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Click here to subscribeNO RESERVE Greene (Graham) Brighton Rock, first Australian edition, light toning to pages, ink ownership inscription to title and upper cover, original printed stiff stapled wrappers with 1/6 sticker to upper cover, publisher's book list advertisement to lower cover, chip to head of upper cover, light rubbing and creasing, 8vo, Sydney, Invincible Press, 1945.⁂ A scarce edition, the text much truncated from that in the standard first edition.
NO RESERVE Hoban (Russell) The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz, uncorrected proof copy, signed presentation inscription from the author "To John from Russ, roaring best wishes, 8.1.96" on title, original printed wrappers, dust-jacket, creased at head, 1973; M.O.L.E., first edition, signed by the author and illustrator on dedication p., illustrations by Jan Pienkowski, original pictorial boards, 1993; The Rain Door, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "Thundering good wishes to John from Russ, 8.1.96" on title, illustrations by Quentin Blake, original pictorial boards, 1986, v.s. (3)⁂ Copies inscribed to John Baxter (b.1939) Australian-born writer, journalist and film-maker.
NO RESERVE James (P.D.) The Blood Tie/ Innocent Blood, uncorrected proof copy, signed by the author on title, light browning to text margins, printed label to title and upper cover changing title, original printed wrappers, light browning to spine and cover margins, light creasing to spine, 1980; Death of an Expert Witness, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author on title, original boards, small patch of fading to foot of spine, dust-jacket, fine, 1977; and 4 others by the same, 8vo (6)⁂ The proof is rare and of bibliographical significance with its late change to the title.
NO RESERVE MacNeice (Louis, translator) The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, first edition, signed by MacNeice below preface, bookplate to pastedown, original cloth, some light toning, dust-jacket, browning to spine, chipped at head, tear to head of lower panel with old tape repair, extremities rubbed, 8vo, 1936.
NO RESERVE Tomlinson (H. M.) Gallions Reach, limited edition signed by the author, signed presentation inscription from the author, A.L.s. from the author, frontispiece and illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, toning to spine, slip-case, rubbed and worn, 1927 § Holtby (Winifred) Virginia Woolf, first edition, frontispiece, ink ownership inscription, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, light sunning to spine, light chipping to spine ends, 1932; and 7 others, v.s. (9)
NO RESERVE Williamson (Jack) Darker Thank You Think, number 210 of 500 copies signed by the author, this copy with presentation inscription from the author, ink ownership stamp and light damp-staining to endpaper, jacket with chipping, creasing and tears to extremities, Reading, PA, Fantasy Press, 1948 § Vance (Jack) To Live Forever, cut signature of the author to endpaper, jacket spine faded, extremities rubbed, New York, 1956 § Collins (Hunt) Tomorrow's World, signed presentation inscription from the author "you are the only person in the world besides me who has this edition of the book. My God!" to endpaper, ink ownership stamp to endpaper, jacket price-clipped, very light sunning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, extremities rubbed, New York, 1956, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets; and 8 others, science fiction and fantasy, 8vo (11)
Beardsley (Aubrey).- Malory (Sir Thomas) [Le Morte Darthur] The Birth and Life and Acts of King Arthur, 2 vol., one of 1500 copies, photogravure frontispieces, 18 plates (5 double-page), illustrations and decorations by Aubrey Beardlsey, some light foxing, mostly to first and last few leaves, upper hinges cracking but covers holding firm, original cloth, gilt, rubbed and toned with some staining, t.e.g., others uncut, 4to, 1893-4. ⁂ Beardsley's first major commission and an early masterpiece, produced when he was only 20 years old. The young artist met the publisher J.M. Dent who was looking for someone to illustrate an edition of Morte d'Arthur. On seeing Beardsley's trial drawing 'The Achieving of the Sangreal' the publisher was reputedly rendered speechless by its quality. Duly commissioned, Beardsley produced a body of work which took the medievalism of the Pre-Raphaelites and married it to his own bizarre imagination and Japanese-influenced style, making his reputation. They are among the most stunning illustrations he ever produced.
