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On the theme of leadership, both in theory and practice, this catalogue presents five centuries of print history, alongside significant manuscript and striking visual material. Revolutionaries and radicals, premiers and presidents, royalty and military commanders, founders of religions and leaders of expeditions, are joined by those who appraised leadership and opined on the leaders’ proper actions. For millennia, theorists who prescribed how decision-makers should act have informed and irritated in equal measure. The long tradition of “mirrors for princes” is well represented here, from Xenophon in antiquity (item 144), through John of Salisbury in the Middle Ages (57), up to, in the Renaissance, the dark prince of the genre, Machiavelli (74). After Machiavelli, all theorists had to debate the basic tenet that “the ends justify the means”. Anti-Machiavellian writings range from the counterblasts of Botero, Campanella, Ribadeneyra, and Saavedra Fajardo (8, 14, 112, 119) through to the treatise of the young Frederick the Great (45). It is as easy for us, as for the Renaissance theoretician, to forget that those who take the decisions which shape our lives are themselves just people, with the same feelings and frustrations as anyone else. In part, this is because leaders and their followers carefully crafted a heroic image. Napoleon and Stalin are here presented in imposing iconography (96, 126), an art perfected by Mao Zedong and other 20th-century Chinese state leaders. Included are both the prototype and the first edition of the “Little
Red Book” (84, 85), and one of the earliest Mao signatures ever to be offered for sale (83). As a corrective to the image of the leader as superman, material signed or handwritten by such figures reminds us of their humanity. Ronald Reagan writes a warm letter to his former co- star (110). Napoleon jots down his thoughts on first reading the Wealth of Nations (95). The only person ever to launch nuclear war inscribes volumes and photographs for his friends (135, 136). Karl Marx presents his magnum opus to a banker (88). FDR inscribes a volume to his wife, Eleanor (116). Perhaps unequalled in this field is an album once described as “the world’s most notable collection of autographs” (9). Manuscripts offer a crucial historical insight into the character and thought process of the decision maker. Churchill broods on the prospect of the Russian threat to peace in Europe (20). The archive of the speechwriter for John F. Kennedy – the most important in private hands – illustrates the creation of a political icon (58). Tony Blair tells Glenda Jackson that Iraq has Weapons of Mass Destruction and therefore military intervention is justified (5). If one theme resonates through the catalogue, it is the burden of leadership, the certainty of criticism, and the isolation of the decision maker. It is much easier to be Machiavelli than the prince. John Ryan john@peterharrington.co.uk
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1 ADAMS, John Quincy. An Oration Addressed to the Citizens of the Town of Quincy on the Fourth of July, 1831; [together with:] An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport, at their request, on the Sixty-First Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1837. Boston: Richardson, Lord and Holbrook [& Newburyport: Morss and Brewster,] 1831 [& 1837] two inscribed orations by the sixth us president First editions, both presentation copies, inscribed on the front wrappers, “Edward Cruft Esq. from his friend J. Q. Adams”, and “Edward Cruft Esq. from John Quincy Adams”. Cruft (1776–1866) was a prominent Boston merchant, and husband of Elizabeth Storer Smith, a second cousin of John Quincy Adams. Both orations come from the estate of descendants of the Cruft family. 2 works octavo. Original printed wrappers. Housed in a dark blue quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Oration... Quincy is incomplete, lacking pp. 31-40; contemporary note of receipt at foot of front wrapper, lacking rear wrapper and spine backing, still otherwise sound. Oration... Newburyport with central vertical crease, a few trivial blemishes, an excellent copy in original state. ¶ Sabin 292 & 294. £17,500 [146764]
2 AMUNDSEN, Roald. Sydpolen. Kristiania [Oslo]: Jacob Dybwads Forlag, 1912 first to the south pole First edition in book form of Amundsen’s “legendary dash to the Pole, in which he gained priority over Robert Falcon Scott’s British Expedition by a month” ( Books on Ice ). On his return, Sydpolen was written quickly and issued in 40 parts between May and September 1912, soon followed by this “splendidly baroque cloth bound version” (Taurus). “His success over Scott was due to highly disciplined dogsled teams, more accomplished skiers, a shorter distance to the Pole, better clothing and equipment, well-planned supply depots en route, including more nutritious food with plenty of B vitamins, fortunate weather, and a modicum of luck . . . Amundsen and four of his colleagues reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911, carefully plotted their location, left messages for Scott and King Haakon VII, and then returned to their Framhein base on January 25, 1912, only nine days after the disheartened Scott party reached the Pole” ( Books on Ice ). Amundsen’s exploits were a great source of pride in newly independent Norway. 2 volumes, octavo. Original light blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt with gilt penguin vignette, front covers lettered in gilt and pictorially stamped in dark blue with photographic onlay to centre within gilt roundel, blue endpapers, blue marbled edges. With 40 half-tone photographic plates,
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including 1 double-page plate of facsimile notes, 11 maps and plans, including 2 double-page, and 3 folding. Extremities slightly rubbed, foot of spine of vol. I bumped with concomitant rumpling of leaves, inner hinges cracked but firm, small stain to foot of p. 174 of vol. I, neat repairs to folding map of the Antarctic, yet remaining a very good copy in bright cloth. ¶ Books on Ice , 7.1 for the first edition in English; Howgego III A13; Rosove 8.A2c; Taurus 70. £1,500 [155442] 3
