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Thursday 24th September 2026

AUCTION NO. 120

FINE BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND WORKS ON PAPER Thursday 24th September 2026, 1.00pm

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SPECIALISTS

Continental Literature and History

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Rupert Powell, International Head of Books and Works on Paper

English and Continental Manuscripts

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Dido Arthur, Book Specialist

English Literature and History

26-75

Modern Literature

76-99

Children’s and Illustrated Books

100-106

Natural History

107-120

Science

121-134

Travel

135-180

British Topography

181-185

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CONTINENTAL LITERATURE AND HISTORY

1 Federigo da Venezia. COMMENTUM IN APOCALYPSIM (WITH TITLE: APOCALYPSIS CUM GLOSIS NICOLAI DE LYRA), FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN, collation: [a-o10 p8 q-r10 s8], 137 ff. (of 176 leaves; lacking a1, f10, g110, h3, h5-6, h8, i1-10, m1-10, q1, q10, s8), with d10-e10 mis-bound following a9, text in single column, 37 lines, chapter headings and numbers added in red ink in a contemporary hand, blank capital spaces with printed guide letters, a few early ink notes to margins, later ink notes to rear endpaper verso, some water-staining and spotting, a few other instances of soiling, upper hinge starting, nineteenth century calf-backed boards, rubbed, folio (272 x 178mm.), [Rome], [Printer of the Apocalypsis], [c.1469]. ⁂ A wide-margined copy of the first edition in Italian of this commentary on the Book of Revelation, this work competes for priority – along with Bonaventure’s Legenda maior S. Francisci – as the first printed book in the Italian vernacular. Some confusion remains around the earliest days of printing in Italy, but certainly this work is one of the earliest books printed in Rome. The titlepage has the same dimensions as Han’s 1468 Cicero (ISTC).

Provenance: ‘De Apocalipsis S.ti Joanni è S.ti Bernd.ni Morani’ [ownership inscription to a2 foot, sixteenth century hand; ?possibly the Franciscan monastery of St. Bernardino of Siena, Calabria] Literature: BMC IV 143; Goff J225; GW M12937; Bod-Inc: J-151; ISTC if00052700. £15,000 - 20,000

2 Milan.- Corio (Bernardino) BERNARDINI CORII VIRI CLARISSIMI MEDIOLANENSIS PATRIA HISTORIA, FIRST EDITION, collation: [π]6 a10 b12 c-d6 e-m8 n6 o-z8 &8 [cum]8 [rum]8 A-X8 aa-dd8 ee6 ff8, blank capital spaces with some printed guide letters and some in brown ink, whole page woodcut to a3v, woodcut portrait to a4v & aa1v, and another woodcut illustration ff3r, scattered early ink notes to margins in multiple hands, these trimmed in some instances, some light ink and water stains (a4v, aa8-bb2 and X6-X7) or soiling, Milan, Alessandro Minuziano, 1503, BOUND AFTER Dello eccellentissimo oratore messer Bernardino Corio milanese..., collation: A6, title with woodcut vignette and within figurative woodcut border, paper repairs to gutter and lower fore-edge corner, Milan, Giovanni Giacomo Da Legnano & brothers, 1520, together 2 works in 1, eighteenth century red morocco, spine gilt, a little faded, expert leather repairs to upper joint and spine extremities, scuffed in places, folio (397 x 272 mm). ⁂ First edition of this chronicle of Milan in Italian.

Provenance: I: ‘Vincentio F. Nob. D. Io: Ant.i Morandi. RR’ [ink ownership inscription a1r]. II: from the library of Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683, Chief Minister of France to the King of France Louis XIV from 1661 to 1683, and a bibliophile), ‘Bibliothecae Colbertinae’ [ink ownership inscription A1].

Literature: Adams C2632; Edit16 CNCE 13302. £6,000 - 8,000

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3 Dante Alighieri. LE TERZE RIME DI DANTE CON SITO, ET FORMA DE LO INFERNO NOVAMENTE IN RESTAMPITO, collation: [π]2, a-z8, A-H8, double-page woodcut plan of hell, 3 full-page diagrams depicting the categories of sins punished in Hell and in Purgatory, lacking blanks H7&8, but with blank l2, first 2 ff. repaired at inner margin and remounted, partially removed ink stamp to title, lower corners of woodcut repaired, some staining, recased in 18th century vellum, upper joint splitting, 8vo (156 x 97mm.), [Venice], [Gregorio de’ Gregori], [after August, 1515]. ⁂ Rare near contemporary counterfeit of the first Aldine Commedia to be illustrated, which was issued in August 1515. The counterfeited volume appeared only a few months after the original Aldine edition. It was issued entirely anonymously, without date or printer’s device; however, since the research of Colomb de Batines the printing has generally been attributed to Gregorio de’ Gregori, who was active in Venice between 1480 and 1528.

Provenance: Library of the Carmelite convent St. Teresa in Turin (early ownership inscription to title, ‘Ex libris Bibl. Carm. Discalceatorum Conventus Sanctae Teresiae Taurini’); Charles Edwin Wilbour (1883-1896, American Egyptologist; stamp on the upper margin of some leaves).

Literature: Batines i, pp. 75-76; Mambelli 25; Martini, pp. 29-30; Koch 7; Sander 2322; EDIT 16 CNCE 1151. £1,000 - 1,500

4 Dante Alighieri. DANTE COL SITO, ET FORMA DELL’INFERNO, collation: A-X8, AA-DD8, EE4, double-page woodcut plan of hell, 3 full-page woodcut diagrams of categories of sins punished in Hell and Purgatory, initial spaces, worming to inner gutter of first f., affecting a few letters, woodcuts closely trimmed, affecting border and part of some text of double-page plan, water-stained, 19th century dark green half morocco, spine gilt, housed in a modern dark green morocco-backed solander box, gilt, 24mo (95 x 47mm.), [Venice], [Alessandro Paganini], [c.1515-16]. ⁂ Rare Paganini edition of the Commedia - the first edition printed in the innovative long 24mo format - here in the state with leaves numbered in arabic, except for fols. ix, x, and xv. It is the smallest printed Commedia of the Renaissance, known as the Dantino. The volume is part of the series begun by Paganini in the same year, which includes Petrarch’s Rime, Bembo’s Asolani, and Sannazaro’s Arcadia, all dedicated by the printer to pre-eminent contemporaries and patrons. The present Dante edition is dedicated by the printer to Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici, who in 1523 became Pope Clement VII. Literature: Adams D337; EDIT 16 CNCE 1152; Nuovo, Alessandro Paganino (1509-1538), Padova 1990, no. 28; R. Sturel. “Recherches sur une collection in -32 publié en Italie au début du xvie siècle”, Revue des Livres anciens, 1 (1913), pp. 50-73: 57; Batines i, pp. 77- 24; Mambelli 26; Essling 540-541; Sander 2323-2324. £3,000 - 5,000

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5 Music.- Gafurius (Franchinus) DE HARMONIA MUSICORUM INSTRUMENTORUM OPUS, FIRST EDITION, collation: a4 A-M8 N6 complete, title with woodcut of the author teaching, a1v verses by Caesar Saccus and Niger Cremonensis, a2r-a4r index, a4v elegaic verses and woodcut arms of Jean Grolier, A1r-N4v text with historiated initials, various diagrams, some full-page, that on H8v depicting eight figures playing various musical instruments, another on M6v with an allegory of music, showing its derivation from Apollo, the Muses, and celestial bodies, N4v register, N5 brief biography of Gafurius, N6r verses by Pantaleo Melegulus and Franciscus Phylippineus, N6v woodcut of an organist playing and printer’s device and colophon, G1-K8 browned (except K4-5), similar to Otto Schäfer copy, good margins, presentation inscription from the author at foot of title, contemporary limp vellum, spine worn, folio (299 x 205mm.), Milan, Gotarto da Ponte, 1518. ⁂ SUPERB COPY OF THIS RARE RENAISSANCE TREATISE ON MUSIC, this being the third such work after Theorica musicae, 1480 and Practica musicae, 1496. This copy with presentation inscription reading: ‘Franchinus Gafurius laudensis Regius musicus / corteque mediolanensis phonascus / Excell.mo Amico Ambatiae, Viro honoratissimo’ presumably in the author’s hand, and possibly gifted to or intended for Leonardo da Vinci since his servant’s, Batista de Vilanis, name is inked out on front free endpaper (‘Batta de Vilano’).

Rare at auction, the last copy on RBH being the Otto Schäfer copy in 1994.

Provenance: Abbey of St.Julien at Tours “Pertinet ad Monasterium Sancti Juliani Turonensis” (ink inscription on front pastedown).

Literature: Adams G14; Sander 2989 £20,000 - 30,000

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6 Spain & Catalonia.- Carbonell (Pedro Miguel) CHRONIQUES DE ESPAÑA FINS ACI NO DIVULGADES QUE TRACTA DELS NOBLES E INVICTISSIMS REYS DELS GOTS..., collation: +4 a-d8 e10 f-z8 A-H8 I10 , text in double column, woodcut illustrations & woodcut device to colophon, lacking woodcut title (3 titles supplied in facsimile & manuscript), many skilful repairs throughout (affecting text at times but supplied in manuscript), colophon with large tear and neat repair (additional facsimile colophon supplied), scattered light spotting and staining, some surface soiling, else rather bright, later handsome calf stamped in blind and gilt, spine gilt, spine faded, lightly rubbed and bumped, slipcase, rubbed and chipped, small folio (210 x 290 mm), Barcelona, Carles Amorós, 1546 [but 1547]. ⁂ An important early Catalan chronicle, the work recounts the history of the Gothic kings, the Counts of Barcelona and the Kings of Aragon, offering valuable insight into the medieval history of Catalonia and the Crown of Aragon. Written by the Catalan historian and royal archivist Pere Miquel Carbonell (1434–1517), it is also notable as an early example of historical printing in the Catalan language. £4,000 - 6,000

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7 Alchemy.- Llull (Ramon) OPUSCULUM RAYMUNDINUM DE AUDITU KABBALISTICO SINE AD OMNES SCIENTIAS INTRODUCTORIUM, collation: A-K8, Paris, Apud Aegidium Gorbinum, 1578; BOUND WITH Ars Brevis Illuminati, collation: A-F8,Paris, Apud Aegydium Gorbinum, 1578; BOUND WITH Bruno (Giordano) De compendiosa Architectura & complemento artis Lullii, collation: A-E8 F4, Paris, Apud Aegidium Gorbinum, 1582, together 3 works in 1, first work with woodcut device on title, 6 woodcut plates, 1 folding, 1 with volvelle, second work with 2 woodcut plates, 1 folding, and 3 full-page illustrations, 1 with 2 volvelles, third work with 2 woodcut plates, 1 folding, and several woodcut diagrams/illustrations in text, woodcut decorations, lacking final leaf (?blank?), old calf, rebacked and recornered, preserved in modern suede-lined tan morocco drop-back box, 16mo ⁂ AN EXCEPTIONAL SAMMELBAND OF WORKS BY OR RELATING TO RAMON LLULL (OR RAYMOND LULL), the 13th century Catalan philospher, alchemist and theologian who is sometimes considered as one of the founding fathers of computing because of his use of logical methods to prove the dogmas of Christian theology. The volvelles present in this copy attest to this. Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was an Italian philosopher, alchemist, astrologer, cosmological theorist, and esotericist, whose cosmological theories themselves influenced by the nascent Copernican theory, in turn nfluenced Galileo and Leibniz. The presnt work explores the art of memory and mnemonics, using visual imagery and combinatorial principles to enhance memory and knowledge acquisition. The book features illustrations of rotating wheels and other visual aids to help readers understand how to create and manipulate mental images for memory purposes.

Literature: First work Duveen p. 370; cf Caillet 6846. None of the works in Adams.

Provenance: Kellner (ink name on front free endpaper). £15,000 - 20,000

9 Descartes (René) [OPERA PHILOSOPHICA], 3 parts in 1 only, fourth edition, comprising: Principia Philosophiae; Specimina Philosophiae seu Dissertatio de Methodo; Passiones Animae, lacking “Meditationes de prima philosophia”, engraved title (trimmed and with a few ink markings), separate title for each part, woodcut illustrations, Principia Philosophiae lacking 5*2 blank, Specimina Philosophiae lacking 2*4 (?blank), few marginal repairs, final blank f. with ink inscription, light foxing, ex-library copy with bookplate and ink-stamp to title, 19th-century half roan, extremities rubbed, [STCN 850323908], 4to, Amsterdam, 1654. £300 - 400

8 Orlers (Jean) LA GÉNÉALOGIE DES ILLUSTRES COMTES DE NASSAU, second French edition, half-title, engraved title with architectural border, coatof-arms on verso and portrait, 43 engraved double-page maps and plates, 13 engraved portraits in text, lacking the 7 folding engraved genealogical tables (as often), large bookplate of William MaxwellStirling, contemporary vellum, covers gilt with decorative centre-piece inside single ruled borders with tiny floral corner-pieces, spine gilt, light toning, [Brunet IV 233], folio, Leiden, Jean Orlers, 1615 £600 - 800

10 Hippology.- Winter (Georg Simon) TRACTATIO NOVA DE RE EQUARIA, FIRST EDITION IN LATIN, text in double column in French, German, Latin & Italian, additional engraved pictorial title by P. Troschel, 2 letterpress titles, 37 engraved plates, some double-page, 1 double-page table, occasional woodcut initials and illustrations, bookplate laid down to verso of pictorial title, c. 39 ff. manuscript notes (plus marginal and blank verso additions) in a contemporary hand, extensive annotations throughout, ink ownership inscription to title “Thomas Wilhelm Hecht, Anno 1676”, marginal worm trail to first few manuscript notes, some browning and staining, a few small marginal tears (1 to plate 30 slightly affecting corner), contemporary vellum, yapp edges, title supplied in manuscript to spine, soiled with a few stains, [Nissen ZBI 4426], folio, Nürnberg, Johann Andreas Endter, 1672. ⁂ An important early work on horses and horsemanship, providing a comprehensive account of the organisation and management of a stud farm, including stable architecture, horse breeds, and the physical and psychological characteristics of horses. Winter (1634– after 1690) was a master of horse breeding at Ansbach, Guterstein, Offenhausen, and Marbach bei Münsingen.

Particularly interesting is the contemporary manuscript material, evidently compiled by Thomas Wilhelm Hecht, recording medical recipes and treatments for horses in Germany. Hecht has signed the second title and added his motto, “Recte faciendo Symbolum Neminem timeas,” (“by doing right, fear no one”) dated 1676. £1,000 - 1,500 9

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12 Champollion (Jean François, philologist, Egyptologist, decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs, 1790-1832) & Ippolito Rosellini, Italian Egyptologist, 1800-43. LES MONUMENTS DE L’ÉGYPTE ET DE LA NUBIE, subscription prospectus, PRESENTATION COPY FROM MA JOR ORLANDO FELIX TO THE RECIPIENT with ink inscription on half-title, printed pamphlet, titles in French and Italian, 26pp. with advertisement leaf at end, slightly browned, unbound, Paris, Firmin Didot, 1831. ⁂ Inscription reads: “Received from Major Felix Feb. 12. 1832 MG.” Orlando Felix (1790-1860), Major General, Rifle Brigade; traveller and Egyptologist. Felix and Lord Prudhoe travelled through Nubia to Wadi Halfa in 1827 and through Nubia to Sennar early in 1829, meeting Champollion at Korosko on 20 January. £400 - 600 13 Catalyst for the Geneva Convention.- Dunant (J. Henry) UN SOUVENIR DE SOLFERINO, SECOND (FIRST PUBLIC) EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO SIR THOMAS LONGMORE, double-page map, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt, upper cover detached, 8vo, Geneva &c., Joel Cherbuliez, 1862.

11 [Montesquieu (Charles Secondat, Baron de)] DE L’ESPRIT DES LOIX, 2 parts in 1 vol., early counterfeit edition, half-titles, titles with woodcut vignettes, with 3 errata ff. (1 loose), vol. 2 K1-4 bound incorrectly, vol. 1 R3 with small marginal hole, vol. 2 3R3-4 with paper flaws (not affecting text), some cracking at gutter and scattered light spotting, else rather clean, light cracking at hinges, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco label, joints starting to split, rubbed and bumped, [PMM 197], 4to, Geneva, Barrillot & Fils, [1749]. ⁂ The first issue of the first counterfeit edition, and the first edition to be printed in France, published by Prault in Paris in January 1749, with the misspelling of Barrillot with only one ‘r’ on the title page.

Montesquieu divides his work into six main sections, touching on general law and forms of government, military arrangement and taxation, economics and religion, Roman, French and feudal law, and a peculiar discussion on the effects of climate and geography on national character. The work influenced the formation of the United States Constitution and was the ideological basis of the French Revolution.

⁂ A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY. This copy inscribed to and with the bookplate of General Sir Thomas Longmore, one of the two British delegates to the 1864 Diplomatic Conference in Geneva which led to the Geneva Convention. Tipped in is a 4-page autograph letter signed by Dunant to “Cher Monsieur” and dated Geneva, November 15th 1866; together with a letter from General Brackenbury (December 1876) to Longmore regarding his paper on the subject and with a copy of this paper (“On the Geneva Convention of 1864, in relation to the aid afforded by voilunteer societies to sick and wounded soldiers...”).

