![NO RESERVE Bacteriology.- Fermentation.- Pasteur (Louis) Mémoire sur la fermentation appelée lactique [and] Mémoire sur la fe](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5df4e191-e94a-4c6d-8d14-ae8200c642eb/62d342b0-6423-4db2-bb57-ae8200f09886/468x382.jpg)
NO RESERVE Bacteriology.- Fermentation.- Pasteur (Louis) Mémoire sur la fermentation appelée lactique [and] Mémoire sur la fermentation alcoolique, first editions, in Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Academie des Sciences, Vol. 45, pp. 913-916 and 1032-1036, some foxing, ink stamp to verso of general title, some mostly lightly browning, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, small paper label to upper cover, rubbed, [Dibner Heralds of Science 198; G&M 2472; Grolier/Horblit 82 'The birth of Bacteriology'; cf. Norman 1653], 4to, Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, 1857.⁂ First edition of these two important papers by Pasteur. The first work reports the 'first demonstration of the connection between a specific fermentation and the activity of a specific living micro-organism. This paper is often considered the beginning of bacteriology as a modern science' (G&M).
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NO RESERVE Tirinus (Jacobus) Commentarius in Sacram Scripturam, 2 vol., title in red and black, engraved printer's device to title, 6 folding tables, small ink stamp to half-title and title, small amount of marginal worming M6-O6 (touching text, no major loss), occasional light foxing, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, vol. 2 repair to spine foot, folio, Augsburg, Ignatius Adam and Franz Anton Veith, 1771.
Binding.- A Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canons, Orders... of the Church of England, several titles within woodcut borders, engraved plate (edges a little frayed), woodcut initials, bookplate, occasional spotting, contemporary dark brown morocco, gilt, covers with central royal arms in gilt, with a rampant lion and horse surmounted by a crown, within gilt decorative border, sympathetically rebacked with portion of original spine retained, corners a little rubbed, [Wing C4093A], for Timothy Garthwait, 1661 § Grabe (J. E.) Georgii Bulli... Opera Omnia, engraved portrait frontispiece, ink library stamp to front endpaper and verso 7U2, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, some cracking to joints, upper joint beginning to split at foot, 1721; and another eighteenth century, v.s. (3)
![[Wharton (Philip, Duke of)] The True Briton, No.I-LXXIV bound in one vol., lacking nos. XLVIII and LXXII, nos.I-IV reprint is](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5df4e191-e94a-4c6d-8d14-ae8200c642eb/1102d199-4a8d-44df-bb84-ae8200f04853/468x382.jpg)
[Wharton (Philip, Duke of)] The True Briton, No.I-LXXIV bound in one vol., lacking nos. XLVIII and LXXII, nos.I-IV reprint issue with pagination and signatures, the rest original single sheet issues without pagination or signatures and with red duty stamp to versos, double column, woodcut factotum initials, browned, marginal staining towards end, no.XXVI trimmed with inner margin bound tight obscuring first lines of column, no.LVII with outer corner torn away at head with some loss, contemporary panelled calf, rather worn, rebacked, corners repaired, new endpapers, folio, for T[homas] Payne, 1723-24.⁂ Scarce periodical issued concurrently in both folio and 8vo formats, and reprinted in folio with each issue containing four of the original issues. Rare to find such an almost complete set of the original folio single issues. The missing numbers are for Friday November 15 1723 and Friday February 7/Monday February 10 1724.
Arabic.- Vieyra (Anthony) Brevis, clara, facilis ac jucunda, non solum Arabicam Linguam..., first edition, stain to title and dedication f., title laid down with repaired chips and loss to margins, dedication f. fore-margin restored, 5F1 with burn hole to fore-margin, occasional ink library stamp to lower margins, occasional light browning, later half morocco, rubbed and scuffed, Dublin, L. White, 1789; and Mustafa ben Abdallah's Lexicon, vol. 3, 4to (2)⁂ Concerning the etymology of Arabic, Persian and various European languages.
Bewick (Thomas) A History of British Birds, 2 vol., first edition, vol. 1 with advertisement for the 'fourth edition of the History of Quadrupeds' to final leaf verso vol. 1, 1797-1804; A History of Quadrupeds, fourth edition, previous owner's ink and ink-stamp signatures to title, bookplates, 1824, wood-engraved illustrations and vignettes, non-uniform contemporary calf, rebacked retaining original backstrips, [Tattersfield TB 1.14, 1.16, 1.23 & 1.10], Demy 8vo, Newcastle, (3).
