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Lot 53
OLUCE, serie Coupe, Floor Lamp approx. H145cm in black, adjustable, an original Joe Colombo design (circa 1967) for Oluce. Oluce's 1960s Coupe floor lamps pairs a round lacquered aluminium reflector with a chrome stem and lacquered metal base. This floor standing Coupe lamp is designed in a modern Italian midcentury style. Its slender chrome body is topped by a beautiful lacquered lamp shade which gives it a contemporary touch. The reflector is fitted with a joint knob to adjust the light direction; it slides up, down and rotates.
Lot 102
Jenner (Edward) An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, a Disease discovered in some of the Western Counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire, and known by the name of the Cow Pox, first edition, 4 engraved plates by William Skelton, printed in sanguine and enhanced with some hand-colouring, lacking half-title and errata f., ink stamp removed from title, C3&4 (with a repair to outer margin of C3), foot of L1&2 and foot of 1 plate, F1 verso a few small ink stains, 1 within text, slightly obscuring a few letters, F4 a few small ink spots, occasional spotting or light staining, contemporary calf, rebacked, preserving original gilt backstrip with red morocco label, rubbed, corners repaired, covers marked, [Dibner Heralds of Science 127; Garrison-Morton 5423; Grolier Medicine 53; Heirs of Hippocrates 1086; Grolier/Horblit 56; William Lefanu A bibliography of Edward Jenner, 8 (2nd ed., 1985); Norman 1162; PMM 250; Wellcome III, p. 351], 4to, Printed for the Author, by Sampson Low, 1798. ⁂ 'One of the greatest triumphs in the history of medicine' (Garrison-Morton), which is 'the basis of the modern science of immunology' (PMM). Jenner trained under the the great surgeon and experimental scientist John Hunter, and 'was the first to test experimentally the folk belief that cowpox conferred immunity to its deadly relative smallpox, and the first to transmit the cowpox virus from person to person in order to build a population immune to smallpox' (Norman). As a result of his initial ground-breaking work 'today there are innoculations ... against scarlet fever, typhoid fever, diptheria, whooping-cough and tetanus, as well as ... bubonic plague, cholera and yellow fever.' (PMM).
Lot 105
Architecture.- Bianchini (Francesco) Del Palazzo de Cesari Opera Postuma, first edition, title in red and black, engraved title vignette, 20 engraved pates, mostly folding, illustrations, very occasional light spotting, title a little dust-soiled but else a clean fresh copy, contemporary half calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, folio, Verona, Pierantonio Berno, 1738.
Lot 106
Architecture.- Vitruvius Pollio (Marcus) Les Dix Livres d'architecture de Vitruve, translated by Claude Perrault, additional engraved title and illustrations, some full-page, bookplate to pastedown, ownership blind-stamp to endpapers and signature to title, occasional light spotting, heavier to final ff., contemporary calf, rebacked with original gilt spine laid down, lightly marked and faded, corners rubbed, folio, Paris, Jean-Baptiste Coignard, 1673.⁂ First edition of the French translation and comments by Claude Perrault.
