1. [David Hockney Collection] – Hockney, David.

David Hockney – Collection of rare and important publications as well as an original photograph of Hockney. The collection includes: 1. “Fax Dibujos / Fax Cuadros” / 2. An Original Black-and-White Photograph of David Hockney on archival paper / 3. “The Blue Guitar” – Etchings by David Hockney who was inspired by Wallace Stevens who was inspired by Pablo Picasso – “The Man with the Blue Guitar” – Wallace Stevens / 4. David Hockney – “A Retrospective” / 5. “Billboards” by Sally Henderson & Robert Landau with an Introduction by David Hockney / 6. David Hockney – “Some very new Paintings” / 7. David Hockney prints 1954-1977 / 8. “David Hockney” by David Hockney (with several interesting newspaper-clippings on Hockney loosely inserted).

Mexico, Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporáneo, 1990. Quarto (24.4 cm wide x 28 cm high). 120 pages. Softcover / Original spiral bound. Unusually excellent, FINE condition of Fax Dibujos, with only very minor signs of wear. Extremely rare, especially in this condition / [The Hockney Portrait-Photograph, which comes with the FAX Dibujos-publication, is stamped verso with Copyright by Universal Pictorial Press and Agency Ltd. in London and dated in 1976. – Provenance of the Photo: This photograph comes from the private Press-Photgraphs-Collection of irish photographer John Minihan, accumulated during his early years as photographer on Fleet Street, London] / The other monographs on or by Hockney are all in excellent condition. Find the David Hockney-Collection on our website under “Library & Collection”, where you will see a full list, with all books catalogued and with corresponding images.

2. Vierge, Daniel.

The Tavern of the Three Virtues. Translated from the Original of Saint-Juirs. Illustrated with sixty drawings by Daniel Verge together with a critical essay on the art of Vierge by Edmund Gosse.

London, T. Fisher Unwin, (ca. 1890). 22 cm x 33 cm. 155, (1) pages. Hardcover. Original cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. One of only 650 copies of a limited edition. Exlibris of Gordon Sloane (Lamh Dhearg). Blindstamped “Oaklands, St.Peters, Isle of Thanet”.

3. [Sainsbury, Hester Margaret (Illustrator)] / Morand, Paul.

Earth Girdled. With Eight Woodcuts by Hester Sainsbury. Translated from the French ‘Rien que le Terre’ by Charles Emile Roche.

London, Alfred A. Knoff, 1928. 14.5 cm x 22.6 cm. 172 pages. Black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Marbled boards. Gilt title on spine. Deckled edges. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Dustjacket has minor edgewear. Minor rubbing to edges. Minor tanning to edges, endpapers and pastedowns. Otherwise bright and clean. Binding strong.

4. Rennert, Jack.

100 Jahre Circus Plakate. [Translates: “100 Years of Circus Advertising Posters”].

Zurich / Stuttgart, Werner Classen Verlag, 1975. Folio. (28 cm wide x 41 cm). 112 pages with illustrations throughout the Volume. Original softcover. Spine damaged with the pages and illustrations loosened.

5. Piper, John.

Victorian Dream Palaces and Other Buildings in Landscape.

London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., no date [1977]. Quarto (21 cm wide x 29.7 cm high). 16 pages, Illustrated. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

6. McDonnell, Hector (Illustrator).

The Night Before Larry was Stretched [with signed etching]. With an introduction by Terence de Vere White.

Belfast, The Blackstaff Press, 1984. 20.5 cm x 13 cm. IX, 96 pages. Original Hardcover in original slipcase. Number 48 out of a limited edition of 500 copies / Excellent, close to new condition. Includes orignial, signed etching.

7. Hernández, José.

Martín Fierro. Con dibujos de Juan C. Castagnino.

Buenos Aires, Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires, 1962. Folio. (28,5 cm wide x 39,5 cm). 95 pages with illustrations throughout the Volume Original softcover. Spanish edition. Excellent condition.

8. [Haden, Sir Francis Seymour] / Salaman, Malcolm C.

Modern Masters of Etching Sir Francis Seymour Haden P.R.E.. Introduction By Malcolm C. Salaman.

London, The Studio, 1926. 30.5 cm x 25 cm. 9 pages of introduction. Illustrated with 12 full-page tipped-in etching. Protected by tissue guards. Original hardcover. Good condition with some stronger signs of external wear to the cover. Clean inside with all illustrations protected and in very good condition.

