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Lot 418

Grisham (John) A Time to Kill, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author dated 9-1-89 to title, ink ownership inscription of recipient to endpaper, original cloth-backed boards, light bumping to spine ends, dust-jacket, a few small neat repairs to spine ends, light creasing to extremities, an excellent example overall, 8vo, New York, Wyndwood Press, 1989.⁂ The author's scarce first novel. Personally published by the author via a small publisher in the south east United States, the author was apparently subsequently reduced to selling them from the boot of his car until word of mouth took effect.

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Lot 385

[Evans (Marian)], "George Eliot". Felix Holt, the Radical, 3 vol., first edition, vol. 3 with 4pp. and 20pp. advertisements at end, original cloth, spines a little darkened, shelf-lean, spine ends and corners bumped and a little chipped, [Sadleir 814], William Blackwood and Sons, 1866; and a first edition Silas Marner, 8vo (4)

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Lot 386

Evans (Marian) Daniel Deronda, 8 vol., first edition, half-titles, errata slip to vol. 3, hinges weak, Chamber of Commerce, Limerick ink library stamp to head of first p. of text of each vol., library labels removed from endpapers, original cloth, shelf-lean, spines sunned, some splitting to joints, spine ends and corners bumped, some fraying to fore-edges, rubbed, [Sadleir 814], 8vo, William Blackwood and Sons, 1876.⁂ Rare, seemingly issued for libraries, as here. We can trace only one other example for the cloth issue divided into 8 parts.

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Lot 513

Darwin (Charles) Insectivorous Plants, first edition, half-title, woodcut illustrations, faint spotting to first and last few leaves, cracking to gutter, bookplate, previous owner's ink signature, original cloth, slight chipping to spine extremities, lightly rubbed joints, [Freeman 1217], 8vo, 1875.

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Lot 425

James (M.R.) A Warning to the Curious and other Ghost Stories, first edition, very occasional scattered spotting, ownership inscription erased from front free endpaper, original cloth, very light sunning to spine, light finger-soiling to covers, corners a little bumped, but an excellent example overall, [Tymn 3-128], 8vo, 1925.⁂ James' final collection of ghost stories, scarce.

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Lot 322

Dickens (Charles) Great Expectations, 3 vol., first edition, fifth impression, without half-titles or advertisements, occasional light marginal soiling, front free endpapers and title with portion excised at head, ink ownership inscription to endpapers, original blind-stamped cloth, spines darkened, spine ends and corners bumped with chipping to spine ends, vol. 1 with split to lower joint, light rubbing and marking to covers, Eckel, pp. 91-93; Smith II,:14; Great Expectations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, Appendix D)], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1861.

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Lot 491

Conchology.- Pulteney (Richard) Catalogues of the Birds, Shells, and some of the Rare Plants, of Dorsetshire, [second edition], engraved portrait and 24 plates on 13 leaves, modern black half morocco, spine lettered in gilt, folio, 1813.⁂ Whilst the text covers the three subjects mentioned, the plates are all of shells and fossils. The first edition appeared in 1799 but does not include the portrait.

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Lot 281

[Hunt (Leigh)] Critical Essays on the Performers of the London Theatres, first edition, half-title with advertisement recto, title with engraved vignette, 8pp. 'Prospectus of The Examiner' at end, without final advertisement f., ink signature to head of title, sig. I misbound, title lightly foxed, occasional spotting or marking, final f. with some soiling at head verso, later half calf, spine gilt and with leather label (little chipped), small circular paper label to foot of spine, rubbed, 8vo, Printed by and for John Hunt, 1807.⁂ The author's second book, printed and published by his brother John, which is rare at auction.

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Lot 308

Dickens (Charles) [The Christmas Books], 5 vol., comprising A Christmas Carol, thirteenth edition, half-title printed in blue, title in red and blue, hand-coloured etched frontispiece and 3 plates by John Leech, 1p. advertisements, neatly recased, spine a little darkened, repairs to spine ends, endpapers renewed, 1855; The Chimes, second edition, engraved frontispiece and additional pictorial title (foxed), light fading to spine, spine ends bumped, 1845; The Cricket on the Hearth, engraved frontispiece and pictorial title, 2pp. advertisements (first state), bookplate of Monckton White to pastedown, shelf-lean, spine ends and corners bumped, 1846; The Battle of Life, engraved frontispiece and pictorial title (fourth state), 2pp. advertisements, ink ownership and gift inscriptions, bookplate to pastedown, spine ends and corners bumped and frayed, light toning to spine, 1846; The Haunted Man, engraved frontispiece and pictorial title, 2pp. advertisements, neatly rebacked, retaining original backstrip (faded), later endpapers, 1848, all but the first 2, first editions, illustrations, original cloth, g.e., [Smith II, 4, 5, 6, 8 & 9] 8vo.

