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Click here to subscribePOP-UP BOOKS. – [Voitech] KUBASTA. Tip + Top Look at Ships. London: Bancroft & Co. Ltd., 1964. First edition, 4to (258 x 258mm.) 6 colour pop-ups with movable scenes. Original cloth-backed pictorial covers (lightly rubbed). Note: all pop-ups and movable pieces in working order. – And a further seven pop-up books (including another copy of ‘Tip + Top Look at Ships’, [some defects], 1964, 4to, and ‘Table, Lay Yourself’, [some defects], 1960, 4to) (8).
ANTIQUE REFERENCE. – Gene HESSLER. The Engraver’s Line. Ohio: B.N.R. Press, 1993. First edition, signed by the author, 8vo (253 x 174mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original cloth, dust-jacket (small tear to upper panel). – And a further eight volumes, mostly related to paper money (including Gene Hessler’s ‘The International Engraver’s Line’, signed by the author, 2005, 8vo, and Rupert Cannon’s ‘The Bolt Court Connection’, signed by the author, 1985, 8vo). Provenance: Nigel Alan Dow, Master Banknote Engraver to Bradbury Wilkinson and the Bank of England (9).
PYROTECHNICS. – Robert JONES. A New Treatise on Artificial Fireworks. London: for the Author, sold by J. Millan, 1765. First edition, 8vo (201 x 124mm.) Title, errata leaf, 5 folding engraved plates. (Browning throughout, occasional spotting, lacking blanks, one plate laid-down, staining to b4.) Contemporary calf (lacking lower cover, upper cover detached and with tape repair, rubbed). Note: scarce. [xxvi, [2], 255].
RAMSAY, Andrew Michael. The Travels of Cyrus. To which is annex’d, A Discourse Upon the Theology and Mythology of the Ancients. London: T. Woodward, 1727. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (196 x 122mm.) Half-title, engraved initials and headpieces. (Occasional corner crease, lacking half-title to vol. 2.) Contemporary panelled calf, red morocco lettering pieces to the spines (extremities rubbed, upper joints splitting). Provenance: Charles Townshend, Lord Bayning, M.P. (bookplates to front pastedowns) (2).
HUNT, John. The Ascent of Everest. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. Limited edition, this being number 322 of 500 copies signed by the ten surviving members of the 1953 expedition to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the First Ascent on 29th May, 1953, 8vo (234 x 153mm.) Colour plates, maps, illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original blue half morocco, t.e.g., blue cloth slipcase. Note: signed in ink by John Hunt, Charles Evans, Griffith Pugh, George Band, Alfred Gregory, George Lowe, Michael Westmacott, Charles Wylie, Michael Ward and Edmund Hillary. Also contains an original invitation to the 40th Anniversary Lecture held on the 26th May, 1993.
TODD, Barbara Euphan. Worzel Gummidge. London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne, 1936. First edition, 8vo (184 x 116mm.) Illustrations by Elizabeth Alldridge. (Toning, offsetting to pp.108-109, some spotting to preliminaries.) Original red cloth (spine ends faded), dust-jacket (areas of loss to upper and lower panels, sticker on inner flap). Note: scarce. Barbara Todd first developed the idea of a talking scarecrow for the B.B.C. in 1935 as a part of ‘Children’s Hour’. She published the book in 1936 but decades later a television series- scripted by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall- made the character known to a new generation in the early 1980’s. The undying scarecrow was reprised again by the B.B.C. in 2019.
[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge.] ‘Lewis Carroll’. For the Train. London: Denis Archer, 1932. First edition, second impression, 8vo (186 x 119mm.) (Toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (light spotting to inner flaps and upper panel). – And a further twenty-four volumes relating to Lewis Carroll (including ‘Stand-Ups, Adventures of Alice in Wonderland’ designed by Sidney Sage, [all pieces intact], 1964, folio, and Clive Harcourt Carruthers’ ‘Alicia in Terra Mirabili’, 1964, 8vo, and some ephemera relating to performances of ‘Alice in Wonderland’) (25).
TITANIC. – Morgan ROBERTSON. Futility. New York: M.F. Mansfield, 1898. First edition, signed and inscribed by Morgan Robertson on a loosely-inserted leaf, 8vo (168 x 96mm.) Half-title. (Toning, marginal damp-stain to text-block.) Original grey pictorial cloth in red, black and silver (fading to spine, minor finger-marking). Note: rare. Morgan Robertson never claimed to have written a prophetic novel, but the similarities between his fictional ship, the S.S. Titan and the real life R.M.S. Titanic are extraordinary. Written in 1898, Robertson described a huge British-built unsinkable luxury liner that sets sail in the month of April for the North Atlantic where it hits an iceberg, drowning most of the people on board. And, as happened, fourteen years later, most of the passengers die because of a lack of lifeboats. After the real Titanic sunk on the 15th April 1912, Robertson’s novel was re-issued as ‘Futility: The Wreck of the Titan’. The number of uncanny similarities continues to fascinate. Robertson has inscribed the inserted leaf: ‘With thanks and acknowledgements, I am sincerely yours, Morgan Robertson’.
DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of the Species… (forty-first thousand). London: John Murray, 1891. Sixth edition, 8vo (189 x 121mm.) 1 folding plan, index, 1p. publisher’s advertisement. (Lacking front-free endpaper, marginal pencil mark to p.xv.) Original green blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering to spine (some spotting to covers). – And a further volume by Charles Darwin (‘A Naturalist’s Voyage. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Beagle’ Round the World’, 1890, 8vo) (2).
COLLINS, Wilkie. Blind Love. London: Chatto & Windus, 1890. 8vo (190 x 122mm.) 16 engraved plates by A. Forestier, 32pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Toning, spotting verso front-free endpaper and frontispiece.) Original green cloth, blocked in black, gilt to spine (inner hinge slightly weakened, lightly rubbed). Note: published the same year as the three volume first edition. – And a further eight volumes by Wilkie Collins (including ‘Jezebel’s Daughter’, 1887, 8vo, and ‘The Evil Genius’, 1887, 8vo, and ‘Poor Miss Finch’, 1875, 8vo, and ‘The Legacy of Cain’, 1889, 8vo, and ‘The Dead Secret’, 1889, 8vo, and ‘The Law and the Lady’, 1889, 8vo, and ‘The Two Destinies’, 1878, 8vo, and ‘The Queen of Hearts’, 1885, 8vo) (9).
TAROT. – Arthur Edward WAITE. The Key to the Tarot, Being Fragments of a Secret Tradition under the Veil of Divination. London: William Rider & Son Limited, 1910. Second issue, ‘Pam A’, 12mo (120 x 68mm.) (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth with gilt ouroboros to upper cover, accompanied with 78 pictorial tarot cards designed by Pamela Colman-Smith. (Mild toning, three cards with pencil annotation), original maroon card box (rubbing to extremities, old tape repair). Note: rare. Acknowledged to be the most beautiful and symbolically rich of tarot card decks, the Rider-Waite pack has become the standard among tarot readers today. Pamela Colman-Smith had made illustration work for the suffragettes and worked with Alfred Stieglitz in New York who recognised the synaesthetic quality of her imagination. After meeting W.B. Yeats in 1901 she joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and became friends with Arthur Edward Waite. In 1909 Waite commissioned her to create a tarot deck that would appeal to both the esoteric and artistic communities they inhabited. Colman-Smith’s designs are especially memorable for the Minor Arcana (the ‘Pip’ cards) because prior to her designs the ‘Pip’ cards had tended to be simplified. It was also due to Waite giving detailed instructions for the Major Arcana, but only simple lists for the ‘Pip’ cards. Having this freedom, Colman-Smith’s inspired designs enriched the entire tarot and set a precedent that is widely imitated today. Following the first issue of the pack in 1909, the ‘Pam A’ edition was issued from April 1910 until about 1920, and the ‘Pam A’ is established as the oldest of this second issue.
KENT. – Thomas PHILIPOTT. Villare Cantianum: or Kent Surveyed and Illustrated. Being an exact Description of all the Parishes, Burroughs, Villages, and other respective Mannors Included in the County of Kent. London: William Godbid, 1659. First edition, folio signed in 4s (288 x 179mm.) Engraved initial and engraved illustrations in the text, a long near contemporary ink inscription on the second blank relating to authorship of the book. (Lacking map, marginal tear to B3 and minor soiling to G2, browning and damp-staining throughout, occasional ink annotation and underlining, first and rear blanks replaced.) Contemporary speckled calf, later red morocco lettering piece to the spine (rebacked and tips repaired, endpapers replaced). Note: the ink inscription on the second blank is a quote from White Kennet, being pp.37-38 of his ‘Life of William Somner’ that was published in Somner’s ‘Treatise of the Roman Ports and Forts in Kent’, 1693, where he established that Thomas Philipott’s father, John, was the author of ‘Villare Cantianum’. Provenance: J. Marsh (ink name on second blank); ‘E.B.’ (ink initials on title).
