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IRELANDSMITH (CHARLES) The Antient and Present State of the County and City of Cork, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, 13 engraved maps and plates (most folding, including panoramic prospects of the City of Cork, Kinsale, and Youghal, and large general map), letterpress list of subscribers and directions to binder, contemporary polished calf, spines gilt-tooled within raised bands, slightly worn at foot of spine on volume 1 but a FINE COPY, preserved in a purpose-made morocco-backed box, 8vo, Dublin, A. Reilly for the Author, 1750This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

STALKER (JOHN) AND GEORGE PARKERA Treatise of Japaning and Varnishing, Being a Compleat Discovery in Those Arts... The Method of Guilding, Burnishing, and Lackering, with the Art of Guilding... Also Rules for Counterfeiting Tortoise-shell, and Marble, and for Staining or Dying Wood, Ivory, and Horn, FIRST EDITION, issue with errata/contents leaf, 24 engraved plates plants, animals, architecture and people (plate 17 with one corner slightly torn away, plate 19 with small hole in blank area, plate 21 sprinkled with 6 small gilt spots, a few small marginal tears), contemporary calf, rubbed [ESTC R187178; Wing 5187D], folio (375 x 240mm.), Oxford, Printed for, and Sold by the Authors, John Stalker, at the Golden Ball... ; or by George Stalker, at Mr. Richard Woods House over against the Theater in Oxford, 1688This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

WHITE (GILBERT)The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton, FIRST EDITION, 7 engraved plates (2 folding), 2 additional titles with engraved vignette, errata leaf at end, title and frontispiece re-inserted on stubs, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining old red gilt morocco lettering label [Hunt 707; Rothschild 2550], 4to, B. White, 1789This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

WOOD (ROBERT)The Ruins of Palmyra, Otherwise Tedmor, in the Desart, FIRST EDITION, 57 engraved plates (one on 3 sheets joined), after G.B. Borra, 3 full-page engraved illustrations of inscriptions, light spotting to title, short tear repaired to plate 32, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, red morocco gilt spine label, rubbed [Fowler 443; Harris 939], folio (575 x 380mm.), [no publisher], 1753This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

BACON (FRANCIS)The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, FIRST EDITION, first issue, engraved portrait frontispiece, title within woodcut architectural border, without initial blank, a little very light dampstaining, early ink marginalia, nineteenth century polished calf [ESTC S1406; Gibson 116a], W. Stansby for M. Lownes and W. Barret, 1622--[CAMDEN (WILLIAM)] The Historie of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princesse Elizabeth, 4 parts in one vol., lacks frontispiece and 2 leaves of Table, title browned and repaired, burn-hole in 4 leaves with loss of a few words, a handful of wormholes, 2 leaves of Table frayed, modern morocco [ESTC S4171], B. Fisher, 1630--[RENAUDOT (EUSEBE)] A General Collection of Discourses of the Virtuosi of France, imprimatur leaf, without final blank, light toning, modern half sheep [ESTC R1662], T. Dring and J. Starkey, 1664--The Tryal of Dr. Henry Sacheverell, imprimatur leaf, first few leaves creased, last few with light waterstain, paper flaw on B1 touching page number, bookplate of John Fowles, modern half morocco [ESTC T51985], J. Tonson, 1710; and 4 others, folio and 4to (8)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

CALVERT (EDWARD)[CALVERT (SAMUEL)] A Memoir of Edward Calvert Artist by His Third Son. Illustrated with Reproductions of His Own Paintings and Sketches, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 32 OF 350 COPIES, SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE AUTHOR, half-title, frontispiece portrait, 34 plates on 31 sheets after Calvert, 45 illustrations in the text, occasional light spotting and toning, one or two plates working loose, publisher's buckram gilt with ticket of 'Leighton Son and Hodges' inside lower cover, t.e.g., folio (370 x 270mm.), Sampson Low, 1893This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

CARY (JOHN)An Essay on the State of England, in Relation to its Trade, its Poor, and its Taxes, for Carrying on the Present War against France, FIRST EDITION, half-title, without final blank, later mottled calf, rebacked [ESTC R1249; Kress 1870; Goldsmiths 3074; Sabin 11200], 8vo, Bristol, Printed by W. Bonny, for the Author, 1695This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

