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[Dunton, John]. The Phenix: or a Revival of Scarce and Valuable Pieces from the Remotest Antiquity down to the Present Times.., 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1707, blind embossed armorial to title and few other leaves, some toning and scattered spotting, Macclesfield North Library bookplate to upper pastedowns, contemporary panelled calf, gilt decorated spines with contrasting labels, extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with La Mothe Le Vayer (Francois de), Notitia Historicorum Selectorum; or Animadversions upon the Antient and Famous Greek and Latin Historians..., Translated into English, with some Additions by W[illiam]. D[avenant]., Oxford, 1678, blind embossed armorial to title and few other leaves, light damp fraying to first & last few leaves, front free endpaper cropped at fore-edge, Macclesfield North Library bookplate, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine, lacking title label, 8vo (Wing L301), with James (George), The Lives and Amours of the Empresses, Contorts to the first Twelve Caesars of Rome..., 1723, title in red & black, blind embossed armorial to title and few other leaves, scattered spotting, Macclesfield North Library bookplate, contemporary panelled calf, upper board detached, lower joint cracked, 8vo (4)
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Wolff (Tobias). Ugly Rumours, 1st edition, 1975, together with The Barracks Thief, 1st edition, 1987, plus The Night in Question, 1st edition, 1996, signed by author to title, all original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, fine, plus other mostly American literature including first editions in dust jackets, authors include Richard Ford, Garrison Keillor, James Thurber, etc. (32)
Manuscript paper doll book. The History of Little Fanny exemplified in a series of figures, A new Edition, circa 1860s, 14pp. manuscript, including title-page, paper watermarked 1856, with seven cut-out watercolour paper doll figures loosely inserted (no interchangeable head present), front free endpaper with ownership name of J.M. Hobart on verso, front pastedown with paper pocket for figures composed of three flaps decorated with pen & ink border, original card wrappers, with red border to covers, upper cover decorated in watercolour with calligraphic title within floral border, toned, dust-soiled, and a little rubbed, 13.5 x 10.5cm (5.25 x 4ins) 'The History of Little Fanny' was first published by S. & J. Fuller in 1810. This manuscript copy is charmingly executed, with all seven figures present. An accompanying later manuscript note states: 'Hobart family stayed at Hythe were [sic] this book came from. (Note) Edward VII was a personal friend of the Hobart family.' (1)
*Waugh (Evelyn, 1903-1966). Autograph letter signed, 'Evelyn Waugh', Piers Court, Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire, Christmas Day, 1946, to Monsieur Danver, giving a lengthy account of his entire career up until 1946, Danver was the French translator of 'Vile Bodies': 'your translation... will breathe new life into a text which has become somewhat "dated" in the original', and answering questions about specific phrases and references in the novel, 'Blast was an avant garde publication of the time - Vorticist, - edited by Wyndham Lewis, probably now forgotten by all but a dozen Englishmen', and regretting that he has no recent photograph but enclosing 'a reproduction of the portrait of me made in the year I wrote "Vile Bodies". Perhaps that could be used by the publishers, but they must make plain that I am now 17 years older, fatter & uglier', then giving a lengthy autobiographical account with his academic and other achievements, Modern History at Oxford, painting, cabinet making, all described parenthetically as 'without glory', before listing his publications including his first novel 'Decline and Fall' which 'was a success. Since then I have had no bitter struggles for recognition & have always been unduly praised by critics & unduly prosperous', mentioning his war service, 'varied, enjoyable but without distinction... finished the war among Tito's beastly partisans', his marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and, finally, 'Brideshead Revisited' on which he comments, 'This book is more serious than its predecessors, has annoyed most of the English critics and delighted illiterate Americans in a disconcerting way. But I like it', 4 pp., the final two pages written longitudinally down the centre spread, a little creased at edges, 4to, together with the aforementioned colour reproduction portrait after Lamb, inscribed and initialled by Waugh in ink to lower margin, 'Now aged 43 and much altered for the worse', 8vo, the two items preserved in a purpose-made cloth chemise and quarter morocco gilt book box (2)
Hakluyt Society. Missions to the Niger, volumes 1-4, by E. W. Bovill, 1964-66, The Letters of F.W. Ludwig Leichhardt, volumes 1-3, by M. Aurousseau, 1967-68, The Jamestown Voyages Under The First Charter 1606-1609, volumes 1 & 2, by Philip L. Barbour, 1969, The Travels and Controversies of Friar Domingo Navarrete 1618-86, volumes 1 & 2, by J.S. Cummins, 1962, all 1st editions, original cloth in dust jackets, some covers slightly faded, together with further volumes, including 10 duplicates, some odd volumes, all original cloth, some in dust jackets, 8vo (52)
Bernieres (Louis de). The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, 1st edition, 1990, light marginal toning, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, the author's first book, together with Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord, 1st edition, 1991, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, signed to title, plus The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman, 1st edition, 1992, previous owner inscription to title, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, with others by Louis de Bernieres including Captain Corelli's Mandolin, 1st edition, 2nd issue (black boards), 1994, signed to title, A Partisan's Daughter, 2008 (limited signed edition 40/100) and A Day Out for Mehmet Erbil, 1999 (copy 'S' of 26 de luxe copies, with two extra prints) (26)
