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Lot 312

Sassoon (Siegfried) [The Sherston Trilogy], 3 vol. comprising: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, 1928; Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, 1930; Sherston's Progress, 1936, first trade editions, signed by the author to each half-title, light scattered spotting to first few pages and endpapers, heavier to vol.1, original cloth, spines faded and corners very lightly bumped, fore-edges spotted, dust-jackets, spines faded, extremities creased and fraying with small nicks and tears, vol.2 lightly spotted but overall a very crisp and excellent set overall, 8vo, 1928-36.** A remarkable signed set of Sassoon's trilogy of autobiographical novels, the first volume being particularly scarce, especially in good condition.

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Lot 314

Smith (Ali) [The Seasonal Quartet], 4 vol., comprising Autumn, 2016; Winter, 2017; Spring, 2019; Summer, 2020, first editions, each signed by the author on title (Winter with a lengthy inscription), original cloth, each with printed pictorial band, 8vo.⁂ Ali Smith's superb literary charting of the 2010s.

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Lot 315

St. Aubyn (Edward) [The Patrick Melrose novels], 5 vol., comprising Never Mind, light foxing to initial and final pages, jacket spine tips and corners a little rubbed, 1992; Bad News, signed by the author on title, jacket with light creasing to spine tips and corners, some light soiling, 1992; Some Hope, signed by the author on title, light toning to margins, jacket with faint creasing to spine tips and corners, 1994; Mother's Milk, signed by the author on title, 2006; At Last, 2011, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, near-fine copies, 8vo.⁂ St. Aubyn's autobiographical pentalogy, the subject of celebrated adaptations for film and television.

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Lot 316

Waugh (Evelyn) The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, a Conversation Piece, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Miss [Margaret] Case to front free endpaper, original cloth, spine a little darkened, dust-jacket, spine ends and corners a little chipped, short nick to head of upper panel, an excellent copy overall, 8vo, 1957.⁂ "A lady called Miss Case is in love with me- unreciprocated""- Evelyn Waugh in a letter to Nancy Mitford, November, 1948.Margaret Case worked at Vogue for around 40 years, mostly as an editor. She appears to have met Waugh whilst they were on board the Queen Elizabeth. In 1971 she was unceremoniously fired from the magazine and tragically killed herself a few days later.

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Lot 317

Waugh (Evelyn) Helena, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "For Hugh Burnett, Souvenir of Stinchcombe, August 18th, Feast of St. Helena from Evelyn Waugh" to endpaper, light browning to half-title, the odd spot, original cloth, spine dulled, some light rubbing, dust-jacket, paper reinforcement to head and foot verso, ink lettering to foot of upper flap, faint surface soiling, light rubbing to extremities, light creasing to head, near-fine otherwise, original Daily Mail Book of the Month wraparound band (spine browned), 8vo, 1950.⁂ An excellent association copy of Waugh's favourite of his own books. David Burnett (1924-2011) was a television and radio producer who interviewed Waugh as part of his Personal Call radio series in 1953. The interview took place at Waugh's home at Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire. Burnett would later recall that "before we left he asked if we would accept a signed copy of one of his books. I asked for the one he liked best - and he presented me with 'Helena'".

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Lot 318

Waugh (Evelyn) Scoop, first edition, light toning to endpapers otherwise internally near fine, original patterned cloth, spine ends lightly bumped, dust-jacket, first issue with Daily Beast masthead, extremities frayed and chipped with some loss, worse to spine ends affecting text, spine faded, 8vo, 1933.⁂ Waugh's classic on the world of Fleet Street journalism, with the original dust-jacket issued before Lord Beaverbrook threatened to sue due to the obvious visual play on the Daily Express.

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Lot 319

Waugh (Evelyn) Brideshead Revisited, first edition, bookplate to pastedown, one or two spots to fore-edge, original cloth, fine, dust-jacket, light creasing to lower flap, one light mark to upper panel, very light nicks or fraying to spine ends and joints but an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1945.

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Lot 32

Lambert (Johann Heinrich) "Observations Trigonometriques", extract from Nouveaux Memoires de l'Academie des Sciences et Belles-Lettres, vol. 24, pp. 327-354, engraved folding plate, Berlin, 1770, bound with 6 others extracted papers in 2 vol., modern cloth, 4to.⁂ First edition of this key work on non-Euclidean geometry in which Lambert introduced hyperbolic functions into trigonometry. The only paper by Lambert on the subject to be published during his lifetime. The other papers included in the group comprise: Solution générale et absolue; Du probleme de trois corps; Moyennant des suites infinies; Sur la fluidite du sable, de la terre et d'autres corps mous; Suite de lessai dhygrométrie; Sur la densité de l'air.

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Lot 320

Waugh (Evelyn) Robbery Under Law: The Mexican Object-Lesson, first edition, publisher's postcard loosely inserted, original cloth, spine a little sunned, light rubbing and bumping to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, price-clipped, toning to spine and lower panel, some chipping and fraying to head and foot with small portion of loss along head of upper panel, light creasing to head and foot, a little rubbed, but a very good example overall of a scarce jacket, 8vo, 1939.⁂ Scarce with the jacket in good, unrestored condition.

