Peter Harrington Catalogues
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.
Fine Bindings, Library Sets and The Chelsea Bindery
Catalogue 67
Finely bound individual books of all eras, library sets, and books bound in morocco by The Chelsea Bindery. 305 items.
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.
The Hogarth Press and the Bloomsbury Group
Catalog 64
Books published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, together with a selection of works by members of the Bloomsbury group, including some by authors, such as T. S. Eliot, Walter de la Mare and Aldous Huxley, on the fringes of the group, restricted to publications from the period of their Bloomsbury association. 306 items, with index.
