![[Wilson (Benjamin)] A Treatise on Electricity, first edition, dedicatee association copy inscribed "Granville Hastings Wheler](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d4a463ec-c9f8-4a51-8059-af810104b01f/1f9d2ad0-c72d-4088-bfe9-af81010759c5/468x382.jpg)
[Wilson (Benjamin)] A Treatise on Electricity, first edition, dedicatee association copy inscribed "Granville Hastings Wheler the gift of Christopher Wilson Esq", 5 folding engraved plates, scattered faint spotting, bookplate, contemporary calf, gilt, red morocco spine label ,bumping to corners and spine extremities, 8vo, 1750.⁂ Benjamin Wilson (1721-88), was a painter and scientist. He opposed Benjamin Franklin's theory of positive and negative electricity. His most well known experimental work was on the electrical properties of tourmaline, which gained him international recognition. Granville Wheler (1701-1770) was a fellow scientist who was the first in England to electrify a live animal. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1728. Wilson dedicated this work to him.
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Gothic novel.- Robinson (Mary) Hubert de Sevrac, a Romance of the Eighteenth Century, 3 vol., first edition, errata at the end of each vol., advertisement f. at the end of vol. 3, vol. 2 M6 with repaired tear at foot, lacking half-titles, occasional light foxing, armorial bookplate of Sir John Eden to front pastedowns, contemporary speckled calf, gilt, spine gilt in compartments with red and green morocco labels, a handsome set, [Garside, Raven and Schowerling 1796: 77; Summers p.362], 8vo, for the Author by Hookham and Carpenter, 1796.⁂ Rare gothic novel by Robinson set during the French Revolution. In her lifetime Robinson was better known as an actress and lady of fashion as well as for a string of prominent affairs, including with George IV whilst he was still Prince of Wales. Her literary output, though derided at the time, has since been reassessed and Robinson herself now seen as a proto-feminist.
Education.- Darwin (Erasmus) A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education in Boarding Schools, first edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece (lightly foxed and offset on title), one or two small marginal stains but a crisp, clean copy in contemporary half roan, spine gilt, rather rubbed and marked, splits to joints, spine chipped at head, 4to, Derby, J.Drewry, for J.Johnson..., 1797.⁂ Important and progressive work on the education of women proposing that they should study natural history and science as well as the more usual accomplishments of music, drawing, needlework etc. The frontispiece depicts the gardens of Ashbourne Hall in Derbyshire, where the Miss Parkers, Darwin's illegitimate daughters, successfully established a girls' boarding school to try out his educational ideas. The work includes a list of suggested books to be read by young ladies and a final leaf with charges which is essentially a prospectus for the school.
Clare (John) The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems, 2 vol., first edition, 4 pp. publisher's advertisements to vol.2, portrait frontispiece to vol.1 replaced from another copy, contemporary ink ownership inscription to vol.2 pastedown, neat repair to vol.1 hinge, original boards, spine papers and endpapers to vol.1 renewed, 8vo, 1821.
Appianus, Alexandrinus. Historia Romana; De Bellis Civilibus, translated by Petrus Candidus Decembrius, 2 parts in 2 vol. (mixed set), collation: I: a-i10 k-n8 o10; II: a-c10 d12 e-x10, I: 131ff. (of 132, lacking initial blank), II: 211ff. (of 212, lacking initial blank), 31-33 lines and side-notes, Roman type, first title with full woodcut white vine on black border, second title with three-sided white vine on black border, woodcut white on black decorative initials in two sizes, part 1 bookplate or similar removed from lower margin of a2v leaving brown staining, later endpapers, part 2 occasional early ink marginalia, library ink stamp to outer margin of a2 and a couple of other margins, final leaf water-stained, occasional mostly marginal water-staining elsewhere, some foxing, both parts occasional small marginal worm trace or hole, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, part 1 later limp vellum, remains of ties, later ink title to spine, creased, part 2 18th century calf, rebacked, corners restored, marked and rubbed, 4to (I: 270 x 190mm. II: 267 x 185mm.), Venice, Bernhard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt & Peter Löslein, 1477.⁂ First complete edition of Appian's Roman history. "To my mind there are few printed books of any age which can be compared with the Appian of 1477, with its splendid black ink, its vellum-like paper, and the finished excellence of its typography". (Redgrave (Gilbert R.) Erhard Ratdolt and his work at Venice, 1894, p.13). Provenance: Manuel Gonzalez Salmon (engraved armorial bookplate to rear endpaper); Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (engraved armorial bookplate with ink ms. numbering). Literature: BMC V, 244; Goff A-928; H 1307*; GW 2290; Bod-inc A-363; BSB-Ink A-651; ISTC ia00928000.
