AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (St., 354-430). Opus quaestionum. Edited by Augustinus de Ratisbona and Jodocus Badius Ascensius. Lyons: Johannes Trechsel, 25 April 1497. Chancery 2° (280 x 200mm). 283 leaves (of 286, Ff1 and Ff2 supplied in facsimile, without final blank). Gothic types. Initial spaces with printed guide-letters, printer's device on Pp9v. (Some marginal dampstaining.) 16th-century calf over wooden boards tooled in blind with foliate and floral roll-tools, possibly British, brass catches and clasps, old spine label (extremities lightly rubbed, rebacked preserving some of the original backstrip). Provenance: Boies Penrose II (bookplate) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 14). RARE FIRST EDITION of this important text by St Augustine of Hippo and THE ONLY EDITION PRINTED BEFORE 1500. HC *1965; GW 2915; BMC VIII, 301; BSB-Ink A-894; CIBN A-711; Goff A-1297. View on Christie's.com
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BIBLIA LATINA. Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 31 May 1480. Chancery 4° (207 x 144mm). Gothic types. Opening initial in green with red penwork decoration, other initials in red or blue, MS guide-letters. (Without first blank, some staining, neat tear into text in I5, last leaf repaired on verso with loss of a few letters, blue initials sometimes washed out.) 19th-century half burgundy morocco, gilt edges (lightly rubbed). Provenance: early marginal annotations (sometimes trimmed or washed) -- Jesuit house "Pauperes Evangelizantur" stamp) -- [?Robert Van Biesebroeck (1923-2001, Bruges collector, cf. De Gulden Passer, p. 20) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 27). Rare on the market; no copy of this edition has been sold at auction in over 35 years. HC *3080; GW 4245; BMC V, 276; BSB-Ink B-441; Bod-inc B-279; Goff B-570. View on Christie's.com
BRACK, Wenceslaus (d. 1495). Vocabularius rerum, in Latin and German. - ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS. Etymologiae lib. X. - BRACK. De verbis; De modo epistolandi. - HUGO DE SANCTO VICTORE. Didascalicon de studio legendi. [Augsburg: Anton Sorg]: 14 September 1487. Chancery 4° (190 x 134mm). Gothic types, rubricated. (Paper flaw in one corner.) Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, spine with later lettering, 2 fore-edge claps, flyleaves from a Bible manuscript on vellum, printed fragments as pastedowns (lightly rubbed); modern folding box. Provenance: early monastic inscription erased; annotations -- J. Kemp Waldie (20th-century bookplate) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer, 2003, no. 34). Fifth edition of a Latin-German compendium of practical knowledge, ranging from medicine to agriculture, food and wine, navigation, etc. Brack wrote it for his students at the cathedral school at Constance to enhance their broad, humanist education. Brack was a medical doctor and personal physician to the Hapsburg Kaiser Friedrich III and Archbishop of Salzburg, Leonhard von Keutschach. Among the medical subjects treated are bathing, bleeding, cupping, diseases, and medical practice. A fresh copy with strong impressions. All 15th-century editions of the work are rare on the market and many institutional copies are imperfect. Cf. N. Pleuger, Der Vocabularius rerum von Wenzeslaus Brack, 2005. H *3703; BMC II, 352 (IA.6004); BSB-Ink B-795; Bod-inc B-499; Klebs 207.5; Goff B-1062. View on Christie's.com
![PAMPHLETS -- [HEAD, Richard (?1637-1686)]. O-Brazile, or the inchanted Island being a perfect relation of the late discovery](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387110e_468x382.jpg)
PAMPHLETS -- [HEAD, Richard (?1637-1686)]. O-Brazile, or the inchanted Island being a perfect relation of the late discovery and wonderful dis-inchantement of an island on the north of Ireland: with an account of the riches and commodities thereof. Edinburgh: re-printed 1675. 8pp. (Upper margin closely shaved, lightly soiled.) A RARE WORK describing an imaginary island off the cost of Ulster. This is the second edition, known in only 2 other copies (BL and NLS); the first and third editions, also printed in 1675, are also rare and no copy of any edition has sold at auction in over 35 years. The work is dated and pseudonymously signed by Richard Head: Londonderry, March 14. 1674. Wing H1270. Bound with 10 other pamphlets, including: BURNET, Gilbert, 1643-1715. Letter written upon the discovery of the late plot. London, 1678. Wing B5825. -- BURNET, Gilbert. The Unreasonableness and Impiety of Popery: in a second letter written upon the discovery of the late plot. London, 1678. Wing B5935. -- BURNET, Gilbert. A Relation of the Barbarous and Bloody Massacre of about an hundred thousand Protestants, begun at Paris, and carried on over all France by the papists, in the year 1572. London 1678. Wing R814. -- USSHER, James (1581-1656). Strange and remarkable prophefies and predictions of the holy, learned and excellent James Usher. Licensed, November the 16th. Printed 1681. Wing U226. -- [?HUBERT, William] The Puritan Convert or, a discourse by the way of a letter. 1676. Half-title. Wing H3246A. -- BOLDE, Samuel (1649-1737). A Sermon against persecution and the time when the brief for the persecuted protestants in France, was read in the parish church. London, 1682. Fourth edition. Wing B3491. -- [?PEARSON, Anthony] Of Tything amongst the Iewes, 37pp., added before is a manuscript page: 'Anthonie Pe[a]rson's Booke against Tithes who turning Quaker afterward turned so carnall as I was certainly informed that he died in agonies of conscience.' -- BRITTEN, William (d.1669). Silent Meeting, a wonder to the world; yet practised by the apostles and owned by the people of god, scornfully called Quakers. London, 1660. Wing B4825. -- [SMITH, William (d.1673)]. An Holy Kiss of Peace, sent from the Seed of Life. London,1660. Drop-head title. Wing S4307. 11 pamphlets in one volume, 4° (183 x 142mm). (Some browning and soiling.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, quite rubbed). Provenance: 2-page manuscript letter by ?T. Cuthur to T. Hodgkin (tipped-in on front endpaper, dated Newcastle, 23 August 96, explaining that Mr Cuthur is giving this book to T. Hodgkin as a thank you because Mr Hodgkin helped him financially sometime back) -- Thomas Hodgkin (bookplate). View on Christie's.com
![MERCATOR, Rumold (1545-1599). Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio. [Duisburg:] 1587. Engraved twin-hemispherical world map, e](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387141e_468x382.jpg)