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Fleece Press.- Lawrence (Simon) S.T.E.Lawrence: Boxwood blockmaker, Wood engravings collected in honour of his eightieth birthday, number 167 of 250 copies,1980; 45 Wood-engravers, number 136 of 350 copies, small ink library stamp to verso of colophon, 1982; Tales from Bleeding Heart Yard: Stories about Stanley Lawrence, one of 200 copies with an engraving by Barry Moser, from an edition limited to 310, original cloth-backed wood veneer boards, Denby Dale, Fleece Press, 2000, plates and illustrations, many wood-engraved, some colour, some tipped in, uncut, the first two original cloth-backed marbled boards with slip-cases and printed at the Whittington Press, Wakefield, 4to (3)

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Lot 412

Dahl (Roald) Switch Bitch, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author on front endpaper, original cloth, dust-jacket, very small marginal tear to upper panel lower edge, extremities slightly bumped, but near-fine generally, 8vo, 1974.

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Lot 314

Dickens (Charles) The Personal History of David Copperfield, first edition in book form, bound from the original parts, half-title, frontispiece, additional engraved title and 38 plates by Hablot K. Browne, occasional light offsetting, original variant green cloth, neatly rebacked, retaining original backstrip, light browning and creasing to spine, light rubbing to covers, [Eckel pp.77-8; Smith I, 9], 8vo, Bradbury & Evans, 1850.

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Lot 310

Dickens (Charles) Hard Times. For These Times, first edition in book form, later issue with p.244 correctly numbered, half-title, occasional light soiling, advertisement endpapers, chip to corner of front free endpaper, upper hinge cracked but firm, original dark green cloth (Carter's variant D), spine ends and corners a little bumped and frayed, light marking to upper cover, [Carter, More Binding Variants, pp7-8; Eckel p.131; Smith I, 11], 8vo, Bradbury & Evans, 1844.⁂ A rare later binding variant with Chapman and Hall lettered in gilt at foot of spine. Though recorded we have been unable to trace other examples of this variant available either at auction or online.

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Lot 361

Trollope (Anthony) He Knew He Was Right, 2 vol., first edition in book form, frontispieces and 30 wood-engraved plates by Marcus Stone, vignette illustrations, occasional light foxing, vol. 1 upper hinge tender, vol. 2 hinges repaired, bookplate of James Frank Bright to pastedowns, original blind-stamped cloth, spines lettered in gilt, spines slightly darkened, spine ends and corners a little bumped, vol. 2 with a few neat repairs to spine, a very good set generally, [Sadleir 31], 8vo, Strahan and Company, 1869.

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Lot 321

Dickens (Charles) Great Expectations, 3 vol., first edition, [second impression], without half-titles or advertisements, edition statements neatly erased from titles, occasional light foxing or finger-soiling, later half calf, gilt, spines gilt with red and green morocco labels, a little rubbed and scuffed, g.e., [Eckel, pp. 91-93; Smith II,:14; Great Expectations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, Appendix D)], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1861.⁂ With the text agreeing in all particulars with those identified by Cardwell in her appendix to Great Expectations.

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Lot 271

Pope (Alexander) The Rape of the Lock. An Heroi-Comical Poem, In Five Canto's, first separate, first complete and first illustrated edition, title in red and black, engraved frontispiece, 5 plates by Claude du Bose after Louis de Guernier, head-pieces, initial and tail-piece by Simon Gribelin, later full crushed morocco, gilt, by Riviere, g.e., upper joint cracked and cover almost detached, cloth slip-case, [Foxon P942; Rothschild 1570], 8vo, Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1714.⁂ When it was originally published in 1712 in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, the Rape of the Lock comprised only 2 cantos. This expanded and illustrated version was published 2 years later and was an instant hit with 3000 copies selling out in a matter of a few days.Provenance: morocco book label "Omnia Pro Bono H.M.", possibly Harold Murdock; slip of Maurice Inman, Inc. booksellers loosely inserted

