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BOCK, Carl (1849-1932). The Head-Hunters of Borneo, London, 1881, large 8vo, folding map, 30 lithographed plates, of which 28 coloured, illustrations (some staining), original coloured pictorial cloth gilt (partly disbound). FIRST EDITION.BOCK, Carl Alfred (1849-1932).  The Head-Hunters of Borneo: A Narrative of Travel up the Mahakkam and Down the Barito; Also, Journeying in Sumatra. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1881. Large 8vo (262 x 180mm). Half title, folding engraved map of South East Borneo printed in colours, 30 lithographed plates by C. F. Kell after the author, of which 28 coloured, illustrations, tables (map and many plates and text leaves detached or loose, some mainly marginal spotting, staining and browning). Original pictorial cloth gilt, uncut, brown endpapers (rubbed, upper joints split at head, scuffed and stained, partly disbound). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023); "War Office Library"; "Quarter M[aster] G[eneral]'s Dept. Intelligence Branch" (2 stamps on title, with "Ministry of Defence. Withdrawn from Stock" stamp over the former). FIRST EDITION. Bobins The Exotic and the Beautiful 282.

GRIFFITH, Elizabeth ([?]1727-93). The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama Illustrated, London, 1775, 8vo, engraved portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare, contemporary calf (worn). FIRST EDITION. With another related work in 2 vols. (3)GRIFFITH, Elizabeth ([?]1727-93).  The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama Illustrated. London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1775. 8vo (214 x 125mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare, woodcut typographical ornament on title, printed dedication to David Garrick, one-page of errata on the verso of the last page of the preface (portrait almost detached, some very light spotting and staining). Contemporary calf, spine gilt (worn, head of spine torn, some erosion to foot of spine, lacking lettering-piece, rubbed). Provenance: Robert Prescott Esq. (old armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION of this pioneering work of Shakespearean criticism - in part a rebuttal of Voltaire's "single discordant voice" (see the author's Preface) - and, arguably, the first to establish Shakespeare's status as "National Poet." Of particular interest are the author's comments on "King Lear", comparing Shakespeare's original tragedy and Nahum Tate's (now infamous) re-working of it in 1681 which remained the preferred version among audiences and critics even into the first half of the 19th-century. Griffith's printed introduction to the play, on p.351 (preserving her original eccentric punctuation), states: "It may be necessary to many Readers to premise, that the Piece here under consideration, is the Play as originally written by Shakespeare, lest the bearing it in mind as altered by Tate, and generally acted so, might occasion confusion or mistakes, in the following notes and observations. The Critics are divided in their opinions between the original and the altered copy. Some prefer the first, as a more general representation of human life, where fraud too often succeeds, and innocence suffers: others prefer the latter, as a more general description of what life should be ... However, if pity and terror, as the Critics say, are the principal objects of Tragedy, surely no Play that ever was written can possibly answer both these ends better than this [i.e. the original] performance, as it stands in the present text." The author's stance may have been influential in eventually restoring Shakespeare's original play to the stage and to print. RARE. With [Charlotte Lennox's] Shakespear Illustrated: or the Novels and Histories On which the Plays of Shakespear Are Founded, Collected and Translated from the Original Authors. With Critical Remarks. In Two Volumes. By the Author of the Female Quixote (London, 1753, 2 vols., 12mo, contemporary calf, worn, upper cover of vol. one detached. A supplementary third volume, not present here and not called for on the title page of vol. one (where it states "In Two Volumes"), appeared in 1755). (3)

BRIGGS, Raymond (1934-2022). The Snowman, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978, small folio (300 x 210mm), coloured illustrations by Raymond Briggs, original coloured pictorial paper boards (head and foot of spine lightly bumped). FIRST EDITION.BRIGGS, Raymond (1934-2022, illustrator).  The Snowman. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978. Small folio (300 x 210mm). Coloured illustrations by Raymond Briggs. Original coloured pictorial paper boards lettered in black (head and foot of spine lightly bumped). The book was issued without a dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of what has since become a modern children's classic, told without text entirely through Brigg's charming, and ultimately poignant, illustrations. It was further popularised by the animated film which has been a regular staple of Christmas television viewing since it was first broadcast in 1982.

LOCKHART, Robert Hamilton Bruce (1887-1970). Comes the Reckoning, London, 1947, 8vo, original cloth. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "To Anthony, from Bruce, in gratitude and admiration, R. H. Bruce Lockhart." With 7 other related books. (8)LOCKHART, Robert Hamilton Bruce (1887-1970).  Comes the Reckoning. London: Putnam, 1947. 8vo (216 x 140mm). Half title (one leaf torn without significant loss, some marginal staining). Original dark blue cloth, the spine lettered in gilt (light stain to lower cover, without a dust-jacket). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the title page inscribed, "To Anthony, from Bruce, in gratitude and admiration, R. H. Bruce Lockhart, London, 7 November, 1947." With 7 other related books, including 5 by the same author, all PRESENTATION COPIES, namely, Retreat from Glory (London, 1943, 8vo, original cloth, reprint, inscribed, "[?]Mrs Eden, with the author's best wishes, R. H. Bruce Lockhart, London, July 6, 1944"), My Europe (London, 1952, 8vo, original cloth, inscribed, "For Anthony Eden, in memory of my Danish birthday, R. H. Bruce Lockhart"), Your England (London, 1955, 8vo, cloth, inscribed, "For Anthony Eden with affectionate good wishes, R. H. Bruce Lockhart, Edinburgh, 11 July, 1955"; Friends, Foes and Foreigners (London, 1957, 8vo, cloth, inscribed, "For Anthony Eden, in friendship, R. Bruce Lockhart, London, 26th October, 1957"); with Edward Crankshaw's Russia and Britain (London, [c.1944], 8vo, cloth, inscribed not by the author but by R. H. Bruce Lockhart [possibly to Anthony or Clarissa Eden], "This is not a 'projection of Russia' but a reminder of what Britain did to help the Russians since the days when Ivan the Terrible wanted to marry Queen Elizabeth, R. H. Bruce Lockhart, May 11, 1944"; and with Edward Benes. Essays and Reflections on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday [including R. H. Bruce Lockhart's essay "Some Personal Memories" on p.80] (London, 1945, 8vo, extensively inscribed by Bruce Lockhart to Anthony Eden, concluding "... the book was to have appeared in May, 1944, for Benes's sixtieth birthday, but has only just been published. Perhaps it had to be approved by Moscow!"). Following a colourful and varied life in finance, journalism, rugby football and espionage,  Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart was appointed during World War II as first Chairman, and later Director-General, of the "Political Warfare Executive", the clandestine body set up to co-ordinate British propaganda against the Axis powers, where Eden had also prominently worked from its inception. Later, he would go on to become the British liaison officer to the Czechoslovak government when it was operating in exile from London under President Eduard Benes. (8)

POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). Of the Characters of Women: An Epistle to a Lady, London, 1735, folio, later grey paper boards. FIRST EDITION. With 2 other books. (3)POPE, Alexander (1688-1744).  Of the Characters of Women: An Epistle to a Lady. London: Printed by J. Wright, for Lawton Gulliver, 1735. Folio (329 x 210mm). Half title, woodcut ornament on title and on final page, advertisement with head- and tail-piece, initial, 16-pages (lacks advertisements at the end, half title lightly stained and torn at gutter, spot in title, some light staining throughout). Later grey paper boards, older morocco lettering-piece on spine (some wear to head and foot of spine, corners rubbed, lightly scuffed and stained). Provenance: "[?]From K, Christmas 1919" (pencil inscription on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION of this epistle which is addressed to Pope's sometime mistress, Martha Blount. The Advertisement states, "The Author being very sensible how particular a Tenderness is due to the Female Sex, and at the same time how little they generally show to each other; declares, upon his Honour, that no one Character is drawn from the Life, in this Epistle. It would otherwise be most improperly inscribed to a Lady, who, of all the Women he knows, is the last that would be entertain'd at the Expence [sic] of Another". Foxon P917; Griffith 361. With [Thomas Hallie Delamayne's] The Senators: or, A Candid Examination into the Merits of the Principal Performers of St. Stephen's Chapel (London, G. Kearsly, 1772, lacks half title, engraved vignette on title, contemporary half calf and marbled boards, upper cover detached, FIRST EDITION) and [William Combe's] The Diaboliad, a Poem Dedicated to the Worst Man in His Majesty's Dominion's (London, "MCCLXXVII" [i.e. 1777], blank names filled in by a contemporary hand, contemporary half calf and marbled boards, FIRST EDITION of this infamous anonymously published satire directed at Simon Luttrell, Lord Irnham, also known as the "King of Hell"). (3)

SOLVYNS, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824). The Costume of Hindostan, London, 1804, folio, text in English and French, 60 hand-coloured aquatint plates, contemporary red half roan (rubbed). FIRST EUROPEAN EDITION.SOLVYNS, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824).  The Costume of Hindostan, elucidated by Sixty Coloured Engravings; with Descriptions in English and French, taken in the Years 1798 and 1799. London: Published by George Orme, 1804. Folio (360 x 255mm). Text in English and French, 60 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Scott or T. Vivares after Solvyns (the preface and first plate heavily spotted, some other lighter spotting and staining but plates generally clean, plates offset onto text). 19th-century half red roan gilt, marbled endpapers (heavily rubbed in patches, some staining, bumped). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023); leaf with [?]stamped coat-of-arms and inscription relating to a Leipzig museum dated 1966 inserted at the front. FIRST EUROPEAN EDITION. "The genesis of the book is a series of Two hundred and Fifty Drawings descriptive of the manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos, by B. Solvyns, the originals of which are in the National Art Library. These were published at Calcutta with the above title in 1799, the plates being etched, and coloured by  hand, and a separate catalogue being issued with descriptive text. From Solvyns' drawings W. Orme ... made a set of sixty water-colour copies (also in the National Art Library), infinitely better drawn than the originals; and Orme's drawings are the originals of the plates in The Costume of Hindostan, in which Solvyns appears as the artist without any acknowledgement being made of the Calcutta publications. The plates are in stipple, and seem to be all by Scott with the exception of four very poor ones by T. Vivares" (Hardie). Abbey Travel 429; Brunet IV, 305; Colas 2765; Hardie English Coloured Books p.132.

FREEMAN, Douglas Southall (1886-1953). George Washington, New York, 1948-51, volumes I-IV only (of VI), original cloth. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Anthony Eden. With 2 other works by the same author in 6 vols. (10)FREEMAN, Douglas Southall (1886-1953).  George Washington. A Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948-51. Volumes I - IV only (of VI), large 8vo (231 x 155mm). Half titles, half tone plates, maps. Original dark blue cloth gilt, map endpapers (without slipcases). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST EDITION, with 'A' on the copyright page of each volume, of the work for which the author won his second (posthumous) Pulitzer Prize in 1958. After the fifth and sixth volumes (not present here), a seventh, written by John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth, but based substantially on Freeman's research and notes, was published in 1957. PRESENTATION COPY, the half title of the first volume inscribed, "Autographed for The Right Honorable Anthony Eden in admiring gratitude for his service in advancing those interests of English-speaking peoples that Washington revered. Douglas Southall Freeman, July, 1950." It is clear, from the date of the inscription, that the author presented Anthony Eden with the first four volumes only (the fourth volume dated 1951 presumably being first issued in 1950), as are present here. Loosely-inserted in the second volume is a clipping from the Swindon Advertiser (Oct. 12th, 1959) featuring an opinionated and amusing letter relating to Anthony Eden and the Suez Crisis from one G. Rogers, marked [?by Eden] with two pencil crosses. With the same author's R. E. Lee. A Biography (New York, 1937, 4 vols., large 8vo, original red cloth, a reprint of the work for which the author won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1935, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden) and Lee's Lieutenants. A Study in Command (New York, 1942-43, 2 vols., original black cloth, FIRST EDITION, with Anthony Eden's modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). (10)

MACKENZIE KING, William Lyon (1874-1950, Prime Minister of Canada from 1935-48, and before). Canada at Britain's Side, Toronto, 1941, 8vo, red buckram. FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed extensively by the author to Anthony Eden.MACKENZIE KING, William Lyon (1874-1950, Prime Minister of Canada from 1935-48, and before).  Canada at Britain's Side. Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1941. 8vo (219 x 135mm). Half title, half tone frontispiece portrait. Original red buckram, spine lettered in gilt (spine and top edge of upper cover a little faded, without the dust-jacket). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "To the Right Honourable Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the House of Commons in the government of the United Kingdom. With gratitude for the inspiration of his visit to Canada at this time of war, and with every good wish for years of continued service to the cause of justice and freedom throughout the world, from his friend, W. L. Mackenzie King, 'Laurier's House', Ottawa, Canada, April 1st 1943." The publisher's printed note at the beginning of the work concludes: "Canada entered the war as a free and united nation at the side of Britain. Mr Mackenzie King loses no opportunity of emphasizing the determination of the Canadian people to put forth their utmost effort till the hour of victory, and to remain to the end, freely and unitedly, at Britain's side." William Lyon Mackenzie King was the longest serving Prime Minister of Canada, holding that office for three terms from 1921 to 1926, 1926 to 1930 and 1935 to 1948.

LIE, Trygve (1896-1968). In The Cause of Peace. Seven Years with the United Nations, New York, 1954, large 8vo, original cloth. FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Anthony Eden.LIE, Trygve (1896-1968).  In the Cause of Peace. Seven Years with the United Nations. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954. Large 8vo (210 x 140mm). Half title, half tone frontispiece portrait of the author. Original two-tone cloth, spine lettered in white (without the dust-jacket). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "H. E. Mr Anthony Eden. Dear Mr Eden, I hope you or your charming wife will get a chance to read the book. My [?]desire is that it will serve our common ideas and cause, Yours Trygve Lie, [illegible Norwegian place-name], Norway, August 9th, 1954." The author was the Norwegian Foreign Minister during the Norwegian Government's exile in London from 1940-45 and, from 1946 to 1952, the first Secretary-General of the United Nations. On p.11 of the book, the author describes (in print) his relationship with Anthony Eden and the high esteem in which he held him: "During the war I had formed a warm friendship with Anthony Eden. I had known and admired his courageous stand against the prevailing mood of his own Conservative party in the later 1920's, his opposition to appeasement and effort to revitalize the League of Nations and make it a real force for collective security against aggression before it was too late ... Now he was out of office as Foreign Secretary, and I regarded him as an ideal choice for Secretary-General [i.e. of the United Nations]. I am not sure that he would have accepted, but he did not object when I told him I should like to sound out the Labor[sic] Government and Moscow."