Middle East.- [Bell (Gertrude)] The Arab of Mesopotamia, first edition, frontispiece map, ink gift inscription to front free endpaper dated Baghdad 1919, light browning to margins and endpapers, original cloth, gilt, lightly rubbed, corners and spine ends bumped, Basrah, Government Press, [1917]; and another, a history of the Iraq Petroleum Company, 8vo & 4to (2)
de Brunhoff (Jean) Babar En Famille, occasional marginal spotting, a few ink spots to spine, 1938; Les Vacances de Zéphir, light spotting, mostly to first and last few leaves, a few patches of soiling to lower cover, 1936; Babar's Travels, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, The Times Book Club label to rear pastedown, slight splitting at gutter, 1935; Babar's Friend Zephir, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, occasional light spotting, spine a little soiled, covers worn at extremities, 1937; first or first English editions, illustrations, very light marginal toning, occasional finger-soiling, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed, spine ends bumped; and 3 others, another first English edition of Babar's Friend Zephir, and two early English editions of The Story of Babar, folio (7)
NO RESERVE Middle East.- Chardin (Sir John) Travels in Persia, one of 975 copies on Japanese vellum, original vellum-backed cloth, gilt, uncut, Argonaut Press, 1927 § Burton (Capt. Sir Richard) The Kasidah..., third edition, one of 250 copies, original cloth, uncut, 1900 § Adams (W.H.Davenport) The Valley of the Nile, original cloth, 1867 § Smyth (C.Piazzi) Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid, first edition, mounted photographic frontispiece by Bedford (spotted and torn, repaired), modern morocco-backed boards, 1864 § Holmes (Abiel) American Annals..., 2 vol., folding engraved map, some foxing, modern cloth, Cambridge [Mass.], London, reprinted for Charles Taylor, 1808 § Wreath of Malayalam Proverbs (A), cloth, original pink printed wrappers bound in, Mangalore, 1906, some plates and/or illustrations, a little rubbed; and 8 others, travel, 4to & 8vo (15)
Kipling (Rudyard) The Second Jungle Book, first edition, spine sunned with a few chips to ends, slight shelf-lean, 1895; The Jungle Book, 1898; The Jungle Book, uniform edition, contemporary ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, 1899; The Second Jungle Book, uniform edition, spine sunned, 1899, half-titles, illustrations, some light scattered spotting, in latter two mostly to endpapers, occasional splitting at gutter, a few hinges cracked but covers holding firm, original cloth, gilt, lightly rubbed with a few light stains, corners and spine ends bumped, g.e. or t.e.g., 8vo (4)
NO RESERVE Lind[say] (Ruby) The Drawings of Ruby Lind. (Mrs. Will. Dyson), first edition, tipped-in portrait, illustrated title, plates, some colour, some on card, tissue guards (lightly browned), bookplate of Dorothy Young, original cloth-backed boards, rubbed and soiled, lower corners worn, 4to, 1920.⁂ Ruby Lindsay (1885-1919), was an Australian artist and illustrator. In 1909 she moved to England with her husband and brother Norman, both artists, but died of Spanish influenza in London in 1919.
Photography.- Traeger (Tessa) Voices of the Vivarais, one of 250 copies signed by the author/photographer, introduction by Mark Haworth-Booth, g.e., pictorial slip case, some light surface soiling, 2010 § Greenough (Sarah) and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz Photographs and Writings, first edition, ink gift inscription to front endpaper, jacket with a couple of instances of minor soiling, very light sunning to spine, 1983 § Krauss (Rosalind) and Jane Livingston. L'Amour Fou. Photography & Surrealism, jacket with some light surface soiling and scuffing, small tear top edge lower panel, 1985, all with photographic illustrations, original cloth, last two with dust-jackets; and a quantity of others photography, v.s. (c.100; 5 boxes)
Potter (Beatrix) The Tailor of Gloucester, first trade edition, first printing with date on title and singe-page endpaper recurring four times, colour frontispiece and 26 colour plates, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, upper hinge split at base, small chip to spine foot, 1903; The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, first edition, third printing with "Author of the Tale of Peter Rabbit" on title, colour frontispiece, plain title vignette and 26 colour plates, frontispiece removed and placed before half-title, short closed tear to fore-edge of front free endpaper, 1903, some light finger-soiling, upper hinge repaired, original boards with mounted colour illustration, rebacked, with original spine laid-down (small loss to head and foot), lightly rubbed, a few spots of light staining, [Linder p.423; Quinby 4 & 5]; and others by Potter, including another first edition Tailor of Gloucester and a presentation box of Potter's works (33)
Rackham (Arthur).- Grimm (Jakob Ludwig and Wilhelm Carl) Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm, first edition, 12 tipped-in colour plates by Arthur Rackham, lower inner corners creased and additionally affixed to backing, later half green morocco, spine gilt, very lightly rubbed, 1917 § Evans (C. S.) The Sleeping Beauty, first trade edition, decorative title and silhouette plates by Arthur Rackham printed in green, pink & black, also tipped-in colour frontispiece, endpapers toned, original cloth-backed pictorial cream boards printed in pink and black, lightly toned and rubbed at extremities, spine slightly faded with ends bumped, London & Philadelphia, [1920], half-titles, black & white illustrations, some very light foxing and finger-soiling; and two others, The Sleeping Beauty with illustrations by Dulac and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám with illustrations by René Bull, large 8vo & 4to (4)
