NO RESERVE Howard (Ebenezer) Garden Cities of To-Morrow, second edition, half-title, portrait, 5 diagrams on 4 plates, light spotting at beginning and end, ink signature of James Crossland and small ink stamp of Malcolm Higgs to front pastedown, contemporary buckram, slightly rubbed, spine faded, [cf.PMM 387, first edition], 1902 § Sennett (A.R.) Garden Cities in Theory and Practice, 2 vol., plates and plans, some folding, original green cloth, spines very slightly faded but a good copy, 1905, 8vo (3)⁂ Two important and influential works on planning, the first being first published in 1898 under the title To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform. Howard's utopian view that the Town and Country magnets "must be made one" led on to the creation of the Garden City Association and ultimately the first garden cities at Letchworth in 1903 and Welwyn in 1919. "He was to live to see not only the spread throughout the world of the movement he had started singlehanded, but the establishment of Town and Country Planning as a universally recognized obligation of government in the civilized world. Satellite towns, and the very latest suggestion of city-clusters, were well in the forefront of Howard's ideas." PMM
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NO RESERVE Willis (Robert) & John Willis Clark. The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge..., 4 vol. including volume of plans, first edition, plans with linen overlays, some hand-coloured, later half crimson morocco, by Stoakley, t.e.g., others uncut, spines slightly rubbed and faded, Cambridge, 1886 § RCHM. City of Cambridge, 3 vol. including box of plans, original cloth, dust-jackets, 1959, plates, plans and illustrations, some folding; and 6 others, RCHM City of Oxford and 5 vol. London, large 8vo & 4to (13)
NO RESERVE Scott (George Gilbert) An Essay on the History of English Church Architecture, 1881 § Brandon (R. & J.A.) The Open Timber Roofs of the Middle Ages, 1849; An Analysis of Gothic Architecture, 2 vol., Edinburgh, 1903 § Instrumenta Ecclesiastica, First & Second Series, together 2 vol., modern half calf, 1847-66 § Britton (John) The History and Antiquities of the Abbey, and Cathedral Church of Peterborough, engraved plates, wide margins, contemporary half calf, 1828, plates and illustrations, occasional foxing, the first three all original cloth, rubbed; and c.50 others on medieval and ecclesiastical architecture, 4to & 8vo (c.55)
NO RESERVE Metzner (Sheila) Color, number 52 of 100 copies signed by Metzner, original cloth & cloth drop-back box, Altadena, CA, Twin Palms, 1991; Objects of Desire, original cloth, dust-jacket, very slightly frayed at edges, New York, 1986; Inherit the Earth, original pictorial boards, New York, 2000; Form and Fashion, original boards, dust-jacket, Santa Fe, NM, Arena Editions, 2001, photographic illustrations, some colour; and an ordinary copy of the first, 4to & oblong folio (5)
Turkey.- Barker (William Burckhardt) A Reading Book on the Turkish Language, with a Grammar and Vocabulary, first edition, ex-library with shelfmark to title verso, abrasion mark to front free endpaper where label removed, 1pp. manuscript notes loosely inserted, original cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1854; A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language, ex-library with ink-stamp to title and shelfmark to title verso, new endpapers, original cloth, rebacked retaining original spine, a little rubbed, 1854 § Arnold (Edwin) A Simple Transliteral Grammar of the Turkish Language, original cloth, a little rubbed, 1891; v.s. (3).
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America.- [Beresford (William)] A Voyage Round the World; but More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America...By Captain George Dixon, first edition, large paper copy, half-title, 22 engraved charts and plates, some folding, 7 of natural history with fine hand-colouring, light offsetting, a few plates with minor tears and repairs, 1 natural history with margins reinforced, endpapers foxed, the odd spot elsewhere but overall a crisp and bright copy, half crushed purple morocco, gilt, by Bayntun, spine a little sunned, lightly rubbed, [Sabin 20364; Hill 117], 4to, Geo. Goulding, 1789.⁂ A series of letters by William Beresford, cargo-officer on Dixon's ship the Queen Charlotte. Portlock and Dixon's was the first commercial voyage to the Pacific Northwest, ostensibly to set up a fur-trading business. They succeeded, however, in a more detailed exploration and mapping of the coast, visiting both the Falkland islands and Sandwich islands (Hawaii), and improved on Cook's charts of the region. The first edition was also issued on regular paper with uncoloured plates. "Coloured copies are of considerable scarcity" (Hill).
NO RESERVE Voyages.- Piracy.- Keppel (Capt. Henry) The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy: with Extracts from the Journal of James Brooke Esq. of Sarawak, 2 vol., first edition, presentation inscription "Sir William Eden, Bart. from his friend the author" to vol.1 half-title, 11 lithographic plates (all but one tinted), 6 folding maps, folding table, light foxing and offsetting to plates, original blue cloth, sunning to spines, marking and soiling to covers, spine ends and corners a little bumped, [Hill 918], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1846.⁂ "Keppel was sent to Singapore as senior officer on that part of the station. There he made friends with Sir James Brooke, with whom he returned to Sarawak. For eighteen months he co-operated with Brooke for the suppression of Borneo piracy, and, after many engagements, the Dido, together with the East India Company's steamship Phlegethon, destroyed the chief stronghold of the pirates, together with some 300 prahus" - ODNB.
