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GRIMBLE, Augustus (b. 1840). Deer-Stalking.GRIMBLE, Augustus (b. 1840). Deer-Stalking. London: Chapman andHall, 1888. 4to (28

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Lot 568

GRIMBLE, Augustus (b. 1840). Deer-Stalking.GRIMBLE, Augustus (b. 1840). Deer-Stalking. London: Chapman andHall, 1888. 4to (288 x 222mm). Half title, wood-engraved illustration on title,errata slip, 18 plates (plate of "Glen Fiddich Forest Lodge" repairedand stained at edges, some pencil markings at margin of p.55, final text leafbrowned on verso, some light browning, spotting and staining). Attractivelybound in full modern goatskin, spine lettered in gilt, uncut, new endpapers. Provenance:binder's invoice, dated 1984, loosely-inserted. FIRST EDITION. LIMITED TO 250COPIES.

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GUILLIM, John (1550-1621). A Display of Heraldrie.GUILLIM, John (1550-1621). A Display ofHeraldrie: Manifesting A more easie

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Lot 569

GUILLIM, John (1550-1621). A Display of Heraldrie.GUILLIM, John (1550-1621). A Display ofHeraldrie: Manifesting A more easie accesse to the knowledge thereof than hathbeene hitherto published by any, through the benefit of Method … The third Edition,Corrected and much enlarged by the Author himself in his life time: Togetherwith his owne Addition of explaining the Termes of Hawking and Hunting, for theuse and delight of Gentlemen. London: Printed by Thomas Cotes, for JacobBlome, 1638 [Colophon: “Printed by Richard Badger, for Ralph Mab., 1632”]. Smallfolio bound in 4s (270 x 172mm). Woodcut device on title, woodcut illustrationsand coats-of-arms including 9 nearly full-page, initials and ornaments, 3-pagesof errata (“Additions to be inserted and Amendments”) at the end (corner of G1torn away with some loss to verso, occasional mainly light browning, spottingand staining, some offsetting, a few darker rustholes and spots, paginationjumps from 226 to 237 [as usual] but signatures continuous (Ff[1]-[4],Gg[1]-[4]), with other faults in pagination, but collated complete, repair tocorner of final blank). Contemporary calf (rebacked, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance:old inscription of Thomas Potter and signature of Christopher Johnson dated 1784on front free endpaper; some modern pencil annotation; cropped old inscriptionat head of title; some old annotation to text; fromthe Library of the late Sir George Engle. Brunet II, 493 (citing the 6th ed.of 1724): “… cet ouvrage estimé …”; STC 12503.

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HIERONYMUS, Saint [Saint JEROME] (c. 342 - 420). Epistolae.HIERONYMUS, Saint [Saint JEROME] (c. 342 - 420).  Epistolae.

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Lot 570

HIERONYMUS, Saint [Saint JEROME] (c. 342 - 420). Epistolae.HIERONYMUS, Saint [Saint JEROME] (c. 342 - 420). Epistolae. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, 14 July 1490. 2 parts bound in one volume, folio (405 x 268mm). Part I: 183 leaves (of 184, lacking initial blank). Part II: 229 leaves (of 230, lacking final blank). Ai in the first part with an 11-line hand-painted floral initial in colours and gold and hand-painted floral borders in colours and gold, with a crowned armorial device [see note], Ai in the second part with a 10-line hand-painted initial in red and blue, hand-painted 3 or 4-line initials in red and blue throughout (scattered worming affecting first few leaves of the first part, hole in nii with loss of letters and dark stain on verso, wormtracks to upper margins of many leaves in the second part with some repairs occasionally affecting letters, some light mainly marginal staining, more pronounced to xi in the first part, some spotting). Contemporary red calf over wooden boards with metal bosses in the form of stylized flower-heads, spine decorated in gilt with 6 raised bands, metal-tipped leather clasps (neatly rebacked some time ago preserving original spine, rubbed). Provenance: "G. A." (initials in a hand-painted armorial device [see below] with motto "MANCANDO VIVE"); some very sparse ink annotation; later pencil collation on rear pastedown. Regarding the hand-painted armorial device, we are grateful to Murray Chesney-Stroak for the following note: "The device is certainly not a coat-of-arms of any type typical of the late fifteenth century in Italy or Central Europe. This is more likely a badge used perhaps by the publisher and coloured to suit the other decoration. The badge would thus be described (blazoned if it were a coat-of-arms) as: Azure, a staff (or thyrsus?) Or, with letters G and A in chief of the second, a scroll in fess Argent, the whole being surmounted by a laurel wreath proper and assigned with a crest coronet Or. My gut feeling is that the staff/thyrsus, or perhaps a torch (flambeau), is representative of learning, the letters probably being the artist's initials and the laurel wreath an attribute of renown or fame." BMC V, 372; not in Brunet; HC *8560; Goff H-172; GW 12432; Proctor 4873; Walsh 2090.

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The History of Little Fanny.The History of Little Fanny, Exemplified in a Series of Figures. London: Printed by D. N. Shury,

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Lot 573

The History of Little Fanny.The History of Little Fanny, Exemplified in a Series of Figures. London: Printed by D. N. Shury, Berwick Street, Soho, for S. and J. Fuller, 1810. Small square 8vo (128 x 105mm). Booklet of 16-pages in the original grey-green printed wrappers, stitched (lacking printed slipcase, small piece of corner torn away, light stain on upper wrapper, lacks silk tie). With 7 cut-out hand-coloured aquatint costumed figures, with a transferable head fitting into a tab in each figure, and 3 hats ([?]only). Provenance: old illegible signature on upper wrapper. FIRST EDITION of the earliest published paper doll set. Each figure and costume corresponds to a section of the story in the accompanying booklet whose tale charts Little Fanny’s progress, in a familiar didactic trajectory, from youthful innocence, through haughtiness, to destitution as ‘a dirty beggar girl’, to a return to propriety and a happy absolution in her mother’s arms once again. The text is sometimes attributed to Amelia Troward Girdlestone (1791-1854). Osborne II, p. 1052 (their copy lacking 2 hats); not in Percy Muir's English Children's Books 1600-1900 (New York, 1954).

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MISCELLANY, 17th & 18th CENTURY - Thomas SPRAT (1635-1713). The History of the Royal Society of London. [etc.]MISCELLANY, 17

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Lot 590

MISCELLANY, 17th & 18th CENTURY - Thomas SPRAT (1635-1713). The History of the Royal Society of London. [etc.]MISCELLANY, 17th and 18th CENTURY - ThomasSPRAT (1635-1713). The History of theRoyal Society of London, For the Improving of Natural Knowledge … The FourthEdition. London: Printed for J. Knapton (and others), 1734. 4to (227 x180mm). Title printed in red and black, 2 folding engraved plates, initials andornaments (some light mainly marginal staining). Contemporary calf (rebackedsome time ago, rubbed and scuffed, a few strips worn). Provenance: JamesBarlow (old signature on title); old inscription on rear endpaper. With 10other miscellaneous 17th- and 18th-century works in 11vols, namely Pliny’s Epistolae et Panegyricus. Editio nova (Amsterdam,Elzevir, 1659, 12mo, contemporary vellum), La Vie de Sainte Therese ecritepar elle-mesme. De la Traduction de Monsieur Arnauld d’ Andilly (Paris,1670, 4to, contemporary calf), Ovid’s Metamorphosen (Amsterdam, 1683,large 8vo, engraved frontispiece and plates, contemporary vellum), Juvenal’s Satyrae… Editio nova (Amsterdam, 1684, 4to, engraved frontispiece, contemporarycalf, crudely rebacked), Albius Tibulli’s [Opera] (Amsterdam, 1708, 4to, fine engraved frontispiece, plates, contemporary calf, upper cover detached), Horace’s [Opera], edited by Richard Bentley (Amsterdam, 1713, 4to, engraved frontispiece, contemporary panelled vellum, contemporary pen-and-ink portrait of Bentley loosely-inserted),Sextus Propertius’s Elegiarum libri quatuor (Amsterdam, 1727, 4to, fine engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf), John Milton’s Paradise Lost. ANew Edition, By Richard Bentley (London, 1732, 4to, lacks the plates,contemporary calf, rebacked), William Wycherley’s The Country Wife …(Altered from Wycherley.) (Dublin, 1766, modern cloth) and John Ireland’s HogarthIllustrated (London, 1791, 2 vols, engraved plates by Hogarth, contemporarycalf). Provenance:From the Library of the late Sir George Engle. The lot sold not subject to return. (12)

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MISCELLANY, 18th & 19th CENTURY - Samuel JOHNSON (1709-84). A Dictionary of the English Language. [etc.]MISCELLANY, 18th and