![[Dickens (Charles)], "Boz". Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, 3 vol., first edition, second issue with "Boz" on ti](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d4a463ec-c9f8-4a51-8059-af810104b01f/4510966e-febb-4331-a3c5-af8101072f50/468x382.jpg)
[Dickens (Charles)], "Boz". Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, 3 vol., first edition, second issue with "Boz" on titles and 'Rose Maylie and Oliver' plate, half-titles, 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank, advertisements to front and back as called for by Smith, some off-setting, spotting, vol. 1 gutter cracked and hinge weak at half-title, original reddish brown fine-diaper cloth, spines a little toned, rubbing to extremities, [Eckel pp.59-60; Smith I, 4] 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1838.
Dickens (Charles) Hard Times. For These Times, first edition in book form, first issue with p.244 misnumbered 44, Autograph Letter signed from the author to Georgiana Morson alerting her of his order of 1000 marked papers from the printer loosely inserted, half-title reinforced with tape to gutter, small paper repairs to preliminaries and final f., occasional scattered spotting or light marginal finger soiling, modern green morocco with gilt border, spine ruled in gilt, new endpapers, small scuff mark to upper cover, otherwise a very attractive copy, 8vo, 1854.⁂ The letter is addressed to Georgiana Morson, 1817-80, Matron of Urania Cottage, the home for 'fallen women' that he helped to establish with philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts in Shepherd's Bush, in which Dickens took a keen interest often visiting several times a week.
Collins (Wilkie) No Name, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles in vol. 1 & 2 (as called for), very occasional foxing and some light finger-soiling, repaired tear to vol.2 title, ink ownership inscription "Fanny Barker. The Edge" to front free endpapers, bookplate of Agnes E. Barker to front pastedowns, original blind-stamped orange cloth, spines a little darkened, slight fraying to spine ends, vol. 3 upper hinge repaired, light surface soiling, but an excellent set generally, preserved in custom drop-back box with bookplate of Brian Fenwick-Smith, [Sadleir 601], 8vo, Sampson Low, 1862.⁂ A classic work of sensation fiction, No Name explores the theme of illegitimacy through the disinherited Norah and Magdalen Vanstone.
![[Cowen (H.)] The History of a Voyage to the Moon, with an Account of the Adventurers' Subsequent Discoveries. An Exhumed Narr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d4a463ec-c9f8-4a51-8059-af810104b01f/d65dd669-c691-4cd1-99e5-af810107b434/468x382.jpg)
[Cowen (H.)] The History of a Voyage to the Moon, with an Account of the Adventurers' Subsequent Discoveries. An Exhumed Narrative, supposed to have been ejected from a Lunar Volcano, first edition, presentation copy signed by the anonymous author, lithograph frontispiece printed in blue with ink inscription just showing through, browned, hinges starting, original green cloth, modern green morocco drop-back box, 8vo, 1864.⁂ Scarce in such fine condition and with the author's identifying presentation inscription. "An interplanetary fantasy whose protagonists employ a force of 'repulsion' to convey an 'island earth' to the Moon. They discover a communistic utopian society of miniature humans, who are unwitting reincarnations of souls who have previously lived on Earth . . . A fascinating philosophical romance, intermediate between satirical lunar voyages and scientific romances"--Barron, The Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1141. Bleiler, Checklist, page 6; Locke, Voyages in Space 11 ("an important book in that considerable thought is devoted to the operation of the antigravity substance").
Collins (Wilkie) The Moonstone, first American edition, frontispiece, illustrations, occasional corner creasing and light marking, Oelrichs bookplate to front pastedown, original cloth, light sunning to spine, faint toning to covers, slight fraying to spine and corner tips but an excellent copy generally, slip-case, New York, 1868; and the collected edition of the serial issue of the same, 8vo (2)
Sewell (Anna) Black Beauty: his Grooms and Companions. The Autobiography of a Horse, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece, 8pp. advertisements at end, occasional faint marking, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, original pictorial green cloth decorated in black and gilt (Carter's C variant with the horse looking left, slight bumping to spine ends, neat repairs to joints, light rubbing, an excellent example, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop-back box, 8vo, Jarrold and Sons, [1877].⁂ An excellent copy of this Victorian equine classic, whose author died soon after its publication.
