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1 ANGELL, Norman. The Money Game. How to Play It. A New Instrument of Economic Education. London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1928 A PRECURSOR OF MONOPOLY First edition, second printing (a month after the first), of this striking instructional game-book, designed by the British economist and Nobel laureate to teach schoolchildren the fundamentals of finance and banking. It is rare in the dust jacket. Published after 16 years of private trial and error, the game “had been elaborately tested on adults, including the philosopher and educationalist John Dewey in addition to friends Lippmann and Wrench, as well as on a younger generation, including ‘long- suffering nieces and nephews’ . . . This first version

was produced as a substantial hardback volume, containing 168 pages of endorsements, explanation, and rules, with the back part hollowed out as a container for cards and notes. It was novel, and may conceivably have influenced the board game ‘Monopoly’, which appeared six years later . . . when it appeared in late November 1928, with the Christmas market in mind, its first edition of 2,000 was exhausted in three weeks” (Ceadel, p. 271). Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered and stamped in gilt, original set of game pieces and cards housed in a cardboard game box bound in at rear. With dust jacket. Short split at head of front inner hinge, a very good copy in good jacket, chipping at extremities with minor loss, without repair or restoration, price intact. ¶ Martin Ceadel, Living the Great Illusion: Sir Norman Angell, 1872–1967 , 2009. £1,250 [152926] LINDSAY, & Norman. Women in Parliament. London: The Fanfrolico Press, 1929 First and signed limited edition, number 88 of 500 copies signed by the translator. 2 ARISTOPHANES; Jack Will Ransom noted that “a personal quality . . . of joyful seriousness . . . infuses the Fanfrolico Press, devoted chiefly to the work of Jack and Norman Lindsay”. This work was issued, as noted on the title page, “for sale to subscribers only”.

Folio. Original blue three quarter morocco and blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered and blocked in gilt, top edge gilt. 4 engraved plates, black and white illustrations in text, all by Norman Lindsay. Some light soiling to binding, minor bubbling of cloth on rear cover and minor chips, endpapers lightly browned; a near-fine copy. ¶ Ransom, “Fanfrolico”, 23. £750 [153919] 3 ARISTOTLE. [Opera omnia, in Greek.] Basle: J. Bebel, 1531 SUPERINTENDED BY ERASMUS A very desirable copy of the rare second collected edition of the complete works of Aristotle, the successor to the Aldine edition of 1495–98, in a contemporary pigskin binding in exceptional condition, the text annotated by a contemporary reader in an elegant humanist hand. The edition was superintended by Erasmus, and edited by Simon Grynaeus, professor of Greek at the University of Basel. In his introduction addressed to John More, the only son of Thomas More, Erasmus pays tribute to Aldus and his edition, but explains that the five volumes are now so expensive as to deter the young scholar, with few sets outside Italy, and now often broken up. The current collected edition offered a textually superior edition, in a more accessible single-volume format, at a cheaper price – a letter of Boniface Amerbach shows he had to pay 12 crowns for

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THE MOST INFLUENTIAL LOGIC TEXT FROM ARISTOTLE TO THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY First edition in English (first published in French in 1662) of the work known as the Port-Royal Logic, “the most influential logic text from Aristotle to the end of the nineteenth century” ( Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ). The manual was published across Europe, with several editions in English over the following decades. The publication, still in use in France into the 20th century, set the form of manuals of logic for the next two hundred years, in particular its division of the subject into the theory of conception, of judgement, of reasoning, and of method. The work was strongly influenced by Descartes. Octavo (179 × 109 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, later black label and gilt date to spine, red speckled edges. Shadow of removed bookplate to front pastedown. Slight rubbing around joints and extremities, small marginal wormhole from pp. 75 to end sometimes with affecting lettering without loss to sense, very faint running dampstain at head, contents otherwise crisp, a few terminal gatherings with peripheral staining, slight loss to margin of E6; a very good copy. ¶ ESTC R7858; Wing A3723. £1,750 [152934]

a set of the Aldine Aristotle, whereas this edition cost 2 crowns (P. S. Allen, Erasmus, Epist. 2432, note). With a few exceptions, Grynaeus follows the order of Aristotle’s works presented in the Aldine edition of 1495–98. He adds, in the second volume, the Rhetoric (on the art of persuasion) and the Poetics (the first extant philosophical treatise on literary theory), both of which had been omitted in the Aldine edition. Printed on the title page is Erasmus’ dialogue between a scholar and a bookseller, a poem in Greek iambics, which is its first appearance in print. The edition was reprinted in 1539 and 1550. This 1531 edition is uncommon – Adams locates only the Cais copy in all Cambridge holdings. The contemporary reader has added marginal notes, mostly in Latin, in a reddish-pink ink to the Categoriae, the De animalibus, and the Physica, including many manicules.

