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Beaton (Cecil) Chinese Album, first edition, ownership inscription on front free endpaper, light foxing, original cloth, dust-jacket, light fading to spine, extremities rubbed and chipped, 1945 § Page (Tim) Page after Page, first edition, signed by the author on half-title, original boards, dust-jacket, creasing to extremities, 1988; and 15 others, art, photography and architecture, etc., v.s. (17)

Geology & Mines.- Lake District.- Robinson (Thomas) An Essay towards a natural history of Westmorland and Cumberland. Wherein an account is given of their several mineral and surface productions, 2 parts in 1, first edition, mounted errata slip at foot of p.118, advertisement f. at end, some spotting or staining, lightly browned, new endpapers, modern calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, 8vo, Printed by J. L. for W. Freeman, 1709.  *** Part 1 largely covers minerals, rocks, metals and mines. Also contains a list of rare plants. 

South America.- Mountaineering.- Whymper (Edward) Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, frontispiece to vol. 1 only, 4 maps (3 folding), 33 plates, illustrations, spotting at beginning and end, cracked hinges, original decorative cloth, sunned spines, bumping to corners and extremities, a little rubbed, 1892-91; and a duplicate of the first volume, 8vo (3).  *** "This book was the first of the few great classics of South American mountaineering literature ..." (Neate)

Byzantium.- Evans (Helen C. editor) The Glory of Byzantium, in original plastic wrapping (unopened), New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997 § Onasch (Konrad) Icons, first edition in English, jacket small tear spine foot, light creasing and rubbing to extremities, 1963 § Cormack (Robin) and Maria Vassilaki. Byzantium, Royal Academy of Arts, 2008, all with numerous colour illustrations, many whole-page, original cloth or pictorial wrappers, first two with dust-jackets; and 14 others Christian art and theology, v.s. (17)  

Rutherford (Ernest) Radio-activity, first edition, plate and diagrams, some light marginal toning, bookplate to front pastedown, endpapers lightly browned, original cloth, gilt, spine ends bumped and creased, spine faded, extremities rubbed, [Dibner Heralds of Science 51; Grolier/Horblit 51], 8vo, Cambridge, 1904.*** First edition of Rutherford's survey of contemporary knowledge of the entire field of radioactivity. It includes a discussion of Rutherford's revolutionary transformation theory, according to which radioactivity is a by-product of the transmutation of one element into another.

Eusebius (Pamphilius, of Caesarea) and others. The Auncient Ecclesiastical Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ..., translated by Meredith Hanmer, third edition, general title and 4 divisional titles, each with woodcut printer's device, with final blank, lacking Sig. 2T (6ff.), 19th century ownership inscription to pastedown, ink ownership inscription of William ?Frye dated 1653 to general title, divisional title at 2Z2 and final text f., B1 & 2L2 very short marginal tear, 2M4 small portion cut away from fore-margin, 3C5 lower blank corner torn away, some light browning, some water-staining, mainly towards end, contemporary calf, rebacked, covers with central gilt English royal arms enclosed within a garter with coronet, spine gilt and with red morocco label, covers rubbed and scuffed in places, [STC 10574], Richard Field, 1607; and others, 17th century, defective, folio & 8vo (4)

Rousseau (Jean Jacques) Del Contratto Sociale, o Principj del Diritto Politico, translated cy G.Mennini, first edition in Italian, half-title, foxing, contemporary half sheep, label chipped, rubbed, Paris, F.Honnert, 1796 § Tardiani (Scipio) Esame Analitico del Contratto Sociale di G.G.Rousseau, 2 vol., first edition, some spotting, original wrappers, uncut & unopened, a little rubbed and frayed, Lucca, 1819, 8vo et infra (3) 

Britain.- The Polite Traveller and British Navigator, 2 vol. in 1 (only, of 8), first edition, engraved frontispieces, upper edge closely shaved, some light spotting, contemporary calf, morocco spine label, extremities slightly rubbed, loss to foot of spine, 12mo, John Fielding, [1783].

Bees.- Chylinski (Dobrogost) The Beekeeper's Manual: founded on the experience, during many centuries of the apiarians in Poland. Dedicated to the Agriculturists of Great Britain, first edition, half-title, lithographed frontispiece and 3 plates of hives and apparatus, 4pp. publisher's advertisement at end, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, yellow endpapers, original green cloth, upper cover with gilt title within a gilt circular garland, spine faded and with ends little frayed, corners worn, [British Bee Books 251; Walker p.13], small 8vo, Wm. S. Orr and Co., 1845. *** Rare. Chylinski was one of the great Bee-Masters of Poland; a country renowned for it's bee-keeping and honey and beeswax production. Here he recommends the use of a large Polish upright hive to British bee-keepers. Provenance: 'Tho. W. ?Lesper, Macclesfield' (ink inscription to front free endpaper); M. Burgess, Bookseller, Macclesfield (contemporary book label to front pastedown). 

