EDITION.LYELL, Charles (1797-1875).  The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man with Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation. London: John Murray, 1863. 8vo (215 x 135mm). Half title, 2 wood-engraved plates, illustrations, diagrams and maps, 32-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end dated January 1863 (half title browned at edges and spotted, occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few darker spots and stains). Later half calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece, later endpapers. Provenance: From the Collection of Professor Jonathan Brostoff, D.M., D.Sc., FRCP, FRCPath (1934-2020). FIRST EDITION of a work whose "evidence in favour of assigning an extreme antiquity to the human remains found in certain caves and gravels made a deep impression on the public mind" (DNB). Although the wording of Lyell's title refers to 'theories' in the plural, passages in the book clearly show their debt specifically to Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published just three years before, both in Chapter XXL which is dedicated to a discussion of Darwin's magnum opus, and on pp.472-473, for example, where Lyell's own words seem to accord with Darwin's theories: "But will not transmutation, if adopted, require us to include the human race in the same continuous series of developments, so that we must hold that man himself has been derived by an unbroken line of descent from some one of the inferior animals? We certainly cannot escape from such a conclusion without abandoning many of the weightiest arguments which have been urged in support of variation and natural selection, considered as the subordinate causes by which new types have been gradually introduced into the earth." Challinor 192; Freeman Natural History 2369; Garrison & Morton 204.1; Norman 1400; Sabin 42758; Ward & Carozzi Geology Emerging 1439.

WHEELER-BENNETT, John (1902-75). Munich. Prologue to Tragedy, London, 1948, 8vo, original cloth. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, A HIGHLY IMPORTANT COPY, ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN INK BY ANTHONY EDEN.WHEELER-BENNETT, John W. (1902-75).  Munich. Prologue to Tragedy. London: Macmillan & Co., 1948. Large 8vo (220 x 150mm). Half title, 9 full-page illustrations of contemporary cartoons from "Punch" and the "Evening Standard", 3 folding maps (some faint staining to p.ix of the Foreword, one leaf creased at lower fore-corner with a short tear without loss). Original plum cloth, the spine lettered in gilt (some extremely light and inconspicuous staining, lacks dust-jacket). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed, "For Anthony Eden, with warmest best wishes and very many thanks, John W. Wheeler-Bennett, May, 1948." A HIGHLY IMPORTANT COPY, ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN INK BY ANTHONY EDEN, principally to the first half of the book. (It is very unusual for Eden's annotations to be in ink and not pencil.) For example, on p.15 (commenting on Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador to Germany from 1937-39), Eden writes: "Disastrous man and disloyal to me. Note his conversation with Buchanan in our Embassy Berlin day 1 ... He proclaimed his delight & added now we shall be able to make friends with Germany"; on p.16 (commenting on a printed passage which reads 'Unheedful of the more cautious views of Mr. Eden, who, having formed a not wholly unfavourable view of Hitler when he first met him in 1934, had soon seen the light and realized the dangers of placing trust in Nazi pledges', and in which Eden has underlined the word 'soon'): "Rhineland did this for me"; on p.29 (commenting on the printed passage 'The Czech calculations had gone awry in that they had expected Schuschnigg's resistance to continue a year longer'): "Precisely my hope & calculation too. If N. C. [Neville Chamberlain] had been prepared to take advice it might have been"; on p.36 (commenting on the printed passage 'On March 22 [1938] the British Cabinet decided to reject this proposal [of the Soviet Government for a Four-Power Conference]): "unforgivably"; on p.39 (commenting on Neville Chamberlain's approach to Czechoslovakia): "Later he did this for Poland & Rumania. [Sir John] Simon took his line against me in debate after Hitler had entered Prague (see Hansard). In face of public opinion N. C. was compelled to abandon it at B'ham day or two after"; on p.40 (commenting on the lines quoting Chamberlain's assertion that "'In the meantime ... there is no need to assume the use of force, or, indeed, to talk about it'"): "Ass!"; on p.43 (commenting on Basil Newton, then the British Ambassador to Czechoslovakia): "Very weak man. Poor in Baghdad later"; also on p.43: "N. C. was smug about rearmament & took little direct interest. He left it to [Sir Thomas] Inskip who was well meaning but utterly [?]futile"; on p.44 (in response to Chamberlain's assertion to the House of Commons that 'The almost terrifying power that Britain is building up has a sobering effect on the opinion of the world'): "a terrible untruth"; on pp.44-45 (on Chamberlain) he writes, in an extensive note that fills two thirds of a largely blank page: "If he had really been concerned he should have presided over our rearmament [illegible word] - as I frequently urged him to do in vain. In the autumn of 1937 I was so horrified at state [sic] of our rearmament especially in [illegible word] that I went to see N. C. about it. He maintained Tom [Inskip] & [Leslie Hore-] Belisha are quite satisfied. Eventually I [?]persuaded to a meeting of the three of us & he was much disturbed. [?]A. A. [i.e. Anti-Aircraft] guns were thus given an effective priority. A further difficulty about rearmament was that neither N. C. nor Inskip knew the simplest rudiments of military matters"; on p.49 (commenting on the line 'Mr. Chamberlain, however, demurred'): "Typical of his talk"; on p.73 (commenting on Pierre-Etienne Flandin, former Prime Minister of France): "Perhaps the crookedest of them all"; on p.75 (the context unclear): "Also intended to silence criticism here, no doubt"; on p.105 (commenting on the printed passage 'It was thus possible that, in the event of war, the Anti-Comintern Pact of 1936 might provide a serious factor in hampering Russian aid to Czechoslovakia by a Japanese attack on the Soviet Union, and, though this prospect did not appear to agitate Moscow, it undoubtedly played a part in Mr Chamberlain's calculations'): "I doubt it"; on p.106 (commenting on the printed passage 'It was his [Neville Chamberlain's] belief that Russia, who, it was said, would like nothing better than to see the capitalist States at each other's throats, would either not fight at all ... or, if she did fight, would, by reason of the bad state of her armaments and the difficulties of logistics, be able to offer little of value in the way of assistance'): "N. C. thought Russia quite useless militarily; he wasn't alone in that. What is less excusable is that he thought Italy militarily [?]formidable encouraged [?]thereto by weak & woolly [followed by two illegible words]"; on p.114 (commenting on the printed passage 'Chamberlain now interpreted this view as meaning that France could not expect British intervention unless and until her own territory were attacked'): "Yet we guaranteed Poland & Rumania a few months later, without a hope of defending either!"; on p.174 (commenting on Sir Horace Wilson): "A very bad man"; whereupon the annotation largely ceases, except that, on p.177, Eden - as if in disgust - boldly highlights and underlines the printed sentence 'In effect, however, Hitler had gained everything.'

TAYLOR, Myron C. (1874-1959, editor). Wartime Correspondence between President Roosevelt and Pope Pius XII, New York, 1947, large 8vo, original cream parchment, slipcase. FIRST EDITION, EDITOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to Anthony Eden.TAYLOR, Myron Charles (1874-1959, editor).  Wartime Correspondence between President Roosevelt and Pope Pius XII. With an Introduction & Explanatory Notes by Myron C. Taylor, Personal Representative of the President of the United States of America to His Holiness Pope Pius XII. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. Large 8vo (235 x 160mm). Half title, title printed in red and black, preface by Harry S. Truman, coloured portraits of President Roosevelt, Pope Pius XII and Harry S. Truman. Original cream parchment, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, partly unopened, slipcase, silk ribbon. Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST EDITION, THE EDITOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "To The Rt. Hon. Anthony Eden, with best regards, Myron C. Taylor, April 12, 1947." Following Roosevelt's death on 12 April 1945, Pope Pius XII's final letter in the collection (numbered XXVIII) is dated 13 April and is addressed to Roosevelt's successor, Harry Truman. Truman provided the preface for the book, which ends with the (printed) words, "These messages, written during a momentous period of history, constitute a record of incalculable value. That records belongs to all who sought through victory, and continue to seek, the blessings of universal peace and security and well-being. It will be read with interest and appreciation by our contemporaries and will have a permanent place in the history of the greatest war in the annals of mankind."

