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Click here to subscribeArctic and Polar Exploration - Nansen (Fridtjof), The Norwegian Polar Expedition 1893-1896/"Farthest North" [...], two-volume set, first edition, London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1898, illustrated with 1 chromolithograph after Dr Nansen, fold-out coloured map/chart, b/w full-page and in-text illustrations, original publisher's pictorial cloth, red-speckled edges, 8vo, [2]
Art - Alken (Henry, illustrator) & Zeitter (John Christian, Illustrator), Rudiments for Drawing The Horse, three-part set, first edition, London: R. Ackermann [...], at The Eclipse Sporting Gallery and New Sporting Magazine Office, 1837, illustrated with 12 full-page monochrome etchings as called for, original paper wrappers, numbered in contemporary ink MS, oblong crown folio (28.5cm x 38.5cm), [3]
Art - Chagall (Marc, illustrator), Éluard (Paul), Spender (Stephen, translator), & Cornford (Frances, illustrator), Le dur désir de durer, copy no. 1178/1500, first edition thus, Philadelphia: The Grey Falcon Press, London: The Trianon Press, 1950, lithograph-printed, the complete text in both French and English, the book designed by Arnold Fawcus, colour frontispieces of the French and English texts reproduced by hand in the workshops of Daniel Jacomet, Paris, under the supervision of Marc Chagall, monochrome in-text illustrations, original pictorial wrappers, with cover, 4to, [1]
Art - Solly (N. Neal), Memoir of the Life of David Cox, Member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, with Selection from His Correspondence, and some Account of His Works, Illustrated with numerous Photographs from Drawings by the Artist's own hand, first edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1873, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, upper-cover with Southwell Book Society's 19th century printed label, top-edge gilt, 4to, [1]
Art, The Renaissance - From Berenson's Own Library at Villa I Tatti, Berenson (Bernhard), The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance, with an Index to their Works, later signed, dedicated, and dated 1945 by the author in ink MS, first edition, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1896, frontispiece, original cloth, Ex Libris Bernardi et Mariæ Berenson, their marital book label to recto pastedown, 8vo, (1); another four works by Berenson, unsinged, original cloth (one with dustjacket), 8vo, (4); Yashiro (Yukio), Sandro Botticelli, one of 600 copies, three-volume set, London: The Medici Society, 1925, printed on mould-made paper, colour frontispieces, further illustrated with 290 monochrome collotype prints, original dustjackets over grey cloth gilt, top-edge gilt, others uncut, crown folios (36cm x 27cm), (3), [8] Provenance: the Chandos-Pole family, removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
Atlantis - Donnelly (Ignatius), Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, Illustrated, twenty-fourth edition, New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1901, original publisher's cloth, 8vo, (1); Craigie (David) & Craigie (Dorothy, illustrator), Dark Atlantis, first edition, London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1951, original pictorial dustjacket over blue cloth, 8vo, (1); Braghine's Shadow of Atlantis, first edition, 1938, red cloth, 8vo, (1), [3]
Bernard Shaw (George): The Works, 22 volumes only (of 33), copy number 384/1,000, first limited edition thus, London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1930-1938, original dustjacket over "Celadon Green Jade" by Douglas Cockerell (unsigned), 8vo, (22); further volumes of works, but from the Standard Edition, 8vo, (14); various first editions of Shaw's works, including some illustrated by Topolski; etc., [48]Provenance: the Chandos-Pole family, removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
Botany and Gardening – Lawrence (John), The Clergy-Man’s Recreation: Shewing (sic) the Pleasure and Profit of the Art of Gardening, fifth edition, [&] The Fruit-Garden Kalendar (sic): or, a Summary Of the Art of Managing the Fruit-garden, two parts in one volume London: Bernard Lintot, 1717 & 1718, the first part with engraved frontispiece, fold-out plates (repaired), contemporary two-tone panelled calf, 8vo, (1); [McIntosh (Charles)], The Flower Garden, with Selected lists of Annual, Biennial and Perennial Flowering Plants, London: W. S. Orr, 1838, illustrated with 10 hand-coloured plates, in-text illustrations, contemporary green calf gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, (1); Darwin (Erasmus), The Botanic Garden, A Poem, in Two Parts […], London: Jones & Company, 1825, printed in black-ruled double columns, portrait frontispiece and fold-out plates, contemporary polished calf boards only, 8vo, (1); Cobbett (William), The English Gardner, London: n.p., 1833, in-text illustrations, original publisher’s cloth over boards, 8vo, (1), [4]
British India and The Raj - [Travel], Williams (The Rev. E.A., MA., Chaplain, Royal Navy), The Cruise of the Pearl Round the World, with an Account of the Operations of the Naval Brigade in India, first edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1859, frontispiece, original blue cloth (upper-cover and spine loose, but attached), 8vo, (1); [Fanthorne (J.F.)], Mariam; A Story of The Indian Mutiny of 1857 [...] by J.F.F. (One of the Survivors), first and only edition, Benares [Varanasi]: The Chandraprabha Press, Co. Ld., 1896, ?original cloth, gilt-lettered morocco pieces, 8vo, (1); two Thacker's maps, Simla, 1912, original wrappers, [&] Jummoo and Kashmir, 1914 [dated in MS], original cloth boards, (2); [Secret Society/Freemasonry], four Anglo-Indian Masonic chromolithographed chapter orders/invitations, dated from 1921-1928, (4), [8] Provenance: 1st: 1) Southam de la Bere, Earl of Ellenborough, the pastedown with both his book label and the later ink stamp: Earl of Ellenborough's Heirlooms/Book No. 543; 2) Captain Kenneth John Douglas-Morris, R.N. (1919-1993), bookplate to ffep.
