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Click here to subscribeLinguistics.- Jakobson (Roman) Remarques sur l'Evolution Phonologique du Russe comparee a celle des autres langues slaves, [in Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague, 2], first edition, presentation copy signed by the author, original wrappers, a little soiled and cover edges slightly frayed, 8vo, Prague, 1929.
Woman author.- Behn (Aphra) Histories, novels, and translations, written by the most ingenious Mrs. Behn; The second volume, the greatest part never before printed, first edition, lacking engraved portrait, some foxing or staining, lightly browned, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, corners worn, couple of small areas of loss to leather of lower cover, [Wing B1711A etc.], 8vo, Printed by W.O[nley]. for S[amuel] B[riscoe] and sold by M. Brown, at the Cross-keys on Ludgate-hill, 1700.⁂ Published separately from the first volume. It is rare at auction.
NO RESERVE Jerusalem.- A Brief Guide to Al-Haram Al-Sharif, Jerusalem, published by the Supreme Moslem Council, first edition, 7 photographic plates of the Temple Mount, two small instances of worming, present throughout, scattered spotting, original printed wrappers, upper cover with pink ink stain to very outer margin, upper joint split at base, with small loss to corner, lower cover a little foxed, clipped at upper corner (as with all copies) for purposes of the Council's internal accounting, Jerusalem, 4to, 1924.⁂ A rare guide to the al-Haram al-Sharif, or Temple Mount. Written from a religious Muslim perspective, it nevertheless acknowledges the historic Jewish connection with the site. Photographs include The Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Dr. Samuel Johnson subscriber.- Jones (Rhys) Gorchestion beirdd Cymru: neu flodau godidowgrwydd awen, first edition, list of subscribers, ink library stamp to verso of title and within text of N2v (text legible), G1 with blind-stamp within text (which remains legible), spotted, occasional staining, library buckram, spine gilt, spine ends chipped, corners little worn, 4to, [Shrewsbury], Stafford Prys, 1773.⁂ Collection of early Welsh poetry, to which Dr. Johnson subscribed. He considered Welsh one of the 'cultivated tongues', and his interested in the language led him to encourage the publication of a reprint of John David Rhys' Cambrobrytannicæ Cymraecæue linguæ institutiones (1592), in order to preserve the language.
Gibbon (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vol., vol. 1 third edition, vols. 2-6 first editions, engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 engraved folding maps, errata leaves in vol. 2 & 3, vol. 4 3UI with short marginal tear, vol. 6 2M3 with small loss to lower corner, vol. 3 line 18 with misprint "Honorious" and p.177 correctly numbered, vol. 1 with Watson's 'An Apology for Christianity ...' bound at end, scattered faint spotting, bookplates, contemporary calf, vols. 1-3 with upper covers detached, a little rubbed, 4to, 1777-88.
NO RESERVE [Villette (Charles Louis de)] Essay on the Happiness of the Life to Come, [translated by Miss Hunt], first English edition, half-title small part of corner torn away and laid down, slightly browned, new endpapers, modern calf-backed boards, [ESTC lists 8 copies], 8vo, Bath, Printed by R. Cruttwell, Sold T. Cadell and C. Dilly, 1793.
Presented by Fuseli.- Darwin (Erasmus) The Botanic garden. A poem, in two parts, 2 parts in 1, third edition of part 1, fourth edition of part 2, 21 engraved plates (of which 2 are frontispieces), including 'The Tornado' by William Blake after Henry Fuseli, which does not appear in earlier editions, part 2 with directions to binder f. at end, part 1 lacking binder's f. following p.218, part 2 lacking half-title, first frontispiece detached, offsetting, some foxing, contemporary diced calf, gilt, upper cover detached, lower joint split, but holding firm, a few scuffmarks, rubbed, [Henrey 612], 4to, Printed for J. Johnston, 1795-1794.⁂ An excellent association copy. Provenance: 'Harriet Duchess of St Albans Septr 6 1829 This book was given to the Duchess when Mrs Coutts by Mr Fuseli' (ink inscription to title, and the recipient's engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown). Harriet Beauclerk had first been married to the banker Thomas Coutts, who was Henry Fuseli's great friend and patron. The celebrated actress was famous for her beauty, and was painted by George Romney and Sir Thomas Lawrence.