2 parts in 1 volume as issued, folio (340 × 206 mm). Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, catches and clasps. Printed in Greek letter throughout, woodcut printer’s palm-tree device on titles. Both parts bound without the terminal leaves, which are blank save for printer’s device. Binding in exceptional condition, the original clasps intact, without wear, and only very minor rubbing and soiling; worming to front free endpaper, lighter worming in margins of first 48 leaves, occasional pale browning to the outer edges, small chip at head of part 1 f. 59, contents generally very fresh. A superb copy. ¶ Adams 1730. £25,000 [153213] 4 ARNAULD, Antoine, & Pierre Nicole. Logic; or, the Art of Thinking. London: printed by T.B. for H. Sawbridge, 1685

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5 ASHBEE, C. R. American Sheaves & English Seed Corn: Being a Series of Addresses Mainly Delivered in the United States, 1900– 1901. London: Essex House Press, 1901 SPECIALLY BOUND BY HIS BINDERY TO A DESIGN POSSIBLY BY ANNIE POWER First edition, number 7 of 300 copies, printing the text of eight lectures or addresses originally delivered by Charles Ashbee on behalf of the National Trust as part of his endeavours to make “the work and objects of the society known in the United States”. Ashbee’s Guild of Handicraft was founded in 1888 at Essex House in the Mile End Road, in the East End of London. The Essex House Press was added to Ashbee’s enterprise when William Morris’s Kelmscott Press closed and Ashbee took over its

presses and some of the staff. The Kelmscott fonts were not available and Ashbee therefore designed his own, in which he “sought to follow upon the lines laid down by Morris”. This book is printed in his Endeavour type. The Guild of Handicraft also operated a bindery. Early designs were by Douglas Cockerell and, later, Annie Power. Marianne Tidcombe in Women Bookbinders notes that the bindings “designed by Annie Power are signed with a monogram of her initials, along with the Guild signature, a ‘pink’ (dianthus) between the letters GH”. The binding here contains the pink and “GH”, but does not have Power’s initials. Ashbee’s own bibliography of the press records that the standard binding was vellum and that “a few” copies were bound by Miss Power and Edgar Green.

Octavo. Contemporary tan crushed morocco by the Guild of Handicraft, lettering to compartments in gilt, raised bands, leaf design to covers in blind, green endpapers, gilt edges. Text printed in red and black. Nine woodcut initials with press device before colophon. Extremities rubbed and corners slightly bumped, some offsetting to free endpapers, occasional light foxing to some blank leaves, otherwise an attractive and very good copy. ¶ Ashbee, A Bibliography of The Essex House Press , p. 13; Ransom 21. £1,500 [150350] 6 AUSTEN, Jane. Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. London: Richard Bentley, 1833

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First collected edition, and the first illustrated English edition. In 1832–33 Richard Bentley bought the copyright of Pride and Prejudice from the executors of Thomas Egerton and that of the remaining novels from Henry and Cassandra Austen. Austen’s novels had not been reissued since 1818 so these printings – published by Bentley in his Standard Novels series – constitute early editions: Sense and Sensibility , third edition (pre- dating the first American by a few months); Pride and Prejudice , fourth edition; Mansfield Park , third edition; Emma , second edition (omitting the dedication to the Prince Regent of the first edition); Northanger Abbey and Persuasion , second edition. These are also the first English editions to be illustrated. The Bentley illustrations, by Ferdinand Pickering, played an integral part in the reception of Austen’s novels; according to one Austen scholar, they “promoted a sense that her novels were best understood as familial, female focused, and sensational. For decades, these illustrations would have served to steer readers away from the conclusion that Austen’s fiction ought to be understood as social, comic, or didactic” (Looser, p. 20). 5 volumes, octavo (163 × 105 mm). Uniformly bound in near- contemporary half calf, twin green morocco spine labels, gilt bands to spines, gilt rules to sides, marbled sides, endpapers, and edges. Engraved vignette titles and frontispieces by William Greatbach after Ferdinand Pickering. Bookplate to front free endpaper verso in each vol. Bound without half- titles and series leaf. Expertly furbished (joints, heads, and tails repaired, tips consolidated, gilt retouched), a little foxing to contents, but overall quite clean. A very nice set. ¶ Gilson D1–5; Sadleir 3735a. Davoney Looser, The Making of Jane Austen , 2017. £15,000 [153013] 7

8 BAILEY, David. Her Majesty the Queen, 2014. London: Taschen, 2021 Edition of 550, signed in black pen by Bailey on a numbered label attached to the verso. This image was published in celebration of Queen Elizabeth II turning 95 on 21 April 2021. Dye-sublimation print on ChromaLuxe aluminium panel. Sheet size: 100 × 100 cm. In excellent condition, with bracket ready to hang as issued. £3,500 [149332]

AWDRY, Wilbert Vere. James the Red Engine. Leicester: Edmund Ward, [1948] First edition of Awdry’s third book in the Railway Series. Duodecimo. Original blue boards, titles and illustration to front board gilt. With dust jacket. Illustrated by C. Reginald Dalby. Minor staining and creasing to boards, light dampstaining to front free endpaper and title page, dust jacket nicked and creased, white back panel a little marked. Overall very good. £1,750 [149034]

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4 volumes bound in 2, folio (361 × 231 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, red marbled endpapers, cloth inner hinge supports, red speckled edges. Bookplates of Gaddsden library to front pastedowns (and front free endpaper verso of second volume), ink and pencil shelfmarks to initial binder’s blank. Title and half-title of part IV bound preceding p. 2319 (correctly it would be after p. 2434). Bindings recornered with patch of calf replaced. A few tiny holes with loss to a few letters and very occasional minor peripheral chips not affecting text, a few leaves with closed tears occasionally affecting text, running dampstaining at head of vol. II. A very good copy. ¶ ESTC T143095; see Printing and the Mind of Man 155b for first French edition; Israel, Radical Enlightenment , 2001. For questions of translation, see Anton Matytsin, The Specter of Skepticism in the Age of Enlightenment , 2016, p. 288. £3,500 [152230] 10 THE BEATLES – TAYLOR, Derek. It Was Twenty Years Ago Today. Guildford: Genesis Publications Limited & Bantam Press, 1987 First edition, number 23 of 100 copies signed by Taylor, the press officer for the Beatles in 1964 and 1968–70. This is the scarcest of all the Genesis publications. Octavo. Original red half morocco, blue buckram boards, front cover lettered in red, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. Housed in publisher’s red slipcase lettered on front in blue. Photographic illustrations throughout. Fine in fine slipcase. £7,000 [152626]

