141. Foster, Vere [Henry Louis / Lewis].

Vere Foster’s Landscape Painting for Beginners. Two Volumes (complete set): [Volume I: First Stage – Teaching the Use of One Colour – Ten Facsimiles of Original Studies in Sepia by J.Callow and Numerous Illustrations in Pencil with Full Instructions in Easy Language. / Second Stage – Teaching the Use of Seven Colours – Twenty Facsimiles of Original Drawings by J.Callow and Many Illustrations in Pencil. With Full Instructions in Easy Language].

London / Glasgow and Bombay, Blackie & Son Limited, no year (c. 1890). Octavo (19 cm x 24 cm). Volume I: 40 pages with tipped in plates. / Volume II: 76 pages with tipped-in plates plus 4 pages of a Bookseller-Catalogue by Blackie & Son, to the rear of the Volume, listing all of Vere Foster’s Water-Colour Books, Vere Foster’s Drawing-Books etc. Hardcover / Original, very decorative publisher’s cloth with colourful illustrations to the front covers. Unusuall excellent condition (see images).

142. Hoyle, Edmond.

Hoyle’s Games Improved : Being practical Treatises on the following fashionable Games, viz.: Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess, Back-Gammon, Billiards, Cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, and Lansquenet. In Which Are Also Contained The Method of Betting at those Games upon equal or advantageous Terms. Including The Laws of the several Games, as settled and agreed to at Whites and Stapleton’s Chocolate Houses. Revised and corrected by Thomas Jones, Esq.

London, Printed for W. Wood in Fleet-Street, 1778. Small Octavo (9.5 cm x 15 cm). XI, 216 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Spine professionally repaired, original endpapers preserved. Name of preowner “Desproz” on titlepage. A little dusty but overall very desirable and very rare publication.

143. [More, Hannah] & [Sherwood, Mary Martha] / [Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge].

Sammelband / Collection with 18 rare Children’s Books bound in One Miniature Volume. The Volume includes [chronologically]: 1. Hannah More – “The Lancashire Collier Girl – A True Story”. London, 1847. (29 pages with Frontispice and three text-illustrations) / 2. “The Obedient Child” – Luke II.40-52 (Prayer in Poetry-Form) / 16 pages. No Titlepage. No year of Printing / 3. “Martha Brown; or, The Industrious Daughter”. London, 1847. (16 pages with Frontispice) / 4. “The Deaf and Dumb Girl”. London, 1847. (16 pages with Frontispice) / 5. “The Effects of Disobedience”. London, 1847. (16 pages with Frontispice) / 6. “The Baker’s Boy”. London, 1847. (15 pages with Frontispice) / 7. “Dick and his Mother”. London, 1847. (16 pages with Frontispice) / 8. “The Sun behind the Cloud”. 8 pages (text complete but without titlepage and year) / 9. “The Cockchafers”. 8 pages. (Text complete with Text-illustration but without titlepage and year) / 10. “The Blind Sailor”. 8 pages. (Text complete with Text-illustration but without titlepage and year) / 11. “Good-Nature Rewarded”. London, 1847. (16 pages with Frontispice) / 12. “Robin Red-Breast”. 8 pages. (Text complete with Text-illustration but without titlepage and year) / 13. Mrs. Sherwood [That is: “Mary Martha Sherwood”] – “Soffrona and her Cat Muff”. New Edition. London, Printed for Houlston and Co., 1850 – Bound with the two beautiful printed wrappers and including the Frontispice and six text-illustrations / 14. [Hannah More] – “The Ostrich”. London, 1845. (16 pages with Frontispice-Illustration of an Ostrich and an additional text-illustration of a running Ostrich) / 15. “Effects of the Love of Finery; or. The Two Servant Girls”. London, 1847. (16 pages with Frontispice) / 16. “The Cottage on the Cliffs”. London, 1847. (16 pages with Frontispice) / 17. “The History of Tom White The Postilion”. In Two Parts. New edition. London, no year [c.1847]. Complete in two Parts. 80 pages with Frontispice and 14 Text-Illustrations. Minor staining to edge. Two pages with a minor tear. / 18. “The Barbary Doves”. London, [no year, c.1847]. 31 pages with Frontispice. Minor staining to edge.