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Lot 591

MISCELLANY, 18th & 19th CENTURY - Samuel JOHNSON (1709-84). A Dictionary of the English Language. [etc.]MISCELLANY, 18th and 19th CENTURY - SamuelJOHNSON (1709-84). A Dictionary ofthe English Language … The Seventh Edition. London: Printed for F. and C.Rivington (and many others), 1785. Folio (433 x 270mm). Printed largely intriple column (lacks portrait, corner torn away from one leaf of the prefacewith slight loss of letters, occasional light spotting and staining). Laterhalf vellum and marbled boards (lower joints splitting, stains to spine). Provenance:old inscriptions on front free endpaper. The last folio edition. With 22 othermiscellaneous 18th- and early 19th-century works in 24volumes, namely Erasmus’s Colloquiorum … Familiarium opus aureum … Editiotriplici (London, 1717, engraved frontispiece, heavily stained and brownedthroughout, contemporary calf, very worn), Isaac Watts’s Horae Lyricae … TheFourth Edition (London, 1722, engraved portrait, contemporary calf, ratherworn), John Gay’s Fables … The Second Edition (London, 1728, engravedillustrations, title repaired and laid down, contemporary calf, upper coverdetached), An Act to repeal the Statute made in the first Year of the Reignof King James the First, intituled, An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft anddealing with evil and wicked Spirits ([London, 1736], pp. 425-428, modern wrappers), PhilipBearcroft’s An Historical Account of Thomas Sutton Esq; and of HisFoundation in Charter-House (London, 1737, 2 engraved plates, one folding,lacks portrait, contemporary calf, upper cover detached), The Foreigner’sGuide: Or, a Necessary and Instructive Companion Both for the Foreigner and Native,in their Tour through the Cities of London and Westminster … The Fourth Edition(London, 1763, text in English and French, contemporary calf, crudelyrebacked), Isaac Watts’ Logick … The Fifteenth Edition (London, 1772,contemporary calf, upper cover detached), An Act for Lighting and Watchingthe Hamlet of Highgate, in the County of Middlesex (London, 1775, pp. [1285]-1306,modern wrappers), A Thousand Notable Things on Various Subjects; Disclosedfrom the Secrets of Nature and Art (London, 1785, section excised from one leaf, contemporary calf),Thomas Gray’s The Poetical Works … A New Edition (London, 1785, 12mo,engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf), Harry Carey’s Chrononhotonthologos[a satirical play] ([London, c. 1787]), 4-pages, modern boards), The Life ofFrederick, Baron Trenck (London, 1788, vol. II only (of 2), contemporarycalf, crudely rebacked), Philip Luckombe’s The Tablet of Memory, Shewingevery Memorable Event in History … The Eighth Edition (London, 1791,engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, crudely rebacked), Isaac Watts’ TheImprovement of the Mind (Edinburgh, 1801, contemporary calf), G. H.Wilson’s The Eccentric Mirror (London, 1806, [?]vols. I-II only (of 4),contemporary calf), First Exercises on the Principal Rules of Grammar, to beTranslated into Latin … Second Edition (Reading, Smart and Cowslade, 1807,contemporary boards), [John Anstey’s] The Pleader’s Guide, A Didactic poem,in Two Parts: containing the Conduct of a Suit at Law, with the Arguments ofCounsellor Bother’um and Counsellor Bore’um … The Fifth Edition (London,1808, contemporary half calf, upper cover detached), Lessons for Children.In Four Parts. Part II. Being the First for Children of Three Years Old(London, 1818, part II only (of 4), printed in an over-sized font, contemporary calf, upper cover detached),[R. Lee’s] Taxidermy: or, the Art of Collecting, Preparing, and MountingObjects of Natural History … The Third Edition (London, 1823, 5 engravedplates, contemporary cloth-backed paper boards), The Traveller’s Oracle; or,Maxims for Locomotion (London, 1827, part I only (of 2), engraved music,contemporary paper boards, crudely rebacked) and Regina Maria Roche’s TheChildren of the Abbey. A Tale (London, 1835, [early reprint], 3 vols.,original cloth-backed paper boards). Provenance: From the Library of the late Sir George Engle. Please note that only a part of this lot is illustrated. The lot sold notsubject to return. (25)

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RALSTON, William (1841-1911). North Again. Golfing this Time. [etc.]RALSTON, William (1841-1911).  North Again. Golfing

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Lot 604

RALSTON, William (1841-1911). North Again. Golfing this Time. [etc.]RALSTON, William (1841-1911). North Again. Golfing this Time. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., [c. 1890]. Oblong 4to (200 x 245mm). Half title, coloured frontispiece by W. Ralston, coloured vignette on title, illustrations, advertisements (some light spotting). Original coloured pictorial wrappers (lightly spotted). Provenance: "D.M." (old initials on upper wrapper). FIRST EDITION. With 2 other copies of the same book; and with C. W. Cole and W. Ralston's Messrs. Kamdene, Barnesburie, and d'Aliston's Tour in the North (London, [n.d.]) and W. Ralston's A Yachting Holiday (London, [n.d.]); and with Charles Dana Gibson's Drawings (New York and London, 1897), The Social Ladder (New York and London, 1902), Americans (New York and London, 1902), Eighty Drawings including the Weaker Sex. The Story of a Susceptible Bachelor (New York and London, 1903); and Bookano Stories. With Pictures that Spring Up in Model Form (London, [c. 1930], coloured "pop-up" plates), all variously scuffed and rubbed. The lot sold not subject to return. (10)

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Sirrendes Taübiein.Sirrendes Taübiein. Das ist: Gebundene Teufzerlein eines mit Gott verbundenen herzens ... Die achte A

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Lot 610

Sirrendes Taübiein.Sirrendes Taübiein. Das ist: Gebundene Teufzerlein eines mit Gott verbundenen herzens ... Die achte Auflage. Leipzig: bey Samuel Benjamin Walthern, 1737. Small oblong 8vo (90 x 52mm). 2 woodcut plates before the title, text within woodcut typographical border throughout (title border shaved, some very light spotting and staining). Contemporary decorated vellum, brocade endpapers, gilt edges. RARE.

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[SPEED, John (1551-1629)]. The Historie of Great Britaine.[SPEED, John (1551-1629). The Historie of Great Britaine. London:

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Lot 611

[SPEED, John (1551-1629)]. The Historie of Great Britaine.[SPEED, John (1551-1629). The Historie of Great Britaine. London: George Humble, portrait dated 1629]. Folio (329 x 210mm). Engraved portrait of the author, dedication, printed in double column, engraved and woodcut illustrations, including some full-page genealogies, coins, initials, ornaments and tables (lacks engraved and printed titles, portrait laid down and frayed at edges with some loss, some mainly light staining and spotting). Later calf decorated in blind (heavily rubbed and scuffed, spine faded). Provenance: Henry Ashworth James (armorial bookplate); inscription dated 1833 at foot of dedication. The portrait is often lacking. Lowndes 2471; STC 23048. Sold not subject to return.

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[?]SPRENGER, Heinrich (c. 1436-95), Heinrich KRAMER [or INSTITORIS] (c. 1430-1505) and Johannes NIDER (1380-1438). Malleus ma

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Lot 614

[?]SPRENGER, Heinrich (c. 1436-95), Heinrich KRAMER [or INSTITORIS] (c. 1430-1505) and Johannes NIDER (1380-1438). Malleus maleficarum.[?]SPRENGER, Heinrich (c. 1436-95), Heinrich KRAMER [or INSTITORIS] (c. 1430-1505) and Johannes NIDER (1380-1438). Malleusmaleficarum: De lamiis et strigibus, et sagis, aliisque magis et dæmoniacis,eorumq; arte et potestate et poena, Tractatus aliquot tam veterum, quàmrecentiorum auctorum. Frankfurt: [Colophon:] “Impressum Francofurti ad Moenum,Sumptibus Nicolai Bassoei,” 1588. Volume one only (of 2), 8vo (160 x 102mm). 806 pages + 36 pages of the Index, woodcut device on title, final text leaf and colophon, initials, ornament (lacks all beforetitle [i.e. blank], variable mainly light browning, spotting and staining, but gatheringx[1]-[x8] very heavily browned, some worming to lower margins but affectingletters from [y5-Aa8], a few rustholes and darker spots). Contemporary vellum, yappedges, spine titled in old manuscript (some staining). Provenance: oldinscription on title and intermittent underlining of text; old cataloguedescriptions laid down on front pastedown; G. L. Engle, 1952 (label); from the Library of the late Sir George Engle. Compiled in the late 15th-century by Dominicaninquisitors, the Malleus maleficarum (literally, the ‘hammer ofwitches’) is perhaps the best known of the earliest treatises on witchcraft.The attribution of Sprenger as a co-author has been disputed. The first printededition appeared in Strasbourg in 1486. “There can be no doubt that this workhad in its day and for a full couple of centuries an enormous influence. Thereare few demonologists and writers upon witchcraft who do not refer to its pagesas an ultimate authority. It was continually quoted and appealed to inwitch-trials” (Montague Summers). “It is universally considered as the greatestsumma of printed demonological literature …” (Mora, George (editor), Witches,Devils, and Doctors in the Renaissance, 1991, pp. 724-5). Norman Douglasdescribed it as “the misogynists’ handbook.” Cf. Norman 1997; cf. Wellcome 6049.

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THOMAS AQUINAS (Saint, c. 1225-74). Summa theologiae.THOMAS AQUINAS (Saint, c. 1225-74). Summa theologiae. Pars secunda

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Lot 618

THOMAS AQUINAS (Saint, c. 1225-74). Summa theologiae.THOMAS AQUINAS (Saint, c. 1225-74). Summa theologiae. Pars secunda: secunda pars, edited by Ludovicus de Cremona. Mantua: Paulus de Butzbach, [not after 1474]. Folio (276 x 204mm). 53 lines, printed in double column, type 1:75G, 3- to 11-line initial spaces, some contemporary manuscript chapter numbers at upper margins, 386 leaves (of 396, without the 2 blanks and the final quire [see note], a single wormhole in quires 7-8, marginal wormhole in last 4 leaves, some very light mainly marginal staining). Full modern pigskin by Katherine Adams [for C. H. St John Hornby], with her monogram stamp dated 1905, spine lettered in gilt and with 5 raised bands, gilt and gauffered edges, preserving 4 original vellum flyleaves. Provenance: Johannes Groot, Canon of St Denis, Liège (contemporary inscription on first vellum flyleaf, neatly crossed out [i.e. preserving legibility]); given as a gift to Magister Bartholomaeus de Meerlair; Bois-le-Duc, Carthusians (inscription on front flyleaf); old illegible inscription at head of rear vellum flyleaf; Charles Harry St John Hornby (bookplate and Shelley House label). One of the earliest and rarest editions from the second Mantuan Press. This copy is lacking the final quire consisting of the table by the editor. Since this is often the case, it has been speculated that the quire was printed after some copies had been distributed without it. BMC VII, 930; not in Brunet; Goff T-213; HC 1458; Harvard/Walsh 3335A; IGI 9590; cf. PMM 30 (citing Basle edition of 1485): "The Summa is divided into three parts, the first of which treats of the nature, attributes and relations of God, including the physical universe; the subject of the second being man and the chief end of man, in which a definitive code of ethics is laid down; the third part, which was completed according to Aquinas's plan after his death, dealt with Christ, God and man. Even in this attenuated summary, the systematizing influence of Aristotle can be seen operating on 'all the learning of the Fathers', and it is this system which led Leo XIII in his Encyclical of 1879 to declare it the indisputable basis of Catholic theology; equally, it underlies much subsequent theological, political and social enquiry into the nature and position of man in the state or in the universe."