Moore (John) The Works of Tobias Smollett, 8 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, light offsetting, vol. 3 and 5 with some heavy spotting to rear, red morocco, vol. 7 with 3 small stains to spine, spines and extremities rubbed, g.e., 1797 § Walpole (Horace) Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, 3 vol., first edition, 6 engraved portrait plates, light offsetting, very occasional spotting, contemporary calf with red morocco labels to spine, vol. 3 with small abrasions to upper joint, extremities a little scuffed, 1846 § Motley (John Lothrop) The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 3 vol., 6 plates, morocco-backed cloth, 1904; and 10 others history, literature and music, v.s. (24)
Middle East.- Lawrence (T.E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom, first trade edition, fifth impression, 4 folding maps, plates and illustrations, original brown cloth, gilt, dust-jacket, very small tear upper joint head, very small chip upper fold head, light surface soiling, a sharp and fine example overall, 1935; Revolt In The Desert, first edition, third impression, folding map, plain plates, ink ownership inscription and other manuscript inscription to front endpaper, related news clipping tipped-in front pastedown, 2 items of related ephemera loosely inserted, very occasional marginal soiling, front endpaper with incisions, endpapers browned, original cloth, light surface soiling and bumping, 1927, 4to (2) ⁂ Ink ownership inscription, 'J. H. Irving. Leavenheath. 1955'. Manuscript inscription reads "'To T.E.L., who shared sleep amongst the Kings' Died 19th May 1935. Buried 21st May / 35 (a bunch of lilac and forget-me-nots by a young girl". It is possible that this was intended as a caption to a photograph, perhaps once inserted into the incisions to the endpaper, conceivably depicting Lawrence's grave. The news clipping shows a photograph of Lawrence's cottage, announcing its handover to the National Trust; also present a printed pamphlet relating to the Memorial of Lawrence in St. Paul's Cathedral and a 1950s postcard of Lawrence.
NO RESERVE Jones (Rev. Richard) An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth, and on the Sources of Taxation, first edition, lacking half-title, errata slip bound-in, occasional pencil underlining, scattered spotting and marginal soiling, modern morocco-backed boards, gilt, housed in a modern slipcase, 8vo, 1831.
NO RESERVE Near East.- Vincent (L.H.), E.J.H. Maclay and F. M. Abel. Hébron le Haram El-Khalîl: Sépulture des Patriarches, 2 vol. including plate vol., first edition, 28 plates, most photogravures, illustrations, plates loose as issued, in original cloth-backed boards, lacking ties, a little rubbed, text in original printed paper wrappers, loss to spine extremities, a little rubbed, folio, Paris, 1923.
Brontë (Charlotte) "Currer Bell" Jane Eyre. An Autobiography, first American edition, small tear to title, not affecting text, New York, 1848 bound with Dickens (Charles) The Cricket on the Hearth, first American edition, New York, 1846, with 4 others, together 6 works in 1 vol., binders label to pastedown, some light foxing, closely trimmed at head and fore-margin, affecting text, lacking advertisements, hinges cracked but covers holding, contemporary calf-backed cloth, spine gilt, rubbed, upper joint cracked, 8vo, [c.1848]. ⁂ One volume containing six early American editions. The four not mentioned are Agnes Searle (1845), Margaret Graham (1847), The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1844), and The Magic Goblet (1845).
Ruskin (John) The Stones of Venice, 3 vol., first edition, 1851-53; The Seven Lamps of Architecture, first edition, 1849; Modern Painters, 5 vol., 1851-60, plates and illustrations, some hand-coloured, most with tissue-guards, uniformly bound in near contemporary morocco by Matthews, g.e., gilt, very slight bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, (9)
Hugo (Victor) Les Misérables, 10 vol., first edition, half-titles, vol. 1 without title, scattered spotting, contemporary half-cloth, sunned spines, bumping to corners and spine extremities, one or two joints beginning to split at backstrip, but holding firm, a little rubbed, 8vo, Brussels, 1862.⁂ Scarcer than the Paris edition of the same year. The first 2 volumes were also published a few days before the Paris edition.
