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Light.- Diffraction.- Grimaldi (Francesco Maria) Physico-Mathesis De Lumine, Coloribus, et Iride, first edition, titles in red and black, the first with large engraved vignette, additional letterpress title, early ink inscriptions and stamp to letterpress title, woodcut diagrams, light uniform browning to several leaves, marginal damp-stain to last several gatherings, C18th vellum, manuscript title to spine, lightly toned, 4to, Bologna, heirs of Vittorio Benacci, 1665.⁂ Grimaldi's only book, this celebrated work unveils his discovery of the optical phenomenon of what he termed 'diffractio', or, diffraction. He outlined how the diffusion of light was instantaneous; it defied the notion of an exclusively rectilinear passage and evidenced that light was of a fluid nature, hence the terminology coined by Grimaldi from the Latin 'diffringere', to break into pieces. De Lumine was the first scientific attempt to establish a comprehensive wave theory of light and later influential to others, such as Hooke and Newton, it was particularly problematic for the latter in his own research and progress with Opticks (1704).

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***Polar.- Shackleton (Ernest H.) South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917, first edition, without errata slip, colour frontispiece, 87 black and white plates, of which 1 folding, folding map, with tear in blank margin and small tear at fold, some splitting at gutter, uniform browning, original pictorial cloth, spine head and foot slightly bumped, 8vo, 1919.

Verlaine (Paul) Choix de Poésies, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "hommage reconaissant del' auteur" to Henri Simond to half-title, portrait frontispiece, light foxing and browning, later half cloth, 8vo, Paris, Bibliotheque Charpentier, 1891.⁂ Rare inscribed. Henri Simond was the director of the daily newspaper L'Echo de Paris. In 1891 the newspaper ran a fundraiser to support Verlaine and it is likely that this is what Verlaine is referring to in the inscription.

Midnight Paper Sales.- Whitman (Walt) Wrenching Times: Poems from Drum-Taps...selected by M.Wynn Thomas, number 56 of 450 copies original morocco-backed boards, Newtown, Gwasg Gregynog, 1991 § Logue (Mary) A House in the Country, one of 250 copies, prospectus loosely inserted, Stockholm, Wi., 1994 § Goodman (Richard) The Bicycle Diaries..., number 27 of 250 copies, with prospectus, original cloth, illustration mounted on upper cover, [Stockholm, Wi.], 2011 § Auchinloss (Kenneth) New York Revisited, number 89 of 250 copies, original cloth, New York, Grolier Club, 2002 § Arey (R.F.) Waterfalls of the Mississippi, "pproof" copy from an edition limited to 200, original cloth, gilt, Minnesota Outdoors Press, Mn., 1998 § Garry (Clarke) Mayflies of the Driftless Region, number 75 of 400 copies, with prospectus, original morocco-backed boards with illustration mounted on upper cover, Stockholm, Wi., 2005, all but the first signed by the author and artist, all with wood-engraved plates by Gaylord Schanilec printed in colours, uncut, the last three with slip-cases, most printed by Midnight Paper Sales, v.s. (6)

Wilde (Oscar) The Sphinx, first edition, one of 200 copies, printed in green, red and black, illustrations by Charles Ricketts, bookplate to pastedown of R.H.S. Truell, original vellum, gilt, with designs by Charles Ricketts, 4to, Elkin Mathews and John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1894.⁂ A fine copy with no bowing of the covers of one of the landmarks of 1890s book production, overseen at the author's request by his friend the artist and typographer Charles Ricketts. Ricketts considered the designs for the illustrations and for the binding amongst his best illustrative work. The Pall Mall Budget reviewed, "The vellum binding, the various symbolic designs, the quaint rubicated initials and the general arrangement of the text, all by Mr Ricketts' sympathetic art, are most subtly infused by the spirit of the poem. The designs on the cover are particularly striking, and Mr Ricketts has never made a lovelier thing than the group of maidens clustering round "the moon horned Io" as she weeps." (21 June, 1894).

Trollope (Frances) The Barnabys in America; or, Adventures of the Widow Wedded, 3 vol., first edition, frontispieces and 6 plates by John Leech, tissue-guards, 1 plate with neatly repaired tear, a remarkably clean and bright copy, bookplates and blind-stamps of Bowdoin College with loosely inserted withdrawn notices at the end of each vol., attractive blue half morocco by Tout, spines gilt in compartments with rose and thistle motifs, extremities a little rubbed, t.e.g., [Sadleir 3214], 8vo, Henry Colburn, 1843.

Egypt.- Hieroglyphs.- Champollion (Jean Francois) Grammaire Égyptienne, first edition, lithograph hieroglyphs throughout, some printed in red, original printed wrappers, lower cover with paper restoration to inside, spine slightly toned, extremities a little chipped, folio, Paris, Firmin Didot Fréres, 1836[-1841].⁂ This monumental work of Champollion (1790-1832), known above all as the decipherer of the Rosetta stone, is the grand summation of his work in cracking Egyptian hieroglyphs and laid the foundations for all subsequent discoveries in Egyptology. It contains the first printed list of hieroglyphs; 260 in all. The printing, from Champollion's meticulous manuscript, was a complex process. It required a special combination of all the standard alphabetic languages (French, Latin, Greek, Coptic, etc.) to be set in the usual way in type, leaving blank spaces for the hieroglyphs. The typesetting was then transferred to lithographic plates where the hieroglyphs were engraved and then each page, including type and hieroglyphs, was reprinted lithographically. This was the first time such a technique was used in France. Rare in the original printed wrappers; RBH lists no other copy at auction.