Children's Book - Potter (Beatrix), The Tale of Peter Rabbit, [first trade edition, ?5th or later impression], London: Frederick Warne and Co., [n.d., ?mid-1903], upper-cover and spine with 'O' centred by a dot, colour pictorial endpapers, original grey papered boards, upper-cover with an onlay of the eponymous bunny, 16mo (14.5cm x 10.9cm), [1]
Children's Books - Dahl (Roald): Schindelman (Joseph, illustrator), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, first edition, second impression, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964, pictorial dustjacket over red cloth, 8vo, (1); Boy: Tales of Childhood, second edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1985, pictorial dustjacket over blue cloth, 8vo, (1), [2]
Children's Books - Hale (Kathleen), Orlando (The Marmalade Cat) Buys A Farm, first edition, fourth impression, London: Country Life Limimted, 1950, illustrated, original pictorial boards, folio, (1); other children's books, some illustrated by well-known illustrators, including Charles Robinson, Margaret Tempest, etc; mid-20th century vintage and retro children's hardback fiction, pictorial dustjackets; further illustrated books; etc., [2 boxes] Provenance: the Chandos-Pole family, removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
Children's Books - Upton: (Florence K., illustrator) & (Bertha), The Golliwogg's Bicycle Club, first edition, London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1896, 63pp, lithograph-printed, the text and in-text illustrations in sepia, the full-page illustrations in polychrome, original teal cloth over pictorial boards, oblong 4to, (1); [&] The Golliwogg's "Auto-Go-Cart", first edition, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1901, lithograph-printed, full-page colour plates, original green cloth over pictorial boards, 4to, (1); The Toy Village, first edition, London, [n.d., 1906], original pictorial boards, 4to, (1); further late Victorian/early Edwardian children's colour-printed picture books, principally didactic, original wrappers, 4to, (7), [10]
China - Giles (Herbert A.), An Introduction to the History of Chinese Pictorial Art, With Illustrations, second edition, London: Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 1918, contemporary black-quarter calf over textured boards, red-speckled edges, 8vo, (1); Duthuit (Georges), Chinese Mysticism and Modern Painting, Paris: Chroniques du Jour, London: S. Zwemmer, 1936, illustrated, original red cloth over printed boards, oblong 8vo, (1); White (William Charles), An Album of Chinese Bamboos: A Study of a Set of Ink-Bamboo Drawings A.D. 1785, first edition, The University of Toronto Press, 1939, original pictorial green cloth gilt, 4to, (1); Waley (Arthur), An Introduction to the Study of Chinese Painting, first edition, London: Ernest Benn, Limited, 1923, colour plates, cloth, 4to, (1); Yee (Chiang): A Chinese Childhood, first edition, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1940, pictorial d/j over cloth, 8vo, (1); The Silent Traveller in London, first edition, fourth impression, London: Country Life Ltd, April 1940, pictorial d/j over cloth, 8vo, (1); other Silent Travellers, Oxford, fourth edition, 1948, & San Francisco, first edition, 1964, both pictorial d/j over cloth, 8vo, (2); Chin-Pao and the Giant Pandas, first edition, London: Country Life, 1939, cloth only, 8vo, (1); Japan - Loti (Pierre) & Ensor (Laura, translator), Madame Chrysanthème, ?second English edition, London: George Routledge and Sons, 1901, in-text illustrations, pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); etc., [13]
Clark (Hugh, Heraldic Engraver), A Concise History of Knighthood [...], The whole imbellished (sic) with 82 Copper Plates [...], two-volume set, first and only edition, London: Printed for W. Strahan [...], 1784, pp: x, [1] (blank), 285; [ii], 268, [1] (advert), 82 copperplate engravings as called for, contemporary calf over marbled boards, yellow-stained edges, 8vo, [2] Provenance: 1) Nicholas Nicholas (née Heath; d. 1807), of Boy Court, Ulcombe Kent, his ink MS ownership inscription to each pastedown. Nicholas was a friend and later brother-in-law of Francis Noel Clarke Mundy, of Markeaton Hall, Derbyshire; and as a member of the Markeaton Hunt was painted as such by Joseph Wright of Derby, ARA, in c. 1762-63. Born Heath, in 1772 he assumed the surname to Nicholas to comply with inheriting the manor of Ulcombe; 2) reputedly purchased from the sale at Newnham Hall, Daventry, Northamptonshire, sold by Christie's on behalf of the Executors of Lt.-Colonel John Chandos-Pole, CVO, OBE. Though the books were purchased in a mixed lot, a portrait miniature of Nicholas by Ozias Humphry, RA, Lot 287, was also sold and illustrated in the catalogue.
