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Lot 228
Middle East.- Layard (Austen H.) Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, first edition, half-title, folding frontispiece, 10 plates (most lithographs), 5 folding maps and plans, 1 with short tear, woodcut illustrations, occasional spotting, ex-library with ink-stamp to front pastedown and shelf-mark to title, previous owner's ink signature, cracked hinges, original cloth, short split to spine head, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1853 § Coldstream (J. N.) Greek Geometric Pottery, plates, folding map in pocket at end, adhesive marks to front free endpaper where label removed, original cloth, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, chipping to corners and spine extremities, 1968; and 2 others similar, 8vo & 4to (4)
Lot 23
Darwin (Charles) The Descent of Man, 2 vol., first edition, second issue, half-titles, woodcut illustrations, advertisements at end, previous owners ink inscriptions, abrasion mark to front free endpapers where labels removed, occasional spotting, joints strengthened, hole to front free endpaper (vol. 1), original cloth, rubbed and worn, upper joint beginning to split but holding firm (vol. 1), chipping and small loss to spine extremities (vol. 1), [Freeman 937], 8vo, 1871.
Lot 231
Architecture.- Banham (Reyner) Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past, first edition, illustrations, faint spotting to title, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, slight creasing to top edge, 1976; Los Angeles: the Architecture of Four Ecologies, first edition, illustrations, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, slight creasing to edges, 1971; Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, first edition, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, slight creasing to extremities, 1960; Design by Choice, illustrations, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, creasing to top edge, a little rubbed, 1981; A Concrete Atlantis, first edition, illustrations, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, creasing to extremities, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1986; and others by the same, 4to & 8vo (11)
Lot 238
NO RESERVE Jansen (Leo), Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker, editors. The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, 6 vol., first edition, slip-case, 2009 § Delenda (Odile, editor) Velázquez: The Complete Works, 2014 § Falciani (Carlo) and Antonio Natali, editors. Bronzino: Artist and Poet at the Court of the Medici, 2010, colour-printed illustrations, original boards or cloth, first two with dust-jackets; and a large quantity of others, European art reference, v.s. (8 boxes)
Lot 239
NO RESERVE Fashion and jewellery.- Wilcox (Claire) Alexander McQueen, first edition, 2015 § Riberiro (Aileen) Ingres in Fashion, 1999 § Balenciaga, 2011 § Raulet (Sylvie) Art Deco Jewelry, 1985 § Nadelhoffer (Nadel) Cartier, 1984, illustrations, original boards, some with dust-jackets; and a large quantity of others, fashion and jewellery, v.s. (5 boxes)
Lot 241
NO RESERVE Harrison (Martin) Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, 5 vol., first edition, original slip-case, The Estate of Francis Bacon, 2016 § Farr (Dennis) and Massimo Martino, Fancis Bacon: A Retrospective, New York, 1999 § Peppiatt (Michael) Francis Bacon in the 1950s, 2006 § Seipel (Wilfried) and others, Francis Bacon and the Tradition of Art, 2004, illustrations, original boards or cloth, dust-jacket, in clean and crisp condition; and 20 others by or about Bacon, v.s. (28)
Lot 242
NO RESERVE Italian art.- Kliemann (Julian) Italian Frescoes: High Renaissance and Mannerism 1510-1600, first edition, New York, 2004 § Dini (Giuletta Chelazzi) and others. Sienese Painting: From Duccio to the Birth of the Baroque, 1998 § Spinsanti (Emanuela) The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, 1987, illustrations, original boards or cloth, dust-jackets, all fine and crisp copies; and a large quantity of others, Italian art and Italy, v.s. (6 boxes)
Lot 243
NO RESERVE Jacobson (Dawn) Chinoiserie, first edition, 1993 § Seth (Mira) Indian Painting, New York, 2006 § Sivaramamurti (Calambur) The Art of India, 1993, illustrations, original boards, dust-jackets, crisp and fresh copies; and a large quantity of others, art reference, world art, v.s. (4 boxes)
Lot 244
NO RESERVE Keynes (Geoffrey) Engravings by William Blake. The Separate Plates, A Catalogue Raisonnée, first edition limited to 500 copies, collotype plates, ex-library with bookplate and occasional ink- and blind-stamps, original cloth, a little rubbed, shelf-mark to spine foot, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, Dublin, 1956.