BAGEHOT, Walter. The English Constitution. London: Chapman and Hall, 1867 “the bible of the british monarchy” First edition in book form of the most influential exposition of the English constitution, “one of the most important texts in political literature . . . Bagehot’s work is of more than English importance: it is the great defence of empirical as against theoretical politics” ( PMM ). The book was, effectively, the constitutional training manual for Elizabeth II and her predecessors. Bagehot conceptualized the constitution as split between “dignified” and “efficient” elements, the former the monarchy and parts of the aristocracy with all their associated pomp and circumstance, the latter the actual machinery of governance and power. His analysis held great sway throughout the rest of the 19th century and into the 20th, even as the role of the “dignified” elements diminished. In the absence of a written constitution, Bagehot’s study became a textbook for those who held power in the system. The book has consequently been recognized as “the bible of the British monarchy, which even George V and George VI (who were neither of them scholastically inclined) mastered word for word” (Bradford, p. 96), and the book was used extensively in Elizabeth II’s constitutional education by the Vice-Provost of Eton, Henry Marten. The work was initially published in instalments in The Fortnightly Review between 1865 and 1866, prior to publication in the present book form. Octavo. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers panelled in blind, yellow endpapers, binder’s ticket of Virtue & Co. on rear pastedown. Housed in a dark blue cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Spine with minimal sunning and a couple of marks, light wear at spine ends and corners, endpapers slightly discoloured, still an excellent, firm copy, unrestored in the original cloth, contents clean. ¶ Printing and the Mind of Man 358. Sarah Bradford, Elizabeth: A Biography , 2002. £9,750 [156744]
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4 BAKER, Josephine. NAACP luncheon honouring Josephine Baker. New York: Theresa Photos, 20 May 1951 josephine baker honoured for fighting segregation Superb panoramic photograph of the banquet at the Hotel Theresa, “The Waldorf of Harlem”, in honour of Josephine Baker and her efforts fighting segregation, a celebration organized by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) who had declared her their Woman of the Year. “On her special day, Josephine rode on the back of a cream- coloured convertible as the 27-car motorcade moved slowly down 7th Avenue. 100,000 people lined the street and hung from upstairs windows and fire escapes for a chance to see her” (Caravantes, p. 110). At the doors to the hotel Baker was presented with a bouquet of roses by a contingent of 1,500 Girl Scouts. In the image Josephine sits at the head of the table, with Thurgood Marshall, future first Black justice of the Supreme Court, to her left. The event was organized by the president of the New York branch Lindsay H. White, chairman Bessie Buchanan, and co-chairman John Hammond. “That night, the mayor of New York, Vincent Impellitteri, gave a cocktail party in her honour. Five thousand people danced that evening in the Golden Gate Ballroom. Such a turnout encouraged Josephine to continue her tour to push for civil rights. At that point in her life, it appeared nothing could stop her” (ibid., p. 110). Her next scheduled engagement was to speak at the
NAACP Convention in Atlanta, but her participation was cancelled after she was unable to reserve a hotel room due to a Georgia law that threatened the revocation of a hotel’s licence if it allowed a reservation by a Black client. The subsequent negative press coverage drew death threats from the Ku Klux Klan, not the first time Baker had been thus threatened. This is a fine celebratory image from a remarkable career of artistry and activism. We have not come across another such print on the market. Original silver gelatin photograph (254 × 510 mm), pale sepia tint, title and credits in the negative. A couple of creased areas in the lower margin, one with splits, image unaffected, some browning verso. Framed in black and gilt wood with conservation acrylic glazing (363 × 642 mm). ¶ Peggy Caravantes, The Many Faces of Josephine Baker , 2015. £1,750 [145997] 5 BLAIR, Tony. Three-page typed letter signed to Glenda Jackson regarding the Iraq War. London: 10 Downing Street, 4 November 2002 “his military planning allows for some of the wmd to be ready within 45 minutes of an order to use them” A compelling letter on the defining decision of Tony Blair’s premiership, the invasion of Iraq, sent five months before the
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Nations”. Blair outlines the evidence for Iraq’s possession of WMD and their continued flouting of Security Council resolutions, referencing the September Dossier, the government paper on Iraq’s weapons. That dossier engendered the widely-held belief, as Blair here repeats, that Hussein’s “military planning allows for some of the WMD to be ready within 45 minutes of an order to use them”. This became a foundation of the eventual invasion. Blair concludes the letter “I am in no doubt that the threat is current and serious, that Saddam has made progress on amassing WMD, and that he has to be stopped. To do nothing on Iraq is not an option”, adding in a handwritten postscript “I hope recent events & discussion in the U.N. have allayed, at least, some fears”. Jackson reported at the time she received hundreds of letters from constituents opposing the prospect of invasion. She later said, in the parliamentary debate on the tenth anniversary of the invasion, that it was the “worst foreign policy decision in my lifetime, if ever”. 3 pages, printed out on Downing Street stationery, hand-written salutation, subscription, and postscript. Light handling creasing, folds into three, in very good condition. £3,750 [137019]
