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Click here to subscribeA rare 1960's French retro vintage large table / floor standing lamp light constructed from a large wooden wallpaper roller with carved decoration of flower raised on circular teak base with bespoke contemporary shade. Measures: 124cm.Pictures may show lights on and have all light bulbs present however some light bulbs may not be included and all lights are sold as untested.
J Perez & P Aragay - A rare and unusual 1970's retro vintage chromed floor standing / standard lamp consisting of a domed chrome shade with unusual attachment and multi adjustable slide on a single one piece double bar frame with a weighted cantilever base. Measures; 153cm.Pictures may show lights on and have all light bulbs present however some light bulbs may not be included and all lights are sold as untested.
St Giles Church, Chippenham Wiltshire - A 1930's rare ecclesiastical antique vintage large chandelier ceiling light fixture having a brass tubular construction. The tubular central rod having ceiling rose to top and junction and finial to bottom with four arms coming out, each with ball finials and double ended light bulb holders. Measures; 160cm.This light was installed later after the removal of gas lighting and removed recently this year.
A rare set of 1930's Art Deco cafe table and chairs believed to have originally been in a theatre or cinema cafe in the manner of Heals of London. The sets comprising of 6 cinema / theatre style oak chairs having red painted detailed floral embellished elbow rests that match the uprights of the cafe table. The oak tables with red top. Some of the chairs bearing the original retailers labels for Knees of Trowbridge. This lot comprising 6 chairs and 2 cafe chairs. Further matching set of these in lot 39.
R. Lunel - Maison Lunel - A rare original 1950's French floor standing standard lamp having four red lucite and brass light fittings raised on four branch tubular arms and circular base. Complete with contemporary bespoke light shades. Measures: 180cm tall.Pictures may show lights on and have all light bulbs present however some light bulbs may not be included and all lights are sold as untested.
Luigi Massoni - Poltrona Frau - A rare and unusual mid 20th century French retro vintage vanity dressing table having a faux pale tan suede exterior with aluminium handles opening to reveal a mirror back and shelf to one side and aluminium lined with teak shelf and drawer section, all raised on castors. Measures; 140cm x 53cm x 53cm.
A rare original 1950's retro vintage sputnik atomic space age coat rack / hall stand. Ebonised tubular metal wire work construction with flared fan back topped by coloured ball finials. Raised on tubular supports with stick and umbrella drip tray base and S shape holder. Bearing similarities to Charles and Ray Eames. Measures: 184cm x 83cm
Michael Harris - Mdina - Cut Ice Fish - A rare 1970's Maltese retro vintage studio art glass vase having a flat rounded body with faceted edges to the front and tapering neck, the glass being clear with Maltese Blue and brown swirls similar to the tiger pattern. Signed ' Mdina 1978 '. Measures 25cm.
W. Sitch & Co Ltd - St Giles Church, Chippenham Wiltshire - A set of four 1970's rare ecclesiastical retro vintage large chandelier ceiling light fixtures having brass tubular construction. The tubular central rods having a ceiling rose to top and junction and finial to bottom with three arms coming out, each with ball finial and light bulb holders. Measures; 112cm. These lights were installed in 1977 to the church basing the design of the original from the 1930's ( lot 74 ) and designed by W. Sitch & Co Ltd Art Metal Workers of Berwick St., London.
Pinder O.R.T.F. - La Nouvelle Piste aux Etoiles de Gilles Margaritis - An original rare vintage 1960's French circus point of sale ticket advertising poster featuring ' 25 new attractions selected from the world's most famous Pinder - O.R.T.F. The poster showing three clowns top top on a blue ground. Measures; 59cm x 44cm.25 new attractions selected from the world's most famous
Vladimir Tretchikoff - 1913-2006 - an original vintage rare Exhibition poster, featuring a large central image of Tretchikoff's famous ' Chinese Girl ' painting. Notation to base. ' 13th April - 13th May, Rackham ' Autographed by Tretchikoff and dated 1972 to the centre. Measures approx; 150 x 102cm.Obtained by the vendor, a journalist at the time, who had it signed by Tretchikoff at the exhibition.
