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FINE BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND WORKS ON PAPER

Thursday 19th November 2026

AUCTION NO. 121

FINE BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND WORKS ON PAPER Thursday 19th November 2026, 10.30am and 2.00pm Forum Auctions, 4 Ingate Place, Battersea, London SW8 3NS

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CONTENTS

SPECIALISTS

Morning Session - 10.30am

Rupert Powell, International Head of Books and Works on Paper

English and Continental Manuscripts

1 – 54

Continental Literature and History

55 – 85

English Literature and History

86 – 182

Art and Architecture

183 – 204

Afternoon Session - 2.00pm

Dido Arthur, Book Specialist Justin Phillips, Book Specialist Max Hasler, Book Specialist Simon Luterbacher, Consultant Richard Carroll – 16th-19th Century Works on Paper Specialist

Modern Literature

205 – 306

Children’s, Illustrated Books, Original Artwork and Prints

307 – 341

Charles Swain, Book Specialist

Natural History

342 – 383

Ruby Willmore, Junior Specialist

Science and Medicine

384 – 400

Deniz Kortach, Junior Cataloguer

Travel

401 – 451

Becca Maguire, Junior Cataloguer

British Topography

452 – 454

Travis Cochrane, Trainee Cataloguer

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MORNING SESSION: Commencing 10.30am

ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL MANUSCRIPTS A selection from the manuscript collection of Robert Weaver, FSA, of Dulwich Among the notable eccentrics that make up, and have made up, the London book collecting world, Robert Weaver stands tall, both for his passionate collecting and keen eye, and for his generous use of these artefacts for pedagogical purposes. He served as a teacher at the Royal Grammar School of Guildford from 1977-86, before moving on to Dulwich College, an institution to which he devoted the rest of his working life. There, like a modern Ruskin, he opened its archive and his own collections to its students, and regularly led groups of them into central London to view manuscript and book sales in Sotheby’s and later Bloomsbury Auctions, often proclaiming to other viewers of those sales that these were “the collectors of the future”. We are reliably informed that as a result of Robert’s ‘medieval book fieldtrips’ many of them pursued careers in the Arts and Social Sciences, a worthy legacy for any teacher and bibliophile. He has been an active book collector now for half a century, with a collection that has constantly waxed and waned over that time, and now feels the moment has come to set free the bulk of what remains. Here, he follows the principle of the Goncourt bros. of nineteenthcentury Paris who, rather than lock their collections away, wanted to oﬀer the pleasure of acquisition to other collectors.

1 TWO LEAVES AND A SMALL FRAGMENT FROM A ROMANESQUE CODEX OF GREGORY THE GREAT, DIALOGUES, in Latin, manuscript on vellum, [Italy, late tenth century], two single leaves and a small fragment, each leaf with text in double columns of 33 lines of a rounded early Romanesque bookhand, with a strong ct-ligature and a startlingly late use of the pre-Carolingian ri-ligature (see leaf 2, lines 11 and 23, “scriptos” and line 12 “Primum”, for examples), chapter numbers in red Roman Numerals, one-line initials as enlarged capitals decorated with red rectangles or infilled areas, recovered from reuse on a later binding and hence with torn and stained edges (with significant loss to inside of inner column on each leaf), reverses scrubbed clean and illegible, and spots and stains overall, fair and legible condition, 295 x 195, 293 x 195 and 38 x 26mm. ⁂ The works of St. Gregory the Great (c. 540-604; Pope from 590 until death) were among the seminal texts of the Early Medieval Church. The leaves here contain parts of book IV, chapters vii-x and xxvi of his Dialogues, a text structured as a conversation (a common medieval teaching method) between him and a deacon, named Peter, that collect together accounts of miracles, wonders and healings performed by Italian holy people. Prior to the composition of the text, most miracle accounts concerned the Egyptian desert fathers, and Gregory seems to have been trying to domesticate that part of Christian life in Europe, showing the devout there that they also lived within a landscape populated by mystics and their deeds. The hand here is fascinating, and shows close aﬃnities to that of a fragmentary monastic Missal from southern Germany and of the third quarter of the tenth century, partly surviving in Berlin, Stadtsbibliothek, Frag. 63 (some 8 leaves), with another leaf sold in Bloomsbury Auctions, 9 December 2015, lot 3. However, the presence of the consistent use of the ri-ligature (with the ‘i’ as a line struck vertically downwards at the end of the ‘r’ passing downwards and to the left under the ‘r’) here is startling, as it is usually a pre-Carolingian feature. £1,500 - 2,500 Buyer’s premium is applicable on every lot. Please note any symbols for additional charges that may apply. All symbols, fees, charges and applicable VAT are explained on p.4

2 BIFOLIUM FROM A ROMANESQUE SACRAMENTARY, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [Germany, eleventh century], two conjoined leaves, each with text in single column of 24 lines of a rounded Romanesque bookhand, with et-ligature used integrally at end of a few words, a long and looped st-ligature and a distinctive ‘y’ with a short tail and a capital ‘Q’ with a bowl set high above the baseline, capitals with red dots in their bodies, red rubrics, one large red initial ‘I’, recovered from reuse on a later binding and hence with folds, holes (these aﬀecting the ends of 6 and 5 lines of text on the two leaves), spots and stains, the side once on the outside of the later binding with more heavy staining than other, also with small scribbled inscriptions there, each leaf 320 x 200mm.; held in card mount with small paper mounts ⁂ From a once fine and handsome Romanesque liturgical volume. £1,000 - 2,000

3 BIFOLIUM FROM A LARGE OTTONIAN GOSPEL LECTIONARY, WITH A FINELY ILLUMINATED INITIAL, in Latin, manuscript on vellum, [Germany, early eleventh century], two conjoined leaves, each with 23 lines in an elegant and tall Romanesque German bookhand, with a ct-ligature and using a tall final ‘S’ and an unusually high ‘z’ that resemble a ‘L’ with an undulating stroke attached to its highest tip, rubrics in ornamental black capitals (the larger touched in pale blue wash), one-line initials in red (many touched in same pale blue wash), one large 5-line initial ‘D’ (opening “Dicebat IHC [for ‘Ihesus’] turbis …”, John 8:46) in bands of silver foliage, these bound together with metallic blue straps in Germanic style (one of these probably with small studs picked out in penwork), enclosing a scrolling silver foliate tendril terminating in metallic blue leaves (one of which curls behind and between the two outermost bands of the righthand side of the initial) on vivid blue and green grounds, the initial in outstanding condition with little oxidisation, some small losses to illumination, recovered from reuse in a binding and with folds and clipped away corners (these restored with modern vellum), large section at head lost to water-damage when reused on binding (affecting parts of uppermost 4 lines of text), spots and stains, else good and robust condition, total: 275 x 465mm.; in plastic envelope and card folder ⁂ Another bifolium from this once magnificent Ottonian codex was offered in Maggs, European Bulletin, 23, Cat. 1366 (2005), no. 73 (and illustrated there inside the front cover), for £7500. In their description, Maggs drew attention to the closeness of the script with that in the ‘Sacramentary of Henry II’ (Munich, Clm. 4456; see B. Bischoff, Kalligraphie in Bayern, 1981, no. 22 for a reproduction), made in Regensburg between 1002 and 1014. We concur, and also note the similar dimensions of that book (each leaf 300 x 240mm.) to the parentcodex of these present leaves. In addition, the initial here bears close resemblance to those in a Gospel Book from Tegernsee, made in the mid-eleventh century (now Clm 18005; see Bischoff, no. 26, and note especially the use of metallic foliage fronds within the initials). £3,000 - 5,000

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4 BIFOLIUM FROM A LARGE ROMANESQUE MISSAL WITH CANTILLATION MARKS MOST PROBABLY USED TO GUIDE PERFORMANCE OF THE TEXT DURING EASTER, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [Italy, mid-twelfth century], two conjoined leaves, text in single column of 28 lines of two sizes of a handsome Romanesque bookhand, with occasional biting curves and written above topline, capitals often tall and thin, red rubrics, one-line red initials, larger initials in red infilled or stroked in pale yellow and green wash, second leaf with modern pencil foliation ‘15’, one small flaw in vellum, natural losses to lower outer corner of both leaves, small spots and stains, else in excellent condition, 315 x 215mm. ⁂ This manuscript is an early witness to the performance of certain Easter texts in church, and thus the earliest recorded Western European dramatic performance. At least by the tenth century, bishops had begun authorising the dramatisation of some parts of the biblical narrative in an attempt to involve parishioners in the story of the Passion. The superscript cantillation marks here appear to have been part of this dramatic direction, with the ‘c’, ‘s’ and ‘t’ perhaps meaning ‘cantor’, ‘clericus’ or similar, and ‘subdiaconus’, ‘sacerdos’ or similar. Alternatively, they may well indicate the intended intonation or speed of the delivery of the text (meaning ‘celeriter’ or ‘clare’, ‘sonoriter’ or ‘sursum’, and ‘trahere’, or similar). For this, see E.C. Dunn, ‘Voice Structure in the Liturgical Drama’, in Medieval English Drama, 1972, pp. 44-63; K. Schlager, ‘Passion’, in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik, 2nd ed., 26 vols., 1994; and S. Rankin, ‘An Early Eleventh Century Missal Fragment Copied by Eadwig Basan: Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. Liturg. D. 3, Fols. 4-5’, Bodleian Library Record, XVIII (2004), especially pp. 231-2. This bifolium appeared as Sotheby’s, 8 July 2008, lot 2, and was acquired by the present owner soon after that sale. £800 - 1,200

5 LEAF FROM A GLOSSED BIBLE IN LARGE FORMAT, WITH INSCRIPTION RECORDING THAT IT WAS ONCE IN THE LIBRARY OF PRINCE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK, DUKE OF SUSSEX AND SON OF KING GEORGE III, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum [France (probably Paris), second half of the thirteenth century], single leaf, with main text in single column of 22 lines of a professional early gothic bookhand (with parts of II Samuel 13-14), gloss in smaller script set within small blocks within the text column, capitals touched in red, paraph marks in alternate red and blue, running titles and versal numbers in capitals in same colours, one-line initials in same colours with contrasting penwork, folds, stains and wear showing that this was recovered from a later reuse on a bookbinding, tears to edges, but overall in good condition, 367 x 240mm. ⁂ A lengthy inscription, in a nineteenth-century hand, at the foot of this leaf, records that it was once in the collection of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), one of the largest and most celebrated private book collections in nineteenth-century Britain, and housed in Kensington Palace. The catalogue of the Duke’s library (Bibliotheca Sussexiana: a descriptive catalogue, I, 1791) and the auction sale catalogues of his library (at Evans in 1844 and 1845), do not appear to list manuscript leaves or collections of them. The catalogue was by its author’s admission an incomplete snapshot of the library, and it has been noted that some items certainly from that collection do not appear there or in the sales at Evans. However, it seems most likely that this leaf was still on the binding of a folio-sized printed book while in the Duke’s ownership, and was removed by a later owner, who then added the inscription recording its provenance. The development of the glossa ordinaria in a specifically designed mise-en-page format in which it could accompany the text of the entire Bible was perhaps the greatest textual achievement of the twelfth century. Glosses on individual words and passages had existed since the Bible was written, and were associated with teaching of the text, and those of the Latin Bible were regularised by a group of scholars around Anselm of Laon (d. 1117), comprising a standard set of excerpts from the exegetical works of the Fathers and copying them between the lines for short notes, or in the margins of the Biblical text for longer extracts. These were then reorganised in the twelfth century in Paris into a series of complex formats of the layout. That seen here, with the gloss interacting fluidly with the irregular shaped blocks of main text, was extremely labour intensive for book producers and scribes to lay out, but maximised the space of the page and created a visually pleasing eﬀect. The format here has been associated by C. de Hamel with Parisian Bible production after the 1160s (Glossed Books of the Bible and the Origins of the Paris Booktrade, 1984, pp. 24-7). £800 - 1,200

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7 TWO LEAVES FROM THE ‘CHUDLEIGH BIBLE’, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [north-eastern France (perhaps Arras), c. 1220-30], two single leaves: (a) main-text leaf in double column of 53 lines of a good gothic bookhand, capitals stroked in red, rubrics in red, running titles and chapter numbers alternately in red and blue, initials in red or blue with contrasting pen-flourishing, with wide margins, one large brown stain to blank margin, small spots and marks, 284 x 195mm.; (b) leaf from the Interpretation of the Hebrew Names, in three columns of 53 lines of a tall University script, rubric and line-fillers in red penwork, one-line initials in red or blue, running titles in miniscule letters (‘b’) between blue penwork strokes, these at beginning and end of each column at head of leaf, one 2-line initial ‘B’ in red with simple blue penwork, small spots and stains, slight cockling, else excellent condition, 285 x 193mm. 6 LOWER HALF OF A LEAF FROM A LARGE GLOSSED PSALTER, in Latin, manuscript on vellum, [France, second half of thirteenth century], large cutting, with main text in double columns of 10 remaining lines of a professional early gothic bookhand (with parts of Job 17), gloss in smaller script in blocks set within the main text columns, capitals touched in red, paraph marks in red and dark blue, one-line initials in same colour with penwork in contrasting colour, recovered from later reuse on a binding of a French account book (with scrawls of that date in French on what was the outside of the later binding, including ‘1738’ and ‘1739’) and hence with stains, small holes and folds, overall fair condition, 158 x 245mm. ⁂ From a once handsome gothic codex, that almost certainly survived in a monastic or cathedral library until passing into private ownership at the time of the French Revolution and Secularisation, and then reused as binding material. £300 - 500

⁂ These leaves are from the ‘Chudleigh Bible’, once in the library of Baron Cliﬀord of Chudleigh (sold in his sale at Sotheby’s, 7 December 1953, lot 51; and reappearing again, 8 July 1970, lot 104, and in Christie’s, 11 July 1974, lot 18). R. Branner identified it one of a series of manuscripts from Saint-Vaast at Arras (Manuscript Painting In Paris During The Reign Of Saint Louis, 1997, p. 30, n. 17) and further scholarly comment has been made by P. Kidd in his catalogue of the French manuscripts in the McCarthy Collection (The McCarthy Collection, III: French Miniatures, 2021, no. 17) and on the ‘manuscriptevidence.org’ website. Single leaves have appeared in Quaritch, cat.1147 (1991), no. 15; Maggs, cat. 1167 (1993), no 2; and Sotheby’s, 6 December 2005, lot 16 and 8 July 2014, lots 13-14, among others. The second leaf here was acquired by the present owner in Bloomsbury Auctions, 7 December 2016, lot 12. £600 - 800 8 LEAF FROM A PSALTER, WITH LINE-DRAWN FISH AS A LINE-FILLER, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [France or adjacent Low Countries, second half of the thirteenth century], single leaf, with text in single column of 22 lines of a good and angular early gothic bookhand, one-line initials in blue or gold with red or dark blue penwork, line-fillers in same penwork in geometric panels and sprays of simple foliage with occasional gold bezants or small rectangles, as well as a charming blue fish, two 2-line initials in gold on blue and dark pink grounds, the leaf recovered from reuse in a later binding and hence with folds, stains, cutaway sections from edges of margins (these infilled with modern vellum), overall fair and presentable condition, 272 x 190mm.; in card mount £500 - 700 9 BIFOLIUM FROM A MISSAL, IN LATIN, decorated manuscript on vellum, [France, mid- to late thirteenth century], two conjoined leaves, each with text in single column of 22 lines of a professional early gothic bookhand, capitals in calligraphic penstrokes and touched in red, red rubrics, 2-line initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork, recovered from reuse in a later binding, and hence with numerous scrawled additions of the seventeenth or eighteenth century (including a simple drawing of a human head, a house-like structure, and inscriptions including music and the family name “de Guyde”), stains, folds, small holes and tears at edges, overall in good and presentable condition, each leaf 280 x 185mm. £300 - 500

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10 BIFOLIUM FROM A LARGE GOTHIC BIBLE, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [France, early thirteenth century (before c. 1230)], two conjoined leaves, each with a single column of 28 lines of a high grade early gothic bookhand, capitals touched in red, running titles in alternate red and blue capitals, one large initial ‘E’ (opening “Et ecce vir dei …”, I Kings 13) in blue encased within red foliate penwork, red and blue leaf shapes extending from the initial up the entire height of the inner margin, second leaf with large initial ‘D’ (“Domum autem suam …”, the opening of I Kings 7) with same decoration, recovered from reuse in a later binding (in reversed format to that of the original volume), and hence with folds, splits, small clipped away areas from edges, stained areas, some cockling, small paper remnants of printed work with text in German, overall fair and presentable condition, each leaf 395 x 290mm. ⁂ A noble remnant of a once grand French gothic Bible. £600 - 800 11 TWO LEAVES FROM A MINIATURE PSALTER-HOURS, both with illuminated initials, in Latin, on vellum, [northern France, late thirteenth century], two leaves, each with text in single column of 12 lines in two sizes of an early gothic bookhand, that ornamented with hairline penstrokes, capitals in arching penstrokes and touched in red, red rubrics, one initial in blue or dark pink foliage on coloured and gold grounds on each leaf, these with angular extensions into the margins on three sides, trimmed edges (aﬀecting edges of border decoration), slight flaking in places, overall good condition and on notably thin and fine vellum, each leaf 90 x 70mm.; mounted together in modern card ⁂ These leaves are from a fine late thirteenth-century portable Psalter-Hours, perhaps dispersed as early as 1970 (a leaf sold recently in a European auction was reportedly acquired then in Paris by a previous owner). Other leaves have appeared in the Schuster Gallery of London, their ‘Illuminated Manuscripts’ catalogue for 1987, no. 21 (where Amiens is suggested as a point of origin, and it is stated that the parent book was “thought to be connected with reformist women who lived in communities in North France and Flanders”); Quaritch, cat. 1270, Bookhands of the Middle Ages VI (2000), no. 33; Bloomsbury Auctions, 27 October 2011, lot 4; Pirages Rare Books, cat. 47 (1992), nos. 20 and 49; and in the collection of Roger Martin of Grimsby: his sale at Bloomsbury Auctions, 6 July 2021, lot 61 (part). £400 - 600

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12 LEAF FROM A WELL-KNOWN CISTERCIAN BREVIARY, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [France (Picardy), thirteenth century], single leaf with text in double columns of 25 lines of two sizes of a good gothic bookhand, verso with quire signature “XV” and tiny catchword in bas-de-page, capitals in ornamental penstrokes and touched in red, red rubrics, seven 2- to 4-line initials in blue or pink enclosing coloured foliage on gold grounds, the largest (‘L’) containing a tiny detailed red cross bottony within a roundel, and several with fleshy foliate extensions into the margin, modern pencil pagination ‘115/116’, discoloured strip along innerside of leaf probably from use of glue in binding of parent-volume, a few spots and stains, else excellent condition, 160 x 105mm. ⁂ The parent volume of this leaf contained eighteenth- and nineteenth-century inscriptions suggesting that it was then in Vouray, east of Tours in the Loire valley, and the addition of the cross bottony (a common variant of the crosslet in medieval heraldry) here might be a nod towards the arms or aﬃliations of the original owner. Other leaves can be found in Maggs, Bulletin, 20, nos. 42-43, cat. 1262 (1998), no. 13; Sotheby’s, 19 June 2001, lot 10, 6 December in the same year, lot 2, 5 July 2005, lot 90 (the substantial remnant of 128 leaves), 6 December 2005, lot 10, 29 June 2007, lot 4, among others. £300 - 500

13 LEAF AND A CUTTING FROM THE ‘RHEIMS PSALTER’, THE FIRST WITH A HISTORIATED INITIAL, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [northern France (Paris or Rheims), mid-thirteenth century], the single leaf with single column of 16 lines of a high grade early gothic bookhand (the cutting from the top of a leaf and with 13 lines of same), written below topline and with some lateral compression, line fillers in red and blue penwork (one on verso in shape of a fish, and another on recto in shape of a bird’s head with its tongue out), one-line initials in alternate red or blue, one large historiated initial ‘D’ (opening “Dixi custodiam vias meas …”) in blue, enclosing David seated pointing to his eyes, all on dark pink and burnished gold grounds, medieval folio numbers “xlii”(leaf) and “xx/iiii xvii” (cutting), some medieval marginalia, some scuﬃng to initials, slight darkening in places, small loss to lower edge of leaf, some small spots and stains, else good condition, 190 x 145 and 115 x 145mm. ⁂ The parent manuscript was at Rheims Cathedral by c. 1300, when an ex libris was added to its fol. 133r. Then in the later Middle Ages it passed to the Cistercian Abbey of Signy, in the diocese of Rheims, and another ex libris mark was added to its fol. 132v. The book is recorded in A. Bondéelle-Souchier, Bibliothèques Cisterciennes dans la France médiévale, 1991, p. 289. The whole volume was sold in Sotheby’s, 24 June 1980, lot 53, and was broken in 1984 by Peter Goodall, with caches of leaves passing for resale to Sotheran’s and Maggs. The near-complete Calendar appeared for sale in Quaritch, Bookhands of the Middle Ages VII, cat. 1315 (2004), no. 36, and C. de Hamel describes two leaves from the same parent book in Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand Collections, 1989, nos. 111 and 167. £1,000 - 2,000

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14 14 LEAF FROM A LARGE UNIVERSITY BIBLE, WITH PASTICHE INITIAL FROM SAME PARENT MANUSCRIPT, in Latin, on vellum, [northern France, thirteenth century], single large leaf, with text in double columns of 50 lines in a good University hand, red rubrics, running titles in alternate blue and red capitals, one 6-line initial ‘M’ (opening “Marcus evangelista dei electus et …”, a prologue to Mark) in blue enclosing coloured foliage on gold and dark pink grounds with bezants, one foliate tendril curling into the margin, one large initial ‘I’ (133mm. high; opening “Initium evangelii ihesu Christi filii dei …”, Mark 1:1) in gold and colours, the main body of the initial removed at some point, leaving the geometric head of the initial with facing orange-faced beasts snapping at a bezant, and the long angular-edged foliate extension down the inner margin, the central section then carefully supplied from another similar initial from the same parent manuscript, that enclosing three spirals of foliage enclosing fleshy trilobed leaves on gold grounds, a small section at foot of the addition including a single word from the other leaf (“sacerdo”), a few hairline brushstrokes perhaps added to complete a single orange leaf and five white decorative lines in order to make good the connection between the newly supplied section and the remaining head of the original initial, some slight cockling, a few small spots and stains, overall in excellent condition, approximately 290 x 193mm.; framed (and not examined out of the frame) ⁂ Acquired by the present owner from Philip J. Pirages at the New York Book fair in 2011. £1,000 - 2,000

15 LEAF FROM THE INTERPRETATION OF THE HEBREW NAMES FROM A LARGE MEDIEVAL BIBLE, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [France, thirteenth century], single leaf, with text in three columns of 57 lines of University script, one-line initials in alternate red or blue, one large initial ‘C’ in blue enclosing and being enclosed by densely packed red penwork, 200 x 152mm, small spots and stains, slight cockling and remnants of paper stubs from previous mounting £300 - 500 16 THREE LEAVES FROM LEGAL MANUSCRIPTS, in Latin, on vellum, [France, thirteenth century], three leaves: (i) leaf from a copy of Justinian’s Digest, with text in double column of 52 lines, blue paraph marks, one-and 2-line initials in red and blue, spaces left for initials, gloss on four sides in the margin, 273 x 180mm.; (ii) leaf from a copy of Gratian’s Decretum, text in double column of 55 lines, red rubrics and one-line initials, 2-line initials in blue with red penwork, one 3-line initial in gold on blue and dark pink grounds with coloured leaves sprouting from their inner corners, gloss filling one column on each side, reverse with scuﬀs and sections torn away when leaf removed from later binding (hence mostly illegible there), 325 x 215mm.; (iii) leaf from another copy of Gratian’s Decretum, text in double columns of 47 lines, one-line initials in red, long and tall 2-line initials in blue or red with contrasting penwork, 3-line initial in blue and red panels with penwork in the same, text enclosed by gloss on all four sides, 280 x 190mm.; all recovered from later bindings and hence with trimmed edges, stains, spots and small holes, overall fair and presentable condition £600 - 800

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18 TWO SMALL CUTTINGS FROM A SACRAMENTARY, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [Italy, c. 1200], two rectangular cuttings, both recovered from later reuse in a book binding, and with a single column of 6 and 7 remaining lines of a fine and professional early gothic bookhand, red rubrics and simple initials (one on verso containing a single scrolling foliage leaf), scuﬀs, spots, worm holes and stained areas, scrubbed illegible on reverses, overall fair condition, 90 x 175 and 105 x 165mm. £300 - 500

17 TWO LEAVES FROM LEGAL MANUSCRIPTS, in Latin, decorated manuscripts in vellum, [France and Italy, late thirteenth or early fourteenth century], two single leaves: (i) leaf from the Codex Iustinianus, book X, main text in double column of 57 lines, red rubrics, 2-line initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork (enclosing tiny human faces in initials in main text) or gold on blue and pink grounds with foliage sprigs curling into the margins, the main text enclosed within gloss filling all borders, trimmed at edges (with losses to edges of gloss), spots, stains and much scuﬀed on reverse and illegible there, one split repaired on reverse with paper, 300 x 182mm.; (ii) leaf from Justinian’s Digest, book XLVII, with main text in 47 lines, blue paraph marks, red rubrics, 2-line initials in blue with red penwork, 3-line initials in blue or dark pink on coloured and gold grounds, enclosed on all sides in gloss, trimmed at edges (with losses to edges of gloss there), folds, small spots and stains, discolouration heavier on reverse, 340 x 210mm.; both leaves mounted on card £500 - 700

19 LEAF FROM A LARGE PSALTER WITH ELEGANTLY LOOPING INITIALS, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Flanders, early thirteenth century (probably before c. 1230)], single leaf, with text in single column of 23 lines of a fine early gothic bookhand (with parts of Psalm 118 and 119), written below topline, line-fillers in red and blue interlocking chain-like penstokes, one-line initials in gold lined in black ink with long curling penstrokes, three large initials in long looping gold strokes (that on recto a large ‘I’ measuring the full page in height and filling the outer and lower margins), on blue and dark pink grounds overlaid with white brushwork, Early Modern page numbers ‘243/244’, large section of blank outer border fallen away and replaced with modern vellum, some discolouration, small spots and traces of paper and cloth strips from previous mounting, 250 x 170mm.; in card mount ⁂ The parent manuscript of this leaf may have been the Psalter sold several times in Christie’s from 18 March 1912, lot 130, to 11-12 April 1938, lot 304. After that it appears to have passed to either Otto Ege or his associate Philip Duschnes (or both), and was listed by Scott Gwara in his Otto Ege’s Manuscripts (2013), as Handlist no. 125, where other leaves in three American institutions are recorded. It was also discussed by Barbara A Shailor, ‘Otto Ege: Portfolios vs. Leaves’, Manuscripta, 53 (2009), pp. 13-27 (see col. pl. 2a–b). 18

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20 LEAF FROM A WELL-KNOWN PSALTER-HOURS, WITH DAVID AS A CROWNED KING AND A SEATED SAINT IN HISTORIATED INITIALS, AND A STRANGE LONG-NECKED DROLLERY IN COLOURED PENWORK ON THE REVERSE, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Flanders or the Rhineland, c. 1250-75], single leaf with two historiated initials on the verso: initial ‘C’ (opening the prayer “Concede nos famulus tuos ...”) and ‘D’ (opening the prayer “Dominus qui corda fidelium ...”) in orange or blue overlaid with white brushwork, on gold and coloured frames, the tail of the ‘d’ formed by an orange, yellow and pale green dragon who bites the initial as his tail hangs down the margin into the bas-de-page, mounted on card and so recto not completely visible, but upper outer corner with a charming line-drawn dragon-like drollery with taloned feet and a foliate tongue in red and blue ink, oneline initials in gold or blue with penwork in dark blue or red, geometric line-fillers in gold and colours, text in single column of two sizes of 20 lines of a fine early gothic bookhand, written below topline, a few ink stains, some cracking to initials with losses there, a few small holes and a small missing part of the margin (aﬀecting only edge of dragon’s tail), small spots and stains, else fair condition, 178 x 135mm; laid down on card mount ⁂ Provenance: From a late thirteenth-century Psalter-Hours most probably made for a nun (“abbatissam nostrum”, ‘our abbess’ is mentioned on other leaves in a collect and in the petitions that follow the Litany of Saints). The extent and opulence of the illumination suggest a commission made for a woman of substantial wealth, perhaps even nobility or royalty. The known leaves were traced and discussed by Peter Kidd in the second volume of his catalogue of the collection of Robert McCarthy (vol. II, Spanish, English, Flemish and Central European Miniatures, 2019, no. 20, pp. 106-08), following on from his work published online in his Medieval Manuscripts Provenance blog (see entries for 5 March and 13 June 2015, 9 May 2020 and others; with the present leaf listed in the blogpost for 13 June 2015 among the leaves from the Hours of the Virgin). Illumination: The leaves from this manuscript are all notable for the exceptional fact that every single Psalm and prayer is preceded by a historiated initial (unlike most Psalters and Psalter-Hours where historiated initials might be expected for only the eight major divisions of the text) and the entrancingly inventive and flamboyant line-fillers, often created from animals, drolleries and people. The illumination has previously been attributed to England, Flanders, Eastern France, Lower Lorraine, and the Rhineland, however, as Kidd has noted, the closest parallels are to examples from Flanders and the Rhineland. £4,000 - 6,000

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22 SIX LEAVES FROM A PSALTER, ONE WITH A HISTORIATED INITIAL ENCLOSING ST. PAUL, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Germany, fourteenth century], two bifolia and two single leaves (the second of those attached to one of the bifolia), contemporary folio numbers: ‘clxxxxi’, ‘clxxxxv’-‘clxxxvii’ and ‘lxxiii’-‘lxxvi’, each leaf with single column of 17 lines in a tall and angular gothic bookhand, capitals touched in red, red rubrics, one- and 2-line initials in red or dark blue, one large historiated initial ‘C’ (opening “Cantate domino canticum …”, Psalm 96) in pale yellow with green-blue overlaid, enclosing the saint, standing in blue and red robes holding a sword and an open book, all on burnished gold grounds with stylised acanthus leaves at inner corners and all within a realistic blue and orange frame, some chipping to gold and paint, some darkened areas of vellum (especially outer and upper corners of leaves), overall fair and presentable condition, each leaf approximately 154 x 107mm. 21 TWO LEAVES FROM A UNIVERSITY BIBLE (WITH PARTS OF THE PAULINE EPISTLES AND ACTS OF THE APOSTLES), in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [England (probably Oxford), thirteenth century], two single leaves, each with text in double columns of 49 lines of an excellent University script, spaces left for rubrics, capitals touched in red, 2-line initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork or in gold on blue and pink grounds, four larger initials in same colours, enclosing scrolling foliage with gold bezants, two large initials with animal-masks facing the viewer and biting the bodies of the initials, some darkening in places, and large sections cut away from the foot of both leaves (removing the lower borders, part of the lowermost section of an initial and 4 lines from the bottom of a leaf (these lines replaced by a modern hand imitating medieval script), overall in fair and presentable condition, 215 x 153 and 213 x 150mm.; framed together in a card mount

£1,000 - 1,500

⁂ Another leaf from the same parent manuscript was in the collection of the late Prof. Marvin Colker (1927-2020), sold in his posthumous sale at Christie’s, 12 December 2018, lot 3 (part). £700 - 900

23 LEAF FROM THE DOMINICAN ‘SAINT-JACQUES’ BIBLE CONCORDANCE, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [France, early fourteenth century], single large leaf, with text in three columns of 55 lines of a rounded gothic bookhand, red and pale blue paraph marks and small initials, running titles (“In”) in same, line-prickings remaining suggesting leaf not cut down, some stains to edges and small folds and spots, else in excellent condition, 460 x 311mm. ⁂ This concordance was produced by the Dominicans of St. Jacques in Paris, initially under the direction of Hugh of St. Cher by 1239, and then later producing two further editions in the later decades of the thirteenth century. This concordance formed the basis of almost all subsequent concordances to the Bible and is one of the most important contributions of the Dominicans to biblical scholarship. Each headword is followed by the places in the text where the word occurs, plus short quotations, in a format invented by its compilers (see M.A and R.H. Rouse, Authentic Witnesses: Approaches to Medieval Texts and Manuscripts, 1991, pp. 224-25, for discussion of the text).

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24 A GATHERING FROM AN EARLY CODEX OF THOMAS BRADWARDINE, DE CAUSA DEI CONTRA PELAGIUM ET DE VIRTUTE CAUSARUM, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [northern France (almost certainly Paris), second half of the fourteenth century], 6 leaves (with apparently continuous text) from the capitula list at the front of the work, text in double columns of 48 lines in a professional University bookhand, lemmata-terms set in margin in main hand, paraph marks in alternate blue and red, 2- to 4-line initials in gold on blue and dark pink grounds, frontispiece with one very large initial ‘P’ in blue with white brushstrokes overlaid, enclosing delicately scrolling coloured foliage with ivy-leaves on a wide burnished gold ground, the whole initial on dark pink grounds with white brushwork overlaid, the descender of the initial turning into a long text border that runs for the length of the inner vertical side of the entire text column in same colours as before and gold, with ivy-leaf tendrils sprouting from this and the initial to fill two borders, initial leaf with a few stains and scuffs, and vellum translucent in places making parts of the text hard to read, other small stains and slight cockling throughout, else in good condition, 293 x 225mm. ⁂ Provenance: 1. From a once grand and opulent copy of this text, most probably produced in Paris for use by a master in the university there. 2. L'abbé Victor Chambeyron (1813-63), a priest who held offices in Lyon, then Belleville-sur-Saône, Saint-Étienne, Couzon-sur-Saône and Givors (all in Rhône), as well as an amateur historian and archaeologist of the Lyonnaise region. His oval inkstamp at foot of fol. 1r, with his honorific title: “correspondant du ministère de l'instruction pub[li]que et des cultes” (a title given by the French State to trusted antiquarians and local scholars whose role was to seek out locally important records). Text: The modern pencil scrawls at the head of fol. 1r (perhaps in the hand of Chambeyron) identify the text here, and while it exists in numerous variants, the readings here agree exactly for the copy of the work recorded for the manuscript in Klosterneuburg, AugustinerChorherrenstift, Cod. 317 (incipit: “Actus. Quod actus est melior potentia maxime in bonis li. 1. capitulo 1 ...”, and explicit: “Idolum. Contra colentes idola et ea fabricantes nota multa ibidem parte 31a corollarii primi capituli”; for these, see the ‘manuscripta.at’ database). Thomas Bradwardine (c. 1300-49) was an early English mathematician, physicist, scholastic philosopher and theologian, chaplain and confessor to Edward III, a luminary of the University of Oxford and very briefly the archbishop of Canterbury (the latter for only three months in 1349). Chaucer ranked him as a scholarly giant alongside Augustine and Boethius in his Nun's Priest’s Tale (“But I ne kan nat bulte it to the bren [‘But I cannot sift it to the bran’, meaning sift the fine flour through a bulting-cloth to remove the ‘bran’ or chaff, and here meaning analyse it thoroughly] / As kan the hooly doctour Augustyn / Or Boece, or the Bisshop Bradwardyn”). His major work was this text, a lengthy theological treatise on divine sovereignty, grace, and predestination, and was written against what Bradwardine saw as a resurgence of Pelagianism (the belief that human free will is capable of achieving salvation without special divine grace). A few manuscripts state that it was completed in London in 1344. The text has recently been the subject of a research project by Edit Anna Lukács (The Manuscript Tradition of Bradwardine´s `De causa Dei´; ended 2014) based in the University of Vienna, which found that it survives in 53 manuscripts from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, all apparently in European institutions (see the list published online by Lukács on the University of Vienna’s website, of the 30 manuscripts now available in reproductions in the University of Vienna, the remaining manuscripts those in institutions in Vienna or within easy reach of that city). The vast Schoenberg database records no manuscript as ever appearing in sale records, and the present example may well be the first. £3,000 - 5,000 Buyer’s premium is applicable on every lot. Please note any symbols for additional charges that may apply. All symbols, fees, charges and applicable VAT are explained on p.4

26 CHRIST IN GETHSEMANE, IN A LARGE INITIAL, ON A LEAF FROM A CHOIRBOOK, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [northern Italy or southern France, last decades of the thirteenth century], single large leaf, with an initial ‘I’ (opening “In monte oliveti …”, a responsory for the first nocturn on Maundy Thursday), in pink and blue, enclosing Christ with a detailed white face, wearing orange robes and kneeling in a hilly landscape with foliage, lifting his hands up to the heavens, all before a dark blue sky, the top of the initial within an arch, large initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork, rubrics in red, penwork flowerheads touched in red used as line-fillers, 8 lines of text with music on a 4-line red stave, recovered from later reuse on a binding and hence scuﬀed and with worm damage in places, trimmed to edges of text at inner vertical edge with losses to border decoration there, some small holes and losses at edges restored with modern vellum, overall fair condition, 395 x 262mm. ⁂ Acquired by the present owner in Bloomsbury Auctions, 7 December 2016 (lot 44). £800 - 1,200 25 CUTTING FROM AN EARLY CHOIRBOOK, WITH A LARGE ILLUMINATED INITIAL, in Latin, manuscript on vellum, [France, fourteenth century], rectangular cutting, with 5 lines of text in a fine and angular gothic bookhand, accompanied by music in square notation on a 4-line red stave, capitals touched in red, red rubrics and initials, one very large initial ‘M’ in dark pink with salmon-pink scrollwork overlaid, enclosing thin scrolling coloured foliage tendrils terminating in delicately painted blue ivyleaves and coloured flowerheads on burnished gold grounds, the initial itself on blue grounds framed in gold (and with notches out of its corners), hairline foliage terminating in gold ivyleaves and bezants and blue teardrop-shaped leaves cascading down the adjacent margin, this cutting later reused on a bookbinding and hence much stained and scuﬀed, cut down at edges, with some losses there, folds and other damage, reverse partly obscured by paper still adhering there, overall somewhat battered condition, 205 x 200mm. ⁂ This cutting is perhaps all that remains of a once grand and glittering French Choirbook. £300 - 500

27 CUTTING FROM A CHOIRBOOK, WITH A LARGE FINELY PAINTED INITIAL, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [Italy, thirteenth century], large cutting, with an initial ‘I’ (opening the introit “Intret in conspectu tuo domine ...”) in delicately painted grey, pale brown and orange acanthus leaves, with tiny hairline white foliate brushwork overlaid, all on dark blue grounds, red rubric, one- and 2-line initials in alternate red or blue with contrasting penwork, some stains and folds, small illegible areas, a small hole and a rust mark from old paperclip at head, overall fair condition, 226 x 195mm. £250 - 350

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28 LARGE INITIAL ENCLOSING THE BUST OF A BISHOP (PERHAPS A SAINT-BISHOP), ON A CUTTING FROM AN EARLY CHOIRBOOK, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [southern France (perhaps Toulouse) or northern Italy (perhaps Piedmont), fourteenth century], rectangular cutting, trimmed to edges of initial, with large initial ‘D’ in blue with white brushwork overlaid, enclosing a penwork portrait of a bishop’s head (without a halo, but perhaps meant to be a saint-bishop) with green robes and mitre and a ruddy spot added to his right cheek, all on burgundy wash grounds with large gold bezants with designs picked out on their bodies in hairline white brushwork, further white hairline brushwork terminating in leaves and flowerheads overlaid on the grounds outside the body of the initial, sprays of green, orange and yellow acanthus leaves emerging into the inner margins, traces of letters and edge of a stave on the front, remains of two lines of text in a good liturgical hand with music in square notation on a 4-line red stave on reverse, some flaking from paint in places, scuﬃng and small spots, overall fair and presentable condition, 135 x 135mm.; mounted within modern paper and on card ⁂ The artist of this initial was well versed in the traditions of late medieval Italy (note the acanthus leaf decoration) as well as that of contemporary France (note the figure of the bishop), and must have worked somewhere in the border-regions of those two nations. Alison Stones records the same blending of traditions for two manuscripts produced in Toulouse most probably in opening decades of the fourteenth century (Toulouse, Bibliothèque municipale, MSS. 77 and 79, and Archives Départmentales de la Haute-Garonne, Malte liasse 50 Montsaunès [Res. 15]: Gothic Manuscripts, 12601340, 2013-14, her VII-38 and VII-40), with the first of those also using pale colour washes as grounds within initials, and very similar trends have been noted in Piedmontese illumination (see A. Quazza and S. Castronovo, ‘Miniatura trecentesca in Piedmonte: produzione locale e cicolazione di manoscritti’, in Pittura e miniatura del Trecento in Piemonte, 1997, pp. 320-357). £2,000 - 3,000

29 THREE LEAVES FROM AN EXCEPTIONALLY EARLY ITALIAN BOOK OF HOURS, ONE WITH A HISTORIATED INITIAL, in Latin, from a manuscript on vellum, [Italy (Naples), most probably late 1360s or 1370s], three single leaves, one with a large initial ‘I’ (opening “In illo tempore recumbentibus …”, Mark 16:14) enclosing a full-length portrait of Christ within a simple blue, green and red frame on a wide burnished gold ground, all with decorated borders of coloured foliage or geometric shapes with interstitial spaces filled with gold and surrounded by large bezants (two leaves with borders on two or three sides, one with full border), these enclosing a standing human in an orange tunic, a tiny naked figure hanging from the foliage, a blue bird with an orange wing and a small cat-like creature, the leaf with the full border also with a coat-of-arms (per fess, azure and gules) in the centre of the bas-de-page and at each corner, two large initials in blue and pink shades enclosing foliage sprays on burnished gold grounds and edged in coloured frames, text in a single column of 11 lines in an angular Italian bookhand, with many ornamental pen flourishes, discoloured at edges, some scuﬀs, cracking and losses to gold and paint, trimmed at edges with small losses to border decoration there, darkening from previous mount around edges of reverse, overall fair and presentable condition, each leaf approximately 126 x 93mm.; mounted together on a card mount with small paper strips ⁂ Few Books of Hours date as early as the fourteenth century, and of those that do, Italian examples, or even single leaves from them, are among the rarest. The present leaves are from a group of ten leaves, including two miniatures, once in the collection of Esther Rosenbaum (d. 1980) advertising executive of Chicago; those sold together in Sotheby’s 25 April 1983, as lot 101, and another leaf from that group, with the same coat-of arms, re-emerging in our sale of 3 December 2025, lot 35. The rediscovery of the present leaves has sharpened the dating of the parent codex, and consolidated the impression that the artists here were late followers of the influential workshop of Cristoforo Orimina, court painter to Robert of Naples (1276-1343) and Joanna I of Naples (1325-82). We thank Professor F. Manzari for kind assistance in the cataloguing of these leaves, and note her forthcoming publication of them in her important online survey of Italian Books of Hours. £5,000 - 7,000 Buyer’s premium is applicable on every lot. Please note any symbols for additional charges that may apply. All symbols, fees, charges and applicable VAT are explained on p.4

30 LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS, WITH CAT-LIKE DROLLERY CREATURES WITH HUMAN HEADS IN THE BORDER, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [France, c. 1470], text in single column of 17 lines of lettre bâtarde, one- and 2-line initials in gold on blue and burgundy grounds, linefillers in same with gold brushwork picking out scrolls on the coloured grounds, each page with a decorated border panel of sprays of coloured acanthus leaves and other hairline foliage supporting at their midpoints gold circular internal panels with red penwork smooth or notched outlines, these containing large cat-like animals with striped green and brown bodies and hairy wildman-like human heads with animal’s ears, slightly darkened at outer edge of leaf, a few small spots and stains, else excellent condition, 141 x 98mm.; in card mount £400 - 600 31 FOUR LEAVES FROM BOOKS OF HOURS, in Latin or French, illuminated manuscripts on vellum, [France, fifteenth century], four single leaves, comprising: (a) single leaf with text in 24 lines, red rubrics, one- and 2line initials in gold (the larger on coloured grounds), this perhaps once the initial leaf of a volume and with “Page 1” and “Page 2” added in a nineteenth-century hand, a faded paper label attached with the year “1856” still legible and a clipping from an auction house catalogue also attached (for a lot 538, and almost certainly describing the parent volume, this apparently Sotheby’s but not traceable by us), 195 x 140mm.; (b) single leaf with text in 18 lines of lettre bâtarde, capitals touched in yellow wash, bright blue rubrics, one 2-line initial in blue on black grounds with foliage picked out in liquid gold brushstrokes, each side with a decorated border panel of coloured and gold acanthus leaves and other foliage on gold or blank vellum grounds, 170 x 113mm.; (c) leaf from a Litany of Saints evidently from northeastern France (with entries for SS. Arnulphus of Metz and Taurinus of Évreux), with entries in 19 lines, one-line initials on every line in gold on blue and pink grounds, line-fillers in same, 165 by 105mm.; (d) single leaf with text in 22 lines, red rubrics, one-line initials in gold on burgundy and blue grounds, 2-line initials in white scrolls on gold grounds (2 of these enclosing a fly and a butterfly), each page with decorated border panel of acanthus leaves and more realistic coloured foliage terminating in gold and coloured seedpods, 115 x 85mm.; all with small spots and stains, else good condition £800 - 1,200 20

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32 COLLECTION OF 23 LEAVES AND CUTTINGS FROM MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS, all in Latin, on vellum, [thirteenth to fifteenth century], including (a) an illuminated Book of Hours leaf, with text in single column of 17 lines of angular bookhand, red rubric, two initials in blue on gold and coloured grounds enclosing coloured foliage, border panels on both sides of coloured foliate tendrils terminating in gold leaves and seedpods, 97 x 72mm., France, early fifteenth century; (b) two leaves from a Psalter, each with 19 lines of a good early gothic bookhand, gold initials oﬀset in inner margin on blue and dark pink panels which taper to a point at their head and foot with penwork crosses there, three large gold initials on coloured grounds, each 120 x 90mm., France or Low Countries, thirteenth century; plus another 19 leaves (including two bifolia, or substantial remnants of them) and a long and thin strip, all from Bibles and liturgical books, one with modern calligraphy clumsily added at foot, some trimmed to edges, a few recovered from reuse in later bindings and with concomitant damage, else folds, small holes, spots and stains, in fair to good condition £3,000 - 5,000

33 TWO MINIATURES FROM A BOOK OF HOURS, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [France, mid-fifteenth century], two rectangular cuttings, each with an arch-topped miniature (the Visitation of the Magi and the Flight into Egypt) within a thin gold frame, remnants of borders with coloured acanthus leaves and other foliage and a wide gold bar with scrolling fleshy-leaved ivy-leaves overlaid on one, remnants of 11 lines of text on reverses with dark red initials, one-line initials in gold on blue and dark pink grounds, 2-line initials in same colours enclosing sprays of foliage on gold grounds, line-fillers in same, trimmed to edges of miniatures, scuﬀed and rubbed, with losses to gold and paint, signs of old water-staining and scuﬃng on reverses, fair condition, 92 x 65 and 92 x 75mm. £700 - 900

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35 LEAF FROM A VERY LARGE ANTIPHONER, WITH LARGE ILLUMINATED INITIAL, in Latin, manuscript on vellum, [Italy, fifteenth century], single large leaf, with text in 5 lines of liturgical script, with accompanying music in square notation on a 4-line red stave, a capital with ornately flourished penstrokes, red rubrics, one small blue initial in split bands enclosing and encased in densely packed red penwork, one very large initial ‘I’ (opening “Iam sancte clare claritas ...”, the first antiphon for Vespers for the Feast for St. Clare of Assisi; and over a third of the page in height) in blue, pink, red, green and grey acanthus leaf foliage on split gold and blue grounds with yellow and white hairline strokes overlaid, some small later marginalia showing use of parent-codex through to Early Modern period, oﬀset from patch made from a medieval manuscript cutting once pasted to lower border of verso, darkening to inner vertical border of verso, some crackling and small losses to gold, paint and ink in places, discolouration in places, small spots, holes and stains, overall in fair and presentable condition, 590 x 460mm. £800 - 1,200

34 LEAF FROM A LARGE GRADUAL, WITH LARGE INITIAL ‘D’, IN LATIN, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Italy, fifteenth century], single large leaf, with a large initial ‘D’ in soft pink, enclosing mirrored and intersecting scrolls of blue acanthus leaves, with pink and red leaves on dark pink and burnished gold, the whole initial on a blue ground, and terminating in a spray of acanthus leaves in the margin, smaller initials in tall and thin style in red or blue with contrasting penwork, red rubrics, text in 7 lines of a professional liturgical hand accompanied by music on a 4-line red stave, some washing-out of blue ground of initial, other small spots and stains, slight cockling, held in card mount with tape, else good condition, 370 x 285mm. £500 - 700

36 LEAF FROM A GRADUAL, WITH LARGE INITIAL ‘A’, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Italy, late fifteenth century], single large leaf, with a large initial ‘A’ in blue, enclosing sprays of stylised green and orange acanthus leaf foliage in its compartments, the whole initial on burnished gold grounds and with further coloured acanthus leaf sprays in margin, one line of red and blue capitals with contrasting penwork, one-line initials in same, red rubrics, 7 lines of text with music on accompanying 4-line red staves, some losses to gold and paint in places, small smudges, spots, stains and discoloured areas, else fair condition, c.355 x 270 mm. £300 - 500

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37 SUBSTANTIAL REMNANT OF A PSALTER WITH CANTICLES AND A LITANY, WITH OVER 200 HUMANS, MONKEYS, FISH, HARE, DOGS AND OTHER ANIMALS USED AS LINE-FILLERS, INITIALS AND MARGINAL ADDITIONS, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [north eastern France or adjacent Southern Netherlands, late thirteenth century], 44 leaves (plus two modern endleaves at front, and the same at back), wanting leaves at front and end, and a number of leaves throughout (restored in nineteenth-century with some leaves bound in on guards then, and thus not easily collatable, but a sense of losses possible from what remains of the Early Modern foliation: an unnumbered leaf, 29, 33, 45, 124[?], 77, 134-138, 140-141, 143, 147, 172[?], 181-183, 185, 187, an unnumbered leaf, 190203, 208-10 [including unnumbered inserted later leaf from a later manuscript Book of Hours of c. 1450], 212, where some foliation numbers have been erased, and others partly so; that foliation not used here), text in single column of 17 lines of a fine gothic bookhand, oneline initials in burnished gold on bi-coloured blue and dark pink grounds, every Psalm or Canticle opening with a 2-line initial in same colours on gold grounds (49 of these present), containing foliage (with those on fols. 1r, 4rv, 14r, 15v, 17r, 18r, 19v, and 34r, including two bearded men’s heads in cowls, a long-necked dragon biting a golden bezant with a bird perched on the initial, a rabbit on top of a lacertine animal with a beaked bird’s face, four other lacertine animals and a red faced grimacing creature in a cowl, most probably a monkey), several line-fillers per page in coloured and gold foliage, with five enclosing winged lion or demonic faces facing the viewer, 90 lacertine animals with dragon-, dog- or long-beaked bird-faces (often with these in pairs mirroring each other), 79 with startled-looking fish (again often with these in pairs), four with fish and lacertine animals facing each other, six with hares being chased by hounds or hares and hounds on their own, eleven with an animal’s mask (a few of these snapping at bezants or in two cases gulping down a fish) and a single demonic mask facing the viewer, a few nearcontemporary textual additions in the margins, some Early Modern marginalia, small losses to gold and paintwork in places, small spots and stains, a few smudges, trimmed at edges (with aﬀect to edges of initials at base and occasionally outer vertical edges), overall in fair and presentable condition, 175 x 130mm.; bound in nineteenth-century black morocco over pasteboards, gilt-tooled with floral rollstamps inside turn-ups, marbled doublures and red edges, some small scuﬀs and binding split from text-block at front of volume, in modern fitted cloth-covered case ⁂ Provenance: 1. Written and illuminated for a patron of some wealth, who appears to have lived in the vicinity of the French-Belgium border in the late thirteenth century: with local saints, Gaugeric of Cambrai and Arras and Amand of Tournai, as well as more widely worshipped regional saints, Lambert of Liège and Rumold of Malines/Mechelen, in the Litany. 2. Georgine Rocher: her ex libris in a seventeenth-century hand in lower margin of fol. 14r. A woman of this name who lived in Ille-etVilaine, and married a Rene Neveu, is recorded as living 1654-76, and may well be this owner. 3. Apparently in French-speaking trade in mid-twentieth century, with erased pencil notes on the contents in that language on back endleaf. 4. Sold in Sotheby’s, 12 July 1971, lot 49, and then resold in same rooms on 6 December 1971, lot 34, for £240, to Maggs Bros. 5. Neil L.F. Phillips, Q.C. (1924-97); sold by his estate in Sotheby’s, 6 July 2006, lot 44, to the current owner. Illumination: The layout of Psalters, primarily a text of Latin verse, lends itself well to the inclusion of a wealth of illuminated or decorated line-fillers, but the artist here has taken this to the extreme, with an enormous number of these including charming tiny depictions of animals. The animal’s masks that are gulping down fish, with the fish-tails visible as the rest of the creature slides down the animal mask’s throat, are worth especial mention. In addition to these, there are nine historiated initials remaining, containing two detailed bearded men’s heads wearing cowls, and a red-faced grimacing creature in a cowl, almost certainly a monkey. A close parallel for this entrancing abundance of animal line-fillers can be found in the ‘Moore Psalter’ (now Cambridge, University Library, Ee.iv.24: see Alison Stones, Gothic Manuscripts, 1260-1320, 2013-14, her I-9), made in Paris c. 1270, for English Use, and this abundance of decoration may well have been an individual aspect of the commission of the volume. £15,000 - 20,000