American Testimonial Banquet to Henry M. Stanley, In recognition of his Heroic Achievements in the cause of Humanity, Science & Civilisation (The) first edition, title, prints of Stanley and his chief officers, menu, toast list, and other ephemera related to the dinner all mounted on blue paper and tipped into 6 ff. of heavy gilt-edged card, portraits with captions and facsimile signatures below, lightly spotted, invitation card loosely inserted, original tooled calf, g.e., lightly scuffed and rubbed, 8vo, 1890.⁂ First edition of this scarce volume issued to those invited to the exclusive 1890 American Testimonial Banquet honoring explorer Henry Stanley. The programme contains a list of committee members and honorary stewards, including James Whistler, P.T. Barnum and Bret Harte, as well as a tipped-in plate of 'Shield and Medallions' and accompanying description, along with the evening's menu, music programme, and 'Toast List'. The invitation card completed in manuscript to admit a 'Mr Alfred H. Mason' with the 'No. 352' at the upper left corner.
Aldus.- Statius (Publius Papinius) Statii Sylvarum Libri quinque Thebaidos libri duodecim Achilleidos duo... with blank leaf i8, occasional ink manuscript annotations in ?early hand, C4 (colophon at end of Achilleidos) with 3 small paper repairs at edges, bound after Orthographia et flexus dictionum graecarum omnium apud Statium..., e8 (final leaf) with full-page woodcut printer's device, title (a1) a little toned, 2 parts in 1, first Aldine edition, collation: a-e8; a-z8 A-F8 G4 A-B8 C4, front free endpaper working loose, nineteenth century half morocco, spine toned, extremities rubbed, g.e., small 8vo (144 x 89mm.) Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1502.⁂ First Aldine edition of all the surviving works of Statius, along with an orthography of Greek terms found in Statius (sometimes bound second), in the Aldine octavo-format often used for his classical publications.Literature: Adams S1670; Ahmanson-Murphy 61; EDIT 16 CNCE 36141; Renouard 35:7.
Bond (Michael) A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, signed by the author and dated October 1958 on endpaper, illustrations by Peggy Fortnum, light foxing to endpapers, original cloth, slight bowing to covers, dust-jacket, spine ends and corners a little chipped, closed tear with creasing and neat tape repair to head of upper panel, chip to foot of rear panel, some light surface soiling and small patch of browning to lower panel, but a bright and excellent example overall, 8vo, 1958.⁂ The first of Michael Bond's Paddington books signed by the author in the month of publication. A children's classic, rare signed and in the dust-jacket.
Bowles (Paul) The Sheltering Sky, first edition, occasional light scattered foxing or spotting, slightly heavier to preliminaries, original cloth, spine lightly faded, ends a little frayed, dust-jacket, price-clipped, neat and expert restorations and repairs to head and tail, with small portion of spine supplied in facsimile, still in effect a sharp and excellent copy, 8vo, 1949.⁂ Scarce first edition of the author's first novel-an existential masterpiece. It was described in a contemporary review by Tennessee Williams as "an allegory of the spiritual adventure of the fully conscious person into modern experience."
Fleming (Ian) Casino Royale, first edition, neat ink ownership inscription dated 1953 to front free endpaper along with small patch of browning, original boards with heart design and lettering in red, light bumping to head of spine and corners, clean and bright otherwise, first issue dust-jacket without Sunday Times review, head of spine and upper corners a little chipped, a few short nicks with light creasing to head, usual foxing to lower panel, small internal chip to upper panel, small patch of browning to front flat, light rubbing to extremities, an excellent example overall, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop-back box, 8vo, 1953.⁂ A bright and excellent example of the first James Bond novel. Increasingly difficult to find not price clipped and unrestored.
Fleming (Ian) Moonraker, first edition, first state with "shoo" on p.10, neat ink ownership inscription dated 1955 to front free endpaper, original boards, lettered in silver, light crease to spine, dust-jacket, spine with light toning and a little creased at head, light surface soiling, small patch of surface wear to foot of upper panel, light rubbing to extremities, but an unusually bright and excellent copy, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop-back box, 8vo, 1955.⁂ The rare first state, especially unusual without any of the usual fading to the colour of the jacket.
Fleming (Ian) Diamonds are Forever, first edition, original boards, upper cover decorated in blind with silver diamond to centre, spine lettered in silver, near-fine, dust-jacket, very light toning to spine, head of spine and corners a little chipped, light cockling and soiling to rear panel, light rubbing to extremities, but an excellent copy generally, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop-back box, 8vo, 1956.