BELL, Clive (1881-1964). Since Cezanne, London, 1922, 8vo, half tone plates, original cloth. FIRST EDITION, with a pencil note by Eden and highlighting. With 12 other art reference books, some PRESENTATION COPIES to Anthony Eden. (13)BELL, Clive (1881-1964).  Since Cézanne. London: Chatto and Windus, 1922. 8vo (195 x 130mm). Half title, half tone plates (some spotting). Original blue cloth, spine with printed label (label rubbed, without the dust-jacket). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (old armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION, with a pencil note on p.65 (illegible, probably not in Eden's hand, illustrated) and on p.137, in Eden's hand, regarding "young Oxford intellectuals", and with his highlighting throughout. With 12 other related books including Julius Meier-Graefe's Degas (London, 1923, 4to, monochrome plates, original buckram, NUMBER 225 OF 1,000 COPIES), Constantin Antoniade's Trois Figures de la Renaissance. Pierre Arétin. Guichardin. Benvenuto Cellini (Paris, 1937, 8vo, wrappers, NUMBER 141 OF 155 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "A Mr. Anthony Eden, hommage et respectueuse admiration, Antoniade, Genève, Janvier 1938", Austen Chamberlain's Seen in Passing ... Foreword by Lady [Ivy] Chamberlain (London, 1937, 4to, plates, original cloth, the author's wife's PRESENTATION COPY of this account of an architectural travelogue through Europe just before The Second World war, inscribed "Anthony [Eden], [?]from Ivy Chamberlain"), Wilfrid Blunt's The Art of Botanical Illustration (London, 1950, large 8vo, plates, some coloured, attractively bound in full red modern calf gilt by Bayntun Riviere, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR), Kenneth Clark's Piero della Francesca (London, 1951, folio, plates, some coloured, original red buckram, INSCRIBED in a very small hand [?presumably to Anthony Eden], "With all good wishes from Jane & Kenneth Clark, August 1952"), Huntington Cairns & John Walker's Great Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (Washington, 1952, folio, full-page coloured illustrations, original dark blue buckram gilt, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "For [?illegible word] Eden, with kind regards from his friends at the National Gallery, [signed respectively by:] David Finley [the gallery's first Director], Huntington Cairns, John Walker, Washington, March 5, 1953"), Raymond Nacenta's The Painters and the Artistic Climate of Paris since 1810 (London, 1960, folio, coloured plates, original blue hessian, PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed, "A Lord et Lady Avon, en souvenir de leur visite 'd'avant-première' à l' Exposition des peintures des collections français, Avec les sincères hommages de Ray. Nacenta, Le 27 Juin, 1962"), Catalogue de l' Oeuvre de Georges Braque. Peintures 1936-1941 ([Paris], 1961, 4to, illustrations, some coloured, original coloured decorated hessian boards, ring-bound internally), Henry Maldiney's La Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght (Paris, "Derrière le Miroir, No. 148," 1964, folio, plates and illustrations by Braque, Chagall, Kandinsky, Miro, Giacometti and others, including 6 original lithographs, some coloured, original pictorial boards) and Denys Sutton's Walter Sickert. A Biography (London, 1976, 4to, plates, cloth, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "For Anthony and Clarissa [Eden], with much affection and gratitude, Denys"). The lot sold not subject to return. (13)

YOSHIDA, Shigeru (1878-1967). The Yoshida Memoirs, Boston, 1962, large 8vo, original black buckram. FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Anthony Eden.YOSHIDA, Shigeru (1878-1967).  The Yoshida Memoirs. The Story of Japan in Crisis ... Translated by Kenichi Yoshida. Boston [Mass.]: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. Large 8vo (212 x 145mm). Half title. Original black buckram, spine lettered in gilt, uncut (inner hinges split, without the dust-jacket). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "Rt. Hon. the Earl of Avon, from the Author, Shigeru Yoshida." The author was Prime Minister of Japan from 1946 to 1947 and from 1949 to 1955. On p.118 he gives a printed account of a meeting with Queen Elizabeth and Anthony Eden: "Worthy of special mention was the audience given me by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace on 26 October [1954]. Only Sir Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, was in attendance and I recall being very much impressed by Her Majesty's manner in which a natural dignity and youthfulness of appearance seemed so well blended. I was also impressed by Sir Anthony's behaviour towards the Queen; there was in it a mixture of respect and affection which I am told the British people universally entertain towards their sovereign, and seeing Her Majesty in person made me realise why this was so." On p.120 Yoshida gives a printed account of his friendship with Anthony Eden: "At a meeting called for the purpose of hearing such British grievances [regarding trade with Japan], Foreign Secretary Eden, in introducing me, remarked that I had come to London as Japanese Ambassador shortly after his own appointment to the post of Foreign Secretary before the Second World War, and that we had remained friends ever since." 

PASTEUR, Louis (1822-95). Etudes sur le Vin, Paris, 1866, large 8vo, 32 lithographed plates printed in colours, original wrappers, slipcase. FIRST EDITION.PASTEUR, Louis (1822-95).  Études sur le Vin, Ses Maladies causes qui les Provoquent Procédés Nouveaux pour le Conserver et pour le Vieillir. Paris: "Imprimé par Autorisation de son Exec. le Garde des Sceaux. A L'Imprimerie Impériale," 1866. Large 8vo (240 x 160mm). Half title, 32 lithographed plates printed in colours, illustrations (some light spotting and staining). Original grey printed wrappers with small woodcut armorial device on upper wrapper, uncut (lightly stained, repair with adhesive tape to head of backstrip and corner of lower wrapper), later buckram slipcase. Provenance: From the Collection of Professor Jonathan Brostoff, D.M., D.Sc., FRCP, FRCPath (1934-2020); A. [?]Méyret (old signature on upper wrapper and front free endpaper); "Agriculture 3070" (old [?]library note on title and corresponding label at head of backstrip), modern buckram slipcase. FIRST EDITION of this work in which the author establishes the role of atmospheric oxygen in causing the 'diseases' of wine which, along with various other works (cf. PMM 336), led the author to the discovery of bacteria from which he went on to develop the germ theory of disease. Bulloch p.61; Duveen p.260; Garrison & Martin 2479; Norman 1655; Sparrow Milestones of Science 160.

COWLEY, Abraham (1618-67). The Works, London, 1708-10, 3 vols., 8vo, 33 engraved plates, contemporary calf. Mixed editions. With 14 other works in 32 volumes. (35)COWLEY, Abraham (1618-67).  The Works ... Consisting of those Which were formerly Printed; And those which He design'd for the Press; Publish'd out of the Author's Original Copies. With the Cutter of Coleman-Street ... [Vols. I-II] The Eleventh Edition [Vol. III] The Eighth Edition. London: Printed for T. Tonson; and Sold by D. Browne (and others), [Vols. I-II] 1710 [Vol. III] 1708. 3 volumes, 8vo (194 x 120mm). Engraved portrait of the author and 32 plates, including one folding (some light staining and browning, a few darker spots). Contemporary panelled calf (rebacked preserving old lettering pieces). Provenance: The Rt. Hon. Robert d' Arcy, Earl of Holdernesse (armorial bookplate). With 14 other works in 32 volumes, namely Agabito Pei's Vita e Miracoli dei Glorioso S. Antonio da Padoa (Florence, 1633, 8vo, engraved title and portrait, one full-page woodcut, contemporary decorated vellum, spine gilt, stained and worn), Histoire Veritable de la Duchesse de Chatillon (Cologne, chez Pierre Marteau, 1699, 12mo, contemporary red morocco, inscribed "Jack, from Goonie [i.e. Lady Gwendeline Churchill], 31st May 1910 on the occasion of John George's 1st birthday"), John Norris's The Theory and Regulation of Love. A Moral Essay. With Some Motives to the Study and Practice of regular Love, by way of Consideration. To which are added, Letters Philosophical and Moral between the Author and Dr. Henry More ... The Seventh Edition (London, 1723, 8vo, contemporary calf), Henry Fielding's The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews ... The Fifth Edition (London, 1751, 2 vols., 8vo, engraved plates, contemporary calf), John Vanbrugh's Plays ... In Two Volumes (London, 1759, 2 vols., 8vo, contemporary calf, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden), [Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon's] Le Sopha, Conte Moral. Nouvelle Édition ("A Pekin", chez l'Imprimeur de l'Empereur," [?but Paris], 1762, 2 parts in one vol., small 8vo, 19th-century red calf), Henry Fielding's Amelia (London, 1775, 3 vols., 8vo, later calf preserving old spines), Thomas Warton's Poems. A New Edition, with Additions (London, 1777, large 8vo, contemporary calf, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden), [Mercier de Saint-Léger Barthélemy's] Quinque illustrium poetarum ... Lusus in venerem partim ex codicibus manuscriptis nunc primùm editi (Paris, "Prostat ad pistrinum in vico suavi", 1791, contemporary calf), William Shakespeare's The Plays ... Accurately printed from the Text of the corrected Copy left by the late George Steevens (London, 1805, 10 volumes, large 8vo, engraved plates by Henry Fuseli, contemporary calf elaborately decorated in gilt, rebacked, heavily rubbed and scuffed, old armorial bookplates of Anthony Eden), [James Beresford's] The Miseries of Human Life ([London, c.1806, 2 vols., [including, bound in at the end of the second vol., Peregrine Bingham's The Poems of Memory, A Poem, in Two Books (London, 1811)], 2 folding engraved frontispieces, one hand-coloured, contemporary calf, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden, with later pencil inscriptions in an unidentified hand regarding provenance at the beginning of the first vol. ("These 2 vols. shd. not have AE's bookplate in them - they belonged to Harold Baker who left them to me ...."_)), Oliver Goldsmith's The Citizen of the World: or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher Residing in London, to his Friends in the East (London, 1809, 2 vols., 8vo, engraved plates, contemporary calf gilt, neatly rebacked, armorial bookplate of William Fawcett), John Selden's The Table Talk ... A New edition, corrected (Chiswick, 1818, 12mo, engraved frontispiece, contemporary turquoise calf gilt, highlighted in pencil throughout with some sparse annotation by Anthony Eden) and Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha (London, 1818, 4 volumes, large 8vo, engraved plates by Robert Smirke, contemporary calf, upper board of vol. one detached, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden). The lot sold not subject to return. (35)

