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Click here to subscribeHeller (Joseph) Catch-22, first English edition, occasional light corner-creasing, original boards, light bumping to spine tips and corners, second issue dust-jacket with reviews to rear panel, toning to spine and panel margins, spine ends and corners a little chipped, closed tear to head of upper panel, short nicks to head of lower panel, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, 8vo, 1962.
Russian Literature.- Babel (Isaac Emmanuilovich) Konarmiia [Red Cavalry], first edition, toned at margins, original pictorial wrappers printed in red and black bound in, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, later morocco-backed boards, t.e.g., spine sunned, joints slightly rubbed, 8vo, Moscow and St Petersburg, Gosudrastvennoe Izdatel'stvo, 1926.*** The first edition of "the first true masterpiece of Russia's post-Revolutionary prose fiction" (Freidin). Red Cavalry was an instant success, which met with near universal acclaim and established Babel's reputation internationally. Marshall Semyon Budyonny was enraged by Babel's account of Budyonny's cavalry, but Maxim Gorky's protection ensured that the book could be published. Eventually, however, Babel was arrested on fabricated charges in 1939 and executed in 1940.
Joyce (James).- Maugham (William Somerset) & Laurence Housman, editors.. The Venture: An Annual of Art and Literature, vol.2 only (of 2) [all published], illustrations, original pictorial cloth, spine browned, light nicks and fraying to spine ends, corners bumped, 1905. *** Joyce's first appearance in print. This second volume contains two poems by Joyce [Slocum & Cahoon B2], constituting Joyce's first appearance in a book, the poems later appearing with minor alteration as XII and XXVI in Chamber Music.A short-lived project inspired by such 1890s periodicals as The Yellow Book; the deluxe production involved many important artists and authors of the period, including Thomas Hardy, G.K. Chesterton, Violet Hunt, Gordon Craig, T.Sturge Moore and Charles Ricketts. Sadly, after failing to make any profit it folded, prompting Laurence Housman to note "The whole thing was, of course, too highbrow to be popular."
Rock and Heavy Metal Interest LPs, thirty-five albums to include Peer Gunt - Good Girls Dont, Steve Vai - Flex-able, Smashed Gladys - Social Intercourse, Bernie Thorme - Electric Gypsies, ZZ Top - Afterburner Deguello, Fandango, El Loco, Rio Grande Mud, First Album, Eliminator, Tres Hombres, Ratt - Dancing Undercover, George Thorogood and The Destroyers - Move It On Over, Better Than The Rest, Live, Led Zeppelin - 4 (reissue), Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers, Machine Head, Whitesnake - 1987, Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues, The Who - Who's Next, Joe Satrani - Nob of This Earth, Steve Gibbons Band - Down In The Bunker (promo white label), Rory Gallagher - Rory Gallagher, Calling Card, Against The Grain, and more, generally good - very good.
The first pair London hallmark dated 1915, mm Henry Wilkinson & Co, approx 282 gms (af) and another small pair, Birmingham hallmark dated 1915, mm William Devenport 130 gms (af). This lot includes three pin dishes, the first with beaded decoration, stamped sterling, the second with engine-turned decoration, Sheffield hallmark, dated 1946 and the third dish is oval with pie crust rim, Sheffield hallmark dated 1939, mm E. Viner, 177.8 gms. Condition ReportThe first pair of travelling candlesticks has many creases at the join (see image). The second pair has a couple of creases and dents (see image). The dishes are all in good condition but would benefit from a clean.
This lot comprises six letters from five Prime Ministers addressed to H.D. Spence or the Dean of Gloucester including: a letter of 18th May 1877 on mourning stationery written at 10 Downing Street by "Beaconsfield" (Lord Benjamin Disraeli became the Earl of Beaconsfield in 1876) to Henry Spence regarding his appointment as Vicar of St Pancras Church, with a clear "Beaconsfield" signature. The original envelope is included but is very tatty indeed although it has a super wax seal on the back. Letter of 1886 from Lord Salisbury at Hatfield House informing the Reverend Spence of his nomination to the vacant Deanery of Gloucester (clear Salisbury signature) the original envelope is included. Letter of 1892 from William Gladstone written at Hawarden Castle to the Dean of Gloucester regarding the Dean's latest book. Fine signatures of Gladstone at the bottom left of the original envelope and at the end of the letter. Letter of 1892 from Lord Salisbury written on La Bastide, Beaulieu, Alpes Maritimes letterhead regarding the Dean's book, clear 'Salisbury' signature at the end of the letter. The original envelope is enclosed from which it is clear that the letter was posted in Hatfield. The words "From the Great Lord Salisbury" have been added at some stage subsequent to receipt in blue ink. Letter of 1896 (?) from Lord Rosebery in 10 Downing Street with signature "First Lord of the Treasury" printed motif to the top left extremity, praising the Dean on his sermon stating that "I could not help telling Gladstone, who is really a great lover and judge of sermons, which I cannot claim to be, of my impression after hearing you, and he was warmly interested". The original envelope is not with this lot. Lastly a letter from Henry Campbell-Bannerman written at Malvern on 10 Downing Street letterhead with fine "The Prime Minister" printed motif top left, declining the offer of a visit to Gloucester Cathedral and stating "While here I have contented myself with driving and sauntering about the immediate neighbourhood, as my object was rest and quiet. The original envelope is included, the words "Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman" has been added at some stage at the top of the envelope subsequent to receipt in blue ink.
