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Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets London: Bloomsbury, 1998. First edition, first impression, hardback, signed by J. K. Rowling on the dedication page, 8vo, original pictorial boards, spine rolled, wear to spine-ends, a few very small dents to head of front board, tips bumped, marking to endpapers, ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, text-block toned, occasional finger-soiling and a few other marks, pp. 67/8 and 145/6 with handling tears at foot of gutter not affecting text [Errington A2(a)]

Antiquarian Collection of bindings Shakespeare, William. The Works. Imperial Edition. Edited by Charles Knight. London: Virtue & Co., Limited, [1873-6]. 2 volumes bound in 3, large 4to (37 x 27cm), contemporary green morocco gilt over heavy bevelled boards, gilt gauffered edges incorporating a Greek-key roll, broad turn-ins richly gilt, 46 steel-engraved plates including frontispieces and additional vignette title-pages, tissue-guards, rubbing to joints and extremities, light discolouration to boards, volume 3 front joint cracked at foot;Kay, John. A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings. Edinburgh: Hugh Paton, Carver & Gilder, 1837. 2 volumes, 4to, volume 1 pp. 277/8 torn without loss, 358 engraved plates, contemporary half calf, morocco labels, rubbed, one cover detached;and 13 others (these not collated), mostly leather-bound, including: James Gairdner (editor), The Paston Letters A.D. 1422-1509. London: Chatto & Windus, 1904 (6 volumes, 4to (21.5 x 15.5cm), contemporary crushed dark green half morocco, gilt spines, marbled boards, coat of arms incorporating three cockle shells dexter and entwined serpents sinister gilt to front boards, top edges gilt, title-pages in red and black); [Joseph Hewlett], Peter Priggins, the College Scout. Edited by Theodore Hook. With Illustrations by Phiz, London: Henry Colburn, 1841 (3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary green half calf, gilt spines, etched plates, rubbed, plates spotted); P. Hately Waddell, Life and Works of Robert Burns, Glasgow, 1867 (4to, contemporary half calf, hand-coloured frontispiece); Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Poetical and Dramatic Works, 1844 (8vo, contemporary maroon morocco with arabesque decoration gilt to sides); Reginald Heber, The Poetical Works, 1845 (8vo, contemporary straight-grain blue morocco gilt); Lord Guthrie, Robert Louis Stevenson: Some Personal Recollections, 1920 (first edition, one of 500 copies, 8vo, original cloth); Robert Burns, The Works, Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1877-8 (6 volumes, 8vo, original orange cloth gilt, engraved plates)

Chapman, Abel Collection of works On Safari. Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa with Studies in Bird-Life. London: Edward Arnold, 1908. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, 2 photogravure plates including frontispiece, 32 halftone plates, 4 pp. advertisements to rear, inscribed to 'The skipper, from the author' on the front free endpaper, rubbing to extremities, split to head of front joint, spotting to endpapers [Czech Africa p. 59];Savage Sudan. Its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird-Life. London: Gurney and Jackson, 1921. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, map frontispiece, 29 halftone plates from photographs, cloth slightly rubbed and marked [Czech Africa pp. 59-60];First Lessons in the Art of Wildfowling. London: Horace Cox, 1896. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, all plates as called for (several folding), occasional spotting to text;Wild Spain (España Agreste). London: Gurney and Jackson, 1893. First edition, signed by the author on the front free endpaper ('Abel Chapman, nest off Crowhall Moor, June 23, 1927'), original cloth (recased), folding map, all plates as called for;Unexplored Spain. London: Edward Arnold, 1910. First edition, 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt, all plates as called for, spine slightly rubbed.Together with 12 others (these not collated), including: Abel Chapman, The Borders and Beyond, 1924, Retrospect, 1928, Wild Norway, 1897, Memories, 1930 (all first editions, original cloth), and Bird-Life of the Borders, 1907 (second edition, original cloth); Frederick Courtenay Selous, Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa, 1893, A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa, 1893, Sport and Travel East and West, 1900 (first, third and first editions, all in original cloth); J. G. Millais, The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, 1904 (first edition, one of 1,025 copies, 3 volumes, large 4to, original cloth, plates, cloth mottled, wear to spines), The Wildfowler in Scotland, 1901 (first edition, 4to, original half japon, mottled), Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, 1918 (first edition, original cloth, ex Aberdovey Literary Institute), Wanderings and Memoires, 1919 (first edition, original cloth)Note: Note: '[Chapman's] African adventures culminated in On Safari (1908) and Savage Sudan (1921) - the first natural history book about this area - which were entertaining and vivid accounts of east Africa and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan' (ODNB).

Macpherson, Sir William Grant and other Medical Services Surgery of the War London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1922. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, spines lettered in gilt, 23 colour plates, numerous illustrations in the text (wood-engraved and from photographs), occasional marginalia and underlining in pencil and ink, unopened in placesNote: Note: Scarce in commerce; the printer's slug to the foot of each contents page indicates that there were 1,000 copies of the first volume and 1,500 of the second. The work was published as part of the History of the Great War Based on Official Documents series.

Kipling, Rudyard Collection of works Just So Stories for Little Children. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902. First edition, 4to, original pictorial cloth, inscribed by Henry Shackleton (father of Ernest H. Shackleton) to his daughter (and Ernest's sister) 'Eleanor Hope Shackleton, from Daddy, Dec. 8, 1902', with the Shackleton family bookplate on front pastedown, binding worn and sunned, inner hinges cracked, occasional pencil markings;The Five Nations. London: Methuen and Co., 1903. First edition, signed by Kipling on the title-page, 8vo, original red cloth, bookplate (Mildred Chelsea), rear inner hinge partially cracked;The Second Jungle Book. With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. First edition, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, small damp-stain and erased pencil inscription to head of title-page, spotting towards rear;Traffics and Discoveries. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904. First edition, 8vo, later half morocco by Delrue, a little damp-staining to fore edge and front pastedown;and 13 others including first editions in the original cloth of Kim, Captains Courageous, Soldier Tales, etc.

Shah Jahan Begum, Nawab Begum of Bhopal (1838-1901) Tahdhib al-niswan wa-tarbiyah al-insan [Arabic title, i.e. 'The refinement of women and the education of mankind']. Bhopal: Matba' al-Sadiqi al-Ka'in, 1302 AH [1884/5 CE]. 8vo (24.8 x 16.5cm), contemporary half cloth, marbled sides, 7 491 pp., text in Urdu with occasional Qur'anic quotations in Arabic, lithographed throughout, browning, variable marginal worming, pp. 47/48 and 49/50 torn, pp. 381/2 dog-eared with paper consequently thinning along creaseNote: Note: First or early edition of the third Nawab Begum of Bhopal's advice manual for women, a work 'wholly unprecedented in Urdu publishing' (Metcalf, 2011); secondary literature variously cites original publication dates of 1883/4, possibly a miscalculation of the range covered in the Gregorian calendar by the Islamic year 1302, and the evidently incorrect 1889; no other copy traced in commerce or in readily visible library catalogues.Bhopal was unique among the princely states of British India for being ruled by a dynasty of four successive women. Shah Jahan Begum's work covers all aspects of a woman's life, including medical advice, correct ritual practice, fitness and exercise (notably horsemanship), and even sexual activity. Remarkably, she 'asserted a woman's right to carnal pleasure using her own experiences as illustration. Specifically, she explained how she had not felt sexually fulfilled by her first husband, the much older and already married Baqi Muhammad Khan, with a consequence that her whole youth had been lost in "suffering and sadness" ... After his death, however, things improved dramatically thanks to her controversial remarriage in 1871 to her personal secretary, Siddiq Hasan Khan. The pleasure resulting from this sexual coupling led her to assert that she had never been so happy' (Lambert Hurley, 2014).Literature:Barbara Metcalf, 'Islam and Power in Colonial India: The Making and Unmaking of a Muslim Princess', The American Historical Review, vol. 116, no. 1, 2011, pp. 1-30.Lambert-Hurley, 'To Write of the Conjugal Act: Intimacy and Sexuality in Muslim Women's Autobiographical Writing in South Asia', Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 23, no. 2, 2014, pp. 155–81.

Abyssinia [Ethiopia] Parkyns, Mansfield Life in Abyssinia: being notes collected during Three Years' Residence and Travels in that Country. London: John Murray, 1853. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 18 plates, folding map, 13 text illustrations, mottled calf, spines gilt, red and black morocco lettering pieces, signatures to endpaper of Reginald Huth, 20th April 1910Note: Note: A fine copy.Parkyns spent over three years in Abyssinia, which he described in his travel book Life in Abysssinia : being notes collected during three years' residence and travels in that country. The first edition of the book was published in two volumes by the English publisher John Murray in 1853. It was dedicated to Lord Palmerston, and made many references to and comments on the famous Scottish traveller James Bruce, who had travelled to Abyssinia between the years 1768 and 1773. For the second edition, published in 1868, the author wrote a completely new introduction dealing with recent Abyssinian history and methods of government at the time of the Abyssinian expedition commanded by Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala. In short, Parkyns described the political changes which had occurred after he left the country. He was hoping to offer the Victorian reader "a tolerably accurate idea of Abyssinia and Abyssinians". The book consists of 41 chapters which are divided into two volumes. Each of them covers different subjects, including travel, manners and customs. The first volume describes the journey from the coast to the capital and Parkyns's visit to the northern provinces, encounters with others, learning local languages and gaining new experiences. The second volume describes Abyssinian manners and customs, natural history and Parkyns's route from Adoua to Abou Kharraz on the Blue Nile. In total there are 33 illustrations after Parkyns's own watercolours. A map at the end of the books shows a part of Abyssinia and Nubia to illustrate Parkyns's journeys. In the introduction to his book Parkyns stated that it was neither a scientific work nor an entertaining one, but a faithful account of what he witnessed and experienced during his time in Abyssinia. Parkyns was particularly interested in learning about Abyssinian customs and its natural history. He took careful observations on native birds that he had never seen before. He believed that by identifying with the natives he could attain the best results, so on leaving Massawa he decided to eschew European comforts and throughout his time in Abyssinia he wore only Abyssinian clothes, walked barefoot, had an Abyssinian hairstyle, and ate whatever was offered to him. He gave detailed descriptions of, amongst other things, Abyssinian manners and customs, habits, personal appearance, births and marriages, deaths and funerals, religion and superstitions.Provenance: Reginald Huth (1853-1926), Collector of Coins and Medals, son of Charles Frederick Huth, art collector.

