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Kipling, Rudyard The Jungle Book London: Macmillan, 1894. First edition, 2nd printing ["First edition May 1894, reprinted Jun

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Kipling, Rudyard The Jungle Book London: Macmillan, 1894. First edition, 2nd printing ["First edition May 1894, reprinted June 1894"], plates, ownership inscription of Marion Isabel Durand July 1894 on blank leaf before half-title, original blue cloth gilt, g.e., hinges splitting, somewhat rubbed and soiled;The Second Jungle Book. London: Macmillan, 1895, first edition, plates, ownership inscription "Maria Durand, Xmas '95" on recto of blank leaf before half-title, original blue cloth gilt, g.e., hinges slightly split, somewhat rubbed and soiled

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[East Indies Sailing Directory] A New Directory for the East-Indies containing I. The First Discoveries made in the East Indi

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[East Indies Sailing Directory] A New Directory for the East-Indies containing I. The First Discoveries made in the East Indies by European Voyages and Travellers. II. The Origin, Construction and Application of Nautical and Hydrographical Charts. III. The Natural Causes ... of the Constant and Variable Winds ... throughout the East-India Oceans and Seas. IV. A Description of the Sea Coasts, Islands Rocks ... etc. in the Oriental Navigation. V. Directions for navigating in the East-India Seas ... VI. Directions for sailing to and from the East-Indies ... The whole being a Work originally begun upon the Plan of the Oriental Neptune, augmented and improved by Mr. William Herbert, Mr. Willm Nichelson, and Others; and now methodised, corrected, and further enlarged, by Samuel Dunn. London: Henry Gregory, 1780. Fifth edition, 4to (28.7 x 20.8cm), contemporary sailcloth stitched over boards, xxxvi 544 pp., engraved plate facing p. 341, engraved headpiece, without frontispiece noted in other copies, with detailed contemporary annotations to pp. 377, 378, 379, 381, 394, 397, 409, 520, 521 (in chapters 'Directions for Sailing toward the China Seas' and 'Directions for Returning from the China Seas'), in at least two different hands (signed J. Rossiter and S. Cooper), old ink-stamp ('S. E. Howell') to head of title-page, ownership inscription to front free endpaper and initial blank, toning, spotting to title-page, plate and adjacent text-leaves, scattered light spotting and soiling elsewhere [ESTC T146275]Note: Note: An engrossing artefact of late 18th-century trade and maritime exploration in the East Indies, containing annotations demonstrating first-hand knowledge of the waters around Java and Sumatra, and retaining an early makeshift covering of crudely stitched sailcloth, in a good state of preservation. Le Neptune orientale, the basis of the work, was first published in 1745; Herbert's New Directory for the East Indies first appeared in 1758. This fifth edition is considerably expanded from all preceding iterations, which all had 144 pages, suggesting that only limited changes if any had been made previously. All editions are rare in libraries and in commerce.

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Impressionism Group of catalogues raisonnés and other reference works 1) Maneti) Denis Rouart et Daniel Wildenstein de l'Inst

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Impressionism Group of catalogues raisonnés and other reference works 1) Maneti) Denis Rouart et Daniel Wildenstein de l'Institut. Edouard Manet. Catalogue raisonné. Lausanne: Bibliothèque des arts, 1975. 2 volumes, folio, original cloth, dust jackets;ii) Edouard Manet. Graphic Works. A Definitive Catalogue Raisonné. Jean C. Harris. New York: Collectors Editions, 1970. 4to, original cloth;2) Degasi) Paul-André Lemoisne. Degas et son œuvre. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1984. 5 volumes, 4to, original blue cloth, illustrated throughout with reproductions of Degas's works;ii) The Notebooks of Edgar Degas. A Catalogue of the Thirty-Eight Notebooks in the Bibliothèque Nationale and Other Collections. Theodore Roeff. Newly revised edition. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1985. 2 volumes, 4to, original pictorial boards;iii) Vente atelier Edgar Degas 1918 - Vente I + II. Degas's Atelier at Auction 1918 - Sales I + II. [And:] Vente atelier Edgar Degas 1919 - Ventes III + IV. Degas's Atelier at Auction 1919 - Sales III - IV. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989. 2 volumes, 4to, original red boards, printed and glassine dust jackets;iv) Degas. The Complete Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes. Jean Adhémar and Françoise Cachin. London: Thames and Hudson, 1986. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket;3) Pissarroi) Wildenstein Institute. Pissarro. Critical Catalogue of Paintings. Milan: Skir/Wildenstein Institute Publications, 2005. First edition, 3 volumes, 4to, original cloth, dust jackets, pictorial slipcase;ii) Camille Pissarro. L'œuvre gravé et lithographié ... catalogue raisonné. Loys Delteil. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1999. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket;iii) Ludovic Rodo Pissarro et Lionelle Venturi. Camille Pissarro. Son art - son œuvre. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989. 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, dust jackets;4) Moneti) Daniel Wildenstein de l'Institut. Claude Monet. Catalogue raisonné. Lausanne: Bibliothéque des arts [-Wildenstein Institute], 1979-99. Volumes 2-5 of 5, 4to, original cloth, volumes 2-4 with dust jackets and slipcases;ii) Daniel Wildenstein. Monet or the Triumph of Impressionism [volumes 2-4: Catalogue raisonné]. Cologne: Taschen/Wildenstein, 1996. 4 volumes, 4to, original cloth, slipcase, retaining original cardboard packing case with handle;5) Renoiri) Renoir. Guy-Patrice et Michel Dauberville. Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles. Paris: Editions Bernheim-jeune, 2007-2010. Volumes 1-3 (of 5), 4to, original cloth, dust jackets;ii) Pierre-Auguste Renoir. L'œuvre gravé et lithographié ... Catalogue raisonné. Loys Delteil. Edited by Alan Hyman. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1999. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket (small nick to rear panel);iii) Renoir. Watercolors and Pastels. Selected with an Introduction and Commentaries by François Daulte. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1959. 4to, original quarter cloth, 24 colour plates, acetate dust jacket;6) Othersi) Marie Berhaut. Gustave Caillebotte. Catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels. Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée avec le concours de Sophie Pietrie. Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 1994. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket, slipcase;ii) Alain Clairet, Delphine Montalant, Yves Rouart. Berthe Morisot 1841-1895. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Montolivet: CERA-nrs éditions, 1997. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket;iii) François Daulte. Alfred Sisley. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Lausanne: Editions Durand-Ruel, 1959. One of 1,200 copies, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket (slightly chipped and toned)Note: Note: Facsimile reprint of the first edition of Lemoisne's definitive catalogue raisonné, originally published in four volumes in 1946-9; the Supplement (volume 5), by Philippe Brame and Theodore and Arlene Reff, is published here for the first time.

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§ Alfred G. Buckham (1879/80-1956) Edinburgh, c.1920 gelatin silver print photograph, 45.8 x 38.5cm, showing an aerial view o

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§ Alfred G. Buckham (1879/80-1956) Edinburgh, c.1920 gelatin silver print photograph, 45.8 x 38.5cm, showing an aerial view of Edinburgh from the north-west, looking towards Salisbury Crags and Arthur's Seat with Edinburgh Castle in the foreground, mounted, framed and glazed, signed and titled by the photographer in pencil on the mount ('Edinburgh, Alfred G. Buckham Capt., late RAF'), oxidisation along edgesNote: Note: Alfred Buckham served as head of aerial reconnaissance for the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War and subsequently as an officer in the RAF. Despite being invalided out of the RAF after several near-fatal crashes that left him permanently disabled, he went on to achieve renown as a photographer specialising in aerial views 'of such poetic sweep and majesty that ... they remain singular achievements in the art of aerial image making' (American Photographer, August 1989).

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Huxley, Aldous Brave New World London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original blue cloth,

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Huxley, Aldous Brave New World London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original blue cloth, top edge dyed blue, dust jacket, spine rolled, a few spots to edges of text-block, dust jacket chipped with partial loss of text on spine

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Woolf, Virginia 10 works The Years. London: The Hogarth Press, 1937. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, dust-jack

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Woolf, Virginia 10 works The Years. London: The Hogarth Press, 1937. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket by Vanessa Bell, some chipping and slight loss to jacket, hinges split;Flush. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933. First American edition, 8vo, original brown cloth, without dust-jacket;Roger Fry, a biography. London: The Hogarth press, 1940. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, a little loss and tearing to dust-jacket;Between the Acts. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941. First American edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, without dust-jacket;The Death of the Moth. London: The Hogarth Press, 1942. Second edition, 8vo, some chipping and slight loss to dust-jacket;The Moment, and other essays. London: The Hogarth Press, 1947. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth gilt, some slight loss to dust-jacket spine;The Captain's Death Bed. London: The Hogarth Press, 1950. 'Uniform edition', 8vo, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket price-clipped;A Writer's Diary. London: The Hogarth Press, 1953. First edition, 8vo, original orange cloth, dust-jacket only very slightly chipped;The Waves. London: The Hogarth Press, 1955. Eighth impression, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, some minor chipping to dust-jacket;Granite & Rainbow. London: The Hogarth Press, 1958. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, torn dust-jacket with some loss

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Stein, Sir Aurel Two works On Alexander's Track to the Indus. Personal Narrative of Explorations on the North-West Frontier o

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Stein, Sir Aurel Two works On Alexander's Track to the Indus. Personal Narrative of Explorations on the North-West Frontier of India. London: Macmillan & Co., 1929. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece, plates, 2 coloured folding maps at end, original red-brown cloth, with embossed gilt medallion on front cover, t.e.g.;On Central-Asian Tracks. London: Macmillan & Co., 1935. First edition, 8vo, plates, some coloured, folding map, original red-brown cloth with embossed gilt medallion on front cover, dustwrapper strengthened on verso, price-clipped and with a couple of tears repairedNote: Note: Very good copies. Inspired by Sven Hedin, Stein took part in several expeditions in Central Asia, gathering numerous artifacts and antiquities. The British Library's Stein collection of Chinese, Tibetan and Tangut manuscripts, Prakrit wooden tablets, and documents in Khotanese, Uighur, Sogdian and Eastern Turkic is the result of his travels. Loosely inserted is a New Year card from Rt. Hon. Leo Amery, Secretary of State for India and Burma 1940-45.

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[Egyptology] - Carter, Howard Three letters written to Howard Carter, with his signature 1) Addressed 22nd March 1929, typed

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[Egyptology] - Carter, Howard Three letters written to Howard Carter, with his signature 1) Addressed 22nd March 1929, typed letter in French from H. de Bildt of the Royal Swedish Legion in Egypt, thanking Carter for his permission to make an alabaster copy of the King's Wishing Cup but explaining that there is no craftsperson able to undertake the work, before discussing the possibility of taking a mould of the cup, with a signed autograph note by Howard Carter to the lower margin reading "Thank you for your ? & I am in agreement with the above, Howard Carter, 22nd March 1929", 21.5 x 27cm;2) Addressed 19th November 1929, typed letter in French from Gaultier, Inspector General of the Service des Antiquités, requesting two series of enlarged photographs of the antiquities of Tutankhamun's tomb, with a signed autograph note by Howard Carter in blue pencil to the lower margin expressing that he has "no objection to this demand", 16.7 x 20.7cm;3) Addressed 14th March 1931, typed letter in French from Gaultier, Inspector General of the Service des Antiquités, requesting permission for secondary-school teacher, Mr James Silverman, to reproduce some photographs of Tutankhamun's tomb onto glass slides, with Howard Carter's signature to the lower margin dated 21st March 1921 and 'No Objection', 16.7 x 20.7cm;[WITH] 3 hand-coloured lantern slides, depicting The King's Jewellery Box, The King's Diadem, 'King Tut. in his tomb in the outer coffin'Note: Note: The 'King's Wishing Cup' was Howard Carter's name for the lotus, or alabaster, chalice from the tomb of Tutankhamun. It was one of the first discoveries made upon entering the tomb. LOT AMENDMENT: Please note that this no longer contains the 'The King's Wishing Cup' (the lotus chalice) glass lantern slide shown in the photographs.