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Lot 321

Wells (H.G.) The World Set Free. A Story of Mankind, first edition, 10pp. advertisements at rear, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, light rubbing to spine and corners tips, else fine, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, portion of browning and creasing to upper panel, upper fore-edge with tape repairs to verso and some resultant show-through, some slight chipping and fraying to head and foot, 8vo, 1914.⁂ Wells' science fiction future war novel that famously envisaged the creation and use of atomic bombs, rare in the dust-jacket.

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Lot 322

White (T.H.) [The Arthurian trilogy], 3 vol., comprising The Sword in the Stone, upper hinge weak, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, very light fading to spine, light marking to covers, jacket neatly price-clipped, light browning to spine, spine ends and corners chipped, affecting first word of title at head of spine and upper flap, a little creased at head, 1940; The Witch in the Wood, light edge spotting, ink gift inscription to endpaper, light toning to spine ends, jacket neatly price-clipped, spine ends and corners a little chipped, some chipping and fraying along head and fore-edges, extremities rubbed, some paper reinforcement to verso, 1940; The Ill-Made Knight, light fading to foot of spine, jacket spine ends and corners a little chipped and creased, extremities rubbed, closed tear with creasing to head of lower panel, 1941, first or first English editions, original cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo.⁂ White's classic Arthurian trilogy, subsequently enlarged by two further books as part of the collected edition The Once and Future King.

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Lot 323

Wodehouse (P.G.) Young Men in Spats, first edition, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, light fading to spine, splash mark to lower cover, sunning to head and foot, dust-jacket, neat and expert repairs and restoration to head and foot, rubbing to fore-edge, light creasing to head and foot, an excellent example, original printed "The Drones Club Book of the Month" wraparound band, [McIlvaine A55a], 8vo, 1936.⁂ Rare in such attractive condition and with the amusing wraparound band.

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Lot 324

Woolf (Leonard) Barbarians at the Gate, first edition, publisher's archival copy with ink stamp to title, endpaper and upper panel, neat ink ownership inscription to endpaper, original cloth, light bumping to spine tips, else fine, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, slight sunning to panel margins, otherwise a near-fine example overall, 8vo, 1939.⁂ Woolf's assessment of the world as it stood in 1938. Also issued as part of the Left Book Club, the Gollancz issue is by far the rarer, especially in such attractive condition.

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Lot 325

[Wyndham (John)] "John Beynon". The Secret People, first edition, foxing, marginal abrasion to pp. 124-5, p. 129 with toning to margin, light browning to half title and final text p., original first issue red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slight shelf-lean, rubbed, light finger-soiling, dust-jacket priced at 2/6, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light spotting and surface soiling, short nick with creasing to head and foot of lower panel, but overall an excellent example of a rare jacket, 8vo, [1935].⁂ Wyndham's second novel and his first attempt at science fiction. Exceptionally rare in the dust-jacket, we can trace no other example at auction.

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Lot 326

Wyndham (John) The Day of the Triffids, first edition, original green cloth, slight toning along foot, else fine, dust-jacket, neat and expert restoration and repairs to spine and joints and along head and foot of panels, in effect a near-fine example, 8vo, 1951.⁂ A sharp, attractive copy of Wyndham's enormously influential sci-fi thriller.

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Lot 330

Stevenson (Robert Louis) A Child's Garden of Verses, first edition, issue with smaller "of" in title on spine but rounded apostrophe, no mention of "Two Series" in the list of other works by the author, half-title, some very light spotting or finger-soiling, occasional splitting at gutter, endpapers browned, original blue cloth, lightly rubbed, corners bumped, t.e.g., others uncut, a bright and excellent example overall, [Prideaux I, 14], 8vo, 1885.

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Lot 334

Japan.- Anonymous (probably early19th century) [Pictures of Tea Making], 32 double-page concertina work illustrating the process of tea making in the region of Uji, manuscript calligraphic captions, water-colour hand-colouring, some very light smudging but overall in fine and crisp condition, original silk-covered end boards, silk discoloured and fraying to extremities, paper cover with manuscript title to upper cover, paper from boards pulling away slightly in places, tall 8vo, [1803].⁂ A highly sumptuous colourful work displaying the tea making process in Japan with scenes showing the growing, harvesting and manufacture of tea. The first page consists of a preface, signed by a Buddhist monk, Shisho-so Shu-en and is dated 1803.

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Photography.- Emerson (Peter Henry) Marsh Leaves, first edition, [one of 200 copies from an edition limited to 300 copies], 16 fine photogravure plates, tissue-guards (1 or 2 with short tears, 1 detached), a very good, clean copy internally, original parchment-backed cloth, neatly rebacked, retaining majority of original backstrip, some light toning to spine, light soiling to covers, t.e.g., preserved in custom drop-back box, folio, David Nutt, 1895.⁂ A clean, attractive copy of one of the key photobooks of the period. "Certainly, the 16 photo-etchings take his art to where it could probably go no further, and as a fusion of text and imagery the book is entirely successful... It is one of the most beautiful books about isolation and solitude, perhaps death, ever made, and Emerson's spare, evocative pictures were seldom equalled by the later Pictorialists." - Grolier, The Photobook.