Ottoman Empire - Penzer, N. M. 4 volumes The Harem. An Account of the Institution as it existed in the Palace of the Turkish Sultans. London: G. Harrap, 1936. First edition, 4to, blue morocco gilt by Henry R. Nevill, 3 autograph letters loosely inserted from the binder in part discussing the binding, geometric pattern on both covers, g.e.;Ibn Battuta. The Travels, edited by Sir Hamilton Gibb. The Hakluyt Society, 1958-62, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dustwrappers;Varthema, Ludovico di. The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, In Persia, India and Ethiopia. The Hakluyt Society, 1963. 8vo, translated by J.W. Jones, edited by G.P. Badger, folding map, original blue cloth gilt

Iraq Memoir on the Ruins of Babylon by William Beaumont Selby, Commander, Indian Navy, and Surveyor in Mesopotamia. [Series title at head:] Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government. No. LI.–New Series. Bombay: printed for government at the Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1859. First edition, 8 pp. text (single unsigned gathering, stitched as issued), 2 hand-coloured lithographic folding plans, 'Sheet I' dimensions 130 x 59 cm, with 2 inset views, 'Sheet II' dimensions 59 x 67cm, housed in original blue-green cloth chemise with printed label to front. Wear and worming to chemise, Foreign Office Library bookplate and pocket to inside cover, text with a few small worm-tracks, damp-staining and partial browning to title-page, manuscript shelfmark numbers to p. 3, both plans toned, 'Sheet I' with a few small worm-tracks, a few punctures along one transverse fold, strip of adhesive-related light browning along join of two sections, Sheet II' with a few minute worm-tracks, small tear at one intersectionNote: Note: No other copy traced in auction records.

Pornographic novel - circle of Oscar Wilde Teleny, or the Reverse of the Medal A Physiological Romance for Today. Cosmopoli [probably Paris: Renaudie], 1906. 2 volumes in one, square 8vo (17.2 x 13cm), contemporary half japon, [4] 148, [4] 178 pp., title-pages printed in red and black, half-titles with limitation statements verso, endpapers renewed, wear to extremities, contents toned, title-pages and early leaves of each volume browned, volume 1 with repaired closed tears to margins of title-page and p. 20/21 and 21/22, pp. 129/30 with repaired tear through text, volume 2 title-page with ink-stamp 'London 1922' verso, pp. 31/2 with slight marginal loss, pp. 65 with repaired tear through text [Peter Mendes, Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English 1800-1930, 87-B]Note: Note: Second edition, one of 200 copies, extremely rare, with no other copy traced in auction records, and one copy traced in institutions, at the British Library.First published in 1893 by Leonard Smithers, Teleny was the first novel in English 'in which the main story was concerned with homosexuality at its fullest extent [that is, in sexually explicit terms] ... The author, or authors, of Teleny were alone in their day in England in attempting to record the special atmosphere of homosexual intrigue and the emotions of men involved in … a liaison' (Reade, Sexual Heretics: Male Homosexuality in English Literature from 1850 to 1900, 1970, pp. 49-50).Charles Hirsch, owner of the Librairie Parisienne in London, recalled in his introduction to a French translation published in the 1930s that the manuscript was originally deposited at his shop by Oscar Wilde sometime in 1890. Wilde left instructions that the sealed parcel be held until requested by one of his friends, presenting his calling card. The process was repeated several times, with the parcel being retrieved and returned by different callers before finally being returned to Wilde. The extent of Wilde's personal contribution to the text has been debated, but the work is now thought to be the work of a number of authors in his circle, composing the text in the round-robin tradition (see Nelson, Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson, 2000 pp. 34-6).

Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1996) Three first editions from the library of his lover Joyce Gill Decline and Fall, an Illustrated Novelette; Black Mischief; The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1928-32-57. 3 works, first editions, first impressions, 8vo, original cloth, Pinfold with dust jacket, Decline and Fall and Black Mischief each with ownership inscription 'Joyce Gill, 10 Pitt St, W8' and Pinfold with gift inscription 'Joyce, for her birthday, with love from Louis, 1957' to front free endpaper. Decline and Fall: spine rolled, fraying to spine-ends, Mudie's Select Library label to front cover, tips bumped, textblock toned, abrasion to front pastedown, cut-out magazine portrait of Waugh pasted to half-title, half-title spotted, small marginal hole to pp. 31-4, small closed to pp. 93/4, old adhesive repair to rear inner hinge, a few other marks. Black Mischief spine rolled, rear joint split, light spotting to front. Pinfold: spine rolled, light spotting to outer leaves, dust jacket spotted and chipped.Together with a collection of Evelyn Waugh first editions from the library of Joyce's son (Dominic Gill): Basil Seal Rides Again, 1963, 2 copies, respectively one of 1,000 for the USA and 750 for the UK and rest of the world, both signed by the author, UK issue spine sunned; Scoop, 1938, 2 copies, spines sunned, one spine also marked; Black Mischief, 1932, spine sunned and rolled, spotting to outer leaves; Put Out More Flags, 1942 (with dust jacket); and 9 others (Remote People; Love Among the Ruins, 2 copies, with dust jackets; Men at Arms; Put Out More Flags; Remote People; Labels; A Tourist in Africa, with dust jacket; Waugh in Abyssinia, rebound, ex-library; and Helena, first US edition)Note: Note: Joyce Gill (née Fagan) was a long-standing friend of Waugh's with whom he had a passionate affair during the unhappy period of the drawn-out annulment of his first marriage to Evelyn Gardner ('She-Evelyn').A sometime music-hall performer, and later secretary and assistant to the author Clifford Bax, Joyce was introduced to Evelyn by his brother Alec at the Cave of Harmony nightclub, Fitzrovia, around Christmas 1923. She was enchanted by his stories of Oxford life, and once term restarted she was invited to a party hosted by Evelyn in Oxford, successfully dressing as a man in order to evade the attentions of the university proctors. From that point they maintained a flirtatious if casual friendship. In 1928, following Joyce's marriage to American businessman Donald Gill and Evelyn's to Gardner, the Waughs lived in Joyce's flat on Canonbury Square — their first marital home.Though the full nature of Joyce and Evelyn's relationship remains obscure, a letter written to Evelyn by Joyce in 1938 after his second marriage and excerpted in Selina Hastings's 1994 biography is evidence of a powerful and enduring connection. According to Hastings, ‘Joyce was lively, attractive, intelligent, and fun. Half Irish and a couple of years older, she could hardly have been more different from Evelyn in taste and temperament: very musical, a committed socialist, an agnostic briskly dismissive of religion, she was unconventional even by the standards of the bohemian world in which she moved … Whatever happened between Evelyn and Joyce must have come to a head during the summer of 1935, for shortly before his departure for Abyssinia Evelyn asked Joyce to leave her husband and go with him. The probability is that although deeply in love with Laura, Evelyn was overwhelmed by the depressing likelihood that he would never be able to marry her. On the point of going abroad for an indefinite period, in a state of heightened emotional and physical responsiveness, the temptation of an affair with Joyce was irresistible ... It was, she later told one of her daughters-in-law, the most painful decision of her life: the affair was a passionate one, the prospect of adventure extremely tempting; but she loved her husband, by whom she now had two little boys, and so decided against running off with Waugh’ (Evelyn Waugh, pp. 328-9).The 'Louis' who inscribed this copy of The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold for Joyce was the man of letters Louis Wilkinson (1881-1966), best known under his pseudonym Louis Marlow, and remembered as a champion of Oscar Wilde and for his association with the Powys brothers and Aleister Crowley.Provenance: By direct descent from Joyce Gill (first three items).

Lyell, Charles Principles of Geology Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes now in Operation. London: John Murray, 1832-32-33. 3 volumes, 8vo (21.3 x 13cm), xvi 586, xii 330, [iii]-xxxi [1] 398 109 [1], later calf, volume 1 with engraved frontispiece, plate and folding map, volume 2 with hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and hand-coloured folding map, volume 3 with hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, 4 engraved plates of shells, and hand-coloured map of south-east England, bound without half-titles, volume 1 plates spotted and offset, volume 2 sig. M with light staining in gutter, spotting to map and adjacent leaves, volume 3 shell plates spotted, map offset, short closed marginal tear in text-leaf K5, bookplates of Thomas Swanwick M.D. (c.1790-1859) to each volume (reimposed), his ownership inscription to versos of volume 1-2 title-pages, bookplate of Henry and Carol Faul to volume 3 [Cf. PMM 344; Ward & Carozzi 1408]Note: Note: Second edition of volume one, first editions of volumes two and three; volume one was first published in 1830. Lyell's revolutionary work is considered the foundational statement of what came to be known as the 'uniformitarian' school of geology, which in attributing geological phenomena to immutable laws challenged the prevailing 'catrastrophist' view which assumed the literal truth of the biblical narrative and found explanations in supernatural interventions, such as the great flood. The second volume concerned the organic realm and paved the way for Darwin in rejecting Lamarck's theory of the incessant mutability of species, 'arguing instead that they were real stable entities, and that they appeared and became extinct in a piecemeal manner in time and space' (ODNB).

Hume, David Political Discourses Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, 1752. First edition, 8vo, [iv], 304, [vi], [ii (advertisement leaf)], errata to contents leaf verso, contemporary calf, gilt crown in compartments, Earl of Rosebery's bookplate superimposed upon another, 'PLC Lorimer' in ink in small letters on front endpaper, a trifle rubbedNote: Note: Considered the foundation of classical monetary economics, seven of the twelve discourses being on economics.

Arabia Collection of works Palgrave, William Gifford. Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-1863). London: Macmillan and Co., 1865. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, half-titles, 5 folding lithographic maps and plans, advertisement leaf to rear of each volume, bindings rubbed and marked, evidence of removal of labels from front boards, volume 1 front inner hinge tender, map of Arabia facing p. 1 with 8cm closed handling tear to inside fold and shallow chipping along fore edges [Macro 1731 for the first edition]Thomas, Bertram. Alarms and Excursions in Arabia. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1931. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, all photographic plates as called for, maps in text, spine faded, fraying to foot of spine, spotting to text-leaves [Macro 2182]; Young, Sir Hubert. The Independent Arab. London: John Murray, 1933. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 3 folding maps, dust jacket (spine panel darkened and chipped);Philby, Harry St John Bridger. The Empty Quarter. London: Constable & Company, 1933. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, folding plan, 2 folding plates, 32 halftone photographic plates, pp. 19/20 creased, a few spots to text [Macro 1781]Meinertzhagen, Richard. Birds of Arabia. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1954. First edition, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket, 5 halftone photographic plates numbered 1-9, 19 colour plates, dust jacket price-clipped, nicked and slightly dust-soiled;and 12 others (these not collated), including: Bertram Thomas, Arabia Felix, 1932 (first edition, second impression, original cloth); idem, The Arabs, 1937 (first edition, original cloth); G. Wyman Bury, Arabia Infelix, 1915 (first edition, original cloth); Harold Ingrams, Arabia and the Isles, 1942 (first edition, original cloth); D. van der Meulen, Aden to the Hadhramaut, 1947 (first edition, original cloth, dust jacket); Wilfred Thesiger, Desert Borderlands of Oman [extracted from The Geographical Journal], 1950 (later card wrappers); Richard Meinertzhagen, Pirates and Predators, 1959 (first edition, original cloth, dust jacket); Charles M. Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta, New York, 1923 (2 volumes, original cloth); and 4 similarNote: Note: Palgrave's work is of special importance for the history of the modern Gulf states as well as what is now Saudi Arabia. In the second volume chapter 14 covers Bahrain and Qatar, while chapter 16, headed 'The Coasts of Oman', covers Sharjah and elsewhere.