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invasion to the Labour MP and actress Glenda Jackson, asserting that war is not imminent or inevitable, though also making clear the case for intervention if Saddam Hussein does not meet their demands, grounded on Hussein’s possession of 45-minute-ready weapons of mass destruction. Jackson remains one of the most prominent actresses of her generation, her multi-decade career including winning two Oscars. From 1992 to 2015 she served as Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate and its successor constituency in that period. Initially a supporter of Blair – who appointed her parliamentary under-secretary of state for transport from 1997 to 1999 – she became one of his prominent backbench critics, most notably on the issue of Iraq, later calling for him to resign over the Hutton Inquiry into the death of David Kelly. She was one of 12 Labour MPs who joined opposition parties in calling for a full inquiry into the war in 2006. Blair responds to a letter Jackson sent on 5 September 2002, where she conveyed her fears and those of her constituents about the prospect of military action. Blair writes that no decision has yet been made about military intervention. “There is no doubt that Iraq, the region and the whole world would be better off without Saddam, but that our purpose is disarmament. No one wants military conflict”. Blair goes on, however, to provide a clear justification for conflict if circumstances do not change. Recent movement by Iraq on the weapons issue was a result of “the credible threat of force” and “if we were now to lose the collective will to deal with Iraq, we would destroy the authority of the United
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attracted the public notice: and being drawn up in a hasty manner, it required many corrections”. This is the first appearance of Bligh’s account of the entire expedition; the “extended and revised text makes this the fundamental published account of the Bounty saga” ( Parks Collection ). However, publication did not achieve his aim of rehabilitating his reputation, which was later further damaged by another mutiny and other serious insubordinations. History’s verdict has overwhelmingly been that Bligh was clearly a superior navigator and a brave man, but an abysmal leader otherwise. Interestingly, it was his habit of intemperate verbal abuse that upset his subordinates: research has shown that Bligh actually flogged less than any other British commander in the Pacific Ocean in the later 18th century. Provenance: from the library of George Bennett FRCS (1804– 1893), English-born Australian physician and naturalist, author of Wanderings in New South Wales (1834), with his armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. Quarto (300 × 230 mm). Near-contemporary mottled calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, spine with red calf label and floral and Greek key motifs in gilt, gilt roll to sides, marbled endpapers. Stipple-engraved oval portrait frontispiece of Bligh by Condé after John Russell, folding plan of the Bounty , folding plan of the Bounty ’s launch, plate of a breadfruit, and 4 plans and charts (3 folding). Corners expertly repaired, light offsetting to folding plates and adjoining leaves, very occasional faint staining, else internally clean and fresh; a very good copy indeed. ¶ ESTC T52638; Ferguson 125; Hill 135; Howgego, I, B107; NMM, Voyages & Travel , 624; The Parks Collection of Captain William Bligh, 12; Sabin 5910; Spence 104. £12,500 [143020] 7 BOLINGBROKE, Viscount Henry St John. Letters, on the Spirit of Patriotism: on the Idea of a Patriot King: and on the State of Parties, at the Accession of King George the First. London: A. Millar, 1749 First authorized edition, the earliest obtainable, including The Idea of a Patriot King , Bolingbroke’s best-known treatise. This volume has Bolingbroke’s clipped signature mounted on the front free endpaper. Bolingbroke’s Letters , originally written in 1738 for the benefit of Frederick Prince of Wales, were first printed without his permission by Alexander Pope in 1740. Bolingbroke bought up the entire edition and had it burnt in October 1744. That edition is known only in two copies, in the British Library and at Princeton. “In 1749 Bolingbroke dictated to his secretary, David Mallett, this revised edition, with a
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6 BLIGH, William. A Voyage to the South Sea. London: for George Nicol, 1792 mutiny on the bounty First edition of Bligh’s own full account of his voyage which led to the most famous mutiny in maritime history – “an extremely important book” (Hill). In mid-1787 Bligh received the command of the Bounty , then being fitted to transport breadfruit and other plants from the South Seas to the West Indies, part of an elaborate scheme to establish large-scale cotton cultivation in the West Indies by transplanting breadfruit and other fruits and vegetables so that plantation owners might feed enslaved persons more cheaply. The Bounty reached Tahiti, loaded up with breadfruit, and set sail again at the beginning of April 1789. In the early morning of 28 April, when off the island of Tonga, Fletcher Christian led part of the crew in mutiny. The rebels set Bligh and 18 men adrift in the ship’s 23-foot-long launch, with little food and only minimal navigational tools. Incredibly, Bligh managed to reach Kupang in Timor two months later with the loss of only one man, after a harrowing 3,500-mile voyage. To his embarrassment, Bligh found himself having to defend his own conduct. He had already published a shorter Narrative of the Mutiny in 1790. The Advertisement to this work explains that “the reason of the Narrative appearing first, was for the purpose of communicating early information concerning an event which
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preface reproaching Pope posthumously for his action, though not actually mentioning his name” (Rothschild). The Idea of a Patriot King “has been more highly praised and more roundly condemned than any of Bolingbroke’s other works . . . Bolingbroke confessed that Britain’s balanced constitution could be preserved only if the monarch acted on patriot principles, ruling in the interests of the nation at large and choosing as his ministers men of property, probity, and public virtue. If he did so, all political abuses would be remedied, all differences of principle resolved, and the nation would unite in the pursuit of virtue and patriotic harmony. The spiritual and material welfare of the nation would be promoted and a regular, formed opposition in parliament would no longer be necessary. It has been suggested, though not convincingly, that the superficiality of Bolingbroke’s political analysis in this tract masked a punitive satire that really urged an appeal to Charles Stuart, the