TUER, Andrew W. The History of the Horn-Book. London: The Leadenhall Press, 1896. 2 vols., first edition, 4to (252 x 190mm.) 7 facsimile horn-books and battledores in wood or card laid into front pockets of each volume, half-titles, 2 engraved frontispieces with tissue-guards, titles with hand-coloured vignettes, numerous black and white illustrations, plates, including 2 folding, publisher’s slip loosely inserted. (Spotting to frontispieces and tissue-guards, toning, light spotting to front pastedowns.) Original vellum, brown morocco lettering pieces to spines, t.e.g. (minor scuffing and pitting to covers). Provenance: John Warren (bookplates to front pastedowns) (2).
BOYLE, Robert. A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things… [and]…Some Uncommon Observations About Vitiated Sight. London: H.C. for John Taylor, 1688. First edition, second issue, 8vo (171 x 107mm.) In 2 parts, second title-page for ‘Uncommon Observations’, errata leaf, 4pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Toning, illegible ink name to title, a single wormhole from title-page to H8 but from E5-G8 it enlarges, affecting one or two letters on each leaf.) Contemporary speckled calf (spine repair at ends, scuffed and surface loss to upper cover). Note: second issue with the author’s name rather than initials to title-page. The second part is one of the first treatises to use the empirical method. Boyle came to believe that by observation the empirical method was superior to the scholastic and his persuasive arguments influenced, among others, Isaac Newton. [Krivatsy 1726].
WELLS, H.G. Floor Games. London: Frank Palmer, 1911. First edition, 8vo (215 x 166mm.) Photographic plates, marginal drawings by J.R. Sinclair. (Spotting throughout.) Original blue cloth with mounted colour illustration to upper cover (lightly bumped spine ends). – And a further two volumes by H.G. Wells (‘Little Wars, A Game For Boys’, 1931, oblong 8vo, and ‘The Adventures of Tommy’, 1929, 4to) (3).
NESBIT, Edith. Wet Magic. London: T. Werner Laurie, Ltd., [1913.] First edition, 8vo (181 x 115mm.) Half-title, 14 plates, including 2 folding, 1p. publisher’s advertisement to rear. (1 plate detached, a tear to fold of one folding plate, crease to half-title, toning.) Original red pictorial cloth, t.e.g. (spine sunned, hinges weakened). – And a further nineteen volumes (including Edith Nesbit’s ‘The Magic City’, 1910, 8vo, and ‘The Wonderful Garden’, 1911, 8vo) (20).
HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel. The Origin and Progress of the Art of Writing. London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1853. First edition, 4to (257 x 168mm.) 28 plates, several chromolithographed. (Browning, preliminaries heavily browned, occasional damp-staining, 1 loose plate.) Original black calf spine, papier-mâché pierced covers designed by Humphreys, g.e. (loss to corners and to top edge of lower cover, light cracks to lower cover). Note: one of only three Victorian papier-mâché bindings to be reprinted.
DARWIN, Bernard. The Golf Courses of the British Isles. London: Duckworth & Co., 1910. First edition, 4to (228 x 170mm.) 45 colour plates after Harry Rountree, captioned tissue-guards. (Some browning and spotting, several leaves with pencil underlining.) Original green cloth (staining to lower cover).
MILITARY. – Charles Gédéon de SINCLAIRE (translator). Reglement Pour La Cavalerie Prussienne. Frankfurt: Knoch et Eslinger, 1762. First edition, 8vo (164 x 89mm.) 3 folding engraved charts to rear, errata leaf. (Toning, light browning.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (some loss to lettering piece, heavily rubbed extremities). – And a further three related volumes (including Jean Valdor’s ‘Les Triomphes de Louis le Juste XIII du Nom, Roi de France et de Navarre’, [with 22 engraved plates only], 1649, folio, and ‘Ordonnance du Roi, Pour Régler L’ Exercice de Ses Troupes D’ Infanterie du 1st Juin 1776’, 1776, folio, with ‘Planches Relatives À L’ Exercice de L’ Infanterie, Suivant l’ Ordonnance du Roi du 1st Juin 1776’, 1776 [disbound, 17 engraved plates], folio) (4).
LANG, Andrew (editor). The Orange Fairy Book. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906. First edition, 8vo (182 x 119mm.) 8 colour plates. (Toning, occasional finger-mark and corner crease.) Original orange cloth, pictorial gilt, g.e. (gilt to covers and spine faded). – And a further two volumes edited by Andrew Lang (including a first edition of ‘The Pink Fairy Book’, 1897, 8vo) (3).
ASTROLOGY. – Marie-Anne Adelaide Le NORMAND. La Sibylle au Congrès D’Aix-la-Chapelle suivi d’un Coup-d’ Oeil sur Celui de Carlsbad. Paris: L’ Auteur, 1819. First edition, 8vo (198 x 117mm.) Half-title, engraved frontispiece, 6 engraved folding plates. (Toning, four of the plates with marginal creasing and chipping.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (extremities rubbed, minor loss at base of spine). Note: Le Normand was an astrologer, bookseller and tarot practitioner and the spiritual advisor to numerous powerful people in revolutionary France, including Marat, Robespierre, Empress Josephine as well as Tsar Alexander I. Provenance: Erika Cheetham (ink name verso front blank).
