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Lot 106

NO RESERVE Peck (Francis) Desiderata Curiosa: or, a Collection of Divers Scarce and Curious Pieces..., 2 vol. in 1, first edition, engraved portrait, titles in red and black with engraved vignettes, lists of subscribers, engraved head-pieces, initials and 9 plates, with mezzotint portrait of the author by Faber after Highmore trimmed and mounted as frontispiece to vol.2, small stain to first portrait, occasional soiling, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked with gilt spine, corners repaired, folio, 1732-35.

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Lot 107

Pope (Alexander) Of the use of riches, an epistle to the Right Honorable Allen Lord Bathurst, first edition, with 'yon' in line 13, p. 13, erratum at the foot of p. 20, spotted and stained, stitched into contemporary Dutch floral wrappers, rebacked, chipped and torn, [Foxon 923], folio, printed by J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver at Homer's Head against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1732 [1733].

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Lot 121

Shelley (Percy Bysshe) The Revolt of Islam; A Poem, in Twelve Cantos, first edition, second issue, with the errata leaf (b2) bound at end of volume and dedication page 'To Mary ---- ---', for C. and J. Ollier, 1818; Queen Mab, with dedication leaf 'To Harriet ⁂**' bound at end and W Clark's imprint to p.182, without publisher's advertisements, by W. Clark, 1821, together 2 works in 1, contemporary ink signature of 'Richard Dry' to front free endpaper, some spotting and foxing, contemporary calf, worn, part of layer to upper cover torn away, lower cover detached, 8vo.⁂ Two scarce editions of Shelley's poetry collections, both bound with the rare dedication pages to his second and first wife respectively. Signature of 'Richard Dry' may be attributed to Percy's tailor - manuscript correspondence from William and Richard Dry displays some of his financial problems he was experiencing in 1813: 'We are much disappointed at your not having settled the above account with us before this time as it has now been so long standing...' (Shelley and His Circle 1773-1822, Oxford University Press, 1961)

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Lot 123

De Quincy (Thomas) Klosterheim: or, The Masque, first edition, half-title, bookplate to pastedown, faint ink stamp to endpaper, original cloth-backed boards, paper label to spine, rebacked, retaining original backstrip, spine a little chipped and browned, rubbed, 8vo, 1832.

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Lot 128

Stowe (Harriet Beecher) Uncle Tom's Cabin, ?first English edition, wood-engraved portrait frontispiece, vignette title, plates and illustrations by George Cruikshank, some spotting and brownig, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, John Cassell, 1852 § Dickens (Charles) Dombey and Son, first edition in book form, etched additional title and plates by H.K.Browne ("Phiz"), 2-line errata leaf, additional title with ink signature to head, plates heavily foxed, some with pencil caption at foot, short tear to fore-edge of list of plates (repaired), modern morocco, Bradbury & Evans, 1848; and 5 others, 8vo (7)

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Lot 130

Trollope (Anthony) The Warden, first edition, later issue, original cloth, rebacked, retaining original backstrip, corners repaired, light soiling, new yellow glazed endpapers, [Sadleir p. 18], 8vo, 1855 [but 1858].⁂ Made up from the sheets of the first edition, cut down and reissued in the spring of 1858 in pink cloth.

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Lot 136

Occult.- Mathers (S.L. MacGregor) Kabbala Denudata. The Kabbalah Unveiled, first edition, plates, some folding, original cloth, some light rubbing to extremities but sharp and excellent overall, 8vo, 1887.⁂ Rare early work by the British occultist. Mathers is primarily remembered as one of the founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

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Lot 137

Channel Tunnel.- Hozier (H.M.) The Channel Tunnel, first edition, 12pp., last leaf loose, 1888 § The Channel Tunnel. Report of Meeting Held at St. James's Hall, Piccadilly, 15pp., 1888, slightly browned, disbound, 8vo (2).