Charles Ray Eames - Herman Miller - Model 1700-1 - La Fonda - A rare set of six original 1960's dining / side chairs having moulded white fibreglass shell seats with deep blue fabric formed pad upholstery seat and backrest. Raised on an open ebonised steel four pillar column with four point star base. Measures: 82cm x 48cm x 48cm.
An incredible lifesize 1:1 scale Marvel Comics / 20th Century Fox made statue of The Silver Surfer. Promotional statue made for the release of 'Fantastic Four - Rise Of The Silver Surfer' (2007). The statue features a silver coloured mannequin representation of The Surfer, mounted atop his trademark surf board and the entire figure mounted on a large black stand. Comes apart for transportation. An impressive and rare promotional statue. When built, the figure measures approx; 250cm tall x 280cm long.
Szarvasi Vas Fémipari - A rare pair of original 1950's Hungarian retro vintage work desk lamps having grey enamel UFO pendant shade raised on chrome tubular neck with circular base. Plastic push buttons to bases. Measures: 35cm.Pictures may show lights on and have all light bulbs present however some light bulbs may not be included and all lights are sold as untested.
Imperial Enamel Co - Palethorpes' - A rare early 20th century retro vintage industrial point of sale shop advertising porcelain enamel sign for 'Fresh Palthorpes' To Day' with white lettering and a pack of six sausages to centre with a deep royal blue ground. Fantastic gloss finish with no restoration. Measures; 96cm x 38cm.
Fritz Hansen - 0167 - A rare mid 20th century Danish retro vintage two seat sofa settee having beech wood construction with sprung seat, cushioned wing shaped lumbar support backrest with shaped amrs. Upholstered in a vibrant retro embroidered machine tapestry fabric. Raised on shaped beech kick legs.. Applied makers label to base. Measures: 85cm x 165cm x 68cm.
W. Sitch & Co Ltd - St Giles Church, Chippenham Wiltshire - A 1970's rare ecclesiastical retro vintage large chandelier ceiling light fixture having a brass tubular construction. The tubular central rod having a ceiling rose to top and junction and finial to bottom with four arms coming out, each with ball finials and double ended light bulb holders. Measures; 120cmThis light was installed in 1977 to the church basing the design of the original from the 1930's ( lot 74 ) and designed by W. Sitch & Co Ltd Art Metal Workers of Berwick St., London.
A rare large Edwardian heraldic New Zealand - City of Auckland civic coat of arms carved wooden and metal city hall cartouche plinth. Of mahogany construction having carved wooden plinth with ' Advance ' to centre. Above, a central armorial shield with remains of design to include horn of plenty. The verso of the shield with hinged door revealing secret book storage cabinet. Above a gilt metal castle turret and sprig. Measures 90cms high x 78cms wide x 18cms depth
Wills's - Gold Flake - A rare vintage early to mid 20th century retro vintage unused point of sale shop advertising display stand. The 3D card stand advertising Gold Flake Honey Dew cigarettes having two packs of 10 either side and a pack of 20 to the bottom with pricing to centre. Very good example. Measures; 26cm x 23cm.
A rare original 1950's retro vintage floor standing standard lamp having a mustard yellow metal conical pendant shade raised on black steel sweeping arm with twin mesh planters to column. Supported by three splayed legs with circular feet. Measures 180cm high.Pictures may show lights on and have all light bulbs present however some light bulbs may not be included and all lights are sold as untested.
An incredible rare mid-20th century 1950's ' Shell ' Avery Hardoll petrol pump. Lovingly and sympathetically restored to immaculate condition - includes an original rare ' Shell ' glass globe to top. Rectangular form, in yellow Shell livery, with glass viewing panel in chrome frame above painted notation. Black hose with original period nozzle. Working light to top, fully PAT tested. An incredible and impressive display piece. Measures approx: 220cm tall x 55cm wideProvenance: originally from the Workman Garages in Coronation Avenue, Bath. This pump, and the next lot (lot 451) stood together in the garage from 1952 until our vendor purchased them in 2009. They were ordered from Avery Hardoll together, and have sequential serial numbers to the side. Both pumps are 100% complete, with all the inner workings present. Keys also present. The vendor spent a huge amount of time researching the correct signage and had them professionally signwritten in their correct font, and even checking the correct price of petrol for that area in 1952. They should both be considered as good as when they left the factory.