Lot 246
NO RESERVE Richardson (John) A Life of Picasso, 3 vol., first edition, 1991 § Figura (Starr) Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings, 2007 § Frèches-Thory (Claire) and others, editors. Toulouse Lautrec, New Haven, 1991 § Fornasetti (Barnaba) Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, slip-case, 2009, illustrations, original boards or cloth, all but the last with dust-jackets; and a large quantity of others, modern and 20th century art reference, v.s. (6 boxes)
Lot 249
NO RESERVE Tinterow (Gary) and Philip Conisbee, editors. Portraits by Ingres, first edition, New York, 1999 § Newman (Sasha M.) Bonnard, New York, 1964 § Mathieu (Pierre-Louis) Gustave Moreau, 1977 § Hoog (Michel) Paul Gauguin: Life and Work, 1987 § Demornex (Jacqueline) Madeleine Vionnet, 1991, colour-printed illustrations, original boards or cloth, dust-jackets, fine and fresh copies; and a large quantity of others, French art and architecture, v.s. (7 boxes)
Lot 250
NO RESERVE Decorative arts.- Wills (Geoffrey) Jade of the East, slip-case, New York and Tokyo, 1981 § Gantzhorn (Volkmar) The Christian Oriental Carpet, 1991 § Picon (Guillaume) and Francis Hammond, Versailles: A Private Invitation, 2011 § Grilli (Elise) The Art of the Japanese Screen, first edition, jacket price clipped, 1970, colour illustrations, original boards or cloth, all but the first with dust-jackets; and a large quantity of others, decorative arts, v.s. (5 boxes)
![NO RESERVE Ferns.- Britten (James) European Ferns, first edition, [c.1881] § Lowe (E. J.) Fern Growing, title in red and blac](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ec4d20ed-4832-49cf-8ff5-ad8200e65913/5160f883-f05e-4d52-91b6-ad8200e7d96d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 27
NO RESERVE Ferns.- Britten (James) European Ferns, first edition, [c.1881] § Lowe (E. J.) Fern Growing, title in red and black, portrait frontispiece, 1895 § Hulme (F. Edward) Plants, Their Natural Growth and Ornamental Treatment, first edition, 1874, coloured plates, some light offsetting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, extremities and joints rubbed, but still bright copies; and 14 others, ferns and plants, v.s. (17)
Lot 28
NO RESERVE Botany.- Hibberd (Shirley) The Ivy, a Monograph, first edition, chromolithograph frontispiece, additional title and 2 plates, short tear to frontispiece margin not affecting image, occasional light spots, cloth extremities lightly rubbed but overall a remarkably bright copy, Groombrige & Sons, 1872; The Amateur's Flower Garden, colour plates, tissue-guards spotted, ink ownership inscriptions to endpapers, 2 plates detached and loosely inserted, cloth rubbed and faded, 1871 § Cooke (M. C.) British Edible Fungi: How to Distinguish and How to Cook Them, colour plates, ink ownership inscription to title, occasional very light annotations to text in pen, cloth marked and faded, 1891, original cloth, first two decorative, gilt; and 7 others, flowers and plants, v.s. (9)
Lot 3
NO RESERVE England.- London Map Directory: A Street Atlas of London & its Surroundings, first edition, colour-printed maps, slip-case, 1964 § Strong (Roy) Country Life 1897-1997: The English Arcadia, first edition, illustrations, 1996 § Noppen (J. G.) Royal Westminster, ink ownership inscriptions, occasional foxing, 1937, original boards or cloth, last two with dust-jackets; and a large quantity of others, topography and travel, v.s. (3 boxes)
Lot 31
Middle East.- Horses.- Damoiseau (Louis) Voyage en Syrie et dans le désert, first edition, half-title, lithographed portrait frontispiece of the author, title with wood-engraved vignette, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, pp.37/38 small hole within text with loss of a few letters, occasional staining and spotting, lightly browned (the odd f. a little heavier), contemporary tree calf, spine gilt and with black leather label, spine skilfully repaired, rubbed, [Blackmer 446], 8vo, Paris, Hippolyte Souverain, 1833.⁂ Rare at auction. The author was a member of the De Portes expedition to Syria in 1818-1819 for the purpose of buying Arab stallion bloodstock.
