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[HOLBEIN, HANS (1497-1543) AND] HOLLAR, WENCESLAUS (1607-1677). MORTALIUM NOBILITAS. [ANTWERP:] 1651. 30 ENGRAVED PLATES WITH BIBLICAL MOTTOS IN LATIN AS CAPTIONS (C.75 X 55MM TO PLATE MARK) WITHIN ENGRAVED BORDERS (114 X 88MM TO PLATE MARK) BY HOLLAR AFTER HOLBEIN (THE PLATES) AND DIEPENBEEK (THE BORDERS), EACH TIPPED, ONE PER LEAF, IN A MODERN ALBUM (250 X 161MM). (WITHOUT THE TITLE, OCCASIONAL LIGHT SPOTTING.) MODERN QUARTER MOROCCO, FLAT SPINE TITLED IN GILT. THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF HOLLAR'S VERSION OF HOLBEIN. The series is among the most enduring of all renditions of the medieval 'Dance of Death'. Holbein's designs reflect a newly-humanistic conception of death, depicting with realism its arrival into domestic and everyday settings. This celebrated and much reproduced series of copper-plates was made in the years of Hollar's exile in Antwerp (1645-1650). Pennington 233-262. View on Christie's.com
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FRANCOLIN, Hans von (1520-86). Thurnier Buech Warhafftiger Ritterlicher Thaten, so in dem Monat Junii des vergangnen LX. Jars in und ausserhalb der Statt Wienn zu Rosz und zu fuesz, auff Wasser und Lannd gehalten worden. Vienna: Raphael Skrzetusky, called Hoffhalter, for the author, [1560-61]. 2° (289 x 191mm). Collation: A6; B-N4 (N4 blank), O-P4 Q2, R-X4, x2, Y-Z4; 7 large folded etched plates, including two by Hanns Lautensack (at G4 and N4), one attributed to Francesco Terzi (at H2), one by the monogrammist FA (at I3), one attributed to Giovanni Guerra (at Q2), one unsigned (at X3) and one attributed to Johann Thwenger. Gothic type. Title printed in red and black surrounded by a border of 10 armorial woodcuts, full-page woodcut portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I by Donat Hübschmann on verso, large emblematic etching by Johann Schlutpacher de Rauris (A6v), full-page woodcut by Hanns Lautensack of the standard-bearer Heinrich the younger, Burgrave of Meissen (E1r), 45 woodcut coat-of-arms in quire x, on Z1r woodcut device incorporating the arms of the printer, a Polish nobleman. (Stain on title and final leaf with colophon, sheet A1.6 somewhat browned, one sheet and one plate detached, short tear in fold of 4 plates, 3 plates just shaved on one side.) Contemporary limp vellum (small hole in spine, ties missing, a second book removed from the binding). Provenance: green library stamp on title (unidentified) -- Lathrop Harper (sold in 1955 to:) -- Paul and Marianne Gourary. FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN of the finest early printed book on tournaments. It describes in detail and spectacularly illustrates the tournaments, staged battles (including an elaborate naval scene), balls and banquets, held at Vienna to honour the visit of Albrecht V Duke of Bavaria (1528-79), son-in-law of Emperor Ferdinand I and brother-in-law of King Maximilian of Bohemia (from 1564 Emperor Maximilian II). According to Graesse (II, 629), the Latin edition of the same year has different illustrations, which he describes as 'moins bonnes', and the same is true for Feyerabend's Frankfurt edition appended to Rüxner's Thurnier Buch (1566). The author served as Herald to John II Sigismund, King of Hungary. In complete condition with the full complement of etched plates, the book is OF THE GREATEST RARITY; both Ruggieri copies were imperfect and Bartsch describes only three of the etchings. FINE IMPRESSIONS. Brunet Supplement II: 767; Mayer, Wiens Buchdruckergeschichte I, 88-89 ('Pearl of all the books printed in Vienna'); Ruggieri 827; Watanabe 21. View on Christie's.com
HOWARD, Ebenezer (1850-1928). To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd., 1898. 8° (187 x 125mm). 7 chromolithographs. (Dampstain on the top and foredge and a very few margins.) Publisher's original red cloth, upper side lettered in black, spine lettered in gilt (spine sunned, sides and endpapers dampstained). Provenance: Miss Brown Smith (presentation inscription from the author). FIRST EDITION. A PRESENTATION COPY of this rare Printing and the Mind of Man title: the founding document of the Garden City movement, which established 'Town and Country Planning as a universally recognized obligation of government in the civilized world' (PMM). Inscribed by the author: 'To Miss Brown Smith, with the best wishes of the author, who has a very pleasant recollection of your interest in his project long before it had reached its present stage, & with his earnest hope that you may feel his aims are worthy of your best efforts being directed to their practical realisation. E. Howard Oct. 4 1898'. ABPC records only one copy selling at auction in 35 years. PMM 387. View on Christie's.com
ANTONINUS FLORENTINUS (1389-1459). Confessionale: 'Defecerunt scrutantes scrtinio'. -Titulus de restitutionibus. Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 1474. Median 4° (234 x 169mm). Gothic type. Contemporary Italian illuminated initial and white-vine border on first leaf, blank shield in lower margin, initials and paragraph marks in red and blue, red capital strokes. (Decoration slightly rubbed, occasional small wormhole or marginal wormtrack, occasional light spotting or staining.) Contemporary Italian blindtooled calf over thin inner-bevelled boards, possibly Urbino [de Marinis 950, central tool of little stars], panelled with foliate tool border and stars at centre (rear cover with old repair, a little scuffed, some wear at spine, without clasps). Provenance: an unidentified cardinal (ink-stamps in lower margin) -- Cary W. Bok, March 1928 (inscription) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 9). St. Antoninus, Archbishop of Florence, composed 3 different texts on confession which are differentiated by their incipits. The present text discusses the powers of the confessor, the seven deadly sins, the manner of interrogating people of different status, and absolution and imposition of penance. H *1177; GW 2104; BMC V, 225; Bod-inc A-326; BSB-Ink A-576; Goff A-798. View on Christie's.com
ALBUMASAR (787-886). De magnis coniunctionibus. Edited by Johannes Angelus, translated by Johannes Hispalensis. Augsburg: Erhart Ratdolt, 31 March 1489. Chancery 4° (205 x 152mm). Gothic type, 286 woodcuts, some repeated, ornamental initials. (Small hole in lower margin of final leaf). 19th-cenutry red morocco gilt by Trautz-Bauzonnet, 'YY' monogram within oval on front cover, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed, a few light scuff marks on front cover). Provenance: NICHOLAS YEMENIZ (1783-1871, bibliophile; binding, book-label, Catalogue de la Bibliothèque de M. N. Yemeniz, no. 968) -- engraved bookplate with motto 'Tout Passe Le Livre Reste' (on pastedown) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 4). THE YEMENIZ COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Albumasar was the leading astrologer of his day, and he presents here his thesis of creation based on the alignment of the seven planets. HC *611; GW 836; BMC II, 383; BSB-Ink A-226; Bod-inc A-153; Schreiber 3072; Houzeau & Lancaster 3819; Fairfax Murray German 26; Klebs 39.1; Goff A-360; . View on Christie's.com
ANTONIUS DE VERCELLIS (d.1483). Sermones quadragesimales de xii mirabilibus Christianae fidei excellentiis, with additions by Ludovicus Brognolo. Venice: Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis de Forlivio [for Alexander Cacedonius], 16 February 1492/93. Super-chancery 4° (209 x 158mm). Gothic type, incipit printed in red, printer's device on G8v, printed guide-letters, rubricated. (Title lightly waterstained and with small hole, some mainly marginal staining or spotting, a few leaves browned.) 19th-century sheep-backed boards (spine wormed amd a little rubbed). Provenance: 'Fratris Hieronimi de bononia' (early inscription at end) -- early inscriptions deleted from title; early marginal annotations -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 10). FIRST EDITION. H *15949; GW 2260; BMC V 343; Bod-inc A-357; BSB-Ink A-644; Goff A-918. View on Christie's.com
AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (St., 354-430). De civitate Dei. Commentary by Thomas Waleys and Nicolaus Trivet. Basel: Johann Amerbach, 13 February 1489. [Bound with:] AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius. De trinitate Dei. Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1489. Two works in one volume, super-chancery 2° (305 x 205mm). De civitate: Gothic types. Opening major initials in blue, red and green decoration, minor initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red. De trinitate: Gothic and Greek types. Rubricated. (De Civitate with title-page in facsimile (with large woodcut), some soiling and repairs to first and last leaves, an occasional light stain.) 20th-century tan morocco-backed vellum boards by G.P. Gray and Co, Cambridge, spine lettered (lightly soiled). Provenance: a few marginal annotations in an early hand -- Henry Bellingham (d. ?1650, inscription on a2r) -- Philip Worsley Wood, 1913 (bookplate)- - André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 12). THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL WORK by St Augustine of Hippo, composed shortly after the sacking of Rome by the Visigoths in 410. HC 2064 and 2037; GW 2887 and 2926; BMC III 751; BSB-Ink A-861 and A-877; Bod-inc A-529; Goff A1243 and A1343. View on Christie's.com
AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (St., 354-430). De civitate Dei. Commentary by Thomas Waleys and Nicolaus Trivet. Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus], for Octavianus Scotus, 18 February 1489/90. Super-chancery 2° (309 x 213mm). Gothic types, full-page woodcut on A1v, publisher's device at end. (Light spotting, occasional worming.) 17th-century vellum over flexible pasteboard, blue edges, later manuscript title on spine (a little rubbed and stained). Provenance: Joannes Zurlus, April 1528 and Ch[ristophorus] Stephanus, 1537 (deleted inscription on A2r) -- newspaper cutting from Il Corriere del Mattino dated 1879 reporting book news (front pastedown) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 13). The full-page woodcut is the first known work attributable to the Master of Haintz-Narr, considered by Winkler to be the best woodcut artist in Basel before Dürer (F. Winkler, Dürer, 1951). HC 2065; GW 2889; BMC V 437; BSB-Ink A-862; Bod-inc A-531; Goff A-1245. View on Christie's.com
AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (St., 354-430). Opus quaestionum. Edited by Augustinus de Ratisbona and Jodocus Badius Ascensius. Lyons: Johannes Trechsel, 25 April 1497. Chancery 2° (280 x 200mm). 283 leaves (of 286, Ff1 and Ff2 supplied in facsimile, without final blank). Gothic types. Initial spaces with printed guide-letters, printer's device on Pp9v. (Some marginal dampstaining.) 16th-century calf over wooden boards tooled in blind with foliate and floral roll-tools, possibly British, brass catches and clasps, old spine label (extremities lightly rubbed, rebacked preserving some of the original backstrip). Provenance: Boies Penrose II (bookplate) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 14). RARE FIRST EDITION of this important text by St Augustine of Hippo and THE ONLY EDITION PRINTED BEFORE 1500. HC *1965; GW 2915; BMC VIII, 301; BSB-Ink A-894; CIBN A-711; Goff A-1297. View on Christie's.com
BAPTISTA MANTUANUS (1447-1516). Parthenice prima, sive Mariana. -Ad beatam Virginem votum post febrim acerrimam. Deventer: Richardus Pafraet, 10 February 1492. Chancery 4° (209 x 140mm). Gothic types. Opening 6-line initial in red and blue with penwork decoration and extensions, other initials in red or blue, red capital strokes. (Title in facsimile, bottom margin of final leaf replaced.) Early 20th-century brown morocco, gilt lettering on spine. Provenance: some contemporary marginal annotations -- George Dunn, Woolley Hall (1865-1912, bookplate) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 18). Third edition of an important work, printed by the FIRST PRINTER in Deventer. It was the first in a series of seven hagiographic epic poems in which the Italian Carmelite poet celebrated the lives of Mary, Catherine of Alexandria and other Roman Catholic saints. Not in BSB. HC 2635; GW 3278; BMC IX 55; IDL 650; CIBN B-44; Goff B-59. View on Christie's.com
BANDELLUS DE CASTRONOVO, Vincentius (1435-1506). Libellus recollectorius auctoritatum de veritate conceptionis beatae virginis Mariae. Milan: Christophorus Valdarfer, 1475. Median 4° (221 x 161mm). Gothic types. Opening 12-line initial in azure, other spaces blank. (Occasional light marginal staining.) Early 20th-century brown calf. Provenance: a few early marginal annotations -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 17). FIRST EDITION. 'The author's name is not given in the book, which has also been ascribed to Jacobus de Susato (Soest), but it is shown to be Bandello's work by the réchauffé dedicated by him to the Duke of Ferrara under the title De singulari puritate et praerogatiua conceptionis Saluatoris nostri and first printed by Rugerius at Bologna in 1481' (BMC). The author, a professor of theology and, in 1501, general of the Dominican order, was one of the century's most violent opponents of the Immaculate Conception. His opposition was brought to an end by Sixtus IV's bull of 1483. H *2352; GW 3237; BMC VI, 726; BSB-Ink B-33; Bod-inc B-022; Goff B-48. View on Christie's.com
BAYSIO, Guido de (d. 1313). Rosarium decretorum. Edited by Petrus Albinianus Trecius, with additions by Paulus Pisanus. Venice: Reynaldus de Novimagio, 12 December 1480. Royal 2° (399 x 263mm). Gothic types, double column. Initials opening each 'causa' in interlocking red and blue, other initials in red or blue, printed and MS headlines, MS guide-letters. (Small wormholes in first 2 quires and last quires, without final blank, some printed headlines shaved, a little light spotting.) Late 16th/early 17th-century German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, sides panelled with rolls, arms of the monastery of St. Michael's, Metten (possibly Abbot Johann Nablas, 1595-1628) on front cover, St. Michael and the dragon in medallion on rear cover, two fore-edge clasps, red edges (lightly rubbed, short tear at spine foot). Provenance: Metten, Bavaria, Benedictine abbey of St. Michael (17th-century inscription, binding) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer, 2003, no. 68). Fourth edition, the first edited by Trecius, who advertises the greater correctness of the edition in his preface. HC *2716; GW 3746; BMC V, 256; BSB-Ink B-247; Goff B-287. View on Christie's.com
BIBLIA LATINA. Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 31 May 1480. Chancery 4° (207 x 144mm). Gothic types. Opening initial in green with red penwork decoration, other initials in red or blue, MS guide-letters. (Without first blank, some staining, neat tear into text in I5, last leaf repaired on verso with loss of a few letters, blue initials sometimes washed out.) 19th-century half burgundy morocco, gilt edges (lightly rubbed). Provenance: early marginal annotations (sometimes trimmed or washed) -- Jesuit house "Pauperes Evangelizantur" stamp) -- [?Robert Van Biesebroeck (1923-2001, Bruges collector, cf. De Gulden Passer, p. 20) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 27). Rare on the market; no copy of this edition has been sold at auction in over 35 years. HC *3080; GW 4245; BMC V, 276; BSB-Ink B-441; Bod-inc B-279; Goff B-570. View on Christie's.com
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375). Genealogiae deorum. -De montibus silvis, fontibus. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 1494/95. Super-chancery 2° (290 x 190mm). Roman type. 13 full-page woodcut genealogical trees opening the first 13 books, woodcut initials, publisher's device at end. (Corners repaired with text loss of 8 lines on verso of leaf a1 and with loss of a few words from leaf a2 to a7, closed worm track in upper margin of first 10 leaves, a few small wormholes and light waterstaining, some marginal, some woodcuts shaved.) Late 18th-century calf (upper spine repaired retaining part of old spine, a few small wormholes, rubbed, corners bumped, front joint cracked). Provenance: contemporary marginal annotations, Biblioteca Corsinia Vetus (stamp on title verso). Fourth edition of the full text, and the first to contain the full-page woodcut diagrams illustrating the genealogy of the pagan gods. The woodcuts were next used in a 1497 reprint by Manfredus de Bonellis. HC *3321; GW 4478; BMC V, 444 (IB. 22904); BSB-Ink B-586; Klebs 190.3; Essling 799; Sander 1077; Goff B-753. View on Christie's.com
