1 APOLLONIUS RHODIUS.Argonautica[in Greek, with the scholia of Lucillus, Sophocles, and Theon. Edited by JoannesLaskaris.]Florence: [Laurentius (Francisci) de Alopa, Venetus,] 1496 Median quarto (232 × 164 mm). Bound in the third quarter of the 19th century by Francis Bedford (his name in gilt at the foot ofthe front turn-in) in reddish-brown crushed goatskin, spine divided in six compartments by raised bands, gilt-lettered in twocompartments, the others with gilt devices, sides with frames formed of gilt and thick-and-thin blind rules, gilt centrepieces, turn-insruled in gilt and in blind, gilt edges (spine a little faded; extremities rubbed). Housed in a burgundy flat-back cloth box. 172 leaves,including the final blank. Greek types 114 (two sets of capitals designed by Laskaris, one large for headings and initials letters, onesmall for the text). Commentary (10–33 lines) in miniscule surrounding text (3–31 lines) in majuscule. Greek marginalia in anearly hand in six places; the publication date added in arabic numerals in ink at the foot of the final text leaf; an excellent copy, well-margined, clean and fresh.Editio princeps. A remarkable presentation copy, inscribed on the verso of the final blank from the Greekscholar Robert Pember to his friend and student Roger Ascham: “R. Pemberi hunc librum dono dedit RogeroAschamo testi magistro Fitzerbert et multis aliis.” The presentation inscription brings together three of theoutstanding figures in the early years of Greek scholarship in Tudor England: Robert Pember, Hugh Fitzherbert,and Roger Ascham (1514/15–1568), author of Toxophilus and The Scholemaster.In 1530, at fifteen, Ascham matriculated at the University of Cambridge and became a student at St John'sCollege. In autumn 1533 he became a questionist and on 18 February 1534 he was admitted BA and nominatedfor a fellowship. On 3 July 1537 he became an MA. Hugh Fitzherbert (d. 1537) was Ascham’s official tutor, asthe inscription suggests, but it was Robert Pember (d. 1560), closer to Ascham in age, who has been credited withfirst discovering Ascham's flair for Greek. Pember encouraged Ascham to take pupils in Greek, and his abilitiescame to the notice of the master and fellows who gave his teaching official approval.Among the “many others” alluded to in Pember’s inscription was John Cheke, who in 1540 was appointed firstRegius Professor of Greek with a salary of £40 a year; according to Roger Ascham he had previously “readpublicly without stipend”. Cheke also taught Ascham, who on Cheke’s recommendation became in successiontutors to Princess Elizabeth, and William Cecil, who in 1541 married Cheke’s sister Mary. Ascham paid tribute toCheke’s teaching in his introduction to The Scholemaster (composed by 1563, published 1570), a work partlybased on Cheke’s methods.In 1542 Pember was elected fellow of the King's Hall and on 19 December 1546 was appointed by the crown oneof the founding fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. At Trinity, founded by Henry VIII to be a centre of

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academic excellence, Pember worked as a tutor and reader in Greek. Pember’s friendship with Ascham endured.During his stay in Germany, for instance, Ascham sent coins to add to his former tutor's collection. In his willPember left his extensive Greek library to Ascham.“Ascham's place as an English prose stylist – in the words of Ryan ‘the indispensable link between the earlierTudor writers and the great Elizabethan and Jacobean writers of English prose’ (Ryan, 292) – has only relativelyrecently been recognized by scholars, although contemporaries had no doubts … In Toxophilus and his laterwork Ascham showed how classical forms and rules of organization could be applied intelligently and elegantly tothe vernacular” (ODNB).Provenance: 1) Robert Pember (d. 1560), presentation copy to; 2) Roger Ascham (1514/15–1568); 3) the greatbook collector Charles Spencer, third earl of Sunderland (1675–1722), with his ownership inscription “C.Spencer” at the upper outer corner of the first text leaf recto (however this copy not listed in BibliothecaSunderlandiana); 4) in the stock of the London bookseller Bernard Quaritch, offered for sale in the catalogue“Monuments of Typography and Xylography” (1897), at £24; sold to; 5) the biblical scholar and textual criticHerman Charles Hoskier (1864–1938), with his note of acquisition dated 14 June 1902; 6) sold at auction,Sotheby’s, 29 June–2 July 1907, repurchased by Quaritch for £19; 7) bookplate of Walter Thomas Wallace (1866–1922), noted bibliophile and collector, of South Orange, NJ; 8) Wallace’s books were sold at auction by theAmerican Art Association; this copy sold for $105 on 22 March 1920; 9) in commerce, last noted in the stock ofthe booksellers Herman and Aveve Cohen, Chiswick Bookshop (active 1935–2001).Argonautica, the definitive telling of the story of Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece,is the most important Greek epic of the 3rd century BC. It is the only epic before Virgil’s Aeneid that can becompared with Homer in subject and extent and it is the first epic to give a prominent place to love. With theeffect this had on subsequent writing it holds a significant place in the history of European literature. Apolloniuswas sometime Alexandrian librarian before retiring to Rhodes. The manuscript source of this first printing was atenth-century version discovered by Giovanni Aurispa during his book-buying trip in the Orient in 1421–3 (nowCodex Laurentius XXXXII 9, also containing plays by Sophocles and Aeschylus).The editor Laskaris “was not only the moving spirit in the second Florentine Greek press, that of Lorenzo diAlopa, but himself designed the majuscule fount which distinguishes the books issued from that press from anyothers. Born in 1445, he began his career in Italy as a protégé of Bessarion, who sent him to study underChalkondulas at Padova. Left without resources, like so many of his countrymen, by the death of his patron in1472, he followed Chalkondulas to Florence; gained there a great reputation by his lectures, and the favour ofLorenzo the Magnificent, who appointed him his librarian, and sent him on two journeys in the East to buymanuscripts … While he was absent on his second voyage Lorenzo died, and on his return to Florence Laskarisundertook the editing of the Anthology and other Greek classics for Lorenzo di Alopa … He died in 1535, at theage of ninety” (Robert Proctor, The Printing of Greek in the Fifteenth Century, pp. 78–82).[ 112899]£47,500

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2 ASCHAM, Roger.The ScholemasterOr plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to understand, write, andspeake the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the private brynging up of youth inJentlemen and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as have forgot the Latintonge, and would, by themselves, without a Scholemaster, in short tyme, and with smallpaines, recover a sufficient habilitie, to understand, write, and speake Latin. London: printed by John Daye, 1570Small quarto (182 x 130 mm). Eighteenth-century polished calf, gilt panelled spine with raised bands, sides with double gilt filletborders. Dark red goatskin pull-off case by Riviere-Mounteney with raised bands and gilt lettering. Black letter, title within border oftypographical ornaments, woodcut initials and typographical tailpieces, large woodcut printer's device on colophon leaf. Ruled in redthroughout. Occasional spots and some finger-soiling, a few headlines shaved, an excellent copy.First edition of the most important Tudor work on education. Known for his beautiful handwriting, RogerAscham (1514/15–1568) was appointed tutor to Princess Elizabeth in 1548, Latin Secretary to Queen Mary in1553 and private tutor to Queen Elizabeth in 1558. The Scholemaster was written at the suggestion of Sir RichardSackville following a debate over dinner with Sir William Cecil and others on the question of flogging children.Ascham was vehemently opposed to the practice.Ascham was particularly influenced by the educational ideas of his long-time friend and correspondent, theStrasburg humanist Johann Sturm. The Scholemaster is divided into two books: the first describes the ideal tutorand scholar and draws heavily on Plato; the second treats the method of instruction by double translation usingproper imitation of classical models, and draws equally heavily upon Cicero. The book remained unpublished athis death and was published by his widow Margaret, who signed the dedication.“This book, which popularized the educational views of Renaissance Englishmen, has made Ascham famousamong educational theorists, and one of the most influential of their number. He was concerned to rear an élitecapable of assuming what he considered their proper place in serving the commonweal, and he wrote in Englishto guarantee as wide an audience as possible, thus opening up ideas previously hidden from those who knew noclassical languages” (ODNB).Provenance: Wyllyam Hardyan[?], near contemporary inscription at foot of second leaf; old ink Latin inscriptionon title; Henry Cunliffe, bookplate; extensive notes on front free endpaper in a 19th-century hand; Sotheby's,1946 (£62); Scribner's collation note dated March 1949 on rear pastedown; Harold Greenhill and H. BradleyMartin, bookplates; Sotheby's New York, 30 April 1990, lot 2565.[ 114919]£25,000

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3 BAGEHOT, Walter.Lombard Street:A Description of the Money Market.London: Henry S. King & Co., 1873Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine and boards lettered and ruled in gilt and black, dark green endpapers. Contemporary ownershipinscription of American judge H. L. Richmond to half-title, a few annotations to contents and rear free endpaper recto. Spine endsworn with a few nicks, corners bumped and worn, hinges cracked but holding, a very good copy.First edition, scarce in commerce. Described by J. M. Keynes as “an undying classic”, Lombard Street analysesthe operation of the British financial system, focusing on the economic role of the Bank of England. Bagehot’srecommendation that the Bank alter gold reserves based on economic cycles was highly influential, and the bookwas considered authoritative into the 20th century. "The wonderful clearness of Bagehot's power of statement,his exact knowledge of the subject treated on, together with his firm grasp of economic theory, have caused thisvolume to exert an influence which few books on a subject naturally so dry have possessed" (Palgrave I, p. 81).[ 118457]£5,500

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4 BEATON, Cecil.Far East.London: B. T. Batsford Ltd. 1945.Octavo. Original orange cloth lettered in yellow, top edge stained red. With the dust jacket. Accompanied by 375 x 275mm framedoriginal watercolour. Colour frontispiece after a painting by the author, 44 black and white photographs on plate paper, 14illustrations in the text. Ends and corners a little rubbed, some very faint spotting to edges, but an excellent copy with the jacketfaintly spine-tanned and a little rubbed at the ends and corners.First edition, first impression, Beaton’s own copy signed “Cecil Beaton His copy - not to be taken away” on thefront free endpaper, and accompanied by Beaton’s original signed watercolour for the frontispiece. Far East wasthe photographically illustrated travelogue of the author’s journey through India and China during the SecondWorld War, on assignment from the Ministry of Information. This venture followed his previous Ministry-approved travels in the Middle East, which were published as Near East in 1943. The fine finished watercolourwas executed by Beaton himself, who was as much an accomplished painter as he was a photographer, and wasused for the frontispiece, as well as being published in Vogue. It appears “by Courtesy of Vogue” and iscaptioned “River Scene, Kweilin” in the book. Original finished paintings by Beaton that were featured in hisbooks are rare.[ 118424]£6,750

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5 BELL, Gertrude.“Notes on a Journey Through Cilicia and Lycaonia”[Complete as six offprints from] RevueArcheologique, Publiée sous la direction de Mm. G. Perrot et S. Reinach.Paris: Ernest Leroux, Editeur, 1906-7Six offprints bound together as one, octavo. Contemporary purple cloth backed marbled boards, titles gilt to spine. Offprintsrespectively Revue 1906, I, p. 1–29; p. 385–414; II, p. 7–36; p. 225–252; p. 390–401; Revue 1907, I, p. 18–30. Plans andphotographic illustrations (after photographs by Bell) in the text throughout. Spine sunned, some minor marks and nicks to boards,internally sound and clean but for a very few sprays of spotting, very good condition.A rare presentation set of offprint first editions comprising the complete “Notes on a Journey Through Ciliciaand Lycaonia”, with an autograph letter signed from Bell presenting the whole to Professor Ludwig RichardEnno Littman (1875–1958) laid in. The apparently unpublished letter, on Rounton Grange, Northallerton,stationery, is dated October 1[90]7, and contains four pages of lively archaeological discussion (”Your suggestionthat all this series of castles is Islamic comes to me I confess as a new idea. It needs some consideration. Kal’at alBadya at any rate belongs to two periods, the Syrian tower in the fort being rebuilt of its materials. Your ideacould not materially alter the kunst wissenschaftlicke importance of the buildings, nor could it alter, I think, one’sconception of the artistic influences under which they were built”), after which Bell declares “I send you all thepapers from the Revue archiologique [sic]. The Cilician churches, Guyer says, were mostly rebuilt by theArmenians. Concerning the Karaiagh churches Sir W. Ramsay & I will have much to add & to correct. We have,we think, got back with certainty to earlier dates than we could be sure of before.”Littmann was a German scholar of Oriental languages who had studied at Princeton. In 1905 he lived among theTigre people in Eritrea, and in 1906 directed the German Aksum Expedition in Ethiopia. In the same year hesucceeded Theodor Noldeke as chair of Oriental languages at the University of Strasbourg. He went on to serveas professor of Oriental languages at Gottingen, Bonn and Tubingen. He is notable for having decipheredPalmyrene, Nabataean and Syriac inscriptions as well as historical texts of ancient Ethiopian monuments. He laterpublished a translation of One Thousand and One Nights from Arabic into German.This early work by Bell relates her travels through what is now South-Eastern Turkey and Northern Syria, andrepresents her primary fascination with the archaeology for the Middle East (before, like Lawrence, she made theuneasy transition to foreign agent). It is rare – no other copies are traced at auction – and only six are listed byOCLC in institutions worldwide, one in France, two in the US, and three in the UK (and none listed at Oxford,where Bell studied history).[ 115580]

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6 BLACKWOOD, Lady Alicia.Scutari, the Bosphorus and the Crimea.Twenty Four Sketches in Aid of the Irish ChurchMissions, the Moravian Church Missions, the Vaudois Schools, the Turkish Missions. Ventnor: John Lavars, 18572 volumes, large folio (54.5 × 37 cm). Original cloth-backed drab paper wrappers printed in black. Housed in a flat-back cloth boxby the Chelsea Bindery. Tinted lithographic title to each volume, 19 similar plates of which 5 are folding panoramas, folds ofpanoramas linen-backed verso as issued. Corners bumped, wrappers slightly marked in places, with a few nicks and short closedtears, two small perforations to each wrapper of the second volume, touching lithographic title and final plate, now repaired, browningalong edges of plates 1 and 9, plates 9–11 with pale tide mark at top edge, similar markings to top and fore edges of 20–21,stronger in the latter, though the images never affected. A very good copy.First and only edition of this rare collection of Crimean War views, dedicated to Florence Nightingale, underwhom the artist worked in Scutari. Just a handful of copies traced in commerce, and five only in librariesworldwide (Oxford, National Library of Ireland, Newberry Library, New York Public Library, and BrighamYoung); the Wellcome Institute has a fragmentary collection of six individual lithographs.Blackwood (1818–1913) and her husband were active members of the Evangelical Alliance; they travelled toTurkey after learning of the fall of Sevastopol and the terrible situation following the Battle of Inkerman. “WhenFlorence Nightingale was convinced that Lady Alicia was in earnest and willing to work she was asked to takecharge of 200 women sheltering in appalling conditions in the foul basements of the great barrack hospital atScutari … Lady Alicia quickly demonstrated her energy and resourcefulness. Initially she took responsibility for280 women and infants, many of them the wives, widows, and children of soldiers who had arrived from Varnain wretched condition. While sympathetic to the women’s plight, Florence Nightingale regarded them ashindrances to the major task of caring for military casualties. With supplies brought from England, charitablegifts, supplemented with goods bought locally, Lady Alicia set up a women’s hospital in a rented house”(ODNB). She also took charge of a lying-in ward, an invalid hospital, and set up a small infants’ school, andestimated that by she eventually had some 500 women working for her. When peace was proclaimed in March1856 Blackwood and her husband travelled visited Balaklava, Inkerman, Chernaya valley, and Cathcart’s Hill. Hersketches, which later appeared in octavo format in her memoir (1880), include impressive folding panoramas ofthe Bay and Monastery of St George, the Valley of Inkerman, the barrack hospital at Scutari, and Constantinoplefrom the cliffs of Scutari, together with views of Sevastopol from the Redan, Bahçesaray, and more.[ 116740]£7,500

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7 BLAXTON, John (ed.)The English usurer; or usury condemned,by the most learned and famous divines of the Church of England, and dedicated to all his Maiesties subiects, for the stay of further increase of the same.London: printed by John Norton, and are to bee sold by Francis Bowman, in Oxford, 1634Small quarto (172 x 133 mm). Recent full brown calf, gilt and blind rule borders to boards, red morocco spine label. Woodcut beforetitle depicting in one compartment a usurer counting his money, and in the other two pigs rooting, with facing explanation leaf. GeorgeGoyder bookplate Woodcut and facing leaf lightly soiled and stained, a few neat repairs to the leaf of verses, trimmed a little close,shaving the rule above the headline on many leaves, some light spotting, still a very good copy.First edition of this useful anthology of contemporary English writing on usury – Downame, Fenton, Mosse, etal. – designed to show that usury is condemned by all “our most Learned and Orthodoxicall divines”. “For thecritics of the new commercial order, usury epitomized a depersonalized age against which they thrust God’scommand not to charge interest to the poor, asserting as a final proposition that in a loan the borrower bydefinition is poorer than the lender. ‘The biting worme of usury ... hath corrupted all England,’ John Blaxtonmaintained, evoking in turn the neighborly ideal, the role of Christian charity, and the sin of storing up treasure,in an effort to awaken the conscience of those who deluded themselves that usury was acceptable in the eyes ofGod. Usury turned charity into an act of self-love, he said” (Appleby). There are poetical contributions by, amongothers, Joshua Sylvester, Francis Quarles, and George Wither.The woodcut frontispiece is the most attractive feature of the book, depicting a moneylender in gown and ruffseated at his desk, a small devil perched jauntily on his chair back, and in the other panel a couple of pigs rootingin earth and wallowing in mire. It was used as the cover illustration for Norman Jones’s book on the usurydebate, God and the Moneylenders (1989), and for Joyce Appleby’s Economic Thought and Ideology inSeventeenth-Century England (1978).One of three imprint variants of this edition: the others are for booksellers in Dorchester and Wells – Blaxtonwas rector of Osmington in Dorsetshire.[ 114836]£10,000

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8 (BOOKS OF HOURS, printed, Use of Rome.) Hore beate Marie virginis secundum usum Romanu[m]totaliter ad longum sine requireimpresse Parisius per G[ermanum]. Hardouyn alme universitatis Parisiensis bibliopole iurati.Commorantis inter duas portas Palatij, ad intersignium dive Margarete.Paris: Germain Hardouyn [1536]Narrow octavo (141 x 67 mm), 90 unnumbered leaves (collates: a–k8 l4 m6). Contemporary red morocco, double gilt rules eitherside of raised bands and to sides in a panelled frame, marbled paper pastedowns, plain paper endleaves, gilt edges. Housed in aburgundy quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Printed on vellum. Without borders; Black letter with illuminatedinitials. 15 hand-coloured and illuminated miniatures in the Italian style with painted gold borders, 1-, 2- and 3-line initials in goldon alternating blue and red grounds throughout. Binding a little rubbed at extremities, three small wormholes in head compartment,a very good copy.An example of a Parisian Book of Hours printed on vellum, with contemporary hand colouring. The narrowformat is unusual, evidently employed so that the book could be used as a vade mecum for private devotion.These Horae contain engravings usually found in the octavo series of engravings by members of the workshop ofJean Pichore for the Hardouin brothers. Because of the narrow format of this imprint, Hardouin used cuts fromthe cycle of small engravings and from the border cycles, since the large engravings would not fit. GermainHardouin was successor to his brother Gillet, who had been active in Paris from 1491 until 1521/23, whenGermain took over the enterprise, publishing until 1541 (see Renouard, 198; J. Müller, Dictionnaire abrégé desimprimeurs/éditeurs français du XVIe s. (1970), p. 76)). The almanac on A2 recto is for the years 1536–48,suggesting a publication date around 1536.[ 117305]£18,750

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9 [BRONTË, Emily.] Wuthering Heights. A Novel. By the author of “Jane Eyre.”New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1848Octavo (185 x 125 mm). Recently rebound in black half calf, original marbled paper boards, titles to red morocco label to spine, giltraised bands. Contemporary ownership inscription to third front and the rear binder’s blanks. Slight worm damage to edge of frontfree endpaper, small loss to corners on 5 leaves, an excellent copy.First US edition, second overall, published in April 1848, at 75 cents, with the publisher’s misattribution on thetitle page of this book to Charlotte Brontë. The second English edition was not published until December 1850.The first edition, with Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey, was rushed out by Thomas Cautley Newby in December 1847,in the wake of the unexpected success of Jane Eyre, published by Newby’s rivals, Smith Elder. Newby thenembarked on an advertising campaign to confuse the identity of the three Bell “brothers”, suggesting that all thenovels were the work of one person: hence the mistaken attribution on the title page here.[ 114151]£8,500

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10 [DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge.] CARROLL, Lewis.Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.With Forty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel.New York: D. Appleton, 1866Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, triple gilt rules to covers, gilt roundels with “Alice” motifs to covers, dark greenendpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom red cloth flat-backed box. Frontispiece with tissue-guard and 41 illustrations by JohnTenniel. Provenance: S. H. W[illiams] of Inner Temple with bookplate to front pastedown of both book and box. A little wear tospine ends and tips, a couple of light marks to cloth, tiny spot of abrasion to front free endpaper, front hinge split but holding, rearhinge partly split, but text block sound. An excellent copy in bright cloth.First edition, second issue: the first practicably obtainable issue of the original sheets, comprising sheets of thesuppressed 1865 printing of Alice with the Appleton cancel title page. The issue consisted of 1,000 copies, usingthe first printing sheets but with new tipped-in title pages also printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford. Dodgsonauthorized the sale to America on 10 April 1866 and was invoiced for the printing of the American title pages on26 May.[ 116108]£37,500

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11 CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri.Images à la sauvette; [together with] Les Européens. Paris: Éditions Verve, 1952 & 19552 works, folio. Original lithographic boards by Matisse (Images à la sauvette) and Miró (Les Européens), titles to spines and frontcovers black. Housed in custom-made black cloth slipcases, front covers lettered in silver. Images à la sauvette: 126 half-tone plates;Les Européens: 114 half-tone plates; all printed by Pierre Gassman. Images à la sauvette: spine and board edges slightly toned,spine a little bumped at ends, small traces of tape to free endpapers; Les Européens: foot of spine and adjoining corner of front boardbumped (with small split), a touch of rubbing to extremities, shallow indentations to centre of front board. An excellent set.First editions, first printings. A superb pair of presentation copies - rare in being both made out to the samerecipient - inscribed by the photographer on the half-title of each work: “pour Henri Bourrillon, ami de mes amisphotographes, Henri Cartier-Bresson” (Images à la sauvette) and “pour Henri Bourrillon ces quelques [crossingout ‘Les’ in the title] Européens, en hommage Très ‘respectueuse’. Henri Cartier-Bresson” (Les Européens).The recipient was the prolific French writer and journalist Henri Bourrillon (1876–1962), better known under hispseudonym of Pierre Hamp, and described by his contemporaries as both “l'écrivain prolétarien” and “écrivainhumaniste”. The self-taught Bourrillon “left school at fourteen to become a pastry chef working in England andSpain before finding employment with French railways in the north of the country. He gradually rose through theranks, becoming deputy stationmaster and inspector of works. He was also the head of a textile factory... Hepursued studies with Charles Péguy, André Gide, and Charles-Louis Philippe. Hamp’s vast experience inspiredhim to write more than 40 novels, a large number of which are grouped under the title of La Peine des hommes(The Lot of Men) and are close, often quasi-technical, and frequently critical studies of working-class conditionsand activities. For example, Marée frâiche (1908: Fresh Tide), describes the fish industry, Le Rail (1912) theproblems and factions within the world of the railways, Viv de Champagne (1913) all aspects of wine production,and Le Lin (1924) the treatment of flax and the cloth trade. His books were not always well received by thosethey described. Le Rail was banned from bookstands in railway stations, and Mes métiers (1930: Kitchen Prelude,1932), on his experience as a pastry chef, prompted an outrage and a threatened lawsuit... He also produced anumber of surveys - on the working conditions of miners, railway men, and children employed in industry... Amember of the Socialist Party, an active trade unionist all his life, and a supporter of the Salvation Army” (JohnFlower, Historical Dictionary of French Literature, 2013, pp. 245-46)All of this enables us to draw together the threads that unite both writer and photographer in their humanitarianapproach to life, a shared sincerity in their work and a genuine empathy with the working class and the poor; andwhile Cartier-Bresson’s inscription in Les Européens is playful (“Tres [underlined] ‘respectueuse’”), that in

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Images à la sauvette (”ami de mes amis photographes”) seems to be closer to the spirit of “friend of the friendsthat I have photographed” - that is, humanity itself. On another level Hamp and Cartier-Bresson both had aconnection with the textile industry: Hamp had been the manager of a textile factory and Cartier-Bresson’s familyhad been in the thread-making business since the mid-nineteenth century. Perhaps Hamp would have noted inparticular the photographer’s image of a Russian textile worker alone at her loom in the cavernous interior of atextile works (plate 67 in Les Européens). Of Images à la sauvette Roth writes: “Cartier-Bresson’s ‘precise organisation of forms’ has come to be thestandard against which that of all other photographers is measured, and this book is its ‘proper expression’.Cartier-Bresson met the writer and publisher Tériade (pseudonym of Efstratios Eleftheriades) in about 1932...Finally, in 1952, he was able to publish Images à la sauvette under his imprint Éditions Verve. The simultaneouspublication of The Decisive Moment in New York in July 1952, with a cover by Matisse (who had just had hisretrospective at the Museum of Modern Art) was a tremendous success”. “The Decisive Moment is one of thegreatest of all photobooks, and Cartier Bresson repeated its artistic success three years later with The Europeans...[he] is at his best when at his most universal” (Parr & Badger).The photographer would surely have approved of Hamp’s reproachful remark, noted by Walter Benjamin in hisessay on Paris and Baudelaire: “The artist... admires the column of a Babylonian temple and despises the factorychimney”. Cartier-Bresson looked squarely at the factory chimney.

