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Pound (Ezra, translator) Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti, first English edition, presentation copy inscribed to Padric Gregory on front free endpaper, publisher's catalogue at end, original cloth, gilt, edges uncut, [Gallup B4b.], 8vo, Stephen Swift [but Elkin Matthews], 1912. *** Inscribed: "To my friend Padric Xmas 1914." Padric Gregory, Irish folklorist and author.

Pound (Ezra) Selected Poems, edited by T.S. Eliot, first edition, bookplate on front free endpaper, newspaper cutting on front pastedown, original cloth, dust-jacket, edges slightly chipped, [Gallup A30], 8vo, 1928.

Pound (Ezra) A Draft of XXX Cantos, first American edition, [Gallup A31], New York, [1933]; A Draft of Cantos XXXI-XLI, first English edition, [Gallup A37c], 1935; The Fifth Decad of Cantos, first edition, dust-jacket, slightly faded, [Gallup A43], 1937; The Pisan Cantos, first English edition, dust-jacket, chipped, [Gallup A60b], 1949; Thrones 96-109 de los cantares, first English edition, dust-jacket, [Gallup A77c], 1960, original cloth or boards; and 2 others, Cantos, 8vo (7).

Pound (Ezra) How to Read, [Gallup A33], 1931; Social Credit: an Impact, some passages marked, original wrappers, [Gallup A40], 1935; Guide to Kulchur, new edition, [Gallup A45d], 1952; The Translations of Ezra Pound, [Gallup A66], 1953; Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, edited with an introduction by T.S. Eliot, [Gallup A67], 1954, all but the third first editions, all but the second original cloth or boards, dust-jackets, some slight wear; and 10 others, Ezra Pound, 8vo & 4to (15).

Pound (Ezra) Active Anthology, dust-jacket spine faded, [Gallup B32], 1933; Homage to Sextus Propertius, [Gallup A38], 1934; Personae. Collected Shorter Poems..., first English edition, [Gallup A27c], 1952; The Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius, first English edition, [Gallup A69b], 1955, first editions, original cloth or boards, dust-jackets, chipped; and 3 others, Pound, 8vo (7).

Steinbeck (John) The Winter of Our Discontent, 1961 ~ Mailer (Norman) Tough Guys Don't Dance, signed limited edition, for The Signed First Edition Society, original gilt leather, a.e.g. 1984 ~ Vidal (Gore) Washington D.C., 1967 ~ Donleavy (J.P.) A Singular Man, 1963 ~ Murdoch (Iris) A Word Child, presentations copy from the author, first American editions, original cloth, rubbed dust-jackets, spines discoloured; and 9 others, First American Editions, 8vo (14).

Wells (H.G.) Phoenix: A Summary of the Inescapable Conditions of World Reorganisation, first edition, presentation copy signed by the author to Sir Thomas Holland on half-title, original cloth, 1942 ~ Kipling (Rudyard) The Second Jungle Book, first edition, illustrations, occasional foxing, original pictorial cloth, gilt, g.e., 1895; and 16 others, mostly 20th century English Literature, 8vo (18).

Wodehouse (P.G.) The Little Nugget, first edition, half-title, 8pp. publisher's catalogue at end, original red cloth, gilt spine, rubbed and soiled, spine faded, [McIlvaine A16a], 8vo, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1913.

Bach (Johann Sebastian).- Spitta (Philipp) Johann Sebastian Bach, 3 vol., first English edition, frontispiece portrait, later morocco-backed cloth by Zaehnsdorf, t.e.g., others uncut, a handsome set, 8vo, 1899.

Bach (Johann Sebastian) Grosse Passions-Musik, edited by William Sterndale Bennett, gutta perch perishing with some ff. loose, Lamborn Cock & Co., n.d.; Chorales..., Novello & Co., n.d. ~ Schweitzer (Albert) J.S.Bach, 2 vol., first English edition, Leipzig, contemporary half morocco, Leipzig &c., 1911 ~ Terry (Charles Sanford) Joh.Seb.Bach Cantata Texts, Sacred and Secular, frontispiece, 1926, all but third original cloth; and a small quantity of others, Bach, v.s. (sm.qty).