Two Royal Mail Smilers albums of unused decimal GB stamps / Smiler sheets. First album comprises 65 sheets of 1st class, 30x 2nd class and 40x 19p, 2000 to 2005 including first 'Smilers' sheet The Stamp Show 2000 Post Office, Christmas Robin 19p and 1st Class Santa 2000 Post Office, Occasions 2001, Smilers 2001, Christmas 2001, World Cup 2002, Knock Knock 2002, several Stampex, Rushstamps 2003, Ice Sculptures 2003, Stampex 2004, Hong Kong Stamp Expo 2004, Flowers 2004, Cartoon Smilers 2003, Winter Robins 2003, Collect British Stamps, Thunderbirds, The Elvis Movie, Jordan Formula 1, Farm Animals, Magic!, British Steam Locomotion, amongst others, FV £1,045. Second album comprises 60 sheets of 1st class, 2005 including Classic ITV, Farewell Concorde, Titanic, 40 Years of Red Arrows, Beano, Dandy, Teddy Bears, Gunpowder Plot, Three Kings, Paddington, London Boat Show 2006, several Philatex, Fun Fruits, Torquay 2006, Thematica 2006, Stanley Gibbons 150 Years, Elm Park, Fiat Grande Punto, amongst others, FV £810. (2)
Three Royal Mail Smilers albums of unused decimal GB stamps / Smiler sheets. First album 2001 onwards, comprising 31 sheets of 1st class including several Philatex, 100 Years of the Territorial Army, Fokker Dr1, several Stampex, The White Ensign 2005, Earl Shilton Scout 2007, Glorious England with Isle of White error, Wembley Stadium with Smiler error, several 60th Anniversary Railway, several Concorde, The Big Four Nation Railway Museum, Cunard Queen Victoria, Royal Air Force, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Comet, FV £420. Second album 2002-2006, comprising 37 sheets of 1st class including Manchester United 100th Season, Arsenal Heroes, Liverpool Heroes, Norwich Canary Legends 2002, Rangers Hall of Fame, Manchester City Maine Road Greats, Spurs Hall of Fame, Chelsea Heroes, United Heroes, Chelsea Champions 04/05, Liverpool Champions of Europe 2005, England Winners 1966, England Rugby Heroes 2003, Great British Gold Medal Winners, Sir Steve Redgrave, Red Dwarf signed by Craig Charles, Frankenstein, Captain Scarlet, Spiderman, several Doctor Who including U.N.I.T, Katy Manning, The Daleks, The 4th Doctor, The 5th Doctor, The 6th Doctor signed by Carl Baker, The Seventh Doctor signed by Sylvester McCoy, The Tenth Doctor, and more, FV £499. Third album contains 13 sheets of 1st class stamps and several empty sheets, FV £175. Plus one empty album. Total FV £1094 (4)
Edward VI (1537-1553), King of England and Ireland Letter signed with woodcut sign-manual, 14 July 1547 single bifolium (29.5 x 20.8cm, hand and flower watermark), written on two sides in a secretary hand, Edward's woodcut sign-manual to head, autograph countersignature of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset as Lord Protector ('E. Somerset') to foot, addressed ‘To our trustie and right wellbeloved counsellor Sir William Paget knight of our order and comptroller of our household’ on verso of conjugate blank, wafer seal and contemporary endorsement to the same, short split to head of central fold, short tear to lower inner corner of first leaf, neither affecting text, a few other small holes Writing in the name of the boy-king Edward VI a few months after his coronation, Lord Protector Somerset instructs his main ally and fellow Tudor magnate William Paget to raise a unit of heavy cavalry in preparation for the renewal of England's campaign against Scotland, launched by Henry VIII in 1544 in order to secure the marriage of the future Edward VI and Mary Queen of Scots, and known to posterity as the ‘Rough Wooing’.As the Earl of Hertford, Somerset had previously commanded the English forces which sacked Edinburgh in 1544, and achieved a superb victory against the French at Boulogne a year later. William Paget, as principal secretary to Henry VIII from 1543, was himself closely involved in his master's wars with Scotland and France, and in consequence formed a fateful double act with the soon-to-be Lord Protector: ‘The [English] military commanders had come to depend on him for communication with the King while they were campaigning, and among them the Earl of Hertford, soon to be raised to the dukedom of Somerset, developed a relationship with Paget which was to be of great importance after the change of sovereign, when Paget became the Protector Somerset’s constant companion … It was the new King, or the Protector Somerset in his name, who gave Paget the Garter, and upon his resignation as secretary made him comptroller of the Household and chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster. While Somerset was with the army in Scotland during the summer of 1547 Paget was the effective head of the government’ (Bindoff, ed., The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558).England and Scotland had been at peace since the Treaty of Camp in June 1546, but as the present letter demonstrates, this was a period which Somerset used to prepare for war. Professing himself ‘advertysed that our auncient enemies the Scottes prepares tassemble men for the warre in grete nombers’, he requests that Paget send him ‘x [ten] grete horses or good geldings hable and well trimmed to served in a felde' and ‘a convenient nomber of horsemen to serve on horsebacke as demylaunces', to muster at Newcastle by late August. The 14th of July 1547 appears to have been an especially important date in these preparations. On the same day Somerset wrote to Archbishop Thomas Cranmer requesting dispatch of 15 horsemen, and it is presumed that similar demands were sent to other magnates. It is also the first recorded date on which Somerset appears to have assumed sole responsibility for witnessing the king's directives for raising troops, without the countersignature of any other privy councillor, a further expansion of his already near-complete control over the affairs of the realm, in which his access to the king's woodcut sign-manual or ‘dry stamp’, held by his ally in the royal household, vice-chamberlain Sir John Gates, was a key component.Paget's horsemen were doubtless to be involved in the battle of Pinkie on 10 September: the final pitched battle between the independent kingdoms of England and Scotland, it resulted in a swift and crushing English victory; but Somerset's military success was also the start of his downfall, ruining the nation's finances while encouraging him to abandon government in council for personal rule conducted more or less entirely from his own household. Paget was disturbed by Somerset's autocratic turn but remained by his side until the Earl of Warwick's coup in 1549, when he advised Somerset to surrender to his great rival, and in fact arrested him on the latter's behalf. Somerset was eventually executed in 1551; Paget's fortunes endured violent fluctuations with successive changes of regime, but he remained a magnate and died an old man in 1563, his heirs becoming the marquesses of Anglesey.
[First Australian novelist] Grimstone, Mary Leman The Beauty of the British Alps Or, Love at First Sight. London: G. Virtue, 1825. 8vo in half-sheets (20.4 x 13cm), iv [1] 4-549 [1], contemporary marbled calf gilt, marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece, 4 engraved plates (of 5: lacking plate listed as facing p. 393), bookplate, front joint superficially cracked, section of cracking to rear joint, scuffs to covers, rubbing to extremities, tips showing through, intermittent spotting and browning to contents (light to moderate), quire 2K with faint transverse bars of browning to foot First edition of the first book by the first Australian novelist, extremely rare, no other copy traced in auction records, which show only a handful of copies of two other works by the author, namely Louisa Egerton (1830), written during and shortly after her voyage to Van Diemen's Land in 1825, and consequently the first novel written in Australia, and Cleone (1834). Grimstone returned to England in 1829, joining London's radical intelligentsia and associating with figures including Robert Owen and Elizabeth Gaskell; her 1834 novel Women's Love ‘advanced feminist ideas in much the same terms as had Mary Wollstonecraft’ (Australian Dictionary of National Biography). Copies of The Beauty of the British Alps were issued with Plymouth or London imprints on the title-page, though both versions appear to have comprised the same Oxford-printed sheets, with no priority assigned.
[Scottish family histories] Group of deluxe copies Anderson, John. Historical and Genealogical Memoirs of the House of Hamilton. Edinburgh: John Anderson, Jun., 1825. First edition, 4to (31 x 23cm), 324 409-12 *321-*324 325-408 [4] pp., near-contemporary red morocco richly gilt by Clarke and Bedford, broad turn-ins with elaborate foliate roll gilt, red moiré silk doublures, gilt gauffered edges, engraved frontispiece, plate facing p. 409, list of subscribers to rear, extra-illustrated with engraved arms of the dukes of Hamilton (on india paper, mounted), frontispiece offset, bookplate of T. Dawson Turner to initial blank, pencilled annotation ‘From the Beckford lib' to front free endpaper, early-20th-century printed catalogue description for the present copy laid in, annotated Large paper copy. From the Beckford library’. Housed in custom marbled card case (now defective) with 2 related items, comprising: William Aiton, An Inquiry into the Pedigree, Descent, and Public Transactions of the Chiefs of the Hamilton Family, Glasgow: Andrew Young, 1827 (8vo, wrappers); and Memoirs of the House of Hamilton, Corrected, with an Addition, Edinburgh: John Stevenson, 1828 [bound with:] Reply to the Misstatements of Dr Hamilton of Bardowie in his Late “memoirs of the House of Hamilton, Corrected,” Edinburgh: John Stevenson, 1828 (2 works in 1 volume, 4to, wrappers);Stuart, John (editor). Registrum de Panmure. Records of the Families of Maule, de Valoniis, Brechin, and Brechin-Barclay, United in the Line of the Barons and Earls of Panmure. Compiled by the Hon. Harry Maule of Kelly, A.D. 1733. Edinburgh: [privately printed for the Earl of Dalhousie], 1874. First edition, out-of-series copy from the edition of 150, 2 volumes, 4to (27.2 x 20.5cm), original green full morocco by Orrock presumably for the Earl of Dalhousie, green moiré silk doublures, all edges gilt, all plates as called for (including tinted lithographic facsimiles of manuscripts, colour-printed facsimiles of heraldic facsimiles, etc.), bookplates of T. Dawson Turner;[Laing, David, editor]. The Genealogy of the Most Noble and Ancient House of Drummond. By the Honourable William Drummond, afterwards First Viscount of Starthallan, M.DC.LXXXI. Edinburgh: A. Balfour and Co., 1831. First edition, one of 4 large-paper copies (in addition to 100 standard copies, all intended for private circulation), 4to (29.2 x 23cm), contemporary red morocco gilt, all edges gilt, title-page in red and black, engraved arms present in two states (coloured and uncoloured).Together with 2 others similar (George Seton, A History of the Family of Seton, 1896, first edition, one of 200 copies, 2 volumes, 4to, original morocco-backed cloth, plates, bookplate of T. Dawson Brodie; and another copy of Registrum de Panmure in original red cloth gilt)(8) The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
Fairbairn, Thomas Relics of Ancient Architecture and other Picturesque Scenes in Glasgow Glasgow: published, and lithographed in colours by Miller & Buchanan, from Water Colour Drawings by Thomas Fairbairn, 1849. First edition, large folio (65 x 43cm), c.1900 green crushed morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, marbled endpapers, broad inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, chromolithographic vignette title-page, 4 pp. descriptive letterpress, 20 chromolithographic plates with tissue-guards, pale mottling to rear cover, spotting to endpapers and blanks [Abbey Scenery 502] The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
[Binding - 18th-century woman owner] Maxims and Discourses, Moral and Divine taken from the Works of Arch-Bishop Tillotson, and Methodiz'd and Connected. London: for J. Tonson, 1719. First edition, 8vo (22 x 14cm), [16] 109 [3] pp., contemporary red morocco, covers richly gilt with broad stylised outer roll enclosing elaborate central panels incorporating a variety of floral stamps, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, spine sunned, small white mark to foot of front board The Library of a Scottish Gentleman. With the ownership inscription ‘Caroline Brydges 1745’ to the initial blank: this is Lady Caroline Leigh née Brydges (1729/30-1804), daughter of Henry Brydges, 2nd Duke of Chandos, wife of Thomas Leigh, and grandmother of Chandos Leigh. There is also a later Leigh family bookplate to the front pastedown.