![Ptolomaeus (Claudius) Cosmographia, first edition, collation: aa10, bb8-1, a10, b-g8, h10, A-F8, G10. 142 of [143] leaves, la](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/3bbf975b-3c75-4453-96c4-abe400e2508e/94db5aeb-24ca-446a-b05e-abe400f00afa/468x382.jpg)
Lot 111
Ptolomaeus (Claudius) Cosmographia, first edition, collation: aa10, bb8-1, a10, b-g8, h10, A-F8, G10. 142 of [143] leaves, lacking fol. aa1 blank. text in single column, 39 lines, type: 102R, finely hand-painted initials alternately in red or blue, that on aa8 verso with extension, seven-line blank space on aa1 recto, rubricated in red and blue, capital letters touched with yellow, 4 woodcut diagrams, two small wormholes to blank outer margin of first leaf repaired, without any loss, occasional light foxing, front and rear flyleaves both reinforced at an early date with a fragment from a manuscript, pencilled bibliographical notes on rear pastedown, contemporary wooden boards, one (of two) original oyster clasps preserved, spine covered in calf, with three raised bands, a few wormholes to covers, loss to top corner of upper cover, head and foot of joints slightly worn, preserved in suede-lined black morocco drop-back box by Boichot, folio (304 x 205mm.), Vicenza, Hermann Liechtenstein, 13 September 1475.⁂ An exceptional, and unsophisticated copy, with wide margins of the first edition of the most celebrated geographical treatise of classical antiquity. An edition of the greatest rarity, and a monumental achievement of geographical knowledge and a cornerstone of the European tradition. The Latin Ptolemy of 1475 was issued from the printing house established in Vicenza by the German printer Hermann Liechtenstein, also known by his surname 'Leuilapis'. A native of Cologne, he began his career as a printer in Vicenza, publishing the undated Historiae by Orosius in 1475, as well as the first edition of Ptolemy, completed on 13 September. Ptolemy's Geographia is one of the first books ever printed in Vicenza, where printing was first introduced in the spring of 1474 by Leonardus Achates de Basilea. The present work, divided into eight books, was produced by Ptolemy in the second century AD and describes the known inhabited world (or oikoumene), divided into three continents: Europe, Libye (or Africa), and Asia. Book i provides details for drawing a world map with two different projections (one with linear and the other with curved meridians), while Books ii-vii list the longitude and latitude of some 8,000 locations, Book vii concludes with instructions for a perspectival representation of a globe. In Book viii Ptolemy breaks down the world map into twenty-six smaller areas and provides useful descriptions for cartographers. The work was brought to Italy from Constantinople around 1400, and its translation into Latin was made by Jacopo Angeli (or Angelo da Scarperia) in Florence between 1406 and 1409. He was a pupil of Manuel Chrysoloras (ca. 1350-1415), the exiled Byzanthine scholar who had possibly begun the translation himself, on the basis of a hitherto unidentified Greek manuscript. Angelo's translation is mainly based on a composite text deriving from two different manuscripts. This volume was edited by Angelus Vadius and Barnabas Picardus and contains only the text of Ptolemy's Geographia. No maps were issued in this first edition of 1475, which were probably not present in the manuscript which served as copy-text, and the only illustrations included are the three diagrams in chapter xxiv of Book i (fols. bb5v, bb6v, and bb7v), showing the 'modus designandi in tabula plana', and that on fol. F3, depicting the Polus antarcticus. The first illustrated edition of Ptolemy appeared in Bologna in 1477, under the title of Cosmographia and supplemented with copperplates drawn and engraved by the famous illuminator Taddeo Crivelli. The Latin edition of this landmark geographical text enjoyed wide and enduring popularity. The editio princeps in Greek appeared in Basel only in 1533, and the circulation of the Latin text throughout Europe in the fifteenth century greatly influenced (both directly and indirectly) the shaping of the modern world. As Angeli writes at the end of his dedication: "Now, I repeat now, let us listen to Ptolemy himself speaking in Latin". Literature: HC 13536*; GW M36388; BMC vii, 1035; IGI 8180; Goff P-108; Flodr Ptolomaeus, 1; Sander 5973.Provenance: French bookseller's typed description to front pastedown.