DICKENS (CHARLES)The Tale of Two Cities, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST ISSUE, with p.213 misnumbered 113, 16 engraved plates (including additional title and frontispiece) by Hablot K. Browne, without the advertisements, one plate with tear touching image repaired and caption shaved, contemporary black half calf, rebacked retaining most of original spine and gilt morocco lettering label [Smith I.13; Eckel, pp.86-90], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1859This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE) 'Lewis Carroll'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland... With Forty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel, SECOND (FIRST PUBLISHED) EDITION, first issue with page 30 correctly numbered and the inverted 'S' in the last line of the Contents page, half-title (short tear without loss), frontispiece and numerous illustrations by Dalziel after Tenniel, pictorial red cloth gilt in close imitation of the original binding, covers with gilt-stamped medallion vignettes of Alice holding a pig (front) and the Cheshire Cat (rear) within triple gilt ruled borders, gilt lettered spine, g.e., pale blue endpapers with Burn's binder's ticket at rear, preserved in red cloth chemise and morocco-backed slipcase with gilt lettered spine, FINE COPY, 8vo, Macmillan & Co., 1866This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE) 'LEWIS CARROLL'Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Being a Facsimile of the Original MS. Book Afterwards Developed Into 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Winifred E. Stevens from the Author, May 21./87' in purple ink on the half-title, illustrations by the author, half-title loose and opening gatherings shaken, publisher's red cloth gilt, upper joint partly split, upper joint cracked [Williams, Madan and Green 194], 8vo, Macmillan, 1886; AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ('sincerely yours C.L. Dodgson') to 'Mrs [Ethel] Stevens', apologising that he was too poorly ('... My head has been a good dealer worse...') to accept visitors, 'not even Enid! Love to her (also to Winnie if not too old to accept it!)', one page, in black ink, 8vo, 'Ch.[rist] Ch.[urch] Mar. 9/[18]91', pasted inside upper cover of a 1927 edition of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', with a note of provenance in the hand of a descendant of Mrs. Stevens next to the letter--STEVENS (ENID) Manuscript memoir of her childhood, including recollections of her first meeting, subsequent relationship and feelings for Charles Dodgson, approximately 80 pages, written in pencil (mostly, an 'addenda' in ink) on lined paper (recto only), sheets of slightly varying size, loose with old label 'E.G.S. Autobiography', 4to, [undated, but c.1942]; and 3 others by Dodgson, including a copy of Alice's Adventures ('Thirty-fifth Thousand', 1872'), with the ownership inscription of 'Miss Maud Stevens, Xmas/[18]72' and 'Given to Winifred - 1879' on half-title (6)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

ELIOT (GEORGE)Middlemarch: a Study of Provincial Life, 4 vol., first edition in book form, half-titles, foxing at ends, vol. 1 lacks front free endpaper, publisher's blue cloth gilt, leaned and rubbed, spine edges worn with loss to volume 1, spine of volume 2 with horizontal slit, 8vo, William Blackwood, 1871-1872This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

HOLME (RANDOLPH)The Academy of Armory, or, a Storehouse of Armory and Blazon, FIRST EDITION, additional engraved decorative title, 3 engraved plates on 2 sheets (as in Huntington copy), numerous full-page engraved illustrations, short tear to final preliminary leaf, 2 small holes touching a couple of letters on final 'To the Reader' leaf, additional title neatly re-inserted, some toning and spotting, modern panelled calf, gilt morocco lettering label, spine faded [ESTC R21065], folio (365 x 230mm.), Chester, for the Author, 1688This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

LIVIUS (TITUS)The Romane Historie, first edition in English, translated by Philemon Holland, large woodcut device on title, woodcut portraits of Queen Elizabeth I on verso of title and of Livy on [A]4v, without initial or final blanks, title strengthened on verso without obscuring portrait, occasional pink spots, a few side-notes shaved, wormhole at foot of 150 leaves, repairs to first 3 gatherings and 6F3-5 touching a few words, 6E6 with margin repair, paper flaw on 5V4 affecting text, modern calf [ESTC S114001; Pforzheimer 495], folio (300 x 200mm.), Adam Islip, 1600This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

[MERITON (GEORGE)]The Praise Of York-Shire Ale, Wherein Is Enumerated Several Sorts Of Drink, with a Discription of the Humors of Most Sorts of Drunkards. To Which is Added, a York-shire Dialogue, third edition ('much additional dialect material' according to ONDB), small piece cut away from title just touching 2 letters of title, shaved just touching letters on a few leaves, blue morocco gilt attributed to Charles Lewis, elaborately tooled on spine with orange morocco lettering label, g.e. [ESTC R19511], York, J. White for Francis Hildyard, 1697--[EVELYN (JOHN)] Publick Employment and an Active Life Prefer'd to Solitude, and All its Appanages, FIRST EDITION, first issue, imprimatur leaf, early eigtheenth century vellum-backed boards [ESTC ], J.M. for H. Herringman, 1667, 8vo (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