Bell, Gertrude Lowthian Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914. First edition, 4to, original cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, xix 180 pp., half-title, wood-engravings in text, 2 maps, 93 numbered plates, mainly photographic but including 6 folding diagrams, ex Manchester Public Free Libraries with gilt shelfmark to spine, bookplate and shelfmark label to front pastedown, blind stamps to title-page and plates, title-page additionally with ink-stamp verso, cloth dust-soiled, textblock toned, plates 1 and 2 (folding diagrams) with old repairs to inner corners, plate 6 creased plate 72 loss to corner not affecting image Very rare: only two further copies traced in auction records in the last 50 years.
Le Carré, John Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, agent's proof copy [London: printed by Scripts Ltd for John Farquharson Ltd, c.1974]. 4to, [2] 492 leaves, printed on rectos only, post-bound in grey card wrappers with section cut away from front wrapper to reveal printed title on first leaf, printer's colophon leaf in orange to rear, manuscript amendments to epigram leaf and ff. 12, 76, 267 268a, 393, 406 and 454, front wrapper stained and nicked Provenance: The Estate of the late Lynette F. H. Cole, Rutherford House, Town Yetholm, Scottish BordersWith manuscript note ‘Given to Jeff by the author, sometime late 1980s’; the recipient Jeff Douglas (d. c.1990), late husband of Lynette Cole, was a friend of John Le Carré's. John Farquharson Ltd was a leading literary agency founded in 1919 and surviving until the 1980s, when it was bought out by Curtis Brown. Le Carré became one of Farquharson's authors following his marriage in 1972 to Jane Eustace, whose first job had been assisting the George Greenfield, the firm's managing director; at the same time Le Carré moved publishers to Hodder and Stoughton, his wife's new employer (The Times, obituary of Jane Cornwell, 9 March 2021).
Deuchar, David A Collection of Etchings after the most Eminent Masters of the Dutch and Flemish Schools particularly Rembrandt, Ostade, Cornelius Bega and Van Vliet. Accompanied with Sundry Miscellaneous Pieces and a Few Original Designs. Edinburgh: David Deuchar, 1803. First edition, 4 volumes, 4to, contemporary straight-grain red morocco gilt, decoration including broad roll-tool frame in diamond pattern with interstitial floral tools to covers, spines gilt-lettered ‘india proofs’ at foot, all edges gilt, etched title-page to each volume, 357 etchings on india paper (3 of which folding), mounted (in many cases more than one to a leaf), various dimensions (approx. 6 x 5cm to 19.5 x 17.5cm), a hint of rubbing to extremities, title-pages spotted, volume 4 with damp-staining to title-page and first plate (bound as frontispiece) and to foot of a few other mounts The Library of a Scottish Gentleman The number of plates in sets of this works seems to vary.
Strawberry Hill Press Memoires du comte de Grammont, par monsieur le comte Antoine Hamilton Nouvelle édition, augmentée de notes et d'éclaircissemens necessaires, par M. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill: [Strawberry Hill Press], 1772. One of 100 copies, 4to, 19th-century citron morocco gilt by Riviere, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, xxiii 290 [3] pp., 3 engraved portraits including frontispiece [Hazen 18];Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life and Opinions. London: Rest Fenner, 1817. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 20th-century green crushed half morocco by Maclehose of Glasgow, top edges gilt, half-titles;[Procter, Bryan Waller]. Effigies Poeticae: or, the Portraits of the British Poets. London: James Carpenter and Son, 1824. 8vo, contemporary straight-grain green morocco by Hering, spine gilt in compartments, decorative gilt panels to covers, all edges gilt;Gilbert, David (editor).Some Ancient Christmas Carols, with the Tunes to which they were formerly sung in the West of England … Second Edition. [Bound with:] Mount Calvary, or the History of the Passion, Death, and Resurrection, of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Written in Cornish … interpreted in the English Tongue, in the Year 1682. London: John Nicholas and Son; Nichols and Son [and others], 1823-6. 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo, contemporary diced russia gilt, rebacked, first work with several folding plates of engraved music (collation not established);and 1 other work(6) The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
Einstein, Albert The Meaning of Relativity Four Lectures delivered at Princeton University, May, 1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1923. First US edition, first printing, 8vo, 123 pp., original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, spine toned and slightly rolled, a little rubbing to extremities, a few white flecks to to covers, strip of browning to pp. 44-5 The first US edition comprises the the sheets of London edition, published by Methuen the previous year, with a cancel title-page.
Children's and illustrated books Collection of works including: Willy Pogany (illustrator), The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1910 (first edition, 4to, original green cloth, lithographed throughout, tipped-in colour plate); ibid., Parsifal, 1912 (first edition, 4to, original grey cloth, lithographed throughout, tipped-in colour plates); The Tale of Lohengrin, c.1913 (4to, original cloth, lithographed throughout); E. J. Detmold (illustrator), Hours of Gladness, by M. Maeterlinck, 1912 (first edition, 4to, original cream cloth gilt, mounted colour plates); and approx. 50 others, including W. Heath Robinson, Detmold, Dulac, etc.
Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista de' Pontificum Romanorum Effigies Rome: Domenico Basa, 1580. First edition, 8vo (15.5 x 11cm), a8 [A]-2F8 2G4, late 17th or early-18th century red morocco richly gilt, red endpapers with foliate pattern printed in gilt, all edges gilt, 2 engraved title-pages, full-page engraving of Matthew 16:18 ('Tu es Petrus'), 230 full-page engraved portraits of popes [Adams A1183; EDIT16 CNCE 10449] The Library of a Scottish Gentleman Some copies are bound with a dedication to Gregory XIII, not found here or mentioned in the Adams collation, but the EDIT16 catalogue clarifies that the work is complete without it and describes copies with the dedication as variants.
