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132 SANDHURST. A List of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. London: T. Egerton, 1834 A superbly presented publication listing the commissioners, board, staff, and students at Sandhurst, together with detailed regulations for students in the senior department and for the admission of gentleman cadets. Decidedly uncommon, this is one of the earliest editions located, National Library of Scotland and US Army War College apparently holding lists for 1833, the British Library’s earliest being 1835. The Royal Military College was founded in 1801 on the basis of a scheme proposed by Colonel John Gaspard Le Marchant to offer training to cavalry and infantry officers similar to that provided at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, for artillerists and engineers. Originally established at Great Marlow and High Wycombe, Berkshire, in 1802, the college settled in the town which it was to make a household name in 1812. Octavo (183 × 104 mm), pp. 32. Contemporary red straight- grain morocco, spine elaborately tooled in gilt, concentric panelling to the boards featuring a broad lily and fern roll, title gilt to centre of front board, foliate edge roll, strong green surface paper endpapers, all edges gilt. Bound with half-title. Finely engraved vignette of the College arms on title page. Light chafing at the extremities, press-mark inked twice to rear endpapers, but overall very good indeed. £1,500 [158329]
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133 SCHIELE, Egon. Katalog der Internationale Shwarz-Weiss Ausstellung Salzburg 1921. Vienna: Verlag Neuer Graphik, 1921 First edition, number 26 of 100 copies with the rubber stamped signature of “Egon Schiele 1914” and pencil signatures of all the other artists apart from Seewald beneath their relevant print. Schiele’s etching is from a posthumous edition of 100; in addition, 80 were pulled for the 1922 Rikola portofolio; a few impressions printed during the artist’s lifetime; 60 for the deluxe
book edition of Kallir (1966); and 14 trial proofs pulled in New York, 1964 and Vienna, 1966. Small quarto. Original grey paper-covered boards, lettering on front cover in black on white label. With a drypoint etching “Bildnis Franz Hauer” on heavy white wove paper by Schiele, and 9 original lithographs on yellowish wove paper by Anton Faistauer, Rudolf Grossmann, Felix A. Harta, Ludwig Jungnickel, Alfred Kubin, Karl Rössing, Edwin Scharff, Richard Seewald, and Julius Zimpel. Sheet sizes 24.5 × 18.4 cm. Covers faded and toned, corners bumped, front hinge splitting, otherwise internally a bright copy. ¶ Kallir Graphics 5b. £9,000 [157069]
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