SCHMIDT, Paul-Otto (1899-1970). Hitler's Interpreter, London, 1951, 8vo, half tone illustrations, original buckram. FIRST ENGLISH ABRIDGED EDITION, A HIGHLY IMPORTANT COPY, ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT.SCHMIDT, Paul-Otto (1899-1970).  Hitler's Interpreter ... Edited by R. H. C. Steed. London: William Heinemann, 1951. 8vo (213 x 135mm). Half title, half tone portrait frontispiece of the author, 10 full-page half tone illustrations. Original red buckram, spine lettered and ruled in gilt (gilt faded, corners lightly rubbed, some very light staining, without the dust-jacket). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST ENGLISH AND ABRIDGED EDITION, A HIGHLY IMPORTANT COPY, ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT. For example, the front free endpaper is inscribed by Eden in pencil: "Sent to me by Schmidt. A.E." (although the author has not signed or inscribed the copy); on p.24 (commenting on the printed passage 'At noon [?on March 26, 1935] there were refreshments at the British Embassy at which Hitler made an appearance; this was the first time that he had been seen at a foreign embassy'), Eden writes: "No - two years earlier where he met me"; on p.86 (referring to Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador to Germany from 1937-39): "& yet he was pathetically pro-German"; on p.57 (commenting on the printed passage 'Lloyd George took this opportunity of expressing himself very definitely, if in quite general terms, about the German peace efforts, "which," he said, "have unfortunately been frustrated by the staff talks"'): "he was against them"; on p.88 (the context unclear): "Strange. The [?]Govt. thought they had had a success"; on p.107 (commenting on the printed line 'It was at this moment that the decision in favour of peace was made'): "Hitler had won"; on p.131 (commenting on the printed passage 'Throughout the summer [of 1939] tension in Europe increased daily. Preparations for war were put in hand more or less openly in every country; menaces, warnings, and challenges filled the ether and the columns of the Press'): "Yet [Sir John] Simon persuaded the Cabinet to lay down no [?]destroyers. What did that cost in lives?"; on p.150 (commenting on the printed passage 'In this critical discussion [Sir Nevile Henderson] would have been able to express himself with more clarity and ease in English'): "Foolish"; on p.235 (commenting on the printed line referring to 'the Pact concluded by Soviet Russia with Yugoslavia just before the outbreak of war with that country and Germany'): "It always puzzled me why Stalin did this. I asked him and he replied that they felt sympathy with Yugo & that they knew by then that they would be attacked anyway. The coup d' etat we organised in Belgrade may therefore have helped the German Russian breech"; and on p.237 (commenting on Pearl Harbour and Germany's declaration of war on the United States): "It was a turning point of the war because it made possible a U.S. western strategy." The rear endpapers are filled with Eden's pencil notes referring to various pages in the book, and, occasionally, with his commentary on them [see illustration]; for example: "Page 64. Proof once again of what I told Neville: that Mussolini had already done a deal with Hitler - March 1937 - I put it later.  P.211. Date of Hitler's decision to attack Russia ... Page 237. Astonishing that Germans did not know in advance of Pearl Harbour ... Page 265. Morgenthau Plan at Quebec, which I [?]opposed on my arrival before [Cordell] Hull came & to W's [Winston's] exasperation." Schmidt opens his book with the printed sentence: "The first time I interpreted for Hitler was on March 25, 1935, when Sir John Simon and Mr Anthony Eden came to Berlin for talks on the European crisis caused by German re-armament." On pp.18-19, he goes on to give a more detailed printed account of the first meeting of Simon (then British Foreign Minister) and Eden (then Lord Privy Seal) with Hitler in the Reich's Chancellery: "Simon, with his large brown eyes, looked at Hitler with by no means unsympathetic interest as he listened to him. His face naturally expressed a certain paternal benevolence ... On the other hand, I occasionally noticed a rather more sceptical expression flit over the face of Eden, who understood enough German to be able to follow Hitler more or less. Some of Eden's questions and observations showed he had considerable doubts about Hitler and what he was saying. 'There are actually no indications,' he once observed, 'that the Russians have any aggressive plans against Germany.' And in a slightly sarcastic tone he asked: 'On what are your fears actually based?' 'I have rather more experience in these matters than is general in England,' Hitler parried, and added heatedly, throwing out his chin: 'I began my political career just when the Bolshevists were launching their first attack in Germany.' Then he went off again into a monologue on Bolshevists individually and in general which, with translation, lasted until lunch." The editor R. H. C. Steed's printed preface to the book provides an assessment of its author's character and motivations: "... Schmidt saw ... that between hommes de bonne volonté, men of good will, regardless of nationality, even the greatest difficulties could be overcome. Twenty years of unique experience of diplomacy in its most intimate top-level aspect confirmed this opinion, and added to it the conviction that 'the real enemies of mankind are the fanatics, in whatever camp they may be'. Schmidt is at pains to make it clear that he places the Nazis in that category - especially Hitler and Ribbentrop. He is damning and often contemptuous in his judgments of the men for whom he worked so loyally and for so long - and has been criticised on that account. He claims that he was never a Nazi sympathiser, that he merely did his job as a civil servant and expert technician, that he made no secret of his independent outlook and that this was duly noticed against him in his dossier. This account of himself seems to be borne out by the impression he made, among others, on Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador in Berlin until the outbreak of war. He certainly showed considerable courage of a negative kind in that, despite his very special position, he resisted pressure to join the Nazi Party until 1943 ... I think Schmidt might fairly be described as an enlightened, cosmopolitanised German nationalist, and find it a little hard on him that we have to hand him down to posterity as 'Hitler's Interpreter' and not, perhaps more aptly, as 'Stresemann's Interpreter' - a title to which he has at least an equal claim."

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-61). Poems Before Congress, London, 1860, 8vo, half title, contemporary crushed morocco by R. D. Canape. FIRST EDITION.BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-61).  Poems Before Congress. London: Chapman and Hall, 1860. 8vo (188 x 125mm). Half title, one-page of publisher's advertisements at the end (clean closed marginal tear to title). Contemporary tan crushed morocco by R. D. Canape, spine lettered in gilt with 5 raised bands, gilt dentelles, top edges gilt, others uncut, green silk marker (upper cover detached, piece torn away from head of spine, joints rubbed). Provenance: later bookseller's printed catalogue description for this copy laid down at the foot of the first front free endpaper, describing the binding as "Jansenist", and further stating, "... Laid in, is an Autograph Letter Signed: 'Elizabeth Barret Browning' ...", a letter which is, sadly, no longer present; some later pencil annotation to another front free endpaper ("... a little memento of Arnold's visit"). FIRST EDITION of this collection of seven poems, the first six of which were written in support of the unification and independence of Italy and whose stridently political nature damaged the author's reputation; the last ("A Curse for a Nation") being an attack on slavery in the United States. Barnes A Bibliography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning A12.