ACCADEMIA DEL CIMENTO - [Lorenzo MAGALOTTI (1637-1712), editor] & others. Saggi di Naturali Esperienze, Florence, 1691, folio, 75 full-page engraved illustrations, contemporary vellum-backed boards. Second edition.ACCADEMIA DEL CIMENTO - [Lorenzo MAGALOTTI (1637-1712), editor] & others.  Saggi di Naturali Esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento sotto la Protezione del Serenissimo Principe Leopoldo di Toscana e Descritte dal Segretario di essa Accademia. Seconda Edizione. Florence: Nella Nuova Stamperia di Gio: Filippo Cecchi, 1691. Folio (351 x 255mm). Half title, title printed in red and black with engraved illustration, engraved portrait of Cosimo III, elaborate woodcut initials, head-pieces and tail-pieces, 75 full-page engraved illustrations (half title and final leaf stained, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining, marginal closed tear to one full-page illustration, some creasing). Contemporary vellum-backed [?]later paper boards, spine with remnants of old lettering-piece, new endpapers. The "Accademia del Cimento" was a scientific society established in Florence in 1657. During its short existence, the Saggi was its only published work. Brunet IV, 163 (citing the first edition of 1666, but mentioning the present edition in the note): "Cet ouvrage estimé ..."; Cinti 163; Dibner Heralds 82; Gamba 853; Krivatsy p.25; Riccardi II, 407; Wellcome III, p.23; Wheeler 196.

ROSSETTI, Donato (1633-86). La Figura della Neve, Turin, 1681, 8vo in 4s, 7 etched illustrations of snowflakes, 3 of which full-page (text ends at [E4] p.40), contemporary calf (rebacked). FIRST EDITION. RARE. Please see the note on completeness below.ROSSETTI, Donato (1633-86).  La Figura della Neve. Turin: "Per la Vedova Gianelli, e Domenico Paulino," 1681. 8vo in 4s (179 x 113mm). Half title, woodcut ornament on title, initial, 7 etched illustrations of snowflakes by Donato Rossetti, 3 of which full-page (the final leaf [E4], paginated 40 on the verso, followed by an old blank leaf [see note], some very light mainly marginal staining, some minor worming at gutter of a few leaves, not affecting letters). Contemporary calf (crudely rebacked and rubbed, particularly at the corners, inner hinges split or reinforced). Provenance: Marchesa di Ravarolo (old signatures at lower margin of 2 pages); remnants of old manuscript library labels on front and rear pastedowns; later pencil annotation on the front blank stating [?erroneously] "lacks last leaf ...". FIRST EDITION of this pioneering study of snowflakes which was the first to represent them as hexagonal platelet crystals. The work built on the earlier and inconclusive studies on the same subject undertaken by Kepler and Descartes and took as its model related microscopic investigations of Robert Hooke. The author, a Tuscan natural philosopher, mathematician and canon of Livorno Cathedral, is not listed in the DSB. Like the copy in the "Biblioteca Comunale Labronica", which is collated as ending on [E4] (i.e. p.40) without any suggestion that it is incomplete, the copies in the BL and "The Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History)" also consist of just 40-pages, but are, according to their speculative catalogue entries, "apparently imperfect". Although p.40 in the present copy ends mid-line, and with an apparent semi-colon [illustrated], it has, unlike any other page of text in the book, no catchword, suggesting it is the final page. Since all of the few recorded copies end similarly at p.40, we are reasonably confident, despite its abrupt conclusion, that the book is complete, but our lack of complete certainty compels us to sell it, with regret, not subject to return. RARE.

DUNNE, John William (1866-1949). An Experiment with Time, London, 1927, 8vo, original blue buckram, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. RARE, particularly in the dust-jacket.DUNNE, John William (1866-1949).  An Experiment with Time. London: A. & C. Black, 1927. 8vo (218 x 140mm). Half title, woodcut printer's device on title, diagrams. Original dark blue buckram, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, tan dust-jacket lettered and ruled in black with printer's device stamped on lower wrapper (small piece torn away from foot of backstrip of jacket without loss of letters, some chipping to head of backstrip and corners, price-clipped). Provenance: some pencil annotation to front free endpaper ("Robert, have you ever encountered this before?"). FIRST EDITION. A note from the publisher, printed in cursive script on the upper wrapper of the dust-jacket, states, "The author's challenge to our present day conceptions of the universe is altogether too weighty to be ignored. It is a very serious and disturbing contribution." J. W. Dunne was "... a pioneer aircraft designer and author of the widely-read An Experiment with Time (1927) and The Serial Universe (1934), in which he outlined a theory of time to account for such phenomena as precognition, previsional dreaming, etc. He quotes in support Wells' The Time Machine, but Wells was to reply that Dunne had taken his concept of 'duration as a dimension of space' too seriously. Dunne's concept proved a useful dramatic device to J. B. Priestley in his 'Time' plays, and is mentioned with interest by G[raham] Greene (who asks if it is possible for novelists to draw their symbols from the future as well as from the past: see Ways of Escape, ch. 3)" (The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. M. Drabble, 1985). RARE, particularly in the scarce dust-jacket.

KENNEDY, John Noble (1893-1970). The Business of War, London, 1957, 8vo, original buckram. FIRST EDITION, ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT.KENNEDY, John Noble (1893-1970).  The Business of War. The War Narrative of Major General Sir John Kennedy ... Edited and with a Preface by Bernard Fergusson. London: Hutchinson, 1957. 8vo (228 x 145mm). Half title, 2 folding maps at the end. Original black and red buckram, spine lettered in gilt (spine a little faded, some very faint white staining, without a dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION, ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT, often in very direct terms. For example, on p.xiii of Ferguson's preface (commenting on his [Ferguson's] views on the decision 'to go into Greece'), Eden writes: "Nonsense. [John Greer] Dill & [Archibald Percival] Wavell both favoured it ..."; on p. xvi: "W. [Winston] believed it right to go to Greece. Kennedy with less knowledge did not"; on p.2 (commenting on the printed passage 'Yet again, if we in the General Staff had had our way before the war, we should probably have had sixteen or seventeen divisions committed in France before the end of 1939'): "They never asked for anything like it & I had singularly little support from Chiefs of Staff under Chatfield"; on p.4 (commenting on Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary of State for War): "Dill thought very ill of him"; on p.6 (commenting on Dill's reaction to Hore-Belisha's memorandum regarding "re-equipment" of the army): "He said he thought it would wreck my chance of talks with Germany. I told him it would [?]widen them"; on p.25: "Note for my book" [probably The Memoirs, published between 1960 and 1965]; on p.28 (commenting on the passage 'the whole matter of air policy vis-à-vis the Army was in a mess'): "A comment on Nevill [Chamberlain] & [Thomas] Inskip"; on p.81: "Wrong again"; on p.88 (the context unclear): "Did Donovan not tell him that he strongly favoured our help to Greece - for he certainly did"; on p.102 (commenting on the author's views on Cyrenaica and Greece): "This is all paper war by an armchair general"; on p.119 (on Wavell's reported comment that 'we could not hold the Middle East'): "Typical defeatist stuff"; on p.124 (commenting on the printed passage 'The German attack on Russia was still a month away, and we were wholly unaware that it was pending'): "Surely not. W. [Winston] had warned Russia by then"; on p.129 (commenting on the printed passage 'it now became apparent that the Germans were about to repeat the mistake, which they had made once before, of failing to concentrate on one objective for long enough to get decisive results'): "Yes but what part had our intervention in Greece had in this decision of Hitler's[?]. Yugoslavia's coup d'etat - not even noted in this book - had infuriated him. So had Russia's recognition of the new Govt. This had been his first setback. You cannot treat those things in isolation"; on p.157: "All this ignores simple fact. Only place [sic] in which we could defeat Germans was Middle East - Dill knew this: that was why he advocated with me sending forces out there in 1940"; on p.196 (commenting on the passage 'British tanks in the desert were still outgunned and outranged by the German tanks'): "Because the army had refused to settle on a tank before the war. They rejected my suggestion that they accept [?]'Class B'"; and on p.215 (commenting on the occupation of Madagascar): "This is not a full account. The Chiefs of Staff opposed the operation very late in the day purely on political grounds. W. sent for me from F.O. We over-ruled their objections. If the operation had gone wrong, we should certainly have heard plenty about it in books like this." A few pencil annotations appear to be in a different hand from Eden's, possibly secretarial: these are not recorded above.