TROLLOPE (ANTHONY)Barchester Towers, 3 vol., without half-titles and advertisements, Longman, 1857; The Last Chronicle of Barset, 2 vol., 32 wood-engraved plates by George H. Thomas, contemporary half green morocco gilt by Winstanley of Manchester, Smith, Elder, 1867; He Knew He Was Right, 2 vol., 64 plates and illustrations by Marcus Stone, Strahan, 1869, first editions in book form; Ralph the Heir, first illustrated edition, wood-engraved plates by F.B. Fraser, Strahan, 1871; The Chronicles of Barsetshire, 8 vol., Chapman and Hall, 1879; A Small House at Allington, 2 vol., second edition, 18 wood-engraved plates by John Millais, Smith, Elder, 1864, contemporary half morocco, t.e.g.; [The Works], 28 vol. bound in 14, contemporary blue half calf gilt with red and brown morocco spine labels, Ward, Lock, [c.1900]; Miss Mackenzie, 1872; Rachel Ray, 1873; Castle Richmond, 1873; The Eustace Diamonds, 1874; The Kellys and the O'Kellys, 1873; The Macdermots of Ballcloran, 1874; Tales of All Countries, 1875, contemporary half calf gilt (the last 7 mentioned uniform) unless otherwise stated, 8vo; and 33 others, including 21 by Trollope, 5 by George Eliot, all half calf or morocco (72)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

WHEELER (JOHN)A Treatise of Commerce Wherein Are Shewed the Commodies Arising by a Wel Ordered, and Ruled Trade, such as that of the Societe of Merchantes Adventurers is provided to bee, written principallie for the better information of those who doubt of the necessarienes of the said societe in the State of the Realme of Englande, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, with lengthy inscription dated 'Middelbroughe 28 Decembris 160[1]' on initial 'A', title within typographical border with printer's device, without the errata leaf found in some copies, neat manuscript correction to printed spelling of 'Commodies' on title, light arc of dampstaining at upper margin of a few leaves, seventeenth century panelled calf, rebacked with corners repaired, modern cloth box [ESTC S119735; Kress 243 (lacking blank and errata)], small 4to, Middelburg, Richard Schilders, 1601This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

WOLLSTONECRAFT (MARY)A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, FIRST EDITION, final 2 leaves slightly shorter, the printed wording 'of the First Volume' on p.452 erased leaving only 'End', modern morocco, gilt lettered on spine, slipcase [PMM 242], 8vo, J. Johnson, 1792This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

GIACOMETTI (ALBERTO)Paris sans fin, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 157 OF 250 COPIES, with the artist's signature stamp, 'sur velin d'Arches' paper, 150 lithographs by Giacometti, loose as issued in publisher's printed wrappers, glassine wrappers, cloth chemise and slipcase, folio (422 x 320mm.), Paris, Tériade, 1969This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of the British Army, Founded Chiefly on the Experience of the Late War... Presented by Request to the Secretary of State for War, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, sending the volume to Edward Marjoribanks, her banker at Coutts, tipped-in with the original addressed envelope, half-title, additional lithographed portrait by her sister of Florence and her owlet Athena, 6 lithographed plates (all but one folding, 'Diagram of the Causes of Mortality in the Army in the East' coloured, 'Plan of Skutari' with short tear but no loss), contemporary brown morocco by M.M. Holloway (signed on front turn-in), double gilt rule borders on covers and in spine compartments, g.e., rubbed at edges, 8vo (210 x 135mm.), Printed by Harrison & Sons, 1858This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not, FIRST EDITION, issue with 'The right of Translation is reserved' at foot of title, advertisements including 'Burke's... Peerage... for 1860' on endpapers, typed letter from Christie's inserted at rear confirming that the book was sold in 1997 by a direct descendant of Richard Monckton Milnes, publisher's pebbled cloth [Bishop & Goldie 4], Harrison, [1860]--GALTON (FRANCIS) Hereditary Genius. An Inquiry into its Laws and Consequences, FIRST EDITION, 2 folding tables, bookplate of Robert, second baron Houghton, Marquis of Crewe (same provenance as above), 2 folding tables, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, Macmillan, 1869--MARTINEAU (HARRIET) England and Her Soldiers, FIRST EDITION, THE AUTHOR'S COPY, SIGNED on the half-title, and with a loosely inserted autograph letter from Sidney Herbert ('I was only lately aware of your intercourse with Miss Nightingale on the subject of military Sanitary Reform... As regards the book England and her Soldiers I will do all I can to promote its circulation and perusal... Indeed it is a book for authorities rather than the men'), 3 folding mortality diagrams (one coloured, spotted), publisher's decorative cloth gilt, Smith, Elder 1859--HUNTER (WILLIAM WILSON) Rulers of India. The Earl of Mayo, PRESENTATION COPY FROM FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, inscribed on front free endpaper 'Urith on her wedding day_to leave for India/ With Aunt Florence's love and fervent good wishes/ Florence Nightingale, London Feb. 16/99', folding map, portrait, publisher's cloth, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1892, 8vo (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)The Hobbit or There and Back Again, sixth impression (second edition), colour frontispiece, ownership inscription ('Xmas 1954') inside upper cover, dust-jacket unclipped, with small loss at extremities of spine, top margin with a few small tears, [1954]; The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., second edition, second impression, 1967; The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, FIRST EDITION, 1962; The Road Goes Ever On. A Song Cycle... Music by Donald Swann, first English edition, 1968, publisher's cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo and 4to, George Allen (6)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