Wells (H.G.). Little Wars. A Game for Boys, 1st edition, 1913, 19 photographs, marginal drawings by J.R. Sinclair, one photograph with piece torn away, some leaves detached with light soiling and spotting, front hinge breaking, original red cloth, inset illustration to upper cover, spine rubbed with some fading, preserved in a custom made black cloth foldover box, small 4to Graham Greene and Hugh Carelton Greene's copy. Signed twice by a juvenile Graham Greene in pencil to front pastedown, and two ink annotations, presumably by Graham Greene to page 46, providing two extra rules for the game. In the first volume of his autobiography A Sort of Life, Graham Greene recounts this copy of Little Wars: "My favourite toys in those days were a clockwork train and lead soldiers... When I was a bit older (about twelve) I would play with Hugh, who was six, an elaborate war game based on H.G. Wells's book Little Wars. In the holidays we were able to use the big tables in the School House dining hall. We would push two tables together and lay out a whole countryside. There were roads marked in chalk and cottages and forests of twigs and rivers which had to be crossed. One game might last a week, with perhaps two hundred men on either side, quick raids by cavalry and slow advances by infantry, measured on lengths of string, melees which led to capture of prisoners, and bombardments with the two 4.2 naval guns. It was 1916, but war was still glamorous to a child". The poor condition of the book shows the extent to which the Greene brothers played with it, with Graham Greene's extra rules 7 and 8 in ink at foot of page 46, "A gun may not fire if there is more than 2 men of its opponents side within 3" of it" and "One can carry two sand bags moving half his move [and] one [sandbag moving] the whole of his move". There are pencil scores from the brothers games to the rear endpapers, under the headings H and G (unsurprisingly the elder Graham always seemed to win), together with a few juvenile drawings which appear to be the six-year old Hugh's work. (1)
Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures, 1913; Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving, 1919; The Ingoldsby Legends of Mirth & Marvels, by Thomas Ingoldsby, 1920; The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie, by Richard Wagner, 1920; Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods, by Richard Wagner, 1911; A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare, 1920, Heinemann, numerous tipped-in coloured plates, with captioned tissue guards, black & white decorations and illustrations in the text, Rhinegold and Siegfried with decorative endpapers, Book of Pictures with a Rackham-designed bookplate printed on front pastedown (not used), some rear free endpapers toned, top edges gilt, textured and decorated semi-limp brown leather, gilt designs to front covers and gilt lettering on spines, five volumes with additional gilt lettering to front cover, four spines with additional gilt decorative elements, minimal rubbing to some extremities, 4to Scarce variant bindings, probably publisher's bindings circa 1920 and perhaps using first edition sheets in some cases. (6)
Blake (William, illustrator). The Triumphs of Temper. A Poem: in six cantos. By William Hayley, 12th edition, corrected. With New Original Designs, by Maria Flaxman, Chichester, J. Seagrave, 1803, six engraved plates by William Blake after Maria Flaxman, minor spotting to plates, with light offsetting to adjacent leaf of text, all edges gilt, contemporary ownership signature of M. Tomkinson to verso of front endpaper, marbled endpapers, near-contemproary straight-grained light brown full morocco, rubbed, 8vo, together with Ballads, by William Hayley, Esq., founded on anecdotes relating to animals, with prints, designed and engraved by William Blake, 1st edition, Chichester, J. Seagrave, for Richard Phillips, 1805, half-title present, 4 (of 5) engraved plates by Blake, lacking the engraved frontispiece, some light soiling to title and text, ownership presentation inscription to front endpaper, dated 1831, bookseller's ticket to front pastedown of Kerr & Richardson of Glasgow, contemporary quarter plain calf, worn with covers detached, vellum outer tips, 8vo, plus Aphorisms on Man: translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, printed for J. Johnson, 1788, engraved frontispiece by Blake after Fuseli, presentation inscription to front endpaper from John Grundy of Lime Field to Ellis Cunliffe, dated 1799, with bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary calf, worn with covers near detached, and others relating to William Blake, including Compositions from the Works Days and Theogony of Hesiod, designed by John Flaxman, engraved by William Blake, 1816-17, Gilchrist, Life of William Blake, 2 volumes, new and enlarged edition, 1880, Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrations by William Blake, 1906, Blake's Songs of Innocence, 1926 & Richard Garnett, William Blake Painter and Poet, 1895 Bentley 471A for the first work. (9)
Batten (J.D., illust.). Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights, edited and arranged by E. Dixon, 1893, large paper copy, decorative half-title, twenty-one plates, nineteen on india paper, numerous black & white illustrations to text, top edge gilt, original gilt lettered cloth, lightly marked, spine faded, 4to, (limited edition, 93/160 copies), together with Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), Undine, 1st edition, 1909, fifteen tipped-in colour plates, black & white illustrations to text, light spotting to first and last leaves, decorative endpapers, original gilt decorated blue cloth, extremities lightly rubbed, spine faded, 4to, plus Goble (Warwick, illustrator), Green Willow and other Japanese Fairy Tales, 1st edition, 1910, forty tipped-in colour plates, with captioned tissue guards, free endpapers toned, front pastedown with bookplate of 'E.A. Bennett', original gilt decorated blue cloth, lightly rubbed and marked, 4to, plus The Fairy Book, 1st edition, 1913, thirty-two colour plates, with captioned tissue guards, endpapers spotted, front pastedown with contemporary ownership name, associated manuscript letter mounted onto front free endpaper, top edge gilt, original gilt decorated cloth, extremities lightly rubbed, spine with gilt dulled, 4to (4)