Bach (Johann Sebastian).- Terry (Charles Sanford) Bach's Chorals, 3 vol., first edition, errata slip, original cloth-backed printed boards, 8vo, Cambridge, University Press, 1915-21.

Bronson (Bertrand Harris) The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, 4 vol., first edition, original cloth, dust-jackets, 4to, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1959-72. *** Referring to the Francis James Child collection of 13th to 19th century English & Scottish ballads.

Clarke (Wm. H.) An Outline of the Structure of the Pipe Organ, first edition, illustrations, illustrated endpapers, original cloth, Indianapolis & Boston, 1877; and another on organs, 8vo (2).

Crosse (John) An Account of the Grand Musical Festival, first edition, 5 plates, all but 1 hand-coloured, 1 double-page, 1 folding, first gathering detached, original boards, marked and rubbed, covers detached, 4to, York, 1825.

Sharp (Cecil J.) One Hundred English Folksongs...for Medium Voice, first edition, a few pencil corrections, original printed wrappers, torn at lower fore-corner of upper wrapper, 4to, Boston &c., 1916.

Whitman (Alfred) Charles Turner, first edition, one of 500 large paper copies, plates, captioned paper-guards, original cloth, t.e.g., 4to, 1907.

Billing (Archibald) The Science of Gems, Jewels, Coins, and Medals, Ancient and Modern, first edition, 18 mounted albumen plates, foxing, original pictorial cloth, gilt, g.e., a little rubbed and soiled, 8vo, 1867.

---. Wells (Percy A.) and John Hooper. Modern Cabinet Work Furniture and Fitments, first edition, plates, some extending, slight foxing, original cloth, extremities slightly worn, corners bruised, 1909 ~ Philip (Peter) Furniture of the World, colour plates, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1974; and 11 others, Miscellaneous, v.s. (13).

Ruskin (John) Modern Painters, 5 vol., in 4, vol.I third edition, vol.II-V first edition, engraved plates, slightly foxed, contemporary morocco, floral pattern and inner dentelles gilt, extremities rubbed, g.e., 4to, 1846-60.

Tallis (John, publisher) Tallis's History and Description of the Crystal Palace, and the Exhibition of the World's Industry in 1851, folding chromolithograph frontispiece, engraved plates, internal crack, contemporary cloth, n.d. [c.1851] ~ Des Canons, des Munitions? Merci! Des Logis... S.V.P. Monographe du "Pavillon des Temps Nouveaux" a l'Exposition Internationale "Art et Technique" de Paris 1937, many illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, slightly worn, Paris, n.d. [c.1937] ~ Ruskin (John) Lectures on Architecture and Painting, first edition, folding frontispiece, 15 plates, foxing, contemporary half morocco, slightly rubbed, 1854 ~ Tipping (H. Avray) The Garden of To-day, plates, original cloth, 1933; and c.40 others, Design and Miscellaneous, v.s. (c.44).

Turner (J.M.W.) Rivers of France, 2 vol. in one, text by L. Ritchie, introduction by John Ruskin, engraved plates, first 4 leaves detached, inner hinges cracked, original cloth, rubbed, spine paper label, [c.1940] ~ Francis of Assisi. The Little Flowers, limited edition, colour plates tipped in, original cloth, extremities frayed, 1919 ~ Swinburne (Charles Alfred) Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, frontispiece, original cloth, gilt, darkend, 1902; and a quantity of others, some Fine Arts, v.s. (qty).

Bicknell (Algernon Sidney) Hippophagy: the Horse as Food for Man, first edition, slight foxing on title-page, later half morocco, hinges just rubbed, 8vo, [1868].

Curtis (Charles H.) Orchids for Everyone, plates, many colour, original buckram gilt, g.e., covers slightly soiled, 1910 ~ Moore (Anne Carroll) The Art of Beatrix Potter, plates and facsimiles, many in colour, original buckram, torn dust-jacket, London and New York, 1967 ~ Bratby (John) Breakdown, first edition, decorations and dust-jacket by the author, original cloth, 1960 ~ Haskell (Arnold) and Min Lewis. Infantilia, the Archaeology of the Nursery, illustrated by Stanley Lewis, original buckram, dust-jacket, 1971; and c.35 others, Miscellaneous, v.s. (c.39).