Delhi History of Delhi the Imperial City A Most Comprehensive Account of the History and Archaeology of Delhi (with Numerous Illustrations). By Bashir-ud-Din Ahmad ... Volume I. History, 1450 B. C. to 1919 A. D. [Volume II: Archaeology. Volume III. Archaeology (Continued)]. [Urdu title:] Waqi'at-i dar al-hukumat Dihli. Delhi: I. M. P. H., 1919. 3 volumes, large 8vo (26 x 16cm), contemporary cloth (volume 1 rebacked), text in Urdu (with occasional English and Hindi), lithographed throughout (except English title-pages, letterpress), 153 plates (nearly all lithographic; 4 halftone), several folding, volume 1 lacking at least pp. 1-8, Urdu title-page remargined and laid down, marginal tears to pp. 9-34, pp. 35/6 repaired, pp. 600-640 with large worm-track in text, loss to pp. 985-110, holes in a couple of plates, retaining original rear wrappers. volume 2 spine misnumbered, title-pages damp-stained, small repair to pp. 1/2, pp. 679/80 torn, tears to plates facing pp. 10, 41 and 221, retaining original rear wrapper, volume 3 with closed tear to Urdu title-page, original wrappers previously tipped in (now detached). Together with duplicates of volumes 2 and 3Note: Note: First edition thus, one of 1,000 copies, no other copies traced in auction records. The work is largely an Urdu translation of the Archaeological Survey of India’s List of Muhammadan and Hindu Monuments in Delhi Zail (1915-1922), the standard work on the subject, but provides additional maps and information on local traditions. Bashir-ud-Din Ahmad is described on the title-pages as 'first talukdar (collector and district magistrate) ret[ired], H. E. H. the Nizam's government, author of the histories of Vijayanagar and Bijapur, Iqbal Dulhan, Husn-e-Muashrat, Islah-e-Maishat, etc., etc., and translator of Dr. Stall's Self and Sex series'.

India - Malayalam printing Compendiosa legis explanatio omnibus Christianis scitu necessaria Malabarico idiomate [Title in Malayalam at head:] Nasranikal okkakkum ariyentunna samksepavedarttham]. Rome: [no printer], 1772. 8vo, contemporary boards, signatures pi1 A-R8 S2, Malayalam types throughout (except for title-page, partly in Latin), wood-engraved vignette to title-page and first page of text, decorative borders throughoutNote: Note: First edition of the first book printed entirely in Malayalam, a catechism by Clemente Peani (1731-1782), missionary for the Propaganda Fide in Kerala. He also produced a Malayalam alphabet (Alphabetum Grandonico-Malabaricum), printed in the same year, but only partly in Malayalam.

Burns, Robert Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Edinburgh: for the author, 1787. First Edinburgh edition, 8vo, pp. [iii]-xlviii, 9-368, engraved frontispiece portrait, list of subscribers, modern period-style panelled calf, red morocco lettering piece, some light dust-soiling, p. xlvii with small strip torn from blank fore margin, closed tear to p. 159 and 317, a few short closed marginal tears

Churchill, Winston S. The River War An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. First edition, first impression, one of 2,000 copies printed, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, all plates and maps as called for, cloth rubbed, mottled and faded, spines strengthened, variable spotting to contents, contemporary ownership inscriptions to half-titles [Cohen A2 (a)]

Stevenson, Robert Louis A Child's Garden of Verses Illustrated by Charles Robinson. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896. First illustrated edition (second overall) 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, with the dust jacket, 16 pp. publisher's catalogue to rear dated 1895, dust jacket with a few chips to extremities, spine-panel toned, front flap largely torn away, browning to endpapersNote: Note: A notably early example of the dust jacket. A Child's Garden of Verses was first published in 1885.Provenance: Margaret De Courcy Lewthwaite Dewar (1878-1959), Scottish designer and member of the 'Glasgow Girls', with her self-designed bookplate (see further Lyon & Turnbull, Design Since 1860, 19 April 2023, lot 253).

Golf Collection of rare biographies, manuals and club histories Tulloch, W. W. The Life of Tom Morris, with Glimpses of St Andrews and its Golfing Celebrities. London: T. Werner Laurie, c.1908. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, 25 halftone photographic plates including frontispiece (listed as 27, with 2 plates each containing 2 images), spine rolled, binding slightly rubbed, contemporary ownership inscription to initial blank, occasional spotting to text-block;Idem. The Life of Tom Morris. London: Ellesborough Press, 1982. Facsimile edition, one of 100 copies signed by J. H. Neill, captain, Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, 1981-2, 8vo, original green morocco, all edges gilt, slipcase, spine sunned, section of discolouration to upper inner corner of front board;Forgan, Robert. The Golfer's Manual, including History and Rules of the Game, with Hints to Beginners. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. (Limited), c.1907. Presumed seventh edition, 8vo, original green cloth, 8 halftone photographic plates (including a portrait of 'Old Tom Morris' as frontispiece), 4 pp. advertisements to rear, with the 'Rules of Golf' section dated 1904, and notice of James Anderson's record round on St Andrew's Links in 1906 to verso of contents page;Dow, James Gordon. The Crail Golfing Society 1786-1936. Being the History of an Eighteenth-Century Golf Club in the East Neuk of Fife. Edinburgh: published at the office of Golf Monthly, 1936. First edition, one of 250 copies only, 8vo, original two-tone cloth, 7 halftone photographic plates, pale mottling to covers, blind stamp (Broadleys, Crail, Fife) to title-page;[Knight, William Angus, editor]. On the Links. Being Golfing Stories by Various Hands. With Shakespeare on Golf. By a Novice. Also, Two Rhymes on Golf by Andrew Lang. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1889. First edition, 8vo, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, 8 pp. advertisements, custom case;Flint, Violet. A Golfing Idyll or The Skipper's Round with the Deil on the Links of St Andrews. St Andrews: W. C. Henderson & Co, 1897. Third edition, 4to, later cloth, 8 plates, text spotted;and 12 others, including: J. B. Salmond, The Story of the R. & A., 1956 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, torn dust jacket, inscribed by the author on the title-page, signed by various R & A members on the front free endpaper including Ferguson Morton, Baron Morton of Henryton, Charles MacAndrew, Baron Macandrew, and similar); The Book of St Andrews Links, Ellesborough Press, 1984 (facsimile edition, one of 200 copies signed by golfer J. Stewart Lawson, 8vo, original green morocco, spine sunned, slipcase); Robert Forgan, The Golfer's Manual, c.1980 (facsimile edition of the 1897 edition, 8vo, original cloth); Andra Kirkaldy, Fifty Years of Golf: My Memories, 1921 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth); Andrew Lang & others, A Batch of Golfing Papers, c.1892 (original cloth, ex library); Violet Flint, A Golfing Idyll, 1978 (facsimile edition, of 150 copies); 2 others editions of Lang's work; and similar

Polar exploration Collection of works Evans, Edward. South with Scott. London: W. Collins son & Co. Ltd., 1922. First edition, fifth impression, 8vo, original cloth, inscribed by Evans 'To Mr & Mrs H. D. C. Jones with nicest thoughts from the author, 1923' on the front free endpaper, 3 maps (of 4: lacking 'Track Chart'), cloth cockled and mottled, spotting to outer leaves [Rosove 117.A5];Borchgrevink, C. E. First on the Antarctic Continent. Being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1901. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 3 folding maps, endpapers renewed [Rosove 45.A1.b: 'Presumably a secondary binding, and considerably scarcer'];Mikkelsen, Ejnar. Conquering the Arctic Ice. London: William Heinemann, 1909. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, frontispiece, folding map, 2 further maps and numerous illustrations in the text, binding rubbed and marked, labels and markings of Mudie's Select Library to front cover and endpapers, rear inner hinge cracked;Worsley, Frank. Under Sail in the Frozen North. London: Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd., 1927. First edition, 8vo, original light blue cloth (probably a secondary binding: usually in dark blue), 32 photographic plates (many with blue tint), folding map;Hurley, Frank. Argonauts of the South. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, all plates and maps as called for, mottling to lower fore corners of boards [Rosove 178.A1];and approx. 40 others (these not collated), including: Richard E. Byrd, Discovery, New York, 1935 (first edition, original cloth); Robert E. Peary, Nearest the Pole, London, 1907 (first UK edition, original cloth, spine defective); Fridtjof Nansen, Farthest North, London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897 (first edition, 2 volumes, volume 1 in contemporary half morocco, volume 2 in original cloth); Herbert Ponting, The Great White South, 1930 (original cloth); Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World, 1952 ('one volume edition', 1952, original cloth, ex-library); Vilhjalmur Stefansson, The Friendly Arctic, New York, 1921 (first edition, original cloth); F. Spencer Chapman, Northern Lights: the Official Account of the British Arctic Air-Route Expedition 1930-31, 1934 (original cloth); Hugh Robert Mill, The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton, 1923 (first edition, original cloth); Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, The First Flight across the Polar Sea, London: Hutchinson & Co., [1927] (first edition, original cloth), and similar

[Brown, R. N. Rudmose, Robert Cockburn Mossman and J. H. Harvey Pirie] The Voyage of the "Scotia" Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration in Arctic Seas. By Three of the Staff. First edition, 8vo, original grey pictorial cloth, purple endpapers, top edge gilt, 58 photographic plates including frontispiece, 3 maps (2 folding), decoration and lettering on spine rubbed away as usual, tips bumped, text-block toned, a few leaves spotted, pp. 41-44 clumsily opened, short closed tear to large folding map at rear [Rosove 50.A1.b]Note: Note: Inscribed by the expedition leader to the then prime minister on the half-title, the inscription reading 'The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, P.C., M.P., with compliments from Wm. S. Bruce, Edinburgh, 1910'. Rosove cites a copy inscribed by Bruce to Churchill at Edinburgh in the same year, in the same variant binding with purple endpapers.