NO RESERVE Moore (George) Esther Waters, first edition, occasional light spotting, 1894 § Sister Teresa, first edition, portrait frontispiece, ink ownership inscription to title and p.1, some light foxing, 1901, some cracking at gutter, original cloth, lightly rubbed, corners and spine ends bumped, slight shelf-lean, t.e.g.; and 39 others, literature, including a 25 vol. set of Scott's Waverley Novels, Melrose Edition, v.s. (41)
Polar.- Ross (Sir John) Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions ..., 2 vol. in 1 (including Appendix), first edition, 45 engraved, lithograph and mezzotint plates, 21 hand-coloured and 3 trimmed, 6 charts and maps, 1 folding, list of subscribers at end, some new tissue-guards, scattered spotting, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining original backstrip, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, 1835.
Burton (Sir Richard Francis) A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now entituled The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night, 17 vol., Bassorah Edition, limited to 1000 copies, plates, vols. 1, 5, 8 & 16 hinges becoming broken, vol. 16 with first 2 ff. detached, original cloth, rubbed, some with backstrip beginning to split at joints, bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo,The Burton Club, [c.1903].
Yeats (William Butler) In the Seven Woods, first edition, one of 325 unnumbered copies, unopened, lightly browned endpapers, original cloth, printed paper label to upper cover, additional paper label loosely inserted, spotting, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Wade 49], 8vo, Dundrum, The Dun Emer Press, 1903.
Russell (Bertrand) What I Believe, first edition, browning to endpapers, original boards with mounted paper label to cover and spine, spine head a little chipped, other extremities scuffed, dust-jacket, spine and folds toned, some light surface soiling, tear at lower joint head, spine ends and corners with small chips, 1925; Power. A New Social Analysis, browning to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket with an alternative printed design for this work on the verso, slightly toned, spine head chipped, with two small chips at upper fold corners, 1938, first editions; and 8 others by the same, v.s. (10)
Keynes (John Maynard) A Treatise on Money, 2 vol., first edition, scattered faint spotting, previous owner's ink signature, ex-library with neat ink shelfmark and presentation labels, original cloth, lightly sunned spines, slight bumping to corners and extremities, split to spine head (vol. 1), 1930; The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money, first edition, second impression, previous owner's ink signature, portrait of Keynes taped to front pastedown, lacking final free endpaper, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, March 1936; and 2 others by the same, 8vo (5)
Churchill (Winston S.) Thoughts and Adventures, first edition, portrait frontispiece, half-title browned, some spotting to final pages, original cloth, joints and extremities rubbed, covers lightly scuffed, [Woods A39a], 1932 § MacCallum Scott (A.) Winston Churchill in Peace and War, second edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, tear and paper restoration to upper panel, some light toning and surface soiling, spine head chipped, very slight wear to extremities, 1916 § Marchant (Sir James, editor) Winston Spencer Churchill... A Tribute by various hands presented to him on his eightieth birthday, portrait frontispiece, original cloth, dust-jacket, toning to spine, spine ends and fold corners chipped, with original commemorative wrap-around, spine a little toned, 1954; and 19 others Churchill, 8vo (22)
Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) [War Speeches], 7 vol., first editions, all but vol. 1 compiled by Charles Eade, vol. 1 compiled by Randolph S. Churchill, frontispieces and plates, faint spotting to first and last few leaves of each vol., uniform later calf, gilt, slight rubbing to corners and spine extremities, 1941-46; My African Journey, first edition in book form, frontispiece, plates, 3 maps, 1 folding, advertisements at end, faint marginal staining to advertisements, previous owner's ink signature to title, modern calf, lightly sunned spine, 1908; and others, most on or by Churchill, 8vo (55)
NO RESERVE Churchill (Winston S.) A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, 4 vol., first edition, maps, scattered faint spotting, original cloth, slight rubbing to corners and extremities, dust-jackets, slight chipping to corners and extremities, 1956-58 § Mussolini (Benito) My Autobiography, portrait frontispiece, plates, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, price-clipped dust-jacket, a little rubbed, chipping and creasing to extremities, New York, 1928 § Stalin (Joseph) Leninism, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, lightly sunned spine, chipping and short tears to extremities, New York, 1928; and 3 others, 8vo & 12mo (9).
