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![[ Autograph / Motorcycle ] Steve Hislop, "Hizzy, The Autobiography of Steve Hislop", 2003 first edition, signed by the author](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/23a3dbb6-6516-4ed7-aa91-adf100b1305c/4951c869-83cc-4600-bf49-adf400cb5d1c/468x382.jpg)
Lot 214
[ Autograph / Motorcycle ] Steve Hislop, "Hizzy, The Autobiography of Steve Hislop", 2003 first edition, signed by the author on the title page, together with a promotional poster [Steve Hislop, Scottish motorcycle racer, eleven times winner of the Isle of Man TT, 1990 winner of the British 250 cc Championship, and twice winner of the British Superbike Championship, killed in a helicopter accident in 2003, inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in March 2010]
Lot 1
Aviation's Magnificent Gamblers hardback book by Terry Gwynn Jones signed by author. Published 1981 Lansdowne Press First Edition ISBN 0 85613 385 X. 126 pages. Fine condition. Dust jacket shows slight shelf wear at the edges. From TV Blockbusters presenters Bob Holness collection. All proceeds are being donated to the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £9.99. We can ship a 20KG box in UK for £12, Europe £40, US/ROW £80.
Lot 104
Say The Word by Ivor Brown Hardback Book 1947 First Edition published by Jonathan Cape some ageing and fading to outer dust cover good condition. Sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine shipping on all lots from 4.99 in UK, 6.99 Europe and 8.99 ROW. We can ship a 20kg box in UK for 12 pounds.
Lot 135
It Happened on Rush Street A Group of Short Stories by Walter Schwimmer 1971 First Edition Hardback Book published by Frederick Fell Inc good condition. Sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine shipping on all lots from 4.99 in UK, 6.99 Europe and 8.99 ROW. We can ship a 20kg box in UK for 12 pounds.
Lot 154
Signed Book City of Friends by Joanna Trollope First Edition 2017 Hardback Book published by Mantle (Pan Macmillan) good condition. Sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine shipping on all lots from 4.99 in UK, 6.99 Europe and 8.99 ROW. We can ship a 20kg box in UK for 12 pounds.
Lot 168
Treat it Gentle by Sidney Bechet Hardback Book 1960 First Edition published by Cassell & Co Ltd some ageing to outer dust cover good condition. Sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine shipping on all lots from 4.99 in UK, 6.99 Europe and 8.99 ROW. We can ship a 20kg box in UK for 12 pounds.
Lot 192
In Laws & Outlaws by C Northcote Parkinson Hardback Book First Edition 1962 published by John Murray some fading to outer dust cover good condition. Sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine shipping on all lots from 4.99 in UK, 6.99 Europe and 8.99 ROW. We can ship a 20kg box in UK for 12 pounds.
Lot 196
Whitbread's Brewery Incorporating The Brewer's Art Hardback Book First Edition 1951 published by Whitbread & Co Ltd some ageing to outer dust cover and first page good condition. Sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine shipping on all lots from 4.99 in UK, 6.99 Europe and 8.99 ROW. We can ship a 20kg box in UK for 12 pounds.
Lot 348
The Children's Golden Treasure Book For 1937 edited by J R Crosland & J M Parrish Hardback Book 1937 First Edition published by Odhams Press Ltd some ageing good condition. Sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine shipping on all lots from 4.99 in UK, 6.99 Europe and 8.99 ROW. We can ship a 20kg box in UK for 12 pounds.
Lot 4
A History Of Britain AT The Edge Of The World? 3000 BC AD 1603 hardback book by Simon Schama signed by author. Published 2000 BBC Worldwide First Edition ISBN 0 563 38497 2. 416 pages. Fine condition. From TV Blockbusters presenters Bob Holness collection. All proceeds are being donated to the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £9.99. We can ship a 20KG box in UK for £12, Europe £40, US/ROW £80.