Lot 112
Lucian of Samosata. Dialogoi, editio princeps, collation: Α-Β8, α-ω8, αα-ηη8, 262 (of 264 leaves, lacking the first and last blanks), Greek text in single column, 41-44 lines, type: 5:IIIGk, blank spaces for capitals, with no guide letters, opening page framed in a fine and lavishly illuminated full-border, with small flowers, acanthus leaves, fruits, birds, and gold-rayed discs, at the top two cornucopias, lower panel containing a large cartouche including a blue lion coat-of-arms, flanked by the gold initials 'io' and perhaps 'm' (smudged), right panel exquisitely painted, depicting a scholar, presumably Lucianus himself, with long curly hair, sitting and reading a book, same leaf with ten-line gold initial 'A' with interlaced branches on black ground, and a portion of a portico supported by a cherub, a very good copy with wide margins, water-staining to front endpapers thus affecting lower panel of illumination on first leaf, a few early ink stains, foxing and browning in places, light water-stain to lower blank margins of final quires, a few minor stains to gutter of two final leaves, early inked foliation and marginalia in Greek and Latin in the same hand, front pastedown with early inked shelfmark 'A. 58.', and an erased, illegible annotation, 17th-century limp vellum, spine with five raised bands underlined by gilt fillets, compartments decorated with floral tool, title in gilt on red lettering-piece, small tear to vellum on upper cover fore-edge and another on lower joint, tailband loose, folio (330 x 235mm.), Florence, Lorenzo de Alopa, 1496.⁂ A magnificent example of a Florentine incunable embellished with a high-quality illumination: the rare editio princeps of Lucianus' Dialogues edited by Ianos Laskaris - a masterpiece of early Greek typography. This is one of the three dated editions published by Lorenzo de Alopa, the first Florentine printer to produce books in Greek, the others being the Anthologia Graeca of 1494 and the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius, which appeared in 1496. The text of Lucianus was set in the third Greek type cut for Alopa, a lower-case with accents and breathings, used also for the commentary surrounding Apollonius' Argonautica. The opening leaf of this sumptuous copy bears artwork executed by an artist of considerable skill. The decorative pattern of the border, the particular palette of colours and tones, the illusionistic three-dimensional composition, the hair- and beard-style of the figure reading a book in the right-hand panel - almost certainly a depiction of Lucian himself - have many similarities to illuminations attributed to the miniaturist known as 'Petrus V', possibly originating from Lombardy. This artist was also active in Padua and Venice in the 1470s in the production of illuminated incunables, creating masterful illustrations for a distinguished clientele, as demonstrated by the magnificent copy of the Breviarium Romanum printed in 1478 by Nicolaus Jenson (Glasgow University Library, B.f.1.18). From Veneto he moved to Rome, where he worked in the 1480s and 1490s, receiving several commissions from prestigious patrons to illuminate printed books. A refined work for a refined patron: the smudged coat-of-arms included in the border is similar to that of the famous and wealthy Sforza family, while the capital letters painted in gold may be read as 'io' and 'm', suggesting the possible identity of the first owner of the present copy: Giovanni Maria Sforza (d. ca. 1520), the son of Francesco, Duke of Milan. As a Protonotary Apostolic he was a member of the Roman curia, and in 1498 was appointed Archbishop of Genoa. The Elmer Belt Library of the University of California at Los Angeles preserves a single leaf from Book ii of the Nicolaus Jenson edition of Pliny the Elder's Historia naturalis of 1476, whose border and first initial were possibly illuminated for Gian Galeazzo Sforza (1469-1494). In this leaf the inscription, only partially legible, 'opvs petri v m' supports "the Lombard origins of this intriguing artist. The letters of Petrus' surname suggest Vimercate, the name of a town midway between Milan and Bergamo, earlier the patria of another illuminator, Guinifortus de Vicomercato" (The Painted Page, p. 178).Literature: HC (+Add) 10258*; GW M18976; BMC vi, 667; IGI 5834; Goff L-320; Rhodes Firenze, 416; Flodr Lucianus, 1; Hoffmann iii, pp. 29-30; Legrand i, 19; Staikos, Charta, pp. 277-278; J. J. G. Alexander (ed.), The Painted Page. Italian Renaissance Book Illumination, London-New York 1995, pp. 178-180 (catalogue entries nos. 86-88 by L. Armstrong); M. Conway, The Early Career of Lorenzo Alopa, La Bibliofilia, 102 (2000), pp. 1-10; L. Armstrong, Opus Petri: Renaissance Book Illuminations from Venice and Rome, Eadem, Studies of Renaissance Miniaturists in Venice, London 2003, 1, pp. 339-405.