Seizin & New Seizin Press.- Riding (Laura) Though Gently, number 181 of 200 copies signed by the author, small stain to a couple of leaves, Seizin Press, 1930 § Graves (Robert) To Whom Else?, out-of-series copy from an edition limited to 200 and signed by the author, Seizin Press, 1931; Across the Gulf: Late Poems, out-of-series copy from an edition limited to 175 signed by the editors, printer and binder, original boards, uncut, glacine wrapper, New Seizin Press, 1992; George Sand in Majorca, number 68 of 75 copies signed by the artist and translator, text in English, French and Catalan, original wrappers, 9 etchings by Nils Burwitz, all numbered and signed by the artist, loose as issued, together in original cloth drop-back box, printed label on upper cover, New Seizin Press, 1986, the first two in original cloth-backed pictorial boards by Len Lye, a little rubbed and marked, all Deia, Majorca; and 5 others, mostly from the press, 4to & 8vo (9)⁂ The New Seizin Press was founded by Tomas Graves, son of Robert, in Deia in 1983, reviving the Seizin Press his father operated with Laura Riding in the 1920s and 1930s.

Geometry.- Euclid. The Elements of Geometrie, translated by Sir Henry Billingsley, preface by John Dee, first edition of the first complete English translation, title within ornate woodcut allegorical border depicting Time bringing Truth and Antiquity to light, and with portraits of Ptolemy, Strabo, and others, numerous woodcut diagrams, woodcut historiated or decorative initials and tail-pieces and a large portrait of John Day above colophon, lacking folding letterpress 'Groundplat', overslips, and final blank, 1p. of early 18th century notes regarding the work mounted on front inner cover, title lower corner with some chipping (just touching border) and an ink inscription showing through from verso, QQq3 small hole within text at foot, with loss of several letters, SSs2 part of lower blank corner torn away, sigs. AAA and BBB some loss to upper margins, a few short tears, some spotting and light staining (including the odd ink stain, the most notable to upper edge), lightly browned, 17th century panelled calf, spine in compartments and with later, but to style, red morocco label, upper cover with hasp mark where formely chained, joints starting, but holding firm, corners little worn, some staining, marked and rubbed, [STC 10560; Thomas-Stanford 41; cf. PMM 25], a very good copy, folio, by John Daye, 1570.⁂ The Christ Church-John Rylands copy. John Dee's preface is considered by many to be his most important published work. It outlines the practical applications of Euclid's work, lays the foundations for later experimental science and hints at the use of magic and the supernatural in conjunction with the natural. In addition, Dee also contributed additional theorems and annotations. The translator Billingsley became Lord Mayor of London in 1596. Provenance: Ink inscription to verso of title recording the gift of the book to Christ Church College, Oxford by nine students on receiving their Master of Arts degrees in 1587; John Rylands Library (large engraved bookplate dated 1894 to front free endpaper and small label at end recording its withdrawal from stock April, 1988); sold Sotheby's 14th April, 1988 to Heath for £3,850 and again Sotheby's 1989 to Pearl for £1210.

Dickens (Charles) The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, first edition in the original 19/20 parts, etched frontispiece, additional title (first state with "100£" to sign) and 38 etched plates by Hablot K. Browne, part 1 lacking tea ad., part 2 lacking 4pp. "Mary-le-Bone Iron Works" ad., part 5 lacking 8pp. Tomas Boys "Prospectus", part 7 lacking slip at front (as often), part 10 lacking all rear ads. and part 16 lacking "Temple of Fashion" insert, Chuzzlewit Advertiser lacking leaves in parts 1, 4, 7 and 10, all other slips and advertisements as called for, some foxing or browning to plates, part 2 bound in upside-down, original printed blue wrappers, some chipping to spines and creasing or fraying to extremities, preserved in custom folding chemise and morocco pull-top box (light fading to spine, some rubbing to extremities), [Hatton & Cleaver pp. 185-212], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1843-44.

Trollope (Anthony) Miss Mackenzie, 2 vol., first edition, occasional light soiling, bookplate of Frank Austin Ellis Ashwell to pastedowns, original second (regular) issue cloth, vol. 1 with wear to upper cover corner and lower cover fore-edge, some mottling to covers, but a very good, bright set generally, endpapers renewed, [Sadleir 20], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1865.

Trollope (Anthony) The Way We Live Now, 2 vol., first edition in book form, frontispieces and 38 wood-engraved plates by Luck Fildes, half-titles, damp-staining to vol. 1, vol. 1 lower hinge cracked but holding firm, original green cloth cloth blocked in black and gilt, slight shelf-lean, spine ends and corners a little bumped, vol. 1 with some light mottling to covers, extremities rubbed, but a very good, bright set overall, [Sadleir 44], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1875.

Trollope (Anthony) The Last Chronicle of Barset, 2 vol. first edition in book form, first issue, bound from parts, frontispieces and 30 wood-engraved plates by G. H. Thomas, vignette illustrations, scattered foxing, original decorative cloth, gilt, spines a little darkened, corners a little bumped, vol. 2 with neat repairs to spine ends, light rubbing, neatly recased, endpapers sympathetically renewed, [Sadleir 26], Smith, Elder and Co., 1867; and a third edition Small House at Allington, 2 vol., 8vo (4)

Dickens (Charles) The Mystery of Edwin Drood, first edition in book form, engraved frontispiece, additional title and 12 plates by Luke Fildes, 1f. list of Dickens' works, some light foxing, original blind-stamped olive cloth (Carter variant C), spine lightly sunnned, spine ends and corners a little bumped with some fraying to foot of spine, but a sharp, excellent example overall, [Carter, Binding Variants, pp.108-9; Eckel pp.96-8; Smith I, 16], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1870.