CAESAR, Gaius Julius (100-44 B.C). Commentarii . Edited by Hieronymous Bononius (1454-1517). - RAIMUNDUS MARLIANUS (ca. 1420-1475). Index Commentariorum C. Julii Caesaris. Venice: Theodorus de Ragazonibus, 13 July 1490. Chancery 2° (289 x 194mm). Roman type. First text page with Arese armorial in lower margin and possibly later illuminated initial, one other later decorated initial, other spaces filled with later pen initial. (Without first blank, lower margin of a2 renewed, retaining coat-of-arms, some light spotting and browning.) Modern vellum, lettered on spine. Provenance: Arese family, Milan nobility (coat-of-arms); early marginal annotations -- Honoratus [--] (inscription dated 1621 pasted over on first leaf) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 38. Third edition edited by Girolamo Bologni of Julius Caesar's commentary on the Gallic and Civil Wars. De Bello Gallico is his first-hand account of the battle of the Romans against the Gauls; its final chapter describes events after the war and was written by Aulus Hirtius. The De Bello Civili covers the period 49 to 48 B.C., from Caesar's invasion of Italy to Pompey's defeat at the Battle of Pharsalus. It continues with an account on the Alexandrian, African and Hispanic wars, believed to have been written by Aulus Hirtius and Gaius Oppius. HC *4219; GW 5870; BMC V 477; BSB-Ink C-29; Bod-inc C-011; CIBN C-11; Goff C-23. View on Christie's.com
AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (Saint, 354-430). De civitate Dei, in Italian: De la cita d'dio. [Venice?: Antonio di Bartolommeo da Bologna (Miscomini), c. 1476-78]. Chancery 2° (241 x 163mm). Roman type, double column. Red initials added later, early foliation. (Without first and final blank leaf, quire q misbound after h, some spotting, occasional small stain.) Modern calf, red leather spine label, earlier blue edges. Provenance: Theodore Low DeVinne (1828-1914; bookplate) -- Imrie de Vegh (gifted to:) -- Harvard College Library (bookplate; deaccession stamp). FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN. It was previously owned by Theodore Low DeVinne, innovative printer at New York City, scholar of typography, and founding member of the Grolier Club. HC *2071; GW 2892; BMC VII, 1136; BSB-Ink A-865; CIBN A-691; Bod-inc A-534; Goff A-1248. View on Christie's.com
LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-1695). Contes et nouvelles en vers. Amsterdam: 1764. 2 vols, 8° (181 x 113mm). 80 engraved plates after Eisen, sixty culs-de-lampe. (A few text leaves lightly browned.) Contemporary olive-green morocco gilt, sides with floral border, morocco labels, gilt edges (light minor rubbing to sides, and a few tiny wormholes to spines). Provenance: Fermor-Hesketh Library at Easton Neston (bookplate and case label in each volume). First pirated edition of this masterpiece of rococo book illustration. Printed just two years after the luxurious limited edition commissioned by the Fermiers Généraux, this edition presents the celebrated series of engravings after Eisen. Brunet III: 760; Cohen-de Ricci 571; Graesse IV: 75. (2) View on Christie's.com
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LUYKEN, Jan. Icones Biblicae Veteris et N.Testamenti. Amsterdam: J. Covens & C. Mortier, [c.1729]. Oblong 2° (430 x 497mm). Engraved title, 11 engraved maps and plans, 61 double-page engraved plates (of 62, lacking plate 5). (All leaves with central vertical fold crease, very light spotting and browning.) Late 19th-century half vellum over marbled boards (extremities lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION OF THE EARLIEST STATE ISSUED ON LARGE PAPER. Contains a world map depicting California as an island. Brunet III: 1245. View on Christie's.com
OVID (43 B.C.-?17 A.D.). Metamorphosis, translated by George Sandys (1578-1644). London: William Standsby, 1626. 2° (255 x 158mm). Engraved title and portrait. (First gathering, including title and portrait, crudely re-margined, light waterstaining at beginning and end, small wormtrack in upper gutter, lightly spotted or soiled.) Contemporary calf, gilt Harbourne armorial on sides (rubbed and a little scuffed, new endpapers). Provenance: [John] Harbourne, Tackley, Oxon (High Sheriff of Oxfordshire 1632; binding) -- George Sandys (pencil inscription at end dated 1673) -- John Y. Sandys (inscription at front dated October 5th, 1844; bookplate) -- Peter Cary (inscription on endpaper, dated 1944). With the second English edition of Publius Papinus Statius' The Thebaid of Statius (2 vols, London: 1773). (3) View on Christie's.com
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PAMPHLETS -- [HEAD, Richard (?1637-1686)]. O-Brazile, or the inchanted Island being a perfect relation of the late discovery and wonderful dis-inchantement of an island on the north of Ireland: with an account of the riches and commodities thereof. Edinburgh: re-printed 1675. 8pp. (Upper margin closely shaved, lightly soiled.) A RARE WORK describing an imaginary island off the cost of Ulster. This is the second edition, known in only 2 other copies (BL and NLS); the first and third editions, also printed in 1675, are also rare and no copy of any edition has sold at auction in over 35 years. The work is dated and pseudonymously signed by Richard Head: Londonderry, March 14. 1674. Wing H1270. Bound with 10 other pamphlets, including: BURNET, Gilbert, 1643-1715. Letter written upon the discovery of the late plot. London, 1678. Wing B5825. -- BURNET, Gilbert. The Unreasonableness and Impiety of Popery: in a second letter written upon the discovery of the late plot. London, 1678. Wing B5935. -- BURNET, Gilbert. A Relation of the Barbarous and Bloody Massacre of about an hundred thousand Protestants, begun at Paris, and carried on over all France by the papists, in the year 1572. London 1678. Wing R814. -- USSHER, James (1581-1656). Strange and remarkable prophefies and predictions of the holy, learned and excellent James Usher. Licensed, November the 16th. Printed 1681. Wing U226. -- [?HUBERT, William] The Puritan Convert or, a discourse by the way of a letter. 1676. Half-title. Wing H3246A. -- BOLDE, Samuel (1649-1737). A Sermon against persecution and the time when the brief for the persecuted protestants in France, was read in the parish church. London, 1682. Fourth edition. Wing B3491. -- [?PEARSON, Anthony] Of Tything amongst the Iewes, 37pp., added before is a manuscript page: 'Anthonie Pe[a]rson's Booke against Tithes who turning Quaker afterward turned so carnall as I was certainly informed that he died in agonies of conscience.' -- BRITTEN, William (d.1669). Silent Meeting, a wonder to the world; yet practised by the apostles and owned by the people of god, scornfully called Quakers. London, 1660. Wing B4825. -- [SMITH, William (d.1673)]. An Holy Kiss of Peace, sent from the Seed of Life. London,1660. Drop-head title. Wing S4307. 11 pamphlets in one volume, 4° (183 x 142mm). (Some browning and soiling.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, quite rubbed). Provenance: 2-page manuscript letter by ?T. Cuthur to T. Hodgkin (tipped-in on front endpaper, dated Newcastle, 23 August 96, explaining that Mr Cuthur is giving this book to T. Hodgkin as a thank you because Mr Hodgkin helped him financially sometime back) -- Thomas Hodgkin (bookplate). View on Christie's.com
PLAYS -- A collection of 9 plays in one volume, all but one 17th-century. 4° (200 x 150mm). Comprising: [DEFOE, Daniel (1661?-1731)]. The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr. [London?]: [s.n.], 1701. (Marginal tear to a1, hole with text loss to a2, lower inner gutter of gathering C creased). Foxon D159. -- D'URFEY, Thomas (1653-1723). Gloriana. A Funeral Pindarique Poem. London: Samuel Briscoe, 1695. Kress, S.1805; Wing D2730. -- Diluvium Lachrymarum. A Review of the Fortunate and Unfortunate Adventurers. London: Randal Taylor, 1694. Wing D1492. -- SHIPPEN, William (1673-1743). Faction Display'd. A Poem. London: [s.n.], 1704. Foxon S430. -- HOBBES, Thomas (1588-1679). Ad Nobilissimum Dominum Gulielmum Comitem Devoniae. London: Gulielmo Crook, 1675. (lacking first leaf A1 and blank leaf C4, margins closely shaved affecting shoulder notes and occasionally headlines). Wing H2223. -- DENHAM, John, Sir, (1615-1669). Coopers Hill. London: Humphrey Moseley, 1655. (Lacking blank leaf D2, light waterstaining). Wing D996. BUCKINGHAM, John Sheffield, Duke of, (1648-1720 or 21). An Essay upon Poetry. London: Joseph Hindmarsh, 1682. (Staining and soiling to title page, two marginal tears without any text loss to A2, staining to C3 and C4). Wing B5339. -- DILKE, Mr. [Thomas] (d. ca. 1698). XXV Select Allusions, to Several Places of Horace, Martial, Anacreon, and Petron. Arbitr [Part I, all published]. London: Peter Buck, 1698. (Marginal tear to D4, browned). Wing D1480. -- The Regular Physician. London: Powell, 1715. Foxon R152. (Occasional minor spotting, browning and staining throughout, very occasional worm holes.) Contemporary brown calf (front cover and spine detached, worn, front endpaper almost detached, back endpaper trimmed in half). Provenance: Madame Roloffs, Guernsey (ink ownership inscription on endpaper) -- Robert Bradery (ink ownership inscription on first work). View on Christie's.com
