Quarto. Original vellum, gilt titles to spine and front cover, decoration to front cover in black, green and gilt (showing a lion statant, display of golf clubs and a banderole carrying the motto of The Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh, “Far & Sure”), cream-coloured moiré silk endpapers, gilt edges, yellow silk bookmarker. 3 colour plates, 2 photogravures, chapter headings and tailpieces by Harry Rountree, illustrations in the text; title printed in red and black. Binding discoloured and showing some signs of handling, endpapers and blanks a little foxed, moiré silk endpapers frayed, missing portion of the final page of index skilfully supplied in facsimile. ¶ Murdoch 348. R. J. M. Pugh, Wingate Pasha , 2011. £8,500 [133168] 95 HIRST, Damien; Robert Sabbag; Howard Marks (intro.) Snowblind. A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade. Edinburgh: Rebel Inc., 1998 Signed limited edition, number 437 of 1,000 copies signed by Hirst, Sabbag, and Marks on the title page. Sabbag’s account of the career of cocaine smuggler Zachary Swan was first published in 1976. Octavo. Original glass mirror boards with silver spine, spine lettered in blind; complete with metal credit card- style bookmarkerer and rolled-up $100 bill. Housed in the original printed slipcase. Book design by Damien Hirst. Fine in fine slipcase. £1,250 [151097]
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94 HILTON, Harold H., & Garden G. Smith . The Royal & Ancient Game of Golf. London: Published for Golf Illustrated Ltd, 1912 “This is one of the most magnificent books in the entire library of golf” First edition, limited issue, number 42 of 100 copies only; this copy without the subscriber’s name inserted on the limitation leaf but with a pencilled note on the front free endpaper, “From the Princess Royal to RW” and a previous bookseller’s note identifying this as General Sir Reginald Wingate (1861–1953), “Wingate of the Sudan”, army officer and colonial governor. Louise, Princess Royal, Duchess of Fife (1867–1931) was close to the Wingates. In 1921 she “invited Wingate to fill a vacancy on the Board of Trustees for her Fife estates, a position he would occupy until 1936” (Pugh) and in 1927 was the Wingates’s guest at Knockenhair, their house at Dunbar. Wingate was an avid golfer, as testified by his papers held at Durham University, showing that he established new links near Khartoum and played while on active service in Somaliland and Egypt. In 1923 Princess Louise became patroness of Duff House Royal Golf Club, Aberdeenshire. “This is one of the most magnificent books in the entire library of golf, comprehensive in content, very handsome in appearance and attractively illustrated” (Murdoch).
obtained from ‘Ideler,’ a German, who wrote a work on the Arabic Star-names in 1810, but every name has also been worked out, with some aid from a scholar in eastern tongues, and also independently, from the Arabic itself and other languages”. Higgins’s source was the German chronologist and astronomer Christian Ludwig Ideler (1766–1846), whose Untersuchungen über den Ursprung und die Bedentung der Sternnamen (“Investigations into the origin and meaning of the star names”; Berlin: Weiss, 1809) incorporated a translation of sections of the Aja’ib al-makhluqat by the 13th-century Persian astronomer Zakariya al-Qazwini. Al-Qazwini’s book contains a description of the 48 constellations of Ptolemy and is described by Carl Brockelmann as “the most valuable cosmography in Islamic culture” ( Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur , 1898–1902). Higgins was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1869, who took up the post of medical superintendent at the Leicester and Rutland Asylum in 1881, retiring in March 1895. “He occupied his leisure hours with astronomy, and in his latter years engaged in the study of Hebrew and Swedish” (obituary in Journal of Medical Science , Vol. 44, Issue 184, Jan. 1898). Octavo, 57 pp. Original moderate blue cloth, title gilt to front board together with sun wheel device in black, dark slate-green surface-paper endpapers. Neat bookplate of one William Janes (dated 1928). A very good copy, bright and square. £1,250 [152347]
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