Lot 44
Crusoe on Cricket The Cricket Writings of R C Robertson 1966 First Edition Hardback Book published by Alan Ross Ltd good condition. Sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine shipping on all lots from 4.99 in UK, 6.99 Europe and 8.99 ROW. We can ship a 20kg box in UK for 12 pounds.
Lot 47
Alamein 1933 1962 An Italian Story by Paolo Caccia Dominioni First Edition 1966 Hardback Book published by George Allan and Unwin Ltd good condition. Sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine shipping on all lots from 4.99 in UK, 6.99 Europe and 8.99 ROW. We can ship a 20kg box in UK for 12 pounds.
Lot 8
The World Of Wallace And Gromit hardback book by Andy Lane. Published 2004 Boxtree First Edition ISBN 0 7522 1558 2. 184 pages. Fine condition. Minor shelf wear to dust jacket.. From TV Blockbusters presenters Bob Holness collection. All proceeds are being donated to the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £9.99. We can ship a 20KG box in UK for £12, Europe £40, US/ROW £80.
Lot 274
Cooke, Alistair, Alistair Cooke's America, 1973, first edition, limited edition No.39/250, signed by the author, illustrated with colour plates and maps, Paradine in association with the British Broadcasting Corporation and Alfred A. Knopf, crushed full morocco binding by Morrell with titles to spine and front cover in in gilt, marbled and map endpapers, in marbled and red cloth slipcase. Note: specially bound for the occasion of the American Bicentennial celebration, this work accompanied Cooke's BBC 2 series America, 'a personal history of the United States', written and presented by Cooke and produced by Michael Gill. It was broadcast in both countries across 1972 and 1973 and in the US a charitable foundation considered the book of such educational value that it out a copy in every American public library.
![E.M. Forster, The Story of the Siren, first edition, [one of 500 copies], signed by the author with a strike through the prin](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b1f7466f-93bf-4c61-b188-adbe0111ccfd/99ad0c97-de8e-4f5e-bc98-addc00c55971/468x382.jpg)
Lot 8
E.M. Forster, The Story of the Siren, first edition, [one of 500 copies], signed by the author with a strike through the printed name, Printed by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, Paradise Road, Richmond, 1920, blue marbled effect cover, dedication to the inside first page Alexis and Jill Provenance: The estate of A.P Vlasto (Fellow of Kings College Cambridge) Alexis Peter VlastoIn 1939 Vlasto was headhunted to work at the British code breaking establishment Bletchley Park. He was seconded from Cambridge University where he was to undertake ‘War Work’. He was given the responsibility of the Japanese Army Air Force section where he would aid in cracking the Japanese Army Air Force code system 3366. Vlasto was one of a team of people assigned to this task alongside Maurice Wiles and Mervyn Jones. Whilst at Bletchley Park Vlasto met the young musicologist Hilda Joan ‘Jill’ Medway who was also on secondment from Cambridge and by the time the war had ended in May 1945 Vlasto and Medway were married (they married on 19 March 1945).
Lot 45
JK Rowling (British Author - famous for the Harry Potter series) - The Casual Vacancy - UK First Edition 2012, pub. Little Brown. Hardcover, with dustjacket. Signed to the title page by Rowling in black ink, undedicated. Obtained personally by the vendor from an event in Bath, with the original ticket supplied as provenance. Some foxing, otherwise generally excellent unread condition.
Lot 85
Stephen King - American Author - Bag Of Bones (1998 First Edition hardcover) - signed edition, autographed by King in blue ink neatly to the title page, undedicated. Obtained in person by the vendor at a signing in Borders, London. With newspaper clipping advertising the event, and original purchase receipt from the day. Generally excellent unread condition.
Lot 5
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - Deluxe Special First Edition hardcover of the book, with gilt page ends, and alternative cover artwork, 2007. Signed to the title page by actor Daniel Radcliffe who played Harry in the franchise. Signed neatly in black ink, undedicated. Originally a competition prize at time of release. Book with light signs of use, but generally in excellent condition. Scarce example, signed by the lead actor (and an earlier form of his signature too).