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Manuscript. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress Illustrated by J.D.; Gray's Elegy Illustrated by J.D., [cover-titles], a pair of albums with calligraphic text and watercolour illustrations (many grisaille), first volume with twenty-eight mounted watercolours on rectos (four small watercolours to first leaf, thereafter one large watercolour to each leaf), 28 x 21.5cm (11 x 8.5ins) and smaller, most mounts with manuscript text (and some with decorative embellishments), two album leaves blank (one with loosely inserted pencil sketch), two leaves detached, second volume with twenty-nine mounted watercolours on rectos, mounted two to a page, except the final illustration, each approximately 9 x 16cm (3.5 x 6.25ins), each with manuscript text on facing versos, often embellished with floral and foliate decoration, album leaves toned and spotted (occasionally encroaching on watercolours), ownership names of 'Mrs. Duthoit, 184, Highbury New Park' and 'J. Duthoit', respectively, red edges, similarly bound in brown and green blindstamped morocco gilt, rubbed and some edge-wear, second volume with front cover detached at upper joint, 4to Carefully executed watercolours by an accomplished amateur. The Duthoits were prosperous silk weavers who originated in Lille and worked in Canterbury, before setting up business in London. (2)
*Greenaway (Kate). A movable Christmas card, Marcus Ward & Co., circa 1870s, illuminated chromolithograph greetings card, showing a snowy scene with a boy and girl under a green umbrella, lettered below 'A Merry Christmas To You', with a tab on each side which pulls to reveal a card, each with a floral bouquet, some minor creasing to tabs, overall size 26 x 20cm (10.25 x 8ins), together with a pair of folded Kate Greenaway Valentine cards, circa 1870s, illuminated chromolithographs with embossed white borders mounted on coloured paper: 'Serenade', showing a small boy at an open window with three girls below, verse in gilt inside 'The Serenade'; and 'Bird's Nest', showing a girl and boy with a nest containing eggs, verses in blue and gilt on facing pages inside 'Maud looks through all her Valentines' and 'The Gift', 19 x 15cm (7.5 x 6ins), plus another Kate Greenaway card, circa 1870s, scallop-edged with a colour printed illustration of two small children seated on a branch of pink blossom, 'Let the New Year be to you...' on verso, 14 x 10cm (5.5 x 4ins), plus nine other items, generally in excellent condition See Schuster & Engen 259; 243; 247. The first item is one of the more scarce Kate Greenaway cards. (13)
Palladio (Andrea). The First Book of Architecture..., translated out of Italian, with an Appendix touching doors and windows, by Pr. Le Muet, Architect to the French King. Translated into English, by Godfrey Richards, 12th edition, corrected and enlarged, with a new model of the cathedral of St. Paul, London, printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch..., 1733, additional engraved title, printed title in red and black, 70 engraved plates, including several folding, single printed advertisement leaf at end, folding plate to Chapter 52 at Dd3 now attached to front endpaper, early engraved bookplate to front pastedown with the motto La Vie Durante, contemporary sprinkled full blind-ruled plain calf, joints partly cracked, small 4to Harris 682. (1)
Tipping (H. Avray). English Homes Periods I and II-Vol. II, Mediaeval and Early Tudor, 1066-1558, 1st edition, 1937, black and white illustrations, mostly from photographs, original cloth in torn and soiled dust jacket, folio, together with Nelson (John), The History of Islington, A Facsimile of the First Edition (1811), 1980, black and white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, a little rubbed and faded, 4to, (limited edition, 152/1000 copies), plus Platt (Colin), The Architecture of Medieval Britain, A Social History, Photographs by Anthony Kersting, 1st edition, Yale University Press, 1990, colour and black and white illustrations from photographs, original cloth in dust jacket, 4to, plus Sandon (Eric), Suffolk Houses, A Study of Domestic Architecture, 1st edition, Woodbridge, 1977, colour frontispiece and black and white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, small folio, plus other mostly dust-jacketed London and British architectural interest including some HMSO publications, the majority with library number paper labels at foot of spines (50)
Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 1st edition, John Murray, 1859, folding lithograph diagram at page 117, 32 pp. publisher's advertisements at end, dated June 1859 (Freeman's variant 'a'), original light brown chalk-glazed endpapers (previous owner signature of Suzie Sherwin to front endpaper), half title, title and first few leaves detached (light crease mark to half title), short closed tear to page 397, a few light spots, mainly at front (main text generally clean) front hinges breaking at front and tender at rear, original green blindstamped cloth gilt by Edmonds & Remnants, with their ticket to rear pastedown, spine a little rubbed with slight rippling, wormhole at foot of first triangle, two other very small wormholes, spine ends rubbed with small tears (small loss at head), short splits to lower joint, some light edge wear, mainly to corners, a few small light stains to covers, 8vo The most important biology book ever published. Darwin's achievement "is the most powerful and comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on earth. It helps us understand our origins... We are part of a total process, made of the same matter and operating by the same energy as the rest of the cosmos, maintaining and reproducing by the same mechanism as the rest of life..." (Sir Julian Huxley). In his conclusion, Darwin states "There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a begining endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved". All 1250 copies of the first edition were taken up on the day of publication. Dibner 199; Freeman 373; Garrison & Morton 220; Grolier 23b; PMM 344. (1)