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38 THE ‘SAXE-MEININGEN PSALTER’, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [northern France or adjacent southern Netherlands, second half of the thirteenth century], 197 leaves (plus a paper endleaf at front and back), wanting some leaves (see below), but most probably complete as in Early Modern period, collation: i16, ii-v12, vi11 (last leaf a singleton), vii-ix12, x-xii16, xiii12, xiv11 (last but one leaf wanting; but without loss of text), xv12, xvi3 (uncertain, this the remainder of a quire; but text here complete), a note on p. 1 in an Early Modern hand apparently stating that the volume then had “237 leaves (the probably garbled inscription is “folio . iicxxxvii”)”, and the missing leaves most probably including a Calendar at the front and prayers and devotions at the end, these removed by the Early Modern period when what is likely to be the same Early Modern hand as before repaginated the book in Roman numerals ‘i - cciiiixxviii’ (omitting ‘x’ and ‘ciiiixxiii’) and then from there in Arabic numerals ‘289-396’ (with repetition of ‘350-359’ and omission of ‘370-379’), text in single column of 18 lines of an elegant gothic bookhand, one-line initials in gold or blue with blue or red penwork, 2-line initials in gold on blue and dark pink grounds, line-fillers in geometric shapes in same colours, eight large historiated initials in blue, dark pink or warm orange with white brushwork overlaid, enclosing figures on wide burnished gold grounds and within gold frames, some initials with opening line of text in white capitals on coloured bands, some scuffs to gold and paint in places, slight cockling throughout, small spots and stains, slightly trimmed at edges (only affecting edges of decoration on p. 289), else good condition, 164 x 113mm.; bound in early nineteenth-century roan, with lower cover scuffed, joints slightly worn and a few small cracks, and remains of an old paper label (with apparent shelfmark; the same perhaps in nineteenth-century hand on front endleaf) at foot of spine, in a half-morocco fitted case, with gilt inscriptions on spine ⁂ A FINE AND GLITTERING THIRTEENTH-CENTURY PSALTER, WITH A DISTINGUISHED GERMAN DUCAL PROVENANCE. Provenance: 1. Written and illuminated in the second half of the thirteenth century for a wealthy commissioner who lived close to the French-Belgian border, perhaps on the Southern Netherlandish side. 2. An Early Modern owner, most likely from the Protestant Low Countries, then appears to have removed the Calendar and some prayers and devotions from either end of the book, perhaps to align the book with post-Reformation Use, while preserving the Biblical text. This same owner appears to have paginated the book. 3. The private ducal library of the Dukes of Saxe-Meiningen housed in Schloss Elisabethenburg in Meiningen. The ducal library was begun by Duke Bernhard I (1649-1706), and added to by many of his successors, under whom Elisabethenburg grew to be perhaps the most important cultural centre of the region. This book has their large oval inkstamp in the bas-de-page of the first leaf (with inscription: “HERZOGLICHER S. MEININGISCHER BIBLIOTHEK”). The ducal library was split into two shortly after the accession of Duke Georg I to the throne in November 1782, with a private library retained within the palace, and a public one in the town that was open to civil servants and the educated public. The public library was looted by the Soviets in 1945, and only a few volumes from it have been recovered. Thankfully, the present book remained in the ducal private library, and passed by descent until it was sold in Christie’s on 29 November 1995 (lot 7). 4. Bought there by a private collector, who then reconsigned it to sale in the same auction house on 14 December 2022 (lot 36), where it sold to the present owner. Text: This volume comprises the entire sequence of Psalms, with Psalm 116 followed by Psalm 119-120 (here on pp. 299-301), and Psalm 117-118 (here on pp. 301-327), then continuing with Psalm 121-150; followed by the Canticles, terminating after three verses of the Benedictus (here on pp. 372-396); to this an early owner added prayers and related readings on originally blank leaves (here on pp. 286-287) in a hand of the late thirteenth or first half of the fourteenth century. Illumination: The large historiated initials here are related in style and content to the output of Paris in the decades before 1250 (see R. Branner, Manuscript Painting in Paris During the Reign of St Louis, 1977), and in facial features, emphatic black outlines and compositional patterns they compare closely to a Psalter attributed to the Parisian Soissons Workshop and datable before 1247 (now New York, Morgan Library, M.283). However, the text decoration, with its compact flourishing, boldly patterned two-line initials and the restrained extensions from the historiated initials, suggest an origin outside of Paris, perhaps even in the Southern Netherlands. Parisian models were influential in the Southern Netherlands in the period (see, for example, J. Oliver, Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liège (c.1259-1350), 1988; and A. Stones, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France, Gothic Manuscripts 1260-1320, 2013-14). The subjects of the historiated initials are: (1) p. 1, David seated and harping (accompanying Psalm 1); (2) p. 57, David seated, anointed by a standing Samuel (accompanying Psalm 26); (3) p. 93, David most probably pointing to his mouth (accompanying Psalm 38); (4) p. 128, a fool with a circular loaf of bread and crude club formed from a large stick (accompanying Psalm 52); (5) p. 162, David in the waters in the lower compartment, with God the Father appearing in the upper compartment (accompanying Psalm 68); (6) p. 205, David playing the bells (accompanying Psalm 80); (7) p. 244, David probably pointing to his eyes as God appears in the heavens above (accompanying Psalm 97); (8) p. 289, the Trinity, with God the Father and Christ seated as the Holy Spirit descends in the form of a white dove, with a long-necked dragon biting the upper part of the initial, forming the ascender of the initial with his elongated body (accompanying Psalm 109). £30,000 - 50,000 Buyer’s premium is applicable on every lot. 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39 FOUR LEAVES WITH PARTS OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW’S 1855 EPIC POEM, THE SONG OF HIAWATHA, in English verse, modern illumination and scribal work by Mary Rice Oxley, decorated manuscript on paper, [England (Shrewsbury), first half to mid-20th century], four single leaves, each with 29 lines in a fine calligraphic hand, the initial leaf opening with a large initial ‘H’ in gold inhabited by a heron, remaining lines of title and author’s name also in gold or ornamental enlarged script, each leaf with full border of foliage, bumblebees, spiderwebs, birds, a squirrel, a rabbit, busts of two native North Americans in roundels, some cracking to large gold initial, small spots and stains, else in good condition, these leaves pasted to card mount and framed together in gilt frame, each leaf 233 x 180mm. ⁂ These fine examples of modern illumination and scribal work are signed “M Rice Oxley” in pencil twice on the reverse of the frame. This little studied calligrapher and artist is often mistaken for her younger sister, Nina Margaret Rice Oxley (1888-1968), who was also an artist. However, it is more likely here that these leaves were produced by Mary Frances Muriel Rice Oxley (1887-1965), an art teacher based in Shrewsbury (for another example of her work in the same hand and style, see the single leaf sold by Dominic Winter in December 2022 and presently oﬀered by Peter Harrington). £700 - 900

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Other properties 40 MONASTIC BOOK OF HOURS, PERHAPS OF FRANCISCAN USE, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, in its contemporary binding, [south east Germany or Silesia, fourteenth century, with some leaves added in fifteenth century], 186 leaves, wanting a few leaves (partly from the rearrangement of the volume in the fifteenth century, collation: i12, ii6 (wants 2 leaves, but without apparent loss of text), iii4 (wants first leaf and a number of others), iv6 (wanting first 2 leaves, but without loss of text; last 2 leaves here fifteenth-century additions to complete the opening of Hours of Virgin), v-xviii8, xix7 (including a later singleton as sixth leaf), xx-xxiii8, xxiv7 (wants a leaf from first half of quire; the last leaf here used as an endleaf), note quires i-iii and xx-xxiv all added in fifteenth century, most quires with catchwords, main text in single column of 16 lines of an angular late gothic bookhand, capitals touched in red, red rubrics, initials in alternate red and blue (the larger ones occasionally with coloured baubles mounted within their bodies; others with penwork faces picked out in their interiors; a few 3- or 4-line initials in same colours with decorative penwork picking out foliage), two gold initials with red penwork (opening January in Calendar and the Hours of the Virgin), several important breaks in text marked with brown leather tabs fastened to edges of leaves, some contemporary marginalia from use (including bars of music), Early Modern drawings of a human head and a church on the pastedowns, and a large clumsily drawn red, green and blue stylised flowerhead in lower margin of one leaf, occasional small erased sections of text, small spots and stains, and some leaves with slight cockling, 110 x 75mm.; contemporary binding of light brown leather over bevelled wooden boards, sewn on four large double thongs, boards tooled with parallel lines forming chevrons enclosing flowerheads and small circles, single working metal clasp, some cracking at spine, but in good working order ⁂ Provenance: 1. Perhaps written and decorated for use by a Franciscan (with that saint in both the Calendar for 4 October, and the Litany, as well as St. Elizabeth of Hungary on 17 November in red in the Calendar, with her octave – she an early convert to the Franciscans, and from her canonisation in 1235 a patron saint of the Third Order of St Francis), who appears to have lived and probably travelled in south eastern Germany and Silesia (with St. Hubert for 3 November in Calendar spelt with a ‘p’ in place of the ‘b’ consistent with dialects from that region, and SS. Hedwig, patron saint of Silesia but widely worshipped through surrounding regions as well, found on 16 October in the Calendar; Wenceslaus on 28 September in the Calendar, as well as the Litany; and Stanislaus, bishop of Kraków, in the Litany). 2. A later owner then added a lengthy and scrawled inscription in German, evidently exhortational in nature and dated ‘1626’, to an originally blank page. 3. In English ownership around the mid-point of the twentieth century at least, and with an undated handwritten description of the book by the British paleographer, Arthur Jeﬀeries Collins (1893-1976), on British Museum letterheaded paper (where he served as Assistant Keeper from 1919, until 1944 when he served as Keeper of Manuscripts, a post he only gave up in 1955). Text: This charming medieval codex opens with a fifteenth-century contents list on its front pastedown, and that gives an accurate (if brief) thumbnail sketch of the texts in the book. In greater detail, it includes a Calendar, followed by a page of computistical tables; the Passion reading from John; prayers; the ‘Eight Verses of St. Bernard’, that is select Psalter readings reportedly revealed by the Devil to St. Bernard, which if recited daily, would guarantee salvation; a prayer on Christ’s seven final words on the Cross, as attributed to Bede; the Hours of the Virgin, with the apparent lesser Hours of the Virgin and the Seven Penitential Psalms followed by a Litany of Saints, inserted after None; the Hours of Passion; the Hours of the Holy Spirit; the Oﬃce of the Dead; and a final sequence of hymns and prayers including the O intemerata, the Obsecro te (in male form, with “famulo tuo”), a prayer to St. Erasmus (found in several variant forms, but here: “O sancte Erasme preciose martir et pontifex Christi …”) and the Obsecro te, angelice spiritus. £8,000 - 12,000

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41 CALENDAR, in Middle Dutch, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Netherlands (probably Utrecht or vicinity), second half of the fifteenth century], 5 leaves (originally 6, but leaf with March-April wanting; single modern endleaves at front and back), a single gathering from the front of a codex, perhaps a Missal or large Book of Hours, text in 32 lines of a professional angular late medieval bookhand, capitals touched in red, red month names and especially honoured saints, one-line initials in alternate blue and gold, evidently separated from its parent volume for some decades at least, with a German-language typed description of the contents loosely inserted and a similar inscription on last pastedown dated “30.6.70” (ie. 1970), slight cockling to initial leaves, a few spots and stains, else excellent condition, c.185 x 145 mm; bound in modern limp vellum, with protective ‘onionskin’ papers between each leaf ⁂ From a liturgical manual, most probably produced for use in the Low Countries, and perhaps within the diocese of Utrecht: with SS. Odulphus (the canon of Utrecht, d. 855) in red for 12 June, Lebuin (Frisian missionary, who died at Deventer c. 755) in red for 12 November, with his translation also in red on 25 June as in Utrecht traditions, and Willibrord, (missionary and first bishop of Utrecht) in red on 7 November; as well as other more widely worshipped regional saints, such as Lambert of Maastricht (red on 17 September) and Bavo of Ghent (red, on 1 October). £800 - 1,200

42 Guernsey.- Guille (James, Bailiff of Guernsey) AGREEMENT OF SALE RELATING TO THOMAS HENRY IN THE PARISH OF ST MICHEL DU VALLE, MENTIONING THE CHAPEL OF NOTRE DAME LESPINE AND COMMUNITY AND IN FAVOUR OF NICOLAS DE LA COURT AND JOHN ESSART JURATS, manuscript in French, on vellum, calligraphic initial “A” and 3 small calligraphic initials “I” for “Item”, several stains including large stain affecting some legibility, remains of black wax seal, small piece torn away from corner not affecting text, browned, modern framed and glazed, preserved ion a modern box, document 270 x 520mm., March 1534. ⁂ Documents of this age from Guernsey are scarce. £600 - 800

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43 Jersey.- 3 JERSEY CHARTERS, in French, single-sheet documents on vellum, charters: (i) judgement of Jean du Marescq, bailiff of Jersey (“bailly en lisle de Jersey”), in the case of Collas Beaugie and Jacques du Feu, on 15 long lines in an irregular French secretarial hand, one penwork initial, signatures of the three involved parties at foot with calligraphic flourishes, seals once attached to tags cuts horizontally from base of document (these now wanting), small scuffs and spots, old folds causing some losses of a few characters along lines and in one place a loss of small area of parchment with a few characters from uppermost line at head of document, 110 by 260mm., Jersey, 3 March 1582; (ii) confirmation of judgement of the court of the Isle of Jersey, in the case between François Amy and Thomas Falle, concerning property in the “Ruette au Nord”, 20 long lines in a small and rounded French secretarial hand, opening words in larger ornamental script, three scrawled signatures of all parties at foot of document, and part of round black wax seal (containing impression of coat-of-arms with a tree), suspended by tag cut horizontally from base of document, another tag with seal now lost, small folds and slight cockling to parchment, else excellent condition, 130 by 240mm., St. Helier, Jersey, 2 January 1618; (iii) judgement of Elie Dumarez (Elias du Marescq) and Philip de Carteret “chevalier et ... Bailly en lisle de Jersey”, in the Case of Jean le Gras and Jacques Fileul, on 14 long lines in French secretarial hand, opening words in larger ornamental hand, witnessed by parties involved at foot, remains of a single black seal on a tag cut horizontally from the foot of the document, another tag cut from same place now wanting, some folds and small areas of discolouration, 90 by 300mm., Jersey, 1 May 1635; overall in good condition, all laid down on old card mounts, Jersey, 1582, 1618 & 1635 (3). ⁂ The judge in the first document was a member of the du Marescq family, lords of Vinchelés de Bas from 1483, and after 1500 baillifs of Jersey. In addition, François Amy in the second document here is identifiable as the seigneur of Lower Castillon as well as constable and captain of Grouville, and his partner in this matter, Thomas Falle, was a member of the wealthy bourgeois family of St. Saviour, as well as most probably the same man who, in 1636, alongside his wife, Elisabeth Le Boutillier, gave a silver cup to St. Saviour’s Church. Finally, the judges in the third document are easily identifiable as Elias du Marescq, another member of this influential family and probably the son of the seigneur of La Haule and namesake who died from a gunshot wound in 1644 and is buried in S. Brelade’s Church, and Sir Philip de Carteret (d. 1693), second Baronet of St. Ouen, high bailiff of Jersey and a member of the Privy Chamber, who was knighted by Charles II, and who named his son after that king with the monarch standing as the child’s godfather. Provenance: 1. Most of the Channel Islands families here were closely intermarried throughout the Middle Ages and sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and this small archive is most probably that of a descendant of some of the parties under judgement here. 2. E.H. Dring (1863-1928), the first managing director of Quaritch, passing in turn to his son E.M. Dring (1906-1990), himself manager of Quaritch from 1960. 3. Quaritch of London; this archive passing to them in 1983 along with the vast Dring fragment collection and other charters. 4. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS. 1622, acquired in August 1992. 5. Bloomsbury Auctions, 2021. £4,000 - 6,000

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44 James II (King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1633-1701) ROYAL WARRANT SIGNED CONCERNING THE NEW FOREST ACCOUNT, D.s. “James R” at head, manuscript in English, on paper, 1p. with conjugate blank, and 2 notes signed by Laurence Hyde, first Earl of Rochester, a few tears and holes, some with repairs, margins torn with loss (aﬀecting text at times), scattered staining, approx. 350 x 230 mm., 1685.

45 William III (King of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1650–1702) ROYAL WARRANT SIGNED AUTHORISING PENSION PAYMENTS TO 24 INDIVIDUALS FROM THE RENT OF THE LOTTERIES, D.s. “William R.” at head, manuscript in English, laid down on paper, 1p., a few names in later paper laid down at lower margin, tears and repairs (some aﬀecting text at margins), light staining, approx. 180 x 350mm., 20th November 1695.

⁂ The order for payment to Sir John James of £1,599 15s. 2d., being the balance of £29,099 15s. 2d. due on the principal account of the New Forest, is signed in the margin by Sidney Godolphin (1645–1712), 1st Earl of Godolphin and later Lord High Treasurer; John Ernle (1620–1697), Chancellor of the Exchequer; Stephen Fox (1627–1716), Paymaster of the Forces; Dudley North (1641–1691), merchant, politician and economist; and Henry Frederick Thynne (1644–1705), Clerk of the Privy Council. It is further signed at the foot by Robert Howard (1626–1698), playwright and politician who supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War.

⁂ William III ruled jointly with Mary II, eldest daughter of James II, from 1689 until her death in 1694, thereafter reigning alone until 1702. He was also Prince of Orange and a committed Protestant who spent much of his reign campaigning against France and sought to secure the Protestant Hanoverian succession.

Also comprising a warrant addressed to the Lord High Treasurer, explaining that £500 remained due under the original order and could not be paid to Sir John James following the death of Charles II without further royal authority. The warrant confirms the King’s pleasure that the outstanding sum be paid and is countersigned twice at the foot by Laurence Hyde (1642–1711), 1st Earl of Rochester, statesman and writer, uncle of Queen Anne and initially a supporter of James II, before later supporting the Glorious Revolution of 1688. £500 - 700

This royal financial warrant authorises pension payments to 24 individuals from the “Rent of the Lotteries”, totalling £627 10s. 7½d. Individual payments range from £3 to £125, with Solomon Foubert receiving the largest sum. The recipients include Sir Gabriel Silvius, Susanna Leighton, Eleanor Nedham, Jane Berkeley, Katherine and Mary Armstrong, William Fanshaw, Captain John Richards, Sir Charles Slingsby, Mallet Slingsby, Elizabeth Slingsby, Colonel Edmund Ogar, Colonel Henry Hubank, Ann Duke (for herself and her children), Captain Baker, Captain Kettlebys’ grandchildren, Captain Watkinson, Anne Ashbury, Anne Collins, Mrs Ross and her three daughters, the widow Buss, Edward Duke, John Bearcroft and Dame Hunsdon. Several payments make provision for children. The warrant is countersigned by Sidney, first Earl of Godolphin (1645–1712), Sir Stephen Fox (1627–1716), and John Smith (1655/6–1723), all associated with Treasury administration. £400 - 600 46 Cookery & Medical.- [18TH CENTURY RECIPE BOOK], manuscript in several hands, 242pp., many blank, and some loose inserts, many browned and stained, some loose to rear, including domestic recipes to front section, and medical to rear, and small section on NAVAL INTEREST, including notes on “Names of the Commanders of Ships in Torbay”, naval rosters under “Lord Keith’s Fleet”, and notes on the distribution of prize money captures during the Action of 16 October 1799, original calf, boards detached and heavily rubbed, lacking spine, 8vo, c.1703-1799 £1,000 - 1,500

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48 Breviary, Latin. OFICIO DIVINO, 146 leaves, manuscript on vellum in red and black, enlarged initial in gilt for Psalm 88, corrective annotation in vernacular Spanish for Psalm 37, some surface soiling, yellowing (as often), some leaves with irregular edges or repaired, without loss, some remnants of cloth ties, bookseller’s label to rear pastedown, original calf, rebacked, brass corners pieces and embossed centre piece to covers, lacking clasps, folio, [Spain], c.18thcentury. ⁂ Containing Psalms 26 to 108 as well as 8 additional psalms included for ease of access for church services at the end of the manuscript. It is structured with the aim of sanctifying the various moments of the day; this liturgy is commonly called the Divine Oﬃce. £3,000 - 4,000 47 Anne (Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1665-1714) ROYAL WARRANT SIGNED FOR THE PROVISION OF CLOTHING FOR THE ROYAL MAUNDY, D.s. “Anne R” and William Van Huls at head, manuscript in English, on vellum, 1p., embossed paper seal (working loose) and revenue stamp, some staining and natural discolouration, approx. 500 x 360mm., 4th March 1705. ⁂ An order directing Great Wardrobe oﬃcials Rachell Thomas, William Van Huls and Charles Hodges to prepare 42 sets of clothing for poor men in connection with the Royal Maundy. The provisions include russet gowns, single-soled shoes, stockings and shirts made of Holland cloth, together with sheets, curtains and napkins. The document bears the signature of William Van Huls, Clerk of the Robes and Wardrobe, who held the post from 1700 until his death in 1722 and had previously served as private secretary to William III. £600 - 800

49 Napoleon.- Harding (H.J.), and others. THE MILITARY ACHIEVEMENTS OF NAPOLEON, EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH, ENDING 1815, COMMENCING 1767, a collector’s scrap album, with manuscript title page in inks, a watercolour portrait miniature of Napoleon, signed ‘H. Harding 1816’, an unsigned watercolour portrait of Napoleon with golden laurel wreath, and 97 hand-coloured lithographs by Jean-Baptiste Madou, from ‘Vie de Napoleon’, each trimmed to image and inset into album leaf, many with French ink inscriptions verso, some with tissue guards, one album leaf with watermark ‘B.E. & S. 1828’, occasional spotting, browning and surface dirt, contemporary green morocco, covers gilt with decorations incorporating the letter ‘N’ and eagles, spine in seven compartments, gilt, some scuﬀs and rubbing, lightly worn, folio, [circa 1820s] £600 - 800

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50 [Dupin (Lucile-Aurore)], “George Sand”. [AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF ‘VARIETIES’ A BOOK REVIEW OF AUGUSTE VACQUERIE’S LES MIETTES DE L’HISTOIRE’], manuscript in French, 14pp. on paper stubs, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AT END, a few light finger soils, contemporary ink inscription at head of p.1 in diﬀerent hand, near-contemporary dark blue morocco, gilt, very light sunning to spine, very minor rubbing to joints, 8vo, [1860s]. ⁂ In this review, George Sand critiques August Vacquerie’s Les Miettes de l’Histoire while expressing her apprehension of the characteristics of Jersey’s residents and its relationship with a fraught, post-July Revolution France. The article was published in 1863 in “La Presse”. This is important archival intervention in the modern assessment of Sand’s work, especially concerning her activity in larger literary circles and her interest in the mid-century French political atmosphere. Provenance: Sold at the William Randolph Hearst sale, Part III, in 1938. Bookplates of Alfred Heacock Whittaker and The Taft School Library (with inscription ‘Gift of Dr. Whittaker - 1953) £3,000 - 4,000

51 TOBY (THE), 6 vol., manuscript magazine in several hands, numerous pp., including a large collection of original and seemingly unrecorded satirical watercolour and broadside designs in the manner of the Cruikshank family, and some initialled ‘J.W[right]’, others by different hands, and 2 photographs, some laid down, a few tears, few ff. with loss to illustration or text, few repairs, some ff. loose or working loose, some creasing, occasional light spotting or staining, light browning, bookplates of Henry C. Taylor, original half calf, some rebacked, very occasional worming, rubbed, some wear, folio, [1863-1867]. ⁂ A magnificent manuscript magazine, presumably unpublished, probably by a dedicated amateur sharing charming and humours designs with friends and family. £3,000 - 4,000 32

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53 Calligraphic Manuscript.- Ibbs (Edith Anne, calligrapher and artist, 1863-1937) THE BREASTPLATE OF ST PATRICK, calligraphic manuscript on vellum, title and 10pp., Celtic style decorated title, initials and line fillers, original vellum, slightly yellowed, 2 green cloth ties, modern slip-case, in fine condition, 8vo, Written out & illuminated by Edith A. Ibbs, 1911. ⁂ Edith Ibbs was born in Fetcham, Surrey, in 1863, the daughter of Robert Giles Ibbs, schoolmaster. In 1881 the family was living in Selborne Place, Littlehampton, Sussex and by 1901 was living in the parish of Christ Church, Southwark, described as an artist. She illustrated books for the publisher’s Seeley & Co. and Constable & Co. £1,000 - 1,500

52 Louÿs (Pierre) UNE VOLUPTÉ NOUVELLE, manuscript, 39pp., tipped onto blank leaves, light surface marks, later burgundy morocco dated ‘1927’ to rear turn-in, spine lettered in gilt, 4to, [Paris], [Librairie Borel], [1899]. ⁂ This manuscript is a fine example of Louÿs use of classical themes in his erotic works. Here, he playfully imagines the reawakening of an ancient nymph hundreds of years later to discover what new pleasure and vices are no longer banned. The work was originally published in 1899 and then later, in 1929, an illustrated edition was issued. £2,000 - 3,000

54 Nobel Prize winners.- GOOD COLLECTION OF C.78 AUTOGRAPHS OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS (MOSTLY PHYSICS AND PEACE), some signed photographs, others with accompanying photographs or envelopes (many addressed to Holger Kempe, presumably the compiler), assembled in a loose sleeve lever-arch file with identification of the signatures by captions in German, most 1960s-1980s. ⁂ Subjects include: Paul Dirac (Physics, 1966); Robert Hofstadter (Physics, 1961); Hideki Yukawa (Physics, 1949); Kai Siegbahn (Physics, 1981); Charles H. Townes (Physics, 1964); George Wald (Medicine, 1967); Dorothy Hodgkin (Chemistry, 1964); Schimon Peres (Peace, 1984); Menachem Begin (Peace, 1978); Adolfo Perez Esquivel (Peace, 1980); Lech Walensa (Peace, 1983); Elie Wiesel (Peace, 1986); Norman Borlaug (Peace, 1970); Shirin Ebadi (2003) and Henry Kissinger (Peace, 1973) £1,000 - 1,500 53 Buyer’s premium is applicable on every lot. Please note any symbols for additional charges that may apply. All symbols, fees, charges and applicable VAT are explained on p.4

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55 Rome.- Florus (Lucius Annaeus) EPITOMAE RERUM ROMANARUM; JORDANUS OSNABRUGENSIS DE PREROGATIVA ROMANI IMPERII; ALEXANDER DE ROES MEMORIALE DE PRAEROGATIVA ROMANI IMPERII, collation: [a-c10], double column, 29 ff. (of 30, lacking final blank), 46 lines, Gothic type, four-line incipit printed in red, initials in red or blue, initial-strokes in red, fol.1 & 25 with marginal decoration in blue, a few ff. with remains of / small stain from paper tab to outer margin, some water-staining / staining and spotting or foxing, mostly marginal, lightly browned (first f. a little heavier), 19th century navy blue morocco by Aitken, gilt, spine in compartments richly so, a few scuffs, rubbed, g.e., small folio (281 x 201mm.), [Cologne], [Arnold Ther Hoernen], [c.1474]. ⁂ Rare copy at auction of this brief history of Rome, from its foundation to the closing of the temple of Janus by Augustus in 25 BC. Provenance: Frederick Sergent (engraved armorial bookplate & ink presentation inscription dated April 1852); presented by him to the Malta Protestant College (blind-stamp to front free endpaper and upper margin of fol.1 & ink inscription ‘M.P.C. Library 1853’ to front free endpaper). Literature: BMC I, 202; Goff F-233; GW 10094; Bod-Inc F-077; BSBInk F-168.050; ISTC if00233000. £2,000 - 3,000

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56 Roman emperors & their rivals.- SCRIPTORES HISTORIAE AUGUSTAE, [edited by Bonus Accursius], part 2 only (of 3), collation: [A6 B-R8 S10], 143 ﬀ. (of 144, lacking final blank), 40 lines, Roman type, initial spaces with guide-letters, first f. of text with gilt initial ‘O’ with white vine stem decoration on a coloured ground, and an unidentified coat of arms in various colours at foot with the initials ‘ZA AN’ in gilt on either side (little trimmed at foot), ruled in red throughout at a later date, signature-marks cropped, some spotting or staining, lightly browned, 18th century green crushed morocco gilt (a bookseller’s description mounted on front pastedown suggests it is by Derome), spine darkened, stained, rubbed, g.e., small folio (298 x 218mm.), [Milan], [Philippus de Lavagnia], 22 December, 1475. ⁂ The handsomely printed editio princeps of the second part of the Historia Augusta; a chronological compilation of historical biographies. Here we have the lives of the emperors and rival claimants for the turbulent years of 117 to 284; from Hadrian to Diocletian. Provenance: ‘Collated & Perfect, Sept 27/[18]64, WHH’ (pencil note to rear free endpaper); ‘Lord Monson’ (small typed paper label to foot of rear free endpaper). Literature: BMC VI, 702; Goﬀ S-340; HC 14561*; GW M44203; Bod-inc S-117; BSB-Ink S-229; ISTC is00340000. £2,000 - 3,000

57 Cicero.- Asconius Pedianus (Quintus) COMMENTARII IN ORATIONES CICERONIS [AND OTHER RELATED WORKS], edited by Hieronymus Squarzaficus, collation: a10 b6 c–g8 a8 b10 c8 d6 a-d10.8 e8 f6 g–l8 m6, 184 ﬀ., 35-36 lines, Roman type, initial spaces with guide-letters, 3a1 blank, early manuscript foliation, some spotting or staining (including occasional ink), lightly browned, 18th century calf, gilt, spine in compartments and with burgundy morocco label (little chipped), joints split, but holding, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed and marked, small folio (274 x 192mm.), Venice, Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, [between 2 June and 12 September 1477]. ⁂ First edition of Asconius Pedianus’ commentary on Cicero’s orations. The text of this first-century commentary came to light in 1416 among a number of important ancient manuscripts discovered by Poggio Bracciolini at the monastic library of St. Gall. Provenance: Carlo Botigelli (Franciscan monk, cancelled ink inscription to 1a2r); Marcus Antonius Rovilius (inscription to blank 1a1r dated Milan, 1570 & manuscript list of chapter headings); ?Gerard (1722–1771) & Johan Meerman (1753–1815), Dutch scholars, statesmen and renowned book collectors (manuscript pencil note ‘This copy sold at the Meerman sale for 12 guineas’ to front free endpaper and printed bookseller’s description recording the provenance mounted on front pastedown). Literature: BMC V, 232; Goﬀ A-1154; HC *1886; GW 2739; Bod-inc A-463; BSBInk A-791; ISTC ia01154000. £2,500 - 3,500

58 Gellius (Aulus) NOCTES ATTICAE, fourth edition, collation: a10 b-x8 yz6 AB8, 198 ff., 36 lines, Roman and Greek type, a1 blank, initials, paragraphmarks and initial-strokes in red (often offsetting or smudging), AB8 (table of chapter headings) bound at start, spotting (or occasional foxing) and staining, lightly browned, 18th century red panelled morocco, gilt, spine in compartments richly so, joints split, but holding firm, spine ends, ends of raised bands and corners worn, rubbed, folio (307 x 205mm.), Venice, Andreas de Paltasichis, 1477. ⁂ ‘an attractive edition based on other manuscripts than the three preceding editions, and more correct’ (Brunet 1523). Noctes Atticae consists of short chapters on a variety of subjects, including philosophy, history, law, literature and grammar. Some earlier Latin and Greek works are only known through Gellius’ extensive quotations. It is the source for the fable of Androcles, often attributed to Aesop. Literature: BMC V, 251; Goff G-121; HC *7520; GW 10596; Bod-inc G-057; BSB-Ink G-64; ISTC ig00121000. £4,000 - 6,000 Buyer’s premium is applicable on every lot. Please note any symbols for additional charges that may apply. All symbols, fees, charges and applicable VAT are explained on p.4

Other properties 59 Bible, Latin. [BIBLIA LATINA CUM POSTILLIS NICOLAI DE LYRA], New Testament only, collation: Ee-Pp10 Qq8 Rr-Vv10 Xx8 Yy6 Zz-Ccc10 Ddd12 Eee10 Fff8 1-410 512 6-1210 13-148 , 385ff. (lacking blank Ee1), 66 lines of double-column commentary in a smaller font surrounding text, initials in red and blue, many with marginal flourishes, paragraphmarks in red, printer’s device in red on final leaf, inscription ‘dominus meus’ on 3B10v in gold, some marginal repairs at beginning and end, a few worm-holes slightly affecting text, some foxing and water-staining, a few headlines shaved, pencil annotations to endpapers, later blind-stamped calf, upper joint repaired, lower joint cracked, a little rubbed, g.e., folio (286 x 200mm.), Venice, [Johannes Herbort, de Seligenstadt] for Johannes de Colonia, Nicolaus Jenson et Socii, 31 July, 1481. ⁂ Textually complete New Testament from Jenson’s impressive Bible, the first Vulgate edition with the extensive commentary of Nicolaus de Lyra. It also includes Lyra’s tract against the Jews, William Brito’s expositions of St. Jerome’s prologues, Paul of Burgos’s additions, Matthias Doering’s replications, and Francis of Moneglia’s supplements. Provenance: Wesleyan Theological Institution Library Southern Branch (bookplate); card pasted beneath with inscription “Presented by the Rev Charles Cook D.D. in the year 1834; and bound at the expense of W.W. Pocock Esq., 1878.”. Literature: BMC V, 301; Goff B-611; HC 3164*; GW 4286; Bod-Inc B-317; BSB-Ink B444; ISTC ib00611000. £1,500 - 2,000

60 Bonfire of Vanities.- Benivieni (Girolamo) CANZONI E SONETTI DELL’AMORE E DELLA BELLEZZA DIVINA, CON COMMENTO, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, collation: [π]4 a-n8 o6 oo10 p8 q10 r-s6, 152ff., 44-45 lines, roman type, guide spaces for initials, line markings and marginal notes in contemporary hand(?s), mainly to first half, small paper repairs to corners first 2ff., occasional stains and foxing, endpapers renewed with slip tipped-in bearing ink notes in modern hand, contemporary calf over wooden boards, tooled in blind, rebacked, a corner repaired others boards exposed, spine head chipped, some worming and ?damp-stain to lower cover, brass clasps leather renewed, (folio 281 x 203mm.), Florence, Antonio Tubini, Lorenzo d’ Alopa, Venetus Ghirlandi, and Andrea Ghirlandi, 1500. ⁂ CONTAINING THE FIRST PRINTED EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT OF SAVONAROLA’S BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES. First edition, first issue, of Benivieni’s Neoplatonic verse summary of the ‘Libro dello amore’, a commentary on Plato’s ‘Symposium’, published in the wake of Savonarola’s tumultuous years of reform in Florence. Humanist Benivieni, along with Tubini, Alopa and Ghirlandi (the printers), were all ardent supporters of Savonarola’s thought, with for example, Benivieni having translated Savonarola’s ‘De Simplicitate’ in 1496. Here, across 2ff. (oo6-7), Benivieni describes the famous, dramatic public burning of the city’s ‘lascivious, vain and detestable objects’, known as the Bonfire of the Vanities, held in the Piazza della Signoria during the Carnival on 7 February 1497, offering a detailed list including paintings, musical instruments, feminine ornaments, dice, cards, and other such works of Satan. The edition is known in two variants: this copy appears as the first issue with colophon dated 7 September, and lines 24-25 of the table on [π]3r. Provenance: from the Certosa at Casotto (1172-1802), near Cuneo, in Piedmont (ownership inscription on the title-page, ‘Cartusia Casularum mihi a M. de ducibus donato’; and several other old ownership inscriptions to the title and front endpaper; Leo S. Olschki (1861-1940; pencilled note on the recto of the front free endpaper, ‘L. S. Olschki. Firenze, 30 Ag. 1917, £120.00’; see Monumenta typographica. Cat. liii, Florence 1903, no. 1805; Giuseppe Martini (1870-1944; his collation and bibliographical notes on the front pastedown). Literature: BMC VI, 693; Goff B-328; GW 3850; ISTC ib00328000 £4,000 - 6,000

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61 Plinius Secundus (Gaius) DE LI HOMINI ILLUSTRI, IN LINGUA SENESE TRADUCTO ET BREVEMENTE COMMENTATO, FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN, collation: A-N8 complete with full-page Nardi she-wolf woodcut on verso of errata leaf at end, woodcut diagrams and initials, WOODCUT PRIMITIVE WORLD MAP on L8r, foxing and some staining, small hole to L4 with slight loss of text, fore-margin of first few leaves repaired, a few early ink annotations, later vellum, slight worming, later endpapers, 4to in 8s, (205 x 136mm.), Siena, Simone Nardi, 30 March, 1506. ⁂ First edition in Italian of De viris illustribus urbis Romae, a collection of biographies of Roman notables attributed to Pliny the Younger. The woodcut world map is modeled on the celebrated map of the Medieval world which first appeared in the edition of Macrobius’ In somnium Scipionis expositio printed in Brescia in 1483 (see Shirley 13). Literature: Mortimer Italian 534; Sander 5767; EDIT 16 CNCE 16247.

62 Canon Law.- [Lyndwood (William, editor)] PROVINCIALE SEU CONSTITUTIONES ANGLIE CUM SUMMARIIS ATQUE ANNOTATIONIBUS; CUM INTERPRETATIONE, 2 parts in 1 vol., collation: A–C⁶, a–g⁸, h–x8.6, y8, z⁸, [con]¹⁰; † - ††6, A-I8 K6, titles and text printed in red and black with woodcut vignettes, text in double column in gothic letter, woodcut illustrations (some full-page), occasional ink marginalia, lacking Y45 & final blank K6, small worm trail changing to singular worm hole title-B4 (slightly affecting text), title with a few neat repairs to verso, marginal toning and some stains and spots, a few small nicks or marginal tears, modern half calf, corners and spine ends lightly bumped, large 4to (245 x 330 mm), Paris [London], [Printed by Wolfgang Hopyl for William Bretton], 1505 [1506]. ⁂ The second work is titled Constitutiones Legatine seu Constitutiones Legitime Anglicane. Literature: Adams L2116, L2114. £2,000 - 2,500

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63 Sammelband of Roman imprints.- Vipera (Giovanni Mercurio) DE DIVINO ET VERO NUMINEAPOLOGETICON, collation: a-b4 c6 a-d4 a-b4 c6 a-c4 a-b4 c6 a-f4, 6 parts, each with separate signature and title within fine woodcut border, [Rome], n.p., [1515]; BOUND WITH De disciplinarum virtutumque Laudibus opusculum, collation: A-T4, splendid woodcut title border from the celebrated Tuppo Aesop (Naples, 1485), representing one of the triumphs of Hercules, [Rome, Etienne Guilleret, 14 September 1515]; BOUND WITH Orationes, collation: A-H4, [Rome, Etienne Guilleret & Ercole Nani, 30 September 1514]; BOUND WITH Oratio [de justiciae laudibus], 4 leaves, title within a beautiful portico, on white ground, two rounded pillars at sides and long tassels hanging down from a flat-topped entablature, [Rome, Johannes Beplin, c. 1513], together 4 works in 1, ruled in red throughout, near contemporary brown calf of probably Spanish workmanship, on sides the gilt arms with the Roman figures “XVI” and the initials “CJ”, slightly rubbed and rebacked, 4to (198 x 130mm.) ⁂ Rare collection of works by Vipera of Benevento, a learned man who was for many years auditor at the Papal Court. He was slain by a plundering soldier in the infamous Sack of Rome in 1527. Literature: Adams V-843 and 847 (works 2 and 4); Isaacs 12088 and 12159 (works 3 and 4); Mortimer Italian 542 (second work); Sander 7629, 7631, and 7635 (works 1, 2 and 4). Provenance: early illegible signature on upper margin of first title, early manuscript index on front flyleaf of the volume; from the Sunderland Library (sale, 1 December 1881, item 13036); Charles Butler (bookplate); acquired from Lathrop C. Harper, 1973; Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow (bookplate). £2,000 - 3,000

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64 Dante Alighieri and others. SONETTI E CANZONI DI DIVERSI ANTICHI AUTORI TOSCANI IN DIECI LIBRI RACCOLTE, FIRST EDITION, collation: AA4, a-s8, t4 complete, woodcut device on title repeated on verso of final leaf, some foxing, later half vellum over marbled boards, spine gilt, 8vo (162 x 100mm.), Florence, heirs of Filippo Giunta, 1527. ⁂ The rare first appearance of Dante’s Vita nova, included in this remarkable collection known as the ‘Giuntina di rime antiche’, the first anthology in print which contains Dante’s Canzoniere along with lyrics composed by poets of the Dolce Stil Novo tradition: Tuscan authors, works from the Sicilian and Bolognese Schools. Edited by Bardo di Antonio Segni, member of a distinguished Florentine family, this anthology is an authentic monument to Italian vernacular poetry. The first four books of this edition are entirely devoted to Dante, and contain, for the first time, his complete poems apart from the Commedia, including the text of Vita Nuova, which was only published in its complete form in 1576. Literature: Adams T1213; STC Italian 687; Gamba 206; EDIT 16 CNCE 28787. £1,500 - 2,000

65 Homer. [THE ILIAD], text in Greek, collation: A-Z8, 2A-2M8 , title within woodcut border and woodcut printer's device to colophon (some areas of hand-colouring), some ink marginalia and annotations, largely to title and early ﬀ. by a contemporary hand, marginal small hole to C1 and a couple of small nicks to title and elsewhere, occasional light marginal water-staining and a few odd spots and soiling, upper hinge cracked and reinforced, else rather clean and bright, contemporary blind-stamped pig-skin over wooden boards dated 1548, upper cover with personifications of 2 of the cardinal virtues (prudence and justice) & Lucretia (personification of chastity and marital fidelity), lacking clasps, upper joint with small split at foot, bumped with a few marks, small 8vo (approx. 100 x 160 mm), [Strasbourg], Wolfgang Köpfel, 1542. ⁂ Literature: Adams H747 (Iliad only). £600 - 800

66 Caro (Annibale) APOLOGIA DE GLI ACADEMICI DI BANCHI DI ROMA, FIRST EDITION, PRINTED ON BLUE PAPER, collation A-Z a-i4 k6 l-m4 engraved title-vignette, woodcut initials and decorations, some browning and staining, 18th century mottled half calf over decorative boards, slight worming to spine, 4to (209 x 148mm.), Parma, Seth Viotto, 1558. ⁂ A gift from the author to his friend the writer Marco Antonio Piccolomini (1504-1579) with the latter’s inscription on the title-page: ‘Di M. Anto piccolomini & degli Amici mdlviii Dono dell’Autore’. Additionally, on the verso of the front flyleaf is a sonnet by Giacomo Marmitta, unpublished at the time and written in Piccolomini’s own hand, dedicated to ‘Comendador Caro’ togather with ink marginalia by Piccolomini on fols. F4v and k6v. One of the great literary quarrels of the Renaissance, the dispute centring on the poem Venite all’ombra de’ gran Gigli d’oro (‘Come to the shade of the great golden lilies’), which had been commissioned by Alessandro Farnese and which Caro had composed in praise of the French monarchy. The poem was harshly criticized by philologian Ludovico Castelvetro (1505-1571). Caro replied to Castelvetro’s criticism with his Apologia, which ends with a Corona of nine injurious sonnets through which Caro comes to accuse Castelvetro of having murdered Alberico Longo, Caro’s advocate in this impassioned quarrel. Only one other blue-paper copy is known, held at the Biblioteca Palatina in Parma. Literature: Adams C-739; Gamba 276. £7,000 - 10,000 Buyer’s premium is applicable on every lot. Please note any symbols for additional charges that may apply. All symbols, fees, charges and applicable VAT are explained on p.4

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67 Ptolomaeus (Claudius) GEOGRAPHIA, FIRST EDITION OF GIUSEPPE MOLETI’S LATIN RE-TRANSLATION OF PTOLEMY, BASED ON THAT OF BILIBALD PIRCKHEIMER OF 1525, collation: *4 A-O4 A-S8 [64 d-p maps with text to versos], A-H4, complete with blank leaf S8, title with woodcut device, woodcut diagrams, illustrations and initials, 64 double-page engraved maps after Giacomo Gastaldi, a few slightly shaved touching platemark at upper edge, some light water-staining, later blind-stamped calf, clasps, slightly rubbed, 4to (228 x 158mm.), Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1562.

69 Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio. VITA NUOVA...[&] ORIGINE, VITA, STUDII..., 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, collation: *4, A-G8, H4, A-E8 , titles with woodcut printer's devices, bookplate to title verso and front pastedown, occasional ink marginalia and annotations, scattered spotting and staining, a few corners with tears and loss (not aﬀecting text), light cracking at gutter, later patterned-paper boards, spine browned with some loss to spine ends, rubbed and bumped with a few stains or marks, small 8vo (approx. 100 x 160 mm), Florence, Bartolomeo Sermartelli, 1576.

⁂ Provenance: Jo. Batty (from the monastery at Randa in Majorca, ink inscription at foot of title), beneath another half-erased inscription.

Literature: EDIT 16 CNCE 1176. £4,000 - 6,000

Literature: Edit16 38139; Sabin 66489; Adams P-2231. £3,000 - 4,000 68 Reisner (Adam) JERUSALEM, VETUSTISSIMA ILA ET CELEBERRIMA TOTIUS MUNDI CIVITAS..., collation: A6, A-Z6, a-z6, Aa-Hh6, Ii4, Kk6, double-page woodcut map (glued to C1 at gutter), woodcut illustrations, title restored at gutter and with 2 ink ownership inscriptions of which 1 partially removed with slight abrasions, few wormholes to first few ﬀ., light browning and foxing, 17th-century calf, rebacked preserving original backstrip, blind-stamped to corners of covers, rubbed, folio (approx. 300 x 180 mm), Frankfurt, Georg Rab, Sigmund Feyerabend, and heirs of Weigand Han, 1563. ⁂ An illustrated history of Jerusalem, it’s geography, commentary and history. Particularly interesting are the views of the city showing its walls, gates, buildings and surrounding hills. This is considered one of Reisner’s most important works, in which he describes the city of Jerusalem in detail, with all its holy landmarks. Literature: Not in Atabey; Adams R340; VD16 R1058. £3,000 - 4,000

70 Florence’s Fine Arts.- Borghini (Raﬀaello) IL RIPOSO DI RAFFAELLO BORGHINI IN CUI DELLA PITTURA, E DELLA SCULTURA SI FAUELLA, DE’ PIU ILLUSTRI PITTORI, E SCULTORI, E DELLE PIU FAMOSE OPERE LORO SI FA MENTIONE, FIRST EDITION, collation: *-***8 A-Z Aa-Rr8 Ss4, title with large woodcut printer’s device, ***8 errata f., *2v full-page oval woodcut (trimmed at fore-edge within border), some early underlining and occasional marginalia, foxed, some staining, lightly browned, 19th century vellum, spine gilt and with orange (faded) and black leather labels, both rubbed, 8vo (159 x 97mm.), Florence, Giorgio Marescotti, 1584. ⁂ First edition of this important source for late sixteeenth-century Florentine art. It takes the form of a dialogue set in a villa near Florence called ‘Il Riposo’. It describes in great detail the works of art in Florentine houses and churches and the society of Florentine art collectors. Provenance: ‘MAB’, ?Marcantonio Bellavia, painter and engraver active in Rome in the 17th century (cf. Nagler ‘Die Monogrammisten’ IV, 1549) (manuscript monogram to foot of title); Thomas Vroom, sold his sale, Paris, November, 2019 (bookplate). Literature: Adams B2495; Cicognara 2217; Gamba 241; EDIT 16 CNCE 7120. £400 - 600

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72 Bound in the arms of the dedicatee.- Palazzuolo (Cesare) IL SOLDATO DI SANTA CHIESA, FIRST EDITION, title with woodcut arms of the dedicatee Francesco Borghese, woodcut initials and tail-pieces, light foxing, some tiny worming to gutter head (not aﬀecting text), contemporary vellum, COVERS WITH CENTRAL GILT ARMS OF FRANCESCO BORGHESE, heraldic dragon and eagle tooled in gilt to each corner, double gilt fillet border, flat spine gilt-tooled with alternating dragons and eagles, lacking ties, shallow chip to spine head, lower cover with a few very small gouges and small stain to fore-edge, some very small spots, toned, g.e., small 4to, Rome, Luigi Zannetti, 1606. ⁂ Bound in the arms of Francesco Borghese (1556-1620), brother of Pope Paul V. Paul V vigorously fought for the development and reinforcement of the papal army, naming his brother Francesco as general. Palazzuolo, Generale collaterale or general inspector for the papal armed forces, was commissioned to write the present work detailing both his reforms and their theoretical justification. The handsome gilt-tooled vellum binding was executed, as the tooling clearly attests, in the most renowned and sought-after workshop then active in Rome, that run by the Soresini binders, who worked for the papal court as well as other high-profile clients from the 1590s to ca. 1630 £600 - 800

71 Beards.- Olmo (Marc Antonio) PHYSIOLOGIA BARBAE HUMANAE, FIRST EDITION, title in red and black with woodcut device, woodcut illustration on Y1r, short tear in 2I1, some light browning, scattered spotting and marginal damp-staining, a few faint creases towards end, without sig.K appendix as usual, contemporary limp vellum, upper hinge torn at head, spine with contemporary ms title, [Bruni-Evans 3713 ;Krivatsy 8425], folio, Bologna, Giovanni Batista Bellagamba, 1601. ⁂ One of the earliest works on the physiology of human beards. £800 - 1,200

73 Naval & Maritime.- Crescenzi (Bartolomeo) NAUTICA MEDITERRANEA, 2 parts in 1, second edition, engraved title, folding map, 3 folding plates, 2 volvelles on p.344 and 414, numerous engraved and woodcut illustrations and diagrams, a few full-page, map with few small splits, neat repairs to verso slightly aﬀecting image but neatly supplied in manuscript, Y3-4 bound before Y1-2, occasional marginal worming, light foxing and staining, contemporary vellum, spine with title in manuscript and darkened, a few wormholes to joints and backstrip, a little soiled, rubbed, [OPAC SBN 034969], 4to, Rome, Bartolomeo Bonfadino, 1607. ⁂ AN EXTRAORDINARY NAUTICAL WORK WITH THE RARE MAP, including scientific and technical observations, ship-building, mapping and warfare, based on the author’s long series of travels in the Mediterranean. It was one of the first works to attempt the correction of navigational maps to account for magnetic declination. The work was first printed in 1602 and reissued in the present edition with just the date on the title being changed. The portolan map, often missing from copies of the work, is dated 1596. Some copies call for 4 plates because one of the volvelles hasn’t been cut out and is therefore counted as a plate. Portolan charts originated in the 13th century as navigational aids for sailors in the Mediterranean, and are characterised by rhumb lines, which radiate in the direction of wind or compass points to aid in laying courses between diﬀerent places on the chart. Crescenzi states in this publication that, ‘he has personally experienced the errors in traditional charts [caused by magnetic declination across the Mediterranean] thanks to his period as a hydrographer on the galleys of the Papal fleet (from 1588 to 1593) and other voyages made as a passenger and observer in the period 1594-95. Crescenzio argues that magnetic declination was zero in the Azores and rose gradually and uniformly from Gibralter to the eastern Mediterranean... He proposes to correct this by rotating the axis eight degrees clockwise around the Azores as fixed center... The work is accompanied by a printed nautical chart, which dates from 1596 but is the result of the application of the theories subsequently outlined in detail within the 1602 publication itself’ (Astengo, ‘The Renaissance Chart Tradition in the Mediterranean’, The History of Cartography, volume 3, pp. 196-197). £15,000 - 20,000

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74 Menz (Balthasar) ITINERA SEX A DIVERSIS SAXONIAE DUCIBUS ET ELECTORIBUS, diversis temporibus in Italiam omnia, tria etiam in Palaestinam..., FIRST EDITION, title within typographical border with woodcut portrait to verso, a few other woodcuts, with final blank preliminary leaf, Wittenberg, W.Meisner at the expense of C.Berger, 1612 BOUND WITH Matenesius (Johan Friedrich) Critices Christianae libri duo de ritu bibendi super sanitate, pontificum, caesarum, principum, ducum..., FIRST EDITION, title with woodcut device, with final blank but lacking folding plate (as usual), tear to inner margin of A1, a few ink annotations and underlinings, Cologne, C.Butgen, 1611; De luxu et abusu vestium nostri temporis, FIRST EDITION, title with woodcut device, final blank, Cologne, J.Crith, 1612 AND Vida (Marco Girolamo) Schachia...ludus ingenii..., edited by Lucas Wielius, title with woodcut vignette, large folding sheet with chessboard (short tears to inner edge), Strasbourg, P.Ledertz, [1604], together 4 works in 1 vol., some browning, contemporary manuscript index to front free endpaper, contemporary vellum, upper cover with “MNHL 1613” in blind, spine titled in manuscript (faded), lightly soiled, 8vo ⁂ A sammelband of interesting works: I. An account of Saxon Dukes and Princes and their tours of Palestine and Rome, including descriptions of Jerusalem and Rome; II. On alcohol, its use in various religions and therapeutic values; III. On luxury and its abuses, especially relating to the wardrobes of the wealthy and clergy; IV. Early and popular work on chess. £1,000 - 1,500

75 Persian Literature.- Sa’di (Abu ‘Abd Allah Musharrif al-Di) ROSARIUM POLITICUM, SIVE AMOENUM SORTIS HUMANÆ THEATRUM, translated by Georgius Gentius, text in Persian and Latin on facing pages, woodcut printer’s device on title and initials, lacking final blank, title with ink markings and small rust-hole, light soiling to first and final f., some restoration to gutter to first few ﬀ., ink annotation to foot of 3F3-4, first 2 gathering proud and working loose, few very minor wormholes to margins, water-staining at head, some light spotting, modern green half morocco, spine lightly browned, [STCN 089524616], folio, Amsterdam, Joannis Blaeu, 1651. ⁂ First complete edition of Sa'di's Gulistān or ‘Rose-garden’ of 1258, a popular work throughout the Ottoman and Mughal empires, and in Europe from the 17th century onwards. André Du Ryer had published a partial French translation in 1634, but the present edition, prepared by the German orientalist Georgius Gentius, prints the complete text in the original Persian together with Gentius’s Latin translation. £2,000 - 3,000

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77 Junius (Franciscus) QUATUOR D. N. JESU CHRISTI EUANGELIORUM.... GOTHICA SCIL. ET ANGLO-SAXONICA, collation: +2, *-**4- A-Z4 , Aa - Zz4, Aaa-Zzz4, Aaaa-Bbbb4, *-***4, A-Z4, Aa - Zz4, Aaa-Hhh4, text in two columns in Gothic and Anglo-Saxon, illustrated title, previous owners inscriptions, bookplate staining and spotting, hinges a little tender, half calf-backed paper covered boards, raised bands, spine and titles gilt, scuﬃng to leather and boards, short tear at crown, edgwear, 4to, Dordrecht, Typis & sumptibus Junianis, 1665. £750 - 1,000

76 Cervantès Saavedra (Miguel de) VIDA Y HECHOS DEL INGENIOSO CAVALLERO DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA, 2 vol., FIRST ILLUSTRATED SPANISH EDITION, additional engraved titles and 16 plates attributed to Frederik Bouttats, some light foxing and toning, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original gilt spines, corners repaired, a little rubbed, 8vo, Brussels, Juan Monmarte, 1662. ⁂ An extremely rare and important edition of this masterpiece of world literature: the first illustrated edition in Spanish, and the second edition in any language – following the Dutch translation published in Dordrecht in 1657 – to feature illustrations. This is the first edition with the new title Vida y hechos, and one of the most important editions in the history of Cervantes’ novel. Frederick Bouttats was an artist active in Antwerp from 1643-76. The illustrations are for the most part copied from the figures drawn by Jacques Savery for the 1657 Dordrecht edition. The text follows the 1637 edition for the first part, and the Madrid 1615 and Valencia 1616 editions for the second part.

