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D'Arblay (Madame) Memoirs of Doctor Burney, 3 vol., first edition, vol. I a few small ink smudges, slightly foxed and browned, contemporary half calf, gilt, Edward Moxon, 1832; and another, 8vo (4).

NO RESERVE Modigliani (Amedeo).- Lanthemann (J.) Modigliani 1884-1920: Catalogue Raisonné, limited edition, Barcelona, 1970 § Schmalenbach (W.) Amedeo Modigliani: Paintings, Sculptures, Drawings, Munich, 1990 § Comerlati (D., editor) Modigliani: The Melanchcoly Angel, Milan, 2002 § Courthion (P.) Soutine: Peintre du Déchirant, Lausanne, 1972 § Kessel (J.) Kisling 1891-1953, second edition, n.p., 1989, illustrations, many colour, original cloth or boards, all but the first with dust-jackets; and 5 others on Modigliani, 4to (11)

Indian Art.- De Forest (Lockwood) Indian Domestic Architecture, first edition, 25 fine heliotype plates, tissue guards, 14pp. Indian-style decorative advertisements for New York craft tradesmen at end, original cloth-backed boards, a little rubbed, 4to, New York, 1885; Illustrations of Design based on Notes of Line as used by the Craftsmen of India, 50 plates, original cloth ring-bound file, metal rings rusted, Boston, 1912, both Kellam de Forest's copies (the author's grandson) with his pencil signature; and 3 others by or about the same including a high quality colour reproduction of De Forest's rare Indian Architecture and Ornament of 1887 (loose sheets in cloth drop-back box), 4to (5)

Emblemata.- Bocchi (Achille) Symbolicarum Quaetionum, De universo genere, quas serio ludebat, Libri Quinque, mostly italic type, title with woodcut printer's device, engraved portrait of the author and 151 fine large engraved emblematic illustrations by Guilio Bonasone after Prospero Fontana and Parmigianino, ink inscription cut from title and neatly repaired, (not affecting text), some staining, spotting or finger-marking, contemporary vellum, rebacked, lacking ties, little soiled and stained, [Adams B1295; Landwehr, Romanic, 163; Mortimer, Italian, 77; EDIT 16 CNCE 6486], small 4to, Bologna, [Giovanni Rossi] for the Società Tipografica Bolognese, 1574.⁂ Second edition of this handsome work, with the illustrations reworked by Agostino Carracci. It is the first production of the Società Tipografica Bolognese, established in 1572 under the direction of Giovanni Rossi.

Opera.- Metastasio (Pietro Antonio Domenico Trappassi, called Il ) Il Tironfo di Clelia. Dramma per Musica, first edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece, pictorial title and head- and tail-pieces by Anton Tischler, some spotting, lightly browned, 19th century sheep-backed marbled boards, backstrip loose and upper cover detaching, rubbed, 4to, Vienna, [Ghelen], 1762 § Libretto.- La Smorfiosa. Intermezzi a tre Voci, woodcut decorative initials, some staining, contemporary floral wrappers, faded, [Sonneck p.1013], Rome, Ottavio Puccinelli, 1748; and 4 others, 18th century Italian opera libretti, small 4to et infra (6)

Houdart de la Motte (Antoine) Fables Nouvelles, first edition, dediées au roi, engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title, and 101 engravings in the text by Cochin, Gillot, Edelinck, Picart, Simoneau and Tardieu after Coypel, Gillot, Edelinck, Picart and Ranc, 2 ff. of table misbound, occasional staining or spotting, 19th century calf, gilt, corners worn, rubbed and a little scuffed, Paris, Gregoire Dupuis, 1719 § Tréogate (Loaisel de) Dolbreuse ou l'Homme du Siecle, Ramené à la Vérité par le Sentiment et par la Raison. Histoire philosophique, 2 parts in 1, engraved frontispieces, a few small stains, occasional spotting, contemporary speckled calf, Paris, Bélin, 1785; and a small quantity of others, most French Literature & History, v.s. (Sm.Qty.)

Zaehnsdorf.- [Apperley (Charles James)] "Nimrod", The Life of a Sportsman, first edition, first issue, ALs by author tipped-in, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and additional title and 34 plates by Henry Alken, 4 trimmed and mounted as issued, tissue-guards, plate at p.348 'The Tandem' in second state, lacking advertisements at end, bookplate of Joel Spitz, later red morocco by Zaehnsdorf, gilt, modern slipcase, [Tooley 65], 8vo, R. Ackermann, 1842.

NO RESERVE Bookbinding.- Marbling.- Wolfe (Richard J.) Marbled Paper: Its History, Techniques, and Patterns..., first edition, colour plates, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, 4to, Philadelphia, 1990.