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Lot 339

Sporting.- Crealock (Col. Henry Hope) Among the Red Deer, Sketches from Nature in the Forest, 80 plates on 28 sheets (67 numbered), [1870]; The Happy Hunting Grounds of Loch Luichart, 55 plates on 21 sheets (26 numbered, 14 titled by hand), [1871]; In the Forest of Balmacaan, First Series, 27 plates on 15 sheets (22 numbered), [1872]; In the Forest of Balmacaan, Second Series, 77 plates on 29 sheets, some numbered by hand, some titled, [1874], together 4 works in 1 vol., illustrated titles, occasional faint spotting, contemporary half morocco, morocco gilt label to upper cover, rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, folio, George Hogarth Turner. ⁂ Colonel Henry Hope Crealock was a soldier, artist and author, who served in the Crimea, India, China and Zululand. This, his first published work, appeared as 4 portfolios of prints, mainly showing his experiences in Luichart and Balmaccan during the early 1870's. This is scarce.

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Lot 34

Quantum mechanics.- Broglie (Louis-Victor de) "Ondes et Quanta", "Quanta de lumiere diffraction et interferences " and "Les quanta, la theorie cinetique des gaz et le principe de Fermat", together 3 papers, extracts from Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de L'Academie des Sciences, nos. 11, 13 & 15, some light marginal toning to finger-soiling, modern cloth, original wrappers bound in (some light toning and minor chipping, label to each front wrapper readed "De Broglie", 4to, 10 September - 8 October 1923.⁂ First editions of Broglie's three papers in which he introduces the principal that electrons too exhibited wave-like behaviour thus laying the foundations of wave mechanics.

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Lot 342

Browning (Robert) Strafford: An Historical Tragedy, first edition, 4pp. advertisements at end dated April 15 1837, original drab wrappers with paper label to upper cover bound in, later brown crushed morocco by the Club Bindery (dated 1898), elaborate gilt borders to both covers with tan morocco onlays, spine gilt in compartments with raised bands, g.e., fine tan morocco doublures with gilt floral design and leafy sprays in corners, olive green watered silk endpapers, very slight rubbing to joints and raised bands, 8vo (binding 222 x 144mm.), 1837.⁂ Provenance: Henry William Poor (morocco book label); Christine Alexander Graham (hand-coloured armorial bookplate).

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Lot 343

Flaubert (Gustave) Trois Contes, first edition, one of 100 copies on papier de Hollande, original yellow printed wrappers bound in, stunning dark blue morocco by Noulhac, ornately stamped in gilt to an overall mosaic design of blue and ochre onlays, very small abrasions to upper cover, spine gilt in compartments with raised bands and geometric design of the same colours, g.e., dark and royal blue morocco doublures with multiple gilt fillet borders, blue watered silk endpapers backed by marbled endpapers, blue half morocco chemise and morocco-edged marbled board slip-case, 8vo (binding 188 x 129mm.), Paris, Charpentier, 1877.⁂ Beautiful mosaic binding by Noulhac on a first edition of these three short stories - Un Coeur Simple, La Legende de Saint Julien l'Hospitalier and Herodias - by Flaubert.

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Lot 345

Malfilatre (Jacques-Charles-Louis Clinchamps de) Narcisse dans l'Isle de Venus, Poeme en quatre chants, first edition, engraved title by de Ghendt after Eisen and 4 plates by Massard after St. Aubin, later engraved portrait on India paper bound in at beginning and 2 vignettes by Eisen at end, minor foxing, later dark green morocco by Blanchetiere with overall decoration of flowers round a central oval and decorative corner designs within dotted and ruled borders, g.e., inner gilt dentelles and decorative floral green silk endpapers, morocco-edged marbled board slip-case, 8vo (binding 215 x 144mm.), [Cohen-de Ricci 671], Paris, Chez Lejay, [1769].

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Lot 35

Feynman (Richard P.) "Space-Time Approach to Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics", in Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 20, no. 2, modern cloth, original wrappers bound in, label to upper wrapper "Feynman April 1948", light vertical crease, 4to, Lancaster, PA and New York, American Physical Society, 1948.⁂ First edition of this key paper by Feynman in which he introduced his path-integral method of solving the fundamental equations of quantum mechanics. Now regarded as a cornerstone paper in the study of theoretical physics.

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Lot 359

[Gorsat (Georges)], 'SEM'. Sem au Bois, large panoramic caricature depicting a procession of carriages and automobiles conveying members of the Jockey Club of Paris, and well-known persons of the day, through the Bois de Bologne to the races at Longchamp, chromolithograph, six sections conjoined as one long roll, each section approx. 340 x 1500 mm (13 1/4 x 59 in), the total length approx. 9000 mm, without key but descriptions along the lower edge of the image, rolling into patterned paper with horse shoe design, handling creases throughout, a few small repaired nicks, the first sheet with repaired splitting to old folds and handling creases, minor surface dirt, presented in red cloth tube with lid, n.d., [circa 1908]

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Watson (James D.) The Double Helix, slight shelf-lean, light sunning to spine tips, jacket with short closed tear to foot of upper joint light rubbing to spine tips and corners, 1968; A Passion for DNA, New York, 2000; Genes, Girls and Gamow, jacket with light creasing to head and foot, 2001; DNA. The Secret of Life, New York, 2008, first or first English editions, signed or with signed presentation inscriptions from the author, illustrations, original boards, dust-jackets, near-fine generally, 8vo (4)⁂ A superb group of signed or inscribed works by the Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Along with Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklyn, Watson was responsible for one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century.

