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42 VOLUMES FROM MADAME DE POMPADOUR’S LIBRARY - Memoires pour Servir a l’Histoire des Hommes

Jean-Pierre Niceron
1727
Superb set owned by Louis XV’s influential mistress, the enlightenment intellectual Madame de Pompadour, with full provenance and de Pompadour’s coat of arms stamped in gilt 84 times. 41 volumes bound in 42 (volume 10 is bound separately in 2 parts), 12mo, Paris, 17x10cm; published 1727-1740. As usual found without the final two posthumously publis… Read more…
#8182

£16500.00

CO-DISCOVERERS OF THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT & CLIMATE CHANGE - ‘Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun’s Rays’ & An Autograph Letter from John Tyndall

Eunice Foote & John Tyndall
1856
A climate change duo: Eunice Foote’s pioneering 1856 paper on the absorption of thermal radiation by carbon dioxide and water vapour together with an autograph letter from John Tyndall, discoverer of the absorption of radiant heat by gases some 3 years later. Foote’s paper appears in The American Journal of Science and Arts. Second Series. Vol. XXI… Read more…
#8177

£9500.00

SPECIMEN OF PRINTING TYPES by Henry Caslon, Chiswell Street, London: Letter Founder to her Majesty’s Honourable Board of Excise

Henry Caslon
1842
Rare book of specimen type borders and ornaments offered for sale by the most famous of all British letter founders. Large octavo bound in speckled paper covered boards with new acid-free endpapers. Title page with decorative border (with spotting) followed by Caslon’s 1838 ‘Prices of Printing Types’ with tissue guard. A single leaf of letterpress… Read more…
#7941

£1450.00

AUTOGRAPH NOTE TO HER FRENCH TRANSLATOR and Champion, Andre Maurois

Virginia Woolf
1932
Autograph note to novelist Andre Maurois who translated Mrs Dalloway into French and wrote an essay on Woolf that introduced her work to the Francophone world. Woolf writes on a small blue, oblong sheet of ‘Strathdon’ watermarked paper on 14th June 1932. She states that she has seen Cory Bell (older brother of her sister Vanessa Bell’s husband the… Read more…
#7815

£2250.00

HELENA - Signed First Edition

Evelyn Waugh
1950
Signed first edition of Evelyn Waugh’s only historical novel, based on the eponymous heroine’s search for relics of the true cross. Blue publisher’s cloth, small dent at the top of the front board; uniformly deep blue cloth, sharp corners. In a near very good jacket, lightly nicked at head of the spine and at the top of the front hinge with the fro… Read more…
#8044

£850.00

‘WITH THE KINDEST WISHES AND PRAYERS OF THE AUTHOR...’ A Letter to the Rev Pusey & 8 other Publications

Saint John Henry Newman, William Gladstone, Gilbert Scott, Thomas Capel
1866
Inscribed with ‘Prayers’ from a saint - John Henry Newman’s Letter to Pusey inscribed in his hand on the verso of the title page: ‘with the kindest wishes & prayers of the Author Decr 10. 1872’. Collection of 9 Anglo-Catholic church pamphlets bound in contemporary half calf with marbled boards, spine label lettered in gilt on maroon leather, some r… Read more…
#8042

£1250.00

‘THE FIRST WOMAN IN SCOTLAND TO RECEIVE A CERTIFICATE OF ARTS’ - Edinburgh Carmichael Family Archive

Charlotte Carmichael; James Ferrier Carmichael; Marie Stopes
1850
Portraits in childhood of the Edinburgh-born women’s rights campaigner and future author of British Freewomen: Their Historical Privilege, Charlotte Carmichael, by her father, the landscape artist James Ferrier Carmichael and by herself. Charlotte Carmichael (1840-1929) was part of the first university level classes for women in Edinburgh under Pro… Read more…
#8231

£750.00

ANNOTATED WITH A VIEW TO A REPRINT Plants of the Lothians (Edinburgh, Haddington, and Linlithgow)

R Cockburn Millar; Allan A Pinkerton
1921
Corrected and emended copy, apparently with a view to reprinting in an improved version. Green wrappers marked and stained; later ex libris of David W H Walton to the flyleaf. The corrections begin on the verso of the title page and continue throughout the 24 page printed text. A heavy ink stain at the tail of the page runs right through. The corre… Read more…
#8230

