Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

COOKERY. - H.M. KINSLEY. One Hundred Recipes for the Chafing Dish. New York: Gorham Manufacturing Company, 1894. First Edition Deluxe, being number 47 of 100 copies, small 4to (184 x 147mm.) Numerous tipped-in plates on glassine paper. (Browning, occasional creasing to plates.) Original yellow buckram and black cloth (soiled). Provenance: 'M.L.P.' (ink inscribed to initial blank).

ATLAS. - Adam Ignaz Valentin HEUNISCH. Taschen-Atlas über alle Theile der Erde für den geographischen Unterricht in Knaben und Mädchen Schulen. Carlsruhe und Baden: D.R. Marxschen Buchhandlung, [circa 1840.] Small 4to (122 x 149mm.) 31 lithographed plates with outline hand-colouring, including 18 plates relating to Europe, 3 to Asia, 3 to the Americas, 1 to Africa and 5 continent plates, 1 hemisphere plate. (Browning to several plates, severely to 1 plate, toning.) Near contemporary paper-covered boards (extremities rubbed).

HOUSE, Madeline and Graham STOREY (editors). The Letters of Charles Dickens. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965-2002. 12 vols. 'The Pilgrim Edition', 8vo (214 x 138mm.) Photographic portrait frontispiece. Original red cloth, dust-jackets. - And a related volume ('The Speeches of Charles Dickens' edited by K.J. Fielding, 1960, 8vo) (13).

LATHAM, Robert and William MATTHEWS (editors). The Diary of Samuel Pepys. London: G. Bell and Sons Ltd., 1971-1983. 11 vols., mixed editions, 8vo (215 x 135mm.) (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, dust-jackets. Note: volumes 4-11 are first editions (11).

CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, de Miguel. The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, translated from the Spanish by P.A. Motteux. London: William Paterson & Co., 1892. 4 vols., 8vo (220 x 134mm.) Engraved frontispieces and numerous engraved plates, tissue-guards. (Toning, minor spotting to rear endpapers, occasional browning.) Near contemporary red half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, t.e.g. (rubbing to spine ends and all extremities) (4).

BURTON, Richard F. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Mecca. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855-1856. 3 vols., first edition, 8vo (213 x 133mm.) 14 plates, including 8 tinted lithographs, 5 chromo-lithographed and 1 wood-engraved plate, 3 folding maps and plans, errata leaf in volume 1. (Toning, 1 quire loosening in volume 1, 1 plate mounted later, lacking advertisements, lacking half-title to vol. 3.) Bound to style in 21st century blue cloth, gilt lettering to spines (endpapers replaced). Note: only vol. 3 calls for a half-title. Burton was the first English Christian to enter Mecca and the first European to travel between the holy cities of Islam by the Eastern route. It was on this pilgrimage that he dressed in disguise as an Indian Muslim and where- performing the rituals of the hajj and witnessing the sermon at the end of the pilgrimage - he came to understand Islam as being equally profound as Christianity and Judaism. Provenance: Thomas Dewhirst (stamp to titles and name inscribed to half-titles); Manchester Grammar School (embossed stamp to titles). [Penzer, pp. 49-50] (3).

VISSER-HOOFT, Jenny. Among the Kara-Korum Glaciers in 1925. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1926. First edition, 8vo (221 x 140mm.) Half-title, photogravure portrait frontispiece, numerous uncoloured photographic illustrations, 2 maps, including 1 folding to rear. (Toning, occasional light spotting.) Original blue cloth (fading, slight staining, especially to lower cover).

AFRICA. - F.L. JAMES. The Unknown Horn of Africa, An Exploration From Berbera to the Leopard River. London: George Phillip & Son, 1888. First edition, first issue, 8vo (226 x 154mm.) Half-title, 19 plates, including 9 hand-coloured lithographs of natural history subjects, mainly birds by Keulemans. (Lacking four plates and the folding map to rear, toning, occasional minor soiling.) Original brown cloth with pictorial gilt (covers weakened, rubbing).

HAMP, Pierre. Kitchen Prelude (Mes Métiers)… translated from the French by Dorothy Bolton. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1932. First U.K. edition, 8vo (185 x 120mm.) 2pp. publisher's advertisement to rear. (Toning, faint spotting to preliminaries, odd spots of minor staining.) Original pale blue cloth (sunned to spine), dust-jacket (spine panel browned with chipping to ends and small, closed tear, slight spotting to lower panel). Note: rare. Known for writing about the working conditions of his age, Pierre Hamp [Henri Bourrillion] here writes of his early years as a pastry chef and cook at the Savoy and Berkeley hotels in London, the Restaurant Marguery in Paris, and also the Metropole in Brighton.