Lot 43
Freud (Sigmund) Uber der Ursprung der hinteren Nervenwurzeln im Ruckenmark von Ammocoetes Petromyzon Planeri, offprint from Sitzungsberichte der Mathematisch- Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften LXXV, III Abtheilung, very light foxing to plate, original printed wrappers, stamp of Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften to upper wrapper (detached), extremities lightly rubbed, [Grinstein 37; Jones I, pp. 51-2; Standard edition 1877a; Norman F1.], 8vo, Vienna, Karl Gerold's Sohn, 1877.⁂ Extremely scarce separately-paginated offprint (journal pagination 15-27), of Freud's first published paper. In 1876, three years after entering the University of Vienna as a medical student, Freud joined the laboratory of the eminent physiologist Ernst Brücke where he began studying the histology of nerve tissue, a subject that would occupy him for the next ten years. During this time Freud made several significant contributions to our knowledge of the structure of nerve cells and took some first steps toward the theory of the neuron. Freud's first assignment at Brücke's laboratory was to clarify the structure of the so-called Reissner cells, a large type of nerve cell found in the spinal cord of the lamprey (Petromyzon), a primitive species of fish.
![Geiger (Hans) and Ernest Marsden. 'On a diffuse reflection of the [alpha]-particles,' pp. 495-500 in Proceedings of the Royal](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ec4d20ed-4832-49cf-8ff5-ad8200e65913/31d3dbff-eecf-494c-bc67-ad8200e87971/468x382.jpg)
Lot 44
Geiger (Hans) and Ernest Marsden. 'On a diffuse reflection of the [alpha]-particles,' pp. 495-500 in Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series A, vol. 82, No. 557, first edition, plate and illustrations, original printed wrappers, light marginal toning and light wear to extremities, otherwise in near-fine condition, 8vo, July 31st 1909.⁂ Journal issue in original printed wrappers of Geiger and Marsden's famous alpha-particle scattering experiment, which demonstrated for the first time the existence of the atomic nucleus, leading to the downfall of Thomson's plum-pudding model of the atom, and the development of the Rutherford (or planetary) model.
Lot 48
Hilbert (David) Über das Unendliche, offprint from Mathematische Annalen 95. Bd., 2. Heft, first edition, 30pp., bound together with green paper backstrip as issued, light faded to spine ends, else a near-fine copy, 8vo, Berlin, 1925.⁂ Very rare offprint of this famous lecture which contains Hilbert's most detailed exposition of his proposal for the foundation of classical mathematics, which became known as Hilbert's Programme. "No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us," Hilbert famously declared in this lecture (p. 170).
Lot 49
Kinetic theory of gases.- Hermann (Jacob) Phoronomia, sive de viribus et motibus corporum solidorum et fluidorum libri duo, first edition, engraved allegorical frontispiece and 12 folding plates, title in red and black with engraved vingnette, woodcut illustrations, small ink ownership inscription to pastedown, ex-library stamps from Royal Society of Edinburgh to pastedown and first few ff., some spotting and browning, contemporary dutch vellum, red morocco title label to spine, Amsterdam, Apud Rod. & Gerh. Wetstenios, 1716.⁂ First edition of the first textbook on theoretical mechanics based on the Leibnizian calculus, important for containing the first published discussion of the kinetic theory of gases. "For us the importance of Hermann's chapter XXIV is that it is, as far as I know, the first attempt to deal mathematically with the relations between heat and motion" (Knowles Middleton).
Lot 52
Pathology.- Platter (Felix) Observationum, in hominis affectibus plerisque, corpori & animo, functionum laesione, dolore, aliave molestia & vitio incommodantibus, libri tres, first edition, light mould-staining to pastedowns, contemporary vellum with yapped edges, manuscript lettering to spine, overall a fine and clean copy, [Norman 1716; Heirs of Hippocrates 373; G&M 3789], 8vo, Basel, Ludwig König for Conrad Waldkirch, 1614.⁂ A fine copy of this rare first edition medical work by one of the foremost pathologists of the sixteen and early seventeenth centuries. Containing "the first known case report of the death from hypertrophy of the thymus (in an infant) and an account of a meningioma" (Norman). Platter is credited with performing the first public dissection of a human body in a Germanic country and is said to have dissected over 300 bodies during his career. He was widely respected as a teacher and is considered courageous for remaining in Basel to treat the sick on five occasions when the plague struck the city.