VIETNAM - Victor BATOR (1891-1967). Vietnam, New York, 1965, 8vo, morocco. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Anthony Eden. With 6 other books related, one inscribed by Eden, the others ANNOTATED by him. (7)VIETNAM - Victor BATOR (1891-1967).  Vietnam. A Diplomatic Tragedy. The Origins of The U.S. Involvement. New York: Oceana Publications, Inc., 1965. 8vo (218 x 140mm). Half title, frontispiece map, illustrations (the text very lightly browned at margins throughout). Contemporary brown half morocco gilt and marbled boards by [?]Zipélius Brillouin [?bound for Anthony Eden], top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, original colour printed wrappers bound in (spine and strip at head of upper cover faded). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "To Anthony Eden, who by statesmanship and diplomacy brought about an interlude of peace in Southeast Asia and, in his speech of 23 June 1954, marked out a course which, if followed, might have led to permanent balance and peace, Victor Bator, October 19, 1965." With Anthony Eden's Towards Peace in Indo-China (London, "Chatham House Essays," 1966, 8vo, wrappers, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "C[larissa] from A, with devotion, Aug. 1st 1966"; and 5 other books of related interest, all ANNOTATED by Anthony Eden, namely Jean Lacoutre & Philippe Devillers' La Fin d'une Guerre. Indochine 1954 (Paris, 1960, large 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, with sparse annotation and highlighting in pencil by Anthony Eden, with many page numbers listed on the final page, and several small autograph notes [?in Eden's hand] loosely-inserted), Paul Ély's Mémoires. L 'Indochine dans la Tourmente (Paris, 1964, 8vo, folding map at the end, original pictorial wrappers, with sparse annotation and highlighting in pencil), Jean Lacouture's Le Vietnam entre Deux Paix (Paris, 1965, 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, with sparse pencil annotation, but quite extensive to final blank, and highlighting), another copy of Victor Bator's Vietnam. A Diplomatic Tragedy (New York: Oceana Publications, 1965, 8vo, original cloth, with 4-pages of Eden's copious annotation on blank leaves at the end, possibly in preparation for a speech, and with annotation (for example, on p.30: "Americans did not tell us this; nor, I think, the French") and highlighting throughout) and Bernard B. FALL's The Two Viet-Nams ... Revised Edition (New York, 1965, 8vo, original cloth, with Eden's occasional annotation and passages highlighted throughout, and a half-page of annotation headed "American Appeasement" to the final blank leaf at the end). (7)

ROWSE, A. L. (1903-97). The Later Churchills, London, 1958, large 8vo, original buckram. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Clarissa and Anthony Eden. With 2 other books by the same author, both PRESENTATION COPIES. (3)ROWSE, A. L. (1903-97).  The Later Churchills. London: Macmillan & Co Ltd., 1958. Large 8vo (218 x 150mm). Half title, half tone frontispiece and plates. Original red buckram, spine lettered and decorated in gilt (without the dust-jacket). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "For Clarissa and Anthony Eden, this book that brings together their family history and in which they both come: their much indebted A. L. Rowse." The book can be fiercely anti-Chamberlain, even when quoting others ("Those men, his [i.e. Chamberlain's] immeasurable superiors, Lloyd George and Churchill, described him accurately enough: the one, 'a good Lord Mayor of Birmingham in a lean year'; the other, 'he viewed world affairs through the wrong end of the municipal drain-pipe'"). See pp.462-464 for an account of the lead-up to Munich, and Eden's resignation which "reduced Churchill to despair." With 2 other books by the same author, both FIRST EDITIONS, PRESENTATION COPIES to Anthony Eden, namely The England of Elizabeth. The Structure of Society (London, 1950, 8vo, cloth, inscribed, "This small tribute of admiration for the statesman and with the best wishes of the author, A. L. Rowse, Nov. 1950" and All Souls and Appeasement (London, 1961, 8vo, cloth, inscribed, "With kindest wishes from A. L. Rowse." (3)

Code Civil des Français, Paris, 1804, 8vo, contemporary French calf-backed marbled boards. FIRST EDITION of the "Napoleonic Code".Code Civil des Français. Édition Originale et Seule Officielle. Paris: De l' Imprimerie de la Rpublique. An XII, 1804. 8vo (200 x 125mm). Half title, large woodcut allegorical device on the title captioned in a panel beneath "Grand-Juge et Ministre de la Justice", woodcut device of "Le Grand-Juge, Ministre de la Justice, Regnier" on the verso of the final text leaf (some fraying to half title, variable but mainly light spotting, staining and browning). Contemporary French calf-backed marbled boards, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt (boards lightly rubbed). Provenance: From the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune; Mairie de Bourmont, Haute-Marne (old stamp on title); some early pen and pencil annotation to front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION of the "Napoleonic Code" which, under the direction of Napoleon Bonaparte and a special commission led by J. J. Cambaceres, gave post-revolutionary France its first coherent set of laws concerning individual rights, the family, property and the colonies. While all male citizens were granted equal rights, including that of religious dissent, and the secular character of the state was recognised, there was much about the new code that was strikingly illiberal and reactionary: women were deprived of individual rights, as were illegitimate children, and colonial slavery was re-introduced. The statutes were finally approved in March 1804 and published shortly after for the first time in the present volume. Brunet II, 118.

CHURCHILL, Winston (1874-1965). The World Crisis, London, 1923-31, 6 vols., large 8vo, plates, original cloth. FIRST EDITION, VOLUMES ONE AND V ANNOTATED, HIGHLIGHTED AND WITH PASSAGES UNDERLINED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT. (6)CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1874-1965).  The World Crisis. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1923-31. 5 parts bound in 6 [as usual], large 8vo (233 x 155mm). Half titles, plates and maps, some folding and printed in colours, errata or erratum slips before "Contents" and at p.339 in vol. one, at p.52 in vol. III and at the half title of vol. IV, tables (dedication leaf in vol. III torn without loss). Original dark blue cloth, the upper covers lettered in blind, the spines lettered in gilt (some very faint white staining, the spine of vol. V with some minor wrinkling, short closed tear to head of spine of vol. VI, extremities lightly rubbed, lacking dust jackets). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (old armorial bookplates in vols. one and V); Sir Gervase Beckett, Baronet (armorial bookplates in the other 4 vols. - Anthony Eden was one of Beckett's executors). FIRST EDITIONS, except for vol. V which is a second impression. In this set, of what is a notoriously complicated work bibliographically, the title pages read as follows: vol. one: "The World Crisis 1911-1914", dated on the verso of the title April 1923 [but with no volume asterisk on the spine]; vol. II: "The World Crisis 1915", undated, but the preface dated August 13, 1923; vol. III: "The World Crisis 1916-1918 Part I", dated on the verso of the title 1927; vol. IV: "The World Crisis 1916-1918 Part II", dated on the verso of the title 1927 [with pagination running on from the previous vol.]; vol. V: "The World Crisis. The Aftermath", dated on the verso of the title "First published ... March, 1929. Second impression March, 1929"; and vol. VI: "The World Crisis. The Eastern Front", dated on the verso of the title 1931. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT SET. VOLUMES ONE AND V ANNOTATED, HIGHLIGHTED AND WITH PASSAGES UNDERLINED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT. For example, in volume one, on p.204 (commenting on the printed passage '... I am certain that if Sir Edward Grey had sent the kind of ultimatum suggested [i.e. that if Germany attacked France or Belgium, England would declare war upon her], the Cabinet would have broken up, and it is also my belief that up till Wednesday or Thursday at least, the House of Commons would have repudiated his action'), Eden writes: "In other words Cabinet was too 'soft'"; on p.265 (commenting on the printed passage 'At any rate, that is the sort of way in which I thought then, before the event, and think still, the French command might best have safeguarded the vital interests of France'): "This sounds [illegible words] much too vague ... I do not think Winston can [?]teach French generals this ... This friendship throughout the war was infinitely superior to ours and W. was not even a British soldier. Our staff - work was more thorough"; on p.266 (commenting on 'Plan XVII'): "This is neither true nor fair criticism"; on p.269 (commenting on the printed passage 'Someone suggested we should at any rate make sure of the Cotentin peninsula ... from which the British armies of the future might proceed to the rescue of France'): "You would have done better to do as you were told!"; on p.270 (commenting on a quote from Asquith's [?]telegram to the Commander-in-Chief Grand Fleet which stated on August 24th 1914, 'We have not entered the business [i.e. of going to war] without resolve to see it through and you may be assured that our action will be proportioned to the gravity of the need'): "Gas bag!"; on p.274 (commenting on the footnote 'In fact, however, it was the 1st Middlesex ... who captured the guns at Néry'): "Not the first time, or the last, that the Guards obtained the credit for the deeds of other and better soldiers"; on p.282 (commenting on the printed passage '... I consider now that this prudent withholding from the Army in the field in the face of every appeal and demand, the key-men who alone could make the new armies, was the greatest of the services which Lord Kitchener rendered to the nation at this time, and it was a service which no one of lesser authority than he could have performed'): "In other words we should not [underlined] have won the war without K. [i.e. Kitchener]"; in volume V, on p.23 (commenting, in blue pencil, on a passage which quotes Lloyd George, 'But after all, life is a brief span, and all that matters is not to fall below the level of events upon the greatest occasions'): "W's favourite motto"; on p.113 (commenting on the printed passage 'Mr Lloyd George said that "Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep her navy superior to that of the United States or any other Power ..."'): "and today!"; on p.261 (commenting on refugees fleeing Crimea for Constantinople): "I saw this - indescribable. Selling stamps in the street, waiting in cafes, their uniforms were magnificent, their plight pitiable"; on p.287 (commenting on the printed passage 'A certain number of high Tories, while rigidly opposing any effective concession to Irish Nationalist demands, were still more violent in their denunciations of the Black and Tans'): "Bob C. as usual" [possibly referring to Robert Lindsay Crawford]; on p.290 a largely illegible note regarding a passage concerning Lloyd George's personal safety; on p.296 (commenting on Gladstone's views on Irish home rule): "[? illegible initials, but possibly] O.W.J. wanted a majority. He never thought of Home Rule until then - any more than [illegible name] did"; on p.307 (commenting on the printed passage 'Yet in so far as Mr Lloyd George can link his political misfortunes with this Irish story ...'): "not very far"; on p.320 Eden has boldly underlined and highlighted the following printed passage (tellingly, with hindsight): 'The general opinion was well expressed by Mr Neville Chamberlain:- "I, for one, am not going to be exasperated by outrages into changing my opinion as to the proper course to pursue. I consider in these difficult times that our business is to keep our heads, not to allow ourselves to be flustered into courses we may regret hereafter ..."'; on p.354 (commenting on the passage 'What was to happen to scandalous, crumbling, decrepit and penniless Turkey in this earthquake?'): "Hardly? It was our diplomacy and that of the French that failed. The Russians always aimed at [?]bringing Turkey into the war against us, for Constantinople was their chief war objective, as always"; on p.358 (commenting on the printed passage 'The rage and disappointment excited thereby throughout Turkey was said to have turned the scale and provoked Turkey into war against us'): "What effect had this on driving Turkey into the war against us? That it created profound feeling amongst all Turks who had [?]subscribed their [?]force, I know"; on p.359 (commenting on the printed passage 'I can recall no great sphere of policy about which the British Government was less completely informed than the Turkish'): "but the Russians knew it & bluffed us"; on p.369 (commenting on the printed passage 'I cannot understand to this day how the eminent statesmen in Paris ... could have been betrayed into so rash and fatal a step'): "Except that both Wilson & [?]L. G. [?Lloyd George] were [?]equally [?]ignorant & Clemenceau indifferent on most [?]aspects"; on p.370 (of Damat Ferid Pasha): "charming old man & probably scholar & gentleman. Very ill when I was at C"; on p.373 (commenting on the printed passage 'On the main issue of Constantinople Mr Lloyd George was whole-heartedly with lord Curzon'): "I thought dragging Curzon with him?"; on p.394 (commenting on a printed passage which transcribes a letter from Churchill to Lloyd George on Greece and Turkey): "All this would carry greater conviction [?]if [?]one [?]was not aware that Winston...

ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834, publisher). The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, London, 1812, 2 vols., folio, portrait, plan, 82 hand-coloured aquatint plates, contemporary morocco (rubbed). FIRST EDITION. With another book. (3)ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834, publisher) & William COMBE (1742-1823).  The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, its Antiquities and Monuments. London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1812. 2 volumes, folio (345 x 285mm). Half titles, engraved portrait of William Vincent, Dean of Westminster, engraved plan, 82 aquatint plates by J. Bluck, T. Sutherland and others after F. Mackenzie, A. Pugin and others, all hand-coloured except one (portrait spotted and creased, title in vol. one browned, some light spotting, staining and browning to 'Introduction', plate 28 detached, with the margins trimmed, not affecting image, some light manly marginal spotting and staining but plates generally clean, plates offset onto text). Contemporary half brown morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers (extremities heavily rubbed and scuffed, spines faded). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023); Ferdinand M. [?]McVeagh (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Scenery 213, 214; not in Brunet; Hardie English Coloured Books pp.103-4 (calling for 80 aquatint plates only); Lowndes 2880; Tooley 2; Upcott II, 859-68. With a fragment of Rudolph Ackermann's The History of St Paul's School (London, 1816, folio, 2 hand-coloured aquatint plates (only), modern marbled boards). (3)

EMMANUEL-AUGUSTIN-DIEUDONNE-JOSEPH, Comte de (1766-1842). Memorial de Saint Helene, London, 1823-35, 8 parts in 8 vols., 8vo, 20 plates and maps, attractively bound in 19th-century half red morocco gilt by Bumpus. (8)EMMANUEL-AUGUSTIN-DIEUDONNE-JOSEPH, Comte de (1766-1842).  Memorial de Saint Helene. Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena. London: Printed for Henry Colburn and Co., 1823-35. 8 parts in 8 volumes, 8vo (216 x 135mm). Folding plan as a frontispiece to the first vol., 19 plates and maps, 3 of which folding (occasional very light spotting, staining and browning). Attractively bound in 19th-century red half morocco by Bumpus, spines gilt with French Imperial eagle and Napoleon's bee motifs stamped in compartments, top edges gilt, others uncut (upper board of vol. VIII a little bowed with split to marbled paper, extremities rubbed). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023); Harold Harmsworth (armorial bookplate). FIRST U.K. EDITION. (8)

COATS, William Allan (1853-1926) - Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures, Glasgow, 1904, large 4to, 138 photogravure plates, FINELY BOUND in contemporary turquoise crushed morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 200 COPIES "PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION."COATS, William Allan (1853-1926, collector) - Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures of the French, Dutch, British and Other Schools belonging to W. A. Coats. Glasgow: Wm. B. Paterson, 1904. Large 4to (380 x 285mm). Oval portrait on the title, printed in red and black, 138 photogravure plates on india paper, mounted. FINELY BOUND in contemporary turquoise crushed morocco gilt by Maclehose, Glasgow, top edges gilt, others uncut (extremities rubbed, some scuffing and scratching, upper inner hinges weak). Provenance: Sir Alexander Kay Muir, Bart. (armorial bookplate); from the Collection of Mr & Mrs Walter Goetz; pencil annotation to front free endpaper and including many prices added to the French School pictures section of the catalogue and to the margins of a few plates. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 200 COPIES "PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION."

BENES, Eduard (1884-1948). Democracy. Today and Tomorrow, London, 1939, 8vo, buckram. FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, SPARSELY ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN.BENES, Eduard [or Edvard] (1884-1948).  Democracy. Today and Tomorrow. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1939. 8vo (204 x 135mm). Half title (some creasing to corners at the end). Original blue buckram, spine lettered in gilt (without the dust-jacket). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed, "To my dear friend, H. E. Anthony Eden, with sincere thanks and best wishes, Eduard Benes, Nov. 1st 1939." SPARSELY ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN. For example, on p.16 (commenting on the printed passage 'modern democracy in its present and most advanced stage must try to apply its principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity also to the social and economic fields' [author's italics]), Eden writes: "Optimistic"; and on p.65: "Communism helped weaken democracy. Nazi fascism [illegible words] using its attacks on democracy for its own purposes, particularly until [illegible words])"; and with Eden's pencil notes indicating significant page numbers in pencil on the rear endpaper. Eduard Benes served as President of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938 and from 1945 to 1948. During World War II he led the Czech Government in exile from London. His first resignation in 1938 came as a result of the Munich Agreement and the resulting German occupation of Czechoslovakia; his second, in 1948, following the communist coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948. The book was inscribed to Anthony Eden less than a month after the outbreak of World War II.

CLARE, John (1793-1864). Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, London, 1820, 12mo, half title, attractively bound in contemporary straight-grained morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION.CLARE, John (1793-1864).  Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery. By John Clare. A Northamptonshire Peasant. London: "Printed for Taylor and Hessey, Fleet Street; and E. Drury, Stamford," 1820. 12mo (166 x 100mm). Half title, glossary at the end comprising L1-[L3] (spot to front blank, half title and title, some very faintly mainly marginal spotting and staining, without the publisher's advertisements [L4-L8], as often). Attractively bound in contemporary straight-grained panelled burgundy morocco decorated in gilt and blind, gilt edges (joints and corners rubbed). Provenance: unidentified armorial bookplate with monogram [?]"H.L." and motto "Courage sans Peur"; "Lady Mary Lowther, 29th Feb. 1820, from Right Hon. [?illegible name]" (inscription on front free endpaper); "Taylor & Hessey Bookseller, Fleet Street" (blindstamp on rear endpaper). FIRST EDITION of the author's first published work. "The following Poems will probably attract some notice by their intrinsic merit; but they are also entitled to attention from the circumstances under which they were written. They are the genuine productions of a young Peasant, a day-labourer in husbandry, who has had no advantages of education beyond others of his class; and though Poets in this country have seldom been fortunate men, yet he is, perhaps, the least favoured by circumstances, and the most destitute of friends, of any that ever existed" (from the Introduction). Hayward English Poetry. A Descriptive Catalogue 236: "The poet's first book."