SMITH (PHILIP)SMITH (ALI) Hotel World, FIRST EDITION, elaborate painted salmon pink goatskin by Philp Smith (signed and dated 2001 on rear paste-down), covers decorated with maril onlays, upper cover with inlaid turquoise leather square above (stamped 'ore stabit fortis aqui et placet ore stat'), and an inset 2001 penny coin below, lower cover with inlaid shadowy oval female portrait above, open spine painted to match, with triple grey goatskin yoke, central yoke lettered in blind, grey endpapers with salmon pink strips, printed label reading 'The Booker Prize 2001, Finalist, bound by Philip Smith' inserted before title (inscribed 'second copy' on reverse), sheet of 'Maker's Notes' tipped-in on blank endleaf, housed in a felt-lined red cloth solander box, with gilt lettered goatskin title label on front, 8vo (220 x 140mm.), Hamish Hamilton, 2001This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

CAMUS (ALBERT)La mort heureuse, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 104 OF 106 COPIES 'sur vélin de Hollande', from an overall edition of 412 copies, introduction by Jean Sarocchi, contemporary olive morocco by D. Mitterand (gilt-stamped inside upper cover), gilt lettered on spine, matching chemise and slipcase (chemise spine slightly faded), 8vo, Paris, Gallimard, 1971This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

CUNARD (NANCY, editor)Negro Anthology... 1931-1933, FIRST EDITION, folding map printed in red and blue, numerous photographic illustrations throughout, corner of second front free endpaper cut away, publisher's brown cloth lettered in red on upper cover, and with map of 'The Black Belt of America' on lower cover, 4to, Nancy Cunard at Wishart & Co., 1934This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

DOYLE (RICHARD)ALLINGHAM (WILLIAM) In Fairy Land. A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World, second edition, half-title, 16 wood engraved plates printed in colours by Richard Doyle, occasional spotting, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, rubbed at extremities of spine, folio (380 x 270mm.), Longman, Green, 1875; and a first edition of Doyle's A Journal... Kept in the Year 1840, 1885 (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

FLEMING (IAN)Goldfinger, 1959; Dr. No., second impression, May 1958; The Spy Who Loved Me, 1962; You Only Live Twice, 2 copies, slight abrasion to upper joint of jacket on one copy, 1964; The Man with the Golden Gun, 1965, FIRST EDITION unless mentioned, publisher's cloth, pictorial dust-jackets (unclipped, light toning), 8vo, Jonathan Cape (6)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

GARCIA LORCA (FEDERICO)Impresiones y Paisajes, FIRST EDITION, half-title, untrimmed and unopned in publisher's wrappers, the upper cover illustrated with a design by Ismael [Gonzàlez de la Serna] printed in green, foot of spine slightly chipped, 8vo, Granada, P.V. Traveset, [1918]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

HEANEY (SEAMUS)Eleven Poems, [1965]--LONGLEY (MICHAEL) Ten Poems, [1965]--MAHON (DEREK) Twelve Poems, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, light pencil markings by the first owner to 2 poems ('Scaffolding' and 'Death of a Naturalist') in the Heaney volume, each printed on laid paper, publisher's stapled wrappers, with the sun device with nine 'points' printed on the upper cover in purple, 8vo, Belfast, Festival Publications Queen's University; and 5 other 'Festival Publications' by Joan Newmann, Philip Hobsbaum, James Simmons, Stewart Parker, and Laurence Lerner (8)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

