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(BIBLE; English; King James Version, "She".)
The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: 1611–13
£150,000
Second folio edition of the King James Bible, and the first with the reading "…and she went into the citie" at Ruth 3:15 – hence the "She" Bible. This edition has the error...
Folio (410 × 260 mm), 752 leaves, complete. Recased in contemporary dark calf, spine gilt in compartments, later red morocco label to style. Text in double... Read more
HUME, David.
A Treatise of Humane Nature: 1739
£25,000
First edition of the first published part of Hume's first great work. Hume composed the first two books before he was 25 during his three years in France. He returned to London with...
2 volumes, octavo (204 × 123 mm). Contemporary calf, boards ruled in gilt with a double fillet, nineteenth-century reback with red and green labels and... Read more
SOPHOCLES.
Tragaediae septem cum commentariis. 1502
£17,500
Editio princeps. One of the most important of Aldus's Greek editions both textually and typographically, this remained the best available edition of Sophocles' text until the 19th...
Aldine octavo (153 × 94 mm). Eighteenth-century English red morocco, spine gilt in compartments between raised bands, green morocco label, sides ruled in gilt... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Marlborough 1933-1938
£15,000
First editions, first issues. A set bearing a superb association with Churchill's commander on the Western Front, the colonel of the regiment to which the book is dedicated, the...
4 volumes octavo. The first 3 volumes in the original mauve buckram, title gilt to the spines, armorial gilt to the upper boards gilt, top edges gilt, Volume IV... Read more
(CRAIG, Edward Gordon) SHAKESPEARE, William.
The Tragedie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke. 1930
£15,000
First English edition, first impression, preceded by the German language edition published by Kessler in 1929. One of 300 copies. This volume combines the magisterial scholarship of...
Folio (355 × 240 mm). Original japon vellum-backed Kessler binding, beige paper to covers, vellum tips, titles gilt to spine and upper board, top edge gilt. With... Read more
LINNAEUS, Carolus.
Hortus Cliffortianus 1737
£15,000
First edition of the most sumptuously produced of Linnaeus' works, a detailed description of the Hartecamp gardens at Heemstede, a masterpiece of early botanical literature. It was...
Folio (approx 445 × 260 mm). Contemporary sprinkled paper boards, neatly rebacked with black cloth, edges uncut. Engraved frontispiece and 36 numbered engraved... Read more
ELIOT, T. S.
The Waste Land. 1922
£8,500
First edition, first printing, second issue in the stiffer binding and with the stamped numbers in the colophon 2mm high. with the second state of the text at line 339. The first...
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. With the dust jacket. Contents a little browned, small ring mark to lower board, partial fading to... Read more
KEYNES, John Maynard.
The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money. 1936
£8,500
First edition, first impression. Written in the aftermath of the great depression, Keynes's masterwork is generally regarded as probably the most influential social science treatise...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly tanned and nicked dust jacket with a few minor marks and... Read more
SHACKLETON, Sir Ernest.
South 1919
£7,500
First edition, new [i.e. second] impression, one month after the first, printed on superior paper stock and so less prone to the heavy browning which tends to mar the first...
Octavo. Original midnight-blue cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in silver and with large block of the Endurance in silver to the upper board, publisher's device... Read more
(BOYDELL, John and Josiah) COMBE, William.
An History of the River Thames. 1794-6.
£7,500
First edition with the series titles and the dedication to the King, "both being removed from later printings" (Abbey), all watermarks for 1794. Tooley adds that "these early...
2 volumes folio (413 × 307 mm) Contemporary diced Russia, neatly rebacked in calf, red and black labels, raised bands, compartments gilt with foliate tools,... Read more
DURRELL, Lawrence.
Ten Poems. 1932
£6,500
First edition, first impression of this extremely rare pamphlet, the earliest obtainable Durrel publication, his second work after Quaint Fragment (of which only six copies are known...
Octavo. Original brown wrappers printed in black. Housed in a brown quarter morocco solander case and chemise. Wrappers professionally restored to the spine and verso... Read more
KAFKA, Franz.
Die Verwandlung [Metamorphosis]. 1915
£6,500
First edition, first printing. The publication of this work - the first of Kafka's masterpieces was a rather confused affair. Two basic issues were intended, one in wrappers the...
Octavo. Original cream wrappers printed in red and black, illustration by Ottomar Starke. Wrappers marked and somewhat rubbed, some light repair. Very good. Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
The Novels. 1911
£5,750
The Winchester edition; considered the most attractive of the unillustrated editions of Jane Austen's works produced around this time. In this enlarged issue, the set has two...
12 volumes, octavo (205 × 136 mm). Finely bound by Bumpus Ltd in green half calf, titles and elaborate decoration to spines separated by raised bands, green cloth... Read more
(BIBLE; English.)