World.- Bowdler (Thomas) Letters Written in Holland, in the Months of September and October, 1787..., first edition, 2 folding engraved maps, title with short tear to blank upper margin without loss, scattered spotting, modern boards, uncut, Printed for the Benefit of a Charitable Institution at Bath, 1788 § Walter (Richard) A Voyage Round the World...By George Anson, Esq., sixth edition, 3 folding engraved maps, 2 advertisement leaves at end, Foster book-label, first map laid down, third map with a few tears and neat repairs with tiny loss at some folds, other maps with a few short tears into image but no loss, title very light soiled, some spotting and light browning to maps, modern marbled half calf, for John and Paul Knapton, 1749; and others, travel, including "The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone" in original pictorial morocco, 4to & 8vo (6) 

Orczy (Baroness) I Will Repay, first edition, folding frontispiece, book-label, lightly spotted, original pictorial cloth, rubbed and faded, 1906 § Flaubert (Gustave) Madame Bovary, 2 vol. in one, second edition, front free endpaper detached, light spotting, bookplate, original half morocco, lightly rubbed, 1857; and 25 others, mostly 19th century, v.s. (27)

Fisheries.- Gentleman in Town (A) A Letter from a Gentleman in Town, to a friend in the country, concerning the present state of the Fishing-Copartnery in North-Britain, first edition, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head-piece, B3 closely trimmed at foot, just touching catch-word, occasional spotting, lightly browned, attractive antique style polished calf-backed marbled boards, gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, [Kress 3517; Goldsmiths' 6188; Hanson 3218], a very good copy, small 4to, Edinburgh, no printer, 1723.  *** Rare copy in commerce. The work proposes improvements to a partnership within the Scottish fleet, in order to counter the highly successful Dutch herring fleet with superior equipment and sales infrastructure (canals). 

Weever (John) Ancient Funerall Monuments within the United Monarchs of Great Britaine, Ireland, and of the Islands adjacent, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional engraved title, illustrations, woodcut initials and headpieces, corrections inserted by hand, frontispiece with small loss to bottom edge and neat repair, occasional faint staining, H4-6 and 3P3-6 with small loss to bottom edges (not affecting text), N1 with small loss to upper corner (not affecting text), O4 with small marginal loss to fore-edge (not affecting text), 3T1 with small rust-hole affecting odd letter, 4E4 laid down, later calf, monogram in blind to centre boards, a little rubbed, small loss to spine head, bumping to corners and extremities, folio, Thomas Harper ... to be sold by Lawrence Sadler, 1631. *** This copy with the final index, often lacking. 

Onions (George Oliver) "Oliver Onions". Whom God Hath Sundered. A Trilogy, first collected edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to front free endpaper, dated May 1930, some spotting to half-title and fore-edge, foxing to endpapers, contemporary vellum, gilt, light toning and faint soiling to covers, t.e.g., Martin Secker, 1925 § [Connolly (Cyril)] "Palinurus". The Unqiuet Grave, first edition, one of 1000 copies, 4 plates, red morocco by Atkinsons of Salisbury, spine gilt, faint strip of sunning to lower cover, t.e.g., Printed at The Curwen Press for Horizon, 1944 § Boswell (James) The Life of Samuel Johnson, 2 vol., plates, bound in navy half morocco by Bayntun, spines gilt but very slightly sunned, spine ends and corners little rubbed, Bath, George Bayntun, 1925; and others, 20th century, attractively bound, 8vo & 4to (c.30)

Kent.- Kilburne (Richard) A Topographie, or Survey of the County of Kent, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut initials and headpieces, occasional manuscript notes, ink number to title verso, lacking 3D1 (provided in facsimile), frontispiece and early blank with tiny loss to lower corner (neatly repaired), one or two short marginal tears, S3 with marginal tear just touching text, 2N5 with marginal hole not affecting text, scattered faint spotting and staining, modern endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked, 'R. M.' scored into lower cover, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, by Thomas Mabb for Henry Atkinson, 1659.

Dickens family copies.- The Letters of Charles Dickens. Edited by his Sister-in-law and his Eldest Daughter, reprint, light stain to fore-edge towards end, endpapers lightly browned, original cloth, spine a touch darkened, lightly rubbed, 1903 § Jacbos (W. W.) Sea Urchins, first edition, margins lightly toned, a few light marks, original pictorial cloth, upper cover with ink gift inscription "Annie Cavenor Roche to Hal. C. Dickens, Xmas 1898" and a few small doodles in ink, spine darkened, corners bumped, lightly rubbed, 1898 § The Frank Lockwood Sketch Book, third edition, illustrations, some light finger-soiling, original cloth, rubbed and soiled, lower cover with very short tear to fore-edge, 1898, each with ownership inscription Henry C. Dickens to front free endpaper, in the first and second in ink and in the third in pencil; and c.34 others, literature, Dickens family copies, including 13 others with ownership inscription of Henry C. Dickens in pencil or ink, a few Dickens related including early translations of The Life of Our Lord into Dutch, Esperanto and Japanese, 8vo & 4to (c.37) *** Henry Charles Dickens (1878-1966), barrister, son of Sir Henry Fielding Dickens and grandson of Charles Dickens. The father of author Monica Dickens.  