Henry Dunant (1828-1910), a Swiss philantropist and founder of the International Red Cross, was awarded the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901. He travelled to the seat of the war between France and Austria to witness the battle of Solferino (24 June 1859). The casualties were appalling, totalling almost 40,000 on both sides, with very little by way of treatment for the victims. Dunant’s account of the state of the affairs, disarmingly entitled ‘Un souvenir de Solferino’, produced immediate results and led to an official conference at which the Geneva Convention was drawn up and signed on 22 August 1864. £1,000 - 1,500

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ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL MANUSCRIPTS 14 Medieval manuscript fragment.- Augustine (Saint, Bishop of Hippo) SUBSTANTIAL FRAGMENT OF A LARGE BIFOLIUM FROM A COLLECTION OF EXCERPTS FROM

HIS WORKS, manuscript on vellum, 2 large leaves (once a bifolium), with text in double columns of 44 remaining lines of a rounded and squat professional early Gothic bookhand, red rubrics and 2-line initials, recovered from reuse on a later binding (with “PLINIIS SECUN HISTORIA” in Early Modern hand from that reuse) and hence trimmed at top with loss of a line or so there, torn edges and a few holes, and losses to innermost side of each initial column due to the leaf being folded around the spine of the later book and sections later falling away from that, scuffs and stains overall with some parts illegible (the reverses of the leaves, which would have been on the outside of the later binding, scrubbed clean of text), overall fair condition, each approximately 370 x 265mm, Italy, 12th century; with three small square cuttings from an Italian choirbook of the twelfth century, with music in square neumes arranged around a red clef-line, evidently recovered from same later binding and in same condition as main leaves here (5)

⁂ From a large manuscript, perhaps produced for public reading in a monastery or Cathedral school, and containing excerpts from Augustine’s sermons, commentaries on the Psalms and the City of God. The author lived in the late fourth and early fifth century, converted to Christianity in 386 and served as a bishop of Hippo in late Roman North Africa, becoming one of the fundamental Church Fathers of Western Christianity, as well as one of the most influential voices in Western philosophy. £800 - 1,200

15 Germany, Nuremberg.- [?Rotenecker (Johann, Abbot of St. Aegidius, Nuremberg, 1441-1504)] COPY LETTER CONCERNING THE BISHOP OF BAMBERG’S EFFORTS TO EXTRACT TAXATION FROM THE MONASTERY, manuscript in Latin, 1p. (55 lines), 4to, [Nuremberg], [c.1490], folds, some spotting or staining, lightly browned. ⁂ An animated account to an unknown recipient (likely superior to the abbot) of the Bishop of Bamberg’s attempts to extract taxation from the monastery of St. Aegidius, Nuremberg and the abbot’s resistance to such demands, along with his appeal for help in the matter. It is accompanied by a complete transcription

by Professor Tilo Brandis of Berlin.

Provenance: Collection of Bernard Rosenthal; Bernard Quaritch, 2017. £600 - 800

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16 GRADUAL, IN LATIN, illuminated manuscript on paper, in its contemporary binding, Italy (Florence), dated January 1584, 243 leaves (including a contemporary endleaf at front, and plus one modern paper endleaf at each end), the main body of the text with contemporary foliation 1226 (excluding the initial leaf with the large painted Cross, and 15 leaves at the end), text mostly in single column of 7 lines with music in square notation on a 4-line red stave, red rubrics, initials decorated in red, green, blue and gold (the largest containing complex foliage and on gold grounds), one large full-page red Cross within a frame of coloured foliage edged in gold, similar smaller cross on fol. 214v, two final leaves somewhat smaller than main text block and with additions in another near-contemporary hand added at end of volume, a few early revisions to the text on pasted-in paper slips, slight shine-through in places, small spots and stains, slight worm damage to first few leaves, restoration to lower margins of several leaves, c.420 x 305 mm., contemporary Italian brown leather over wooden boards, tooled with floral rollstamps and flowerheads, modern rebacking and restoration, brass cornerpieces, centrepieces and clasps, some small splits to edges in places ⁂ Provenance: Written for the Dominican Convent of La Crocetta in Florence, by a Sister Catherine, almost certainly a member of the community, and with a lengthy colophon in red on fol. 214v recording its creation: “Iste liber scriptus fuit manu propria mee catherine monialis monasterii Sancte crucis de florentia. Et expletus fuit kal. Janu. MDLXXXVIII”. She also copied a another liturgical codex for La Crocetta (that now Bib. Domenicana, CR028) in 1582 (see L. Breckon, Agency through Plainchant: Nuns of Florence, 1550–1650, PhD. thesis submitted to Goldsmiths, University of London in 2022, pp. 140-139 for a study of the other manuscript). £10,000 - 15,000

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17 Kent, Dover.- THE NAMES OF ALL THE CERTAINE OFFICERS, AND SOULDIERS OF THE SELECTED BANDS IN THE PARISHES… OF THE TOWNE OF DOVER IN THE COUNTE OF KENTE, with their furniture Certified to the Righte Honorable Sr Henry Brooke, of the moste honorable order of the Garter Knyghte, Lord Cobham Constable of Hyr Maties Castle of Dover, and Lorde Warden of the five portes…

Auguste in the one and fortieth yeare of the of our moste gratious Sovereeigne Ladie Queene Elizabeth, manuscript on vellum, 2 membranes, slightly creased, each 610 x 175mm., August 1599. ⁂ Henry Brooke, eleventh Baron Cobham (1564-1619), favourite of Elizabeth I, condemned as a conspirator in the Bye Plot. £600 - 800 18 Unrecorded dialogue on friendship & unpublished play.- COMMONPLACE BOOK, INCLUDING ‘DELL’AMICIZIA’ AND ‘TRAGEDIA DI SANTA CATERINA DETTA D’ALESSANDRIA’, manuscript in Italian on paper in two hands, 172 ff., first and last two ff. frayed some with loss of text (less so to second f. and minimal to last two), small hole to lower margin of first few ff., f.[120] torn at head with loss of first two lines of text, some staining, especially to last few ff., lightly browned, loose in contemporary limp vellum, ‘Tragedia di Sta Caterina’ in ink on spine, lacking ties, couple of small holes to spine, some staining, creased, housed in a dark green buckram dropback box, black leather label to spine, 8vo (149 x 111mm.), [Italy], [early 17th century]. ⁂ Includes a seemingly unrecorded dialogue on friendship (Dell’Amicizia, ff.

[100-108] and [125-158]) and the third known contemporary copy of the unpublished Tragedia di Santa Caterina, here with staging notes in margins (ff. [1-76]; other copies at Bodleian (also in a commonplace book) and Vienna). £3,000 - 4,000

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20 17 century Kentish estate owner.- Curteis (William, of Rolvenden and Tenterden, Kent) [ACCOUNTS, EXPENCES, RENTS (INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL) & COMMONPLACE BOOK] A true Accompt of the totall Disbursemts. of me Wm. Curteis Exec.ter to my father In and about my Grandmothers ffunerall & my fathers as also other wayes touching the Estate - A true Accompt of the Receipts of me Wm Curteis Executor to ye estate of my father - A note of wt. stocke I bought in for ye ffarme I hired of my cousin Broadnax - A note of my stocke uppon my owne Land ye Michaelmas 1664 - Disbursein.ts about ye year by Rent - Sold from my owne Lands... 1662..., manuscript in at least two hands (father and son both named William Curteis) signed and inscribed “William Curteis Booke 5th ffebruary 1660, Patris Liber fuerest”, 80pp. excluding blanks, reverse entries, a few ff. excised, two blank pages torn, browned, original calf, extensively rubbed, one cover lifting, sm. 4to (195 x 145mm.), 1658-86 & 1721-30. ⁂ An interesting insight into the life of an owner of an estate in Kent in the seventeenth century.

19 Heraldry & Genealogy.- [Cady [or Cade] (William)] [BOOK OF ARMS PRODUCED FOR WILLIAM CADY], manuscript in secretary hand (title from spine), 172pp. excluding a few blanks, c.70 small pen and ink coats of arms in margins, of which 46 hand-coloured (one tipped-in), a few other pen and ink devices, first leaf cut down and lacking lower half, browned, some foxing some ink marks, RDP watermark, bookplates of Harry Vane Milbank and K.F. Russell on front free endpaper, handsomely bound in full crushed and polished blue and gilt panelled morocco, gilt panelled spine, inner gilt dentelles, g.e., housed in a buckram slipcase, by Chambolle-Duru, a few small marks, folio (310 x 205mm), [c. 1645].

Items include: an unpublished and untitled poem on Grammar

by Curteis dated 1677; “Paid to Beechinge for ringing my Grand:[mother’s] Knell & Sermon bell & making ye. grave & other things 00: 17: 00”; “Paid to Mr. Nowell for Physicke wch. my father had of him in his sicknes & money otherwise due to him from my father the sume of 3l: 1: 6 [probably Doctor John Nowell of Ashford]; “Sold one flocke bed and flocke bolster & one old blankett for 01: 00; 00”; “Received of Sir Edward Dearing 100l”; “Paid for Tobacco - 0 - 7”; “The share of my hay yt. year 1661 ffor mowing making and Carrying came to 2l 4s.6p”; “A note of my stocke uppon my owne Land yt. Michaelmas 1662”; “Item pd for washing and shearing my Lambs 00: 06: 01”.

⁂ Comprehensive listing of families of baronets, younger sons of viscounts and baronets, wives of baronets etc. With references to works by Selden, Camden and Fuller’s Holy State, not published until 1642. Also RDP watermark dated 1645.

£800 - 1,200

Provenance: (1). William Harry Vane Milbank (1848-92), army officer and book collector (2). Kenneth F. Russell (1911-87), Professor of Anatomy and Medical History, University of Melbourne. £1,500 - 2,000

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21 18 century poetry.- Dry (Benjamin, son of Benjamin Dry, of Ticehurst, Kent) [COLLECTION OF POETRY, EPITAPHS AND PROSE], manuscript, 196pp., slightly browned, engraved bookplate of Benjamin Dry on front pastedown, original vellum, slightly soiled but in good overall condition, 160 x 125mm., [c. 1730].

22 Ireland.- Otway family (of Castle Otway, County Tipperary, Ireland) [RECEIPT BOOK], manuscript in several hands, 47pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, original leather-backed wrappers, manuscript rental transactions on both covers, rubbed, edges chipped, folio, latest date in text 1752.

⁂ An interesting collection of poetry, mostly from the early years of the eighteenth century but also drawing on various pieces from the seventeenth century.

£400 - 600

Poems, include: “An Inscription to be sett upon a Pillar at Blenheim in memory of Jno Duke of Marlborough” [?unpublished]; “Observations for the better regulating watches with the Measure of ye Sun” [?unpublished]; “Verses Spoken at Westmr: School January the 16th: Anno 1726” [?unpublished]; “A Poem occasioned by a Worshipfull Justice of Peace of the County of Kent’s being Caught in casual Copulation with his wife’s Maid Gillian” [?unpublished]; “A Lillyputian Ode on his Majties King Georges Accession to the Throne” [by Henry Carey]; “A Poem inscribed to a deformed Pigmy called my Lord at Tunbridge Wells” [?unpublished] etc. £700 - 1,000

23 River Thames & Kennet & Avon Canal.- Brindley (James, civil engineer, 1716-72) A PLAN OF THE RIVER THAMES FROM BOULTERS LOCK TO MORTLAKE SURVEYED BY ORDER OF THE CITY OF LONDON IN 1770..., hand-coloured engraved map, 2 sheets joined together, folds, part of right margin cut away, a few very small holes at folds, 570 x 1080mm., engraved by Thomas Jefferys Geographer to the King, 1771; Short reasons why the plan for the improvement of the river Thames should not take place, in opposition to that of the canal, printed handbill, 213 x 165mm., [ESTC T175893; ESTC lists 2 copies only, not in the BL], [?London], [?1771]; and a large correspondence, many to Charles Barnard, Hungerford Canal Office, from Charles Brand and Stephen Roberts at the Bath Office relating to the administration of the Kennet & Avon Canal, c. 160 letters, accounts etc., numerous pp., folds, sm. 4to, 1807, 181647 (c. 160). £600 - 800

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24 Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, first duke of, army officer and prime minister, 1769-1852) EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF LETTERS AND FREE FRANKS BY, TO AND RELATING TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, comprising: (1) 5 letters or documents written or signed by the duke (2). c. 30 letters addressed to him (3) c. 25 other letters (4) c. 70 Free Franks (c. 50 addressed to the duke & 2 from the duke, most laid down on album ff., ff. loose, v.s., v.d., 1828-47 (c. 130 pieces). ⁂ Collection includes: (1) Duke of Wellington letters and documents: (1) ALs to the Rev George Pellew, 1p., 4to, 13th November 1828, conveying the King’s appointment as Dean of Norwich.

(2) ANs (“W”) to Mrs Apostles at Stratfield Saye, ½p., 8vo, 4th December 1846, asking her to prepare for his coming down tomorrow.

(3) Document signed, 1p., 4to, 21st July 1845, printed form for the recommendation of a patient (George Gower) for St George’s Hospital.

(4) AL (third person) to the novelist GPR James, 1p., 8vo, 23rd May 1844, accepting the offer of his work.

(5) AL (third person) to Mr Poole, 1p., 8vo, 3rd March 1830, acknowledging his letter.

(2) Letters to the Duke of Wellington, including: Marquis of Douro, Henry Addington; Ernest, Duke of Cumberland; Thomas Campbell (sculptor; asking for a sitting for a bust for the King of Hanover, with Wellington’s answer written crosswise); George Harcourt (postponing dinner for half an hour as the Queen and Prince Albert will be at the Sutherland baptism); Lord James Hay (killed at Waterloo); Countess of Jersey, Sir Robert Peel, Gore Ouseley; Emily Harriet, Duchess of Somerset (“Day of Waterloo”, sending greetings and a bouquet); Lady Frances Shelley, Colonel Maxwell Wallace, Major General Wyndham, Angela Burdett Coutts (asking whether a German friend might see his pictures); Sir Alexander Cameron etc.

(3) Other letters, including: H W Paget, Marquess of Anglesey; Lord Charles Wellesley (younger son of the duke); Earl de la Warr, J Distin (entertainer; soliciting a performance by the Distin family on silver saxhorns at Apsley House); Earl Fitzwilliam (about the Orthopaedic Hospital); Lord Gosford (disclaiming knowledge of the shop Great Britain); General Lygon, Duke of Manchester, Lord Mount Edgecumbe (asking for a statement of case by Lord Brougham to be put before the duke); Charles Lennox, fourth Duke of Richmond (about the dismissal of Brigade Major Crawford); Lord Ripon, Lord Southampton, Lord Raglan, Sir Watkins Williams Wynn etc.

(4) Free Franks, including: the King of Holland, Lord Mornington, Gladstone, Prince Albert, Duke of Wellington etc.

A full list is available on request. £3,000 - 5,000 25 Woman traveller in Egypt, Palestine, Turkey and Greece.Williams (Eliza A.) IN THE ORIENT - WHERE WE WENT, WHAT WE SAW, manuscript, c. 382pp., slightly browned, title, first leaf and front free endpaper loose, original half morocco, extensively rubbed, upper cover detached, head and tail of spine chipped with small loss, 8vo, 16th February - 21st April 1874. ⁂ A detailed account of a three month trip, with two companions, Seth and Marion.

Jerusalem. “... we passed by the Lepers quarters; where, dumped along the wayside, were their speechless, shapeless, loathsome bodies, white with the Leprosy; but remembering the fearsome fate of Miriam, we hurried on, inwardly vowing we’d never scandalize ‘our own Mother’s Son’ though he should marry a negro, & so was this Lesson read to us.” £500 - 700 18

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ENGLISH LITERATURE AND HISTORY The Property of The Leeds Library All of the books have library stamps and markings, most are in library bindings.

26 26 Lanquet (Thomas) COOPERS CHRONICLE, CONTEININGE THE WHOLE DISCOURSE OF THE HISTORIES AS WELL OF THIS REALME, AS ALL OTHER COUNTREIS, woodcut title and pictorial initials, lacking b4, a few wormholes to preliminary ff. not affecting text, occasional marginal repairs, occasional ink marginalia and underlining, staining and browning, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, a little rubbed, [ESTC S108257; STC 15218], small 4to (approx. 180 x 130mm), [Thomas Berthelettes], 1560. ⁂ A history of the world from creation (dated to 3962 BC). It was originally published in 1549 as An Epitome of Chronicles, begun by Lanquet and finished by Thomas Cooper after Lanquet’s death in 1545. £600 - 800 27 Milton (John) THE DOCTRINE & DISCIPLINE OF DIVORCE, the odd ink correction, [ESTC R11274; Wing M2109], 1644 BOUND WITH An Answer to a Book, intituled, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, lacking first 2 preliminary ff. (including title), [ESTC R11990; Wing A3304], [for G[eorge] M[iller]], [1644], ink inscription to preliminary f., foxing and browning, trimmed slightly touching text and with some loss to header and pagination, and ‘The’ in first work’s title, modern moroccobacked cloth § Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works..., edited by John Urry, FIRST URRY EDITION, engraved portrait frontispiece of Urry (only, lacking portrait frontispiece of Chaucer), engraved title and chapterheading vignettes, woodcut initials and tail-pieces, frontispiece laid down, occasional repairs, occasional staining and marginal browning, light foxing, later half cloth, slight chipping to spine ends, joints split, paper label to upper cover, a little rubbed, [ESTC T106027], for Bernard Lintot, 1721, small 4to & folio (2)

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28 Popish Plot.- SAMMELBAND OF C.45 WORKS RELATING TO THE POPISH PLOT, a few blanks ff. or title versos with portraits pasted, very occasional ink marginalia, a little trimmed, sometimes affecting pagination or words, occasional light staining, light foxing, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, joints split, worn, folio, 1678-80. ⁂ An expansive collection of works relating to the Popish Plot, including trials. The Popish Plot was a fictitious plot was invented

by Titus Oates whose claims that there was an extensive Catholic plot to assassinate King Charles II lead to more than 15 innocent people being executed for treason.

Some texts included are: Titus Oates’s A True Narrative of the Horrid Plot and Conspiracy of the Popish Party, 1679.

Miles Prance’s A True Narrative and Discovery of Several very Remarkable Passages Relating to the Horrid Popish Plot, 1679.

The Tryal of William Staley, Goldsmith; for Speaking Treasonable Words..., 1679.

The Tryal of Edward Coleman, Gent. for Conspiring the Death of the King, and the Subversion of the Government of England and the Protestant Religion, 1678.

Ezrael [sic.] Tongue’s The New Design of the Papists Detected: or, an Answer to the Last Speeches of the Five Jesuites lately Executed, 1679.

The Papists Bloody Oath of Secrecy and Letany of Intercession for the Carrying on of This Present Plot, 1680. £1,000 - 1,500

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29 Infamous travel hoax.- Psalmanazar (George) AN HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF FORMOSA, engraved folding alphabet table, 15 engraved plates, one folding, without plate 12 ?as often, foxing, modern antique-styled calf, red morocco label to spine, [ESTC T137016; Goldsmiths’ 4044], 8vo, Dan. Brown et al., 1704. ⁂ A FABRICATION OF FORMOSA’S CUSTOMS, GEORGRAPHY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY. George Psalmanazar claimed to be a native of Formosa (today Taiwan), and had convinced many in Britain, until it was eventually revealed that he was of European origin. The “facts” contained in the book are an amalgam of other travel reports; he had used missionary report about East Asia and decided to impersonate the cultures and customs to convince the public of the authenticity of his background. £400 - 600

31 Gaming Probability.- Moivre (Abraham de) THE DOCTRINE OF CHANCES; OR, A METHOD OF CALCULATING THE PROBABILITY OF EVENTS IN PLAY, second edition, with a final table of contents and errata f., woodcut title-vignette, ornaments and initials, engraved head and tail-piece (a little offset), tables, some full-page, with blank f. at end of preliminaries, title mounted on stub and with browning to head, small water-stain to head of title and some ff., occasional light spotting or surface soiling, later half red calf, paper label to upper cover, minor rubbing to extremities, [ESTC T33064; Kress 4395], 4to, for the Author,

by H. Woodfall, 1738. ⁂ Important work on probability by a friend of Newton’s, greatly expanded from the first edition published in 1718.