Grimm (Jakob & Wilhelm). Kinder- und Haus-M„rchen. Gesammelt durch die Brder Grimm, 3 volumes, Berlin: G. Reimer, 1819-1822, engraved frontispieces and additional engraved title-pages (by Ludwig Emil Grimm) to volumes 1 and 2, spotting and browning throughout, some old marginal damp stains to volume 1 and ink stain affecting text block fore-edge only, modern rexine-backed marbled boards with spine labels lettered in gilt, square 8vo (127 x 102mm) Second edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales, and first illustrated edition, originally published in two separate volumes in 1812 and 1814 respectively; this is the first appearance of the third volume which contains the sources of the tales and a commentary. Uncommon. (3)
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[Blake, William, illustrator]. The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper..., Esqr., with an introdutory letter to the Right Honorable Earl Cowper, by William Hayley, 3 volumes, 1st edition, Chichester, printed by J. Seagrave for J. Johnson, 1803-04, 5 engraved plates by William Blake, including portrait frontispiece of William Cowper to first volume, and View of St. Edmund's Chapel to third volume, with imprint partially trimmed, a clean copy with wide margins, contemporary half calf gilt, rubbed and scuffed and some marks to extremities, 4to Provenance: Archibald 13th Earl of Eglinton (1812-1861), organiser of the famous medieval re-enactment of 1839, the Eglinton Tournament, with his bookplate to front pastedown of each volume. Essick, William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations, page 85. The plates were printed by Blake's wife Catherine on their own press, as Blake stated in a letter to his brother James of 30th June 1803. Large Paper copy, printed on Whatman paper (watermarked and dated 1801), and described as 'uncommon' by Easson & Essick, William Blake book illustrator, 1972, page 38. (3)
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[Wesley, John]. The Desideratum: Or, Electricity made Plain and Useful, printed by W. Pine, Bristol, 1771, a little spotting and dust-soiling, disbound and stitching partially broken, 12mo A scarce edition of a pamphlet first published in 1760. Wesley discusses the use of electricity in free medical clinics, which he had established for the poor in Bristol and London. He combined treatment for illness with spiritual evangelism. (1)
![Cooper (Astley). Illustrations of Diseases of the Breast, in Two Parts, Part I [all published], 1st edition, 1829, 8 hand-co](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/602f3499-4c56-45fa-acbd-a7a900c85218/97922384-616a-4602-8070-f2a4bc3dcd59/468x382.jpg)
Cooper (Astley). Illustrations of Diseases of the Breast, in Two Parts, Part I [all published], 1st edition, 1829, 8 hand-coloured lithographic plates and 1 plain plate on india, some spotting, corner tears with loss to upper outer corners of first few leaves (title-page restored), modern half cloth gilt with marbled boards, slim 4to Garrison & Morton 5769; Norman 511. (1)
Lang (Andrew, editor). The Blue Fairy Book, 1st edition, 1889, eight plates, including frontispiece, and numerous letterpress illustrations, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at rear, very occasional light spotting and one or two corners slightly creased, front hinge split, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated blue cloth, some minor rubbing and faint marks, 8vo A good copy of the first title in Andrew Lang's Fairy Book series. (1)
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[Benoist, Elie]. The History of the Famous Edict of Nantes: containing an Account of all the Persecutions, that have been in France from its First Publication to this Present Time. Faithfully Extracted from all the Publick and Private Memoirs, that could possibly be procured. Printed first in French, by the authority of the States of Holland and West-Friezland. And now Translated into English..., 2 volumes, John Dunton, 1694, occasional dampstains (mostly light), ink mark to volume 2 title & license leaf, contemporary mottled calf, 4to (2)
White (Antonia). Frost in May, 1st edition, Desmond Harmsworth, 1933, some scattered pencil proof corrections with their page references to rear endpaper in an unidentified hand, signed presentation inscription from the author to her second husband to front free endpaper, 'To Eric [Earnshaw Smith], with love from Toni', and dated in her hand at foot 14 June 1933, original cream cloth lettered in red, spine partially toned and a little soiled at head and foot, original dust jacket, slightly browned and soiled, spine partly faded, a little chipped and split at extremities with a little loss along upper margins and inner flap detached, 8vo The author's first novel. (1)
Fortune (Robert). Two Visits to the Tea Countries of China and the British Tea Plantations in the Himalaya..., 2 volumes, 3rd edition, John Murray, 1853, wood engraved frontispiece to each volume (both laid down to front pastedown), additional decorative and printed titles to each volume, single folding engraved map at rear of first volume, wood engraved plates and illustrations, original gilt-decorated cloth, slightly rubbed and a few minor marks (generally a good copy), 8vo (2)
Beckett (Samuel). Whoroscope, 1st edition, Hours Press, Paris, 1930, a few light spots, small light stain at foot ot colophon, original red printed wrappers with white wraparound band, staples rusted, light marginal water stain and soiling to panels, 8vo Limited edxition 93/100, signed by the author from a total edition of 300. The author's first separately published work. (1)
Detmold (Edward J., illust.). The Fables of Aesop, Hodder and Stoughton, [1909], twenty-three tipped-in colour plates (as listed), some spotting to first and last few leaves, front free endpaper with two ink ownership inscriptions, hinges strengthened,original pictorial brown cloth gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, covers with some damp staining to fore-edge, 4to, together with Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), Tales from Shakespeare, By Charles & Mary Lamb, 1909, twelve colour plates, front pastedown with ink ownership inscription, occasional light spotting to fore-edges, original pictorial green cloth gilt, extremities a little rubbed, 8vo, plus Dulac (Edmund), Stories from Hans Andersen, 1938, twelve colour plates, one with two short closed tears, letterpress lightly toned, original cloth with red decoration and lettering, slightly soiled, spine darkened, 8vo, plus two other similar: A Wonder Book, By Nathaniel Hawthorne, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, [1922], 4to; Quality Street, a Comedy in Four Acts, by J.M. Barrie, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, 1913, 4to (5)