Law.- Jacob (Giles) A New Law-Dictionary, first edition, ownership labels to front pastedown and small ink inscription to head of title, repairs to fore-edge of title leaf and a few leaves towards end, short closed tears to fore-edge of a few leaves towards end, light spotting, hinges reinforced, contemporary calf, sympathetically recornered and rebacked with later morocco spine label, some rubbing to covers, a few small repairs to lower cover, folio, E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, 1729.

Bentham (Jeremy) Plan of Parliamentary Reform, in the form of a Catechism, first edition, title and peripheral pages spotted, endpapers browned, contemporary half morocco, upper spine joint broken, rubbed, 8vo, for R. Hunter, 1817. *** Scarce first edition of Bentham's important work, in support of parliamentary reform.Written in 1809, the Catechism exemplifies the concern Bentham developed for representative democracy. The author advocates here the holding of annual elections, secret voting, uniform electoral districts, suffrage for all who pay a certain amount of taxes and the exclusion of placemen from the House of Commons. Bentham anonymously offered the paper to William Cobbett for inclusion in the latter's Political Register, though it was declined, and Bentham never forgave Cobbett: the references to him in subsequent writings are scurrilous. 

Ramsay (Allan) A New Miscellany of Scots Sangs, unauthorised edition, spotting and staining, lacking S6-T2 (contents & final blank), later endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, [Rothschild 1731], for A. Moore, 1727; The Gentle Shepherd; a Scots Pastoral Comedy, second edition, neat pencil annotations, small hole to G4 affecting odd letter, lacking final advertisement ff., scattered spotting and staining, disbound, Edinburgh, by Mr. Tho. Ruddiman, for the Author, 1726; The Ever Green being a collection Scots Poems, wrote by the Ingenious before 1600, 2 vol., first edition, previous owner's ink signature to title and title verso (vol. 1), scattered spotting, vol. 1 with water-staining to gutter, contemporary calf, vol. 1 with upper cover detached, cracked hinges, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, [Rothschild 1730], 8vo, Edinburgh, by Mr. Thomas Ruddiman for the Publisher, 1724; and others on or by Ramsay including a later edition of the second mentioned, and a broken 1733 edition of his Poems, 12mo & 8vo (7).

Mountaineering.- India.- Workman (Fanny Bullock & William Hunter) The Call of the Snowy Hispar: a Narrative of Exploration and Mountaineering on the Northern Frontier of India, first American edition, frontispiece, plates (3 folding), illustrations, 2 folding maps at end, scattered faint spotting, modern half-calf, large 8vo, New York, 1911. *** Fanny Bullock Workman was one of the first professional female mountaineers, who wrote a total of eight travel books with her husband. The above is an account of their fourth expedition, in 1908, in which they explored the Hispar Glacier and the Biafo Glacier. 

Cambridge.- Willis (Robert) & John Willis Clark. The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge and of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton, large paper copy, limited edition, plates and illustrations, partially unopened, scattered faint spotting, original boards, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, Cambridge, 1886 § Vallance (Aymer) The Old Colleges of Oxford, list of subscribers, plates and illustrations, scattered spotting (most at beginning and end), original pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, n.d.; and a 3 vol. 8vo edition of the first mentioned, folio & large 8vo (7).

Levant- Lamartine (Alphonse de) Souvenirs, Impressions, Pensées et Paysages pendant un Voyage en Orient, 4 vol., first edition, vol. 1 and 3 each with an A.L.s from the author tipped-in towards start, dated 1822 and 1833, portrait frontispiece, 2 folding maps, some foxing, contemporary red morocco, gilt, some light scuffing, g.e., 8vo, Paris, Charles Gosselin, 1835. 

Play.- Beaumont (Francis) & John Fletcher.  The Wild-Goose Chase. A Comedie, first edition, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, correction slip for word 'Goose' to a1v, occasional contemporary ink marginalia, foxing and staining, lightly browned, 19th century half calf, gilt arms of the Signet Library to covers, spine with long burgundy morocco label, upper cover detached, spine with piece missing from each end (not affecting label), corners worn, rubbed, [Pforzheimer 52; Wing B1616], folio, Printed for Humpherey Moseley, and are to be sold at the Princes Armes in St. Paules Church-yard, 1652.  *** Signet Library copy of the scarce first edition of this play, which was omitted from the first folio edition of Beaumont & Fletcher's works, due to a lost manuscript. 