LEWIS (C.S.)The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, FIRST EDITION, colour frontispiece, and illustrations by Pauline Baynes, neat early ownership name inside upper cover, publisher's cloth (some fading to spine), pictorial dust-jacket (price clipped, loss to extremities of spine and small areas at edges, several tears), 8vo, Geoffrey Bles, [1950]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

MILNE (A.A.)When We Were Very Young, seventeenth edition, thin short tear to spine, 1928; Winnie-The-Pooh, sixth edition,1928; Now We Are Six, fourth edition, 1928; The House of Pooh Corner, FIRST EDITION, 1928, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, coloured pictorial endpapers, PUBLISHER'S SPECIAL DE LUXE BINDING of brown morocco gilt, covers with outer double-ruled border in brown and gilt, central hexagonal motif in brown with AAM stamped in gilt at centre, spines gilt tooled with images of the major figures from the books, g.e., housed in original box (lid split at joints, but holding), 8vo, Macmillan (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

MORRIS (WILLIAM)VALLANCE (AYMER) The Art of William Morris... With Reproductions from Designs and Fabrics Printed in the Colours of the Originals... Also a Bibliography by Temple Scott, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 2 OF 220 COPIES, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 40 colour plates, numerous others, tissue guards, occasional light spotting, publisher's linen-backed buckram, t.e.g., folio (390 x 280mm.), Chiswick Press for George Bell and Sons, 1897This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

NABOKOV (VLADIMIR)Lolita, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE priced 'Francs: 900' on lower wrappers, half-titles, without blank end leaf in volume 1 (not called for by Kearney), publisher's green wrappers, old tape marks inside covers and on front free endpapers, volume 1 with small loss to lower fore-corner of upper wrapper, volume 2 with small abrasion on upper cover, slightly rubbed at extremities [Juliar A28.1.1; Kearney 1.13.1], 8vo, Paris, The Olympia Press, [1955]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

NESBIT (EDITH) AND OSWALD BARRONThe Butler in Bohemia, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY NESBIT 'To E.N. da C. Andrade from E. Nesbit. Dec. 27 1910. B.P.' on the front paste-down, correction in ink to one word of text on p.140, light spotting to title, short tear to dedication leaf (to Rudyard Kipling), publisher's limp cloth, lettered in red on upper cover, 8vo, Henry J. Drane, 1894This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

POTTER (BEATRIX)The Tale of Peter Rabbit, FIRST TRADE EDITION, fourth printing with wording 'shed big tears' on p.51, leaf-pattern design printed on grey endpapers, frontispiece loose with tear (not touching image) and creases, grey-blue boards, rubbed, hinges slightly weakened, [April 1903]; The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, FIRST EDITION, first or second printing, frontispiece loose, short tear to pp.7/8, ownership inscription ('Xmas 1903') on front free endpaper, grey-blue boards, upper joint split, 1903; The Tailor of Gloucester, FIRST EDITION, second printing, rear endpapers scuffed with some loss of image, pencil ownership inscription inside upper cover, grey-blue boards, lacks spine, 1903; The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, FIRST EDITION, first or second impression, with misspelling 'muffatees' on p.15, pencil ownership inscription inside upper cover, publisher's pale grey boards, lower joint split with small loss to head of spine, 1904, colour plates, 16mo, Frederick Warne; and 6 others, all but one by Potter (10)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

SYNGE (JOHN MILLINGTON) [AND JACK B. YEATS]The Aran Islands, FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER EDITION LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, this copy '59' (old number crossed through), signed by both the author and illustrator on the colophon leaf, 12 hand-coloured plates by Yeats, light spotting to endpapers, publisher's cloth gilt, spine soiled, 4to, Dublin, Maunsel, 1907This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)SOMNER (WILLIAM) Dictionarium Saxicono-Latino-Anglicum, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY J.R.R. TOLKIEN on the front free endpaper, above a note concerning the work by his pupil David M. Lee (see footnote), title printed in red and black, slip pasted over marginal note on a4r, list of names on 3T2v has additional name of William Retchford pasted in (next to ink name of Thomas Water, or Papworth), piece of upper margin on title and dedication torn away with small loss to 2-line fillet border, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered in calf, worn, upper cover detached [ESTC S4663; Madan, III, 2458], folio (325 x 215mm.), Oxford, William Hall, for the Author, 1659This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., second edition, first issue of 'Two Towers' and 'Return', second impression of 'The Fellowship', SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on slips pasted onto front free endpaper of each volume, folding map printed in red and black in each volume, 9-line ownership inscription on front free endpaper of the third volume, publisher's red cloth, dust-jackets (frayed at edges, piece torn away from spine of 'Fellowship'), 8vo, George Allen & Unwin, 1966This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

