BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Mockingbird Wish Me Luck. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. 8vo (236 x 154mm). Title printed in colours. Original wrappers (some light staining). FIRST EDITION IN WRAPPERS. SIGNED by the author on the title page. With 24 other books including John Keats' The Poems (London, Chiswick Press, 1904, 2 vols., cloth, dust-jackets, ONE OF 350 COPIES), Transition. An International Workshop for Orphic Creation. Edited by Eugene Jolas (The Hague, The Servire Press, March 1932, No. 21, original wrappers), Pierre Cabanne's Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp ... Preface by Salvador Dali (London, 1971, cloth, dust-jacket), William S. Burroughs' & Eric Mottram's Snack ... Two tape transcripts ([London], Aloes Books, 1975, original wrappers), William S. Burroughs' Roosevelt after Inauguration and Other Atrocities (San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1980, original wrappers, second printing), Ian McEwan's The Comfort of Strangers (London, 1981, cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the author), Charles Bukowski's War All the Time. Poems 1981-1984 (Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1984, original wrappers, SIGNED by the author and with a small sketch by him) and Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient (London, 1992, cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION). (25)
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DUGUAY-TROUIN, René (1673-1736). Memoires de M. du Gue-Trouin, chef d' Escadre des Armées de S. M. T. C. & Grand-Croix de l' Ordre Militaire de Saint Louise. Amsterdam: chez Pierre Mortier, 1732. 12mo (145 x 85mm). Title printed in red and black with woodcut device, headpieces and initials (small hole in blank margin of I9, some light spotting and staining). Contemporary speckled armorial calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments (rebacked, top fore-corner of upper cover eroded, spine heavily rubbed). Provenance: De Bariville (old signature on front free endpaper and coat-of-arms stamped on covers); "Ex Libris Laurentii Currie" (armorial bookplate). [?]Second 'pirated' edition, the last text page (verso) numbered 290 followed by 2 blank leaves. cf. Barbier III, 209 (erroneously calling for 2 vols.); Berger pp.150-1; Borba de Moraes I, 270-272; Brunet II, 476 (under 'Guay-Trouin', citing the Paris 1740 ed. only); Cohen-de Ricci I, 334; Polak 2855; Sabin 29098 (citing the Paris 1740 ed. only). The author was a celebrated seaman or 'corsair' - some might say a 'pirate' - who famously captured and ransacked Rio de Janeiro in 1711. The first 'authorised' edition of his memoirs, which (at the insistence of Cardinal Fleury) suppressed much of the more colourful contents of the present edition, was published in 1740.
![DUMAS, Alexandre (1802-70). Le Comte de Monte-Christo [sic, ie. Cristo]. Brussels: Meline, Cans et Compagnie, 1845-46. 8 vol](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/55ca2bbb-26d6-40cd-87ba-abec00be1828/79790a0f-75a7-48af-9a43-abed00946d95/468x382.jpg)
DUMAS, Alexandre (1802-70). Le Comte de Monte-Christo [sic, ie. Cristo]. Brussels: Meline, Cans et Compagnie, 1845-46. 8 volumes bound in 4, small 8vo (151 x 98mm). Half titles present in all 8 volumes (i.e. 2 half titles present in each volume as bound, large light stain to half title, title and first leaves of the first vol., extending on the title page from the top of "Monte-Christo" [sic] to half a centimetre above "Bruxelles"). Contemporary pink half calf and marbled boards, spines ruled and numbered "1-4" in gilt with green morocco lettering pieces (spines stained and faded, more heavily at the foot of vol. one). Very early Brussels edition, with "Cristo" misspelt "Christo" in all the titles, published the year after the first edition in book form which was printed in Paris in 1844. cf. Reed 134. (4)
![ECKERMANN, Johann Peter (1792-1854). Gedichte. Hanover: [privately printed], 1821. 8° (208 x 125mm). (Spotted throughout, sma](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/55ca2bbb-26d6-40cd-87ba-abec00be1828/c7dcf764-174e-4142-b426-abed00946f84/468x382.jpg)
ECKERMANN, Johann Peter (1792-1854). Gedichte. Hanover: [privately printed], 1821. 8° (208 x 125mm). (Spotted throughout, small piece torn away from blank margin of one leaf.) Original boards, spine label lettered in gilt (extremities rubbed, without rear free endpaper but perhaps bound thus). Provenance: [?]Wintzer (modern signature on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION OF ECKERMANN'S RARE FIRST BOOK, a collection of verse self-published when he was attending the gymnasium in Hanover. Only copies of the 1838 edition appear to have been sold at auction; indeed, the author's Wikipedia entry gives this as the date of first publication. Eckermann began his acquaintance with Goethe, for which he is perhaps best remembered, in 1823, soon after publishing Gedichte. During the last years of Goethe's life Eckermann was his personal secretary and later published their conversations, Gespräche mit Goethe, which Friedrich Nietzsche described as 'the best book in German that there is'. Worldcat locates just two copies of this first edition in Germany: at the Bibliotheca Albertina (University Library) in Leipzig, and at the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar.