London.- Maitland (William) The History of London, 2 vol., first edition, extra-illustrated by the insertion of numerous portraits, views, plans and other pieces 18th-20th century (many window-mounted), including 3 hand-coloured vues d'optique and a large folding engraved ticket to the Lord Mayor's dinner at Guildhall in 1825 printed in blue, some foxing, bookplates, later blind-stamped calf, joints worn, 2 covers detached, folio, Printed by Samuel Richardson, 1739.
NO RESERVE Coke (Sir Edward) Three Law Tracts, edited by William Hawkins, first collected edition, lacking engraved frontispiece, ink library stamp to title and 1 or 2 other pp., occasional tears to margins, tear to X2 running into text, library cloth, 1764; and 24 others, largely antiquarian, v.s. (25)
Law.- Coke (Sir Edward) The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England, fourth edition, partially printed in triple column and black letter, lacking portrait frontispiece but with woodcut title, folding plate loosely inserted, with a few repaired tears (minor loss) and silked at fore-edge, first few leaves a little chipped and frayed at edges, just within woodcut border of title, title with contemporary ink inscription to head, the odd marginal chip or short tear, with loss to a few letters of 3Z5, light browning and the odd stain, early ink inscriptions to front and rear endpapers, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked and recornered, title in early ink manuscript to fore-edge, [STC 15787], folio Printed by M[iles] F[lesher] I[ohn] H[aviland] and R[obert] Y[oung], 1639.
Atomic Bomb.- Smyth (H. D.) Atomic Energy. A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the Auspices of the United States Government, first English edition, some manuscript annotations in pencil to final page, rusting to staples, original printed wrappers, rust-stain, ink manuscript signature and wrapper peeling at lower right corner, wrappers toned and rubbed at extremities, corners frayed, spine peeling, 8vo, 1945.
Polar.- Parry (William Edward) Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 2 vol. including Supplement, first edition, with tipped-in errata slip, 14 engraved or aquatint plates and 6 maps (4 folding), Supplement with half-title and 6 engraved plates, bookplates, p.277 with short tear to foot, affecting a few letters but without loss, a few small tears and repairs to folding maps, 1 partially obscuring a few words of imprint but without significant loss, offsetting, some light foxing or browning, uniform later half roan, spines gilt, rubbed, [Sabin 58864; Hill 1311], 4to, 1821-24.
Turkey.- Knolles (Richard) The Generall Historie of the Turkes from the first beginning of that Nation to the rising of the Othoman Familie, third edition, engraved title, 32 engraved illustrations in text (31 portraits and 1 battle scene), woodcut initials, lacking A1 (blank), later ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, title with a few small chips and tears and laid down, first and last few ff. chipped at edges, with first gathering loose or working loose, occasional early ink marginalia, including to title, with doodling to a couple of portraits, the odd marginal chip or short tear, a few repaired, a couple times running into text but without loss, K3 and 4F3 with small hole in text, occasional small worming to lower margin, some light browning and staining, heavier stain to 5R2v, contemporary calf, spine gilt, partial loss to spine label, joints cracked but covers holding, [STC 15053], folio, Adam Islip, 1621.
NO RESERVE Eastlake (Sir Charles Lock) Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery and other Details, first edition, 8 colour samples of wallpaper, most printed in gold, 1868 § Davison (T.Raffles, editor) The Arts connected with Building..., first edition, original paper-backed decorated cloth, 1909 § Parker (Barry) & Raymond Unwin. The Art of Building a Home, second edition, 1901 § Robson (E.R.) School Architecture, second edition, 1877 § Morris (Thomas) A House for the Suburbs, third, enlarged edition, 1870 § Matheson (Ewing) Aid Book to Engineering Enterprise Abroad, 2 vol., presentation copy from the author inscribed at head of title of vol.1, 1878-81 § Casson (Hugh) An Introduction to Victorian Architecture, first edition, signed by the author on title, 1948, plates and illustrations, all but the second original cloth, the sixth pictorial gilt and slightly cockled, most a little rubbed; and c.70 others, architecture, design, engineering etc., 8vo & small 4to (c.75)
Gloucestershire.- Atkyns (Sir Robert) The Ancient and Present State of Glostershire, first edition, with the Author's Epitaph leaf, engraved portrait, 8 plates of coats-of-arms, double-page map and 64 fine double-page views by Kip, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, bookplates of the Rev. Fenwicke and Henry Hales Bouverie, first few gatherings with small wormhole to outer lower corner, mostly marginal but affecting a few coats-of-arms plates, plate at 4N2 trimmed just within plate and with repaired tear to fore-margin, plate at 5Q3 with small hole to image, some light spotting but overall a crisp copy, contemporary polished calf, gilt, rebacked preserving old backstrip, rubbed and scratched, head of lower cover sunned, corners and hinges repaired, [Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 117], Printed by W. Bowyer for Robert Gosling, 1712.