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WILLIAMS, Helen Maria (1759-1827). Sketches of the State and Opinions in the French Republic. [etc.]WILLIAMS,Helen Maria (175

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Lot 623

WILLIAMS, Helen Maria (1759-1827). Sketches of the State and Opinions in the French Republic. [etc.]WILLIAMS,Helen Maria (1759-1827). Sketches ofthe State and Opinions in the French Republic towards the Close of theEighteenth Century. In a Series of Letters. London: G. G. and J. Robinson,1801. 2 volumes, 8vo (213 x 130mm). (Some very light spotting and staining,[?]lacking half titles.) Contemporary tree calf, spines gilt with black moroccolettering-pieces (quite heavily rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: JohnBrowning Harwood, Hammersmith, 1861 (label). FIRST EDITION. With various worksof history, travel, theology etc. in 124 vols. including Public Charactersof 1800-1801 (London, 1801, folding engraved frontispiece, contemporarycalf [including biographies of William Wilberforce, Charlotte Smith, JohnThelwall, Thomas Jefferson and Joseph Banks]) and The Argosy. Edited by Mrs.Henry Wood (London, December 1867-December 1878, vols. V- XXVI [only],attractively bound in contemporary half calf gilt). Please note that only a part of this lot is illustrated. The lot sold not subject to return. (126)

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[WILLIS, Robert (1800-75)]. An Attempt to Analyse the Automaton Chess Player. [Bound with 3 other unrelated works.][WILLIS, R

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Lot 624

[WILLIS, Robert (1800-75)]. An Attempt to Analyse the Automaton Chess Player. [Bound with 3 other unrelated works.][WILLIS, Robert (1800-75)]. AnAttempt to Analyse the Automaton Chess Player of Mr. de Kempelen. With an EasyMethod of Imitating the Movements of that Celebrated Figure. Illustrated byOriginal Drawings. To which is Added, a Copious Collection of the Knight’sMoves over the Chess Board. London: Printed for J. Booth, 1821. Half title, lithographed frontispiece by Hullmandel after the author and 9plates (some light staining mainly to plates) [bound with:] An HistoricalMemoir, relating to the Battle of Maida, fought in Calabria, 4thJuly, 1806 (London, 1819) [And:] Elijah’s Mantle; being VersesOccasioned by the Death of that Illustrious Statesman the Right HonourableWilliam Pitt … The Fifth edition (London, 1807) [And:] The EdinburghReview, December 1826. No. LXXXIX (Edinburgh, 1826, including a plate ofhieroglyphics). Together 4 works bound in one volume, 8vo (203 x 130mm). Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine with redmorocco lettering-piece (rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: John J. Jones(old signature at head of title); later annotation to frontispiece; some earlyannotation to front endpapers; G. L. T. Engle (modern signature on frontpastedown); from the Library of the late Sir George Engle. FIRST EDITION of the first-named work. Wolfgang von Kempelen(1734-1804) first displayed his celebrated “Automaton Chess Player” (or “TheMechanical Turk”) in 1770. It convinced many who saw it that, through itsmechanism alone, it was able to hold its own against human opponents, including,reputedly, Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin. In 1821, however, RobertWillis, a Cambridge professor and mechanical engineer, definitively exposed itin the present work as a hoax and revealed what some had already suspected:that the mechanism cunningly concealed a hidden human operator.

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WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). The Waves.WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). The Waves. London: Published byLeonard and Virginia Woolf

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Lot 628

WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). The Waves.WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). The Waves. London: Published byLeonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1931. 8vo (185 x 125mm). Halftitle (sporadic very light mainly marginal spotting). Original mauve cloth, spinelettered in gilt (narrow strips faded at head and foot of spine, very faint and localised adhesive deposits to covers), dust-jacketdesigned by Vanessa Bell (piece torn away from head of backstrip with loss ofpart of 2 letters, some light spotting). Provenance: From the Library of the late Sir GeorgeEngle. FIRST EDITION of the author's celebrated modernist work in which "... each character speaks in soliloquy against the background of the sea. Several lives thus appear as in a pageant detached from the framework of daily life, but they change and grow old as time goes on. In the end one of the characters sums up the effect of their lives as a whole" (from the front turn-in). “Her most experimentalnovel in which a group of ‘early Bloomsburies’ with qualities amalgamated fromKeynes, Strachey, Vanessa Bell and Desmond McCarthy, etc., are halted in aseries of close-ups at various stages of their lives while their thought-trainsare recorded, till they end in a crescendo of highly artificial writing thatsurprisingly comes off … [Her] most ambitious novel” (Connolly). Connolly TheModern Movement 70; Kirkpatrick A16a; Woolmer 279.

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WYLLIE, William Lionel (1851-1931, artist). London to the Nore. [etc.]WYLLIE, William Lionel (1851-1931, artist). Londonto th

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Lot 629

WYLLIE, William Lionel (1851-1931, artist). London to the Nore. [etc.]WYLLIE, William Lionel (1851-1931, artist). Londonto the Nore Painted & Described. London: A. and C. Black, 1905. 4to(268 x 208mm). Half title, coloured frontispiece and 59 plates by W. L. Wyllie(some mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original pictorial buckram gilt(corners rubbed, some light staining). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 238 OF 250 COPIESSIGNED BY THE ARTIST. With Martin Conway's The Alps (London, 1904,coloured plates by A. D. McCormick, NUMBER 277 OF 300 COPIES SIGNED BY THEPUBLISHER A. & C. BLACK), Mortimer Menpes' Whistler As I Knew Him(London, 1904, etched frontispiece and plates by Whistler, NUMBER 231 OF 231COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR), Dorothy Menpes' Brittany (London, 1905,plates by Mortimer Menpes, NUMBER 139 OF 350 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST) andH. M. Cundall's Birket Foster (London, 1906, etched frontispiece andplates by Birket Foster, NUMBER 337 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER), thelast four bound in modern calf. (5)

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BEAUFORT, Francis (1774-1857). Karamania.BEAUFORT, Francis (1774-1857).  Karamania, or a Brief Description of the South

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Lot 631

BEAUFORT, Francis (1774-1857). Karamania.BEAUFORT, Francis (1774-1857). Karamania, or a Brief Description of the South Coast of Asia=Minor and of the Remains of Antiquity. With Plans, Views ...Collected during a Survey of that Coast, under the Orders of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, in the Years 1811 and 1812. London: Printed for R. Hunter, 1817. 8vo (205 x 132mm). Engraved frontispiece and 6 plates and maps, one folding, engraved vignettes, with final leaf [X2] (“List of the Plates …”) which is sometimes lacking (occasional light spotting and staining). Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt with green morocco lettering-piece (skilfully repaired). Provenance: Lord Dinorben (armorial bookplate); from the Collection of Lt. Cdr. Andrew David (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Atabey 81; Blackmer 103; Weber I, 45.

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LYON, George Francis (1795-1832). The Private Journal ... during the Recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry. [etc.]LY

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Lot 643

LYON, George Francis (1795-1832). The Private Journal ... during the Recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry. [etc.]LYON, George Francis (1795-1832). The Private Journal of Captain G. F. Lyon, of H.M.S. Hecla, duringthe Recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry. London: John Murray,1824. 8vo (212 x 125mm). Wood-engraved frontispiece and 6 plates by EdwardFinden after the author, folding engraved chart at the end (some light mainlymarginal staining, possibly washed). Contemporary burgundy half calf gilt (skilfullyrebacked preserving old spine). FIRST EDITION. Arctic Bib. 10531; Hill p. 1053;Sabin 42853. With 5 other works of related interest in 6 vols., namely JohnFranklin’s Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea … ThirdEdition (London, 1824, 2 vols., modern half calf), William Edward Parry’s Journalof a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlanticto the Pacific (London, 1824, browned, contemporary half roan, worn), John Frederick Dennett’s The Voyagesand Travels of Captains Ross, Parry, Franklin, and Mr Belzoni; forming anInteresting History of the Manners, Customs, and Characters of Various Nations(London, 1835, plates, contemporary half calf), F. L. Mclintock’s ANarrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions(London, 1860, modern calf-backed boards)and Elisha Kent Kane’s Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expeditionin Search of Sir John Franklin (London, 1861, original cloth). Provenance:from the Collection of Lt. Cdr. Andrew David (bookplate). The lot sold notsubject to return. (7)

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MACKENZIE, Murdoch (1712-97). A Treatise on Marine Surveying. [etc.]MACKENZIE, Murdoch (1712-97). ATreatise on Marine Survey

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Lot 644

MACKENZIE, Murdoch (1712-97). A Treatise on Marine Surveying. [etc.]MACKENZIE, Murdoch (1712-97). ATreatise on Marine Surveying. In Two Parts … Corrected and Republished, with aSupplement, by James Horsburgh. London: Printed for the Editor, 1819. 8vo(211 x 128mm). 7 engraved plates, one folding (occasional light mainly marginalspotting and staining). Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine giltwith black morocco lettering-piece (some surface wear to upper cover, cornersbumped, rubbed). Provenance: “The property of [?]V. [?]Napier” (semi-legibleold inscription at head of title). With Murdoch Mackenzie’s The North Coastof Kent with the Adjacent Channels ([London], 1775, large engraved chart,laid down, in modern cloth slipcase). Provenance: from the Collection ofLt. Cdr. Andrew David (bookplate). (2)

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[MANDERSON, James (dates unknown)]. A Letter to the Prime Minister, and First lord of the Admiralty ... on the Extension of t

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Lot 645

[MANDERSON, James (dates unknown)]. A Letter to the Prime Minister, and First lord of the Admiralty ... on the Extension of the Naval Establishments of the Country. [etc.][MANDERSON, James (dates unknown)]. A Letter to the Prime Minister, and First Lord of the Admiralty, froma Captain in the Royal Navy, on the Extension of the Naval Establishments ofthe Country; With an Engraved Sketch of the Body of Falmouth Harbour; whereinit is proved, that this Harbour, from the combination of Situation, Safety,Ease of Entrance, Capacity, and extreme Susceptibility of Improvement, is theFirst Harbour in Great Britain for all Naval Purposes connected with theAtlantic Ocean. London: J. Stockdale, [1810]. Small 4to (217 x 160mm).50-pages, folding engraved “Sketch of the Body of Falmouth Harbour and its DeepChannels” (some light staining). Later pebbled cloth (a little bowed). With 5other works of related interest in 10 vols., namely W. H. Smyth’s The Lifeand Services of Captain Philip Beaver, Late of His Majesty’s Ship Nisus(London, 1829, later paper-backed boards), Edward Tagart’s A Memoir of thelate Captain Peter Heywood (London, 1832, modern half calf), WilliamJames’s The Naval History of Great Britain (London, 1837, 6 vols.,contemporary half calf), John Baillie’s A Memoir of Captain W. Thornton Bate(London, 1859, original cloth) and J. G. Brighton’s Admiral Sir P. B. V.Brooke … A Memoir (London, 1866, original blue buckram). Provenance:from the Collection of Lt. Cdr. Andrew David (bookplate). The lot sold notsubject to return. (11)

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SEEMAN, Berthold Carl (1825-71). Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald ... Being a Circumnavigation of the Globe, and Thre

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Lot 653

SEEMAN, Berthold Carl (1825-71). Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald ... Being a Circumnavigation of the Globe, and Three Cruizes [sic] of the Arctic Regions in Search of John Franklin.SEEMANN, Berthold Carl (1825-71). Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald during the Years 1845-51, under the Command of Captain Henry Kellett, R.N., C.B., being a Circumnavigation of the Globe, and Three Cruizes [sic] of the Arctic Regions in Search of Sir John Franklin. London: Reeve and Co., 1853. 2 volumes bound in one, large 8vo (212 x 140mm). Half title to vol. one, 2 tinted lithographed frontispieces, folding coloured map with route of the voyage marked in red, tables (lacks all before half title [i.e. endpaper], half title browned, occasional light spotting and staining). Original mauve pebbled pictorial cloth gilt, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, some staining, mark to upper cover). Provenance: Hudson (armorial bookplate); from the Collection of Lt. Cdr. Andrew David (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Arctic Bib. 15680; Hill p. 271; Howes S-271; Sabin 78867; Stafleu and Cowan TL-2 11602; Wickersham 6593.

