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*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***  Binding.- Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchesse de Berry.- Combe (William) The Dance of Life, first edition, engraved frontispiece and additional vignette title and 24 plates after Thomas Rowlandson, all hand-coloured aquatints, advertisement leaf at end, some light finger soiling, contemporary olive straight-grain morocco, gilt and stamped in blind, with central arms of the Duchesse de Berry to covers within ornate borders, fleur-de-lys to spine, edges and dentelles likewise gilt, some light toning and small stains to lower cover, joints just starting but holding firm, g.e., 8vo (binding: 244x158mm.), R. Ackermann, 1817.*** Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1798-1870), married to Charles Ferdinand, Duc de Berry, Louis XIII's nephew. Widowed in 1820 after her husband's assassination, she is perhaps best known for her failed intrigues to install her young son Henri, Comte de Chambord on the French throne as the final remaining direct Bourbon descendent of Louis XIV. Alexandre Dumas wrote two stories about her. 

Lloyd (Trevor, binder).- Chambers (Sir William) A Treatise on Civil Architecture, first edition, list of subscribers (bound after preface), 50 engraved plates, very light soiling to title, some light foxing and browning, occasional faint damp-staining to lower margin (including to title), exquisitely bound in full red goatskin, by Trevor Lloyd, covers with central lozenge and corner-pieces of inlaid white paper, elaborately tooled in gilt and edged in black goatskin strapwork, the background lavishly tooled in gilt all over with a variety of tools all specially made by Stewart Field and incorporating four large circles of detailed featherwork, spine tooled in gilt in compartments with seven raised bands, second compartment with black goatskin label lettered in gilt, spine with "Bound by Trevor Lloyd MBE for David Nathan Maister" lettered in gilt to foot, turn-ins with gilt floral tools, comb-marbled endpapers, g.e., housed in a goatskin-backed drop-back box, [Fowler p.70; Harris 122; Millard, British 13], folio (535 x 375mm.), Printed for the Author, by J. Haberkorn, 1759. *** Bound in the style of one of the legendary Irish Parliamentary bindings tragically destroyed in the explosion at the Dublin Public Record Office in 1922. Described by the late G.D. Hobson as "probably the most majestic series of bound volumes in the world", the 149 large folio volumes containing the manuscript Journals of the Irish Lords and Commons had been stored, unnoticed, in the Dublin Public Records Office since the Acts of Union in 1800.The magnificent collection, nominally the work of the King's Stationers in Ireland, was shown to book collector and amateur binder Sir Edward Sullivan in the last decade of the 19th century. Sullivan made rubbings of all 149 unique volumes (now in the National Library of Ireland) and photographed 20, publishing his findings in Country Life magazine in September 1908 and Decorative Book-Binding in Ireland in 1914. The Dublin Public Record Office, with nearly all its contents including the bindings, perished during the siege of the Four Courts just a few years later.In 1990, Philip Maddock, a Boston-based book collector, started to build up a visual database of Irish hand tools with a view to making a digital reproduction of one of the lost volumes, inspired by images displayed in Maurice Craig’s Irish Book Bindings 1600-1800. This digital reproduction of Commons Journal 1757 was finally produced in 2006. Edward Bayntun-Coward, who carried out a review of this digital reproduction, introduced Maddock to Trevor Lloyd, the renowned bookbinder and restorer. The team of Maddock, Lloyd and toolmaker Stewart Field then collaborated over the next decade to make exact facsimile reproductions of 14 of the original (and now lost) bindings, a project that culminated in the exhibition 'Burning Books' at Dublin Castle in April 2017.

Economics.- Hayek (Friedrich August) Prices and Production, first edition, 14pp. advertisements, some scattered foxing, browning and ink ownership inscription to endpapers, original cloth, light toning to spine, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, light rubbing to extremities, 8vo, 1931.*** An early work by Hayek, famously attacked by Keynes who stated "It is an extraordinary example of how, starting with a mistake, a remorseless logician can end in Bedlam". Rare in first edition. 

Henty (G. A.) The March to Magdala, first edition, bookplate to front pastedown, original blue cloth, toning to spine, spine ends and corners a little bumped with fraying to head of spine, mottling to spine and upper cover, a little rubbed, [Sadleir 1188], 8vo, Tinsley Brothers, 1868.*** Henty's second book, scarce in original cloth. 

Wodehouse (P.G.) Right Ho, Jeeves, first edition, 8pp. advertisements, neat ink ownership inscription from the year of publication to front pastedown, original cloth, some very light edge-spotting, very slight toning to spine, small patches of fading, dust-jacket, Colonial Library issue with relevant sticker to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, some splitting to joint ends, some creasing to spine ends, a very good example overall, [McIlvaine A52a], 8vo, 1934.

Stevenson (Robert Louis) Treasure Island, first edition, first issue, half-title, map frontispiece, 4pp. advertisements at end dated "783", light very occasional foxing, hinges cracked but firm, original green cloth, slight shelf-lean, spine darkened, neat repair to spine ends, corners a little bumped, slightly rubbed, [Prideaux 11], 8vo, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1883. *** First issue with the following points: advertisements dated July 1883; "dead Man's Chest" not capitalized on pp.2 & 7; "rain" for "vain" on last line of p.40; "a" missing on p.63, line 6; full-stop dropped from p.178, line 20 ; "worse" for "worst" on p.197, line 3.