Lot 119
Sir Michael Caine (Italian Job, Zulu, Get Carter etc) - The Elephant To Hollywood - autographed edition of his autobiography. First edition hardcover, with dust jacket. Signed in black ink to the title page. Obtained personally by the vendor from a WH Smiths booksigning in Bristol, upon release. Unread condition.
Lot 181
1/10, bronze127cm x 66cm x 46cm (50in x 26in x 18in)Provenance: Purchased directly from the artistExhibited: Gerald Laing: Sculpture at Chisenbury Priory, Chisenbury Priory, 2002Literature: Gerald Laing: Sculpture at Chisenbury Priory exhibition catalogue, 2002, p.3 (titled Woman with Wet Hair)Footnote: Note: Artist's catalogue raisonne no. 476. This work is the one illustrated in the catalogue raisonne. It was conceived in Laing's New York studio in 1987.The 20th century produced a number of significant British sculptors. A common course charted across many of these careers was the departure from or outright rejection of the traditional. In many cases the figure, if it remained discernible at all, was typically heavily abstracted. Broadly speaking, the classical tradition became an increasingly inactive reference point, unless that point was to consciously subvert it. What makes Gerald Laing so fascinating is the fact that he chose to gravitate back towards sculpture’s formal roots, completely against the grain of his peers and indeed the general trajectory of Modern art.Originally heavily involved at ground zero of the UK and America’s Pop Art scene, Laing made an extraordinary pivot away from the radically minimalist and abstracted forms of his early career and, from the 1970s onwards, saw out his remaining decades as a master figurative sculptor in the classical manner.It is recorded that he underwent this transformation at the end of the 1960s. Apparently disillusioned with the art scene, he returned to Britain from the States in 1969 and headed northwards, acquiring the ruins of the medieval Kinkell Castle in the Black Isle, Scotland. Over the course of three years he meticulously restored the castle using local craftsmen and traditional techniques. By the end of the 1970s he had a large-scale foundry in full operation on the estate. As well as the life-changing undertaking that was the restoration of Kinkell, Laing spoke of his “epiphany” in 1973 while looking at Charles Sargeant Jagger's great First World War Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner: “As a result of this experience I changed my entire method of working”. He had found his new visual language.This move away from the hegemony and narrow definitions of ‘the avant-garde’, a radical action in itself, had been a huge risk. Gradually, however, his career went from strength to strength and the commissions - public and private - rolled in, with no project seemingly too ambitious in scale or design.In 1987, the work offered here was conceived and sculpted in clay from life in New York, and later that same year it was cast in bronze at Kinkell. An edition of only 10, the piece is conceived as a garden statue and water fountain. The model was a professional dancer, and her elegant figure, redolent in style of the French 19th century greats like Maillol and Rodin, throws her head gently backwards while a stream of water pours through her hair. Though visually it seems to possess the domestic intimacy of a Degas bather, she is standing not in a basin but a clam shell like a Renaissance goddess. Laing’s work is full of these pleasing art historical reference points, evidencing a scholarly understanding and appreciation of the evolution of figurative sculpture.
![BEETHOVEN, Ludvig van (1770-1827). Quintetto Pour 2 Violins, 2 Altos et Violoncelle, [1802], stitched. FIRST EDITION.BEETHOV](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2bc27f58-bb8a-46ed-9164-adea00fed850/df7279c2-404f-4d4a-8f84-adea0101c075/468x382.jpg)
Lot 501
BEETHOVEN, Ludvig van (1770-1827). Quintetto Pour 2 Violins, 2 Altos et Violoncelle, [1802], stitched. FIRST EDITION.BEETHOVEN, Ludvig van (1770-1827). Quintetto Pour 2 Violins, 2 Altos et Violoncelle composé et dédié à Monsieur le Comte Maurice de Fries. Leipzig: chez Breitkopf et Härtel, [n.d. but December 1802]. 4to (323 x 244mm). Engraved title on upper wrapper, engraved musical notation for the 5 parts (some light spotting and staining, some cropping to pagination). Stitched, unbound as issued. Provenance: the number 53 stamped in a few upper fore-corners [significance unclear]. Provenance: from the Collection of the late Dr Elkan Lewis (1931-2020). FIRST EDITION of the composer's only large-scale work for string quintet. Known as "Der Sturm" (The Storm) on account of its turbulent finale, this transitional work was first performed in 1801 when the composer was confronting the devastating reality of his encroaching deafness. Dorfmüller-Weinhold p.211; Hirsch IV, 267; Hoboken II, 153; Kinsky-Halm 70. Please see lot 558 for another Beethoven-related item.