Jerome (Jerome K.) Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog), toning and ink ownership inscription to half-title, some spotting to edges, hinges weakening, original cloth, slightly bumped at extremities, spine sunned, Bristol, 1889 § Grossmith (George and Weedon) The Diary of a Nobody, bookplate, half-title, with manuscript inscription in pencil, original cloth, slightly bumped at extremities, lower joint splitting, Bristol and London, [1892] § Trollope (T. Adolphus) A Summer in Western France, 2 vol., coloured frontispieces, plates, and title vignettes, all heavily foxed, sticker to front pastedowns, edges gilt, original calf, with "Brentford Collegiate School" stamp to upper covers, spines gilt and rubbed, extremities lightly bumped, 1841, first editions, first two with illustrations, and 2 other first editions by Trollope, 8vo (6)
America.- Burton (Sir Richard Francis) The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California, first edition, half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece and 7 plates, folding map, small chips to edges and laid down, folding table, short tear to split to foldline, illustrations, scattered spotting and staining, most marginal, Y5-6 with short marginal tear affecting odd letter, one or two marginal pencil notes, ex-library with occasional discreet blind-stamps, modern half-calf, [Penzer pp.68-69], 8vo, 1861.
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[Valentine (Laura)] Aunt Louisa's Nursery Favourite, 24 full-page illustrations printed in colours by Kronheim, 1p. of text with a few marginal tears, repaired with paper to verso, occasional scattered spotting, some splitting at gutter and hinges, original pictorial green cloth, gilt, [c.1870] § Soulby (W. H.) The Surprise Art Album, second edition, numerous pull-up tabs revealing quote, puns or colour illustrations, some light surface soiling, original brown cloth, lettered in black and red to upper cover, cloth slipcase, [c.1900], rubbed at spine ends and corners; and others, children's, including the first English edition of the Disney authorised Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and 4 issues of the Girl's/Boy's Own Annual, v.s. (16)
Titi (Placido) Astronomy and Elementary Philosophy, first edition, translated by M. Sibly, engraved plates and tables, contemporary ink annotations and underlining, faint off-setting, T1 & T2 misbound, ex-library with very faint ink-stamp to title verso, modern calf-backed boards, a little rubbed, 8vo, 1789.
NO RESERVE Castle (Alison, editor) The Stanley Kubrick Archives, with CD of Kubrick interview and strip of frames from '2001: A Space Odyssey' tipped in at beginning, original half cloth, 2005 § Duncan (P.) & Bengt Wanselius, editors. The Ingmar Bergman Archives, with DVD and strip of frames from 'Fanny and Alexander' tipped in at beginning, original half cloth, 2008 § Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot, with facsimile of Marilyn Monroe's prompt book loose in pocket inside rear cover, original faux suede, 2001 § Dienes (Andre de) Marilyn, edited by Steve Crist and Shirley T.Ellis de Dienes, number 2431 of 20,000 copies, original pictorial cloth, with facsimile of the photographer's diary and booklet of Monroe's advertising shots loose in pocket (slight marking from ribbon), together in large yellow box with lid resembling a Kodak colour film box, 2002, photographic illustrations, many colour, the first three with original cardboard boxes, the first two with handles (the first broken), Cologne, Taschen, oblong folio & folio (4)
Bible, Latin. Iesu Christi D. N. Novum Testamentum, Theodoro Beza interprete, woodcut device on title, final privilege f., engraved bookplates of John and Rev. William Borlase to front pastedown and endpaper, 17th century ink ownership inscription of James Herbert to verso of title and privilege f., title soiled and with ink mark and small chip to head, not affecting text, a few small stains, occasional marginal water-staining, 18th century black morocco tooled in gilt, worn at spine ends and corners with a few small portions of loss, g.e., [Darlow & Moule 6162; STC 2803], small 8vo, T. Vautrollier, 1574.⁂ The first separate English printing of Beza's Latin translation of the New Testament. ESTC records two variants, one with a final errata and colophon leaf and the other with errata corrected (as in this copy).
Africa.- Stanley (Henry Morton) How I Found Livingstone, first edition, mounted albumen frontispiece, 5 maps only (of 6), 3 folding, one with tear and gutter and splits to foldline, plates, publisher's advertisements at end, scattered spotting, most to first and last few leaves, new endpapers, original pictorial cloth, rebacked, fractional rubbing, [Hosken p.188; Czech p.152], 8vo, 1872.
