Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. London: Bloomsbury, 1999. First edition, first impression, 8vo (198 x 126mm.) (Spotting to preliminaries.) Original pictorial boards, dust-jacket. Note: a first impression second state with 'J.K. Rowling' to the copyright page and, unlike the third state, no advertisements to the rear.

SENDAK, Maurice (illustrator). - Iona & Peter OPIE. I Saw Esau. London: Walker Books, 1992. Limited edition, being number 254 of 300 copies signed by Maurice Sendak and Iona Opie, 8vo (184 x 128mm.) Colour illustrations. Original boards with mounted paper label to upper cover, slipcase. - And a further two volumes ([Friedrich Stowasser] Friedensreich Hundertwasser's 'Hundertwasser', 1973, 12mo, and 'Hundertwasser', 1977, 12mo) (3).

PRIVATE PRESS. - Liam MILLER. The Dun Emer Press, Later the Cuala Press, With a List of the Books, Broadsides and Other Pieces Printed at the Press. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1973. Limited edition, this being number 70 of 250 copies only, signed by Liam Miller, 4to (248 x 173mm.) Preface by Michael B. Yeats. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, paper label mounted to upper cover. Provenance: Mary Priscilla Smith (name-plate to the front pastedown). - And a further four limited edition volumes published by the Cuala Press (including W.B. Yeats' 'Reflections', 1970, 4to, and 'Some Letters of John M. Synge to Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats', 1971, 4to, and 'Letters From Bedford Park', 1972, 4to, and 'A Brief Account of the Cuala Press', 1971, 4to, and also an inscribed copy of Bernard Berenson's 'Seeing and Knowing', 1953, 4to) (6).

WAR. - Paul BRICKHILL. Reach for the Sky. Douglas Bader, His Life Story. London: Collins, 1954. First edition, including a loosely inserted R.A.F. Club Annual Dinner menu signed by Douglas Bader, 8vo (205 x 130mm.) Numerous black and white illustrations. (Toning, spotting to fore-edge.) Original blue cloth (some fading, lightly bumped), dust-jacket (browned and spotting to lower panel, spine ends creased). - And a further five related volumes (including a copy of John Golley's 'John 'Cat's-Eyes' Cunningham: The Aviation Legend', signed by John Cunningham, 1999, 8vo, and C.F. Rawnsley and Robert Wright's 'Night Fighter', also inscribed by John Cunningham, 1957, 8vo) (6).

NORTON, Mary. The Borrowers Afield. London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1955. First edition, first impression, 8vo (197 x 133mm.) Colour frontispiece and illustrations by Diana Stanley. (Browning, light spotting to preliminaries.) Original blue cloth (spotting to spine), dust-jacket (loss to spine ends, tape repairs to upper panel). - And a further three volumes of Mary Norton's 'The Borrowers' series (including 'The Borrowers Afloat', 1959, 8vo, 'The Borrowers Aloft', 1961, 8vo, and 'The Borrowers Avenged', 1982, 8vo) (4).

MANUSCRIPTS. [A hand-written book of minutes for meetings of the 'Advisory Medical Council' of the South London Hospital for Women. N.p.: July 1930-March 1939.] 241pp., manuscript, folio (322 x 202mm.) 241pp. in legible hands relating to correspondence, regulations, appointments and internal issues relating to the South London Hospital for Women, numerous mounted memoranda and typed and hand-written letters loosely inserted. (Occasional minor creasing.) Original cloth boards (lacking spine, worn). Note: the 'South London Hospital for Women' was established in 1912 by Maud Chadburn and Eleanor Davies-Colley. Inspired by the suffragettes they believed that women should have the option of being treated by their all-female staff, but also that it would serve as a training college for female medical staff. - And a further eight related volumes (including manuscript volumes for the minutes of meetings of the 'Wimbledon College Hospital' for the years 1894, 1901, 1907, 1908 and for 'Wimbledon Hospital' in 1915) (9).