Hemingway (Ernest) Green Hills of Africa, first edition, woodcut illustrations and vignettes, upper fore-edge corner p.81 lightly soiled, bookplate to front pastedown, original cloth, spine and extremities sunned, damp-stain along upper joint to spine and upper cover, dust-jacket, damp-stain along upper joint to spine and upper panel, chip at upper panel fold, some rubbing to extremities, [Hanneman A13.A], 8vo, 1935.

Trollope (Anthony) Framley Parsonage, 3 vol., first edition in book form, 3 wood-engraved frontispieces and 3 plates by Dalziel after J. E.Millais, 16 pp. of publisher's advertisements dated April 1861 at end of vol. 3., occasional light foxing and some light creasing, book-label of Owen Wynne to pastedowns, original blind-stamped purple cloth, neatly rebacked, retaining original backstrips, sunning to spines, library label to vol.2 upper cover, removed from other vol. with resultant shading, corners a little bumped, light rubbing, [Sadleir 11], 8vo, Smith, Elder & Co., 1861.

Fleece Press.- Buckland Wright (John) Bathers and Dancers, one of 180 copies from an edition limited to 206, original vellum-backed Japanese wood veneer boards, slip-case, Wakefield, 1993; Baigneuses, one of 204 copies from an edition limited to 240, original vellum-backed marbled boards, cloth drop-back box, Denby Dale, 1995; Surreal Times: The Abstract Engravings and Wartime Letters..., one of 210 copies from an edition limited to 266, original cloth-backed JBW patterned-paper, slip-case, Denby Dale, 2000; Endeavours & Experiments...Essays in Woodcut and Colour Engraving, one of 150 copies from an edition limited to 300, original cloth-backed patterned-paper boards, slip-case, Upper Denby, 2004; To Beauty...Work with Joseph Ishill of the Oriole Press, one of 246 copies, original cloth-backed Venetian marbled paper, with prospectus in cloth drop-back box, Upper Denby, 2006, illustrations, many tipped in, a few colour, most uncut, Fleece Press; and 3 others by or about Buckland Wright, v.s. (8)⁂ An almost complete set of the press's works devoted to John Buckland Wright (missing only the final volume Sensuous Lines: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Intaglio Prints..., 2014), with many of the engravings printed from the original blocks left in the artist's studio at his death. Several copies of the first item were damaged in binding so in fact only 164 copies of the standard edition were issued.

Dickens (Charles) Our Mutual Friend, first edition in the original 19/20 parts, first issue of part 1 without the printer's imprint on front wrapper, wood engraved frontispiece and 39 plates after Marcus Stone by Dalziel and W.T. Green, part 1 lacks Thorley's 4pp. ad., part 6 lacks Armadale slip and Norton's Pills 4pp ad., part 7 with Thorley's Farmer's Almanack duplicated at front of ads., part 14 lacks Mappin Webb & Co. 4pp. ad., part 18 lacks Norton's Pills and Liverpool & London & Globe ads. but with 8pp. Chapman & Hall ads. not called for, part 19/20 with additional 2 ads. for John F. Dunn's City Book Mark each 2pp. inserted at front and back, all other slips and advertisements as called for, part 13 with light damp-staining to plates, occasional spotting but generally clean internally, original printed blue wrappers, some occasional light repair or retouching to spines, part 1 upper cover rather creased and soiled with some chipping to head an foot, part 6 with hole to lower wrapper, part 19/20 a little soiled with some chipping, still a very good set generally, preserved in 2 custom red calf drop-front boxes, [Hatton & Cleaver pp.343-370], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1864-65.

Dickens (Charles) The Mystery of Edwin Drood, first edition in book form, engraved frontispiece, additional title and 12 plates by Luke Fildes, 1f. list of Dickens' works and 32pp. advertisements dated Aug. 31, 1870 at rear, some cracking to gutter and upper hinge with 1 plate and 1 text f. working loose, original green decorative cloth with design in black and gilt (Carter variant A), spine a little dulled, spine ends and corners a little bumped, light rubbing, [Carter, Binding Variants, pp.108-9; Eckel pp.96-8; Smith I, 16], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1870.

Trollope (Anthony) La Vendée. An HIstorical Romance, 3 vol., first edition, second issue with cancel titles without publisher's imprint to verso, without half-titles (only vol. 2 called for), vol.3 with first page of advertisements only (of 16), the odd spot or patch of light soiling, aubergine crushed half morocco, gilt, by Putnam's, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, spines slightly dulled, t.e.g., [Sadleir 3], 8vo, Henry Colburn, 1850.⁂ Rare, one of only 500 copies printed.

Trollope (Anthony) Mr. Scarborough's Family, 3 vol., first edition in book form, half-titles, 32pp. advertisements dated March 1883 at end of vol. 1 (last ad. f. browned with loss to corner), vol. 2 title with chip to head, light browning to titles and endpapers, vol. 1 lacking rear endpaper, original green-blue cloth decorated in brown, vol. 1 spine dulled and with slight shelf-lean, spine ends and corners a little bumped, a bright and excellent set overall, [Sadleir 66], 8vo, Chatto & Windus, 1883.