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Lot 361

Harbou (Thea von) Metropolis, first English motion picture promotional brochure, illustrations, light spotting, original pictorial wrappers, moustache in ink to the upper cover, light spotting, fractional rubbing to corners and spine, sm. 4to, [c.1927].⁂ A scarce piece of classic motion-picture ephemera. This copy is a 'Special Presentation' for the Academy in Brighton and is dated May 1st.

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Lot 362

Zhar-Ptitsa/Jar-Ptitza [The Firebird], nos. 1-14 (all published) in 2 vol., Paris and Berlin, Russkoe Iskusstvo, illustrations, numerous colour mounted plates, light finger-soiling, the odd repaired tear, ink stamp of Russian double-headed eagle to first page of issue 1 and a few elsewhere including to some upper wrappers, modern cloth, original wrappers (with some creasing and repairs) bound in, 4to, August 1921-January 1926.⁂ A complete set of this rare Russian émigré literary and artistic journal. Includes contributions by Somov, Benois, Grigor'ev, Bakst, Goncharova, Bilibin, Lukomskii, Chagall, Diaghilev, Shukaev, Makovskii, and all the members of Mir Iskusstva as well as a young Vladimir Nabokov (as "V. Sirin").

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Ashendene Press.- Cervantès Saavedra (Miguel de) The First [-Second] Part of the History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha, 2 vol., translated by Thomas Shelton, one of 225 copies on paper, printed in red and black with woodcut initials and borders by W.M. Quick and George H. Ford after designs by Louise Powell, original white pigskin, spines lettered in gilt and with raised bands, slight finger-soiling, uncut, folio, Ashendene Press, 1927-28.⁂ An elegant production, the first to be printed with the Ptolemy type, in imitation of the 1482 Geographia. Provenance: Don Cameron Allen (bookplate).

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Swan Press.- Johnson (Samuel) Forty Four Letters..., number 32 of 100 copies, 1931 § Bacon (Francis) Of Gardens, number 67 of 100 copies, black letter, 1928 § Lydgate (John) The Chorle and the Birde..., number 92 of 100 copies, black letter, 1929 § Michael, edited by L.D'O.Walters, one of an unspecified number, [c.1934], the first three all with presentation label "In Memory of Michael Heriot Huth Walters for his friend..." inscribed to Gerald Thompson on front pastedown, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, the third with frayed glacine wrapper, Swan Press; and 14 others from the press, 4to & 8vo (18)⁂ Michael Heriot Huth Walters founded the Swan Press with his mother L.D'O.Walters in 1926 and between 1927 and 1933 they produced a small number of works, usually limited to 100 copies. Michael was a scholar of Eton and King's College, Cambridge and when he died in 1934 at the age of 25 his mother obviously sent copies of their books to various of his friends. The final volume mentioned is a memorial anthology and the recipient, Gerald Thompson, a friend from King's, contributes with the comment, "...there is a verse in Omar Khayyám which I have often associated with Michael. It does not quite fit as it stands in the original, but I am sure Fitzgerald, who was so free with Omar, would not object to my alterations:Lo! one we loved, the loveliest and the bestThat Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest, Has drunk his Cup a Round or two before,And leaving us passed gallantly to Rest".

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Abbey copy.- Repton (Humphry) Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, first edition, half-title, 43 plates, comprising: one wood-engraved and letterpress plan, 21 hand-coloured aquatints (of which 2 double-page, 8 with overslips), 6 tinted aquatints (one with overslip), 13 aquatints (2 with overslips), 27 text illustrations, comprising: 9 aquatints (2 with overslips), 18 wood-engravings, occasional light offsetting, contemporary russia, stamped in gilt and blind, g.e., [Abbey, Scenery 391; Tooley 398], 4to, Printed by T. Bensley and Son...for J. Taylor, 1816.⁂ An excellent copy of Repton's last great work on landscape gardening, which he calls "the pleasing combination of Art and Nature adapted to the use of Man."Provenance: [Major] John Roland Abbey (bookplate).

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Mars: the first colour photograph from the Martian surface taken by Viking 1, vintage chromogenic print, Viking 1, watermarked "This Paper Manufactured by Kodak", NASA/ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 193 x 220 mm (7 1/2 x 8 1/2 in), July 1976.⁂ This example printed in reverse

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Mars: the first colour photograph from the Martian surface taken by Viking 2, vintage chromogenic print, watermarked "This Paper Manufactured by Kodak", NASA caption numbered P-17686 hinged to verso, NASA/ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 190 x 240 mm (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in), 2 September 1976.

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Mars: the first photograph from the Martian surface taken by Viking 2, vintage gelatin silver print, Viking 2, NASA caption numbered P-17681 hinged to verso, NASA/ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, image 70 x 235 mm (2 3/4 x 9 1/4 in), September 1976.

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The first colour photograph of Earth and Moon together in a single frame, vintage chromogenic print, watermarked "This Paper Manufactured by Kodak", minor annotation and colour block to top margin, [P-19891], NASA/ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Voyager 1, 178 x 238 mm (7 x 9 1/2 in), 18 September 1977.