Cookery – Sysonby (Ria) & Messel (Oliver, illustrator), Lady Sysonby’s Cook Book, first edition, London: Putnam, November 1935, original pictorial papered boards (chipped, etc), 8vo, (1); Maceknzie (Charles), Five Thousand Receipts in all the Useful and Domestic Arts […], second edition, London: G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823, 20th century buckram, square 8vo, (1); Soyer (Alexis), The Modern Housewife or Ménagère […], London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1850, 20th century calf over marbled boards, 8vo, (1); Anon, A New System of Domestic Cookery […], A New Edition, London: Milner and Sowerby, 1867, original publisher’s green cloth, 8vo, (1); Frere (Catherine Frances, editor), The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie, first edition, 1909, cloth, 8vo, (1); Francatelli’s The Modern Cook, eighteenth edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1868, original publisher’s cloth, 8vo, (1); Minnie, Lady Hindlip’s Cookery Book, first edition, London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1925, red cloth, 8vo, (1); Time’s Telescope for 1825 […] With a Description of Culinary Vegetables, original publisher’s pictorial boards, 8vo, (1); Humphry’s Cookery Up-to-Date, 1896, 8vo, (1); Housewife’s Referee, 8vo, (1); facsimiles of earlier titles, including Woolley; a collection of mid-20th century and later manuscript and scrap recipe/gastronomy books, various; etc., [approx. 45]
Crime - Christie (Agatha): The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, first edition, London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1926, cloth, ex-lib (plate, torn away ffep exposing gutter), 8vo, (1); [Poirot], Murder in the Mews, and Other Stories, second overall edition, but first Odhams edition, their second impression (C338), London: Odhams Press Limited, [March 1938], original publisher's pictorial dustjacket designed by R.H. 'Mac' Macartney, blue cloth, 8vo, (1), [2]
Cunard (Nancy), Parallax, first edition, [one of c. 420 copies], London: Printed and published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1925, 24pp, original pictorial boards illustrated after drawings by Eugene McCown, 8vo, [1]Provenance: the Chandos-Pole family, removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
Czech Dark Comedy & Satire - Hašek (Jaroslav), Selver (Paul, translator), & Lada (Joseph, illustrator), The Good Soldier Schweik, first English edition, London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1930, in-text illustrations, original pictorial dustjacket over red cloth gilt, 8vo, [1] Provenance: the Chandos-Pole family, removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
De Grandmaison (Aubin-Louis Millin), Peintures de Vases Antiques, vulgairement appelés étrusques, two-volume set bound as one, first edition, Paris: Didot l’ainé, 1808 [-1810], pp: engraved title-page (laid on linen), [iv], xx, 124, 70 engraved plates (of 72, lacking nos. 59 & 61; 34 repaired); [ii], 146, 76 engraved plates (of 78, lacking nos. 29, 65 & 66, though 64 duplicated; 49 repaired, 78 laid on linen), some soiled and foxed margins throughout, marginal damp-staining affecting some quires, most points of condition not affecting within the platemark of the engravings, 20th century calf over blue boards, red-speckled edges, elephant folio (59cm x 46.5cm), [Blackmer 1129], [1]Dedicated to the Empress Joséphine, this work describes and reproduces Ancient Greek vases and Classical antiquities from the collections of Malmaison, the Imperial Library, and the Sèvres factory, as well as pieces from the Duke of Dalmatia, Galitzine and other French collections.
Dickens (Charles) & Browne (Hablot Knight, illustrator), The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger, of Blunderstone Rookery/(Which He never meant to be Published on any Account.), first edition in the original 19/20 monthly parts, London: Bradbury and Evans, May 1849-November 1850, half-title, etched frontispiece, additional engraved title and 38 plates, prefixed and suffixed with illustrated advertisements, original publisher's printed pictorial blue-green paper wrappers (no. XVIII's chamfered and clipped; nos. XIX/XX creased with ripple, recto cover fragmentary; others respectable, soiled, slight corner creases, splits and chips to spines, but holding together well regardless), 8vo, [19] Provenance: Edward Sacheverell Chandos-Pole (aka "The Squire"; 1792 – 1863), his ink MS ownership inscription to the upper-cover of each part (bar nos. V, X, XVIII, & XIX/XX; N.B. no. V has a harlequin contemporary ink MS ownership inscription: Newell Burnett Esq (a recorded advocate), a few numbers dated 49 or 50 in MS; by descent through the Chandos-Pole family and removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