9. Gogol, Nikolai.

Das Bildnis. Eine Novelle. Mit Zeichnungen von W. Masjutin. Ins Deutsche uebertragen von Alexander Eliasberg.

Stuttgart, Verlag Julius Hoffmann, 1920. Quarto. 96 Seiten. Hardcover / Modernes Halbleder mit Rueckenschild in neuem Spezial – Schuber mit eingebundener Originalbroschur. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

10. Edwards, Gregory J.

The Book of The International Film Poster.

London, Tiger Books International, 1988. Quarto (21.7 cm wide x 30 cm high). 224 pages with Illustrations of Film-Posters throughout the volume (mainly in colour). Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

11. [Calder, Alexander] Pirovano, Carlo.

Calder – a cura di Giovanni Carandente. [Retrospettiva, Torino, Palazzo a Vela, 2 luglio-25 settembre 1983].

Milano, Electra Editrice, 1983. Quarto. 250 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Some staining to dustjacket only. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

12. [Calder, Alexander] Marter, Joan M.

Alexander Calder. With 170 Illustrations.

Cambridge / New York / Port Chester / Melbourne / Sydney, Cambridge University Press, 1991. Quarto. XVI, 302 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

13. [Calder, Alexander] Lipman, Jean.

Calder’s Universe [including the important chapter: “Who is Who in Calder’s World “]. By Jean Lipman with Ruth Wolfe, editorial director.

Second Printing. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, RUNNING PRESS in cooperation with Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989. Quarto. 351 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good, firm condition with only minor signs of wear. Some minor foxing to halftitle and endpapers only.

14. [Calder, Alexander] Hulten, Pontus.

Alexander Calder – Die Grossen Skulpturen / Der Andere Calder.

[Bonn], Edition Cantz, 1993. Quarto. 167 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

15. [Calder, Alexander] Gibson, Michael.

Calder.

Paris, Fernand Hazan, 1988. Small Octavo. 109 pages / Illustrated. Original, illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

16. [Calder, Alexander] Galerie Adrien Maeght.

Calder. [Ce Quarante-Huitieme Catalogue a ete a l’occasion de L’Exposition Calder a la Galerie Adrien Maeght].

Paris, Adrien Maeght, 1987. Folio. 32 pages with images of Stabiles and other installations etc. Original, illustrated Softcover. Minor signs of foxing only. Overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

17. [Calder, Alexander] Cvach, Milos.

Fishbones (Arêtes de poisson).

[Paris], Atelier des enfants et Musée national d`art moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, 1989. Octavo. 38 unumbered pages, some with stenciled features. Illustrated Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

18. [Calder, Alexander] Bruzeau, Maurice.

Calder. Text by Maurice Brazeau / Photographs by Jacques Masson. Translated from the French by I. Mark Paris.

New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1979. Quarto. 171 pages / Illustrated throughout. Original, illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

19. [Calder, Alexander] Bourdon, David.

CALDER – Mobilist / Ringmaster / Innovator.

New York / London, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. / Collier MacMillan Publishers, 1980. Oblong Quarto (26.3 cm wide x 21 cm high). 149 pages with illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

20. [Calder, Alexander] Archives Maeght.

“calder” – the artist, the work.

First english edition. Boston, Boston Book & Art, publisher, 1971. Quarto. 136 pages. Illustrated. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The dustjacket frayed and woth some tearing. Overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

21. [Calder, Alexander / (and Jean Davidson)].

CALDER – An Autobiography with Pictures.

First Printing. New York, Pantheon Books / A division of Random House, 1966. Quarto (22.3 cm wide x 27.3 cm high). 285 pages with illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover without illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Some staining to binding.

22. [Calder, Alexander].

Fables of Aesop – According to Sir Roger L’Estrange – With Fifty Drawings by Alexander Calder.

New York, Dover Publications, 1967. Small Quarto. 128 pages / Illustrated. Original, illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

23. [Calder, Alexander].

Calder – [Texte: Jacques Prevert / Jean-Paul Sartre / Fernand Leger / Michel Butor / Henri Pichette / Jean Davidson / Gerard-Georges Lemaire //

Paris, edition Maeght, 1992. Octavo. 115 pages (with illustrations throughout). Original, illustrated softcover. Excellent condition.

24. [Calder, Alexander].

Animal Sketching.