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Burton, Sir Richard Francis A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome With notices of the so called 'Amazons', the grand customs, t

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Burton, Sir Richard Francis A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome With notices of the so called 'Amazons', the grand customs, the yearly customs, the human sacrifices, the present state of the Slave Trade, and the Negro's place in nature. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1864. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, wood-engraved frontispiece in each volume, contemporary green half morocco, spines gilt

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Moorcroft, William and George Trebeck Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab in Ladakh and Kashmir; i

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Moorcroft, William and George Trebeck Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab in Ladakh and Kashmir; in Peshawar, Kabul, Kunduz, and Bokhara. Prepared for the Press, from Original Journals and Correspondence, by Horace Hayman Wilson. London: John Murray, 1841. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (20.3 x 12.5cm), near-contemporary black half sheep, lithographic frontispieces, folding map, 12 pp. advertisements, contemporary ownership inscription to title-pages, volume 1 lacking leaf a8 (preface pp. xv/xvi), marginal repair to foot of p. liii, folding map with splits and repairs;Little, Archibald. Across Yunnan: a Journey of Surprises including an Account of the Remarkable French Railway Line now completed to Yunnan-fu. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., 1910. First edition in book form, 8vo, original red cloth, 12 halftone photographic plates including frontispiece, folding map, ex-Manchester Public Free Libraries with call number gilt to spine, plate to front pastedown, ink-stamp to verso of title-page, and blind stamps to plates and text;Seebohm, Henry. The Birds of the Japanese Empire. London: R. H. Porter, 1890. Large 8vo, original brown cloth, map frontispiece, wood-engraved illustrations in text, Bolton Libraries ink-stamps and withdrawal stamps to initial blank, title-page and final page of text

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Antiquarian literature Collection of works, 18th century Warton, Thomas. Poems on Several Occasions. London: R. Manby and H.

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Antiquarian literature Collection of works, 18th century Warton, Thomas. Poems on Several Occasions. London: R. Manby and H. S. Cox, 1748. [Bound with:] Richer, Henri. The Life of Maecenas ... Translated by R. Schomberg. London: for A. Millar, 1748. 2 works in one volume, both first editions, 8vo, contemporary sheep, slightly worn, very small worm-track to lower margins in second half of volume, staining to Warton pp. 181-5 [ESTC T125430 & T120687: 10 copies traced world-wide for the second work];Bishop, Samuel. Feriae poeticae: sive carmina anglicana elegiaci plerumque argumenti Latine reddita. London: printed by D. Leach, to be sold by J. Newbery and J. Walter, 1766. 4to, contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, 18th-century ownership inscription of original subscriber Henry Case, later Henry Case-Morewood (c.1747-1825), of Christ's College, Cambridge, clergyman [ESTC T76163: 7 copies in UK libraries];Duhamel du Monceau, Henri-Louis. A Practical Treatise of Husbandry ... The Second Edition, corrected and improved. London: for C. Hitch [and others], 1762. 4to, contemporary sprinkled calf, title-page in red and black, 6 engraved plates (of which 4 folding), folding letterpress table, bookplate of Bryan Cooke of Owston (1756-1821), member of parliament for Malton, Yorkshire, title-page with ownership inscription of his wife Frances Puleston (1765-1818), local philanthropist (her portrait painted by George Romney, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), front joint cracked but holding, rear joint cracked at foot, tips worn, uniform moderate browning, spotting to endpapers and outer leaves [ESTC T82192];Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. A New Edition, with Notes Critical and Explanatory, by Ralph Church, M. A. Late Student of Christ Church, Oxon. London: William Faden, 1758-9. 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, smooth spines gilt-ruled in compartments, errata leaf to each volume, list of subscribers in volume 4, wear to spine-ends, joints variably cracked but firm [ESTC T135123];and 2 others (Cowel, A Law Dictionary, 1708, folio, covers detached, and Journal of the House of Lords for 1818, large folio)Note: Note: The list of subscribers to Warton's work mentions a 'Mr Johnson', believed to be Samuel Johnson (see Eddy & Fleeman 66), and contemporaries including William Blackstone.

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Wrede, Konrad (1865-1947) Streifzüge durch Ceylons Wunderwelt Jahreswende 1893-1894. Hanover: [privately printed], 1939. Firs

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Wrede, Konrad (1865-1947) Streifzüge durch Ceylons Wunderwelt Jahreswende 1893-1894. Hanover: [privately printed], 1939. First edition, number 18 of an unspecified limitation, inscribed by the author to Frau Martha Loewe on the limitation page, 4to, original quarter cloth, mimeographed typescript, [1] 43 [3] leaves, 11 gelatin silver print photographs on 8 stiff card mounts with typescript captions (6 of them 20 x 15.5cm, the others smaller), plain paper dust jacket;Colebrooke, H. T. Miscellaneous Essays. London: Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1837. 2 volumes, 8vo, later quarter cloth, 7 folding lithographic plates (facsimiles of ancient Indian documents and inscriptions), folding letterpress table, bookplate of Pandit Sundar Lal, advocate, high court, Allahabad, worming, plates browned, plate 1 torn along stub;Hasegawa, Denziro. Travel to India with Leica, Tokyo: Meguro Shoten, 1939 (first edition, 4to, original yellow hessian lettered in brown, 213 pp., text in Japanese and English, 192 halftone photographs (on pp. 1-124), folding map, spine rubbed); and 4 others: E. F. Burton, Reminiscences of Sport in India, London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1885 (first edition, 8vo, contemporary quarter cloth, spine rolled, lending library label to front board, 8 lithographic plates, pp. 207/8 and 289/90 loose, a few blemishes and marks); J. D. Rees, H.R.H. The Duke of Clarence and Avondale in Southern India, with a Narrative of Elephant-Catching in Mysore by G. P. Sanderson, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., 1891 (4to, recent red cloth, top edge gilt, xvi 213 pp., 5 autotype photographic portrait plates including frontispiece, 24 photogravure plates, folding map, text-leaves partly unopened, browning, worming (stronger towards front of volume, reducing towards middle), plate facing p. 74 chipped along fore edge, text-leaf I1 with closed marginal tears); Wibraham Egerton, An Illustrated Handbook of Indian Arms ... exhibited at the India Museum, London: William H. Allen & Co., 1880 (first edition, 4to, later cloth, folding map, 15 lithographic plates of which 2 in colours and several folding, original front wrapper bound in, lacking final leaf of index, spotting, tape repairs to half-title and index); and Sir John Malcolm, The Life of Robert, Lord Clive, London: John Murray, 1836 (first edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, modern cloth, engraved portrait frontispiece and folding map, ex-library, not collated)Note: Note: Konrad Wrede was a German army officer, collector and arts patron. No copies of Streifzüge durch Ceylons Wunderwelt traced in libraries. WorldCat cites three copies only of Hasegawa's work in libraries world-wide, with none in the United Kingdom.

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Polar exploration Collection of works Shackleton, Ernest H. The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarc

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Polar exploration Collection of works Shackleton, Ernest H. The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. London: William Heinemann, 1909. First trade edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth lettered and decorated in silver and gilt, top edges gilt, photogravure frontispieces, 3 folding maps and sheet containing 2 folding panoramas loose in end-pocket as issued, errata slip to volume 2, spines sunned, tips bumped, volume 1 spine rolled, volume 2 with small repair to title-page, 'Route ... of the Southern Journey Party' map with short split to foot of central fold and a few small holes to intersections [Rosove 305.B1];Idem. South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917. London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, second impression, 8vo, original black cloth lettered and decorated in silver, all plates as called for, lacking unlisted folding map, mottling to covers, short section of wear to front joint, front inner hinge cracked between initial blank and half-title with webbing visible [Rosove 308.A2];Scott, Robert F. The Voyage of the 'Discovery'. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1905. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, photogravure frontispieces, 182 plates (of which 13 in colour, the rest nearly all photographic, of which 5 double-page), 5 maps (of which 2 folding in end-pockets), extremities rubbed, nicks to spine-ends, corners bumped (a few showing through), half-titles spotted, folding maps with Mudie's Select Library labels verso and variably split along folds [Rosove 262.A1: '3,000 copies said to have been printed'];Nansen, Fridtjof. The First Crossing of Greenland. Translated from the Norwegian. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial cloth blocked in silver, 12 plates including frontispieces, 5 maps, spines sunned and rolled, light fraying to head and foot, tips bumped, map facing volume 1 p. 1 tape-repaired verso;Idem. In Northern Mists. Arctic Exploration in Early Times. London: William Heinemann, 1911. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, later library cloth, tipped-in colour plates, markings of Keighley public libraries;Nordenskiöld, A. E. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe ... Translated by Alexander Leslie. London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, 5 engraved portraits, 10 folding lithographic maps, bindings rubbed and marked, volume 1 spine rolled, inner hinges cracked, a few short closed handling tears to maps, a few other marks;Abruzzi, Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, duke of the. On the "Polar Star" in the Arctic Sea. Translated by William Le Queux. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1903. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt, top edges gilt, 16 plates, 2 folding panoramas, 5 maps, contemporary ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers;Charcot, Jean. The Voyage of the 'Why Not?' in the Antarctic. The Journal of the Second French South Polar Expedition, 1908-1910. English Version by Philip Walsh. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1911]. First edition, 4to, original cloth, all plates as called for, cloth cockled;Payer, Julius. New Lands with the Arctic Circle. Narrative of the Discoveries of the Austrian Ship "Tegetthoff" in the Years 1872-1874. Translated from the German, with the Author's Approbation. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1877. First US edition, 8vo, original cloth, tinted lithographic frontispieces, folding map, cloth mottled, wear to extremities, inner hinges cracked;Peary, Robert E. The North Pole. Its Discovery in 1909 under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1910. Second edition, 4to, original cloth, all plates as called for, damp-staining to covers;and one other (Scott, Scott's Last Expedition, 1913, first edition, first impression, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, incomplete, lacking at least plate facing p. 393 in volume 1)

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Occult - geomancy La Geomance du Seigneur Christophe de Cattan Gentilhomme Genevoys Livre non moins plaisant et recreatif, qu

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Occult - geomancy La Geomance du Seigneur Christophe de Cattan Gentilhomme Genevoys Livre non moins plaisant et recreatif, que d'ingenieuse invention, pour scavoir toutes choses, presentes, passées et à advenir. Avec la Roüe de Pythagoras. Le tout corrigé, et mis en lumiere par Gabriel du Preau. Paris: Jean Corozzet, 1558. First edition, 4to (22.6 x 15.5cm), c.1900 half vellum, woodcut device to title-page, woodcut initials, astrological diagrams, diagram of the wheel of Pythagoras and geomantic tables in text, moderate spotting and soiling (chiefly to outer leaves), initial two quires and final quire (a-2 and 2Y) slightly chipped along edges, old ink-staining in top margins of early leaves (quires a-C; intermittent thereafter; stronger to leaf e4 and causing some paper corrosion), a2-3 misbound after quire e, e1 tipped in, small spill-burn in 2X4 [Adams C1128, with variant imprint]Note: Note: One of the most comprehensive and widely cited works on geomancy, or divination by sand, an occult science with origins in the Arab world. An English edition appeared in 1591.