FINCK, Henry Theophilus (1854-1926). The Pacific Coast Scenic Tour. From Southern California to Alaska, the Canadian Pacific Railway, Yellowstone Park and the Grand Canyon. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1891. 8vo (206 x 140mm). Half title, photographed frontispiece, map, and 19 photographed plates (one text leaf torn without loss, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original green decorated buckram (spine slightly discoloured, a little faded). First published in New York in 1890. cf. Carson 605; Smith 104. With Thomas D. Murphy's Three Wonderlands of the American West ... New Revised Edition (Boston, [n.d.], original pictorial buckram) and Hugo Brehme's Mexico. Baukunst. Landschaft. Volksleben (Berlin, 1925, half roan). (3)
HERBERT, Thomas (1606-82). Some Years Travels into Divers Parts of Africa and Asia the Great. Describing More particularly the Empires of Persia and Industan: Interwoven with suchj remarkable Occurrences as hapned[sic] in those parts during these later Times. As also, many other rich and famous Kingdoms in the Orientall India, with the Isles adjacent. Severally relating their Religion, Language, Customs and Habit: as also proper Observations concerning them. The Third Impression much Enlarged, with many Additions, nigh a third part more then[sic] there was in any of the former impressions, besides the addition of many new and lively Brass-cuts. London: Printed by J. Best for Andrew Crook, 1665. Folio (286 x 188mm). Additional engraved title with baroque cartouche, woodcut headpieces and historiated initials, folding engraved plate of Persepolis, 48 engraved illustrations and maps including one full-page map (some repairs to both titles affecting a few letters, small hole in printed title not affecting letters, short marginal tear at foot of both titles, small rusthole in Oo2 touching letters, some dark spots and a few stains, some light staining and browning). FINELY BOUND in modern polished panelled calf gilt, spine gilt with red and tan morocco lettering-pieces, raised bands, gilt edges, new endpapers. The binding is, perhaps surprisingly, unsigned. Provenance: D. [?]Thomas (old signature at head of both titles). Wing H1534; Sabin 31471. The work was first published in 1634. There is an illustration of a man being eaten by a "Sharke fish" on p. 7 and an illustration of a Dodo on p.403.
HIRST, Damien (b. 1965). I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one to one, always, forever, now. London: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1997. 4to (330 x 288mm). Coloured photographs and illustrations, some folding, transformation plates operated by tabs, pop-ups and onlays by Damien Hirst. Original red leatherette stamped in blind and gold, spine lettered in black, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY DAMIEN HIRST ON THE TITLE. "This publication - Hirst's first - is the artist's beguiling statement of his ideas and obsessions in life and art to date. Expressed in his own words, and illustrated by his own selection of over 700 images, pop-ups and special insets [the book] encompasses the entire range of his work - paintings, sculptures, installations and films. In this book, Hirst has created an iconoclastic work that challenges the boundaries of art, science, media and popular culture" (from the turn-in).
HOCKNEY, David (b. 1937). Hockney's Alphabet. Drawings by David Hockney & Written contributions edited by Stephen Spender. [London:] Faber and Faber for the Aids Crisis Trust, 1991. 4to (322 x 245mm). Full-page coloured illustrations by David Hockney. Original black buckram, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. With 24 miscellaneous 20th-century books including J. V. S. Wilkinson's The Lights of Canopus ([London], The Studio, [c. 1928], cloth, dust-jacket), T. S. Eliot's East Coker (London, 1940, wrappers), John Betjeman's First and Last Loves (London, 1952, cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION), George Beldam's Great Cricketers (Goostrey, Boundary Books, 2000, cloth, number 113 of 548 copies signed by the author), and a number of books and pamphlets on private presses, Eric Gill and other artists. (25)
![INCUNABLE - [John MARCHESINUS (late 13th-early 14th-century). Mammotrectus super Bibliam.] [Colophon:] Expliciut exposi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/55ca2bbb-26d6-40cd-87ba-abec00be1828/3fff6a09-bd23-44f2-977d-abed0094eef7/468x382.jpg)
INCUNABLE - [John MARCHESINUS (late 13th-early 14th-century). Mammotrectus super Bibliam.] [Colophon:] Expliciut expositiones et correctiones vocabulorum libri qui appellatur Mamotrectus tablie qualiorum plurimorus librorum. Venice: "impensis Francisci de madiis", 1485. 8vo (178 x 118mm). 242 leaves [collated complete], printed in double column, 39-lines to a page, small Gothic type, intials, capitals and decorations hand-painted in red and blue (some leaves mis-bound at the beginning, a few leaves lightly browned, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary panelled vellum decorated in blind over boards, plain spine with 5 raised bands, metal clasp (rubbed and stained). Provenance: copious 15th/16th-century annotation on vellum stubs and leaves at the front and beginning, and in some margins; E. Calvert (later library label on front pastedown); BIBLIOTHECA HEBERIANA (small label on [A1]); 2 old catalogue descriptions [for other copies] laid down on and tipped-onto front pastedown; [continuous] manuscript pagination throughout. First printed in Mainz by Peter Schöffer in 1470, Mammotrectus [with many variants] super Bibliam, a dictionary of words and terms extracted from the Bible and other religious works, was one of the most important scholarly texts of the later Middle Ages. It was criticised by Erasmus and Luther, then satirised by Rabelais in his Gargantua and Pantagruel. BMC V.333; cf. Brunet III, 250 (not citing this edition specifically); Goff M245; GW M20823; Hain 10564.