Eliot (T.S.) Ara Vus [sic] Prec, first edition, one of 220 copies, woodcut decorations by Edward Wadsworth, occasional corner creasing, ink ownership inscription of Romaine Brooks to half-title, some creasing to front free endpaper, original second state black cloth boards with yellow spine, paper label to spine, light browning to spine, a little rubbed, uncut, [Gallup A4a], 4to, John Rodker for the Ovid Press, [1920].*** Eliot's third published collection of poetry and the first book printed by John Rodker. This copy with the ownership inscription of the Paris Left Bank painter Romaine Brooks (1874-1970).

Barbault (Jean) Les Plus Beaux Monuments de Rome Ancienne, first edition, half-title, title with engraved vignette, 9 culs-de-lampe and 118 engravings on 73 plates, some foxing and offsetting, water-stain to upper corner becoming heavier towards end but even then only just encroaching on plate-mark, contemporary mottled sheep, spine, gilt, rubbed and scuffed, folio, Rome, 1761.*** A second volume, covering modern Rome, was published 2 years later.

Early Songbook.- [Petri (Theodoricus)] [Piae Cantiones Ecclesiasticae et Scolasticae Veterum Episcoporum...], first edition, collation: A-M8 N4, lacking 7ff. including title (A1&2, A7&8, E1, K8, L1), A7, E1 & K8 supplied in contemporary ink manuscript, interleaved with 5ff. of contemporary ink manuscript near start, trimmed close with some loss at head and foot, particularly at beginning, some ink notes and annotation in a contemporary hand, A3, B1 & I8 torn with some repairs and loss to text, B7, E7 & I2 with small loss to portion of text at fore-edge or corner, the odd other short tear or repair, colophon to final f. with some ink scribbles and repaired with loss, browning and staining, modern wrappers, preserved in card folder, small 8vo (130 x 80mm.), [Greifswald], [Augustin Ferber], [1582]. *** A scarce collection of medieval spiritual songs. The work forms one of the oldest song books from the Nordic countries, printed in Greifswald, now in Germany but at the time part of Sweden. The 74 songs are primarily in Latin, but with some also in Swedish, including the well-known Christmas songs "In dulci jubilo", "Puer natus in Bethlehem", "Personent hodie" and "Gaudete". Scarce, with USTC recording 6 copies in Swedish libraries, and one in the National Library of Russia in St Petersburg. This is believed to be the only example in private hands. Literature: VD16 P 1765.

Lewis (C.S.) Prince Caspian. The Return to Narnia, first edition, colour frontispiece and illustrations by Pauline Baynes, light foxing to title and endpapers, neat ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, bookseller's label to front pastedown, original boards, scattered edge-spotting, dust-jacket, price-clipped, spine browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, closed tear to head of upper joint, a very good copy, 8vo, 1951.

Wells (H.G.) The Time Machine, first edition, first issue with 16pp advertisements at end including those for 'The Manxman' and 'The Naulahka', foxing to endpapers, otherwise a clean copy generally, original buckram lettered in purple with Egyptian design to cover, browning to spine, light bumping to spine and corners tips, small light patch of staining to head of upper cover, light toning to cover margins, still an excellent example overall, [Wells 4], 8vo, 1895.

Eliot (T.S.) Old Possum's Book of Cats, first edition, original pictorial cloth lettered in red, thin light band of toning to foot of upper cover, dust-jacket, price-clipped, very light sunning to spine, slight creasing to head, small splash mark to upper cover, a near-fine example overall, [Gallup A34a], 8vo, 1939.*** Eliot's classic collection of poems for children, rare in such superb condition. 

Hortulus anime, collation: 1-20, a-z8, ζ8 Ɔ4, but lacking 55ff., printed in red and black, woodcut illustrations and initials by Hans Baldung Grien, finely coloured by an early hand, a2 repaired, margin of z6 repaired slightly affecting text, 19th century orange boards, worn, 8vo (127 x 88mm.), Strassburg, Martin Flach, 1511.*** A rare post-incunable edition with fine contemporary colouring of 'the little garden of the soul' which was first printed in 1498. Provenance: Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow (bookplate on front endpaper).Literature: not in Adams.

Pharmacopoeia .- [Dubois (Jacques)], "Jacques Silvius". La Pharmacopee. Qui est la maniere de bien choisir & preparer les simples, & de bien faires les compositions, translated by André Caille, first edition in French, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut printer's device to title, woodcut decorative initials, final f. blank, later ink signatures to title (some obliterated) and occasional marginalia and underlining, closely trimmed at head, some marginal water- and ink-staining (the latter to a lesser extent), some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with leather label, spine ends, lower joint and corners worn, rubbed and marked, 8vo, Lyon, Louis Cloquemin & Étienne Michel, 1574.  *** Rare first edition in French. We can trace no copy at auction. Jacques Dubois or Sylvius (1478 -1555) was a Parisian Galenist physician and professor of anatomy, who taught Vesalius. The translator Caille (1515-1580) was a physician at Lyon. 