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12 CHAMBERS, Ephraim.Cyclopaedia: or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences;containing the Definitions of theTerms, and an account of the Things signified thereby, in the several Arts, both Liberal andMechanical, and the several Sciences, Human and Divine: the figures, kinds, properties,productions, preparations, and uses, of things natural and artificial; the rise, progress, and stateof things ecclesiastical, civil, military, and commercial: with the several systems, sects,opinions, &c. among philosophers, divines, mathematicians, physicians, antiquaries, criticks,&c. The whole intended as a course of antient and modern learning. Compiles from the bestAuthors, Dictionaries, Journals, Memoirs, Transactions, Ephemerides, &c. in several languages. In two volumes.London: printed for James and John Knapton, John Darby, Daniel Midwinter [& 15 others in London], 17282 volumes, folio (393 × 244 mm). Recently stoutly bound in red cloth boards, morocco spines lettered and numbered gilt, raisedbands. Double-page engraved frontispiece, and 19 engraved plates (of which 6 are folding; title pages printed in red and black,woodcut vignettes and illustrations in the text. Modern ex libris to front pastedowns. Corners slightly rubbed, a few marginal tearsrepaired and one small stain; two plates strengthened along fold, the anatomy plate browned as usual, occasional light spotting anddust soiling; a very good set.First edition. “Though to Harris must go the honours of compiling the first true English encyclopaedia,Chambers is clearly the father of the modern encyclopaedia throughout the world” (Collison, p. 103). EphraimChambers (c.1680-1740), apprenticed to a London cartographer, “was seized by the idea that Harris’s Lexiconneeded bringing up to date and that he was the man to do this ‘work so seemingly disproportionate to any singleperson’s experience.’ A good French scholar, he adopted Moreri and Bayle to the common-sense climate of theEnglish Enlightenment. Moreover, he has produced a novel device that has proved indispensable to everysubsequent lexicographer and encyclopaedist, namely, cross-references; so that ‘a chain may be carried on fromone end of an art to the other’” (PMM).Walsh has written, “Although the Cyclopaedia is now but a landmark in the history of encyclopaedia publishing,its impact and influence upon later generations was incalculable. It directly influenced the famous Encyclopédieof Diderot, and the new Encyclopaedia compiled by Abraham Rees and published between 1802 and 1820 …Less directly, the pioneering example of Cyclopaedia stimulated the publication of the Encyclopaedia Britannicaand many subsequent works” (Anglo-American General Encyclopaedias, quoted in Alston).[ 114620]

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13 CHRISTIE, Agatha.The Man in the Brown Suit.London: John Lane the Bodley Head Limited, 1924Octavo. Original buff cloth, titles and decorative border to spine and front board in brown, top edge brown. Spine faded, slightrubbing to extremities, slight bumps to tips, mark to rear panel, small mark to front panel, a very good copy.First edition, first impression of Christie’s fifth book. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper.Uncommon signed, with only one other copy traced at auction.[ 118173]£7,500

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14 CHRISTIE, Agatha.The Thirteen Problems.London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1932Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in black. Spine gently rolled and browned, fraying to spine ends and joints, slight wearto outer tips, light soiling to boards.First UK edition, first impression. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author to the dedicatees Sir Leonard andKatharine Woolley on the front free endpaper, “With love to you both, from, Agatha”. Sir Leonard and his wifeKatharine were good friends of Christie and her second husband, the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan.Mallowan’s archaeological career began as an assistant to Leonard Woolley at the excavations at Ur in southernIraq, and through this friendship and tutelage Christie met his wife Katharine, on whom the character of LouiseLeidner in Murder in Mesopotamia is purportedly based. Published in the US in the following year under the titleThe Tuesday Club Murders. One of the author’s most uncommon first editions.[ 117925]£8,000

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15 CHURCHILL, Winston S. Arms and the Covenant. Speeches. Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill. [And:] HASSAL,Christopher, & Denis Mathews. Eddie Marsh, Sketches for a Composite Literary Portrait ofSir Edward Marsh.

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1938Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine within gilt panel, two-line border to front board in blind, top edge blue. With the dustjacket. Housed in a custom blue quarter morocco solander box and chemise. Portrait frontispiece. Spine sunned, front board withsmall section of commensurate fading to top edge and upper outer corner bumped, faint ghosting to tanned half-title from Churchill’sinscription. An excellent copy in the price-clipped dust jacket with a few very shallow nicks to spine-ends.First edition, sole printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by Churchill to Edward Marsh, his private secretary andthe proof-reader of Arms and the Covenant, “Eddie, from Winston, June 1938”, on the front free endpaper.Churchill invited Marsh (1872-1953) onto his staff after his appointment as parliamentary under-secretary for thecolonies in 1905, and “for the next twenty-three years [until his retirement in 1937] Marsh was at Churchill's righthand whenever he was in office” (ODNB). He was also a patron of painters including Duncan Grant, the Nashbrothers, and Stanley Spencer, and authors including Rupert Brooke and the various other poets collected in hisfive-volume anthology Georgian Poetry (1912-22). After retiring in 1937 he devoted himself to literary pursuits,producing translations from Latin and French, and editing other authors’ proofs, including Churchill’s. In theforeword to a 1953 memorial volume for Marsh, accompanying this copy, Churchill recalled him as “not only anadmirable Civil Servant, on whose judgement, loyalty, and competence I could always count, but … a master ofliterature and scholarship, a deeply instructed champion of the arts”. A total of 5,000 copies were printed; according to Woods 3,381 were sold at 18 shillings before June 1940, whenthe book was re-issued as a cheap edition, priced at 7s. 6d (though Churchill wrote to Clementine two weeks afterpublication claiming 4,000 had been sold). An important collection of Churchill’s speeches, warning of thedangers of a rearmed Germany. “Arms and the Covenant holds a special place in the literature as the forerunnerto Churchill’s classic war speech volumes” (Langworth). A contemporary review in the journal of the RoyalInstitute for International Affairs noted that “apart from their literary graces” Churchill’s speeches wereremarkable because of “the restraint of their language” in view of the “blunders and inaccuracies” of thegovernment and for his technical mastery: “There seems to be nothing from Naval Strategy to the jigs and toolsin an aircraft factory … on which Mr Churchill is not an expert.”[ 117009]

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16 CHURCHILL, Winston S.A collection of his first editions in superb condition.London & New York: various publishers, 1898–197622 works in 50 volumes, octavo format, various sizes. All in the original cloth (except The People’s Rights, in original wrappers).With the dust jackets where issued (except The River War). Photgraphic plates and maps throughout. Generally in exceptionalcondition.An exceptional collection of all the main texts in the Churchill corpus, in superb condition throughout, includingone of only two known copies of Lord Randolph Churchill (1906) in the dust jacket, and one of only three suchcopies of Liberalism and the Social Problem (1909, one of these being substantially damaged). Further raritiesinclude the case-bound issue of India (1930), in the extremely uncommon dust jacket, a copy of his 1910pamphlet The People’s Rights, in the original wrappers, and genuinely fine copies of most titles, from his firstpublished book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898), to My Early Life (1930), his first book ofsustained biography, in the dust jacket, together with superlative examples of his works from the WildernessYears. There are also excellent jacketed sets of his great voluminous titles, notably The World Crisis (1923–31)and Marlborough (1933–8). In almost all instances the given copy is the best we have handled. These copies wereoriginally collected by Mark Weber (d. 2016), who during more than 30 years trading as the Churchill BookSpecialist kept back for his own private collection the best available copy of each Churchill title. The result is aonce-in-a-generation collecting opportunity. An individual catalogue description for each book is available onrequest.a) The Story of the Malakand Field Force. London, New York & Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co.,1898. First edition, home issue, sole printing, first state. Original cloth, a superlative copy: “Truly fine copies areextreme rarities, and even those with routine wear and tear are difficult to find” (Langworth). Cohen A1.1.a.b) The River War. London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899. First edition, firstimpression, second state. 2 vols., original cloth, a remarkably tight and fresh copy: “the heavy pages put a lot ofstrain on the binding, and many copies are found with hinge or gutter breaks” (Langworth). From the library ofScotttish peer and soldier John Stewart-Murray, 7th Duke of Atholl (1840–1917), whose son served in the Sudan.Cohen A2.1.b.c) Savrola. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. First edition in book form, first printing, ofChurchill’s only novel. Original cloth, an excellent copy. Cohen A3.1.a.d) Savrola. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. First UK edition in book form (printed from theAmerican plates), first impression, first state. Original cloth, a very attractive copy of a book increasingly hard tofind in collectable condition. Cohen A3.2.a. e) London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1900. First edition, firstimpression. Original cloth, small spot to front board, but an excellent copy. “A splendid book both aestheticallyand from a literary standpoint, the Ladysmith is one of the most sought-after titles in the canon” (Langworth).Cohen A4.1.a.f) Ian Hamilton's March. London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1900. First edition, first impression, first

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issue of the sequel to Ladysmith. Original cloth, an exceptionally bright copy, entirely unfaded. “A very goodcopy is a scarcity and a fine one is truly rare” (Langworth). Cohen A8.1.a.g) Lord Randolph Churchill. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1906. First edition, sole impression,first-issue binding. 2 vols., original cloth, one of only two copies known in the original dust jackets. Anexceptionally fine copy of a book “rarely found in pristine condition” (Langworth). After The River War, this isthe earliest Churchill title for which dust jackets are recorded. With a fine copy of the first US edition, soleprinting (no jackets known). Cohen A17.1–2.h) My African Journey. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. First edition, first issue, sole printing.Original cloth, an exceptional copy: the best we have handled. Cohen A27.1.i) Liberalism and the Social Problem. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. First edition, firstimpression. Original cloth, one of three copies known in the dust jacket, of which one is substantially damaged.From the library of Scottish Liberal politician and author George Freeland Barbour (1882–1946). Unjacketedcopies are in themselves “exceedingly rare” (Langworth). Cohen A29.1.a.j) The People’s Rights. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910. First edition, wrappered format, first DailyNews issue. Original pictorial wrappers, uncommonly well-preserved and extremely rare. Cohen A31.4.a.k) The World Crisis. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1923–31. First UK editions, firstimpressions. 5 vols in 6, original cloth, an excellent set in the “extremely rare” dust jackets (Langworth). The USeditions have a few days’ priority in each case, but the UK is “more aesthetically desirable … [and] more popularamong collectors” (idem). Cohen A69.2(I-III).a, (IV).b; (V).a.l) My Early Life. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930. First edition, first impression, first stateof text, second state of binding as usual. Original cloth, a fine copy, with the rare dust jacket. “Even fineunjacketed copies are rare, because the plum cloth … is very susceptible to fading” (Langworth). Cohen A91.1.b.m) India. London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd, 1931. First edition, first impression, the rare case-bound“library” issue, variant binding. Original cloth, the only copy we have handled in the dust jacket, with three suchcopies noted at auction in the past 50 years. “Softbound copies on the market today outnumber hardboundcopies by at least twenty to one, which offers a clue as to their original press runs … Jacketed hardbacks areextremely rare” (Langworth) Cohen A92.1.b.n) Thoughts and Adventures. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1932. First edition, firstimpression. Original cloth, an exceptional copy of the second volume of Churchill’s autobiographical writings, inthe scarce dust jacket. Cohen A95.o) Marlborough. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1933 – 1938. First editions, first impressions,trade issue. 4 vols., original cloth, in the first-impression dust jackets. A superb set. Cohen A97.2(I-IV).a.p) Great Contemporaries. London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1937. First edition, first impression, firststate. Original cloth, with the dust jacket. A superb copy. Cohen A105.1.a.q) Arms and the Covenant. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1938. First edition, sole printing.Original cloth, a lovely copy in the scarce first-issue jacket. Cohen A107.r) Step by Step 1936–1939. London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1939. First edition, first impression.Original cloth, with the dust jacket, an unusually bright copy of Churchill’s final book before the Second WorldWar. Cohen A111.1.a.s) The War Speeches. London: Cassell & Company Ltd, 1942–6. First editions, first impressions, of thefirst six volumes; Secret Sessions Speeches is a first UK edition (a month after the US). 7 vols., original cloth,first-impression dust jackets throughout. An attractive set of a vulnerable wartime production. Cohen A142.1.a,172.1.b, 183.1.a, 194.1.a, 223.1.a, 227.2.a.t) Post-War Speeches. London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1948–61. First editions, first impressions.Original cloth, with the dust jackets. An excellent set, square and tight, the cloth very bright indeed. Cohen A241,246, 255, 264, 273.u) The Second World War. London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1948–54. First UK editions, first impressions.Original cloth, with the dust jackets, and the publisher’s rare wraparound bands for vols. 1, 5 and 6. A superb set

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of Churchill’s preferred iteration. Cohen A240.4.(I–VI).a.v) A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1956–8. First editions,first impressions. 4 vols., original cloth, of Churchill’s “last great work … [with] the most attractive trade dustjackets ever to appear on Churchill’s works … a physically beautiful edition” (Langworth). A lovely set withoutany of the usual spotting to edges or dulling to the gilt. Cohen A267.1(I–IV).[ 116308]£110,000

17 CLAUSEWITZ, Carl von, General.Vom Kriege.Hinterlassenes Werk des…Berlin: Ferdinand Dümmler, 1832-33 volumes octavo (200 × 119 mm). Contemporary brown skiver-back and tips, matching sand-grain cloth, title direct to spine, edgessprinkled blue. A little rubbed at the extremities, corners bumped, front joint of volume I a little cracked towards the foot, somebrowning of the text-block front and back, but overall a very nice set indeed.First edition. Clausewitz’s works were published posthumously, edited by his widow, and these, the first threevolumes of ten, contain the first appearance of Vom Kriege (On War), his dialectical analysis of the function ofwar in human society. “The book is less a manual of strategy and tactics, although it incorporates the lessonslearned from the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, than a general enquiry into the interdependence ofpolitics and warfare and the principles governing either or both... published by his widow [it] won immediaterecognition as the most profound exposition of the philosophy of war - a place that has never been disputed”(PMM). Carter and Muir's estimation in 1967 of the continuing relevance of Clausewitz's work is confirmed byDaniel Moran in his article on Clausewitz in The Oxford Companion to Military History (2001) where it isdescribed as “the most important general treatment of its subject yet produced”. This set with the slightly laterownership inscriptions of Second Lieut. von Kröhn of the 4th Battalion Upper Silesian Infantry Regiment, datedin 1882 at Neisse, now Nysa in Poland, recording that it was from the library of grandfather, possibly AugustFriedrich von Kröhn (1781-1856), adjutant and minister of war to the Danish Statthalter, or governor, inSchleswig-Holstein, and colonel in the army. A particularly nicely preserved copy.[ 118754]£12,500

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18 COBURN, Alvin Langdon.New York.With a foreword by H. G. Wells.London & New York: Duckworth & Co; Brentano’s, [1910]Folio. Original calf-backed grey boards, titles to front board gilt. With the dust jacket. With 20 photogravure plates hand-pulled byCoburn mounted on grey heavy stock marbled paper. Jacket and binding professionally restored, jacket spine toned and with a fewold wax stains to front panel, touch of foxing internally. A very good copy. First edition, first impression, with the rare dust jacket: a remarkable survival, we have traced just two copies atauction since 1975. Coburn’s New York is one of the cornerstone photobooks of the 20th century andconsiderably more scarce than the photographer’s groundbreaking sister publication, London, put out in the sameformat in 1909. “Of the two books, it is the New York volume that might be considered the more proto-modernist in spirit, not only because New York itself was the most palpably modern city, epitomized by thatgreat leitmotif of early modernist photography, the skyscraper, but also because the form of the city, as created bythese large, monolithic buildings, pushed Coburn towards a more radical way of seeing” (Parr & Badger).[ 114434]£22,500

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19 CONRAD, Joseph.Lord Jim.London & Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1900Octavo. Original green decorated cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Minor rubbing to extremities, spine discoloured with gilt dulled; fronthinge starting but sound, Eugene Plunkett bookplate and his notation of this books number in his library above, and unobtrusiveHenry Sotheran & Co. Bookseller label on front pastedown offset to facing flyleaf, ownership inscription above bookplate dated1901, few pencilled notes at rear.First edition, first issue, one of 2,105 copies. Inscribed by the author to R. R. Cunninghame Graham in black inkon the front free endpaper: "To R. B. Cunninghame Graham affectionately from the Author." "A particularlysustaining friendship was with R. B. Cunninghame Graham, the aristocratic socialist and adventurer" (ODNB)."His appearance and South American travels made him the model for Charles Gould in Nostromo, the greatestnovel by his friend Joseph Conrad. (He had been prompt to hail the Polish-born novelist, and their friendshipextended from 1897 until Conrad's death in 1924. The essay ‘Inveni portum’ is a moving obituary.) Hecontributed elements to Etchingham Granger, the central character in The Inheritors (1901), by Conrad and F.M. Hueffer" (ODNB).The first issue points are: "any rate" is printed as one word on page 77, line 5; "keep" is missing after "can" and"cure" should be "cured" on page 226, seven lines from the bottom; "his" is printed low and not aligned with theother words on page 319, last line.[ 115743]£37,500

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20 (CRANACH PRESS.) SHAKESPEARE, William.The Tragedie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke.Edited by J. Dover Wilson Litt.D. from the textof the second quarto printed in 1604–5 ‘according to the true and perfect coppie’. With whichare also printed the Hamlet stories from Saxo Grammaticus and Belleforest and Englishtranslations therefrom. Illustrated by Edward Gordon Craig.Weimar: Printed by Count Harry Kessler at the Cranach Press, 1930Folio. Bound for the publisher by W. H. Smith & Son Ltd in red levant morocco, spine with seven raised bands, gilt-lettered in firstand last compartments, compartments, sides, board-edges and turn-ins with single gilt rules, four gilt dots to headcaps, morocco innerhinges, edges rough-gilt. With an accompanying portfolio of red levant morocco, flat spine gilt-lettered direct, sides with single gilt rulearound, plush-lined, cream ties (torn and re-tied), housing three extra sets of 51 loose proofs on vellum, cream Japanese tissue andyellow Japanese tissue, all but the first cream Japanese tissue proof signed in pencil by the artist. Title cut by Eric Gill, printed in redand black, wood-engraved illustrations designed and cut by Edward Gordon Craig, two with additional colour, type designed byEdward Johnston, headlines, colophon, and occasional headings printed in red. Fine condition. With the original printed prospectus,the lower third torn away, laid in.First edition in English, copy B of seven copies printed on vellum, with three extra sets of loose proofs signed bythe artist, marked A to G. This is the most luxurious presentation of one of the most remarkable printed booksof the 20th century. There were also printed for sale 15 copies on imperial Japanese paper with one set of looseproofs signed by the artist, numbered I to XV, and 300 copies on handmade paper.In 1912 Count Harry Kessler commissioned Edward Gordon Craig to illustrate an edition of Hamlet, to beprinted at his private Cranach Press using the woodblocks of Craig's "black figures" and with specially-designedtype. Work on it was suspended during the First World War and Craig became distracted by other projects so thebook was not issued for nearly twenty years, the German edition in 1929 and the English in 1930, the latter withsome additional engravings. When it finally appeared it was a masterpiece of printing and design, and one whichvisually captured many of Craig's ideas for the theatre with its "screens" or "scenery" formed by blocks ofengraved lines and simple draped figures in different sizes creating theatrical space. Craig's son, Teddy, went toWeimar to assist the master-printer, Gage Cole, in the printing of the woodblocks: "I was the only person whoknew how to get the kind of impression required, showing the delicate side grain of wood and at the same timeproducing the specially blackened details in certain blocks" (Edward Craig. Gordon Craig: The Story of His Lifep. 326).According to the colophon, the type fount, designed by Edward Johnston, was based on that "used by Fust andSchoeffer in their Mainz Psalter of 1457." In fact, the model was the 1462 Bible fount of Fust and Schoeffer,

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modified with roman capitals.The levant morocco binding was entrusted to the W. H. Smith bindery, executed to a design which harks back tothe work of the Doves Bindery in Hammersmith, where Douglas Cockerell, who supervised W. H. Smith’sbindery from 1904 to 1914, had learned his trade.The three suites are on vellum, on an unbleached handmade paper stock produced by Gustave Maillol, and on ayellow-stained variant of that stock. Each suite contains the same 51 illustrations selected from the total numberof 80, and each is signed by Craig (all except the first of the white paper proofs, accidentally overlooked). Thevellum suite contains a larger unused version of the masked figure that appears on page 64 of the book, while thepublished engraving is included in the two paper suites. A number of the scenes and figures have contrastingblack and grey tones produced from the same block. This effect is particularly successful on the fine paper usedfor the suites.The original printed prospectus promised eight copies on vellum, and an eighth copy was in fact printed, markedout of series and retained by Count Harry Kessler. That copy later belonged to the collector Professor ArnoldRood, who donated his Edward Gordon Craig collection to the V&A. It was not bound in the original red levantby the W. H. Smith bindery, but in crushed olive-brown morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe and signed by EdwardGordon Craig in 1961. It was sold at auction at Sotheby’s New York, 2 June 1995, for $74,000. That is the onlycomparable sale record, as no other numbered copy of the deluxe issue on vellum has appeared at auction sincefirst publication.[ 115397]£250,000

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21 DAHL, Roald.The Witches.London: Jonathan Cape, 1983Octavo. Original green boards, title to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. Spine gently rolled, anexcellent copy in the jacket with slight creasing to top edge.First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Jan &Colin, Love Roald”. Additionally inscribed by Liccy Dahl, Roald’s second wife, altering the dedication, “Love,from, Liccy”. The recipients were Jan and Colin Ross-Munro. Jan, an art historian who regularly lectured at theVictoria and Albert Museum, was a close friend of Liccy’s. The Witches, published the year Dahl and his wife Patdivorced and he married Liccy, is the most difficult of all Dahl’s books to find inscribed.[ 118334]£7,000

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22 DARWIN, Charles.On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the preservation of favoured racesin the struggle for life. Fifth thousand.London: John Murray, 1860 Octavo in twelves. Original diagonal-wave-grain green cloth, covers blocked in blind, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, brown coatedendpapers, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Folding diagram to face p. 117, 32 pages of publisher’s advertisements to rear, datedJanuary 1860. Faint ownership inscription to front pastedown, binder’s ticket to rear pastedown. Spine a little darkened, a couple ofmarks to rear cover; an excellent copy in unusually bright cloth.Second edition of “the most important biological book ever written” (Freeman), one of 3,000 copies printed, theissue most commonly met with, bearing 1860 on the title page (a very few copies bear 1859). The second edition“can be recognised immediately by the date, by the words ‘fifth thousand’, and the correct spelling of ‘Linnean’on the title page … The misprint ‘speceies’ is corrected and the whale-bear story diluted, an alteration whichDarwin later regretted, although he never restored the full text. The story is not found again in any printing,except in the American editions of 1860, until the end of copyright”.[ 116127]£9,750