Kipling, Rudyard The Jungle Book London: Macmillan, 1894. First edition, 2nd printing ["First edition May 1894, reprinted June 1894"], plates, ownership inscription of Marion Isabel Durand July 1894 on blank leaf before half-title, original blue cloth gilt, g.e., hinges splitting, somewhat rubbed and soiled;The Second Jungle Book. London: Macmillan, 1895, first edition, plates, ownership inscription "Maria Durand, Xmas '95" on recto of blank leaf before half-title, original blue cloth gilt, g.e., hinges slightly split, somewhat rubbed and soiled

[East Indies Sailing Directory] A New Directory for the East-Indies containing I. The First Discoveries made in the East Indies by European Voyages and Travellers. II. The Origin, Construction and Application of Nautical and Hydrographical Charts. III. The Natural Causes ... of the Constant and Variable Winds ... throughout the East-India Oceans and Seas. IV. A Description of the Sea Coasts, Islands Rocks ... etc. in the Oriental Navigation. V. Directions for navigating in the East-India Seas ... VI. Directions for sailing to and from the East-Indies ... The whole being a Work originally begun upon the Plan of the Oriental Neptune, augmented and improved by Mr. William Herbert, Mr. Willm Nichelson, and Others; and now methodised, corrected, and further enlarged, by Samuel Dunn. London: Henry Gregory, 1780. Fifth edition, 4to (28.7 x 20.8cm), contemporary sailcloth stitched over boards, xxxvi 544 pp., engraved plate facing p. 341, engraved headpiece, without frontispiece noted in other copies, with detailed contemporary annotations to pp. 377, 378, 379, 381, 394, 397, 409, 520, 521 (in chapters 'Directions for Sailing toward the China Seas' and 'Directions for Returning from the China Seas'), in at least two different hands (signed J. Rossiter and S. Cooper), old ink-stamp ('S. E. Howell') to head of title-page, ownership inscription to front free endpaper and initial blank, toning, spotting to title-page, plate and adjacent text-leaves, scattered light spotting and soiling elsewhere [ESTC T146275]Note: Note: An engrossing artefact of late 18th-century trade and maritime exploration in the East Indies, containing annotations demonstrating first-hand knowledge of the waters around Java and Sumatra, and retaining an early makeshift covering of crudely stitched sailcloth, in a good state of preservation. Le Neptune orientale, the basis of the work, was first published in 1745; Herbert's New Directory for the East Indies first appeared in 1758. This fifth edition is considerably expanded from all preceding iterations, which all had 144 pages, suggesting that only limited changes if any had been made previously. All editions are rare in libraries and in commerce.

Impressionism Group of catalogues raisonnés and other reference works 1) Maneti) Denis Rouart et Daniel Wildenstein de l'Institut. Edouard Manet. Catalogue raisonné. Lausanne: Bibliothèque des arts, 1975. 2 volumes, folio, original cloth, dust jackets;ii) Edouard Manet. Graphic Works. A Definitive Catalogue Raisonné. Jean C. Harris. New York: Collectors Editions, 1970. 4to, original cloth;2) Degasi) Paul-André Lemoisne. Degas et son œuvre. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1984. 5 volumes, 4to, original blue cloth, illustrated throughout with reproductions of Degas's works;ii) The Notebooks of Edgar Degas. A Catalogue of the Thirty-Eight Notebooks in the Bibliothèque Nationale and Other Collections. Theodore Roeff. Newly revised edition. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1985. 2 volumes, 4to, original pictorial boards;iii) Vente atelier Edgar Degas 1918 - Vente I + II. Degas's Atelier at Auction 1918 - Sales I + II. [And:] Vente atelier Edgar Degas 1919 - Ventes III + IV. Degas's Atelier at Auction 1919 - Sales III - IV. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989. 2 volumes, 4to, original red boards, printed and glassine dust jackets;iv) Degas. The Complete Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes. Jean Adhémar and Françoise Cachin. London: Thames and Hudson, 1986. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket;3) Pissarroi) Wildenstein Institute. Pissarro. Critical Catalogue of Paintings. Milan: Skir/Wildenstein Institute Publications, 2005. First edition, 3 volumes, 4to, original cloth, dust jackets, pictorial slipcase;ii) Camille Pissarro. L'œuvre gravé et lithographié ... catalogue raisonné. Loys Delteil. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1999. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket;iii) Ludovic Rodo Pissarro et Lionelle Venturi. Camille Pissarro. Son art - son œuvre. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989. 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, dust jackets;4) Moneti) Daniel Wildenstein de l'Institut. Claude Monet. Catalogue raisonné. Lausanne: Bibliothéque des arts [-Wildenstein Institute], 1979-99. Volumes 2-5 of 5, 4to, original cloth, volumes 2-4 with dust jackets and slipcases;ii) Daniel Wildenstein. Monet or the Triumph of Impressionism [volumes 2-4: Catalogue raisonné]. Cologne: Taschen/Wildenstein, 1996. 4 volumes, 4to, original cloth, slipcase, retaining original cardboard packing case with handle;5) Renoiri) Renoir. Guy-Patrice et Michel Dauberville. Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles. Paris: Editions Bernheim-jeune, 2007-2010. Volumes 1-3 (of 5), 4to, original cloth, dust jackets;ii) Pierre-Auguste Renoir. L'œuvre gravé et lithographié ... Catalogue raisonné. Loys Delteil. Edited by Alan Hyman. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1999. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket (small nick to rear panel);iii) Renoir. Watercolors and Pastels. Selected with an Introduction and Commentaries by François Daulte. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1959. 4to, original quarter cloth, 24 colour plates, acetate dust jacket;6) Othersi) Marie Berhaut. Gustave Caillebotte. Catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels. Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée avec le concours de Sophie Pietrie. Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 1994. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket, slipcase;ii) Alain Clairet, Delphine Montalant, Yves Rouart. Berthe Morisot 1841-1895. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Montolivet: CERA-nrs éditions, 1997. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket;iii) François Daulte. Alfred Sisley. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Lausanne: Editions Durand-Ruel, 1959. One of 1,200 copies, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket (slightly chipped and toned)Note: Note: Facsimile reprint of the first edition of Lemoisne's definitive catalogue raisonné, originally published in four volumes in 1946-9; the Supplement (volume 5), by Philippe Brame and Theodore and Arlene Reff, is published here for the first time.

Huxley, Aldous Brave New World London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original blue cloth, top edge dyed blue, dust jacket, spine rolled, a few spots to edges of text-block, dust jacket chipped with partial loss of text on spine

Woolf, Virginia 10 works The Years. London: The Hogarth Press, 1937. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket by Vanessa Bell, some chipping and slight loss to jacket, hinges split;Flush. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933. First American edition, 8vo, original brown cloth, without dust-jacket;Roger Fry, a biography. London: The Hogarth press, 1940. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, a little loss and tearing to dust-jacket;Between the Acts. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941. First American edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, without dust-jacket;The Death of the Moth. London: The Hogarth Press, 1942. Second edition, 8vo, some chipping and slight loss to dust-jacket;The Moment, and other essays. London: The Hogarth Press, 1947. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth gilt, some slight loss to dust-jacket spine;The Captain's Death Bed. London: The Hogarth Press, 1950. 'Uniform edition', 8vo, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket price-clipped;A Writer's Diary. London: The Hogarth Press, 1953. First edition, 8vo, original orange cloth, dust-jacket only very slightly chipped;The Waves. London: The Hogarth Press, 1955. Eighth impression, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, some minor chipping to dust-jacket;Granite & Rainbow. London: The Hogarth Press, 1958. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, torn dust-jacket with some loss

Stein, Sir Aurel Two works On Alexander's Track to the Indus. Personal Narrative of Explorations on the North-West Frontier of India. London: Macmillan & Co., 1929. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece, plates, 2 coloured folding maps at end, original red-brown cloth, with embossed gilt medallion on front cover, t.e.g.;On Central-Asian Tracks. London: Macmillan & Co., 1935. First edition, 8vo, plates, some coloured, folding map, original red-brown cloth with embossed gilt medallion on front cover, dustwrapper strengthened on verso, price-clipped and with a couple of tears repairedNote: Note: Very good copies. Inspired by Sven Hedin, Stein took part in several expeditions in Central Asia, gathering numerous artifacts and antiquities. The British Library's Stein collection of Chinese, Tibetan and Tangut manuscripts, Prakrit wooden tablets, and documents in Khotanese, Uighur, Sogdian and Eastern Turkic is the result of his travels. Loosely inserted is a New Year card from Rt. Hon. Leo Amery, Secretary of State for India and Burma 1940-45.

Burton, Sir Richard Francis A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome With notices of the so called 'Amazons', the grand customs, the yearly customs, the human sacrifices, the present state of the Slave Trade, and the Negro's place in nature. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1864. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, wood-engraved frontispiece in each volume, contemporary green half morocco, spines gilt

Moorcroft, William and George Trebeck Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab in Ladakh and Kashmir; in Peshawar, Kabul, Kunduz, and Bokhara. Prepared for the Press, from Original Journals and Correspondence, by Horace Hayman Wilson. London: John Murray, 1841. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (20.3 x 12.5cm), near-contemporary black half sheep, lithographic frontispieces, folding map, 12 pp. advertisements, contemporary ownership inscription to title-pages, volume 1 lacking leaf a8 (preface pp. xv/xvi), marginal repair to foot of p. liii, folding map with splits and repairs;Little, Archibald. Across Yunnan: a Journey of Surprises including an Account of the Remarkable French Railway Line now completed to Yunnan-fu. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., 1910. First edition in book form, 8vo, original red cloth, 12 halftone photographic plates including frontispiece, folding map, ex-Manchester Public Free Libraries with call number gilt to spine, plate to front pastedown, ink-stamp to verso of title-page, and blind stamps to plates and text;Seebohm, Henry. The Birds of the Japanese Empire. London: R. H. Porter, 1890. Large 8vo, original brown cloth, map frontispiece, wood-engraved illustrations in text, Bolton Libraries ink-stamps and withdrawal stamps to initial blank, title-page and final page of text

Antiquarian literature Collection of works, 18th century Warton, Thomas. Poems on Several Occasions. London: R. Manby and H. S. Cox, 1748. [Bound with:] Richer, Henri. The Life of Maecenas ... Translated by R. Schomberg. London: for A. Millar, 1748. 2 works in one volume, both first editions, 8vo, contemporary sheep, slightly worn, very small worm-track to lower margins in second half of volume, staining to Warton pp. 181-5 [ESTC T125430 & T120687: 10 copies traced world-wide for the second work];Bishop, Samuel. Feriae poeticae: sive carmina anglicana elegiaci plerumque argumenti Latine reddita. London: printed by D. Leach, to be sold by J. Newbery and J. Walter, 1766. 4to, contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, 18th-century ownership inscription of original subscriber Henry Case, later Henry Case-Morewood (c.1747-1825), of Christ's College, Cambridge, clergyman [ESTC T76163: 7 copies in UK libraries];Duhamel du Monceau, Henri-Louis. A Practical Treatise of Husbandry ... The Second Edition, corrected and improved. London: for C. Hitch [and others], 1762. 4to, contemporary sprinkled calf, title-page in red and black, 6 engraved plates (of which 4 folding), folding letterpress table, bookplate of Bryan Cooke of Owston (1756-1821), member of parliament for Malton, Yorkshire, title-page with ownership inscription of his wife Frances Puleston (1765-1818), local philanthropist (her portrait painted by George Romney, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), front joint cracked but holding, rear joint cracked at foot, tips worn, uniform moderate browning, spotting to endpapers and outer leaves [ESTC T82192];Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. A New Edition, with Notes Critical and Explanatory, by Ralph Church, M. A. Late Student of Christ Church, Oxon. London: William Faden, 1758-9. 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, smooth spines gilt-ruled in compartments, errata leaf to each volume, list of subscribers in volume 4, wear to spine-ends, joints variably cracked but firm [ESTC T135123];and 2 others (Cowel, A Law Dictionary, 1708, folio, covers detached, and Journal of the House of Lords for 1818, large folio)Note: Note: The list of subscribers to Warton's work mentions a 'Mr Johnson', believed to be Samuel Johnson (see Eddy & Fleeman 66), and contemporaries including William Blackstone.