Dance.- Noverre (Jean Georges) Lettres sur la Danse, et sur les Ballets, first edition, ?first issue, title with woodcut floral ornament, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, some spotting, a few small stains, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, richly gilt spine in compartments, spine ends chipped, joints splitting, 1 corner worn, rubbed, [Beaumont p.134; Derra de Moroda 1965; Niles & Leslie p.389; cf.Magriel p.115, Stuttgart issue], 8vo, Lyon, Chez Aimé Delaroche, 1760.⁂ 'This work has no equal in the whole of the literature devoted to the Dance, and no book has exerted so incalculable an influence for good on the manner of production of ballets and dances.' (Beaumont). Noverre was ballet-master to Frederick the Great, Maria Teresa and Marie Antoinette, founded the Stuttgart Ballet at the court of the Duke of Württemberg, counted Voltaire and Mozart amongst his friends, and is regarded as the father of modern ballet.

Finden (Edward and William) Landscape Illustrations to Mr. Murray's first complete and uniform edition of the Life and Works of Lord Byron, 24 original parts, 120 engraved plates, tissue-guards, occasional spotting, no text, publisher's advertisements, part 24 with small marginal loss to advertisement, original paper wrappers, rubbed, browned, occasional staining, 1 or 2 paper labels, 1 part disbound and 1 loosely inserted into covers, housed in a modern drop-front box, sm. 4to, 1832-34.

Egan (Pierce) Finish to the Adventure of Tom, Jerry, and Logic in their Pursuits through Life in and out of London, first edition, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 35 hand-coloured plates, illustrations, occasional faint off-setting, bookplates, contemporary calf, gilt, 1830 § Metropolitan Grievances; or, a Serio-Comic Glance at Minor Mischiefs in London and its Vicinity, folding etched frontispiece, occasional spotting and browning, previous owner's ink inscription, original boards, rubbed and worn, 1812 § [Surtees (Robert Smith)] Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, 1853; "Ask Mama;" or, the Richest Commoner in Englander, 1858; "Plain or Ringlets?", 1860; Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds, 1865, hand-coloured etchings by John Leech, illustrations, occasional spotting, contemporary calf, rebacked with original spines laid down, a little rubbed; and 4 others, similar, 8vo (10)

India.- Pennant (Thomas) The View of Hindoostan, 2 vol., first edition, engraved frontispieces, 2 headpieces, 19 plates, 1 hand-coloured, large folding map (small tear), both lacking half-titles, modern half-morocco over marbled boards, 4to, 1798.⁂ This was originally projected to be a 14 volume work titled "Outlines of the Globe" though a total of only 4 volumes were published, with only this work published in the author's lifetime.

Hogarth (William) The Analysis of Beauty, Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating Ideas of Taste, first edition, title with woodcut vignette, 2 large folding engraved plates, with 2pp. list of prints published by Hogarth but without leaf of 'Figures referr'd to in the Book', occasional marginal damp-staining, 20th century calf-backed boards, 4to, J. Reeves for the Author, 1753.

Conchology.- Wood (William) General Conchology, vol. 1 only [of 1], first edition, 60 hand-coloured engraved plates, half-title, faint spotting to first few leaves, contemporary calf backed boards, spine head restored, a little rubbed, [Nissen ZB1 4455], 8vo, 1815.⁂ Volume 1 was the only volume published of this projected series.

NO RESERVE Spanish Moors.- Viardot (Louis) Essai sur l'Histoire des Arabes et des Mores d'Espagne, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 4pp. advertisements, some spotting and foxing, contemporary boards, spine gilt and with black morocco labels, rubbed, Paris, 1833; and a bound vol. of c.30 hand-coloured engraved costume plates by Grasset de Saint Sauveur, 8vo & folio (3)

Crowley (Aleister) Jephthah and other Mysteries Lyrical and Dramatic, first edition, publisher's advertisements at end, original cloth-backed boards, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1899.

Indian Art.- Kramrisch (Stella) The Hindu Temple, 2 vol., first edition, signed presentation copy from the author inscribed on title of vol.1, Calcutta, 1946 § Zimmer (Heinrich) The Art of Indian Asia: Its Mythology and Transformations, 2 vol., Bollingen Series XXXIX, New York, 1955 § Brown (Percy) Indian Architecture, 2 vol., third, revised, edition, 1956 § Zannas (Eliky) Khajuraho, The Hague, 1960 § Begley (W.E.) & Z.A.Desai. Taj Mahal: The Illumined Tomb, Cambridge, Mass., 1989 § Cousens (Henry) The Architectural Antiquities of Western India, Ananda Cooomaraswamy's copy with his bookplate by Eric Gill, pencil annotation to p.44, 1926, plates and illustrations, original cloth or cloth-backed boards with dust-jackets, most rubbed, some a little frayed or chipped at edges, the second also with slip-case; and 10 others on Indian architecture, 4to & 8vo (19)