![INCUNABLE - Bible, in Latin. Biblia cum tabula noviter edita. Venice: "per Symonem Bevilqua," [not before 22 November] 1494.](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/55ca2bbb-26d6-40cd-87ba-abec00be1828/130d22fe-38db-415b-b15e-abed0094ec53/468x382.jpg)
INCUNABLE - Bible, in Latin. Biblia cum tabula noviter edita. Venice: "per Symonem Bevilqua," [not before 22 November] 1494. Large 8vo (207152mm). 464 leaves [collated complete, with blanks as called for], printed mostly in double column, table printed in triple column, 55-lines to a page, small Gothic type, initials hand-painted alternately in red and blue, capital letters marked in red, printed marginal notes, table by Gabriele Bruno (small pieces torn away from blank margins of aii, m4, r2 and J1, tab torn at margin of q1, marginal repair to C5, some light mainly marginal staining and spotting, mainly at lower margin). Contemporary panelled calf over boards, small vellum tabs (rebacked, upper cover detached, lower joints split, spine rather worn, lacks clasps, corners eroded, inner hinges crudely reinforced, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: old [?]signature on aii scribbled out and partly excised; E. Calvert (later library label on front pastedown), some old marginal annotation. One of the "Fontibus ex grecis" Vulgate bibles, which were translated from now-lost ancient Hebrew and Arameic manuscripts between 382 and 405 AD by the scholar priest known as St. Jerome (Eusebius Hieronymus), and one of the first of all Latin bibles to be printed in a smaller format. BMC V.519; cf. Brunet I, 327; Copinger Incunabula biblica 100; Darlow & Moule 6089; Goff B597; GW 4274; Hain 3117*; IGI 1677; Quentin 81; Sheppard 4468.
![[JONES, Owen (1809-74)]. The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony. [London: Longman, c. 1849]. 12mo (125 x 90mm). 20 leaves of](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/55ca2bbb-26d6-40cd-87ba-abec00be1828/431c4d36-2d69-43d1-a661-abed009485d2/468x382.jpg)
[JONES, Owen (1809-74)]. The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony. [London: Longman, c. 1849]. 12mo (125 x 90mm). 20 leaves of thick paper "illuminated" in colours and gold by Owen Jones (one leaf detached, some mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original tan calf designed by Owen Jones elaborately decorated in gilt, the covers with borders of an interlacing design, the upper cover with a spray of flowers and title stamped in gilt, gilt edges, new endpapers (lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION. RARE.
![LEE, Oswin A. J. Among British Birds in their Nesting Haunts. Edinburgh: David Douglas, [1896-]99. 4 volumes, folio (378 x 2](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/55ca2bbb-26d6-40cd-87ba-abec00be1828/3f2bed21-b424-4104-90a5-abed00948d49/468x382.jpg)
LEE, Oswin A. J. Among British Birds in their Nesting Haunts. Edinburgh: David Douglas, [1896-]99. 4 volumes, folio (378 x 280mm). Half titles, pictorial titles, 160 photogravure plates, wood-engraved vignettes (some very faint marginal browning). FINELY BOUND in early 20th-century dark green crushed half morocco gilt by William Brown of Edinburgh, spine gilt with raised bands, top edges gilt, others uncut (some rubbing to extremities, a few small scuffs). FIRST EDITION (originally issued in parts). Freeman 2199; Mullens & Swann p.345; Wood p.429; Zimmer p.381: "... splendid, full-page photogravures ... of some 122 species of British birds ..." (4)
![MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò (1469-1527). Il Prencipe [sic]... Con alcune altre operette, i titoli delle qualitroverai nella seguente](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/55ca2bbb-26d6-40cd-87ba-abec00be1828/2799de52-d379-4e13-9da0-abed00948ee3/468x382.jpg)
MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò (1469-1527). Il Prencipe [sic]... Con alcune altre operette, i titoli delle qualitroverai nella seguente facciata. Palermo [but London]: "Appresso gli heredi d' Antoniello dagli Antonielli" [but John Wolfe], 1584. 8vo (156 x 102mm). Woodcut printer's device of a palm tree with serpents and toads at its root on title, Italian text (heavy stain to corner of last few leaves, browned and spotted throughout with a few darker spots). Modern old-style calf decorated in blind, raised bands (extremities rubbed, some splitting and worming to upper joints). Provenance: two modern labels on front pastedown; old initials at foot of title; deleted signatures on verso of final text leaf; old library label at foot of spine. "The Prince" was first published by Anthony Blado in 1532 and was placed on the Index librorum prohibitorum in 1559. It has been suggested that this edition, with its false imprint, was produced for an Italian readership. However, it is just as likely that the publisher John Wolfe, in light of the scandalous nature of the book's contents, was simply trying to keep out of trouble. cf. PMM 63; STC (2nd ed.) 17167; this edition not in Brunet.