Lucian Ercolani - Ercol - Kelmscot Cabinet - An incredibly rare 1980's retro vintage beech and elm cabinet desk dresser having a raised superstructure with two bevelled glass doors with internal light fitting and two adjustable glass shelves over shaped desk top with two fitted frieze drawers and standing on four elegant tapered legs united by X stretcher. Complete with signed slate plaque and limited to 115/125. Measures: 195cm x 150cm x 50cm.
Falkenberg Belysning - A rare 1970's Swedish retro vintage metal cube shaped lamp raised on plinth base and finished in white with waffle grid diffuser. Applied label to base. Measures; 23cm x 20cm x 16cm.Pictures may show lights on and have all light bulbs present however some light bulbs may not be included and all lights are sold as untested.
J. Klokov - A rare and unusual 20th century believed Russian retro vintage studio art pottery vessel or jug having a french art deco style enamelling with simple forms finished in a painted dark terracotta colourway with an ebonised sphere and green, peach, brown enamel decoration. Signed to base. Measures; 22cm tall.
An unusual antique late 19th / early 20th century vintage industrial oak framed wooden cart / mill trolley, originally removed from a leather factory in Hampshire. Used to move drying leathers around the works. The trolley being of simple wooden construction with wooden beam atop forming a triangular structure, with metal trolley wheels to base. Label for Dickens Brothers to one end. Rare.
A rare and unusual 1970's retro vintage sputnik atomic space age coat / stick stand having painted and chromed steel comprising of four rods with ball finials, ring with fitted hooks atop attached to a tubular support with fitted umbrella ring and drip tray raised on a five point star splayed base with cupped feet. Measures; 186cm tall.
Virgilius Maro (Publius) Opera Vergiliana, edited by Badius Ascensius, 2 parts in 1 vol., collation: ɫ8 a-t8 v10 ; ɫɫ6 A-Z. AA-II8 KK6, Roman type, titles in red and black and with wide woodcut decorative borders, woodcut vignettes after Sebastian Brandt, and historiated initials, lacking colophon f., first title with marginal ink names and scribbles and marginal repairs verso, following f. with repair to inner margin, with loss of text, a few short tears, some staining (a few ff. at end heavily so) and spotting, 19th century blind-stamped calf, rebacked, preserving original backstrip in compartments, corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, with a fore-edge painting of a pastoral scene (an old pencil note attributing it to John T. Beer), folio (335 x 235mm.), Lyon, Jacques Mareschal, [1527]-1528.⁂ A rare edition at auction, with the additional of a handsome fore-edge painting complimenting The Georgics. Provenance: Alfred Sutro (bookplate). Literature: Adams V473; Mortimer, French, 537.
Joyce (James) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, first English edition, English sheets, signed presentation inscription from the author "To Beatrice Randegger. James Joyce. 25 Novembre 1919. Trieste." to front free endpaper, browning to endpapers, original cloth, spine very slightly faded, spine ends and corners a little bumped with small chip to foot of spine, 2 small patches of cockling to upper cover, some light rubbing, but still an excellent example overall, [Slocum & Cahoon A13], 8vo, The Egoist Ltd., [1918].⁂ Joyce's first novel with a near-contemporary presentation inscription. Inscribed copies of this or any edition are rare, especially so with a contemporary inscription. While the publication of A Portrait of the Artist did not prove to be as troublesome as that of Dubliners (see previous lot), it nevertheless proved difficult to find an English publisher willing to undertake the novel. The novel therefore was first published in America, with the first English edition published using sheets printed in America. The present edition was the first to be both published and printed in England. For the recipient, Beatrice Randegger neè Richetti, see previous lot. Joyce inscribed this copy during his brief return to Trieste following the war. It was not an especially happy period for Joyce - he struggled to strike up the same relationships he had left behind when he left 5 years ago and was working hard to finish Ulysses. Notably while Joyce resumed his position at the Scuola Superiore de Commercio Revoltella, he decided against recommencing his private lessons. That Randegger should seek out Joyce to inscribe her copy of A Portrait of the Artist so soon after his return to the city indicates that the former student and teacher maintained a degree of contact and mutual interest over a sustained period.Provenance: By descent in the family.