Fleming (Ian) Dr. No, first edition, original second state boards with silhouette, spine lettered in silver, light bumping to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, very slight toning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, short closed tear with creasing to head of spine, light surface soiling to lower panel, light rubbing to extremities, an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1958.
Fleming (Ian) Goldfinger, first edition, original boards, covers with skull design blocked in gilt and blind, spine lettered in gilt, slight shelf-lean, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, neatly price-clipped, ink signature to front flap, very light toning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light creasing to head, light surface soiling and line of darker staining to lower pane, 8vo, 1959.
Woodwose.- Tuberinus (Johannes) Carmen ad gravem: santumque senatum Lipsensem: de orgiis corporis Christi publici assertoris, first edition, collation: A-B4, fine large woodcut of a Woodwose (or wild hairy man of the forest) to title, copious contemporary German ink annotations throughout, modern boards with gilt-lettered black morocco label to upper cover, 4to (215 x 157mm.), Leipzig, Wolfgang Stoeckel, [c.1511].⁂ A rare work, with an insight into contemporary Lepizig learning through the copious notes of a student. The large woodcut depicts a Woodwose, or hairy wild man of the forest, who carries a shield bearing the arms of the city of Leipzig. The setting of the text provides ample room for inter-linear and marginal notes.Literature: Adams T1016; VD 16 B2375.
Fleming (Ian) On Her Majesty's Secret Service, original boards with ski trail design to upper cover, spine lettered in silver, dust-jacket, slight toning to spine, minor chipping to spine ends and corners, light creasing to head, 1963; The Diamond Smugglers, illustrations, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, original plain boards, dust-jacket, price-clipped, light sunning to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, 1957; You Only Live Twice, first state, light browning to endpapers, original boards with Japanese characters in gilt to upper cover, spine lettered in silver, dust-jacket, very slight sunning to spine, light creasing to head, neat repair to foot of spine verso, 1964, first editions, excellent or near-fine generally; and 2 others, including a first edition From Russia With Love in a later issue dust-jacket, 8vo (5)
Fleming (Ian) The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, original first state boards with golden gun on upper cover, variant issue with spine lettered in silver, very slight fading to spine, a bright and fine example, dust-jacket, very light toning to spine, a few short nicks with creasing to head, spot to upper panel, an excellent example, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop-back box, 8vo, 1965.⁂ A rare variant of the rare first state. The spine here lettered in silver rather than the usual gold as with the vast majority of copies.
Fleming (Ian) Goldfinger, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "To Lionel, Something more to read! From Ian" on endpaper, light spotting to endpaper and fore-edge, original blind-stamp and gilt pictorial boards, very slight bumping to spine tips, else fine, dust-jacket, very slight toning to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners with neat tape repairs to verso, light creasing to head, light marking to lower panel, an excellent example overall, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop-back box, 8vo, 1959.⁂ An excellent example with a charming inscription and a good association of this key James Bond title. Seemingly one of the scarcest titles to fine inscribed. The recipient was Lionel Berry, 2nd Viscount Kemsley (1909-99), a politician and newspaper editor. His father, the 1st Viscount Kemsley, had given Fleming his first job as a journalist when he employed him as the Foreign Manager for the Kemsley newspaper group. It was this role, with its contracted three month break every winter to allow Fleming to holiday in Jamaica, that gave Fleming the opportunity to writer the planned spy novel that would become Casino Royale.
Forsyth (Frederick) The Day of the Jackal, first edition, signed and dated by the author to title, small contemporary ink gift inscription to front free endpapers, endpapers very lightly browned, original boards, dust-jacket, 8vo, 1971; along with ALs from the author, 2 photographs and a signed compliments slip from Edward Fox, together housed in a Sangorski & Sutcliffe box, red, blue, black and white oasis morocco, front cover with black morocco onlays and silver rule depicting a marksman and crosshairs, a very attractive copy, 8vo.
![Graves (Robert) Treasure Box, first edition, [one of 200 copies], this copy signed by the author on title, two illustrations](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d4a463ec-c9f8-4a51-8059-af810104b01f/b869e66b-ff83-4981-a9b4-af8101081b9c/468x382.jpg)
Graves (Robert) Treasure Box, first edition, [one of 200 copies], this copy signed by the author on title, two illustrations after Nancy Nicholson, original wrappers, expert repairs and retouches to inner hinge, re-sewn stitching to spine, housed in custom-made drop-back box with morocco spine label, 4to, Chiswick Press, [1919].