Dickens (Charles): Household Words/A Weekly Journal, seventeen harlequin runs, comprising volumes I-III, V-VII, IX-XIX, London: Office, 1850-1859, original publisher's cloth over boards, 8vo, (17); The Pickwick Papers/The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, with Forty-Three Illustrations, by R. Seymour and Phiz, first edition in book form, London: Chapman and Hall, 1837, additional engraved title leaf with "Phiz fec:t" in exergue and "Tony Weller" above the pub door, additionally illustrated with a portrait engraving of the author after Sir Thomas Lawrence, rebacked contemporary green calf, 8vo, (1); Reynolds (G.W.M.), Pickwick Abroad, first edition, London: Thomas Tegg, 1839, illustrated, original publisher's pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); Grego (Joseph, editor), Pictorial Pickwickiana [...], two-volume set, London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1899, original green cloth, 8vo, (2); Fitzgerald's History of Pickwick, 1891, green cloth, 8vo, (1); All The Year Round, volumes IV & V only, London: Messrs. Chapman and Hall, 1861, original publisher's cloth, 8vo, (2), [23]
Drama and the Theatre - Egerton (William), Faithful Memoirs of the Life, Amours and Performances, of [...] Mrs. Anne Oldfield, Interspersed with several other Dramatical Memoirs, first edition, London, 1731, lacking portrait frontispiece, 20th century calf over marbled boards, architectural bookplate of George Rylands (1902-1999), 8vo, (1); The Works of Thomas Otway, three-volume set, London: C. Hitch and L. Hawes, et al, 1757, volume I with portrait frontispiece, contemporary calf, 12mo, (3), [4]
Erotica, Fine Bindings - [Nogaret (François-Félix)], Le fond du sac, ou Restant des babioles [...], two-volume set, first edition, Venise [i.e. Paris]: Chez Pantalon-Phébus [i.e. Cazin], 1780, engraved caricature frontispiece to volume I, further in-text engraved caricatural and satirical vignettes of the ancien régime, finely bound in 19th century red morocco gilt, in the 18th century Parisian taste, gilt turn-ins, edges and dentelles, marbled endpapers, 12mo in 6s, [2]
European Literature and Thought - Chateaubriand (François-René, Vicomte de), Atala - René, Paris: Le Normant, 1805, original paper wrappers, 12mo, (1); HaÅ¡ek (Jaroslav) & VanÄ›k (Karel), Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk während des Weltkrieges, [&] [...] in russischer Gefangenschaft, six-volume set, Prag: Adolf Synek, 1927-1928, original yellow cloth, 8vo, (6); Russia, Kühn (Joachim), Die letzte Zarin [...], first edition, Berlin: Ullstein, [n.d., 1922], original cloth over pictorial boards, 8vo, (1); Hilty (Prof. Dr [Carl]), La Vie aÌ€ venir, GeneÌ€ve: H. Robert, [n.d., 1905], contemporary three-quarter cloth over marbled boards, enclosing original wrappers, 8vo, (1); Töchter-Album [...], Glogan: Carl Flemming, [n.d., c. 1860], full-page chromo- and lithographic plates, green cloth, 8vo, (1); Balzac (Honoré de), Die Dreißig sehr drolligen und sehr kuriosen Geschichten genannt Contes Drolatiques, two-volume set, München: R. Piper & Co, 1908, original vellum gilt over boards, 8vo, (2); Méral (Paul), Le Livre des Récitatifs, [n.p.], 1917, original wrappers, 4to, (1); further French and German literature, including Proust, Zola, Goethe, Schiller, Lessing, Von Hofmannsthal, Stefan Zweig, Emil Ludwig, Heine, translations of Byron, etc., late 19th-early 20th century, including decorative part-leather and original paper wrapper bindings, mixed sizes, mostly 8vo, [approx. 200]Provenance: the Chandos-Pole family, removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
Fanaticism and Circumcision in 19th Century Yorkshire, Christian Israelites/Wroeites - Wroe (John), The Articles of the Faith of Israel, and The Laws and Commandments of God, Given by His Spirit to the Prophets, and the Baptism and Circumcision of Children, ?unrecorded, ?first edition, Wakefield: Printed at the Office of John Wroe, 1836, pp: [vi], 40, 12, 8, 2, 8, 8, 24, 4, contemporary quarter-roan over boards, the upper-cover ink-stamped: SERVICE BOOK, yellow-stained edges, 8vo, [1]
Folio Society - Johnson (Samuel), A Dictionary of the English Language [...], two-volume set, facsimile of the first edition of 1755, copy no. 205/1,000, London, 2006, printed by the St. Edmundsbury Press on Favini toned paper, three-quarter dappled calf by Smith Settle of Otley, the boards and edges marbled by Ann Muir, two-division buckram slipcase, crown folios (41.5cm x 26.5cm), [1]
French Literature and The Enlightenment - Marmontel (Jean-François), Contes Moraux, three-volume set, Paris: Merlin, 1775 & 1765, [&] Bélisaire, first edition, Paris: Merlin, 1767, each illustrated with engravings after Gravelot, Moraux with additional engraved title-pages, volume I with portrait frontispiece, further full-page plates to each volume, the set uniformly bound in polished calf gilt, red edges, marbled endpapers, 12mo, [4] Provenance: 1) Pauline Pougeol Dervieu du Villar (1728-1813), armorial bookplate to pastedown of volume I; 2) Ludovic Froissart (d. 1977), bibliophile, his pictorial bookplate to pastedown of volume I.