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Scotland - Parliament - Proceedings [Act of Union] Minuts [sic] of the Proceedings in Parliament Edinburgh: Heirs and Success

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Scotland - Parliament - Proceedings [Act of Union] Minuts [sic] of the Proceedings in Parliament Edinburgh: Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, 1706-1707, Minuts [sic] numbers 1-89, most comprising one leaf, some two, the following Minuts with a folded sheet showing the voting records of the members of Parliament (15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 28, 29, 33, 34, 42, 43, 44, 46,47, 48,52, 55, 56, 57, 60, 62, 65, 68, 82), contemporary half calf, occasional light staining or spotting, rubbed, joints splittingNote: Note: The proposal for the Union of Scotland and England was first debated by the Lords Commissioners during the first half of 1706; their discussions focussed in detail on customs and excise, the legal systems, shipping and the succession to the crown. Once the commissioners had agreed the terms of the treaty, it was the turn of the Scottish Parliament to examine it. The minutes of the proceedings in Parliament from the autumn of 1706 provide an insight into what the politicians were saying. The minutes also state who voted for and against each article.When the draft Treaty of Union was made public in October 1706, there were riots on the streets of Scottish towns and cities. In Edinburgh a 'villanous and outragious mobb' threatened and insulted judges and Members of the Scottish Parliament. The authorities issued a proclamation offering a reward for the capture of the rioters. In November a proclamation was issued 'against all tumultuary and irregular meetings and convocations of the leidges'. In Glasgow, Dumfries and Lanark people were 'insolently burning the Articles of Treaty betwixt our two Kingdoms'. Sheriffs, baillies and magistrates were authorised to take whatever action necessary to quench the riots. On 12th December 1706, Parliament ordered that a pamphlet entitled 'Queries to the Presbyterian noblemen, barons, burgesses, ministers who are for the schem of an Incorporating Union' be burnt by the hand of the common hangman, at the Mercat-cross of Edinburgh.The Scottish Parliament received countless protests against the Union. Yet the authorities issued another proclamation in late December 1706 forbidding 'unwarrantable and seditious convocations and meetings'. Some of the protestors may have been appeased by an Act for securing the Protestant religion and Presbyterian church government. This, along with the Act of Union, was passed in January 1707.The Scottish Parliament adjourned on 25th March 1707. The proclamation dissolving the Parliament was published on 28th April and the new Parliament of Great Britain sat for the first time in Westminster on 1st May. The Scottish Parliament did not meet again until 12th May 1999.The Treaty of Union consisted of 25 articles. Most of them dealt with economic matters, but they also discussed new flags, the great seal and coinage for the United Kingdom of Great Britain. More importantly, the succession to the crown was agreed. The Protestant Hanoverian line of succession was confirmed, Papists' (Catholics or Jacobites) were excluded from inheriting the crown, Scotland retained her own legal and education systems and customs and excise charges were to be the same in both parts of the kingdom, though Scotland would receive a different treatment for a number of commodities.An important article concerned a cash payment, called the Equivalent, to Scotland: nearly £400,000 was used to compensate Scotland for sharing the responsibility for England's national debt of £18 million.From October 1706 until January 1707, the Scottish Parliament met to discuss and to vote on each article in turn. The Court (government) Party won the votes. The printed minutes of the proceedings of the Scottish Parliament report briefly on its proceedings during the last months of its existence. The most passionate speech against the Union was delivered by John Hamilton, 2nd Lord Belhaven, on 2nd November. He begged for an end to 'misunderstandings and fatal divisions'. Belhaven and other nobles such as the Marquis of Annandale and the Duke of Atholl vehemently voiced strong protests in Parliament against the Act, but they were in a minority among their peers. The barons and the burghs were far more evenly divided between those for and those against the Union.Finally on 16th January, the Act ratifying the treaty was passed by 110 votes to 69; the nobility formed the largest pro-Union group. The Scottish Parliament continued to sit until 25th March 1707. The Queen's Commissioner in Scotland, the Duke of Queensberry, ended its proceedings. Minute number 60 records the approval of the Act of Union, and the accompanying folded sheet records the list of Approvers - those voting for the Act - and 'Noes' - those voting against.Bound with Her Majesty's most Gracious Letter to the Parliament of Scotland. Edinburgh: A. Anderson, 1706, folio, 8pp.

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Austen, Jane The Novels The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R. W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes and Illustrat

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Austen, Jane The Novels The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R. W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926. 5 volumes, 8vo (19.2 x 13cm), contemporary half morocco by Ramage, spines gilt in compartments, top edges gilt, facsimiles of first-edition title-pages, 44 halftone plates mainly from Regency-era prints, spines sunned to tan, scuffs to spine of volume 1 and to raised bands of volume 4, a few pale markings to morocco

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Cherry-Garrard, Apsley The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913. London: Constable and Company Limited, 1922. First

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Cherry-Garrard, Apsley The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913. London: Constable and Company Limited, 1922. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. lxiv 300 [4], viii 301-585 [1], original linen-backed blue paper boards, printed paper spine-labels, edges untrimmed, half-titles, 58 plates including colour frontispieces (with tissue-guards) and 10 folding panoramas, 5 maps (4 folding), duplicate spine-label to each volume (tipped to front free endpaper in volume 1, loose in volume 2), retaining binder's blank at rear of volume 2, pencilled ownership inscriptions to half-title of volume 1 and front free endpaper of volume 2, a few marks to covers, spotting to edges, occasionally encroaching on margins, light browning to free endpapers, shallow chip to fore margin of plate facing volume 1 p. 32, map 'From New Zealand to the South Pole' facing volume 1 p. lxiv loose, light spotting to last few leaves of volume 2 [Rosove 71.A1]Note: Note: 'Cherry-Garrard's book has often been referred to as the finest polar book ever written. Scott's diary left many facets of the expedition and the experiences of its men untold: it was Cherry-Garrard who pulled the entire story of the main party together. He was uniquely suited to do so. He was a member of the main party for the expedition's entire duration, had access to unpublished sources, and was the only member of the Winter Journey to survive the expedition. Most of all, he had the sensibilities and extraordinary literary genius necessary to cope with the complex and tragic subject of the Polar Journey ... The book Cherry-Garrard left behind is a monument immortalizing the expedition in the annals of Antarctic exploration and geographic exploration in general' (Rosove).

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Grandpré, Louis Maria Joseph, Comte de A Voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal undertaken in the years 1789 and 1790; cont

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Grandpré, Louis Maria Joseph, Comte de A Voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal undertaken in the years 1789 and 1790; containing an Account of the Seychelles Islands and Trincomale; the Character and Arts of the People of India; with some remarkable religious rites of the inhabitants of Bengal. To which is added, A Voyage in the Red Sea; including a Description of Mocha, and of the trade of the Arabs of Yemen. Translated from the French. London: G. and J. Robinson, 1803. First English edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 6 engraved plates (2 folding), half-titles, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, green morocco lettering pieces, armorial bookplates of Jonathan Pytts Esq.Note: Note: A fine copy of the first English edition.Provenance: The Pytts family owned large estates in Worcestershire and Herefordshire. During the seventeenth century, members of the family sat for various Herefordshire constituencies. Jonathan Pytts inherited a large fortune from his maternal grandfather, Admiral Jonathan Collett who died in 1742. He succeeded his brother Edmund to the Kyre estate in 1781, became Sheriff in 1783, and died without issue in 1807.

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Colour Theory - Hay, David Ramsay A Nomenclature of Colours, Hues, Tints, and Shades, applicable to the Arts and Natural Sci

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Colour Theory - Hay, David Ramsay A Nomenclature of Colours, Hues, Tints, and Shades, applicable to the Arts and Natural Sciences; to Manufactures. Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1845. First edition, 8vo, 40 coloured plates, 8pp. advertisements at end, original brown cloth, a few light spots, some early pencil marginalia, lacks spine, upper board detachedProvenance:Provenance: From the Library of the Glasgow Art Club

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Indian lithographic printing Group of works on science and medicine all in Urdu, lithographed throughout, comprising:Kuhne, L

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Indian lithographic printing Group of works on science and medicine all in Urdu, lithographed throughout, comprising:Kuhne, Louis. Sayins af fayshal iksprishin [Title in English, transliterated into Urdu, i.e. The Science of Facial Expression]. Meerut: Swami Press, 1925. 6 177 pp. only (lacking at least one leaf at rear and rear wrapper, the final page cited by index being p. 179), text in Urdu, lithographed throughout, 20 plates (counted in pagination), of which one folding, stitching fragile and contents working loose, front wrapper and text-leaves browned, plate at pp. 145/6 with closed tear, folding plate bound in upside-down;?Rockwell, G. W. Frinuluji ... musannifuhu Miknesh Sahib ki Urdu tarjuma [Phrenology, translated into Urdu by Miknesh Sahib]. Lahore: Munshi Mahbub 'Alim, 1895. 8vo, contemporary blue half cloth, marbled sides, 184 pp., lithographic illustrations in the text including a portrait of Franz Josef Gall, putative head shapes, cranial conditions (e.g. hydrocephaly), original wrappers bound in, browning, light worming not affecting legibility, bound with 3 other Urdu texts at rear including a trade catalogue of clocks and watches, in English and Urdu, illustrated, 28 pp.);Ram, Beli. Diseases of the Heart and Lungs, in Urdu, by Beli Ram, L. M. S., Assistant Surgeon, in Charge of the Kasur Dispensary. Lahore: Empress Press, 1882. First edition (stated on title-page), 8vo, recent boards, 400 [4] pp., title-pages in English and Urdu, text mainly in Urdu, illustrations in text (occasionally hand-coloured), paper browned and friable, title-pages spotted and slightly chipped, pp. 121-4 misprinted (leaves numbered 123/2 121/4, pp. 123/2 chipped with loss of text, pp. 121/4 repaired), minor paper disruption to pp. 213/14, pp. 325-8 crudely repaired, closed tear to head of last few leaves;[Medicine]. Tibb shihabi manzum Hindi [i.e. Shifa' al-marad by Shihab al-Din al-Nagawri, 14th-century Persian physician, on the treatment of illnesses, translated into Urdu verse]. Daftar Hikmat Hindi. Mumbai: Matba' Haydari, 1300 AH [1883 CE]. 8vo, contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, 64 pp. in 2 parts, text-block detached from binding, browning, light marginal worming, bound with a similar text at rear, Mufid al-ajsam ma'hu fawa'id 'ajabiya, 1883 CENote: Note: Louis Kuhne (1835-1901) was a German naturopath known for his advocacy of vegetarianism and hydropathy; The Science of Facial Expression appears to have been first published in 1917.