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SEEMAN, Berthold Carl (1825-71). Viti: An Account of a Government Mission to the Vitian or Fijian Islands. [etc.]SEEMANN, Ber

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Lot 654

SEEMAN, Berthold Carl (1825-71). Viti: An Account of a Government Mission to the Vitian or Fijian Islands. [etc.]SEEMANN, Berthold Carl (1825-71). Viti: An Account of a Government Mission to the Vitian or Fijian Islands in the Years 1860-61. Cambridge: Macmillan & Co., 1862. 8vo (224 x 140mm). Half title, tinted lithographed frontispiece, double-page engraved map, and 3 tinted lithographed plates (some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Modern green half morocco gilt, new endpapers. FIRST EDITION. Howgego III, 516. With Joseph Waterhouse’s Vah-ta-ah, the Feejeean Princess: with Occasional Allusions to Feejeean Customs; and Illustrations of Feejeean Life (London, 1857, original cloth). Provenance: from the Collection of Lt. Cdr. Andrew David (bookplate). (2)

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SNOW, William Parker (1817-95). A Two Years' Cruise off Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, Patagonia, and in the River P

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Lot 656

SNOW, William Parker (1817-95). A Two Years' Cruise off Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, Patagonia, and in the River Plate.SNOW, William Parker (1817-95). A Two Years’ Cruise off Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, Patagonia, and in the River Plate. A Narrative of Life in the Southern Seas. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857. 2 volumes, 8vo (183 x 115mm). Half title in vol. one, 6 coloured lithographed plates, 3 folding engraved maps with hand-colouring (some light spotting and staining). Modern half speckled calf gilt, top edges gilt. Provenance: from the Collection of Lt. Cdr. Andrew David (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Borba de Moraes p.817; Hill p. 1599; Renard 1508; Sabin 85559; Spence 1141. (2)

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SPRATT, Thomas Abel Brimage (1811-88). Travels and Researches in Crete.SPRATT, Thomas Abel Brimage (1811-88).  Travels a

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Lot 657

SPRATT, Thomas Abel Brimage (1811-88). Travels and Researches in Crete.SPRATT, Thomas Abel Brimage (1811-88). Travels and Researches in Crete. London: John van Voorst, 1865. 2 volumes, 8vo (223 x 140mm). 2 folding hand-coloured engraved maps, 17 lithographed plates, many tinted, one folding, mounted illustrations including 2 full-page, one-page publisher’s advertisement at the front of vol. one (occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original publisher’s terracotta cloth gilt (corners bumped, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: early annotation at beginning of first vol. and at some margins; from the Collection of Lt. Cdr. Andrew David (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Blackmer 1590; Hopkirk 583. (2)

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VANCOUVER, George (1757-98). A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean.VANCOUVER, George (1757-98).  A Voyage of

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Lot 658

VANCOUVER, George (1757-98). A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean.VANCOUVER, George (1757-98). A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World; in which the Coast of North-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed undertaken by His Majesty’s Command, Principally with a View to ascertain the existence of any Navigable Communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans … A New Edition, with Corrections. London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1801. 6 volumes, 8vo (225 x 145mm). 17 folding engraved plates (lacking the 2 charts in vol. one, but supplied in crude modern facsimile, one bound in, the other loose, pp. 409-410 in vol. one lacking, but supplied in crude modern facsimile, occasional light spotting and staining). Contemporary paper-backed pink paper boards, spines titled in early manuscript, uncut (upper joints of vol. one split, some creasing and discolouration of spines). Provenance: Francis White Popham (armorial bookplates). With a folio volume of folding modern facsimile charts to accompany the work. Brunet IV, 563; Ferguson 339; Forbes 335; Hill p. 1754: “This voyage became one of the most important ever made in the interests of geographical knowledge”; Howes V-23; Howgego I, V13; Sabin 98444; Wickersham 6601. Provenance: from the Collection of Lt. Cdr. Andrew David (bookplate). (7)

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WEBSTER, William Henry Bayley (dates unknown). Narrative of a Voyage to the Southern Atlantic Ocean.WEBSTER, William Henry Ba

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Lot 659

WEBSTER, William Henry Bayley (dates unknown). Narrative of a Voyage to the Southern Atlantic Ocean.WEBSTER, William Henry Bayley (dates unknown). Narrative of a Voyage to the Southern Atlantic Ocean, in the Years 1828, 29, 30, Performed in H. M. Sloop Chanticleer. London: Richard Bentley, 1834. 2 volumes, 8vo (212 x 135mm). Half title in vol. II, 2 engraved maps, one folding, 5 lithographed plates, tables (maps lightly browned, plates more heavily browned and spotted, occasional light spotting and staining to text). Attractively bound in modern half calf gilt. Provenance: Admiralty Library (old stamps on titles, cancelled); from the Collection of Lt. Cdr. Andrew David (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Travel 11; Borba de Moraes I, p. 373; Hill p. 612; Sabin 102429. (2)

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WILLIAMS, Thomas (1815-91). Fiji and the Fijians.WILLIAMS, Thomas (1815-91).  Fiji and the Fijians … Edited by George St

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Lot 660

WILLIAMS, Thomas (1815-91). Fiji and the Fijians.WILLIAMS, Thomas (1815-91). Fiji and the Fijians … Edited by George Stringer Rowe. London: Alexander Heylin, 1858. 2 volumes, 8vo (185 x 120mm). Half title in vol. II, folding engraved map, 12 plates, 3 of which coloured, one-page of publisher’s advertisements at the end of vol. II (plates generally spotted, some light spotting and staining to text). Original peach cloth decorated in blind (spines discoloured, inner hinges weak or broken, stained). Provenance: Henry Hannen (armorial label); from the Collection of Lt. Cdr. Andrew David (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Travel 603; Hill p. 1885. (2)

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ALBAN, Johann Ernst Heinrich (1791-1856). Die Hochdruckdampfmaschine.ALBAN, Johann Ernst Heinrich (1791-1856).  Die Hoch

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Lot 661

ALBAN, Johann Ernst Heinrich (1791-1856). Die Hochdruckdampfmaschine.ALBAN, Johann Ernst Heinrich (1791-1856). Die Hochdruckdampfmaschine. Richtigstellung ihres Werthes in der Reihe der übrigen Dampfmaschinen-Systeme, Vortheile ihrer allgemeinen Anwendung, so wie Vorschläge zu einer zweckmäßigern Construction derselben, um die Dämpfe möglichst Brennmaterial ersparend und gefahrlos in ihr benutzen zu können. Rostock and Schwerin: Stiller'sche hofbuchhandlung, 1843. 8vo (209 x 125mm). 5 folding lithographed plates (some spotting to title and first few leaves, some light browning, plates lightly stained). Contemporary half roan and marbled boards gilt (extremities rubbed, some scuffing to boards). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION of this work by the inventor of a celebrated high-pressure steam generator which is illustrated in the plates.

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BUNSEN, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard (1811-99). Gasometrische Methoden.BUNSEN, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard (1811-99).   Gaso

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Lot 667

BUNSEN, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard (1811-99). Gasometrische Methoden.BUNSEN, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard (1811-99). Gasometrische Methoden. Braunschweig: Druck und Verlag von Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1857. 8vo (208 x 135mm). Half title, 60 wood-engraved illustrations, tables, errata leaf, with the publisher’s yellow printed slip [often lacking] announcing the availability of copies on heavier paper for laboratory use (occasional light spotting and staining). [?]Original publisher’s cloth-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt (rubbed, slight wear to lower joints). Provenance: “Chem. Institut der Universitaet Graz” (stamps on half title and title); a further unidentified stamp on title; from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION of a work into which the author "... compiled his research on the phenomena of gases into his only book ... This work brought gas analysis to a level of accuracy and simplicity reached earlier by gravimetric and titrimetric techniques. Dividing the book into six parts, Bunsen presented methods of collecting, preserving, and measuring gases; techniques of eudiometric analysis; new process for determining the specific gravities of gases; results of investigations on the absorption of gases in water and alcohol using an 'absorptiometer' he himself devised; and results of experiments on gaseous diffusion and combustion" (DSB). Norman 373; Partington IV, p.286; Sparrow Milestones of Science 33 (citing the first English edition published in the same year as the present copy).

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CARNOT, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite (1753-1823). De la Correlation des Figures de Geometrie.CARNOT, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite (

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Lot 668

CARNOT, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite (1753-1823). De la Correlation des Figures de Geometrie.CARNOT, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite (1753-1823). De la Corrélation des Figures de Géométrie. Paris: Chez Duprat, 1801. 8vo (235 x 152mm). Half title, 4 folding engraved plates, 4-pages of publisher’s advertisements at the end (some light mainly marginal spotting, staining and browning, a few darker spots). Modern leatherette-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, uncut, new endpapers. Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION. “Carnot's main geometric writings were motivated largely by the attempt to make reasonable the employment of unreasonable quantity in analysis, although with the focus on negative rather than infinitesimal quantity ... De la Corrélation des Figures de Géométrie of 1801 and its extension, the Géométrie de Position of 1803, constituted his most significant clarification of the procedures of mathematics. Carnot found absurd the notion that a quantity itself could be less than zero … He insisted in Corrélation des Figures on distinguishing between a quantity properly speaking and the algebraic value of a function. It was equally unacceptable to interpret the minus sign as meaning simply that a quantity was to be taken in a direction opposite to a positive one … By correlative systems Carnot meant all those that could be considered as different states of a single variable system undergoing gradual transformation. It was not necessary that all correlative systems should actually have been evolved out of the primitive system. It sufficed that they might be assimilated to it by changes involving no discontinuous mutations. The whole topic may be taken as the geometric operation of Carnot's favourite reasoning device - a comparison of systems between which the nexus of change is a continuum ..." (DSB). Honeyman II, 596; Poggendorf I, 381.