78 Gulnazar (Nahapet) PARZABANUTIWN HOGENVAG SAGHMOSATSN DAVTI MARGAREIN (ILLUSTRATION OF THE MELODIUS PSALMS OF PROPHET DAVID), text in Armenian, 10 woodcuts, decorative initials and hand illustrated margins, owners notations to endpapers, toning, spotting, staining, contemporary stamped black leather, corners bumped, creasing and small cracks to leather, drop-back box lettered in gilt, 8vo, Venice, 1687.

Literature: Palau 51993; Rius 20.

⁂ An attractive and important early Armenian book.

£4,000 - 6,000

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80 Vallisneri (Antonio) LEZIONE ACCADEMICA INTORNO ALL’ORIGINE DELLE FONTANE…, FIRST EDITION, DEDICATION COPY TO FRANCESCO CANALE, one folding engraved plate, front free endpaper trimmed at fore-edge, near contempotary boards, light spotting to backstrip and edges, [Garrison & Morton 302; Pritzel 9675], 4to, Venice, Giovanni Gabriello Ertz, 1715. ⁂ Provenance: Given as a gift by the author to Francesco Canale (1663-1742), with autograph dedication to title, ‘Al Sig:r d. Canale l’Autore in segno d’una distin.ma stima’. £1,200 - 1,800 81 Bandini (Angelo Maria) CATALOGUS CODICUM MANUSCRIPTORUM BIBLIOTHECAE MEDICEAE LAURENTIANAE VARIA CONTINENS OPERA GRAECORUM PATRUM, 3 vol., titles in red and black, vol.1 with engraved title-vignette and portrait frontispiece, engraved plates, some folding, and decorations, old red ink stamp to titles, contemporary vellum, vol.1 not uniform with others, extremities a little worn, folio, Florence, Typis Caesareis, 1764-70. ⁂ The splendidly printed catalogue of Greek manuscripts preserved in the Laurentian library, formed by successive generations of the Medici family. Bandini received his education among the Jesuits and showed special interest for the study of antiquities. A further 5 volumes covering the Latin manuscripts was published 1774-78 and a further 3 volumes between 1791 and 1793. £2,000 - 3,000

82 Judaica.- Hakadosh (Alshich) SEFER TORAT MOSHE, 2 parts in 1 vol., text in Hebrew, previous owner’s ink-stamp and ink signatures to title, occasional light spotting, bookplate of Solomon B. Freehof, twentiethcentury cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, [Amsterdam], [1777]. £800 - 1,200

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83 Cañes (Francisco) DICCIONARIO ESPAÑOL. LATINO-ARABIGO, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, text in double columns, half-titles, errata f., 4 large engraved headpieces by Fernando Selma after Josef Camaron, occasional light browning to vol.3, occasional light staining, light worming to margins, ink inscription to free endpapers, contemporary calf, gilt spines with red and green morocco labels, labels a little chipped, a few worm holes, light rubbing, folio, Madrid, by Don Antonio Sancha, 1787. ⁂ An early dictionary with the intended use for the missionaries in Africa and the Middle East, interestingly, it focuses on colloquial rather than classical Arabic. £1,500 - 2,000 84 Bodoni.- Dante Alighieri. LA DIVINA COMMEDIA, 3 vol., contemporary half sheep over decorative boards, red and green morocco spine labels, joints rubbed and those on vol.1 split, [Brooks 654 “Edizione bella”], folio, Parma, Bodoni, 1796. £1,000 - 1,500

85 Flaubert (Gustave) SALAMMBÔ, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO MARIO UCHARD, half-title with advertisement for new edition of Madam Bovary verso, ‘Table’ f. at end, spotted, some foxing (occasionally heavy, see pp.96-100, for example), original yellow printed wrappers bound in, 20th century dark brown half crushed moroco, spine gilt, spine little faded, little rubbed and marked, [Carteret, I, 266; Vicaire III, 724; Dumesnil, pp. 75-96], 8vo, Paris, Michel Lévy Brothers, 1863. ⁂ The inscription to half-title reads ‘à mon ami Mario Uchard, Gustave Flaubert’. Uchard (1824-1893), French stockbroker turned novelist and playwright, friend of Flaubert. With ‘eﬀraya’ on p.5 and ‘Scissites’ on pp.80, 251, 368 and 370. £3,000 - 4,000

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ENGLISH LITERATURE AND HISTORY 87 Sleidanus (Johannes) A FAMOUSE CRONICLE OF OURE TIME, CALLED SLEIDANES COMMENTARIES, CONCERNING THE STATE OF RELIGION AND COMMON WEALTH, DURING THE RAIGNE OF THE EMPEROUR CHARLES THE FIFT..., FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, black letter, woodcut coat of arms on title, woodcut initials, lacking blanks A6 and 3Q4, light marginal browning, occasional minor marking or soiling, occasional small marginal worming, but a clean, crisp copy generally, first 4ﬀ. detached, engraved portrait of the author to pastedown, contemporary calf, rebacked, upper cover detached, extremities repaired, [STC 19848; ESTC S115934], folio, [Ihon Daye, for Abraham Veale, and Nicholas England], [1560]. ⁂ An important record of The Reformation from one of the foremost printers of the period. It chronicles the reign of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and records the spread of Luther’s ideology and other key events, including Henry VIII’s break with Rome and the great conflict with the Turks. £3,000 - 4,000

The Property of a Lady 86 Caxton (William).- Higden (Ranulphus) POLYCHRONICON, single f. from Liber Quintus, f. CCXXXV, 40 lines, rubricated in red, early red ink marginalia, later black ink marginalia to verso, small hole to margin, few damp or water-stains, light spotting, framed and glazed, small folio (approx. 250 x 180 mm), [Westminster], [1482]. £600 - 800

88 Bible, English.- [THE BIBLE], largely printed in black letter, lacking title and preliminaries, also lacking 2A3, 4A2, final colophon with woodcut arms misbound right at beginning, NT title within woodcut border (trimmed and laid down and with lower edge of border slightly defective), some leaves with sidenotes shaved with loss, a few tears/defects and repairs with loss of text, some soiling and staining, with Concordances and Whole Booke of Psalms bound at end (incomplete), a few ink annotations, later diced calf, gilt, rebacked preserving original spine, foot of spine chipped, [Herbert 186], 4to, Christopher Barker, 1584; sold not subject to return 87 48

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90 Bible, English. THE HOLY BIBLE, 2 parts in 1, THE FIRST KING JAMES BIBLE AVOWEDLY PRINTED ABROAD, engraved titles, the first creased, a few minor tears, preliminary blank leaf bound immediately after title, sumptuous binding of contemporary black morocco, gilt, possibly by Samuel Mearne or his workshop, with flowers, borders and drawer handles, plus initials “ISW” on upper cover, spine heavily gilt but faded, joints repaired, later marbled endpapers, modern cloth slip-case, [Herbert 564], folio, Amsterdam, Printed by Joost Broerss, 1642. £2,000 - 3,000

89 Thucydides. EIGHT BOOKES OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WARRE, FIRST HOBBES EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, translated by Hobbes, engraved title by T. Cecill, 2 engraved plates, 3 folding maps (one with outer edge frayed and repaired), lacking final leaf (blank), 2ﬀ. early manuscript addenda to index at end, A3 with small hole causing slight loss to a few words, a few other minor paper flaws/tears slightly aﬀecting text, a few preliminary leaves soiled, occasional minor marginal staining, contemporary calf, spine ends and corners repaired, [ESTC S117706; STC 24059], folio, [Eliot’s Court Press] Imprinted for Richard Mynne, 1634. ⁂ An attractive copy of the re-issue of the pages of the 1629 edition with a cancel title-page (with alteration of the imprint). £2,000 - 3,000

91 Macchiavelli (Niccolo) THE WORKS, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, 5pp. publisher’s catalogue at end, 16pp. Letter to Zanobius Buondelmontius bound in with preliminaries and includes an inserted leaf of manuscript between 2*2 and 3*1 with catchword on 2*2v altered to make it read properly, early ink inscription at head of title, small burn-hole in 2F1 just aﬀecting a couple of letters, contemporary mottled calf, a little rubbed, head of spine nicked, [ESTC R19906; Wing M128A], folio, Printed for John Starkey, 1675. ⁂ Handsome copy of the first edition in English of Macchiavelli’s collected works. “Macchiavelli founded the science of modern politics on the study of mankind .... Politics was a science to be divorced entirely from ethics, and nothing must stand in the way of its machinery.” (PMM). £3,000 - 4,000 90 Buyer’s premium is applicable on every lot. Please note any symbols for additional charges that may apply. All symbols, fees, charges and applicable VAT are explained on p.4

92 Economics.- Petty (Sir William) POLITICAL ARITHMETICK, FIRST EDITION, initial licence leaf, errata leaf (a8) and advertisement leaf at end, minor splashstain to title, contemporary speckled sheep, joints rubbed and slightly cracked, [ESTC R17628; Goldsmiths’ 2798; Kress 1741], 8vo, Printed for Robert Clavel and Hen. Mortlock, 1690. ⁂ AN EXCELLENT COPY OF THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST USE OF STATISTICS. Provenance: Robert ?Thirsk (ink inscription at head of dedication). £6,000 - 8,000 93 Feminism.- [Drake (Judith)] AN ESSAY IN DEFENCE OF THE FEMALE SEX, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece of ‘The Compleat Beau’, title within doublerule border, variant with final line on p.148 reading “the mean Performance of”, headline of A4 slightly trimmed, signature F loose, hinges weak, contemporary sprinkled calf, rubbed, splitting to joints, spine ends worn and chipped, [ESTC R11541; Wing D2125A], 8vo Printed for A. Roper and E. Wilkinson...and R. Clavel, 1696. ⁂ THE FIRST ENGLISH FEMINIST TRACT, also attributed to Mary Astell but now generally accepted to be by Judith Drake, whose husband wrote the commendatory verses at the beginning. The treatise is a defence against male accusations of ignorance, vanity, enviousness etc. in women and also addresses the faults of men, particularly satirizing some of her contemporaries. £3,000 - 4,000

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94 Sale (George) THE KORAN, COMMONLY CALLED THE ALCORAN OF MOHAMMED, FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION, title in red and black with small hole aﬀecting comma, folding engraved map and 3 folding plates, occasional soiling, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, spine ends chipped and label mostly missing, [ESTC T146975], 4to, Printed by C. Ackers for J. Wilcox, 1734. £1,000 - 1,500

95 Philosophy.- Aristotle. [THE WORKS], 10 vol.,, translated by Thomas Taylor, [ONE OF ONLY 50 SETS PRINTED], 2 folding engraved plates, some foxing, mostly at beginning and end of each vol., occasional browning, contemporary polished calf, gilt, red and black morocco spine labels, some joints cracked and spine ends chipped, corners rubbed, 4to, Printed for the Translator...by Robert Wilks, 1807-12. ⁂ A HANDSOME SET OF THE FIRST COMPLETE TRANSLATION OF ALL ARISTOTLE’S WORKS INTO ENGLISH. This set with Taylor’s scarce Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle, 1812 but without the first edition of The Metaphysics, 1801, occasionally found with the set. £6,000 - 8,000

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A selection from the bindings collection of Robert Weaver of Dulwich

EMBROIDERED BINDINGS

96 Livius (Titus) THE ROMANE HISTORIE, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, translated by Philemon Holland, large woodcut device on title, woodcut portrait of Queen Elizabeth on title verso and of Livy on verso of A4, lacking initial blank but with final blank, first few leaves with chipping to foreedge, title with a few light creases, small holes to H2, 2S2 and 5M, each aﬀecting a letter or two of text, light spotting at beginning and end, the odd spot or mark throughout, occasional slight browning, some damp-staining to lower margin, final blank creased with paper repair to inner margin on verso, generally a good, crisp copy, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving part of original spine, worn, [Pforzheimer 495; STC 16613; ESTC S114001], folio, Adam Islip, 1600.

97 Dos-à-dos binding.- PSALTER (THE) OR PSALMES OF DAVID, 1616 BOUND WITH The Whole Booke of Psalmes, 1622, titles with woodcut devices, printed for the Companie of Stationers, BOUND DOS-À-DOS with The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, title within woodcut architectural border, title trimmed close at outer margin (slightly shaving architectural border), by Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1621, together 3 works in 2 vol., a few spots, some ﬀ. working loose at inner margins, else rather clean and bright, contemporary embroidered silk, covers with female figures within oval silver thread frames, spines with floral decoration, lightly worn, gilt and gauﬀered edges, housed in modern cloth drop-back box, a few marks, [ESTC S508966; S90743; S90997], 24mo. £500 - 700

⁂ A very good copy of this important Shakespeare source book, used in particular for Coriolanus. £6,000 - 8,000

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98 Bible, English. NEW TESTAMENT (THE) OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, woodcut title, [ESTC R170604], by Robert Barker, 1641 BOUND WITH The Whole Booke of Psalmes collected into English Meter by Tho. Sternhold, Jo. Hopkins, W. Whittingham, and others..., lacking M12 ?blank, I. L. for the Company of Stationers, 1643, together 2 works in 1 vol., ink annotations to front endpaper, a few ﬀ. trimmed close at margins, shaving and cutting a couple of Sig. letters and headings, scattered spotting and a few small tears, cracking at gutter, contemporary cloth over wooden boards, covers embroidered with floral decorations and parrots, rebacked preserving old spine, worn, g.e., 12mo. £400 - 600

100 Kegel (Philipp) ZWÖLFF GEISTLICHE ANDACHTEN..., text in German in black letter, title with woodcut vignette, ink annotations to front pastedown, title torn at lower margin with loss (cutting date and printer), small marginal worm hole to final few ﬀ., scattered spotting and staining, hinges cracking, handsome near contemporary cloth over wooden boards, floral motifs embroidered in high relief with silver threads and coils over twisted thread cores, a few areas of wear to embroidery with loss to some threads, rubbed and bumped, gilt gauﬀered edges, 12mo (approx. 60 x 110 mm), Germany, n.d., sold as a binding, not subject to return.

99 Bible, English. HOLY BIBLE (THE), lacking title, first f. working loose and with small hole at inner-margin (slightly touching or shaving a few words), printed by the Company of Stationers, 1648 BOUND WITH The Whole Book of Psalmes: Collected into English meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and others..., woodcut title, a few ink annotations and tear to E12, [ETSC R170566], printed by A. M. for the Companie of Stationers, 1648, together 2 works in 1 vol., text in double column ruled in red, some water-staining and scattered light spotting, else rather clean, hinges cracking, contemporary green cloth over wooden boards, covers and spine with embroidered floral decorations, worn with some loss to spine, a few splits at joints, 8vo, sold as a binding, not subject to return.

⁂ This binding is worked entirely in silver thread, with the decoration relying on variations in texture and the play of light rather than the contrast of coloured silks. The design appears to combine two decorative traditions: embroidered bookbindings, often worked in coloured silks, and the filigree metalwork popular in northern Europe. Such elaborate bindings were generally reserved for special volumes, particularly Bibles and prayer books, many of which were owned by women. £500 - 700 ____________________________________

⁂ The first work does not appear to be recorded in either ESTC or Herbert. £400 - 600

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101 Masonic Binding.- Black, (Robert, binder).- Anderson (James) THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE ANTIENT AND HONOURABLE FRATERNITY OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS, revised by John Entick, engraved allegorical title, title in red & black, without Appendix, foxed and stained, A3 and Zz2 & 3 frayed at edges (reinforced), front free endpaper detached, CONTEMPORARY DARK RED MOROCCO TOOLED IN GILT WITH ELABORATE BORDER OF POMEGRANATES, BEES, LEAFY FRONDS, SMALL POTTED FLOWERS ETC. WITH

MASONIC COMPASS & SUN TO CORNERS, upper cover with onlaid olive morocco label of names within ornamental border in gilt, PRESUMABLY BY ROBERT BLACK WITH HIS ENGRAVED TRADE CARD FEATURING MASONIC EMBLEMS mounted on front pastedown, spine gilt with lattice tooling to compartments, g.e., rather worn at corners and edges, spine defective, upper cover lacking portion at upper inner corner, both crudely repaired, 4to, W.Johnston, 1767.

⁂ Very rare example of what was evidently once a fine masonic binding, and particularly interesting (as few masonic bindings are signed) for containing the trade card of the bookbinder Robert Black.

102 Almanachs.- [Saunders (Richard)], “Cardanus Rider”. RIDER’S BRITISH MERLIN: for the Year of Our Lord God 1785, the first section (calendar) printed in red & black and interleaved, for the Company of Stationers, sold by J.Wilkie, 1785 BOUND WITH Court and City Register (The), for J.Jolliﬀe [& others], [1785], together 2 vol. in 1, red duty stamp to first title, with contemporary ink manuscript notes & accounts to front free endpapers and 4pp. prepared paper for the use of stylus (soiled), handsome contemporary red morocco finely tooled in gilt with cottage roof design within “Greek key” border filled with flowers, sprays, birds, urns, stars etc., spine gilt in compartments, g.e., rubbed, lacking clasps, spine worn and defective, upper cover almost detached; another edition, Rider’s British Merlin...1805, red duty stamp to title, blank endleaves for notes, contemporary red morocco elaborately tooled in gilt with central starburst roundel surrounded by volutes, flowers, stars, trumpets, ribbons etc. within decorative roll borders, spine gilt, decorative silver circular bosses with clasps secured with metal pin, g.e., slightly rubbed, lacking one boss, for the Company of Stationers, by Nichols and Son, [1805], 12mo (2) £400 - 600

Other properties 103 Linguistics.- Minsheu (John) HEGEMON EIS TAS GLOSSAS [GRAECE], ID EST DUCTOR IN LINGUAS, THE GUIDE INTO TONGUES, 2 parts in 1, FIRST EDITION, title within decorative woodcut border, woodcut head- & tailpieces and initials, text in double or quadruple column, WITH THE RARE LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS F. “Catalogue and true Note of the Names of such Persons, which...haue receiued the Etymologicall Dictionarie of Xi. Languages...” inserted before A1 (trimmed at head affecting ornamental border and headline to verso), K5 & 2C4 short tear into text without loss, few marginal paper-flaws to Sig. 2T, affecting pagination to 2T5, few printed side-notes shaved, some worming to head of gutter from Sig. 2N to end of first part but no text loss, some light water-staining to first and last few ff., occasional spotting to second part, the odd small stain, lightly browned, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, covers with central gilt lozenge, corners worn, [STC 17944; ESTC S121927], folio, [William Stansby] for John Browne, 1617.

Robert Black (1738-91) was a bookbinder, bookseller and publisher with a workshop in George Yard, Tower Hill. He succeeded his father Alexander in the workshop, was declared bankrupt in 1783 and the business taken over by his son James. Howard Nixon refers to an entry in the Treasurer’s accounts for 1768 at Freemasons’ Hall “Robt Black’s Bill for Bindg Books £5.11s” (Five Centuries of English Bookbinding 75 p.170) but only a few bindings have been identified as being his work and, despite the masonic emblems on his trade card and one masonic publication issued under his name, none with masonic tools. G.D.Hobson lists a binding by him or his workshop on a copy of Anderson’s Constitutions in English Bindings 1490-1940 in the Library of J. R. Abbey p.148 but this is a cottage-roof design and features no specific masonic motifs, likewise a similar binding in the collection of Robert Hoe.

⁂ The list of subscribers f. is separately listed as STC 17944a. It exists in more than 12 variants, of which this appears to be the ninth. Subscribers include Sir John Laurence “the first undertaker of this worke when it lay dead at the Presse for want of mony”.

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104 Bible, English.- HOLY BIBLE (THE), third folio edition, calendar in red and black, double column, lacking A4-B4 and A2 (?double-page Genealogical map), 3M5, 5D1, and 6D5-6, final 2 ff. supplied in defective manuscript, 6D4 creased and with holes to text, 3O1 and 5P3 with portion of loss with text supplied in manuscript, light surface soiling, occasional ink marginalia, contemporary panelled calf, backstrip defective, lacking clasps, worn, [Herbert 353], folio, [Robert Barker], [1617]. ⁂ Third folio edition of King James’s version. £3,000 - 4,000 105 Wither (George) THE WORKES OF MASTER GEORGE WITHER, OF LINCOLNSINNE, GENTLEMAN, FIRST EDITION, divisional title-pages, with blanks A1 & T4, L8 uncancelled, light soiling to foot of title, small worming to gutter from L1-P1 affecting few letters, these ff. also with some rust-holes and staining to gutter, few printed side-notes to Epithalmia trimmed, occasional light spotting including few rust-spots, lacking front free endpapers, hinges cracked, later vellum, chipping to spine foot, light soiling,[Grolier, Wither to Prior 1027; STC 25890; ESTC S120246], 8vo, John Beale for Thomas Walkley, 1620. ⁂ A pirated collection of Wither’s poems. £700 - 1,000

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107 Shakespeare (William) THE LIFE OF TYMON OF ATHENS, extracted from the second folio, comprising pp.107-128, slightly trimmed occasionally affecting ruled border at head and foot, minor foxing, modern calf, folio, [Printed by Thomas Cotes], [1632]. ⁂ The revenge of Timon of Athens whose friends refuse to help him pay off his debts when he gets into financial difficulties after lavishly entertaining and helping them. £2,000 - 3,000

106 Shakespeare (William) THE LIFE OF HENRY THE FIFT, SINGLE LEAF EXTRACTED FROM FIRST FOLIO EDITION, comprising pp.69-70, double column within single filet border, woodcut head-piece and initial, few short tears slightly into text, chipping with loss to few words to verso, light foxing, [ESTC S111228; Greg, III, p. 1109-12; Pforzheimer, 905; STC 22273], folio (approx. 305 x 205 mm), [Isaac Jaggard, and Edward Blount at the Charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley], 1623. ⁂ RARE LEAF FROM THE FIRST FOLIO OF ONE OF SHAKESPEARE’S HISTORICAL PLAYS. Within the opening leaf, the groundwork of the play has been set, we hear the calling for the ‘Muse of Fire’ to help create the story that is about to unfold. We also bear witness to the Bishop of Canterbury’s self-interest in protecting his wealth, while encouraging the King and reassuring him of his God-given claim to the French throne. Within these first two pages the key themes of the play are introduced, such as: warfare, kingship, and appearances. £600 - 800 108 Plinius Secundus (Gaius) THE HISTORIE OF THE WORLD: COMMONLY CALLED, THE NATURALL HISTORIE OF C. PLINIUS SECUNDUS, 2 vol., translated by Philemon Holland, titles with first word xylographic and large woodcut device, woodcut head- & tail-pieces and initials, vol. 2 with final “advertisement” f. (small chip to lower-margin), lacking initial and final blanks, vol. 1 title with early ownership name, vol. 1 with small worming within text of first half (generally few small holes, slightly larger worm traces to Sig. F-H), vol. 1 2E1-2 & 3B4 small hole affecting few letters, title to vol. 2 with tiny marginal rust-hole, vol. 2 2H3 tear into text without loss, the occasional stain, including some light waterstaining to head (mainly to vol. 1 near start), trimmed at fore-edge into printed side-notes and sometimes pagination, some light foxing and browning, 18th century marbled calf, spines gilt and with double red leather labels, spines quite worn in places with portion of loss to vol. 2, rubbed and scuffed elsewhere, [STC 20030a; ESTC S103160], folio, Adam Islip, and are to be sold by John Grismond, 1635-34. ⁂ A reissue of the second edition in English of 1634 (STC 20030), with a different setting of the title page to vol. 1, adding Grismond’s name in the imprint; the title page to vol. 2 is that of the 1634 edition. Provenance: Sir C. Bethell-Codrington Bart. (armorial bookplate) £2,000 - 3,000 107 56

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109 FASCICULUS FLORUM: OR, A NOSEGAY OF FLOWERS, TRANSLATED OUT OF THE GARDENS OF SEVERALL POETS, AND OTHER AUTHORS, FIRST EDITION, woodcut ornament on title, woodcut initials and headpieces, lacking initial blank, small paper repairs to lower corners at A4 & C2 and to outer margins at title (tiny losses) and A6, light browning, eighteenth century calf, gilt, rebacked preserving near-intact back-strip, [STC 24559; ESTC S122262], 12mo, by A. M., 1636. ⁂ First and only edition of this scarce collection of poetry. Contains 853 poems in all, many by classical authors but a number by contemporary poets, either credited or anonymously. We can trace 4 copies at auction in the last 70 years and ESTC lists only 6 copies in UK libraries. £800 - 1,200 110 The Irish Rebellion of 1641.- Temple (Sir John) THE IRISH REBELLION: OR, AN HISTORY OF THE BEGINNINGS AND FIRST PROGRESSE OF THE GENERALL REBELLION...TOGETHER WITH THE BARBAROUS CRUELTIES AND BLOODY MASSACRES WHICH ENSUED THEREUPON, FIRST EDITION, title within double-rule border, woodcut initials and headpieces, occasional light marginal marking or finger-soiling, the odd spot, but a good copy generally, contemporary calf, a few light stains, hinges and joints strengthened and repaired, [Wing T627; ESTC R203774], 4to, R. White, 1646. ⁂ First edition of this important contemporary history that did much to inflame English opinion against the Irish. Provenance: Fairfax of Cameron (bookplate). £700 - 1,000

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111 Homer. HIS ILIADS TRANSLATED, ADORN’D WITH SCULPURE, AND ILLUSTRATED WITH ANNOATIONS, BY JOHN OGILBY, second Ogilby edition, engraved portrait, folding engraved frontispiece (slightly shaved at head and foot and tipped-in), title printed in red and black, 48 engraved plates, licence f. dated 1666/7 bound in after title, K3 small rust-hole aﬀecting few letters, 2H4 small paper-flaws with loss to few letters, 2K2&3 detached, plate at 3O3 with small marginal hole, some damp-staining to upper-margin, mainly near start, the odd spot or light soiling, some light browning, contemporary mottled calf panelled in gilt, rebacked, corners repaired, covers rubbed and quite worn in places, [Wing H2549; ESTC R30336], folio, James Flesher, 1669. £700 - 1,000 110

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112 Boyle (Robert) TRACTS... THE COSMICALL QUALITIES OF THINGS..., H8 halftitle to verso, [ESTC R3181; Fulton 83; Madan III 2883; Wing B4057], Oxford, W.H. for Ric. Davis, 1671 BOUND WITH Tracts Consisting of Observations About the Saltness of the Sea, with first blank, [ESTC R17503; Fulton 113; Madan III 3005; Wing B4053], by E. Flesher for R. Davis, 1674, together 2 works in 1 vol., light water-stain at foot, foxing, ink-stamp and ink inscription to front free endpaper, contemporary calf expertly and sympathetically rebacked and recornered, 8vo. ⁂ A rare sammelband containing two collections of tracts by the natural philosopher and founding fellow of The Royal Society. Across these essays, Boyle covers important milestones in the development of natural science, from observations on astronomy to the description of experiments on the problem of rendering seawater fit for human consumption. Boyle’s account of ‘local motion’ in his essay on Cosmicall Qualities made important advances in his corpuscular theory of matter, reaﬃrming the break he first made with classical Aristotelian notions of the four elements in the Sceptical chymist. £2,500 - 3,500 113 Rees (Prichard) GWAITH, collation: +4 A8 - Z8 , Aa8 - Pp8, text in single column, library bookplate, toning and foxing, hinges a little tender, half-calf backed paper covered boards, soiling and toning, leather scuﬀed, titles in gilt, raised bands, splitting to spine edges at crown, [ESTC R220456; Wing P3403A], 8vo, J. Darby, 1672. ⁂ 1672 single book of the popular Welsh verses including the fourth part for the first time. £800 - 1,200 58

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114 Moulin (Peter du) DIRECTIONS FOR THE EDUCATION OF A YOUNG PRINCE. TILL SEVEN YEARS OF AGE. WHICH WILL SERVE FOR THE GOVERNING OF CHILDREN OF ALL CONDITIONS. TRANSLATED OUT OF FRENCH, FIRST EDITION, with final blank, lacking frontispiece portrait, bookplate of Arnold Muirhead, some light damp-staining to head, modern calf by Maltby of Oxford, extremities very lightly rubbed, [Wing D2557; ESTC R31384], 12mo, for H. Brome, 1673. ⁂ Rare. We can trace only this copy at auction in 2018.

115 Milton (John) PARADISE REGAIN’D. A POEM...TO WHICH IS ADDED SAMSON AGONISTES, [second edition], initial license leaf and 4pp. publisher’s catalogue at end present, later sprinkled calf, gilt, [Grolier, Wither to Prior 614; Wing M2153; ESTC R300], 8vo, Printed for John Starkey, 1680. ⁂ A lovely copy, with separate dated title-page for Samson Agonistes, but with continuous pagination and register. £900 - 1,200 116 Women.- Walker (Anthony) THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN FOUND, HER LOSS BEWAYL’D AND CHARACTER EXEMPLIFIED IN A SERMON..., 4 parts in 1, 17pp. catalogue at end, title with early ownership inscription to head and publisher’s advertisement laid down to verso, light waterstaining throughout, bound quite tight, modern mottled calf, morocco spine labels, extremities slightly rubbed, t.e.g., [cf. Wing W313 & W314], 12mo, for Nathanael Ranew, 1686.

£700 - 1,000

⁂ A sermon on the life of Mary, Countess of Warwick (1624-1678), first published in 1678. Mary was sister to the scientist Robert Boyle, to whom the work is dedicated. ESTC records only one copy dated 1686 in the British Library (Wing W313), although this consists of only the first part with catchword “Rules” on p.129 (?a fragment). The present copy is consistent with Wing W314 in containing also second, third and fourth parts, each with separate title-page dated 1686, although the general title is dated 1686 rather than 1687. £600 - 800

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116A Hickes (George) INSTITUTIONES GRAMMATICAE ANGLO-SAXONICAE ET MOESO-GOTHICAE, woodcut illustration to title page, Recentissima antiquissimæ linguæ septentrionalis incunabula, id est, Grammaticæ Islandicæ rudimenta has its own title-page dated 1688, toning to uppers, occasional spot, owners marks to endpapers, bookplate, a few stains, contemporary full speckled calf ruled and titled in gilt, raised bands, a few scuﬀs and indentations to leather, light restoration to heel and crown of spine at joints [ESTC R8123; Wing H1851], 8vo, Oxford, Theatro Sheldoniano. Typis Junianis, 1689. 116

£600 - 800

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117 Shipbuilding & The Thames.- [Hale (Thomas)] & Sir William Petty. AN ACCOUNT OF SEVERAL NEW INVENTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS NOW NECESSARY FOR ENGLAND...RELATING TO BUILDING OF OUR ENGLISH SHIPPING, PLANTING OF OAKEN TIMBER IN THE FORRESTS...THE CONSERVACY OF ALL OUR ROYAL RIVERS, IN PARTICULAR THAT OF THE THAMES..., 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, initial imprimatur f., folding letterpress table on 2 folding ﬀ. (‘A survey of the buildings and encroachments on the river Thames’), both with short tear, the first marginal, the second just within text but without loss, dedication f. A1 with small area of paper adhesion to inner gutter, touching 3 letters, without loss of sense, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, contemporary blindstamped panelled calf, sympathetically rebacked, covers scratched and scuﬀed, corners worn, [Goldsmiths’ 2873; Keynes 39; Kress S747; Wing H265; ESTC R28685], 12mo, Printed for James Astwood, and are to be sold by Ralph Simpson at the Harp in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1691. ⁂ The Signet Library copy of Hale’s plea for the maritime future of Britain, specifically calling for the introduction of milled lead to sheath ship bottoms and the planting of oaks for masts, among other innovations. It includes the first printing of Petty’s ‘Treatise of Naval Philosophy’. Provenance: Sir John Anstruther (engraved armorial bookplate to verso of title); The Signet Library (engraved circular armorial bookplate to front pastedown). £700 - 900

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118 [Locke (John)] SOME THOUGHTS CONCERNING EDUCATION, FIRST EDITION, first issue with “Patronnge” on leaf A3v, line 19, slight watermark on title and first 4pp., marginal stain aﬀecting last 2pp. at end, slightly browned, ex-library copy with ink stamp on title, modern calf, gilt spine, [Pforzheimer 612; Wing L2762A; ESTC R7482], 8vo, for A. and J. Churchill, 1693. ⁂ “His thought was marked by a ready understanding of, and sympathy with, children. Throughout he placed emphasis on good example, practice, and use rather than on precepts, rules, and punishment. The work was an implicit of his own education at Westminster and Oxford, which he found unpleasant and largely useless” - James Gordon Clapp, Ency. of Philosophy, p.500. £2,000 - 3,000

119 Broadside.- EXACT RELATION OF THE BATTEL OF LANDEN, JULY 29. 1693. BETWEEN THE ARMY OF CONFEDERATES, COMMANDED BY THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN (AN)..., engraved battle plan, old repairs to verso, some splits and and chips at foldlines slightly aﬀecting title and battle plan, light browning, for H. Rhodes, and J Harris, 1693 BOUND WITH A Relation of the Battle of Landen, with ‘or’ as catchword, ‘47’ and ‘38’ inscribed in ink at head of recto, spotting, [ESTC R33520; Wing R815A], by Edward Jones, 1693, together 2 works in 1 vol., light surface soiling, tipped into modern wrappers, title pasted to upper cover, abrasions and few stains to lower cover, rubbed, approx. 500 x 355 mm, and 330 x 170 mm. ⁂ Rare broadsides on the major battle which took place during the Nine Years’ War. No record of the first mentioned on ESTC or Library Hub. £1,000 - 1,500

120 Crime & Criminality.- Smith (Captain Alexander) THE HISTORY OF THE LIVES OF THE MOST NOTED HIGHWAY-MEN, FOOT-PADS, HOUSEBREAKERS, SHOP-LIFTS, AND CHEATS, FIRST EDITION, title trimmed at foot cutting some words and affecting legibility, a few other ff. trimmed close at head, shaving the odd page number, some ff. browned and foxed, light cracking at hinges, later morocco-backed boards, spine browned, some wear to joints, rubbed and bumped, [ESTC N8451], 12mo, for J. Morphew near Stationers-Hall, and A. Dodd, 1714. ⁂ Very rare first true edition, identifiable by its original Romannumeral title page date (the title leaf now trimmed, obscuring the date), as opposed to the second edition published the same year with a cancel title page bearing the date in Arabic numerals. £4,000 - 6,000

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The Property of a Gentleman

121 Swift (Jonathan) CADENUS AND VANESSA, FIRST LONDON EDITION, half title, occasional foxing, creasing to last few ﬀ., modern calf, pencil inscription to rear pastedown reads ‘Bound by BCM 1996’, near-fine, spine slightly sunned, [Teerink 659], 8vo, J. Roberts at the Oxford-Arms in Warwick Lane, 1726. ⁂ This copy features the ten incriminating lines towards the end of the poem on p.35 that were censored in other early editions, beginning “But what success Vanessa met,/ Is to the world a Secret yet”. These were likely first printed in the second Dublin edition, then in the first London edition, omitted from the second, and reintroduced in the third (Teerink). Provenance: From the library of Bruce Arnold, previously sold at the Sale of the Library of the Late Bruce Arnold (1936-2024), Purcell Auctioneers, 2025. Included is a receipt from Henry Sotheran Ltd to Arnold for this volume, dated 1997. £800 - 1,200

122 Swift (Jonathan) TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, BY LEMUEL GULLIVER, 4 parts in 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, THIRD ISSUE, TEERINK’S “B EDITION”, frontispiece engraved portrait, 6 plates of maps and diagrams, 5 titles, woodcut head and tail pieces and decorative initials, bookplates, occasional light spotting and foxing, some occasional creases, hinges to vol. 1 broken, hinges to vol. 2 cracked, contemporary calf, rubbed to spine ends, joints, and corners, upper joints split, housed in a modern cloth solander box, [Teerink 291; Rothschild 2108], 8vo, for Benj[amin] Motte, 1726. ⁂ Teerink’s B edition of Swift’s classic novel: the third octavo edition, with the frontispiece portrait of Gulliver in the second state (with vertical chain lines). Provenance: Robert Bristow 18th century armorial bookplates either 1688-1737 (MP for Winchelsea, 1708-1737), or his son, also Robert, 1712-1776 (also MP for Winchelsea 1738-1741); Frank Fraham, Newcastle on Tyne, 20th century bookplates, previously sold at Sotheby’s London in 2022. £3,000 - 4,000

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124 Swift (Jonathan) TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. BY LEMUEL GULLIVER, 4 parts in 2 vol., SECOND EDITION, 5 titles, frontispiece portrait, 6 plates of maps or diagrams, woodcut head and tail pieces and decorative initials, advertisement f. preceding title to vol. 2, light foxing and browning throughout, first few ﬀ. loose including endpapers on both, frontispiece and title page (vol. 1) and advertisement f. (vol. 2) but held together, title page and frontispiece vol. 1 split at gutter and coming loose, front hinges broken, rear hinges cracked, later 19th century calf by W. Mansell, rubbed, joints weak, spines detached from text-block and held to boards only, [Teerink 293], 8vo, Benj[amin] Motte, 1727. ⁂ With the Five Verses (which include the additional fifth poem ‘The Words of the King of Brobdingnag’, now ascribed to Pope). £600 - 800

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123 Swift (Jonathan) TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. BY LEMUEL GULLIVEr, 4 parts in 2 vol., SECOND 8VO EDITION, TEERINK’S AA EDITION, engraved frontispiece portrait, 6 plates of maps and diagrams, 5 titles, woodcut head and tail pieces and decorative initials, Benj[amin] Motte, 1726-1727; with the spurious third edition, 2 parts in 1 vol., engraved frontispiece, 18th century armorial bookplate to verso of main title page, pp.112-120 in part 1 misnumbered “110-118”; foxing and browning, a few tears and small losses to vol.1 (not aﬀecting text), contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, bumped to corners, housed in a modern cloth slipcase, slightly bumped, [Teerink 290, 292], 8vo, 1727 (3) £5,000 - 7,000

125 Hawksmoor (Nicholas) A SHORT HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE LONDON BRIDGE, WITH 9 PAGES OF MANUSCRIPT BY C.LABELYE bound in, pages and plates window mounted on folio pages by later 18th owner, previous owners notation on endpapers, bookplate, toning and foxing, some staining, front hinge reinforced with tape, later half calf-backed marbled paper covered boards, leather scuﬀed, torn at crown, corners knocked and abraded, folio, [ESTC T139686; Harris 326], London, J. Wilcox, 1736. ⁂ NICHOLAS HAWKSMOOR’S FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR A NEW STONE BRIDGE AT WESTMINSTER BOUND TOGETHER WITH A MANUSCRIPT “DISSERTATION ON ARCHES” ATTRIBUTED TO C. LABELYE, THE EVENTUAL ARCHITECT OF OLD WESTMINSTER BRIDGE AFTER HAWKSMOOR’S DEATH LATER IN 1736. Provenance: Notes at the end of the manuscript reading thus “This M.S, sent me by Earl of Pembroke 1747, G.” “Brought by R. Mylne oﬀ G. Virtue’s widow. Believed to be Mr Wodler to be wrote by C. Labelye with the first scheme of Westminster bridge. Mr Wodler was well acquainted friend to Mr Labelye”

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Charles Labelye, who made calculations for Hawksmoor and is mentioned by him on page 18, designed Westminster bridge in 1750 and was sponsored by the Earl of Pembroke, who opened the bridge on its completion. £800 - 1,200

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127 Honeyman copy.- Newton (Sir Isaac) TWO LETTERS OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON TO MR. LE CLERC, LATE DIVINITY PROFESSOR OF THE REMONSTRANTS IN HOLLAND, FIRST EDITION, half-title, advertisements to verso of final f., some spotting or mostly light foxing, lightly browned, contemporary vellum-backed marbled boards, corners worn, rubbed, uncut, housed in a modern red morocco-backed cloth slip-case, gilt spine in compartments, [Babson 239; Gray 338; ESTC T18648], 8vo, Printed for J. Payne, at Pope’s Head in Pater-Noster-Row, 1754. ⁂ Rare at auction. The Honeyman copy of Newton’s letters highlighting ‘corruptions’ of the original text of the ‘Epistles’ in order to support the doctrine of the Trinity. The letters are of major importance in ascertaining Newton’s anti-trinitarian views. Provenance: Robert Honeyman, sold Sotheby’s, 10th & 11th November, 1980, lot 2333 (red morocco armorial bookplate to front pastedown); William Hanbury, Kelmarsh, Northamptonshire (engraved armorial bookplate to front free endpaper). £700 - 900

126 Jacobite Rebellion.- Bickham the Younger (George), Circle of. THE PROCESSION, STATURE, DRESS, AND LIKENESS OF THE THREE REBEL LORDS, broadside with woodcut vignette and three columns of letterpress text, on laid paper aﬃxed to board support, sheet 460 x 358 mm (18 ¼ x 14 ⅛ in), some small perforations and losses within the sheet, marginal nicks and losses, particularly to the upper right corner, damp-stains, toning and surface dirt, unframed, [circa 1746] Literature: cf. BM Satires 2818 ⁂ SCARCE, POSSIBLY UNRECORDED; VARIANTS OF THE VIGNETTE ARE HELD IN THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND, AND THE BRITISH MUSEUM. A satire on the Jacobite rebels showing three condemned Scottish lords (George Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Cromartie; William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock; Arthur Elphinstone, 6th Lord Balmerino) standing in an open space, possibly at the Tower of London. In the background on the left is an execution scene on a platform with a man holding up a severed head. £600 - 800 128 Seven Years War.- A SHORT HISTORY IN MINIATURE OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE LATE WAR FROM ITS COMMENCEMENT TO THE EXCHANGE OF THE RATIFICATION OF PEACE BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, & SPAIN ON THE 10TH FEB[RUAR]Y 1763, 61 engraved paper medallions, printed recto and verso, each diameter approx. 43 mm (1 ¾ in), presented in circular case with an additional two engraved text-based medallions pasted inside case and lid, upper cover of lid inset with gold-coloured relief portrait bust of George II, crack to lid, [circa 1763] ⁂ Miniature engraved paper medallions commemorating the end of the Seven Years’ War and documenting seminal moments of the conflict; many of illustrations of sea and land battles, with a few depictions of ceremonies and treaty signings, with text descriptions to versos. £1,500 - 2,000

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THE OCCULT AND ESOTERICA

129 First English printing of The Declaration of American Independence.- GENTLEMAN’S MAGAZINE, AND HISTORICAL CHRONICLE (THE), vol. 46 only, 14 engraved maps and plates, some folding, title and following f. trimmed with loss to headings and ‘The’ in title, few ﬀ., including title a little frayed sometimes touching a few words, ‘Sketch of the Country Illustrating the Late Engagement in Long Island’ with damp-staining, slight fraying and splitting to foldlines, some light staining, contemporary calf-backed boards with parchment tips, spine with red morocco label to spine, joints starting but firm, chipping to spine ends, rubbed, 8vo, for D. Henry, and sold by F. Newbery, 1776.

130 Agrippa (Henricus Cornelius) FOURTH BOOK OF OCCULT PHILOSOPHY, translated by Robert Turner, woodcut diagrams and symbols, a few previous owners’ marks, toning and spotting throughout, abrasions to the endpapers, 20th C. full vellum decorated in gilt, endpapers renewed, panels rubbed and sunned, slip-case, 8vo, no printer, 1783. ⁂ A scarce 18th C. English translation of Agrippa’s fourth book of occult knowledge in an exquisitely decorated later binding. £1,000 - 1,500

⁂ THE FIRST ENGLISH PRINTING OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE (AUGUST, PP.361-362). Included in the maps present are several relating to the East Coast of America: “the Country round Philadelphia, including part of New Jersey and New York” (at p.396); “the Country illustrating the late Engagement in Long Island” (at p.452); “Connecticut and Rhode Island with Long Island Sound” (at p.525); “Progress of His Majesties Armies in New York” (at p.605); as well as others, for example, “The South Pole” (at p.16). £500 - 700

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131 Atwood (Mary Anne) THE HERMETIC MYSTERY & ALCHEMY, FIRST EDITION, bookplates, owners notations to text, foxing throughout, oﬀsetting to endpapers, full contemporary marbled calf, gilt ruled, titles in gilt, raised bands, scuﬀs and light shelf wear, 8vo, Trelawney Saunders, 1850. ⁂ ANONYMOUSLY PUBLISHED IN 1850, THE HERMETIC MYSTERY AND ALCHEMY: A SUGGESTIVE INQUIRY WAS THE RESULT OF MANY YEARS OF EXPERIMENTATION AND RESEARCH INTO SPIRITUALITY AND MYSTICISM BY ATWOOD AND HER FARTHER, THOMAS SOUTH. THEY SOUGHT TO REFRAME ALCHEMY AS A SPIRITUAL GOAL RATHER THAN A METALLURGIC PHYSICAL PROCESS AND THE TEXT WENT ON TO INFLUENCE AND INFORM SPIRITUAL INTERPRETATIONS OF ALCHEMY FOR THE NEXT ONE HUNDRED YEARS AND BEYOND.

First editions of the work are almost unobtainable. South, having read the work post publication, brought up almost all the existing copies and burnt them due to his belief that they revealed arcane mystical knowledge to the general public. The book features the personal bookplate of Thomas South himself, with its distinctive Ouroboros motif. £800 - 1,200 132 Waite (A. E.) THE MYSTERIES OF MAGIC, FIRST EDITION, illustrations and figures, occasional spots, light toning to page edges, bookplate, some previous owners marks at rear, hinges tender, original blue cloth, stamped and titled in gilt, sunning to spine, lightly soiled, spine cloth pushed, corners bumped, 8vo, George Redway, 1886. ⁂ A rarely encountered first edition of Waite’s occult work on Eliphas Levi. £800 - 1,200

133 Waite (A. E.) THE BOOK OF BLACK MAGIC, ONE OF 500 COPIES, frontispiece, plates and in-text illustrations and figures, oﬀsetting to endpapers and half title, occasional spot but clean and bright internally, front hinge starting, bookplate, black cloth stamped in silver, rubbed, abraded at extremities, 4to, George Redway, 1898. ⁂A.E Waites major Grimoire, a collection of occult philosophy and ritual magic beautifully illustrated with sigils, symbols and illustrations. Limited to 500 copies and rarely seen as such £400 - 600

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134 Tarot.- Waite (A. E., Pamela Colman Smith, Illustrator.) THE KEY TO THE TAROT, BOOK AND ACCOMPANYING 78 CARD TAROT DECK, LIKELY PAM B VERSION WITH AN EARLIER BOOK, cards very good overall with light edge and thumb wear, soiling to edges, surface creases, book with original gilt stamped cloth and titling, textbook detaching but complete, soiling, toning, corners bumped, housed in a later wooden box, 12mo, William Ryder and Son, 1910-[1931]. ⁂ An exceedingly rare example of an early Ryder-Waite Tarot; perhaps the most influential Tarot deck of the 20th century and beyond. Arthur Waite, then a prominent occultist and aesthete, worked in tandem with artist Pamela Colman Smith to create a deck that appealed both to the esoteric and aesthetic communities of post Fin de siècle Europe and America. Notably, Smith illustrated all the Minor Arcana with the same detail as the Major, creating a symbolically lavish and beautiful new interpretation of the Tarot deck. We believe this to be a Pam B version with a Pam A book. The book is dated 1910, with William Ryder and Son Limited stated as the publisher and bears the Gilt stamped Ouroboros motif on the front panel. The cards show the ‘cracked mud’ pattern on the rear with The Sun card lacking the extra undulating line at the top; a signifier of an early Pam B deck produced in 1931. £2,000 - 3,000 135 Mathers (S.L. MacGregor) THE BOOK OF THE SACRED MAGIC, FIRST EDITION, illustrated title, figures and illustrations, endpapers foxed, text block generally clean and bright, hinges tender, original black cloth, a little edge worn, corners bumped, stamped and titled in gilt, 8vo, John M. Watkins, 1898. ⁂ The first English translation of one of the most studied grimoires in Western esotericism and a key work in Aleister Crowley’s Thelema. Extremely scarce. £400 - 600

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138 -. Cowper (William) POEMS, 2 vol., 10 engraved plates, ink inscriptions, Edwards of Halifax “Etruscan” calf, covers tooled in blind and gilt, speckled and stamped central panel surrounded by black petal and gilt Greek key borders, rebacked, heavy rubbing, gilt wear to covers, g.e., fore-edge paintings by Mary Preston beneath the gilt of London (1), and a country estate scene (2), 8vo, J. Johnson, 1798. ⁂ Various ink inscriptions alluding to the provenance. Includes a note to the first free endpaper of vol. 1 reading “Mary Preston. The gift of Harriet, Lady Hesketh, August 8th 1798”. Hesketh was known for her long correspondence and letter writing with William Cowper, which formed the basis for his biography. A note in vol. 2 reads “These vols were given by Lady Hesketh the friend of Cowper the Poet to Mrs Preston & given to Georgina Charlotte Talbot, her granddaughter”, and another from a Mary Anne Talbot, relative of Georgina, from 1878, slipped in. £800 - 1,200 139 Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) THE WORKS, 3 vol., occasional foxing, ﬀ. slightly rippled, hinges starting to crack, uniform contemporary morocco, gilt and embossed decoration, rubbing to spines, joints, and extremities, g.e., fore-edge paintings beneath the gilt depicting river and coastal scenes, 8vo, John Murray, 1819. £800 - 1,200

137 Edwards of Halifax-. BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER (THE), various gift and ownership ink inscriptions to endpapers, ownership ink inscription to title page, light foxing and a few creases to corners, underpainted vellum by Edwards of Halifax, upper cover with two putti painting a monogram on a shield, the lower cover with a female classical figure holding a lamp, within Greek key borders, rubbed, gilt slightly faded, spine label rubbed, spine ends bumped, g.e., contemporary fore-edge painting beneath gilt of a village scene with a castle, Oxford, Clarendon Press, small 8vo, 95 x 60mm., 1785. ⁂ A nicely preserved example from the renowned Edwards of Halifax binders and fore-edge painters, featuring the typical Greek key boarder and using James Edwards’s patented method for rendering vellum transparent, revealing the protected painted decoration on the underside. Edwards of Halifax was a famous 18th and early 19th century English family of bookbinders, publishers, and antiquarian booksellers founded by William Edwards (1723–1808) in Halifax, Yorkshire, and expanded by his sons, James and Richard. £1,200 - 1,800

140 Zimmermann (M.) SOLITUDE: ON THE MIND AND THE HEART, engraved title, 2 engraved plates, the odd spot, front free endpaper loose, Estelle Doheny’s copy with her small gilt leather book-label to pastedown, cracked at hinges, contemporary morocco, rubbed, joints weak, g.e., double fore-edge painting beneath the gilt, one side being of Flamborough Head, the other of Ullswater from Pooley Bridge, 12mo, T. Griﬃths, 1825. ⁂ From the Col. John B. Gribbel sale/auction [1948]. Purchased by Philip C. Duschnes (1897-1970), who then sold the volume to Estelle Doheny, recorded June 18th, 1948. Later sold at the Doheny-Christie’s Sale, 1989. Jeﬀ Weber Rare Books catalogue notes slipped in. £600 - 1,000 141 [Dodgson (Rev. C.L.)] “Lewis Carroll” THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE, illustrations by John Tenniel, occasional spotting and browning, mostly to frontispiece and title page, light rubbing to extremities, fore-edge painting beneath the gilt depicting Alice in the woods with Tweedledee and Tweedledum recreating the illustration on page 67, Macmillan and Co., 1883 § COLLINGWOOD (STUART DODGSON), THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LEWIS CARROLL, FIRST EDITION, original cloth covers bound in, the odd spot, fore-edge painting of a portrait of Carroll next to a scene depicting Cook, Duchess, Cheshire Cat, Baby, and Alice, T. Fisher Unwin, 1898, frontispieces, half-titles, modern morocco, overall excellent, g.e., 8vo. (2) £1,500 - 2,000

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142 142 Firth (J.B. [John Benjamin]) HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN DERBYSHIRE, FIRST EDITION, limited edition, no.57 SIGNED BY MISS CURRIE [CAROLINE BILLIN CURRIE] to limitation page, half-title, frontispiece and illustrations by Nelly Erichsen, scattered foxing, contemporary morocco by Riviere & Son [for] H. Sotheran & Co., light rubbing to spine ends, extremities, and corners, g.e., fore-edge painting beneath the gilt being a view of Chatsworth, Macmillan & Co., 8vo, 1905. ⁂ Caroline Billin Currie, known as Miss Currie or C.B. Currie (18491940), was a miniature and fore-edge painter. In the early 20th century, she worked at the Henry Sotheran & Co. bookshop painting fore-edges. She also painted ivory miniatures for the Cosway bindings by Riviere. £800 - 1,200 ____________________________________

Other properties 143 Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, Duke of,).- Orme (Edward, publisher) THE BATTLES OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN PORTUGAL, SPAIN AND FRANCE, FROM THE YEAR 1808 TO 1814, UNDER THE COMMAND OF ENGLAND’S GREAT CAPTAIN ARTHUR, DUKE OF WELLINGTON, 2 engraved titles (beginning and end) within ouroboros roundel borders, 13 handcoloured aquatint roundels (bound with final plate - “Waterloo”), each plate with letterpress description leaf, most plates linked, a few loose, circular bronze medallion case, by J. Porter, with bust of Wellington on obverse, with the legend England’s Great Captain Arthur Duke of Wellington, the reverse with the Angel of Victory holding a tablet inscribed Record of British Valour, above Picture Medal, [Abbey Life, 466], roundels diameter 65mm., medallion diameter 75mm., Edited published and sold by Edwd. Orme, bond street, London, 1815.