Middle East.-Sandys (George) Sandys Travailes: Containing a History of the Originall and present State of the Turkish Empire, engraved additional pictorial title, 2 folding plates and illustrations, expert repairs to tears on pp.7-8 and pp.109-110, very faint water-staining to margins of pp.146-200, Printed by Richard Cotes, to be sold by John Sweeting, 1652 bound with Herbert (Sir Thomas) A Relation of Some Years Travaile Begunne Anno 1626 Into Afrique and the greater Asia, first edition, engraved additional pictorial title and illustrations, lacking pp.171-4, the odd spot, Printed by William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, 1634, together 2 works in 1 vol., contemporary mottled calf, gilt-ruled with floral corner motif, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco spine label, rubbed, spine gilding faded, folio.*** Two of the seventeenth century's most important and widely read texts on travel to Europe, North Africa and Asia. Recording his mission to the Shah of Persia in 1626-29, the illustrations depict Persian monarchs, native inhabitants, maps, "exotic" flora and fauna (including the Dodo bird), fantastic sea creatures, and a chapter on 'that Continent now call'd America' - as well as a Persian-English language glossary. Provenance: armorial bookplate of John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (1750-1842), a British peer and MP, whose violent attacks on the policies of Edmund Burke and Charles James Fox led to hsi satirisation in the Rolliad.

China.- Medicine.- Shizhen (Li, complier) Bencao gangmu [Medical Encyclopaedia], 32 vol., woodblock printed on bamboo paper, 9 columns per page, 20 characters per column, single black fishtail motif, single-line borders, c.1160 illustrations, title page with publisher's seal and publishing date, some fore-edge folds split, the occasional chip or short tear, mainly to margins, one vol. with some pages affixed together through glue-marks to fore-edge, lightly browned, some marginal water stains, still overall good, bound and stitched Japanese-style in original paper wrappers, printed paper labels to upper wrappers, most vol. with stitching renewed, a couple with old stitching working loose, some chips and tears, some soiling, housed in 8 modern cloth wrap-around cases with clasps, 8vo, China, Beijing, Benli Tang bookshop, Kangzi 56, Early Qing Dynasty [1717]. *** A complete set of the renowned Bencao gangmu, the most comprehensive Chinese materia medica, containing detailed descriptions of 1192 medicines, including minerals, herbs and animals. It was compiled by Li Shizhen (1518-1593), private physician to Prince Chu, who had access to many rare and ancient books, especially manuscripts with secret prescriptions, handed down by the previous royal physicians. The first edition was carved in Nanjing in 1596, to immediate acclaim. The present example was published in the 56th year of the Kangxi period (1717), and is among the finest Qing Dynasty editions. The title contains four red stamps, including two publisher's seals, the publishing date and a warning message to pirate publishers reading 'the pirate will be sued'. The illustrations, present in the first two volumes, are notable for their practicality and careful execution. 

Dahl (Roald) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, first edition, signed bookplate by the author laid down on title, illustrations by Joseph Schindelman, very small square of abrasion where bookseller sticker removed from pastedown, otherwise internally fine, original cloth, lightly marked, light scuffing to lower cover, dust-jacket, price-clipped, small and neat repairs and retouches to jacket spine ends and joint extremities, small portion of lower spine expertly supplied from another jacket, in effect an excellent and sharp example, 8vo, New York, 1964.

Orwell (George) Nineteen Eighty-Four, first edition, light spotting to endpapers and fore-edge, original cloth, fading to lower edge, top-edge colouring bright, green dust-jacket, spine ends and corners a little chipped, chip to foot of lower panel, 1 or 2 short closed tears to head and foot with some creasing, light rubbing to extremities, still an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1949.