£95.00

RARE EDINBURGH 20th CENTURY LATIN IMPRINT Nugae Rythmicae Magnisclopianae ad Majorem Nostrorum Hilaritatem

Robertus Rupestris Magnisclopis [pseudonym] Robert Craig MacLagan; David Maclagan; Andrew Douglas Maclagan, Sir.; Thomas Thomson Maclagan; Robert Craig Maclagan;
1901
Collection of comic skits inscribed by the author ‘Gracie Critchley from RCM January 1902" with a short poem written below. Very good in green cloth with gilt titles, all edges gilt, brown coated end papers. The boards are rubbed to the edges and spine. The text is crisp and fresh. Copies at Dundee and NLS only. Read more…
#8228

£95.00

ONE OF ‘THE FEW’, LOST OFF ABERDEEN Spitfire Pilot

David M Crooks [SIGNED]
1942
First edition of David M Crook's autobiographical account of his role as a Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain, signed during the brief interval between the book’s publication in 1942 and his death, when his spitfire plunged into the sea off Aberdeen in December 1944. Near fine book in near very good jacket, signed beneath the portrait frontisp… Read more…
#7642

£350.00

SCOTLAND’S 7TH NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - Nobel Prize Lecture & Personal Papers

Sir Alexander Todd
1927
Alexander Todd’s personal archive including school prizes from Glasgow schooldays, his Nobel Prize lecture and dozens of retained copies of his papers and speeches. Alexander R Todd (1907-1997) was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the synthesis of nucleotides - the groundwork for Watson and Crick’s elucidation of DNA. Born… Read more…
#8180

£2500.00

RAMORNIE HOUSE, FIFE - DIARY TURNED COMMONPLACE BOOK

Douglas Haig’s FAMILY
1910
[RESERVED] Pre-printed diary used interestingly by a member of Earl Haig’s family as a commonplace/ day book. Chunky small quarto bound in full calf, splitting slighly at outer hinges but very robust still. Laid in is a selection of quotations from Carlyle written on ‘Ramornie Ladybank’ headed paper. Marbled endpapers. Preceding the diary pages are… Read more…
#8214

£225.00

LETTER & TRANSLATION FROM EDINBURGH PROFESSOR & NOBEL PRIZE WINNING QUANTUM PHYSICIST

Max Born [Edward Neville da Costa Andrade - Wilhelm Busch]
1938
A Nobel prize-winning physicist and Edinburgh University Professor presents his latest English translation to a fellow physicist. Born’s typed letter was sent from Bad Pyrmont in west Germany where he had retired after leaving his Edinburgh professorship in 1953. Writing to Professor Edward Neville da Costa Andrade in London, he says that ‘I have a… Read more…
#8210

£950.00

RENTAL OF THE LANDS OF DUNLOP - 18th Century Manuscript from Ayrshire

John Dunlop
1750
18th century manuscript record of land rentals on the Dunlop family estates in East Ayrshire. Slim vellum-bound notebook with wallet-style binding and external straps. Later gilt lettering on spine suggesting a strong motivation to preserve the manuscript. Laid paper with horizontal chainlines; 20 pages of manuscript headed pages, beginning ‘Rental… Read more…
#8187

£275.00

SCOTTISH DIASPORA - Scots’ Church, London Wall - Pew Pass

Adam Scott
1841
Pew pass bought by a wealthy Scottish family living in London in the 1840s - adorned on the verso with the seal of a 17th century Scottish Bishop and Principal of Edinburgh University. Toned card (9x6cm) printed and then accomplished and signed in manuscript by a church official, Adam Scott, for ‘Mrs Sangsters Servant’ for 6 months tenure of No 10,… Read more…
#8184

£95.00

GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART - The Vista

H L Honeyman; James R Adamson; T C Campbell Mackie; Francis Henry Newbury; David Robertson; Alex J Scott etc
1908
A contributor’s copy of this rare periodical published by Glasgow School of Art at the peak of its influence and success, which contains analysis of its iconic home designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Olive cloth binding with gilt spine lettering and speckled red edges. Title page with finely executed vignette by Thomas Callendar Campbell-Mackie… Read more…
#8172

£450.00

MANUSCRIPT DIARIES OF THOMAS MONTGOMERY OF STOBO including a Tour of Egypt, Palestine and the Lebanon