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23 DARWIN, Charles; Robert Fitzroy; Philip Parker King.Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle,between theyears 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America,and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe.London: Henry Colburn, 18393 volumes in 4 (vols. I–III and Appendix to vol. II), quarto. Original blue fine-diaper cloth, spines lettered in gilt, sides blocked inblind, cream surface-paper endpapers, edges uncut, imprint “Colburn, London” in gilt at foot (Freeman variant a). Housed in adark green leather entry cloth slipcase by the Chelsea Bindery. With 8 folding engraved maps in cover pockets and 48 engraved plates(including two frontispieces and one folding map). Bookplates to front pastedowns with name neatly obscured; marks wherebookseller’s small ticket removed from rear pastedowns. Vols. I and II neatly rebacked with original spines laid down, extremitiesrubbed with a few small nicks at spine ends and a few tips, corners bumped, spines sunned, occasional spotting, foxing and browning,still a very good copy.First edition, first issue of the Darwin volume, "Journal and Remarks 1832–1836", printed before the end ofJanuary 1839, the month he was elected to the Royal Society, and so without the letters F.R.S. after his name onthe second title. Vol. I contains King's account of the expedition in the Adventure made between 1826 and 1830,surveying the coasts of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. In Vol. II (and its appendix) Captain Fitzroy describesthe narrative of the Beagle's second voyage, between 1831 and 1836 to South America, the Galapagos Islands,Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia and other countries. Volume 3 is Darwin's own account of the Beagle'svoyage, and his first published book. It is an outstanding account of natural history exploration, describing thefieldwork that ultimately led to the Origin of Species."The five years of the voyage were the most important eventin Darwin's intellectual life and in the history of biological science" (DSB).[ 116016]£45,000

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24 DICKENS, Charles.The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.With Illustrations by Phiz.London: Chapman and Hall, 1839Octavo (223 × 137 mm). Bound by Riviere & Son in late 19th-century red crushed morocco, title and rich decoration to spine gilt,raised gilt bands, gilt rules to covers, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt, green coated endpapers, original cloth bound in at rear. Engravedfrontispiece by Finden after D. Maclise; 39 plates and 2 original drawings by Phiz. An exceptional copy, handsomely bound, withjust a little foxing and offsetting contents.First edition, first issue in book form, this an exceptional copy with two original ink and wash drawings by Phizbound in at p. 260 and p. 288, one signed, and one with a watermark dated 1838. The drawings are for theillustrations “Affectionate behaviour of Messrs Pyke and Pluck” and “Nicholas hints at the probability of hisleaving the Company”.The book was originally issued in monthly parts, and, once the serialisation was complete, issued as a book incloth. With the following first issue points as listed by Smith: publisher’s imprint to the first four plates; “visiter”for “sister” p. 123 line 17; “flys” for “flies” p. 245 line 10; “visiters” instead of “visitors” p. 272 line 2;“incontestible” for “incontestable” p. 297 line 22; “suprise”for “surprise” p. 586 line 24.[ 117127]£6,000

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25 DURRELL, Lawrence.The Black Book, original carbon typescript, extensively revised.Corfu: 1937Original carbon typescript, rectos only, 354 leaves in all, bound in contemporary red quarter calf, red cloth boards, titles to spine gilt– THE BLACK BOOC [sic], the misspelling suggesting a Greek binder. Housed in a black quarter morocco book-form foldingcase by the Chelsea Bindery. With 3 pieces of associated correspondence laid in (see below). Excellent condition.The original carbon typescript of the novel, extensively revised before publication, with the author’s lavish signeddedicatory inscription on the last leaf: “Here ends Lawrence Durrell, his Black Book written in Corfu: 1937Greece: finished on the author’s 25th birthday: dedicated to his darling Nancy – proofed June 1937 Paleokastro[Greek letters].”The emendations to the typescript consist largely of excision; the published editions are some 2,600 wordsshorter than the original complete typescript. Often these seem to be deletions of potentially objectionablepassages but many are evidently to do with improvements of style. There are a large number of corrections of“incidentals” and some two dozen additional words added by the author. We know of no equivalent version ofthis text bearing authorial corrections. Laid into the book are (a) the retained carbon copy of Kathryn Winslow’s 1966 letter to Durrell offering him thechance to buy back this typescript prior to her selling it elsewhere, (b) Durrell’s one-page typed reply excusing histardiness and mentioning the bookseller Alan Thomas as a possible broker, and (c) a page of handwritten notesby Winslow describing a meeting with Durrell in 1969 or 1970 at which she showed him the typescript and heidentified it as “the one from which the published book was made”. Durrell recalled that Anaïs Nin had had fourcopies made of this version in Paris, which were bound in black and did not bear authorial corrections. That thepresent example was the “setting copy” is further suggested by the dedicatory note at the end, which is inholograph here but is typed in Nin’s copies. One of Nin’s carbon copies was in the Goodwin sale (1978),together with a copy of the first edition with different pagination and some annotation by Henry Miller.Winslow’s note also relates that the 1960 American printing was set from this copy. Kathryn Winslow (1906–1989) managed a bookshop in Chicago called Studio M (aka The Studio of Henry Miller).The Black Book was Durrell’s third published novel, after Pied Piper of Lovers (1932) and Panic Spring (1937,published under the pseudonym Charles Norden), but his first mature work, inspired by Miller's Tropic ofCancer, and the novel in which Durrell claimed that he “first heard the sound of my own voice”. T. S. Eliotpraised it as “the first piece of work by a new English writer to give me any hope for the future of prose fiction.”“In the modernist Black Book Durrell displayed the narrative complexity and linguistic virtuosity that

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characterized his later novels: the multiple points of view, achieved through diary fragments, letters, and dialoguereported by characters turned narrators; an Elizabethan fascination with the language of trades and sciences; andthe tendency to describe scenes in lavish painterly terms” (ODNB).[ 111884]£45,000

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26 EISENHOWER, Dwight D.Crusade in Europe.Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948Octavo. Original tan linen cloth, bevelled edge boards, top edge gilt, untrimmed fore and bottom edges. Publisher’s slipcase (repaired),signed by original owner, J. Wesley Pape (who also signed on the half-title). Bookseller’s signature and sticker at bottom of frontpastedown (John G. Kidd, Cincinnati). Front hinge weak, with cartographic endpapers split at the front pastedown gutter. Slightstain at bottom of spine. Overall, a good clean copy. Together with Pape’s correspondence with the book’s signatories: 28 typed letterssigned from the signatories or their assistants, along with carbons of Pape’s letters of solicitation.First edition, deluxe issue, number 555 of 1,426 copies; bound with a leaf that prints Eisenhower’s D-Daymessage to the troops, signed by Eisenhower. The leaf was inserted into each of the deluxe issues, though inmany it is lacking, having been cannibalized for sale by autograph dealers.This copy is also signed on the front flyleaf by Harry S. Truman, Winston S. Churchill, Anthony Eden, George C.Marshall, Henry H. Arnold, Walter Bedell Smith, James F. Byrnes and, on the facing flyleaf, Douglas MacArthur.The verso of Eisenhower’s D-Day message bears the signatures of Omar Bradley and Bernard Law Montgomery(Viscount Alamein). Ten additional signatures appear in the book (usually on pages where the figures are firstintroduced in the narrative): Bernard M. Baruch, Mark W. Clark, Lucius D. Clay, James H. Doolittle, Mamie D.Eisenhower, Leonard T. Gerow, Cordell Hull, Joseph T. McNarney, Carl A. Spaatz, and Hoyt Vandenberg.Pape has helpfully annotated the index in pencil, noting the page numbers where signatures appear. Theaccompanying correspondence also includes original typed letters signed by: Dwight D. Eisenhower, DouglasMacArthur, Bernard Baruch, Carl Spaatz, Walter Bedell Smith, Henry “Hap” Arnold (twice), William H. Simpson(whose letter agrees to sign the volume, though he never managed to do so), Lucius D. Clay, Mark W. Clark, andTruman’s press secretary, Matthew J. Connelly (tipped in to front flyleaf).An astounding gathering of the top statesmen and warriors of the Second World War, the signers include twoAmerican Presidents (Truman and Eisenhower), two British Prime Ministers (Churchill and Eden) and theleaders of the great land campaigns of North Africa and Western Europe: Montgomery of Alamein, OmarBradley, and Mark Clark. The dominant general in the Pacific theatre, Douglas MacArthur, signed the book 18months after Truman fired him for insubordination during the Korean War.Key diplomats are included, such as Cordell Hull, James F. Byrnes and Bernard Baruch, along with the architectof America’s military strategy and Truman’s then Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall. The heroes of the airwar are represented by James Doolittle, who carried out the daring raid against Tokyo in 1942; as well as by CarlSpaatz and Hoyt Vandenberg.

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We know of no other example of such an impressive gathering of historic signatures from World War II.Almost as remarkable is the story of the man who spent nearly a decade collecting them. John Wesley Pape(1900–1986), of Cincinnati, Ohio, had – by his own account, in a 12 May 1949 letter to Carl Spaatz – “a verysmall part in this War,” as a major on the headquarters staff of the Army Air Corps, overseeing procurement andsupply.When Eisenhower published this memoir, Pape had the idea of giving a copy to his son, signed by as many of theleading figures of the war as he could reach. Like a well-organized staff officer, he preserved his correspondencewith his signatories, and those letters make for compelling reading in their own right. Today, with top military and political figures barricaded behind multiple layers of security, it’s astonishing howeasily Pape was able to contact these VIPs, and how willingly and graciously they complied with his requests tosign and mail back his book (Pape helpfully provided postage paid packing). For many he provided specificinstructions of where and how they should sign the book. “It is requested that General [Walter Bedell] Smithautograph Page 14, with rank during war and date signing.” (But Smith chose instead to sign on the flyleaf belowthe signatures of Truman, Churchill and other top figures.) Several did follow instructions, such as BernardBaruch, Gen. Joseph T. McNarney and Hoyt Vandenberg. Truman and George Marshall – who signed as “Onetime Chief of Staff, U.S. Army” and “General of the Army” –were the first two to sign. Having those names inthe volume served as a good opening for fresh pitch letters.But how to get to someone as remote and prominent as Churchill? Pape turned to Eisenhower on 1 May 1950,asking his “advice and assistance…I realize this is an unusual request from a stranger.” The next day Eisenhowerreplied in the succinct manner for which he was famous: “My suggestion is that you write him directly. He getsthe same request many times a day and, I am sure, is quite used to it.” Pape ultimately forged his own path toChurchill: he had an uncle, Thomas E. Hanlon, who knew Edward Viscount Knollys, who in turn was a friend ofwartime cabinet member, Sir John Anderson; Anderson agreed to deliver the book to Churchill for signature.Montgomery, on the other hand, proved easy to obtain thanks to the initiative of his former comrade, GeneralOmar Bradley. “It was no trouble at all to get Field Marshal Montgomery to do this,” wrote Bradley’s aide toPape. “In fact, General Bradley was the one who asked the Field Marshal to autograph the book for you.” Bothcommanders complied with Pape’s instruction to sign of the verso of the D-Day message: “Omar N. Bradley,General U.S. Army, Former Commanding General 12th Army Group, 11/15/49” and “Montgomery of Alamein,Field Marshal, 23 Nov. 1949.”The roster includes some who were bitterly antagonistic to each other. There must be very few instances ofDouglas MacArthur and Harry Truman signing the same book or document. Yet when Pape wrote MacArthuron 12 November 1952 – 18 months after Truman fired him – the “old general” happily complied. “Glad to doso,” he wrote on Pape’s letter, signing with his initials: “DMacA.” It is as if one had a guest book of a greatAnglo-America victory banquet. Considering its travels – passing some 40 times through the post and crossing the Atlantic –the book is inremarkably good condition.[ 114615]£150,000

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27 ELIOT, T. S.Prufrock and other observations.London: The Egoist, 1917Octavo. Original buff wrappers, title to front cover black. Housed in a quarter black morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery.Just a hint of rubbing to ends and very slight creasing to tips; else a fine copy.First edition of Eliot's first book, and one of only 500 copies printed. This collection contains one of Eliot’s bestknown poems, namely the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.[ 117303]£25,000

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28 ERASMUS.Institutio principis christianisaluberrimis refererta praeceptis, per Erasmum Roterodamum,cum alijs nonnullis eodem pertinentibus, quorum catalogum in proxima reperies pagella[bound with 2 other works – see below.]Basel: Johann Froben, May 1516Quarto (209 x 153 mm). Institutio: collates a–p4 q6 A–Z4 AA–BB4: 166 leaves, complete. Contemporary blind-stampedpigskin backing beech boards, clasps and catches, title in contemporary manuscript to fore edge, spine lettered and dated in ink at amuch later date. Title pages within woodcut borders, woodcut initials. Early Greek quotation from Hesiod to front free endpaper;contemporary inscription “Isatt”[?] at head of first title and misdated 1516 below the place of publication, struck through andcorrected in a later hand; early marginalia and underlining in at least two distinct hands. Backstrip very slightly soiled, but anexcellent copy in an unrestored contemporary binding.First edition of Erasmus’s famous treatise Institutio principis christiani, published at about the same time asMachiavelli’s Il Principe. Written as advice for Prince Charles of Spain (later the Holy Roman Emperor CharlesV), Erasmus’s work goes far beyond the education of the Prince, and is in fact, like Machiavelli’s, a generaltreatise on the state, its structure, the art of government and the conduct of the Prince; Erasmus, however, aimsat harmony and peace, recognizing the rights and duties both of the Prince and the people. Other pieces treatingthe same subject were added, a list of which is given on verso of the title. Of these Erasmus’s translation of aletter by Isocrates to King Nicocles on the importance of education for a king is published here for the first time.Further added are his Panegyricus to Philip the Fair, composed at the occasion of his return to Brussels in 1504and already containing the same ideas as postulated in the Institutio, together with his letters in defence of thiswork to Paludanus and Nicolas Ruter. At the end of this part an extra printer’s colophon is present, dated April1516.The dedication, according to Allen, must date from March 1516 and the whole work at the end is dated May1516. The second part then contains Erasmus’ translations of Plutarch’s treatises on true friendship, on the use tobe made of enemies, on government by the Prince’s personal qualities rather than by fear, and on the value ofphilosopher-friends to the Prince. The first two are respectively dedicated to Henry VIII, king of England, and toCardinal Thomas Wolsey.The Institutio principis christiani is bound first in the volume with two other works. At the end of the volume isthe second edition of a collection of Erasmian texts headed by Enchiridion militis christiani (Handbook of aChristian Knight), Strasbourg: Matthias Schürer, September 1515. In the same month Enchiridion militisChristiani was published as a separate work at Leipzig by Valentin Schumann, at Hieronymus Emser’s urging, as

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it was then in short supply in Saxony. A similar collection was first published at Antwerp, Th. Martens,November 1509.Bound between the two is an incomplete copy of Erasmus's translations from Plutarch (Basel: J. Froben, August1514), lacking the title leaf.[ 117306]£48,000

29 FALKNER, J. M.Moonfleet.London: Edward Arnold, 1898Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt, crest to front board in silver and black. November 1898advertisements at the rear. Spine a little darkened, light rubbing to extremities, endpapers faintly spotted, otherwise internally fresh,rear hinge superficially cracked but still a sound copy, very good condition.First edition. Presentation copy inscribed to publisher Reginald J. Smith on the front free endpaper, “Reginald J.Smith, from the author, 1st December 1898”. Smith was editor of The Cornhill magazine (in which Falknersubsequently published a story) and head of Smith Elder publishing house from 1894. This copy bears severalpencilled marginal corrections in the hand of Falkner, whose attention to detail was legendary. It has the laterbookplate of G & N Ingleton, and was number 11237 in the prestigious Ingleton Library Catalogue.[ 115523]£8,500

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30 (FITZGERALD, Edward, trans.) OMAR KHAYYAM.Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Translated into English Verse.London: Bernard Quaritch, 1859Octavo. Original grey paper wrappers, title printed black to front cover. Housed in a blue linen cloth chemise and blue morocco pull-off case by Riviere & Son. From the library of Natalie Knowlton Blair (1887–1951), with her bookplate to the front pastedown.Some light spots to covers, faint mark to front cover. An excellent copy.First edition, one of a print-run of 250 copies only made at FitzGerald’s expense, and with his correction inmanuscript to page 4. Early in 1858 FitzGerald had sent 35 of the “less wicked” verses he had translated fromOmar to Fraser's Magazine. Fraser's would not publish them, however, so in 1859, after adding 40 more verses,FitzGerald issued the collection of 75 as a book published anonymously at his own expense. FitzGerald “made apresent” to Quaritch of 200 of the 250 copies he had printed, and the publisher later reported that he sold“nearly the whole of them” from his penny box “not being able to get more” for them (Prideaux p. 17).Ironically, in 1901 Quaritch was to find himself in the position of buying a fine, unopened copy at Bang’s roomsin New York for $260, or 20 guineas.Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet, author of about athousand quatrains. The fact that Omar Khayyám is the most famous poet of the East in the West is entirely dueto FitzGerald’s celebrated adaptations, which would prove to be the “most popular verse translation into Englishever made” (Decker, p. xiv). FitzGerald himself referred to his work on the Rubáiyat as a “transmogrification”rather than translation, describing how he “mashed up” several stanzas into one, and calling the result “A prettylittle Eclogue tessellated out of [Omar’s] scattered quatrains”. It is reasonable to suggest that in its own way thelyrical agnosticism of FitzGerald’s Rubáiyat was to be every bit as influential on the advent of as modernism asDarwin’s Origin of Species published in the same year. Many of FitzGerald’s phrases have entered the commonstock of English quotations and allusions. [ 111542]£45,000

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31 FITZGERALD, F. Scott.This Side of Paradise.New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920Octavo. Original green cloth, titles gilt to spine and blind to front board. Bookplate of Sheryl Lucinda Hoar to front pastedown.Faint mark and small nick to fore edge of front free endpaper, some minor rubbing to extremities, front hinge repaired, rear hingetender. A very good copy.The "Author's Apology" edition, signed by the author; first edition, third printing, prepared for distribution toAmerican Booksellers Association, with a tipped-in leaf entitled “Author’s Apology” signed by Fitzgerald,“Sincerely, Scott Fitzgerald”. Issued the same month as the first, the third printing included an unknown numberof copies prepared with this tipped-in page printed on glossy paper and signed by Fitzgerald; Bruccoli notes therewere “probably 500 copies” treated in this way.Prepared for a convention of the American Booksellers Association, the printed apology reads in part: "My wholetheory of writing I can sum up in one sentence: An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, thecritics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward… So, gentlemen, consider all the cocktails mentionedin this book drunk by me as a toast to the American Booksellers Association."[ 111821]£9,750

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32 FLEMING, Ian. Casino Royale.London: Jonathan Cape, 1953Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine red, heart device to front cover in red, bottom edge untrimmed. With the illustrated dustjacket. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Boards very slightly bowed, a little foxing to topedge, a couple of faint spots of foxing to rear endpaper, otherwise internally fresh, in the exceptionally bright jacket with trivial nicksto head of spine panel and tiny puncture to head of front panel. An excellent copy.First edition, first impression, first state dust jacket (without the Sunday Times review on the inner front flap).“According to the Cape archives, 4,760 sets of sheets of the first printing were delivered, but only 4,728 copieswere bound up. Many of these went to public libraries and we believe that less than half of the first printing wassold to the public. The jacket is genuinely rare in fresh condition” (Biondi & Pickard, 40).[ 111955]£50,000

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33 FLEMING, Ian.You Only Live Twice.London: Jonathan Cape, 1964Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver, Japanese characters to front board in gilt, wood grain endpapers. With theRichard Chopping designed dust jacket. Housed in a custom black quarter morocco solander box. A few pencilled underlines in thefirst two chapters, free endpapers slightly browned, a couple of very faint spots to rear panel of jacket; an excellent, bright copy.First edition, first impression, one of two dedication copies, inscribed by Fleming to one of the two dedicatees,Richard Hughes, on the front free endpaper: "To Dikko-san from Fleming-san. With all affection." In 1959, IanFleming was given a licence to travel. Fleming had written seven James Bond novels when he was approached byone of his colleagues at The Sunday Times with a plum journalistic assignment: to take a five-week, all-expenses-paid trip to visit the world's most exciting cities. Fleming's trip took in Hong Kong, Macau and Tokyo, thenHonolulu, and home via the major U.S. cities. Along the way, he gathered material for his novels and hisjournalism: his Thrilling Cities tour became a popular newspaper series and a bestselling guidebook, while alsofurnishing much of the backdrop and research for the five Bond novels and seven short stories that wouldfollow.In Tokyo, Fleming's local guide was Richard "Dikko" Hughes, The Sunday Times's Far East correspondent, anebullient, hard-drinking Australian ex-boxer and part-time spy for MI6. Hughes recruited a Japanese journalist,Toreo "Tiger" Saito, to join them. Fleming was clear about what he wanted to do. "With only three days in Japan, I decided to be totally ruthless,"he wrote. "No politicians, museums, temples, Imperial palaces or tea ceremonies… I wanted to explore Ginza,have the most luxurious Japanese bath, spend an evening with geishas, take a day trip into the country, eat largequantities of raw fish, for which I have a weakness, and ascertain whether saké was truly alcoholic or not." The local guides were repaid when Fleming immortalised them both, little disguised, in You Only Live Twice.Hughes became the model for Richard Lovelace "Dikko" Henderson, the Australian spy stationed in Japan; Saito,a "chunky, reserved man who looked like a fighter", would become the fictional Tiger Tanaka, head of theJapanese secret service. The book is jointly dedicated: "To Richard Hughes and Torao Saito But for whom etc.…" Hughes features prominently in chapter 4, "Dikko on the Ginza": "The huge right fist crashed into the leftpalm with the noise of a ·45 pistol shot. The great square face of the Australian turned almost purple and theveins stood out on the grizzled temples…" Later, Hughes's character is described as looking "like a middle-agedprize fighter who had retired and taken to the bottle". On page 53, Fleming describes how, "that evening theyhad gone for more serious drinking to Henderson's favourite bar, Melody's, off the Ginza, where everybody

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called Henderson 'Dikko' or 'Dikko-san'." Hughes was also the model for Bill Craw in John le Carre’s TheHonourable Schoolboy.[ 116644]£60,000

34 FONTANIER, Victor.Voyage dans l’Inde et dans le golfe Persique, par l’Egypte et la mer Rouge.Paris: Paulin, 1844-62 volumes in 3, octavo (210 × 129 mm). Near-contemporary tan half calf, marbled boards, edges sprinkled red, green endpapers.Engraved folding map, 2 folding tables. From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles(1838–1914), with printed bookplates noting his widow’s bequest of the collection to Bath Public Library in 1920, and associatedmanuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. With the original front wrapper bound in to the rear of vol. 3. Front board ofvol. 1 very lightly bowed, light abrasion to backstrip on vol. 3 front board, a few leaves to rear of vol. 2 roughly opened, the textunaffected, otherwise contents clean throughout. An excellent copy.First edition of one of the most detailed treatments of the Persian Gulf in the 19th century; scarce, with just ahandful of copies traced at auction in the last 50 years. Fontanier (1796–1857) was appointed French envoy to thePersian Gulf in 1834. From France he sailed to Egypt and crossed the Red Sea, before travelling overlandthrough modern-day Saudi Arabia (visiting Jeddah) and then sailing from Mocha, in what is now Yemen, toBombay. In November 1835 he left Bombay for Basrah, stopping at Bandar Abbas, Hormuz, Kharg Island, andBushire. Chapters 7 to 18 of the first volume (excluding chapter 15, which concerns Baghdad) are entirelydevoted to the Persian Gulf, and are concerned mainly with trade, notably in pearls from Bahrain and horsesfrom the Nejd, and the strategic manoeuvrings of Britain and France, including the British siege of Ra’s al-Khaymah (1819–20), which led to the formation of the Trucial States. Early in 1838 Fontanier was appointedconsul to Bombay. On his way to India he stopped at Muttrah and Muscat, and describes at length Muscat’scommerce and relations with Europe. Most of the second volume is devoted to Bombay; the third describesfurther travels in China, Indochina, and Afghanistan. Fontanier had previously served as naturalist to the Frenchembassy at Constantinople, during which time he travelled extensively in the Ottoman Empire in both Europeand Asia, and writing a similar account entitled Voyages en Orient (1829–34).[ 117600]£7,500

