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Lot 294
Keill (James) An Account of Animal Secretion, the Quantity of Blood in the Humane Body, and Muscular Motion, first editions, diagrams, early ink ownership signature to title, corrections inserted by hand, advertisement at end, faint marginal water-staining towards end, scattered very faint marginal spotting, modern half-calf, 8vo, for George Strahan, 1708.
Lot 298
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Pharmacopoea Collegii Regii Medicorum Edimburgensium, first edition, with the first f. blank apart from signature A, title with woodcut device, ink library reference to A1 and verso of following leaf, a couple instances of ink correction or marginalia, A8 trimmed at fore-edge with loss to a couple letters, B6 with tiny chip to fore-edge just touching text to verso, some toning, contemporary ?presentation binding of gilt-panelled black morocco, spine gilt in compartments, very lightly rubbed, g.e., 12mo, Edinburgh, Heirs of Andrew Anderson, 1699.⁂ Very scarce. Not traced in ESTC, with WorldCat listing only two copies (University of Oxford, Yale University Library), and LibraryHub one (Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh). Provenance: Patrick Hume Earl of Marchmont (cropped bookplate, dated 1702). "Presented from the College of Physicians to the Lord Chancellor by Dor. Matthew Sinclair their President in July 1699. Patrick Earl of Marchmont [the rest in illegible French]" (ink inscription to A3 verso).
Lot 3
Vergilius Maro (Publius) Opera, collation: *10, a-e8, f-g6, h-r8, s-t6, v4, x10, y-z8, &8, Ɔ8, aa-zz8, aaa-uuu8, xxx6, yyy-zzz8, A-D8, title within woodcut architectural border, a later ink ownership inscription and a few early notes, profuse woodcut illustrations throughout, some with early hand-colouring, early ink notes to margins in various hands, lacking final 5ff. (D4-5, last f.583), title and a few other ff. with edges either laid down to or with paper repairs, 2B5 with tear across text and small hole with loss of letters, peripheral ff. with some soiling or browning, a little minor damp-staining, elsewhere scattered, and a occasional spots, endpapers renewed, contemporary vellum, spine ends bumped with small tear to foot, lower covers corners a little worn, folio (307x211mm.), Venice, Lucantonio Giunta, 1544.⁂ The richly illustrated Giunta editions were Virgil's most popular Italian editions in the first half of the sixteenth century. The over 100 woodcuts were copied from the blocks produced for Johann Gruninger's Strasbourg edition of 1502. Literature: Not in Adams; EDIT 16 CNCE 54877.Provence: Olga Raggio (1926-2009), art historian and curator with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; gifted to the present owner.
![Poetry.- Charles I, King of England.- [Cleveland (John)] Monumentum Regale or a tombe, erected for that incomparable and Glor](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/175e1d27-5155-4863-91f2-b02a010cc1cf/2c622da8-41c0-466a-9eea-b02a011893cd/468x382.jpg)
Lot 32
Poetry.- Charles I, King of England.- [Cleveland (John)] Monumentum Regale or a tombe, erected for that incomparable and Glorious Monarch, Charles the First...In select Elegies, Epitaphs, and Poems, first edition, title and pp.2-3 printed in red and black, woodcut crown and skull to title, woodcut head-pieces, trimmed at head and foot, affecting final line of text on C6r, and some pagination, signatures and catch-words, [Wing C4681], no printer, Printed in the Yeare 1649 bound with [B[irkenhead] (Sir J[ohn])] Loyalties tears flowing after the bloud of the royall sufferer Charles I. &c. Englands glory and shame, initial f. blank, woodcut head-piece, lacking 4 advertisement ff. at end, pen trials to final verso, closely trimmed at outer margin, [Wing B2966], no printer, Anno Dom. 1649 [i.e. 1650], together 2 works in 1 vol., occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, rebacked in modern calf in compartments, 1 lower corner little worn, rubbed at extremities, 8vo⁂ I: Rare at auction. Another issue (Wing C4681A) has 'Year' in imprint.
Lot 33
Qu'ran, English.- The Alcoran of Mahomet, first octavo edition of the first English language version, A2, A3, 2E5 & 2E6 strengthened at fore-edges, E4 with small hole and strengthened bottom edge, G3 with small hole affecting text, occasional tiny marginal worming, tender edges, trimmed, occasionally touching head-line, no signature O (as issued), light toning, later half-calf, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, cracked joints but holding firm, [Wing K747A], 8vo, 1649.
Lot 35
Sprat (Thomas) The History of the Royal-Society of London, first edition, first issue, imprimatur leaf A1 with Society's arms to verso, lacking frontispiece (as usual), 2 engraved plates, errata leaf at end, book-label of Gloddaeth Library and small contemporary ink ownership inscription to pastedown, contemporary speckled calf, light scuffing to extremities, spine with vertical crack but neatly repaired, joints repaired, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Wing S5032; Norman 1989; Keynes, Evelyn 178; Hooke 28], 4to, Printed by T. R. for J. Martyn...and J. Allestry, 1667.