DAHL, Roald. James and the Giant Peach. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1967. First U.K. edition, 4to (239 x 161mm.) Illustrations by Michel Simeon. (Mild toning, faint crease to front-free endpaper and with ink number crossed out.) Original pictorial laminated boards (spine ends rubbed and bumped, laminate peeling). Provenance: James Phillips (ink name inscribed to front-free endpaper).
ICE-SKATING. – George A. MEAGHER. Figure and Fancy Skating. London: Bliss, Sands, and Foster, 1895. First edition, 8vo (183 x 118mm.) Photographic frontispiece with tissue-guards, numerous illustrations, 16pp. publisher’s advertisements. (Toning.) Original green cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover, g.e. (paper label to spine, lightly rubbed extremities). Note: scarce. Provenance: Royal Artillery Institution, Woolwich (bookplate to front pastedown). – And a further ten volumes related to ice-skating (including H.E. Vandervell and T. Maxwell Witham’s ‘A System of Figure-Skating’, 1869, 8vo, and Montagu and Stanley F. Monier-Williams’ ‘Combined Figure Skating’, 1883, 8vo, and Edgar Syer’s ‘Figure Skating’, [circa 1900], 8vo, and H.C. Lowther’s ‘Principle of Skating Turns’, 1900, 12mo, and ‘Combined Hand-in-Hand Figure Skating’, 1904, 8vo) (11).
POETRY. – Dylan THOMAS. Collected Poems 1934-1952. London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1952. First edition, first impression, 8vo (214 x 133mm.) (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth (lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jacket (extremities chipped). – And a further thirty-nine volumes of poetry (including Ezra Pound’s ‘Homage to Sextus Propertius’, 1934, 8vo, and Philip Larkin’s ‘The North Ship’, 1964, 8vo, and Hugh MacDiarmid’s ‘Poems and a Pibroch on His 80th Birthday by Alistair Keith Campsie’, 1972, folio) (40).
PRATCHETT, Terry. Equal Rites. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1987. First edition, 8vo (215 x 133mm.) (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, dust-jacket (price-clipped). – And a further thirteen literary volumes, all first editions (including Colin Dexter’s ‘The Dead of Jericho’, 1981, 8vo, and Stephen King’s ‘Pet Sematary’, 1983, 8vo, and also King’s ‘Skeleton Crew’, 1985, 8vo) (14).
KALIDSASA. Sakoontala; or, The Lost Ring, an Indian Drama Translated into English Prose and … by Monier Williams. Hertford: Stephen Austin, 1855. First English edition, 4to (215 x 167mm.) 16 chromolithographed plates and borders. (Spotting to title and light spotting throughout.) Bound by Root & Son in brown full morocco, gilt fillet borders, g.e. (lacking lettering piece). Provenance: Innes Hopkins (bookplate to front pastedown).
[MAHONY, Francis.] ‘Don Jeremy Savonarola’. Facts & Figures From Italy… Addressed During the Last Two Winters to Charles Dickens, Esq. Being an Appendix to His ‘Pictures’. London: Richard Bentley, 1847. First edition, with a hand-written note by the publisher ‘Richard Bentley’ mounted to the front-free endpaper, 8vo (198 x 117mm.) 4pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Toning, occasional finger-mark.) Original cloth (browned and dust-soiled, staining to lower cover, extremities bumped). Note: in the note dated November 1897 the publisher writes that ‘Facts & Figures From Italy’ was published in July 1847 and is long out of print. The author was better known as ‘Father Prout’ (Rev. F.S. Mahony). The basis of the work consisted of letters originally contributed to the Daily News. The one-page introductory notice by Charles Dickens intimated that the letters were written at his request. It was dated from Broadstairs, Yours Faithfully, Richard Bentley’. – And a further forty-one volumes related to Charles Dickens (42).
[STACK, Mary Bagot.] – A.J. CRUIKSHANK and Prunella STACK. Movement is Life. London: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., 1937. First edition, 8vo (186 x 117mm.) 8 photographic plates. (Spotting to preliminaries.) Original black cloth (lettering faded, spine ends bumped), dust-jacket (loss to extremities, old tape repairs). – And a further eleven volumes related to Mary Bagot and Prunella Stack and the ‘Women’s League of Health and Beauty’ (including Bagot Stack’s ‘Building the Body Beautiful’, first edition, 1931, 8vo, and two copies of Prunella Stack’s ‘The Way to Health and Beauty’, 1938, 4to) (12).