Futurism and Modernism - Birkenhead (The Earl of, [Smith (F.E.)]) & McKnight Kauffer (E., illustrator), The World in 2030 A.D., first edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, [n.d., 1930], pp: xi, 215, illustrated with 8 lithographed plates, pictorial dustjacket over original black cloth, 8vo, [1] Provenance: the Chandos-Pole family, removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
Germany - Litten (Irmgard), A Mother Fights Hitler, first edition, London: George Allen and Unwin, 1940, dustjacket over grey cloth, 8vo, (1); British Ministry of Information Propaganda, Kohler (Pauline), [pseud. Beevor (John)], I Was Hitler's Maid, first edition, London: John Long, [n.d., 1940], dustjacket over red cloth, 8vo, (1); Fink (Georg), [pseud. of Münzer (Kurt)], Thirty-One Families under Heaven, first edition printed in England, London: Cassell, 1932, d/j, red cloth, 8vo, (1); Vogelstein (Julie, editor), The Diary of Otto Braun [...], London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1924, dustjacket over cloth, 8vo, (1); Von Schlicht (Baron), pseud. Von Baudissin (Count), Life in a German Crack Regiment, first edition, sixth impression, London: T. Fisher Unwin, October 1914, original paper wrappers, 8vo, (1); Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks, 1924, (2); etc., [15] Provenance: the Chandos-Pole family, removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
Golden Cockerel Press – Komensky (John Amos), Lutzow (Count, translator), & Braby (Dorothea, illustrator), The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart, first edition thus, copy no. 86/370, London, 1950, original pictorial cloth, top-edge gilt, other uncut, 4to, (1); Barclay (John), Turner (Paul, translator), & Harris (Derrick, illustrator), Euphormio’s Satyricon, first English edition, copy no. 218/260, London, 1954, printed in Perpetua type on mould-made paper, illustrated with wood engravings, original vellum over boards gilt, fore and bottom edge uncut, 4to, (1); Coppard (A.E.) & Gibbings (Robert, illustrator), Count Steffan, copy no. 249/250, London, 1928, wood-engraved portrait frontispiece and 1 in-text illustration, original gilt-lettered yellow buckram over marbled paper boards, 8vo, (1), [3]
Gothic Fiction, Ghost Stories – Le Fanu (Sheridan), Wylder’s Hand: A Novel, New Edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., [n.d., 1890], repaired original publisher’s cloth, the refreshed endpapers preserving the contemporary bookseller’s ticket: Allan of Newcastle, 8vo, (1); Molesworth (Mrs. [Mary Louisa], Uncanny Tales, first edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1896, repaired original publisher’s pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); Heron (E. & H.), [psued. Prichard (Hesketh) & O’Brien (Kate)], Ghost Stories, first edition thus, third impression of the Cheap Edition, London: C. Arthur Pearson, Limited, 1920, original publisher’s cloth, later vinyl-wrapped, 12mo, (1), [3]
Gothic Fiction, Ghosts and Horror - Stoker (Bram), Dracula, seventeenth edition, London: Rider & Co., 1927, original publisher’s cloth, repaired and now enclosing the front of the pictorial dustjacket as ffep, 8vo, (1); other Stoker titles, (3); Chesterton (G.K.), The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, first edition, Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1908, restored cloth, 8vo, (1); Blackwood (Algernon), Strange Stories, first edition, London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1929, black cloth, 8vo, (1); Haining (Peter, editor), The Black Magic Omnibus, first edition, Robson Books, 1976, d/j, h/b, ex-lib but neat/good, 8vo, (1); Merritt (A.), Burn Witch Burn!, first edition, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1934, red cloth, 8vo, (1); etc., [12]
Hemingway (Ernest): Across the River and Into the Trees, advanced reading copy, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1950, original publisher's pictorial wrapper designed by Hans Tisdall, 8vo, [Hanneman A44a], (1); [&] Islands in the Stream, first edition, 1970, dustjacket over cloth, 8vo, (1), [2]
**For clarification: the dedication leaf to Sylvia Plath is printed and not manuscript**Hughes (Ted), The Hawk in the Rain, first edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1957, half-title, dedication leaf to Sylvia Plath, loosely-inserted contemporary 2pp MS transcription of Hughes's 'Carol', the upper-right margin of which is inscribed 'Ted Hughes' by the same hand, original publisher's dustjacket typically price-clipped (though 10s 6d net extant), blue cloth, 8vo, [1]
Hunting and Dogs - Paget (Major Guy, DL), The Melton Mowbray of John Ferneley (1782-1860), Leicester: Edgar Backus, 1931, colour plates, original cloth gilt, 4to, (1); Charles Simpson, two works, 4to, (2); "Dalesman", De Courcy-Parry (C.N.), Here Lies My Story, first edition, 1964, d/j, h/b, 8vo, (1); Smyth (Ethel, DBE), Inordinate (?) Affection: A Story for Dog Lovers, first and only edition, London: The Crescent Press, [n.d., 1936], pictorial dustjacket over black cloth, 8vo, (1); further dog and canine books, various; etc., [12] Provenance: the Chandos-Pole family, removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