Edwardian silver stamp moistener L7cm London 1910 Maker Stuart Clifford, pair of glass glue pots, the silver covers with integral brushes Birmingham 1910/12 Maker John Grinsell & Sons, a single glue pot, Victorian glass and silver small dish retailed by Thornhill & Co and a miniature silver quaiche Birmingham 1914
First World War Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force grouping of items, wooden propellor tip picture frame containing a photograph of Royal Flying Corps Corporal Samuel Gilbert Carn in 'Maternity jacket' style tunic with embroidered RFC shoulder titles, a pair of trench art wooden candlesticks, possibly made from aircraft parts, 27 cm in height, a small aluminium gas cylinder bearing a brass relief of a French 75mm gun flanked by the dates 1914-1916 and a British General Service Corps badge with Queen Victoria crown, 16 cm in length, a French made adjustable wooden gauge, a 'Soldiers Own Diary' with details to 24508 Samuel Gilbert Carn, 40 Squadron, Royal Air Force, a Protection Certificate and Certificate of Identity also in the name of Samuel Carn of 40 Squadron bearing the stamp of No.1 Dispersal Unit dated 13th January 1919, Samuel Carn was born in 1889 and married Mabel Jones at Walthamstow on 14th March 1914, he was 'mustered' on the 5th March 1916 and served in France, his middle name is recorded as 'Giles' on RAF muster records, 40 Squadron RFC, later RAF was formed at Gosport in Feb 1916 and moved to France in August the same year first operating F.E. 8s later being equipped with S.E.5s, Major Edward Mannock was one of the 'aces' that served with this Squadron, tragically, Samuel and Mabels son Flight Sergeant (Pilot) Norman George Gilbert Carn, 1334625, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, of 274 Squadron, was killed in action on 30th September 1944 and is buried at the Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery in the Netherlands, items direct from family, (qty)
Royal Signals Officers Service Dress uniform jacket and trousers, and ephemera grouping to a Second World War veteran, rank insignia for a Lieutenant Colonel to epaulettes, anodised Queens crown Royal Corps of Signals buttons, Royal Signals collar badges, medal ribbon bar for the 1939-1945 Star, Africa Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, 1939-1945 British War Medal, 1918 General Service Medal, to left breast, blue lanyard to left shoulder, together with an officers mess dress jacket, waistcoat, boots and spurs, and a tropical mess dress jacket, the items belonged to Lieutenant Colonel F.G.G. Rapsey, Royal Signals, who served in North Africa and Italy and who landed on Gold Beach on D-Day as a Major and Second in Command of 8 Armoured Assault Brigade Group Signal Squadron, the ephemera includes a printed and bound personal account of the D-Day landings written by Fred Rapsy in 1994, a British army message Form ( Army Form C1236) from 30 Corps to 8 Armoured Brigade marked SECRET, MESSAGE READS 'first, hostilities on Corps fronts cease 050800 B, divs will stand fast and hold present fronts, ops will not cont, passage of displaced persons over HAMME canal will cease, divs will be responsible for est necessary control within their bays on all crossings, ack all informed', the form bears an Army Signals stamp the date of which is hard to read but appears to be '4.V.45', another Message Form from 8 Armoured Brigade to 30 Corps regarding arrangements for taking over the responsibility for Hanover from the Americans, the Supplement to the London Gazette dated 11 July 1947 stating 'The undermentioned to be Lts., 12th July 1947 with seniority as shown, 2nd Lt. (War Subs Capt.) Frederick George Gerald Rapsey (172035) 3rd Mar. 1941, from Emerg.Commn', a Fitness Through Service book,War Department Driving Permit, British Zone (Germany) Driving Licence, Army Athletic Association Officials Gradings Card, 21st Birthday card, 1937 Greetings Telegram, all in the name of Fred Rapsey (qty)
First World War German Trench Knife, made from an 1871 Pattern sword bayonet the steel blade has been fashioned into a leaf shape and sharpened both sides, interestingly, the ricasso bears the stamp of the French maker Coulaux & Co, Klingenthal, an uncommon maker to be found on 1871 bayonets, brass hilt, the steel crossguard regimentally marked, appears to be '20R' then a series of numbers including a 6, scabbard absent, from private collection, blade 20.4 cm
Georges van der Straeten (Belgian, 1856 - 1941), a brown and gilt-patinated bronze, Summer, bust-length, dressed plainly as a peasant, her bodice adorned with flowers, above a scythe and wheatsheaf allegorical of the Season, ormolu-mounted columnar pink marble base, 28cm high, signed in the maquette, foundry mark: EW, Société des Bronzes de Paris stamp to verso
A COLLECTION OF SILVER AND WHITE METAL comprising a hallmarked silver dish, two silver salt dishes (no glass liners), silver cruets and condiment, silver egg cup, three silver salt/mustard spoons, total weight 311grams 10 troy ozs, two white metal ladles, one with leopard's head crowned stamp, a white metal sifter (faded mark) a white metal and copper tall coaster, small mustard spoon, a flower bud vase embossed with dragons with crocus shaped top, marked WH 0G