Lot 55
Psychiatry.- Esquirol (Jean-Etienne Dominique) Mental Maladies. A Treatise on Insanity, translated by E. K. Hunt, first English edition, presentation inscription from the translator to front free endpaper, half-title, 30pp. adverts at end (some pp. unopened), book label to pastedown, foxing, later sheep, spine ruled in gilt with black spine label, a crisp copy, 8vo, Philadelphia, Lea and Blanchard, 1845.⁂ Inscription by the translator, Ebenezer Hunt: 'Doct. H. A. Grant / with the compliments of the / Translator'. Esquirol was one of the first to apply statistical methods to clinical studies of insanity, he created new descriptions and classifications of mental illnesses, he was the first to distinguish between hallucinations and illusions, and between dementia and idiocy, and he distinguished certain depressive states from other psychoses.
Lot 58
Rutherford (Ernest) Radio-activity, first edition, plate and diagrams, bookplate to pastedown, endpapers lightly browned, light marginal toning, original cloth, gilt, spine ends bumped and creased but overall an excellent example, [Dibner Heralds of Science 51; Grolier/Horblit 51], 8vo, Cambridge, 1904.⁂ First edition of Rutherford's survey of contemporary knowledge of the entire field of radioactivity. It includes a discussion of Rutherford's revolutionary transformation theory, according to which radioactivity is a by-product of the transmutation of one element into another.
Lot 59
Rutherford (Ernst) and Hans Geiger. 'An electrical method of counting the number of α-particles from radioactive substances', pp. 141-61 in Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series A, Vol. 81, No. 546, first edition, illustrations, original wrappers, lightly toned at margins but overall a crisp and fine copy, 8vo, August 27 1908.⁂ First edition, journal issue in original printed wrappers, of the invention of the Geiger counter. This device made possible the famous α-particle scattering experiment carried out by Geiger and Marsden which led Rutherford to the discovery of the atomic nucleus.
Lot 60
NO RESERVE Schizophrenia.- Yoga.- Ogdon (J. A. Howard) The Kingdom of the Lost, first edition, presentation inscription to half-title, short tear to final leaf with tape repair, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, modern cloth, 8vo, 1947.⁂ The inscription reads, 'With the Author's good wishes. 30.6.1952'.Ex-Saxondale Hospital Medical Library. Saxondale Hospital was a psychiatric hospital in Nottinghamshire, founded in 1899.
Lot 63
Theory of organizations.- Morgenstern (Oskar) Prolegomena to a theory of organization in U.S. Air Force Project RAND report RM-734, first edition, offset typescript printed on recto only, original holepunch binding with 3 metal fasteners, original wrappers with window to title, lightly faded and creased, 4to, Santa Monica, CA, The RAND Corporation, 10th December 1951.⁂ First edition of this very rare report which presents a framework within which to make descriptive analyses of centrally-directed organizations. Morgenstern is best known for his seminal book with John von Neumann, The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944), and he sees a future theory of organization as an extension of the theory of games.
Lot 69
Gregory (David) Catoptricae et dioptricae sphaericae elementa, first edition, engraved vignette of Sheldonian Theatre to title and woodcut diagrams, light spotting to endpapers, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, some scuffing and rubbing to corners and joints, 8vo, Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1695.⁂ Rare, famous for its suggestion that a compound lens might be formed by two simple lenses of different materials might correct for chromatic aberration. (Whiteside suggests that Gregory may have had this suggestion from Newton). The use of 'achromatic doublets' was a crucial step in the further development of telescopes and microscopes.
Lot 72
Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von) Reineke Fuchs, first edition, illustrations by Wilhelm von Kaulbach, half title, additional pictorial title, 36 engraved plates and numerous vignettes, occasional spotting, some light offsetting, endpapers renewed, original blue calf elaborately tooled in gilt, sympathetically rebacked with original backstrip laid down, covers with a few abrasions, corners worn, g.e., 4to, J.B Cotta, Stuttgart, 1846.
Lot 73
French prisons.- Diard (H. ) Études sur le système pénitentiaire et sur son application au régime des prisons de France, first edition, half-title, mostly light foxing, heavier to last few ff., later vellum-backed marbled boards, small stain to spine on author's name, 8vo, Tours, Ladevèze, 1875.⁂ Rare in commerce. Proposes reforms for the French prison system, based on the study of the methods of America and other European countries, including Ireland and England. With a section on the handling of young offenders and agricultural detention centres, like that at Mettray.
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