[Ward (Ned)] The Wand'ring Spy: or the Merry Travellers. Part II. To which is added, The Contending Candidates: or, the broom-staff battles, dirty skirmishes, and other comical humours of the Southwark election, 2 parts in 1, first edition, water-stained, occasional spotting, lightly browned, modern wrappers, [Foxon W122], A. Bettesworth and J. Batley [& others], 1722; The Republican Procession; or, the tumultuous cavalcade. A merry poem, 'The second impression', title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, some spotting or staining, mostly lightly browned, modern wrappers, neat ink ms. numbers to upper wrapper, [Foxon W157 'Although called an impression, this is apparently a new edition'], no printer, 1714; and another copy of the second mentioned, 8vo (3) *** Ward (1667-1731), satirical writer and publican at the Bacchus Tavern in Moorfields. He was a target of Alexander Pope. 

Ireland.- Hardiman (James) The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway, first edition, title with ink ownership inscription to head, folding engraved frontispiece and 10 plates (2 folding), additional material relating to the Morris family of Galway and their arms bound at rear, including typed and manuscript leaves and a small illumination of their arms, occasional light soiling to text body, and a couple of plates with small linen repairs to verso, later blue half morocco, rubbed, Dublin, 1820; and another, 4to & 8vo (2)

Africa.- Stanley (Henry Morton) Through the Dark Continent, 2 vol., first edition, portrait frontispieces, plates (lacking one), 7 maps only (of 10), scattered spotting and staining, later cloth, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1878; The Congo and the Founding of its Free State, 2 vol., first edition, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, 5 linen-backed folding maps, vol. 1 title with tape strengthening at gutter, vol. 2 pp.iii-iv with marginal hole and tape repair, ex-library with usual labels and ink-stamps, modern cloth, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1885; and others by Stanley including odd volumes, 8vo (12).

Bees.- Milton (John) The Practical Bee-keeper; or, Concise and plain instructions for the management of bees and hives, first edition, half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece and title vignette of apiaries, wood-engraved illustrations of hives and apparatus in text, 4pp. publisher's advertisements at end, a few instances of pencil marginalia, finger-marking, some spotting or staining, 20th century small ink ownership stamp of P.B. Garless, Cambs. to front free endpaper, original green blind-stamped and gilt cloth, small word 'Bee' within two horizontal rules in ink to spine, faded, a few ink spots, stained, [British Bee Books 248; Walker p.48], John W. Parker, 1843; and a 1851 'new edition' of the same in original cloth, small 8vo (2) *** Both editions rare in commerce. The first mentioned includes 'A Chronological list of books and writers upon the bee'. 'Milton sold hives and honey at his Apiarian Repository, 175, Strand. He gives an interesting account of several foreign honeys. When Cotton went to New Zealand he appears to have left some notes with Milton, who used them in the 1843 edition of The Practical Bee-Keeper. There was probably a row when Cotton returned, as the notes were omitted from the 1851 edition. Perhaps the row was partly caused by Milton's reference on p. 137 to 'the direful effects of the use of the fungus puff ball'.' (British Bee Books). 

Africa.- Speke (John Hanning) Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, first edition, portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 2 maps (one folding), publisher's advertisements at end, previous owner's ink signature to title and frontispiece verso, spotting, strengthened hinges, original decorative cloth, neat repairs to joints and spine extremities, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, [Hosken p.188], 1863 § Park (Mungo) & John Barrow. Travels in the Interior of Africa ... and Southern Africa, engraved folding map frontispiece and one folding map, 5 engraved plates. of which 2 folding with tears and tape repairs verso, previous owner's marginal ink signature, lacking front free endpaper, spotting, contemporary half-calf, rebacked, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners, Glasgow, 1815 § Bentley (Rev. W. Holman) Pioneering on the Congo, 2 vol., frontispieces, illustrations (some full-page), lacking map, spotting, cracked hinges, original pictorial cloth, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1900 § Kearton (Cherry) & James Barnes. Through Central Africa, frontispiece, plates, previous owner's ink inscription, scattered faint spotting, original cloth, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1915; and others, Africa, v.s. (35).

Bees.- Charlton (George) The Bee-keeper's guide, first edition, wood-engraved illustration of a hive to title (the upper wrapper), stitched as issued, an excellent copy, 12mo, Hexham, Printed at the Hexham Herald Office, 1887.  *** A rare little work not found in British Bee Books. Charlton was a Northumberland bee-keeper and trader in bee-keeping equipment (listed at end), who claims to have had 34 years experience in the study of the honey bee. 

China.- Huc (M.) The Chinese Empire, 2 vol., second edition, lacking folding map, spotting to first and last few ff., near contemporary calf, gilt arms to upper covers, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1855; Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China. Illustrated, 2 vol., half-titles, frontispieces, additional vignette titles, one folding map, illustrations, scattered faint spotting, contemporary calf, a little rubbed, n.d. [c.1850]; 8vo (4).