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DARWIN, Charles (1809-82). De l' Origine des Especes.DARWIN, Charles (1809-82).  De l’ Origine des Espèces ou des Lois d

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Lot 670

DARWIN, Charles (1809-82). De l' Origine des Especes.DARWIN, Charles (1809-82). De l’ Origine des Espèces ou des Lois du Progrès chez lestres Organisés … Traduit en français sur la Troisième Édition avec l’ autorisation de l’ Auteur par Mlle. Clémence-Auguste Royer avec une Préface et des Notes du Traducteur. Paris: Guillaumin et Cie … Victor Masson et Fils, 1862. 8vo (188 x 120mm). Half title, folding lithographed plate (first gathering detached, variable nut mainly light and marginal spotting and staining, plate lightly browned at margins). Original pale green printed wrappers, uncut (very lightly spotted, some very minor fraying, upper wrapper and backstrip creased), modern protective book box. Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. Dibner Heralds 199: “The most important single work in science”; Freeman 655 (French edition, not mentioning the plate): “Certainly the most important biological book ever written”; Garrison-Morton 220; Heirs of Hippocrates 1724; Norman 593; PMM 344(b); Waller 10786. (Most references citing the first (English) edition of 1859.) “The outstanding difficulty was to discover the means by which the infinite variety of living organisms could have been produced within the limits of geological time. In accomplishing this Darwin not only drew an entirely new picture of the workings of organic nature; he revolutionized our methods of thinking and our outlook on the natural order of things” (PMM). The translation of this first French edition was made by Clémence-Auguste Royer (1830-1902), who also wrote the 59-page preface and provided numerous footnotes. Her input was controversial, and not just because of her gender, which, in the view of some contemporary male critics, alone disqualified her from being able to fully digest Darwin’s complex ideas. Darwin, who appears not to have heard of Royer before her translation appeared, was more ambivalent on the matter. In a letter to the American botanist, Asa Gray, he wrote: “I received 2 or 3 days ago a French translation of the Origin by a Madelle. Royer, who must be one of the cleverest and oddest women in Europe: is an ardent deist and hates Christianity, and declares that natural selection and the struggle for life will explain all morality, the nature of man, politicks, etc. etc.!! She makes very curious and good hits, and says she shall publish a book on these subjects, and a strange production it will be.” The ‘strange production’ turned out to be Royer’s L’ Origine de l’ Homme et des Sociétés published in 1870 which anticipated some of the ideas Darwin expressed in his own The Descent of Man published a year later.

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DE CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus (1778-1841). Theorie Elementaire de la Botanique, ou Exposition des Principes de la Classificat

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Lot 672

DE CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus (1778-1841). Theorie Elementaire de la Botanique, ou Exposition des Principes de la Classification Naturelle. [etc]DE CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus (1778-1841). Théorie Élémentaire de la Botanique, ou Exposition des Principes de la Classicification Naturelle et de l’ Art de Décrire et d’ Etudier les Végétaux. Paris: Chez Déterville, 1813. 8vo (200 x 122mm). Half title, table (half title and title repaired at fore-margins without loss of letters, some light spotting and browning, but generally very clean internally). Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, spine gilt. FIRST EDITION of the author’s most important work which introduced a new system of plant classification, now known as the “De Candolle System”, and first introduced the word “taxonomie”, the title of the first chapter. The author’s concept of nature being at war with itself, which went on to influence Darwin’s key notion of “the struggle for existence”, is evident in the following remarkable passage taken from Candolle’s Essai Élémentaire de Geographie Botanique (1820, not included in the lot): “Toutes les plantes d’un pays, toutes celles d’un lieu donné, sont dans un état de guerre les unes relativement aux autres. Toutes sont douées de moyens de réproductions et de nutrition plus ou moins efficacies. Les premières qui s’établissent par hasard dans une localité donnée, tendent, par cela même qu’elles occupant l’espace, à en exclure les autres espèces: les plus grandes étouffent les plus petites; les plus vivaces remplacent celles don’t la durée est plus courte; les plus fécondes s’emparent graduellement de l’espace que pourraient occuper celles qui se multiplient plus difficiliement” (p.26). Stafleu and Cowan (citing English ed. of 1821): 992. With the same author’s Organographie Végétale, ou Description Raisonée des Organes des Plantes (Paris, 1827, 2 vols., 60 engraved plates, some fairly heavy spotting, contemporary roan-backed boards, FIRST EDITION). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. (3)

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EHLRICH, Paul (1854-1915). Gesammelte Arbeitem zur Immunitatsforschung.EHRLICH, Paul (1854-1915).  Gesammelte Arbeiten z

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Lot 674

EHLRICH, Paul (1854-1915). Gesammelte Arbeitem zur Immunitatsforschung.EHRLICH, Paul (1854-1915). Gesammelte Arbeiten zur Immunitätsforschung. Berlin: Verlag von August Hirschwald, 1904. Large 8vo (242 x 160mm). Illustrations and tables (light stain to lower corners, light marginal browning). Contemporary half cloth and marbled boards (rubbed, hinges reinforced, some wear caused by removal of label). Provenance: Paul Ehrlich Institut Bibliothek Frankfurt a. Main (library stamps to endpapers and title); from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION. Garrison-Morton 2559; Heirs of Hippocrates 2158: "The present volume contains most of the work on immunity published by Ehrlich and his co-workers between 1899 and 1904. Five of the thirty-eight reports were written by Ehrlich and many of the remainder were written in collaboration with Julius Morgenroth (1871-1924) and Hans Sachs (1877-1945), two of his key assistants. Included are important contributions on the theory of lysin action, studies on hemolysins and researches into the mechanism of hemolytic reactions, as well as immunological studies of toxins and antitoxins. Ehrlich shared the Nobel prize for physiology and medicine with Elie Mechnikov ... in 1908 for their work on immunity."

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[EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1966)] - Felix EBERTY (1812-84). Die Gestime und die Weitgeschichte ... Mit einer Einleitung von Albe

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Lot 676

[EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1966)] - Felix EBERTY (1812-84). Die Gestime und die Weitgeschichte ... Mit einer Einleitung von Albert Einstein.[EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)] – Felix EBERTY (1812-84). Die Gestirne und die Weltgeschichte. Gedanken Uberzeit Raum und Ewigkeit. Neu Herausgegeben von Gregorius Itelson. Mit einer Einleitung von Albert Einstein. Berlin: Verlag von Gregor Rogoff, 1923. Small 4to (190 x 129mm). (Some very light mainly marginal spotting.) Original wrappers printed in red and green (lightly stained). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION THUS. It was probably something of a coup for the publishers to secure an introduction by Albert Einstein for their reprint of Felix Eberty’s speculative work which was first published, under a pseudonym, in 1846. The title in English reads: “Stars and World History. Thoughts about Time, Space and Eternity” and it is known that Einstein had read the book and been influenced by it as a young man. His 8-line introduction, translated from the original German, and which, in this edition, makes its first appearance, reads as follows: “There is no lack of current interest in this little book, written by an original, witty person. For it shows, on the one hand, a mind that is critical toward the obsolete concept of time; on the other hand, it shows the peculiar consequences from which the theory of relativity, which so often is being charged precisely for the bizarre nature of its consequences, saves us.” RARE.

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FARADAY, Michael (1791-1867). Experimental Researches in Electricity. [etc.]FARADAY, Michael (1791-1867).  Experimental

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Lot 677

FARADAY, Michael (1791-1867). Experimental Researches in Electricity. [etc.]FARADAY, Michael (1791-1867). Experimental Researches in Electricity. London: [Vols. one & 2:] Richard and John Edward Taylor; [Vol. III:] Richard Taylor and William Francis, [1839]-44-55. 3 volumes, large 8vo (222 x 142mm). 17 engraved plates, most folding, diagrams and tables, 8-pages of publisher’s advertisements dated May 13, 1839 at the end of vol. one (heavy stain to one plate in vol. III, occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining, some leaves lightly browned). Original near-uniform green publisher’s cloth, spines lettered in gilt (corners bumped, some light staining). Provenance: J. B. [?]Gill (old signature on title of first vol.); F. Buddle Atkinson (armorial bookplate in vol. II). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM of the twenty-nine series of papers published by Faraday in Philosophical Transactions between 1832 and 1852. Dibner Heralds 64; Horblit 29; Jeffreys 297; Norman 762; PMM 308: “… Although [Faraday’s] discovery of the electric motor and the dynamo was almost entirely incidental to his theoretical discoveries, it laid the foundation of the modern electrical industry – electric light and power, telephony, wireless telegraphy, television, etc. by providing for the production of continuous mechanical motion from an electrical source, and vice versa … [He] coined a whole new terminology – electrolyte, electrolyze, cathode, anode and ion. Helmholtz, in the Faraday Lecture for 1881, pointed out that Faraday had trembled on the brink of discovering the electron theory of matter”; Wheeler Gift 959. With the same author’s Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics (London, 1859, original cloth, FIRST EDITION). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. (4)

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FARADAY, Michael (1791-1867). A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemistry History of a Candle. [etc.]FARADAY, Michael (1791-186

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Lot 678

FARADAY, Michael (1791-1867). A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemistry History of a Candle. [etc.]FARADAY, Michael (1791-1867). A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle: to which is Added a Lecture on Platinum. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1861. 8vo (165 x 108mm). Half title, wood-engraved illustrations and diagrams (some light mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few darker spots). Original cloth gilt (extremities lightly rubbed, some staining to endpapers). Provenance: Pope Valley School District, Public School Library, State of California (label, and stamps). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. cf. Howe and Holtz’s Bibliography of the Metals of the Platinum Group (Washington, 1919), p. 112 (citing Faraday's separately published lecture on platinum). With the same author’s Histoire d’ une Chandelle … Troisième édition (Paris, [n.d.], original cloth). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. (2)

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FINE, Oronce (1494-1555). De duodecim caeli domiciliis, & horis inaequalibus.FINE, Oronce (1494-1555).  De duodecim

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Lot 679

FINE, Oronce (1494-1555). De duodecim caeli domiciliis, & horis inaequalibus.FINE, Oronce (1494-1555). De duodecim cæli domiciliis, et horis inæqualibus, libellus non aspernandus. Una cum ipsarum domorum, atque inæqualium horarum instrument, ad latitudinem Parisiensem, hactenus ignota ratione delineato. Paris: “Apud Michaëlem Vascosanum, uia Iacobæa ad insigne Fontis,” 1553. 4to (232 x 155mm). Initials, woodcut diagrams and tables (some light mainly marginal staining). Attractively bound in modern mottled sheep gilt. Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION of this rare treatise chiefly on astrology by one of the most influential mathematical teachers of his time, who was also known for his work as a cartographer and a designer and maker of mathematical instruments. Not in Brunet; International Bibliography of Gnomonica (1997) p. 105; Lalande Bibliographie Astronomique p.76.