PANTALEON, Heinrich (1522-1595). Militaris Ordinis Iohannitarum, Rhodiorum, aut Melitensium Equitum, rerum memorabilium... Historia nova. Basel: [Thomas Guarinus], 1581. 2° (330 x 200mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut illustrations throughout, including maps, views and portraits, some full-page. (Light browning, faint dampstain in the last few gatherings, a few short marginal tears, occasional spotting.) Near-contemporary vellum, spine lettered in manuscript (some soiling, one turn-in lifting). Provenance: Theological Institute of Connecticut (blindstamps). FIRST EDITION of Pantaleon's history of the Christian orders and their deeds against Turks, Arabs, and others in various theatres. The woodcuts include views of Jerusalem, Tyre, and Damascus, maps of the Holy Land, Cyprus, the Nile delta, Greece, and the Balkans, and plans of Constantinople and other cities. Not in Atabey. Adams P-178. View on Christie's.com
PLAUTUS, Titus Maccius (254?-184 B.C.). Comoediae. Edited, with commentary, by Joannes Baptista Pius. Milan: Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 18 January 1500. Chancery 2° (304 x 215mm). Roman and some Greek type, initial spaces with guide-letter, 3 lines printed in red at head of AA2r. (Lacks first leaf.) Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, clasps (extremities lightly rubbed, lower cover with score marks). Provenance: dense ink annotation throughout in an early hand -- early purchase inscription dated 1516 ('Emptus e ?Lencorii' dated 1516 in red ink at end) -- Erhardius Erlingo -- (inscription on front pastedown) Nicolaus Roth (inscription dated 1596 at front) -- two leaves of ?19th-century mss. inserted onto m1r. HC *13084; BMC VI, 775; BSB-Ink P-577; Goff P-785. View on Christie's.com
[POOR LAW] . Remarks upon the Resolutions of House of Commons, with respect to the Poor, Vagrants and Houses of Correction, by a Justice of the Peace within the county of York. London: for Wm. Nicoll, 1775. 8° (185 x120mm.) Half-title conjoint with final blank leaf. (Slightly soiled.) Stitched as issued (small tears in spine). WITH TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS FROM HENRY ZOUCH (1724/5-1795), vicar of Sandal, the first 12 December 1775 sending the pamphlet to an unnamed correspondent, 1p., 8°; the second 5 January 1776, 4pp., 4°, discussing the contents of the bill. Kress 7158; ESTC T169063 locates three copies. View on Christie's.com
OSBORNE, Thomas. A Catalogue of the Libraries of that Learned Antiquarian Edmund Sawyer ... and of several other eminent gentlemen. [London: 1759]. 8°. (Occasional light waterstaining.) Contemporary floral boards (most paper worn from spine, lightly rubbed); archival card case. Edmund Sawyer (after 1687-1759) was a lawyer of the Inner Temple and in 1719 was admitted member of Lincoln's Inn. The catalogue includes large-paper copies, attractive bindings, literature, arts and science. ESTC T150851; no copy in the Grolier Club. OSBORNE, T. The first Volume of a Catalogue of the Libraries of the Rev. Mr. Dongworth ... Dr. Green ... Henry Anderson. Consisting of near one hundred thousand volumes. [London: 1762]. 8°. Contemporary floral boards (paper on spine mostly worn, lightly rubbed); archival card case. Provenance: 'At Bawdsey 9 Jan. 1762' (inscription opposite title). Contains amongst others prints, books on prints and manuscripts in all languages, arts and sciences. ESTC 216158; no copy in the Grolier Club. View on Christie's.com
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OSBORNE, Thomas. The First Volume [volume II: A Second Part] of a Catalogue for the Year 1763. Consisting of the Libraries of the Rev. Dr. Philip Bearcroft ... Dr. Thomas Morton ... Dr. Moss ... Dr. Charles Feake ... Dr. Richard Conyers ... John Twisleton ... Walter Birmingham. [London: 1762-63]. 2 vols, 8°. Contemporary floral boards, printed label pasted on front cover of vol.II (paper mostly worn from spines, lightly rubbed). Contains amongst others, books belonging to the Bishop of Durham, Thomas Morton (1564-1659) and Philip Bearcroft (1695-1761), antiquary and Church of England clergyman. The books include 'a near complete set of common law; among which are a Set of private Acts, very scarce'. ESTC T152772; no copies in the Grolier Club. OSBORNE, T. A Catalogue for the Year 1764, of the Libraries of the Rev. Mr. Wood ... Dr. Umfrevile ... Peter Davall ... Wiliam Bussiere. [London: 1764] 8°. Contemporary floral boards (paper worn from spine); archival card case. Provenance: 'Bawdsey the 10th of Feb.ry 1764' (inscription opposite title). Includes a 'capital collection of Prints and Books on Prints ... a noble collection of antient manuscripts on vellum ... with near a complete collection of common law'. ESTC N14604; no copy in the Grolier Club. (3) View on Christie's.com
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[SONGBOOK] -- BREDERODE, Gerbrand Adriaensz (1585-1618). Boertigh, Amoreus, en Aendachtigh Groot Lied-boeck. Amsterdam: Cornelis Lodowijcksz: vander Plasse, 1622. 3 parts in one volume, oblong 8° (150 x 195mm). General title, additional engraved title, each part with separate title, engraved portrait of the author by Hessel Gerritsz, 20 engraved illustrations, including 3 full-page and 17 half-page, by Jan van de Velde and Michel le Blon, 2 full-page calligraphic woodcuts. (Closed long tear in M1, inner margin of general and engraved title strenghtened, occasional light spotting, very light offsetting from plates). 19th-century vellum (new endpapers). Provenance: G.S. Overdiep (bookplate). FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of the famous Groot Lied-boeck, a collection of poems, mostly love and wedding songs. The beautiful illustrations depict scenes of love and courtship. 10 of the engravings are by Jan van de Velde the younger (1587-1658) and 3 by Michel le Blon (1593-1641). View on Christie's.com
![[SONGBOOK] -- Amsterdamsche Pegasus, waer in (uyt lust) be een nergadert zijn, deel Minnelijcke Liedekens.... Amsterdam: P.A.](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387128e_468x382.jpg)
[SONGBOOK] -- Amsterdamsche Pegasus, waer in (uyt lust) be een nergadert zijn, deel Minnelijcke Liedekens.... Amsterdam: P.A. van Ravesteyn for Cornelis Willemsz Blaeu-Laken, 1627. Oblong 4° (154 x 191mm). Additional engraved title, 10 engraved illustrations by Jan van de Velde the younger, musical scores in the text (small hole in lower margin from C1 to end repaired, light waterstaining towards the end, lightly browned, margins lightly dust-soiled). Contemporary vellum (front inner hinge starting to crack, lacking ties, lightly soiled). Provenance: Jacob Rocher (contemporary inscription in Latin on front free endpaper, dated 24 July 1635) -- The Royal Society, London (2 stamps on verso of printed title and one on lower margin of final leaf of text). FIRST EDITION, of this collection of Dutch rural and pastoral songs. They are accompanied by 10 engravings by Jan van de Velde (1593-c.1641) who is well known for his landscapes drawn from nature. His naturalistic detail and simple composition influenced other artists, including Rembrandt. Brunet I, 248. View on Christie's.com
[SONGBOOK] -- CAMPHUYSEN, Dirk Raphaelsz (1586-1627). Stichelycke Rymen, om te lesen ofte singhen. Amsterdam: Jacob Colom, 1647. Oblong 4° (144 x 196mm). Folding engraved portrait of the author by S. Savey, 60 engraved illustrations, including one tipped-in between Q4 and R1, large historiated woodcut initials, musical scores. (Small part of inner margin of portrait torn away with slight loss of image, lower corner of C4 torn away, small hole in Oo4 affecting one or two letters over 3 lines, a few short marginal tears, light marginal finger-soiling, stronger soiling on Rr2v and Rr3r). Contemporary mottled calf, gilt border on sides and central gilt lozenge (skilfully rebacked with old spine relaid, upper corners repaired, rubbed). Provenance: G.S Overdiep (bookplate). FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION of this celebrated Dutch songbook. Each illustration is accompanied by a four-line poem beneath. Parts one and two include musical scores for every poem. First published in 1624, this book went through several editions in the 17th century. Praz p.35 (calls for only 58 illustrations). View on Christie's.com
![SURTEES, Robert Smith (1805-1864).] Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities ... second edition. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1843. 8° (2](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387132e_468x382.jpg)
