ROTH, Henry.

Call it Sleep.

London: Michael Joseph, 1963.

First English edition, first published in New York by Robert O. Ballou in 1934.

£250

SAY, Léon.

[cover title: ] La Société coopérative est la meilleure des caisses d’épargne.

Lille, L. Danel, [1866?].

First edition. Léon Say (1826–1896), grandson of Jean-Baptiste Say, ‘became one of the most prominent statesmen of the French Third Republic. He served as Finance Minister from 1872 to 1879, and again in 1882, overseeing the largest financial operation of the century – payment of war reparations...

£75

SCHREBER, Johann Christian.

Botanisch-Oeconomische Abhandlung vom Grasbaue. Preisschrift, welche die, in den öconomischen Nachrichten,...

Leipzig, Johann Wendler, 1763.

First separate edition of this prize-winning treatise on grass and hay, first published in the Ökonomische Nachrichten.

£75

[SINO-JAPANESE WAR, 1894–95.]

Terrible war of General Sakamoto, leader of the imperial warship Akagi.

Tokyo, Sekiguchi Masajiro, 1894.

A portrait of General Sakamoto at the battle of Yalu River (1894) executed by the Japanese artist, Toshikata Mizuno. General Sakamoto was killed in this battle.

£350

SMITH, William.

The Speeches of Mr. Smith, of South Carolina, delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, in...

Philadelphia printed, London reprinted for John Stockdale, 1794.

First London edition, a rebuff to the punitive anti-British tariffs proposed by the future President James Madison, first printed in Philadelphia in the same year and also reprinted in Edinburgh.

£175

SQUIRES, Richard F.

Typescript letter to John Derek Smith, signed Rick,

dated Gladsaxe [Denmark], December 7, 1965.

Squires’ main research was into multiple forms of monoamine oxidases, and their inhibitors, which are nowadays used as antidepressants. Squires reports of problems not entirely unrelated with psycho-active substances:

£180

STEPNIAK, Sergius [pseudonym for: Sergius Mikhailovich Kravchinskii].

Podziemna Rosja. Obrazki z przeszłości młodej Rosji.

Lviv, [ printers of the Dziennika Polskiego] for Gubrinowicz & Schmidt, 1897.

Extremely rare first edition in Polish, anonymously translated and printed in nowadays Ukraine, of Stepniak’s most successful, translated and influential book.

£100

STEWART, Dugald.

Esquisses de philosophie morale …

Paris, A. Johanneau, 1826.

First edition in French of Stewart’s Outlines of Moral Philosophy (1793), translated from the fourth English edition of 1818, with a 152-page prefatory essay by the translator, Théodore-Simon Jouffroy.

£100

WALRAS, Léon.

Études d’économie sociale (Théorie de la Répartition de la Richesse sociale).

Lausanne and Paris, Rouge and Pichon & Durand-Auzias, 1936.

This, the second, definitive edition differs from the first (1896) in containing the ‘Souvenirs du Congrès de Lausanne’. The congress on taxation in Lausanne in 1860, at which Walras read a paper, was a climacteric in his career. In the audience was Louis Ruchonnet, who later became chief of the...

£100

[JOYCE.] ROTH, Samuel [Edits.].

Two Worlds – A Literary Quarterly Devoted to the Increase of the Gaiety of Nations.

New York: Sign of the Mockigrisball, 1925.

First edition. Unnumbered, one of 500, of which 450 numbered copies were designated for subscribers. Between September 1925 and September 1926 Two Worlds published installments of Joyce’s ‘Work in Progress’ (Finnegan’s Wake), reprinted from European publications (in this case from Criterion,...

£150

BERLIOZ, Hector.

Mémoires . . . comprenant ses voyages en Italie, en Allemagne, en Russie et en Angleterre 1803–1865. Avec un...

Paris, Michel Lévy, 1870.

First edition, a fine copy in entirely original condition in the original wrappers. Berlioz’s colourful autobiography reads like a work of literature and remains the principle source for his life. This posthumous first edition of the Mémoires was preceded by excerpts which were serialised in Le Monde...

£2750

CARDONNEL, Adam de.

Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland [I–II] …

London: Printed for the Author, and sold by Edwards … also by Edwards’s, in Halifax. 1788.

First edition, the very rare issue with the plates in sepia, printed directly onto thick wove paper.

£975

R., N.

Proverbs English, French, Dutch, Italian and Spanish. All Englished and alphabetically digested …

London, Printed for Simon Miller … 1659.

First and only edition of a scarce collection of idiomatic phrases and proverbs, many translated from other languages, with a selection of 114 ‘Golden sentences’ at the end.

£1750

[BRUNEL, Antoine de.]

A journey into Spain.

London, printed for Henry Herringman, 1670.

First edition in English. A free and abridged translation of Voyage d’Espagne curieux, historique et politique, first published anonymously in 1665. Setting out from the Netherlands in 1651 in the company of François van Aerssen, Brunel toured France, Germany and Italy before travelling to...

£950

MONETA, José Manuel, and Robert Keith HEADLAND, (ed.).

Four Antarctic Years in the South Orkney Islands: an Annotated...

London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2017.

One man’s fascinating record of four winters in the Antarctic during the 1920s, the period of transition from the isolation of the Heroic Age to the beginnings of radio communication with the world outside.

£50

SWIFT, Jonathan.

The Posthumous Works … Volume I [–III].

Edinburgh: Printed for John Balfour. 1766

Very rare, a reissue, with cancel title-pages, of the similarly rare vols. 9-11 of Balfour’s edition of Swift’s Works (also 1766, BL and NLS only). The first ‘Scotch’ edition of 1752 had been in ten volumes, reduced to eight in 1757 (Printed for Hamilton, Balfour and Hunter). Balfour alone published...

£450

SCOTT, Sir Walter.

The Lady of the Lake … with all his Introductions and Notes, various Readings, and the Editor’s Notes.

Edinburgh, Robert Cadell, 1851.

An attractive Scottish 'Mauchline ware' tartan binding. Mauchline ware bindings – the name comes from Smith’s boxware factory at Mauchline in Ayrshire – were made from thin wooden boards (often sycamore) decorated with tartan or pictorial designs, heavily varnished, and attached to the text...

£750

GRASSINEAU, James.

A Musical Dictionary; being a Collection of Terms and Characters, as well ancient as modern; including the historical,...

… London: Printed for J. Wilcox … 1740.

First edition, based largely on the Dictionnaire de Musique of Sébastien de Brossard and the musical articles in Chambers’s Cyclopaedia, with some original material. One of two variant issues, this has ‘A’ on the title-page above the ‘i’ in ‘Dictionary’.

£650

ECCLES, Mary, Viscountess, and Gordon TURNBULL, eds..

James Boswell’s Book of Company at Auchinleck.

The Roxburghe Club, 1995.

The Book of Company is much more than a visitor’s book, since James Boswell comments on the men and women he met and entertained, and the occasions of his doing so, are all his own. It is therefore an important addition to his many-sided self-portrait. Beginning in 1782, two years before Samuel Johnson...

£260

GOUNOD, Charles François.

A volume of ten songs bound together, all signed and inscribed by Gounod to Arthur Cecil Blunt (1832–96).

A specially bound volume containing ten of Gounod’s London-published songs, all signed and inscribed in pencil on the upper wrapper to the English actor Arthur Cecil Blunt (stage name Arthur Cecil, 1843–1896): ‘To my friend Arthur C. Blunt. Ch, Gounod’. The songs, of which eight are in English,...

£2000