ESTC records two variants of the second edition: one numbering 258pp. with a final Table of Contents & errata f. (as in this copy), the other 256pp. (ESTC N6410). £800 - 1,200

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30 Newton (Sir Isaac) OBSERVATIONS UPON THE PROPHECIES OF DANIEL, AND THE APOCALYPSE OF ST. JOHN, 2 parts in 1, FIRST EDITION, engraved headpiece to A2, 2 or 3 short marginal tears (1 or 2 slightly touching text), light foxing and staining, gutter cracked with ff. detached or becoming so, contemporary half calf, rebacked, paper label to spine, wear to extremities, edges uncut, [ESTC T41883], 4to, by J.Darby and T.Browne, 1733.

32 Maritime.- M. (J., a Lieutenant in the Fleet) THE MARITIME CAMPAIGN OF 1778, FIRST EDITION, 6 engraved folding maps with touches of handcolouring, all-linen backed, title and advertisement f. trimmed and window-mounted (slightly touching text), 1 or 2 small rust holes (affecting 1 or 2 letters), several repairs, light spotting, browning, and surface soiling, modern cloth-backed boards, paper label to upper cover, [ESTC T75281], folio, for William Faden, 1779.

£500 - 700

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33 Wollstonecraft (Mary) THOUGHTS ON THE EDUCATION OF DAUGHTERS: WITH REFLECTIONS ON FEMALE CONDUCT, IN THE MORE IMPORTANT DUTIES OF LIFE, FIRST EDITION, with G6 a cancel (as usual), title with slight abrasion and few markings in purple pencil, the odd spot, a few creases to upper outer corners, light marginal toning, surface soiling, bound with blanks at end, library cloth, spine with author as ‘Godwin’, spine ends chipped, minor rubbing to corners, [ESTC T50212; Gumuchian 5855; Rothschild 2595; Windle A1a], 8vo, for J.Johnson, 1787.

34 Wollstonecraft (Mary) AN HISTORICAL AND MORAL VIEW OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, vol.1 (all published), FIRST EDITION, final advertisement leaf, small hole in X7 slight affecting one word recto and verso, occasional light foxing, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, 2 corners with green vellum tips, worn, joints cracked, spine split, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, 8vo, Printed for J. Johnson, 1794. £2,000 - 3,000

⁂ FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S FIRST SCARCE BOOK; A RADICAL TREATISE ON FEMALE EDUCATION. This important work is a precursor to her renowned Vindication of the Rights of Women, published just five years later in 1792, in which she develops some of the ideas initially hinted at in this work. Thoughts on the Education of Daughters comprises a collection of essays where Wollstonecraft explores and critiques the current education offered to women at the time, providing her advice on how to educate women from infancy through to marriage. Wollstonecraft advocates for independent thought, truthfulness, self-discipline, and rationality within women. £2,000 - 3,000

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Other properties 35 Angling.- Walton (Izaak) THE COMPLEAT ANGLER OR THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN’S RECREATION. PART I. BEING A DISCOURSE OF RIVERS, FISH-PONDS, FISH & FISHING, fifth edition, much corrected and enlarged, engraved illustrations, wood engraved initials and headpieces, title trimmed at foot with expert restoration, A3 with short marginal tear just touching text and expert repair, small paper label pasted to foot C7, lacking final blank, several early ff. trimmed and inserted from another copy, occasional light staining, bookplate and previous owner’s ink signature, later calf, rebacked, slight bumping to corners, [ESTC R17670; Wing W666], 8vo, for R. Marriot, 1676. £1,200 - 1,800 36 Chess.- Philidor (François-André Danican) CHESS ANALYSED: OR INSTRUCTIONS BY WHICH A PERFECT KNOWLEDGE OF THIS NOBLE GAME MAY IN A

SHORT TIME BE ACQUIR’D, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, spotted, lightly browned, contemporary calf, gilt, rebacked, covers worn, but solid, [Whyld & Ravilious 1750:2; ESTC T109591], 8vo, Printed for J. Nourse, and P. Vaillant, in the Strand, 1750.

⁂ First edition in English of L’Analyze des echecs, 1749; here with an excellent provenance.

Provenance: Dr. Meindert Niemeijer (1902-1987), Dutch chess problem composer, patron and collector of books (chess bookplate to front free endpaper); Lothar Schmid (1928-2013), German chess Grandmaster and chess book collector (chess bookplate to front pastedown). £400 - 600 35

37 -. Lambe (Robert) THE HISTORY OF CHESS, TOGETHER WITH SHORT AND PLAIN INSTRUCTIONS BY WHICH ANY ONE MAY EASILY PLAY AT IT WITHOUT THE HELP OF A TEACHER, FIRST EDITION, folding woodcut plate of diagrams,

woodcut diagrams in text, foxed, occasional staining, lightly browned, 19th century calf-backed boards, spine gilt and with black morocco label, corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Whyld & Ravilious 1764:3; ESTC T36359], 8vo, no printer [one attributed in contemporary ink beneath date], 1764. ⁂ Rare at auction; here with an excellent provenance.

Provenance: Lothar Schmid (1928-2013), German chess Grandmaster and chess book collector (chess bookplate to front pastedown). £400 - 600

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38 Henry VIII’s Primer.- Church of England. THE PRIMER, SET FOORTH BY THE KYNGES MAIESTIE AND HIS CLERGIE, TO BE TAUGHT LERNED, & READ: AND NONE OTHER TO BE VSED THROUGHOUT ALL HIS DOMINIONS, FIRST EDITION, collation: *4 A-I4 K4 L2 M-U4 2A-2H4, printed in red and black, title within woodcut ornamental border, divisional full-page woodcut at end (verso blank), near contemporary marginal ink marks to D4-E1 & K1, [VVithin the precinct of the late dissolued house of the] Gray friers by Richard Grafton printer to the Princes grace, [29th May, 1545], bound with An exposicyon after the maner of a contemplacion, vpon the Psalme called Miserere mei Deus whiche Hierome of Ferrary made, at the latter ende of hys dayes, collation: A-H4, small loss in text to A, printed without a separate title, by John Herforde, for Robert Toye, [?1542], bound with Here begynneth the Pistels and Gospels of the Sondayes and festiuall holy dayes, newly corrected and amended, collation: A-P4, printed without a separate title, small maringal loss to P3, manuscript note in an early hand on P3 verso, by John Herforde, [?1545], together 3 works in 1 vol., black letter, woodcut historiated and decorative initials, some criblé, bookplate of Peter Rivers, Bar. on front pastedown, occasional spotting and soiling, lightly browned, marginal worming to several pp., later mottled calf, stamped in blind and gilt, spine richly gilt in compartments, rebacked, extremities lightly rubbed, [STC 16034; 21794; 2973], 8vo (190 x 130mm.).

39 Rare English printed fragment as endpaper.- Leo I (Pope) EPISTOLAE DECRETALES AC FAMILIARES, title with woodcut printer’s device, woodcut decorative initials, lacking final blank, ‘X’ erased from printed date on title, c5 piece from lower blank corner, some staining (including ink, and water-staining to lower margins), occasional minor marginal worming, lightly browned, 2 probably English 15th century manuscript ff. with extracts from Hostiensis (Henry of Segusio, d.

1271), Summa Aurea super titulis Decretalium (a legal commentary on the Decretals) and a printed fragment used as endpapers, early 20th century pastedowns and free endpapers, contemporary ?English blind-stamped panelled calf, small fleur-de-lis at centre of panels, rebacked in early 20th century calf in compartments and with red morocco label, covers repaired at edges and all but detached, rubbed and scuffed, [VD16 K 191], 8vo, Cologne, Melchior von Neuß, 1548. ⁂ A single leaf fragment from Johannes Carion’s A wonderfull prophecye contynuyng tyll the yere of our Lorde, London, Anthony Scoloker and Wyllyam Seres, [c.1550] (ESTC S3916) is used as a front free endpaper. The work is extremely rare with ESTC recording only a fragment at John Rylands (‘Imperfect: fragment, all after p. [12] lacking; remainder cropped, stained, torn, and tightly bound’ (ESTC)).

Provenance: ‘W. Phillips’ (contemporary ink inscription at head of printed fragment verso). £500 - 700

⁂ The first work is the first Primer in English, which was authorised by the king and prepared under his supervision. This is the first edition, rare in any condition. £10,000 - 15,000

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40 Bible, English.- THE BIBLE, THAT IS THE HOLY SCRIPTURES CONTEINED IN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT, letterpress title with woodcut vignette, additional pictorial woodcut title illustrating the Evangelists and the Apostles, woodcut illustrations, without Apocrypha (as often), lacking Qq8 (?blank), letterpress title and additional woodcut title laid down, tear to X8 with some loss to text, ink marginalia to title, the odd ink annotation elsewhere, [Herbert 251], London [i.e. Amsterdam], by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1599 [but later] BOUND WITH The Booke of Psalmes collected into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, final f. ink drawing to verso, [Amsterdam], [Company of Stationers], [c.1614], a few ff. with repairs to margins, minor worming to margins, light surface staining, water-staining, later panelled calf, rebacked, backstrip with red morocco label to spine, upper cover working loose but firm, rubbing, wear to extremities, 4to.

41 Witchcraft and Exorcism.- Darrell (John) A DETECTION OF THAT SINNFUL SHAMFUL LYING AND RIDICULOUS DISCOURS, OF SAMUEL HARSHNET, ENTITULED: A DISCOVERIE OF THE FRAUDULENT PRACTISES OF JOHN DARRELL, lacks Z1-2 and 2F1-2, cropped throughout with loss to headlines, signatures and sometimes text, ink annotations at foot of title, some light waterstaining, modern half calf, small 4to, [English Secret Press], 1600. ⁂ Rare, albeit with faults. John Darrell, a puritan, was a self appointed Doctor of Divinity and self-proclaimed exorcist. Darrell claimed to have found many witches, and performed multiple exorcisms, though it was later found that he had in fact paid people to claim that they were possessed and that Darrell had subsequently cured them. Because of intense public interest, Darrell was eventually investigated for ‘fraudulent exorcism’ and eventually brought to trial, with Samuel Harsnett as prosecutor.

Darrell lost and was sent to prison, and was released in 1599. Yet he continued to claim his innocence up until his death in 1603. £600 - 800

⁂ This is the Geneva version of the Bible. These versions of the Bible were most likely printed in Amsterdam and Dort, for the use of the English Puritans in the Low Countries. Many editions bear this date, but it is probably untrue in almost every case.

This copy includes many of the errors mentioned in Herbert 248, such as: Song of Solomon 5:3 has defile instead of put, and Isaiah 30:32 has beards instead of harp. However, Isaiah 36:12 has the correction and includes doung, and Matthew 24:50 is not repeated. However, Ee3 b has the headline error ‘Proverbers’ mentioned in Herbert 249. This copy also includes Eccles. 4:9 as Two are better wages for heir labour.

Provenance: Fred W. Dalley’s bookplate, he was involved in the railway trade unions. Ink inscription in a late-19th or early20th century hand: “Lady Florence Dixie’s copy, (of Bosworth Hall.)”. Lady Florence Dixie was the President of the British Ladies’ Football Club, one of the first women’s football clubs. She lived in Bosworth Hall in 1875-83. £750 - 1,000

42 [Du Bosc (Jacques)] THE EXCELLENT WOMAN DESCRIBED BY HER TRUE CHARACTERS AND THEIR OPPOSITES, engraved frontispiece, expert strengthening to edges final f. (U8), previous owner's ink signature to title, occasional light spotting and soiling, modern sympathetic free endpapers, contemporary morocco, rebacked retaining original backstrip, 5 raised spine bands, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [ESTC R21842; Wing D2407B], 8vo, for Joseph Watts, 1692. £800 - 1,200

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44 43 Princeton University.- Tennent (Gilbert) and Samuel Davies.

TO THE WORTHY AND GENEROUS FRIENDS OF RELIGION AND LEARNING, IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND..., small marginal pencil mark to title, some soiling and a few stains or marks, disbound, [ESTC T51381], 8vo, 1754. ⁂ This pamphlet is an appeal by Gilbert Tennent and Samuel Davies on behalf of the trustees of the College of New Jersey, the institution that would later become Princeton University. Gilbert Tennent, the son of a prominent Protestant minister, was part of the religious and educational movement that supported the development of the College of New Jersey. The petition was issued during their mission to Great Britain and Ireland to seek financial assistance from supporters of religion and learning, helping to secure the resources needed to strengthen the young college and establish it as a lasting centre of religious and higher education.

Rare. ESTC records only four copies, two of which are held at Princeton University. £1,000 - 1,500 44 America.- Sterling (James) ZEAL AGAINST THE ENEMIES OF OUR COUNTRY PATHETICALLY RECOMMENDED: IN A REMARKABLE SERMON, PREACHED BEFORE HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND, ?lacking half-title and final blank, some spotting to title, bookplate of William Stirling to front pastedown, 19th century half roan, spine chipped at head, some wear to one corner, light rubbing to extremities, [Sabin 91332], 8vo, Annapolis, Printed : London reprinted, for J. Whiston and B. White, in Fleet-Street, 1755. ⁂ Scarce, only a handful of copies listed in institutions in the UK and US. First printed by Jonas Green in Anapolis, Sterling delivered his sermon at the opening of a special assembly convened to vote men and supplies for the forthcoming military campaign against the French. £750 - 1,000

45 Sower imprint.- UNCERTAINTY OF A DEATH-BED REPENTANCE (THE), ILLUSTRATED UNDER THE CHARACTER OF PENITENS, drop-head title, some staining, lightly browned, 20th century buckram-backed boards, [Evans, 7656; Hildeburn, Pennsylvania, 1464; ESTC W27160], small 8vo, [Germantown, Pa], [Printed by Christopher Sower, Jr], [1756]. ⁂ Rare, with only four copies recorded by ESTC. Provenance: Luther Brewer, Cedar Rapids, IA (engraved 20th century bookplate to front pastedown). £400 - 600

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46 46 Bible, English.- THE HOLY BIBLE, 8 vol., engraved dedication, list of subscribers, 2 engraved frontispieces and 73 plates after Henry Fuseli, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Benjamin West, Richard Cosway, Angelica Kauffman, Thomas Stothard, William Hamilton and others, and numerous head-& tail-pieces, some foxing, margin of one leaf expertly repaired, contemporary blue morocco, gilt, by Lovejoy, covers with decorative borders of a series of gilt rolls, spines gilt in compartments with six pairs of raised bands, sewn gilt-decorated blue leather joints, gilt dentelles and edges, minor scuffing and scratches, a few patches of slight fading, [Herbert 1442], housed in a mahogany box with individual separation slats and brass handles, [ESTC 123175; Darlow & Moule 1442], folio, Printed for Thomas Macklin [& T.Cadell and W.Davies], by Thomas Bensley, 1800-16. ⁂ AN EXCEPTIONAL AND MAGNIFICENT SET OF THIS REMARKABLE BIBLE, “the most ambitious edition produced in Britain, often pirated but never rivalled.” -DNB. The list of subscribers includes the King, the Queen and the Prince of Wales. Macklin first announced his plan to publish this lavishly illustrated work in 1789 and devoted the next 11 years of his life to bringing his plans to fruition. He sadly died 5 days after the completion of the final engraving so never lived to see the completed work. It was originally intended to be published in 3 volumes but was actually published in 6, with the Apocrypha appearing in 1816 to complete the set. It is very occasionally found, as here, with the New Testament bound in 2 volumes, each with a separate title-page, thus making a spectacular 8 volumes.

The mahogany box, specially made for this set, dates from around the time of publication and undoubtedly accounts for the exceptional condition in which it remains. £6,000 - 8,000

47 Crime & Execution.- Walker (William) THE LAST DYING SPEECH, AND TRAVELS..., woodcut illustrations, very small marginal hole throughout, a few tears and repairs, light soiling and the odd mark or spot, disbound ?as issued, uncut and unopened, [ESTC T231686], 8vo, [c. 1800]. ⁂ A rare execution account recording the final confession and last speech of William Walker, executed at Tyburn near York for the murder of his sister. The pamphlet is especially distinctive because it includes Walker’s alleged travels in inland Africa alongside his final confession.

Very rare. ESTC records only one copy. £600 - 800

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48 Women & Executions.- Watkins (John) THE IMPORTANT RESULTS OF AN ELABORATE INVESTIGATION INTO THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF ELIZABETH FENNING..., FIRST EDITION, ink ownership inscription to title, scattered light spotting, else rather clean, contemporary half calf, rebacked, rubbed and bumped, 8vo, William Hone, 1815. ⁂ Elizabeth Fenning (c. 1792–1815) was a young domestic servant whose controversial conviction for attempting to poison her employer, Orlibar Turner, and his family with arsenic-laced dumplings attracted widespread public attention. Tried at the Old Bailey on 11 April 1815 and executed at Newgate on 26 July, despite widespread belief in her wrongful conviction, Fenning maintained her innocence to the end. The case prompted significant debate over the reliability of circumstantial evidence and the criminal justice system, with prominent figures including Samuel Parr and Charles Dickens supporting her innocence.

Her funeral was attended by thousands, reflecting the extraordinary public interest surrounding the case.

Very rare at auction, with the last recorded copy seemingly sold in 1898. £400 - 600 49 ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS (THE), c.400 vol., illustrations and plates, some folding, a few plates and panoramas lacking, occasional excisions and traces of removal, occasional repairs, ex-library copies with ink-stamps throughout, and other markings, c.350 vol. in library cloth, 50 issues in original printed wrappers, folio & 4to, 1842-1993; sold as a periodical, not subject to return. ⁂ A NEAR COMPLETE RUN OF THE WORLD’S FIRST ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY NEWS MAGAZINE, THE FIRST VOLUME, 1842, TO 1993.