Third Edition. New York, Dover Publications, 1973. Octavo. 62 pages / Illustrated. Original, illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

25. Black, Eileen.

Through The Salerooms – Art Auctions in Belfast, 1807-1888.

Belfast, Northern Ireland, Ulster Historical Foundation, 2022. Quarto (21.8 cm wide x 29.4 cm high). XXI, 424 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some in colour). Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

26. Brehm, Alfred.

Brehms Tierleben – Allgemeine Kunde des Tierreichs. Mit 1803 Abbildungen im Text, 633 Tafeln in Farbendruck, Kupferaetzung und Holzschnitt sowie 13 Karten. Herausgegeben von Prof.Dr.Otto zur Strassen.

Vierte, vollstaendig neubearbeitete Auflage. 13 Baende (vollstaendig). Leipzig und Wien, Bibliographisches Institut, 1913. Quarto (19 cm breit x 26 cm hoch). Hardcover / Original Publisher’s half-leather / Sehr dekorative Halbleder-Ausgabe. Einige Baende etwas berieben und an den Kapitalen bestossen aber generell firm und sehr gut erhalten / Alle Abbildungen enthalten und die Chromolithographischen Tafeln mit den originalen Schutzpapieren erhalten. Farbgebung der Chromolithographischen Tafeln ist frisch und fantastisch erhalten ! / Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The rare last edition with several chromolithographic plates in colour.

27. Preißler, Johann Daniel / Preißler, Georg Martin.

Die durch Theorie erfundene Practic, Oder Gründlich-verfasste Reguln deren man sich als einer Anleitung zu berühmter Künstlere (sic) Zeichen-Wercken bestens bedienen kan (sic). [Drei Werke in sechs Teilen auf zwei Bände verteilt !] Vier Theile inclusive dem vierten “Fortsetzungsband”. Zwei Anhänge angebunden – Anhang I: L’Anatomia Deipittori del Signore Carlo Cesio, das ist: deutliche Anweisung und gründliche Vorstellung von der Anatomie der Mahler (sic), wie in den Gliedern des menschlichen Leibs die vornehmste Gebeine und Musculn, nach ihren Namen, Stellen, Anfängen und Enden, auch fordersten Verrichtungen, bey ihren unterschiedlichen Bewegungen und Handlungen zu erkennen, anzusehen und vorzustellen seyn; anfänglich von dem Kunst=berühmten Meister Carlo Cesio in netten und deutlichen Tabellen, auch kurtzen, doch gründlichen in Italiänischer Sprache beygefügten Erklärungen an das Licht gegeben: Nun aber zu mehrern Aufnahm der Mahler= und Zeichen=Kunst in das Teutsche getreulich übersetzet mitgetheilet von Johann Daniel Preißlern, der Nürnbergischen Kunstmahler=Academie Directore bey welchem sie auch zu finden. / Anhang II: Gründliche Anleitung welcher man sich im Nachzeichnen schöner Landschafften oder Prospecten bedienen kan (sic), den Liebhabern der Zeichen-Kunst mitgetheilet und eigenhändig in Kupfer gebracht, von Johann Daniel Preißler. Mit 104 Kupfertafeln von Georg Martin Preißler.

Mischauflage (vierte bis siebente Auflage). 5 Teile in 2 Bänden (vollständig). Nürnberg, Kunst-Mahler-Academie, 1747-1780. Folio. Band I enthält die Teile 1-3 mit der Vorrede und dem “Nöthigen Vorbericht” aufgeteilt auf die ersten zwei Teile. Paginierung: Teil I: (2 Bll.), 19 ganzseitige Kupfertafeln / Teil II: (5 Bll.), 18 ganzseitige Kupfertafeln / Teil III: (4 Bll.), 17 ganzseitige Kupfertafeln, (3 Bll.). Eine Kupfer in einer Ecke minimal beschmutzt. Band II enthält den vierten “Fortsetzungs” – Band und im Anhang das Werk von Carlo Cesio. Paginierung: Teil IV: (4 Bll.), 18 ganzseitige Kupfertafeln / ANHANG I: L’Anatomia Deipittori / Anatomie der Mahler – Paginierung: (2 Bll.), 16 ganzseitige Kupfer (im Stile Vesalius’ und Eustachius’) / Anhang II: Nachzeichnen schöner Landschaften – Paginierung: (2), 16 ganzseitige Kupfertafeln // Wunderschöne Halblederbände des späten 18.Jahrhunderts oder frühen 19.Jahrhunderts. Das Halbleder auf fünf unechten Bünden mit zweifarbigen Rückenschildchen und reicher Rückenvergoldung. Exzellenter Erhaltungszustand mit nur einem der Kupferstiche mit minimaler Verschmutzung. Eine der schönsten Ausgabe einer Malerschule die wir je gesehen haben.