Lot 36
Binding.- Blake (William, of Highgate) The Ladies Charity School-house Roll of Highgate: or A Subscription of many Noble, well-disposed Ladies for the easie carrying of it on, first edition, drop-head title, lacking the 4 engraved plates but with petition leaf at end and final blank, contemporary ink inscription of William Gandy to front free endpaper, some soiling and staining, later bookplate of R.H.Watt, attractive contemporary black morocco, covers elaborately tooled with an all-over pattern of drawer-handles, rosettes, dots and stylised flower tools in gilt, some in pointillé, ?by the Charity School Binder, spine gilt, g.e., old chipped paper label to spine, rubbed and dulled, lacking ties, short splits to joints, [Wing B3152], [c.1670]; with a copy of The Book Collector of Spring 1983 including a piece about the work and its binding by Mirjam M.Foot (see below), 8vo (2)⁂ The binding is in the style of the Queens' binders, though is probably by the Charity School Binder. There are however no tools in common with the example illustrated by Mirjam Foot in The Book Collector, Spring 1983, nor with the example in Maggs catalogue 1075 item 75. A copy of the same work in a similar style binding and using the same tools, but complete with the 4 plates, was sold in these rooms in 2021 for £2600.This copy is without the 4 plates entitled 'Father Time', 'Charity', 'Front elevation of the School' and 'Butterflies'. Copies frequently lack one or more plate as they were used as receipts and "hung up in the School-house". William Blake of Covent Garden, was a woollen draper, the son of Francis Blake of Highgate, and founder and house-keeper of the Ladies Charity School on Highgate Hill. ESTC suggests the date of the book may be 1680.
![[Monk (Mary)] Marinda. Poems and Translations upon several occasions, first edition, previous owner's ink inscription to fron](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/175e1d27-5155-4863-91f2-b02a010cc1cf/14b64cbf-1f76-4c5c-8bd5-b02a0117dc6a/468x382.jpg)
Lot 4
Entrelac binding.- Alamanni (Luigi) La Coltivatione, first edition, collation: a-t8 u2 x2 *2, faintly ruled in red, title with woodcut device slightly soiled and laid down, occasional foxing, small marginal burn-hole in c4, errata on u2v, dedication (gathering *) bound at end, contemporary French Morocco, gilt, covers with black-painted strapwork central oval cartouches ornamented with foliate tools within a black-painted strapwork frame, black-painted border within gilt rules, gilt cover-edges and turn-ins, spine gilt in compartments, the compartments decorated with diaper-patterned gilt rules, forming diamonds alternately painted black, gilt edges, extremities lightly rubbed, unobtrusive wormholes on spine, skilful repairs to spine ends, modern green cloth solander box, 8vo (210 x 130mm. page, 215 x 145mm. binding), Paris, Robert Estienne, 1546.⁂ A stunning copy of the first edition of this didactic poem written in imitation of Vergil's Georgics and dedicated to François I by one of the leading Italian poets of the time, in a handsome French painted Entrelac binding. This copy is from the library of Benedetto Varchi (1503-1565), the Florentine poet and humanist, and correspondent of Alamanni. Robert Estienne's edition of La coltivatione is notable as not only the only book printed by him in his larger italic typeface, but also as the only book that he printed in a modern European language other than French.Provenance: Bened[etto] Varchi (partially-erased inscription on title); -- other early, erased inscriptions on title; Francesco Mainardi of Ferrara (ownership inscription on front free endpaper dated 1792); Michel Wittock (bookplate).Literature: Adams A-409; Mortimer, French 10; Renouard, Estienne p. 68, no. 22 (noting that some copies are without the errata on u2v); Schreiber, Estiennes 88.
![Judaica.- [Mears (Abraham)] The Book of Religion, Ceremonies, and Prayers of the Jews, as Practised in their Synagogues and F](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/175e1d27-5155-4863-91f2-b02a010cc1cf/4637ec1c-58db-4a36-8b97-b02a01197ec0/468x382.jpg)
Lot 42
Judaica.- [Mears (Abraham)] The Book of Religion, Ceremonies, and Prayers of the Jews, as Practised in their Synagogues and Families on all Occasions, 2 parts in 1 vol., woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, ²A2 with short tear into text, ²E1 with hole affecting text, ²G7 with large tear into text and loss to upper corner, occasional soiling and spotting, contemporary calf, covers and final ff. of text detached, rubbed and worn, 8vo, for J. Wilcox, 1738.⁂ The first translation of any part of the Jewish prayer book into English. According to Cecil Roth Mears was 'an apostate member of one of the oldest families of the Ashkenazi community in England', and his 'description of Jewish rites and ceremonies...is of considerable interest, giving as it does a graphic, detailed, and at times not unamusing picture of London Jewish life, in particular, it must be accentuated, the life of the community of the Great Synagogue, in which Mears had been brought up in the first half of the eighteenth century'.
![Owned by an opponent of Darwin.- [Hume (David)] Philosophical essays concerning human understanding. By the author of the Ess](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/175e1d27-5155-4863-91f2-b02a010cc1cf/409cc74a-a0d0-4d61-b2bf-b02a01196aa1/468x382.jpg)
Lot 43
Owned by an opponent of Darwin.- [Hume (David)] Philosophical essays concerning human understanding. By the author of the Essays Moral and Political, first edition, title with woodcut floral ornament, 2ff. publisher's advertisements at end, brief contemporary ink annotation in English to foot of verso of contents f. [pi]2, some spotting or light foxing, occasional light staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, gilt, neatly rebacked, preserving original backstrip in compartments with modern (but to style) burgundy morocco label, [Jessop p.19; Rothschild 1173], 12mo, Printed for A. Millar, opposite Katharine-Street, in the Strand, 1748.⁂ First edition of what would become better known as An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding when reprinted in 1758. Here found with an excellent provenance. Provenance: François Jules Pictet de la Rive (1809-1872), Swiss zoologist and palaeontologist. He wrote a lengthy review of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, of which Darwin commented 'Of all the opposed reviews I think this the only quite fair one, & I never expected to see one' (ink signature 'De la Rive' to front pastedown); René-Édouard Claparède (1832-1871) Swiss anatomist and former assistant to de la Rive (ink 'Edouard Claparede, Champel-Génève' to front free endpaper).
