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Click here to subscribeLEWINSKY MONICA: (1973- ) American activist and former White House intern with whom American President Bill Clinton admitted to having an affair with in 1995-96, resulting in the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. Book signed, being a hardback edition of Monica's Story by Andrew Morton, First Edition published by Michael O'Mara Books Limited, London, 1999. Signed by Lewinsky in blue ink with her name alone to the fly leaf. Accompanied by the dust jacket. About EX
MONTESQUIEU: (1689-1755) Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu. French Judge, Historian and political Philosopher. Montesquieu is the main source of separation of powers which is today implemented in many constitutions all over the world. His work The Spirit of Law (1748), anonymously published, strongly influenced the Founding Fathers of the United States when drafting the Constitution. Very rare L.S., Montesquieu, two pages, 4to, Bordeaux, 19th October 1748, to monsieur Titon Dutillet, in French. A very cleanly written letter, Montesquieu stating in part `J´ai reçu Monsieur la lettre obligeante que vous m´avez fait l´honneur de m´écrire au sujet de ma nouvelle Edition de la Grandeur des Romains, il serait bien flateur pour moi qu´elle eut plû a un homme aussi connoisseur que vous et don't l´esprit est rempli de tant de belles choses…´ (“I received Sir the obliging letter that you have had the honour to write to me about my new Edition of the Grandeur des Romains, it would be very flattering for me if it had pleased a man as connoisseur as you and whose mind is filled with so many beautiful things…”) Montesquieu further refers to his correspondent´s work, saying `Des que je fus arrive ici, mon premier soin fut de remettre a Mr. De Sarrau votre ouvrage immortel le Parnasse Français´ (“As soon as I arrived here, my first goal was to deliver to Mr. De Sarrau your immortal work, le Parnasse Français (the French Parnassus)”) With address leaf, written in his hand, bearing a red wax seal in fine condition. VG Evrard Titon du Tillet (1677-1762) French officer under Louis XIV, Captain of the Dragoons, war Commissioner and butler to the Duchess of Burgundy. Titon du Tillet wanted to erect a monument to the glory of the King on which men of letters and artists would have figured. The project only led to the writing of “La description du Parnasse Français”, rich in information on the literary and musical life of the time.
BENTHAM JEREMY: (1748-1832) English philosopher, jurist and social reformer, regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d., being a portion (comprising twelve lines of text, with corrections) of Bentham's original working manuscript of the second edition of Chrestomathia, in part, 'Impracticability, uselessness, mischievousness…..under one or more of these…..qualities with his attack upon it be managed. By the first two his endeavours will be to bring down upon it the contempt by the others…..and the more compleat his persuasion he is convinced that no one of these qualities do in any degree appertain to it, the more….will be his endeavours to produce in all other…..the assurances that these same qualities…..do really appertain to it'. With slightly irregularly torn and trimmed edges and neatly mounted to a contemporary page removed from an album, annotated in an unidentified hand at the foot, 'A portion of the original MS: of the second edition of the “Chrestomathia” by Jeremy Bentham from Dr. Southwood Smith per Swynfen Jervis'. Some light age wear, about VG Chrestomathia was a collection of papers in which the principles of the Bell and Lancastrian systems of education were applied to the higher branches of learning. The most novel features of this work were the prominence it gave to the study of science and its daring attack on Greek and Latin, which at the time reigned supreme in the process of education. Thomas Southwood Smith (1788-1861) English physician and sanitary reformer. Swynfen Jervis (1700-1771) English barrister and auditor of Greenwich Hospital, the father of Admiral John Jervis (1734-1823) 1st Earl of Saint Vincent.
CARLYLE THOMAS: (1795-1881) Scottish historian, philosopher, essayist & mathematician. D.S., T. Carlyle, one page, oblong 12mo, n.p., 27th April n.y. The partially printed document, evidently originating from a library, is completed entirely in Carlyle's hand, and in which he requests an 8vo copy of the First Edition of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, as annotated and corrected by D. Juan Antonio Pellicer, published in Madrid, 1797. Some light age wear and a few minor stains to the corners, otherwise VG
RUSHDIE SALMAN: (1947- ) British-American novelist and essayist of Indian descent, author of the controversial novel The Satanic Verses (1988). Book signed, being a hardback edition of Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991, First Edition published by Granta Books, London, 1991. Signed by Rushdie in black ink with his name alone to the title page. Accompanied by the dust jacket (some light scuffing and age wear). VG
‘I’m sending the final copy of the The War of the Worlds…..Treasure it – it’s quite a revised version & the only copy’ WELLS H.G.: (1866-1946) English writer, best remembered for his science fiction novels including The War of the Worlds (1898). A good A.L.S., H. G. Wells, one page, 8vo, Heatherlea, Worcester Park, Surrey, n.d. (annotated in pencil in an unidentified hand 1898), to [Sydney] Pawling. Wells writes, in full, 'I'm sending the final copy of the The War of the Worlds, in a separate cover. Treasure it - it's quite a revised version & the only copy. And the sooner….I may have proofs by me the better the whole thing will be'. With blank integral leaf. Autograph letters by Wells making reference to perhaps his most famous work are rare and desirable. One light stain, not affecting the text or signature, and with some light age wear, otherwise VG Sydney Pawling (1862-1922) English cricketer, at one time reputed to be the fastest bowler in England. In 1893 Pawling became a partner in the publishing house of William Heinemann, and he remained the minority partner until his death. The War of the Worlds was first published in a hardcover edition by William Heinemann in 1898.
SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1925. A good book signed and inscribed, being a hardback edition of The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, First Edition (advance copy) published by Constable and Company Ltd., London, 1928. Signed by Shaw in dark fountain pen ink to the half-title page, 'To Ethel Snowden from Bernard Shaw'. Bound in the original publisher's decorative olive green cloth and with decoration and gilt title to spine. With Ethel Snowden's bookplate laid down to the front pastedown and also including a loosely inserted vintage signed sepia postcard photograph of Philip Snowden (neatly trimmed to the lower border). Further including a loosely inserted printed small 8vo slip, the text stating 'Please consider this book private until the 1st of June, the day of publication. G.B.S.'. Lacking the dust jacket. An interesting association copy. Contained in a handsome custom designed olive green quarter leather and cloth clamshell box with a gilt stamped title to the spine. Some light age wear, about VG Ethel Snowden (1881-1951) Viscountess Snowden. British socialist, human rights activist and feminist politician, wife of Philip Snowden (1864-1937) 1st Viscount Snowden. British politician who served as Labour's first Chancellor of the Exchequer 1924, 1929-31.