WW2. Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown Multi Signed The Award of the Distinguished Service Cross DM Medals Cover, Other signatures include Peter Twiss, Flt Lt David Morgan, Sir William Garthwaite, Rear Admiral Ian Robertson, Squadron Ldr Derry Kearns and a Printed Signature of Sir Fredrick Russel (Deceased). Postmarked Jersey 1st Jun 85 with 12p official Jersey Stamp. Superb Item. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Football, multi-signed cover for the 1968 European Cup Final, Manchester United vs Benfica FC Lisbon at Wembley Stadium. Signatures include: Nobby Stiles, George Best, Bill Foulkes, Bobby Charlton, Matt Busby, John Aston, Tony Dunne, Brian Kidd, David Sadler, Pat Crerand and more. This beautiful cover is post marked 29th May 1968 and includes a world cup 66 stamp. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Football, multi-signed cover for the 1968 European Cup Final, Manchester United vs Benfica FC Lisbon at Wembley Stadium. Signatures include: Nobby Stiles, George Best, Bill Foulkes, Bobby Charlton, Matt Busby, John Aston, Tony Dunne, Brian Kidd, David Sadler and Pat Crerand, Dennis Law, Eusebio and more. This beautiful cover is double post marked 29th May 1968 and includes a world cup 66 stamp. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Football, multi-signed cover for the 1968 European Cup Final, Manchester United vs Benfica FC Lisbon at Wembley Stadium. Signatures include: Nobby Stiles, George Best, Bill Foulkes, Matt Busby, Pat Crerand, Dennis Law and many more. This beautiful cover is post marked 29th May 1968 and includes a world cup 66 stamp. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
![[BINDING]. ALIGHIERI, Dante (1265-1321). L 'Enfer. Paris: Hachette, 1861. Folio (420 x 302 mm). Half-title, frontispiec](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e1878e4e-bcc2-45b9-abd8-ae6e011505e8/07299db9-017f-4d2d-b044-ae6f015ae50f/468x382.jpg)
[BINDING]. ALIGHIERI, Dante (1265-1321). L 'Enfer. Paris: Hachette, 1861. Folio (420 x 302 mm). Half-title, frontispiece and 75 full-page wood engraved plates by Gustave Dore. 19th-century citron morocco, sides with Grolieresque strapwork onlays of green, navy, plum, and purple morocco gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands with morocco onlays to a similar pattern gilt, wide turn-ins gilt, red doublures with gilt concentric rectangle pattern, red watered silk endleaves with all-over gilt floral tooling in a diaper pattern, edges gilt, STAMP-SIGNED BY CHATELIN 1868 (some very slight rubbing or soiling); cloth folding case. Illustrated edition of Dante's Inferno, with illustrations by Dore which, according to Gordon Ray, employ "perhaps Dore's subtlest design" (The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 246). Carteret III, 184 ("Un des livres de Dore les plus rares"). IN A FINE 19TH CENTURY BINDING BY ANTOINE CHATELIN. Property from the Collection of Mr. Mark Frank
![[BINDING]. DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll") (1832-1898). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan and C](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e1878e4e-bcc2-45b9-abd8-ae6e011505e8/ce091acf-0172-4aa0-ae1b-ae6f015b9c2c/468x382.jpg)
[BINDING]. DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ("Lewis Carroll") (1832-1898). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan and Co., 1867.8vo (178 x 119 mm). Half-title, frontispiece, illustrations by John Tenniel, many with hand-coloring. 20th-century red crushed levant gilt, upper cover with central gilt ornament of Alice holding a rabbit, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in three, the rest gilt decorated, edges gilt, stamp-signed by Whitman Bennett, NY (some slight rubbing, a few faint stains); original covers and spine bound in. Provenance: Eliza Burrell (signature); Sylvia J. Thomson (bookplate).Early English edition (eighth thousand).Property from a Private Collection, Cincinnati, Ohio
![[BINDING]. RUNEBERG, Johan Ludvig (1804-1877). Nadeschda. Scenes de la vie russe. Paris: Editions de la Lampe d'Argile, 1924.](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e1878e4e-bcc2-45b9-abd8-ae6e011505e8/295d4668-64e4-4e5c-82dd-ae6f015c9379/468x382.jpg)
[BINDING]. RUNEBERG, Johan Ludvig (1804-1877). Nadeschda. Scenes de la vie russe. Paris: Editions de la Lampe d'Argile, 1924.8vo (222 x 152 mm). Engraved plates by Henri Farge. Contemporary tan crushed levant, upper cover set with purple, cream, green and red morocco onlays gilt in an art deco design, spine gilt with red morocco onlays gilt, STAMP-SIGNED BY R. VINCENT; original wrappers bound in. LIMITED EDITION, number 133 of 250 copies on velin de rive of a total edition of 280.Property from the Estate of a Renowned Art Dealer, New York City, New York
![[BINDING]. VERHAEREN, Emile Adolphe Gustave (1855-1916). Les Heures Claires. Brussels: Aux Editions du Nord, 1943. 8vo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e1878e4e-bcc2-45b9-abd8-ae6e011505e8/5ca3b1a0-9037-429f-ae05-ae6f015cbaac/468x382.jpg)