Lot 44
Hume (David) An Enquiry concerning the principles of morals, first edition, first issue (L3 with catchword 'than'), half-title, title with woodcut floral ornament, errata f., 3pp. advertisements at end, occasional spotting, a few small stains, lightly browned, lacking rear endpaper, contemporary speckled calf, gilt, spine in compartments and with ?new (but to style) leather label, joints starting, but holding firm, spine ends chipped, rubbed, [Jessop p.22; Rothschild 1174], 12mo, Printed for A. Millar, over-against Catherine-Street, in the Strand, 1751.⁂ A very good copy of what Hume described as 'incomparably the best' of his own writings (Autobiography, 1777, p.16). It is a reworking of part III of his 'Treatise of Human Nature'.Provenance: Jonathan Pytts, Esq. (large engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown).
Lot 45
Hammond (Samuel) A Guide to the English Pronunciation and Orthography, first edition, lacking front free endpaper, ex-library with ink-stamp to title verso, contemporary calf, upper cover becoming detached, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, printed for T. Field ... and sold by the Author at Nottingham, 1755.⁂ Rare. WorldCat lists only 2, at Nottinghamshire County Library and Yale University.
Lot 46
Trinity College prize bindings.- Shakespeare (William) The Plays...To which are added Notes by Sam. Johnson, 8 vol., first Johnson edition, first issue with Corbet listed as the second bookseller and Johnson's preface unpaginated, all but vol. 1 & 2 with half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece, vol. 3 with worming to lower margin of first few sig., a few times just touching text, vol. 4 with worming up to O5, mostly to upper margin but the occasional worm hole/trace within text, 2P6 with small hole touching printed footnote, vol. 8 with small worm trace to inner gutter of first few ff., some light browning, occasional spotting or light staining, but generally clean copies, 18th century prize bookplate and contemporary calf with arms of Trinity College Dublin to upper and lower covers, spines with red and black morocco labels (little chipped), spines with contents listed in ink manuscript, one or two small worm holes, a few chips to ends and old glue repairs, vol. 4 & 6 covers worn with loss to arms, rubbed and scuffed, some joints split but holding, 8vo, for J. and R. Tonson, C. Corbet [&tc], 1765.⁂ A landmark in Shakespeare studies.
Lot 49
Burney (Frances) Camilla: Or a Picture of Youth, 5 vol., first edition, vol.1 with list of subscribers and advertisement leaf at end, vol. 2 B12 and vol. 3 K2 with marginal tears, vol. 4 D2 with loss to upper margin affecting page numbers, occasional very light browning, bookplate of R. H. Alexander Bennet to front pastedowns, contemporary speckled half calf, spines gilt with green morocco labels, slight chipping to spine ends, light rubbing to covers, corners a little bumped, but an attractive set overall, [Rothschild 550], 12mo, T.Payne...and T.Cadell Jun. and W.Davies, 1796.⁂ A very good copy of Burney's enormously popular novel. The list of subscribers includes a young and unknown Jane Austen (aged 20), as well as Sir Joseph Banks, Edmund Burke, Sir William Chambers, Maria Edgeworth, Warren Hastings (godfather to Austen's first cousin and sister-in-law Eliza de Feuillide), Rev. Thomas Leigh of Adlestrop (cousin of Austen's mother), Nevil Maskelyne, Hannah More, Mrs Piozzi, Mrs Radcliffe, Humphry Repton and Mrs Siddons.Austen was obviously familiar with Fanny Burney's works and, following the issue of Camilla in 1796, in October of that year she began writing a novel titled False Impressions which later became Pride and Prejudice, a title possibly taken from a quotation in Burney's Cecilia. She also refers to Camilla in Northanger Abbey: "'And what are you reading, Miss - ?' 'Oh! It is only a novel!' replies the young lady, while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. "It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language."
Lot 5
Anania (Giovanni Lorenzo d') L'Universale Fabrica del Mondo, overo Cosmografia, collation: Ϯ8 ϮϮ4 a-d4 A-Z Aa-Zz Aaa-Ccc4 Ddd6 (lacking final blank leaf Ddd6), woodcut printer's device on title, 5 engraved maps (one double-page, the rest folding), woodcut head-pieces and initials, damp-staining, some repairs to worming in first few leaves slightly affecting a few letters (including title), contemporary limp vellum decorated by Cesare Vecellio with original drawings in pen and ink, depicting map of Europe and Asia on upper cover and map of Americas "Mondo novo" on lower cover, spine lettered vertically and with scroll design, marbled edges, leather ties renewed, 4to (220 x 160mm.; binding 225 x 170mm.), Venice, Presso il Muschio, 1582.⁂ A stunning copy of Anania's important cosmography, with an exceptional provenance. The maps depict Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas plus a twin-hemisphere world map.Originally owned by the great bibliophile Odorico Pillone (1503-1593) , of Belluno. In 1580 Pillone famously commissioned the painter Cesare Vecellio (1521-1601) to decorate, with drawings or painted fore-edges, the bindings of 172 volumes preserved in his Villa Casteldardo in the Dolomites, in which he had established his studio. Vecellio, was a cousin and pupil of Titian, and worked in his atelier until his death. The present example represents one of only 21 volumes that Vecellio adorned with drawings on the covers.Provenance: Odorico Pillone (1503-1593; cover drawings); Sir Thomas Brooke (1830-1908; bookplate; sold by his heirs in 1957 to Pierre Beres); J.R. Abbey (bookplate; sale Sotheby's 21 June 1967, lot 2091).Literature: Bibliotheque Pillone 132; Sabin 1364; Cordier, Bib. Sinica, I:5.