Schoener (Johann) Opera Mathematica, 3 parts in 1, first edition, collation: ?6, ?4, A-Z6, Aa-Cc6, Dd-Ee8, Ff-Mm6, Nn8; a-h6, i8, including errata, colophon and final blank leaf, but lacking 2 other blanks, Roman and Greek type, title printed in red and black with two large woodcut ornaments, woodcut printer's device at end, woodcut portrait of the author on ?4v, numerous woodcuts and diagrams, 4 full-page woodcuts, including terrestrial globe, celestial globe and planisphere, complete with eleven diagrams with working volvelles (although moveable parts supplied in later (?18th century) facsimile and thread renewed), woodcut initials, generally very fine, wide-margined copy, title gutter reinforced, quire R lightly browned, few other leaves toned, small wear to lower blank margin of b3v, tiny wormhole in blank outer margin of last several leaves, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, covers within two blind-stamped rolls, outer roll dated 1541 and depicting the Crucifixion, David, the Resurrection, and St. John, inner roll dated 1556 and showing Lucretia, Caritas, and Justicia, later stamp of Schola Altenburgensis printed in gold in centre of upper cover and in black on lower cover, some minor abrasion to binding, spine slightly chipped at head, corners lightly rubbed, folio (306 x 201mm.), Nuremberg, J. Montanus & U. Neuber, 1551.*** Rare and important work with a most distinguished provenance, in excellent condition and in its strictly contemporary binding. The Honeyman copy of the first edition of the collected works by Johann Schöner, mathematician, astronomer, cartographer, and scientific instrument maker from Karlstadt, in Bavaria.Schöner was a contemporary of Nicolaus Copernicus and in 1526 he became the first professor of mathematics at the University of Nuremberg. His most illustrious pupil was Georg Joachim Rheticus, who in the Narratio prima (1540) announced Copernicus' discoveries. Schöner was also active as a printer and even set up a press in his house, printing numerous previously unpublished works by Johannes Regiomontanus, as well as the first printed terrestrial globe to name the recently discovered continent of America.The Opera mathematica was published posthumously by his son Andreas and is introduced by a preface by the outstanding humanist and reformer Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560). The volume contains a representative sample of Schöner's wide and diverse interests, and a digest of some of his separately published works, most of which are extremely rare. Part 3 contains the most important section, which describes and illustrates eleven instruments, under the title Aequatorium Astronomicum, ex quo errantium stellarum motus, luminarium configurationes, & defectus colliguntur, a revised and enlarged version of the work which first appeared in 1521. The Aequatorium Astronomicum contains the earliest collection of printed equatoria-diagrams, as well as a catalogue of stars adapted by Schöner from that published by Copernicus in his De revolutionibus of 1543.The text is illustrated by an elaborate series of volvelles (movable wheel charts) used to determine planetary positions. Each part of these volvelles was printed on a separate page, such that the reader could cut them out or trace them on separate pieces of paper, and then assemble the various parts with string. These fragile 'paper instruments', which Schöner was among the first to employ, are frequently lacking or only partially present in most other copies of this work, and they are very often constructed incorrectly.Provenance: from the library of the Latin school in Altenburg, Germany (stamp on the binding 'Biblioth. Schol. Altenburgensis'); the English politician and book collector Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth (1870-1937; his sale at Sotheby's London, 9 February 1953, lot 9605); Robert Honeyman IV (1897- 1987; see The Honeyman Collection of Scientific Books and Manuscripts. Volume vii. Printed Books S-Z and Addenda, Sotheby's New York, 19-20 May 1981, lot 2802A); Astronomy & Science Books from The Library of Martin C. Gutzwiller, lot 175.Literature: Adams S-678, 685; VD16 S-3465; Alden 551/35; BEA, pp. 1027-1028; Houzeau - Lancaster 2388; Sabin 77806

King (Jessie M.).- Wilde (Oscar) A House of Pomegranates, pictorial colour title and 16 tipped-in colour plates by Jessie M. King, one or two with small creases at corners, foxing to text, original blue cloth blocked in orange with design by King, pictorial endpapers by King, t.e.g., others uncut, slightly rubbed and marked, 4to, 1915.*** The sixth edition of Wilde's collection of fairy tales but the first to be illustrated by Jessie M.King.

Woolf (Virginia) The Years, first edition, signed presentation inscription "Janet [Case] with love from Virginia" to front free endpaper, shadowing from inscription onto half-title, browning to rear endpapers, spotting to front endpapers with cracking and surface residue to gutter, original cloth, spine darkened, fraying to spine tips and corners, extremities rubbed, [Kirkpatrick A22a; Woolmer 423], 8vo, 1937.*** A remarkable presentation copy, inscribed to Woolf's tutor and friend Janet Case (1863-1937), intimate presentation copies of works by Woolf are rare at auction.Case became Woolf's tutor in ancient Greek in 1902 and the two women quickly developed a close relationship based on their mutual adoration of literature and writing. Case exerted a significant influence on the younger woman, something Woolf acknowledged in a letter to Margaret Llewellyn Davies following Case's death in July 1937: "no-one, not Leonard even, knows how much I have to thank Janet for."

Rongde (translator). Man Meng Han san wen he bi jiao ke shu [The Manchu-Mongolian-Chinese Interlinear Trilingual Textbook], 10 vol., first edition, text in Manchu, Mongolian and Chinese, some soiling to preliminary leaves, some light browning, bound and stitched Japanese-style in original brown wrappers, old stitching, some light spotting to wrappers, preserved in 2 cloth wrap-around cases with bone clasps (rubbed), 8vo, [China], 1909. *** A trilingual guide to the Manchurian, Mongolian and Chinese languages; it is one of the earliest textbooks on the Mongolian language. It introduces many new words translated into Manchu and Mongolian (e.g. 'telephone' and 'telegraph'), as well as briefly introducing astronomy, geography, zoology, botany, mining, economy, etc., and many Western concepts. The work was sponsored by Xiliang (1853-1917), a Chinese official of Mongol heritage who served as Viceroy of several provinces during the late Qing Dynasty. These included the Jirim League (now Tongliao), a borderland region in the easternmost part of Mongolia. Designed to boost literacy and inter-cultural communication, the present work became the official language reader for the Jirim League upon its publication in 1909.