Lane (Allen) Boxwood & Graver: A Miscellany of Blocks, limited edition, wood-engravings by Reynolds Stone and others, original parchment-backed veneer boards, privately printed, 1958 § Furst (Herbert, editor) The Woodcut: An Annual, Nos.1 & 2 only (of 4), with 2 tipped-in patterned-paper samples by Enid Marx and Eric Ravilious, light spotting, original cloth-backed patterned-paper boards, The Fleuron, 1927-28 § Bliss (Douglas Percy) A History of Wood-Engraving, original buckram, spotted and browned, 1928 § Farleigh (John) Graven Image: An Autobiographical textbook, first edition, Hilary Boyntun's copy, 1940 § Brett (Simon) An Engraver's Globe: Wood Engraving World-Wide in the Twenty-First Century, 2002 § Hamilton (James) Wood Engraving & the Woodcut in Britain c.1890-1990, 1994, plates and illustrations, the last three original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first price-clipped; and 15 others on wood-engraving, 8vo & 4to (22)

Trollope (Anthony) The Prime Minister, 4 vol., first edition in book form, occasional light foxing or soiling, original brown cloth, decorated in black and lettered in gilt, vol. 1-3 with neat repairs to spine ends, vol. 3 endpapers renewed, but an excellent set overall, [Sadleir 45], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1876.

White (Patrick) The Aunt's Story, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "Roy de Maistre - Patrick White Dec. 1947" to endpaper, author's compliments slip loosely inserted, original boards, spine ends and corners a little bumped, some light staining and a few scratch marks to covers, first issue dust-jacket without reviews to front flaps, light toning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, a few closed tears to head and foot with creasing, with a rather chipped and worn second issue dust-jacket, 8vo, New York, Viking Press, 1948.⁂ A superb association copy inscribed to White's principal mentor and influence whose painting The Aunt was one of the key inspirations for this work. The first US edition preceded the UK edition. White first met De Maistre (1894-1968) in 1936, the artist and the two men were briefly lovers before settling in to their more enduring roles of pupil, mentor and firm friends. De Maistre and his work became an immensely important influence, acknowledged by White when dedicating his first book Happy Valley to him. Around 1945 White purchased a new painting by De Maistre titled The Aunt and it proved the catalyst for his first new work following years of creative drought: "The image of the 'Aunt' fused in White's mind with a long-planned novel about a wandering spinster going mad in a world on the brink of violence... The title that fastened itself to this idea was The Aunt's Story. Shortly after buying Roy's painting and within a month of his demobilisation, White was at work on the novel." - David Marr, Patrick White. A Life, p.237. The integral link between De Maistre's painting and White's novel is acknowledged in the first English edition which uses the painting for the dust-jacket design.

Parrot Presses & Artists' Choice Editions.- Bishop (Hal) The Wood Engravings of Frank Martin: A Selection...and a Catalogue of all the Relief Prints, number XIV of XXXVI special copies (actually 42) with an additional suite of 4 hitherto unpublished wood-engravings, from an edition limited to 360 signed by the author and artist, original morocco-backed pictorial boards, additional wood-engravings all titled, numbered and signed in pencil, loose as issued with card folder, together in slip-case, 1998 § Martin (Frank) Newhaven Dieppe, number 196 of 320 copies signed by the author/artist, original pictorial boards, uncut, 1996: Shadowland: Pictures from a Silent Screen, number 71 of 280 copies signed by the author/artist, original pictorial boards, 2002, illustrations by Martin, some colour, Church Hanborough; and another by the same, 4to & folio (4)⁂ Despite the colophon of the first stating that there were 36 special copies with 8 additional engravings there were in fact 42 copies in half morocco with 4 engravings, and a further18 specially-bound copies in full morocco with 8 engravings.

Songbooks.- The Syren. Containing a collection of four hundred and thirty two of the most celebrated English songs. None of which are contain'd in the collection of the same size, call'd, The nightingale, third edition, engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, D12 with short tear at foot, within text, but without loss, occasional spotting and staining, lightly browned, later sheep, gilt, spine in compartments, spine faded, rubbed, Printed for J. Hodges, at the Looking-Glass on London Bridge, 1739; and a rare second edition of The Lark, 1742, 12mo (2)⁂ First mentioned is rare with ESTC recording only one copy (Advocates Library, Edinburgh). There are two other third editions of the same date recorded, both with different imprints and both rare. Provenance: Both from library of the Barons Kenyon (engraved armorial bookplates and ink signatures).

Trollope (Anthony) Phineas Finn, the Irish Member, 2 vol., first edition in book form, frontispieces and 18 wood-engraved plates after J. E. Millais, tissue-guards, vol. 2 upper hinge weak, lower hinge broken, original green cloth, lettered in gilt, spines darkened, spine ends and corners a littel bumped and frayed, rubbing to joints, but a very good set overall, slip-case, [Sadleir 30], 8vo, Virtue & Co., 1869.⁂ The second title in the Palliser series. Virtue ceased operating shortly after publication, consequently Phineas Finn is rare in the original cloth in good condition.

Maugham (William Somerset) The Painted Veil, first English edition, first issue, third state with 26 titles listed on half-title verso, light browning to endpapers, foxing to fore-edge, original cloth, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, light sunning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, some light creasing, [Stott A33c], 8vo, 1925.⁂ Scarce in the dust-jacket. The complex printing history of The Painted Veil stems in a large part from a number of complaints and threatened suits, the most significant of which came from the Hong Kong Government regarding the setting of the novel. This complaint was not made however until two printing runs of 4,000 copies each had been completed.