![[Lamb (Lady Caroline)] Ada Reis, a Tale, 3 vol., first edition, lacking half-titles, occasional foxing or browning, staining](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/175e1d27-5155-4863-91f2-b02a010cc1cf/7a2a9681-669a-4f2c-ade3-b02a011a4f8a/468x382.jpg)
Lot 53
[Lamb (Lady Caroline)] Ada Reis, a Tale, 3 vol., first edition, lacking half-titles, occasional foxing or browning, staining to vol.3 title, ink ownership name and bookplate of John Congreve, contemporary half calf, spines gilt in compartments, a little rubbed, [Garside, Raven and Schowerling 1823:52], each volume preserved in custom drop-back box, large 12mo, John Murray, 1823.⁂ The third and last novel by the Anglo-Irish Lamb, rare. Though famous during her lifetime and after for her affair with Lord Byron, Lamb's novels are notable for their imagination, scholarly approach and embodiment of the Romantic milieu it which they were written: Ada Reis was inspired by friends of Byron, dedicated to the literary hostess Lydia White and published by John Murray, Lamb's friend and Byron's former publisher.
Lot 56
Dickens (Charles) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, first edition in original 19/20 parts, part 4 first issue with "visiter" on p.123 and part 5 first issue with "latter" on p.160, 40 etched plates by Hablot K. Browne (part 14 with 2 additional duplicate plates from part 15), parts 1 and 2 plates with publisher's imprint, part 8 plate no.16 third steel with "in" omitted, part 12 plate no.23 with "Mr" present, part 15 plate no.29 third impression, most front adverts present (part 11 without "New books for Children" yellow paper slip; part 18 lacking pp.7-10, 15-16 from "Nickleby Advertiser"), most back adverts present except part 16 (additionally part 1 with additional advert "Ripon & Burton's Furnishing Ironmongery"; part 7 lacking "immense Saving in the purchase of Tea"; part 8 lacking Mechi's catalogue; part 12 lacking "New and Popular Works by Tyas"; part 15 lacking "Mr Adolphus History of England"; Part 19/20 with 3 seal wafers present), plates occasionally browned or offset, part 15 front adverts loose, original pictorial wrappers, some repairs and restorations to spines and joints, some joints split or chipped, lightly soiled and chipped at edges, but very good generally, preserved in custom drop-back box (lightly faded), [Hatton & Cleaver, 131- 160], 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1838-39.
Lot 57
Dickens (Charles) Dombey and Son, first edition in the original 19/20 monthly parts, early issue of part 11 ("Capatin" for "Captain" on p. 324, final line), both early and late issue points in part 14 ("431" present on p. 431 but "if" omitted on p. 426, line 9), part 19/20 with the 8-line errata, 40 plates by Hablot K Browne, most front adverts present (parts 3 & 4 with additional slips, part 8 lacking pp.7-8 of "Dombey & Son Advertiser"), most back adverts present (part 4 lacking "Lett's Diaries" advert & specimen leaves, part 6 lacking "Portrait of a Horse" and "Introduction to Zoology" adverts, part 8 with additional advert at rear for "Heath's Illustrated New Testament" and additional slip, part 9 lacking "Just Published..." adverts, part 15 with 10 of 18 Diary specimen ff.), all other slips and advertisements as called for, occasional light spotting, mainly to plates, original printed blue wrappers, some ink ownership names to wrappers and plates verso, some spines repaired (part 19/20 spine rebacked), some light soiling and nicks to extremities, a clean and excellent set overall, [Hatton & Cleaver pp.227-25], 8vo, Bradbury & Evans, 1846.
Lot 58
Dickens (Charles) Bleak House, first edition in the original 19/20 parts, 39 plates by H.K. Browne only (of 40, lacking "frontispiece" to part 19/20), with the explanation of the accident to plate 17 in part 9, front adverts all present of "The Bleak House Advertiser" (parts 3, 6, 7 and 14 lacking slips), most back adverts present (parts 2, 3, 16 and 18 lacking slips, and part 1 with Waterlow and Son's variant advert 'A', lacking "Mott" and "Camomile" advertisements, part 2 lacking "Waterlow", part 5 lacking "Edward Lloyd's", part 6 lacking pp.3-4 of "The Oak Life Insurance", part 7 lacking "London Weekly Paper", part 16 lacking pp.3-6 of "Clarke, Beeton and Co.'s"), all other slips and advertisements otherwise as called for, plates browned or offset, some occasional light soiling, original wrappers, soiling to part 1 wrapper, part 19/20 spine broken, some back wrappers detached, chipped and nicked to edges, spines worn with portions of loss, still overall a very good and unrestored copy, [Hatton & Cleaver pp.273-304], preserved in custom drop-back box, 8vo, 1852-53.
Lot 59
Dickens (Charles) The Mystery of Edwin Drood, first edition in original 6 monthly parts, 14 wood-engraved plates after Luke Fildes, earliest issue of part 6 with the "eighteenpence" slip over the one shilling price on the upper wrapper, most front adverts present (part 1 lacking 8pp. and part 3 lacking 4pp. of "Edwin Drood Advertiser"), most rear adverts present, including part 2 with the rare fragile "Cork Hat" slip and part 4 with 2pp. rear adverts in duplicate, (part 1 lacking "Henry Brett & Co.", part 3 lacking slip, part 5 lacking "Weekly Journal" and slip), occasional spotting, original wrappers, neat repairs and restoration to spines and edges, occasionally affecting text to inner or outer wrapper, part 1 rebacked and upper wrapper with repaired portion of loss to fore-edge, the odd light spot or mark to covers, preserved in custom half morocco drop-back box (spine sunned, a little rubbed), [Eckel pp.96-98; Hatton & Cleaver pp.373-384], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1870.