Lot 13
Atlases.- Wyld (James) A General Atlas..., first edition, engraved vignette title, 2 tables of comparative heights of mountains and lengths of rivers, and 41 maps hand-coloured in outline by N.R.Hewitt after Wyld (numbered 1-40, one double-page of world), each with vignette in corner, occasional light offsetting (mainly to height table from title), faint contemporary ink signature to head of title, contemporary half calf, engraved label 'Cabinet Atlas..' to upper cover (a bit worn), rubbed, corners worn, 4to, Edinburgh, John Thomson & Co., London & Dublin, [1819].
![Women's rights.- Law.- [Edgar (Thomas, editor)] The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights: or, the Lawes Provision for Woemen. A](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/3bbf975b-3c75-4453-96c4-abe400e2508e/a0a2e0af-3d0f-432d-84ae-abe400eef618/468x382.jpg)
Lot 148
Women's rights.- Law.- [Edgar (Thomas, editor)] The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights: or, the Lawes Provision for Woemen. A Methodicall Collection of such Statutes and Customes, with the Cases, Opinoins, Arguments and Points of Learning in the Law, as doe properly concerne Women, first edition, black letter, title within double filet border, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, lacking initial blank, occasional spotting, some mostly light water-staining to upper corners towards end, lightly browned, contemporary calf, rebacked in calf gilt, with a black morocco label, corners repaired, covers rubbed and scuffed, [STC 7437], 4to, Printed by [Miles Flesher for] the assignes of Iohn More Esq. and are to be sold by Iohn Groue, at his shop neere the Rowles in Chancery-Lane, over against the Sixe-Clerkes-Office, 1632. ⁂ First edition of the earliest work in English devoted to laws relating to women. It includes divorce, hermaphroditism, polygamy, promises of marriage, rape and wooing. The work is sometimes attributed to Sir John Dodderidge.
Lot 15
South Seas.- Burney (Capt. James) A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean, 5 vol., first edition, 28 engraved maps, 15 folding, and 13 plates, one folding, a few woodcut illustrations in text, vol.2 & 3 with final blank, some light spotting or soiling, more concentrated foxing to one or two gatherings, ex-library copy with perforated stamps to titles & maps and one or two other leaves, ink stamp to plates, ink reference number or code to foot of titles and final leaf, map at beginning of vol.2 soiled and torn with slight loss (repaired), handsome modern calf with leafy border in blind, spines gilt with red morocco labels, a few minor scuffs, [Hill 221; Sabin 9387], 4to, 1803-17.⁂ Account of all the voyages to the South Seas by Europeans, from the earliest navigators to Sir Francis Drake. James Burney was the brother of the novelist Fanny Burney, a lieutenant on Cook's second and third voyages, who gave his name to Burney's Beach in Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand.
![Pamphlets.- [Defoe (Daniel)] What if the Swedes should come? With some thoughts about keeping the army on foot, whether they](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/3bbf975b-3c75-4453-96c4-abe400e2508e/c285f788-ea27-4dba-9160-abe400eed1d5/468x382.jpg)
Lot 152
Pamphlets.- [Defoe (Daniel)] What if the Swedes should come? With some thoughts about keeping the army on foot, whether they come or not, first edition, half-title, [Moore 364], printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, 1717 bound with [Toland (John)] Reasons for naturalizing the Jews in Great Britain and Ireland, on the same foot with all other nations. Containing also, a defence of the Jews against all vulgar prejudices in all countries, first edition, half-title, final f. loose, [Kress 2926], printed for J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, 1714 and Colbatch (Sir John) A dissertation concerning misletoe: a most wonderful specifick remedy for the cure of convulsive distempers. Calculated for the Benefit of the Poor as well as the Rich, first edition, half-title, final f. blank, printed for William Churchill at the Black-Swan in Paternoster-Row, 1719 and Steele (Sir Richard) and Joseph Gillmore. An