Rea (John) Flora: seu, de Florum Cultura. Or, a Complete Florilege, first edition, engraved title, title in red and black, 8 plates, woodcut initials, lacking front endpaper, last index leaf and errata, inner hinges cracked, original mottled calf, worn, upper edge peeling, spine damaged, [Wing R421], folio, for Richard Mariott, 1665.

Tubbs (Colin R.) The New Forest, first edition, colour plates, illustrations, original cloth, dust jacket by Robert Gillmor, 8vo, Collins New Naturalist, 1876.

[Walsh (John Henry, editor)], "Stonehenge". The Dogs of the British Islands, first edition, plates, illustrations, lightly browned, ink inscription to front free endpaper, original decorated cloth, gilt, rebacked and repaired, slightly rubbed, light soiling, g.e., 4to, 1867.

Africa.- Boyes (John) The Company of Adventurers, first edition, frontispiece map, plates, pencil inscriptions on front endpapers, original cloth, slightly faded, 8vo, "East Africa", 1928.

Americas.- Amundsen (Roald) "The Northwest Passage", being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Gjoa" 1903-1907, 2 vol., first English edition, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, 2 folding colour maps, modern binder's buckram, ex-library copy with bookplates and stamps, 8vo, 1908.

---. Humboldt (Alexander von) Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, 3 vol., 1889 ~ Burton (Richard F.) The City of the Saints and across the Rocky Mountains to California, first edition, double-page maps, 8 plates, 9 text illustrations, 1861 ~ Whymper (Edward) Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, second edition, maps, plates, text illustrations, 1892 ~ Williams (John) A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands, sixth thousand, portrait, illustrations, some slight foxing, 1837, modern binder's cloth, ex-library copies with bookplates and stamps ; and c.40 others, Travel, 8vo (c.46).

---. M'Clure (Capt. R.) The Discovery of the North-West Passage, first edition, folding map, hand-coloured in outline, 4 tinted lithograph plates, modern binder's buckram, map linen-mounted, ex-library copy with bookplate and stamps, 8vo, 1856.

---. Wilkes (Capt. Charles) Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, 6 vol. including atlas, first edition, plates, maps, text illustrations, modern binder's buckram, ex-library set with bookplates and stamps, [Sabin 103994], large 8vo, Philadelphia, 1845.

---. Campbell (Donald Maclaine) Java: Past & Present, 2 vol., first edition, plates, modern binder's buckram, ex-library copy with bookplates and stamps, 8vo, 1915.

---. Hedin (Sven) Central Asia and Tibet. Towards the Holy City of Lassa, first English edition, 4 folding maps, plates, modern binder's buckram, ex-library copy with bookplate and stamps, 8vo, 1903.

---. Hedin (Sven) Trans-Himalaya. Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet, 3 vol., first English edition, folding maps, plates, modern binder's buckram, ex-library copy with bookplates and stamps, 8vo, 1909-13.

---. Lynch (Henry Finnis Blosse) Armenia, Travels and Studies, 2 vol., first edition, large folding colour map, 16 other maps and plans, plates, some colour, text illustrations, folding map torn without loss, modern binder's buckram, ex-library copy with bookplates and stamp on titles, 8vo, 1901.

---. Roth (Henry Ling) The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo, 2 vol., first edition, one of 700 copies, text illustrations, modern binder's buckram, ex-library copy with bookplates and stamps, 8vo, 1896.

Cesnola (General Louis Palma di) Salaminia (Cyprus). The History, Treasures, & Antiquities of Salamis in the Island of Cyprus, first edition, additional woodcut title, colour lithograph frontispiece, map, 20 plates, modern binder's buckram, morocco label, ex-library copy with bookplate and stamp on title, large 8vo, 1882.