Wrede, Konrad (1865-1947) Streifzüge durch Ceylons Wunderwelt Jahreswende 1893-1894. Hanover: [privately printed], 1939. First edition, number 18 of an unspecified limitation, inscribed by the author to Frau Martha Loewe on the limitation page, 4to, original quarter cloth, mimeographed typescript, [1] 43 [3] leaves, 11 gelatin silver print photographs on 8 stiff card mounts with typescript captions (6 of them 20 x 15.5cm, the others smaller), plain paper dust jacket;Colebrooke, H. T. Miscellaneous Essays. London: Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1837. 2 volumes, 8vo, later quarter cloth, 7 folding lithographic plates (facsimiles of ancient Indian documents and inscriptions), folding letterpress table, bookplate of Pandit Sundar Lal, advocate, high court, Allahabad, worming, plates browned, plate 1 torn along stub;Hasegawa, Denziro. Travel to India with Leica, Tokyo: Meguro Shoten, 1939 (first edition, 4to, original yellow hessian lettered in brown, 213 pp., text in Japanese and English, 192 halftone photographs (on pp. 1-124), folding map, spine rubbed); and 4 others: E. F. Burton, Reminiscences of Sport in India, London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1885 (first edition, 8vo, contemporary quarter cloth, spine rolled, lending library label to front board, 8 lithographic plates, pp. 207/8 and 289/90 loose, a few blemishes and marks); J. D. Rees, H.R.H. The Duke of Clarence and Avondale in Southern India, with a Narrative of Elephant-Catching in Mysore by G. P. Sanderson, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., 1891 (4to, recent red cloth, top edge gilt, xvi 213 pp., 5 autotype photographic portrait plates including frontispiece, 24 photogravure plates, folding map, text-leaves partly unopened, browning, worming (stronger towards front of volume, reducing towards middle), plate facing p. 74 chipped along fore edge, text-leaf I1 with closed marginal tears); Wibraham Egerton, An Illustrated Handbook of Indian Arms ... exhibited at the India Museum, London: William H. Allen & Co., 1880 (first edition, 4to, later cloth, folding map, 15 lithographic plates of which 2 in colours and several folding, original front wrapper bound in, lacking final leaf of index, spotting, tape repairs to half-title and index); and Sir John Malcolm, The Life of Robert, Lord Clive, London: John Murray, 1836 (first edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, modern cloth, engraved portrait frontispiece and folding map, ex-library, not collated)Note: Note: Konrad Wrede was a German army officer, collector and arts patron. No copies of Streifzüge durch Ceylons Wunderwelt traced in libraries. WorldCat cites three copies only of Hasegawa's work in libraries world-wide, with none in the United Kingdom.

Polar exploration Collection of works Shackleton, Ernest H. The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. London: William Heinemann, 1909. First trade edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth lettered and decorated in silver and gilt, top edges gilt, photogravure frontispieces, 3 folding maps and sheet containing 2 folding panoramas loose in end-pocket as issued, errata slip to volume 2, spines sunned, tips bumped, volume 1 spine rolled, volume 2 with small repair to title-page, 'Route ... of the Southern Journey Party' map with short split to foot of central fold and a few small holes to intersections [Rosove 305.B1];Idem. South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917. London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, second impression, 8vo, original black cloth lettered and decorated in silver, all plates as called for, lacking unlisted folding map, mottling to covers, short section of wear to front joint, front inner hinge cracked between initial blank and half-title with webbing visible [Rosove 308.A2];Scott, Robert F. The Voyage of the 'Discovery'. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1905. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, photogravure frontispieces, 182 plates (of which 13 in colour, the rest nearly all photographic, of which 5 double-page), 5 maps (of which 2 folding in end-pockets), extremities rubbed, nicks to spine-ends, corners bumped (a few showing through), half-titles spotted, folding maps with Mudie's Select Library labels verso and variably split along folds [Rosove 262.A1: '3,000 copies said to have been printed'];Nansen, Fridtjof. The First Crossing of Greenland. Translated from the Norwegian. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial cloth blocked in silver, 12 plates including frontispieces, 5 maps, spines sunned and rolled, light fraying to head and foot, tips bumped, map facing volume 1 p. 1 tape-repaired verso;Idem. In Northern Mists. Arctic Exploration in Early Times. London: William Heinemann, 1911. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, later library cloth, tipped-in colour plates, markings of Keighley public libraries;Nordenskiöld, A. E. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe ... Translated by Alexander Leslie. London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, 5 engraved portraits, 10 folding lithographic maps, bindings rubbed and marked, volume 1 spine rolled, inner hinges cracked, a few short closed handling tears to maps, a few other marks;Abruzzi, Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, duke of the. On the "Polar Star" in the Arctic Sea. Translated by William Le Queux. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1903. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt, top edges gilt, 16 plates, 2 folding panoramas, 5 maps, contemporary ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers;Charcot, Jean. The Voyage of the 'Why Not?' in the Antarctic. The Journal of the Second French South Polar Expedition, 1908-1910. English Version by Philip Walsh. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1911]. First edition, 4to, original cloth, all plates as called for, cloth cockled;Payer, Julius. New Lands with the Arctic Circle. Narrative of the Discoveries of the Austrian Ship "Tegetthoff" in the Years 1872-1874. Translated from the German, with the Author's Approbation. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1877. First US edition, 8vo, original cloth, tinted lithographic frontispieces, folding map, cloth mottled, wear to extremities, inner hinges cracked;Peary, Robert E. The North Pole. Its Discovery in 1909 under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1910. Second edition, 4to, original cloth, all plates as called for, damp-staining to covers;and one other (Scott, Scott's Last Expedition, 1913, first edition, first impression, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, incomplete, lacking at least plate facing p. 393 in volume 1)

Occult - geomancy La Geomance du Seigneur Christophe de Cattan Gentilhomme Genevoys Livre non moins plaisant et recreatif, que d'ingenieuse invention, pour scavoir toutes choses, presentes, passées et à advenir. Avec la Roüe de Pythagoras. Le tout corrigé, et mis en lumiere par Gabriel du Preau. Paris: Jean Corozzet, 1558. First edition, 4to (22.6 x 15.5cm), c.1900 half vellum, woodcut device to title-page, woodcut initials, astrological diagrams, diagram of the wheel of Pythagoras and geomantic tables in text, moderate spotting and soiling (chiefly to outer leaves), initial two quires and final quire (a-2 and 2Y) slightly chipped along edges, old ink-staining in top margins of early leaves (quires a-C; intermittent thereafter; stronger to leaf e4 and causing some paper corrosion), a2-3 misbound after quire e, e1 tipped in, small spill-burn in 2X4 [Adams C1128, with variant imprint]Note: Note: One of the most comprehensive and widely cited works on geomancy, or divination by sand, an occult science with origins in the Arab world. An English edition appeared in 1591.

Austen, Jane The Novels The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R. W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926. 5 volumes, 8vo (19.2 x 13cm), contemporary half morocco by Ramage, spines gilt in compartments, top edges gilt, facsimiles of first-edition title-pages, 44 halftone plates mainly from Regency-era prints, spines sunned to tan, scuffs to spine of volume 1 and to raised bands of volume 4, a few pale markings to morocco

Cherry-Garrard, Apsley The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913. London: Constable and Company Limited, 1922. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. lxiv 300 [4], viii 301-585 [1], original linen-backed blue paper boards, printed paper spine-labels, edges untrimmed, half-titles, 58 plates including colour frontispieces (with tissue-guards) and 10 folding panoramas, 5 maps (4 folding), duplicate spine-label to each volume (tipped to front free endpaper in volume 1, loose in volume 2), retaining binder's blank at rear of volume 2, pencilled ownership inscriptions to half-title of volume 1 and front free endpaper of volume 2, a few marks to covers, spotting to edges, occasionally encroaching on margins, light browning to free endpapers, shallow chip to fore margin of plate facing volume 1 p. 32, map 'From New Zealand to the South Pole' facing volume 1 p. lxiv loose, light spotting to last few leaves of volume 2 [Rosove 71.A1]Note: Note: 'Cherry-Garrard's book has often been referred to as the finest polar book ever written. Scott's diary left many facets of the expedition and the experiences of its men untold: it was Cherry-Garrard who pulled the entire story of the main party together. He was uniquely suited to do so. He was a member of the main party for the expedition's entire duration, had access to unpublished sources, and was the only member of the Winter Journey to survive the expedition. Most of all, he had the sensibilities and extraordinary literary genius necessary to cope with the complex and tragic subject of the Polar Journey ... The book Cherry-Garrard left behind is a monument immortalizing the expedition in the annals of Antarctic exploration and geographic exploration in general' (Rosove).

Grandpré, Louis Maria Joseph, Comte de A Voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal undertaken in the years 1789 and 1790; containing an Account of the Seychelles Islands and Trincomale; the Character and Arts of the People of India; with some remarkable religious rites of the inhabitants of Bengal. To which is added, A Voyage in the Red Sea; including a Description of Mocha, and of the trade of the Arabs of Yemen. Translated from the French. London: G. and J. Robinson, 1803. First English edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 6 engraved plates (2 folding), half-titles, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, green morocco lettering pieces, armorial bookplates of Jonathan Pytts Esq.Note: Note: A fine copy of the first English edition.Provenance: The Pytts family owned large estates in Worcestershire and Herefordshire. During the seventeenth century, members of the family sat for various Herefordshire constituencies. Jonathan Pytts inherited a large fortune from his maternal grandfather, Admiral Jonathan Collett who died in 1742. He succeeded his brother Edmund to the Kyre estate in 1781, became Sheriff in 1783, and died without issue in 1807.