Lot 60
Dickens (Charles) The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, first edition in book form, half-title, additional etched title and 39 plates by "Phiz", plates with foxing and browning but text generally clean, original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, one corner slightly damaged and small nick at head of lower joint, [Smith I, 7; Eckel p.71], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1844.⁂ Overall a very good copy with the etched title-page reading "100£" on the signpost.
Lot 61
Dickens (Charles) Great Expectations, "new edition in one volume", half-title, frontispiece, title with vignette illustration, bookplate of Frank O. Rowland to front pastedown, original cloth, spine gilt, spine faded, rubbed, some light bumping and slight fraying to spine tips and corners, but a very good copy generally, 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1863.⁂ A rare edition that may constitute a second issue of the second edition, seemingly not recorded by Margaret Cardwell. The first one-volume edition was published in 1862, this edition appears largely similar to that except for the later date on the title and the lack of advertisements at the end.
Lot 64
Stevenson (Robert Louis) Treasure Island, first edition, colour frontispiece, occasional light finger-soiling, 8pp. publisher's advertisements at end, W.H. Smith embossed library stamp to endpapers, original rust cloth, recased with some repairs to spine ends, spine faded, preserved in custom drop-back box, 8vo, 1883.⁂ First issue with the following points: "Dead Man's Chest" not capitalized on pp.2 & 7; "rain" for "vain" on last line of p.40; "a" missing on p.63, line 6; missing 8 p.83. The "7" on p.127 is larger and bolder; period dropped from p.178, line 20 ; "worse" for "worst" on p.197, line 3.
Lot 65
Stevenson (Robert Louis) Kidnapped, first edition, first issue, half-title, folding colour map, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, slight spotting to title and elsewhere, original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slight rubbing to joints and some shelf-lean, 8vo, 1886.⁂ A very good copy with the following issue points: with "business" instead of "pleasure" on p. 40, line 11, "nine o'clock" instead of "twelve o'clock" on p. 64, line 1, and "Long Islands" instead of "Long Island" on p. 101, lines 9/10. Additionally the publisher's catalogue is dated "5G.4.86" and "5B.4.86".
Lot 66
Stevenson (Robert Louis) Kidnapped, first edition, first issue with "business" on p.40 and all other issue points, frontispiece, 16pp. publisher's advertisements at rear (some pages unopened), occasional light finger-soiling, original cloth, lightly rubbed and marked, [Prideaux p. pp.45-49], preserved in custom drop-back box, 8vo, 1886.
Lot 68
Flaubert (Gustave) Madame Bovary, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, first English edition, frontispiece and 5 plates, 2pp. of advertisements at front (unopened at top edge), without 24pp. publisher's catalogue for 1886 at end as often, contemporary ink ownership inscription to title and p.1, original cloth, spine faded, ends a little creased and frayed, corners bumped, 8vo, 1886.⁂ First English edition of Flaubert's first novel with the translation by socialist activist and youngest daughter of Karl Marx, Eleanor Marx-Aveling.
![Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) [The War Speeches], 7 vol., first editions, half-titles, frontispieces and plates, ink owners](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/175e1d27-5155-4863-91f2-b02a010cc1cf/a35df224-5ca5-4e81-90fd-b02a01195809/468x382.jpg)
Lot 70
Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) [The War Speeches], 7 vol., first editions, half-titles, frontispieces and plates, ink ownership name to title of Secret Session, the odd patch of foxing but generally clean, attractive modern crushed blue half morocco, spines gilt in compartments with red morocco labels, [Woods A66a, A89, A94, A101, A107, A112 & A114], 8vo, 1941-46.
Lot 71
Early report on the Holocaust.- Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland (The), original printed stapled wrappers, some slight rust-staining, but a very good copy generally, Hutchinson, for the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, [1943]; with the First Day Cover and stamp issued to commemorate the report by Polish postal services in 2020, 8vo (2)⁂ The first official announcement of the Final Solution, the systematic mass-murder of Jews by the Nazis, which led to the Holocaust. The pamphlet is based on reports filed by Jan Karski, a Polish secret agent who operated in Nazi-occupied Poland. From 1940 to 1942, Karski witnessed the extermination of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Belzec death camp and in other locales, and reported back to the exiled Polish Government in London. The pamphlet also contains the full text of "Raczynski's Note", a letter by Edward Raczynski, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, delivered to the 26 government signatories of the Declaration by United Nations on 10th December 1942, introducing the reality of the Holocaust to the world. Raczynski is commemorated on the stamp of the First Day Cover.
Lot 73
Boxing.- Mendoza (Daniel) Memoirs of the Life...and an Account of the Numerous Contests in which he has been engaged, list of subscribers, folding engraved plate trimmed close and with splits at folds, clean tear to first leaf of subscribers, title a little soiled, occasional foxing and a few minor marginal tears, hinges weak, contemporary half calf, rubbed, spine worn and label chipped, 8vo, Printed for D. Mendoza, by G. Hayden, 1816.⁂ Mendoza was the first Jewish bare-knuckle champion who, although of relatively small stature (5' 7" and 160lbs) was in prime physical condition and combined a 'scientific' approach to boxing with very rapid, rather than hard, punching to beat his opponents - a great change from the mauling style used up until his time. He defeated Richard Humphries (depicted in the folding plate) and was considered the best heavyweight in England, defending the title twice before losing to 'Gentleman' Jackson in 1795. He wrote The Art of Boxing, published in 1789, considered the first book to discuss ringcraft.Provenance: Philip S. Henry (bookplate).