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35 FRANK, Anne.Het Achterhuis.Dagboekbrieven van 12 Juni 1942 – 1 Augusten 1944.Amsterdam: Uitgeverij, Contact, 1947 Octavo. Original speckled grey boards, titles to front board reversed out of a brown ground and to spine in brown. Portraitfrontispiece, two photographic plates, a plan and two facsimiles of Frank’s handwriting. A little rubbed, joints started at ends, frontfree endpaper verso separating from text block at head, text toned as usual, a good copy.First edition, first impression; the true first edition of one of the genuinely emblematic books of the 20th century.Anne’s dispassionate recording of life in the concealed attic room of her family’s Amsterdam home during theNazi occupation have led to her achieving a rather narrowly “iconic” status, a figurehead for the experience ofEurope’s Jews, so for Ilya Ehrenburg she could represent “one voice [that] speaks for six million,” and her bookwas included in New York Public Library's Books of the Century Exhibition, being one of eighteen titles in thesection dedicated to “War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism.” But her achievement is both wider and far moreprofound than this, as Roger Rosenblatt wrote in his piece on her for Time Magazine’s Time 100: The MostImportant People of the Century: “The passions the book ignites suggest that everyone owns Anne Frank, thatshe has risen above the Holocaust, Judaism, girlhood and even goodness and become a totemic figure of themodern world - the moral individual mind beset by the machinery of destruction, insisting on the right to live andquestion and hope for the future of human beings … The reason for her immortality was basically literary. Shewas an extraordinarily good writer, for any age, and the quality of her work seemed a direct result of a ruthlesslyhonest disposition” (Time, 14 June 1999).[ 117002]£6,000

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36 GAUGUIN, Paul.Noa Noa: Voyage à Tahiti.Paris: G. Crès et Cie., [1926]Large quarto. Original raffia cloth, titles to spine and front cover red. With the lithographed dust jacket. With 36 full page facsimilereproductions of watercolours, drawings, woodblock prints and photos, further illustrations in text, all by Gauguin. Bookseller’sticket to foot of rear pastedown. Light rubbing to foot of spine, an excellent uncommonly bright copy in the jacket with lightly tonedspine, light nicks to extremities, 3 small closed tears to head of front panel, 1 to head of rear panel, another to head of spine.First French edition, number 80 of 100 copies, a facsimile of Gauguin's original manuscript journal, which,“represents an important project in book-making by this major artist”. It is less common than the Germanedition, published in the same year with a total limitation of 400 copies. Only eight copies of the French editionhave been traced at auction.[ 117827]£5,000

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37 GERARDE, John.The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes.Very much Enlarged and Amended by ThomasJohnson Citizen and Apothecarye of London.London: printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1633Folio (350 x 230 mm). 18th-century russia, green morocco label to spine, compartments, raised bands, and boards elaboratelydecorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Engraved vignette title page by John Payne, 2,766 woodcut illustrations. 2bookplates, one of Chillingham Castle, to front pastedown, bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown, shelfmark to front free endpaper.Spine ends and joints lightly rubbed, a few neat ink annotations to contents, occasional minor splits and punctures to fore edges andinfrequent foxing to contents, an excellent copy.First edition of Johnson’s enlarged version of the herbalist’s major work, first published in 1597. ThomasJohnson (c. 1595-1644), the London apothecary who was already a botanical writer of some note by 1633,sensibly marked his additions and major alterations to the first edition, making it possible to distinguish therevisions from the original. His edition brought a new and more scholarly focus to Gerard’s Herball; it wasgreatly esteemed, was reprinted in 1636, and became more and more expensive throughout the followingcenturies.It is extensively illustrated and Johnson drew several of the diagrams himself. The woodcuts included in the firstedition were printed from wood-blocks obtained from Frankfurt which had been used to illustrate the Eiconesplantarum of Taberaemmontanus (1590), but Johnson supplemented these with superior illustrations from thestock of Antwerp's famous printer Plantin.“Gerard contributed greatly towards the advancement of the knowledge of plants in England, and in his Herballhe described and illustrated several hundreds of our native flowering plants, including about 182 which wereadditional to those recorded in earlier works” (Henrey, p. 47).This copy once belonged to the library at Chillingham Castle, the 12th-century home of the Wakefield family.[ 118013]£12,500

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38 (GUTENBERG.) BIBLE; Latin.Single leaf from the New Testament, Luke 1:12–2:9.With a Bibliographical Essay by A.Edward Newton.[Mainz:] Johann Gutenberg, Johann Fust, and Peter Schoeffer, 1455]Royal folio (390 x 283 mm). Leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, folio 218 (Luke 1:12–2:9), with large red initial “F” on verso atbeginning of second chapter, manuscript chapter numeral “II” in alternating red and blue, text capitals rubricated throughout,manuscript headline in red and blue, some mostly marginal spotting, old dampstain at extreme upper margin, but fine. Tipped-in to:A Noble Fragment: Being a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, with a bibliographical essay by A. Edward Newton. New York: GabrielWells, 1921. Original black blind-stamped morocco by Stikeman & Co., front cover lettered in gilt, [6] pp. of text, Newton’s textin two columns, with title page and one initial letter printed in red. Some rubbing at joints, touch of fading to boards, endpaperslightly tanned from turn-ins, minor puncture to rear blank and a small tear to lower fore edge of rear free endpaper. Housed in a redquarter morocco red cloth-backed box.Unquestionably one of the most significant single leaves of the Gutenberg Bible, being Luke’s account of theevents leading up to and including the birth of Christ. The Gutenberg Bible, this “greatest of all printed books”(PMM),was the first book printed from movable type in the Western hemisphere. Only 48 copies of it are known,and of these just 16 are complete. This leaf was removed from the imperfect Mannheim Court Library–MunichRoyal Library–Robert Curzon, 1810-1873, 14th Baron Zouche (from 1870)–Sabin copy. It was purchased by theNew York bookseller Gabriel Wells at Sotheby’s, 9 November 1920, and the following year Wells broke up thecopy, which had only 593 of its approximately 640 leaves. Having supplied several institutions with the leavesnecessary to complete their own imperfect copies – in addition he gifted the New York Public Library with allbut one of their missing leaves – Wells offered those remaining as “Noble Fragments”, mostly bound along withthe Philadelphia collector A. Edward Newton’s eloquent essay, as here.Among the four evangelists only Luke and Matthew provide a narrative account of Christ’s nativity, with Luke’sbeing by far the more in-depth, providing most of the details that have come to be associated with the birth ofJesus. The centrality of this narrative to Christianity and hence its importance to world civilisation hardly needsemphasising. The present leaf opens with the final word of Luke 1:11 (“incensi”) and into verse 12, whichdescribes the reaction of Zachariah to the appearance of the angel Gabriel: “Et Zaccharias turbatus est videns ettimor inruit super eum” (“And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him”). The leaf endswith another angelic visit, this time to the shepherds outside of Bethlehem, Luke chapter 2, the first part of verse9 (with the remainder of the verse in brackets): “et ecce angelus Domini stetit iuxta illos et claritas Deicircumfulsit” [illos et timuerunt timore magno] (“And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory

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of the Lord shone round” [about them: and they were sore afraid]).A great opportunity to acquire an exceptional literary and cultural artefact[ 116821]£125,000

39 HOMER.Iliados ... Odysseias ... [in Greek].Glasguae: excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1756–8Together 2 works, 4 volumes bound in 2, folio (315 x 200 mm). Contemporary or perhaps late 18th-century vellum over thickboards, dark green morocco labels, smooth spines, sides with outer frame formed with a twin fillet in red, spot-marbled endpapers,binder's blanks of laid paper with Pro Patria watermark in the "Maid of Dort" form, red-brown burnished edges, pink silkbookmarks. Without the general title (issued in 1758), as usual. Bookplate of St Andrew St John, 14th Baron St John of Bletso(1759–1817), to each pastedown. Vellum lightly marked, silk bookmarks detached and laid in with resulting thin tan-lines to onespread in each volume, a few minor marks internally, sig. 4f1 Odysseias with two small marginal paper flaws just touching a coupleof letters on verso, overall a fine set.First edition of the Foulis Press Homer, described by Edward Harwood as “One of the most splendid editions ofHomer ever delivered to the world … its accuracy is equal to its magnificence” (Harwood, 4–5). The text wascarefully edited by the Glasgow professors James Moor and George Muirhead (Moor was Robert Foulis’sbrother-in-law) and the book was printed in a new fount of Greek type designed and cut by the Glasgowtypefounder Alexander Wilson, the fount being noted for its beauty and regularity. The brothers jointly won thesilver medal of the Select Society of Edinburgh for the best-printed and most correct Greek book. “As the eye isthe organ of fancy, I read Homer with more pleasure in the Glasgow edition. Through that fine medium, thepoet’s sense appears more beautiful and transparent” (Gibbon, Miscellaneous Works).[ 115338]£5,000

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40 HOUSMAN, A. E."Aunts and Nieces, or Time and Space." Autograph manuscript poem. [?Oxford: no date.]Single ruled leaf (333 x 205 mm) with “St Winifred” watermark, 52 lines of manuscript verse to both sides. Housed in a greenmorocco backed chemise. Three horizontal creases from folds, some light spotting, very good condition.A very scarce, and notably lengthy, manuscript comic poem by A. E. Housman. It is apparently a finished ornear-finished draft, as the text has one correction (line 34, “need not” changed to “will not”) but otherwisematches the printed text, excepting Houseman’s spacing of the drama with asterisks which is unique to thismanuscript.The poem relates how a niece scorns her aunt’s advice to “avoid, at the approach of dark / Eliza, the umbrageouspark” lest “forth the cockatrice will frisk, / and out will bounce the basilisk, / and the astoundingly absurd / yetdangerous cockyoly-bird / will knock you, with its baneful beak, / into the middle of next week”. Eliza goes tothe park (while her aunt meets the prospect of her niece’s doom with chilling sang-froid), and the aunt’sprophesy, exactly and literally, comes to pass: “Then, from behind, a vicious peck / descended on Eliza’s neck. /Eliza into the azure distance / Followed the line of least resistance. / * * * / In the middle of next week / Therewill be heard a piercing shriek, / And looking pale and weak and thin / Eliza will come flying in.” The whole is ahumorous blending of the spirit of Edward Lear’s cautionary tales with the techniques of Lewis Carroll’snonsense verse (echoes of the “Jabberwocky”), adding a dose of cliché-bending time-travel into the mixture.Housman’s comic side is not one that readers and critics often consider, perhaps overawed by his two morefamous faces, that of melancholic poet and that of sober classicist. His brother Laurence Housman, however,identified strongly with it, and saw fit to publish the first selection of his brother’s unpublished comic verse in hisposthumous memoir A.E.H. Some Poems, Some Letters and a Personal Memoir (Cape, 1937). In it he observedthat his humorous verse had been an amusement for the his brother since childhood, and that he wrote them outboth to amuse friends and in order to cope with bouts of depression. These bouts, though they often stemmedthe creative flow of his more serious works, did not abate his comic creations, which “remained fairly continuouseven during the dry years.”[ 118453]£6,000

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41 JEFFERSON, Thomas.Observations sur la Virginie.Par M. J***. Traduites de l’anglois. Paris: by Pierre-Theophile Barrois, 1786Octavo (198 x 119 mm). Contemporary French speckled calf, smooth spine gilt in compartments, tan leather title label, marbledendpapers, blue endleaves, red edges. Custom brown morocco-backed folding case. Folding engraved map, folding table, two leaves oferrata at end. Minor wear at head of spine just exposing headband, short closed tear to inner margin of map, spotting to blueendleaves, else an unusually fine and fresh copy.First edition in French and first published edition. Jefferson's only book-length work published in his lifetime waswritten in response to queries from Francois Barbe de Marbois, then secretary to the French legation atPhiladelphia. In May 1781 Jefferson told Marbois that he would give him "as full information as I shall be able todo on such of the subjects as are within the sphere of my acquaintance" and duly forwarded Marbois his answersin December of that year. At the urging of Chastellux, Jefferson refined and augmented his text, which was thenprinted in an English-language edition of 200 copies for private circulation (Paris, May 1785, though dated 1782on the title).Jefferson claimed more than once that this French edition was pirated by Pierre-Theophile Barrois, who"employed a hireling translator and was about publishing it in the most injurious form possible" (TJ Papers9:265). This fostered the theory that Jefferson felt compelled to have Stockdale publish his Notes in London inorder to prevent its re-translation from the supposedly butchered French version into English.However, in his lengthy article, “Unraveling the Strange History of Jefferson's Observations sur la Virginie”(Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, 2004, Vol. 112, Issue 2), Gordon S. Barker refutes the general notionthat Jefferson had disowned the French edition at the time of its publication. In fact, Jefferson persuaded Barroisto delay publication until he could further hone and polish the translation. Jefferson used the delay to rearrangehis text from a sequence of answers to a questionnaire into a more unified work. The result of this editing was“probably the most important scientific and political book written by an American before 1785”, and thedocument upon which “much of Jefferson's contemporary fame as a philosopher was based” (Peden,Introduction to Notes on the State of Virginia, p. xi).One important addition was the map of Virginia for which Jefferson sent instructions to the London engraver S.J. Neele in September 1786; the map was completed by December. Jefferson paid 33 francs to have 40 copies ofhis map coloured by Le Valle and added to later copies of his 1785 private edition. There were, however, errors inthe first plate which Jefferson corrected before the printing used in this edition; a restrike of this map on thinnerpaper was used in Stockdale’s London edition of 1787.

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42 JOYCE, James.Ulysses.Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922Small quarto (233 x 178 mm). Contemporary blue half morocco with the original wrappers bound-in, decorative gilt spine, bluelinen sides, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Housed in a custom made blue cloth solander box, red calf label. Joints rubbed butprofessionally refurbished; bound without the final blank. An excellent copy.First edition, first printing, number 795 from a total edition of 1,000 copies, one of 750 copies on vergé à barbes.Signed by Joyce on the blank before the half-title: “James Joyce, Paris, 26 February 1924”. At this time Joyce wasalready at work on Finnegans Wake and on the previous day (25 February) had penned a postcard to Ford MadoxFord asking “can you please let me have my typescript back and the first proofs?”; Ford, editing the transatlanticreview, was to publish the first fragment in the April 1924 issue (see Richard Ellmann, Letters of James Joyce,vol. III, 1966, p. 89).Ulysses was published on 2 February 1922 in imitation of the traditional three-tiered French format aimed at bothconnoisseurs and readers: 100 copies were printed on Dutch handmade paper and signed by Joyce; 150 copieswere printed on heavier vergé d’Arches to create a large paper format; and the remaining 750 copies formed asmall format trade issue, printed on less expensive vergé à barbes stock.[ 113181]£55,000

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43 KANT, Immanuel. Gedanken von der wahren Schätzung der lebendigen Kräfte und Beurtheilung der Beweisederer sich Herr von Leibnitz und andere Mechaniker in dieser Streitsache bedienet haben,nebst einigen vorhergehenden Betrachtungen welche die Kraft der Körper überhauptbetreffen, durch Immanuel Kant.Königsberg: Martin Eberhard Dorn, 1746 [recte 1749].Octavo (195 x 117 mm). Contemporary sprinkled sheep and speckled boards, spine decorated with gilt rules and floral device incompartments, morocco label, all edges sprinkled. With two folding plates at the end. Lower edge and corners very lightly rubbed; anexcellent copy.Very rare first edition of Kant’s first book. “In his early years Kant pondered the nature of space and time firstfrom the point of view of Leibniz and then of Newton, but eventually he found both positions unsatisfactory. Inhis Thoughts on the true estimation of Living Forces [the present work] he took Leibniz’s view and tried toexplain the nature of space by means of the forces of unextended substances (monads) that cause suchsubstances to interact. He attempted to account for the threefold dimensionality of space by appealing to the lawsthat govern such interactions; but he was not very successful, as he himself admitted” (DSB).

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44 KEATS, John. Poems.London: C. & J. Ollier, 1817Octavo. Original light brown boards, printed paper label to spine. Housed in a green quarter morocco solander box by the ChelseaBindery. With the half-title. Wood engraving of Edmund Spenser on title page. Spine darkened, light wear to spine and board edges,rear inner hinge cracked but holding, front joint and tail of spine professionally repaired. An excellent copy.First edition of Keats’s first book in the original boards, a considerable rarity, especially in such condition and notrebacked. Poems was published on 3 March 1817 by Charles and James Ollier, who were already publishingShelley. The first of a mere three lifetime publications, it is a work of mainly youthful promise – Keats hadappeared for the first time in print less than a year earlier, with a poem in the radical weekly The Examiner on 5May 1816. The 1817 Poems attracted a few good reviews, but these were followed by the first of several harshattacks by the influential Blackwood's Magazine, mainly by critics who resented Keats's avowed kinship with thedespised Leigh Hunt. The best-known poem in the book is the sonnet “On first looking into Chapman'sHomer”, "by common consent one of its masterpieces in this form, having a close unsurpassed for the combinedqualities of serenity and concentration" (Colvin), and described by ODNB as "an astonishing achievement, with aconfident formal assurance and metaphoric complexity which make it one of the finest English sonnets. As Huntgenerously acknowledged, it 'completely announced the new poet taking possession' (Hunt, Lord Byron,249)" (ODNB).[ 113377]£47,500

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45 (KENNEDY, Jacqueline B.)Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States.From George Washington 1789 toJohn F. Kennedy 1961.Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1961Octavo (230 x 145 mm). Bound for presentation in full red calf, titles to spine gilt, double rule frame surrounding presidential deviceto front cover gilt, recipients initials to foot of front cover gilt, edges gilt, red marbled endpapers, red silk page marker. Black andwhite portraits to head of chapters. Spine and board edges faded, an excellent copy. First edition, first printing. One of 80 copies specially bound for presentation by Jackie Kennedy, inscribed onthe front binder’s blank, “For David and Sissy - Jack was going to give you this for Christmas, please accept itnow from me, with all my love and all the memories of the shining times we had with him. Jackie, December1963”. Additionally laid in is Jackie Kennedy’s card in a hand addressed envelope. Presented a month followingthe assassination of John F. Kennedy on 22 November 1963, the recipients of this copy were David and SylviaOrmsby Gore, close friends of the Kennedys. David Ormsby Gore had known John F. Kennedy since Kennedy’spre-war years in London. His appointment to the position of British Ambassador to the United States in May1961 was primarily due to this friendship, which “strengthened rather than wilted under the strains of office andofficial intercourse ... buttressed by the fact that Ormsby Gore was also on close terms with Jacqueline Kennedy,as were the Kennedys with Lady Ormsby Gore” (ODNB). Ormsby Gore was, “almost as much an unofficialadviser to the president as an envoy of the British government ... His position was particularly influential duringthe Cuban missile crisis in October 1962” (ODNB). In Ormsby Gore's recollection of Kennedy, "you always felt,in his presence, that life was more worth living, was greater fun" (p. 196). Ormsby Gore remained the BritishAmbassador into Lyndon Johnson's presidency, returning to England in the spring of 1965. Ormsby Gore stayedclose with Jackie Kennedy, and later proposed to her in 1968, having been widowed himself the previous year;she turned him down stating, “If ever I can find some healing and some comfort — it has to be with somebodywho is not part of all my world of past and pain”. Two passages of Kennedy's inaugural address, pp. 267-270, arehighlighted in pencil to the margins by Lord Harlech.[ 118554]£22,500

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46 KENNEDY, John F.Inaugural Address.[Washington, DC: United States Government Publishing Office,] 1961Octavo. Original cream cloth, gilt-lettered spine, presidential seal gilt to front board. In the original matching slipcase. With a smallwire-stitched booklet containing Kennedy’s State of the Union Message, 30 January 1961, laid in. Title page printed in blue andblack, dated printed in blue, presidential seal and calligraphic initial gilt. The faintest of markings to boards, faint toning topastedowns from adhesive used in binding. A superb copy.First edition, presentation copy, of one of the most famous speeches of the 20th century, inscribed by Kennedy“To Mary and Ray Gallagher, with warm regards from their friend! John Kennedy” on the front free endpaper;one of an unknown number of copies printed for private distribution among Kennedy’s friends and associates.With an autograph letter signed by John Connally as chairman of the Texas Democratic Executive Committee,presenting Mary Gallagher with this “specially prepared, embossed copy of this inspiring message”, the letterdated 17 February 1961 and also enclosing a copy of Kennedy’s first State of the Union Message, which is laid in;also included is a detailed letter of authenticity, signed by Gallagher. An extraordinarily intimate presidentialassociation copy. Mary Gallagher (née Barelli) was sworn in as Kennedy’s senatorial aide in 1953, and served asJackie Kennedy’s personal secretary from 1956 to 1964, when Kennedy left Washington for Manhattan. Connallywas elected governor of Texas in 1963, and was sitting in front of Kennedy in the presidential car at the momentof his assassination, and was himself seriously wounded by the same bullet that killed JFK. Gallagher was riding afew cars behind, and in her 1969 memoir, My Life with Jacqueline Kennedy, recalled how she had waited outsidethe operating theatre with the first lady, who had refused to change out of her blood-soaked clothes. Gallagher’smemoir was viewed by many as an often scurrilous piece of self-justification, a reviewer for the Chicago Tribuneremarking that “The author may not be aware of it but the reader comes away convinced she was herself in lovewith JFK and resentful of Jacqueline … She was outrageously underpaid, undoubtedly overworked, andobviously a competent and efficient secretary. What is incredible is that she suffered all this for eleven yearswithout exercising the logical option of quitting”. Details included Jackie’s exceptional stinginess toward others,in contrast to the extravagance of her personal expenditure, which JFK allegedly requested Gallagher to monitoron his behalf. Kennedy’s inaugural address is considered “one of the finest speeches in American history. Byinvoking the American dream and extending its promise to the rest of the world, Kennedy’s speech was aninspirational call to action that resonates even today … The power of Kennedy’s inaugural speech lies in itsbrevity and lyrical succinctness — qualities common among Wilson’s, Lincoln’s and Churchill’s mostremembered speeches. Like the times reflected in these previous speeches, the late 1950s and early 1960s were

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fraught with crisis. The cold war had been escalating since the mid-1940s, and the US civil rights movement wasreaching a fever pitch. Marked by an idealistic tone that elevated the speech above pessimistic Cold War rhetoric,Kennedy’s inaugural address relied on the hope and optimism of a new generation” (Gale, A Study Guide forJohn F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, pp. 1-2). It is best remembered for the line, “Ask not what your countrycan do for you—ask what you can do for your country”. Judging by the number of copies extant it would appearthat no more than 100 were printed.[ 117821]£35,000

47 KENNEDY, John F.Profiles in Courage.New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956Octavo. Original black cloth-backed blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in a blue quarter sheep solandercase. 4 leaves of illustrations on plate paper, printed either side. Spine gently rolled, wear to extremities, bump to head of spine, avery good copy in the bright jacket with creasing to folds and light foxing.First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Mr. andMrs. John Knight - with the very highest regards - John Kennedy”. John S Knight (1894-1981), a pioneeringjournalist and close personal friend of the Kennedy's, founded Knight Newspapers, which would later becomeKnight Ridder, which was for a time the largest newspaper publisher in the United States.[ 117813]£17,500

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48 (KENNEDY, John F., & Jacqueline B.) The White House.An historic guide. Washington, DC: White House Historical Association, 1962Tall octavo (257 x 175 mm). Bound for presentation in green sheep, titles to spine gilt, double rule frame to covers, green and giltmarbled endpapers, original card wrappers bound in. Fully illustrated in colour. Light mottling to covers, very slight rubbing to spineends, an excellent copy.First edition, first printing. Number 93 of 100 copies specially bound for presentation by the Kennedys, inscribedon the limitation page, “For David and Sissie with love Jackie December 25 1962”, additionally signed by John F.Kennedy, “and Jack Kennedy”. The recipients of this copy were David and Sylvia Ormsby Gore, close friends ofthe Kennedys. David Ormsby Gore had known John F. Kennedy since Kennedy’s pre-war years in London. Hisappointment to the position of British Ambassador to the United States in May 1961 was primarily due to thisfriendship, which “strengthened rather than wilted under the strains of office and official intercourse ...buttressed by the fact that Ormsby Gore was also on close terms with Jacqueline Kennedy, as were the Kennedyswith Lady Ormsby Gore” (ODNB). Ormsby Gore was, “almost as much an unofficial adviser to the president asan envoy of the British government ... His position was particularly influential during the Cuban missile crisis inOctober 1962” (ODNB). Jacqueline Kennedy had first visited the White House as a tourist in 1941. She wasshocked to see so few historical furnishings on display and frustrated by the lack of information for visitors aboutthe history of the house. Twenty years later, as First Lady, she sought to change things, amongst many otherthings, including an almost full restoration of scholarly accurate period restoration, producing this booklet; notingin the preface that it, “is for all of the people who visit the White House each year ... it seemed a shame that theyshould have nothing to take away with them”. Her highly successful televised tour of the White House, broadcastby CBS on 14 February 1962, helped establish the President's home as one of the most visited tourist attractionsin the United States.[ 118559]£20,000