Arnobius, of Sicca. Disputationum adversus gentes libri octo, Roman type, initial spaces with guide-letters, &2 bound after a4 as often, occasional spotting or light foxing, engraved armorial bookplate of William Morehead, 17th century calf, arms of Signet Library to covers, rebacked, corners worn, rubbed, [Adams A1994; EDIT 16 CNCE 3083], folio, Rome, Francesco Priscianese, 1542.⁂ A well-margined first edition of this work composed in response to Diocletian's persecution of the Christians. It is one of very few books from this Roman press.

Europe.- Breval (John Durant) Remarks on Several Parts of Europe: Relating chiefly to the History, Antiquities and Geography of those Countries, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, engraved frontispieces, double-page engraved map, 43 plates, 12 folding or double-page, subscriber's list, one or two short marginal tears, occasional faint off-setting, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked with the original spine laid down, a little rubbed, folio, Bernard Lintot, 1726.

Gaskell (Elizabeth C.) Cranford, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, advertisement leaf at end, upper hinge a little weak, original pictorial cloth, gilt, 1891§ Kingsley (Rev. Charles) The Water-Babies, first edition, 2 plates by J. Noel Paton, modern blue half morocco, gilt, spine a little faded, Cambridge, 1863 § Montaigne (Michel de) Essays, 2 vol., translated by John Florio, one of 900 copies, original tan morocco, Nonesuch Press, 1931 § Hardy (Thomas) Winter Words, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, fine copy, 1928; Late Lyrics and Earlier, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, fine copy, 1922; and 5 others, v.s. (11)

Ruskin (John) The Stones of Venice, 3 vol., first edition, 1851-53; The Seven Lamps of Architecture, first edition, 1849; another edition, second edition, 1855, together 5 vol., plates, some hand-coloured, uniformly bound in crushed brown morocco, gilt, by Rivière & Son, t.e.g., others uncut, spines a little rubbed and faded, joints worn with some covers detached, original gilt pictorial cloth bindings bound in at ends; Modern Painters, 6 vol., first complete edition, one of 450 large paper sets on handmade paper with plates on india paper, original green cloth, uncut, very slightly rubbed, Orpington, 1888, large 8vo & 4to (11)

Miller (M.) Letters Written During a Captivity of upwards of Six Years in France, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, engraved frontispiece, dedication signed by author, manuscript note about 'The Loss of the Wolverine' loosely inserted, occasional faint spotting, ink inscription, modern morocco backed boards, 24mo, Yeovil, 1814.⁂ Scarce, one of only 7 copies, all in the UK.

Botany.- [Spratt (George)] Flora Medica: Contained Coloured Delineations of the Various Medicinal Plants ..., 2 vol., first edition, 184 hand-coloured plates, of which 7 folding, 1 with short tear neatly repaired, occasional marginal pencil notes, occasional spotting, later half-calf, rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Nissen BB1 1882], 8vo, 1829-30.

Kipling (Rudyard) The Jungle Book, first reprint, slight shelf lean, light wear to spine ends, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, first edition, spine slightly faded, spine ends and corners a little bumped, 1895, illustrations, occasional foxing, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, g.e., 8vo (2)

Sheep.- Daubenton (Louis-Jean-Marie) Instruction pour les bergers et pour les propriétaires de Troupeaux, first edition, half-title, 22 engraved plates, some spotting, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine in compartments and with orange morocco label, rather worn, but holding firm, Paris, Pierres, 1782 § Ardêne (Jean-Paul de Rome d') Trattato sulla cognizione, e cultura de' Giacinti, half-title, title with engraved vignette, 2 folding engraved plates, short repair at foot of half-title, some spotting, contemporary floral patterned limp boards, a few nicked, rubbed, Viterbo, Domenico Antonio Zenti, 1763; and 2 others, Gardens & Agriculture, v.s. (4)

Peacock (Thomas Love) Maid Marian, first edition, occasional spotting, later morocco backed boards, a little rubbed, 1822; The Works, 10 vol., large paper edition numbered 52 of 100 copies, frontispieces, tissue-guards, bookplate, original buckram, browned as usual, 1891; and others, including the Halliford edition of the works, 12mo & 8vo (32)

Middle East.- Palgrave (William Gifford) Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63), 2 vol., first edition, hand-coloured folding map, tear (repaired), 4 folding lithographed plans, occasional soiling, ex-library with labels to front pastedowns, contemporary half calf, rubbed and worn, Cambridge, 1865

History of world poetry.- Quadrio (Francesco Saverio) Della Storia e della Ragione d'ogni Poesia ..., alla ... Francesco III, duca di Modana, 5 vol. in 7, first edition, half-titles to all but index vol., 5 engraved devices to titles, 5 engraved plates (one with two images), some spotting throughout, water-staining, mostly marginal, contemporary vellum, lacking some spine labels, 4to, [Bologna and Milan], Francesco Agnelli, 1739-1752.⁂ An ambitious complete history of world poetry through the ages, with much on music and opera.