Broadside.- Charles I.- The city and country remembrancer for the year of our Lord God. 1707. Containing divers remarkable things profitable and necessary to be known by all sorts of persons, woodcut portrait of Charles I, trimmed to border, folds, a few spots, printed by G. Croom, and sold by B. Bragg, 1707.⁂ Exceedingly rare, with ESTC recording only two copies, both at Harvard. 'An almanac, but largely devoted to data of the trial of Charles I' (ESTC).
Greene (Graham) Brighton Rock, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to front free endpaper, light marking and browning to endpapers, ink stamps to front free endpaper, original cloth, light fading to foot of spine, dust-jacket, spine a little browned, spine ends and corners chipped, chips to head and foot of panels, rubbing to extremities, 8vo, New York, 1938.⁂ Precedes the first English edition, rare signed.
Gifford (George) A plaine declaration that our Brownists be full Donatists, by comparing them together from point to point out of the writings of Augustine. Also a replie to Master Greenwood touching read prayer, wherein his grosse ignorance is detected, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, lacking final blank, title with small part of upper corner missing and little chipped at head, closely trimmed at head, some staining, lightly browned, 20th century half morocco, gilt, rebacked, rubbed, [STC 11862], small 4to, Printed [by T. Orwin] for Toby Cooke, dwelling at the Tygers head in Paules Churchyard, 1590.⁂ Rare in commerce. 'A reply to: Greenwood, John. An answer to George Giffords pretended defence of read praiers in the first part of A short treatise against the Donatists of England, whome we call Brownists' (ESTC).
Piranesi (Giovanni Battista) Le Antichità Romane, 4 vol., an early edition, including letterpress title to vol. I, frontispiece with engraved portrait of Giovanni Battista Piranesi by Felice Polanzani, additional double-page frontispiece with dedication to Lord Charlemont [noted by Hind as only present in "rare early copies"], an engraved head-piece and tail-piece, six initials, together with 3 further engraved titles in vols. II-IV, and 243 engraved plates, many double-page or folding, in all 217 numbered plates [complete as called for by Hind], all printed on thick Venetian laid paper, many with watermarks of an encircled fleur-de-lis [Hind's watermark 1, "noted in early states"], spotting and toning to some sheets, particularly to titles and other plates closest to the boards, otherwise somewhat marginal, occasional surface dirt and minor handling creases, some careful repairs to marginal nicks, uniformly bound in near contemporary half russia, covers detached from vol. I but present, upper cover detached from vol. III but present, otherwise extremities worn, folio, Rome, Angelo Rotili, sold by Bouchard, 1756Saleroom notice: Vol.1 has 1 text leaf remargined. Provenance:Bookplate to inside upper cover of each vol. with the head of a stag surmounting a crown, initials 'E R D' below;Private collection, Rome [sold with accompanying export license]Literature:Hind pp. 83-84⁂ Early edition of Piranesi's monumental landmark survey of the remains of the Eternal City. Eight years in the making, the four volume magnum opus illustrates Piranesi's interest in recording not only 'the vanishing past for scholars, but [his desire] to present antiquity as a fund of experimental ideas for the inspiration of the present.' [John Wilton-Ely, Piranesi, exh. cat., 1978, p. 47] The present copy was printed before the artist excised Lord Charlemont's name from the frontispiece dedication in 1757, an act said to be in imitation of the ancient Roman practice of damnatio memoriae, and the result of a misunderstanding between Piranesi and Lord Charlemont with regard to financial support for the project. In the same year, and largely in response to his Le Antichità Romane, Piranesi was made a fellowship of the Society of Antiquaries in London.