The first issue appeared on Saturday 14th May 1842, timed to report on Queen Victoria’s first masquerade ball, and cost sixpence, selling 26,000 copies. By the end of its first year, circulation reached 60,000. £2,000 - 3,000

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50 [Brontë (Charlotte)], “Currer Bell”. JANE EYRE. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, lacking half-titles, title to vol. 2, final text leaf of vol. 1 (supplied in manuscript), publisher’s catalogue and advertisements, vol.2 G8 and H1 a few small burn holes within text, some tears (including a marginal one to first title), a few ff. with piece from margin, stained, a few ff. loose, later endpapers, contemporary reddish-pink cloth, 3 covers detached, 2 vol. with vertical split to spine, faded, some staining or soiling, rubbed, [Smith 2; Sadleir 346], 8vo, Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, 1847. Sold not subject to return. £1,500 - 2,000 51 [Brontë (Charlotte, Emily & Anne)], "Currer Ellis and Acton Bell". POEMS, FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, 1pp. advertisement at end, lacking errata and 16 pp. publisher's catalogue, original cloth bound at end, near contemporary calf, gilt inner dentelles, red and green morocco spine labels, richly gilt spine, lower joint repaired, rubbing to joints, house in cloth slipcase, slight rubbing to corners and extremities, [Smith pp.6-14], 8vo, Smith, Elder and Co., 1846 [but 1848]. £1,000 - 1,500 52 [Brontë (Charlotte)], "Currer Bell". SHIRLEY. A TALE, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, 3pp. advertisements at end vol. 3, vol. 1 bound without publisher's catalogue, faint spotting at beginning and end each vol., modern half crushed blue morocco, [Smith pp.112-116], 8vo, Smith, Elder and 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 loosing 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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53 [Gaskell (Elizabeth C.)] CRANFORD, BY THE AUTHOR OF ‘MARY BARTON’, ‘RUTH’, &C., FIRST EDITION, some light age toning and occasional foxing, front free endpaper splitting at gutter, bookplate of Leigh B. Block to pastedown, original cloth, neatly rebacked preserving original backstrip, bumping to spine tips and extremities, covers marked and faded, housed in morocco-backed drop-front box [Sadlier 925], 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1853. ⁂ Scarce in the original cloth binding of one of Gaskell’s best known novels, last seen at auction in 2013. £600 - 800

54 [Evans (Mary Ann)], “George Eliot”. MILL ON THE FLOSS, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, each book with divisional fly-titles, vol.1 lacking advertisement leaf, vol.3 lacking 16pp. publisher’s catalogue at end, “Bays Hill Chapel Library” in ink to half-titles, occasional marginal water-staining, some light finger soiling and browning, endpapers renewed (close in colour to originals), original orange-brown cloth (Carter variant A), library labels neatly removed and a few stains to covers, extremities lightly bumped and scuffed, light rubbing to spine ends, vol.1 covers slightly cockled, [Baker & Ross A5], 8vo, William Blackwood and Sons, 1860. £400 - 600

55 [Evans (Mary Ann)], “George Eliot”. MIDDLEMARCH: A STUDY OF PROVINCIAL LIFE, 4 vol., FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, half-titles, bookplate of James Stevenson on front pastedown in each vol., light cracking at gutter to a few pp., overall holding firm, original blue cloth stamped in black and gilt, bump to vol.2 upper cover, spines slightly sunned, edges lightly toned, extremities rubbed, particularly spine ends, [Sadleir 815; Wolff 2059], 8vo, 1871-72. ⁂ First edition in original cloth of Eliot’s most famous work, often hailed as one of the greatest novels in the English language. £2,500 - 3,500

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ECONOMICS 56 Malthus (T. R.) OPYT O ZAKONIE NARODONASELENIIA. [AN ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION], translated by P. A. Bibikov, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION IN RUSSIAN, half-titles, ink ownership inscriptions to titles, occasional pencil marginalia elsewhere, scattered spotting, contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving old spine, rubbed and bumped, uncut, 8vo, St Petersburg, E. E. Glazunov, 1868. ⁂ A key work in the history of economic thought by Malthus (1766–1834), the English economist and demographer. The translator, P. A. Bibikov, had substantial experience translating economic works, having rendered Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations” into Russian two years earlier. Malthus’s Essay, first published in 1798, had attracted attention in Russia by the early 1820s. In 1826, he was elected a foreign member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, and in 1830 received an honorary professorship at the Imperial St. Petersburg University. His work gained renewed significance in the 1860s amid major economic reforms, challenging prevailing assumptions about population growth and highlighting the economic consequences of population pressure, poverty, and limited food supply. £3,000 - 4,000

57 [COLLECTION OF C.1,500 OFFPRINTS, JOURNAL ISSUES, MONOGRAPHS AND PAMPHLETS RELATING TO ECONOMICS], MANY WITH NOBEL PRIZE WINNER, RICHARD STONE’S INK OWNERSHIP INSCRIPTION, A SMALL NUMBER SIGNED OR INSCRIBED, majority in English, many in French, German, Italian, and Russian, mostly in original wrappers, v.s., [20th-century]. ⁂ AN EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF WORKS RELATING TO ECONOMICS. MOST ARE ORIGINAL OFFPRINTS OF JOURNAL ARTICLES WITH A SMALLER NUMBER OF ENTIRE JOURNAL

ISSUES, SEPARATELY PRINTED MONOGRAPHS OR PAMPHLETS, AND ALSO PRE-PUBLICATIONS DISCUSSIONS, OR SEMINAR WORKING PAPERS. MANY RELATE TO RICHARD

STONE’S MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS IN ECONOMETRICS AND NATIONAL INCOME ACCOUNTING.

Richard Stone won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1984 for his essential contribution to the development systems of national accounts, which greatly improved the basis for empirical economic analysis, and later had an international scale.

In the 1950s, he offered the first concrete statistical means by which we can measure government spending, measure investment, and consumption. He model was later adapted for organisations, such as the United Nations. He was the first to use double-entry accounting, which states that every income item on one side of the balance sheet, must be met by an expenditure item on the opposite side of the accounting sheet. This system is the basis of nearly all modern accounting used today. £1,000 - 1,500

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58 Keynes (John Maynard) THE GENERAL THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT, INTEREST AND MONEY, FIRST EDITION, half-title, previous owner’s ink signature, light toning to endpapers, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, browned spine, small hole to upper panel (affecting odd letter), abrasion mark to lower panel, small tear to foldline, slight chipping to edges, [PMM 423], 8vo, 1936.

60 Keats ( John) THE POETICAL WORKS, NO. 10 OF 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES SIGNED BY THE PRINTER, engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, a few faint surface marks, light marginal browning, contemporary blue morocco by F.Bedford, tooled-in gilt, upper joint starting at head, lower cover a little marked, t.e.g., others uncut, 8vo, 1884.

⁂ One of the defining texts in the evolution of economic thought, by one of the foremost economists of his era.

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59 Stevenson (Robert Louis) NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION with 32pp. advertisements, p.155 incorrectly numbered as “55” and mispelt “Maledroit” on p.179, bookplate of Henry E. Gerstley and ink ownership signature in both vol., the odd spot, endpapers slightly browned, original decorated green cloth, spines fractionally rubbed and toned, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, a few spots to edges, housed in drop-back box, spine gilt, rubbed, top edge detaching, 8vo, 1882. £1,000 - 1,500

61 Verne (Jules) THE CLIPPER OF THE CLOUDS, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, frontispiece and 38 plates only (of 41), advertisements at end dated ‘October 1886’, cracked at gutter at B1, light spotting at beginning, previous owner’s ink signature and ink name-stamp to front pastedown, remnants of bookplate and abrasion mark where removed, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1887. £1,000 - 1,500

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62 Wilde (Oscar) THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, FIRST PUBLISHED APPEARANCE IN LIPPINCOTT’S MONTHLY MAGAZINE, ENGLISH ISSUE, advertisement f. tipped-in at p.3, off-setting to pp.2-3, light marginal spots to a few pp., overall clean, original printed wrappers, lower cover detached, chipping and creasing to extremities, lightly toned, a few stains, more so at upper cover joint, [Mason 81], 8vo, Ward, Lock & Co., 1890. ⁂ The first appearance of this important story which was revised and enlarged for final publication in book form. £2,000 - 3,000

63 Wilde (Oscar) [WORKS], 14 vol., FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, one of 1000 sets, Marion C. Walker’s bookplate in each vol., some foxing and toning to endpapers, small nicks and surface abrasions to a few endpapers, original cloth, gilt, spines slightly darkened, light bumping to spine ends, t.e.g., dust-jackets, spines lightly toned, several vol. browned and defective, tape repairs to De Profundis verso, slightly chipping and nicking to extremities, light spotting to a few vol., 8vo, Methuen, 1908. ⁂ A handsome set, extremely scarce in dust-jackets. We are unable to trace any sets at auction with dust-jackets in any condition. “The Picture of Dorian Gray” has the imprint of Charles Carrington of Paris while the rest bear Methuen and Co. £3,000 - 4,000

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64 Miniature Book.- MITE (THE), THE PRINTER/PUBLISHER’S OWN COPY WITH THE ORIGINAL TYPE AND PRINTING BLOCKS FOR ALL THREE OF ITS EDITIONS (1891, 1893 & 1896), FIRST EDITION, 8 illustrations, all but one full-page, original vellum, decorated and lettered in black and gilt on upper cover, housed in original silver metal case (tarnished), together with the original type-set printing blocks for all 3 editions and the tiny metal plates for illustrations, and also with letters and ephemera relating to The Mite, including letters on behalf of the King and Queen and various other royal personages accepting copies of the book, the Queen’s invitation to Robinson to admit him to the Queen’s Dolls’ House, letter from the Duchess of York on behalf of Princess Mary accepting ‘The Mite’, T.L.s. on behalf of Sir Edwin Lutyens notifying Robinson of the acceptance of the book by the Committee of the Queen’s Dolls’ House, acknowledgement from the Keeper of Printed Books, British Library of Robinson’s 3 miniature books ‘The Mite’, ‘Sundry Items’ and ‘Grimsby & Fish’, press cuttings and photographs (including one of Robinson outside the small garden shed where he printed his books), together housed in a quarto-sized custom-made velvet-lined morocco-backed drop-back box, The Mite 20 x 17mm., Grimsby, Ernest A. Robinson, 1891. ⁂ Ernest A. Robinson was a railway worker from Grimsby, who produced books on an amateur printing press from a small workshop in his garden. He was a miniature book enthusiast and collector. His miniatures are said to have been printed as a paying hobby and were frequently presented to visiting dignitaries to the port of Grimsby.

‘The Mite’ is one of the very few older printed miniature books to be found in the Queen’s Dolls’ House, the majority of which were especially written for Queen Mary by the leading authors of the day. The text is a collection of facts and information, supplemented with various tiny illustrations.

The first printing of The Mite was produced in 1891, and was at the time the smallest book in the world printed with movable type.

There was a second printing in 1893, and a third in 1896. In 1896, Salmin of Padova, Italy, printed their Galileo “A Madama Christina di Lorena”, which supplanted The Mite as the smallest book in the world printed thus. The Mite is believed, however, to remain the smallest book printed in England with movable type.

A REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF ITEMS AND AN IMPORTANT AND UNIQUE PIECE OF MINIATURE BOOK PRINTING HISTORY. £3,000 - 4,000

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65 Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, FIRST ISSUE with ‘Miss Violent Hunter’ in the last sentence on p.317 and without name to street sign on upper cover, hinges broken, splitting and fraying to foot of lower joint, 1892; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, spine darkened, 1894, FIRST EDITIONS, illustrations by Sidney Paget, foxing, original pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt, g.e., slight bumping and light fraying to spine tips and corners, finger-soiling, rubbed, [Green & Gibson A10a & A14], 8vo (2) £1,000 - 1,500

67 Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) THE PEOPLE’S RIGHTS, FIRST EDITION, second state with p.71 correctly numbered, Appendix and Index at rear, Leonard E. Boxall’s bookplate on front pastedown, some browning (as usual), light spotting to endpapers, minor marginal nicks and chips to several pp. including title, hinges slightly cracked, particularly to upper cover, original red cloth, a little darkened, gilt, joints and extremities lightly rubbed, slight splitting to upper cover joint, a few light stains and scuff marks, spine ends and corner tips slightly rubbed, t.e.g., 8vo, [Cohen A31.1.b], [1909]. ⁂ Regarded as one of the rarest of Churchill’s books.

After the Conservative-dominated House of Lords rejected the Liberal government’s budget, Prime Minister Asquith dissolved parliament and took the case to the country, advocating higher taxes on the wealthy to fund an expanded welfare state. Churchill, as President of the Board of Trade, campaigned with a series of stirring speeches delivered between 3 and 11 December 1909.

Hodder and Stoughton hastily published them ahead of election day, in both cloth and wrappers. The cloth issue preceded the wrappers issue by approximately two weeks.

66 Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) THE RIVER WAR, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, photogravure portrait frontispieces and 5 photogravure plates, 20 folding maps, illustrations, faint scattered spotting, cracked hinges, original decorative cloth, faint abrasion mark to upper covers, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Woods A2(a)], 8vo, London, New York & Bombay, 1899. £600 - 800

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This copy does not have the p.71 mispagination, but does have a single Appendix and Index affiliated with first state copies, rather than the second state, wherein a second Appendix replaced the Index. £1,500 - 2,000

68 68 Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) THE WORLD CRISIS, 6 vol., all but The Unknown War FIRST EDITIONS, The Unknown War first impression of Keystone Library edition, half-titles, plates and maps, some folding, occasional light marginal foxing at beginning of one or two vol. (not affecting text or images), modern blue half morocco, spines gilt, 8vo, 1923-37. £800 - 1,200

69 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. £700 - 1,000 70 Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLE, 4 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, maps, modern black half morocco, spines gilt, small mark to vol. 1 upper cover else fine, 8vo, 1956-58. £600 - 800

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The Property of a Gentleman The following four lots are inscribed to Professor Alan Edward Musgrave (1940–2026), a prominent New Zealand philosopher of science and professor at the University of Otago. One of Sir Karl Popper’s most distinguished students, Musgrave later became Popper’s research assistant and colleague, and served as Head of Otago’s Philosophy Department for 35 years. He was internationally recognised for his work on science, scepticism, realism, and rationalism, and co-edited “Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge” with Imre Lakatos. The books have remained within the family until the present sale.

74 Popper (Sir Karl) UNENDED QUEST. AN INTELLECTUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY, revised edition, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR “TO ALAN FROM KARL WITH LOVE” to title, cracking at gutter and title & a few other pp. working loose, marginal toning, original wrappers, spine and inner-margins browned, rubbed and bumped, 8vo, Fontana, 1976.

71 Popper (Sir Karl) CONJECTURES AND REFUTATIONS: THE GROWTH OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE, second edition, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR “TO ALAN WITH MANY THANKS FOR HIS HELP, FROM KARL” to front free endpaper, marginal toning and the odd mark or slight area of soiling, original cloth, spine gilt, spine dulled, lightly rubbed and bumped with the odd mark, dust-jacket, discolouration and multiple tears and repairs, some loss to upper panel (affecting text), 8vo, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965.

£1,500 - 2,000

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72 Popper (Sir Karl) THE LOGIC OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY, revised edition, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR “TO ALAN, WITH LOVE, FROM KARL. OCTOBER 1968” to front free endpaper, errata slip tipped in, marginal toning and the odd small occasional mark, original cloth, spine gilt, spine ends slightly bumped, dust-jacket, discolouration to spine and panels, a few spots and creases, 8vo, Hutchinson of London, 1968. £1,000 - 1,500 75 Mandela (Nelson) LONG WALK TO FREEDOM. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, photographic plates, original morocco-backed cloth, the odd mark, t.e.g., 8vo, 1994. £1,000 - 1,500

73 Popper (Sir Karl) OBJECTIVE KNOWLEDGE: AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR “TO ALAN FROM KARL, NOVEMBER 1972” to half-title, marginal toning, original wrappers, spine, upper- & fore-margin discoloured, some wear to joints, rubbed and bumped, 8vo, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1972. £800 - 1,200 36

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76 COLLECTION OF BOOKER PRIZE WINNING NOVELS, FIRST EDITIONS, SOME SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS, bookplates or gift inscriptions in a few vol., very occasional spotting and toning, particularly in Midnight’s Children, original boards, dust-jackets, several price-clipped, extremities slightly rubbed, generally excellent copies, 1969-2025 (70) ⁂ An excellent near complete collection of Booker Prize winning novels for each year from its beginning in 1969 until 2025. This collection is lacking only J.G. Farrell’s ‘Troubles’ which was awarded the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010, a one-time award chosen among books published in 1970 which had not been considered for the Booker Prize at the time.

Including signed copies of Orbital (2024); Prophet Song (2023) (signed bookplate); A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014); The Luminaries (2013); The Finkler Question (2010); Wolf Hall (2009); and The Famished Road (1991). £4,000 - 6,000

77 Burgess (Anthony) “James Burgess Wilson”. ENGLISH LITERATURE. A SURVEY FOR STUDENTS, FIRST EDITION, one or two very minor marginal surface marks, light toning to endpapers, bookseller ticket to front pastedown, original boards, spine ends lightly bumped, rubbing and small stain to upper cover, faint spotting to edges, 8vo, 1958. ⁂ Anthony Burgess’s history of English literature, published under his real name of John Burgess Wilson, for use in schools. Rare. £1,000 - 1,500

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78 Burroughs (Edgar Rice) TARZAN LORD OF THE JUNGLE FIRST EDITION, 5 plates by J. Allen St. John, faint off-setting on title, a few light spots and surface abrasions to endpapers, original cloth, spine ends lightly sunned, spine ends and corner tips slightly rubbed, edges lightly toned, light stain to top edge, dust-jacket, light toning and rubbing, browning from tape repairs at verso, light staining to spine and lower panel, minor loss to upper panel head, only just affecting text, minor nicking and splitting to spine ends and corners, 8vo, Chicago, 1928.

80 Deighton (Len) THE IPCRESS FILE, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR “For Martin Cooper with very good wishes. There are not many copies of this edition!... Oct.24th 2005” on title, light marginal stains to one or two pp., margins slightly toned, edges lightly toned, dust-jacket margins lightly toned, more so at verso, 1962; Horse Under Water, cross-word competition slip loosely inserted, a few minor spots to edges, dust-jacket slightly toned, 1963, FIRST EDITIONS, original boards, spine ends slightly rubbed, dust-jackets; and 2 others by the same, 8vo (4)

£600 - 800

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79 Conrad (Joseph) VICTORY, FIRST EDITION, second issue without comma after “Essex Street” on title, advertisements dated “Autumn 1915”, small bookplate on front pastedown, margins and endpapers slightly toned, light spotting to a few pp. including title, original cloth, spine gilt, spine ends lightly bumped and faded, dust-jacket, nicking and chipping to extremities, affecting text at upper panel, minor loss to text at lower panel head, light toning, 8vo, 1915.