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Lot 140

NO RESERVE Economics.- Cassel (Gustav) The Nature and Necessity of Interest, first edition, half-title, 2 plates, advertisement leaf at end, slight insect damage to tip of upper outer corner of first few leaves, lacking front free endpapers, original cloth, rubbed, spine worn at head, 8vo, 1903.

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Lot 150

Hodgson (William Hope) The Boats of the "Glen-Carrig", first cheap edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine ends and corners chipped, some creasing and fraying to foot of panels, 1920; and another by the same, 8vo (2)⁂ Hodgson's classic survival horror novel of the sea, rare in the macabre jacket.

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Lot 151

Larkin (Philip) The Whitsun Weddings, first edition, jacket spine with light browning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1964; High Windows, first edition, ink inscription to pastedown, jacket a little creased and frayed at head, 1974, original cloth, dust-jackets; and c.60 others, Larkin, including a flier for a history of The Brynmor Jones Library signed by Larkin, v.s. (c.65)

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Lot 152

O'Brian (Patrick) Post Captain, first edition, original boards, spine faded, dust-jacket, vertical crease to spine and upper panel, light fading to spine, light rubbing to tips of spine and corners, 8vo, 1972.

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Lot 153

Pictorial cloth.- Creux (Léon) Le Voyage de l'Isabella au Centre de la Terre, first edition, illustrations by Paul Coze, original handsome pictorial cloth after a design by Coze, very light fading to spine but a bright, near-fine example overall, 4to, Paris, 1922.⁂ A superb example of this charming science fiction work in its striking original cloth binding.

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Lot 156

Yeats (William Butler) Four Plays for Dancers, first edition, frontispiece, illustrations, musical notation, ink inscription to endpaper, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, corners bumped, extremities rubbed, 1921 § Murdoch (Iris) Under the Net, first edition, original boards, slight shelf-lean, dust-jacket, spine faded with loss to head and foot, corners chipping, creasing and fraying to head and foot, 1954; and 2 others, similar, 8vo (4)

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Lot 161

Big Game.- Beard (Peter) The End of the Game, 50th Anniversary Edition, original cloth, slip-case with mounted illustrations, sealed in publisher's wrapping, Cologne, 2015 § Biscotti (M.L.) A Bibliography of American Sporting Books 1926-1985, Far Hills, NJ, 1997 § Czech (K.P.) An Annotated Bibliography of Asian Big Game Hunting Books, 1780-1980, one of 750 copies signed by the author, St.Cloud, Mn., 2003; An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785-1999, Agoura, Ca., 2011, illustrations, original cloth or boards, the first two with slip-cases, the last two dust-jackets, 4to & 8vo (4)

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Lot 162

Big Game.- Peacock (E.H.) A Game-Book for Burma & Adjoining Territories, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, a little soiled, slightly frayed at upper edge and foot of spine, 1933 § Patterson (Lt.-Col. J.H.) In the Grip of the Nyika: Further Adventures in British East Africa, original pictorial blue cloth, gilt, a little rubbed and stained, 1909 § Wolhuter (Harry) Memories of a Game-Ranger, illustrations by C.T.Astley-Maberly, some foxing, later half morocco, [?Johannesburg], [c.1948], first editions, maps, plates and illustrations; and 7 others, big game and travel, mostly French, 8vo & 4to (10)

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Lot 171

Orchards.- Bucknall (Thomas Skip Dyot) The Orchardist: or, a system of close pruning and medication, for establishing the science of orcharding, as patronized by The Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, first separate edition, errata f. at end, B3 small hole to inner margin, with loss of 2 letters recto and just touching 2 letters verso, with no loss of sense, some spotting, lightly browned, contemporary mottled, calf, spine gilt and with black morocco label, rubbed, [Henrey 534], 8vo, for G. Nicol, 1797.