28. [Vanity Fair] Bowles, Thomas Gibson / [Fantastic collection of political caricature portraits of 19th century American Politicans / British Politicians]

Vanity Fair: A Weekly Show of Political, Social & Literary Wares – Complete Annual for the year 1872 with 51 full-page portraits of victorian statesmen of england as well as the united states of america (Hamilton Fish, Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley etc.), politicians, writers, artists, “men of the day” and men of influence, portrayed in chromolithography / chromolithographs in colour (January 6, 1872 – June 29, 1872 & July 6, 1872 – December 28, 1872 ).

London, Vanity Fair, 1872. Folio. 208, 208 pages. Complete set. Interleaved with 51 chromolithographic portraits. Beautifully restored, original Hardcover (half-leather with orginal spine (gilt letttering and ornament). With new, linen-covered boards, using the original pastedowns and endpapers. A stunning Volume in excellent condition. All illustrations in wonderful colour.

29. [Rees-Mogg, William / Cholwell House] [Lever, Charles].

Arthur O’Leary – His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many Lands. Edited by his friend, Harry Lorrequer and Illustrated by George Cruikshank. [William Rees-Mogg’s personal copy from his library at Cholwell House and with his armorial Bookplate / Exlibris to pastedown].

New Edition. London, Henry Colburn, 1845. Octavo. Frontispiece-Portrait of Arthur O’Leary, 364 pages with ten illustrations by Cruikshank (including the Frontispiece). Hardcover / Original 19th century half leather with two spine-labels, professionally rebacked and restored by a professional bookbindery. Original pastedowns retained with the original bookbindery-label of C.T.Jefferies & Sons from Bristol. Some of the Cruikshank-plates very good, some with strong foxing (as usual). The text fresh and clean. After the restoration, this Volume is now in excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

30. Poe, Edgar Allan / Clarke, Harry.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination. Illustrated by Harry Clarke. [With eight tipped-in-plates in colour, 24 black-and-white illustrations and several illustrations throughout the text].

Fourth Edition of the 1919 publication. London / Bombay / Sydney, George G. Harrap & Co., 1928. 4°. (21.5 cm wide x 27.7 cm high). 381 pages with all the stunning colour-plates and black-and-white-plates in place but page 15/16 and the relevant illustration cleanly detached. Hardcover with restored original dustjacket / Original full cloth-binding with gilt lettering/illustrated spine. Top edge gilt. A stunning, absolutely unusually firm and clean binding, nearly with no flaws, very unusual for the original 1928-edition. Tight and clean example of one of the most beautiful macabre art nouveau-publications. All illustrations by Harry Clarke in excellent condition. The restored dustjacket in protective Mylar. When we speak of “restored” we mean in this case parts of the original dustjacket’s spine and frontcover were pasted on black paper in style of the time. The absolutely best example of this work we ever handled, despite the detached layer of pages.

31. [Hedouin, Edmond / Boilvin, Emile] Book of Wisdom.

The Song of Songs [The Song of Solomon / Das Hohelied Salomos]. With 26 etchings from designs by Edmond Hedouin and Emile Boilvin. From Designs by BIDA.

Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1887. 25 cm x 32 cm. 47 pages of verses juxtaposed to 24 fine etchings, the additional two etchings are the frontispiece and a smaller signet etching to the titlepage. All of the fine etchings mounted to stiff paper. Original hardcover / Decorative quarter morocco with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Very few of the etchings with foxing. Very good condition of this extremely rare edition (no.129 of 250 copies only) with only very minor signs of external wear / some rubbing to the binding and bumping to the corners. Some corners very slightly fingerstained and with a hint of a faded dampstain. Name of former owner on endpaper: “Martin F. Jackson – 501 – 5 ave. New York City”.

32. [Chester Beatty, Sir Alfred] Holme, Charles (Charles Rennie Mackintosh / Charles Voysey and others).