Shelley (Captain George Ernest). A Monograph of the Nectariniidae or family of Sun-birds, published by the author, 1876 - 1880, title page frayed and chipped with some loss (but not affecting text) detached, dedication and first few leaves frayed and chipped at fore-edge, 121 (complete) lithographs with contemporary hand colouring by J.G. Keulemans, occasional fraying and short closed tears to fore-edge of text leaves, text block detached, top edge gilt, contemporary half morocco gilt, rubbed and worn with joints partially split and frayed, 4to One of apparently only 250 copies. (1)
Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Fellowship of the Ring, being the first part of the Lord of the Rings, 1st edition, George Allen & Unwin, 1954, folding map at rear printed in red and black, minor browning to endpapers, original red cloth, covers with some damp discolouration to front edges (front cover with approximately half the surface area affected), in slightly soiled and frayed dust wrapper (price unclipped), spine darkened and with very minor loss to extremities, 8vo (1)
![Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, 1st edition, Warne, [1918], with 'London' printed correctly on the title-pag](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/602f3499-4c56-45fa-acbd-a7a900c85218/7d811bd2-546a-48b0-9365-d7cda1c7da1e/468x382.jpg)
Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, 1st edition, Warne, [1918], with 'London' printed correctly on the title-page, and p.39 with quotation marks before first line, colour illustrations, one or two marks, a few leaves with slight surface loss (one leaf with loss of two letters), pictorial endpapers, original grey boards with mounted colour illustration to upper cover, 12mo, together with The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, 1st edition, Warne, 1909, p.14 with noticeboard still present, colour illustrations, frontispiece with ink ownership annotations to blank recto, pictorial endpapers, original brown boards with mounted colour illustration to upper cover, spine detached at lower joint, 12mo, plus The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, 1st edition, Warne, 1910, colour illustrations, a few minor marks, hinge split between half-title and frontispiece (the latter with vertical crease at gutter), pictorial endpapers, original blue-grey boards with mounted colour illustration to upper cover, somewhat rubbed and marked, 12mo (3)
Halfpenny (William and John). Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste, being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, forrests, insides of houses, &c. on Sixty Copper Plates with full instructions for workmen, 2nd edition, printed for & sold by Robt Sayer, 1752, engraved title (some soiling and small loss to upper and lower outer corners, 60 copper engraved plates, including some folding, some minor marks, marginal soiling to first and last few leaves, later 19th century quarter cloth, spine lettered in gilt, rubbed and marked, 8vo Archer 134.2. Harris, British Architecture 301. (1)
Potter (Beatrix). The Tailor of Gloucester, 1st trade edition, 1903, colour plates, repeat endpapers (front endpaper detached), stitching breaking, a few leaves loosening, a few light finger marks, front hinge broken, original dark green cloth, upper cover with inset illustration, some wear and losses to spine, 16mo, together with The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1st edition, 1903, colour plates, title vignette coloured-in, stiching breaking, first few leaves detached, previous owner signature to title, some soiling, front hinge broken, small nicks to fore edges, original cloth, upper cover with inset illustration, upper joint splitting in places, 16mo, with 10 other Beatrix Potters, reprints etc (12)
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North Wales. Speed (John), Caeernarvon both Shyre and shire-towne with the ancient citie Bangor described, Flint-Shire [and] Denbigh Shire, all first editions, [1611], together three hand coloured engraved maps, Carnarvonshire with inset town plans of Carnarvon and Bangor, central fold strengthened and repaired on verso, additional horizontal fold with long closed and repaired tear affecting image, margins repaired and strengthened, 385 x 510 mm, English text on verso, Flintshire with inset town plans of Flint and St. Asaph, central fold repaired on verso, additional horizontal fold with slight wear, repaired on verso, Denbighshire with inset town plan of Denbigh, central fold partially strengthened on verso, 385 x 515 mm, English text on verso (3)
Potter (Beatrix, illust.). Making Fun for Everyone, written by Clifton Bingham & E. Nesbit, 1st edition, Ernest Nister, [1895], colour and sepia illustrations throughout, some full-page, including a vignette of a rabbit leaving home in the snow wearing a red jacket, carrying a green umbrella, and with a basket over his arm, by Beatrix Potter, some soiling and juvenile colouring, patterned endpapers, free endpapers slightly chipped at edges, early manuscript ownership names to recto and verso of front free endpaper (former dated 1895), hinges split, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed, and some trivial edge-wear, 4to Rare Nister publication containing one of Beatrix Potter's earliest published illustrations of a rabbit. There are only two copies on COPAC (British Library, Cambridge University). We have traced only one other copy sold at auction (2005). On May 25th 1894 Ernest Nister sent a letter in response to some drawings offered him by Beatrix Potter: "I fear we cannot keep more than three of the other designs - the cat with the tea set, the mouse knitting, and the rabbit with the umbrella and basket. For these we should be pleased to pay you 7/6 a piece if you can see your way to take it." Beatrix accepted this offer, and the rabbit with umbrella appears in this 1895 publication. A set of frog drawings were discussed in the same exchange of correspondence, and these the publisher eventually bought (after much haggling over price in which the artist held her ground) and these were subsequently published in 'Comical Customers' (1896) and 'Nister's Holiday Annual for 1896'. Much later Potter was to write 'Nister was an unattractive German (?) Firm - but it was my first start at anything published'. (Linder, The History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter', pp.175-78) (1)