Middle East.- Doughty (Charles M.) Travels in Arabia Deserta, 2 vol., first edition, half-title to vol. 1 only, strengthened at joint, vol. 2 title strengthened at joint, folding plates, 1 with tears, tape repairs, illustrations, folding colour map and plate loosely inserted, 1 or 2 short marginal tears, publisher's catalogue at end (vol. 1 only), ex-library with label remnants to front pastedown and usual stamps, occasional marginal soiling, later cloth, rubbed and worn, 8vo, Cambridge, 1888.⁂ Classic work on the exploration of Arabia with so much information on the topography of the area that it was used as a text-book by the British army during the Arab Revolt. There are also detailed descriptions of the Bedouin tribes and their customs.

Darwin (Erasmus) The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society: A Poem, with Philosophical Notes, first edition, half-title, stipple-engraved frontispiece and 3 plates after Fuseli (1 with repaired tear), occasional damp-staining, ink ownership inscription to half-title, 20th century calf-backed boards, 4to, 1803.

Jane Austen.- [Austen (James)] The Loiterer, a Periodical Work, first Dublin edition, occasional spotting, small marginal hole (F8), previous owner's label to front pastedown, cracked upper hinge, contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, small loss to spine extremities, lower board becoming detached, 12mo, Dublin, 1792.⁂ The Loiterer's was written and published by Jane Austen's brothers. Gilson suggests that it was through the publication of The Loiterer that she became acquainted with Egerton of Whitehall (who were the London distributers of this work from the fifth number on) and who later published her first work, Sense and Sensibility.

Indian Art.- Fergusson (James) and James Burgess. The Cave Temples of India, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations, folding map, 99 plates including one mounted albumen print, a few tinted, 2 folding, with a duplicate of plate XVIII, very occasional spotting, map creased, Breezewood book-label, contemporary half morocco, t.e.g., spine gilt, rubbed, 1880; History of Indian and Eastern Architecture, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations, light foxing at beginning and end, modern half morocco, t.e.g., 1876, 4to & 8vo (2)⁂ James Fergusson (1808-86), originally an indigo planter in India later became an architectural historian and respected authority on Indian architecture and its cave temples in particular. The first work was co-produced with the archaeologist James Burgess who from 1886-89 was Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India.

Christopher Columbus.- Giovio (Paolo) Elogia Virorium Bellica Virtute Illustrium Veris Imaginibus Supposita, title with woodcut Medici device, woodcut historiated and decorative initials, 2pp. ms. index in an early hand at end, occasional small areas of staining and spotting, final f. with some ceasing, late 17th / early 18th century calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, covers with triple gilt filet borders, joints splitting, corners worn, rubbed, [Adams G639; Mortimer, Italian, 213; European Americana 551 / 23], a wide-margined copy, folio, Florence, Laurentius Torrentinus, 1551.⁂ Handsomely printed first edition of this collection of biographies of the subjects of portraits in the author's private collection. Of particular note was that of Christopher Columbus; the only known authentic likeness of the discoverer of the New World, with his biography on pp.171-174.

Drink.- Loftus (William) The Spirit Merchant, first edition, occasional spotting, publisher's advertisements at end, original cloth, rebacked, rubbed, bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1866; New Mixing and Reducing Book, for the use of Publicans and Spirit Dealers ..., occasional faint spotting, publisher's advertisements at end, original pictorial cloth, rubbed, spotting to upper cover, small loss to spine extremities, c.1869; The Spirit Merchant, ; 8vo (2)

References to Chaucer and Thomas More.- Giraldi (Lilio Gregorio) Dialogi duo de poetis nostrorum temporum. Ad ill. diam Renatam Ferrariae et Carnuti principem. & c. Eiusdem epistola uersu conscripta, in qua agitur de incommodis, quae in direptione vrbana passus est.., mostly italic type, woodcut decorative initials, lacking final f. (possibly with a printer's device, or simply blank), some foxing, 19th century russia, with 'Newby Hall' lettered longitudinally on upper cover and shell corner-pieces, rebacked, corners worn, rubbed, [Adams G722; EDIT 16 CNCE 21248], 8vo, Florence, [Lorenzo Torrentino], 1551.⁂ First edition of this collection of three works, the first being the first survey of modern Latin poetry. It includes several references to English writers, most notably to Chaucer. This is a very early reference to the author in a continental printed book. Also, mentioned are Thomas More, John Colet, and William Lily. Provenance: Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725), collector (his ink collation mark 'C & P' to front pastedown); Lord Grantham (engraved armorial bookplate).