MERCATOR, Rumold (1545-1599). Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio. [Duisburg:] 1587. Engraved twin-hemispherical world map, elaborate strapwork borders, armillary sphere, compass rose, galleon and sea monster, all hand-coloured by a contemporary hand, Latin text below in four columns, the first with 20 lines, verso blank. (Trimmed just into the left- and right-hand extremities of the plate mark just touching the western hemisphere and associated strapwork, lightly browned, lower right-hand edge with very minor chips, some minor repairs to verso, very light vertical stain to both hemispheres, some very small repairs to compass rose with associated small losses), 286 x 519mm (sheet 382 x 519mm). VERY RARE SEPARATE ISSUE OF RUMOLD MERCATOR'S STRIKING WORLD MAP. Gerard Mercator's great world map of 1569 was condensed into this double-hemisphere map by his son, Rumold. The present lot conforms with Koeman's Me 12 as being separately issued - it was later added to third part of the Atlas in 1595. 'The engraving is a model of clarity and neatness, with typical cursive flourishes to the lettering of the sea names' (Shirley). The North Pole is illustrated as a landmass surrounding a sea from which four rivers radiate, and there is a well depicted north west passage. A huge southern continent and the bulge in the south west coast of South America indicate the influence of Gerard Mercator. Koeman Me 12; Shirley 157. View on Christie's.com
![SENEX, John (bap. 1678-1740). A Map of the World Corrected from the Observations Communicated to the Royal Societys [sic] of](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387147e_468x382.jpg)
SENEX, John (bap. 1678-1740). A Map of the World Corrected from the Observations Communicated to the Royal Societys [sic] of London and Paris. London: J. Senex, 1725 [but later]. Large engraved twin-hemispherical world map after Senex by Henry Hulsbergh (d. 1729) on four sheets, central cartouche with allegorical female figures representing the four continents, John Maxwell's name erased from cartouche but still visible, surrounding explanatory text on tides and winds derived from Issac Newton and Edmond Halley, California correctly depicted as a peninsula with erased island lines still visible, all hand-coloured by a contemporary hand, verso blank. (Old paper repairs to verso at sheet joins and vertical creases, repairs visible to recto at right-hand join, very faint soiling, trimmed at left-hand side to plate mark), 610 x 1095mm (sheet 635 x 1104mm). A FINE, VERY LARGE WORLD MAP, originally co-published by Senex and his then-partner John Maxwell in 1711, with both their names in the cartouche. It was re-issued in several later variants up until c.1750. Although the present example is dated 1725, the imprint adds 'F.R.S.' to Senex's name although he was not elected a Fellow of the Royal Society until 1728. RARE. View on Christie's.com
ZÜRNER, Adam Friedrich. Planisphaerium Terrestre cum utroque Coelesti Hemisphaerio, sive Diversa Orbis Terraquei. Amsterdam: Pieter Schenk [c.1700 or later]. Engraved twin-hemispherical world map on landscape backgrounds, with smaller twin-hemisphere celestial maps, 12 small circular cartouches to upper margin depicting various global views including those of the poles and an armillary sphere, 14 small circular cartouches to lower margin with astronomical views, all hand-coloured by a contemporary hand, verso blank. (Restored, margins and central crease fold strengthened on verso), 505 x 575mm (sheet 556 x 615mm). RARE WORLD MAP WITH ATTRACTIVE CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLURING. Zürner's work is relatively unknown, appearing usually in other publishers' atlases, such as Schenk's Atlas Contractus. The present issue shows the routes of Magellan, Dampier, Tasman, Gaetani and Chaumont. California is tentatively depicted as an island with dotted lines, but coloured as a peninsula. Shirley 639. View on Christie's.com
![ROWE, George. Scenery in the North of Devon. Cheltenham and Exeter: George Rowe [n.d. but c. 1830]. Oblong 2° (215 x 295mm).](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387155e_468x382.jpg)
ROWE, George. Scenery in the North of Devon. Cheltenham and Exeter: George Rowe [n.d. but c. 1830]. Oblong 2° (215 x 295mm). 15 hand-coloured plates on india paper (c.170 x 215mm). (Some spotting, mostly in the mounts.) Original light brown floral cloth spine and green patterned boards, printed label on cover (lacking front free endpaper, extremities rubbed). IN THE ORIGINAL BINDING. Comprises views of Ilfracombe, Linton and Lynmouth. Rare: WorldCat and Abbey apparently record only another edition published by Rowe in collaboration with J. Banfield. Cf. Abbey Scenery, 128. View on Christie's.com
[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll')]. Algebraical Formulae and Rules for the use of candidates for responsions. [Oxford: University Press, 1870.] Bifolium (230 x 144mm); printed on cream paper. (Light soiling.) Provenance: contemporary scholar (two emendations in black ink). RARE. Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch record only the Sir Harold Hartley copy, and ABPC only the Falletta copy (Christie's, 30 November 2005, lot 63). Dodgson's diary mentions only Algebraical Formulae for Responsions (WMGC 65) which he took to the University Press on 21 May 1868. It is possible that the present pamphlet is an expanded and improved version. Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 76; Mathematical Pamphlets 13. View on Christie's.com
[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll')]. Arithmetic. I. [Oxford: University Press, c.1870]. Bifolium (227 x 144mm); printed on cream paper. (Small stain in top margin.) FIRST EDITION, RARE. ABPC records only one other copy sold at auction, the Hartley--Falletta copy (Christie's 30 November 2005, lot 64). The pamphlet consists of templates for 33 examination problems divided into 5 sections: Integral Numbers, Vulgar Fractions, Decimal Fractions, Concrete Numbers, and Rule of Three. The problems are stated in skeleton form, leaving blanks for the variables, so that new problems can be generated easily. Mathematical Pamphlets 23; not in Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch. View on Christie's.com
[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll')]. Formulae. [Oxford]: 19 March 1878. One page 8° (218 x 140mm). Cyclostyled. As issued, without wrappers. RARE CYCLOSTYLED PIECE. ABPC records only the Falletta copy selling at auction (Christie's, 30 November 2005, lot 75). Dodgson acquired his 'electric pen' in 1877 and describes it in a letter dated 28 June 1877: it 'seems to be quite the best thing yet invented for taking a number of copies of MSS, drawings or maps. The "pen" consists of a needle, in a holder like a pencil: the needle is worked in and out with enormous rapidity by electricity and projects far enough to go through a thin sheet of paper... the paper thus prepared is placed in a frame with blank paper underneath, and an ink roller is passed [over it]... copies are easily worked off at a rate of 2 a minute'. This work consists of 18 formulas corresponding to the topics in section L of the pamphlet A Guide to the Mathematical Student in Reading, Reviewing, and Working Examples (1864). Mathematical Pamphlets 15; not in Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch. View on Christie's.com