![MANCHESTER - William Arthur SHAW (1865-1943). Manchester Old and New. London: Cassell, [c. 1894]. 3 volumes, 4to (315 x 250m](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/55ca2bbb-26d6-40cd-87ba-abec00be1828/39fa94d8-1282-4e81-a9d3-abed009490d3/468x382.jpg)
MANCHESTER - William Arthur SHAW (1865-1943). Manchester Old and New. London: Cassell, [c. 1894]. 3 volumes, 4to (315 x 250mm). Illustrations by H. E. Tidmarsh (occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original maroon pebbled and bevelled cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in blind, gilt edges (extremities rubbed). With 7 other works of related interest in 11 volumes including T. Swindells' Manchester Streets and Manchester Men (Manchester, 1906-08, first-fifth series [all published], cloth), Beppy Byrom's Diary. An Eye-witness Account of Bonnie Prince Charlie in Manchester ([No place, c. 1955], cloth, number 144 of an unstated limitation). (14)
![MORRISON, Robert (1782-1834). Vocabulary of the Canton Dialect. Macao: Printed at the Honorable[sic] East India Company's Pr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/55ca2bbb-26d6-40cd-87ba-abec00be1828/23249a9f-7141-408c-af8f-abed00949d56/468x382.jpg)
MORRISON, Robert (1782-1834). Vocabulary of the Canton Dialect. Macao: Printed at the Honorable[sic] East India Company's Press, by G. J. Steyn, and Brother, 1828. Parts I-II bound in one [only, lacking part III: "Chinese Words and Phrases", as often], 8vo in 4s (224 x 140mm). (Some spotting to title, "Powers of the Letters" leaf detached and frayed without loss, some leaves torn at upper margin, without loss, very lightly browned throughout, occasional light spotting and staining). Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt (upper cover detached with first few leaves attached, signs of label having been removed from lower cover, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: later pencil inscription on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION of the first western attempt to compile a glossary for a dialect at a time when the opium trade was at its height. RARE. "This Vocabulary was undertaken, in the hope that the language could be communicated to Europeans without the Chinese Character ..." (from the Introduction). RARE. 6754
NIEBUHR, Carsten (1733-1815). Voyage ... en Arabie et en d' autres Pays de l' Orient. Avec l' extrait de la description de l' Arabie & des observations de Mr Forskal. "En Suisse" [Bern]: chez les Libraires Associés, 1780. 2 volumes, 8vo (195 x 118mm). Text in French, 19 engraved plates, 5 of which folding, 6 folding engraved maps (some very light browning and staining). Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red and green morocco lettering-pieces, red edges (extremities rubbed and scuffed, some splitting to heads of joints). Provenance: Sir Joseph Verdin, Bart. (armorial bookplate). Second edition in French of the first European account of Arabia, its people and their way of life. cf. Atabey 874; Brunet III, 518 (citing the first edition - "assez rare" - of 1774-78 with German text); Gay 3589; Hage Chahine Guide de Livre Orientaliste Levant 3443; Weber II, 458. (2)
PAPWORTH, John Buonarotti (1775-1847). Select Views of London; with Historical and Descriptive Sketches of some of the most interesting of its Public Buildings. London: R. Ackermann, 1816. Large 8vo (262 x 180mm). 76 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 5 of which folding, 2 of the folding plates after Augustus Welby Pugin (corner of text leaf c2 torn away with loss, title browned, occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few darker spots). VERY FINELY BOUND in 19th-century Regency-style panelled straight-grained morocco ruled and decorated in gilt and blind, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed, a few light scratches, later endpapers). Provenance: GLOUCESTER (armorial bookplate). FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, the scarcer issue with the author's name on the title. Abbey Scenery 217; Brunet III, 627; Hardie English Coloured Books p. 112 & 312: "Published originally in the 'Repository, 1810-15"; Prideaux pp. 144 & 147: "... very interesting record of past London, with representations of City churches and other topographical features now no longer in existence ..."; Tooley 361.