Fleming, Ian Live and Let Die London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. First edition, first issue, first state, 8vo, 240 pp., original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, decorative roundel gilt to front board, with the dust jacket. very pale mottling to covers, faint spotting to edges of textblock, encroaching on margins at pp. 150-160 and in a few places elsewhere, pencilled ownership inscription to front free endpaper, dust jacket with shallow loss to top and bottom edges of folds, rubbing to folds between spine-panel and front and rear panels, small mark to front cover, rear panel spotted and browned, browning to peripheries of flaps [Gilbert A2a (1.1.)]
[Beckford, William] [Vathek.] An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript with Notes Critical and Explanatory. London: for J. Johnson, 1786. First edition, 8vo (18.8 x 11.9cm), vii 334 pp., later sprinkled calf gilt, neatly rebacked with richly gilt spine (ink-stamp ‘Bound by Riviere & Son’ to front free endpaper, perhaps referring to the rebacking only, the covers possibly earlier, the rear binder's blank watermarked 1809), marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 5 woodcuts of fans in the text, final blank discarded [Rothschild 352] The Library of a Scottish Gentleman A classic work of Gothic fiction and oriental fantasy, Vathek was originally written by Beckford in French, then translated into English by his friend the Reverend Samuel Henley, who published his English version before the publication of an edition in the original French, contrary to Beckford's instructions. French editions were subsequently printed at Lausanne in December 1786 (dated 1787) and Paris in December 1787; it has been suggested that these editions were in fact retranslations of the English version.
Baskerville, John (printer) Book of Common Prayer Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1761. 8vo (23.5 x 15cm), contemporary red morocco, spine compartments tooled in gilt to saltire pattern, covers panelled in gilt with various concentric decorative rolls and coronet cornerpieces, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, signatures a-c4 B-2L8 2M4 (lacking a1 or a2, possibly a half-title or blank; quire U with 7 leaves only but catchwords all aligning), spine slightly faded, old ink-staining to front board, 19th-century chromolithographic prayer slips tipped to verso of title-page, bookplate of William Ramsay of the University of Glasgow;Bodoni, Giambattista (printer). Callimaco Greco-Italiano ora pubblicato. Parma: nel regal palazzo co' tipi Bodoniani, 4to (29 x 20.6cm), [24] iv [2] 76 [2] iv [2] 100 [4], contemporary straight-grain blue morocco ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, bookplate (T. D. C. Graham);Burnet, Gilbert. The Memoirs of the Lives and Actions of James and William Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald, etc. In which an Account is given on the Rise and Progress of the Civil Wars of Scotland. London: by J. Grover, for R. Royston, 1677. First edition, folio (31 x 18.6cm), near-contemporary red morocco gilt, half-title with engraved portrait verso, 3 other engraved portraits (one a plate, the rest in the text), addenda and errata leaves, bookplate (Edward Cheney)(3) The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
New Naturalists Part-set of the New Naturalist Monographs comprising: The Wren; The Yellow Wagtail; The Greenshank; Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos; Ants; The Herring Gull's World; The Rabbit; The Birds of the London Area since 1900; The Hawfinch; Oysters; The House Sparrow; The Trout; The Mole. London: Collins, 1955-71. 14 volumes, first editions, Yellow Wagtail (number 4) in first state, Hawfinch (15) in third state with plain green dust jacket, Wood Pigeon (20) in second binding variant, Mole (22) in primary binding variant8vo, original green cloth, dust jackets, Yellow Wagtail cloth faded as usual, Greenshank and Rabbit with ownership inscription, Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos with hole in dust jacket spine, Ants dust jacket repaired, Oysters dust jacket chipped, with bookseller's ticket and numeric ink-stamp to endpapers, Wood Pigeon dust jacket price-clipped (as usual for copies in the second binding) [Bernhard & Loe M3A, 4A, 5A, 7A, 8A, 9A, 13A, 14A, 15C, 18A, 19A, 20-B2, 21A, 22A-B1]. Together with 20 volumes from the New Naturalist main series (up to number 68) (34)
Pinter, Harold The Homecoming Images, Harold Cohen. London: Karnac - Curwen, 1968. One of 198 of 200 copies signed by Pinter and Cohen, large folio, original green cloth, slipcase, light variable fading to cloth;Hughes, Ted. The Burning of the Brothel. London: Turret Books, 1966. Out-of-series copy from the edition of 300, 4to, original blue wrappers;Ibid. Season Songs. Pictures by Leonard Baskin. New York: Viking Press, 1975. 4to, original quarter cloth, dust jacket, signed ‘Ted Hughes 1975' on the front free endpaper, endpapers spotted;Banville, John. First Light. London: Bridgewater Press, 2006. One of 100 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original cloth;Raine, Craig. The Electrification of the Soviet Union. London: Faber and Faber, 1986. One of 100 copies signed and numbered by the author, original red quarter morocco, glassine dust jacket;Salaman, Malcolm C. The Etchings of Sir Francis Seymour Haden. London: Halton and Truscott Smith, Ltd., 1923. One of 200 copies, folio, original quarter calf, slipcase (worn);and 20 others, including Seamus Heaney, Hallaig, 2002 (one of 150 copies), Enitharmon Press, Fifty Poems, a Selection by Edgell Rickword, 1970 (one of 362 copies signed Rickword, this copy additionally inscribed), Memorial Catalogue of the French and Dutch Loan Collection, Edinburgh International Exhibition 1886, 1886 (4to, original cloth, one of 520 copies), and similar, mainly poetry, including signed copies (26)
Milne, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, dust jacket, spine rolled, dust jacket spine darkened, chips and losses to head and foot of spine and joints, marks to rear panel;Now We Are Six. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, dust jacket (chipped and marked) (2)
Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice With twenty-four coloured illustrations by C. E. Brock. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1907. First ‘English Idylls’ edition, deluxe issue, 8vo, original decorative vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 24 colour plates including frontispiece and vignette title-page, contemporary calligraphic presentation slip mounted to front free endpaper, covers slightly sprung and mottled, spotting to edges, free endpapers browned, [Gilson E114]; Idem. Emma. With an Introduction by Joseph Jacobs and Illustrations by Chris Hammond. London; George Allen, 1894. First edition, 8vo, original decorative blue cloth gilt, top edge gilt, all plates as called for (counted in pagination and register), front inner hinge cracked and worn, private address blind stamps to free endpapers, small hole to front free endpaper; Gaskell, Elizabeth. Cranford. With twenty-five coloured illustrations by C. E. Brock. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1904. First ‘English Idylls’ edition, deluxe issue, 8vo, original decorative vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 25 colour plates including frontispiece and vignette title-page, contemporary calligraphic presentation slip mounted to verso of half-title, covers sprung The first Brock-illustrated edition of Pride and Prejudice appeared in 1895, but in that edition the illustrations were different and not in colour.
Quarles, Francis The Historie of Samson 4to (17.7 x 11.8cm), [8] 142 pp., A-T4 (-T4, blank), 19th-century purple roan backing marbled boards, wear to spine, title-page slightly marked and with old repair to upper inner corner [STC 20549] The Library of a Scottish Gentleman Very rare first edition of one of several works of biblical verse by an important 17th-century author whose writings 'serve to enrich the picture of Stuart England' (ODNB).