Marx (Karl) Kapital, 2 vol., first Serbo-Croatian edition, previous owner's ink signature to title, ?ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, vol. 1 trimmed at margins, vol. 2 with occasional pencil underlining and marks, even toning, new endpapers, modern half-calf, 8vo, Belgrade, Kosmos, 1933-34.
Bacon (Sir Francis) The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, of Francis Lo. Verulam, second edition, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, without initial and final blanks, 2ff. Table bound after dedication, front free endpaper with inkstamp of Ickwell-Bury Library, another with embossed stamp of Robert W. Oates, inkstamp of Bibliotheca Oatesiana to title and verso of final f., title trimmed at foot, affecting ruled border only, 2A1 & 2Z4 with very small hole in text, T1-2 with small chip to ruled border at head, the odd spot or light stain, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, old covers rubbed with wear to corners, [Gibson 15; STC 1149], 4to, by John Haviland, 1629.⁂ The second edition with all fifty-eight essays but the first edition also to include 'Of the Colours of Good and Evill'.
*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***Economics.- Keynes (John Maynard) The Economic Consequences of the Peace, first American edition, pencil ownership inscription to endpapers, original cloth, discoloured, spine ends frayed, New York, 1920; A Treatise on Probability, endpapers browned, rear hinge broken, original cloth, lightly soiled, spine ends frayed, 1921; and another by the same, 8vo (3)
Sexology.- Graham (James) Dr. Graham's Famous Work! A Lecture on the generation, increase, and improvement of the human species..., half-title foxed, title in red & black, modern calf-backed boards, [ESTC N7156], 8vo, 1784 [?i.e. 1800].⁂ A rare reprint of one of the first sexologists who specialised in placing patients on a waterbed.
Architecture and Design.- Rosengarten (A.) A Handbook of Architectural Styles, A New Edition, some spotting, slightly worn at extremities, with loss to head of spine, 1891 § Harvey (John H.) Henry Yevele, jacket tape repaired on reverse, and slightly rubbed at extremities, 1944 § Gardner (A.H.) Outline of English Architecture, illustration pasted to half-title, price clipped, 1945, photographic illustrations, original cloth, final two with dust-jackets and coloured frontispieces, all but first Batsford Books first editions, and c.55 others, mainly first editions, mainly from Batsford Books, relating to British architecture and decoration, and several relating to mechanics and industry, 8vo (c.60)
Parodies of classical verse.- Estienne (Henri, compiler) Parodiae morales, first edition, collation: *8 a-i8 k4 A-M8 (complete with all blanks), printed in Latin and Greek, some foxing, 19th century red morocco, gilt, g.e., small scratch to lower cover, upper cover becoming loose, 8vo (161 x 99mm.), Geneva, Henri Estienne, 1575.⁂ Attractive copy of "Estienne's rare collection of Greek and Latin parodies of quotable verses from classical poets, composed (he tells us) in order to fight boredom while traveling on horseback" (Schreiber). The rectos of all leaves in the first section are left blank for readers to fill with their own parodies. The first of these blank rectos has been partially utilised by an 18th century hand.Literature: Renouard 142.6; Schreiber 194; Adams S1784.
NO RESERVE Yates (Dornford) The Courts of Idleness, some light spotting, manuscript ownership inscription in ink to front free endpaper, original cloth, lightly bumped at extremities, dust-jacket, worn at extremities and along spine, with some tape repairs to reverse, 1929, and c.64 others by Yates, many first editions, and many with dust-jackets, 8vo (c.65)
NO RESERVE Astronomy.- Webb (Rev. T.W.) Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, illustrations, endpapers with advertisements to pastedowns, pages lightly toned, first few pages working loose, small hole to half-title, lacking frontispiece, some light foxing to first few pages, original cloth, upper cover working loose, spine working loose, with manuscript label reading "Webb Celestial" pasted below gilt title, edges toned, 8vo, 1859.
Ballantyne (R.M.) The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, first edition, first issue with View From the Hill Top frontispiece, colour printed wood-engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 5 plates only (of 6), by the author, tissue guards, 1 plate loose, occasional corner creasing, ink gift inscription to endpaper, portion removed from rear endpaper, original blue gilt pictorial cloth, light browning to spine, spine ends and corners a little bumped, rubbed, [Quayle 12a], 8vo, London, Edinburgh and New York, T. Nelson and Sons, 1858 [but 1857].
NO RESERVE Wattjes (J.G.) Moderne Architectuur in Noorwegen, Zweden, Finland, Denemarken..., 1927; Moderne Villa's en Landhuizen in Europa en Amerika, 1930; Moderne Kerken in Europa en Amerika, original printed wrappers, a little browned, 1931; Nieuw-Nederlandsche Bouwkunst, third edition, 1929, all but the last first editions, photographic illustrations, all but the third original cloth, the first with faded spine, the last with decorative dust-jacket, slightly chipped and frayed at upper edge, 4to, Amsterdam (4)⁂ The last is the first one-volume edition, incorporating Parts I & II published in 1924 & 1926 respectively.