9 BAYLE, Pierre. An Historical and Critical Dictionary. London: printed for C. Harper [& 12 others], 1710 DOMINATING ENLIGHTENED THINKING FOR HALF A CENTURY First edition in English, following the first and second editions in French published in 1697 and 1702 respectively. “For over half a century, until the publication of the Encyclopédie , Bayle’s Dictionnaire dominated enlightened thinking in every part of Europe” ( PMM ). French Protestant Pierre Bayle (1647–1706) wrote his book while in self-imposed exile in Rotterdam as an “anti-clerical counterblast to Moreri’s [ Le Grand Dictionnaire Historique , 1674], in order, as he put it, ‘to rectify Moreri’s mistakes and fill the gaps’. Bayle championed reason against belief, philosophy against religion, tolerance against superstition”

(ibid.). The dictionary contains some 2,000 entries, including mostly biographies of religious and historical figures as well as writers, in the latter case focusing on the 16th and 17th centuries, but also articles on geography, all bolstered with a vast array of shoulder and footnotes. The views he expressed in his detailed Life of Mahomet , which, in radical opposition with the opinion of the Church, “stresses the superior tolerance and rationality of Islam’s core teaching” (Israel), were reasserted by Voltaire in his Traité sur la tolérance (1763). This first English edition was somewhat abridged, but includes additions and corrections made by Bayle in his own annotated copy of the 1702 French edition. The identity of the translator remains uncertain. Isabel Rivers and Elena Muceni identify Bayle’s Huguenot friend Michel de la Roche as the most likely translator, probably with the assistance of others. Mikko Tolonen suggests Bernard Mandeville as a possible translator in his Mandeville and Hume (2013), but this is doubted by Muceni.

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issue of 75 quarto copies, alongside issues of 3,650 octavo copies; an exemplary copy. La Trahison des clercs , was “undoubtedly one of the major events in political thought between the two wars. The ‘Clerc’ is what Benda conceived the intellectual to be, someone disengaged from the mere contingencies of existence and fighting for ideals which went beyond the demands of a given moment in space and time. In violent and brilliant invective, he attacked the intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for having fallen short of this ideal by becoming the devoted advocates not of ideals, but of groups of existences, material and transient, such as a nation of a social class. The title of Benda’s manifesto became a kind of catch phrase which, by a curious irony of fate, inverted its original sense, and came sometimes to be used as a term of reproach for the intellectuals who shut themselves off from the march of events in an ivory tower. The Trahison des Clercs achieved a world- wide popularity and was translated and reprinted over and over again . . . [It] continues to be read; and its invigorating attack on over-involvement deserves not to be forgotten” ( PMM ). Quarto. Original white wrappers, spine and front cover lettered in black and green, edges uncut; preserving original glassine. Glassine a little chipped. A fine, unopened copy. ¶ Hazlitt, The Free Man’s Library , p. 40: Printing and the Mind of Man 419. £1,500 [152080]

11 THE BEATLES. John Lennon sitting on an advertising hoarding at Marylebone Station, during the filming of A Hard Day’s Night . London: SH Editions, 5 April 1964 / 2021 long lost photographs from the set of a hard day’s night Edition 1 of 35, artist’s name blindstamped lower right, publisher’s blindstamped lower left, numbered in black pen on the verso. In spring 1964, photographer Lord Chistopher Thynne (1934–2017) was invited onto the set of A Hard Day’s Night for two days of filming. During this time he took candid photos of the Fab Four on and off set using medium-format and 35mm film. The negatives

remained undeveloped for 57 years and were recently discovered among the family papers. Original silver gelatin print on Ilford Multigrade fibre base 255 gsm paper. Sheet size: 61 × 50.5 cm. Framed size: 82.5 × 66.8 cm. Excellent condition. Presented in a black wooden frame with conservation acrylic glazing. £825 [152539] 12 BENDA, Julien. La Trahison des clercs. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1927 AN INFLUENTIAL MANIFESTO First edition of the author’s best known book, number 9 of 14 copies on Annam de Rives, from an

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Octavo (204 × 124 mm). Contemporary Irish mottled calf, new red morocco label to style. Bound without terminal blank. Neat contemporary shelfmark to front free endpaper and inscription facing title page. Joints and extremities neatly restored, slight insect abrasion to calf, minor indentation along fore edge of book block, contents generally a little toned and soiled. A very good copy. ¶ Keynes, Berkeley 5; Norman 196; Printing and the Mind of Man 176. Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640–1940 , 2005. £45,000 [152630] 14 BIBLE; English; Authorized version. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments . . . Oxford: printed by the University- printers, 1695 ENGLISH BLACK MOROCCO panelled in gilt A very attractive late-17th century edition of the Bible, in a handsome English black morocco binding. Large duodecimo (150 × 81 mm). Contemporary black morocco, spine richly gilt in compartments, covers concentrically panelled in gilt with cornerpieces, marbled pastedowns, free endpapers renewed with old marbled paper, gilt edges. 18th-century bookplate of J. Sandford to front pastdown. Neat restoration around extremities, title page discreetly reinserted and repaired in gutter, binding and contents very fresh and clean. An excellent copy. ¶ ESTC R25254; Darlow & Moule 840; Wing B2366. £2,500 [153207]