MANDELA NELSON: (1918-2013) South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader who served as the first President of South Africa 1994-99. Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1993. A printed 4to edition of Time magazine, Vol. 143, No. 19, 9th May 1994, featuring a colour image of Mandela to the front cover, signed and inscribed in bold silver ink by Mandela at the head of the cover and dated 22nd March 1997 in his hand. Some light age wear, scuffing and slight creasing, about VG
EVEREST EXPEDITION 1953: A good multiple signed souvenir cover issued to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of the first ascent of Mount Everest, 29th May 1978, individually signed by Edmund Hillary (1919-2008) New Zealand mountaineer, the first man, with Tenzing Norgay, to reach the summit of Mount Everest, 1953, Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986) Nepalese Indian Sherpa Mountaineer, Captain S. S. Gill (helicopter pilot), Captain N. Buckley (Patron Australian Air Mail Society), Nelson Eustis (Secretary), Vola Eustis (passenger) and, to the verso, E. W. Roberts (President, Australian Air Mail Society). All have signed in blue or black inks with their names alone to clear areas of the cover. The attractive cover is post marked at Namche Bazar, 29th May 1978, and features various cachets to the verso, one indicating that the cover was flown on a Royal Nepal airlines helicopter flight. Numbered 92 from a limited edition of 500. VG
ALDRIN BUZZ: (1930- ) American Astronaut, Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo XI (1969). The second man to walk on the moon. Book signed, a hardback edition of Reaching for the Moon, First American Edition published by Harper Collins, 2005. Signed by Aldrin with his name alone in black ink at the head of the title page and also signed by the book's illustrator, Wendell Minor. Accompanied by the dust jacket (one tear and slight age wear). Together with a very small swatch of kapton foil from the Columbia Command Module which carried Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins on their historic Apollo XI mission to the moon, neatly mounted to a 4to certificate of authenticity signed by Aldrin. VG, 2
POWELL COLIN: (1937-2021) American General who served in the Gulf War (1990-91) and later, as a politician, became the first African-American United States Secretary of State 2001-05. Book signed, being a hardback edition of Powell's autobiography A Soldier's Way, First Edition published by Hutchinson, London, 1995. Signed by Powell in bold black ink with his name alone to the title page. Accompanied by the dust jacket. About EX
CHURCHILL WINSTON S.: (1874-1965) British Prime Minister 1940-45, 1951-55. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953. Book signed and inscribed, being a hardback edition of The Grand Alliance, Volume III of The Second World War (originally published in six volumes; the others no longer present), First Edition published by Cassell & Co. Ltd., London, 1950. Signed by Churchill in blue ink to the half title page, 'Inscribed for Norman McGowan - Winston S. Churchill' and dated 1951 in his hand. Accompanied by the dust jacket. Contained in a handsome custom designed blue quarter leather and cloth clamshell box with a gilt stamped title to the spine. Some light overall age wear, about VG Norman McGowan served as a personal valet to Churchill and was the author of My Years with Churchill (1958).
MOUNTBATTEN LOUIS: (1900-1979) British Admiral of World War II, later serving as the last Viceroy of India of British India (1947) and as the first Governor-General of the Dominion of India (1947-48). T.L.S., Mountbatten of Burma, with holograph salutation and subscription, one page, small 4to, Broadlands, Romsey, Hampshire, 27th September 1965, to Michael Harrison. Mountbatten thanks his correspondent for their account of their one-man campaign on behalf of Johann Philipp Reis, which he had found very interesting, adding that he is going to forward it to Graham Clifford, Secretary of the Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers. Mountbatten further writes regarding Harrison's literary output, 'As you know, I think that your book, “Mulberry” has come out extremely well. I hope very much it will run to another Edition or at least another Impression. If it does please do not forget your promise to change that extraordinary reference to me as “Prince von Battenberg” to “Prince of Battenberg”…..As I told you my father was naturalised a British subject in 1868 when Queen Victoria anglicised his title. “Von” has not appeared in the family for nearly 100 years!'. In a holograph postscript, signed with his initials ('M of B'), Mountbatten remarks that he has just received a further letter from Harrison and will write accordingly to David Astor. Accompanied by the original envelope. VG Michael Harrison (1907-1991) Maurice Desmond Rohan. English detective fiction and fantasy author, a noted Sherlock Holmes scholar.
Bill Norman Hand signed Hardback Book. Titled Failed to Return. The Yorkshire Memorials to the Bomber Squadrons of No.4 Group RAF and No.6 RCAF Group 1939 1945. First Edition Hardback book. Signed and dated on title page with dedication. Published by Leo Cooper Printed by Redwood Books Ltd. 208 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Ernest Schofield and Roy Conyers Nesbit. Arctic Airmen The RAF Spitsbergen and North Russia 1942 Multi Signed First Edition Book. Signed by Ernest Schofield, Roy Conyers Nesbit and Sir Alexander Glen KBE DSC on a limited edition 50 of 50 issues. Spine and dust jacket in near mint condition. Printed by Redwood Burn Ltd of Trowbridge. 253 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Bark The Formation, Characteristics, and uses of Bark Around the World by G T and A E Prance Hardback Book 1993 First Edition published by Timber Press Inc g. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
WW2. Richard Overy First Edition Hardback Book Titled 'Bomber Command 1939 45' Multi Signed by Roy Pengelley DFC, W H Hearne, Ron Clark DFC and Edward Stocker on title page. Spine and dust jacket in good condition. Published by Harper Collins Publishers in 1997. Printed in Italy. 224 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
[Eleanor Vere Boyle] The Peacock's Pleasaunce by E.V.B. with 8 illustrations 1908 first edition SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Days & Hours in A Garden by E.V.B. on handmade paper bound in gilt lettered vellum. Tennyson's The May Queen Illustrated by E.V.B.(c.1880s) in gilt decorated cloth and copy of Thomas Gray's Elegy 1858 illustrated (4)
The Babes In The Wood & Other Fairy Stories Pictured by Mabel Lucie Attwell printed and published by Valentine & Sons (c.1920s) The Attwell Kiddies Series with 5 full-page colour plates and colour text drawings in cloth boards with colour illustrated onlay front. Stories from The Arabian Nights In the words of Laurence Housman with Illustrations by Edmund Dulac published Hodder & Stroughton 1938 first edition thus with 12 colour plates and black & white half-titles original lettered cloth (2)
The Hatchet Throwers [The Adventures of Three Ancient Mariners & The Brass Brothers of Bristol] by James Greenwood with 36 illustrations drawn on wood by Ernest Griset from his Original Designs published John Camden Hotten 1866 first edition with hand-coloured illustrations throughout in gilt illustrated cloth with lettered spine
Arthur Ransome Swallows & Amazons published Jonathan Cape 1938 first edition illustrated by the author with help from Miss Nancy Blackett with frontispiece, 23 illustrations and maps bound in gilt lettered cloth - newscuttings & obituary of Mrs. Ransome inserted [first published in 1930 this copy is the first edition with author's own illustrations, having previously been illustrated by Clifford Webb]
Sowerby’s English Botany; or Coloured Figures of British Plants with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth by Sir James Edward Smith with the Figures by James Sowerby printed by Taylor for C.E. Sowerby (1849-1854) third editions (volume 1 1832 second edition) in 7 volumes illustrated with 100’s of full-page hand-coloured plates (some folding) and bound in publishers gilt lettered cloth (bindings worn & final volume lacking title and first few pages – plates not collated) (7)
[Movable] Come and Go in Fairyland A Surprise Picture Book for Children with Verses by L.L. Weedon published Ernest Nister & E.P. Dutton (c.1915) first edition with 5 full-page colour-printed plates each with a revolving centre piece operated by silk cords comprising Sleeping Beauty; Goldilocks; Cinderella; Babes in the Wood & Red Riding Hood (all complete & in working order) and other black & white text illustrations in colour pictorial glazed boards with cloth spine. Oblong
Kenneth Grahame The Wind in The Willows illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk published Folio Society 2005, first edition thus with illustrations in colour and black & white, bound in silver decorated silk cloth with colour illustrated onlay front, picture endpapers with another copy illustrated by James Lynch with introduction by Alan Bennett Folio Society 2004 in silver/gilt blocked silk cloth, both in slipcases (2)
Natural history and Highlands related history non fiction. Works to include Berkeley-Smith (Phyls) British Birds, published by King Penguin 1939, Milner et al A Highland Deer Heard and it's Habitat, first edition, published by Red Lion House 2002, Sale (Charles) The Specialist published by Putnam and Co Ltd 1951, Jeffries (Richard) Field and Hedgerow, published by Longmans Green and Co 1892, Bardswell (Francis A) The Herb Garden published by Adam and Charles Black 1911, Macdonald (John M) Highland Ponies, first edition, published by Anais Mackay 1937, etc. (a quantity)
Shackleton (Ernest, 1874-1922). The Royal Squadron Memorials of its Members, with an Enquiry into the History of Yachting and its Development in the Solent; and a Complete List of Members with their Yachts from the Foundation of the Club to the Present Time from the Official Records, by Montague Guest and William B. Broulton, 1st edition, John Murray, 1902, photogravure frontispiece, black & white plates, signed presentation inscription to front free endpaper, 'To Sir Ernest Shackleton from Philip Hunloke, 1921', top edge gilt, original gilt-decorated cloth, a little rubbed, large 8voQty: (1)Footnote:Major Sir Philip Hunloke GCVO (1868-1947) was a British sailor and courtier. He served as a Groom in Waiting to King George V from 1911 to 1936 and also served in the Boer War and First World War. 1921 was the year Shackleton was elected to the RYS and embarked on his last Antarctic project, the Quest Expedition. The Quest RYS carried a 'silken ensign' which was given by Shackleton to the Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes, Isle of Wight, and which was used to wrap the body of Shackleton when he died in South Georgia on 5 January 1922.