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[American Revolution] Mémoires de Paul Jones Où il expose ses principaux services, et rappelle ce qui lui est arrivé de plus

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[American Revolution] Mémoires de Paul Jones Où il expose ses principaux services, et rappelle ce qui lui est arrivé de plus remarquable pendant le cours de la révolution américaine, particulièrement en Europe, écrits par lui-même en anglais, et traduits sous ses yeux par le citoyen André. Paris: Chez Louis, Libraire, rue Saint-Severin, 1798. First edition, 12mo (14.4 x 8.3cm) original blue boards, half-title, engraved frontispiece, ink inscription to front pastedown, tear to half-title, stain upper-right of frontispiece (not affecting illustration), intermittent foxing throughout, lower corners of N7-8 missing, boards rubbed, upper board detached, loss to spine

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Post-impressionism Group of catalogues raisonnés and other reference works 1) Seurati) C. M. de Hauke. Seurat et son œuvre. P

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Lot 185

Post-impressionism Group of catalogues raisonnés and other reference works 1) Seurati) C. M. de Hauke. Seurat et son œuvre. Paris: Gründ, 1961. First edition, one of 550 copies, 2 volumes, 4to, original blue cloth lettered in black, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, printed on papier Arches filigrané, illustrated throughout with reproductions of Seurat's works, volume 1 with indentations to spine and front board and damp-staining to rear board, acetate dust jackets;ii) Les Dessins de Georges Seurat (1859-1891). Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1928. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, 151 plates tipped to 128 numbered mounts, index leaf to each volume, [16] pp. text including title-page in volume 1, all loose as issued in buckram portfolio, portfolios spotted, toning along edges of mounts;2) Cézannei) The Drawings of Paul Cézanne. A Catalogue Raisonné by Adrien Chappuis. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society Ltd., 1973. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original boards, slipcase;ii) The Paintings of Paul Cézanne. A Catalogue Raisonné. John Rewald in Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayune Warman. London: Thames and Hudson, 1996. First UK edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, slipcase;iii) Paul Cézanne. The Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné by John Rewald. A New York Graphic Society Book. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. First edition, 4to, original cloth, slipcase;iv) Lionelle Venturi. Cézanne: son art - son œuvre. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989. 2 volumes, 4to, original boards, dust jackets (with a few nicks);3) Gauguini) Gauguin par Georges Wildenstein. I. Catalogue [all published]. Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, 1964. First edition, one of 3,000 copies, this copy 'imprimé spécialement pour M. Paul Mellon', 4to, original red boards decorated in gilt, dust jacket, tipped-in colour frontispiece, label removed from front pastedown, pencil note to preliminary page;ii) Gauguin. A Savage in the Making. Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings (1873-1888). Milan: Skira/Wildenstein Institute, 2002. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original yellow cloth, dust jackets, slipcase;iii) Gauguin by John Rewald, Paris: Hyperion Press, 1938, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket;4) Van Goghi) Vincent Van Gogh, The Letters, The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition, edited by Leon Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker, London: Thames & Hudson, 2009, 6 volumes, original boards, dust jackets, slipcase, complete with CD-ROM in pocket mounted to rear pastedown of volume 6;ii) Jan Hulsker. The New Complete Van Gogh Paintings, Drawings Sketches. Revised and Enlarged Edition of the Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Vincent Van Gogh. Amsterdam: J. M. Meulenhoff, 1996. Folio, original boards, dust jacket;and 2 others (Jean Bouin-Luce, Denise Bazetoux. Maximilen Luce. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Paris: Editions JBL, 1986. 2 volumes, folio, original cloth, dust jackets (small tear to rear panel of volume 2 jacket; and one on Seurat)

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Pratap Narayan Singh, Maharaja of Ayodhya (1855-1906) Raskusumakar, or a Book on Rhetoric Allahabad: printed at the "Indian P

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Pratap Narayan Singh, Maharaja of Ayodhya (1855-1906) Raskusumakar, or a Book on Rhetoric Allahabad: printed at the "Indian Press", 1894. First edition, 4to, original red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, [2] 10 6 23 [1] 191 [1] 40 6 2 5 9 pp., text in Hindi within decorative pictorial border, title-page in Hindi and English with decorative floral border, 41 halftone plates from photographic portraits or Indian miniature paintings including portrait frontispiece, presentation plate from the author to Norwich Public Library to front pastedown, shelfmark in white ink to spine, spine faded, corners of boards bumped, withdrawal stamp to front free endpaper, title-page wit closed tear to head extending into border, and small section at lower inner corner detached but presentNote: Note: Rare in commerce. Library records call for 38 or 40 plates; the latter count may exclude the frontispiece.

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Bryans, William Antiquities of Cheshire, in Photograph With Short Descriptive Notes: to which are added Views of Several Anci

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Bryans, William Antiquities of Cheshire, in Photograph With Short Descriptive Notes: to which are added Views of Several Ancient Buildings in Shropshire and North Wales. Chesters: Hugh Roberts, 1858. First edition, 4to (37 x 27cm), original half morocco, rebacked, purple cloth sides, [9] 55 pp., 25 mounted albumen print photographs, some stripping and wear to backstrip and corners, variable spotting to mounts and text-leaves, silvering along edges of 'Birth-place of Bishop Wilson' (plate no. 8), very short closed tear to mount of 'Waberton Church' (no. 9), 'Tarvin Church' (no. 17) with a few spots within photograph, hint of silvering to 'South Doorway, Edstaston Church' (no. 25), withdrawn from Chester Reference Library with their plate to front pastedown, withdrawal stamp to initial blank, ink-stamp to title-page, and further small ink-stamps to pp. 3 and 55 [Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature, 83]. Together with: Charles Leigh, The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak, in Derbyshire. with an Account of the British, Phoenician, Armenian, Gr. and Rom. Antiquities in those Parts, Oxford: for the Author, 1700, first edition, folio, 20th-century half morocco, 24 engraved plates, folding map hand-coloured in outline, lacking portrait frontispiece, ex-Chester Reference Library with associated markings, damp-staining towards rear, text not collated

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Fernandez de Avellaneda, Alonso The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote, de la Mancha Containing his Fo

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Fernandez de Avellaneda, Alonso The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote, de la Mancha Containing his Fourth Sally, and the Fifth Part of his Adventures ... With Illustrations and Corrections by the Licentiate Don Isidro Perales y Torres. And now first translated from the Spanish. Swaffham: D. Sudbury, 1805. 3 volumes, 12mo (17.5 x 10cm), contemporary calf, rebacked retaining most of original spines, edges sprinkled red, [2] 4 xliv 340, [2] 4 286, [2] 4 233 pp., covers rubbed, occasional spotting to contents, later ink inscriptions of one Edmund Esdaile (see below) to front endpapers or blanksNote: Note: First and only edition, presentation copy of this rare translation of the unauthorised and pseudonymous continuation of Don Quixote, inscribed 'From the translator to Mrs Esdaile by Brigg Fountaine Esqr' on the title-page of the first volume. Brigg Fountaine alias Price, of Swaffham, Norfolk, died in 1825; little else about him is known. Library Hub traces three copies only in UK and Irish libraries. Avellaneda's work was first published in Spanish in 1614; an English translation first appeared in 1705.

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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842 and 1843. London: E. Moxon, 1844. First edition, 2 vo

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Lot 324

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842 and 1843. London: E. Moxon, 1844. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, half-titles, half brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf, t.e.g., spines gilt, neat signature on front endpapers 'J. Shelley Rolls", spines lightly fadedNote: Note: Rambles in Germany and Italy was Mary Shelley's last full-length work. It is based on letters written during two journeys she made with Percy Florence and several of his friends in 1840 and 1842-1843. Like her first book, History of a Six Weeks' Tour, Rambles is more than a simple travel memoir. It blends Romantic values, female emancipation and political advocacy, and includes Mary's comments on war, national manners, historical perspectives, and political observations.Provenance: Sir John Courtown Edward Shelley-Rolls, 6th Bt. (1871-1961), whose grandfather was John Shelley (1806-66), younger brother of the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822).

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Milne, A. A. [The Pooh books:] When We Were Very Young; Winnie-the-Pooh; Now We Are Six; The House at Pooh Corner. London: Me

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Milne, A. A. [The Pooh books:] When We Were Very Young; Winnie-the-Pooh; Now We Are Six; The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927-26-27-28. 4 works, 8vo, original varicoloured pictorial cloth gilt, top edges gilt, pictorial endpapers and illustrations throughout the text all by E. H. Shepard, WWWVY and THAPC with the dust jackets, WWWVY spine rolled, dust jacket slightly dust-soiled and with fraying to head of spine, WTP spine slightly rolled, light rubbing to extremities, a few faint scuffs and small marks to rear board, customary browning to endpapers, closed tear in pp. 77/8, a few small marks to margins of text, NWAS with light rubbing to extremities, a few internal blemishes and marks, THAPC dust jacket with slight softening and loss to spine-ends, short close tear to foot of rear panel, a few faint marks, covers marked, upper fore corner of front cover bumped, customary browning to free endpapers, inner hinges slightly tender, pp. 5/6 with closed tear in gutter, a few leaves dog-eared, a few other blemishes and marksNote: Note: First editions of Winnie-the-Pooh, Now We Are Six, and The House at Pooh Corner. When We Were Very Young is a fifteenth edition; the work first appeared in 1924.

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Gill, Eric Wood-Engravings Being a selection of Eric Gill's engravings on wood. Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1924. First e

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Gill, Eric Wood-Engravings Being a selection of Eric Gill's engravings on wood. Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1924. First edition, 4to, number 7 of 150 copies, original cream buckram, uncut, with manuscript addition 'No. 5' inserted between words 'first' and (Virgin and Child) on title

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India Group of rare Indian imprints 1) Report on the Territories Conquered from the Paishwa. Submitted to the Supreme Governm

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India Group of rare Indian imprints 1) Report on the Territories Conquered from the Paishwa. Submitted to the Supreme Government of British India, by the Hon'ble Mountstuart Elphinstone, Commissioner. Bombay: Bombay Government Press, 1838. Second edition, 8vo, later red cloth, [2] 82 li pp., colour pencil marks to title-page, ink-stamp of the government library, Agra, to p. 1, moderate browning, scattered dark spots;2) England and India: being Impressions of Persons and Things, English and Indian and Brief Notes of Visits to France, Switzerland, Italy, and Ceylon. By Lala Baijnath of the N.-W. P. Judicial Service. Bombay: Jehangir B. Karani & Co., Ltd., 1893. First edition, one of 1,000 copies, 8vo, contemporary yellow cloth, [2] 4 234 pp., errata leaf and advertisement leaf at rear, worming, stitching split between pp. 152 and 153, closed marginal tears in pp. 69/70 and 163/4;3) A Memoir of the Late Raja Partab Singh of Tajpur, in the District of Bijnor, North-West Provinces. Calcutta: Erasmus Jones, "Cambrian" Press, 1879. First edition, 12mo, original cloth-covered card wrappers with skiver label to front cover, [4] 20 pp., mounted albumen portrait photograph as frontispiece;4) A Revised and Enlarged Account of the Bobbili Zemindari, compiled by ... Sir Venkata Swetachalapati Ranga Row Bahadur ... Maha-Rajah of Bobbili. Madras: Addison & Co., 1900. 8vo, original cloth, [4] 185 pp., folding table, inscribed to 'Sir Henry Bliss K.C.I.E. with the compliments of the Maharajah of Bobbili 18/6/1902 London' on the initial blank, spine and edges of covers sunned, loss to spine-ends;Together with 2 others (The Jeypore Guide by Thomas Holbein Hendley, Surgeon, Bengal Medical Service, Jeypore [Jaipur]: "Raj" Press, 1876, first edition 12mo, lacking frontispiece and map, with 17 other lithographic plates, 3 copies on Library Hub, worming; and The Panjab as a Sovereign State (1799-1839), Thesis approved for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of London, by Gulshan Lall Chopra. Lahore: Uttar Chand Kapur & Sons, 1928, lacking maps)Note: Note: Two copies of the Report on Territories Conquered from the Paishwa traced in UK libraries (BL and Oxford); the work was first published at Calcutta in 1821. A Memoir of the Late Raja Partab Singh of Tajpur is otherwise untraced. Library Hub cites three copies of the Bobbili Zemindari (BL, Oxford, SOAS).