Aquinas (Thomas, Saint).- Petrus de Bergamo. Tabula operum Thomae Aquinatis, collation: [a–m10 n8 o4 p–u10  x8  y14+1  z A–C10 D8 E6+1 ] (varies between standard reference works), 268 ff. (of 269, lacking initial blank), 44 lines variable, Roman type, initial spaces, [y1] blank, with final register f., occasional early ink marginalia, [a2] margins repaired, [a3] small repair to outer margin, just touching 2 letter verso without loss, [x8] (preceding blank) loose, small wormholes within foot of text and lower margin of the first 60 or so ff., some spotting or mostly light foxing and staining, small armorial ink ownership stamp to first initial space and occasionally elsewhere,18th century Italian vellum over boards, faded label to spine, soiled, folio (282 x 202mm.), Bologna, Balthasar Azoguidus, 11 March, 1473. *** Leo Olschki’s copy of the rare first edition of the most complete Thomistic tabula of its era, and an early example of printing at Bologna. The banker Balthazar Azoguidus is the first name associated with the introduction of printing to Bologna. A contract from 1470 for a printing syndicate specifies that he would supply the paper, ink and compositors, while the humanist Francesco dal Pozzo would source texts and worked on sales, and Annibale Malpighi operated the presses. Works with Azoguidus's name appeared from 1471 until 1480. Petrus de Bergamo (1400-c.1482) was an Italian Dominican theologian, who taught at the Studio of Bologna, where he included Girolamo Savonarola among his pupils.Provenance: 1567 religious house ownership inscription to verso of penultimate f.; armorial ink stamps; Leo Samuele Olschki (1861-1940), Italian antiquarian bookseller and publisher (bookplate).Literature: BMC VI, 799; Goff P-450; HC(Add) 2816; GW M32088; Bod-inc P-199; BSB-Ink P-344; ISTC ip00450000. 

Huxley (Aldous) Brave New World, first edition, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, very light sunning to spine, dust-jacket, slight toning to spine, staining to verso, spine ends and corners a little chipped with archival tape repairs to verso, neat closed horizontal tear to spine with archival tape repair to verso, light spotting, extremities a little rubbed, a very good copy overall, [Connolly, The Modern Movement 75], 8vo, 1932

Anderson (Maxwell) Key Largo, first edition, two signed presentation inscriptions from the author "Dear Victor [Samrock] - When the writing comes as near perfection as the business management we'll all be better off. Max" to half-title, pictorial endpapers, original cloth, light toning to spine, spine ends a little chipped, dust-jacket, spine browned, spine ends and corners chipped, some chipping to joints, a few nicks to head and foot with creasing, some light surface soiling, 8vo, Washington D.C., 1939.*** A good association copy, inscription to Samrock (1929-86) who worked as the business manager of Anderson's New York theatre company. Key Largo was adapted for a (much altered) John Huston film starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. 

Pierced binding.- Moritz of Hesse (Count) Davidis regii prophetae Psalterium, Vario Genere Carminis Latine Redditum, second edition, collation: A-Z, Aa-Oo4, P1, 147 leaves, woodcut Hesse arms on title and verso of final leaf, final leaf inner corner torn away with slight loss of text on recto and imprint on verso, upper hinge broken, contemporary gilt armorial pierced binding commissioned by the author from the Schmalkalden binder Hans Bapest, with cut stars, blooms, hearts and bars in the vellum panels to reveal the red silk beneath, Count Moritz’s arms appear in centre of upper cover, impressed decoration includes three different rolls and a flowering potted plant (centre of lower cover), two rolls repeated on spine, lilies in the compartments, edges gilt and gauffered with flowers and designs, evidence of green linen ties, yellow silk head-bands (cords broken, head- and tail-bands holding), spine a little soiled, small 4to (binding 185 x 155mm.), preserved in modern cloth chemise and drop-back box, Schmalkalden, [Michael Schmuck], 1593.*** Pierced vellum bindings are extraordinarily rare. A substantial proportion of those known from this period are found on copies of this second edition (the work was first published in 1590): six are recorded in total, all clearly by the same workshop (these include Bodleian, 4o A 111 Th.BS, British Library BL c27e7 and the three illustrated in L. Bickell, Bucheinbände des XV. bis XVIII. Jahrhunderts aus Hessischen Bibliotheken, Leipzig,1896, pl.29.Known as "The Learned", Moritz (1572-1632) worked on this Protestant paraphrase for eleven years, from ages eight to eighteen. The manuscript inscriptions on the title-page and flyleaf record the movement of this volume among scholars in the Landgrave’s immediate circle: Reformer and theologian Daniel Tossanus (1541-1602), his son-in-law Theodor Hack and mathematician and chemist Johann Hartmann (1568-1631), who later served as Moritz’s personal physician.Literature: Adams B 1477; VD 16B 3258; Nixon, Broxbourne Library pp. 105-7; Foot, The History of Bookbinding as a Mirror of Society, pp. 20 & fig.30; L. Bickell, Bucheinbände des XV. bis XVIII. Jahrhunderts aus Hessischen Bibliotheken, Leipzig, 1896, pl.29.

Potter (Beatrix).- Weatherly (Frederic E.) A Happy Pair, first and only edition, 6 chromolithographed illustrations, each monogrammed H.B.P., original wrappers with upper cover illustration by Beatrix Potter and lower cover initialled H.I.M., original silk cord and tassels (one detached but present), slight wear to spine, patch of soiling to lower cover, continuing on to facing leaf, a near-fine copy, 16mo, London, Hildesheimer & Faulkner, and New York, Geo. C.Whitney, [1890].*** A superb example of first book illustrated throughout by Beatrix Potter, rare in such condition. Potter utilisied some of the card designs she had sent to Hildesheimer & Faulkner for which she was paid £6 with a request for more sketches. Faulkner himself failed to impress Beatrix Potter, who noted in her journal "he did not strike me as being a person with much taste"; it was however the commencement of her professional career and she went on to regularly provide Hildesheimer & Faulkner with further card designs.