Greene (Graham) Brighton Rock, first edition, TLs to "Mr Hallesy" from the author loosely inserted, original cloth, spine ends lightly creased, dust-jacket, chipped and frayed at edges lightly affecting title, spine head reinforced with paper verso, [Wobbe A13.b], 8vo, New York, 1938.⁂ The true first edition, published a month before the first English edition, of Greene's classic gangster novel.Typed letter signed from Greene to Mr H. Hallesy, teacher at Cumtawe Comprehensive School, recommending favourite books for 17-18 year olds to read, including Henry James, Conrad, H.G. Wells and others.
Greene (Graham) The Power and the Glory, first edition, usual light browning to half-title, bookplates of Florence and Edward Kaye and Edward Kobler to pastedown, light marginal toning, half-title working loose, original cloth, dust-jacket priced at 8s. 3d. unclipped, light creasing and fraying to spine ends and extremities, very faint surface soiling to lower panel, but an excellent example overall, [Wobbe A16], 8vo, 1940.⁂ Hailed by John Updike as "Graham Greene's masterpiece", the work was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the hundred best English-language novels since 1923. Bookplates of Florence and Edward Kaye, distinguished collectors of fiction from 1591-1974; and John Kobler, US biographer best known for his 1971 work on Al Capone. Rare in the dust-jacket, especially so in such excellent condition. Many of the copies were seemingly lost in the bombing of Heinemann's publishing house during the war.
Hemingway (Ernest) Fiesta, first English edition, very light spotting to prelims, browning to endpapers, "Review Copy" ink stamp to front free endpaper, original cloth, light sunning to spine and lower cover, second impression dust-jacket, light tonging to spine, spine with minor tearing and light creasing to head, short nick with creasing to head of upper panel, some light creasing across to spine and panels, but an exceptionally bright, near-fine example generally, [Hanneman 33A], 8vo, 1927.⁂ A superb example of the first English edition of Sun Also Rises. We can only trace one other example of the second impression jacket at auction and no example of the first impression jacket.
Hemingway (Ernest) Men Without Women, first English edition, browning to endpapers, original cloth, light sunning to spine, light soiling to lower cover, dust-jacket, spine browned and a little sunned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, neat professional strengthening to verso of head, foot and spine, extremities rubbed, some light surface abrasion to lower panel, but overall a very good example of a scarce jacket, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop-back box, [Hanneman 34a], 8vo, 1928.⁂ Hemingway's second short story collection, including "The Killers", one of his most celebrated, adapted numerous times for the screen.
Greek printing.- Lucian of Samosata. Deorum dialogi numero 70, first edition translated by Ottmar Nachtgall, collation: a-x4, text in parallel Greek and Latin, title, a2v and a3r printed in red and black, woodcut decorative typographic border to left-hand margin of each page of Greek text, title soiled and verso repaired at inner margin, slight worming to title with loss to a few letters of text on verso, a2 spotted, lightly water-stained especially towards end, later boards, spine faded, 4to (191 x 142mm.), Strasbourg, Johann Schott, 1515.⁂ The handsomely printed sole edition edited by the Strasbourg humanist Ottmar Nachtgall, also known as Luscinius. He had enthusiastically introduced the study of Greek in his hometown, preparing Greek grammars and texts for the use of teachers, students, and adults interested in learning the language. He was also a fine musician, publishing his Institutiones Musicae in the same year as this edition of Lucian, and later becoming organist of St. Thomas's in Strasbourg. This is the fourth German book printed in Greek and the second classical Greek text, preceded by the 1513 Batrachomyomachia and two Horae only.Literature: Adams L1617; VD16 L2955.
Hemingway (Ernest) A Farewell to Arms, first edition, first issue without the legal disclaimer, very slight browning to endpapers, original cloth with gilt labels to upper cover and spine, light bumping to foot of spine and lower corners, first issue dust-jacket with mis-spelled 'Katherine Barclay' to front flap, very slight toning to spine and lower panel, light creasing to head and foot with small nick to foot of upper panel, light rubbing, but a sharp, near-fine example generally, preserved in custom half morocco drop-back box, [Hanneman 8a], 8vo, New York, 1929.⁂ A superb example of one of Hemingway's key novels, rare in such condition and among the best fiction to come out of the First World War.