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[Barleti (Marin)] The Historie of George Castriot, surnamed Scanderbeg, King of Albanie, first and only edition in English, translated by Zachary Jones, engraved portrait frontispiece inserted from another work, previous owner's ink signature to title, lacking initial blank and free endpapers, trimmed, occasionally affecting head-lines, K6 with small marginal paper defect not affecting text, 2RG with marginal paper defect affecting odd letter, S1 with small marginal hole affecting odd letter, small marginal loss to last few leaves, one or two marginal notes in varying hands, scattered spotting and staining, near contemporary calf, crudely rebacked, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [STC 15318], folio, for William Ponsonby, 1596.⁂ Although not called for, other copies at auction have also had engraved portraits inserted as frontispieces. The work includes a prefatory sonnet by Edmund Spenser ('Upon the historie of George Castriot.')

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Balkans.- Hobhouse (John Cam, 1st Baron Broughton) A Journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia to Constantinople, first edition, engraved frontispiece, 2 folding double-page maps, 1 plan, 2 facsimiles, 2 plates of sheet music, 17 hand-coloured aquatints, 7 folding, scattered faint spotting, one or two pencil notes, 3N1 with tiny hole affecting odd letter, short tear to title, faint marginal damp-staining to frontispiece, scattered spotting, bookplate, contemporary straight-grain morocco, gilt, g.e., a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, 1813.

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Balkans.- Smart (Rev. Thomas Smart) Travels in Sicily Greece and Albania, 2 vol., first edition, 12 aquatint and engraved plates, 3 engraved maps and plans, 2 folding, illustrations, occasional spotting and off-setting, previous owner's ink inscription, contemporary half-calf, vol. 1 upper cover detached, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [Blackmer 842], 4to, 1820.

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Greece.- Leake (William Martin) Researches in Greece, first edition, 1 facsimile, scattered spotting, bookplate, contemporary calf, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Blackmer 970], 4to, 1814.⁂ Provenance: Bookplate of Westport House Library, the home of the Marquess of Sligo.

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Americas.- Martyr d'Anghiera (Peter) De rebus oceanicis et novo orbe...et item de rebus aethiopicis Indicis, Lusitanicis & Hispanicis..., woodcut initials, title with small repaired hole to fore-edge, not affecting text, occasional slight browning, light water-staining to lower margin and last few leaves, the odd spot or mark but a clean copy overall, later vellum-backed boards, worn at corners, rubbed, title in manuscript to lower fore-edge, [Adams M755; Sabin 1558], 8vo, Cologne, Gervinus Calenius & heirs of Quentel, 1574.⁂ An early authoritative history of the discovery of the New World by Peter Matyr, King Ferdinand's councillor for Spain's affairs in the New World. The work was expanded over time, this 1574 edition covering the first three decades of Spanish conquest from 1492 to 1516, together with Cortes' expedition to Mexico and Martyr's diplomatic mission to Egypt in 1501-02. Also included are miscellaneous writings by Damiao de Goes, Portuguese historian and statesman, among them a description of Lapland and an account of the religion and customs of the Ethiopians.

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America.- Crockett (David) A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to front free endpaper, staining where tape is removed to pastedown and front free endpaper, occasional light foxing, later blue ink staining to pp.25-60 top margin (not affecting text body), tape staining pp.106-109, 22pp. advertisements at end, original cloth, rebacked preserving original spine with paper label (worn), corners bumped, covers marked and scuffed, discoloured, 8vo, Philadelphia, E. L. Carey and A. Hart, 1834.⁂ A rare inscribed copy with Crockett's authorial certification: "Being Called on by Mr William Allen to certify whether this book is or is not the true history of my life written by myself - I certify with pleasure that this is the true history written by myself and that this other is a counterfeit and was written without any authority from me, David Crockett of Tennessee, new Member of Congress". We cannot trace any other copy of this work inscribed by the author at auction. David "Davy" Crockett (1786-1836) was a frontiersman, soldier, later congressman, and prolific story-teller. Known as the 'King of the Wild Frontier', his exploits remain a legacy of the all-American frontiersman of 18th century America. Growing up in East Tennessee, he was later elected to U.S. Congress where he vehemently opposed the policies of Present Andrew Jackson, especially in the Indian Removal Act, and after his death he was continually credited with acts of fabled proportion. His adventures - both mythical and real - have since awarded him the status of an American folk hero.

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America.- Encounters with Native Americans.- Ashe (Captain Thomas) Travels in America, Performed in 1806, 3 vol., first edition, without half-titles, some light even browning, contemporary calf, red and green morocco spine labels, 'Pakenham Hall' blind stamped in gilt to upper covers, joints weak and splitting though holding firm, together in custom-made morocco-backed box, (lightly rubbed), 8vo, 1808.⁂ Rare set of Ashe's musings and observations on his travels around eastern states of America. His route took him overland to Pittsburgh and thence down to Ohio, where he made many stops to open Indian mounds and collect fossil bones. On landing back England he unsuccessfully attempted to sell to the British Museum with issues at customs on arrival in Bristol, and was forced to sell his extensive collection cheaply to a local small museum.