WAUGH (EVELYN)Men at Arms, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'For Janet Stone/Souvenir of Stinchcombe/Ascension 1954 from Evelyn Waugh' on the front free endpaper, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket (frayed, 2 old tears repaired), 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1952This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

WAUGH (EVELYN)Officers and Gentlemen, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO L.P. HARTLEY, inscribed 'Leslie with warm regards from Evelyn' on front free endpaper, publisher's blue cloth, dust-jacket (unclipped, slightly frayed at head of spine, toned) [Davis Checklist A30], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1955This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

WOOLF (VIRGINIA)Street Haunting, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 430 OF 500 COPIES, SIGNED and numbered by the author in purple ink, publisher's green quarter morocco, gilt lettered on spine (faded), 8vo, San Francisco, [The Grabhorn Press], for The Westgate Press, 1930This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

WATSON (JOHN)Memoirs of the ancient Earls of Warren and Surrey, and their Descendants to the Present Time, 2 vol., first published edition, engraved frontispiece portrait, 53 engraved plates (several folding or double-page, one printed in sepia), engraved head- and tail-pieces, occasional light off-setting, contemporary 'Etruscan' binding of panelled calf, tooled in gilt and blind, g.e., Warrington, W. Eyres, 1782--FOXE (CHARLES JAMES) A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second; with an Introductory Chapter, 2 vol., engraved frontispiece, 2 plates, contemporary blue straight-grained morocco gilt, sides with Greek key, floral and pointillé corner-pieces, g.e., W. Miller, 1808--PENNANT (THOMAS) The History of the Parishes of Whiteford, and Holywell, engraved vignette on title and divisional title, 22 plates (one double-page), B. & J. White, 1796; The Literary Life of the late Thomas Pennant Esq. By Himself, 4 engraved plates (one folding, hand-coloured), B. & J. White, and R. Faulder, 1793, 2 works bound in 1 vol., fine contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, g.e., 4to (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

BUFFON (GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE)Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, vol. 1-24 (comprising: Matériaux généraux & Quadrupèdes, 15 vol.; Oiseaux, 9 vol.), FIRST EDITION, 838 engraved plates (576 and 262 respectively), 2 engraved maps, without some half-titles, occasional browning, contemporary mottled calf, the 'Oiseaux' near uniform and rebacked, slight loss to one spine label of volume 1, minor worming in upper cover of volume 9 [Nissen ZBI 672], 4to (255 x 185mm.), Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1767 & 1770-1783, sold not subject to return due to uncertain collation of this editionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

CHESELDEN (WILLIAM)Osteographia, or the Anatomy of the Bones, FIRST EDITION, printed on thick paper, engraved frontispiece, large engraved vignette on title, full-page engraved Royal Arms on a separate sheet, engraved dedication with engraved deer skeleton on verso, 29 engraved illustrations (of which 9 full-page), and several decorative initials on 25 leaves of letterpress, 56 full-page engraved plates with descriptive text on verso (excepting plate 56 which as an engraved illustration of an obelisk on the verso) by Jacob Schijnvoet and Gerard van der Gucht, lacking the duplicate set of engraved plates without letters, additional uncoloured aquatint portrait of Cheselden by J. Faber after J. Richardson pasted onto front free endpaper, some spotting, small area of dampstaining in the margin of a few leaves, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered [Garrison & Morton 395; Heirs of Hippocrates 814; cf. Norman 466], folio (500 x 330mm.), London, [?William Bowyer], 1733This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

DARWIN (CHARLES)On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, half-title, folding lithographed diagram, 32-page publisher's catalogue dated June 1859 at end, a few light spots to first few leaves and diagram, publisher's blindstamped green cloth (Freeman variant b), lettered in gilt on spine, binder's label of Edmonds and Remnants at end, a little bumped at corners and spine ends, extremities lightly rubbed [Freeman 373; Garrison-Morton 220; Norman 593; PMM 344], 8vo, John Murray, 1859This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

DARWIN (CHARLES)On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, FIRST EDITION, folding plate, 32pp. publisher's adverts at rear dated December 1861, 2 pages with offsetting, publisher's plum cloth, covers blindstamped and upper cover with gilt orchid, lightly rubbed, spine ends bumped [Freeman 800a], 8vo, John Murray, 1862This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

SAY (THOMAS)American Entomology, or Descriptions of the Insects of North America, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved additional pictorial title in volume one, 54 hand-coloured engraved plates, tissue guards, half crushed morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, t.e.g., original printed paper spine labels and one printed original upper cover label bound in [Nissen ZBI 3612; Sabin 77370], 8vo, Philadelphia Museum, Samuel Augustus Mitchell, 1824-1828This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