London, Published for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1847. Miniature Binding: 7.5 cm wide x 10 cm high. Hardcover / 19th century half-leather with gilt lettering on spine [″Stories”] and marbled-paper-covered boards. Binding firm. Bottom Spine with minor damage. Page 17 repaired. Receding Ink-stain to endpapers, Frontispice and first 29 pages. Interior otherwise very good. Very rare collection of moralizing 19th century children’s stories.

144. Verne, Jules.

Mathias Sandorf [Part I: “The Conspirators of Trieste” / Part II: The Captives of Antekirtta”. Complete set in the very rare Non-Pears’ editions in Light Green and Teal, with Grey Banner and no Pear’s Advertising to the rear of both Volumes]. With Illustrations [by Léon Benett].

Two Volumes (complete set). London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1889. Small Octavo (13 cm wide x 18,6 cm high). Pagination: Volume I: Frontispiece, 192 pages including six illustrations (the Frontispiece included) / Volume II: Frontispiece, 204 pages including six illustrations (the Frontispiece included). Hardcover / Original 19th century publisher’s binding with illustrated front-cover. Both bindings very shaky but holding. Name of preowner J.or F. Crawford on titlepages. Some writing on endpaper of Part I (all writing in pencil !). Overall absolutely in Very good- condition.

145. [Bonnard, Pierre] Chauveau, Léopold.

Les Histoires Du Petit Renaud.

Paris, Librairie Gallimard, 1927. Quarto (23 cm wide x 28.5 cm high). 93 pages. Original Softcover Brochure with illustrations by Pierre Bonnard / Broché originale et illustree. Excellent, near fine condition with only minor signs of wear / Avec cinquante illustrations dessinées et coloriées au pochoir, en bleu et en rouge, par Pierre Bonnard. Exemplaire 226 des 322 exemplaires sur vélin d’Arches de ces cinq histoires pour enfants. Les seuls contes pour enfants jamais illustrés par Pierre Bonnard. Tres bon exemplaire !!

146. Walker, George.

A Selection of Games at Chess, Actually Played by Philidor and his Contemporaries – Now first published from the original Manuscripts with Notes and Additions by George Walker.

First Edition. London, Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1835. Duodecimo. Frontispiece, XVI, 110 pages plus 2 pages with advertising (List of Works by George Walker). Hardcover / Original cloth with original printed label to frontcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Front free endpaper missing. Very Rare !

147. Sendak, Maurice (1928 – 2012).

Collection / Archive of two very rich and personal, handwritten & signed letters on cards by Sendak, plus a rare, multi-folded, advertising-leporello of Maurice Sendak’s publications, together with a wonderful collection of fourteen (14) loose gicleé prints of original drawings by Maurice Sendak in colour or black and white: ‘A Kiss for Little Bear’ x 2 (26.5 cm x 34.5 cm) / ‘Zlateh the Goat’ x 2 (24 cm x 30 cm and 37.5 cm x 30 cm) / ‘Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present’ x 1 (33.4 cm x 41.5 cm) / Lullabies and Night Songs’ x 2 (35 cm x 26.5 cm and 44.5 cm x 33.5 cm) / ‘Hector Protector’ x 1 (46 cm x 26 cm) / ‘In the Night Kitchen’ x 4 (50 cm x 36 cm) / Higglety Pigglety Pop x 2 (28 cm x 35.5 cm). The two cards are addressed to “Minnie” [that is “Minnie Kate”] and were written at Christmas 1986 and Christmas 1987. According to a colleague in the trade, who helped us to identify the recipient “Minnie”, Minnie Kate, together with her mother, maintained a long friendship with Maurice Sendak by sending him colored stones or rocks that they sourced from local beaches in the northwest of the United States (Washington Statel). Most of Maurice Sendak’s correspondence with Minnie Kate and her mother, is preserved at the Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia. Both cards are similar in content. One of the cards featuring Sendak’s art from the cover of Nutcracker and addressed to Minnie, reading in part “I worked all year on a picture-book – a Grimm tale (my first book in 8 years !!). I am in love with it and it gets published next year….my wild things celebrate their 25th anniversary. I hope i enjoy it all. Am hoping for a quiet year ahead illustrating a Grimm tale and staying put – I am tired of travelling and theatre projects. And look forward to creeping back into my old role as book illustrator” / “The rocks arrived while I was away working in England. They are wonderful, of course, and very much appreciated. Thank you again and again. My animals. I have but one. My darling Golden Retriever, Io, had to be put to sleep 2 weeks ago. She was 15 1/2 and I held her and stayed with her to the end. It is so sad, naturally, but the memory fills me with a kind of joy. I have a 3 1/2 year old German Shepherd named Runge after a German painter (19th century). It was anything but a lazy year – too full! This coming year will be lazy-ish”.