Burns, Robert - The "Kilmarnock Burns" Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Kilmarnock: John Wilson, 1786. First edition, 8vo, 204 x 117mm, late nineteenth century green morocco gilt by F. Bedford, spine gilt, gilt edges Roderick Terry, noted American bibliophile, armorial bookplate; Previously owned by John Dover of Glasgow; offered for sale by a Scottish institution Robert Burns was an intelligent and fun-loving youth, working as a farm labourer by day and reading the works of Scottish Enlightenment authors and philosophers, alongside playing the fiddle, in his spare time. Unusually for the era, although less so for lowland Scotland at the time, the working-class Robert Burns received a formal education in standard English. He combined this with the influences of the Scots language and folklore to create poetry which has appealed to generations worldwide, identifying the truths of human nature. Burns first started to write poetry as a boy of about fifteen, addressing them to a “bewitching” girl he had met during the harvest. Nearly 240 years after the publication of the 1786 “Kilmarnock Edition”, over 2000 editions of his poems and songs have been published.The “Kilmarnock” – or first – edition of Burns’ poems is the single most famous volume in Scotland's impressive literary heritage. However, the work almost never saw the light of day. Burns' farming activities at Mossgiel farm were not profitable and although he wished to marry Jean Armour, who was carrying his child, the marriage was opposed by her father, so Burns made plans to emigrate. It was only the suggestion by a local lawyer, Gavin Hamilton, that he could finance his voyage to Jamaica by publishing some of his poems, that led to him approaching a nearby printer, John Wilson, in Kilmarnock. On the 31st July 1786 Wilson published the volume of poetry by Burns under the unassuming title Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. It sold for three shillings and the entire print-run of 612 copies sold out within a month, bar 13 copies left with the publisher. The volume contained much of his best writing, including The Twa Dogs; Address to the Deil; Halloween; The Cotter's Saturday Night; To a Mouse; Epitaph for James Smith and To a Mountain Daisy, many of which had been written at Mossgiel farm. The success of the work was immediate.The first edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect is exceptionally rare. As of the 2017 edition of Allan Young's The Kilmarnock Burns: A Census, there were 84 known copies of the book surviving, with 15 of these (including this copy) in private hands. In March 2021, the Burns Chronicle, published by Edinburgh University Press, updated the number to 88 surviving copies. [Literature: Young, Allan. The Kilmarnock Burns: A Census, 2017]
Scottish poetry and history Collection of works, 18th-19th century Robertson, Alexander, of Struan. Poems on Various Subjects and Occasions. Mostly taken from his own Original Manuscripts. Edinburgh: for Ch. Alexander, and sold at his house, c.1750. First edition, 8vo, [4] 360 pp., contemporary sprinkled calf, 19th-century spine labels, bookplate of Sir William Fraser (1816-1898), Scottish antiquarian, 2E2 a cancel (detaching from stub);Johnston, James (editor). The Norwegian Account of Haco's Expedition against Scotland; A. D. MCCLXIII. now first published, in the original Islandic, from the Flateyan and Frisian MSS. with a literal English version and Notes. [Copenhagen]: printed for the author, 1782. First edition, large 8vo, edges untrimmed, the imposition such that ff. 1-4 of each quire measure 25 x 16cm and ff. 5-8 approx. 25 x 11.5cm;and 9 others (these not collated), including: Sir James Dalrymple, Collections concerning the Scottish History, Edinburgh, 1705 (first edition, 19th-century morocco gilt, bookplate of George Seton Veitch); William Buchanan of Auchmar, The History of the Ancient Surname of Buchanan, Glasgow, 1792 (8vo, contemporary tree sheep, engraved frontispiece, joints cracked); Thomas Campbell, The Pleasures of Hope, Edinburgh, 1799 (first edition, 8vo, original marbled boards); Sir Robert Sibbald, The History … of Fife and Kinross, Cupar, 1803 (large 8vo, later panelled calf by Ramage); Sir Harris Nicolas, History of the Earldoms of Strathern, Monteith, and Airth, 1842 (8vo, contemporary straight-grain tan morocco gilt); Donald Monro, Description of the Western Isles of Scotland, called Hybrides. Edinburgh: William Auld, 1774 (first edition, small 8vo, later calf, front cover detaching, effaced ownership inscription to title-page); and similar The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
Modern literature, children's books, art & design Collection of works Huxley, Aldous. Along the Road. Notes and Essays of a Tourist. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. Large-paper edition, one of 250 numbered copies signed by the author, 8vo, original half japon;Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. London: Gibbings and Company Limited, 1897. 8vo, original green cloth decorated with Art Nouveau design, top edge, others untrimmed, 7 plates;Lang, Andrew. The Yellow Fairy Book. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. First edition, contemporary citron morocco lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 24 plates including frontispiece;‘B. B.’ Ben the Bullfinch. Illustrated by D. J. Watkins-Pitchford. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1957. First edition, 8vo, original yellow boards, dust jacket;Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). Irish Fairy Tales. By James Stephens, London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1920. First edition, trade issue, 4to, original cloth, colour plates, ‘presentation copy' blind stamp to title-page;Beaton, Cecil. Cecil Beaton's Scrapbook. London: B. T. Batsford, 1937. First edition, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket (chipped);[Morris, Talwin, designer]. Queen Victoria, her Life and Reign. By Thomas Archer and Amelia Hutchison Stirling. London: Gresham Publishing Company, 1901. First edition, 4 volumes, 4to, original red cloth with elaborate Art Nouveau design by Talwin Morris in gilt and green, all edges gilt;Beardsley, Aubrey, & others. The Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarterly. London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894-6. Volumes 1, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 10 only, 4to, original yellow cloth;and 8 others similar (24)
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone London: Bloomsbury, 1997. First edition, 13th impression paperback, signed and inscribed: “To Kathleen, Thank you for liking book two even better (that's the one I'm worried about at the moment!) J.K. Rowling", 8vo, original wrappers Signed and inscribed for the vendor at her place of work
Macintyre, Duncan Ban (1724-1812) Orain Ghaidhealach Le Donnchadh Macantsoir. Duneidiunn [Edinburgh]: gu feim an Ughdair, 1790. Second edition, 12mo (16.2 x 9cm), xi [1] 252 pp., contemporary red morocco, spine gilt in compartments with alternating griffin and star devices, Greek-key roll gilt to covers, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, half-title, list of subscribers, small spot to sigs. S-T.With 2 others, both small 8vo, in 18th-century red morocco gilt (Jacob Masen, Sarcotis Carmen editio altera, Cologne: et venit Parisiis, apud J. Barbou, 1757; Theodori Bezae Vezelii Poemata [part 2:] Marci-Antonii Mureti Juvenilia [part 3:] Joannis Secundus Hagiensis Juvenilia, Leiden, 1757, 2 engraved portraits) The Library of a Scottish Gentleman The Gaelic poems of Duncan Ban MacIntyre were first published in 1760. All contemporary editions are rare, with no copies of any edition earlier than 1832 otherwise traced in auction records. The work is entirely in Gaelic except for a dedication to John Campbell, Earl of Breadalbane, a single-page biographical sketch of the author, and the list of subscribers, in which Highland residents predominate, including 150 individuals with the surname Campbell, and ten Donald McIntyres.
Stuart, John Sobieski Stolberg [& Charles Edward] Vestiarium Scoticum from the Manuscript formerly in the Library of the Scots College at Douay. With an Introduction and Notes. Edinburgh: William Tait, 1842. First edition, folio (36.8 x 26cm), original red morocco richly gilt overall including large block of the royal arms of Scotland to covers, all edges gilt, 109 pp., half-title, hand-coloured lithographic plate, 75 chromolithographic glazed plates of tartan patterns, mounted as issued, captioned tissue-guards, vellum presentation leaf to front lettered in gilt ‘The gift of the Honble Frances Fraser of Lovat on her marriage, from her grandmother Amelia Mary Fraser of Strichen, 1844’, plates offset onto tissue-guards, variable spotting to mounts The Library of a Scottish Gentleman One of 50 copies according to the ODNB. A notorious work of forgery and fantasy by the impostor Stuart brothers, Englishmen whose real surname was Allen, but who presented themselves (in good faith or otherwise) as illegitimate sons of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, and set about producing works revealing the wealth, and strictly Catholic and Celtic character, of Scottish culture in the middle ages. Their claims that the Vestiarium Scoticum was based on a 15th-century manuscript in their possession were denounced by Walter Scott before his death as fraudulent, but the published work nevertheless had an enduring influence.