FREMONT, J. C. (1813-90). Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California, Washington, 1845, 8vo, 16 plates only, 5 maps including folding map by Fremont and Preuss, cloth. FIRST EDITION.FREMONT, John Charles (1813-90).  Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44 ... Printed by Order of the House of Representatives. Washington: Blair and Rives, Printers, 1845. Large 8vo (226 x 140mm). 16 lithographed plates only (?of 22) and 4 maps, of which 2 folding, including the very large folding "Map of an Exploring Expedition to the Rocky mountains in the Year 1842 and to Oregon & North California in the Years 1843-44 by Brevet Capt. J. C. Frémont of the Corps of Topographical Engineers Under the orders of Col. J. J. Abert, Chief of the Topographical Bureau. Lith. by E. Weber & Co. Baltimore Md." by J. C. Frémont with the assistance of Charles Preuss (although Preuss's name does not appear on the map), with rivers hand-coloured in blue, astronomical tables at the end (the large folding map by Frémont and Preuss complete but detached and torn neatly in half along the centrefold without significant loss [although the illustration erroneously gives the impression that the lower corners are lacking], a few tears at other folds without significant loss, occasional spotting and staining to the text and plates, with some darker ink spots). Original brown publisher's cloth decorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt (part of the spine torn away with loss of letters, lower cover detached, rubbed with some light staining, lacking the pocket for the folding map at the end although with its green silk ribbon still intact). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023); "Ministry of Defence Library Services. Withdrawn" (stamp on title with library shelf numbers and library label at the foot of the spine); "Geographical and Statistical Depot. War Department" (blindstamp on title above imprint); "Libreria Estrangera Cientifica y Literaria de Carlos Bailly-Bailliere, Madrid" (label on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION. Howes F370; Graff 1436; Rumsey Map Collection: "The large map of the west is one of the most interesting and beautiful government maps of the 1840s. It filled in many of the gaps in cartographic knowledge of the west. Charles Preuss was the cartographer"; Sabin 25845; Schwartz & Ehrenberg The Mapping of America 275 (folding map); Streeter Sale 3131; Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 1540-1861 497: "[Frémont's work] can only be described as one of the monumental works of [American] Western Exploration and became the vade mecum of Manifest Destiny [i.e. the 19th-century doctrine that the expansion of the United States through the American continents was both justified and inevitable]. Its words, maps, and pictures paved the way for future waves of overlands culminating in the flood tide of the Gold Rush ... The great folding map is an altogether memorable document in the cartographic history of the West." 

ARNOLD, Matthew (1822-88). Empedocles on Etna, London, [The Vale Press at] The Ballantyne Press, 1896, 8vo, printed in red and black, decorations by Charles Ricketts, original boards. With 8 other illustrated works in 9 vols. (10)ARNOLD, Matthew (1822-88).  Empedocles on Etna. A Dramatic Poem. [Colophon:] London: [The Vale Press at] The Ballantyne Press, 1896 [?but 1897]. 8vo in 4s (190 x 125mm). The first page of text with an elaborate red foliate border with initial, final text leaf and colophon printed in red and black, the decorations by Charles Ricketts. Original blue paper boards, printed label on the upper cover and spine, uncut (without the exceptionally scare dust-jacket). Provenance: Claud Alexander [18]98 (pencil signature on the front free endpaper). Only 210 copies were printed, although no limitation is stated in the book. Watry B8. With 8 other illustrated works in 9 vols. including Charles Kingsley's Westward Ho! (London, 1896, 2 vols., 8vo, plates by Charles E. Brock, fine original blue pictorial cloth gilt), Evelyn Sharp's Wymps and Other Fairy Tales (London, 1897, 4to, 8 coloured plates by Mabel Dearmer, original coloured pictorial cloth), E. V. Lucas's Runaways and Castaways (London, [1908], 8vo, illustrations by F. D. Bedford, fine original red pictorial cloth gilt), Stories from the Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman (London, [n.d.], 4to, mounted coloured plates by Edmund Dulac, original dark green cloth, dust-jacket), A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Young (London, 1925, 8vo, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, dust-jacket, eleventh edition), Sidney Dark's Paris (London, 1926, 4to, plates by Henry Rushbury, some mainly marginal spotting, original blue buckram, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST on the title page), and E. Hilton Young's A Bird in the Bush (London, 1936, 4to, coloured plates and illustrations by Peter Scott, original turquoise buckram, NUMBER 154 OF 550 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST). (10)

The Oracles of the Ancients Explained: wherein a True Answer May be Obtained to any Question Whatsoever, on the Same Principle as Questions were Answered by the Oracles of the Ancient Grecians, London, 1815, 4to, tables, contemporary boards (worn). RARE.The Oracles of the Ancients Explained: Wherein a True Answer May be Obtained to any Question Whatsoever, on the Same Principle as Questions were Answered by the Oracles of the Ancient Grecians. London: "Printed for the Author, and Sold by Law and Whittaker, Ave-Maria-Lane, and all other Booksellers; by J. Browne, 9, Union Passage, Bath," 1815. 4to (269 215mm). Half title, one-page of publisher's advertisements following the Preface, 2 woodcut ornaments, tables within wood-engraved borders (some creasing). Contemporary suede-backed marbled paper boards, green endpapers, stitched (very worn, some short tears at gutter caused by stitching). FIRST (AND ONLY) EDITION of a book, purportedly based on the oracular practices of the ancient Greeks, which claims to answer "The Radical Questions" (of which there are 22) relating to personal fortune such as "Shall thy Life be fortunate", "In what manner wilt thou die". "If thy Lady Love thee", "If a Wench be a pure Maid", and so on, by the roll of three dice and the consultation of the corresponding numbered tables and verses contained within. "This work is not meant to be read methodically, as books are wont to be read, there being no chain of subject, each verse treating on a separate subject, without any analogy to each other; nor can the meaning of any verse be obtained but from its respective number. For instance: if you wish an answer to any question propounded, the question must first be established on some number, and from that number, (not from the question,) results an answer. And though many of the verses and passages may appear somewhat obscure in meaning; yet if those, to whom they are applied, do but ponder them well, they will perceive the meaning clear enough. Nor must a second answer be required for any question after it has been once answered. Be also advised to look into this book with an even mind, no way swayed by prejudice or ridicule; for such as be wayward, envious, or malignant, I would advise them not to meddle with it; - the reason is obvious" (from "To the Reader"). The author is unknown. RARE, with no copies recorded either at auction or in the trade.

FORSTER, E. M. (1879-1970). The Celestial Omnibus and other Stories, London, 1911, square 8vo, original decorated cloth and endpapers designed by Roger Fry. With 14 other works in 15 vols. (16)FORSTER, E. M. (1879-1970).  The Celestial Omnibus and other Stories. London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., 1911. Square 8vo (184 x 135mm). Half title, printer's woodcut ornament, 3-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end (some faint browning at gutters). Original grey decorated cloth gilt and grey pictorial endpapers designed by Roger Fry (corners lightly rubbed). The book was issued without a dust-jacket. Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of the author's first collection of short stories. Other copies are recorded with 4-pages of advertisements at the front, rather than with 3-pages at the end, as here. Bleiler Supernatural Fiction p.75; Kirkpatrick A5a. With 14 other works in 15 volumes, namely Charles J. Darling's Scintillae Juris ... With Frontispiece and Colophon by Frank Lockwood ... Fourth Edition (Enlarged) (London, 1889, 8vo, original parchment wrappers printed in red and black, NUMBER 72 OF 75 "LARGE PAPER" COPIES), George Meredith's Jump to Glory Jane ... Edited and Arranged by Harry Quilter (London, 1892, 8vo, plates and illustrations by Lawrence Housman, one plate detached, original pictorial paper boards by Housman, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 1,000 COPIES), Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The Poems ... With Illustrations from his own Pictures and Designs. Edited with an Introduction and notes by W. M. Rossetti (London, Ellis & Elvey, 1904, 2 vols., 4to, plates by Rossetti, original parchment-backed buckram boards gilt), Edgar Saltus's Vanity Square. A Story of Fifth Avenue Life (Philadelphia, 1906, 8vo, original yellow pictorial cloth, FIRST EDITION, inscribed, "Anthony from Mummie, Feb. 1923", old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden), Aldous Huxley's The Defeat of Youth & Other Poems (Oxford, Blackwell, 1918, 8vo, original green decorated wrappers, FIRST EDITION of the author's third book), Ronald Firbank's Santal (London, Grant Richards Ltd., 1921, original mauve wrappers with blue crescent, FIRST EDITION), Le Diable Amoureux, Nouvelle Espagnole (Paris, chez Camille Bloch, 1921, 8vo, etched plates by J.-E. Laboureur, original wrappers with printed label on upper wrapper, NUMBER 321 OF 575 COPIES), Francis Bacon's Essayes. Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion & Disswasion (London, 1924, "The Haslewood Books", 8vo, initials and ornaments, original parchment boards, dust-jacket, NUMBER 253 OF 975 COPIES, book label of Clarissa Churchill printed in red, not found anywhere else in this collection [illustrated]), John Clare's Madrigals & Chronicles Being newly found Poems ... Edited with a Preface and Commentary by Edmund Blunden (London, The Beaumont Press, 1924, 8vo, illustrations by Randolphe Schwabe, original buckram-backed decorated paper boards, NUMBER 377 OF 398 COPIES, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden), D. H. Lawrence's Glad Ghosts (London, 1926, 8vo, original wrappers, "second impression"), Dylan Thomas's Twenty-Five Poems (London, 1936, 8vo, original boards, without the jacket, reprint, SIGNED "Clarissa Churchill, 1938"), Guillaume Apollinaire's Choix de Poésies. Introduction by C. M. Bowra (London, Horizon, 1945, 8vo, frontispiece portrait of Apollinaire by Picasso, original cloth), Jacques Prévert's Histoires. 30 Poèmes de Jacques Prévert. 30 Poèmes d' André Verdet. 31 Dessins de Mayo (Paris, 1946, 8vo, illustrations, original pictorial wrappers, ONE OF 450 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed, "pour Clarissa Churchill, Jacques Prévert" with a small drawing of a flower around the 'o' of "Histoire") and Guillaume Apollinaire's Ombre de Mon Amour (Geneva, 1947, 8vo, plates by Juan Gris, original pictorial wrappers, inscribed [to Anthony Eden], "With my love, C[larissa], Paris, May, 1964"). (16)