Middle East.- Buckingham (James Silk) Travels in Mesopotamia, first edition, folding maps, 2 lithograph plates, 27 text illustrations, title laid down, plates slightly foxed, slight preliminary soiling, modern buckram, ex-library copy with bookplate and stamp on title and plates, [Blackmer 233], 4to, 1827.

Oliphant (Laurence) Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan, 2 vol., first edition, 20 tinted or colored litho plates and 5 folding maps, embossed stamp on titles, later morocco-backed marbled boards, 8vo, 1859.

Polar.- Franklin (Captain John) Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827, first edition, 5 folding maps only (of 6), 31 engraved plates, lacks map 5, minor repairs to 2 maps without loss, ownership signature on title, inscriptions on preliminaries, 20th century half morocco, ex-library copy with bookplate and stamps, 4to, 1828.

---. Smith (Charles) The Antient and Present State of the County and City of Waterford, first edition, folding map, 5 folding plates, 3 double-page and folding, small hole in border of map, short tear in map and 1 plate without loss, bookplate of Frederick Cobbe Pitman, contemporary mottled calf, red morocco label, head of spine slightly chipped, 8vo, Dublin, Printed by A.Reilly for the Author, 1746.

---. Smith (Charles) The Antient and Present State of the County of Kerry, first edition, folding map, 5 folding plates, short tear in map and 1 plate without loss, neat early ownership signature on title, contemporary calf, spine gilt ruled with red morocco label, contained in a cloth foldover box, bookplate removed, morocco label, 8vo, Dublin, Printed for the Author, 1756.

---. Thornbury (Walter) Old and New London, 6 vol., first edition, engraved illustrations, slight foxing, contemporary green morocco, rubbed at edges and extremities, 4to, [c.1880].

---. [West (William, bookseller)] Tavern Anecdotes and Reminiscences of the Origin of Signs, Clubs, Coffee-Houses,... By One of the Old School, first edition, folding frontispiece, browned, shaved at foot, contemporary calf, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, [1825] ~ Taylor (Joseph) Antiquitates Curiosae: the Etymology of many Remarkable Old Sayings, Proverbs, and Singular Customs, title in red & black with vignette, uncut in recent calf, 1819, 8vo (2).

Muilman (Peter) A New and Complete History of Essex, 6 vol., first edition, additional engraved title to vol.1 and 2 only, 51 engraved plates only (of 54) and 2 folding maps (of 3), a few tears, some marginal browning and staining, vol.4 with slight worming mostly to lower margin but touching some text, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, 8vo, Chelmsford, 1770-72.

Alberti (Giuseppe Antonio) Istruzioni Pratiche per l'Ingegnero Civile, 2 parts in 1, first edition, half-title, 31 folding engraved plates, errata leaf at end, occasional foxing, later green calf-backed boards, vellum corners, rubbed, 4to, Venice, 1748.

Alembert (Jean le Rond d') Traite de l'Equilibre et du Mouvement des Fluides, first edition, 10 folding plates, 1 marked, some spotting, modern morocco-backed boards, 4to, Paris, David, 1744.

Allen (Zachariah) Solar Light and Heat: The Source and the Supply. Gravitation: with explanations of planetary and molecular forces, first edition, signed presentation copy from the author to Samuel Powell inscribed on front free endpaper, illustrations, ex-Franklin Institute library copy with ink stamp on title and others leaves, original cloth, gilt, rubbed, library label on spine, another lacking, 8vo, New York, 1879.

Aristotle. Problematon [graece], 116 ff., Alexander Aphrodisaeus. Iatrikon Aphorematon kai Physikon Problematon [graece], 42 ff., Aristotle. Mechanika [graece], 12 ff., first edition, part only of the collected Aldine edition, printed in Greek throughout, occasional spotting, bookplate of John Alfred Spranger, Trinity College, Cambridge, contemporary brown calf over pasteboards, covers elaborately decorated in blind, 2 rolls, one including putti (one playing a lute), vases and foliage, the other including birds, animals and foliage, surround a central panel made up of 6 more rolls, worn, rebacked, corners with some repairs, folio, [BMC V 556-7; Goff A 959; GW 2334], [Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1 June, 1497].*** Part of vol. 4 of the great Aldine Aristotle, the editio princeps of 'the first major Greek prose text to be reintroduced in the original to the western world by the intervention of the printing press'. [PMM 38].