![BEETHOVEN, Ludvig van (1770-1827). Sonata per il Piano-forte ed un Violino obligato, [1805], stitched. FIRST EDITION.BEETHOV](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2bc27f58-bb8a-46ed-9164-adea00fed850/d9abea17-426b-4752-bdd3-adea0101c431/468x382.jpg)
Lot 502
BEETHOVEN, Ludvig van (1770-1827). Sonata per il Piano-forte ed un Violino obligato, [1805], stitched. FIRST EDITION.BEETHOVEN, Ludvig van (1770-1827). Sonata per il Piano-forte ed un Violino obligato, scritta in uno stile molto concertante, quasi come d'un concerto. Composta e dedicata al suo amico R. Kreuzer [sic] Membro del Conservatorio di Musica in Parigi, Primo Violino dell' Academia delle Arti, e della Camera imperiale. Bonn and Paris: chez N. Simrock et H. Simrock, [n.d. but 1805]. Oblong 4to (270 x 348mm). Engraved upper wrapper, engraved musical notation for the piano and violin parts (some spotting and staining). Stitched (some stitching broken), unbound as issued. Provenance: "Theune, Amsterdam" (stamp at lower margin of title); from the Collection of the late Dr Elkan Lewis (1931-2020). FIRST EDITION of the "Kreutzer Sonata", the later issue with corrections ("uno" and "per") on the title, and, unusually, including both the piano and violin parts: the latter are often lacking. Dorfmüller-Weinhold p. 214; Hirsch IV, 287; Hoboken II, 228. RARE.
![BRAHMS, Johannes (1833-97). Serenade D dur für grosses Orchester, [1860], contemporary boards.BRAHMS, Johannes (1833-97). Ser](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2bc27f58-bb8a-46ed-9164-adea00fed850/7a5f38e1-d80a-46b8-be62-adeb00d45303/468x382.jpg)
Lot 504
BRAHMS, Johannes (1833-97). Serenade D dur für grosses Orchester, [1860], contemporary boards.BRAHMS, Johannes (1833-97). Serenade D dur für grosses Orchester. Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, [December 1860]. Large 8vo 258 x 162mm). Engraved title, lithographed musical notation throughout (spotted and stained). Contemporary roan-backed marbled boards (lacks original printed wrappers, rubbed and scuffed, inner hinges weak or broken). Provenance: substantially marked up in red and blue crayons and pencil, presumably by a conductor for a performance; "Kur-Verwaltung, Wiesbaden" (stamp on front free endpaper); publisher's stamp at foot of title; from the Collection of the late Dr Elkan Lewis (1931-2020). FIRST EDITION of the composer's first work for full orchestra and the first to appear in print, composed when he was just twenty-five.