PHOTOGRAPHY - Gilbert SELDES (1893-1970, editor). This is New York. The First Modern Photographic Book of New York ... Photographic editor, Leigh Irwin. New York: David Kemp, 1934. 4to (243 x 190mm). Monochrome photographed illustrations. Original pictorial paper boards (corners rubbed). Provenance: [?]Lily Smith-Gordon, 1934 (signature on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. With 5 other photographic books including Mario von Bucovich's Berlin. Geleitwort von Alfred Döblin [Half title:] Das Gesicht der Städte (Berlin, Albertus-Verlag, 1928, original blue wrappers, rather worn), Heinz von Perckhammer's Peking. Geileitwort von Arthur Holitscher (Berlin, Albertus-Verlag, 1928, cloth, without the dust-jacket) and Karl Blossfeldt's Urformen der Kunst (Berlin, 1953, cloth, dust-jacket, reprint). (6)
POTTER, Beatrix (1866-1943). The Tailor of Gloucester. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903. 12mo. Half title, coloured frontispiece and 26 plates by Beatrix Potter. Original plum paper boards lettered in white with coloured pictorial label mounted on upper cover (upper cover scuffed with some loss to letters of title, head and foot of spine nicked, inner hinges weak). Provenance: "Gladys [?]Nendel Murray from Mama Xmas 1903." FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION. Linder p. 430; Quinby 4. With 5 other books by Beatrix Potter, namely The Tale of Two Bad Mice (London, 1903, lacks spine), The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (ibid., 1905), The Tale of Tom Kitten (ibid., 1907, frontispiece detached), The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse (ibid., 1910) and The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes (ibid., 1911, upper cover rubbed with loss of two letters of title), ALL FIRST EDITIONS in original pictorial cloth. (6)
RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925) - A collection of 22 novels by Henry Rider Haggard, comprising: Cetywayo and his White Neighbours (London, 1891, fourth edition of the author's first published work), Dawn (New York, 1887), The Witch's Head (London, [?1885], "Twenty-sixth thousand"), Jess (London, 1887, second edition), Allan Quatermain (London, 1896, "new edition"), Mr. Meeson's Will (London, 1888, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM), Maiwa's Revenge (London, 1891, reprint), Colonel Quaritch (London, 1896, "new edition"), Allan's Wife and Other Tales (London, 1889, FIRST EDITION), Allan's Wife and Other Tales (London, 1889, spine worn, NUMBER 9 OF 100 LARGE PAPER COPIES), Beatrice (London, 1890, FIRST EDITION), The World's Desire [with Andrew Lang] (London, 1890, early reprint), Eric Brighteyes (London, 1891, FIRST EDITION), Nada the Lily (London, 1892, FIRST EDITION), Montezuma's Daughter (London, 1893, FIRST EDITION), The People of the Mist (London, 1894, FIRST EDITION), Heart of the World (London, 1896, FIRST EDITION), Joan Haste (London, 1895, FIRST EDITION), The Wizard (Bristol, J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd., 1896, reprint, later library cloth), Doctor Therne (London, 1898, FIRST EDITION), Swallow (London, 1899, "Reprinted April 1899") and Black Heart and White Heart and Other Stories (London, 1900, FIRST EDITION), all in original publisher's cloth except where stated otherwise. The lot sold not subject to return. (22)
RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925) - A collection of 24 novels including: Lysbeth. A Tale of the Dutch (London, 1901), Pearl-Maiden (London, 1903), Stella Fregelius (London, 1904), The Brethren (London, 1904), The Way of the Spirit (London, 1906), Benita (London, 1906, "reprinted"), Fair Margaret (London, 1907), The Ghost Kings (London, 1908), Queen Sheba's Ring (London, 1910) and Red Eve (London, [1911]), all the named items FIRST EDITIONS in the original publisher's cloth, except where indicated. The lot sold not subject to return. (24)
SEEMANN, Berthold Carl (1825-71) Viti: An Account of a Government Mission to the Fijian Islands in the Years 1860-61. Cambridge: Macmillan & Co., 1862. 8vo. Tinted lithographed frontispiece, folding lithographed map, and 3 plates, illustrations (without the publisher's advertisements, some very light spotting and staining). Attractively bound in 19th-century full plum calf by Bickers & Son, the covers ruled in gilt, the spine gilt with green morocco lettering-piece (a little faded, some light rubbing and scuffing). FIRST EDITION. Hill 1547; Pritzel 8581; Stafleu & Cowan 11609; Taylor Pacific Bibliography p.308. With 3 other travel books including Ewart Grogan's From the Cape to Cairo. The First Traverse of Africa from South to North (London, 1900, original cloth). (4)
![[SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Selected Works, edited by Nicholas Rowe, comprising]: The Life and Death of King John [an](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/55ca2bbb-26d6-40cd-87ba-abec00be1828/520b3c75-c5cb-4f8a-8df0-abed0094cdc8/468x382.jpg)
[SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Selected Works, edited by Nicholas Rowe, comprising]: The Life and Death of King John [and:] The Life and Death of King Richard II [and:] The First [Second] Part of Henry IV. With the Life and Death of Henry Sirnam'd Hot-Spur [and:] The Life of King Henry V. [No place: no publihser], 1709 [and:] The First [Second] Part of King Henry VI. [No place: no publisher], 1709. 8vo (197 x 120mm). 7 engraved plates [or frontispieces], pp. 980-1532 (lacks all after p.1532, some spotting and staining). Later parchment-backed wrappers with title in old manuscript on the spine. A later manuscript title inserted at the front states "One of the Rarest Editions after the priceless Folio & Quarto. Altogether Unique. 1709." Provenance: Ann Western (old signature at head of first text leaf of the first play). Part of the first illustrated edition of Shakespeare's works. Sold not subject to return.
