6481. Boccaccio, Giovanni / [Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari].

L’amorosa fiammetta di M. Giovanni Boccaccio, di Nuovo Corretta et Ristampata, con La Tavola et le Postille delle cose Piu Notabili.

Venetia, Appresso I Gioliti, 1584. 9.5 cm x 15.4 cm. 107, [1] pages including illustrated titlepage with Giolito’s printer mark and Giolito’s stunning colophon of Phoenix rising from the ashes and the Motto: “Semper eadem” (″Always the same”). Hardcover in custom – made solanderbox. Recently rebound in half-leather with marbled paper-covered-boards. The bookblock in very good condition with some minor, contemporary inkstains. Name of preowner “Exlibris Bernard Rielliae [″Bernard Reilly”] in contemporary ink (16th or 17th century entry). Small lesion to titlepage and first three pages only. Very faint, faded dampstain to the outer margins of a few pages.

6482. Bate, George.

Elenchi Motuum Nuperorum in Anglia. Pars Prima (et Secunda); Simul ac Iuris Regii et Parlamentarii Brevis Enarratio, ab Auctore Georg. Bateo M.D.

Amsterdam, Juxta exemplar Londinense, impressum Amstelodami [Paulus Warnaer], 1663. Duodecimo. Volume I: Frontispiece – Portrait, [6], 174, [1] pages / Volume II: Frontispiece-Portrait, [8], 288, [14] pages. Hardcover / Original Vellum in collector’s Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

6483. Buc’hoz, Pierre-Joseph.

The Toilet of Flora; or, A Collection of the most simple and approved methods of preparing: Baths, Essences, Pomatums, Powders, Perfumes [Perfume] and Sweet-Scented Waters with Receipts for Cosmetics of every kind, that can smooth and brighten the Skin, give Force to Beauty, and take off the Appearance of Old Age and Decay. For the use of the Ladies [With a Supplement on “Different Ways of Preparing Snuff”].

A New Edition improved. London, Printed for J.Murray, 1779. Small Octavo (11 cm x 17,5 cm). Frontispiece, [22 unnumbered], 252 pages. Hardcover / Original, 18th century half-leather with marbled-paper-covered boards in protective Mylar. Spine slightly discoloured with some cracks and defects but overall the poublication firm and tight, endpapers stabilized. Interior in excellent, bright condition.

6484. [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.

6485. [Terence] / [Publius Terentius Afer].

Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae. [Large Thick Paper Edition] Ad optimorum Exemplarium fidem recensitae. Accesserunt Variae Lectiones, quae in libris MSS. & Eruditorum commentariis notatu digniores occurrunt.

Two Volumes (complete set). London, J. et P.Knapton, 1751. Large, slim Octavo (16 cm wide x 24.7 cm high). Pagination: Volume I: Engraved Titlepage (in red and black), [24 unnumbered pages], Engraving, 208 pages / Volume II: continued pagination: Engraved titlepage, Engraving, page 209 – 400 plus [6] unnumbered pages. Hardcover / Original full leather. Recently repaired and masterfully stabilized set. Both Volumes in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

6486. [Tey, Josephine / Daviot, Gordon] / [Gielgud, John].

Josephine Tey – John Gielgud Collection of stunning Association copies of Plays which crucially defined both of their careers as writers and actors. The collection includes important, signed and inscribed association – copies of the two significant productions “Richard of Bordeaux” and “Queen of Scots”, both from John Gielgud’s personal library and with manuscript inscriptions to John Gielgud [and Laurence [Larry] Olivier] by Josephine Tey, aka Gordon Daviot, aka Elizabeth MacKintosh. The collection includes: 1. Gordon Daviot [Josephine Tey] – “Richard of Bordeaux – A Play in Two Acts” – With John Gielgud’s Bookplate (Ex Libris). The ultimate Association-copy, warmly and lengthy inscribed by Josephine Tey to John Gielgud. First Edition. London, Victor Gollancz, 1933 / 2. “Richard of Bordeaux” – Original Programme of “The Streatham Hill Theatre”, 1934. Signed by John Gielgud / 3. Gordon Daviot [Josephine Tey] – “Richard of Bordeaux” – Original File-copy with dustjacket and Publisher’s wrapper “The Play of the Year” at the New Theatre” – First Edition, 1933 / 4. Gordon Daviot [Josephine Tey] Gordon Daviot – “Richard of Bordeaux – A Play in Two Acts” – [Fifth Edition, 1933] – Special Cast, Producer and Production-Signed copy and inscribed to one “Eileen Grainger”, with the most interesting dedications in manuscript signatures – Signed and inscribed by lead actor and producer John Gielgud [Richard II], Signed and inscribed by leading Lady, actress Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Signed and inscribed by Gordon Daviot [Josephine Tey], Also beautifully signed and inscribed with a musical score by Shakespeare-composer and Musical Director for John Gielgud, Herbert Menges OBE ! / 5. “Queen of Scots – A Play in Three Acts” – The Ultimate Association-copy, inscribed by Josephine Tey to her producer: “John Gielgud – from ‘his Gordon Daviot’ / July 1934” / 6. Gordon Daviot – “Queen of Scots – A Play in Three Acts” – Association-copy, signed and warmly and lengthy inscribed by Josephine Tey to Laurence Olivier / 7. Gordon Daviot [Josephine Tey] – “Richard of Bordeaux” – A Softcover-Version of the Play in Fourth Impression, 1933 / 8. Josephine Tey – “The Daughter of Time” – First Edition, Second Impression (Second Printing). London, Peter Davies, July 1951 [The First Edition was in June 1951]. Original Hardcover with the slightly frayed original dustjacket in Mylar / 9. John Gielgud – “Early Stages” – New and Revised Edition. London, The Falcon Press, 1948. With pages of detail about the work of John Gielgud with Gordon Daviot [Josephine Tey] / 10. Jennifer Morag Henderson – “Josephine Tey – A Life” – With a Foreword by Val McDermid. Sandstone Press, 2015 //