NO RESERVE Pugin (Augustus Welby) Details of Antient Timber Houses of the 15th & 16th centuries..., first edition, 1836; Contrasts, second edition, foxing, 1841; The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture, first edition, 1841 § Eastlake (Charles L.) A History of the Gothic Revival, first edition, 1872 § Ferrey (Benjamin) Recollections of A.N.Welby Pugin, first edition, ink inscription to title (partly cut away), 1861 § Belcher (Margaret) A.W.N.Pugin: An Annotated Critical Bibliography, London & New York, 1987; The Collected Letters of A.W.N.Pugin, 5 vol., Oxford, 2001-15, plates and illustrations, those in the first three engraved or lithographed, some spotting, original cloth, rubbed, the third with part of spine detached (loosely inserted), the fourth rebacked preserving original spine, new endpapers, the last with dust-jackets; and 11 others by Pugin or his father Augustus Charles Pugin, 4to (22)
NO RESERVE Hussey (Christopher) The Work of Sir Robert Lorimer, first edition, 1931 § Adam (William) Vitruvius Scoticus, facsimile reprint, one of 400 copies, Edinburgh, 1980 § Reed (Henry Hope, editor) The Works in Architecture of Robert & James Adam, facsimile reprint, New York, 1980 § Hill (Oliver) Scottish Castles of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, 1953 § Billcliffe (Roger) Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings & Interior Designs, second edition, Guildford & London, 1980, plates and illustrations, some colour, original cloth or cloth-backed boards, the second with slip-case, the last with dust-jacket and slip-case; and another on Scottish architecture, folio & 4to (6)
NO RESERVE Turkey.- Montagu (Lady Mary Wortley) The Letters and Works, 3 vol., first edition, engraved frontispieces, lacking half-titles, occasional scattered spotting, bookplate of Sir William Eden, contemporary half calf, spines gilt in compartments, light rubbing to extremities, some spotting to spine and corners, 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1837.
Shaw (Bernard) The Complete Plays, manuscript lending sheet pasted to front free endpaper, pages slightly toned, some loss of cloth to foot of spine, 1931 § Harris (Frank) Elder Conklin and Other Stories, title with armorial device printed in red and black, inscribed by the author in ink on half title, ownership inscription in ink to front free endpaper, edges dust stained, 1895 § Wilde (Oscar) The Happy Prince, Tauchnitz Edition, original wrappers, lightly spotted and rubbed, edges uncut, Leipzig, 1909, first two first editions in original cloth, lightly rubbed at extremities, and c.70 others, mainly first editions, by mainly Irish authors, 8vo (c.75)
NO RESERVE Loudon (John Claudius) An Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture, first edition, contemporary half calf, spine slightly faded, 1833 § Villa and Cottage Architecture..., one plate becoming loose, contemporary half calf, boards a little damp-stained, 1871 § Brooks (S.H.) Designs for Cottage and Villa Architecture, lightly soiled and water-stained, small portion lacking from upper edge of title not affecting text, modern calf-backed boards, [1839] § Audsley (W.& G.) Cottage, Lodge, and Villa Architecture, decorative title in red & black, title water-stained, marginal soiling, modern half calf, [1870], plates and illustrations, the first two rubbed, the last with staining to spines; and 8 others, architecture, v.s. (12)
Polar.- Shackleton (Ernest H.) The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, 2 vol. (only of 3, lacking signature volume), first edition, one of 300 copies, 3 folding maps and 1 panorama in the rear cover pocket of vol.2, plates and illustrations, some light browning, original vellum with gilt penguin image to upper covers, t.e.g., others uncut, recased, endpapers renewed, soiled and marked, spines chipped, 4to, 1907.⁂ "The most luxurious publication ever to have appeared during the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, recording the exploits of the one British expedition to have been crowned with popular success" (Taurus).
Batsford Books.- Chancellor (E. Beresford) Life in Regency and Early Victorian Times, title printed in red and black, coloured frontispiece, photographic illustrations, toning to endpapers, some spotting to half-title, 1926 § Bolitho (Hector), ed., The British Empire, price-clipped, in ownership inscription to front free endpaper, edges spotted, 1947-48 § Hole (Christina), English Folk Heroes, embossed stamp to front free endpaper, some toning to endpapers, some spotting to edges, 1948, coloured frontispiece, photographic illustrations, original cloth, dust-jackets, latter two lightly rubbed at extremities, Batsford Books, and c.35 others, mainly by Batsford Books relating to history, all but one first editions, with some relating to Nazi Germany, 8vo (33)
NO RESERVE Paine (Thomas) A Letter to George Washington, on...the Late Treaty Concluded between Great Britain & The United States of America, some scattered foxing, modern calf-backed printed boards, uncut, [cf. Sabin 58224-8], Printed by W.T. Sherwin, 1817 § Cobbett (William) Letters to the Right Honourable Lord Hawkesbury...on the Peace with Buonaparté, second edition, folding tables, 4pp. advertisements at end, engraved Strathallan bookplate, some light browning and spotting, 1p. of Appendix with closed horizontal tear, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed at extremities with wear to corners, upper joint cracked but holding firm, 1802; and 3 others on various subjects, v.s. (5)⁂ The first is a bitter attack against Washington, triggered by his inaction during Paine's imprisonment in France, first published in Philadelphia in 1796 and in London the proceeding year.
