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79 GARCIA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel. Cien años de soledad (“One Hundred Years of Solitude”). Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1967 First edition, with the ship and flowers design to front cover which was changed for later printings at Garcia Márquez’s insistence. Examples surviving in such condition are notably uncommon. Octavo. Original white wrappers, pictorial decoration to front cover in black, orange, and blue, titles to spine and text to rear cover in black. Spine creased, wrappers faintly soiled, minor rubbing to edges, front wrapper lifting very slightly, light foxing to outer leaves, minor toning to margins, less so than often found; a near-fine copy. £5,000 [152088] 80 GIBBON, Edward – HANWAY, Jonas. An Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea. London: sold by Mr. Dodsley, Mr. Nourse, Mr. Millar, Mr. Vaillant, [& 3 others in London], 1753 FROM THE LIBRARY OF EDWARD GIBBON First edition, Edward Gibbon’s copy, with the earlier, simpler form of his bookplate and label. Hanway (1712–1786) travelled across Persia and Russia, seeking to re-establish the trade route along the Caspian Sea, with limited success. “Hanway
emerged from obscurity through the publication of his adventures in Russia and Persia in An Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea . This was the most original and entertaining of all his books and its success prompted him to continue writing for the remainder of his life on all manner of subjects, prompting Charles Wilson to call him ‘one of the most indefatigable and splendid bores of English history’” ( ODNB ). The account is important as an early European report on the Caspian region, and for its considerable information on the Russian court and on the history of Persia. Provenance: 1) Edward Gibbon (1737–1794), with his first state bookplate to front pastedown of vols. I and II, from his Lausanne library (included in the 1777 manuscript Bentinck catalogue, showing he acquired it before then); 2) purchased in 1796 by William Beckford (1760–1844), who famously bought Gibbon’s whole Lausanne library “to have something to read”; 3) by gift from Beckford to Gibbon’s physician Dr Frederic Schöll (d. 1835); 4) sold by him in 1825 to John Walter Halliday, residing near Geneva; 5) Halliday’s house and library acquired by Charles Bedot; 6) by descent to his son, the marine biologist Maurice Bedot (1859–1927); 7) sold at auction 20 Dec 1934, Sotheby’s, lot 101 to Quaritch; 8) Patrick Lort- Phillips (1911–1979), bookplate to front free endpaper of vol. I. 4 volumes bound in 3 as often, quarto (261 × 303 mm). Contemporary calf, red and green sheep labels, marbled endpapers. In all, 28 engraved plates, 9 folded. Rather worn with split joints, all still holding, spine ends of vol. III/IV
repaired, some toning to plates, else contents clean. A good set. ¶ Cox I, p. 255; DNB VIII, pp. 1196–1200, ESTC T93947; Goldsmiths’ 8801; Howgego H21; Kress 5268. Keynes, Gibbon’s Library , p. 144 for this copy; see pp. 34–7 for the states of his bookplate. £2,750 [153236] 81 GIBRAN, Kahlil. The Forerunner, His Parables and Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920 A BOOK OF VISIONARY YET PLAYFUL PARABLES First edition of Gibran’s third Knopf title, preceding The Prophet by three years, and, like all Gibran’s pre- Prophet titles, rare in any condition. As an artist, Gibran was compared to Rodin; as a writer, he was compared by Rodin himself to William Blake. If this is so, then it is more Blake’s early Songs of Innocence and Experience than his later prophetic works that Gibran is channelling in the present work. Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in green, front cover and mystical emblem in gilt, top edge brown. Illustrated frontispiece and four other plates after drawings by the author. Spine ends lightly bruised, a near-fine copy, bright and sharp. £1,750 [151783]
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