Haggard (H. Rider) Finished, first edition, frontispiece, original cloth, Ward, Lock & Co. 'File Copy' paper label to upper cover, light rubbing to tips of spine and corners, else fine, dust-jacket, priced at ?5/- with remains of 6/- sticker to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, spine and lower panel darkened, tear and creasing to head of upper panel, joints splitting at head and foot, still a very good example of a rare dust-jacket, 8vo, 1917.⁂ Part of the Allan Quatermain, Finished is set against the background of the Anglo-Zulu War, with Quatermain depicted as one of the few survivors of the Battle of Isandhlwana.
Hamilton (Bruce) To Be Hanged, first edition, original pictorial cloth, spine browned, spine ends and corners a little bumped, light spotting to covers, but and excellent example overall, 8vo, 1930.⁂ Rare, published in pictorial cloth and without a dust-jacket as part of a brief experimental published effort by Faber (along with one other title). Bruce Hamilton (1900-74) was the younger brother of the more famous Patrick Hamilton (to whom this work is dedicated).
Lindsay (David) Devil's Tor, first edition, light spotting to endpapers, original cloth, spine faded, dust-jacket, price-clipped, spine a little browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, small patch of staining to lower panel, light spotting to upper panel, a few small nicks or tears to head and foot but overall an excellent example, 8vo, 1932.⁂ A bright and excellent example of a rare work, Lindsay's fifth and the last published during his lifetime. Devil's Tor has been referred to as Lindsay's magnum opus and, like his better-known A Voyage to Arcturus, is concerned with deep exploration of its metaphysical themes.
Brazil.- Wetherell (James) Brazil. Stray Notes from Bahia, first edition, edited by William Hadfield, wood-engraved frontispiece (spotted), lithograph plate of music, original cloth, extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo, Liverpool, Published by Subscription, [c.1860].⁂ A fine copy of this "excellent description of life in Bahia during the second empire." (Borba de Moraes 940). From the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps ("M.H.C." in pencil to front pastedown and "intake" numbers in ink) and Joseph Sinclair Carolin (bookplate). Rare at auction - the last copy in 1985.
Voragine (Jacobus de) La Legende d'Orée, collation: A-Z8 &8 Ɔ8 AA-GG8, double column, Gothic letter, woodcuts within text, woodcut criblé initials, lacking all before C2, GG1&8, L8 and Z3 tear within text without loss, some staining and spotting, lightly browned, later half vellum, worn, [Not in Adams], 4to in 8s (264 x 184mm.), [Paris], Pierre Leber & Nicole Vostre, 1525.⁂ An exceedingly rare edition, with USTC recording only one copy (Marsh's Library, Dublin).
Woolf (Virginia) Orlando. A Biography, first edition, frontispiece and 7 plates, occasional spotting, heavier to fore-edge, original cloth, spine faded, dust-jacket, spine and panels a little darkened, spine ends and corners chipped, chip to foot of rear panel, some light creasing and fraying to head and foot, extremities rubbed, original publisher's wraparound band (with neatly repaired tear), 8vo, 1928.⁂ Rare in the jacket, especially so with the wraparound band.
Tey (Josephine) Miss Pym Disposes, first edition, original cloth, spine ends and corners a little bumped, dust-jacket, spine ends and corners chipped with small portion of loss to head of spine and upper corner, some chipping and creasing to head and foot, light rubbing and surface soiling, 8vo, 1946.⁂ The rare second novel by the acclaimed mystery and crime writer. Tey (real name Elizabeth MacKintosh) brought a level of darker psychological insight to her novels and in so doing paved the way for the modern detective novel.