The Studio: an illustrated magazine of fine and applied art. Alfred Chester Beatty’s personal set of “The Studio”; 97 volumes bound in 69 books with the Register for Vols 1-29 [Lacking Volume 61]. With original artwork by James McNeill Whistler and other important artists of the Belle Époque and Art Nouveau Movement.

97 Volumes (bound in 69 Volumes). London, Offices of The Studio, 1893 – 1929. Quarto. c. 20000 pages with illustrations, photographs, original lithographs, engravings. Contemporary private Hardcover (Uniform deep blue buckram with gilt lettering on spinelabels). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only a few of the Volumes a little shaky. With the handwritten entry “A. Chester Beatty – 24 Kensington Palace Gardens – W. 8”.

33. Chamouin, Jean-Baptiste-Marie.

Collection de 28 Vues de PARIS prises au Daguerréotype gravures en Taille douce sur Acier / [28 beautiful steel-engravings of Architectural Paris of the 19th century / Title on Binding: “Vues de Paris, Prises Au Daguerréotype”].

Paris, Chamouin, c.1860. Oblong Quarto. With twenty-eight engravings (complete set). Hardcover / Original publisher’s binding. Besides a faded dampstain to the binding and the outer margins of some engravings, in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

34. Andersen, Hans Christian.

Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales [Illustrated]. Edited by Svend Larsen (Director of Hans Andersen Museum, Oldesloe). Translated from the original Danish text by R.P.Keigwin. Illustrated by Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenz Froelich, reproduced from the original drawings in the Andersen Museum at Odense. With an Introduction by Elias Bredsdorff.

Four Volumes (complete set). Odense, Flensted, 1961. Duodecimo (9.7 cm wide x 14.2 cm high). Volume I: Frontispice-Portrait of Andersen, 394 pages / Volume II: Frontispice-Portrait of Andersen, 368 pages / Volume III: Frontispice-Portrait of Andersen, 368 pages / Volume IV: Frontispice-Portrait of Andersen, 397 pages. Hardcover / Original, very decorative full leather with gilt lettering and golden Thumbelina on front cover of each Volume. Gilt top edge. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Gift-Inscription on endpaper. The stunning full – leather set of Fairy-Tales in the perfect Pocket-size. One of the most beloved editions.

35. [Calder, Alexander] Wilbur, Richard.

A BESTIARY – [One of 50 copies on luxurious Rives-mould, signed by Alexander Calder and Richard Wilbur].

New York, Printed at the Spiral Press for Pantheon Books, 1955. Folio (24 cm wide x 32.5 cm high). Original Hardcover / Half red morocco, beige buckram boards with gilt lettering on spine and gilt stamped illustration to front board. A very fine copy in the original board slipcase with very minor signs of shelfwear to the slipcase only. Spine very sightly sunned. A fantastic book with quotes from Yeats and Kafka and many other writers, illustrated by Calder!

36. [Buckland-Wright, John / Golden Cockerel Press] Swinburne, Algernon Charles.

Hymn to Proserpine. Engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. Octavo (16.8 cm wide x 23.7 cm high). 20 pages with seven woodcuts. Original Hardcover (Burgundy cloth). Spine slightly sunned. Otherwise in absolutely excellent, firm condition with only minor signs of wear.

37. Ungerer, Tomi.

Tomi Ungerer’s Tierleben [SIGNED / Inscribed]. Das Vorwort wurde von Ursula Vogel ins Deutsche uebertragen.

Zurich, Diogenes, 1990. Quarto (24.5 cm wide x 32.2 cm high). 142 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

38. Mortimer, Charles.

Some Queer Animals [Illustrated Poems].

First Edition. London, Guildford Press, 1947. Octavo (17 cm wide x 21 cm high). 48 pages. Beautifully illustrated throughout in coloured Lithographs. Original, illustrated Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The Volume itself in excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. The very rare dustjacket with some staining but overall very good.

39. Beecher-Stowe, Harriet.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin – A Tale of Life among the Lowly. With [106] original Illustrations [plus one Fronstispiece-Portrait] by Jenny Nystrom-Stoopendaal.

London / Paris / New York & Melbourne, Cassell and Company, 1905. Large Octavo (18 cm x 23 cm). Frontispiece – Portrait of Harriet Beecher-Stowe, XIV, 680 pages with numerous illustrations throughout. Hardcover / Original, very decorative publisher’s cloth-binding in protective Mylar. The notoriously shaky publication was strengthened by our bookbindery and is now ready to be read and used without fear of handling. Old gift-inscription to slightly frayed endpaper. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The best version due to the large size of the book and the corresponding illustrations.