NO RESERVE Simmonds (Posy) Mrs Weber's Diary, first edition, signed by author, illustrations, original boards, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1979 § Printers' Pie: A Festival Souvenir ..., plates, lightly browned, plate pasted to early blank, original cloth, bumping to corners and spine extremities, small chipping to extremities, rubbed, 1907 § Atkinson (Alex) & Ronald Searle. USA for Beginners, first edition, illustrations, previous owner's ink inscription, spotting to endpapers, original cloth, gilt, slight bumping to spine extremities, price-clipped dust-jacket, short tear and small loss to spine head, a little rubbed, slight creasing to edges, 1959 § Greenaway (Kate) Under the Window, illustrations, original cloth, bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, creasing and chipping to spine and edges, rubbed, n.d.; and others, illustrated, v.s. (c.90)
Private press ephemera.- Masereel (Frans) Passionate Journey, first English edition, 165 wood-cut illustrations, additional separate introduction pamphlet, together in original box (worn, repaired with tape), 1987 § Braybrooke (Neville) Four Poems for Christmas, one of 250 copies signed by the author and artist to limitation page, original wrappers, lightly marked, wood-engraved illustrations by Simon Brett, Paulinus Press, 1986; and a quantity of others, private press ephemera and keepsakes, v.s. (sm qty)
Architecture.- Corbusier (Le) Le Modulor. Essai sur une Mesure Harmonique a l'Echelle Humaine..., first edition, numerous illustrations, bookplate of J. D. H. Catleugh, bookseller's label to front free endpaper, margins toned, occasional splitting at gutter, original wrappers, lower cover detached, upper cover working loose, dust-jacket, light toning and surface soiling, a few small chips to extremities, some repairs to verso, loss to foot of spine, Boulogne, 1950 § Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, one of 250 copies signed by the artist, 14 full-page colour screenprints by Ronald King, original signed print loose in folder at end, slip-case (rubbed and lightly soiled), Circle Press, Guildford, 1978 § Halász (Gyula) "Brassai". Camera in Paris, photographic illustrations, folding table, occasional light soiling, some foxing to endpapers, cloth with surface soiling, spine sunned with ends chipped, lower joint split, 1949, all but first original cloth; and others, many art and photography related, including 4 vol. of The Art Workers' Quarterly, v.s. (15)⁂ "Le Modular" is a scale of architectural proportion, designed by Le Corbusier to calculate the correct amount of living space needed in a building. This copy contains the bookplate of abstract artist J. D. H. Catleugh, designed by Scottie Wilson.
NO RESERVE Buechner (Thomas S.) Norman Rockwell: Artist and Illustrator, first edition, colour-printed illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, lightly creased and sunned, New York, 1996 § Kurth (Willi) Albrecht Durer: The Complete Woodcuts, plain illustrations, 1946 § Monk (Lorraine) Canada: A Year of the Land, colour-printed illustrations, minor damp-staining, original cloth, slip-case, 1996; and a large quantity of others, art and art reference, v.s. (6 boxes)
NO RESERVE Ceramics.- Godden (Geoffrey A.) Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks, illustrations, bookplate, original cloth, price-clipped dust-jacket, a little rubbed, creasing to edges, 1988 § masterworks of Chinese Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, illustrations, faint spotting to first and last few leaves, original cloth, slip-case, rubbed and worn, Taipei, 1974 § Tudor-Craig (Sir Algernon) Armorial Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century, limited edition, frontispiece, plates, faint spotting to endpapers, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, chipping and small loss to edges and extremities, one or two short tears, 1925; and others ceramics, v.s. (c.60)
NO RESERVE West (Nan) The Landscape Painter's Calendar, out-of-series copy from an edition limited to 300, colour tipped in plates by the author, bookplate of Kenneth Rae designed by Rex Whistler to front pastedown, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, near-fine, 1928 § Poore (Henry Rankin) The New Tendency in Art. Post-Impressionism. Cubism. Futurism, first edition, plates, original cloth-backed boards, spine ends and corners a little bumped, dust-jacket, spine browned and chipped with loss chipping and creasing to head and foot, Garden City, NY, 1913; and another, art, 8vo (3)
NO RESERVE Polar.- Mountaineering.- Nansen (Fridtjof) "Farthest North" being the Record of the Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96, 2 vol., cut signature of author pasted to half-title of vol. 1, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, folding map at end vol. 1, 1898 § Stefánsson (Vilhjálmur) My Life with the Eskimo, first edition, early blank signed and inscribed by author, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1913 § Hedin (Sven) Tans-Himalaya, 2 vol., frontispiece, plates and maps, scattered spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1910; and others similar, including occasional odd or incomplete volumes, 8vo (40).
NO RESERVE South America.- Brazil.- Roussin (Albin) Le Pilote du Brésil, ou Description des Côtes de L'Amérique Méridional, first edition, half-title, occasional light spotting and surface soiling, original paper covered boards, rebacked with original spine laid down, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo, Paris, 1827.⁂ Scarce.