13 BERKELEY, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowlege [ sic ] . . . Dublin: by Aaron Rhames, for Jeremy Pepyat, 1710 A CORNERSTONE OF 18TH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY First edition of Berkeley’s key work, “the classic exposition of [Berkeley’s] philosophy of immaterialism as an antidote to infidelity” ( ODNB ), in which he famously puts forward the idea that “no object can exist without a mind to conceive it”. Part two of the work was lost while still in manuscript form. Although Berkeley’s works did not initially prompt much reaction, they came to have a profound effect on the intellectual life of the later 18th century, and were not uncontroversial. The Treatise “set out his idealistic philosophy in detail, arguing that the concept of ‘material substance’ is at once absurd

and explanatorily useless. He pointed out that even philosophers who posit the existence of material bodies cannot explain how matter can produce ideas in the mind, or how purely mental phenomena like ideas could resemble or correspond to non- mental, material substances. Perhaps his most shocking claim in favour of his metaphysics was his oft-repeated contention that his principles were in strict accord with common sense and inimical to skepticism” (Grattan-Guinness, p. 122). This copy has been extensively annotated in both ink and pencil in an 18th-century hand, chiefly in English and occasionally in Latin. The majority of pages are annotated, ranging from question marks and crosses to paragraph summaries and challenges to Berkeley’s points. The annotator has a strong grasp of Berkeley’s argument and the wider epistemological background in which he was writing, and makes several references to John Locke.

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century writers” in the field of agriculture ( English Husbandry , 1951). Blith here advocates draining and making water meadows, inclosure, the use of manures, and plantations. “In spite of the currently fashionable interlarding of Biblical references and quotations his directions are surprisingly clear: but like many another he was too far in advance of his time to be generally heeded, and it was more than a century later before any real progress was made with the improvements he advocates” (Fussell, p. 53). There were two editions in 1649, most easily distinguished by their titles, the present “English Improover” and the other “English Improver”. Wing placed this edition first. “Improver” has roughly double the page count, and the Thomason Collection copy has a note of accession in December 1649, both suggestive that “Improver” is the second edition. Expanded third and fourth editions followed in 1652 and 1653. Quarto (178 × 136 mm). Contemporary sheep, plainly rebacked in calf, inner hinges reinforced. Neat ownership notation on title page. Extremities a little worn with sheep stripped, contents lightly browned, some shoulder notes slightly cropped, light staining towards rear; a very good copy. ¶ ESTC R210745; Fussell, pp. 51–3; Wing B3193. £2,000 [149383]

15 BLACKSTONE, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1765–69 The key work in English legal literature First editions of all four volumes of the supreme work on English law, Blackstone’s magnum opus, a major influence on the Founding Fathers, and the foundation of all legal analysis of the next two centuries. “Blackstone’s great work on the laws of England is the extreme example of justification of an existing state of affairs by virtue of its history . . . Until the Commentaries , the ordinary Englishman had viewed the law as a vast, unintelligible and unfriendly machine . . . Blackstone’s great achievement was to popularize the law and the traditions which had influenced its formation . . . He takes a delight in describing and defending as the essence of the constitution the often anomalous complexities which had grown into the laws of England over the centuries. But he achieves the astonishing feat of communicating this delight,

and this is due to a style which is itself always lucid and graceful” ( PMM ). 4 volumes, quarto (266 × 211 mm). Contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered to style, red morocco spine labels. 2 engraved tables (1 folding) in volume II. Bookplate of William Hackblock (1805–1858) to front pastedowns (briefly independent MP for Reigate), below signatures of W. Hackblock Jr in vols. I and II, leaf of 18th-century notes loosely inserted in vol. II, frequent annotations in pencil and a few in early ink to text. Covers a little stripped and scuffed, some worming at start of vols. I and II and at end of II and IV, light foxing, light staining at head of terminal leaves in vol. I, chip in inner margin of vol. IV pp. 365/6. A very good copy. ¶ ESTC T57753; Printing and the Mind of Man 212; Rothschild 407. £15,000 [153852] 16 BLITH, Walter. The English Improover, or a new Survey of Husbandry . . . London: printed for I. Wright, 1649 One of two 1649 editions, of unestablished priority. Walter Blith (1605–1654) has been called by Robert Trow-Smith “the greatest of the mid-seventeenth

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17 BLIXEN, Karen. Out of Africa. London: Putnam, 1937 First edition, a review copy, with Putnam’s slip loosely inserted. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Card with a previous owner’s notes on the book loosely inserted. Cloth slightly mottled, edges and endpapers foxed. A very good copy in the scarce dust jacket, extremities lightly creased and rubbed, spine panel a little sunned, short closed tear at head of front fold. £4,000 [153414] 18 BOYLE, Robert. The General History of the Air. London: for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1692 ON THE COMPOSITION OF THE ATMOSPHERE First edition of a work of considerable importance in the history of science, in which Boyle advances some novel and carefully studied theories as to the composition of the atmosphere. Although Boyle’s explanation of the composition of the air is rudimentary by later standards, it alerted scientists to the fact that the atmosphere is not a simple substance, and that air is a mixture of gases, only some of which take part in the process of calcination. Boyle’s belief that there was an inexplicable something, a “vital substance” in air,