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Cherry-Garrard, Apsley The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913. London: Constable and Company Limited, 1922. First

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Cherry-Garrard, Apsley The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913. London: Constable and Company Limited, 1922. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth, titles gilt to spines and front boards, pp. lxiv 300 [4], viii 301-585 [1] pp., 58 plates including colour frontispieces (with tissue-guards) and 10 folding panoramas, 5 maps (4 folding), spines very slightly faded and nicked, small mark to spine of volume 2, volume 1 front board sprung, free endpapers browned, half-titles spotted, a few spots elsewhere, 3 folding panoramas (facing volume 1 pp. 184 and 294 and volume 2 p. 352) sometime incorrectly folded and consequently slightly proud with concomitant nicks and rumpling along fore edges, closed tear in volume 1 pp. 247/8 just extending into text [Rosove 71.A2]Note: Note: Rosove describes this issue in blue cloth as 'significantly scarcer' than that in blue-grey paper boards with linen spines. 'Cherry-Garrard's book has often been referred to as the finest polar book ever written. Scott's diary left many facets of the expedition and the experiences of its men untold: it was Cherry-Garrard who pulled the entire story of the main party together. He was uniquely suited to do so. He was a member of the main party for the expedition's entire duration, had access to unpublished sources, and was the only member of the Winter Journey to survive the expedition. Most of all, he had the sensibilities and extraordinary literary genius necessary to cope with the complex and tragic subject of the Polar Journey ... The book Cherry-Garrard left behind is a monument immortalizing the expedition in the annals of Antarctic exploration and geographic exploration in general' (ibid.).

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Hutcheson, Francis A System of Moral Philosophy in three books. Published from the Original Manuscripts, by his Son Francis H

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Hutcheson, Francis A System of Moral Philosophy in three books. Published from the Original Manuscripts, by his Son Francis Hutcheson. To which is prefixed some Account of the Life, Writing, and Character of the Author, by William Leechman. Glasgow: printed and sold by R. and A. Foulis, 1755. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to (26.2 x 20cm), [12] xlviii 358, [4] 380, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked with corners restored and endpapers renewed, bindings scuffed, spotting to title-pages, volume 1 sigs. K and 2U-2X and volume 2 sigs. C and 3B, volume 1 front free endpaper partly detached and with two ownership inscriptions (probably 19th century), occasional ink underlining, custom slipcase [ESTC T99472; Gaskell 297; Goldsmiths' 8995]Note: Note: Hutcheson was the second professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow, succeeding Gershom Carmichael and holding the position from 1730 until his death in 1746; his successor but one was Adam Smith, followed by Thomas Reid. Published after his death, A System of Moral Philosophy is 'the most voluminous of Hutcheson's writings; it is also the most ambitious in scope. It contains his most comprehensive account of human nature, the supreme good and greatest happiness, divine providence, natural rights, and civil government. His design in the System appears to have been to delineate a theodicy, in which God or providence is shown to have made provision for the happiness of the human race' (ODNB).

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India Group of rare pamphlets, Indian imprints, British and native presses, 19th century 1) The Rajasthanic Naya Prubundh. A

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Lot 98

India Group of rare pamphlets, Indian imprints, British and native presses, 19th century 1) The Rajasthanic Naya Prubundh. A Code of Penalties adopted by Certain Native States in the Province of Kattywar. Rajkot: printed at the Kattywar Agency Gazette Press by D. Sealy, 1864. Folio, 20 pp., stitched, title-pages in English and Gujarati, remainder of text in Gujarati, light damp-staining and soiling to outer leaves, faint transverse central crease where previously folded, slightly nicked along fore-edges, short closed tear to Gujarati title-page;2) Jeypore Exhibition, 1883 [cover-title]. Calcutta: Calcutta Central Press Company, Limited, 1883. Folio, original wrappers, 64 pp., 2 folding plans, restitched, wrappers and last few text-leaves chipped;3) Philology of Upper Indian Dialects by Pandit Guruprasad, Head Pandit, Oriental College, Lahore, published under the Auspices of the Punjab University. [Lahore:] Anjumani Punjab Press, 1885. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 63 pp., folding tables, apparently in Punjabi (Gurmukhi script), lithographed throughout, wrappers slightly chipped;4) [?Compendium of legal rulings or specimen legal texts issued by the court of Madho Singh II, Maharajadhiraja of Jaipur], Jaipur: Raj Press, 1893. Folio, 111 pp., lithographed throughout, Urdu and Hindi text in double column, minor loss to lower fore corners of first few leaves, occasional soiling);and a chromolithographic portrait on card of Henry Hardinge as governor-general of India, [Bombay:] Ravi Varma Press, c.1900, 35 x 25cm, small chip to one cornerNote: Note: No other copy of any of these items traced. The main contributor to the account of the 1893 Jeypore Exhibition is Lockwood Kipling, father of Rudyard; there are also a few entries by his wife and Rudyard's mother Alice.

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Johnson, Lyndon B., President of the United States of America Collection of material including invitation to the Inauguration

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Lot 140

Johnson, Lyndon B., President of the United States of America Collection of material including invitation to the Inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson as President of the United States of America, 20th January 1965, framed and glazed; Typed letter from W. Marvin Watson, Special Assistant to the President, on The White House headed paper, to Mr Claude E. Hooton, enclosing a copy of a photograph 'of the first Presidential family portrait with their grandchild. It comes to you with the President's gratitude for your friendship', 8th Sept. 1967, with large coloured photograph 25 x 20cm;Folding card from Ethel and Bob Kennedy, showing images of Michael, Kerry and Courtney, David, Bobby, Kathleen and Joe, undated;Johnson, Lyndon B. The Arthur K. Salomon Lecture. America Tomorrow: Will we hang together or hang separately ? New York, 1971. 8vo, original blue cloth, with enclosed note from the Office of Lyndon B. Johnson, offering 'this little booklet for your library', and visiting card of 'Mr Lyndon Baines Johnson'

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Pattern Book - Queen's Porcelain, Florence Works, Stoke-on-Trent Designs for cups and saucers Porcelain pattern book containi

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Lot 194

Pattern Book - Queen's Porcelain, Florence Works, Stoke-on-Trent Designs for cups and saucers Porcelain pattern book containing c.238 patterns, mostly for cups and saucers, first half of the 20th century, many designs hand-coloured with manuscript notes, others using transfer printed designs, the final items to be included are designs and transfers for porcelain celebrating the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, red half calf with 'PATTERN BOOK' in gilt lettering to upper cover, 31.5 x 26cm, some rubbing to covers, slight internal dust-soiling, some transfer prints a little rubbedProvenance:Provenance: From the library of a collectorNote: Note: The Florence Works of Taylor & Kent were based in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, from around 1876-1988. They (and the subsequent Churchill Group) were manufacturers of Queen's Porcelain - a cream-coloured style of earthenware - until the mid-1990s. It is notable that this pattern book of Queen's Ware also included designs for porcelain for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, dating the final leaves of the album to 1953.

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[Sierra Leone] Winterbottom, Thomas An Account of the Native Americans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone London: Printed b

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[Sierra Leone] Winterbottom, Thomas An Account of the Native Americans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone London: Printed by C. Whittingham, sold by John Hatchard, 1803. First edition, 2 volumes, [with the scarce vol. 2 which was partly suppressed], 8vo, [xv], 362, [xxii]; [iv], 283, [xi]; folding map, folding chart and 6 engraved plates (2 folding), contemporary tree calf, embossed coat-of-arms with motto "Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense" on covers, neatly rebacked, spine gilts, red and green morocco lettering pieces, corners neatly repairedNote: Note: Winterbottom was appointed physician to Sierra Leone in 1792 where he resided for seven years. In his youth he was a strong supporter of the abolition of the slave trade and afterwards advocated emancipation. The present work is the main source of his reputation as a clinical observer. It contains his classic description of sleeping sickness, trypanosomiasis, amongst local Africans. The work is one of the earliest English books to describe sleeping sickness (pages 29-31). Dr Winterbottom noticed that slave dealers would not buy slaves whose neck glands showed signs of enlargement. Volume two deals entirely with the diseases prevalent in Sierra Leone especially dysentery and malaria. It also contains detailed information on venereal disease, childbirth, abortion, male and female circumcision etc. which led to the second volume being suppressed in some circles.

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Shackleton, Ernest H. South London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original black cloth lette

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Shackleton, Ernest H. South London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original black cloth lettered and decorated in silver, all plates and maps as called for (including colour frontispiece, panorama of South Georgia between pp. 208-9, folding map to rear), errata slip and Mudie's Select Library notice tipped to p. 1, rubbed, tips bumped and showing through, front pastedown and free endpaper renewed, text-block browned as usual, faint spotting to plates, corresponding darker spotting to adjacent text-leaves, folding map with closed tear to stub and a few nicks along edges not affecting image [Rosove 308.A1]

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[South Africa] Le Vaillant, François Voyage de Monsier le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique par le cap de Bonne-Espéranc

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[South Africa] Le Vaillant, François Voyage de Monsier le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique par le cap de Bonne-Espérance dans les années 1788, 81, 82, 83, 84 & 85. Paris: Leroy, 1790. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, frontispiece and 11 plates [including the rare suppressed Hottentott plate (plate no. 7 at p.346, vol. 2), 2 folding;Second Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique par le cap de Bonne-Espérance, dans les années 1783, 84 et 85. Paris: H.J. Jansen, l'an 3 de La République. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, 22 engraved plates (5 folding) and large folding map, errata leaf in each volume;together 5 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt, green morocco lettering pieces, gilt edgesNote: Note: A very fine set of first editions of both Le Vaillant's travels in South Africa. Le Vaillant’s work (comprising both voyages) “was attacked when published, and some of the incidents were declared to be either exaggerated or altogether invented. It is, however, interesting as an account of South Africa at a time when comparatively little was known regarding its natural history and the Dutch settlers” (Cox I, p.389).The first work is dedicated to "Monsieur Boers, Fiscal Indépendent" who befriended Le Vaillant after he had lost all his possessions in the ship Middleburg which was blown up by British forces as an act of war. Mr Boers, with Captain Robert Jacob Gordon, Commander of the troops at the Cape, assisted Le Vaillant to prepare for his journeys into the interior. His first journey took him to Hottentot Holland, Swellendam, Mossel Bay, the Knysna country, Algoa Bay, Fish River, the Karroo and back to Saldanha Bay. The second voyage, dedicated to "Citoyen Varon", took him across Namaqualand, Damaraland, parts of Bechuanaland and the Kalahari.