COOKERY. - Austin de CROZE. What to Eat and Drink in France. London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., 1931. First edition, 8vo (186 x 122mm.) 29pp. index to rear. (Toning, spotting to the half-title, marginal tears to p.249, p.251 and p.309, offsetting to endpapers.) Original grey pictorial cloth with blue lettering (lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jacket designed by M.H.B.J. (minor staining and crease to lower panel, two neat repairs verso, price-clipped). Note: scarce. Austin de Croze wrote on folk-lore and music but his work on gastronomy has been more significant and his focus on regional food has led him to being considered an originator of the 'food heritage movement'. Provenance: 'Olive and Will' (gift inscribed from on the half-title).

CRADDOCK, Harry. The Savoy Cocktail Book. London: Constable & Company, Ltd., 1930. First edition, first issue, 8vo (191 x 122mm.) Numerous illustrations by Gilbert Rumbold, the tipped-in 'Bacardi Cocktail' slip on p.25. (Toning, minor marks to p.11 and p.53.) Original boards with art deco design (surface abrasion to lower cover, spine seam split and upper cover weakening, rubbing to extremities). Note: first issue with the numbered title-page.

WELLS, H.G. The Time Machine. An Invention. London: William Heinemann, 1895. First edition, 8vo (176 x 113mm.) Half-title with 1p. advertisement for 'The Pioneer Series' verso, 32pp. of publisher's advertisements to rear. (Toning, spotting to last few leaves of advertisements and both endpapers, C8 and F8 with marginal tears, no loss.) Original publisher's oatmeal buckram with author's monogram to lower cover and the sphinx to the upper cover (faint mark to upper cover). Note: the advertisements begin with 'Donovan Pasha' by Gilbert Parker and end with Gabriele D'Annunzio's 'The Virgin of the Rocks', indicating slightly later-issue advertisements. 'The Time Machine' was Wells' first work of fiction and the also the first work of science fiction to involve time travel.

LEE, Harper. To Kill A Mockingbird. London: Heinemann, 1960. First U.K. edition, 8vo (196 x 124mm.) (Toning, endpapers browned.) Original maroon cloth (extremities bumped), dust-jacket (spotting to inner flaps, chipping and small tear at top of spine panel). Provenance: I. Gaunt (name inscribed on the front-free endpaper).

JOYCE, James. Ulysses. London: for Egoist Press by John Rodker, Paris, 1922. First U.K. edition, number 661 of 2000 copies, 4to (221 x 170mm.) Half-title, 2 initial blanks, 8pp. errata to rear. (Toning, spotting to blanks and occasional spotting to text, browned to margins, 1 initial blank a replacement, lacking blank to rear, a printing error on p.398, marginal loss and slight soiling to p.247, small mark to p.705.) Mid-20th century blue half morocco bound by Ramage, t.e.g. (slight fading and staining to upper cover, endpapers replaced). Note: due to censorship over 500 copies of this print run were destroyed by custom officials on both sides of the Atlantic.

STEINBECK, John. East of Eden. New York: Viking Press, 1952. First edition, first issue, 8vo (210 x 141mm.) (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, dust-jacket (small closed tear at base of spine, chafing to spine ends, small loss to lower panel). Note: with 'bite' for 'bight' on p.281 and $4.50 price on the inner flap.

WOOLF, Virginia. Flush. London: Hogarth Press, 1933. First edition, large paper copy, 8vo (214 x 134mm.) Photographic frontispiece, 9 further plates including 4 illustrations by Vanessa Bell. (Toning to text and plate margins.) Original tan cloth (some spotting to upper cover and spine), dust-jacket (toning, minor staining to upper panel, closed marginal tear to lower panel).

BIDEN, Joe. Promise me, Dad. New York: Flatiron Books, 2017. First edition, first impression, signed by the author, 8vo (218 x 130mm.) (Mild toning.) Original white cloth, dust-jacket.

[LANGLEY, Batty. The Builder's Compleat Assistant, or a Library of Arts and Sciences. London: circa 1740.] Plate volume only, 8vo (236 x 140mm.) 70 double-paged engraved plates bound on stubs, 2 plates with later hand-colouring. (Lacking preliminary leaves and 7 plates, plate 1 with excised section, several with tears along the fold, browning, some chipping to margins.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (rubbed, soiling, upper cover loosening). Note: ownership inscription dated 1784. Provenance: Thomas Ellenden (name inscribed to initial blank and verso plate 2); the property of Donald Church.

[CAMPBELL, Colen. Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect, containing the Plan, Elevations and Sections of the Regular Buildings both Publick and Private in Great Britain. London: circa 1717-1731.] Folio (453 x 288mm.) 101 loose engraved architectural plates, including 25 double-paged, after plans by Campbell, Inigo Jones, Hawksmoor, Rocque and others, three engraved title-pages, two of which are the undated additional titles, but including the third volume title-page in red and black, calligraphic dedication to King George, 9pp. and 10pp. text leaves for 'Explanation of the Plates'. (Toning, browning and minor spotting to margins.) Disbound. Note: the plates all come from volumes 1-3. There are 42 from volume 1, 41 from volume 2 and 18 from volume 3. The plates from the first two volumes might be from later editions, rather than the first edition of 1717. The plates from volume 3 are from the 1731 edition, which came out six years after the first edition. Provenance: the property of Donald Church.