Catalogue Archive
Christmas 2010
Catalogue 74
More than 400 items on a wide range of subjects, including a gift selection of nearly 200 books at £750 and under.
Recent Acquisitions
Catalogue 73
A rich selection of fresh stock, with a cover design from a 15th-century block book leaf, starring two landmarks of early printing: the 1482 Ratdolt Euclid and the editio princeps of Homer (Florence, 1488/9). Foundational works in the development of human thought include Darwin's Origin of Species, Descartes's Discours de la Methode, Locke's Essay on Humane Understanding, Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Bacon's Instauratio Magna, and Machiavelli's Prince. Literature ranges from Boccaccio's Decamerone to Beckett's Watt, one of 25 signed by the author. We could go on, we can’t go on. 199 items, fully illustrated
Twentieth-Century English Literature
Catalogue 72
Notable items include The Great Gatsby in a good example of the highly desirable dust jacket; copies of all three formats (100, 150, and 750 copies) of Ulysses; Sylvia Plath’s first book The Colossus, inscribed in gratitude to her high-school teacher; three superb Yeats presentation copies; and many other highlights of modern literature in the English language. 297 items, copiously illustrated.
Travel, Atlases & Maps
Catalogue 71
Celebrating the new combined bookshop and gallery space at Peter Harrington, the catalogue brings together 197 books, maps and views. Highlights include: Ogilby’s America, 1671; Delisle’s Atlas, 1789; Moore & Marryat’s Eighteen Views Taken at and Near Rangoon bound with Six Coloured Prints Illustrative of the Combined Operations of the British Forces in the Birman Empire, 1825 & 1826; an attractive pair of 19th-century 15-inch Newton library globes; and Châtelain’s celebrated map of the Americas, Carte tres curieux de la Mer du Sud, 1719.
Early Printed Books, Economics & Politics, History, Law, Medicine, Philosophy and Science
Catalogue 70
Highlights include a first edition of Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy; Cantillon’s Essai sur la nature du commerce general, the most important economics book before Smith; a handsome copy in calf of the fourth folio Shakespeare; and the true first edition of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.
Spring 2010
Catalogue 69
Featured items include, among others, a Charlotte Brontë presentation "to Emily, Haworth", inscribed seven months after Emily’s death, in a Victorian book of memorial verses, with verses in Charlotte’s hand; a fine copy of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Macmillan 1866); the rare first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica; and a tantalising selection of American classics, from Moby Dick to Catcher in the Rye.
Christmas 2009
Catalogue 68
Highlighted items include the cover item, Alvin Langdon Coburn’s masterful and atmospheric photobook London; a fine selection of Ian Fleming presentations, including Casino Royale inscribed to “M”; a couple of Rackham “specials”; Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and the original illustrated manuscript of H. G. Wells’s only children’s story. 367 items, including a gift selection at £500 and below.
Recent Acquisitions
Catalogue 66
Featured items include a copy of Mrs Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Brontë with six original Charlotte Brontë letters inserted, docketed by Mrs Gaskell and used by her in the writing of the book; an original subscriber’s sets of Gould’s Birds of Great Britain in deluxe morocco; the three great works of Greek classical history, Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon in their Aldine editiones principes, from the library of the Elizabethan Greek scholar, Sir John Cheke; and many other fine items. 242 items new to stock.
Travel, Exploration, India and other subjects
Catalogue 65
A miscellany, but strongly featuring travel books, notably the Franck–Schmidel–von Staden Weltbuchs (1567) from the library of Anton Fugger; The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James, in his intended Discovery of the Northwest Passage (1633); a first edition of Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570); and the splendid Duke of Medina de las Torres copy of Grotius’s first work, his translation of Stevin’s De Havenvinding. 249 items.
Recent Acquisitions Spring 2009
Catalogue 62
Cover star: the Dutch paper one-of-100 Ulysses, copy number 45, a previously untraced copy, in fine condition. 200 items.
Christmas 2008
Catalogue 61
350 items, including gift selection.
Science, Medicine, Economics, Politics, and History of Ideas
Catalogue 60
A selection of 178 items in these subject areas.
Recent Acquisitions Autumn 2008
Catalogue 59
Issued with exquisite timing to coincide with the global financial meltdown, this is our neglected masterpiece. 337 items, including a section of books from The Chelsea Bindery.
Travel
Catalogue 57
331 items, in 7 sections: world voyages; Africa and the Middle East; the Americas and the Arctic; Asia; Australia and Antarctica; Europe; mapping, navigation and naval history.