London, Victor Gollancz, 1933 – 1948. Octavo. Hardcover / Original Publisher’s cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

6487. Savigny, Friedrich Carl von.

Fascinating and important, international collection of more than twentyfive (25) original editions, first editions, revised and definitive editions by one of the most important figures of the german legal and historical school, Friedrich Carl von Savigny, as well as publications by his disciples, immediate circle of friends and colleagues (like Eichhorn, Rudorff and Ihering/Jhering). The collection also includes first and revised editions of translations in french and spanish as well as a large number of original first editions of lectures Savigny had given to the Academy of Sciences in Berlin (all these in original edition and separately bound) [see full list on our website under “Libraries and Collections”].

Vienna / Berlin and others, Nicolai / Veit and Comp. and others, 1803 – 1911. Octavo. Original Hardcover and Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Several of the publications with excellent provenance. [See detailed listing on our website under “Libraries & Collections”].

6488. Kipling, Rudyard.

Many Inventions [Signed by Kipling].

Uniform Edition. London, MacMillan and Co., 1913. Octavo. IX, 387, [2] pages. Hardcover / Original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and ornament to front cover. Binding stronger rubbed but firm and holding. Overall very good with some minor foxing. Signed by Rudyard Kipling on titlepage. Private entry regarding the signing of the book by Kipling to the preowner of the book who subsequently gave it to the final owner.

6489. [Vanbrugh, John] Whistler, Laurence.

The Imagination of Vanbrugh and his fellow artists. [Together with the 4 Volume set of Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh (Bloomsbury, The Nonesuch Press, 1927) / Also together with an original, limited engraving of Vanbrugh’s “Pyramid at Stowe” by Artist John Ingamells].

First Edition. London, Art and Technics Limited/B.T. Batsford Limited, 1954. 22cm x 32cm. XV, 269, 86 unnumbered pages of illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear to the slightly stained binding. [Including: Vanbrugh, John. The Complete Works of Sir John VanBrugh. The Plays Edited by Banamy Dobree. The Letters Edited by Geoffrey Webb. Volume I: Introduction / The Relapse / The Provok’d Wife / A Short Vindication of the Relapse and the Provok’d Wife from Immorality and Prohpaneness / Volume II containing: Aesop – Parts I and II / The Pilgrim / The False Friend / The Country House – Volume III: The Confederacy / The Mistake / A Journey to London / The Provok’d Husband / The Fourth Volume containing The Letters // Number1295 of 1300 numbered sets on machine-made paper (total 1410). Four Volumes (complete). Bloomsbury, The Nonesuch Press, 1927. 20cm x 26.5cm. XLIV, 239, 257, 290, 284 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with some signs of external wear. The Volumes in firm condition]

6490. [Paterson, Daniel] Mogg, Edward.

Paterson’s Roads [1831/1832 Edition (18th Edition)] – Being an entirely original and accurate Description of all the direct and Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales, with part of the roads of Scotland. [Including an “Appendix to the Eighteenth Edition of Paterson’s Roads; being An Accurate Description of the Direct and Principal Cross roads communicating with the Improved Old Passage Ferry, across the River Severn, between Aust and Beachley, near Chepstow. Accompanied by a Map of the Banks of the Wye. To which are added, Course of the Chepstow Steam Packets; and An arranged Tour through Wales, with References to the pages in the Body of the Work, where connection with various lines of Road takes place.”]. The Eighteenth Edition. To which are added Topographical Sketches of the several Cities, Market Towns and remarkable Villages and descriptive accounts of the principal seats of the Nobility and Gentry, the Antiquities, Natural Curiosities and other Remarkable Objects throughout the Kingdom. The whole Remodelled, Augmented and Improved by the Addition of Numerous New Roads and New Admeasurements, and Arranged upon A Plan at once Novel, clear and intelligible, is deduced from the latest and best Authorities: Including a Table of the Heights of Mountains from the Grand Trigonometrical Survey of the Kingdom; Also a Table of the Population, From the Census of 1831; To which is annexed the Arrival and Departure of the Mail, together with the Rates of Postage and An Entirely New Set of Maps.

London, Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1831/1832. Octavo (15 cm x 21,5 cm). Fontispiece – Fold-out-Map, 715 pages plus 44 pages of an Appendix. With twelve (12) Maps, including the frontipiece-map and full-page maps throughout the publication. Hardcover / Private half-leather of the early 20th century with gilt lettering on the spine. Some of the maps with visible reapirs but complete. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. This being the so-called “Best Edition”.