NO RESERVE Van Gogh (Vincent).- De La Faille (J.B.) Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Works on Paper. Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vol., revised edition, San Francisco, 1992 § Hulsker (Jan) The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches. Revised and Enlarged Edition of the Catalogue Raisonné..., Amsterdam, 1996 § Van Gogh Museum. Vincent van Gogh. Drawings vol.1 (The Early Years 1880-1883) [&] Paintings vol.1 (Dutch Period 1881-1885), together 2 vol., Amsterdam, 1996-99 § Walther (Ingo F.) and Rainer Metzger. Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Paintings, Cologne, 1997 § Feilchenfeldt (W.) Vincent van Gogh: The Years in France, Complete Paintings 1886-1890, 2013 § Spaandonk (Trudy) & others. Van Gogh in Brabant: Paintings and Drawings from Etten and Nuenen, Zwolle, 1987, illustrations, many colour, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first slightly frayed at edges; and c.25 others on Van Gogh, some catalogues/pamphlets, v.s. (c.30)

Cruikshank (Robert).- [Westmacott (Charles Molloy)] The English Spy ..., 2 vol., first edition, 72 aquatint plates, all but one hand-coloured, illustrations, bookplates, occasional faint spotting, contemporary calf by Riviere & Son, 8vo, 1825-26.

NO RESERVE Expressionism.- Dube (Annemarie & Wolf-Dieter) E.L.Kirchner: Das Graphische Werk, 2 vol., third edition, Munich, 1991 § Moeller (M.) & Rolans Scotti. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik, Munich, 1998 § Dabrowski (M.) & Rudolf Leopold. Ego Schiele: The Leopold Collection, Vienna, New York, 1997 § Frey (S.) & Josef Helfenstein. Paul Klee Rediscovered: Works from the Bürgi Collection, 2000 § Benson (T.O.) & others. Expressionismus in Deutschland und Frankreich: Von Matisse zum Blauen Reiter, Munich, 2014, illustrations, many colour, original cloth or boards, all but the first with dust-jackets; and 13 others, most Expressionism, 4to & 8vo (19)

Dickens (Charles) The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Papers, first edition in book form, first issue, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title and 41 plates, browned and spotted as usual, loss to 2 corners not affecting text, contemporary half calf, rubbed and worn, 1837; The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, first edition in book form, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title and 37 plates only (of 38), scattered spotting, occasional faint off-setting, bookplate loosely inserted, contemporary calf, rebacked, 1844; Sketches by Boz. The Second Series, second edition, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title and 10 plates, occasional faint spotting, original cloth, rubbed and worn, 1837; The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Complete: Part Second of the Mystery of Edwin Drood by the Spirit-Pen of Charles Dickens, through a Medium, bookplate, original cloth bound at end, contemporary half-morocco, rubbed, Battleboro, T. P. James, 1873; and 6 others by the same, 8vo (10)

Wallace (Alfred Russel) The Malay Archipelago..., first American edition, 8 engraved plates and illustrations throughout by Wood, 2 folding maps, 1 outlined in colour by hand, ownership inscription "Ogden E. Edwards" to dedication f., his pencil annotations throughout, foxing, contents separating a little in several places, upper hinge pulling a little, original brown pictorial cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, a little loss at spine ends and corners, 8vo, New York, 1869.⁂ Printed in the same year as the first edition.

[Cooper (James Fenimore)] The Pilot; a Tale of the Sea, first English edition, 3 vol., occasional faint spotting, contemporary half-calf, rubbed, 1824 § [Peacock (Thomas Love)] Maid Marian, first edition, faint spotting, previous owner's ink inscription, later half-calf, rubbed, 1822 § [Scott (Michael)] The Cruise of the Midge, first edition, 2 vol., occasional faint spotting, original cloth, rubbed, small loss to spine extremities (vol. 1), 1836 § [Morier (James)] The Adventures of Hajji-Baba, of Ispahan, in England, 2 vol., occasional faint spotting, remnants of paper label to front pastedowns, original paper-backed boards, rubbed, small loss to spine extremities, 1828 § Farquhar (Ferdinand) The Relicks of a Saint, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, occasional faint spotting, cracked hinges, contemporary morocco backed boards, rubbed and worn, small loss to spine extremities, 1816; and others, similar, 8vo & 4to (c.90)