40. [Blake, WIlliam] / [Philip Gilbert] / [William Quiller Orchardson] / [John Fullwood] / [John La Farge] Hamerton, P.G.

The Portfolio – Monographs on Artistic Subjects [21 Volumes in 7 with each Volume including three Monographs on a Subject or an Artist’s Life and Work. Volumes include for example include: Josiah Wedgwood / John La Farge / William Blake / Japanese Wood-Engraving / Belgian Sculpture etc. see full List below]. Edited by P.G.Hamerton.

Original / First Edition. 21 Volumes bound in seven Volumes. London, Seeley and Co., 1894-1896. Quarto (19.2 cm wide x 27.2 cm high). c. 1600 pages with a total of 37 Etchings / Engravings. Hardcover / All Volumes in their original, very decorative Art Nouveau-Bindings with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and frontcover. All Bindings in protective Collectors-Mylar. Excellent, actually stunning condition with only minor signs of wear and occasional foxing to some of the illustrations only). One layer loosened in the 1895-Volume.

41. Reavey, George [First Literary Agent of Samuel Beckett] / Irene Rice Pereira [American abstract [modernist] artist, poet and philosopher].

The Colours Of Memory [Signed Presentation-copy / With signed, original (!) Artwork by Irene Rice Pereira as frontispiece [George Reavey’s wife at the time of publication] / One of the very rare 26 copies only].

First Edition. New York, Grove Press, 1955. Octavo. 60 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Dustjacket stained. Small coffee-stain on pages 5/6. An excellent, extremely rare book, being Letter “Y” of only 26 lettered copies. Very good overall-condition with only minor signs of wear.

42. [Daniele, Francesco / Johann Josef von Wilczek / Thomasius, Christian].

Le Forche Caudine – Illustrate con due Appendici. [Compreso “Prospetto Della Valle Caudina Dalla Parte Della Campania”]. Second edition, augmented and, according to Brunet, preferable to the original first edition, which was printed in Caserta in 1778.

Seconda Edizione. Napoli, Appresso Angelo Trani, 1811. Folio (44.5 cm x29 cm). XIII, (3), 102 pages plus (6) pages advertising and Index (Indice). With 22 (twentytwo) illustrations overall. Including a large fold-out-plan (97 x 43 cm) of the Valle Caudine, several Vignettes, Allegorical/Historical Illustrations and four beautiful landscape engravings of the Valle Caudine by Alessandro d’Anna / XIII, (3), 102 pagine più (6) pagine pubblicitarie e Index (Indice). Con 22 (ventidue) illustrazioni in totale. Tra cui una grande illustrazione (97 x 43 cm) della Valle Caudine, diverse vignette, illustrazioni allegoriche / storiche e quattro bellissime incisioni paesaggistiche della Valle Caudine di Alessandro d’Anna. Hardcover / Fantastic modern, Nigerian goatskin with gilt lettering on spine and fine quality late 19th-century cloth over boards. New endpapers and all bound in style by english master-binders. Excellent condition of the binding. The stunning and most wonderful interior with only very occasional signs of an old dampstain to the outer margins and the beautiful, large fold-out-plan with some mild browning to one part of the center-fold. A typographical masterpiece of italian printmaking.

43. Bonucci, Anicio / Galibert, Leone.

Storia d’ Algeri [History of Algeria]. Dal Primo Stabilimento De’ Cartaginesi Fino Alle Ultime Guerre Combattutevi Ai Giorni Nostri Dalle Armi di Francia. Con una Introduzione su i Diversi Sistemi di Colonizzazione che Precessero il Conquisto Francese: Di Leone Galibert – Antico Direttore della Rivista Britannica. Volgarizzamento del Sig. Dottore Anicio Bonucci.

Two Volumes (complete set). Firenze, Presso Giuseppe Celli, 1843. 18 cm x 26 cm. Collation: Volume I: 628 pages with 33 hand-coloured plates depicting battle scenes and landscapes / Volume II: 649, (2) pages with 40 (of 44) handcoloured plates and pages 233-240 missing. Hardcover / Volume I in a modern half-buckram with private spine-label / Volume II in its original half-leather binding. Good condition with signs of external wear. One Volume with crack to gutter between front pastedown and gutter. Loose leaf near front. Binding still firm and strong but tender near very front. Interior bright and unmarked with occasional foxing.