Hitler (Adolf) Mein Kampf, first illustrated edition in original 18 parts, photographic illustrations, light browning and scattered spotting, original pictorial wrappers, original pictorial wrappers, parts 1, 8 and 14 with covers detached, part 12 with covers becoming detached, part 14 with discreet tape repairs to spine, lightly rubbed, slight chipping to corners and extremities, 1939; and duplicates of parts 1 & 2, 8vo (20). ⁂ Scarce in the original parts.
Lee (Harper) To Kill a Mockingbird, first Book Club edition, original boards, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, dust-jacket, slight chipping to corners and extremities, Philadelphia & New York, J. P. Lippincott, 1960 § Hemingway (Ernest) The Old Man and the Sea, first Book Club edition, 'A' to copyright page, bookplate, original cloth, bumping to corners and spine extremities, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, small loss to spine foot, chipping to edges, short tear to upper flap, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952; and another by Hemingway, 8vo (3)
Economics.- Gödel (Kurt) On Formally Undecidable Propositions Of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems, first English edition, previous owner's ink signature, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, Edinburgh, 1962 § Burns (Arthur F.) and Wesley C. Mitchell. Measuring Business Cycles, first edition, charts, one folding, previous owner's ink name-stamp, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, New York, 1946 § Harrod (R. F.) Towards a Dynamic Economics, first edition, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, short tear to spine foot, tape repair, slight chipping to corners and extremities, 1948 § Pigou (A. C.) The Theory of Unemployment, first edition, scattered faint spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1933 § Robinson (Joan) The Accumulation of Capital, first edition, bookmark explaining tables loosely inserted, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1956; and 15 others similar, 8vo (20)
*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** Fleming (Ian) The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, original second state cloth, fractional bumping to spine extremities, price-clipped dust-jacket, slight chipping to corners and spine extremities, 1965; The Spy Who Loved Me, first edition, original boards, small loss to spine head, chipping to spine foot, 1962; From Russia with Love, first edition, faint spotting to first few leaves, original cloth, 'Boots' label to upper cover, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1957 § Thomas (Dylan) The Map of Love, first edition, portrait frontispiece, scattered faint spotting to first few leaves, previous owner's faint pencil inscription, original cloth, sunned spine, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1939; 8vo (4).
Greene (Graham) The Comedians, first edition, small tape marks to rear pastedown, dust-jacket with a few spots, lower flap toned, a couple chips to spine head, repaired with tape to verso, 1966 § Bowen (Elizabeth) The Little Girls, first edition, spine of just-jacket browned, 1964, the odd spot, original cloth; and 47 others, most 20th century literature, 8vo (49)
Dulac (Edmund).- Andersen (Hans Christian) Stories from ..., first trade edition, tipped-in colour frontispiece and 27 plates by Dulac, original decorative cloth, gilt, fractional bumping to spine extremities, 1911 § Barrie (J. M.) Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, tipped-in colour plates and illustrations by Arthur Rackham, original decorative cloth, gilt, lightly stained upper cover, light fading to lower cover, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, [1922]; and others illustrated, 4to & 8vo (4)
NO RESERVE Dyrenforth (James) & Max Kester. Adolf in Blunderland: a Political Parody of Lewis Carroll's Famous Story, third edition, frontispiece, plates and illustrations by Norman Mansbridge, original pictorial boards, small mark to upper cover, fractional bumping to corners and spine extremities, dust-jacket, faint spotting to upper panel, fractional creasing to corners and spine extremities, 4to, December 1939.⁂ This was originally broadcast as a radio piece for the BBC, before being published in book form. The first, second and third editions of this work were all published in the same month.