Glanvill (Joseph). Philosophia Pia; or, a Discourse of the Religious Temper, and Tendencies of the Experimental Philosophy, which is profest by the Royal Society. To which is annext a Recommendation, and Defence of Reason in the Affairs of Religion, 1st edition, J. Macock for James Collins, 1671, first & last blanks present, contemporary sheep, worn at foot of spine, 8vo (Wing G817), together with La Bruyere (Jean de), The Characters, or the Manners of the Age. With the Characters of Theophrastus, Translated from the Greek..., 2 parts in one, 1st English edition, John Bullord, 1699, contemporary inscription to front pastedown 'Josias Calnady May 7th 1699', contemporary panelled calf, 8vo (Wing L104), plus one other (3)
*Newbery (E., and Wallis, John, publishers). The Royal Genealogical Pastime of the Sovereigns of England, from the Dissolution of the Saxon Heptarchy to the Reign of His Present Majesty George the Third, Novr. 30th 1791, hand-coloured engraved game, divided into twelve sections and mounted on linen, with details of fifty-two monarchs within shield-shaped and oval panels, with text on either side, browned, some soiling (including ink stain to first section) and slight edge-fraying at folds, 40.5 x 72cm (16 x 28.25ins), mounted, framed and glazed Whitehouse, p.25. (1)
Golding (William). A Moving Target, 1st edition, 1982, original cloth, price-clipped dust jacket, slight creasing at spine ends, 8vo Presentation copy, inscribed to fellow author on front endpaper: "For Ingmar J. Bjorksten, with best wshes from William Golding [his address beneath], 16/10/83". The presentee, Ingmar Bjorksten (1936-2002) was a Finnish-born Swedish author and Nobel Prize committee member, the Nobel prize for literature was awarded to Golding two months after the inscription "for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world today". He was the first British Nobel laureate since Sir Winston Churchill in 1953. (1)
Purchas (Samuel). Purchas, His Pilgrimage. Or, Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all ages and places discovered, from the Creation unto this present. In foure Partes. This first containeth a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the Islands adjacent, printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, 1613, [xxviii] + 752 pages (lacking the 22 pages of index at end), title with plain double-rule outer border (some marks and soiling, and small hole towards centre of leaf, with minor loss), woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, occasional marks to text (generally in clean condition, with good margins), contemporary calf, somewhat worn with joints cracked, and some loss to spine, folio STC 20505. Sabin 66678. First edition of the first book of this classic early travel account, divided into nine books, of which the eighth book covers North America and the ninth book South America and the West Indies (pages 601 to 752). (1)
Eusebius Caesariensis (Bishop of Caesarea, circa 260-circa 340). [Historia Ecclesiastica, Mantua, Johannes Schallus, not before 15 July 1479], 172 folio leaves (complete), including final blank, printed in single column, 34 lines per page, wide blank margins, occasional early ink marginal annotations and many figures of a pointing finger, first leaf with lower outer blank corner torn away, fourth leaf with a little loss to lower outer corner also, contents generally in clean condition, old (probably 17th century) gilt-decorated full vellum, slightly rubbed and some minor marks (generally a very good copy), folio (sheet size 310 x 200 mm, 12.25 x 7.8 ins) Hain Copinger 6711. Gesant Katalog der Wiegendrucke 9437. Goff E-127. Proctor 6908. Excellent copy of the latin translation by Rufinus Tyrannius from the Greek of Eusebius, without rubrication, printed by the important early Mantuan printer Johann Schall (active 1475-1479). (1)
Ransome (Arthur). A collection of books and letters relating to Arthur Ransome (1884-1967), including 1st editions Bohemia in London, 1907 (1st UK and US editions), A History of Story-Telling, 1909, The Book of Friendship, circa 1909 (two copies, one in dust jacket), The Elixir of Life, 1915, The Crisis in Russia, 1921, "Racundra's" First Cruise, 1st US edition, 1923, Pigeon Post, 1st US edition, 1937, We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea, 2nd impression, 1937, Missee Lee, 1941, Great Northern?, 1947 and Roger Wardale's Arthur Ransome and the World of the Swallows and Amazons, 2000 (signed limited edition of 500), together with a quantity of related books, some reprints, biographies, illustrated editions etc, and two files of correspondence from Arthur Ransome collector and enthusiast John Cowen of Ransome Books, to various collectors, plus John Cowen's own book 'A Ransome Book-Case', 2000 (approx 100)
*One Eyed Jacks, directed by Marlon Brando, 1962, together with Hatari, directed by Howard Hawks, 1962, plus The Last Detail, directed by Hal Ashby, 1973, all UK quad posters in folded condition, first two near mint, the last very good with marginal tears and sellotape marks, plus other UK quad posters in folded condition of late 1950s and 1960s films including A Touch of Larceny, My Geisha, The Errand Boy, Career, Who's Got the Action, Come Blow Your Horn, The Pleasure of his Company, It Started in Naples, etc., mostly near mint (16)
Culpeper (Nicholas). The English Physitian Enlarged; with Three Hundred, Sixty and Nine Medicines, made of English Herbs That were not in any Impression until this..., 1681, first few leaves with light dampstain to fore-edges, last few leaves slightly soiled, modern calf, small 8vo ESTC R29495 notes that this edition begins with gathering C; title-page is C2, this copy lacks C1 (blank). (1)