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FIRST SOLVAY CONFERENCE - La Theorie du Rayonnement et les Quanta.FIRSTSOLVAY CONFERENCE - La Théorie du Rayonnement et les Q

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Lot 680

FIRST SOLVAY CONFERENCE - La Theorie du Rayonnement et les Quanta.FIRSTSOLVAY CONFERENCE - La Théorie du Rayonnement et les Quanta. Rapports etDiscussions de la Réunion tenue à Bruxelles, du 30 Octobre au 3 Novembre 1911sous les Auspices de M. E. Solvay. Publiés par MM. P. Langevin et M. deBroglie. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1912. Large 8vo (254 x 168mm). Halftitle, illustrations and diagrams (some very light marginal browning). Modernhalf blue leatherette and marbled boards, original blue printed wrappers boundin (repair to verso of corner of upper wrapper, repair to rear endpaper). Provenance:from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. THE FIRST AND ONLY EDITIONof the printed report of the proceedings of the first Solvay Conference whichproved to be a turning-pointing in modern physics. In this first conference,Einstein came to early prominence as the second youngest participant at the ageof 32. Also included among the 18 leading scientists present were the director,Ernest Solvay, Hendrik Lorentz, Max Planck, Ernest Rutherford, Marie Curie andHenri Poincaré.

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FLEMMING, Walther 1843-1905). Zellsubstanz, Kem und Zelltheilung.FLEMMING, Walther (1843-1905).  Zellsubstanz, Kern und

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Lot 681

FLEMMING, Walther 1843-1905). Zellsubstanz, Kem und Zelltheilung.FLEMMING, Walther (1843-1905). Zellsubstanz, Kern und Zelltheilung. Leipzig: Verlag von F. C. W. Vogel, 1882. Large 8vo (235 x 160mm). 8 tinted lithographed plates, one folding, some double-page, illustrations (title stained, occasional light spotting). Contemporary black half roan and marbled boards (extremities rubbed, remnants of old manuscript label on spine). Provenance: Bibliotheca Collegii Exaeten (old stamp on title); from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION of this seminal work on cytogenetics which first established, and named, the process of ‘mitosis’. In the present work, the author also coins the terms ‘prophase’, ‘metaphase’ and ‘anaphase’ and establishes that all cell nuclei come from another predecessor nucleus. The author was the first to observe and describe systematically the behaviour of chromosomes in the cell nucleus during normal cell division. The book also includes the first illustration of human chromosomes, made possible by the use of aniline dyes.

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GALEN (c. 129-200 AD). De naturalibus facultatibus libri tres.GALEN (c.129-200 AD).  De naturalibus facultatibus libri

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Lot 683

GALEN (c. 129-200 AD). De naturalibus facultatibus libri tres.GALEN (c.129-200 AD). De naturalibus facultatibus libri tres, Thoma Linacro Anglo interprete. Lyon: Apud Guliel. Rovillium, 1548. Small 8vo (116 x 77mm). Woodcut device on title, initials, tables, index (title lightly browned, A4 torn and repaired with loss, occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary calf, spine gilt with 5 raised bands, red edges (joints split, extremities rubbed). Provenance: illegible old library stamp on title; from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune.

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HELMHOLTZ, Hermann von (1821-94). Die Lehre con den Tonempfindungen als Physiologische Grundlage fur die Theorie der Musik.HE

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Lot 687

HELMHOLTZ, Hermann von (1821-94). Die Lehre con den Tonempfindungen als Physiologische Grundlage fur die Theorie der Musik.HELMHOLTZ, Hermann von (1821-94). Die Lehre con den Tonempfindungen als Physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik. Braunschweig: Druck und Verlag von Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1863. Large 8vo (214 x 140mm). Half title, diagrams, illustrations and tables (occasional very light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards (some splitting to joints, rubbed). Provenance: Stadtmuseum, Bautzen (cancelled stamps and label on upper cover); illegible old inscription on front free endpaper; from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION. Garrison-Morton 1562: “[Contains] Helmholtz’s theory of hearing, upon which all modern theories of resonance are based. This exhaustive study of acoustics ranks as one of the greatest books on the subject and shows that Helmholtz was, besides being a great physicist and physician, an accomplished musician”; Honeyman 1643; Horblit 49a; Poggendorff III, 611; Sparrow Milestones of Science 41.

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HERTZ, Heinrich Rudolf (1857-94). Untersuchungen ueber die Ausbreitung der Elektrischen Kraft.HERTZ, Heinrich Rudolf (1857-94

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Lot 691

HERTZ, Heinrich Rudolf (1857-94). Untersuchungen ueber die Ausbreitung der Elektrischen Kraft.HERTZ, Heinrich Rudolf (1857-94). Untersuchungen ueber die Ausbreitung der Elektrischen Kraft. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1892. 8vo (217 x 140mm). Illustrations and diagrams (title very lightly browned). Contemporary [?or original publisher’s] black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, blue foliate endpapers, marbled edges. Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of Hertz’s important series of papers on electromagnetic waves, which includes his proof that they travel at the speed of light, and that they can be created and sent through space by means of wireless telegraphy; they have been of profound importance to 20th-century technology. "Experimental proof by Hertz of the Faraday-Maxwell hypothesis that electric waves can be projected through space ... was begun in 1887, eight years after Maxwell's death. The two main requirements were (a) a method of producing the waves, supposing that they existed, and (b) a method of detecting them once they were produced. Hertz found the first problem easy to solve. He used the oscillatory discharge of a condenser. Detection was much more difficult, because there then existed no means of detecting currents alternating at the high speed of these waves. Hertz in fact used an effect as old as the discovery of electricity itself - the electric spark. By inducing the waves to produce an electric spark at a distance, with no apparent connexion between the oscillator and spark gap, and by moving the sparking apparatus so that the length of the spark varied, he proved beyond question the passage of electric waves through space" (PMM). Honeyman 1669; Norman 1061; PMM 377; Sparrow Milestones of Science 101; Waller 1137.

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HOFMEISTER, Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt (1824-77). Vergleichende Untersuchungen der Keimung, Enfaltung und Fruchtbildung Hoher

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Lot 692

HOFMEISTER, Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt (1824-77). Vergleichende Untersuchungen der Keimung, Enfaltung und Fruchtbildung Hoherer Kryptogamen.HOFMEISTER, Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt (1824-77). Vergleichende Untersuchungen der Keimung, Entfaltung und Fruchtbildung Höherer Kryptogamen (Moose, Farrn, Equisetaceen, Rhizocarpeen und Lycopodiaceen) und der Samenbildung der Coniferen. Leipzig: Verlag von Friedrich Hofmeister [colophon:] Druck von Breitkopf und Härtel in Leipzig, 1851. 4to (267 x 220mm). 33 engraved plates (spotted throughout, some light browning and staining). Contemporary half roan and marbled boards, spine gilt (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Bibliotheca Collegii Exaeten (old stamp on title); old, partly defaced, label on title; from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FIRST EDITION of this milestone in the history of biology in which the author comes to the “revolutionary conclusion that all green land plants undergo a regular alternation of dissimilar generations in their complete life histories” (Norman) and which significantly contributed to the growth of phylogenetic and evolutionary ideas. "The amount of new information presented is immense; the errors are minor and do not affect the overall picture ... With this single publication, the core of botany passed from its Middle Ages to the modern period" (DSB). The American Journal of Botany stated that the author “stands as one of the true giants in the history of biology and belongs in the same pantheon as Darwin and Mendel.” Dibner Heralds 34 (citing only the English edition of 1862); Nissen BBI 902; Norman 1083; Waller 11538.

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HUMBOLDT, Alexander von (1769-1859). Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung.HUMBOLDT, Alexander von (1769-1859).&n

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Lot 693

HUMBOLDT, Alexander von (1769-1859). Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung.HUMBOLDT, Alexander von (1769-1859). Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung. [Vols. I – IV:] Stuttgart and Tübingen [Vol. V:] Stuttgart: Cotta, 1845-62. 5 text volumes, 4to (215 x 135mm). (Occasional light mainly marginal spotting.) Contemporary black half morocco, spines lettered and decorated in gilt with raised bands (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION. Without the “atlas” volume, as often, but with the posthumously published fifth text volume. PMM 320 (calling for “4 vols. text, and atlas”): “Alexander von Humboldt produced in his ‘Cosmos’ one of the last really comprehensive physical surveys ever to be attempted … [It] was Kosmos – ‘The Cosmos, Outline of a Description of the Physical World’ – based on lectures delivered at the Berlin Singakademie in 1828-9, which Humboldt really considered as his life work. The last of the five volumes was published posthumously from his notes. In his own words it was meant ‘to represent in one work the whole material world, everything we know today of the phenomena in the celestial spaces and of life on earth, from the nebulae to the geography of mosses on granite rock … it is meant to describe a chapter in the intellectual development of mankind (the knowledge of nature). The book contains a complete survey of the physical sciences and their relation to each other.” (5)

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ISOTOPES - Francis William ASTON (1877-1945). Isotopes. [etc.]ISOTOPES - Francis William ASTON (1877-1945).  Isotopes. L