[BINDING]. VERHAEREN, Emile Adolphe Gustave (1855-1916). Les Heures Claires. Brussels: Aux Editions du Nord, 1943. 8vo (195 x 160 mm). Illustrations by Pierre Gandon. Contemporary tan and green morocco gilt in an art deco design, upper cover and spine lettered in green, top edge gilt, others uncut, STAMP-SIGNED BY R. VINCENT; original wrappers bound in. LIMITED EDITION, number 3,186 of 5,000 copies. Property from the Estate of a Renowned Art Dealer, New York City, New York
![[BINDINGS]. 2 works in 20th-century French bindings, comprising:DOMBASLE, Charles de Meixmoron de (1839-1912). Ainsi ma Vie .](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e1878e4e-bcc2-45b9-abd8-ae6e011505e8/a327819b-670a-45f9-b18e-ae6f015d4c15/468x382.jpg)
[BINDINGS]. 2 works in 20th-century French bindings, comprising:DOMBASLE, Charles de Meixmoron de (1839-1912). Ainsi ma Vie ... Paris: Aux Eeiditons de la Caravelle, 1925. 8vo. Contemporary red and blue calf onlays in a checkerboard pattern gilt, spine gilt-lettered, STAMP-SIGNED BY E. VINCENT; morocco-tipped slipcase; original wrappers bound in. LIMITED EDITION, number 41 of 50 copies on Velin Lafuma. VERLAINE, Paul. Sagesse. Paris: Societe Francaise d 'Editions Litteraires et Techniques, 1929. 8vo. Engravings by Eugene Carriere. Contemporary green vellum, cream morocco, gilt, and silver art deco design wrapping around spine and boards STAMP-SIGNED BY L. WOLF (some light wear to foot of spine and slight soiling); green vellum-tipped slipcase; original wrappers bound in. Property from the Estate of a Renowned Art Dealer, New York City, New York
![[BINDINGS]. A group of 12 works in French finely bound, including:THIERS, M.A. Histoire de la Revolution Francaise. Brussels:](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e1878e4e-bcc2-45b9-abd8-ae6e011505e8/6a9a92a3-48d8-4347-85d3-ae6f015de93a/468x382.jpg)
[BINDINGS]. A group of 12 works in French finely bound, including:THIERS, M.A. Histoire de la Revolution Francaise. Brussels: Societe Typographique Belge, 1840. 2 volumes. 19th-century half calf gilt, diaper-patterned purple cloth, spines elaborately gilt. -- GOMARD, A. -J. -J. Possellier. La Theorie de.: Militaire de J. Dumaine, 1845. 19th century brown crushed levant gilt, stamp-signed by Bretault. -- GUIZOT, M. L 'Histoire de France. Librairie Hachette, 1872-1876. 5 volumes. Contemporary half red morocco gilt, marbled boards, spines elaborately gilt decorated with 5 raised bands, top edge gilt. -- KOCK, Charles Paul de. The Works. London et al: The Frederick J. Quinby Company, 1903. 2 volumes. Contemporary navy crushed levant gilt, floral gilt with red morocco onlays to spines and sides, stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery. -- FLAUBERT, Gustave. La Tentation De Saint Antoine; Premieres Oeuvres 183..-1842; Bouvard et Pecuchet; Par les Champs et Par les Greves. Librairie de France, 1922, 1923, 1923, 1924. 4 works in 4 volumes. Later half brown morocco gilt, marbled boards. -- And 3 others. Together, 12 works in 18 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, most published in Paris, all illustrated, most in contemporary half morocco gilt, some with original printed wrappers bound in, several LIMITED EDITION, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request.Property from the Estate of a Renowned Art Dealer, New York City, New York
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834). Christabel: Kubla Kahn, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep. London: William Bulmer and Co. for John Murray, 1816. 8vo (204 x 128 mm). Half-title. (Lacking 4pp. advertisements, a few tiny spots.) 20th-century teal crushed levant gilt, edges gilt, stamp-signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (some very slight fading). Provenance: Paul Francis Webster (1907-1984), American lyricist (morocco bookplate; his sale, Sotheby's New York, 24 April 1985, lot 17). FIRST EDITION, containing the first printings of three of Coleridge's most celebrated poems. Coleridge began writing "Christabel" as early as 1803. "Kubla Khan," which Coleridge composed one night after he experienced an opium-influenced dream in 1797, could not be completed according to his original plan; while writing, Coleridge was interrupted by "a person from Porlock," and the interruption caused him to forget the lines. He would read the poem periodically to the Wordsworths, Lord Byron, and other friends, and in April 1816, Byron persuaded him to publish the visionary Kubla Khan and Christabel. Ashley I, p.204; Grolier English 70; Hayward 207; Tinker 693; Wise Coleridge 32.Property from the Annette Perlman Trust
CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). A group of 4 works, including:An Outcast of the Islands. 1896. Provenance: Hugh Sutherland (bookplate); Wilson Collection (stamp); acquired from Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Booksellers, Los Angeles. FIRST ISSUE. Cagle A2a(1). -- The Children of the Sea. NY, 1897. Provenance: Barton Wood Currie (1877-1962) American journalist and book collector (bookplate). -- The Nigger of the "Narcissus." A Tale of the Sea. 1898. Cagle A3c(1). -- Typhoon and Other Stories. 1903. 20th century blue polished calf gilt by Bayntun. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, most published in London, most published by William Heinemann, various 8vo sizes, most in original bindings, ALL FIRST EDITION or FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, condition generally fine.Property from the Annette Perlman Trust
![[CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator]. CAREY, David (1782-1824). Life in Paris. London: for John Fairburn, 1822. 8vo (214 x](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e1878e4e-bcc2-45b9-abd8-ae6e011505e8/1aa0de4b-fef6-4fb8-bcdc-ae6f0161ce8b/468x382.jpg)
[CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator]. CAREY, David (1782-1824). Life in Paris. London: for John Fairburn, 1822. 8vo (214 x 131 mm). Half-title, "To the Binder" leaf at end; engraved title, engraved frontispiece, and 20 engraved plates all with hand-coloring. (Some minor spotting or offsetting.) 20th-century green crushed levant gilt, edges gilt, stamp-signed by Riviere & Son. Provenance: Thomas Gullan? (faded signature on half-title).FIRST EDITION. Abbey Travel 112; Tooley 129. Property from the Annette Perlman Trust
![[CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878)]. JERROLD, William Blanchard (1826-1884). The Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs. London](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e1878e4e-bcc2-45b9-abd8-ae6e011505e8/1ea64050-c71d-4541-9b7a-ae6f01622243/468x382.jpg)
[CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878)]. JERROLD, William Blanchard (1826-1884). The Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs. London: Chatto and Windus, 1882.2 volumes, 8vo (188 x 120 mm). Half-titles, frontispieces, illustrated title-pages, illustrated throughout; EXTRA ILLUSTRATED by the addition of approximately 101 portraits plates, and facsimiles, many with hand-coloring. (Some light spotting.) 20th-century red morocco gilt, front covers with facsimile signatures gilt, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest with figures after Cruikshank gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (some light scuffing).FIRST EDITION of the definitive biography of Cruikshank.
![[CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878)]. A group of 3 works about Cruikshank, comprising:THACKERAY, William Makepeace. On the Genius](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e1878e4e-bcc2-45b9-abd8-ae6e011505e8/d4e6610a-a945-48f3-aeaa-ae6f01623cbf/468x382.jpg)
[CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878)]. A group of 3 works about Cruikshank, comprising:THACKERAY, William Makepeace. On the Genius of George Cruikshank. London, 1884. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED. Contemporary maroon morocco gilt, stamp-signed by Morrell. Later edition. [Bound with:] The Political "A, Apple-Pie." London, 1820. Twenty-fifth edition. -- INGLIS, Henry David. Rambles in the Footsteps of Don Quixote. London, 1837. Illustrated by Cruikshank. Later polished calf gilt stamp-signed by Root & Son. FIRST EDITION. -- BLANCHARD, Laman, editor. George Cruikshank 's Omnibus. London, 1842. Illustrated by Cruikshank. Later blue half morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, condition generally fine.
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. 8vo (208 x 128 mm). 43 engraved plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), Robert William Buss, and Robert Seymour (including engraved frontispiece and additional engraved vignette title-page). (Lacking half-title, some minor spotting.) 20th-century calf gilt, red and green morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges gilt, stamp-signed by RIVIERE & SON (spine sunned).FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, text with most of the first issue points listed in Smith, this copy without signature E on p.25, but with "inde-licate" corrected on p.341. With most plates in Smith 's first state. Gimbel A15; Grolier English78; Smith I:3.
DICKENS, Charles ( "Boz") (1812-1870). The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. Hablot Knight Browne ( "Phiz") (1815-1882), illustrator. London: Chapman and Hall, 1844.8vo (213 x 131 mm). Half-title, etched frontispiece, additional etched vignette title-page, 38 (of 38) etched plates by Browne. (Some spotting or staining, some toning to plates, some minor chipping with a one or two old repairs to a few plates.) Early 20th-century calf with gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, red and green morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges gilt, stamp-signed by Root & Son (some minor rubbing, bookplate removed from endpaper).FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, second issue with the signpost reading " £100," and the 14-line errata. Eckel pp. 71-73; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 185-224; Smith I: 7.