Africa.- Roberts (David) Sketches in Egypt & Nubia, limited edition, plates and illustrations, original half morocco, rubbed, housed in original cardboard box, rubbed and worn, Aalsmeer, Pulchri Press, [c.1985] § Millais (John G.) Far Away up the Nile, first edition, frontispiece, plates, spotting, original cloth, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1924 § Sladen (Douglas) Egypt and the English, frontispiece, plates, spotting, original decorative cloth, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, 1908; and others on Egypt, v.s. (7).

le Carré (John) [The Karla Trilogy] 3 vol., comprising Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, spine lightly sunned, 1974; The Honourable Schoolboy, 1977; Smiley's People, 1980, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, some light creasing and chipping along spine ends and upper edges, otherwise an excellent set; and 9 others by Le Carré, including a signed second edition copy of A Small Town in Germany, mostly first editions, 8vo (12)

Fielding (Xan) The Stronghold, first edition, ownership name on front free endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine faded, nicks and tears to edges, 1953 § Pollock (Frederick) Essays in Jurisprudence and Ethics, small ink ownership name on half-title, original cloth, lightly cockled and rubbed, 1882; and 12 others, mostly politics & war, etc., v.s. (14)

Bees.- Herrod-Hempsall (William) The Bee-Keeper's Guide, second edition, illustrations, advertisements at end, original pictorial paper wrappers, chipping to corners and extremities, 1938; Carter (George A.) Bees and Honey, first edition, half-title, plates, original boards, slight bumping to extremities, dust-jacket, one or two short tears, a little rubbed, 1945 § Bent (E. R.) Swarm Control Survey, colour frontispiece, folding plan at end, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Aldershot, 1946 § Cheshire (Frank R.) Bees & Bee-Keeping; Scientific and Practical, vol. 2 only (of 2), frontispiece, illustrations, scattered spotting, advertisements at end, original pictorial cloth, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, n.d.; and others on bees, 8vo (22). 

Fruit-trees.- Austen (Ralph) A Treatise of Fruit-Trees, Shewing the manner of Grafting, Setting, Pruning, and Ordering of them in all respects..., 2 parts in 1, first edition, engraved pictorial title by I. Goddard, woodcut initials and head- & tail-pieces, bookplate of Sir Robert Shafto Adair, a few leaves with marginal ink notes, doodles or marks in contemporary hand, including ownership inscription of Thomas ?Clayton to 3[par]1, occasional pencil annotation in a later hand, G1 small portion torn from lower fore-margin without text loss, I4 & title to part 2 at *1 with tiny rust-hole affecting couple letters, some light soiling, the odd spot, light foxing to final 2 leaves, 19th century green half calf over marbled boards, rubbed, [Fussell pp.48-49; Henrey 5; Kress 867; Wing A4238], small 4to, Oxford, for Tho. Robinson, 1653. *** The second part is entitled 'The Spirituall Use, of an Orchard; or Garden of Fruit-trees', which attempts to demonstrate the role the orchard could play in personal happiness. A short ink note to D1 mentions Oliver Cromwell. 

Africa.- Johnston (Sir Harry H.) The Uganda Protectorate, 2 vol., first edition, colour frontispieces and plates, illustrations (many full-page), 9 folding maps, occasional faint marginal spotting, bookplate, vol. 2 with one or two short tears at gutter and neat tape repairs, original pictorial cloth, rebacked retaining original backstrips, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [Hosken p.110], 1902 § von Lettow-Vorbeck (General) My Reminiscences of East Africa, second edition, portrait frontispiece, plates (lacking one), ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, scattered spotting, later endpapers, original cloth, rebacked retaining original backstrip, a little rubbed, n.d. § Harford-Battersby (Charles F.) Pilkington of Uganda, frontispiece, 2 folding maps, spotting, previous owner's signature to front free endpaper, original blue cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, n.d.; and others similar, 8vo (9).

Bagnold (R.A.) The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes, first edition, original cloth, spine faded, dust-jacket, chips and tears to edges, 1941; and 9 others, including other Indian-related works, travel and medicine, including a typewritten diary of a visit to Rome in 1904 and a map of London from 1880 on linen, v.s. (10) 

Film.- Ken Loach.- Allen (Jim) Hidden Agenda, final draft film typescript, 115pp. on recto only, occasional pencil revisions, hole punch binding in original wrappers, lightly rubbed, 1989 § Kennedy Martin (Troy) Edge of Darkness, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author on title, page margins toned, original wrappers, creased, 1990 & a small quantity of others, film-related, including another script and a run of 'Focus', a film review magazine from the mid-century, v.s. (sml qty)

Africa.- M'Leod (John) A Voyage to Africa with some Account of the Manners and Customs of the Dahomian People, first edition, 4 etched plates, previous owner's ink signature to title, scattered faint spotting, new endpapers, modern antique style half-calf, small 8vo, 1820. *** The author of this work served as a surgeon on board a slave ship. 