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Lot 470

India.- The Gazetteer of Sikhim. Edited in the Bengal Government Secretariat, Introduction by H. H. Risley, first edition, [one of 500 copies], 21 plates, many folding, 2 folding maps in pocket at front (1 in facsimile), label removed from front pastedown, original cloth, spines a covers a little darkened, spine ends and corners a little bumped, 4to, Calcutta, Printed at the Bengal Secretariat Press, 1894.⁂ Scarce and authoritative account of Sikhim, India

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Lot 354

Trollope (Anthony) The Belton Estate, 3 vol., vol.1&3 first edition, vol. 2 second edition, without half-titles as issued, lacking advertisements, occasional light spotting, later half calf, rubbed, Chapman and Hall, 1866; Ralph the Heir, 3 vol., first edition, lacking half-titles and advertisements, some occasional light finger-soiling to margins, but very clean generally, modern half calf, Hurst and Blackett, 1871, [Sadleir 22 & 37]; and 3 others, the second edition of the Bertrams, 8vo (9)

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Lot 365

Trollope (Anthony) The Way We Live Now, first edition, in the original 20 parts, 40 wood-engraved plates after Lionel Fawkes, part 3 lacking 4pp. ads. at front, but all other advertisements and slips otherwise as called for, original printed wrappers, part 1 with some light wear to spine ends, some light repair to a few spines, 1 or 2 covers with repairs to extremities, but in effect a near-fine set with unopened, preserved in custom half calf drop-back box, [Sadleir 44], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1874-75.⁂ One of Trollope's most loved novels, rare in the original parts. Sadleir initials called for 16 advertisements in part 1 before later correcting that number to 12, as here.

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Lot 399

Wilde (Oscar).- Douglas (Lord Alfred) The Autobiography, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to John Embleton Black to endpaper, portrait frontispiece, plates, some scattered spotting, light browning to endpapers, bookplate of Black to pastedown, original cloth, spine ends and corners bumped, extremities rubbed, 4to, 1929.⁂ Douglas' autobiography with much on his relationship with Wilde, rare signed.

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Lot 363

Trollope (Anthony) The Eustace Diamonds, 3 vol., first edition in book form, half-titles, some light foxing to prelims and edges, bookplate to pastedowns, original salmon cloth, lettered in gilt and black, sunning to spines, some light bumping to spine ends and corners, but a remarkably bright, near-fine set otherwise, [Sadleir 39], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1873.⁂ Rare in such superb condition.

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Lot 78

Lydgate (John) Stans puer ad mensam: Table Manners for Children, First printed in 1476 by William Caxton, number 5 of 15 specially-bound copies, from an edition limited to 265, original limp vellum, gilt, uncut, slip-case, Salisbury, Perdix Press, 1989 § Walton (Isaac) Life of George Herbert, number 8 of 10 specially-bound copies, from an edition limited to 210, signed wood-engraved frontispiece by Howard Phipps, original scarlet morocco, gilt, slip-case, Salisbury, Perdix Press, 1988 § Brown (George Mackay) The Rose Tree, number 101 of 165 copies signed by the artist, wood-engravings in red by Rosemary Roberts, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, Lastingham, Celtic Cross Press, 2001 § Burrett (Edward) My Wartime Caricatures, number 99 of 100 copies signed by the author/artist, tipped-in colour plates, original cloth, Esher, 1992 § Sisson (Marjorie) The Cave, one of 200 copies, wood-engravings by Frank Martin, with prospectus, original pictorial cloth, gilt, uncut, glacine wrapper, Hemingford Grey, Vine Press, 1957 § Ferguson (Ken) The Bookshop, number 11 of 60 hand-coloured copies signed by the author/artist, from an edition limited to 200, hand-coloured linocuts, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, Cramlington, 2000; and a small quantity of others from modern presses, mostly British, including 3 boxed sets of Prospero Poets, many pamphlets, v.s. (c.100)

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Lot 373

Trollope (Anthony) John Caldigate, 3 vol., first edition in book form, vol. 1 half-titles only, vol. 1 lacking front free endpaper, ink ownership inscription to vol. 2 and 3 endpapers, original variant blue cloth blocked in black, spines slightly darkened, spine ends and corners a little bumped, light surface soiling to covers, but a bright and excellent set overall, [Sadleir 55], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1879.⁂ A rare variant binding, not recorded by Sadleir.

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Lot 309

Dickens (Charles) Hard Times. For These Times, first edition in book form, first issue with p.244 misnumbered 44, half-title, occasional scattered spotting, original first state olive-green cloth, priced 5/- at foot of spine, usual light sunning to spine and fading to cover margins, light bumping to spine ends and corners, but an unusually sharp and excellent example overall, [Eckel p.131; Smith I, 11], 8vo, Bradbury & Evans, 1844.