![RAVEL, Maurice (1875-1937). Deux Epigrammes de Clément Marot, Paris, [1900], 2 parts, original wrappers. FIRST EDITION, PRESE](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2bc27f58-bb8a-46ed-9164-adea00fed850/7d29b928-788f-4829-841a-adea0101e66d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 514
RAVEL, Maurice (1875-1937). Deux Epigrammes de Clément Marot, Paris, [1900], 2 parts, original wrappers. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the first part signed and inscribed by the composer. (2)RAVEL, Maurice (1875-1937). Deux Epigrammes de Clément Marot. [Title on upper wrapper of first part:] No. I. D' Anne qui me Jecta de la Neige. [and the second part:] No. II. D' Anne Jouant de l' Espinette. Paris: E. Demets, [1900]. 2 parts, 4to (351 x 270mm). Printed musical notation (some very light mainly marginal browning and staining). Original printed wrappers (some very light staining and minor fraying). Provenance: from the Collection of the late Dr Elkan Lewis (1931-2020). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the first page of the first part signed and inscribed, "a Maurice Delage, amicalement, Maurice Ravel." The upper wrappers of each part are stamped "Hommage de l' Editeur." Both are contained in a modern blue cloth folder with silk ties. The "Deux Epigrammes de Clément Marot" were premiered at a recital in Paris in 1900 sponsored by the Société Nationale de Musique, with the composer at the piano. The two songs are based on the texts of French Renaissance poet Clément Marot (1496-1544). The recipient of this presentation copy, Maurice Charles Delage (1879-1961), was a French composer, pianist and a pupil of Ravel's. Ravel, who held him in very high esteem, dedicated his piano piece "La Vallée des Cloches", from the suite "Miroirs", to him. (2)
![SCHUBERT, Franz (1797-1828). Symphonie C Dur. für grosses Orchester, [1849], original cloth. FIRST EDITION.SCHUBERT, Franz (1](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2bc27f58-bb8a-46ed-9164-adea00fed850/a84f435e-d016-4dd0-9086-adea0101eb66/468x382.jpg)
Lot 515
SCHUBERT, Franz (1797-1828). Symphonie C Dur. für grosses Orchester, [1849], original cloth. FIRST EDITION.SCHUBERT, Franz (1797-1828). Symphonie C Dur. für grosses Orchester. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, [1849]. Large 8vo (247 x 160mm). Engraved title and music notation (severe tear and crude repairs to pp. 27/28 [i.e. one leaf] with slight loss, some staining throughout, but more pronounced to the margins, some leaves creased). Original textured cloth lettered in gilt (extremities frayed, spine faded, inner hinges split, some signatures starting). Provenance: "Musik=Verein" (stamps to title and last page); from the Collection of the late Dr Elkan Lewis (1931-2020). FIRST EDITION of the full score of "The Great C major Symphony" (usually known as the 9th, and the composer's last), first issue, with "Pr. 10 Thlr." and code number "7954". Hirsch IV, 653; Hoboken 627.
Lot 519
VIRGILIUS MARO, Publius (70-19 BC). The Works ... Translated into English verse; by Mr Dryden, London, 1697, contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION of this translation.VIRGILIUS MARO, Publius (70-19 BC). The Works ... Containing his Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. Translated into English Verse; by Mr. Dryden. London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1697. Folio (334 x 215mm). Engraved frontispiece by M. Vander Gucht, title printed in red and black, 97 engraved plates after F. Cleyn, most by W. Hollar and P. Lambert, only (of 101, 2 plates torn and repaired with slight loss, another plate severely torn but without loss, a few plates with shorter tears, some cropping including to upper ruled border of title, variable spotting and staining throughout, occasionally quite heavy). Contemporary panelled calf (rebacked some time ago, corners bumped and rubbed, some scuffing, inner hinges weak, later endpapers). Provenance: Gower Earl Gower (armorial bookplate); later bookplate dated 1897; from the Collection of the late Dr Elkan Lewis (1931-2020). FIRST EDITION of this translation. Ashley II, p.95; Brunet IV, 665: "Cette traduction estimée ..." (erroneously stating the first edition of this translation was printed in 1698); Macdonald 33a; Wing V616.