LACE - Augusta Godin, Baronne LIEDTS (1850-85). Anciennes Dentelles Belges, Anvers, 1889, folio, 185 phototype plates of lace, contemporary dark blue half morocco. FIRST EDITION.LACE - Augusta Godin, Baronne LIEDTS (1850-85). Anciennes Dentelles Belges, formant la Collection de Feue Madame Augusta Bnne. Liedts, et donnée au Musée de Gruuthuus à Bruges. Anvers: Phototypies Jos. Maes, 1889 [but dedication leaf dated 1890]. Folio (555 x 365mm). Title and dedication leaf printed in red and black, portrait of Augusta Godin Liedts, 185 "phototype" plates of lace including 35 supplementary plates at the end (title and dedication leaf lightly stained and spotted, some light mainly marginal staining to plates). Contemporary dark blue half morocco gilt, spine with 6 raised bands and lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (rubbed). Provenance: from the Collection of the late Professor Bernard Nevill (1930-2019). FIRST EDITION of this monumental catalogue of Baronne Liedts' renowned collection of lace which, following her untimely death, was donated by her husband to the city of Bruges where it remains to this day on display at the Gruuthusemuseum. Cf. Siegelaub Bibliographia textilia historiæ p.209; Whiting A Lace Guide for Makers and Collectors ... Bibliography 1073. RARE.

TIMKOWSKI, Egor Fedorovitch (1790-1975). Travels of the Russian Mission through Mongolia to China, London,1827, 2 volumes, 8vo, frontispiece, folding map, plan of Peking, old half calf. FIRST U.K. EDITION. With 2 other related works in 3 vols. (5)TIMKOWSKI, Egor Fedorovitch (1790-1975).  Travels of the Russian Mission through Mongolia to China, and Residence in Peking, in the Years 1820-1821 ... With Corrections and Notes by Julius Klaproth, translated by H. E. Lloyd. London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827. 2 volumes, 8vo (214 x 135mm). Lithographed frontispiece, large folding "Map of the Route from Kiakhta to Peking, through Mongolia", folding plan of Peking. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt with black morocco lettering-pieces (heavily rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: "Ministry of Defence. Withdrawn" (stamps on front free endpapers, title, map of Peking and at margin of one text leaf; library labels at foot of spines with library numbers written in white ink on corner of upper covers). FIRST U.K. EDITION. Brunet IV, 483; Löwendahl 859; Lust 550. With 2 other related works in 3 vols., namely Frederick E. Forbes' Five Years in China; from 1842 to 1847. With an Account of the Occupation of the Islands of Labuan and Borneo by Her Majesty's Forces (London, 1848, 8vo, fine coloured lithographed frontispiece of "The Empress of China", illustrations, original mustard yellow cloth, FIRST EDITION, ex-library copy, with the same provenance and similar related condition issues as with the first named item) and Sven Hedin's Trans-Himalaya. Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet (London, 1909, 2 vols., plates, attractively-bound in contemporary blue full prize calf gilt, FIRST EDITION). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023). (5)

LAPIE, Pierre-Olivier (1901-94). Certitudes Anglaises, Paris, 1938, wrappers. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "à Monsieur Anthony Eden, [illegible words] Ministre des Affaires [illegible words], hommage [illegible word], P. O. Lapie".LAPIE, Pierre-Olivier (1901-94).  Préoccupations de Notre Temps. Certitudes Anglaises. Paris: Éditions Rieder, 1938. Small 4to (190 x 142mm). Half title (some light browning). Original blue and white wrappers lettered in black, unopened (some light staining). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed, "à Monsieur Anthony Eden, [illegible words] Ministre des Affaires Etrangère, hommage [illegible word], P. O. Lapie". The author was a French lawyer, politician, writer and freedom fighter who took part in the ill-fated Norwegian campaign in 1940 before joining Charles de Gaulle's "Free France" in London.

NONESUCH PRESS - HOMER (fl. 9TH- or 8TH-CENTURY B.C.E.). The Iliad, London, 1931, small folio, ornaments, original niger morocco. ONE OF 1,450 COPIES. With Francis Meynell's rare printed note relating to this edition loosely-inserted.NONESUCH PRESS - HOMER (fl. 9TH- or 8TH-CENTURY B.C.E.).  The Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope. [London:] The Nonesuch Press, 1931. Small folio (267 x 155mm). Printed in red and black, ornaments by Rudolf Koch. Original niger morocco gilt, spine with 5 raised bands, top edges gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers (inner hinges inconspicuously reinforced, lacks slipcase). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (old armorial bookplate). NUMBER 713 OF 1,450 COPIES. Loosely-inserted is Francis Meynell's rare note relating to this edition, printed on a single sheet, headed: "On First Looking into Pope's Homer". Sometimes The Iliad is sold with the uniform Nonesuch edition of The Odyssey, but the latter is not included here. Dreyfus 72; Nonesuch Century 72.

FLEMING, Ian (1908-64). On Her Majesty's Secret Service, London, 1963, 8vo, original dark brown cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. With the same author's You Only Live Twice (London, 1964, 8vo, cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION). (2)FLEMING, Ian (1908-64).  On Her Majesty's Secret Service. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. 8vo (189 x 125mm). Half title. Original dark brown cloth, the upper cover with ski tracks in white, the spine lettered in silver with publisher's motif at foot, dust-jacket by Richard Chopping with price of 16s. unclipped (backstrip of jacket lightly browned with chips at head, some light spotting at edges of wrappers). FIRST EDITION. Gilbert A11. With the same author's You Only Live Twice (London, 1964, original black cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION). (2)