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Mystery Of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman and Hall, April-September 1870.One volume bound from 6 original parts (222 x 138 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by J.H. Baker from a photograph, engraved title after Luke Fildes, 12 wood-engraved plates by Dalziel, C. Roberts and others after Fildes. (A few minor spots, slight toning.) Late 19th-century brown morocco gilt, stamp-signed by Henderson & Bisset (spine sunned, slight wear);original blue-green pictorial wrappers bound in. FIRST EDITION, BOUND FROM THE ORIGINAL PARTS, with all covers and ads as listed in Hatton and Cleaver including the scarce "Cork Hat" ad, with the following exceptions: part 4 lacking Chapman & Co. 2pp. ad; part 5 lacking Chapman & Hall's ad dated 31st July 1870 and Chapman & Co.'s 4pp. slip; pt. 6 lacking 4pp. Wilcox & Gibbs ad. Dickens only completed 6 parts of this work before his death, with only 3 being published while he was alive, leaving readers in suspense regarding the outcome of the tale (Hatton & Cleaver, p. 373). Eckel pp. 96-98; Hatton and Cleaver pp. 373-384; Gimbel A154.
![[DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870)]. FORSTER, John (1812-1876). The Life of Charles Dickens. London: Chapman and Hall, 1872-1874.6](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e1878e4e-bcc2-45b9-abd8-ae6e011505e8/bd461fb7-b2e9-4b63-8482-ae6f016395d3/468x382.jpg)
[DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870)]. FORSTER, John (1812-1876). The Life of Charles Dickens. London: Chapman and Hall, 1872-1874.6 volumes (3 volumes in 6 parts), 8vo (212 x 133 mm). 3 half-titles, portrait frontispieces, illustrated throughout; EXTRA ILLUSTRATED by the addition of approximately 196 portraits and plates, and with 5 printed wrappers bound in for monthly issues of Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickleby, Dombey and Son, Our Mutual Friend, Martin Chuzzlewit. (Some spotting and staining, some light offsetting.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by Riviere & Son (some light wear to extremities).FIRST EDITION of this biography of Dickens, written by his friend, literary agent, editor, and literary executor John Forster. Following Dickens ' death, Forster was left the manuscripts for many of Dickens ' novels, which are now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
![[DICKENS, Charles]. KITTON, Frederick George (1856-1904). Dickens and His Illustrators. London: George Redway, 1899.4to (278](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e1878e4e-bcc2-45b9-abd8-ae6e011505e8/1ffc1be8-301d-4f4f-8034-ae6f0163a902/468x382.jpg)
[DICKENS, Charles]. KITTON, Frederick George (1856-1904). Dickens and His Illustrators. London: George Redway, 1899.4to (278 x 222 mm). 68 plates (of 69, lacking plate XIV). (Some minor spotting and chipping.) Modern half calf gilt top edge gilt, others uncut (a few gatherings becoming detached, some staining and wear).Second Edition of Kitton 's work including illustrations by the illustrators of Dickens ' works, including George Cattermole, George Cruikshank, John Leech, Hablot Knight Browne "Phiz," Marcus Stone, and Sir John Tenniel.[With:] CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878). The Comic Almanack. First Series, 1835-1843. --Second Series, 1844-1853. London: John Camden Hotten, 1835-1853. 4 volumes, 8vo (185 x 120 mm). Engraved title-page vignette in vol. I, numerous illustrations. (Some toning and spotting.) 20th-century half green morocco, gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by Root & Son (some spotting and light wear).
![DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Works of Charles Dickens. Andrew Lang, editor. 34 volumes. [Uniformly bound with:] FORSTER,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e1878e4e-bcc2-45b9-abd8-ae6e011505e8/086f2017-9cc1-4a07-9118-ae6f0163eb64/468x382.jpg)
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Works of Charles Dickens. Andrew Lang, editor. 34 volumes. [Uniformly bound with:] FORSTER, John (1812-1876). The Life of Charles Dickens. 2 volumes. London & New York: Chapman & Hall, Ld. & Charles Scribner's Sons, [1897-1899], 1904.Together 36 volumes, 8vo (203 x 138 mm). Engraved frontispieces and title-pages, titles-pages printed in red and blank, numerous engraved plates. (Some spotting and occasional chipping.) 20th-century half brown morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by H. Sotheran & Co. (some minor staining).The "Gadshill Edition" of Dickens ' works with Forster 's definitive biography of Dickens.
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). A group of 3 editions of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club and related works, comprising:The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. ALDIN, Cecil, illustrator. London: Chapman & Hall Ld. and Lawrence & Jellicoe, Ltd., 1910. 2 volumes. 20th-century half maroon calf gilt. First edition illustrated by Aldin. "“-- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. NY & Chicago: Butler Brothers, Incorporated, n.d. Publisher 's green cloth. Provenance: S.J. Puckett (early gift inscription); Peggy Timberlake (gift inscription, 1937). -- FITZGERALD, Percy Heatherington. The History of Pickwick. London by Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1891. Contemporary half calf gilt, stamp-signed by Morrel. FIRST EDITION. -- Together, 3 works in 4 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, condition generally good.