Johnston (Robert) Historia rerum Britannicarum, first edition, woodcut vignette to title, initials and tail-pieces, occasional spotting or staining, lightly browned, contemporary vellum, 19th century label to spine, soiled and marked, Amsterdam, Johannes Ravesteyn, 1655 § [Spencer (Henry), George Canning, et. al.]. The Microcosm, A Periodical Work, by Gregory Griffin of the College of Eton, 40 numbers in 2 vol., third edition, some spotting or mostly light foxing, later red straight-grain morocco, gilt, rubbed, g.e., Windsor, for C. Knight, 1790; and 7 others, English Literature, v.s. (10)

NO RESERVE Thackeray (William Makepeace) The Adventures of Philip, 3 vol., first edition, faint browning to first and last leaves, original brown cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, a little rubbed, [Sadleir 3186], 8vo, 1862.

Science fiction.- [La Folie (Louis Guillaume de)] Le Philosophe sans Prétention, ou l'Homme Rare. Ouvrage physique, chymique, politique et moral, first edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece, title vignette, and half-page vignette, ink stamp to title and p.59, some spotting, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, spine in compartments and with olive morocco label, 1 corner worn, remains of shelf label to foot of spine, rubbed, 8vo, Paris, Clousier, 1775.⁂ A visitor from Mercury arrives on earth in an 'electrical flying machine'. The Mercurian (Ormaris) acts as a mouthpiece for the author's own scientific opinions,including in the fields of geology and mineralogy, electricity and chemistry. Includes an attack on Priestley and his theories on 'fixed air'.

England.- E. C. A Faithful Account, of the Present State of Affairs. in England, Scotland and Ireland, first edition, engraved frontispiece, advertisement at beginning, chipped & tender edges, neatly restored, 1 or 2 short tears, small rust hole (B5), browning, 12mo, [Wing C22], for Tho. Bever, 1690.

Silk manufacture.- Castelli (Carlo) L'Arte di Filare la Seta a Freedo Ossia senza Fuoco sotto le Bacine delle Filatrici, first edition, 2 folding letterpress tables, a little staining, contemporary sheep-backed embossed boards, spine gilt, rubbed, [Kress 657], 8vo, Milan, Giuseppe Galeazzi, 1795.

Body & mind.- Lemnius (Levinus) Della Complessione del Corpo Humano libri due..., first Italian edition, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut historiated initials, some light staining, contemporary limp vellum, lacks ties, [Not in Adams; Durling 2769; EDIT 16 CNCE 31668], 8vo, Venice, Domenico Nicolini, 1564.⁂ Aimed specifically at the general public to aid self-diagnosis of physical and mental ailments. Lemnius was a pupil of Vesalius and Gesner, and was known to cheer his patients with jokes and comic anecdotes.

Flora.- Moggridge (J. Traherne) Contributions to the Flora of Mentone, first edition, 50 hand-coloured lithographed plates, lacks half-title, slightly foxed and browned, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, gilt spine, modern red morocco label, gilt, rubbed and scuffed and spine faded, 8vo, 1864.

Corsets.- Reisser (M.) Avis Important au Sexe ou Essai sur les Corps Baleinés pour former & conserver la taille aux jeunes personnes, first edition, half-title, folding engraved plate, duplicates of pp.9-10 and 15-16 bound in preliminaries, A1 torn with marginal tape repair, some spotting and staining, modern cloth, [Wellcome IV, 501], 8vo, Lyon, V. Reguilliat, 1770.⁂ First edition of this practical treatise on corsetry. Reisser was a German tailor working in Lyon.

Librarian's writings.- Morelli (Jacopo) Operette di Jacopo Morelli ora insieme raccolte con oposcoli di antichi scrittori, 3 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, spotted, contemporary patterned paper boards, Venice, Alvisopoli, 1820 § Celsius (Olof Oloffson) I.N.J. Bibliothecæ Upsaliensis Historia, first edition, some spotting or mostly light foxing, lightly browned, contemporary half calf, spine in compartments, rubbed, 8vo, Uppsala, no printer, 1745; and a 2 vol. in 1 set of Haym's Bibliotheca Italiana, v.s. (5)⁂ The first mentioned includes a substantial description of the library of St. Mark's and dissertations on Venetian festivities and poets.