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Lot 172

Redi (Francesco) Experimenta circa res diversas naturales, speciatim illas, quae ex Indiis adferuntur, 3 parts in 1, first Latin edition, [Krivatsy 9447], Amsterdam, Andreas Frisius, 1675-1674 bound with (as often) Lachmund (Friedrich) De ave diomedae, dissertatio, first edition, [Krivatsy 6540], Amsterdam, Andreas Frisius, 1674, together engraved additional pictorial title to first work and 17 plates, of which 14 folding, offsetting, some spotting, lightly browned, contemporary calf, gilt spine in compartments, spine ends chipped, corners worn, rubbed, 12mo⁂ Includes the first methodical work on snake venoms, as well as information on tobacco, vanilla, pepper, armadillos, iguanas and even mermaids, amongst other topics. The second work is a monograph on the albatross.

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Lot 176

NO RESERVE Chemistry.- Shaw (Peter) Leçons de Chymie: Propres à Perfectionner La Physique, Le Commerce et Les Arts, first edition in French, half-title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, ink stamps to title, last 2 ff. of preface misbound, occasional spotting, some light browning, contemporary mottled calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, corners worn, rubbed, 4to, Paris, Jean Thomas Herissant, 1759.⁂ Rare. Shaw was physician to Kings George II & III.

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Lot 177

Chemistry.- Watson (Richard) A Plan of a Course of Chemical Lectures, first and only edition, advertisement f., tables at end (2 folding), title browned, tables with some browning, 20th century cloth, 8vo, Cambridge, J. Archdeacon, 1771.⁂ Watson was professor of chemistry at Cambridge University from 1764 to 1773.

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Lot 180

NO RESERVE Gillman (James) A dissertation on the bite of a rabid animal; being the substance of an essay which received a prize from the Royal College of Surgeons in London, in the year 1811, first edition, folding hand-coloured aquatint plate of a rabid dog's stomach, offsetting, plate split neatly along 1 fold, some spotting, ink signature of a John Thomson along inner margin of title, modern calf-backed marbled boards, rare in commerce, 8vo, R. Taylor for J. Callow, 1812.⁂ Gillman was a London surgeon and friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, writing the life of the latter in 1838.

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Lot 181

Mathematics.- Cotes (Roger) Harmonia Mensurarum, sive Analysis & Sythensis per rationum & angulorum mensuras promotae: accedunt alia Opuscula Mathematica, edited by Robert Smith, first edition, half-title, folding engraved table, numerous woodcut diagrams in text, faded library ink stamps to verso of title, occasional spotting or staining, some light browning, modern half calf, rubbed, [Babson supp., p29; Norman, 519; Wallis 246], 4to, Cambridge, no printer, 1722.⁂ Cotes worked closely with Newton in the preparation of the second edition of the Principia. Having published only one scientific paper in his lifetime, 'Logometria' (in which he successfully constructs the logarithmic spiral) this posthumous publication is the earliest record of Cotes' achievements.

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Lot 182

Medicine.- Glisson (Francis) Tractatus de ventriculo et intestinis, first edition, title in red and black, engraved frontispiece portrait and 3 engraved plates, plates water-stained, some spotting or mostly light foxing, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, corners worn, repair to lower cover, rubbed and and scuffed, [Wing G859; Garrison and Morton 579; Krivatsy 4828; Waller 3586; Heirs of Hippocrates 475] small 4to, E.F. for Henry Brome, 1677.⁂ 'This important work on the stomach and intestines contains Glisson's original concept of 'irritability' not only as the prime cause of muscular contraction but as a property of all human tissues'. (Heirs of Hippocrates).Provenance: 'Liber T. Harbech', probably the seventeenth century physician Dr. Thomas Harbech (inscription to head of title); 'This book belongs to the Library in the Charity School Chamber in Nottingham given by Dr. William Standfast' The Reverend William Standfast (1683-1754) was the rector of the village of Clifton, a few miles from Nottingham. The library he founded was notable for the inclusion of a large number of scientific and medical books (ink inscription to verso of title).