Young Pretender, as the patriot king needed to safeguard the constitution” ( ODNB ). Octavo (199 × 119 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, new red morocco label. Bound without half-title. Slight abrasion to calf, some old fungal discolouration at foot of contents. A good copy. ¶ ESTC T38534; Rothschild 417. £675 [158427] 8 BOTERO, Giovanni. Della ragion di stato. Venice: Appresso I Gioliti, 1589 opposing machiavelli with a christian “reason of state” First edition of Botero’s most important contribution to political philosophy, an anti-Machiavellian mirror for princes which grounds “reason of state” in Christian morality. Botero’s premise is that the foundation of the state is the obedience of subjects to their superiors. Machiavelli did not necessarily disagree, though he argued that the subjects’ fear of the leader is sufficient to maintain obedience (as famously stated in The Prince : “it is better to be feared than loved”). Botero, however, asserts that this obedience is dependent on the reputation of the leader. This reputation can only be preserved through acting virtuously, in accordance with Christian ethics. The Machiavellian approach where “reason of state” is separated from religious considerations, with the ends taken to justify any means, is thus refuted – Christian virtue and “reason of state”
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are interlinked, and obedience cannot be commanded by fear alone, as reputation is eroded through immoral action. Botero was a Jesuit priest, and his treatise can be placed within the broader context of the Counter-Reformation, seeking to reconnect political action with the medieval mirror-for-princes tradition. The second part of the book is as important in economic thought as the first is in political. “On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities” had originally been published in Rome the previous year. Its explanation for the impact of resources on urban population growth anticipates Malthus: “Divested of nonessentials, the ‘Malthusian’ Principle of Population sprang fully developed from the brain of Botero in 1589: populations tend to increase, beyond any assignable limit, to the full extent made possible by human fecundity . . . the means of subsistence, on the contrary . . . are definitely limited and therefore impose a limit on that increase . . . about two hundred years after Botero, Malthus really did no more than repeat it, except that he adopted particular mathematical laws” (Schumpeter, pp. 254–5). Quarto (226 × 150 mm). Recent vellum to style, brown calf label, gilt edges. Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Terminal leaf with discreet paper reinforcement at head, very faint running damp mark at head of gutter and scattered light foxing, still a very good copy, generally crisp and clean. ¶ Adams B2548; Goldsmiths’ 248. Joseph Alois Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis , 1954. £7,500 [158709]
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9 BRITISH LEGION – DEIGHTON, E. Lonsdale (compiler). The British Legion Album in aid of Field- Marshal Earl Haig’s appeal for ex-service men of all ranks. 1922–23 the world’s most notable collection of autographs An extraordinary, unique, and unequalled album of autographs from hundreds of the leading political, military, and cultural figures of the early 20th century, a vast project diligently assembled to raise money for the young British Legion, encompassing figures as diverse as Churchill, Lloyd George, Mussolini, Elgar, Jan Smuts, Kipling, Yeats, Baden Powell, Gustav Holst, Vaughan Williams, and A. A. Milne. The British Legion was founded in 1921 to support former servicemen, under the presidency of Field Marshal Haig. The project was undertaken by the autograph collector E. Lonsdale Deighton to raise funds for the charity, in the tradition of autograph sales to support the Red Cross which had occurred during the war. Deighton spent about 18 months soliciting contributions. The album was specially bound by the leading British bookbinder Zaehnsdorf. Haig handwrote a lengthy foreword noting that each signature represents “the depth and the sincerity of their respect, and gratitude, towards the dead; towards fallen comrades of ours, who dying left homes and dear ones destitute; towards those gallant lads who fell on the threshold of life”. Funds were raised for the Legion firstly through the issue of a facsimile edition of the album published by Cassell & Company and sold for five shillings, and afterwards through the album’s raffle in a ballot, where it was advertised as “the world’s most notable collection of autographs” and was said to be insured for £25,000 (over a million pounds in today’s money). The winner of the ballot was Fred Hotine, an accountant from Watford, who soon afterwards consigned it for sale at Sotheby’s, promising a portion of the proceeds as a further donation to the fund. There it raised only £350, a serious disappointment. The album contains 527 inscriptions, signatures, and other entries by a wide range of public figures, with notable contributors including: Royalty: the future Edward VIII and George VI; King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of the Belgians; King Victor Emmanuel II and Queen Elena of Italy; King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain. Statesmen: British prime ministers H. H. Asquith, David Lloyd, Andrew Bonar Law, Stanley Baldwin, and Winston Churchill; French presidents Alexandre Millerand, Raymond Poincaré, and Georges Clemenceau; Italian dictator Benito Mussolini; US presidents Warren Harding and William Howard Taft; prime minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie-King; prime minister of Australia Stanley Melbourne Bruce; prime minister of New Zealand William Ferguson Massey; prime minister of South Africa Jan Smuts. Military: Field Marshall Earl Haig; Marshal Joffre; Marshal Foch; General Pershing; Admiral Beatty; Air Marshal Sir Hugh M. Trenchard; Field Marshal Plumer; Field Marshal Allenby; Field Marshal French; and 23 recipients of the Victoria Cross. Writers: Robert Bridges; Thomas Hardy; J. M. Barrie; Rudyard Kipling; Walter de la Mare; Joseph Conrad; Arthur Conan Doyle; H. Rider Haggard; W. B. Yeats; John Buchan; John Galsworthy; G. K. Chesterton; George Bernard Shaw; A. E. Housman; Jerome K. Jerome; A. A. Milne.