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Lot 347

Trollope (Anthony) The Three Clerks, 3 vol., first edition, some occasional light soiling, ink ownership inscriptions to endpapers, contemporary brown half morocco, some rubbing and scuffing, [Sadleir 6], 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1858.

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Lot 450

Yeats (William Butler) The Tables of the Law and the Adoration of the Magi, first edition, number 65 of 110 copies, portrait frontispiece by Jack B. Yeats, tissue-guard, light browning to endpapers, original red buckram, spine lettered in gilt, light sunning to spine, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, a bright and excellent example, [Wade 24], 8vo, Privately Printed, 1897.⁂ The true first edition of this rare publication containing two short stories written by Yeats at the height of his fascination in occultism.

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Lot 382

From Anthony Trollope's library.- The Survival. With An Apology for Scepticism, first edition, Anthony Trollope's copy with presentation inscription to him "Forwarded by desire of the author to Anthony Trollope Esq. with the publisher's compliments" to endpaper, errata slips, some cracking to hinges, Trollope's bookplate to pastedown, original cloth, spine chipped and browned with some repairs to lower joint corners bumped, rubbed, Remington and Co., 1877; and 8 others, all with Trollope's bookplate, 8vo (9)

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Lot 416

Grahame (Kenneth) The Wind in the Willows, first edition, half-title, frontispiece by Graham Robertson, Mudie's Select Library postcard loosely inserted with resultant offsetting to 2ff. and show through to versos, ink accession stamps to front free endpaper, original pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed and bumped, upper cover a little creased, upper joint slightly torn, t.e.g., others uncut, 8vo, 1908.⁂ Grahame's classic work in which we meet Ratty, Mole and the ever-boastful Toad of Toad Hall.

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Lot 229

Proust (Marcel, translator).- Ruskin (John) Sesame et les Lys. Des trésors des rois, des jardins des reines, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "A Monsieur Gaston Griolet. Hommage admiratif et respectueux du traducteur Marcel Proust" to half-title, 8pp. advertisements, light browning, largely unopened, original wrappers, creasing and chipping to spine, light creasing and marking to covers, later glacine dust-jacket, 8vo, Paris, Mercure de France, 1906.⁂ Proust's second book inscribed to his friend, the lawyer and financier Gaston Griolet (1842-1934).

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Lot 371

Trollope (Anthony) How the "Mastiffs" went to Iceland, first edition, half-title, colour map frontispiece, 13 lithographed plates and 2 mounted photographic plates (the coming loose), ink ownership inscription to endpaper, slight cracking to hinges, original blue cloth, decorated in gilt, some spotting, spine ends and corners a little bumped, light rubbing to extremities, g.e., [Sadleir 51], Virtue & Co., 1878; and a copy of West Indies and the Spanish Main, 4to & 8vo (2)

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Lot 320

Dickens (Charles) A Tale of Two Cities, first edition in book form, third issue with title dated 1860, half-title, engraved frontispiece, title and 14 plates by Hablot K. Browne, some cracking to gutting, 1 or 2 plates with fraying to fore-edge, original blind-stamped green cloth, spine browned, spine ends and corners bumped, light rubbing to extremities, but a very good copy generally, [Eckel pp.86-90; Smith I, 13], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1860.

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Lot 370

Trollope (Anthony) Is He Popenjoy?, 3 vol., first edition in book form, half-titles, vol. 1 & 2 with 2pp. advertisements at end, occasional light soiling, light browning to half-titles, bookplate of McInerney to pastedowns, original red-brown cloth, spine ends and corners a little bumped, labels removed from upper covers, extremities rubbed, endpapers renewed, [Sadleir 49], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1878.

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Lot 422

Hemingway (Ernest) For Whom the Bell Tolls, first edition, small marginal stain pp.146-156, endpapers and pastedowns browned, original cloth, spine toned, dust-jacket, second issue with photographer credit on lower panel, small abrasion to spine just touching text, tear at lower panel fold, and one or two others, folds and extremities lightly rubbed, [Hanneman A18.A], 8vo, 1940.