SURTEES, Robert Smith (1805-1864).] Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities ... second edition. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1843. 8° (212 x 134mm). Hand-coloured etched frontispiece, additional title, and 13 plates by Henry Alken. (Occasional light spotting.) Original green cloth gilt, gilt edges (extremities a little rubbed, covers with light marks). FIRST EDITION WITH ALKEN'S COLOURED PLATES. Described as the second edition but actually the third, following those of 1838 and 1839. Schwerdt II, p.236; Tooley 471. [JOHNSTONE, Charles (?1719-1800).] Chrysal: or, the Adventures of a Guinea. A new edition. London: J. Watson, 1821. 3 vols., 8° (210 x 128mm). Half-titles, 15 hand-coloured plates. (Text block slightly loose.) Contemporary green morocco gilt, gilt spines, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed). (4) View on Christie's.com
TASSO, Torquato (1544-95). La Gierusalemme liberata, commentary by S. Gentili and G. Guastavini. Genoa: Girolamo Bertoli, 1590. 4° (262 x 183mm). Engraved title and 20 full-page illustrations after Bernardo Castello by Giacomo Franco and Agostino Carracci. (Title soiled and laid down, some spotting, soiling and browning throughout). Contemporary calf (front cover detached, lacking spine, worn). FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, first edition with the commentary of Gentili and Guastavini. Adams T243; Harvard Italian 494. View on Christie's.com
TASSO, Torquato (1544-95). Il Messaggiero dialogo - Discorso della virtú heroica et della charita - Discorso della virtú feminile e donnesca --Il Gonzaga Secondo. Venice: Bernardo Giunta, 1582. 4 works in one volume [?]as issued, 4° (203 x 140mm), titles with woodcut arms. (Old repair to margin of first title and following preliminary, closed tear along one leaf, last leaf of third work torn through, some mainly marginal waterstaining and spotting, some corners creased.) Contemporary limp vellum (worn and crinkled). FIRST EDITION of a little known series of treaties and dialogues by Tasso. Il Messaggiero dialogo was written in 1580 and published without the author's permission in 1582, one year after the publication of Jerusalem Delivered. Dedicated to Vincenzo Gonzaga, duke of Mantova, it is bound with Il Gonzaga Secondo, a dialogue on games, chess and gambling with Giulio Cesare Gonzaga. Graesse VI, p. 39. View on Christie's.com
TURKEY -- WOLF, Hieronymus (ed.). Historia Rerum in Oriente Gestarum ab exordio mundi et orbe condito ad nostra haec usque tempora. Frankfurt: Sigismund Feyrabend, 1587. 2° (347 x 229mm). Woodcut device on the title and colophon, arms of Nidhard Thungen on the dedication leaf (occasional minor spotting, occasional faint marginal dampstain.) Near contemporary vellum, spine lettered in manuscript (light soiling). Provenance: William H. Morley (1815-1860, title-stamps, inscriptions) -- Theological Institute of Connecticut (blindstamps, shelf label on the spine). FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of this important compilation of early sources on Turkey and the Islamic world, including Chalcocondylas, Zonaras, Laocitas, Gregoras and Nicetas. From the library of the orientalist and lawyer William Hook Morley. In 1838, the same year this book came into his library, Morley distinguished himself by discovering Jami Al Tawarikh, a lost manuscript of Rashidudin, and entered the Middle Temple. Later in life he became librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society. Katip Celebi translated part of this History for his own Rawnaq al Sultana. Atabey 582; Blackmer 819. View on Christie's.com
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MERCATOR, Rumold (1545-1599). Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio. [Duisburg:] 1587. Engraved twin-hemispherical world map, elaborate strapwork borders, armillary sphere, compass rose, galleon and sea monster, all hand-coloured by a contemporary hand, Latin text below in four columns, the first with 20 lines, verso blank. (Trimmed just into the left- and right-hand extremities of the plate mark just touching the western hemisphere and associated strapwork, lightly browned, lower right-hand edge with very minor chips, some minor repairs to verso, very light vertical stain to both hemispheres, some very small repairs to compass rose with associated small losses), 286 x 519mm (sheet 382 x 519mm). VERY RARE SEPARATE ISSUE OF RUMOLD MERCATOR'S STRIKING WORLD MAP. Gerard Mercator's great world map of 1569 was condensed into this double-hemisphere map by his son, Rumold. The present lot conforms with Koeman's Me 12 as being separately issued - it was later added to third part of the Atlas in 1595. 'The engraving is a model of clarity and neatness, with typical cursive flourishes to the lettering of the sea names' (Shirley). The North Pole is illustrated as a landmass surrounding a sea from which four rivers radiate, and there is a well depicted north west passage. A huge southern continent and the bulge in the south west coast of South America indicate the influence of Gerard Mercator. Koeman Me 12; Shirley 157. View on Christie's.com
MORDEN, Robert (d.1703). Geography rectified: or, A Description of the World. London: for Robert Morden and Thomas Cockeril, 1680. Small 4° (200 x 153mm). 'A Catalogue of the Maps in this Book' bound before title, title in red and black, hand-coloured engraved map of the world and 62 hand-coloured maps in the text. (Lacking Cc1-Cc4, map of 'Zanguebar' cut out and laid down, very light mainly marginal browning, a few spots or stains). Contemporary red calf, double gilt fillet on sides, central gilt panel with floral cornerpieces, spine lavishly decorated and lettered in gilt, inner dentelles, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, a few scuff marks on sides). FIRST EDITION, AN ATTRACTIVE COPY of Morden's celebrated atlas. A second edition was published in 1688, and further editions in 1693 and 1700. The book contains 15 maps of America including a general map of America (Burden's second state) showing California as an island. The small world map in two hemispheres appeared also in Patrick Gordon's Geography Anatomised (1693, 1699, 1700 and 1702 editions) and Modern's Atlas Terrestris (c.1700). Burden 519-524; Shirley Mapping of America 503; Sabin 50535; Wing M2619. View on Christie's.com
![[ANSON, George, Baron (1697-1762)]. An Authentic Account of Commodore Anson's Expedition ... taken from a Private Journal. Lo](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387150e_468x382.jpg)
[ANSON, George, Baron (1697-1762)]. An Authentic Account of Commodore Anson's Expedition ... taken from a Private Journal. London: for M. Cooper, 1744. 8vo (215mm. x 135mm.) (Some leaves slightly soiled.) Stitched in 20th-century blue paper wrappers, uncut. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 1631. View on Christie's.com
GOTTHEIL, Julius (1810-1868), artist. Mecklenburgisches Album. Hamburg: W.L. Anthes for B.S. Berendsohn, 1855-1856-1867. Oblong 4° (242 x 330mm). 2pp. list of subscribers. Chromolithographic title, 60 steel-engraved plates. (Occasional light spotting.) Contemporary half calf, 3 (of 20) original yellow letterpress part wrappers bound in at front (extremities rubbed, head of spine defective, rear wrapper of 1867 part creased and soiled). Provenance: Mecklenburgische Ritter und Landschaft Bibliothek (stamp to verso of title). FIRST EDITION of this comprehensive collection of views of Mecklenburg, north-eastern Germany. Two issues are advertised, available either on china paper, or the standard 'milchweisses Kupferdruckpapier'; the present work is the latter. An East German reprint appeared in 1986. View on Christie's.com
MENNIE, Donald, photographer (fl. 1899-1941). The Grandeur of the Gorges. Shanghai: A.S. Watson & Co. Kelly & Walsh Ltd., 1926. 4° (312 x 248mm). Limitation leaf, half-title, title and initial to introduction printed in green and brown, text printed in brown. 50 mounted plates, the majority photogravure, twelve hand-coloured, the latter possibly gelatin silver prints, each approx. 150 x 218mm. (Occasional very faint marginal spotting.) Original pictorial embroidered silk binding, contained in the original pebble-grained brown cloth box (extremities lightly rubbed and soiled). Provenance: Edythe B. Grey and William J. Grey (ink presentation inscription to half-title to:) -- Lucy Nancy Lambert (subscriber's name printed on limitation leaf). FIRST EDITION, limited to 1000 copies of which this is number 100. Mennie was a Scottish-born American photographer who initially worked as an assistant in the firm of Mactavish & Lehman & Co. in Beijing, and then for the MacTavish Photo Shop, one of the first producers of picture postcards of Shanghai. He later joined A.S. Watson & Co. in Shanghai, where he eventually becoming the firm's managing director. A.S. Watson is now the worlds largest retailer of health and beauty products, and in the 1920s it had a photographic division which published works such as the present lot. View on Christie's.com