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145 Cooper (James Fenimore) THE WATER WITCH; OR THE SKIMMER OF THE SEAS. A TALE, 3 vol. in 1, FIRST EDITION, half-title to vol. 2 only, lacking half-titles to vol. 1 & 3, scattered spotting or foxing and a few stains, contemporary half calf, spine darkened, a few neat repairs and restorations to extremities, joints showing signs of splitting, rubbed and bumped, modern cloth slip-case, [BAL 3845], 12mo, Dresden, for Walther, 1830. 144 Shelley (Percy Bysshe) ADONAIS. AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS, AUTHOR OF ENDYMION, HYPERION, ETC., FIRST EDITION, small mark to front free endpaper, neat tape strengthening to upper hinge, original blue wrappers with decorative printed border around a basket of fruit, uncut, lacking backstrip, some glue residue to spine, very light toning to covers, small patch of chipping to foot of upper cover, some light corner creasing, a few small nicks or chip to lower fore-edge, an excellent example overall, 4to, Pisa, with the types of Didot, 1821.

⁂ AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FIRST EDITION, WITH ONLY AROUND TEN RECORDED

COPIES SURVIVING. This sea tale, set in early New York, was largely

written during his time in Italy. Cooper is understood to have attempted publication in Rome; however, the narrative—centred on the abduction of the spirited Alida de Barberie by seemingly supernatural pirates—was reportedly deemed unsuitable by papal censors. £3,000 - 4,000

⁂ First edition in original wrappers of Shelley’s elegy on the death of Keats, one of his best and best-known works and the only poem to have a second edition in his lifetime. Shelley considered Adonais the “least imperfect” of his poems and oversaw the printing himself. In the preface he attacked the critics of the Quarterly Review who had lambasted Keats’ Endymion, claiming that their negative reviews had “produced the most violent eﬀect on his susceptible mind; the agitation thus originated ended in the rupture of a blood-vessel in the lungs”. £10,000 - 15,000 Buyer’s premium is applicable on every lot. Please note any symbols for additional charges that may apply. All symbols, fees, charges and applicable VAT are explained on p.4

146 Shelley (Mary) FRANKENSTEIN OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS, third edition, frontispiece and additional illustrated title, a few ﬀ. lightly browned at front, scattered spotting, short marginal tear and light soiling to final f., contemporary calf, gilt, morocco spine label, 8vo, 1831. ⁂ The first illustrated edition, with the frontispiece depicting the monster coming to life. Also includes the author’s new preface in which she describes the origin of the story and the famous night of storytelling at the Villa Diodati with her husband, neighbour Byron and his doctor Polidori. £4,000 - 6,000

147 [Dickens (Charles)], “Boz”. THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB, FIRST EDITION, MOST FIRST STATE IN THE ORIGINAL 19/20 PARTS, all first issue except parts 1, 2, 3, 7, and 9, 43 engraved plates, all but 5 ‘first plate, first state’, Pickwick Advertiser present in all which call for them, except parts 5 and 8, front slips to parts 1 and 3, but lacking in part 13, rear slips or advertisements in all that call for it except parts 3, 5, 7, 8, part 9 with 4 (of 5) advertisements, addresses present when called for except in part 2, occasional browning or scattered spotting, all but parts 2, 3 and 8 in first issue original printed wrappers, few spines and covers with light repairs, few upper covers with ink ownership inscription to head, occasional light staining or browning, chipping and wear to extremities, preserved in modern moroccobacked cloth drop-back box, [Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 3-88], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1836-37. ⁂ RARE

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The complexity of Pickwick in parts is a consequence of the initial unpopularity of the work when the first issues were published, but soon publishers had to meet the demands when it become a phenomenal best-seller, resulting in random and careless assembly of the individual parts and reprints. Assembling original first issue parts from scratch is practically impossible. There is no record of a perfect set of parts to exist. A detailed listing of the relevant issue points of the present work is available upon request £2,000 - 3,000

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148 Dickens (Charles) THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB, FIRST EDITION BOUND FROM ORIGINAL PARTS, MOSTLY FIRST ISSUE TEXT, 43 engraved plates, of which 34 “Phiz” plates (23 are 1st states, including title and frontispiece, and 11 are 2nd state), 7 Seymour (all from 1st plate 2nd state, except for no.6 which is 1st plate 1st state), 2 Buss plates (both 1st states), mostly first issue text except pp.27-70 (part 2), and pp.163178 (part 6), some plates with marginal water-staining, occasional light surface soiling, some light scattered foxing, mostly to plates, contemporary half morocco, gilt spine, light rubbing to extremities, 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1837. ⁂ A REMARKABLE FIRST EDITION OF Pickwick Papers IN ONE VOLUME, BOUND FROM THE ORIGINAL PARTS, WITH ABOUT 95% FIRST ISSUE TEXT.

149 Dickens (Charles) A CHRISTMAS CAROL, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, second state, with “Stave I” heading to first chapter, title printed in red & blue dated 1843, green endpapers, half-title in blue, 4 hand-coloured etched plates by & after Leech and 4 plain woodcut vignettes by Linton after Leech, 2pp. advertisements at end, minor rubbing and surface marks to endpapers, original first issue brown fine-ribbed cloth, with unbroken ‘D’ within wreath and minimum 14mm gap between blind border and gilt cartouche, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, spine lightly sunned, slight chipping to spine head, rubbing to joints and corner tips, a few minor surface marks to covers, g.e., overall a superb copy, [Smith II, 4], 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1843. £4,000 - 6,000

The text is almost entirely first issue, with exception of pp.27-50 (corresponding to part 2) and pp.163-178 (second quire in Part 6) is mixed. Overall, rather fewer than 40 pages are not first issue text. By the final instalment in November 1837, The Pickwick Papers became the first ‘mega-publishing’ phenomenon of the modern era, eventually out-selling all books in English except the collected works of Shakespeare, the Prayer Book, and the Bible. Publishers began issuing Pickwick Papers in book form soon after the conclusion of the work being printed in instalments. The first issue of the single volume book was made-up from the remaining stocks of text and plates. With assembly by hand of text and plates from piles of printed matter, there could be some variation in the final make-up of the bound book. However, a few of the first editions in book form were created privately by subscribers or casual purchasers of the original parts issues each month. The owners could take their parts to their book-binder (or publisher) and have the assembled text and illustrations bound as instructed by ‘Directions to the Binder’ in the final part. £750 - 1,000

150 Dickens (Charles) BLEAK HOUSE, FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 19/20 PARTS, 40 plates by H.K. Browne, with the explanation of the accident to plate 17 in part 9, all but one adverts present (lacking only “New Geographical & Educational Works” 2pp. from part 14 rear), all other adverts as called for, plates browned or oﬀset, some light soiling, original wrappers, rubbing and browning, some spines chipped with portions of loss, still overall an excellent and unrestored copy, [Hatton & Cleaver pp.273-304], preserved in custom drop-back box, 8vo, Bradbury & Evans, 1852-53. £800 - 1,200

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151 Dickens (Charles) GREAT EXPECTATIONS, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, vol.1 & 2 second issue, vol.3 fourth issue, without half-titles or advertisements, occasional spotting or patch of light soiling, Oliver’s Circulating Library bookplate in vol.1, neat ink ownership signature dated “Nov.1861” to vol.3 title head, original purple blind-stamped cloth, spines lettered in gilt, rubbed and darkened, vol.3 remains vibrant, signs of library label removed on vol.1, spines sunned, spine ends and corners rubbed, vol.1 spine ends slightly nicked, [Eckel, pp. 91-93; Smith II:14; Great Expectations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, Appendix D); Sadleir 688; Wolﬀ 1799], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1861.

153 [Brontë (Charlotte)] “Currer Bell”. [JANE EYRE. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY], 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, lacking titles, half-title to vol. 1 only, 32pp. advertisements dated June 1847 and 1pp. Calcutta Review advertisement at end vol. 1, H3 vol. 1 with small loss to lower corner (not aﬀecting text), occasional foxing (most marginal), later endpapers, original cloth, rebacked retaining original backstrips, vol. 1 retaining remnants of original backstrip, light sunning to edges, slight bumping to corners and extremities, spines a little sunned, [Smith pp.22-24], 8vo, [Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill], [1847]. £1,500 - 2,000

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152 Dickens (Charles) [THE WORKS], 19 vol., Memorial Edition, plates, occasional light browning, attractive modern half navy morocco, gilt, a few light scuﬀ marks to covers, edges lightly toned, 8vo, Chapman and Hall, c.1910. £600 - 800

154 [Brontë (Charlotte)], “Currer Bell”. SHIRLEY. A TALE., 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, advertisement for third edition of Jane Eyre at end vol. 3, lacking advertisements at end vol. 1, twentieth century morocco, gilt inner dentelles, g.e., [Smith pp.112-116], 8vo, Smith, Elder & Co., 1849. ⁂ Charlotte had begun writing Shirley in the spring of 1848, still buoyed by the success of Jane Eyre. Writing though would not come as easily to her as it did previously and progress was ultimately stalled by the crushing tragedy of losing her three siblings in less than a year. Charlotte persevered however and the novel was published in October 1849. £800 - 1,200

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155 Ballantyne (R.M.) THE CORAL ISLAND: A TALE OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, FIRST ISSUE with ‘View From the Hill Top’ frontispiece and ‘Terrible Encounter with a Shark’ facing p.76, colour printed wood-engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title, 6 plates, lacking a few tissue guards, small bookseller blind stamp to front free endpaper, light browning and foxing in text, minor nick to final free endpaper, original green pictorial cloth, spine slightly darkened, spine ends and corner tips lightly rubbed, spine head slightly fraying, edges toned, [Quayle 12a], 8vo, T. Nelson and sons, 1858 [but 1857]. ⁂ An excellent example of this children’s classic. £1,000 - 1,500 156 [Evans (Marian)], ‘George Eliot’. SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE, 2 vol., 1858; Adam Bede, 3 vol., related contemporary newspaper cuttings tipped-into vol.1 front endpaper, 1859; The Mill on the Floss, 3 vol., 1860; Silas Marner, 1861; Romola, 3 vol., light cracking at gutter to vol.1 Contents f., Smith, Elder and Co., 1863; Felix Holt, 3 vol., 1866; Middlemarch, 4 vol., 1871-72; Daniel Deronda, 4 vol., 1876; together 23 vol., ALL FIRST EDITIONS, all but Romola with half-titles, bookplate in each vol., the odd rust stain and light corner crease, light spotting, mostly to endpapers, heavier in Middlemarch, uniformly bound in contemporary calf, spines gilt, inner dentelles gilt, light scuﬀ marks, slight fading to a few vol., g.e., an attractive set, Edinburgh and London, all but Romola by William Blackwood and Sons, 8vo.

157 Wilde (Oscar) POEMS, FIRST EDITION [ONE OF 250 COPIES], occasional light finger-soiling, bookplate and ink ownership inscription of Henry Bradshaw Isherwood, ink inscription “Malcolm Lawson from the composer of that name” to half-title, endpapers browned, original parchment boards with gilt floral designs to covers and spine, rubbing and soiling to covers and spines, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, [Mason 304], 8vo, David Bogue, 1881. ⁂ “The first printing (June 1881) consisted of 750 copies, of which only 250 copies were used for the first edition, the remaining 500 being equally divided between the second and third editions.” Mason. £600 - 800

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158 Wilde (Oscar) AN IDEAL HUSBAND, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, light spotting, more so to endpapers, Chart Lodge bookplate on front pastedown, ink ownership signature of Henry Ainley dated 30th August 1902 to front free endpaper, original salmon cloth, gilt decorations by Charles Shannon, slightly darkened, covers very slightly cockled, spine lightly faded, spine ends and corner tips a little rubbed, [Mason 385], 8vo, 1899. ⁂ Henry Ainley [1879 - 1945) English actor and member of Herbert Beerbohm Tree’s company. In 1902 he found fame as Paolo in Paolo and Francesca. Ainley was also a member of the council of RADA and served as its President from 1931-1933. £1,000 - 1,500

160 Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. A RUSSIAN REALISTIC NOVEL, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, [translated by Frederick Whishaw], lacking 24pp. advertisements at end, ink ownership signature to front pastedown, faint toning to endpapers, very slight marginal vertical crease to title, light toning to margins, minor spotting to preliminaries, including half-title, light cracking to lower hinge, original blue boards lettered in red and black, spine toned with loss at ends (not aﬀecting text), corner tips and extremities lightly rubbed, a few light stains, edges a little toned, 8vo, Vizetelly & Co., 1886. ⁂ The first English translation of Dostoevsky’s great psychological masterpiece. Published both in London and New York in 1886 using the same setting, with no priority between the two issues determined. Although uncredited, the translation was made by Frederick Whishaw, a Russian-born British novelist, poet and musician. He translated a number of works by Dostoevsky in the 1880s, published by Henry Vizetelly in London and Crowell in New York. Scarce. No copy held in the British Library. £2,000 - 3,000

159 Wilde (Oscar) [THE WORKS], edited by Robert Ross, 10 vol., Authorized Edition, photographic frontispieces, contemporary green half calf, spines slightly sunned, minor rubbing to corner tips, overall an excellent set, t.e.g., 8vo, Boston & Massachusetts, c.1905-09. £600 - 800

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162 James (Henry) THE PRINCESS CASAMASSIMA, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, [one of 750 copies], advertisement leaf at end of vol.2 and 3, ink lending library stamp to half-titles, occasional scattered spotting, brown coated endpapers, original blue-green cloth, vol. 1 & 2 spines repaired, vol. 3 with some light fraying to spine ends and joints, corners bumped and a little worn, lending library labels to upper covers, vol. 1 with dent to lower cover, some light marking to covers, [Edel & Laurence A29; Sadleir 1282; Wolﬀ 3576], 8vo, London & New York, Macmillan and Co., 1886. ⁂ One of three major novels published by James in the 1880s. £600 - 800

161 Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich)THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, A NOVEL IN FOUR PARTS AND AN EPILOGUE. Translated into English by Constance Garnett, FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION, “presentation copy” blind stamp to title head, faint toning to endpapers, slight crease to front free endpaper, minor marginal surface abrasion to half-title, original cloth, a few faint scuﬀs and stains, spine lightly sunned and rubbed at joints and ends, minor nicks to lower joint and spine foot, corner tips fractionally rubbed, edges lightly toned, very faint surface marks to top edge, still overall an excellent example, 8vo, William Heinemann, 1912. £2,000 - 3,000

163 Kipling (Rudyard) SCHOOLBOY LYRICS, FIRST EDITION [ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 50 COPIES], original brown printed wrappers, browning and chipping to spine ends, 19mm. split to foot of upper joint, very light corner creasing but a very good copy generally, preserved in custom brown morocco gilt pull-top slip-case (extremities rubbed), [Stewart 1; Grolier 15; Martindell 1], 8vo, Lahore, Printed at the “Civil and Military Gazette” Press, 1881. ⁂ Kipling’s rare first book, comprising twenty-three poems printed by his parents for private circulation without Kipling’s knowledge whilst he was at college in England: “Though it was produced without Kipling’s knowledge, and though he was embarrassed by it then and afterwards, the book is technically Kipling’s first and is now one of the rarissima in his bibliography” (Thomas Pinney, ODNB ). The total number of copies produced is believed to be around fifty, comprising two issues of approximately twenty-five copies each, one issue in white paper and the other in brown paper. It was believed for some time that the white wrappers indicated the true first issue, and that the brown-wrappered issue was trimmed down, but current theory suggests that this was not consistently the case and that the brown wrappers may have come first.

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164 Kipling (Rudyard) THE JUNGLE BOOK [&] THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK, 2 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, frontispiece and illustrations by J.L. Kipling, W.H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny, small woodcut pasted to half title and ownership inscription tippexed out in vol.1 bookplate of J.K. Leeksma on vol.1 pastedown, scattered spotting, more so in vol.2, hinges cracking in vol.2, original blue cloth, gilt, spine ends and corners slightly rubbed and frayed, a few light spots and scuﬀ marks, vol.2 upper cover creased and spine slightly faded, g.e., 8vo, 1894-95. £1,000 - 1,500

165 Kipling (Rudyard).- THE SCHOOL BUDGET, vol. 1, nos. 13 & 14, mimeographed text and wrappers, illustrations, no. 13 first issue without advertisements to inside of wrappers, original pink wrappers, some light rubbing to extremities, but a near-fine set overall, preserved in cloth chemise and slip-case, [Livingston 174; Martindell 64], 8vo, Kent, Horsmonden School, 1898. ⁂ A CHARMING PIECE OF KIPLINGIANA, RARE IN SUCH SUPERB CONDITION. Issue number 13 contains a letter by Kipling, written in mockindignant response to the editors’ request by letter that he supply a contribution to the magazine at their rate of 3d. per page (Kipling’s market rate at the time reportedly being a shilling a word). In the next issue of the magazine, the editors note the high demand for the earlier issue and that “in after years a set containing Nos. 13 and 14 will be worth wealth untold”. Also included is a letter from Max Beerbohm, agreeing that the tone of Kipling’s letter is “quite monstrous and unpardonable” and supplying a caricature of the author. £600 - 800

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166 Kipling (Rudyard) THE GODS OF THE COPYBOOK HEADINGS, FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM JOSEPH CONRAD TO HUGH WALPOLE dated 1919 to front free endpaper, Walpole’s Brackenburn book-label to front pastedown, blue crushed morocco gilt by The French Binders, Garden City, N.Y., t.e.g., gilt double fillet with swastikas to corners of covers, spine gilt in compartments, spine a little dulled, [Livingston 440; Martindell 139], 8vo, New York, Doubleday, 1919. ⁂ A superb literary association copy of this scarce work, one of a very small number printed for securement of copyright. £500 - 700

167 Kipling (Rudyard) THE WORKS, 35 VOL., ‘SUSSEX EDITION’, ONE OF 525 SETS WITH VOL.1 SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, original russet morocco, gilt, occasional light scuﬀ marks, slight fading and a few minor nicks to spines, t.e.g., others uncut, an excellent example, 8vo, 1937. ⁂ An attractive set of the best edition of Kipling’s works. £3,000 - 4,000

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168 Du Maurier (George) TRILBY, FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 8 PARTS in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, nos. 524-31, one or two marginal spots, original printed wrappers, spines a little creased, very minor rubs and dents to extremities, overall a bright, clean set, preserved in a custom box, 8vo, New York, January-August 1894. ⁂ A fantastic example of Du Maurier’s best known work in the original parts featured in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. This edition contains the character Joe Sibley, an obvious characterisation of James McNeill Whistler, who initiated legal action against the author and Harper Brothers, demanding that all references to Sibley be removed from future editions. Whistler won the lawsuit and all references in question were removed prior to the novel’s publication in book form. £800 - 1,200

169 Verne (Jules) FOUNDLING MICK (P’TIT BONHOMME), FIRST ENGLISH STANDARD EDITION, 76 plates, light surface marks, contemporary ink ownership inscription to front pastedown, bookseller’s sticker to rear pastedown, some cracking to gutter, slight shelf lean, original pictorial cloth, gilt, light browning to spine, minor bumping and rubbing to spine ends and extremities, light surface soiling to covers, 8vo, 1895. ⁂ SCARCE JULES VERNE TITLE AS THE FIRST ENGLISH STANDARD EDITION. £1,500 - 2,000

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171 Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) LONDON TO LADYSMITH VIA PRETORIA, FIRST EDITION, 3 folding maps (linen-backed), plans in text, without advertisements or publisher’s catalogue, a few surface stains, occasional foxing, modern half black morocco, gilt spine with rampant lions motif, 8vo, 1900. £400 - 600

170 Stoker (Bram) DRACULA, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with thicker, uncoated paper, 4 titles listed to half-title verso, without 16pp. advertisements at end, original upper cloth cover laid down at rear (slightly rubbed and darkened, neat vertical repair only just aﬀecting title), handsome modern black morocco by Asprey, gilt cross design to upper cover, spine gilt in compartments with cross and circle motif, g.e., 8vo, Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. ⁂ First edition of one of the most influential horror novels ever published. £4,000 - 6,000

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172 Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) MY AFRICAN JOURNEY, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, half-title, frontispiece, 46 plates, 3 maps, 16pp. publisher’s catalogue at rear only (of 18pp.), light spotting, toning to front free endpaper, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, top edge a little darkened, spotting to edges, an excellent example, [Woods A12], 8vo, 1908. ⁂ Scarce to find with the spine in such bright condition. £400 - 600

173 Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) MY AFRICAN JOURNEY, FIRST EDITION, half-title, frontispiece and plates, 3 maps with routes in red, 16pp. publishers’ catalogue at end, plate at p.134 trimmed slightly touching image, foxing, modern half navy morocco, gilt spine with rampant lions motif, 8vo, 1908.

175 Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) THE SECOND WORLD WAR, vol. 4 only (of 6), FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, to half title, dated 1951, light foxing, tape residue to pastedowns, original cloth, slightly bumped to spine ends and corners, dust-jacket, tape to flap edges (mirroring tape residue on pastedowns, previously stuck down), slight losses to spine ends, chipping to corners and extremities, scuﬀs to joints resulting in two holes to upper joint, browning, some light marks to upper panel, 8vo, 1951 £800 - 1,200

£300 - 400

174 Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 6 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, half-titles, folding maps, modern black half morocco, spines gilt, 8vo, 1948-54. £600 - 800

176 Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES, 4 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, modern half black morocco, gilt spines with rampant lions motif, 8vo, 1956-58. £500 - 700

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178 Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) [THE WORKS], 12 vol., Author’s Edition, one of 1,000 sets signed by the author in vol.1, plates, modern green morocco by Asprey, gilt, g.e., a few light nicks to top edges, 8vo, 1903. £2,000 - 3,000

177 Ainsworth (William Harrison) [HISTORICAL ROMANCES], 26 vol., including supplementary portfolio, EDITION DES AMIS DES ARTS, OF THE FIRST STATE LARGE PAPER JAPAN EDITION, NUMBER 6 OF 10 COPIES, 74 plates in portfolio, each vol. with colour facsimile title, impressions of historical portraits on india paper and with duplicates on papier de chine, three impressions of etchings on japan vellum, first state remarque, after remarque, one on dutch handmade paper, finished in watercolours, plates on silk largely after paintings by Hugh W. Ditzler, illustrated etchings in four states (to the relevant vol.), occasional light toning to edges, uniform contemporary green crushed morocco, spines with gilt lettering with floral bouquets inlaid in morocco to central compartment, spines browned with slight fading to lettering, pastedowns inlaid with decorative roses within green and pink leather bands circulated by florid scrolls in gilt, blue moiré silk lining, g.e., portfolio crushed green morocco, spine and edges browned, light rubbing, 8vo & folio, Philadelphia, 1900. £1,500 - 2,000 82

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179 Wright (John Henry) A HISTORY OF ALL NATIONS, 24 vol., ‘Armorial edition’ one of 90 impressions, illustrations and plates, contemporary full navy morocco, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, covers doubleruled in gilt with florid scrolls to borders with light blue foliage inlaid to corners, mounted panels to pastedowns with gilt-ruling, decorative boards and brown morocco to central panels embossed with ‘FSH’, silk moiré linings, spines lightly browned, light rubbing to extremities, t.e.g., others uncut, 8vo, Philadelphia & New York, 1905. £1,200 - 1,800

180 Economics.- Keynes (John Maynard) A TREATISE ON MONEY, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, ink ownership inscription to front free endpapers, light foxing to endpapers, original cloth, light sunning to spines, spine ends and corners lightly bumped or rubbed, a few spots or stains to foreedge, dust-jackets, spines darkened, small abrasion to vol.1 lower panel, light toning to panels, a little chipped and nicked to extremities, minor rubbing, 8vo, 1930. ⁂ Rare in dust-jackets. £2,000 - 3,000 181 -. Keynes (John Maynard) THE GENERAL THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT, INTEREST AND MONEY, FIRST EDITION, starting to crack at gutter p.160-161, the odd spot and light browning to first and last few ﬀ., light foxing to edges, original cloth, light bumping to spine ends and corners, dustjacket, slightly browned, rubbed and light chipping to spine ends and corners, creases to lower panel, otherwise a very good example, 8vo, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1936. £2,000 - 3,000

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182 Fitzgerald (F. Scott) [THE WORKS], 6 vol., mixed editions, modern half burgundy morocco, gilt spines, 8vo, The Bodley Head, 1961-60-63. £500 - 700

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ART AND ARCHITECTURE

184 Egerton (Francis Charles Granville, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere) CATALOGUE OF THE BRIDGEWATER AND ELLESMERE COLLECTIONS OF PICTURES AND STATUARY at Bridgewater House, Cleveland Square, St.James’s, London, INSCRIBED “VICTORIA SACKVILLE-WEST 24 JULY 1903” on front free endpaper, with correction slip pasted over item no.238, armorial bookplate of Charles Sebag-Montefiore, free endpapers browned, original green cloth, upper cover titled in gilt, very slightly rubbed at edges but a fine copy, 8vo, [Manchester, Charles Sever], 1900. ⁂ Very rare catalogue of the art collection housed in the Italianate palazzo designed by Sir Charles Barry for the 1st Earl of Ellesmere. It included three paintings by Raphael, five Titians, eight Poussins, and many more Old Masters, many of which are now in the National Gallery and the National Gallery of Scotland. Library Hub records only 2 copies (BL and National Portrait Gallery). Victoria Sackville-West (1862-1936), mother of the writer and garden designer Vita Sackville-West (1892-62), chatelaine of Knole in Kent, and lover of Sir John Murray Scott, founder of the Wallace Collection, and the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. £500 - 700

183 Cameos.- Prendeville (James) PHOTOGRAPHIC FACSIMILES OF THE ANTIQUE GEMS FORMERLY POSSESSED BY THE LATE PRINCE PONIATOWSKI, First Series only (of 2), 243 mounted albumen photographs of engraved gems, decorative gilt borders, most with tissue-guards, scattered light spotting, very light cracking at upper hinge, original half red morocco, covers with gilt decorations, spine gilt, lightly rubbed and bumped with a few marks, g.e., 4to, 1859. £400 - 600

185 Engelmann (Godefroy) RECUEIL D’ESSAIS LITHOGRAPHIQUES dans les diﬀerents genres de dessin tels que manière de Crayon, de la plume, du pinceau et de Lavis..., FIRST EDITION, lithographed throughout with title (vignette depicting two sides of medallion), list of plates and 8 plates, two with colour, light soiling to title and some margins, stitched in later blue wrappers, uncut, preserved in modern cloth portfolio with ties, gilt-stamped morocco label to upper cover, Paris, chez l’Auteur, [1816]. ⁂ ONE OF THE GREAT RARITIES OF LITHOGRAPHY AND ONE OF THE FIRST LITHOGRAPHIC ALBUMS TO BE PUBLISHED IN FRANCE. Engelmann (17881839), a native of Mulhouse, first learned of lithography in 1813 and began to experiment on stones. Having studied the process in Munich he then travelled to Paris and established a printing house. His press soon surpassed that of his rival Lasteyrie and became one of the most advanced in Europe. “More than anyone else in Europe it was Englemann who, by virtue of his technical improvements, clear descriptions, and skilful printing, encouraged artists to draw on stone; and the real growth of lithography as far as the artist was concerned really dates from the establishment of his press in Paris.” Twyman, Lithography 1800-1850, pp.52-55. The plates and drawing styles include a pencil portrait after Girodet and a lancer after Horace Vernet, a pen study of a dragoon after Mongin, a pen-drawn map, an imitation woodengraving, and tinted lithography. £3,000 - 4,000 186 La Chausse (Michel Ange de) ROMANUM MUSEUM, SIVE THESAURUS ERUDITAE ANTIQUITATIS, in quo gemmae, idola, insignia sacerdotalia..., FIRST EDITION, engraved additional allegorical title, title in red & black with engraved coat-of-arms, engraved portrait, head- & tail-pieces, initials, and 158 plates by Pietro Santo Bartoli, errata leaf at end, lightly browned in parts, with printed corrected text pasted over 3 words on O6 recto, engraved armorial bookplate of Nicolas-Joseph Foucault, Macclesfield copy with small embossed stamp to head of first few leaves and bookplate of North Library, magnificent contemporary red morocco, gilt, with Foucault arms to centre of covers and triple gilt fillets, spine gilt with fleur-de-lys in compartments, g.e., a little rubbed, spine slightly faded, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box with morocco label, folio, Rome, J.J.Komarek, 1690. ⁂ Splendid copy of this impressive collection of antiquities compiled by the French antiquary La Chausse.

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Nicolas-Joseph Foucault, 1st Marquis de Magny (1643-1721), statesman and book-collector. £2,000 - 3,000

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187 Mariette (Jean) TRAITÉ DES PIERRES GRAVÉES, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, halftitles, engraved titles, dedication, head-pieces, and 259 plates and illustrations on 197 sheets by the Comte de Caylus after Bouchardon, very occasional spotting, PRESENTATION COPY FROM BARON HOLBACH WITH RECIPIENT’S CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT NOTE “THIS BOOK I RECEIVED FROM BARON D’HOLLBACH. PARIS OCTOBER 1763” to front free endpaper, armorial bookplate of Viscount Kirkwall, handsome contemporary red morocco with triple gilt fillet, spines richly gilt in compartments with six raised bands and tan morocco labels, g.e., very slightly rubbed, a couple of cracks to joints, [Cohen-de Ricci 683; Sinkankas 4208], folio, Paris, 1750. ⁂ A fine wide-margined copy on papier de Hollande of the first analytical work on engraved gems. Vol.I is a detailed account of gems, their engraving & tools including a plate of an engraver at work, and a bibliography; vol.II describes the gems in the collection of Louis XV. £2,000 - 3,000

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189 Marolles (Michel de) CATALOGUE DE LIVRES D’ESTAMPES ET DE FIGURES EN TAILLE-DOUCE, FIRST EDITION, title with woodcut device, woodcut monograms of artists, lightly browned, occasional soiling, later ink signature of L.Potier to front free endpaper, engraved armorial bookplates of Louis de la Forets Comte d’Armaillé and another, early eighteenth century tan morocco with triple gilt fillets, spine gilt with ornaments and morocco label, g.e., rubbed, spine ends slightly chipped, small rounded impressions to lower cover, 12mo, Paris, Jacques Langlois, 1672. ⁂ Catalogue of the second of two print collections formed by Marolles (1600-81), abbot of Villeloin and man of letters, regarded as the “Father of Print Collecting”. This second collection includes illustrated books and is as important as the first. It describes the 100,848 prints and 10,576 drawings which Marolles purchased and organised in the six years following the sale of his first collection (see previous lot). It is believed to be the first printed work in which the monograms of artists are systematically reproduced, and is scarcer than the first catalogue. L.Potier, presumably Antoine-Laurent Potier (1806-81), one of the greatest Parisian booksellers of the 19th century, who formed a large and important private collection, sold 1870-82, which was rich in blibliography. 188 Marolles (Michel de) CATALOGUE DE LIVRES D’ESTAMPES ET DE FIGURES EN TAILLE DOUCE, FIRST EDITION, title with woodcut device, lightly browned, contemporary ink ink inscription on title crossed out, from the library of the Abbey of St.Germain de Près with ink stamp to margin of title, also monogram stamp “HDD” (Lugt 739), eighteenth century red morocco, gilt, with triple gilt fillet and small stars to corners, spine gilt with green morocco label, g.e., very slightly rubbed at edges, wormhole to lower joint, 8vo, Paris, Frederic Leonard, 1666.

£1,000 - 1,500

⁂ Important catalogue of the first of two print collections formed by Marolles (1600-81), abbot of Villeloin and man of letters, regarded as the “Father of Print Collecting”. This first collection amounted to 123,400 separate prints by over 6000 print makers, mounted in 400 large volumes and 141 smaller ones, and was the largest and finest collection ever formed up to that time. In 1667 it was acquired by Colbert on behalf of King Louis XIV for 28,000 livres and is today the foundation of the Department of Prints at the Bibliothèque Nationale. “HDD” is the stamp of Pierre Defer (1798-1870), expert to King Louis Philippe and significant collector of prints and drawings, and his nephew Henri Dumesnil (1823-98) who inherited Defer’s collection. £1,500 - 2,000

190 Marolles (Michel de) LE LIVRE DES PEINTRES ET GRAVEURS..., edited by Georges Duplessis, NUMBER 1 OF ONLY 2 COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM, from an edition limited to 572, woodcut initials and head- & tailpieces (one hand-coloured in red & gold), one leaf lightly soiled, armorial bookplate of Michael Tomkinson, contemporary brown morocco, spine titled in gilt with five raised bands, inner gilt dentelles, g.e., one corner very slightly bumped, 8vo, Paris, Paul Daﬃs, 1872. ⁂ Marolles (1600-81), abbot of Villeloin and man of letters, was the foremost print collector of 17th century France (see previous two lots). This long poem serves as a sort of memoir of his life as a collector and connoisseur. The extensive notes and index by Duplessis provide a useful guide to the artists and collectors of the 17th century. 189

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Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921), of Franche Hall, Kidderminster, Worcs., carpet manufacturer and book collector. £1,000 - 1,500

192 Speck von Sternburg (Maximilian) VERZEICHNISS DER VON SPECK’SCHEN GEMÄLDE-SAMMLUNG, fine lithographed portrait of the collector and 18 plates (8 lithographed, 10 engraved), errata leaf at end, portrait foxed, original limp printed boards, spine worn and frayed, 1826; Zweites Verzeichniss der Gemälde-Sammlung..., engraved portrait and 19 plates (6 lithographed, 13 engraved), a few foxed, with duplicate of the portrait loosely inserted, original half calf over printed boards, spine gilt with decorative red label, slightly rubbed, Karl Tauchnitz, 1837, together 2 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, FROM THE FAMILY LIBRARY AT LÜTZCHENA WITH LARGE ARMORIAL STAMP to front free endpaper of each volume, folio & 4to, Leipzig, privately printed (2)

191 Silver.- Georgian illustrated trade catalogue.- [A PATTERN BOOK, WITH DESIGNS FOR CANDLESTICKS, URNS AND VARIOUS TABLE FURNITURE IN SILVER], over 120 designs on 61 engraved plates only (?of 189 designs), engraved price list at rear, each design numbered, some with small ink annotations next to number, some soiling and damp-staining, mainly marginal, a few small marginal tears, first plate with section cut-away (not aﬀecting image), 1 plate trimmed with slight loss of image, 1 plate with tape repaired on verso, ‘Guppy & Armstrong, Bristol’ written in ink on front free endpaper, later marbled wrappers, rubbed, some small tears to spine, oblong 4to, [circa 1790]

⁂ Handsome catalogue of the magnificent collection of paintings, drawings, prints, and illustrated books in the collection of Maximilian Speck von Sternburg (1776-1856), wool merchant, agricultural innovator, collector, patron, and art historian, at the castle of Lützschena near Leipzig. The major part of the collection consisted of 17th century Dutch and Flemish painting and several works were expropriated after WWII by the East German communist government, but returned to the family in 1994. Some of the plates were executed by Speck von Sternburg’s wife Charlotte (1787-1836) who was an accomplished engraver and lithographer. The number of plates appears to vary. £500 - 700

Provenance: Sale. Bloomsbury Auctions, London, Important Books and Manuscripts, 30th October 2008, lot 181 Private Collection, Dorset, UK ⁂ The delicate classical designs from the Georgian period in this unusual early pattern book include mainly candlesticks and candelabras. There are also designs for teapots, cruet sets, tankards and urns. Samuel Guppy and John Armstrong were successful Bristol merchants active in the last part of the 19th century. They were involved in the copper and nail business. £1,500 - 2,000

193 Sulzer (Johann Georg) ALLGEMEINE THEORIE DER SCHÖNEN KÜNSTE..., 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved allegorical frontispiece and folding plate by Daniel Chodowiecki, woodcut vignettes and illustrations, musical notation in text and on some folding leaves, browned, handsome contemporary mottled sheep, spines gilt in compartments with floral ornaments and red & green roan labels, very slightly rubbed, lower corners of vol.2 bumped, 4to, Leipzig, heirs of M.G.Weidemann & Reich, 1771-74. ⁂ Fine set of this encyclopaedia of the fine arts by a leading member of Frederick the Great’s rejuvenated Royal Academy of Sciences. £600 - 800 192

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ARCHITECTURE

194 Alberti (Leon Battista) L’ARCHITECTURE ET ART DE BIEN BASTIR, FIRST FRENCH EDITION, woodcut title, initials, headpieces and numerous illustrations, final f. laid down with loss to some words, small hole to title at gutter, O6-7 with small holes aﬀecting a few words, light foxing and surface staining, occasional contemporary ink marginalia in French, 18th-century calf, rebacked, rubbing, [Adams A490; Brun 106; Fowler 7], folio (approx. 325 x 200 mm), Paris, par laques Keruer, 1553. ⁂ First French translation of this monumental treatise on the art of building and one of the earliest printed works on architectural theory. Richly illustrated work with more than half of the woodcuts taken from the 1550 Italian language edition of the text by Cosimo Bartoli; the remainder were drawn from Fra Giacondo’s edition of Vitruvius. Provenance: John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, Luton Library (bookplate); James Grote Vanderpool, Dean of the Columbia University School of Architecture (ownership inscription). £2,000 - 3,000

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195 Blore (Edward) COLLECTANEA BLOREANA. DRAWINGS OF CHURCHES, MONUMENTS &C. &C. IN RUTLANDSHIRE, manuscript title, contents, 58 numbered watercolours of churches (of 62; nos. 26 and 60 not called for in contents; no. 31 bound to rear of album; nos. 30 and 53 removed from album leaves), 10 watercolours of ecclesiastical doorways, 15 watercolours of ecclesiastical monuments, with 3 additional unnumbered watercolours of churches, all neatly tipped onto album leaves, many with ink inscriptions to identifying locations below, some occasional spotting and minor surface dirt, the first ten album leaves with soft to heavy vertical creasing, a few minor nicks, front free endpaper worn with losses, contemporary half red calf, marbled boards, spine gilt in six compartments, joints split, worn and scuﬀed, oblong folio, 1804 ⁂ AN EXTENSIVE ALBUM WITH NUMEROUS EARLY WATERCOLOURS BY A KEY

ARCHITECT OF THE GOTHIC REVIVAL. The album contains some of the

earliest known water-colours by Edward Blore (1787-1879), British artist and architect, who became known for his sympathetic Gothic interior restorations of Winchester Cathedral, Peterborough Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, and Lambeth Palace, and whose illustrations adorned works by the likes of Britton and Dibdin. £5,000 - 7,000

196 Munich Synagogue.- Métivier (Jean Baptiste) GRUND-PLAENE, DURCHSCHNITTE UND FAÇADEN NEBST EINIGEN DETAILS DER SYNAGOGE IN MÜNCHEN erbaut im Jahre 1824/25, ONLY EDITION, 12 lithographed plates and plans (a few with foxing), WITH AN ADDITIONAL SUITE OF PLATES ON WHATMAN PAPER AND WITH FINE HAND-COLOURING, contemporary glazed red boards with gilt border, spine gilt, g.e., with original printed blue wrappers bound in, light spotting to boards, a little rubbed at edges, spine slightly faded, folio, Munich, J.M.Herrmann, [c.1825]. ⁂ A lovely and probably unique copy of this scarce description of the first synagogue in Munich, for presentation to the royal house of Bavaria, specially bound and with an additional set of handcoloured plates. The delicate washes and colouring give the original line drawings a much more three-dimensional quality, as if they were original drawings. During the Napoleonic Wars the number of Jews in Munich had increased and in 1824 a permit was issued for the construction of a synagogue. Jean Baptiste Métivier (1781-1857) was royal building inspector who designed many palaces for the nobility. He favoured a neoclassical style for the building in the hope that it would serve as a model for future synagogues in Bavaria but subsequent ones were built in a more oriental style. The synagogue was destroyed by the Nazis in 1938 during Kristallnacht. Provenance: From the Wittelsbach library of the Dukes and Kings of Bavaria. £4,000 - 6,000

197 -. FEYERLICHE EINWEIHUNG DER SYNAGOGE IN MÜNCHEN DEN 21. APRIL 1826, FIRST EDITION, some text in German and Hebrew, light foxing, contemporary blue boards with gilt border, neat manuscript note “Synagoge in München” to head of upper cover, g.e., very slightly rubbed and marked, spine a little faded, 4to, Munich, C.Wolf, [1826]. ⁂ Rare printed programme for the inauguration of the first public synagogue in Munich which was designed by Jean Baptiste Métivier (see previous lot). The inauguration was attended by King Ludwig I of Bavaria. Only a few copies recorded in KVK. Provenance: From the Wittelsbach library of the Dukes and Kings of Bavaria. £400 - 600 196

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198 Nicholson (Peter) THE CARPENTER AND JOINER’S ASSISTANT, FIRST EDITION, 79 engraved plates, some folding, the Schloss Tetschner copy with fine stamp in red to verso of title, with 4pp. folio letterpress publishers’ catalogue bound in at end (folded), light spotting to plates, occasional oﬀsetting or browning to text, contemporary sheep, spine ruled in gilt, a little rubbed and scuﬀed, cracks to joints, small repair to lower cover, preserved in modern card folder and cloth drop-back box, [Berlin Kat. 2306], I. & J.Taylor, 1797 § Pain (William) The Practical House Carpenter; or, Youth’s Instructor..., ninth edition, 148 engraved plates numbered 1-146 (including additional plates 3 & 65), an excellent clean copy in contemporary tree sheep, spine ruled in gilt, a little rubbed, corners bumped, joints neatly repaired, [Harris 660; cf. Berlin Kat. 2301, fourth edition of 1792], 1823, 4to (2) ⁂ Important practical guides with detailed plates and instructions for the hanging of doors, construction of windows, stairs, roofs etc. Both went through several editions. £500 - 700

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200 Schwechat Brewery.- [PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM] BRAUEREI IN KLEIN-SCHECHAT [sic]. Nach der Natur gezeichnet und Seiner Hochwohlgeborn Herrn August Deiglmaier [sic] Dankbar Gewidmet von Georg Wieninger 1881 [title from upper cover], photograph album reproducing drawings of views of the brewery at Klein-Schwechat, comprising photographs of calligraphic title “Erinnerung an KleinSchwechat” and 22 views, 7 double-page, all mounted on thick card, views with neat manuscript captions in ink, original ornate dark claret morocco with nine sunken panels tooled in gilt and blind, spine gilt, g.e., preserved in original drop-front box with lid (rubbed, splits to joints), oblong 4to (c.230 x 330mm.), [Klein-Schwechat], 1881.

199 Piranesi (Giovanni Battista) PRIMA PARTE ARCHITETTURE PROSPETTIVE INVENTATE… FRA GLI ARCADI SALCINDIO TISEIO, etched title (second state) and 27 plates, including the complete set of four Grotteschi, plates 17-21 each contain 2 small engravings, plates 22-27 are double-page and on paper stubs, on various thick laid papers, several sheets bearing watermark of ‘T. Dupuy, Auvergne’, light foxing, gutter cracked at plate 1, 19th-century calf, rebacked preserving original backstrip, gilt, a few corners repaired, light rubbing to extremities, folio, [Paris], [circa 1743-57, but printed circa 1800-1809]. ⁂ Piranesi’s ‘Prima Parte’... is his earliest book of prints, and the first expression of his love of architecture and ancient Rome. His depictions combine the reality and fantasy of architecture. When first published in 1743, the work had only 13 plates. The series then expanded to have 5 more prints, and then reprinted together with the “Groteschi” by Bouchard under the title of “Opere varie” (first ed. Rome, 1750). In subsequent editions, the small engravings illustrating the “Letters to Milord Charlemont” (1757) were also included, which in the “Opere varie” are grouped two per page and occupy plates 17-21. This insertion and the numbering of the plates in progression up to the “Groteschi” which occupy nos. 24-27, occurred in the third edition (ca. 1790) known as the “Roman posthumous.” £5,000 - 7,000

⁂ Presentation album of photographs of drawings of the celebrated brewery at Klein-Schwechat, founded in 1632 and today one of the leading breweries of Austria. The album was prepared for the renowned Viennese brewer August Deiglmayer (1827-83), who was at that time managing director of the brewery and one of the great innovators of 19th century brewing. The drawings were executed at the request of Georg Wieninger (1832-87), scion of the Schärding family of brewers, and depict the imperial-style buildings, resembling a grand country estate more than a brewery. £1,000 - 1,500 201 Taylor (I. & J., publishers) OUTLINES OF DESIGNS FOR SHOP FRONTS AND DOOR CASES, with the Mouldings at Large and Enrichments to each Design...intended as an Assistant to Carpenters and Builders in General, FIRST EDITION, engraved throughout with pictorial title and 24 plates, a little marginal soiling, light damp-staining aﬀecting plates IX onwards, short tear with hole to margin of one plate, with 4pp. folio letterpress publishers’ catalogue bound in at end (folded), stitched in original blue wrappers, uncut, 19th century ink inscription of John Ashworth and list of monies paid on inside front wrapper with his signature to lower margin of first couple of plates and further scribblings and calculations to covers, soiled and stained, frayed at edges, preserved in card folder and modern cloth drop-back box, morocco label, [Berlin Kat. 3892; ESTCT301223], 4to, I. & J. Taylor, 1792. ⁂ Very rare; ESTC records only 2 copies (Bodleian and Avery Architectural Library in New York). £750 - 1,000

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202 Vitruvius Pollio (Marcus) I DIECI LIBRI DELL’ARCHITETTURA, translated by Daniele Barbaro, collation: A8 B6 C6 χ1 D-G8 H6 I8 K8 (K3 + 2K3) L8 2χ1 M-Q8 R6 S-T8 V4, architectural woodcut title, 132 woodcut illustrations and diagrams by Salviati after Palladi, including 8 double-page, 15 full-page, 6 illustrations with woodcut overlays of extensions, small volvelle to Q2v, 2 plates on theatres at end with volvelles, pasted cancelled illustrations to E8v and F7r, title a little soiled and with repair to verso, D2 upper corner and to V2-4, minor wormholes, some light surface staining, light foxing and browning, Peter Delmé Esq. bookplate and ‘Metropolitan Duplicate’ ink-stamp, later parchment over vellum, significant loss to parchment covering showing most of vellum spine with some crude vellum repairs to spine, light soiling, rubbing, [Berlin Kat. 1814; Brunet V, 1330; Cicognara 713; Millard, Italian 160; Fowler 407], folio (approx. 405 x 270 mm), Venice, Francesco Marcolini, 1556. ⁂ First edition of Daniele Barbaro’s translation and commentary, and the fourth translation of Vitruvius into Italian. The purpose of this edition was to make accessible, to architects who did not know Latin, a reliable text of a higher lexicographical quality in comparison to other Italian translations. Its aim was to combine the strictly philological and archaeological study of the Vitruvian text with the drafting of a commentary which would also have the function of an architectural treatise for contemporary practice. Barbaro’s edition ‘is widely considered to be the most significant Italian edition of the treatise, the illustrations provided by Andrea Palladio, among others, are the most persuasive architecture illustrations associated with the Vitruvian text’ (Millard). £7,000 - 10,000

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203 Wallis (N.) A BOOK OF ORNAMENTS IN THE PALMYRENE TASTE containing upwards of Sixty New Designs for Ceilings, Pannels, Pateras & Mouldings..., FIRST EDITION, engraved throughout with pictorial title and 11 plates, title with light marginal soiling and small hole to lower margin, [Berlin Kat. 3994; Harris 899], I.Taylor, 1771; The Complete Modern Joiner, or a Collection of Original Designs in the Present Taste, for Chimney-Pieces and Door-Cases, with their Mouldings and Enrichments at Large, second edition, 4pp. comprising letterpress title and table of proportions for chimneypieces/advertisement leaf, 36 engraved plates, oﬀsetting from first plate to publisher’s list of books, otherwise clean, [Harris 903; cf. Berlin Kat. 3822, 1792 edition], I.Taylor, [1772], together 2 vol. in 1 (the second bound first), modern book-label of Edmond L. Lincoln, later half calf over marbled boards, a little rubbed, oblong 4to ⁂ Rare pattern-books of architectural ornaments. No copy of the first edition of The Complete Modern Joiner appears to have survived. £1,500 - 2,000

204 Wallis (N.) THE CARPENTER’S TREASURE; A COLLECTION OF DESIGNS FOR TEMPLES, with their plans, Gates, Doors, Rails and Bridges, in the Gothic Taste..., FIRST EDITION, later issue, letterpress title, 16 engraved plates, with 16pp. 8vo publishers’ catalogue of c.1800 bound in at end, faint spotting to title, modern book-label of Edmond L. Lincoln, modern cloth-backed marbled boards, original blue wrappers bound in (slightly spotted and soiled), uncut, spine soiled, [Harris 901; Not in Berlin Kat.], 8vo, I. & J.Taylor, [1790s]. ⁂ First published in c.1773 with one leaf of Taylor advertisements, reissued with a new title in the early 1790s. ARCHITECTURE - SEE ALSO LOT 165. £600 - 800

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MODERN LITERATURE THE FIRST WORLD WAR

205 Brittain (Vera) TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR “INSCRIBED FOR M.G. MAY BY VERA BRITTAIN. FEBRUARY 20. 1934” on title, light spotting to front, original boards, spine lightly sunned, spine ends and corner tips fractionally rubbed, edges foxed, dust-jacket, sunned, short tear to spine foot (tape repair to verso), nicking and chipping to spine ends and extremities, original printed wraparound band, spine faded, a little creased, 8vo, 1933. ⁂ An extremely diﬃcult title to find both signed and in the dust-jacket. £7,000 - 9,000

Books from the Library of Rupert Brooke and Cathleen Nesbitt, the Property of a Lady 206 Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) THE POETICAL WORKS, RUPERT BROOKE’S COPY with presentation inscription “To Rupert C. Brooke with best congratulations on his success in the scholarship exam. William Dewar. Rugby, June 1902” to front free endpaper, PENCIL MARKINGS OR MARGINAL NOTES IN BROOKE’S HAND TO C.22 PAGES, red calf gilt by Lawrence, Rugby, spine chipped and scuﬀed, upper cover detached, wear to corners, 8vo, 1899. ⁂ A school prize book, awarded to the sixteen-year-old Brooke with several passages highlighted by the young poet. William Dewar was an assistant master at Rugby from 1888 to 1911. £600 - 800

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208 Shakespeare (William) THE TRAGEDY OF ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA [&] LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST [&] PERCILES [&] THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, 4 vol., RUPERT BROOKE’S COPIES with his pencil ownership inscription “Rupert Brooke 1909” to Anthony and Cleopatra front free endpaper and his posthumous library labels to front pastedowns, PENCIL NOTES, COMMENTS AND PASSAGE HIGHLIGHTS IN BROOKE’S HAND TO C.37 PAGES, spotting, light foxing to endpapers, original cloth, backstrips detached or lacking, rubbing and marking, 8vo, 1905-07. ⁂ FOUR VOLUMES FROM THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE WITH A REMARKABLE POETIC

PROVENANCE.