Scott, Sir Walter Waverley Novels, 23 works in first edition [without "Waverley"] Guy Mannering; or, the Astrologer. Edinburgh: John Ballatyne and Co., for Longman, Hurst... 1815.3 volumes, first edition, second or third state; The Antiquary. Edinburgh: John Ballatyne and Co., for Longman, Hurst... 1816. 3 volumes, first edition;Tales of my Landlord. First Series. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1816. 4 volumes, first edition;Rob Roy. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1818. 3 volumes, first edition;Tales of my Landlord. Second Series. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1818. 4 volumes, first edition; Tales of my Landlord. Third Series. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1819. 4 volumes, first edition;Ivanhoe. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1820. 3 volumes, first edition, adverts in volume 1;The Monastery. Edinburgh/London: Longman, Hurst… & Archibald Constable and Co., 1820. 3 volumes, first edition; The Abbot Edinburgh/London: Longman, Hurst… & Archibald Constable and Co., 1820. 3 volumes, first edition; Kenilworth. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1821. 3 volumes, first edition;The Pirate. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1822. 3 volumes, first edition;The Fortunes of Nigel. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1822. 3 volumes, first edition;Peveril of the Peak. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1822. 4 volumes, first edition, some dampstaining to one volume;Quentin Durward. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1823. 3 volumes, first edition;St Ronan's Well. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824. 3 volumes, first edition;Redgauntlet. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824. 3 volumes, first edition;Tales of the Crusaders. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1825. 4 volumes, first edition;Woodstock; or, the Cavalier... Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1826. 3 volumes, first edition, volume 1 lacking half-title;Chronicles of the Canongate. [First Series.] Edinburgh: Cadell and Co., 1827. 2 volumes, first edition, volume 2 lacking volume title;Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. Edinburgh: Cadell and Co., 1828. 3 volumes, first edition;Anne of Geierstein; or, the Maiden of the Mist. Edinburgh: Cadell and Co., 1829. 3 volumes, first edition, with some dampstaining;Tales of my Landlord. Fourth and Last Series. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1832. 4 volumes, first edition, volume 1 lacking volume title; All first editions, various states, all with half-titles unless stated, uniformly bound in olive green morocco gilt by Riviere, bookplates of Castlecraig Library (71)[All in Worthington, Greville. A Bibliography of the Waverley Novels, 1931] The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
Dundee Collection of manuscripts by James Thomson of Dundee, mid-19th century all closely written in an italic hand, most works signed by James Thomson, a few (e.g. ‘The Houff’ and ‘The Last Literary Remains of Foo-Fozzle’) not signed but in the same hand, contents comprise: ‘The Last Literary Remains and Relics of the World-Renowned Foo-Foozle, D.D.D.D. and M.L. of Ching-Chang, and Mandarin of Ten Golden Buttons and Five Siler Tassel; in Joint Stock with those of the ever famous John Young, Late of Forebank, Esquire … Chang-Quang: Souchong, Printer. Young Hyson, Publisher. 14th Day, VIth Moon, Year 1845'. 4to, 206 pp., lined paper wrappers; ‘An Account of the Island of Icolmkill [Iona] as it was in the year 1771. A New Edition revised and corrected. J. Thomson, Scripsit’, Dundee, 15th June, 1852. 4to, green paper wrappers, 16 pp., old staining to rear; ‘Tour through Part of Perth and Fifeshires from Dundee by Ingergowrie, Foulis, Longforgan, Inchture, Dunsinane, Raitt, Errol, Abernethy, Abbey of Lindores and the Abbey of Balmerino to Newport in 1823. Also An Excursion from Dundee to Meigle in the same year … By James Thomson. Third Edition enlarged [sic]’, Dundee, 18232. 8vo, drab paper wrappers, 116 pp., ownership inscription of John Campbell dated Dundee 1837 to title-page; ‘Poems and Songs by Sigma. In Three Volumes, Volume First [ … Second … Third], 1828 [dated at rear]. 4to, contemporary half calf, 125, 43, 126 pp., inscribed on versos of title-page, ‘Dundee 21st July 1841, presented to Mr John Campbell by the author as a small mark of esteem after an acquaintanceship of sixteen years without a cross word occurring during that time to mar the friendship which endured in the course of these years, James Thomson’; 'Gildas Sapiens, de Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae. Gildas the Wise, concerning the Subversion and Complaint of Britain; being the Historical Part or First Thirty-One Chapters of his Epistle, Modernised from the Translation made from the Original Latin, and published in 1638. With a New Introduction and Copious Notes. By James Thomson', Dundee, 15th July 1852. 8vo, marbled wrappers, 56 pp.; ‘The Houff: a Selection of the best Epitaphs and Inscriptions, Ancient and Modern, in the Houff or Common Burying Ground, Dundee … By Old Mortality, Junior’, Dundee, 1834. 4to, contemporary limp marbled boards, 150 pp., together with another copy with a slightly variant title, disbound; ‘Narrative of Occurrences in the Parish of Newtyle at the Beginning of the 18th Century, as Illustrative of the Mourners of Former Times. With an Appendix of Select Excerpts from the Parish Register of Auchterhouse. By a Gleaner’, Dundee, 1842. Folio, 22 pp., with a pen-and-ink sketch of Newtyle Castle signed J. Thomson to title-page; ‘The Parish Register or Book of the Session, with Notes and an Appendix of Additional Curious Collections. The whole intended as Authentic Illustrations of Former Times. By James Thomson' [no date]. 4to, contemporary half calf, 211 pp., ownership inscription ‘John Campbell, Crichton Street, Dundee’ to p. 1; ‘The Parish Register or Parochial Annals, Being Extracts from the Records of Various Parishes selected as Illustrations of Ancient Manners’, 1828. 4to, blue paper wrappers, 178 pp.; ‘Supplement to the History of Dundee by James Thomson’, Dundee, 1847. Oblong 8vo, plain paper wrappers, 162 ff., written on rectos only; 'The Book of ye comoun Rentallis of the Burgh of Dundie, Almishous and Kirkwark thairof, this maid … in the tyme of Mr James Haliburtoun, Provost … Extracted from the Locked Book of Burgesses by James Thomson', Dundee, 1838. 8vo, 59 pp., blue paper wrappers (front wrapper missing, front blank detaching), inscription in a separate hand (presumably the recipient's) ‘To Mr J. Campbell from J. Thomson the editor … 1841’ on p. [3]; ‘Observations, Exclamations, and Narrations in Verse; being the Reveries, and Day-Dreams, of [symbols]. In six Cantos, by An Observer. Printed by _ And sold by all the Booksellers’. Dundee, 1825. 4to, plain paper wrappers, 40 pp..Together with a further volume of manuscript notes by Thomson (containing transcripts of 18th-century court of session hearings), and a related printed work (A Feast of Literary Crumbs … By Foo Foozle and Friends, Ancient Citizens of Dundee … Dundee: William Kidd, c.1880, no. 1 in the ‘Dundee Reprints’ series, front wrapper captioned ‘facsimile of original cover’ and including imprint J. Valentine, Dundee, 1848') (15) The author of these manuscripts can be identified with that of the published work The History of Dundee (Dundee, 1847; 2nd edition 1874) on the basis of the introduction to the ‘Supplement of the History of Dundee by James Thomson’. A mixture of literary squibs, epic poetry in Byronic cantos, and thorough antiquarianism, they are presented in the style of printed books, with neatly arranged title-pages and in one case ('An Account of the Island of Icolmkill') mock printer's signature-marks to the lower margins. The National Library of Scotland holds a manuscript by James Thomson of Dundee titled `Gleanings of Antiquity in Forfarshire’ and dated 1825 (Adv.MS.35.6.17). Dundee Central Library holds a small collection of manuscripts by him, including ‘The Houff’ (1835), ‘The Book of the Houff' (1838), and ‘Tours through Parts of Forfar, Perth, and Fifeshires’ (1833). It is possible that parts of the ‘Supplement of the History of Dundee’ and ‘The Last Literary Remains … of Foo-Foozle’ appear in printed form in the 1874 edition of The History of Dundee and A Feast of Literary Crumbs (op. cit.) respectively, but it is unclear whether any of the works in the lot have ever been published in their entirety.