India.- Paget (Lt. Col. W. H.) A Record of the Expeditions undertaken against the North-West Frontier Tribes, first edition, 18 folding maps and plates, a few with slight tears, mostly at folds, occasional spotting, title and last 2 leaves with tape repair to tears, title with label "For Official Use Only" pasted above imprint and another at head of preface, title also with label of Durham 1st V.B. Light Infantry, page 489 bearing label Newburgh, Casingwold, modern morocco-backed marbled boards, 8vo, Calcutta, Office of Superintendent of Government Printing, 1874.

Persia.- Goldsmid (Frederick John) Eastern Persia: An Account of the Journeys of the Persian Boundary Commission 1870-71-72, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 4 folding colour maps, one wood-engraved plate, one chromolithograph and 28 lithograph plates, 18 hand-coloured, new endpapers, original cloth, corner of upper cover vol.2 bumped, else fine, [Ghani p.153], 8vo, 1876.⁂ An excellent copy of this major work which Ghani considers "one of the most important books on the region". Volume 1 The Geography with Narratives covers the separate journeys of Majors St. John, Lovett and Euan Smith; volume 2 The Zoology and Geology of Eastern Persia by W.T. Blandford, which includes hand-coloured plates of birds and mammals by J.G. Keulemans and plates of reptiles by G.H. Ford, is considered a definitive work on the subject.

Orwell (George) Nineteen Eighty-Four, first edition, original cloth, spine slightly faded and upper cover partially sunned, red dust-jacket designed by Michael Kennard, rubbed and chipped, spine dulled, laid down on quite stiff paper, 8vo, 1949.

Whittington Press.- Foden (Peter) The Fell Imperial Quarto Book of Common Prayer: An Account of its Production, number V of 50 specially-bound copies, from an edition limited to 200, printed in red and black, with 6 sample leaves, illustration, original half scarlet morocco, 1998 § Bidwell (John) Fine Papers at the Oxford University Press, number 10 of 300 copies, 1999 § McKitterick (David) A New Specimen Book of Curwen Press Papers, number 154 of 335 copies, 1987 § Butcher (David) British Private Press Prospectuses 1891-2001, number 221 of 350 copies, with 3 facsimile prospectuses in pocket at end, 2001 § Miscellany of Type (A), number 422 of 530 copies, 1990 § Harrison (Ski) Portraits of Presses: Photographs, number 104 of 500 copies, 1997 § Cave (Roderick) Chinese Ceremonial Papers: An Illustrated Bibliography, number 100 of 200 copies, with additional paper sample in card folder, 2002, illustrations, tipped-in samples, some colour, all but the first original half cloth or cloth-backed boards, all uncut with slip-cases, folio & 4to, Risbury or Andoversford, Whittington Press (7)

Food and Drink.- Y-Worth (William) The Compleat Distiller: or the Whole Art of Distillation Practically Stated, 2 parts in 1, second edition, engraved frontispiece and 4 plates, final advertisement leaf present, tear to F8 just touching text block, tear also to K5 into text, browned, some light water-staining mostly to corners, lower corner of first c.40pp. nibbled (no loss of text), contemporary panelled calf, worn, covers with several repairs and almost detached, [Simon BG 1641; Blake 497; Duveen p.630; Ferguson II, 558; Kress S.2329], 8vo, Printed for J. Taylor, 1705.⁂ Second edition. A reissue of the first edition of 1692 (Introitus Apertus ad Artem Distillationis), omitting the Latin title.

Dickens (Charles) Bleak House, first edition in the original 19/20 parts, 40 plates by H.K.Browne ("Phiz") , with the explanation of the accident to plate 17 in part 9, part 1 an unusual issue without any ads., the upper cover misnumbered, and the lower cover blank, part 7 with Bleak House advertiser misbound but all present, part 16 lacking the "Grave Aguilar's Works" insert, part 19/20 lacking the "Works of Samuel Warren", W. Mott and John Cassell ads., all other slips and ads. otherwise present as called for included the rare "Village Pastor" insert to part 15, some foxing to plates, original printed blue wrappers, chipping to spines, 7 parts with covers detached, occasional light foxing or soiling to some covers, part 19/20 stitching broken with contents becoming loose, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Hatton & Cleaver p.273-304], 8vo, 1852-53.

Dickens (Charles) Oliver Twist, 3 vol., third edition, etched frontispieces and 19 plates only by George Cruikshank (of 21 with 1 plate in vol. 1 duplicated), some light offsetting and occasional spotting, original green cloth, slight shelf-lean, spine ends and corners a little bumped, light rubbing to extremities, but an excellent set overall, [Smith I, p.37], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1841.⁂ The last of the three volume editions and the first to contain Dickens' Introduction.

Smith (Dodie) I Capture the Castle, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "To Esmé, with my love, Dodie, Pennsylvania. October 1948" to endpaper, toning to fore-edge, original cloth, sunning to spine and cover margins, dust-jacket, spine browned and discoloured, splitting to upper joint, spine ends and corners chipped, portion of loss to head of upper panel, a few neat repairs to verso, 8vo, Boston, 1948.⁂ An excellent association copy of Smith's first novel, inscribed to one of her oldest friends, Esmé Wynne-Tyson. Wynne-Tyson (1898-1972) met Smith whilst both were attending RADA. The two women entered the world of acting together and would both turn their hands to writing although Smith with rather more success. Wynne-Tyson continued with her acting career and is notable for her collaborations with Noel Coward as well as with J. D. Beresford.