NO RESERVE World.- Fortune (R. F.) Sorcerers of Dobu. The Social Anthropology of the Dobu Islanders of the Western Pacific, first edition, 8 photographic plates, double-page map, illustrations, dust-jacket, spine sunned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light creasing to head and foot, light rubbing to extremities, 1932 § Nogales (Rafael de, General) Memoirs of a Soldier of Fortune, first edition in English, signed presentation from the author below portrait frontispiece, photographic plates, ink ownership inscription of Hamilton Rice and some light browning to endpapers, spine faded, chipping to spine ends and lower joint, creasing to upper cover, [1931], original cloth; and 2 others, travel, 8vo (4)
NO RESERVE World.- Hearn (Lafcadio) Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, 2 vol., first English edition, occasional light spots, original cloth, spine faded and rubbed, extremities frayed and worn, 1894 § Bartlett (W. H.) The Nile Boat; or, Glimpses of the Land of Egypt, second edition, steel-engraved plates, ink ownership inscription to title and front free endpapers, some light foxing and damp staining, contemporary half morocco, rubbed and faded, 1850; Walks about the City and Environs of Jerusalem, frontispiece and plates, light foxing and spotting, contemporary pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed, [c.1897]; and c.120 others, travel and topography, v.s. (c.125)
NO RESERVE Britain.- Cary (John) Cary's New Itinerary; or, an Accurate Delineation of the Great Roads..., first edition, engraved title and dedication, folding engraved map (water-stained, torn and repaired), advertisement leaf at end, contemporary half calf, rubbed, John Cary, 1798; and 6 others, British topography, v.s. (7)
NO RESERVE Asia.- Etherton (P. T.) Across the Roof of the World. A Record of Sport and Travel through Kashmir, Gilgit, Hunza, the Pamirs, Chinese Turkistan, Mongolia and Siberia, first edition, portrait frontispiece, illustrations, folding map at end (a couple tears at inner margin, repaired with tape to verso), modern cloth, with original upper cover and spine laid down, 1911 § Waddell (L. Austine) Lhasa and its Mysteries with a Record of the Expedition of 1903-1904, third edition, plates and illustrations, folding map at end, 1906 § Burton (Richard, Sir) Selected Papers on Anthropology, Travel & Exploration, edited by N. M. Penzer, one of 100 copies on handmade paper, half-title, endpapers toned, t.e.g., others uncut, 1924 [but 1923], half-titles, occasional light spotting, all but first with original cloth, lightly rubbed and soiled, spine ends bumped; and 3 others relating to travel in Asia, including a 1969 edition of Mannerheim's Across Asia, v.s. (6)
Chess.- Cochrane (John) A Treatise on The Game of Chess, first edition, engraved frontispiece (offset), modern cloth-backed boards, uncut and partly unopened, sunned at extremities, 1822 § Sarratt (J.H.) A New Treatise on The Game of Chess, 2 vol. in 1, vol. 1 title with margins toned, occasional underlining and annotation in pencil and biro, modern red morocco, spine slightly sunned, 1821, occasional foxing, spines gilt, very lightly rubbed; and others 19th century chess, 8vo & 4to (9)
Chess.- Lewis (William) Chess for Beginners, first edition, colour frontispiece and 23 diagrams, contemporary ink ownership inscription to head of title, modern cloth, with original upper cover laid down, 1835 § Kenny (W. S.) Practical Chess Grammar, fourth edition, frontispiece and 9 diagrams, contemporary ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper and head of title, offsetting, light damp-staining to fore-edge of some leaves, hinges cracked but covers holding firm, contemporary cloth, paper label to upper cover, a few stains, 1818, half-titles, some light foxing, lightly rubbed; and others chess, many decorative cloth, v.s. (c.30)
Chess.- Philidor (François-André Danican) Analysis of the Game of Chess; A New Edition, engraved portrait frontispiece (not called for) bound before half-title, 3ff. "Rules of the Game" at end, frontispiece with small repair to upper corner and damp-stain to inner margin, not affecting image, ink initials E. W. to title, hinges cracked but covers holding firm, later half calf, [LNN 489; Whyld & Ravilious 1777:4], for P. Elmsley, 1777 § Sarrat (J. H.) The Works of Damiano, Ruy-Lopez, and Salvio, on the Game of Chess, bookplate of James Whatman, his ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, dated 1813, occasional ink annotations, uncut in original boards, rebacked, with original spine and paper label laid-down, 1813, half-titles, some scattered spotting, rubbed; with an 1832 edition of the first, 8vo (3)
Hunting.- Gardiner (John Smallman) The Art and the Pleasures of Hare-Hunting, first edition, lacking half-title, title chipped at upper corner (repaired and laid down), browned, some staining, final leaf silked, stab-holes, bookplate and pencil notes of William Bates to front free endpaper, old marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed, [Schwerdt I, p.197], R. Griffiths, 1750 § [Squire (Rev. Francis)] An Essay on Hunting. By a Country Squire, first edition, title with contemporary ink inscription identifying the author, later half calf, [Schwerdt I, p.164], J.Roberts, 1733 § § [Savile (Albany)] Thirty-Six Hints to Sportsmen, 18pp., first edition, title with ornamental border, stitched in original marbled wrappers, very slightly rubbed, [Schwerdt II p.148], Okehampton, Simmons, [c.1823, water-marked 1822] § Beckford (Peter) Thoughts on Hunting, half-title, engraved frontispiece, title with wood-engraved border, folding engraved plate of dog kennel, advertisement leaf at end, title browned, attractive contemporary russia stamped in gilt and blind, spine gilt, [c.1820]; and 6 others on hunting, v.s. (10)⁂ The first is "a classic on hare hunting" (Schwerdt). The third is a scarce pamphlet by a famous Master of Foxhounds and MP; Library Hub lists only 2 copies (BL & Oxford), WorldCat adds 3 in America. At the time of the Schwerdt catalogue there was no copy in the British Library.