![Chess.- Damiano de Odemeira. [The Pleasaunt and wittie Playe of the Cheasts renewed], first edition in English, translated by](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/175e1d27-5155-4863-91f2-b02a010cc1cf/deb63422-08e1-4bae-a52c-b02a01189d8b/468x382.jpg)
Lot 74
Chess.- Damiano de Odemeira. [The Pleasaunt and wittie Playe of the Cheasts renewed], first edition in English, translated by James Rowbothum, printed in black letter, woodcut diagrams, lacking first and last gatherings (* and G, each 4ff.) and A1, title supplied in facsimile, some leaves in sig.B misbound, marginal damp-staining, inner margins repaired, modern calf, gilt spine with red morocco label, [STC 6214], 8vo, [Printed...by Roulande Hall, for James Rowbothum], 1562.⁂ The first work in English on the game of Chess. Extremely rare. ESTC locates 4 copies in British Isles and 6 in N. America. Rare Book Hub cites the last copy at auction in 1967 although there was also a complete copy in the Richard Ford sale at Phillips in 1985 (£2,500 hammer) but none other since that we know of.Included in this lot is a photocopy of an article in The Chess Collector, vol.IV no.2 on this work, its publishing history and rarity, by Michael Mark; and a EEBO editions softback facsimile of the work.Despite its faults, this is an important book and reflects the new promotion of the Queen to "the best piece on the chessboard... because that the game is seldome wonne, after that she is once lost." A7v
Lot 75
Chess.- Friedmann (David) Koepfe beruehmter Schachmeister, one of 50 copies, 12 lithograph portraits only (of 14), each signed in pencil by the artist and within mounts as issued, lithograph vignette title (browned and chipped), limitation leaf and text leaf, all loose as issued in original portfolio, some mounts worn, one badly stained, but portraits generally clean, original vellum-backed decorative boards with title label to upper cover, folio, [?Berlin], c.1923.⁂ It is believed that only 6 sets, including this one, of the original 50 copies survive, at least 2 of which are incomplete and 3 of which are in institutional collections. Friedmann (1893-1980) studied painting with Lovis Corinth and graphic arts with Hermann Struck. He served as a war artist for the Austro-Hungarian army in WW1 and afterwards became a successful portraitist. In 1938 he fled to Prague with his wife and young daughter leaving behind his art collection but in 1941 the family were deported to the Lodz Ghetto in Poland. The gestapo confiscated over 2000 of his drawings, watercolours and oils in Berlin and Prague. He was separated from his family in August 1944, deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and other concentration camps, survived but tragically his family did not. He became an American citizen in 1960, dropping the second 'n' in his surname and continued producing art and portraits. The subjects of this portfolio are Lasker, Rubinstein, Selesnieff, Bernstein, Tarrasch, Tartakower, Gruenfeld, Bogoljubow, Wolf, Reti, Spielmann and Teichmann, The portraits of Euwe and Walter are missing. Teichmann and Bernstein (whose names are on slips pasted over 2 other original names in the contents list) were not participants in the 1923 Ostrava international tournament on which the idea for the portfolio was first based. Various print-outs of articles and references to the portfolio, including letters from Friedmann's daughter about other copies, are included in the lot.
Lot 92
Adams (Richard) Watership Down, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "To Jessie and Derek Hinich with best wishes from Richard Adams January 1973" on front free endpaper, folding map at end, original cloth, dust-jacket, very light surface scuff to spine head, otherwise remarkably fine, 8vo, 1972.⁂ Inscribed to friends of the author, Adams knowing the recipient Derek through their positions in the Department of Environment in the Civil Service.
Lot 93
Buchan (John) The Thirty-Nine Steps, first edition, 2pp. publisher's advertisements at end, light ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, very light foxing or toning to half-title and few other pages, original cloth, spine faded, corners lightly bumped, expertly recased with neat repairs to spine ends, preserved in custom drop-back box, 8vo, 1915.
Lot 94
Chandler (Raymond) Farewell, My Lovely, first edition, light spotting to endpapers and edges, 'A Note on the Type' f. adhesion tearing to foot from removal of label, original cloth, some light bumping and fraying to tips of spine and corners, dust-jacket, light fading to spine, spine ends and corners chipped affecting imprint at foot of spine, some adhesion tearing and marking to spine, light staining to lower panel, light rubbing to extremities, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Bruccoli A2], 8vo, New York, 1940.⁂ Chandler's second novel and the first to be adapted for film.
Lot 99
Donaldson (Julia) A Squash and a Squeeze, first edition, illustrations by Axel Scheffler, original pictorial boards, spine faded, otherwise fine, 4to, 1993.⁂ The author's first book, rare in commerce. Due to the infrequency of its appearance in commerce, is likely to have had a very limited print run. It also marks the first collaboration between the author and illustrator, whose partnership would later go on to create The Gruffalo, Stick Man, Zog and Room on the Broom amongst others.
![Turrecremata (Johannes de) Quaestiones Evangeliorum de tempore et de sanctis, 2 parts in 2 vol., collation: I: [a10 b-z8] II:](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/175e1d27-5155-4863-91f2-b02a010cc1cf/79b125fb-f726-4ea0-aee9-b02a0118a1cb/468x382.jpg)
Lot 1
Turrecremata (Johannes de) Quaestiones Evangeliorum de tempore et de sanctis, 2 parts in 2 vol., collation: I: [a10 b-z8] II: [A10 B-K8 L M10], 286 ff. of 288 (lacking fol. 187 and 288, both blank; with fol. 1 blank), 35 lines, Gothic type, initials in red (part. 1 some with marginal flourishes), paragraph-marks and initial-strokes in red, f.286 with faint ink library stamp to verso and small marginal paper repair, scattered ff. with light marginal damp-stains, some instances of minor soiling, later blind-stamped calf (not uniform), folio (278 x 193mm.), Nuremberg, Friedrich Creussner, 1478.⁂ Second or third edition of this interpretation of the gospels by the Spanish Dominican Juan de Torquemada. The first edition was published in Rome 1477 by Johannes Schurener de Bopardia, followed by two editions in 1478; ours and that by Petrus in Altis, de Olpe in Cologne. Torquemada was Cardinal of St. Sixtus from 1439, and was an important figure at the councils of Basel and Florence. He was the uncle of the Grand Inquisitor Tomas de Torquemada. Provenance: Franciscans of Ingolstadt (ink inscription at head of fol.2). Literature: BMC II, 450; Goff T-564; Hain 15711 & 15712; GW M48299; Bod-inc T-287; BSB-Ink T-565; ISTC it00546000.