Brooke’s notes appear to be limited to three of the four volumes (The Merry Wives of Windsor being possibly unread, it’s spine, unlike the others still intact), the majority consisting of passage highlights thought with occasional comments on the text or printed notes. Brooke quotes Swinburne in praise of Antony’s speech “Sometime we see a cloud that’s dragonish” (p.160). £1,000 - 1,500

207 Watson (William) THE POEMS..., vol. 1 only (of 2), RUPERT BROOKE’S COPY with his lifetime bookplate to front free endpaper, p. 18 with faint pencil marking to margin, a few corners creased, very occasional scattered spotting, some faint marginal browning, original cloth, spine darkened, slight bumping and fraying to spine tips and corners, some rubbing and marking, 8vo, 1905. ⁂ William Watson was among several poets discussed by Brooke in his paper “Some Aspects of Modern Poetry”, which he read to the “Eranos” society at Rugby in July 1906. £400 - 600

209 Albright (Victor E.) THE SHAKESPEAREAN STAGE, RUPERT BROOKE’S COPY with his pencil ownership inscription “Rupert Brooke 1909” to front free endpaper, plates, scattered spotting, some marking or light staining to endpapers, original cloth-backed boards, spine and covers darkened, wear to extremities, rubbed, 8vo, New York, 1909. ⁂ Brooke’s copy of this academic work on Shakespeare that reflects the poet’s increasing academic interest in the English Renaissance theatre. £800 - 1,200

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210 Meredith (George) LAST POEMS, FIRST EDITION, RUPERT BROOKE’S COPY with his pencil initials to front free endpaper and posthumous library label to front pastedown, PENCIL MARKINGS, CORRECTIONS AND NOTES IN BROOKE’S HAND TO 13 PAGES, light browning to endpapers, original brown buckram, spine browned, chip to head of spine, light marking to covers, extremities rubbed, 8vo, Constable, 1909. ⁂ Rupert Brooke’s copy of Meredith’s final collection of poetry marked and lightly annotated by him, likely in preparation for his review of the work, published in The Cambridge Review, Vo. 31, No. 767. £1,000 - 1,500

212 Henley (W. E.) POEMS, thirteenth impression, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION “CATHLEEN [NESBITT] FOR A TOOTHACHE FROM RUPERT [BROOKE]” to front free endpaper, photogravure frontispiece portrait, light browning to text, original cloth, spine faded, splitting and wear to spine, bumping and wear to corners, light rubbing and marking, 8vo, 1912. ⁂ A presentation copy of Henley’s poems, inscribed by Brooke to Cathleen Nesbitt in the year they met. Brooke first saw Nesbitt playing Perdita in Winter’s Tale before being introduced to her at a party a few days later. The pair would become romantically involved and were engaged at the time of the poet’s death in 1915. Brooke was an admirer of Henley’s poetry from a young age, including him amongst Kipling, Yeats and Dowson in his paper “Some Aspects of Modern Poetry” which he read to the “Eranos” society at Rugby in July 1906. £3,000 - 4,000

211 Murray (John Tucker) ENGLISH DRAMATIC COMPANIES 1558-1642, 2 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, RUPERT BROOKE’S COPY WITH HIS PENCIL OWNERSHIP INSCRIPTIONS “RUPERT BROOKE 1910” TO FRONT FREE ENDPAPERS AND HIS PENCIL MARKINGS, COMMENTS OR CORRECTIONS TO 13 PAGES WITH 2 LEAVES OF NOTES IN HIS HAND loosely inserted, “Presentation copy” blind-stamps to titles, 31/6 price in pencil to vol. 1 front free endpaper and title, folding tables, light spotting, browning to endpapers, original cloth, spines darkened, bumping and chipping to spine ends and corners, rubbed and a little marked, 8vo, Constable, 1910. ⁂ Brooke’s copy of this important work on early modern drama. The pricing on the title and Brooke’s notes themselves indicate that he may have been intending to review the present work, though we have been unable to trace the article, if ever completed. £1,000 - 1,500

213 Brooke (Rupert) JOHN WEBSTER & ELIZABETHAN DRAMA, pp.269-72 opened roughly with resultant tearing, upper joints split, 1916; Collected Poems, first 3ﬀ. including portrait detached along with tissue-guard, hinges weak, 1918, FIRST OR FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS, INITIALLED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTIONS TO CATHLEEN NESBITT FROM EDWARD MARSH to front free endpapers, original cloth, extremities chipped and worn, rubbed; and another, later printing of The Collected Poems, 8vo (3) ⁂ Inscribed in the month of publication by Brooke’s literary executor, sponsor and first biographer, Edward Marsh, who had introduced Brooke to Nesbitt at a party in 1912. Marsh’s memoir of Brooke appears at the start of the Collected Poems. £600 - 800

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Other properties 215 Smith (Percy John Delf) THE DANCE OF DEATH 1914-1918, the complete set of seven drypoint etchings, excellent well inked impressions with atmospheric plate tone on cream wove paper, each signed in pencil with title, each platemark approx. 197 x 247 mm (7 ¾ x 9 ¾ in), presented in original publisher’s mounts with the artist’s manuscript pen and ink title page, some slightly acidic mounts with exposure lines visible in margins of prints, scattered surface dirt, the title page with splits, handling creases and uneven toning, held in cloth-covered envelope-style slipcase, worn, folio, [published by the artist, circa 1914-1919] Provenance: Percy John Delf Smith’s studio archive; Then by descent until 2002, whereupon acquired privately; by descent to the present owners ⁂ “The Dance of Death, 1914-1918, is not a pretty set of etchings, but it is one of the most serious and memorable works of art inspired by the War.” (Campbell Dodgson, Print Collector’s Quarterly 8, 1921, pp. 324-325). £4,000 - 6,000

214 RUPERT BROOKE’S LETTER-WRITING LEDGER, c.100 blank leaves with occasional finger-soiling and some shadowing, several leaves excised, chipping to corner of front free endpaper, original red half morocco with gilt lettering “Letters”, initials “R.B.” and two stars to spine compartments, lacking upper cover, white stain to spine, cracking to lower joint, rubbing and wear to extremities, 4to, [early 20th century]. ⁂ Rupert Brooke’s letter-writing ledger, gifted to him by his mother and subsequently again by her to Cathleen Nesbitt following Brooke’s death. The binding of this volume closely resembles other Brooke letter-writing ledgers in the Schroder Collection at King’s College Cambridge.

216 Sassoon (Siegfried) MEMOIRS OF AN INFANTRY OFFICER, FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, ONE OF 320 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR, illustrations, colour plates, pictorial endpapers, cover, jacket and slipcase design by Barnett Freedman, original pictorial boards, dust-jacket, spine fractionally faded, very minor rubbing to spine head and top corners, slight browning at flaps verso, t.e.g., others uncut, overall near-fine, original pictorial slip-case, slight rubbing to extremities, light spotting, [Keynes A33e], 8vo, Faber & Faber, 1931. ⁂ A fantastic example of this handsome production. £800 - 1,200

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217 Sassoon (Siegfried) TYPESCRIPT “FOREWORD” FOR FRANK ATHERTON BROWN’S MEMOIR “SPORT FROM WITHIN” INITIALLED “S.S.” AT FOOT, 7pp. on recto only, autograph corrections and insertions by the author, light creasing, some surface soiling, rust mark to upper corner, 8vo, [c.1952]. ⁂ A foreword for a memoir by the jockey Frank Atherton Brown, published in 1952. £400 - 600

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219 Camus (Albert) THE OUTSIDER, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, translated by Stuart Gilbert, the odd spot, fine modern full black morocco by The Chelsea Bindery, g.e., overall an excellent near-fine example, 8vo, Hamish Hamilton, 1946. ⁂ An excellent copy of Camus’s first novel in fine binding. £400 - 600

218 Adams (Richard) WATERSHIP DOWN, FIRST EDITION, folding map, ink ownership signature on front free endpaper, faint toning to endpapers, original cloth, spine ends and corner tips slightly rubbed, light vertical crease to spine, dust-jacket, spine fractionally faded, extremities a little nicked and creased, particularly to spine head, overall excellent, 8vo, 1972. £750 - 1,000

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220 Camus (Albert) L’HOMME RÉVOLTÉ, 129th thousand, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR “à M. A. Blaint, avec le trés cordiale sympathie, Albert Camus.” on half title, , several gatherings showing, age toning, original paper wrappers, slightly browned and creased to spine, lower cover also slightly creased and with a small scuﬀ, slightly bumped to spine ends and corners, otherwise a well preserved copy, 8vo, Paris, Gallimard, 1956. ⁂ Scarce to find works inscribed by Camus. £800 - 1,200

222 Christie (Agatha) THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD, FIRST EDITION, light marginal finger-soiling to p.97 foot, a few faint spots to several pp. at end, overall a clean copy, modern navy morocco by Asprey, gilt, spine in raised bands, one or two light scuﬀ marks, g.e., [Cooper & Pike pp.82-9], 8vo, W. Collins Sons & Co., 1926. ⁂ Christie’s third novel to feature Hercule Poirot, and her first best seller. £800 - 1,200

221 Christie (Agatha) THE SECRET ADVERSARY, FIRST EDITION, 4pp. advertisements at rear, scattered foxing and light edge spotting, neat ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers, original dark green cloth lettered and decorated in blue, rubbing to spine with lettering a little dulled, rubbing to spine tips and corners, a few small dents to upper and lower edges, small mark to lower cover, a bright and excellent copy overall, 8vo, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1922.

223 Conrad (Joseph) NOTES ON LIFE & LETTERS, PRIVATELY PRINTED FIRST ISSUE, with ‘S’ and ‘A’ missing from ‘Tales of the Sea’ on contents and ‘privately printed’ to title verso, title in red and black, original green cloth, spine a little faded, spine ends a little bumped, slight discolouration to upper cover, edges uncut, housed in green morocco-backed drop-back box, gilt spine, [Cagle A51.a], 8vo, 1921. ⁂ RARE PRIVATELY PRINTED FIRST ISSUE OF CONRAD’S ESSAY COLLECTION.

⁂ Christie’s scarce second book, introducing the characters Tommy and Tuppence.

According to Cagle, these copies “were sent to friends of the publisher” and preceded the trade edition by three days. The work gathers twenty-six essays previously published in magazines, including two concerning the loss of the Titanic and its aftermath.

£1,000 - 1,500

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224 Conrad (Joseph) THE ROVER, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, ONE OF 377 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, etched frontispiece, light foxing to endpapers, few wormholes to upper hinge, bookseller’s sticker to rear pastedown, original pictorial boards, gilt, minor browning to spine, spine ends a little bumped, slight foxing to upper cover, t.e.g., others uncut, glacine jacket, faint browning to spine, a few chips and nicks to extremities, slight creasing, dust-jacket, faint fading to spine with stain, bumps and nicks to extremities, minor rubbing, additional cloth dust-jacket (spine browned), housed in morocco-backed slip-case, (a little rubbed), 8vo, Garden City, NY, 1923. ⁂ Conrad’s final completed novel. £400 - 600 226 Eco (Umberto) IL PROBLEMA ESTETICO IN SAN TOMMASO, FIRST EDITION, INITIALLED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR TO FOLCO PORTINARI “E’ speranza da bambini l’auspicar che lasci un solco questo libro nel buon Folco mentre scrive del Parini - U -” to half-title, dated Milan ‘57, half-title with some marginal repairs, aﬀecting couple letters of date of inscription, some other small and skillful marginal repairs, including to title, margins browned, upper hinge strengthened, original printed wrappers, some small chips and short tears to extremities, spine with central vertical split but holding, spine and wrapper extremities browned, 4to, Turin, Edizioni di Filosofia, 1956. ⁂ The first book by the famous Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco, an enlargement of his university thesis on the aesthetic theories of Saint Thomas Aquinas. This copy is presented to the writer and literary historian Folco Portinari, who worked alongside Eco in the 1950s as part of the so-called “corsari”, a group of young intellectuals recruited to modernise the state broadcasting station Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI). The inscription suggests that Portinari was at the time writing Parini e la poetica dell’oggetto, an essay on the concept of objecthood in Giuseppe Parini’s prose that was published in the periodical Paragone in December 1958. £1,200 - 1,800 225 Dahl (Roald) CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with the six line colophon, fifth line reading “Paper manufactured by S. D. Warren and Co.”, illustrations by Joseph Schindelman, original blind-stamped cloth, slight bumping and fading to spine ends, edges a little toned, dust-jacket with no ISBN number to rear panel, repairs and restoration to head and foot, repaired tear to upper panel, retouching to spine, 8vo, New York, [1964]. £600 - 800

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229 Eliot (T.S.) ΤΕΣΣΕΡΑ ΚΟΥΑΡΤΕTΤΑ [FOUR QUARTETS], FIRST EDITION IN GREEK, translated by Andonis Decavalles, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION IN GREEK FROM THE AUTHOR [“HAIL, O BEST OF FABER! T.S.ELIOT”] on half-title, original pictorial wrappers, largely unopened, light crease and slight browning to spine, creasing and light fraying to lower edge, [Gallup D257], 4to, Athens, 1962. 227 Eliot (T. S.), W. B. Yeats and others, contributors.- Pound (Ezra, editor). CATHOLIC ANTHOLOGY 1914-1915, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 500 COPIES, bookplate of Walter A. Donnelly to front pastedown, original boards with cubist design in black by Dorothy Shakespear Pound, light browning to spine, slight wear to spine tips and corners, light rubbing to extremities, an excellent example, [Gallup B1], 8vo, Chiswick Press for Elkin Matthews, 1915.

£500 - 700

⁂ THE FIRST APPEARANCE IN BOOK FORM OF POETRY BY T. S. ELIOT, including “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. £2,000 - 3,000

228 Eliot (T.S.) POEMS 1909-1925, FIRST EDITION, some foxing, browning to endpapers, pencil ownership inscriptions of Professor Mina SteeleSmith , Newnham College, Cambridge to front endpapers and her neat pencil corrections to pp.66 and 91, original cloth, slight fading to spine, minor fraying to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket priced at 7s. 6d., spine rubbed and faded, aﬀecting some lettering, spine ends and corners chipped, restoration to head of spine, splitting to joints with neat tape repairs to verso, panels marked and soiled, extremities rubbed, [Gallup A8a], 8vo, Faber & Gwyer, 1925. ⁂ First edition of this important collection, including “The Waste Land” (appearing here for the first time with the dedication to Ezra Pound) and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” as well as the first appearance in book-form of “The Hollow Men”. £600 - 800

230 Farrell (J.G.) A MAN FROM ELSEWHERE, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on front free endpaper and dated 1966, edge-spotting occasionally straying into margins, spotting to endpapers, original boards, slight bumping to spine tips, dust-jacket, price-clipped, rubbing and creasing to upper and lower edges, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, small chip to foot of lower panel, 8vo, New Authors Limited, [1963]. ⁂ Farrell’s rare first novel, we can trace only one other signed example at auction. This a very good association copy, gifted by the author to his good friend John Spurling who would edit Farrell’s final, unfinished novel, The Hill Station. A letter of provenance accompanies the lot. £2,000 - 3,000

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231 Fleming (Ian) [THE JAMES BOND NOVELS], 14 vol, FIRST EDITIONS, modern black morocco by Asprey, gilt, g.e., an attractive set, 8vo, 1953-66. ⁂ A superb set of the James Bond novels in handsome uniform bindings. £10,000 - 15,000

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232 Fleming (Ian) CASINO ROYALE, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, very occasional marginal spotting, more so at endpapers, original black boards with heart motif in red to upper cover, spine lettered in red, spine ends and top corners slightly bumped, edges a little toned and stained, second issue dust-jacket with Sunday Times review on upper flap, neat repairs and small tape reinforcements to spine head and top corners at verso, light spotting and toning, 8vo, 1953.

233 Fleming (Ian) LIVE AND LET DIE, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, one or two minor marginal spots, original boards, spine ends fractionally bumped, spine ends fractionally bumped, first state dust-jacket without credit to Kenneth Lewis to front flap, surface abrasion aﬀecting text at foot, vertical crease to lower panel, light toning, minor chipping and rubbing to spine ends and corners, light spotting and staining at verso, more so to upper panel, 8vo, 1954.

£5,000 - 7,000

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234 Fleming (Ian) MOONRAKER, FIRST EDITION, second state with “shoot” on p.10, original boards lettered in silver, minor bump to spine foot, spotting and toning to edges, particularly to top edge, dust-jacket priced at 10s. 6d., some toning, a few spots to joints and lower panel, spine ends and corner tips fractionally rubbed, 8vo, 1955. £1,500 - 2,000

236 Fleming (Ian) DR. NO, FIRST EDITION, small ink ownership stamp to front free endpaper, original first state plain boards, light toning to edges, spine ends slightly bumped, later dust-jacket with list of Bond titles on lower flap, price-clipped, publisher’s small price sticker on front flap, light toning to spine and lower panel, minor nicks and chips to extremities, 8vo, 1958. £300 - 400

237 Fleming (Ian) GOLDFINGER, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY “SHIRLEY EATON. JILL MASTERSON. ‘GOLDFINGER’” AND “TANIA MALLETT. TILLY MASTERSON” on front free endpaper, original boards pictorial boards with skull design in gilt and blind, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket, several light scuﬀ marks, toning and a few spots to edges, spine slightly toned, a few spots to lower panel, 8vo, 1959. 235 Fleming (Ian) DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED “LANA WOOD ‘PLENTY O’TOOLE’” on front free endpaper, a few light marginal spots, one or two light corner creases, small paper repair to final pastedown, original black boards patterned in blind with silver lettering and diamond decoration, repair to lower cover joint, dust-jacket, neat repairs to joints, short tear to lower panel foot, not aﬀecting text, minor nicks to spine ends and corners, 8vo, 1956.

⁂ Signed by Shirley Eaton and Tania Mallett, who both starred in the 1964 James Bond film ‘Goldfinger’. £400 - 600

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239 Fleming (Ian) ON HER MA JESTY’S SECRET SERVICE, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY GEORGE LAZENBY, to front free endpaper, and DIANA RIGG, to title page, the odd spot, modern black morocco with facsimile signature of the author in gilt to upper cover, g.e., housed in cloth slipcase, fine, 8vo, Jonathan Cape, 1963. ⁂ The 1969 film adaptation starred Lazenby and Rigg as James and Tracy Bond. Lazenby’s inscription is also inscribed ‘Best wishes’ and ‘007’, and presented on the new endpapers of the modern binding. £1,000 - 1,500

238 Fleming (Ian) ON HER MA JESTY’S SECRET SERVICE, ONE OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, half-title, frontispiece portrait by Amherst Villiers, title-page in red and black, bookplate of Patrick Nicholson to pastedown, original vellum-backed cloth, white ski-track motif on upper cover, t.e.g., very slight discolouration to spine tips, near-fine otherwise, original acetate dust-jacket slight creasing to head, light rubbing, else fine, preserved in custom white morocco-backed dropback box, 8vo, 1963. ⁂ A superb example of Fleming’s only signed limited edition. £6,000 - 8,000

240 Fleming (Ian) GOLDFINGER, FIRST EDITION, original plain boards, spine lettered in gilt, 1959; For Your Eyes Only, faint toning to endpapers, a few marginal spots, light staining to dust-jacket verso, 1960; Thunderball, slight water-staining to dust-jacket verso, 1961, original boards, spine ends fractionally rubbed, spotting and toning to edges, dust-jackets, slight toning, extremities lightly chipped and nicked; and others by the same or similar, 8vo (13) £400 - 600

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241 Fleming (Ian) [THE JAMES BOND NOVELS], 14 vol., FIRST PAPERBACK EDITIONS, some light browning to text, original wrappers, Casino Royale with 2/- sticker to upper cover and some splitting to foot of spine, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service first issue without price to upper cover, You Only Live Twice with “Not for sale in the UK” to lower cover, some minor chipping to spine tips, occasional toning and light creasing to spines and occasional creasing to covers, rubbing to extremities, an excellent set overall, housed in custom slipcase, 8vo, Pan, 1955-67. ⁂ The complete James Bond novels in the format consumed by the majority of readers at the time of publication. Pan paperbacks were cheaply produced and would likely not have survived being read more than a handful of times. Especially rare to find the set in such excellent condition and with On Her Majesty’s Secret Service unpriced as the vast majority of first edition copies were priced and sent to the Canadian export market. £1,500 - 2,000

242 Ford (Ford Madox) “Ford Madox Hueﬀer”. THE SOUL OF LONDON, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE “FORD MADOX HUEFFER” TO JOSEPH CONRAD DATED 5TH MAY 1906, ADDITIONAL SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM “FORD MADOX FORD” TO JEANNE ROBERT FOSTER DATED 15TH DECEMBER 1926 with a Latin inscription “Habent sua fata [libri]” on front free endpaper, publisher’s 4pp. advertisement for Autumn 1915 loosely inserted (lightly toned), small ownership label on front pastedown, light toning to endpapers, light scattered spotting to front and end, original boards, a few light scuﬀ marks, spine sunned, joints and extremities fractionally rubbed, t.e.g., others uncut, 8vo, 1905. ⁂ A remarkable association copy inscribed twice by the author: first to his close friend and literary collaborator Joseph Conrad in the month of publication, and subsequently (2 years after Conrad’s death) to Jeanne Robert Foster. Jeanne Robert Foster (1879-1970): an American occultist and poet from the Adirondack Mountains. She was the New York editor of the Transatlantic Review while Ford Madox Ford was the London editor. Foster was friends with Ford Madox Ford, Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats, John Quinn, and developed a relationship with Aleister Crowley.

243 Forster (E.M.) GOLDSWORTHY LOWES DICKINSON, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR “PETER, FROM MORGAN. 17.4.34” to front free endpaper, plates, some spotting to early and later leaves, original cloth, slight slightly faded, short split to foot of spine, slight bumping to extremities, a little rubbed, dust-jacket priced at 10s. 6d., spine a little darkened, spine ends and corners a little chipped, shadowing to spine ends and corners from (now removed) tape repairs on verso, chip to lower joint, [Kirkpatrick A16a], 8vo, Edward Arnold, 1934. ⁂ Inscribed by Forster two days prior to publication, probably to Peter Savary, a friend of the author and pupil of Dickinson’s. Savary is referenced on p. 221 of the present work. £600 - 800

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245 García Márquez (Gabriel) ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE, English edition, second printing, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION TO TOM MSCHLER AND HIS WIFE WITH A DRAWING OF A FLOWER AND A FISH on dedication p., original boards, spine ends lightly rubbed, slight waterstaining to top edge, dust-jacket, extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo, Jonathan Cape, 1973. ⁂ A superb association copy, inscribed by Marquez to his English publisher, Tom Maschler, managing director of Jonathan Cape. £1,000 - 1,500 246 Gibbons (Stella) COLD COMFORT FARM, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR’S OWN COPY, SIGNED BY HER on title, WITH INSCRIPTION TO HER HUSBAND “FOR MY DARLING ALLAN, FIRST SEPTEMBER 1932” to front free endpaper, AND ADDITIONAL INSCRIPTION dated 1972 with accompanying ORIGINAL SKETCH BY FRANCIS MARSHALL laid down to rear endpaper, some light scattered spots to first and last few pp., contemporary blue half morocco, t.e.g., spine gilt in compartments, upper joint repaired, spine lightly faded, housed in a custom drop-back box, 8vo, 1932. ⁂ A WONDERFUL ASSOCIATION COPY OF GIBBON’S SATIRIC RURAL NOVEL.

244 García Márquez (Gabriel) CIEN AÑOS DE SOLEDAD, paperback issue, second printing, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR “PARA SAMUEL [GRABOIS], EN EL FRAGOR DE LA GRABACIÓN, CON LA AMISTAD ERRANTE DE GABO, 1967” to front free endpaper, light browning to text, original wrappers, toning to spine, rubbing, creasing and soiling, 8vo, Buenos Aires, Editorial Sudamericana, 1967. ⁂ A warmly inscribed copy of the most significant novel to come out of the Latin American Boom, inscribed in the year of publication. Samuel Grabois was the co-founder of the AMB record label which would specialise in recordings of authors (including García Márquez) reading their own work. £2,000 - 3,000

Specially bound for Gibbon while her late husband Allan Webb was a member of the Book Collector's Club. The first inscription is to Allan, and another later inscription accompanies a sketch by Francis Marshall (1901-1980, fashion illustrator and dust-jacket designer), "I saw and liked his jacket for Barbara Cartland's 'We Danced All Night,' & he sent me the rough sketch for it when I wrote oﬀering to buy the original. When I wrote sending him an annotated copy of CCF he sent me this drawing in return, I'd said he probably wasn't old enough to remember Fanny Ward". Marshall was a renown fashion illustrator in his own right, and his sketch of Fanny Ward - a contemporary American actress probably references the various mentions of her in the novel. The three dated notations from 1932, 1972, and 1985 attest to this well-loved and often re-visited copy belonging to the author. £3,000 - 4,000 247 Greene (Graham, editor) NIGHT AND DAY, 26 issues [all published], numerous illustrations and advertisements, original wrappers, some light wear to spines, occasional creasing or light toning to covers, an excellent set, preserved in custom drop-back box, 4to, 1st July - 23rd December 1937. ⁂ Graham Greene’s short-lived magazine that attempted to rival the New Yorker, with contributions by Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell, John Betjeman, Henry Miller, Christopher Isherwood and others. Rare complete and in the original wrappers. The magazine struggled and was facing severe financial constraints before the end of its first year, however the publication of Greene’s notorious review of Shirley Temple in “Wee Willie Winkie” and the resulting lawsuit did much to ensure its early closure. £600 - 800

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248 Greene (Graham) BRIGHTON ROCK, FIRST EDITION, early ink ownership signature on front free endpaper (crossed out), light toning to endpapers, cracking to gutter and splitting to half-title, original cloth, spine lightly sunned, spine ends and top corners slightly rubbed, edges toned, dust-jacket, closed tear at spine head aﬀecting text, toning, more so at spine, flaps detaching, extremities nicked and chipped, a few water-stains to spine verso, 8vo, New York, 1938. ⁂ The true first edition, published a month before the first English edition, of Greene’s classic gangster novel, scarce in dust-jacket.

250 Greene (Graham) THE END OF THE AFFAIR, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR “FOR COLONEL MOLLET IN GRATITUDE FOR ALL YOU HELP IN PARIS” to front free endpaper, browning to half-title and endpapers, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, spine dulled and browned, rubbing and slight bumping to spine tips and corners, 8vo, William Heinemann, 1951. ⁂ Greene’s semi-autobiographical classic novel of frustrated romance, a cornerstone of English Catholic fiction, scarce signed. £1,000 - 1,500

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249 Greene (Graham) THE HEART OF THE MATTER, UNCORRECTED PROOF, scattered spotting, mostly marginal, original printed wrappers (upper wrapper printed on the reverse of a Georgette Heyer dust-jacket), ?lacking lower cover, shelf-lean, creasing and some chipping to spine, some splitting to joint ends, spotting to covers, creasing to corners, some chipping and fraying to edges, 8vo, Heinemann, 1948.

251 Greene (Graham) THE END OF THE AFFAIR, FIRST EDITION, original cloth, light rubbing to tips of spine and corners, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, light scattered foxing to panels, else near-fine, with original “Daily Mail Book of the Month” wraparound band (very lightly toned at spine), 8vo, Heinemann, 1951.

⁂ Rare proof of one of Greene’s most celebrated novels. Only a handful of copies appear to have been issued and the text was revised extensively by the author prior to publication. Curiously the only other copy we can trace at auction, the author’s own, appears also to have been without a lower cover.

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253 Hemingway (Ernest) A FAREWELL TO ARMS, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with Scribner’s seal to title verso and without legal disclaimer, occasional marginal spots to one or two pp., original boards, minor bumping to spine ends, first issue dust-jacket priced at $2.50 and with “Katharine Barclay” to front flap, toning, particularly to spine and lower cover, a few light splash stains to spine verso, extremities slightly chipped and rubbed, [Hanneman 8a], 8vo, New York, 1929. ⁂ An attractive example of one of Hemingway’s key novels, among the best fiction to come out of the First World War £600 - 800

252 Heaney (Seamus) BOG POEMS, ONE OF 150 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, illustrations by Barrie Cooke, faint marginal toning to endpapers, original maroon half morocco over marbled boards, lettered in gilt, spine slightly sunned, slip-case, 4to, Rainbow Press, 1975. £4,000 - 6,000 254 Hemingway (Ernest) FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with publisher’s “A” to copyright p., light toning to endpapers, original cloth, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, first issue dust-jacket without photographer credit to lower panel, spine ends and corners chipped, a few nicks or short tears to head and foot with some light creasing, light rubbing, bookseller’s small sticker to rear flap, still a very good, bright copy overall, [Hanneman 18a], 8vo, New York, 1940. New York, Scribners, 1940. ⁂ Rare with the red colouring on spine bright as here, with only the slightest hint of fading. £600 - 800

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256 Herr (Michael) DISPATCHES, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION BY THE AUTHOR to Rolling Stone journalist Grover Lewis and his wife Rae on the title page: “London - 16 May ‘85. For Grover and Rae Lewis and for all the gang down at the Cafe Cafard. Best - Michael Herr.”, original cloth-backed boards, light bumping to spine ends, Book Club Edition dust-jacket, rubbing to tips and corners, sunned to spine, otherwise a very good example, housed in a cloth slipcase with chemise, 8vo, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. ⁂ A very good association copy of one of the most important books published on the Vietnam War. Grover Lewis (1934-1995) and Herr were regarded as some of the forerunners of New Journalism in the 1960s and 70s. £600 - 800

255 Hemingway (Ernest) THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, publisher’s “A” and seal to copyright p., ink ownership signature and light toning to front free endpaper, original blue cloth, faint sunning to spine, spine ends and corner tips slightly rubbed, first issue dust-jacket with portrait of Hemingway in blue tint on back panel and no mention of Nobel Prize, short closed tear on spine and upper panel, very slightly aﬀecting text, spine lightly toned, small tape marks to upper panel verso, light rubbing to extremities, an excellent example overall, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop-back box, [Hanneman A24a], 8vo, New York, 1952. ⁂ A very good copy of the true first edition of Hemingway’s great novella. £800 - 1,200

257 Highsmith (Patricia) STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION, to the front free endpaper, occasional browning and the odd light spot, original cloth, discoloured and sunned, bumped to spine ends, corners, and extremities, chips to spine ends, lower joint starting to split, bright dust-jacket (a marriage), spine ends and corners slightly chipped, light scuﬄing along joints, foxed to long edge of front flap, otherwise an excellent example, housed in a custom made drop-back box with embossed design of two figures in front of a passing train, 8vo, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1950. ⁂ Presentation inscription reads: “To Rich, I dedicate this volume with pleasure. So glad you liked it in the past. Hope you will like it in the future. Next time - take the plane. Love, Pat Highsmith. Dec. 31 - Jan 1. 1956-1957. Happy New Year.” £2,000 - 3,000

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258 James (C. L. R.) MINTY ALLEY, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR “FOR MARJORIE FROM NELLO. IN MEMORY OF OLD TIMES” to front free endpaper, original cloth, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, spine tips and corners chipped, spine a little darkened, finger-soiling to panels, extremities rubbed, 8vo, New Beacon Books, 1976. ⁂ A presentation copy of James’ only novel, first published in 1936, the first novel by a black West Indian to be published in England. We have been unable to trace definitively the recipient, but the inscription implies a close associate of James’ from his early Trotskyist years in the UK or US. £1,000 - 1,500

259 Joyce (James) A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, together with, Extracts from Some Press Notices... 4pp., margins fractionally toned, folds, 1916, one or two very minor marginal spots at front, light toning to endpapers, original cloth, spine fractionally sunned, small nick to spine foot, spine ends lightly bumped, a few light scuﬀ marks to covers, minor surface-staining to upper cover head, overall an excellent example, [Slocum & Cahoon A12], 8vo, The Egoist Ltd., [1916 but 1917]. ⁂ One of c.750 copies bound with the sheets from the American first edition after English printers refused to incur the risk of printing. Together with a scarce pamphlet containing reviews of the present work by several publications and writers such as Ezra Pound and H.G. Wells. Not recorded by Slocum & Cahoon: “It is a book to buy and read and lock up, but it is not a book to miss.” (H.G. Wells p.1). £2,000 - 3,000

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261 Kennedy (John F.) PROFILES IN COURAGE, MEMORIAL EDITION, SIGNED BY ROBERT F. KENNEDY AND JACQUELINE KENNEDY, to front free endpaper, frontispiece, original cloth, slightly bumped, dust-jacket, clipped, chips and small tears to spine ends, small tear to joint between lower panel and flap, rubbed to corners and extremities, spine and edges of upper panel slightly browned, verso slightly browned, otherwise an excellent example, 8vo, New York, Harper & Row, 1964. ⁂ Scarce to find this edition signed by both Robert F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy. £800 - 1,200

260 Joyce (James) ULYSSES, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, number 1923 of 2000 copies, some very occasional light finger-soiling, original blue wrappers lettered in white, light rubbing and creasing to spine, a few nicks to fore-edges, light discolouration and faint spotting to covers, small hole to head of upper cover, extremities a little rubbing, an excellent example overall, preserved in chemise and slip-case (rather browned and frayed), [Slocum and Cahoon A18], 4to, London and Paris, John Rodker for The Egoist Press, 1922. ⁂ The first English edition, second overall, printed from the original plates and distributed by Rodker and Ezra Pound. Rare in the present condition and unrestored. £3,000 - 4,000

262 Kierkegaard (Søren) EITHER/OR, 2 vol., FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, some light spotting to edges and endpapers, ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, original cloth, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, dust-jackets, spines browned, spine tips and corners a little chipped, aﬀecting author’s name at head of vol. 1 spine, light marking and browning to panels, 8vo, Oxford University Press, 1944. ⁂ The UK issue of the first English translation of Kierkegaard’s most significant work, printed on American sheets with a cancel title, scarce. £600 - 800

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264 Larkin (Philip) THE WHITSUN WEDDINGS, FIRST EDITION, second impression, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title, slight toning strip to final endpaper, original boards, spine heads lightly rubbed, light dustsoiling to top edge, original dust-jacket, toned, spine head rubbed, CONTEMPORARY NEWSPAPER TIPPED-IN AT FRONT FLAP WITH LARKIN’S COMICAL NOTES ON UPPER PANEL, toned, 8vo, 1964. ⁂ A delightful copy of Larkin’s celebrated poetry collection, with a contemporary newspaper fashioned into a dust-jacket (likely by Larkin himself), who has added an inscription in his typically deadpan style: “[...] In loo of the real thing (to be used in loos). First class.” £800 - 1,200

263 Larkin (Philip, editor) THE OXFORD BOOK OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY ENGLISH VERSE, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR TO ANTHONY THWAITE AND HIS WIFE, “TO ANTHONY & ANN. THIS BLOT ON THE 20TH CENTURY” on front free endpaper, faint spotting to front and end, original boards, gilt, spine fractionally faded, spine ends and corner tips lightly rubbed, dust-jacket, spine faded as common, tape repairs to verso, extremities lightly nicked and chipped, more so at upper panel, 8vo, 1973. ⁂ A very good association copy inscribed by the author to his friend and fellow poet Anthony Thwaite (1930-2021). After Larkin’s death Thwaite was the editor of his collected poems and letters. Scarce signed. £800 - 1,200

265 le Carré (John) A MURDER OF QUALITY, FIRST EDITION, second impression, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR “Ruth with best wishes from David Cornwell (John Le Carré) 5.ii.64” on front free endpaper, very faint oﬀ setting to a few ﬀ. in text, original boards, slightly bowed, spine head lightly bumped, light spotting and toning to edges, dust-jacket, spine and lower panel fractionally toned, slight cockling to upper panel, extremities very lightly rubbed and nicked, still overall a very good, bright copy, 8vo, 1962. ⁂ Published in the same year as the first impression. Scarce signed, particularly as David Cornwell. £1,000 - 1,500

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266 le Carré (John) THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title, ink ownership signature on front free endpaper, a little browned, original brown variant boards, spine ends fractionally rubbed, dust-jacket, light spotting, more so to lower panel, a few faint scuﬀ marks, spine slightly faded, spine foot and corners very lightly rubbed and nicked, 8vo, 1963. ⁂ Rare in the variant brown boards, likely a trial binding. £1,000 - 1,500

268 le Carré (John) A SMALL TOWN IN GERMANY, FIRST EDITION SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY, to verso of half title, the odd spot, light browning to endpapers, slightly foxed fore-edges, original cloth, bumping to spine ends, extremities, and corners, dust-jacket, clipped, small tear and slight loss to top corner between front flap and cover, extremities slightly rubbed, light staining verso, otherwise a very good example, 8vo, Heinemann, 1968. ⁂ Presentation inscription reads: “For Edward Milward-Oliver with best wishes from John le Carré / Thank you for your kind letter. Somebody says of Leo Harting that they wouldn’t like to have his dreams, & your letter reminded me of this: It seems to me now that the whole book is Leo’s nightmare.” Leo Harting is the central missing character in the political thriller; reference to the plot makes this a unique presentation. Edward Milward-Oliver was a writer and bibliographer, known for his work on spy fiction and writers like Len Deighton. £500 - 700

267 le Carré (John) THE LOOKING-GLASS WAR, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title, original boards, light surface-marks to upper cover and spine, light stain to top edge, minor dent to a few pp. at fore edge, dust-jacket, small price sticker on upper flap, spine faded, extremities fractionally rubbed, overall excellent, 8vo, 1965. £600 - 800 116

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269 le Carré (John) TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, to the title page, with autograph signed slip of Alec Guinness loosely inserted, original cloth, slightly bumped to spine ends, corners, and extremities, edges a little foxed, dust-jacket, chips to spine ends, corners and extremities, a few small tears, two repaired with tape verso, edges slightly browned, otherwise a very good example, 8vo, Hodder and Stoughton, 1974. ⁂ A very good copy of le Carré’s spy fiction staple, adapted to television in 1979 with Alec Guinness starring as the protagonist, George Smiley.

271 le Carré (John) THE NIGHT MANAGER, FIRST STATE UNCORRECTED PROOF, comprising 476pp. in 30 chapters and dedicated to Helga Macazek, original wrappers, a fine copy, 8vo, 1993. ⁂ The very rare first state proof, recalled and destroyed at the author’s request, one of fewer than 10 copies to have survived. The proof would be reissued with a new pagination (447pp.) and dedicatee (Graham Goodwin) and the text now divided into 31 chapters. £1,000 - 1,500

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270 le Carré (John) SMILEY’S PEOPLE, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title, ownership blind stamp on front free endpaper, upside down original boards, dust-jacket, short tear to upper panel with tape repair at verso, fractional toning to spine and lower panel, 8vo, 1979. £600 - 800 272 Lee (Harper) TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, ENGLISH UNCORRECTED PROOF, the odd light spot, occasional very light creasing, some corner creasing, original printed wrappers, slight shelf-lean, spine a little creased and with very light toning, short closed tear running across spine through one letter of title, minor chipping to foot of spine, spotting and neat ink ownership inscription to upper cover, slight creasing to covers, 8vo, Heinemann, [1960]. ⁂ Rare uncorrected proof of one of the most celebrated American novels of the 20th century. We can trace only two other examples of this proof at auction. £3,000 - 4,000

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274 Lowry (Malcolm) ULTRAMARINE, FIRST EDITION, publisher’s printed slip compliments slip with typed additions “of the author” to recto and “Ultramarine” to verso loosely inserted, original blue cloth letter in white, spine very slightly dulled and lettering rubbed, very slight bumping to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket priced at 7s. 6d., light browning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, very light spotting to panels with light toning to margins, extremities rubbed, an excellent example overall, preserved in custom drop-back box, 8vo, Jonathan Cape, 1933. ⁂ Lowry’s scarce first novel with a presentation slip sent on his behalf by Jonathan Cape. Ultramarine was completed while Lowry was still an undergraduate at Cambridge and draws on his experiences as a deck hand on board a steamer. £2,000 - 3,000

273 Lewis (C.S.) PRINCE CASPIAN. THE RETURN TO NARNIA, FIRST EDITION, colour frontispiece and illustrations by Pauline Baynes, contemporary ink gift inscription dated Christmas 1951 to front free endpaper, occasional light spotting, more so at end, original boards, spine sunned, a few light spots and scuﬀ marks, minor staining to lower cover head, dustjacket, upper flap price-clipped, neat restorations to spine, joints and extremities, light chipping to extremities, 8vo, 1951. £800 - 1,200

275 Masefield ( John) THE BOX OF DELIGHTS, FIRST EDITION, pictorial endpapers, original cloth, slight fading to spine, spotting to upper cover, dust-jacket priced at 7/6, light browning to spine, spine a little chipped at head, three neat strengthening tape repairs to verso, a few small nicks to upper edge, spotting to front panel, an excellent copy overall, 8vo, William Heinemann, 1935. ⁂ The second book in Masefield’s influential children’s fantasy series. Authors such as Angela Carter, C.S. Lewis and Alan Garner have noted the influence of Masefield’s children’s books on their writing. The print-run for The Box of Delights was only half that of the first book in the series The Midnight Folk rendering it comparatively scarce in the dust-jacket in good condition. £750 - 1,000

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276 Miller (Arthur) DEATH OF A SALESMAN, FIRST EDITION, original cloth, slightly bumped to spine ends and corners, first issue dust-jacket with the ‘D’ of ‘Death’ partially within the patch of yellow, and the second ‘S’ of ‘Salesman’ fully within the yellow, a bright example with small losses to spine ends and top corner of rear panel, but overall a very good copy, housed in a custom made drop-front box with embossed upper cover mirroring the dust-jacket, 8vo, New York, The Viking Press, 1949. £600 - 800

277 Milne (A.A.) WINNIE-THE-POOH, ONE OF 300 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, colour illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, original blue morocco, gilt, spine slightly faded, slight abrasions to raised bands, small mark to head of spine, g.e., housed in original slip-case, lower board with scuﬀ to outer corner and a few marks, light rubbing to extremities, gilt, 8vo, 1973. £1,500 - 2,000

278 Murakami (Haruki) A WILD SHEEP CHASE, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR and rabbit ink stamp to title, original clothbacked boards, very minor fading to head and foot, spine ends fractionally rubbed, dust-jacket, spine a little faded, flaps lightly toned, spine ends very slightly creased, overall a superb copy, 8vo, New York, 1989. £1,000 - 1,500

279 Orwell (George) ANIMAL FARM, FIRST EDITION, the odd spot, hinges starting to crack, original cloth, slightly bumped and faded to spine ends and corners, dust-jacket with red Searchlight advertisement verso, small chips to spine ends and corners, light scuﬃng along joints, small spot to upper panel, otherwise an excellent example, housed in custom made drop-back box mirroring dust-jacket design, 8vo, Secker & Warburg, 1945. £6,000 - 8,000

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281 Orwell (George) KOLHOSP TVARIN [ANIMAL FARM], translated by Ivan Chernyatinskii, FIRST UKRAINIAN EDITION, half-title, a few tears and repairs to portrait of Orwell, some scattered spotting and surface soiling, toning, original pictorial wrappers, rubbed and soiled with a few tears and creases, spine chipped with some loss, joints splitting, 8vo, [Munich], Vidavnitstvi Prometei, [1947]. ⁂ Including a 6pp. foreword specially written by George Orwell for this edition. The scholar, Ihor Shevchenko, wrote to Orwell with the aim of publishing Animal Farm in Ukrainian, specifically for the post-World War II Ukrainian displaced-persons community. Owing to the political sensitivities surrounding the post-war Allied relationship with the Soviet Union, large numbers of copies were reportedly seized by U.S. soldiers and handed over to Soviet authorities, where they were confiscated and presumably destroyed. As a result, surviving copies of this edition are exceptionally scarce and of considerable historical significance. £600 - 800

280 Orwell (George) ANIMAL FARM, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, lightly age toned, original cloth, very light bumping to spine ends and corners, first issue dust-jacket priced $1.75 and without the ‘printed in the USA’ statement to rear flap, design by Art Brenner, minor rubbing to spine ends and corners, an bright near-fine example, 8vo, New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946. ⁂ Very unusual to find with the red spine lettering undimmed. £500 - 700

282 Orwell (George) NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, FIRST EDITION, faint marginal vertical crease to pp.307-310, light spotting to rear endpapers, original cloth, slight fading to spine and margins, slight bumping to spine ends, a little spotting to spine, red dust-jacket, spine faded, tear to spine head aﬀecting text, small spot to upper panel, extremities chipped and nicked, 8vo, 1949. £2,000 - 3,000

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284 Plath (Sylvia) THE COLOSSUS AND OTHER POEMS, FIRST EDITION, [one of 500 copies], KENNETH ALLOTT’S COPY with his ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, neat pencil cross markings to head of poems “Metaphors” and “Frog Autumn”, original cloth, slight bumping to spine tips, dust-jacket priced at 15s., light browning to spine, minor chipping to spine and corner tips, some light marking and faint surface soiling to panels, a crisp and excellent example overall, 8vo, William Heinemann, 1960. ⁂ An excellent association copy of Plath’s first collection of poetry, the only book published under her own name during her lifetime. The poet Kenneth Allott (1912-73) selected two of Plath’s poems (“Metaphors” and “Frog Autumn”) for inclusion in the 1962 expanded edition of The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse, making Plath one of only two Americans (along with T.S. Eliot) to feature in the anthology. £2,000 - 3,000

283 Orwell (George)NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, FIRST EDITION, endpaper collage of Orwell’s eyes, small compartments to front pastedown revealing the Queen and George Washington’s faces, binder’s “Certificate of Authenticity” leather label in panel to rear, light spotting to half-title and title, modern black morocco in jacket design with metal skull buttons and gilt lettering “Winston Smith” to the left breast, onlayed prosthetic eye to chest with calf eyelid, radiating design in blind depicting the gaze of Big Brother to upper cover, title, author and date lettered in gilt on lower cover, slight shelf-lean, light spotting and toning to edges, 8vo, Secker and Warburg, 1949. ⁂ This copy number 31 from the binder’s limited edition of 100 copies. £1,200 - 1,800

285 Powell (Anthony) AFTERNOON MEN, FIRST EDITION, light scattered spotting, mostly to edges and margins, original cloth, spine a little foxed and dulled, dust-jacket by Misha Black priced at 7/6, light browning to spine, spine a little chipped and creased at head, 1 or 2 small nicks with light creasing to head of panels, rubbing to corner tips, light surface soiling, an excellent example, preserved in custom green morocco-backed drop-back box, 8vo, Duckworth, 1931. ⁂ Powell’s first published novel, scarce in the dust-jacket. £1,000 - 1,500

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286 Powell (Anthony) VENUSBERG, FIRST EDITION, neat ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, original cloth, stain to head of lower cover, dust-jacket by Misha Black priced at 7/6, light browning to spine, spine a little chipped at head, larger chip to foot, a few nicks to top edge of panels with light creasing, light toning to upper panel, some staining to lower panel, preserved in custom chemise and slipcase, 8vo, Duckworth, 1932. ⁂ Powell’s scarce second book.

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287 Pullman (Philip) HIS DARK MATERIALS, 3 vol., comprising Northern Lights with Point on spine, 7-11 Pratt Street on lower flap and without the Carnegie Medal, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR “With my greetings to Rebecca” on half-title, light spotting to edges, 1995; The Subtle Knife, bookplate signed by the author loosely inserted, minor spotting to top edge, 1997; Amber Spyglass SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title, light cracking to gutter, but holding firm, 2000, FIRST EDITIONS, margins lightly toned, original boards, dust-jackets, spine ends lightly bumped, 8vo.

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288 Rowling (J.K.) HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE, FIRST EDITION, HARDBACK ISSUE, FIRST PRINTING with full 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 number line on publisher’s imprint page and “1 wand” repeated on p. 53, usual light browning to text, original pictorial boards with misspelled “Philospher’s” to lower cover, slight sunning to spine, spine tips a little bumped, light rubbing to corner tips with slight bump to upper corner of a lower cover, a bright, near-fine example otherwise, [Errington A1(a)], 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1997. ⁂ The hardback issue of one of the most influential children’s books published in the 20th century. One of only 500 copies produced in this format, chiefly intended for distribution to libraries. £50,000 - 70,000

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289 Rowling (J.K.) HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE, FIRST EDITION, PAPERBACK ISSUE, FIRST PRINTING FIRST PRINTING with full 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 number line on publisher’s imprint page and “1 wand” repeated on p. 53, usual light browning to text, faint splash marks to fore-margins of first third, original pictorial wrappers, sunning and light creasing to spine, slight corner creasing, light rubbing to extremities, an excellent example overall, [Errington A1(aa)], 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1997. £4,000 - 6,000

290 Rowling (J.K.) HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS, FIRST EDITION, very faint marginal dents to pp. 115-126 and creases to a few pp. at end, margins lightly toned, original boards, spine ends and corner tips slightly bumped, edges slightly toned, dust-jacket, spine slightly faded, spine ends and corner tips fractionally rubbed, upper panel top corner slightly nicked, light toning verso margins, [Errington A2(a)], 8vo, 1998. £500 - 700

291 Rushdie (Salman) THE SATANIC VERSES, UNCORRECTED PROOF, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR “‘THE SATANIC VERSES’ SALMAN RUSHDIE” on title, light marginal browning, original wrappers, spine creased with faint marking, light creasing to cover corners, extremities rubbed, 8vo, 1988. ⁂ Rushdie’s celebrated exploration of the immigrant experience in Britain as well as the intersection of the Muslim and Hindu faiths. £750 - 1,000

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292 Shiel (M. P.) THE YOUNG MEN ARE COMING, FIRST EDITION, bookseller’s label to front pastedown, original cloth, very light toning to spine, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, price-clipped, minor chipping to corner tips, light rubbing and creasing to spine tips, a near-fine copy, housed in a custom slipcase, 8vo, George Allen & Unwin, 1937. ⁂ A superb example of this science fiction title, rare in the dustjacket. Ex-libris of Barry Humphries £800 - 1,200

294 Steinbeck (John) OF MICE AND MEN, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with “pendula” on p.9 and bullet between the numbers on p.88., original cloth, near-fine, very slightly bumped to spine ends, dust-jacket, front flap priced $2.00, a few small tears and one hole repaired with tape verso, a very small hole not repaired to edge of front cover and front flap, spine browned, small chips to spine ends and corners, otherwise an excellent example, [Goldstone & Payne A7a], 8vo, New York, Covivi Friede, 1937. £800 - 1,200

293 Sinclair (Upton) THE JUNGLE, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE without worn type on copyright p., SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR “For Piers Posner when he grows up!” on front free endpaper, contemporary review loosely inserted, faint toning to gutter at preliminaries, else clean, original pictorial boards, spine fractionally sunned, spine tips and corners slightly rubbed, edges lightly toned, 8vo, New York, 1906. ⁂ Sinclair’s powerful exposure of the Chicago meat-packing industry. Inscribed to Piers Posner (b.1966), son of American poet and book collector David Louis Posner (1921-85). £600 - 800

295 Stoppard (Tom) ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD, FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, original wrappers, hinges and lower panel head fractionally toned, 1967. ⁂ The first paperback edition, issued simultaneously in hardback. £400 - 600

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297 296 Stoppard (Tom) TRAVESTIES, FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND CAST, INCLUDING JOHN BOTT, JAMES BOOTH, FRANCES CUKA, MEG WYNN OWEN, BETH MORRIS, JOHN WOOD, TIM CURRY, HARRY TOWB on front free endpaper, original wrappers, spine and lower cover slightly toned, light scuff marks and creasing, more so to upper cover, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo, 1975. ⁂ Signed by Stoppard and several members of the original production’s replacement cast at the Aldwych Theatre in June 1974. Notably including the signature of Tim Curry who had just made his return to the West End after the success of ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’. £600 - 800 297 Thomas (Dylan) A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG DOG, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR “TO PHIL FROM DYLAN 1943 WITH LOVE” to front free endpaper, very light browning to endpapers, original green cloth lettered in silver, very slight bumping to spine tips and corners, a fine copy, 8vo, Dent, 1940. ⁂ The author’s first published collection of short stories, very likely inscribed to his friend and drinking-partner Philip Lindsay. £750 - 1,000 298 Tolkien (J.R.R.) THE RETURN OF THE KING, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, signature mark “4” and text block misaligned on p.49, folding map at rear (a few light marginal spots), light toning strips and spotting to endpapers, original cloth, slight bumping to spine tips, dust-jacket, toning, more so to spine, short tears to upper panel foot (affecting letter ‘R’) and lower panel head (marginal), light spots and scuff marks, but a bright and excellent example overall, [Hammond & Anderson A5.a.iii], 8vo, 1955. £1,000 - 1,500 126

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299 Tolkien (J.R.R.) THE LORD OF THE RINGS, 3 VOLS., LATER IMPRESSIONS, EACH VOL. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title pages, comprising The Fellowship of the Ring, seventh impression, oﬀsetting and toning to front endpaper, a few spots to titles, light creases to a few pages, cloth a little stained, pushed at spine ends, jacket taped at edges to paper backing, 3” partial loss to bottom of spine, surface soiling and a few small stains, creases to top of rear panel and folds, 1957; The Two Towers, fifth impression, a few spots, cloth a little stained, ring mark to front panel, spine a little cocked, jacket with spotting, browning and soiling, creased and tanned at spine and folds, split to bottom of front flap at fold, nicks and short tears at edges, 1957; The Return of the King, fourth impression, a few spots, cloth a little stained, spine a little cocked, jacket with with spotting, browning and soiling, creased and tanned at spine and folds, split to rear panel at fold, nicks and short tears at edges,1958; folding maps, slight bumping and rubbing to spine tips, a very good signed set overall, 8vo, George Allen and Unwin. ⁂ A complete set of The Lord of the Rings signed by the author. The set belonged to an Oxford student in the 1950s; the same time as Tolkien was Professor of English Language and Literature at Merton College. Passed by descent to the present owner. £15,000 - 20,000

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300 Waugh (Evelyn) SCOOP, FIRST EDITION, issue with raised indistinct ‘8’ in publication date but ‘a’ to last line of p.88’, minor chipping at foot to dedication and contents pp., faint toning to endpapers, original cloth, fractional sunning to spine, spine ends and corner tips lightly rubbed, faint spotting and toning to edges, first issue dust-jacket with “Daily Beast” masthead, neat repairs and restorations to spine ends and corners at verso, light rubbing and creasing to extremities, generally a very good example, 8vo, 1938. £1,000 - 1,500

301 Waugh (Evelyn) BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, FIRST EDITION, trimmed at head and fore edge, attractive modern red morocco by Asprey, gilt, g.e., 8vo, 1945. £600 - 800

302 Wodehouse (P.G.) CARRY ON, JEEVES, FIRST EDITION, occasional scattered spotting, original cloth, spine fractionally sunned, spine ends and corner tips slightly bumped, light spotting and toning to edges, first issue dust-jacket priced at 3/6 on spine, minor paper repairs to verso spine ends and corners, very slightly aﬀecting text, slight vertical creases to upper and lower panels, extremities a little toned and creased, overall excellent, 8vo, [1925]. £1,20 - 1,800

303 Woolf (Virginia) THE VOYAGE OUT, FIRST EDITION, 16pp. advertisements at end, faint browning to endpapers, very light spotting to front, light corner creases to a few pp., original cloth, spine fractionally darkened, light rubbing to joints, spine ends and corner tips lightly rubbed, light spotting at top edge, an excellent example, [Kirkpatrick A1a], 8vo, 1915. ⁂ Woolf’s first novel. £400 - 600

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305 Woolf (Virginia) TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, FIRST EDITION, bookplate of Francis E. Bliss on front pastedown, light browning to endpapers, scattered spotting, minor cracking to gutter in one or two gatherings, but holding firm, original cloth, spine slightly toned, the odd small stain and scuﬀ mark, small bump to upper cover head at joint, slight nicking and fraying to spine ends, corner tips lightly rubbed, light spotting and toning to edges, still a very good copy overall, [Kirkpatrick A10, Woolmer 154], 8vo, 1927. £400 - 600

304 Woolf (Virginia) JACOB’S ROOM, FIRST EDITION, 14pp. advertisements at end, near contemporary ink ownership signature on front free endpaper, very slight browning to endpapers, faint toning to margins, light cracking to gutter at one or two gatherings, but holding firm, original cloth, slightly darkened, as common, more so at spine, rubbing to spine label, slightly aﬀecting text, spine ends and corner tips lightly rubbed, still an excellent example, [Kirkpatrick A6a, Woolmer 26], 8vo, 1922. ⁂ The author’s experimental third novel. This was the first of her novels published by the Hogarth Press and marked the point at which Leonard and Virginia Woolf decided to take the Hogarth Press forward as a serious publishing venture. £600 - 800

306 Yeats (William Butler) THE TREMBLING OF THE VEIL, ONE OF 1,000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, original parchment-backed boards, uncut, some light spotting to spine but very clean generally, dustjacket, spine a little browned and with light splash marks, spine ends and corners a little chipped, a few nicks or short tears to head and foot of panels with creasing, [Wade 133], 8vo, Privately Printed for Subscribers only, 1922. £500 - 700

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CHILDREN’S, ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, ORIGINAL ARTWORK AND PRINTS

307 Bemelmans (Ludwig) MADELINE, FIRST EDITION, slightly bumped and scuﬀed to spine ends, extremities, and corners, jacket with $2.00 to front flap, small tears with tape repairs verso with some resulting browning, rear panel marked and browned but front panel generally clean, slight browning to flaps, otherwise an excellent example, 1939; Madeline and the Gypsies, 1959; Madeline’s Rescue, 1953; Madeline and the Bad Hat, 1957; Madeline in London, 1961; Sunshine, jacket with losses to front panel and upper spine, 1950, first, first in book form, or first trade editions, the odd spot, some browning, original cloth or pictorial boards, some bumping and rubbing, dust-jackets, light chipping and a few nicks or short tears, New York, Simon and Schuster, The Viking Press, 4to (6) ⁂ An excellent run of the Madeline books lacking only Madeline’s Christmas. £1,500 - 2,000

308 Disney (Walt).- THE ADVENTURES OF MICKEY MOUSE, FIRST EDITION, light corner creases to several pp. at end, dust-jacket price-clipped, as common, small loss and “COPYING” in manuscript to upper panel, chipping and splitting to joints, Philadelphia, 1931; and another copy of the same, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, light finger-soiling, cracking at gutter, but holding firm, tape repairs to dust-jacket spine ends verso; colour illustrations, original pictorial boards, spines fractionally sunned, spine ends and corner tips lightly rubbed, dust-jackets, housed together in modern chemise and morocco backed slip-case, small 4to (2) ⁂ THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF MICKEY MOUSE IN BOOK FORM IN THE US AND THE UK, BOTH BOOKS IN THEIR RARE DUST-JACKETS. £3,000 - 4,000 130

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310 Potter (Beatrix) THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT, FIRST TRADE EDITION, second or third printing, with “wept” for “shed” on p.51, colour frontispiece and 30 illustrations by the author, grey leaf patterned endpapers, contemporary ink gift inscription dated 1902 on front endpaper, occasional light creasing and marginal surface-marks, edges lightly rubbed, small marginal surface abrasions on pp.22-23 & 52-57, cracking to gutter, holding firm, light ?oﬀ setting to pp.94-95, original dark green boards, mounted colour illustration to upper cover, small repair to spine head, backstrip a little rubbed, dulled and faded, light rubbing to spine and corner tips, edges lightly rubbed, top edge darkened, [Linder p.421], 16mo, Frederick Warne and Co., [November or December 1902]. ⁂ The first trade edition of the first book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. Originally published in two privately printed editions of 250 and 200 copies (December 1901 and February 1902, respectively), this first trade edition was the first in which all of Potter’s designs are printed in color. Leslie Linder records that “green boards were introduced after the first printing” but aside from this “there are no recognizable diﬀerences between the first three printings”. The words “wept big tears” on p.51 were changed to “shed big tears” in the fourth printing of April 1903. £800 - 1,200

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The Property of a Lady 309 Dulac (Edmund) SINBAD THE SAILOR AND OTHER STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, 23 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue guards, all leaves within decorative gold border, attractive modern navy morocco, upper cover elaborately gilt, spine gilt with raised bands, g.e., 4to, 1914. £600 - 800

311 Thomson (Hugh, illustrator, 1860-1920) ORIGINAL ARTWORK FOR ‘HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS OF SURREY’ BY ERIC PARKER, c.70 pencil and ink drawings, several in watercolour, many signed by the artist, mounted on card, occasional light spotting and adhesive stains, a little rubbed and scuﬀed, [c.1908]; and other sketches by the artist on paper, v.s. (sm.qty) ⁂ Full list of illustrations available on request.