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Lot 471

Hooker (Joseph Dalton) Himalayan Journals; or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains &c., 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 12 tinted lithographed or chromolithographed plates (1 folding), 2 folding partly hand-coloured maps at end of vol.1, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, errata slips, 32pp. catalogue at end of vol.1, foxing to chromolithographed plates but tinted plates clean, one or two pencil or crayon markings, shaken and becoming loose, with 6pp. A.L.s. from the author to Mr. Ellacombe dated December 19th 1887 concerning botanical matters loosely inserted in vol.1 and sheet of notes on Himalayan peaks and passes in another (?Ellacombe's) hand in vol.2, original pictorial cloth, gilt with blind-stamped border, rubbed and faded, spines browned, vol.2 worn and defective at head, [Abbey, Travel 503], 8vo, 1854.⁂ With an extensive ALs from Hooker on the subject of fossil botany, including the Ginkgo Tree, "With regard to Salisburia, I was the first to show its strong resemblance of the oval... fruit called Trigonocarpor to that of Salisburia... ." Rev. H.N.Ellacombe (1822-1916), plantsman and botanical author. He exchanged plants from his garden at Bitton, Glos. with Kew and other gardens, and Hooker dedicated vol.107 of the Botanical Magazine to him.

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Lot 355

Trollope (Anthony) The Last Chronicle of Barset, first edition, in the original 32 monthly parts, 32 wood-engraved plates and vignette illustrations by G.H. Thomas, part or all of front advertisements lacking from parts 1 and 5, part 18 lacking slip at front, otherwise all "compulsory" advertisements as called for, part 1 with neat repairs to spine, some light surface soiling and rubbing to spine, a sharp and excellent set, preserved in chemise and custom morocco pull-top box, [Sadleir 26], 8vo, Smith, Elder & Co., 1866-67.⁂ A superb example of the only book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire to be issued in parts.

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Lot 151

NO RESERVE Typography & Book Design.- Meynell (Francis) Typography..., folding title with decorative border in brown, original buckram, uncut & unopened, spine faded, Pelican Press, 1923 § Updike (D.B.) Printing Types, 2 vol., second edition, Cambridge, 1937 § McLean (Ruari) Jan Tschichold: Typographer, 1975 § Powers (Alan) Front Cover: Great Book Jackets and Cover Design, 2001 § Lang (Lothar) & others. Die Edition Tiessen 1977-1995, signed by Wolfgang Tiessen, Neu-Isenburg, 1996, plates and illustrations, original cloth or boards, all but the first and last with dust-jackets, the second with slip-case, the first two rubbed; and c.75 others on typography, printing and book design, v.s. (c.80)

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Lot 437

Orwell (George) Nineteen Eighty-Four, first edition, original cloth, light sunning to spine and covers, otherwise excellent, green dust-jacket by Michael Kennard, spine ends and corners a little chipped, small 1/2" chip to head of spine, light rubbing, an excellent example, 8vo, 1949.

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Lot 200

Briseux (Charles-Etienne) Traité du Beau essentiel dans les Arts, appliqué particulierement applique particulierement a l'architecture et demontre physiquement et par l'experience à l'architecture et démontré physiquement et par l'expérience, first edition, engraved throughout, portrait frontispiece, 2 titles within decorative borders, 138 plates, some double-page or folding, including pictorial divisional titles, blank f. following p.44, privilege f. at end of vol.2, a few ff. with outer edge uncut, spotting and mostly light staining, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, richly gilt spines in compartments and with red leather labels, some gilt restored, corners worn, rubbed, [Berlin Kat. 2403; Fowler 69], 4to, Paris, The Author & Chereau, 1752.⁂ 'A fine example of an entirely engraved book' (Fowler).

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Lot 379

Trollope (Anthony) The Landleaguers, 3 vol., first edition in book form, half-titles, vol. 3 with 32pp. advertisements dated October 1883 at rear, occasional marginal chipping, joints tender, bookplates of Morris Parrish and Carroll Atwood Wilson to pastedowns, original cloth, spines darkened, spine ends and corners bumped with some fraying, extremities rubbed, [Sadleir 68], 8vo, Chatto & Windus, 1883.⁂ Trollope's final novel, unfinished at the time of his death, scarce in the original cloth.

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Lot 372

Trollope (Anthony) John Caldigate, 3 vol., first edition in book form, half-titles, bookplate of Frank Austin Ellis to pastedowns, original purple-grey cloth blocked in black, spines darkened, spine ends and corners bumped, extremities rubbed, labels removed from covers, rubbed, vol. 1 endpapers renewed, [Sadleir 55], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1879.⁂ In Sadleir's primary binding, scarce.