An impressive 18th century brass-bound ebony quarter-repeating table clock with moonphaseClaude Duchesne, LondonThe case surmounted by an inverted caddy top with central finial over a silk-backed pierced soundfret framed by four further finials over an elaborately moulded cornice raised on brass-mounted Tuscan three-quarter columns to each corner framing the long shaped pierced brass-framed sound frets backed in silk to each side, the front and rear doors with similar brass frames, all on a multi-layered moulded base bound in brass to the top and bottom, on substantial brass bun feet. The 8-inch arched brass dial with rare 'Chronos' spandrels depicting a bearded Father Time below a sandglass and pair of wings, framing the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with lozenge half-quarter marks and fleur des lys half-hour markers signed Claudius DuChesne Londini between V and VII, the finely matted centre with ringed winding holes, chamfered and engraved calendar and mock pendulum apertures under intricately pierced blued steel hands, the arch decorated with foliate scrolls and a pair of birds within strapwork enclosing a strike/not strike lever, moonphase (the outer scale marked 1-59) and aperture for setting the phase of the moon. The twin gut fusee movement with five knopped pillars and knife-edge verge escapement, the backplate with extensive floral and strapwork engraving, a partridge in the centre and a beast mask below, framed by a stylised wheatear border. Ticking, striking and repeating with a door key and a winding key. 73cms (28.5ins) highFootnotes:Claude Duchesne was seemingly born around 1670. It is commonly accepted that he lived in Paris, until just after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, at which point he joined many other Huguenot refugees and fled to the U.K. It is uncertain exactly when he arrived, with some putting it as early as 1689. The first concrete evidence of his life in the U.K. is from 1693; not only was he made free of the Clockmaker's Company in this year, he also married Elizabeth Bossu in Stepney. The couple would have at least three children; Claudius, born in 1699, Elizabeth born in 1706, and Anthony, born in 1708, though there are some contemporary reports of the couple having five children at one point. Claudius would eventually become a weaver, and Anthony would become a goldsmith. It is not known what became of Elizabeth. Duchesne became a British citizen in 1711. Duchesne was known to sign his clocks as either 'Claude' or 'Claudius' and 'Duchesne' or 'Du Chesne'. The exact location of his shop is questionable; most clocks give a location of either 'Dean Street, Soho' or 'Long Acre', so it seems likely that he was working in Soho. Wherever he worked, Duchesne appears to have been a highly regarded maker, especially in the construction of musical clocks. An account given by Jane Squire in 1731, notes that she 'understood he had made the musical Part of most of the musical Clocks of Note in Town'. Duchesne set himself apart from other makers of the time by featuring interchangeable music barrels, a style that had last been extensively practiced by William Jourdain in the later 17th century. Both makers also featured twelve bells with multiple, variable hammers and parallel motion music work. This suggests a detailed knowledge of music theory, in addition to the horological skill required to make such clocks. It seems that Duchesne may also have had some acquaintance with George Graham and John Harrison, the latter being introduced to Duchesne by the former. It is thought that Harrison contacted Duchesne in order to obtain the large quantities of brass he, Harrison, needed for his horological experimentations. Claude Duchesne is believed to have died in April 1733, and been buried in St. James, Paddington. His son, Anthony, married Anne Gagnon, and the couple had six children, one of whom, Claude (born in 1735) would go on to be a clockmaker. Duchesne's other known son, Claudius, married Anne, and the couple had four children. One of their children, Elizabeth 'Betty' Duchesne was born in 1724 and was known to be close friends with John, Charles and Sarah Wesley, with John Wesley conducting her funeral in 1776. It is thought that Elizabeth was responsible for gifting a walnut, moon phase eight-day longcase clock, made by her grandfather, to the Wesley's. The clock is reported to have never left Wesley's house, where it remains to this day. A late 19th century account suggests that the clock is the very timepiece that inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to write The Old Clock on the Stairs, though this is not definitive: 'Half-way up the stairs it stands/And points and beckons with its hands.By day its voice is low and light/But in the silent dead of night,Distinct as a passing footstep's fall/It echoes along the vacant hall,Along the ceiling, along the floor/And seems to say, at each chamber-door, --'Forever -- never!/Never -- forever!''Blake, G. (2011) 'A Record of the Death of Claude Duchesne', Antiquarian Horology, Vol. 32 (5), pgs. 730-731.Turner, A. (2014) 'Charles Clay: fashioning timely music', Antiquarian Horology, Vol. 35 (3), pg.933.Betts, J. (2017) Marine Chronometers at Greenwich. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pg. 143.Blake, G., Wintle, C., Gill, J. (2010) 'Claude Duchesne- Huguenot Clockmaker', Antiquarian Horology, Vol. 32 (1), pgs. 43-51.British Horological Institute (1891) 'Correspondence', The Horological Journal, Vol. 34 (1), pg. 16.Wesley's Chapel & Leysian Mission (2023) Virtual Tour: Wesley's House, Study. Available at: https://www.wesleyschapel.org.uk/your-visit/virtual-tour/ Dawber, E. G. (1898-1899) 'Some Thoughts on Clocks and Their Decoration: Part Two', The Architectural Review Vol. 5, pg. 261.Longfellow, H. (1890) The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with Bibliographical and Critical Notes, Riverside Edition, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin.Ord-Hume, A. W. J. G. (1995) The Musical Clock, Ashbourne: Mayfield Books.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Warhol (Andy) The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, "To Robert F with love" and "London 1975" with a large soup can drawing "Campbell's Pea Soup" in black felt tip to front endpaper, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine sunned, light damp-staining to spine head and along lower panel top edge, some slight creasing at edges, corners a little bumped with small nicks, Cassell/Dempsey, 1975; with two association A.L.s from previous owner loosely inserted, 8vo (3) ⁂ Rare copy with the Campbell's pea soup doodle, and with a good association. Dedicated to Robert Fraser (1937-1986), the prominent London-based art dealer. Fraser introduced and promoted the work of many important British and American artists, including Andy Warhol, to the British market, and was at the forefront of modern art in Britain throughout the 1960s and 70s. The two letters accompanying this present copy, are signed and written by previous owner Jaine (?)Wilson, in which she testifies that the book was given to her personally by Robert Fraser. She recalls how, "I mentioned to him that it looked valuable and he said 'you don't understand, it would be an unsigned copy that would be valuable'".

Wells (H.G.) The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, first edition, half-title, title in red & black, 2pp. advertisements at end, ink date and embossed stamp to endpaper, one or two spots to half-title, hinge cracked but holding firm, original pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt, slight shelf lean, spine faded, light spot to lower cover otherwise an excellent example, [Hammond B4], 8vo, 1897.

Wells (H.G.) Things to Come: A Film Story Based on the Material Contained in History of the Future "The Shape of Things to Come", first edition, signed by the author and actor Derrick de Marnay on front free endpaper, very light scattered spotting, original cloth, gilt, near-fine, 4to, 1935.⁂ A 'Film Story' based on Wells' future history The Shape of Things to Come which follows a financially devastated Europe threatened with an incoming plague. The 1936 film, Things to Come, was directed William Cameron Menzies and stars Derrick de Marnay as Richard Gordon. "Things to Come qualifies as the first true masterpiece of science fiction cinema." - Gary Westfahl's Bio-Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Film

Wilde (Oscar) A House of Pomegranates, first edition, [one of 1000 copies], pictorial title, endpapers and other illustrations by Charles Ricketts, 4 plates by Charles Shannon, bookplate to front free endpaper, previous owner's ink and pencil notes to title verso, original pictorial cloth-backed boards, gilt, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Mason 347], small 4to, 1891

Wyndham (John) The Day of the Triffids, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, price-clipped, light chipping to corners and extremities, spine head repaired with retouching, some short tears repaired along edges, preserved in custom drop-back box, 8vo, 1951.

Blyton (Enid) Child Whispers, first edition, ownership inscriptions to dedication page, some light staple rust-staining to gutter, ink stain to p.13, original wrappers, light surface soiling, a little rubbed, oblong 8vo, 1922.⁂ Blyton's scarce first published work.

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, first edition, first or second printing, signed presentation inscription from the author to her governess "for Miss Hammond with love from Beatrix Potter Sept 30th 08" on pictorial endpapers, colour frontispiece, plain title vignette and 26 colour plates, upper hinge broken but holding firm, original grey boards with mounted colour illustration, small chip to spine tail not affecting text, very light rubbing to spine head, [Linder p.427; Quinby 14], 16mo, 1908.⁂ A superb association copy dedicated to Potter's favourite governess. Miss Flora "Florrie" Hammond was Potter's first governess, hired when her younger brother Walter Bertram was born. Potter didn't attend school and had very little contact with children her own age, and Miss Hammond would thus have been a pivotal early influence, teaching her reading, writing and arithmetic until she was 17. Moreover she encouraged her artistic pursuits - it was Miss Hammond who suggested to her parents that an art tutor was hired to give formal painting and drawing lessons. After leaving the family Beatrix and Miss Hammond continued to correspond with occasional visits to one another. The work is inscribed and dated in the first print window (August-September 1908), denoting it to be a possible first printing.