China.- Medicine.- Chaungshang jingyian [The experience of ulcers], 16 vol., woodblock printed on bamboo paper, 10 columns per page, 20 characters per column, single black fishtail motifs, single-line borders, c.273 illustrations, each leaf with some conservation support, many fore-edge folds with strengthening and restoration, the occasional other loss, generally small but a few times more extensive, with text sometimes supplied in neat manuscript where lacking, the occasional light stain, bound and stitched Japanese-style into modern blue wrappers, housed in 2 cloth wrap-around cases with clasps, 8vo, China, Haoranlou publisher, Kangxi 56, Qing Dynasty [1717]. *** The rare second edition of this work on ulcers and cutaneous complaints, ascribed to Dou Hanqing (1196-1280), a Taishi ('Grand Preceptor and Grand Academician') of the Southern Song Dynasty. Dou, originally an ulcer doctor, obtained his title for curing the crown prince's disease. The work was first published by his descendent (and more likely author) Sun Zhongquan in the 3rd year of the Longqing period (1569). This present edition is unrecorded in library catalogues in Taiwan and China. 

New Testament, German.- Luther (Martin) Das neuw Testament recht grüntlich teutscht, collation: A-C4 D-E2 F4 B-Z6 Aa-Gg6 Hh8, title within ornate figurative woodcut border, 27 woodcut illustrations by Hans Holbein the younger, ink ownership inscriptions to title foot, occasional ink notes in German to margins in early hand (slightly trimmed), A2-4 reinforced at gutter, a few marginal tears (generally small, but L1 affecting text), some damp-staining and soiling, upper hinge broken but stitching holding firm, 17th century binding using an earlier vellum leaf from a choir book (likely 15th century), paper label to spine head, extremities rubbed, remains of leather ties, within modern slip-case, folio (299 x 200mm.), Basel, Adam Petri, 1523. *** Luther's ground-breaking vernacular translation of the New Testament was first published by Lotter of Wittenberg in September 1522. Following swiftly on, in December, Adam Petri issued the first non-Wittenberg edition and a further two folio editions in early 1523. Some discrepancy surrounds the primacy of these two folio editions, issued with variant collations and illustrations for Revelation; the present copy bears the colophon dated 1522 but the title with "zum anderen mal...1523" [for the second time], and the same woodcut illustration of St John as Evangelist and author of Revelation.Provenance: I. ?Jacob Heinrich Petri the younger [title foot], possibly a member of the Basel Petri or Henricpetri family, thus a late relative Adam Petri himself. II. Basel University Library [ink stamp title verso].Literature: Pietsch II, 12a; VD16 B 4324.  

O'Flaherty (Liam) The Informer, first edition, occasional light finger-soiling, mostly marginal, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, slight fading to spine, dust-jacket, slight toning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, faint crease to upper panel, light browning to rear panel, light rubbing to extremities, an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1925.*** An excellent example of the author's classic novel set in the aftermath of the Irish Civil War, the inspiration for a number of film adaptations, most famously that of John Ford in 1935.

Burgess (Anthony) A Clockwork Orange, first edition, abrasion marks to endpapers, staining to pp.1-7, mostly not affecting text, original boards, spine ends very lightly rubbed, first issue dust-jacket with wide flaps, price-clipped, small biro mark to upper flap, spine very lightly sunned, the odd short nick or fractional rubbing to extremities, 5mm tear to upper edge neatly repaired with tape verso, still an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1962.

[Rodker (John)] Memoirs of Other Fronts, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "For Kathleen from John, Aprl 1932" to endpaper, some light scattered spotting, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, very light toning to spine, 8vo, 1932.*** Rodker's anonymously published memoir, possibly inscribed to his former lover, the dancer and theatre designer Kathleen Dillon (1898-1900).

Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge)"Lewis Carroll". Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, second (first published) edition, half-title, frontispiece with tissue-guard and illustrations by John Tenniel, ink gift inscription to front free endpaper verso, dated Xmas 1868, a few very short marginal tears, some light foxing and soiling, upper hinge cracked, original cloth, gilt, neatly rebacked with original backstrip laid down (spine ends frayed), some generally light staining, cloth worn at some extremities, elsewhere little rubbed, g.e., housed in a red cloth chemise and morocco-backed slipcase (spine ends rubbed), [Crutch 46], 8vo, Macmillan and Co., 1866. *** With the inverted 'S' in the last line of the Contents page, and p.30 correctly numbered. This copy is in the earliest state with the pale blue endpapers, as opposed to green. The original 1865 first edition was suppressed by Dodgson on account of the inferior printing quality.

India.- Ewart (Joseph) The Poisonous Snakes of India, first edition, 21 plates, one double-page, most chromolithographs, list of subscribers, previous owner's ink-stamp to title and front free endpaper verso, chipping and small loss to title edges with old repairs, several ff. with marginal chipping and loss, occasional faint water-staining, strengthened at hinges, original cloth, rebacked, rubbed and worn, mottled boards, 4to, 1878.