Johnston (Alexander Keith). The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, ...with additions and corrections to the present date by T.B. Johnston, new edition, Edinburgh and London: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1884, title and dedication, 44 (of 50) double-page engraved maps, with colour printing and contemporary hand-colouring in outline, some spotting (mainly to letterpress and upper blank margins), a few maps with short split to fold, half-title with fore-edge partly excised, first few leaves edge-frayed and somewhat chipped, map 29 with minor marks, map 44 lightly toned, stitching broken and several leaves detached, all edges gilt, contemporary half red sheep gilt, worn and stained, boards detached, lower third of spine missing, folio, together with: Betts (John, publisher), The London Modern Atlas, circa 1846, 16 (of 27) double-page engraved maps, with contemporary hand-colouring, some light offsetting and dust-soiling, most with short splits to folds, contents leaf detached and frayed, front hinge cracked, contemporary cloth-backed boards, printed paper label to front board, rubbed, extremities worn, front joint split, small slim folio, plus: Le Sage (A.), Atlas Historique, Généalogique, Chronologique, et Géographique, [Paris]: P. Didot l'Aine?, 1814, title and contents leaf, 33 double-page (and one half-page) engraved tables (complete as list), with contemporary hand-colouring, including 17 with engraved maps, scarce minor spots or toning, an additional engraved large folding table: Le Cours des Tems ou Tableau de Histoire Universelle, with contemporary hand-colouring, dated 1818 at foot, some edge-fraying and a couple of closed tears, front hinge cracked, contemporary half mottled calf, front board with shield-shaped gilt-lettered and decorated leather label, faded and worn, lacking spine, atlas folio, with three other atlases: The Harrow Atlas of Modern Geography, 1868; Black's General Atlas of the World, 1859; The Chambers of Commerce Atlas, 1925, various conditions and sizesQty: (6)Footnote: Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.
Mardis Gras. Parade Floats, Momus edition, Carnival Bulletin, Walle & Co. Ltd. New Orleans, February 11th 1915, folding colour lithographic poster of carnival floats, large allegorical title cartouche, some wear and slight fraying to old folds, newspaper print and advertisements to verso 670 x 1035 mm, together with another issue dated February 17th 1917, similar conditionQty: (2)Footnote: Two large and highly colourful posters of Carnival floats from the Mardis Gras parade in New Orleans. Each parade had a theme and in this case, the first is based upon the "Just So Stories or Tales of How and Why" and the second upon "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen".
Bauhin (Caspar). [Pinax] Theatri Botanici . . . sive Index in Theophrasti, Dioscoridis, Plinii, et botanicorum qui a seculo scripserunt opera, 1st edition, Basil: Sumptibus & typis Ludovici Regis, 1623, [24], 522, [24] pages, printer's woodcut device to title with first word in Greek (leaf frayed to edges and lined to verso), double-column text, errata leaf at rear (2Z1), marginal repairs to *2 & *3, printing faults to leaf 2B4, 2N1 torn to upper outer corner with loss to page number, browning and some light dust-soiling throughout, some ink splashes and staining mostly to lower margins (with some ink burn), occasional worm trails (mostly to margins) and damp stains, some marginal fraying especially to outer corners, modern speckled calf, gilt decorated spine, 4toQty: (1)Footnote: Norman 139; Hunt 319; Nissen 104; PMM121.Bauhin's Pinax began the system of 'natural' plant classification based upon general morphology, and established the first scientific system of nomenclature", Norman 139.
Churchill (Winston Spencer). My African Journey, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908, half-title, 61 monochrome illustrations after photographs (taken by Churchill himself) on 47 plates, 3 maps, 18-page publisher's list at end, occasional minor spotting, bookplate to front pastedown, original pictorial red and blue cloth in bright condition, spine lettered in gilt, 8voQty: (1)Footnote: Woods A12. Czech 37.First edition in book form of Churchill's two-month tour in British East Africa, principally Uganda and Kenya, while Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, in 1907.
Horatius Flaccus (Quintus). Opera cu[m] quibusdam Annotat[i]o[n]ib[us], Imaginibusque pulcherrimis, aptisque ad Odaru[m] conce[i]tus & sente[n]tias, Strasborg, Johann Reinhard Gruninger, 12 March 1498, 219 leaves (of 220, without blank LL8 at end), collation: [*]6,A-Z6,AA-II6,KK8-LL7 (lacking final blank LL8 at end), text and commentary printed in triple column, 168 woodcut illustrations from 101 blocks by the Master of the Ulm Terence (many repeated), some light overall toning throughout, extensive contemporary ink marginalia throughout, now faded and in some places not legible, some leaves with repairs mainly to inner margins, but including several small excisions replaced with blank paper, and vertical closed tears (with consequent repairs with clear adhesive tape - main repairs are to signatures A, D4, E6, F1-4, O, P4-5, Q3-6, T-V, VV, FF1-5, and LL1-7), 19th-century half black morocco, gilt-decorated spine, rubbed and some marks, folio (29.3 x 20.5 cm), sold with all faults, not subject to returnQty: (1)Footnote: Hain-Copinger 8898*; GW 13468; BMC I,112; BSB-INK H-370; Goff H-461, BOD-inc H-214.First illustrated edition of the works of Horace, and the first printed in Germany, here edited by Jacobus Locher for the first time from a manuscript source, and with commentary by Nicolaus Perottus. One of the finest illustrated books produced in Germany during the fifteenth century, issued by the Strasbourg printer Johann Gruninger.