Virgilius Maro (Publius) The Georgicks...with an English Translation and Notes. By John Martyn, first edition, 12 plates and maps, most engraved with hand-colouring, 5 botanical printed in colours, one of globe double-page, list of subscribers, a few plates trimmed within platemark but no loss to image, plate at U1 with light damp-stain to head, light foxing, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt, wear to corners, little rubbed, for the Editor, by Richard Reily, 1741; and others 18th century, Classics, 4to & 8vo (13) 

Medicine.- Haller (Albrecht von) Pathological Observations, Chiefly from Dissections of Morbid Bodies, first edition in English, 3 folding engraved plates, advertisement leaf at end, lacking half-title, ink ownership inscription to head of title, dated 1773, first few ff. with fractional worming to foot, second plate with caption trimmed to foot, one or two leaves roughly opened, else very good, contemporary calf, spine gilt and with red morocco label, small chip to spine head, rubbed and scuffed, for D. Wilson and T. Durham, 1756; and another, J. Fisher's Practice of Medicine Made Easy (1785), 8vo (2) *** A translation of Haller's Opuscula pathologica, first published in Lausanne in 1755. Of the second 18th century medical text included in the lot, Fisher's Practice of Medicine Made Easy, we can trace no copies at auction.  

Aesop. Esope en Belle Humeur, 2 vol., nouvelle edition, engraved frontispiece, vol. 1 title and first leaf of first Fable printed in red and black, numerous half-page engraved illustrations, book-labels of the Rt. Honourable Thomas Grenville & F. R. Atkinson, 19th century ownership inscription of R.G. Edwards to vol. 1 front free endpaper, foxing, occasional light browning, later calf, ruled in gilt, spines with double morocco labels, some wear to corners, little rubbed, Brussels, François Foppens, 1700 § Les Psaumes de David mis en vers, nouvelle edition, engraved frontispiece, music printed throughout, frontispiece and title trimmed a touch unevenly at foot, contemporary calf, spine richly gilt with morocco label and floral motif, lightly rubbed, Geneva & Lausanne, Marc Chapuis & J.P. Heubach, 1769; and others Continental, most French, v.s. (c.20)

Huxley (Julian) Evolution: the Modern Synthesis, first edition, signed and inscribed by author, half-title, original cloth, small paper label to spine foot, lightly sunned spine, faint spotting to boards, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, lightly sunned spine, creasing to top edge, a little rubbed, lightly soiled, 8vo, 1942. *** Provenance: Half-title inscribed, "James from Julian. Faithfully. August 1942".

Africa.- Livingstone (David) Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, first edition, later issue, folding wood engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait plate, plates and illustrations, 2 folding maps at end, bound without advertisements, contemporary half morocco, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Hosken p.126], 1857 § Blaikie (William Garden) The Personal Life of David Livingstone, first edition, presentation copy with publisher's blind-stamp to title, frontispiece, publisher's advertisements at end, cracked hinges, bookplate, original cloth, small loss to spine extremities, old repairs to spine, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners, 1880; and others on or by Livingstone, v.s. (15).

Kipling (Rudyard) Toomai of the Elephants, first edition, frontispiece, illustrations, pp.33-34 with small marginal hole, scattered faint spotting, previous owner's ink inscription to front free endpaper, original boards, lightly browned, rubbing to joints and spine extremities, 1937 § Peake (Mervyn) Captain Slaughterboard drops Anchor, illustrations, scattered faint spotting, previous owner's ink inscription to endpapers, original boards, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, remnants of dust-jacket, 1945 § St. John (Christopher, editor) Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence, limited edition numbered V, original cloth, lightly sunned spine, slipcase, rubbed and worn, New York & London, 1931 § Burton (Robert) The Anatomy of Melancholy, 3 vol., spotting to endpapers, original cloth, sunned spines, bumping to corners and extremities, 1893; and others, illustrated or literature, 8vo & 4to (c.95).

Housman (Laurence) Stories from the Arabian Nights, 20 tipped-in colour plates by Edmund Dulac, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, some light spotting to edges, covers slightly rubbed, [c.1930s] § Kingsley (Charles) The Water Babies, 12 tipped-in colour plates by Jessie Wilcox Smith, captioned tissue-guards, illustrations, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, light marginal spotting, cover extremities slightly rubbed, spine lightly sunned, [c.1920s] § Lang (Andrew) The Orange Fairy Book, first edition, 6 colour plates and 17 monochrome plates by H.J. Ford, illustrations, tear to corner of front free endpaper, the odd spot, g.e., covers rubbed and soiled, spine ends lightly bumped, spine sunned, 1906, original pictorial cloth, gilt; and 35 others, illustrated books, v.s. (c.40)

Religion.- Judaica.- Whitaker (Rev. Edward William) A Dissertation on the prophecies relating to the final restoration of the Jews, first edition, half-title, final f. loose, occasional spotting, lightly browned, modern light blue stitched wrappers, Canterbury, Printed and sold by Simmons and Kirkby, 1784; and a 1654 edition of Christopher Love's Grace, 8vo (2) *** The first mentioned is rare in commerce. 