Iran, Egypt, and Islam - Persia, Pahlavi (His Imperial Majesty Mohammed Reza, Shahanshah of Iran), Mission for my Country, first edition, first printing, London: Hutchinson, 1961, illustrated, pictorial dustjacket over red cloth, 8vo, (1); Tallberg (Frederick), From Cyrus to Pahlavi: A Picture Story of the Iranian Empire, second edition, The University of Shiraz, 1970, cloth over pictorial wrappers, 8vo, (1); Sale (George, Gent., translator), The Koran; Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed [...], A New Edition, London: Henry Washbourne, 1836, original publisher's green cloth boards only, disbound, 8vo, (1); Muir (Sir William), The Caliphate [...], Edinburgh: John Grant, 1915, red cloth, 8vo, (1); World War Two - Egyptian Imprint, History of the First Division: Florence to Monte Grande, August 1944 - January 1945, first and ?only edition, Cairo: Schindler's Press, [n.d., 1946], illustrated with b/w plates, fold-out chromolithograph maps, b/w diagrams, original paper wrappers, large 8vo, (1), [5]
Ireland - [Lever (Charles)] & Browne (Hablot Knight, illustrator), Confessions of Con Cregan, The Irish Gil Blas, 14 parts in 13 (as issued), first edition, London: W. S. Orr & Co., [n.d., 1849], illustrated with wood and steel engravings, adverts throughout (occasionally with pictorial vignettes), rare in original pictorial green wrappers, 8vo, [13] Provenance: Edward Sacheverell Chandos-Pole (aka "The Squire"; 1792 – 1863), his ink MS ownership inscription to the upper-cover of each part, No. 1 only dated 1849 in MS, No. XIII & XIV inscribed and underlined: "Perfect" (the previous "12 Missing" having been struck through); by descent through the Chandos-Pole family and removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
Ireland - Bugden (Frank), James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses [...], first edition, London: Grayson & Grayson, 1934, portrait frontispiece, dustjacket over two-tone cloth, 8vo, (1); Goldring (Douglas), The Fortune, with a preface by Aldous Huxley, second edition, London: Desmond Harmsworth, [n.d., ?1931], pictorial dustjacket designed by Dorothea Braby, over colourful cloth, 8vo, (1); George Moore, (3); Leslie (Shane), The Anglo-Catholic, first edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1929, pictorial dustjacket designed by Colin Dilly, red cloth, 8vo, (1); another Leslie novel, (1), [8] Provenance: the Chandos-Pole family, removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
Japan - Akiyama Kyusaku, Nakamura Kakudayu Nobuiye Tanshu [Nobuiye sword guards], first edition, and the first book to specifically treat Nobuiye tsuba, Tokyo, 1926, illustrated throughout with b/w images taken from original rubbings, sewn in original paper wrappers, paper titled label to upper-cover, silver splash endpapers, cloth case en suite, 8vo, (1); an early-mid 20th century Japanese pictorial cloth binding, pictorial case en suite, 8vo, (1), [2]
Japan - Morton-Cameron (W.H.) & Feldwick (W., editor), Present Day Impressions of Japan: The History, People, Commerce, Industries and Resources [...], first edition, London: The Globe Encyclopedia Company, 1919, title-page and prelims chromolithograph-printed, profusely illustrated throughout, fold-out colour map, original publisher's decorative binding of brown leather gilt (slightly rubbed, split and chipped upper-joint on upper-cover), all-edges gilt, marbled endpapers, large 4to, (1); Netto (C.) & Bender (Paul, illustrator), Papier-Schmetterlinge aus Japan, first edition, Leipzig: T.O. Weigel, 1888, 1 chromolithographic plate, further monochrome lithographs, in-text illustrations, original publisher's cloth over papered pictorial boards, crown folio (36.5cm x 28cm), (1), [2]
Lawrence (D.H.): Lady Chatterley’s Lover, third edition, copy no. 404/500, Florence: Privately Printed/by Tipografia Giuntina, directed by L. Franceschini, 1929, frontispiece, original publisher’s limp cloth, 8vo, (1); another copy of the same title, but The Author’s Unabridged Popular Edition, Including Mr Skirmish with Jolly Roger, second authorized edition, [Paris]: Privately Printed [by Edward Titus], 1929, contemporaneous cloth enclosing original wrappers, 8vo, (1); another two European imprints of the same, [Hamburg]: The Odyssey Press, [1933], & Stockholm: Jan Förlag, 1942, original wrappers, 8vo, (2); The White Peacock, first edition, second impression, London: William Heinemann, 1911, collector’s pencil inscription stating this to be the third variant of the first state, bookseller’s stamp to title-page, original cloth, 8vo, (1), [5]
Lewis (Wyndham), Left Wings over Europe: or, How to Make a War About Nothing, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1936, original dustjacket over red cloth, 8vo, (1); O'Flaherty (Liam), A Cure for Unemployment, Blue Moon Booklets No. 8, signed and numbered by the author, copy no. 77/100, first edition, London: E. Lahr, 1931, loosely-inserted frontispiece by S. Dunn, original wrappers, 8vo, (1); Salvador de Madariaga, (2); further inter-war politics and social commentary, (9), [13] Provenance: the Chandos-Pole family, removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