SPORT - Edward William Dirom CUMING (1862-1941). British Sport Past and Present. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. 4to (296 x 230mm). Half title, mounted coloured frontispiece and 30 plates by G. Denholm Armour (some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original pictorial pigskin gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (extremities rubbed, some white staining to spine and lower cover). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 113 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. With 4 other sporting books, namely Francis Francis's A Book of Angling (London, 1885 [but 1887], sixth edition, cloth), James Henry Corballis's Forty-Five Years of Sport (London, 1891, cloth), P. D. Malloch's Life-History and Habits of the Salmon, Sea-Trout, Trout, and other Freshwater Fish (London, 1912, cloth) and J. Wentworth Day's The Dog in Sport (London, 1938, cloth). The lot sold not subject to return. (5)
WALTON, Izaak (c.1593-1683). The Compleat Angler. London: George C. Harrap, 1931. 4to (248 x 190mm). Half title, coloured frontispiece and 11 plates by Arthur Rackham, illustrations. Original pictorial cloth gilt. Provenance: Malvern College prize label on verso of front free endpaper. FIRST TRADE EDITION. Latimore & Haskell pp. 66-67; Riall p.175. With Walton's The Compleat Angler ... Edited with an Introduction by Richard le Gallienne (London, 1897, illustrations by Edmund H. New, modern half calf). (2)
WARHOL, Andy (1928-87). The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B & Back Again). New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. 8vo (211 x 140mm). Half title (some staining to one "Contents" leaf and on edges). Original red and yellow cloth, dust-jacket with price of $7.95 unclipped (dust-jacket chipped). Provenance: "To J, with love, Les" (inscription on title). FIRST EDITION, SIGNED ACROSS THE HALF TITLE BY THE AUTHOR, with his initials added in marker pen. With Andy Warhol & Pat Hackett's Popism. The Warhol '60s (New York, 1980, cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION, later impression with code letters "B C D E" on verso of title). (2)
WRIGHT, Magnus von (1805-68), and others. Svenska Fåglar efter Naturen och på Sten Ritade, edited by Professor Einar Lönnberg. Stockholm: Ivar Baarsen, 1924-29. 3 volumes, large 4to (380 x 285mm). 364 fine chromolithographed plates of the birds of Sweden (variable light spotting and browning). Original tan buckram, the spines lettered in gilt (spines very slightly faded). The second edition, reprinted and substantially expanded from the scarce first edition of 1828-38. This set contains all the plates as called for; it does not, however, contain Einar Lönnberg's text or the photographed illustrations accompanying it. Anker 544; Nissen IVB 1026; Wood p.637. (3)
![The Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarterly. London [& Boston]: Elkin Mathews & John Lane [& Copeland & Day], A](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/55ca2bbb-26d6-40cd-87ba-abec00be1828/e588fdc4-5068-4e7a-8925-abed0094e96b/468x382.jpg)
The Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarterly. London [& Boston]: Elkin Mathews & John Lane [& Copeland & Day], April 1894-April 1897. Volumes I - XIII [all published]. 4to (201 x 160mm). Half titles in all but the first volume, plates and illustrations (one leaf torn without loss in vol. X, occasional light spotting). Original yellow pictorial cloth with designs by Aubrey Beardsley, uncut (some very light staining). Although dominated by the illustrations of Aubrey Beardsley, and his decadent fin de siècle aura, many other distinguished artists contributed to the quarterly, notably Frederic Leighton, Will Rothenstein, Walter Sickert and Philip Wilson Steer; contributors to the text included Max Beerbohm, John Buchan, Baron Corvo, Edmund Gosse, Kenneth Grahame, Henry James, E. Nesbit and W. B. Yeats. Included in the lot are 2 retrospective works, The Yellow Book. A Selection (London, 1949 and 1950). (15)
A George III silver cow creamer, by John Schuppe, London 1765, the horned cow with open mouth, textured head and spine, floral and leaf decorated hinged cover, standing on all fours, 15cms long, 9.5cms high, 4.4oz. Note: John Schuppe (fl.1753-73) was a Dutch silversmith working in London and noted for his humorous cow creamers (cream jugs). John Schuppe is first recorded in England on 28 June 1753 when his name was recorded as a large worker of Little Deans Court, St Martins-le-Grand. He was registered to 6 New Rents in 1755. In 1773 his name appeared in the Parliamentary Return. The majority of creamers shaped as a cow in the Dutch style between 1753 and 1773 bear his mark. Nothing is known of him after 1773.