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South America.- Conquest of Peru.- Cieza De León (Pedro de) Parte primera de la chronica del Peru. Que tracta la demarcacion de sus provincias: la descripcion dellas. Las fundaciones de las nuevas ciudades. Los ritos y costumbres de los indios, y otras cosas estrañas dignas de ser sabidas, first edition, collation: ✠6 2✠4 a-q8 r6, largely double-column, title with large woodcut royal arms within woodcut border, 42 woodcuts in the text (some repetitions), and woodcut initials, author's signature to r6 verso, the odd ink note to margin in an early hand, title upper and inner margins restored and repaired tear to foot, title and first 2 gathering with repair and restorations to fore-margins and upper corner, a few other small marginal repairs and 1 or 2 neat repairs to text, light foxing and marginal damp-staining towards end, the odd patch of light staining and some light soiling or browning, but a crisp copy generally, contemporary vellum with manuscript lettering to spine, remains of ink inscriptions to lower cover, endpapers renewed, folio (292 x 200mm.), Seville, Martín de Montesdoca, 1553.⁂ The first edition of this excessively rare chronicle. We can trace only three copies offered either at auction or in dealer's catalogues, and no copy other than this since 1951."One of the most remarkable literary productions of the age of the Spanish Conquest in America. It is, in fact, the only book which exhibits the 'physical aspect of the country as it existed under the elaborate culture of the Incas'." - Sabin.The author of this history was one of the greatest authorities on Peru, where he spent 16 years. He started the work at Popayan in 1541 and finished it in Lima in 1550; the full chronicle consisted of four volumes, of which only the first was published, and deals with the geography, history and ethnology of Peru. Apart from the famous woodcut and description of the silver mines of Potosi, engraved after an original drawing made by the author, the woodcuts depict the everyday life of the conquistadors with the Indians, boats on Lake Titicaca, the building of a city, Quechua Indians dealing with the devil, a human sacrifice, a Spanish and an Indian in front of the city of Cuzco etc... It also contains the first extended description of the Peruvian guanaco, or llama, and of the pepper-tree, or mollé, and the commercial and medicinal uses of its fruits.Literature: Sabin, 13044; Medina (BHA), 157; Escudero (Séville), 555; Streit, II, 644; JCB (3) I:175; Field, 314;Johnson, The Book in the Americas, 32; Delgado-Gomez, Spanish Historical Writing about the New World, 26;Alden, 553/20; Maggs, Bibliotheca Americana (1926), p. 59, n° 3967; Quoted by Salvá, n° 3293, but never seen by him.

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Asia.- Mandeville (Sir John) Tractato bellissimo delle piu maravigliose cose & piu motabile che sitrovino nelle parte delmondo, collation: a-k8, double column, 80ff., 39 lines, Gothic type, woodcut to title depicting a group of horsemen meeting Mandeville (holding a book) at the edge of a wood, 3 woodcut printer's devices at foot of final verso, lightly washed, traces of dust-soiling to title, one minute wormhole, a few marginal repaired tears, later red morocco, gilt, by Bedford, g.e., 8vo (199 x 129mm.), Florence, [Lorenzo Morgiani], [c.1496-99].⁂ A superb, clean and complete copy of this fundamental Renaissance travel book in the Italian vernacular. ISTC records only four copies (2 Florence, Perugia (defective) and BL, to which we add a copy in Paris). The work influenced much of the travel and exploration undertaken in the late middle ages and beyond and was one of the most popular books of its kind at the time, encompassing the Holy Land, Levant, Persia, India and Far East. In 1625 Samuel Purchas thought Mandeville 'was the greatest Asian Traveller that ever the World had', next - 'if next' - to Marco Polo (Pilgrimes III/i p. 65). Little is known of Sir John Mandeville himself. He tells us that he was an English knight, that he travelled from 1322 to 1356, and he served with the Sultan of Egypt and the Great Khan. This is one of seven Italian incunable editions - the first being Milan 1480. It would undoubtedly have influenced Columbus (himself an Italian) and other travellers from northern Italy heading both east and west. "When Leonardo da Vinci moved from Milan in 1499, the inventory of his books included a number on natural history, the sphere, the heavens - indicators of some of the prime interests of that unparalleled mind. But out of the multitude of travel accounts that Leonardo could have had, in MS or from the new printing presses, there is only the one: Mandeville's Travels. At about the same time... Columbus was perusing Mandeville for information on China preparatory to his voyage; and in 1576 a copy of the Travels was with Frobisher as he lay off Baffin Bay. The huge number of people who relied on the Travels for hard, practical geographical information in the two centuries after the book first appeared demands that we give it serious attention if we want to understand the mental picture of the world of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance" (C. Moseley, ed., The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, 1983, p. 9).Literature: GW M20444; ISTC im00176500 (; Howgego M39; IGI, 6109; Lach Asia in the Making of Europe, I, pp. 77-80; Lowendahl China Illustrata Nova, 2 (1480 edition).