![[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll')]. Formulae. (Group C.). [Oxford: c.1878.] Cyclostyled bifolium (222 x 142mm). (A](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387241e_468x382.jpg)
[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll')]. Formulae. (Group C.). [Oxford: c.1878.] Cyclostyled bifolium (222 x 142mm). (A very few spots.) Without wrappers, as issued. RARE CYLOSTYLED PAMPHLET, WITH CARROLL'S MANUSCRIPT CORRECTIONS IN HIS CHARACTERISTIC PURPLE INK. ABPC records only the Falletta copy selling at auction in the past 30 years (Christie's 30 November 2005, lot 79). The formulas correspond to the topics in sections G and L of A Guide to the Mathematical Student in Reading, Reviewing, and Working Examples. All Dodgson's cyclostyle pamphlets were produced in unknown but small numbers. Mathematical Pamphlets 6; not in Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch. View on Christie's.com
DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll'). Some Popular Fallacies about Vivisection. 'Oxford: "printed for private circulation only", 1875'. 8° (195 x 120mm). (Some creasing and tears, and occasional soiling.) Original stitched printed wrappers (some soiling, creasing and tears). RARE. ONE OF 150 COPIES PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION; an offprint of Dodgson's serious attempt to discredit vivisection, published in the June 1875 Fortnightly Review. It has been argued that this edition may be a later, fraudulent printing (cf. Goodacre, 'An enquiry into the nature of a certain Lewis Carroll Pamphlet', The Book Collector Autumn 1978; although a proof copy supposedly inscribed by Dodgson is held in the Parrish collection). Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 106. View on Christie's.com
MARS -- CASSINI, Giovanni Domenico (1625-1712). De Periodo quotidianae revolutionis Martis. Bologna: by H.H. de Ducius, 1666. [With:] -- De aliis Romanis observationibus macularum Martis. Bologna: by H.H. de Ducius, 1666. [And:] -- Tabulae Quotidianae Revolutionis Macularum Iovis. Rome: by Fabio de Falco, 1665. 3 works, each a single sheet folded once (305 x 220mm). The second item with an engraved plate of telescopic observations and two small printed correction slips tipped on. (The first two items with early, shallow folding creases perhaps for mailing, the first item with a repair in the bottom margin, some spotting, some browning). Disbound. THREE RARE PAMPHLETS BY CASSINI on the rate of rotation of Mars and Jupiter, including his 'importantissimi opus' (Riccardi) announcing the length of the Martian day. Cassini focused his telescope on the macula, or dark spots of Mars to determine the position of the planet's polar cap and period of rotation. RARE: ABPC records no copies at auction in over 35 years. WorldCat apparently locates just one copy of De Periodo at the Bibliotheque nationale de France; and apparently no copy of De aliis Romanis. Riccardi I, 277-8. With another: an incomplete copy of Martis circa axem proprium revolubilis observationes Bononiae (Bologna: 1666). (4) View on Christie's.com
TAGLIACOZZI, Gaspare (1545-1599). Cheirurgia nova...de narium, aurium, labiorumque defectu. Frankfurt: J. Saur for P. Kopff, 1598. 8° (157 x 92mm). Title printed in red and black, printer's woodcut device on title, 22 full-page woodcuts. (Browned throughout with light dampstaining at beginning and to plates at end, some marginalia slightly trimmed.) 18th-century paper covered boards, clasps, red speckled edges, ?later prelims. Provenance: early ink inscription to title 'Christians Buech'. Third edition (and first octavo edition), following the two folio Venice editions, both printed in 1597. RARE. NLM/Durling 4312; Waller 9451; Wellcome 6211. View on Christie's.com
DELTOR, Fred (pseudonym of Federico Carasso). Jeu de Massacre. Preface by Henri Barbusse. Brussels: Les éditions socialistes, c.1928. Printed leaf of captions and 12 pochoir plates (320 x 245mm), in various colours including silver. (Some plates with a little browning in the margins.) Original pochoir-printed portfolio (some expert restoration, light spotting on the endpapers). FIRST EDITION of this rare set of bold pochoir plates. Anarchist in spirit, and Constructivist in realisation, these represent the enemies of socialism: property, philanthropy, colonialism, patriotism, religion, etc. Not in ABPC. COPAC gives no copies in the UK, and WorldCat locates just 3 copies in the USA: at MoMA, Princeton and Harvard. View on Christie's.com
PICASSO, Pablo, DIAGHILEV, Serge, COCTEAU, Jean, BAKST, Leon, and others. Les Ballets russes à Paris, représentations exceptionelles. Paris: Brunoff for Théâtre du Châtelet, 1917. 2° (318 x 245mm). Illustrations throughout, including some photographic and some in colour, of which five by Bakst, three by Picasso, one of these coloured in pochoir, and one after Larionov (text leaves evenly darkened in the margins, light wear). Original illustrated inner wrappers and printed outer wrapper bound with a silk cord (expert repairs to the wrappers, light wear). FIRST EDITION. Rare programme for the 1917 season, which included 'Parade': the legendary Cubist ballet written by Cocteau and Satie, with costumes and design by Picasso. One of the plates illustrating Picasso's costume for the acrobat is hand-coloured in pochoir. Rare: WorldCat locates just 4 copies worldwide, none in the UK. View on Christie's.com
![COMPANY BOOKS -- Skoda. 1859-1959. 100 let ve sluzbach technickeho pokroku. [100 Years in the Service of Technical Progress.]](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387285e_468x382.jpg)
COMPANY BOOKS -- Skoda. 1859-1959. 100 let ve sluzbach technickeho pokroku. [100 Years in the Service of Technical Progress.] Plzen: Skoda, 1959. 4° (300 x 230mm). Illustrated throughout. Original linen, upper side and spine blocked in blue and orange, top edge dyed blue, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket, original clear acetate box (small chips, and one longer chip, at corners). Rare, and finely designed jubilee publication in its original acetate box and in excellent condition. WorldCat locates just one copy, at the National Library of the Czech Republic. View on Christie's.com