POLAR EXPLORATION -- MURRAY, George Robert Milne (1858-1911), editor. The Antarctic Manual for the use of the expedition of 1901 edited by... Murray... with a preface by Sir Clements R. Markham ... presented to the Expedition and issued by the Royal Geographical Society. London: William Clowes & Sons for the R.G.S., 1901. 8° (221 x 147mm). Half-title. 3 folding tinted lithographic maps loose pocket at rear, illustrations. (Half-title browned and with light vertical crease near gutter, maps with light scattered, mainly marginal spotting, pp.169-172 with small marginal chips to fore-edge.) Original blue cloth, spine gilt (extremities lightly rubbed, upper cover with two small scratches, spine lightly soiled, endpapers browned as usual). FIRST EDITION, providing 'easy access to information, otherwise inaccessible, which was required by officers in their scientific investigations' (preface). It includes papers and extracts gathered together under various headings, including: Geography; Antarctic bibliography; Antarctic climate; The Aurora; Geology; Instructions for collecting rocks and minerals; Zoology; Botany; Arctic sledge-travelling. The Geography section includes the first printing of the Journal of John Biscoe, the probable discoverer of the Antarctic continent. Conrad p.119; Rosove 235.A1; Spence 829; Taurus 39. View on Christie's.com
[SHEERES, Sir Henry (d.1710)] A Discourse touching Tanger. London: 1680. Small 4° (205 x 155mm). First blank leaf. (Some dust-soiling.) Stitched as issued. Wing S-3057; Kress 1517 -- [DEFOE, Daniel, sometimes attrib.] An impartial Enquiry into the Conduct of the Right Honourable Charles Lord Viscount T. London: for A. Dodd, 1717. 8° (200 x 120mm). Half-title. (Some dust-soiling.) Stitched as issued, uncut. Moore 358; Kress 3022 -- AISLABIE, John. The Speech [Second Speech] upon his Defence ... against the Bill for Raising Money upon the Estates of the South-Sea Directors. London: for J. Roberts, 1721. 2 vols., 4° (240 x 180mm). (Some leaves soiled and rather wormed.) Stitched as issued, uncut. Kress 3352-53 -- A Letter to a Proprietor of the East-India Company. London: for T. Osborne, 1750. 8° (218 x 140mm). (Some leaves dust-soiled.) Stitched as issued, uncut. Kress 5050; and 10 other pamphlets of economic interest, including Kress 2931; 3158; 3382; 3814; S3870; 4019; 6189; 6306; 6403, a few imperfect. (15) View on Christie's.com
AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION. Approximately 22 letters and documents by public figures of the late Stuart period, including a letter signed by JAMES II (as King, to Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon as lord lieutenant of Ireland, 23 March 1685/6, permitting him to dispense with the oath of supremacy for three judicial appointments), autograph letters signed by Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of CLARENDON (to Richard Fanshaw, Brussels, 10 May [1659], reproaching him for not having written, 1½ pages, 4to), Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon (six, 6 November 1680 - 15 June 1715, including one as lord lieutenant of Ireland, another of 6 June 1687 to [John Evelyn], informing him of an intended visit by certain relatives the next day 'upon condition that you will not make them a Feast; pray lett us not be troublesome'), Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of ROCHESTER (eight (one unsigned), 9 May 1667 - 23 November 1701, the first referring to the 'great discontents' amongst the gentry of Yorkshire as to their lord lieutenant, a letter of 13 August 1697 apparently responding to a proposal for his daughter's hand, the later letters written as lord lieutenant of Ireland, the last of them (unsigned) intimating his desire to resign the post; and a document signed, 1679), Rochester's wife Henrietta (to her father, the 1st Earl of Burlington, n.d.) and four other documents. (22) View on Christie's.com
BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). Two typed letters signed ('Samuel Beckett'; 'Sam. Beckett') to Mr Walker, 6, rue des Favorites, Paris, 30 April and 2 May 1957, 2 pages, 4to; the second letter stapled to a retained carbon copy of a letter from Walker, 1 May 1957. Two letters on Endgame [Fin de Partie], skulls and the interpretation of his work. The first letter refers to the translation of Fin de Partie, which Beckett has not yet begun, putting off 'the dreaded day' as far as possible; he discusses the various translations given for the title (suggestions have included 'Close of Play' and 'The Game is up'), settling however on 'End-Game', and concludes gloomily that 'The text is bound to lose, in English, much of whatever quality it may have'. The second letter responds warmly to a fulsome letter of interpretation, in particular on the prevelance of skull images in his work, of which Beckett offers a number of examples, including in Malone and Murphy, before giving a remarkable aperçu of his creative process, admitting that he hears such 'harmonics ... all kinds, dimly when working, but it is the immediate thing that concerns me, the literal statement'; his view of his work is perhaps by that measure 'irretrievably vitiated'. The letter ends with a characteristic mixture of apology, self-deprecation and generous encouragement, confessing that he could go on in such terms 'with unabated vagueness for pages'; although he 'cannot raise myself out of my non-interpretative mud', he is happy for others to do so, if in such style. Fin de Partie was first performed (in French) at the Royal Court Theatre on 3 April 1957. (3) View on Christie's.com
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[CHARLES II -- THE ROYAL FISHING]. Letters patent issued by Sir Edward Walker, Garter King of Arms, 13 December 1664, grant of arms to the 'Governor and Company of the Royall Fishing of Great Britain and Ireland', in English, illuminated manuscript on vellum, with arms of the company, three-sided foliate border with Walker's arms, large foliate initial and opening letters in gold, on one membrane, 560 x 805mm, framed and glazed (unexamined out of frame, small hole affecting text, some slight cockling and fading of ink). Provenance: Frederick Arthur Crisp (1851-1922, antiquarian and publisher); sold Sotheby's, 5 December 1922, lot 409A (accompanying Lever Brothers Ltd correspondence recording the purchase, along with a catalogue entry dated 27 February [n.y.], lot 493A); private collection. The short-lived Company of the Royal Fishing had been incorporated by Charles II on 8 April in the same year, the first governor being his brother, James, Duke of York (Samuel Pepys was a founding member): its privileges included the sole power of licensing lotteries. The issuing herald, Sir Edward Walker (1612-1677), was briefly an owner of New Place, Shakespeare's house in Stratford, which he bought from the estate of the poet's granddaughter in 1675. View on Christie's.com
CHARLES II (1630-1685), King of England, Scotland and Ireland. Autograph letter signed ('C.R.') to 'my Lord Hide' [Laurence, Viscount Hyde, later 1st Earl of Rochester], Windsor, 2 May 1681, 'I finde by Mrs Buckly [?Lady Sophia Bulkeley, maid of honour to Queen Catherine from 1671] that tho she is satisfied that she shall be payed at Michelmas as I spoke to you, yett there is an other person to be satisfied w[hi]ch is Mr Duncome, therfore you will take care in this particular that we may be all satisfied', one page, 4to, integral address leaf (seal tear), archival strengthening to margins. Hyde was at this stage an effective first lord of the treasury, and achieved an uncharacteristic improvement in the King's chronically embroiled finances: 'Hyde's prudent management of the king's finances presumably account for his being raised to the peerage as Viscount Hyde of Kenilworth in April 1681, and earl of Rochester in November 1682' (ODNB). View on Christie's.com