COMMONPLACE BOOK. [A manuscript commonplace book compiled by Lady Callum of Hardwick House, Suffolk. N.p.: circa 1840-1870.] 254pp., manuscript, 4to (252 x 198mm.) 24pp. of hand-written entries, 48 mounted letters or hand-written poems mostly addressed to Lady Callum, including 5 poems from her 'laureate' Edwin Sidney, and entries from Sir Frederick Pollock, Edward Hogg, B. Nichols, and many others, numerous blank leaves. (Mild toning.) Near contemporary green morocco, gilt borders (light rubbing, minor scuffing). Note: the Callum family lived at Hardwick House from 1656 until the 1920's.

CARY, John. Cary's New Map of England and Wales, with Part of Scotland on which are carefully laid down, All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads, the Course of the Rivers and Navigable Canals… London: J. Cary, June 11th 1794. 4to (319 x 247mm.) Engraved title, dedication, engraved hand-coloured general map, diagram to illustrate scale, 76 engraved hand-coloured sections, 85pp. 'List of Places', 3pp. 'List of Subscribers'. (Mild toning, lacking 5 'blank' sections for the 'German Ocean', presumably as issued.) Contemporary marbled wallet-style calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (some wear to extremities).

LEWIS, Samuel (publisher). An Atlas, Comprising Maps of the Several Counties, Divided into Unions, and of the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man; with a Map of England and Wales, and a Plan of London and Its Environs. London: S. Lewis and Co., 1842. 4to (282 x 214mm.) Engraved folding map of England and Wales with contemporary outline colouring, an uncoloured engraved folding plan of London, and 42 engraved maps including 13 folding. (Minor spotting verso maps, marginal crease to 'Yorkshire', toning.) Original black blind-stamped cloth (rebacked, endpapers replaced).

ARCHITECTURE. - Henry CHAMBERLAIN (editor). A New and Compleat History and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster… by a Society of Gentlemen. London: J. Cooke, [1770]. First edition, folio (353 x 250mm.) 45 engraved plates, 4pp. list of subscribers, 8pp. index to rear. (Lacking the 2 maps and lacking 20 plates, browning, 2 loose leaves.) Near contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece (rebacked, scuffing). Provenance: John Keylock (ink gift inscription from on the front-free endpaper); Thomas Edmond (ink gift inscription to on the front-free endpaper); H.H. Sim (ink name on the front pastedown). - And a further volume (John Thomas Smith's 'Antiquities of London and Its Environs', 1791-[1800], small folio) (2).

SMITH, John Thomas. Antiquities of London and Its Environs… Containing views of Houses, Monuments, Statues, and other curious remains of Antiquity. London: J. Sewell et al., 1791- [1800]. Small folio (354 x 235mm.) Engraved title-page, 96 engraved plates. (Light spotting, mostly to plate margins.) Near contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards (lightly rubbed, upper joint splitting). - And two further volumes (including Daniel Lysons' 'Cambridgeshire', being part 1 of Vol. 2 of 'Magna Britannia', 1808, 4to) (3).

MOTORING. Marmon Cars at the Show. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press, [1918.] Folio (327 x 249mm.) 10 plates tipped-in, 4 in colour. (One plate with small corner crease, toning.) Original reversed half calf boards, gilt lettering (damp-staining to lower cover and slightly to upper cover, scuff marks, spine ends rubbed). Note: an invitation brochure to the new series Marmon 34 exhibition, 1918. Provenance: Mrs. Allen Anderson (gilt name to upper cover). - And a further nineteen motoring and commercial motoring brochures (including Tristan Bernard's 'Une Visite Chez Berliet a Lyon', 1908, 4to, and 'Packard Motor Trucks', 1920, folio, and 'The Packard Standard Eight', 1928, loose-leaf) (20).

MOTORING. Cadillac Motor Cars, a Pictorial Presentation of Modern Coachcraft as Interpreted in Cars. Detroit, Michigan: Cadillac Motor Car Company, 1928. Oblong folio (228 x 334mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original card covers, original paper envelope (torn along folds, crayon date on upper panel). - And a small quantity of brochures relating to motor cars (including 'Cadillac V-16', [circa 1931], oblong folio, and 'Cadillac, for 1955', [1954], 4to, and also a book relating to aviation by Louis M. Massuger's 'Livre d'Or de la Société Française Hispano-Suiza', 1924, 4to) (small quantity).