NO RESERVE Morgan (John Ed.) University Oars being a critical enquiry into the after health of the men who rowed in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat-Race...1829 to 1869, only edition, errata slip, light spotting, 1873 § Monier-Williams (M.S.) & others. Figure-Skating Simple and Combined, first edition, 1892 § "Cavendish". The Laws of Piquet..., third edition, 1882 § Gale (Norman) Cricket Songs, third edition, 12pp. publisher's catalogue at end, modern calf-backed boards, spine faded, 1896 § Street (Lt. A.G.A.) Swimming Self Taught, only edition, original wrappers, Glasgow, [c.1914] § Schmidt (Eugen S.) How to Dive(Trick and Fancy), only edition, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, [1909], plates and illustrations, the first three all original cloth, the first with joints worn, all rubbed; and 6 others, sports and games, 8vo et infra (12)⁂ The first is the earliest work dealing with the effects of rowing on the heart, and one or the earliest studies of health concerning a single sport.
Agriculture.- Vermin.- Taylor (Henry) The Bee-Keeper's Manual, sixth edition, half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations, 40pp. catalogue at end, original green cloth, gilt, a little mottled, 1860 § Samuelson (James) Humble Creatures. The Earthworm and the Common Housefly, first edition, 8 lithographed plates, advertisement leaf at end, small ink library stamp to verso of title and plates, original cloth, spine slightly frayed at head, 1858, 8vo (2)
Birds.- Rickman (Philip) Bird Sketches and Some Field Observations, artist's presentation copy inscribed to his wife, original watercolour and gouache frontispiece heightened with white, vignette title, 33 lithographed plates (1 coloured with captioned-tissue guard), original vellum, gilt, lightly rubbed and toned, [Nissen IVB 775], 1938; A Bird-Painter's Sketch Book, first edition, one of 125 copies signed by the author, original pencil sketch pasted inside upper cover, additional original pencil vignette below frontispiece, both initialed and dated by the author, 34 lithographed plates (11 coloured with captioned tissue-guards), original vellum-backed blue cloth, spine gilt, lightly rubbed and spotted, [Nissen IVB 774], 1931, illustrations, scattered spotting to first and last few leaves, t.e.g.; and another illustrated by Rickman, 4to (3)
NO RESERVE Japan.- Conder (Joseph) The Flowers of Japan and the Art of Floral Arrangement, first edition, 54 plates, of which 14 colour, after Tsukioka Yoshitoshi and Kawanabe Kiosui, illustrations, original pictorial wrappers, cord binding, a little rubbed, folio, Tokyo, 1891.⁂ The first book in English on Japanese flower-arranging.
NO RESERVE Astronomy, Mathematics & Globes.- Turner (Rev. Richard) A View of the Heavens: Being a Short, but Comprehensive System of Modern Astronomy... To which is added, The Use of the Cælestial Globe, first edition, 2 engraved plates, engraved illustrations in text, that of astronomical clock on p.41 with volvelle, 1765; A View of the earth: being a short, but comprehensive system of modern geography. ... To which is added, a description of the terrestrial globe, second edition, engraved double-hemisphere world map, 5 other maps (including America and Asia), plate of terrestrial globe and illustrations within text, that of geographical clock on p.27 with volvelle, 3pp. advertisements at end, 1766; Plain trigonometry rendered easy and familiar, by calculations in arithmetick only: With Its Application and Use In ascertaining all Kinds of Heights, Depths, and Distances, In The Heavens, as well as on the Earth and Seas, first edition, woodcut diagrams, 1p. advertisements at end, 1765, together 3 works in 1 vol., titles in red and black, some spotting and finger-marking, occasional staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, worn, but holding, Printed for S. Crowder, small folio⁂ A very good sammelband of richly illustrated works by this former student of Magdalen College, Oxford. Provenance: William Peacock (charming 1769 bookplate within typographic border and '-/2 6d Mr Peacock' to foot of final verso).