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Lot 694

ISOTOPES - Francis William ASTON (1877-1945). Isotopes. [etc.]ISOTOPES - Francis William ASTON (1877-1945). Isotopes. London: Edward Arnold, 1922. 8vo (215 x 140mm). 4 half tone plates, illustrations and diagrams (some very light spotting). Original blue cloth gilt (extremities rubbed, without a dust-jacket [?as issued]). Provenance: A. B. [?]Gillett, 1922 (signature on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION, published in the same year that the author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole-number rule" (DSB). Norman 77; PMM 412: "Once Aston had shown that the true atomic weight of an element is arrived at by averaging the mass of its constituent parts, and that there are seven isotopes of mercury and nine of xenon, the possibility that the atomic weights of elements would generally be whole numbers was finally abandoned. The reconstruction of the table of atomic weights by Aston's methods showed that they are only in exceptional cases whole numbers when considered as multiples of the weight of a hydrogen atom. The ultimate consequences of these discrepancies are far-reaching. The ratio between hydrogen and oxygen is not 4:1, as it 'should be', but rather less; which means that when four atoms of hydrogen are transformed into one helium atom some matter is annihilated. In fact this is an example of the interchangeability between mass and energy which is postulated in Einstein's 'General Theory of Relativity'." With the first German edition of the same work (Leipzig, 1923, [?]original cloth-backed boards) and Marie Curie's L' Isotope et les Elémens Isotopes (Paris, 1924, original cloth). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. (3)

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KIRCHHOFF, Gustav Robert (1824-87). Untersuchungen über das Sonnenspectrum und die Spectren der Chemischen Elemente. KIRCHHO

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Lot 696

KIRCHHOFF, Gustav Robert (1824-87). Untersuchungen über das Sonnenspectrum und die Spectren der Chemischen Elemente. KIRCHHOFF,Gustav Robert (1824-87). Untersuchungenüber das Sonnenspectrum und die Spectren der Chemischen Elemente … BesondererAbdruck aus den Abhandlungen der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin1861. Zweite, durch einen Anhang Vermehrte Ausgabe. Berlin: Ferd. Dümmler’sVerlagsbuchhandlung (Harrwitz und Gossman), 1862. First part (expanded) only(of 2). 4to (305 x 236mm). 2 folding lithographed plates of spectrums and oneengraved (plates spotted and stained). Original printed paper boards (lacksbackstrip, extremities rubbed, stained). Provenance: Dr. Sigismund[?]Eschwandner (old signature at foot of title); from the Collection of Peterand Margarethe Braune. “A series of delicate experiments by Kirchhoff(‘Investigation of the Solar Spectrum’), partly in conjunction with Bunsen …created the new science of spectroscopy. Sodium was the substance mostfrequently used in experiments with the spectrum, due to its volatility.Kirchhoff found that by exposing in the flame of a Bunsen burner a platinumwire dipped in salt he obtained in the spectrum the characteristic brightyellow lines of sodium superimposed on the spectrum of platinum. By repeatingthe process and introducing vaporized sodium between the incandescent wire andthe screen, the yellow lines were replaced by dark lines. With great ingenuityhe repeated the experiment with sunlight and got the same result. The fact thatthe dark lines were produced when a beam of light from an incandescent elementpassed through the same substance at a lower temperature suggested that thiswas due to absorption. In the solar spectrum, for example, the dark lines werecaused by absorption in the gases of the sun’s atmosphere. Further experimentsshowed that every glowing vapour produced a spectrum peculiar to itself andthereby made chemical analysis possible on a scale and with a degree ofaccuracy previously unknown. More than this, it brought, so to speak, thestellar universe into the laboratory and showed that the basic materials of theuniverse are everywhere the same” (PMM). Horblit 59; Norman 1219; PMM 278(b); Sparrow117. With H. Kayser & C. Runge’s Über die Spectren der Elemente(Berlin, 1888-89, 2 parts [only] in one vol., 9 plates of spectrums, originalboards). (2)

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LIEBIG, Jestus (1803-73). Die organische Chemie in ihrer Unwendung auf Physiologie und Pathologie. [etc.]LIEBIG, Justus (1803

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Lot 700

LIEBIG, Jestus (1803-73). Die organische Chemie in ihrer Unwendung auf Physiologie und Pathologie. [etc.]LIEBIG, Justus (1803-73). Die organische Chemie in ihrer Unwendungauf Physiologie und Pathologie. Braunschweig: Verlag von Friedrich Viewigund Sohn, 1842. 8vo (204 x 130mm). Errata leaf at the end (without the halftitle, occasional light spotting). Contemporary green cloth-backed marbledboards (extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION of the follow-up to the author’s Dieorganische Chemie in ihrer Anwendung auf Agricultur und Physiologie (1840)whose ‘twin constellation’ Berzelius claimed represented “the dawn of a new dayin vegetable [i.e. organic] chemistry.” “In 1842 [Liebig] carried his chemicalinvestigations into the realm of animal physiology. He showed, like Lavoisier,that animal heat is not innate, but the result of combustion; introduced theconcept of metabolism (Stoffwechsel); and classified animal foodstuffsas fats, carbohydrates and proteins according to their function. He thus becamethe founder of the modern science of nutrition” (PMM 310(b)). With 5 otherworks by the same author, namely Chemische Briefe (Heidelberg, 1844,spotted, original cloth), Untersuchungen über einige Ursachen der Säftebewegungim thierischen Organismus (Braunschweig, 1848, stain to foot of title,contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, “… a rare work which contains acareful study of osmosis and the permeability of membranes …” (Partington)), Annalender Chemie und Pharmacie. Herausgegeben von Friedrich Wöhler und Justus Liebig.Band XLII [only] (Heidelberg, 1842, modern marbled boards), Traité deChimie Organique (Brussels, 1843, modern leatherette-backed boards) and DieGrundsätz der Agricultur=Chemie (Braunschweig, 1855, contemporarycloth-backed boards). Provenance: from the Collectionof Peter and Margarethe Braune. (6)

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LILIENTHAL, Otto (1848-96). Der Vogelflug als Grundlage der Fliegkunst.LILIENTHAL, Otto (1848-96). Der Vogelflug als Grundlag

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Lot 701

LILIENTHAL, Otto (1848-96). Der Vogelflug als Grundlage der Fliegkunst.LILIENTHAL, Otto (1848-96). Der Vogelflug als Grundlage der Fliegkunst. Ein Beitrag zurSystematik der Flugtechnik. Auf Grund zahlreicher von O. und G. Lilienthal ausgefuhrter Versuche. Berlin: R. Gaertners Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1889.Large 8vo (229 x 155mm). Coloured lithographed frontispiece of storks in flight, 8 folding plates,illustrations and diagrams (one plate soiled at fore-edge with 2 short tearswithout loss, some very light mainly marginal browning). Original brown decoratedcloth gilt (corners lightly bumped). Provenance: some localised pencilannotation and marginalia; from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of the first textbook of mechanicalflight. "Lilienthal's book [became] one of the chief bibles for theaeronautical world after he demonstrated that his theories could be put intopractice … It was the basis on which the Wrights first started building theiraerodynamic work, and they were always high in praise of its pioneering value,even when they were led to modify Lilienthal's findings"(Gibbs-Smith, TheInvention of the Aeroplane 1799-1909 (London, 1965)). "The Wrights themselves, and virtually all their biographers, date the beginning of their serious adult consideration of the flying problem from their reading of the work" (McFarland, The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, London, 1953). Brockett Bibliography of Aeronautics p. 520; Norman 1353.

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[MAUPERTUIS, Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698-1759). Venus Physique. [With 3 other works bound in.][MAUPERTUIS,Pierre Louis Morea

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Lot 704

[MAUPERTUIS, Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698-1759). Venus Physique. [With 3 other works bound in.][MAUPERTUIS,Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698-1759)]. VenusPhysique. [No place: no publisher, 1745. 2 parts [although paginationcontinuous]. Typographical ornament at the head of each part [bound after:] Hyacinth Théodor BARON (1707-87). Ritus usus et laudeabiles facultatismedicinæ Parisiensis consuetudines. Paris: Typis G. F. Quillau, 1751 [andthe same author’s:] Statuta facultatismedicinæ Parisiensis. Paris: Typis G. F. Quillau, 1751. Woodcut devices ontitles, headpieces and initials (some light spotting and browning, a few darkerspots). Together 3 works in one volume, small 8vo (142 x 80mm). Contemporarymottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red edges (spine repaired with lossof one lettering-piece, rubbed). Provenance: modern inscriptions tofront free endpaper; some pencil annotation; from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION of the first-named work."Maupertuis's remarkable work on embryology and genetics. It is dividedinto two parts: 'Dissertation sur l' Origine des Hommes et des Animaux' and'Dissertation sur l' Origine des Noirs'. The first part was originallypublished a year earlier under the title 'Dissertation Physique à l' Occasiondu Nègre Blanc' and was written after an albino Negro appeared in Paris. Ascientist, philosopher, and original thinker, Maupertuis was years ahead of histime in many aspects of biology, particularly embryology and genetics. Hisarguments against the then-prevailing theory of pre-formation and forepigenesis were so close to the idea of evolution that he is a true forerunner ofDarwin and Mendel. His theories and observations are contained in this work,which he may have had published anonymously to avoid repercussions from Churchauthorities" (Heirs of Hippocrates). Barbier IV, 922; Bib.Osleriana 3350; Garrison-Morton 215.2; Heirs of Hippocrates 536; cf.Waller 6354 (references for first-named work only).

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MOLLINGER, Otto (1814-86). Himmels-Atlas mit Transparenten Stemen.MÖLLINGER, Otto (1814-86).  Himmels-Atlas mit Transpar

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Lot 707

MOLLINGER, Otto (1814-86). Himmels-Atlas mit Transparenten Stemen.MÖLLINGER, Otto (1814-86). Himmels-Atlas mit Transparenten Sternen. [No place: no publisher, c. 1850]. 4to (165 x 190mm). 16 engraved star-charts, unbound as issued, contained in original green cloth wallet lettered in gilt and decorated in blind, [?]original green silk ties. Each star chart has the position of the stars marked with small star-shaped holes so that, when they are held up to the light, the heavens are revealed in all their majesty. Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune.