Lot 100
Du Maurier (Daphne) Rebecca, first edition, cut signed presentation inscription from the author "With best wishes from Daphne du Maurier" laid down to pastedown, light toning, original cloth, spine lightly faded and ends lightly bumped, dust-jacket, lightly faded, tears repaired and expert paper restorations and retouching, heavier to spine and joints, still in effect an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1938.
Lot 102
Ekwensi (Cyprian) Beautiful Feathers, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author on title, small ink smudge to title (not to inscription), original boards, slight toning to upper edge, spine tips a little bumped, dust-jacket, very light toning to spine, short nick to head of lower panel, light rubbing and creasing to spine tips and corners, some light surface soiling to lower panel, but an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1963.⁂ A good association copy, inscribed to Adelaide McGuinn Cromwell Hill (1919-2019), an African-American pioneer who co-founded the African Studies Center at Boston University in 1959, was the first African-American instructor at Hunter College and at Smith College and was appointed as the first African-American Library Commissioner for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1974.
Lot 103
Fleming (Ian) Casino Royale, first edition, first impression, light spotting to edges and endpapers, ink inscription to front fee endpaper, crease to pp.17-18, original black boards with heart motif in red to upper cover, spine lettered in red, slight shelf-lean, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, first issue dust-jacket without Sunday Times review, price-clipped, slight dulling to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped with chip to head of spine touching author's name, small portion of insect damage to upper fore-edge, lower panel with light spotting and browning, 1 or 2 very short nicks to head and foot of upper panel with some light creasing but a very good copy overall, 8vo, 1953.
Lot 106
Ford (Ford Madox) "Ford Madox Hueffer". The Good Soldier, first edition, first issue, with London publisher listed above that in New York and this work listed as "The Saddest Story" in the advertisements, light crease to half-title, pp.21-22 with subtle repair to head, occasional light spotting, the odd light stain, mostly marginal, endpapers a little browned, original cloth, lightly rubbed, covers a little bowed and darkened, some neat repairs to spine, [Connolly 27], 8vo, 1915.⁂ "This is the saddest story I have ever heard". One of the great novels of the 20th century, and a landmark in modernist writing.
Lot 107
Forester (C.S.) The African Queen, first American edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "G. Belcher from C. S. Forester" on front free endpaper, light scattered spotting, original cloth, recased with some repairs to spine ends, lightly rubbed, preserved in custom drop-back box, 8vo, Boston, 1935.
Lot 11
Pufendorf (Samuel) De Rebus a Carolo Gustavo Sveciæ rege gestis Commentariorum ..., first edition, additional engraved title, 12 engraved portrait plates, 113 only (of 115) engraved double-page plates, plans and maps, large panorama bound upside-down, engraved illustrations, engraved initials, head- and tail-pieces, I3 becoming loose, 3Y1 with tear into text and neat old repair, 2Z1 with small marginal hole, 4K1 with short marginal tear affecting odd letter, bookplates, contemporary calf, rubbed, bumping to corners and spine extremities, small tears to spine head, folio, Nuremberg, 1696.⁂ Including the large panorama of Stockholm, which depicts the funeral procession of Charles X Gustav. Provenance: Bookplate of Lord Walpole of Woolterton; and of Mannington Hall.
Lot 110
Greene (Graham) Loser Takes All, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "For Eddie - this complete abortion, but I'm so tired of Good + Evil. with love, Graham, Jan 30 1955" on front free endpaper, lightly spotted, manuscript correction in later hand to p.81, original cloth, spine and top edge lightly faded, dust-jacket, one short closed tear to upper panel tail repaired with tape verso, otherwise a very sharp and bright copy, [Wobbe A34], 8vo, 1955.⁂ An intriguing inscription to Edward Sackville-West, referencing Greene's first published departure from his usual moralist themes to an experiment with comedy. Though Greene and Sackville-West missed each other at Oxford, their literary careers overlapped from the mid-20s, and both converted to Catholicism. Sackville-West was one of very few whose literary opinion Greene respected. Loser Takes All is thus "an attempt to link comedy (especially satire, parody and burlesque) to the religious thriller" - Wobbe p.102.
Lot 115
Hughes (Ted) Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, number 57 of 140 copies signed by the author, this copy with additional signed presentation inscription to the Hungarian poet János Csokits and additionally signed below by Olwyn Hughes, original limp vellum, lettered in gilt, acetate dust-jacket slipcase (some slight rubbing to extremities), Rampant Lions Press for the Rainbow Press, 1973; The Burning of the Brothel, one of 300 copies, this unnumbered, signed presentation inscription from the author to Olwyn Hughes to endpaper, title on Japanese paper, woodcut illustrations printed in colours, original wrappers, Turret Books, 1966; and 2 others by Hughes, one signed, v.s. ⁂ A pair of lovely association copies, the first inscribed to János Csokits (1928-2011) with whom Hughes collaborated in translating the poems of János Pilinszky, the other to his sister Olwyn.