Wodehouse (P.G.) The Clicking of Cuthbert, a few light spots, spine lightly sunned, 1922 § A Century of Humour, cloth and edges slightly dust stained § Jacobs (W.W) The Skipper's Wooing, marginal tear to p.17, not affecting text, pages toned, hinges weak, cloth sunned, 1897, first editions, original cloth, and c.40 others, mainly first editions, 8vo (c.45)
Militaria.- Ward (Robert) Animadversions of Warre, or, a Militarie Magazine of the Truest Rules, and Ablest Instructions, for the Managing of Warre, 2 parts in 1, first edition, lacking additional engraved title but with letterpress title, 1 woodcut plate only (of 2, lacking folding plate but with double-page plate with letterpress explanation), folding table, woodcut initials, head-pieces and numerous illustrations, lacking final 2 leaves of Table at end, bookplate of Junior United Service Club, 19th century ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, a few instances of early ink marginalia, including to title, a couple leaves trimmed close at fore-edge, just shaving woodcut or printed side-note, the odd short tear, a couple times running into text but without loss (repaired to A1), some light soiling, the odd rust spot or stain, front free endpaper working loose, hinges cracked, 19th century half morocco, spine richly gilt, rubbed, [STC 25025], folio, John Dawson, and are to be sold by Francis Eglesfield, 1639.
NO RESERVE Ruskin (John) The Stones of Venice, 3 vol., first edition, 1851-53; The Seven Lamps of Architecture, second edition, 1855, together 4 vol., plates, contemporary signature to head of title and bookplate of F.D.Astley, uniform contemporary half calf, spines gilt with red & green roan labels; and 17 others by or about Ruskin, 8vo & 4to (21)
NO RESERVE Billings (Robert William) The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland, 4 vol., India Proofs edition, wood-engraved pictorial titles, list of subscribers, 240 engraved plates after Billings, all on india paper and mounted, tissue guards, foxing, mostly to mounts or guards, wood-engraved illustrations, later half morocco, by Ramage, t.e.g., a little rubbed, spines faded, Edinburgh & London, [1848-52] § Macgibbon (A.) & Thomas Ross. The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, 3 vol., first edition, contemporary half calf, roan labels, slightly rubbed, spines a little faded, 1896-96; The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland, 5 vol., reprint, original cloth, Mercat Press, 1971, the last two with illustrations, all Edinburgh; and 4 others, Scotland and Scottish architecture, 4to & 8vo (16)
Militaria.- Vere (Sir Francis) The Commentaries, published by William Dillingham, 3 engraved portraits, 7 double-page plates and maps, lacking half-title and preliminary leaf A6, first portrait with fore-edge chipped and silked, another portrait with small ink marginalia, a couple plates with short tears to lower margin, once into platemark but without loss, occasional soiling, some faint damp-staining to upper corner, contemporary mottled calf, spine richly gilt, worn at spine ends and corners, joints split at head and foot, [Wing V240A], folio, Printed and are to be sold by Peter Parker, 1672.⁂ An important source for the Anglo-Dutch war against Spain, first published posthumously in 1657.
Johnsoniana.- Johnson (Samuel) A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, 2 vol. in 1, contemporary ink ownership inscription to title, contemporary calf, rebacked, also with repairs to upper corners, Dublin, for A. Leathley, et al., 1775; The Lives of the most eminent English Poets..., 4 vol., portrait frontispiece, bookplates to pastedowns, vol. 3 lacking front endpaper, contemporary tree calf, sympathetically rebacked, for J. Buckland, 1793, 8vo (5)⁂ First mentioned is the second pirated Dublin edition, published swiftly after the first Dublin edition which itself was an unauthorised pirated printing of the London first edition.