Bible [English; Matthew's Version]. [The Byble, that is to saye, all the holye Scripture…, Nicolas Hyll, 1551], 5 parts in one, 533 (of 730) leaves, double column, black letter, 55 lines to a full column, woodcut initials, Apocrypha title within wide historiated border (but lacking decorative title-pages for general title, NT title and titles before Joshua and the Psalter), some leaves taken from another copy of the same edition and printed on heavier paper stock, in total lacking 135 leaves: all before a4 (20 preliminary leaves, 108 leaves Pentateuch, first three leaves of Joshua), plus a8, b1-8, v4 (blank), Aa1, Aa8, Mm1, Qq2-3, Yy6-8, AAa1-3, NNn1 (22 leaves) and all after NNn7 (i.e. NNn8, OOo-SSs8, TTt6, a further 47 leaves); some leaves damaged and torn with loss, including folios k6, v3, Aa2-3, signatures Aa-Ff (significant fraying to lower margins with tears into text with some slight loss), Dd8, Ff4, Oo8, Ss3, KK2, KKk2, LLl3-NNn7 (running hole affecting 5-8 lines of text on each page), old soiling and dampstaining throughout with occasional edge fraying, a few ink ownership inscriptions of Thomas Miles, dated 1837, scattered minor ink annotations and some old highlighting/redacting of a few occasional words in dark ink, mostly affecting NT, modern antique-style blind-stamped morocco with five raised bands, titled and dated in gilt, spine lightly faded, upper cover scratched, folio (310 x 205mm)Qty: (1)Footnote: Herbert 92; STC 2084.The fourth edition of 'Matthew's version' of the Bible. First published in 1537 this version 'welds together the best work of Tyndale and Coverdale, [and] is generally considered to be the real primary version of our English Bible' (Herbert). It was compiled by Tyndale's associate John Rogers (later martyred in 1555), who issued the Bible under the pseudonym of Thomas Matthew, 'for no certain reason' (ODNB).Sold with all faults not subject to return.
Justin Martyr (Saint). Tou agiou Joustinou philosochou kai martyros..., ex Bibliotheca Regia, 1st edition, Paris, Robert Estienne, 1551, title with woodcut printer's device, text in Greek, woodcut initials and head-pieces, occasional marginalia in brown ink in Latin and Greek, 18th century ownership inscription in brown ink to head of title: 'Nathan Wrighte of Englefeild', 20th century signature of D.L. Cumming to front pastedown, 18th century blind-panelled sprinkled full calf, rubbed and some marks and scuffs, upper joint a little tender with minor wear to head and foot of spine, some loss to title label, folio, together with:Kyriander (Wilhelm), Annales sive commentarii de origine et statu antiquissimae civitatis Augustae Treverorum, Zweibrücken: Caspar Wittel, 1603, woodcut device to title and few decorative initials, title dust-soiled, some dampstaining mostly at front, bound with,Reyneke (Reinhard), Origines illustriss. stirpis Brandeburgicae, seu Historiae expositiones geminae de nobiliss. et antiquiss. Welforum prosapia: e germanica lingua in latinam conversae..., Frankfurt: Andream Wechelum, 1581, printer's woodcut device to title, decorative initials, head & tailpieces, some browning and spotting throughout volume, marbled endpapers with Skene Library bookplate to upper pastedown, late 17th/early 18th century calf, gilt decorated spine without title label, gilt armorial to centre of each board, joints cracked and spine darkened, folio,Bildius (Beatus), Beati Rhenani ... Rerum Germanicarum libri tres. Adiecta est in calce Epistola ad D. Philippu? Puchaimeru?, de locis Plinij per St. Aquæum attactis, ubi mendæ quædam eiusdem autoris emaculantur..., Basel: In officiana Frobeniana, 1531, printer's woodcut device to title and with early annotation to lower blank margin (repaired closed tear at foot), few decorative woodcut initials, occasional early underscoring and marginal notes, printer's woodcut device to verso of final leaf, some even toning and lower margins of some leaves lightly damp stained, 19th century marbled sheep, joints cracked and small area of loss at head of spine, extremities rubbed, small slim folio,Aventinus (Johannes), Io. Auentini Annalium Boiorum libri VII. / Ex autenticis manuscriptis codicibus per CL. V. D. Nic. Cisnerum, electoralis curiae palatinae proiudicem & consiliarum, singulari diligentia & fide, recogniti, restituti & aucti., Basel: Impensis Ludouici Regis., 1615, woodcut portrait to title, short worm trail to few initial leaves, browning and spotting throughout volume, occasional marginal damp stains, near contemporary calf with inset panel with double gilt rule border, old reback, joints split and some wear to extremities, folio, plus one other 17th century antiquarian volume Justin Martyr (Saint), Sancti Iustini philosophi et martyris Opera. Græcus textus multis in locis correctus; & Latina Ioannis Langi versio passim emendata..., Paris: Claudium Morellum, [1615], lacking title, contemporary calf with blind rollwork decoration, joints cracked, folioQty: (5)Footnote: 1. Mortimer, Harvard French Books 335; Renouard 79/2; Schreiber, Estienne 107.The editio princeps of Saint Justin Martyr's surviving works, printed in the first font of the grecs du roi, and described by Schreiber as 'a most important contribution to the study of Christian antiquity'.Provenance: Nathan Wright of Englefield, Berkshire (his ownership inscription to title), most likely Nathan Wrighte, son of the Reverend Nathan Wrighte and Anne Powlett, brother to Powlett Wright who inherited Englefield in 1729. When Powlett Wright died of smallpox in 1741, his son Powlett came into the estate, but when he died childless in 1779 it passed to his uncle Nathan until his death on 7th June 1789, at the age of 73.2. Brunet III, 704. The 2nd edition of the early history of Trier (Treves), written by the Bishop's secretary and dedicated to emperor Rudolf II. Kaspar Wittel was an early Zweibrucken printer 1597-1607.
Tauler (Johannes). Tam de Tempore quam de Sanctis Homilie, Operaq; eiusdem alia Pietati quam maxime infe inservientia, summo studio recens ab ipso interprete Laurentio Surio recognita, & Homiliis Epistolisque aliquot modo primum additis..., Cologne: exofficima Haeredum Joannis Quentel, 1553, title with printers woodcut device, 742pp (including 8 unnumbered preliminary pages of index at end), woodcut initials, including large woodcut initial to dedication leaf, light water stains to title, early (17th century) neat ownership inscription in ink to foot of title 'Ex libris Joh. Egolphi à Knoringen', and slightly later ink inscription to head of title 'Bibliothecae Academicae Ingolstad', neat 20th-century owners name DL Cumming to upper outer corner of title, front endpaper missing, contemporary blind-stamped pig skin over wooden boards, with brass clasps, in working order, a little rubbed and some light discolouration, folioQty: (1)Footnote: Adams T276.First edition of the sermons of the Dominican mystical preacher Johann Tauler (circa 1300-1361), translated from the German into Latin by Laurentius Surius (1522-1578), of the Charterhouse of St. Barbara, Cologne, who published several translations of the so-called Rhine land mystics, including Tauler, Henry Suso, and John of Ruysbroeck.