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Lot 263

Law.- Blackstone (Sir William) Law Tracts, in two volumes, 2 vol., first edition, 2 engraved tables (1 folding) and 8 plates, offsetting, some spotting, occasional light staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, spines in compartments and with red morocco label, corners worn, a solid set, 8vo, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1762.⁂ Includes Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest. These tracts had appeared separately, but they are brought together here for the first time and benefit from Blackstone's additions and corrections.

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Lot 455

Yeats (William Butler) Four Years, first edition, one of 400 copies, signed by the author on title with strike through the printed name, printed in red and black, hawk attacking small bird device by T.Sturge Moore on title in red, light browning to endpapers, light toning to spine and covers, [Wade 131], 8vo, Dundrum, Cuala Press, 1921.⁂ A scarce Cuala Press title, we can trace no other signed example at auction. This was the first use of Moore's device.

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Lot 288

[Dickens (Charles)], "Boz". The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, first edition in the original 19/20 parts, mixed issues, 43 engraved plates by Robert Seymour, R.W. Buss, and Hablot K. Browne, mixed states, publisher's address to parts 3, 10 and 15, front ads. to parts 6 and 14-17 only, rear ads. to parts 14, 15, 17, 18 and 20 only, original printed wrappers, some light repairs or restorations to some spines and extremities or a few wrappers, but clean and excellent generally, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 3-88], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1836-7.⁂ Rare in parts and notoriously bibliographically complex. A full listing of the relevant issue points of the present work is available upon request.

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Lot 456

Yeats (William Butler) The Cat and the Moon and certain poems, first edition, one of 500 copies, signed presentation inscription from the author "To I. A. ?Farrell creator of his own fortune from W. B. Yeats creator of rhymes. Jan. 1937 Dublin" to endpaper, printed in red and black, charging unicorn device by Robert Gregory on title, some splitting to gutter but holding firm, light browning to endpapers, original cloth-backed boards, light browning to spine and covers, [Wade 145], 8vo, Dublin, Cuala Press, 1924.

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Lot 508

Boyle (Robert) The General History of the Air, first edition, small ink ownership inscription to title, small library stamp to title verso (and one other), 1a-1E damp-stain at gutter and upper margin, 2A4 small marginal hole, K3 soiled, some spotting and light browning, contemporary calf, upper joint starting to crack, [Wing B3981], 4to, for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1692.⁂ The first clear statement on the kinetic theory of gases. Posthumously published, it was seen through the press by John Locke, Boyle's friend, and contains some of Locke's own meteorological observations. The work is of considerable importance in the history of science - the views Boyle expressed here became the basis for the phlogiston theory of combustion, and it is the product of his life's work.

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Lot 267

Saint-Omer printing.- Torsellino (Orazio) The admirable life of S. Francis Xavier. Deuided into VI. bookes, translated by Thomas Fitzherbert, first edition in English, engraved historiated title, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, title with a few holes (most small) and frayed margins, with a little loss of image, first few ff. frayed, worming / water-staining in lower margins, causing loss or partial loss of a few letters on the odd leaf towards end (sigs. 4G&H in particular), final f. with a few small holes, with loss of a few letters, but no loss of sense, water-stained, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary limp vellum, stitched repairs, soiled, worn, [STC 24140], small 4to, Paris [i.e. Saint-Omer], [The English College Press], 1632. sold not subject to return. ⁂ Rare at auction, with only one record found (Skinner, 2018, $3690). St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552) was a Catholic missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus. He worked mainly in the Portuguese Empire, most notably in Goa, and also in Japan, Borneo and the Maluku Islands.

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Lot 507

Bianchini (Francesco) Hesperi et Phosphori, first edition, title in red and black, with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece, engraved head-piece, 2 initials and 2 embedded vignettes, one embedded mezzotint vignette, 10 plates, of which one mezzotint the others engraved (2 folding, one double-page), some foxing and light browning, including to some plates, contemporary vellum, spine worn with small section restored, [Honeyman 323; Graesse I, 437; Riccardi I, 132.15], folio, Rome, Giovanni Maria Salvioni, 1728.⁂ The first book of telescopic observations of the planet Venus. Bianchini (1662-1729) sought to determine the rotational period of Venus and to draw a map of its surface. Although his results on the rotation proved incorrect, his topographical observations were a pioneering effort in investigating the planet, identifying 'continents' and 'oceans'. The text is also significant in the history of lunar cartography, notably for the mezzotint views of the crater Plato and the Alpine Valley, which Bianchini was the first to chart, cutting through the mountain range of the Alps; this phenomenon was uncharted by the great Cassini lunar map (1670s). Bianchini's book is perhaps best known today for two often reproduced plates of aerial telescopes, of extremely long focal length, with lenses by Campani.