Tern Press.- Wycliffe (John) Luk The Prodigal Son, one of only 20 copies, colour lithographed illustrations by Nicholas Parry, original buckram-backed cloth, slipcase, a few marks to slipcase, 2002; Saint Matheu, one of 140 copies signed by the printer and binder Nicholas & Mary Parry, colour illustrations, slight cracking to upper hinge, original white linen, some light soiling, 1988 § The Sprout Incident. As related by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Mrs Kermit Roosevelt at the White House, one of 100 copies, front pastedown very lightly toned, a couple minor spots to fore-edge, original cloth-backed marbled boards, marbled slipcase, New York, Thistle Press for Mrs Kermit Roosevelt, 1955, all but last Market Drayton, Tern Press; and others, press or limited editions, including first and second editions of Clerihews at the Rampant Lions Press and a couple of Kickshaws, v.s. (9)
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NO RESERVE L[angley] (B[atty]) The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, 199 engraved plates only (of 200, lacking plate 17), rather soiled and stained, plate 12 with short tear to fore-edge just extending into plate but not affecting image, contemporary calf, rubbed, corners worn, rebacked (stained), new endpapers, [Harris 452; cf.Berlin Kat. 2276, first edition], S.Harding, 1756; and vol.2 only (of 5) of Horace Walpole's Works of 1798, 4to (2)⁂ Popular pattern book including designs for doors, windows, chimneypieces, pavements, church fittings, obelisks, pedestals, bookcases, ceilings and ironwork.
Topography.- Bone (Gertrude) woodcuts by Stephen Bone, Of The Western Isles, one of 150 copies, signed by the authors, edges uncut, original vellum-backed boards, slightly toned, T.N. Foulis, 1925 § Darbyshire (Alfred) A Booke of Olde Manchester and Salford, one of 250 copies, frontispiece, plates, illustrations, and one folding panorama, vellum with tooled vignette to upper cover, 1887 and c.17 others, mostly first editions, relating to natural history and topography, including many first editions by Batsford Books, relating to British and Irish topography, v.s. (c.60)
Burton (Sir Richard Francis) Il Pentamerone; or the Tale of Tales, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, scattered faint spotting, modern cloth, 1893; The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus ..., first edition, one of 1000 copies, frontispiece, title in red and black, spotting to frontispiece, original cloth-backed boards, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, printed for the translators ..., 1894; Tales from the Gulistân or Rose-Garden of the Sheikh Sa'di of Shirâz, frontispiece and plates by John Kettlewell, title in red and black, partially unopened, bookplate, original cloth, fractional bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1928, [Penzer p.155-57], 8vo & 4to (4).
Greene (Graham) The Virtue of Disloyalty, one of 300 copies, signed presentation inscription from the author to title, original wrappers, some light surface soiling, fractional rubbing to upper corner, otherwise near-fine, 1972; The Great Jowett, one of 525 copies signed by the author, original cloth, a fine copy, 1981, first editions, Bodley Head, 8vo.
NO RESERVE Golding (William) The Inheritors, first edition, half-title, previous owner's ink inscription, Foyles ink stamp to front free endpaper, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, slight creasing and chipping to corners and edges, sunned spine, 1955 § Shaw (Bernard) The Apple Cart: a Political Extravaganza, first edition, one or two faint spots, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1930 § Thigpen (Corbett H.) The Three Faces of Eve, first edition, second printing, plates, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, one or two short tears, chipping and creasing to corners and edges, New York, 1957; 8vo (3).
Birds.- Lilford (Lord) Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood, 2 vol., illustrated by Thorburn & Lodge, 1895 § Macpherson (Rev. H.A.) & William Duckworth. The Birds of Cumberland...[&] Westmorland, hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece by Keulemans, Carlisle, 1886 § Stevenson (Henry) The Birds of Norfolk, vol.1 & 2 only (of 3, vol.3 published in 1890), lithographed plates, one hand-coloured, errata slips, London & Norwich, 1866-70 § d'Urban (W.S.M.) & Rev. Murray A.Mathew. The Birds of Devon, chromolithographed frontispiece, plates including 4 hand-coloured lithographs by Keulemans and 2 mounted photographs, 1892 § Dixon (Charles) The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Islands, 1895 § Yarrell (William) A History of British Birds, 3 vol., second edition, wood-engraved illustrations, 1845 § Thorburn (Archibald) British Birds, 4 vol., new edition, 1925, all but the last two first editions, plates and illustrations, some colour, occasional spotting, original cloth, a little rubbed, the second damp-stained, the last two with faded spines; and c.20 others on British birds, 8vo & 4to (c.35)
SEIF WANLY (EGYPTIAN 1906-1979) FATHY ANISsigned in Arabic Seif Wanly lower rightoil on board image: 36 x 26cm; 14 1/2 x 10 1/4inframed: 52.5 x 42cm; 20 1/2 x 16 1/2inProvenance:Collection of Dr Mohammed Said FarsiThence by descentFathy Anis was a character in the Egyptian author Naguib Mahfuz's celebrated novel Al Maraia (The Mirrors). 'He caught my eye since I saw him on the first day I joined the job. I assumed him to be a high official, or a scion of an old family, and how surprised I was when I discovered that he was the clerk of the secretarial entry. He was thirty years old, a primary school certificate, a salary of eight pounds, married, and the father of five children, but he was tall, graceful, and of great features....' (see also lot 17). ARR may apply