![[DICKINSON, Emily (1830-1886)]. "Success." In: A Masque of Poets. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1878. 8vo. Original black decor](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e1878e4e-bcc2-45b9-abd8-ae6e011505e8/58ba971e-487f-4d33-9157-ae6f01653763/468x382.jpg)
[DICKINSON, Emily (1830-1886)]. "Success." In: A Masque of Poets. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1878. 8vo. Original black decorated cloth gilt and stamped in red (some wear, some soiling, rear joint cracked; front hinge starting); black cloth folding case, red leather lettering-piece gilt to spine. Provenance: Charles Purrington (stamp).FIRST EDITION, containing one of the only lifetime publications of the author. Also including works by Louisa May Alcott, Sidney Clopton Lanier, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, James Russell Lowell, Christina Georgina Rossetti, and Celia Thaxter.Property from a Private Collection, Evanston, IL
CHAPTAL, Jean Antoine Claude (1756-1832). Traite theorique et pratique sur la culture de la vigne, avec l'art de faire le vin, les eaux-de-vie, esprit de vin, vinaigres simples et composes ...seconde edition. Paris: Marchant for Delalain fils, An X - 1801. 2 volumes, 8vo (203 x 122mm). 21 engraved plates (3 folding), 3 letterpress folding tables. (Occasional minor spotting or browning, small pale stain in some upper margins in Vol II., minor soiling.) Contemporary French tree calf gilt (a little wear to spine ends and joints). Provenance: previous owner 's library stamp on titles. Second edition, published the same year as the first edition. Brunet VI, 6368. Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil
GRAY, Thomas (1716-1771). Odes. Strawberry-Hill, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757. 4to (250 x 202 mm). Half-title; engraved device on title-page. (Discreet repair to inner blank margin of the first few leaves). 19th-century calf gilt, spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges gilt, stamp-signed by Riviere; morocco-backed slipcase. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "Ilissus" on p.8 and the comma after "Swarm" on p.16. The first book printed at Horace Walpole's Strawberry-Hill Press. Hayward 174; Hazen, Strawberry Hill, 1; Rothschild 1067. Property from the Annette Perlman Trust
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894). The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858. 8vo. Half-title, engraved title, additional letterpress title printed in red and black, 8 engraved plates. (Some minor staining or offsetting.) Original brown pebble blind-stamped cloth (some light rubbing, front hinge starting, a few corners bumped); folding case. Provenance: Benjamin Franklin Taylor (1819-1887) (stamp).FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. In BAL Binding Aa (no priority) with 5-ring decoration, the period after the word "Company" in the imprint, BAL 8781; Tilton P.69ff.[Laid in:] Autograph letter signed ( "O.W. Holmes"), to Professor Rogers. [London], 29 May 1868. One page with integral blank, 8vo, folded, a few spots. Regarding a sketch of the life and work of Dr. Mason Warner and encouraging revision if needed.Property from the Annette Perlman Trust
![[MINIATURE BOOKS]. ALIGHIERI, Dante (ca 1265-1321). La Divina Commedia di Dante. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1878.51 x 29 mm. Half-](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e1878e4e-bcc2-45b9-abd8-ae6e011505e8/b6553674-92c1-4976-a628-ae700009a4d8/468x382.jpg)
[MINIATURE BOOKS]. ALIGHIERI, Dante (ca 1265-1321). La Divina Commedia di Dante. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1878.51 x 29 mm. Half-title, engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black. Contemporary brown morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, watered silk doublures and endleaves, stamp-signed by Richardson (very slight rubbing to extremities); slipcase.The Hoepli issue of Dante's Divine Comedy, printed in minuscule 2-point Didot type (so-called "flies' eye" type), "thought to be the smallest ever employed...[and] said to have injured the eyesight of both the compositor and the corrector" (Spielmann). Because only 30 pages could be printed in a month, the work took nearly 5 years to complete. After "1,000 copies were printed and the type was destroyed."(Welsh 2168). Spielmann 114.
![[MINIATURE BOOKS] -- [ALMANACS]. London Almanack for the Year of Our Lord, 1734. London: Company of Stationers, [1733].51 x 2](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e1878e4e-bcc2-45b9-abd8-ae6e011505e8/6dfca0f5-9286-4d48-9339-ae700009dbdc/468x382.jpg)
[MINIATURE BOOKS] -- [ALMANACS]. London Almanack for the Year of Our Lord, 1734. London: Company of Stationers, [1733].51 x 28 mm. Folding engraving, engraved throughout. Contemporary black morocco gilt (some very slight rubbing); matching black morocco gilt slipcase. Containing days of the month and week, saint 's days, high tide table for the London Bridge, monthly moon phases for 1734, tables on the reigns of English Kings and Queens, a list of Lords, Mayors, and Sheriffs, and conversion rates.[With:] London Almanack for the Year of Christ, 1790. London: Company of Stationers, [1789].56 x 32 mm. Red stamp on title-page, engraving of York House across 4 pp., engraving throughout. Contemporary red Venetian-style leather gilt, navy and white onlays gilt, edges gilt (some slight staining). In addition to the above, also including a list of bank holidays, and times of eclipses. Spielmann 316.