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Lot 413

Dahl (Roald) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and six more, first edition, signed by the author on front endpaper, previous owner presentation inscription to half-title, light stain to p.9, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine very lightly sunned, otherwise excellent, 8vo, 1977.

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Lot 226

Verlaine (Paul) Amour, first edition, [one of 650 copies], signed presentation inscription from the author to Léon Deschamps to half-title, crushed brown half morocco, gilt by M. Godillot, spine richly gilt in compartments, original wrappers (a little spotted with a few neat repairs to extremities) bound in, t.e.g., 8vo, Paris, Léon Vanier, 1888.⁂ A handsome copy with an excellent association, inscribed to Léon Deschamps, a fellow Symbolist poet and literary editor. Léon Deschamps (1864-1899) founded the La Plume literary review which published works by Verlaine among others.

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Lot 383

Thackeray (William Makepeace) The Newcomes. Memoirs of a most respectable family, first edition, in the original 23/24 parts, 48 engraved plates by Richard Doyle, illustrations, parts 18 and 21 lacking the Newcome Advertiser, part 7 lacking pp.3-7 of the same, most other slips and advertisements present, original printed wrappers, a few with ink ownership inscriptions or blind-stamps, light soiling, neatly rebacked, a few with repairs to extremities, preserved in custom chemises and pull-top boxes, 8vo, Bradbury & Evans, 1853-55.

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Lot 477

Middle East.- Druzes.- Churchill (Charles Henry) Mount Lebanon, A Ten Years' Residence, 3 vol., mixed edition, vol.1 second edition, vol.2 & 3 third edition, half-titles, folding map, 6 lithograph plates (3 tinted), occasional light spotting and slight marginal water-staining, 1853-62; The Druzes and the Maronites under the Turkish Rule, first edition, 1862, original cloth, bookplate and spine stickers removed, stamp erased from foot of titles, [Atabey 247; Blackmer 353], 8vo⁂ With the rare fourth volume and, despite the suggestions of being ex-library, a very good set in the original cloth. "An important work" (Blackmer).

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Lot 395

Sensation novel by a suffragette.- [Baillie-Weaver (Gertrude)], "G. Colmore". A Daughter of Music, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, vol. 1 with 20pp. advertisements dated March 1894, light browning to endpapers, original pictorial cloth, slight shelf-lean, light toning to spines, slight bumping to spine ends and corners, a bright and excellent set otherwise, [not in Sadleir or Wolff], 8vo, William Heinemann, 1894.⁂ An exceptional copy of this rare sensation novel involving a curse that manifests through music. Baillie-Weaver (1855-1926) is now best remembered for her 1911 novel Suffragette Sally as well as her 1913 The Life of Emily Davison.

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Lot 325

Dickens (Charles) Our Mutual Friend, 2 vol., first one-volume edition, half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece and 39 plates by Marcus Stone, 1 p. advertisements, occasional light foxing, bookplate to endpapers, original cloth, light browning to spine, short split to head of upper joint, a little rubbed, [Eckel pp. 94-5; Smith I, 15], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1865.

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Lot 414

Dahl (Roald) Rhyme Stew, first edition, signed by the author on front endpaper, illustrations by Quentin Blake, bookplate to front pastedown, original cloth, dust-jacket, near-fine, 4to, 1989.

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Lot 524

Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Observations of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, made at Slough, with a Twenty-Feet Reflector, between the years 1825-1833, offprint from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, first edition, 8 engraved plates, spotting, tissue guards, Richard Taylor, 1833, bound after 2 works by the same, together 3 works in 1 vol., contemporary diced calf, spine with black morocco label, 4to. ⁂First edition, the rare offprint issue, of Herschel's famous 'Slough Catalogue,' which includes 2306 nebulae and star clusters, 525 of which were discovered by Herschel himself. He was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1836 for this work. Herschel was, together with his father William, the greatest discoverer of nebulae and star clusters. From the library at Adare Manor, Ireland (purchased at the Christie's sale of the estate in 1982); Edwin R.W Wyndham-Quin (1812-71) third Earl of Dunraven, help a passionate enthusiasm for astronomy and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1834. He was conceivably an acquaintance of Herschel.