Tickell (John). History of the Town and County of Kingston upon Hull, From Its Foundation in the Reign of Edward The First to the Present Time, printed by Thomas Lee, 1798, black and white engraved folding frontispiece plus numerous black and white plates, some with repairs, some facsimile replacements, light spotting throughout, some pages repaired, contemporary half calf with red spine label, boards and spine rubbed with some loss, thick 4to, together with Crabtree (John), A Concise History of the Paris and Vicarage of Halifax, in the County of York, Halifax, 1836, 16 black and white plates including frontispiece, some minor spotting, top edge gilt, contemporary gilt decorated tree calf, boards and spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, and Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, publisher, The Northern Star, or Yorkshire Magazine..., circa 1850, black and white illustrations, some minor marks, bookplates to front pastedowns, period inscription to volume 1 front endpaper, uniform half calf, boards and spines rubbed with loss, plus other 18th and 19th century Yorkshire reference, including Masonic, mostly contemporary leather, some original cloth, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folio (3 shelves)
Lull (Ramon). Arbor scientiae venerabilis et caelitus illuminati Patris Raymundi Lullii Maioricensis, liber ad omnes scientias utilissimus, n.p., 1515 (but about 1630), [vi],681,[xviii]pp., large woodcut to title and 17 woodcut illustrations to text (2 full-page), A1 (first page of 'Prooemium') with early french owner's inscription at foot, B1 & K3 torn to lower outer blank corner, closed tear to Ee2 without loss, wormholes to top margin of pp.429-443, 591-627 (without loss) and worm trail to pages 654 to the end of volume with some loss of letters, some dampstaining throughout and occasional spotting, French bookplate 'Bibliotheque de M. de Barante' to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine, upper joint cracked, wear to right edge of upper board with slight loss of leather, 4to Adams L1695 (dating to about 1595); Baudrier XI, 108, "Réimpression faite posterieurement, plus d'un siècle après'. Reprint of the Lyon edition of 1515. As in many works by Lull the attribution is problematic. (1)
Swinburne (Henry). Travels in the Two Sicilies, in the Years 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780, 4 volumes, 2nd edition, 1790, folding engraved frontispiece map to first volume, folding table, 2 folding engraved maps and plans to second volume, and 20 folding engraved views, including larger panoramas of Palermo and Messina, one leaf of text to third volume with large closed vertical tear towards outer margin (N7, page 189-90), without loss, marbled endpapers, contemporary uniform full tree calf gilt, with contrasting red and green morocco spine labels, 8vo Pine-Coffin, British and American Travel in Italy, 773. The first edition appeared in 1783-85 in 4to. Fine copy in contemporary binding. (4)
*French playing cards. A standard deck of playing cards, circa 1840, fifty-two wood engraved cards after Gatteaux, comprising four suits of thirteen (national suits), each with pip cards 1-10, and three full-length named court cards with stencilled colour, jack of clubs with oval lettered 'Administ. des Contrib. Indir. 1816', ace of clubs with wreath of oak leaves, some light toning, plain versos, 83 x 54mm (3.25 x 2ins), together with Titze & Schinkay (C., publishers), A standard deck of playing cards, Vienna, circa 1885, fifty-two cards, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10, and three double-ended court cards, some toning (ace of spades browned), versos with roundel and dot pattern in black, 86 x 60mm (3.5 x 2.25ins) For first item see Mann 131B: type II, not issued until 1833, jack of clubs reading 'Administ. des Droits Reunis. 1816'. (2)
Cicero (Marcus Tullius). M.T. Ciceronis Opera. Ex Petri Victorii codicibus maxima ex parte descripta..., 5 volumes in two, Paris: Ex officina Roberti Stephani, 1539-[38], woodcut illustration to titles, few decorative criblé initials, borders red ruled throughout, p.531/532 with long closed tear (no loss), and pp.625-636 lower blank corner with burn damage, later endpapers, contemporary gilt panelled calf, gilt armorial of the de Pincé family of Angers, France at head of front boards, central decorative gilt device to each board, both volumes rebacked preserving original spines, patch repairs to lower board of first volume, board corners & edges repaired, folio Adams C1640. Generally a very good clean copy. (2)
Hooke (Robert). Philosophical Experiments and Observations..., edited by William Derham, 1st edition, 1726, 4 engraved plates including 2 folding, browned, woodcut illustrations and diagrams to text, publisher's advert leaf at rear, a little spotting and soiling at front and rear, contemporary panelled calf, some wear, lower joint cracked and upper cover detached, 8vo First edition of some of Hooke's papers on various scientific subjects, here arranged in a chronological order and interspersed with papers by other virtuosos. Keynes 36; Norman 1102; Wheeler Gift 262. (1)
Leon (Donna). Death at La Fenice, 1992, Death in a Strange Country, 1993, both UK 1st editions, both original cloth in dust jackets, spines lightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, plus 9 further Donna Leon volumes, all 1st editions, signed by the author, together with Murakami (Haruki), The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, 1st UK edition, 1991, original cloth in dust jacket, Kafka On The Shore, limited edition 182/1000, 2005, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, limited edition 694/1000, 2006, both signed by the author to the limitation pages, both original cloth in slipcases, 8vo, and other modern first edition fiction and literature, including Walter de la Mare, Desmond Bagley, A.S. Byatt, Isabel Allende, Joanna Trollope, all original cloth in dust jackets, some signed by the authors, G/VG, 8vo/4to (3 shelves)