ROSEBERY, Lord (1847-1929). Lord Randolph Churchill, London, 1906, 8vo, original green buckram. FIRST EDITION, ANNOTATED TWICE AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN.ROSEBERY, Archibald Philip Ambrose, 5th Earl of (1847-1929).  Lord Randolph Churchill. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1906. 8vo (189 x 130mm). Half title, title printed in red and black. Original green buckram lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (without a dust-jacket). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (old armorial bookplate); E. T. Cook 1906 (signature on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION, ANNOTATED TWICE AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN. On p.167 ([?]commenting on Randolph Churchill's Parliamentary diatribes against Gladstone, although the context does not make the subject of Eden's censure clear), Eden writes: "Rubbish! bad manners is always bad manners and is more excusable towards a prig than towards a scoundrel - Mr Gladstone [illegible words]"; with a further illegible pencil inscription on the rear free endpaper, and a few other passages highlighted.

BYRON, Lord (1788-1824). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, London, 1812, Cantos I-II in one vol., 4to, facsimile letter, FINELY BOUND in contemporary red morocco, FIRST EDITION. With Cantos III & IV (1816-18, 2 vols., FIRST EDITIONS) in wrappers and boards. (3)BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord (1788-1824).  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. A Romaunt [and] Poems. London: "Printed for John Murray ... William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin," [March] 1812. Cantos I - II and Poems bound in one volume, 4to (270 x 208mm). 4-lines of errata on verso of "Contents" leaf, engraved facsimile of a Romaic letter at the end ([?]lacks half title and advertisements, first few leaves and a few others very lightly browned, occasional mainly marginal light spotting and staining, a few darker spots, linear stain to  L1, more staining to facsimile letter). FINELY BOUND in contemporary red panelled morocco elaborately decorated in gilt and blind, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, some scuffing). Provenance: George Chetwynd (armorial bookplate); "Sotheby's April 22 1837" (old pencil inscription on front free endpaper); Grendon Hall, 1850 (small blindstamp to title). FIRST EDITION, with "vengeance forego" on p.97, line 11. "Murray had printed the usual 500 copies [of the first edition], at the time considered adequate for any book of verse. The edition was sold within three days ... [I]t was the very 'romanticism' of Childe Harold that established Byron and Byronism as a temporarily national and centennially international force in the western mind. What the whole of the nineteenth century admired most was the fascinating blend of aristocratic arrogance and revolutionary enthusiasm, sexual licentiousness and purity of love, glowing passion and deep melancholy, bitter irony and lachrymose sentimentality, exquisite dandyism and high personal courage. All these traits, and many more beside them, the public found in the mixture of realistic confession and stylized saga with which Byron expressed as well as veiled himself in the guise of Childe Harold ... The Byronic combination of oriental enchantment and nature worship, pessimism and pantheism, stamped itself upon European civilization" (PMM). "The Poem enjoyed tremendous success. After the publication of Cantos I and II in March 1812 Byron wrote, 'I woke one morning and found myself famous'" (The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. M. Drabble, 1985). Grolier English 68; PMM 270; Randolph pp.19-20; Wise Byron I, p.50. With the same author's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Third (London, John Murray, 1816, large 8vo, 4-pages of publisher's advertisements dated December 1816 at the end, original or contemporary wrappers, FIRST EDITION, the issue with the exclamation mark at the end of the first line on p.4) and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth (London, John Murray, 1818, large 8vo, contemporary paper boards, spine very defective but retaining part of the lettering-piece, FIRST EDITION, second issue). (3)

HOOKER, William Jackson (1785-1865). A Century of Ferns, London, 1854, folio, 100 coloured lithographed plates by Fitch, 19th-century half green morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf. FIRST EDITION.HOOKER, William Jackson (1785-1865).  A Century of Ferns; being Figures with Brief Descriptions of One Hundred New, or Rare, or Imperfectly Known Species of Ferns. London: William Pamplin, 1854. Folio (260 x 172mm). Half title, 100 coloured lithographed plates by William Pamplin after Walter Hood Fitch (some very light mainly marginal staining and spotting). 19th-century green half morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, spine with fern motifs stamped in gilt in the compartments, top edges gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: "Given to me by Clarissa [i.e. Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, later Eden] on my birthday the 20th November 1939. She was 19 years old -" (unidentified inscription on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. cf. Nissen BBI 917 (citing also the Second Century of Ferns published in 1861, not included here).

NOLAN, Sidney (1917-92, illustrator). Swansong, [London], Shenval Press, 4to, illustrations by Sidney Nolan, original boards, NUMBER 4 OF 150 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ARIST. With 3 other signed copies; and another limited edition. (5)NOLAN, Sidney (1917-92, illustrator).  Swansong ... Poems by Charles Osborne. [London:] Shenval Press, 1968. 4to (277 x 210mm). Full-page illustrations by Sidney Nolan. Original black buckram-backed brown paper boards, spine lettered in gilt. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 4 OF 150 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST. With 3 other copies of the same work, all SIGNED by the author and artist, and numbered 32, 35, 87 of 150 copies respectively; together with Kenneth Macpherson's Omnes eodem cogimur. Some Notes Written Following the Death of Norman Douglas 9 February 1952 ([Turin], "Privately Printed," 1953, 4to, photographed plates, original mauve cloth gilt, slipcase, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 215 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 10 OF 15 "PERSONALLY INSCRIBED" COPIES, inscribed by the author on the limitation leaf in turquoise ink, "This is No. 10, for David Low, with all best wishes for the 'Omnibus' of the works of Douglas shortly to appear, Kenneth Macpherson, Anticole Corrada, 26 November 1953", and with 3 textual corrections in his hand on pp.26-27. (5)

POTTER, Beatrix (1866-1943). The Tailor of Gloucester, London, 1903, 12mo, 27 coloured plates by Beatrix Potter, original boards. FIRST WARNE EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. With 4 other books by Beatrix Potter, all but one FIRST EDITIONS. (5)POTTER, Beatrix (1866-1943).  The Tailor of Gloucester. London: Frederick Warne and Co., [October] 1903. 12mo (144 x 109mm). Half title, coloured frontispiece and 26 full-page coloured plates by Beatrix Potter. Original grey/green paper boards lettered in white with coloured pictorial label by Beatrix Potter mounted on the upper cover, pictorial endpapers (section of about 1cm torn away from the head of the spine with loss of letter 'T' and half of the letter 'h' of 'The'). Provenance: "A Christmas gift to Eva Ferguson, with love from Uncle Horace and Aunt Ethel, 1903" (inscription on front free endpaper). FIRST WARNE EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with a single-page pictorial endpaper occurring four times. For this Warne edition, Beatrix Potter provided 16 new illustrations which had not appeared in the privately-printed edition of 1902. Of all her books, this was her favourite. Linder p.423; Muir English Children's Books p.163 (note); Quinby 4; V&A 1576. With 4 other books by the same author comprising The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (London, 1906), Ginger and Pickles (London, 1909) and The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (London, 1909), all FIRST EDITIONS, and an early reprint ("The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin"), all in the original boards. (5) 

Holocaust and Rebirth. Bergen-Belsen 1945-1965. Introduction by Josef Rosensaft, New York and Tel Aviv, 1965, 4to, illustrations, original leatherette, slipcase, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Josef Rosensaft to Anthony Eden.Holocaust and Rebirth. Bergen-Belsen 1945-1965. Foreword by Dr. Jacob Robinson. Introduction by Josef Rosensaft. Edited by Sam E. Bloch. New York and Tel Aviv: Bergen-Belsen Memorial Press of the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Associations, 1965. 4to (303 x 225mm). Half tone illustrations, text in Yiddish, Hebrew and English. Original dark green leatherette lettered in gilt, gilt edges, slipcase. Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed in blue ink on a leaf of parchment inserted at the front, "To the Rt. Hon. Earl of Avon, K.G., M.C. [i.e. Anthony Eden]. Respectfully Josef Rosensaft. London, September 6, 1965." On this date, Anthony Eden had been the guest of honour at a dinner given in London by Josef and Hadassah Rosensaft on behalf of the World Union of Belsen Survivors to mark the twentieth anniversary of the liberation of the camp by British troops. The book was almost certainly presented to him at this event. Its contents require no comment.