44. [Byron Circle] Haygarth, William.

Greece, A Poem, In Three Parts; With Notes, Classical Illustrations, And Sketches Of The Scenery.

First Edition. London, Printed by W,Bulmer and Co., 1814. Quarto (24 cm wide x 30 cm high). 304 pages with all 9 original sepia-aquatint-plates by Charles Turner after Haygarth. Disbound due to broken binding. Halftitle and bookblock available with all 9 plates included. Needs rebinding. Bookblock firm, halftitle detached. All nine plates with faded dampstain but still in beautiful and strong impression. The wide-margined Text in excellent, clean condition besides the faded dampstain. Last page of the Volume with some browning. Very minor wormhole-damage to the last 14 pages. One illustration cleanly detached. Extremely Rare Book !

45. Ubbelohde Collection – [Ubbelohde, Otto] Bock, Alfred.

Die Pariser. Roman von Alfred Bock.

Erste Ausgabe. Berlin, Egon Fleischel, 1909. Octavo. 203, [13] pages. Hardcover / Original, illustrated Hardcover [″Die Umschlagzeichnung ist von Otto Ubbelohde”]. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

46. Original Earl 20th century German Expressionism in Original Woodcuts – Mann, Thomas.

Der kleine Herr Friedemann.

München, Phantasus-Verlag, 1920. Quarto. [4], 58, [3] Seiten. Mit elf (11) ganzseitigen Original-Bleischnitten und vier (4) kolorierten Bleischnitt-Initialen von Otto Nückel. Hardcover / Originales Halbpergament. Einband minimal fleckig. Sonst in sehr gutem Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren.

47. Moschetti, [Prof. Allesandro].

Roma – [Original 19th century Tourist Guide with 40 (forty) Lithographic Plates on Rome in Piranesi-style / Rome in Antiquity].

[Rome], Incisioni del Prof. Moschetti, Epoca 1822. Small Octavo. 40 illustrations as Leporello. Original, blindstamped Hardcover with illustrated cover. With the original bands fully intact. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Very rare Piranesiesque Guide, including the famous Pyramide (Caio Cestio) and Veduti.

48. [Gross, Anthony].

The Very Rich Hours of Le Boulvé. [No.22 of only 120 copies, signed and numbered by Anthony Gross] Written and Illustrated with twenty-six (26) etchings and engravings on copper by Anthony Gross. With a Foreword by David Garnett.

[London], The Rampant Lion Press, 1980. Folio (26 cm wide x 33.4 cm high). Etched double-page title, 110 (1) pages. With 26 full-page-Etchings with original tissue-guards in place. Hardcover / Original tan morocco-backed cloth in original slipcase. Gilt lettering on spine. Excellent, Fine condition / As New with only minor signs of wear.

49. [Dickens, Charles] Barnard, Frederick.

A Series of Character Sketches from Dickens in Colour – From Original Drawings by Frederick Barnard: 1. Caleb Plummer and his Blind Daughter / 2. Bill Sikes / 3. Mr. Pecksniff / 4. The Two Wellers / 5. Sydney Carton / 6. Mrs. Gamp / 7. Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim [from “A Christmas Carol”]/ 8. Captain Cuttle / 9. Mr.Micawber / 10. Mr.Pickwick / 11. Mr. Peggotty / 12. Barnaby Rudge //

First Edition. London, The Waverley Book Company, no year (c.1912). Folio (34.5 cm wide x 44 cm high (Portfolio Size). 12 Tipped – in Plates on single Folio – Pages inside the original Portfolio-Folder (All pictures ready to be framed). Each image has a detachable tissue-guard with text from Dickens’ stories in which each character is present. Original Hardcover Portfolio with softcover sheets. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Only very minor signs of ocassional foxing.

50. Wootton, David / Margaret Winifred Tarrant, Helen Mary Jacobs, Beatrice May Goldsmith etc.

The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1780-1996 / 1880-1997. [With many short biographies and listings of women illustrators].

2 volumes (complete set). London, Chris Beetles Limited, 1996-1997. 21 cm x 21 cm. 543 pages includes hundreds of colour-illustrations. Original Softcover with colour illustrations on both front and back cover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Loosely inserted is the Price-list for the illustrations for their Sale on November 30th – January 25th 1996).