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China.- Morrison (John Robert) A Chinese Commercial Guide. Consisting of a Collection of Details Respecting Foreign Trade with China, second edition, lacking folding plate, title with light soiling and 2 repairs to head, occasional light toning and the odd pencil note to margin, ink ownership inscription "C. Ryder, Canton" to head of title along with gift inscription in another hand "C. Francis Ryder in remembrance of Charles Ryder - August 1930", 19th century half calf, rubbed, [Goldsmiths 33727], 8vo, Macao, S. Williams, 1844.⁂ Rare, we can trace no examples of any edition at auction. Library Hub lists three copies of the first edition and four of the much-expanded second (Leeds, Manchester, Senate House and Warwick). Includes a lengthy section on the costal navigation on China followed by a discussion of the best articles of import and export for China. The section on opium provides a figure of $14 million for the annual trade with China at the point of publication, this figure has been updated by a pencil note to margin date 1856 to $30 million. Names are given in Chinese characters and even full import forms are supplied to be copied out.

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Egypt.- Hieroglyphs.- Champollion (Jean Francois) Grammaire Égyptienne, first edition, lithographed hieroglyphs throughout, some printed in red, a few in colours, occasional offsetting, original printed wrappers, upper and lower covers backed with a few repairs and some restoration to extremities, rebacked, some marking and toning to covers, folio, Paris, Firmin Didot Fréres, 1836[-1841].⁂ This monumental work of Champollion (1790-1832), known above all as the decipherer of the Rosetta stone, is the grand summation of his work in cracking Egyptian hieroglyphs and laid the foundations for all subsequent discoveries in Egyptology. It contains the first printed list of hieroglyphs; 260 in all. The printing, from Champollion's meticulous manuscript, was a complex process. It required a special combination of all the standard alphabetic languages (French, Latin, Greek, Coptic, etc.) to be set in the usual way in type, leaving blank spaces for the hieroglyphs. The typesetting was then transferred to lithographic plates where the hieroglyphs were engraved and then each page, including type and hieroglyphs, was reprinted lithographically. This was the first time such a technique was used in France. Rare in the original printed wrappers.

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India.- Briggs (Henry George) The Cities of Gujarashtra: their Topography and History. Illustrated in the Journal of a Recent Tour, first edition, title with fore-edge repaired, occasional light spotting or damp-staining, some slight browning, small marginal worm holes throughout, heavier worming at beginning and end, affecting only a letter of the imprint "Bombay", final few leaves chipped and torn with repairs and restoration, affecting text with loss to a few words, later half calf, spine gilt, rubbed, lower joint starting, lge 4to, Bombay, for the Author, [1849].⁂ A rare account of "Gujarashtra" or present day Gujarat, covering the major cities of Surat, Ahmedabad, Bharuch etc, as well as the history of the Western colonial presence in the area.

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Gould (John) The Birds of Great Britain, 3 vol. (of 5), first edition, 191 hand-coloured lithograph plates, most heightened with gum arabic, by Gould, H. C. Richter, Joseph Wolf and William Hart, bookplates to vol.2 & 3 pastedowns, Goshawk text page with portion of loss to lower margin (not affecting text), few tears to text leaves or very occasionally to plate margins (though not affecting text or image, of which some repaired neatly with tape verso), vol.3 hinge broken to final plate but contents holding firm, even foxing and browning to some endpapers or preliminary pages, occasional scattered spots to plates, but in general clean and bright copies, vol.1 contemporary dark green morocco, ornate gilt border panelling with inner gilt dentelles, upper cover joint cracking but holding firm, extremities rather rubbed, vol.2 & 3 uniformly bound in dark brown morocco, covers lightly marked, extremities rubbed, spines faded, [Ayer & Zimmer p.261; Fine Bird Books, p.78; Wood p.365; Nissen 372], folio, [1862-] 1873.

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Middle East.- Arab authors.- Bodoni.- De Rossi (Giovanni Bernardo) Dizionario storico degli autori arabi più celebri e delle loro principali opere, first edition, double column, final f. with list of works by this author, spotted, contemporary marbled wrappers, lacking backstrip, text block broken, [Brooks 1036], scarce, 8vo, Parma, Stamperia Imperiale [Bodoni], 1807.⁂ A wide-margined copy of the first edition of this biographical dictionary of Arab authors, printed by Bodoni, as were many of the author's other works.

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Middle East.- Stark (Freya) The Southern Gates of Arabia, first edition, folding maps, plates, modern red half morocco, gilt, t.e.g., John Murray, 1936; and 21 other first editions by Stark, uniformly bound (though three with horizontal spine lettering of title), a few with very slightly different colour of red, many with dust-jackets bound in, 8vo and 4to (22)⁂ A substantial collection of Freya Stark's travel writings, autobiography (4 vol.) handsomely and uniformly bound. From the library of Michael Matantos with his bookplate.

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Tibet.- Turner (Captain Samuel) An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama, in Tibet, first edition, 13 engraved plates, 1 double-page, engraved illustrations, folding engraved map, shot marginal tear, off-setting as usual, Z1 with tiny hole affecting odd letter, 2S3 with small marginal holes, scattered spotting and marginal damp-staining, one or two corrections inserted by hand, previous ownership inscription to title, modern calf-backed boards, 4to, 1800.⁂ Provenance: Lord Beresford's copy, with the inscription "This Book belong to Lord Beresford's Library at Bedgebury Park."