Great Britain. Sedgfield (William Russell). The Thames Illustrated by Photographs. First Series, Richmond to Cliefden [Second Series, Cookham to Whitchurch ... Third Series, Whitchurch to Oxford], 3 volumes, 1st edition, A. Marion, Son, & Co., 1866-8, 44 mounted albumen print photographs, as plates and in the text, some oval-shaped or round-headed, occasional fading along print edges, spotting to volume 1 affecting text and a few prints, 'View from Richmond Hill' slightly oxidised, volume 2 endpapers spotted, intermittent tide-mark to fore margins and a few other marks, volume 3 plates and text-leaves variably softened and spotted along edges from water access, the plates browned on reverse side to prints, a few prints partially lifting at corners, all edges gilt, original green sand-grain cloth over bevelled boards, front boards lettered in gilt, volume 2 cloth marked and mottled, volume 3 housed in custom suede-lined slipcase, 4to (Qty: 3)NOTESProvenance: Morrall family (engraved armorial bookplate with motto 'Norma tuta veritas'); 'S. S. Elliott, Ridley Hall, Cambridge' (ownership inscription). Gernsheim 331, 388, 389; Hannavy, Encyclopaedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography , p. 1261. Four sets traced in UK libraries (Oxford, Senate House, and two copies at the British Library); the V&A holds an incomplete copy of the first volume, and Chetham's has a copy of the second volume only. OCLC adds five sets world-wide. One other set traced at auction, in 2003.

Thomson (John). Illustrations of China and its People. A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, with Letterpress Descriptions of the Places and People Represented, 4 volumes, 1st edition, Sampson Low, Marston Low, and Searle, 1873-74, 96 plates of photographic illustrations, interleaved with descriptive letterpress text and guards, all edges gilt, original gilt-decorated maroon cloth, slight wear to spine ends and corners, a few small nicks to joints, volume 1 partly split and frayed along both joints, folio (470 x 345mm) (Qty: 4)NOTESWestern Travellers in China 91: 'John Thomson (1837-1921) was the first known photographer to document the people and landscape of China for publication and dissemination to the Western world. Between 1868 and 1872 he travelled over 6,500 kilometres with his compass and camera and equipment, dark room and chemicals capturing all aspects of Chinese life. The photographs in these four volumes show the many sides of China: sweeping landscapes, royalty and ruling classes, merchants and economic activity, everyday life, and the faces of men, women and children. In a time when knowledge was derived from observation and classification it should seem odd that Thomson desired a recognition not from the quality of his photographs, but from his contributions to general knowledge'. 'My design in the accompanying work is to present a series of pictures of China and its people, such as shall convey an accurate impression of the country I traversed as well as the arts, usages, and manners which prevail in different provinces of the Empire. With this intention I made the camera a constant companion of my wandering, and to it I am indebted for the faithful representation of the scenes I visited and the types of races I came into contact' (Introduction).