Colour Theory - Hay, David Ramsay A Nomenclature of Colours, Hues, Tints, and Shades, applicable to the Arts and Natural Sciences; to Manufactures. Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1845. First edition, 8vo, 40 coloured plates, 8pp. advertisements at end, original brown cloth, a few light spots, some early pencil marginalia, lacks spine, upper board detachedProvenance:Provenance: From the Library of the Glasgow Art Club

Indian lithographic printing Group of works on science and medicine all in Urdu, lithographed throughout, comprising:Kuhne, Louis. Sayins af fayshal iksprishin [Title in English, transliterated into Urdu, i.e. The Science of Facial Expression]. Meerut: Swami Press, 1925. 6 177 pp. only (lacking at least one leaf at rear and rear wrapper, the final page cited by index being p. 179), text in Urdu, lithographed throughout, 20 plates (counted in pagination), of which one folding, stitching fragile and contents working loose, front wrapper and text-leaves browned, plate at pp. 145/6 with closed tear, folding plate bound in upside-down;?Rockwell, G. W. Frinuluji ... musannifuhu Miknesh Sahib ki Urdu tarjuma [Phrenology, translated into Urdu by Miknesh Sahib]. Lahore: Munshi Mahbub 'Alim, 1895. 8vo, contemporary blue half cloth, marbled sides, 184 pp., lithographic illustrations in the text including a portrait of Franz Josef Gall, putative head shapes, cranial conditions (e.g. hydrocephaly), original wrappers bound in, browning, light worming not affecting legibility, bound with 3 other Urdu texts at rear including a trade catalogue of clocks and watches, in English and Urdu, illustrated, 28 pp.);Ram, Beli. Diseases of the Heart and Lungs, in Urdu, by Beli Ram, L. M. S., Assistant Surgeon, in Charge of the Kasur Dispensary. Lahore: Empress Press, 1882. First edition (stated on title-page), 8vo, recent boards, 400 [4] pp., title-pages in English and Urdu, text mainly in Urdu, illustrations in text (occasionally hand-coloured), paper browned and friable, title-pages spotted and slightly chipped, pp. 121-4 misprinted (leaves numbered 123/2 121/4, pp. 123/2 chipped with loss of text, pp. 121/4 repaired), minor paper disruption to pp. 213/14, pp. 325-8 crudely repaired, closed tear to head of last few leaves;[Medicine]. Tibb shihabi manzum Hindi [i.e. Shifa' al-marad by Shihab al-Din al-Nagawri, 14th-century Persian physician, on the treatment of illnesses, translated into Urdu verse]. Daftar Hikmat Hindi. Mumbai: Matba' Haydari, 1300 AH [1883 CE]. 8vo, contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, 64 pp. in 2 parts, text-block detached from binding, browning, light marginal worming, bound with a similar text at rear, Mufid al-ajsam ma'hu fawa'id 'ajabiya, 1883 CENote: Note: Louis Kuhne (1835-1901) was a German naturopath known for his advocacy of vegetarianism and hydropathy; The Science of Facial Expression appears to have been first published in 1917.

[American Revolution] Mémoires de Paul Jones Où il expose ses principaux services, et rappelle ce qui lui est arrivé de plus remarquable pendant le cours de la révolution américaine, particulièrement en Europe, écrits par lui-même en anglais, et traduits sous ses yeux par le citoyen André. Paris: Chez Louis, Libraire, rue Saint-Severin, 1798. First edition, 12mo (14.4 x 8.3cm) original blue boards, half-title, engraved frontispiece, ink inscription to front pastedown, tear to half-title, stain upper-right of frontispiece (not affecting illustration), intermittent foxing throughout, lower corners of N7-8 missing, boards rubbed, upper board detached, loss to spine

Post-impressionism Group of catalogues raisonnés and other reference works 1) Seurati) C. M. de Hauke. Seurat et son œuvre. Paris: Gründ, 1961. First edition, one of 550 copies, 2 volumes, 4to, original blue cloth lettered in black, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, printed on papier Arches filigrané, illustrated throughout with reproductions of Seurat's works, volume 1 with indentations to spine and front board and damp-staining to rear board, acetate dust jackets;ii) Les Dessins de Georges Seurat (1859-1891). Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1928. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, 151 plates tipped to 128 numbered mounts, index leaf to each volume, [16] pp. text including title-page in volume 1, all loose as issued in buckram portfolio, portfolios spotted, toning along edges of mounts;2) Cézannei) The Drawings of Paul Cézanne. A Catalogue Raisonné by Adrien Chappuis. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society Ltd., 1973. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original boards, slipcase;ii) The Paintings of Paul Cézanne. A Catalogue Raisonné. John Rewald in Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayune Warman. London: Thames and Hudson, 1996. First UK edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, slipcase;iii) Paul Cézanne. The Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné by John Rewald. A New York Graphic Society Book. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. First edition, 4to, original cloth, slipcase;iv) Lionelle Venturi. Cézanne: son art - son œuvre. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989. 2 volumes, 4to, original boards, dust jackets (with a few nicks);3) Gauguini) Gauguin par Georges Wildenstein. I. Catalogue [all published]. Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, 1964. First edition, one of 3,000 copies, this copy 'imprimé spécialement pour M. Paul Mellon', 4to, original red boards decorated in gilt, dust jacket, tipped-in colour frontispiece, label removed from front pastedown, pencil note to preliminary page;ii) Gauguin. A Savage in the Making. Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings (1873-1888). Milan: Skira/Wildenstein Institute, 2002. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original yellow cloth, dust jackets, slipcase;iii) Gauguin by John Rewald, Paris: Hyperion Press, 1938, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket;4) Van Goghi) Vincent Van Gogh, The Letters, The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition, edited by Leon Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker, London: Thames & Hudson, 2009, 6 volumes, original boards, dust jackets, slipcase, complete with CD-ROM in pocket mounted to rear pastedown of volume 6;ii) Jan Hulsker. The New Complete Van Gogh Paintings, Drawings Sketches. Revised and Enlarged Edition of the Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Vincent Van Gogh. Amsterdam: J. M. Meulenhoff, 1996. Folio, original boards, dust jacket;and 2 others (Jean Bouin-Luce, Denise Bazetoux. Maximilen Luce. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Paris: Editions JBL, 1986. 2 volumes, folio, original cloth, dust jackets (small tear to rear panel of volume 2 jacket; and one on Seurat)

Pratap Narayan Singh, Maharaja of Ayodhya (1855-1906) Raskusumakar, or a Book on Rhetoric Allahabad: printed at the "Indian Press", 1894. First edition, 4to, original red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, [2] 10 6 23 [1] 191 [1] 40 6 2 5 9 pp., text in Hindi within decorative pictorial border, title-page in Hindi and English with decorative floral border, 41 halftone plates from photographic portraits or Indian miniature paintings including portrait frontispiece, presentation plate from the author to Norwich Public Library to front pastedown, shelfmark in white ink to spine, spine faded, corners of boards bumped, withdrawal stamp to front free endpaper, title-page wit closed tear to head extending into border, and small section at lower inner corner detached but presentNote: Note: Rare in commerce. Library records call for 38 or 40 plates; the latter count may exclude the frontispiece.

Bryans, William Antiquities of Cheshire, in Photograph With Short Descriptive Notes: to which are added Views of Several Ancient Buildings in Shropshire and North Wales. Chesters: Hugh Roberts, 1858. First edition, 4to (37 x 27cm), original half morocco, rebacked, purple cloth sides, [9] 55 pp., 25 mounted albumen print photographs, some stripping and wear to backstrip and corners, variable spotting to mounts and text-leaves, silvering along edges of 'Birth-place of Bishop Wilson' (plate no. 8), very short closed tear to mount of 'Waberton Church' (no. 9), 'Tarvin Church' (no. 17) with a few spots within photograph, hint of silvering to 'South Doorway, Edstaston Church' (no. 25), withdrawn from Chester Reference Library with their plate to front pastedown, withdrawal stamp to initial blank, ink-stamp to title-page, and further small ink-stamps to pp. 3 and 55 [Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature, 83]. Together with: Charles Leigh, The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak, in Derbyshire. with an Account of the British, Phoenician, Armenian, Gr. and Rom. Antiquities in those Parts, Oxford: for the Author, 1700, first edition, folio, 20th-century half morocco, 24 engraved plates, folding map hand-coloured in outline, lacking portrait frontispiece, ex-Chester Reference Library with associated markings, damp-staining towards rear, text not collated

Fernandez de Avellaneda, Alonso The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote, de la Mancha Containing his Fourth Sally, and the Fifth Part of his Adventures ... With Illustrations and Corrections by the Licentiate Don Isidro Perales y Torres. And now first translated from the Spanish. Swaffham: D. Sudbury, 1805. 3 volumes, 12mo (17.5 x 10cm), contemporary calf, rebacked retaining most of original spines, edges sprinkled red, [2] 4 xliv 340, [2] 4 286, [2] 4 233 pp., covers rubbed, occasional spotting to contents, later ink inscriptions of one Edmund Esdaile (see below) to front endpapers or blanksNote: Note: First and only edition, presentation copy of this rare translation of the unauthorised and pseudonymous continuation of Don Quixote, inscribed 'From the translator to Mrs Esdaile by Brigg Fountaine Esqr' on the title-page of the first volume. Brigg Fountaine alias Price, of Swaffham, Norfolk, died in 1825; little else about him is known. Library Hub traces three copies only in UK and Irish libraries. Avellaneda's work was first published in Spanish in 1614; an English translation first appeared in 1705.

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842 and 1843. London: E. Moxon, 1844. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, half-titles, half brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf, t.e.g., spines gilt, neat signature on front endpapers 'J. Shelley Rolls", spines lightly fadedNote: Note: Rambles in Germany and Italy was Mary Shelley's last full-length work. It is based on letters written during two journeys she made with Percy Florence and several of his friends in 1840 and 1842-1843. Like her first book, History of a Six Weeks' Tour, Rambles is more than a simple travel memoir. It blends Romantic values, female emancipation and political advocacy, and includes Mary's comments on war, national manners, historical perspectives, and political observations.Provenance: Sir John Courtown Edward Shelley-Rolls, 6th Bt. (1871-1961), whose grandfather was John Shelley (1806-66), younger brother of the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822).

Milne, A. A. [The Pooh books:] When We Were Very Young; Winnie-the-Pooh; Now We Are Six; The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927-26-27-28. 4 works, 8vo, original varicoloured pictorial cloth gilt, top edges gilt, pictorial endpapers and illustrations throughout the text all by E. H. Shepard, WWWVY and THAPC with the dust jackets, WWWVY spine rolled, dust jacket slightly dust-soiled and with fraying to head of spine, WTP spine slightly rolled, light rubbing to extremities, a few faint scuffs and small marks to rear board, customary browning to endpapers, closed tear in pp. 77/8, a few small marks to margins of text, NWAS with light rubbing to extremities, a few internal blemishes and marks, THAPC dust jacket with slight softening and loss to spine-ends, short close tear to foot of rear panel, a few faint marks, covers marked, upper fore corner of front cover bumped, customary browning to free endpapers, inner hinges slightly tender, pp. 5/6 with closed tear in gutter, a few leaves dog-eared, a few other blemishes and marksNote: Note: First editions of Winnie-the-Pooh, Now We Are Six, and The House at Pooh Corner. When We Were Very Young is a fifteenth edition; the work first appeared in 1924.