Atwood (George) A Treatise on the Rectilinear Motion and Rotation of Bodies ... , first edition, errata leaf, 8 folding engraved plates, some foxing, ex-library copy with ink stamps of Royal Astronomical Society and Spitalfields Mathematical Society on title, modern half calf, spine gilt, 8vo, Cambridge, 1784.

Banks (John) A Treatise on Mills, first edition, half-title, list of subscribers, 3 folding engraved plates, 1 shaved with slight loss, final plate offset, occasional spotting, modern calf-backed marbled boards, [Not in Bib. Mech. Cat.], 8vo, London and Kendal, 1795.

Barlow (Peter) A New Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary ... , first edition, engraved frontispiece and 12 plates, diagrams in text, lightly spotted, modern boards, uncut, a little rubbed, splits to joints, 8vo, 1814. *** Including a detailed description of Boulton and Watt's steam engine.

Bartlett (William Holms Chambers) Elements of Analytical Mechanics, first edition, illustrations, browned, leaves brittle with a few marginal defects, ex-library copy with ink stamps on title and final leaf, modern cloth-backed boards, 8vo, New York and Cincinnati, 1853.

Belidor (Bernard Forest de) Dictionnaire Portatif de l'Ingenieur, first edition, a3 partly loose, flyleaf loose, early ownership inscription 'Maurper ch'ne' on title and free endpaper, bookplate, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, rubbed, small crack in hinge, 8vo, Paris, Charles Antoine Jombert, 1755.

Bernoulli (Daniel) Recherches sur la Maniere la plus avantageuse de suppleer a l'action du Vent sur les grands Vaisseaux ... fondees sur une nouvelle Theorie de l'economie des forces & des effets, first separate edition, engraved plate, modern vellum-backed marbled boards, [Not in NUC], 4to, [Paris], 1753.

Bernoulli (Johannes) Discours sur les Loix de la Communication du Mouvement, first edition, woodcut device on title, 5 folding engraved plates, light browning, modern calf-backed boards, [Not in Bib. Mech. Cat.], 4to, Paris, 1727.

Bigelow (Jacob) Elements of Technology, taken chiefly from a course of lectures delivered at Cambridge ... , first edition, 22 engraved or woodcut plates, some folding, illustrations, plate 1 lightly offset on title, some foxing, signature of Joseph Hale Abbott on front free endpaper, upper hinge broken, original cloth, uncut, rather worn and faded, splits to joints, 8vo, Boston, 1829.

Black (Joseph) Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry, delivered in the University of Edinburgh, edited by John Robison, 2 vol., first edition, engraved portrait and 3 plates, vol.2 with Y & Z gatherings mispaginated but complete and with Index at end (not present in all copies), some underlinings and annotations in ink, bookplate of George James Alexander on front paste-down, contemporary diced calf, rubbed, corners worn, rebacked, 4to, Edinburgh, 1803. *** Including the first appearance of Black's discovery of latent heat.

Bossut (Charles) A General History of Mathematics, first English edition, title soiled, modern cloth, 1803 ~ Pardies (Ignace Gaston) Short, but yet Plain Elements of Geometry, translated by John Harris, sixth edition, woodcut decorations, illustrations and diagrams, contemporary ink signature on front free endpaper, Kenney copy with small label on front paste-down, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, rubbed, [Not in Bib. Mech. Cat.], 1725, 8vo & 12mo (2).

Boulvin (Jules) The Entropy Diagram and its Applications, translated by Bryan Donkin, first English edition, 2 folding plates, title with ink stamp at head and browned, London and New York, 1898 ~ Routh (E.J.) A Treatise on Dynamics of a Particle, Cambridge, 1898 ~ Dolbear (A.E.) Modes of Motion, advertisement leaf at beginning, illustrations, Boston, 1897, the last two first editions, original cloth, a little rubbed; and 3 others, physics, 8vo & 4to (6).