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Lot 183

Mental Health.- Bedlam.- Bowen (Thomas) An historical account of the origin, progress, and present state of Bethlem Hospital, founded by Henry the Eighth, for the cure of lunatics, and Enlarged by subsequent Benefactors, for the Reception and Maintenance of incurables, first edition, engraved frontispiece by W. Sharp after Stothard, C1 ink correction to notes, frontispiece with some foxing and offsetting on to title, disbound, 4to, no printer, 1783.⁂ Rare in commerce. It was published by order of the governors of the hospitals of Bethlem and Bridewell. Bethlem is one of the oldest psychiatric hospitals in the world, having been founded as a general hospital in 1247 in the City of London, and from the late 14th / early 15th centuries being specifically associated with the insane. It was around this time that it became more commonly referred to as 'Bedlam'. Notable patients included the artists Richard Dadd and Louis Wain, and the architect Pugin.

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Lot 186

NO RESERVE Tobacco.- Provost (André) L'Industrie du Tabac, first edition, illustrations, advertisements at beginning including one in colour on cellophane, ink inscription to title and another leaf, original cloth, a few small stains, 8vo, Paris, 1936.

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Lot 188

Asia.- Beccari (Odoardo) Wanderings in the Great Forests of Borneo: Travels and Researches of a Naturalist in Sarawak, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, illustrations, 3 folding maps, prize presentation bookplate to pastedown, some light spotting, contemporary calf, gilt, spine rubbed, 8vo, 1904.

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Lot 192

NO RESERVE Egyptology.- Geometry.- Agnew (H.C.) A Letter From Alexandria on the Evidence of the Practical Application of the Quadrature of the Circle, in the Configuration of the Great Pyramids of Gizeh, first edition, presentation copy to the Royal Astronomical Society, 9 engraved plates of geometric diagrams, of which 1 folding, ink stamp of RAS to title, occasional staining or spotting to plates, original cloth, original printed label to upper cover, rebacked, remains of paper label to spine, 4to, 1838.⁂ A rare copy of this detailed study of the geometry of the great pyramids at Giza.

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Lot 194

India.- Postans (Thomas) Personal Observations on Sindh, first edition, hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece, folding lithographed map (lightly spotted and creased at edge, short tear to inner edge), wood-engraved illustrations, modern morocco, 8vo, 1843.

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Lot 196

NO RESERVE Levant.- Mariti (Giovanni) Voyages dans l'Isle de Chypre, la Syrie et la Palestine, 2 vol., first edition in French, half-titles, foxing, portion cut away from front free endpaper of vol.1, contemporary half cloth, rubbed, upper covers detached, spines worn, [cf.Atabey 770 & Blackmer 1079, second ?pirated edition in French, Neuwied, 1791], 8vo, Paris, Belin, 1791.⁂ Mariti spent 8 years in the Levant from 1760-68, most of them in Larnaca, Cyprus. Vol.1 is devoted to Cyprus and is the most thorough account of the island up until then, describing the history, geography, antiquities and commerce, particularly wine.

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Lot 199

Portugal.- Bowdich (Thomas Edward) Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo, during the autumn of 1823, first edition, signed presentation copy from Mrs. Bowdich, 2 parts in 1, including appendix, 22 lithographed plates (3 folding), of which 4 hand-coloured, imprint from otherwise blank final f. trimmed and mounted at foot of preceding f., repairs, silking in some places, stained and spotted, contemporary half calf, sympathetically rebacked, rubbed, [Abbey, Travel, 190], 4to, 1825. sold not subject to return. ⁂ The presentation inscription reads 'To Captain Alexander Findlay, from Mrs. Bowdich'. Bowdich died at the age of 33 on his third voyage to Africa. His wife Sarah edited and completed his work, adding three sections: 'a narrative of the continuance of the voyage to its completion'; 'a description of the English settlements on the River Gambia,' and an 'appendix, containing zoological and botanical descriptions, and translations from the Arabic.'. She also contributed the drawings for the work, which include depictions of local people, views and zoological figures.