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Marine Engineering - Russell, John Scott The Modern System of Naval Architecture London: Day and Son, [1865], First edition,

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Marine Engineering - Russell, John Scott The Modern System of Naval Architecture London: Day and Son, [1865], First edition, large folio, 3 volumes in 5, the text bound in 2 volumes; folding frontispiece in volume 1 and 168 engraved plates [numbered 1-79, 80-123, 124-165, and 4*, ?26* and 119*], many folding or double-page, (some very large), red half calf retaining original black cloth boards, the five volumes housed in a specially made wooden cabinet, a few plates slightly dampstained, plate 100 dampstained and with tear not affecting image, title of volume 1 creased, slightly soiled and laid downNote: Note: John Scott Russell (1808–1882) was a Scottish civil engineer, naval architect and shipbuilder. In 1834, while conducting experiments to determine the most efficient design for canal boats, he discovered a phenomenon that he described as the wave of translation. In fluid dynamics the wave is now called Russell's solitary wave. The wave of translation, or solitary wave, gave birth to the modern study of solitons, and developed the wave-line system of ship construction. His work is an extensive guide of nineteenth-century naval architecture of iron steamships with 168 plates that include detailed plans for a variety of ocean and river steamers, monitors, and warships. Notably, a foldout lithograph of The Great Eastern, the largest vessel of its era, built by the author, J. S. Russell. The construction and saga of the Great Eastern was chronicled in James Dugan's The Great Iron Ship."...this work naturally divides itself into three great parts, each of which may be said to form an independent treatise. The First Part [Naval architecture] will be devoted to the purely scientific branch of the profession—that which may be called pure naval architecture. In this part the scientific principles which must regulate the construction of the perfect design of a ship will be laid down with such exactness, as to enable the student of naval architecture to frame a design, which shall exactly fulfil the intended purpose...The Second Part of the work [Ship-building] will form a treatise requiring, perhaps, less science than the foregoing, but no less skill, thought, and knowledge...The Third Part of the work [Marine engineering] passes from the consideration of the mere ship, or sailing vessel, driven by the wind, to the self-acting and self-moving steam-ship." - Russell. Marine Engineering. Introduction, p.xxxvi

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India - North-Western Province Set of Agra imprints, 19th century 1) Report on Indigenous Education and Vernacular Schools, i

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India - North-Western Province Set of Agra imprints, 19th century 1) Report on Indigenous Education and Vernacular Schools, in Agra, Aligarh, Bareli, Etawah, Farrukhabad, Mainpuri, Mathura, Shahjahanpur, for 1850-51. By Henry Steward Reid, Visitor General of Schools, N. W. P. Agra: Secundra Orphan Press, 1852-3-4. First editions, 3 works in one volume, 8vo, contemporary yellow cloth, [4] 220, [2] 122, [2] 176 pp, blind stamp of the Schlagintweit library to title-page;2) Report on Ajmeer and Mairwara, illustrating the Settlement of the Land Revenue and the Revenue Administration of those Districts, up to ... 1853. By Lieut.-Colonel C. G. Dixon, Commissioner, Ajmeer and Mairwara. Agra: Secundra Orphan Press, 1853. First edition, 4to, later cloth, [2] 199 pp., uniform moderate browning, colour pencil markings to title-page, closed tear in Q4, worming to endpapers now affecting text-block;3) Translation of a Proceeding regarding the Settlement of a Village, according to the System pursued in the North Western Provinces of the Presidency of Bengal. Compiled and published under the Orders of the Hon'ble the Lieutenant Governor, N. W. P. Agra: Secundra Orphan Press, 1847. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half leather (worn), [2] iii 244 pp., 3 hand-coloured lithographic plans, 4 lithographic genealogical tables, 4 letterpress tables, all folding, shelfmark label of Pandut Sundar Lal, High Court, Allahabad to front pastedown, governmental ink-stamp to title-page and final page, a few old repairs to plates, one genealogical table with 10cm closed tear, moderate browning, a few small worm-tracks towards rear, rear inner hinge partly cracked;4) Selections from the Records of Government, North Western Provinces [volume 1]. Agra: Secundra Orphan Press, 1855. Second edition, 8vo, later cloth, vii 1-76 107-222 [1] pp., hand-coloured double-page lithographic plate ('Half elevation, half section and plan of Burdashtkhaneh in the Cawnpoor District'), 3 further lithographic plates (collation not established), cloth mottled, title-page browned and tipped in, variable damp-staining to pp. 107-130;5) The New Code of Civil Procedure. Act No. 10 of 1877. Agra: Elahi Press, c.1877. 8vo, recent red cloth, text in Urdu, lithographed throughout, in 8 parts (separately paginated), browned throughout, contents leaf and title-page chipped, final leaf tape-repaired in gutter, part 2 possibly lacking section-title (but collation not established as no other copy traced)Note: Note: Among the invaluable information provided by Henry Steward Reid's educational reports are lists of the textbooks printed each year by the government of the North-West Province, including details of their authors, content and print runs. Library Hub cites three locations only: LSE (1852-3), Oxford (1852), and SOAS (year not stated). Library cataloguing notes a map for Dixon's work, but none is present in the copy held by the University of Oxford and we have not been able to inspect another copy; it is possible that the map is from C. G. Dixon's Sketch of Mairwara (1850), with which the British Library (India Office Records) copy is bound, and that the description for this particular copy has been generally applied. One institutional copy traced for the Translation of a Proceeding regarding the Settlement of a Village, at the British Library, catalogued as having nine plates (it is unclear whether these include the folding tables).

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Sassoon, Siegfried Three works The War Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original

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Lot 283

Sassoon, Siegfried Three works The War Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original red cloth, paper labels to spine and front board, edges untrimmed, dust jacket, spine slightly rolled, section of sunning to head of spine (with corresponding section of loss to dust jacket), small water stain to top edge of text-block, a few spots internally, dust jacket spine discoloured, price scored through in ink, short closed tear to foot of front panel;Counter-Attack and Other Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1918. First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author 'Eileen Power, from Siegfried Sassoon, Jan. 1919' on the half-title, 8vo, original card wrappers, spine crudely tape-repaired, errata supplied in pencil;Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. London: Faber & Faber Limited 1930. First edition, one of 750 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original blue cloth, spine and head of front board sunnedNote: Note: The recipient of this copy of Counter-Attack is likely to be the noted economic and medieval historian Eileen Power (1889-1940). It may have been her involvement in peace movements after the war which brought her into contact with Sassoon.

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Dortu, M. G. Toulouse-Lautrec et son œuvre New York: Collectors Editions, 1971. First edition, one of 1450 copies, 6 volumes,

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Lot 186

Dortu, M. G. Toulouse-Lautrec et son œuvre New York: Collectors Editions, 1971. First edition, one of 1450 copies, 6 volumes, 4to, original blue cloth lettered in black, patterned endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, printed on vélin similiforme filigrané, illustrated throughout with reproductions of Toulouse-Lautrec's works, acetate dust jackets (volume 1 with chip to rear panel);Lanthemann, J. Modigliani 1884-1920. Catalogue raisonné. Barcelona: Graficas Condal, 1970. First edition, one of 2,500 copies, 4to, original green leatherette;Schulman, Michel. Frédéic Bazille 1841-1870. Catalogue raisonné. Paris: Editions de l'Amateur, 1995. First edition, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket;Salomon, Antoine, & Guy Cogeval. Vuillard. The Inexhaustible Glance. Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels. Milan: Skira/Wildenstein Institute, 2003. First edition, 3 volumes, 4to, original cloth, dust jackets, slipcase;and approx. 12 others, mainly catalogues raisonnés, including Constable, Turner, Picasso, Velazquez, Goya, etc.

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Robson, Francis The Life of Hyder Ally with an Account of his Usurpation of the Kingdom of Mysore, and other Contiguous Provi

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Robson, Francis The Life of Hyder Ally with an Account of his Usurpation of the Kingdom of Mysore, and other Contiguous Provinces. To which is annexed, a Genuine Narrative of the Sufferings of the British Prisoners of War, taken by his Son, Tippoo Saib. London: S. Hooper, 1786. First edition, 8vo (20.9 x 12cm), contemporary marbled calf, rebacked with original gilt spine laid down, signed by the author at end of preface (p. vi), moderate browning, near-contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, effaced ownership inscription to initial blank bleeding through onto title-page, a few other marks [ESTC T100166: 8 copies in UK libraries];Kirkpatrick, William (editor). Select Letters of Tippoo Sultan to Various Public Functionaries. London: for Black, Parry, and Kingsbury; and for John Booth, 1811. First edition, 4to (26.4 x 20cm), later black half sheep (probably a native binding), 2 plates of engraved Persian manuscript facsimile, browning, worming towards front and rear, stitching split between signatures b and c, signatures a and b consequently tipped to front free endpaper with concomitant paper disruption in gutter;Salmond, James. A Review of the Origin, Progress, and Result of the Decisive War with the Late Tippoo Sultaun, in Mysore, London, 1800. Second edition, 8vo (21.5 x 12.5cm), contemporary half sheep, frontispiece of Tipu's tiger lacking, folding leaf of Persian manuscript facsimile (sig. 4C), folding letterpress table (sig. 5E), leather detached from spine (fragments laid in), spotting and browning to contents [ESTC T133172: 5 copies in UK libraries]Note: Note: No other copies of Robson's work traced in auction records; Kirkpatrick's work is rare in commerce. There was a quarto edition of Salmond's work published in the same year and presumed to have priority over this octavo edition.