Wallace (Edgar) The Four Just Men, first edition, half-title, previous owner's ink signature to front free endpaper, lacking folding frontispiece and numbered 'solution' form at end, spotting, original orange cloth, lightly sunned spine, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1905; The Council of Justice, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, publisher's advertisements at end, spotting, previous owner's ink signature, original cloth, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1908; Bones, first edition, half-title, colour frontispiece, lacking tissue-guard, publisher's advertisements at end, of which 2pp torn out, previous owner's ink signature, scattered spotting, original cloth, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1915; and others by Wallace and Leslie Charteris, 8vo (32).

Darwin (Charles) The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals, first edition, second impression, 7 plates (2 folding), one trimmed, laid down and loosely inserted, illustrations, part unopened, 4pp. publisher's advertisements dated November 1872 at end, loss to top edges where opened, title becoming loose, occasional faint soiling, previous owner's ink signature at end, cracked hinges, original cloth, bumping to corners and extremities, rubbed and worn, [Freeman 1142], 1872; The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, thirty-fifth thousand, half-title, illustrations, scattered spotting, previous owner's ink signature to half-title, original cloth, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [Freeman 985], 1899; and 8 others on or by Darwin, 8vo (10).

Africa.- Stanley (Henry Morton) Through the Dark Continent, 2 vol., first American edition, frontispieces, plates, illustrations (some full-page), 10 colour maps (2 large folding in pockets at end), scattered spotting, contemporary half-morocco, vol. 1 with weak upper joint, vol. 2 with upper cover detached and split to backstrip, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, New York, 1878 § Stanley (Arthur Penrhyn) Sinai and Palestine, in connection with their history, Louise Whitfield Carnegie's copy with her bookplate, half-title, 7 colour maps (4 folding), occasional marginal pencil notes, later half-morocco, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1871, 8vo (3). 

Paleobotany.- Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob) Herbarium Diluvianum, second edition, engraved frontispiece portrait, additional engraved title, 14 engraved plates, title in red and black with engraved vignette, additional title bound after *2 dedication, portion of paper with ink ownership inscription "Hippisley Ston Easton 1808" laid down to front pastedown along with Ston Easton book-label, browned, spotting, occasional light soiling, offsetting from plates, modern half calf, spine faintly spotted, little rubbed, uncut, [Hunt 456; Nissen BBI 1752], Leiden, Peter Vander Aa, 1723. *** "A notable early work in paleobotany, some say the first" (Hunt). The first edition was published in Zurich in 1709, the second edition increasing the number of plates from 10 to 14. 

World.- Lawrence (T.E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom, first trade edition, frontispiece, plates and maps, scattered spotting, original buckram, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1935 § Williamson (James D.) The Voyages of the Cabots, half-title, plates, lacking frontispiece, ex-library with usual labels and ink-stamps, original parchment-backed boards, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, The Argonaut Press, 1929 § Burgess (Alan) The Small Woman, first edition, frontispiece, plates, scattered spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, price-clipped dust-jacket, loss to spine foot, tears at folds, rubbed and worn, 1957 § Eggleston (George T.) Tahiti: Voyage through Paradise, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, dust-jacket, small tears and creasing to edges, tape repair to spine head verso, rubbed, n.d.; and others, v.s. (c.80)

Bees.- Bagster (Samuel) The Management of Bees. With a Description of the "Ladies Safety Hive.", first edition, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece of queen, worker and drone bees, heightened in gilt, title in red and black and with charming wood-engraved vignette of women tending to their hive, wood-engraved illustrations within text, all by D. Dodd or Charles M. Curtis, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, contemporary green cloth, original black thick paper gilt title label to spine (chipped, just touching part of the first letter 'B'), corners little worn, rubbed, [British Bee Books 222; Walker p.4], 8vo, Samuel Bagster & William Pickering, 1834.  *** The author's first work on bees, which attempts to distill contemporary bee literature. In so doing, he discusses his predecessors on the subject, including Francis Huber and Thomas Nutt. 