Also included are artists (William Orpen, William Heath Robinson, Christopher R. W. Nevinson, John Collier); composers (Edward Elgar, Gustav Holst, Maurice Ravel, Giacomo Puccini, Ralph Vaughan Williams); and various others including Robert Baden-Powell, Guglielmo Marconi, Flinders Petrie, Lords Beaverbrook and Rothermere, Ernest Rutherford, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Commander Frank Wild and 11 other members of the Shackleton–Rowett expedition, and George Mallory and five other members of the 1922 Mount Everest expedition. Large quarto (311 × 238 mm). Original vellum by Zaehnsdorf, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut; with original blue cloth jacket and blue folding morocco box, lettered in gilt. With 136 leaves of autographs, each with facing leaf of names and titles, most with tissue guards. In fine condition. £125,000 [153684]
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10 BURKE, Edmund. Autograph letter signed. 16 September 1775 “this shocking crime”: Burke as enemy of wreckers Autograph letter signed from Edmund Burke, representing his merchant constituents as MP for Bristol in the sentencing of a wrecker in Glamorgan in 1775 – a rare instance in which Burke demonstrated support for the death penalty. While not unreservedly opposed to capital punishment, he generally sought to limit its use. The letter concerns the sentence to be handed down to Lewis Williams, a farmer of “considerable property” who was convicted of plundering a wreck on the Glamorganshire coast and later executed at Hereford that year. Wreckers had been subject to the death penalty since 1753, but despite the severity of the law there were few convictions for wrecking, and even fewer who received the death penalty. In 1775, Glamorgan became one of the few counties to try to prevent plunder by exemplary executions. “The judge, when he passed sentence, in the most pathetic language, told [Williams], that he must expect no mercy in this world, as he had shown himself insensible to the most affecting misfortunes of his fellow creatures” ( The Scots Magazine , Vol. 37, p. 458). With the case then at appeal stage, Burke requested the verdict and punishment be upheld, conveying the views of his constituents that a clear message needed to be sent to wreckers. Burke writes: “Dear Sir, I enclose to you a letter for Lord Suffolk [Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk, secretary of state for the northern department] in consequence of a very strong representation from several of my constituents. You will I am sure without my solicitation look carefully into the matter. The species of the offence is of the worst. The people of Bristol have long experienced the ill effects of it”. The enclosure, a modern copy of which accompanies this letter, is now in the Bristol Archives; in it, Burke deplores the “barbarous
practice”, noting that though “it is extremely against my natural disposition . . . all legal and just methods should be pursued for the discontinuance of this shocking crime now grown common on the Welsh and Western coasts, and which hardly admits of alleviation even from poverty and ignorance in the offenders, neither of which however, as I understand can be pleaded in this case”. Although records are unclear, just two other individuals are known to have been executed for wrecking: one in Cornwall in 1767 and one in Wales in 1782. Burke had attempted to pass a further law against wreckers earlier the same year. He presented a bill to the Commons for his Bristol merchant constituents “that argued that the hundred was more capable of controlling wrecking within its borders, much more so than they could control other more ‘minor’ offences, such as the killing and maiming of cattle, cutting trees, and destroying hedges and gates, which under existing law already held the hundred liable” (Pearce, p. 71). However, the bill foundered, as the issue of local culpability proved too contentious. The following year, Burke “angered the landed interest by his campaign to make local ratepayers foot the bill for the plundering of vessels wrecked at sea by coastal communities. He had also joined critics of capital punishments to denounce ‘the Butchery which we call justice’” (Correspondence, 3.252–3). Single leaf, quarto (227 × 186 mm), writing on recto only, old paper guard at verso inner edge. Very light handling creasing, ink smudge to date, else in excellent condition. ¶ Bristol Archives ref. 8020/3; Philip Jenkins, The Making of a Ruling Class: The Glamorgan Gentry 1640–1790 , 1983; Cathryn J. Pearce, Cornish Wrecking, 1700–1860: Reality and Popular Myth , 2010. £2,000 [140299]
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12 BUSH, George W. Out of Many, One. New York: Penguin Random House LLC, 2021 First edition, deluxe issue, signed by the 43rd president on the half-title, as issued. The book collects 43 colour portraits of men and women who have immigrated to the United States, all painted by Bush, a keen amateur artist. Those portrayed include Henry Kissinger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Madeleine Albright. Quarto. Original black cloth, spine lettered in white, front cover illustrated with Bush’s portraits. With original yellow cloth slipcase. Illustrated throughout with colour reproductions of Bush’s paintings. A fine copy in fine slipcase. £300 [158375]
11 BURNETT, John. Commemorative plate. [Middlesborough: Wardle, 1871]
The prominent Tyneside trade unionist John Burnett (1842–1914) achieved national renown for his successful campaign for a nine- hour day for the engineering workers of Tyneside, leading a strike seen as a major victory for the labour movement. “In 1871 growing industrial prosperity produced renewed demands for a shorter working week, a theme that had the advantage of avoiding sectional differences between skilled and unskilled workers. A successful campaign on Wearside secured a reduction to fifty-four hours, and acted as the curtain-raiser to a more prolonged and intense struggle on Tyneside, in which Burnett was the principal leader and spokesman of the Tyneside engineering workers. Employers’ intransigence led to a major strike, lasting from May until October 1871, in which the Tyneside engineering workers, organized in the Nine Hours League, achieved a considerable victory . . . After five months the resistance of the employers crumbled and the shorter working week was won. The strike provoked widespread interest and served as an important symbolic victory for labour, as well as encouraging attempts to obtain cuts in working hours in other spheres” ( ODNB ). The plate was produced by Wardle of Middlesborough, sponsored by William Snowball, proprietor of a large department store in Gateshead. The plate is imprinted “W Snowball congratulates the Tyneside men on their victory”. The rim of the plate advertises goods for sale in the store, alongside decoration and popular aphorisms. White pottery plate, decorated in green, red, and blue, 20.5 cm diameter. Housed in black folding box. The plate a little soiled with a few chips, still in nice condition. £750 [146329]