Gill, Eric Wood-Engravings Being a selection of Eric Gill's engravings on wood. Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1924. First edition, 4to, number 7 of 150 copies, original cream buckram, uncut, with manuscript addition 'No. 5' inserted between words 'first' and (Virgin and Child) on title

India Group of rare Indian imprints 1) Report on the Territories Conquered from the Paishwa. Submitted to the Supreme Government of British India, by the Hon'ble Mountstuart Elphinstone, Commissioner. Bombay: Bombay Government Press, 1838. Second edition, 8vo, later red cloth, [2] 82 li pp., colour pencil marks to title-page, ink-stamp of the government library, Agra, to p. 1, moderate browning, scattered dark spots;2) England and India: being Impressions of Persons and Things, English and Indian and Brief Notes of Visits to France, Switzerland, Italy, and Ceylon. By Lala Baijnath of the N.-W. P. Judicial Service. Bombay: Jehangir B. Karani & Co., Ltd., 1893. First edition, one of 1,000 copies, 8vo, contemporary yellow cloth, [2] 4 234 pp., errata leaf and advertisement leaf at rear, worming, stitching split between pp. 152 and 153, closed marginal tears in pp. 69/70 and 163/4;3) A Memoir of the Late Raja Partab Singh of Tajpur, in the District of Bijnor, North-West Provinces. Calcutta: Erasmus Jones, "Cambrian" Press, 1879. First edition, 12mo, original cloth-covered card wrappers with skiver label to front cover, [4] 20 pp., mounted albumen portrait photograph as frontispiece;4) A Revised and Enlarged Account of the Bobbili Zemindari, compiled by ... Sir Venkata Swetachalapati Ranga Row Bahadur ... Maha-Rajah of Bobbili. Madras: Addison & Co., 1900. 8vo, original cloth, [4] 185 pp., folding table, inscribed to 'Sir Henry Bliss K.C.I.E. with the compliments of the Maharajah of Bobbili 18/6/1902 London' on the initial blank, spine and edges of covers sunned, loss to spine-ends;Together with 2 others (The Jeypore Guide by Thomas Holbein Hendley, Surgeon, Bengal Medical Service, Jeypore [Jaipur]: "Raj" Press, 1876, first edition 12mo, lacking frontispiece and map, with 17 other lithographic plates, 3 copies on Library Hub, worming; and The Panjab as a Sovereign State (1799-1839), Thesis approved for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of London, by Gulshan Lall Chopra. Lahore: Uttar Chand Kapur & Sons, 1928, lacking maps)Note: Note: Two copies of the Report on Territories Conquered from the Paishwa traced in UK libraries (BL and Oxford); the work was first published at Calcutta in 1821. A Memoir of the Late Raja Partab Singh of Tajpur is otherwise untraced. Library Hub cites three copies of the Bobbili Zemindari (BL, Oxford, SOAS).

Cherry-Garrard, Apsley The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913. London: Constable and Company Limited, 1922. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth, titles gilt to spines and front boards, pp. lxiv 300 [4], viii 301-585 [1] pp., 58 plates including colour frontispieces (with tissue-guards) and 10 folding panoramas, 5 maps (4 folding), spines very slightly faded and nicked, small mark to spine of volume 2, volume 1 front board sprung, free endpapers browned, half-titles spotted, a few spots elsewhere, 3 folding panoramas (facing volume 1 pp. 184 and 294 and volume 2 p. 352) sometime incorrectly folded and consequently slightly proud with concomitant nicks and rumpling along fore edges, closed tear in volume 1 pp. 247/8 just extending into text [Rosove 71.A2]Note: Note: Rosove describes this issue in blue cloth as 'significantly scarcer' than that in blue-grey paper boards with linen spines. 'Cherry-Garrard's book has often been referred to as the finest polar book ever written. Scott's diary left many facets of the expedition and the experiences of its men untold: it was Cherry-Garrard who pulled the entire story of the main party together. He was uniquely suited to do so. He was a member of the main party for the expedition's entire duration, had access to unpublished sources, and was the only member of the Winter Journey to survive the expedition. Most of all, he had the sensibilities and extraordinary literary genius necessary to cope with the complex and tragic subject of the Polar Journey ... The book Cherry-Garrard left behind is a monument immortalizing the expedition in the annals of Antarctic exploration and geographic exploration in general' (ibid.).

Hutcheson, Francis A System of Moral Philosophy in three books. Published from the Original Manuscripts, by his Son Francis Hutcheson. To which is prefixed some Account of the Life, Writing, and Character of the Author, by William Leechman. Glasgow: printed and sold by R. and A. Foulis, 1755. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to (26.2 x 20cm), [12] xlviii 358, [4] 380, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked with corners restored and endpapers renewed, bindings scuffed, spotting to title-pages, volume 1 sigs. K and 2U-2X and volume 2 sigs. C and 3B, volume 1 front free endpaper partly detached and with two ownership inscriptions (probably 19th century), occasional ink underlining, custom slipcase [ESTC T99472; Gaskell 297; Goldsmiths' 8995]Note: Note: Hutcheson was the second professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow, succeeding Gershom Carmichael and holding the position from 1730 until his death in 1746; his successor but one was Adam Smith, followed by Thomas Reid. Published after his death, A System of Moral Philosophy is 'the most voluminous of Hutcheson's writings; it is also the most ambitious in scope. It contains his most comprehensive account of human nature, the supreme good and greatest happiness, divine providence, natural rights, and civil government. His design in the System appears to have been to delineate a theodicy, in which God or providence is shown to have made provision for the happiness of the human race' (ODNB).

[Sierra Leone] Winterbottom, Thomas An Account of the Native Americans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone London: Printed by C. Whittingham, sold by John Hatchard, 1803. First edition, 2 volumes, [with the scarce vol. 2 which was partly suppressed], 8vo, [xv], 362, [xxii]; [iv], 283, [xi]; folding map, folding chart and 6 engraved plates (2 folding), contemporary tree calf, embossed coat-of-arms with motto "Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense" on covers, neatly rebacked, spine gilts, red and green morocco lettering pieces, corners neatly repairedNote: Note: Winterbottom was appointed physician to Sierra Leone in 1792 where he resided for seven years. In his youth he was a strong supporter of the abolition of the slave trade and afterwards advocated emancipation. The present work is the main source of his reputation as a clinical observer. It contains his classic description of sleeping sickness, trypanosomiasis, amongst local Africans. The work is one of the earliest English books to describe sleeping sickness (pages 29-31). Dr Winterbottom noticed that slave dealers would not buy slaves whose neck glands showed signs of enlargement. Volume two deals entirely with the diseases prevalent in Sierra Leone especially dysentery and malaria. It also contains detailed information on venereal disease, childbirth, abortion, male and female circumcision etc. which led to the second volume being suppressed in some circles.

Shackleton, Ernest H. South London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original black cloth lettered and decorated in silver, all plates and maps as called for (including colour frontispiece, panorama of South Georgia between pp. 208-9, folding map to rear), errata slip and Mudie's Select Library notice tipped to p. 1, rubbed, tips bumped and showing through, front pastedown and free endpaper renewed, text-block browned as usual, faint spotting to plates, corresponding darker spotting to adjacent text-leaves, folding map with closed tear to stub and a few nicks along edges not affecting image [Rosove 308.A1]

[South Africa] Le Vaillant, François Voyage de Monsier le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique par le cap de Bonne-Espérance dans les années 1788, 81, 82, 83, 84 & 85. Paris: Leroy, 1790. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, frontispiece and 11 plates [including the rare suppressed Hottentott plate (plate no. 7 at p.346, vol. 2), 2 folding;Second Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique par le cap de Bonne-Espérance, dans les années 1783, 84 et 85. Paris: H.J. Jansen, l'an 3 de La République. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, 22 engraved plates (5 folding) and large folding map, errata leaf in each volume;together 5 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt, green morocco lettering pieces, gilt edgesNote: Note: A very fine set of first editions of both Le Vaillant's travels in South Africa. Le Vaillant’s work (comprising both voyages) “was attacked when published, and some of the incidents were declared to be either exaggerated or altogether invented. It is, however, interesting as an account of South Africa at a time when comparatively little was known regarding its natural history and the Dutch settlers” (Cox I, p.389).The first work is dedicated to "Monsieur Boers, Fiscal Indépendent" who befriended Le Vaillant after he had lost all his possessions in the ship Middleburg which was blown up by British forces as an act of war. Mr Boers, with Captain Robert Jacob Gordon, Commander of the troops at the Cape, assisted Le Vaillant to prepare for his journeys into the interior. His first journey took him to Hottentot Holland, Swellendam, Mossel Bay, the Knysna country, Algoa Bay, Fish River, the Karroo and back to Saldanha Bay. The second voyage, dedicated to "Citoyen Varon", took him across Namaqualand, Damaraland, parts of Bechuanaland and the Kalahari.

Marine Engineering - Russell, John Scott The Modern System of Naval Architecture London: Day and Son, [1865], First edition, large folio, 3 volumes in 5, the text bound in 2 volumes; folding frontispiece in volume 1 and 168 engraved plates [numbered 1-79, 80-123, 124-165, and 4*, ?26* and 119*], many folding or double-page, (some very large), red half calf retaining original black cloth boards, the five volumes housed in a specially made wooden cabinet, a few plates slightly dampstained, plate 100 dampstained and with tear not affecting image, title of volume 1 creased, slightly soiled and laid downNote: Note: John Scott Russell (1808–1882) was a Scottish civil engineer, naval architect and shipbuilder. In 1834, while conducting experiments to determine the most efficient design for canal boats, he discovered a phenomenon that he described as the wave of translation. In fluid dynamics the wave is now called Russell's solitary wave. The wave of translation, or solitary wave, gave birth to the modern study of solitons, and developed the wave-line system of ship construction. His work is an extensive guide of nineteenth-century naval architecture of iron steamships with 168 plates that include detailed plans for a variety of ocean and river steamers, monitors, and warships. Notably, a foldout lithograph of The Great Eastern, the largest vessel of its era, built by the author, J. S. Russell. The construction and saga of the Great Eastern was chronicled in James Dugan's The Great Iron Ship."...this work naturally divides itself into three great parts, each of which may be said to form an independent treatise. The First Part [Naval architecture] will be devoted to the purely scientific branch of the profession—that which may be called pure naval architecture. In this part the scientific principles which must regulate the construction of the perfect design of a ship will be laid down with such exactness, as to enable the student of naval architecture to frame a design, which shall exactly fulfil the intended purpose...The Second Part of the work [Ship-building] will form a treatise requiring, perhaps, less science than the foregoing, but no less skill, thought, and knowledge...The Third Part of the work [Marine engineering] passes from the consideration of the mere ship, or sailing vessel, driven by the wind, to the self-acting and self-moving steam-ship." - Russell. Marine Engineering. Introduction, p.xxxvi