Lot 118
Kuznetsov (Anatoly) Babi Yar, first English uncensored edition, translated by David Floyd, signed presentation inscription from the author "To Mr M. G. Millard - with very best wishes for the invaluable help he has given me. A Anatoli. 14/xii 1970 London" to half-title, a few spots to endpapers, original boards, some light fading and slight bowing to covers, dust-jacket, very light fading to spine, slight rubbing to spine tips and corners, very short nick to foot of upper panel, an excellent example, 8vo, 1970.⁂ An inscribed copy of the soviet writer Kuznetsov's most acclaimed work in its complete, unredacted form. We can trace no other signed examples. Kuznetsov grew up Kiev district of Kurenivka in modern-day Ukraine near the large Babi Yar ravine which would become infamous as the site of a number of massacres carried out by the Nazi regime. Ultimately between 100,000 and 150,000 people were murdered at the ravine and buried there in mass graves. Kuznetsov's novel was born out of the notes he began taking while a child growing up in the area and hearing rumours of the killings. The novel was first published in Yunost magazine in 1966 and then in shortened form in 1967. It was not until Kuznetsov's defection to the UK in 1968 that he could publish he preferred, unredacted, edition in book form complete with passages that were highly-critical of the Soviet regime.
Lot 119
Lawrence (Margery) Master of Shadows, first edition, author's own copy with her ink ownership inscription and address to endpaper, followed by the name and address of her agent, Lawrence Pollinger and an additional note in her hand to the head of the contents p. "Miss Lawrence considers 'Saloozy' the most likely plot for filming", foxing to rear endpapers, some edge-spotting, original boards, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, light sunning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, spine tips a little creased, light rubbing to extremities, a very good example overall, 8vo, 1959.⁂ The author's own copy of this scarce collection of tales featuring the occult detective Dr. Miles Pennoyer.
Lot 121
Lewis (Clive Staples, writer and scholar, 1898-1963) 2 Autograph Letters signed Clive S Lewis to Cyril H. Hartman, an important correspondence on the proposed formation by Lewis, Hartman and Pasley of a literary coterie at Oxford: the first 6pp. & envelope, 8vo, Strandtown, Belfast, 25th July 1919, lamenting that he has had to go to Belfast for a "family circle" because his brother is leaving to go to Jamaica, taking a side swipe at "Sitwellism" before discussing an undergraduate theatrical project in ?Oxford, "... I am driven to the conclusion that we must rally round the theatre. The first play produced at this new place must be by one of us, preferably by you, it must be play we would like to have written if we didn't", suggesting a play by Hartman called Pauline, "we should get hold of lion-guests: Masefield is good and solid and we may hope for Yeats", folds; the second 3pp., sm. 4to, Oxford, University College, 1st September 1919, a wide ranging letter touching on various subjects, including, referring to a letter from Rodney Pasley about writing, "I wonder will the afterborn publish it as a blue-book when they look back and recognise us as one of the great formative influences of the 29th century?", his view at the time of the protestant church, "the consistent failure and approaching dissolution of the protestant Church", discussing the Sitwells, "It is no use to attack 'The Swiss family Sitwell' unless we offer something in its place", a discourse on literature, "Eccentricity is continually threatening to swallow literature... You say that we shall certainly not find a banner - but I think that the trouble is that we are beginning at the wrong end", and his annoyance with Pasley, "I am very sorry that Pasley published the 'Circus' it is quite unworthy of him", folds; together with 3 other pieces, comprising: (1). Pembroke College Martlets and University College, Oxford Martlets, printed menu signed "C.S. Lewis" and several others, in pencil, on card, ribbons on spine, 8vo, 9th March 1920 (2). Pasley (Rodney Marshall Sabine, university friend of C.S. Lewis, writer and editor, schoolteacher, 1899-1982) 2 Autograph Letters signed to Cyril H Hartman, together 8pp. & 1 envelope, 8vo, Barton-on-Sea, Hampshire, August & 12th December 1919, about publishing an annual poetry volume, and his suggestion of calling it the Yearlings, disagreeing with Lewis's and Hartman's ideas on literature, "I am delighted to be able to disagree with both yourself and Lewis about having some 'definite banner' to march under. We are not all going to march in the same direction," and to prove his point, he confesses that he has just published his poem, The Circus in the Monthly Chapbook, "You remarked when you read it, that it was just what the Sitwell crowd would like to write," folds, 4to and 8vo (5 pieces).⁂ A fine group of early CS Lewis letters and related material hinting at his later involvement with the more famous "Inklings" of which Tolkien too was a member. "In Oxford a small college club, the Martlets, encouraged the literary and dialectical interests Lewis had been able to pursue while recovering from his wounds [from the First World War] in hospital. He met W. B. Yeats and formed lasting links with Owen Barfield, who became his solicitor and philosopher-critic." - Oxford DNB.Provenance: Private UK collection.
Lot 124
Lewis (C.S.) The Great Divorce, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author dated June 1946 with 5-stanza autograph poem "The Meteorite" to front free endpaper, original cloth, spine slightly darkened, some light marking to covers, 8vo, 1945.⁂ Lewis' Christian novella, with his allegorical poem "The Meteorite", first published in journal form in 1946. The version of the poem here contains a few differences to those found in print and indicates that Lewis continued to tinker with the poem after publication.
Lot 127
Lewis (C.S.) The Silver Chair, first edition, illustrations by Pauline Baynes, light browning to pictorial endpapers, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, lightly discoloured, dust-jacket, laminated with some tape repairs, spine and lower cover browned, light surface soiling and bumped to edges, still overall a bright copy, 4to, 1953.
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