Letters: 4 pages on two cards / Gicleé prints: 15 sheets (unsigned). [New York], 1986 – 1987. Very good condition.

148. Walde, Johann Gottlieb.

Thomas Waldauf’s, des Dresdener Schornsteinfegers Lebensereignisse zu Wasser und zu Lande in drei Welttheilen. Von ihm selbst erzählt und als ein wahrhaftes Familienbuch für Jung und Alt in allen Ständen des Volkes herausgegeben von J.G.Walde. [A german Chimney-sweepers Travels and Adventures on the Ocean and in America (California)].

Löbau, J.G.Walde’s Buchhandlung, ohne Jahr [1858]. Klein-Oktav. 304, 236, 220, VI, (1) Seiten. Mit 23 (von 24) wunderbaren, handkolorierten Tafeln von Ferdinand Franke in Dresden, welche Waldaufs Reise zeigen (u.a. im Schaufelrad-Dampfer etc.). Hardcover / Moderner, sehr dekorativer Halblederband mit neuem Vorsatz. Nach der sehr guten Restauration durch einen professionellen Buchbinder, ist dieser Band wieder ein Sammler-Exemplar. Leicht schiefgelesen. Das Papier vereinzelt stärker stockfleckig. Nahezu alle Abbildungen wunderbar und tadellos und vor allem in kräftigem Kolorit erhalten. Zahlreiche Abbildungen auf unserer Webseite. Sehr seltene, interessante Publikation die auch politische Ansichten ueber den amerikanischen Unrechts-Staat des 19.Jahrhunderts, im Bezug auf Rassismus und Rechte der afroamerikanischen Bevoelkerung, anspricht.

149. Sendak, Maurice (1928 – 2012).

Collection / Archive of three (3) very large gicleé prints of original drawings from the book “Where the Wild Things are” by Maurice Sendak of which one is beautifully signed by Maurice Sendak. The collection includes: ‘Off to Bed without their Supper’ (signed) / ‘Let the Wild Rumpus Start’ (I and II).

Gicleé prints. [New York], [Harper and Row], c.1975. Two prints measure: 37 cm x 60 cm / The signed print measures: 28 cm x 50 cm. Very good condition.

150. [Halifax, 1st Marquess of] George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax.

The Lady’s New-year’s Gift : Or, Advice to a Daughter. Under these following Heads, Viz. Religion, Husband, House and Family. Servants, Behaviour and Conversation, Friendships, Censure, Vanity and Affectation, Pride, Diversions, Dancing.

The Second Edition Corrected by the Original. London, Printed for Matthew Gillyflower in Westminster-Hall and James Partridge at Charing-Cross, 1688. Duodecimo (7 cm wide x 12.5 cm high). [II], 164 pages (collation complete). Hardcover / 18th century full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and boards. Very few pages with minor wormhole-damage only and some pages with some minor tears and fraying. The binding firm and with minor damage only. Some very few entries with ink by the pre-owner. Overall a very good condition with only minor signs of wear of this extremely rare and early edition of one of the rarest publications of advice on prudence and virtue, written by the Marquess of Halifax and published as an address to his daughter Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield (1677 – 1708). Later editions are more common but this 17th century publication is the nicest version of this book we have ever handled.