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India Group of rare Indian imprints, 19th-20th century 1) Hindu Anatomy, Physiology, Therapeutics, History of Medicine and Pr

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India Group of rare Indian imprints, 19th-20th century 1) Hindu Anatomy, Physiology, Therapeutics, History of Medicine and Practice of Physic. By Kaviraj Russick Lal Gupta. Calcutta: S. C. Addy, 1892. First edition, 8vo, contemporary orange cloth, [4] 209 pp., front inner hinge partly cracked, uniform moderate browning, coloured pencil markings to title-page, closed tear in pp. 87/8, pp. 141/2 transposed;2) The Betal Punchabinsati, translated into English by Adalut Khan, a College Moonshee. Calcutta: I. C. Bose & Co., 1864. [Bound with:] A Tale from the Sakuntala of Kalidasa by Iswara Chandra Vidyasagara. Calcutta: Sanskrit Press, 1862. 2 works in 1 volume, first and sixth editions, 8vo, modern wrappers, [2] ii 143, 4 102 pp., second work in Sanskrit, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page;3) Ex-King Edward's Diary of the Ten Eventful Days by Khwaja Hasan Nizami. English Translation by M. Fazl-i-Hamid. Delhi: Munadi Publishing Co., 1937. First edition, 8vo, original printed wrappers, [6] 116 pp., photographic portrait of Nizami, errata leaf at rear, gift inscription to title-page, wrappers sunned and slightly marked, chipped at spine-ends, section of loss to rear wrapper, contents moderately browned, portrait and following text-leaf spotted;4) Bhut Nibandh: An Essay, Descriptive of the Demonology and Other Popular Superstitions of Guzerat. Being the Prize Essay of the Guzerat Vernacular Society for the Year 1849. By Dalpatram Daya. Translated by Alexander Kinloch Forbes, Secretary to the Society. Bombay: "Bombay Gazette" Press, c.1849. First edition, 8vo, contemporary marbled wrappers, cloth backstrip (repaired at foot), xv 95 pp., illustrations in text, variable browning and damp-staining, light marginal worming, prelims (including title-page) strengthened in cutter with clear tape, title-page with small circular mark, pp. xi-xiv loose at foot, bookplates (with Zoroastrian maxim 'Humata Hukhta Hvarshta' but owner's name effaced)5) [Urdu title:] Maqasid-i 'ulum. A Treatise on the Objects, Advantages, and Pleasures of Science. By Lord Brougham, Translated into Urdu by Syed Mohomed Meer. A Native of Lucknow. Calcutta: printed for the Calcutta School-Book Society, at the Baptist Mission Press, 1841. 8vo, contemporary cloth, paper backstrip, 139 pp., printed with Urdu types, wear to binding, contents browned, pp. 29-32 working looseNote: Note: No copies of Hindu Anatomy or Ex-King-Edward's Diary traced in UK libraries; the latter is a satirical work purporting to be the journal of the former Edward VIII, and was written in Urdu by Sufi poet Khwaja Hasan Nizami, who despite knowing no English, claims in the preface to 'understand the language of Ex-King Edward's heart and mind'. Library Hub cites one institutional copy only for each of Betal Punchabinsati (University of Manchester) and the Urdu translation of Lord Brougham's work (British Library).

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Playfair, John Illustrations of The Huttonian Theory of the Earth Edinburgh: Cadell and Davies, 1802. First edition, 8vo (20.

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Playfair, John Illustrations of The Huttonian Theory of the Earth Edinburgh: Cadell and Davies, 1802. First edition, 8vo (20.5 x 12.5cm), xx 528 pp., modern dark red crushed morocco, toning, faint damp-staining to first signature including title-page (with concomitant small tear to fore margin of title), signatures D and 2I spotted, pencil annotation to p. 177, a few trivial marks elsewhere [Norman 1717; Ward & Carozzi 1797]Note: Note: Playfair's classic work was a major defence and revision of his friend James Hutton's Theory of the Earth, which was published in 1795 and proposed for the first time that geological phenomena were to be explained by immutable laws rather than supernatural intervention. Playfair 'analysed, modified, and defended the ideas of his close friend Hutton, whose publications suffered from prolixity and obscurity. In lucid prose Playfair supported the timelessness in Hutton's theory, argued that geologists should concern themselves with proximate and not final causes, asserted that natural and divine philosophy were separate but not incompatible activities, coined new terms such as "geological cycle" and "igneous origin", and reported his own work on unconformities of strata, which he regarded as "the most striking monuments of the high antiquity and great revolutions of the globe"' (ODNB).

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Islam, Eastern Christianity and Judaism Group of works Grant, Asahel. The Nestorians; or, the Lost Tribes: containing Evidenc

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Lot 59

Islam, Eastern Christianity and Judaism Group of works Grant, Asahel. The Nestorians; or, the Lost Tribes: containing Evidence of their Identity; an Account of their Manners, Customs, and Ceremonies; together with Sketches of Travel in Ancient Assyria, Armenia, Media, and Mesopotamia. London: John Murray, 1841. First UK edition, 8vo, original quarter cloth, folding lithographic map as frontispiece, spine rolled, minor loss to paper at one corner of front board, light spotting to map and endpapers;Moore, George. The Lost Tribes and the Saxons of the East and of the West, with New Views of Buddhism, and Translations of Rock-Records in India. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, viii [2] 423 pp., half-title, 14 lithographic plates (one folding), occasional Hebrew text, 24 pp. advertisements, white marking to foot of spine, cloth splitting on joints, section of front free endpaper excised, variable spotting to plates;and 6 others (not collated): 2 books in Armenian, probably printed in Istanbul, 1877 and 1892; Washington Irving, The Life of Mahomet and his Successors, London: John Murray, 1850, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, spines sunned and rolled, worn at ends; Torah Elohim Sefer Shemot [title in Hebrew, i.e. Book of Exodus], Vilnius, 1899, 8vo, spine perished; and similar

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Rowling, J. K. The Philosopher's Stone London: Bloomsbury, 1997. First edition, twentieth impression (numberline reading '20'

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Rowling, J. K. The Philosopher's Stone London: Bloomsbury, 1997. First edition, twentieth impression (numberline reading '20' on title verso), paperback issue, inscribed by the author 'to Adam, with best wishes, J K Rowling' on the dedication page in black ink, 8vo, original pictorial wrappers with Smarties Gold Award Winner label to upper cover, spine sunned, self-adhesive bookseller's label (James Thin, Edinburgh) to front cover, textblock toned as usualNote: Provenance: Inscribed for the vendor at a book signing in Edinburgh c.1998.

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Hume, David Four Dissertations I. The natural history of religion. II. Of the passions. III. Of tragedy. IV. Of the standard

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Lot 261

Hume, David Four Dissertations I. The natural history of religion. II. Of the passions. III. Of tragedy. IV. Of the standard of taste. London: A. Millar, 1757. First edition, 8vo, half-title with advertisements verso, title with woodcut ornament, with dedication a1-4, C12 and D1 cancels, without K5-K8 (as Rothschild), p.9 first word 'lative', p.131 first word 'lancing', contemporary armorial bookplate of David Scott of Nether Benholm, a trifle rubbedNote: Note: Originally the collection was to include the first three essays and 'Of Suicide' and 'Of the Immortality of the Soul'. The last two proved controversial to readers of proof copies and were replaced by 'Of the Standard of Taste' for the published edition.

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Powell, Anthony [A Dance to the Music of Time] London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1951-1975. 13 volumes (including an additional

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Lot 290

Powell, Anthony [A Dance to the Music of Time] London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1951-1975. 13 volumes (including an additional volume of Books do Furnish a Room), first editions (one third impression), 2 volumes signed by Powell, all with dust-jackets, the set comprising: A Question of Upbringing, 1951, dust-jacket slightly toned and edge-worn, with Book Society Recommendation label; A Buyer's Market, 1952, third impression, some tears and chips to dust-jacket, dust-jacket lacking head of spine; The Acceptance World, 1955, dust-jacket slightly bumped; At Lady Molly's, 1957, a little rubbing and edge-wear to dust-jacket; Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, 1960, slight dust-soiling to dust-jacket; The Kindly Ones, 1962, signed by Anthony Powell to title-page, inscribed to Alfred Manley(?) on the front-free endpaper; The Valley of Bones, 1964; The Soldier's Art, 1966, dust-jacket price-clipped; The Military Philosophers, 1968, signed by Anthony Powell to title-page, inscribed to Michael Norwood on the front-free endpaper; Books do Furnish a Room, 1971; another copy, 1971; Temporary Kings, 1973; Hearing Secret Harmonies, 1975

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India - Meghalaya Report on Successions to Siemships in the Khasi States by Captain D. Herbert, Indian Army, Deputy Commissio

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Lot 82

India - Meghalaya Report on Successions to Siemships in the Khasi States by Captain D. Herbert, Indian Army, Deputy Commissioner, Khasi and Jaintia Hills. Shillong: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, 1903. Folio (32.5 x 19cm), original printed boards, rebacked and recornered, [2] iv 127 pp., 8 folding genealogical tables (counted in pagination), covers marked, wear to fore edges of boards, variable browning, title-page and final leaf heavily washed, title-page also with small hole not affecting text, small stipple of worming to foot of gutter throughout, marginal repair to pp. 1/2, closed tear in pp. 11/12Note: Note: First edition, specified 'confidential' on the title-page, perhaps one of 100 copies according to the printer's slug on the final page, no other copy traced in libraries or in commerce (such records as do exist appearing to pertain to a 1991 facsimile reprint published by the government of Meghalaya's directorate of arts and culture). In Khasi culture, eligibility to hold the office of siem (ruler) is passed down by matrilineal descent, though the office-holder is male. The power of the siem is not absolute, with authority dispersed among various ministers, clan chiefs, elders and other figures, and in the case of Khyrim state a high priestess (ka siem-sad).

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Hilare Knight, née Barlow, later Countess Nelson and Duchess of Brontë (d.1857), her copies Book of Common Prayer [and:] Prop

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Lot 232

Hilare Knight, née Barlow, later Countess Nelson and Duchess of Brontë (d.1857), her copies Book of Common Prayer [and:] Proper Lessons to be read at Morning and Evening Prayer Oxford: University Press, 1834. 2 works, 48mo (10.5 x 5.8cm), contemporary blue velvet, brass coping, clasps and catches, brass escutcheons to covers, engraved with titles ('Prayer' and 'Lessons') on front and with owner's name 'Hilare' and two coronets (earl and duke) on rear, all edges gilt, blue moiré silk doublures, ink inscriptions 'Easter Day, April 19th 1835' on title-pages, housed in a contemporary dual-compartment morocco slipcase with flapNote: Note: Hilare Knight was the daughter of Admiral Sir Robert Barlow. She was first married to a cousin, Captain George Ulric Barlow, in 1817. He died in 1824 and in 1829 she married the much older and recently widowed Reverend William Nelson (1757-1835), brother of Horatio, upon whose death in 1805 he (William) had been created first earl Nelson (Horatio himself having only ever been a viscount) as well as inheriting the Sicilian dukedom of Brontë. After William's death, Hilare, now styled the dowager Countess Nelson, married George Thomas Knight (1795-1867), nephew of Jane Austen, being the son of Austen's brother Edward Knight, and in his day a noted cricketer. Hilare was profiled in the May 1836 issue of The Court Magazine. A silver teapot which belonged to William Nelson showing both his earl's and ducal coronets is held by the Royal Museums Greenwich (catalogue number PLT0098).

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Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966) The Tragical Death of Mr Will. Huskisson Sept. MDCCCXXX, 1924 print after Waugh's drawing (publishe

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Lot 288

Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966) The Tragical Death of Mr Will. Huskisson Sept. MDCCCXXX, 1924 print after Waugh's drawing (published in The Golden Hind, Vol. 2 No. 8, July 1924), on wove paper with Joynson's Parchment watermark, inscribed by Waugh 'Joyce from Evelyn' lower right in brown ink, spotting and repairs, mounted, framed and glazed, mount aperture 25 x 33cmNote: Note:Inscribed by Evelyn Waugh for Joyce Gill (née Fagan), a long-standing friend with whom he had a passionate affair during the unhappy period of the drawn-out annulment of his first marriage to Evelyn Gardner. (See lot 284.)Provenance:By direct descent from Joyce Gill.

