MY EARLY LIFE. A Roving Commission by CHURCHILL. WINSTON. S

Amsterdam, Bij de Wed. G.A. Diederichs & Zoon, 1820.. First and Only Edition in Dutch. Large 8°, contemporary speckled wrappers (front wrapper detached), printed spine label (somewhat defective). Scattered minor spotting. Uncut and mostly unopened. In good to very good condition. iv, 154 pp., (2 ll. advertisement). *** First and only edition in Dutch of Gleanings and remarks: collected during many months of residence at Buenos Ayres, and within the upper country; with a prefatory account of the expedition from England, until the surrender of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, under the joint command of Sir D. Baird and Sir Home Popham, originally published in Leeds, 1818. It contains a description of Rio de la Plata and Buenos Aires, with accounts of Montevideo, the Banda Oriental, and Chile at the end.In 1806 Sir Henry Popham (without Admiralty approval) sailed a fleet to Buenos Aires and captured it with ease, aided by General William Beresford and 1,400 soldiers. Led by a French officer (the… Read More

[Paris], Chez Sebastien Cramoisy, 1678.. 12°, contemporary mottled calf (minor wear), gilt spine with raised bands in five compartments, title stamped in second compartment from head (worn at head and foot, joints starting). Some light browning; printing flaw on A10 with loss of 3-4 words. In very good condition. Added woodcut title, (3 ll.), 172 pp. [pagination skips 145-6, repeats pp. 161-2], 19 woodcut plates [nº 14 frayed at edge]. *** Presumably the second edition of this charmingly-illustrated pocket manual for foot soldiers, and one of the first military works to describe arms and armor in detail. The Traité is known in two Cramoisy editions of 1678: one with an added title and plates engraved by N. Guérard, and this (presumably later) edition with woodcut plates and a completely reset text. An English translation appeared in London later the same year, with a second published in 1680 as part of the anonymous English Military Discipline.In his preface, Gaya explains that, having already… Read More

Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins, 1900]. Tall quarto. Original buff wrappers. 6 doubled-sided greyscale plates and 3 single-sided chromolithographic plates at rear accompanying the Sabin paper. 5 plates, of which 2 are folding, accompanying the Clark paper. The title page and early portion of the Clark paper seem to be lacking, perhaps due to a production error. Wrappers just a little rubbed with some short splits and creasing at the edges. The extreme edges of the contents, particularly at the front, are a little toned and creased with some nicks and short splits. Excellent, fresh condition. Offprint of physician and anatomist Florence Sabin's first major work, undertaken when she was an undergraduate and published the following year as the classic textbook An Atlas of the Medulla and Midbrain. WorldCat locates only four copies of this offprint, at King's College London, Brown University, Washington University St Louis, and the University of Sydney. Sabin was born in 1871, and attended Smith College,… Read More

The First UK printing published by Heinemann, London in 1937. The BOOK is in near Fine condition with just a few light markings to the boards and light pushing to the spine ends. The gilt titling remains bright and the blue top-stain is still present. The usually encountered darkening to the cheap paper quality endpapers. Free from inscriptions. The WRAPPER is complete and is in near Fine condition with just a hint of toning to the spine and the slightest of fading of the red colouring to the spine. The 'Book Society Choice' WRAPAROUND BAND is complete and is in near Fine condition with just a little toning to the spine. The Gladys Calthrop wrapper artwork looks very striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. A ' The Book Society / 'Present Indicative' ' bookplate (designed by Rex Whistler) has been signed (without dedication) by Noel Coward and is tipped in to the front pastedown. A further generic 'The Book Society' bookplate has been pasted to the front blank end paper. The acclaimed… Read More

The First UK printing published by John Murray, London in 1948. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. A hint of pushing at the spine tips. Light toning to the text-block and board edges. Some mild offsetting. Free from inscriptions. The WRAPPER is price-clipped and in Very Good++ or better condition. Very light edge-wear with some mild age related markings. Light toning to the spine. The wrapper artwork by the author looks very striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. Profusely illustrated with coloured and B/W illustrations by the author. The author's first novel and published work, preceding her first poetry publication by fifteen years. 'Rosemary Tonks was an English poet and author. After publishing two poetry collections, six novels and pieces in numerous media outlets, she disappeared from the public eye after her conversion to Fundamentalist Christianity in the 1970s; little was known about her life past that point, until her death.'(Wiki). A very scarce title. Ashton Rare Books… Read More