Gibbs (Josiah Willard) On Multiple Algebra: an address before the section of Mathematics and Astronomy of The American Association for the Advancement of Science at the Buffalo meeting, Offprint from: Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Vol. XXXV, first edition, original printed wrappers, a few very small chips and tears, unopened, 8vo, Salem (MA), The Salem Press, 1886.⁂ One of Gibb's most famous papers, which not only gives the best picture of his conception of the place of vector analysis within the more general fields of algebra and mathematics, but also presents a united interpretation of the essential ideas of both William Hamilton and Hermann Günther.

Dickens (Charles) Dombey and Son, first edition in book form, bound from parts, half-title, engraved frontispiece, title-page with 38 plates by Hablot K. Browne, without errata and list of plates, some marginal loss to pp.425-32, bookplate of W. G. Osbourne to pastedown, orignial variant green cloth, fading to spine, spine ends and corners bumped and frayed, light rubbing, a few light marks to lower cover, a very good copy overall, [Eckel pp.74-6; Smith I, 8], 8vo, Bradbury and Evans, 1848.

Cookery.- Toklas (Alice B.) The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, first edition, illustrations by Sir Francis Rose, original cloth, dust-jacket a little browned at edges and with a few short tears, 8vo, 1954.⁂ Includes the notorious recipe for Haschich Fudge, excised from the American edition which appeared a few days after this English edition.

[Dickens (Charles)] Sketches by Boz Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People, New Edition, Complete, first one volume edition, first issue with "reeledbefore" on p.526 and all plates before "Greenwich Fair" (at p. 120) without the Chapman & Hall imprint, frontispiece and 40 etched plates by George Cruikshank, half-title, some very light offsetting, occasional foxing to plates but very clean generally, the odd marginal tear, pulling to a few gatherings with some sheets and 2 plates working loose, cream endpapers, upper hinge repaired, original blind-stamped vertically-ribbed cloth, light sunning to spine, corners a little bumped, some light fraying to joint ends, light rubbing and faint spotting to covers, but a very good copy overall, [Smith p.16 n.4; Eckel pp.14-15], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1839.⁂ "When Chapman and Hall obtained the copyright of Sketches in 1837, they published all of them in twenty monthly parts from November 1837 through June 1839... In May, 1839, Chapman and Hall published these parts complete in one volume with all 40 of Cruikshank's illustrations."

Voyages.- Rickman (John) Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage, to the Pacific Ocean, on Discovery, half-title, 10 engraved plates including folding plate of the Death of Cook, only part of folding engraved map still present, damp-mottling through first half of book causing two holes with loss of some text, contemporary sheep, worn, spine broken and joints split, 8vo, Printed for E. Newbery, 1785.⁂ Based on John Rickman's 'Journal of Captain Cook's last voyage' (1781), but edited and extensively revised by David Henry and intended to form the sixth volume of his An historical account of all the voyages round the world, performed by English navigators, 1773-75. Sometimes also attributed to John Ledyard or to William Ellis. Rickman, second lieutenant of the Resolution, but for the greater part of the voyage on the Discovery, was the first to publish an account of Cook's Third Voyage. The work was, however, wrongly attributed to Ledyard until 1930 when Judge Howay demonstrated that Ledyard had simply copied whole sections of Rickman's book. The publisher, Newbery, recognised the potential of Rickman's anonymous journal, correctly assuming that it would be as successful as Marra's account of the Second Voyage, which he had also published; in fact this is considered the best edition in which the 1781 text is entirely re-edited and expanded. The folding plate, depicting Cook's murder, is of some importance being the first representation in print of Hawaii.

Trollope (Anthony) The Prime Minister, first edition, in original 8 parts, advertisements, Sadleir's Issue B, Style i in original brown cloth stamped in blind, spines lettered in gilt, some slight shelf-lean, spines a little darkened, spine ends and corners bumped, rubbing to extremities, original wrappers bound in as issued, [Sadleir 45], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1876.⁂ Scarce in the original parts. The longer parts were issued in part due to public exhaustion with the shorter slim instalments. The Prime Minister was issued simultaneously in the cloth and wrappered issues, the former were likely created to cope with the wear-and-tear of circulating libraries or similar.

[Dickens (Charles)], "Boz"., editor. Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, 2 vol., first edition, first issue without border to final plate, half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece and 12 plates by George Cruikshank, 36pp. advertisements, foxing, ink ownership inscription of Thomas Bell of Exeter College, Oxford dated Dec. 43 to pastedowns, blue-green cloth (Carter variant C), spine lightly sunned, neatly rebacked, retaining orignal backstrips, corners a little bumped, [Carter pp. 106-7; Eckel pp. 140-2], 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1838.

Trollope (Frances) The Widow Married, 3 vol., first edition, frontispieces and 18 plates by Buss, 8pp. ads. at start of vol.1, 2pp. ads at end of vol. 3, 1 plate detached, occasional light spotting or foxing, vol. 2 lower hinge weak, McInerney bookplate to pastedowns, original blue blind-stamped cloth, shelf-lean, light sunning to spines, some scattered spotting or marking, vol. 1 with some splitting to lower joint, [Sadleir 3251 ], 8vo, Henry Colburn, 1840.⁂ Rare in the original cloth, we can trace only one other example at auction.