A spectacular GRAINGERIZED SET A wonderful and rare “special ex libris, monogram, and extra illustrated copy” of Brinkley’s classic work, embellished with over 600 original watercolours and paintings on silk, lacquer, and cut velvet, in addition to the over 350 prints, photographs and plates called for. One of a very small group thus illustrated, issued purely by subscription, this copy is elegantly bound by Rivière. Records show just a handful of sets of this ultimate edition appearing at auction over the last century. The illustrations for the extra illustrated copies were supplied by a team of artists and photographers including the influential photographer Ogawa Kazumasa (1860–1929). Kazumasa spearheaded the development of photography and photochemical printing in Japan and, “While Commodore M. C. Perry opened Japan to the world in 1854, it was the distinguished and influential artist Ogawa, many years later, who put the country on display for all the world to see and appreciate” (Smith).

which he was unable to fathom, later became the basis of the phlogiston theory of combustion. The work was published posthumously the year after Boyle’s death under the aegis of his close friend, John Locke,andcontainssomeofLocke’sownmeteorological observations. Locke wrote the “Advertisement to the Reader” on pp. iii–v. The manuscript of the book survives amongst Locke’s papers in the Lovelace Collection in the Bodleian Library. Quarto (188 × 157 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, red morocco spine label, sides ruled in blind. Small ink initials at upper outer corner of title page recto, small stamp of the Selbourne library at foot of title verso and H2r. A little rubbing, label chipped, a few minor marks and stains, still an excellent copy. ¶ Fulton, Boyle, 194; Wing B3981. £15,000 [153882] 19 BRINKLEY, Francis. Oriental Series: Japan and China. History, Arts and Literature. Boston and Tokyo: J. B. Millet Company, 1901–02

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Grey . The novel was inspired by Charlotte’s time teaching in Brussels in 1842, transforming her slightly melancholy experience there “into an exploration of a happier teacher–pupil relationship” ( ODNB ). 2 volumes, octavo (190 × 119 mm). Late 20th-century dark green morocco by Bayntun-Rivière of Bath, spines lettered in gilt, raised bands tooled in gilt and with gilt rules either side, single gilt rule to three sides of covers, marbled endpapers, turn-ins tooled in gilt, gilt edges. Housed in a custom blue cloth box. Advertisements leaf at end of vol. 1 for “Mrs. Gaskell’s Memoirs of Currer Bell”; 8 pp. advertisements for the “Uniform Edition of the Works of Currer Bell” and 24 pp. publisher’s catalogue dated November 1858 at the end of volume 2. Binding sharp and bright, contents remarkably fresh, only a couple of spots of browning to margins; a near-fine copy. ¶ Sadleir, XIX Century Fiction , 347; Smith 7; Wolff 827. £2,250 [153559]

This set was bound for the distinguished Gilded Age American bookseller Charles Emelius Lauriat (1874–1937), himself a noted collector of rare editions, who subscribed to one or more sets for his bookshop. The initial buyer was most likely Annie Edgerly Thayer (1870–1957), with her bookplate to the front doublure of vol. I. Thayer was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution whose uncle served under Custer at the Little Bighorn. She resided at Thayercrest in Farmington, New Hampshire, where this set remained until the dispersal of the Thayercrest library in 2014. 15 volumes, large octavo (231 × 155 mm). Finely bound by Rivière & Son for Charles E. Lauriat Co., Boston in red full crushed morocco, spines lettered in gilt with five raised bands, board edges tooled with paired gilt fillets, gilt- panelled citron and blue morocco doublures, turn-ins bordered with paired gilt fillets enclosing a Greek-key frame divided by stylised gilt chrysanthemums, red silk-coated

free endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. With numerous original artworks throughout. A lovely set, beautifully bound, contents notably fresh, trivial rubbing to a few volumes, tiny split to foot of front joint of vol. XII, else in fine condition. ¶ Bardwell Smith, “Frank Brinkley”, in Every Book, a Tale: Selections from Special Collections in the Laurence Mckinley Gould Library of Carleton College , p. 71. £25,000 [153388] 20 BRONTË, Charlotte. The Professor, a Tale. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1857 First edition of Charlotte Brontë’s earliest novel, written before Jane Eyre (1847) and originally submitted to publishers at the same time as Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë’s Agnes

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21 BROOKE, E. Adveno. The Gardens of

England. London: T. Maclean, [1857] english gardens in full flower

First edition. A rare large format work providing superb illustrations of English country house gardens in Victorian times, and giving an insight into the taste of the great estate owners. Many of the gardens were begun in earlier times, but most feature later additions, sometimes in the Italian style, which proved a major attraction for Brooke. The magnificent gardens depicted include those at Trentham Park (laid out by Capability Brown with additions by Charles Barry in the 1840s), Enville Hall (gardens extended in the mid-19th century and celebrated for its fountains, its floral display, and its domed and turreted oriental palace of a conservatory), Bowood House (originally laid out by Brown but with later Italianate terraces added), Alton Towers (“The work of a morbid imagination joined to the command of unlimited resources” – J. C. Loudon), Elvaston Castle (famous for its splendid arboretum), Shrublands Hall (Italianate terraces by Barry), Woburn Abbey (a Repton masterpiece), Holkham House (William Kent– Capability Brown, with extensive 1850s additions

including a parterre with the Earl of Leicester’s initials in box, and a pair of flower beds in a Louis XIV pattern accompanying a fountain representing St George and the dragon), Castle Howard (whose modern additions included a new parterre using yew hedges to frame the lawns and the Triton Fountain taken from the Great Exhibition), and many others. Brooke was an exhibitor at the Royal Academy and British Institution in the period 1853–64.