Osbaldiston (William Augustus) The British Sportsman, or, Nobleman, Gentleman, and Farmer's Dictionary of Recreation and Amusement..., first edition, engraved frontispiece and 41 plates, of which frontispiece and 14 hand-coloured, bookplate of W.A. Foster, 19th century ownership inscription to front free endpaper, contemporary ownership inscription to verso of frontispiece partially erased, 2O1 & 5Z2 with ink note in contemporary hand to verso, a few small marginal nicks, some light offsetting, occasional light soiling or staining, very occasional light foxing, small abrasion mark to final f. with loss to few letters, modern half calf, spine with gilt sporting motifs and double morocco labels, J. Stead, [1792]; and 2 others, horse related, 8vo & 4to (3)

Kent.- Lambarde (William) A Perambulation of Kent, first edition, black letter, title within wide woodcut border, woodcut initials, one engraved map, trimmed to platemark, small worming to bottom edge, slight fraying to edges of title and ¶ii, trimmed, occasionally touching headline, corrections and marginal notes inserted by various hands, Z1 with small marginal hole, 2Z3-3F4 with tiny marginal womring to bottom edge, occasional faint marginal damp-staining, tiny ink stain to upper corner of last few ff., previous owner's ink stencil to front pastedown, booksellers printed catalogue notes pasted to front pastedown, modern front free endpaper and blank, later calf, rebacked, expert repairs to corners, a little rubbed, 4to, for Ralphe Newberrie, dwelling in Fleetestreete, 1576.

[Johnstone (Charles)] Chrysal: or, the Adventures of a Guinea, 4 vol., mixed edition, vol. 4 lacking final blank, bookplate of Robert Chambre Vaughan, vol. 1 with Foster book-label, ink ownership inscription Eliza Wynn 1767 to all but vol. 2 pastedowns, contemporary ownership inscription to head of titles, vol. 1 C1 small hole affecting couple letters, vol. 3 D5v small stain obscuring few letters, occasional light browning, vol. 4 small portions of front free endpaper cut away, vol. 2 lacking front free endpapers and vol. 4 rear free endpapers, contemporary calf, red morocco label to spines, some corners rubbed, for T. Becket & P.A. De Hondt, 1766-67 § "Junius". Junius. Stat nominis umbra, 2 vol., first authorised edition, without the Table of Contents and Index in vol. 1 (not always present), engraved titles, ink ownership inscription Bridget Wilmot to pastedowns, the odd spot, contemporary calf, morocco spine labels, vol. 2 very small loss to spine foot, little rubbed, heavier to corners, joints cracked but holding firm, [Rothschild 1282], for Henry Sampson Woodfall, 1772; and others, 18th century, v.s. (c.65)

Bees.- Bonner (James) A New Plan for Speedily Increasing the Number of Bee-Hives in Scotland; and which may be extended, with equal success, to England, Ireland, America, or to any other part of the world capable of producing flowers, first edition under this title, half-title, list of subscribers, advertisement /errata leaf at end, library ink stamp to outer margin of title and a few other margins, T2 lower blank corner cut away, a few short marginal tears, some spotting or staining, mostly at end, lightly browned throughout, new endpapers, modern blue board, tan leather title label to spine, uncut, [British Bee Books 151; Walker p.8], 8vo, Edinburgh, Printed by J. Moir, 1795. *** 'Bonner, who was Bee-Master at Auchencrow, near Berwick-on-Tweed, was the most able and the best known of Scottish bee-men.' (British Bee Books). The work was first published in Berwick in 1789 under the title The Bee-Master's companion, and assistant. The advertisement at end offers the author's services in bee management. 

Mountaineering.- Himalayas.- Ruttledge (Hugh) Everest 1933, first edition, frontispiece, plates, 4 maps (3 folding), previous owner's ink signature to front pastedown, scattered spotting, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1934 § Younghusband (Sir Francis) Wonders of the Himalaya, frontispiece, one map, advertisements at end, occasional very faint spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1924 § Bruce (Brig. Gen. Hon. C. G.) Himalayan Wanderer, frontispiece, scattered faint spotting original cloth, lightly sunned spine, slight bumping to extremities, 1934; and others Everest or Himalayas, 8vo (11).

Economics.- [le Mercier de la Rivière (Pierre Paul)] L'Ordre Naturel et Essentiel des Sociétés Politiques, 2 vol., half-titles, vol. 2 p.23 with closed tear with tape repair (now discoloured), upper hinges starting, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, joints worn and torn in places, small leather repairs to some corners,  8vo, Jean Nourse in London & chez Desaint in Paris, 1767.*** First octavo edition, published simultaneously with the true first edition, single volume quarto.  Recognised as the most comprehensive presentation of physiocratic thought after Adam Smith, this work caused a sensation when it was published, and was described by some as a "prophecy of revolution"

FOUR VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED BY REYNOLDS STONEcomprising Stark, Freya, 'Perseus in the Wind', first edition published by John Murray 1948, pasted with Baron Bingley bookplate; Lees-Milne, James, 'Another Self', published by Hamish Hamilton, London 1970; and two copies of Paul, Leslie, 'The Living Hedge', published by Faber and Faber, London 1946, all green cloth bound (4)