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49 LA JONCHERE, Étienne Lécuyer de.Systême d'un nouveau gouvernement en France. Tome I [- IV].Le Prix des quatre Volumes estde cent livres en Argent, & de quatre cent livres en Billets de Banque, Amsterdam: Chez François le Bon, 17204 volumes bound in 2, duodecimo (162 x 90 mm). Contemporary French red morocco, boards with decorative roll border andcentrally stamped coat of arms (see below), spines elaborately decorated and lettered gilt in compartments, gilt edges. 4 folding engravedtables. From the library of Louis-Antoine de Paraillan de Gondrin, first duke of Antin, with his coat of arms to each board. Verydiscreet repairs to joints and spine ends, title pages to volumes II and IV discarded; tear to the first folding table repaired withoutloss; printed on mixed paper stock, a few spots and stains, one or two short marginal tears and some leaves browned, generally verygood in an excellent contemporary binding.First edition of a very rare work by La Jonchère, one of the most original works of political economy of the 18thcentury.Writing after the death of Louis XIV in 1715, La Jonchère puts forward a detailed and comprehensive plan offinancial reform. Although he “expressly denies having followed Vauban’s Dixme Royale, he starts from the sameinitial principle... He advocates one sole tax, to be paid without privilege or exemption, by all Frenchmen withoutdistinction, to consist of a percentage collected in money or in kind, on the general produce of the ground, minesquarries, etc., by a ‘Compagnie du Commerce’, to be formed for the purpose. This company was to have themonopoly of foreign trade, its shares being given as reimbursement of the price of all the offices sold by theking’s predecessors and of the capital of the rents due to towns or individuals. The corn collected by thecompany was to be sold at a permanently fixed price. The company was also to be entrusted with the recoinageand ‘diminution’ of the metallic currency, which were to bring it down to what... La Jonchère calls its ‘intrinsicvalue.’” (E. Castelot in Palgrave).Unlike Vauban and Boisguilbert, La Jonchère sought not simply to find a fiscal system to meet the enormousdebts left by Louis XIV, but also to find a solution to the general misery of the people. According to AlphonseCallery, La Jonchère wasted little time criticising earlier authors (though he does indeed criticise the work ofBoisguilbert and of Vauban); what he proposes is a complete fiscal system, and with the precise detail of his plan,it is easy to see that he is no dreamer, but a clear minded thinker, with a well established understanding ofmathematical concepts.An engineer by training, he had travelled extensively both in France and abroad, accumulating preciousdocuments on financial administration. The book was printed between 1718 and 1719 (though dated 1720) andpresented to the Regent as a gift. It is suggested that the book’s rarity is due to the fact that John Law stole many

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of the ideas for his own financial system, and destroyed as many copies of the book as he could to hide the fact.[ 116257]£22,500

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50 LAW, John.Money and Trade considered.With a Proposal For Supplying the Nation with Money.Edinburgh: Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, 1705Quarto (211 x 164 mm). Bound third in a contemporary pamphlet volume of 16 works on commerce and Scottish poor laws (seebelow) in contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine titled “Miscellanies” and numbered 35 in gilt in the thirdcompartment. Engraved armorial bookplate of Sir William Forbes Bart of Pitsligo to front pastedown, with his manuscript listing ofthe contents of the volume on the front free endpaper. Woodcut printer’s vignette of a coastline and its reflection to title. Spine andboards worn, spine ends and corners bumped, hinges cracked but holding, pages trimmed in the binding process not affecting text andcontents browned with a few marks, overall a very attractive volume.First edition of the major work of the famous Scottish financial adventurer John Law (1671-1729), whichpresents his theories on the establishment of paper note-issuing national banks. “Like other 18th-century writersLaw adopted a disequilibrium theory of money, viewing it as a stimulant to trade. In a state of unemployment,Law maintained that an increase in the nation’s money supply would stimulate employment and output withoutraising prices since the demand for money would rise with the increase in output. Moreover, once fullemployment was attained the monetary expansion would attract factors of production from abroad, so outputwould continue to increase” (The New Palgrave III, p. 143). Law put this theory into practice with theestablishment of the Banque Générale in Paris in 1716 and then again with the Compagnie d’Occident,established a year later. Although both ventures were immediately successful - leading to his appointment asFrance’s Finance Minister in 1720 - the speculative mania which they prompted eventually caused the bubble toburst; by December 1720, Law’s banking system had collapsed, with disastrous repercussions for France’seconomy and society.Bound up with Money and Trade considered are these additional texts:a) [ARMOUR, James.] Proposals For Restoring Credit; For Making the Bank of England More Useful andProfitable; For Relieving the Sufferers of the South-Sea Company; for the Benefit of that of the East-India; Andfor Raising the Value of the Land-Interest of Great Britain. Humbly Offered to the Consideration of BothHouses of Parliament. London: 1721. Pp. 74. First edition. Goldsmiths’ 5954.b) [ARMOUR, James.] Proposals For Making the Bank of Scotland More Useful and Profitable: And forraising the Value of the Land-Interest of North-Britain. Edinburgh: printed by John Mosman and Company,1722. Pp. [2], 20, 4, [2]. First edition. Goldsmiths’ 6121. c) [HUTCHESON, Archibald.] Abstracts of the Number and Yearly Pay of the Land-Forces of Horse,Foot and Dragoons in Great Britain, for the Year 1718 ... With Some Remarks relating to the same. London:

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1718. Pp. [2], iii, [2], 25, [3], 5. First edition, the issue with "8 regiments of foot" at the end of the tenth line of thetitle (neither given precedence).d) [SCOTS HOSPITAL OF KING CHARLES II.] The Original Design, Progress, and Present State ofthe Scots Corporation At London, Of the Foundation of K. Charles II. To which is Added, A List of the Mastersand Treasurers, as also of the Benefactors. London: 1714. Pp. 14, 10. First edition.e) [ANON.] Unto the Right Honourable, The Lords of Council and Session, The Petition of the severalBrewars in and about Edinburgh under subscribing ... [Edinburgh:] 1725. Pp. 8. First edition of the petitionconcerning the Act of sederunt restricting the work of brewers.f) [PHILASTHENES.] A Letter from A Gentleman in Town To his Friend in the Country, Relating to theRoyal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: 1739. Pp. [8], 14. Second edition (first 1738), with a engraved plateshowing the north front of the Royal Infirmary and a four-page separate Letter from a Gentleman in London tohis Friend in the Country bound in after the title page, discussing the suitability of Scotland’s society for thepropagation of “Christian Knowledge”.g) [ANON.] Account by A. C. Writer in Edinburgh, of his Conduct in a certain Particular, concerning thePoors-Rate, ----occasion’d by a Letter in the Edinburgh Evening Courant. [Edinburgh: 1749.] Pp. 8. First edition.Goldsmiths’ 8443.h) [ANON.] Memorial containing The Reasons for opposing (by all lawful Means) the Imposition, at thisTime of a Poors-Rate on the City of Edinburgh, by Authority of Parliament ... [Edinburgh:] 1749. Pp. 29, [1].Goldsmiths’ 8447.i) [WILLIAMSON, Jos.] Memorial for The Magistrates and Council of the City of Edinburgh, containingA short Account of the Erection of the Charity Work-house, the Reasons for applying to the Legislature, in orderto procure the Establishment of a certain and equal Fund for the Maintenance and Employment of the Poorbelonging to this City and Royalty: With Answers to the Objections, against applying to Parliament for a PoorsRate. [Edinburgh: 1749?] Pp. 34, xx. First edition. Goldsmiths’ 8449.j) [SOCIETY OF WRITERS TO THE SIGNET.] Observations by The Committees of the Writers to theSignet, and of the Heritors and Householders of Edinburgh, upon a Memorial for the Magistrates and Council,concerning the Affair of the Poors-Rate, &c. Pp. 31, [1]. [Edinburgh: 1749.] First edition.k) [EDINBURGH TOWN COUNCIL.] Remarks for The Magistrates and Council of the City ofEdinburgh, upon a Pamphlet, signed by Ten Gentlemen, entituled, Observations by the Committees of theWriters to the Signet, and of the Heritors and Householders of Edinburgh, upon a Memorial for the Magistratesand Council, concerning the Affair of the Poors Rate, &c. [Edinburgh: 1749.] Pp. 24.l) [ANON.] Letter from a Gentleman in Edinburgh to a Friend at London; in relation to the Proposals forestablishing by Law an equal and certain Fund, for Maintenance and Support of the Begging Poor, and Out-Pensioners of the City of Edinburgh. Pp. 22. First edition, the issue not dated at the end “Edinburgh, Feb. 11th,1749” (neither given precedence), of this reply to the author of Alarm to the Housholders and Heritors of theCity of Edinburgh, published the same year. Goldsmiths’ 8445.m) [ANON.] A Short View of the Frauds, Abuses, and Impositions of Parish Officers, with someConsiderations on the Laws relating to the Poor ... London, printed: Edinburgh, reprinted, and sold at thePrinting-House in the Fish-market, 1749. Pp. 45, [1]. Second edition, first published in London by J. Stagg in1744.n) [LOVE, John.] A Letter to A Gentleman in Edinburgh, wherein The Proposal made to the late GeneralAssembly, for having Doctor Johnston’s Paraphrase of the Psalms taught in the Schools, as a proper SacredLesson betwixt Castalio’s Dialogues and Buchanan, is considered: Buchanan is vindicated, And critical Remarksupon the Doctor’s Paraphrase are offer’d. Edinburgh: Hamilton and Balfour, J. Trail, A. Kincaid, and others,1740. Pp. 22. First edition of the pamphlet signed “Philo-Buch”.o) [LOVE, John.] A Second Letter to a Gentleman in Edinburgh, wherein The Proposal made to the lateGeneral Assembly, for having Doctor Johnston’s Paraphrase of the Psalms taught in the Schools, as a properSacred Lesson betwixt Castalio’s Dialogues and Buchanan, is considered: Buchanan’s Paraphrase is vindicated,

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And the critical Remarks formerly offered upon the Doctor’s Paraphrase are defended and confirmed.Edinburgh: Hamilton and Balfour, J. Trail, A. Kincaid, and others, 1740. Pp. 35, [1]. First edition of the pamphletsigned “Philo-Buch”.[ 117696]£45,000

51 LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird.Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960Octavo. Original white wrappers, front cover printed black. Housed in a custom green quarter morocco and cloth solander box, withmatching chemise. Faint mark to fore-edge and lower fore-corner at pp. 136-40. An excellent, fresh copy, uncommon in such nicecondition.Advance reading copy, first issue. “It will ... furnish a jackpot of bestseller sales for you during the summer ... Weare rushing this paper-bound copy to you so that you may share with us the rare fun and lift in the discovery of anew talent” (publisher’s blurb). With a printed slip laid in giving the publication date of 11 July 1960. There weretwo prepublication issues: this one, set in Courier typeface, announced the publication date on the front cover thepublication as "in July", and the cover text is directed at booksellers; the second issue had a sheet overlaying thefront cover in a more polished typesetting, specified the publication date as 11 July, and the text on the frontcover was aimed at readers.[ 116696]£12,500

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52 LEE, Harper.To Kill a Mockingbird.Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960Octavo. Original green cloth-backed brown boards, title to spine brown. With the dust jacket. Housed in a green quarter moroccosolander box by the Chelsea Bindery. A fine copy in the price-clipped jacket with nicks to spine and fold of flap ends, small pencilmark to head of back panel.First edition, first printing. In the first issue jacket with the Truman Capote blurb printed in green to the frontflap and the Jonathan Daniels blurb on the rear flap. To Kill a Mockingbird became an immediate bestseller andwon the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It is “an authentic and nostalgic story which in rare fashion at once putstogether the tenderness and the tragedy of the South. They are the inseparable ingredients of a region muchreported but seldom so well understood” (Jonathan Daniels).[ 117452]£15,000

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53 LEMPRIERE, William. A Tour from Gibraltar to Tangier, Sallee, Mogodore, Santa Cruz, Tarudant; and thence over Mount Atlas to Morocco: including a Particular Account of the Royal Harem, etc.[Togetherwith] SANCHEZ, Franco. A Corrective Supplement to Wm. Lempriere’s Tour …London: printed for the author and sold by J. Walter, J. Johnson, and J. Sewell; [Amsterdam:] Gaspar Heintzen,1791-42 works, octavo and octavo in half-sheets (212 × 127 mm). Contemporary marbled calf by Christian Kalthoeber (his ticket to vol. 1front free endpaper verso, now slightly oxidised as usual), smooth spines richly gilt in compartments with central floral tools and leaf-form cornerpieces between Greek-key and double fillet rules, red morocco labels lettered in gilt, rolled Greek-key border gilt to covers,beaded roll gilt to board-edges, all page-edges gilt, rope-twist roll gilt to turn-ins, rose-pink endpapers. Engraved folding map.Catalogue slips from the Beckford sale tipped in to initial blanks, a further slip laid in; printed bookplates to front pastedowns notingthe bequest of S. B. Miles’s library to Bath Public Library by his widow in 1920, and associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. Lemprière’s Tour with bumped and slightly worn tips, light spotting to folding map and sig. N. An excellent set.First editions, William Beckford’s copies (Beckford sale catalogue nos. 2880–1), with his pencilled annotation tothe initial blank of the first work, noting “[p.] 218 at night, Sidy Mahomet had constantly six blood hounds in hischamber” and other detail; subsequently in the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Col. S. B. Miles(1838–1914), with the usual bookplates and markings (see above). A highly appealing set, in a splendidcontemporary binding by Kalthoeber (fl. 1780–1817), the pre-eminent bookbinder of Regency England.Sanchez’s supplement is extremely rare, with a single copy traced in libraries (Oxford) and none listed in auctionrecords.Lemprière (d. 1834) entered the Army Medical Service when young and by 1789 was attached to the garrison ofGibraltar. In September 1789 Muhammad III of Morocco asked the garrison to send an English doctor to attendhis son, Mawlay Absolom, who was suffering from a cataract, promising him “every protection and a guaranteeof expenses and good rewards and the release of certain Christian captives” (Cox). Lemprière accepted thecommission, reaching Taroudant in late October “where he attended the prince with great success. His onlyrewards, however, were ‘a gold watch, an indifferent horse, and a few hard dollars’. He was then summoned toattend some women of the sultan’s harem, and, having reached them on 4 December 1789, was detained inMorocco a long time against his will and was not allowed to leave until 12 February 1790, again with miserableremuneration” (ODNB). On publication his account “aroused most interest for its description of the sultan’sharem” (ibid.)The supplement by Sanchez, who is described on the title page as a “Spanisch gardner in Morocco, and a friend

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to William Lampriere [sic]”, addressed a number of its minor inaccuracies.[ 117613]£6,500

54 [LOCKE, John.]An Essay concerning Humane Understanding.In Four Books.London: by Eliz. Holt, for Thomas Basset, 1690Folio (320 x 190 mm). Bound to style sometime in the 20th century in full blind-panelled calf, brown morocco spine label, retainingold free endpapers. Neat early ink annotations in the wide margins throughout, and a couple of corrections to the text; earlyownership inscription of R. Styleman at head of title; ownership inscription of Robert Dixon on both free endpapers. Binding rubbed,internally very good.First edition, the Holt issue, traditionally considered the first. Locke worked for nearly two decades on hisinvestigation of "the certainty and the adequacy of human knowledge," concluding that "though knowledge mustnecessarily fall short of complete comprehension, it can at least be 'sufficient'; enough to convince us that we arenot at the mercy of pure chance, and can to some extent control our own destiny" (PMM).The significance of his Essay was immediately recognized: it quickly ran to several editions and was popularizedon the Continent by French translations. "Few books in the literature of philosophy have so widely representedthe spirit of the age and country in which they appeared, or have so influenced opinion afterwards" (Fraser).This issue has the Elizabeth Holt imprint, and the "ss" of Essay correctly printed; the type ornament on the titleis composed of 30 aligned pieces. An issue with a cancel title under the imprint of Thomas Basset, with the "ss"of Essay reversed, and with the typographical ornament unaligned is also known. Both issues have beenchampioned as having priority, but recent scholarship indicates that priority of issue cannot be established: in hisintroduction to the Clarendon Press edition of the Essay, Peter Nidditch reverses his former opinion that theHolt imprint is the sign of a first issue; John Attig's bibliography records it as a variant.The marginal annotations are early and intelligent commentary, summarising the content of each of Locke’sparagraphs throughout the first three books.[ 111580]£55,000

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55 MAKAROV, Stepan Osipovich.Le "Vitiaz" et l'Ocean Pacifique.Observations Hydrologiques faites par les Officiers de laCorvette "Vitiaz" pendant un Voyage Autour du Monde, exécuté de 1886 à 1889, et Recueildes Observations sur la Température et le Poids Spécifique de l'Eau de l'Océan PacifiqueNord. [”Vitiaz” i Tikhii Okean. Gidrologicheskiia Nabliudeniia, proizvedennyia OfitseramiKorveta "Vitiaz’" vo vremia krugosvietnago plavaniia 1886-1889 godov, i svod Nabliudeniinad Temperaturoiu i Udiel’nym viesom Vody Sievernago Tikhago Okeana]St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Science, 1894 Quarto. Recent maroon half morocco, marbled boards, to style, title gilt direct to spine, panels to the compartments in blind, originalpale green printed paper front wrap bound in. Numerous tables to the text, 32 maps and plates, all but one of them folding, duallingual text, French and Russian, in double column, Front wrap somewhat worn and soiled, now skilfully restored, light browningand foxing to the text-block as usual, but overall veryFirst edition. Uncommon, OCLC shows just thirteen copies world-wide, all but three - Natural History Museum,National Library of New Zealand, and Universitäts- und Forschungsbibliothek Erfurt/Gotha - in the UnitedStates. Official account of Makarov’s first pacific hydrographic survey on the Vityaz, 1886-9. Makarov hadgraduated from the Imperial Maritime Academy in 1865, commissioned as an ensign in 1869. Between 1867 and1876 Makarov served as flag captain to Admiral Andrei Popov with the Baltic Fleet, before captaining thetorpedo boat tender Velikiy Knyaz Konstantin in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877-8 - ‘his new designs and tacticsfor torpedo boats were used on the Black Sea with notable success’ (Britannica) - being the first to launchtorpedoes from a boat, which itself had been launched from the tender, in an attack on the Ottoman shipIntibah. Makarov made two round-the-world hydrographic expeditions in the corvette Vitjaz, the one recordedhere, and another of 1894-6.He designed the world’s first icebreaker, the Yermak, oversaw her construction, andcommanded her on two Arctic expeditions in 1899 and 1901. In 1900 he was appointed Chief Commander andmilitary governor of Kronstadt, and following the disaster at Port Arthur in 1904 was sent to command the BattleFleet there, his active command contrasting sharply with his predecessors. He died in April 1904 when hisflagship the Petropavlovsk struck a mine and sank.[ 117099]£7,500

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56 MELVILLE, Herman.The Works.London: Constable and Co. Ltd, 1922–416 volumes, octavo. Finely bound by Riviere and Son in tan calf, tan and brown morocco labels, elaborate decoration to spines gilt incompartments separated by raised bands, triple rule to boards gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Title pagesprinted in blue and black. Pages nice and clean, some minor marks to boards, couple of headcaps lightly chipped, two volumes withdamp staining to boards with minimal discolouration and some expert restoration to board edges. An excellent set.The Standard Edition. Number 63 of 750 sets signed by the publishers. Volume 13 contains the first edition ofthe novella Billy Budd, which was discovered in manuscript among Melville's papers in 1919 by Raymond M.Weaver, the author’s first biographer. Extremely scarce in such a handsome contemporary binding.[ 114690]£17,500

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57 MILL, John Stuart.On Liberty.London: John W. Parker and Son, 1859Octavo. Original purple cloth, covers with outer border of two thick-and-thin rules, spine lettered gilt and with blind Greek-key rollat head and tail, orange coated endpapers. 8 pp. publisher’s adverts at rear. Head of spine professionally restored, purple dye faded atspine and board edges as it is prone to do; an excellent and unusually nice copy, in far superior condition than is usually encountered.First edition of the work that “perhaps more than any other of his works, has been viewed by posterity as thekernel of his social philosophy” (ODNB). “Many of Mill's ideas are now the commonplaces of democracy. Hisarguments for freedom of every kind of thought and speech have never been improved on. He was the first torecognize the tendency of a democratically elected majority to tyrannize over a minority”(PMM). From the libraryof William Patrick Adam (1823–1881) of Blairadam House, Kinross-shire, with his armorial bookplate to thefront pastedown. An interesting provenance and a remarkable survival with the original cloth in such excellentcondition.[ 114139]£6,750

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58 MILNE, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh; Now we are Six; The House at Pooh Corner.London: Methuen & Co., 1926–27–283 works, small quarto. Original full stiff vellum with yapp edges, titles to front covers gilt. Winnie-the-Pooh in a yellow cloth chemiseand yellow morocco slipcase; Now we are Six in a dark red cloth chemise and matching slipcase; The House at Pooh Corner in apale red cloth chemise and matching slipcase. Illustrated throughout by E. H. Shepard. Faint blemishes to front cover of Now WeAre Six. An exceptional set.Signed extra-limited editions. Each volume is one of 20 large paper copies printed on Japanese vellum and boundin vellum, signed by both the author and the illustrator—the most luxurious and exclusive issue of the variousformats done for the first editions of Milne’s Pooh books. Winnie-the-Pooh is no. 12; Now We Are Six is no. 15;and The House of Pooh Corner no. 19. There was no equivalent issue of the first book in the series, When WeWere Very Young (1924), as the magnitude of its success had not been anticipated, so this constitutes a completeset of the Pooh books in this format.[ 115761]£75,000

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59 MILTON, John.Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books. The Author J.M.London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker; and by Robert Boulter; and MatthiasWalker, 1668Small quarto (173 x 126 mm). Sometime skilfully rebound to style in old sprinkled sheep, unlettered, double blind rules. Withoutthe initial blank. Margins trimmed without text loss though touching top rule border on a few leaves, contents generally clean, titleleaf with single tiny wormhole at top, bottom edge slightly shaved, and fore edge reinforced on verso, overall very good.First edition, with Amory’s first issue title page. The bibliographer Hugh Amory argues for this being the earliestissue of the first edition of Paradise Lost (despite its title page, dated 1668), in which the anonymous author isidentified only by his initials, "J.M." This is the same form by which the author is identified in the Stationers'Register, 20 August 1667. Amory speculates that Samuel Simmons, the printer and publisher of the first edition,decided against using Milton's full name on the title page "as the day of publication approached", substituting thisversion on which the author remained anonymous. Simmons's faltering confidence is understandable becauseMilton, a prominent supporter of regicide (specifically the execution of Charles I), was still widely regarded as adangerous radical when Paradise Lost was first published.The contract for the publication of Paradise Lost between Milton and the stationer Samuel Simmons is theearliest agreement between an author and a publisher for which there exists documentary evidence. Sealed on 27April 1667, it specifies a first edition of 1,300 copies. The first edition did not finally sell out until the spring of1669, and six successive title pages were used to promote its sale in that time. These are traditionally described assix distinct issues, though there is no discernible relationship between the states of the titles and the settings ofthe preliminaries, and so “issue” is over-specific.Some copies have seven additional preliminary leaves, ¹A (-A1) a. These were probably printed later in the

year and were either added by the original owners after their purchase of the text, or are present as latersophistications.[ 117652]£45,000