Hemingway (Ernest) Winner Take Nothing, first edition, first issue with publisher's "A" to copyright p., and missing 'T' from 'Two' (p.159), original black cloth, gilt labels to upper cover and spine, short tear to spine head, first state dust-jacket with Stalling's review of 'Death in the Afternoon', light browning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, neat and professional strengthening and repairs running along head, foot and spine verso, extremities a little rubbed, in effect an excellent copy, preserved un custom morocco-backed drop-back box, [Hanneman A12a], 8vo, 1933.
Hemingway (Ernest) For Whom the Bell Tolls, first edition, publisher's "A" to copyright p., front free endpaper neatly re-affixed, original cloth, very light toning to spine, second issue dust-jacket with photographer credit to lower panel, price-clipped, very light fading to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, closed tear to foot of lower panel, light creasing to head and foot, an excellent example overall, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop-back box, [Hanneman 18a], 8vo, New York, 1940.
Hemingway (Ernest) The Old Man and the Sea, first edition, publisher's "A" and seal to copyright p., original blue cloth, light sunning to spine, faint spotting to covers, first issue dust-jacket with portrait of Hemingway in blue tint on back panel and no mention of Nobel Prize, very light toning to spine and rear panel, small neat repair to head of spine, light rubbing to extremities, a near-fine example overall, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop-back box, [Hanneman A24a], 8vo, New York, 1952.
Hemingway (Ernest) A Moveable Feast, first edition, faint spotting to fore-edge, original cloth-backed boards, light creasing and fading to spine tips, dust-jacket, price-clipped, spine ends and corners a little chipped, a few short nicks with creasing to head and foot, light rubbing to extremities, an excellent example, preserved in custom half morocco drop-back box, [Hanneman 31a], New York, 1964; and a first edition of To Have and Have Not without a dust-jacket, 8vo (2)⁂ Hemingway's superb memoir of his life in Paris in the 1920s.
Lawrence (D.H.) Lady Chatterley's Lover, first edition, number 286 of 1000 copies signed by the author, purple morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, covers with coloured morocco onlaid design of black, orange, red and white flower buds and scrolled green foliate design extending over the spine, spine lettered in gilt with title, author and date in 1920s-style type, inner dentelles with onlaid green morocco foliate design at corners, black silk endpapers and doublures, preserving original lower wrapper and part of backstrip laid down and bound in at end, top edge gilt, others uncut, spine a little darkened, housed in matching green and purple morocco slipcase, 8vo, privately printed, 1928.
Le Carré (John) The Pigeon Tunnel, one of 100 copies signed by the author, original cloth, spine lettered in gilt, mint, original slip-case with photographic onlay, sealed in publisher's cellophane, 2016; and 2 others of the same title, one first trade edition also signed by the author and an uncorrected proof copy, 8vo (3)
Nabokov (Vladimir) Lolita, 2 vol., first edition, first issue with covers priced at 900F, very light erasure mark to vol. 1 half-title, original green wrappers, light toning and creasing to spines, rubbing to joints and fore-edges, light corner creasing, small portion of restoration to foot of upper wrapper, vol.2 upper hinge reinforced at foot, but an unusually clean, bright set generally, housed in custom morocco-backed drop-back box, 8vo, Paris, Olympia Press, 1955.⁂ A very good set of Nabokov's masterpiece, difficult to find in good condition.
Nicholson (William) Clever Bill, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author/illustrator "for Mrs Howard from Mabel Low and from William Nicholson" to pastedown, 21 colour illustrations by the author, light spotting and foxing to pictorial endpapers, original pictorial boards, light rubbing and surface soiling to extremities, dust-jacket, browned and spotted, chips and short closed tears to spine ends and extremities, longer 5cm tear along upper flap joint, small scuff to upper panel, oblong 8vo, 1926.⁂ Nicholson's scarcest picture book and very rare to find with the jacket and as a signed copy. Mabel Low, wife of a Harley Street doctor, met Nicholson in 1922 when they became friends.
Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first hardback edition with "Joanne Rowling" and no space between "Taylor" and "1997" on title verso, "wand" listed twice on p. 53, usual light marginal toning, original pictorial boards with misprint "Philospher's" to lower cover, small chip to head of upper cover, short 1cm internal crack to upper joint, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, but a remarkably bright and fine copy otherwise, 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1998.⁂ A superb example of the first edition of this modern children's classic, a work that began a cultural phenomenon. This copy without any trace of inscriptions and with the spine and covers still exceptionally bright and colourful.