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Autograph letter signed ('Charles Dickens') to the comic actor J.P. Harley, Doughty Street, 'Wednesday' [probably 28 November 1838], ON THE COMPOSITION OF THE LAMPLIGHTER, asking Harley to drop in at Doughty Street after his performance of The Tempest on the Saturday, 'I have begun the Lamplighter and if I have finished him by that time (as I hope I shall have done) I want to make an appointment with you to go over it on Sunday morning. Mum is the word 'till we see how it goes. He promises very well; I have just done your account of an uncle deceased, who committed suicide when gas first came up -- and I think it's funny', two pages, 8vo, on mourning paper; laid down on front endpaper of Dombey & Son, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848 (worn, the front endpaper detached). As the letter suggests, Dickens wrote The Lamplighter at extraordinary speed (he was also working on Nicholas Nickleby): it was intended for his close friend, the great actor and manager Charles Macready, but was judged too weak for production, and withdrawn. View on Christie's.com
FLEMING, Ian (1908-1964). Series of 8 autograph love letters and notes signed ('Ian') to an Austrian girlfriend, Edith Morpurgo, 11 Throgmorton Avenue, St James's Club and n.p., 2 April 1935 and n.d., in German, in pencil and pen, one partially typescript, approximately 20 pages, 8vo and 4to (one letter torn to shreds and reassembled with adhesive tape), envelope, with a telegram, 7 December 1934 ('Regret this evening impossible goodbye with all my love Ian') and a portrait photograph of Fleming seated on a rock in the Austrian Alps, 1934 (rather worn). Three letters and two brief notes are written in a flirtatious, even outrageous mood: one begins with two sketches, the first showing 'Wo ich Dich küssen will', the second depicting a hotel room with a 'Do not disturb' sign, protesting 'I only want you to be happy. But I also want to hurt you, because you have deserved it ... I want to sleep with you once and do nothing -- only put my arms around you and hold you tight and find you there when I wake up. But it has to be sunny! Where shall we find sunshine in this grey country? But it depends only on you and the sun, and that is only two things and it could easily be so many more' (translation), ending 'Ich küsse Dich wo Du nicht erlaubst'; a short undated letter begins 'Nein -- ich will Dich nur küssen und nichts sagen. Es hat keinen Sinn ... [No -- I only want to kiss you and say nothing. It makes no sense ... ]', while a brief pencil note arranges a meeting and another simply says 'Ich küsse Dich'. The partially typescript letter of 2 April 1935 describes the sad state of his flat since she left, and mockingly asks when she is coming back to do the cleaning, as he cannot use the flat 'weil sie noch immer von Dir stinkt'. The tone becomes darker in the three remaining letters: one protests he cannot understand Edith, but tries to persuade her to remain in London; another letter (torn to pieces for its pains) begins tactlessly 'ich habe deine Freunde nicht gern', going on 'I am sure you were quite right to go away as your life here has been very empty, and I am also not the way you wanted. But it is still sad, because we were good together ...' (translation). In what is evidently the last letter, Fleming reproaches Edith for bringing their relationship to 'ein recht hässliches Ende', protesting 'Ich wollte dich glucklich machen und Ruhe geben ... ich habe so viel Freude mit dir gehabt'. (11) View on Christie's.com
GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN. Autograph manuscript journal of Midshipman T.M. Taylor, H.M.S. Minerva, 3 January - 16 June 1915, describing the Eclipse class cruiser's operations on the Suez Canal Front, with the fleet operating off the Dardanelles, the 'Attack on the Narrows' (18 March), the blockade in the Gulf of Smyrna (April), the trapping of the torpedo boat Demir Hissar following its attack on the troop ship Manitou (16 April) and actions on attachment to the First Battle Squadron of the Gallipoli Fleet, supporting the attack on the southern end of the peninsula, 13 nautical charts and maps in pen and coloured inks tipped in or loosely inserted, including Dahab, the Gulf of Akaba (2), Tor, the Suez Canal (showing the position of allied warships and enemy troops, 4 February), Lemnos Island (Port Mudros), the Gallipoli Pensinsula, 'The Defence of the Dardanelles', 'Chase and Destruction of Turkish Torpedo-Boat "Timur Hissar" [sic] April 16th 1915 after her escape from Smyrna', the Gallipoli Peninsula (Southern Portion), the 'Daily Position of Southern Allied Line', and a drawing of a Sopwith Hydro-Biplane (occasional light spotting), 125 pages, folio, Stationer's Office Journal in regulation cloth, lettering piece 'S. 519 Journal For Use of Junior Officers Afloat' (slight wear). View on Christie's.com
![[MORGAGNI, Giovanni Battista (founder of pathological anatomy, 1682-1771)] -- UNIVERSITY OF PADUA. Document conferring a doct](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387179e_468x382.jpg)
[MORGAGNI, Giovanni Battista (founder of pathological anatomy, 1682-1771)] -- UNIVERSITY OF PADUA. Document conferring a doctorate in medicine on Carolus Antonius Gracius of Jadera, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, Padua, 4 April 1744. 241 x 173mm. 4 folios, text in black and gold, f.1v with recipient's armorial within full-page border of flowers and peacocks and crowned double-headed eagle, f.2 with similar full-page border and the lion of Venice, endorsements added on ff.3v-4 by university officials including Morgagni as holder of the first chair of anatomy (a few small wormholes). 18th-century Italian calf gilt (rebacked, light wear). With (loosely inserted): diploma granting a doctorate in jurisprudence to Carolus Venturini, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, University of Padua, 25 February 1715, 3 folios, issued in the name of Giovanni II Cornaro (1647-1722), Doge of Venice, with armorial and two full-page borders (some marginal worming), and, diploma attesting the doctorate of Johannes Antonius Casser, University of Padua, 30 March 1771, on a bifolium. (3) View on Christie's.com
SPENDER, Stephen (1909-1995). Collection of one autograph manuscript and six typescripts with autograph signatures or emendations, of poems, [c.1929], comprising 'MARSTON, dropping it in the grate, broke his pipe' (title 'For J.M.F.' in autograph, signed), 'Elegy Lying awake at night' (signed), 'Hearing from its cage' (signed), 'ACTS thrust beyond the boundary of mere wishing' (emendations, signed), 'You that were constant April' (autograph), 'That girl who laughed and had black eyes' (inscribed 'For Douglas Jay from Stephen'), 'Saying "Good morning" becomes painful' (noted 'June 12. W.L.'), together 7 pages, 4to; with 10 further poems in unamended carbon copies, 9 on uniform folio leaves with title page 'Poems Stephen Spender', including one apparently unpublished poem, 'They went off six in the car and two on the running board' (minor wear and soiling at margins). The first four poems comprised Spender's contribution to Oxford Poetry, 1929 (under his own editorship); all, with the stated exception, were included in the privately-printed Twenty Poems (1930). The present texts show a number of variants from the published versions. View on Christie's.com
CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). My African Journey. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. 8° (189 x 125mm). Half-title, frontispiece, plates and maps. (Light spotting, stronger at beginning and end). Original pictorial cloth (spine a little sunfaded, head and tail of spine slightly bumped). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Woods A(12). CHURCHILL, W.S. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. 8° (191 x 125mm). Half-title, folding maps. (Occasional light spotting). Original pictorial cloth (lightly soiled, a few red marks on rear cover). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Woods A(4). With 11 other works in 12 volumes, mostly by and 2 on Churchill, all from the library of Ronald Golding, including first editions of Ian Hamilton's March (London, 1900), Liberalism and the Social Problem (London, 1909), and My Early Life (London, 1930). (14) View on Christie's.com
CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). Secret Session Speeches. London, Toronto, Melbourne and Sidney: Cassell and Company, 1946. 8° (216 x 138mm). Half-title, plates. (Light spotting throughout). Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket (dust-jacket laminated, tail of spine torn away, spine browned, rear cover spotted). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Churchill to Ronald Golding on endpaper and dated 1946. Woods A114. View on Christie's.com
CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). The Second World War. London: Toronto, Melbourne, Sidney and Wellington, 1948-1954. 6 volumes, 8° (211 x 140mm). Half-title, illustrations. (Light spotting in vol.I & II, strong at beginning of both vols., only a few spots in others.) Contemporary black cloth, spines titled in gilt, dust-jackets (small stain on front cover of vol.I, extremities a little rubbed, dust-jackets covered with cellophane, taped to dust-jacket with adhesive tape in places, some repairs with adhesive tape). MIXED EDITION, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF VOLUMES I-III AND VI, VOLUMES IV AND V FIRST AUSTRALIAN EDITION, PRESENTATION COPIES, volume I and II inscribed by Churchill to Ronald Golding and typed compliment slip from Churchill inserted in volume I. (6) View on Christie's.com
CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1874-1965). Step by Step 1936-1939. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1939. 8° (217 x 139mm). Half-title, folding map of Europe at end, borders printed in red, full-page map in the text. (Folding map lightly creased at folds and with very faint scattered spotting.) Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper side stamped in blind (extremities very lightly rubbed and faintly marked). Provenance: Winston S. Churchill (presentation inscription to:) -- Mary ('Mollie') Montagu Douglas Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch (1900-1993). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR in the month of publication, June 1939. Step by Step gathers Churchill's weekly commentaries for the Evening Standard, which had been widely read throughout Europe in syndication. Woods A45. View on Christie's.com
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). The Second World War. London: Cassell, 1948 [but 1949?]-1954. 6 volumes, 8° (210 x 140mm), maps, some folding. Original black cloth (extremities lightly rubbed, top corner to volume I bumped, and a few other corners lightly bruised). Provenance: VOLUMES II AND VI INSCRIBED BY CHURCHILL -- Mary 'Mollie' Montagu Douglas Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch (1990-1993; pencil ownership inscription to flyleaf of vol. VI) -- Ian Gilmour (ink signatures to front pastedowns in all volumes, with light pencil marginalia throughout and copious pencil notes to rear flyleaves of all vols). Book Society edition of volume I dated October 1948, but with larger type size used for the second edition of November 1949, second edition of vol. IV, the remainder first editions. Woods A123b. (6) View on Christie's.com
KEYNES, John Maynard (1883-1946). Indian Currency and Finance. London: Macmillan and Co., 1913. 8° (217 x 136mm). Folding table, half-title. (Front endpapers and half-title very lightly spotted, very small faint spot to title.) Original brick-red cloth (extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance: PUBLISHER'S PRESENTATION COPY (blindstamp to title) -- E. Allen (ink signature to endpaper dated 1951). FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. 'This is, by common agreement, a work of first-rate quality. Those who were unconvinced by his later writings, all of which were controversial, like to acclaim it as his best book. The second chapter (on the Gold Exchange Standard) is of general interest, quite apart from the rupee problem, and has become a classic. The book well manifests Keynes' characteristic powers and tendencies. It is the work of a theorist, giving practical application to those esoteric monetary principles which Marshall had expounded and Keynes was explaining in the Cambridge classrooms, and at the same time it showed an outstanding gift for penetrating the secrets of how institutions actually work' (Harrod, The Life of John Maynard Keynes, p.163). View on Christie's.com
KEYNES, John Maynard (1883-1946). The Economic Consequences of the Peace. London: Macmillan and Co., 1919. 8° (217 x 138mm). Original blue cloth (extremities very lightly rubbed). Provenance: 'V de T' (pencil presentation inscription dated 1920 to:) -- Hedworth Meux. FIRST EDITION. Keynes was principal representative of the British Treasury at the Peace Conference in 1919, but resigned in protest at the terms imposed on the Central Powers and wrote this prophetic analysis. Admiral of the Fleet The Hon Sir Hedworth Meux GCB KCVO, formerly The Hon Hedworth Lambton (1856-1929), famously led the Naval Brigade to relieve British forces in the Siege of Ladysmith. [With :] -- A Revision of the Treaty being a sequel to the Economic Consequences of the Peace. London: Macmillan and Co., 1922. 8° (217 x 138mm). Original blue cloth (recased, extremities lightly rubbed). And 10 others by or about Keynes, including: Essays in Biography (London, 1933); The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill (London: Hogarth Press, 1925); A Treatise on Money (2 vols, London, 1930); A Tract on Monetary Reform (London, 1923); The Means to Prosperity (London, 1933), and The End of Laissez-Faire (London, 1926). (12) View on Christie's.com
KEYNES, John Maynard (1883-1946). A Treatise on Probability. London: Macmillan and Co., 1921. 8° (216 x 140mm). Half-title, 2pp. advertisements at end. Original brown cloth (extremities faintly rubbed, very small light ink marks to spine). Provenance: Hamilton Kilgour (presentation bookplate to:) -- Royal Society of Edinburgh. FIRST EDITION. 'This was at once a work of great learning and also an exposition of important original ideas. Its bibliography of the literature is one of the most comprehensive that has ever been made ... [Keynes'] ambition was to provide a firm mathematical basis for the probability theory' (DSB). Bertrand Russell wrote: 'The mathematical calculus is astonishingly powerful' (Mathematical Gazette, July 1922). View on Christie's.com
KEYNES, John Maynard (1883-1946). The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. London: Macmillan and Co., 1936. 8° (215 x 136mm). Half-title. (Occasional very light spotting.) Original blue cloth (very faint marking to upper cover), grey blue-printed dust-jacket (price-clipped, extremities lightly rubbed, very short tears at heads of joints, spine and lower cover very lightly faded and marked). Provenance: Ian Gilmour (occasional light pencil annotation in his hand to chapter 6). FIRST EDITION of Keynes's attempt to provide an explanation of the vagaries of the trade-cycle and new methods of controlling them. PMM 423 ('his influence... even on his theoretical opponents, has been such that a highly placed American official recently remarked that "we are all Keynsians today"'). View on Christie's.com
![BYRON, George Gordon Noel (1788-1824). The Bride of Abydos. A Turkish Tale. [Bound with:] -- The Giaour, a fragment of a Turk](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387205e_468x382.jpg)
BYRON, George Gordon Noel (1788-1824). The Bride of Abydos. A Turkish Tale. [Bound with:] -- The Giaour, a fragment of a Turkish tale ... seventh edition, with some additions. London: John Murray, 1813. 2 works in one volume, 8° (218 x 132mm). 2 engraved plates by E. Finden, one a view of Harrow after C. Stanfield, the other of Missolonghi after W. Purser. (Occasional light browning.) Slightly later green calf gilt, edges gilt (rubbed, upper joint tender at head). Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR (publisher's clerk's ink inscription to flyleaf of first work 'From the author' to:) -- SAMUEL ROGERS (manscript corrections in his hand, in pencil to p.4, and in ink to p.47 inserting two missing lines) -- W. Hamilton (a.l.s. receipt acknowledging return to Hamilton from the Byron Loan Exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall, dated 30th June 1877) -- bookseller's clipped description pasted to flyleaf -- Michael Foot (a.n.s. loosely inserted presenting 'A Byronic gift for a true Byron lover' to:) -- Ian Gilmour. FIRST EDITION, THE FIRST VARIANT OF THE FIRST ISSUE, without the errata leaf, p.47 with 20 lines; p.60 has the eighth line numbered 720. The errors are corrected in Samuel Roger's hand, and the volume was presumably bound for him (he is the dedicatee of The Giaour) with the insertion of two relevant plates. The later political provenance of Michael Foot and Ian Gilmour is fascinating; Lord Gilmour wrote The Making of the Poets: Byron and Shelley in Their Time (2002) and was chairman of the Byron Society from 2003 until his death in 2007. Randolph, p.29-30 (Abydos), p.28 (Giaour); Wise Byron I, pp.85-87 (Abydos), pp. 83-84 (Giaour). A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. View on Christie's.com
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