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Lot 202

Dorset.- Hutchins (John) The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, 2 vol., first edition, list of subscribers, large folding engraved map, 58 engraved plates and plans including the unlisted views of Dorchester and Woolcombe Hall, many folding or double-page, 10 folding pedigrees and folding letterpress leaf of first page of Domesday Book, engraved illustrations, with additional engraved portrait of the author by Collimore after Bestland tipped in at beginning of vol.1 (slightly water-stained and frayed at edges, reinforced), also with large folding aquatint of 'South East View of Shaftsbury' by Pollard & Jukes after Samuel Marsh Oram mounted on stub at beginning of vol.2 (a little soiled, frayed and trimmed at foot affecting imprint, laid down), contemporary ink signature of W.L.Bowles at head of title to vol.1 and to final leaf, a few leaves creased, some light browning but generally clean, occasional marginal soiling or water-staining, plate of Critchill House in vol.2 with tear to fold slightly affecting image, contemporary half diced russia, uncut, rubbed, some wear to corners and foot of spines, folio, W. Bowyer and J. Nicholls, 1774.

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Lot 208

Yorkshire.- Marshall (William) The Rural Economy of Yorkshire, 2 vol., first edition, 2 engraved folding maps, pencil notes to margins, vol. 2 title with repair to inner margin, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt with morocco labels renewed, 8vo, for T. Cadell, 1788.

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Lot 211

NO RESERVE Dance.- Vuillier (Gaston) A History of Dancing..., first edition, photogravure plates with tissue guards, illustrations, outer corner of front free endpaper cut away, original pictorial cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, 4to, 1898.

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Lot 214

NO RESERVE Furniture.- Macquoid (Percy) A History of English Furniture [The Age of Oak; Walnut; Mahogany; Satinwood], 4 vol., first edition, plates, some colour, illustrations, captioned paper guards, occasional spotting, original buckram, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, a little rubbed, spines faded, folio, 1904-1908.

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Lot 217

Music.- Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Felix) Symphonie No. 3, componirt und Ihrer Majestät der Königin Victoria von England zugeeignet... Partitur Op. 56., first edition, engraved musical notation printed on both sides, small ink stamp "B & H" to lower outer corner of title, later green calf-backed cloth, spine slightly scuffed, 8vo, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, [1843]; and another, 8vo (2)⁂ The first edition of Mendelssohn's famous "Scottish" symphony, of which the premiere took place on 3rd March 1842 in Leipzig.

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Lot 219

Papworth (John Buonarotti) Rural Residences, consisting of a Series of Designs for Cottages, Decorated Cottages, Small Villas, and other Ornamental Buildings ..., first edition, half-title, 27 hand-coloured aquatint plates, occasional light foxing, mostly to text or plate margins, offsetting, later vellum-backed boards, a little soiled, spine broken, 8vo, [Abbey, Life, 45; Tooley 359], 1818.

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Lot 243

Dahl (Roald) James and the Giant Peach, reprint, signed by the author to front free endpaper, illustrations, original pictorial boards, spines ends worn with crude tape repair, 1978; My Uncle Oswald, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, lightly spotted, price-clipped, 1979, 4to & 8vo (2)

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Lot 244

[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll". Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, eighth thousand, illustrations by Tenniel with contemporary hand-colouring, a few heightened with gold, some soiling and small stains, pp.185/6 stained and defective at fore-edge slightly affecting image (repaired), 1867; Through the Looking Glass, fifteenth thousand, illustrations by Tenniel, pencil scribblings to rear endpapers, 1872; A Tangled Tale, third thousand, illustrations by Arthur B.Frost, ink stamp to title, 1875; The Hunting of the Snark, first edition, with "Baker" not butcher on p.83, illustrations by Henry Holiday, original pictorial beige cloth, spine browned and worn at head, 1876, some foxing, all but the last uniformly bound in modern red roan, g.e.; and 4 others, Carroll, 8vo (8)