Waugh (Evelyn) Scoop. A Novel about Journalists, first edition, first issue with indistinct '8' in the publication date and 'as' in last line of p.88, some slight edge spotting but a clean copy generally, Book Society bookplate to front free endpaper, original cloth, light sunning to spine, first issue dust-jacket with "Daily Beast" masthead, spine ends and corners chipped, a few small nicks and chips to head and foot with accompanying creasing, chip to lower fore-edge, light rubbing to extremities, but overall a very good example of a delicate jacket, 8vo, 1938.⁂ Waugh's classic satire on Fleet Street journalism, born in part out of a trip he made to Abyssinia in 1935 on behalf of the Daily Mail. This copy with the first issue dust-jacket, changed after Lord Beaverbrook famously threatened to sue due to the likeness to the Daily Express masthead.
Xenophon. De factis et dictis Socratis memoratu dignis Bessarione Cardinale Niceno interprete, first edition, collation: A-N4 O6, woodcut title, printer's device on verso of final leaf, woodcut initials, some light foxing, stain to lower corner, modern vellum, 4to (201 x 140mm.), Rome, Ariotto da Trino for Giovanni Mazzocchi, 1521.⁂ Provenance: U. Saba - Trieste (Italian poet, 1883-1957, and antiquarian bookseller: ink inscription on rear pastedown beneath one of his (?) bookseller's catalogue descriptions).Literature: Adams X43; CTC VII, 167; Hoffmann III, 594; EDIT 16 CNCE 48350.
Waugh (Evelyn) Work Suspended, first edition, one of 500 copies, this copy signed by the author on title, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine a little darkened, minor chipping to spine ends, one or two short closed tears to upper edge, some light surface soiling or spotting but still an excellent example, 8vo, 1942.
Woolf (Virginia) Beau Brummell, first edition, one of 550 copies signed by the author, decorations by W.A. Dwiggins, original cloth-backed boards, paper label depicting a peacock to upper cover, original green card slip-case (rubbed and faded), peacock paper label to upper panel, covers and spine a little faded with some surface soiling, still overall an excellent copy, [Kirkpatrick A15], folio, New York, 1930.
Bawden (Edward).- Richards (J.M.) High Street, first edition, presentation copy signed by the author, Edward Bawden's copy, wood-engraved title and 24 wood engraved colour lithograph plates by Eric Ravilious, endpapers a little foxed, original pictorial boards, spine ends chipped, corners bumped and rubbed, paper flaking at joints, 8vo, Curwen Press for Country Life Ltd., 1938.⁂ A superb association copy of this quintessential pre-war English illustrated work. Firm friends Bawden and Ravilious moved to the Essex village of Great Bardfield in 1925, initially sharing lodgings, having met at the Royal College of Art in 1922. With the ever more noticeable demise of the English town high street, this work is a lovely reminder of times past. This copy with Edward Bawden's signature beneath the inscription from the author on front free endpaper, and also with Bawden's distinctive 'snail' bookplate.
Bawden (Edward) Hold Fast Your Teeth, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to his daughter "To Joanna who inspired this book, from Dad, Christmas 1963" to front free endpaper, occasional light finger-soiling marks, original pictorial boards, a little soiled, extremities rubbed and creased, dust-jacket, tear to upper panel, spine ends frayed and nicked, spine faded, light surface dirt, 1963 § MacNeice (Louis) The Sixpence that Rolled Away, endpapers browned, original pictorial boards, dust-jacket, lightly frayed to spine ends, short tear to upper panel with some nicks to edges, otherwise excellent,1956 § How Animals Move, original boards, dust-jacket, lightly nicks and frayed to edges, 1953 § Lloyd Thomas (M. G., editor) Traveller's Verse, modern half calf, spine gilt in compartments, 1946, Edward Bawden's copies, with his ownership name to front free endpapers, all illustrated by Bawden; and 2 others, also illustrated and from the library of Bawden, 4to & 8vo (6)⁂ A lovely group of Bawden-illustrated works, all from his own library with his ownership inscription.
Erasmus (Desiderius) Precatio Dominica in septem portiones distributa, first illustrated edition, collation: a-b8 c4, woodcut device on title and on verso of otherwise blank final leaf, 8 woodcut illustrations, initials, partially coloured in yellow in an early hand, a couple of leaves with side-notes trimmed with slight loss, light foxing, modern marbled boards, 8vo (147 x 96mm.), Basel, Johannes Froben, 1524.⁂ Scarce first illustrated edition of Erasmus' commentary on the Lord's Prayer, originally published a year earlier without illustrations. The 8 large woodcuts are after Hans Holbein the Younger. This short treatise follows the medieval manner of biblical exposition known as postillating.Literature: Bezzel 1622; VD16 E 3450; Erasmus online 3205.