Literature - Edwardian, Modern First Editions, and later novels, including Hudson (Stephen): Tony, first edition, London, Constable & Co. Ltd, 1924, original pictorial dustjacket over grey cloth, 8vo, (1), [&] The Other Side, first edition, London: The Cresset Press Ltd, 1937, original pictorial dustjacket over green cloth, 8vo, (1); Irish Murdoch, pictorial dustjackets, (2); Hugh Walpole, various titles, some first editions; South American Romances, 1930, d/j, h/b, 8vo, (1); Pearl Buck; Theodore Dreiser; etc., [approx. 95] Provenance: the Chandos-Pole family, removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
Literature and Bindings - Poe (Edgar Allan) & Ingram (John H., editor), The Works, four-volume set, London: A. & C. Black, 1899, original blue cloth gilt, 8vo, (4); Wood (Ursula), Fall of Leaf, first edition, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1943, original dustjacket over grey cloth, 8vo, (1); [Challice (Annie Emma)], French Authors at Home [...], two-volume set, first edition, London: L. Booth, 1864, original cloth, pictorial gilt, 8vo, (2); The Elephant Man, 1923, cloth, 8vo, (1); Lord Byron; Miniature Books, Lilliput Wörterbuch, five dictionaries, various parallel languages, limp calf gilt, 64mo (5.2cm x 3.7cm), (5); 19th century and later decorative leather and part-leather bindings, various; etc., [approx. 55] Provenance: the Chandos-Pole family, removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
Literature, Early 20th century and Later Prose and Verse - Stokes (Adrian), Sunrise in the West: A Modern Interpretation of Past and Present, first edition, London: Kegan, Paul, Trubner & Co. Ltd., [n.d., 1926], original dustjacket over red cloth, 8vo, (1); Rosenberg (Isaac), Bottomley (Gordon, editor), & Harding (Denys, editor), The Collected Works [...], first edition, London: Chatto and Windus, 1937, original red cloth only, 8vo, (1); De la Mare (Walter) & Bianco (Pamela, illustrator), Flora [...], first edition, London: William Heinemann, [n.d., 1919], colour and monochrome full-page plates, b/w in-text illustrations, original pictorial papered boards, 4to, (1); Symons (Arthur), Jezebel Mort & Other Poems, first edition, London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1931, original dustjacket over green cloth, 8vo, (1); Thornton Wilder, (3); various Books of Artemas, (3); various other works by Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, John Galsworthy, Lytton Strachey, Maurice Baring, Beverley Nichols (inc. Rex Whistler designed dustjackets), Edmund Gosse, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Somerset Maugham, Humbert Wolfe, Michael Arlen, etc, [approx. 65] Provenance: the Chandos-Pole family, removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
Litt (W.), Wrestiana; or, an Historical Account of Ancient and Modern Wrestling, first edition, Whitehaven: Printed by R. Gibson, 1823, pp: vi, [7]-170, 20th century mottled calf gilt over contemporary marbled boards, top-edge gilt, others uncut, refreshed marbled endpapers, 12mo in 6s, [1]
Local Interest - Crofts (Thomas), A Castle in the Air, and other Poems, first and only edition, Derby: Bemrose and Sons, Limited, 1892, portrait frontispiece, original cloth, 8vo, (1); Bates' Views In Derbyshire, No. 1 only, Buxton, [n.d., c. 1865], named-view topographical steel engravings, original cloth, 8vo, (1); Curzon (Marquess, of Kedleston), Tales of Travel, first edition, 1923, b/w plates, original blue cloth, 8vo, (1); other works, including Fraser (Sir William Augustus), Hic et ubique, signed by the author, numbered 60/150 large paper copies, London: Sampson Low [...], 1893, original yellow cloth; illustrated books, including Charles Keene; Omár Kháyyám; Milton; folklore; etc., [13]
Local Interest - Farey (John, Senior), General View of the Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire; with Observations on the Means of their Improvement. Drawn up for the Consideration of The Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, three-volume set, volumes I & II second editions, volume III first edition, London: Printed by B.M'Millan [...], 1815, pp: xlvii, 532, [2], [2], & illustrated with 3 folding tables (belonging to vols. II & III too), 2 folding hand-coloured maps, 2 similar geological sections, & 1 hand-coloured plate of strata; xx, 522, [2], [2], & illustrated with 4 plates; xxvii, 725, [2], & illustrated with 2 plates and 1 folding county map, uniformly bound and rare in original publisher's two-tone cloth, titled paper labels to each spine, 8vo, [3]
Local Interest - Kennett (White, D.D. Archdeacon of Huntingdon, and Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty), A Sermon Preach'd at the Funeral Of the Right Noble William Duke of Devonshire, in the Church of All-Hallows in Derby, On Friday Septemb. 5th. MDCCVII. With Some Memoirs of the Family of Cavendish, first edition thus, second edition overall, London: Printed by W.B. for John Churchill at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row, 1708, black-ruled title-page, pp: [viii], 208, in-keeping 20th century calf, raised spine bands, 8vo, [1]