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312 Thomson (Hugh, illustrator, 1860-1920) ORIGINAL ARTWORK FOR ‘TALES OF THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS’ BY F. J. HARVEY DARTON, 39 ink drawings on card, some watercolour, signed by the artist, all with manuscript captions and publisher’s ink stamp to verso, 260 x 320 mm (10.2 x 12.6 in), a little rubbed and scuﬀed, slight browning, 1903-4; and c.30 pencil and ink drawings on paper of Swiss characters and 2 related works, v.s. (c.67) £800 - 1,200

313 Thomson (Hugh, illustrator, 1860-1920) ORIGINAL ARTWORK FOR ‘TOM BROWN’S SCHOOL DAYS’ BY THOMAS HUGHES, c.60 pencil and ink drawings on card, one or two watercolour, signed by the artist, tissue guards, manuscript captions in a later hand, 210 x 300 (8.3 x 11.8 in) & 300 x 420 mm (11.8 x 16.5 in), foxing, extremities lightly rubbed, 1916. £800 - 1,200

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Other properties 314 Tunnicliﬀe (Charles Frederick) 11 ORIGINAL WOODBLOCKS OF ENGRAVINGS FOR A VARIETY OF BOOKS, including Tarka the Otter, The Old Stag, The Star-Born, The Lone Swallows, and The Peregrine’s Saga, blocks approx. between 125 x 190 mm and 140 x 90 mm, with a few pulls from the blocks, [c.1930s]; and a later edition of Tarka the Otter illustrated by the artist, v.s. (12) ⁂ The woodblocks are listed as follows, except for one which is not in Meyrick and Heuser catalogue raisonné, which depicts hunters and their dogs, potentially a rejected woodblock for The Old Stag. From Tarka the Otter: “Bitch Playing with Cubs”, 177; “Wild Swans oﬀ the Crow Neck”, 184; “Deadlock”, 193. The Old Stag: “To the Meet at Brendon Two-Gates”, 214; “Fox Listening to Hounds Pursuing”, 225. The Star-Born: “Keeorich and the Star-born”, 242; “Eldrich and the Water Spirit”, 261 The Lone Swallows: “The Sound of Old Tins”, 275; “The Land was Sold and the Trees Cut Down”, 288 The Peregrine Saga: “Halbert up the Chestnut Tree”, 302 £2,000 - 3,000

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316 Gillray (James) WEIRD SISTERS; MINISTER’S OF DARKNESS; MINIONS OF THE MOON, etching and aquatint, with original hand-colouring, on wove paper without watermark, sheet 247 x 340 mm (9 ¾ x 13 ⅜ in), trimmed within the platemark, some toning to extremities, some thinning and old adhesive tabs verso, not showing through, unframed, Hannah Humphrey, 1791 Literature: BM Satires 7937 ⁂ ‘A burlesque of Fuseli’s well-known picture illustrating ‘Macbeth’. The three witches are Dundas, Pitt, and Thurlow, in profile to the right instead of to the left. Fuseli’s drapery is replaced by clouds, and the three gaze with reflective and apprehensive intensity at the moon’. [BM] £1,000 - 1,500

315 Gillray (James) THE WORKS... FROM THE ORIGINAL PLATES, WITH THE ADDITION OF MANY SUBJECTS NOT BEFORE COLLECTED, 2 VOL., INCLUDING THE VOL. OF “SUPPRESSED PLATES”, vol. 1 with large woodcut vignette on title, engraved frontispiece portrait, and 586 etched plates (numbered 1-582, with starred additional plates including nos. 86, 100, 207, 379, and 379**, and without plate 238 as issued), vol. 2 with 45 numbered plates, scattered surface dirt throughout, some minor cockling to sheets, contemporary half red morocco, marbled covers, g.e., spine gilt in compartments with remnants of black morocco labels, both generally very scuﬀed and worn with losses, folio, Henry G. Bohn, [1847-1851]

317 Gillray (James) L’ASSEMBLÉE NATIONALE, OR GRAND CO-OPERATIVE MEETING AT ST ANN’S HILL, etching with original hand-colouring, a good impression, sheet 343 x 470 mm (13 ½ x 18 ½ in), repaired tear to the upper left edge, laid onto thin paper support verso, minor handling creases, some surface dirt, unframed, Hannah Humphrey, 1804 Literature: BM Satires 10253 ⁂ A reception given by Mr. and Mrs. Fox to various groups of the Opposition, which at first glance, appears a satire on the prospects of a Regency, and the intrigues and negotiations between Opposition groups and the Prince’s friends. £1,500 - 2,000

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319 Gillray (James) THE REPUBLICAN RATTLE-SNAKE FASCINATING THE BEDFORD SQUIRREL, etching with hand-colouring, on wove paper without watermark, sheet 359 x 249 mm (14 ¼ x 9 ¾ in), small margins, soft creases, minor surface dirt, unframed, Hannah Humphrey, 1795 Literature: BM Satires 8684 £700 - 1,000

318 Gillray (James) THE SLOUGH DESPOND, etching with original handcolouring, on wove paper without watermark, sheet 255 x 360 mm (10 x 14 ¼ in), some minor even toning and light surface dirt, unframed, Hannah Humphrey, 1793 Literature: BM Satires 8286 ⁂ A satire on the moment of isolation for Fox and a few followers as the majority of Whigs voted to support the government, here presented as Christian in The Pilgrim’s Progress, sinking under the weight of his sins. £700 - 1,000

320 Gillray (James) CONFEDERATED-COALITION;-OR-THE GIANTS STORMING HEAVEN;-WITH, THE GODS ALARMED FOR THEIR EVERLASTING-ABODES, etching with original hand-colouring, on wove paper without watermark, sheet 443 x 327 mm (17 ½ x 12 ¾ in), trimmed within the platemark, corners with some small losses, marginal toning, surface dirt, unframed, published by Hannah Humphrey, 1804 Literature: BM Satires 10240 ⁂ A ‘parody of the Grand Manner, as applied to the sordid realities of contemporary power struggles’ [Timothy Hyman BM], contrasting a Baroque heaven with the army of Neo-Classical male nudes who are assailing it. £600 - 800

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321 Dighton the Elder (Robert, 1752-1814) ORIGINAL DRAWINGS FOR THE MEZZOTINT SERIES OF “THE FIVE SENSES”, five works, watercolours, inks, signed, numbered in inks and each inscribed within the lower margins accordingly, ‘Seeing’, ‘Hearing’, ‘Feeling’, ‘Tasting’, ‘Smelling’, on laid papers, each image approx. 325 x 250 mm (12 ¾ x 9 ¾ in), presented in uniform mounts with fine watercolour wash designs, under glass, presented in uniform frames, [circa 1770-1790] (5) Provenance: Private collection, Dorset, UK Engraved: Set of five mezzotints, printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, circa 1770-1790 ⁂ An unrecorded set of fine Georgian watercolours depicting the senses by Dighton, each an original design subsequently reproduced in mezzotint. £4,000 - 6,000 Buyer’s premium is applicable on every lot. Please note any symbols for additional charges that may apply. All symbols, fees, charges and applicable VAT are explained on p.4

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323 Beardsley (Aubrey, editor) THE YELLOW BOOK, 13 vol., FIRST EDITION, plates, light foxing, bookplates to front pastedown, oﬀsetting to endpapers, original yellow decorative cloth, light rubbing and shelf wear, paged edges foxed, extremities a little knocked and abraded, an usually clean and bright set most without the usual sunning, 8vo, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1894-1897. ⁂ A complete run of The Yellow Book, scarce in this condition. From the library of Barry Humphries. £800 - 1,200 324 Beardsley (Aubrey).- Symons (Arthur) THE SAVOY: AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY, 8 VOL., FIRST EDITION, plates and illustrations by Beardsley, Sickert, Rothenstein, Beerbohm, Rossetti, Shannon etc., Christmas card tipped-into vol.1 at half-title, without publisher’s slip in vol.7, some foxing, more so in vol.7 & 8, vol.1 endpapers lightly browned, vol.1 & 2 in original pink pictorial boards, the rest in original green pictorial wrappers, some light rubbing and fraying, spines lightly toned and creased, vol.1 a little darkened, marginal tears to vol.8 covers, only just aﬀecting price on upper cover, but generally a sharp and excellent set, without the original pink-wrappered suppressed prospectus, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Lasner 103 & 103a], 4to, Leonard Smithers, January-December, 1896.

322 Booksellers.- Dipstale (E., 19th century) PORTRAIT OF THOMAS “TOMMY” OSBORNE (D.1823), THE “ITINERANT BOOKSELLER OF EXETER”, oil on panel, signed ‘E.Dipst[?]ale/ Painter’, 275 x 192 mm (10 ¾ x 7 ½ in), some surface scuffs and scratches, rubbing to pigment in places, surface dirt, framed, [19th century] Provenance: Private collection, Dorset, UK ⁂ A distinguished portrait of the Exeter bookseller, shown with numerous books and pamphlets stuffed in his pockets, with his right hand proffering a red book, and several beads of perspiration dripping from his forehead. Thomas, or Tommy, Osborne was an itinerant bookseller and stationer who achieved fame as one of Exeter’s distinctive street characters of the early nineteenth century. Several other portraits of him are known, with two held in the collection of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery.

⁂ An excellent set of what Holbrook Jackson called “the most satisfying achievement of ‘fin de siecle’ journalism in England.” The arrest of Oscar Wilde and the dismissal of Aubrey Beardsley as the art editor of The Yellow Book created diﬃculties for the artists and writers of the 1890s. Smithers’s enterprise was therefore most timely. However, employing Beardsley was not without its problems - his cover illustration for no.1 having to be suppressed, for example, as it depicted a young boy urinating on The Yellow Book. Symons’ editorship was crucial in recruiting writers such as Yeats, Conrad, Shaw, Verlaine, Ernest Dowson and John Gray.

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326 Scrap album.- COLLECTOR’S SCRAP ALBUM CONTAINING APPROXIMATELY 2000 CUTTINGS ON 90 ALBUM LEAVES, including natural history, military and various mid-to-late Victorian miscellanea, engravings, lithographs, some hand-coloured, all neatly cut and laid onto album leaves, half calf, marbled boards, scuﬀed and slightly worn, oblong folio, [circa 1850-1900] £800 - 1,200

325 Blake (William) THE WOOD ENGRAVINGS...FOR THORNTON’S VIRGIL 1821, NUMBER XV OF 15 OUT-OF-SERIES SETS, from an edition limited to 150, 17 wood-engravings on Japanese Hosho paper, c.120 x 155mm., loose as issued in numbered card folders, with accompanying illustrated text booklet with introduction by Andrew Wilton and prospectus, both in original wrappers, together loose in original cloth drop-back box, gilt-stamped roan label to upper cover and spine, the first with small scuﬀ to edge, tall 8vo, 1977. ⁂ Superb reprinting of Blake’s only wood-engravings from the original blocks in the British Museum. A collaboration between David Chambers and Iain Bain, they had to transport the 1884 Alexandra printing press into the museum in order to print the blocks. The result is a handsome aﬀair and a distinct improvement on the rather poorly printed originals. Blake was new to wood-engraving and the original woodblocks were inadequately prepared and the engraving fine and shallow, as if for metal-engraving. As Bain and Chambers write in their note on the printing in the accompanying booklet, “...the results have been rewarding and demonstrate most clearly that impressions taken in the nineteenth century did little justice to the beauty of the blocks, and that hand printing from the original wood has in several respects improved on the excellent machine printing from electrotypes of the 1930s”. (p.11) £2,000 - 3,000

327 Tregear (Gabriel Shire) [BLACK JOKES], 12 hand-coloured caricatures, aquatints with fine original hand-colouring by G. Hunt after W. Summers, some soiling to margins, a couple of tears, all guarded into contemporary blue half morocco, gilt, rubbed, 4to, c.1830s. ⁂ Gabriel Shear Tregear (1802-1841) was an English publisher of caricatures and prints, running his “Humorous and Sporting Print Shop” from 123 Cheapside, London. In their style and subject matter, these satirical but oﬀensively racist images playing on racial stereotypes are an adaptation of Edward W. Clay’s earlier lithographic series ‘Life in Philadelphia’ (1828–30), which sought to lampoon and ridicule the social pretensions of black Philadelphians through a number of exaggerated situations and compositions. The plates oﬀered here are: The Promenade, The Lady Patroness of Alblacks, Marriage a la Mode, The Christening, Venus and Adonis, The Route, The Card Party, The Breaking Up, Othello, The Concert, Miss White’s Birthday Party, The Lubbers Quarrel. 326

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328 Watteau (Antoine) FIGURES DE DIFFERENTES CARACTERES DE PAYSAGES, & D’ETUDES DESSINEES D’APRES NATURE, 2 vol., engraved throughout, vol.1 with self-portrait of Watteau by Boucher, title, 4pp. biography, 2ﬀ. epitaph and 1f. preface, vol.2 with title, advertsiement and allegorical frontispiece, and 351 plates on 221 sheets (numbered 1-350 plus an additional unnumbered plate after 270), one plate with tear at inner margin, otherwise generally very clean and crisp, later calf, stamped in gilt and blind, spines richly gilt with double morocco labels, vol.2 upper joint renewed, other joints a little rubbed, folio, Paris, chez Audran & Chereau, c.1735. ⁂ A lovely and complete set of celebrated engravings after Watteau’s drawings. £7,000 - 10,000

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329 Beard (Peter) PETER BEARD, one of 2500 copies signed by the artist, photographic illustrations (many full-page), original half-calf, fractional rubbing to corners, housed in original drop-back box, bumping to corners, with original folding wooden stand, large folio, Cologne, Taschen, 2006. £1,000 - 1,500

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331 Chahine (Edgar) IMPRESSIONS D’ITALIE, ONE OF 15 COPIES ON JAPON A LA CUVE, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, from a total edition of 75 copies, 50 etched plates, each signed in pencil, occasional spotting, contents/limitation leaf browned, original decorative boards with etched label to front cover, rebacked in green morocco, boards slightly rubbed, folio, Paris, 1906. £1,000 - 1,500

330 Bonnard (Pierre).- Mirbeau (Octave) DINGO, ONE OF 30 COPIES ON JAPON ANCIEN PAPER FROM AN EDITION LIMITED TO 350 COPIES, 14 etched plates and numerous illustrations by Pierre Bonnard, additional suite of plates on Arches laid paper at end, original pictorial wrappers bound in, black morocco by Madeleine Gras, with geometric white lines and 2 parallel red morocco inlaid lines down the centre of both covers, spine with similar red morocco parallel strips as labels lettered in gilt, plain red morocco doublures, black silk endpapers, g.e., folio, Paris, Ambroise Vollard, 1924. ⁂ A striking copy of this important livre d’artiste with Bonnard’s first etched illustrations enhancing the story of a little dog called Dingo “with the lively imagination characteristic of Bonnard’s animal drawings” (The Artist and the Book, 30). £2,000 - 3,000

332 Duchamp (Marcel).- A PAIR OF RED KNITTED GLOVES, PREPARED AT DUCHAMP'S INSTRUCTION WITH "MERDE" EMBROIDERED ON ONE PALM, both fore-fingers and thumbs frayed, c.1940s; with a facsimile of a typed note by Claude Fredericks explaining the association, and a dossier on the relationship between Duchamp, Norton and Fredericks (sm. bundle) ⁂ An unusual and charming survival from Marcel Duchamp’s private life, particularly intriguing for his direct involvement in their creation and the characteristically irreverent mirror-image lettering. Duchamp wore the gloves during his flight from Europe to America in 1942, on board former hospital boat, the Maréchal Lyautey. The gloves subsequently passed into the possession of Claude Fredericks (1923–2013), American poet, diarist, founder of the Banyan Press and influential professor at Bennington College, where his students included Donna Tartt and Bret Easton Ellis. Fredericks’s extensive journals, documenting his friendships and encounters with artists and writers of the period, are held by the Getty Research Institute. The accompanying dossier was compiled from copies of his journals and correspondence, the originals of which are preserved in the Getty archives. £2,000 - 3,000

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334 Isotype.- Neurath (Marie) RAILWAYS UNDER LONDON, FIRST EDITION, colour illustrations, some light foxing, bookseller’s sticker to front pastedown, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, extremities a little rubbed, dust-jacket, chipping and few short tears to spine ends and extremities, a little foxed and browned, rubbing, 4to, Max Parrish, 1948. ⁂ SCARCE ISOTYPE WORK, WE CAN TRACE ONLY ONE OTHER EXAMPLE OF THIS RARE TRUE FIRST EDITION AT AUCTION, BUT NONE IN THE ORIGINAL DUST-JACKET. The upper flap of dust-jacket includes insightful questions to engage its young readers: "How does the ticket-machine give the right change? How do the train-doors open when nobody touches them? How do the trains work the signals themselves? Try to answer these questions alone: the mystery remains. Try to explain by showing photographs: it is a little easier." With these charming questions engage its audience and encourages a new perception of London transport. Marie Neurath and her husband Otto pioneered the technique that came to be termed the International System of Typographic Picture Education (Isotype) as a means of widely communicating social-scientific data and instructions. After the pair fled to the UK from the Netherlands following the 1940 invasion of the Nazis, the Neuraths founded the Isotype Institute in Oxford, continuing the work they had begun on the continent. The war proved to be an opportunity to diﬀuse the ideas the couple had established and they received numerous commissions from the Ministry of Information. Following the end of the war and Otto’s death in 1945, Marie continued to apply Isotype principles and designs to representing complex information, principally in popular science books for young persons. This book is an important example of Neurath’s pioneering approach to explain complex technical subjects through visual communication. 333 Frink (Elisabeth) ETCHINGS ILLUSTRATING CHAUCER’S ‘CANTERBURY TALES’, ONE OF 50 ‘DE TÊTE’ COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, 19 etchings with aquatint, original green morocco, inlaid with vellum to upper cover, edges uncut, slip-case, (light spotting to spine and edges, minor discolouration to boards), elephant folio, Waddington, 1972.

University of Reading published research confirming that Marie Neurath and the Isotype Institute worked closely with London Transport in preparation for this book; London Transport had supplied technical information and engineering drawings, and even had experts check the accuracy of the illustrations. £1,000 - 1,500

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335 Marini (Marino) TOUT PRÈS DE MARINO, NUMBER 3 OF 15 ON JAPON WITH ADDITIONAL SUITE, FROM A TOTAL EDITION OF 153, SIGNED BY ARTIST, half-title, 10 etchings, additional suite of 10 colour etchings signed by artist, all loose as issued, housed in original paper wrappers, original orange dropback box, rubbed, splitting at coners, folio, Paris, 1971. £4,000 - 6,000

337 Photography.- KODAK PORTFOLIO, DE LUXE EDITION, 14 photogravures, accompanying text on tissue guards, occasional spot, light toning to pages, photogravures clean and sharp, original cloth with gilt stamped leather label, spine a little tanned, corners and edges with a few light knocks, else fine, 4to, Eastman photographic materials, 1897. ⁂ A RARE SOUVENIR OF THE EASTMAN PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION HELD IN 1897 IN LONDON AND FEATURING KODAK FILM PICTURES BY EMINENT PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE DAY. Illustrated with 14 beautiful photogravures by J. Craig Annan and Sons after Kodak photographs by Robinson, J. Craig Annan, Frances Benjamin Johnston, George Davison, A. Horsley Hinton, and others. Rare. £750 - 1,000

336 Mucha (Alfons).- France (Anatole) CLIO, ONE OF 20 COPIES ON PAPIER VELIN, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND WITH AN EXTRA SUITE OF THE 13 PLATES IN COLOUR ON PAPIER DE CHINE, colour plates by Mucha, uncut and partially unopened, loose in original pictorial wrappers, 8vo, Paris, 1900. ⁂ One of 20 special copies reserved for Les XX. £600 - 800

338 Michiels (Johann Franz) DIE NEUEN GLASGEMÄLDE IM DOME ZU KÖLN, FIRST EDITION, one letterpress leaf with key in German, French and English, 5 PLATES OF LANCET WINDOWS PRINTED IN GOLD, EACH WITH MOUNTED ORIGINAL SALT PRINT OF THE STAINED GLASS, one or two small spots to plates, ex-library copy with small ink stamp to verso of leaves, armorial bookplate, original cloth-backed printed boards, a little rubbed and soiled, spine faded, folio, Munich, F.C.Eisen, 1854. ⁂ Rare early work illustrated with photographs, depicting the new stained glass windows created by J.Fischer and Hellweger, and donated by King Ludwig I of Bavaria for the cathedral of Cologne. J.F.Michiels was a Belgian photographer who issued several works with photographs of art and architecture in collaboration with the publisher F.C.Eisen. £1,000 - 1,500

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339 Typography.- Lubalin (Herb) TYPO-GRAPHICS; THE FIRST TYPO-GRAPHICS AGENCY; TYPEFACE DIRECTORY; L.S.C. TYPEFACES; AVANT GARDE GOTHIC, 5 vol., publisher’s compliments slip loosely inserted, original wrappers, fine, 8vo, New York, Lubalin, Burns & Co., 1970. £600 - 800

341 Zadkine (Ossip) LE MONDE SECRET DE/THE SECRET WORLD OF ZADKINE, ONE OF 23 COPIES WITH AN ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AND ENGRAVING BY ZADKINE, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE ARTIST TO YOUSUF KARSH, very light occasional spots, loose as issued, original red silk chemise, spine sunned with a few small stains, slip-case, minor rubbing to extremities, folio, Paris, 1966. ⁂ Monumental retrospective of Zadkine and his work, produced a year before his death. 340 Typography.- Mosley (James) ORNAMENTED TYPES. TWENTY-THREE ALPHABETS FROM THE FOUNDRY OF LOUIS JOHN POUCHÉE, 2 vol., one of 200 copies, 46 sheets of wood-engraved type specimens printed from the original blocks and loose as issued with prospectus in original cloth drop-back box (upper cover paper label slightly rubbed), accompanying text with illustrations in original cloth, uncut, slip-case, large folio, I.M. Imprimit & St. Bride Printing Library, 1992-93. ⁂ Pouchée’s type foundry at Lincoln’s Inn Fields ran from only 1818-1830 when he was forced out of business by his competitors. During that time he produced some of the most richly ornamented letters ever created. Only 23 alphabets survive and are now held by St. Bride’s, where they were identified and catalogued by James Mosley in 1966. This work is a faithful reproduction of these beautiful alphabets. £800 - 1,200

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NATURAL HISTORY The Property of a Lady

342 Birds.- Gould (John) THE BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN, 5 vol., FIRST EDITION, list of subscribers, 367 hand-coloured lithographed plates, most heightened with gum arabic, by Gould, H.C. Richter, Joseph Wolf and William Hart, some spotting and occasional oﬀsetting, a couple of tiny nicks to fore-edge, bookplate of George, Lord Hylton to vol.1, contemporary green half morocco, spines gilt, [Ayer & Zimmer p.261; Fine Bird Books, p.78; Wood p.365; Nissen 372], folio,[1862]-73. ⁂ WIDELY REGARDED AS THE GREATEST OF ALL BIRITSH BIRD BOOKS with such as Richard Bowdler Sharpe even commenting “Such beautiful illustrations...scarcely existed before and are not likely to be surpassed”. This copy accompanied by Gould’s An Introduction to the Birds of Great Britain, Printed for the author, 1873, a fine copy in the original red cloth and with a presentation inscription in Gould’s hand to Hedworth Jolliﬀe (2nd Baron Hylton), one of the subsribers and father of George, whose bookplate is in the main set. WITHOUT DOUBT THEREFORE THIS COPY CAN BE DESCRIBED AS AN ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBER’S COPY. £35,000 - 45,000

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344 -. Plukenet (Leonard) OPERA OMNIA BOTANICA, 6 vol. in 4, FIRST EDITION, 454 engraved plates plus engraved portrait, titles, dedication and To the Reader leaves, Appendix titles and final tail-piece plate at end, some titles in red and black with vignettes, some foxing and browning, but a handsome complete copy in contemporary blind-stamped calf (not quite uniform in size), spines gilt, a little rubbed, 2 spine labels missing, some joints starting, [Henrey 305], 4to, William & John Innys, 1696-1720. ⁂ RARELY FOUND COMPLETE AND HERE IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING IN

ENTIRELY UNSOPHISTICATED CONDITION. This is the second issue of the

first edition, comprising sheets of the original works (1691-1705) issued with a general title. This impressive labour illustrates and describes new and exotic species, many from Plukenet’s herbarium which contained some 8000 plants (it was later acquired by Sir Hans Sloane and now forms part of the Sloane herbarium in the Natural History Museum). It is one of the great catalogues of plants, as evidenced by the frequency with which Linnaeus cites Plukenet. £2,000 - 3,000

343 Botany.- Blackwell (Elizabeth) A CURIOUS HERBAL, 2 vol., second edition, engraved throughout (apart from 14 letterpress plate descritpions in vol.1), titles, 4 dedication ff. in vol.1, 2ff. index at end of each vol., 412 hand-coloured engraved plates only (of 500, lacking 37 from vol.1 and 51 from vol.2), a couple of plates with tears, vol.1 title holed with slight loss of text, occasional foxing and toning, later mottled calf, spines gilt, a little rubbed, folio, Printed for John Nourse, 1739. ⁂ The first herbal published by a woman. Begun in 1735 as an attempt to unify medical and botanical illustrated texts on useful plants and, in the hope of having her husband released from debtor’s prison, Elizabeth Blackwell took up residence opposite the Chelsea Physic Garden and issued her Curious Herbal in 125 parts between 1737 and 1739. Hand-coloured parts sold for two shillings, and ordinary parts for one. The present copy is a “reissue of the 1737 edition with the imprints re-engraved and volume statements in roman numerals” (ESTC). £2,000 - 3,000 345 Entomology.- Albin (Eleazar) A NATURAL HISTORY OF SPIDERS, AND OTHER CURIOUS INSECTS, FIRST EDITION, list of subscribers, woodcut initials and decorations, engraved frontispiece and 53 plates, all handcoloured (with plate 35 bis and no plate 52), some light offsetting and toning, contemporary calf, gilt, a little rubbed, 4to, Printed by John Tilly, 1736. ⁂ Subscribers include Richard Mead, Sir Hans Sloane, Herman Boerhave and the Empress of Russia. £1,000 - 1,500

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346 Conchology.- Knorr (Georg Wolfgang) LES DELICES DES YEUX ET DE L’ESPRIT, OU COLLECTION GENERALE DES DIFFERENTES ESPECES DE COQUILLAGES, 6 vol. in 3, FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, 6 additional engraved titles and 180 plates, all finely hand-coloured, plus 10 superb mezzotint plates at the end of vol.6, all plates with tissue-guards, handsome contemporary panelled calf, gilt, some joints just starting to crack, decorated edges, extremities a little rubbed, [Dance, “Delights for the Eyes and the Mind: A Brief Survey of Conchological Books” (http://www.bionica.info/biblioteca/DanceBibliophile.pdf); Landwehr, Dutch Books with Coloured Plates 96; Nissen, ZBI 2235], 4to, Nuremberg, 1764-73. ⁂ AN EXCEPTIONAL SET IN ALMOST UNBLEMISHED CONDITION. “Les délices des yeux et de l’esprit”...is truly a deluxe production which eventually portrayed nearly a thousand shells on 190 plates. The engravings, accurately drawn, meticulously hand-coloured and attractively arranged, are among the most aesthetically satisfying of all published figures of shells. The text, describing the appearance of the shells and little else, was made superfluous by the excellence of the figures, but this did not prevent the book appealing to a wide circle. Indeed, it was so popular that, although Knorr died in 1761, five more parts were added by 1772 and a Dutch edition was also produced. Once again various private collectors made this book possible, their names being elegantly engraved on the plates below the figures of their shells.” (Dance). Provenance: A.M. Labouchere (bookplate and ink insciption to each vol.); Smith-Dorrien family bookplate. £8,000 - 12,000

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347 Knorr (Georg Wolfgang) DELICES PHYSIQUES CHOISIES...POUR EN FORMER UN CABINET CHOISI DE CURIOSITEZ NATURELLES, [OR DELICIAE NATURAE SELECTAE], 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, titles in French and German, text also in both languages in double column, vol.1 with handcoloured additional engraved vignette title (dated 1754), 91 fine hand-coloured plates, one folding, engraved vignette head-piece in vol.1, Smith-Dorrien family bookplate, contemporary mottled and diced calf, gilt, worn, vol.1 upper cover and endpapers detached, [Nissen ZBI 2227], folio, Nuremberg, 1766-67. ⁂ Containing beautiful illustrations from some of the foremost cabinets of curiosities in eighteenth-century Europe. Many of the examples are from the collection of Christoph Jacob Trew. Nissen calls for a portrait, although this hardly ever seems to present. Includes fine plates of corals (15), shells (7), butterflies (6), sea urchins (4), minerals (6), lobsters and spiders (7), starfish (4), fish (9), birds (7), mammals (14) and reptiles (12). £6,000 - 8,000

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348 Monkeys.- Audebert (J.B) HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES SINGES ET DES MAKIS, half-title, 61 engraved plates printed in colour and finished by hand, 2 plain plates, B1 tear right through, occasional faint spotting or surface soiling, armorial bookplate, contemporary half red morocco, spine sunned, slight discolouration to covers, rubbed, some wear to extremities, edges uncut, [Nissen ZBI 156; Wood, p. 206], folio, Paris, Desray, 1800. ⁂ FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE MONOGRAPH DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY DEVOTED TO THE DESCRIPTION OF MONKEYS. This was also Audebert’s first publication that he undertook alone, where he was responsible for the creation of the drawings and the printing process. Included in the illustrations are depictions of great apes, and more recently discovered species, such as the gall-o’-the-walls of the Pelew Islands. £7,000 - 10,000

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BOTANY AND HORTICULTURE 349 Birds.- Audebert (J.B) and L.P. Vieillot. OISEAUX DORÉS OU À REFLETS MÉTALLIQUES, 2 vol., 190 engraved plates printed in colour, some heightened with gilt by Langlois, a few folding, 1 plate with short split at foldlines, light scattered spotting, Henry Rogers Broughton bookplates, contemporary calf, gilt, upper covers detached, covers a little marked, light bumping and rubbing to extremities, [Anker 14; Fine Bird Books p.56; Nissen IVB 47], large 4to, Paris, [1800]-1802.

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⁂ The plates “are among the best colour prints found in ornithology” (Anker). “The regular issue. Its plates, heightened with gold and so finished that they are little less than hand-illuminated engravings, make this one of the most beautiful books of its era... It is the gold reflections of the plumage that render the book unique and wonderful.” (Fine Bird Books). A special edition was published of two hundred copies in large folio with the captions printed in gold. £6,000 - 8,000 350 -. Gould (John) COLLECTION OF 89 LOOSE PLATES FROM ‘THE BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN...’ AND ‘THE BIRDS OF EUROPE...’, lithographs with fine handcolouring, some heightened with gum arabic, many with accompanying text leaves, each sheet approx. 550 x 380 mm (21 ¾ x 15 in), some marginal nicks and tears, binding pin-holes, occasional minor toning and surface dirt, unframed, [circa 1830s-1870s]. ⁂ “Such beautiful illustrations as those of the Birds of Great Britain scarcely existed before and are not likely to be surpassed” [R. Bowdler Sharpe]. £1,500 - 2,000

351 Andrews (H.C.) THE BOTANIST’S REPOSITORY, FOR NEW, AND RARE PLANTS, vol.1 only (of 10), FIRST EDITION, engraved title and 72 hand-coloured plates, some short tears, many trimmed sometimes touching image, most folding, plate 47 torn, faint foxing or surface staining, contemporary half calf, covers detached, worn, [Dunthorne 8, Great Flower Books, p. 83; Nissen BBI 2382; Stafleu & Cowan 135], 4to, by T. Bensley, 1797. £400 - 600

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353 Drapiez (Pierre Auguste Joseph) HERBIER DE L’AMATEUR DE FLEURS, 8 vol., 598 hand-coloured plates only (of 600), some heightened with gum arabic, lacking vol.1 title (supplied with vol.2 title), few plates loose or becoming so, some light browning, foxing, 7 vol. uniformly bound in contemporary morocco-backed boards, discolouration to covers 1 vol. in modern half-morocco, spines sunned, light rubbing to extremities, [Nissen BBI 2324; Stafleu & Cowan 4958], 4to, Brussels, 18[28]-35. ⁂ The first edition with this title, but the work is a re-issue of Herbier Géneral de l’Amateur. Drapiez was only the complier of this work. £750 - 1,000 352 Dillenius (Johann Jacob) HORTI ELTHAMENSIS. PLANTARUM RARIORUM ICONES ET NOMINA, 2 vol., second edition, reissue without original text but with index of Linnaean names, 325 engraved plates, a few plates misbound, occasional light soiling or spotting, mostly marginal, ink inscription to foot of vol.2 title, contemporary vellum, paper label to foot of spine a little soiled, extremities worn, edges uncut, [Henrey 643; Nissen BBI 492; Stafleu & Cowan 1471], folio, Leiden, Cornelius Haak, 1774. ⁂ “The most important book to be published in England during the eighteenth century on the plant growing in a private garden” (Henrey) and a major work for the pre-Linnaean taxonomy of South African plants. “Johann Jacob Dillenius (originally Dillen) (1684-1747) (was) a German botanist from Darmstadt, who was brought to England in 1721 by William Sherard to help with the latter’s projected revision of Caspar Bauhin’s ‘Pinax’ of 1623... About this time, William Sherard’s brother James, who had a flourishing medical practice in London, purchased a country estate at Eltham in Kent. William spent a good deal of time on the property and, assisted by Dillenius, built it up into one of the leading gardens in England. When William died in 1728 he endowed a chair of botany at Oxford with the provisio that Dillenius should be the first incumbent. He also left his herbarium, library and manuscript to the University. At the insistance of James Sherard, Dillenius embarked on an account of the more interesting plants growing at Eltham, with the result that he did not take up residence at Oxford until 1734...” (Gunn & Godd, Botanical exploration of South Africa, pp.63-4). £1,500 - 2,000

354 FLORIST (THE) [&] THE FLORIST, FRUITIST, AND GARDEN MISCELLANY, 13 vol. only, 169 hand-coloured plates only, a few folding, 4 uncoloured plates, occasional browning or oﬀsetting, occasional trimming sometimes touching imprint or image, light foxing and browning, uniform half calf, red and black morocco labels to spines, spines browned, rubbing, 8vo, 1849-61; sold as a periodical, not subject to return. £400 - 600

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355 Hogg (Robert) and Thomas Moore. THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST: A PICTORIAL MONTHLY MAGAZINE, 14 vol. only, 224 plates only, most hand-coloured or chromolithographed, a few folding, few with large tears or old repairs to versos, few ff. loose or becoming so, few ff. with small marginal holes, sometimes affecting text, 1 vol. lacking title, few vol. with occasional damp-staining, some light foxing or surface staining, some cracking to gutters and hinges, original pictorial cloth, 1866 vol. bound in 1863 cloth, spine darkened, mottling or staining to covers, some joints and spine ends splitting or fraying, rubbed, bit worn, [Nissen BBI 2259], 1862-76; and 2 duplicates, sold as a periodical, not subject to return, 8vo (16) £600 - 800 356 Houtte (Louis van)., Lemaire (Charles Antoine) & Scheidweiler (Michael Joseph François) (eds.). FLORE DES SERRES ET DES JARDINS DE L’EUROPE, 11 vol. (of 23), 646 lithographed plates, most handcoloured, some heightened with gum arabic, 235 folding or double-page, 29 uncoloured or tinted lithographs, tissue guards, wood-engraved illustrations, a few plates loose, light foxing throughout, many tissue guards loose, some lacking, nearcontemporary leather-backed, 9 vol. in red calf, 2 vol. in black morocco, generally quite rubbed and bumped to extremities, losses to corners, spines faded, hinges starting to crack, Belgium, 8vo, 184577; sold as a periodical, not subject to return. ⁂ A nice example of one of Europe’s finest 19th century botanical and horticultural journals, known for its exceptional colour printing craftsmanship, executed by master Belgian lithographers including Guillaume Severeyns, Louis-Constantin Stroobant, and Pieter De Pannemaker.

357 Lemaire (Charles Antoine) & Linden (Jean Jules) L’ILLUSTRATION HORTICOLE, JOURNAL SPÉCIAL DES SERRES ET DES JARDINS, 23 works (of 43) in 11 vol., 817 hand coloured or chromolithographed plates only, several folding, with engravings, tissue guards, not all tissue guards present, some plates loose, foxing and browning, near contemporary calf backed boards, gilt spines, rubbed, corners bumped with some losses and scuﬀs, hinges strained, 8vo, Gand, Belgium, E. et S. Gyselynck and later Eugene Vanderhaeghen, 1856-80; sold as a periodical, not subject to return. £800 - 1,200

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359 Morren (Charles) Edouard Morren. LA BELGIQUE HORTICOLE, JOURNAL DES JARDINS, 17 vol. (of 35), FIRST EDITION, vol. 1-15, 19 and 20, 349 chromolithographic plates only, many folding, and many monochrome plate portraits and engravings throughout, some loose ﬀ., mostly to vol. 6, light foxing and browning, uniform cloth-backed boards, bumping to spines and extremities, some losses to spines, several hinges starting to crack, Belgium, 8vo, 1851-70; sold as a periodical, not subject to return. ⁂ Charles Morren founded the horticultural and botanical journal in 1851. The review focused on a wide array of topics including botany, greenhouse conservation, and general gardening techniques, and contains hundreds of exquisite chromolithographic plates. £800 - 1,200

358 Maund (Benjamin) THE BOTANIC GARDEN, 13 works in 7 vol., 312 hand-coloured engraved plates, Simpkin and Marshall, 1825-[1851]; vol 13 bound with THE FRUITIST; A TREATISE ON ORCHARD AND GARDEN FRUITS, 72 hand-coloured engraved illustrations, Groomsbridge and Sons, c.1851; THE AUCTARIUM OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN, 2 works in 1 vol.; THE FLORAL REGISTER, 2 works in 1 vol., light foxing, otherwise plates and leaves generally bright and clean, near-contemporary uniform half morocco, lightly rubbed to spine, corners, and extremities, Simpkin, Marshall, and co., 8vo, c.1849. (9) £1,000 - 1,500

360 Redouté (P.J.).- Botany.- L’Hériter de Brutelle (Charles-Louis) GERANIOLOGIA, SEU ERODII, PELARGONII..., FIRST EDITION, 44 engraved plates, some repairs to plate 15 (not aﬀecting image), plate 14 with ink correction to imprint, some foxing, contemporary half calf, sympathetically rebacked and recornered, light worming, rubbed, [Nissen BBI 1188; Stafleu & Cowan 4494], folio, Paris, 1787-88 [1792]. ⁂ PLESCH-DARTMOUTH COPY. These handsome engravings were by l’Hériter with 31 of them after drawings by P.J. Redouté, others are by C.Aubriet, H.J. Redouté, L.Freret (first state of plate 14 ascribed to P.J. Redoute, as in this copy), James Sowerby. Provenance: Earl of Dartmouth (bookplate); Arnad Plesch (bookplate); Patshull (bookplate) £2,000 - 3,000 359

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361 Sayer (Robert, publisher) THE FLORIST, CONTAINING SIXTY PLATES OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS REGULARLY DISPOS’D IN THEIR SUCCESSION OF BLOOMING, FIRST EDITION, 57 (of 60) engraved plates, plates 1-24 are hand-coloured, plates 2, 5, and 10 lacking, light foxing and browning, small tear and some repair to title, contemporary half calf, rubbed and scuﬀed, joints cracked and weak, 4to, printed for Robert Sayer, [1760]. ⁂ “One of the earliest of the drawing and colouring books, which was copied by Bowles, but with the same subjects re-engraved on new plates”, according to Dunthorne. £1,000 - 1,500

362 Sweet (Robert) GERANIACAE. THE NATURAL ORDER OF GERANIA, 5 vol., FIRST EDITION, including supplement, 500 hand-coloured engraved plates, pages are generally bright and clean, oﬀsetting from plates, occasional foxing, near contemporary half morocco, rubbed to extremities and spines, [Dunthorne 292; Nissen BBI 1926], 8vo, James Ridgway, 1820-1830. ⁂ Illustrated by Edwin Dalton Smith and engraved by S. Watts, this beautifully illustrated work was one of many by Robert Sweet (1783-1835) on plants cultivated in British gardens and hothouses. £2,000 - 3,000

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Other properties 363 Andrews (H.C.) COLOURED ENGRAVINGS OF HEATHS, 4 vol. in 2, FIRST EDITION, halftitles to vol.1, 2 and 4 only, engraved dedication f., 288 attractively handcoloured engraved plates, vol.4 title is a vol.2 title but altered by hand (as often), occasional light scattered foxing and browning, mostly to text, contemporary calf, gilt, rebacked preserving original backstrip, gilt spines with red and black morocco labels, covers a little marked, some light rubbing to extremities, g.e., [Dunthorne 9; Nissen BBI 31; Stafleu & Cowan 134], folio, [1794]-1802-1809-[1830]. ⁂ Andrews drew and engraved all these plates, and wrote most of the text. This work exemplifies the ‘ericamania’ that dominated English horticulture at the start of the 19th century. With the rare fourth volume, which appeared over a 20 year period from 1810-1830. £7,000 - 10,000

364 Banks (Joseph).- Ker (Charles Henry Bellenden) ICONES PICTAE INDO-ASIATICAE PLANTARUM EXCERPTAE E CODICIBUS DOM. CATTLEY, FIRST EDITION, lithograph title and 30 hand-coloured lithograph and engraved plates, title and last plate laid down and with repaired tears, occasional minor soiling but plates protected by tissue guards and generally clean and bright, lacks rear free lilac endpaper, contemporary green half roan over cloth, rubbed and soiled, [Nissen BBI 1030; Dunthorne 163; Great Flower Books, p.62; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 3583 “...extremely rare. We have seen no copy of this edition.”], folio, Moser, 1818 [some plates watermarked J. Whatman 1816 and 1817]. ⁂ EXTREMELY RARE ON THE MARKET AND NO COMPLETE COPIES OF THIS FIRST EDITION IN AUCTION RECORDS. Ker’s fine plates were based on a group of drawings by Chinese artists collected by Andreas Everard van Braam-Houckgeest whilst working for the Dutch East-India Company, and later in the collection of the horticulturalist William Cattley. The work is dedicated to Joseph Banks. Provenance: Thomas Hay, CVO, VMH, who was superintendant of the Central Royal Parks, which included Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street, from 1922 to 1942. His collection of botanical books passed by descent to his son Roy Hay, a horticultural journalist and broadcaster, who is probably best remembered for having started the Britain in Bloom campaign. The book collection was sold after his death in 1989, his family retaining a few books. £6,000 - 8,000

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365 Bauer (Ferdinand) NATURAL HISTORY DRAWINGS, TAKEN FROM THE ZOOLOGICAL SPECIMENS COLLECTED ON THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF AUSTRALIA BY MATTHEW FLINDERS, COMMANDER HMS INVESTIGATOR, 18011803, LIMITED EDITION, in facsimile, 1 of 10 hors commerce copies, from an edition limited to 50, 46 lithographed colour plates, blindstamped and hand-numbered in pencil, tissue guards, list of plates, near-fine generally, disbound (as published) and house in cloth solander case, slightly bumped and marked, folio, Alecto Historical Editions in association with the Natural History Museum, 1997. ⁂ A scarce and beautifully produced facsimile edition of Bauer’s zoological drawings, including colour plates of various animals including platypuses, parrots, wombats, wallabies, and more. It is thought that Bauer made 2,060 field drawings during the HMS Investigator voyage - of these the Natural History Museum holds 252 botanical and only 49 zoological finished watercolours. £2,000 - 3,000

367 Curtis (William) FLORA LONDINENSIS, 5 vol., reissue of the second edition, 659 hand-coloured engraved plates on 647 leaves, occasional foxing and oﬀsetting, contemporary green half morocco, spines lettered in gilt, a little rubbed, t.e.g., [Nissen BBI 440; Stafleu & Cowan 1286], folio, 1835. ⁂ A reissue of the second much enlarged edition. The second edition was published from 1817-1828. “Henry Bohm took over the remaining copies of this second edition and issued them in 1835 with new title-pages carrying the date 1835” (Stafleu & Cowan 1286). The first three volumes contain the original 432 plates, but the text rewritten by Hooker; the final two volumes are entirely new with plates mostly from drawings by Hooker, together with his own descriptions.

366 Blunt (Wilfrid) and William T. Stearn, editors. CAPTAIN COOK’S FLORILEGIUM, ONE OF 100 COPIES, list of subscribers, printed in various colours, 30 engraved plates, original black Nigerian goatskin-backed black Japanese silk paper by Zaehnsdorf, contained in the original black cloth drop-back box, Lion and Unicorn Press, 1973.

Provenance: George Claridge Druce (18501932, bookplate). Druce was a botanist, pharmacist and mayor of Oxford. £5,000 - 7,000

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368 Hoﬀmannsegg ( Johann Centurius) and H.F.Link. FLORE PORTUGAISE OU DESCRIPTION DE TOUTES LES PLANTES QUI CROISSENT NATURELLEMENT EN PORTUGAL, 185 stipple-engraved plates, printed in colours and finished by hand, engraved by Bollinger, Clar, Dumbte, Guimpel, Haas, Krethlow, Meyer, Schubert and Wachmann after drawings by G.W. Voelker and Hoﬀmansegg, including duplicates, loose in later drop-back box, title pasted to upper cover, [Dunthorne 136; Great Flower Books p.59; Nissen BBI 901; Stafleu & Cowan 2911], folio, Berlin, 1809-20-[40]. ⁂ A collection of plates of this rare and beautifully produced work. A complete copy of the work has 111 plates. This collection of plates has duplicates and does not represent a complete suite of plates.