PSYCHOLOGY. - SANDOZ (publisher). Psychopathology and Pictorial Expression. [Switzerland:] Sandoz, 1964-1971. 8 vols. Folio (318 x 234mm) Staple-bound text leaves, numerous loose-leaf colour plates showing representations of mental states. (Toning.) Contained within white card portfolios (browned to margins, occasional mark, extremities rubbed). Note: comprises series 4-10 and no.16. Series 4: Giulio Carlo Argan and Carlo Traversa's 'Children's Drawings and their Bearing on the Doctor-patient Relationship'; Series 5: Th. Spoerri's 'Adolf Wolfli's Picture World'; Series 6: W. Baeyer and H. Hafner's 'Prinzhorn's Basic Work on the Psychopathology of the 'Gestaltung'; Series 7: Gonzalo R. Lafora's 'Oriental Features in the Paintings of an Uneducated Spanish Schizophrenic'; Series 8: E. Cunningham Dax's 'The Pictorial Representation of Depression'; Series 9: Count Wittgenstein's 'The Element Picture Series and Their Use on Psychiatry and Psychotherapy'; Series 10: Honorio Delgado's 'A Schizophrenic Painter- a Doubly Favourable Outcome'; Series 16: 'Paintings by Alcoholics' (8).

JEWELLERY. - Francois CHAILLE (editor). The Cartier Collection: Jewellery. Paris: Éditions Flammarion, 2004. Oblong folio (297 x 415mm.) Numerous tipped-in colour plates and colour illustrations. Original tan cloth, portfolio cloth box with ties (minor marks to box). - And a related volume ('Cartier l'album', 2003, folio) (2).

ART REFERENCE. - Hans Ulrich OBRIST. Do It: The Compendium. New York: Independent Curators International, 2013. Signed by the artists Bertrand Lavier and Christian Boltanski and also Hans Ulrich Obrist, 4to (253 x 200mm.) Includes Bruce Altshuler essay 'Art by Instruction and the Pre-History of do it'. (Mild toning.) Original orange card covers (slight sunning to spine). Note: a Duchamp-inspired open-ended series of worldwide exhibitions which has now become 'the longest running and most far-reaching exhibition to ever take place'.

ART REFERENCE. - Fernand MOURLOT. Picasso Lithographe. Monte Carlo: André Sauret, Editions du Livre, 1956. Part III (only), 4to (321 x 242mm.) Colour lithograph frontispiece, numerous illustrations. (Toning to margins, a wave to the text throughout, pp.11-13 and last leaves with damp creasing.) Original wrappers, original lithograph covers printed in black (unattached to text-block, some damp-staining to lower cover, minor wear to spine ends). Note: the frontispiece and the cover are two original lithographs made by Picasso for this work. - And a further four volumes (including two volumes edited by Milton S. Fox: 'Picasso For Vollard', 1956, 4to, and 'Picasso, Recent Etchings, Lithographs, and Linoleum Cuts', 1966, 4to) (5).

DUMAS, Alexander. [The Works.] London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1894-1899. 49 vols., 8vo (184 x 118mm.) Frontispieces, tissue-guards. (Toning, browning to endpapers.) Original green cloth, decorative gilt to spines, t.e.g. (light rubbing, occasional mark to covers). Provenance: from the estate of Ernest Joseph Ellis, Derbyshire (49).

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. First edition, second issue, 8vo (179 x 108mm.) 12pp. publisher's advertisements to rear dated November 1855. (Toning, two quires loose, light spotting to endpapers.) Original brown blind-stamped cloth (some loss to spine ends). - And a quantity of approximately ninety-five further editions of Longfellow's 'Song of Hiawatha', many illustrated (including 'The Song of Hiawatha' illustrated by George H. Thomas, 1860, 4to, and Walt Disney's 'Hiawatha', 1938, folio, and 'Hiawatha' illustrated by Harrison Fisher, 1906, 4to, and 'The Player's Edition' of 'The Song of Hiawatha' with illustrations of Wa-ya-ga-mug and the Indian Players from photographs by Grace Chandler Horn, 1911, 4to) (a quantity).