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13 CAMERON, David. For the Record. London: William Collins, 2019 Signed limited edition, one of 500 unnumbered copies signed by the author. Cameron’s memoir covers his upbringing, family life, political career, and time in Number 10, leading to his resignation following the 2016 EU referendum. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the original black cloth slipcase, front panel with gilt facsimile signature. A fine copy. £250 [135784] 14 CAMPANELLA, Tommaso. A Discourse Touching the Spanish Monarchy. London: printed for Philemon Stephens, and are to be sold at his shop, 1654 [i.e. late 1653] all kings either wolf, mercenary, or shepherd First edition in English of De monarchia hispanica discursus , first published in Latin in 1640, this copy from the celebrated library of the earls of Macclesfield. Written during the Dominican monk Campanella’s 27-year imprisonment for conspiring against the Spanish rulers of southern Italy, the Discourse offers both an anti- Machiavellian analysis of political power, and a survey of the Spanish government. “Kings, Campanella argued, come in three types: the wolf, the mercenary, and the shepherd. The wolf is merely a tyrant who looks upon the people as existing ‘for his own use’; the mercenary – Machiavelli’s Prince – does not ‘devour’ as the wolf does, but merely ‘steals what is useful to him’, while offering his flock no real protection. The shepherd, however, the political counterpart to Christ himself, lives only to serve the people; and it is the shepherd, counterpart to the pope, who is the only truly prudential ruler” (Pagden, p. 46). The final two chapters concern the King of Spain’s position in the New World. Campanella shows little humanitarian concern
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for the natives, proposing to transport them to Africa, but does point out the foolishness of simply stripping the lands of gold and silver, rather than populating them with productive men and developing the region. The translation is by Edmund Chilmead (1610–1654), a chaplain at Christ Church, Oxford, ejected in 1648, perhaps for his commitment to the royalist cause, and who supported himself through translation work in London. The Macclesfield library ranked as one of the finest country house libraries in Britain, with both the first and second earls of Macclesfield acquiring books on a vast range of subjects in the first half of the 18th century. Quarto (190 × 135 mm). Contemporary blind ruled calf, red morocco label, vellum manuscript hinge supports (taken from a manuscript of the Decretals of Gregory IX, six lines from two columns visible, with rubrication). Macclesfield library bookplate (North Library) to front pastedown, and blind stamps to initial two leaves. Joints split at ends but holding firm, light wear at spine ends and corners, some light browning (more pronounced to endpapers from turn-ins), running central crease and creasing to some corners, chip to terminal free endpaper; still a nice copy, unrestored and contents crisp. ¶ ESTC R207219 (variant without comma after “glasse”); Sabin 10198; Thomason, E.722; Wing C401[1]. Anthony Pagden, Spanish Imperialism and the Political Imagination , 1990. £4,000 [150999]
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15 CASTIGLIONE, Baldassare. The Book of the Courtier. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1901 kelliegram binding First American edition, number 193 of 500 copies only, in a splendid example of a Kelliegram binding, the ornate onlaid bindings pioneered by Kelly & Sons. The Book of the Courtier comprises a philosophical dialogue on what constitutes an ideal courtier to a political leader. Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529) was a courtier at the court of Urbino, afterwards the court’s ambassador to Rome, then ambassador of the Holy See in Madrid, where he followed the court of Charles V. The dialogue was written in Urbino and Rome between 1508 and 1516, and first published in 1528 by the Aldine Press. The work was enormously popular over the following centuries, with over 140 editions listed in the bibliography appended to this volume, which identifies this as the first edition printed in the Americas. It did much to shape European court behaviour in the 16th century, disseminating Italian culture and courtly customs across the continent, and into Tudor England where its effect was pronounced and is a recognized influence on Shakespeare.
“Kelliegram bindings were one of many innovations of the English commercial binding firm of Kelly & Sons. The Kelly family had one of the longest connections in the history of the binding trade in London, having been founded in 1770 by John Kellie, as the name was then spelled. The binding firm was carried on by successive members of the family into the 1930s . . . The development [during the 1880s] that came to be known as Kelliegram was one of the bindery’s most notable, and the popularity continues today as demonstrated by the prices Kelliegram bindings command at auction and in the rare book trade” (Dooley, p. 4). Quarto (277 × 202 mm). Contemporary brown morocco by Kelly & Sons, spine lettered in gilt, covers and compartments with elaborate gilt heraldic design incorporating onlays of blue, red, and brown morocco, green morocco doublures and gilt turn-ins, green moire silk endpapers, top edge gilt. With frontispiece and 75 plates of portraits and facsimile autographs, with captioned tissue-guards. Slight foxing and toning, early leaves with peripheral nicks and tiny chips, short closed tear at foot of half-title. A very good copy, exquisitely bound. ¶ John Dooley, “Kelliegram Bindings”, in Bryn Mawr College Library Newsletter , No. 2, April 1998. £3,500 [157190]
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16 CHARLES I – GAUDEN, John. Eikōn basilikē [Greek characters]. The pourtraicture of His sacred Maiestie in his solitudes and sufferings. [London: printed by John Grismond for Richard Royston,] 1648 [i.e. 1649] from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown First edition of Charles I’s purported autobiography and deathbed justification for his conduct in the civil war, published in countless surreptitious editions soon after his execution, which helped turn the tide against English republicanism, laying the groundwork for the restoration of the monarchy and of Charles’s cult as the “royal martyr”. The book purports to be Charles’s personal reflections and self-assessment while awaiting the executioner. The true author is generally accepted to be Charles’s chaplain John Gauden, who probably included some authentic writings of the king, and had close access to him in his final days. The book was published on 9 February 1649, ten days after the king’s execution, though with the title page dated to the previous year to imply a lifetime publication. Success was immediate and phenomenal. Within a year the work had been published in some 50 editions in various languages. “Those engaged in the publication were hunted down and imprisoned; but, in spite of every obstacle, the anxiety of the Cavaliers to possess copies of this touching memorial was so great, and the perseverance of the printers so determined, that the work was newly put in type over and over again, and published with a rapidity that has never to this day been equalled” (Almack, p. 3).