81 Faulkner (William) GO DOWN, MOSES, FIRST EDITION, “Library of James L. Praytor” blindstamp on half-title, original cloth, gilt, spine ends and corner tips fractionally rubbed, faint spotting and toning to edges, dust-jacket, neat repairs to extremities verso, lightly toned, joints slightly rubbed, overall excellent, New York, 1942.

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82 Greene (Graham)STAMBOUL TRAIN, FIRST EDITION, second issue with “Quin Savory”, light spotting, mostly to front and rear, original cloth, light spotting to edges, dust-jacket, light creasing, particularly to upper flap and lower panel, minor nicking to extremities, spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, 1932. ⁂ An exceptionally bright copy.

84 Hemingway (Ernest) FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, FIRST EDITION, publisher’s “A” to copyright p., light toning to endpapers, original cloth, very minor bump to spine head, edges slightly toned, dust-jacket, first issue without photographer credit to lower panel, neat repairs to extremities, particularly to lower panel, a few faint surface-marks, overall a fantastic example, [Hanneman 18a], 8vo, New York, 1940. £800 - 1,200

£1,000 - 1,500 83 Greene (Graham) [WORKS], 22 vol., Collected Edition, FIRST EDITIONS, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR TO MICHAEL HENSHAW IN Brighton Rock (vol.1), original boards, spine ends slightly bumped, dust-jackets, a few price-clipped, spines lightly sunned, spine ends and corner tips lightly rubbed, light surface abrasion on Our Man in Havana spine, 8vo, 1969-82. ⁂ Michael Henshaw, accountant to Greene and many other writers. £1,000 - 1,500

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85 Jarman (Derek) a finger in the fishes mouth, first edition, perfect bound, silver foiled wrappers, pages a little toned, endpapers spotted, creasing and heavy wear to the covers, nicks and short tears Bettiscombe Press, 8vo, 1972. ⁂ Jarman’s extremely scarce first book, an early collection of poetry set against images from his extensive postcard selection.

Most copies of the first edition are said to have been destroyed early on by Jarman himself, with only a few copies being recorded to still exist. £1,000 - 1,500

87 Larkin (Philip) THE NORTH SHIP, FIRST FABER EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR to “Betty [Hornby] & Alf with kindest regards (& long memories!” on front free endpaper, tape stains and toning to endpapers, original boards, spine tips fractionally faded, dust-jacket, toning, particularly to spine and verso, spine ends and corner tips very slightly rubbed, 8vo, 1966. ⁂ The first Faber edition of the poet’s first book, initially published

by The Fortune Press in 1945. All editions are extremely scarce signed or inscribed.

Betty Hornby, domestic help to Larkin’s mother. £1,500 - 2,000

86 Kipling (Rudyard) THE JUNGLE BOOK, the odd spot or surface mark, abrasion to front pastedown and free endpaper, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 2pp. advertisements, foxing, ink ownership inscription to free endpaper, hinges cracked but firm, 1895, FIRST EDITIONS, frontispiece and illustrations by J.L.Kipling and others, shelf lean, original pictorial cloth gilt, spines slightly darkened, bumping to spine ends, light rubbing to spine ends and corners, 8vo. ⁂ A remarkably bright set. £1,500 - 2,000

88 McCarthy (Cormac) BLOOD MERIDIAN, uncorrected proof, minor spots to first few pp., original wrappers, spine slightly faded, faint corner crease and small splash-stain to upper cover, spine ends and corner tips fractionally rubbed, overall an excellent copy, 8vo, 1989. £1,500 - 2,000

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89 McCarthy (Cormac) BLOOD MERIDIAN OR THE EVENING REDNESS IN THE WEST, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, margins lightly toned, original boards, spine ends slightly bumped, edges lightly toned, dust-jacket, very light creasing to head at spine and lower panel, overall excellent, 8vo, 1989. £400 - 600

91 Orwell (George) ANIMAL FARM, FIRST EDITION, very minor nicks to pp.2932 and ink stain in text to p.29, faint spotting and toning to endpapers, original cloth, spine fractionally faded, top edge lightly toned, very minor rubbing to spine ends and corner tips, dust-jacket with blue Searchlight advertisement to verso, spine and margins toned, particularly at lower panel, short nick to lower panel foot, spine ends slightly chipped, still a very good copy, [Fenwick A10a], 8vo, 1945. £2,000 - 3,000

90 Milne (A.A.) WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG, FIRST EDITION, second state with roman numeral on contents pp., illustrations by E.H. Shepard, occasional marginal finger-soiling, endpapers renewed (light spotting), original boards, gilt, recased, slight lean, spine fractionally faded, spine ends and corners slightly rubbed, t.e.g., 8vo, 1924. £600 - 800

92 Orwell (George) NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, FIRST EDITION, foxing to endpapers, original cloth, slight fading to spine, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, red dust-jacket, sunning to spine, spine ends and corners chipped, a few small nicks to head and foot of panels, light soiling to lower panel, light rubbing, 8vo, 1949. £3,000 - 4,000

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94 Orwell (George) NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, Russian text, paper wrappers, staple bound, pages toned, covers lightly soiled, edgewear, 12mo, n.d. ⁂ A VERY UNUSUAL CLANDESTINE EDITION, PROBABLY PRINTED IN ROME DURING THE LATE 1960S OR EARLY 1970S FOR COVERT CIRCULATION IN THE USSR. The book bears a strong physical and textual resemblance to the recorded Rome edition printed by Litostampa Nomentana, but omits both the colophon and the ‘Roma’ designation from the title page, possibly to conceal its place of production. No other copy of this anonymous variant has presently been traced and it may represent a unique surviving example. £800 - 1,200

93 Orwell (George) NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, 4.vol, braille edition, paper wrappers, staining and toning to covers, spine cloth frayed at ends, labels in braille and Roman, Royal National Institute for the Blind, 4to, 1959. ⁂ An unusual and possibly unique edition of 1984 issued by the RNIB to allow access to popular and important titles in braille format. Often, these titles were issued in editions of one and we can find no record of another copy in library holdings or the market. £750 - 1,000

95 Rowling ( J.K.) HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE, FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, with “Joanne Rowling”, no space between “Taylor” and “1997” and full 10 to 1 number line on title verso, “wand” listed twice on p.53, usual light toning to text, small damp-stain to lower corner of first few and final pp., original pictorial wrappers with misprint “Philospher’s” to lower cover, edges lightly toned, minor stain and scuff marks to fore edge, a near-fine copy, [Errington A1(aa)], 8vo, 1997. £6,000 - 8,000

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96 ANNOTATED PLAYSCRIPT OF ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN, BRIAN DAUBNEY’S COPY, c.83pp. laid down into lined notebook (recto only), extensive pencil and ink markings, underlinings, crossings-out and several annotations in Daubney’s hand, original cloth-backed boards, paper label to upper cover, rather worn, together with, Daubney’s Oxford Theatre Group workbook, containing an outline of a deal between the theatre group and Stoppard’s agent, c.50ff., manuscript, original boards, rubbing and staining, together with Daubney’s scrapbook with reviews, including the famous single positive review of the play from Ronald Bryden at Observer, programmes and several photographs loosely inserted, v.s., c.1966 (3) ⁂ An exceptional first-hand record of the earliest production of Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, directed by Brian Daubney (1945–2026) at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1966, before it became one of the defining works of modern British theatre.

The production was an obscure student staging, seen by only a handful of people.

Daubney’s heavily annotated working script captures the text in transition, with some crossed-out passages retained in the first edition and other amendments subsequently incorporated into the published text. Also included is Daubney’s Oxford Theatre Group workbook, filled with notes, technical committee lists, production details and an outline of the group’s negotiations with Stoppard’s agent, as well as his scrapbook of programmes, photographs and contemporary reviews.

Particularly significant is the inclusion of Ronald Bryden’s review in The Observer, famously the only positive review the production received. £3,000 - 4,000

97 Stoppard (Tom) ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD, FIRST EDITION, light toning to endpapers, original boards, dust-jacket, upper flap price-clipped, light toning and dust-soiling to spine and lower panel, one or two light stains and surface marks, spine head slightly bumped, still a very good copy indeed, 8vo, 1967. £1,000 - 1,500

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98 Tolkien (J.R.R.) THE HOBBIT, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, frontispiece, one plate and 8 illustrations, including 7 full-page, map endpapers printed in red & black, all by the author, the odd spot and stain, mostly marginal, particularly to p.61, light vertical crease from approx. p.175-end, cracking to gutter and hinges, overall holding firm, original cloth, spine and margins slightly toned, spine ends and corner tips chipped and rubbed, minor nick to upper board, edges lightly toned, mark in biro at foot, [Hammond A3a], 8vo, 1937. £10,000 - 15,000

99 Woolf (Virginia) ORLANDO: A BIOGRAPHY, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, frontispiece and 7 plates, some edge spotting, light browning to endpapers, original variant salmon-pink cloth, dust-jacket, slight slightly darkened, small hole to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, a few nicks and chips to head and foot with neat paper tape repairs to verso, light surface soiling, [Kirkpatrick A11b; Woolmer 185], 8vo, Hogarth Press, 1928. ⁂ A seemingly unrecorded variant cloth. Kirkpatrick and Woolmer mention brown cloth variants that may have been intended as advance copies. This may have been a trial binding but we have been unable to trace any like examples. £1,000 - 1,500

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100 Hasegawa (Takejiro).- Hearn (Lafcadio, translator.) [JAPANESE FAIRY TALES], 5 vol., comprising: The Boy Who Drew Cats; The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling; Chin Chin Kobakama; The Goblin Spider; The Fountain of Youth, on crepe paper, colour woodblock illustrations, the odd spot, but excellent overall, original pictorial wrappers, original silk ties, housed in original cloth chemise, paper label to upper panel, spine and fore-edge sunned, splitting to joints upper panel verso stained, slight fading to upper and lower panels, 12mo, Tokyo, T.Hasegawa, [c.1925]. ⁂ A handsome set of Japanese Fairy Tales. These were originally issued as standalones within the Japanese Fairy Tales series, but they were then marketed directly by Hasegawa and sold in a blue wrap-around case with a paste on label as a set of 5. £600 - 800

102 Seidmann-Freud (Tom) BUCH DER HASENGESCHICHTEN, 12 full-page hand-coloured illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, margins slightly toned, lightly rubbed, spine ends and corner tips rubbed and chipped, more so at spine foot, slightly toned, a few light spots and stains, oblong 4to, Berlin, 1924 101 Potter (Beatrix) THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER, FIRST EDITION, third printing without date on title, DELUXE ISSUE, colour frontispiece and 26 colour plates, light cracking at gutter and some surface soiling, faint toning to head of some pp., upper hinge cracked, original pink cloth with mounted colour illustration, gilt lettering and decorations, rubbed and bumped with a few marks, [Linder p.423; Quinby 4], 16mo, [1904].

⁂ Tom Seidmann-Freud (1892-1930) was the pseudonym of Martha Gertrud Freud, niece of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.

She was an Art Nouveau painter, children’s book author and illustrator. With her husband, Jakob ‘Yankel’ Seidmann, they founded the Peregrin publishing house which focused on religious issues for Jewish immigrants.

⁂ This edition with the endpaper design introduced in 1904.

Extremely rare. Library Hub and WorldCat list no copies in any UK library.

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103 Shepard (Ernest Howard) “INTO YOUR BUNK WITH YOU”, AN ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION OF LEWIS CARROLL’S ALICE, POSSIBLY FOR AN UNREALISED PUBLICATION, pen and black ink, signed with initials in the lower right corner, pencil under-drawing, inscribed in pencil underneath, 160 x 122 mm (6¼ x 4¾ in), under glass, some ink discolouration to initials and corrections to the lower left corner, original backboard present inscribed “Alice in Wonderland” and with name and address of artist in ink, framed, [n.d., mid-20th century] Provenance: Sale. Sotheby’s, Books & Manuscripts, Medieval to Modern, 13th December, 2022, lot 292; where acquired by the present owner. £1,500 - 2,000 104 Cranach Press.- Maillol (Aristide, illustrator.) THE ECLOGUES OF VERGIL, translated by J. H. Mason, ONE OF 225 COPIES, title designed

by Eric Gill, woodcut illustrations, scattered spotting and some light marginal toning, else rather clean and bright, original red morocco

by W.H. Smith & Son, spine with gilt lettering, spine ends and corners rubbed and bumped, the odd small mark, uncut, large 4to, Weimar, Cranach Press, 1927. £1,000 - 1,500

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105 Symons (Arthur, editor.) THE SAVOY, 3 vol., bound from the original 8 parts, FIRST EDITION, with the Christmas card by Aubrey Beardsley in vol.1, decorative titles, plates and illustrations by Beardsley and others, the odd surface mark, No.2 wrapper with large tear, very occasional light scattered spotting, occasional offsetting, light browning, abrasions to front pastedowns and free endpapers, cracking to gutters, vol.1 upper hinge broken, other hinges starting or cracked, original pictorial wrappers bound in, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spines darkened, spine ends bumped and chipped, covers marked, light rubbing to extremities, 4to, 1896. £600 - 800

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106 Whistler (Rex).- Swift (Jonathan) GULLIVER’S TRAVELS, 2 vol., ONE OF 195 COPIES ON HAND-MADE PAPER FROM AN EDITION LIMITED TO 205, SIGNED BY REX WHISTLER to half-titles, title-vignettes, 12 engraved plates, 5 maps, 4 head- and 4 tail-pieces by Rex Whistler, the 12 plates hand-coloured under the artist’s supervision, light offsetting and a few marks, original half viridian niger with vellum boards, by Wood, spines browned, a few marks or stains, lightly rubbed and bumped, t.e.g., others uncut, [Whistler & Fuller 426], large 4to, Cresset Press, 1930. ⁂ Whistler’s magnum opus of illustration. Apparently inspired by Richard Bentley’s Designs for Six Poems by Mr T.Gray of 1753 he drew the illustrations within elaborate rococo frames, each one different, many reflecting his love of Baroque architecture. He spent months on the detailed pen and ink drawings; according to his brother Laurence he sat up all night drawing one wheatsheaf.

An exceptional association copy, possibly Whistler’s own copy. Incredibly rare, with both half-titles signed by Whistler, one of the signatures additionally enclosed within an elaborate hand-drawn cartouche. £3,000 - 4,000

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107 Bolton (James) FILICES BRITANNICAE; AN HISTORY OF THE BRITISH PROPER FERNS, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, 46 (on 45) hand-coloured plates, with some colour printing errata pasted to vol.1 final f. verso, vol.2 title strengthened at gutter, occasional light toning and scattered spotting, light surface staining and offsetting, non-uniform library cloth, paper label to upper covers, vol.2 spine browned, [ESTC T84358; Henrey 464; Nissen BBI 194], 4to, Leeds [&] Huddersfield, for John Binns, [1785]-90. ⁂ The first British book on ferns; uncommon in complete coloured state. Rare with both parts. £1,500 - 2,000 108 Coffee.- Ellis (John) AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF COFFEE, FIRST EDITION, engraved folding frontispiece by John Miller after Simon Taylor (offset), stain at head to few ff., light scattered spotting and surface staining, disbound (all loose), housed in modern green cloth drop-back box, edges uncut, [Henrey 682; Nissen BBI 1584; ESTC T36289], 4to, for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1774. ⁂ John Ellis (c.1710-76), worked for many years as a trading agent in the West Indies, during which period he acquired a detailed of knowledge of numerous American plants. £750 - 1,000 109 Drury (Dru) ILLUSTRATIONS OF NATURAL HISTORY... OF EXOTIC INSECTS, 3 vol., text in English and French printed in double column, engraved plate and 148 hand-coloured plates (only of 150, lacking vol.1 plate 18 and vol.2 plate 44), vol.1 plate 11 bound upside down, portion of loss at foot of vol.2 Bb2 affecting text in final 4 lines, few text ff. with tear into text, some repaired, a few plates with short tears, vol.2 plate 32 with tear into image, 2 or 3 plates with repairs to images, near contemporary half calf, rebacked, paper labels to upper covers, corners repairs, rubbed, [ESTC T144818; Hagen 185.1; Nissen ZBI 1160], 4to, for the Author, 1770-82 § Pennant (Thomas) Arctic Zoology, 3 vol., including supplement, 21 engraved plates only (of 23), and 2 folding maps, both linen-backed, light browning and offsetting, later half cloth, spines browned, spine ends chipped, vol.1 backstrip detached from upper joint, splitting to joints, light rubbing, [ESTC T114528 & T114529], by Henry Hughs, 1784-87, FIRST EDITIONS, light staining and foxing, 4to (6) £750 - 1,000 48

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110 Fungi.- Sowerby (James) COLOURED FIGURES OF ENGLISH FUNGI OF MUSHROOMS, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, with supplement, 438 engraved plates only (of 440), all hand-coloured or some printed in colour and finished by hand, small library stamps to titles and plates, occasional foxing and off-setting, scattered ff. more heavily so, paper repairs at title gutter for vol. 2-3, modern green half morocco, spines with red morocco labels and lightly sunned, [Nissen BBI 1874], small folio, 17971803[-15]. ⁂ One of the finest illustrated books on mushrooms. This copy includes the rare supplement which was never completed and does not require a title. £600 - 800

111 Lettsom (John Coakley) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE TEA-TREE, WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE MEDICAL QUALITIES OF TEA, AND EFFECTS OF TEADRINKING, FIRST EDITION, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece (detached), foxing and marginal browning, disbound, preserved in library cloth drop-back box, 4to, Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1772. ⁂ Rare first edition, published in the same year as the 8vo Dublin edition. £400 - 600

112 Low (David) THE BREEDS OF THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS, 2 vol., 55 hand-coloured lithographed plates only (of 56, lacking 1 horse plate), occasional light water-staining to vol.2, occasional light surface soiling and marginal browning, contemporary half cloth, paper label to upper cover, spines browned, minor rubbing to extremities, g.e., [Nissen ZBI 2564; Tooley 307], folio, 1842. £800 - 1,200

113 Repton (Humphry) OBSERVATIONS ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING, second edition, stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait by W.Holl after S.Shelley, 24 plates and maps only (of 27), of which 10 hand-coloured aquatints (only of 11, 1 folding linen-backed, 3 with overlays only of 9) and 14 plain (1 double-page, 2 with overlays only of 3), and 9 aquatint illustrations in text only (of 11, none with overlays), wood-engraved illustrations and diagrams, small ink library stamps, scattered staining (inc. to a couple of plates), else general browning, dust- and finger-soiling, modern cloth, [Millard British 65; cf.Abbey Scenery 390, Berlin Kat 3431 & Tooley p.209, first edition of 1803], 4to, T.Bensley for J.Taylor, 1805. ⁂ This important work contains much information from the author’s Red Books (many now lost) and an evaluation of the work of Capability Brown, in addition to Repton’s defence against the attacks of proponents of the picturesque, Richard Payne Knight and Uvedale Price. £600 - 800

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114 Birds.- Gould (John) COLLECTION OF 90 LOOSE PLATES FROM ‘THE BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN...’ AND ‘THE BIRDS OF EUROPE...’, lithographs with fine hand-colouring, some heightened with gum arabic, many with accompanying text leaves, each sheet approx. 550 x 380 mm (21¾ x 15 in), some marginal nicks and tears, binding pin-holes, occasional minor toning and surface dirt, unframed, [circa 1830s-1870s] (90) “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

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115 -. Gould (John) COLLECTION OF SIXTEEN PLATES FROM ‘THE BIRDS OF ASIA..’