NO RESERVE Mueller (Hans Alexander) Woodcuts & Wood Engravings: How I Make Them, limited edition, New York, 1939 § Fowler (Alfred, editor) The Woodcut Annual for 1925, one of 600 copies, Kansas City, 1925 § Bliss (Douglas Percy) A History of Wood-Engraving, 1928 § Hughes-Stanton (Penelope) The Wood-Engravings of Blair Hughes-Stanton, Pinner, 1991 § Hamilton (James) Wood Engraving & the Woodcut in Britain c.1890-1990, 1994 § Gillmor (Robert) Cutting Away: The Linocuts, Langtoft, 2006 § Bownes (D.) & Oliver Green, editors. London Transport Posters: a Century of Art and Design, 2008, plates and illustrations, a few colour, some with bookplate of Thalia Stone, original cloth or boards, the first three rubbed, the second slightly stained, the third spotted, the rest with dust-jackets; and 5 others on wood-engraving and illustration, 4to & 8vo (12)
Nicholson (William).- Henley (W.E.) London Types, first Library edition, printed on Japanese vellum,12 colour plates by William Nicholson, bookplate of Thalia Stone, original cream buckram with the Bus Driver in red & black on upper cover, a little spotted and soiled, 1898; and 2 poor copies of Nicholson's Almanac of Twelve Sports, one in French, 4to (3)
Music.- Tans'ur (William) [The Royal Psalmodist: Or, The Universal Harmony], engraved plates of music running psalm 2-148 (some double page), 10 engraved plates of text and music (coming loose), early manuscript annotations to verso of many plates, lacking title, lacking psalms 1, 149-150, final few ff. creased and chipped at extremities, some very small amounts of marginal worming (some touching headlines or music), marginal browning and finger soiling, contemporary calf, sellotape repair to inner cover, worn, [Leicester?], [1743?]; and another similar, oblong 8vo (2); sold not subject to return.⁂ A seemingly defective copy of Tans'ur's The Royal Psalmodist, the first edition of which was published in Rugby, 1742.
Photography.- Lumière (Auguste & Louis) Le Photorama: Nouvel Appareil Photographique Panoramique Réversible, first edition, illustrations, scattered spotting, original paper wrappers, short tear to spine foot, slight chipping to bottom edge, lightly sunned, 8vo, Lyon, A. Storck, c.1900.⁂ Rare. Only 3 on WorldCat, at Deutsches Museum, Columbia University and Cornell University. A report on the Lumière brother's 'Photorama', a panoramic photography and projections system, for which they had taken out the French patent on December 29th, 1900.
NO RESERVE Gibbings (Robert) The 7th Man: A True Cannibal Tale of the South Sea Islands, number 484 of 500 copies, Waltham St.Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1930; Iorana! A Tahitian Journal, first edition, light spotting at beginning and end, 1932; A True Tale of Love in Tonga, first edition, 1935; Coconut Island..., signed by the author/artist on half-title, original cloth, a little rubbed and stained, 1936 § Rutter (Owen, editor) Mr. Glasspoole and the Chinese Pirates, number 84 of 315 copies, Golden Cockerel Press, 1935, all with wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Gibbings, some with book-plate of Thalia Stone, all but the fourth original cloth-backed pictorial or patterned-paper boards, some uncut, slightly rubbed, the last with faded spine, 8vo (5)
Shakespeare (William) Carmina quae Sonnets nuncupantur latine reddita ab Alvredo Thoma Barton, number 61 of 150 copies, lacking portrait frontispiece, title printed in blue and black, original vellum, some light discolouration, t.e.g., others uncut, 8vo, Medici Society, 1913.⁂ First edition of this notable translation.
World.- Franz (Johann Michael) Allgemeine Abbildung des Erdbodens, in zwanzig Landchartlein, fur die Anfanger in der Geographie, first edition, engraved additional pictorial title and 19 hand-coloured maps (2 folding), the Continents with charming engraved vignettes, paper guards, register f. at end, occasional spotting and light staining, later calf, worn, but holding firm, 4to, Nuremberg, Homann, 1764.⁂ Rare copy at auction of this juvenile geography. The maps include a double-hemisphere world map, planetary orbits, Continents and Europe.
Blackpool.- [Hutton (William)] A Description of Blackpool, in Lancashire; Frequented for Sea Bathing, first edition, half-title, publisher's advertisements at end, scattered spotting, mostly to outer few leaves, disbound, stitched as issued, housed in a pull-off case of olive calf over marbled boards, 8vo, Birmingham, Pearson and Rollason, 1789.⁂ Rare, with the ESTC listing only a handful of copies. The first edition appears to have last sold at auction in 1935.