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60 MONCADA, Sancho de.Restauracion politica de España, primera parte, de eos publicos Al rey Don Filipe Terceronuestro señor.Madrid: for Luis Sanchez, 1619Quarto (200 x 148 mm), pp. [xii], ff. 42, 16, [9]-14. Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title to spine, remains of doeskinties, preserved in a custom made calf backed box. Housed in a brown quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Woodcutroyal coat of arms on title and each of the eight discourses. Spine split at foot, rear cover with vertical split at the head, ties defective,front free endpaper removed; lower outer corner of title page soiled and a little worn, intermittent spotting and occasional staining, someearly underlining and marginalia in ink, and some more recent pencil marginal notes; withal a very good copy in a well preservedcontemporary binding.Very rare first edition; each discourse with a special title-page and continuous pagination and signatures, exceptfor the seventh (in two parts) and eighth which have separate pagination and signatures. Moncada’s importanceas a political economist was assured by this work, which was probably presented to Philip III in 1618. In it,Moncada, who was strongly influenced by the Italian writer Giovanni Botero (1544–1617), outlines a strongprotectionist policy. A rich apparatus of citations, which includes the names of Covarrubias, Vitoria, Soto andAzpilcueta Navarro, accompanies the text.Sancho de Moncada (fl. early seventeenth century) “lectured on theology in the university of Toledo, andpublished, in 1619, eight Discursos on various economic subjects, which were the uncompromising expression ofthe prohibitive tendencies then prevalent in Spain, and, consequently, obtained a wide celebrity among hiscountrymen... Moncada does not admit for a moment that the wars abroad, the system of laws, the excessivenumber of idle persons, the debasement of the currency, etc., could fairly be looked upon as responsible for thedepressed state of Spain: ‘the misfortune of Spain flows from the trade with foreigners, who carry away our rawmaterial and our silver.’ ... His only remedy is the prohibition of exports of raw materials and precious metals, andof the imports of manufactured articles, enforced by the penalty of death pronounced against smuggling, and thedelivering to the Inquisition of all persons accused of exporting money. “ (Palgrave II, p. 783).“Moncada follows scholastic doctrine in attributing the rise in Spanish prices to the influx of gold and silver fromAmerica – ‘the abundance of silver and gold has caused a fall in their value … and consequently a rise in thethings that are bought with them’ – but thinks that the main reason for the poverty of Spain lies in the fact thather commerce has fallen into the hands of foreigners … [He] held that there was a science of government whoselaws should be learned by every administrator and suggests that a chair of ‘politics’ should be founded in alluniversities, and that an entire university devoted to the arts of government should be established in Madrid”

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(Grice-Hutchinson, p. 141).“Quesnay and George were preceded in their advocacy of a single tax on land or on agricultural produce by[Moncada], who thought it right to ‘tax Nature, who is never weary, and not human industry’, and who thereforeproposed to remove all taxes on industry and commerce, and to tax grain instead, raising its minimum fixed priceproportionately” (ibid. p. 147).[ 111853]£35,000

61 MONTESQUIEU, Charles de Secondat, Baron de.The Spirit of Laws.Translated from the French … With Corrections and Additionscommunicated by the Author.London: for J. Nourse, and P. Vaillant, 17502 volumes, octavo (203 x 123 mm). Contemporary calf, spines with raised bands, morocco labels renewed, sprinkled edges.Contemporary ownership inscription Thomas Preston to front free endpaper of each volume, engraved armorial bookplate of MansfieldPrice LLD to each title verso. Spine ends and joints professionally repaired, some surface wear, spine labels renewed to style;occasional light spotting and the odd mark; a very fine set.First English edition. One of the central texts in the history of 18th-century thought, L’Esprit des Loix was ahuge influence both on English law, especially as mediated by William Blackstone, and on those who framed theAmerican Constitution. Blackstone’s Commentaries, Hamilton’s Federalist Papers and Tocqueville’s Democracyin America are all thoroughly imbued with Montesquieu’s theories. In particular, Montesquieu is credited with theidea that the powers of government should be separated and balanced in order to guarantee the freedom of theindividual, a key concept in the creation of the US Constitution. No English language edition was published inAmerica until 1802. The translation is by the prolific Irish-born author and skilful translator of works mostlyfrom the French Thomas Nugent (c.1700–1772).[ 111777]£12,500

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62 [MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de.]De l'Esprit des loix.Ou du Rapport que les loix doivent avoir avec la constitution de chaquegouvernement, les moeurs, le climat, la religion, le commerce, &c. à quoi l’auteur a ajouté desrecherches nouvelles sur les loix romaines touchant les successions, sur les loix françoises, &sur les loix féodales.Geneva: chez Barrillot & Fils, [1748]2 volumes, quarto (245 x 186 mm). Contemporary half roan, twin tan and beige paper labels lettered in gilt, smooth spines ruled ingilt, boards speckled black, edges red. Woodcut tail-pieces. Bound without the errata as often. Modern red morocco book label torear free endpapers; contemporary or early ownership signature to half-title of Volume 1. Slight surface loss to boards, Volume 1 withsmall loss to fore margin of sig. Zz4, tiny hole to top margin of sig. Aa3, and sporadic faint dampstaining, ghosting from book labelto top corners of last 3 or 4 leaves in both volumes. A very good copy.First edition of this classic in social science which influenced the formation of the United States Constitution andwas the ideological basis of the French Revolution. “The most distinctive aspect of this immense syllabus is itsmoderation: a quality not designed to achieve official approval in 1748. It is an always original survey which isneither doctrinaire, visionary, eccentric, nor over-systematic” (PMM). L’Esprit des loix was a huge influence bothon English law, especially as mediated by William Blackstone, and on those who framed the AmericanConstitution. Blackstone’s Commentaries, Hamilton’s Federalist Papers and Tocqueville’s Democracy in Americaare all thoroughly imbued with Montesquieu’s theories. In particular, Montesquieu is credited with the idea thatthe powers of government should be separated and balanced in order to guarantee the freedom of the individual,a key concept in the creation of the US Constitution. [ 116476]£32,500

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63 (NORMAN, Dorothy.) STIEGLITZ, Alfred.American & Alfred Stieglitz. A Collective Portrait.Edited by Waldo Frank, Lewis Mumford,Dorothy Norman, Paul Rosenfeld & Harold Rugg. With 120 illustrations.New York: The Literary Guild, 1934Octavo. Original black criss-cross grain cloth, titles reversed out of silver ground to spine, monogram blocked in blind to front cover,top edge black. With the dust jacket. With 120 black and white illustrations. Slight bumps to spine ends, wear to extremities, avery good copy in the expertly restored price clipped jacket with creasing, and chipping with minor loss to extremities.First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper, “For JackMcTurner, in appreciation of all his kindness to us. Alfred Stieglitz, An American Place, Nov. 15 - 1940”.Additionally inscribed by Dorothy Norman, “I am glad that you are to have this best “of Stieglitz” - as I am gladthat it exists in the world. I will be glad too if it gives Stieglitz to you in even more manifestations than at 1710.Dorothy Norman”. It is uncommon to encounter this work with a double inscription; three signed copies havebeen traced at auction, all bearing Stieglitz’s signature only.[ 118494]£5,500

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64 OWEN, Robert.A New View of Society: or, Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the HumanCharacter, and the Application of the Principle to Practice.London: Printed for Cadell and Davies by Richard Taylor and Co. (part I), for Cadell and Davies, and Murray byRichard and Arthur Taylor (part II), printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor... Not Published (parts III & IV). 1813-144 parts bound in one octavo volume (230 x 142 mm). Contemporary straight-grained dark blue morocco, spine decorated andlettered gilt in compartments, gilt roll borders, inner dentelles and edges, watered pink silk doublures and endpapers. Manuscripttranscripts of several related documents on three leaves and the rear free endpaper, signed J. W. Ford, the son of John Walker’s niece.Autograph letter signed by Robert Owen to General Lafayette laid in. John Walker Ford (1838-1921) was the son of ElizabethLewis, John Walker’s niece, the Miss Lewis referred to in Owen’s letter to Lafayette. Extremities very lightly rubbed; an excellentcopy in a superb presentation binding.First edition, first issue of the four Essays – one of forty specially-bound presentation sets printed on thick paper,parts III & IV “Not published” – of “the first practical statement of socialist doctrine” (PMM). According toEdouard Dolléans, this is one of 40 copies bound for presentation: “En écrivant les Vues nouvelles, Owen asurtout pour objet de gagner à ses idées les membres les plus hauts placés de l’État et de l’Église; il fait relierrichement par les plus habiles ouvriers quarante exemplaires des Vues nouvelles” (Édouard Dolléans, Owen, p.145f).A New View of Society is “Owen’s first and most important published work, containing the principles uponwhich he based his educational and social reforms at New Lanark, an account of their application there, and anoutline of the means by which his theories might be applied to the nation as a whole. The first Essay …[dedicated to Wilberforce] was written in 1812 and published [anonymously], after it had been submitted toFrancis Place for revision ... The second Essay was published in the same year, the third and fourth wereprivately printed and circulated during 1814, not being published until two years later” (Goldsmiths’ OwenExhibition).The work states clearly Owen’s view of social development, stressing his egalitarian educational doctrine. At theNew Lanark industrial settlement Owen erected a large new building, the ‘Institute for the Formation ofCharacter’, which was to contain public halls, community rooms and above all schools for the children at work inthe factory, and with a nursery school (what Owen called a ‘playground’). The educational work at New Lanarkfor many years excited the admiration of visitors from all over the world. The ‘Fourth Essay’ of the bookcontains proposals at national level, including a universal state educational system, a Ministry of Education,

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colleges for training teachers, a system of state-aided public works, and the gradual abolition of the poor laws.A two-page manuscript note to the additional front free endpaper, together with a further five pages bound in atthe end of the volume, signed by J. W. Ford, states that this copy was originally given by Robert Owen to WilliamAllen, one of his business partners from 1814 in his third ownership of New Lanark. 1814. Allen (1770-1843), aphilanthropist and scientist, purchased the New Lanark mills from Owen’s previous partners, together withOwen, Jeremy Bentham, John Walker and three others, “in order to establish a model industrial community”(ODNB). The copy was subsequently in the library of John Walker, the largest shareholder after Owen in NewLanark, giving his family the largest financial stake and making the Walkers ultimate heirs to New Lanark. Laid inis an autograph letter from Robert Owen to General Lafayette, written from John Walker’s house in BedfordSquare, London, some time after Walker’s death in May 1824, requesting help for Walker’s widowed sister andher niece during their travels abroad:“My Dear General,Permit me to introduce to your kind notice Mrs & Miss Lewis the widowed sister & the niece of the late JohnWalker F.R.S. of London last known upon the Continent for his love for, & knowledge of, the arts & sciences &for the extraordinary urbanity of his life & manners.Should any occasion arise in the present agitated state of men’s minds when these ladies might require advice orprotection in a strange land I am sure you will extend yours to Mrs & Miss Lewis[2] as you have always done to those who required them on this as well as upon the other side of the Atlantic.Knowing how many letters you must now receive I will merely add that I remain Most Respecetd Sir, yoursincere friend Robert Owen.”[ 118421]£87,500

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65 PROUST, Marcel.Du cote de chez Swann.À la recherche du temps perdu.Paris: Bernard Grasset, Editeur, 1914Octavo (186 × 115 mm). Bound by Semet & Plumelle in near-contemporary blue half morocco, marbled sides, top edge gilt, foreedge uncut, marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in at front and rear. Small book label to front free endpaper. Spine slightlyfaded, small repair to front wrapper; an excellent copy, handsomely bound.First edition, first printing, first state. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “à Madame Rostand, hommaged’admiration respecteuse, Marcel Proust”. The recipient was Rosemonde Gérard, French poet and playwright,and the mother of Proust’s friend Maurice Rostand; she was married to Edmond Rostand, best known for hisplay Cyrano de Bergerac. The presentation inscription is inserted on different paper stock to the rest of the book,as usual for this title. The necessary issue points are all present: wrappers dated MCMXIII, title page dated 1914,and p. 528 with the imprint dated “le huit novembre mil neuf treize”. The publication of Proust’s masterpiecewas much affected by the Great War, which led to a staggered publication of Du Cote De Chez Swann.[ 117367]£22,500

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66 PROUST, Marcel.À la recherche du temps perdu.Paris: Bernard Grasset, éditeur/Librairie Gallimard, Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1914–277 works bound in 13 volumes, octavo. Vol. I in original yellow wrappers printed in black, with the 8-page publisher’s catalogue tothe rear; others in original cream wrappers printed in red and black. All in glassine wrappers except for vol. IV. Housed in purplecloth-backed boxes, paper labels to spines printed in purple. Modern bookplate to front free endpaper of vol. I, bookseller’s repricingticket to the spine of vol. II as usual, four-page errata slip laid-in to vol. III. Spine ends lightly bumped and a few small nicks tospine ends of glassine wrappers, some light rubbing to wrappers extremities and box edges, overall an excellent set.First editions throughout of Proust's massive roman-fleuve which has been judged by many to be the major novelof the 20th century. Proust at first could not find a publisher willing to take a chance on such a substantial workand so published the first volume at his own expense with Grasset. That first volume, Du côté de chez Swann, isthe first printing, first issue with all requisite points as described by Brun: the wrappers bear the date 1913; thetitle page is dated 1914 and has the intrusive printer's slug between the E and the T in the imprint; and the texthas all the correct and incorrect pagination as noted in Max Brun's bibliography. Gallimard's Nouvelle RevueFrançaise, which had rejected the book on the basis of a hasty reading by André Gide, swiftly realised the errorand came to an agreement with Proust to publish the rest of the work.[ 118490]£35,000

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67 [PUTTENHAM, George.]The Arte of English Poesie.Contrived into three Bookes: The first of Poets and Poesie, the second of Proportion, the third of Ornament.London: by Richard Field, 1589Quarto (184 x 127 mm). Dark green levant morocco by Rivière, floral and ornamental gilt border on pointillé ground on sides, giltdentelles, spine gilt, edges gilt. Bookplate. Woodcut device (McKerrow 222) on title page, woodcut portrait of Elizabeth I, woodcutinitials, head- and tailpieces, and diagrams; bound without first and last blanks. Spine slightly faded, slight tear to fore-corner of p.63, a few pages with skilful, almost imperceptible repairs to worming at margins, not affecting text. An excellent copy.First and only contemporary edition; "an ambitious work of literary history and criticism as well as a rhetoricalhandbook for the practising poet" (ODNB). Puttenham's examples are drawn mostly from early to mid-16th-century writers, poetry such as Richard Tottel's Songs and Sonnets or the works of George Gascoigne andGeorge Turberville. Ben Jonson owned a copy and carefully annotated it. The book was published anonymouslywith a dedication to Burghley subscribed “R. F.” by the printer Richard Field, the Stratford contemporary ofWilliam Shakespeare. Field was associated with the printing or publishing of many important sources forShakespeare's plays, suggesting the possibility that the playwright may have had access to his townsman's shop.William Lowes Rushton itemizes an impressive number of parallels between The Art of English Poesie and thelanguage displayed in Shakespeare's plays.[ 114832]£45,000

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68 (QUR’AN; Arabic & Latin.) Alcorani textus universus.Ex correctioribus Arabum exemplaribus summa fide, atquepulcherrimis characteribus descriptus, aademque fide, ac pari diligentia ex Arabico idiomate inLatinum translatus; Apposititis unicuique capiti notis, atque refutatione: His omnibuspraemissus est Prodromus Totum priorem Tomum imples, In quo contenta indicantur paginasequenti.Padua: Typographia Seminarii, 16982 volumes in one, folio in sixes (346 × 225 mm). Contemporary vellum, sometime rebacked and relined, raised bands,compartments lettered in gilt, sides decoratively panel-stamped in blind, red sprinkled edges. Woodcut head- and tailpieces, figurativeinitials. Complete with all sectional title pages and the 2 leaves of errata to the rear. Book label (“HB”) and detailed pencilledcollation to front pastedown. Vellum faintly soiled, short superficial splits to head of front joint and foot of rear, old thumb-tags tofore edge of section-titles in the Prodromus and to title of the Refutatio Alcorani, minute hole intermittently appearing in fore margins(probably from the papermaker’s mould), the text never affected, sporadic pale foxing to margins, the occasional minor spot or mark.Prodromus: title and sig. A1 browned and marginally restored, contemporary inked marginalia to pp. 38–9, small hole to Parstertia sig. A2 costing one word on the recto. Refutatio Alcorani: old pencilled marginalia to pp. 7, 84 & 87, contemporary inkedmarginalia to pp. 22, 83 & 352, sigs. A3–B1 dampstained, pale tide-mark occasionally appearing in upper outer corners,spreading in final few leaves, closed tear to lower outer corner of sig. 2D3, the text spared. A very good copy, tall, crisp and imposing,with deep impressions of the Arabic types, and of the appealing woodcuts.First edition of Marracci’s Qur’an, “the greatest pre-modern European work of Qur’anic scholarship” (Burman).The second volume, entitled “Refutatio Alcorani”, comprises the second obtainable edition of the originalArabic, a Latin translation considered “by far and away the best translation of the Qur’an to date” (Hamilton),and an analysis and refutation of each surah, and is preceded by the second edition of Marracci’s extensiveprefatory work, the Prodromus Ad Refutationem Alcorani, which was first published in 1691 and includes a lifeof Muhammad.The first Arabic edition of the Qur’an was printed in Venice c.1530 and survives in a single copy: it is thought theentire print-run was ordered to be destroyed. In 1694 the second Arabic edition was published by AbrahamHinckelmann, a Lutheran pastor in Hamburg, though lacked a translation or any form of commentary beyond theintroduction. Marracci’s efforts were intended to compete with such Lutheran interpretations and formed “partof a vast war effort … with the aim of restoring the intellectual and theological glory of the Church of Rome andthe memory of the Vatican as Europe’s foremost centre of Oriental studies” (Elmarsafy, The EnlightenmentQur’an, online).

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“Marracci, an Italian priest of the order of the Chierici regolari della Madre di Dio who was also professor ofArabic at La Sapienza as well as confessor to Pope Innocent XI, divided the text of the Qur’an into manageablesections which he presented to his readers first in carefully vocalized Arabic, and then in his new Latintranslation, followed by a series of notae that address lexical, grammatical and interpretive [sic] problems. Likemost other Latin Qur’an translators, Marracci often includes material drawn directly from Muslim commentators… but his careful notes generally also supply far more explanatory material … By virtue of its extensive notes onthe text throughout, Marracci’s enormous edition provided his European readers with the Qur’an accompanied… by much of its traditional Sunni interpretation” (Burman).A cache of manuscripts unearthed in the library of Marracci’s order in 2012 has since verified his claim to havetranslated the Qur’an four times before committing it to print. The result was a landmark of Arabic scholarshipwhich finally ended the dominance of Robert of Ketton’s 12th-century Latin translation. It was translated intoGerman in 1703 and formed the basis of George Sale’s influential English edition of 1734.[ 115141]£10,500

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69 (RACKHAM, Arthur.) IBSEN, Henrik.Peer Gynt.A Dramatic Poem.London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1936Quarto (265 x 189 mm). Specially bound for the publisher in green full morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt lettered and panelledspine, single-line gilt panel on sides with gilt corner ornaments from designs by Rackham, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, two-linegilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers (the original pictorial endpapers bound in after binder’s blanks). Coloured frontispiece and 11mounted colour plates, black and white drawings in the text, by Rackham. An excellent copy.Deluxe edition, number 1 of 460 copies signed by the artist. This is one of ten “special copies” reserved by thepublisher from the total edition, presented in a specially commissioned luxury binding and including a delightfulfull-page original pen-and-ink and watercolour drawing by Rackham (signed “Arthur Rackham 36”), showingPeer Gynt in a mountain landscape with crouching figures and anthropomorphic trees. Describing his artisticmethod for these “specials”, Rackham pointed out that “my little sketches must inevitably be of a light hearted orjoking nature... They have to be spontaneous and free handed. The nature of the paper is such that there can beno preparatory drawing and no alterations”. Riall comments that “From The King of the Golden River [1932],Harrap issued nine or ten copies, seven being for sale, of a special issue of the first limitation numbers of thelimited edition” (A New Bibliography of Arthur Rackham, 1994, p. xvi).[ 112908]£20,000

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70 (RACKHAM, Arthur.) POE, Edgar Allan.Tales of Mystery and Imagination.London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1935Quarto (262 x 186 mm). Specially bound for the publisher in green full morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt lettered and panelledspine, single-line gilt lozenge on sides with gilt corner ornaments from designs by Rackham, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, three-linegilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers (the original pictorial endpapers bound in after binder’s blanks). With the publisher’s card slipcase(with hand-numbered label). Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates mounted on heavy white paper with captioned tissue guards,black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Slight signs of wear at extremities of joints. An excellent copy.Deluxe edition, number 3 of 460 copies signed by the artist. This is one of ten “special copies” reserved by thepublisher from the total edition, presented in a specially commissioned luxury binding decorated in gilt with toolsdesigned by the artist, and including a full-page original pen-and-ink and watercolour drawing by Rackham(signed “Arthur Rackham 1935”), showing a seated elderly man reading a hair-raising story, while his black catspits at the Devil, who emerges from behind his armchair.It was George Harrap who hit on the idea of a “Rackham special”, the most exclusive format of Rackham’sbooks. From The Vicar of Wakefield on, Harrap held back the first dozen or so copies to be specially bound, ashere, and asked Rackham to add a unique original watercolour sketch to the limited page. The first few copieswere usually reserved for the publisher and his family; only a handful were available to the public.Describing his artistic method for these “specials”, Rackham pointed out that “my little sketches must inevitablybe of a light hearted or joking nature ... They have to be spontaneous and free handed. The nature of the paper issuch that there can be no preparatory drawing and no alterations”.[ 112910]£32,500

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71 (RACKHAM, Arthur.) ROSSETTI, Christina.Goblin Market.London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1933Octavo (230 x 140 mm). Specially bound for the publisher in green full morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt lettered and bandedspine, gilt panel on sides comprising a single fillet at the sides and a roll tool top and bottom, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, two-line gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers (the original pictorial endpapers bound in after binder’s blanks), with the publisher’s cardslipcase (with hand-numbered paper label). Colour frontispiece and 3 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text byRackham. An excellent copy. Deluxe edition, number 1 of 410 copies signed by the artist. This is one of ten “special copies” reserved by thepublisher from the total edition, presented in a specially commissioned luxury binding and including a delightfulfull-page original pen-and-ink and watercolour drawing by Rackham (signed “Arthur Rackham”), showing one ofthe goblins shouldering a basket of fruit in the company of a rodent and a large-billed bird. Describing his artisticmethod for these “specials”, Rackham pointed out that “my little sketches must inevitably be of a light hearted orjoking nature... They have to be spontaneous and free handed. The nature of the paper is such that there can beno preparatory drawing and no alterations”. Riall comments that “From The King of the Golden River [1932],Harrap issued nine or ten copies, seven being for sale, of a special issue of the first limitation numbers of thelimited edition” (A New Bibliography of Arthur Rackham, 1994, p. xvi).[ 112901]£16,500

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72 (RACKHAM, Arthur.) RUSKIN, John.The King of the Golden River. London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1932Octavo. Bound for the publishers by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full green morocco, titles to spine gilt, gilt rule to spine, raised bands,gilt fillet to boards gilt, twin rule to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt other uncut. In the original card slipcase with printedtitle label to spine. Colour frontispiece and 3 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text by Rackham. Spine sunned,light wear to the spine edge, in the toned slipcase. An excellent copy.Deluxe edition, number 7 of 570 copies signed by the artist. This is one of nine “special copies” in a luxurybinding commissioned by the publisher and including a striking full-page original pen-and-ink and watercolourdrawing by Rackham (signed and dated “Arthur Rackham 1932”), showing the King of the Golden Riverstanding in the furnace in front of Gluck, brother of Hans and Schwartz, the “Black Brothers”. Describing hisartistic method for these “specials”, Rackham pointed out that “my little sketches must inevitably be of a lighthearted or joking nature... They have to be spontaneous and free handed. The nature of the paper is such thatthere can be no preparatory drawing and no alterations”. Riall comments that “From The King of the GoldenRiver [1932], Harrap issued nine or ten copies, seven being for sale, of a special issue of the first limitationnumbers of the limited edition” (A New Bibliography of Arthur Rackham, 1994, p. xvi).[ 112900]£16,500