NO RESERVE Electricity.- Hauksbee (Francis) Esperienze fisico-meccaniche sopra varj soggetti contenenti un racconto di diversi stupendi fenomeni intorno la luce e l'elettricita, first Italian edition, half-title, 7 numbered folding engraved plates, 1 smaller unnumbered plate, woodcut head and tail-pieces and decorative initials, errata f. at end, the smaller plate browned, the others lightly browned and with some spotting, contemporary green vellum, richly gilt spine in compartments and with red leather label, later paper shelf label to a lower compartment, upper joint starting, but holding firm, short diagonal split to lower spine, [Dibner Early Electrical Machines (1957) 16-19; Duveen 281-282; Mottelay 149-150; Wheeler Gift 232], a well-margined copy, 4to, Florence, Jacopo Guiducci, 1716.⁂ 'One of the most important early works on electricity, containing a description of the electrical machine with a glass cylinder' (Duveen). A very good copy of the first Italian edition, which was the first edition to be published on the Continent.
NO RESERVE Liverpool printed health.- Garnett (Thomas) A lecture on the preservation of health, first edition, half-title, occasional spotting or finger-marking, lightly browned, disbound, 8vo, Liverpool, printed by J. M'Creery, 1797.⁂ Dedicated to Erasmus Darwin. The author had been a pupil of John Brown in Edinburgh.
NO RESERVE Madeira & Health.- [Adams (Joseph)] A Guide to Madeira: containing a short Account of Funchall, with Instructions to Such as Repair to that Island for Health, second edition, 1808; Observations on Pulmonary Consumption, and on the Climate of Madeira for Phthisical Patients..., extract from the Medical and Physical Journal for April, 1801, pp.10-20, 1801, together 2 works in 1, first leaf of second work pasted to verso of final leaf of first work, some light staining, modern boards, 8vo⁂ Scarce works on the beneficial climate of Madeira for tubercular patients.
NO RESERVE Mathematical instruments.- Robertson (John) A treatise of such mathematical instruments, as are usually put into a portable case: containing their various uses in arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, architecture, surveying, first edition, engraved folding frontispiece and 6 plates, some spotting and light staining, lightly browned, contemporary speckled calf, later gilt, spine in compartments, joints splitting, but holding firm, head of spine little chipped, corners worn, a few scuffs, rubbed, [Tomash & Williams R100], 8vo, Printed for T. Heath, Mathematical Instrument-Maker, 1747.⁂ A very good copy of 'one of the most complete descriptions of a set of portable mathematical instruments extant' (Tomash & Williams), which is rare at auction. Provenance: Erwin Tomash (book label).
NO RESERVE Mathematics.- Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge) An Elementary Treatise on Determinants with their application to Simultaneous Equations and Algebraical Geometry, first edition, dark grey endpapers (as opposed to the regular white), occasional ink or pencil marginalia and inter-linear notes in an unidentified hand, front free endpaper adhered to pastedown and with a couple of short tears, occasional spotting, original dark brown cloth, spine gilt, spine ends and corners little worn, rubbed, [Williams [et al.] 57], 4to, Macmillan and Co., 1867.⁂ In his diary entry for 27th February, 1865, Dodgson writes that he had 'discovered a process for evaluating arithmetical Determinants, by a sort of condensation, and proved it up to 4^2 terms.' His paper on the subject was read to the Royal Society on 17th May, and it appeared in the Proceedings, no.84, 1866. Thereafter, he continued work on it and later writes that this 'little book... has given me more trouble than anything I have ever written: it is such entirely new ground to explore.'
NO RESERVE Mathematics.- Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge) Curiosa Mathematica. Part I, A New Theory of Parallels, first edition, first f. blank apart from signature mark, half-title, diagrammatic frontispiece and illustrations, final advertisement f. for works by Dodgson, endpapers foxed, lightly browned, original tan pictorial cloth, some water-staining to upper cover, preserved in a 20th century red cloth drop-back box, spine gilt, spine faded, [Williams [et al.] 210], [Printed by Horace Hart, Oxford, for] Macmillan, 1888; and a fourth edition of the same in original cloth, 8vo (2)⁂ A scientific attempt to improve Euclid's 12th Axiom. The large collection of mathematical papers left by Dodgson give an indication of the vast amount of time he spent on this project. Amidst the mathematical investigations (p.61) is a piece of verse beginning 'I have wandered' which had not been printed before.
NO RESERVE Mathematics.- Gauss.- Ciccolini (Lodovico) Formole analitiche pel calcolo della Pasqua e correzione di quelle di Gauss con critiche osservazioni su quanto ha scritto del calendario il Delambre, first edition, 5 folding letterpress tables, occasional foxing or light staining, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, 8vo, Rome, Romanis, 1817.⁂ An attempt by this Italian mathematician (sometime collaborator with Lalande) to mediate in the dispute between Delambre and Gauss on the calculation of the date of Easter. Gauss's first algorithm, published in 1800, contained an error, and he published a correction in 1816. See Reinhold Bien 'Gauß and beyond: the making of Easter algorithms', Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 58(5), July 2004, 439-452.