AND ‘A MONOGRAPH OF THE TROCHILIDAE, OR FAMILY OF HUMMING-BIRDS...’, lithographs with hand-colouring, each sheet approx. 560 x 380 mm (22 x 15 in), some light toning and minor surface dirt, occasional minor spotting, handling creases, marginal nicks and tears, unframed, presented loose within original boards for ‘Part V’ with publisher’s printed upper cover, [circa 1850-1887]; together with 17 other birds prints by Gould and Edouard Travies, including some parakeets, loose in empty green morocco boards, gilt, spine lettered ‘Monograph of the Trochilida/ J. Gould/ vol. V’, folio, 19th century (31) £500 - 700 116 Botany.- [Castiglioni (Luigi)] STORIA DELLE PIANTE FORASTIERE LE PIU IMPORTANTI NELL’USO MEDICO, OD ECONOMICO COLLE LORO FIGURE IN RAME INCISE DA BENEDETTO BORDIGA, 4 vol., FIRST EDITION, 95 engraved plates by Benedetto and Gaudenzio Bordiga only (of 96, lacking plate 44 vol. 2), vol. 3 with a few plates loose, vol. 4 p.35 with small loss to upper corner (not affecting text), scattered spotting or light foxing, some surface soiling, contemporary calf-backed boards, small loss to vol. 2 spine head, rubbed and chipped, 4to, Milan, Giuseppe Marelli, 1791-4. ⁂ Luigi Castiglioni (1757–1832) was an Italian naturalist, historian and economist whose Enlightenment interests extended to botany and its practical applications. Of particular importance to the history of medicine, botany and food, this work reflects the contemporary interest in the medicinal, culinary and economic potential of plants. £1,500 - 2,000

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117 -. Pallas (Peter Simon) FLORA ROSSICA, 2 vol., vol. 1 additional engraved hand-coloured title with vignette, 101 engraved plates with hand-colouring, lacking vol. 1 preface, a few plates in vol. 1 trimmed close at margins, touching the odd plate number, occasional small marginal nicks to vol. 2, light marginal toning and the odd spot, else plates very clean, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked preserving old spines, spine labels refreshed, rubbed and chipped, folio, St Petersburg, Imperial Press, 1784-88. ⁂ A landmark botanical work documenting the native flora of the Russian Empire and its vast territories, Flora Rossica was one of the most important early systematic surveys of Russian plant life.

Its plates are based on original drawings by Karl Friedrich Knappe, a German artist to the Russian court, whose original botanical drawings survive in the collections of the New York Public Library. £6,000 - 8,000 118 Garden design.- Louis Le Rouge (George) [JARDINS ANGLO-CHINOIS OU DÉTAIL DES NOUVEAUX JARDINS À LA MODE], 12 parts only, nos. 1-4, and 6-13 (of [?]17), only, including 294 numbered plates, showing gardens, garden plans, garden temples, fountains, follies etc., and associated houses, some folding, occasional minor damp-stains, rough edges, marginal nicks, each volume presented in contemporary bluecoloured paper wrappers, spines damaged with loss, rubbed and scuffed, some covers worn, oblong folio, [circa 1775-1788] ⁂ Collection of plates in presented in their original cahiers, or parts, illustrating the 18th-century European fashion for naturalistic English landscape gardens mixed with Chinese architectural elements. £3,000 - 5,000

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119 Horses.- Eisenberg (Baron d')DESCRIPTION DU MANEGE MODERNE DANS SA PERFECTION, FIRST EDITION, engraved additional title and 59 plates by Picart after Eisenberg, list of subscribers, occasional light browning but a very good copy generally, light vertical crease to title and a few early leaves, bookplate of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell to front pastedown, 19th century half morocco with Sitrling-Maxwell monogramme in blind to upper cover, extremities rubbed, title and author in blind to lower edge, [Cohen-De Ricci 345], oblong folio, n.p., 1727. ⁂ A clean copy of this description of horsemanship by King George II’s stablemaster. £1,500 - 2,000

120 -. Ridinger (Johann Elias) VORSTELLUNG UND BESCHREIBUNG DERER SCHUL [- ANMERKUNGEN VON DEM CAROUSEL], 2 works in 1 vol. (as usual), FIRST EDITIONS, text in French and German, engraved title, 62 engraved plates numbered 1-46 and 1-15, with the unnumbered plan of a joust, some occasional light spotting (mostly marginal), but a very crisp, clean copy generally, 19th century boards, some wear to extremities, rubbed, [Nissen ZBI 3415], 4to, Augsburg, J. E. Ridinger, 1760-61. ⁂ An unusually clean example including the supplement with the rare jousting plate. Ridinger was the official painter for several great German nobles who relished hunting. He was rightly celebrated for his skill in depicting horses in motion. £1,500 - 2,000

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SCIENCE The Property of The Leeds Library All of the books have library stamps and markings, most are in library bindings.

121 Douglas (James) A DISSERTATION ON THE ANTIQUITY OF THE EARTH, FIRST EDITION, tinted aquatint printer’s device to title, 8 tinted aquatint plates, aquatint vignette, errata and advertisement ff., occasional surface soils, very faint water-staining at foot, light scattered foxing, heaviest to first and last few ff., later half cloth, rebacked and recornered, a little rubbed, [ESTC T12254], 4to, at the Logographic Press, 1785. £400 - 600

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122 Electricity.- Franklin (Benjamin) EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON ELECTRICITY, fourth edition, 6 engraved plates only (of 7, lacking plate 5), of which 2 folding, several ff. and few plates silked or with silk repairs, occasional light spotting, light surface staining, a few ink annotations, modern half maroon morocco, edges uncut, housed in slip-case (light rubbing), [ESTC T101040; Roscoe, A170 (1)], 4to, for David Henry, 1769. £2,000 - 3,000

123 Mineralogy.- Pryce (William) MINERALOGIA CORNUBIENSIS; A TREATISE ON MINERALS, MINES, AND MINING, FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait frontispiece (few short tears) and 7 plates of which 3 folding and linenbacked, lightly offset, 2 folding letterpress tables (a little browned), list of subscribers, old repair to title and frontispiece, final f. tipped in with tear at head, occasional light surface staining, scattered foxing, modern half calf, black morocco label to spine, [ESTC T123497; Duveen p.488; Wellcome IV 445], folio, for the Author, 1778. £500 - 700

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125 [Cadogan (William)] AN ESSAY UPON NURSING, AND THE MANAGEMENT OF CHILDREN, FIRST EDITION, lacking final blank leaf, top and bottom margin of C4 repaired, minor foxing, modern padded leather, 8vo, Printed for J. Roberts, 1748. ⁂ Rare first edition of a notable work which was much reprinted. £400 - 600

124 Archimedes OPERA, 4 parts in 1, FIRST EDITION, edited by Isaac Barrow, 57 folding engraved plates, lacking leaf with glossary of mathematical symbols “Brevitatis Gratis” (as often), some foxing and browning, bookplate of David DiLaura Bibliotheca Opticoria, contemporary calf, edges worn, repaired, [Wing A3621], 4to, William Godbid, 1675-74. ⁂ Comprises four works. 1. Archimedis Opera 2. Apollonii Conica 3. Theodosii Sphærica. 4. Lectiones opticae & geometricae. The first three have separate dated title pages, pagination, and register. ‘Lectiones opticae & geometricae’ comprises two works ‘Lectiones XVIII’ and ‘Lectiones geometricae’ each with separate pagination and register. £1,000 - 1,500

126 Compendium of technology.- Schott (Gaspar) THECHNICA CURIOSA, 2 parts in 1, FIRST EDITION, additional engraved title, half-title, title in red and black with engraved portrait of the dedicatee on verso, full-page engraved coat-of-arms and 60 engraved plates, many folding, repaired worming to upper corner of first dozen leaves with occasional loss of text or engraving, some gatherings heavily foxed as usual, contemporary calf, spine gilt, joints and edges worn, spine cracked, rubbed, new endpapers, [DiLaura, Bibliotheca Opticoria 132; Baillie, Clocks and Watches, 1664; Norman catalogue 1911], 4to, Nuremburg, Jobus Hertz, 1664. ⁂ Includes Guericke and Boyle’s work on air pumps, mirrored optical instruments and Balthasar Conrad’s developments of the manufacture of spherical lenses, a full survey of diving apparatus, a large section on clocks and clockwork, and a plethora of other scientific instruments, mechanical technology and physical curiosities. £1,000 - 1,500

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127 Darwin (Charles) and Alfred Russell Wallace. THREE PAPERS ON THE TENDENCY OF SPECIES TO FORM VARIETIES; AND ON THE PERPETUATION OF VARIETIES AND SPECIES BY NATURAL MEANS OF SELECTION, in The Zoologist, vol.16, pp.6293-6308, occasional foxing, mostly at beginning and end of vol., some ink stamps (including one on p.6305), near contemporary green half morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt, 8vo, 1858. ⁂ Second appearance in print of the papers in which Darwin and Wallace jointly presented their theories of evolution by natural selection, at which they had arrived independently. These papers appeared earlier that year in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society.

Provenance: Royal Society of New South Wales (ink stamps and gilt monogram on spine). £1,500 - 2,000 128 Darwin (Charles) ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION, [second edition, second issue] fifth thousand, half-title, folding plate, 32pp. advertsiements at end dated January 1860, minor spotting, minor stain to upper margin of some ff., fore-edge of several leaves in middle dented with subsequent slight crease and small tear, original cloth, recased, covers mottled, [Freeman p.85, binding variant b], 8vo, 1860. £750 - 1,000

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129 Darwin (Charles) ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION, Fifth Edition, with Additions and Corrections, (Tenth Thousand), INK PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION “FROM THE AUTHOR” IN THE AUTHOR’S HAND laid down to half-title, folding plate, without advertisements (as often), the odd pencil or ink annotation to front endpaper and half-title, scattered spotting and light cracking at hinges, original cloth by Edmonds & Remnants (book binder’s ticket to rear pastedown), spine darkened, rubbed and bumped with a few nicks to spine ends, 8vo, John Murray, 1869. £6,000 - 8,000 128

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131 La Chambre (Marin Cureau de) LA LUMIERE, FIRST EDITION, additional engraved title, full-page engraved dedication to Cardinal Mazarin, 2 large engraved illustrations and several smaller woodcuts, woodcut decorations, some marginal worming and light waterstaining, contemporary calf, spine gilt, upper cover with several scores, a little rubbed, [DiLaura, Bibliotheca Opticoria, 107], 4to, Paris, P. Rocolet, 1657. ⁂ La Chambre (1594-1669) was counsellor and physician to Louis XIV of France, a member of the Academie Francaise, and one of the founders of the Academie des Sciences. He was a close associate of Cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin, and the author of many books on physics and medicine. £600 - 800

130 Metallurgy.- Barba (Alvaro Alonso) THE ART OF METALS, IN WHICH IS DECLARED THE MANNER OF THEIR GENERATION, AND THE CONCOMITANTS OF THEM, 2 parts in 1 vol., one engraved plate (laid down), contemporary calf, expertly rebacked retaining original backstrip, expert repairs to corners, [ESTC R17204; Wing B678], 8vo, for S. Mearne, 1674. ⁂ Scarce. The Earl of Sandwich’s translation of the first book on metallurgy in the Americas. “The first significant treatise on metals to be written in Spanish, and the only seventeenth-century work on its subject that was largely original” - Norman. £1,000 - 1,500

OPTICS

132 Pecham (John) PERSPECTIVA TRIBUS LIBRIS SUCCINCTIS DENUO CORRECTA, woodcut device on title, woodcut initials and headpieces, numerous diagrams, text largely printed in italics, without final blank leaf but several other blank leaves bound in at end, later English speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco label, 4to (221 x 152mm.), Paris, Apud Aegidium Gourbinum, 1556. ⁂ Pecham’s textbook of optics, the principal work on the subject from when it was written in 1279 until the end of the 16th century, is here edited with a commentary by Pascal Duhamel, who added new figures for the text. Duhamel,who was mathematician to the French king, used Georg Hartmann’s edition of 1524 which became the standard.

Provenance: W. Patten (signature dated 1557 in upper corner of title), possibly William Patten (d.1598), author and governent official; Turner Collection at Keele University (bookplate); David DiLaura with his Bibliotheca Opticoria bookplate.

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133 Pecham (John) PERSPECTIVAE COMMUNIS LIBRI TRES, oval woodcut device on title, woodcut initial, headpiece and numerous diagrams, contemporary limp vellum, edges and spine repaired, central patch on lower cover repaired, [DiLaura, Bibliotheca Opticoria 35], 4to (188 x 133mm.), Cologne, Apud Haeredes Arnoldi Birkmanni, 1580. ⁂ The second edition edited by Pascal Duhamel (see previous lot).

This copy with ink inscription “Ex lib. Borelli” on title, i.e. Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608-79), Italian physiologist, physicist, and mathematician, often described as the father of biomechanics. £1,000 - 1,500

134 Porta (Giambattista della) DE REFRACTIONE OPTICES PARTE. LIBRI NOVEM, FIRST EDITION, woodcut device on title, woodcut headpieces, initials and diagrams, with the inserted dedication leaf and conjugate blank, several small holes in blank areas of title, small hole in 10 leaves with loss of a few letters in 3 leaves, some foxing and browning, two early signatures on title deleted, later vellum-backed boards, spine lettered in manuscript, a little rubbed, [Adams P1929; DiLaura, Bibliotheca Opticoria, 45; Osler 3720], 4to (200 x 137mm.), Naples, Apud Jo. Jacobum Carlinum, & Antonium Pacem, 1593. ⁂ Porta (1535-1615) “did not invent the camera obscura, but he is the first to report adding a concave lens to the aperture. He also juxtaposed concave and convex lenses and reports various experiments with them...His comparison of the lens in the camera obscura to the pupil in the human eye did provide an easily understandable demonstration that the source of visual images lay outside the eye as well as outside the darkened room.”

The leaf of dedication to Octavio Pisani, inserted between the title and A2, is not found in all copies.

Provenance: David L. DiLaura with his Bibliotheca Opticoria bookplate; R.S. Creed (ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper). £1,000 - 1,500

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AMERICAS

135 Africa.- Ethiopia.- Ludolphus (Job) A NEW HISTORY OF ETHIOPIA BEING A FULL AND ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF THE KINGDOM OF ABESSINIA, SECOND ENGLISH EDITION, engraved folding map, Ethiopic Alphabet, and 8 plates, of which 7 double-page, double-page genealogy (split in two), occasional repairs to margins and plate versos, occasional light surface staining, some scattered foxing, upper hinge cracked at ‘To Courteous Reader’ with title tipped onto endpaper, library cloth, chipping to backstrip, joints split, a little stained and rubbed, [ESTC R483559; Wing L3469], folio, for Samuel Smith, 1684. ⁂ In some copies the map was replaced with the Ethiopic Alphabet. Copies containing both, such as this, are relatively scarce. £400 - 600

137 North America.- Burnaby (Rev. Andrew) TRAVELS THROUGH THE MIDDLE SETTLEMENTS IN NORTH AMERICA, FIRST EDITION, with final errata f., tear to title, occasional marginal repairs, some light spotting and staining, a few ink markings, later half cloth, spine browned, joints split, backstrip nearly detached, light rubbing to extremities, [ESTC T51606; Goldsmiths’, 11283; Sabin, 9359 (erroneously calling for maps)], 4to, for T.Payne, 1775. ⁂ A first edition of Burnaby’s celebrated travelogue, observing of the colonies in the years prior to the American Revolution. £600 - 800

136 -. Slavery.- Matthews (John) A VOYAGE TO THE RIVER SIERRA-LEONE...ON THE SUBJECT OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE, FIRST EDITION, folding engraved map and view (both laid down), title silked and laid down, a few other leaves with repairs, marginal soiling throughout, library half morocco, 8vo, Printed for B. White and Son, 1788. £400 - 600 138

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138 Voyages.- Chappe d’Auteroche (Jean, Abbé) A VOYAGE TO CALIFORNIA, TO OBSERVE THE TRANSIT OF VENUS, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, engraved folding plan (short tear at foldline, slightly into image), lacking half-title, final f. detached, occasional spotting, staining, contemporary half roan, covers detached, a bit worn, edges uncut, housed in modern cloth drop-back box, [ESTC T67626; Sabin 12004], 8vo, for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1778. £500 - 700 139 South America.- Ulloa (Antonio de) NOTICIAS AMERICANAS: ENTRETENIMIENTOS PHISICOS-HISTORICOS, FIRST EDITION, with errata f., occasional light surface soiling, some light scattered foxing, contemporary mottled calf, spine browned with later red morocco label to spine, spine ends chipped, a little rubbed, corners worn, [Sabin 97687], 8vo, Madrid, en la Imprenta de Don Francisco Manuel de Mena, 1772. ⁂ First edition of this work on the early history of Peru and Ecuador. £400 - 600 140 America.- Zoology.- Richardson (John) FAUNA BOREALI-AMERICANA; OR THE ZOOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN PARTS OF BRITISH AMERICA, 4 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles to vol. 1-2, 110 etched, engraved and lithograph plates, 18 of which hand-coloured (fish and insects), small library stamps to plates, errata slip vol. 2 and f. vol. 4, occasional light browning and spotting, light offsetting, modern red half morocco, spines gilt with double labels, [Anker 493; Nissen, IVB 773 and ZBI 3385; Sabin 71026; Wood p.536], 4to, Norwich, Josiah Fletcher, 1829-37. ⁂ IMPORTANT WORK ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FUR-TRADING REGIONS. Richardson took part in Sir John Franklin’s two successful overland expeditions. £4,000 - 6,000

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142 Canada.- Burgoyne (John) A STATE OF THE EXPEDITION FROM CANADA, FIRST EDITION, 6 engraved folding maps, all linen-backed, 2 with moving parts, 5 with touches of hand-colouring, advertisement f. at end, lacking title, occasional repairs, light spotting and staining, a few ink marginalia, library half cloth, head of spine chipped with loss, joints split, some rubbing, [Adams 80-12a; ESTC T117437; Sabin 9255], 4to, [for J. Almon], 1780.