Omar Khayyám. Rubaiyat, first deluxe edition, one of 100 copies, printed on Japanese paper and signed by the artist Elihu Vedder, occasional foxing, original brown morocco, gilt, decorated silk doublures and elaborately gilt dentelles, modern morocco-backed cloth drop-back box, folio, Boston, 1884.⁂ A superb copy of one of the great interpretations of the Rubaiyat. The 57 Art-Nouveau illustrations, drawn in pencil, ink, chalk, and watercolour over ten months from May 1883 to March 1884, are here printed on Japanese paper using a then-new photographic printing process which could accurately reproduce the subtle gradations of the originals. Vedder's design work is not just limited to the illustrations, but includes everything from the hand-written text to the design of the binding and endpapers.
Africa.- Ogilby (John) Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Ægypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, Æthiopia, and the Abyssines, first edition, engraved allegorical frontispiece, title in red and black, large folding double-page map of Africa, 43 engraved double-page maps, views, scenes and plans, 8 single-page plates, 9 sheets of letterpress tables (misbound), engraved initials, head-pieces and numerous illustrations to text, additional folding plate titled "Teneo te Africa" bound in at front, 2 facsimile maps bound in at rear, lacking half-title, map of Africa with tear at foot of inner margin and along horizontal fold, latter repaired but with small loss to image, several double-page plates with tear at foot of inner margin, most neatly repaired with paper to verso, slight creasing to a few plates, some light foxing or browning, armorial bookplate of William East, contemporary calf, rebacked, covers worn, rubbed, [Wing O163], folio, Printed by Tho. Johnson for the author, 1670.⁂ First edition of this important work on Africa, the most comprehensive work on Africa in English published in the seventeenth century, largely based on the work of Olfert Dapper. The letterpress tables, rather than being bound at the end of the preliminaries (as called for by Wing), are interspersed throughout the text.
δ America.- Martyr d'Anghiera (Peter) De Orbe Novo, edited by Richard Hakluyt, collation: a⁸, A-Z⁸, Aa-Rr⁸, woodcut printer's device to title, woodcut head-pieces and initials, with the exceedingly rare engraved folding map of the New World, monogrammed 'LG' in ligature in lower left corner, possibly the French engraver Leonardo Gaultier, an excellent fine impression printing with light plate tone on 16th century laid paper with small spherical watermark [similar to Briquet 14056 and 14057, French, dateable to 1550s or slightly later], italic type, contemporary marginal annotation to leaf D1, some light foxing and browning, map with some light scattered spotting, mostly marginal, later parchment boards, ink title to spine, some soiling, spine darkened, 8vo (170 x 105mm.), Paris, Guillelmum Avvray, 1587.⁂ Peter Martyr's authoritative chronicle of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, edited by Richard Hakluyt as part of an ongoing enterprise to encourage England's competitive expansion into the New World. Published the year before the Armada, the work is dedicated to Sir Walter Raleigh, an apparent promotion for Hakluyt's cause. The Latin text is drawn from the 1530 edition of Martyr's text, the first to be published with all eight "Decades". The folding map, known as the Hakluyt-Martyr map, is a remarkable piece of cartography, exceedingly rare to find in its original situation. We cannot trace a copy appearing at auction with the map present in over a century. It covers North and South America, including part of Africa, Europe, and Pacific islands. New Guinea and Japan are shown partially blank. The overall shape of the coastline of America is greatly improved, eliminating the bulge to western South America commonly found in maps of the period. Most remarkable is the inclusion of "Virginea 1584", the first appearance of the name Virginia on a printed map. An area entitled "Nuevo Mexico" with a large inland lake is also the first use of this term on a printed map.Literature: Adams M753; Sabin 1552; Burden 63 for the Hakluyt-Martyr map. δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
Asia.- De Salis (William Fane) Reminiscences of Travel in China and India in 1848, first edition, 32 lithograph plates, occasional minor foxing, original burgundy half roan, gilt, cloth a little faded, spine rubbed, 4to, Printed for Private Circulation, 1892.⁂ Rare. The lithographs, after his own sketches, include views of Hong Kong, Singapore, Mount Ophir, Cochin, Mocha, Coast of Nubia, Mount Zapharan, Alexandria, Malta, Algiers and Gibraltar.Loosely inserted are a 12pp. pamphlet in original wrappers entitled "Introductory Remarks to a Residence in Australia and to Travels in China and India; and a 1p autograph letter from a later De Salis family member.
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