Britain.- Camden (William) Remaines, concerning Britaine: But especially England, and the Inhabitants thereof..., second edition, engraved printer's device to title, engraved headpieces and initials, ink inscription of Henry Bradshawe to title as well as initials O.h., closely trimmed at head, affecting the odd headline, loss to head of T2 affecting a few words, two small tears to V2, one repaired, affecting a few words, occasional very light foxing, some water-staining to endpapers and first few ff., contemporary calf, lacking spine, worn, contents loose, [STC 4522], 4to, John Legatt for Simon Waterson, 1614.⁂ The second of three editions published in Camden's lifetime. Includes sections on the Languages, Names, Monies, Apparell, Artillarie and Proverbs of the British.
England.- Rhodes (Ebenezer) Peak Scenery, or Excursions in Derbyshire, 4 vol., first edition, one of 50 imperial copies, half-titles, 29 engraved plates, list of subscribers at end of vol. 4, bookplates of Marsden-Smedley, scattered spotting to endpapers, some foxing to plates, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, quite rubbed, a few spine labels lacking, others chipped, for the author, 1818-23 § Lydon (A. F.) English Lake Scenery, chromolithographed frontispiece, additional title and 23 plates, some splitting at gutter, very occasional light spotting, upper hinge cracked, but holding, original decorative cloth, gilt, inlaid design to upper cover, corners and spine ends bumped, 1880, large 4to & 4to (5)
London.- Lysons (Rev. Daniel) The Environs of London: being an Historical Account of the Towns, Villages and Hamlets, 5 vol., first edition, 4 engraved titles, 1 letterpress title, engraved dedication, 65 plates, 1 folding and1 double-page, 5 maps or plans, 1 folding, 2 folding pedigrees, 1 folding facsimile, occasional faint off-setting and staining, 2E4 vol. 2 with short tear to top edge, *b4 vol. 5 with small hole affecting odd letter, vols. 1-4 uniform contemporary speckled calf, vol. 1 with upper joint neatly repaired, git, vol. 5 in contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, 1792-1811.
Angling.- Bailey (William) The Angler's Instructor, first edition, 3 tape marks, ex-library with usual labels and stamps, hinges strengthened, original cloth, rebacked, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1857 § Fisher (P.) The Angler's Souvenir, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title, 29 plates, ex-library with usual labels and ink-stamps throughout, original cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1886 § Bromley (A. Nelson) A Fly Fisher's Reflections 1860-1930, plates, ex-library with label, scattered faint spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1930 § Stevenson (C. A.) The Song of the Reel, frontispiece, ex-library with labels and discreet blind-stamps, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, Nottingham, 1914 § Bell (H.) Fly-Fishing for Chub and Dace, second edition, presentation copy from author, plates and illustrations, advertisements at end, ex-library with ink-stamps to title verso, original cloth, rubbed, bumping to corners, [1920]; and 5 others angling, including duplicates, 8vo & 12mo (10)
NO RESERVE Africa.- Bleek (W. H. I.) and L. C. Lloyd. Specimens of Bushman Folklore, first edition, colour frontispiece, plates, ex-library with ink-stamps throughout, original pictorial cloth, library label to upper cover, gilt, bumping to corners and spine extremities, joints beginning to split at spine head but holding firm, abrasion to spine foot where label removed, a little rubbed,, 8vo, 1911.
Botany.- Johnson (Charles Pierpoint) British Wild Flowers, first edition, lithographed frontispiece and 82 plates by John E. Sowerby, all but two hand-coloured, all ff. inner margins on stubs, front free endpaper with three tipped-in clippings, another with ink ownership inscription, occasional light spotting and toning, small tear to p.119, neatly repaired, upper hinge cracked but holding, later olive half-calf, lightly rubbed, spine gilt but faded, joints cracked but covers holding, t.e.g., 8vo, 1860.