Trollope (Anthony) The Claverings, 2 vol., first edition in book form, frontispieces and 14 wood-engraved plates after M. Ellen Edwards, tissue-guards, occasional light finger-soiling, vol.1 with a few ff. working loose, original blind-stamped and gilt green cloth, vol. 2 neatly and sympathetically rebacked retaining original backstrip, vol. 2 rather rubbed and discoloured, but vol. 1 an unusually bright and clean example, [Sadleir 27], 8vo, Smith, Elder & Co., 1867.⁂ Sadleir notes two cloth issues, the present example and one blocked in gilt and black.

Tsiolkovsky (Konstantin) Izsledovanie mirovykh postrantsv' reaktivnymi priborami (dopolnenie k I i II chasti truda togo-zhe nazvaniya). [Investigation of cosmic space using reactive devices. (Supplement to Parts I and II of the Works of the same Title)], first edition, illustration, original printed wrappers, ink manuscript number to upper cover, slightly sunned at extremities, a fine copy overall, 8vo, Kaluga, by the author, 1914.⁂ Tsiolkovsky's first separately printed scientific work on space rockets, preceding the first publication on rockets by Robert Goddard by five years. The significance of Tsiolkovsky's work in rocketry and space travel was greatest in Russia where it inspired early development independent of American and European research. The present work is a supplement to two earlier works of the same title which had appeared in two different journals in 1903 and 1911-1912 (no offprints known); these are listed on the back cover of this publication, together with Tsiolkovsky's other works, dated from 1891 onwards. Tsiolkovsky was employed as a school teacher and could afford to print only a few copies of his works, which therefore had very limited circulation. RBH lists only 4 copies at auction in the last 40 years, and while the first four lots in the Russian Space History sale at Sotheby's (New York, December 11, 1993) included a total of 38 papers by Tsiolkovsky, the property of his family, this paper was not among them.

Dickens (Charles) Little Dorrit, first edition in the original 19/20 parts, first issue with 'Rigaud' for Blandois in part 15 and errata slip in part 16, 40 etched plates by H.K.Browne ("Phiz"), all advertisements and slips as called for, part 6 with additional 4pp. catalogue of works by Henry Ince at front, clean internally, original printed blue wrappers, some light creasing to spines or covers, 1 or 2 spines with possible very light repairs, but a sharp, bright set overall, preserved in 2 red calf, drop-front boxes with bookplate of Ethel and George Booth to inside upper cover, [Hatton & Cleaver pp.307-330], 8vo, 1855-57.

Stoppard (Tom) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, first edition, very light toning to endpapers, original cloth, slight fading to spine and upper cover, dust-jacket, slight sunning to spine and foot, spine ends and corners a little chipped, very small patch of browning to 1 corner, but an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1967.

Botany.- Herbert (Hon. Rev. William) Amaryllidaceæ; preceded by an attempt to arrange the Monocotyledonous Orders ..., first edition, 48 engraved plates, of which 43 hand-coloured, occasional off-setting, scattered faint spotting, bookplate, original cloth, lightly sunned spine, faint spotting, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Nissen 857], 8vo, 1837.

James (M.R.) A Thin Ghost and others, first edition, light browning to half-title, erased ownership inscription to endpaper, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to spine ends and corners, some light surface soiling to covers, light rubbing to extremities, an excellent example overall, [Tymn 3-127], 8vo, 1919.⁂ James' third collection of ghost stories.

Gibbings (Robert) Iorana! A Tahitian Journal, first edition, bound in black morocco with title and design of fish blocked in gilt on upper cover, spine titled in gilt, with similar design of fish outlined in blue, green & palladium on doublures, g.e., 1932; Sweet Thames Run Softly, first edition, 1941 § Mathers (E.Powys) Red Wise, number 336 of 500 copies, wood-engravings by Gibbings, Waltham St.Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1925 § Empson (Patience) The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings, prospectus loosely inserted, 1959 § Andrews (M.J.) The Life and Work of Robert Gibbings, Bicester, 2003 § Forbes (Esther) A Mirror for Witches, first edition, 1928, plates and illustrations, many by Gibbings, all but the first original cloth or cloth-backed boards with dust-jackets, the last browned and frayed at edges, some a little rubbed and faded; and 11 others illustrated by Gibbings, 8vo & 4to (17)

Le Fanu (Joseph Sheridan) The Room in the Dragon Volant, first separate edition, "Copyright Edition", browning to margins, ink inscription to endpaper and bookplate to pastedown, contemporary cloth, neatly rebacked, retaining original backstrip, 8vo, Berlin, A. Asher & Co., 1872.⁂ First separate edition of this gothic tale of a group of bandits who bury their victims alive that first appeared in the collection In a Glass Darkly, published the same year. WorldCat lists only 1 copy of the present work and we can trace no other example.

Whittington Press.- Randle (Rose) Rose's Aga Recipes, number 12 of 30 hand-coloured copies signed by the author and artist, from an edition limited to 950, linocut illustrations by Judith Verity hand-coloured with crayons, Addendum sheet loosely inserted, original patterned cloth with blue morocco label mounted on upper cover, t.e.g., others uncut, original cloth drop-back box, 1995 [2009] § Connors (Sandy) Busy as a Bee: Recipes & Labels for the Kitchen Garden, number 140 of 255 copies, wood-engraved illustrations by the author, some hand-coloured, original half cloth, uncut, 2002 § Lindsley (Kathleen) Pub Signs for Samuel Webster, number 183 of 350 copies signed by the artist, wood-engraved illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, 1983 § Crow (Barbara) An Acrobatic Alphabet, number 271 of 335 copies, wood-engravings, original pictorial wrappers sewn in Japanese style, slip-case, 1986, Risbury or Andoversford, Whittington Press; and 11 others form the press, mostly ordinary copies of the first (first to fifth editions), 8vo (15)⁂ The first item was part of some unbound sheets of the fifth edition of the book discovered at the binders in 2008, and 30 copies were bound up (20 in red, 10 in blue) in the style of the 30 specials of the first edition of 1984.