The Holy Bible, 1783
£5,500
Presentation copy from the Reverend Thomas Wills (1740–1802) to the Lyon family. The front flyleaf records the Bible as being "The Gift of the Revd. Thomas Wills to James Wittit...
Large quarto (288 × 220 mm). Contemporary red morocco, sides with a wide gilt border built up with a dog-tooth and line roll enclosing repeated drawer-handle... Read more
BARROW, John.
A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the Years 1792 and 1793: 1806
£5,250
First edition of the "first illustrated English work on … Vietnam"(Hill). A description of the outward voyage of Lord Macartney's embassy to China. "The voyage visited Madeira,...
Quarto (263 × 209 mm) Contemporary blue straight-grained morocco on drab boards, title gilt direct to the spine, double-ruled compartments with attractive roundel... Read more
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WOOLF, Virginia.
[The novels and short stories, comprising:] 1915–40
£4,750
First editions, first impressions.
10 volumes, octavo. Recent burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, rule to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. The occasional minor... Read more
(KELMSCOTT PRESS) GUILELMUS, Archbishop of Tyre, & William Caxton [trans].
The History of Godefrey of Boloyne and the Conquest of Iherusalem. 1893
£4,750
First Kelmscott edition, one of 300 copies. Morris himself declared Caxton's history to be "a delightful book to read".
Large quarto. Original limp vellum, gilt titles stamped to spine, gold silk ties. Borders 5a and 6; side, corner, half, and three-quarter borders; six- and eight-line... Read more
DICKENS, Charles.
The Works. 1872 & 1874
£4,500
Comprising 30 volumes "Works of Charles Dickens", Illustrated Library Edition and 3 volumes "The Life of Charles Dickens" by John Forster, fourth edition. An attractive example of...
33 volumes, octavo (212 × 135 mm). Contemporary tan half calf, red morocco label, decoration to spines, raised bands, marbled boards, endpapers and edges.... Read more
(KELMSCOTT PRESS) VORAGINE, Jacobus de, & William Caxton [trans].
The Golden Legend. 1892
£4,500
First Kelmscott edition, one of 500 copies. This great work of mediaeval hagiography was a project close to Morris's heart, and was intended to be the first book produced by the...
3 volumes, large quarto (288 × 200 mm). Original cream cloth-backed blue boards, paper labels to spines. Borders 5a, 5, 6a, and 7; corner borders; six-and... Read more
(KELMSCOTT PRESS) CAXTON, William [trans].
The History of Reynard the Foxe. 1892
£4,000
First Kelmscott edition, one of 300 copies. Morris himself praised the book in Quaritch's catalogue, "In its rude joviality, and simple and direct delineation of character, it is a...
Large quarto (286 × 203). Original limp vellum, gold silk ties, gilt titles stamped to spine, pages uncut. Housed in a green cloth folding case. Borders 5a and 7;... Read more
WAGNER, Richard.
[The Ring of the Nibelung.] 1873–75
£3,750
First editions in English of the complete libretti to the Ring cycle, translated by Alfred Forman, individually printed for private circulation, the first three works in 1873, the...
4 works in one volume, octavo (211 × 133 mm). Dark red quarter morocco, marbled paper sides. Oval inkstamps of Edward Dannreuther to title or half-title of each... Read more
BURTON, Richard F.
First Footsteps in East Africa; 1856
£3,750
First edition, second issue, brick red cloth and without Appendix IV on infibulation, as usual. Following his "pilgrimage" to Mekkah, instead of returning to Britain - "where he...
Octavo. Original brick red cloth, title gilt to the spine, blind-stamped panels to the boards. mid brown surface-paper endpapers, ads. to the pastedowns. Housed in a... Read more
(WARHOL, Andy.) COOPER, Michael.
Blinds & Shutters. 1990
£3,750
First edition, first impression. Limited to 5000 copies. This is no. 1160 signed by 11 of the contributors; Adam Cooper, Allen Jones, Bill Wyman, Andy Warhol, Peter Blake, Eric...
Quarto. Original black morocco and yellow buckram, titles to front cover in black and yellow, titles to spine in yellow, all edges red. Housed in the publisher's... Read more
BURTON, Richard F.
Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po. By a F.R.G.S. 1863
£3,500
First edition. "Newly married and needing employment, Burton approached the Foreign Office for a consular position, hoping for the post at Damascus. Instead, he was offered the...
2 volumes octavo, original purple-brown pebble-grained cloth, title gilt to the spine, triple blind panel to the boards. Folding map as frontispiece to volume I, plate... Read more
JONSON, Ben.
The Works. 1816
£3,000
Best edition. First edition of Gifford's Works of Ben Jonson, considered by many to be the best edition due to Gifford's comprehensive scholarship. A stylishly unique set,...
9 volumes bound as 28 (vol. I in 2, vol. VI in 5, all other volumes in 3), octavo (217 × 131 mm). Each volume bound by C. Lewis in contemporary full calf, spine... Read more