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Lot 246

NO RESERVE Greenaway (Kate).- Harte (Bret) The Queen of the Pirate Isle, first edition, illustrations by Kate Greenaway, bookplate of Eric Quayle to pastedown, original pictorial cloth, spine browned, light surface soiling, light rubbing to extremities, [1887]; and another, Greenaway, 4to (2)

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Lot 247

NO RESERVE Milne (A. A.) The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, pictorial endpapers (a little browned), original pictorial pink cloth, gilt, t.e.g., spine a little faded, otherwise a fine copy, 1928; When We Were Very Young, sixth edition, 1924; Winnie-the-Pooh, twelfth edition, 1933; Now We Are Six, second edition, 1927, all with illustrations by E.H.Shepard, the last three with ink inscriptions, original pictorial cloth, gilt, all but the first a little rubbed and stained; andanother copy of the first, 8vo (5)

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Lot 248

Pogany (Willy).- Newman (Isidora) Fairy Flowers, Nature Legends of Fact & Fantasy, first edition, 15 mounted colour plates and plain illustrations by Willy Pogany, pictorial endpapers a little browned, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, very light toning to spine, corners a little bumped, but bright and excellent generally, original pictorial slip-case, extremities a little worn with split to foot partially repaired with tape, rubbed, [1926] § Khayyam (Omar) The Rubaiyat, second edition, 20 tipped-in colour plates by Dulac, original cloth, gilt, light toning to half of upper cover, [1909], 4to (2)

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Lot 249

NO RESERVE Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Two Bad Mice, first edition, half-title, colour frontispiece, title vignette, plates, previous owner's ink inscription, cracked upper hinge, original red pictorial boards, spine covering becoming detached, a little rubbed, 16mo, 1904.

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Lot 251

NO RESERVE Upton (Florence K.) Golliwogg in the African Jungle, first edition, colour illustrations, ink inscription to front free endpaper, 1 leaf loose, cracked hinges, original pictorial boards, rubbed, bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1909 § Buckingham & Chandos (Duchess of) Willy Wind and Jock and the Cheeses, first edition, colour frontispiece and plates, 1 loose, illustrations, some crudely coloured with crayon, ink inscription (possibly the author) to half-title, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1905; oblong 4to & 8vo (2)

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Lot 253

Austen (Jane) Pride and Prejudice, frontispiece, title, illustrations, head- & tail-pieces, initials and decorations all by Hugh Thomson, very slight foxing to frontispiece and title, bookplate to front free endpaper, original pictorial dark green cloth, gilt, with magnificent peacock design on upper cover, spine gilt with peacock feathers, g.e., a little cocked, slight wear to corners and spine ends, short split to foot of lower joint but still a good bright copy, 8vo, George Allen, 1894.⁂ The first extensively illustrated edition of Pride and Prejudice including a total of 160 line drawings by Hugh Thomson, the only work by him to feature head- & tail-pieces and decorations.

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Lot 49

NO RESERVE [Gentillet (Innocent)] Discours sur les Moyens de Bien Gouvener et maintenir en bonne paix un Royaume, ou autre Principauté...contre Nicolas Machiavel Florentin, collation: *8 A-Z8 Aa-Zz8 Aaa-Hhh8, third edition, woodcut device on title, woodcut initials, contemporary ink inscription to title, a little browned, slight water-staining to title and first few leaves, later black morocco, upper joint cracked, [Adams G440], 16mo, n.p., 1578.