Pound (Ezra, editor). Des Imagistes: Anthology, The Poetry Bookshop, 1914, original green boards, cracked on joints and with small loss at head and foot of spine, a little soiling and old sticker adhesion marks at foot of upper cover, 8vo First of the Imagistes anthologies and the only one to be edited by Pound. Printed from the American sheets with English publisher's imprint stamped above that of the American publisher (Albert and Charles Boni) on title and half-title. Gallop B7B. (1)
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Bourgeois (Charles). [Recueil de vues et fabriques pittoresques d'Italie], circa 1810, lacking title and preliminaries, 175 uncoloured engraved views on ninety-six sheets, each with tissue guard, slight worming to first few leaves, spotted and stained throughout, last few pages with erratic pagination, later endpapers, later quarter calf with modern gilt decorated spine, rubbed and worn, edges repaired with sellotape, folio Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (1)
Nicholson (William). A Dictionary of Chemistry..., 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1795, 4 engraved plates including 2 folding at rear of volume 1, some light uniform browning to volume 2, contemporary polished calf gilt with contrasting leather labels to spines, slightly rubbed, 4to The first dictionary of chemistry by an Englishman. (2)
Hotten (John Camden). Bibliographical Account of Nearly Fifteen Hundred Curious and Rare Books, Tracts, MSS., and Engravings, Relating to the History and Topography of Yorkshire, privately printed, [1863], black & white illustrations, manuscript notes tipped-in front and rear, few ink stamps to interleaved blanks, some light spotting, contemporary calf-backed boards, rubbed, 8vo, one of only 50 copies (with a facsimile limited edition copy pub. A. Jackson, Leeds, 1970), together with A Catalogue of the Library of Wakefield Books in the Possession of Charles Skidmore, privately printed, 1897, a few spots, author's compliments bookplate, original moire cloth gilt, 8vo, plus Monthly Catalogue of Books, Prints, Mss., Antiquities, Coins &c. on Sale by Henry T. Wake, Antiquarian Bookseller, 1897-1911, numerous numbered lithograph facsimile catalogues, illustrations, some light toning, contemporary morocco-backed boards, 8vo, with other bibliography including A Catalogue of a Valuable and Select Collection of Books, containing Several Unique and Rare Articles..., now on Sale... at Thomas Edwards's Bookseller in Halifax, 1821, Robert Davies's A Memoir of the York Press, 1868, The Lancashire Library, 1875, and Charles Federer's Yorkshire Chap-Books, First Series (all published), 1889 (a carton)
Street (A.G.). Farmer's Glory, 1934, black and white wood engravings by Gwendolen Raverat, original green boards in price clipped dust jacket, covers slightly toned and rubbed with minor tears and loss to head and foot, Hedge Trimmings, 1933, original brown cloth in dust jacket, boards marked, covers slightly rubbed, spine slightly faded with loss to head and foot, To Be A Farmer's Boy, 1935, original green cloth in dust jacket, spine toned and rubbed to head and foot, all 1st editions, all with some minor spotting, all 8vo, plus 27 further A.G. Street 1st editions, together with Saint (Dora, a.k.a. Miss Read), Village Diary, 1957, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed, News from Thrush Green, 1990, Friends at Thrush Green, 1990, Tales from a Village School, 1994, inscribed by the author to title page, The Year at Thrush Green, 1995, all 1st editions, all original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, and other modern first editions, by Countryside Writers, including Lovat Dickson, Paul Gallico, Bill Bryson, all original cloth, mostly in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo (3 shelves)
Maugham (W. Somerset). Ashenden or the British Agent, 1st edition, 1928, original blue cloth, near fine dust jacket, with small loss at head of spine and slight toning to spine, contained in custom made morocco-backed foldover box, 8vo A fine copy of the author's highly influential collection of espionage stories, based on his own experiences in British Intelligence during the First World War, inspiring many later writers in the genre including Ian Fleming, John Le Carre, Graham Greene, Eric Ambler, Len Deighton among others. (1)
Mackenzie (Compton). Gallipoli Memories, 1929; First Athenian Memories, 1931; Greek Memories, 1932; Aegean Memories, 1940, all 1st editions, monochrome illustrations, maps, etc., first volume with bookplate of The Book Society to front pastedown, third volume with newscuttings tipped-in to front endpaper, all original cloth in dust wrappers, first volume slightly frayed to extremities and spine lightly browned, other volumes with some minor marks to extremities only, 8vo Complete set of Compton Mackenzie's wartime memories, including Greek Memories, which was withdrawn from sale on the day of publication, and the author prosecuted at the Old Bailey for revealing secret information about British intelligence services. (4)
The Travels of Tom Thumb over England and Wales; Containing Descriptions of Whatever is Most Remarkable in Several Counties. Interspersed with Many Pleasant Adventures..., Written by Himself, printed for R. Amey, 1st edition, 1746, folding engraved map frontispiece hand-coloured in outline (with short closed tear), lacks half-title, some spotting and light browning, scattered old ink inscriptions and doodlings, recent quarter calf, 12mo Osborne, p.192. Osborne: 'Written in a jocular vein, as an autobiographical account by the conceited little hero who set out on the first of April from Hyde Park Corner'. (1)NB : Amendment - The folding map is not the original by Cowley, but a mid-19th century replacement
Milne (Alan Alexander). When We Were Very Young, 3rd edition, Methuen, 1924, numerous illustrations by E.H. Shepard, some spotting and marks, free endpapers toned, top edges gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, original gilt decorated dark blue cloth, spine ends and gilt rubbed, lower cover with some damp markings, 8vo Signed by Ernest H. Shepard on the title-page. Published just two months after the first edition. (1)
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