![COMPANY BOOKS -- [HIPMAN, Vladimir, attributed to.] Skoda. Prague: Unie [c.1939]. 2° (290 x 250mm). 38 gravures on cardstock](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387286e_468x382.jpg)
COMPANY BOOKS -- [HIPMAN, Vladimir, attributed to.] Skoda. Prague: Unie [c.1939]. 2° (290 x 250mm). 38 gravures on cardstock each with printed tissue guards. (A very few corners a little bumped.) Original photo-illustrated card covers tied with a purple silk ribbon (some wear, expert repairs). RARE: one of probably about 50 copies in English, from an edition of about 200 copies: 50 each in English, German, French and Czech. Almost certainly photographed by Vladimir Hipman, who at the time was the leading photographer of industrial subjects working for Unie. Here he turns his lens on Skoda's Locomotive Workshop, and his photographs are printed in rich gravure on cardstock. Skoda began as an arms manufacturer in 1859 before branching out into trains. Bookseller Vaclav Klement founded the bicycle manufacture, and later motorcycle- and car-maker, which was eventually acquired by Skoda. View on Christie's.com
![DRTIKOL, Frantisek. Zena ve Svetle. [Woman in Light.] Prague: E. Beaufort, 1930. Octavo (240 x 170 mm). 46 black and white ph](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387287e_468x382.jpg)
DRTIKOL, Frantisek. Zena ve Svetle. [Woman in Light.] Prague: E. Beaufort, 1930. Octavo (240 x 170 mm). 46 black and white photographs. Original orange cloth, original photo-illustrated dust jacket (very small chips at corners and light wear on the front fold). FIRST EDITION, IN AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF THE RARE DUST-JACKET. A remarkable survival in this condition, wholly unrestored and among the best yet offered at auction. With this book Drtikol moved 'into his own modernist style of photography that prefigured and influenced the emerging Bauhaus aesthetic' (101 Books). 101 Books, pp.64-65; Books of Nudes, pp.80-1; The Open Book, pp. 94-95; The Photobook, p.79 ('a handsome and well-designed book'). View on Christie's.com
![HOPPÉ, Emile Otto. Deutsche Arbeit. [German Industry.] Berlin: Ullstein, 1930. 4° (277 x 220mm). 97 black and white photograp](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387292e_468x382.jpg)
HOPPÉ, Emile Otto. Deutsche Arbeit. [German Industry.] Berlin: Ullstein, 1930. 4° (277 x 220mm). 97 black and white photographs. Original grey cloth-backed black boards, front board lettered in red, spine lettered in white, original dust-jacket, photo-illustrated on one side, and printed in colours on the reverse (dust-jacket lightly faded and with light spotting, a few short tears one of which with a small early repair). FIRST EDITION, IN AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF THE RARE DUST-JACKET. When found the fragile, un-laminated jacket is usually worn and chipped; it is an uncommon survival in this condition. Deutsche Arbeit is one of few books with a reversible dust-jacket, with a splendid modernist design on each side. The Photobook, vol. I, p.125. View on Christie's.com
KLEIN, William. Rome. Paris: by Sapho for Editions du Seuil, 1959. 4° (275 x 215mm). c.165 black and white photographs; text printed in red and black. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (minor soiling on the cloth). Provenance: William Klein (presentation inscription, in dark-blue fountain pen, to:) -- Georges Sion (author). FIRST EDITION. A RARE CONTEMPORARY PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY KLEIN: in French, 'To Georges Sion. A Rome just as dramatic, perhaps, as New York -- but less desperate -- the proof: she has lasted! William Klein'. An excellent copy in a fine dust-jacket. Early Klein presentation inscriptions are distinctly uncommon. Georges Sion, the great traveller, author and critic, and member of the Goncourt and Académie Royale, wrote a number of travel books, often in collaboration with photographers. Federico Fellini remarked of Rome: 'This is the best Rome there is, and Klein is the best photographer there is. He knows Rome like a book and this is it'. 101 Books, p.143; Auer & Auer 388; The Open Book, pp.178-79. View on Christie's.com
![MORIYAMA, Daido. Shashin yo sayonara. [Bye Bye Photography.] Tokyo: Shashin Hyoron-sha, 1972. Tall 8° (230 x 185mm). 137 doub](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387300e_468x382.jpg)
MORIYAMA, Daido. Shashin yo sayonara. [Bye Bye Photography.] Tokyo: Shashin Hyoron-sha, 1972. Tall 8° (230 x 185mm). 137 double-page photographs. (Light spotting in some text leaves not affecting the images.) Original printed wrappers, original dust-jacket (light wear and light soiling, light spotting). Provenance: Daido Moriyama (presentation inscription to:) -- Koji Taki. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY MORIYAMA TO PROVOKE CO-FOUNDER KOJI TAKI: A RARE AND IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY. Moriyama remarked: 'when I was involved with Provoke, I used the copy machine a lot and experimented a lot. I used the images the way they came out of the machine. I did a lot of that stuff at Taki's place' (quoted in Kaneko & Vartanian). Bye Bye Photography is 'one of the most extreme photobooks ever published', and 'a brilliant barrage of stream of consciousness imagery' -- Moriyama's 'willingness to be led to the edge of photography's coherence is the photographic equivalent of Surrealist automatic writing by a camera that almost has a mind of its own' (The Photobook). A very good copy of a book often found in poor condition, and rarely with an early inscription. 101 Books, pp.218-20; Auer & Auer 543; Kaneko & Vartanian, Japanese Photobooks, p.29; The Open Book, pp.290-91; The Photobook, vol. I, pp.298-99. View on Christie's.com
SUDEK, Josef. Ceskoslovensko. Praha. Prague: Melantrich, 1929. 7 vols, 4° (310 x 215mm). 120 black and white photographs. Original portfolios, upper sides printed in orange and blue (a few short tears at some folds, part 3 with a long tear along the spine), each part in original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (light wear, occasional light spotting, a few old repairs on the verso). FIRST EDITION. THE VERY RARE ISSUE IN PARTS, EACH WITH ITS OWN DUST-JACKET. A remarkable survival of this early Sudek publication; the jackets are in excellent condition given the very thin, un-laminated paper on which they are printed. ABPC records no copy in parts at auction in over 35 years. (7) View on Christie's.com