SHAW, George Bernard (1856-1950). Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant. London: Grant Richards, 1898. 2 volumes, 8vo. Photogravure portrait frontispiece and 8pp. publisher's advertisements in Vol.I; 4pp. publisher's advertisements in Vol.II. (A few stains.) Publisher's green cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (some staining, spines darkened and slightly leaned, hinges starting or separating); morocco-backed slipcase. Provenance: Alfred J. Warne Browne (presentation inscription, stamp on paste-down vol.I). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY SHAW: "From G.B.S. ,painter of humanity, to Warne Browne, painter of the next deepest subject - the sea! Cadgwith Sept. 1899." Shaw's "unpleasant" plays were so-called because they forced the spectator to face unpleasant truths; he followed them with "pleasant" plays in an effort to appeal to producers and audiences. [With:] SHAW. The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God. London: Constable & Company Limited, 1932.8vo. Numerous wood-engraved illustrations by John Farleigh. (Some occasional spotting or soiling.) Publisher 's pictorial black and white boards (some light rubbing). FIRST EDITION of Shaw 's controversial short story collection.Property from the Annette Perlman Trust
TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892). Poems, Chiefly Lyrical. London: Effingham Wilson, 1830. 12mo (180 x 105 mm). 2pp. publisher's advertisements. Blue crushed levant gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by Riviere (hinges lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION, second issue, with "carcanet" on p.72, and with p.91 numbered correctly. Tennyson's first separately published book. Wise 6. Property from the Annette Perlman Trust
WOOD, Ellen ( "Mrs. Henry Wood") (1814-1887). East Lynne. London: Richard Bentley, 1861.3 volumes, 8vo (186 x 112 mm). (Some minor spotting and soiling.) Early 20th-century blue morocco gilt, edges gilt, stamp-signed by Root; together in custom blue cloth slipcase. Provenance: H. Harvey Frost (1863"“1969), industrialist and bibliophile (bookplate).FIRST EDITION of Wood 's Victorian best-selling sensational novel. After first being rejected for publication by Chapman & Hall and Smith & Elder, Bentley published it in a small run, which went on to be published in 15 editions in 5 years, with 110,250 copies sold in its first 25 years. Sadleir 3333.Property from the Annette Perlman Trust
ADANSON, Michel (1727-1806). Familles des Plantes. Paris: Vincent, 1763. 2 volumes, 8vo (188 x 117mm). One folding engraved plate. (Some minor toning and occasional spotting.) Contemporary French calf gilt (some repairs to joints, minor wear to spines and extremities). Provenance: Emile Burnat (his bookplate and donation label to Bibliotheque du Conservatoire Botanique de Geneve with duplicate release stamp, 1922); Kenneth K. Mackenzie (bequest to:); New York Horticultural Society of New York (bequest bookplate, 1934). FIRST EDITION of this important work in botanical classification. In this book, Adanson proclaimed his contempt for Linneaen systems. Adanson had been sent to Senegal in 1748 to catalogue the natural resources of the country. "The bewildering diversity of tropical vegetation made the systems of classification proposed by Tournefort and Linnaeus appear pitifully inadequate, based as they had been on the wild flora of Europe and a limited number of cultivated plants...he concluded that, by making a large limited number of systems and then putting together those plants which belonged together in the greatest number of systems without attaching greater importance to one set of characters than another, he could make one generally satisfactory natural system" (Hunt Cat., Introduction, pp. xcii-xciii). Hunt 577; Pritzel 21 Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil
GASPAR, Nicolas. Tratado, e arte de Arismetica para fazer hum perfeyto Cayxeyro. Edited by Manuel de Figueiredo. Lisbon: Bernardo da Costa de Carvalho, 1716.12mo (149 x 98mm). Contemporary vellum (recased, upper cover a little discolored and with old library shelf stamp). Provenance: early inscription on title; Agost. Descalc de Coimbra (stamps on title). Gaspar 's major work was originally published in 1516, but here edited and amended by Manuel de Figueiredo. Tipped into this copy at front is a printed broadside containing Pope Clement XI 's writ in favor of libraries Breve ad favorem bibliothecarum dated 23 January 1721.Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790). The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin. London: for J. Parsons, 1793. 8vo (210 x 125 mm). Half-title. (Marginal tear with small loss to S6.) Modern morocco gilt. Provenance: St. Andrew's Working Men's Association Plymouth (stamp on final leaf, stamp on title partially effaced). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Franklin's memoirs, first published in an unauthorized French translation in 1791, and then translated back into English for this edition. Though not Franklin's words exactly, "this account is the epitome of Franklin's spirit. In it one sees him as a typical though great example of 18th-century enlightenment, a Yankee Puritan who could agree with Rousseau and Voltaire" (Hart 142). Grolier American 21 ("The most widely read of all American autobiographies...it holds the essence of the American way of life"); Howes F-323.Property from the Annette Perlman Trust
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