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Wilde, Oscar Salome A Tragedy in One Act. Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde. Pictures by Aubrey Beardsley. London: El

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Lot 282

Wilde, Oscar Salome A Tragedy in One Act. Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde. Pictures by Aubrey Beardsley. London: Elkin Mathews, 1894. First edition in English and first illustrated by Beardsley, one of 500 copies, small 4to, original blue cloth, rebacked, 10 line-block plates including frontispiece, pictorial title-page, 16 pp. publisher's catalogue to rear, covers faded, wear and fraying to fore edges of covers, tips bumped, contents toned [Mason 350]. Together with:De Profundis. London: Methuen and Co., 1905. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, publisher's catalogue to rear, bookplate (Asa Lingard), spotting to endpapers and outer leaves [Mason 388];The Picture of Dorian Gray. Paris: Charles Carrington, 1905. 8vo, original grey-green cloth, [Mason 332];An Ideal Husband. A Play. London: Methuen and Co., 1908. One of 1,000 copies, 4to, original cream cloth gilt, others untrimmed, spotting to endpapers, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper [Mason 429];The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C. 3. 3. [Oscar Wilde]. London: Leonard Smithers, 1899 [or later]. Unauthorised edition following the seventh edition, 8vo, original cloth;and 9 others, including 8 by Wilde, and Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean, London: Medici Society, 1913 (one of 1,000 copies, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards)

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Huxley, Aldous Brave New World London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, shelf-lean, hinges

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Lot 285

Huxley, Aldous Brave New World London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, shelf-lean, hinges split, erased ownership stamp to paste-down endpaper and first page of text;Fleming, Ian. You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First edition, 8vo, slight chipping to dust-jacket spine, some occasional light internal marks, previous ownership stamp

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Wedgwood, Josiah A Catalogue of Cameos Busts, intaglios, small statues, and medals, bas-reliefs... London: Cadel, 1777. Fourt

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Lot 200

Wedgwood, Josiah A Catalogue of Cameos Busts, intaglios, small statues, and medals, bas-reliefs... London: Cadel, 1777. Fourth edition, 8vo, later quarter calfProvenance:Provenance: From the library of a collectorNote: Note: This scarce catalogue is the fourth edition and is considerably larger than the first of 1773 and includes references to Wedgwood's recently perfected "fine white artificial jasper, of exquisite beauty and delicacy; proper for cameos and bas-reliefs"The introductory text for each section includes much valuable commentary concerning details of ongoing improvements in manufacturing methods and the development of Wedgwood's business activities, stylistic influences and patrons.

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Housman, Catherine Three Letters to a Friend London: A. J. Valpy, 1833. First edition, 8vo, contemporary red morocco gilt, al

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Lot 233

Housman, Catherine Three Letters to a Friend London: A. J. Valpy, 1833. First edition, 8vo, contemporary red morocco gilt, all edges gilt, 155 2 pp., 8 plates (7 engraved of which 2 hand-coloured; one aquatint), slips tipped to plates facing pp. 78 and 80 and to p. 90, rubbing to joints and extremities;Rhind, William Graeme. The Creation, illustrated by Six Engravings on Steel. London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1844. Second edition (same year as the first), small 4to, original cloth, xviii 399 pp., engraved frontispiece, 6 mezzotint plates depicting the stages of creation, tissue-guards, front free endpaper removed, damp-staining to binding, frontispiece and plates 5-6, old library stamp (Rake Lane Lending Library) to title-page;Anderson, J. W. The Manner pointed out in which the Common Prayer was read in Private by the late Mr. Garrick, for the Instruction of a Young Clergyman: from whose Manuscript Notes this Pamphlet is composed. London: J. Plymsell, 1797. First edition, 8vo, contemporary diced tan calf, short crack to head of front joint, spotting, half-title discarded [ESTC T171474: 9 copies in UK libraries];[Derbyshire Dissenters]. Forms of Prayer, for the Use of a Congregation of Protestant Dissenters in Belper. Belper: S. Mason, 1823. First edition, 8vo, contemporary marbled sheep, 106 pp., wear to head of spine, crack to foot of rear joint;[Hawks, Francis]. A Narrative of Events Connected with the Rise and Progress of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1836. First edition, 8vo, near-contemporary tan half calf gilt, 286 [2] 332 pp., gift inscription to T. G. B. Estcourt (1775-1853), member of parliament for the University of Oxford, to binder's blank, Estcourt family bookplate, half-title discarded, part 1 leaf G4 repaired;Charke, Charlotte. A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, (Youngest Daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq;). Containing ... Her Adventures in Mens Cloaths ... Her turning Pastry Cook, etc. in Wales. London: W. Reeve; A. Dodd; E. Cook, 1755. Second edition, 12mo, contemporary half sheep, engraved portrait frontispiece, half-title, covers and frontispiece detached [ESTC T68298: 2 copies in UK libraries];and 3 others (not collated, including Thomas Newton, Dissertations on the Prophecies, 1804, 2 volumes contemporary Brasenose College Oxford prize-bindings; and Lockwood, The Western Pioneers, 1881, original cloth)Note: Note: Library Hub traces four copies only for Mrs Housman's work, a defence of the Biblical account of creation in the form of a response to two works by Scottish churchman Alexander Keith which adopted an accommodating view of Newtonian physics and recent advances in geology. Two copies traced for the Belper Forms of Prayer (Oxford and Manchester).

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Wheeler, Stephen History of the Delhi Coronation Durbar held on the first of January 1903 to celebrate the Coronation of His

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Wheeler, Stephen History of the Delhi Coronation Durbar held on the first of January 1903 to celebrate the Coronation of His Majesty King Edward VII Emperor of India. London: John Murray, 1904, 4to, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 48 plates (20 photogravure), 5 maps and plans (2 folding), inscribed on front endpaper 'W.C. Macpherson, C.S.I., from his grateful friend, A.H. L. F., 12th Nov. 1904', original red decorative cloth gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, binding slightly markedNote: Provenance: William Charles Macpherson, 4th of Blairgowrie (1855-1936), Indian Civil Service, Justice of the Peace, member of the Bengal Legislative Council between 1902 and 1911, appointed Companion, Order of the Star of India (C.S.I.) in 1903, member of the Board of Revenue of Calcutta between 1906 and 1911.

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Sri Lanka [Ceylon] Forbes, Major Jonathan Eleven Years in Ceylon. Comprising Sketches of the Field Sports and Natural History

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Sri Lanka [Ceylon] Forbes, Major Jonathan Eleven Years in Ceylon. Comprising Sketches of the Field Sports and Natural History of that Colony, and an Account of its History and Antiquities. London: Richard Bentley, 1840. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 6 engraved plates, some text illustrations, half-title in volume 1, maroon straight-grained morocco gilt by Riviere & Sons, spines gilt, gilt edgesNote: Provenance: "Noel Huth, from his father, 4 January 1903", inscription on free endpapers; armorial bookplate of Percival Huth on verso of title-page of volume 2; bookplate inscribed "Noel Huth, 4th January 1903, to Reginald Huth".

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Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone London: Bloomsbury, 1997. First edition, first impression, paperback

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Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone London: Bloomsbury, 1997. First edition, first impression, paperback issue, one of 5,150 copies, 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, 223 pp., wrappers slightly bumped at corners and with incipient lifting of laminate along fore edges, front wrapper faintly creased and with small strip of loss to laminate, gift inscription to verso of front wrapper, text-block toned as usual, hint of discolouration to lower fore corners of early leaves, very faint mark to p. 163 [Errington A1 (aa)]Note: Note: With all the requisite points: copyright page with numberline from 10 to 1, author named as Joanne Rowling, and 'Thomas Taylor1997' printed without a space, '1 wand' duplicated on p. 53, and the misprint 'Philosphers' Stone' on rear wrapper.

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India - Bhopal Two biographical dictionaries of Persian poets Ali Hasan Khan ibn Muhammad Siddiq Hasan. Subh-i Gulshan ['The

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India - Bhopal Two biographical dictionaries of Persian poets Ali Hasan Khan ibn Muhammad Siddiq Hasan. Subh-i Gulshan ['The Morning Rose-Garden']. Bhopal: Matba' Fayd, 1295 AH [1878 CE];Muhammad Muzaffar Husayn Saba. Ruz-i Rawshan ['Bright Daylight']. Bhopal: Matba' Shahjahani, 1296 AH [1878/9 CE].Both 8vo, side-stitched in uniform contemporary red half leather bindings, manuscript paper spine-labels, marbled sides, decorative title-pages, text in Persian, lithographed throughout, Subh-i Gulshan 646 14 pp., pp. 351/2 and 349/50 transposed, light marginal worming to front and rear, lower fore corner of rear board detached (still present), Ruz-i Rawshan 868 17 pp., page numbers 173-4 used twice (text not duplicated), pp. 207/8 and 204/5 transposed, marginal worming to outer leaves, rear inner hinge split, front inner hinge startingNote: Note: First editions of these two biographical dictionaries of contemporary and historical Persian-language poets, commissioned by the Bhopal court, 'the last princely court in South Asia to fully invest itself in the production of tadhkiras of Persian poets' (Schwartz p. 122). The growth of the tadhkira genre in India in the 18th and 19th centuries has been linked to the decline of the Mughal empire, the rise in Persian prestige, and the dispersal of Delhi elites to regional centres after the sack of the city in 1739. By the late 19th century, however, Persian was itself becoming marginalised by the rise of Urdu as a literary language. Persian tadhkiras produced by other courts, such as Arcot, focused on local poets, whereas the Bhopal offerings sought to be comprehensive. The author of Subh-i Gulshan has been identified as a son of Siddiq Hasan Khan (1832-1890), leading Islamic scholar and, via his second marriage, consort of Shahjahan, Begum of Bhopal. See further: Kevin J. Schwartz, 'A Transregional Persianate Library: the Production and Circulation of Tadhkiras of Persian Poets in the 18th and 19th Centuries', International Journal of Middle East Studies 52 (2020), 109-135.

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Gordon, Alexander Itinerarium Septentrionale or, a Journey thro' most of the Counties of Scotland, and those in the North of

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Gordon, Alexander Itinerarium Septentrionale or, a Journey thro' most of the Counties of Scotland, and those in the North of England London: printed for the author, 1726. First edition, large-paper copy, folio (45.5 x 28.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, [19] 12-188 [6] pp., engraved folding map, 66 engraved plates (several double-page), a little wear to binding, small paper flaw to margin of plate 4 [ESTC T133129: 12 copies worldwide]Note: Note: 'Itinerarium septentrionale (1726) is Gordon's lasting memorial in which he not only enshrined the antiquities of Roman Scotland and traced the route of Agricola's campaign but also ensured his own immortality in the fiction of Walter Scott. Gordon's folio is the book which Mr Jonathan Oldbuck, the antiquary in Scott's novel of that name, unwraps in the Queensferry diligence and which proves his vade-mecum in his studies of the subjects Gordon had made his own' (Iain Gordon Brown in ODNB).

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