STUBBS (GEORGE)The Anatomy of the Horse, FIRST EDITION, later issue, 24 engraved plates printed on wove paper (one keyplate with several tears repaired some loss to margins, 7 others with short, mostly marginal, tears repaired, 2 just touching printed area, loss to blank margin of a few), without the errata slip, several leaves of text with short repairs and marginal trace of worming, modern half morocco, reusing original marbled boards, printed label 'Stubbs' Anatomy of the Horse. £4 4s. 0d.' on upper cover [Garrison and Morton 308.1; Nissen ZBI 4027; Podeschi 57], oblong folio (425 x 555mm.), J. Purser, 1766 [but plates watermarked 1815]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

WEINMANN (JOHANN WILHELM)Phytanthoza iconographia sive conspectus aliquot milium... Plantarum, arborum, fruticum, florum, vol. 1 (of 4), FIRST EDITION, title (in Latin) printed in red and black, text in alternate Latin and German, letterpress pp.53-200 only, 150 engraved and mezzotint plates (numbered 126-275, one folding) printed in colour and finished by hand after Ehret and others, occasional spotting and browning, contemporary calf, spine gilt tooled with morocco, lettering labels [Dunthorne 327; Great Flower Books, p.151; Nissen BBI 2126], folio (395 x 240mm.), Regensburg, Hieronymus Lenz, [1734]-1737, sold not subject to returnThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

[WRIGHT (THOMAS)An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe... and Particularly the Via Lactea], FIRST EDITION, lacking all before p.9, final leaf of text, subscribers list, and contents leaf, 32 engraved plates (of which 2 folding and 8 with mezzotint), every leaf remargined at gutter, recent half calf reusing earlier boards and spine [Norman 2265], 4to, [for the Author, and sold by H. Chapelle, 1750]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

HARRIS (JOHN)Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca: or, a Compleat Collection of Voyages and Travels, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispieces, 9 folding or double-page engraved maps (including 2 World, and Continents), 20 engraved plates (of 22), list of subscribers, without final blank in volume 2, frontispiece in volume 1 defective, that in volume 2 laid down, World map toned, other with small area of repair, short marginal repairs to two other maps, modern panelled calf, gilt morocco spine label, folio (397 x 237mm.), Thomas Bennet, John Nicholson, and Daniel Midwinter, 1705This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

HEARNE (SAMUEL)A Journey from Prince of Wales' Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean. Undertaken by Order of the Hudson's Bay Company, for the Discovery of Copper Mines, a North West Passage, &c. in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, & 1772, FIRST EDITION, 5 folding engraved maps (one large, hand-coloured in outline), 4 folding engraved plates, contents shaken (a few gatherings loose), untrimmed with wide margins in contemporary blue boards, old ink lettering label on spine, worn, some loss to spine, hinges weakened [Hill 791; Lande 1220; Sabin 31181], 4to (310 x 255mm.), T. Cadell Jun., and W. Davies, 1795This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

INDIAALLEN (REV. GEORGE LOSCOMB) AND MRS. [SARAH] ALLEN. The Views and Flowers from Gugerat and Rajpootana, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, with inscription from Mrs. Allen dated August 1858 on frontispiece (see below), title and text printed in red and gilt, publisher's advertisement printed in gilt, hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece, 12 full-page hand-coloured lithographed illustrations (6 views, 6 floral groups), some spotting, gilt-printed floral endpapers, publisher's green decorative cloth gilt, g.e., gutta percha perished (contents loose) [cf. Theakston, p.2, with spelling 'Guzerat' on title], large 8vo (270 x 180mm.), Paul Jerrard, [c.1858]; together with a small group of manuscript items relating to the Allens, including a 4-page manuscript account ('Deesa [near Bombay], March 10th 1844') describing a trip to Mount Abu ('... to make arrangements for Mrs. G.A. spending the hot weather there...'), George Allen's investigation into the conversion and baptism of a man named Murrolman, and an uncomfortable uphill journey carried on a bamboo chair held by 'four mountaineeers, by no means overburethened [sic] with clothing...' (small group)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE)Journal du voyage... en Italie, par la Suisse & l'Allemagne, en 1580 & 1581, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece portrait of Montaigne, a handful of ink spots, contemporary speckled polished calf, gilt arms on covers, joints cracked, rubbed, 4to, Rome, sold in Paris by Le Jay, 1774This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