account of the Fish-pool: consisting of a description of the vessel so call'd, lately invented and built for the importation of fish alive, and in good Health, from Parts however distant, first edition, [Kress 3076], woodcut illustrations, printed and sold by H. Meere at the Black Fryer in Black-Fryers, J. Pemberton at the Buck and Sun in Fleet-Street, and J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, 1718 and 7 others, together 11 works in 1 vol., woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, occasional spotting, some light staining and browning, contemporary panelled calf, spine in compartments and with black morocco label and gilt lettering / numbering, paper label removed from foot, couple of small holes to lower cover, rubbed, 8vo
Lot 159
Prison and lunatic asylum reform in Gloucester.- Paul (Sir George Onesiphorus) An Address delivered at a general meeting...for the purpose of receiving a statement of the proceedings of the committee appointed to carry into execution the resolutions...to rebuild the gaol...held on Monday the 9th of July, 1792, folding table, lacking half-title, title stained, occasional light foxing, rare with ESTC recording only 4 copies, [?Gloucester], no printer, [1792] bound with Paul (Sir George Onesiphorus) Minutes of Proceedings relative to the establishment of a General Lunatic Asylum, near the city of Glocester. Including a digest of a scheme for such an institution: addressed to a general meeting of subscribers, held at the Glocester Infirmary, on the 14th of July, 1794, title foxed, occasional spotting, rare with ESTC recording only 3 copies (not in BL), [Gloucester], Printed at the special request of the committee appointed to carry the design into effect, 1796 and 3 other 19th century works, 2 on Gloucester prison and 1 relating to the Shire Hall, together 5 works in 1 vol., occasional spotting, contemporary diced russia, gilt, rubbed, 8vo⁂ A good group of rare works all written by the Gloucestershire prison reformer and philanthropist Sir George Onesiphorus Paul Bart. (1746-1820), with a family provenance. A cautious political reformer, Paul had begun to have an influential role in the public life of Gloucestershire as early as 1780. Following damning visits to the county gaol by John Howard in 1777 and 1784, where he found the inhuman and insanitary conditions typical of the period, Paul launched his campaign to reform the county prisons. Provenance: John Paul Paul (engraved bookplate).
![Binding.- Howard (Frederick, Earl of Carlisle) The Father's Revenge, A Tragedy, [one of 25 copies], 4 engraved plates, occasi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/3bbf975b-3c75-4453-96c4-abe400e2508e/fc942f1f-06c2-4bd2-b676-abe400f20f6b/468x382.jpg)
Lot 160
Binding.- Howard (Frederick, Earl of Carlisle) The Father's Revenge, A Tragedy, [one of 25 copies], 4 engraved plates, occasional light marginal foxing, bookplates of Joseph Walter King Eyton and Robert Hayhurst, handsome mid-nineteenth century morocco, gilt, by Hayday, the covers tooled in gilt with a wide border of a single fillet and two double fillets flanking a repeated impression of a large rectangular tool with corners and centre each surrounded by small fleurons, the corner squares with a circle and cross on a studded background, spines gilt in compartments with the cross and circle motif repeated, inner gilt dentelles, g.e., 4to, W. Bulmer & Co., 1800.⁂ A finely bound copy of this rare work, bound by Hayday for Joseph Eyton.
Lot 162
Wordsworth (William).- Norton (Caroline) and Charles McKay. The Drawing Room Scrap-Book, Wordsworth's copy with his ink ownership inscription "William Wordsworth, Rydal Mount to endpaper, engraved plates, occasional light spotting, but generally clean, contemporary morocco, spine faded, extremities rubbed, 183; and a copy of Wright's The Rhine owned by Gordon G. Wordsworth, 4to (2)
Lot 165
Victoria (Queen of Great Britain & Ireland).- Feodora (Anna Auguste Charlotte Wilhelm) Letters...from 1828 to 1872, signed presentation inscription from Queen Victoria to ?Sir Arthur Phelps to front free endpaper, occasional spotting, original cloth, spine faded, some light marking to covers, 8vo, 1874.