141 Australia.- Collins (Lt.-Col. David) AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY IN NEW SOUTH WALES, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, 27 engraved plates and maps, of which 1 folding and linen-backed and 3 hand-coloured (trimmed, touching a few images), and 7 vignettes of which 2 handcoloured, without vol.1 half-title, occasional repairs, tears, or small portions of loss to corners, light staining, 1 or 2 ink markings, later half cloth, library label to upper covers, ?rebacked and recornered, spines a little browned, [ESTC T145091; Ferguson 263 & 350; Hill 335], 4to, by A. Strahan for T.Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798-1802.

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⁂ FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE COLONY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, AND THE LAST OF THE FIRST FLEET JOURNALS TO BE PUBLISHED. RARE TO BE FOUND IN ITS COMPLETE 2-VOLUME FORM. The second volume’s includes the voyage of Flinders and Bass, in which Bass Strait for discovered. The volumes importance comes not just from its detail, but also from its publication of voyages and expeditions that were based on the journals of the participants. £1,000 - 1,500 ____________________________________

143 China.- Staunton (Sir George Thomas) TA TSING LEU LEE; BEING THE FUNDAMENTAL LAWS AND A SELECTION FROM THE SUPPLEMENTARY STATUTES, OF THE PENAL CODE OF CHINA, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, engraved facsimile title of 1805 Chinese edition of Qing code (offset to title), with errata at end but without advertisement leaf, large crease to title, very occasional light surface staining or spotting, later cloth, red morocco label to spine, head of lower joint starting, a little marked, [Cordier BS 546-7; Lowendahl 748; Lust 715; Morrison I p.697], 4to, 1810. ⁂ The first translation of the Chinese penal code which was rapidly translated into French and Italian. George Thomas Staunton (1781-1859) accompanied his father, George Leonard Staunton, secretary to Lord Macartney, on the first British embassy to China in 1792 as a page to the ambassador. Having been taught Chinese by two native missionaries he went on to serve with the East India Company at Canton, where he was the first English official who could speak Chinese, and found relief from his irksome responsibilities by working on translations from the Chinese, including the Chinese penal code offered here. On his return to England in 1817 he entered politics and continued his scholarly researches and writing on China. He was a founder of the Royal Asiatic Society, to which he presented his extensive collection of Chinese books. £1,000 - 1,500

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144 Greece.- Stuart (James) and Nicholas Revett. THE ANTIQUITIES OF ATHENS, 5 vol., 371 engraved plates and maps, of which 1 with handcolouring, engraved title vignettes, some folding or double-paged, without 2 engraved portraits called for in vol.5, a few repairs, occasional light offsetting and browning, some foxing and light staining, modern half red morocco, edges uncut, [Blackmer 1617; Fowler 340], folio, 1762-1830. ⁂ THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE AND ACCURATE SURVEY OF THE CLASSICAL RUINS IN ATHENS, considered a source book for the later Greek revival in England.

Stuart and Revett travelled to Greece in 1750 to make the drawings which would eventually become this work, published over the course of nearly 70 years, which saw the deaths of many of its authors, artists, and editors. In vol. 3, plates XXI-XXIV are engraved by William Blake, after William Pars. The work’s arduous publication history saw some sheets reprinted, presumably to coincide with the publication of later volumes, which is true of this set. “Copies of vol. 1 are known printed on paper watermarked 1808. This is a pagefor-page reprint, but there are some differences in initial letters and capitals” (Blackmer). £6,000 - 8,000

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146 146 India.- Beatson (Lt.-Col. Alexander) A VIEW OF THE ORIGIN AND CONDUCT OF THE WAR WITH TIPPOO SULTAUN;... THE SIEGE OF SERINGAPATAM, FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait frontispiece and folding plate, 3 folding engraved battle-plans and folding hand-coloured engraved map, all linen-backed, 2 folding tables, soiling to title, occasional repairs, light staining, later cloth, spine browned, spine ends chipped with loss, joints split, a little stained, a little rubbed, [ESTC T128718], 4to, 1800. £500 - 700

145 -. Wheler (George) A JOURNEY INTO GREECE, FIRST EDITION, folding engraved map (linen-backed) and 5 plates (one divided into 3 smaller inserts), numerous engraved illustrations, occasional repairs, light staining, foxing, later half morocco, rebacked preserving original backstrip, shelf mark label to spine, rubbing, [Atabey 1328; Blackmer 1786; ESTC R9388; Wing W1607], folio, for William Cademan, Robert Kettlewell, and Awnsham Churchill, 1682. £500 - 700

147 -. Buchanan (Francis) A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH THE COUNTRIES OF MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece to vol.1, folding map (linen-backed), 38 engraved plates, of which 1 hand-coloured, 5 folding tables (with large tears into tables), half-title in vol. 1 only (as issued), a few ff. lightly foxed, occasional tears, sometimes into text, light staining or soiling, hinges repaired, library half cloth, spines browned and with paper labels to foot, joints splitting, rubbing, 4to, 1807. £500 - 700

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148 Italy.- Rome.- Piranesi (Giovanni Battista) LE ANTICHITA ROMANE, 4 vol., FIRST EDITION, 219 etched plates, including portrait of Piranesi by Polanzani, and pictorial titles, and 2 indexes, most folding or double-page, vol.1 double-page frontispiece in second state with the dedication to Lord Charlemont replaced with Urbis Aeternae Vestigia.., letterpress title to vol.1, some light staining, light foxing, paper label pasted to vol.1, 2 and 3 front pastedown noting the volume’s cleaning and restoration to binding by NADFAS volunteers and Formbys Ltd., respectively, dated 2013, photo pasted to vol.1 and 2 rear pastedowns, later half calf, rebacked and recorned, some wear to extremities, [Focillon 144-395; WiltonEly 279-528], folio, Rome, Bouchard and Gravier, 1756. ⁂ EARLY EDITION OF PIRANESI’S MONUMENTAL LANDMARK SURVEY OF THE REMAINS OF THE ETERNAL CITY. Eight years in the making, the four volume magnum opus illustrates Piranesi’s interest in recording not only ‘the vanishing past for scholars, but [his desire] to present antiquity as a fund of experimental ideas for the inspiration of the present.’ [John Wilton-Ely, Piranesi, exh. cat., 1978, p.47].

The magnificent work depicts archeaological monuments and sites, reconstructions of engineering triumphs, ancient bridges, baths, and other structures, and in doing so confirms Piranesi as ‘the foremost artistic proponent of Roman architecture’ (Robison. Piranesi, 1986, p.11). £10,000 - 15,000

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LEVANT

150 Hasselquist (Frederik) VOYAGES AND TRAVELS IN THE LEVANT, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, folding engraved map, lacking half-title, soiling and foxing, signature T confusing but complete, library cloth, [Atabey 564 “An important work”; Blackmer 792 for first edition in French], 8vo, Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1766. ⁂ “Hasselquist, a student of Linnaeus, was the first to undertake a systematic study of the natural history of the Holy Land.” (Atabey) £200 - 300

149 Japan.- Botany.- Siebold (P.F. von) J.G. Zuccarini and F.A.W. Miquel. FLORA JAPONICA, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, half title, additional pictorial lithographed title (dated 1826) and dedication, 151 lithographed plates, hand-coloured, discreet ink library stamp to titles only, c.100 blank ff. bound-in at rear of vol. 2, scattered light browning, foxing and spotting, contemporary dark green half morocco, spines gilt with double labels, rebacked but retaining original back-strip, rubbed in places, [Nissen BBi 1842], folio, Leiden, for the author, 1835-70 ⁂ FIRST EDITION of this important work, the second flora of Japan preceded only by Carl Peter Thunberg’s 1784 Flora Japonica.

Siebold was a German physician, natural scientist and orientalist in the Dutch East India Company whose wide-ranging studies during his years in Japan are credited as adding enormously to European knowledge of the country. Published between 1835-70 in 30 parts total, the final 5 parts by Miquel, Director of the Rijksherbarium in Leiden, focus on dendrology. Both the lithographed title and dedication (not present in all copies) bear an imprtint “Nippon”, indicating that these were printed in Japan. £6,000 - 8,000

151 Pococke (Richard) A DESCRIPTION OF THE EAST, AND SOME OTHER COUNTRIES, 2 parts only (of 3) in 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, lacking vol.2 part 1, 141 engraved plates only, 2 titles with engraved vignettes, engraved dedication to the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery in vol.1, vol.1 plate 33 not issued, vol.1 plate 43 misbound at p.106 upside-down, a few plates trimmed at platemark, some folding, a few linen-backed, some repairs, a few ink corrections, light damp-staining to the start of part 2 at gutter, occasional light staining or surface soiling, some light browning, light foxing, later cloth, covers a little marked, light rubbing to extremities, [Atabey 965; Blackemer 1323], for the Author,

by W.Bowyer, 1743-45 § Perry (Charles) A View of the Levant, 33 engraved plates and maps on 20 sheets, a few folding, occasional repairs, light soiling, foxing, contemporary calf, covers detached, worn, foxing, for T.Woodward et al., 1743 § Chandler (Richard) Travels in Greece, 6 engraved maps and plans only (of 7), of which 1 folding with repairs to versos, very occasional scattered spotting, light staining and marginal browning, later half cloth, browning to spine, spine ends chipped, joints split, a little rubbed, [ESTC T63359], Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1776; and 5 others, Levant, v.s., (9) £800 - 1,200

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152 Russell (Alexander) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF ALEPPO, 2 vol., second, revised and enlarged edition, folding engraved frontispiece and 19 engraved plates (of which 5 folding), those folding laid-down to linen backing, errata ff., scattered browning, foxing and soiling (heaviest to folding plates), one or two small marginal defects, modern half cloth, [Blackmer 1458; Nissen BBI 3534], for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1794; The Natural History of Aleppo, FIRST EDITION, 14 engraved plates only (of 17), some botanical by G.D.Ehret, occasional spots or stains, some light browning, later half cloth, toned and worn, for A. Millar, 1856 [but 1756], both works with small ink library stamps to title and labels to pastedowns, 4to (3) ⁂ Russell was physician to the English factory in Aleppo; he learned to speak Arabic fluently, gaining influence with the Pasha and natives. Blackmer quotes Pinkerton’s Travels, in describing Russell’s work as ‘one of the most complete pictures of Eastern manners extant’. The second edition was revised by his brother Patrick and contains additional plates to those in the first edition of 1756. £600 - 800

153 Sandys (George) SANDYS TRAVAILES: CONTAINING A HISTORY OF THE ORIGINAL AND PRESENT STATE OF THE TURKISH EMPIRE, sixth edition, engraved additional pictorial title of the fifth edition (as issued), folding map and folding view, numerous engraved illustrations, initials and head-pieces, additional title laid down, paper flaw to final f., light foxing, modern half calf, very light sunning to spine, [ESTC R1082; Wing S678], small folio, by R. and W.Leybourn, 1658. £500 - 700 ____________________________________

154 Middle East.- Niebuhr (Carsten) DESCRIPTION DE L’ARABIE, 2 vol., 25 engraved plates, some folding, (a few trimmed, slightly affecting 1 or 2 plate numbers or captions), folding table, half-titles, privilege leaf at end, occasional repairs including silked repairs to a few plate versos, very occasional light surface staining or foxing, modern half morocco, [cf.Atabey 873], 4to, Paris, chez Brunet, 1779. £400 - 600

155 Polar.- Weddell (James) A VOYAGE TOWARDS THE SOUTH POLE, FIRST EDITION, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, 8 engraved maps, most folding, 6 aquatint plates, some folding, folding maps and plates linen-backed, tipped-in errata slip, 1 map the burn holes with portions of loss, some staining, a few ink corrections, modern half red morocco, black morocco label to spines, [Abbey, Travel 609; Hill p.322; Sabin 102431], 8vo, 1825. ⁂ Weddell’s expedition ‘visited and described the Cape Verde Islands, South Orkney Islands, South Shetland Islands, and South Georgia Islands, wintered in the Falkland Islands, and described Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, and Montevideo. During their southward sailing, they reached the lowest latitude as yet then recorded. This area explored now bears the name Weddell Sea’ (Hill). £400 - 600

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156 Russia.- Plescheef (Sergey) SURVEY OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE, third edition, folding engraved map and plate, both linen-backed, soiling and marginal staining, library cloth, 8vo, Printed for J. Debrett, 1792. ⁂ One of the first and most important early surveys of the Russian empire. £300 - 400

SOUTH EAST ASIA

157 Rennell (James) MEMOIR OF A MAP OF HINDOOSTAN; OR THE MOGUL EMPIRE, FIRST EDITION, three folding engraved maps (1 loose) and an engraved plate, faint browning and occasional spotting, modern half cloth, by M. Brown for the Author, 1788 § Hodges (William) Travels in India, FIRST EDITION, large folding engraved map and 14 plates, browning and spotting with scattered damp- and other stains, tape and paper repairs to margins, scattered closed tears and fraying to edges, repairs to hinges, later half cloth, upper joint head torn, for the author, 1793 § Percival (Robert) An Account of the Island of Ceylon, FIRST EDITION, 4 folding engraved maps and plans, a few tears or paper repairs at folds and edges, some toning, spotting, dust- and finger-soiling, repairs to hinges, later half cloth, upper joint torn, spine toned, by and for C. and R Baldwin, 1803; and 2 others similar, 4to & 8vo (5) £400 - 600

158 Thailand.- La Loubère (Simon de) A NEW HISTORICAL RELATION OF THE KINGDOM OF SIAM, 2 vol. in 1, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 2 engraved maps and 8 engraved plates only (of 9), vol.1 title in red and black, light foxing, surface staining, and offsetting, ink ownership to title and p.3, the odd ink marginalia elsewhere, later half calf, rebacked, preserving original backtrip, minor rubbing to extremities, [ESTC R5525; Wing L201], folio, by F.L., 1693. ⁂ La Loubère’s important account of his voyage to Siam (now Thailand), notable for its publication of the ‘Siamese method’ of constructing magic squares, and for one of the earliest accounts of a parachute. £500 - 700

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159 Marsden (William) THE HISTORY OF SUMATRA, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE GOVERNMENT, LAWS, CUSTOMS, AND MANNERS OF THE NATIVE INHABITANTS..., FIRST EDITION, folding engraved map, engraved plate of alphabets, a few short tears and splits to map, some light spotting and staining, later half morocco, rebacked, wear to extremities, [ESTC T93180], 4to, for the Author, 1783.

161 Sri Lanka.- Cordiner (Rev. James) A DESCRIPTION OF CEYLON, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, 25 engraved plates and maps, mostly tinted aquatints of which 2 folding and linen-backed, a few repairs, some staining and spotting, offsetting, 1 or 2 ink corrections, hinges cracked, later half cloth spines browned, joints split with vol. 1 backstrip working loose, extremities a little rubbed, [Abbey Travel 409], 4to, 1807. £400 - 600 ____________________________________

⁂ The first history of Sumatra in English, by a member of the East India Company. £300 - 400

160 Raffles (Sir Thomas Stamford) THE HISTORY OF JAVA, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, 66 engraved plates, many aquatint, 10 hand-coloured after William Daniell, one plate folding, 2 folding letterpress tables, engraved vignettes, half-titles, lacking folding map and advertisements, a few marginal repairs, plates a little trimmed, sometimes affecting captions, occasional light surface staining, library cloth, stain to vol.1 backstrip, slight splitting to spine ends, splitting and slight chipping to vol.2 upper joint, minor rubbing to extremities, [Abbey, Travel 554; Tooley 391], 4to, 1817.

162 Tibet.- Turner (Captain Samuel) AN ACCOUNT OF AN EMBASSY TO THE COURT IF THE TESHOO LAMA, IN TIBET, FIRST EDITION, engraved folding map and 13 plates, of which 1 folding, folding plates and map linen-backed, folding map and title mounted on paper stubs, few ff. with loss to outer corner, occasional repairs, light staining, 1 or 2 ink annotations, later half cloth, rebacked, rubbed, [ESTC T136507], 4to, 1800. £600 - 800

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VOYAGES

163 America.- Mackenzie (Alexander) VOYAGES FROM MONTREAL, ON THE RIVER ST. LAURENCE, THROUGH THE CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA, TO THE FROZEN AND PACIFIC OCEANS, 1 vol. in 2, FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 engraved folding maps (of which 1 with routes supplied in colour, all linen-backed with a few splits at foldlines, a little soiled, bound separately), errata f. at end, lacking half-title, 1f. with portion of margin removed, a few repairs and pencil annotations, light staining, text vol. in later cloth, remnants of paper label to spine, paper label to upper cover, covers marked, a little rubbed, atlas vol. in roan-backed boards, covers detached, worn, (atlas vol. housed in modern green cloth drop-back box), [Sabin 43414], 4to & folio, 1801. ⁂ Important account of the first expedition across North West America, including a history of the fur trade and vocabulary of several native languages. £750 - 1,000

164 Bligh (William) A NARRATIVE OF THE MUTINY, ON BOARD HIS MA JESTY’S SHIP BOUNTY, FIRST EDITION, 4 engraved maps (of which 3 folding, tipped-in and linen-backed), some marginal repairs and short tears, staining, modern red half morocco, black morocco labels to spine, [ESTC T7185; Ferguson 71; Hill 132], 4to, for George Nicol, 1790. ⁂ First edition of Bligh’s own account of ‘one of the most remarkable incidents in the whole of maritime history’ (Hill). £1,500 - 2,000

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165 Bligh (William) A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEA, UNDERTAKEN BY COMMAND OF HIS MA JESTY, FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait frontispiece and 7 engraved plates and charts, most folding and linen-backed, frontispiece with portion of caption excised, ‘Sections of the Bread-Fruit’ plate trimmed slightly touching image, occasional marginal tears and repairs, light offsetting, a little stained, later half cloth, backstrip with loss, joints split, a bit rubbed, [ESTC T52638; Ferguson 125; Hill 135; Sabin 5910], for George Nicol, 1792. ⁂ FIRST EDITION OF BLIGH’S ACCOUNT OF HIS VOYAGE

THAT LED TO THE FAMOUS MUTINY.