Lot 520
MOREIRA, Jacob Rodrigues (editor, dates unknown). Kehilath Jahacob: Being a Vocabulary of Words in the Hebrew Language, [London], 1773, modern buckram.MOREIRA, Jacob Rodrigues (editor, dates unknown). Kehilath Jahacob: Being a Vocabulary of Words in the Hebrew Language, Arranged in Fifty Eight Chapters, On Various Subjects and Methodically Digested Under Different Heads, Together with an Explination [sic] of the Different Words, Peculiar Phrases and Technical Terms, Found in the Holy Bible and Divers other Eminent and Rabbinical Writers Done into English and Spanish. [London:] Printed by A. Alexander, "AM. 5533" [i.e. 1773]. 4to (262 x 215mm). Hebrew title within engraved border by M. Marrebeeck, with additional letterpress titles in English and Spanish, woodcut ornaments, printed largely in triple column in Hebrew, English and Spanish (very minor repairs to Hebrew title, some light spotting, staining and browning). Modern quarter black buckram, new endpapers. Provenance: from the Collection of the late Dr Elkan Lewis (1931-2020). FIRST EDITION.
![WRIGHT, George Newenham (c. 1794-1877). China in a Series of Views, London, [1843], 4 vols. bound in 2, engraved plates, cont](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2bc27f58-bb8a-46ed-9164-adea00fed850/fda42ebf-0e4e-4410-8538-adeb00a904d1/468x382.jpg)
Lot 523a
WRIGHT, George Newenham (c. 1794-1877). China in a Series of Views, London, [1843], 4 vols. bound in 2, engraved plates, contemporary half burgundy morocco. FIRST EDITION. (2)WRIGHT, George Newenham (c. 1794-1877). China, Illustrated in a Series of Views, Displaying the Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits of that Ancient Empire. London: Fisher, Son, and Co., [1848]. 4 volumes bound in 2, 4to (273 x 210mm). 4 additional engraved titles with vignettes, 124 engraved plates by Thomas Allom (some spotting and staining, some faint offsetting of plates onto text). Contemporary burgundy half morocco, spines lettered and decorated in gilt (rubbed and scuffed). FIRST EDITION. Not in Brunet; Cordier Bibliotheca Sinica 80-81; Hanotiau and de Coster Western Travellers in China 66; Lowendhal 986; Lust 363. (2)
Lot 526
NICHOLSON, William (1872-1949, illustrator). An Alphabet, London, 1899, 26 coloured lithographed plates by Nicholson, original coloured pictorial boards. PRESENTATION COPY.NICHOLSON, William (1872-1949, illustrator). An Alphabet. London: William Heinemann, January 1899. 4to (308 x 242mm). Coloured lithographed publisher's device on title, 26 coloured lithographed plates by William Nicholson, one-page of publisher's advertisements at the end (a few light marginal spots). Original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards (edges and, more particularly, the corners rubbed, inner hinges split). FIRST EDITION, third impression, PRESENTATION COPY, the front pastedown inscribed, "For Rachel, from Mr [?or Wm] Nicholson who did it." One could speculate that, supposing the inscription to be later than the date of the book's publication, the recipient of this copy was Rachel Nicholson (born 1934), daughter of Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, and granddaughter of William Nicholson, and an esteemed artist in her own right. "The illustrations [for An Alphabet] were boldly cut in linoleum and hand-coloured. The books had an immediate success. A contemporary reviewer writing in the St James's Gazette said: 'You must turn to your best specimens of Japanese colour-printing to get anything better than these boldly constructed blacks and reds. And what the Eastern world will gain by its delicacy of outline or of tint, it will lose by comparison with the truth of modelling in face and figure which is characteristic of this modern work'" (John Lewis, The 20th Century Book (1976)).