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MYDORGE, Claude (1585-1647). Examen du Livre des Recreations Mathematiques.MYDORGE, Claude (1585-1647).  Examen du Livre

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Lot 710

MYDORGE, Claude (1585-1647). Examen du Livre des Recreations Mathematiques.MYDORGE, Claude (1585-1647). Examen du Livre des Recreations Mathematiques, et de ses Problemes en Geometrie, Mechanique, Optique, et Catoptique. Où sont aussi discutées & restablies plusieurs experiences Physiques y proposees Rouen: Chez Jean Boulley, 1639. 4 parts bound in one volume, 8vo (165 x 100mm). Woodcut devices on titles, headpiece and initial, illustrations and diagrams (Bbiii torn without loss, light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary limp vellum (stained and wrinkled). Provenance: William Reid (armorial bookplate); Kenney Collection (label); from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. The third part is dedicated to fireworks, many of which are illustrated; the fourth part consists of Denis (or Didier) Henrion’s notes on the work. It was first printed in Paris in 1630.

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NEEDHAM, John Turberville (1713-81). Nouvelle Observations Microscopiques.NEEDHAM,John Turberville (1713-81). NouvellesObser

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Lot 711

NEEDHAM, John Turberville (1713-81). Nouvelle Observations Microscopiques.NEEDHAM,John Turberville (1713-81). NouvellesObservations Microscopiques, avec des découvertes intéressantes sur laComposition & la Décomposition des Corps organisés, translated by LouisAnne Lavirotte. Paris: Chez Louis-Etienne Ganeau, 1750. 12mo (164 x 100mm).Woodcut device on title, 8 folding engraved plates at the end (wormtracks toupper margin of many text leaves and to upper edge of all plates, resulting inslight loss, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporarypanelled calf gilt (extremities rubbed). Provenance: unidentifiedcrowned monogram stamped on verso of title. Provenance: from theCollection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST FRENCH EDITION of a work bythe first Catholic priest to be elected to the Royal Society of London.

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VAN BENEDEN, Pierre-Joseph (1809-94). Memoire sur les Orques. [etc.] VANBENEDEN, Pierre-Joseph (1809-94). Mémoiresur les Orq

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Lot 726

VAN BENEDEN, Pierre-Joseph (1809-94). Memoire sur les Orques. [etc.] VANBENEDEN, Pierre-Joseph (1809-94). Mémoiresur les Orques Observés dans les Mers d' Europe ... (Présenté à la Chasse des Sciences de l' Académie le 1er mars 1879.). [Brussels: no publisher,[?]1879]. 4to (293 x 236mm). 4 lithographed plates including one coloured of awhale (some light spotting and staining). Later blue wrappers, partly unopened.With D' Udekem's Mémoire sur les Lombricins ... Première Partie ([N.p.,c. 1863], 4 coloured lithographed plates, modern wrappers) and Édouard VanBeneden's Mémoire sur la Formation du Blastoderme chez les Amphipodes, lesLernéens et les Copépodes (N.p., c. 1868], 5 lithographed plates, modernwrappers). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and MargaretheBraune. (3)

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WUNDT, Wilhelm (1832-1920). Grundzuge der Physiologischen Psychologie.WUNDT,Wilhelm (1832-1920). Grundzüge derPhysiologische

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Lot 728

WUNDT, Wilhelm (1832-1920). Grundzuge der Physiologischen Psychologie.WUNDT,Wilhelm (1832-1920). Grundzüge derPhysiologischen Psychologie. Leipzing: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1874.Large 8vo (222 x 155mm). Illustrations and diagrams, errata leaf (some spottingand browning to title, light marginal browning throughout). Contemporary [or?original] cloth-backed pebbled boards gilt (rebacked preserving originalspine, although with some loss, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Ernst[?]Francke, 1876 (signature on front free endpaper); from the Collection ofPeter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION of a work which was "thefoundation of experimental psychology, [and] which uses quantitative methods tostudy psychological processes such as perception and the formation ofideas" (DSB). Garrison-Morton 4976: "[Wundt] is the founder ofexperimental psychology and his book remains the most important on thesubject"; Horblit 100a; Norman 2270.

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FORD JOHN: (1894-1973) Irish-American Film Director, Academy Award winner. D.S., John Ford, one page, oblong 8vo, n.p. (Calif

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FORD JOHN: (1894-1973) Irish-American Film Director, Academy Award winner. D.S., John Ford, one page, oblong 8vo, n.p. (California), 29th January 1949. The partially printed document, completed almost entirely in Ford's hand, is an Employee's Personnel Statement in which he provides details of his address in Hollywood, his occupation ('M. P. Director'), his marital status, gender and place and date of birth (incorrectly given as 1st February 1895) etc. Signed at the foot. Ford's Social Security account number is entered in pencil in an unidentified hand. Very slightly irregularly trimmed to the upper edge and with some minor, light age wear and a small tear to the left edge, about VG Contrary to the date on the present document, Ford was in fact born on 1st February 1894 although he occasionally altered it to 1895 and that date is erroneously inscribed on his tombstone.

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MOORE HENRY: (1898-1986) English Sculptor and Artist. Signed 3.5 x 6 photograph by Moore, the image depicting him in a semi-p

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Lot 299

MOORE HENRY: (1898-1986) English Sculptor and Artist. Signed 3.5 x 6 photograph by Moore, the image depicting him in a semi-profile head and shoulders pose. Signed in black ink with his name alone to the lower white border. Together with a bold black ink signature ('Henry Moore') and date, 14th November 1973, in his hand to the verso of a colour picture postcard of Moore's sculpture Lincoln Center Reclining Figure in New York. Some light foxing to the postcard, G to VG, 2

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HEPWORTH BARBARA: (1903-1975) British Sculptor. T.L.S., Barbara, with holograph subscription ('ever ever'), one page, 4to, Tr

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HEPWORTH BARBARA: (1903-1975) British Sculptor. T.L.S., Barbara, with holograph subscription ('ever ever'), one page, 4to, Trewyn Studio, St. Ives, Cornwall, 30th September 1966, to Warren Forma in New York ('My Dearest Warren'). Hepworth thanks her correspondent for his two sweet letters and the lovely photographs taken in Battersea Park, commenting 'I was delighted with the photographs of Battersea and to have something of you as well; and I rather specially like the one in my garden here' and further remarking 'I am so happy that you like the sculpture and that it reached you safely and I very much look forward to seeing a photograph of it when you have time. It was lovely of you to telephone me about "three forms". At the moment, of course, we have had to postpone all our plans for the Sculpture Park due to the situation in the country; but we hope to pick up soon'. Accompanied by the original envelope. Some very light, extremely minor staining to the upper edge, otherwise VG Warren Forma (1923-2014) American Filmmaker & Author, known for his 'Artists at Work' documentary film series of 1963-67 which included 5 British Sculptors (Work and Talk) (1964) featuring Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and others.

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LEAN DAVID: (1908-1991) English Film Director, Academy Award winner. A good signed and inscribed 7.5 x 10 photograph of Lean

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LEAN DAVID: (1908-1991) English Film Director, Academy Award winner. A good signed and inscribed 7.5 x 10 photograph of Lean in a half length pose alongside actor Christopher Jones (in costume as Major Randolph Doryan) as he rehearses a scene from the film Ryan's Daughter (1970) on location in County Kerry, Ireland. Signed by Lean in black ink to a light area of the image and dated 1990 in his hand. VG Ryan's Daughter, a re-telling of the plot of Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary (1857), was set in World War I and received four Academy Award nominations, winning two.

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LAURENCIN MARIE: (1883-1956) French Painter. A.L.S., Marie Laurencin, two pages, 8vo, Paris, n.d., to a lady, in French. Laur

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Lot 317

LAURENCIN MARIE: (1883-1956) French Painter. A.L.S., Marie Laurencin, two pages, 8vo, Paris, n.d., to a lady, in French. Laurencin refers to some tapestry designs for chairs that have been made ('It is likely that they are unique') and remarks that the state manufacturers disdain her work, recommending that her correspondent should write to the decorators and adding 'If the tapestry comes back into fashion, what I really want is for them to have the orders'. One very small, extremely minor area of paper loss to the upper left corner and a few light creases to the edges, otherwise VG

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PICASSO PABLO: (1881-1973) Spanish Painter. An exceptional illustrated A.L.S., Olga et Picasso (also signing on behalf of his

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Lot 323

PICASSO PABLO: (1881-1973) Spanish Painter. An exceptional illustrated A.L.S., Olga et Picasso (also signing on behalf of his first wife), to one side of a picture postcard depicting a Christmas winter scene to the recto, Paris, 2nd January 1919, to Mr & Mrs [Henri] Defossé, at the Coliseum Theatre in London, in French. At the head of the letter Picasso has executed a wonderful, charming original pen and ink drawing of a Christmas dinner, apparently for four people with a turkey, two bottles of wine accompanied by four glasses and several bunches of grapes and other fruits laid out on a table. A decorative, dark flowing line adorns the upper part of the exquisite drawing with the year 1919 at the head. Beneath his drawing Picasso writes a brief message to his friends, presenting them with the Christmas dinner, 'Dear friends, here you have, with this well-served table, our best wishes', also adding the address of his Parisian home and workshop at Rue la Boetie in his hand beneath his signature. Such detailed original ink drawings by Picasso, particularly from this earlier stage of his career, rarely appear at auction and the present example is enhanced by an interesting association. Some very minor, light age wear, otherwise VG Henri Defossé (1883-1956) French Conductor, Pianist & Composer. Sergei Diaghilev's favourite conductor, Defossé was chosen to lead the Ballets Russe at London's Coliseum Theatre in 1918 & 1919. Olga Khokhlova (1891-1955) Russian Ballet Dancer, the first wife of Pablo Picasso and one of his early artistic muses. Khokhlova first met Picasso whilst dancing in Diaghilev's Parade in 1917 for which the artist had designed the set and costumes. They married in July 1918 and in July the following year they travelled to London together for the performance of Diaghilev's Le Tricorne for which Picasso had again designed the costumes and stage.

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MCCAY WINSOR: (c.1866/71-1934) American Cartoonist & Animator. A good original black pen and ink drawing signed by McCay, one

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Lot 342

MCCAY WINSOR: (c.1866/71-1934) American Cartoonist & Animator. A good original black pen and ink drawing signed by McCay, one page, oblong 8vo, n.p., n.d. McCay has drawn Little Sammy Sneeze in a half-length profile pose with an exaggerated inscription ('Heeeooortense') incorporated into the character's huge sneeze. Signed by McCay with his name alone at the foot of the page. Some light creasing and very minor staining and with a small area of paper loss to the upper left corner, otherwise about VG Little Sammy Sneeze was McCay's first successful comic strip which ran in the New York Herald from 1904-06.

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