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The work was produced by Count Hoﬀmannsegg, contemporary of Redouté, whose work it rivals. The preface confidently predicts “we are certain that despite the fact that this will be the first such work to be published in Germany, it will bear comparison with other floras and even with all similar works published to this day”, a boast that it more than fulfils. All plates illustrate species newly discovered and previously undescribed, drawn from living specimens by Hoﬀmannsegg, or from his herbarium specimens by Voelker. £1,000 - 1,500 369 Nature printing.- Kniphof (Johann Hieronymous) BOTANICA IN ORIGINALI PHARMACEUTICA, 120 hand-coloured nature-printed plates only (of 216), lacking E-2F2 (pp.17-116) and all after 3D2 (pp.191-196), occasional short tear or small portion of marginal loss to text and plates, some staining, foxed and browned, contemporary half calf, sympathetically rebacked and recornered, preserving original gilt backstrip and spine label, rather worn at extremities, rubbed, [Nissen BBI 1074], folio, Erfurt, Johann Michael Funcke, 1733. ⁂ A rare early example of nature-printing. Kniphof was one of the first to investigate the commercial possibilities of the process. His technique used printer’s ink and a uniformly flat pressure to make the impression, with the resulting black-and-white images then coloured by hand. This edition was seemingly preceded by another printed in the same year with 400 plates but no text in 2 vol. (Nissen 1073). £1,500 - 2,000

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370 Loddiges (Conrad & Sons) THE BOTANICAL CABINET, CONSISTING OF COLOURED DELINEATIONS OF PLANTS FROM ALL COUNTRIES, 200 parts, 2000 engraved handcoloured plates and 3 plain plates, engraved titles, some folding, a few loose or becoming so, some light foxing and oﬀsetting, nearly all in original printed wrappers, a few in contemporary plain wrappers, few covers detached or chipped, few with ink corrections to part number, rubbing, some wear to extremities, housed in 10 slip-cases, [Dunthorne 187; Great Flower Books, p.160; Hunt, p.219; Nissen BBI 2228], 8vo & 4to, 1817-33. ⁂ Rare in original parts. Conrad Loddiges was a Dutch-born horticulturalist who settled in Hackney and worked as a nurseryman. He and his sons introduced several new species to Britain, including many plants from America. By the early nineteenth-century, the Loddiges’s family nursery had become famous throughout the world for introducing rare and exotic plants to Britain, most of which were later illustrated in this work. £3,000 - 4,000 371 Olives.- Fantoni (Count Luigi) DELLE SPECIE DIVERSE D’OLIVE CHE TROVANO NE MONTI DELLA FATTORIA D’AGNANO TERRITORIO PISANO..., manuscript on paper in Italian, 117pp. excluding blanks, including 107 mostly full-page drawings, most in pen and ink, few in pencil, a few with grey wash or watercolour, final 32pp. loose, letter addressed to Luigi Fantoni and advertisement f. pasted to front pastedown, contemporary limp boards, title supplied in manuscript to spine, extremities worn, edges uncut, folio (approx. 385 x 270mm), [Florence], [1770-84]. ⁂ A UNIQUE AND IMPORTANT TESTIMONY TO THE GROWING INTEREST PAID, ABOVE ALL IN TUSCANY, TO OLIVE GROWING AND THE STUDY OF OLIVE OIL PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES THROUGHOUT THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. This is likely a manuscript rough draft on which Fantoni marked his observations and analysis of each species. The manuscript finishes with a series of 14 watercolours in grey wash which depict some of the parasitic insects that attack the olive tree. The framings of the drawings and the calligraphy are most probably by another hand. The fragment of a letter addressed to Count Luigi Fantoni included in this manuscript seems to confirm his authorship of this work.

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This was a time of interest to better understand the history of the olive tree, and how it was propagated, cared for, and fertilized. The height of this interest can be dated to 1753 when Accademia dei Georgofili, a Florentine institution promoting the study of agronomy, forestry and economic, was founded, of which Fantoni was a member. This institution has published, or kept in their archives numerous periodicals, handwritten memoirs and manuscripts concerning the olive tree. Luigi Fantoni (1749-1808). A longer description is available upon request. £6,000 - 8,000 372 Orchids.- Japan.- Blume (Carl Ludwig) COLLECTION DES ORCHIDÉES LES PLUS REMARQUABLES DE L’ARCHIPEL INDIEN ET DU JAPON, FIRST EDITION, additional lithograph title, and 70 plates, of which 56 are hand-coloured and 1 doublepage, contemporary green half morocco, expertly rebacked preserving original gilt spine and recornered, [Cordier, Japonica 538; Nissen BBI 175; Stafleu & Cowan 569], folio, Amsterdam, C.G. Sulpke, 1858. ⁂ FIRST MA JOR WORK ON THE ORCHIDS OF THE DUTCH EAST INDIES AND JAPAN. This work is almost identical to, and published at the same time as, the first volume of the supplement to Blume’s “Flora Javae”. Blume was director of the Buitenzorg Botanic Garden and later became director of the State Herbarium at Leyden. For the description of the orchids of Japan, Blume was helped by Von Siebold who gave him original drawings of Japanese orchids by Japanese botanists. Most of the illustrations are done after drawings by A.J. Wendel and are all lithographed by G. Severeyns, the best botanical lithographer of its time. Provenance: Portsmouth Free Public Library (bookplate and ink stamp to one text leaf). £1,500 - 2,000

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374 Conchology.- Gualtieri (Nicolas) INDEX TESTARUM CONCHYLIORUM, FIRST EDITION, engraved allegorical frontispiece, portrait, 110 numbered full-page plates, 17 vignettes on section titles, and 18 other vignettes and plates in text, 2 initials, main title and section titles in red and black, 1 or 2 short marginal tears, water-stain to outer margin of last few ﬀ. and plates, some plates inscribed in ink or pencil, bookseller’s sticker, 19th-century half calf, richly gilt spine, splitting to joints, edges uncut, [Nissen ZBI 1736], folio, Florence, C. Albizzini, 1742. ⁂ A FINE LARGE UNCUT COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS BRILLIANT SHELL BOOK. Gualtieri was a professor at the University of Pisa and physician to Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who was a keen collector of shells. Many of the shells are depicted standing on their apices. Both engraving and typography is exceptional. The vignettes show marine scenes and corals. The engravings are by P.A. Pazzi after drawings by Giuseppe Menabuoni (1708 - after 1745). Gualtieri’s collection is extant and can be found in the Museo Storia Naturale in Pisa. Provenance: Many pages have a circular library stamp of Academie de Macon at the outer margin, not aﬀecting the illustration. £2,000 - 3,000

FISHES 373 Sweerts (Emanuel) [FLORILEGIUM AMPLISSIMUM ET SELECTISSIMUM], 2 parts in 1 vol., lacking engraved and letterpress titles, 102 engraved plates only (of 110), in early hand-colouring (lacking nos. 8-10 in Part 1; 9, 10, 15, 23 and 36 in Part 2), 9 plates with neat contemporary German translations in ink below printed titles, colour smudges to single flowers on 9 plates, plate 6 inlaid and slightly creased, plate 32 with blank portion at right edge cut out and repaired, a few plates with light spotting at right edges and in margins, occasional old pencil notes, finger marks at lower right corners, contemporary calf, blindstamped spine with rubbed title-piece, repaired, [Nissen 1920], folio, [Frankfurt, 1612] £3,000 - 5,000

375 Bleeker (P.) and François P.L. Pollen. RECHERCHES SUR LA FAUNE DE MADAGASCAR...POISSONS ET PÊCHES, part 4 only, 21 chromolithograph plates, uncut in original half cloth portfolio with cloth ties, spine worn, upper cover detached, [Wood p.522], Leyde, 1874-75 § Perugia (Alberto) Elenco dei Pesci della Adriatico, 7 chromolithograph plates some printed in silver, original printed wrappers, spine worn, 1881 § Savtschenko (P.) Atlas des Poissons Vénéneux, text in Russian and French, 9 chromolithograph and 1 lithograph plate, small marginal hole to title, Michael Luhrs bookplate, contemporary cloth, covers marked, edges uncut, [Dean II 395], St. Petersburg, 1886 § Owen (Richard) Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus, ONLY EDITION, 8 engraved plates (plates 1-7 in 2 states, some foxing), later calf-backed boards, red morocco label to spine, vellum tips, [Nissen ZBI 30369], 1832, occasional foxing to plates, 4to (4) ⁂ A collection of works on fishes. The first mentioned consists of two monographs, ‘Poissons de Madagascar et de l’Ile de la Réunion des collections de MM. Pollen et Van Dam’ by P. Bleeker and ‘Les Peches à Madagascar et ses dépendances’ by F.P.L. Pollen. The third mentioned is a rare work focusing solely on poisonous fishes. 374 156

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376 Bloch (Marcus Elieser) HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES POISSONS, 10 vol., 160 hand-coloured engraved plates after Jacques de Sève, 1 or 2 tears into text, contemporary calf, gilt, black morocco labels to spines, spines slightly faded, occasional chipping to spine ends, [Nissen ZBI 417], 12mo, Paris, Chez Deterville, 1801. ⁂ A FINE SET OF THE 12MO EDITION OF BLOCH’S FAMOUS FOLIO WORK ON FISHES, THE MOST SUMPTUOUS AND BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED WORK ON THE SUBJECT. The present edition forms volumes 32-41 of the ‘Suite à Buﬀon’. The plates are after Jacques De Sève, one of the most famous natural history artists of the period. Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723-1799) was born in Ansbach and practiced as a physician in Berlin. He devoted himself to natural history and wrote several works of which this is his most famous. He is considered the most important ichthyologist of the 18th century and his collection of some 1,500 fishes from all over the world was the largest collection of fishes of his time. £1,500 - 2,000

377 Duhamel du Monceau (Henri Louis) and L.H. de la Mare. TRAITÉ GÉNÉRALE DES PESCHES, ET HISTOIRE DES POISSONS, 4 vol. in 12, FIRST EDITION, 250 folding engraved plates, and 3 duplicate plates, a few ﬀ. with repairs to margins or strengthening at gutter, occasional marginal worming, ‘Bibliotheca Tiliana’ bookplates, and ink-stamps to titles and final plate versos of each vol., later half morocco, spines slightly faded with black morocco labels, [Cole & Watts, pp. 8-29; Dean 338; Nissen, Schöne Fischbücher 52; Westwood, p. 2], folio, Paris, 1769-82. ⁂ A RARE COMPLETE COPY OF “ONE OF THE FINEST WORKS ON FISHING AND FISHERIES IN ANY LANGUAGE” (Westwood p.82). Henri Louis Duhamel (1700-1782) was an exponent of the French enlightenment and wrote quite a number of books of scientific as well of economic interest. In 1732 he was appointed ‘inspecteur général de la marine’. This monumental work on fishes and fishing shows the enormous economic importance of this branch of industry. The publication was an integral part of the ‘Descriptions des Arts et Métiers’ and was often sold separately. Complete copies should have 250 plates. Our copy has one duplicate plate and 2 variant plates which are not included in the total count of 250. Nissen quotes 248 in error. £7,000 - 10,000

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379 Insects.- China.- Donovan (Edward) NATURAL HISTORY OF THE INSECTS OF CHINA, second edition, 50 fine hand-coloured engraved plates, occasional light foxing, later red half morocco, gilt, spine slightly faded, [Nissen ZBI 1143], 4to, 1842. ⁂ AN ATTRACTIVE COPY OF THE SECOND AND LAST EDITION OF THE MOST

BEAUTIFUL BOOK PUBLISHED ON THE INSECTS OF CHINA. The first edition

was published in 1798. Edward Donovan (1768-1837) “did not travel to China himself but obtained most of his information of Sir George Staunton... who travelled extensively in China and made some natural history collections and observations, which he conveyed to naturalists in England.” (P. Gilbert. Butterfly collectors and painters, p.138). £1,000 - 1,500

378 Rumpf (Georg Eberhard) THESAURUS IMAGINUM PISCIUM TESTACEORUM; QUALES SUNT CANCRI ECHINI ECHINOMETRA STELLAE MARINAE&C. UT ET CONCHLEARUM..., second Latin edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional title, and 60 plates, title printed in red and black, Richard I. Johnson ink ownership stamp to titles, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine with red morocco label, rubbed, [Nissen ZBI 3520], folio, The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1739. ⁂ AN IMPORTANT WORK ON SHELLS AND MINERALS, THE FIRST MODERN WORK

ON TROPICAL FAUNA. Rumphius was far ahead of his time by accurate

recording of locality and the attention he paid to molluscan ecology. It is only recently known that the fine plates of this work are by Maria Sibylla Merian. £1,500 - 2,000

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380 -. Green (E. Ernest) A COLLECTION OF C.255 FINE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS PUBLISHED IN VARIOUS ENTOMOLOGICAL JOURNALS, pen and ink, pencil, some heightened with wash, on various papers and card, some trimmed and presented on thin board alongside others similar, and a few printed illustrations, various sizes between approx. 45 x 45mm and 290 x 230mm, most mounted, a few loose, occasional light spotting to few drawings, ink ownership inscription and paper label to front pastedown, in contemporary half morocco, later paper label to spine, splitting to joints, covers a little stained, rubbing, some wear to extremities, oblong folio, [1900-36]. ⁂ Edward Ernest Green was an English entomologist with a keen interest in mycology and entomology related to coﬀee and tea growing. “Born in Ceylon, he was educated at Charterhouse School. He returned to Ceylon in 1880 to manage his father’s plantations.... On his retirement in 1913 he returned to England and expanded his collections of scale insects. His publications included ‘The Coccidae of Ceylon’ (1896-1922) and over 200 papers.” (Harvey, Gilbert & Martin. A catalogue of manuscripts in the entomology library of the Natural History Museum London, p.90). The Natural History Museum has Green’s original drawings for ‘The Coccidae of Ceylon’. He also published a work on the ‘Tea Mites’ (1900). Green’s collection of Heteroptera from Ceylon is in the Indian Museum in Calcutta and his Microlepidoptera and Coleoptera from Ceylon are in the Natural History Museum in London. Provenance: The drawings were oﬀered for sale in Wheldon & Wesley’s catalogue 208 no. 51 (1995) and purchased by Kikumaro Okano. £800 - 1,200

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381 Insects.- Moﬀett (Thomas) INSECTORUM SIVE MINIMORUM ANIMALIUM THEATRUM, FIRST EDITION, title with woodcut illustrations but with central image of a skep-beehive cut out, title laid down, soiled and stained and with tears and foot repaired with slight loss to imprint, skep illustration repeated at end of preliminaries, numerous woodcut illustrations in text, water-staining and some foxing and browning, marginal hole to C5, 18th century mottled calf, spine gilt, slightly rubbed, folio, [British Bee Books 25; Nissen ZBI 2852; STC 17993], Thomas Cotes [and] Benjamin Allen, 1634. ⁂ Moﬀet’s was “the best work of its kind...it set a new standard of accuracy in the study of the invertebrates” (Garrison-Morton). He was educated at Cambridge and Basel, where he obtained a degree in medicine; he travelled widely in Europe before establishing a practice in Ipswich and London and serving as physician to Queen Elizabeth’s forces in Normandy in 1591. The first edition has three variant imprints. £2,000 - 3,000

382 Perrault (Claude) MEMOIR’S [SIC] FOR A NATURAL HISTORY, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 2 parts in 1, translated by Alexander Pitfeild, additional engraved title, title in red and black, 35 engraved plates, woodcut tail-pieces, occasional foxing, endpapers browned, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, covers heavily mottled, [Wing P1667; Nissen ZBI 3125; ESTC R2399], folio, Printed by Joseph Streater, 1688. ⁂ First English edition of an important work of comparative biology, first published by the French Académie des Sciences in 1671-1676. Memoirs was translated by Alexander Pitfeild, and The Measure of Earth (part 2, with separate title page) by Richard Waller, both Fellows of the Royal Society. £500 - 700

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383 Zoology.- Bonaparte (Charles Lucien Jules Laurent, Prince) ICONOGRAFIA DELLA FAUNA ITALICA, 3 vol., 180 finely hand-coloured lithograph plates, a few heightened with touches of silver, some foxing, Markree Castle Library tickets, H. Bradley Martin bookplate to vol.2 and 3, 19thcentury half morocco, light rubbing to extremities, t.e.g., others uncut, [Anker 48; Nissen ZBI 459; Zimmer p.66-67], folio, Rome, 1832-41. ⁂ A LARGE AND FINE COPY OF THIS MONUMENTAL WORK ON THE VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF ITALY PUBLISHED IN 30 PARTS. The third and largest volume concerns fishes and contains 78 large splendidly hand-coloured plates. These plates represent a unique portrayal of Italian and Mediterranean fishes and have never been surpassed in beauty of execution. Some of the plates have a silver metallic sheen. The plates were lithographed by Battistelli most of them from drawings by Carolus Ruspi and Petrus Quattochi. Charles Lucien Bonaparte was the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte. Soon after his marriage Bonaparte went to the United States where he started a brilliant career as a naturalist and published his ‘American ornithology’ (Philadelphia 1825-1833). At the age of 25 he returned to Europe. Despite his family connections and the disruptions that followed the Napoleonic era he became a competent and highly respected naturalist. £7,000 - 10,000

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384 Astronomy.- Galilei (Galileo) ISTORIA E DIMOSTRAZIONI INTORNO ALLE MACCHIE SOLARI E LORO ACCIDENTI, COMPRESE IN TRE LETTERE SCRITTE ALL’ILLUSTRISSIMO SIGNOR MARCO VELSERI LINCEO, FIRST EDITION, woodcut device of the Accademia dei Lincei to title, engraved portrait plate, 38 full-page engravings of sunspots, 5 engraved plates of the satellites of Jupiter, one folding plate, 8 woodcut and typographic diagrams, woodcut initials, occasional light spotting, small marginal tear (H2), untrimmed, occasional contemporary underlining, contemporary ‘alla rustica’ boards,, title in manuscript to spine, light spotting to backstrip and edges, housed in modern drop-back box, 4to, Rome, Giacomo Mascardi, 1613. ⁂ A FINE, WIDE-MARGINED COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, IN THE ISSUE WITHOUT SCHEINER’S LETTERS (NO PRIORITY), OF THIS WORK FIRST ANNOUNCING GALILEO’S

ADHERENCE TO THE COPERNICAN SYSTEM.

Patronized by Federico Cesi (1585-1630) Galileo decided to publish his Istoria e Dimostrazione intorno alle Macchie Solari in reply to Christoph Scheiner’s three letters to Marcus Welser announcing his discovery of sunspots. Galilei both claimed the priority of his discovery and contrasted Scheiner’s interpretations. The Lincei Academy decided the book would be supplemented with illustrations and the skilled artist Mattheus Greuter (1564-1638) was entrusted to create thirty-eight separate copperplates depicting sunspots, with each etching measuring 12.5 cm in diameter and closely matching Galileo’s drawings, now held at the Vatican Library. The artist employed an elaborate technique, combining intaglio finissimo, geometric precision, and the use of special inks. Two diﬀerent issues of Galileo’s Istoria e Dimostrazioni intorno alle Macchie Solari are known, published at the same time. In one issue, Scheiner’s De maculis solaribus tres epistolae Disquisitio ad Marcum Velserum is appended at the end, introduced by a half-title and featuring separate paging. The other issue, an example of which is presented here, does not contain Scheiner’s text. The issue supplemented with the letters was likely intended for the Italian market, while the other was probably destined for north of the Alps: in fact, the German Jesuit was then lecturing at Ingolstadt, and it is possible that a publication of his letters by a Roman printer might have led to a privilege conflict. Provenance: Ink initials to title, ‘FL’ or ‘FTL’, presumably referring to the first owner of the copy; ink-stamp of bookseller Angelo Delai from Brescia (1842-1911), to front free endpaper. Literature: STC 17th century Italian 373; Cinti 44; Carli-Favaro 60; Dawson 2587; Gingerich, Rara Astronomica 32; Riccardi i, 509; Sparrow, Milestones of Science 77; Stillman Drake, Galileo at Work, 198; A. van Helden, “Galileo and Scheiner on Sunspots: A Case Study in the Visual Language of Astronomy”, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 140 (1996) pp. 358–396; R. S. Noyes, “Mattheus Greuter’s Sunspot Etchings for Galileo Galilei’s ‘Macchie Solari’ (1613)”, The Art Bulletin, 98, No. 4 (2016), pp. 466-487. £15,000 - 20,000

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385 -. Scientific instruments.- Danti (Egnazio) PRIMO VOLUME DELL’USO ET FABBRICA DELL’ASTROLABIO, ET DEL PLANISFERIO, collation: a-b4 A-Z4 2A2S4, woodcut printer’s device to title and recto of final otherwise blank f., woodcut illustrations (some full-page), diagrams, historiated initials and tail-pieces, short neat tear without loss to lower corner of 2F4, spotting or foxing, some staining / water-staining, lightly browned, later front free endpaper, recased in contemporary limp vellum, little stained and marked, contemporary ink manuscript title to lower edge, 4to (209 x 141mm.), Florence, Giunti, 1578. ⁂ Second edition, much enlarged, of this important work on the astrolabe and planisphere. The projected second volume was never published. The woodcut illustration on p.107 showing a woman surveyor using an astrolabe is BELIEVED TO BE THE EARLIEST DEPICTION OF A WOMAN USING A SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT (cf. A.V. Simcock ‘The lady and the astrolabe’, Bull. Sci. Inst. Soc., 51 (Dec., 1996), pp. 2–3). Danti (1536-1586) was a scientific instrument designer and promoter of mathematical and astronomical studies for the Medicis. Provenance: Nicolas E. Landau (1887–1979) French art dealer, antiquarian, and collector, known as ‘le Prince des antiquaires’ (bookplate). Literature: Tomash & Williams D3; Riccardi I, 389; EDIT 16 CNCE 16001. £1,500 - 2,000

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386 Diet.- AVERROEANA: BEING A TRANSCRIPT OF SEVERAL LETTERS FROM AVERROES AN ARABIAN PHILOSOPHER AT CORDUBA IN SPAIN, TO METRODORUS A YOUNG GRECIAN NOBLEMAN...IN THE YEARS 1149, AND 1150. ALSO SEVERAL LETTERS FROM PYTHAGORAS TO THE KING OF INDIA..., FIRST EDITION, very narrow area of paper adhesion to inner margin of title, obscuring the first (or occasionally first two) letter(s) on some lines, trimmed at head, touching headlines and pagination, foxed, lightly browned, new endpapers, antique style speckled calf, spine gilt and with leather label, spine little faded, [Krivatsy 495; Wing A4271; ESTC R1981], 12mo, Printed and sold by T. Sowle, in White-Hart-Court in Grace-ChurchStreet, 1695. ⁂ Rare at auction (the last oﬀered being the Macclesfield copy in 2008). The letters were purportedly discovered in Andalusia by a Monsieur Grinau, but are in fact spurious. With much on diet (including vegetarianism, salt, milk, sugar, and herbs) and medical matters (including consumption, pregnancy, swollen breasts, and flatulence), and also Pythagoras on the mystical power of numbers. £750 - 1,000

387 Field surgery.- Gersdorff (Hans von) FELDTBUCH DER WUND-ARZNEY, ENLARGED EDITION, collation: [par]4 a-z Aa-Bb4 Cc6 A4 B6 aa4 B-R4 S6 complete with final blank, 24 full-page woodcut anatomical and medical illustrations, several illustrations of surgical instruments, 36 chiromancy hands, eleven double physiognomic portraits, portrait of Johannes ab Indagine by Hans Baldung Grien dated 1540, 33 astrological diagrams and allegorical chariots (fols. N1r-R3r), with the two fugitive sheets, featuring 2 extremely rare folding woodcut plates (382x265 mm) representing an anatomical figure showing internal organs (the ‘viscera-manikin’) and a skeleton, historiated initials, woodcut printer’s device on colophon, repairs to title margins and final leaves, tiny wormholes on many leaves, some marginal stains, tear repaired to one folding plate, contemporary annotations on verso of last leaf and rear pastedown. contemporary blind-stamped half pigskin over wooden boards, wooden corners worn, lacking clasps, some worming to covers, folio (289 x 188mm.), Strassburg, Hans Schotten, 1540. ⁂ First edition of this collection of texts, which includes, along with the German translations of the famous treatise on surgical instruments by Albucasis (Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn Abbas al-Zahrawi, 936-1013) and the Chiromantia by Johannes ab Indagine (d. 1537), Gersdorff’s Feldtbuch (first printed in 1517), the first book to illustrate actual surgical procedures and one of the very first illustrated books on surgery ever published. It is arguably the most advanced surgical manual of its time, containing original information on amputations, early anaesthesia, and the treatment of gunshot wounds, all accompanied by the very best surgical illustrations of the period. “The practical nature of Gersdorff’s book and its fine illustrations caused it to become very popular and it was frequently referred to, widely quoted and freely plagiarized. The work went through at least twelve editions between the time of its first publication in 1517 and the early seventeenth century. The book also appeared in several Latin and Dutch editions” (Heirs of Hippocrates, 149). The edition is rightly famous for its numerous woodcut illustrations, many of which are full-page. Among these illustrations are the first published depictions of an amputation and brain dissections. The woodcuts are partly attributed to the German artist Johann Ulrich Wächtlin or Wechtlin. Of particular interest are the two folding plates, also attributed to Wechtlin, which are not usually found in copies of the present edition. The sheets were published by Johann Schott in Strasbourg in 1517 and included in the first edition of Gersdorff’s treatise as individual fugitive sheets to be hung on walls. They were subsequently adapted to volume form, but never completely lost their original function. “Fugitive sheets (fliegende Blätter) with pre-Vesalian anatomy, representing whole figures with the names of the parts or explanatory texts, were published either on a single broadside or on two sheets, each with printing on one side only. In this period several appeared. They were generally intended to disseminate popular information, or to give instruction to barbers and surgeons, and were probably to be hung up in their anterooms. [...] They were, in the nature of things, predestined to be scattered and lost, and, on this account, are now all of them exceedingly rare” (Choulant-Franck, p. 156). Literature: VD16 G 1625; Durling 2062; Choulant 27. £20,000 - 30,000

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388 Medicine.- Oribasius. COLLECTORUM MEDICINALIUM LIBRI XVII, collation: *4 A-Z8 a-z8 &8, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials, scattered spotting and a few small marginal nicks, a couple of stains and marginal worming to a few early and later ﬀ., light cracking at hinges, near contemporary blind-stamped pig-skin with clasps, covers with supralibros for Gottfried of Gottweig in gilt, spine gilt, rubbed and bumped with a few small worm holes to spine ends, housed in modern cloth drop-back box with ephemera relating to the book inside, small 8vo (approx. 90 x 160 mm), Venice, Paolo Manuzio, [c. 1555]. ⁂ Gottfried of Göttweig (1672–1749), also known as Johann Franz Bessel, was a Benedictine abbot of Göttweig Abbey in Austria. In addition to his ecclesiastical duties, he served as a diplomat, facilitating negotiations between major ecclesiastical and imperial powers. His tenure as abbot ushered the abbey into a period of considerable scholarly distinction, owing in large part to his wideranging collecting interests. Under his stewardship, the abbey’s collections expanded to encompass a diverse array of subjects, both religious and scientific. Literature: OPAC SBN TO0E018320. £600 - 800

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389 Osteology.- Havers (Clopton) OSTEOLOGIA NOVA, OR SOME NEW OBSERVATIONS OF THE BONES, AND THE PARTS BELONGING TO THEM, WITH THE MANNER OF THEIR ACCRETION, AND NUTRITION, FIRST EDITION, initial imprimatur f., 2 engraved plates (1 folding), final advertisement f., red ink stamp to title, lower margins of Sig. A-D with small worm trace diminishing to a small hole as proceeds, occasionally re-surfacing later to a lesser extent, occasional spotting and light staining, lightly browned, contemporary panelled calf, spine in compartments and with chipped gilt title, ink stains to upper cover, upper outer edge partly worn, rubbed, upper cover detached, [Garrison-Morton 387; Norman 1024; Wellcome III p.225; Wing H1162; ESTC R21003], 8vo, for Samuel Smith, 1691. ⁂ First edition of the first complete and systematic study of the structure of bones. This work also included the first account of the vascular canals of long bones that now bear the author’s name. £1,000 - 1,500

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390 Quillin (William) DISSERTATIO MEDICA INAUGURALIS, DE ICTERO, FIRST EDITION, author’s own copy with his admission card to the Edinburgh University Library dated 15 Dec.1787 to 1788 pasted on f.e.p., in stunning Scottish rococo binding of red morocco with green oval onlay in centre of covers, columns, birds, vases and festoons in gilt, figures of Britannia on green centre-piece, marbled end papers, gilt edges, [ESTC N6371], Edinburgh, Balfour & Smellie, 1788; and 3 other similar late 18th/early 19th century Scottish medical dissertations by William Elliot (1760), William Cuninghame (1790) and John Aire (1802), all in handsome contemporary bindings, 8vo (4) £500 - 700 ____________________________________

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PHYSICS 392 Physics.- Alfven (Hannes) Niels Bohr, Max Born, Werner Heisenberg, Gerhard Herzberg, Wolfgang Pauli, Erwin Schrodinger and others. [A COLLECTION OF C.850 PHYSICS pAPERS], nearly all oﬀprints, ranging from the early 1930s to the late 1950s, including many by Nobel Prize winners such as Alfven (21 papers), Bohr (5), Born (27), Heisenberg (17), Herzberg (25), Pauli (8), Raman (20), Schrodinger (40+), Tomonaga (19) as well as others like Bethe, de Broglie, Irene and Marie Curie, Tamm, around 30 papers signed by the author, some inscribed to or signed by Ralph Kronig, many in original wrappers (as issued), little light sunning to some, the odd spot or case of minor staining but overall clean, housed within five card boxes, v.s., v.d., 1930s-1960. ⁂ A superb and extensive collection. A full list of all papers available upon request. Provenance: from the library of Ralph Kronig (1904-1995), a German physicist, known for his discovery of electron spin and Xray absorption spectroscopy. £4,000 - 6,000

391 Meteorology.- Mizauld (Antoine) LE MIROUER DE L’AIR, second edition in French (the first published in Latin in the preceding year by the same printers), collation: a-i8, italic type, title with woodcut printer’s device, woodcut criblé decorative initials, spotted, some staining, lightly browned, antique style blind-stamped panelled calf, 8vo (166 x 96mm.), Paris, Regnault & Claude Chaudière, 1548. ⁂ Rare handsomely printed edition of one of the earliest books on meteorology, which includes comets and earthquakes, as well as all elements of the weather. Literature: Adams M1510A; Caillet 7613; Thorndike ‘History of Magic and Experimental Science’ V, 299-301. £500 - 700

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394 Hawking (Stephen) MY BRIEF HISTORY, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED WITH AUTHORS THUMBPRINT, fine, original cloth, dust-jacket, a few minor creases to edge, else fine, 8vo, London, Transworld, 2013. ⁂ Stephen Hawking’s memoir, inscribed “Look up at the stars and not down at your feet....right thumbprint of Prof Stephen Hawking” with Hawking’s right thumbprint stamped in ink on the title page. £1,500 - 2,000

393 Einstein (Albert) THE MEANING OF RELATIVITY, translated by Edwin Plimpton Adams, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, half-title with list of ‘Books on Relativity’ verso, 8pp. publisher’s catalogue at end, bookplates of Kay Berenice Ward/Robinson, modern blue morocco with design of large rings inlaid in terracotta, brown, purple, grey, dark blue and black morocco extending across both covers and spine, tooled with curved lines in blind radiating from central two inlays on spine lettered with title and author in palladium, upper cover with two additional lines in gilt comprising arrow curving up from bottom edge with a tangent of short dashes heading away to the fore-edge, by Sangorski & Sutcliﬀe, palladium edges, colours to spine slightly faded, preserved in modern cloth and morocco slip-case, a bright and near-fine example, 8vo, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1922. £600 - 800

395 Hawking (Stephen).- THE PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. PLENARY SESSION ON SCIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY, programme, SIGNED WITH RIGHT THUMB-PRINT OF STEPHEN HAWKING, on p.10 beside his photograph, with authentication inscription “This is the right thumb-print of Professor Stephen Hawking witness by Steve Grocutt 28-11-2016”, 8 ﬀ., slightly creased in places, light finger soiling to title, 297 x 210mm., Vatican City, 25-29 November 2016; plus a letter of authenticity signed by Stephen Grocutt; plus an Order of Service of Thanksgiving for Professor Steven Hawking, Westminster Abbey, 15 June 2018, in original wrappers; together with 6 others, ephemera relating to the Plenary Session and Hawking, together all items in a smart wooden box (320 x 320 x 120mm.) (9) ⁂ The title of this Plenary Session of the Academy was, Impacts of Scientific Knowledge and Technology on Human Society and its Environment. Professor Stephen Hawking gave a paper entitled, ‘The Origin of the Universe’ during the Special Session on Friday 25th November. Stephen Grocutt was a member of Stephen Hawking’s private healthcare team from 2015-2017, travelling with him around the world. Also included alongside a letter of authenticity signed by Stephen Grocutt is a photograph of Mr Grocutt together with Professor Hawking in London on the evening of his BBC Radio 4 Reith Lecture on black holes. £1,000 - 1,500 ____________________________________

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397 Psychology.- Jung (C. G., Prof. Dr. [Carl Gustav]) PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF CHILDREN’S DREAMS, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, notes given on Lectures at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, edited by Dr. Liliane Frey and Dr. Riwkah Schärf, translated from the German by Mary Foote and Cornelia Brunner, multigraphed for private circulation, typescript printed on rectos only, the odd spot, browning to edges of title page, two small pin holes to rear endpaper, original cloth-backed boards, bumped, slight loss to tail of spine and top edge of upper cover, spine lettering slightly faded, Zurich, Autumn-Winter 1938-39. ⁂ A scarce unpublished and uncirculated collection from the founder of the school of analytical psychology. £1,000 - 1,500

396 Darwin (Charles) ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION, [second edition, second issue] fifth thousand, half-title with 3 quotations on verso, folding lithographed diagram by William West after Darwin facing p.117, some spotting, 32-page publisher’s catalogue dated January 1860 at end, a bright, clean copy, original blind-stamped green cloth (Freeman’s variant b) with Edmonds and Remnants ticket at rear, spine lettered in gilt, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, small ink mark to spine but overall a near fine copy, [Freeman 376b; Norman 594], 8vo, John Murray, 1860. ⁂ An excellent example of the scarce second edition, considered by Darwin as “little more than a reprint of the first edition”. £3,000 - 4,000

398 Space.- NASA.- EARTH OBSERVATIONS BOOK, ASTP REVISION A, by Flight Planning Branch Crew Training & Procedures Division, prepared by Ronald A. Weitenhagan and approved by T. W. Holloway, 54 double sided cards with tab dividers, illustrations and charts, creases and folds to the tabs, original covers ring bound, ink ownership inscription ‘Slayton’ to front cover, creases to corners, small tears to hole punches and edges, slightly age toned and marked, 265mm x 215mm, Texas, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, 1975. ⁂ A scarce technical internal document from the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) 15th-24th July, 1975. The historical mission was the first joint space exploration between the United States and the Soviet Union. This copy belonged to Donald Kent “Deke” Slayton (1924-1993), the Docking Module Pilot for this flight. £400 - 600

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399 Turing (Alan).- ALAN TURING’S SLIDE RULE, ENGRAVED INITIALS “A.M.T. NOLI HOC FURARI” to verso, in original cloth box WITH HIS OWNERSHIP LETTERED IN GILT, “A.M. TURING. PRINCETON - 1936” (rubbed, slight wear to extremities), alongside other ephemera including items relating to Power-Samas and Hollerith accounting machines, a few scientific or technical pamphlets, a pair of compass, mechanical pencil, fountain pen, unused postcards, c.1925 guide to Guildford, housed within early 20th-century letter box, approx. 330 x 230 mm, [mid.1920s-40s]. ⁂ ALAN TURING’S SLIDE RULE, SEEMINGLY FROM THE TIME HE WAS COMPLETING HIS DOCTORATE AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. The Latin inscription translates to “Don’t Steal This”, reflecting Turing’s protective nature over his property. During his time at Princeton University from September 1936 to July 1938, Turing was studying cryptology, and built three of four stages of an electro-mechanical binary multiplier. In November 1936, Turing submitted a proof titled “On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem”. He obtained his PhD from the Department of Mathematics, and his dissertation, Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals, introduced the notion of relative computing and the concept of ordinal logic. This thesis was later republished in the journal Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society in 1939. The Power-Samas and Hollerith magazines on accounting machines are of interest due to their connection to Turing’s legacy. Both companies manufactured punch-card computing systems vital to production and logistics during the war; the former also manufactured the British equivalent of the Enigma coding machine. Hollerith manufactured the Bombes designed by Turing for breaking the enigma code. The Bombes used the electromechanical technology of Hollerith/BTM machines, and in particular a ‘wire bristle’ commutator contact, similar to the one shown in the Hollerith magazine. Scientific pamphlets included comprise of: Douglas R. Hartree’s “Calculating Machines: Recent & Prospective Developments and their impact of Mathematical Physics”, 1947; Arthur Stanley Eddington’s “The Romanes Lecture: The Theory of Relativity and its Influence on Scientific Thought”, 1922; Moritz Geiger’s “Die philosophie Bedeutung der Relativitätstheorie”, 1921; and Felix Klein’s “The Present State of Mathematics”. £6,000 - 8,000

400 Turing (Sara) ALAN M. TURING, FIRST EDITION, photographic portrait frontispiece, 6 full-page illustrations on 4 sheets, original cloth, very light bumps and browning to spine ends, spot to head of spine, dust-jacket, slight browning, rubbed to spine ends and extremities, minor chipping to spine ends and at corners, light scuﬃng on joints, otherwise a very good example, 8vo, Cambridge, W. Heﬀer & Sons, Ltd., 1959. ⁂ A rare copy of this biography and memorial of the pioneering computer scientist, mathematician and code-breaker, written by his mother. It was published in a relatively small number of copies, possibly as few as 500. Sara Turing maintains that her son’s death was an accident, rather than suicide. The majority of the bibliography lists Alan Turing’s works. £600 - 800

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401 Atlases.- Kitchin (Thomas) A NEW UNIVERSAL ATLAS, FIRST EDITION, letterpress title and list of plates, 66 folding and/or double-page engraved maps IN FULL ORIGINAL HAND-COLOURING by or after Samuel Dunn, John Rocque, John Lodge, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville, Robert Mylne, Thomas Jefferys, John Roberts, James Rennell, Andrew Dury and others, plus an additional map not called for bound after the first, a few minor repairs to versos at folds, some offsetting, show-through and browning, a few creases, modern half calf over marbled boards, folio, Printed and Published by Robert Laurie and James Whittle, 1796. ⁂ A MAGNIFICENT ATLAS AND RARELY FOUND WITH ALL MAPS IN FULL ORIGINAL HAND-COLOURING. The scale of some of the maps is truly spectacular: this atlas contains several maps that if joined would form large-scale wall maps, including “Asia and its Islands”; “A General Map of the World or Terraqueous Globe”; “England and Wales”; “Scotland”; “Ireland”; “Africa” and three maps of American interest: “The whole Continent of America”; “North America...”; and “South America.” Eight editions of this work were issued on an almost annual basis from 1796 until 1807. The publishers constantly changed and improved the atlas in an effort to outdo not only their competitors, but also to improve on the previous edition. The extra map (also fully coloured) shows Great Britain, France, Ireland and parts of Spain, Germany and Denmark on a circuilar projection showing distances and bearings of places within 700 miles of London. £8,000 - 12,000

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402 Egypt.- Denon (Dominique Vivant) VOYAGE DANS LA BASSE ET LA HAUTE ÉGYPTE, PENDANT LES CAMPAGNES DU GÉNÉRAL BONAPARTE, 2 vol. FIRST EDITION, 143 engraved plates on 142 sheets, some double-page, 1 or 2 loose or becoming so, the odd surface mark, very occasional light damp-staining, light worming to pastedowns, CONTEMPORARY STRAIGHT-GRAIN RED MOROCCO, GILT DECORATION WITH EGYPTIAN MOTIF TO SPINE AND COVERS BY BOZERIAN (signed at foot of spine), spines a little faded, head of vol.2 spine nearly loose, few wormholes, rubbed, some wear, g.e., [Blackmer 471], folio, Paris, 1802. ⁂ DENON’S FAMOUS VIEWS OF EGYPT. The work gave Denon’s his reputation as an archaeologist and artist. This work is among the first plate-books which reveal the beauty of Egyptian art to Europe, all the while oﬀering a visual and written source for the military history of the campaign, including the ‘Bataille des Pyramides’. The plates depict Egypt, with its people and cultures in an impressive manner, showing Cairo under moonlight during the annual flood. £4,000 - 6,000

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403 Italy.- Saint-Non (Jean Claude Richard, l’Abbé de) VOYAGE PITTORESQUE OU DESCRIPTION DES ROYAUMES DE NAPLES ET DE SICILE, 4 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, engraved title vignettes, engraved dedication to Marie Antoinette, 305 plates (including the ‘phallus’ plate in vol.2, which is often lacking), maps, and plans, some folding or double-page, numerous engraved head- and tail-pieces of which 25 hand-coloured in vol.2, a few maps and plans hand-coloured in outline, water- and damp-staining to vol. 1, very occasional faint foxing or surface staining, armorial bookplate, contemporary calf-backed boards, gilt spines, spine ends chipped with loss, joints splitting but firm, worn, edges uncut, [Blackmer 1473; Berlin Kat. 1904; Cicognara 2708; Cohen-De Ricci 928-930], folio, Paris, 1781-86. ⁂ ‘ONE OF THE MONUMENTS OF FRENCH EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BOOK PRODUCTION.’ (BLACKMER). Jean Claude Richard de Saint-Non went to Italy in 1759 and studied art and architecture in Rome where he met the artists Fragonard and Hubert-Robert, who were among those who contributed drawings for this work. He travelled to Naples with them in the spring of 1760, spending several weeks in Naples itself, as well as visiting Paestum, Pompeii and Herculaneum, where he drew copies of murals and antiquities. On his return to Paris in 1761 preparation of the plates was put in hand under the direction of Jean Benjamin de Laborde, co-author with Zurlauben of the equally monumental Tableau... de la Suisse. However the cost of such a lavish production ruined Saint-Non and hastened his death in 1791. The magnificent engraved plates include views of Naples and its environs, neighbouring towns, Vesuvius, churches, palaces and other buildings, catacombs, temples, tombs, grottos, ancient and Renaissance works of art, and many other architectural and scenic subjects, with the descriptive text by Dominique Vivant-Denon. £8,000 - 12,000

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404 Middle East.- [Cassas (Louis François)] VOYAGE PITTORESQUE DE LA SYRIE, DE LA PHENICIE, DE LA PALESTINE, ET DE LA BASSE EGYPTE, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, without titles as issued, only the 7pp. letterpress Prospectus present at beginning of vol.1, 180 engraved plates and maps, some doublepage and/or folding, a few minor tears at folds, tissue guards generally preserving plates in remarkably clean condition, Smith-Dorrien family bookplate, contemporary red half morocco, gilt, over marbled boards, rubbed, spines faded, [Atabey 201; Blackmer 295], folio, [Paris], [1799]. ⁂ Originally published in parts, only thirty livraisons of plates were published with much of the accompanying text and the titles never apparently printed. “The number of plates varies, but around 180 is standard. The British Library and the Gennadius Library have 180 plates, the Blackmer copy had 178 plates.” (Atabey). “Cassas accompanied Choiseul-Gouffier on his embassy to Constantinople in 1784 but remained there only a few weeks. From the end of 1784 to 1787 he travelled in the Levant, more especially the Archipelago, Egypt and Syria, at Choiseul-Gouffier’s expense, making numerous drawings, more than 300, which he wished to have engraved, also at Choiseul-Gouffier’s expense.” (Blackmer) £10,000 - 15,000

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405 -. Clive (Robert) A SERIES OF LITHOGRAPHIC DRAWINGS FROM SKETCHES...BETWEEN THE PERSIAN GULF & THE BLACK SEA, 3 parts in 2, FIRST EDITION, each part with letterpress description of plates, 26 lithograph plates on 24 sheets, most tinted, one folding (of Palmyra), some large marginal defects to a few plates and some leaves of letterpress, especially at beginning and end of each part, some foxing, original cloth-backed printed wrappers, part 2/3 lacking lower wrapper, other wrappers heavily browned and with some large defects commensurate with the contents, preserved in modern cloth-backed boards portfolio with ties, [Bobins III, 1086; not in Abbey, Atabey, Blackmer or Tooley], folio, Dickinson & Co., [1852]. ⁂ A RARE SURVIVAL IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. Despite the defects mentioned, the plates have large enough margins for the images themselves not to be aﬀected. This scarce work, with views of Iraq, Syria and Turkey, including Ctesiphon, Erzurum, Damascus, Van, Amadiyah, Nimrod, Bagdad, Mosul, and Karbala, was issued in 3 formats: tinted (as here); coloured; and coloured and mounted. There are no letterpress titles present, the wrappers presumably suﬃcing. No copy at auction since 2016 £6,000 - 8,000

The Property of a Lady 406 Asia.- Ogilby (John) ASIA, THE FIRST PART, (all published), FIRST EDITION, additional engraved title, printed title in red and black, 4 double-page engraved maps only (of 5, without the large folding map not called for in list of plates and not found in all copies), 15 engraved plates only (of 28), engraved illustrations, without blank leaf B1 as usual and lacking final leaf “Directions to the binder”, one map with small hole near centre, a few marginal defects and water-stains, contemporary blind-stamped calf, worn, [Wing O166], folio, Printed by the Author, 1673. £1,000 - 1,500

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408 World.- Purchas (Samuel) PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMAGE. OR RELATIONS OF THE WORLD AND THE RELIGIONS..., second edition, wood-engraved initials and decorations, a couple of short tears (2A5 and 2S1), occasional minor soiling, slight marginal staining at beginning, generally clean and crisp, contemporary calf, gilt, a little rubbed, one corner repaired, lacking ties, [ESTC S111828; STC 20506; Sabin 66679], folio, Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, 1614. ⁂ A very good copy of the second edition, “much enlarged with Additions through the whole Worke” by one of the best–known early travel writers. The first three parts relate to travels in Asia, Africa and the East Indies. The fourth, and most celebrated, includes accounts of New France, Virginia, Florida, and the explorations of Cabeca de Vaca, Columbus, Frobisher, Cartier, Hudson, Raleigh, Cortes, and others. Provenance: Robert ?Michel (ink name on title); George, Lord Hylton (bookplate) £2,000 - 3,000

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407 Levant.- Ferriol (Charles) and Jacques Le Hay. RECUEIL DE CENT ESTAMPES REPRESENTANT DIFFERENTES NATIONS DU LEVANT, engraved throughout, title and 88 plates only (of 102), lacking any letterpress, plates clean and crisp, contemporary calf, gilt, rebacked, rubbed, [Blackmer 591], folio, Paris, Le Hay & Duchange, 1714-[15]. ⁂ “This publication certainly contained the most popular and influential illustrations of Turkish dress to date. Its use as a source book was wide-spread.” (Blackmer). £1,000 - 1,500

409 Africa.- Blackburne-Maze (C.I.) JOURNALS OF MY AFRICAN TRAVELS, FIRST EDITION, 69 mounted silver-gelatin photographs (including frontispiece), half-title, occasional light scattered foxing, ink signature of J. Norrington o front pastedown, original gilt decorated cloth gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, [not in Czech], 8vo, Maidstone, W.E. Thorpe & Son, 1913. ⁂ A privately printed account with original photographs of an epic big-game tour across Africa. Blackburne-Maze travelled along the Nile starting at Cairo, through Egypt, the Sudan, Uganda and Kenya, ending at Mombassa. They hunted oryx, eland, impala and rhinoceros near the Makindu River, then crossed the Ewaso Ng’iro in search of zebra, lion, buﬀalo and gazelle. £800 - 1,200 408

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410 Algeria.- Rozet (Claude-Antoine) VOYAGE DANS LA RÉGENCE D’ALGER, ou Description du Pays Occupé par l’Armée Française en Afrique, 4 vol. including Atlas, FIRST EDITION, text with half-titles (that in vol.2 torn and repaired), Atlas with double-page engraved map, 30 lithographed plates including 8 hand-coloured of costumes, foxing, mostly aﬀecting text, map and a few lithographed views, costume plates clean, contemporary blue roan-backed marbled boards, spines gilt, rubbed, spines faded, nick to spine of Atlas repaired, 8vo & 4to, Paris, 1833. ⁂ Covering the geography, geology, history, and natural history of Algeria, following the occupation by France in 1830. £600 - 800

411 America.- CONSTITUTIONS OF THE SEVERAL INDEPENDENT STATES OF AMERICA (THE); THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ... TO WHICH ARE NOW ADDED, THE DECLARATOION OF RIGHTS ..., second edition, engraved frontispiece, 3pp. advertisements at end, faint off-setting, occasional light spotting, occasional small worming affecting odd letter, B8 trimmed at foreedge (not affecting text), bookplate, cracked hinges, later half-calf, small loss to backstrip, rubbed and worn, [ESTC T138352], 8vo, for J. Stockdale, 1783. £600 - 800

412 Arrowsmith (John) THE COLONY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA; FROM THE SURVEYS OF JOHN SEPTIMUS ROE ESQR., engraved map with original handcolouring, on cream wove paper, sheet 545 x 675 mm (21 ½ x 26 ½ in), central vertical fold as issued, some light toning and surface dirt, small nick in the centre right margin, very minor splitting to ends of fold, unframed, 1839 ⁂ Inset maps of Perth, Guildford, Fremantle, Kelmscott, Augusta and the environs of Perth. £600 - 800

413 Tasmania.- HOBART TOWN ALMANAC, FOR THE YEAR 1829 (THE), FIRST EDITION, 2 additional engraved titles, 2 engraved plates, and 2 engraved signals plates, bound with some blank ﬀ. at end (few with clippings pasted and ink annotations), lacking front free endpaper, a few contemporary ink corrections, very occasional light surface staining, contemporary red morocco, chipping to spine ends, splitting to upper joint but firm, light staining, slight wear to extremities, [Ferguson, 1272; Wilson, 236], 24mo, Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land, by James Ross, 1829. ⁂ THE FIRST AND RAREST OF ROSS’S TASMANIAN ALMANACS. The ink corrections suggests that this copy was owned by a resident who was updating the information in the almanac regarding the other resident. £750 - 1,000

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414 Terry (Frederic Charles) LANDSCAPE SCENERY, ILLUSTRATING SYDNEY, PARAMATTA, RICHMOND, MAITLAND, WINDSOR, AND PORT JACKSON, NEW SOUTH WALES, FIRST EDITION, engraved title page and 38 steel-engraved plates, without numbered plate 24 (as often), errata slip tipped-in, some foxing, hinges starting, cracking to gutter, original decorated cloth, gilt, some staining to upper cover, rubbed, [Ferguson, 15440; Wantrup, 259a], oblong 4to, Sydney & Melbourne, 1855. ⁂ Frederic Terry arrived in Australia during the height of the Gold Rush and headed straight to the diggings in the Hunter Valley, and began working as an artist in Sydney by 1852.

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In 1854, Sydney publisher John Sands commissioned a series of sketches from Terry to capitalise on the emergent market for view books. Terry submitted 39 sketches to be engraved in London, however, due to the geographical distance between publisher and engraver, the plates were attributed to ‘Fleury’. The album, consisting of 38 of the 39 plates, was published under the title ‘The Australian Keepsake’, and sold for 25 shillings. It was considered a work of genius by The Sydney Morning Herald.

415 Austria.- Moleville (Bertrand de) THE COSTUME OF THE HEREDITARY STATES OF THE HOUSE OF AUSTRIA, 50 stipple-engraved hand-coloured aquatint plates, text in English and French, occasional light foxing, oﬀsetting, Charles P. Grenfell bookplate, 19th-century straight-grain navy morocco, stamped in gilt, spine ends bumped, rubbing and some wear to joints and extremities, g.e., [Abbey Travel 71], small folio, William Miller, 1804.

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CHINA 416 Boxer Rebellion.- Yamamoto (Sanshichiro) VIEWS OF THE NORTH CHINA AFFAIR, FIRST EDITION, 114 illustrations on 58 plates, occasional foxing and slight marginal creasing, title with corners cut away, original pictorial wrappers bound in, contemporary cloth, oblong folio, Tokyo, Tokyo Printing Co. Ltd, 1901. ⁂ Important photographic documentation of the aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion. Subjects include groups of Japanese, English, French, German, Russian and American militia and legations, Tianjin and Beijing architecture, comprising the Forbidden City, the Imperial Ancestral Temple, the Summer Palace, the Coal Hill, the Drum tower etc. £800 - 1,200

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417 Chinese School (19th century) FOURTEEN CHINESE BOTANICAL STUDIES, opaque pigments on thin handmade Chinese laid paper, seven inscribed in Chinese to lower centre identifying flowers, each sheet approx. 375 x 265 mm (14 ¾ x 10 ½ in), some occassional spotting and light toning to sheet, a few with slightly toned extremities, minor handling creases, unframed, [circa 1820-1830] (14) Provenance: Private collection, Dorset, UK ⁂ A particularly fine set of 14 detailed botanical studies produced in China, by a highly competent uniform hand or studio, likely for European export. £4,000 - 6,000

418 He Shikui (賀世魁, also known as Huanwen) THREE PLATES FROM: PINGDING HUIJIANG DESHENG TU (IMAGES OF THE RECONQUEST OF EAST TURKESTAN), engravings, 3 plates only (of 10), on handmade Chinese laid paper, each image approx. 530 x 905 mm (20 ¾ x 35 ⅝ in), under glass, some marginal nicks and small losses, handling creases, printers’ creases, uniformly framed, [Beijing, 1829] (3) Provenance: Private collection, Dorset, UK ⁂ SCARCE AT AUCTION. Three plates from a larger series of 10, commissioned by Emperor Daoguang (1782-1850, r.1820–1850) to commemorate his victory of the second campaign in Kashgar against the rebel Jahangir Khoja during the years 1826–1835. The present engravings formed part of the series that was entirely produced in China; only sixty sets were printed for presentation to princes and high oﬃcials. £2,000 - 3,000

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420 Dawn of Alpine mountaineering.- D[eluc] (Jean-André) & D[entand] (Pierre Gédéon). RELATION DE DIFFÉRENTS VOYAGES DANS LES ALPES DU FAUCIGNY, FIRST EDITION, half-title, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, final 3 ﬀ. blank, D1 fore-edge uncut, occasional light spotting, 19th century ?Scottish calf-backed speckled boards, gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, vellum-tipped corners, neat wear to head of spine, corners little worn, rubbed, [Perret 1271; Regard sur les Alpes 17; Meckly 116; Coolidge 51], large 12mo, Maastricht, J.E. Dufour & Ph. Roux, 1776 (bound after an unrelated 18th century French work).

419 Hunter (George W.) TURKI DIALECTS; NARRATIVES OF THE PROPHETS, FIRST EDITIONS, text in English and Turkic, mimeographed pages folded and stitch bound, handwritten title page, molding to covers and upper page edges of Dialects short tears and creases, soiling, housed in custom quarter bound solander boxes, 8vo, Tihwafu Sinkaing, China Inland Mission, 1918/1916.