Dighton (Richard) A London Nuisance, first edition, the set of 6, etchings with original hand-colouring, on wove paper without watermarks, wide margins to each, very lightly browned, occasional spotting, a few very minor marginal nicks and splits, later half red morocco, gilt, by Root & Son, titled in gilt on upper cover, slightly rubbed at edges, rebacked preserving old spine, folio, Thomas McLean, [1835]Provenance:Probably Swann, New York, The Albert Cohen Collection 19th century English Illustrated Books, 15th November, 1990, lot 272 (sold for $770)Sale. Bloomsbury Auctions, London, 7th November 2013, lot 162 (sold for £2,976 incl. premium)

Chagall (Marc) Lithographe I, first edition, 12 lithographs and illustrations by Chagall, original cloth, dust-jacket, light creases and nicks to edges, otherwise excellent, 4to, Paris, André Sauret, 1960.⁂ For Chagall, the medium of lithography did not come easily. Printer Fernand Mourlot ran a lithography press where Braque, Matisse, Picasso, Miró and Chagall came to have their designs printed and to learn about this still nascent print-making process. "For many long months Chagall came and worked tirelessly, and his dissatisfaction allowed him to have only a few of his first attempts printed" (Sorlier, 45). This is the scarce first volume of the 6 vol. set which were issued separately over a period of 26 years.

Melville (Herman) Moby Dick, first Rockwell Kent edition, illustrations by Rockwell Kent, modern white morocco, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover, upper cover with blind-stamped design replicating the gaze of the Whale, 8vo, New York, 1930.⁂ An attractive and unique binding.

Ashendene Press.- Cervantès Saavedra (Miguel de) The First [-Second] Part of the History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha, 2 vol., translated by Thomas Shelton, 2 vol., one of 225 copies, printed in red and black in Ptolemy type in double-column, woodcut borders and initials designed by Louise Powell and engraved by W.M.Quick and George H.Ford, original crushed dark green morocco, by W.H.Smith & Son, spines titled in gilt with seven raised bands, uncut, one or two small scuffs, slight rubbing to edges, [Hornby XXXVI; Franklin p.241], folio, Ashendene Press, 1927-28.⁂ The first Ashendene Press book printed in Ptolemy type, designed after Holle's 1482 edition of Ptolemy's Geographia.

Cranach Press.- Shakespeare (William) The Tragedie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, edited by J.Dover Wilson, number 120 of 300 copies on Maillol handmade paper, type designed by Edward Johnston after the Mainz Psalter of 1457, title cut by Eric Gill, printed in red, blue and black, wood-engraved illustrations designed and cut by Edward Gordon Craig, 'Notes on the Text...' by the editor in original cloth-backed wrappers loose in pocket at end, very light spotting to a few leaves (as often), foxing to rear endpapers, original red crushed morocco, gilt, by Otto Dorfner of Weimar, upper cover with title and small circular cut after Craig in gilt with single gilt fillet border, spine titled in gilt within five raised bands with double rules in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, signed on rear turn-in, lower corner of rear cover slightly bumped, [The Artist and the Book 1860-1960 66], folio, Weimar, Cranach Press, 1930.⁂ A magnificent copy of Edward Gordon Craig's masterpiece and one of only a few copies in the deluxe binding. A German edition was issued the previous year but this English edition contains 6 additional woodcuts by Craig. Having seen the prints ("black figures") made from Craig's wooden figures which he used with his model theatre, Count Harry Kessler commissioned Craig to illustrate an edition of Hamlet. It was to be printed at his private Cranach press using the woodblocks and with specially-designed type. This was in 1912 but work on it was suspended during the First World War and Craig became distracted by other projects so the book was not issued for nearly twenty years. Craig's son, Teddy, went to Weimar to assist the master-printer, Gage Cole, in the printing of the woodblocks: "I was the only person who knew how to get the kind of impression required, showing the delicate side grain of wood and at the same time producing the specially blackened details in certain blocks." Edward Craig. Gordon Craig: The Story of His Life p.326"This is one of the most ambitious and successful books of the Cranach Press, with a fine harmony between the type page and the illustration". (The Artist and the Book, p.52).

Ashendene Press.- Longus. Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe, translated by J.Amyot, edited by Paul-Louis Courier, one of 290 copies on paper, printed in red and black in Ptolemy type, initials and decorations supplied by hand in blue by Graily Hewitt and his assistants, wood-engraved illustrations by Gwen Raverat, some full-page, a couple of small spots to title, press announcement/prospectus loosely inserted (lightly spotted), original vellum-backed turquoise boards, gilt design on upper cover by Raverat, spine ruled and titled in gilt, uncut, very slight rubbing and small bump to edge of upper board, board slip-case (slightly rubbed at edges), [Hornby XXXIX; Franklin p.242], 4to, Ashendene Press, 1933.⁂ The loosely-inserted 'Announcement of the Last Books to be Issued from the Press' explains that the first printing of the Daphnis et Chloe had to be destroyed due to faulty ink causing offsetting on the Japanese paper used. It also pays tribute to the pressman George Faulkner, who had been responsible for all Ashendene books since 1902 and who had recently died. The whole edition of Daphnis et Chloe was reprinted on English handmade paper by H.Gage-Cole, apprentice pressman to William Morris at the Kelmscott Press and pressman at the Doves Press. Gage-Cole also assisted with the printing of The Book of Ecclesiasticus which is announced here.

δ Matthews (William, binder).- Shackleton (Keith) Tidelines, first edition, inscribed by the author "Bill Matthews with good wishes from W.S.Shackleton & the author Keith Shackleton 1952" on half-title, colour plates and black & white illustrations by the author, bound in dark turquoise goatskin, by William Matthews, upper cover with design of a goose coming to land in outline over a wavy vertical "tideline" in gilt formed by a specially-cut tool of close-cut lines, lower with large gilt circle using the same tool, spine titled in gilt with five raised bands, cloudy hand-stained endpapers, g.e., signed at foot of rear turn-in, c.280 x 220mm., light spotting to covers, spine a little faded, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, [Maggs cat.1212 no.322], 1951; with a 1978 V & A catalogue to an exhibition of the bindings of William Matthews and Edgar Mansfield featuring this binding (No.11 and plate 2), 4to (2)⁂ William Matthews (1898-1977) trained at the Central School of Arts & Crafts, having won a scholarship aged 13, studying design with Noel Rooke, lettering with Graily Hewitt and bookbinding with Peter McLeish, son of Charles McLeish the finisher at the Doves Bindery. He then served an apprenticeship with W.T.Morrell as a finisher before establishing his own bindery. He also spent many years teaching at the Central School and taught many later eminent bookbinders. He is renowned for his exceptional craftsmanship and particularly his gold-tooling, for which he often cut his own tools, as here.δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.

Architecture.- Pozzo (Andrea) Perspectivae pictorum atque architectorum... Der Mahler und Baumeister Perspectiv, 2 vol. in 1, first Latin & German edition, parallel text in Latin and German in two columns, 2 engraved frontispieces, 222 engraved plates, of which 1 with small corner defect to margin and a couple with minor marginal tears, book-labels, scattered spotting, soiling, browning and marginal damp-staining throughout, heaviest to initial ff., repairs to hinges, contemporary calf, leather repairs, spine label renewed, folio, Augsburg, J. Wolff, 1706-09⁂ The beautifully illustrated first bilingual Latin-German edition of this famous book by Andrea Pozzo on architecture. Engravings by Johannes Boxbarth and Georg Conrad Bodenehr, with shadows reversed from other editions. Provence: Olga Raggio (1926-2009), art historian and curator with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; gifted to the present owner.

Architecture.- Georgian Society (The). Records of Eighteenth Century Domestic Architecture and Decoration in Dublin, 5 vol., first edition, each vol. one of 600 copies or fewer, vol.5 & 2 with publisher's compliments slips, plates and illustrations, some with browning to endpapers, prelims foxed, original decorative cloth, some fading, corners bumped, 4to, Dublin, Society at the Dublin University Press, 1909-13.⁂ Rare complete set of this Irish architectural record. Library Hub lists only a handful of copies at Oxford and Birmingham University, and at the National Library of Scotland.