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73 (RACKHAM, Arthur.) WALTON, Izaak.The Compleat Angler, or The Contemplative Man's Recreation.Being a Discourse of Rivers,Fishponds, Fish and Fishing Not Unworthy the Perusal of most Anglers.London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1931 Small quarto. Specially bound for the publisher by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in red crushed morocco, spine gilt tooled with a fish motif(closely resembling that used on copies in the vellum binding), concentric gilt panels on sides with fish motif at corners, top edge gilt,others untrimmed, three-line gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Housed in a red quarter morocco slipcase. Colour frontispiece and 11coloured plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Attractive bookplate of CyrilSturla (a captain in The Cheshire Regiment during the Great War). An excellent copy.Deluxe edition, number 1 of 757 copies signed by the artist; this is one of a putative 10 “special copies” in aluxury binding commissioned by the publisher and containing an original signed pen-and-ink and watercoloursketch by Rackham (this one captioned “Handle him as if you loved him” – Walton’s dictum for handling a livefrog before impaling it on a hook) and showing an amusing riparian scene with a frog pleading with a gentleman,while a typically Rackhamesque anthropomorphic tree looks on.It was George Harrap who hit on the idea of a “Rackham special”, the most exclusive format of Rackham’sbooks. From The Vicar of Wakefield on, Harrap held back the first dozen or so copies to be specially bound, ashere, and asked Rackham to add a unique original watercolour sketch to the limited page. The first few copieswere usually reserved for the publisher and his family; only a handful were available to the public.Describing his artistic method for these “specials”, Rackham pointed out that “my little sketches must inevitablybe of a light hearted or joking nature... They have to be spontaneous and free handed. The nature of the paper issuch that there can be no preparatory drawing and no alterations”.[ 112911]£27,500

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74 REGIOMONTANUS (Johannes Müller) & Georgius Purbachius.Epitoma in Almagestum Ptolemaei.(Edited by Caspar Grosch and Stephan Römer.)Venice: Johannes Hamman for the editors, 31 August 1496Super-chancery folio (307 x 206 mm), ff. 108, including final leaf, blank and genuine; without the bifolium containing JohannesBaptista Abiosus's letter dated 15 August 1496, inserted in a minority of copies between a1 and a2. Bound to style in full vellumover thin pasteboards, ties and catches. Custom dark red cloth folding case. 48 lines and headline. Types: 4:135G, 2:103G, 8:86G,5:70(67)G, 80Gk. Xylographic title, full-page woodcut of an armillary sphere with Ptolemy and Regiomontanus studying below,279 woodcut marginal diagrams (including repeats), white-on-black floriated woodcut initials in several sizes, woodcut printer's deviceon p7v (Kristeller 231). Early manuscript foliation, manuscript notation on title page. Title leaf and last text leaf with paperrestorations in lower margins; a tall copy but trimmed just a little close in fore margin, shaving one diagram on f2v with loss of twoletters; last text leaf with small hole at centre touching a couple of letters either side of the leaf; a few trivial spots or marks internally:a very good copy.First edition in any form of Ptolemy’s Almagest, the foundation of ancient astronomy. Regiomontanus’ Epitomeof Ptolemy is an epochal text that both made available the canonical astronomy of the ancient world and heraldedthe birth of the revolutionary astronomy of the new learning. This is the only appearance in print of the Almagestin the fifteenth century. The first complete edition was not published until 1515. The Epitome was begun byPeurbach, who, when he lay on his deathbed in 1462, made Regiomontanus promise that he would complete it.Regiomontanus had hoped to publish the book at his own press in Nuremberg in the 1470s, but his prematuredeath delayed its appearance for more than twenty years.“At the end of the fifteenth century, Ptolemy’s achievement remained at the pinnacle of astronomical thought;and by providing easier access to Ptolemy’s complex masterpiece, the Peurbach–Regiomontanus epitomecontributed to current scientific research rather than to improved understanding of the past” (DSB). Moreover,since the Peurbach–Regiomontanus version was based on a Greek manuscript belonging to Cardinal Bessarion(the Cardinal claimed the manuscript was worth more than a province), rather than the debased Latin translationsfrom the Arabic, the Epitome was more reliable than the complete versions when they did appear. The editioprinceps of the Greek text (1538) was based on the same Bessarion manuscript, which is now lost.This edition was almost certainly the text that provided Copernicus with his knowledge of the Ptolemaic system,since he had largely completed writing De revolutionibus before publication of the next edition in 1515(Gingerich, Eye of Heaven p. 164). One of Peurbach–Regiomontanus's corrections sparked Copernicus toquestion the Ptolemaic system, which had formed the basis of astronomy for more than one millennium, and to“lay the foundations of modern astronomy with his revolutionary heliocentric system” (DSB 11, p. 349).

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75 RICHTHOFEN, Manfred von.Manfred von Richthofen (1892-1918) - Album of 20 Original Photographs. France: 1916-8Landscape folio album (320 × 245 mm). Recent red morocco album, broad panel of double gilt fillets, rosette corner tools, title asabove gilt framing gilt Eisernes Kreuz device enclosing Richtofen’s dates, hinges lined with red morocco, cream moiré silk endsheets. 7leaves of black card with 20 mounted silver gelatin prints of various formats including 2 large aerial reconnaissance images (166 ×222 mm and 159 × 276 mm); 9 prints 125 × 165 mm; the rest 90 × 130 mm and slightly smaller. Photographs with a fewsmall nicks, minor oxidation at the margins in some cases, but overall very good.Highly appealing collection of original photographs dedicated to services of the Luftstreitkräfte, the ImperialGerman Army Air Service during World War I, which includes some of the last portraits of Manfred vonRichthofen. The album concludes with three important photograph portraits of several of Germany’s top pilotsgathered for the D Flugzeug Wettbewerb flying competition at the Adlershof aviation testing centre outsideBerlin in mid-January 1918. The photos record the same occasion as Part 2 of the “Richthofen Film” made by A.F.G. Fokker in 1918 (which can be seen at Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive online, http://www.ushmm.org/online/film/display/detail.php?file_num=3353; U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum). The first image showsgreat German ace Manfred von Richthofen, the legendary “Red Baron” (1892-1918) - the top-scoring ace of thewar, credited with 80 air combat victories - in conversation with Hans Klein (1891-1944), a German fighter acecredited with 22 aerial victories, who was awarded the Iron Cross and Pour le Merité, or “Blue Max” in October1917. The second is of Adolf von Tutscheck (1891-1918), Commander of Jagdgeschwader 2 from February 1918,awarded the Blue Max in August 1917. Tutschek is shown in fur-lined flying helmet, wearing his Blue Max. Thethird photo is a group portrait of six of German fighter pilots; Lt. Erich Löwenhardt (1897-1918; the thirdhighest-scoring German flying ace with 54 victories, awarded with the Blue Max in May 1918; Oberlt. BrunoLoerzer (1891-1960; commander of Jasta 26, later of Jasta III, the third of the German famous “flying circuses,”awarded with the Blue Max in February 1918; Manfred von Richthofen, Lt. Kurt Schwarzenberger, chief testpilot for the experimental fighter division of Idflieg (Inspektion der Fliegertruppen - Inspectorate of FlyingTroops); Hans Klein; Albert Mühlig-Hofmann (1886-1980), commander of the Field Equipment Service ofIdflieg). The images can be dated from the fact that Hans Klein is shown wearing his Blue Max, and still has hisright index finger, which was shot off in combat on 19 February 1918. These images are among the last portraitsof Adolf von Tutscheck - killed in action on March 15, 1918 - Manfred von Richthofen - killed in action on April21, 1918 - and Erich Löwenhardt - killed in action on August 10, 1918). The earlier images in the album includeviews of Heidelberg, six aerial views of an airfield and a hangar constructed near to a small French city within a

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star fort, apparently one of the German airfields at the time. Another series of six pictures record a tour ofinspection of a German base by the High Command headed by Paul von Hindenburg, Germany’s Chief ofGeneral Staff since 1916. Altogether an attractively presented album containing some historically significantphotographs.[ 117866]£4,500

76 ROOSEVELT, Franklin D., & Winston S. Churchill.Addresses.Washington, DC: White House, Christmastide 1942Small folio. Original quarter vellum, blue spine label lettered in gilt, marbled boards, top edge gilt, others deckle-edged. Originalacetate jacket. In blue card slipcase, as issued. Custom dark blue morocco backed slipcase and chemise. Printed in three coloursthroughout, with folding facsimile broadside. A fine copy.First edition, number 57 of 100 copies only. Inscribed by Roosevelt to his secretary Grace Tully in blank ink onthe front free endpaper: “For Grace – who was with this volume from the first dictation to the final “make-up” –with love from Franklin D. Roosevelt, Christmas 1942”.A select compendium of Roosevelt and Churchill’s early war speeches, specially collated and printed as a holidaygift for White House staff members in December 1942.Beginning with Roosevelt’s famous address to Congress the day after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, this slimvolume includes three other Roosevelt orations: his broadcast to the nation on 9 December 1941, his 11December request to Congress for a declaration of war against Germany and Italy, and his 6 January 1942 Stateof the Union address; together with his joint Christmas 1941 radio greetings with Churchill from the southportico of the White House, Churchill’s 26 December 1941 address to Congress, and a fold-out broadsidefacsimile of the 1 January 1942 United Nations declaration.Grace Tully was the only person Roosevelt trusted to take dictation of his speeches, a fact he alludes to in hisinscription.[ 117562]£32,500

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77 ROOSEVELT, Theodore.African Game Trails.An account of the African wanderings of an American hunter-naturalist.New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 19102 volumes, large octavo. Original brown half pigskin, pale grey-brown sides, untrimmed. With the dust jackets, card chemises andoriginal slipcase. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, 47 photogravure plates (8 of them from drawings by the great wildlife artist PhilipR. Goodwin, the rest "from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and other members of the expedition"), all with captioned tissue guards;title pages printed in red & black. Contemporary presentation inscription on front free endpaper of volume I, light tan-burn fromthe corners to the endpapers, slipcase and chemises with splits now professionally restored, some staining and minor stripping from oldtape repairs, however overall a remarkably well-preserved set of this handsome production.First and limited edition, number 129 of 500 copies signed by the author, printed on Ruisdael Paper by the DeVinne Press. Absenting himself from politics for a year, Roosevelt set off on an elaborate hunting trip to gatherspecimens for the Smithsonian. The huge party, including over 250 porters and guides, was partly underwrittenby Scribner's who gave Roosevelt a $50,000 commission for a series of 12 articles on the safari which form thebasis of this book. The party crossed British East Africa, into the Belgian Congo, and traced the Nile across theSudan to Khartoum. “Lavishly illustrated, African Game Trails was irresistible to readers who could stomach themeticulous descriptions of bullets drilling hearts and brains. Even those who could not... had to concede thatRoosevelt was scientific in his scrutiny of every aspect of the African wilderness, and often movingly lyrical. Thedensity of recorded details, whether ornithological, paleontological, botanical, or anthropological, was almostoverwhelming. Most came not from notes, but from the author’s movie-camera memory, which in advance ofany system yet available in nickelodeons, registered both sight and sound. Over and above its documentaryappeal, the book exuded a kind of savage romance new to American readers” (Edmund Morris, ColonelRoosevelt, 2010). Sets in such collectable condition and with the surviving chemises and slipcase are mostuncommon.[ 117116]£10,000

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78 ROWLING, J. K.[Complete set of the Harry Potter novels:] Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone; theChamber of Secrets; the Prisoner of Azkaban; the Goblet of Fire; the Order of the Phoenix;the Half-Blood Prince; the Deathly Hallows.London: Bloomsbury 2005–77 volumes, octavo. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. With the dust jackets. A fine set.Each volume is inscribed by the author on the title page, with the first six volumes inscribed “To Louisa, J. K.Rowling”, and the final volume inscribed “To Louisa, with love, J. K. Rowling”. The set is accompanied by aletter of provenance from Fiddy Henderson, Rowling’s P.A., dated 21 August 2005. The first six volumes weresent together and were completed with the copy of Deathly Hallows when it was published in 2007; the finalvolume also bears the publisher’s holograph sticker authenticating the signature. The set consists of mixededitions: The Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows are first editions, and the other volumes later impressions.It is unusual to encounter a complete set inscribed to the same recipient.[ 118747]£12,500

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79 RUSKAJA, Jia.La danza come un modo di essere.Prefazione di Marco Ramperti. Ventisette fotografie fuoritesto.Milan: Casa Editrice I. R. A. G., 25 April 1927Folio. Original red morocco, titles gilt to spine and front, gilt design to front board, moiré silk endpapers. 10 large photographic printsmounted on black card, and 16 smaller photographic images on 8 plates at the rear. Spine an corners a little worn, some faintspotting to the first and final blank, small tear to the lower margin of first blank, very good condition overall.True first edition, tête de tirage copy specially bound and inscribed on the first blank to Il Duce, “A BenitoMussolini, ommagio di devozione e di infinita ammirazione, Jia Ruskaja, 11 Julio 1927, Roma”. This superlativeassociation copy is copy number one of the true first 1927 edition, which was limited to 225 copies on handmadepaper signed by Ruskaja. La Danza Come Un Modo Di Essere was printed in the following year by Casa EditriceAples, in a larger limited edition of 1,500 copies. Even that edition is now uncommon, but this true first is trulyrare; we can find no example of the 1927 edition in library holdings worldwide, nor any recorded at auction. Thered morocco binding here is likely to be unique to Il Duce’s special presentation copy. “Jia Ruskaja” (bornEvgenija Borisenko, 1902-70), whose stage name simply means “I am Russian”, was the daughter of a WhiteRussian officer, and fled Russia in 1918 just after the October Revolution. After studies in Geneva and a failedmarriage to an Englishman in Constantinople, she settled in Rome and devoted herself to dance. She had herdebut on 4 June 1921, and swiftly became a prominent proponent of the “free dance” movement introduced byIsadora Duncan, dancing at the Teatro degli Indipendenti throughout the 20s before opening her own balletschool in Milan at the Teatre dal Verme in 1929. By 1932 she was promoted to the charge of the Teatro dellaScala ballet school, and in 1940 her own school was recognised by the state as the Regia Scuola di Danza (from1948 named the Academia Nazionale di Danza), for which she acted as founding director until her death. Asnoted in Europe Dancing: “There is little doubt that the frequent visits and the presence in Italy of companiesand personalities such as Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, Isadora Duncan, Ida Rubinstein, Bella Hunter, Mary Wigmanand Jia Ruskaja, channelled the interest of Italian theatre-goers away from such a culturally sterile form ofnational choreography. Some of those ‘innovative’ foreign inputs, moreover, were soon destined to becomeofficial manifestations of the Fascist regime’s politically pre-determined culture. The allegedly negative effect ofFascist culture on the Italian ballet tradition is much debated among Italian dance scholars and has yet to be fullyascertained. Some claim that, by supporting other forms of dance such as the ‘free’ and neo-classically inspiredstyle promoted by Jia Ruskaja, and by forcing eminent supporters of the ballet to move abroad, Mussolini’sregime gave a deadly blow to what was left of the once-acclaimed art form. Others point out that it was under the

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Fascist regime that two important ballet institutions were created in Rome, such as the Opera Ballet School(1928) and the Regia Scola di Danza (Royal School of Dance) (1940).” This is a compelling association copy forthe history of dance in Italy, connecting one of its most modernising proponents to the head of state, andrevealing the manner by which parts of futurist culture was promoted under Mussolini’s fascist regime.[ 117929]£6,750

80 SALINGER, J. D.The Catcher in the Rye.London: Hamish Hamilton, 1951Octavo. Original blue boards, spine lettered in silver. With the supplied dust jacket, designed by Fritz Wegner. Housed in a darkblue quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Boards browned at edges and a little marked, tips worn, a good copy inthe jacket with chips at head of spine and folds.First UK edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author in red ink on the front free endpaper, “To JoyceWilliams, who nursed my mother so selflessly and beautifully. With gratitude, J. D. Salinger. New York, N.Y. June21, 1974.”Salinger’s mother was born Marie Jillich, in 1891 in Atlantic, Cass County, Iowa, and died in June 1974, the samemonth as the inscription. She had adopted Judaism and the name Miriam on her marriage. Her husband Sol,Salinger’s father, had died earlier the same year, in Brooklyn Heights, New York. Apparently Salinger showedlittle emotional response to their deaths, even within his own family. He reported having dealt with his father'sdeath with a "minimum of crap and ceremony" and, when his mother died, he neglected to tell his own daughterPeggy; she read about it in the newspaper (Raychel Haugrud Reiff, J. D. Salinger, 2008, p. 35). This presentationinscription, made in a copy of the UK edition presumably from his own library, shows a little more emotionalresponse to her passing. On the rear endpaper, Joyce Williams has re-presented the book: “To my brother Eric McBean. From his sisterJoyce Williams. May 17, 2003. Brooklyn NY. 11233”.[ 113798]£55,000

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81 SHACKLETON, Ernest H.South.The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914–1917.New York: Macmillan Company, 1920Octavo. Original green cloth, title to spine and front board. Colour frontispiece and 87 half-tone plates, folding map at the rear. Alittle rubbed, corners bumped, head and tail of the spine crumpled and just starting to split, a little give in both hinges, mild taperesidue marks to the free ednpapers, pale toning throughout and the occasional spot of foxing, short closed tear to the map, overall verygood.First US edition of Shackleton’s account of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, the year following the firstUK. This copy inscribed on the front free endpaper; “To Miss Jacobs with best wishes from E. H. Shackleton21st June 1920”. Shackleton's own account of the famous Endurance Expedition. In 1914, Shackleton and a 28-man crew had set out on the Endurance in the hope to be the first to cross the Antarctic continent – an 1800miles journey, sea to sea. However, in January 1915, due to exceptionally cold and icy conditions, the Endurancewas trapped in ice. Ten months later, the pressure of the ice crushed the ship which sank, leaving Shackletonstranded some 1,600 km from any human activity. “Shackleton now showed his supreme qualities of leadership.With five companions he made a voyage of 800 miles in a 22-foot boat through some of the stormiest seas in theworld, crossed the unknown lofty interior of South Georgia, and reached a Norwegian whaling station on thenorth coast. After three attempts, Shackleton succeeded (30 August 1916) in rescuing the rest of the Enduranceparty and bringing them to South America” (ODNB). Amazingly, all members of the Endurance party survivedthe ordeal.[ 116960]£5,000

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82 (SHAKESPEARE, William.) LAMB, Charles [& Mary.]Tales from Shakespeare: Designed for the use of young persons. Embellished with copper-plates. In two volumes.London: printed for Thomas Hodgkins, at the Juvenile Library, 18072 volumes, duodecimo (160 × 99 mm). Contemporary black straight-grain half morocco, marbled sides, titles to spines gilt, gilt ruledto spines and covers, marbled edges. 20 engraved illustrations by William Mulready. Faint ownership signature to front pastedownand contemporary ownership inscription to title page of each volume. Spine ends and tips rubbed, boards scuffed and rubbed, a littlewear to edges, a couple of tiny worm holes to joints, a little worm-tracing hinges, occasional faint mark or spot of foxing to contents.An excellent set.First edition, first impression with the imprint of the printer T. Davison on the verso of p. 235, vol. I, and withthe Hanway Street address in the final adverts. The Tales were chiefly the work of Charles's sister Mary Lamb,who had previously written Mrs Leicester's School and edited Poetry for Children for William Godwin's JuvenileLibrary. Fourteen of the twenty adaptations were by Mary, the rest by Charles. "Originally the Tales were to beanonymous but Godwin persuaded the unreluctant Charles to have his name printed on the title-page" (St Clair,The Godwins and the Shelleys). The Tales quickly became a favourite and have been in print ever since.[ 116180]£4,500

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83 SLOCUM, Joshua.Sailing Alone Around the World.Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty and George Varian.New York: The Century Co., 1900Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and decoration to spine and front board in silver and green, top edge gilt, others uncut. Half-tonefrontispiece and 64 illustrations. A little wear to spine ends and tips, a couple of marks to rear cover, front hinge partly cracked atfoot but holding, text block tight. A very good copy.First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper: “TheSpray, New Bedford. July 30th, 1900. Joshua Slocum”. This superb narrative of the first single-handedcircumnavigation of the globe aboard the Spray “has been compared favourably to Thoreau’s Walden. Slocumperceived his world in a poetic manner and described his vision of reality with grace” (Toy).[ 117354]£5,500

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84 [SOUTHEY, Robert.]A Summary of the Life of Arthur Duke of Wellington,from the Period of his FirstAchievements in India, to his Invasion of France, and the Decisive Battle of Waterloo, June18, 1815.Dublin: printed for George Mullens [sic], 1816Octavo (235 x 185 mm). Contemporary green straight-grain morocco by George Mullen, title gilt direct to the spine, low flat bands,gilt, large device composed of floral tools gilt to the compartments, both boards with broad gilt border with twined oak leaves andshamrocks, large shamrock corner tools, enclosing strapwork panels in blind, turn-ins gilt, green morocco hinges, drab paper doubluresand free endpapers, all edges gilt, dark blue silk page-marker still intact. Hand-coloured engraved folding battle plan of the Battle ofWaterloo by Gonne & Brocas, Dublin, text in French, based on that issued by Jouvenel in Brussels, 1815. Lightly rubbed, spinegently sunned, very good indeed, light browning, a scatter of pale foxing, but a very good copy indeed.First and only edition of this uncommon Southey title - only 6 locations on Copac, and a just a single copyrecorded at auction - here offered a large paper copy in a handsome, and highly appropriate Regency moroccopresentation binding. This was a piece which stirred some controversy. Originally published in the QuarterlyReview - the Tory periodical on which “Southey lived from 1809 onwards, writing for every number” andsometimes receiving as much as £100 for an article (William Wallace, Critical Introduction to Robert Southey, inCraik, English Prose) - the essay was subject to “censorship” directed by none other than Wellington himself inhis efforts to dictate the authorised version of his great victory. Southey had accepted the Duke’s assertion that“the battle was won before the weight of Prussian numbers became significant”, however, he did “dare to suggestthat the Duke had been caught somewhat off-guard on 15 June and that the Prussians had contributed materiallyto the day” (Foster, Wellington and Waterloo: The Duke, The Battle and Posterity 1815-2015). Through his“agent” John Wilson Croker, Wellington brought pressure to bear on the Quarterly’s editor William Gifford, tobring the narrative in line, and Gifford “welcomed the changes … and resisted Southey’s efforts to reverseCroker’s edits” (Cutmore, Contributors to the Quarterly Review: A History, 1809-25, p.70). This elegantproduction, which was never published in London, was perhaps produced as a rejoinder to Wellington’s lordlyinterference. It is interesting to note that the title of the map refers to the battle as La Belle Alliance, anomenclature much resisted by Wellington for its implication of Prussian partnership in victory, with one ofCroker’s interpolations to Southey’s text specifically addressing this.The superb binding is by George Mullen, perhaps the leading Dublin binder of his time, the tooling preciselymatching that of the University of Missouri’s red morocco copy, and perhaps just slightly surpassed by the BL’scopy, where the shamrock corner-pieces of the border are replaced by a combined rose, shamrock and thistle

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“posy”, and the blind panelling reduced in size for the inclusion of large gilt corner-pieces with scrolled foliateand floral tools on a pointillé background. The present copy has the ownership inscription of “D: Normanton” -perhaps Diana, Countess of Normanton, daughter of George Augustus Herbert, 11th earl of Pembroke, anddaughter-in-law of Charles Agar, Archbishop of Dublin - on blank preceding the map, bookplate removed fromfront pastedown.[ 111638]£4,750

85 STEINBECK, John.Travels With Charley: In Search of America.New York: The Viking Press, 1962Octavo. Original cream speckled cloth, spine lettered in red and black, vignette to the front board in red, top edge orange, othersuntrimmed, map endpapers. With the dust jacket, housed in a custom quarter morocco and marbled paper-covered solander box. Afine copy in the jacket with small closed tear to the foot of front and rear flap folds, and head of rear panel, mark to front flap.First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, “Dear Norman: with manythanks, Sincerely John Steinbeck, May ‘63”. While we cannot be sure, a number of Norman’s suggest themselves;Norman Rockwell, Steinbeck’s tenth cousin, one time removed, Norman Mailer, who claimed Steinbeck’s writing“formed the desire to be a major writer”, or Norman Carlson, to whom Steinbeck presented an inscribed editionof The Grapes of Wrath in 1941. This work is based on Steinbeck’s road trip around the States in 1960accompanied by his poodle, Charley.[ 117484]£6,000