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Voyages.- Morisot (Claude Barthélemy de) Orbis maritimi sive Rerum in mari et littoribus gestarum generalis historia, first edition, additional engraved title, title printed in red and black, additional printed dedication to Pierre Séguier (leaf â) inserted at end of preliminaries, folding engraved plate, 44 engraved illustrations, 23 of which maps, additional title with small marginal loss to fore-edge (repaired), folding plate lightly creased, some subtle damp-staining to lower margin, the odd spot or patch of soiling but an excellent clean copy overall, near contemporary vellum, yapp edges, spine with title in ink, rubbed and lightly soiled, [Borba de Moraes II, pp.597-8; Sabin 50723], folio, Dijon, Pierre Palliot, 1643.⁂ One of the first comprehensive books on naval history. The work is dedicated to Louis XIII, with the preface dated January 1643. This copy also has a printed dedication to Chancelier Séguier, dated April 1643, inserted before the start of the text (and interrupting the catchwords), indicating that this is the second issue. The folding plate depicts a staged naval battle in a Roman arena, with illustrations of coins, types of native vessel, and maps of Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

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World.- Wit (Frederik de) Nova Orbis Tabula In Lucem Edita, double hemisphere world map, showing the known coastal sections of New Zealand, with California as an island with flat top (before the alterations made c. 1680), large parts of Australia, with two polar hemispheres in the upper and lower centre, and the surrounds elaborately decorated with allegories of the four seasons, the elements and the signs of the zodiac, engraving with full original hand-colouring, an excellent early impression of the first state (of three), printing before the border decoration and later alterations, platemark 480 x 570 mm (18 7/8 x 22 1/2 in), sheet 550 x 650 mm (21 3/4 x 25 1/2 in), central vertical fold with associated minor creasing, some old repairs to minor splitting at fold, minor spotting and surface dirt, unframed, Amsterdam, [circa 1670] ⁂ Important early state of this world map showing the most up-to-date cartographic details known of Southeast Asia and the north of New Zealand.

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Cambridge.- Ackermann (Rudolph, publisher) A History of the University of Cambridge, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, engraved portrait of the Duke of Gloucester, 95 plates without the 16 portraits of Founders (as usual with early issues), all fine hand-coloured aquatints or stipple-engravings by Stadler, Havell, Agar, Bluck, Hill and Reeve after Pugin, Westall, Mackenzie, Uwins and Pyne, plates bright and clean but offset, very occasional spotting or finger marking, contemporary crimson straight-grain morocco, intricately blind-stamped with ornate gilt border, inner gilt dentelles, spines lightly rubbed and discoloured and covers with one or two marks but overall distinctively bright and very handsome copies, g.e., [Abbey, Scenery 80; Tooley 4], 4to, 1815.

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Oxford.- Ackermann (Rudolph, publisher) A History of the University of Oxford, 2 vol., first edition, large paper copies, engraved portrait of the Chancellor Lord Grenville (laid down and foxed), 81 hand-coloured plates comprising 64 aquatint views by Buck, Stadler, Hill & others after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall & others and 17 stipple-engraved plates of academic costumes, without the 33 hand-coloured portraits of the Founders (as usual with early issues), plates bright and clean but offset, light finger-soiling marks to vol.2 half-title, very occasional spotting, contemporary red crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf, panelled in gilt, wide inner gilt dentelles, t.e.g., others uncut, rebacked and neatly recornered, spines gilt in compartments, some rubbing or chipping to extremities but overall handsome copies, [Abbey, Scenery 280; Tooley 5], 4to, 1814.⁂ A very attractive set of one of the finest illustrated works on Oxford. Plates 1, 15, 39, 50, 78, 84, and 94 in first state, plate 74 in second state with overslips.

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Pokémon TCG. Base Set Booster Box - Unlimited This lot contains a sealed Base Set booster box, this is an unlimited print run box. Base Set was the first Pokémon set released in 1999 and the start of the trading card phenomenon. Condition Report: The box is in excellent condition with the original wrapper in tact and complete in a reinforced protective case.

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Pokémon TCG. Base Set Booster Box Sealed - Unlimited This lot contains a sealed Base Set booster box, this is an unlimited print run box. Base Set was the first Pokémon set released in 1999 and the start of the trading card phenomenon. The box comes direct from the former owner of a toy and trading card store Bristol Kitestore Ltd and was purchased direct from an wholesaler who distributed items for Wizards of the coast. Condition Report: The box has been in storage and has some scuffs to the sides. The box has the original wrapper in tact a but on the bottom it has started to come away, the box comes complete in a reinforced protective case.

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Pokémon TCG Sealed Collector's Album. This lot contains a sealed Wizards of the Coast Collectors Ring Album. The album comes with 5 Ultra Pro pages and the check sheet for the first three TCG expansions. Extremely rare to find still sealed, this item comes from a former vendor and from a case of 5.

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Pokémon TCG Sealed Collector's Album This lot contains a sealed Wizards of the Coast Collectors Ring Album. The album comes with 5 Ultra Pro pages and the check sheet for the first three TCG expansions. Extremely rare to find still sealed, this item comes from a former vendor and from a case of 5.

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Pokémon TCG Sealed Collector's Album This lot contains a sealed Wizards of the Coast Collectors Ring Album. The album comes with 5 Ultra Pro pages and the check sheet for the first three TCG expansions. Extremely rare to find still sealed, this item comes from a former vendor and from a case of 5.

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