TAHIA HALIM (EGYPTIAN 1919-2003) WOMEN BRAIDING HAIRoil on canvassigned in English T. HALIM lower leftimage: 50 x 65cm; 19 3/4 x 25 1/2inframed: 64 x 79cm; 25 1/4 x 39inProvenance:Private Collection, LondonBorn in 1919 in the city of Dongola, Sudan, Tahia Halim showed a keen interest in art at an early age while her father worked as the chamberlain of King Fouad (1868-1936) in Cairo. After finishing her secondary education in the privacy of the royal palace she enrolled at Cairo’s Academy of Fine Arts. She later joined the ateliers of the Lebanese painter Youssef al-Traboulsi and the Greek artist Alecco Jerome. Through her post-secondary education, her exposure to fine art was mainly limited to academic or impressionist styles, a product of the Euro-centric curriculum of the Academy, and the influence of her instructors. In 1940, Tahia Halim met avant-garde artist Hamed Abdalla (1917-1985), whom she married five years later and followed to Paris in 1949 where they joined the Academie Julian. Halim returned to Cairo in 1951 and after a trip to Nubia (the land of her birth) in 1959, became fascinated by its rural way of life. Like many Egyptian artists of the time, her work was informed by the political environment, in which Egyptians sought to remove themselves from colonial authority. Struck by the authentic 'character' of Nubian women, whom she perceived to represent centuries old traditions of land, she found them to be humble, serene, and generous. Focusing on depicting their grace and beauty, which she highlighted in the warm earthy palette of her works, these women further served to strenghten her nationalist ideals and to reinforce her privileged position in life. An acclaimed artist with works in several international collections, Halim is also known to be the first woman awarded the Guggenheim International Prize, an honour she gained in 1958.
SABRY HELMY RAGHEB (EGYPTIAN 1920-2000) WOMAN PRAYING signed and dated in English and Arabic Sabry 1973 lower rightoil on canvasimage: 80 x 71cm; 31 1/2 x 28inframed: 95 x 85cm; 37 1/2 x 33 1/2inProvenance:Private Collection, LondonSabry Helmy Ragheb studied in Rome and gained a Diploma of Fine Arts in 1952 and a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture in Egypt in 1965. With a professional life spent in teaching and education, he participated in many solo group shows in the US, Japan, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands. Between the years of 1949 and 2007, Sabry Ragheb was a part of many exhibitions in some of Cairo’s significant galleries from Droub to the First Salon of Cairo Atelier, Gougan and finally, the Picasso Gallery. In 2018, Liwan Gallery in Zamalek held a retrospective for the late artist. Winning many art prizes throughout his career, his works are held in collections in the US, Italy, China and Egypt.
MOHAMMAD NAGHI (EGYPTIAN 1888-1956) AN ETHIOPIAN CELEBRATIONsigned in English Naghi lower rightoil on paper image: 23 x 29cm; 9 x 11 1/2inframed: 53 x 59.5cm; 20 3/4 x 23 1/4inProvenance:Collection of Dr Mohammed Said FarsiThence by descentBorn to an Egyptian father and Turkish mother in Alexandria, Nagy displayed a keen interest in poetry, folk art, music and painting from a young age. From 1906 to 1910 he studied law in Lyons and from 1910 to 1914 he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence - the first Egyptian student to do so - where he was taught by Claude Monet. Nagy returned to Egypt during the First World War, establishing the modern Egyptian school of painting focusing on Impressionism. In 1939 Nagy started his ambitious Alexandria School project and headed the Museum of Modern Art as its director. In 1952 he purchased a plot of land in Giza and pursued the project there. After he died the Ministry of Culture bought his studio and opened the Mohamed Nagy Museum there on 13 July 1968.
Eine Welt aus Sprache - - Sottsass, Ettore. menhir ziggurat stupas hydrants & gas pumps. Original-Siebdruckplakat der Galleria Sperone, Mailand, 19.4.1967. 55 x 42 cm.Seltenes Plakat. - Der italienische Künstler, Designer und Architekt Ettore Sottsass jr. (1917-2007) "showed twenty-one totemic industrial ceramic works in the exhibition "Menhir, Ziggurat, Stupas, Hydrants & Gas Pumps" in Milan in 1967. He based their forms on the most ancient and fundamental markers of human intention: menhirs and cairns such as those at Stonehenge, Indian stupas and linga, and ziggurats, which express the desire to ascend toward the heavens. However, fire hydrants and gas pumps were also a source of inspiration. Technically complicated to manufacture, the cylinders maintain a relationship to the power of mass production and consumption. Sottsass conceived his first totem while recovering from nephritis in 1962, when he sketched one from the cocktail of medicines that saved his life. Each of the five totems in the exhibition represents contemporary social, political, or spiritual concerns." (www.metmuseum.org). - Mehrfach gefalzt. - Leichter Abklatsch, sonst sehr gut.
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