A PORTRAIT OF A SAFAVID SHAH, PROBABLY SULEIMAN I, QAJAR PERSIA, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY gouache with ink and gold on paper, laid on an album page, the figure kneeling by a window opening onto a wooded landscape, in conversation with an elder, a youth behind, inscribed near the top, surrounded by concentric floral borders, inscription top left reading ~ya sahib as Samaan~, framed 14.2 x 7.5cm (image); 30 x 20cm (folio) Provenance: Private Collection, London, acquired Christie~s, London, 11 October 1979, lot 64 ++Margins and border slightly worn and smudged, main image mostly good
A GEORGE III SILVER TEAPOT, ROBERT MAKEPEACE & RICHARD CARTER, LONDON, 1778 in Neo-classical taste, the compressed spherical body with Greek key girdle flanked by alternating plain and matted ground vertical ribs, with small engraved scrolling initials IJ 24.5cm long, 715gr (22oz 18dwt) including fibre handle and finial This stylish teapot, probably originally with a stand, would have been highly fashionable when first made (or at least supplied) by Makepeace & Carter and a step up from the more common sheet silver oval teapots of the period. The tea service made for the actor David Garrick (Victoria & Albert Museum, No.M.24B-1973) of 1774/75 by Young & Jackson displays similar plain and matted ribbing.
ËœFOUR ASSORTED CIGARETTE CASES comprising: a large George V silver example with linear engine-turning surrounding a vacant roundel, E.J. Trevitt & Sons of Birmingham, Chester, 1918, 14.7cm; a Persian silver and enamel example, the white ground painted to the obverse with a vignette of buildings beside water and a spray of flowers to the reverse within foliate borders, probably Isfahan, first half 20th century, 10cm long; an oblong silver filigree example, 10cm long; and a tortoiseshell case applied in silver with initials CI below a noble~s coronet, Continental, circa 1900, 9.5cm long
FOUR SUNGA TERRACOTTA PLAQUES, LOWER GANGETIC REGION, INDIA, 2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C. each with moulded relief decoration, two depicting yakshis, one with corn issuing from her head, the other with an infant, the others depicting a young couple and a male figure respectively, three mounted 16.5cm high and smaller Provenance: said to have been acquired in the Allahabad region before the First World War Two terracotta fragments with similar bunches of corn are in Allahabad Museum (Inv.No.90/218&9). ++Condition: the larger with repaired break, each with some chips and losses
Two late 19th century gem-set falcon stickpinsOne set with cabochon turquoise, with rose-cut diamond wings and a ruby eye, engraved gold talons, on a yellow gold perch, the second entirely set with rose-cut diamonds, with a ruby eye, engraved gold talons on a yellow gold perch, the pin with an arrow-shaped diamond terminal, both mounted in silver and gold, first with some turquoise deficient, second with two diamonds deficient, lengths 8.5cm and 8.1cm respectively (2)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
COMPANY - INCUS RECORDS LPs '1 TO 7'. Outstanding to see complete catalogue of the first 7 x LP releases from the prolific collective improvisation ensemble curated by Derek Bailey. Titles are 1 (INCUS 21), 2 (INCUS 23), 3 (INCUS 25), 4 (INCUS 26), 5 (INCUS 28), 6 (INCUS 29) and 7 (INCUS 30). The records are graded as top Ex+ or 'NM' condition all showing very few marks, the sleeves mainly grading as Ex (2 small cataloguing stickers on the front of each title).
DAVE BRUBECK & PAUL DESMOND - LPs. Stirrin' bundle of 27 x LPs. Titles include The Dave Brubeck Trio Featuring Cal Tjader (LAE-F 581, Ex+/VG+), Brubeck Time, Jazz at Storyville, Jazz at The College of the Pacific, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Near-Myth, Jazz Impressions of Europe, Jazz at Oberlin, Brubeck & Rushing, Red Hot and Cool, Jazz Goes to College A Campus Concert, Time Further Out, Reunion, Brubeck Quartet Sensational In Night Club Recordings, Dave Brubeck Plays, The Fabulous Dave Brubeck, Trio & Octet, Jazz Goes to Junior College, Distinctive Rhythm Instrumentals, Brubeck Plays Brubeck, Dave Digs Disney, First Place Again, After Dark, Adventures In Time, Gone With The Wind.The records are generally VG+ to Ex+ while the sleeves are VG to Ex.
BELL - 7" COLLECTION. Fantastic collection of 21 x choice 7" on Bell loaded with demos. Artists/titles/cat. numbers are Griffin - I Am The Noise In Your Head (BLL 1075 - archive condition), The Delfonics - Break Your Promise (demo, BLL 1028) and Ready Or Not Here I Come (BLL 1042, demo), The Toys - A Lover's Concerto (BLL 1053, demo), Solomon Burke - Proud Mary (BLL 1062, demo and stock copies), Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts - That Kind Of Woman (BLL 1026, demo), The Box Tops (BLL 1045, factory sample stickered), Shirley And The Shirelles (BLL 1049, factory sample sticker and BELL 1251), Lee Dorsey (BLL 1074, fac. sample sticker), Nino Tempo (BLL 1087), Mountain (BLL 1125), Reparata And The Delrons (BLL 1002, BELL 1252), The Fantastics, Twiggy & Friends, The Pearls (BLL 1284, demo), First Choice (BELL 1297, 1324) and A Band Called George (BELL 1320, demo). Condition is most often Ex to Ex+/archive. All with neat company sleeves.