Local Interest - Lipscomb (George, Esq), A Description of Matlock-Bath; with an attempt to explain the Causes of Heath, and of the Petrifying Quality of the Springs: to which is added, some account of Chatsworth, Kedleston, and the Mineral Water of Quarndon and Kedleston, first and only edition, Birmingham: Printed by the Executors of T.A. Pearson, 1802, original boards, later pencil ownership inscription: L. Richmond, 8vo, (1); Adam (W.), The Gem of the Peak; or Matlock Bath and its Vicinity [...], London: Longman & Co., 1838, map frontispiece, engraved title-page and plates, repaired calf, 12mo in 6s, (1); [Cox (The Rev. Thomas)], Derbyshire, off-print complete with fold-out map, from Magna Britannia, [London, In the Savoy: E. and R. Nutt, 1720-1731], later issued title-page and wrappers, 4to, (1); Keys (John) & Gadd (George Frederick, editor), Sketches of Old Derby and Neighbourhood, London: Bemrose and Sons, Limited, 1895, original cloth, 4to, (1); [Cartography], Cary (John, engraver), Cary's Traveller's Companion; or, a Delineation of the Turnpike Roads of England and Wales; [...] [with] a New Set of County Maps [...], third edition, London: Printed for John Cary, Engraver, Map & Printseller, Strand, 1791, illustrated with some fold-out and other full-page hand-coloured engraved maps, black-ruled tables, late 19th century half-calf (faults, rubbed and chipped losses), 8vo, (1); etc., [6]
Local Interest - Pegge (The Late Rev. Samuel, LL.D., F.S.A.), An Historical Account of Beauchief Abbey, in the County of Derby, from its First Foundation to its Final Dissolution [...], London: Printed by and for John Nichols and Son, 1801, pp: xiv, [2], 267, [1], illustrated with 9 copperplate-engraved plates as called for, 20th century blue buckram, gilt-lettered spine, 4to, (1); Addy (Sidney Oldall), Historical Memorials of Beauchief Abbey, subscriber's edition, large paper copy, Oxford and London: James Parker and Co., Sheffield: Leader and Sons, 1878, illustrated, 20th century gilt-lettered cloth over original marbled paper boards, 4to, (1), [2]
Local Interest - Provincial Cheshire Imprint, Hutchinson [(John, of Chapel-en-le-Frith)], Hutchinson's Tour through The High Peak of Derbyshire [...], first edition, Macclesfield: Printed by J. Wilson, 1809, pp: viii, 148, illustrated with 6 wood engravings of named-views, slightly later green moiré cloth, expertly rebacked, 8vo, (1); Bray (William, F.A.S.), Sketch of a Tour into Derbyshire and Yorkshire [...], second edition, London: B. White, 1783, in-keeping 20th century quarter-calf over marbled boards, retaining gilt-lettered label, uncut edges, 8vo, (1), [2] Provenance: 1st: 1) Robert Brassey, contemporary ink MS ownership inscription; 2) "From the sale of Mr C Smithers", pencil MS inscription; 2nd: 1) E. Hurt/Hurd?, ink MS ownership inscription dated 1783 to title-page.
Local Interest - The Author's Own Pre-Publication Interleaved and Annotated Copy, [Wallis (Alfred)], Bemrose's Guide to Derbyshire [...], proof copy of the first edition, London: Bemrose and Sons, 1869, lacking maps and plates (not included as pre-publication), but extra-illustrated by the author in a few places, though interleaved the manuscript annotations are far from exhaustive, rebacked original publisher's cloth, red-speckled edges, pastedown with tipped-in newspaper cutting, 8vo, [1]Provenance: Alfred Wallis (1833-1918), Derbyshire antiquarian and topographer, his own unique annotated copy; ink MS ownership inscription to ffep.
Local Interest - The Nostell Priory Copy, Thoroton (Robert) & Throsby (John, editor), The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire [...], three-volume set, second edition, London: Robert White, et al., 1790, full-page engraved plates, contemporaneous quarter-calf over marbled boards, 4to, (1); Provincial Imprint, Deering (Charles), Nottinghamia vetus et nova [...], first edition, Nottingham: George Ayscough, 1751, lacks 3 plates, contemporary sheep, 4to, (1); two copies of Blackner's Nottingham, 1815, various states, one ex-lib, folio, (2); Dickinson's Newark, 1816, lacks 1 plate, original publisher's boards, 4to, (1); Brown's Newark-upon-Trent, 1879, illustrated with engravings, and with 9 Woodbury Permanent Process photographic prints, original green morocco gilt (rubbed), 4to, (1), [8] Provenance: 1st: Charles Winn (1795-1874), of Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire; his seal armorial bookplate to each pastedown.
Local Interest, Provincial Imprints - Geology, Hedinger (J.M.), A Short Description of Castleton in Derbyshire; its Natural Curiosities and Mineral Productions, eleventh edition, Stockport: J. Lomax, and Sold by S. Needham, Castleton, 1814, half-title and dedication leaf to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, 36pp, cloth over papered boards, 12mo, (1); The Stranger at Buxton, ?first edition, Stockport: J. Dawson, [1805], lacking title and prelim before B, 38pp, 20th century gilt-lettered green morocco over marbled boards by Graham Bloodworth, Leicester, his ticket, 12mo, (1); Moore (Henry, illustrator), Picturesque Excursions from Derby to Matlock Bath, and its Vicinity; Being a Descriptive Guide to the Most Interesting Scenery and Curiosities in that Romantic District, with Observations Thereon, Illustrated with Twelve Etchings, first, Derby: H. Moore, 1818, original publisher's cloth over papered boards, 12mo in 6s, (1), [3]
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