Lot 527
TOMATSU, Shoumei (1930-2012, photographer), Ken DOMON (1909-90, photographer), and others. Hiroshima-Nagasaki. Document 1961, Tokyo, 1961, buckram and wrappers, slipcase. FIRST EDITION.TOMATSU, Shoumei (1930-2012, photographer), Ken DOMON (1909-90, photographer), and others. Hiroshima-Nagasaki. Document 1961. Tokyo: The Japan Council against A. and H. Bombs, 1961. 2 volumes, 4to (280 x 280mm). Photographed illustrations, mostly monochrome, the volume of photographs bound in original white decorated buckram, the text volume in original printed wrappers, both contained in the original decorated cardboard slipcase (frayed, with some puncture holes). FIRST EDITION. No footnote to this devastating testimony to human suffering is necessary; it will suffice to quote the opening words of Hideki Yukawa in his foreword: "The tragic consequences of one atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by a B 29 bomber on the morning of August 6, 1945, and of another that flattened Nagasaki three days later, will be remembered for ever by all humanity. Three hundred thousand people were directly victimized by the two bombs, and today, 16 years later, about 200,000 others are still suffering spiritually and physically from the effects of the bombs. We know of no means of compensating them for their sacrifices and sufferings. For those who witnessed the most dreadful event in modern history, it is necessary to remember it, to leave writings, documents, pictures, and so on, to the generations to come, so that posterity may be warned against repeating the same folly. Such a dreadful disaster must never befall mankind again." Michel Auer 802 Photo Books 412; Parr and Badger The Photobook: A History p. 274. (2)
Lot 528
ALDINUS, Tobias (1570-1662) and Pietro CASTELLI (c. 1575-1656). Exactissima descriptio rariorum quarundam plantarum, que continentur Rome in horto Farnesiano, Rome, 1625, engraved plates, modern calf. FIRST EDITION.ALDINUS, Tobias (1570-1662) and Pietro CASTELLI (c. 1575-1656). Exactissima descriptio rariorum quarundam plantarum, que continentur Rome in horto Farnesiano. Rome: Typis Iacobi Mascardi, 1625. Folio (340 x 230mm). Fine engraved architectural title with seated figures of Theophrastus and Dioscorides surmounted by the coat-of-arms of the Farnese family in a baroque cartouche, foliate initials and typographical ornaments, text within ruled borders throughout, 22 fine full-page engraved botanical illustrations (lacks all before title [i.e. blanks], marginal repair to title and third leaf and a few leaves at the end, including index, H1 torn and repaired without loss, a few leaves with holes affecting ruled borders, a few leaves very lightly browned, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Modern half calf and marbled boards, new endpapers (spine lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION of this rare catalogue and description of the plants in the garden of Cardinal Farnese on the Palatine Hill in Rome. Both Hunt and Nissen assign the work solely to Aldini; others, however, including the Greek scholar and keeper of the Vatican library Leone Allacci, attribute it to Pietro Castelli, whose name appears in a laudatory poem at the beginning as "Castello-Petrus" and also, in acrostic form in the same poem, spelling out "Petrus Castellus Romanus". Not in Brunet; Graesse I, 65; Hunt 208; Nissen BBI 13; Pritzel 1590; Seguier p. 34.
![[SERE DES RIEUX, Jean Adam (1668-1747)]. Les Dons des Enfans de Latone: La Musique et la Chasse du Cerf, Paris, 1734, contemp](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2bc27f58-bb8a-46ed-9164-adea00fed850/194d078c-5065-4d51-8bc1-adea01023c1f/468x382.jpg)
Lot 529
[SERE DES RIEUX, Jean Adam (1668-1747)]. Les Dons des Enfans de Latone: La Musique et la Chasse du Cerf, Paris, 1734, contemporary calf.[SERE DES RIEUX, Jean Adam (1668-1747)]. Les Dons des Enfans [sic] de Latone: La Musique et la Chasse du Cerf, Poëmes dédiés au Roy. Paris: Chés Pierre Prault, Jean Desaint, Jacques Guerin, 1734. 8vo (197 x 125mm). Half title, engraved frontispiece by Le Bas, woodcut printer's device on title, initials and headpieces, 7 engraved plates by Le Bas after Oudry, 42-pages with musical notation, "Approbation" leaf at the end (text quite heavily offset onto one plate, some mainly marginal spotting, staining and browning). Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering-piece (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE DUCHESSE DE BERRY AT CHATEAU DE ROSNY (armorial bookplate); L. S. v. Praag (small ex-libris label). FIRST EDITION. Not in Brunet; Cohen-de-Ricci 952; Schwerdt II, p.156; Souhart 635; Thiébaud 836-839.
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