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Lot 51

Elzevier.- Siege of Ostend.- Haestens (Hendrik van) La nouvelle Troye ou Mémorable histoire du siege d'Ostende, first edition in French, title with engraved vignette recto and arms verso, engraved full-page portrait of Maurice of Nasau and 14 folding plates, additional 'Sonet' f. between pp.10/11, plate between pp.146 / 147 with ink stamp in image, a few other ink stamps in text, 2A2, 2B2 and 2C2 with hole in text, with loss, some browning and foxing, occasional staining, contemporary vellum, small section missing from lower cover, stained, [Willems 99], small 4to, Leiden, Louis Elzevier, 1615. sold not subject to return.

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Elzevier.- [Heinsius (Daniel)] Laus Asini, first edition, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head-piece and decorative initials, early ink notes to endpapers and marginalia, contemporary vellum, remains of ties, [Willems 215], small 4to, Leiden, House of Elzevier, 1623.⁂ Scarce first edition of this literary satire 'In praise of the ass'.

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Elzevier.- Scarron (Paul) Le Virgile travesty en vers burlesques, first Elzevier edition, Paris [but Leiden], [Bonaventure & Abraham Elzevier], 1648 bound with Scarron (Paul) Le Virgile travesty en vers burlesques, livre troisiesme [-cinquiesme], Paris [but Leiden], [Bonaventure & Abraham Elzevier], 1650, together 4 parts in 1 vol., woodcut printer's device to titles, head-pieces and initials, some spotting and light water-staining, contemporary vellum, [Willems 648] § Puget de la Serre (Jean) Le Secretaire a la Mode, 2 parts in 1, engraved pictorial title, printed titles with woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials and tail-pieces, some light staining, lightly browned, contemporary vellum, later morocco labels to spine, [Willems 1186], Amsterdam, Louis & Daniel Elzevier, 1655; and 4 others, Elzevier (Willems 461, 1454 & 1455 (in 1 vol.), 1363 and 2023), v.s. (6)

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Elzevier.- Geography.- Varenius (Bernhard) Geographia generalis in qua affectiones generales telluris explicantur, first edition, engraved pictorial title, folding woodcut plate, 3 (of 4) folding tables, occasional spotting, a few small stains, lightly browned, contemporary calf, later red morocco label and gilt to spine, lower cover detached, upper joint splitting, but holding firm, rubbed, [Willems 1120], 12mo, Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1650. ⁂ 'The Geographia generalis established a framework for physical geography capable of including new facts of discovery as they arose. The work became the standard geographic text for more than a century' (DSB). The first English edition of 1672 was edited by Isaac Newton.

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Lot 63

Elzevier.- Defender of female education.- Schurman (Anna Maria van) Opuscula Hebræa, Græca, Latina, Gallica: Prosaica & metrica, second edition, title in red and black and with woodcut device, engraved portrait of the author (often missing), woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary vellum, yapp edges, lightly soiled, [Willems 685], 8vo, Leiden, House of Elzevier, 1650.⁂ Schurman was a Dutch painter, engraver, poet and scholar. She was the first woman to study at a Dutch university and was proficient in fourteen languages.

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Lot 66

Elzevier.- Maccovius (Johannes) Distinctiones et regulæ theologicæ ac philosophicæ, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, lower corners water-stained, later vellum, [this edition not in Willems; cf. Willems 1162 (1653 edition, which he calls 'fort rare'], Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1656 § Meursius (Joannes) Pisistratus, sive de ejus vita & tyrannide, liber singularis, first edition, some Greek type, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut decorative initials, colophon f., closely trimmed at head, occasional spotting, lightly browned, later vellum, [Willems 216], Leiden, [Bonaventure & Abraham Elzevier] at the house of Elzevier, 1623; and another, Willems 2178, v.s. (3) ⁂ The first mentioned is a rare, with Willems not recording a copy.