Ramsay (Allan) Poems, first collected edition, eighth issue, woodcut initials, previous owner's ink signature to title, spotting and staining, several ff. with marginal loss not affecting text, several tears, holes and paper defects, one or two affecting text, some with neat repairs, previous owner's pencil notes to final pastedown, lacking free endpapers, contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, [Foxon pp.659-660; Kress 3279], 8vo, Edinburgh, for the Author, 1720 [but 1721]. *** Rare at auction. Previously issued as individual poems, Foxon believes that this collection was probably first published in 1719 without a collective title-page and was subsequently re-issued in early 1720 with the collective title-page and some preliminary text. "Later poems were added as they were printed, and an attempt was made to give continuous pagination to the volume ... the result is that copies vary in their constituent parts." (Foxon).  This copy is the version that ends with a glossary and includes 1721 reprints. As such Foxon lists this as being the eighth issue.   

Dahl (Roald) Dirty Beasts, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "To Lucy" to endpaper, illustrations by Rosemary Fawcett, original pictorial boards, light sunning to spine, corners a little bumped, price sticker to lower cover, else fine, 4to, 1983.

Dryden (John) To His Sacred Maiesty, a Panegyrick on his Coronation, first edition, 8pp., tiny stab-holes to inner margin, title with small ink number to upper corner and some very light soiling, leaves loose and unbound, housed in a later cloth folder, [Wing D2386], folio, for Henry Herringman, 1661. *** A celebration of the Restoration of the monarchy, written for the coronation of Charles II. In this copy, p.4 line 18 reads 'Not only king of us but of the year'. A scarce work by Dryden, we cannot trace a copy at auction since 1964. 

Chivers of Bath "vellucent binding".- Malory (Sir Thomas) [Le Morte d'Arthur] The Birth and Life and Acts of King Arthur, 2 vol., one of 1500 copies from an edition of 1800, illustrated by Arthur Beardsley, with photogravure frontispieces, plates, illustrations, and decorations, scattered ff. browned, bound in vellucent vellum by Cedric Chivers of Bath, gilt, upper covers with central painted panel, the first depicting a knight and lady in meadow before a castle, the second three ladies in a wood, each surrounded by a wide border of floral design and gilt dots, similar design to spines, t.e.g., others uncut, 4to, J.M. Dent, 1893-94.

Dahl (Roald) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, first edition, first issue with the six line colophon, fifth line reading "Paper manufactured by S. D. Warren and Co.", illustrations by Joseph Schindelman, original cloth, some soiling to covers, light fading to spine, spine ends and corners bumped and a little frayed, first issue dust-jacket priced at $3.95 without ISBN, spine slightly sunned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, closed tear with tape repair to upper panel, upper fore-edge with tape repair to verso, light creasing and soiling, 8vo, New York, 1964.

Robinson (William Heath).- Hunter (Norman) The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm, first edition, with original captioned pen and ink illustration by Heath Robinson over pencil outline on artist's board (a few holes to board) loosely inserted, Autograph Note signed by Hunter laid onto front free endpaper, colour frontispiece and illustrations by Heath Robinson, very faint browning to endpapers, original cloth, very slight fading to spine, dust-jacket slight chipping to spine tips and corners, light surface soiling to spine, a near-fine example overall, small 4to, 1933. *** A superb example of the first Professor Branestawm book. This copy with an original drawing by Heath Robinson depicting Branestawm with an umbrella, as printed on the half-title of this edition. 

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** Cavendish (Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle) Plays, Never Before Printed, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece by van Schuppen, contemporary autograph corrections and annotations (under the author's instruction), lacking gathering Z, a few small abrasion marks to frontispiece and title, expert repairs to margins of frontispiece and title, a few short tears to lower edges, light water-staining to a few lower corners, some light spotting and browning, new endpapers, eighteenth century speckled calf, gilt crest of "The Society of Writers to the Signet [Library]" to both covers, rebacked, extremities a little rubbed, [Pforzheimer 139], [Wing N867], folio, A.[nne] Maxwell, 1668. *** The first edition of Cavendish's second collection of plays, complete with the rare engraved frontispiece by Pieter van Schuppen after Diepenbeke's painting, which, according to Pforzheimer, is lacking in most copies. Cavendish departed from the printers of her first collection of Playes (1662) to collaborate here with Anne Maxwell - a rare woman publisher. Pforzheimer suggests this change is owing to the lack of success of Cavendish's Playes, but Liza Blake has more recently pointed to Cavendish's frustration with the previous printers' errors. Indeed, her notable scrutiny of her printed texts is evident in this copy which contains dozens of hand-written corrections and annotations, either by the author herself or her secretary - a particular highlight is her correction of "Lordship" to "Ladyship" in The Bridals.

Lowry (Malcolm) Ultramarine, first edition, some scattered foxing, original cloth, spine lettered in white with very slight toning, slight bowing to upper cover, dust-jacket, spine browned, spine ends and corners chipped, light creasing to head, minor chipping to upper fore-edge, extremities a little rubbed, some light soiling, 8vo, 1933.*** The author's rare first novel, we can only trace a handful of examples in the dust-jacket at auction. 