⁂ First edition of this account of the first high mountain ascent of Mount Buet in the Chablais Alps, Haute-Savoie, France. It recounts two unsuccessful attempts by the brothers Jean-André & Guillaume-Antoine Deluc in 1765 and 1770, and their successful attempt on 20th September, 1770. A number of meteorological and scientific experiments were conducted at high altitude, including with Pastor Pierre Dentand on another ascent in 1776. Provenance: Sir William Maxwell of Monreith (engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown). £400 - 600

⁂ A pair of scarce mimeographed titles printed in Turki in limited numbers by explorer and missionary, George W. Hunter. Hunter produced the works on older mimeograph machines, due to the lack of access to other printing methods. They contain examples of the various Turki dialects via translations of popular religious texts as well as distinctions between diﬀerent language groups. £2,500 - 3,500 ____________________________________

421 France.- [Hurault (Michel)] A DISCOURSE UPON THE PRESENT STATE OF FRANCE, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, title with large woodcut printer’s device, lacking initial f. (blank except for signature), ink-stamp of Bradford City Libraries to pastedown, title very lightly soiled and with tiny puncture mark to fore-margin, title and few other ﬀ. guarded, light damp-staining to inner-margin, modern morocco-backed cloth, spine and head of upper cover very slightly faded, [STC 14003; ESTC S104313], small 4to, [J. Wolfe], 1588. ⁂ A translation of part 1 of Hurault’s ‘Discours sur l’estat de la France’. A variant lacks “at London” in the imprint. Michel Hurault was a Calvinist, and friend of Henry IV, King of France. £600 - 800

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422 Greece.- Bartholdy (Jakob Ludwig Salomon) VOYAGE EN GRÈCE FAIT DANS LES ANNÉES 1803 ET 1804, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, halftitles, large engraved folding map, 15 plates (of which 10 hand-coloured) and 2 folding ff. of music, map with repaired tears (just affecting one letter of title) and a few small unrepaired tears, a few ff. with piece from a margin, some spotting or staining, attractive contemporary vellum over boards, stamped and ruled in black, some soiling, rubbed, [Blackmer 87; Atabey 68], 8vo, Paris, Dentu, 1807. ⁂ Scarce at auction. The diplomat Bartholdy (uncle of the composer Felix Mendelssohn) travelled in Greece with the artist Gropius. The plates, mostly of costumes, are engraved after drawings by him. The plate of Thessalonian vases is not found on the plate list.

424 Bartoli (Pietro Santi) COLONNA TRAIANA ERETTA DAL SENATO, E POPOLO ROMANO, engraved title, engraved dedication to Louis XIV, publisher’s letterpress dedication, 7 engraved diagrams of Trajan’s Column unnumbered as issued, including the 3-part view of the column in its entirety, not joined, 119 numbered engraved plates of the frieze, with 16 pp. letterpress text description of Alfonso Chacon and index, small hole to title with neat old repair, plate 32 with marginal tear and expert repair, occasional faint marginal spotting and staining (not aﬀecting images), strengthened hinges, contemporary russia, rebacked, bumping to corners and spine extremities, oblong folio, Rome, Giacomo de Rossi, n.d. [but probably eighteenth century]. ⁂ An impressive edition of Bartoli’s engraved masterpiece, based on his own drawings of Trajan’s column. Bartoli was able to inspect the column up-close in the 1660s when King Louis XIV of France commissioned the erection of scaﬀolding in order to make a cast of the whole frieze. The publication was an immediate success, and copies were produced throughout the 18th and early 19th century. £1,000 - 1,500

Provenance: Library of the Château Barante (book label to front pastedowns). £500 - 700

423 -. Lear (Edward) VIEWS IN THE SEVEN IONIAN ISLANDS, FIRST EDITION, tinted lithographed title and 20 plates, list of subscribers, some worming to margins, foxing, gutta percha perished, all plates and text loose in original cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, covers a little marked, light rubbing to extremities, [Blackmer 987], folio, 1863.

425 Basoli (Antonio) RACCOLTA DI PROSPETTIVE SERIE, RUSTICHE, E DI PAESAGGIO, FIRST EDITION, title within typographic border and with engraved vignette, 102 engraved plates, contemporary half sheep, spine gilt, a little rubbed, spine ends chipped, oblong folio, Bologna, 1810. £1,000 - 1,500

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426 Gardens.- Falda (Giovanni Battista) LI GIARDINI DI ROMA CON LE LORO PIANTE ALZATE E VEDUTE IN PROSPETTIVA, FIRST EDITION, engraved throughout, title, fine pictorial dedication leaf by Giovanni Battista Manelli and 19 plates, occasional spotting and a couple with marginal stains, later half vellum, rubbed, oblong folio, Rome, Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, 1683. £2,000 - 3,000

427 Zocchi (Giuseppe) VEDUTE DELLE VILLE E D’ALTRI LUOGHI DELLA TOSCANA, FIRST EDITION, engraved title and dedication leaf, printed list of plates, 50 engraved plates, a few minor marginal tears, one plate with marginal stain, later plain wrappers, brittle and detached, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, oblong folio, Florence, Giuseppe Allegrini, 1744. ⁂ Magnificent series of views of the gardens, villas and surrounding landscapes of Tuscany. £6,000 - 8,000 180

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429 Assendelft de Coningh (C.T. van) MIJN VERBLIJF IN JAPAN, FIRST EDITION, lithograph title with light water-stain to lower margin, C.C. Krieger bookplate, modern cloth-backed boards, cloth nicked at foot of lower joint, [Cordier, Japonica 522], 8vo, Amsterdam, 1856. ⁂ VERY RARE. Library Hub records only 1 copy, held by the British Library. Cornelis Theodoor van Assendelft de Coningh (1824-1890) had been in Japan in 1845 while serving as a junior oﬃcer on board a ship of the Dutch East India Company. Although on that occasion scarcely even setting foot on shore, he nevertheless seems to have gained a most favourable impression of the land. It was thus he writes with great pleasure that in May of 1851, now captain of the Joän and based in Surabaya, he received orders from the Dutch government to sail once more for Japan. He arrived in Nagasaki in August and stayed for three months, during which time he not only made the notes which form the basis of the present work, but did a small amount of research into records concerning the strange and elusive figure of Count Benyowsky. £750 - 1,000

428 Shuzaburo (Usui, attributed) PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, 52 hand-tinted prints mounted on card, depicting views of Nagasaki, Kobe, Arima, Osaka, Kyoto, Chionin, Fujiyama, etc., concertina-style, tissue guards, browning to margins of first print, the odd spot throughout, first tissue guard with significant loss, black lacquered covers, decorated in gold and red with insects and foliage to upper cover, and cranes to lower cover, covers detached, lacking spine, chips and losses to the lacquer on corners, small chips on covers, folio, Meiji period, late 19th century. £600 - 800

430 Nobuharu (Isono) NAGASAKI MIYAGE, FIRST EDITION, 2 single-page woodblock illustrations and 14 double-page illustrations with accompanying text, stitch bound, soiling and spotting to text and illustrations but remaining generally clean and bright, original wrappers with paper label, surface creasing and staining, some worm holes to upper recto, in slip-case, 8vo, Edo, Matsugoro Ishigami, 1847. ⁂ Fascinating Edo period “Souvenir” guide to the city of Nagasaki, with depictions of the manners of Dutch and Chinese traders, city landscapes as well as an Elephant. An interesting volume on the opening up of Japan to trade and Western practices. £600 - 800

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431 Titsingh (Isaac) ILLUSTRATIONS OF JAPAN, firsT ENGLISH EDITION, 12 handcoloured engraved or aquatint plates (one folding), lacking frontispiece, title with small loss to corners (neat restoration verso), short marginal tear with expert repair (U2), small punch hole to lower corner (title-R2), one marginal pencil note, occasional light spotting, modern endpapers, modern calf, [Abbey Travel 557], 4to, R. Ackermann, 1822. £500 - 700

432 Coronelli (Vincenzo Maria) [GLOBE GORE CENTRED ON SAUDI ARABIA], engraving, on laid paper with watermark of initials ‘PA’ and flower, sheet 485 x 365 mm (19 x 14 ¼ in), ink marginalia to the lower right quadrant, handling creases, slightly rough edges with small nicks and losses, minor spotting and toning, unframed, [circa 1688-1697] £400 - 600

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433 Damascus Aﬀair, or The Damascus Blood Libel.- COLLECTION OF TESTIMONIES, LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS FROM SEVERAL MEMBERS OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN DAMASCUS, originating first in the disappearance of a friar and his servant and the subsequent anti-Jewish persecution, manuscripts in English (3 manuscript statements in one hand), letters and documents in several hands in English, Hebrew and French, together c. 170pp., folds, browned, some edges chipped, unbound, sm. 4to & v.s., [c. 1840]. ⁂ Collection comprises: (1). Statement of David Harari, a wealthy Jewish merchant in Damascus arrested with his three brothers, an account of being tortured until he confessed, manuscript, 59pp., n.d. Harari was taken in front of the local governor, accused of killing Friar Tomaso to which he replied, “My lord, I am a merchant, and not a murderer.” His accusers refuse to believe him, “your law requires you to commit such murders in order to obtain blood to mix up with the bread eaten at your Passover feast.” (2). The Statement of Moses Abulafia, having been accused by the barber Solomon Halek of the murder of Friar Tomaso, Abulafia was arrested and tortured and when his wife was assaulted he confessed and converted to Islam, manuscript, 37pp., n.d. “The Pacha’s servants then began to press and squeeze my sexual parts, and my agony was inexpressible. I entreated them to kill me rather than torture me in this way.” (3). The Statement of the Chief Rabbi Jacob Antebi, he withstood brutal torture, manuscript, 50pp., n.d. “I was now extremely lame in both my feet, I could neither walk nor stand... I remained in prison for three months... several of my toes actually fell oﬀ, and I believe death itself could not have caused me so much anguish.” (4). Copy of the report of the Blood Libel addressed to Moses Montefiore and 5 pieces of copy correspondence relating to Montefiore’s intervention in the Damascus persecution, manuscripts, documents and letters in English, Hebrerw and French, together 26pp. & envelopes, v.s., v.d., [? 1840]-46 (4 packets). “Copy of Sir Moses Montefiore’s address to the Emperor Nicolas [Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia] May I be permitted to embrace this favorable moment to express my earnest prayer, that your Majest may deign to give your most humane consideration to the condition of my Coreligionists under your Majesty’s sway... .” The Blood Libel of Damascus originated in the disappearance of a Christian Capuchin Friar Tomaso, and later his Muslim servant Ibrahim Amrah. The Jewish community of Damascus was blamed and a large number of the community were imprisoned and tortured for confessions. Supported by the French Consul, the Egyptian Governor of Damascus persecuted the Jewish community until the intervention of prominent western Jews such as Sir Moses Montefiore and the surviving victims were released from prison. £1,500 - 2,000

434 EAMAN ZAHYAN FI TARIKH ‘IIMARAT ‘ABUZABY [TWO GLORIOUS YEARS IN THE HISTORY OF ABU DHABI], FIRST ARABIC EDITION, folding colour map, folding genealogy chart, illustrations (many full-page), evenly toned, one or two ﬀ. loose or becoming so, original pictorial stiﬀ card wrappers, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, Beirut, [1968]. ⁂ Scarce in Arabic. Published to commemorate the first two years of the reign of Sheikh Zayed, reviewing both his work up to that point and looking ahead to ambitious future plans for Abu Dhabi. £2,000 - 3,000 Buyer’s premium is applicable on every lot. Please note any symbols for additional charges that may apply. All symbols, fees, charges and applicable VAT are explained on p.4

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435 HIS MA JESTY KING ABDUL AZIZ PROJECT FOR THE EXTENSION AND CONSTRUCTION OF HARAM SHARIF, FIRST EDITION, illustrations, some colour, diagrams, original green calf, vignette and lettered in gilt on upper cover, spine a little rubbed, g.e., oblong 4to, Karachi, c.2005. ⁂ Scarce and detailed account of the building of the Great Mosque at Mecca. £600 - 800

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436 Jerusalem.- Hollar (Wenceslaus) IERUSALEM. HIERUSALEM VETERIS IMAGO VERA, engraved bird’s-eye view, on two sheets conjoined, the whole plate, title and key with double-ruled borderline in red ink, total sheet approx. 425 x 1090 mm (16 ¾ x 42 ⅞ in), laid onto paper support, mounted on conservation linen, old folds and creases, numerous marginal losses with expert restoration, some areas of loss within the plate replaced in ink facsimile, scattered spotting and surface dirt, handling creases, unframed, 1660 Literature: R. Pennington, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar, 1982, no. 1130 ⁂ Scarce at auction. Hollar’s grand reimagining of ancient Jerusalem, complete with the Temple envisaged before its destruction. £3,000 - 5,000

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437 -. [ISLAMIC MAP OF THE AL-AQSA MOSQUE COMPOUND DEPICTING THE AL-AQSA MOSQUE AND THE DOME OF THE ROCK], watercolour map in red, orange, green, yellow and blue wash, on paper, watercolour botanical border, numerous captions in arabic manuscript, folds, creased, slightly browned, two corners torn with loss slightly aﬀecting watercolour border, margins with small tears with slight loss and chipped, 555 x 795mm., [Ottoman Empire], [c. 1800]. £1,000 - 1,500

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438 [KITAB ZUHD AL-ATABIL], Christian Arabic manuscript, part 2 only, c.530pp., text in red and black, large stain to final f. with some showthrough onto text, first and last few ﬀ. with repairs to margins, occasional light surface staining and marginal water-staining, Yousuf Karsh’s copy with letter from his brother, Salim loosely inserted, ink ownership inscription of al-Muqaddasi Nasrallah bin Antun ?Miswa?, modern morocco preserving original morocco panels and backstrip, 4to, [most likely Lebanon], [1737]. ⁂ A compilation of scripture, with citations, containing 100 chapters. £750 - 1,000

439 Lottin de Laval (Victor) VOYAGE DANS LA PENINSULE ARABIQUE, Atlas vol. only, double-page map (browned),14 tinted lithographs (only, of 15) by Eugene Ciceri and Sabatier after drawings by the author, 17 photolithographic reproductions of bas-reliefs using the Poitevin process plus 5 duplicates, and 80 details of epigraphic inscriptions on 40 plates, all loose as issued, some foxing, marginal browning and chipping at egdes, original cloth portfolio with printed paper label to upper cover and original silk ties, rubbed, spine repaired, folio, Paris, Gide & Cie., 1855-59. ⁂ The work recounts the journey to the Arabian Peninsula, Sinai, and Middle Egypt by the French archaeologist, writer, and painter Victor Lottin de Laval (1810–1903). £800 - 1,200

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440 Moritz (Bernhard) BILDER AUS PALAESTINA, NORD-ARABIEN UND DEM SINAI, title (with small ink stamp), introductory leaf and 16pp. text in German, 106 plates after photographs mounted on 50 card mounts with captions, numbered 1-100 and 16a, 59b, 60a, 72a (2 photos) and 95a, one map (numbered 63a), images of varying sizes, loose as issued in publisher’s cloth-backed decorative boards portfolio, lettered “Nord-Arabien und Sinai” in gilt on upper cover, rubbed, oblong folio (290 x 390mm.), Berlin, Dietrich Reimer, 1916. ⁂ RARE AND IMPORTANT PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD OF THE MA JOR SITES AND GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES IN SAUDI ARABIA, JORDAN, SYRIA, EGYPT AND PALESTINE. The images depict pilgrims on the Hajj to Mecca, Bedouins, the building of the Hejaz railway between Damascus and the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, Jiddah, Petra, and Mt. Sinai. Moritz (1859-1939) was an Arabist and archaeologist who from 1896 to 1911 headed the Khedival Library and Archive in Cairo. It was from there that he made numerous research trips to the Sinai and Hejaz, taking the present photographs between 1905 and 1915. £10,000 - 15,000

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442 Scaliger (Joseph Justus) and Thomas Erpenius. PROVERBIORUM ARABICORUM, second edition, text in Latin and Arabic, woodcut printer’s device on title, repeated on otherwise blank final f., contemporary ownership ink inscription to pastedown dated 1623, and others later, title page trimmed affecting date and most of imprint, fold line to front free endpaper, loss to pastedown, a few tears and loss to ff. (not affecting text), browning, marks, and occasional spotting throughout, contemporary calf, skillfully rebacked, rubbed, small loss to upper cover, otherwise sound considering age, 8vo, [Leiden, Ex Typographia Erpeniana, Linguarum Orientalium, prostant apud J. Maire, 1623]. ⁂ Scarce second edition of this study of Arabic proverbs. It first appeared in 1614, but the second edition is considered superior as it was revised by Erpenius just before his death in 1624. £600 - 800

441 Qur’an, Somalian. QUR’AN MANUSCRIPT FROM SOMALIA, [SECTION FROM THE QUR’AN COMPRISING 7:171 - 14:25], Arabic manuscript on paper written as a undivided text without verse markers in majuscule script, previous owners inscriptions, endpapers renewed, some worm holes to text, all remaining legible, original binding repaired and restored, short split to front flap, 8vo, Algoi, c.1900. ⁂ A Qur’an section, written by an unnamed holy man in the town of Algoi (near Mogadishu) in the late 19th or early 20th-century. The text is presented as a stark, Majuscule scripted continuous block, intended for a reader so familiar with the Qur’an that verse markers are unnecessary. Two Italian inscriptions at the end of the manuscript provide details on its provenance and production. Acquired in 1911 by Dr Carlo Bottari, an Italian medical oﬃcer stationed at the residency in the port of Merca, then part of colonial Italian Somaliland. A second inscription in his hand records its presentation in 1912. Bottari crucially notes that the Qur’an came from the town of Algio and that it was copied by a local holy man, locating this manuscript’s production firmly in Somalia. £600 - 800

443 U.S. Geological Survey (Saudi Arabian Project) TWENTY-TWO MAPS OF THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA, colour-printed maps, folding into original buﬀ paper envelopes with bilingual printed text to upper cover of each, maps of various sizes, approx. 1030 x 860 mm (40 ½ x 33 ¾ in), each envelope 300 x 234 mm (11 ¾ x 9 ⅛ in), some envelopes with splitting and marginal nicks and small losses, Washington D.C., [circa 1958-1962] ⁂ Including the only two sheets of the ground-breaking series covering present day United Arab Emirates. This project was the first to produce a complete series of geological and geographical maps of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and played a decisive role in its emergence as a major world power in the production of natural resources. £2,000 - 3,000 ____________________________________

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444 Norway.- Randell (James) VIEWS IN NORWAY FROM ORIGINAL PICTURES..., tinted lithographed pictorial title and 12 tinted lithographed plates by Eugene Ciceri after James Randell, Dedication bound before title, title torn and repaired, margins of title with small tears (one tear in inner margin with small loss), title slightly foxed, last page of text torn and repaired, Voring-Fos letterpress torn and repaired, Gousta Fjeld plate small water-stain in margin, Valley of Torresdal plate torn and repaired, soiled, foxed and one corner torn with loss and repaired, some margins of plates with a few very short tears and slightly marked or spotted, new endpapers, inner hinges strengthened, original half morocco, gilt, cloth boards creased and partially faded, corners repaired, rebacked in modern morocco, [not in Abbey], folio, London, Colnaghi & Co., 1854. £800 - 1,200

446 -. Uslar (Baron Pyotr Karlovich) Ð Ð²Ð°Ñ€Ñ ÐºÐ°Ñ Ð°Ð·Ð±Ñ ÐºÐ° (AVARSKAYA AZBUKA), staple-bound original wrappers, occasional foxing especially on pp. 22-32., light soiling, MPHGSCA, 1865. ⁂THE FIRST PRIMER AND THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN THE AVAR LANGUAGE Avar “The language of the mountains” also know as Avaric, is a northeast Caucasian language of the Avar-Andic subgroup that is spoken by Avars in Dagestan. After the 1859 conquest, this primer was published as an early attempt to standardize the Avar language and bring Cyrillic script to the region. To represent the sounds of the Avar language, it used a modified Cyrillic alphabet with the addition of several Latin and Georgian letters. £400 - 600

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447 South America.- Ecuador.- Velasco (Juan De) HISTORIA DEL REINO DE QUITO EN LA AMERICA MERIDIONAL, 3 VOLS., FIRST EDITION, books sellers labels, previous owners inscriptions and notations, especially vol 1., some staining to endpapers, occasional spotting, hinges starting, contemporary full marbled calf ruled and titled in gilt, leather a little scuﬀed and corners knocked, small perforation to front board of vol 2., housed in a custom solander triple- tiered case, 8vo, Quito, Imprenta del Gobierno, 1844.

445 Russia.- COSTUME OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE (THE), 73 stipple-engraved hand-coloured aquatint plates, text in English and French, some light water-staining, mostly to text, very occasionally aﬀecting plates, some light foxing, oﬀsetting, Charles P. Grenfell bookplate, 19th-century straight-grain navy morocco, stamped in gilt, spine ends bumped and repaired, rubbing and some wear to joints and extremities, g.e., [Abbey Travel 244], small folio, William Miller, 1803.

⁂ Velasco’s great early history of Ecuador, written in exile in Italy during the 18th C. and published posthumously in Quinto. Rare as a set.

£600 - 800

£800 - 1,200

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449 Georgius Codinus. EXCERPTA DE ANTIQUITATIBUS CONSTANTINOPOLITANIS, edited by Peter Lambeck, text in Greek and Latin, half-title, large engraved device to title, headpieces, tailpieces and initials, 16 full-page engravings, minor worming to upper-margin, occasional light finger soiling, some faint scattered spotting, light browning, ink and blue pencil inscription to front free endpaper, contemporary calf, spine ends chipped with loss to top compartment, joints split but firm, rubbed, [Praz II 97], folio, Paris, Typographia Regia, 1655. ⁂ One of the works in the celebrated series of Byzantine texts and histories published during the seventeenth century at the Imprimerie Royale, under the direction of Labbé. This edition is the revised version of the text from an Amsterdam codex by the editor Peter Lambeck, with a new Latin translation. The work begins with an account of the origins and typography of Byzantium, then describes the public buildings and statues, as well as the construction of Hagia Sophia, before concluding with a brief chronicle from the creation of the world to the sack of Byzantium by the Turks. £500 - 700

448 -. Gumilla (José) EL ORINOCO ILUSTRADO, Y DEFENDIDO, HISTORIA NATURAL, CIVIL, Y GEOGRAPHICA DE ESTE GRAN RIO, 2 vol., second edition, 1 engraved folding map, 2 engraved plates, occasional light foxing, upper hinges starting, contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title to spines, remains of ties, [Sabin 29275], 4to, Madrid, Manuel Fernandez, 1745. ⁂ José Gumilla stayed for 30 years at the Orinoco missions and was the first to publish a comprehensive account on the Orinoco river, its people, tribe, and natural history. “He travelled widely on the Middle Orinoco and had ascended to Apure Arauca and Meta rivers... and in 1741 published what was the first descriptive account of the Orinoco and its tributaries... In his book Gumilla spoke bitterly of the slave traders who invaded his country.” (Howgego p.464). £2,000 - 3,000

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450 [Dalvimart (Octavien)] THE COSTUME OF TURKEY [&] THE MILITARY COSTUME OF TURKEY, 2 vol., stipple-engraved hand-coloured aquatints titles and 90 plates vol.1 text in English and French), first and last few ﬀ. lightly foxed, occasional light surface soiling, oﬀsetting, Charles Pascoe Grenfell bookplate, uniform 19th-century straight-grained navy morocco, chipping to spine ends joints starting but firm with some minor repairs, light discolouration to 1 vol. upper cover, some light rubbing, g.e., [Abbey Travel 370 & 373], small folio, for William Miller, by T. Bensley [&] Thomas McLean, 1802-18. £1,500 - 2,000

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451 Ottoman Empire.- Nicolay (Nicolas de) THE NAVIGATIONS, PEREGRINATIONS AND VOYAGES, MADE INTO TURKIE, translated by Thomas Washington, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, title within typographic border, 60 full-page woodcut illustrations each within typographic border, woodcut initials and decorations, bookplates of William Curtis and King Lawrence Parker to front pastedown and endpaper, title laid down, B6 illustration with marginal closed tear, a few pp. trimmed close at upper and lower margins, touching or shaving Sig. letters and headings at times, a couple of small marginal holes to [par.]2 - A2, some surface soiling and a few nicks and spots, contemporary straight grain blind-stamped green morocco, rebacked preserving old spine, spine darkened, some wear to joints, a little rubbed, g.e., [Blackmer 1197; ESTC S113220], 4to, Thomas Dawson, 1585. ⁂ A very rare early travel account by Nicholas de Nicolay—artist and geographer—who left his native France at the age of twenty-five and spent sixteen years travelling across Europe. In 1551 he joined the French embassy to Constantinople, sent by Henry II of France to the court of Suleiman the Magnificent in an eﬀort to renew the Franco-Ottoman alliance. First published in French in 1567, the account combines first-hand observation with a broader survey of the Ottoman Empire and was rapidly translated into several European languages. Its sixty costume plates proved highly influential and circulated widely during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, oﬀering a European perspective on Ottoman society. £8,000 - 12,000

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BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY 452 Britain.- Pyne (William Henry) THE COSTUME OF GREAT BRITAIN, 60 stipple-engraved handcoloured aquatint plates, short tear repaired to text f., light occasional light surface soiling, some light foxing, oﬀsetting, Charles P. Grenfell bookplate, 19th-century straight-grain navy morocco, stamped in gilt, spine ends bumped, spine ends and joints repaired, rubbing and some wear to joints and extremities, g.e., [Abbey Life 430], small folio, William Miller, 1808. £500 - 700 453 London.- Before the Great Fire of 1666.- Scolari (Stefano) LONDRA, engraved panorama, printed on four sheets, conjoined, total sheet 425 x 2130 mm (16 ¾ x 83 ¾ in), laid onto linen support, numerous repaired tears, numerous sheet losses expertly restored in facsimile, within image but predominantly marginal, surface dirt and handling creases, unframed, [circa 1660] ⁂ SCARCE AT AUCTION. Impressive panorama of London before the fire, published in Venice, and likely based on Nicolas Visscher’s panorama printed in 1616. Ralph Hyde identifies Scolari’s print as a later variant of Franco Vallegio’s interpretation of Visscher’s panorama, but with the image heavily reworked. We have been unable to trace another example oﬀered at auction. £4,000 - 6,000

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454 -. Kip

(Johannes) TWO OF LONDON: A PROSPECT OF WESTMINSTER; A PROSPECT OF THE CITY OF LONDON, two works, engravings, both excellent beautifully inked impressions, each on two sheets of cream laid paper conjoined, 525 x 1185 mm (20 ¾ x 46 ⅝ in), and 520 x 1230 mm (20 ½ x 48 ⅜ in), respectively, old folds and some associated splitting and minor marginal nicks and tears, unframed, [circa 1720] PANORAMAS

⁂ If joined, the two together form one long panorama from Westminster Abbey to the Tower of London. Arguably the finest example to appear at auction for some time. £5,000 - 7,000

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Notes:

TERMS OF SALE The sale of goods at our Live Auctions and your legal relationship, as Bidder and/or Buyer, with us and the Seller are governed by our Conditions of Business. Please read our Conditions of Business carefully before bidding and contact us if you have any questions. Please note that if you register to bid and/or bid at auction you will be deemed to have agreed to be bound by and will comply with our Conditions of Business. If registering to buy over a live online Bidding Platform, including our own BidFORUM platform, you will be asked prior to every auction to confirm your agreement to our Conditions of Business before you are able to place a bid. You may also be asked to accept any third party terms and conditions when bidding via a third party Bidding Platform. We may change our Conditions of Business from time to time, without notice to you.

“Deliberate Forgery” means: (a) a copy or imitation made in our reasonable opinion with the intention of deceiving as to authorship, attribution, authenticity, origin, date, age, period, culture, provenance, source or material; (b) described in the catalogue entry (as amended by any saleroom or Website notice) without qualification or any indication that there may be any uncertainty or conflict of opinion in relation to the work being such a copy or imitation; and (c) (c) which at the date of the auction or sale had a value materially less than it would have had if it had been as described;

We can be contacted in the following ways: Telephone: +44 (0)20 7871 2640 Email: info@forumauctions.co.uk Post: FAO Head of Operations, Forum Auctions Limited, Ingate Works, 4 Ingate Place, Battersea, London SW8 3NS Definitions and interpretation In these Terms of Sale, the words ‘you’, ‘yours’, etc. refer to you as the Bidder or Buyer as the context requires. The words “we”, “us”, etc. refer to the Auctioneer. Any reference to a ‘Clause’ is to a clause of these Terms of Sale unless stated otherwise. To make these Terms of Sale easier to read, we have given the following words a specific meaning: “Auctioneer” means Forum Auctions Limited, a company registered in England and Wales with registration number 10048705 and VAT number 236 0168 28 and whose registered office is located at Ingate Works, 4 Ingate Place, Battersea, London SW8 3NS and/or its individual authorised auctioneer, as appropriate; “Bidder” means a person participating or planning to participate in bidding at our auction;

"Estimate" means the price range within which, in our opinion, a Lot may reasonably be expected to sell. A reference to the "low Estimate" means the lower figure in such price range; “Hammer Price” means the level of the highest bid accepted by the Auctioneer for a Lot by the fall of the hammer; "Live Auction" means a live public auction where members of the public are given the possibility of attending the sale in person. “Lot(s)” means an item offered for sale or a group of items offered together; "Online Auction" means an auction held over the Website or any Bidding Platform where members of the public are not given the possibility of attending the sale in person; “Premium” means the fee that we will charge you on your purchase of a Lot to be calculated as set out in Clause 9.1.2 of these Terms of

“Bidding Platform” means any online bidding platform over which an auction is conducted allowing bidders to place bids. Bidding Platforms may be operated by the Auctioneer or by a third party service provider on the Auctioneer’s behalf;

Sale; "Pledge" means any security or charge over a Lot in favour of ourselves or any third party;

"Business Day" means any day that is not a weekend or public holiday in England and the Auctioneer is open for business;

“Reserve” means the minimum Hammer Price at which a Lot may be

“Buyer” means the Bidder who makes the highest bid for a Lot accepted by the Auctioneer by the fall of the hammer;

“Seller” means the person(s) who consign Lots for sale at our

sold;

auctions; "Conditions of Business" means: (a) these Terms of Sale (bidding in Online Auctions is governed by our separate Online Terms of Sale);

“Terms of Sale” means these standard terms of the contract of sale

(b) the General Information for Buyers at Auction available in our catalogue and on our Website;

as amended or updated from time to time;

(c) the listing of the Lot in our catalogue and on our Website including any special terms or symbols (please note that the most up-to-date listing will be on our Website); (d) any additional notice in relation to a Lot, whether in the saleroom, announced during an auction, on any Bidding Platform or our Website (in the event of any doubt about whether additional notices apply to the sale of a Lot, the information listed on our Website at the time of the auction will be deemed conclusive); and (e) our Website Terms of Use; 194

that a Bidder enters into when registering to bid in any Live Auction,

“VAT” means Value Added Tax or any equivalent sales tax at the rate from time to time applicable; “Website” means our website available at www.forumauctions.co.uk; and "Website Terms of Use" means the terms of use of our Website as amended from time to time.

The contract between you, us and the Seller

1.1

Unless the Auctioneer is selling on its own behalf, the Auctioneer acts as agent for and on behalf of the Seller and the contract for sale is between the Buyer and the Seller.

1.2

Subject to the Auctioneer's discretion at Clause 3.2, the contract for sale of a Lot is formed on the fall of the hammer.

1.3

The contractual relationship between Bidders or Buyers, the Auctioneer and the Seller in relation to any Live Auction is governed by our Conditions of Business.

1.4

If you breach these Terms of Sale, you may be responsible for damages and/or losses suffered by a Seller or us. If we are contacted by a Seller who wishes to bring a claim against you, we may at our discretion provide the Seller with information or assistance in relation to that claim.

1.5

As agent for the Seller, we will not have any responsibility for any default or breach of obligations by you or the Seller (unless we are the Seller of the Lot).

1.6

If you purchase an unsold Lot after an auction, the contract for sale is formed when the sale is agreed in writing and the Price of the Lot shall be as set out at clause 9 except that any reference to Hammer Price shall be read as the agreed sale price. So far as appropriate, the remainder of these Terms of Sale shall apply to the sale as they would to an auction sale.

Bidder registration

2.1

You must register your details with us before bidding and provide us with any requested proof of identity, billing information and any further client due diligence information and documentation that we require, in a form acceptable to us.

2.2

We may at our complete discretion refuse to register any Bidder or delay registration if we are not satisfied with the information or documentation provided or the Bidder's creditworthiness, including if the Bidder has previously defaulted in paying for or collecting purchases.

2.3

If you are a returning Bidder, we may at our discretion require that you provide updated identity and other documentation before permitting you to bid in an auction.

2.4

We do not undertake to register any Bidder in time for any specific auction.

2.5

If you are bidding on behalf of another person, you will need to disclose such information in advance of the auction and that person may also need to complete our registration and client due diligence process and provide us with written authority to accept bids from you on his/her/its behalf. If we are not informed of these arrangements in advance of an auction or do not have clear written authority in place, you will be deemed to be bidding as principal for your own account.

sole discretion, to prefer one over any others, without providing any reasons; or 3.1.4

online bidding via our BidFORUM platform or via another Bidding Platform. In the case of bids via BidFORUM our Website Terms of Use and for bids via another Bidding Platform, any additional terms of use or conditions imposed by the third party provider including any additional charges will also apply.

3.2

The Bidder placing the highest bid for a Lot accepted by the Auctioneer on the fall of the hammer is the successful Buyer and bound by the contract formed pursuant to Clause 1.2 and governed by the Conditions of Business pursuant to Clause 1.3, unless the Auctioneer has for any reason at its/his/her option refused the bid, reopened the bidding or cancelled the sale and reoffered the Lot. Any dispute about a bid will be settled at our sole discretion, giving due consideration to any circumstances and acting reasonably. We may settle disputes at our discretion in any way we think fit including by re-offering the Lot and our decision will be final. If there is any discrepancy between our record of an auction and the information provided in any communication to you, our record will prevail.

3.3

We may withdraw a Lot at any time prior to or during the sale of the Lot. We will not be liable to you for our decision to withdraw a Lot.

3.4

We may bid on Lots on behalf of the Seller up to one bidding increment below the Reserve.

3.5

We may at our sole discretion refuse to accept any bid.

3.6

We do not accept responsibility for any bids missed by the Auctioneer.

3.7

Bidding increments will be set at the Auctioneer's sole discretion.

Technical issues

We are not responsible for any technical problems that you may experience while connecting to and using our Website and/or BidFORUM or participating in any auctions, including but not limited to any loss of internet connection, problems with using our bidding software or any hardware faults. We do not accept any liability for any delay or failure in placing a bid, any failure to execute bids or any errors or omissions owing to technical failings, whether on our part or yours. 5.

Inspection of Lots

5.1

The Auctioneer provides descriptions, Estimates, illustrations and condition reports (on request) to assist Bidders in deciding whether to bid on a Lot but subject to Clause 8 accepts no responsibility for their accuracy.

5.2

Each Lot offered for sale is available for inspection. We strongly recommend that you inspect any Lots that you are interested in prior to bidding at the auction. You are responsible for your decision to bid for a particular Lot and for undertaking your own due diligence in relation to the Lot. If you bid on a Lot, you will be deemed to have carefully inspected the Lot and satisfied yourself regarding its quality and condition. Estimates

2.6

If you intend to bid on a Lot using pre-approved financing by a third party lender, you must notify us at the time of registration or at the time of securing financing, obtain our agreement to the arrangements and provide any further information or documentation that we may require.

2.7

You may de-register at any time on request. This will leave any accrued rights and obligations unaffected.

Bidding procedures

3.1

You may bid in any of the following ways following successful registration to bid:

Estimates are provided as a guide to what, in our opinion, the sale price of a Lot is reasonably likely to be. The Estimate is not a guarantee of what the actual selling price or value may be and cannot be relied on as such. The estimate does not take into account Premium, VAT or any other applicable charges.

3.1.1

in person;

3.1.2

by telephone, in which case you must make such arrangements at least 24 hours before the start of the auction;

3.1.3

by leaving a commission bid at least 1 hour before the start of the auction, which we may execute on your behalf. Commission bids will be accepted with reference to our standard bidding increments and any off-increment bids may be reduced to the next increment immediately below at the Auctioneer's sole discretion. Neither we nor our employees or agents will be responsible for any failure to execute your commission bid. Where two or more commission bids at the same level are recorded we have the right, at our

Seller's warranties

7.1

The Seller warrants to us and to you in relation to each Lot that: 7.1.1

the Seller is the owner of the Lot for sale or a joint owner of the Lot acting with the co-owner's consent or, if acting on the owner's behalf, is authorised by the owner to offer and sell the Lot at auction;

7.1.2

the Seller is able to transfer clear legal title to the Lot, subject to any restrictions set out in the Lot description, to you free from any third party rights or claims; and 195

7.1.3

7.2

If any of the Seller's warranties above are found not to be true, neither we nor the Seller will be liable, under any circumstances, to pay you any sums over and above the Price.

7.3

Save as expressly set out above, all other warranties, conditions or other terms which might have effect between the Seller and you or be implied or incorporated by statute, common law or otherwise are excluded to the fullest extent that they can be lawfully excluded.

Descriptions and condition

8.1

Our descriptions of the Lot will be based on: (a) information provided to us by the Seller of the Lot (for which we are not liable); and (b) our opinion (as set out in Clause 8.3).

8.2

We will give you a number of opportunities to view and inspect the Lots before the auction. You (including any agents or consultants acting on your behalf) must satisfy yourself about the accuracy of any description of a Lot and of any other characteristics of a Lot relevant to your decision to place a bid. We shall not be responsible for your failure to properly inspect a Lot.

8.3

Any statements by us about any Lot, including but not limited to its authorship, attribution, authenticity, origin, date, age, period, culture, provenance, source, material, condition or estimated selling price, whether oral or in writing, are matters of our opinion genuinely held but are not to be relied on as a statement of fact or contractual representation. We do not warrant that we have carried out a detailed inspection of each Lot. Any references to dimensions or weight are approximate only.

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as far as the Seller is aware, the main characteristics of the Lot set out in the auction catalogue (as amended by any notice displayed in the saleroom, on our Website or any Bidding Platform or announced by the Auctioneer at the auction) are correct.

Any photographs that we provide are for identification purposes only and may not reveal a Lot's condition or be accurate in colour or other features.

8.5

Please note that the majority of Lots sold by the Auctioneer are second-hand and will not be in perfect condition. Lots are sold “as is” at the time of the auction. Neither we nor the Seller accept any liability for the condition of any Lot.

8.6

Condition reports are provided by us free of charge (on request) as a guide for the Bidder/Buyer but are not intended to be exhaustive assessments of an item's condition and may not refer to all flaws or defects in an item. Furthermore, the Auctioneer and its employees are not trained conservators and can only offer their opinion on condition. You must rely on your own assessment or independent professional advice in relation to the condition of any Lot.

Our charges

9.1

As Buyer, you will pay us: 9.1.1

the Hammer Price;

9.1.2

Premium of 27% of the Hammer Price up to a Hammer Price of £5,000, plus 26% of the Hammer Price from £5,001 to £500,000, plus 20% of the Hammer Price in excess of £500,001, plus VAT thereon (as set out in Clause 11);

9.1.3

any VAT, Import VAT or other duties, fees or taxes applicable to the Lot (as set out at Clause 11);

9.1.4

any artist’s resale right royalty payable on the sale of the Lot (as set out at Clause 12);

9.1.5

any additional charges payable by a late paying or defaulting Buyer under these Terms of Sale; and

9.1.6

in respect of bids placed through certain Bidding Platforms operated by third party service providers, a charge of 5% of the Hammer Price plus VAT if applicable, together the "Price".

10.

Buyer's warranties

10.1 You warrant to us that: 10.1.1 any client due diligence information or documentation provided to us in accordance with Clause 2.1 is and continues to be true and accurate. 10.1.2 the funds used to purchase the Lot are not the proceeds of any criminal activity, including tax evasion; 10.1.3 you are not engaged in, or under investigation for, and have not been previously charged for or convicted of any offences in relation to money laundering, terrorist financing, tax evasion, fraud or other criminal behaviour; 10.1.4 you are not subject to trade sanctions, embargoes or any other restrictions prohibiting you from doing business in the United Kingdom; 10.1.5 if you are purchasing a Lot on behalf of a third party, you have: a. complied with any applicable anti-money laundering and terrorist financing laws and regulations and conducted appropriate client due diligence on the third party ultimate buyer, have obtained and kept a record of documents required to establish that person's identity, and have no reason to suspect or believe that he/she/it is engaged in money laundering, terrorist financing, tax evasion, fraud or other criminal behaviour or subject to trade sanctions, embargoes or other restrictions prohibiting that person from doing business in the United Kingdom or that the funds provided by the third party are the proceeds of any criminal activity, including tax evasion; b. you have authority to bid on that Lot on behalf of your principal; and c. you have been placed in funds by your principal to cover the Price and any additional fees and charges 11.

VAT and other duties

11.1 You shall be solely responsible for ascertaining the overall cost of your bid and paying any applicable VAT and other fees, taxes or duties payable in addition to the Hammer Price and Premium for a Lot. 11.2 We will charge VAT and other duties, fees and taxes at the current rate at the date of the auction. Please see the symbols used in the auction catalogue and our General Information for Buyers at Auction for an explanation of what those symbols mean. 11.4 It is your responsibility to establish whether a Lot may be subject to export restrictions, duties, taxes or fees. 11.5 Please note that Lots (in particular second-hand Lots) are unlikely to be in perfect condition. Lots are sold “as is” (i.e. as you see them at the time of the auction). Neither we nor the Seller accept any liability for the condition of second-hand Lots which the inspection of a Lot by the Buyer ought to have revealed. 12.

Artist's resale royalty

12.1 Works by certain artists sold in the EU are subject to royalty fees accruing to the artist or their estate. The fees are levied in Euros on a sliding scale relative to Hammer Price and capped at €12,500 per item. We will collect these fees from you on behalf of the artist and add the GBP Sterling equivalent amount to your invoice calculated at the date of the auction by reference to the closing rate of exchange of the Bank of England. 12.2 Lots that may be subject to artist's resale right are marked in the catalogue and on our Website with the symbol: ARR. 12.3 If applicable, artist resale right royalty is charged at: 4% up to £50,000 3% between £50,000.01 and £200,000 1% between £200,000.01 and £350,000 0.5% between £350,000.01 and £500,000 0.25% in excess of £500,000

13.

15.1.3 resell the Lot by auction or private treaty (in which case you will have to pay any deficit between the Price for the Lot and the Hammer Price we sell it for as well as the charges outlined in Clauses 14.6 and 15.1.5 and any other costs and expenses or legal fees incurred by us in reselling the Lot or any loss to us of Seller's commission). Please note that if we resell the Lot for a higher amount than the Hammer Price on the sale of the Lot to you, the additional sale proceeds will be paid to the Seller and we will retain any increase in Premium;

Payment

13.1 Following your successful bid on a Lot you will: 13.1.1 immediately give to us, if not already provided to our satisfaction, any further proof of identity or other information that we may require; and 13.1.2 unless we have agreed otherwise and subject to the terms of any Pledge, pay to us the Price within 3 Business Days of the date of the auction in cleared funds in GBP Sterling any way that we agree to accept payment including in cash (for which there is an aggregate upper limit of £8,000 for all purchases made in any auction). Please see our 'Make a Payment' page at https://www.forumauctions.co.uk/makepayment?Itemid =363 for further information about how to make a payment. A 3% fee is applied to payments made by all company credit cards and personal cards issued by banks outside the EU.

15.1.4 remove, store and insure the Lot at your expense until you pay the Price together with any removal, storage and insurance fees as set out in Clause 14.6 or we agree alternative arrangements; 15.1.5 charge interest at a rate of 1.5% per month on the Price or any part remaining unpaid after 10 Business Days have elapsed from the day of the auction; 15.1.6 assist the Seller in pursuing you for payment and/or damages including by revealing your identity and contact details;

13.2 If payment is late, we reserve the right to charge interest on the Price or any part thereof in accordance with Clause 15.1.5. 13.3 If you owe us any money, we may use any payment made by you to repay prior debts before applying such monies towards your purchase of the Lot(s).

15.1.7 keep the Lot, any other Lot sold to you or any item(s) consigned for sale by you as security for payment until you pay the Price;

13.4 All Lots sold will be invoiced in the name of the registered Bidder at the address given to us at the time of registration and cannot be transferred to other names or addresses. 14.

15.1.8 apply any payments or part payments made by you towards part settlement of the Price due for the Lot or any other Lot purchased by you, or to any shortfall on the resale of any Lot pursuant to Clause 15.1.3 or to any outstanding removal, storage or insurance charges owed by you to us in relation to any Lot that you have purchased or to any loss or damage suffered by us as a result of your failure to comply with these Terms of Sale;

Ownership and collection of Lots

14.1 Ownership of a Lot will transfer to you only on receipt by us of the Price in full and in cleared funds provided your continuing compliance with Clause 10. 14.2 Risk of loss or damage to the Lot will pass to you at the fall of the Hammer or when you have otherwise purchased the Lot.

15.1.9 refuse to allow you to register to bid, reject or ignore bids from you or your agent at future auctions or impose conditions before we accept bids from you;

14.3 You may not claim or collect a Lot until you have paid for it and we are satisfied with the client due diligence information and documentation that you have provided. We may refuse to accept payment or release the Lot to you if we require further information or verification. 14.4 If you have purchased a Lot using third party pre-approved financing, with our knowledge and agreement, and the Lot remains subject to a Pledge, we will hold the Lot until we receive confirmation from the beneficiary of the Pledge that we are authorised to release the Lot. In such cases, time starts to run under Clauses 14.5 to 14.7 below from the date that we inform you that the Lot can be released, rather than the date of the auction.

15.1.10 offset any amounts due from you against any amounts that we may owe you, including if we sell any Lots for you; and/or 15.1.11 take any other action we consider necessary. 16.

Although we take reasonable precautions regarding health and safety, you are on our premises at your own risk. Please note the lay-out of the premises and security arrangements. Neither we nor our employees or agents are responsible for the safety of you or your property when you visit our premises, unless you suffer any injury to your person or damage to your property as a result of our, our employees’ or our agents’ negligence or wilful default.

14.5 You must (at your own expense) collect any Lots that you have purchased and paid for no later than 10 Business Days following the date of the auction. 14.6 If you do not collect the Lot within the time period at Clause 14.5, you will be responsible for removal, storage and insurance charges in relation to that Lot which will be no less than £1.50 per Lot per day. 14.7 If you do not collect a Lot that you have paid for within 45 days of the date of the auction, we may resell the Lot by auction or private treaty with the Estimate and Reserve set at our discretion. We will pay the proceeds of any such sale to you, but will deduct any storage charges or other sums that we have incurred in the storage and sale of the Lot. We reserve the right to charge you a selling commission at our standard rates on any such resale of the Lot. 15.

Remedies for non-payment

15.1 If you fail to comply with these Terms of Sale, we may (acting on behalf of the Seller and ourselves) pursue one or more of the following measures: 15.1.1 take action against you to recover the Price and/or pursue damages for breach of contract, including any fees, legal expenses or other costs that we incur; 15.1.2 reverse the sale of the Lot to you and/or any other Lots sold to you (in which case we may charge you an administration fee of £150 plus VAT per Lot or, if lower, the Price of the Lot);

Health and safety

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Export and import restrictions

17.1 Exporting a Lot out of the United Kingdom or importing it into another country may be subject to legal requirements and restrictions depending on factors such as the type of goods, their age and monetary value and destination. It is your responsibility to ascertain what the requirements are in relation to any Lot and obtain the necessary export or import licence where applicable. 17.2 Lots made of restricted organic matter or endangered species are identified in the catalogue. These may be subject to prohibitions on export or import and otherwise may require licences. You are solely responsible for identifying and obtaining any necessary licence. The information provided in our catalogue reflects our reasonable opinion at the date of publication but is intended as guidance only and neither the Auctioneer nor the Seller make any representation or give any warranty as to whether any Lot is subject to a prohibition or restriction on export or import. 17.3 You acknowledge that your purchase of the Lot and fulfilment of your obligations under our Conditions of Business is not conditional on successfully obtaining an export, import or other licence or permit for any Lot and that you will pay for and collect the Lot regardless of whether a licence has been or is likely to be granted. We will not cancel your purchase of a Lot 197

if for any reason it is refused a licence or is seized or confiscated by government authorities. 17.4 We may on request assist you with applying for a licence to export your Lot(s) out of the United Kingdom and will charge a fee for doing so to cover the costs of our time and out of pocket expenses. 18.

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20.1.1 by delivering it by hand or sending by first class pre-paid post or Recorded Delivery or pre-paid airmail (to us at our registered office address at Ingate Works, 4 Ingate Place, Battersea, London SW8 3NS or to you at the address you provided to us at the time of registration unless we are advised otherwise in writing); or

Deliberate Forgeries

18.1 You may return any Lot which is found to be a Deliberate Forgery to us within twelve months of the date of the auction provided that you return the Lot to us at your expense in the same condition as when it was released to you, accompanied by a written report by a recognised expert on the subject matter identifying the Lot as a Deliberate Forgery with reference to the catalogue description and fully explaining the reasoning behind any conclusions drawn in the report.

20.1.2 by email (to us at office@forumauctions.co.uk or to you at the email address provided by you at the time of registration unless we are advised otherwise in writing). 20.2 Notices will be deemed to have been received: 20.2.1 if delivered by hand, on the day of delivery;

18.2 If we are reasonably satisfied that the Lot is a Deliberate Forgery, we will cancel the sale of the Lot and refund the Price to you save that if any of the following circumstances apply:

20.2.2 if sent by first class pre-paid post or Recorded Delivery, 2 Business Days after posting, exclusive of the day of posting;

18.2.1 the catalogue description reflected the accepted view of experts as at the date of the auction;

20.2.3 if sent by pre-paid airmail, 5 Business Days after posting, exclusive of the day of posting; or

18.2.2 the Lot can only be shown to be a Deliberate Forgery on the basis of scientific examination which was not available at the time of the auction or in the circumstances was not practicable or reasonable to expect; 18.2.3 you were not the original Buyer of the Lot named on the invoice for the Lot issued at the time of the sale; or

Notices

20.1 All notices or other communications between you and us regarding our Conditions of Business must be in writing and may be given:

20.2.4 if sent by email, at the time of transmission unless sent on a day which is not a Business Day or after 17.00 in the place of receipt in which case they will be deemed to have been received on the next Business Day. 21.

Data Protection

18.2.4 you personally are not able to transfer clear legal title in and right to possession of the Lot to us, free of any claim, interest or restriction by anyone else, on the date of the return of the Lot to us, you will have no right to cancel the sale or receive a refund.

We will hold and process any personal data in relation to you in accordance with our Privacy Policy which can be accessed at: www.forumauctions.co.uk/privacy-policy.

18.3 Should you successfully exercise your right under this Clause 18, we will not refund to you more than the Price for any Lot and will not in any circumstances be liable to you for any loss, damage, expense, costs, loss of profit, loss of business or loss of opportunity.

22.1 We may at our sole discretion, though acting reasonably, refuse any person admission to our premises or attendance at our auctions.

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Limitation of our liability to you

19.1 We give no warranties in relation to any statements or representations made or information given in relation to any Lot by us or our employees or agents whether oral or in writing and accept no liability in connection therewith, including in relation to any errors or omissions unless Clause 18 applies. 19.2 We accept no liability in relation to any of the Seller's warranties at Clause 7 or any breach by the Seller of their obligations under our Conditions of Business. 19.3 We do not accept any responsibility to any Bidders for any failure to register a Bidder or any acts or omissions in relation to the sale of Lots and the conduct of our auctions and will not be liable for any loss, damage, expense, costs, loss of profit, loss of business or loss of opportunity as a result of participating in our auctions. 19.4 If we are found to be liable to you for any reason, our liability will be limited to the Price as paid by you to us for any Lot. 19.5 Notwithstanding the above, nothing in these Terms of Sale shall limit our liability (or that of our employees or agents) for: 19.5.1 death or personal injury resulting from negligence; 19.5.2 fraudulent misrepresentation; or 19.5.3 any liability which cannot be excluded by law.

22.

General

22.2 Any rights we have to claim against you for breach of our Conditions of Business may be used by either us, our employees or agents, or the Seller, their employees or agents, as appropriate. Other than as set out in this Clause, no other person will have any rights to enforce the terms of our Conditions of Business. 22.3 Each of the Clauses of these Terms of Sale operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful, the remaining Clauses will remain in full force and effect. 22.4 Except as otherwise stated in these Terms of Sale, each of our rights and remedies: (a) are in addition to and not exclusive of any other rights or remedies under these Terms of Sale or general law; and (b) may be waived only in writing and specifically. Our delay in exercising or non-exercise of any right under these Terms of Sale is not a waiver of that or any other right. Our partial exercise of any right under these Terms of Sale will not preclude any further or other exercise of that right or any other right under these Terms of Sale. Our waiver of a breach of any term of these Terms of Sale will not operate as a waiver of breach of any other term or any subsequent breach of that term. 22.5 Our Conditions of Business and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them (including any noncontractual claims or disputes) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales and the parties irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

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ABSENTEE/PHONE BID FORM AUCTION NO.: 121 TITLE: FINE BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER DATE: 19TH NOVEMBER 2026

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