TOMATSU, Shomei. 11:02 Nagasaki. Tokyo: Shashindojinsha, 1966. 4° (220 x 190 mm). 119 black and white photographs. Original photo-illustrated boards (light browning on spine), original plastic dust-jacket (slightly short and shrunk as always, a few tears), original printed cardboard slipcase (minor browning and light wear). FIRST EDITION, IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET, and complete with the publisher's prospectus laid-in. An excellent copy of one of 'the most significant memorials to the defining event in twentieth-century Japanese history', which illustrates 'a clear progression towards truly world class Japanese photographic expression' (The Photobook). The Open Book, pp.226-27; The Photobook, vol. I, pp.274-77. View on Christie's.com
![BENOIS, Alexandre (1870-1960) and CHUKOVSKII, Kornei (editors). Elka. [The New Year Tree.] St. Petersburg: Parus [1918]. Smal](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387313e_468x382.jpg)
BENOIS, Alexandre (1870-1960) and CHUKOVSKII, Kornei (editors). Elka. [The New Year Tree.] St. Petersburg: Parus [1918]. Small 2° (285 x 218mm). Illustrated throughout, sometimes in colour, one mounted plate after Repin. Original illustrated boards after Lebedev, printed endpapers (light wear at the spine including chipped headcap, corners lightly rubbed, light soiling). Provenance: Russian bookseller (small stamp). FIRST EDITION. AN EXCELLENT COPY and rare in this condition. This fine publication with contributions from Maxim Gor'kii, Mstislav Dobuzhinskii, Sasha Chernii, Iurii Annenkov, Il'ia Repin, Vladimir Lebedev and others, was originally intended for publication in Spring 1917 with the title The Rainbow, but was delayed until January 1918 when it was issued with a more appropriate title. It is sometimes described as the first Soviet children's book; but because it was largely prepared before History intervened, it is perhaps better thought of as the last pre-revolutionary children's book. Rats Collection 62 & pl.133. View on Christie's.com
![BENOIS, Alexandre (1870-1960). Azbuka v kartinakh. [Alphabet in Pictures.] St. Petersburg: Commission for the Preparation of](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387314e_468x382.jpg)
BENOIS, Alexandre (1870-1960). Azbuka v kartinakh. [Alphabet in Pictures.] St. Petersburg: Commission for the Preparation of State Papers, 1924. 4° (321 x 255mm). Chromolithographed throughout. (Occasional minor spotting.) Original cloth-backed colour-printed boards (a trace of minor rubbing at the corners, light browning on the endpapers); purple cloth clamshell case. Provenance: Martin Kaiser (small signature on the front endpaper). FIRST EDITION. AN EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS BENOIS MASTERPIECE and rare in this condition: 'it is hardly possible to find a copy of this book in good state. The book has always been in high demand among bibliophiles. Its circulation was extremely limited' (Vengerov). Rats Collection 10; Sokrovishcha imperatorskikh knizhnykh sobranii v biblioteke Ermitazha 16; Vengerov Staraia Russkaia Kniga 66 View on Christie's.com
![CHEKHONIN, Sergei (1878-1936; illustrator) and POLONSKAIA, Elizaveta (author; 1890-1969). Gosti. [The Guests.] Moscow and St.](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387316e_468x382.jpg)
CHEKHONIN, Sergei (1878-1936; illustrator) and POLONSKAIA, Elizaveta (author; 1890-1969). Gosti. [The Guests.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Kniga, 1924. Small 2° (290 x 220mm). Illustrated thoughout. Original illustrated wrappers (tears at spine ends, one staple detached but holding, light wear). FIRST EDITION. Rare: apparently not in WorldCat. From 1918 Chekhonin headed the State Porcelain factory, where he was among the first to introduce avant-garde designs to Russian ceramics. Rats Collection 103. View on Christie's.com
![CHERKESOV, Iurii Iur'evich (1900-1943; illustrator) and BORISOV, Leonid (author). Glupaia Plita. [The Foolish Cooker.] Moscow](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387318e_468x382.jpg)
CHERKESOV, Iurii Iur'evich (1900-1943; illustrator) and BORISOV, Leonid (author). Glupaia Plita. [The Foolish Cooker.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Raduga, 1925. Small 2° (275 x 216mm). Illustrated in colour throughout. (Light soiling.) Original illustrated wrappers (light soiling and light spotting, short tear at spine ends with small early repairs). FIRST EDITION. Rare: apparently not in WorldCat. View on Christie's.com
![DOBUZHINSKII, Mstislav Valerianovich (1875-1957). Veselaia Azbuka. [The Joly Alphabet.] St. Petersburg: Brokgauz-Efron, 1925.](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387319e_468x382.jpg)
DOBUZHINSKII, Mstislav Valerianovich (1875-1957). Veselaia Azbuka. [The Joly Alphabet.] St. Petersburg: Brokgauz-Efron, 1925. Small 2° (274 x 200mm). Colour lithographed throughout. Original colour lithographed wrappers, small printed slip mounted on the lower cover. FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY OF THIS DOBUZHINSKII MASTERPIECE, and a remarkable survival in this condition. Rare: ABPC records only one copy at auction in over 35 years (lot 197, Swann, 7 November 1991). WorldCat lists copies in the USA only at Princeton and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and none in the UK. Rats Collection 112. See front cover illustration. View on Christie's.com
DOBUZHINSKII, Mstislav Valerianovich (1875-1957; illustrator) and REMIZOV, Aleksei. Morshchinka. St. Petersburg: Shipovnik, 1907. Oblong 8° (125 x 160mm). 5 colour lithographed plates. Original illustrated card covers, sides printed in red and green (light wear). FIRST EDITION OF THE VERY RARE FIRST BOOK DESIGNED AND ILLUSTRATED BY DOBUZHINSKII. WorldCat locates only two copies: one in Denmark and the other at New York's Morgan Library. ABPC records no copy selling at auction in over 35 years. Rats collection 17 & pl. 123. View on Christie's.com
DOBUZHINSKII, Mstislav Valerianovich (1875-1957; illustrator) and CHUKOVSKII, Kornei (1882-1969). Barmalei. Moscow and St. Petersburg: Raduga, 1925. Small 2° (280 x 220mm). Colour illustrations throughout (light soiling). Original illustrated wrappers (short tear at spine foot, light soiling). FIRST EDITION. An excellent copy of this great pairing of artist and author. Rare: not in WorlCat, which locates only copies of the second edition at Amherst and at the British Library; ABPC records no copy selling at auction in over 35 years. View on Christie's.com
![EFIMOV, Aleksei (illustrator) and SHESTAKOV, Nikolai (author). Vsia Staia Krome Tramvaia. [The Whole Flock Except the Tram.]](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387323e_468x382.jpg)
EFIMOV, Aleksei (illustrator) and SHESTAKOV, Nikolai (author). Vsia Staia Krome Tramvaia. [The Whole Flock Except the Tram.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Raduga, 1926. Small 2° (280 x 220mm). Colour illustrations throughout. (Some light spotting and some light soiling.) Original illustrated wrappers (tear and small chip at spine ends, light soiling, some spotting on the lower cover). FIRST EDITION. Rare: apparently not in WorldCat. View on Christie's.com