Bible [Latin]. Biblia interprete Sebastiano Castalione una cum ejusdem annotationibus, Basel: Johannes Oporinus, March 1556, double column, roman letter, 64 lines to a full column, printer's woodcut device on title (cut down and relaid on old paper), woodcut initial letters, a few woodcuts in the Annotations, some pepper wormholes to early and final leaves touching text, old dampstaining throughout principally affecting text at inner margins, closed tear to lower part of x2, tears with blank paper loss to lower margins of X6 and QQ2-5, lacks Hh6 (blank before NT), Aa1 (New Testament part title), VV4 (errata leaf) and AAa6 (final blank), 19th-century blind-stamped calf, some wear, slightly cracked on joints, folio (350 x 240mm)Qty: (1)Footnote: Adams B1052; Darlow & Moule 6137. 'Châteillon aroused bitter hostility among Calvin's followers by the publication of his Latin and French translations of the Bible … A striking characteristic of Châteillon's Latin version is his use of classical substitutes for recognised ecclesiastical terms' (D&M 6131, notes to first edition, 1551).The third edition of Sébastien Châteillon's version and the last issued before his death in 1563. First published in 1551 it was dedicated to Edward VI of England and the first edition of an independent version of the Bible. A second revised edition appeared in 1654.
Langland (William, circa 1332-1386). [The Vision of Pierce Plowman: nowe the seconde tyme imprinted by Robert Crowlye... Whereunto are added certayne notes and cotations in the mergyn, gevying light to the reader. And in the begyning is set a brefe summe of the principal matters spoken of in the boke..., Imprinted at London by Robert Crowley, dwellyng in Elye rentes in Holburne, M.D.L. (1550)], black-letter text, lacking *1-4 and [para]1 at front, also I3, Ee1-2, and Ff2-4 and Gg1 at end, some soling and marginal repair to foot of first three leaves (para 2-4), ink inscription to head of B1 'Frances Wolfreston hor bouk' [Frances Wolfreston, 1607-1677, see note], small hole to lower blank margin of C3, approximately 25 pages with near-contemporary annotations in brown ink, several of which repeat the name Robert Aston (presumably an early owner of this volume), some marks and generally light soiling, mainly to margins (final few leaves with some light staining and general soiling), 20th-century ownership signature of D. L. Cumming to verso of front endpaper, top edge gilt, 19th century marbled endpapers, 19th century dark plum half morocco (unsigned) over marbled boards, gilt-decorated spine, lettered in gilt Piers Plowman and dated 1550 at foot, rubbed and joints scuffed with a little wear, small 4to (text block measures 19.5 x 14 cm)Qty: (1)Footnote: Provenance: Robert Aston (16th century); Frances Wolfreston (1607-1677); presumably Sotheby's, 1856, lot 328; D. L. Cumming (20th century).STC 19907; Pforzheimer 798.Frances Wolfreston, who lived near Tamworth, north-east of Birmingham, is one of the earliest-recorded English female book collectors without aristocratic lineage. A large portion of her library was sold at auction by Sotheby's in 1856. The present work appears to be the copy listed as unlocated on https://franceswolfrestonhorbouks.com, although it is there described as 'imperfect; lacking the title, a 'portion' of A Brief Sum[m]e of the Principal Poyntes, and all after T4'. This copy however lacks all before B1, and four leaves at the end, in addition to three other leaves within the text.Over the past thirty years, Paul Morgan, Arnold Hunt, and Sarah Lindenbaum have identified over two hundred works, mostly literary, containing Wolfreston's standard ownership inscription: 'frances wolfreston hor bouk'. The bibliophile Wiliam Carew Hazlitt wrote about the Sotheby's auction in 1856 in his Four generations of a literate family: The Hazlitts in England, Ireland and America (1897): 'I can just recall the Wolfreston sale in 1856... I was not actually present, but I heard a good deal about it soon afterward. It was a small collection of early English books and tracts formed under the Tudors or early Stuarts; the copies were often uncut, and as often imperfect or dog's-eared. But there were among them a few startling rarities...'.The printer and controversialist Robert Crowley was the first to publish a printed edition of Langland's Piers Plowman, which had previously only existed in manuscript form. Crowley's introductory matter and printed marginal notes present the work in the context of his own radical anti-clerical Protestantism, as a prophetic account of the Reformist doctrine.The present copy is one of two versions of the second edition, both published by Crowley in the same year as his first edition, this copy with the word time spelt 'time' instead of 'tyme', and the signatures of the preliminary leaves, as well as the foliation, completely regularized. As Pforzheimer notes, 'The editions published by Crowley are of Skeats's so-called 'B-text' and are of interest and importance equal to that of the manuscripts which have survived.
Nannini (Remigio). Orationi in Materia Civile, e Criminale, tratte da gli Historici Greci, e Latini, antichi, e moderni, raccolte, e tradotte per M. Remigio Fiorentino ..., Venice: Gabriel Giolito de'Ferrari, 1561, [16], 483, [1] pages, woodcut printer's device to title and to verso of final leaf, woodcut ornaments and numerous historiated initials, text in very good, clean condition with good margins, small 19th century engraved bookplate with intertwined initials HFB to front pastedown, 20th century owner's name D.L. Cumming above, contemporary vellum with black morocco spine labels, small 4to, together with Levino (Lennio). De gli occulti miracoli, & uarii ammaestramenti delle cose della natura, con probabili ragioni, & artificiosa congiettura confermati, Venice: Lodovico Avanzi, 1567, [16] including integral blank, 156 leaves, printer's woodcut device to title, bookplate of G. Ashley Dodd, 1873, to front pastedown, ownership signature of D.L. Cumming to head of front endpaper, contemporary vellum with black morocco title label to spine, lightly marked, 8vo, plus Accolti (Benedetto). La Guerra fatta da Christiani contra Barbari per la Ricuperatione del sepolcro di Christo et della Giudea, tradotta per Francesco Baldelli, First Italian edition, Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1549, 127, [1] leaves, printer's woodcut device to title (with old partial colouring), and to verso of final leaf, some light spotting and marginal marks (generally a good copy), edges rough-trimmed, 19th century ink inscription to blank leaf facing title 'The War made by the Christians against the barbarians for the recovery of the Sepulchre of Christ & Judea. From this rare book Tasso gained the idea of his 'Jerusalem Delivered'.' ,19th century brown half morocco, spine deficient, light wear to edges, 8vo, andPetrarch. Il Petrarcha con l'espositione d'Alessandro Vellutello, di novo ristampato con piu cose utili in varii luoghi aggiunte, Venice: Al Segno della Speranza, 1550, [8],316,[3]l, without final black, woodcut printer's devise to tile, some light water stains (otherwise in clean condition), early ownership inscription to foot of title, early 20th century patterned paper wrappers, with yapp edges, rubbed, 8vo Qty: (4)Footnote: First work: the first edition of a collection of Orations concerning civil and criminal affairs taken from classical and modern authors, including Xenophon, Dionysus of Halicarnassus, Appian, Titus Livius, Leonardo Aretino, Poggio Bracciolini, Paolo Giovio, Machiavelli and others.CNCE 29958; Graesse IV, 159 for the second work (Lennio).