![[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge), "Lewis Carroll".] Twelve Months in a Curatorship. By one who has tried it, bound with Supplement](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/3bbf975b-3c75-4453-96c4-abe400e2508e/f0c35202-1455-4aea-ab27-abe400f1f950/468x382.jpg)
Lot 167
[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge), "Lewis Carroll".] Twelve Months in a Curatorship. By one who has tried it, bound with Supplement at end, neat ink & pencil numbers & notes to titles, together sewn as issued without wrappers, a little light marking, but overall a very good copy, [Crutch 163 & 166], 8vo, Oxford, printed for private circulation, 1884.⁂ Dodgson's anonymously published humorous account of the first year of his curatorship of the Christ Church Common Room. Very scarce, possibly one of as few as 50 copies published.Provenance: the Madan copy with library stamps "B.N.C. F.Madan Oxford".
Lot 170
Byron (George Gordon, Lord), Robert Peel, Anthony Trollope and others.- Harrow.- Warner (George Townsend) Harrow in Prose and Verse, 32 A.L.s. by headmasters, masters and old Harrovians mentioned in the work tipped in or loosely inserted, tipped in colour plates, captioned tissue guards, ink gift inscription to endpaper, original cloth gilt, light discolouration to spine, some light rubbing but bright and sharp overall, t.e.g., others uncut, 4to, [c. 1910].⁂ A unique and special copy, including letters and autographs from Lord Byron, Robert Peel, Samuel Parr, Lord Palmerston, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Anthony Trollope, Bulwer Lytton, Christopher Wordsworth and others.
Lot 172
Blunden (Edmund), Laurence Whistler, Roy Fuller, C. Day Lewis, Woodrow Wyatt and others, contributors. Kingdom Come. The Magazine of Wartime Oxford, 8 vol., comprising vol. 1 & 2 nos. 1-4, original colour pictorial wrappers by Baptista Gilliat-Smith, some light creasing to fore-edge but a bright, near-fine set overall, 4to, 1939-41.⁂ The first 2 volumes (of 3) of this short-lived wartime Oxford periodical. Rare to find in a run and in good condition. Other figures involved include Richard Adams (first as a Sales Manager then a contributor), Nicholas Moore and Laurence Housman.
Lot 173
Buchan (John) Scholar Gipsies, first edition, etched plates, original cloth-backed boards, 1896; Sir Quixote of the Moors, first edition, library cloth, 1895; Sir Walter Ralegh, first edition, original cloth, 1897; Midwinter, reprint, signed presentation inscription from the author, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1925; Greenmantle, first edition, lacking front free endpaper, original cloth, light fading to spine, 1916; Mr Standfast, first edition, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, original cloth, light fading to spine, 1919; The Island of Sheep, first edition, ink gift inscription to half-title, newspaper clipping pasted to endpaper, original cloth, dust-jacket, a little soiled, spine ends and corners chipped, 1936; and others by Buchan, 8vo (21)
Lot 178
Disney (Walt) Mickey Mouse in Pigmy Land, first edition, colour frontispiece, illustrations, light browning, original pictorial boards, light rubbing to extremities, dust-jacket, spine spotted with closed tear to head, closed tear to foot of rear panel with neat tape repair to verso, short split to foot of upper fore-edge, surface soiling, some light rubbing to extremities, light creasing to head and foot, still a very good example of a rare jacket, 4to, [1935].
Lot 180
Fitzpatrick (Sir Percy) Jock of the Bushveld, first edition, first issue with the incorrect drawings of the dung beetle on pp. 65, 337 and 457, colour frontispiece, plates and illustrations, very light browning to endpapers and half-title, original pictorial cloth, minor bumping and light rubbing to tips of spine and corners, but a bright and near-fine example overall, 4to, 1907.
Lot 181
Isherwood (Christopher) The Memorial, first edition, signed by the author on title, scattered spotting to endpapers and fore-edges, ink name to endpaper, original second state ochre cloth lettered in blue, dust-jacket priced at 7/6, light browning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, some light creasing to head and foot but an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1932.⁂ Isherwood's second novel, rare signed.