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86 STEVENSON, Robert Louis. An Inland Voyage. [With the original agreement for the copyright bound in.]London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. 1878Octavo (185 × 122 mm). Finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in blue crushed morocco, title and compartments to spine gilt,rules and floral decoration to covers gilt with onlaid red morocco, turn-ins and top edge gilt, blue silk doublures, original cloth boundin at rear. Housed in a custom card slipcase. Handsomely bound; a beautiful copy with very slightly faded spine.First edition of Stevenson’s first book; exceptionally, this copy contains the original copyright agreement, signedby Stevenson and mounted on a stub bound in before the half-title. The agreement between the author and thepublishers, dated 28 January 1878, states that Stevenson would receive an initial sum of £20 from the publishers,with royalties of one shilling per copy commencing after the sale of the first 1,000 copies. An Inland Voyage is apioneering work of outdoor literature about a canoeing trip through France and Belgium in 1876.[ 117155]£4,500

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87 STOKER, Bram.Dracula.Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to covers and spine red within a one-line red rule border, lower and fore edges untrimmed. Housedin a custom black quarter morocco solander box. Bookplate and stationer’s blind stamp to front free endpaper. Spine gently rolledand toned, light soiling to boards, rear inner hinge starting to crack but holding, internally fresh, an excellent copy of a notoriouslyfragile book, with no repair or restoration.First edition, first issue. With the relevant issue points: printed on thicker paper stock, without the advert for TheShoulder of Shasta which appears in later impressions on the verso of the final integral leaf [392], and without theeight pages of adverts inserted in later issues. This is the combination of states found in early authorialpresentation copies and review copies sent out by Constable.[ 117817]£25,000

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88 TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.The Charge of the Light Brigade.[London:] 1855Bifolium with horizontal and vertical folds, tipped-in to a larger sheet. Text printed in black. Some occasional spotting anddiscolouration. In excellent condition.First separate edition, extremely scarce in this format, one of 1,000 copies published for distribution to the troopsin the Crimea, with a note in manuscript at the foot of the mount: “My father Col. Adolphus Burton C.B. was inthe Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava. G.D.B. [his eldest daughter, Grace, whose married name wasGrace Denys-Burton]” Major Adolphus William Desart Burton (c.1827–1882) rode in the successful charge ofthe Heavy Brigade with the 5th (The Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Regiment of Dragoon Guards. He latergained the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the service of the 7th Dragoon Guards.The charge of the Light Brigade took place on 25 October 1854 but news of the disaster did not reach the Britishpublic until the British commanders' dispatches from the front were published in an extraordinary edition of theLondon Gazette of 12 November 1854; The Times followed up with a famous leader on the action the followingday. According to his grandson Sir Charles Tennyson, Tennyson wrote the poem in only a few minutes afterreading the account of it in The Times. Published in The Examiner on 9 December 1854, just six weeks after theevent, Tennyson’s poem was published as a separate piece and sent to the troops in the Crimea at the behest ofJane, Lady Franklin, wife of the lost explorer Sir John Franklin.Tennyson adds a footnote to the poem: "Having heard that the brave soldiers before Sebastopol, whom I amproud to call my countrymen, have a liking for my Ballad on the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, I haveordered a thousand copies of it to be printed for them.” The text contains 55 lines, as opposed to the 46-line textfirst published in book form in July 1855, in the volume Maud, and Other Poems, and incorporates an extrastanza. The most notable addition is the line "Some one had blunder'd" which was omitted from the bookpublication. These changes were explained by Tennyson in a letter to John Foster in August 1855: "I wish to sendout about 1000 slips, and I don't at all want the S.P.G. [Society for the Propagation of the Gospel] or anyone tosend out the version last printed: it would, I believe, quite disappoint the soldiers.”This is one of a very few surviving recorded copies of what is by nature an ephemeral piece: OCLC locates fourcopies institutionally and only two copies appear in auction records since 1975. The poem remains probably thebest remembered single piece of all Tennyson’s poetry.[ 111544]£42,500

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89 (THOMSON, Hugh.) AUSTEN, Jane.Pride and Prejudice.London: George Allen, 1894Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, titles to spine gilt, peacock feather with green morocco onlaidpiece in each compartment separated by raised bands, front board elaborately gilt-blocked with peacock design and green moroccoonlaid pieces, floral endpapers, decoration to turn-ins gilt, top edge gilt others untrimmed. With numerous black and whiteillustrations throughout. A fine copy.First Thomson-illustrated edition, one of 250 large paper copies for Britain, with another 25 done for America.Thomson’s “light touch and feeling for period manners provide a charming and accessible gloss to the author'swork” (ODNB). Beautifully bound by the Chelsea Bindery.[ 116879]£6,000

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90 [TYNEMOUTH, John.]Nova legenda Anglie.London: Wynkyn de Worde, 27 February 1516Folio (276 x 194 mm), ff. [6], 334, [2] (the last blank). Early 19th-century russia, rebacked with original spine laid down, withcrest and arms of Sir Richard Colt Hoare (1758–1838). Housed in a red cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Full-pagewoodcut of Saints in Glory on A1r, repeated on verso and on recto of penultimate leaf; full-page woodcut royal arms on A6v;printer's device on verso of penultimate leaf. Printed in black letter. Lower corners worn, occasional soiling, scattered marginal stains,small marginal repairs without text loss on A1, X5, h4, and n5, upper margin of A2 restored with top line of text partly suppliedin manuscript, blank outer margin of n5 and 2c1-2d5 restored with few letters in manuscript on 2d5, small hole in t1 repaired withfew letters in manuscript, leaves 283–293 supplied from a shorter copy. Signature of the antiquary Sir Roger Twysden (1597–1672) dated 1631 on recto of first leaf, notes in his hand on blank leaves bound in front; bookplates of John Arthur Brooke andViscount Mersey; signature of G. Boyle dated 1978.First edition of an alphabetically arranged version of the Sanctilogium, a compilation of English saints' lives bythe chronicler John Tynemouth (as distinct from the geometer John of Tynemouth). The chronicler also wrotethe Historia aurea, compiled c.1350, a world history extending from the creation to 1347. The Sanctilogiumcontains 156 lives of British saints.The book was printed by Wynken de Worde (d. 1534/5), Caxton’s printer and successor, at the sign of the Sun inFleet Street in St Bride’s parish. By this date Wynkyn had “turned away from the courtly material favoured byCaxton, which had led him to settle at Westminster, to religious, popular, and educational books, which werebetter distributed from London” (ODNB). Wynkyn's strength in religious and spiritual books was perhaps due tohis association with Lady Margaret Beaufort, Henry VII's mother. The present text is representative of much ofWynkyn’s output in being English in both origin and authorship.The work was misattributed by Leland, Bale, and their followers to the theologian and historian John Capgrave(1393–1464), prior of Bishop's Lynn, a mistake repeated in this volume with a manuscript note at the head of thefull-page woodcut and the insertion of 11 leaves at the front with a biography of Capgrave, some of the notes inTwysden’s hand.[ 113452]£18,750

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91 VIANA, Francisco Xavier de.Diario del viage explorador de las corbetas españolas “Descubierta” y “Atrevida” en los añosde 1789 a 1794.Cerrito de la Victoria [Montevideo]: Army Printing Office, 1849Octavo (202 × 145 mm) signed in quarter-sheets. Contemporary red morocco-grain roan, title gilt to the spine, gilt panelling to theboards, edges stained yellow. Housed in a crimson quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Original printed frontwrapper bound in, front wrapper and text within typographical frame throughout. Boards a little rubbed and spotted, cornersknocked, tan-burn from the turn-ins to the pastedowns, off-set browning from a small newspaper clipping verso of the front free ontothe front wrap, pale toning to the text, remains very good. Contemporary ownership inscription of Eduardo Fox, dated 1868, to thefront wrap.First and only edition of one of the rarest Pacific voyages, the great Spanish scientific expedition under theItalian-born Alessandro Malaspina, 1789 to 1794, throughout the Pacific, exploring and mapping much of thewest coast of the Americas from Cape Horn to the Gulf of Alaska, then across to the Philippines, with stops inAustralia and New Zealand. While the Malaspina expedition was planned as the Spanish answer to Cook and LaPérouse, the ill-advised involvement of the commander in a court intrigue once back in Madrid led to hisimprisonment and the complete suppression of the planned official account, including the scientific and otherresults. The earliest account of the voyage was not published until 1849 by Francisco Xavier de Viana, who hadserved as an ensign on the expedition and later settled in Uruguay, where this rare account was printed. Lada-Mocarski considered that “[Viana’s] diary is of immense value. It is the only full and detailed printed account ofMalaspina’s voyage from California to Alaska by one of the participants”.

It is also of considerable Australian importance. The Spanish visit to Port Jackson came only five years after thefoundation of the colony and caused considerable interest in Sydney: Collins, for example, gives an extendedaccount of their visit. One expedition member wrote to Sir Joseph Banks of “the very extraordinary humanityand kindness with which the English in their new Colony welcomed us” and while there the scientists made gooduse of their time. The artists also made a very fine series of drawings at Port Jackson, a valuable record of thestate of the colony and including the only known depictions of convicts at that period. Viana’s extended accountof Sydney at this crucial time is one of very few published (and unpublished) accounts of the infant colony by anindependent eyewitness. The Port Jackson section occupies pp. 258–66 here. Viana's sons prepared their father'saccount for the press. It was printed on the travelling press of the army besieging Montevideo during the warbetween Argentine and Uruguay, thus partially explaining its great scarcity. It was not republished until 1967

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when the Australian Documentary Facsimile Society issued a small edition of the section on Port Jackson with apreface and translation by A. Grove and Virginia M. Day.OCLC locates 18 copies institutionally, but with just a handful of copies recorded at auction, it is uncommon incommerce, and this an extremely attractive copy in unrestored contemporary condition.[ 113859]£22,500

92 WAUGH, Evelyn.A Handful of Dust.London: Chapman & Hall, 1934Octavo. Original red and black snakeskin patterned cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece. A beautiful copyin the jacket, with exceptionally bright spine panel and just a few tiny nicks or closed tears along edges.First edition, first impression of the author’s masterpiece. Exceptionally scarce in the jacket, and rarelyencountered in such nice condition (it is usually tanned to the spine and otherwise marked or grubby). This isperhaps the brightest that we have handled.[ 117207]£18,000

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93 WELLS, H. G.Tales of Space and Time.London & New York: Harpers & Brothers Publishers, 1900Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in brown, front cover lettered in gilt and blocked in brown. Spine gently rolled anddarkened, very minor wear to tips, a little faint soiling to covers, occasional spot of foxing to contents. An excellent copy.First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author with one of his characteristic “picshuas”, a caricatureportrait on the first blank: “H. Hick from H. G. Wells”, with a small sketch of a medicine bottle with labelreading “To be taken as required” below. Dr Henry Hick came to know Wells through his old school friendGeorge Gissing. When Wells became ill on a cycling holiday in 1898, he recuperated at Hicks’s house in NewRomney, where he was visited by Edmund Gosse and Henry James. The following year, when Henry Jamesreceived a copy of Tales of Space and Time he wrote to Wells “you fill me with wonder and admiration... yourspirit is huge, your fascination irresistible, your resources infinite”. Though dated 1900, the book was actuallypublished in November 1899.[ 115293]£7,500

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94 WELLS, H. G.When The Sleeper Wakes.A story of the years to come. With illustrations. London and New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Frontispiece and 2 plates. Spine faded and gently rolled, somefoxing to edges of text block, rear hinge starting but text block sound, some light foxing to contents. A very good copy.First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, “Henry Hick, from H. G. Wells”. DrHenry Hick came to know Wells through his old school friend George Gissing. When Wells became ill on acycling holiday in 1898, he recuperated at Hicks’s house in New Romney, where he was visited by EdmundGosse and Henry James.[ 115303]£4,500

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95 WHITE, E. B.The Trumpet of the Swan; [with:] Charlotte’s Web. Together with a typed letter signed.New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970 & 1952Together 2 works, octavo. Charlotte’s Web: original pictorial boards, illustrated endpapers. With the dust jacket. Trumpet of theSwan: original blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt and silver, blue endpapers. With the dust jacket. Accompanied by a typedletter signed, one sheet, printed on recto only. Charlotte’s Web: illustrations by Garth Williams; Trumpet of the Swan: illustrationsby Edward Frascino. An excellent set in bright jackets.First edition, first impression of The Trumpet of the Swan, inscribed by the author in the month of publicationon the front free endpaper: “For John A. Griswold, who, I am sure, will be surprised at what goes on in BirdLake. Many thanks for your help in my dilemma. E. B. White”; together with a later printing of Charlotte’s Webalso inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For John A. Griswold, with many thanks for helpingwith a book as yet unborn – or unhatched – E. B. White”, and a typed letter signed by White, addressed to thesame recipient and dated 20 December 1968.These significant presentation copies were both inscribed by White to the curator of birds at the PhiladelphiaZoo, John A. Griswold, who had provided invaluable help to White in his research for The Trumpet of the Swan.In October 1968, White asked his old friend, journalist Howard Cushman, to do some “sleuthing” for him at thePhiladelphia Zoo, photograph the captive trumpeter swans there, “and maybe even grill a curator”. Subsequent toCushman’s visit to the zoo and meeting with Griswold, White sent the curator this copy of Charlotte’s Web inthanks, together with a list of further questions on procedures for catching and pinioning trumpeter swans.Griswold’s response in a letter dated 13 December 1968 (held by the Morgan Library), thanks White for the bookand responds to his queries. It is White’s letter in reply which accompanies these two books, thanking Griswold“for responding in such detail” to his questions and promising that “if my book ever sees the light of day, youcan be sure a copy will land on your desk”. White fulfilled the promise, duly sending him this copy of TheTrumpet of the Swan to Griswold. White also put Griswold into the book as “the Head Man in charge of birds”(he retained the name Griswold in the first draft but this was dropped in the published version).White’s interest in the swans at Philadelphia Zoo had been piqued five years prior to the book’s publication: hewrote to Howard Cushman on 21 July 1965, noting that “if I get to Philly in the near future it will be because Iam irresistibly drawn to your Zoo’s bird park, where, as you probably don’t know, a pair of trumpeter swans ...recently hatched five cygnets. I have never seen a trumpeter swan and this would be my chance” (LaBrie, p. 85).[ 117169]£15,000

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96 WHITEHEAD, Alfred North, & Bertrand Russell.Principia Mathematica.Cambridge: at the University Press, 1910–12–133 volumes, large octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, cream endpapers. Housed in a dark blue quarter moroccosolander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Some trivial wear to spine ends and tips of vol. I, a little mottling and rubbing to gilt at footof spines, remains of bookplate removal to endpapers, front hinge of vol. I cracked but holding and small tear to rear hinge, internallyfresh. A superb set.First editions, with presentation slip from the authors laid in. This is the complete set of the PrincipiaMathematica, decidedly rare. Vol. I was printed in 750 copies and, due to the disappointing sales, the publishersreduced the printings of Vols. II and III to 500 copies each, so that only 500 complete sets in first edition arepossible. In this work, Whitehead and Russell attempted to construct “the whole body of mathematical doctrineby logical deduction from the basis of a small number of primitive ideas and a small number of primitiveprinciples of logical inference” (DSB, XII, p. 14). The belief that mathematics can be derived from logic is notonly one of the principal philosophical theories of the foundation of mathematics, it has also provided some ofthe most important results in the formal analysis of mathematical concepts (cf. Frege, Peano). This belief foundits fullest expression in Principia Mathematica. A fourth volume, dealing with the applications to geometry, wasplanned but never finished, as both men turned their attention away from mathematics and towards philosophy.[ 114672]£100,000

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97 WHITMAN, Walt.Leaves of Grass.Brooklyn, NY: [for the Author,] 1855Small folio. Original green cloth stamped in "rustic" blind and gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom greenquarter morocco case, cloth chemise. With portrait frontispiece engraved by Hollyer from a photograph printed on heavy paper. Somelight foxing/spotting including to frontispiece, original tissue guard present, touch of rubbing to extremities, tiny tear at foot of spine;overall a fine copy.First edition, first state binding, a fine copy with compelling early provenance of this book which, more than anyother perhaps, has defined America to itself. "He was and is the poet and prophet of democracy, and theintoxication of his immense affirmative, the fervor of his 'barbaric yawp,' are so powerful that the echo of hiscrude yet rhythmic song rings forever in the American air" (Grolier One Hundred).The first edition of Leaves of Grass was self-published by Whitman, the type partially hand-set by the poethimself for printing in the Brooklyn Heights shop of Andrew Rome, assisted by his brother, Tom. Various stop-press revisions within the first printing have been identified, with this copy exhibiting a mix of first and secondstates. As production continued and Whitman's money ran tight, the bindings became progressively lesselaborate. As the hand-set type jostled and occasionally fell off the hand-inked, iron-bed press, each copy isarguably unique. Only 337 copies were bound in the deluxe first binding with gilt border, edges gilt and marbledendpapers, as here. A total of 795 copies were eventually produced. The "Monteagle House" of the inscription is the Monteagle House Hotel in Niagara Falls, opened in January1856 and one of the grandest hotels in the country at the time. Whitman visited Niagara Falls twice, first in 1848and again in 1880. He mentions the Falls in part 33 of "Song of Myself": "Under Niagara, the cataract falling likea veil over my countenance" (page 36, line 23 in the first edition). "Whitman's self-conscious memorialization ofNiagara is wholly consistent with a central aspect of his overall poetic project, that of, as David Reynolds suggests[in Walt Whitman's America (1995)], absorbing and being absorbed by America and thus fashioning a significantliterary geography" (Rachman, Stephen. "Niagara Falls," in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman, p.464).Much has been written of the significance of this first edition – “America's second Declaration of Independence”to quote PMM. “The slender volume introduced the poet who, celebrating the nation by celebrating himself, hassince remained at the heart of America's cultural memory because in the world of his imagination Americans havelearned to recognize and possibly understand their own” (Marki, “Leaves of Grass, 1855 edition,” in WaltWhitman, 1998).

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A beautiful copy, with provenance offering rare evidence of contemporary ownership of a book that was largelyshunned by the public upon its first release: “Monteagle House, May 1856” written boldly in a calligraphic handbelow the title and with the ownership inscription of Jonathan Skinner at head, apparently at the same time;subsequent gift inscription of G. Mercy to N. G. Benedict above the imprint; collector’s bookplate of Mary Craketo frontispiece verso; latterly in the library of Ralph G. Newman of Chicago, sold at Sotheby's New York, June 4,2013, lot 169.[ 113931]£150,000

98 WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig.Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung.In Annalen der Naturphilosophie, XIV 3/4, edited byWilhelm Ostwald.Leipzig: Unesma G.m.b.H., 1921Octavo. Original orange pictorial paper wrappers, sewn as issued, spine and wrappers lettered in black. Housed in a black clothchemise, red panel to front board lettered in gilt. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box with chemise by the ChelseaBindery. Wrappers toned and with very light wear to extremities, fore edges of first 4 leaves a little roughly opened, small marks torear wrapper and rear endpapers, a very good copy.First edition, first issue, of the extremely rare journal publication of Wittgenstein’s earliest published work, thefirst we have seen. Bertrand Russell’s foreword for the edition secured the publication of Wittgenstein’s work.“‘In any other case I should have declined to accept the article’, Ostwald wrote to [Dorothy Wrinch] on 21February: ‘But I have such an extremely high regard for Mr Bertrand Russell, both for his researches and for hispersonality, that I will gladly publish Mr Wittgenstein’s article in my Annalen der Naturphilosophie: Mr BertrandRussell’s Introduction will be particularly welcome’”. Wittgenstein replied on 28 November: “‘I must admit I ampleased my stuff is going to be printed’” (Monk, pp. 203-4). It was published in book form the following yearwith parallel English translation by C. K. Ogden under the title Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The journal furtherincludes two works by A. Ölzet-Newin, one by Fritz Dehnow, a review of a new book by Joseph Petzold, and thecontents page for the full four-part journal.[ 117021]£75,000

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99 WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig.Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.With an Introduction by Bertrand Russell, F.R.S.London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, Ltd, 1922 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket, housed in the custom-made red solander box, black moroccolabel to spine. Bookplate to front endpaper, ownership inscription by Frank Richard Cowell to front free endpaper dated 25January 1923, a few annotations in pencil throughout. Some closed tears to spine, light sunning to front board, free endpapers tanned.Nicks, minor loss, and tape repairs to dust jacket extremities. A very good copy.First edition in English, first issue (without the adverts at the end found in later reissues); a remarkable copy,complete with the rare dust jacket. We have only previously handled one copy with the dust jacket, the New Yorkissue published by Harcourt, Brace & Company. On first seeing copies of the English language edition,Wittgenstein wrote to Ogden, “They really look nice. I wish their contents were half as good as their externalappearance” (Monk, p. 212). This copy is from the library of F. R. Cowell, an economist and classicist who alsoserved as Secretary-General of the British National Commission for UNESCO from 1942 to 1946.One of the philosophical masterpieces of the 20th century, originally published in German the preceding yearunder the title Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung and here translated by C. K. Ogden with parallel text in German,Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus became the topic of fervent discussion for both the Vienna circle of logicalpositivists and the Cambridge school of analysis during the inter-war years.[ 117003]£25,000

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100 WOOLF, Virginia. Kew Gardens.Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1919Octavo. Original Omega Workshop paper wrappers hand-coloured in blue, dark red and green, paper label to front cover. Housed ina custom quarter orange morocco and cloth slipcase and matching chemise. Woodcut frontispiece and tailpiece by Vanessa Bell. Abeautiful copy, with just a little rubbing to spine.First edition, one of around 170 copies, with the cancel slip “L. and V. Woolf” over the imprint (as always), andthe woodcut on the final page in the second state (printed on a separate piece of paper and pasted onto the page).Kew Gardens was the Woolf’s first great success and the first book that Virginia’s sister Vanessa illustrated. OnJune 9, 1919 Virginia recorded in her diary that “Nessa & I quarrelled as nearly as we ever do quarrel now overthe get up of Kew Gardens, both type and woodcuts; & she firmly refused to illustrate any more stories of mineunder those conditions, & went so far as to doubt the value of the Hogarth Press altogether. An ordinary printerwould do better in her opinion. This both stung and chilled me. Not that she was bitter or extreme; its her reasonand control that give her blame its severity”. Events proved Bell to some extent correct; a glowing review in theTimes Literary Supplement on May 29, 1919 led to a flood of orders that the Woolfs could not fulfill on theirown, and the second edition was handed over to Richard Madley. But the lasting result was a triumph for bothBell and Virginia, as the review described the book as a work of art in whole, making special mention of Bell’swoodcut. “But here is ‘Kew gardens’ – a work of art, made, ‘created’ as we say, finished, four-square; a thing oforiginal and therefore strange beauty, with it’s own ‘atmosphere,’, it’s own vital force… the more one gloats over‘Kew Gardens’ the more beauty shines out of it… and the more one likes Mrs. Bell’s ‘Kew Gardens’ woodcuts”(Woolmer p. xxiv).[ 117093]£30,000

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101 WOOLF, Virginia.Orlando.A Biography.London: Hogarth Press, 1928Octavo. Original orange cloth, title to spine gilt. Housed in an orange quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery.Frontispiece and 7 plates. Spine dulled, small mark to front cover, internally fresh.First edition, first impression. A superb presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “To Ottoline from Virginia”,on the front free endpaper. Next to this, the recipient, Lady Ottoline Morrell, has drawn her monogram in pencil,and added the date (11 October 1928) and her address (Gower Street, WC). With Morrell’s characteristic marginalmarkings in pencil to a number of passages in the text that appealed to her, and annotations to the rear freeendpaper. Around the time the book was inscribed, Morrell had finished the renovations at No. 10 Gower Street,which she had acquired earlier in the year; she gave up residence in her country home, Garsington Manor, whereshe had been a renowned hostess, and began opening the town house to “the talent and intellect of London”(Darroch, p. 268). Woolf’s initial spitefulness towards Morrell diminished with her move to London. She admiredMorrell’s uncomplaining spirit in the face of various ailments, including necrosis of the jaw, and, though she hadinitially derided Morrell’s bohemian dress and mannerisms as “grand and artificial”, with her arrival at GowerStreet, “she realised that ‘she continued to be as vivid, as idiosyncratic, and as unselfconsciously bizarre’ wherevershe was, ‘whether you put her in a Lyons Corner Shop or in Windsor Castle’” (Humm, p. 220). Ottoline’s“aristocratic connections, zest for theater, passion for art, and attachment to France converged in making her, atvarying times, victim, idol, and, as Virginia Woolf said, “enchantress” of Bloomsbury” (Caws & Wright, p. 121).Provenance: from the library of Lady Ottoline Morrell, thence by descent.[ 116121]£15,000

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