India.- Simpson (William) & Sir John William Kaye. India Ancient and Modern,. A series of illustrations of the country and people of India and adjacent territories, first edition, chromolithographed decorative dedication heightened with gold, 50 fine chromolithographed plates after Simpson mounted on thin card, paper guards, with additional oval photographic portrait of Simpson mounted as frontispiece, plates 5 & 29 with small adhesions to plates from paper guards, plates 36, 42 & 45 with stain to fore-margin not affecting images, contemporary half red morocco, spine gilt, g.e., rubbed, large folio, Day & Son, 1867.⁂ Excellent copy of a scarce work. Simpson arrived in Calcutta in October 1859, having been commissioned to illustrate a work on India. Over three years he visited much of the subcontinent, including the Himalayas, Kashmir, Ceylon, Tibet and its Buddhist temples. In addition to landscapes the superb plates depict cave temples, street scenes, priests and monks, craftsmen and everyday activities such as grinding corn and collecting water.

Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first paperback edition, first printing, usual light marginal browning, some light creasing, original pictorial wrappers, very slight sunning to spine, light vertical creasing to spine and upper cover, light rubbing and creasing to tips of spine and corners, split to foot of upper joint, light lifting to laminate at cover extremities, but still an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1997.

Trollope (Anthony) The Warden, first edition, without advertisements, light marginal browning, later brown cloth with original spine and cover panels neatly laid down, retaining original pastedowns and endpapers, light browning to spine, [Sadleir 4], 8vo, Longman Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855.⁂ The first of Trollope's Barchester series, rare in the original cloth. The present example in either Sadleir's first or second binding but with pastedown advertisements different to those called for.

Descartes (René) Les Passions de l'Ame, first edition, title with printer's woodcut device, woodcut initials and tail-pieces, very occasional light spotting, bookplate to front pastedown 'Henry Edward Bunbury', printers waste from a C17th English work used as endpapers, browned, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked preserving original spine, spine gilt with morocco label, corners rubbed, [Garrison Morton 4965, Norman 626; Willems 1083], 8vo, Amsterdam, Louys Elzevier, 1649.⁂ One of Descartes' most influential works, published the year before his death, The Passions is the fullest account of his understanding of the interaction between body and soul, setting forth his famous theory of the pineal gland. Consistent with his dualistic view, Descartes espoused the total distinctiveness of body and soul, and simultaneously equated the soul with the mind. From this, based on reasoning that alone of all parts of the brain the pineal gland was without a double, he argued that it was the unique locus for connection between the material body and immaterial mind. Although he had written privately on this subject already in Traité de l'Homme during the 1630s, this remained unpublished until after his death. Indeed, Descartes was reluctant even to publish The Passions, since he claimed its original purpose served only as part of his dialogue with the Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (with whom he held an intimate correspondence between 1643-45), and of whose mind alone he was confident of being sufficiently elevated to understand his arguments contained therein.

Evergreen Press.- Anderson (Andrew) Enclosures: Times and Places. A Book of Wood Engravings, number 5 of 35 specially-bound copies with a signed print, from an edition limited to 180, original morocco-backed cloth, large folding print loose in cloth portfolio, together in slip-case, Stroud, 2009 § Punctuation: A Printer's Study, number 19 of 200 copies, printed in red & black, original cloth, 2001 § Edward Thomas: Words into Wood, number 83 of 250 copies, wood-engravings, original cloth, 2010 § Miss Margaret Beardsley of Ivy Cottage Windley, number 2 of 150 copies, wood-engravings by Rosalind Bliss, original wrappers, uncut, Windley, Bliss Press, 2009 § Abney (Edward) Letters to My Father 1660-1663, number 60 of 300 copies signed by the artist, illustrations by Clare Melinsky, frontispiece tipped in, original half morocco, uncut, slip-case, Sevenoaks, 2005, the first three Stroud, Evergreen Press, the last two printed by the press; and 15 others from or printed by the press, v.s. (20)

Dickens (Charles) A Tale of Two Cities, first book edition, first issue with p.213 misnumbered 113, engraved additional title and 14 plates by Hablot K. Brown, lacking half-title, frontispiece and front free endpaper, occasional foxing, some corner creasing, plates with some marginal damp-staining, upper hinge weak, contemporary half calf, rubbed, [Eckel p.86; Smith I, 13], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1859.

[Dickens (Charles)], "Boz", contributor. The Library of Fiction, or Family Story-Teller, 2 vol., first edition in book form, half-titles, 26 wood engraved plates only (of 28) after R. Seymour, R.W. Buss, Hablot K. Browne and others, vol.2 without pp. 161-208, occasional light foxing, ink ownership inscriptions to endpapers, original variant blue-green cloth with blind-stamped pattern of grapes and leaves, spine ends and corners a little bumped, light rubbing and fading, [Eckel p.150-151], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1836-37.⁂ These volumes bound from parts and lacking 4 stories in vol. 2. Contains two early pieces by Dickens as 'Boz' in vol.1; The Tuggs at Ramsgate and A Little Talk About Spring and Sweeps.