India - North-Western Province Set of Agra imprints, 19th century 1) Report on Indigenous Education and Vernacular Schools, in Agra, Aligarh, Bareli, Etawah, Farrukhabad, Mainpuri, Mathura, Shahjahanpur, for 1850-51. By Henry Steward Reid, Visitor General of Schools, N. W. P. Agra: Secundra Orphan Press, 1852-3-4. First editions, 3 works in one volume, 8vo, contemporary yellow cloth, [4] 220, [2] 122, [2] 176 pp, blind stamp of the Schlagintweit library to title-page;2) Report on Ajmeer and Mairwara, illustrating the Settlement of the Land Revenue and the Revenue Administration of those Districts, up to ... 1853. By Lieut.-Colonel C. G. Dixon, Commissioner, Ajmeer and Mairwara. Agra: Secundra Orphan Press, 1853. First edition, 4to, later cloth, [2] 199 pp., uniform moderate browning, colour pencil markings to title-page, closed tear in Q4, worming to endpapers now affecting text-block;3) Translation of a Proceeding regarding the Settlement of a Village, according to the System pursued in the North Western Provinces of the Presidency of Bengal. Compiled and published under the Orders of the Hon'ble the Lieutenant Governor, N. W. P. Agra: Secundra Orphan Press, 1847. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half leather (worn), [2] iii 244 pp., 3 hand-coloured lithographic plans, 4 lithographic genealogical tables, 4 letterpress tables, all folding, shelfmark label of Pandut Sundar Lal, High Court, Allahabad to front pastedown, governmental ink-stamp to title-page and final page, a few old repairs to plates, one genealogical table with 10cm closed tear, moderate browning, a few small worm-tracks towards rear, rear inner hinge partly cracked;4) Selections from the Records of Government, North Western Provinces [volume 1]. Agra: Secundra Orphan Press, 1855. Second edition, 8vo, later cloth, vii 1-76 107-222 [1] pp., hand-coloured double-page lithographic plate ('Half elevation, half section and plan of Burdashtkhaneh in the Cawnpoor District'), 3 further lithographic plates (collation not established), cloth mottled, title-page browned and tipped in, variable damp-staining to pp. 107-130;5) The New Code of Civil Procedure. Act No. 10 of 1877. Agra: Elahi Press, c.1877. 8vo, recent red cloth, text in Urdu, lithographed throughout, in 8 parts (separately paginated), browned throughout, contents leaf and title-page chipped, final leaf tape-repaired in gutter, part 2 possibly lacking section-title (but collation not established as no other copy traced)Note: Note: Among the invaluable information provided by Henry Steward Reid's educational reports are lists of the textbooks printed each year by the government of the North-West Province, including details of their authors, content and print runs. Library Hub cites three locations only: LSE (1852-3), Oxford (1852), and SOAS (year not stated). Library cataloguing notes a map for Dixon's work, but none is present in the copy held by the University of Oxford and we have not been able to inspect another copy; it is possible that the map is from C. G. Dixon's Sketch of Mairwara (1850), with which the British Library (India Office Records) copy is bound, and that the description for this particular copy has been generally applied. One institutional copy traced for the Translation of a Proceeding regarding the Settlement of a Village, at the British Library, catalogued as having nine plates (it is unclear whether these include the folding tables).

Sassoon, Siegfried Three works The War Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original red cloth, paper labels to spine and front board, edges untrimmed, dust jacket, spine slightly rolled, section of sunning to head of spine (with corresponding section of loss to dust jacket), small water stain to top edge of text-block, a few spots internally, dust jacket spine discoloured, price scored through in ink, short closed tear to foot of front panel;Counter-Attack and Other Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1918. First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author 'Eileen Power, from Siegfried Sassoon, Jan. 1919' on the half-title, 8vo, original card wrappers, spine crudely tape-repaired, errata supplied in pencil;Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. London: Faber & Faber Limited 1930. First edition, one of 750 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original blue cloth, spine and head of front board sunnedNote: Note: The recipient of this copy of Counter-Attack is likely to be the noted economic and medieval historian Eileen Power (1889-1940). It may have been her involvement in peace movements after the war which brought her into contact with Sassoon.

Dortu, M. G. Toulouse-Lautrec et son œuvre New York: Collectors Editions, 1971. First edition, one of 1450 copies, 6 volumes, 4to, original blue cloth lettered in black, patterned endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, printed on vélin similiforme filigrané, illustrated throughout with reproductions of Toulouse-Lautrec's works, acetate dust jackets (volume 1 with chip to rear panel);Lanthemann, J. Modigliani 1884-1920. Catalogue raisonné. Barcelona: Graficas Condal, 1970. First edition, one of 2,500 copies, 4to, original green leatherette;Schulman, Michel. Frédéic Bazille 1841-1870. Catalogue raisonné. Paris: Editions de l'Amateur, 1995. First edition, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket;Salomon, Antoine, & Guy Cogeval. Vuillard. The Inexhaustible Glance. Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels. Milan: Skira/Wildenstein Institute, 2003. First edition, 3 volumes, 4to, original cloth, dust jackets, slipcase;and approx. 12 others, mainly catalogues raisonnés, including Constable, Turner, Picasso, Velazquez, Goya, etc.

Robson, Francis The Life of Hyder Ally with an Account of his Usurpation of the Kingdom of Mysore, and other Contiguous Provinces. To which is annexed, a Genuine Narrative of the Sufferings of the British Prisoners of War, taken by his Son, Tippoo Saib. London: S. Hooper, 1786. First edition, 8vo (20.9 x 12cm), contemporary marbled calf, rebacked with original gilt spine laid down, signed by the author at end of preface (p. vi), moderate browning, near-contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, effaced ownership inscription to initial blank bleeding through onto title-page, a few other marks [ESTC T100166: 8 copies in UK libraries];Kirkpatrick, William (editor). Select Letters of Tippoo Sultan to Various Public Functionaries. London: for Black, Parry, and Kingsbury; and for John Booth, 1811. First edition, 4to (26.4 x 20cm), later black half sheep (probably a native binding), 2 plates of engraved Persian manuscript facsimile, browning, worming towards front and rear, stitching split between signatures b and c, signatures a and b consequently tipped to front free endpaper with concomitant paper disruption in gutter;Salmond, James. A Review of the Origin, Progress, and Result of the Decisive War with the Late Tippoo Sultaun, in Mysore, London, 1800. Second edition, 8vo (21.5 x 12.5cm), contemporary half sheep, frontispiece of Tipu's tiger lacking, folding leaf of Persian manuscript facsimile (sig. 4C), folding letterpress table (sig. 5E), leather detached from spine (fragments laid in), spotting and browning to contents [ESTC T133172: 5 copies in UK libraries]Note: Note: No other copies of Robson's work traced in auction records; Kirkpatrick's work is rare in commerce. There was a quarto edition of Salmond's work published in the same year and presumed to have priority over this octavo edition.

India Group of rare Indian imprints, 19th-20th century 1) Hindu Anatomy, Physiology, Therapeutics, History of Medicine and Practice of Physic. By Kaviraj Russick Lal Gupta. Calcutta: S. C. Addy, 1892. First edition, 8vo, contemporary orange cloth, [4] 209 pp., front inner hinge partly cracked, uniform moderate browning, coloured pencil markings to title-page, closed tear in pp. 87/8, pp. 141/2 transposed;2) The Betal Punchabinsati, translated into English by Adalut Khan, a College Moonshee. Calcutta: I. C. Bose & Co., 1864. [Bound with:] A Tale from the Sakuntala of Kalidasa by Iswara Chandra Vidyasagara. Calcutta: Sanskrit Press, 1862. 2 works in 1 volume, first and sixth editions, 8vo, modern wrappers, [2] ii 143, 4 102 pp., second work in Sanskrit, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page;3) Ex-King Edward's Diary of the Ten Eventful Days by Khwaja Hasan Nizami. English Translation by M. Fazl-i-Hamid. Delhi: Munadi Publishing Co., 1937. First edition, 8vo, original printed wrappers, [6] 116 pp., photographic portrait of Nizami, errata leaf at rear, gift inscription to title-page, wrappers sunned and slightly marked, chipped at spine-ends, section of loss to rear wrapper, contents moderately browned, portrait and following text-leaf spotted;4) Bhut Nibandh: An Essay, Descriptive of the Demonology and Other Popular Superstitions of Guzerat. Being the Prize Essay of the Guzerat Vernacular Society for the Year 1849. By Dalpatram Daya. Translated by Alexander Kinloch Forbes, Secretary to the Society. Bombay: "Bombay Gazette" Press, c.1849. First edition, 8vo, contemporary marbled wrappers, cloth backstrip (repaired at foot), xv 95 pp., illustrations in text, variable browning and damp-staining, light marginal worming, prelims (including title-page) strengthened in cutter with clear tape, title-page with small circular mark, pp. xi-xiv loose at foot, bookplates (with Zoroastrian maxim 'Humata Hukhta Hvarshta' but owner's name effaced)5) [Urdu title:] Maqasid-i 'ulum. A Treatise on the Objects, Advantages, and Pleasures of Science. By Lord Brougham, Translated into Urdu by Syed Mohomed Meer. A Native of Lucknow. Calcutta: printed for the Calcutta School-Book Society, at the Baptist Mission Press, 1841. 8vo, contemporary cloth, paper backstrip, 139 pp., printed with Urdu types, wear to binding, contents browned, pp. 29-32 working looseNote: Note: No copies of Hindu Anatomy or Ex-King-Edward's Diary traced in UK libraries; the latter is a satirical work purporting to be the journal of the former Edward VIII, and was written in Urdu by Sufi poet Khwaja Hasan Nizami, who despite knowing no English, claims in the preface to 'understand the language of Ex-King Edward's heart and mind'. Library Hub cites one institutional copy only for each of Betal Punchabinsati (University of Manchester) and the Urdu translation of Lord Brougham's work (British Library).

Playfair, John Illustrations of The Huttonian Theory of the Earth Edinburgh: Cadell and Davies, 1802. First edition, 8vo (20.5 x 12.5cm), xx 528 pp., modern dark red crushed morocco, toning, faint damp-staining to first signature including title-page (with concomitant small tear to fore margin of title), signatures D and 2I spotted, pencil annotation to p. 177, a few trivial marks elsewhere [Norman 1717; Ward & Carozzi 1797]Note: Note: Playfair's classic work was a major defence and revision of his friend James Hutton's Theory of the Earth, which was published in 1795 and proposed for the first time that geological phenomena were to be explained by immutable laws rather than supernatural intervention. Playfair 'analysed, modified, and defended the ideas of his close friend Hutton, whose publications suffered from prolixity and obscurity. In lucid prose Playfair supported the timelessness in Hutton's theory, argued that geologists should concern themselves with proximate and not final causes, asserted that natural and divine philosophy were separate but not incompatible activities, coined new terms such as "geological cycle" and "igneous origin", and reported his own work on unconformities of strata, which he regarded as "the most striking monuments of the high antiquity and great revolutions of the globe"' (ODNB).