Folio. Later green half morocco, lettering and decorations to spine in gilt, red morocco label to spine. Housed in a custom black cloth slipcase. Title-page and 25 lithographed plates printed in colours and finished by hand, heightened with gum arabic, lithographed dedication leaf, letterpress text, 16 lithographed vignettes on india paper pasted into text. Occasional short tears, loss to corner of one plate not affecting image, some light finger-soiling; else a fine and vibrant copy. ¶ Abbey, Scenery 392. £30,000 [152888]

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22 BROOKE, Henry Francis. Private Journal of Henry Francis Brooke, late Brigadier-General commanding 2nd Infantry Brigade Kandahar Field Force, Southern Afghanistan. Dublin: Printed by William Curwen for private circulation only, 1881 rare MEMORIAL TO AN OFFICER WHO FELL AT KANDAHAR First and sole edition, printed “for private circulation among his nearest relations” and inevitably extremely scarce; this a presentation copy from the author’s widow, inscribed on the title page, “Mrs Law, Hers sincerely Annie Brooke, Ashbrooke [Enniskillen], August 9th 1882”. During the Second Anglo-Afghan War, Brooke (1836–1880) was killed saving the life of a brother officer while leading a desperate sortie from Kandahar. The recipient is almost certainly the wife or mother of the Captain Law, Royal Artillery, who served as Brooke’s brigade-major during the war and is mentioned several times in the Journal (“a smart good officer, and I am very glad to have him as my staff officer”, p. 75). Brooke joined the 48th Foot as an ensign in June 1854. In India he served with the 109th Foot, attached to the Bombay Staff Corps. Manvell states that he died in the retreat to Kandahar following the disastrous defeat at Maiwand (27 July 1880) “while endeavouring to save a brother officer, Captain G. M. Cruikshank, Royal Engineers”. His death “received considerable notice at the time”, the Illustrated London News reporting that he was the first “General Officer for twenty-two years . . . who has been killed in action”. Brooke’s journal, intended for his family, was assembled and published by his wife, and covers the period of his service during the Second Anglo- Afghan War, breaking off two days before his death; the appendix comprises letters to Annie from Brooke’s friends and superiors and encomiums from various quarters. An online search of institutional libraries shows four locations only, just British Library in the UK, the others in the US, at California, Minnesota, and Duke; two copies on auction records, the present one and another in 2014. Octavo (213 × 132 mm). Original dark green roan, gilt banded spine, single gilt fillet border to sides, gilt edges, gilt star-patterned endpapers. Mounted Woodburytype portrait frontispiece of Brooke in civilian dress, with tissue

construct a national self-image based on reconciliation between North and South and incorporation of the West” (Rainey, p. xiii). 2 volumes, quarto (312 × 239 mm). Original brown hard- grain full morocco, decorative blind-tooled and gilt-lettered spines, elaborate floriate borders on sides, gilt-lettered on front covers, richly gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Steel-engraved frontispieces and vignette titles, 45 steel-engraved plates, numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Light rubbing skilfully retouched, some foxing at endpapers and lightly thereafter; an excellent copy. Sue Rainey, Creating Picturesque America , 2001. £1,250 [149726]

guard, 3 wood-engraved plans in the text. Neat presentation inscription (dated 1967) on a preliminary blank. Binding professionally refurbished, paper flaw at top corner of pp. 169–72 (not affecting text). A smart copy. ¶ Arthur G. Manvell, “General, Lord Napier of Magdala, Commander- in-Chief, East Indies, and Staff, 1876”, JSAHR Vol. 75, No. 303 Autumn 1997, pp. 165–9; Brian Robson, The Road to Kabul: The Second Afghan War 1878–1881 , 2003. £3,750 [152979] 23 BRYANT, William Cullen (ed.) Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In . . . With Illustrations on Steel and Wood, by Eminent American Artists. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1872–74 America rendered as crisply as a banknote First edition of this monumental work of celebratory Americana. The majority of the superb plates were engraved by Robert Hinshelwood, a Scottish engraver who emigrated to America in 1835 where he established a considerable reputation for his work on landscapes. His painstaking and highly detailed work was much appreciated not only by the publishing houses that employed him, but also by the Continental Bank Note Company who for a time employed him producing plates for currency. In her recent study, the historian of American graphic arts Sue Rainey notes that the book “enabled Americans, after the trauma of the Civil War, to