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Elzevier.- Charron (Pierre) De la Sagesse, trois livres, second Elzevier edition, engraved pictorial title, followed by a half-title, occasional staining, later vellum, little stained, [Willems 775], Leiden, Jean Elzevier, 1656; and the first Elzevier edition of Senault's De L'Usage des Passions, 1643 (Willems 559), 12mo (2)

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Lot 71

Turks.- [Chassepol (François de)] Histoire des Grands Vizirs Mahomet Coprogli Pacha, et Ahcmet [sic] Coprogli Pacha, first edition, title with woodcut ornament, folding engraved battle plan, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, a few small holes in folds of plan, some staining, lightly browned throughout, contemporary calf, rebacked, rare, large 12mo, Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1676.

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Lot 79

[Courtilz de Sandras (Gatien de)] L'Alcoran de Louis XIV, ou le Testement politique du cardinal Jules Mazarin, title in red and black and with woodcut ornament, occasional spotting, lightly browned, 20th century half calf, rubbed, Rome, Antonio Maurino, 1695 § [Retz (Cardinal de)] La Conjuration du comte Jean-Louïs de Fiesque, first Elzevier edition, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head-piece and decorative initial, some staining, lightly browned, modern half calf, [Willems 1352], Cologne [but Amsterdam], [Daniel Elzevier], 1665; and 4 others, 17th century French, 12mo (6)

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Lot 80

Fresny (Charles du) Le Puits de la Verité, Histoire Gauloise, first edition, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, privilege f. and 4 pp. advertisements at end, final f. with lower blank corner neatly cut away, spotted, some staining, lightly browned, contemporary speckled calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with brown morocco labels, rubbed, Paris, Michel Brunet, 1698 § [Préchac (Jean de)] L'ambitieuse Grenadine. Histoire galante, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, ink inscriptions to title, some scored through, water-stained, some spotting and other staining, contemporary calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with morocco label, head of spine chipped, corners worn, rubbed, Paris, Compagnie des Libraires, 1678 § [Ravey (Claude)] Dom Alvare, nouvelle allégorique, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, some staining and spotting, contemporary calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with morocco label, Cologne [?but Paris], Pierre Hyp, 1691; and 6 others, 17th century French, 12mo (9)

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Lot 85

[Helvétius (Claude Adrien)] De l'Esprit, first edition, early issue, half-title, title with large woodcut ornament of cornucopia, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, some light browning, occasional spotting, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with red roan label, rubbed, joints split, spine ends and some corners a little worn, 4to, Paris, Durand, 1758.⁂ Hugely controversial work which caused an outcry on its publication and was confiscated by the censors and burnt. This is an early issue (M in the date is directly above the second P but with "Dicours" in head-line of pp.67, 97, 179 & 237).

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Lot 91

NO RESERVE Photographically illustrated.- Theatre.- Janin (Jules) Rachel et La Tragédie, first edition, half-title, 10 original photographs of Rachel in various roles mounted on printed sheets (these lightly browned), tissue guards (foxed), original green morocco-backed pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed, large 8vo, Paris, Amyot, 1859.

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Lot 95

NO RESERVE Cocteau (Jean) Mon Premier Voyage (Tour du Monde en 80 Jours), first edition, original printed wrappers, a little frayed at edges, spine worn and slightly defective at head, 1936 § Gide (André) Perséphone, first edition, original printed wrappers, glacine wrapper (frayed at spine), 1934 § Montherlant (Henry de) Les Olympiques, lithographs by Yves Alix, some browning, 1926 § Maurois (André) Journal d'un Tour en Suisse, woodcuts by Henry Bischoff, Lausanne, 1948, limited editions, the last two modern half morocco with original wrappers bound in, all but the last Paris; and 10 others, modern French literature & illustrated, 8vo & 4to (14)

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Lot 307

Books - First edition of the Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (Blonde & Briggs)

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Lot 1385

The Ascent of Everest by John Hunt First Edition 1953, published by Hodder and Stoughton, London; with dust jacket, 25 shillings and faux signature of Prince Philip; overall in good, clean condition

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