Thomson (John). Views on the North River, 1st edition, Hongkong: Noronha & Sons, Printers, 1870, printed title and two leaves of Introduction, printed to rectos only, 14 mounted albumen prints, each with printed red rule border and caption beneath, accompanying leaf of descriptive letterpress to each plate, some fading to images and one spotted, mounts with old damp staining to inner and outer margins, ownership name inscriptions of G. Dods, 1875, and W.K. Dods and C.M. Normand to front free endpaper, stitching now largely broken and contents generally loose in original cloth-backed printed boards with decorative design to upper and lower covers, rubbed and soiled, a little paper surface loss, oblong folio (32.5 x 43 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESThe photographs are captioned and measure as follows: 1) Road to the Village of Wong Tong, 173 x 232mm; 2) The Ts'ing Yune Pagoda, 154 x 232mm; 3) The Fi-Lai-Sz Monastery, 179 x 237mm; 4) The Fi-Lai-Sz Monastery, 152 x 236mm; 5) In the Ts'ing Yune Pass, 159 x 236mm; 6) View from the 'Lien Chow Kwong' Villages, 140 x 238mm; 7) An Up-Country Bridge, 178 x 232mm; 8) The Mang-Tsz Pass, 158 x 237mm; 9) Rapids, 161 x 232mm; 10) Looking North from the Pau-Lo-Hang Temple, 168 x 240mm; 11) Kwan Yin Cave, 160 x 219mm; 12) Fishing Boats, 158 x 228mm; 13) View from the Kwan Yin Cave, 143 x 226mm; 14) An Up-Country Farm, 138 x 238mm. Provenance: George Dods (1836-1909) MD LRCS Ed. 1859, was born and died in Edinburgh. He worked as Acting Colonial Surgeon in Hong Kong. He wrote at least one medical paper, ‘Tropical Malaria and Its Sequelae’, published in Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh , 1888, 7: 186-198. His only son, William Kane Dods, was born in Hong Kong Kong in 1866, shortly after his marriage to Margaret Crabbe. William Kane Dods (1866-1948) worked as an agent for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and served as treasurer and honorary secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and on the Committee of the Zoological Gardens, Calcutta. The co-owner of the book was Charles M. Normand (?1834-1912), a direct contemporary of Dods senior, who also served in the Far East as an assistant surgeon. By family descent. See also following lots 39-43. A very good copy of this notorious rarity, here in the original printed covers and with family provenance dating back to within five years of publication. It was the first of Thomson’s photographically illustrated books on China, and describes a trip two hundred miles up the North, though the photographs focus on only a few places, for which Thomson gives Chinese characters and English spellings. Like his earlier work, Visit of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh … to Hong Kong in 1869 , the first photographically-illustrated book published in China, it was published in Hong Kong by the Portuguese printers Noronha and Sons (The Government Printers). ’Mr. Thomson has just published a volume of admirable photographs of scenes on the North River, entered about 40 miles above Canton through the Fatshan creek. The views, which are beautifully executed, are accompanied by a short description of the places which they respectively represent, and will thus form a most pleasing illustration of a part of China little known to the generality of Europeans. In the details of foliage and other foreground these photographs will compare favourably with the best works at home, though they fail somewhat in a distant effects by being too dark in tone, a circumstance to which Mr. Thomson alludes in the introduction, where he states that, with a few exceptions, his efforts to obtain bright photographs of distant objects were baffled by a continuance of bad weather, casting a veil of mist over the distance. Bearing this in mind, the results must be considered wonderfully successful, and the views will be no less acceptable as an interesting memento for residents in China to take home with them, or as a pleasing gift to send to their friends’, Hong Kong Daily Press, 31 October 1870. ‘Views on the North River would have been expensive to produce and the print run was probably small. It is the rarest of Thomson’s books on China. There is a copy in the National Library of Scotland, another in Hong Kong University Library; a third is in the Wason Collection at Cornell University ( NUC , vol. 592, p. 256). In 1980 one was recorded in the collection of Mr and Mrs Lewis Lehr, New York (Lucien Goldschmidt and Weston J. Naef, The Truthful Lens, 1980, p. 167, fig. 157 and pp. 224-5)’, Terry Bennett, History of Photography in China: Western Photographers 1861-1879, Quaritch, 2010, p. 227. ‘ Views on the North River … can be seen as the first attempt to present Thomson’s experience of China as a visual document. The book form is being used to recreate the experience of seeing his images in a sequence predetermined by the photographer, and to that extent he was able to retain control over the order and arrangement in which his own photographs were presented ... Yet despite the success of Views on the North River as a photographically illustrated book, its circulation among the western, English-speaking communities of Hong Kong and the Treaty ports was somewhat limited, and its impact in Britain, if it had any at all, has left no trace in the contemporary reviewing journals’, Richard Ovenden, John Thomson 1837-1921 (Photographer) , National Library of Scotland, 1997, pp. 178-9.

India. Cartier-Bresson (Henri). Beautiful Jaipur, 1st edition, printed at the Times of India Press, Bombay, c. 1948, portrait frontispiece, 64 full-page illustrations from photographs, gift inscription from R.S. Bhatti, Deputy Director of Public Relations, Rajasthan, Jaipur, to front free endpaper, dated 30 November 1953, original red cloth, upper cover lettered and decorated in black, a few minor marks and a little faded at lower edge of upper cover, without dust jacket, large 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESCartier-Bresson's first and rarest book which was never published or sold commercially. The printing was ordered by the Jaipur Darbar and copies were given away as gifts.

‘Glendok’s Acts of Parliament’, made for King James the First, 1st edition, lacks all before page 8, c. late 16th century

LEAR (Edward) Nonsense Songs Stories, Botany, and Alphabets, 1871, First edition, R.J. Bush, together with More Nonsense, 1872, R.J. Bush, book cover design by Kell Bros. London. Together with a collection of Lear's Book of Nonsense, early editions, Frederick Warne & Co., London, some copies with AEG and linen backed pages, gilt lettering and decoration to spine and boards (possibly original) (20 vols in total)

The Journal of Beatrix Potter, from 1881 to 1897, First edition, 1966, Frederick Warne & Co., London, bound in green leather with case, AEG, and another copy of this work, dw Together with The Tale of Beatrix Potter - A Biography by Margaret Lane, with 8 colour and 30 black and white plates, Frederick Warne & Co., 2nd edition, 1968, dw, blue case

A hardback edition of 'Hogarth's Works, with Sixty-Eight Illustrations', published by J. Dicks, London, c.1880, cover with embossed gilt image of Hogarth and his dog; together with Christopher Whitfield, 'Mr. Chambers and Persephone', first edition, Golden Cockeral Press, 1937, with wood engravings by Dorothea Braby, also with an early 20th century Holy Bible

Austin Dobson, 'The Story of Rosina', illustrated by Hugh Thomson, first edition, 1895, London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co

[BOOKS]. OBSERVER BOOKS forty-six titles from the series, including Jazz, first edition, 1978; and Farm Animals, first edition, 1976, (box).