Lot 182
James (M.R.) Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Arthur C. Benson dated November 1904 to endpaper, frontispiece and 3 plates by James McBride, advertisements, occasional foxing or spotting, pencil ownership inscription of F. R. Salter to endpaper, original buckram, ruled in red and lettered in black, yapp edges, light browning to spine, light rubbing to extremities but a sharp and excellent overall, uncut, [Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature, 1973, pp.100-105; Tymn 3-125], 8vo, 1904.Saleroom notice: The presentation inscription is in the hand of A. C. Benson, not the author⁂ A superb copy of this key collection of ghost stories, rarely found signed and with an excellent association. Arthur C. Benson (1862-1925) Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, essayist, poet and noted writer of ghost stories. Benson was a close friend of James', famously commenting about the renowned author "I don't suppose anyone alive knows so much or so little worth knowing!".F. R. Salter (1887-1967) fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
![[Keane (Molly)], "M. J. Farrell". Full House, occasional light spotting, contemporary ink ownership inscription, light fading](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/3bbf975b-3c75-4453-96c4-abe400e2508e/0be83f64-680a-4860-a57f-abe400f20717/468x382.jpg)
Lot 184
[Keane (Molly)], "M. J. Farrell". Full House, occasional light spotting, contemporary ink ownership inscription, light fading to spine and cover margins, jacket spine lightly browned and with light vertical crease, spine ends and corners a little chipped, an excellent example overall, 1935; Two Days in Aragon, jacket spine browned, spine ends and corners chipped with loss to imprint at foot of spine, very light creasing to head and foot, light rubbing to extremities, still very good overall, 1941; Loving Without Tears, light foxing and ink name to endpapers, jacket spine lightly browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, internal chip to foot of lower panel, 1951, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo (3)⁂ A good group of works by the Anglo-Irish writer who would later be nominated for the Booker Prize. Her early works are especially rare in dust-jackets, the first two designed by Lane Foster.
Lot 185
Lewis (C.S.) The Magician's Nephew, first edition, illustrations by Pauline Baynes, occasional light scattered spotting, original boards, spine browned, extremities rubbed, dust-jacket, spotted, light fading to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, 8vo, 1955.
Lot 186
Milne (A. A.) Toad of Toad Hall, number 149 of 300 large paper copies on hand-made paper signed by the author and Kenneth Grahame, original cloth-backed boards with paper label pasted to upper cover, uncut, dust-jacket, spine browned, spine ends and corners chipped, a few very short closed tears with creasing to head, light rubbing to extremities, 4to, 1929.
Lot 187
Mitford (Nancy) Highland Fling, fading to spine and cover margins, 1931; Christmas Pudding, illustrations by Mark Ogilvie-Grant, light fading to spine, 1932; Love in a Cold Climate, light fading to spine, dust-jacket, spine lightly faded, spine ends and corners chipped, some creasing and fraying to head and foot, 1949, first editions, original cloth, 8vo (3)⁂ Nancy Mitford's first two novels along with her most celebrated. Highland Fling is especially rare, we can trace no copies at auction or for sale online.
![O'Brian (Patrick) [A complete set of the Aubrey-Maturin novels], 20 vol., first editions, comprising, Master and Commander, 1](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/3bbf975b-3c75-4453-96c4-abe400e2508e/f58eb0b3-a722-4509-b940-abe400f08632/468x382.jpg)
Lot 188
O'Brian (Patrick) [A complete set of the Aubrey-Maturin novels], 20 vol., first editions, comprising, Master and Commander, 1970; Post Captain, 1972; H.M.S. Surprise, 1973; The Mauritius Command, light fading to jacket spine, 1977; Desolation Island, light fading to jacket spine, 1978; The Fortune of War, light fading to jacket spine, 1979; The Surgeon's Mate, light fading to jacket spine, 1980; The Ionian Mission, 1981; Treason's Harbour, 1983; The Far Side of the World, 1984; The Reverse of the Medal, 1986; The Letter of Marque, light fading to jacket spine, 1988; The Thirteen Gun Salute, 1989; The Nutmeg of Consolation, 1991; Clarissa Oakes, 1992; The Wine-Dark Sea, 1993; The Commodore, 1994; The Yellow Admiral, 1997; The Hundred Days, 1998; Blue at the Mizzen, 1999, original boards, dust-jackets, a near-fine set; and 6 others, O'Brian, 8vo (26)
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