Bible; Psalms; English The Psalmes of King David translated by King James Cum Privilegio Regis Majestatis. [London: T. Harper, c.1637]. 8vo (16.7 x 10cm), 8vo, late-19th-century crushed brown morocco by Francis Bedford, spine richly gilt in compartments (second compartment with conjectural imprint ‘London 1625’ tooled in gilt), decorative gilt panels to covers, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, collates A-Y8 Z6, 391 pp., engraved approbation leaf by William Marshall with royal arms of Charles I, engraved allegorical title-page, fore margin of title-page expertly extended, discreet extensions to lower fore corners of a few leaves not affecting text [STC 2736.5] The Library of a Scottish Gentleman In fact the work of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, this translation was first published at Oxford in 1631, in duodecimo format. This edition contains the Authorised translation in the margins.
[Berkeley, Anthony] The Layton Court Mystery By “?”. London: Herbert Jenkins, Limited, 1925. First edition, first impression, 8vo, 316 pp., original green pictorial cloth, 4 pp. advertisements to rear, cloth slightly marked, front free endpaper creased, pp. 47/8 nicked and spotted along fore edge, red ink annotations to rear free endpaper [Hubin p. 68] The author's first book, introducing his detective Roger Sheringham.
New Naturalists Numbers 124-134, signed editions comprising: Bird Populations; Owls; Brecon Beacons; Nature in Towns and Cities; Lakes, Loughs and Lochs; Alien Plants; Yorkshire Dales; Shallow Seas; Falcons; Slugs and Snails; Early Humans. London: William Collins, 2013-17. 11 volumes, first editions, each volume signed by the author(s) on the title-page except Shallow Seas, signed instead on laid-in publisher's slip specifying the limitation of ‘this signed edition’ to 100 copies, 8vo, original green cloth, pictorial dust jackets designed by Richard Gillmor. Together with Tim Bernhard and Timothy Loe, Collecting the New Naturalists, 2015, 2 copies, signed by the authors; and Peter Marren and Robert Gillmor, Art of the New Naturalists, 2009, signed by the authors (14)
[Vellum printing] Maitland Club Burgh Records of the City of Glasgow M.D.L.XXIII-M.D.LXXXI Glasgow: printed by Edward Khull [for the Maitland Club], 1832. First edition, printed on vellum, 4to, bound for presentation in red velvet (perhaps over wooden boards), spine lettered in gilt, arms of the city of Glasgow to spine and front board in gilt, brass clasp and catch, [8] xxiv 160 [2] pp.,, woodcut initials, 3 engraved plates, lithographic plate, contents almost entirely unopened, housed in contemporary straight-grain blue morocco pull-off case, binding slightly faded, rubbed and marked, title-page mottled and slightly finger-soiled, case rubbed and scuffed The Library of a Scottish Gentleman Annotated on front pastedown ‘1 copy only printed on vellum’, and with a laid-in typescript catalogue note reading ‘printed entirely upon vellum, and the only copy so made […]’.
Bible; English; Authorised Version The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues, with the Former diligently compared and revised, by his Majesties Speciall Commandement. Appointed to be read in Churches. Edinburgh: printed by the printers to the Kings most excellent Majestie, 1633. 8vo (16.9 x 10.6cm), pi2 A-2X8 2Y4 3A-3L8 3M4, contemporary Scottish binding of dark green morocco, rebacked and relined in the 19th century, arabesque centrepieces and spandrels gilt to covers, engraved frontispiece depicting the Fall (pi2), engraved title-page depicting Moses and Aaron (A1), pi1 (blank except for woodcut royal arms verso) bound before A2 (dedication to King James with list of books verso), letterpress title-page to New Testament with woodcut arms on verso (3A1), Book of Common Prayer (contemporary edition, lacking title-page) bound between general title-page (A1) and pi1, Whole Book of Psalmes (London: by G. M. for the Companie of Stationers, 1632, sigs. A-F8 G4) bound in at rear, bookplate of Christian D. Ginsburg to front pastedown, ownership inscriptions to initial blank, clasps and catches lacking, browning to head of frontispiece and general title, frontispiece with a few shallow nicks to head, general title with ownership inscription dated 1748 to top margin and a small white mark below, OT 2D7-8 with old repairs to fore margin, 2K8 with old repair to lower fore corner, Apocrypha (2O-2Y) with shorter margins, quires 2O-2P damp-stained with leaves 2O8-2P8 slightly extended in lower margins, a few other marks [Herbert 476] The Library of a Scottish Gentleman First edition of the King James Bible printed in Scotland.
Webber, John (1751/2-1793) [Views in the South Seas] London: J. Webber, No. 312 Oxford Street, 1788-92. 16 soft-ground etched plates with grey and sepia wash (sheet size 56.9 x 39cm, plate size 44.5 x 32.5cm), each signed ‘J. Webber’ in the plate, on wove paper watermarked J Whatman (without dates), most with tissue-guards, without text as issued [Beddie 1871; cf. Abbey Travel 595 & Beddie 1869-70 & 1872, Tooley 501]. Bound with an extensive set of the engraved plates from James Cook and James King, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, 1784. 65 in total (of 87), including folding general map (numbered 1), one other folding chart (36), Death of Cook plate (unnumbered), and plates numbered 4, 6-8, 10-11, 13-18, 20-23, 25-30, 31, 33, 35, 38-43, 45-52, 54, 56-58, 60-68, and 70-78, occasional spotting to margins, heavier and more widespread spotting to chart (36), Death of Cook plate and plate 78, plate 21 tissue-guard ripped, many tissue-guards adhering at points to verso of facing plate.Binding: contemporary red half morocco, spine lettered in gilt ('Prints to Cook & King's Voyage'), marbled sides, light wear to extremities Glasgow Philosophical Society (ink-stamp to verso of folding chart). The extremely rare true first edition of John Webber's spectacular suite of views from Cook's third and final voyage, apparently the only complete copy ever offered at auction, depicting scenes in New Zealand, Macao, Krakatoa, Kamchatka, Tahiti, Moorea, and Pulo Condore in what is now Vietnam.Webber was the official draughtsman on the voyage and issued these 16 views privately during the years leading up to his death. Whereas his drawings for Cook and King's Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, published in 1784, had been engraved by other artists, for Views in the South Seas he learnt the soft-ground etching process in order to make the plates himself. The work has consequently been identified as one of the first works in the now revered tradition of illustrated accounts of exotic lands by artists who were involved in every stage of the production process, exemplified by the Daniells' Oriental Scenery (1795-1814): these artists ‘saw the sights, drew the pictures and worked them up, then back in Europe carried out the processes of plate preparation, and supervised the printing and colouring. This elimination of all intermediaries gave these works immediacy and vastly improved accuracy' (Gerstle & Milner, eds., Recovering the Orient, 1994, pp. 118-19). In 1808 Webber's views were republished by Boydell with the addition of hand-colouring and text, and with Boydell's imprint on each plate.A copy of Webber's edition containing 15 of the 16 plates was offered at Christie's, 8 April 2009, and a set of 12 loose plates appeared at Sotheby's in 1960. The Abbey collection contained a copy of Boydell's edition only. Beddie's Bibliography of Captain James Cook (2nd ed., 1970) describes under catalogue number 1870 a copy containing ‘16 hand-coloured plates bound together … [showing] the same views as in the Boydell edition … arranged in a different order’.The views, here bound in a slightly different order from that of Boydell's edition, comprise:The Narta, or Sledge for Burdens in Kamtchatka. A Sailing Canoe of Otahaite. View in Queen Charlottes Sound, New Zealand. Waheiadooa, Chief of Oheitepeha, lying in State. A View in Oheitepeha Bay, in the Island of Otaheite. Boats of the Friendly Islands. View of the Harbour of Taloo, in the Island of Eimeo. A Toopapaoo of a Chief, with a Priest making his offering to the Morai, in Huoheine. The Resolution beating through the Ice, with the Discovery in the most eminent danger in the distance. Balagans or Summer Habitations, with the method of Drying Fish at St Peter & St Paul, Kamtschatka. A View in the Island of Pulo Condore. A View in the Island of Cracatoa. View in Macao. View in Macao, including the Residence of Camoens. The Plantain Tree, in the Island of Cracatoa. The Fan Palm, in the Island of Cracatoa.