DETROIT/MOTOWN RELATED EARLY 60s LABELS 7" (DOO-WOP/R&B/GOSPEL/SOUL). Another great pack of early Detroit labels with 12 x 7" included. Artists/titles/cat. numbers are The Burnadettes - First, You've Got To Recognize God (Divinity 99007, 2 copies - Ex and Ex+), The Headliners - Back To School Again (Keno KE-1002 - Ex), The Gaylords - Love (Mercury - VG), The Five Stars - Magic (Rayber RA 1000, red vinyl - Ex), The Four Tops (Columbia 4-41755- Ex+), The Five Stars (End E-1028 - G+), The Downbeats (Peacock 5-1689 - G+), Liz Lands (T&L 45-1001 - Ex, 45-1002 demo - Ex+ and T&L 201 - Ex) and The String-A-Longs (Warwick M 603 - VG).
DON CHERRY - LP COLLECTION (INCLUDING ONE SIGNED). Superb collection of 15 x LPs featuring the inspirational Don Cherry. Titles include Organic Music Society (scarce Swedish 1973 original on Caprice Records, RIKS DLP 1 - fantastic archive condition records showing very few marks/Ex 3 x small cataloguing stickers on the front, elsewhere only slight wear, complete with insert), The Eternal Now (UK SNTF 653 - record graded as VG with superficial surface 'white splatter' scuffs on both sides, surface only/VG+), "Mu" First Part (Actuel 529.301, nicely signed on the reverse, dated 86), and Second Part (529 331), Don Cherry (US SP-717), Bitter Funeral Beer (ECM 1179), Song For Biko (SCS 1109, Danish og), Kawaida (RE), Togetherness (Free Bird RE), Old And New Dreams and Codona. Many of the records are in Ex to Ex+/'NM' or archive condition, the sleeves typically VG+ to Ex (with 2 cataloguing stickers on the front).
JAZZ - SWING/DIXIELAND/BOP - LPs. Stompin' collection of around 195 x LPs. Artists/titles include Curtis Fuller - Four On The Outside, Mamie Smith inc. Get Hot Vol 2, Mamie Smith Blues Vol 3 and First Lady Of The Blues, Clara Smith (Document series volumes 1 to 7), Lil Johnson, Bessie Smith, Jimmy Rushing inc. The Bluesway Sessions, Jimmie Noone, The K.C. Five, Kid Punch Miller, Harry Cooper, Charlie Johnson, Johnny Dunn, Doc Cook, Banjo Ikey Robinson, Muggsy Spanier, Bix Beiderbecke, Eddie Condon, Eddie Lang, Buddy Tate, Luis Russell, Mary Lou Williams, Louis Armstrong, Don Redman, Fletcher Henderson, Grace Kennedy, Woody Herman and Tommy Dorsey. Condition is often VG+ to Ex+.
NOAH HOWARD - LPs. Ace pack of 2 x always hard to find LPs from the free jazz alto saxophonist specialist. Titles are Live At The Swing Club Torino Italy (Ricordi International, SNIR 25055 - Ex very fine condition record with only a couple of very light and fine hairline marks/Ex light edge/ringwear, nothing heavier at all) and The Black Ark (Polydor 2383-093 - reccord graded as VG+ showing few marks, please note there is a small section of the vinyl 'missing', this is in in the run-in and as such the playing surfaces are largely unaffected; play tested, the first few revolutions on each side causes a little surface noise though no skips/jumps or pops/VG+ gatefold sleeve, some light edgewear).
TWO VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS & A FAMILY BIBLE 140 plus portrait images to one album, the other having single page portraits depicting the twins Gwladys and Eunice, the first image being at 5 weeks old, dated 1892 through to the age of 16 years, the family Bible in Welsh, Llandudno family, with decorative brass clasps
the first channel set with a single row of graduated baguette-cut diamonds, stamped K18, to clip fittings; together with a pair of rectangular earrings, channel set with a row of baguette and tapered baguette-cut diamonds, and two rows of round brilliant-cut diamonds, stamped 750, to clip fittings(Length: 13mm & 19mm)
the first comprising a teapot, milk jug and twin handled sugar bowl with cover, of panelled form, with ivory handles and engraved initials; together with an associated two-handled pin-tray, Sheffield 1948; the second of plain form with beaded detail to rims, comprising a teapot, milk jug and twin handled sugar bowl(Weight (all in): 55oz)
the first Walter Morrisse, London 1845, of baluster form, with embossed scrolling foliate detail throughout; C-scroll handle, acorn finial; together with another, William Robert Smiley, London 1838, of squat form with chased scrolling design, C-scroll handle, swept circular foot; another of plain squat form, Robert & Samuel Hennel, lLondon 1803; the fourth of tapering oval outline, with bright-cut detail and engraved presentation inscription, London 1872(Weight (all in): 76oz)
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