ARCHITECTUREJONES (INIGO) The Designs of Inigo Jones, Consisting of Plans and Elevations for Publick and Private Buildings, 2 vol. bound in 1, FIRST EDITION, titles with engraved portrait vignettes, 109 plates (of 135) on 85 engraved sheets (of 97) by Hulsbergh, Foudrinier and Cole (comprising 21 of 24 double-page; one of 5 folding), engraved head and tail-pieces after William Kent, list of subscribers, lacks frontispiece, contemporary reverse calf, worn with some loss to spine [Fowler 162; Harris 385], folio (460 x 280mm.), William Kent, 1727This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

SHEFIK (AHMED)Notes on a Visit to Sinai Monastery and a Motor Car Tour in Sinai Peninsula, in January 1926, first edition in English, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To Kaimakam L.H.C. Hatton Bey, [with mauve stamp] Lewa Director General, Frontier Administration' on the title, photographic portrait frontispiece of Fouad I, King of Egypt, 123 photographic illustrations on 85 plates, very short tear in fore-margin of a few plates, publisher's cloth-backed printed boards, light soiling, 4to, Cairo, Government Press, 1926; with 3 other items, including articles relating to the Nubian and Western Deserts extracted from Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte, and a typescript article (with pencil annotations) entitled 'Kufu's Treasure' (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

VERYARD (ELLIS)An Account of Divers Choice Remarks, as Well Geographical, as Historical, Political, Mathematical, Physical and Moral. Taken in a Journey through the Low-Countries, France, Italy, and Part of Spain; with the Isles of Sicily and Malta. As also, a Voyage to the Levant, FIRST EDITION, 2 folding engraved plates, single ink smudge on title, a few light dampstains but generally clean, contemporary calf, rubbed, some loss to extremities of spine [Atabey 1285; Blackmer 1727; not in Cobham-Jeffery], small folio (320 x 200mm.), S. Smith and B. Walford, 1701This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

Jones, Owen The Psalms of David [The Victoria Psalter]. 1861-2. Folio, full Relievo binding, sometime rebacked retaining elements of original spine; 104 chromolithograph pages (with signs of later restoration with later facsimile print of work and other restoration). idem Book of Common Prayer. John Murray, 1845. 8vo, full vellum, boards with broad ecclesiastical borders enclosing central gilt cross, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, inner gilt dentelles, blue endpapers, a.e.g.; with illuminated chromolithograph section titles, borders, vignettes, initials and ornaments by Jones, other illustrations, printed in various colours. First Owen Jones edition for Murray. Jones was a hugely influential designer, architect, artist and book publisher, who was a guiding influence on the later Arts and Crafts movement. He was one of the earliest producers of chromolithographs in Britain and a leading light in the development of colour theory. He is also intrinsically linked with the brief history of the relievo binding process through his ecclesiastical works. This style of binding was intended to evoke the heavy carved wood tracery and decoration of English churches and his Psalms, immensely popular in its day, was one of the last of this style produced. The BCP was a sumptuous expression of John Murray's experiments with colour and a critical success for its striking design. Alas, in common with so many critical successes it was a commercial failure, but today is considered amongst the most important of Jones' commercial works.Psalter sometime rebacked with loss, some cracking, rubbing and bumping to binding, internally restoration and some staining to early pages, variable dusty marking to rest, however still a striking and powerful book. BCP binding worn, wtih cracking to joints and dusty marking, internal evidence of water damage with some marginal staining, also foxing etc.

Peake, Mervyn Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Eyre & Spottiswode, 1945. Square 8vo, org. oatmeal cloth lettered in green, in unclipped jacket (7s 6d), signed by Peake with pen and ink doodle. Second ed. The first edition of this work was destroyed in the war. This, the first post-war edition, was coloured by Peake.

Phillips, Ghiles Firman Principles of Effect and Colour as Applicable to Landscape Painting. F.G. Harding, 1833. Oblong 4to, red half leather over pebble-grained cloth; 9 plates (7 coloured). First edition.

Grotius, Hugo De Jure Belli Ac Pacis Libri Tres. Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu, 1650. 8vo, archival binding, paper label on spine; pp. [24], 618, [45]; title printed in red and black, floriated initials and decorative tail-pieces. New edition, with annotations by the author. The book which made Grotius famous throughout Europe was first published in 1625. Grotius was living in Paris, having made a daring escape from Dutch prison - where he had fallen foul of intra-Calvinist dispute - in a chest of books. The work is widely regarded as the foundation stone of modern political philosophy through its anticipation of the political theorists of the 18th century. It argued for a 'natural law', based on the social contract, in opposition to theocratic revelation or monarchical edict, and as such paved the way for modern international law.