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Lot 525

Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Results of Astronomical Observations made during the years 1834, 5, 6, 7, 8, at the Cape of Good Hope, being the completion of a telescopic survey of the whole surface of the visible heavens, commenced in 1825, first edition, half-title, lithographed frontispiece, 17 engraved or lithographed plates of nebulae etc., 4 folding, wood-engraved tail-piece, errata & advertisement leaves at end, an excellent copy in original green blind-stamped cloth, very slight wear to head of spine, [Norman 1056], 4to, 1847.⁂ Detailed survey of the southern sky, Herschel's most important astronomical work.

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Lot 502

Alchemy.- Bacon (Roger) and others. Le Miroir d'Alquimie; L'Elixir des Philosophes; De L'Admirable Pouvoir et Piussance de l'Art; Des Choses Merveilleuses en la Nature, together 4 parts in 1, first edition in French, woodcut device on titles, woodcut initials and ornaments, part 2 with woodcut illustrations, multiple pages with small paper restorations at corners, some light damp-staining, cracking to gutter, a few gatherings beginning to pull, small ink stamp front endpaper verso, C18th calf, gilt spine with red morocco label, small leather repairs to spine head and foot, a few small worm holes to lower cover, [Not in Adams; Caillet 624; Wellcome 619], small 8vo, Lyon, Macé Bonhomme, 1557.⁂ First French edition of this very rare collection on alchemy, issued in four parts, each with a separate title-page. It includes the first French translation of Bacon's famous Speculum Alchemiae (1541). The first part includes the La Table Desmeraude of Hermes, a tract by Kalid of Damascus, and a work wrongly attributed to Jean de Mehun, but which is a revised version of Bacon's Mirror. Nicholas Bernard translated parts one and four, and Jacques Girard parts two and three. The last complete copy at auction was Honeyman's (Sotheby's 30th October 1978, lot 186, £4,500).

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Lot 185

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, first edition, first or second printing, with date on title and "How Keld" on p.20, colour frontispiece, plain title vignette and 26 colour plates, pictorial endpapers, internally fine, original brown boards with mounted colour illustration, printed glassine dust-jacket, slightly creased and soiled, small piece missing from head of spine, [Linder p.425; Quinby 8], 16mo, London & New York, Frederick Warne, 1905.⁂ An excellent copy.

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Lot 528

Lull (Ramòn) and Bernard de Lavinheta (editor), Ars Magna Generalis et Ultima, title and A4 in red and black, title and final page with woodcut printer's device, woodcut folding plate, woodcut initials and diagrams, ink ownership inscriptions to title, small paper restoration to blank margin of title with slight loss of woodcut border, small marginal paper restorations to A2 and C8, C18th German boards, gilt spine with label, extremities scuffed, [Palau 143693; Rogent & Duran 65; Tomash L142], 4to, Lyon, Symon Vincent, [1517].⁂ Third edition, the first edited by the Lullist Bernard de Lavinheta, of Lull's greatest work. Lull invented an 'art of finding truth' which inspired Leibniz's dream of a universal algebra four centuries later. The most distinctive characteristic of his Art is its combinatory nature, which led to both the use of complex semi-mechanical techniques that sometimes required figures with separately revolving concentric wheels - 'volvelles' - and also to the symbolic notation of its alphabet. These features justify its classification among the forerunners of both modern symbolic logic and computer science. The Art's function as a means of unifying all knowledge into a single system remained viable throughout the Renaissance and well into the seventeenth century. RBH lists only 4 copies of this edition in the last 50 years. Provenance: 'Josephi Trivellini, Veneti [Venice]' (inscription to title). Dr. Franz Jachimowicz (medical doctor, Vienna C19th; inscription to title)

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Lot 351

Trollope (Anthony) Can You Forgive Her?, first edition, in the original 20 monthly parts, 40 etched or wood-engraved plates after Hablot K. Browne and Miss Taylor, part 1 plates a little damp-stained with chipping to fore-margin, 1 plate in part 9 bound upside-down, part 10 with front ads. dated "October, 1864", part 13 lacking slip at rear, part 14 lacking 2pp. yellow ads. at rear but with yellow slip for "The Headless Horseman" not called fot, part 16 lacking first 2pp. of ads. at front, all other slips and advertisements as called for, original printed wrappers, contemporary ink ownership inscription to head of upper covers, part 1 upper cover darkened and detached with chipping to margin and spine largely defective, some other chipping to spines, part 4 with tear to upper cover, part 12 with portion of upper cover torn away, but overall a very good example of a rare set, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Sadleir 19], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1864-65.⁂ The first of the Palliser series, rare in parts.

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