Automaton Chess Player & Mechanical Illusion.- Reynell (H., printer) The Famous Chess-Player, No.14, St.James's-Street, next Brooks's, broadside advertisement for "The famous Automaton", single page letterpress on laid paper with large watermark of coat-of-arms, central fold, slight creases, small piece missing from upper corner, tears with slight loss and affecting text at foot caused by red wax seal to verso, verso with ink inscription 'Lord Bishop of Dromore', 314 x 195mm., folio, Printed by H. Reynell, (No.21) Piccadilly, near the Hay-Market, [1784].⁂ "The Turk", also known as the Mechanical Turk or Automaton Chess Player, was a fake chess-playing machine constructed in 1770 by Wolfgang von Kempelen (Hungarian author and inventor, 1734-1804). It was initially constructed to impress the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, and following a second exhibition of it to the Grand Duke Paul of Russia, Kempelen was reluctantly persuaded to undertake a European tour in 1783. It stayed a year in London in 1784, where it became something of a cause celebre and, as the advertisement states, could be viewed together with a "speaking child machine" for "half a guinea".Extremely rare. Another very similar broadside was sold in these rooms as lot 40, September 27th 2018 (£9,000); that version advertised an admittance price of "Five Shillings" and the final paragraph stated that "Parties of at least Six Persons, may have a private Exhibition to themselves..." This present copy has the same setting for the main body of the text, but the admittance price is higher and the final paragraph reads "Eight" instead of Six Persons, suggesting this is in all likelihood a slightly earlier version, before pricing and admission criteria were adjusted downwards. ESTC records two copies, in the BL and NY Public Library, but we have been unable to determine which version of either.
Baring-Gould (Sabine) Margery of Quether and Other Stories, first edition, browning and ink ownership inscription to endpaper, original cloth, gilt, spine faded, light rubbing and bumping to spine and and corners, light rubbing to joints, but an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1891.⁂ A rare short story collection including the early vampire story Margery of Quether. Published six years before Dracula, Baring-Gould's story tells of a vampiric witch that sucks the blood and drains the vitality of the narrator.
Blackwood (Algernon) A Prisoner in Fairyland, first edition, initialed presentation inscription from the author to front free endpaper, 10pp. advertisements, browning to endpapers, original cloth, spine ends and corners a little bumped, spine dulled, light rubbing, dust-jacket, spine slightly browned and lacking lower 1/3, head of spine and corners chipped, light scattered spotting to panels, creasing to head and foot, 8vo, 1913.⁂ Rare fantasy novel by Blackwood, we can trace no other copy in a jacket and inscribed. A Prisoner in Fairyland was adapted into a 1915 children's play with original music composed by Sir Edward Elgar. Louis Napoleon Parker (1852-1944) English dramatist, composer, translator and a dedicatee of Blackwood's Dudley and Guilderoy.
Ambrosiaster. Quaestiones Veteris et novi testamenti, two fragments from leaves from a decorated ms. in Latin, retrieved from a binding, 310 x 65mm. and 335 x 67mm., in a fine Carolingian miniscule, chapter headings in red, shorter fragment tipped on to paper, short tear to head of taller fragment, both with folds, creasing, some scuffing, with loss, [France or Low Countries], [Tenth century, or c.1000]. ⁂ Rare and early copies of parts of an important early commentary on the Old and New Testament (here quaest . XI, XXIII and XXXV). Copies of extracts of the text interspersed with that of Theodore of Mopsuestia were produced at Corbie in the eighth century (these probably descending from a North African copy from the library of Cassiodorus at Vivarium: see Ganz, Corbie in the Carolingian Renaissance , 1990, pp.40, 126-7, and lot 17 in the Schøyen sale in Sotheby's, 10th July, 2012). No copy is recorded outside of institutional ownership. Ambrosiaster lived in the second half of the 4th century, and is likely to have been a member of the Roman clergy, active during the reign of Pope Damasus (366-384).Provenance: Note in French mounted on paper preserving fragment recording their use in the binding of a copy of Quintilian, Declamationes, Paris, Simon de Colines, 1542.
Johnson (Theophilus) Personal Recollections of the Zoo: during a period of Fifty Years, 62 plates of original drawings, of which 35 are fully coloured and 27 are monochrome, plus 20 vignettes in text, occasional spots and minor stains, original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine rubbed, 8vo, [Dartford], Privately Printed, 1905.⁂ Extremely rare. This copy perhaps of a later issue since the loosely inserted 4pp. on the Walrus are numbered, whereas other copies are known with them unnumbered. Johnson (1836-1919) was born in Tottenham and became an amateur naturalist and artist, privately printing many natural history titles and illustrating them all with his own watercolours and drawings. The examples in this volume are particularly striking and the colours extremely vibrant.
Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem nuper exacta diligentia recognitae, et infinitis erroribus purgatae, collation: A-Z AA-RR8 SS12, Roman letter, woodcut portrait of Cicero to title, trimmed at head, just touching the odd headline, 18th century half calf, spine gilt and with yellow leather label, some worming to spine, rubbed and scuffed, [EDIT 16 CNCE 14597], 12mo (116 x 68mm.), Venice, 'Ex Officina Erasmiana' [Vincenzo Valgrisi], 1540.⁂ A rare little edition with EDIT 16 recording only five copies.
Wodehouse (P.G.) Love Among the Chickens, first edition, first issue without date to copyright p., frontispiece and 3 plates by H.M.Brock (1 loose), some pulling to gatherings, occasional light foxing, small ink name to endpaper, original pictorial cloth, spine browned, spine ends and corners with minor bumping and fraying splitting to joints but holding firm, light rubbing, [McIlvaine A7a], 8vo, [1906].⁂ Wodehouse's first adult novel, rare.
Gemistus (Gregorius), called Pletho. Platonicae atque Aristotelicae Philosophiae differentia, Libellus nuper in lucem editus. Berbardino Donato Veronesi Authore, 2 parts in 1, collation: a-d8, e4; α-γ8, Roman and Greek type, woodcut printer's device to title, woodcut historiated initials, Venice, Girolamo Scoto, 1540 bound with Aristotle. De moribus ad Nicomachum libri decem. Nunc primum e Graeco et Latine & fideliter, quod utrunque querebantur omnes praestitisse adhuc neminem, a Dionysio Lambino expressi. Eiusdem Dionys. Lambini in eosdem libros annotations, collation: * 8, A-Z 8, a-d 8, e 8, Roman, italic, and Greek type, woodcut printer's device to title, woodcut historiated initials, some water-staining to outer margins, small wormhole to outer margins at end, Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1558, together 2 works in 1 vol.,18th century dark green half morocco, gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, rubbed, 8vo⁂ I: The rare first edition of Platonicae atque Aristotelicae Philosophiae, one of the key works in the re-birth of Platonism in Western Europe. II: First edition of Denis Lambin's Latin translation of Ethica Nicomachea , along with the commentary of Marc-Antoine Muret.Literature: I: Adams D797 and P1531; EDIT 16 CNCE 17369 II: Not in Adams; EDIT 16 CNCE 2949.
Obstetrics.- Roesslin (Eucharius) The birth of man-kinde; othervvise named, The womans booke. Set forth in English by Thomas Raynald physitian, and by him corrected and augmented, black letter, title within woodcut decorative border, including personifications of faith and humility and mythical creatures, 9 full-page woodcuts, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, some light browning, title with short repaired tear and a few other minor repairs, water-stained, occasional staining, modern calf, cloth slip-case, [STC 21164; Krivatsy 908; Waller 8102; cf. Heirs of Hippocrates (1604 edition) 115], small 4to in 8s, Printed [by Robert Barker, Bernard Alsop, and Thomas Fawcet] for A. H[ebb] and are to be sold by Iohn Morret, at the two Tuns in little Britaine, 1634.⁂ A rare English edition of the first practical handbook for midwives. This translation by the physician Thomas Raynalde is based on Richard Jonas' translation of a Latin edition of Roesslin's Der swagern Frauwen und hebammen Rosegarten, 1513.
Awdry (Rev. W.) The Three Railway Engines, first edition, first printing without advert for Thomas the Tank Engine, original boards, rebacked, light soiling to cover, dust-jacket, repairs and restorations to head and foot with portion of restoration to upper panel, oblong 8vo, [1946].⁂ The first book in the celebrated Railway Series, rare, especially so in the jacket.
Wine.- Fabbroni (Adamo) Dell'arte di fare il vino, first edition, folding engraved plate, occasional spotting, a few small stains, contemporary drab wrappers, head of spine little chipped, lightly soiled, [Simon BG 647; Vicaire 353 (note); Westbury 93], 8vo, Florence, Giuseppe Tofani, 1787.⁂ Rare treatise on wine-making.
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