Ainsworth (William Francis) Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Chaldea, and Armenia, 2 vol., first edition, 3 folding maps, 2 wood-engraved frontispieces and numerous illustrations, lacking 4pp. advertisements, occasional spotting, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, red and green morocco spine labels, vol.2 upper cover with nick,dent, [Atabey 11; Blackmer 9], 8vo, 1842.⁂ The Atabey copy of this account of an expedition to the Christian tribes of Chaldea, funded by the Royal Geographical Society and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. The expedition took Ainsworth deep into the interior of Asia Minor, through eastern Turkey, Kurdistan, Armenia, northern Syria and Mesopotamia.Provenance: William Ramsay (bookplate); J.R. Walsh (ink name to front free endpapers); Sefik E. Atabey (bookplate).

Bishop (Isabella L. Bird, Mrs.) Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 2 folding maps, plates and illustrations, advertisement leaf at end of vol.1, hinges weak, original decorative blue cloth, gilt, slight mark to spine vol.1, [Ghani p.42], 8vo, 1891.⁂ The Burrell copy of this work by "the most notable woman traveller of her time" (ODNB).

Middle East.- Blunt (Lady Anne) Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, wood engraved frontispieces and 10 plates, 1 folding colour map, 1 folding pedigree of Arabian thoroughbreds, advertisements at end vol. 2, scattered faint spotting, bookplate of Peter Hopkirk, original pictorial cloth, gilt, very slight mottling, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1879.⁂ Lady Anne Blunt (1837-1917) was the daughter of Ada Lovelace, and granddaughter of Lord Byron. She was the co-founder of the Crabbet Arabian Stud, along with her husband, the poet Wilfrid Blunt. They travelled extensively in Arabia and the Middle East in order to buy Arabian horses, to bring back to England.

Buckingham (James Silk) Travels in Mesopotamia. Including a Journey from Aleppo to Bagdad, by the route of Beer, Orfah, Diarbekr, Mardin, & Mousul, 2 vol., first octavo edition, folding engraved map, 2 double-page lithograph plates, 27 wood-engraved plates, contemporary half calf, rubbed, vol.1 upper cover detached, 8vo, 1827.⁂ The Cyrus Ghani copy with ink inscriptions dated 1951 to front free endpaper vol.1. Also bookplate and inscription of Anthony MacTier of Durris.

Burckhardt (John Lewis) Travels in Nubia, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 maps (2 folding), lacks advertisement leaf at end, some foxing, contemporary calf, gilt, spine darkened and chipped at head, a little rubbed, [cf.Blackmer 238, second edition], 4to, 1819.⁂ Burckhardt travelled from Aleppo to Cairo and then made two journeys, one along the Upper Nile, the other through the Nubian desert.

Holy Land.- Burckhardt (John Lewis) Travels in Syria and the Holy Land, first edition, half-title, lithographed portrait frontispiece, 6 engraved maps (2 folding), scattered spotting, occasional faint off-setting, armorial bookplate of 'Weston Library', near contemporary half-crushed morocco, very slight rubbing to corners and extremities, [Blackmer 237], 4to, 1822.⁂ Burckhardt "spent three years in Aleppo studying Arabic in preparation for his African travels, and while resident there he travelled through Syria and the Holy Land. Burckhardt was the first European to visit Petra in 1812." (Blackmer)

Burnes (Lt. Alexander) Travels into Bokhara; being the Account of a Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary, and Persia, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, 5 engraved and 3 lithograph plates, one folding (spotted in margins), modern half calf over marbled boards, uncut, spines faded, [Yakushi B302a; Ghani p.60], 8vo, 1834.⁂ The Peter Hopkirk copy. Following a successful expedition up the Indus at the age of 26, Burnes found favour with the Governor-General of India, Lord William Bentinck, and obtained permission for an expedition to Kabul and Bokhara. They were little-known places and he was fortunate to apply at a time when the British government was becoming increasingly concerned to assess Russian encroachment in the area. Thus in 1832 he travelled to Kabul, ruled by Dost Mohammed, and passed over the Hindu Kush to Balkh, where he found the graves of Trebeck, Moorcroft and Guthrie. By way of the Oxus, and the desert crossing he finally reached Bokhara where he received a welcome from the vizier Koosh Begee (though not the Emir). After one month there he returned by way of Merv, to the Persian Gulf and finally Bombay.

Europe.- Cunynghame (Lieut.-Gen. Sir Arthur Thurlow) Travels in the Eastern Caucasus, on the Caspian and Black Seas ..., first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and 7 plates (2 detached and loosely inserted), 2 folding maps, publisher's advertisements at end, bookplate, ?ex-library with a printed label of readers to front free endpaper, original decorative cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1872.⁂ Provenance: Bookplate of Peter Hopkirk to front pastedown.

Curzon (George Nathaniel) Persia and the Persian Question, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, plates and illustrations, maps, including one large, folding and linen-backed at end of vol.1, some foxing, hinges weak, original pictorial cloth, gilt, [Wilson p.51; Ghani p.87; Diba p.166], 8vo, London & New York, 1892.⁂ The Peter Hopkirk copy of arguably the most comprehensive history of Persia, covering her antiquities, institutions, administration, natural resources, commerce and topography.

Fraser (James Baillie) Narrative of a Journey into Khorasan, first edition, folding engraved map, short tear to title, errata slip, ink stamp to map verso, title and final leaf, modern half calf over marbled boards, [Ghani p.140; Wilson p.75], 4to, 1825.⁂ Provenance: American Museum of Natural History (ink stamps).

Fraser (James Baillie) A Winter's Journey (Tatar) from Constantinople to Tehran, 2 vol., first edition, engraved frontispieces, both foxed and browned, hinges weak, original cloth, spines faded and ends nicked, uncut, [not in Blackmer or Atabey], 8vo, 1838.⁂ The Peter Hopkirk copy of Fraser's account of his extensive travels in Persia; one of a few books by the author on Persia and surrounding countries.Provenance: Francis K. Forbes (ink inscription dated 1839 on front pastedown); Peter Hopkirk (bookplate)

Middle East.- Fraser (James Baillie) Travels in Koordistan, Mesopotamia, &c., 2 vol., first edition, engraved frontispieces, previous owner's presentation inscription to vol. 1, bookplate, faint spotting to bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked, slight bumping to corners, 8vo, 1840.⁂ Provenance: Bookplate of R. M. Burrell.

Fryer (John) A New Account of East-India and Persia, first edition, half-title with engraved portrait on verso, title printed in red and black, 7 engraved plates and maps, 3 folding, and one full-page engraved map in text with printed slip pasted below, engraved or woodcut illustrations, Ss1 with marginal repaired tear, some light foxing and browning, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, spine ends chipped and joints starting, [Wing F2257], folio,Printed by R[obert] R[oberts] for Ri. Chiswell, 1698.⁂ In 1672 Fryer embarked on a 10-year tour to India, Goa, the Arabian Gulf and Persia, before returning to England. The work includes a detailed account of Surat and Muscat and mentions pirates in the Gulf, and the natural history of the region.

Turkey.- Hornby (Lady Emily Bithynia) Constantinople during the Crimean War, first edition, 5 chromolithographs, occasional faint marginal finger-soiling, one or two faint spots, ownership inscription of 'Charles Pepper' to title, bookplate, contemporary half-calf, water-staining to upper cover, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Atabey 594], 8vo, 1863.⁂ Provenance: Bookplate of Sefik E. Atabey to front pastedown.