The new republican government did all they could to suppress and counter the book, most notably with John Milton’s rebuttal on behalf of the council of state, Eikonoklastes , published in October, which rejected divine right and questioned Charles’s authorship. These efforts were to little avail, and Eikōn basilikē did much to effect the change in public opinion against the republican regime, partly accounting for the republic’s prompt demise on Cromwell’s death, and the public jubilation at the restoration of the monarchy. The book helped establish the status of Charles as a martyr, presenting him as a humble, pious man. After the Restoration Charles was added to the calendar of Anglican saints, with sermons given on the anniversary of his death for the next two centuries. The famous frontispiece presents the king in this image, depicting Charles “in a Christlike apotheosis with purple robe and crown of thorns, kneeling and facing east before a Laudian altar at the top of a trinity of steps and looking intensely up to a crown of glory” ( ODNB ). The first edition is found in three states: this copy is in the third state with sheet G correctly paginated (it is mis-paginated in the first two). Octavo (166 × 98 mm). Late 19th-century half calf by Zaehnsdorf, black calf label, spine gilt in compartments, marbled sides, gilt edges. Double- page engraved plate by William Marshall as frontispiece. Bound without terminal blank. A little rubbed, contents lightly toned with small chips to a couple of leaf corners, generally fresh. A very good copy. ¶ Almack, A Bibliography of The King’s Book or Eikon Basilike , 2 [1 being the first two states]; ESTC R10559; Madan, A New Bibliography of the Eikon Basilike of King Charles the First , 1c; Wing E270. £2,500 [158261]
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17 CHARLES III, as Prince of Wales. Watercolours. Boston, Toronto, London: Little, Brown and Company, 1991 signed by the king Signed limited edition, number 9 of 100 copies signed by Charles and specially bound, to mark the occasion of his 50th birthday, with sales benefiting the Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation. King Charles III is a keen amateur artist. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother contributed the preface. Oblong quarto. Original green morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe- Zaehnsdorf (gilt stamp to rear pastedown), spine lettered in gilt between two raised bands, gilt Prince of Wales insignia to front cover, gilt ruled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in original green cloth slipcase. With colour illustrations throughout. Indentation to single page, else a fine copy. £2,500 [147977] 18 CHIANG, Ching-kuo – WOMEN DE ZHONGHUA BIANJI WEIYUANHUI. Women de Zhonghua (“Our China”). Taipei: Guofang bu zong zhengzhi zuozhan bu, 1965 signed by the future president of taiwan First edition, second printing, of this lavishly illustrated bilingual propaganda photobook, signed by Chiang Ching-kuo, future president of Taiwan, three months after he survived an assassination attempt. Edited by the military, this guide to every Chinese province aimed to cultivate national pride and assert the Kuomintang’s sovereignty over the Chinese mainland in its long- running conflict with Mao’s communists. 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 work, with Chiang likely required to approve proofs. In 1969, he was promoted to the position of Vice-Premier, and 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 the present copy on 24 July 1970. Compiled by the Taiwanese Ministry of Defence, with a preface by General Peng Meng-chi, chief of the general staff, this photobook was to “orient the readers on our geography, cultural achievements and revolutionary struggles against foreign aggressions so that our compatriots may be inspired by the greatness of the Chinese people and of Pres. Chiang [Kai-shek]” (p. 13). The reader is taken on 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 and the revolutionary pedigree on which he based his legitimacy. By its very scope, therefore, this publication reasserted 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. As a military-sponsored publication, the first edition of Women de Zhonghua was released only for use within the army, hence this copy carries no price. A commercial edition followed a few 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 cover lettered in gilt, photographic illustration of Chinese archaeological relics on front cover, orange pictorial endpapers. Illustrations and maps throughout. Foot of spine and upper corners 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]
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19 CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Story of the Malakand Field Force. London, New York & Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898 an exceptional copy of churchill’s first book First edition, first state without errata slip, home issue in the “apple green cloth” (Woods), which is particularly prone to fading and mottling. This an exceptionally nice copy of Churchill’s first book, Langworth noting that “truly fine copies are extreme rarities, and even those with routine wear and tear are difficult to find”. This copy has an excellent military provenance, coming from the library of Godfrey Charles Morgan, 2nd Baron Tredegar (1830–1913), who as a young captain in the 17th Lancers lead a section in the Charge of the Light Brigade, one of only two officers of the regiment to return unscathed. Churchill himself served as a light cavalryman in the Lancers in India and later, most famously, at Omdurman, the last full-scale cavalry charge in British history. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt within blind panel, front cover lettered in gilt on recessed panel, black endpapers. Half-tone portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard, 6 maps, of which 2 folding and in colour. With 32 pp. publisher’s catalogue at rear (Cohen regards as no significance for priority). Bookplate of Baron Tredegar to front pastedown. Very lightly rubbed, spine ends mildly crumpled, tiny chafed spot on front joint, scatter of foxing to fore edge, free endpaper versos lightly browned, half-title toned through contact, a couple of leaves roughly opened with small chips from head margin, faint offsetting from coloured maps, book block otherwise clean, square and tight. A superior copy. ¶ Cohen A1.1.a; Langworth pp. 12–14; Woods A1a. £8,500 [138593]