Thomas Henry Montgomery, of Stobo
1848
Five Volumes of the diaries of Thomas Henry Montgomery of Stobo in the Scottish Borders, including a Middle Eastern tour. The future Captain Thomas Henry Montgomery of Stobo’s used 5 bound volumes of Punch’s Pocket Book to keep his diary over 15 years: 1848-49-50; 1851-52-53; 1854-55-56; 1857-58-59; 1860-61-62. All volumes are fat little octavos; 1… Read more…
#8157

£1250.00

TWICE & EXPERTLY ANNOTATED - The History of Knaresborough

Michael Calvert [Richard Chapman Lofthouse]
1844
Owned and elaborately annotated by a mid 19th century Knaresborough local - ’R Lofthouse’ - with corrections and enlargements to the printed text. Small octavo bound in publisher’s brown cloth, marked and stained; outer hinge splitting between upper board and backstrip; binding remains robust. The book is complete as issued but extensively improved… Read more…
#8222

£350.00

‘ONE CRISIS AFTER ANOTHER’ - 1962 WHITE HOUSE LETTER ABOUT JFK LAID IN - “Johnny we Hardly Knew Ye” Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy

David F Powers; Kenneth P O’Donnell; Joe McCarthy
1972
Inscribed by the President’s former Special Assistant - and with an excellent letter written from the White House in September 1962 thanking friends in Houston where Kennedy had just given his speech declaring ‘we choose to go to the moon’. 6th printing of this memoir of the Kennedy years, warmly inscribed by Powers on the half title ‘To Claud and… Read more…
#8220

£850.00

NO COPY IN CAMBRIDGE - Elysium. A Select and Up-to-date Magazine Produced by The Elysians, Selwyn College, Cambridge

William Ernest Bott; Archibald Baxandall; Carl Edward Fischer; Alec Manston Hughes; William Oliver Beamont; Samuel Percy Woodfield;
1913
A contributor’s copy of a rare pre-war Cambridge periodical published by Selwyn College students though not found in any Cambridge collection. Octavo volume bound in quarter vellum over green cloth; Bill Pickard bookplate to first pastedown; overleaf a photograph of the ‘Elysium Publishing Association’ with names laid down opposite a manuscript ‘Br… Read more…
#8202

£450.00

FIRST EDITION - Jacob’s Room

Virginia Woolf
1922
First edition of Virginia Woolf’s first major achievement as a novelist. Bound in mustard yellow cloth; good colour to the boards, a little fading to the spine; one tiny chip at the top of the spine label; rubbing to extremities; slight spine lean. Internally no ownership inscriptions; occasional spotting but a very good copy: pp290; 14 pages of ad… Read more…
#8201

£600.00

HANS SLOANE JUNIOR’S COPIES - The History of the Life of M Tullius Cicero in Three Volumes

Conyers Middleton
1750
Sir Hans Sloane’s great-nephew’s fourth edition, complete with his bookplate to the front pastedown of each volume and annotation regarding slavery in the ancient world. Attractive contemporary full calf, red speckled edges in very good condition. Pencil casemark above each bookplate and an earlier casemark in red ink crossed through in pencil. Vol… Read more…
#7757

£750.00

INSCRIBED TO A FELLOW COMPOSER - As Time Went By

Ethel Smyth
1937
Attractively inscribed copy of the 3rd impression ‘For Mr Leslie Bridgewater. Thanking him for one kindness after another - from Ethel Smyth 1939’ on the half title. A near fine copy, just a little spotting, in a very good jacket. The book’s printed dedication is to Smythe’s longterm friend Virginia Woolf. Bridgewater was a successful composer of l… Read more…
#8218

£250.00

MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS and the Madness of Crowds

Charles Mackay
1852
Complete set of Mackay's history of popular delusions such as Tulipomania and The South-Sea Bubble when "whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit". The second edition; both volumes bound in publisher’s embossed brown cloth; rubbing to edges and particularly to lower corners. Top edge gilt and pleasingly… Read more…
#8217

£200.00

OWNED BY A LINCOLNSHIRE WOMAN - Twenty four early 18th Century Sermons

William Savage; Thomas Knaggs etc
1707-1710
24 separately published sermons bound into a single sammelband volume with the ownership inscription of an 18th century Lincolnshire woman. Small octavo sized volume, modern brown buckram and new endpapers (see 20th century pencil note to final pastedown ‘Bound Mr Liddon 16.XI.61.’) and a pencilled list of the imprints on the first flyleaf. Precedi… Read more…
#8209

£275.00