SUSSEX. – William HAYLEY. The Triumphs of Temper, a Poem: In Six Cantos. Chichester: by William Mason for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1817. New edition, small 8vo (159 x 90mm.) Copper-engraved frontispiece in colours by T.B. Brown after George Romney. (Toning, offsetting to title, lacking rear blank?) Near contemporary brown full diced morocco (rebacked, paper label to spine, endpapers replaced). Note: Hayley’s influential poem that was reprinted many times after the first edition of 1781. Provenance: Sussex County Council (stamps verso the title). – And a further ten volumes of poetry, mostly Sussex related (including Charles Croker’s ‘The Vale Of Obscurity’, 1830, 4to, and Thomas Bradford’s ‘Poetical Pieces… to which are Added A Sonnet on His Death, and Epitaph, written by William Hayley, Esq.’, 1808, 4to, and Charlotte Smith’s ‘Elegiac Sonnets’, fifth edition, 1789, 8vo, and ‘Song Favours’ by C.W. Dalmon, limited edition, being one of 450 copies, 1895, 8vo, and Stuart Guthrie’s ‘The Death and Burial of Cock Robin, an Elegy’, 1932, 8vo) (11).
HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel and John Obadiah WESTWOOD. British Moths and Their Transformations. London: William Smith, 1843-1845. 2 vols., first edition, 4to (268 x 207mm.) Titles, 124 hand-coloured lithographed plates, tissue-guards. (Lacking half-titles, scattered spotting, mostly marginal, some dust-soiling.) Contemporary brown full morocco, gilt decoration to covers, g.e. (extremities rubbed, dust-soiled). – And a further volume by H.N. Humphreys and J.O. Westwood (‘British Butterflies and Their Transformations’, [42 plates], 1841, 4to). Provenance: by descent from the estate of Frederic Thesiger, Lieutenant General, Viceroy and Governor-General of India 1916-21 (3).
THOMPSON, Edward. The Making of the English Working Class. London: Victor Gollancz, 1963. First edition, 8vo (215 x 133mm.) (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth (extremities sunned), dust-jacket (chipping and minor loss to spine ends). Note: the most influential work by Thompson and one that changed British historiography. It is still a staple of university reading lists.
KITTON, Frederic G. Charles Dickens By Pen and Pencil, Including Anecdotes and Reminiscences Collected From His Friends & Contemporaries. London: Frank T. Sabin and John F. Dexter, 1889-1890. 13 vols. [12 Parts and 3 Supplements in 1], first edition, folio (394 x 291mm.) Numerous engraved plates, portraits, facsimiles and illustrations in the text. (Mild toning.) Original printed wrappers (toning, occasional chipping to margins, repair verso wrapper to the ‘Supplement’) (13).
UTTLEY, Alison. Moonshine and Magic. London: Faber and Faber, 1932. First edition, 8vo (224 x 150mm.) Colour and black and white illustrations by William Townsend. (Faint spotting to preliminaries.) Original pictorial cloth, dust-jacket (chipping to top of spine, tear to spine panel, slight dust-soiling).
DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1967. First U.K. edition, 4to (238 x 163mm.) Illustrations by Faith Jacques. (Mild toning, minor later hand-colouring to one illustration.) Original pictorial laminated boards (wear and slight loss to spine ends, laminate loss at top of spine). Provenance: Gillian Phillips (ink name inscribed to front-free endpaper).
BINDING. – Henry Noel HUMPHREYS. Sentiments and Similes of William Shakespeare. London: Longman, Brown, Green et al., 1857. Second edition, 8vo (193 x 146mm.) Chromolithographed first page, initials in black and gold, ruling in gold. (Text-block cracking at ‘Contents’ leaf, spotting to preliminaries and rear blank.) Original cloth-backed black papier-mâché binding with oval relief portrait of Shakespeare to centre and author’s initials to lower cover, g.e. (corner losses to upper cover of binding, two cracks to lower cover, extremities rubbed). – And a further ten illustrated volumes (including ‘The Prism of Imagination’ by The Baroness de Calabrella and with illustrations heightened by Owen Jones, [lacking several leaves], 1844, 8vo, and G. Baxter’s ‘The Pictorial Album; or, Cabinet of Paintings’, [1837], [with 8 of 11 plates], 4to, and ‘Passages From Modern English Poets. Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club’ [disbound, lacking 4 leaves], [1865], 4to) (11).
TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1968. 3 vols., mixed editions, 8vo (221 x 139mm.) 3 folding maps. (Toning.) Original red cloth (slight damp-spotting to lower covers of ‘The Two Towers’ and ‘The Return of the King’), dust-jackets (‘The Fellowship..’ is dust-soiled, small tears and chipped, a 2.5 inch tear to spine panel, ‘The Two Towers’ is toned to lower panel, surface wear to top of lower panel of ‘The Return…’). Note: ‘The Fellowship…’ is the first edition, twelve impression of 1962, ‘The Two Towers’ is the second edition, first impression of 1966, ‘The Return…’ is the second edition, third impression of 1968 (3).
WHITMAN, Walt. Complete Prose Works. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1898. First edition, 8vo (205 x 129mm.) 6 plates. (Toning, occasional spotting.) Original green cloth, spine gilt, t.e.g. (spine ends bumped). – And a further thirteen volumes related to Whitman (including ‘In Re Walt Whitman: Edited by His Literary Executors’, [limited edition, being one of 1000 copies], 1893, 8vo, and Horace Traubel’s ‘With Walt Whitman in Camden’, 1906, 8vo, and Edward Carpenter’s ‘Days With Walt Whitman’, 1906, 8vo) (14).
TURNER, Sharon. The History of the Anglo-Saxons, from Their First Appearance Above the Elbe, to the Death of Egbert. London: for T. Cadell, Jun., 1799-1805. 4 vols., first edition, 8vo (210 x 126mm.) 1 large folding hand-coloured engraved map, half-titles to vols. 2 and 3. (Offsetting of map to first text leaf, toning, marginal loss and crease to front blank of vol. 3.) Contemporary tree calf, green and black morocco lettering pieces to the spines (upper joint splitting to vol.1, extremities rubbed). Provenance: James Kinsopp (ink name to titles and bookplates to front pastedowns) (4).
RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). – Jacob Ludwig and Wilhelm Carl GRIMM. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm… translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas. London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1909. First edition, 4to (247 x 184mm.) 40 tipped-in colour plates, black and white illustrations all by Rackham, captioned tissue-guards. (Some corner creasing to the plates, browning, marginal spotting, severe insect-damage to one tissue-guard and creasing to others, dust-soiling.) Original red cloth (tear to spine panel, worn). – And a further eight miscellaneous volumes (including Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s ‘Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales’, 1917, 4to) (9).
JAZZ. – Hugues PANASSIÉ. Louis Armstrong. Paris: Éditions du Belvédère, 1947. First edition, signed in green ink by Louis Armstrong and by the author, 8vo (218 x 154mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original card wrappers, glassine dust-jacket (browned). Note: Hugues Panassié was a French critic, writer and producer and the founding president of the ‘Hot Club de France’. Throughout his life he promoted ‘Dixieland’ jazz rooted in the swing and blues tradition of African-American music. – And a small quantity of jazz magazines (including ‘Bulletin du Hot Club de France’, 4 issues [No. 1,2,76,91], Oct-1950-Oct-1959, 8vo) (small quantity).
GUILDFORD. – [Charles Austen JACQUES.] Sylvae; Or, a Collection of Poems on Several Occasions by a Young Gentleman of Chichester. Guildford: for the Author, 1776. First edition, small 4to (197 x 122mm.) Title, 2pp. ‘Preface’, 8pp. ‘List of Subscribers’. (Light browning.) Later green morocco-backed cloth (paper label to spine). Note: usually attributed to Charles Austen Jacques, but also previously attributed to a T. Farley, Thomas Bradford (author of a collection of poems ‘Poetical Pieces’ published posthumously in 1808) and Henry W. Batty. However, in the ‘List of Subscribers’ a ‘C. Jacques, Bookseller’ has ordered four copies of this book and it’s possible that he was the proud father of the author, his son, Charles Austen Jacques. Provenance: West Sussex County Council (bookplates to pastedowns).
WELLS, H.G. The Outline of History. Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind. London: George Newnes Limited, [1919-1920.] 24 Original Parts, first edition, 4to (276 x 212mm.) Numerous illustrations, index. (Toning, some browning.) Original wrappers (corner loss to part 2, some rubbing to corners, fading). – And a related set by H.G. Wells and Julian Huxley and G.P. Wells (‘The Science of Life’, 31 original parts, [1929-1930], 4to) (55).
MOVABLE BOOK. – Lothar MEGGENDORFER. Lutiges Automaten Theater. Stuttgart: J.F. Schreiber, [circa 1890.] First German edition, folio (349 x 257mm.) 8 chromolithograph plates with movable parts operated by card tabs, ‘Preface’, text leaves opposite plates, 1p. publisher’s advertisements verso last plate. (Browning, some spotting to text leaves, first and last plate loosening, one tab replaced.) Original red cloth-backed pictorial boards (browned, spine ends rubbed). Note: all parts in original working order but for the mandolin player’s right hand. Lothar Meggendorfer is considered the most accomplished creator of movable books of the late 19th and early 20th century.