20 CHURCHILL, Winston S. Corrected draft typescript, signed, on the Russian threat to peace in Europe. 1931 “is a european war becoming more probable?” Typescript, extensively corrected and signed by Churchill, offering an astute commentary on European Realpolitik, anticipating the Soviet bloc and the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact, and highlighting the Russian threat to European peace. This article was one of a number on European affairs commissioned in 1931 for syndication by Hearst newspapers, through their foreign correspondent William Hillman. The article was published in the Milwaukee Sentinel (a Hearst newspaper from 1924) on 23 August 1931, headlined: “Winston Churchill sees Soviet Russia as Gigantic Menace to the Peace of Europe”. This gives a fair sense of Churchill’s handling of his chosen theme. He opens with the assertion that following the First World War the conviction that the “idea of war had become so odious, that we need not worry about it again in our life time, or possibly that of our children” probably still “represents the probabilities” and “certainly should remain the basis for the calculations of prudent and practical men”. However, “the danger point is the Russian Soviet Government . . . All along the frontiers of Russia from the Baltic to the Black Sea lies a line of newly-born or re-born states, who owe their existence or aggrandizement to the disaster which Russia suffered in the Great War. Finland, Esthonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Roumania have all carved their fortunes in whole or in part out of the Russian mass . . . All the promptings of the modern Russian heart, nationalist and communist alike, point to
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and the government’s appeasement policy. Around the time of composition, Churchill was staying in Avignon, which he had visited before and where he found an opportunity to paint; but his mind was on Russia – he was finishing work on The Eastern Front , the final volume of The World Crisis , his celebrated multi-volume history of the First World War. The piece is not published in Churchill’s Collected Essays , nor noted by Cohen’s bibliography or in Gilbert’s biography and supplementary volumes. While typescripts drawn from Churchill’s lengthy career in journalism are encountered on the market from time to time, it is genuinely unusual to find a piece that speaks so clearly to an issue still urgently central to global politics – Russian claims in their neighbouring states – and the significant autograph revisions make it particularly desirable. 8 leaves, quarto. Top copy typescript with extensive autograph emendations, and signed, in red ink. Light browning and handling creases, soft vertical crease from old fold, otherwise very good. £30,000 [80696] 21 CHURCHILL, Winston S. Marlborough. His Life and Times. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1933–38 his ancestor and inspiration First edition, signed limited issue, number 111 of 155 copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf. Churchill’s biography of the first Duke of Marlborough, his ancestor who led allied forces to victory against Louis XIV, “took its place at once among the classics of historical writing. As the story of his ancestor’s leadership of a grand alliance to prevent the domination of the continent by a single power, it was also a source of inspiration to Churchill in his campaign against appeasement” ( ODNB ). 4 volumes, large octavo. Original orange Niger morocco by Leighton-Straker, spines lettered in gilt, the Duke of Marlborough’s arms on front covers in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Portrait frontispiece to each volume, 99 additional plates, 14 facsimiles of letters, and 182 maps and plans, several folding. Very slight lean to spines, inner hinge of vol. III reinforced at head, some spotting to initial and final leaves and to edges, else contents clean. A handsome set. ¶ Cohen A97.2(I–IV).a; Woods A40(a). £18,750 [158601]
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the eventual reconquest and reabsorption of these states or parts of them in the parent body”. Likewise, “Asiatic Communism” is making “extraordinary and almost feverish purchases of all the key war-metals and war materials on the largest scale and almost regardless of cost”, reminiscent of Germany in the immediate pre-war period. Meanwhile in Western Europe, “France . . . will never voluntarily relinquish the fruits of her hard-earned victory [and] is busily constructing an immense shield of steel and concrete defences”, while “German youth mounting in its broad swelling flood, will never accept the conditions and implications of the Treaty of Versailles”. As a result, “Germany, in spite of the gulf which yawns between Russian communism and every form of Western Civilization, looks instinctively to Russia & refuses to close the door to the East”, as indeed came to pass in just eight years with the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact. Churchill has made dozens of annotations to the typescript, chiefly changing punctuation and correcting the spelling, though also making more substantial alterations to wording. In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, “Churchill was haunted by the spectre of the Bolshevik revolution. Soviet communism, he concluded, was the worst tyranny in history and Lenin and Trotsky more dangerous enemies than the Kaiser’s Germany” ( ODNB ). As secretary of state for war and air (1919–1921) he directed British military support against the Bolsheviks and to aid the White Russians. Churchill wrote the article during his “wilderness years”, his exile from government ensured by his opposition to its India policy. Over the following years he would become increasingly estranged as he steadfastly opposed Nazi Germany
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