Major (Georg). Cantica ex Sacris literis, in ecclesia cantari solita, cum Hymnis & Collectis, seu orationibus Ecclesiasticis, in usum Pastorum, Diaconorum, & iuventutis Scholasticae, iam postremum recognita et aucta, Wittenberg: in officina haeredum Laurentii Schwenck, 1574, 91, [4] leaves (a-f12, h11), title within decorative woodcut border, with woodcut illustration of the Israelites crossing the Red Sea to verso, 2 hymns with extensive contemporary annotations in brown ink (De Passione, and In die Pentecostes) to c3-4 and c9, some light waterstains, colophon to final leaf, with printer's woodcut device to verso, 19th century pale blue plain wrappers, now contained in modern drop-over book box, 12mo (128 x 76 mm), together with:Hoffmeister (Johann), Homiliae in Evangelia, quae in Dominicis, et aliis festis diebus leguntur per totum annum..., Antwerp: Joannis Steelsii, 1557, woodcut device to title and few illustrations, slight marginal fraying to initial leaves, light damp staining at front and rear, later free endpapers, armorial bookplate of John Dolben Bt. of Finedon in Northamptonshire to upper pastedown, contemporary blind panelled calf over wooden boards, later morocco title label to spine, lacking one brass clasp, joints cracked, 8vo,Psalms, Psalmorum Davidis et aliorum prophetarum : libri quinque : argumentis & Latina paraphrasi illustrati, ac etiam vario carminum genere Latine? expressi : nunc postremu?m recogniti & a? variis mendis repurgati [Theodoro Beza Vezelio auctore], London: Typis Thomae Vautrollerij and impensis Herculis Francisci, 1580, printer's woodcut device to title, light dust-soiling and damp stains to margins, all edges gilt, hinges repaired, 20th century half morocco over 19th century marbled boards (marked and worn), 8vo, Loosaeus (Cornelius), Illustrium Germaniae scriptorum catalogus, quo doctrina simul et pietate illustrium vita & operae celebrantur, Mainz: Casparum Behem, 1582, early manuscript to lower blank margin of title, woodcut to verso of title, light dust-soiling, late 19th century morocco covers over earlier boards, lower joint split and board near detached, 8vo,Bible [Prophets], Prophetæ, Isaias, Ieremias, Baruch, Ezechiel, Daniel: cum Duodecim aliis minoribus, Antwerp: Arnoldi Bircmanni, 1569, woodcut device and early ownership signatures to title (lightly dust-soiled), light damp staining at rear, contemporary calf, 12mo in 6sQty: (5)Footnote: The first work comprises a finely printed collection of Lutheran hymns and canticles in Latin by Georg Major, or Meier (1502-1574), a Wittenberg preacher who studied under both Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon, was ordained by Luther, and who edited the Wittenberg edition of Luther's works.
Blundeville (Thomas, 1522?-1606?). A Briefe Description of Universal Mappes and Cardes, and of Their Use: and also of the use of Ptholemey his Tables. Necessarie for those that delight in reading of histories: and also for traveilers by land or sea, 1st edition, London: Printed by Roger Ward for Thomas Cadman, 1589, [22] leaves, woodcut device on title, black letter, folding woodcut plate of the mariner's quadrant at rear (old ink stain to lower left margin), initials and ornaments, running heads shaved, small tear with loss to blank lower margin of B4, bound as the eighth work in a sammelband with 9 other contemporary surveying, cosmographical and astronomical works by Thomas Hill (1599), Edward Worsop (1582), Edward Wright (1613), Valentine Leigh (1592), Leonard Digges (2 works: 1592 & [?1596]), Thomas Hood (2 works: 1590), Thomas Oliver (1601), contemporary ownership signature of [Viscount] Campden to title of first work, contemporary plain calf, heavily rubbed, leather along fore-edge of upper cover lifting with exposure of board beneath, 4to (178 x 135 mm)An extraordinary Elizabethan sammelband of rare scientific works in a contemporary binding. The texts have been very carefully cut down for binding with occasional shaving of running heads, signature marks and sometimes touching or shaving larger illustrations and tables. However, the binder has been sensitive enough to trim around these occasional larger page extensions and fold the edges into the text. Even more remarkable is the completeness of the texts with one table (and initial blank) lacking from the work by Leigh and the two very rarely found star charts in the first work by Hood being the notable absences.Provenance: [Viscount] Campden (boldly signed ‘Campden’ to title). There is ambiguity as to which Viscount Campden this might have been. Baptist Hicks, 1st Viscount Campden (1551–1629), was an English cloth merchant and politician who was created a baronet in 1620. His son-in-law Edward Noel succeeded to the title and he was in turn succeeded on his death in 1643 by his son, Baptist Noel (1611–1682), a politician and military commander. There are two later ownership signatures to the initial blank verso: ’Robert Winckles his book 1716. Price 5 shillings’ (similarly inscribed to front pastedown); and ‘Thomas Banning his book 1817’.There are two further 17th-century ink ownership signatures of Robert Hillary (‘Ro: Hillarye’) and ‘V. W.’ on the title-page of the first work by Thomas Hood.For a full and detailed description of all the works in this sammelband please see the virtual or PDF formats of the catalogue online or contact the auctioneers.Qty: (1)
[Wateson, George]. A Rich Storehouse, or Treasurie for the Diseased. Wherein are many approved medicines for divers and sundry diseases, which have beene long hidden, and not come to light before this time. First set forth for the benefit and comfort of the poorer sort of people, that are not of abilitie to go the Physicions. By G. W. And now seventhly augmented and inlarged by A. T. Practitioner in Physicke and Chirurgerie, London: Printed by Richard Badger, for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith, 1630 [colophon at rear dated 1631], [12 leaves], 317p, with colophon to first and final leaf, some light browning mainly to outer margins, contemporary ink inscriptions to verso of title 'To the Right Honourable Sir James Pemberton', [probably copied from the head of the dedication leaf adjacent], 18th-century bookplate of George Edwards, Librarian to the College of Physicians London, contemporary blind-paneled calf, some wear to outer corners, and upper cover detached, small 4to, together withSalmon (William). Pharmacopoeia Londinensis. Or, the New London Dispensatory..., 6th edition, corrected & amended, 1702, and Medicina Practica: or The Practical Physician: shewing the true method of curing the most usual diseases incident to humane bodies..., to which is added, the chymical works of Hermes Trismegistus, Kalid King of Persia, Geber King of Arabia, Artefius Longaevus the Jew, Roger Bacon, Nicholas Flammel's Hieroglyphiks, George Ripley's Marrow of Alchymie, and an account of their lives, London: Edmund Curll, 1707, some marks and second title with occasional ink annotations, first volume bound in contemporary calf, with 19th-century reback, second title bound in 19th-century calf, both somewhat worn with upper covers detached, 8voQty: (3)Footnote: Provenance: George Edwards (1694-1773), librarian to the College of Physicians London, naturalist and ornithologist, regarded as the father of British ornithology. Edwards was appointed Beadle to the College of Physicians London in 1733 (although he styled himself librarian of the College, as in the bookplate to this copy), a post he continued to hold until 1760. He was born in West Ham in 14694, and educated by local clergymen, and placed in business with a Mr Dod in Fenchurch street, where the library of Dr. Nicholas was kept, the contents of which became the young Edwards daily reading matter. Instead of going into business, he traveled widely on the continent and following which he made a living from sketches of animals. Taken up by James Theobald, F.R.S., he was introduced to Sir Hans Sloane. Between 1743 and 1751, he published A Natural History of Uncommon Birds in four volumes, with three subsequent volumes entitled Gleanings of Natural History issued between 1758-1764, the etchings for which were all made by the author. He was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1757.STC 23610; Welcome 6195; ESTC S107712.