Orme's Collection of British Field Sports, illustrated in twenty coloured lithograph plates from designs by S. Howitt, an exact facsimile of the first and only edition of one of the rarest of all sporting books, printed by W. S. Cowell Ltd, Ipswich, published by Charles W. Traylen, Guildford, 56cm x 44cm
PELE Hand signed 20x16in size. Colourised Print. Limited Edition 85/100. Sporting Legends, Autograph Editions. Signature Slightly weeping. Photo Shows 17 Year Old Pele jumping into the arms of Nilton Santos after Brazil claimed World Cup Title in 1958, the first ever for Brazil. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Major General Michael Collins signed 40th Anniversary of Man on the Moon coin cover PM 16 July 2009 limited edition 1 0f 20 copies. Michael Collins (October 31, 1930 – April 28, 2021) was an American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, made the first crewed landing on the surface. He was also a test pilot and major general in the U.S. Air Force Reserves. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
JAVIER RODRÍGUEZ PÉREZ (Cantillana, Seville, 1986)."Light in the windows".Oil on wood.Signed in the lower central area.Measurements: 41 x 125 cm.Javi Rodríguez began to make himself known in 2007 with his participation in the exhibition "Pequeños formatos" at the Benedito gallery in Málaga, where he will participate again in group exhibitions in 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2013. In 2008 he held his first individual exhibition in the same gallery, and before the end of the year he held his second in the Hospital de Todos los Santos in Cantillana, his hometown. He will exhibit there again in 2010 and 2012. He has also shown his work at the Aitor Urdangarín gallery in Victoria, in a group exhibition in 2009 and individually in 2013. He has also participated in various competitions, being distinguished with the acquisition prize in the Virgen de las Viñas 2014 and finalist in its 2015 edition and in the Certamen Ciudad de Antequera of the same year. He is currently represented at the Haurie gallery in Seville.
JOAN RIPOLLÉS (Castellón, 1932)."La chica del gallo".Mixed media on canvas.Signed in the lower left corner.Measurements: 130 x 97 cm.Known by his second surname or as "the Blessed Ripo", Joan García Ripollés discovered his passion for painting when, when he was still very young and in the middle of the post-war period, he started working in an industrial painting workshop. From then on he devoted himself to painting at night, and later took drawing classes at the Ribalta secondary school in Castellón. After his debut in a group exhibition held in 1951 at the Caja de Ahorros de Castellón, 1954 was a turning point in his career, as a result of a trip to Paris where he made contact with the artistic circles of the city. He remained in the French capital until 1963, and during these years he produced twelve paintings for the church of Saint-Paul de Trigan in the Commune des Chaulegnes. However, he was unable to give up industrial painting until 1958, when he joined the Drouand David gallery in Paris, one of the most prestigious in the world. He organised his first major solo exhibition at MACBA in 1962, and in 1967 he travelled to New York, where he exhibited and sold his entire collection to The William Haber Art Collection. That same year, the New York dealer Leon Amiel, of the Larrouse gallery, acquired all his work, something which was repeated on his trip to Japan. From that moment on, he embarked on a dazzling international career that has taken his work all over the world. In 1977 he moved to Holland, where he produced the engravings for the book in homage to Josep Plà. Between 1986 and 1987 he devoted himself to sculpture, producing sixty-two works in ceramic and bronze which were exhibited at the 1988 edition of ARCO. He has organised solo exhibitions not only in Spain, Paris and New York, but also in Mexico, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, various American cities, Germany and Japan. He is currently the exclusive artist of The William Haber Art in New York and the Galerie Drouand in Paris. In 2000 he was awarded the Premio de las Artes de la Comunidad Valenciana. Ripollés is today one of the most international Spanish artists, and also one of the most complete, as he has worked brilliantly in painting, sculpture and engraving. After an initial stage of correct figuration in which he recreated the landscape of his homeland, his work began to lean first towards dramatic expressionism and then towards a simplified painting based on the imaginative and poetic recreation of reality. Within this lyrical, ironic and somewhat erotic world, he developed a body of work whose roots conceal a deep admiration for Picasso and Chagall. Ripollés is represented in the IVAM, the MOMA in New York, the Museum of the University of Alicante, the Museum of Fine Arts in Seville and the MACBA.