HARVEY, William (1578-1657). Opera omnia, London, 1766, 4to, engraved portrait, plate, contemporary calf gilt (rebacked). "The best collected edition of his works is that published by the College of Physicians, edited by Dr Lawrence, in 1766" (see DNB).HARVEY, William (1578-1657).  Opera omnia: a Collegio Medicorum Londinensi edita, edited by Thomas Lawrence and Mark Akenside. [From the colophon:] London: "Excudebat Guilielmus Bowyer," 1766. 4to (285 x 230mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by John Hall after Cornelius Johnson [signed "Jonson" in the engraving], engraved plate, text in Latin throughout, "Emendanda" [i.e. errata] leaf at the end (some mainly light marginal spotting and staining, some heavier staining and spotting to a few leaves, a few signatures starting). Contemporary calf gilt (rebacked with [?]later tan morocco lettering-piece, rubbed and scuffed, corners worn, inner hinges reinforced some time ago). Provenance: From the Collection of Professor Jonathan Brostoff, D.M., D.Sc., FRCP, FRCPath (1934-2020); "Bruce" (old signature at head of title); one-page typed letter to Professor Jonathan Brostoff, relating to the work, dated 18 April 2007, and signed "Geoff Davenport", loosely-inserted (see illustration). The first work in this collection, in which Harvey outlines for the first time the idea of the circulation of blood, is "Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus" which is described by Garrison & Morton as "[t]he most important book in the history of medicine." (See PMM 127.) "The best collected edition of his works is that published by the College of Physicians, edited by Dr Lawrence, in 1766" (see DNB). Heirs of Hippocrates 444; Keynes 47: "Harvey's chief works in Latin have only twice been printed in a collected form, first by van Kerckherm at Leyden in 1737, and secondly by Bowyer for the Royal College of Physicians in 1766. The latter is an imposing volume with a fine engraved portrait"; Waller 4128; Wellcome III, 220.

[EVELYN, John (1620-1706)]. Acetaria. A Discourse on Sallets, London, 1699, small 8vo, large folding table (heavily spotted and browned throughout, loss of a few letters), 19th-century red half calf gilt. FIRST EDITION.[EVELYN, John (1620-1706)].  Acetaria. A Discourse of Sallets. London: Printed for B. Tooke, 1699. Small 8vo (158 x 95mm). Title within double rule border without rubrication, large folding letterpress table (lacking all before title [?blanks], heavily browned and spotted throughout, repair to a8 affecting several letters, although the text still legible, blank corners of b1 and b2 torn away without loss of letters, lacking errata leaf). 19th-century red half calf, spine gilt (new endpapers). Provenance: old signature or initials scribbled-out on title; author's name written in faint pencil. FIRST EDITION of this work on ... salads! Bitting p.149; Cagle 669; Henrey 117; Hunt 401: "It is a cookery-garden book with excellent recipes for unusual dishes of all sorts flavored with the ever useful pot herbs grown so universally in the 17th century. 'The book reveals Evelyn's zest for living and the culture of his mind. It also shows the thought and life of a country gentleman of the reign of Charles the Second'"; Keynes 105; Oxford p.46; Wing E3480. RARE.

SEGONZAC, André Dunoyer de (1884-1974) - A Collection of 13 works by André Dunoyer de Segonzac in 15 volumes, all except one PRESENTATION COPIES inscribed by the artist to Anthony or to Anthony and Clarissa Eden. Please see the full listing below. (15)SEGONZAC, André Dunoyer de (1884-1974) - A Collection of 13 works by André Dunoyer de Segonzac in 15 volumes, all except one PRESENTATION COPIES by the artist to Anthony or to Anthony and Clarissa Eden, including Notes prises au front (Paris, 1917, 4to, plates, unbound as issued in original cloth-backed portfolio, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 48 OF "200 EXEMPLAIRES SUR VELIN", PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "29 Avril 1939, Pour Anthony Eden, en hommage, ces dessins de guerre que nous avions la naïveté de croire 'la dernière' - avec son grande admiration, A. Dunoyer de Segonzac"), Catalogue de l' Oeuvre Gravé (Geneva, 1958-63, 3 volumes, 4to, plates, original wrappers, each volume INSCRIBED by the artist to Anthony and Clarissa Eden), Dunoyer de Segonzac. Préface par Maurice Genevoix (Paris, 1960, oblong 4to, plates, some coloured, original cloth-backed boards, stained, INSCRIBED by the artist to Anthony and Clarissa Eden), Maurice Loncle's Éloge de Dunouyer de Segonzac ... avec Dix Eaux-Fortes Originales ([?Paris, ?1966], 4to, etched illustrations and plates, some coloured, unbound as issued in original wrappers and green cloth portfolio, slipcase, INSCRIBED by the artist to Anthony and Clarissa Eden), Dessins 1900-1970 (Geneva, 1970, 4to, plates and illustrations, original hessian, dust-jacket, INSCRIBED by the artist to Anthony and Clarissa Eden) and Henry Hugault's Dunoyer de Segonzac (Paris, 1973, 4to, plates, some coloured, original hessian, dust-jacket, slipcase, INSCRIBED by the artist to Anthony and Clarissa Eden). (15)

WHISTLER, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903). Eden versus Whistler, Paris, 1899, large 8vo, original boards. FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY, with the old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden. With another book by Whistler, and a related album. (3)WHISTLER, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903).  Eden versus Whistler. The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict. Paris: Louis-Henry May, 1899. Large 8vo (203 x 160mm). Wood-engraved decorations by Whistler. Original mustard-yellow cloth-backed decorated boards gilt, uncut (edges rubbed, corners bumped). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (old armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY. In 1892, Sir William Morton Eden, 7th Baronet (1849-1915), commissioned Whistler to paint a portrait of his wife, Lady Eden. This resulted in an extended dispute over the price and a court case which Eden eventually won, although it led to Whistler destroying the painting and publishing the present work in revenge. Anthony Eden was William Eden's third son. With the same author's The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (London, reprinted 1909, original cloth-backed boards gilt), and an album containing contemporary newspaper clippings announcing Sir William Eden's death in 1915, many of which give a full account of the affair with Whistler. (3)

MORICE, Charles (1861-1919). Paul Gauguin, Paris, 1919, 4to, plates, later red cloth, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED by Anthony Eden. With 3 other related books. (4)MORICE, Charles (1861-1919).  Paul Gauguin. Paris: H. Floury, 1919. 4to (265 x 200mm). Half title, heliogravure portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé by Gauguin at p.82, plates, some mounted. Later red cloth, spine with white suede lettering-piece, original upper pictorial wrapper bound in at the end, new endpapers. Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY ANTHONY EDEN on the front free endpaper, "This book was bought by me about 1920 (bound 1920). About this first date my brother and I attempted to club together to buy, I think, 'Nevermore', but we could not raise the money, £2000. A. April, 1963." Gaugin's painting 'Nevermore' is illustrated on p.198 of the book and here. With 3 other books of related interest, namely Ludwig Goldscheider's El Greco (London, 1949, 4to, plates, some coloured and mounted, original cloth, second edition, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "To Clarissa Churchill with kindest regards, London, 29 June, 1951, Ludwig Goldscheider"), Bernard Berenson's The Italian Painters of the Renaissance (London, 1952, 4to, plates and illustrations, some coloured and mounted, original hessian boards, INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper, "For Clarissa and Anthony from Cl. C [possibly Clementine Churchill], Christmas 1952") and André Grabar's La Peinture Byzantine (Geneva, 1953, 4to, mounted coloured plates and illustrations, original green cloth, INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper, "Anthony Eden, for the London Conference, from Clarissa, Paris, October 1954"). (4)