KHARMS, Daniil Ivanovich (1905-1942; author) and ERMOLAEVA, Vera (1893-c.1937; illustrator). Ivan Ivanych Samovar. St. Petersburg: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo [c.1928]. Small 4° (228 x 186mm). Colour illustrations throughout. Original illustrated wrappers (long tear at spine fold but holding, light wear). FIRST EDITION of this rare collaboration between two of the most important, and tragic figures of Russian children's literature. In 1931 Kharms was arrested as a member of an alleged anti-Soviet group of children's writers; he was re-arrested in 1941 and died the following year, incarcerated in the psychiatric ward of Leningrad Prison 1. Ermolaeva, avant-garde artist, founder of the Segodnia collective, and co-founder of Unovis with Kazimir Malevich, was executed in 1937. WorldCat locates one copy in the USA, at the University of Pennsylvania; Copac locates none in the UK. ABPC records no copy selling at auction in over 35 years. Not in the Rats Collection. View on Christie's.com
KHARMS, Daniil Ivanovich (1905-1942; author) and TATLIN, Vladimir (1885-1953; illustrator). Vo pervykh i vo vtorykh. [Firstly and Secondly.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, 1929. Small 2° (266 x 200mm). Illustrated throughout. (Margins lightly yellowed.) Original illustrated wrappers (extremities lightly rubbed, front cover slightly darkened near the edges). FIRST EDITION. A very good copy. One of few books wholly illustrated by Tatlin -- one of the key figures of the Russian avant-garde. All of Kharms's books are rare. ABPC records no copy selling at auction in over 35 years. WorldCat locates two copies: one at the Getty Research Institute, and one at the University of Pennsylvania; another is in New York's MoMA. Copac locates no copy in the UK. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book 837; Rats Collection 299 & pl.165. View on Christie's.com
![KONASHEVICH, Vladimir Mikhailovich (1888-1963). Rozhi. [Mugs.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Raduga, 1925. Small 2° (280 x 220mm](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387333e_468x382.jpg)
KONASHEVICH, Vladimir Mikhailovich (1888-1963). Rozhi. [Mugs.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Raduga, 1925. Small 2° (280 x 220mm). Colour illustrations throughout. (Light soiling.) Original illustrated wrappers (long tear at spine fold, some soiling). FIRST EDITION. Rare: apparently not in WorldCat. View on Christie's.com
LEBEDEV, Vladimir (1891-1967). Azbuka. St. Petersburg: Government Press, 1925. Small 2° (245 x 191mm). Lithographed title and 31 illustrations. Original lithographed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY OF THIS LANDMARK OF 20TH-CENTURY DESIGN. A remarkable survival in this condition. Rare: ABPC records only one copy at auction in 35 years. Copac locates no copy in UK institutions. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, p.169. View on Christie's.com
LEBEDEV, Ivan (illustrator) and ERENBURG, Il'ia (1891-1967; translator) -- BAISIEUX, Jacques de. O trekh rytsariakh i o rubakhe. [The Three Knights and the Shirt.] Moscow: Zerna, 1916. 2° (290 x 280mm). Initials filled in red throughout. Illustrated throughout. (Lower corner bumped, occasional light soiling.) Stitched in the original self-wrappers (light soiling, lower corner bumped). FIRST EDITION. ONE OF ONLY 25 COPIES ON JAPAN PAPER, SIGNED BY LEBEDEV; this one copy number 9. This translation by Erenburg is among his earliest publications. Rare: WorldCat locates just one copy, at the Berlin State Library. View on Christie's.com
![LEBEDEV, Vladimir (1891-1967) and MARSHAK, Samuil (1887-1964). Tsirk. [The Circus.] St. Petersburg: Raduga, 1925. Small 2° (2](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387345e_468x382.jpg)
LEBEDEV, Vladimir (1891-1967) and MARSHAK, Samuil (1887-1964). Tsirk. [The Circus.] St. Petersburg: Raduga, 1925. Small 2° (280 x 220mm). 12 colour lithographed illustrations. Original colour lithographed wrappers (expert repairs). FIRST EDITION. A highlight of 20th-century children's books. Rare: ABPC records no copy at auction in over 35 years. Copac locates only one copy in the UK, at the Bodleian. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, pp.172-3. View on Christie's.com
![LEBEDEV, Vladimir (1891-1967) and MARSHAK, Samuil (1887-1964). O Glupom Myshenke. [The Silly Little Mouse.] Moscow and St. Pe](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387347e_468x382.jpg)
LEBEDEV, Vladimir (1891-1967) and MARSHAK, Samuil (1887-1964). O Glupom Myshenke. [The Silly Little Mouse.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Raduga, 1925. Small 2° (280 x 220mm). Colour illustrations throughout. Original illustrated wrappers (spine fold splitting at head and foot, light wear). FIRST EDITION. Rare: WorldCat apparently locates just one copy, at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. ABPC records no copy selling at auction in over 35 years. Not in MoMA or Rats. View on Christie's.com
![NARBUT, Georgii Ivanovich (1886-1920). Chetyrnadtsat risunkov Ukrainskoi Azbuki. [14 Drawings for a Ukrainian Alphabet.] St.](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387351e_468x382.jpg)
NARBUT, Georgii Ivanovich (1886-1920). Chetyrnadtsat risunkov Ukrainskoi Azbuki. [14 Drawings for a Ukrainian Alphabet.] St. Petersburg: 'Golike and Vil'borg', 1921. 2° (330 x 245mm). Lithographed additional title and 13 lithographed plates. Original blue wrappers printed in black, yapp edges (light soiling and light wear). Provenance: Ivan Mikhailovich Stepanov (ad nominem copy) -- S. L. Markov (bookplate) -- Russian bookseller (small stamp). FIRST EDITION, AN EXCELLENT COPY OF NARBUT'S MASTERPIECE, PRINTED FOR IVAN MIKHAILOVICH STEPANOV, and later in the S.L. Markov collection. Rare: only 30 copies were printed and sent to 'the greatest and most active figures in the Arts of the new age' (Mir Iskustva). Ivan Stepanov (1857-1941) was an important figure in the Russian Silver Age, and a great philanthropist and collector. Mir Iskustva, Palace Editions 1998, 340; Rats Collection 73; Rossiiskaia Gosudarstvennaia Biblioteka, Klassika, 2006, pp.216-7; Vengerov, V nekotorom tsarstve, 169. View on Christie's.com
RUDAKOV, Konstantin Ivanovich (1891-1949; illustrator) and AGNIVTSEV, Nikolai Iakovlevich (1888-1932). O Shesterykh vot etikh. [The Six.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Kniga, 1926. Small 2° (270 x 197mm). Colour illustrations throughout. (Light marginal soiling.) Original illustrated wrappers (short tear at spine foot, lightly yellowed, some soiling). FIRST EDITION. Rare: WorldCat locates just one copy: in the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton. View on Christie's.com