Sammelband of 17th century plays.- Behn (Aphra).- Southerne (Thomas) Oroonoko: A Tragedy, first edition, with final blank, marginal loss to B1&2 and M3 (the last with loss to 1 or 2 words of text), [Pforzheimer 959; Wing S4761], 4to, for H. Playford et al., 1696 bound after Southerne (Thomas) The Disappointment, or the Mother in Fashion, first edition, title closely trimmed at foot, touching imprint, 1 corner repaired, [Pforzheimer 954; Wing S4755], Printed for Jo. Hindmarsh, Bookseller to his Royal Highness, 1684 bound with [Burnaby (Charles)] The Reform’d Wife. A Comedy, second edition, with final advertisement f., for Thomas Bennet, 1700 and [Granville (George, Lord Lansdowne)] The She-Gallants: A Comedy, first edition, lacking half-title, damp-staining, [Pforzheimer 423 ; Wing L423], Tooke, 1696 and Ravenscroft (Edward) The London Cuckolds. A Comedy, shaved at head, affecting first word of title and many headlines, actors’ names supplied in an early hand, for H.H. and Sold by James Knapton, 1697 and Sedley (Sir Charles) Bellamira: or The Mistress. A Comedy, first edition, with advertisement f. A4, [Wing S2397], by D. Mallet, for L. C. and Timothy Godwin, 1687 and Lee (Nat[haniel]) Lucius Junius Brutus; Father of his Country. A Tragedy, first edition, [Pforzheimer 590; Wing L852], Richard Tonson, and Jacob Tonson, 1681, together 7 works in 1 vol., browning and some light staining, occasional repairs, a few notes in an 18th century hand, 20th century calf-backed boards, sm. 4to.*** A good collection of 17th century plays including Southerne's adaptation of Aphra Behn's early novel Oroonoko.

Two limited edition prints, "The Ha Ha Kedleston Park Derbyshire" signed C.J. Hardy and "Mornings First Light"

MAUREEN MCGEEHAN (SCOTTISH CONTEMPORARY), FIRST SHOES oil, signed, framed under glass, along with a limited edition print of a clown, Albert Fratellini, number 15/1000, by Miles Bakerimage size 13xcm x 11.5cm, overall size 27cm x 25.5cmQty: 2

Hotpoint 7kg First edition condenser dryer

Hotpoint first edition fridge feezer - THIS LOT IS TO BE COLLECTED BY APPOINTMENT FROM DUGGLEBY STORAGE, GREAT HILL, EASTFIELD, SCARBOROUGH, YO11 3TXDimensions: Height: 175cm  Length/Width: 55cm  Depth/Diameter: 55cm

John Banville, ALL Signed: The Blue Guitar, first edition, first print HB. Viking 2015; The Untouchable, Picador 1997; The Infinities, Picador (3)

Punch Magazine Collection: Pictures from "Punch" Volumes 1-4 Burnand, F. C. Published by Bradbury, Agnew & Co., London, 1904. First Edition, , with many hundreds of illustrations and cartoons. Scrap book of Paper Clippings of Cartoons plus 3 other publications (8)

The Dalkey Archive by Flann O'Brien. London MacGibbon & Kee. 1964. First edition in dj designed by Jack Stoddart. Not price clipped. lovely copy

An Leabhar Aifrinn Romhanach (1973) The Roman Catholic Mass in Irish as used by the clergy. Clean copy with five original page holder ribbons; Writing Irish History: The Four Masters and their World, edited by Edel Bhreathnach & Bernadette Cunningham (2007) First edition, first printing Soft cover. (2)

Stoker (Bram)The Duties of Clerks of the Petty Sessions in Ireland, first edition, interleaved copy with manuscript notations, 8vo, Dublin, 1879. Stoker's second published work, a textbook and a product of his brief career in the Irish Civil Service. Rare

The Irish Guards in the Great War Rudyard Kipling Published by Macmillan and Co, London, 1923. The two volume first edition of Rudyard Kipling's account of the actions of the Irish Guards in the First World War. Ex libris

Dublin Interest: The Bombing of Dublin’s North Strand, 1941 by Kevin C. Kearns (2009) First Edition, First Printing Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket; Dublin Since 1922 by Tim Carey (2016) First Edition, First Printing Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket; Living In Dublin by Robert O’Byrne (2003) First Edition, First Printing Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket; The Annals of Dublin by E.E. O’Donnell (1987) First edition, First Printing hardcover in unclipped dust jacket; A Walk through Rebel Dublin 1916 by Mick O’Farrell (1999) First edition soft cover. (5)

Collection of Books on Irish and world book collecting. Studies in Irish Bibliography. Festschrift for Mary 'Paul' Pollard; The Poets of Ireland by David James O'Donoghue. excellent copy of the first edition and many others. Some indispensable source books for book collectors, booksellers, bookbinders etc. Circa 20 books

The Beckett Country by Eoin O’Brien (1986) First Edition, First Printing hardcover in unclipped dust jacket.

Guerilla days in Ireland by Commandant General Tom Barry. Dublin, Irish Press Limited. 1949. The scarce first edition of Barry’s story and Revolutionary Ireland by Sean MacStiofain. 1974 in dj. 2 books

Seamus Heaney, The Midnight Verdict (ltd. Ed. 1000 copies)Published by The Gallery press, 2013. HB ,DJ. First Edition.

John Banville – Eclipse First UK Edition, Limited edition. . One of only 100 copies this being 23/100. Signed by John Banville on the limitation page

Eireaball na Spideoige le Sean O’Riordain. First edition. 1952 in dust wrapper with some loss; Margadh na Saoire le Maire Mhac an tSaoi. 1956 in embossed cloth and Faoilean na Beatha le O’Tuama. 3 books.