Trollope, Anthony Collection of first editions all 8vo unless otherwise stated, comprising: The Warden. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. Contemporary tan half calf (spine-labels renewed), iv 336 pp.; Barchester Towers. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857. 3 volumes, later half calf by J. D. Kennedy of Hawick (spine-labels renewed), viii 305, iv 299, iv 321, volume 1 bound without half-title and advertisements, each volume inscribed ‘Roberton Library’ on title-page, associated contemporary shelfmarks in manuscript to front pastedowns and gilt-stamped to spines, variable light soiling to contents; The Three Clerks. London: Richard Bentley, 1858. 8vo in 12s, 3 volumes, modern half morocco, iv 340, iv 322, iv 334 pp., browning to corners of title-pages from turn-ins of an earlier binding, volume 2 sigs. K-L lower corners creased;and 5 others (these not collated), comprising The Last Chronicle of Barset, 1867 (2 volumes, modern half morocco), He Knew He Was Right, 1869 (2 volumes, later half roan, rebacked), Phineas Finn (2 volumes, modern half morocco), The Vicar of Bulhampton, 1870 (modern half morocco), and The Way We Live Now, 1875 (2 volumes, modern half morocco), together with a one-volume edition of Orley Farm, 1866 (original cloth, recased) (17)
Anderson, John Zoology of Egypt: Volume First. Reptilia and Batrachia London: Bernard Quartich, 1898. First edition, one of 100 copies, 4to, original green cloth, lithographic map, 7 halftone photographic plates, 52 lithographic plates numbered 1-50 (including 33a and 37a), nearly all in colours, severe water-damage to fore edges of covers, concomitant staining, fraying and softening to fore margins of outer text-leaves and to map and halftone plates, several lithographic plates with a little relating marking to fore margins, front inner hinge gone
[Fine binding - Mary Queen of Scots] Mary Stuart by John Skelton London: Boussod, Valadon, and Co., 1893. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 300 copies printed on japon and with the plates in duplicate, 4to (31.6 x 23.8cm), fine contemporary red crushed morocco by Maclehose of Glasgow, thistle and fleur-de-lis motifs gilt to spine compartments, covers richly gilt with elaborate overall design of stars, thistles, and Mary's crowned initial and facsimile signature, red morocco doublures, front doublure with gilt arms of Carrick Castle, Ayrshire, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, hand-coloured photogravure frontispiece, 23 photogravure plates (these all present in duplicate), 16 photogravure vignettes in text, tissue-guards The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
Byron, George Gordon Noel, Lord Childe Harold's Pilgrimage London: John Murray, 1812. Cantos I-II and Poems bound together, 4to (30 x 23cm, first edition with four errata lines on contents verso and “vengeance forego:” at line 11, p.97, engraved facsimile of a Romaic letter, publisher's catalogue leaf at rear, original boards with paper label to spine, some slight wear to boards and joints; [WITH] Canto the Third. London: John Murray, 1816. 8vo (22 x 14.5cm), first edition with exclamation mark at the end of line 1, p.4, original wrappers with red cloth spine, some foxing (2) The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
Scottish poetry Collection of works, 19th-century, finely bound Burns, Robert. Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. To which are added, Several other Pieces, not contained in any Former Edition of his Poems, and a Life of the Author. Glasgow: Chapman and Lang, 1801. First Glasgow edition, 12mo (16.9 x 9.8cm), c.1900 maroon half morocco, richly gilt spine, top edge gilt, xii 360 pp., engraved portrait frontispiece, folding aquatint plate; Dunbar, William. The Poems of William Dunbar, now first collected. With Notes, and a Memoir of his Life. By David Laing. Edinburgh: for Laing and Forbes, 1834. First collected edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, later red morocco by Maclehose of Glasgow; Tannahill, Robert. The Soldier's Return; a Scottish Interlude in Two Acts: with Other Poems and Songs, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Paisley: Stephen Young, 1807. First edition, small 8vo in half-sheets, 175 pp., 20th-century marbled calf by Zaehnsdorf; Laing, David (editor). Various Pieces of Fugitive Scotish [sic] Poetry; principally of the Seventeenth Century. Edinburgh: for W. & D. Laing, 1825-53. First edition, volume 1 one of 72 copies printed and inscribed ‘To William Motherwell Esqre, Paisley (from the Editor)' on the half-title (limitation of volume 2 not stated), 2 volumes, 8vo, 20th-century green crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, spines slightly faded; Idem. Early Metrical Tales; including the History of Sir Egeir, Sir Gryme, and Sir Gray-Steill. Edinburgh: for W. & D. Laing, 1826. First edition, 8vo, c.1900 red crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, top edge gilt, bottom edges untrimmed; Scott, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Scott from George Bannatyne's Manuscript compiled A.D. 1658. Glasgow: printed for private circulation, 1882. First edition, one of 50 copies only, 8vo, c.1900 red crushed morocco by Riviere & Son for Pickering & Co., spine richly gilt in compartments, French fillet frames gilt to covers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed(8) The Library of a Scottish Gentleman William Motherwell, recipient of this copy of Laing's Fugitive Scotish Poetry, was a Glasgow-born poet and editor who lived and worked chiefly in Paisley.
Beaugué, Jean de L'histoire de la guerre d'Escosse traitant comme le royaume fut assailly, et en gra[n]d' partie occupé par les Anglois, et depuis rendu paisible à sa reyne, et reduit en son ancient estate et dignité. Paris: for Estienne Groulleau, 1556. First edition, 8vo (14.8 x 9.1cm), 119 ff., a-p8 (-p8, probably blank), c.1900 mottled calf gilt by Riviere & Son, woodcut initials throughout [Adams B413] The Library of a Scottish Gentleman An uncommon account of the Rough Wooing by a French eyewitness. The work was published with the imprints of different booksellers on the title-page: the copy cited by Adams has that of Gilles Corrozet.
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