RUDAKOV, Konstantin Ivanovich. (1891-1949; illustrator) and ANDREEV, M. (author). O Ermile i docheri Liudmile. [Ermil and his Daughter Liudmila.] Moscow and St. Petersburg: Raduga, 1925. Small 2° (280 x 220mm). Colour illustrations throughout. (Light soiling, small faint dampstain in the top margin.) Original illustrated wrappers (long tear at spine fold, some soiling). FIRST EDITION. Rare: apparently not in WorldCat. Rats Collection 110. View on Christie's.com
ZDANEVICH, Kirill (1892-1970; illustrator) and MAIAKOVSKII, Vladimir (1893-1930; author). Chto ni stranitsa to slon to levitsa. [That Page An Elephant, A Lioness.] Tbilisi: Zakkniga [1928]. Small 2° (277 x 212mm). Colour illustrations throughout. (Occasional light offsetting.) Original printed wrappers, publisher's imprint and price printed on slips pasted on the lower cover (light wear, faint yellowing on the front wrapper). FIRST EDITION. A very good copy of this rare, and excellent collaboration published in Tbilisi. A copy is located at New York's MoMA, and WorldCat adds another in the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton. ABPC records no copy selling at auction in over 35 years. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, p.173. View on Christie's.com
GOSIZD EDITIONS -- A collection of 15 works published by Moscow's Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, mostly small 2° (c.200 x c.180mm), in original wrappers, most c.1925-34, including: KUZNETSOV, P. and MOLCHANOV, I. Beglianka (1927); KULIKOV, A. Petukhi propeli narodnye pesenki (c.1930); SAFONOVA, E. Reka (1930). RARE: WorldCat locates just one copy, at McGill University. Rats Collection 365; SAFONOVA, E. Deti Negry (1930); CHUKOVSKII, K. and KONASHEVICH, V. Telefon (1934); and 10 related others, including two works by Saltykov-Shchedrin with covers almost certainly by Boris Kustodiev, and works by Marshak, Kipling and Vvedenskii, some of these in later edition. (15) View on Christie's.com
ALEXANDER I -- Mesiatsoslov s rospis'iu chinovnykh osob ili obshchii shtat rossiiskoi imperii. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Science, 1807. 2 vols, 8° (190 x 125mm). Contemporary Russian red calf, flat spines gilt in compartments centred with palm-tree tools, contrasting morocco lettering and numbering pieces, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, some creasing and flaking on the spine panels). Provenance: Alexander I (stamps; pencilled press-mark '73/3') -- Paul M. Fekula. FROM THE COLLECTION OF ALEXANDER I AT TSARSKOE SELO, AND 'VERY RARE' (Fekula). These annuals were printed in small numbers, and summarized the information necessary to the Imperial household and state officials, as well as historical, geographical, and other data. Very good copies, bound in red calf gilt for the Tsarskoe Selo Library. Fekula 2090 (this copy); Zaionchkovskii 157. (2) View on Christie's.com
![CATHERINE II, 'the Great'. O dvorianstve. [On the Nobility.] [Moscow: Senate Press:] 1785 [but c.1788]. 4° (330 x 215mm). Pag](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387381e_468x382.jpg)
CATHERINE II, 'the Great'. O dvorianstve. [On the Nobility.] [Moscow: Senate Press:] 1785 [but c.1788]. 4° (330 x 215mm). Pagination: [6], VIII, 24. (Faint dampstain.) Contemporary green and red combed coloured paper wrappers (spine chipped). Provenance: Van Brienen (signature, dated '93'). A TALL COPY IN CONTEMPORARY WRAPPERS OF A RARE AND NOTORIOUS EDICT, which outlined the duties of the nobility, broadened and tightened their hold over the population, and increased the burden of serfdom following the Pugachev rebellion. This copy may have belonged to an associate of the trading company R. Van Brienen, owner of the Russian ship 'Soleure', now remembered for its peripheral role in the Spencer Perceval assasination. SK 4726; cf. Bitovt 2098, Fekula 2029, Sopikov 3044. View on Christie's.com
DAL, Vladimir Ivanovich (pseud. of V. Luganskii; 1801-1872). Pokhozhdeniia Khristiana Khristianovicha Violdamira i ego arsheta. [The Adventures of Violdamir.] St. Petersburg: M.D. Ol'khin, 1844. 3 parts in one vol., (300 x 235mm). Additional engraved title, and 50 plates after A.N. Sapozhnikov. (Additional title torn with some loss and repaired, some spotting.) Contemporary Russian green quarter roan, letterd up the spine in gilt (extremities rubbed). Provenance: P.A. Efremov (author, publisher, collector; label, binding) -- Gubar & Vol'kov, bookellers (label) -- Paul M. Fekula. FIRST EDITION. RARE. THE EFREMOV-FEKULA COPY. A very good copy of Dal's adventures of an itinerant violinist and his dog, superbly illustrated by Sapozhnikov. This one the variant issued together with the text; a variant is known issued with the plates only. Burtsev 1558; Fekula 4940 (this copy); Obol'ianinov 1514; Smirnov-Sokol'skii 668. View on Christie's.com
IVAN IV -- ODERBORN, Paul (c.1555-1604). Wunderbare Geschichte des Grossfürsten in der Moschkaw Joan Basilidis. Görlitz: Johan Rhambaw, 1596. 4° (187 x 145mm). Engraved title vignette printed in red and black. (Evenly browned, large but mostly faint dampstain.) Later German quarter calf. edges sprinkled red (hinges starting, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Martin Winkler (bookplate). AMONG THE EARLIEST EUROPEAN ACCOUNTS OF RUSSIA, AND THE EARLIEST BIOGRAPHY OF IVAN 'THE TERRIBLE', with an engraved portrait on the title. This third German edition is a translation of the Latin edition published in Wittenberg in 1585. All early editions are rare: ABPC does not record a copy of this edition at auction in over 30 years. WorldCat lists no copy in the US or in the UK. Cf. Rovinskii, Slovar' gravirovannikh portretov II, pp.1022-3; Russia Engages the World, p.188 (the Latin edition); Sobolevski 2534. View on Christie's.com
![Kirillova kniga. [The Book of Saint Kyrill, Archbishop of Jerusalem.] Moscow: Printing House, 1644. 2° (297 x 191mm). Signatu](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387391e_468x382.jpg)
Kirillova kniga. [The Book of Saint Kyrill, Archbishop of Jerusalem.] Moscow: Printing House, 1644. 2° (297 x 191mm). Signature and pagination in Slavonic alphabetic numerals: 15+8+561 pages, p.355/6 double numbered. With the final blank leaf but without the front blank and two other blanks. Woodcut headpieces and initials, some printed in red. (Soiled and dampstained throughtout, a few tears occasionally affecting text.) 17th-century Russian red straight-grained calf, sides with gilt and blind borders, lower cover with brass centre- and cornerpieces, metal shoes and brass catches, edges gauffered and gilt (lacks clasps). Provenance: Aleksandr Polusharov Litovskii (inscription at foot of fifth leaf) -- Riga Orthodox Seminary (library stamp). FIRST EDITION OF THIS INFLUENTIAL ORTHODOX THEOLOGICAL COMPILATION, printed with the authority of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich. Some of the texts are strongly anti-Catholic and anti-Protestant. This included the Homily on the anti-Christ by Kyrill, comparing the anti-Christ with the Pope of Rome. It was widely read in Moscow and orthodox Russia, and reprinted in the 18th century. RARE: WorldCat locates no copies in the UK, and only microfilm in the USA. Pozdeeva 352; Sopikov 569; Zernova 169. View on Christie's.com