£1,000 - 1,500

166 Churchill (Awnsham and John, publishers.) A COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, 6 vol. only, third edition, 231 engraved plates and maps only, many folding, engraved and woodcut illustrations, vol.1 title in red and black, vol.2 6X2 bound upside down and backwards, very occasional paper flaws or short tears, some repaired, light foxing, browning, and surface staining, modern half calf, red and green morocco labels to spines, [ESTC T97845; Sabin 13017], folio, for Henry Lintot and John Osborn, 1744-46. ⁂ ONE OF THE GREATEST VOYAGE COLLECTIONS, documenting journeys around the world, including, America, Ceylon, China, Perisa, Turkey, and many more countries.

Although Sabin and the list of plates call for 305 plates, ESTC notes that other copies checked from catalogues note 231 plates.

Auction records show that plate counts vary, with some sets, which include the 2 additional volumes (7 and 8) having 305 plates. £1,500 - 2,000

167 Cook (Capt. James).- Forster (John Reinhold) HISTORY OF THE VOYAGES AND DISCOVERIES MADE IN THE NORTH, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 3 engraved folding maps, of which 2 linen-backed, lacking half-title and final advertisement f., light surface staining, contemporary half cloth, rubbed, [ESTC T146491; Sabin 25138], for G.G.J. and J.Robinson, 1786; Observations made during a Voyage Round the World, engraved folding chart, list of subscribers at end, lacking folding table, repair to title, water-staining to margins of chart and few ff., occasional marginal browning, light staining, ink markings to foot of title, 1 or 2 ink marginalia, later half cloth, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, light rubbing to extremities, [ESTC T147407], for G.Robinson, 1778, occasional light scattered foxing (heaviest to first mentioned maps), spines browned; and the text only of Forster’s Voyage Round the World, a reissue of the first edition, 4to (4) ⁂ The Forsters, father and son, sailed as naturalists on James Cook’s second Pacific voyage. This is one of two English translations to be published in 1786, two years after the German original, the other Dublin printing. £600 - 800

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168 Francklin (William) OBSERVATIONS MADE ON A TOUR FROM BENGAL TO PERSIA, second edition, occasional light scattered spotting, some light staining, contemporary half calf, covers detached, worn, [ESTC T110204], 8vo, for T.Cadell, 1790. ⁂ The first edition was published in Calcutta in 1788. £300 - 400

170 Pinkerton (John) A GENERAL COLLECTION OF THE BEST AND MOST INTERESTING VOYAGES AND TRAVELS IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD, 17 vol., 201 engraved plates and maps on 197 sheets, a few folding, very occasional water-staining to plates, light scattered foxing, offsetting, 1 vol. with pieces of early backstrip to endpaper, uniformly bound in modern burgundy half morocco, red and green morocco labels, 4to, 1808-14. ⁂ Pinkerton’s anthology of exploration narratives. It is an extensive collection of European voyages, and their discoveries in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, along with interactions with Indigenous peoples. £600 - 800

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169 Krusenstern (Captain Adam Johnson von) VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD ... BY ORDER OF HIS IMPERIAL MA JESTY ALEXANDER THE FIRST, vol. 1 only (of 2), FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, 2 hand-coloured aquatints, the second being frontispiece of vol. 2 bound at rear along with title and contents of vol. 2, folding engraved map, small marginal tear to vol. 2 frontispiece, some light spotting and dust- or finger soiling, modern half-cloth, [Abbey Travel 1; Hill 952], 1813 § Hearne (Samuel) A Journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort in Hudson’s Bay, to the Northern Ocean, FIRST EDITION, 8 folding engraved plates and maps but lacking folding engraved frontispiece map, linen backed or paper repairs, some with small library stamps, occasional foxing or larger stains, some marginal dust-soiling, later half cloth, rubbed and joints torn, for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1795 § Winterbottom (Thomas) An Account of the Native Africans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, folding engraved frontispiece, 5 plates (2 folding), and 2 folding engraved maps (1 defective), linen backed and small library stamps, some browning, dust-soiling and occasional spots, mainly marginal or to plate folds, modern cloth, by C. Whittingham, 1803; and 7 others similar, v.s. (11)

171 Thévenot (Jean de) VOYAGES DE MR DE THEVENOT, CONTENANT LA RELATION DE L’INDOSTAN, DES NOUVEAUX MONGOLS; & DES AUTRES PEUPLES & PAYS DES INDES, FIRST EDITION, bookplate to title verso, occasional soiling and foxing, light browning, contemporary calf, rebacked, worn, 4to, Paris, chez la Veuve Biestkins, 1684.

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172 Vancouver (Capt. George) A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY TO THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN, AND ROUND THE WORLD, 3 text vol. only, FIRST EDITION, 18 engraved plates (a little water-stained), errata ff., lacking folio atlas vol. and vol.1 half-title, vol.1 title laid down, the odd ink marginalia, some light staining, light offsetting, modern half purple calf, black morocco labels to spine, [ESTC T146725; Sabin 98443], 4to, G.G. and J.Robinson, 1798.

173 West Indies.- Slavery.- Ramsay (Rev. James) AN ESSAY ON THE TREATMENT AND CONVERSION OF AFRICAN SLAVES IN THE BRITISH SUGAR COLONIES, FIRST EDITION, errata f. excised and pasted to final advertisement f. verso, few early ff. mounted on stubs, some light scattered spotting, light surface staining and browning, modern blue half cloth, [ESTC T89141; Goldsmiths’ 12770; Kress B. 772; Sabin 67716], 8vo, James Phillips, 1784.

⁂ FIRST EDITION OF “ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT VOYAGES EVER MADE IN THE INTERESTS OF GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE” (Hill).

⁂ “The abolition of the British slave trade in 1807 probably owed more to James Ramsay’s personal integrity, ethical arguments, and constructive proposals than to any other influence” and it was his Essay on the treatment and conversion of African slaves that was “the most important event in the early history of the antislavery movement” (ODNB).

£1,000 - 1,500 ____________________________________

“Slavery. . . is an unnatural state of oppression on the one side, and of suffering on the other; and needs only to be laid open or exposed in its native colours, to command the abhorrence and opposition of every man of feeling and sentiment.” p.19.

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174 China.- Breton de la Martinière (Jean-Baptiste) COSTUMES ET VUES DE LA CHINE, 2 vol., 54 aquatint plates with contemporary handcolouring (some double-page or folding), plate ‘Barque de voyage du Mandarin van-ta-jin’ loose, a few plates trimmed close at margins, shaving a few letters or words, scattered foxing, 1815; La Russie, ou Moeurs, Usages et Costumes des Habitants de Toutes les Provinces de cet Empire, 6 vol., 111 aquatint plates with contemporary hand-colouring (some folding), 1813, half-titles, scattered spotting, uniformly bound in contemporary green calfbacked boards, spines gilt, spines faded, rubbed and bumped, Paris, Chez Nepveu, Libraire, 12mo (8) ⁂ A popular series reflecting the decorative arts scene of the early 19th century, when European fascination with Chinese aesthetics gave rise to the distinctive style of Chinoiserie. This set follows the success of Breton de la Martinière and Nepveu’s “La Chine en miniature”. The illustrations in the two-volume work on China are after the drawings of the English painter, illustrator, and engraver William Alexander, who travelled to China as draughtsman to Lord Macartney’s Embassy to the Qianlong Emperor in 1792–1794. £2,500 - 3,500

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175 -. Mao Tse-tung. QUOTATIONS OF CHAIRMAN MAO, PROTOTYPE EDITION, 351pp., some foxing, light staining and marginal browning, original cream printed wrappers, covers a little soiled and with small repairs, spine repaired, small stamp to upper cover and front endpaper, 12mo, Shenyang, compiled and printed by the Political Department, Air Force Division of Shenyang Military Region, December 1963. ⁂ THE RARE PROTOTYPE EDITION 100PP. LONGER THAN THE FIRST

EDITION, WE CAN TRACE ONLY A HANDFUL OF COPIES.

£3,000 - 4,000 176 Greece.- Stackelberg (Otto Magnus von) COSTUMES ET USAGES DES PEUPLES DE LA GRECE MODERNE, FIRST EDITION, engraved title and 30 hand-coloured engraved plates, occasional foxing and light soiling, a few plates with light wash discolouration, contemporary green half morocco, worn, lower portion of backstrip lacking, [see Blackmer 1591 note; Bobins 164 (erroneously calling for 40 plates)], small folio, Rome, 1825. ⁂ THE RARE FIRST EDITION WITH ENGRAVED PLATES RATHER THAN THE LITHOGRAPHED VERSIONS WHICH APPEARED IN CONTEMPORANEOUS

COPIES. “The plates of costumes constitute Stackelberg’s first published work on Greece, where he travelled from 1810-14. He was in Athens with Byron and travelled and worked with Cockerell, Haller von Hallerstein, Gropius, Linckh...and Foster in excavating various archaeological sites, particularly Bassae.” (Bobins).

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£15,000 - 20,000 177 India.- Illuminated manuscript facsimile.- CONSTITUTION OF INDIA (THE), FIRST EDITION, some light offsetting and a few spots or marks, closed tear to front pastedown, original cloth, gilt, spine gilt, rubbed and bumped, dust-jacket, some marks and staining, corners and spine chipped with loss to ends, folio, Dehra Dun, Survey of India Offices, [1950]. ⁂ A photolithographic reproduction of the original illuminated calligraphic manuscript of The Constitution of India, hand-lettered by Prem Behari Narain Raizada.

Reportedly limited to 1,000 copies, this historically significant edition marks the culmination of years of debate and deliberation by the members of the Constituent Assembly of India. More than a constitutional text, it embodies the ideals of a newly independent India and its commitment to a just and democratic society. £3,500 - 5,000

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178 Italy.- Herculaneum.- Bayardi (Ottavio Antonio) PRODROMO DELLE ANTICHITA’ D’ERCOLANO, 5 vol., half-titles, vol.1 with title in red and black with engraved illustration, woodcut head-pieces and initials, engraved illustrations, 11 engraved plates, most folding, some light browning and occasional foxing, contemporary Neapolitan calf gilt with the arms of the dedicatee, Charles King of the Two Sicilies, spines gilt in compartments, a little rubbed and spine ends chipped, a few worm holes, 4to, Naples, Regale Stamperia Palatina, 1752. ⁂ A handsome set of the first production from the Royal Press in Naples which was established to disseminate the discoveries made at Herculaneum, excavated from 1738 on the orders of the King of the Two Sicilies. See British Library c.67.h.11 for another example of this work similarly bound. £1,200 - 1,800

179 Polar.- Peary (Robert Edwin) THE NORTH POLE, EDITION DE LUXE, OUTOF-SERIES COPY FROM AN EDITION OF 500 SIGNED BY PEARY AND R. A. BARTLETT, 4 photogravure plates, plates, one folding map, faint marginal water-staining at end, modern endpapers, modern half-calf, 4to, 1910. ⁂ Signed by Robert Peary and R. A. Bartlett who was the Captain of the S.S. Roosevelt during several of Peary’s expeditions to the arctic. £400 - 600

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180 World.- Raleigh (Sir Walter) THE HISTORIE OF THE WORLD, initial ‘The Minde of the front’ f., letterpress title with engraved vignette, 8 doublepage engraved maps, wood engraved initials and headpieces, lacking additional engraved title, short marginal tears with expert repairs (A1 & F6), occasional faint marginal staining, contemporary calf, rebacked, [Wing S116303], folio, for H. Lownes, G. Latham, and R. Young, 1628. £500 - 700

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181 Rocque (John) A PLAN OF THE CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER AND BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK, double-page engraved key map, 24 double-page engraved map sheets, forming a large map of London extending west to east from Hyde Park to Limehouse and north to south from New River Head to Walworth, an excellent example of Howgego’s first state, before the addition of Chesterfield House on sheet A2, engravings by Richard Parr on laid paper with large watermarks of Strasbourg Lily and with roman numeral countermarks, each sheet approx. 715 x 520 mm (28¼ x 20½ in), if joined total map approx. 2130 x 3605 mm (83¾ x 142 in), scattered spotting and minor toning to sheets, sheets A1, B1, and A3 with minor marginal nicks and small tears to extremities, some soft creases, otherwise minor mottling visible versos, and key map with repaired puncture within the map and toning to corners of sheets, [Howgego 96 (1)], John Pine & John Tinney, 1746 [bound with] Rocque’s A PLAN OF THE CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER, THE BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK, AND THE CONTIGUOUS BUILDINGS; WITH ALL THE NEW ROADS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE ON ACCOUNT OF WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, AND THE NEW BUILDINGS AND ALTERATIONS TO THE PRESENT YEAR MDCCLV, 8 double-page engraved map sheets, on thick laid paper with watermarks of the Strasbourg lily and countermark ‘IV’, good impressions but signs of wear in the plate, possibly unfinished, or re-burnished in parts ready for additions to the map, each sheet approx. 715 x 520 mm (28¼ x 20½ in), minor surface dirt, spotting and light toning to sheets, half calf, marbled boards, spine split, scuffed and with small losses, corners bumped, worn, folio, [Howgego 103], date and publisher burnished out, [circa 1755 or later] ⁂ An excellent early example of Rocque’s cartographic masterpiece illustrating early Georgian London, bound with the scarce 8-sheet reduction; an example of the latter map has not been recorded at auction since 1999. Rocque’s 24-sheet map of London was a defining moment in the history of London cartography. Begun in March of 1737, upon a scale of 26 inches to one statute mile, the map would take nine years to produce. £30,000 - 50,000

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182 Daw (Edmund) MAP OF THE PARISH OF ST. MARY ABBOTTS KENSINGTON, DELINEATING ITS ECCLESIASTICAL & PAROCHIAL DIVISIONS, large engraved plan, centered on Holland Park, sheet 1070 x 760 mm (42¼ x 29¾ in), the full sheet uncut, mounted on linen, some minor surface dirt and light spotting, one small area of bronwning, folding with marbled endpanels into green cloth, upper cover gilt ‘Kensington’, 8vo, 1879 £500 - 700 183 Booth (Charles) SEVEN POVERTY MAPS OF LONDON, FROM ‘LABOUR AND LIFE OF THE PEOPLE’, including the four-sheet ‘Descriptive Map of London Poverty 1889’, ‘Descriptive Map of East End Poverty, compiled from School Board Visitors’ Reports in 1887’, an additional map centred on Denmark Hill, and a ‘Map shewing Degrees of Poverty in London, in Areas with about 30,000 Inhabitants in each. Compiled from Information collected in 1889-1890’, lithographs printed in colours, various sizes between 360 x 475 mm (14¼ x 18¾ in) and 630 x 870 mm (24¾ x 34¼ in), mounted on linen, the East End Poverty map dissected with ink annotations and irregular trimming, the others trimmed, the S.E. section of the four sheets with title trimmed, soft creases and minor surface dirt, all loose, folding without slipcases, unframed, [1889-1891] (7) ⁂ “Quite the most important thematic map of the metropolis in the 19th century” [Hyde p. 28] £2,000 - 3,000

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184 Bacon (George W.) BACON’S LARGE SCALE ATLAS OF LONDON AND SUBURBS, REVISED EDITION, title, 7 double-page maps of the home counties, 18 double-page ‘Special maps of London’, 1 ‘Large scale map of London’, 34 double-page ‘Four-Inch’ maps of London, thumb tabs discoloured, small nicks and tears, occasional surface dirt throughout, spine loose from contents with small central loss, scuffed, contemporary boards, gilt upper cover, worn, folio, [circa 1912] £200 - 300

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185 Oxfordshire.- Plot (Robert) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF OXFORDSHIRE, BEING AND ESSAY TOWARD THE NATURAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND, imprimatur f., engraved folding map of Oxfordshire with armorial border, and 16 plates, errata f., lacking final blank, repair to map verso, numerous ink marginalia, including to plates, modern boards, red morocco label to spine, [ESTC R7620; Gibson 536; Madan 3130; Wing P2586], 1677; The Natural History of Staffordshire, engraved folding map of Staffordshire with armorial boarder (silked), and 37 plates, most doublepage, without “Armes Omitted”, as often, plate 10 misbound at p.265, plate 32 repaired with slight loss to image, first few ff. mounted on stubs, slight trimming to title and index, occasional repairs, some light staining, ink inscription to title, the odd ink marginalia, modern half morocco, [ESTC R21986; Wing P2588], 1686, FIRST EDITIONS, engraved title vignette, head-piece and initial to dedication, some light spotting or surface staining, exlibrary copies with ink-stamps, Oxford, printed at the Theater, folio (2) £600 - 800

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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.

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“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;

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

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(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; 78

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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;

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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.

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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.

9.

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

17.

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 81

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.

20.

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.

19.

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.: 120 TITLE: FINE BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER DATE: 24TH SEPTEMBER 2026

Please note you can submit bids securely through our website at forumauctions.co.uk Mr/Mrs/Ms (please circle)

PRIVATE BUYER

DEALER

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Company

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Tel.

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Fax.

Email

Notice to new bidders: Please attach a copy of identification - Passport/Driving Licence and proof of address in the form of a utility bill or bank statement issued within the last six months. Failure to comply may result in your bids not being processed.

IDENTITY DOCUMENT (PLEASE ATTACH COPY): PASSPORT

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I authorise Forum Auctions to bid on my behalf up to the maximum price indicated plus the buyer’s premium plus VAT. Successful bids will be subject to Buyer’s Premium plus VAT (premium is 27% of hammer price up to and including £5,000; 26% of hammer price from £5,001 to £500,000; and 20% of hammer price in excess of £500,001 and all other charges indicated in the catalogue description and saleroom notices including VAT as applicable.

NB: we reserve the right to reduce off-increment bids down to the next lowest standard bidding increment or otherwise at our sole discretion.

To allow time for the processing of bids, they should be received at least 24 hours prior to the sale. If you have not received confirmation by email within one working day please contact info@forumauctions.co.uk. I understand that by submitting these bids I have entered into a binding contract to purchase the individual lots if my bids are successful. I will comply with the Terms of Sale listed in printed catalogues and Forum Auctions’ website.

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