A PAIR OF FRENCH OFFICER’S PISTOLS BY BOUTET, VERSAILLES, PARIS MARKS FOR 1798-1809, ‡ THE ESCUTCHEONS INSCRIBED "PRESENTED BY THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON TO CAPTAIN MARSHALL RL MS ON BOARD H.M.S. BELLEROPHON, 6TH AUGUST 1815"with browned octagonal swamped sighted polygroove rifled barrels, inscribed ‘Manufre. Impele a Versailles’ and numbered ‘189’, struck with gold-lined barrelsmith’s marks of Jean Nicolas Leclerc, further gold-lined marks (Neue Støckel 95, 97, 3741), ‘Boutet’ and a band of gold foliage at the breech (the gold with losses), case-hardened breeches incorporating the back-sights, flat bevelled locks signed ‘Boutet a Versailles’ fitted with ‘French’ cocks and semi-rainproof pans, figured walnut full stocks, chequered butts (small cracks and repairs), blued steel mounts of shaped outline comprising two-piece ‘batwing’ side-plates, trigger-guards with symmetrical finials, and moulded ramrod-pipes, the butts each fitted with finely cast and chased silver medusa-mask pommels struck with Paris silver marks and a further mark, in a lozenge NB a pistol between, silver escutcheons with presentation inscriptions, each with associated copper-alloy-tipped wooden ramrod with iron worm, perhaps the original, and some early colour throughout, 21.5 cm (2) The inscription reads: ‘Presented by the Emperor Napoleon to Captain Marshall Rl Ms on board H.M.S. Bellerophon, 6th August 1815’ George Marshall, Captain of Marines, is listed among the Officers borne on the Books of H.M.S. Bellerophon in July 1815. Six weeks after his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon faced an uncertain future. After his abdication, he was unwelcome in France, with his capture sought by Prussian and Austrian forces. On 10 July 1815, HMS Bellerophon was guarding the French port of Rochefort when a French vessel bearing a flag of truce approached. On board were General Anne Jean Marie Rene Savary and the Comte de Las (Count of) Cases, with the first announcement of Napoleon’s consideration to surrender to the British. At 07:00 on 14th July a vessel approached the Bellerophon. The Comte de Las Cases was again on board, this time accompanied by General L’Allarand. They had a letter from Napoleon, wishing to discuss the terms of General Bonaparte’s surrender. After leaving Bellerophon, Comte de Las Cases returned at 19:00 the same day with a letter from Napoleon’s General, Count Bertrand revealing that Napoleon was currently on Isle D’Aix and fully prepared to surrender. Napoleon’s arrival on the Bellerophon is recorded in the log for the ship dated 15 July 1815. While in custody Napoleon and his entourage were treated like guests, with the former emperor given access to the Great cabin of the ship. Napoleon wanted to travel to North America, where he hoped to gain asylum; upon refusal of this by the British, he hoped to be allowed to live out his life in England which was also refused. He was held aboard the moored Bellerophon at Plymouth and not allowed to set foot on British soil, much to his annoyance. Over the following weeks, the British government considered the fate of the ship’s famous prisoner. Eventually a decision was made to designate Napoleon and his entourage as ‘Prisoners of War’, with the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic chosen as their place of exile. Before leaving the Bellerophon, Napoleon had not been granted his desired audience with the Prince Regent. He revealed to Captain Maitland that part of his wish to meet the Prince was in the hope that he could recommend Maitland for promotion to Rear Admiral, as an appreciation of the hospitality that the Captain had shown him (Maitland would eventually rise to the position of Rear Admiral by the time of his death in 1839). Napoleon told Maitland that he considered him ‘a man of honour’. Captain Maitland published a detailed accounts of his time spent with Napoleon: ‘About ten A.M. the barge was manned, and a captain's guard turned out. When Buonaparte came on deck, he looked at the marines, who were generally fine-looking young men, with much satisfaction; went through their ranks, inspected their arms, and admired their appearance, saying to Bertrand, "How much might be done with a hundred thousand such soldiers as these." He asked which had been longest in the corps; went up and spoke to him. His questions were put in French, which I interpreted, as well as the man's answers. He enquired how many years he had served; on being told upwards of ten, he turned to me and said, "Is it not customary in your service, to give a man who has been in it so long some mark of distinction?" He was informed that the person in question had been a sergeant, but was reduced to the ranks for some misconduct. He then put the guard through part of their exercise, whilst I interpreted to the Captain of Marines, who did not understand French, the manœuvres he wished to have performed. He made some remarks upon the difference of the charge with the bayonet between our troops and the French; and found fault with our method of fixing the bayonet to the musquet, as being more easy to twist off, if seized by an enemy when in the act of charging.’ Extract from: Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland, K.C.B, The Surrender of Napoleon being the narrative of the surrender of Buonaparte, and of his residence on board H.M.S. Bellerophon, with a detail of the principal events that occurred in that ship between the 24th of May and the 8th of August 1815 by, a new edition edited, with a memoir of the author, by William Kirk Dickson, 1904. ‘Towards evening Lord Keith came on board of us, and had a long personal interview with Napoleon in the cabin, which we may judge was not of the pleasantest nature. From some intemperate threat of Savary, I believe, who had declared that he would not allow his master to leave the Bellerophon alive, to go into such wretched captivity, it was judged proper to deprive the refugees of their arms. A good many swords, and several brace of pistols, marked with a large silver N. at the butt end, were brought down to the gun-room, where they remained for some hours. Three of the swords belonged to Napoleon, and two of them were pointed out to us as those he wore at Marengo and Austerlitz. I never in my life felt such a strong inclination to lay my hands on what was not my own. A sword I durst not think of, but could I have got a brace of pistols, or even one solitary pistol, belonging to Napoleon, I would have thought myself the happiest man alive; but it would not do, detection was certain, and with bitter vexation I saw them carried out of the gun-room. ‘ [Extracts from Memoirs of an Aristocrat, and Reminiscences of the Emperor Napoleon, by a Midshipman of the Bellerophon [George Home]. London, Whittaker & Co., and Bell & Bradfute, Edinburgh, 1838.
Very Rare interesting folio of the completet first series of prints "Sketches made at Anzac" by Sapper H. Moore Jones New Zealand engineers attached to Army Corps Headquarters as Artist during the historic occupation of that portion of the Gallipoli penisular by the Imperial Forces to include 10 prints and various booklets and catalogues etc to also include further First World War trench map of the Western Front, France sheet 51B S.W. Edition Eight, belonging to John McEachern 27th Division dated September 1918
Ten limited edition first day coin covers comprising RMS Titanic with George V penny, limited edition 96/250, a The photographic Art of Dorothy Wilding, with 1956 half crown, limited edition no. 437/4000, and another with Isle of Man 1999 Crown, limited edition no. 247/4000, Occasions 2003, with 1996Isle of Man Crown, limited edition no. 39/4000, Armistice Day with 1999 Isle of Man Crown, limited edition no. 82/250, Royal Horticultural Society, Bronte Sisters Stephenson's Rocket, The Coronation o0f HM Queen Elizabeth II, and the 50th Anniversary of WWI, together with an encapsulated 2022 half crown (11).
Four first day coin covers comprising 2003 Mount Everest 50th Anniversary with medal, limited edition no.0083, a 1999 Berlin Airlift Philatelic Medallic Cover, no. 19973, Celebrating Wales with 2006 Republic of Sierra Leone Crown, limited edition no. 1049/4000, with certificate of authenticity, and The Conquest of the Skies 250th Anniversary of the Royal Society of Arts, with WWII Dambusters' commemorative coin $1 Republic of Liberia, limited edition no. 206/4000, with certificate of authenticity (4).Condition Report: The signature is printed on the Conquest of Everest, no signatures on the others
A group of models of ladies, comprising a set of six Compton and Woodhouse Royal Worcester Debutantes figures, limited editions of 15,000, comprising Lady Sophie, Lady Sarah, Lady Louisa, Lady Henrietta, Lady Cicely and Lady Caroline, further Royal Worcester models of 'Queen of Hearts', limited edition of 12,500; Anniversary Figurine of the Year 2000 and 'Moments - Happy Anniversary'; Royal Doulton models comprising 'Gemstones Collection' April, Kerry HN3036, Buttercup HN3908, Almost Grown HN3435, Andrea HN3058, Forget-Me-Not HN3388; Coalport models comprising a set of six 'Victorian Ballgown Collection' figures; Lady Eleanor, Lady Henrietta, Lady Emily, Lady Rebecca, Lady Hannah and Lady Charlotte; with Valerie from the Ladies of Fashion, First Love and Jean, both from the Age of Romance, The Garden Party, Debutante of the Year 1997 Poppy Ball, Silhouettes 'Carole' and one other SBL model, sold complete with certificates where appropriate (group) (28 figures)Condition:Coalport 'Valerie' is a factory secondCondition is otherwise good with no damages or repairs noted.
W.B. Yeats - The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats, published 1933. First UK Edition, First Printing. Original maroon boards, title in gilt to the spine. J.B. Yeats. Letters to his son W.B. Yeats and others, published 1944.The Lonely Tower, studies in the poetry of W.B. Yeats by T.R. Henn Published 1950. (3)
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