MALINOVSKII, Aleksei (ed.) Istoricheskoe Opisanie Drevnago Rossiiskago Muzeia. [A Historical Account of the Museum of Ancient Russia. Part I (all published).] Moscow: P.S. Valuev at the Imperial Moscow University, 1807. 2° (507 x 347mm). Printed on papier bleuté, bound with the printed dedication to Alexander I and with the part title. Engraved title-vignette, 30 engraved plates by Sokolov. (Occasional light marginal soiling.) Contemporary Russian diced red morocco gilt, flat spine gilt in compartments and with green morocco label, sides with gilt foliate scrolling border, gilt edges (a few scuff, some wear including some creasing at the spine and a tear at the head). Provenance: P.S. Valuev (presentation inscription to:) -- Prince A.B. Kurakin. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY IN RED MOROCCO INSCRIBED BY VALUEV TO PRINCE KURAKIN, in Russian: 'To His Excellency Prince Aleksei Borisovich Kurakin from Peter Stepanovich Valuev'. Kurakin, confident of Tsar Paul I, was during Alexander's reign Imperial Chancellor, and Russia's Ambassador in Vienna and Paris. Valuev, who published the book, had been charged by Alexander I to transform the Kremlin's ancient treasury into a museum. The engraved plates, here in excellent condition, show primarily the crowns and state regalia from the era of the Great Princes. Rare: ABPC records only two copies at auction in 35 years; this one is the only presentation copy in red morocco. Obol'ianinov 1141; Sopikov 7574. View on Christie's.com
![NABOKOV, Vladimir Vladimirovich. Kamera obskura. [Laughter in the Dark.] Paris: Sovremennyia Zapiski and Parabola, 1933. 8° (](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2803817/d5387402e_468x382.jpg)
NABOKOV, Vladimir Vladimirovich. Kamera obskura. [Laughter in the Dark.] Paris: Sovremennyia Zapiski and Parabola, 1933. 8° (190 x 120mm). (Small losses in a very few margins.) Original printed wrappers (chipped, worn and soiled). Provenance: Vladimir Nabokov (gift inscription dated 13 December to:) -- Anna Feigin -- Vladimir Nabokov (book label) -- by descent to the consignor. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to Anna Feigin, in Russian: 'to darling Anna, sweet and dear, from V. December 13'. Although Nabokov does not give the year in his presentation this was almost certainly the year of publication. Anna Feigin was Nabokov's cousin by marriage, and lived with the Nabokovs for extended periods. Rare: ABPC records only one copy selling at auction in over 30 years: the copy inscribed to his wife. Juliar A14.1. View on Christie's.com
NICHOLAS II -- KRIVENKO, V.S. (ed.). Koronatsionnyi sbornik s soizvoleniia Ego Imperatorskago Velichestva Gosudariia Imperatora. Ch. II tol'ko. [Coronation Album of His Imperial Highness the Sovereign Emperor. Volume 2 only.] St. Petersburg: Expedition for the Preparation of Government Papers, 1899. 2° (440 x 320mm). Illustrated throughout with chromolithographs and photographic reproductions, tissue guards, those for the photographic illustrations with printed captions. (Dampstain in the margins of the first few gatherings, occasional soiling, tears in a few tissue guards, a few leaves loose.) Original green leather spine and green pictorial cloth sides, the covers and spine blocked in various colours and gilt, metal medallion mounted on the front board, edges gilt, endpapers printed in silver and gilt (soiled, corners rubbed, front free endpaper adhering to the pastedown at one corner and with short tears). Provenance: H.R.H. Princess Maria Gabriella di Savoia (sold, Christie's, 27 June 2007, lot 17). FIRST EDITION. THE RARE RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE ISSUE. Volume 2, from the collection of Princess Maria Gabriella di Savoia, with the folding menu after Vasnetsov's original design. A lavish publication, illustrated throughout with reproductions of the menus and programs of festivities, and photographic portraits of noble families and dignitaries in attendance. View on Christie's.com
PORDAGE, John (1607-1681). Bozhestvennaia i istinnaia metafizika, ili divnoe i opytom priobretennoe vedenie ne vidimykh i vechnykh veshchei. [Theologia Mystica, or the Mystic Divinity of the Eternal Invisibles.] [Moscow: c.1787.] 3 vols, 8° (202 x 121mm). With all half-titles. 3 engraved plates, one of which folding, illustrations. (Occasional light spotting.) Near contemporary Russian half calf, flat spines lettered and tooled in gilt and blind (corners rubbed, small chips at spine ends, sides lightly scuffed). Provenance: a Russian reader (light pencilled marginalia). FIRST EDITION IN RUSSIAN, AND AMONG THE RAREST RUSSIAN MASONIC BOOKS.'Extremely rare' (Bitovt); 'a great rarity' (Sopikov). One of only 300 copies, printed on a clandestine press, distributed privately, and the majority of which were confiscated and destroyed. The Grand Lodge of Russia came into being in 1776. Catherine II, whose son and eventual heir was a Mason, feared that the lodges could be used for political purposes, and in 1794 banned all Masonic activity within her realm. WorldCat locates only one copy, at Harvard University. Bitovt 2152; Longinov, Novikov i Moskovskie Martinisty, p.283; Sopikov 6211; SK 5522. (3) View on Christie's.com
A rare Kerr & Bins, Worcester, Medici Vase, 1862, the heart shaped body enamelled and gilt with Renaissance male and female portraits, the reverse with the initials ‘BC and FM’ and coats of arms including the golden balls of the Medici between twin female silvered bust handles, red printed shield mark, date and pseudo Registration of Design Mark, 21.5cm The latter mark includes the initials of James and Thomas Callowhill, senior painters at Worcester and it is possible that this vase was made for the 1862 London Exhibition.
A rare Staffordshire group of Heenan & Sayers, c.1850, each aiming a blow above a gilt relief title, base crack, 23.5cm John Heenan, American, and Tom Sayers, the British Champion, fought for two hours in 1860. The bloodiest fight on English soil resulted in a draw. See P.D.Gordon-Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures, 1988, F 15.
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