Lisbon, Na Of. Patr. de Francisco Luiz Ameno, 1786.. First Edition in Portuguese. 12°, contemporary marbled wrappers (spine defective, spotting to front cover). Uncut and mostly unopened. Somewhat dampstained at top corner of title and next few leaves. Internally very good, overall good. 163 pp. Latin and Portuguese on facing pages. *** First Edition in Portuguese of the second separate edition of two works by the noted Portuguese humanist: "um dos mais celebres professores de letras humanas, que floreceo neste Reyno" (Barbosa Machado). The first section is a collection of maxims; the second, beginning on p. 90, is on the education of princes: Instituto Sebastiani Primi Felicissimi Lusitaniae Regis. Both these works first appeared in Lisbon, 1565 (Epodon sive Jambichorum carminum libri tres), along with translations of only the first book of the Epodon (attributed either to Teive himself or to Francisco de Andrada) and of the Institutio, by Andrada. This 1786 edition was done under the supervision… Read More

Porto, Manuel Malheiro, 1887.. First Edition in Portuguese. Folio (27.2 x 18 cm.), contemporary crimson morocco with design of gilt and blind on covers, spine gilt with raised bands in five compartments (two very slight defects), inner dentelles gilt, decorated endleaves, all edges gilt, paper ticket of "P. Ferreira // Encadernador // R.N. da Trindade // 126–128 / Lisboa" pasted onto upper outer corner of verso of front free endleaf. Title-page in red and black within lithograph border, lithograph initial, text within two lithograph borders throughout, portrait. Overall in fine condition. portrait, [102 ll.]. *** First Edition in Portuguese. The biography of Pope Leo XIII, ocupying the initial 45 unnumbered leaves, appears to be original to this edition. *** Not in Gonçalves Rodrigues, A traducção em Portugal. On the binder Paulino Ferreira (born 1861), see Matias Lima, Encadernadores portugueses. pp. 104–5. NUC: MH, NN.

Montevideo, [title page verso: Imprenta Uruguayana], 1849.. FIRST EDITION. Large 8°, contemporary quarter black morocco over marbled boards (light wear, especially to joints), smooth spine with gilt title and ornamental fillets (old library numbers on spine painted over), marbled endleaves, text block edges sprinkled blue-green. Very good condition internally. In good to very good condition. 382 pp., (1 l.). *** FIRST EDITION. The Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata was a five-year-long naval blockade imposed on the Argentine Confederation, ruled by Juan Manuel de Rosas, in order to support the Colorado Party in the Uruguayan Civil War. It closed Buenos Aires to naval commerce. The Anglo-French navy trespassed into the internal waters of Argentina to sell their products, since Rosas maintained a protectionist policy to improve the weak Argentine economy. Eventually both Britain and France gave in, signing treaties in 1849 (Britain) and 1850 (France) acknowledging Argentine sovereignty… Read More

The First UK printing published by The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence in 1935. Number '25' 0f only 212 copies issued of the special limited edition. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. Printed in Perpetua type on hand made paper and signed by L.A. Strong to the limitation page as called for. There were also 1000 unnumbered and unsigned copies. Original blue morocco spine slightly sunned and marbled boards. Very light spotting to the text block with the occasional light spot to the page edges in places. Free from inscriptions and erasures. The fragile original plain Glassine WRAPPER is in Very Good condition. It is split at the spine with some loss of the spine portion. The scarce glassine wrapper is now protected in a removable Mylar archival cover. Illustrated by Eric Ravilious with a full page frontispiece, first leaf engraving, and a series of repeated decorations (bandeaux). One of three books illustrated by Ravilious for The Golden Cockerel Press. Sanford called this work, 'one of… Read More

Princeton University Press, Princeton, first editions, vol 1 1986; vol II 1999; vol III 1941-42. 3 vols in 5, cloth, gilt cover device, large 4to,. vol I: xiii, 250 pp, 8 colour plates, 538 b/w ills; vol II: xvi, 404 pp + 23 colour ills, 1552 b/w ills; vol III: [5], 56 pp, 73 plates + xv, 53pp, 58 plates. The first 3 volumes (only) of the 6 volume set, comprising 5 books, as follows: Volume I: The Cotton Genesis: British Library Codex Cotton Otho B. VI, by Kurt Weitzmann & Herbert L. Kessler, 1986; Volume II: The Byzantine Octateuchs, in two parts: part 1 Text and Part 2 Plates, by Kurt Weitzmann & Massimo Bernabo, 1999; Volume III: Psalms and Odes, in two parts: Part 1 Vaticanus Graecus 1927 and Part 2 Vaticanus Graecus752, by Ernest T. De Wald, 1941-42. Small booklabel of Dr Egon Wellesz on front pastedown endpaper of each part of Volume II, a Near Very Good set with volumes I and III in slightly soiled and frayed dustwrappers.