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24 BUKOWSKI, Charles. Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts. Bensenville, IL: Mimeo Press / Publisher of Ole, 1965 HENRY CHINASKI arrives, INSCRIBED First edition of this early collection of Bukowski’s prose, one of only 500 printed, inscribed on the front pastedown: “To the world or the world of the person who gets there – Some Laughs For Your Noon’s- Midnight Muscle-Ache. Charles Bukowski, 1–26–66”. This title marks the debut of Bukowski’s alter-ego Henry Chinaski, the “pulp fiction hero” (Kirsch) who would go on to appear in five of Bukowski’s novels, a number of short stories, and the films Barfly (1987) and Factotum (2005). Octavo. Original pink wrappers stapled at spine, illustrated with painting by Anna Purcell on front and sketch by Bukowski on rear. Multicoloured leaves and mimeographed text within. Spine a touch sunned, slight crease to lower edge and tips; a near-fine copy, fresh and bright. ¶ Adam Kirsch, “The Transgressive Thrills of Charles Bukowski”, The New Yorker , 6 March 2005. £4,750 [150411]

25 BULGAKOV, Mikhail. The Master and Margarita (Russian text). Paris: YMCA Press, 1967 AMONG THE GREAT RUSSIAN NOVELS OF THE 20TH CENTURY First edition in book form, following publication in two issues of the Russian periodical Moskva in 1966 and 1967. Although the novel had been completed in 1938, in common with most of Bulgakov’s prose it was not published until long after his death in 1940. Bulgakov published a number of novels and stories through the early and mid-1920s, but by 1927 his career began to suffer from criticism that he was too anti-Soviet. By 1929 his career was ruined: government censorship prevented publication of any of his work and staging of any of his plays, and Stalin personally forbade him to emigrate. By 1967 Soviet publishing censorship had been relaxed, allowing Moskva to publish the novel, although the publication was still a censored version of the text which eliminated much of the anti-Soviet satire. Even so, it still caused an immediate sensation on publication. This edition in book form, printed in Paris, uses the Moskva text; the full unexpurgated text

was published in English later in 1967 and in Russian in Frankfurt in 1969. Octavo. Original grey wrappers printed in red and black. Housed in a black cloth solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Photographic portrait of the author in the text. Minor marking to wrappers, spine and bottom corner of front wrapper with very minor creasing. A near-fine copy, scarce in such fresh condition. £7,500 [152160] 26 BURNS, Robert. Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Edinburgh: Printed for the Author, and Sold by William Creech, 1787 First Edinburgh edition, the second overall, in a notably elegant binding by Rivière & Son, preserving the half-title. This edition was published in a run of approximately 3,250 copies on 17 April 1787, preceded only by the rare Kilmarnock edition of 612 copies published on 31 July 1786. The Edinburgh edition contains 22 new pieces, including “To a Haggis” and the first appearance in print of “Death and Doctor Hornbook”, which had been omitted from the Kilmarnock edition.

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dotted in gilt, second compartment lettered in gilt, remaining five decorated with central thistle motif, compartments and covers with borders of three gilt fillets and gilt foliate sprigs to corners, edges and turn-ins rolled in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Bookplate of Frederick H. Carpenter to front pastedown. A very good copy indeed, spine sunned, small spot of wear to head of front joint, touch of finger- soiling to margins, in a very handsome binding. ¶ Egerer 2; ESTC T125274; Lamont 2; Rothschild 556. £2,750 [152170] 27 BUTLER, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. New York & London: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993 a cautionary tale INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR First edition, inscribed by the author on the half- title: “Happy Birthday Stephanie! Best Wishes, Octavia E. Butler”. Butler’s tenth novel was nominated for the 1995 Nebula Award; its sequel was Parable of the Talents (1998). Of the Parable series, Butler remarked that “This is a cautionary tale, although people have told me it was prophecy. All I have to say to that is: I certainly hope not” ( New Yorker ). Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With dust jacket. Title page printed black and white on grey stock. A fine copy, trivial bumps to spine ends, else square and fresh, in the fine dust jacket. ¶ Abby Aguirre, “Octavia Butler’s Prescient Vision”, New Yorker , 26 July 2017, available online. £2,000 [152299] 28 BYRON, Lord – BROCKENDON, W. Finden’s Illustrations of the Life and Works of Lord First edition in book form, a very handsome copy of this celebrated edition of illustrations to accompany Byron’s works. William and Edward Finden’s illustrations to Byron “substantially enhanced the status of their work. Following his death in Greece in 1824, their engravings sensitively conveyed to a wide contemporary audience images of Byron’s life and work . . . [The publication] created a great sensation, and led to further projects to engrave the life and works of other poets” ( ODNB ). Byron. London: John Murray, 1833 A great publishing sensation

Two printers were used, resulting in variations in some sheets of the edition. This copy has first state points: the misprint “Duke of Boxburgh” for “Roxburgh” in the list of subscribers on p. xxxvii, and the correct printing of the Scots word “skinking” (meaning watery) on p. 263, later misprinted as “stinking”. Octavo (229 × 140 mm). Finely bound by Rivière & Son in late 19th-century brown full morocco, spine with five raised bands

3 volumes, large octavo (229 × 161 mm). Contemporary red pebble-grain morocco, spines lettered in gilt, compartments and covers ornately blocked in blind, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With engraved half-titles and title pages, and engraved plates throughout, 129 in all. Minor rubbing to extremities, else a fine copy, bindings without wear, contents clean. £1,250 [152966]

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29 CAPOTE, Truman. In Cold Blood. New York: Random House, 1965 SIGNED AND SPECIALLY BOUND Signed limited edition, number 139 of 500 copies signed by the author and specially bound, published the same year as the trade edition. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt on red ground, yellow endpapers, top edge red, fore edge untrimmed. Housed in a custom red card slipcase. Frontispiece and title page printed in orange and black. A fine copy, clean and sharp. £2,000 [150194] 30 CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. With the original illustrations by John Tenniel. London: Philip Lee Warner, publisher to The Medici Society; Riccardi Press Books, 1914 ONE OF TEN PRINTED ON VELLUM Riccardi Press edition, number 4 of 10 copies printed on vellum. A further 1,000 copies were printed on paper. The Riccardi Press was founded by Herbert P. Horne, who designed the typeface. It began to be used as the imprint for Medici Society publications in 1909.