MANUEL MATEO CUENCA (La peraleja, Cuenca ,1951)."El peinado".Bronze and stone base. Exemplary 2/8.Enclosed author's certificate.CAPA FoundationSigned and justified.Measurements: 29,5 x 13,5 x 18 cm; 5 x 11 x 14,5 cm (base).Round work made in bronze where he plays with the combination of empty spaces, transparency, lightness and solidity. In such a way that it reminds the spectator of the sculpture Apollinaire wrote about. The author thus demonstrates that "his artistic premises are linked to a whole range of cultural problems with deep European roots which have been with us since the end of the 19th century and which are continually enriched with new contributions in the 20th century", as Sanchez Rojas Fenol points out in relation to the work of Mateo Cuenca. Manuel Mateo Cuenca began his artistic training in his youth and worked with artists such as Antonio Galán del Amo, José Carrilero, Venancio Blanco, Joaquín García Donaire, José Castro Llamas, Cristino Mallo, Otero Besteiro, Jesús Valverde, Pablo Palazuelo. He began to exhibit in 1973 when he held a group exhibition at the Banco Americano (Ameribank) in Madrid. He also exhibited at the Tolmo Gallery in Toledo, and that same year he was awarded the National Salcillo Prize in Murcia. With regard to his first individual exhibition in 2000, in the Ra del Rey gallery in Madrid, it is worth mentioning that the artist already had a long career as an exhibitor. Both nationally and internationally, with his participation in exhibitions such as Avant Premiere. Capa Esculturas, Brussels in 2015, Affordable Art Fair London Spring Edition, London in 2008 or Estampa, the International Exhibition of Contemporary Art Printmaking and Publishing. Capa Sculptures. Madrid in 2004 among others. These exhibitions, which have confirmed his artistic recognition, have been followed by various awards, such as the II Prize for Sculpture at the II International Biennial El Baloncesto en las Bellas Artes in 2000, the XXVII Special Mention for Sculpture, the Plastic Arts Competition in Getafe, (Madrid) in 1979, the gold medal at the XVIII National Sculpture Exhibition and the Julio Antonio Prize, Tarragona in 1974, among many others. Nowadays his works are divided in different private collections such as the Ros Urigüen collections (Madrid), and many artistic centres of great cultural relevance among which the Diputación de Cuenca, the Pedro Ferrándiz Foundation in Madrid, the Eduardo Capa Foundation in Alicante, the Ministry of Culture in Madrid, the Reina Sofía Museum and the Museum of Cuenca stand out, his work is characterised by an approach to geometric constructivism that is never confused with a rigid schematism. Even in his most voluptuous volumes, line, light or shadow, and sometimes the hollow, mark a geometric counterpoint that orders and gathers the composition and enriches his points of view. Through an expressive and successful play of volumes and lines, of tones and textures, of supports and challenges to gravity, Manuel Mateo's sculpture transmits an artistic serenity that is instantly transmitted to the spectator. Within a stylistic schematism that inevitably recalls the avant-garde movements of the last century.
Charles Arthur Salvador, 'Charlie' (British, b.1952). Born Michael Gordon Peterson, also known as Charles Bronson. 'Birdman Open His Mind The Charles Bronson Book of Poems'. First edition hardback book, 1999. Signed by sticker on the first blank page Charles Bronson, with spider sketch. Provenance: Consigned for sale by the author Richard Booth. Gifted to Richard by the artist. Richard has co written books with Bronson, including 'Hell on Earth' and 'Words from the Soul'. Charles Arthur Salvador, 'Charlie', (born Michael Gordon Peterson also known as Charles Bronson), was born 6 December 1952. He is an English criminal who is often referred to in the British press as the "most violent prisoner in Britain" and "Britain's most notorious prisoner". Charlie is one of the highest-profile criminals in Britain and has been featured in books, interviews, and studies in prison reform and treatment. He was the subject of the 2008 film Bronson starring Tom Hardy, a biopic based loosely around his life. Bronson has written many books about his experiences and famous prisoners he has met throughout his incarceration. A self-declared fitness fanatic who has spent many years in segregation, Bronson dedicated a book to exercising in confined spaces. He has also cultivated a reputation as an outsider artist, with his paintings and illustrations of prison and psychiatric hospital life being publicly exhibited and winning him multiple awards. Charlie has 11 Koestler Trust awards for his art and poetry. Some people say the artwork shows the dark corners of a disturbed mind, but supporters say the scenes reflect the events he has witnessed and lived. It is art that has come straight from his soul. It was in 1994 at HMP Wakefield that prison officer Mick O'Hagan encouraged him to take up art, and his lifelong love of art has been his saviour ever since. Charles, who changed his surname as a mark of respect to one of his favourite artists Salvador Dali, is said to have drawn "the madness he has come in contact with." "Nobody condones criminality, but I do believe that offenders can be helped to break the cycle of reoffending. Charlie himself has used his art to help rehabilitate himself. Helping young offenders has become increasingly important to Charles he wants to use his experience to prevent others following the same path" - Richard Booth.
RICHARD JEFFERIES: 'The Dewy Morn. A Novel..': FIRST EDITION, inscribed by Henry Williamson at head of title page 'given to by E.W 26.7.1921', his owl monogram beside: London, Richard Bentley, 1884: 2 vols, publishers green cloth, spines gilt lettered, a little rubbed and marked: 'The Life of the Fields..', London 1884: inscribed to half title 'Henry Williamson Shallowford 1931': publishers decorative brown cloth, spine browned, nicks to spine ends: 'The Hills and the Vale...introduction by Edward Thomas': ownership and monogram of Henry Williamson dated 1920 to FFE: London, Duckworth, 1909, publishers blue cloth, 8vo: 'World's End. A Story in Three Books': London, Tinsley, 1877: FIRST EDITION: 3 vols, publishers brown cloth blocked in black, a little skewed and contents shaken: together with approx 72 others over 2 shelves, works by Richard Jefferies from the estate of the Williamson family. (2 shelves)
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