[Pitcairn, Archibald, 1652-1713]. The Assemblie or Scotch Reformation. A Comedie. The Third Edition Corrected and Enlarged by the Authors, 1691 [but later, circa 1720], contemporary manuscript in a neat, fair hand, 80 unnumbered leaves, contemporary plain calf, remains of small paper label at head of spine, upper cover detached, small 4to (155 x 125 mm), together with a printed edition of the same work, Ednburgh; [no publisher or printer], 1766, xiii,[3],76,[2] pages, some spotting and dust soiling, old inscriptions to title, title neatly relined, long closed tear repairs to final three leaves without loss of text, lacks final (?)blank, 19th-century half morocco over marbled boards, hevily rubbed, 12moQty: (2)Footnote: This satirical play, attributed to Pitcairn, is significant as the only known full-length drama written in Scotland between the Reformation and the eighteenth century. A biting attack on religious hypocrisy it is believed to have been written in 1692, then first published in 1722. It was not until the third edition of 1817 that the author's name appeared on the title-page. The manuscript here is written in an early 18th century hand, perhaps contemporary with the first printing. The date indicates that perhaps it was written in 1691 and the claim of 'third edition' on the title-page may suggest the existence of multiple pre-publication manuscript editions being in circulation. There were two Edinburgh printings in 1766, the copy here being the same as ESTC T132646.
Ozanam (Jacques). Recreations Mathematiques et Physiques, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Paris: Jean Jombert, 1694, 84 engraved plates, 4 pp. advertisement leaves and annotations at end of volume II, occasional light spotting and toning, previous owner inscriptions to volume I title, later calf gilt, rebacked, spines with red and green labels and gilt decorations, 8voQty: (2)Footnote: First edition of Ozanam is popular science compendium covering card games, fireworks, conjuring, sundials, water clocks, rocketry and other subjects.
Alber (Erasmus). L'Alcoran des cordeliers. Tant en latin qu'en françois, 2 vols., new edition, Amsterdam: Aux depens de la Compagnie, 1734, engraved frontispiece to each, titles in red & black, 20 engraved plates (including one folding with repaired closed tear), armorial bookplate of Sir Richard Neave Bt. to upper pastedowns, contemporary calf, light cracking to joints, 12mo, together with:Burton (Richard), Historical Remarks on the Ancient and Present State of the Cities of London and Westminster..., new edition, Westminster: Machell Stace, 1810, woodcut frontispiece, title in red & black, woodcut illustrations, armorial bookplate to upper pastedown, hinges repaired, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving black morocco title label, 4to,Burton (Richard), Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in England, Scotland and Ireland..., new edition, Westminster: Machell Stace, 1811, woodcut frontispiece, title in red & black, woodcut portrait illustrations, armorial bookplate of Matthew Lewis and bookplate of Earl Cowper of Panshanger to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, black morocco labels to spine, joints slightly cracked, 4toQty: (4)Footnote: Cohen de Ricci 5. The first edition to include Picart's illustrations.
Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice: A Novel, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, printed for T. Egerton, 1813, half-titles present, title to first volume with early ink annotation 'By the late Miss Jane Austen' and with ink smudge, lower outer blank corner of E12 & H10 torn away (not affecting text), leaf H2 in volume 2 with repaired horizontal closed tear across middle of leaf (also with letterpress offsetting to leaf), short closed tear to P3 in volume 3 and penultimate leaf (P5) torn at foot with a little consequent loss to last two lines of text, toning, some browning and spotting throughout, occasional offsetting, edges untrimmed, modern boards with printed title label to spines of each, large 12mo (leaf size approx. 18.5 x 11 cm)Qty: (3)Footnote: Gilson A4; Keynes 4.
Cruikshank (George, illustrator). The Life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos, by Doctor Syntax [William Combe], 2nd edition, London, T. Tegg, 1817, hand-coloured aquatint title and 30 plates, some light offsetting from plates to text, some toning to text and occasional spotting, slight skinning to small area of upper pastedown, all edges gilt, 20th century red morocco by Bumpus Ltd. of Oxford, scuff to lower board, 8voQty: (1)Footnote: Tooley 152; cf. Abbey Life 356. This volume is a reissue of the first edition of 1815.
Shelley (Percy Bysshe). Hellas. A lyrical drama, 1st edition, London: Charles & James Ollier, 1822, xi, 60pp., half-title ("Printed by S. and R. Bentley ..." to verso) and with the final leaf "Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon.", edges untrimmed, original paper wrappers, printed label on upper wrapper, lightly dust-soiled and a little darkened to spine, cracked to upper joint and spine chipped at head & foot, slim 8voQty: (1)Footnote: Tinker 1903; Granniss pp.73-76; Wise Shelley p.66-67; Sterling 772.The first edition of the last work published in Shelley's lifetime. In April of 1822 Shelley wrote to his friend John Gisborne: "I have received Hellas, which is prettily printed and with fewer mistakes than any poem I ever published [sic]. Am I to thank you for the revision of the press?" Three months later, on 8 July 1822, he drowned in the Bay of Spezia.
Caxton (William). The Game of Chesse, edited with remarks by Vincent Figgins, facsimile edition, London:Vincent & James Figgins, [1855], facsimile leaves and illustrations, D.L. Cumming owner signature, chequerboard patterned endpapers, original calf, upper cover with blindstamped illustration (repeated from the second facsimile woodcut illustration), title in blind, and Caxton monogram to lower cover, joints and edges a little rubbed, 4to, together with The Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers. A facsimile reproduction of the first book printed in England by William Caxton, in 1477, edited by William Blades, London: Elliott Stock, 1877, facsimile leaves with initials in red, endpapers a little toned, D.L. Cumming owner signature, original blindstamped morocco, 4to, with 2 other facsimiles: The Statutes of Henry VII. In exact facsimile from the very rare original, printed by Caxton in 1489, edited by John Rae, London, 1869, and A Reprint in facsimile of a treatise:spekynge of the arte & crafte to knowe well to dye, translated oute of Frenche in to Englysshe by Willm Caxton, London, Edward Lumley, deceased, 1875 Qty: (4)
Tyndale (William). The Prophete Jonas, with an introduction before teachinge to understonde him and the right use also of all scripture... reproduced in facsimile. To which is added Coverdale's version of Jonah, with an introduction by Francis Fry, facsimile edition, London: Willis and Sotheran, 1863, facsimile leaves, 4 pp. advertisements at end, D.L. Cumming owner signature, contemporary morocco-backed boards, upper joint cracked, lacking spine tips, 8vo, together with Berners (Dame Juliana). A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle. Being a facsimile reproduction of the first book on the subject of fishing printed in England by Wynkyn de Worde at Westminster in 1496. With an introduction by Rev. M.G. Watkins, M.A., London: Elliot Stock, 1880, fascimile leaves and illustrations, some toning to endpapers, D.L. Cumming signature, original blindstamped vellum, small area of upper joint rubbed, a few light marks, 4to, plus The Boke of Saint Albans, by Dame Juliana Berners, containing treatises on hawking, hunting and cote armour: printed at Saint Albans by the schoolmaster-printer in 1486, reproduced in facsimile with an introduction by William Blades, London: Elliot Stock, 1881, facsimile leaves and illustrations, endpapers toned, original blindstamped vellum gilt, spine a little dust-soiled, 4to, with 3 other facsimiles including A New Biblia Pauperum... by John Wiclif, London, Unwin Brothers at the Gresham Press, 1877, limited edition 154/200, and The Kalender of Shepherdes, edited by H. Oskar Sommer, 3 volumes in 1, London, 1892, limited edition of 300 Qty: (6)