Will Ransom notes, in Private Presses and Their Books , that the vellum copies issued by the Riccardi Press were “bound in limp Kelmscott vellum”. The dust jacket on this copy is a remarkable survival. As a plain dust jacket using low-grade brown paper with roughly cut flaps, it may be a simple protective covering supplied by the binder rather than a publisher’s jacket, or perhaps it is an addition by an early owner. The jacket spine has lettering added by hand. Quarto. Original limp vellum, lettering to spine and front cover in gilt, green silk ties. With plain dust jacket. Housed in a custom brown cloth slipcase. Illustrations by John Tenniel. Some very light browning; a fine copy which is bright and clean. Dust jacket worn with loss and tears. ¶ Ransom, Riccardi Press, 12. £15,000 [152895]

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and the revolutionary pedigree on which he based his legitimacy. By its very scope, the book asserts the Kuomintang’s sovereignty over the mainland even though, for the non-Taiwan portions, the editors could only rely on images taken before the 1949 evacuation. Captions refer to the future “recovery of the mainland” (p. 121), Shanghai’s population are described as “anxiously awaiting our liberation” (p. 29), and Beijing under Mao is described as having “lived in disgrace” (p. 151). These assertions of sovereignty and the Kuomintang’s strident anti- communism also justified Taiwan’s ongoing presence in the United Nations and other international bodies as the de jure government of China. As a military-sponsored publication, Women de Zhonghua was first released only for use within the army and so is unpriced. A commercial edition followed a couple of months later in November 1965. All editions are now uncommon institutionally, with copies of the first held predominantly in libraries in the United States and Taiwan. Folio. Original brown cloth-backed green marble-patterned boards, spine and front board gilt-lettered, photographic illustration of Chinese archaeological relics to front board, orange pictorial endpapers. Illustrations and maps throughout. Foot of spine and upper tips bumped, rear inner hinge beginning to split, book block holding firm, small colour losses and skinning to rear endpaper and several pages at margins, largely unobtrusive. A very good copy. £3,000 [151399] The Animation Film of the People’s Republic of China. Peking: China Film Distribution Corporation, [c.1956] 32 CHINESE ANIMATION FILMS. An attractive booklet, unrecorded institutionally, distributed by China’s state film distributor to showcase cinematic advances and politically motivated cultural production in the early years of Mao’s China. Two of the featured films were recognised with international awards, epitomizing the 1950s golden age of Chinese animated cinema. This work, containing English and French text to reach a wide foreign audience, discusses three technically sophisticated pictures with themes and messages aligned to the ideological outlook of the new communist government.

31 CHIANG, Ching-kuo – “OUR CHINA” EDITORIAL COMMITTEE. Women de Zhonghua (“Our China”). Taipei: Guofang bu zong zhengzhi zuozhan bu (Ministry of Defence General Political Warfare Department), September 1965 SIGNED BY THE FUTURE PRESIDENT OF TAIWAN First edition, second printing, of this lavishly illustrated bilingual propaganda photobook signed by Chiang Ching-kuo three months after he survived an assassination attempt. As the son of Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Ching- kuo (1910–1988) was one of the leading figures in Taiwanese politics after 1949, eventually being elected president in 1978. His tenure as minister of national defence between 1965 and 1969 coincided with the publication of this photobook, with Chiang likely required to approve proofs. In 1969 he was promoted to the position of vice-premier. On an official visit to the United States in April 1970 he was targeted in an assassination attempt outside the Plaza Hotel in New York. An inscription below his signature notes that he signed this copy on 24 July 1970. The photobook is a visual journey through China province by province, with introductory remarks accompanied by dozens of images of scenic spots and sites and buildings of historical significance. Portraits of Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek frame the work – a reminder of Taiwan’s supreme leader

The first, “The Chinese Puppet Show” (1956), introduces four puppet show performances, each filmed in colour, of traditional Chinese stories and dances displaying folk customs, acts of heroism, and military cunning. The second, “Why the Crow is Black” (1955), preaches the value of hard work and the dangers of vanity. Finally, “The Magic Paintbrush” (1955) tells of a man able to paint objects that then come to life, stressing how he used this power for the good of ordinary people and against the overarching power of officialdom. The films included in the present publication were made in a period when animation emerged as an integral part of China’s cinematic output. China’s first full-length animated film was produced in 1941 by the renowned Wan Brothers studio, but production reached maturity during the 1950s, with the Wans and other prominent animators working out of the Shanghai Film Studio. There, they produced many classics of the genre, with both “The Magic Paintbrush” and “Why the Crow is Black” winning awards at the 8th Venice International Children’s Film Festival in 1956. Large quarto, 10 pp. Original stapled pictorial wrappers. Colour illustrations throughout. A few creases, small area of adhesive skinning to pp. 9–10 affecting contents. A very good copy of this vulnerable publication. £500 [151829]

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