Ives (Edward) A Voyage from England to India...also. a Journey from Persia to England, first edition, 2 folding engraved maps, 13 plates (one folding), contemporary calf, upper cover with leather partially worn away at fore-edge, very slightly rubbed, otherwise a lovely copy, Howgego I, p.117; Not in Ghani or Atabey], 4to, Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773.⁂ Ives travelled to India as surgeon of the Kent, the flagship of Vice-Admiral Charles Watson, commander-in-chief in the East Indies. The work includes an account and illustration of Geriah Fort (now Vijaydurg), a notorious pirate stronghold until the East India Company sent admiral Watson and Clive to seize the town and burn the ships. His return journey was by way of Basra, Baghdad, Mosul, Diarbekir, Bir, Aleppo, Latichea, Cyprus and Leghorn.Provenance: Lord Forbes (bookplate).

Kinneir (John Macdonald) Journey through Asia Minor, Armenia, and Koordistan, first edition, half-title, large folding engraved map with hand-coloured routes, with slight tear, marginal repair to fore-edge of following leaf of text, some light browning, contemporary calf, gilt, rubbed, upper cover detached, [Blackmer 914; Weber I, 55; cf. Atabey 636 (French edition only)], 8vo, 1818.⁂ The Peter Hopkirk copy. Kinneir was attached to Sir John Malcolm's mission from India to Persia in 1808-9, acting as an agent at Bushire and making numerous journeys within Persia. In 1810 he went back to England but returned to India in 1813-14 by way of Cyprus, Constantinople, Baghdad and Bombay. It is this latter journey that is recounted here, though his earlier travels in Persia are also listed (p.552).Provenance: Thomas Thomas Jr (ink inscription dated 1818 on front endpaper); Peter Hopkirk (bookplate, his sale at Sotheby's 14 October 1998, lot 907).

Malcolm (Col. Sir John) The History of Persia, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, folding engraved map and 22 plates, some light foxing and offsetting, contemporary russia, stamped in blind and gilt, corners and spine raised bands rubbed, but still a handsome copy, [not in Atabey or Blackmer], 4to, 1815.⁂ A handsome copy of this important and comprehensive history of the region.

Morier (Sir James Justinian) A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, first edition, 1812; A Second Journey..., first edition, 1818, together 2 vol., with a total of 43 engraved plates (30 aquatint, 4 folding or double-page, 4 hand-coloured), 5 engraved maps (some folding), wood-engraved illustrations, vol.1 lacking half-title and advertisement leaf at end, vol.2 with half-title present, vol.1 S2 and vol.2 one folding plate with repaired tears, some light offsetting, uniform modern calf, stamped in blind and gilt, g.e., [Abbey, Travel 357-358; Atabey 836-837], 4to⁂ A handsome and clean set. Morier was born and raised in Smyrna. He was secretary to the mission of Sir Harford Jones to Persia in 1808-09, and again to that of Sir Gore Ouseley which resulted in the Anglo-Persian treaty of 1812, both as recorded here. Morier also wrote novels set in the East, most notably The Adventures of Haji Baba of Ispahan.

Norden (Frederick Lewis) Travels in Egypt and Nubia, 2 vol., first edition in English, half-title to each volume, 2 engraved frontispieces, one a portrait, 162 plates, maps and plans, numbered 1-159 plus 1 unnumbered, with nos. 140-141 and 142-143 together, plates 17, 27, 66, and 108 on two plates each, numerous engraved vignettes, initials, head- and tail-pieces, occasional offsetting but generally clean and with good margins, contemporary calf, gilt, worn, rebacked, [Blackmer 1211], folio, Printed for Lockyer Davis and Charles Reymers, Printers to the Royal Society, 1757.⁂ First edition in English of 'the earliest attempt at an elaborate description of Egypt' (Blackmer). Norden made a voyage through Egypt all the way down to Sudan in 1737-1738 at the request of King Christian VI of Denmark. He was the first European to penetrate as far as Derr in Nubia and to publish descriptions of any Nubian temples.

Pococke (Richard) A Description of the East, 3 parts in 2 vol., first edition, 3 titles with engraved vignettes, engraved dedication to the Earl of Chesterfield in vol. 2, 177 engraved maps, plans, and plates only (of 178), a few folding, including 12 botanical plates by G.D. Ehret, occasional light offsetting or browning, modern blind-stamped calf, [Atabey 965; Blackmer 1323; Hilmy II, p.124; Weber II, 513], folio,Printed for the Author, by W. Bowyer, 1743-45.⁂ While the first volume is dedicated to Egypt, the second volume features Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Cyprus, Crete, the Greek islands, Asia Minor, and Greece.

Middle East.- Rassam (Hormuzd) Asshur and the Land of Nimrod, first edition, association copy with 2pp. A.L.s from the author to Lady Layard loosely inserted, frontispiece, plates, 2 folding plans, 1 double-page map, patterned endpapers, bookplate, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, New York & Cincinnati, 1897.⁂ Provenance: Bookplate of Peter Hopkirk. A.L.s from the author addressed to Lady Layard dated 1898, discussing the publication of this book and transcribing his full dedication to Lady Layard's late husband, A. H. Layard. "I have dedicated it to the memory of my lamented departed friend as follows ..."

Rich (Claudius James) Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan, and on the Site of Ancient Nineveh, 2 vol., first edition, 2 folding engraved maps, one folding lithograph plan, 10 lithograph plates by Hullmandel after Walton, 3 double-page, some spotting, lacking advertisement leaves at end of vol.1, contemporary calf, gilt, [Atabey 1040; Wilson p.189], 8vo, 1836.⁂ The Burrell copy of this important work with detailed geographical and archaeological accounts of the region. A talented linguist, Rich travelled widely in Asia Minor. Posted to Egypt during the early part of his career, he travelled from there, in Mamaluk disguise, to Syria, Palestine, Damascus, Baghdad and Basra. In 1810, he was appointed East India Company's resident at Baghdad. Provenance: R.M. Burrell (bookplate).

Thévenot (Jean de) The Travels...into the Levant, 3 parts in 1, first English edition, second issue, engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 plates, errata leaf and 2ff. Alphabetical Table present at end, later half morocco, covers slightly stained and foot of spine chipped, [Atabey 1217; Wing T887; cf. Blackmer 1650 (first edition)], Printed by H. Clark, for H. Faithorne, J. Adamson, C. Skegnes, and T. Newborough, 1687; and another copy (lacking the portrait and one plate, but Atabey's copy), folio (2)⁂ The Ghani copy of the second issue, the first issue had only Clark's name in the imprint. First copy with part 3 leaf I4 cancelled; second copy with I4 present.

Waring (Edward Scott) A Tour to Sheeraz, by the Route of Kazroon and Feerozabad, half-title, engraved frontispiece and plate, some water-staining, last leaf laid down, contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving original spine, [Wilson p.240; Ghani p.387; Diba p.222], 4to, 1807.⁂ The first edition of this work was published in Bombay in 1804. This London edition has a greatly expanded section on the language and poetry of Persia and was "an important book in its day as it constitutes one of the first attempts to introduce Persian poetry to the West." (Ghani)

Wittman (William) Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and across the desert into Egypt, first edition, folding engraved frontispiece, folding map, 21 plates (16 hand-coloured, one folding), plan supplied in facsimile, some foxing and offsetting, contemporary tree calf, gilt, a little rubbed, [Atabey 1344; Blackmer 1832; Weber 647; not in Abbey or Colas], 4to, 1803.⁂ "Wittman was a member of the Anglo-Turkish expeditionary force which travelled overland from Constantinople to Egypt in 1799 to take part in the campaign against the French." (Atabey).Provenance: Pardo de Lygonier (cypher to covers and spine, bookplate); Teodoro Callimachi (bookplate); Sefik E. Atabey (bookplate). The missing/facsimile plan is not mentioned in the Atabey catalogue.