NO RESERVE Cultivation.- Evelyn (John) Terra: a philosophical discourse of earth. Relating to the culture and improvement of it for vegetation, and the propagation of plants, edited by Alexander Hunter, first Hunter edition, folding letterpress table, occasional spotting or light staining, contemporary calf, gilt spine in compartments, lacking label, spine ends chipped, corners worn, rubbed, [Keynes 97], a wide-margined copy, York, Printed by A. Ward, 1778; and Thomas Yeoman on the drainage of The Fens, 1767, 8vo & small 4to (2)
Darwin (Charles) The Descent of Man, 2 vol., first edition, mixed issues, vol. 1 second issue, vol. 2 first issue, half-titles, vol. 2 with errata to title verso, tipped-in 'Postscript' f. to vol. 2, wood-engraved illustrations, scattered spotting to first and last few leaves, mostly affecting blanks, bookplate, without advertisements, contemporary half-calf, rebacked retaining original backstrip, expert repairs to corners, a little rubbed, [Freeman 937 & 938], 8vo, 1871.⁂ Our set bears the following issue points, as called for by Freeman. Vol. 2: verso of title with errata, verso of half-title with printer's note, tipped-in 'Postscript' f. at pp. ix-x, which refers to 'a serious unfortunate error', which affects pp.297-299. Vol. 1: first word on p.297 is 'When'.
Gardens.- Hortus Mortolensis. Being an illustrated catalogue of the plants cultivated in the garden of Sir Cecil Hanbury, Eldest Son of the Founder, the Late Sir Thomas Hanbury... at La Mortola, first edition, signed presentation inscription "To Professor B.Y. Morrison, as one gardener to another! From the owner, Dorothy Hanbury, Jan. 20, 1939" to endpaper, colour frontispiece and 60 photographic plates, 2 graphs, map, original green cloth, spine ends and corners a little bumped, light rubbing, 4to, 1938.⁂ Rare. Sir Thomas Hanbury purchased a coastal plot at Mortola near Genoa in 1867 and with his brother Daniel, the botanist/landscape gardener Ludwig Winter and others created this famous garden. When Hanbury died in 1907 it was further developed by his daughter-in-law Lady Dorothy but was severely damaged in World War II and she sold it to the state. It is now the property of the University of Genoa and has been restored.
Hewitson (William C.) Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds, 2 vol., first edition, 137 hand-coloured plates, ink ownership inscription to front endpapers, bookplates, some damp-staining and spotting, including to plates, later cloth, extremities a little bumped and rubbed, 1846 § Landsborough Thomson (A.) Britain's Birds and Their Nests, illustrated by George Rankin, 130 colour plates only (of 132, one loose), occasional light spotting, including to title, original cloth, [1910], 8vo and 4to (3)
Birth of Bacteriology.- Fermentation.- Pasteur (Louis) Mémoire sur la fermentation appelée lactique [and] Mémoire sur la fermentation alcoolique, first editions, in Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Academie des Sciences, Vol. 45, pp. 913-916 and 1032-1036, narrow band of dust-soiling to upper margin of first work, both works, occasional spotting, modern wrappers, printed paper label to spine, [Dibner Heralds of Science 198; G&M 2472; Grolier/Horblit 82 'The birth of Bacteriology'; cf. Norman 1653], 4to, Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, 1857.⁂ First edition of these two important papers by Pasteur. The first work reports the 'first demonstration of the connection between a specific fermentation and the activity of a specific living micro-organism. This paper is often considered the beginning of bacteriology as a modern science' (G&M).
Gavin (Hector) On Feigned and Factitious Diseases, chiefly of Soldiers and Seamen ..., first edition, 8pp. advertisements at beginning, ?lacking final free endpaper, scattered spotting, original cloth, retaining original spine titles, bumping to corners and extremities, a little rubbed, 8vo, 1843.
Geology & Mineralogy.- Mawe (John) Familiar lessons on mineralogy and geology, first edition, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved plates, errata f. at end, title, third plate, ff. either side of that and endpapers foxed, elsewhere some spotting / mostly light foxing, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, lacking label, corners worn, rubbed, [Abbey, Life, 446], large 12mo, Printed for and sold by the author, 1819.⁂ The first edition is extremely rare in commerce.
NO RESERVE Planck (Max) Treatise on Thermodynamics, first English edition, errata bound-in, ex-library with bookplate and ink-stamp to title, cracked hinge, original cloth, rebacked, gilt, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1903; and vols. 2-5 of Planck's 'Introduction to Theoretical Physics', 8vo (5).
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