Chaucer (Geoffrey). Works, being a reproduction in facsimile of the first collected edition of 1532 from the copy in the British Museum, London: De La More Press/OUP, [1905], 793 pp. in facsimile, endpapers a little toned, D.L. Cumming owner signature, original buckram-backed boards, folio, limited edition 321/1000, together with Fac-simile of the Black-letter prayer-book containing manuscript alterations and additions made in the year 1661, London: Longman and Co., 1871, facsimile leaves, D.L. Cumming owner signature, original blindstamped blue cloth, spine faded to green, folio, plus Facsimiles from Early Printed Books in the British Museum, London: Longmans & Co., 1897, 32 facsimile leaves, loose as issued, contained in original cloth-backed printed boards, lacking ties, a few marks, folio, with other facsimiles and art etc including Grotesque Alphabet of 1464, reproduced in facsimile from the original woodcuts in the British Museum, 1899, and Reprints of the Times and other early English newspapers and historical documents, circa 1865 Qty: (20)
Hogg (James, 'the Ettrick Shepherd', 1770-1835). Scottish poet, novelist and essayist. Autograph Letter Signed, 'James Hogg', Altrive Lake, 1 March 1822, to the publisher Robert Cadell, concerning his financial affairs with the publisher and taking issue with certain aspects of the account and the money he owes, 'Of the long account transmitted to me I certainly object to the greater part, but as I am sure I will do it in a way satisfactory to you and all concerned I approve highly of your finding it the favour that a perfect understanding is brought about in all these old matters the better. I confess myself debtor for the following without any objections', then listing items including Gazetteer of Scotland, cash, paper, Tales of my Landlord, before continuing 'The rest needs some explanation. The magazines were both just sent to me as a contributor and always continued. The Scots Mag. I have from the first 20 years supported often indeed only to a small amount but still one year with another as much as I thought... ', continuing in a similar vein '... The £10 I remember well getting from Mr Hunter. He paid me it some way on account of the edition of the Mountain Bard. Mr Walter Scott was present and we had Mr Constable's letter in our hands and after looking at it Mr Scott said that he thought that some was due to me. Mr Hunter hesitated about it but gave me the money. However it strikes me that it turned out not to have been due to me and that I owe you that money... ', suggesting they meet face to face to resolve the matters, asking whether they might employ his nephew Robert Hogg 'who is to correct the edition of my poems', referring to an article enclosed [no longer present] that is not his but written by Mr William Clark, 'a teacher here who copies a good many things for me', referring to his own work, 'I am quite delighted that my poetry is again fallen into your hands. You need not be afraid: it will sell. But I believe you must put all the volumes to the press at once that I may know in time what each of them wants in bulk', signed at the foot of page 2 and with an added note at the head of page 3, also signed, saying 'I send you along with this the first series of the Advices to Reviewers [no longer present]. If published you must not tell anyone who is the writer except Mr Jeffery [editor of the Edinburgh Review] should he ask you may tell him frankly as I am not in the least afraid of his taking any offence. No man will ever suspect me on account of the numerous [?]topical quotations and allusions. I anticipate some excellent sport with it but I could not get on without addressing Mr Jeffery first as being the head of the set but I have taken care to make it all most complete and absolute nonsense that was ever written. I know many will puzzle themselves to find out what can be the meaning of some parts of it but I'll defy them for in that fact they have no meaning whatever', seal tear with blank paper loss, 4toQty: (1)Footnote: This letter is published in The Collected Letters of James Hogg, volume 2, 1820-1831, edited by Gillian Hughes (2006).A new and revised edition of The Mountain Bard appeared in 1821 and a 4-volume edition of Poetical Works was published in 1822, as well as his 3-volume novel The Three Perils of Man. However, these were not easy times financially for Hogg which were exasperated by a relative of his wife's mother absconding to America and saddling the family with his debts.
Darwin (Charles Robert, 1809-1882). Letter signed, 'Ch. Darwin', Down, Bromley, Kent, S.E., 15 July [1866], to [Charles] Kingsley, written in the hand of Darwin’s wife Emma, thanking Kingsley for telling him where his lectures are published as ‘living in the country I might not have heard of their publication’, and that based on an abstract he saw in a newspaper he expects the lectures to much interest him, the rest of the letter being on the subject of the migrating eye in flatfish, ‘I can form no opinion about the wonderful case of the migration of the eye in flat-fish; whether Steenstrup is right who seems to think that the eye itself moves by absorption on one side and growth on the other; or whether Thompson [sic] is right who thinks that the eye itself does not move, but thinks that the adjoining parts are developed in a wonderfully unequal manner on the two sides of the head. The power of development on either side seems to me one of the most curious points of the case. When I read the paper I speculated how the unequal development c[oul]d have originated, and imagined that a fish feeding on the ground with its body held laterally might be benefited by the eye on the lower side becoming deeper and deeper imbedded in the skull, and instead of becoming blind and useless, travelling to the upper side, but this is all baseless speculation’, light creasing and one short split at upper margins, old tape adhesion marks at head and foot of first page (with some see-through) not affecting text, boldly signed ‘Ch. Darwin’ at foot of final page, 4 pages, 8voQty: (1)Footnote:Provenance: By family descent from the estate of Lady Mary Colyer-Fergusson (1871-1964) of Ightham Mote, Kent; and gifted to her by Mary Harrison in 1930. Mary Harrison (1852-1931), novelist and daughter of Charles Kingsley. Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) novelist, Church of England clergyman, social reformer and science populariser.An important, unpublished letter concerning the evolutionary problem of the migration of the eye in flatfish. It was written in response to the Rev. Kingsley's letter (12 July 1866), referring to the article by Charles Wyville Thomson, 'Notes on Prof. Steenstrup's views on the obliquity of flounders', published in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History for May 1865, in which Thomson gave an abstract, with commentary, of a paper by Japetus Steenstrup on the migration of the eye of flounders.Kingsley's letter is published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14 and at The Darwin Correspondence Project (DCP-LETT-5154], where it is noted that it was acquired from [Kingsley’s daughter] Mary Harrison in 1930 (as the letter offered here). 'The DCP do not have knowledge of Darwin's reply yet. The DCP do not have any letters from Darwin on the migration of eyes in flatfish’.The two lectures delivered by Kingsley at the Royal institution that he draws Darwin’s attention to are ‘Superstition’ and ‘Science’, both published in Fraser’s Magazine, vol. 73, June 1866, pp. 705-16 & vol. 74, July 1866, pp. 15-28.Charles Darwin and Kingsley began to correspond soon after the publication of Origin of Species in 1859. Kingsley was a great science populariser and, arguably, as important as ‘Darwin’s bulldog’ Thomas Huxley in promoting Darwin's ideas, in spite of his own theistic beliefs. Indeed, Kingsley was one of 90 men to whom Darwin had asked his publisher John Murray to send an advance copy of his work. Kingsley was quick to respond and told Darwin that from his familiarity with the breeding of domestic animals he was quite prepared to embrace its thesis of transmutation. He added that he found it ‘just as noble a conception of Deity, to believe that he created primal forms capable of self development… as to believe that he required a fresh act of intervention to supply the lacunas wh[ich] he himself had made. I question whether the former be not the loftier thought’ (Kingsley, letter to Darwin, 18 November 1859; DCP-LETT-2534). Darwin went on to add an edited version of Kingsley's remarks to the second edition of his book published in 1860. For a longer description of this lot please see the virtual or PDF formats of the catalogue online or contact the auctioneers.
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